>> very good morning to you. it's 930 on thursday, july the 11th. live across the united kingdom. this is britain's newsroom with nana akua and ben leo in for andrew pierce and bev turner. >> now it's coming home. well, hopefully england beat the netherlands two one. it was sensational, wasn't it.7 in the euro semi final last night, ollie watkins clinched the winner in the 90th minute loss for words .

for words. >> really, when you score, there's emotions that come through your body, but this is just a different feeling. it was slow motion when i was running over to the boys and celebrating. yeah . memorial day , celebrating. yeah. memorial day, and of course millions of football fans will have been celebrating all through the night. >> next up, it's spain in the final. can you believe it on sunday? >> what are their chances now? this is absolutely horrendous. the crosby horror a triple murder suspect has been captured after a huge manhunt last night. charlie peters has more as the investigation continues here in bushey after a successful manhunt in enfield yesterday following the appalling attack here that took place on tuesday evening . evening. >> and let's go stateside . is >> and let's go stateside. is joe biden too old to be president? hollywood star and democrat fundraiser george

clooney tells joe biden to pull out of the race for a second term in the white house >> and, of course, britain's president. crisis. the prime minister said an urgent plan is needed to tackle overcrowding in our prisons, but, well, no surprises, no guarantee yet for an early release for dangerous criminals . criminals. so no guarantee yet for an early release. and also, i mean, do you know, i, i'm worried that this is going to be one of those i don't know, i don't know. >> well, really, really interesting story in the times this morning. quotes from ministers , labour ministers ministers, labour ministers suggesting that criminals who would previously be getting low custodial sentences maybe weeks or months, they just won't bother anymore because the prisons are so full. that reminds me of something akin to san francisco. i went there last yean san francisco. i went there last year, an absolute crime ridden hellhole. is it a slippery slope to something? >> yeah, it's very tragic what

happened to san francisco. i went there many years ago and it was a wonderful, wonderful place. nothing like that now. almost a green light to convicts and criminals. but let's let's hope sir keir starmer sorts it out as ever. send us your thoughts, post your comments gbnews.com/yoursay but let's get your latest news with . tamsin. your latest news with. tamsin. >> nana ben, thanks very much and good morning from the gb newsroom. it's 933. manager gareth southgate says he's immensely proud after england qualified for their second european championship final in successive tournaments. a stunning stoppage time goal from substitute ollie watkins securing a21 victory in dramatic fashion. the three lions will now face spain on sunday with the hope of being crowned european champions. a suspect wanted over a crossbow attack which left three women dead has been found and hospitalised. a

major police manhunt for 26 year old kyle clifford ended when he was found injured near a cemetery in north london. he was wanted in connection with the crossbow killings of the wife and daughters of bbc racing commentator john and daughters of bbc racing commentatorjohn hunt. carroll hunt was 61, while hannah and louise were 28 and 25. clifford was discovered with injuries in lavender hill cemetery in enfield and taken to a major trauma centre. police say no shots were fired by officers and no arrest has yet been made . no arrest has yet been made. president biden has indicated he supports closer defence ties between the uk and europe. in his first head to head meeting with the prime minister at the white house, joe biden told sir keir starmer he sees the uk as the cornerstone of the transatlantic alliance . the transatlantic alliance. the prime minister described the visit as an opportunity to recommit to nato and the special relationship . sir keir has said relationship. sir keir has said he wants a new uk—eu security pact while also working closer on defence with key allies .

on defence with key allies. household water bills are set to rise by an average of £19 a year in england and wales over the next five years. regulator ofwat says the increase is a third less than the amount requested by water companies. there are also significant variations in price changes between firms with southern water customers facing a £183 increase, whilst yorkshire water customers will see bills go up by £107. well, those are the latest gb news headunes those are the latest gb news headlines for now i'm tamsin roberts. more from me 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. >> so good morning to you. hello welcome to britain's newsroom live across the united kingdom

on gb news with me nana akua and ben leo. >> good morning to you. and what a morning it is. >> oh my god. >> oh my god. >> the morning after the night before britain is boyd or england's boyd. at least i don't know about the scots and the welsh, but look, it was a sensational night because the three lions roared to victory after that dramatic winner by substitute ollie watkins to give us a21 victory over the netherlands in the semi—finals. >> and of course, millions of fans have been celebrating. let's hear what some of them have had to say. no, i'm absolutely gobsmacked because i thought we'd lose tonight and i. i haven't even cried yet. i'll leave up until i get home. we've got pints, we've got the fans. >> it's coming home, baby. it's coming home. get in there. >> absolutely amazing . i wasn't >> absolutely amazing. i wasn't sure england would do it, but they've done it. i'm very happy. very happy. come on. >> he's happy, isn't he? >> he's happy, isn't he? >> he's happy, isn't he? >> he watched that back and feel embarrassed. actually, i don't think he will. >> england have now reached

their first final on foreign soil, with only spain left standing in their way this sunday. and across the pond. biden, joe biden, of course, the us president. he's also celebrated england's victory. >> really got something i heard good news. >> good news is right. i tell you what, it's all because of the prime minister >> almost a cave under the labour government. >> this is football coming home. prime minister it looks like it. >> and just moments ago, psychic walter orang—utan predicted the winner of the euro final in dortmund. let's take a look who he chooses. >> go right, right, right, right. oh, no. so he's chosen the spanish. >> he seems he's an orang—utan, by the way. not orang—utan, but he is. >> does this matter? >> does this matter? >> i know we had the octopus a couple of years back. i don't think so. octopus was wrong. >> i think he just likes the bright colours and the yellow. it's like a bee going towards a

yellow colour. do you know what i mean? if we put maybe the red, white and blue flag there, then maybe he would have gone for that. but let's cross live to germany and join our reporter, jack carson. jack, i presume? it's been a very , very festive it's been a very, very festive evening. and now you've moved on to the next location because we're in the final. >> well, yeah, we're in bochum at the moment, this morning where we've been staying to cover this semi final. we're just outside dortmund, not too far away. i mean, all yesterday we were talking about it. i mean , we were talking about it. i mean, there was over 100,000 fat dutch fans , fans from the netherlands fans, fans from the netherlands that had come over because of course dortmund is only about an hour away from from the border there. so over 100,000 had come into the city. it was just noise from the dutch all day flares , from the dutch all day flares, orange everywhere. and england were kind of just like sectioned off into these little portions off into these little portions of the city, vastly and greatly outnumbered. but of course, that really didn't matter when it came to the performance. at the end of the day, did it? because we won when it mattered on the pitch and within 90 minutes in

the knockouts, which seems like it's been an it's been an age to try to try and do that. of course, ollie watkins making the difference. and today is the 11th of july. it is three years ago today that england lost the euro final back in 2021. so maybe a bit of redemption that we've reached another one. two, two, two goes on the bounce to go to berlin, to go to berlin on sunday. and of course, i mean in, in, in dortmund yesterday. those thousands of dutch fans up, of course, went mental when xavi simons put them ahead. but it was all quiet really from then on because england probably had their best performance after they'd gone one nil down, looked really positive on the pitch, attacking bukayo saka of course, always looking a threat. phil foden as well, having a having to have a shot cleared off the line. so england look probably the best that they've looked and we were actually trying to watch the game funny enough, because there were so many dutch fans all crowding around all of the tvs, we ended up watching the game on a tv through the window

of a pizza takeaway shop. that's the kind of level we've had to go to watch the semi final yesterday. and of course there was about 5 or 10, england fans gathered around and then hundreds more dutch fans. so they were maybe a little bit unhappy when we went a little bit crazy when ollie watkins scored as it quite literally hit 90 minutes. i mean, ten years ago, ollie watkins was playing for weston super mare in the conference south on loan from exeter city and a decade later, he's just scored the winner in a semi—final of the euro to send england to berlin. i mean, he was absolutely, you know, in hysterics in emotional after the game, as you can imagine, talking about how when he was scored that goal and running over to the players, you know, it was almost like he was in slow motion. so he knows, you know, he could feel just how much that meant to the team. you saw on the face of gareth southgate. and of course, we know spain are going to be really tough in that final. you know lamine yamal, you know the 16 year old who's going to be 17 the day before the final on sunday. i mean he's been this

probably one of the players of the tournament for his age for how good he's been. so he is going to be a test. spain will be a test, but of course england are going to have thousands of fans cheering them on in the capital of germany. >> okay, jack, top workout there my friend. can i if you still on the line, set a challenge to you that if england win on sunday, he returns for a report wearing some german lederhosen. is that okay with you, jack? >> i think so , i don't think >> i think so, i don't think that's okay. >> go on then. deal. >> go on then. deal. >> good luck. no, he's actually done it. well, well, i'm sure everyone will be excited to see that one, but let's return to the sidekick. walter the orang—utan. we've got some var controversy as well on his prediction. so here he is. he's, going back to the actual site, and now he's chosen the england flag. so it's an orang—utan who has a choice of two flags. and he picked england the second time. so they're the comeback kings. >> so after initially picking spain, the ape has gone back. after a video review . he's now after a video review. he's now picked england the right decision. my animal friend . decision. my animal friend. >> maybe that means it's

penalties. possibly possibly, >> right. >> right. >> broadcaster paul coyte is here with us. maybe with some more in depth analysis. well, he's an orang—utan. >> well, he admitted he was orang—utan actually in the first place and then decided to go for the england one afterwards. you know, as sad as this is , i've know, as sad as this is, i've followed walter the orang—utan for quite some time , and i for quite some time, and i should say that for the semi—final he actually picked the netherlands. so they were broadcasting this live from dortmund zoo. everybody around the world waiting. but he was wrong last time. so >> well, uri geller did a prediction as well. he actually sent a message of luck. oh did he football team at about the 89th minute. you know what. and they scored. he said i sat next to uri geller in euro 96. >> this is a true story. so and this is and you know what? it's all coming to pass. this is and you know what? it's all coming to pass . this was for all coming to pass. this was for england spain. this is absolutely true. so last we played england spain euro 96. it went to penalties. uri geller was sat and he was sat right in front of me. so as it went to

penalties everybody was very nervous . anyway uri stands up nervous. anyway uri stands up and he looks around and he goes, now listen everybody, i want you all to go. england win , england all to go. england win, england win. he's trying to get everybody to chant, nobody does. and a guy sat next to him and he looked round him. he said roy geller if we lose you're dead. and it was. and uri sat down quietly and i never forgot it. it was euro 96 and thank goodness won we against spain that day on penalties. there you 90, that day on penalties. there you go, uri. so he was, he was probably uri that did that as well. >> maybe we should have a chat with him. i might get it. he's going to be on my show tomorrow. so i'm going to see. is he a prediction for the sunday match? >> could you not mention what happened that day? because i did mention it and he denied it or not. and i was there. i remember it happening. >> yeah. he remembers. >> yeah. he remembers. >> yeah. he remembers. >> yeah. well, he made the ball move as well didn't he. according to him in euro 96 when gary mcallister was going to take a penalty for scotland and he said the book because you could see the ball moving, he said that was him as he was flying in a helicopter. i think around the top of wembley stadium that day.

>> oh enough about uri geller. >> oh enough about uri geller. >> i want to hear have we got to talk about we want to talk about the game, about ollie watkins. >> his story is sensational. yeah. joined exeter as a nine year old. yeah he was rejected. it's been a long hard road for ollie hasn't it. >> it has. and the thing is he's another one of these players like harry kane as well. that has not had this handed to them on a silver spoon. they've had to work. they've had to go to play to work. they've had to go to play for different clubs. and some thought, you know, smaller clubs. weston super mare is the story as well actually i think we've got he talks about the journey that he's taken, we can probably i think we've got that where you can hear from ollie watkins and sums up what it's like to actually make that move to go from lower league football to go from lower league football to right up to scoring for england in the semi—finals of the euros. >> the goal was, you know, that's my bread and butter running in behind and causing the defence trouble, i said to cole that he was going to we were both going to go on the pitch and he was going to set me up, at half time. and it happened, you know, i manifested it and, as soon as he, he turned, i knew, i knew to make the move and, you know, you don't get that opportunity very

often. so i had to be greedy. i had to take it. and, i've just seen it go into the bottom corner. i don't think i've hit a ball that sweet, before, obviously, in such a special moment as well. i'll be playing in the euros for england. obviously you can dream, but i'm, you know , i'm a realist. i'm, you know, i'm a realist. i just take it day by day, one step at a time. and i was just focusing on, you know, getting back into the first team at exeter. so, yeah, i've not thought about that, but, you know, i've put in a lot of hard work to get to, to get to this point, it's not just this season, it's you know, a cumulative, and i've worked hard to get to this point, and i'm going to enjoy every moment, get paid for every goal they score. >> what's the deal? >> what's the deal? >> the deal is this the last thing that's on anybody's mind? nana apart from you? you want to know what the cash is? >> yeah. well, what do they get? >> yeah. well, what do they get? >> they get. i know exactly what it is. they get paid £2,000 per game that they play for england.

but there's a charity and it goes. everything goes into a charity. so they've raised a fortune for charities, millions over the years. so that's it. they get their fee of 2000 and then that goes which obviously nothing to them, but they would play nothing to them, but they would play for their country for nothing. this is they're playing for nothing. they are. but that's what it means. it means money is completely inconsequential when it comes to what they're doing at the moment. and we hear from ollie watkins and i mentioned harry kane and players like that. you can tell when you meet grounded people. ollie watkins is one of those because he's been through the tough years. it hasn't all been handed to him and he's deserved everything he's got. and let's not forget that he was on the bench. so i was talking about finishers and starters, earlier, which is a rugby thing, which kind of really goes because it's a squad game now. whereas harry kane comes off, phil foden comes off both of them superstars and then replaced with ollie watkins and then cole palmer. great players. that was. and it was. and also it was a great but also let's give i mean we've spoken about gareth southgate haven't we.

let's be honest. and we've thought a week ago this is not working out. and is he vindicated. maybe not yet . let's vindicated. maybe not yet. let's see what happens in the spain game. but he made the right decisions yesterday though i think what it is about gareth southgate is he seems like a really nice guy. >> yeah. and all the players love him and he loves all of them and you can really, really see they've got a nice connection. so it's like they want him to do well and they're all willing each other. i think it's i think there's a lot to do with the relationship between him as a manager and all the players, and how passionate they are. that is one of the reasons why england constantly put us through the wringer, but usually come through well, we through the wringer, but usually come through well , we say come through well, we say usually come through. >> it's as in we look back on what was happening before the euros. and i think, ben, i did say to you that i thought we were going to win the euros. this is when we lost to iceland and i said, don't worry, something will give. and even i was wobbling early on and thinking, this isn't working, but now that momentum is there, i think there's always a there's always a turning point, with tournaments and it happened in

90 with david platt's goal against belgium. then we got to the semi—final, we knocked out by by west germany then. but with this one, i think it was that penalty shootout because there was the confidence we saw how good it was and it was almost a belief . it how good it was and it was almost a belief. it was a light bulb that's gone on. that said, you know, we can do this. you had the no look penalty, didn't you. >> it was yeah. >> it was yeah. >> the no look. >> the no look. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> even look i'm not even look look see that's what that was it. and it was that confidence. that's done it. and i think we saw the confidence in the start of that game. and thinking, you know what, play a normal game. i've been southgate's biggest critic the past couple of weeks. >> but you know he made the key substitutions last night. he put three at the back. he changed it up. he took it on board. >> not my advice obviously it was yeah i wonder what gary lineker is saying now because gary lineker was having a go at him. >> well no i think that's i think that's unfair as well. i know you love gary but but gary did a job as a critic and he said yeah he's i wonder what he's he is, he's saying that, you know, this is what they wanted. every critic wants us to do well. and now we are final

sunday, 8 pm, hopefully coming home. >> let's hope so. >> let's hope so. >> thank you very much, paul coyte. have the latest on the crossbow horror story that has shaken britain.

northern ireland. >> hello. welcome back. it's 952 with ben and nana on britain's newsroom. only on gb news now. >> the chief suspect in a triple murder in hertfordshire has been located by police following an extensive manhunt. >> the suspect is receiving medical treatment, having been found in a cemetery in enfield with injuries. no arrests have yet been made and the investigation remains ongoing. >> well, joining us now live in bushey is reporter charlie peters. charlie, is there anything else that has come to light? what is the latest? hello hi. >> well, it's a strange, sombre atmosphere here in bushey. there are floral tributes at the scene of that triple murder from tuesday evening . and the police tuesday evening. and the police investigation does continue.

this morning. we're expecting an update from hertfordshire police later this morning after their successful manhunt yesterday evening, capturing who they believe is the lone suspect in this triple murder from tuesday. kyle clifford, a 26 year old veteran of the british army , veteran of the british army, formerly in the queen's dragoon guards. he was on a escape from the police for almost 24 hours, formerly serving in an armoured cavalry reconnaissance regiment well now here in bushey. the investigation continues. we expect more forensics teams will arrive here soon, because the police did say at the time that this was a targeted attack, and they also mentioned that it involved a crossbow , but involved a crossbow, but possibly also other weapons. and it's the issue of a crossbow that has sparked further conversations beyond bushey and enfield in westminster this morning we heard from the security minister, dan jarvis, who said that the new government would move at pace to assess whether new legislation is needed to deal with these weapons. yesterday, the home

secretary, yvette cooper, said that her government would do the same and would carry out those assessments. now, since 2021, this country has endured a spate of crossbow attacks. there was a situation in christmas day of that year when a man attempted to assassinate the queen after breaking into windsor castle. he was later jailed for nine years and there were several attacks earlier this year, with campaigners calling for more action on those weapons. so we'll see an update potentially from the government on that sooi'i. 500“. >> soon. >> thank you charlie. horrific story right. still to come . story right. still to come. environmental campaigners are telling the government to prioritise nature. would that be top of your political agenda or is it a big fat waste of time? this is britain's newsroom on gb news aidan has your. this is britain's newsroom on gb news aidan has your . weather. news aidan has your. weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news >> hello. very good morning to

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>> good morning. it's10:00. it's thursday. it's the 11th of july. we're live across the united kingdom. this is britain's newsroom with nana akua and ben leo. >> very good morning to you. it's coming home. hopefully england beat the netherlands two one in the euro semi final last night. ollie watkins of course , night. ollie watkins of course, clinching the winner in the 90th minute loss for words. >> really when you score there's emotions that come through your body. but this is just a different feeling. it was slow motion when i was running over to the boys and celebrating . to the boys and celebrating. nato emotional scenario and of course, millions of the football fans will have been celebrating

long into the night. >> next up, it's spain in the final on sunday. jack carson is in germany . in germany. >> well, hundreds of thousands of dutch fans were in dortmund trying to watch their team get into the final of the european championships. but after the final whistle it was england that was out singing them as they head to berlin for the euro final and britain's prison crisis. >> the prime minister said urgent plans are needed to tackle overcrowding in our jails. olivia utley has more . jails. olivia utley has more. >> the labour party is already sounding very bold on prison reform, but how will its ideas go down with voters? are and is joe biden too old to be president? >> hollywood star and democrat fundraiser george clooney tells biden to , pull out of the race biden to, pull out of the race for a second time in the white house.

>> of course. let us know what you think about all of today's stories, not least the football. last night. gbnews.com/yoursay nanai last night. gbnews.com/yoursay nana i have to ask , you are nana i have to ask, you are wearing orange. i knew you were gonna. >> dutch. >> dutch. >> dutch. >> dutch orange. what's going on there? >> commiserations to the dutch you lost. i'm rubbing your face in it. no, ijust you lost. i'm rubbing your face in it. no, i just you know, in it. no, ijust you know, i just got up this morning. i didn't think about the fact that we were talking football and also, i think it looks a bit red anyway. >> yeah, you look too much red. >> yeah, you look too much red. >> i am wearing a red tie today. nothing to do with labour. >> red, white and blue. >> red, white and blue. >> fyi, this is all england. >> fyi, this is all england. >> yeah, okay, i can see it. >> big final on sunday. where are you going? to watch it at the pub. the boozer. >> i'll probably be working. what time is it on, >> i think it's 8 pm. >> i think it's 8 pm. >> you'll be free. >> you'll be free. >> no, i'm going to go to the local pub. nice. yeah. >> sink a few shandies, let us know what you guys are up to this weekend. on sunday, particularly gbnews.com/yoursay big show coming up. but first, here's your news with tamsin. >> ben, thanks very much. and good morning from the gb newsroom. it's 10:02. good morning from the gb

newsroom. it's10:02. manager gareth southgate says he's immensely proud after england qualified for their second european championship final in successive tournaments. a stunning stoppage time goal from substitute ollie watkins securing a21 victory in dramatic fashion. the three lions will now face spain on sunday with the hope of being crowned european champions. >> the only reason i did the job when i took it on was to try and bnng when i took it on was to try and bring success to england as a nafion bring success to england as a nation and to try and, improve engush nation and to try and, improve english football and to be able to take the team to a first final, overseas . to take the team to a first final, overseas. i'm immensely proud of that, but now, of course, we've come here to win. we play the team who've been the best team in the tournament, and we have a day left to prepare. so it's a huge task , but we're so it's a huge task, but we're still here and we're fighting. >> well, these england fans in sheffield have been reacting to the victory, telling us they

think it's coming home. >> i am so excited, to be honest, i didn't really think we had it, but we've got it. we've doneit had it, but we've got it. we've done it last minute again. come on, england, you know, come on, it's coming home. >> it's coming home. definitely coming home. no, i'm absolutely gobsmacked because i thought we'd lose tonight and i. i haven't even cried yet. >> what about spain? what do you want? they've got pie and all that. we've got pints. we've got the fans. it's coming home, baby. it's coming home. get in there. >> meanwhile, in washington, dc, on the fringes of the nato summit , on the fringes of the nato summit, president biden told gb news his thoughts on the england victory during a meeting with sir keir starmer. >> soccer britain got the socce r. >> soccer. >> i heard good news. good news is right. i tell you what, it's all because of the prime minister >> almost two months of a labour government. >> this is football coming home, prime minister. it looks like

it. >> to other news now. and a suspect wanted over a crossbow attack which left three women dead, has been found and taken to hospital. a major police manhunt for 26 year old kyle clifford ended when he was found injured near a cemetery in north london, the victims, who were the wife and two daughters of bbc racing commentator john hunt, were attacked at their home in bushey in hertfordshire. carole hunt was 61, while hannah and louise were 28 and 25. clifford was discovered with injuries in lavender hill cemetery in enfield and taken to a major trauma centre. police say no shots were fired by officers and no arrest has yet been made . president biden has been made. president biden has indicated he supports closer defence ties between the uk and europe. in his first head to head meeting with the prime minister at the white house, joe biden told sir keir starmer he sees the uk as the cornerstone of the transatlantic alliance. the prime minister described the

visit as an opportunity to recommit to nato and the special relationship . sir keir has said relationship. sir keir has said he wants a new uk, eu security pact, while also working closer on defence with key allies . on defence with key allies. household water bills are set to rise by an average of £19 a year in england and wales over the next five years. regulator ofwat says the increase is a third less than the amount requested by water companies. there are also significant variations in price changes between firms, with southern water customers facing a £183 increase, whilst yorkshire water customers will see bills go up by £107. the uk economy grew by 0.4% in may. that's quicker than expected . that's quicker than expected. the latest data from the office for national statistics comes as more shoppers return to high streets and construction work recovered. it came after no growth was recorded in april when damp weather hit consumer

spending. may's stronger than expected performance puts the economy on track to surpass the bank of england's projection of half a percent growth for the second quarter. the prime minister says he's shocked at levels of overcrowding in prisons, admitting it's worse than he thought. it comes after his home secretary yvette coopen his home secretary yvette cooper, warned there was no quick fix to easing pressure on jail space. the government is believed to be considering freeing more criminals after serving just 40% of their sentence to ease pressure on prison capacity, sir keir is expected to authorise the emergency measures this week . emergency measures this week. well, those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tamsin roberts more from me 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. >> forward slash alerts. >> thank you samson, and good morning to you at home on this glorious day. >> yes, it's going to be hot . >> yes, it's going to be hot. >> yes, it's going to be hot. >> is it going to be hot? 2425 i was more referring to the football, but that's a bonus as well. >> yes, of course. >> great. this is britain's newsroom from gb news live across the united kingdom with me, ben, leo and nana akua. we're in for andrew pierce and bev turner and we would love to hear your thoughts as well. >> send us your views, post your comments to gb gbnews.com/yoursay one has flown in already. >> nana. yes, anne. >> nana. yes, anne. >> good morning anne. you say anne shame you don't give the lionesses the same air time as the lions. the men's team . the lions. the men's team. they've gone much further with hardly a mention. get yourselves together, gb news do you think? what do you make of that, >> well, i just i think that they do get a big mention. if they do get a big mention. if they were, i don't see why they shouldn't get more of a mention. what do you think? i mean, i don't. i wasn't here, actually, when they played, but had had i been, i would have given them.

yeah. >> well done to the women for winning their own competitions. but you just cannot compare the men's game to the women's game. what do you mean? that's. i mean, you're essentially saying the women are better than the men. >> what are you talking about? the women are as good as the men in their field. why can you not compare the two? >> because it's comparing two different sports. >> it's like some different sport. it's football. >> well, no, it's two different standards of sport. >> what are you saying? >> what are you saying? >> elite men's football is far different to elite women's football. >> in what way? >> in what way? >> well, for example, the us women's national national team, who won the world cup many, many times they were the trailblazers for women's football years ago. they played dallas boys under 15 seconds and they lost five two. they were thumped. so i'm just saying as a spectacle and a competitive competition, you just can't. you can't say, come on, england, the women have done much better because they've won the bet. it's a different sport, different competition. >> you say that, but i can imagine you hotspotting some boys together to play england's women. >> you'd be thrashed me and my mates. >> yeah, you'd be thrashed. >> well >> well no >> well no the >> well no the again >> well no the again the >> well no the again the us

women's national team played, i think it was wrexham about a year ago at wrexham. >> old timers and veterans, they were thrashed so listen the england girls, listen ladies, if you are listening to what you've just said, i would tell you now to challenge him in a hotchpotch of his mates, because i think he thinks that he could beat you. i've not even given it a second thought. but my point being is you just you can't compare these comments saying, come on, the lions, the lionesses have gone further. well they have, they're two different competitions and two different competitions and two different competitions and two different sports. quite frankly, they're not two different sports. >> they are both football. one played by women, the other played by women, the other played by women, the other played by men to a very different standard, well, i'm telling you now that if the england women's team went to play, you and your mates , you play, you and your mates, you would be thrashed. so why is that a different sport? >> i'm not a competitive athlete. how do you think the england women would get on against the men? >> well, the women wouldn't play the men because the men are physically stronger and we know that. why would they. it doesn't make it a different sport. it's all the same sport. >> so why would they play me and my friend? >> well, they play you and your mates because you've just challenged them and said that you think you can beat them. and

i don't think you can. i think it'd be most entertaining, don't you? we could all have a laugh at his expense as they whoop his. i won't say that you're not allowed to say that on air. i'd like to get it. >> i'd like to give it a go, >> i'd like to give it a go, >> props, props, props. >> props, props, props. >> the lionesses. you've done amazingly well. and women's football is on the rise. i used to report a bit on women's football, of course, back in the day, but. yeah, i just. i hate day, but. yeah, ijust. i hate those comments saying, what about the lionesses? they went one further, but they did. >> they did, they did, they did. and your ass is i mean sorry. so apologies for that. apologies for that. i didn't say that. yes. apologies if anyone's offended. right. shall we stick with football? yes. >> sticking with england, the three lions. the men have roared to victory after a dramatic winner by substitute ollie watkins last night to give them a21 win over the netherlands watkins last night to give them a21win over the netherlands in the semi—finals. >> and millions of fans have been celebrating. let's hear what some of them had to say. no, i'm absolutely gobsmacked because i thought we'd lose tonight and i. i haven't even cried yet. i'll leave up till i get home. we've got pints , we've get home. we've got pints, we've got the fans. >> it's coming home, baby. it's coming home. get in there . coming home. get in there. >> absolutely amazing. i wasn't

sure england would do it, but they've done it. i'm very happy, very happy. come on. >> i think that was all of us last night about nine, 10:00. england have now reached their first final on foreign soil, with only spain left standing in their way this sunday. and across the pond, us president joe biden also celebrated our victory. >> soccer got soccer . >> soccer got soccer. >> soccer got soccer. >> i heard good news. good news is right. i tell you what, that's all because of the prime minister almost took one for the labour government. >> this is football coming home, prime minister. it looks like it . prime minister. it looks like it. >> i don't think joe biden really knows what's going on, do you? but joining us now from germany, our reporter jack carson. jack, what's the atmosphere like there ? atmosphere like there? >> well, i mean, we're in bochum this morning and there's been a few england fans leaving the hotel in a very buoyant mood. i can't imagine they've had much sleep after last night's game because of course, you know what

a performance from england . you a performance from england. you know, we were looking for that moment weren't we? were looking for that moment where we maybe thought, okay, they've turned up to the tournament now and yesterday really was it. yes. the first seven minutes we can forget about them. when netherlands went one nil up, i mean in dortmund where we were, where there were 100,000 dutch fans, the place went absolutely crazy. but after that goal, england really looked like they actually wanted to win the game. driving forward, you know, foden had a goal, cleared a shot, cleared off the line. you know harry kane looked better, more in his natural position. maybe from dropping deep where he has of course had bad criticism throughout this tournament. of course had bad criticism throughout this tournament . so throughout this tournament. so england you know really looked better, you know looked like they'd got it in got it got themselves into gear and actually like they wanted to win the game and get through to the final. you southgate, you know we've criticised him throughout this tournament but that is a bit of vindication now isn't it, for him to be able to get to the final and, you know, you heard from his press conference, you know, just a few minutes ago and you know , there are less days to you know, there are less days to prepare for this final on

sunday. but the one thing that has been rightfully praised for gareth southgate is how mentally he's got those players into the right mindset, whether it is for a penalty shootout, of course, that it meant we could get through to the semi—finals, whether it was, you know, those, those, those times in that pressure when you go one nil down. england just showed a lot of character, a lot of resilience, which is something else that gareth southgate's picked on throughout this tournament that they've showed tournament that they've showed to be able to get this far. now in dortmund, as i was saying, 100,000 dutch fans were there all day. it was just a sea of orange flares going off a fantastic atmosphere, but you'd find these little pockets of england fans around certain pubs that they'd kind of commandeered as their own. it was quite funny because all of the bars with a tv all throughout dortmund yesterday were just full of different dutch fans. there was fan zones with 50,000 people in the city as well, so there was just little spots and all we all you could do was basically try and peer behind someone's shoulder to try and get a view of the screen. we watched it. we ended up watching the semi—final on a tv screen that was put in

the window of a pizza takeaway shop to try and watch the semi—final, so me and about ten other england fans, surrounded by dutch fans, weren't who weren't very happy. let's put it this way . when ollie watkins this way. when ollie watkins scored, of course, in the last minute of the game, i mean for him, what a personal achievement for him . a decade ago he was for him. a decade ago he was playing for weston super mare in the conference south on loan from exeter city and a decade later, he's just scored in the last minute of the game to send england to berlin to the second consecutive to. there well were consecutive to. there well were consecutive european championship final. i mean, it's such a story. it shows the importance, of course, of grassroots football, of being able to grow through the football pyramid and the support of players and the development there because of how many players and in england in the england squad have come through that of course, it was a bold decision from gareth southgate to take harry kane off you know, whenever. do you really take the captain off in a semi final? but harry kane was struggling a little bit with his footies, he said after the game, but hopefully he'll be fit as england head to berlin on

sunday. >> thank you jack sterling work and looking forward to seeing how you get on and how we get on on sunday. we'll be back with you shortly , you shortly, >> right. but you know, we've had quite a few comments actually coming at you because of what you said about women's game , and it says here that nana game, and it says here that nana give him a slap if a woman are not on air, but i'll do it in the break and then i give him a slap. if a woman consistently won the 100m and gold medal foot race and the men didn't, would you dare say it was a different sport? or that they competed at a lower level? numpty she called you a numpty. >> interesting. someone said john. >> sorry, robert. you said same sport. ben but men's football has a bigger following. women's football is just about taking off. yes. and ian said i'm with ben all the way. also, it was nice to have a semi—final and final with no female pundits and commentary. >> well, there were actually female pundits commenting on i saw them and then somebody was complaining that some two women are now speaking with regard to football. >> i'm not i'm not that fussed about the, you know. >> well, that's just as well

because that wouldn't, that would have been bad, let's see what else we've got. >> just as bad . >> just as bad. >> just as bad. >> maybe even worse. actually you'd have. then you then dig yourself into a hole that you're not coming out of. allison said. oh my. the women's team beat all the other women's team, thus being the best in europe in their competition. to say that their competition. to say that the men's game is harder is not an erg is a non—argument. the men play other men of a high standard at as all teams are elite in their field . there you elite in their field. there you go. exactly. >> ben, what do you say to that? >> ben, what do you say to that? >> well, i'm going to get the last one in for me. and good morning. you say any men's league would destroy a woman's team, and ben is right. let's stop pretending that men and women are comparable. the olympics demonstrates the vast differences. >> nobody said that they are comparable. as in, against each other. but they are not a different game. we are competing. it's like having featherweight boxers beat , you featherweight boxers beat, you know, fight against featherweight, heavy weight against heavy heavyweight. you wouldn't put heavyweight and featherweight yet it is still the same sport. does that make sense to you. >> it it does make sense. but you can't you can't say england women are doing better than

england men because it's a different category. it's like as well in their category they are doing better. >> they're doing amazing. >> they're doing amazing. >> yeah. england england, the men's men's game. >> they are. they're the best in europe . europe. >> my only my only point being is unlike you, just you just you just can't you can't criticise the english men's team because by by saying the women have done it. why can't the men. it's a different sport. >> no, but that wasn't the point that was being made. your point was that it's a different game. it's it is. it's not a different game. like i said, it's boxing a different sport. when you got featherweight and heavyweight there's different, different strengths . strengths. >> it's a it's a different standard, completely different standard. but anyway up next, are the rumours true. could reform uk merge with the tories? i know that would be something of a fantasy for many of our viewers. not sure what nigel farage i don't think they have to say about that. you with britain's newsroom on gb news back in a

tick. >> the 12th. a day to celebrate history, community, and family here in northern ireland. join me . me. >> arlene foster on me dougie beattie as we bring you live coverage of the july 12th celebrations from the beautiful city of belfast. >> and right across the united kingdom. it's all happening here on gb news, britain's news channel. >> good morning. it's just coming up to 23 minutes after 10:00. this is britain's newsroom with me, nana akua and ben leo. we are in for andrew pierce of beverley turner. >> very good morning to you. we're joined by broadcaster and journalist carole malone and political commentator jonathan lis. live in the studio. good morning to you both. did you enjoy the footy last night, >> well i only saw that last go, watkins. go. don't get me wrong, i'm happy that we're through, but i think we're the luckiest team alive to be through, frankly, you know, we had the easiest draws. i don't want to sound like i'm not a patriot, because i really am. and i

really want them to win. but i'm realistic, and they've never won the euros, you know, the last time it was 2020 and they came second, and before that it was 56 years and they scraped a third, a pitiful third place. so they're going to come up against a fantastic team. spain on sunday. and i think they're going to get smashed. but as usual the nation has whipped itself up. i was just in the louvre and i can hear i could hear the telly and this bloke's going, it's coming home. oh carol, why can't we just enjoy our moeen ali not. >> oh , i can't believe. let's >> oh, i can't believe. let's just enjoy. what's to win ? this just enjoy. what's to win? this is this is this is. this is the. this is the labour feel good factor that is just gripping. oh, everyone was so have you had to you actually joke i've got the best story. i've got the best i've got the best story actually. because last night i was at the o2 arena watching the killers, like quite close to the front with my friend. and there was this as as the final whistle was this as as the final whistle was coming near, you could just hear this murmuring in the crowd. and so after they finish their song, they played it on a massive screen behind them. so

you've got the whole 20,000 people in the arena watching this, and everyone was just on their on tenterhooks. and then when the final whistle came, this red and white sort of, you know, sort of bunting just kind of exploded there. and then they went straight into mr brightside. it was like the most one of the most electric moments of my life. there's 20,000 people just cheering. and then what is basically the national anthem of the country. >> so this concert was on during the match. >> yeah, it was on during the match. so you had all these, you had all these sort of boyfriends being dragged around in their england shirts, just like watching it on their phones. >> jemmy, you mentioned a good point actually, about the laboun point actually, about the labour, the feel good vibe, because i think it's quite underrated. >> it's nothing to do with. >> it's nothing to do with. >> but then if england win on sunday, nothing to do with it. >> people will feel, you know, absolutely ecstatic and no doubt subconsciously and give labour credit. i don't know , give credit. >> but there was a sense that there was a sense of something, a change. i think that we've done brilliantly to get to the final. it doesn't matter if we lose. i think that just there's generally a sense kind of that things are things are different. right. >> what is fantastic about this

country is football fans, actually, because you know, they know they know what's gone on in years before . but it's all years before. but it's all a case of hope over experience, even when the odds are stacked against them and they still go there, they still cheer them on. and i love them for that. and i'm going to be gutted for them on sunday night, but i don't expect to us win, not for one second. >> carol, what do you think of ben's comment that he sort of made with regard to women's football? and men's football? can you say it again, ben? >> just what did you say? were you were you being naughty, you know. >> no, not really. >> no, not really. >> i just i just said when, when people say to the detriment and to the criticism of the men's team by saying, oh, but the women , the england women have women, the england women have won their own tournament. i say , won their own tournament. i say, well, that's fine. and of course, congrats to the women you know, i fully support their game, but you can't say that as a criticism of the english men's team. >> i got a bit. >> i got a bit. >> you say it's a different day. i say that's fine. it's not fine. it was incredible. especially the women have been held back for years and years and years, and the first time they get into the euros, they win it and they win it. big

star. so you can't just say, well, that's fine, it is a criticism. it's to do with attitude. you know, i've heard a lot of the football pundits this time round talking about the spirit in the men's team, saying it's not there. the guts isn't there, the fire isn't there. the fire definitely was there with the women. they had a lot to prove and they proved it. >> anything any more to add on that , that, >> no. i'm very happy for the women and i wokeist the men at the same level of success. >> now what are you now, what about, but not in the tory leadership camp, not in the tory leadership camp, not in the tory leadership . well, i was going to leadership. well, i was going to ask you about the tory party. is everyone saying, oh, they should merge reform and this and that. where do you stand on that jonathan list? >> well, with my left wing hat on, i think that if the tories want to convince themselves that the key to their drubbing last week was not being sufficiently right wing , then go right ahead, right wing, then go right ahead, merge with reform, become reform and those seats in the south and the home counties and the west that went to the lib dems and to

the labour party are never coming back. the tories now have an impossible coalition because if they go further to the right, then they alienate those seats, those seats in surrey, which weren't those seats in the southwest that went the left and never coming back . and it also never coming back. and it also betrays this lack of understanding, because if people want reform policies, they will go for reform. >> yeah, but have you noticed that the labour party has moved, i would say, towards the right. i would say, towards the right. i mean, even some of the things wes streeting was saying had a tory minister said those things, especially with regard to the health service, they would never have got away with it. >> and labour has a lot of problems. and i'm actually writing a column about this this week because labour has taken it sort of left flank for granted, andifs sort of left flank for granted, and it's taken muslim voters for granted. and those are two big constituents. and so you might have a situation where the green party is able to capitalise on those on those wins. and so labouris those on those wins. and so labour is not safe at all. but the conservatives have a unique problem because they are already in the mud, and i don't see that they have an idea of how they're

going to get out of it. >> i think labour has covered their ground. >> it is a i think this is a huge problem for the tories just now. you know, they still don't understand the level of devastation in this country. there are a lot of people who who didn't vote for them last week, people like me who did but knew what was going to happen. and until they understand what they've done, until they understand how they've let people down, they're never going to come back. and they're not going to take any notice of this business. about half of the grassroots conservative voters would back a reform merger because they mostly hate reform. and so they still don't get that moving to the right is what they further to the right is what they need to do. so they're still part of the reason they failed is they're fighting like they've been fighting for two, three years, like cats in a sack. they appoint leaders that , sack. they appoint leaders that, that that the voters have have had no say in. again, they're going to say they're probably going to say they're probably going to, you know , knock back going to, you know, knock back reform. but i can see this working and i can see i think they've got to go further down they've got to go further down the toilet before they understand how far down they

have been. >> i think they're going to go all the way through. >> no, i actually agree with you. >> i think i think you're right. but you know, until they understand about the broken promises they've made, until they understand that, you know, they've let us down on immigration, on, on, you know, you know, the failure of the pubuc you know, the failure of the public services until they understand that all of this and the fact that we couldn't stand their infighting anymore and they're going nowhere. and i think reform would work. and i think reform would work. and i think they're going to go begging to reform at 12. >> i mean, i think the tory brand is toxic. i can't see why reform would want to join it. >> you know what i think is amazing? what i can't wait to see. i wanted nigel farage to get elected because i want to hear his voice in parliament. i want to hear him taking on starmer over his failed policies, which will fail by the way. and i want to hear people, and his voice is the one that people are going to hear, and he's going to be the one that people gravitate to because we've never seen him in parliament. hear, you know, anyone who's seen him in the european parliament, he was magnificent. that's why he'll probably get one question every two months. >> he's not the leader of the

opposition. he's not going to get a question every week. >> he'll get questions in. >> he'll get questions in. >> what about carol the new border commander, which you could earn more than the prime minister, a new job that keir starmer has sort of set up 200 grand. it will be his salary. >> this is going to this is going to be this this new border command bus is going to be earning more than mr starmer, who was on about 167 grand a yeah who was on about 167 grand a year. and this guy is going to be on 200 grand. but i want to know what this new border force is going to do differently from the existing one, which is called the small boats operational command, which has a boss, a guy called general caps, a very big staff. it's been, tackling the gangs for quite a long time now. and starmer has made a big deal of his new command, saying this is the thing that's going to change it. no it isn't. it's going to do exactly the same as what this other one's done. but he's kind of trumpeted this border force, and, and tried to make it a replacement for the rwanda scheme. and i heard him the other day and i suspect that's because it's his first week. no one has taken him up on it. but he said, you know, the rwanda scheme was a gimmick, a gimmick,

and it was not a deterrent. that's a lie. that's an outright lie. it was a deterrent. >> there's no evidence of that. well, can i just say it's a lie on, on. >> i'm going to give you the evidence right now. so the deputy prime minister of ireland, micheal martin, said the 50% increase on migrants crossing the border from england to ireland was absolutely to down the threat of the rwanda scheme. the former boss of the immigration boss of border force said exactly the same thing. so that's the evidence they are saying and they're also saying those same people are saying that this new border force will do nothing different to the one that if it was a deterrent, then why do we have the biggest number of crossings during the election campaign? >> there's no there's no evidence that you know exactly why that is . why that is. >> no, no, no, you know exactly why that is. it's because the smugglers were telling the people wanting to cross that they had to do it quickly, and charging them ten grand for the privilege to get across before the election. >> you know that. final word. rwanda. >> rwanda. we don't know whether rwanda was ever going to be a deterrent. the point is, rwanda was never going to work because it was only ever going to take

500 people a year anyway. and leaving the rest of the 300,000 were in limbo. and besides that, it was an inhumane policy. labour said no, it wasn't inhuman and they ditched it. >> all right. >> all right. >> well, listen briefly, what was the inhumane bit about it? you've got about 10s. >> well, deporting people to a country where they had no links whatsoever, where they had where they had, even if they were legitimate refugees, being sort of taken to the other end of the world, this sort of neocolonial idea of sort of dumping people in africa, it was vile. >> the whole thing was in africa. that was that was that was that was that. >> well, listen, i think that you i think you've got we'll come back to this because i think you've got some sort of odd view of what rwanda is. and if you're talking about countries that are involved in genocides and things like that, some people may even point to the uk and other countries assisting other countries in wars. but it's time to get your latest headlines with tamsin roberts . roberts. >> nana, thanks very much. good morning from the gb newsroom . morning from the gb newsroom. it's 1032. manager gareth it's1032. manager gareth southgate says he's immensely proud after england qualified for their second european

championship final in successive tournaments. a stunning stoppage time goal from substitute ollie watkins securing a21 victory in dramatic fashion . the three dramatic fashion. the three lions will now face spain on sunday with the hope of being crowned european champions. a suspect wanted over a crossbow attack which left three women dead has been found and taken to hospital . a major police hunt hospital. a major police hunt for 26 year old kyle clifford ended when he was found injured near a cemetery in north london. he was wanted in connection with the crossbow killings of the wife and daughters of bbc racing commentator john wife and daughters of bbc racing commentatorjohn hunt. carroll hunt was 61, while hannah and louise were 28 and 25. clifford was discovered with injuries in lavender hill cemetery in enfield and taken to a major trauma centre. police say no shots were fired by officers and no arrest has yet been made. president biden has indicated he supports closer defence ties

between the uk and europe. in his first head to head meeting with the prime minister at the white house, joe biden told sir keir starmer he sees the uk as the cornerstone of the transatlantic alliance. the prime minister described the visit as an opportunity to recommit to nato and the special relationship. sir keir has said he wants a new uk eu security pact, whilst also working closer on defence with key allies. the government is set to launch a warts and all independent investigation into the performance of the nhs. health secretary wes streeting says the report aims to diagnosing the problem so the government can write the prescription. the investigation will be led by former health minister lord darzi, who has been asked to tell hard truths. mr streeting says the review will provide patients , staff and himself with patients, staff and himself with a full and frank assessment. the uk economy grew by 0.4% in may. that's quicker than expected. the latest data from the for

office national statistics comes as more shoppers return to high streets and construction work recovered. it came after no growth was recorded in april, when damp weather hit consumer spending. may's stronger than expected performance puts the economy on track to surpass the bank of england's projection of half a percent growth for the second quarter. well, those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm tamsin. i'll be back 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. >> forward slash alerts. >> thank you tamsin. it is fast approaching 36 minutes after 10:00. up next, the prime minister is under huge pressure to put protecting nature at the top of his agenda. but do you

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>> hello. welcome back. it's 1039. you're with ben and nana on britain's newsroom on gb news covering for bev and andrew pierce. >> well, >> well, campaigners >> well, campaigners are >> well, campaigners are urging sir keir starmer and his government to make nature one of their top priorities. yes. >> the national trust, the wwf, rspb and other eco groups have called on the prime minister to protect our environment. >> now the government say that nature underpins everything and thatis nature underpins everything and that is why this government is absolutely committed to restoring and protecting it. but how much money should they set aside for it? well, joining us now is the director of climate media coalition, duncan mccarthy. donna this must be music to your ears. >> well , obviously, music to your ears. >> well, obviously, i'm really pleased that these groups are asking the government to do more because actually, the to be fair, the labour manifesto was

quite weak on nature. i think we also need to understand why there's a problem in my lifetime we've lost 70% of global populations of nature. in britain. it's absolutely disastrous. we're the seventh worst nation on earth. ours is 240 nations on the planet. england has the seventh worst decimated nature, when my dad was born in 1900, we've lost 95% of the fish in our seas. so there's a real problem there. so we've got to start repairing it. so that is tragic, of course. >> but this new labour government have just undone the ban on onshore wind farms, wind farms of course, destroy, you know, vast swathes of the countryside, they're harmful to wildlife. so on one hand you've got eco campaigners saying, yeah , got eco campaigners saying, yeah, you know, we need to protect nature. and at the same time, with all this climate, climate alarmism, saying, yeah, let's stick up some ghastly wind turbines, kill all the animals. >> well, actually , if there is a >> well, actually, if there is a small amount of birds are killed by wind turbines, but the vast majority of birds in britain , majority of birds in britain, something like 56 million birds a year, are killed by cats.

>> so if you put it in proportion, the real we actually have to deal with nature. so what we need to do and the real issue, if you care about the economy, we have to think about what the implications of destroying our nature. so one of the things like by removing all our peatlands and removing all our peatlands and removing all our forests, that means the water pours off our hills , down water pours off our hills, down into towns and onto the land. >> that's what that damage that damages farms. >> and that means we have in food inflation. >> yeah, but hold on. the labour party, you're talking about obviously ripping up parts of the planning laws to build on more sites all around the country, brownfields and maybe even some of the green belt. sure is. they need to accommodate the population. surely that is normal. >> well, what we need to do , of >> well, what we need to do, of course, is actually increase the density of the building when we are building. so for example, in suburban areas, very, very low densities. and we need to change the planning laws to allow increased density. but it's a good point. the green, the green belt which labour is proposing to call the grey belt i think absolutely disastrous. the green belt is green space for the huge cities around the uk. if we remove the green belt, that

means the population in the cities have have renewed access to nature, but also significant amount of our fertile land is in the green belt, something like a sixth of a fertile lands in the green belt. >> we could just stop inviting so many people in and, you know, reduce the need for all this. >> accommodation is well, well, population is an issue, but we can actually do things very simply that actually tackle nature. >> so repairing some of our forests a very simple thing we viewers can do is two things. one, lobby the government for the climate and nature bill to get that passed. and secondly, they could reduce the amount of meat we eat. meat is a come on. no, no. a plant based diet uses a third of the land that a meat based diet in. and it's healthier. and most of the extraordinary thing about the about britain that's just listen about britain that's just listen a third of britain britain's already doing it to stop you. >> that's just nonsense. right. okay. it's not. well okay. so it's all very well. you think we're all going to be munching on plants. but the reality is this , right, you are now going

this, right, you are now going to need more of these plants, more space, more land, more soil, more space, more land, more soil, more things to actually create these things. so that's that's not a good idea. no no no no no not a good idea. no no no no no no no no, it's true. and it's of course, of course if i, if i eat more plant based diet, i'm going to have to grow more plants. >> however, it takes a third of the area to feed me as it did, and it takes three times more land than it does to feed more people listening. so that's a that's a really simple thing. >> we can do this on numbers right now. are you doing this on population numbers? if we all went and stopped eating meat. yeah. then you would need a massive amount of space. >> no, no, no, you don't understand. >> no, no, i do understand. no, no, don't tell me i don't understand. >> well, the figures are wrong. >> well, the figures are wrong. >> no, no, no, you don't understand. >> why would they take more land to feed a plant based diet than and than a cow based diet? >> because you're feeding an entire population. >> well, i'll send you the facts after the program to show you that actually , the amount of that actually, the amount of land taken by meeting is enormous. and but there are

other things we can do. >> advantages that these animals bnng >> advantages that these animals bring to the land for being on the land . there are imbalances. the land. there are imbalances. and also we are carnivores. >> i'm not. i didn't say we need to go meat free health. i didn't say we need go more free. i said reduce the amount of meat. but there's other things like for example, pesticide. the european union has banned neonicotinoids, which kills bees. one and a half teaspoons kills a billion bees. i agree, and the tory government kept allowing them to be sprayed. >> the issue with that, the issue is for a lot of people and it happened just here in this dialogue between you and nana is that, the climate alarmism debate gets diluted along with genuine environmental concerns such as cleaning our waterways, plastics in the water, you know, growing trees. >> i mean, just by the way, scotland felled 14 million trees to make way for wind farms. but the problem is , when you have the problem is, when you have groups like just stop oil, extinction rebellion, all these climate alarmists, it just puts the normal average joe off because they don't want to. they see what's going on with that. you know , quite wild debate. and you know, quite wild debate. and then anything genuine, as i said, to do with waterways and so on, is just put on the back

burner. well it's you introduce the issue of, of, of climate change. >> i've actually been talking about nature. you say stop eating meat. i said, because the amount of land, the amount of land that meat takes up is enormous. so if you look at the look at look at whales, whales used to be covered in, in what we call temperate rainforests, stunning green forests, 99% of them are gone. >> why is your lot chopping them all down? no, it's not. >> 99% of them are gone. why the 99% of that land went for sheep farming and we taxpayers fund sheep farming to destroy our hills. which then happens is the water pours down and floods our land and floods our towns. it's insane. land and floods our towns. it's insane . so what we need to do is insane. so what we need to do is start replanting the forest , start replanting the forest, repairing nature. and the amazing thing about it is 5,060% of reform voters said that they support more renewable energy, but the british public support nature do support nature in millions. >> we all support nature. we all support things like renewable energy. but i'm saying that some

of the things that you're saying are totally unrealistic, and i'm saying that actually the outcome will not be the outcome. so what have i said? >> it's unrealistic. first of all. >> well, you asked me a question. are you going to answer your own question or you want me to answer? sure. okay. you said that we should have a more plant based start. i think that, yeah, in certain elements. but we shouldn't get rid of meat based meat as well because people reducing it. yeah meat is required. but i'm also i put to you that things like pylons which will allow enable wind farms to transmit electricity. they are very disruptive to the environment . why is nobody environment. why is nobody talking about things like that? >> that's not because the amount of land a pylon takes is a fraction of the of the land that meat takes. but there are the extraordinary thing about britain, which i think is really amazing, is that we have huge support for nature across the political divide, whether it's whether it's reform, reform, tory or lib dem or greens. and one of the fascinating things about the general election is the tories turned their back on nature and the voters moved to the lib dems and greens. tories lost 70 seats to the greens and lib dems on this issue. >> i've got to say i do agree in terms of looking after nature, i'm absolutely with you. the water companies and people like

that, they need to be punished and i think it's time we focused on it. but i think, i think a lot of time people conflate it with climate change and also you just can't bang on about that stuff all while felling trees. >> you can't sit here and say you know, we need to grow trees whilst felling 14 million trees for wind turbines. exactly >> there's a contradiction there and i think they need to consider donna. donna lovely to talk to you. he's the director of climate media coalition. thank you so much. right. >> coming up , find out why the >> coming up, find out why the prime minister says he's shocked about the state of our prisons. this is britain's newsroom only on gb news live across the united kingdom.

hello. welcome back. 1050 ben and nana with you on britain's newsroom. only on gb news now. sir keir starmer said the prison capacity crisis is much worse than he feared, as his government prepares to release tens of thousands of inmates early in a bid to prevent jails becoming full. >> well, what's the incentive? >> well, what's the incentive? >> hey, he's ruled out that

sexual offenders and child abusers won't be part of this release, which is oh, good, thank goodness for that. but he's actually been unable to guarantee that all dangerous criminals would be excluded. >> okay. joining us now from our westminster studios is gb news political correspondent, olivia utley. good morning, olivia . i utley. good morning, olivia. i read in the times this morning as well that there was a ministers were mooting scrapping lo custodial sentences for criminals as well. weeks and months. they just won't be going to prison . to prison. >> yes, exactly. and there's talk of closing women's prisons altogether. obviously keir starmer is right in that the prison system is in an absolute mess. prisons are hugely overcrowded and ever since last october, alex chalk, the previous justice secretary, has actually been releasing prisoners early in a sort of ad hoc way to avoid overcrowding of the prison systems. but what keir starmer is proposing is something very different to what the previous government was doing. whereas they wanted to keep prisoners in for at least 50% of their sentences and

sometimes had to break that in order to mitigate the overcrowding problems. keir starmer actually plans to reduce custodial prison sentences. he's planning to sort of overthrow the whole model of how prisons work. firstly, it's going to be releasing prisoners from 40% of their sentences instead of 50. and there are big questions over whether that will include violent offenders. the labour party has said . shabana mahmood, party has said. shabana mahmood, the new justice secretary, has said that she doesn't want that to include violent offenders. but often it's very difficult to work out the difference between a violent offender and a non—violent offender. for example, someone who's been in prison for possession of drugs might also have been violent while dealing with the police. so it's a cloudy, murky situation. but the difference between keir starmer's government and the one that went before it is, whereas ministers in the previous conservative government were split on this issue, someone like rishi sunak wanted to see law and order upheld in the in the more old fashioned way, wanted to keep

prisoners in for as long as possible. there were justice secretaries like david gauke, on the left of the party, who wanted to see prisoners released early. under this labour government , ministers early. under this labour government, ministers and early. under this labour government , ministers and the government, ministers and the prime minister basically all agree they want a softer approach to prison sentences. it'll be really, really interesting to see how this goes down with the public, because of course, the danger for keir starmer is that he starts releasing prisoners after just 40% of their sentences, and then they reoffend very quickly, which i don't think would go down particularly well with the public. >> well, no, that won't go down well at all. and do we know when he might come to a decision as to what's going to happen with these people ? because it seems these people? because it seems he seems to push things into the long grass where, you know, he needs to be quite a bit more decisive . decisive. >> he does need to he does need to be decisive. i mean, i think that what will happen is that he'll carry on doing what the previous government was doing and releasing prisoners sort of ad hoc. and it'll be a sort of slow descent into his new

proposal. so there will be prisoners released within 40% of their sentences. it won't be that many. and then eventually the numbers will start to grow . the numbers will start to grow. he's trying to push the urgency of the issue on to the british public. i don't really believe that keir starmer , who was that keir starmer, who was director of prosecutions, is really shocked by the state of the prison systems. he knows that the justice system inside out, but he wants to sort of bnng out, but he wants to sort of bring the public on that journey with him so that when the prison sentences do get shorter, the pubuc sentences do get shorter, the public maybe won't mind it. so much. >> okay. olivia utley in westminster, thanks very much. concerning isn't it? it makes me feel like, you know, san francisco, where you can get away with shoplifting if it's up to $1,000. anyway. still to come on the show, is it coming home? the football? it better be. we'll be finding out on sunday. this is britain's newsroom on gb news, the people's channel. aidan, how's your weather? >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of weather on gb news >> hello. very good morning to

following the gloomy and wet weather. we've seen so far this week. well, it's going to stay largely cloudy today with some showery rain, but for many it's going to be drier and brighter compared with the last few days. certainly some brightness coming through for western scotland, northern ireland, a few showers here, but otherwise largely fine. the remnants of the wet weather we've seen during recent days. just clearing northeast scotland through the morning and brighter skies for the south where it's going to be relatively warm. 23 or 22 celsius. but in between this zone of cloud just sticking about for parts of east and nonh about for parts of east and north wales, north midlands, northern england, showers or longer spells of rain at times. some sharp showers actually later in the day coming through for the midlands and east wales , for the midlands and east wales, but for scotland at least it is cheering up compared with recent weather. the best of the sunshine. the north and the west of scotland 1516 celsius not particularly hot , but particularly hot, but nevertheless feeling pleasant enoughin nevertheless feeling pleasant enough in the sun. out of the

breeze. northern ireland likewise 1 or 2 light showers, otherwise largely fine, but we've got these sharp showers across the midlands into east wales that will need to keep an eye on. they could be fairly heavy and hit around the time of the rush hour in the far south, largely dry and a clear evening to come before this zone of cloud and outbreaks of rain moves up from the continent and just spills into the south coast. by the end of the day, that's going to continue overnight. so elsewhere it's turning drier with some clear spells. it's going to be a fresher night compared with recent nights in the south, but temperatures still at 13 or 14 celsius at the start of friday. friday starts off with a lot of fine weather. actually, the best of the sunshine this time will be across central and southern scotland. northern ireland, northern england for example. but we'll see a lot of cloud in the south and outbreaks of rain, particularly towards the southeast, and some sharp showers developing towards the far southwest. otherwise for many it is a drier and brighter day. it's not going to feel particularly warm temperatures in the high teens. >> that warm feeling inside from

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well. >> good morning. it's 11:00. >> good morning. it's11:00. it's thursday. it's the 11th of july. we're live across the united kingdom. this is britain's newsroom with me , nana britain's newsroom with me, nana akua and ben leo in for andrew pierce and bev turner. >> it's coming home. or is it? hopefully england beat the netherlands last night, two one in the euro semi—finals. ollie watkins clinching the winner in the 90th minute. >> lost for words. really? when you score, there's emotions that come through your body, but this is just a different feeling. it was slow motion when i was running over to the boys and celebrating and of course and of course, millions football fans would have been celebrating long

into the night. >> next up, it is spain in the final on sunday. theo chikomba has more . has more. >> well, we are at the kirby estate in east london. you can see all the england fans around here. england are on the brink of winning the european championships. we'll have the latest here from east london and elsewhere. >> crossbow horror, a triple murder suspect has been captured after a huge manhunt last night, our reporter charlie peters , is our reporter charlie peters, is at the scene in bushey and will bnng at the scene in bushey and will bring us the latest in the next houn >> then is joe biden too old to be president? hollywood star and democrat fundraiser george clooney tells biden to pull out of the race for a second term in the white house, and prince william believes homelessness can be ended as he marks the anniversary of a project to eradicate the problem. >> later today.

>> later today. >> you keep saying about football coming home, what do you think the score is going to be this time? >> you think we're going to win? >> you think we're going to win? >> i think spain are favourites, but it's a final, so anything can happen, i'd like to think this time. i think we'll do it. i'm positive. >> it's a bit like when i was younger and i used to play tennis. if you play against somebody who's really bad, your game goes down the pan as well. so maybe hopefully that will happen to spain. >> very true. i grew up playing tennis as well. >> did you find that happen? >> did you find that happen? >> yeah. they called pushes. yeah where they all they try and do is get the ball back. they don't try and play technically or any good shots. they just get the ball back. and it frustrates your own game. you get dragged down. >> exactly. so if england can do that to spain, i don't think it'll be the other way around then. then we're on a win. >> do you speak spanish? >> do you speak spanish? >> any spanish, >> any spanish, >> dos batus, por favour. >> dos batus, por favour. >> two beers please. i can say one line from my school days. no me gusta el espanol. poquito profesores antiparticle, if you know what that means. gbnews.com/yoursay. i'll reveal all just after your news headunes all just after your news headlines with . tamsin. headlines with. tamsin. >> fen, thanks very much. good morning. from the gb newsroom.

it's 11:02. manager gareth it's11:02. manager gareth southgate says his team are ready to make history after reaching the final of euro 2024. a stunning stoppage time goal from substitute ollie watkins secured a21 victory over the netherlands in dramatic fashion. the three lions will now face spain on sunday with the hope of being crowned european champions. >> the only reason i did the job when i took it on was to try and bnng when i took it on was to try and bring success to england as a nation, to and try and, improve engush nation, to and try and, improve english football and to be able to take the team to a first final. overseas. i'm immensely proud of that, but now, of course, we've come here to win. we play the team who've been the best team in the tournament, and we have a day left to prepare. so it's a huge task, but we're still here and we're fighting . still here and we're fighting. >> well, these england fans in sheffield have been reacting to the victory, telling us they

think it's coming home. >> i am so excited, to be honest, i didn't really think we had it, but we've got it. we've doneit had it, but we've got it. we've done it last minute again. come on, england, you know. come on, it's coming home. >> it's coming home. definitely coming home. not. i'm absolutely gobsmacked because i thought we'd lose tonight and i. i haven't even cried yet. >> what about spain? what do you want? they got pie and all that. we've got pints. we've got the fans. it's coming home, baby. it's coming home. get in there. >> meanwhile, in washington , >> meanwhile, in washington, d.c, on the fringes of the nato summit, president biden told gb news his thoughts on the england victory during a meeting with sir keir starmer. >> soccer britain soccer . >> soccer britain soccer. >> soccer britain soccer. >> i heard good news. good news is right. i tell you what, it's all because of the prime minister >> almost two months of the labour government. >> this is football coming home, prime minister. it looks like it . prime minister. it looks like it. >> to other news now a suspect

wanted over a crossbow attack which left three women dead has been found and taken to hospital . been found and taken to hospital. a major police hunt for 26 year old kyle clifford ended when he was found injured near a cemetery in north london. the victims, who were the wife and two daughters of bbc racing commentator john two daughters of bbc racing commentatorjohn hunt, were commentator john hunt, were attacked at their home in bushey in hertfordshire. carole hunt was 61, while hannah and louise were 28 and 25. clifford was discovered with injuries in lavender hill cemetery in enfield and taken to a major trauma centre. police say no shots were fired by officers and no arrest has yet been made. president biden has indicated he supports closer defence ties between the uk and europe. in his first head to head meeting with the prime minister at the white house, joe biden told sir keir starmer he sees the uk as the cornerstone of the transatlantic alliance. the prime minister described the visit as an opportunity to recommit to nato and the special

relationship. sir keir has said he wants a new uk—eu security pact, whilst also working closer on defence with key allies . the on defence with key allies. the prime minister says he's shocked at levels of overcrowding in prisons , admitting it's worse prisons, admitting it's worse than he thought. it comes after his home secretary, yvette coopen his home secretary, yvette cooper, warned there was no quick fix to easing pressure on prison space. the government is believed to be considering freeing more criminals after serving just 40% of their sentence to ease pressure on prison capacity, sir keir is expected to authorise the emergency measures this week . emergency measures this week. the government is set to launch what it calls a warts and all independent investigation into the performance of the nhs. health secretary wes streeting says the report aims to diagnose the problem so the government can write the prescription. the investigation will be led by former health minister lord darzi, who's been asked to tell hard truths. mr streeting says the review will provide patient

staff and himself with a full and frank assessment. household water bills are set to rise by an average of £19 a year in england and wales over the next five years. regulator ofwat says the increase is a third less than the amount requested by water companies. there are also significant variations in price changes between firms with southern water customers facing a £183 increase, whilst yorkshire water customers will see bills go up by £107. the prince of wales will say homelessness can be ended when he marks the first anniversary of his homewards initiative. prince william will visit the london borough of lambeth, where 12 months ago he launched the five year scheme to eradicate the issue. in his speech, he is expected to say homelessness touches the lives of far too many people in society. it comes as government statistics show homelessness has reached record highs . those homelessness has reached record highs. those are the homelessness has reached record

highs . those are the latest gb highs. those are the latest gb news headlines. i'll be back 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 . slash alerts. >> very good morning to you. it's 1108 here on britain's it's1108 here on britain's newsroom, only on gb news we're live across the united kingdom i'm ben leo. this is nana akua. we're in for andrew pierce and bev turner now aslef we love heanng bev turner now aslef we love hearing your thoughts and what you think. >> sending your views and comments. post them gbnews.com/yoursay now earlier we were talking about the football and ben leo happened to mention that the women's game is nothing like the men's game. and drew, i love this one, drew his message saying save the sport. but women don't roll around screaming in agony for a tap. they just get on with it, >> philip on the prisons. more

seriously, labour mooting a not giving sentences to lower class criminals and also releasing prisoners early. philip you say, what's closing women's prisons? a good start would be to deport foreign criminals and give out heavier prison sentences in order to deter criminals in the first place. and andy, you say good morning, not long now before they really pushed to legalise drugs. they'll say it's to free up prison places and raise taxes. >> another one on that football one debra doyle. she says ben leo, you are right when you say that men's football and women's football are very different. if that were true, there should be no objection to a team of trans women competing against a team of women. no, that's not the point. it's not the reason why they're different in that respect is through strength. but the game itself is the same. but you wouldn't put a featherweight with a heavy weight . so you, you with a heavy weight. so you, you know, you're matching abilities . know, you're matching abilities. but the sport is exactly the same. there's no difference. that's what i think anyway. >> right? keep me coming in gbnews.com/yoursay. we'll try and get some more out before the end of the show , end of the show, >> right. we have some breaking news to bring you, card payments

at a major high street shop like shops like asda, sainsbury's and also petrol stations across the uk appear to have crashed this morning. let us know if it's impacted you gbnews.com/yoursay. >> hopefully people have some cash on them. i know it's a rarity these days, but it's times like these. we saw it a few months ago having a bit of cash on you, a couple of quid . cash on you, a couple of quid. nice little wad in your wallet doesn't do much harm, especially when the tech goes down. anyway, moving on, king charles and queen camilla are visiting wales today to mark 25 years of the welsh parliament. >> the king will demonstrate his fluent welsh, a quarter of a century after he officially opened with his late mother. >> and as well as reflecting on the past, he's also expected to look ahead to the challenges of the future , such as the climate the future, such as the climate debate. so joining us now is former bbc royal correspondent michael cole. good morning, michael cole. good morning, michael . good michael cole. good morning, michael. good morning. the studio with us. yes. >> down the line indeed. >> down the line indeed. >> it's a great pleasure to be here. good morning ben. good morning nana. yeah a very very big day down in cardiff . of

big day down in cardiff. of course, nothing particularly new for the prince of wales as he was for 64 years. the king was the prince of wales . and of the prince of wales. and of course, before his investiture in 1969, he spent a whole term at the university of wales in aberystwyth, learning how to speak welsh , which he exercised speak welsh, which he exercised dunng speak welsh, which he exercised during the ceremony at caernarfon castle. when he was invested as the prince of wales 25 years of devolution in wales, a qualified success crisis at the moment down at the tata steelworks in port talbot , that steelworks in port talbot, that is very much in the entry of the new labour government and has to be dealt with very urgently. i would suggest the king, of course , will say, i think that course, will say, i think that wales had a very special place in the heart of his mother, which is true. she took a great interest in the country when she was there, the principality, and he of course bought a house down in west wales in in carmarthenshire. but what is

interesting is that when he had the investiture in 1969, i remember it very, very clearly because it was very contentious. and a colleague of mine at the bbc went up to him just beforehand, and there had been demonstrations, there had been small bombs going off and said to the prince of wales, are you worried about security, sir? >> he said, i haven't seen anybody here who's not secure, which i thought was quite good. and of course the whole ceremony in 1969 was a complete cod. >> it was a farrago of real nonsense. it was invented in 1911 when the prince of wales, who became the duke of windsor. eventually he was invested, and he was invested because david lloyd george was the local mp, and he wanted to give a good show for his constituents down in north wales. so they invented this ceremony and after the ceremony the prince of wales took the sword. he took the regalia with him and they were all lost . so when prince charles all lost. so when prince charles had to be invested, they had to do it all again, make him a new

crown, make him new robes and everything. of course, the new prince and princess of wales are william and kate and what has been hinted at to us is that there won't be a ceremony or will be a very, very restricted ceremony for when prince william is invested formally as prince of wales . so an interesting of wales. so an interesting history. they remain very popular in wales, whether devolution remains popular, i'm not so sure . every now and then not so sure. every now and then we have elections and it changes from plaid cymru to labour, which is there at the moment, but we will see. >> now i want to talk about harry prince harry, because of course today the pat tillman award will be given to him. apparently there's a petition though, and pat tillman's mother, who pat tillman was, of course, a sports player and nfl football baller , went to fight football baller, went to fight in afghanistan, was killed by friendly fire, and an award was created in his honour , they are created in his honour, they are going they are planning to give it to prince harry, but his mother, pat tillman's mother is

not happy. >> she is not big night in los angeles. if prince harry comes forward to accept this pat tillman award. now, pat tillman was a professional american professional footballer. he turned down a £3 million contract with the arizona cardinals to join up in the american army. after 9/11. he joined the rangers, which is roughly equivalent to the marine commandos here, and he was killed in afghanistan in 2004, aged 27. tragically, he was killed by friendly fire. but that doesn't take away from the fact that he was a genuine american war hero. he got the silver star and the purple heart, and his mother, mary doesn't want prince harry to receive this award in her son's name and 68,000 people. the last time i looked have signed a petition is 72,000. you bring me up to date. gb news is always on that got its thumb on the pops. >> it michael. >> it michael. >> well listen if he was taking pr advice from me he would discreetly and politely decline

the award or he would not go in person to collect it. but there is a complication because the mc, the introducer, the host of the evening is serena williams. and of course we all know that she's a big pal of meghan markle. so whether he'll be able to duck this out, markle. so whether he'll be able to duck this out , interestingly, to duck this out, interestingly, admiral lord west, to duck this out, interestingly, admiral lord west , the former admiral lord west, the former former royal navy commander , he former royal navy commander, he echoed the sentiments i expressed on this very channel, saying that it would be much better if he discretion being the better part of valour, that he didn't go forward, because it is controversial. and i think we must respect what mrs. mary tillman says. and she says she wants it to go to somebody much more humble, not somebody privileged, not somebody controversial. and very divisive. and, you know, in america, they don't like what prince harry did. america, they don't like what prince harry did . they don't prince harry did. they don't like him being disrespectful to the late queen and the royal

family. they respected the late queen very much. and of course, they see, quite rightly, the king is our commander in chief as well as being the monarch and they feel that what prince harry has done by going into self—imposed exile, when he didn't have to do in 2020, and the things he said about the princess of wales and indeed about the king himself in books and in television programs, all of that hasn't set very easily with the americans. >> well, the award is given particularly for his work with invictus. we shouldn't forget that harry, of course, served our country as well. but as you said, the mother of this nation, ben, i respect him for his two tours of duty in afghanistan. >> i respect him for setting up invictus. it's a brilliant idea. it's a wonderful concept . but it's a wonderful concept. but they were all pre meghan. yes. that's when he was the happy prince. that's when he was doing his job and quite frankly i'm quite sure he misses that role. he's been stripped of his honours and his titles and his ranks within the british armed forces. and that will have hurt him. a lot.

>> well, you can cancel yourself out by doing things that are , out by doing things that are, you know, unsavoury. and i was a lot of people would say that the oprah interview and all spare and all the other stuff, it cannot be forgotten. now, what about the prince of wales , about the prince of wales, prince william? now he still believes he can end homelessness. he's got this project that he started homewards that he started last yeah homewards that he started last year. this now marks one year of that project, talk to me about that. yeah >> he's not a new boy at this nana. you will know that his mother and i remember going with them. she took those boys when they were young. not even teenagers, to centrepoint and other charities, homeless shelters in london. she wanted to take them out of the privileged palace bubble they lived in, and showed them the other side of life. and that stayed with him. now ambition is always a good thing, prince william says he thinks he can end homelessness well. we hope that he can. and he's made good progress in this first year. they've provided 100 new homes. they've provided 100 new homes. they've got a donation of £1

million that's going to give them home starter kits and more importantly, a very progressive coffee chain has offered 500 jobs because i would have thought that the key to this is people getting jobs and they're going to cite a wonderful case of a young girl who was homeless at the age of nine when her father died and her mother was in difficulties, and she went through this homelessness, selling copies of the magazine . selling copies of the magazine. and she has ended up as head of the fire service with a phd degree, a family life. and she's going to be a new ambassador for this homewards. charity and initiative. i of course, we wish prince william well in this. we wish him well. it's a tremendous problem. but as he says, it's a problem. but as he says, it's a problem for society. >> yeah. michael cole, thank you so much. you look amazing. i can't believe it. michael is 81. he's the same age as joe biden. >> i am the same age as the president. >> exactly . >> exactly. >> exactly. >> i am available, by the way.

>> i am available, by the way. >> exactly, exactly. >> exactly, exactly. >> so this is so i don't think the people are in their 80s. shouldn't be dc need america. >> michael a bit more compos mentis . mentis. >> exactly. >> exactly. >> thank you so much. >> thank you so much. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. calm me up . next. >> thank you. calm me up. next. why are middle aged men being lured to yoga classes? i love yoga and look at me. the answer may surprise you. this is brit school gb newsroom on gb news. >> back in a tick. >> back in a tick. >> i'm

>> hello. welcome back. 1122 ben and anna with you on britain's newsroom. only on gb. news in for andrew pierce and bev turner. >> just to recap the breaking news, if you're struggling to pay news, if you're struggling to pay for your shopping or petrol this morning, you're not alone. card payments at major high street shops like asda, sainsbury's and petrol stations across the uk appear to have crashed this morning, so let us know if that has impacted you . know if that has impacted you. >> gbnews.com/yoursay yeah, just briefly , christopher, you've briefly, christopher, you've

written on your say. i was in tesco in worthing and had to pay £42 and luckily had cash on me as all the systems are down on car payments. i keep saying it, cash is king, technology is great, but don't remember cash still exists because when this kind of thing happens and you're caught short, you're you're in trouble . trouble. >> all right, moving on. >> all right, moving on. >> we're joined by broadcaster and journalist carole malone and also political commentator jonathan lis in the studio. should we kick it off with kemi badenoch? she's accusing suella braverman of having a very pubuc braverman of having a very public breakdown. >> you know, this is i liked kemi badenoch and this is really put me off her because i think this this happened in the very first meeting of rishi sunak's new shadow cabinet and somehow miraculously got leaked where, she said where badenoch said that, that suella had had this very public nervous breakdown , very public nervous breakdown, and i think it's really shocking on two levels. one, because what if she has had some sort of problem? i don't think she has suella has completely denied it. but what if she had had some sort of breakdown? that's not the kind of thing anyone does to

another person if they have a if they have a mental health issue. but secondly, it's to me it's clear what it's transparent what it's all about. there's a new poll came out which shows that, suella is much more popular with the tory grassroots than, badenoch is. so she's trying to talk her down to the new cabinet. and i just think it's really bad that one woman on another, you know, it's hard enough for women in politics as it is, but for one woman to be, to be slagging another and saying she's having a nervous breakdown, i think it's really bad. >> do you think it's not a more tory infighting? i mean, it's just more of the same, jonathan. >> i mean , this does not look >> i mean, this does not look like a party that has taken stock of its worst defeat in history and is preparing the ground to be a fruitful opposition and potential new government. this is a party that is focused on settling old scores, and that is one of the main reasons why the electorate has just rejected them, because they were tired of the divisions, they were tired of the self—interest that was being

put ahead of the country every single time. badenoch famously, can pick a fight in an empty room. she doesn't have. she's obviously a very serious politician. >> unfair. i mean , a lot of >> unfair. i mean, a lot of people, a lot of people say that she's she's very she's she has. what is your reasoning for saying very combative style, which not which not all politicians have. >> you could say that about suella braverman as well . suella suella braverman as well. suella braverman she does have it, but i'd say this is a complete opponent. braverman. but braverman does have a kind of warmth to her sometimes, you know, she can crack out a smile. she can kind of seem jokey friendly. badenoch has no warmth that i've seen, but she is tough though, and i think it's very important. >> you know, i think she has a strength. i think she's got guts. i mean, she took on david tennant the other week. who who had a go at her and said she should disappear and she took her on over that. she's not scared of thing. and i also think she's done an enormous amount for women's rights. she calls out all the, you know, the transgressions against women's rights all of the time. and i think that's a really important thing, but i would rather i'd like to see those two getting together rather than scrapping with each other. >> i think i think you're right.

sorry. >> i was going to say i don't think that will ever, ever happen. think that will ever, ever happen . hearing what i've heard happen. hearing what i've heard about badenoch and braverman's relationship, really, i haven't heard that at all. >> look, the point is, the braverman thinks, that you're right. braverman is popular with the tory grassroots, but she is never going to get to the final two candidates because the party is not behind her. and she. >> when you say the party do you mean the members? >> the parliamentary party, right. well, that's that's the problem. >> that's the problem. >> that's the problem. >> that's the problem. >> that's the problem with the tories. the members elect a leader, which is then scuppered by the wets and the one they say they're not going to be the parliament going to the latter because the party you have to have a leader, you have to have a leader who has the party behind them. >> you can't just have a leader who's supported by the membership and not their own party. in parliament. >> well, i think that was the problem though, and this is why a lot of people were turned off from the conservative party because they, as members, were not supporting rishi sunak. in fact, they supported boris johnson and then the tory actual parliamentary party, then decided they're not going to listen to their own members. and if they do this again and again, they'll have literally no supporters, because why would

you support a party that doesn't listen to nana a party party membership is not the country. >> by definition. a party is what it is, but it's the party. it's certainly it's the most it's the most devoted people in the voters of the who support the voters of the who support the party. >> nobody will vote. >> nobody will vote. >> membership reflects people in the country as well, i think. but but it's the wet and the wild nations, as you've just said, the dote . said, the dote. >> they are the party, the parliamentary party, the majority of it are at complete odds with the members. and that is not democratic. that is not the way the conservative party has been run in times of past. and the fact that it was even mooted in recent weeks that they should scrap the membership. choosing the next leader just goes to show, i think they show they're toasty. >> she should scrap. >> she should scrap. >> i think that that's a big mistake. the tories made. one of many was to replace the leader twice without an election. and so you had a very undemocratic system where what, like 80,000 people, 100,000 people were choosing the next prime minister. exactly. >> so you agree with us, they should listen to their members. >> you literally just said about the parliamentary you are the rumours about labour scrapping within itself already, aren't

you? >> do you not think starmer would be replaced? i do. >> do you think? well, listen, i think the thing about labour think the thing about labour think about labour, carol, is that the tories, the people who commit regicide, labour actually very rarely gets rid of its leader, i think. i think we have yet to see. >> we have yet to see whether labour commits to anything. right, right. let's talk water bills now they're set to rise by £19, a year from april, now this is in england and wales. the industry regulator, ofwat has come out with this, although this will put more pressure on households and things like that. jonathan list, where do you stand with this? >> i think it's a complete outrage , you know, i remember outrage, you know, i remember two years ago, you know, i live in london. thames water is my provider, we didn't have water 48 hours during the hottest day of the year, you know, like there's. and to i had go and there's. and to i had go and there was no information provided. had to go outside and you find some people who are sort of giving out some bottles of water. it's completely outrageous. and the thing is that we have the worst of all

worlds. we have a privatised system, but no choice because i cannot change. none of us can change our providers if we're not satisfied with the water provision. so with gas and electricity, at least, at least have the choice to change provision. you don't with water, we should nationalise the whole thing. so this, this price hike is to pay for the sewage crisis. >> it is astonishing that, you know, i mean, i think the boss of thames water the other day was defending his massive bonus and the idea that the boss and the board can still get these these multi—million pound bonuses and not put that into changing the supplier, they've had years to upgrade the system, to make the system better and they haven't. >> and the result of that is they've pumped raw sewage into our water and they want us to pay our water and they want us to pay for cleaning that up. it is astonishing 70% hike on some of these bills. it is beyond belief that we have to pay this much for dirty water. >> well, they have a revolving door , haven't they, with ofwat door, haven't they, with ofwat and the heads of these companies as well . so the person who works as well. so the person who works at ofwat then goes to head up a water company and vice versa. so they all know how to get out of they all know how to get out of the rules. >> part of the problem is that

none of that a lot of these companies are british. they're not even based in this country and in other countries. they actually all these companies are on a contract. and if they if they, move away from the terms of their contract, it's taken away and given to somebody else. i don't know why we're not doing this. yeah. >> and also we have yeah, we have a system of nationalisation in this country where we just give our utilities to other governments, not our own. that's ridiculous . what do they were ridiculous. what do they were just loaded with? just basically these companies have loaded on debt to pay dividends to their shareholders , not in the shareholders, not in the interest of the public, but in their shareholders. that makes no sense at all. >> now, i want to ask you about yoga for middle aged men. anyone heard this story? yes. anyone got that story? >> yeah. we read this. >> yeah. we read this. >> yeah. we read this. >> yeah. this is. yeah. drop me at e jean carroll. okay, so this is a men are going to yoga classes and the thing to get them there, the incentive is they're going to have a pint of beer after they've done a move called the downward dog. now to me, the two things don't make sense. if you're mountain yoga, you're not a big beer drinker. the two don't go together. but this bloke who's it's quite a good gimmick, he's called matt jordan, he he makes them do a couple of moves, and then he gives them a pint of beer and

he's opened up. he's opening up these classes all over the country. i suspect they'll fall flat on their faces because i think really , they'll be drunk. think really, they'll be drunk. no. well, that is well, but i just think real yoga enthusiasts will think this is an aberration. they won't want this to be how i do yoga. >> i love my ashtanga gymnastic and yoga type thing. and do you have a glass of wine afterwards or something? i might hang out at the club or a little. a little champagne or some sparkling wine or something like that you'd want to get. >> you'd want to get showered and dressed first, though, wouldn't it, before you have it, like in the thing, wouldn't you might, you might not. >> but i think that would tempt me to the class. tonight's class, you get a little bit of socialisation as well. >> i'd probably be. >> i'd probably be. >> i'm with you, carol. i don't get the mixture of sport and booze. it's kind of like an oxymoron. >> unless they get rid of the other. >> oh, yes . >> oh, yes. >> oh, yes. >> carole malone. >> carole malone. >> jonathan, thank you very much. right. it's time now for your news headlines with tamsin roberts . roberts. >> data. thank you. here are the headunes >> data. thank you. here are the headlines at 1131. a vigil is

taking place for the three women killed in a crossbow attack in hertfordshire. or for those watching on television, these are live pictures from saint james's church in bushey, where a service is currently being held to support the local community. the victims, who were the wife and two daughters of bbc racing commentator john hunt, were attacked at their home in bushey. hunt, were attacked at their home in bushey . carole hunt was home in bushey. carole hunt was 61, while hannah and louise were 28 and 25. a major police manhunt for 26 year old suspect karl clifford ended when he was found injured near a cemetery in nonh found injured near a cemetery in north london. he was discovered with injuries in lavender hill cemetery in enfield and then taken to hospital. manager gareth southgate says his team are ready to make history after reaching the final of euro 2020 for a stunning stoppage time goal from substitute ollie watkins secured a21 victory over the netherlands in dramatic

fashion . the three lions will fashion. the three lions will now face spain on sunday with the hope of being crowned european champions. president biden has indicated he supports closer defence ties between the uk and europe. in his first head to head meeting with the prime minister at the white house, joe biden told sir keir starmer he sees the uk as the cornerstone of the transatlantic alliance. the prime minister described the visit as an opportunity to recommit to nato and the special relationship. sir keir has said he wants a new uk—eu security pact, whilst also working closer on defence with key allies . the on defence with key allies. the government is set to launch what it calls a warts and all independent investigation into the performance of the nhs. health secretary wes streeting says the report aims to diagnose the problem so the government can write the prescription . the can write the prescription. the investigation will be led by former health minister lord darzi, who's been asked to tell hard truths. mr streeting says

the review will provide patients , the review will provide patients, staff and himself with a full and frank assessment. the uk economy grew by 0.4% in may. that's quicker than expected. the latest data from the office for national statistics comes as more shoppers return to high streets and construction work recovered. it came after no growth was recorded in april, when damp weather hit. consumer spending may stronger than expected performance puts the economy on track to surpass the bank of england's projection of half a percent growth for the second quarter. well those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm tamsin roberts more from me 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. >> forward slash alerts. >> cheers! >> cheers! >> britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial

report . report. >> well, here's a quick snapshot of today's markets. the pound will buy you $1.2878 and ,1.1869. the price of gold is £1,850, and £0.57, and the ftse 100 is at 8224 points. >> cheers ! britannia wine club >> cheers! britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report . financial report. >> thank you. tamsin. right up at noon . good afternoon, britain at noon. good afternoon, britain with tom and emily. hello. what's coming up? nana. >> you'll like this one. net zero madness from the new labour government. ed miliband, an immediate ban on all new oil drilling in the north sea. oh, dean drilling in the north sea. oh, dear. what does this mean for the scottish economy? the people of aberdeen in particular, is

this net zero ideology gone mad? this could have huge consequences. there are businesses who have been putting millions into preparing these bids to try and dig oil, drill oil, and now it could all be, gone. >> well. net zero. well this is this is there were dozens of license applications that were in that were being assessed by civil servants. >> ed miliband has this week told them to down tools, not look at any of these new applications and not take in any more oil. now, this is, in fairness, in the labour party manifesto page 52. if anyone's interested, it says we will not issue new licences to explore new fields. they will only accelerate the worsening climate crisis. in addition, will not grant new coal licences and ban fracking for good. the irony here, of course, is that britain imports a lot of fracked gas from the united states of america. so instead of extracting our own gas here, what we're going to be doing is sending a hell of a lot of money over to the united states to

have theirs. >> does he think these companies do this for fun? >> we need to. do you not understand? >> there's demand. >> there's demand. >> we need to play that clip on question time with you , tom question time with you, tom harwood, because i thought that was incredible. >> on the exactly this on exactly this. >> i listened to it only the other day, actually . other day, actually. >> it's funny of the times that i've been on that show . this >> it's funny of the times that i've been on that show. this is the one that everyone references because it's interesting all of these and it's something that i think is perhaps most pernicious when it comes to the green party, because you'd think the green party might be against, okay, fine, they're against oil and gas, but surely they're in favour of wind farms and solar farms. but no example after example of local green councillors, you'll find that they've been opposing solar farms because they're on green fields. they're opposing the infrastructure required for wind farms because they don't want pylons on the countryside. and it's like , well, pick one. it's like, well, pick one. either you're going to have lots of pylons and net zero, or you're not going to have net zero. you can't have neither. you can't have both. we should politically, this is going to be quite dramatic . quite dramatic. >> the scottish i think, because the unions aren't going to be

happy. there's a lot of union people who aren't behind this net zero stuff. they want those jobs in scotland and in the north of england . this could north of england. this could really kick off and legal action against the government . really kick off and legal action against the government. imagine these businesses suing the government because of this. >> well, emily, when ed miliband was appointed to cabinet, some far left commentators were saying they shed a tear at his appointment. >> yes. not naming names. >> yes. not naming names. >> there we go. >> there we go. >> one of those creature comforts. remember those? nice and warm. and then ed miliband, you know, probably actually, it's probably before comedy character perhaps. yeah, exactly. they were. well, it's an all that and more at midday up next, we're keeping a close eye on the welsh parliament where the king and queen are arriving to mark 25 years of devolution. this is britain's newsroom on gb news

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>> now, ahead of our live coverage of the 12th of july celebrations. dougie beattie has been following the historical roots of those that left northern ireland and headed for the new . the new. world. >> worcester lies about 40 miles west of boston. it's known as the heart of the commonwealth. but back in the 1700s, it was no more than a frontier village . more than a frontier village. >> so you would have to travel from boston down the indian path, which is indian paths were only about this wide. they were only about this wide. they were only about this wide. they were only a foot wide. they weren't very large. you would be single file horseback. you would be single file. there was not enough room for a stagecoach . enough room for a stagecoach. >> the unannounced arrival of the scots—irish was scorned upon

by the establishment, and as a result, they were split into three groups. among those in the worcester placement was the young family. worcester placement was the young family . the oldest was 95, young family. the oldest was 95, and he had brought the first seed potatoes to america that at first was greeted with suspicion the governor shute. >> governor shute was his name . >> governor shute was his name. he he got really upset because he saw all these people arriving in boston and he didn't know what to do. so he decided he was going to divide them into three groups and send them to three different places to reinforce populations because of the indian attacks. so he sent one 200 people to maine, 200 people to londonderry, new hampshire, and 200 people to worcester. when they get here in worcester, the people that were already here are about 200 of them, and they were upset because they didn't like these people, because they were different. and they had different clothing. they spoke different , but they

they spoke different, but they had gifts of the potato and the spinning wheel and the congregationalists were also afraid of that potato, and they threw it away . so it took threw it away. so it took a couple of seasons before they realised that they could eat the potato. they were trying to eat the tubers and the leafs, which didn't work out right. you know , didn't work out right. you know, that's not good. poisonous. so eventually they figured out how to eat the potato and it became a very sustainable fruit vegetable in, in new england and a lot of potato farms are in maine. >> the hostilities towards the families in worcester would see them being forced to move on, and they would rejoin their countrymen further north. >> the people in worcester tried to drive the scots out of here, get out of my town. it was pretty much. they burned their church down, and they did whatever they could to drive them away. and a lot of them founded pelham and rutland and colebrook springs to the west of

us, and they that's where the potato farms are in massachusetts . massachusetts. >> all right. so make sure you tune in tomorrow for that special coverage with dougie beattie and arlene foster here on britain's newsroom. right. >> some breaking news now. the spire of the gothic cathedral of the french city of rouen in normandy has caught fire. the local prefect, a state official, said the cathedral had been evacuated and emergency services were on the scene and a security cordon is now in place around the building. >> well, we'll keep you updated on that. up next, we're crossing over to england's most patriotic estate to celebrate the three lions success in the euros. this is britain's news from on gb

olivier award. >> liam broady . alok sharma. >> liam broady. alok sharma. >> liam broady. alok sharma. >> laura beddow and there we are! the three lions roared to victory last night as super sub ollie watkins scored that sensational 90th minute winner against the netherlands. >> now this takes england to the finals of the euros. they'll be playing spain. is it finally coming home? >> let's cross live to the kirby estate in south—east london, where gb news reporter theo chikomba joins us. theo, is he coming home? >> i think everyone here is very confident. if we can just quickly have a look around where we are. we're at the kirby estate in south—east london. all these england flags . this is the these england flags. this is the only place, i think, in central or south—east london where you can find many people supporting england. but it was last night, ollie watkins scored that goal in 90 minutes and lots of people are thinking, oh, we're going to have one of those games where it

goes to extra time, potentially penalties. but ollie watkins saved the day. the aston villa player hasn't had many minutes on the pitch, but harry kane did score that penalty earlier on in the game where we're thinking , the game where we're thinking, oh, what is it looking like? particularly that early goal from the netherlands? but they take on spain. england takes on spain this weekend, on sunday for a huge game and lots of people we've been speaking to here are excited. many people saying it's coming home, so we'll be spending most of the day here. speaking to fans who live in this area. looking forward to that game , there have forward to that game, there have been questions about gareth southgate, many people saying after this competition he shouldn't be in the job because it's been boring. that's what a lot of people have been saying, but some people have been quite positive about him today, actually, i have to say, saying actually, i have to say, saying actually, well, he's turned it around. so they're hoping that that same performance remains on sunday. so yeah, just a few days left now and i'm sure the england team will be preparing for that. >> theo, it looks like emily

thornberry's nightmare around there. is it? is it? millwall central ? central? >> well, i have to be honest, i haven't seen any millwall flags as in for the team, but definitely lots of people here who support england. there's a lot of flags here and there which aren't england flags, but i'd say 99% of the flags here are definitely supporting england. >> thank you so much. really good to talk to you. those theo chikomba he'll keep you updated on that. now. lots of you have been getting in touch with your thoughts. joanne ainsworth she messaged in. she says wind turbines lifespan is 25 years. then what do we do with them? they don't biodegrade. this is all this eco stuff that's supposedly helping the environment, but is a complete hindrance. >> scotland felling as i said to donald mccarthy earlier, felling 14 million trees to make way for wind farms . wind farms. >> it's madness now. >> it's madness now. >> paul nardone, he says banning oil and gas drilling is crazy. how will starmer power the army , how will starmer power the army, navy and air force he he hosts? he boasts he boasts of his plans

to defend ukraine wind turbines, solar farms or saudi and russian oil. >> ray good morning. you say just the thought. all the emergency backup generators and hospitals , etc. are diesel hospitals, etc. are diesel driven. what happens when the net zero lot get their way and there's a power cut ? do we swap there's a power cut? do we swap there's a power cut? do we swap the electricity for a diesel generator ? oh no we can't. the generator? oh no we can't. the power's off. >> well, they did that in cop27, didn't they? they tried to do everything by electric vehicle, but then of course they couldn't generate the electricity, so they had to bring in a diesel generator to power to build, to create the electric for the vehicles. i mean, it was absurd. yeah, crazy. i mean , that's how yeah, crazy. i mean, that's how we go with these things. and kathy shepherd says, better get ready for blackouts, i'm afraid. i just think it's madness. if you've got it, use it. isn't that the idea of using what is in your backyard before you go elsewhere? >> yeah, well, as tom harwood, you know, rightly pointed out and as you allude to his his appearance on question time, you know, you're it's complete madness because you're banning the recuperation and the drilling of your own gas and then importing it from elsewhere for much more expense. >> exactly. it's insane.

>> exactly. it's insane. >> right? back to the breaking news now, the spire of the gothic cathedral of the french city of rouen in normandy has caught fire. >> wow, a state official said the cathedral had been evacuated and emergency services were on the scene. a security cordon is also around the building now. >> the extent of the damage to the cathedral is unknown at this stage, but the local authorities say that there are no known victims currently . right. let's victims currently. right. let's have a quick look at some more of those emails that you've been some i mean, it looks like that could really develop that smoke coming out of the top of there. >> and of course that follows natural. when was the notre dame fire? >> oh, god, i don't know, some years back. you don't know the answer either. were you asking me for maybe the very clever, very clever darling, very clever. and then john tone, now we're talking about wind turbines and all these different forms of gas and electricity and so on and so forth . john. waffle, waffle, forth. john. waffle, waffle, waffle. so what if the wind stops blowing due to climate change? well, that's true, aren't they? they're massive as well. if there's a hurricane or tornado or something, they'll be

blowing in the air. they'll be blowing in the air. they'll be blowing out from where they are. >> yeah, i've said before, i really hope we change path from this deranged march to net zero. i'm all for you know, clean energy and so on. but anyway, up next. good afternoon , britain next. good afternoon, britain with tom and emily. thanks for joining us today. yeah. >> see you soon. >> all right. well, coming up on the show, ed miliband, the new energy secretary, has hit the ground running. he's ordered an immediate ban on new licences in the north sea. drilling for oil. is this net zero madness or the first step to the green dream? >> plenty on that. also, live events will keep watching that cathedral and the king is in cardiff bay for the welsh senate. anniversary, but also a reform reshuffle. ben habib has been pushed out as deputy leader of that party, and he doesn't appear to be happy about it. all that to come after your weather. >> it looks like things are heating up . boxt boilers heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news . sponsors of weather on gb news. hello. good morning.

>> welcome to your latest gb news, weather update brought to you from the met office. it is going to be a drier day for many of us, but there is a risk of showers, particularly in central areas. we've still got low pressure not too far away from the uk, centred up to the north and east. that's we've still got the remnants of some rain from yesterday, but higher pressure is building in from the west, so that means for parts of northern ireland, much of northwest scotland actually, it's going to be a much drier day today compared to yesterday. but we've got a northerly wind so it's still a fairly cool feel. also, quite a lot of sunshine through much of the day across the south coast. but in between those areas staying quite cloudy through the day with some drizzly rain on and off. and here temperatures will be suppressed. but in the south and the best of sunshine we could see 24 degrees later on. this afternoon. so pretty warm in any sunshine. but still, that northerly wind through the evening. so a fairly warm fine end to the day across southern areas. some sunshine, but i think for much of wales into the midlands and northern england it's going to stay cloudy through this evening. with that drizzly rain. northern ireland seeing a fine end to the day.

the further north you go, the more exposed that northerly wind you are, particularly across eastern areas of scotland. temperatures in aberdeen only 13 degrees this evening, so more of an autumnal feel out there now. through tonight it's going to stay fairly dry for most areas in the central area, though it will remain largely cloudy with a risk of some rain, but i think the rain will become much more restricted to parts of wales and central areas of england by the end of the night. there's also a threat of some showers approaching from the near continent into the south—east by tomorrow morning, as well. in any clear skies tonight, we've still got cool air so we could be down as low as about four degrees for parts of scotland, but for most areas a fairly mild start with plenty of cloud around, and friday will be a fairly dry day for most of us. there's still a lot of cloud around, so it's not going to be particularly warm. and also there's a risk of showers, mainly across the south coast. it's particularly in the southwest where we could see some torrential downpours and with plenty of cloud around temperatures at best into the high teens, possibly the low 20s, that warm feeling inside

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2:00. 12:00. rather on thursday, the 11th of july. i'm tom harwood, and i'm emily carver. king charles is on his way to the cenotaph in cardiff bay to mark 25 years of welsh devolution. a former prince of wales himself and some time attempted welsh speaker. the king will be bringing some royal stardust to an important corner of his kingdom. although we were just looking at an aberdonian oil rig. >> yes, because new energy minister ed miliband has ordered an immediate ban on new drilling for oil in the north sea, the consequences of this could be huge. is this net zero madness or a step towards the green dream ? dream? >> and concerning news, there's more than 20,000 criminals could be released early from