britain's newsroom on gb news from paddington. and also here from paddington. and also here from henley royal regatta . with from henley royal regatta. with me, bev turner and andrew pierce in the studio. andrew so good morning to you, joe biden . morning to you, joe biden. >> the us president insists he will stay on to fight the presidential race with backing from the white house despite calls from within his own party. he should step down. an olympic warning a new study shows the weight loss jab could make you go blind, and the risk for diabetics is even greater. the murray brothers take centre court and he plays his emotional first match at wimbledon alongside his brother jamie later today. will this be his final farewell to wimbledon and henley royal regatta returns one of the biggest events in the british sporting calendar. it's underway and bev is there with, amongst others, the greatest olympian of all time, sir steve redgrave, who will be on the show .

show. >> it's a different sort of britain's newsroom this morning, but it's going to be superb between now and midday. first though, the very latest news with sophia. >> bev. thank you. it's 931. >> bev. thank you. it's 931. >> i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. polls are open across britain as millions of people cast their votes to choose the next government. the first voters were up bright and early as stations opened their doors at 7:00 this morning. they'll remain open until 10:00 tonight, giving a chance to around 46 million eligible voters to have their say on who forms britain's next government . a total of 650 next government. a total of 650 parliamentary constituencies are being contested across the uk, but this is the first general election to require photo id, and voters are being reminded to bnng and voters are being reminded to bring their driver's license, pubuc bring their driver's license, public transport or other id or

risk being turned away . forensic risk being turned away. forensic police in tenerife are focusing their efforts on an airbnb property , where missing teenager property, where missing teenager jay slater reportedly stayed before he vanished. it comes after one of the last people to see the 18 year old insisted he was alive and well when he left his holiday rental to catch a bus back to his own accommodation. police have described the individual as irrelevant to the ongoing investigation. the search for jay has now concluded, but police are continuing to look into his latest known movements and why he travelled to a location so far from his accommodation . meanwhile, in the accommodation. meanwhile, in the us state, governors who met with president biden last night say he's fit for office and he has their backing. the president faced a grilling at the meeting of democratic governors, which many saw as a test of his ongoing support within the party. among those signalling their support was gavin newsom, their support was gavin newsom, the governor of california, who some see as an alternative for

the democratic ticket. but the united front, among many of those in attendance , unsettled those in attendance, unsettled some, with reports suggesting there was little effort to gauge there was little effort to gauge the group's private degree of support for the president . well, support for the president. well, those are the latest tv news headlines. for now, i'm sophia wenzler moore in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> good morning. hello and welcome. this is britain's newsroom, live across the united kingdom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. i'm in the studio in paddington . bev is the studio in paddington. bev is as somebody said earlier, she's on the drink but not literally. she is in henley because it's a big sporting day today and she knows more about henley than anybody. bev. take it away. what's happening there ,

what's happening there, >> not yet on the drain country, but the day is young and that's almost an obligatory part of this festival, there are pimms , this festival, there are pimms, tents, champagne tents all along the river here. this side of the river is oxfordshire. this morning , and there we go. people morning, and there we go. people giving us a wave there from from the crowd. there will be 300,000 people attend this event between tuesday and sunday every year. we've got these beautiful residential houses here. in fact, one of those was the boathouse for george harrison of the beatles. he owns a big property. or he did up in, henley. his wife is still there, and that was the boathouse for the house. now, on this side of the house. now, on this side of the river, if i can just ask our wonderful camerawoman to swing across. are all the tents. so those are the tents where the athletes put their boats. those are the boating tents. and in there will be crews from all over the world, 27 countries in fact, this year competing here at henley regatta, it generates at henley regatta, it generates a huge amount of income for the area every year. it's a fantastic tourist occasion , but fantastic tourist occasion, but it's also a very serious sporting event. actually

especially in an olympic year like this, because this is where a lot of the crews will be working out their performances. there will be team coaches working out the boats and who should be in which particular seats, we're just coming up in a moment to henley bridge, but i want to talk to my skipper this morning. the very the very marvellous ed shiny. you might know ed, he's off the telly quite a lot, famous for wheeler dealers and tinking around with cars and quite a few world records as well. ed, what are your world records? >> well, i have the world's fastest furniture. >> it's 87 miles an hour. i did it on a sofa. car. we've got the world's fastest bed. the bathroom got the world's fastest, world's largest motorised shopping trolley , motorised shopping trolley, world's fastest desk or driving desk.i world's fastest desk or driving desk. i mean, it kind of goes on. maybe about ten of them or so. oh, yeah. even the world's fastest all electric ice cream van. >> so amazing. i've van. >> so amazing . i've been van. >> so amazing. i've been in your bed in china , it is a roadworthy bed in china, it is a roadworthy bed. it literally has a tax disc on the front of it, you went fairly sedate when i was in your bed at a music festival once, but how quick does it go? or did it go and you broke the world

record. >> record at 69 miles an hour? but it can actually do about 80. not on the private road, of course. you know, we're not the queen's road. king's road. gosh, yeah. >> no, not out in the public. you've you've always done those world records, but you but you live here. people go. why why is there china off wheeler dealers on britain's newsroom this morning. now, of course, you're very lucky that you have a place literally on the river here in. yes. >> no, it's pretty epic, actually. i think that's a really lovely thing, because you can just hop in a boat and just cruise down and just have a wonderful time, and it's just, i just love the kind of there's a really amazing energy here. there's a lot of slightly crazy people, which is one of the lovely, but there's always a lot of very fit people. and then there's the rest of us. yeah there's the rest of us. yeah there will be. >> there are all sorts of vehicles here this morning. yeah. good morning. i'm sure that's a gb news fan, up there. we're just about to go under henley bridge here this morning. they start to put the tents out for this event, weeks. if not months ahead of time, don't they? it's a huge operation. absolutely. >> and basically when the flooding stops, which generally is kind of around when. no, seriously, i mean, every year

there'll be a changeable amount of water and i guess probably about march or so they start to actually start putting up all the all the marquees and things. and because it's a big old operation. >> yeah, it really is, we've got the angel pub here, which sees a lot of action even on a normal weekend, but particularly on henley weekend, you can also see there's some advertisements there, which is for the henley festival. so after the rowing event here at the regatta, there's actually an incredible music event. we've got nicole scherzinger on this, this year. dave stewart, gladys knight will be performing. and so what that means is that henley itself makes use of a lot of the infrastructure, which is put up for the regatta. they really make the most of all of the facilities which are here, and there's this huge music festival, as i say, as well, what does your regatta normally look like? >> ed well, it's kind of a fair amount of madness. i mean, we're sort of nearer the lock, so obviously there's a lot of queuing of drunk people as they're trying to leave. but i think what's really lovely with the, the sort of the festival is kind of even more rambunctious,

if you like. so there's sort of a lot more sort of boats going on. of course, the stage is actually floating on the river where it's not actually floating, but it's looking like it's actually right in the middle of the water. and so that's actually quite cool, because then all the boats going backwards and forwards, listening to the music on both sides. and of course then all the people are actually watching the people are actually watching the concert, can see all the boat action. so that's quite lovely. regatta is slightly more sedate, but of course the place just gets filled up with people. i mean, it's amazing. there are so many people coming here, often in bad shoes, so you see them limping home at the end of them limping home at the end of the day, but but also probably studying. you know, on their feet because of the alcohol. of coui'se. >> course. >> it's really kind of henley itself as a, as a town has really seized this, sort of mantle of being the home of festivals as well, because of course, it famously has the literary festival here. i'm going to be talking to harriet, who's the organiser of the literary festival, just a little while later in the program. but that's another occasion. that's, i think, in the, in the autumn largely here, isn't it? but that bnngs largely here, isn't it? but that brings people to the town. >> it really does. and i think that's really cool. there's, there's a lot of kind of cultural excitement all the way through the year. i mean, i guess the season here kind of starts. i mean, it's obviously

part of the official season, but it starts probably about easter ish when everybody gets the boats out and stuff. and then of course, then you start having things like regatta and then obviously festival, and then you've got obviously the rewind down in september as well. so there's a lot of stuff going on all the time, which is what makes it very exciting to be here, i guess. yeah it really is, >> we're just we're just tootling up the river now. are we going north? south? which way are we going now? >> we are going upstream. yeah, but we are kind of about to go round a bend, so we're going to end up. we're going hang on. probably west. yeah >> but let's let's just swing around. >> you can see this boat here. so hobb's boatyard has been in henley on thames for, i don't know how many years. i mean, it must be many, many, very , very must be many, many, very, very 1800 and something, i think. >> so. is it really that old? i think it's been here a long time. well, if, you know, there's been boatyards here for a very, very long time. i mean, i think, i a very, very long time. i mean, ithink, i guess a very, very long time. i mean, i think, i guess when you think about the. well before all the locks were put in, which i guess then then the water would have been probably slightly lower, you know, but i mean, i think you've got danesfield house just

further downstream. and of course, that's where the vikings got to. so obviously they came up all this way with one of their sort of very, very clever sort of low sort of draught boats, if you like. so that's even before all the locks and everything. obviously now the water is slightly higher and slightly more constant. >> it's absolutely beautiful. so all of these boats this weekend and this week will be taking people up and down. >> some of them get hired out by corporate events. they're cleaning all the windows there, as you can see, and then you've just got all the little privately owned boats as well along the river. and it's so interesting. henley regatta for me because even though there are strict rules about accreditation for the actual regatta itself, for the actual regatta itself, for part of the way along the bank, anybody can go on the river, can't they ? river, can't they? >> anybody. >> anybody. >> and you can walk all the way down. i mean, it's a long old way because i mean, it is the longest straight part of the thames. and that's just why the regatta is here in the first place, because obviously it needed a really long course to be able to have a race. so you can absolutely more than happy to or more than welcome to walk all the way up and down. but it's a very long way.

>> so i have done it at 2:00 in the morning. >> i can't, i do confess, because further along the river, alongside all of the restaurants and the bars, there are then concessions, nightclub concessions, nightclub concessions, which do go on until the small hours. and we're going to take you up later in the show to show you some of the amazing facilities up there. andrew, i think you would love it here. this has got you written all over it. sat here with a glass of champagne. >> i must say, it does look very tempting. i went there about 20 years ago, when i was a much younger reporter working for a different newspaper, and it was great. and, and there are some very impressive sights to see. are there not? >> oh, there really are. there really are. >> and like i say, it's this really interesting kind of juxtaposition of athletes who are focused, who have been training like crazy for four years, up until an olympic games on a year like this. they are so focused on what they're trying to do here. this weekend. they want to get the best performance. sometimes they want to do qualifying for their own international teams and then you've got the socialisers who are very much in a different sort of mindset, but it's

absolutely beautiful. i'm so lucky to be here this morning . lucky to be here this morning. andrew, i was always going to say, i wish you were here, but you know, you've got to hold the fort there. you've got a very important to job do. >> i don't think anybody would believe it if you said you wish i was there. of course you're going to be speaking to the greatest, the greatest olympian of all time, i think, is joining you there, bev, isn't he? >> that's right. so, steve redgrave, five olympic gold medals from five different olympics i heard on breakfast this morning. there was a bit of debate about who the greatest athlete was of all time . was it athlete was of all time. was it sir chris hoy? was it sir steve redgrave? but i think the fact that he got those five golds over 20 years is particularly impressive. and actually what you'll find this morning and steve is one of them. a lot of the retired rowers actually work here as stewards. they work carrying official capacity. they give back to their sport actually the sport that gave so much to them. so i'm going to be catching up with them a little bit later. and i think we're going to be talking as well in not long into some female crew members who've i think just been victorious at the finish line. so we will go and see how they're getting on as well.

>> great stuff. that's bev turner. we'll hear lots more from her in henley. and of course it is a politics free day today because it is general election day . up next, we're election day. up next, we're getting quite sporty, quite unusual for me because sir andy murray, no less, is taking centre stage at wimbledon today with his brother jamie in the with his brotherjamie in the doubles. but while i want to know is this really his farewell tour? because a very famous tennis player , novak djokovic, tennis player, novak djokovic, seemed suggest it may not be with britain's newsroom

946 with britain's newsroom on gb news. andrew pierce. here in the studio. bev turner is in glorious, glorious henley, where it is the fabled regatta. but it's a big day for sport. we're not doing politics because it is general election day today. because the great sir andy murray will play alongside his brother jamie murray will play alongside his brotherjamie in murray will play alongside his brother jamie in the murray will play alongside his brotherjamie in the men's doubles on centre court later today. he's not taking part in

the singles because of problems with his back, so let's cross live to speak to our very own olivia utley olivia, i'm very jealous. have you had any strawberries and cream yet or is it too early? >> too early in the day for strawberries and cream. but i actually went to wimbledon just for my own enjoyment. on tuesday and saw djokovic play, which was very exciting. after just three and a half weeks after coming back from his knee surgery. today is a huge day for british tennis . we're expecting to see tennis. we're expecting to see andy murray play in the doubles with his brother jamie, and it's with his brotherjamie, and it's thought that this might be his last match at wimbledon. he's playing in the paris olympics later, which apparently will be the official end to his illustrious career, but also actually novak djokovic in his speech, which i heard on tuesday , speech, which i heard on tuesday, suggested perhaps andy murray should come back next year for another go at the singles, which he's had to pull out of this yeah he's had to pull out of this year. but it's not just andy murray who's playing today. we also have emma raducanu , who also have emma raducanu, who obviously after winning that , us

obviously after winning that, us openin obviously after winning that, us open in 2021, i think it was has really, really struggled with fitness and injury over the past few years. she came back with a bang yesterday . she defeated her bang yesterday. she defeated her belgian opponent six two, six one, in just 75 minutes. it was a fantastic match to watch apparently, and it looks like she's going to be back in the top 100 after being unseeded or number 301. i think it was in the world for quite a long time now. we also have british player fernley playing djokovic on centre court. that's starting in a few hours time. so all in all, a few hours time. so all in all, a really big, really exciting day for british tennis. >> thank you. thank you very much olivia. olivia, keep us up to date. i'm very envious because if i had to confess to a sport love, it is tennis and the great sporting love. of course of gb news is going to be of you there in the studio now . paul, there in the studio now. paul, olivia is outside. >> i think she's buying. i think she's just by the queue. i don't know whether she's doing the

queue because, you know, you have to the queue, especially dunng have to the queue, especially during the first week, whereas people will get their 5 or 6:00 in the morning and then they get handed the queue ticket and then they have to do it on the app. so there's about 500 tickets for centre court. so i don't know whether that's what she's doing now. it seems like she's in the queue there. >> you don't queue. >> you don't queue. >> well of course i don't know. >> well of course i don't know. >> you know everyone. >> you know everyone. >> well just, you know, stroll in. >> but it's a big look. it's big. a great victory for sadiq khan. and we love all that. and murray would be very emotional when he comes on. would he play on the centre court with his brother? he is. >> he is right. see this is unprecedented for wimbledon especially because the doubles always will take a back seat to the singles matches, especially dunng the singles matches, especially during the first week, because this is when there's all the big names. so the fact that andy was supposed to play on tuesday and then with this cyst that he's had on his back and he left it right to the last minute and, and they're like , olivia, i was and they're like, olivia, i was there on tuesday and i thought, this is great. i'll be able to see andy play. and then the new andy murray. jack draper ended up taking his place on centre court for the last game of the day. it's because andy, it's the problem is where the cyst is.

it's affected his leg. so one leg doesn't seem to have the power of the other leg . so it's power of the other leg. so it's almost going to be now he's going to be playing in the doubles with his brother jamie, where there's going to be like a33 legged race and they tie themselves together. so it's like, jamie, you go over that side and i'll go over this side. but obviously they have to swap oven but obviously they have to swap over, but it will be extremely emotional because although djokovic did say and we mentioned that and i know that olivia said that as well in the interview about, oh , well, i'm interview about, oh, well, i'm sure he'll be back. the truth is this is andy's last wimbledon. >> and they put him on the centre stage on centre court because he's british, because he's our very own, because he's andy murray, he's andy murray, because the doubles would normally be on a outside court. yeah, yeah. is he. have they got any prospect of winning the murray brothers. because jamie is a accomplished doubles player. >> he is an accomplished doubles player. but they're when they've played together i think they're actually unbeaten in the davis cup. they've been extremely successful playing together in the davis cup. but it seems to be almost like fate has lent a hand where, as jamie's usual doubles partner wasn't playing in this, and then jamie was

looking for someone. he's like, who could i have to play with me? i know my brother's quite good, so maybe we could get him involved. but then also, andy is playing in the mixed doubles alongside emma raducanu, which is just a match alongside emma raducanu, which isjust a match made in alongside emma raducanu, which is just a match made in heaven. that one is that. >> doesn't that have a sort of air of a gimmick about it? >> i think it has the air of a gimmick about it because it seems that it's our two headline makers when it comes to tennis. i say the two greatest tennis players there are in the country, which is not the case anymore, but but two great players. of course, we've got emma , who was brilliant emma, who was brilliant yesterday. she plays again on friday and you know us open winner. and then we know what happened with her career. but things are looking better for her. so i think this is going to be more of a thing that's going to be enjoyed by them, and the crowd are going to love it. i don't i think gimmicks are a little far, but who knows how far they can go and just tell me what happened in the tour de france are now mark cavendish. now you're familiar with mark cavendish, sir mark cavendish.

he is up until yesterday , the he is up until yesterday, the joint greatest sprinter. that's beenin joint greatest sprinter. that's been in the tour de france, along with the great eddie mercks, right , 34 stage wins mercks, right, 34 stage wins right now. he was going for 35. i could give you the whole back story on mark cavendish , which story on mark cavendish, which would take forever. it's been a situation where it's been he's been had a fight against adversity. he's had illness, depression , injuries. he's had depression, injuries. he's had terrible injuries. he's came off came off the bike. for example, last year he was expected that this is going to be one where he's going to go for this 35th stage win. so last year it didn't happen because he had a horrendous accident. and it seemed like at the age of 39 then it's going to be over now. phil liggett , who is the phil liggett, who is the renowned commentator of on the tour de france, he's done over 52 of them in the past, we spoke to him in breakfast this morning and he'd even said, i just don't think as much as he loves mark cavendish, he didn't think it was going to be possible. but then in the stage yesterday for fifth stage, he came through and won this stage. and it was the

most emotional moment. and he is another one that i'm putting forward as the greatest sportsman we've ever had. >> that's a big debate for another time because, because is it sir steve redgrave , who bev it sir steve redgrave, who bev is talking to you later won gold in five consecutive olympics . in five consecutive olympics. >> andy murray, andy murray and mark cavendish . yeah, all mark cavendish. yeah, all knighted as well. >> all sirs lewis hamilton , >> all sirs lewis hamilton, lewis hamilton, another knight. >> possible. but you know, it's whether you see this it's difficult isn't it, to contrast sports. you know what it's like because they're both you can either say whether it's skill , either say whether it's skill, whether it's fitness. there's so many different elements that makes a great sportsperson. >> 20s we've got a football match on saturday. >> apparently you're going to give it 20s. yeah switzerland against england. gareth southgate looks like he's going to play three at the back, which i know you'd been suggesting for quite some time instead of a four. so it hasn't been working so far. changes need to be made. it looks like changes are going to be made. switzerland on saturday 5:00, switzerland, i think for the first time ever,

switzerland will be favourites against england . but i think against england. but i think things are going to change. >> all right, that's paul cook. we hear more from him coming up. we're talking about the new miracle weight loss jab smp. could it potentially make people go blind. and joe biden is coming out fighting. he says he's not going anywhere. i think he's not going anywhere. i think he remembers there is a second presidential race and we'll see what bev is getting up to at the henley royal regatta. this is britain's newsroom on gb news >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news >> morning. here's your latest gb news. weather forecast coming to you from the met office. after a bit of a cloudy and damp day for many of us yesterday, it's looking a bit brighter and dner it's looking a bit brighter and drier for some today, especially across southern parts here. there will be a good deal of dry and sunny weather around a few showers, perhaps for central parts of england and wales , but parts of england and wales, but further north the showers are going to be much more frequent for northern england, northern

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this is henley royal regatta. it's a little breezy. i have to say. here. andrew is there in the studio , and this is. the studio, and this is. >> we're talking about the us president, joe biden, who insists he's going to stay on to fight the presidential race despite growing calls from within his own party to step aside. the latest controversy over captain tom. remember him? his daughter, hannah ingram—moore , has been banned ingram—moore, has been banned from being a charity trustee by the charity commission for years. we'll have the latest on that and sir keir starmer is off to the polling station this morning. but britain's newsroom is a politics free zone . but is a politics free zone. but it's not a sporting free zone because henley royal regatta returns one of the biggest events in the british sporting calendar is underway. bev is there and sir steve redgrave will join her very .

will join her very. soon. >> top of the island. >> top of the island. >> both crews on thursday of henley royal regatta here. >> as you can see, the boats are taking out onto the water this morning. a huge competitive day of action for them. one of the crews just pushing off at the moment, a female eight down there. and in a moment i'm going to be talking to one of the victorious female crews from this morning from the leander club here in henley on thames. a lot more action from here. this morning until midday. first though, very latest news headunes though, very latest news headlines with sophia wenzler. >> bev thank you. good morning. from the gb newsroom. at 10:01 your top story this hour. polls are open across britain as millions of people cast their votes to choose the next government. the first voters were up bright and early as stations open their doors at 7:00 this morning. they'll remain open until 10:00 tonight, giving a chance to around 46 million eligible voters to have their say on who forms britain's next government. a total of 650

parliamentary constituencies are being contested across the uk, but this is the first general election to require photo id , election to require photo id, and voters are being reminded to bnng and voters are being reminded to bring their driver's license, passport or other id or risk being turned away . forensic being turned away. forensic police in tenerife are focusing their efforts on an airbnb property, where missing teenager jay slater reportedly stayed before he vanished. it comes after one of the last people to see the 18 year old insisted he was alive and well when he left his holiday rental to catch a bus back to his own accommodation. police have described the individual as irrelevant to the ongoing investigation. the search for jay has now concluded, but police are continuing to look into his last known movements and why he travelled to a location so far from his accommodation. former police officer oliver lawrence told gb news the investigation has been inconsistent. >> definitely shows maybe the level of dysfunction in this investigation. you know, we, as

you said, quite rightly pointed out, what we last knew 16 days ago was jay made contact with his friends late one evening to say that he had 1% of battery left, that he was running out of water, and that he was lost and disorientated . and we had a full disorientated. and we had a full blown search carried out by local spanish authorities in tenerife that hasn't obviously gained any results whatsoever. two individuals that were in known to be in the company of jay, were returned back to the uk after a short level of questioning . so one has to start questioning. so one has to start beginning to ask sort of what is the investigation's plan? what is the hypotheses of the investigators in the us state governors who met with president biden last night say he's fit for office and he has their backing. >> the president faced a grilling at the meeting of democratic governors, which many saw as a barometer of his ongoing support within the party. among those signalling their support was the governor of california, gavin newsom, who some see as an alternative for the democratic ticket. but the united front, among many of those in the attendance, unsettled some, with reports

suggesting there was little effort to gauge the group's private degree of support for the president. politics professor scott lucas says coming days will be crucial tomorrow. >> he has a rally in one swing state in wisconsin on sunday, he has a rally in another swing state, which is pennsylvania. if biden can make it through that interview and those rallies and instil some confidence, then maybe he stays in the race. but if biden stumbles in any of those appearances, then i think next week is the critical time when you will see, not publicly, but privately, the pressure build on him to leave gracefully for the sake of america. given the threat of donald trump. >> meanwhile, donald trump claims president biden is quitting and believes he'll face kamala harris at the us election in a video posted to social media, the former president can be seen in a golf buggy speaking to an unidentified person. despite the white house insisting president biden will

remain in the race, mr trump can be heard saying they've just announced he's quitting, though it's unclear what the claim is based on quitting the us. >> is that right? yep. i got him out of there right . and that out of there right. and that means we have kamala. i think she's going to be better. she's so bad . but can you imagine that so bad. but can you imagine that guy with the dealing with putin and the president of china who's and the president of china who's a fierce person? he's a fierce man, very tough guy. a fierce person? he's a fierce man, very tough guy . and they man, very tough guy. and they see him, they probably care. but they just announce he's he's probably quitting . probably quitting. >> good for the prince. and princess of wales are understood to be donating to hurricane beryl relief efforts after the storm tore through islands in the south—east caribbean. at least six people are known to have been killed in grenada , have been killed in grenada, venezuela and saint vincent and the grenadines . the storm was the grenadines. the storm was expected to be close to major hurricane strength when it passed overjamaica hurricane strength when it passed over jamaica yesterday hurricane strength when it passed overjamaica yesterday . passed over jamaica yesterday. it's heading towards the cayman islands today and into mexico's yucatan peninsula . police in

yucatan peninsula. police in australia have recovered the remains of a 12 year old girl, who was attacked by a crocodile while swimming in a creek in a remote part of the country. the unnamed child was reported missing on tuesday. she'd been swimming with family in mango creek, around 225 miles from darwin in the northern territory. the area is home to around 100,000 saltwater crocodiles, which is more than anywhere else in the world, though attacks on people are not common. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm sophia wenzler more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> hello and welcome. this is britain's newsroom live across the united kingdom on gb news

with me, andrew pierce and bev turner, who is looking particularly fragrant today as she is lucky old bev. she is in henley where it is the remarkable summer regatta. and bev has got some really interesting guests to just remind you. of course, we're not talking politics at all today because it is the general election. bev. so what's happening there ? happening there? >> 35 by three and a half? >> 35 by three and a half? >> that's right. andrew. it's very different. britain's newsroom this morning. but how wonderful is this? this is one of the best events on the british sporting calendar. and i'm down here at the river thames with a victorious female crew that have just won the coxless four event. abby, i'll come to you first. how was how was the conditions out there? it's a bit breezy up here. >> yeah, it was, pretty quiet this morning, but it seemed as soon as we got on the start line, it got quite windy , line, it got quite windy, especially coming out of the island, but i think we handled it okay today. >> and, sophie, it's your first regatta. your first henley regatta. your first henley regatta was telling me, what do you make of it? >> it's a lot of fun. there's a big fuss around it and it's a

lot of fun to get out there with a lot of spectators, a lot of noise. so i'm just having a lot of fun. >> and where are you from? do you have i think you're australian. are you and do you have regattas in australia which resemble this? because it's a real combination, isn't it, of sport and fun, i think not nothing quite like this. >> there's nothing quite like henley and that's why i've come here. but a lot of fun regattas as well in sydney. yeah >> philippa, how important is this event as an athlete on the sporting calendar? >> yeah, this is the biggest event, in the rowing calendar throughout the year. this is it all leads up to this moment, you know, whether you're out on the tuesday or whether you make it through to the sunday. this is the one everyone waits to race, >> lauren, you're you've done for henley regattas, have you? now, what's it like building up to this ? how hard are you to this? how hard are you training for an event like this? give us an idea of your your sort of average day. >> so we get up and we train probably twice a day from like 7 am. to kind of nine and then 11 till midday . am. to kind of nine and then 11 till midday. but am. to kind of nine and then 11 till midday . but it's in our till midday. but it's in our back of our minds every session, every weight session, every bike, every erg, every time we're on the water. henley is

the main goal. and so it's the epitome of our season. and so it's great to finally actually just be here and put our hard work to show. >> and it's this event has a combination of club rowers, college rowers and also internationals as well. >> yeah, i think that's what's so special about henley. it's like there's people from across all of the all over the world, all of the all over the world, all different levels. as you said, there's club levels, collegiate levels, which is new to the women's scene especially, which is really nice to see, and then there's the high end kind of elite, elite level as well. so it's just great. it's a regatta for all. and, it kind of caters to all abilities as well, which is really nice. >> abby, you're all in your 20s, aren't you, and have you moved here specifically to train at leander as a performance centre, >> yeah. so i'm originally from scotland, so i'm from aberdeen, i did two years of a university up there , but i wanted to kind up there, but i wanted to kind of go onto the next step for rowing, which was representing gb at the under 23 stage, but kind of in order to do that, i had to move to leander to train

at the level that everybody is down here. >> it's just remarkable. sophie. and will you you've had international experience already for the under 23 seconds, have you? >> yes. so i competed last year for australia at the under 23 world championships. so, yeah, it's just a fun place to be. and i love rowing . so yeah. i love rowing. so yeah. >> what is the appeal of rowing there? sophie what is the appeal. because it's blooming hard work. >> yeah it is hard work. i think the, the thing we all search for is the perfect stroke and the feeling when you're out in the water, it's kind of, so freeing. just a lot of fun with your friends as well. and when you really click together and go fast, it's just so much fun. my mum calls it ballet on water, which is, i think, a compliment, but it's a lot of fun. >> yeah, but also , like, >> yeah, but also, like, physically draining. >> philippa, are you you're at uni now. you've graduated just graduated. and how are you managing then to combine rowing with your job and your other ambitions in life? because it's not easy, is it? >> no, it's definitely not easy. it takes a lot of getting used to . but yeah, like lauren says,

to. but yeah, like lauren says, you train twice in the morning and then most of us work in the afternoons, kind of just making the best out of what we can do here at henley and how we can work around training, because obviously rowing comes first, especially when you're rowing our level, but no, it is sometimes a bit of a balancing act, but definitely it's nice to have something away from rowing to keep, keep you focused as well. yeah. >> and lauren, you've got another event this weekend. that's not it. what are you what else are you doing? yeah. >> so, the four of us are also doubung >> so, the four of us are also doubling up in the women's remnant eight, and so this is today, we have only one race in the four, but tomorrow we have the four, but tomorrow we have the eight and the four. it's a new realm for all of us. none of us are doubled up. but i think we're really exciting to put out two good performances and see what we can do. yeah, brilliant. >> and do you watch other races while you're here? have you got other team—mates that you want to support, and do you get to do some socialising as well, >> yeah, we definitely support our team—mates throughout the regatta, there's a lot of women that manage to qualify for the regatta, which has been amazing to see, especially from leander , to see, especially from leander, we can go and socialise and enjoy the regatta a bit more

once we've been hopefully not knocked out to the sunday, but yeah. >> yeah. okay. >> yeah. okay. >> well thank you so much ladies, for isn't it brilliant? you know, you just young people working hard, representing their club, representing their universities, representing their country, just brilliant. it's an amazing event and it's just all that's best. of great britain, actually, on a day like today, it's so superb . let me just see it's so superb. let me just see if we can have, another picture down there. the wind is picking up, and that will affect some of the performances, of course , you the performances, of course, you can see some of the athletes here walking along with their boats. it's not the kind of sport where you have somebody to do your, you know, it's not formula one. you've not got a whole team putting your vehicle together for you. these are the rowers here. they will look after their own boats, they will put them on the water. they will put them on the water. they will put them on the water. they will put them in the tents here and the building just behind the tents there. that is the leander club. so the ladies have just been talking to that is the club that they represent. it's a few hundred years old at least, that rowing club. it's just so beautiful down here this morning. the crowds are building

up . the weather is beautiful. up. the weather is beautiful. where else would you rather be? stay us us here on britain's newsroom and enjoy it. first

break. >> 1016. you're with britain's newsroom. with andrew pierce and bev turner. with me in the studio. we've got a fabulous panel today. mike parry, pin up, middle aged, pin up as he likes to tell us. and jonathan lees, political analyst . now, political analyst. now, gentlemen, let's dive into today's newspapers. we have to talk, don't we? yeah. biden, sleepy joe biden, joe, joe biden, he's come out fighting white house say he's going nowhere. i thought, mike, the key to this would be his wife, the first lady, the most powerful woman in america, most powerful woman in america, most powerful woman in the world at the moment. >> indeed, she is now lady macbeth. she is. she is holding the future of the world in her hands. okay? absolutely is. and you can tell how chaotic it all is because i'll just pick three

titles this morning the telegraph, the times and the mail. they've all got a different story on where biden's going. okay, the telegraph are saying harris emerges as favourite. kamala harris who most president. yeah. who most people regard as almost as dangerous as joe biden. you know in terms of the policies she might impose upon the world. so they're saying, she's moving to they're saying, she's moving to the front. meanwhile, the times team biden holds crisis talks in bid to save candidacy. but in the mail, supporters saying you've got to step down so you know, there's a full range of what's going on. nobody seems to know. have ijust what's going on. nobody seems to know. have i just seen some footage saying that donald trump appears to have had some intelligence from somewhere , intelligence from somewhere, that biden is now going to step down and started muttering about? that's okay, i'll go against kamala harris. she's she's easy. easier task. easier. yeah. >> i mean, he obviously he doesn't know jonathan. i mean, you would have seen quite a lot if not all of the tv debate. it was appalling. i actually felt sorry for him. >> i was actually glastonbury when it happened. so i'm very i didn't have you recovered at the time? yes i did, i did watch,

clips of it. of course. and yeah, it was not great, that's an understatement. >> that is an understatement. >> that is an understatement. >> it's an understatement. i think that we can all agree that it was not a great performance. and there are real question marks over biden's capacity and capability and fitness for office. i mean, i don't think that's a partisan thing to say. so obviously at the moment he is the presumptive nominee and it is in his gift. unless, you know, there is the kind of coup around him . unless people say, around him. unless people say, we won't serve under you, we won't. you could sort of make it very, very difficult for him. yeah, but you can't force him out. i understand by the rules. so clearly there's going to have to be a lot of discussion. but, you know, i do think it's a bit strange that we're having all of these discussions immediately about biden's fitness to serve after that debate. but after trump, literally incited a riot against the us government. >> yeah, but time has moved on, jonathan. >> the us population somehow seems to think that he is a viable candidate to run . well. viable candidate to run. well. well, he's a convicted felon now. he's just been convicted for felony . for felony. >> it's not a question of

whether he's a viable candidate. it's a question of who is alternative to biden. and the only alternative to biden is donald trump. i don't know if you picked up over the weekend about this plot within the democratic party. everybody was surprised . why did the debate surprised. why did the debate take place so early? why wasn't it going to take place exactly? why didn't it take place nearer the convention or after the convention, which is in august? exactly. the answer is there is a cabal of democrats who know biden's got to go and who deliberately arranged this debate early to expose him to the world as the man incapable of running society in the western world. >> the one thing i would say the fingerprints on that were were obama's, of course, because obama's, of course, because obama is still a major player in the democratic party. >> of course, he is passionately about the democratic party. >> he worked with obama, with biden, who was his vice president for eight years. and he again, he gave him a very lukewarm endorsement when he became the democrat nominee all those years ago. it's the equivalent of the men in grey coats . here it is. the men in

coats. here it is. the men in grey coats and women in grey coats have to do the right thing, don't they? >> a grey coat sounds a bit like an asylum. i think it's grey suits, isn't it? grey suit, grey suits. >> you're quite right. >> you're quite right. >> i mean, look, i despite everything, i would still rather have joe biden as commander in chief than donald trump . chief than donald trump. >> and, you know, obviously, honestly, i think that's dangerous talk. honestly, i think that's dangerous talk . very, very dangerous talk. very, very dangerous talk. very, very dangerous talk. very, very dangerous talk. donal, have you seen donald trump? yeah, but donald trump, he's he's he's losing the plot as well . no, no, losing the plot as well. no, no, i don't agree. donald trump represents a lot of things, some of which are very unsavoury, some of which are, you know, allegedly criminal. but one thing does represent alleged. he's convicted. one thing he does represent is strength. there were no wars while donald trump was president of united states of america for the first time since the second world war, i don't think ukraine would have happened with donald trump there, and i'm certain the middle east wouldn't be as dangerous as it is now. if trump was there. i'm certain of it on that point. >> i'm just going to bring in now, gentlemen, we'll come back to we're going to join the political analyst nomiki konst,

who is a very good connections to the democratic party , good to the democratic party, good morning to you, how what? we don't know what to believe here as mike power is saying, if you've got three different reports in newspapers , is he's reports in newspapers, is he's fighting on he's not fighting on kamala harris. kamala harris is being teed up. what do you think is happening? and more to the point, what should happen , what point, what should happen, what should happen is key . should happen is key. >> so this is a decision i believe that is really just going to come down to joe biden and his conscience. and i think everybody is monitoring, the, the polls , frankly, every single the polls, frankly, every single day. and the reality is, is this is sort of like a self—fulfilling prophecy. the more the media talks about it, the more factions and fissures, pitch their stories to the press as unnamed sources. you're going to get more conversation and more confusion around whether or not he should run or he shouldn't run. i'm of the belief that i shouldn't run. i'm of the belief thati do shouldn't run. i'm of the belief that i do think that the administration has been far more progressive, on many things domestically than we expected. and i think that he has a strong

team around him. and you know, even if we believe that he was tired and jet lagged and had a cold, it's still better than donald trump, who wants to dismantle democracy. and every single institution that he hasn't already dismantled through austerity, and not filling, you know, vacancies in the office when he was president. >> but i was very struck by what? excuse me? nancy pelosi said she's a key figure in the democratic party. she said, was this an incident or an episode, or is it a condition? and if it is a condition, he clearly isn't fit to be president of the united states, you know, is he fit to be president? >> united states? that's not for me to decide, but is he somebody who can defeat donald trump? i think this is the question that folks are really grappling with right now. the alternative is we do have a brokered convention, and i was on the reform committee after 2016 of the democratic party and we issued a set of reforms that passed over resoundingly in the democratic party membership, elected

membership . unfortunately, those membership. unfortunately, those reforms were not put into place because there are players in the democratic party that were appointed that resist these reforms, opening up the party, making it transparent. reforms, opening up the party, making it transparent . and the making it transparent. and the consequences are we don't have, you know, we don't have a bench, we don't have funding of state parties across the country. we're not able to defeat the well—oiled right wing machine thatis well—oiled right wing machine that is operating in every single community in the united states. and we did not have a real primary . so folks are real primary. so folks are wondering, how did we get here? well, we got here because the dnc leadership refused to take on these reforms. and now as we go into the convention, it is super important that we understand what this process is and that it's honest, because there is an opportunity here to excite folks across the country, have rallies with lots of different candidates, there's a man named doctor jim zogby who man named doctorjim zogby who sits on the dnc. he's seasoned for years, he's been talking about these reforms. and he did an interview in the nation, and

he laid out a process that i think is genius because, you know, you're you're you're exhibiting our fresh leadership across the country . gretchen across the country. gretchen whitmer, gavin newsom, cory booken whitmer, gavin newsom, cory booker, you name it. and they can go out there and give speeches and organise and revive the party and steal the attention away in the media from the republicans and donald trump, who, you know, is stuck in his own legal battle right now still, and i think it'll be for good the democrats if they do it right. unfortunately, they don't have a track record of doing it right. it would be somewhat like , uk, the uk somewhat like, uk, the uk system, which you're going through right now . so, you know, through right now. so, you know, i really do think if we if we are honest with ourselves as democrats, we are inclusive and we practice good governance . the we practice good governance. the outcome of this could actually be a gift. but that really comes down to whether or not hubris exists or doesn't in the democratic party. >> well , that's fascinating >> well, that's fascinating insight. thank you for that. that's a guy who is an american political analyst, mike perry.

yeah. if there is , if pelosi's yeah. if there is, if pelosi's put a finger on it, said it is a condition, then the democratic party or the senior democrats engagedin party or the senior democrats engaged in a major cover up, which is shameful. >> well, again, jill biden has got to take some responsibility for what's going on. she's she's the person closest to the president, jill biden, his wife. she says, yeah, she says wife. she says, yeah, she says wife. she lives with him. she she sees his behaviour every day. >> she's not an elected official. >> no wife . she sees it every >> no wife. she sees it every day. exactly. >> she she sees his movement. she sees his cognitive ability. she sees his cognitive ability. she sees his thinking. maybe she has. >> and she thinks that he's fine. >> i'd like to ask nomiki what it means in america. if the if the new york times suddenly is not endorsing the democratic presidential candidate because of fears for his health, that surely is massive, isn't it? >> that is quite a moment. >> that is quite a moment. >> i think that what is happening in america generally is incredibly worrying. i think that we need to be focusing on the supreme court decision of this week that effectively

grants a president immunity to do effectively anything he likes. >> it's a partial decision, isn't it ? isn't it? >> it's a conclusion. it's six. three is the conclusion. and thatis three is the conclusion. and that is incredibly worrying for both what trump has done while president and what trump may do while president. if trump can go back into the white house knowing that he can do basically anything he wants and face total immunity for the rest of his life afterwards, that is a scenario that doesn't bear thinking about the most important thing for democrats right now is to ensure, as nomiki says, that trump is beaten. this man is. yeah, but john, that will happen if they get rid of biden. >> more, probably more probably than it will if biden's their candidate. >> i'm not disagreeing with you. yeah. the more i think about it, the more and i like joe biden. i think he's done a lot of good things he's had, obviously, but he's a danger to the world. i don't subscribe to the idea that he's a danger to the world, but i do think that really, he has, concerned a lot of people . concerned a lot of people. kamala harris, i think having, you know, sort of the white

house made a big mistake in sort of making her the fall guy for all the bad decisions and the poor decision making because they actually need her. and i think that she is actually rising in stature. her opinion, her approval ratings are improving, and she could be a very, very strong candidate against trump. and that's why trump is slagging her off. >> should there not be a very simple thing done here? should he not have to undergo a cognitive test? and because by trump is a man of a certain age, make him do the same? >> who's going to make the decision? who's going to make the decision to say the president, the president of the united states now must undergo a test to see whether he's lost his marbles. effectively, maybe it should be the law of the land. >> what was it? 25th amendment? >> what was it? 25th amendment? >> yeah, yeah, maybe the law of the land, but it's not the law. >> not the amendment that says you can actually you can get rid of the president if he's incapacitated. yes, yes he does. >> it does. but he's got to be proven to be incapacitated. and the job is to get that proof. how do you get him there? >> yeah. let's change the mood, gentlemen, because what is this about flying hippopotamus? >> well, this is this is this is

a fantastic story. ever since you were a kid, you've seen hippopotamuses with big, smiling, laughing faces, haven't they? and their cuddly little creatures. you think? would it be nice to hug that hippo? well don't, because hippos are the most dangerous animals on earth . most dangerous animals on earth. okay, now the problem is because they spend most of their time wallowing in rivers. because that's where they live . that's where they live. scientists up until now haven't really been able to work out how fast they move. if they're going to chase you, they move. at 18 miles an hour. so if you upset a hippopotamus, this comes from research in, the royal veterinary college in north mymms , hertfordshire. in this mymms, hertfordshire. in this country, if you upset a him, a hippo, you better get moving very, very quickly. they run at 18 miles an hour , and 15% of the 18 miles an hour, and 15% of the time they are flying through the air because they propel themselves forward. so fast, all their limbs are off the air and they will fly towards you. their jaws are like the jaws of, you know, granite or concrete will smash around you. so this is a warning. the hippos are very, very dangerous animals. don't pick a fight with them because

they'll outrun you. and you will be, stale bread. >> have you ever encountered a hippo? >> i have actually, i have to. i went to in a river in africa, a game reserve in south africa. yeah. and i was, and seeing majestic creatures. terrifying. >> yeah, i did as well. it was majestic. yeah, i did enormous. and then, did what nature does. and then, did what nature does. and you realise the scale of this beast. yeah. but he looks, it looks like a very , lovely it looks like a very, lovely scene. but now, like, you got him. yeah, yeah. >> that's why people think they're. exactly. because they don't eat people. they just kill you. >> they just crush you . yeah, >> they just crush you. yeah, yeah. and i thought, how sweet. and the guys who knew we're not getting any closer? >> no. exactly. i was in the kruger national park, actually, and watching these two hippos. and as i say, they just wallow all day in the river. they look so docile, but apparently , if so docile, but apparently, if you get on the wrong side of one of them, you have had it, pal. >> believe me, i think we've just got time to talk about why marbella council has got some problems for beachgoers. i hope they're not british. >> no. it's unbelievable. my

bag. council has announced that beachgoers can be fined ,750 if they urinate in the sea. so i have several questions here. firstly, how would you ever know? how would you know? know? how would you ever know? secondly, does that mean they're going to appoint police officers to wade into the sea to see if they could detect these people, have some sort of i don't know, i don't know. and thirdly, in terms of, you know, keeping the world clean, i can't think of anything which is least likely to pollute the world. then you know, a small amount of urine in the mediterranean ocean, even waste. >> i suppose it's not the best i suppose it's they're trying to stop the drunk , perhaps stop the drunk, perhaps staggering back to his hotel who might decide this is okay, maybe this is it. so if you are kind of staggering back from the club at 3 am. yeah, yeah. >> don't think you can get away in the sea. >> standing up on the beach. weeing into the sea. yeah. then it's like if you do that, you know, in public in this. >> but wouldn't you have to get very close to work out whether somebody was committing this offence? because if i was this

far away from you now and you decided that, you know , nature decided that, you know, nature had to take its course and i have to urinate, you wouldn't be able to tell anyway. all these things you have to tell. >> they operate on the deterrent model as well. they kind of have. well, that's true. don't do it. and maybe people will be discouraged. >> gentlemen, i know neither of you would ever even contemplate weighing it. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> or a swimming pool, would you? >> certainly not a swimming pool >> definitely not. you're listening to britain's news room here on gb news. bev turner is with us in henley. it is, of course, the annual regatta and she's got some really fabulous guests coming up. but first we're going to get our latest headunes we're going to get our latest headlines with sophia wenzler. >> andrew thank you. it's 1031. >> andrew thank you. it's1031. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. your headlines polls are open across britain as millions of people cast their votes to choose the next government. the first voters were up bright and early as stations opened their doors at 7:00. this morning. they'll remain open until 10:00 tonight, giving a chance to around 46

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>> 1037. this is britain's >>1037. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with me, andrew pearson, bev turner, who is in henley for the regatta. now. an extraordinary story. we all marvel, didn't we, at the exploits of the legendary , exploits of the legendary, legendary sir tom moore during covid. he did. he walked and walked and walked and raised millions and millions and millions and millions and millions of pounds for the nhs . millions of pounds for the nhs. now the daughter of captain sir tom moore, extraordinary has now been disqualified from being a charity trustee. the charity commission has blocked hannah ingram—moore and her husband colin colin, from taking on charitable roles after looking into the affairs of the captain

tom foundation after his death in 2021. joining me to talk about this is paul connew, who is the former editor of the sunday mirror. paul, this is the most extraordinary fall from grace, isn't it? because we regularly saw, hannah with her father alongside her father, with him when he got his honour from the queen, she spoke proudly of her father. and yet, since his death , the charity has since his death, the charity has become mired in all sorts of controversy and now the ultimate humiliation. she's been banned from acting as a trustee of the charity. tell us, tell us, tell us all about it, andrew. >> the. this has been a long time coming. in a sense. i think we in the media have held back for quite a while before we began investigating, because it seemed it it seemed too intrusive or too harsh to move intrusive or too harsh to move in earlier on. i mean, i, for example, out of curiosity , i and example, out of curiosity, i and i'm sure otherjournalists

looked at companies house records and, and the and hannah and her husband's businesses, which we say not doing too well. but you actually had to hold back. but since then, the media has done a good job in exposing the various question marks about about about the legacy of captain tom. tragically. i mean, he was a national hero. he raised £39.8 million for the nhs . raised £39.8 million for the nhs. and of course, that famous image of him being knighted from a distance by the by the queen, and his legacy won't die, but it has been besmirched to an extent by what's happened with with his daughter and son in law central to all of this, actually, interestingly enough, it was the family who put out the statement yesterday about the charity commission, not the charity commission, not the charity commission, who merely responded

because their investigation is still ongoing . but hannah has still ongoing. but hannah has been banned from being a charity trustee for ten years and her husband for eight years, which is an indication of how seriously the charity commission already view this, even before their investigation has been completed. and at the heart of this is the fact that , captain this is the fact that, captain tom wrote or was helped to write three books before. before his death. now in the prologue to those books, there is reference to its supporting the work of the captain tom foundation. but in fact, £800,000. repeat £800,000 from the book. proceeds went in to a private company held by held by his daughter and son in law , which they argued, son in law, which they argued, which they argued in fact was was what what captain tom wanted .

was what what captain tom wanted. although there's no written record of that, and certainly anybody reading the prologue of that book would have got the impression that buying the book was going to help the captain tom foundation. and then , of tom foundation. and then, of course, after that we had the saga of the, of the, building in, in the garden of their bedfordshire home, which, which of course, was originally they got planning permission for, a captain tom foundation building, which was going to house archives and records displays like a museum of his work, but without planning permission. it became a much bigger building with a spa in it, which which of course not only broke the planning consent, but also angered their neighbours. and now, of course, they are very unpopular in the local community and have put their house up for sale for £2.25 million. but so far as i understand it, there are no takers, whether in fact being the property where captain

tom did those famous televised walks or not is a is a boon or reverse to trying to sell it. who knows. >> she also i remember paul the charity commission refused to allow the daughter to pay herself a £100,000 annual salary from the foundation. >> that's correct, she also, of course, she became ceo. you know , course, she became ceo. you know, ceo of the of the charity for a penod ceo of the of the charity for a period of about, i think 7 or 8 months and gave herself a salary and expenses totalling i think in excess of £70,000. >> it's extraordinary , isn't it, >> it's extraordinary, isn't it, because people gave to to the captain tom because they were so inspired by him. he was a remarkable man. i mean, he made it, didn't he, to his 100th birthday. and we lost him aged 100in 2021, the whole charity now is being wound down. it's a very sorry episode, isn't it? >> it is. and his legacy is

tainted by the actions of his daughter and son in law. and his book was called tomorrow will be a good day. well, there haven't been too many good days for his daughter and son in law since, the media and the charity commission began investigating. >> absolutely right. paul, let me ask you , just before i let me ask you, just before i let you go, you're a keen observer of what happens in the united states. i'm just absolutely riveted by what's going to happen about joe biden after that catastrophic performance in the presidential debate, it seems he's determined to fight on. should he or should he be? should the should the political equivalent of the men in grey suits in america? tell him , take suits in america? tell him, take him aside and tell him he's got to stand down. >> they should. i mean, i come from a particular viewpoint here because i, i knew donald trump personally quite well when i was based in new york and i've long argued on, on air and in print

that he was never fit to be hippolytus. and the idea of him regaining the white house, i find, is chilling, both for american democracy and the interests of, of western democracy generally. but so joe biden has to stand down somehow. there has to be a way of persuading him or forcing him to stand down. already there are. apart from the behind the scenes whispers in the new york times reporting yesterday that he is considering stepping down, there are others behind the scenes trying to persuade him, and the pressure is building, and i would. i spoke to a very senior democrat friend, in contact day before yesterday, and he said he wouldn't bet more than a 5050 chance that that biden will be the candidate. but the complications and how you on how you force him to step down, he's going to do an interview tomorrow, which goes out on the

weekend, which they're hoping or the white his aides are hoping are hoping will certainly, if you like. do go some way to reversing the damage done by that disastrous debate with trump, but i've also heard heard a machiavellian theory from some, from some contacts, which i don't know how true it is, but saying that perhaps biden was encouraged by some of his own team into that early, because it was a very unusually early debate, because they thought exactly what happened would happen. and it would give them time to actually somehow remove him from the candidacy or persuade him to step down. and they found another candidate. but they haven't got long because the democratic convention is in august, not far away, and they have to decide whether they're going to have, for example, if biden is persuaded to step down, then

they would probably have to have an open convention in which the other replacement candidates would. you know, it happened when lyndon johnson stepped down, and that would open the gates to those who i mean, the problem favourite, i mean, kamala harris is obviously big. kamala harris is obviously big. kamala harris is obviously big. kamala harris is obviously being touted, although she's paul. we've ran out of time. >> i'm afraid i'm going beau biden sorry to stop you there. we run out of time, but paul, it's very interesting. paul connew, former editor of the sunday mirror, and it shows what a business politics you're listening to. britain's

good morning to you. it's 1049. good morning to you. it's1049. this is britain's newsroom. i'm andrew pierce and bev turner. she is in henley, where it is the annual regatta, which is one of the great sporting events of the year. bev who have you got with you? and who are you going to be to? talking >> yes. morning. all. it is

absolutely heavenly here at henley regatta this morning. and i'm with harriet reid. and harriet is the director of the henley literary festival because henley literary festival because henley is really owned , hasn't henley is really owned, hasn't it, harriet? not just events like this, but also you've got the music festival and the book festival in its 18th year. how did it start and how is it going now, >> it actually started by my mum, so very much a family festival, and it it started 18 years ago, so she basically got made redundant from a job and thought, oh, a book festival would be fun, it turns out it's quite hard work and fun, so we've been doing it for 18 years. we're kind of thrilled. and actually, i think, as you said, like henley is obviously about this. it is so beautiful. but there's a real cultural scene here, and we're so lucky to have the festival. the henley festival next week. and then we've got the kenton theatre, we've got the kenton theatre, we've got the kenton theatre, we've got an amazing museum. there's so much from a really small town. i think we're one of sort of the smallest towns that offers so much culturally. so we're really lucky . we're really lucky. >> so tell us what the festival, the book festival involves. i've worked there for you on a few occasions, interviewing people such as kate humble, who else

have i interviewed? >> mary o'leary, jason plato, jason plato. >> exactly. i'm going to be interviewing our very own andrew pierce, who are indeed this autumn on the opening day. >> so it starts on saturday 28th september. we have over 130 events happening this year. and yeah, we start with you guys on the saturday, and you've been such a great supporter to us, and we've been so lucky that even the interview is a brilliant, let alone the line—up. we're really lucky that we have this sort of brilliant because of where we're placed, so many brilliant high profile people who are really good at interviewing, and yeah, this year we've got michael palin, juua year we've got michael palin, julia donaldson, zeinab badawi, sara cox, rick stein, sarah raven. so it's sort of the most brilliant line—up this year. i'm really kind of proud of it. and feel like our 18th year. we kind of keep on feeling like we're getting bigger and bigger. i'm not sure why we're going to stop getting bigger. >> well, it's funny, isn't it, because there was a period of time when it felt like people weren't reading books anymore. the publishing industry seemed to be in decline. everyone was looking at mobile phones, but that's sort of done. a full 180. it feels the publishing industry

feels very buoyant now. >> yeah, really booming and booming was such a mixture. there are so many different titles and so many interesting things and themes that come from the publishing world that if you actually watch it, it's a really clever. they're kind of ahead of the trend quite a lot of the time with things. and i think that's the thing sometimes people will say to me, oh, i don't read. so i wouldn't, i wouldn't like to come. i was like, there is something for everything. if you like formula one, we've got will buxton. if you, you know, want to go to a kids event, there's options for that. and i think that's the difference is where some festivals perhaps are aimed at just one audience. we're aimed at such a wide audience. >> yeah. tell me about the children's angle of henley festival literary festival as well, because i've taken my kids down and you have these kind of interactive workshops where kids can work with illustrators and create some incredible work. >> yeah, we've got absolutely brilliant. so obviously you have got the julia donaldson and david walliams came last year. so we do get those sort of main names, but you also have these. fascinating. there's a beano comic workshop this year there's also i, yeah there's rob biddulph who obviously did the draw with rob's and everyone

loved during lockdown comes and he always sells out. and in his book he always takes three hours because he draws a picture for every child and makes a real sort of effort to talk to them all. we've also got an amazing schools programme that post covid we moved to streaming as well as in person, and since 2021, we've reached 60,000 children, you know, for all free. so and we've got joseph coelho, the current children's laureate. he's just about to come out, of his tenure doing that. so yeah, the children's is brilliant. and we also have sort of mixed teenage events like family events. so david olusoga is doing a pop up in november around his kind of slightly kind of aimed at a family event. so you can have conversations. we have events like previously we've had talking to your teenage self where you could bnng teenage self where you could bring your teenage girls and you come away and you're actually thinking about things. and, you know, i think literary festivals allow you to have such brilliant open conversations. yeah. >> don't they? and can we just have a moment? we're going to go to the weather any minute now, harriet. but look at this place this afternoon. this morning just incredible view down the thames there as you can see,

lots of people having picnics , lots of people having picnics, enjoying some drinks on these incredible, beautiful boats, there's going to be a race coming down. any minute now. we are going to be here with you until midday. harriet, thank you so much for talking to us about the literary festival, don't go anywhere. it is time for the . weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news >> morning. here's your latest gb news. weather forecast coming to you from the met office . to you from the met office. after a bit of a cloudy and damp day for many of us yesterday, it's looking a bit brighter and dner it's looking a bit brighter and drier for some today, especially across southern parts here. there will be a good deal of dry and sunny weather around a few showers, perhaps for central parts of england and wales, but further north the showers are going to be much more frequent for northern england, northern ireland and particularly across much of scotland and here those showers could merge into some

longer spells of rain, some downpours possible and some strong, blustery winds as well . strong, blustery winds as well. temperatures are still a little bit below average for the time of year. nonetheless, we should just about get into the low 20s towards the south—east and feeling warm enough in any sunshine as we head towards this evening. then it is going to be a pretty wet picture across much of scotland. like i said, those showers merging into some longer spells of rain. there could be some downpours around and do watch out for some gusty winds with a bit of a chilly feel to things as a result. still a few showers continuing as we go through the end of the day across both northern ireland, northern england and into some central parts of england and wales. two towards the south—east, likely to stay largely fine as we go through the end of the day, but across southwestern parts we are going to see a bit more cloud feeding. its way in and some rain arriving as we go overnight. now this band of rain that pushes through across southern parts overnight could turn quite heavy at times as we head through the early hours of friday morning further north, there will be some clear skies around, but also some further showers at times and temperatures generally

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>> welcome back to a very special britain's newsroom. it's a very special sort of broadcast today on gb news. andrew pierce is in the studio in london. i'm

bev turner at henley regatta. andrew >> thanks, bev. now we're talking about asking the question . it's a very important question. it's a very important question. it's a very important question. isjoe biden still question. it's a very important question. is joe biden still fit for office? the us president insists he will fight on despite calls from within his own party to step down. and sir ed davey is off to the polling station this morning. but britain's newsroom is a politics free zone. a warning a new study shows. the weight loss jab, the miracle jab. some people call it, could in fact make you go blind. and the risk for diabetics is even greater. and at wimbledon, the murray brothers take to the centre court. andy murray will play an emotional first match at wimbledon today alongside his brother jamie. wimbledon today alongside his brotherjamie. but wimbledon today alongside his brother jamie. but will this wimbledon today alongside his brotherjamie. but will this be his farewell from wimbledon ? his farewell from wimbledon? >> i'm just tootling my way

across the river thames here. i've got sir steve redgrave just waiting for me. just in there in that building. i'm going to be to talking him any minute now. don't go anywhere. it's a very exciting show between now and midday. first, the very latest news with sofia. >> bev. thank you. good morning . >> bev. thank you. good morning. from the gb newsroom. at 11:01, your headlines polls are open across britain as millions of people cast their votes to choose the next government. the first voters were up bright and early as stations opened their doors at 7:00 this morning. they'll remain open until 10:00 tonight, giving a chance to around 46 million eligible voters to have their say on who forms britain's next government. a total of 650 parliamentary constituencies are being contested across the uk, but this is the first general election to require photo id , election to require photo id, and voters are being reminded to bnng and voters are being reminded to bring their driver's license , bring their driver's license, passport or other id or risk

being turned away. forensic police in tenerife are focusing their efforts on an airbnb property, where missing teenager jay slater reportedly stayed before he vanished. it comes after one of the last people to see the 18 year old insisted he was alive and well when he left his holiday rental to catch a bus back to his own accommodation. police have described the individual as irrelevant to the ongoing investigation . the search for investigation. the search for jay has now concluded, but police are continuing to look into his last known movements and why he travelled to a location so far from his accommodation. former police officer oliver lawrence told gb news the investigation has been inconsistent. >> definitely shows maybe the level of dysfunction in this investigation. you know, we, as you said, quite rightly pointed out, what we last knew 16 days ago was jay made contact with his friends late one evening to say that he had 1% of battery left, that he was running out of water, and that he was lost and disorientated, and we had a full

blown search carried out by local spanish authorities in tenerife that hasn't obviously gained any results whatsoever. two individuals that were in known to be in the company of jay were returned back to the uk after a short level of questioning. so one has to start beginning to ask sort of what is the investigation plan? what is the investigation plan? what is the hypotheses of the investigators? >> meanwhile, in the us state governors who met with president biden last night say he's fit for office and he has their backing, the president faced a grilling at the meeting of democratic governors, which many saw as a test of his ongoing support within the party. among those signalling their support was the governor of california, gavin newsom, who some see as an alternative for the democratic ticket. but the united front, among many of those in attendance, unsettled some, with reports suggesting there was little effort to gauge the group's private degree of support for the president . support for the president. politics professor scott lucas says the coming days will be crucial tomorrow. >> he has a rally in one swing state in wisconsin. on sunday,

he has a rally in another swing state, which is pennsylvania. if biden can make it through that interview and those rallies and instil some confidence, then maybe he stays in the race. but if biden stumbles in any of those appearances, then i think next week is the critical time when you will see, not publicly, but privately, the pressure build on him to leave gracefully for the sake of america. given the threat of donald trump. >> meanwhile, donald trump claims president biden is quitting and believes he'll face kamala harris at the us election. in a video posted to social media, the former president can be seen in a golf buggy speaking to an unidentified person. despite the white house insisting president biden will remain in the race, mr trump can be heard saying they've just announced he's quitting, though it's unclear what the claim is based on quitting the us. >> is that right ? quitting the us. >> is that right? yep. quitting the us. >> is that right ? yep. i quitting the us. >> is that right? yep. i got quitting the us. >> is that right ? yep. i got him >> is that right? yep. i got him out of the race and that means we have kamala. i think she's going to be better. she's so

bad. but can you imagine that guy with dealing with putin and the president of china who's a fierce person? he's a fierce man, right ? fierce person? he's a fierce man, right? very tough guy. and they see him, they probably can't, but they just announce he's he's probably quitting. good. very good times come the prince and princess of wales are understood to be donating to hurricane beryl relief efforts after the storm tore through islands in the south—east caribbean. >> at least six people are known to have been killed in grenada , to have been killed in grenada, venezuela and saint vincent, and the grenadines. the storm was expected to be close to major hurricane strength when it passed overjamaica hurricane strength when it passed over jamaica yesterday. it's heading towards the cayman islands today and into mexico's yucatan peninsula , and police in yucatan peninsula, and police in australia have recovered the remains of a 12 year old girl who was attacked by a crocodile while swimming in a creek in a remote part of the country. the unnamed child was reported missing on tuesday. she'd been swimming with family in mango

creek, around 225 miles from darwin in the northern territory. the area is home to around 100,000 saltwater crocodiles, which is more than anywhere else in the world. though attacks on people are not common, those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm sophia wenzler more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone , sign direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com >> forward slash alerts . >> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> hello and welcome. this is britain's newsroom live across the united kingdom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. we'll be crossing to bev shortly at the henley regatta, where she's talking to the greatest olympian in my view of all time, sir steve redgrave, who knows a thing about rowing because he won five gold medals at five consecutive olympic games. but let's see what you've

been saying. first, a lot of you, as i thought would be very exercised by joe biden, debbie says surely the fact joe biden was judged unfit to give evidence at his son, his trial is a sign he can't run for president. anthony says. kamala harris, that's the vice president, of course, would be destroyed by trump as all she can do. when asked a question is laugh stupidly, paul says this biden's way too old. that's not hair on his head, it's mould. paul hair on his head, it's mould. paul. paul, that's very unkind. but it did make me laugh. and jenny says biden has to go. i go with the machiavellian theory that they set him up on that debate to give him time to dump him. the theory, it came out at the weekend, actually, that president obama, they still called the former president's president . but obama was the key president. but obama was the key figure in moving that presidential debate early. normally, it would have been closer to the democrat convention in august, but it happened, as you know, last week, because he wanted to expose the shortcomings of biden so they'd have time to get rid

of him and time to have a more orderly handover at that august convention. but of course, he's not going quietly, and they never do. now we're going to go next to henley regatta, where bev turner has somebody rather interesting in store. bev leander thank you andrew. >> that's right. the action continues here at henley regatta and it wouldn't be henley regatta without sir steve redgrave, who is very kindly joined us this morning on britain's newsroom. you're looking very relaxed here, steve. is it a very different now that you can just be here in a relaxed capacity rather than racing? >> as you can see from my tie, it's quite windy today , but it's quite windy today, but problems with outdoor sports that, yeah, pretty relaxed is that, yeah, pretty relaxed is that for me as chair it's the preparation and getting everything ready in time, the amount of entries we've had, our biggest ever entry, biggest overseas entry of getting them through all qualifiers. and then there's a very short time from qualifiers finishing to getting the draw down, programming. and that once all that's done, then

i can relax a little bit and just deal with the little problems. hopefully minor problems. hopefully minor problems that happen during the week itself. >> rowing's quite unusual, isn't it, as a sport in that the athletes who retire from it, like you and sir matt pinsent, who's also here, i presume this weekend, stay involved and help to give back to the sport. why do you do that , do you do that, >> there's no money in the sport that the olympic rules changed after the 88 games that we could have, received prize money, appearance money and stuff like that. but there's still not money in the sport. and i think that once you get sucked into the sport, you do it because you love it. you've got so much out of it yourself. so being able to help other people on their path through, and especially here at henley of the colour, the history, the atmosphere here is just special to be involved in. >> how many people are behind the scenes organising ? the scenes organising? >> thousands, thousands. >> thousands, thousands. >> and from when? when does it

start, >> we have a full time staff team of 14 and they're working on it all year round. that's bigger staff than world rowing has to organise the whole of world rowing, and we're just one event, and then as it gets nearer, the more and more people get are brought in on professional side, but the volunteers start ramping up as well. and without the volunteers, we just wouldn't be able to run the event. >> yeah, it's not televised as such, is it? >> even though it's sort of similar, you might say, to wimbledon, maybe, but that's a deliberate sort of decision to keep it sort of, go on, go on. answer that. steve diplomatically. >> well, we started broadcasting about ten years ago, and that when you're filming anything on water, it's triply quadruple more expensive, that athletics, tennis of if you go to snooker or darts , in some ways it's

or darts, in some ways it's almost designed for tv where rowing's not so you need of 2 or 3 times the amount of cameras to be able to do it. any justice at all, the drone has been a game changer for us, and some of the shots that we get for the drone is amazing as technology moves on. have you seen through sailing of the things that have been changing, changing there on, on, on the way that's publicised, but it's also sort of trying to capture the imagination and that olympics everyone expects the british team to do, do well and they will do well in three weeks time, at the paris olympics and that, people don't really realise that there's rowing events happening every day. so not every day, every weekend of the year, with 3 or 4 events happening sometimes on, on a weekend, there's other events out there and people have said to me, especially around london 2012, oh, why isn't there more rain? it's fantastic. it's really exciting. and i said, the bbc have been showing the of the

world championships every year since 1981. people don't watch it, so you've got to capture the imagination of people and you've got it on youtube now, though, don't you? >> you broadcast the races live with the drones. >> we've got our own youtube channel and it's free to air. so anybody can watch it. and our viewing figures are pretty good on that, and so you've got people that may have rowed, in their younger days, are still working on the first few days and will be watching it as it unfolds and then coming out at the weekend and then some people are here in the deckchairs sitting on on the front of the water, watching every race come up. so it's but it's the colour , up. so it's but it's the colour, it's the atmosphere. that's why it's the atmosphere. that's why it's so different. here. >> it is, it is so different, and, and it is so different. we've been saying all morning it's socialising is such a big part of this event. you've got people tootling up and down the river having picnics in the pimms tents, up and down. and afternoon tea is a big event here. but for the athletes, with three weeks until the olympics, it must feel like a super focus has to be applied to a weekend

like this . what is this going to like this. what is this going to tell us this weekend about how we might do at the olympics with the british teams? >> very little really, because it's so close. literally three weeks away. the british team and most of the national teams are away, doing their, their , their, away, doing their, their, their, their final preparations. so the men's team are up at high altitude. the women are in italy, warm weather training, totally focused on paris and then rightly so. if the olympics were slightly later , then they were slightly later, then they would be racing here, and that was the problem , that when i was was the problem, that when i was racing as well, sometimes we could do it most of the time that we couldn't in an olympic yean that we couldn't in an olympic year, we have eight athletes that are racing that are going on to paris, oliver zeidler, the german, single scull world champion, so his preparations is to come here and race. he'll really enjoy this. this wind. he's from your background. he was a swimmer to start with. and then. then came a rowing, his mother was a rower. his father was a swimmer. and, that,

because he came to rowing relatively late, he loves the rough water. or he doesn't love it. he hates it, but he needs the rough water practice. and that's why he likes coming here. so this is his final preparation. if it is windy in paris, he feels that he'll get a bonus of being here. >> brilliant. well, it is a little windy up here, steve, but still an absolutely beautiful day. we've got various crews going out already, thank you. enjoy your weekend. thanks so much for talking to us. good to see you. right, andrew, back to you. >> thanks , bev, always >> thanks, bev, always interesting and always great to hean interesting and always great to hear, sir steve redgrave. i sat next to him at a dinner once. i felt very privileged and in awe. how can anybody win five gold medals over 20 years? now? an interesting story for lots of people, particularly who take that wonder drug ozempic. this is the weight loss drug jab. but according to a new scientific study, it could cause irreversible optic nerve damage and even cause blindness. well, i'm joined now by the health and

social affairs editor at the sunday express , lucy johnson. sunday express, lucy johnson. lucy, morning to you. i know some people who are on that drug and they swear by it. some of them have lost 3 or 4 stone and i often say to them, but do you know if there are any side effects? does it now seem we are beginning to discover there are, and they may be rather negative ? and they may be rather negative? >> absolutely. so the drug, when you are doing clinical trials , you are doing clinical trials, carefully controlled clinical trials, you don't always pick up danger signals. and when drugs are rolled out over a broader population, over a longer term, signals, then, you know, become apparent. and we've already had with this drug, an increased risk that we've seen with something called pancreatitis, inflammation of the pancreas, which can be deadly, deadly . which can be deadly, deadly. we've also seen an increase in bowel problems, and in fact, one in people in the very studies

that brought this drug onto market stopped taking the drug because of side effects. so all drugs carry side effects. and the key is for doctors, clinicians to work out whether the side effects are worth it in terms of the benefits that you're getting. and now this drug is being used for weight loss . more people are getting loss. more people are getting it. and that we have people going online, online pharmacies that are giving out. sometimes they cheat the system and maybe lie about their bmi because they want to be thin and they're bypassing the doctors and doctors really should make clinical decisions about whether people should be on these drugs. this new signal about blindness. it is, from a study at an eye hospital. so that may skew the results because they're more likely to see rare eye conditions. but it did show an alarming sign that people with diabetes or who are overweight

are more likely to develop this eye condition if they're on the drug than if they aren't. and the regulators regulators should be right on this and should be looking it up and following it up. because people, you know need to know their risks of all things when they're taking, they need to make an informed choice. >> because lucy, when people go to the doctor and say, i want this drug a doctor isn't necessarily going to say, yes, you're the right person for it because they do make clinical decisions. >> so it's alarming to think that people can just get these drugs from an online pharmacy who just perhaps wants the money andisnt who just perhaps wants the money and isn't going to ask the questions that a doctor would ask . ask. >> absolutely. and when we're thinking about weight loss, quick fixes and drugs are not always the solution. what we really should be looking at, you know , once you're off those know, once you're off those drugs or if you if they don't work for you, many people don't lose a lot of weight on them. once you're off the drug, the weight loss, the weight comes back. so what we really ought to

be looking at is our toxic food environment. we need to you know, if you need to lose weight, the best way to do it is to eat less. get out there, exercise. if you're diabetic and your risk of your disease or obesity, the complications from obesity, the complications from obesity are so high, it may be worth being on that drug. but for many people, for using a drug to lose weight, you know, really think about how you can change your lifestyle so that you can lose weight in a natural way without the side effects. and i think public health messaging does need to come in here. we need to change our, you know, the aisles of the supermarkets are full of ultra processed foods, aren't they? and you've got more aisles of alcohol than you have of fresh fruit. and vegetables sometimes. so we really need to think about what we're doing in our society and what we're eating and drinking. to tackle problems like weight and diabetes, because that is a large part of the problem. >> all right . very sound advice

>> all right. very sound advice as ever. that's lucy johnson, who is the health and social affairs editor at the sunday express. lucy, thanks for joining us. i have a statement here from novo nordisk, which makes wegovy and ozempic. and they said there were limitations to the study, which was done by the scientists, adding patient safety is a top priority for us. and we take all reports about adverse events from use of our medicines very seriously . neon, medicines very seriously. neon, which is this condition affects the eye, is not listed as a known adverse drug reaction in the summary of product characteristics for the marketed formulations of semi—tied for type 2 diabetes and wegovy for weight management. as per the approved labels . well, they approved labels. well, they think that statement helps. they could have perhaps put it in english. up next, the phrase mixed weight relationships. i said weight , mixed weight relationships. i said weight, not mixed weight relationships. i said weight , not race. mixed weight relationships. i said weight, not race. mixed weight relationships has triggered a huge backlash, and it's all connected to that big drama, which i've never watched, but i know it's very

bridgerton. i want know what you think. this is britain's newsroom

1123. this is britain's newsroom. live across the united kingdom with andrew pierce and bev turner, who is in henley for the regatta . who is in henley for the regatta. now, this is a story that caught my eye. bridgerton's penelope, played by nicola coughlan , is in played by nicola coughlan, is in a huge twitter storm about the phrase mixed weight relationship, which was referred to in the up—market magazine forbes. joining me now is gb news, showbiz reporter stephanie takyi. stephanie, tell us more . takyi. stephanie, tell us more. they are not the conventional romantic couple in the sense that jonathan colin bridgerton is tall, dark, and very heathcliff like and handsome and penelope featherington, played by nicola coughlan , is a woman by nicola coughlan, is a woman of, shall we say, a wide girth. >> yeah she is. she's very voluptuous. lovely woman, beautiful actress. but since

season three started of bridgerton, andrew, there's been a lot of body shamers who've been saying, you know what? she's too fat. and as we know, bridgerton, it has a lot of sex scenes in it. so nicola came out and said, you know what? i'm tired of being body shamed. can you stop body shaming me? it's all about the role. and because of these body shamers, she insisted on doing lots of nude scenes in this season, which a lot of bridgerton fans will see. so now there's been this opinion piece in forbes, which by a writer called virgie tovar, who has now commented and said that basically is the world ready for a mixed weight relationship. i've never seen or heard anything so ridiculous in my life. andrew, we're in 2024. we've seen it all. we've seen it all on tv and we've seen it all on screen. this writer considers herself an expert on weight bias, so she in her article in her defence, she does talk about the body shame that nicola has gone through, but she says, is the world ready to see a plus

size woman with a man who's slim? i'm sorry, there's no couples out there. we're all in mixed weight relationships then, because how do you get a couple who's going to be the same? and even though this writer herself is plus size, she's reinforced the body shaming that nicola has said. stop concentrating on my body. said. stop concentrating on my body . concentrate on the work. body. concentrate on the work. so as you can imagine , online is so as you can imagine, online is having a field day with this. you know , because it's you know, because it's ridiculous. we have to deal with so many labels. now we're going to look at the world of mixed weight relationships, stephanie told beautiful stephanie takyi. >> our gb news showbiz reporter mike parry and jonathan lister in the studio with me. mike, i'm obviously going to come to you first. i just want you to refer to mixed weight. you would be the first to admit, mike, you're not the slimmest member of the male species. well, you had mixed weight relationships. >> well, you're fat shaming me now, andrew. you say, and i find that very extraordinary. remember, i haven't been this shape all my life. i was, you know, as you've said many times on this show before, i was a

babe magnet when i was middle aged. so. so i knew about that middle age. >> but i'm sorry, you're still middle aged. >> early middle age. early middle age. absolutely. i i'm not the best to ask about this because i've never seen an episode of bridgerton. okay? and i had a conversation with a female colleague the other night who had never seen an episode of peaky blinders. so i think this is a very male female type thing, you know, on your television viewing, although i can say is i think it's outrageous to fat shame a woman because of the shape she is, and that every woman that i've ever , that every woman that i've ever, you know, looked at and come across has got their own values . across has got their own values. i love women and they're all attractive to me. >> have you had a mixed weight relationship in your time? jonathan >> andrew, as you may know, the gay community is quite body conscious, and there is an issue about body shaming in that community. but on the on the other side, there are lots of different looks in that community. so you go into a gay

club and you, you do see a lot of people who look like male models and personal trainers, but you also have, you know, sort of, venues that are designed for bigger guys, you know, bears for example. yeah, or interesting, sort of daddies, they might be called all kinds of things. so the long the short of things. so the long the short of it is, there is someone for everyone. yeah, i've been with very slim guys. i've been with bigger guys . not too many. bigger guys. not too many. obviously. my mother is watching this, but, yes, it's. i have been a mixed race relationships. >> okay. no question. interesting and i think i've never even heard the expression mixed weight . mixed weight. >> no, no, no, it's very silly. >> it's basically means a slim person and a less slim person is at the end of the world. >> no, it isn't, but i do know some chaps who are heterosexual who've threatened to leave their girlfriends because they put too much weight on. >> that's happened a number of times that i've, i normally, i normally those guys are bigger than their girlfriend. >> they've got the bare bellies. >> they've got the bare bellies. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> let's talk about captain tom. yes. it's an extraordinary story. it is. we all loved

captain tom. he got his gong from the queen, his knighthood, we lost him at the age of 100. he was a great inspirational figure. his daughter set up that foundation in her name, but it seems to have been beset by controversy after controversy. now banned from being a charity trustee for a decade. how did it all go so horribly wrong? >> well, i think she's been treated rather harshly and i'll tell you why. because every time captain tom came on the television and it could be 3 or 4 times a day, she'd be sitting next to him. so she actually organised the captain tom phenomenon. remember? captain tom started walking around his garden 100 times to raise £500 or something like that. she then suddenly became in charge of a £40 million fortune. okay and anybody who was suddenly to told organise that money, how it's come in, what you do with it, i think would be out of their depth. okay. she she took £800,000 in proceeds from the three books her father wrote. what is wrong with that? he wrote the books. he got the money. why couldn't he have

passed that down? i'll tell you what passed that down to his daughter. >> the preface, he said this is an opportunity to raise even more money for charity. you did say so. that's an expectation when you're buying the book that's going to go to the charity into his daughter's pocket. >> no, but do you not think the daughter deserves some reward for all the effort she put into the captain? >> it's not illegal. >> it's not illegal. >> it's not illegal. >> it's unethical. >> it's unethical. >> 800,000 is a lot of money. >> yeah, it is a lot of money. >> does she deserve it? >> does she deserve it? >> she was being paid, what, £150,000? >> no, she wasn't, because she was banned from drawing a salary to take £100,000. she wanted to. >> yes she did. yeah, but she was banned from doing it. >> i'm saying, is she deserved some reward, not 800,000. mike. well, what i'm saying is that that was captain tom's money. he'd already given 40 million to the country. that he'd raised for charity. okay. and i think it was a bit harsh. i think she should have said, look, can i have something out of it? i worked so hard on this. there was the scandal about the building, the. >> then they shouldn't have said it in the first place in the book. it should have it shouldn't have mentioned the fact that she could. >> i'm. yeah. what i'm saying is she wasn't responsible for the forward in the book. that was

her father and i don't i think she should have been given some reward for the joy that captain tom brought to the world. >> and she was she was she was organising it. yeah. >> she wasn't fine. she wasn't paid over 100, but she was paid something because she was only paid expenses. >> she made. they made. she's only made expenses living. >> i think she's been treated very roughly. and she's been branded a crook now almost. >> there was evidence that the company she was running with her husband had were in some financial difficulty. and so the criticism here, jonathan, is that she used some of the money coming into the father's, which people thought was going to the father's foundation, perhaps to get herself out of financial. >> i think she gave an interview herself, that said, you know , herself, that said, you know, they were looking at how can we make ends meet? and then she had the idea for her father to do the idea for her father to do the rings. now, no one's suggesting that that money didn't all go to the nhs. that's that's that's not in question, but clearly there are questions about how they went from being, you know, looking at looking in the financial precipice to sort of, you know, coining it in. and, you know, people have very legitimate questions. now, obviously, the charity commission hasn't concluded its investigation. it's a complex investigation. it's a complex investigation , but it has investigation, but it has decided to ban them from being

trustees. they wouldn't have done that lightly. and that suggests to me that something. >> but i think that's because of the size of money involved. you see, you know, it started with a few hundred quid. that was the idea. and then it became 40 million. i mean, interest alone on that is a couple of million a yeah on that is a couple of million a year. so somebody had to take control of it. she must have made mistakes in the administration of the money. and i think because it's 40 million, because it's captain tom, she has been treated more harshly than somebody else because it's captain tom. >> captain tom was a national hero. if anything, i know. >> and therefore, if the charity commission concluded she's done something wrong about captain tom's reputation, she has to be treated harshly. >> i think the whole thing is, is such a shame, because that was obviously such the feel good story, it was seen to be apolitical. it was the ingrams are conservatives, but it was a non—political story, and it's just been tarnished. and it's just been tarnished. and it's just a real, real shame it is. >> gentlemen, we've run out of time. i'm afraid that's mike parry and jonathan lewis. we're going to the news headlines now with sophia ingram.

>> andrew thank you. it's 1132. >> andrew thank you. it's1132. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. first to breaking news, a woman has admitted murdering her parents in june 2019. the bodies of john and lois mcculloch were discovered by police at the 36 year old's house after concerns were raised over their welfare. virginia mcculloch appeared at today's heanng mcculloch appeared at today's hearing via video link from hmp peterborough and was remanded in custody . polls are open across custody. polls are open across britain as millions of people cast their votes to choose the next government. the first voters were up bright and early as stations opened their doors at 7:00 this morning. they'll remain open until 10:00 tonight, giving a chance to around 46 million eligible voters to have their say on who forms britain's next government. a total of 650 parliamentary constituencies are being contested across the uk,

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financial report. >> up at noon. good afternoon britain . it's with ben leo today britain. it's with ben leo today and emily. now, what's coming up on this politics free show? >> ben lee is keeping me company , >> ben lee is keeping me company, of course, the polling stations are open. we want pictures of dogs at the polling station. i've got one of my dog already to share with everyone know you had a dog, a family dog. i'm not its main carer, okay, but i do look after him time to time, bob, we also want pictures. i don't know, perhaps you bring your cat or your ferret or your. or even your hamster to the polling station with you. i've seen a few cat pictures. >> so any any animals? >> so any any animals? >> any animals , please send them >> any animals, please send them in. we want to see them. we can't talk about the politics, but we can talk about the polling stations lead. yeah. you know, people are strange. >> i've had cats for 30 years. i've never put a cat on a lead. >> why don't you take the cat to the polling station and take a pic for us, otherwise, big week for sports. >> big weekend for sport. yeah, i perhaps the biggest in the calendar. so we've got the british grand prix on sunday.

wimbledon, of course, is on roaring emma raducanu. have you been yet? >> me? yeah to wimbledon i had gone, i went a few years ago, but no, i have no tickets for this year. >> andrew, i was invited yesterday, but because of things, stuff that's going on, like we're not talking about today, i couldn't go, which is a pity today, i couldn't go, which is a pity because i'd like to see emma raducanu ray addison great start. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> and of course you've got the murray boys on the centre court, so that's gonna be very emotional. >> sadly, andy's my hero. and when he first won wimbledon in 2013, i cried tears of happiness. happy to admit it. unfortunately, he's not playing singles of course, but katie boulter, the young brit, she's on centre court today. right. and yeah, british grand prix, as i've mentioned, what else is there? >> even cavendish. we want to talk about him. tour de france set a record. yes. pretty amazing actually, how he's managed to do that. 14th time, 15th time he's done the race, which is pretty extraordinary. what else? we're also going to be checking in with bev at the henley regatta, which is rather nice in her element. in her element. >> you're missing her tons. andrew desperately can't bear feeling lonely in the studio . feeling lonely in the studio. >> really lonely. >> really lonely. >> really. well, it's a very big

table now , isn't it? table now, isn't it? >> to sit on your own, you have to find out for you. when she has her first glass of bubbly bubbles. because i suspect it would be before this programme ends >> oh, do you suspect i do? >> oh, do you suspect i do? >> she may have already had one already. >> she'll have a little buck's fizz. at least. >> so she'll be live with us, won't she? so we can tell. >> and, of course we're going to be discussing a little bit of us politics and a little bit of this, the bridgerton stuff that you were talking about, i love it, mixed weight dramas. >> what a great expression. i wish i'd thought of it because it's fantastic, isn't it? i think you always see mixed weight couples. >> it's nothing absurd. and also, these are rugby girls who were getting into their lingerie. is that progressive or regressive? >> all that and more at midday we're going back to bevil henley, of course, very shortly. this is britain's newsroom on gb news

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with andrew pierce and bev turner. i'm in the studio, but still to come . bev is at the still to come. bev is at the royal regatta at henley. she's talking to various people. and i was asking earlier, i wonder when she'll have her first glass of bubbles or bucks fizz or champagne? i'm told she'd already had it. she's already had a glass. but is it too early? when is it too early to have a glass of bubbles? probably never too early. she was talking earlier, of course, to britain's arguably greatest sportsman. that's a debate for another day . sir steven another day. sir steven redgrave, who won gold medals at five consecutive olympic games , five consecutive olympic games, of course, in as a rower, so he is a key figure at henley. the sun is shining. we're not doing politics, of course, today because it is, the general election. so we are talking politics. we are talking anything but politics. and unusually for me, i've had to talk about sport quite a lot because it is a huge day to day if you're a wimbledon fan, which i am, andy murray is going to be going onto the centre court

potentially for the last time with his brother jamie. they're with his brotherjamie. they're going to be playing in the doubles, and as we were hearing from paul coyte, this is an this is an exception because he, a doubles match would normally be played on an outer court, but he is britain's darling, isn't he? and sir andy murray. and now we're going to read some emails and got there are people are still talking about joe biden. i actually think it's a shame it's shaming on the democratic party in the united states, because if this is a pattern of behaviour by joe biden, who completely lost his way in that debate, it's been covered up. and barbara says, i'm afraid i only hope to protect the people of the west. is donald trump. and john says biden's a basket case. no it's the democrat party is the basket case. if they've allowed this charade to go on, let's go now to henley, where i'm told beverley turner is now drank that glass of champagne. your secret is out. beverley there we are, half drunk and no nofice.

there we are, half drunk and no notice . there's no orange juice notice. there's no orange juice in it. it's the real mccoy. enjoy it is , it is, it is. enjoy it is, it is, it is. >> it's henley regatta. i mean, it's touching midday. almost andrew, i just want to also just say thank you to emily, who's in the boat whose family have lent us the boat this morning. thank you emily. and we have producer eleanor in the back. and my mother, i brought my mother. so we're going to be talking to my mum in just a little while. but i'm also going to talk now to our skipper, china. you will know ahead , of course. famous know ahead, of course. famous for wheeler dealers and has a youtube channel doing all sorts of shenanigans with cars. we're used to seeing you normally behind the wheel of various crazy vehicles. we were talking earlier, people who are tuning in that you have multiple world records, don't you? for your bizarre vehicles. >> yes. well, it all started with the sofa. the world's fastest bit of furniture, 87 miles an hour, and then moved on to the world's fastest bed. world's fastest bathroom. we've got the world's fastest office, world's largest motorised shopping trolley. i just say just the list is almost endless. i think the last one was the world's fastest all electric ice

cream van. >> and these are when we say the world's fastest . world's fastest. >> they have the workings of a vehicle of a car beneath them. and then on top of that, now i have been in your bed in china. i've been in the world's fastest bed, i think we might have a picture of the bed to show people. and that is roadworthy. it has a tax disc. >> yeah, it's a taxed mot'd insured, so you can drive anywhere, even on motorways. so it's fantastic fun. and as long as the weather's like this, if it's raining, you're not quite so cool. >> and when you're driving along in your bed, do people just wave and beep their horns the whole time? yeah, it's really lovely. >> it's a really like a pied piper effect, actually. it's one of the things when i first noficed of the things when i first noticed with the sofa we used to drive around london a lot just to show off, really, or just to have sort of. it's this spiritual home. it's called the. it's just a really a wonderful thing because people just get taken out of their daily lives and then just suddenly it's just this bit of surreal thing. but what's even lovelier when people are actually sort of looking around to make sure they're not going completely crazy? because of course, it's a surreal experience. i think now we can hear the we can hear the crowd starting to cheer in the

background. >> so basically the way they divide the river on this week tuesday to sunday is henley regatta is they build these courses. don't they, down the middle. so on this side of the river, we've got the likes of us drinking champagne and having a lovely time and trying not to run over the rowers, because the rowers are also on their way back up. this direction to the start of the river, which is over there. and so, as we can see here, we've got a race going on, and it's a really interesting group, isn't it? a really interesting kind of melding of these two worlds. >> absolutely. and i think , as >> absolutely. and i think, as you say, because this is a proper, full on, super duper athlete and it's an athletic thing. you know, it's a lot of prowess here. but then equally, there's sort of a lot of sociable madness as well. and people getting a little tipsy on the water, which is perfect for henley, frankly. so no, it's a wonderful thing. but, we should explain to people that who might be thinking, why is there china at henley regatta? >> this is because you live on the river. you and your wife chose to live in henley. why

henley? >> i think it was one of those things, i guess. you know, we were sort of looking around for places, and there's just something about the madness in the air here. there's a sort of. it's an eccentricity. i suppose, and also this sort of idea that people are just very different, i think. and then also there's all the creativity of all the events that go on and stuff. it just felt right, you know, somehow just the vibe was perfect. yeah. >> what are you working on at the moment? ed? are you building any more crazy cars? >> i am well, i've just bought a sort of amphibious bus. we're going to turn into an rv. i'm going to turn into an rv. i'm going to turn into an rv. i'm going to go on a bit of a tour. we're sort of now looking for sort of partners for that as an idea for our youtube show. so we're going to do basically 1,000,000 seconds. how far can i drive in 1,000,000 seconds? that's the idea. and it's about 10,000km probably. so we're going to go with the bass. do a lot of scandinavia because imogen stuck out there at the moment. but, yeah, it's going to be fantastic fun i think. amazing. >> and we just have a little wave to our fellow guests here at henley regatta this morning. honestly, this is the way to live, isn't it? it really is a fascinating weekend here in henley. andrew, i think i said it before, but i think you would

be incredibly at home here, we are going to be. my mother is looking very nervous in the background. can i just tell you your mum never switches off, does she? is there every time a big boat came in the background, i could see her going. be careful, be careful. be care. i'm fine mother, i'm fine. right. quick. break. don't go anywhere. see

>>i >> i think it was like what you were telling me earlier. just the fact that we are here at henley royal regatta. >> what a beautiful, beautiful day for it. obviously, it's a different britain's newsroom today. no politics. it's a bit of a relief. i can't lie, and this is certainly a relief being here on the river. we've got all of the, the rowers taking it very seriously. and then we've got the people here taking it a little less seriously, drinking a little champagne and enjoying the atmosphere. and my mother has muscled in on the occasion today. well, no, let me put that differently, mum, i've. you've lived here now for ten years. pretty much full time from

manchester. why did you choose henley on thames? >> because my three children left home and left me in the north. >> so we had to sell our house and move south. we were coming up and down every weekend with seven grandchildren. >> i thought, you know, it's time to throw in the towel and join them. >> so here we are in this lovely place, very, very lucky . place, very, very lucky. >> had to work many, many years. >> had to work many, many years. >> we're 80 when my husband left and 70 when i left. >> and so here we are, ten years later. but why would you not be? i mean, we're just so lucky. yeah. >> you love gb news as well, don't you, mom? i'm just going to say that now. it's not just me. >> no, i do like gb news. it's honest. yes, i had to think hard, didn't i, no, i think it's superb program. it's one of those programs that if it sadly, you have to have adverts , but, you have to have adverts, but, it really does cover every subject and it's truthful. good, bad , ugly. it's fine, bad, ugly. it's fine, >> what about my co—presenter?

mum, are you a fan of andrew pierce? >> i love andrew pierce. i think he really makes your programme. i think he's wonderful . somebody i think he's wonderful. somebody has to be sensible on your programme . programme. >> right. okay. i'd love to see andrew's face right now. i wish i could see his face, but the other thing, mum, we were saying about this weekend is, all these athletes here. rowing is a really tough sport. we were a family of swimmers . you still family of swimmers. you still coach in henley now? and addie, my younger brother, went to the olympics in athens. so you know a bit what it's like for the parents here this weekend. it's nerve wracking, isn't it, when your kids are in a sport, it's extremely difficult. >> it really is difficult. on your life is taken over by sport. i think the hard part, if you know in the south you do have more opportunities apart from the north does have more swimming pools. from the north does have more swimming pools . so you know, swimming pools. so you know, it's just such stress on people. the people here now have

probably travelled miles and miles and really put themselves under horrible pressure. and then the poor kids here are having to return the goods and make it. >> poor kids, poor kids. make it. >> poor kids, poor kids . you >> poor kids, poor kids. you used to make us swim twice a day. don't now come out overall sympathetic to them. used to force me to go swimming when i didn't want to go, but it was worth it. it's what kids need, isn't it? it's activities and sport and being occupied. oh, absolutely. >> you know , it's too many >> you know, it's too many phones, too many screens. come on, let's get on with it. we've got to get them out. they've had two years with this dam. three years covid lots up. we want them out . and you know, i them out. and you know, i noficedin them out. and you know, i noticed in swimming that in actual fact, children who are now nine really can't swim very well . yeah, because they've been well. yeah, because they've been locked up for three years. >> mum, don't get political. we've done very well not to get political anyway. you can see where i get it from, can't you, andrew? can't you see where i get it from? >> it certainly can.

>> it certainly can. >> and that was a nice surprise, bev. your mum saying she loved me. if only you did. >> well, we're getting there. like i say, we're like a couple who stayed together for the sake of the kids. we're starting to, you know, rub along nicely now, but honestly, we've had a great time here, andrew. this this morning. and actually, i would have loved you to have been here. you'd have absolutely loved this, we'll be back tomorrow. >> we certainly will. bev. well done. >> we certainly will. bev. well done . bev is going to be there done. bev is going to be there at henley throughout the day, so you'll hear more from her and see more from her and possibly her mum, too. and i suspect by 5:00 she'd have drank the entire bottle of champagne. if i know bev turner, well, that . bev turner, well, that. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on . gb. news hello. weather on. gb. news hello. welcome to your latest gb news weather update brought to you from the met office. it's going to be a breezy day, especially across the north west, but there will be some sunnier spells across the south. however, to the north where that windier

weather is through the day, we've also got an occluded front and that's going to bring some persistent heavy rain and showers, particularly to western areas of scotland. but also into some northwestern areas of england and parts of northern ireland as well. elsewhere, we should stay dry through the rest of the day. mix of sunny spells. the longest lived sunshine likely across southeastern areas where the winds will be the lightest this afternoon, so highs of around 21 degrees here. but further north and west closer to the lower teens. so a fairly fresh feeling day and some of those showers could turn quite heavy and possibly thundery. the winds will be particularly strong through this afternoon across western areas of scotland, we could see gale force gusts and some very heavy bursts of rain down towards parts of northern ireland, less of a risk of the heavier showers, but a mix of sunny spells and showers and still pretty breezy here into this afternoon. the winds will slowly start to ease as we head into the evening. further south, however , the next batch of rain however, the next batch of rain is arriving from the west, so skies will cloud over across

parts of south wales and south western areas of england. and this is the next front , arriving this is the next front, arriving for thursday and into for thursday evening and into friday. we'll bring quite a lot of wet weather to many central and southern areas of england and southern areas of england and wales , but further north of and wales, but further north of continued risk of some heavy showers overnight. there will be some clearer skies for some parts of northern ireland and northern england. here, temperatures could dip down into the lower single figures for some of us, but most of us it will be a fairly mild start to the day. and as i said, it's going to be a damper day for southern and central areas. the rain will likely come and go. there could be a drier spell through the middle of the day. we will see the return of that rain from the south and west once again into the evening. but in any sunshine, temperatures climbing to around 21 degrees. but for most of us,

>> well. good afternoon. britain. it's 12:00 >> well. good afternoon. britain. it's12:00 on thursday, the 4th of july. i'm emily

carver. very good morning to you. >> and i'm ben leo. >> and i'm ben leo. >> now, millions of brits head to the polls today to vote in the general election. don't forget your voter id polls close at 10:00. >> and of course, it's a massive weekend for british sports as well. we'll be live at the henley royal regatta, the british grand prix at silverstone , wimbledon, of silverstone, wimbledon, of course, for the tennis and the very latest on the euros too. >> and we'll be heading stateside for the latest on president joe biden's future. kamala harris is now a favourite to replace him, and it's all a bit awkward for prince harry, as tens of thousands sign a petition to stop him receiving a sports award for veterans. >> mbe . >> mbe. >> mbe. >> well, as you know, it's a big day. everyone's going to the polls for the general election. we can't talk politics today. we can't talk politics. those are the rules . but what we can talk the rules. but what we can talk aboutis the rules. but what we can talk about is dogs. dogs?

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