>> good morning. >> good morning. >> it's 930 on thursday, the 25th of july. we are live across the united kingdom. and this is britain's newsroom with miriam, kate and ben leo standing in for andrew pierce and bev turner. >> very good morning to you. i hope you're well. lots going on this morning, including breaking news in the last few minutes. a police officer has been suspended after he kicked a man in the head during a violent arrest at manchester airport . arrest at manchester airport. >> mark white has more, well, greater manchester police have referred this incident to the policing watchdog, the independent office for police conduct. there have been protests outside a police station in the greater manchester area . manchester area. >> and will we have a clean energy revolution? the prime minister will unveil the plans

to set up great british energy this morning. are you ready for britain to become a clean energy superpower ? superpower? >> and biden bows out overnight. the us president, joe biden, made his first public address since quitting the presidential race, admitting he might just be too old for the job after all. >> so i've decided the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation and the tory leadership race begins. >> tom tugendhat throws his hat into the ring to replace rishi sunak , vowing crucially to leave sunak, vowing crucially to leave the echr >> i am prepared to make any decision that will keep the british people safe and a royal rift. >> prince harry reveals the motivation behind his crusade against the tabloids. take a listen. >> still today, the press, the tabloid press very much enjoy painting her as being paranoid , painting her as being paranoid, but she wasn't paranoid .

but she wasn't paranoid. >> so this story just keeps moving on and moving on. the manchester airport incident yesterday involving the armed police officers and the passengers . we saw the video passengers. we saw the video circulating online. a kick in the head and then a stamp from the head and then a stamp from the firearms officer. he was placed off frontline duties as of yesterday. but breaking in the last few minutes, he's now been suspended. and miriam, i just think, you know, when it comes to, for example, our sas soldiers in afghanistan putting their lives on the line and now our firearms officers protecting our firearms officers protecting our airports, you know, are we expecting these people to really step up for the job when, after all, all that happens is they just get hounded for their behaviour? >> yes. i mean, this incident is clearly very brutal. we don't know the full context , but the know the full context, but the police obviously suspended him. but yeah, i agree. will people put themselves forward for these kind of jobs where sometimes they do have to use physical force? if this is the reaction every time we see it . so every time we see it. so terrible incident, but we do need to know more. >> the stamp doesn't look good, but as mark white will probably tell us in a minute, put it all

in context. it comes hours after an army soldier was stabbed multiple times in gillingham. you at an airport, you've got guns which were at risk of being taken away, taken away, and one of your officers has had her nose caved in by these people . nose caved in by these people. so put it into context and decide from there. but anyway, he's been suspended. let us know what you think, gbnews.com/yoursay. but before we get stuck into what is going to be an action packed show, here's your news headlines with tatiana sanchez . tatiana sanchez. >> ben, thank you very much and good morning. first to that breaking news, a police officer has been suspended from all dufies has been suspended from all duties after a video emerged appearing to show a person being kicked in the head during an altercation at manchester airport. greater manchester police says three of its officers were seriously injured dunng officers were seriously injured during that incident, when they attended to reports of an assault in the airport car park that included a female officer who suffered a broken nose. the

force says the assault of its officers happened before the events. you can see here in this video. they have now referred the case to the independent office for police conduct for a full, independent investigation. security specialist will geddes told gb news. those protesting over the video should consider the full context. >> it had been a four person confrontation with some police officers. the police officers had responded. these individuals counter—attacked and the apparently these police officers were punched, including one female police officer who had her nose broken and apparently they are being treated by medics for their injuries. they are being treated by medics for their injuries . the response for their injuries. the response team that subsequently followed up then took this particular action. and this is where this video apparently starts. so again, we don't have the fullest context here. we need to see the full video from certainly the airport cctv to see exactly what happened and any other bystander video, but to react in this particular way i don't think is acceptable . acceptable. >> in other news, a man has been charged with attempted murder

after the stabbing of a uniformed army officer in kent. 24 year old anthony hassan was arrested near his home in rochester just 30 minutes arrested near his home in rochesterjust 30 minutes after rochester just 30 minutes after the violent attack. he's also been charged with possession of an offensive weapon in a public place. he is due to appear in court today. it's after kent police were called to sallyport gardens in gillingham just before 6:00 on tuesday evening, as locals rushed to help the officer. he's currently in hospital in a serious but stable condition . tom tugendhat has condition. tom tugendhat has become the second person to throw his hat into the ring and stand for the tory leadership, and he could be an early frontrunner, scoring the lowest negative rating with members of the public. that's according to a report in the independent. he's the second person to join that race after shadow home secretary james cleverly. mr tugendhat ran unsuccessfully for the leadership in 2022, but managed to secure a role in the cabinet. he says the conservatives lost the trust of the british people because they

failed to deliver lower taxes and lower immigration. >> you've seen what's just happenedin >> you've seen what's just happened in the recent election . happened in the recent election. we lost the trust of the british people because we failed to deliver , and i've got a track deliver, and i've got a track record of delivery, whether that's in the army on operations in iraq and afghanistan or whether that's in parliament standing up to those who would threaten us, those authoritarian dictators . and that's got me dictators. and that's got me sanctioned by countries like china and russia and iran. and of course, i've been delivering in government, you know, as the security minister, making sure that we are safe. and i can't talk about all the areas that i've been working on as security minister, for obvious reasons. but absolutely prioritising the interests and security of the british people is exactly what i've done. >> and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts .

slash alerts. >> good morning to you. thanks for joining us. it's 936 ben and forjoining us. it's 936 ben and miriam with you on britain's newsroom this morning. so the big story of the day a police officer has been suspended from duty after a video emerged showing him kicking a man lying on the floor during that arrest at manchester airport. it sparked outrage across the country and greater manchester police have now apparently taken action. a warning some viewers may find these images distressing . distressing. >> protesters then took to the streets outside rochdale police station, with members of the crowd jeering shame on you! and we're now joined by gb news home and security editor mark white in the studio to discuss this. so breaking news, mark, this police officer has now not only been taken off frontline duty but also suspended. >> yes. initially he was taken off sort of public facing duties, but on reviewing all of the evidence in the last couple of days, greater manchester police have now decided that he should be fully suspended and

they've referred this incident to the policing watchdog, the independent office for police conduct. now, there's no doubt the images are alarming , the the images are alarming, the chap that was on the ground when he was kicked in the head by the officer and kicked in the face and then stamped on the head, didn't appear on the face of it to be posing a threat at that time to the officers attending. but context is everything. this incident had started quite a few minutes beforehand. it was reports that police were responding to terminal two at the airport of someone having been assaulted. they had identified a suspect on cctv and an airport car park at the ticket machines. when officers attended and then tried to detain that man. there was then a very violent confrontation in which, according to the police,

three of their officers were injured and hospitalised, including one female officer who was smashed in the face and suffered a broken nose. and you can actually see her on the video, to the sort of right of frame she's kind of staggering about. frame she's kind of staggering about . you can't see her because about. you can't see her because we've pixelated her face. but, the pixelated images i've seen , the pixelated images i've seen, she's crying. she's really agnostic to help anyone because of the trauma that she's feeling at that time. so the officers responding, what you're seeing in that video is a very end stage of backup officers who have arrived to try to contain the scene after the other officers had been violently struggling with these men. so they're coming into a situation, having heard their colleagues screaming for assistance on the radio, no doubt full of adrenaline and wanting to get everyone that's being pointed out to them to the floor and controlled . but in doing that, controlled. but in doing that, clearly it seems that this officer may have overstepped in what he has literally done by

stamping and kicking someone in the face. >> mark, there were some videos recorded overnight by members of the manchester community saying that if these officers, all of the officers are saw one video saying if these people aren't suspended and taken off duties, there would be protests, quote unquote, like you've never seen before. well, there were protests last night in rochdale. is that right? can you tell us? >> yes. outside the main police station in rochdale. but they ended peacefully, but the concern is going forward, of course, that this always has the potential to escalate. we only need to think back a week to what happened in leeds. so that's uppermost in the thinking of the police going forward. they have to show that they are taking action as well. in a statement , they've said we statement, they've said we understand the deep concerns that have been widely raised with us and will continue to meet and discuss these feelings with greater manchester residents and elected representatives. whilst that independent investigation

continues. >> mark, is there a danger with this that although clearly that clip shows an unacceptable use of violence, kicking somebody in the head seems to be needless? is there a danger that officers will be put off using force when they actually need to use force because of the fear of public reaction? >> well , that's one of the >> well, that's one of the dangers that the police say. yes, i mean , in terms of yes, i mean, in terms of firearms officers in particular, we know that some who have opened fire and others who have actually taken lives in the case of the jitters, in line of their duty , can actually have that duty, can actually have that hanging over them for years and that can, they say, be very dangerous because it makes them think twice in a split second decision. but i think there's a wider issue at play here as well, which is social media in these videos, these viral videos that come often only capture, as i said with this video, the very end result of what you're seeing, which is the officers finally gaining control of the situation and arresting these people, there's no videos of the

officers who are being kicked to the ground, and the female officer being smashed in the face. that's not been uploaded by the concerned citizens. and that's one thing that the police do say they're up against an awful lot of time. once a situation escalates to the point where officers have to use force to deal with someone that is violent . yeah, but if someone violent. yeah, but if someone just fell films up, one officer put it to me this way. said it's like you're getting punched and kicked and knocked to the ground, and then you decide to get up and punch that person back. someone just films you punching the person back. it clearly looks like you're to blame. >> you don't get the full picture. thank you, mark, very much, and we'll be coming back to that story later on in the programme. but now we're going to move to on another story today, which is about the keir starmer, the prime minister, making a big speech on clean energy and how britain is going to become a clean energy superpower. and joining us in the studio, we've got donna mccarthy, who is the director of the climate media coalition. thanks for joining the climate media coalition. thanks forjoining us. so are you welcoming this speech? is it

good news? >> yeah, i think largely what's been announced today is positive. i think it's going to do three things. the first, first of all, most importantly, it will protect us from future fossil fuels surge in prices. we britain's economy got hammered by the fossil fuel inflation of the last few years. so that's the last few years. so that's the first thing. second thing, it will reduce , people's bills it will reduce, people's bills at home because green energy is now the cheapest on the market. and thirdly, of course, it tackles the threat of climate change. >> well, you say it's the cheapest, but is it the most reliable? what happens when the wind stops blowing? >> donna well, in my house i've got renewable energy. i've had it for 20 years. i've been selling solar electricity to the grid in night—time. i've got a battery. it keeps me going overnight. so you've got battery? >> yeah, exactly. >> yeah, exactly. >> yeah. right. >> yeah. right. >> so where does that battery come from? >> sorry, it's a lithium battery battery. but most but most have new batteries are going to be sodium based. so the largest source of energy energy storage is actually in the united kingdom. what is it. so what's the largest source of energy storage in britain, >> well, i guess you're going to tell me wind. >> it's water. water? it's

water. we did it in the in the 60s and we stopped doing it. and so we need to start doing building more of those. we need we need battery storage. but also the exciting one is hydrogen. there is a passing mention to hydrogen in today's announcement. what we need to be doing is building hydrogen power stations that that can use the stored hydrogen, that uses the stored hydrogen, that uses the stored energy that we produce when we produce too much solar, and when we produce too much wind, can we can we just get some pictures up of what these wind farms look like? >> i mean, they look bad enough off the coast of sussex where i live, we've got the rampion wind farm, a complete eyesore, destroying the beauty of the area. but onshore wind farms, there's an offshore one. arguably there's a case that they're very bad for wildlife on her. lots of whales dying affecting their i love, i love. >> you're full of the negatives . >> you're full of the negatives. and what actually what would the positive for britain. why not talk up britain? britain has got the most amazing facility . we the most amazing facility. we have a huge offshore continental shelf that's shallow, and we've got the largest wind source in the world, so we can actually produce massive amounts of energy and export it. >> so you talk about what about the positives for britain? labour have just scrapped all

nonh labour have just scrapped all north sea oil licences. they won't frack. we've got liquid gold for miles and miles, liquid poison and the amount of money we're losing and the jobs we're losing from scrapping the north sea exploration. >> how many jobs are we losing? how many jobs are we losing? >> thousands, yes. >> thousands, yes. >> and how many jobs does this creating? hundreds of thousands. you're talking about you're putting one thousands of jobs in a negative industry. that's destroying the key point. and i am actually arguing for hundreds of thousands of jobs in an industry that will make britain independent. fracking does not make britain secure or independent. why? because fracking is part of the international market, whereas the renewable energy is british. >> no, i'm sorry, most people would really appreciate the sentiment behind making britain a clean energy superpower, or at least an energy superpower. >> we were a superpower in energy 100 years ago. but isn't the problem that this is technically undeliverable by 2030 because of the amount of steel and copper and all those kind of infrastructure that are going to be needed to connect the wind farms wherever they are, to ordinary people's homes, >> if you look at what we've

done , they said they said very done, they said they said very similar things ten years ago. we couldn't wind, couldn't produce any energy. so what have we done in the last ten years? we've gone from 40% of energy was suppued gone from 40% of energy was supplied by dirty coal to 40% is now provided by clean green energy. we've already done 40% of it. we're actually in on it's ramping up. what what is happening today? one of the interesting thing that's happening today, and you talk about offshore issues, is that gb energy will actually build what they call marine, grids. so the grids will bring down the massive amount of energy in scotland down the coast, not on land, but on the coast to where we need it in the south—east. that's a really positive thing that gb energy will do. >> instead of forcing wind turbines from china and backing it up with lithium batteries where child slaves are, you know, sent down mines to get them out and they die en masse as a result of it. why don't we just do the best renewable opfion just do the best renewable option on the table , which is option on the table, which is nuclear? china has just unveiled details this week of how they thatis details this week of how they that is basically their new nuclear reactors are meltdown. >> i find it very interesting

that you say that that's a renewable. it's not a renewable energy for one of the one of the negative things about today's announcement is they're continuing to tory policies. announcement is they're continuing to tory policies . one continuing to tory policies. one is, is a carbon capture and storage, which is immensely, hugely expensive subsidy to the oil industry, because what you're doing is you're paying them to store the carbon that they're the pollution that they're the pollution that they're emitting. that's really expensive. the tories propose that they're pouring about 20 billion to it. that's a disaster. the second one is s'mores, the magic grail of s'mores. no country in the world has built an smr, which is a small nuclear power station. has built it cost effectively. it will double or triple our price of energy compared to green. why would you do that ? would you do that? >> and you say it's france seems to be getting on just fine with their nuclear power stations costing them a fortune. >> look , working most of the you >> look, working most of the you look at the french energy bills, they're a fraction compared to, you know, where most of the british subsidy to energy goes in the united kingdom where it goes. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> whereas most the largest support of subsidy from taxpayers doesn't go to green

energy. it goes to deal with the waste from old nuclear power stations, which are about £250 billion of waste going to have to leave nuclear. >> thank you so much forjoining us. and please do let us know what you think going on our website forward slash usa. and up next, us president joe biden addresses the nation overnight for the first time since stepping down for the presidential race, and he finally made the fairly big admission that he may be too old for the job. with britain's newsroom on gb news

>> welcome back. now, overnight, president joe biden in the us finally made the admission that we were all probably well aware of for years prior. look at this . of for years prior. look at this. >> so i've decided the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation . you know, a new generation. you know, there is a time and a place for long years of experience in pubuc long years of experience in public life , but it's also a public life, but it's also a time and a place for new voices.

fresh voices. yes younger voices. and that time and place is now . over the next six is now. over the next six months, i'll be focused on doing my job as president, and we're now joined by the professor of us foreign and security policy at the university of birmingham, david dunn. >> welcome, david, and thank you for joining us. isn't it forjoining us. isn't it remarkable how the narrative has changed? just a week ago, the whole dc establishment was telling us that biden was fine. he absolutely had the capability to carry on with the job. and now everything's changed. >> well, actually, that narrative has been changing for quite a long time, the, the, and what we saw today was, was the, the admission, of that finally. i mean, it's slightly odd that, that he spent that 11, minute meeting saying how wonderful he was and what a great reputation he was leaving behind. and yet, as you say, there has been a

clamour, really over the last 3 or 4 weeks since the debate, telling him that his time is up and he needs to go for the good of the country and the good of the party. so it was an odd, situation there and actually also saying that, you know, the time is now to pass the, the torch to the new generation. well, he's got six months to go. so it's not actually now it's six months from now, and that, of course, is quite a different thing. some people thought that he would use this occasion to actually step down as president. what he didn't do, of course, was do that, or all he did was to use his great announcement to announce that actually, he wasn't going to be his candidate as his party's candidate for the election . well, we already knew election. well, we already knew that. so we didn't actually learn a great deal from this, this, meeting this a tv interview that he gave, other than the fact that he's been sitting on the beach for the last three weeks, and he looks certainly more tanned than he did when he gave the debate three and a half weeks ago. >> yes, there was some commentary that he was looking very trump esque with his new tan. professor dunn, i have to apologise. we're very short on

time, but we will endeavour to get you back, maybe tomorrow or later on next week to pick up on this . but later on next week to pick up on this. but thank you for joining us this morning, yeah . us this morning, yeah. interesting, isn't it? there's a kamala bounce, they call it. she's got a little boost in the polls, which tends to happen when a new football manager comes in or a new political candidate comes in. but will it last? who knows. still to come, plenty more up on the show, including we'll show you the bombshell clips from the new prince harry interview, which is dropping tonight. he blames everybody else for his problems other than himself. who would have guessed? you don't want to miss that. this is britain's newsroom on gb news annie. hopefully we'll bring you some good news about some sunny weather. this year's. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . solar sponsors of weather on. gb. news >> good morning. welcome to your latest gb news weather update brought to you from the met office. a gloomy start for many of us will brighten up a little bit by the afternoon, but there is a risk of showers and some outbreaks of drizzly rain, particularly across southern areas, through out this morning.

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>> welcome back. it's 10 am. on thursday, the 25th of july. we're live across the united kingdom. and this is britain's newsroom with miriam cates and ben leo standing in for andrew and bev. >> very good morning to you. i hope you're well. breaking in the last hour, a police officer has been suspended after he kicked a man in the head during an arrest at manchester airport. mark white has more. >> well, greater manchester police has now referred the incident to the policing watchdog, and they're meeting with members of the community amid protests last night at rochdale police station . rochdale police station. >> labour's green energy revolution the prime minister will unveil plans to set up great british energy this morning. do you want to see more of these across the countryside and off the coast of britain ? and off the coast of britain? >> and the tory leadership race. tom tugendhat has thrown his hat into the ring to replace rishi

sunak, and he's vowed to leave the echr. so at the moment it's james cleverly versus tom tugendhat who will be next to join the race and royal rift . join the race and royal rift. >> prince harry reveals the motivation behind his crusade against the tabloids. take listen. >> still today, the press, the tabloid press very much enjoy painting her as being paranoid , painting her as being paranoid, but she wasn't paranoid . but she wasn't paranoid. >> so we'd love to hear what you say throughout the course of the programme. just go on to gb news. com forward slash your say. and one of the stories we've got coming up is about prince harry. he's blaming his fight with the tabloids for the rift in his family. >> do you think that's fair, prince harry? >> blame blaming everyone else but himself. again, not taking responsibility . well harry, the responsibility. well harry, the tabloids didn't make you go and sit down with oprah and, clean your dirty laundry in public. didn't make you write the book spare didn't make you do the

tell all netflix revelations with meghan about how awful your life was and the royal family. quite frankly, no one cares. and if you look at his brother, prince william, who's going through you know, a hell of a lot at the moment with his dad being sick, his wife being sick. it's a stark contrast, isn't it, to how they hold themselves , how to how they hold themselves, how they behave themselves. >> a more sympathetic view, though, might be that since the start of his life, media intrusion has made his whole family life very, very difficult. obviously, the tragic situation of his mum dying, it's going to stress out any family, isn't it? having to fight those kind of battles in such a public way, but prince william did go through the same thing and he's not run to off america, you know, giving salacious interviews about his family. >> anyway , let us know what you >> anyway, let us know what you think. gbnews.com/yoursay. but first, here's the news headlines with tatiana sanchez . with tatiana sanchez. >> ben, thank you and good morning. the top stories from the gb newsroom. a police officer has been suspended from all duties after a video emerged appearing to show a person being kicked in the head during an

altercation at manchester airport, greater manchester police says three of its officers were seriously injured dunng officers were seriously injured during that incident, when they attended to reports of an assault in the airport car park that included a female officer who suffered a broken nose. the force says the assault of its officers happened before the events that you can see here in the video, they've now referred the video, they've now referred the case to the independent office for police conduct for a full independent investigation. security specialist will geddes told gb news. those protesting over the video should consider the full context . the full context. >> it had been a four person confrontation with some police officers. the police officers had responded. these individuals counter—attacked and the apparently these police officers were punched, including one female police officer who had her nose broken and apparently they are being treated by medics for their injuries. the response team that subsequently followed up then took this particular action and this is where this video apparently starts. so

again , we don't have the fullest again, we don't have the fullest context here. we need to see the full video from certainly the airport cctv to see exactly what happened at any other bystander video , but to react in this video, but to react in this particular way, i don't think is acceptable. >> a man has been charged with attempted murder after the stabbing of a uniformed army officer in kent, 24 year old anthony eason was arrested near his home in rochester just 30 his home in rochesterjust 30 minutes after the violent attack. he's also been charged with possession of an offensive weapon in a public place. he is due to appear in court later today. due to appear in court later today . it's after kent police today. it's after kent police were called to sallyport gardens in gillingham just before 6:00 on tuesday evening as locals rushed to help the officer. he's currently in hospital in a serious but stable condition and in the last few moments , we've in the last few moments, we've just heard that former immigration minister robert jenrick will stand for the leadership of the conservative party he's the third tory to throw their hat into the ring after tom tugendhat, the former security minister, could be an

early frontrunner. that's tugendhat scoring the lowest negative rating with members of the public. that's according to a report in the independent. mr tugendhat and mrjenrick a report in the independent. mr tugendhat and mr jenrick come after shadow home secretary james cleverly also announced his own leadership bid . mr his own leadership bid. mr tugendhat ran unsuccessfully for the leadership in 2022, but he managed to secure a role in the cabinet. he says the conservatives have lost the trust of the british people because they failed to deliver lower taxes and lower immigration. >> you've seen what's just happenedin >> you've seen what's just happened in the recent election. we lost the trust of the british people because we failed to deren people because we failed to deliver, and i've got a track record of delivery, whether that's in the army on operations in iraq and afghanistan or whether that's in parliament standing up to those who would threaten us, those authoritarian dictators. and that's got me sanctioned by countries like china and russia and iran. and of course, i've been delivering in government, you know, as the security minister, making sure that we are safe. and i can't talk about all the areas that i've been working on as security minister, for obvious reasons.

but absolutely prioritising the interests and security of the british people is exactly what i've done in the us. >> joe biden says he couldn't let his personal ambitions stand in the way of saving democracy, as he addressed the nation dunng as he addressed the nation during a televised speech from the oval office last night in his first comments since announcing his intention to drop out of the presidential race, the 81 year old said it had been the 81 year old said it had been the honour of his life to serve the honour of his life to serve the american people as president . the american people as president. but explaining his decision, he said the future of the united states must come first and it's time to pass the torch on to the next generation. >> in recent weeks, has become clear to me that i needed to unite my party in this critical endeavour. unite my party in this critical endeavour . i unite my party in this critical endeavour. i believe unite my party in this critical endeavour . i believe my record endeavour. i believe my record is president. my leadership in the world, my vision for america's future all merited a second term. but nothing, nothing can come in the way of saving our democracy. that includes personal ambition and a

renowned micro sculptor has unveiled the world's smallest olympic mascot, which we understand fits into the eye of a needle. >> the handmade , microscopic >> the handmade, microscopic version of the official mascot, the smallest in olympic history, can be seen holding a medal, which was crafted from 24 carat gold and is roughly the size of a blood cell. british sculptor doctor willard wigan used an eyelash as a paintbrush and says he worked between heartbeats , he worked between heartbeats, using his pulse as a jackhammer. and if you're wondering why, he says he enjoys the reaction when people see his work and some more breaking news to finish with. andy murray has officially withdrawn from the singles event at the paris olympics. the two time gold medallist is still not fully recovered from the back surgery. he had last month, and believes the men's doubles, where he's playing with dan evans, offers his best chance of another medal . more on that another medal. more on that soon. those are the latest gb

news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gb news. >> dot com. forward slash alerts . >> dot com. forward slash alerts. >> dot com. forward slash alerts. >> thanks, tatiana. 1008 ben and miriam with you on britain's newsroom on gb. news, sad news about andy murray. >> very. >> very. >> is that going to be his last. that's it then is it. he's gone i think so. >> so hopefully he will get a medal in that doubles event. so he'll be going out on a high. but i know you're a big fan. so you'll be watching closely. >> and i know lots of the viewers don't like me for being a fan of him because of his comments about england all those years ago. >> but the olympics is great britain, isn't it? so scotland, wales and england together. so hopefully that's a bit of unity. thank you so much for sending in all your emails. there's loads and loads of comments, particularly about this breaking news story about the police incident yesterday at manchester airport, overwhelmingly supportive of the police in

these emails, somebody saying these emails, somebody saying the police always get the blame, pointing out that they were filmed at the end of the incident rather than the build up so difficult for the police , up so difficult for the police, isn't it? >> it is. it is very difficult and i've just i've just tweeted something akin to how can we support our sas soldiers, our army personnel, our firearms officers, if all they do all the time is go abroad , put their time is go abroad, put their lives on the line to protect us, or in this case, protect the airport and the passengers when they're just going to get stick for doing what they should be doing, which is being authoritative. and if this was america, those people quite frankly, would have been shot at the moment. they smacked that young officer's nose into pieces. they would have been shot, i'm not saying i advocated that here. it's a completely different scenario. we don't have guns, but, you know, a bit of force and a bit of authority neededin of force and a bit of authority needed in that scenario where you're at an airport, they've got guns which could have been taken away from them, yeah. >> and they're human beings, aren't they? and the adrenaline will have kicked in. they've seen some of their close colleagues and probably friends violently beaten up. this female officer had her nose broken, and

obviously they're going to do everything they can to stop a further incident. and of course, it does look like he went too far. but the alternative is we have police who are not willing to use force at all. and that's even more dangerous in my an interesting email from a former met officer. >> i won't name you, obviously, but you said unless you've been a cop all alone with a suspect in the middle of the night in a fight for your life and you're being punched, kicked and so on, and you're exhausted. your opinion on the police use of force means very little to me. that's from a retired met officer of 30 years in east london, and there was someone else who said that they were a firearms officer at heathrow a couple of years back, and they were. i can't find the email now, but they were saying they were criticising the use of force. they said no excuse. even if you're exhausted, even if your adrenaline's going, that's what you're trained for. you shouldn't be using that level of force. yeah. >> and of course, there always will be times when they overstep the mark. and obviously this is a very damaging for the police. but we desperately do need our police to be able to use force when they need. anyway, moving on to another story, two more conservative mps have now thrown their hats in the ring to be the party's next leader. we've got

tom tugendhat, he's already declared, said that he was going to leave the echr and take a listen to his speaking now. >> no, i've been very , very >> no, i've been very, very clear. i am prepared to make any decision that will keep the british people safe and just look at the last five years where we haven't delivered. i am prepared to leave the echr or indeed any other institution that doesn't serve the interests of the british people . of the british people. >> and in the last few moments , >> and in the last few moments, robert jenrick is throwing his hat into the ring to become the next tory leader as well. your thoughts on robert jenrick? he was , of course, i've said to you was, of course, i've said to you before this week, maybe cruelly nicknamed robert jenrick at times by some of his critics. i think he's gone through a transformation in the last year or so. or 50. >> or so. >> i think being in the home office and seeing firsthand how badly immigration was dealt with really made him realise that we need a lot stronger policies. so a very interesting new entrant there, hang on, i was speaking to some, i won't say whose team , to some, i won't say whose team, but someone who's running for leader. >> i was speaking to their team in parliament this week and i said, oh, what do you make of robert jenrick? and they said he

only really started speaking out about migration and being forceful with rishi sunak and holding him to account on migration after he knew the writing was on the wall and that the tories would lose the election and there'd be an opportunity for him to run as leader. >> well, it was actually quite some time ago that he became the immigration minister, saw it firsthand and started realising that the only really route to sort this out was to leave the echr. so i think, you know, maybe that's true. maybe that's a bit cynical, but we'll see. i mean, we've got three confirmed entrants already. i think the nominations have to be in by monday, and ten mps on the nomination form is quite a lot. now that there are only 121 conservative mps in parliament, so will there be people who just don't get on the ballot? >> how many endorsements do they need from their colleagues? >> so ten altogether. but if there's only 120 mps, conservative mps and many of them will not be willing to put their name to anyone at this point, there may be quite high profile names who just don't get enough nominations to join, so they need ten. >> now what was it previously when the tories were in government? >> well, they changed the rules every time. i think when boris

initially stepped down it was about 15, but then it was 100 for the second leadership race in 2022. so big difference. >> yeah okay. all right. let's move on to our top story this morning. so a police officer has been suspended from duty after that video emerged of him showing kicking a man lying on the floor during an arrest at london's heathrow airport. we're joined now by gb. news, homeland security editor mark white. good morning. mark, what's the latest please? >> well, we can take another look at the video. i think an award is of course distressing viewing as it shows the moment this officer is kicking someone in the face and then stamping on their head as well . now, what i their head as well. now, what i think is key to this is always is context. this is the very final stages of an incident that span quite a few minutes before this , police at manchester this, police at manchester airport had received reports of an assault. they had managed to pinpoint a suspect on cctv. he

was in an airport car park at terminal two, at a ticket machine , when officers went to machine, when officers went to try to detain the man. then there was a violent fight that erupted, not just involving the man but some other people. as well, and three police officers were effectively kicked to the ground and punched. one female police officer was smashed in the face and broke her nose. she is actually on the video. you can just see her. we've sort of blurred her face to protect our identity and the identity, and she's so she seems like quite a small lady, maybe quite young as well. >> and you can imagine a man, you know, with a forceful punch on someone like that was going to do some damage. well, indeed. >> i mean, she's a firearms officer, but the thing is, she's been smashed in the face. she's clearly, you know, quite traumatised by that. she's in tears. she's kind of staggering pretty much all over the place and not much to good anybody, understandably. and that, i think, just gives you maybe an indication of the violence that

came before this . so these came before this. so these officers that you see in the video are officers, most of them at least are officers that are back up responding, having heard the screams from their colleagues. they're being assaulted by this group of men. and the way that the modern sort of police radio system works as well, when you have a distress call and you want immediate assistance, you press a button at the top of your radio and that opens your microphone for about 30s or so, so that you don't have to keep pressing the mic and you can relay instructions about where you are and what's happening. but also in doing that, the attending officers who are there to back you up can hear everything that's going on, can hear. so they will of violence against and their colleagues probably felt very frightened. >> social media and camera phones are changing the nature of policing, aren't they? because clearly a member of the pubuc because clearly a member of the public has filmed the police live doing their job, put it on social media before the police themselves have had time to

review what actually happened . review what actually happened. do you think this is changing the nature of policing? >> well, yeah, i mean, it's difficult because there are people that post videos that take videos of an incident and post them with the i think , post them with the i think, deliberate aim very clearly to show the worst possible aspect of that. and some of the comments that they've posted alongside it. this was racism. these were, you know, asian pakistani men being targeted by white officers, but they didn't show those asian pakistani men kicking white officers to the ground and assaulting them. and there's no comment about any of that in the video . just what that in the video. just what they say is the police brutality being meted out to these these men undeservedly so . context, as men undeservedly so. context, as i say, is everything. and it's lost often in these social media videos. and that deeply frustrates serving officers who have to put their lives

sometimes on the line in the on the front line, dealing with often very violent and abusive people. 50,000 police officers were assaulted last year. that's one police officer. every ten minutes. the vast majority of those will probably be quite minor in nature, but there are some very serious assaults there as well, they face violence on a daily basis and in trying to deal with people and apprehend them , if that person is them, if that person is unwilling to be arrested as clearly they were by fighting with the officers, the only way to then, get them under control and handcuffed is to use force. and it looks violent because it is. yeah >> okay. mark white, we'll have more from you throughout the show on this. thanks very much, yeah, it's kind of. i think we've maybe got used to the police being so what's the word? >> reluctant . reluctant in? yeah. >> you look at the look at the pro—palestine protest every week

in london. they just stand by and do nothing. i think maybe for the first time we've seen the police maybe doing something that they should be doing, and we're also surprised by it. it's like, goodness me, they're actually doing their jobs. what actually doing their jobs. what a what a surprise. great sorry, sorry. go on. >> i was going to say, but the greater manchester police have made a statement, following that incident, saying that a further there will be a thorough review of further information that has become available in relation to this incident. on tuesday evening, and they have now suspended this police officer from all frontline duties. >> okey doke. up next, are we a step closer to becoming a cashless society? we'll tell you why. you better hold on to your one p and £0.02 coins. so there's this rumour going around that the treasury may be ditching 1p2p coins. what are we going to do when we go to the seaside arcades? >> miriam well, what i read was that they are just so many in circulation, and that's why they're not making any more. so i'm not sure they're taking them off completely out of our wallets, but we'll see. >> well, give it i reckon 5 or 10 years, all coins will be done. and you know, when you do

go to those arcades at the seaside, you want to play the racing games or the, you know, the roulette, whatever it is, put in a £10 note. you got to tap your card. going to lose the sounds naff. you with britain's newsroom on gb news. we'll

welcome back. 1022 ben and miriam with you on britain's newsroom. only on gb news. and we're delighted to be joined in the studio by broadcaster and journalist carole malone, who's giggling away tomorrow. what's got you tickled ? got you tickled? >> i can't get my chair up. oh, i'm trying to get this thing up and i'm just sinking. >> this new studio is lovely and it looks great, but these we've established these chairs are a nightmare. they have a mind of their own. here's some behind their own. here's some behind the scenes info for you during the scenes info for you during the show. you'll probably see many of us presenters and guests just sinking down happening now. >> how do i get mine up? >> how do i get mine up? >> and of course, also joined by broadcast journalist judith da silva. good morning sir. good morning. what should we start with first? what about labour? so the home office. i'm not sure if you saw this, carole, but

it's the rebrand they've rebranded the term illegal migration, and i'm not sure if we've got an image of it to irregular migration. so out with illegals in with irregular, irregular migration. is that that's a more sensible way to do it, tosh. >> it's just it's kind of what they're doing with everything to do with immigration at the moment. they're not actually solving the problem. they're actually trying to sweep it under the carpet . it is an under the carpet. it is an illegal migration. however you cut it, people are coming across on the small boats are coming here illegally. end of story. and what what yvette cooper has been trying to do all week by by announcing this business that they're going to give amnesty or asylum to between 70,000 and 120,000 illegal migrants, this is all just kind of trying to make it look like it's all lovely and it's all going well. it's not. it's sweeping the problem under the carpet for another day, you know, making 120,000 illegal migrants is actually against the illegal migration bill and, and they're clearly trying to dismantle that so that anyone who comes here

for whatever reason and however they come are going to be allowed to stay and that's a very easy way to solve your, immigration overcrowding problem. you just you just make them not illegal anymore. >> but do you need language aside? there is a problem now , aside? there is a problem now, isn't there? we've got these 100,000 people who should have been deported to rwanda. now we don't have the rwanda scheme. what is the labour party meant to do about this? >> i actually think that what the labour party is setting about to do is the only way to do it. and what i mean by that is you've got to govern the politics of perception as well as practicality. take the sting out of the conversation because it has gone from alienating who you see as migrants to actually loathing them now or feeling violent towards them. you've got to change the language of discourse in order to bring it to a point where you can be practical in your approach. what what i've said before, i understand that. >> what do you mean by that? how is that going to stop when your numbers to haggle over calling it illegal, to calling it irregular? >> that's just approaching the conversation with a bit more of a tempered attitude. but but what they've said is not going to change the minds of people.

yeah but when it comes to that's why i said they're attacking it on two fronts. both practically, practically and perception wise when they've said that they're going investing money into working with home based organisations because they're looking to repatriation of asylum seekers. that's the way to do it. because i've spoken to migrants, i've spoken to people who've made this journey. and when you actually hear them talk, you will never stop them coming. when you say you're banning the boats or you're putting them in prisons, they don't see that as a deterrent. they see that as a temporary obstacle, because when you're motivation is you see survival is over there. so two things will stop you death or success. what is the obstacle now, now that, that the labour government has made clear that the illegal migration act doesn't act , migration act doesn't act, starmer might as well put an advert out and said to everyone in all of sub—saharan africa , in all of sub—saharan africa, come because if you get here, you're not going to beautiful . you're not going to beautiful. >> do you truly believe, as keir starmer's planners also pointed out, do you truly believe that the labour party are going to deport illegal migrants? do you really believe that? >> i do believe that they're going to repatriate them based

on what they've actually pointed out. it's going to be one of the one of the human rights. >> when you can't repatriate people to unsafe countries. that's why they say, but this is now we don't have a third country. >> but that's the point. i said, if you work with ngos, human rights organisations are already boots on the ground in this countries and start helping those countries with the kind of money that they are saying they're going to take decades . they're going to take decades. this is a this is no, this is a problem that will not stop. that's why i said talk to the migrants themselves. not all the big heads at the top stop. they will. no, no, they will keep coming. we stop issuing visas to. it doesn't matter. that's what i'm saying. it to. it doesn't matter. that's what i'm saying . it doesn't m atter. >> we matter. >> we leave the echr. so that the british courts can deal with the british courts can deal with the problem. well, turn the boats back, not put them in prisons. >> they won't. that is just an obstacle. it's not a deterrent. >> it worked in australia. they had a similar problem under tony abbott. they turned the boats back. abbott. they turned the boats back . they put migrants abbott. they turned the boats back. they put migrants in very safe, lifeboat style vessels and sent them to offshore processing sites. do you know what happened? they stopped overnight and abbott won election. you know , we know the rwanda plan. know, we know the rwanda plan. >> you know the labour keep on

saying it was never going to be a deterrent. they were never going to allow it to be a deterrent because they fought it every inch of the way. had they allowed it to pass a year ago, a year and a half ago, rwanda would have been off the ground and we would have seen that. it would have worked as a deterrent. now there is no deterrent. now there is no deterrent. this new border security force is exactly what the tories already have, just a rebrand on the issue of the echr, tom tugendhat has thrown his hat, excuse the pun, into the tory leadership race this morning and he says he will leave the echr is this a music to the ears of tory members? carol yeah, i think it is. i want to believe you'll do it because, i mean, sunak was talking about the same thing before the election. i don't i don't think sunak was ever going to do it. i'm not sure he will. but what he says is if an organisation, if a if an institution is not working for the british people, well then leave it, walk away from it. and i think, you know, if you did it, you know, farage called for a referendum last week on this, and i think it would be i think, you know, starmer doesn't have the guts to hold one because it would show absolutely that the british people want a deterrent. >> juditha what do you think

about the leadership race? >> i think that what all of that is lofty rhetoric to make you sound like you would be the leader that's listening to the party, i'll unified. i'll do what you want. i think the point is, when you're a leader, you have to make tough decisions. and the key is, no matter how great you see britain as britain is great because it is forged in relationships with other countries. it is a disgrace today. >> is that labour want to bring energy back to britain, to make that about our own nation, our own self—sufficiency. indeed isn't that the opposite of what you're saying on the echr? >> it isn't because, like i said, you have to function in, in, in tandem with countries that are beneficial to you. if you consider continually make decisions that seem antagonistic to who should be your friends, your allies, your supporters, your allies, your supporters, you end up isolating the country. and that is something that britain cannot afford to do, because the nature of what has made its great historically is the relationships that have been historically forged that they benefit from today . they benefit from today. >> but but the argument certainly amongst conservative party members would be that the

echr was set up with great intentions. it's not working anymore. it's run by judges who are far less qualified than our own, then push for amendments rather than saying, i don't like you because you don't give me what i want to do what i say. >> so i'm going on your own. you will live to regret those kinds of choices because they have a knock on effect. >> we don't need a european european court to protect our human rights. here we have courts in this country, esteemed courts, esteemed judges who are perfectly capable of making and enforcing those laws. it is not for a european court to enforce, to say who we can and can't bnng to say who we can and can't bring into this country, who we can and can't deport from this country. and yet they are they are sticking their oar in and doing exactly the uk does not function in isolation. >> and what the echr is there to do is regulate is regulate legislature that looks after no problems with entitled to protect. yes. but problems with international margins sometime require an objective entity to govern everyone on both sides. so it's not a question of taking away your autonomy as the uk. it's a question of recognising that what you are dealing with

has international ramifications. >> you are living in a country that not so very long ago voted to leave the eu, and we did that for a very specific reason, because we wanted to take back control of our borders. we don't want to work with europe on control of our borders. we want to we want to control our own. and that is not happening. >> carol, isn't this just pie in the sky? because tugendhat has not said he will leave the echr, he said he would consider it, which is exactly what we're completely i completely get that and i know he's saying it because he knows it's what people want to hear and that's what the tories farage has pushed the party towards that already and you know , farage already and you know, farage last time got a referendum on on brexit. >> so maybe he'll be successful this time and get it all going to get it. >> i just find it insane really, that illegal migration is the only crime which is encouraged by people. yes, it's a crime coming here illegally on a boat, throwing your passport away, putting your phone in the water. many of these people with previous criminal records, there was a young lad in bournemouth, i think, or portsmouth, who was killed by a guy who'd committed a double murder in serbia. we are letting these people in at a national security risk and it's encouraged. it's a crime. it's

the only crime in the country that's encouraged. i just it's bizarre. very strange. >> i think it's technically, technically, it's his a crime. but what they're doing is their humanitarian act of desperation. and you need to recognise that , and you need to recognise that, do you? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and so that's that's why you need to have to be here. >> thank you so much. time for more later . >> thank you so much. time for more later. but now we're moving on to the news headlines with tatiana sanchez . tatiana sanchez. >> miriam, thank you and good morning. the top stories this houn morning. the top stories this hour. a police officer has been suspended from all duties after a video emerged appearing to show a person being kicked in the head during an altercation at manchester airport, greater manchester police says three of its officers were seriously injured when they attended to reports of an assault in the airport car park that included a female officer who suffered a broken nose. the force says they referred the case to the independent office for police conduct for a full, independent investigation . a man has been

investigation. a man has been charged with attempted murder after the stabbing of a uniformed army officer in kent . uniformed army officer in kent. 24 year old anthony hassan was arrested near his home in rochester just 30 minutes arrested near his home in rochesterjust 30 minutes after rochester just 30 minutes after the violent attack. he's also been charged with possession of an offensive weapon in a public place . he's due to appear in place. he's due to appear in court today. it's after kent police were called to sallyport gardens in gillingham, just before 6:00 on tuesday evening, as locals rushed to help the officer. he's currently in hospital in a serious but stable condition . former immigration condition. former immigration minister robert jenrick will stand for the leadership of the conservative party he is the third tory to throw their hat in the ring after tom tugendhat. mr tugendhat could be an early frontrunner, scoring the lowest negative rating with members of the public. that's according to a report in the independent. the former security minister and mr jenrick come after shadow home secretary james cleverly also announced his own leadership bid. mr tugendhat says the

conservatives need to rebuild trust after failing to deliver lower taxes and lower immigration. andy murray has officially withdrawn from the singles event at the paris olympics . the two time gold olympics. the two time gold medallist is still not fully recovered from the back surgery he had last month, and believes the men's doubles, where he's playing with dan evans, offers his best chance of another medal. the former world number one also withdrew from the singles at wimbledon after that surgery to remove a spinal cyst . surgery to remove a spinal cyst. and those are the latest gb news headunes and those are the latest gb news headlines for now i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> cheers! >> cheers! >> britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report . report. >> well, here's a quick snapshot of today's markets. the pound

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welcome back. it's 1037. and this is britain's newsroom now. >> a recent survey by the food foundation found that almost a

quarter of families with three children in the uk have experienced food insecurity in the previous month. >> the research highlighted the impact of the two child benefit cap and the need for urgent action to address the issue. >> so to here debate whether we should actually scrap or reform the cap. we're joined by communications officer at the iea , reem ibrahim and political iea, reem ibrahim and political commentatorjonathan ellis. good morning to you both. reem. i'm going to take a punt here that you are in favour of keeping the cap as is. >> yeah. well, effectively, look, i think that we could see widescale reform of the benefit system . and ultimately it's system. and ultimately it's pretty arbitrary to say that we just need, you know, after two children, you won't get any of those additional benefits. however, we are currently under such significant fiscal constraints that there is absolutely no way we can afford to increase that. and ultimately, it was put in place back in the coalition government as a result of the fact that we had such dire financial situation, such a dire financial situation, such a dire financial situation, and at the same time, in the current situation, we've

seen a public sector borrowing is the fourth highest since records began. when we're thinking about this from the wider perspective of how we're spending our money, actually, this is a pretty good way to limit the amount of benefits that we're giving out, but also ensuring that every single family faces the exact same fiscal problems as any other family when having children. >> but >> but jonathan, >> but jonathan, we >> but jonathan, we can't >> but jonathan, we can't afford this can we. even if we wanted to get rid of the cap the country just can't afford it . country just can't afford it. >> well can we afford to alleviate child poverty. it's the fundamental moral issue. and i just don't buy the argument that we can't afford it. anyway, the new dreadnoughts, being built in cumbria are going to cost £31 billion, lifting this benefit cap would cost an upwards amount of £3.6 billion. that's the that's the largest estimate, that has been given, you know, that i can't understand the case for not lifting this ban even if you

think that children that families that are being feckless are having too many children, which i think is a horrible argument, by the way, it's not fundamentally the child's fault. under any circumstance, you're penalising children who have no say whatsoever in who they're born to, whether they're born at all. so i just don't think it's all. so i just don't think it's a fundamental, sustainable moral argument to penalise children and to keep them in poverty, when, of course, the government have we have a central bank, the government can produce more money, it can borrow to invest in critical infrastructure. and for crystal projects , this is a for crystal projects, this is a trifling sum of money in the grand scheme of things . grand scheme of things. >> reem. that's true, isn't it? and isn't jonathan right? that actually the child it's not the child's decision which family they're born into. we let state pensioners have the pension regardless of their circumstances. why isn't it the same when it comes to child benefits? >> well i would i would certainly be in favour of a more targeted pension system. i mean, we spend four times the amount of the budget of the ministry of defence on pensions alone. so i would certainly be in favour of

targeting that. the point of the matter is it cost the government about £126 matter is it cost the government about £12.6 billion, and by cost of the government, i mean it costs other taxpayers. and ultimately, when we're thinking about this in a wider perspective on the way in which we think about the benefit system as a whole, i would be in favour of wide scale reform. i think where jonathan and i might disagree is that i don't believe the solution to child poverty or the solution to child poverty or the solution to poverty at all, is taking more money off of hard working taxpayers and redistributing redistributing it to others. the solution to poverty is economic growth and the solution. >> but reem, just to cut in on you, there . 60% of the families you, there. 60% of the families that this affects are in work isn't the problem, just that the cost of living for families is too high. oh, absolutely. >> i mean, the cost of living is incredibly high, and i'd absolutely blame the government for that. i mean, the fact of the matter is, since the pandemic, we've been increasing the money supply. so significantly, which effectively means that our money is worth significantly less. that's why we saw double digits in inflation. it's effectively comes into the point about the quantity theory of money, the reason why the pound in your

pocket is worth less is because the government of the bank of england , sorry, are england, sorry, are significantly increasing the money supply. so yes, you're right, the cost of living is incredibly high and that is the government's fault. the solution, however, is not by is not penalising other hard working taxpayers. >> jonathan, do you think this is going to cause even more rifts in the labour party ? rifts in the labour party? >> yes, i do think that until starmer and reeves, lift this cap and look , the labour party cap and look, the labour party senior ministers have dropped hints that this cap is coming. so i'd be very surprised if we still have the cap this time next year. it's a fundamental left wing objective to alleviate child poverty, to lift people out of poverty, to lift all people out of poverty who are suffering it. but the fundamental point about this policy, ben, is that it also appeals to the right, because we have a childbirth problem in this country, we have a productivity problem in this country, and basically disincentivizing people from having children is not going to

help that. this is a win win situation for everyone. it appeals to the right and it appeals to the right and it appeals to the left. >> i would can i just jump in there? i would argue that it's everybody's objective to alleviate child poverty. we you and i just might have very different ways of actually achieving that. i'd also second that. and say the reason why that. and say the reason why that people are not having children is ultimately because of the housing crisis. and again, that is the government's fault. we've effectively seen the government through planning regulations and through allowing nimbys , effectively block nimbys, effectively block housing development. we've seen a huge restriction in the housing supply, which has meant that housing is entirely unaffordable for people of my generation. that is the government's fault and the solution to allowing people these solutions to incentivising families is not by taking money off of other people, but it's indeed to make housing more affordable. >> dare i say it? of course, governments haven't built houses , governments haven't built houses, but dare i say it again? you know all roads lead back to migration on this point. there's too many people here. we're full. jonathan, just finally last word to you, one thing being omitted from this debate

is the falling birth rate. previously, i would have personally been on the position that if you can't afford to have kids, don't have them. but i think we're at such a critical, critical time now with the plunging birth rate not just in the uk but worldwide, i mean, japan, if they carry on the way they are, there'll be no japanese people within 100 years or so, i'm, you know, leaning towards the fact that we just need to have kids, regardless of whether you think you can afford it or not. you just find a way. >> ben, make up your mind. just seconds ago, you said britain was full, and now you're saying that people have to make. >> we're full. >> we're full. >> we're full from economic . >> we're full from economic. >> we're full from economic. >> more children. we need. we need more. >> we need more native brits and less economic migrants, more children who will eventually become adults. >> and we also need more migrants. both those things we don't know. >> and isn't it the case that housing prices and the productivity and obviously, you know, in a, in an ideal world, people would obviously be able to have enough money to support themselves. >> that is not the world we're living in. we tax the whole point of tax is to redistribute. thatis point of tax is to redistribute. that is not going to change any

time soon. of course, we need a situation where the poorest people are helped. and if that means by taking from the people with the strongest shoulders, then so be it . that's the point then so be it. that's the point of a of a welfare of economy and state that actually is there to look out for the people who are most vulnerable. >> reem, last word to you . >> reem, last word to you. >> reem, last word to you. >> so i think it's really interesting from this wider perspective about the benefit system. i would be in favour of wider scale reform. i think that the arbitrary two cap on the child benefit is pretty arbitrary. it isn't necessarily effective . however, under the effective. however, under the current situation with our pubuc current situation with our public health and the current situation in which we find ourselves in where we effectively are the fourth highest public sector borrowing rate , we absolutely need to be rate, we absolutely need to be thinking about constraining our pubuc thinking about constraining our public spending, and that includes child benefits . includes child benefits. >> okay, reem ibrahim, you are the communications officer at the communications officer at the iea and political commentatorjonathan list. thank you for a very civil debate. that was a good one, wasn't it? >> it was. and i do think it is a debate that's going to run and run, because the big problem we have in this country is that

most families can't afford to bnng most families can't afford to bring up children without state support because we have such high taxes. so i think the common perception is that it's only, you know, people who aren't work, who are, you know, not, contributing to society, who are in receipt of benefits. it's not it's actually an awful lot of working families. >> i've done a massive u—turn, i used to say years ago, if you can't afford to have kids, don't have kids, don't be so irresponsible. but knowing what we know now, child born is a future tax payer and worker. >> yeah . and we need them. >> yeah. and we need them. >> yeah. and we need them. >> and just on jonathan's point there he's saying well we need migrants. it's like no we need nafive migrants. it's like no we need native brits, not economic, but we need a population pyramid where there are more the bottom coming in than there are retired. >> and that's what we don't have now anyway. we can talk about this all day, but up next we're going to be joined by the leader of welsh conservatives. he's furious about a school serving halal only lunches . this is halal only lunches. this is britain's newsroom live across the united kingdom on gb news

>> hello. welcome back. it's 10 to 11. you're with ben and miriam on britain's newsroom. only on gb news. >> a mother in wales is outraged after her daughter's secondary school has reportedly refused to provide non—halal meat options at lunch. >> this is despite the latest census estimating that less than 1% of the area where the school is the vale of glamorgan is muslim, so we're joined now by welsh tory leader andrew rt davies, who's. andrew, you're taking this up with the local council, aren't you? what's the latest? have you heard back from them as to why they are doing this ? and indeed, is it as black this? and indeed, is it as black and white as it seems? are they doing this well? >> good morning both, >> good morning both, >> i was approached last friday by a constituent who was very concerned that when she went to choose a menu option for her daughter at her local school, that that wasn't an option for her to choose a non—halal meat option. and that can't be right. i mean, i respect and everyone should respect people's religious preferences, but

ultimately there should be choice on the menu and where people obviously want to have that choice, it should be provided. and this is a large secondary school, and indeed the very little more than is a large geographical area. so it's not a problem of volume. it should be available on the menu to make that choice. >> now, gb news has approached the school for comment, but we don't know any more yet. could it just be the case that they're using some big national supplier and for the for the sake of ease and for the for the sake of ease and keeping costs down, they just make sure that all of the products are halal ? products are halal? >> well, that's what i await. the response from the local authority. i mean, obviously there's an elected representative. it's my job to amplify the concerns of my constituents . and my constituent constituents. and my constituent came to me to try and seek an answer because it was the first time she professed to say that she'd come across this. now i'm waiting. that response . but as waiting. that response. but as i say, i go back to the fundamental point that people should have choice and where school might be of a certain size, i.e. too small to provide that choice. i can understand that choice. i can understand that could be a limitation, but where you have large schools

with 15 1600 plus school rolls and in local authority areas that have several large secondary schools , then it secondary schools, then it should be relatively simple for them to provide that choice and an informed choice as well. >> andrew, for just the benefit of some viewers who may know what halal is and what is halal, and why don't you want it in our schools? >> well, it's not not wanting it in our schools. i mean, it is perfectly right that if someone obviously has a religious disposition or follows a religious faith that obviously says that they can only eat a certain type of food, then that should be catered for on the menu. what i don't support is that there's no options on the menu for conventionally produced food, in this case, conventionally slaughtered meat, that obviously would meet the concerns and reservations that some parents would express . and some parents would express. and indeed the students might express as well. and that's my point, that this isn't about saying that there shouldn't be a halal option. this is about saying that there should be informed choice, and there should be the balanced choice of

conventional dietary options on the menu. >> this does throw up interesting wider questions about multicultural britain, doesn't it? because as a as a society , we have always been society, we have always been very, very tolerant to different religious beliefs. that's a key part of who we are as the united kingdom . but there comes a point kingdom. but there comes a point where it's actually impractical for our public institutions to follow everybody's needs. doesn't there? is it really possible for schools to provide halal , provide vegan, perhaps halal, provide vegan, perhaps kosher as well? or should we just take a much more simple approach to these issues ? approach to these issues? >> well, we know obviously that people have dietary requirements, whether it's gluten free or other alternatives, and that seems to be able to be accommodated within a balanced menu choice. sure, there does seem to be an issue over , obviously a blanket issue over, obviously a blanket approach to providing one type of meat option, which i would suggest isn't suitable, in this, in this setting, because obviously you have people of varying views and opinions and dispositions who want to obviously choose on behalf of

their children or indeed the students themselves want to choose, okay, i hope that the local authority will come back with a substantive answer. and if there isn't that choice on the school menus in the village of morgan, that choice will be introduced. >> okay , andrew, thanks for your >> okay, andrew, thanks for your time. we're fast running out of it, unfortunately. thank you for joining us this morning is andrew rt davies, leader of the welsh conservatives . gb news. as welsh conservatives. gb news. as miriam said, we did approach the school. cowbridge comprehensive in glamorgan and wales, but they didn't respond to us unfortunately, just yet. more to come in the next hour as the prime minister launches gb energy. but before the weather, check out this clip off the coast of new hampshire that is a humpback whale capsizing a small fishing boat with two sailors on board. here's your. fishing boat with two sailors on board. here's your . weather. board. here's your. weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news >> good morning. welcome to your

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>> well. >> well. >> welcome back. it's 11 am. on thursday. the 25th of july. we are live across the united kingdom. this is britain's newsroom with miriam cates and ben leo standing for in andrew and bev. >> very good morning to you. police officer has been suspended after he kicked a man in the head during that now infamous arrest at manchester airport. mark white has more. >> well, greater manchester police say that this incident, captured on video, shows only the very end stage of what was a violent altercation with three police officers hospitalised elsewhere this morning. >> a clean energy revolution or is it? the prime minister will unveil plans to set up great british energy this hour , and british energy this hour, and biden bows out overnight. >> the us president, joe biden, made his first public address since quitting the presidential race, admitting that he might

just be too old for the job. >> so i've decided the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation. >> ready, steady . go! the tory >> ready, steady. go! the tory leadership race kicks off robert jenrick and tom tugendhat joined james cleverly in a bid to become the party's new leader and royal rift. >> prince harry reveals the motivation behind his crusade against the tabloids. take a listen to this. >> still today, the press, the tabloid press very much enjoy painting her as being paranoid. but she wasn't paranoid . but she wasn't paranoid. >> so moving. you've only been here, what, four days now? but you're already causing trouble. you're causing mischief because you tweeted something yesterday to do with the story. we covered dunng to do with the story. we covered during the show. it was comments from jd vance, president donald trump's nomination for vice president. he was saying that in

a resurfaced clip that you shouldn't really be a political leader if you don't have children because you don't have skin in the game. you tweeted something and it's gone viral with more than a million views. what? >> yes, i'm not in a good way. well, i don't think he did actually say you shouldn't be a pubuc actually say you shouldn't be a public leader without children. i think he was making the point that you need parents around the table in order to make decisions that are good for children, and i agree with that. and so i tweeted something that i thought was fairly moderate, saying, of course you don't have to be a parent to be a politician. absolutely not. but it is important to have parents around the table because it does give you a different perspective on life, doesn't it? it changes you when you become a parent, but overnight it went viral. and as i said, not in a particularly good way. but i have found this. i've spoken a lot about children and parenthood over the last few years, and it really divides people and it really gets a very harsh reaction. so do let us know what you think. have a look at that tweet. send your views and your comments by visiting gb news. dot com forward slash yoursay. but first, here's the news with tatiana sanchez .

news with tatiana sanchez. >> miriam thank you. the top stories from the gb newsroom. a police officer has been suspended from all duties after a video emerged appearing to show a person being kicked in the head during an altercation at manchester airport. greater manchester police says three of its officers were seriously injured when they attended to reports of an assault in the airport car park that included a female officer who suffered a broken nose . the force says they broken nose. the force says they referred the case to the independent office for police conduct for a full independent investigation. security specialist will geddes told gb news the broader context should be considered . be considered. >> it had been a four person confrontation with some police officers. the police officers had responded. these individuals counter—attacked and the apparently these police officers were punched, including one female police officer who had her nose broken and apparently they are being treated by medics for their injuries. they are being treated by medics for their injuries . the response for their injuries. the response team that subsequently followed up then took this particular

action. and this is where this video apparently starts. so again, we don't have the fullest context here. we need to see the full video from certainly the airport cctv to see exactly what happened at any other bystander video, but to react in this particular way i don't think is acceptable . acceptable. >> in other news, a man has been charged with attempted murder after the stabbing of a uniformed army officer in kent. 24 year old anthony hassan was arrested near his home in rochester just 30 minutes arrested near his home in rochesterjust 30 minutes after rochester just 30 minutes after the violent attack. he's also been charged with possession of an offensive weapon in a public place, and is due to appear in court today . lieutenant colonel court today. lieutenant colonel mark teetan, who's in his 40s, was stabbed in sally port gardens near brompton barracks in gillingham. he remains in hospital in a serious but stable condition . former immigration condition. former immigration minister robert jenrick will stand for the leadership of the conservative party. he's the third tory to throw their hat into the ring after tom tugendhat. mr tugendhat could be

an early frontrunner, scoring the lowest negative rating with members of the public. that's according to a report in the independent. the former security minister and mrjenrick independent. the former security minister and mr jenrick come after shadow home secretary james cleverly also announced his own leadership bid. mr tugendhat says the conservatives have lost the trust of the british people because they failed to, quote, deliver on lower taxes and lower immigration. >> you've seen what's just happenedin >> you've seen what's just happened in the recent election. we lost the trust of the british people because we failed to deliver. and i've got a track record of delivery, whether that's in the army on operations in iraq and afghanistan or whether that's in parliament standing up to those who would threaten us, those authoritarian dictators. and that's got me sanctioned by countries like china and russia and iran. and of course, i've been delivering in government, you know, as the security minister, making sure that we are safe. and i can't talk about all the areas that i've been working on as security minister, for obvious reasons. but absolutely prioritising the interests and security of the british people is exactly what i've done in the us. >> joe biden said he couldn't

let his personal ambitions stand in the way of saving democracy, as he addressed the nation dunng as he addressed the nation during a televised speech from the oval office last night. in his first comments since announcing his decision to drop out of the presidential race, the 81 year old said it had been the 81 year old said it had been the honour of his life to serve the honour of his life to serve the american people as president. but explaining his decision , he said the future of decision, he said the future of the united states must come first and it's time to pass the torch on to the next generation. >> in recent weeks, it's become clear to me that i needed to unite my party in this critical endeavoun unite my party in this critical endeavour. i believe my record is president. my leadership in the world, my vision for america's future all merited a second term. but nothing , second term. but nothing, nothing can come in the way of saving our democracy. that includes personal ambition. >> andy murray has officially withdrawn from the singles event at the paris olympics. the two time gold medallist is still not

fully recovered from the back surgery he had last month, and believes the men's doubles, where he's playing with dan evans, offers his best chance of another medal. the former world number one also withdrew from the singles at wimbledon this year after undergoing that surgery to remove a spinal cyst and finally a renowned micro sculptor has unveiled the world's smallest olympic mascot, which we understand fits into the eye of a needle. the handmade , microscopic version of handmade, microscopic version of the official mascot can be seen holding a medal, which was crafted from 24 carat gold and is roughly the size of a blood cell. british sculptor doctor willard wigan used an eyelash as a paintbrush and says he worked between heartbeats, using his pulse as a jackhammer. and if you're wondering why, he says he enjoys the reaction when people see his work , and those are the see his work, and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to

your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> thank you tatiana. it's 1108 >> thank you tatiana. it's1108 andifs >> thank you tatiana. it's1108 and it's ben and miriam with you on britain's newsroom. only on gb news. now, miriam, as i said in the menu, you've been for here days and you're already causing all sorts of trouble. you tweeted something yesterday. let's get it up if we can. it was about, jd vance, the vice presidential nominee for the republican party, who said some years ago that if you didn't have kids, you didn't really have kids, you didn't really have skin in the political game. and you should know it's a good idea to have leaders who have kids, basically children. >> yeah. he was making the point. well, he was making the point. well, he was making the point that there are a lot of people now at the top of the democratic party who don't have children. and i think this is a really interesting point. and certainly there's a there's a case for there being parents around the table when big decisions are made. kids can't vote for good and obvious

reasons. but you do need people around the table who understand the experience of being a child and what children need. and so i made this what i thought was a fairly moderate tweet about the tweet back up about saying, of course you don't have to be a parent to be a politician of course not. but it is important to have parents around those decision making table. and i think a really recent example of what happens when you don't is covid. i don't think schools would have been shut down if you had plenty of mothers of school aged children around that decision making table. we all know now that closing schools was a terrible, terrible mistake. really bad for our kids, really bad for our future. and i think there are plenty of mothers screaming at the television. don't do it, don't do it. and i think that's an example of why you do need parents of school aged children, young children as well around the table. but as i said before the table. but as i said before the break, anything to do with parents and children causes an enormous reaction online, especially on twitter. there's a lot of people out there with some very, very conflicting views. i've just walked into it. >> you've gone viral , but not in >> you've gone viral, but not in a good way. >> not in a good way. >> not in a good way. >> a million views on this tweet. some people are calling

you. well, someone said so offensive. it's 2024. others have said, you're revolting. i'm not sure i agree with that, someone else has said, what about people like theresa may, who wants the children but couldn't? >> i mean, but but this is exactly the point. of course, you don't have to have children. and of course, you don't have to have children to contribute to society. but we go on and on and on about lived experience. well, the lived experience of parents counts, too, and it's hard to take into account the needs of children if you don't have people around the table. >> i think it's a pretty it's a pretty you know, i thought it's fairly moderate. but anyway, it's a fair moderate point. i'm not sure why there has to be such a nasty toxic backlash all the time, but there we are anyway. >> moving on. a police officer has been suspended from duty after a video has emerged showing him kicking a man lying on the ground during an arrest. we're joined by mark white, now in our studio, to talk about this breaking news. have we got any further updates, mark? >> well, this incident was right at the end of what was a very violent confrontation in which police officers were injured. >> i think we can look at the video now in a warning to our viewers that it is clearly quite graphic, as you see that officer

kicking in and stamping on the head of a man who is on the ground. now, these officers are officers , backup officers officers, backup officers responding to calls from their colleagues for assistance, because what had happened was that there was a report of an assault police had identified through cctv , a suspect in a car through cctv, a suspect in a car park at terminal two at heathrow, at manchester airport . heathrow, at manchester airport. then when they arrived to try to detain this man, there was a violent, a very violent confrontation in which not just this man, but a group of other men were involved in fighting with those officers. those officers were kicked to the ground. according to the police, one female officer smashed in the face and sustained a broken, so the suspects managed to get from the car park into the terminal itself. >> having committed this assault on police officers. >> know what the video that you're showing is actually in the car park. >> it's in the car park. >> it's in the car park. >> that's the area by by a ticket machine in one of these multi—storey car parks next to

the airport. so that's where all of this took place. the original assault, that they were investigating and the backup officers clearly were hearing the screams of their colleagues being assaulted with the radio systems they have nowadays. you press a button and that keeps the mic active for about seconds or so, saves the officer who is often otherwise engaged, fighting for their lives or whatever they're doing, from having to keep the button pressed. and he can relay other details about where they are, how many suspects there are. but a consequence of that is, of course, the officers attending to back these officers up here, their colleagues and the distress that they're in and the violent episode that's erupting there. so they arrive on scene with the express intent, understandably, to get the men understandably, to get the men under control, that have been involved in this assault and in doing that, clearly, one, it

could be argued, has overstepped. that will have to be decided by this investigation going forward. that has now been revealed to the police watchdog . revealed to the police watchdog. >> okay. >> okay. >> and of course, you said context is key. and this came hours after a poor chap in gillingham, an army soldier, was stabbed multiple times in an attack in kent. charlie peters is down there on the scene now to give us an update on what's happened since yesterday. i believe the victim, the soldier is still in hospital. charlie, how is the victim and what's the latest on the case? >> well, lieutenant colonel mark teton, the victim of this repeated stabbing on tuesday evening, is in a stable. but serious condition in hospital today. and moments earlier here at medway magistrates court, anthony hassan, aged 24, left, having been remanded in custody having been remanded in custody having been remanded in custody having been charged with his attempted murder. that attack happening on tuesday evening at a nearby barracks in gillingham

in kent, where the one royal school of military engineering is based, anthony hassan appeared in the court aged 24, wearing a grey t shirt and grey bottoms, where he was charged with attempted murder and also possession of an offensive weapon. he is next due to attend at maidstone crown court on august the 22nd. he was arrested near his home in rochester and was, as i said, charged with attempted murder and also possession of an offensive weapon, remanded in custody . now weapon, remanded in custody. now after that appearance here at medway magistrates court in the last hour. >> thank you charlie , now in the >> thank you charlie, now in the studio to join us about another big story today, which is keir starmer's announcement of great british energy. >> we've got ed geml, who is the leader of the climate party. welcome, ed. thanks so much for coming in. so is this good news? if you're in favour of tackling climate change? >> well, just to start off with it's gamble not gamble.

>> but that's absolutely fine. yes. leader of the climate party, obviously in favour. obviously it's a good step forward, but it's really wildly too small . i mean, really we are too small. i mean, really we are not going to get where we need to go with this . we're talking to go with this. we're talking about an 8.3 billion investment over five years. that's only 1.7 billion coming in every year. we're spending 8 billion a month on the interest on our national debt. i mean, this is a minuscule kind of amount. they're talking about it crowding in another 60 billion of private investment. that's not too bad at all. but that would actually mean that it's got to go out and get seven and a half times in terms of private money following it. i'm not sure we've ever done that with government money here before. >> sorry. and they're making the point that they are partnering with the crown estates. but that's really private that's not really private investment is it? i mean, king charles gives all his money back to the taxpayer anyway . isn't to the taxpayer anyway. isn't that just an extension of the state? >> yeah, well, it is, but i mean, this is not the point. i mean, the crown estate, that's that's a master plan. i mean, this is something i've been saying both on gb news and other places now for years, is that there needs to be partnership with the crown estate. they control all of the waters around the uk. it's very simple. you're going to one landlord and saying, look, can we partner with you to roll this

out? and then it's you're just talking to one person effectively. there's a second one in scotland. so that is definitely worth doing . but definitely worth doing. but they're not doing enough. i mean they're not doing enough. i mean the other thing is we're missing out tidal power. i mean we've got the uk, which is the absolute dominance in terms of potential for tidal power and the entire world. and it's going to do 40 to 60% of europe's tidal power. a british government survey from over a decade ago says we've got 20gw of tidal power. why isn't this deal with the crown estate saying, yes, and we're going to put tidal power all around the country as well. which of course isn't on off. we know when it's going to be on. we know when it's off. it's not like you can it's off. it's not like you can it's unpredictable , let's say, it's unpredictable, let's say, in the way that wind and solar is shine. >> yes. >> yes. >> and can i just say some people are good cohorts do not want this march to net zero. they didn't vote for it. it's a massive policy which is going to completely tear up a lot of people's lives , costing jobs, people's lives, costing jobs, costing money and in actual fact, the global carbon emissions of the uk is less than, well, just over 1%, i believe. so at a time when china

is building the equivalent of five coal power stations a week and they don't seem to care about the climate situation , why about the climate situation, why should we be going down this path when arguably it's going to cause so much harm? >> but it surprised me that you bnng >> but it surprised me that you bring up the altruistic issue of this. it's not altruistic . look, this. it's not altruistic. look, why is china building all its coal fired power stations ? coal fired power stations? because it's the world's industry. it's creating all of the world's manufacturing. it's doing to 70 to 80% of our solar panels and our wind turbines, 88% of our batteries, 54% of evs and ev parts. it is dominating the processing of rare earth metals and minerals to the point. and some of them where it's almost 90%. they are taking advantage of a massive commercial opportunity and we are missing out. commercial opportunity and we are missing out . so what we are missing out. so what we shouldn't be doing is using this silly, altruistic argument. this is a massive business and commercial opportunity. if britain pulls its target forward, takes first mover advantage, a real sort of company commercial orientated thing to do gets ahead of everybody else with a much nearer net zero target. and to be honest, 2030 just for our electricity system is pathetically small and

pathetically small and pathetically late. if we want to grab the industrial opportunity in the world, we voted for this. >> that's the thing. but would you not accept a referendum on net zero? >> oh , absolutely. we should >> oh, absolutely. we should have a referendum on net zero because we should not be doing this idiocy of 2050. we should be bringing it forward to 2030, leading the world, not staying at the back of the queue and losing money on it. i never understand why people keep arguing to keep us poor. why would you want us to be poor? ben, let's lead and make money. >> the pursuit of net zero by 2030 absolutely will make us poon 2030 absolutely will make us poor. because not only is it extremely expensive, it's also undeliverable in terms of planning, in terms of the infrastructure, even supply of things like copper and steel for the grid wires. it's just not available. it'sjust the grid wires. it's just not available. it's just not possible, is it? >> if you took a 2030 target, what you do is you unleash finance and innovation. the first thing you get on to a five year investment cycle for the city. it immediately gets onto the radar. private investment pushes it, not public at the moment. we keep arguing about do we have enough public money for it? stop the public money. put the right target in. let the private investment get at it. and they tell me that when i do speeches in the city, in addition, when you're talking

about issues with rare earth metals and minerals and supply lines, at the moment we have an energy security issue that china will dominate all of that in the next 5 or 10 years. and they will turn off supply when they want to. but what we should be doing is a bending the supply lines to us by taking the whole economy there. and the second bit is driving innovation much faster. so sodium cathodes and anodes, you know, battery technology, solid state battery technology, solid state battery technology, the increase in all of these things that are being worked on in the uk at the moment, but not fast enough. and the minute we've got something up and done, it's bought by the americans and it's relocated to the states. we are losing out all the time . okay. all the time. okay. >> i would just like it to be a bit more democratic where we do genuinely have a referendum on net zero because lots of people say it's a deranged march to net zero. we're going to be colder, we're going to be poorer and totally deranged. >> going 2050, we lose money. it puts us at the back of the queue nuts. but let's invest early. let's go for it now. and let's make britain roll up our sleeves and do it here. >> makes sense financially. why do we need a target? it'll just happen, >> well, that's not at all what doesn't. what works in economic theory? government sets big

targets. big aims, national missions, industrial plans, and then business gets at it. what business and finance wants is certainty. give it an earlier target. be absolutely certain that we won't flip, flop and go back from it and they'll get at it. okay. >> ed gemmell, leader of the climate party. thank you for joining us this morning. appreciate it. right. coming up next, find out why we're stepping ever closer to becoming a cashless society. lots of you have lots of concerns about that . have lots of concerns about that. and we saw it the other day actually with the tech outage going into bakeries and shops with no cash, you're in a bit of a pickle, this is britain's newsroom on gb news back in

tick. >> welcome back. it's 11:23. and this is britain's newsroom with miriam cates and ben leo standing in for andrew and bev. >> we are also joined in the studio by broadcaster and journalist carole malone and broadcast journalist juditha d'silva. welcome back to you, ladies. let me just play you a quick clip from benjamin

netanyahu, the pm of israel who is in congress last night in the us giving a talk on the situation with gaza. he said, some of these protesters hold up signs proclaiming gays for gaza. >> they might as well hold up signs saying chickens for kfc. these protesters chant from the to river the sea, but many don't have a clue what river and what sea they're talking about . sea they're talking about. >> well, there you go. you saw what he said. chickens for kfc, akin to gays for gaza, queers for palestine as he got a point. and also . but the biggest point and also. but the biggest point there. sorry, judy, to interject. he said that pro—palestine protesters are iran's useful idiots , iran's useful idiots, >> first of all, it's very on brand for netanyahu. that's the first point. but i think that the entire tone of this speech at congress was very it's very i think it's not well thought out

when you look at the number of democrats that didn't show up, that boycotted it, people like bernie sanders, nancy pelosi, not going there, and also tweeting about it, saying that it's a it's an honour to be given the right to speak there, to use it as almost a propaganda rally platform . it's not exactly rally platform. it's not exactly it's pretty tone deaf because no matter where your position is, you're a leader and there's a dignity that comes with the position . whatever conflict you position. whatever conflict you are navigating, you need to uphold that position that hamas and hezbollah are iranian proxies. >> and if israel wasn't fighting these organisations, america would have to. he was making the point that israel was doing america's job for them. >> but look at the articulation. you just gave me right there. thatis you just gave me right there. that is something that's done. that's well thought out. you have a point to make, and you make it with a kind of dignity and educated perspective. what he's done by using such triggering rhetoric is turn it into which words triggered you. then think about when you say chickens and idiots. that's your it's diminutive. it's designed to be insulting. and it's designed to make them look small. >> whatever position you occupy for the eradication of israel

are idiots. >> you can think that. but when you occupy. i agree with that. you know, i don't call anyone an idiot. you can have your perspective. >> and if you don't think terrorists who call for the eradication and the complete wipe out of jews and israel, i think they're inhumane. >> i think they're ill thought out. i think they have questionable motivations in life. i don't need to resort to insults to give you the perspective that i disagree with you. >> and i think carol, i think i think his his speech, i do agree with the i thought the tone was wrong. >> that's the fourth time he's actually spoken in congress. i mean, i would say that speech was a kind of a trumpian speech, actually, it was designed for an audience that he knows is on his side anyway. so he was going to get. but you're right. i mean, 80 democrats snubbed that, which i also think is wrong. if you have a speaker and you know you should be there to listen because because what they're doing is taking a side and that's what we're not supposed to do in this. we're not supposed to be taking sides. so they took a side and that is wrong. so you know, but but i think the point you make is

absolutely right that, you know, he's saying if we weren't fighting them, you'd have to. >> so, you know, i think he was playing to the audience because america, by doing that, the opfics america, by doing that, the optics say we're planting our flag firmly on israel's side. you're antagonising the protesters outside and making them more antagonistic towards you creates cultivating an environment that's going nowhere but somewhere negative . so but somewhere negative. so that's why seeing, like you said, the tone was wrong for the agenda being driven towards. >> okay, i have another clip to show you from my box of tricks. this is prince harry who's going to be giving an interview tonight on itv about his battle with the tabloid press. take a look at this . look at this. >> oh, have we got it ? >> oh, have we got it? >> oh, have we got it? >> well, i think he's made the point. >> if we haven't, let's talk about it. he's >> it proves that you weren't being paranoid. you know, it seems some of my mother, you know, there is evidence to suggest that she was being hacked in the mid 90s. probably one of the first people to be hacked. and yet still today, the press, the tabloid press, very

much enjoy painting her as being paranoid , but she wasn't paranoid, but she wasn't paranoid, but she wasn't paranoid, she was absolutely right of what was happening to her. to her. and she's not around today to find out the truth . truth. >> does your mum, carol, it wasn't the tabloids who made him sit down with oprah. it wasn't the tabloids who made him write spare. go to netflix. why doesn't he take responsibility? >> you have to wonder when this petulant man child is ever going to take responsibility for what he has done. the rift within the royal family is not because he took on the tap. nothing to do with the tabloids. it's because he sat on the world stage. him and his wife and they branded the royal family racist. he denigrated his own father, the queen. he he was very derogatory about kate. so that's why they have a rift in the family. and for him to sit there, he just tries to rewrite history all the time. i worry about him sometimes because i think, you know, he he he forgets what he has done and he has to find a way. maybe he does realise what he's done, but he and he can't face it. so he pretends now he's some kind of hero and single

handedly taking on the tabloid press and his family have have ostracised. that's not why they've ostracised. >> but, carol, the tabloid press have behaved appallingly throughout the whole of harry's life. is it not surprising that the stress of dealing with that has caused a family rift absolutely take you on? >> they have not behaved upon throughout the whole of harry's life. after diana's death, the tabloid press changed. they were forced to change. they had to change and quite rightly, they did change. harry was protected all throughout school, as was william never had any problem from the tabloid press. they were absolutely protected, so ? were absolutely protected, so? so no, he has always hated them because he blames the tabloid press for his mother's death. not a drunk driver in a car in paris, which was the reason for his mother's death. >> he doesn't singularly blame them for it. it's compounded a relationship that broke down within his family, and they do have an attributable responsibility for what happened. you put people that aren't designed to withstand that kind of pressure under a pressure that no human being could withstand, and we saw what happened. but i do think he does. it's kind of the markers

of trauma. he's conflating issues. he is it has been proven that there was hacking . it did that there was hacking. it did happen. and it was proven that his mother was very paranoid about that happening. but what they've branded as a paranoia actually turned out to be an awareness of something happening that nobody would corroborate. and so you kind of ostracised her. now he is now he's retrospectively getting a justice that everyone can collectively say would have been beneficial to his mother. but how do you how do you how do you compare that with what harry does now? >> harry now is an integral part of the media that he despises. so much. he has been he has become a media person. got very rich off the back of being a media person. he sells secrets about his family to the media. he this interview is him being part of the media and so to hate it in the way that he does is hypocrisy in the extreme. and he doesn't seem to say that he sells stories. he he makes stories known to the media that he wants to be put out there. >> greta, we're going to have to leave it there, i'm afraid. and

tatiana now has your news headunes. headlines. >> miriam, thank you very much. and good morning. the top stories from the gb newsroom. a police officer has been suspended from all duties after a video emerged appearing to show a person being kicked in the head during an altercation at manchester airport, greater manchester police says three of its officers were seriously injured when they attended to reports of an assault in the airport car park that included a female officer who suffered a broken nose. the force says they've referred the case to the independent office for police conduct for a full, independent investigation . a man has been investigation. a man has been charged with attempted murder after the stabbing of a uniformed army officer in kent . uniformed army officer in kent. 24 year old anthony hassan has been remanded in custody. he was arrested near his home in rochester just 30 minutes arrested near his home in rochesterjust 30 minutes after rochester just 30 minutes after the violent attack. he's also been charged with possession of

an offensive weapon in a public place. lieutenant colonel mark teetan, who's in his 40s, was stabbed in sallyport gardens near brompton barracks in gillingham, just before 6:00 on tuesday evening. he remains in hospital in a serious but stable condition . former immigration condition. former immigration minister robert jenrick will stand for the leadership of the conservative party, promising to win back voters who switched to reform uk . he's the third tory reform uk. he's the third tory to throw their hat in the ring after james cleverly and tom tugendhat. mr cleverly says he's best placed to unite the party after last month's crushing election defeat. but tom tugendhat says the conservatives have lost trust after failing to deliver lower taxes and immigration. and andy murray has officially withdrawn from the singles event at the paris olympics. the two time gold medallist is still not fully recovered from the back surgery he had last month, and believes the men's doubles, where he's playing with dan evans, offers his best chance of another

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financial report. >> up soon is tom and emily with good afternoon britain. hello, hello. what's in store ? hello. what's in store? >> hello. >> hello. >> well, of course we're going to have more reaction on what happened at manchester airport. the police officer now suspended, for kicking and stamping that man there. but also concerning scenes outside rochdale police station overnight. it does appear as though hundreds of people were out protesting, chanting, etc. etc. a lot of distrust of the police talk of more protests again tonight. so of course we're going to have the very latest on that. >> yeah. the labour mp for the area, paul waugh, a former journalist, is meeting with the family of the people concerned. andy burnham, the mayor of greater manchester, has been talking about it today. of course, this suspension from the police officer, it looks like a lot of people are working to try and simmer down these clear community tensions that exist in rochdale right now, but but of course, more could happen. did you see afternoon videos doing

the rounds last night from members of the muslim community in rochdale saying that if all these officers weren't arrested and charged and put in jail immediately, there would be more protests like you've never seen before? >> i mean, that's a threat. >> i mean, that's a threat. >> i mean, that's a threat. >> i there is a concern and hopefully this is overstated, but that this could be a type of george floyd moment for the muslim community. this man, there's lots of accusations of racism from the police officer. i don't know if there are any grounds at all for that allegation, but there you go. >> i'm sorry there's been more outrage over this incident of people taking on police officers with guns. the concern was that they could have got ahold of their guns or their guns. a young officer's nose was smashed into pieces. there's been more outrage over this than than the army guy who was knifed 70 odd times in gillingham. >> right. this is this is this is insane. >> it's the issue when you get a very small snapshot of a much longer incident, and we've all seen the 20s that has gone viral on social media of the end of

the incident. we haven't seen the incident. we haven't seen the video of the people that were attacking the police, attacking that female police officer as well. >> do you think this, increasing trend now of the public filming the police and actually other pubuc the police and actually other public servants in action and posting it to social media without context? do you actually think it's threatening the ability of the police to do their job? >> yeah, i theirjob? >> yeah, i think certainly police are definitely very, very worried about this. and it's probably one of the main reasons why police now all carry their own sort of cameras on. owi'i soi’l of cameras on. >> own sort of cameras on. >> they've got the they've got their context. >> but of course that that doesn't immediately get uploaded to social media. and you know that a lie can get halfway around the world before a truth has got its boots on. >> it's actually incredibly worrying. and all of these protests that we've seen recently and the riots in harehills all live streamed on social media, you see it on tiktok. oh, well, i know where to go . i'll join in. i'll join to go. i'll join in. i'll join in. and it does just show how much distrust there is of our institutions, including our police , in a very volatile, police, in a very volatile, extremely volatile, well, interesting . interesting. >> will it be more else as well? >> will it be more else as well? >> yes, i'm sure, i'm sure. will it be our george floyd moment?

goodness me. right elsewhere, sir keir starmer will outline his plans for great british energy and explain how britain will become a clean energy powerhouse. this is britain's newsroom on gb news back in

tick. welcome back. 1140 ben and miriam with you on britain's newsroom on gb news. and we're also joined by mark white, who's here to deliver us some breaking news. mark, what can you tell us? >> well, it's about the rwanda flights and the rwanda flight. the first flight has taken off only not bound for rwanda. instead, the new government has repurposed this chartered flight that was due to take off on the 24th of july. and instead it has gone to vietnam and to timor—leste in south east asia, as well, with, not asylum seekers, but foreign.

>> i've got i've got to interject. sorry my friend, we're going live to sir keir starmer now, who's unveiling gb energy plans. let's take a listen. >> you were absolutely fantastic and really good to see your colleagues here as well. thank you all for that warm introduction. when we arrived. thank you for what you do. and thank you for being here this morning. we want to do a lot of work with you, and this is something the media will know. i said it many times in the election campaign. my dad was a toolmaker and he worked particularly with steel, as you do in tool making , of the sort do in tool making, of the sort that he was doing. and so this i love environments like this. this is what i grew up in factories like this, with my dad doing the work that he did, highly skilled , really important highly skilled, really important work working with steel. the sorts of work that you're doing. i love being in these places. thank you for giving up your time to listen to us this morning. i really , really morning. i really, really appreciate it and it's great to be in runcorn. it's great to be here with ed. the energy secretary, in the third week of this labour government. it hardly seems possible that three

weeks ago today, literally, we were still knocking on doors trying to persuade people to vote for us. and here we are back to show that the work of change has already begun, and the hard graft of rebuilding this country has truly started. and it is vital that we begin immediately, because the last government dropped the ball, they left us the worst inheritance since the second world war. and every day, every day, we're finding more mess that they have left for us to clear up the rot of short sightedness and self—service that has weakened the foundations of our country. we've started the rebuilding , we've started the rebuilding, but the problems that have been left to fester for years can't be cleared up overnight. and cast your minds back to ten years ago by way of example,

when the conservative government cut investment in clean british power that impacts on your jobs, they told you that a clean energy future was possible as they blocked companies from building it . they blocked companies from building it. they they blocked companies from building it . they offered the building it. they offered the jobs of the future while they sat out the race, and that wasn't an oversight. it was an active choice. another example of the chaos that characterised their government a failure to serve our country. in my view. they banned onshore wind. think of the impact that has had on your jobs. of the impact that has had on yourjobs. they of the impact that has had on your jobs. they slashed of the impact that has had on yourjobs. they slashed support for home insulation. they cut investment in renewables and people have paid the price for their negligence. when russia invaded ukraine, we were left more exposed than other countries . and that meant putin countries. and that meant putin pushed our bills up. every family and every business has

felt the impact of that. we've lost a decade of opportunity, missed chances to boost our energy security, to cut bills and create good jobs . people up and create good jobs. people up and create good jobs. people up and down the country have literally paid the price of that shortsightedness, and we should be in no doubt for as long as we remain reliant on foreign dictators for fossil fuels, this country will be exposed to future energy shocks like the one that we've just had. and as usual, it will be working. people who are hit hardest in these crises . but now there is these crises. but now there is a massive prize within our reach and make no mistake, the race is on to get there until now, i feel like we've been sort of tying up our laces in the changing room. no more . i don't changing room. no more. i don't just want to be in the race for clean energy. i want to us win

the race for clean energy. and why not? we have got the potential. we have got the ports. we have got the people, the skills. and now we've got a mission driven government determined to take advantage of these opportunities. so in week one of government, we lifted the ban on onshore wind. we committed to unblock solar power, begun solar rooftop revolution on new homes and businesses. and last week we introduced a bill in the king's speech to create great british energy , a publicly owned energy energy, a publicly owned energy company making money for the taxpayer , creating the next taxpayer, creating the next generation of good jobs and taking putin's boot off our throat once and for all, and doing our duty to the planet and to the next generation. so today, i'm delighted to announce we've appointed jurgen meyer ,

we've appointed jurgen meyer, who is here today with us, to chair great british energy. jurgen, thank you so much for taking up this really important role. he brings huge credibility as the former chief executive of siemens uk, one of the largest producers of turbines in this country. and as i was just saying, i visited siemens in a number of places in crawley and in glasgow. and when i did, i was really struck by the apprentices there, the young people that would be skilled up for the future. and i know that jurgen will bring that experience to the success of gb energy and of course, to our nation, because i've always been clear that mission driven government, that's a government with a driving sense of purpose, knowing what it wants to achieve, making decisions that are measured in years is all about partnerships. working together to deliver for the british people. so i'm delighted that great british energy , our

that great british energy, our new national institution, will be partnering with the crown estate. and i'm really pleased that we can make that announcement today and that dan labade is here with us from the crown estate . now, this crown estate. now, this partnership will deliver and it will deliver big on the one hand, great british energy at the heart of our industrial policy, with its own resources and £83 billion to invest in the technologies of the future. floating wind, tidal power , floating wind, tidal power, nuclear and clean power projects across the uk. and on the other hand, the expertise of the crown estate , their ownership of the estate, their ownership of the seabed, their £16 billion asset base and the new borrowing and investment powers that we will give them . together. they will give them. together. they will work with the market, exploiting capabilities that only the government has and crowding in

the very best from the private sector . because this government sector. because this government isn't driven by ideology, but by our determination to deliver for the british people . so we will the british people. so we will be pro—business , pro—worker and be pro—business, pro—worker and pro wealth creation for all, maximising our assets rather than flogging them off to bring a better return for the taxpayer . a better return for the taxpayer. and this new partnership, great british energy , the crown estate british energy, the crown estate will unleash a tidal wave of pubuc will unleash a tidal wave of public and private investment to drive the low carbon transition, create good, secure jobs and supply chains across britain. fast track energy projects already in the pipeline and make the uk a world leader in the clean technologies of the future. now we owe that to the next generation in grimsby i met apprentices working on onshore offshore wind, highly skilled

young people, proud of the jobs that they were doing. they were maintaining the turbines out to sea on a two week rota , really sea on a two week rota, really keen to play their part in the clean energy revolution and their apprentices like that. the next generation of jobs across the country . and this is key to the country. and this is key to the country. and this is key to the decade of national renewal that this country needs . that this country needs. stewarding our energy resources for the benefit of the whole nation, for years to come. powering britain from the seabeds of the north sea to the celtic sea. and i want to be clear, we will work with our counterparts in scotland every step of the way. as a grown up government , in the service of government, in the service of working people across the entire united kingdom, scotland will lead the clean energy revolution . lead the clean energy revolution. gb energy will be headquartered in scotland and i know everyone ispeak

in scotland and i know everyone i speak to seems to have a good case for it being based in their town or city, but we're not going to announce that today. but i can confirm this. gb energy will bring good jobs and long term investment to our industrial hearts and coastal communities. you know how important that is to your jobs, the jobs of those that will come as apprentices and young people in the future in places like this, those jobs, it will save families, money and harness our national assets to deliver energy independence. now change on that scale will not happen overnight , but today we have overnight, but today we have taken that first step immediately. a down payment on our mission for clean power. by 2030 and accelerating to net zero. we said we would set up great british energy and we have. we said we would create good jobs and cut your bills and

we will. the race is started. the work has begun. the planet and the people of this country will reap the benefits for decades to come. thank you very much for listening to me . much for listening to me. i'm now going to take a number of questions from the media, but then the will i do want the opportunity to talk to some of you.so opportunity to talk to some of you. so we'll get this out of the way first, and then we'll have the opportunity to talk. i want to hear your views, your perspective, anything you want to talk to me and ed about, please take that opportunity in just a moment, let's do media first. i've got simon, jacques from the bbc. simon. >> thank you, prime minister. simon jack, bbc news. what's your message to the 200,000 people who work in the oil and gas sector throughout the uk, the unions say they risk being the unions say they risk being the miners of their generation. and we've already seen

investment walk away from domestic oil and gas resources here. and if i may ask a quick a second one, what was your reaction to the pictures of the police officer clearly kicking and stamping on the head of a person in the prone position? and what is the right response to that? >> well, for those working in oil and gas, can i start by saying thank you for all the hard work that they have done on the energy that we have had in this country for many, many years. second, that we will manage through this transition in a way that ensures we have the next generation of jobs and the next generation of jobs and the generation after , everybody the generation after, everybody knows that oil and gas will be part of the mix for many years to come. none of the licences that have been granted are going to be revoked or interfered with by us, but a transition is coming to renewables. everybody knows that . everybody in the knows that. everybody in the sector knows that, and what you have with mission driven, government, purpose driven government, purpose driven government is an absolute determination to see that as an

opportunity and to manage that transition in a fair way, particularly for those that are working in oil and gas. and the worst thing we could do , knowing worst thing we could do, knowing that that transition is coming because oil and gas is running out, the worst thing we could do is nothing. or to go slowly because we had a transition. you'll remember this away from coal. you'll remember this away from coal . and the government at the coal. and the government at the time did not do the forward planning for the next generation of jobs. and there are communities across the country still feeling the effects of that. i am never going to let that. i am never going to let that happen under a labour government. so we will work with all of those in the sector now, all of those in the sector now, all of those who will continue to have the skilled jobs that we needin to have the skilled jobs that we need in the places we need them. but the best thing we can do for jobs in this country and the energy sector is to seize this opportunity and work through it in a fair way in relation to the footage emerging from manchester that you mentioned in the second part of your question. look, i

understand the public's concerned. i've seen it myself and understand that concern. there have now been, i think, the suspension of one police officer this morning and the home secretary, is meeting the mayor of manchester to discuss this as we speak now. thank you. i'll go to shehab, please, from itv . itv. >> shehab khan from itv news. prime minister, can you guarantee that gb energy will result in people's energy bills going down? and if so, when are you expecting that to happen? and a second question, if i may. there's an itv documentary that airs tonight about unlawful press intrusion, which has renewed calls for a public inquiry . the father of madeleine inquiry. the father of madeleine mccann has spoken to itv news in which he says it is critical that the government has the courage and integrity to keep its promises and proceed with the second half of the leveson inquiry. the prime minister will you keep that promise, and what do you say to gerry mccann and

other victims? >> well, let me deal with the second part first. we've set out in our manifesto our programme for action for this government. we've laid that out in the king's speech, that clearly sets out our priorities, and the second half of leveson is not among them , i've been clear that among them, i've been clear that one of the purposes of mission dnven one of the purposes of mission driven government is to be clear about what we can achieve , the about what we can achieve, the time frame, the purpose we need to put to it , time frame, the purpose we need to put to it, but also that it dictates our priorities in government . given the mess that government. given the mess that we've inherited, and we're finding more of it every day, it's really important that we keep to those priorities in relation to bills. yes, this will drive down bills. this move to renewable energy has a number of material advantages because every family and every business has paid higher bills in energy in recent years because of the inaction of the last ten years. so this will drive down bills. it gives us energy independence, because at the moment we're

reliant on the international market. that means when you get issues like the invasion of ukraine that has an effect. that's why bills have gone up andifs that's why bills have gone up and it's been worse in this country than in other countries. so it gives us that security and it also gives us the next generation of jobs. but it will push bills down. and that's the sort of number one issue behind renewables. bills will go down and not for a short time, but actually permanently and for every family and every business across the country. that is hugely important. thank you. i'll go to tom at sky. >> thank you, prime minister tom clark, sky news. on that point, even with the measures you brought in today, big offshore wind farms are still going to take years to develop. there's hundreds of billions of pounds of investment needed to get to your 2030 low carbon energy targets , but just £83 billion targets, but just £83 billion in gb energy . can you be at all in gb energy. can you be at all confident in your pledge to voters that you will lower their bills in the short term?

>> yes, and i'll tell you, for why the money that's going into gb energy is intended to be a catalyst for private investment, and the partnership that we've announced today with the crown estate, i think will give great confidence to investors about the determination that we have the determination that we have the speed at which we're willing to take decisions and this this is a historic partnership. this has never been done before. it's a real game changer. and here we are three weeks into a labour government making that announcement today. look, it will take time for this to develop. it will take time before we're able to get the benefits from clean power, but that's why we're moving at pace, because the inaction of the last ten years has cost every family and every business. so we need to move at pace to get those bills down. but i think today this announcement is a historic announcement. i think it would be great confidence to the

private sector to come up alongside, a mission driven government, a purpose driven government, a purpose driven government, a purpose driven government, a government, if i may say so, with a mandate strong enough to take decisions that are measured in years, not months . and that has been a huge months. and that has been a huge problem over the last 14 years. but the last eight years in particular, with a strong sense of industrial strategy and a fundamental belief that we should own and make things in britain. i think everybody here would agree with that sentiment that we have the capability, we've got the skills, we've got the workforce, we've got the talent that's own more and make more in britain. thank you very much , catherine gb news, thank much, catherine gb news, thank you, prime minister. >> katherine forster gb news, you see green technology as a huge opportunity for growth, for jobs, for energy security, for asked about bills a little bit, but for ordinary families, obviously, this is going to take many years. can you tell us

specifically, will people start to see a drop in their bills in this parliament, and if so, by how much or will it take longer than that? >> thank you. oh, we certainly want to get those bills down in this parliament. and every step we take, that's all. you know, we've already announced what we're going to do in relation to solar energy, to onshore wind today obviously announce what we're making about gb energy. each of these steps will bring down bills. the timing will depend on the implementation, but the fact that within three weeks we've already taken some of the key decisions allows us to move at pace. so i want to see those bills go down in this parliament. we've made that pledge. that's what we intend to do, and it is really important because so many people have been hammered by their energy bills in the last few years. talk to any business up and down the country and ask them, what's your number one challenge? and i'd put money these days on most of them, saying, it's my energy bill. it's far too high. i need

to get it down. and families have struggled with their energy bills and therefore had to make difficult choices about what else they do. but look, it's it is about making these decisions early on, we have i think in the first three weeks now, shown a real intent to make the change that's necessary to get those bills down. thank you. so much. ihave bills down. thank you. so much. i have got rob from itv granada . i have got rob from itv granada. >> thank you, prime minister. >> thank you, prime minister. >> well, that was the prime minister launching gb energy a new state owned energy company. it's midday . it's midday. good afternoon britain. it's 12:00 on thursday. the 25th of july. >> i'm tom harwood and i'm emily carver. >> protests erupt in rochdale overnight after an armed police officer was caught on camera stamping on a man's head at manchester airport. the officer has since been suspended . we'll has since been suspended. we'll have the very latest.

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