. i have seen . | have seen across . i have seen across the risks. i have seen across the commonwealth and beyond and countless community cars which are unable to withstand repeated shocks . shocks. >> sunak challenges china. the prime minister says it's vitally important china does more to make cop 28 climate goals a reality . we'll bring you the reality. we'll bring you the latest andrew doyle legal action, the fallout of omid scobie's end game book and the royal naming row continue news this morning. >> the palace threatens to launch legal action. >> lockdown was too late . that's >> lockdown was too late. that's what the former health secretary matt hancock admitted at the covid inquiry yesterday. he's back again this morning. we'll bnng back again this morning. we'll bring you the latest out israel—hamas truce ends. >> israel has resumed heavy fighting against hamas in gaza after a seven day truce .

after a seven day truce. so plenty to talk about. >> let us know what you think as well . vaiews@gbnews.com. let's well. vaiews@gbnews.com. let's kick off with all the headlines from sophia . good from sophia. good >> good morning. it's 931. i'm sophia wenzler in the newsroom. the king says countries are dreadfully far off achieving climate goals during a cop 28 summit in dubai giving an opening address at the world climate action summit. the monarch said the hope of the world rests on the decisions taken at the gathering . the taken at the gathering. the prime minister will also address the summit later and is expected to announce a £1.6 billion for environmental projects . the king environmental projects. the king said the dangers of climate change are no longer distant risks . risks. >> with what we are witnessing, our choice now is a starker and

darker one. how dangerous are we actually prepared to make our world do .7 dealing with this is world do.7 dealing with this is a job for world do? dealing with this is a job for us all. change will come by working together and making it easier to embrace decisions that will sustain our world rather than carry on as though there are no limits . there are no limits. >> israeli defence forces send fighter jets to target terrorists in the enclave. as combat resumed in gaza, the idf say they intercepted several rockets fired from gaza earlier today. israel's prime minister accuses the terrorist group of breaking the ceasefire agreement by not releasing all the women and children they are holding hostage. qatar and egypt. mediators are pushing for another two day extension of the ceasefire . travel in some areas ceasefire. travel in some areas of the uk will be limited as

train drivers return to strike action in a long running dispute over pay. members of aslef at 16 train companies were refusing to work overtime from today until next saturday. the company said they will operate as many trains as possible, but some areas may have no services as and you can get more on all those stories by visiting our website at gbnews.com now it's back to beth i >> -- >> thanks, sophia . it is pip >> thanks, sophia. it is pip and cameron at least i think it is, yes. although it's the end of the week and i'm a bit cream crackered, so i don't know who am. >> it was the last time i checked. yeah for sure. anyway, this morning, the king says countries are dreadfully far off achieving climate goals during a cop 28 summit dubai. cop 28 summit in dubai. >> he addressed summit in cop 28 summit in dubai. >> last ddressed summit in cop 28 summit in dubai. >> last hour.sed summit in cop 28 summit in dubai. >> last hour ord summit in cop 28 summit in dubai. >> last hour or so. summit in cop 28 summit in dubai. >> last hour or so. let's1mit in cop 28 summit in dubai. >> last hour or so. let's take in the last hour or so. let's take a listen. >> it worries me greatly that we remain so dreadfully far off

track as the global stocktake report demonstrates so graphically . the dangers are no graphically. the dangers are no longer distant risks . i have longer distant risks. i have seen across the commonwealth and beyond count loss communities, which are unable to withstand repeated shocks whose lives and livelihoods are laid . waste by livelihoods are laid. waste by climate . change climate. change >> so the king is committed to his long standing passion of fighting climate change. cameron what did you make of it? because he is the only foreign head of state invited. yeah he is. >> and i think that makes a huge difference on the international stage. i think perhaps as well, the british government use him as a bit of an asset to try and get their message across. it's something, of course, that the king has really championed really bit personally for 50 years so. there's this years or so. but there's this huge of urgency . kc with

huge sense of urgency. kc with king charles. he clearly has a passion, but i think some people would argue that perhaps there's a danger that he could switch some people off when it comes to climate change. if he's too pessimistic, too doom and gloom, what you think? what do you think? >> i think i mean, he he's a great orator. he speaks very well about that. and i think his presence certainly be presence will certainly be appreciated. we've also got appreciated. but we've also got the prime minister saying that , the prime minister saying that, hang on a minute, china , you hang on a minute, china, you need you need to do more . need you need to do more. >> yeah, exactly. the prime minister announcing £1.6 billion of taxpayers money to go on green. a targets at this morning . but as you said, china , a . but as you said, china, a massive player on this global stage and the prime minister is expected to really urge china, one of those perhaps big polluters around the world, to do their bit. and is that 1.6 billion of our money actually going to make a bit of difference? >> and it will be noted by many of you perhaps, that prince charles, i'm still doing this only a year and a bit. charles

yeah, that king charles went in to dubai on a private jet. >> yeah, three private jets. the british government is chartered for this. the king went on one. foreign secretary, david cameron went on one. and of course, the prime minister. i mean, we've got to cut them some slack here because as if you can have three very important people on one jet security is obviously a major issue. but of course , a lot of issue. but of course, a lot of people, as you say , it's really people, as you say, it's really creating a bit of hypocrisy , creating a bit of hypocrisy, isn't could could isn't it? because could could king charles fly commercially ? king charles fly commercially? he i mean, he could in theory. but again, i think it's the security measures, isn't it? and his safety perhaps to come his safety perhaps has to come first. states first. and united states president would never fly commercially, would he? he's always got air force one. >> we do. we know that. >> we do. we do. we know that. yes. well if we talk a little bit more about king charles, because, we're seeing because, of course, we're seeing him 28. but it there's a him at cop 28. but it there's a little bit of another story going on. that's that's an understatement , isn't it? yeah. understatement, isn't it? yeah. which is which is perhaps over shadowed king charles's trip to

dubai because the royal family is apparently considering legal action after media outlets acas action after media outlets acas a number of them now named the royal well twosome duo alleged to have said some. yeah. >> so, i mean, the dutch copies appear to suggest that the king and the princess of wales took part in conversations about the skin tone of prince archie before he was born. but i think the bigger issue really is the fact that how were those names in the dutch version, but not in the british version originally the british version originally the originally the publisher said it was a translation issue. and then of course , they're only and then of course, they're only saying that it was an error. and then of course, they're only saying that it was an error . and saying that it was an error. and the mail yesterday ran the story that the woman who actually translated the text from the engush translated the text from the english manuscript into dutch said that those names were in the manuscript. so the names of king charles and princess of wales. >> yes. now i don't know about

you, but i think there's more holes in this than a colander. let's talk to michael cole, see what he reckons. michael cole, former bbc royal correspondent . former bbc royal correspondent. what what do you think ? what what do you think? >> good morning, philip . >> good morning, philip. >> good morning, philip. >> good morning to you both . uh, >> good morning to you both. uh, the king, of course , doing his the king, of course, doing his thing. we just saw him . you thing. we just saw him. you kindly showed us part of his speech. and of course, he went on his private plane. at least he didn't take his bentley with him as he used to do in the old days when people were less sensitive about issues of the environment, climate change. but to get back to your very perceptive question on the thing is in this country, the law is administered in the name of the monarch. it's our versus smith or our versus cole or whoever the defender is. rex against defendant. and i think it's inconceivable that his majesty could go into one of the royal courts of justice and sue for libel or anything else in a case

argued by king's counsel before one of his majesty justices , it one of his majesty justices, it would be very, very difficult. and i can never think any member of the royal family uh, suing for libel. it's always been their mantra. never complain, never explain. there we see the book this volume at the centre of it. and here we see the two people who indeed are not mentioned in in unfavourable terms. every other single member of the royal family seems to be castigated , uh, to a great castigated, uh, to a great extreme extent , not including extreme extent, not including prince william and his wife , uh, prince william and his wife, uh, catherine, princess of wales. so it's difficult to see what the royal family can do in the past, prince william, who we see there , who did sue a french magazine that published eight pictures of his wife sunbathing topless and

he won that case. and of course , he won that case. and of course, prince harry has more than one case against british newspaper groups in the british courts for invasion of privacy and other civil offences, which he alleged in those two cases are ongoing . in those two cases are ongoing. and cameron and i have been covering them quite extensively in the past, and i'm sure we will in the future. so apart from issuing a sort of statement along the lines of other variations , other recollections variations, other recollections may vary . it's difficult to know may vary. it's difficult to know how the royal family should respond . traditionally, they respond. traditionally, they would say nothing wrong. i think there's a strong case for keeping schtum on this occasion. silence is golden. >> i mean , it's understood. we >> i mean, it's understood. we found out last night, michael, that buckingham palace are considering all options. but what they failed to be drawn in on was his action against who is it? omid scobie, the author of the book, is it the dutch

publisher for publishing those two names, or is it the well—known television personality who first said those names on british television on a couple of nights ago? so it's hard to see exactly the kind of action they would be taking against who ? against who? >> yeah, exactly . in holland, it >> yeah, exactly. in holland, it was either an honest mistake, which is one thing, or it was a pubuchy which is one thing, or it was a publicity stunt to sell more copies of this vituperative volume . we don't know. i think volume. we don't know. i think it would be quite unusual for anyone or the royal family to take action against the dutch publisher and the trans later of that, she's come out and said very clearly that , um, the names very clearly that, um, the names that we both now know, we all both know, were in the text that he was she was asked to translate and all she did was simply translate them. so everything else has been sort of fluff and flurry thereafter

trying to, trying to explain it at the here. it's very, very difficult to see what the royal family can do. i actually think if i were advising them, that's not a possibility. we, of course, that it it's much better to let commentators as honest commentators parse this matter and come to their own conclusions . you know, the conclusions. you know, the british public are not fooled. they make their own decisions means very, very clearly . they make their own decisions means very, very clearly. but what would help immensely. cameron what would help immensely is this the king's second son is sitting in california on his hilltop . he california on his hilltop. he should come in now and distance himself from this poisonous book and make sure that he repudiates its content because it all revolves around him and his wife, the duchess of sussex , wife, the duchess of sussex, meghan markle. and it all started in 2021, in that interview that she gave to oprah

winfrey when she said that when she was pregnant with prince archie . um, what happened was archie. um, what happened was that somebody in the royal family, unnamed by her, um, raised the question of what what colour of the skin of the baby would be. and oprah, if you remember , did a rather stagey remember, did a rather stagey pause and her jaw dropped and pause and herjaw dropped and she said, what? what what? and it went on from there. and then prince harry, who we see there coming out of the church, sandringham, he then joined the conversation and i thought he looked very uneasy. i won't say embarrassed, but uneasy. and he said, i, i will never talk about that. that conversation . and that. that conversation. and when he was asked about it by tom bradby of itn, he said he wasn't alleging they were not alleging racism and so on. so if thatis alleging racism and so on. so if that is his position that they are not alleging racism among members of his family , the

members of his family, the family that nurtured him brought him up and made him a prince of the blood royal. he should come out now. that would be the clearest indication of their disdain for this book and how do you think this will have affect outside royal relations? >> because it was only a few days ago that we heard that maybe there was a little bit of heaung maybe there was a little bit of healing being done between prince harry and his father, king charles. >> uh, well, pip, i'll tell you something about men that men can put up with having insults thrown at them. my goodness. i'm a world champion at that. i've been insulted by experts, but men hate their wives being insulted . and prince william insulted. and prince william will be very, very upset that his wife , who is an absolutely his wife, who is an absolutely brilliant princess of wales, in my opinion , if you went to my opinion, if you went to central casting and you asked for a princess of wales, you'd come up with somebody as brilliant as catherine middleton, the princess of wales, who looks good, sounds good and does tremendous good

work . prince william will be work. prince william will be very, very hurt . work. prince william will be very, very hurt. his wife has been attacked and that attack has come somehow from his brother's camp as seen through the prism of sussexes as, uh, scobie , who denies that he's scobie, who denies that he's a mouthpiece or a megaphone. >> yeah, he's denying he's denying that it's a publicity stunt , isn't denying that it's a publicity stunt, isn't he? so you don't think there'll be any big family gathering at sandringham this christmas? certainly not. this christmas. michael, i think you can go down to the betting shop and you can bet against that. >> i think it's going to be a very hot day in february before we're going to see those two brothers again. and brothers together again. and it's understand able. but, you know, i come back to this. i come back to the much missed by us all but me and especially princess diana. she would be absolutely devastated to know that her two sons, who she thought and brought up to be brothers as to be there for each other, would ever be at

loggerheads like this. it's a terrible thing. and that's the dreadful thing about this charge of racism. it's pernicious. it's easy to make , but it's very hard easy to make, but it's very hard to refute because you have to prove a negative . it's cruel. prove a negative. it's cruel. it's unkind and unnecessary. >> and michael, it's unkind and unnecessary. >> and michael , there is not >> and michael, there is not a scintilla of evidence for it at the moment. that's that's absolutely that's the truth . absolutely that's the truth. >> so you have said it in one. >> so you have said it in one. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> michael, really appreciate you talking to us this morning as always. thank you so much . as always. thank you so much. and we should just say, i don't know whether we've got the pictures that princess catherine was at the rocked up at the royal variety performance. she was night looking was last night looking splendent. you wouldn't know that on that any of this was going on behind scenes. that any of this was going on beiprince scenes. that any of this was going on beiprince william as well. yes. >> prince william as well. yes. it's just a shame. but of it's just such a shame. but of course, all of this is overshadowing the king's speech at on today, at cop 28 earlier on today, which we're to which is what we're going to talk about but the prime talk about now. but the prime minister this time. >> yeah, rishi sunak has challenged china to more to challenged china to do more to ensure we can all meet

ensure that we can all meet the climate in dubai . climate goals set in dubai. >> but it just a bit of a >> but is it just a bit of a gimmick or something like that ? gimmick or something like that? of course, if he is, if he's put this £1.6 billion of taxpayers money to these green targets? philip davis mp joined us in the studio. philip, what do you think ? think? >> well, the whole thing of cop is an absolute farce, to be perfectly honest. you've got all these world leaders jetting in, as you've already discussed, on their , faffing their private jets, faffing about talking about how we're going to cut carbon emissions and change the world's climate . and change the world's climate. it's an absolute fantasy . the it's an absolute fantasy. the people, the two people who are the biggest emitters , the us and the biggest emitters, the us and china, they're presidents, haven't even bothered to turn up to this jamboree . and so you've to this jamboree. and so you've got a load of world leaders strutting around on the world stage and it's complete and utterly pointless. talk utterly pointless. we all talk about we're going to do, about what we're going to do, and time, year they and every time, every year they come bogus agreement and come to some bogus agreement and every our carbon emissions every year our carbon emissions keep going down. have been keep going down. ours have been cut by 48% since 1990, more cut now by 48% since 1990, more than other leading economy

than any other leading economy in the world. and china's and india's just keep going up and up and up and i guarantee that at the end of this, whatever farcical agreement they come to, i next year, i guarantee that next year, china's carbon emissions will be even so will even higher. and so will india's. and so will the global dump of carbon emissions. it's an absolute farce. the whole thing should note, though, thing we should note, though, that rishi sunak, he's he's there today . there today. >> but but the uk has rocked , >> but but the uk has rocked, has rolled on their on has rolled back on their on their green pledges on their commitments, haven't they. >> rishi sunak showed >> well, rishi sunak showed a bit of common sense, to be perfectly honest in in this regard. going this regard. instead of going on this ideologically , arbitrary ideologically driven, arbitrary target of banning all diesel and car and petrol car sales by 2030, which was completely unaware , achievable. i mean, unaware, achievable. i mean, there isn't even the there isn't even the infrastructure of ev charging points to for that to but is it a bit, a bit rishi rishi sunak to do that, to say that to china when he hasn't even stuck to his own pledges. but we've got our carbon

emissions by more than any other advanced economy in the world. we're, we're ahead of we're, we're miles ahead of everybody else. think it's everybody else. i think it's about us sort of about time instead of us sort of in through some kind of in effect through some kind of masochistic policies and punishing ourselves each year with with pointless targets , with with pointless targets, we're responsible for less than 1% of global carbon emissions. if we get to net zero, it won't make a blind bit of difference to global temperatures. we're fooling if we think we fooling ourselves if we think we can change anything. so i think he's absolutely right to say, look, know, we're going to look, you know, we're going to actually in a in in an actually do this in a in a in an affordable doesn't affordable way that doesn't punish actually, we punish people, but actually, we want to catch up . want everyone else to catch up. what's doing? it's what's everyone else doing? it's no good us just doing it on our own. we're doing is own. it's all we're doing is causing ourselves misery. we need else start need everyone else to start catching up. >> suggested a load world >> you suggested a load of world leaders. is them leaders. cop 28 is them strutting on the world strutting around on the world stage. but britain, perhaps is still seen. we think, as a world leader field and do you leader in this field and do you think it's an opportunity perhaps for britain, a global britain when britain to lead by example when it repairing the planet? >> well, we have been leading by example, everyone always example, and everyone always

told you know, if we do told me that, you know, if we do it, everyone else will follow suit . well, we've been doing it suit. well, we've been doing it now about years, now for about 35 years, and i haven't seen anybody else following particularly . following suit, particularly. you know, china has just pressed ahead. india are emerging economies in africa. the us don't really show much sign of caring too much. so we've been doing this. it's the same arguments that we use in the 19805 cnd arguments that we use in the 1980s cnd supporters. you 1980s by cnd supporters. you know, we get of all of know, if we get rid of all of our nuclear weapons, other our nuclear weapons, every other country will country in the world will follow. thought that was a follow. and i thought that was a load nonsense back then. load of old nonsense back then. and this is load of and i think this is a load of old nonsense back now. there's no evidence at to all show that if we do this, everyone is if we do this, everyone else is going follow what going to follow suit. what really is they're going to follow suit. what rea laughing is they're going to follow suit. what rea laughing at is they're going to follow suit. what rea laughing at us is they're going to follow suit. what rea laughing at us and:hey're going to follow suit. what rea laughing at us and taking all laughing at us and taking over our manufacturing industry that of handed away that we've sort of handed away because was too polluting. because it was too polluting. and it's moved to other and it's just moved to other countries are polluting as countries who are polluting as well. it's completely well. it doesn't it's completely it's the whole thing. >> well, it all seems to play for guess we'll how it for i guess we'll see how it pans out over the next few days. phil thank you . phil thank you. >> the israel and hamas truce, well, it's at an end because

fighting in the last few hours has restarted . has restarted. >> to explain, we're joined by defence editor at the evening standard , robert fox. robert standard, robert fox. robert what exactly is the latest here? because of course, there are still hostages trapped in gaza . still hostages trapped in gaza. >> well, the latest is , as you >> well, the latest is, as you say, that hostilities have resumed , which is an awful resumed, which is an awful phrase . israel is bombing and phrase. israel is bombing and it's bombing in the south of the gaza strip. by all accounts . gaza strip. by all accounts. they say that they were provoked by hamas launching a rocket towards sderot , which is just to towards sderot, which is just to the north of one of the big a bigger towns just to the north of the gaza strip. but what looks ominous about this is that the idf , that is the israeli the idf, that is the israeli army , the israeli defence force, army, the israeli defence force, wanted to do this anyway because they thought that if the truce went on that they were going to lose momentum . mr blinken

lose momentum. mr blinken president biden's representative , his secretary of state is in town trying to keep the talk going. but i think that they've got a problem because cause i don't think mr netanyahu, the israeli leader, is listening to them. >> are talk , robert, still >> are talk, robert, still ongoing about a ceasefire ? is ongoing about a ceasefire? is there a chance that a ceasefire could resume ? could resume? >> well, sir, we understand that talks are going, but talks aren't talks in the way that you you and i may think of them. there's a bit of behind closed doors. it will be going on in qatar particularly. and qatar is very difficult because it's vital that hamas political leadership is there, its financial leadership is there. and that's where a lot of relationships which lead to it army is there. but strategy isn't decided there because it's absolutely clear that what happened on october 7 was actually done from inside gaza itself. what is happening is

that the lines i think, are not linking up at the moment and it does look as if there is a very serious guerrilla war going on, a conflict terrorist war, because we had three israelis attacked in jerusalem yesterday with fatalities and this is going to be very, very difficult to put back together again. so, yes, i do think talks are going on. but do i think they're going to go anywhere? not anywhere very . soon very. soon >> defence editor for the evening standard. thank you. and we were just looking at live shots there of the israel gaza border. clear evidence, clear evidence of that offensive of that war resuming in the last few hours. and no doubt many more civilians are going to lose their lives. so >> still to come, matt hancock is back at the covid inquiry. we will have the latest . will have the latest. >> a brighter outlook with boxed

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gb news. >> it's 10:00 gb news. >> it's10:00 on gb news. >> it's 10:00 on friday. the 1st >> it's10:00 on friday. the 1st of december, very close to christmas. of course, this is britain's newsroom on gb news with pip tomson and cameron walker . come with pip tomson and cameron walker. come coming up far off track . track. >> speaking at the opening ceremony earlier, king charles warns, we are not on course to meet our climate goals. >> changes are no longer distant risks . i >> changes are no longer distant risks. i have >> changes are no longer distant risks . i have seen across the risks. i have seen across the commonwealth and beyond countless communities which are

unable to withstand repeated shocks . shocks. >> sunak challenges china. the prime minister, rishi sunak, says it's vitally important china does more to make cop28 climate goals a reality. we'll have the latest . royal legal action. >> the fallout of omid scobie's end game book and the royal naming row continues as the palace threatens to launch this legal action. but will they ? legal action. but will they? we'll bring you the latest lockdown was too late. >> that's what the former health secretary, matt hancock, admitted yesterday. he's at the covid inquiry again this morning. we'll have the latest. he's and our reporter katherine forster has the latest . forster has the latest. >> yes, matt hancock here again today. >> yes, matt hancock here again today . having said yesterday today. having said yesterday that he told the prime minister to lock down earlier and also admitting that that protective

ring around care homes that he said the government had thrown around them was in fact no such thing. we'll be bringing you the latest all day . latest all day. >> and israel—hamas truce ends. israel resumes heavy fighting against hamas in gaza after that seven day pause, securing editor mark white is here. >> well, it was just after 530 in the morning local time when the rocket alert sirens sounded across southern israel. the israeli military responded in kind , striking dozens of targets kind, striking dozens of targets across the gaza strip . the hamas across the gaza strip. the hamas run health ministry says dozens of civilians have been killed and snow showers. >> there's a yellow weather warning covering areas in north—east england. the east midlands and the east of england's yorkshire and the humber and parts of scotland. our scotland reporter tony maguire is in edinburgh , a 600

maguire is in edinburgh, a 600 mile wall of ice and snow across the east coast of the uk from shetland to down chelmsford and overnight lows of minus ten. >> join us a little later for the very latest news of the weather this weekend . weather this weekend. >> yep, it's a bit chilly. weather this weekend. >> yep, it's a bit chilly . let >> yep, it's a bit chilly. let us know all your thoughts on our talking points. vaiews@gbnews.com. let's start with all your headlines . vaiews@gbnews.com. let's start with all your headlines. here's sophia . sophia. >> good morning . it's 10:03. sophia. >> good morning . it's10:03. i'm >> good morning. it's10:03. i'm sofia wenzel in the newsroom . sofia wenzel in the newsroom. the king says countries are dreadfully far off achieving climate goals during a cop 28 summit in dubai , giving an summit in dubai, giving an opening address at the world climate action summit, the monarch said the hope of the world rests on the decisions

taken at the gathering. the prime minister will also address the summit later and is expected to announce £1.6 billion for environmental projects . the king environmental projects. the king said the dangers of climate change are no longer distant risks with what we are witnessing, our choice now is a starker and darker one. >> how dangerous are we actually prepared to make our world and deaung prepared to make our world and dealing with this is a job for us all. change will come by working together and making it easier to embrace decisions that will sustain our world right? rather than carry on as though there are no limits , the prime there are no limits, the prime minister says the government is finalising legislation to push through his rwanda asylum plan as his patience is worn thin by the setbacks to the deal. >> it's after rishi sunak said around £140 million has already been spent to house illegal

migrants in hotels. the rwanda plan initially failed after european judges intervened, calling it unlawful . but the calling it unlawful. but the government is set to publish a new legislation which could disapply human rights laws for illegal migrants. there will also be a new treaty which ensures they cannot be sent from rwanda to the country that they fled from israel defence forces send fighter jets to target terrorists in the enclave as combat resumes in gaza , the idf combat resumes in gaza, the idf says it's intercepted several rockets fired from gaza earlier today. israel's prime minister accuses the terrorist group of breaking the ceasefire agreement by not releasing all the women and children they are holding hostage. the israeli army have published a map to advise gazans of safe areas for their evacuation in qatar and egypt , evacuation in qatar and egypt, mediators are pushing for another two day extension of the ceasefire , but were unable to ceasefire, but were unable to reach an agreement before the deadune reach an agreement before the deadline expired . former health deadline expired. former health secretary matt hancock is giving evidence to the covid 19 inquiry

for the second day. ms hancock played a key role in the response to the pandemic. he rejected claims he lied to colleagues about having a plan for the outbreak, describing it as false allegations. mr hancock also said he believed number 10 was preventing mrjohnson also said he believed number 10 was preventing mr johnson from speaking publicly about the virus. in february 2022. travel in some areas of the uk will be limited as train drivers return to strike action in a long running dispute over pay . running dispute over pay. members of aslef at 16 train companies are refusing to work over time from today until next saturday, the company said they will operate as many trains as possible, but some areas may have no services. the union accused the government and employers of not trying to negotiate , but the rail delivery negotiate, but the rail delivery group says the union should accept the offer , which would accept the offer, which would take average driver based salaries for a four day week from 60 to nearly 65,000. travel journalist simon calder said it's a bleak start to december

8th. >> today is only the start because we are going to see a whole series starting tomorrow of rolling strikes one region at a time , one day at a time. the a time, one day at a time. the train drivers belonging to aslef are basically wanting to say we can cause an awful lot of problems to travellers . and then problems to travellers. and then the worst day of december, i predict, is going to be on sunday when there won't be any trains from here on avanti west coast or on london, north western railway . western railway. >> parts of the uk could see five centimetres of snow today with temperatures expected to drop as low as minus ten degrees. it comes as the uk health security agency has issued amber cold health alerts in five regions this includes the east midlands west midlands, nonh the east midlands west midlands, north west, north, east yorkshire and the humber hilly areas, including north york, moors and parts of scotland , are moors and parts of scotland, are expected to see more snow later .

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always give billions for other countries to combat climate change? of course, we've been talking a lot about cop 28 conference in dubai this morning where the and the prime where the king and the prime minister been. where the king and the prime miryeah, been. where the king and the prime miryeah, it's been. where the king and the prime miryeah, it's goten. where the king and the prime miryeah, it's got quite few of >> yeah, it's got quite a few of you this topic. roger good you going this topic. roger good morning. you say is morning. you say what is destroying the planet is population explosion. one population explosion. no one talks that. probably talks about that. probably because they make any because they can't make any money oh you cynic. yeah. >> whereas denise claims the sahara was green before sahara desert was green before approximately 4000 bc. so was that changed due to four by fours jets, etcetera? natural changes and human species will have to adapt like other creatures did or die out. that's what denise thinks, max. >> good morning to you. you say if climate change is so dangerous as it really appears to be, then we need a massive change in mindset by everyone . change in mindset by everyone. no more foreign holidays, no more performance sports that require hundreds or thousands of people flying in from all over the world. no more olympics or other international sports. no more imports of goods from across the world that could be

manufactured in this country. >> seems like a bit of a boring world, unfortunately, doesn't it? don't if i can cope it? i don't know if i can cope without the foreign holiday, but we'll see. fair enough. that is max's morning to you, max's view. good morning to you, max. paul says china max. and paul says china pollutes most because pollutes more than most because it everything in it makes almost everything in the don't pollute the world. we don't pollute because have manufacturing because we have no manufacturing base in the i think a lot of base in the uk. i think a lot of people perhaps would agree with that. >> thank you very much. keep your thoughts coming in. let's turn to the covid inquiry today is the second day that matt hancock , the former health hancock, the former health secretary during the pandemic , secretary during the pandemic, will give evidence to the inquiry. now, yesterday he admitted that the uk , the admitted that the uk, the government was too late to lock down. listen to this . down. listen to this. >> if we'd had the doctrine that i propose, which is as soon as you know, you've got to lock down, you lock down as soon as possible. well then we would have got the lock down done over that in on the 2nd of that weekend in on the 2nd of march, three weeks earlier than before. a doubling rate before. there's a doubling rate at point estimated every at this point estimated every 3 to days. we would have been

to 4 days. we would have been six ahead of where we six doublings ahead of where we were, which means that fewer than a 10th of the number of people would have died in the first wave. >> well, let's go live to gb news political correspondent katherine forster. catherine thanks for joining us. katherine forster. catherine thanks forjoining us. i believe he's back giving more evidence today. >> yes, that's right. former health secretary matt hancock back here at the covid inquiry for a second day. he's due to give evidence from 10:00 through to lunchtime at about 1:30 or two. then next week, boris johnson will be giving evidence next wednesday and thursday. but some interesting comments that he made yesterday weren't there. foremost among which was that they should have locked down much earlier. they should have locked down much earlier . now, he they should have locked down much earlier. now, he claims to have had a phone call with the prime minister on the 13th of march in which he said this . but march in which he said this. but hugo, keith, kc interrogating him and said, well, where's the

evidence? and there doesn't appear to be any. he also pointed out that in matt hancock's pandemic diaries , hancock's pandemic diaries, which of course were not really diaries, but sort of information puts back in a diary form, there was no mention of this call. matt hancock said, oh, well, there's an email, but i haven't got it now. so there was that. and also i think the other very significant thing was about this protective ring around care homes, which matt hancock said in may of 2020 the government were throwing around almost vulnerable. he was forced to admit that that in fact, that was a protective ring, was no such thing because, of course, we know that people with coronavirus were being discharged while they were still positive , far back from positive, far back from hospitals who needed the bed space directly in to care homes. and we also know that care home workers who of course , there's workers who of course, there's nothing like enough of them were

going from care home to care , going from care home to care, home to care home. so the protective ring, i'm afraid , has protective ring, i'm afraid, has turned out to be pretty much a fantasy, as i think the relatives of people in care homes always knew. matt hancock also very keen to shift the blame, as you would expect, there's been a lot of other people giving evidence that had basically accused him of lying. he firmly rebutted that, said that was simply not true. but all the while through yesterday, his arch nemesis, dominic cummings , i think we can safely cummings, i think we can safely say the pair absolutely loathe each other, was not very helpful for matt hancock tweeting rebuttals and criticisms of many of the things that matt hancock said. so obviously matt hancock wants to show himself in the best possible light, but i don't think it's going terribly well for him so far. >> catherine, i was covering the inquiry all day yesterday . i inquiry all day yesterday. i mean, what i noticed about matt

hancock was was he's he spoke with with a lot of conviction , with with a lot of conviction, if you like. you know, he's got an answer for absolutely everything, which very much relates , i think, to some of the relates, i think, to some of the criticism of him about being very overconfident and nuclear levels of confidence. i think somebody described it . somebody described it. >> yes, i think it might have been. helen macnamara who worked in the cabinet office, who described nuclear levels of confidence . i think certainly confidence. i think certainly matt hancock doesn't come across as somebody who is a shrinking violet, who is unsure of his own abilities as he's made comments before pretty much indicating that he sort of enjoyed , in that he sort of enjoyed, in a way, being in charge in this huge time of national crisis. but matt hancock's image of himself in the part that he played is at odds with many people who were in government and who were in the civil service that really were not

impressed with him at all. so let's see what history makes of him ultimately . him ultimately. >> catherine, thank you. we are now joined in the studio by political commentator john oxley. john welcome. catherine's right there. it's not looking great for matt hancock, is it? no. >> and you can see through this with his , you know, the with his, you know, the so—called diaries that he brought out very quickly after the end of the pandemic. going around tv lot. it's clear around on tv a lot. it's clear matt hancock wants to present this image that he's the big covid hero. the man who covid hero. he's the man who saved day. but what you're saved the day. but what you're getting through the inquiry's very , old study of that very detail, old study of that penod very detail, old study of that period , a lot of reliance on period, a lot of reliance on documents , a lot of different documents, a lot of different people giving evidence . and it people giving evidence. and it seems most of those people have very different recollections of how the pandemic went. and how useful he was in that situation to matt hancock's own view of himself . himself. >> and we keep hearing that this inquiry is about learning lessons . and one of the lessons

lessons. and one of the lessons you could say that should be learned is when there's a crisis like this, stop fighting like rats in a sack. i mean, so many personal clashes here and at the heart of it seems to be good old dominic cummings. >> oh, absolutely. and that's one of the things that matt hancock said through his through his evidence. he was talking about environment. he about this toxic environment. he was talking about dominic cummings getting in the way of in the way of cabinet ministers sort of sidelining them. you know, it's hard to tell how much of that is true. certainly dom was a big, powerful figure, very close to boris johnson. and you're right that that overall, thatis you're right that that overall, that is one of the things that we need to take away from this inquiry when we get the end inquiry when we get to the end of is, is cabinet government of it is, is cabinet government working well, does it work well in situations? and in those situations? and how do we build system and both we build a system and both political and in terms of the structures, the cabinet office so when the next event like so that when the next event like this comes really out of nowhere and, you know, our cabinet are working together, are focusing on it, have the right

information on making the right decisions in the right circumstances and aren't playing political with it. political games with it. >> at the time. the then health secretary, matt hancock , spoke secretary, matt hancock, spoke of this ring protective ring around care homes. of course, we know a number of older people who were in hospital were sent back to care homes, having not been tested for covid. and he seemed to concede towards the end of the day yesterday that perhaps that protective ring wasn't quite as strong as he was making out at the time. >> yeah, that's definitely something we've seen. have to something we've seen. we have to remember the time didn't remember at the time we didn't have there was this have testing and there was this real on people with real focus on people with symptoms , but were starting symptoms, but we were starting to asymptomatic to know asymptomatic transmission was possible and it was one example. my great uncle was one example. my great uncle was in that cohort of people who were discharged from hospital around time, and around about that time, and there care homes, there were two care homes, the care into had no care home he went into had no cases, no fatalities . his there cases, no fatalities. his there was another care home that they were thinking of. and in that first wave, 15 people died in that one care home. so it shows

the ring wasn't impenetrable . the ring wasn't impenetrable. and if you were in that scenario, it was really luck that kept your care home safe or unsafe at the time. >> one of the criticisms of this inquiry is that it is not asking the right questions, and i saw it for myself yesterday an acceptance , a complete acceptance, a complete acceptance, a complete acceptance, that lockdown was the right thing to do. what was what was discussed was the timing of it. but there's a lot of people who say, hang on a minute, this led to so many more problems for people locking them in their homes , the mental in their homes, the mental health difficulties, the deaths that arose from that, that arrived arose from that, the school closures. i mean, i can see in the last few minutes, matt hancock has said and has told the inquiry school closures may have been avoided lock may have been avoided if we lock down sooner. you know, it's this question of should it have happened question of should it have hapthere's definitely that. and >> there's definitely that. and i think there's another question which be in the which really should be in the inquiry. been touched inquiry. but hasn't been touched on were we doing enough on much is were we doing enough to mitigate some of the consequences that we knew would happen from lockdown because

even crossed the line even if you've crossed the line that we to go into this that we need to go into this lockdown, you should be able to come up? well, if we do that, this is going to happen. that's going and we going to happen. and how do we have a plan to deal with that? and of the classic and i think one of the classic things is, know, the things is, is, you know, the a—levels where they came up a—levels where they they came up with algorithm system, with an algorithm system, which was obvious on the face of it. it wasn't going to work. and then hurriedly redo it in then had to hurriedly redo it in then had to hurriedly redo it in the when turned out to the summer when it turned out to be a catastrophe. and think be a catastrophe. and i think that's how now be a catastrophe. and i think that'swe how now be a catastrophe. and i think that'swe get how now be a catastrophe. and i think that'swe get into how now be a catastrophe. and i think that'swe get into these 10w now be a catastrophe. and i think that'swe get into these decision when we get into these decision making and chris sees our government looking at the whole thing in the round, looking at what all the options are, and if you go down one route, how do you go down one route, how do you avoid some of the bad things that are consequence that? that are a consequence of that? >> looks like >> well, john, it looks like there's a lot there's still a lot more questions to answer. but thank you so forjoining us here you so much forjoining us here in the gb news studio. thank you. should we to snow? you. should we turn to snow? >> none. none >> there's none. there's none near i was de—icing very near me. but i was de—icing very early this morning. in fact, i did thing because did the wrong thing because don't say should never don't they say you should never put water on your car put very hot water on your car when it? it

when you could crack it? it could crack. >> guess what i did. oh, no. you didn't. i did. did it crack? >> well, no, thank goodness. >> no. well, no, thank goodness. >> no. well, no, thank goodness. >> lucky that was lucky. >> lucky that that was lucky. i always feel really sad for school kids actually the school kids actually at the moment, when i was at moment, because when i was at school you school and i'm sure when you were school as well, when it were at school as well, when it was a day, you could do was a snow day, you could do snowball fights, sledging, snowball fights, go sledging, you'd school. you'd have a day off school. now, of course, snowball fights. >> not allowed do >> no, we're not allowed to do snowball fights anymore. >> dear. >> cameron oh, dear. >> cameron oh, dear. >> anything that. it's like >> anything like that. it's like conkers, isn't it? >> health safety. health and >> health and safety. health and safety. but course, safety. yeah. but of course, because covid all the because of covid and all the kids having to work from home, that's so they that's the excuse now. so they don't a snow day. they still don't get a snow day. they still have and don't get to have to work and don't get to play have to work and don't get to play snow. that's play out in the snow. that's very sad, but not the most important thing when it comes to this. suppose not, no, because this. i suppose not, no, because there are weather there are yellow weather warnings ice that warnings for snow and ice that have issued and they've have been issued and they've been extended across the uk. >> looks like it's right down >> it looks like it's right down the eastern side of the with the eastern side of the uk with these freezing conditions in many parts of the country. >> well, let's go live now to our reporter tony mcguire, who's

in edinburgh. tony, it looks like you've got a little bit of snow where you are. is there much disruption ? much travel disruption? >> indeed. good morning . well, >> indeed. good morning. well, certainly here in balerno, just to the south—west of edinburgh , to the south—west of edinburgh, it's quite a bit of a light dusting indeed. this is the same snowfall that was here yesterday. and it seems to me that quite write down the actual coastal area of scotland and all the way from shetland down to essex, chelmsford , about 600 essex, chelmsford, about 600 miles has that yellow weather warning. now we're actually going into the fourth day of yellow where the weather warnings for snow for and ice. and indeed today we also saw warnings for the east coast of northern ireland, as well as the south—west of england. and it's in the south—west of england that had many of those school closures that you talked about yesterday. around 30 schools closed their doors yesterday and indeed today , as temperatures indeed today, as temperatures remain below freezing , that many remain below freezing, that many of those schools have decided to

extend that into today. and in fact, quite a lot of schools up and down the uk have joined them. some even as far west as them. some even as far west as the west coast of scotland . and the west coast of scotland. and today does see the end of the yellow weather warnings. however however, it does not the end of the wintry weather. it's only the wintry weather. it's only the 1st of december and yet we are still feel very much like we are still feel very much like we are in the jowls of winter and we're going to see more snow here in scotland as well as high ground. the yorkshire moors , for ground. the yorkshire moors, for example. is going to example. and it is going to cause quite a lot of disruption. i was checking on scotrail's feeds and national rails feeds earlier on. not a whole lot of disruption, but obviously the same warnings as we're so used to seeing by this point that some trains may be delayed or there may be disruption as we go on. but of course, the risk to health and safety is the main thing when you are getting around, especially at those suppy around, especially at those slippy train platforms . slippy train platforms. >> well, we'll stay warm, tony.

it may not be much snow, but it's certainly very cold out there . there. >> it looks very festive, though, doesn't it? which is nice. it certainly does. >> i still am holding out hope for a white christmas. i think i've only had about three in my whole life. but yeah, but we can see. it's still, what, 25 see. but it's still, what, 25 days i think it's days to go. so i think it's probably too early for the met office to give us any kind of indication that one. indication on that one. >> have your tree up? no >> have you got your tree up? no not quite yet. >> have you got your tree up? no not not :e yet. >> have you got your tree up? no not not quite yet. there's some >> not quite yet. there's some christmas tree or fake fake this yeah christmas tree or fake fake this year. yeah, some christmas christmas tree or fake fake this year. ye.are;ome christmas christmas tree or fake fake this year. ye.are out. christmas christmas tree or fake fake this year. ye.are out. chriofnas christmas tree or fake fake this year. ye.are out. chri of course, candles are out. and of course, the this morning the advent calendar this morning as don't quite a as well. we don't quite have a tree in studio yet, but tree in the studio yet, but perhaps will happen in the perhaps that will happen in the next so. i don't know. next week or so. i don't know. >> you know, you shouldn't do tinsel, you? they tinsel, should you? they say it's very it's bit old it's not very it's a bit old fashioned. 1970s. >> i like a bit of tinsel. what are you balls do you put a star or a fairy on top of the tree? >> forget giving us your views on give your on climate change. give us your views on tinsel. yeah. stay with us on britain's newsroom, us here on britain's newsroom, because come, be because still to come, we'll be talking seven day talking about that seven day truce between israel and hamas

talking about that seven day trucehastween israel and hamas talking about that seven day trucehas endedisrael and hamas talking about that seven day trucehas endedisraelexplosions s talking about that seven day trucehas endedisraelexplosions , that has ended with explosions, guns and gunfire . each group guns and gunfire. each group accusing the other of violating the terms of that pause . the terms of that pause. >> this is britain's newsroom on

sunday mornings from 930 on gb news . news. >> welcome back. it's 1027 here. you're watching britain's newsroom on gb news with cameron

walker and pip tomson. >> the truce between israel and hamas is over. fighting has resumed in the last few hours . resumed in the last few hours. >> would gb news is security editor mark white joined us now to explain all. mark, what's the latest? >> well , that fighting has begun >> well, that fighting has begun again in earnest. we had and many analysts had believed , many analysts had believed, maybe got about another 24 hours or so of a truce . there are or so of a truce. there are still some women being held by hamas, but it ended at just after 530 in the morning local time this morning with the rocket alert sirens sounding in multiple locations across across southern israel. let's listen to that. southern israel. let's listen to that . that a door, southern israel. let's listen to that. that a door, is southern israel. let's listen to that . that a door, is that that. that a door, is that depher a door bev and andrew several adult depher adult . and several adult depher adult. and as you hear there, the sound of

explosions and the iron dome missile launchers into the early morning sky there across southern israel and really just moments after that, israel responded in kind and targeting multiple areas of the gaza strip , particularly in the south of gaza, already , the hamas run gaza, already, the hamas run health ministry is reporting that dozens of civilians have been killed. now, very publicly , been killed. now, very publicly, anthony blinken, the us secretary of state, is saying that the us continue to support israel in its right to defend himself, but he is also urging caution from israel . so asking caution from israel. so asking the israeli government and the military to do all it can to try to avoid civilian casualties . to avoid civilian casualties. but it's difficult to see how that can happen because you have a situation where israel says is

that hamas is using civilian areas to hide their terrorist infrastructure, to launch their rockets from and as a response , rockets from and as a response, when they target these areas , when they target these areas, clearly the inevitable outcome is lots of civilian deaths and the israeli military is dropping more leaflets today telling people to evacuate south, but that that offensive is moving south. >> nowhere is safe in gaza. people are effectively penned in, aren't they? >> well into hinckley, the israeli military appear to be changing tactic s slightly. they've been dropping leaflets that have a grid structure so it's no longerjust move south. but move to certain areas at certain times. now that strikes me as being full of potential for real confusion here. but what they seem to want to do is concentrate on smaller areas at a time and then urge the civilian population to move out

of those areas into what they call safer zones . let's see how call safer zones. let's see how that plays out on the ground and whether it's any more success ful than what we saw in the run up to this truce, which was is an order to evacuate south with many people still staying in the north, is there a chance that this ceasefire could resume? >> we understand qatar is working to try and get things started again on that front because as we've said, there are still so many hostages being held . held. >> i think there is. and the sooner that truce gets underway , sooner that truce gets underway, you know, the better in terms of the likelihood that it could take another truce to release those hostages. the longer this plays out, the more difficult it will be to get any kind of truce , get back on track again . but , get back on track again. but you're right, israel says there are still women that are being held by hamas. and i think one

of the sticking points is when we move towards the men and members of the idf who are being held by hamas, hamas sees them as more valuable hostages and wants more in the way of concessions from israel , which concessions from israel, which might mean the release of more in the way of palestinian prisoners to, as i say, compensate for the release of those hostages, qatar and egypt currently still negotiating . so currently still negotiating. so let's just see what happens if we get another truce , it might we get another truce, it might be quite quick in being enacted, maybe in the next 24 hours or so. but if we don't, then things don't look, i don't think look, going forward . going forward. >> mark white, thanks so much . >> mark white, thanks so much. do stay with us here on britain's newsroom. we are going to be talking about man's best friend. >> oh , like i like man's best >> oh, like i like man's best friend . oh, they're so cute. and friend. oh, they're so cute. and a little cat as well. if you're watching on television, owning a dog can dramatically reduce the

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risks with what we are witnessing, our choice now is a starker and darker one. >> how dangerous are we actually prepared to make our world and deaung prepared to make our world and dealing with this is a job for us all. change will come by working together and making it easier to embrace decisions that will sustain our world rather than carry on as though there are no limits. >> un chief antonio gutierrez says he deeply regrets the collapse of a week long truce between israel and hamas. it says israeli defence forces send fighter jets to target terrorists in the enclave . as terrorists in the enclave. as the combat resumes in gaza . the the combat resumes in gaza. the idf said it intercepted several rockets fired from gaza earlier today. israel's prime minister accuses the terrorist group of breaking the ceasefire agreement by not releasing all the women and children they are holding hostage. qatar and egypt.

mediators are pushing for another two day extension of the ceasefire to travel in some areas of the uk will be limited as train drivers return to strike action in a long running dispute over pay . members of dispute over pay. members of aslef at 16 train companies were refusing to work overtime from today until next saturday. the company said they will operate as many trains as possible, but some areas may have no services . some areas may have no services. and you can get more on all those stories by visiting our website at gbnews.com . website at gb news.com. >> website at gbnews.com. >> for stunning gold and silver coins, you'll always value. rosalind gold proudly sponsors the gb news financial report. and here's a quick snapshot of today's markets . today's markets. >> the pound will buy you 1.26, six, $2 and ,1.1613. the price of gold is £1,615.79 per ounce,

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and people that i knew had dewbs & co weeknights from . six & co weeknights from. six >> welcome back. it's just coming up to 1040. you're watching britain's newsroom on gb news with cameron walker and pip tomson >> the festive season has begun and police forces across the uk are launching their annual christmas crackdown on drink and drug drivers . drug drivers. >> well, our reporter anna riley joins north yorkshire police to find out more about their campaign . campaign. >> it's the festive season, a time to eat , >> it's the festive season, a time to eat, drink and be merry and to make sure people get home safe. forces across the uk are warning of the dangers of drinking and driving . drinking and driving. >> if you are going to get behind the wheel of a car, do not drink any alcohol, don't do it. it'sjust not drink any alcohol, don't do it. it's just not worth the risk. you run the risk of losing your your job. you run the risk of losing your licence once you

know your income. but of course, worst of all, you could seriously injure somebody or kill or yourself. and i kill them or yourself. and i just ask people to think about that. we don't want any empty chairs dinner tables this chairs at dinner tables this christmas. let's make sure everybody gets home safe here in nonh everybody gets home safe here in north yorkshire , our officers north yorkshire, our officers are increasing patrols on the roads in the run up to christmas to clamp down on drink and drug driving. >> we would look for vehicles that are defective or committing offences where we could then stop the driver for what we've seen and we will take every opportunity to check them for dnnk opportunity to check them for drink and drugs during december of last year in north yorkshire, over 1000, i think it was 1035 drivers were breathalysed and tested for drugs . the amount of tested for drugs. the amount of people that were arrested was, i think about £120. so the figures are really quite daunting as to how many people are prepared to get behind the wheel while they're impaired. >> are conducting >> police are also conducting static stops, pulling drivers over like this one for speeding.

and then breathalyse them to checkif and then breathalyse them to check if they're over the limit. >> i was very careful coming along because i know that you've been there before. when i've come in and i do only do 30, but apparently i was just over. i had to do a breath test. yeah. >> and how do you feel that the police are out patrolling people? >> i think it's very good. >> i think it's very good. >> i think it's very good. >> i think it's a good idea. yes, absolutely. people will see him there. you hear and think, oh, what's going on? and yeah, but there are obviously some people that don't take any notice. but yeah , i think people notice. but yeah, i think people will listen. >> the campaign runs until the start of new year with the message don't shatter lives this christmas time . i'm anna riley, christmas time. i'm anna riley, gb news is a strong message there . there. >> well, let's talk about it with political commentator matthew stadlen and broadcaster mike parry. good morning to you both. there does seem to be quite a lot of optimism among people, doesn't there, where you're having a drink at

christmas or whenever it is and you're like, oh, i'll be all right by the morning, it'll have worn off. >> well, that's a very foolish view to take, isn't it? first of all, i'm delighted to see policemen doing what i regard as a policing you know a real policing job. you know what mean ? because this is a what i mean? because this is a big this country. i'd big issue in this country. i'd rather policemen there rather see policemen out there on roads hunched over on the roads than hunched over a laptop find hate laptop trying to find a hate crime in somebody's twitter account or something like that. okay. but i got involved in a debate last week about whether or we should take the drink, or not we should take the drink, drive level this country down drive level in this country down to and i argued against to zero. and i argued against it. the drink drive it. i think the drink drive permitted drink drive permitted acceptable drink drive level this country the level in this country at the moment you can go out moment is good. you can go out and have one pint of beer and have ploughman's lunch with have a ploughman's lunch with 2 or friends without without or 3 friends without without going above the drink drive limit and having purpose to limit and having a purpose to yourjourney limit and having a purpose to your journey . limit and having a purpose to yourjourney . but if limit and having a purpose to your journey . but if you limit and having a purpose to yourjourney . but if you go limit and having a purpose to your journey . but if you go to your journey. but if you go to zero, you will kill off the country pubs in in this country most people are are cognisant with the drink drive laws. they don't exceed them. very small number of drivers do and they

should be punished severely if they do that. but i don't want to see an overall ban on alcohol for drivers in this country. >> interesting point. matthew, what do you think? because you know, of beer , mike know, one pint of beer, mike might be fine with it. know, one pint of beer, mike might be fine with it . you might might be fine with it. you might not not that saying . not be. not that i'm saying. you're but but you're a lightweight, but but you get the drift. >> i'm a bit lighter than i was. loss of two stone. i thought this going this was going to be a conversation that could unite all of because no one wants all of us because no one wants to see on the road. there to see deaths on the road. there was crash. read was a terrible crash. i read about just other week and about just the other week and it's you say very, it's harrowing. you say very, very correctly, actually , that very correctly, actually, that in the morning you might not be soben in the morning you might not be sober. in fact, you probably won't be, depending on how much you've had to drink. and you don't want to wake up the next morning either. if you do drink and and realise that your and drive and realise that your life changed the life has changed forever, the lives other people have been lives of other people have been changed might changed forever, you might lose your and forth as that yourjob and so forth as that police officer said, there is still for these still clearly a need for these sorts of campaigns because as the officer also pointed out, 10% roughly, of those who are stopped last year in his area in

nonh stopped last year in his area in north yorkshire were found to be over the limit. so for goodness sake, the message from all of us, whether we up us, whether whether we end up bringing it to nought or bringing it down to nought or not, i what you're not, and i hear what you're saying about the importance of the trade, whether the country pub trade, whether we doing or not. and we end up doing that or not. and i haven't heard big debate i haven't heard a big debate about it recently. just don't dnnk drink and drive. >> but the morning >> yeah, but the morning after thing completely different thing is a completely different argument . you if you've argument. you know, if you've got if you're responsible got a car, if you're responsible for opening door for opening that door and getting you exactly how getting in, you know exactly how much can drive in this much you can drive in this country and 10% figure, by country. and that 10% figure, by the like to that the way, i'd like to see that broken between drink and broken down between drink and drugs, increasingly drugs, because in increasingly drugs, because in increasingly drugs is becoming the major problem for drivers because they think they can get away with it more easily. so, i mean, there's not alcohol in your breath. and how can a policeman tell if you've got glazed eyes so they should be cracking down on the drugs and people should be aware of how much they can drink when they go out socially. >> the absolute should what i'm saying about the morning after >> the absolute should what i'm sathat about the morning after >> the absolute should what i'm sathat you jt the morning after >> the absolute should what i'm sathat you mightmorning after >> the absolute should what i'm sathat you might be �*ning after >> the absolute should what i'm sathat you might be drinkinger >> the absolute should what i'm sathat you might be drinking on is that you might be drinking on a night, not drive, not a friday night, not drive, not

go can go anywhere near your car. i agree. then you feel you agree. and then you feel you have somewhere in the have to get somewhere in the morning saturday. might morning on the saturday. might be your kid to football be take your kid to football practice or whatever and not be aware the limit. >> yeah, well i totally agree with that. but people have got to aware of their limitations to be aware of their limitations and it takes alcohol to and how long it takes alcohol to get out of your body. >> i'm not sure people are aware this my point. well, i think this is my point. well, i think you right. people are you might be right. people are very, optimistic it, very, very optimistic about it, unless you buy a home breathalyser what you breathalyser and also, what you have remember in have to remember is that in scotland, it's lot stricter scotland, it's a lot stricter than rest of the united than the rest of the united kingdom it comes to kingdom as well when it comes to dnnk kingdom as well when it comes to drink driving limits, it's about half the limit that is half the limit that it is in this country. >> point you raise, though, >> the point you raise, though, mike, an interesting one mike, is an interesting one about not we should about whether or not we should actually just alcohol, actually say just no alcohol, because heard the officer because you heard the officer there, drink there, he said just don't drink anything. that would be my anything. and that would be my advice because clearly that would trade in advice because clearly that wou country. trade in advice because clearly that wou country. you trade in advice because clearly that wou country. you might rade in advice because clearly that wou country. you might havein this country. you might have said the same when they brought the drink driving limit in in the drink driving limit in in the first place. because don't forget, ago, few forget, not that long ago, a few decades ago, there was no limit, was there? >> well, you're back to >> well, you're going back to the that

the early 60s, and that is a very long time ago. and we've all got used to it now. but for instance, they out instance, when they cut out smoking killed off smoking in pubs, it killed off a lot of town centre pubs. now i'm not advocate shooting people. >> just ridiculous. >> it's just ridiculous. you could outside a fag. could go outside and have a fag. you need to do it around you didn't need to do it around loads of other people. do you know, smoke? >> do you know what? take it. this people this weather now. people will not a not go outside and have a cigarette they won't go cigarette and so they won't go to at all. honestly it to the pub at all. honestly it had a huge effect on the pub trade. not advocating trade. i'm not advocating we will just to will take up smoking just to keep alive. i'm saying keep pubs alive. what i'm saying is change the social is if you change the social limits can on in a limits of what can go on in a pub, you do affect what i would like to see and i don't think we have available have the figures sadly available to us. >> but maybe this is a conversation as conversation for the future as well. i like to know how well. i would like to know how many accidents there when many accidents there are when someone drink, someone has had one drink, when someone was is within the legal limit. example, someone was is within the legal limit. able example, someone was is within the legal limit. able to example, someone was is within the legal limit. able to say example, someone was is within the legal limit. able to say to example, someone was is within the legal limit. able to say to you,nple, someone was is within the legal limit. able to say to you, and , i was able to say to you, and i'm this the case, i'm not saying this is the case, if it to zero, you save if you cut it to zero, you save 100 human lives a year, you might tune. 100 human lives a year, you migwell, tune. 100 human lives a year, you migwell, was une. 100 human lives a year, you migwell, was if e. 100 human lives a year, you migwell, was if that was >> well, if that was if that was a that you present a fact that you could present scientifically, i'd look scientifically, i'd have a look at but believe in at it again. but i believe in the laws at the the scientific laws at the moment your behaviour

moment that that your behaviour does all does not change almost at all when consumed of when you've consumed one pint of been when you've consumed one pint of beer. this beer. the actual limit in this country is about 1.4 pints. okay. now i'm ever in the okay. now if i'm ever in the position , i have pint and position, i have one pint and i wouldn't dream of going over that you know, that because you know, metabolism or the strength of your beer and all that. but you can have one pint and that one pint in a pub for pint can keep you in a pub for 40 minutes so with a friend 40 minutes or so with a friend talking or having a, as i say, a sandwich something that. sandwich or something like that. and on your way and then you can go on your way safely and i think that's fine. >> interesting, though, >> isn't it interesting, though, guys, change, >> isn't it interesting, though, guys, so change, >> isn't it interesting, though, guys, so we change, >> isn't it interesting, though, guys, so we talked change, >> isn't it interesting, though, guys, so we talked about1ge, >> isn't it interesting, though, guys, so we talked about the right? so we talked about the law in the first law coming in in the first place. was the law coming in in the first plac or was the law coming in in the first plac or whatever, was the law coming in in the first plac or whatever, when the he law coming in in the first plac or whatever, when the 20 60s or whatever, when the 20 mile an hour speed limit started coming london, in my home coming in in london, in my home town , i was initially town, i was initially really frustrated and i thought, have we had democratic conversation we had a democratic conversation about this, what, 20 miles an hour roads? it felt to hour on some roads? it felt to slow and yet now wherever i am in london, i think, crikey, imagine if you were driving at 30 an hour and it seems to 30 miles an hour and it seems to me that it was a spot on decision that have the decision that no, i have the opposite feeling honestly. >> part of >> it's part of the war on the motorist and the drink motorist and again, the drink drive down to zero another

drive limit down to zero another act war against the motorist. act of war against the motorist. if you're driving in london at 430 in the morning, as we sometimes are on deserted road sometimes are on a deserted road at 20 miles an hour in a car that's got a three litre engine excuse me, a three litre engine, then what's the point? why haven't they got variable speed limit? you should be able to go faster . faster. >> i'm going to go. we're going to end up going down this 20 mile per hour rabbit hole. which. before. mile per hour rabbit hole. which. will before. mile per hour rabbit hole. which. will it before. mile per hour rabbit hole. which. will it again. before. mile per hour rabbit hole. which. will it again. butfore. and we will do it again. but let's stick other let's just stick to other stories of the day, shall we? mike? what would to. mike? what would you like to. well, exercised about next? well, get exercised about next? >> let's let's have an >> well, let's let's have an uplifting story. let's talk about owning a dog. okay. now, my own tale is most of my life i've lived in flats. >> your own tale. >> your own tale. >> my own tale. >> my own tale. >> thank you much. i don't >> thank you very much. i don't know how good i am on it this morning, isn't he? and at the moment a penthouse moment i live in a penthouse and i've a roof garden. but not i've got a roof garden. but not big enough. to exercise big enough. really to exercise a dog. i have. i have. i'm sorry. however bought an investment property for my retirement. if the retirement day comes and it's a cottage and the reason

i've done that is because if i do retire, i'm going to get a dog and i'm going to get a dog because it's man's best friend. but this report takes it further. what it says is, is that you take a dog out to exercise it , you walk it to the exercise it, you walk it to the park or down the river path or something like that. you meet other people. it does your mental health. so good for you, too , interact with other people. too, interact with other people. and one thing people really interact are their dogs. interact about are their dogs. >> could i just add to this? right? there may right? because there may be a rare example agreement rare example of agreement between me , and that is between mike and me, and that is that going through that i was going through a mental health crisis in the mental health crisis in in the early stages the pandemic. early stages of the pandemic. i basically became hermit. early stages of the pandemic. i basi(the became hermit. early stages of the pandemic. i basi(the laws me hermit. early stages of the pandemic. i basi(the laws extremely1it. took the laws extremely seriously . i took the laws extremely seriously. i had 30 pcr took the laws extremely seriously . i had 30 pcr tests seriously. i had 30 pcr tests probably before they even brought in the other form of tests . so i was brought in the other form of tests. so i was having a bit of a was very a crisis and it was very unpleasant and i sought help for it. think really it. and i think it's really important that we can talk about our mental health. met wife our mental health. i met my wife at and not only did my wife, but she came with two working cocker spaniels as well. beautiful. let me let me tell you that the

difference that they made i mean, obviously mostly it was my wife and she'll probably be watching. she want me to say that but the that it's true. but the difference to my mental health, that it's true. but the differerthose my mental health, that it's true. but the differerthose two mental health, that it's true. but the differerthose two dogsal health, that it's true. but the differerthose two dogsal hefor1, that it's true. but the differerthose two dogsal hefor me having those two dogs had for me was i was able was enormous because i was able to love on them think to focus love on them and think outside myself, get outside outside of myself, get outside of , be physical, stroke of my brain, be physical, stroke them, cuddle them, take them for amazing walks amazing runs. amazing walks and amazing runs. and has been they're still and it has been they're still very of our lives now. very much part of our lives now. and it a really, really and it is a really, really important thing . important thing. >> yeah, got i've got three >> yeah, i've got i've got three of munchkins. she's of the little munchkins. she's really know in my really lovely and i know in my village i know all the dogs names, right? and i know about 2% of people's names. yeah and the dog's names. i mean , you the dog's names. i mean, you hear people. it always makes me laugh people give their laugh when people give their dogs names. like richard. that's right. come here, >> that's right. come here, richard. >> i'll tell you where i draw the i read about the line, though. i read about people sometimes whose dogs sleep them . i'm going. i'm sleep with them. i'm going. i'm moved from i move from the position of thinking , how on position of thinking, how on earth can you have a dog on the sofa it is running around outside? >> take shoes off to a >> we take our shoes off to a point where started

point where i then started having on bed when having the dogs on the bed when i going, when i was going i was going, when i was going to sleep a dog convert sleep. so i became a dog convert almost overnight. >> what my dogs, mike? you'll >> what is my dogs, mike? you'll love the top of love this. sleeps on the top of my pillow. >> oh, no. and you're on the same pillow. >> mean? well, he's. same pillow. >> sort mean? well, he's. same pillow. >> sort of mean? well, he's. same pillow. >> sort of on ean? well, he's. same pillow. >> sort of on top? well, he's. same pillow. >> sort of on top of iell, he's. same pillow. >> sort of on top of your1e's. head. >> he always goes to the pillow. >> he always goes to the pillow. >> really ? >> really? >> really? >> this fits into another story in papers this morning. in the papers this morning. i think it's in couple papers think it's in a couple of papers about dogs and the fact that is it almost half us, great it almost half of us, a great percentage rather percentage of us, would rather spend our dogs. spend christmas with our dogs. we our relatives. we would. with our relatives. >> well , i see that >> yeah, well, i can see that because you get total obedience from your dogs. because you get total obedience from your dogs . you don't get from your dogs. you don't get total your total obedience from your relatives, yeah, i'd relatives, do you? so yeah, i'd vote that one a plus. definitely >> mike very quickly, we've got the pogues frontman, of course, shane macgowan died aged 65 after a short stay in hospital . after a short stay in hospital. lots of tributes have been pounng lots of tributes have been pouring in over the last 24 hours. >> absolutely fantastic. matt and talking just and i were talking just before i came sort of, came on and matt was sort of, you intellectual that you know, the intellectual that he know, why is this guy he is. you know, why is this guy so that kind so famous and all that kind of stuff? year i do a stuff? well, every year i do a christmas at o2

christmas show at the o2 shepherds theatre . right? shepherds bush theatre. right? and end it with this and we always end it with this famous song of his, a fairy tale of new york. yeah. the minute we strike up on that, people completely lose their minds. they up, they start they get up, they start running towards they're towards the stage. they're jumping on the stage. it drives people frantic with joy , joy and people frantic with joy, joy and the christmas spirit. and the, you know, the bonhomie of the evening . and that's why he's so evening. and that's why he's so famous, because when it first came out, i think it came out, i don't think it actually made it to number one. it to number one eve r. >> even >> this year. it sustains it may well one. year. well be number one. this year. i will say, though, was will just say, though, i was driving, about driving. driving, talking about driving. i and i was driving my wife and my mother from of mother in law, who's from out of town around the christmas lights in of this week. and in centre of town this week. and that right before in centre of town this week. and that macgowan right before in centre of town this week. and that macgowan passed)efore in centre of town this week. and that macgowan passed away. it shane macgowan passed away. it is a very sad, sad day. yes of course. she wanted me to course. and she wanted me to change the track she change the track because she thought bit miserable . well. >> oh god, no. >> it's not really that much. it's not a festive song, really. is it? i mean, it is. the first time i heard it, i wanted to get on the train and keep on going to be quite honest. right. >> because

>> okay. it is. because apparently, on cameron's apparently, on what cameron's just might now become just said is he might now become number one because when people die, elvis became number one the day after he died. john lennon, number one, the day after he died. well happen died. and it could well happen now. all by now. and it's all down, by the way, to what's the name of the girl singer and christy mccauley, right . sorry. mccauley, right. sorry. >> kirsty mccoll. kirsty mccoll, thank you very much indeed. >> thank goodness. kirsty mccoy here. yeah kirsty mccall, who sang it with him, was the arranger of the song as well because was all over the because he was all over the place. i mean, he got the residents though, today residents though, still today with people to make it with younger people to make it go number one. yeah everybody loves it. >> christmas time cause we're going but we do. it's going to return. but we do. it's almost the top of the hour we are bring you so much are going to bring you so much more chat the latest more chat and the latest evidence from the covid inquiry. >> a brighter outlook with boxing , the sponsors of whether boxing, the sponsors of whether on . gb news alex deakin here on. gb news alex deakin here with your latest weather update from the met office for gb news

the cold spell continues. >> for many a sparkling day of winter sunshine. but there are a few showers around, a mixture of rain, sleet and snow, low pressure is drifting away to the south, but the air is still coming down from the north. hence why it is still cold. not strong winds, but enough of a breeze to bring more showers into eastern england, lincolnshire, east anglia and the far south—east, where the odd of possible odd flurry of snow is possible as well as drizzly showers at times and mostly rain showers coming into the north coast of northern ireland. but also here, the odds, a little bit of snow is possible. there's still some fog as well, fog patches around as well, taking their clear. but taking their time to clear. but for it will brighten up for many it will brighten up with some afternoon sunshine. but it is on the cold side. with some afternoon sunshine. but it is on the cold side . and but it is on the cold side. and very quickly evening, those very quickly this evening, those temperatures will drop down temperatures will drop back down below freezing are also likely to the mist and fog to see the mist and fog thickening up through the evening, over evening, particularly over central and eastern parts of england. more showers england. a few more showers coming into southwest scotland could things through coming into southwest scotland cou night things through coming into southwest scotland cou night here. gs through coming into southwest scotland cou night here. and through coming into southwest scotland cou night here. and thosngh the night here. and those showers could also have some snow mixed in over the hills.

for many, though, it's a dry night. a clear night and a cold start the weekend. pretty start to the weekend. a pretty extensive . a few more extensive frost. a few more showers into the for showers coming into the west for wales, england, wales, south—west england, they'll be of rain. but they'll mostly be of rain. but again, for south—west scotland, north—west england, a flakes north—west england, a few flakes of possible. the fog of snow are possible. the fog could take a while to clear tomorrow over parts of the midlands. but again, many midlands. but again, for many it's a dry and a bright one. tomorrow, with some sunny spells. it is going to stay cold. >> that warm feeling inside from boxed boilers spots . answers of boxed boilers spots. answers of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> thanks, alex. still to come, king charles has told the cop28 summit that countries are dreadfully far off achieving their climate goals. >> you're with britain's newsroom on gb news the people's channel. stay with

us >> it's 11:00 us >> it's11:00 on us >> it's 11:00 on friday, the 1st >> it's11:00 on friday, the 1st of december. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. coming up . newsroom on gb news. coming up. far off track , speaking at the far off track, speaking at the opening ceremony this morning, king charles warns we are not on course to meet our climate goals i >> changes are no longer distant risks . as i have seen across the risks. as i have seen across the commonwealth and beyond. countless communities which are unable to withstand repeated

shocks and sunak challenges. >> china, the prime minister, rishi sunak, says it's vitally important china does not make cop 28 climate goals a reality . cop 28 climate goals a reality. we'll hear from the labour leader, sir keir starmer, shortly . shortly. >> lockdown was too late. that's what the former health secretary matt hancock, has admitted so far. he's at the covid inquiry again today. our reporter katherine forster is there . katherine forster is there. >> yes, matt hancock saying that not only was the first lockdown too late, but so was the third lockdown. he said if it had happened earlier, perhaps schools could have been kept open. perhaps the worst consequences could have been avoided. he's now being taken through in granule of detail. the situation in care homes. he of course, said there was a protective ring. it's been clear for some time really, that that didn't exist. i'll bring you more shortly .

more shortly. >> and villa violence , 39 people >> and villa violence, 39 people have been arrested after violence broke out in the build up to aston villa's game with liga warsaw in birmingham last night . animals and police night. animals and police officers were hurt . officers were hurt. >> lots of you have been getting in touch so far about what we're talking about today. do keep those thoughts coming in. it might be about christmas. it might be about christmas. it might be about drink and drug driving and the joys of owning a dog. you don't have to convince me of that. let's get your headunes me of that. let's get your headlines now. here's sophia . headlines now. here's sophia. >> good morning . it's 11:02. headlines now. here's sophia. >> good morning . it's11:02. i'm >> good morning. it's11:02. i'm sofia wenzel in the newsroom . sofia wenzel in the newsroom. the king says countries are dreadfully far off achieving climate goals. at the cop 28 summit in dubai , giving an

summit in dubai, giving an opening address at the world climate action summit. the monarch said the hope of the world rests on the decisions taken at the gathering . the taken at the gathering. the prime minister will also address the summit later and is expected to announce £1.6 billion for environmental projects . the king environmental projects. the king said the dangers of climate change are no longer distant risks . risks. >> with what we are witnessing , >> with what we are witnessing, our choice now is a starker and darker one. how dangerous are we actually prepared to make our world and dealing with this is a job for us all. change will come by working together and making it easier to embrace decisions that will sustain our world right ? rather than carry on as right? rather than carry on as though there are no limits . though there are no limits. >> the prime minister says the government is finalising legislation to push through his rwanda asylum plan as his patience is worn thin by setbacks to the deal . it's after

setbacks to the deal. it's after rishi sunak said around £140 million has already been spent to house illegal migrants in hotels . the rwanda plan hotels. the rwanda plan initially failed after european judges intervened , calling it judges intervened, calling it unlawful. but the government is set to publish a new legislation which could disapply human rights laws for illegal migrants . s. there will also be a new treaty which ensures they cannot be sent from rwanda to the country that they had fled from . country that they had fled from. un chief antonio gutierrez says he deeply regrets the collapse of a week long truce between israel and hamas. it says israeli defence forces send fighter jets to target terrorists in the enclave as combat resumes in gaza. the idf says it's intercepted several rockets fired from gaza earlier today. is rails. prime minister accuses the terrorist group of breaking the ceasefire agreement by not releasing all women and children. they're holding hostage . the israeli army have hostage. the israeli army have published a map to advise gazans of safe areas for their evacuation . qatar and egypt

evacuation. qatar and egypt mediators are pushing for another two day extension of the ceasefire , but were unable to ceasefire, but were unable to reach an agreement before the deadune reach an agreement before the deadline expired . meanwhile the deadline expired. meanwhile the prime minister has met with his israeli president, isaac herzog , israeli president, isaac herzog, on the sidelines of the cop 28 climate summit. rishi sunak says he will issue renewed calls for sustained humanitarian pauses in gaza and will continue to discuss the issue in meetings with regional leaders . the with regional leaders. the former health secretary says if the government had acted more swiftly in the autumn of 2020, school closures could have been avoided in 2021. speaking at the covid inquiry, matt hancock also said that measures such as the rule of six and tiers introduced to help stop the spread of the virus didn't go far enough. ms hancock also accused boris johnson of being not willing to go further in terms of national restrictions to ease the spread of covid 19 in the autumn of

2020. travel in some areas of the uk will be limited as train drivers return to strike action in a long running dispute over pay, in a long running dispute over pay, members of aslef at 16 train companies are refusing to work overtime from today until next saturday. the company said they will operate as many trains as possible, but some areas may have no services. the union accused the government and the employers of not trying to negotiate . but the rail delivery negotiate. but the rail delivery group says the union should accept the offer, which would take average driver based salaries from a four day week from 62 to 65,000. travel journalist simon calder said it's a bleak start to december. a today is only the start because we are going to see a whole series starting tomorrow of rolling strikes. >> one region at a time, one day at a time. the train drivers belonging to aslef are basically wanting to say we can cause an awful lot of problems to

travellers . and then the worst travellers. and then the worst day of december, i predict, is going to be on sunday when there won't be any trains from here on avanti west coast or on london, north western railway . north western railway. >> and those posting cards and letters this christmas are in for a festive surprise , thanks for a festive surprise, thanks to singing post boxes . royal to singing post boxes. royal mail says special post boxes are placed in london, swansea, glasgow and belfast and respond to post with festive tunes. this includes jingle bells. we wish you a merry christmas and deck the halls . this is gb news the halls. this is gb news across the uk on tv, in your car, on your digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play gb news now it's back to cameron and . pip thanks for cameron and. pip thanks for welcome back to britain's newsroom on gb news. >> now lots of you have been getting in touch on all the stories we've been discussing

christmas is dogs , but of christmas is dogs, but of course, slightly more seriously dnnk course, slightly more seriously drink driving . we had a very drink driving. we had a very lively discussion, a little bit earlier. linda has been in touch and she very sadly says that her father was killed by a drunk driver in 1997 by a man who had been drinking during the day. and at night. he stayed overnight at a pub and then having no breakfast. the next morning he got behind the wheel of his car. what a tragic , of his car. what a tragic, tragic story. i'm so sorry, linda . yeah. linda. yeah. >> and linda says , if you're >> and linda says, if you're driving, you should not drink alcohol. not one drink. and if you drink the night before, you should not drive the next day. full stop, max s hello to you. you say drink driving is something you're involved in because as a police officer , all because as a police officer, all people react differently . people react differently. there's no hard and fast rule as to how you as an individual will be affected. other than it will make you feel more confident. there is only one bit of advice i can give. if you will be driving within 24 hours, don't

dnnk driving within 24 hours, don't drink any alcohol. >> yeah, it seems to be a running theme here. valerie says i get drunk on one glass of wine. it sends me to sleep, kill the alcohol or kill a person. very strong views there. >> and trish, good morning. if you bannau drink and have a zero tolerance and someone has a dnnk tolerance and someone has a drink at home in the evening and the next morning drinking to work, up and have work, they're pulled up and have a trace of alcohol in their blood then could blood. then they could lose their livelihood . and so don't their livelihood. and so don't be . having zero tolerance be daft. having zero tolerance is wrong . is wrong. >> and it's very dangerous, isn't it? it's all the next morning stuff. the morning after . you may think you're fine to drive , but then clearly drive, but then clearly you're still above the limit and it can have devastating consequences . have devastating consequences. >> liz there are other ways >> liz and there are other ways of somewhere. you're of getting somewhere. if you're desperate to to place desperate to go to that place like the bus , maybe you can walk like the bus, maybe you can walk . but yeah, being being safe , . but yeah, being being safe, keeping yourself safe and others is , of course, paramount. is, of course, paramount. >> absolutely. let's move on now. earlier this morning, now. well, earlier this morning, king charles in dubai urged world leaders make the cop 28

world leaders to make the cop 28 climate summit a turning point . climate summit a turning point. >> let's go live to gb news political editor christopher hope, who is at the summit in dubai . good morning or good dubai. good morning or good afternoon to you , i should say, afternoon to you, i should say, christopher, what has been the reaction then to king charles's speech ? well he's got lots of speech? well he's got lots of support. >> i mean, he's the only, i think, head of state to come over to come over with. also the head of government, of course, rishi sunak, giving a press conference here in dubai in about half an hour's time. the big of the uk here is big focus of the uk here is a stocktake pledge from stocktake on that pledge from the paris accords in 2015 to cut global warming by 1.5% over night. on the way here, we had a chat with the prime minister, mr sunak. he said how it was actually a very, very strong concern , instinct to protect the concern, instinct to protect the environment . concern, instinct to protect the environment. he concern, instinct to protect the environment . he talked about the environment. he talked about the idea of a moral duty on us all to try and protect the environment for the future generations. he's not the only one here. sir keir starmer is

here, the labour leader with david lammy , with ed miliband. david lammy, with ed miliband. he's also meeting with senior figures on the on the world stage. he's met with the nato secretary—general already and about now he's meeting with the king of jordan before he had that meeting, i caught up with him for gb news. here's what he actually had to say . it you are actually had to say. it you are big thing. if you win an election is your dash for the green power by 2030. but won't that drive up bills for families who can least afford it? >> it will do the complete opposite. >> if we can get to clean power by 2030, means lower bills, by 2030, that means lower bills, not just for one year or two years, but permanently lower bills. >> it also means energy security, which means that putin can't put his foot on our throat and we don't pay higher prices because of international conflict. it also means that we get the next generation of jobs, skilled jobs, secure jobs that are desperately needed. so the cost is actually if we don't do it, not if we do, do it. >> okay. and your green spending

promise will cost £28 billion a yean promise will cost £28 billion a year. you'll hit that figure at some point in the second part of the next parliament. how will you fund it, though, through borrowing or taxes? well, look, the point that we the important point is that we were going we are determined to hit clean power by 2030, lower bills , energy security, the next bills, energy security, the next generation of jobs . generation of jobs. >> and we will invest to ensure that we get those benefits out. ramping up to £28 billion in the second part of the parliament. thatis second part of the parliament. that is obviously subject to our fiscal rules. but the cost will be if we don't make the transition not if we do do it just very finally , part of your just very finally, part of your plan is to have onshore plan is to have more onshore wind you live next to >> would you live next door to one? >> look, i of course i would. and i've been asked that many, many times as of other communities . what i've found is communities. what i've found is that when people are asked, do you want your energy bills to go down, do you want the next generation of jobs to be in your community? resounding generation of jobs to be in your comtomity? resounding generation of jobs to be in your comto that? resounding generation of jobs to be in your comto that . resounding generation of jobs to be in your comto that . but resounding generation of jobs to be in your comto that . but the resounding generation of jobs to be in your comto that . but the reason nding yes to that. but the reason we've got higher energy bills, the people are struggling

the reason people are struggling with of living crisis with the cost of living crisis is because governments, is because previous governments, the current government, have ducked and an ducked tough decisions and an incoming labour government is not duck tough not going to duck the tough decisions future not going to duck the tough deouryns future not going to duck the tough de our country future not going to duck the tough de our country . future of our country. >> thank you . there we have it, >> thank you. there we have it, sir keir starmer there talking to about why he'd be to gb news about why he'd be happy door to one happy to live next door to one of those onshore windmills which people tell make a lot of people do tell me make a lot of noise also there noise. and also saying there that this dash for clean power by 2030, if labour win the election next year, should will bnng election next year, should will bring down bills. that's where the dispute is. that's where the wedge issue is between the tory party and labour party. the tories, of course, have watered down net zero commitments by pushing back the scrapping of new petrol and diesel cars to 20, 35 and 2030. we're going to see shortly from rishi sunak, the prime minister, and we are wondering whether the watering down of net zero targets may have affected the way he's being treated here in cop. certainly on the family portrait, they call it family picture of all the . he's right at the the nations. he's right at the back, not anywhere near the front. he would say, and has

told us overnight on flight told us overnight on the flight here, that the uk is here, mr sunak, that the uk is an outlier. it has got the best decarbonisation record of the g7 is leading the way on this area and he simply wanted to make sure that it didn't impose too many requirements on on families dunng many requirements on on families during a cost of living crisis . during a cost of living crisis. but this this conference will go on for two more weeks. the king is here, of course. the pm leaves today. and then the real nitty gritty negotiation starts to try and work out how to try and hit that target of not increasing warming by increasing global warming by 1.5. and chris, the government has also been accused of hypocrisy, sending three separate private jets to carry the prime minister, the king and foreign secretary to this climate conference in dubai . climate conference in dubai. >> do we know if labour have at all responded to that or indeed how labour leader sir keir starmer actually travelled to dubai . dubal >> yes, i don't. we don't know how sir keir starmer came here. we saw him briefly earlier. he was in the office of a of a city

consultancy. i don't know who paid his bills. it may be just a matter of the size of the plane on the pm's plane last night was certainly very full when that left from a london airport. the king came here, of course, before the prime minister. he was here earlier than that, i think here on thursday . and the think here on thursday. and the foreign secretary, david cameron , lord cameron, came from somewhere else in europe. i mean, of course you can align if you want to align, you can align programs. but they were coming from on from different places on different so perhaps different schedules. so perhaps that explain but it's that might explain it, but it's not look, is it? as you not a great look, is it? as you rightly arrive rightly say, cameron, to arrive here different gas here on three different gas guzzling as. guzzling planes as. >> chris very briefly because we are about climate are talking about climate change, we're freezing our bits off here in the uk. what's it looking in dubai ? looking like there in dubai? >> well, pip, i'm wearing swimming trunks below my. no, not really. i'm joking . i'm not really. i'm joking. i'm wearing trousers. of course , but wearing trousers. of course, but this is it is 30 degrees here. we're standing by a fountain.

it's hot and i had to leave my woollen suit jacket on the on the plane and change into summer clothing. it's very weird to be knowing we're going back tonight to ice cold freezer that is a britain today. to ice cold freezer that is a britain today . you're going to britain today. you're going to have a shocker forward to it you certainly will. >> it's so cold here today . >> it's so cold here today. chris, thank you . chris, thank you. >> today is the second day that matt hancock , the health matt hancock, the health secretary during the pandemic , secretary during the pandemic, is giving evidence to the covid inquiry. >> well, let's go live now to gb news political correspondent katherine forster with the latest. catherine on matt hancock speaking again this morning, giving his evidence . morning, giving his evidence. >> yes, that's right. we're just about an hour and a bit in and already some interesting comments yesterday. he said the first lockdown should have come earlier today. he's saying that so should the third. the big national lockdown that was brought in at the beginning of january 2021. he he's saying

that the measures that they'd had in that sort of circuit breaker lockdown in the autumn didn't go far enough. and if they'd gone to the big lockdown quicker , potentially, schools quicker, potentially, schools might not have had to be closed, that that would have been a better scenario . other things better scenario. other things he's been talking about, he was asked very specific by hugo keith kc about what was put as his transgression when, of course , it emerged that he'd course, it emerged that he'd broken his own guidelines, having an affair with an aide and the effect that might have had, along with dominic cummings, outing to barnard castle and scientist neil ferguson , whose transgression on ferguson, whose transgression on pubuc ferguson, whose transgression on public confidence. and he did say it is important that those who make the rules abide by them. and i resigned in to order take accountability for my failure to do that. clearly difficult for him. also some conversation about long covid. we learned that his own mother had and indeed still is being

treated for long covid. but now we have got into the nitty gritty of the situation in care homes. that's not various claim from matt hancock, of course, that the government threw a protective ring around them, now being tested to destruction by anna morris kc, who is representing bereaved families. she began . than by pointing out she began. than by pointing out that on the 11th of february, there was an adult social care meeting and they stated that there were three ways of preventing getting infection in care homes. one was people were being infected, people being moved in, out of hospital and of course, we know that that happened. course, we know that that happened . another one was moving happened. another one was moving staff from care home to care home. we know that that happened two and the other one was visitors and also, of course, many people were not able to say goodbye to their dying relatives in care homes. they were kept

out . so she said, in care homes. they were kept out. so she said, did he in care homes. they were kept out . so she said, did he accept out. so she said, did he accept that any one failure of those three represented a break to any supposed ring of protection ? but supposed ring of protection? but yes, of course , he had to admit yes, of course, he had to admit that that was the case. also a focus on the lack of ppe . obe he focus on the lack of ppe. obe he did say that care homes largely the responsibility of local authorities, but ultimately , of authorities, but ultimately, of course, that people will say that ultimately the responsibility rests with the government to katherine forster outside the covid inquiry. >> thanks very much for that latest update . violence broke latest update. violence broke out in the build up to aston villa's game with legia warsaw in birmingham last night. >> four police officers were hurt in clashes with away fans near villa park . near villa park. >> west midlands police issued the following statement . it says the following statement. it says we've made more than 30 arrests as officers were injured during serious disorder involving away fans outside villa park this

evening. we were faced with disgusting and highly dangerous scenes as trouble flared ahead of the fixture between aston villa and legia warsaw with our reporter jack carson is at villa park for us now. >> jack, the pictures last night looks horrific . a scene out of looks horrific. a scene out of a film, almost lots of violence and disorder going . on and disorder going. on >> yeah, it really was . >> yeah, it really was. >> yeah, it really was. >> of course, you know, legia warsaw as fans particularly have had some form in the past for particularly with their away games causing and causing trouble. it was only last month in their game against dutch side ak alkmaar that actually the uefa actually then subsequently banned their fans because a number of dutch, dutch police officers were injured . of officers were injured. of course, when they travelled to that game. so there is certainly form for their fans for causing some disruption when they do particularly go away from home. but of course the situation here at aston villa yesterday was

that coming weeks this at aston villa yesterday was th.this coming weeks this at aston villa yesterday was th.this gameyming weeks this at aston villa yesterday was th.this game because eks this at aston villa yesterday was th.this game because of; this at aston villa yesterday was th.this game because of course,y to this game because of course, the previous impact of these fans , these away fans that have fans, these away fans that have caused that other grounds. of course when they've when they've played in the uefa conference league, the decision was taken played in the uefa conference lea advice ie decision was taken played in the uefa conference lea advice from :ision was taken played in the uefa conference lea advice from the1 was taken played in the uefa conference lea advice from the safety:aken on advice from the safety advisory that's advisory group. that's essentially a collection the essentially a collection of the health safety authorities , health and safety authorities, the police clubs like aston villa, when they come up to villa, that when they come up to these they're these big events and they're planning, guess, risk planning, i guess, the risk assessment big events , assessment for these big events, it was recommended by assessment for these big events, it wesafety recommended by assessment for these big events, it wesafety advisory nended by assessment for these big events, it wesafety advisory groupd by assessment for these big events, it wesafety advisory group on,’ that safety advisory group on, we think because of the of the police intervention there that the allocation should be the away allocation should be reduced from initial over reduced from the initial over 2000 to just 1000. now that of course upset a lot of the legia warsaw fans and it's thought there were around 3000 still travelled to birmingham travelled here to birmingham yesterday. now throughout the day things had been pretty calm and were were very peaceful. i was city centre was in birmingham city centre yesterday seeing , of yesterday afternoon seeing, of course those legia warsaw fans enjoying the christmas markets, enjoying the christmas markets, enjoying coming to birmingham. but of course later on, of course before kick off, that's when the trouble started . it's

when the trouble started. it's thought, as we've seen from the statement from west midlands police, that that essentially started because the ticket collection for those 1000 away fans that were going to be allowed into the ground, it's thought that that they had basically got that ready basically not got that ready that the legia warsaw hadn't been able to provide those tickets. so of course those tickets. and so of course those disgruntled fans being able disgruntled fans not being able to tickets before to collect their tickets before the match meant that very quickly violence broke out. we saw like bottles being saw things like bottles being thrown, branches being thrown, tree branches being thrown, tree branches being thrown the statement thrown in. the police statement there saying missiles, of course, know that course, as well. we know that a police horses injured , as police horses were injured, as course, as well as those four police officers. one of them was taken to hospital, do taken to hospital, though we do believe that that's not in a critical condition. now, aston villa's statement, particularly is poignant when they mention that they say an hour before kick off these fans engaged in planned and systematic violence attacks against the west. berlin's police . and of course, berlin's police. and of course, it was then the west plains police that decided it was their decision to exclude all of the fans entering that away,

fans from entering that away, from entering away end as from entering that away end as the course, kicked the match, of course, kicked off. but we now have also had an update this morning. it was more than 30 people that have been arrested and placed custody arrested and placed in custody yesterday. update yesterday. we've had an update this west midlands this morning from west midlands police now 46 people police that that's now 46 people are custody . and right now are in custody. and right now you be able because you won't be able to see because they're me. but west they're in front of me. but west berlin's are right berlin's police are here right now. a few now. they've brought a few police and they're police funds and they're essentially area , essentially sweeping the area, looking, any looking, of course, for any evidence, over evidence, anything left over from last night's violence . so from last night's violence. so as they to now start this as they come to now start this investigation exactly investigation into how exactly this and, of course, this happened and, of course, who particularly within those within those fans , was within those fans, was responsible . responsible. >> yeah. and i think west midlands mayor andy street , jack midlands mayor andy street, jack has urged the european football chiefs to take strong action and i think uefa in the last few moments has released a statement which i'm just trying to get my hands on right now . hands on right now. >> yeah. so of course , we know >> yeah. so of course, we know that, you know, uefa particularly have taken some strong action against against

these fans , particularly in the these fans, particularly in the past. and they do are quite quick sometimes to act. of course, when the likes of, you know, the dutch police in the incident last month with the west midlands police , west midlands police, particularly today, uefa will likely listen to them. of course, in the response going forward. and speaking to, of course, legia warsaw in terms of getting proper response to getting a proper response to them, aston villa in their statement said that the statement said that over the past they've been past few days they've been trying trying trying they were trying to essentially cooperate with them of course, you know, work with them. so that they could, of course, those fans not to course, warn those fans not to engage acts violence engage in these acts of violence that we've seen they've gone that we've seen as they've gone and away from away and travelled away from away from on these from their home ground on these big away european nights across across europe. but they say that no assistance around the serious safety of the matter of away fans attending villa park was forthcoming from the club, so they had repeatedly tried to engage with legia warsaw , but of engage with legia warsaw, but of course they didn't have much cooperation with them. and what we then saw, of course, was thousands of fans, many of them

who did not have a for who did not have a ticket for this caused that disruption this game caused that disruption that we saw last night. >> jack carson at villa park. thank you. we do have that statement from uefa . now, uefa statement from uefa. now, uefa says it strongly condemns the unacceptable violence which occurred around the aston villa versus legia warsaw match. uefa is in the process of gathering all official reports from the game before deciding on potential next steps . potential next steps. >> well, still to come, dreadfully far off track. that's how the king describes where the world currently is with climate change. and we'll be talking to an expert about whether cop 28 will make much of a difference or not. you're with britain's newsroom on gb news. >> stay with .

isabel monday to thursdays from. six till 930 . six till 930. >> welcome back. it's just coming up to 1130. you're with britain's newsroom on gb news with cameron walker and pip tomson. the king says countries are dreadful , tomson. the king says countries are dreadful, are far tomson. the king says countries are dreadful , are far off are dreadful, are far off achieving climate goals is dunng achieving climate goals is during a cop 28 summit that he was speaking at in dubai earlier. so will this summit make any difference ? joining us make any difference? joining us now is the man with all the answers, senior lecturer of sustainability, construction and climate change, john grant . climate change, john grant. john, welcome to gb news. we've had a lot of cops , haven't we, had a lot of cops, haven't we, over the years ? years. is this

over the years? years. is this one in particular going to make much of a difference? is it more of the same? should we be optimistic or pessimistic ? optimistic or pessimistic? >> oh my goodness , that's only a >> oh my goodness, that's only a tiny question you're starting with. there. it could make a difference . our king actually difference. our king actually said all the right things. the first day of the cop. we actually agreed something. who knew that was even possible, even though it was too tiny and needed to be expanded. so you know, there is the possibility going forwards that we could actually make a difference here. but like you said, 27 times we've been through this. and honestly , i've listened to honestly, i've listened to virtually all of those and they've all had really good statements. the problem is, is following up the fossil fuel companies really don't want to shift their business model. for some reason, they don't see the opportunity of making loads more money by shifting to renewable energy. i guess it's just the momentum of having all these

this stranded assets that they've got all over the place that they're missing, that that security that we could offer here in the uk and with cheaper energy. but you know, it's difficult for businesses to transition . but we could yeah, transition. but we could yeah, we could but could would should you know, we actually have the, the technology to do this and to make it cheaper for people and, and get more secure energy for them. but you know i think we're going to have to really, really put pressure on our governments to make a change, which seems odd . is it pressure them to odd. is it pressure on them to make lives better? who knew? make our lives better? who knew? >> john sorry to jump it's >> john sorry to jump in. it's just because bit pushed just because we're a bit pushed for time. i just wondering if it's there's any irony the it's if there's any irony to the fact held in fact that this is being held in the uae , which is one the the uae, which is one of the biggest , the uae, which is one of the biggest, highest oil exporters . biggest, highest oil exporters. in you just hit the nail on the head there. >> you know , now the positive >> you know, now the positive person would say, what better place than to go into negotiations with the oil

industry to get them to have a plan. so that at some point before 2050, i would say 2035, 2040, to have no more oil in that. and what a transition so that. and what a transition so that we don't destroy the economy as we move away from oil. what a better place economy as we move away from we be than there? the other option, of course, is what better place than to slow everything down with the momentum and the power of the sultan al—jabbar and to just sort of retard any kind of possibility we're going to see over the next two weeks, guess about which way they're going to go. i'm terribly concerned that they gave us a sweetener on day one and they're now not going to do anything. but then i'm a pessimistic kind of guy when it comes to this. been comes to this. i've been battered for so long on this. but, you know, the point is that we chance and we need we do have a chance and we need a plan for a zero carbon future or a low carbon future, certainly without fossil fuels.

but yeah, the irony is massive . but yeah, the irony is massive. >> john, in a word, do you think the summit is going to reduce emissions or. not no , if you emissions or. not no, if you want a word. >> but , but, want a word. >> but, but, but, but in the future , if we really can pin future, if we really can pin them down so that we have something at worst this should out the people that we you as journalists need to identify as the ones that are going to sacrifice our future for profit in the future. and i know you can do that because you do it all the time, you know, and it's up to us scientists to back you up to us scientists to back you up to us scientists to back you up to do that because they have to be stopped. >> well , it's to be stopped. >> well, it's certainly a start. john, thank so for john, thank you so much for joining news. we've got joining us on gb news. we've got to the news bulletin with to get to the news bulletin with sophia now . sophia now. >> it's 1133.

sophia now. >> it's1133. i'm sophia wenzel in the newsroom . some breaking in the newsroom. some breaking news. members of aslef have voted overwhelmingly to continue strike action for the next six months in their ongoing dispute over pay. the announcement comes as members of aslef at 16 train companies are refusing to work overtime from today until next saturday. the company said they will operate as many trains as possible , but some areas may possible, but some areas may have no services . as the union have no services. as the union accused the government and the employers of not trying to negotiate . the king says negotiate. the king says countries are dreadfully far off achieving climate goals. at the cop 28 summit in dubai , giving cop 28 summit in dubai, giving an opening address at the world climate action summit, the monarch said the hope of the world rests on the decisions taken at the gathering . the taken at the gathering. the prime minister will also address the summit later and is expected to announce £1.6 billion for environmental projects . the king environmental projects. the king said the dangers of climate change are no longer distant risks .

risks. >> with what we are witnessing , >> with what we are witnessing, our choice now is a starker and darker one. how dangerous are we actually prepared to make our. world dealing with? this is a job for us all. change will come by working together and making it easier to embrace decisions that will sustain our world rather rather than carry on as though there are no limits . though there are no limits. >> un chief antonio gutierrez says he deeply regrets the collapse of a week long truce between israel and hamas. it says israeli defence forces send fighter jets to target terrorists in the enclave . as terrorists in the enclave. as the combat resumes in gaza . the the combat resumes in gaza. the idf says it intercepted several rockets fired from gaza earlier today. israel's prime minister accuses the terrorist group of breaking the ceasefire agreement by not releasing all the women and children they are holding hostage . qatar and egypt.

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&co & co weeknights from . six & co weeknights from. six >> it's 1140. you're watching britain's newsroom on gb news with cameron walker and pip tomson. >> members of aslef have voted overwhelmingly to continue strike action for the next give me strength. six months in, they're ongoing dispute over pay i >> -- >> yeah. the announcement comes as members aslef at 16. train companies are refusing to work overtime from today until next saturday. >> the companies said they will operate as many trains as possible, but some areas may have no services , says political

have no services, says political commentator matthew stadlen and broadcaster mike parry join us now . good broadcaster mike parry join us now. good morning to you broadcaster mike parry join us now . good morning to you both. now. good morning to you both. yeah, morning . i was thinking yeah, morning. i was thinking when the rmt came to an agreement, i was thinking whoopee , you know, we were all whoopee, you know, we were all going to be okay. well, you'd think involves a lot of think aslef involves a lot of train companies and a lot of disruption. >> you'd think there'd be a knock effect. you'd think, knock on effect. you'd think, well, the have well, you know, the rmt have settled. great. 5% after settled. that's great. 5% after holding out for much, much bigger increases for a long time, they seem to have seen sense . what is mind boggling sense. what is mind boggling here is that i think i'm right in saying on the aslef are the very highest paid people who work on trains there. the train drivers aren't they? and they get about £65,000 a year sometimes for a four day week and they get very good benefits. why why do they think they've been so badly done to if other workers is on the train network and we're talking about guards, we're talking about people in ticket offices have settled for 5. i just i ticket offices have settled for 5. ijust i mean, ticket offices have settled for 5. i just i mean, where are they going to get the public sympathy from? >> aslef say they have not had a

pay >> aslef say they have not had a pay rise for nearly five years. matthew, do they have a point? people held on, matthew, people have held on, matthew, do they you might they have a point? you might expect the sides of expect me to take the sides of the drivers, but i'm yet expect me to take the sides of th> it really affects their lives. it affects family lives. you've in laws you've got mothers in laws coming down into cities to

coming down into into cities to go and watch carol, concerts. you've cannot i cannot you've got i cannot i cannot stress to you the disruption that this has not even touched on, on the way it's going to affect business. >> this is the busiest time of the year, you know, in the hospitality sector about one third of their total profit in a year come in november , december, year come in november, december, early january . and they're going early january. and they're going to be massacred because if people aren't sure, people might say, oh, i can get into london to go to this do this evening. but if they're they can to go to this do this evening. but home y're they can to go to this do this evening. but home because they can to go to this do this evening. but home because there'sy can to go to this do this evening. but home because there's an an get home because there's an overtime strike and nobody's driving trains , they're not driving the trains, they're not going come. when going to come. in fact, when this happened last year, a friend of mine who ran a very good business called good hospitality business called off at least 12 functions during december because of the uncertainty and the threat. i think it's also i mean, i think it's i would hope, mike, that you would join me. >> you probably wouldn't. but i hope you join me in having lot hope you join me in having a lot of sympathy lot of empathy of sympathy and a lot of empathy for for yeah, for nurses, for example. yeah, of very little. of course, i paid very little. let's beat around the bush . let's not beat around the bush. they're paid very much. they're not paid very much. and when they really when they strike, they really

mean because if they go into mean it because if they go into that job to try and save people's lives and to try and help people in end of life care and all the of it. so i and all the rest of it. so i have of sympathy for have a lot of sympathy for them. i'm not going into the rights and specific and wrongs of the specific nurses with train nurses strike, but with train drivers on quite hefty, drivers who are on quite hefty, huge salaries over 60, i'm not saying it's not a good job. i'm not saying it's not an important job. arguing job. we wouldn't be arguing about wasn't important. about it if it wasn't important. job but i think there'll be job no, but i think there'll be very little out there. very little sympathy out there. >> see here it's 16 train >> i can see here it's 16 train operator companies in england. >> . east midlands railway, >> yeah. east midlands railway, london, north eastern railway, avanti west coast. chiltern great midlands. it great northern west midlands. it goes on. yeah well, it's nationwide, but i can't understand the motive . understand the motive. >> i mean, ijust don't understand the motive. >> i mean, i just don't get it. what do they think they're doing? cameron just said, oh, or you might have said, oh, they haven't had a pay rise for five years. i know of people haven't had a pay rise for five years. ihadw of people haven't had a pay rise for five years. ihad pay of people haven't had a pay rise for five years. ihad pay cutsyf people haven't had a pay rise for five years. ihad pay cuts over)ple haven't had a pay rise for five years. ihad pay cuts over the who've had pay cuts over the last years because the last five years because the economy stagnant and then economy went stagnant and then we now there's we had lockdown and now there's no growth. no, i mean, the guy came fitted the carpets at

came and fitted the carpets at my weeks ago. he my place three weeks ago. he hasn't rise in hasn't had a pay rise in ten years and he's pay taxes years and he's got to pay taxes on because of ulez . on his new van because of ulez. everybody is finding tough everybody is finding it tough and going on for and this is going to go on for six months, means six months, which means christmas travel plans, easter travel half terms for travel plans, half terms for both february and as much as the conservative government, by the way, have been in power in one form another for the last form or another for the last 13.5 years. >> they would to the >> they would love to shift the blame they sneakily try to do blame as they sneakily try to do on labour. let's remember this blame as they sneakily try to do orall)our. let's remember this blame as they sneakily try to do orall happening'emember this blame as they sneakily try to do orall happening under ber this blame as they sneakily try to do orall happening under the this blame as they sneakily try to do orall happening under the tory watch. >> there is also this this new strike law that's coming into force, isn't it, where you have got to still have minimum service 40, 40. now whether that will have an impact, well, yeah, but 40% is 60% not efficient. >> you see what i mean? so that's gone some way to trying to kerb the excessive of what they're doing. but it's the problem with is it's problem with this is it's a really nasty, vicious tactic because it's the uncertainty . if because it's the uncertainty. if you knew there was going to be a train strike for the next two days, no trains running, you make alternative arrangements .

make alternative arrangements. but if we go out of here today and we want to get home, get a train, and they say, sorry, the trains running, i'll trains aren't running, i'll give you example . you a concrete example. >> commutes twice >> my wife, who commutes twice a week into tunbridge wells, she's a lawyer . she moved week into tunbridge wells, she's a lawyer. she moved in week into tunbridge wells, she's a lawyer . she moved in with week into tunbridge wells, she's a lawyer. she moved in with me when we got married. she commutes twice a week. she has had to drive five, six hour round twice a all round trips twice a week, all year because she cannot rely on the train. exactly. year because she cannot rely on the because actly. year because she cannot rely on the because act the overtime year because she cannot rely on the because actthe overtime ban . >> because of the overtime ban. you know, they decide we're not going work now and they don't going to work now and they don't give warning . and you give us any warning. and you literally up at stations, literally turn up at stations, you dreaded word you see that dreaded word cancelled, . and then you cancelled, right. and then you could two could be stuck here for two hours home. it's outrageous. >> okay. >> okay. >> outrageous. let's move on to >> okay. >> covideous. let's move on to >> okay. >> covid inquiryet's move on to >> okay. >> covid inquiry because on to >> okay. >> covid inquiry because that's the covid inquiry because that's been interesting, particularly the covid inquiry because that's been inte|and1g, particularly the covid inquiry because that's been inte|and today�*ticularly the covid inquiry because that's been inte|and today with arly the covid inquiry because that's been inte|and today with matt yesterday and today with matt hancock, former health secretary, evidence secretary, giving evidence saying that lockdown should have started three weeks earlier. yes. school closures could have been avoided . in january 2021 if been avoided. in january 2021 if the government had acted more swiftly. what do you make of him, matthew? i feel sick in my stomach at this story. >> and whether you are pro

lockdown or anti—lockdown, and i support lockdowns. at the time i thought that was the right way forward. to the forward. i'd like to know the outcome of this inquiry and whether it any view on that. whether it has any view on that. but were or you weren't, but if you were or you weren't, what wanted is for what you really wanted is for the timing to right. what you really wanted is for the timing to right . you the timing to be right. you didn't locked down. didn't want to be locked down. and despite being locked and then despite being locked down, tens of thousands more people than needed to die died because of government getting it so badly wrong. we all remember those pictures of boris johnson in a hospital just as the pandemic was was starting boasting about shaking hands in a hospital where he thought there covid there might have been some covid patients being treated. patients being being treated. now, the secretary at the now, the health secretary at the time, hancock, says if it time, matt hancock, says if it had been up to him, he would have locked down and have locked down earlier and saved numbers life saved huge numbers of life lives. mess. and by the lives. what a mess. and by the way, the sordid exchanges claim and counter—claim between matt hancock and dominic cummings roughly on the same side, you would think anyway . it's would think here anyway. it's just so insulting to the people who've lost relatives and loved ones and all those who've died. >> yeah, matt hancock is a

weasel in my view. >> i mean, a lot of what we're heanng >> i mean, a lot of what we're hearing about the inquiry is this massive of hatred between people like dominic cummings and matt hancock , which really matt hancock, which really interfered with the operation of government. >> how long has it been going for on now? is it 4 or 5 weeks? the inquiry ? was it six weeks or the inquiry? was it six weeks or something? wanted to know something? all i wanted to know was we get it right and if was did we get it right and if not, what lesson we learned not, what lesson have we learned from when it happens next time instead to have instead of which we seem to have found can do the most found out who can do the most swearing? can the swearing? who can send the most offensive whatsapp and messages on their phones ? and who is on their phones? and who is blaming who? there's a fantastic cartoon in the telegraph this morning in which hancock is walking around saying it was your fault, it was fault , your fault, it was your fault, it fault blaming it was your fault blaming everybody except himself. it was your fault blaming everybclike except himself. it was your fault blaming everybclike a:ept himself. it was your fault blaming everybclike a circular self. it was your fault blaming everybclike a circular firing >> it's like a circular firing squad. it is. and all along we have to remember because it's easy to say, we don't really want that because easy to say, we don't really warthe that because easy to say, we don't really warthe pandemic. that because easy to say, we don't really warthe pandemic. we|t because easy to say, we don't really warthe pandemic. we wantause it's the pandemic. we want to move of move on from that. tens of thousands lost their thousands of people lost their lives. lots of businesses suffered. whichever way you looked was a massive looked at it, this was a massive

national catastrophe, a global catastrophe, course, well . catastrophe, of course, as well. and see at the heart and to see people at the heart of it, arguing with each of it, both arguing with each other, but also appear not to have known what they were doing or taken the best or not to have taken the best decisions the national decisions in the national interest disgraceful. decisions in the national inte|i st disgraceful. decisions in the national inte|i come disgraceful. decisions in the national inte|i come bacinsgraceful. decisions in the national inte|i come bacinngheful. decisions in the national inte|i come bacinnghe point it and i come back to the point it was a conservative government at the time. >> p- p— e i'm sorry. it was >> yeah, but i'm sorry. it was all modelling and this all based on modelling and this is i don't get. mean, at all based on modelling and this is stage,on't get. mean, at all based on modelling and this is stage, professor mean, at all based on modelling and this is stage, professor neil, n, at one stage, professor neil, what's his name, ferguson . what's his name, ferguson. ferguson told us there could be up to 500,000 casualties. right. it was based on a model that never came to pass. and now i think hancock is looking back, retrospect , actively on the retrospect, actively on the model that could have been but wasn't. what hancock said yesterday was there was there was a plan , but it was an was a plan, but it was an inadequate plan . well, he also inadequate plan. well, he also tried to tell us thousands of lives could have been saved if we'd locked down three weeks earlier. that's based on a model thatis earlier. that's based on a model that is not based on any fact that is not based on any fact thatis that is not based on any fact that is based on his assumption. it's still no , there are no it's still no, there are no facts to back that up. >> it's still shocking to hear

that the health secretary at the time should have time thinks that we should have lockdown did. one lockdown sooner than we did. one of important things of the really important things that from this that has to emerge from this doesn't mean he's right, though, matt, he's right. matt, doesn't mean he's right. you're correct. of you're correct. one of the really to really important things has to emerge from this inquiry is the relationship between scientific advice power. we advice and political power. we have to explore that. science, of course, has to play catch up in environments like that, because things were moving so quickly. so got to give quickly. so you've got to give them leeway. clearly them some leeway. but clearly some scientific predictions were well out, well, massively out , well out, well, massively out, you know. >> slide, please. he looked >> next slide, please. he looked at nobody what it at it. nobody knew what it meant, including the prime minister. move on. minister. and let's move on. >> okay. we've got time to look at one more story. cameron. >> defence forces >> yes. israel defence forces send to target send fighter jets to target terrorists the enclave as terrorists in the enclave as combat resumes in gaza , the war combat resumes in gaza, the war rages on. >> i mean, if you look at if you look at page 14 and 15 of today's guardian , it sort of today's guardian, it sort of almost perfectly encapsulates the horror of what is playing out middle east. on the out in the middle east. on the right side, got the right hand side, you've got the stories who stories of female hostages who were taken. and just you can't begin to imagine they begin to imagine what they went through. indeed what the

through. and indeed what the male hostages are still in male hostages who are still in hamas captivity are going through now as the fighting resumes. and then in the middle, you've got the humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in catastrophe that is unfolding in southern gaza . you've got the southern gaza. you've got the majority of the population of this tiny bit of land, 4.5 miles wide at its narrowest point , wide at its narrowest point, squished into the south. and now, we understand it, israel now, as we understand it, israel are targeting the are going to start targeting the south. truly terrifying. south. it is truly terrifying. >> what about the four >> but what about the four people in jerusalem people murdered in jerusalem yesterday ? yesterday in a random attack? they were killed hamas they were killed by hamas terrorists on the streets of jerusalem . so there's no way jerusalem. so there's no way that's going to solved . they that's going to be solved. they can't let all the terrorists go, can't let all the terrorists go, can if do, can they? because if they do, they've bargaining . can they? because if they do, the what bargaining . can they? because if they do, the what the argaining . can they? because if they do, the what the reallyng . can they? because if they do, the what the really surreal, >> what are the really surreal, bizarre about this is bizarre things about this is that trying that israel is trying to negotiate death cult negotiate with the death cult andifs negotiate with the death cult and it's trying to get its hostages back at the same time as going to wipe as saying we're going to wipe you off the face of the map, which is going to try to do the whole a terrible whole thing is a terrible mess. we've right israeli we've got a far right israeli government oversaw government who oversaw the illegal of the west illegal settlements of the west bank. and we've got on the on the the other side, we've got the on the other side, we've got

a that means a death cult. and that means that is a very distant that peace is a very distant idea. the hope of peace idea. and the hope of peace itself is distant . itself is distant. >> you know, how can how can israel achieve its objective here without wiping out every civilian in gaza? >> well, if other countries in the middle east will take their responsibility for palestinian people, we'd have a much better chance of solving it. egypt don't want them. won't open don't want them. they won't open the gates into the sinai. jordan don't want them. even the world's wealthiest countries like saudi arabia will not help . like saudi arabia will not help. so says israel so when everybody says israel are just going to have to clear gaza, they are, because the people who rule gaza have only one commitment in life, and that is to wipe george iv people off the face of the earth. >> that is ethnic cleansing, let's what is. let's call it, for what it is. it's not it's egypt's it's not it's not egypt's responsibility to do israel's, as it were, dirty , egypt's as it were, dirty, egypt's responsibility to as it were, dirty, egypt's responsibility to try and help international law. of course it does. you know that, mike. >> it's egypt's responsibility to try and help in the world's most they most insoluble crisis. and they could by taking people by could by taking people in, by releasing land . but nobody in

releasing land. but nobody in the middle east wants them because hamas and because it brings hamas and hamas is a death cult. >> well, it hasn't added up for me is that israel based sees its case in gaza partly along the lines that hamas used human shields, which they undoubtedly does also israel is does. but it also israel is absolutely clear that it is doing what it needs to get rid of hamas. if it's doing what it needs to get rid of hamas is giving warnings. at the same time , which it claims say, time, which it claims to say, well, that's we're protecting humanitarian, if you give humanitarian, but if you give warnings, then hamas is to warnings, then hamas is going to run away. >> i'm sorry. we're going >> mike, i'm sorry. we're going to to leave it there. mike to have to leave it there. mike matthew, so now matthew, thanks so much. now here thanks matthew, thanks so much. now heryour thanks matthew, thanks so much. now heryour company. thanks for your company. >> well coming up on >> bye bye. well coming up on good afternoon , britain, we're good afternoon, britain, we're going to hear the words of the prime speaking live prime minister speaking live from the climate from dubai, the climate conference he jetted off to and king charles also issued some rather stark warnings to the international community. >> he says, we've been conducting an experiment, a danger , experiments. danger, experiments. >> no, not vaccine research or

wuhan. >> no , he's talking about >> no, he's talking about climate change. >> all that to come. >> all that to come. >> looks like things are heating up. boilers as sponsors of up. boxed boilers as sponsors of weather on . gb news alex deakin weather on. gb news alex deakin here with your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. >> the cold spell continues for many a sparkling day of winter. sunshine but there are few sunshine but there are a few showers around , a mixture of showers around, a mixture of rain, sleet and snow . low rain, sleet and snow. low pressure drifting away to the pressure is drifting away to the south, but the air is still coming down from north. coming down from the north. hence is still cold, not hence why it is still cold, not strong , but enough of a strong winds, but enough of a breeze to bring more showers into eastern england. lincolnshire, east anglia and the far south—east, where the old flurry of snow possible , old flurry of snow is possible, as showers at as well as drizzly showers at times, mostly rain showers coming into the north coast of northern ireland. but also here, the odds a little bit of snow is possible. there's still some fog patches as well, taking patches around as well, taking their to clear. but for their time to clear. but for many brighten with many it will brighten up with some afternoon sunshine. but it is on the cold side. and very quickly, this evening, those

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gb news. >> good afternoon, britain. it's 12:00 on friday, the 1st of december. >> sunak eco spending spree. >> sunak eco spending spree. >> the prime minister is set to confirm a £16 billion in uk funding for climate projects abroad. that's when he speaks in the next half of an hour. but is this a good use of taxpayer money? >> rwanda merry go round. could the rwanda migrant deportation scheme save the taxpayer billions of pounds in the long

run ? that's what the government run? that's what the government is claiming today. but will those flights ever take off? and the ceasefire crumbles ? the ceasefire crumbles? >> rockets have been seen hurtling through the skies of gaza, fired by both the hamas terror group and the israeli defence forces . with war back defence forces. with war back on, what are the consequences for britain . for britain. >> and tom, what do you make of this king charles? he's flown to dubai . he's been at the cop dubai. he's been at the cop summit and he's flown to the climate summit. he has amazing so there's one point of discussion, perhaps , and he's discussion, perhaps, and he's warned us all that humans are carrying out a vast, warned us all that humans are carrying out a vast , frightening carrying out a vast, frightening experiment at a fast, frightening experiment . frightening experiment. >> does he mean those insecure laboratories in wuhan, where they're doing pathogen research? >> is that a is that a vast experiment that's fairly frightening.

>> that's not what