>> well . >> well. >> well. >> it's 930 on thursday, the 18th of july. live across the united kingdom. this is britain's newsroom with ben leo in for andrew pierce and me. bev turner. >> very good morning to you. stopping the boats. britain seeks a new migrant deal with the eu. as the prime minister offers to lead the continent's fight against illegal migration at a summit in oxfordshire. katherine forster has more .

katherine forster has more. >> yes. good morning. from blenheim palace , where the new blenheim palace, where the new prime minister says that this eventis prime minister says that this event is going to fire the starting gun on this government's new approach to europe. i'll bring you the details shortly. >> how worrying . lib dem leader >> how worrying. lib dem leader sir ed davey. he pulled numerous stunts of course, during the election campaign. well, he faces the post office inquiry today over his role in that scandal. do you think you're going to see an apology from him.7 maybe going to see an apology from him? maybe not. >> maybe his biggest challenge yet elsewhere covid failures. the first reports published from the covid inquiry later today is expected to be highly critical of the conservative government's handung of the conservative government's handling of the pandemic. >> and breaking overnight, president joe biden has pulled out of a campaign speech after testing positive for . testing positive for. covid. didn't mean to sound so cheerful

about that. my point being , do about that. my point being, do you remember when covid was just the excuse to get out of anything you didn't particularly want to do, even as presidents made you come out for dinner this weekend, >> i think i've got some symptoms i need to test anyway. >> apparently he's got mild symptoms. he's fine . but what symptoms. he's fine. but what does this mean? is this going to be. he said, didn't he yesterday? if i get ill, is the only time i'll step down from being president. well, interesting timing. >> then hours later he tests positive for covid and he's had, i think, five vaccines by the way, and a booster as recently as december 2023. so there we go. just saying got those vaccines gbnews.com/yoursay first though, the very latest news with sam francis . news with sam francis. >> bev and ben, thank you very much and good morning to you. >> it'sjust much and good morning to you. >> it's just coming much and good morning to you. >> it'sjust coming up much and good morning to you. >> it's just coming up to 9:33. and the top story from the newsroom, the covid inquiry is set to release its first report this lunchtime, which is expected to expose widespread failures to prepare for a pandemic. it will also make

recommendations on how the uk might better prepare for a future outbreak . evidence heard future outbreak. evidence heard so far at the inquiry suggests the government's response was affected by public health cutbacks. at least eight more reports will follow today's publication in the us. joe biden has, as we heard, tested positive for coronavirus. the president was last seen walking off of air force one after cancelling a campaign speech in las vegas. biden's diagnosis comes as concerns grow about his age, with top democrats, his own party questioning his re—election bid. well, this morning an interview has been released with biden suggesting he would pull out of the race if medical professionals advised him to. >> i made a serious mistake in the whole debate . and, and look, the whole debate. and, and look, when i originally ran, you may remember it. i said i was going to be a transitional candidate, and i thought that i'd be able to move from this to pass it on to move from this to pass it on to someone else . but i didn't to someone else. but i didn't anticipate things getting so, so, so divided . and quite

so, so divided. and quite frankly, i think the only thing age brings a little bit of wisdom. and i think i've demonstrated that i know how to get things done for the country here. >> sir keir starmer is hosting around 45 leaders from across europe at a summit that he hopes will fire the starting gun on a new relationship with the eu following brexit. support for ukraine, migration and energy are all expected to be on the agenda and it's being hosted at blenheim palace in oxfordshire. that's the birthplace of winston churchill . the that's the birthplace of winston churchill. the families of that's the birthplace of winston churchill . the families of two churchill. the families of two british men reported missing in sweden are appealing for information on their whereabouts. they say it's feared the men were victims of a double murder. 33 year old juan fuentes and farouk abdul razak, who's 37, travelled for a business trip there. but haven't come home. officers are investigating after two bodies were found in a burnt out car in malmo on sunday, local media

report they were shot, though they're still working to identify the victims . one person identify the victims. one person has died and 71 people have been rescued after a migrant boat sankin rescued after a migrant boat sank in the channel late last night. all those on board the vessel did end up in the water, but were picked up in a joint rescue operation between the uk and french authorities . wages and french authorities. wages have grown by 5.7% in the three months to may, but that's a drop from the 6% growth in the first three months of the year. meanwhile, unemployment's remained unchanged. official official figures show the jobless rate is now 4.5. however, there's good news on inflation. it has dropped to the lowest level since 2021, and an experimental drug has been found to extend the lifespan of mice by 25. and it's thought it could also work in humans. researchers behind the trials say the animals were injected with an antibody called il 11, and the treatment cut cancer deaths,

reduced chronic inflammation and saw less muscle wasting all key signs of ageing. saw less muscle wasting all key signs of ageing . i know plenty signs of ageing. i know plenty of people here who would sign up for that. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm sam francis. more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> thanks, sam and a very good morning to you at home. hope you're well. ben in for andrew pierce this week alongside bev turner, of course on britain's newsroom live across the uk . now newsroom live across the uk. now have you seen what's been going on in milwaukee? the us at the republican national convention? beth. >> oh i have oh i have some some interesting clips overnight. jd vance has been speaking of course now trump's running mate and, there's a little, podcast. it's called the news agents.

it's called the news agents. it's a, an alternative media brand, which you wouldn't be interested in. but anyway, the host, emily maitlis, who you will know probably from her life on the bbc, she caught up with reform uk leader nigel farage. this is in milwaukee. just have a little look at this exchange. let us know what you think. >> i thought you were giving all your time to clacton now as its newest mp. >> well, i'm allowed to come to america on a trip like this, particularly in these circumstances. i mean, i had planned to come originally to america and to be here for a few months, and i made a decision. no i'm going to run for clacton, but given the circumstances , it but given the circumstances, it was right that i came, because at one point you said you wouldn't be running in clacton because you wanted to give your time to the us. >> but now you are the new clacton mp, but are here in the us. just what, two weeks after u.s. just what, two weeks after getting elected? because this feels more exciting? >> no, i'm just here for a couple of days . that's it, couple of days. that's it, that's it. i'll be back at the weekend and. no, i mean, look what happened on saturday was

that could have been the most disastrous event. >> but why did he need you? >> but why did he need you? >> well, that's a matter for, you know, his team to answer. >> not me. no. listen, it was right that i came right for hugh. it was the right thing to do. i have friends, i don't know whether you do or not. maybe you don't, but i have friends. and when they're. when they're in having a tough time, it's right to go and support them. >> and is that the sense you've got that he's having a tough time right now. >> he nearly died to state the obvious. >> and then there's a really, really long silence. and then she said is he having a tough time at the moment again? and nigel farage said he nearly died. >> i mean, he nearly had his head blown off. could you imagine the course of the us and the world today if that happened? i mean, some people have responded to that clip onune have responded to that clip online saying, hilarious. nicely played. emily maitlis. what's i mean, what's hilarious about it? >> what the trouble is, where's where's the gotcha? and this is

what's going to happen to nigel farage now that he is an mp, is that he will every time he steps foot outside of clacton, there's going to be somebody like emily maitlis with a gotcha question, trying to cast him as something actually, frankly, that i don't think he is. and you can see there from nigel. i don't know what you thought, ben, but it's his typical honesty. it's just it's just giving us trying to give a really straight answer. he's not he's not up to any sort of mischief like she's digging for something that just, frankly, is not there. and there's this narrative building around nigel that you know, he shouldn't be doing this or shouldn't be doing this or shouldn't be doing that because he should be focusing his attention on his constituents in clacton , clacton, >> if you ask me, i mean, i'm sure nigel will be the best mp he can for his seat and his constituents , but i don't think constituents, but i don't think the majority of clacton voters voted for nigel because they thought he was the best man to be dealing with their complaints against the water board or the one way system dealing with their parking permits. i think there's a wider issue at play here. yeah, and that's why they put him in that seat. >> yeah. and so the sneery tone, the sneery tone actually about

the sneery tone actually about the republican national conference, from other broadcasters and journalists, i found absolutely disgusting. >> there was a separate clip with emily maitlis, relaying her back, her report to lewis goodall. and who's the other chap? >> jon sopel, another former bbc, all former bbc. >> i mean labour activists. let's be frank, and she's saying i just don't understand. it's all cult like behaviour. these people i mean, x celebrities who are trying to revive their careers like russell brand. so sorry, russell brand's got 8 or 9 million subscribers on rumble or youtube or wherever he hosted his show. he's probably earning more money now than he ever has before. >> it just showed for me the way that i say the political left broadcast left are sneering at that event is the distinction between those people who are out of touch with the people that jd vance appeals to. the real people, the working people, the rust belt, as he calls it. in america. we might call it the red wall, the working people. i don't like those terms. i think they're a little bit reductive, but just i do know what it is. it's just not the little

westminster elite. no, it's not emily maitlis little dinner party set who like to walk around you know, art gallery openings on a wednesday night in westminster. it'sjust openings on a wednesday night in westminster. it's just not those people. and that's okay. and when you hear broadcasters like that just be so detached. i'm just glad we have us. >> instead, instead of sneering at these people, why don't you try and work out why this momentum is building? who knows why , right? why, right? >> moving on. let us know what you think. anyway gbnews.com/yoursay. so it's a big day for the new prime minister. he's taking his first steps to resetting the relationship with the uk and europe. this morning. >> yes, he's hosting the european political community summit today with around 50 european leaders in attendance and he'll offer to lead the continent's fight against illegal migration. >> so our political correspondent katherine forster is there in a very beautiful, sunshiny blenheim palace in oxfordshire this morning. lucky you. catherine, what are we expecting ? expecting? >> yes. good morning, ben and bev. well first of all, isn't sir keir starmer the new prime

minister, incredibly lucky with the timing of the general election? because within a week of him becoming prime minister, he was off to the nato summit meeting. lots of world leaders . meeting. lots of world leaders. and now, a week on from that, he's hosting this summit with about 45 or so leaders of eu countries and non—eu european countries and non—eu european countries at this summit. this is the fourth of these, this epc, as it's called, was the brainchild of emmanuel macron. they began after russia invaded ukraine and they're going to be talking all things security, security, of course, in terms of ukraine, what is going on with russia's invasion of that country and what the europe can do to help, but also a big, big focus on the challenges of illegal migration, not just something that we're really struggling with here in the united kingdom, but across the whole of europe. some 380,000

people crossed into the european union illegally last year. that's up about 17% on the year before. so, sir keir starmer, of course, they've junked the rwanda plan that rishi sunak said would have started this summer. getting people on planes said would have acted as a deterrent. they don't have that deterrent. they don't have that deterrent now. but sir keir starmer saying cracking down on the smuggling gangs is the way to deal with it. now. of course, to deal with it. now. of course, to do that, he needs to work with other countries in europe because these people are crossing europe to get to the channel. now, ultimately, he'd like some sort of returns agreement with the eu. there is zero chance of that being agreed today, or indeed any time soon, because the eu itself is bogged down with disagreements as to how to deal with this. also because ursula von der elianne is not here, she is trying to get reselected as president of

the european commission, but there may be progress with france. he's meeting with emmanuel macron later. it may be that some agreement is reached to possibly take some, eu asylum seekers in exchange for taking people back to france. we will wait to see. but there's nothing easy about this. and without the rwanda plan, it's going to be very interesting to see what happens with the numbers in the channel this summer. >> thank you, catherine katherine forster. we'll be going back to her later this morning. now, former for minister europe denis macshane joins us now. good morning denis. here he is. joins us now. good morning denis. here he is . well done. denis. here he is. well done. there you are. hi, denis. right, do you know what catherine just made me consider there when she said about the fact that, hasn't sir keir starmer been lucky with the timing? because the timing of the election means that he's. sir keir starmer now has a summer gladhanding with all of these wonderful occasions which were already in the diary, like

nato , eu summit, walking around nato, eu summit, walking around in the sunshine. if he'd handed him this victory in november or december, he'd he'd gone into a miserable dark nights of christmas and everyone would have been miserable. does it make you contemplate on the timing yet again of this election? >> sure. as napoleon said, i don't want good generals. i want lucky generals. and thanks to rishi sunak, sir keir startles pm into darting to his office. and i can remember in my lifetime big cheese at nato in washington before the horrible attack on donald trump, and now he's hosting, attack on donald trump, and now he's hosting , nearly 50 attack on donald trump, and now he's hosting, nearly 50 european leaders . blenheim palace, leaders. blenheim palace, blenheim palace, given to the duke of marlborough. you mentioned churchill being born there, descendant of the duke of marlborough. why? because at the beginning of the 18th century, britain sent a giant army into europe. why? to make sure the markets were open for britain. and that , i think, is now going

and that, i think, is now going to be the challenge for all the business community and sensible people. how do we reopen the markets of europe to british goods, british professionals, british consultants, the boats thing. it's a small play, if i may. so i don't want to talk too long, but the eu is absolutely overwhelmed by migrants and undocumented asylum seekers, as you rightly said, we're not alone. and they created now almost a small army, a division, almost a small army, a division, a military division called frontex, ten, 12,000 people that is now putting in very harsh measures. i mean, a lot of my liberal friends don't like it to try and slow down and stop this immigration wave. it's not an engush immigration wave. it's not an english problem anymore. it's a european one. >> but dennis, if we have this increased trade with europe and we have closer commercial ties, the cost of that is going to have to be a quid pro quo. you're going to have to take some more migrants. >> no, no, i mean, look, let be be realistic. i mean , we've lost be realistic. i mean, we've lost about 4 or 5% of our gdp, liz

truss was rightly talking about the obr problem in terms of the way the government presented its it's about its , king's speech it's about its, king's speech laws yesterday. but the obr also say 4 or 5. every british firm is unable to trade as once it could trade. and boris johnson promised us in 2016, i quote, you will be able to trade, you will be able to live, you're able to work, you're able to travel in europe. and then suddenly, four years later, he reversed ferritin, as he did on so many things. and shut it all down. so. so britain's got this big, big problem all our businesses do. we're not talking about returning to the eu, rejoining. we've got to solve some of these problems. and i just hope sir keir starmer, who's cautious , who's steady one who's cautious, who's steady one step at a time, might be able to begin that process. >> okay. all right. dennis, thank you so much for joining us. we're watching live pictures there of sir keir starmer welcoming. have you noticed the

body language? honestly the body language is so funny. when these leaders come together they're so close. it's like a power play of who can be closer with all of them. i've noticed they stand very, very close together and then they wait to see who's going to be the first one to back off. so keir starmer, you know, this is on our soil i guess the first role as a as our prime. >> there were some commentators yesterday saying that starmer looks like he's been in the job for ten years. do you think he looks comfortable. >> no i don't think he does look entirely comfortable. honestly he doesn't. he's a bit socially awkward anyway. i mean, you don't have to be entirely comfortable do you? in these situations. but, i mean, he's standing there greeting people like it is his own house. yeah, right. >> still to come, lib dem leader sir ed davey, who may have won your hearts during the election campaign. did he win yours, >> i find him very entertaining. >> i find him very entertaining. >> yeah, well, look, anyway, today he's facing a grilling at the post office inquiry very shortly over his role in the scandal , as shortly over his role in the scandal, as he was, of shortly over his role in the scandal , as he was, of course, scandal, as he was, of course, post office minister at the time. he has apologised before. will apologise again? who knows? ina in a tick. you

>> 952 is britain's newsroom on gb news with bev and ben. >> good morning to you. now, any moment now, the post office horizon. it inquiry continues with sir ed davey taking the stand. >> so the liberal democrat leader faced intense criticism over the scandal. of course, dunng over the scandal. of course, during his time as postal affairs minister and according to reports, davey initially refused to meet campaigning. >> subpostmaster sir alan bates 15 years ago. so let's speak now to myra phillip. was it philip? philip phillip? apologies. i need to get my eyes checked. her mother was a wrongly convicted subpostmaster. good morning to you.thank subpostmaster. good morning to you. thank you forjoining us you. thank you for joining us very much. appreciate it, your mother's story is, if you don't mind me saying, quite tragic . it mind me saying, quite tragic. it touched me when i was reading it this morning, myra, because she has now passed away and she. she hasn't been here to see kind of justice served, has she ? justice served, has she? >> that's correct. she, she died not knowing that she was

correct. that horizon was a flawed system and that, you know, that caused all the heartache and loss , so , yeah. heartache and loss, so, yeah. >> and myra, when you saw i don't know whether you saw much of sir ed davey during the election campaign going down waterslides, bungee jumping and bouncing around on, on sort of inflatables , knowing that he inflatables, knowing that he played such a significant role in that difficult period of time with your mum , how did you react with your mum, how did you react to those images ? to those images? >> i'm of the opinion that basically they're always culpable as each other over all of the years, so i think basically every party, had its failings . failings. >> nigel, myra , apologies. >> nigel, myra, apologies. what's what's your memories of the time when your mother was going through this? hell with the post office. can you

remember what it was like for you and the family? >> well, i was a registered partner in the business. and at the time, we shouted as loudly as we could and every quarter we could, because we knew horizon was wrong, but nobody would believe. believe us. even the postmaster federation didn't help. they ended up speaking to my mother like she was a thief, and in the end , when we had the and in the end, when we had the morning, the early morning swoop audh morning, the early morning swoop audit , it was morning, the early morning swoop audit, it was just horrible. i mean, i post office bully chester across the village square telling her that she wasn't going to be prosecuted only because of her age. wow. and we were £70,000 down, and we were really struggling to keep the business going. we couldn't borrow any more money, so. and then and then, you know, we

didn't have a day in court to defend ourselves, >> are you still angry? and what do you want to see from sir ed davey today ? davey today? >> angry? yes. very angry. i've been furious throughout. sir davey today. i know he will apologise. he's already done it, if he means what he says , he if he means what he says, he will carry on campaigning to try and get proper redress from the compensation schemes from the thousands of us who still do not have our money. >> myra, have you had any compensation so far or even any awareness of what you might get? >> and when i was made an offer, the £70,000 that went missing that they stole from us, they offered me 50 because that's all they could find in their records , they could find in their records, and part of the problem is that the post office has always held the post office has always held the cards. they have records because they couldn't find the

record of the other 20,000 that they need to repay me. never mind compensation, i wasn't offered it. so now we're in dispute resolution with them, which is like being put on trial again. basically >> yeah, i'm sure it is. i'm sure it is. well, we'll be watching today, myra, and wishing you all the best. honestly, i think it's appalling that it took a drama to bring this to the public eye right. thanks so much for your time this morning. right. up next is sir keir starmer getting into bed with the eu. well, if he has he's got a choice bedrooms in that we' re we're going to bnng we're going to bring you the latest from the eu leaders summit at

>>a >> a very good morning to you. it's 10 am. on thursday, 18th of july. live across the united kingdom. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with me, ben leo in for andrew pierce and bev turner. >> so stopping the boats. britain seeks a new migrant deal with the eu as the prime minister offers to lead the

continent's fight against legal migration. at a summit in oxfordshire . katherine forster oxfordshire. katherine forster has more . has more. >> yes, welcome to blenheim palace, where the new prime minister says that this meeting will fire the starting gun on this government's new approach to europe . he wants lots of to europe. he wants lots of things from the european union. easier said than done. of course. i'll bring you more details shortly and elsewhere. >> lib dem leader sir ed davey, who pulled numerous entertaining stunts during the election campaign. he faces the post office inquiry today over his role during the horizon. it scandal. will we see another apology from him this morning ? apology from him this morning? >> and breaking overnight, president joe biden has pulled out of a campaign speech after testing positive for covid and sticking with america . sticking with america. >> donald trump's running mate j.d. vance delivers a speech at the republican convention as he ushers in a new era of american politics.

>> i will give you everything i have to serve you and to make this country a place where every dream you have for yourself , dream you have for yourself, your family and your country will be possible. once again . will be possible. once again. >> let us know what you think about jd vance gbnews.com/yoursay. because as far as i can see, he is exercising all the right people . exercising all the right people. the left, certainly in america, getting their knickers in a twist about his appointment. >> i like him, i have to say, and i love this idea. i mean, he does represent the american dream. he came from poverty with an addicted mother who actually was talking last night saying that she'd been clean for ten years, but also, i love the fact that he's not a victim mindset because of his background. he's got that very empowering kind of vision of the world. do you want to do well? well, you're in a country where you can do well, and i think we haven't seen enough of that. right. a lot more to get through this morning

between now and midday. first to the very latest news with sam francis. >> very good morning to you from the newsroom. it's just after 10:00. and the top story this morning. the covid inquiry is set to release its first report this lunchtime, which is expected to expose widespread failures to prepare for a pandemic. it will also make recommendations on how the uk might better prepare for a future outbreak . evidence heard future outbreak. evidence heard so far suggests the government's response was affected by public health cutbacks, at least eight more reports will follow today's publication . and in the us, joe publication. and in the us, joe biden has, as we've heard, tested positive for coronavirus. the president was last seen walking off air force one after cancelling a speech in las vegas last night. biden's diagnosis comes as concerns grow about his age, with some top democrats questioning his re—election bid. and this morning an interview has been released with biden

suggesting he could pull out of the race if medical professionals advised him to. >> i made a serious mistake in the whole debate and, and look, when i originally ran, you may remember it. i said i was going to be a transitional candidate , to be a transitional candidate, and i thought that i'd be able to move from this to pass it on to move from this to pass it on to someone else. but i didn't anticipate things getting so, so , anticipate things getting so, so, so divided. and quite frankly , i so divided. and quite frankly, i think the only thing age brings a little bit of wisdom. and i think i've demonstrated that i know how to get things done for the country. >> sir keir starmer is hosting around 45 leaders from across europe today as he hosts a summit that he hopes will fire the starting gun on a new relationship with the eu following brexit. support for ukraine, migration and energy are all expected to be on the agenda. it's being hosted at blenheim palace. as you can see, there on your screen. sir keir

starmer just there on your screen. sir keir starmerjust hiding away at the starmer just hiding away at the entrance there as he welcomes his guests. that's taking place in oxfordshire, the birthplace of winston churchill . the of winston churchill. the friends, the families of two british men reported missing in sweden, are appealing for information on their whereabouts. it's feared the men could have been victims of a double murder. the 33 year old and the 37 year old travelled for a business trip but haven't come home. officers are investigating after two bodies were found in a burnt out car in malmo at the weekend. local media there say that they could have been shot, though police are still working to identify the victims found in the car. one person has died and 71 people have been rescued after a migrant boat sank in the channel late last night. all those on board the vessel ended up in the water but were picked up in a joint rescue operation between the uk and french authorities . the uk and french authorities. two prominent mps, both former government ministers overseeing the post office, are being

questioned at the horizon it inquiry. this morning. labour's pat mcfadden was postal affairs minister and sir ed davey, now leader of the liberal democrats , leader of the liberal democrats, also held that role. they're expected to be asked about errors in the horizon it system, which of course led to subpostmasters being wrongly convicted of fraud . an inquiry convicted of fraud. an inquiry examining claims that women and girls were mistreated in police custody will be published this lunchtime. dame vera baird has been reviewing allegations unked been reviewing allegations linked to greater manchester police and how they've dealt with people following arrest. the force accepts there are examples of poor standards and practice, but say they have fully engaged with the inquiry. we've heard this morning that wages have grown by 5.7% in the three months to may, though it's a drop from the 6% growth in the first three months of the year. meanwhile unemployment remained unchanged. official figures show. the jobless rate is now 4.5. an experimental drug has

been found to extend the lifespan of mice by 25, and it's thought it could also work in humans, researchers behind the trials say the animals were injected with an antibody called il 11. the treatment cut cancer deaths, reduced chronic inflammation and saw less muscle wasting all key signs of ageing . wasting all key signs of ageing. a health heat health alert has been issued for parts of england, with temperatures set to hit 30 degrees on friday. the warnings cover the east midlands, east england, london and the south east from tomorrow through to the weekend . and through to the weekend. and finally, before we hand back to ben and bev, viewers have been tuning in to get a rare peek inside the hidden world of a snake. mega den in northern colorado. but be warned, it could leave you rattled. the 2000 rattlesnakes can now be viewed online thanks to a round the clock webcam, although as you can see there, they certainly are very tricky to spot. the elusive reptiles are

nestling inside the rocky mountainside crevices, but the exact location is being kept secret to stop snake lovers or haters from messing with the animals . those are the latest animals. those are the latest headlines. for now, i'm sam francis. much more on the rattlesnakes coming up in the next half 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. >> hello. welcome back to britain's newsroom with bev and ben. live across the united kingdom on gb news now us president joe biden not sure if you've seen this, but he's tested positive for covid, so he's had five vaccines, a booster, most recently as december. >> but let me just throw back to 2021 when he said this. >> the various shots that people

are getting now cover that they're you're okay. you're not going to you're not going to get covid if you have these vaccinations, how about making sure that you're vaccinated so you do not spread the disease to anybody else? >> well they were then didn't they? >> okay. so look, i understand we've moved on from covid. people don't want to talk about it anymore. i get it. there is the covid inquiry in the uk today though of course it's slightly relevant. but my little takeaway from that is we had all that hell during 2021, 2020, 2022. for many years . you know, 2022. for many years. you know, joe biden implemented vaccine passports and mandates on 100 million americans, government workers , contractors because the workers, contractors because the idea was that the vaccines wouldn't stop transmission. so my only point being now, and this is the only thing i'll say about it, because i understand you don't want to go over old ground, but, oh i do. what was that about? yeah. >> what was that? we lost 30,000 care home workers, didn't we? in this country that that resigned because of the mandates and we wished him well. biden of

course, don't we, ben? we do, we do, we do . we wish him well. but do, we do. we wish him well. but of course, it just raises the issue. doesn't it, that will he use this as an excuse now to step aside? >> yeah, potentially. i mean, he said hours before he came down with covid that he'd only stepped down if he came a cropper with a health ailment or something akin to that. but, you know, just just before we leave this, before we park it, you know, people now like to change history and say it was never said the vaccines stopped transmission. you know, we knew it all along. well, that's completely not the case. you just saw it there from joe biden. yeah. and the fact that they tried to implement vaccine passports and make people take the jabs when arguably they didn't need them, especially young people, is interesting to say the least. but there we go. >> and a news on a news issue as well. the european commission, in fact, the second highest court in europe yesterday decided that ursula von der leyen and the european commission were wrong to hide details of the vaccine purchase agreements. that was a court ruling yesterday, and of course, she is currently pitching for leadership of the eu again . they leadership of the eu again. they said there was a huge lack of transparency in those contracts

and mysteriously disappearing text messages . what do you text messages. what do you think? gbnews.com/yoursay so the prime minister has taken his first steps to reset the relationship with europe. this morning. >> yes, he's hosting the european political community summit today, surrounded by european leaders and our political correspondent, katherine forster is at the summit at blenheim palace, drenched in sunshine. catherine slightly jealous. what's the latest down there ? latest down there? >> yes. good morning. the sun is beating down. it's rather fabulous. summer is here at last. so european leaders, about 45 of them all together. still arriving here. there will be a family photo of this group sometime after 11:00. and of course, it's not just the leaders of european union countries. everybody in europe has been invited, with the exception, of course, of russia and belarus. this was french president emmanuel macron's bright idea as a way of getting

everybody in europe together to talk about challenges that face us so they'll be talking about security. the agenda was set by rishi sunak while he was still prime minister, but sir keir starmer will be more than happy with that . so security, of with that. so security, of course, russia's invasion of ukraine, the possibility of a donald trump presidency, what that might mean for ukraine and that might mean for ukraine and that war, but also a really, really big focus today on illegal migration, a challenge that we are struggling to deal with. let's face it. and across the whole of europe , very little the whole of europe, very little agreement on how to deal with this, but a real problem not very far off 400,000 people came illegally into the european union last year. now, sir keir starmer would love to strike some sort of eu returns agreement. that is not going to happen at least not in the immediate future, because ursula von der leyen , apart from

von der leyen, apart from anything else, isn't even here because she is fighting for reselection. but it may be possible that there may be some side deals he's meeting with emmanuel macron. there may be some sort of other agreement with france . possibly. we might with france. possibly. we might agree to take some potential child asylum seekers in exchange for some people being sent back, to france. we will have to see. but there's nothing easy about this because of course we want lots of things from europe , but lots of things from europe, but there's going to be a price attached to those. i should imagine. >> okay. katherine forster down at blenheim palace. thank you very much. we'll be back with you throughout the show. >> okay. political commentator james matthewson joins us now. good morning james. good morning . good morning james. good morning. good morning james. good morning. good morning. so when you see these pictures of sir keir starmer meeting all these eu leaders there and the stately home of blenheim palace, starting, as he says, a new relationship to reset the relationship to reset the

relationship with the eu. does your heart sing a little ? your heart sing a little? >> it does. not much. that makes my heart sing, especially not this early in the morning, but, i do think it's a good thing. it's a great thing for the country. and it's great to see us on the world stage not being embarrassing or should i say, not being embarrassing. yet anyway, you know, we've got time. so i think it's great to see somebody who has a great relationship already with europe. i imagine there's many people on on the brexit side of things who aren't thrilled about that. but keir starmer does have a very positive reputation in europe , and he's built strong europe, and he's built strong relationships in europe, having been the shadow brexit minister for the labour party as well. >> so where does this lead to james? where do we end up ? are james? where do we end up? are we going to be rejoining the single market freedom of movement again in years to come under sir keir starmer, where where would you like it to go. >> no, he's ruled those elements out . so it's >> no, he's ruled those elements out. so it's just about a closer relationship with europe because brexit never needed to be about being isolationist. and that was

i mean, that was the pitch by brexiteers at the time was about we want our sovereign independence, we want to be able to get rid of these regulations, etc. etc. but it was never about destroying the relationship with europe. the damage that's been done and i believe mishandled by people like boris johnson, was done for their own political ideation, and i don't believe there's any benefit for the uk from it . so staying in the from it. so staying in the brexit position, staying out of europe , that debate's done. it's europe, that debate's done. it's been hard. the referendum is well behind us, but being able to forge a positive relationship with our allies and with our our closest neighbours, especially in a time of turmoil on the world stage, is a very positive thing. but james, there's going to be viewers watching this who voted for brexit, who feel like it was never really implemented by the previous conservative government who say james sir keir starmer, labour, we just don't believe you. >> we don't trust you . >> we don't trust you. >> we don't trust you. >> oh that's great. i mean, the proof's in the pudding, isn't it? and that's always the case. and we've got to wait that out and see, i would say that i don't believe the labour

movement, the wider labour movement, the wider labour movement, the wider labour movement, the trade union movement, the trade union movement, everything that holds the party together and that keir starmer is the responsible or has the responsibility to keep happy. would allow that to happen because that was hugely divisive. and you look at the general election results in 2017 and 2019, even the most ardent people who wanted to remain, myself included, that campaigned for remain wouldn't want to revisit that because the referendum and the mandate was clear from that referendum result. so, you know, it's only only an idiot would want to revisit that and dredge up those feelings of division in the country that it created. so i think it's important that they they crack on with this forging a positive relationship. and we see people like zelenskyy there at blenheim palace. it's to great bring people together at this time of, you know , of like this time of, you know, of like i say, chaos on the world stage and real confusion as well . and real confusion as well. >> but come on though, james, if keir starmer in the next let's say let's give him three years to settle in and then he goes,

look , the world was a different look, the world was a different place when we had the last brexit referendum. you know, as you say, we hear this lack of stability narrative all the time. i'm not entirely convinced by it myself, but we hear that the world is a more dangerous place to keep telling us. again, i'm not entirely convinced that it is. he might then turn around. sir keir starmer and say, i'm really sorry to everybody in the country we are going to have we are going to have another brexit, we're going to have another vote on this. we're going to have another referendum on our relationship with the eu. but would you like to see that happen? maybe in three years? >> no , i don't want to revisit >> no, i don't want to revisit that because, people like myself who come from, proud working class communities, you know, in the north—east of england across the north—east of england across the place, you know, we saw these divisions first hand. i was knocking on doors for the referendum campaign . and, you referendum campaign. and, you know, the campaign was incredibly mishandled. anyway, and i have my own opinions about that, but at the same time, people just weren't being listened to . it was a real dark listened to. it was a real dark chapter, i think, of our, of our, our country's history. and

the decision was made and we should stick with it. but at the same time, that being said, i mean , i don't know why you're, mean, i don't know why you're, why you're doubting the stability, or the instability. i should say that we're seeing in the world stage because, you know, finland joining, nato, you know, finland joining, nato, you know, you've got sweden joining nato and more worried about ukraine joining nato. >> i'm much more worried about ukraine joining nato. that would cause instability. >> well, you see finland sharing a border with russia. i mean, you know, and they've been resistant to join nato for so long because they know exactly what putin's plan is. they've seen that instability . but it's seen that instability. but it's not just their look at the powder keg that is the middle east. and of course, it's always beenin east. and of course, it's always been in a state of turmoil in the middle east, but, you know, heightened, heightened tensions allow for more situations where there could be, incidents that cause bigger conflicts and with a trump presidency pendant. i think it's, you know, a very, very dangerous time. so it's important that we stick together with our european allies.

>> i'd like your opinion on that, james, while we watch these pictures, then, of zelenskyy meeting sir keir starmer , do you think a trump starmer, do you think a trump presidency would be more problematic because evidentially there were no conflicts under trump's premiership ? that's trump's premiership? that's what's so fascinating. he had a quote unquote good relationship with putin. sometimes it takes a slightly unpredictable man to manage another slightly unpredictable man. i think i would feel a little safer with trump in the white house. >> wow . okay. well, that >> wow. okay. well, that certainly is a take. bev, i disagree with it, however, but based on what though like genuinely based on what? based on the fact that the man is a maniac and which one can be trusted. he's not sensible. the man's a sex offender as well. i mean, this is not a man, donald trump. donald trump is a sex offender. donald trump is a dangerous man who uses rhetoric . dangerous man who uses rhetoric. donald trump is a sex offender. he's been found to be a sex offender through the courts. not not not not in a criminal court. >> james, just forget the

conjecture around trump and your opinions that you know that you don't like him, but look at his record. whilst in office, there were no wars under his presidency. he was the first. he was the first leader to meet a nonh was the first leader to meet a north korean leader in the demilitarised zone. there was peace in the middle east. >> i don't i don't believe that. i mean, that's a question of timing. >> what do you mean, you don't believe it? i mean, were there any wars under him? yes or no? the answer is no. >> he's not leading the world. he's leading a country in the world. okay. were there any wars under donald trump in his four years in the white house? >> yes or no? >>— >> yes or no? >> yes. there was conflicts across the middle east. of course we had afghanistan still. we had conflicts all over the place. it didn't just stop, not that he started yemen in yemen under through. >> yeah. in terms of invasions orchestrated by america , we did orchestrated by america, we did not have any under trump. he kept it was a time of relative relative calm during that four years, definitely compared to the obama and the clinton and the obama and the clinton and the bush administrations, there's no doubt about it . and there's no doubt about it. and listen, i can draw a distinction between donald trump, the man

who i think is far from blameless and what he represents when he stands on the global stage and how he interacts with other global leaders. if he does get to the white house, i feel we might all be able to actually relax. i think people presumed he would be happy and he wasn't trigger happy. >> i think the only reason we would think that is because he would think that is because he would submit to putin and he would submit to putin and he would give it. i mean, look at the comments of jd vance, his vice president. he says he doesn't care about ukraine. is that really i mean, winston churchill, you have to remember, said, that you cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth. and that's what we're looking at here. i mean, you can't you can't reason with putin. you can't reason with a man who wants to invade another sovereign country and take the territory. now, if trump's solution to that is, let him have it, then where does that stop? that's exactly what the apologists for adolf hitler said at the time when he took czechoslovakia. >> all right , james, great to >> all right, james, great to talk to you, come back again. i really enjoyed that . james really enjoyed that. james matthewson there. political commentator, i think the

analysis of what's happening in russia and ukraine is much more complicated than that, much more nuanced. >> and just talking about the eu as well. so, james, fairly certain there that, you know, we're not going to be opening the doors to freedom of movement in five years or back in the single market and whatever else. but i mean , there's plenty of but i mean, there's plenty of those on the left who do dominic grieve , who is, what's his role grieve, who is, what's his role now? vice president of the european movement of the uk, former attorney general. he wants to rejoin the eu. people like alastair campbell, carol vorderman i suspect is on that bandwagon as well . bandwagon as well. >> luckily, she's not an mp yet. no, but not in the house of lords yet. but there's a growing campaign. there is no you're absolutely right. i just find it amazing when people talk about carol vorderman as being significantly political because ironically, she sort of is you're not wrong. but but listen up next, we're going to be talking about a drug that can turn your granny into supermodel. but it might be able to save your life

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1025. ben and bev with you on britain's newsroom. only on gb news this morning. >> we have got in the studio broadcast carole malone and political commentator jonathan lis. when you came in, they did say to us, we've got some work experience, people in the building today. and then you two walked in. i thought, that can't be right. i know these two. well. i'm glad i could be thought of as young enough to work at. well, likewise. we're well past that, aren't we? right. we had the king's speech yesterday, and obviously a lot in there. 35 bills, to carol, digest. but what was your major take out of what britain is going to look like under sir keir starmer? >> my take on the whole thing was terror. i mean literally terror because you know, this is i think stephen glover, talked about it today as the as the dead hand of the state or something like that. he said something like that. he said something like that. he said something like that, you know, and he's right. this is it terrified me. i think it's terrifying for the private sector. i think it's terrifying for small businesses, you know, he said he was going to, it was going to be growth, and he was going to be growth, and he was going to be growth, and he was going to take the brakes off britain. i think he's put the

brakes on, you know, every anti—strike law from 2010 has been chucked out, which means this country and the unions would be given much more powers, which means this country can be brought to a standstill. everything, all emergency services, whenever the unions feel like it, he's, you know, he's talking about, you know, he was talking about inheriting a country that is in a terrible state. no it isn't. our economy is really good at the moment. the imf is saying we're going to do better next year than france or germany or italy, and that's not good. but of course, labour would claim credit for that. but you know what scared me was that they're going to run the railways. they're going to run this as ministers, they're going to run power plants. i mean, they're going to they're going to run energy sites. >> they're going to control football. >> yeah, we've got new bodies. >> yeah, we've got new bodies. >> a football that was a tory. that was a tory bill that was was originally coming through. >> that's not going to wreck the country. them controlling football. however them running an energy plant might just bring us to our knees. and i just think, you know, it's clear we're going to all have to kind of pay, you know, many more taxes to pay for this bloated state. we're going to have. and

i just i think the federation of small businesses came out yesterday and just said, this is really scary because the laws they put in place, because when you look at them, it looks like the laws are going to protect workers. no more zero hours contracts, all of that. however, what that does to a small company, it says i can't afford to employ the people i need to do the job. i may have to get rid of people so it's a kind of counterproductive move. >> it's the return of big government, is it not, jonathan. >> no, it's the return of stable government grown ups in the room . government grown ups in the room. no, i'm not going to wasn't i wasn't going to say grown ups in the room. repeat that. it's a return of social democratic government which is exactly what the people have just voted for. i mean, i don't know, 30% of the population voted, but i'll stop this. >> the people voted for carol. >> the people voted for carol. >> i didn't, i didn't i didn't interrupt you . and my god, i interrupt you. and my god, i wanted to. many times when you say terror, i can't interrupt you. when you say terror, come on, let's be let's be serious. there are things that you can disagree with. there is nothing to be literally terrified about. you didn't vote labour. that's fine . more people voted labour fine. more people voted labour than voted conservative. and

that's why we have a labour majority. if you want to talk about which i don't think we should talk about right this minute, about changing the voting system so we can have a more proportional system, which would vastly reduce the number of labour mps and increase number of tory mps and actually, i'm very happy to have that conversation because i've been supporting it for a long time. but that's not the system we have. and with the system that we have labour spread, it's very, very, very efficiently and it has a huge landslide. and as a result, it has a mandate to talk about this. i'm just coming on to it because you're talking about terror. i'm saying the people who voted for this now there is look, there is a lot in this king's speech that we can be really happy about. and, and everything in this king's speech was foregrounded in the election campaign. there are no surprises. >> well, that in itself is a bit disappointing, isn't it, that there was nothing. there was so much of it in there, as you pointed out, when carol was talking. we're actually tory ideas anyway, the vaping, the smoking, which i think which actually i completely disagree with, that was the that was the one thing i thought was completely nonsensical to have rishi sunak's hobby horse , which rishi sunak's hobby horse, which was to stop people born in 2009

from ever being able to buy cigarettes, which will lead to a completely preposterous situation in 30 years time, where 45 year olds are having to get their 46 year old mates to buy them fags, that's completely stupid. >> the big things come on, the big things like housing, they can build housing estates all over the country. locals don't get a say in at all. they can do whatever they want, and they're still not admitting that they're going to have to build more houses because of the huge numbers of immigrants that are arriving. >> carol, look, everyone knows that we have a housing crisis and there'd be a housing crisis even with zero migration. so obviously , we need to completely obviously, we need to completely change the way that planning is donein change the way that planning is done in this country. so it's not to say that local people shouldn't have any say at all, they just haven't. it's just to say that if you have a kind of a culture of nimbyism around the entire country, no one wants major developments in their backyard. no one wants their views spoilt. if you live in the countryside by pylons or whatever, and we're seeing that play whatever, and we're seeing that play out in suffolk with the new green mp, which a lot of people are talking about right now,

obviously it's the greens agenda to have to roll out sort of a green infrastructure. but obviously when it comes to one's own constituency, you have to kind of listen to the people who voted for you as well. so that's a kind of a difficulty. but but fundamentally, we either want new housing or we don't. we either want new green development or not so many new houses, because the ons have made really clear, they've said that there was virtually no population growth in 22, 23. >> but but the population has gone up by 610,000. and that is down to immigration. so we're going to use our green belt to build houses for people, many of whom have come here illegally. and many of whom are the vast majority. >> people don't come here illegally. >> a lot of them do come illegally. so we're going to build houses for people. >> they're not the ones being housed in on greenland. come on, people who are coming . asylum people who are coming. asylum seeker, asylum asylum seekers. you know the reason that asylum seekers are being housed in such large numbers, by the way, is that the last government sort of basically had a moratorium or a

ban on processing their claims. so actually people are just stuck in the system. so that's a separate issue. but obviously there are obviously there are people who are coming. obviously there are obviously well, they did have a border. the border, the border . well they were the border. well they were talking about they were talking about the new border security that was already in existence. starmer was talking about a new border security command. i carol, we've discussed this many times, and you all know that i'm not a labour immigration spokesman and i would do things differently. we're here to talk about the king's speech and what was in there. i think it was a positive social democratic platform. should it be the sum total of labour ambition? of course not. but it's a good start. >> and you like the idea of a bloated state. >> you like the idea to say, come on, this is no anti—strike laws anymore. >> which means that services in this country can be brought to standard. >> and also, i have to say, you have to take issue with what you're saying about emergency services, because the emergency services, because the emergency services have there's always been a policy in the doctors strikes that we've had that, that, that, that emergency care will not be affected. no, people are not. why do you think people

go into this profession? they know that they want to save lives above all else. you're kidding me. >> you're talking about doctors and you're talking about doctors on strike actually leaving sick people to go on strike for more money. and you're telling me that they go into it? it's a vocation. >> no, of course it's a vocation. they shouldn't be working. they're not gonna be working. they're not gonna be working for free. are they? >> and then they work for six figure salaries. many of the doctors . doctors. >> i'm sorry, but they're allowed to be paid for what they do. >> we've been beaten by the clock. we didn't even get on to the renter's rights bill, which is going to make life very difficult. if you are a landlord and you've got evictions, tricky tenant you want to get rid of, that just became a lot more difficult, right? jonathan and carol will be back in the next houn >> time now for your news headunes >> time now for your news headlines with sam francis. >> very good morning to you. it's just after 1030. and the top story this morning. well, widespread failures to properly prepare for a pandemic in the uk are expected to be laid bare

later . the covid are expected to be laid bare later. the covid inquiry is releasing the first of at least eight reports into the crisis this lunchtime . evidence heard this lunchtime. evidence heard so far at the inquiry suggests the uk's response was affected by public health cutbacks. sir keir starmer is hosting around 45 leaders from across europe today, at a summit that he hopes will fire the starting gun on a new relationship with the eu. the prime minister says he wants to use the event to push for joint action on illegal migration. support for ukraine security and energy are also expected to be on the agenda . expected to be on the agenda. joe biden has been forced to pull out of a campaign speech after contracting coronavirus. the white house says the 81 year old is having mild symptoms from the infection but is vaccinated, boosted and isolating while continuing his duties. it comes as the us president's facing growing pressure to step aside because of his age, and there are also reports today that the two top democrats in congress have met privately with joe biden to express concerns over his re—election bid . two

his re—election bid. two prominent mps, both former government ministers overseeing the post office, are being questioned at the horizon. it inquiry. labour's pat mcfadden is currently being questioned at that inquiry in central london, while sir ed davey , now the while sir ed davey, now the leader of the liberal democrats, will be speaking later. he also held that role during his time in the position . they will be in the position. they will be asked about errors in the honzon asked about errors in the horizon it system, which led to subpostmasters being wrongly convicted of fraud . wages have convicted of fraud. wages have grown by 5.7% in the three months to may, a drop from 6% growth in the first three months of the year . growth in the first three months of the year. meanwhile, unemployment remained unchanged, with official figures showing the jobless rate is now 4.5. the families of two british men reported missing in sweden are appealing for information on their whereabouts. it's feared their whereabouts. it's feared the men were victims of a double

murder. it comes after a pair of bodies were found in a burning car in an industrial area of malmo on sunday. those bodies are yet to be formally identified , and scientists say identified, and scientists say an experimental drug that extends the lifespan of mice by 25% could also work in humans . 25% could also work in humans. the treatment and injection of an antibody that was given to the animals when they were middle aged, reduced deaths from cancer. middle aged, reduced deaths from cancer . those are the latest gb cancer. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm sam francis. more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> cheers! >> cheers! >> britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report , and here's a quick look report, and here's a quick look at the markets for you this morning. >> the pound will buy you $1.2983 and

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>> very good morning to you. welcome back. it's coming fast. towards 20 to 11 here on gb news. ben and bev with you on britain's newsroom. >> so donald trump's newly nominated running mate, j.d. vance, took centre stage at the republican convention in milwaukee last night. >> yes. and he vowed to, quote, serve america with everything he has as he ushered in a new era of politics. >> so this all comes as members of the crowd showed support for donald trump by wearing bandages on their ears following saturday's assassination attempt. >> well, our man on the ground,

ray addison was there at the rally overnight and he sent this report . report. >> so donald trump set to close off this conference with a speech at 8:00 central time. that's around 2 am. on friday morning in the united kingdom. and america is going to be very keenly looking to see what kind of tone he takes following that assassination attempt in pennsylvania. of course, he said afterwards that it had forced him to rip up the speech that he'd written for this evening and start again. we saw that he posted on truth social . those posted on truth social. those two words unite america and joe biden as well. the president, of course, saying that it was time to cool down the rhetoric. but since then we saw that he took part in that interview with nbc, where he doubled down on those tropes that we've been hearing for so long now that trump is an existential threat to democracy. and those are the types of

comments that some believe could have spurred on crooks, the would be assassin. so how will trump respond to that tonight? now, will he go back on the attack or will he continue to take that more statesmanlike approach, that more presidential approach, that more presidential approach that many people here would like to see? now we're sure to hear trump's take on exactly what happened in pennsylvania, how it felt in that moment to be shot, and the impact that it's had on him. plus of course, it could not be a trump speech without his details of his plans to prevent illegal immigration, to fix the us economy and of course, his promise, his pledge to solve the war in ukraine before he's even entered office. should he be elected . however, with donald elected. however, with donald trump, there is always, as you know, a few surprises now . right know, a few surprises now. right now, we know that the republican party very much has the momentum

in this general election. today, we saw joe biden withdraw from that conference in in las vegas , that conference in in las vegas, citing covid. and that's caused some continuing concerns about his health and his ability to continue, not only in this campaign , but as president of campaign, but as president of these united states. and that has not done much to dispel the concerns about his health. that was a real for miss joe biden. he missed the chance to take some of the focus off of the republican campaign. and of course, it comes at the same time as more and more prominent democrats are calling for him to withdraw. for the moment, democrats look to be stuck with joe biden with him refusing to withdraw, and republicans here at the conference very much feeling that trump is the president in waiting. >> all right. that was our reporter on the ground, ray addison in milwaukee at the

republican national convention overnight. well, paul connew is former editor of the sunday mirror, >> good morning, paul. great to see you. great to see you, we're writing, saying, aren't we, that you are friends with donald trump might be a little stretched, but you certainly have encountered him on numerous occasions. >> hardly, hardly, hardly . >> hardly, hardly, hardly. friends. i've often broadcast and written that i thought he was unfit to be president, but i knew him quite well back in the days when he was a controversial , days when he was a controversial, flamboyant new york businessman , flamboyant new york businessman, not a politician. and in those days he used to court the mainstream media rather than accuse us of being, deep state enemies out to destroy him . so, enemies out to destroy him. so, you know, but i'm currently resigned to the fact that donald trump is almost certain to, become president for the second time, which personally, i fear we could see american democracy lurching towards american

autocracy. during a second trump term term. but let's see what happens. i mean, tonight his speech will be more, i think, more like, it'd be more like a religious, a, a fervent religious, a, a fervent religious event rather than a straightforward political rally. i mean, it got close to that when jd vance made his speech last night. >> i know paul , last night. >> i know paul, god forbid any politician being popular and people appreciating him for his efforts. you talked about how you fear another trump term because you know, he'd be a i don't think you said these words precisely , but a dictator and precisely, but a dictator and autocracy. i mean, there were some used the word dictator himself, you know, at one stage, although i think we might see post the assassination bid, we might see quite a clever move by trump in which he will be the conciliator. >> and it's quite interesting that jd vance pick because it gives the opportunity for trump to play the unifying a slightly more moderate that, trump that he has been with jd vance doing,

if you like the heavy lifting at the can i just interject and ask sorry. >> sorry to interrupt you. you talk, you talk about your fears for dictator trump and many other people do. but we didn't see that in the first term. he had.so see that in the first term. he had. so what's what's changed? >> well we saw it. well we saw not a dictator, but we saw some pretty extreme, behaviour and language from trump and what we've actually had since then , we've actually had since then, what we've had since then, you know , is the legal battles , etc. know, is the legal battles, etc. you know, i just think i just think, you know, trump is going to be the, the president unless, unless something dramatic happens. i mean, interestingly, there was a poll two days ago that showed that the one democrat at the moment who could beat trump is michelle obama. but of course, she actually insists she's not going to stand. but i suspect and hope that, the democrats will find

some way of replacing joe biden, who clearly isn't fit to actually be a candidate . actually be a candidate. >> we're just running out of time, unfortunately. but can you just very briefly in seconds, give an example off the top of your head how he was extreme because some would argue. i mean, even his worst critics would argue he didn't really have a chance to get much done. he didn't build much of the wall that he promised to build. for example, can you give an example of how he was extreme in his his policy? >> well, i think a supreme the great example was his behaviour when he when he lost an election that he denied losing and probably be interesting to see tonight whether he repeats the i was robbed last time, certainly jd vance contributed you know, a view that, trump was robbed and the election was stolen from him. so i'm, i'm fascinated to see which donald trump emerges tonight. will it be the new, hinted conciliator? will it be the old donald trump and i think

i think that's going to be the most interesting thing about tonight. >> okay. all right. thank you paul. >> okay. all right. thank you paul . appreciate your opinion. paul. appreciate your opinion. former editor of the sunday mirror . former editor of the sunday mirror. right. >> up next we're discussing mindfulness . mindfulness. >> mindfulness. >> mindfulness. >> not quite in sync though. were we in the old do we need to encourage children to be mindful ? >> why do we to encourage children to be mindful. what's gone wrong?

gb news. welcome back. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. >> yeah. it's 1050. newsroom on gb news. >> yeah. it's1050. ben and bev with you now at the start of the yean with you now at the start of the year, we spoke to esther ghey. the mother of teenager brianna, who was brutally murdered by 215 year olds she thought were her friends . friends. >> so now mother esther is campaigning for all teachers to be trained in the mental technique of a wellbeing mindfulness. she says that it literally saved her life. our reporter eleanor smith has more. >> she was really outgoing and

she wanted to be tiktok famous. she was just a child whose life was taken far too soon. >> teenager brianna ghey was murdered in february last year , murdered in february last year, stabbed 28 times with a hunting knife by 215 year olds she thought were her friends. >> that's when her mum esther's world changed forever. >> but she says practising mindfulness saved her life . it's mindfulness saved her life. it's similar to meditation and involves focusing your attention on the present moment to become more aware of your thoughts, to help better control them. >> i'd managed to build that level of mental resilience, and i think that empathy towards myself as well, so that when i was experiencing grief, i was kind to myself, i was compassionate, i was understanding, and i let myself have have these feelings. but then i didn't get caught in the habit of what i could have done . habit of what i could have done. like, and don't get me wrong, they did come to my mind. but i managed to acknowledge that they were there and choose a different path. i would 100% say

that mindfulness has saved my life. >> all teachers in warrington, brianna's hometown, are now trained in mindfulness techniques. but esther and the mindfulness in schools projects say they won't stop there. they're campaigning to see the initiative rolled out across the country to help tackle the mental health crisis in teenagers. >> i've been working in education since 1996. things have got more difficult we'd go into with a class and then i say, who? who feels like they're stressed and nearly everyone would have their hands up, and this would be like eight, nine year olds. >> mindfulness can equip children and young people with practical tools and to calm down in tricky situations. >> while some studies have questioned the effectiveness of mindfulness on mental health, esther believes if it was around when brianna was younger, it might have prevented her death at the end of january. and while

it's too late for brianna, esther says she won't stop campaigning to make the world a safer and more understanding place for young people. >> i think that if brianna had have experienced mindfulness in, say, primary school earlier on in life , i think that it it in life, i think that it it could have possibly prevented the onset of the more serious mental health issues that she had so many like really brutal crimes that are happening, and it's happening at the hands of young people . so we really need young people. so we really need to develop empathy at a young age to prevent these crimes from happening. in the first place. >> eleanor smith , gb news, >> eleanor smith, gb news, i think she's amazing, >> eleanor smith, gb news, i think she's amazing , actually, think she's amazing, actually, as a woman, how she's made this positive. >> you and i have quite strong opinions on mindfulness, don't we? we're going to tell you in a little while. i think we shouldn't need it. and you're a big fan of it, aren't you? but anyway, we're going to talk about that in just a moment. so you're going to have to stay tuned. but still to come. >> football regulator a football regulator was confirmed in the king's speech yesterday to, quote, ensure greater

sustainability in the sport. what on earth does that mean? >> maybe like wild flower, the pitches maybe. don't know. we'll find out in a minute. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. here's annie with the weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news >> good morning. welcome to your latest gb news weather update brought to you from the met office. it's going to be a warmer day than yesterday. today dry for much of england and wales. however, it is much cloudier the further north and west you go. that's because weather fronts are really going to linger over here for the next few days . across parts of few days. across parts of northern ireland and western areas of scotland, in particular, eastern scotland should remain largely dry and for the bulk of england and wales it's going to be a dry and sunny day, the sunshine lasting well into the afternoon. it's going to be quite strong. sunshine and it will feel fairly hot in the sunshine. in fact, particularly across the

south—east where temperatures could climb to 28 degrees this afternoon but widely will be close to those mid 20s. so warmer than it has been lately for sure. the rain is going to last across western areas and northern areas of scotland. well into this evening as well. it's a little bit fresher. the further north and west you go as well, but it is feeling fairly humid even underneath this cloud. some showers could push into parts of the lake district, into parts of the lake district, into northwestern where areas of england we could see some rain across the far west of wales, some cloud pushing into the far west of cornwall as well. later on this evening. west of cornwall as well. later on this evening . so some hazy on this evening. so some hazy sunshine to end the day, but further south and east for much of central and southern areas of england, as well as some eastern areas of wales, it will remain largely dry and clear overnight. it's going to be a mild night tonight. it could be a little bit uncomfortable for sleeping. temperatures could come close to 20 degrees overnight tonight. so widely in those high teens where we are close to that more humid air now, the bulk of the rain is

more restricted further north and west through friday, so that will allow a bit more in the way of brightness to develop for much of northern ireland and scotland. so temperatures will rise a little bit more , rise a little bit more, particularly across southeastern areas of scotland. on friday. but it's the peak of the heat to come on friday. temperatures exceeding 30 degrees, potentially across the south and east widely in those high 20s as well. by by that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news

>> well . >> well. >> well. >> 11 am. on thursday, the 18th of july. live across the united kingdom. this is britain's newsroom with me, bev turner and ben leo in for andrew pierce. >> very good morning to you. hope you're doing well. now britain seeks a new migrant deal with the eu as the prime minister hosts eu leaders at blenheim palace today . minister hosts eu leaders at blenheim palace today. he's currently sat next to ukraine president volodymyr zelenskyy.

we'll bring you a snippet of his speech in just a moment. >> labour's pat mcfadden is giving evidence at the post office inquiry soon. we're going to hear from the lib dem leader, sir ed davey, over his role in the it horizon scandal and covid failures . failures. >> the first reports, published from the covid inquiry is expected to be highly critical of the conservative government's handung of the conservative government's handling of the pandemic. we could have told you that. >> and president joe biden has pulled out of a campaign speech after testing positive for covid. so what will happen . next? ktvu is coming this morning. gbnews.com forward slash your safe first of the very latest news headlines with san francis. >> beth thank you very much. and good morning to you. it's just

coming up to 11:02. and we'll start with news that volodymyr zelenskyy has arrived at that meeting of around 45 european leaders in oxfordshire, where more support is being promised for ukraine. and earlier, the ukrainian president said as he arrived that he is counting on sir keir starmer's support, the uk demonstrated leadership from the very beginning of russian attacks and all the strong steps and some, some not. >> simple steps, always. ukraine uk began . so i count on my uk began. so i count on my meeting. i will have meeting with prime minister and also bilateral one. and also i will have i will have meeting with with the government . with the government. >> sir keir starmer is hosting that summit at blenheim palace, which he has said he hopes will fire the starting gun on a new relationship with the eu following brexit. these are the live pictures . inside that live pictures. inside that summit are. sir keir starmer is

currently giving his opening statement as ben and bev mentioned, we will bring you a quick snippet of that opening statement shortly. the prime minister says he wants to reset the relationship with the continent and push for closer security ties with other countries. the group have already agreed on boosting defence capabilities in ukraine as it defends itself against russia. the covid inquiry will release its first report this lunchtime, which is expected to expose expose widespread failures to prepare for a pandemic. it will also make recommendations on how the uk might better prepare for a future outbreak. evidence heard in the inquiry so far suggests the government's response was affected by public health cutbacks. at least eight more reports will follow today's publication . in the us, joe publication. in the us, joe biden has tested positive for coronavirus. the president was last seen walking off of air force one after cancelling a campaign speech in las vegas. his diagnosis comes as concerns

are growing about his age, with some top democrats reportedly questioning his re—election bid after privately meeting with him this morning. an interview has been released, with biden suggesting he would pull out of the race for the white house if medical professionals advised him to . him to. >> i made a serious mistake in the whole debate . and, and look, the whole debate. and, and look, when i originally ran, you may remember it. i said i was going to be a transitional candidate, and i thought that i'd be able to move from this to pass it on to move from this to pass it on to someone else . but i didn't to someone else. but i didn't anticipate things getting so , anticipate things getting so, so, so divided and quite frankly, i think the only thing age brings a little bit of wisdom, and i think i've demonstrated that i know how to get things done for the country. >> and staying with news from the us, >> and staying with news from the us, jd >> and staying with news from the us, jd vance has described donald trump as america's last best hope. during his first speech as the republican vice presidential candidate. speaking at the party's national

convention in wisconsin, he praised the former president for his defiance after he became a target of an assassination attempt over the weekend. vance was chosen as trump's running mate, despite being his critic. in the run up to the 2016 election. here, the families of two british men who have been reported missing in sweden are now appealing for information on their whereabouts. it's feared their whereabouts. it's feared the men were victims of a double murder. 33 year old juan stephanie takyi and farouk abdul razak , who's 37, travelled for a razak, who's 37, travelled for a business trip but haven't come home. officers are now investigating after two bodies were found in a burnt out car in the area on sunday. local media in malmo are reporting that they were shot, though police are still working to identify the victims . one person has died and victims. one person has died and 71 people have been rescued after a migrant boat sank in the engush after a migrant boat sank in the english channel late last night. all those on board the vessel

ended up in the water but were picked up in a joint rescue operation between the uk and french authorities . two french authorities. two prominent mps , both of whom were prominent mps, both of whom were former government ministers who oversaw the post office, are being questioned this morning at the horizon it inquiry currently , the horizon it inquiry currently, labour's pat mcfadden is in the chair, answering questions. he was postal affairs minister and sir ed davey, now the leader of the liberal democrats, is also expected to give evidence later after he held that role. they'll be asked about the errors in the honzon be asked about the errors in the horizon it system, which to led subpostmasters being wrongly convicted of fraud and another inquiry examining claims that women and girls were mistreated in police custody is due to be published this lunchtime. dame vera baird is reviewing allegations linked to greater manchester police and how they deau manchester police and how they dealt with people following arrest , including dealt with people following arrest, including some men. greater manchester police accepts there are examples of poor standards and practices ,

poor standards and practices, but they say they have fully engaged with the inquiry. but they say they have fully engaged with the inquiry . wages engaged with the inquiry. wages have grown by 5.7% in the three months to may. that's a drop, though, from the 6% growth in the first three months of the yeah the first three months of the year. meanwhile, unemployment remained unchanged, with official figures showing the jobless rate is now 4.5. a heat health alert has been issued for parts of england for friday, with temperatures set to hit 30 c. the uk health security agency's alert covers east midlands, east england, london and the south east from tomorrow through to saturday. it's warning that hot weather may impact the health and social care sector . an experimental care sector. an experimental drug has been found to extend the lifespan of mice by 25, with researchers saying it could also work in humans. they say that the trials with the animals injected with the antibody , injected with the antibody, called il 11, cut cancer deaths ,

called il 11, cut cancer deaths, reduced chronic inflammation and saw less muscle wasting. all key signs of ageing. saw less muscle wasting. all key signs of ageing . and finally, signs of ageing. and finally, viewers have been turning in to tuning in rather to get a rare peek inside the hidden world of a snake mega den in northern colorado. but be warned, it could leave you rattled. the 2000 rattlesnakes can now be viewed online live, thanks to a round the clock webcam, although, as you can see there, they're rather tricky to spot. i can just about make them out in the centre of the screen, hiding between between the rocks, the elusive reptiles are nestling in the mountainside crevices, but the mountainside crevices, but the exact location is being kept secret to stop snake lovers, or perhaps haters, from messing with the animals. perhaps haters, from messing with the animals . those are the with the animals. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm sam francis. much more still to come in the next 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. >> morning. welcome back to britain's newsroom , live across britain's newsroom, live across the united kingdom on gb news with me, bev turner and ben leo here for andrew pierce. >> very good morning to you. let's cross live to blenheim palace now where sir keir starmer is addressing european leaders alongside vladimir zelenskyy, the president of ukraine, to address all their issues. >> without this one individual. second, the reality on the battlefield is more convincing than any abstract deliberations . than any abstract deliberations. we have stopped the russian advance on kharkiv period. putin has sacrificed tens of thousands of his citizens but has achieved nothing significant. this was made possible by the bravery of our warriors and the bravery of our warriors and the bravery of

our partners , who have lifted our partners, who have lifted limitations on the use of western weapons along our border . western weapons along our border. did this lead to escalation? no on the contrary, it blocked putin's attempt to expand the war. did putin have any response? no. even when the russian missile strikes, children with cancer, as happened recently, it only repeats the evil we have already seen from russia in this war. so we must act as brave as necessary to achieve results. we can steer this war towards its just ending with the power of our weapons and our diplomacy. and we should not fear these capabilities. the more effective our air defence is, the more helpless putin will be. the fewer restrictions we have on the use of effective weapons,

the use of effective weapons, the more russia will seek peace. military airfields from which russian jets take off with bombs against our cities, our people, our children and the launch sites of russian missiles. all these must be destroyed . this these must be destroyed. this will not only eliminate some targets , but will also reduce targets, but will also reduce russia's capability to continue this war. the missiles . this war. the missiles. >> okay, that was vladimir zelenskyy, the president of ukraine, speaking now live at blenheim palace alongside sir keir starmer and other world leaders , on gbnews.com/yoursay, leaders, on gbnews.com/yoursay, ian , you're watching this as he ian, you're watching this as he speaks. you say, may i remind everyone that ukraine is not in the eu? also, they're not members of nato, which is what the war in ukraine is all about. ian, some would argue that i mean, the argument from the very, very pro ukraine side to keep funding them with endless amounts of taxpayer money is that if putin takes ukraine, poland is next or another countries next, and that would

be a problem. they are nato countries. >> let's go to deputy leader of rejoin the eu richard morley. good morning richard , so as the good morning richard, so as the leader of rejoined the eu, are you rejoicing this morning at these pictures of sir keir starmer glad handing all the eu leaders there and perhaps making deals that we will know about soon? >> well, i think it's very important that britain and europe come together and integrate their efforts towards solving the many problems that are facing not only europe, but actually facing the world. >> the ukrainian war, the immigration crisis, the global warming crisis, and indeed the struggle in, in gaza are all major issues that have to be coordinated on a global basis. >> and we must remember this conference is not just about eu countries. in fact, some of the countries. in fact, some of the countries attending aren't even in europe. and consequently, we have to coordinate with all these countries in order to get

a better response to the crises that lay ahead. >> i mean, we've always had global issues, richard, throughout , global issues, richard, throughout, you global issues, richard, throughout , you know, global issues, richard, throughout, you know, all modern history, there have been issues which countries can work together. we had a brexit referendum in which the british people voted to be outside of that particular club. do you feel the mood of the nation is still if we had a referendum tomorrow, would still vote in that direction. >> no , absolutely no way. >> no, absolutely no way. i think that the public in britain have woken up to the reality that on our own , as a as a that on our own, as a as a separate sovereign nation, we are far less able to cope with the terrible problems that are around us. now, you talk about history and all the crises in the past, but the crisis that faces us at the moment, global warming is something that mankind has never faced. moreover the immigration problem, which is actually quite small at the present moment when we take into effect the, into

account the effect of global warming over the next 20 years, the mass migration issue is really stupendous , and the whole really stupendous, and the whole world has got to coordinate together to cope with this and war at this moment is not helping it. we must find a solution to war without endlessly protracting it into a struggle which could go for on years, unless we diplomatically solve the issues that caused it. >> so, richard, the obvious question is why can countries like switzerland handle these topics and challenges without being in the eu? but we can't. i mean, are we not good enough? do you not believe in britain? what's the problem? >> well, i think being a member of the eu helps us to coordinate better. i mean, switzerland, of course, is a wonderful country. but let's face it , britain course, is a wonderful country. but let's face it, britain is still a major economy in the in the world. its voice is still of great significance across the planet. and britain should be making a stance for not

separation of nations, but for unity, for unity not only in europe, but unity across the world. this is what we need at the moment of great, grave global crises and i think this conference is one of the measures in which we will make a step towards that. >> okay. thank you, richard, for your strong opinions there. deputy leader of rejoin the eu, richard morley. and no doubt gbnews.com/yoursay is about to blow up. >> it was the biggest democratic vote in this country's history. why on earth anyone would want to repeat the toxicity of that penod to repeat the toxicity of that period from 2016? i do not know. and by the way, there's no evidence that there's now over. you've got some polls saying, oh yeah, i'd like to read you. there's no evidence. so let's crisis , crisis, crisis. crisis, crisis, crisis. >> the world is on fire. we have to be part of the eu. you know, migrants everywhere. we have to be part of the eu. it's first of all, you've got to believe that these crises are actually real. and to the extent that they are the emergency which we are perpetually being told that they

are. and i, for one, am not convinced actually about a lot of the stuff that we're told about those particular issues, let me have a look. what you've been saying at home. >> yeah, i mean, in terms of global warming, you know, no one denies global warming exists. but i always say to people like richard, i wish i'd asked him then, you know, we've had doomsday predictions from yesteryears 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago. for example, in the year i think it was 1996, the un's chief climate scientist said that britain would be under a siberian climate by the year 2000. i mean, there's literally dozens of them. >> so climate change, i believe, and i'm not yet convinced of how much it is man made climate change. and then you've got the other side of that is what sacrifices are we to prepared make if it is entirely a man made phenomenon? because when we just talk about there's a crisis, there's a crisis, and we need to be working with these leaders. we're losing. we're just thinking with our emotion and not with facts. >> why can't we work with these leaders and these organisations

and these countries from the safety and the comfort outside the eu ? america does it, the the eu? america does it, the australia does it, switzerland does it. you know, why do we have to be part of this, this club? debbie says sir richard is wrong. >> what we need is reforming government to come fully out of the eu, including the human rights bill. then we can stand on our own and get immigration under control, richard is out of touch, says kirsty. maureen said he's not speaking for me. i would still vote to leave no further conversation. it's done. no going back. i remind you, i was a remainer. i'm not anymore. are you really? yes >> did you vote remain? >> did you vote remain? >> yeah. add it to the list of things i feel differently about now. ben than i did in 2017. >> you've had a revolution, a damascene conversion. >> honestly. yeah, i did , i >> honestly. yeah, i did, i thought, well, i was, i was like, well, you know, we're probably better in it than out of it, aren't we? you normally better to have support than not. and now i see some of the, some of the issues, particularly around control, won't surprise you. regular viewers , just being you. regular viewers, just being bulldozed through and i think, thank god we're not part of that

anymore. but we have had i like the phrase brianna ghey, which is brexit in name only to some extent. i don't feel we've had quite well either through incompetence or lack of will. >> brexit hasn't been implemented properly so we can't. i mean, the brexit was a vote solely about immigration and immigration is worse than it's ever been legal and illegal. so it totally betrayed. brexit has been betrayed . and brexit has been betrayed. and some of you are arguing today onune some of you are arguing today online that, you know, we're now taking these first steps back, nestling up cosily with the eu again. >> right. we're going to take a little break. you can do some mindfulness during this break because we'll tell you after that what we think about mindfulness, but also a drug that's going to turn your granny into a supermodel. and it might also saved your life. stay with us. this is britain's newsroom on gb news

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>>— >> go for chaos. >> for voices in the room. we're joined by jonathan lewis and carole malone of course, alongside, of course, me and bev on britain's newsroom. >> hence the chaos, right. do you want to talk about strictly come dancing then? >> i do, because this is not going away, is it? this is the glitter is very definitely off the glitter ball right now because , i mean it's been because, i mean it's been running now for a week. but in today's papers and come into the mix and there's a guy called james jordan. you remember him. yeah. and, he he's not been accused of anything in particular other than he's alleged to have said to a contestant, his one of his partners, whose name i can't remember. georgia, georgia, georgina bouzova, he said to her, if you don't do what i'm telling you to do, i'll drag you a cloth across the floor. and he said, i don't care how much pain you're in unless you've got a broken rib. i'm not interested. get on with it. so. so what we're hearing now is that, like, this is all all this lovely show we see every week that's supposed to be a family show. we're all thinking, this is lovely. what's going on behind the scenes as allegedly hellish?

>> i would say james jordan's come out and defended himself on this, and he said the clip that in which you've just quoted him, carol, he was joking and they actually showed it on the it takes two programme where they were joking about what a taskmaster he is. so he he's slightly resenting the fact that he's been dragged into these other complaints from amanda robinson and giovanni pearce. >> what gets me about the whole thing is that a lot of the people who are coming out, a lot of the women who are now coming out of the woodwork, are coming out of the woodwork, are coming out and saying, what happened to them. and because they were so scared. and what strikes me is the bbc knew about some of these complaints because they actually twice had to. they had to give a warning to the guy. graziano. they knew all this was going on and they they just didn't do anything. and now these people are speaking out and we hear that, you know, they seem to be to care the bbc more about ratings than they do about what's happening to their dancers, which which is outrageous. but, you know, the show makes them a lot of money. they don't want to damage it. however, the bbc have got to ask

themselves why so many women? just women, mind you , don't make just women, mind you, don't make a thing. not men on make were too scared to complain. yeah and that. too scared to complain. yeah and that . go on. that. go on. >> sorry, i thought you'd finished. apologies darling. >> you're presenting. you can interrupt me any time you want, jonathan. >> they tell you that they say that. >> like i was just going to say the bbc is not got a good track record when it comes to standing by. whilst scandal is brewing under its watch . under its watch. >> what are you referring to? well, i won't go into detail queuing up, but the jimmy savile one famously. oh i see, there is a history, isn't there? >> mark bashir, look, i've never actually watched strictly before, but obviously we know that with television, >> there is it's not what you see on television. it's not always real. and behind the scenes, all kinds of things can be going on. obviously behind this particular television programme, everyone's everyone is super. everyone is super friendly and pleasant, obviously. but, you know, the television is artifice . and television is artifice. and there are as with all

workplaces, there are nice people who work in television, and there are nasty people who work in television. >> yes, but brutality against women and verbal and physical, it's not acceptable. >> of course it's not. of course not acceptable. and then there's a huge issue with it in the entertainment industry in all forms, you know, look, look at what happened to harvey weinstein, metoo movement with a bit like that with with women. yeah. right. so, i think that the problem that we have at the moment is that while sexual harassment in particular has now been brought so, so clearly to the people's attentions as a result of metoo, i think that workplace bullying is the one aspect that hasn't had its kind of metoo movement. and you have a lot of i hear. so many stories of people in politics, in showbiz who are notoriously awful to work with or for, and people say, don't work for that guy. not that he's not necessarily going to touch you up, but he's going to bully you and make you feel small. >> but, you know, when you back to strictly, amanda abbington, who was the actress who first complained and she complained

about, he's called giovanni giovanni pernice . yeah, she giovanni pernice. yeah, she complained. and at the time she was made to sound like some idiot, hysterical woman who was just making a fuss over nothing. and she had the guts to go to a top lawyers and say , investigate top lawyers and say, investigate these claims, get my videos from practice and you have look. and this lawyer was carter—ruck went to the bbc with these complaints. so she had she had the guts to go to take that on. but i think it's such a shame that, you know, a lot of the women on this show, they're young women and they're frightened to complain because it's a career making thing for them or not. and i just think them or not. and i just think the bbc have tried to cover it feels like they've tried to cover this off. they've warned these dancers in the past who and the dancers took no notice and the dancers took no notice and they just gave them shiny new contracts. >> well, the investigation is going on, aren't they, at the moment. so we'll have to wait and see. but like you say, the shine is definitely coming off. it can, no doubt about it, >> right. should we move on the telegraph, a drug has increased the lifespans of lab animals by nearly 25. in a discovery scientists hope can slow human ageing. it's been dubbed the

supermodel granny drug . supermodel granny drug. >> so i picked this for ofsted . >> so i picked this for ofsted. not because you're a granny, but because this drug can actually boost your vision, boost your hearing, your muscle, your muscle functions improved. it stops grey hair in its tracks. so as we get older, i mean, i'm way older than you, but as we get older, if we could get our hands on this, we're forever young. >> this sounds like the ozempic of the anti—aging world. >> we could look like you been in the end . you know, you look in the end. you know, you look like, well, benjamin button, i'm 16. >> next week. >> next week. >> well, you look, i don't i don't know , jonathan. don't know, jonathan. >> i wouldn't take it. i wouldn't take it . we are meant wouldn't take it. we are meant to age. we're meant to grow up. >> oh, we mitigate, we mitigate, grow out. just bear with me . grow out. just bear with me. >> if you look ten years younger than you are. >> anyway, thank you very much. i don't want to walk in the building at 7:00 in the morning. let me tell you, but honestly, i just. aren't we? this obsession , just. aren't we? this obsession, though, with anti—aging, it's not healthy, is it . not healthy, is it. >> well, it's sometimes not healthy when people take drastic

measures to halt ageing and to try and stay younger and youthful. i think that when you look at women who and men as well, of course, but particularly women who are, say , particularly women who are, say, 50 now and then, you compare it to pictures of women who are 50, say , 40 years ago now. they, say, 40 years ago now. they, they, they look like the women 50, 40 years ago look like the women's mothers. now, jennifer. so people, people have, you know, science and technology have advanced massively, and there's no reason why people shouldn't want to, you know, look, feel great in themselves. but obviously you look at people who age naturally, completely naturally and they can also look fantastic. >> so yeah, but you know , it's >> so yeah, but you know, it's you know, you're saying you wouldn't take it now because you don't have to. >> the thing is, when you get to my arguable, you start thinking, give it to me. >> i think, do you know what i think? if it meant i could. the one thing i hate more than anything about getting me to is wearing them. i hate having to. i hate it. you've got that. oh. >> you should. you can't get youn pve >> you should. you can't get your. i've had my eyes lasered when i was 20. yeah i used to wear contact. well glasses as a in the classroom. i wouldn't wear them outside the classroom, >> for my own because of your

vanity. >> you got to see how old you are. >> i'm 35 next month. >> i'm 35 next month. >> you. so i'm, like, really ? i >> you. so i'm, like, really? i thought you were much younger than that. >> i thought you were much younger . younger. >> he's got babies. >> he's got babies. >> i'm a big boy now. >> i'm a big boy now. >> but i take it for health reasons. i take it if i could carry on going for a walk and my knees didn't ache and i could see and i could hear, then i can see and i could hear, then i can see the benefit in that. but i'd still be worried about it. it's a it's a gene therapy, isn't it? >> but no, we should also mention it. probably the most important thing . it can prevent important thing. it can prevent cancer as well. let's say it's because what it does is it stops the production of a protein called 1l11. and this is old. older people have more of this protein. multiply so they stop the growth of that. and they're saying it could also prevent cancen saying it could also prevent cancer. well so it's a no brainer medicine. >> and pharmaceutical drugs do have their place. and you know it's amazing miracles that they can work. however i just think maybe we should just focus more on, you know , diet and exercise on, you know, diet and exercise and preventative measures instead of always running to the latest injection and tablets.

>> and sometimes when things seem too good to be true, that's because they are as well. so we don't know what the side effects. >> five you can say that. >> five you can say that. >> well look, i if i didn't go to the gym and walk or watch what i eat, i'd be i'd have to be sat here with a gut. probably with a triple chin. >> i could take his pick then. >> i could take his pick then. >> so i do. it's not just because i'm young that i look slim. i have to put some effort into it. >> but you are. i think when people are younger, you don't think about the ageing process. and then and then and but you as a woman, you especially think about it because you are women are judges on the way they look andifs are judges on the way they look and it's wrong, but it happens. are judged and we've only got a minute left. >> but i want your opinions on biden. he said he would quit if he got ill. jonathan and guess what? he's got covid. is this going to be the start of the end for him with his presidency? >> i think , on balance, that he >> i think, on balance, that he should stand down. obviously, the that conversation is slightly moved on. this week after what happened to trump. and so we're not hearing as much about it. but you had adam schiff, a very senior democrat, coming out yesterday saying that he thought biden should stand down. and what we've had for the

last few weeks is no one's been quite ready to say it on the record, but a lot. but i'm talking about senior democrats in office. and so once you have schiff going forward, it might open the floodgates a little bit. >> i think he says he'll only quit if there's a serious medical issue. i mean, how serious does it have to get? he didn't know what year it was last week, how serious. and he called zelenskyy putin. >> exactly. >> exactly. >> and i've just come back from italy and there from a hotel there it was where the g7 italy and there from a hotel there it was where the 67 was held , and the staff were telling held, and the staff were telling me that that he was there for the kind of conference, and he just wandered off in the middle of a big international photo call, extraordinary footage. and mrs. maloney had to bring him back. mrs. maloney had to bring him back . you know, the prime back. you know, the prime minister of italy had to bring him back and say, stand there. do you not think it's a bit shameful of the i mean, everybody apart from the democrats in public anyway have said biden's fine. >> there's nothing wrong with him. over a year ago, everyone else could see it. do you not think it's shameful? they kind of covered this up and tried to. >> i think it's shameful of his family. i mean, you know, his his wife and his family are saying there's nothing wrong with him and he's. and is this is this how power corrupts people? i don't know, maybe the family want to stay there

because the power the latest news coming from america is that nancy pelosi, the former house speaken nancy pelosi, the former house speaker, has taken him to one side and said, you need to step down now in a private phone call. >> so covid might be the best excuse he could think of, right? jonathan. carol, great to see you both. right. >> moving on. sam, how's your news headlines? back in a sec . news headlines? back in a sec. >> very good morning to you. it's just after half past 11. the top story this morning, sir keir starmer says he wants to use a summit of european leaders to push for joint use a summit of european leaders to push forjoint action on to push for joint action on illegal migration. the prime minister is currently hosting around 45 leaders at blenheim palace in oxfordshire, where defence, security and energy are on the agenda. in the last few minutes, he used his opening speech to also reaffirm the uk's support for ukraine, saying the threat from russia reaches right across europe . widespread across europe. widespread failures to properly prepare for a pandemic in the uk are expected to be laid bare later. the covid inquiry is releasing the first of at least eight

reports into the crisis. this lunchtime. evidence heard so far at the inquiry suggests the uk's response was affected by public health cutbacks in the us. joe biden has been forced to pull out of a campaign speech after contracting coronavirus. the white house says the 81 year old is having mild symptoms from the infection, but that he is vaccinated, boosted and currently isolating while he continues his duties. it comes as the us president's facing growing pressure to step aside because of his age , and there because of his age, and there were also reports that two top democrats in the congress have met him privately to express their concerns over his re—election bid . here, a re—election bid. here, a football club in hertfordshire has paid tribute to one of the british men who's gone missing in sweden. juan cifuentes used to play for welwyn garden city before disappearing alongside farouk abdul razak. their families are appealing for information on their whereabouts amid fears the men might have been victims of a double murder , been victims of a double murder, and banks have been told today

to improve how they treat political figures. following a review into so—called de—banking, the uk's financial watchdog found most firms could deal with mps better so they're not subject to excessive checks or bans. the issue made headunes or bans. the issue made headlines when nigel farage claimed he had been had his account closed because of his political views . those are the political views. those are the latest headlines for now i'm sam francis. another update just after midday 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. >> cheers! britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report , and here's the financial report, and here's the latest look at the markets this morning. >> the pound will buy you $1.2987 and ,1.1883. the price

of gold just after 11:30 is £11,897.40. that's per ounce. and the ftse 100 is at 8247 points. >> cheers ! britannia wine club >> cheers! britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report . financial report. >> thanks, sam. we're joined now by a couple of star presenters who definitely don't need an anti—ageing jab. that's tom and emily on good afternoon britain. well, not yet sprightly as ever. very kind of you. you're welcome. you can chop me the fiver off. >> although we're very jealous because you get to announce the results of the first report from the covid inquiry today. >> oh, i can hardly contain my excitement. >> yes, it drops right at 12:00. right in our time. we've got mark white there ready to dig into the detail. tell us what we got awfully wrong . got awfully wrong. >> it'll be you locked down too late. you didn't lock down hard enough , i imagine so it's going enough, i imagine so it's going to mainly be the preparation that the country had. >> a big argument has been that we prepared for the wrong kind

of pandemic. we prepared for a flu pandemic rather than a sort of sars type pandemic. but we'll see what it says. >> you mean a respiratory virus? yeah. >> i mean, both were i mean, tommy, covid was flu. like in the end, i mean, flu cases dramatically went to zero during covid. and then covid cases went through the roof. it's interesting how that happened. >> yeah, i think i think that there is a argument that some of the, advice initially , for the, advice initially, for example, the sort of let it spin around in the community stuff works well for flu, didn't work so well for covid, but we'll see what they say . what they say. >> i feel like piggy in the middle right now . middle right now. >> we'll also be looking, of course, at the european political community summit, which was organised by rishi sunak. it's yet another gift from rishi sunak to keir starmer. not only low inflation now , high growth for several now, high growth for several months in a row, but also a big conflagration of european union leaders in blenheim palace. >> yeah, hang on here. it looks like someone wants to sign us up to the eu asylum policy in one way or another. oh, you take a

few of our boat people. we'll take some of your refugees from the european union. is that what the european union. is that what the british public want ? i would the british public want? i would suggest not. >> well, we've had many guests on today who say , yes, the tide on today who say, yes, the tide has changed. the opinion has changed. the public want to rejoin the eu. i don't know where they get that information from. maybe from the voice in their head, but i don't think it's true. >> i think it'll be really interesting to see the detail of anything that's thrashed out, because objectively, it would be good to have a returns agreement with france if we could send people straight back to france once they arrive on on the dover beaches, that would be a very good thing . however, if the cost good thing. however, if the cost of that is taking tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of migrants who've just crossed across the mediterranean instead, and we share around all these people across europe. >> well, why don't you think labour wants to build so many houses, tom? >> well, because we're formally in. >> how about how about france do their job >> how about how about france do theirjob half a billion a year and stop boats launching off the beaches ? beaches? >> well, apparently, macron says it's a sensitive topic. >> yeah, i bet it is. >>— >> yeah, i bet it is. >> right ? that's >> yeah, i bet it is.

>> right? that's a >> yeah, i bet it is. >> right ? that's a lot >> yeah, i bet it is. >> right? that's a lot more >> yeah, i bet it is. >> right ? that's a lot more with >> right? that's a lot more with ben and ben and emily. no, emily. >> i'm not working again. >> i'm not working again. >> ben. no, i know, i know , i >> ben. no, i know, i know, i know, ben. >> flower pot men . >> flower pot men. >> flower pot men. >> right after the quick break, i'm going to teach ben a thing or two about being mindful and the benefits that it can bring, or the fact that actually, i don't think it's. >> i think it's the other way around. >> all the way around. you're going to teach me, okay, don't going to teach me, okay, don't go anywhere. >> newsroom. back in the

tick. welcome back. snap >> you do it! i'm reading. i'll do it. i'll be the secretary here and read the emails. >> welcome back. 1140 ben in for andrew pierce. this week and next week, actually. and bev turner, of course , we, we're turner, of course, we, we're looking at what you've been saying just there in the break and, here we go. >> what have you been saying? so, lizzie has said you have you have to have the will to deal

with the migrants. labour. not the tories, have that will because both parties have their own labour. sorry. nor the tories have that will, because both parties have their own selfish agendas, and james has said in reference to ukraine, we've seen zelenskyy there in blenheim palace this morning, james is complaining about how much money has gone to ukraine. sunak donated £8.3 billion dunng sunak donated £8.3 billion during his reign as pm, he sunak pledged just three months ago £3 billion for this year alone. and for every year into infinity. he did say, didn't he , that there did say, didn't he, that there is no amount. there is no limit to the amount that we would pay. >> yeah. i've asked people many times before i said, where does this end? is it a bottomless pit of taxpayer money? and the answer is always , yeah. answer is always, yeah. >> and nobody talks about peace, which is and nobody talks about resolution. resolution. no. >> and by the way, to just add my twitter algorithm is completely skewed at the moment. it's rather disturbing because most of the time i don't know if you've seen these, but really

horrific graphic videos of young men, hundreds of young men from the ukrainian and russian side being thrown to the front line, killing each other in the most barbaric way , war crimes going barbaric way, war crimes going on from both sides. and it's sad. there's a few clips showing that these men, when they are captured, they don't want to be fighting each other, and it's going to be a money pit for years. >> lots of very lucrative contracts to rebuild ukraine. at some point going to huge companies, right. some point going to huge companies, right . what else have companies, right. what else have you been saying here, about celebrity, about strictly come dancing ? grumpy grandad has said dancing? grumpy grandad has said these dancers set themselves very high standards. they don't want their celebrity making them look bad, so they expect the same amount of effort from these celebs as they put into it. and anyone with half a brain cells should know it's been going on. it's been really hard work. i think there is probably quite a lot of truth to this . these lot of truth to this. these celebrities want the limelight, but they don't want to earn it. one said she had ptsd learning how to dance for a show, how could you get that? it's an inqu could you get that? it's an insult to anyone who really has it. that particular actress. i think there's more to come out

from that particular story. so i think she did have an incredibly hard time. >> yeah, i'm not saying they're all like this, but is it a repeat of, say, the dominic raab situation where you've got someone who has high standards, wants the very best? and maybe in the case of a lot of gen z—ers, they think that pressure to perform well is bullying. robert you say with the amount of money we've given the french to stop the small boats, they should be begging to take them back. well, yeah. and also mindfulness. bev. so we saw that great package from our colleague eleanor earlier from brianna ghey , jai's mother, who said ghey, jai's mother, who said that she's dealing with the death of her child or the murder of her child through mindfulness. so what is mindfulness, bev? >> well, you tell me, because you're quite a fan of mindfulness, aren't you? i like this, right. >> i try and meditate when i can, yeah, i do. >> so being in the moment, isn't it? being very well, being mindful of what's happening . mindful of what's happening. >> so we've got a little list. so mindful eating maybe it involves when you eat just maybe think about instead of watching the telly at the time or flicking through your phone. think about the flavours in your

mouth and the texture of the food. maybe where it came from, the journey that the. it sounds a bit woo woo, but the journey. you know how the food got to your plate when it comes to mindful moving or walking or running? try focusing on the feeling of your body moving. if you're going for a walk, maybe nofice you're going for a walk, maybe notice the you know, the wind in your hair or you know how the sky is looking in the clouds very again, it sounds very woo woo, but i like it. >> but it's what we just used to call being bored. yeah. so, you know, when we say now that kids need mindfulness lessons because you know why they're constantly overstimulated . so when i was overstimulated. so when i was growing up, you remember this, ben. but when i was growing up, you sit on the bus watching the condensation on the window . that condensation on the window. that was mindfulness. or you ate your breakfast and all you had to read was the back of the cereal box. that was mindfulness . or box. that was mindfulness. or you just have to sit and wait in a classroom until the teacher came along and you weren't given a screen to watch. that was mindfulness. and so what we've doneis mindfulness. and so what we've done is and adults, we've overwhelmed ourselves with something to look at. all the time, mainly this and this and the telly. i mean, keep watching the telly. i mean, keep watching

the telly. i mean, keep watching the telly. i'm not telling you not to do that, but because we occupy our brains all the time , occupy our brains all the time, we get overloaded and overwhelmed. it's no wonder we're stressed. >> yeah , i'm conscious of the >> yeah, i'm conscious of the fact that recently, in the last few months, maybe it is stress. i just whenever i've got a spare moment, i'm just flicking through my phone. i'm not looking for anything in particular, i'm just flicking through twitter. >> and you live by the sea. you've got no excuse . i just you've got no excuse. i just need to sit and look at the horizon. do you know what i was down by the seaside last night. >> i took a walk down to the. the pebbles. we're just going to go to some live pictures. actually, here's blenheim palace, all the world leaders, vladimir zelenskyy a sir keir starmer there. i can't quite see the monitor as giorgia meloni there as well. >> macron is no doubt there . >> macron is no doubt there. there they are. stood on the steps of blenheim palace, as we say. zelenskyy, not ukraine, not in the eu, not in nato anyway. there doesn't seem to be an international event that isn't there in his in his army fatigues, keir starmer setting out his vision arguably for his time in number 10 on the beautiful steps of blenheim

palace. there and this in oxfordshire. >> this, of course, was a summit organised by rishi sunak. so it begs the question again why did he call the election when he did? you're missing out on the chance to posture on the world stage among other leaders. you've also got the economic gifts that labour have inherited and are now arguably taking victory laps for when they didn't earn it. for example. gdp growing higher than expected last month . rachel reeves saying last month. rachel reeves saying it was just the start. i mean, come on, that wasn't anything to do with you. you've got bank of england interest rates coming down potentially next month. thatin down potentially next month. that in turn will bring down mortgage rates. the cost of living is coming down. why? why did you call the election when you did? unless you just wanted to get out, you couldn't be bothered. >> good inflation figures this week that labour will claim credit for. but of course, as you say, that they can't claim credit for, it will be interesting to see what comes out of that summit. you'll be here tomorrow morning , won't you? >>i you? >> i am, yeah. good morning. you're off. but i'll be here. we'll pick it up tomorrow. we're just going to go for a quick break, but come back shortly. we're going to be outlining more of the policies from the king's speech yesterday, and we're to hear how labour wants an independent football regulator. what for? this is

tick. welcome back. 1150 britain's newsroom on gb news. now. labour say they will give more power to football fans. and that they want to introduce an independent football regulator. >> but would this ruin the beautiful game? well, joining us now is sports journalist harry harris. good morning harry. what do labour mean by a football regulator ? regulator? >> look, politicians can't run the country, so they're not going to be able to run something as complicated as football and parade. what do they mean by a football regulator in my view, they haven't got a clue. >> there's a massive amount of proposals out there , none of proposals out there, none of which make much sense. they want the fans to be involved in the running of football clubs. i mean , it's delusional. you know, mean, it's delusional. you know, the there is so much vested interest. and here we see keir starmer i've got my own ideas how we can fund football through the pyramids, but anything that i suggest now would, be exempt

for arsenal because obviously keir starmer would want arsenal to win the title of that last. but for me , you know, i could but for me, you know, i could imagine. but for me, you know, what we would like to see if you want to fans charter is a freezing of the rising , freezing of the rising, continually rising of season tickets, of ticket prices we'd like to see, i personally would like to see, i personally would like to see a transfer tax. i know labour love a tax. so how about a transfer tax? where billions is floating out of the game to , agents? most of them game to, agents? most of them perfectly okay. some of them not so. but, you know, why are we why is the football world paying so much billions a year to football agents. let's tax that. >> what a great idea. i've never get . sorry, sorry to interrupt. get. sorry, sorry to interrupt. sorry to interject i what a great, great idea. i've never heard that before. but at a time when you are ripping football fans off with, cable tv, with ticket prices, i'm an arsenal fan. some of the highest ticket pnces fan. some of the highest ticket

prices in europe compared to, say, germany, where you can go and watch a bundesliga game for £20. what a great idea . £20. what a great idea. >> thank you and what i would do with that transfer tax, i would send that down the pyramid all the way to grassroots football . the way to grassroots football. i would have a survival, fund where clubs are in difficulty, can tap into those funds, and another part of the football regulator, we don't want state owned , football clubs, but do we owned, football clubs, but do we want a state owned football industry? of course we don't. and the football industry is riding against it. so they're not cooperating. so really it needs! not cooperating. so really it needs i know they've spoken to everybody, but really the government, the labour government, the labour government really needs some injection of real knowledge and understanding . understanding. >> one of the things harry they're talking about is that clubs would have to seek approval to, relocate to a different stadium or to change the name of a stadium. i'd love to be the government that has a time on your hands to get

involved in that sort of thing . involved in that sort of thing. >> well, as i said at the beginning, they can't run the country. they're not going to run football. but this is the wimbledon clause. what we don't want to see and what fans don't want to see and what fans don't want to see is that their club, like wimbledon, was uprooted to milton keynes. i mean, that's a sensible suggestion, but it hasn't happened since. so why you have to have regulation to prevent it? look, it's beyond me. it's clear that the labour government, if now they're running this after the tories have handed it over, it's a hot potato. they really need some expertise to people to understand the game, to actually take it forward. >> that's right. thanks, harry. it seems like a problem that didn't need fixing, didn't it, right. i've had a great week with you, ben. thank you so much. i am on my holidays next week, but you will be back here. let's hand over to ben and emily, or indeed, tom and emily, because at 12:00, we were going to hear those first results from the covid inquiry. >> what have they concluded about how prepared the uk really

was and negotiations between keir starmer and european leaders ? leaders? >> could a deal be struck? when it comes to a small boat migrants, and at what cost could it come all of that after your weather? >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news . weather on gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest gb news, weather update brought to you from the met office. it's going to be a warmer day than yesterday. today dry for much of england and wales. however it is much cloudier the further north and west you go. that's because weather fronts are really going to linger over here for the next few days. across parts of northern ireland and western areas of scotland, in particular, eastern scotland should remain largely dry and for the bulk of england and wales, it's going to be a dry and sunny day. the sunshine lasting well into the afternoon. it's going to be quite strong sunshine and it will feel fairly hot in the sunshine. in fact ,

hot in the sunshine. in fact, particularly across the south—east where temperatures could climb to 28 degrees this afternoon but widely will be close to those mid 20s, so warmer than it has been lately for sure. the rain is going to last across western areas and northern areas of scotland. well into this evening as well. it's a little bit fresher. the further north and west you go as well, but it is feeling fairly humid even underneath this cloud. some showers could push into parts of the lake district, into parts of the lake district, into northwestern where areas of england we could see some rain across the far west of wales, some cloud pushing into the far west of cornwall as well later on this evening. so some hazy sunshine to end the day, but further south and east for much of central and southern areas of england, as well as eastern areas of wales, it will remain largely dry and clear overnight. it's going to be a mild night tonight. it could be a little bit uncomfortable for sleeping. temperatures could come close to 20 degrees overnight tonight. so widely in those high teens where we are close to that more humid

air now, the bulk of the rain is more restricted further north and west through friday, so that will allow a bit more in the way of brightness to develop for much of northern ireland and scotland. so temperatures will rise a little bit more , rise a little bit more, particularly across southeastern areas of scotland. on friday. but it's the peak of the heat to come on friday. temperatures exceeding 30 degrees, potentially across the south and east widely in those high 20s as well. by by that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb

>> well . >> well. >> well. >> good afternoon . britain. it's >> good afternoon. britain. it's 12:00 on thursday, the 18th of july. >> i'm tom harwood, and i'm emily carver . emily carver. >> covid inquiry reports this lunchtime, we learned the dramatic conclusions of the first report from the official covid inquiry. this our inquiry chair, baroness hallett,

delivers her verdict on the uk's state of preparedness and hosting the europeans. >> world leaders congregate in blenheim palace today as keir starmer hosts what's known as the european political community summit. the prime minister wants a deal on migration, but what might it cost us? >> and we're live in milwaukee, where donald trump is due to speak, accepting his party's nomination for the presidency. nigel farage, liz truss and bofis nigel farage, liz truss and boris johnson are all there to . boris johnson are all there to. and of course, throughout today , and of course, throughout today, keir starmer will be meeting key leaders across europe, all at churchill's birthplace, blenheim palace. he wants a deal on migration. >> yes . essentially he wants to. >> yes. essentially he wants to. although the reports are so far

that he wants