>> very good morning to you. it's 930 on friday, july the 26th. live across the united kingdom. this is britain's newsroom with me, ben, leo and nana akua. >> right? right. so we kick with some breaking news as paris prepares for the olympics. the french rail network has been hit by vandals, impacting almost 1 million people. sophie reaper has more . has more. >> people are queuing or being turned away from rail stations in paris , as well as in paris, as well as cancellations on the eurostar. that's ahead of tonight's opening ceremony and in the tory leadership race, former pensions secretary mel stride becomes the fourth man to throw his hat into the ring . the ring. >> he spoke to stephen and ellie on breakfast. take a listen. >> i believe that i'm well positioned now to do this rebuilding exercise of this unifying exercise that the party so badly needs . so badly needs. >> key battle lines drawn

already on the on the conservative leadership race. will they leave the echr? will they stay? we're expecting more candidates to announce their pitches in the coming days , but pitches in the coming days, but does anyone care? >> look, i don't know. health secretary wes streeting claims the nhs watchdog is not fit for purpose. as hospitals go unchecked . for nearly a decade, unchecked. for nearly a decade, i was stunned. >> i mean , i knew that the nhs >> i mean, i knew that the nhs was broken and i said that on day one, but what i didn't anticipate was receiving a report that revealed that i in 5 health and care providers has never been inspected, and prince harry's not giving up his crusade against the tabloids. >> the duke of sussex claims he will keep meghan away from the uk over safety fears. >> a knife or acid, whatever it is, and these are things that are genuine concern for me. it's one of the reasons why i won't bnng one of the reasons why i won't bring my wife back to this country.

>> very good morning to you. hope you're all well at home. you've got a nice cup of tea and some bickies on standby or something stronger. if your week's been a bit stressful, a bit icky. >> but of that week. >> but of that week. >> although we'll keep you entertained and also informed with loads of different news stories. i mean, i don't know whether any of you saw the thing on with prince harry last night. did you watch it? >> he's he's a the ginger winger for a reason, you know, i said yesterday the tabloids didn't make you sit down with oprah. the tabloids didn't make you write spare the tabloids didn't make you go to netflix and do a, you know, air your dirty laundry in public. just please. >> the tabloids never sent meghan to spotify. the tabloids never made her sell silly jam. and what is it, dog biscuits or cat biscuits or whatever she's selling? seriously, people, you're doing your own stuff. take take responsibility. anyway we'd love to hear what you think. send us your views, post your comments gbnews.com/yoursay. but first, here's your latest news with tatiana .

tatiana. >> nana, thank you and good morning. as you've been hearing, several eurostar trains have been cancelled and others delayed after a series of arson attacks in paris. at least three train lines were targeted just hours before the olympic opening ceremony. the state owned sncf says its services were the victim of what it called a massive attack, which they say was aimed at paralysing the network. that led to queues at several stations this morning, including montparnasse and gardena. the company is warning the situation could last all weekend while repairs are conducted. the french transport minister has condemned what he called criminal actions. in other news, the family at the centre of a video that appears to show a greater manchester police officer kicking a suspect in the head, say they've been left deeply traumatised . left deeply traumatised. justice, no peace, no racist police. okay, hundreds of people were seen protesting outside mayor andy burnham's office,

accusing greater manchester police of racism. it's after three officers were seriously injured as they attended to reports of an assault in the manchester airport car park, which happened before the event. seenin which happened before the event. seen in the video that included a female officer who suffered a broken nose. four men were arrested on suspicion of assault and affray, and the police watchdog has launched an investigation. retired scotland yard detective mike neville told gb news that those speculating onune gb news that those speculating online and in the media are not helping the situation, just whips up a storm. >> it isn't good enough to say things like that. if we're going to come out with comments like that, let's have some facts and evidence. and this is where we could have facts and evidence, because that's an airport. it's covered by cctv. it could take months, you know, to review all that footage. but the facts are they could do the main bits of it within a number of days. my expertise was dealing with cctv. so if you get the key pieces of footage, really, you could have the most of it dealt with within a few days. and this is what it

needs to be doing to stop all this. speculation and trouble . this. speculation and trouble. >> mel stride has become the fourth conservative mp to enter the race to become the party's next leader. the shadow work and pensions secretary joins james cleverly, tom tugendhat and robert jenrick in the contest to take over from rishi sunak. he says the tories should avoid veering too far to the right and focus on unity . focus on unity. >> they've got to go deeper into the centre ground, we've got to become that party that has a broad appeal for competency in government that channels aspiration, opportunity, all of the things that conservatism has traditionally been about and for which there will always be a strong appetite amongst people if we can get the right platform together. and i believe that i am the leader that can bring us together as a party to fashion a unified programme that can appeal broadly, that will take time and a huge amount of work. but i believe i've shown in my track . track. >> 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. >> very good morning to you. hope you're well. it's 936. it's ben and nana. you're back . welcome. >> banana, banana. >> banana, banana. >> here we go. on britain's newsroom on gb news. nice to be with you this morning. >> and you too. and great sterling job with miriam during the week. >> yes. wasn't she great. she did well. very good. as every day passed she kind of, you know relax more into it and yeah very good. >> right. >> right. >> well, we've got some breaking news this morning, france's high speed train lines have been targeted by several malicious acts, including arson. ahead of tonight's olympic opening ceremony, we're joined by our reporter sophie reaper, who's live in paris this morning. >> good morning. sophie, what's the latest, please. and how is this going to affect the

thousands of fans who are heading to the opening ceremony this evening? >> well, good morning to you both. the weather is pretty grim here in paris this morning, but the situation on the rail networks is even more grim. that's after reported acts of what's been described as malicious vandalism. the sncf, a french rail work railway system, has said that this was a coordinated attack that fires were lit to deliberately affect the system put in place for the olympic games. we know that around 800,000 people are going to be impacted by this, and they've said that it could take they've said that it could take the full weekend to resolve it. now, of course, that's the last thing that the french olympic committee will have wanted, given that tonight is that big opening ceremony, we're expecting around 300,000 people in the centre of paris alone tuning into that, watching as it comes down the scene. it was meant to be very special. having it outdoors for the first time.

but now with this, the impact is going to be caused by these disruptions . going to be caused by these disruptions. many going to be caused by these disruptions . many people could disruptions. many people could perhaps be unable to make it into paris for the olympic ceremony, we also know in the last 15 minutes or so that this has had a knock on effect on the eurostar, several of those being cancelled, and if not, they've been delayed. so it's the impact of this is being felt not just in paris, but all over france. and also in the uk. so this is going to have an incredibly not big knock on effect as we go into the olympic games. of course, people not just travelling into paris for the opening ceremony, but for the coming weeks of events. team gb will begin their campaign officially tomorrow. they did. they competed in the archery yesterday, but the official campaign will begin tomorrow. so many people will be looking to travel into paris from all over the world, and this could have a big impact on how they make their way from various airports, from various other transport systems into the city centre

itself, where the majority of venues are located. it's also potentially going to have an impact on people travelling around the city to get to different venues of course, they're not all just in the city centre of paris. they're located around the entire city itself. so that's going to have a big impact. now it is obviously not ideal impact. now it is obviously not ideal, but it's not all doom and gloom here in paris. i think we should just take a second and take in the view that's right here behind me, here at the eiffel tower. this morning. an incredibly spectacular view here. and that's going to be the view for the billion people . we view for the billion people. we expect to tune into the olympic opening ceremony all over the world tonight, 6:30 pm. french time 530. if you're watching in the uk as around 10,500 athletes make their way on boats down the river seine to here, the eiffel tower and the trocadero, they're going to be travelling the river seine for the first time ever. as i say, it's going to be an

outdoor opening ceremony. so let's hope that the rain can at least stop and that we can perhaps get a grip on the issues being faced on the high speed rail network so that people can come in and they can enjoy this opening ceremony as it was intended . jack carson. intended. jack carson. >> thanks, sophie. just a quick question. there's been lots of conjecture online in recent days about the safety of paris , some about the safety of paris, some high profile incidents, some pretty grim. do you feel safe out there ? out there? >> i absolutely feel safe. the security that we have seen thus far has been absolutely immense. i mentioned it on breakfast this morning . you may think that it morning. you may think that it looks relatively quiet around me, where we stood this morning, and that is because to get to anywhere within about 100m of the river seine, you either need to be a resident, you need to have a work permit or you need special permission from the french government, which is how myself and my cameraman have been able to get such brilliant access. but other than that, you getting nowhere near the river seine today, so i feel quite

safe anyway. and let's hope that that those safety measures do their job that those safety measures do theirjob and that that those safety measures do their job and that there that those safety measures do theirjob and that there is no their job and that there is no kind of incident going forward. okay. >> great stuff, great gig. sophie. very lucky. and yeah, we'll touch base with you later in the show. >> do you think it looks pretty wet and grim out there? i think it's raining here. i don't think it's raining here. i don't think it's raining here. i don't think it's raining here. >> i think it was. it was pretty miserable this morning. i'm not sure it looked as miserable as that. and actually, i feel a bit bad because i'm looking at sophie there with the backdrop andifs sophie there with the backdrop and it's raining and the brolly and it's raining and the brolly and i'm thinking, haha, there you are. only joking, right? >> listen, you may have watched it last night. the duke of sussex. he opened up about his late mother's experience with the tabloids during the itv tabloids on trial documentary. >> he also revealed his concerns over the safety of his family and claims he wouldn't bring his wife meghan back to the uk . wife meghan back to the uk. >> it's still dangerous and all it takes is one lone actor, one person who reads this stuff to act on what they have read and whether it's a knife or acid or whatever it is. and these are things that are genuine concern for me. it's one of the reasons

why i won't bring my wife back to this country. >> oh come on, harry, look, you could literally go and see your dad and not even encompass a human being. if you really wanted to. apart from the people flying the jet, the private jets and everything else. but anyway, we're joined by former royal correspondent for the sun, charles rea. charles, what's your verdict on this particular piece of journalism on itv ? piece of journalism on itv? >> well, it turns into the harry show yet again, and he's made two devastating, statements. one, that it was the nasty tabloids who were central, to his break—up with his family. really, harry? and also, the fact that he can no longer bring his wife to this country, because someone might read some of the things about harry and meghan and may attack him with a knife or acid. that'll be the same harry who, when he arrives in this country, as you quite rightly pointed out, usually arrives by private jet is picked up the airport in the back of a range rover, has his own private security armed in the us, not armed here and is ushered to

various places. he doesn't even have to stop for red lights, so i think he i think i think he's being a bit disingenuous. i understand he's got a complaint against the tabloids. i understand that, and i have to say, i think that phone hacking was one of the most despicable things that ever happened in our industry, an industry that i worked in happily for 50 odd years. and so it's right that he takes action that he wants. but let's not run away with the fact that he's some sort of avenging angel that he's some sort of avenging angel, you know, trying it all out for the greater good and everything else, which is a load of old rubbish. >> yeah. charlie, i'm not sure when he made those exact comments about the safety of meghan, but when it comes at a time when our british soldiers are risking the documentary. >> last night. >> last night. >> last night. >> last night, i know, but when was it? i'm saying. when was it recorded? was it weeks ago? i'm just saying when it comes at a time when our own soldiers were attacked by a knifeman in the street, it's kind of, you know, kind of like just shut up a little bit, in terms of, harry's relationship with his family , do relationship with his family, do you think documentaries like

this are ever going to help improve, you know , the chances improve, you know, the chances of him getting back together with his brother or at least his father? >> well, i don't think the documentary is going to help anything at all. but let's not forget what's happened in the past. and that is the oprah winfrey interview in which his wife made an amazing allegation of a racist in the royal family. he wrote spare. they did a whole series, a six part series on netflix, putting a bucket load over the various members of the royal family, all that is contributes to the fact that this is not going to be a family getting back together again. >> i mean, it smacks of massive naivety if he thinks that and blaming everybody else. i just don't understand why he can't take responsibility for his own behaviour and his own actions. so what is he hoping to achieve from this particular documentary that he did on itv after he's got an end goal? was there anything specifically that he he wants to tell us about that we don't already know? >> his is clearly his end goal is to continue with his, actions

against, the sun and the daily mail over, over phone hacking , mail over, over phone hacking, which case is scheduled for next year. which case is scheduled for next year . and as i've just said, if year. and as i've just said, if it is proven that he his phone was hacked, then he's it's quite right that he takes that action, you know, it was a disgraceful episode in journalism as as i've said. and i suppose that's his end goal. but you know this. i'm doing it for everyone else and all this sort of stuff. now, come on, you know, you're doing it for yourself, which is fair enough. >> and charles, the comparison to his brother, prince william is a stark contrast, really, with how they've both handled the tragic death of their mother, william, as far as i understand , has a problem with understand, has a problem with the press, of course, but he kind of gets his head down. he knows how to handle it. he knows that he's going to need them at some point in his life, and he holds himself with dignity and just cracks on with it, especially at a time when his wife is sick, his father is sick. harry. meanwhile, it's a it's a stark contrast, isn't it? the way he's behaving in recent

years. >> well, it is a stark contrast, and i think i've told you certainly, anna, this before, that harry was the darling of the tabloids. at one stage he was the cheeky chappy. he was the prince louis of his day. he was a soldier and served with great distinction. two tours of afghanistan set up the invictus games . i afghanistan set up the invictus games. i think he afghanistan set up the invictus games . i think he forgets all games. i think he forgets all about all the praise that was heaped upon him at that time. you know, it's now , we're now. you know, it's now, we're now. it's the nasty. tabloids have doneit it's the nasty. tabloids have done it again , done it again, >> well, charles rae really good to talk to you. thank you so much. all the best. stay with us, though . still to come now, us, though. still to come now, we were talking about the olympics and the arson attack. let us know if you've been impacted by any of that. around 1 million people have been. i'll stick with us. this is britain's newsroom on gb news

>> welcome back. it's 10 to 10. it's britain's newsroom on gb news with me, ben elliott and nana akua. >> right. >> right. >> well, mel stride has become the fourth conservative mp to enter the race to become the party's next leader. and earlier, the former work and pensions secretary spoke to gb news. >> breakfast also got to go deeper into the centre ground. we've got to become that party that has a broad appeal for competency in government that channels aspiration, opportunity, all of the things that conservatism has traditionally been about for and which there will always be a strong appetite amongst people if we can get the right platform together. and i believe that i am the leader that can bring us together as a to party fashion a unified programme that can appeal broadly. >> so nana, that's i mean, look, i don't care, but people are saying that's four men so far who the tories have put forward. james cleverly, tom tugendhat, robert jenrick and now mel stride. some are saying where are all the women? >> well, where are they? indeed,

they're not stupid. they're waiting to see all the men go first and listen to the things that they're saying. let's have a chat to adam cherry. he's a gb news reporter. adam. so we've had four men chuck their hand into the ring or their hat even. who are we expecting on the women's side? not that i mean, i don't really care with the male or female, but to be fair, it is an observation . an observation. >> so we are expecting kemi badenoch priti patel and potentially suella braverman to throw their hats in the ring shortly. suella braverman is an open question, one because there are rumours she might defect to reform, but also because you require ten signatures to actually get on to the first ballot for the mps vote. and it seems like she's made enough enemies that finding ten mps amongst a pool of only 121 in total is actually going to be quite difficult for her. so that's an open question, but we nonetheless do expect kemi badenoch and priti patel to go for it in the next couple of days, perhaps even today . as you

days, perhaps even today. as you say, mel stride has thrown his hat in the ring this morning he spoke to gb news as we saw and he is occupying the one nation moderate position within this race. he's probably calculating that with the exception of maybe james cleverly, the rest of the candidates are going to try and pitch to the right, and he might be able to sneak in on the in the central lane into the final two, potentially. i mean, he faces a lot of problems getting there because, frankly, he has quite a low profile, despite being the loyal soldier who did something like 25% of the media interviews in the dog days of the last government, but he's not the most dynamic or well known figure. and also, he only scraped by in his own, in his own constituency by 60 odd votes, three weeks ago. so if in a world where mel stride became the leader, obviously you would see a coordinated effort by the opposition or rather by the government and the other other parties to get him booted out, in his own constituency . so he

in his own constituency. so he faces a tough race. he's also exposing the dividing line that's already emerging in what will be a very long contest. he's talking about the echr now. he's talking about the echr now. he's playing his cards close to his chest. he's saying he doesn't want to leave the echr. or rather, it's a bad idea to talk about doing so, james cleverly is also saying he is opposed to that. but everyone else in the race, at least those who have declared robert jenrick tom and tom tugendhat, they're much more bullish on that. they're willing to leave for the sake of getting flights off the ground, stopping, stopping the boats and so on, so, as i say, a long contest. we've got three and a half months before things before we find out who wins this thing, a long way to go, but nonetheless, we're we're seeing which which way it's going to steer in the early in the early days. >> adam, there was a. sorry if i'm going to ask one quick question. adam. there was a daily. actually, we're running out of time. adam. we'll come back to you later in the show. i had a question about priti patel on the. we'll ask her immigration record, but we'll come back to you later in the

show. >> yeah. i mean, do you think that people really are that bothered anymore about the conservative party? i mean, i feel like they're slipping into irrelevance because of their their antics. you know, i think there's a few die hard tories left, but they're going to have a lot to think about over the next coming years. >> reform of course, how they're going to attack labour. 14 years with not much success is a lot to pull themselves back from. >> well, listen, if you've been affected by any of the things that happened, the antics with regard to the arson attack for the olympics, let us know . the olympics, let us know. gbnews.com/yoursay. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. alex deakin has your weather a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news >> good morning. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office here on gb. news for many across the south. fine day today with sunny spells further north. there'll be some sunshine but there will also be showers. some heavy ones around at times too , particularly in western too, particularly in western scotland. but we've also got some this morning over northwest

england and as we go through the day a few more will start to develop, particularly in northern ireland. right across northern england, 1 or 2 for wales, but much of southern england, east anglia staying dry, staying fine with some lengthy spells of sunshine when the sun pops out, lengthy spells of sunshine when the sun pops out , temperatures the sun pops out, temperatures getting up into the low, maybe mid 20s across the south—east. further north, mostly stuck in the high teens and it will feel cooler when the showers come through and they will come through. they'll tend to zip through. they'll tend to zip through on a fairly brisk breeze across scotland , so a real mix across scotland, so a real mix of sunshine and showers here through the day . one minute it's through the day. one minute it's dry, the next you're in a downpour. it's the same for northern ireland again, some heavy showers here but tending to move through the showers more scattered across northern england. so i'm not going to rain all day. far from it. there'll be some lengthy dry and bright spells, 1 or 2 showers across mid and south wales, but much of south wales, much of southern england, the midlands and east anglia. just staying dry fine with some decent spells of sunshine. staying fine and dry into this evening also and even further north. actually the

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>> well. >> well. >> good morning. it's 10:00 >> well. >> good morning. it's10:oo on friday, the 26th of july. we are live across the united kingdom. this is britain's newsroom with ben, leo and me. nana akua. >> very good morning to you. some breaking news this morning in paris. the city is preparing for the olympic games. in paris. the city is preparing for the olympic games . however, for the olympic games. however, the french rail network has been hit by vandals , impacting almost hit by vandals, impacting almost 1 million people. sophie reaper has more . has more. >> coordinated criminal arson attacks is causing disruption in the north, the west and the east of paris, as well as on the eurostar. we'll have all the latest from here in paris . latest from here in paris. >> now. health secretary wes streeting claims the nhs watchdog is not fit for purpose as hospitals go unchecked for nearly a decade , i was stunned. nearly a decade, i was stunned. >> i mean, i knew that the nhs was broken and i said that on day one, but what i didn't anticipate was receiving a report that revealed that 1 in 5

health and care providers has never been inspected, and he's back again. >> prince harry's crusade against the tabloids continues. the duke of sussex claims he'll keep meghan away from the uk over safety fears. >> a knife or acid or whatever it is. and these are things that are genuine concern for me. it's one of the reasons why i won't bnng one of the reasons why i won't bring my wife back to this country and onto the tory leadership now that race. >> former pensions secretary mel stride becomes the fourth man to throw his hat into the ring. but no women so far. mel stride spoke to stephen and ellie on breakfast. have a listen. >> i believe that i'm well positioned now to do this rebuilding exercise and this unifying exercise that the party so badly needs . so badly needs. >> nana you're getting a little bit of stick online because of your comments saying the tories are irrelevant. any response to your critics? >> it's just not necessarily the

word irrelevant. it's just completely irrelevant is what i'm thinking. no i'm teasing. no no no no no. my thoughts are this that they they made such a mess of everything. and you know, i feel very i'm actually quite annoyed because i'm in years ago. i am very annoyed. i voted for them. i voted for bofis voted for them. i voted for boris at the time and they disappointed me deeply. and so now, you know, and i hear a lot of them coming on and saying things like, well, reform stole their vote. and i think, no, no, no, you lost your vote and anybody else could mop up. >> so as far as you're concerned, who is relevant if not the tories, i think what. >> well, at the moment no one isn't it. it's just the labour party. they're in charge of it all and they have a whopping great majority. so i stand by my comments. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> okay. let us know what you think gbnews.com/yoursay. but before we do anything else today, by the way, it's a packed show coming up, prince harry, paris olympics, tory leadership race. and we've got jim dale, the climate alarmist, coming on to have a nice chat with us. >> and he would say that he's concerned about climate change. >> yeah, it's going to be exciting. we're lacing up our gloves, but anyway, first, before anything else, here's

your news headlines with tatiana. >> benn. thank you and good morning. the top stories. several eurostar trains have been cancelled and others delayed after a series of arson attacks in paris. several high speed rail networks have been targeted just hours before the olympic opening ceremony, affecting nearly a million people. the state owned sncf says its services were the victim of what it's called a massive attack, which they say was aimed at paralysing the network. that led to queues at several stations this morning, including the gardiner. the company is warning the situation could last all weekend while repairs are conducted. the french transport minister has condemned what he called criminal actions. condemned what he called criminal actions . the family at criminal actions. the family at the centre of a video that appears to show a greater manchester police officer kicking a suspect in the head , kicking a suspect in the head, say they've been left deeply traumatised . justice, no peace,

traumatised. justice, no peace, no racist police. okay, now you know , hundreds of people were know, hundreds of people were seen protesting outside mayor andy burnham's office, accusing greater manchester police of racism. it's after three officers were seriously injured as they attended to reports of an assault in the manchester airport car park, which happened before the event. seen in the video that included a female police officer who suffered a broken nose . four men were broken nose. four men were arrested on suspicion of assault and affray, and the police watchdog has launched an investigation. retired scotland yard detective mike neville told gb news that those speculating onune gb news that those speculating online and in the media are not helping the situation, just whips up a storm. >> it isn't good enough to say things like that. if we're going to come out with comments like that, let's have some facts and evidence. and this is where we could have facts and evidence, because that's an airport. it's covered by cctv . it could take covered by cctv. it could take months, you know, to review all that footage. but the facts are they could do the main bits of it within a number of days. my expertise was dealing with cctv.

so if you get the key pieces of footage, really, you could have the most of it dealt with within a few days. and this is what it needs to be done to, to stop all this speculation and trouble. >> mel stride has become the fourth conservative mp to enter the race to become the party's next leader. the shadow work and pensions secretary joins james cleverly, tom tugendhat and robert jenrick in the contest to take over from rishi sunak . robert jenrick in the contest to take over from rishi sunak. he says the tories should avoid veering too far to the right and focus on unity . focus on unity. >> i also got to go deeper into the centre ground. we've got to become that party that has a broad appeal for competency in government that channels aspiration, opportunity , all of aspiration, opportunity, all of the things that conservatism has traditionally been about and for which there will always be a strong appetite amongst people. if we can get the right platform together . and i believe that together. and i believe that i am the leader that can bring us together as a party to fashion a unified programme that can

appeal broadly, that will take time and a huge amount of work. but i believe i've shown in my track record that that's just the sort of thing that i can do. >> in other news, the regulator that oversees nhs care services in england is not fit for purpose. that's according to the health secretary. an independent review into the care quality commission has revealed significant internal failings which are affecting its ability to monitor health and social care institutions. the cqc inspects around 90,000 services, including hospitals, gp practices, care homes and dental surgeries. the regulator says it accepts the findings, but wes streeting told gb news he's stunned there are, you know, cases of hospitals, not being inspected for over a decade. >> a care provider that hadn't been inspected since 2015, and even the ratings that are 0 and drivers are still paying too much for petrol amid warnings the industry is failing consumers, the competition and

markets authority issued a report last year that found fuel pnces report last year that found fuel prices were significantly above historic levels. >> but a year on, it's seen little progress and says retailers are failing to pass on a drop in wholesale prices to motorists. it says the government should use new laws to force companies to be more transparent about their pricing. and it comes as the margin of petrol at supermarkets remains roughly double what it was in 2019. some breaking news to bnng 2019. some breaking news to bring you now barack obama has just endorsed kamala harris to become the next president of the united states. that took place just moments ago in a roughly one minute long video that captured a private phone call between the former president and his wife, michelle obama, with mr harris. mr obama said he couldn't be prouder to endorse the vice president, and said he'd do everything to get her in to the oval office . and those to the oval office. 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 direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com. >> forward slash alerts . >> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> hello. good morning. it's fast approaching nine minutes after 10:00. welcome. this is britain's newsroom, live across the uk on gb news with ben , leo the uk on gb news with ben, leo and me. >> nana akua big story of the day is this situation in paris. the breaking news over the past hour or so is that low speed, high speed trains, rather high speed train lines have been targeted by several malicious acts, including arson. ahead of tonight's olympic opening ceremony, we're joined now by our reporter in paris, sophie reaper sophie reaper. our reporter in paris, sophie reaper sophie reaper . rather. reaper sophie reaper. rather. sophie, what's the latest, please? how's this going to affect the opening ceremony this morning, where tens of thousands of fans are going to be attending, including lots of

brits. >> well, it's actually hundreds of thousands of fans who were expecting to line the scene this evening for that opening ceremony. so you'd imagine the impact will be massive. now, the sncf, a french railway network, have said that their services in the atlantic, north and the east, those networks there have all been damaged by the incidents. those coordinated arson attacks, they said fires were lit in an attempt to damage those facilities. however, they have in the past few minutes say that an attempt on the south—east network was foiled. now, officials are saying around 800,000 people could well be impacted by this disruption and it could take over the weekend to resolve it, which is the last thing the french olympic committee would have wanted heading into the 2024 olympic games. now, the french transport minister, patrice bergeret , has minister, patrice bergeret, has said coordinated malicious acts targeted several tgv lines last

night and will seriously disrupt traffic. until this weekend. i strongly condemn these criminal actions, which will compromise the departures on vacation of many french people . a big thank many french people. a big thank you to the sncf teams on deck to restore traffic conditions as quickly as possible. now we're seeing live pictures of gara de nord and montparnasse, where crowds are forming queues are forming, people are being turned away as the services are being disrupted. we also know that many eurostars have either been cancelled or delayed as a result of these disruptions . so if of these disruptions. so if anything, it's a bit of a nightmare for the french olympic committee as we head into this huge night that many , many huge night that many, many people will now perhaps not even be able to reach the city centre of paris. >> goodness me. sounds like a bit of a nightmare. and bearing in mind what's happened in the lead up to this, the event, the olympics, we've had that terrible incident with the australian woman , being gang australian woman, being gang raped by five men, and so on and

so on. let's hope it gets a bit better pr nightmare as you can probably agree nana for the french olympic committee at the moment. sophie, thank you very much. >> right. >> right. >> joining us now is our home and security editor mark white. now mark, how were these people being able to sort of cause such disruption and sort of go under the radar? i mean, it just seems astonishing. >> well, when you move a little further out of the security bubble, then there's opportunities to target the likes of these high speed rail lines. and that's what we're seeing here. but of course, it's causing very significant disruption going into the heart of paris. four lines were targeted. one of the attempts to cause this arson on the line was disrupted. and they managed to prevent that. but it's still causing very significant disruption with 800,000 travellers at least affected, they're going to try and move some of the high speed trains

onto slower tracks, but that in itself will of course, slow down the whole process and it will just cause more in the way of disruption. there is a huge security challenge, i think, for the authorities in paris, not least because of the way that they're managing the olympic games in paris, which is different to the way that a lot of other countries have carried out their olympics. so the likes of, london olympics, for instance, is the kind of the norm, which is you provide an olympic park in a venue that's kind of manageable and you can control it. you can put a sterile cordon around it. yet some other venues are outside of the cordon. but most of the olympic activity stays within that sterile cordon. it's much easier to manage. they've taken a different approach in paris, where they've spread out the olympic venues across the city itself, and that requires a lot

more in the way of resources in different areas. so they've got 45,000 police and gendarmes. they've got 10,000 soldiers, 22,000 security personnel. they've got some police from the uk, 250 odd, along with 50 police dogs. other forces around the world are contributing. it is a big challenge for them, especially given the number of security incidents in paris and elsewhere in france in recent months. >> we've had a few incidents. we had the aussie cycling team, whose truck or van was broken into, all their gear swiped. we had the poor australian woman, i think she was a tourist who was gang raped by five men. the israeli foreign minister over the past 24 hours has alerted the past 24 hours has alerted the french foreign ministry to a potential terror threat, against their athletes by iranian. well, attackers , i guess, is this attackers, i guess, is this a bit of a pr nightmare for france so far, or is this unprecedented in terms of i don't think it's a

pr nightmare so far. >> they're always security challenges, just in the same way, in 2012, when we coordinated the olympics here, there were huge security concerns leading up to that. we had a royal navy ship up the thames with the ear to ear or ground to air missiles that were able to take down any potential threats. you had raf jets that were based in the capital, able to intercept any potential threats. it is a risk we had . threats. it is a risk we had. incidentally, just adding to your list, there , a stabbing your list, there, a stabbing attack that took place in paris just over a week ago. the assailant shot dead in february. three people were stabbed at gardner railway station as well. the, authorities arrested a russian national just on tuesday of this week, accused of plotting to destabilise the olympics. the russians have been

accused of misinformation, trying to exaggerate the threat and suggest that there are serious concerns around us. so it's a challenge, that's for sure. >> it's a big old challenge. mark white thank you very much. let us mark white our home and security editor. >> thanks, mark. okay. moving on.the >> thanks, mark. okay. moving on. the duke of sussex opened up about his late mother's experience with the tabloids dunng experience with the tabloids during itv's tabloids on trial documentary last night. he also revealed his concerns over the safety of his family and claimed that he wouldn't bring back wife meghan to the uk . meghan to the uk. >> it's still dangerous and all it takes is one lone actor, one person who reads this stuff to act on what they have read and whether it's a knife or acid or whatever it is. and these are things that are genuine concern for me. it's one of the reasons why i won't bring my wife back to this country. >> joining us now down the line is royal broadcaster and commentator rafe heydel—mankoo. good morning, rafe. thanks for joining us. what's your first reaction to what we saw last night , night, >> well, i thought it was a very

interesting documentary, you know, it was supposed to be about press intrusion and the use by the press of illegal tactics to gain information, and it certainly was that. but ironically, it was also a documentary that seemed to be trying to get prince to harry deliver as many newspaper grabbing headlines as possible, so as you say, we heard that prince harry, won't bring meghan back to britain because he fears she could be a victim of a knife or an acid attack, we heard also that the queen supported prince harry's campaign against the media, we heard his ludicrous claim that, it was his campaign against the press , which was a against the press, which was a central element of his rift with the royal family. once again, on planet sussex. nothing has ever the sussexes fault. it's all the fault of somebody else, but also, i think quite relevantly, he said that he believes his mother, diana , princess of mother, diana, princess of wales, could have had her phone hacked as early as the 1990s, becoming one of the first

victims of phone hacking and fuelling her paranoia and so forth. so, but you know, it was a very interesting, documentary , a very interesting, documentary, not least, of course, because you also had other people there like hugh grant talking about his house being burgled, his door actually being removed from its hinges. terrible story about paul gascoigne, one of the most tragic figures who's become a recluse in large part because of his inability to trust anybody. and he doesn't speak to anyone anymore because of the phone hacking scandal. >> i just don't understand why prince harry persists with this, though, because as you said, it was supposed to be about the press. then it ended up sort of being a sort of whinge fest from prince harry, where do we go now with this? i mean, what is the point of this? what's the real thing he was trying to achieve at the end of the day? because it just sounded like more winching. >> yeah, well, this documentary actually follows another similar documentary put out by the bbc recently. and the intention behind these documentaries is to

try to put pressure on this new government of keir starmer to have , the leveson inquiry 2.0, have, the leveson inquiry 2.0, the next stage of the leveson inquiry. that's why you've had the participation of people like hugh grant. because they're also part of this hacked off, scheme. but sir keir starmer yesterday said that this wasn't actually part of his priority. for his part of his priority. for his part , prince harry, who has had part, prince harry, who has had a victory against the mail group newspapers . he also has now two newspapers. he also has now two other lawsuits coming out next yean other lawsuits coming out next year, one against the news group, newspapers , which owns group, newspapers, which owns the sun, and another one against the associated press, which owned the daily mail and the mail on sunday. and he's had victory with the mirror group. he certainly can have expect to have victory with the other two there. but the important thing here is that, you know , he's here is that, you know, he's blaming the royal family for not coming on board with him. the royal family know, as the king is alleged to have said, that it's a suicide mission. the monarchy really needs to have good media relations if it is to

survive. it's so vital in this day and age and if they were to wage war on the media, as prince harry is waging war in the media, you would see such negative, destructive media coverage from the tabloid press. it's simply not in their interest to do so . prince harry interest to do so. prince harry is now no longer a royal. he's a celebrity like anybody else in hollywood. he's free to embark upon these personal campaigns. but the royal family simply can't do that. they have to rise above it. >> all right, rafe, thank you very much. rafe heydel—mankoo there with his view on that. oh, god, prince harry, i wish you would just stop. just stop. harry, just get on with it. there's more than one way to crack an egg or a nut even. it's wired to do it that way. >> it's widely understood that william equally has a problem with the press, but he, as rafe alluded to, he plays the game. he knows he needs them. he just work with them. be shrewd about it. don't just throw your toys out the pram and go on a 510 year crusade against, you know, the papers and the tabloids because you're going to need them. like it or not. william understands that harry doesn't. >> well, he's using them even now. how. >> now. >> so you know. what is it, harry? number one. >> yeah, i was going to. i was

going to reveal something about meghan, but i'll save it for later in the show. we haven't got time. but up next, more on that. breaking news from former president barack obama, who said that his he and his wife, michelle, have now endorsed kamala harris to replace joe biden as the democratic nominee for the presidential race. you're with newsroom on gb news ina

tick. hello. welcome back. it's 1023. ben and anna with you on britain's newsroom on gb news. and we're delighted to be also joined by amy nicholson and alex armstrong. but some breaking news. >> first of all. sorry. that's right. sorry. i was going to say before that we've got former president barack obama and his wife michelle. >> they've endorsed kamala harris to replace joe biden. well, there's nobody else is there. as the democratic candidate for the us election. here is how it was announced. >> kamala . hello. hi. hey there . >> kamala. hello. hi. hey there. oh, hi. >> you're both together. oh it's good to hear you both.

>> i can't have this phone call without saying to my girl kamala, i am proud of you. this is going to be historic. >> we called to say michelle. and i couldn't be prouder to endorse you and to do everything we can to get you through this election and into the oval office. >> oh, my goodness , michelle. >> oh, my goodness, michelle. >> oh, my goodness, michelle. >> barack, this means so much to me. i am looking forward to doing this with the two of you. doug and i both. and getting out there being on the road. but most of all, i just want to tell you the words you have spoken and the friendship that you have given over all these years mean more than i can express. so thank you both. it means so much and we're going to have some fun with this too, aren't we? >> never stops laughing . listen, >> never stops laughing. listen, how many cameras were there? 4 or 5 different camera angles. oh, it's a surprise. well, hang on, you've got a full camera crew. >> you know, it reminds me of it. >> reminds me of that moment. meghan markle gets this surprise call from beyonce. or this text. oh my god, beyonce texted me.

it's ridiculous. it's clearly set up and recorded. >> it's very natural. all the cameras, they're very, you know, very organic. >> about five. we're talking about. >> well listen, joining us, you heard the voice of amy. no. not yet. no thank you. >> alex armstrong. >> alex armstrong. >> amy nicola sturgeon. what do you think that was, >> no. do you know what i was hoping as? i think a lot of people were hoping was that michelle was going to step up because that kind of made it mega. can you imagine someone who could actually take on donald trump, my concern about kamala, who i do , i personally kamala, who i do, i personally like, but i know that what i like, but i know that what i like does not translate into electorates very often . and i electorates very often. and i think the problem is you've got someone like jd vance and he is everything that she isn't. and i'm not sure she's going to completely connect to that rust belt . belt. >> this is this is very interesting because i am the complete opposite to you. i, i was very, very big on trump winning and now i'm a little bit concerned also because i'm concerned also because i'm concerned about jd vance as well. he spoke for the first time at a rally the other day.

he wasn't that good. he tried cracking a lot of jokes, which fell flat. there's a lot of conjecture about his comments about people not having kids and so on, and i'm starting to get a bit concerned for the republican party is slipping. >> but i think it's because i'm fresh off watching hillbilly elegy. okay, so i've been a bit swept away with his story because whatever you think of him, and i think so many of his views are absolutely awful, particularly you know, stuff about gay marriage, the stuff about gay marriage, the stuff about trans rights, migrant rights. he stands against everything i believe in. but his personal story is quite astounding. >> the thing is, i mean, look, he doesn't have to appeal to everybody, jd vance, he's got to appeal to trump's core vote, which is the rust belt. you know, it's that it's that midwest. it's them. >> it's the mini. >> it's the mini. >> it's the mini. >> it's the mini himars. and that's what he's there for. he's a younger trump. so i mean he's look, the vice president, he's not more right wing than trump. he certainly is. and i think that's more right wing than you. but that but that works for trump because it makes trump look more statesmanlike, which is what he needs to convert some of those undecided voters. so i think it's going to work a treat

for for, donald trump. and let's let's face it, as the presidential debate heats up , presidential debate heats up, the focus and spotlight is going to be back on trump. >> all right. well let's let's move on then to this, issue with farage and milkshake as organisers at an lgbtq+ pride event have been criticised for inciting violence after revellers were invited to play a game of toss a milkshake over nigel farage. >> yeah, well, look, you know, i thought we were just getting to the hashtag be kind era again where we were going to put this political, this incitement to violence against politicians behind us. and we saw that, you know, nigel farage was pelted not just with milkshakes during the election, but with other things by members of the public as well. people quite probably on the far left. and this sort of stuff just stokes violence , of stuff just stokes violence, doesn't it? and just the trump assassination was two weeks ago. it was just fresh in all of our minds. the hilarious thing about all of this is you've got was it stand up against racism claimed it was harmless fun. i mean, it is, but but it isn't because you're inspiring people to do this. >> the same way. do you remember

at village fairs or school fairs where you put your teacher in the stocks and throw sponges at them? that's all this is. if you see it, it's just a little cardboard cut out and you can throw the milkshake at. and you said trump at farage, okay. but it isn't. it isn't inciting violence. it's throwing a milkshake. >> it's not quite out of it's not quite. there's a context to this. somebody did throw a milkshake. they did. jo brand, many years ago on bbc radio two, made a comment about battery acid. so that and that's throwing a substance over a politician. and so i don't see how you could you could think that that was harmless. >> well, it was just a milkshake. >> no, but it was that was fortunate. it was a milkshake. >> remorse. but somebody was joking about it. >> the girl. yeah. those two things are not related. >> they're not. they are related because the woman who threw the milkshake at trump just threw a milkshake at trump just threw a milkshake at trump just threw a milkshake at trump. >> we don't need to conflate it with all these other things. i understand it could have been acid. i understand it could have been a bullet. but you could say that about absolutely anything. well, not really, no, but okay, every time you get served lunch, it could be arsenic. no, no, like it's not.

>> this is about the actual principle. is throwing a substance over politician when somebody has talked about throwing battery acid and then somebody recently then throws milkshake, which could have been anything . i can't imagine that anything. i can't imagine that you would even endorse that. i'm not really endorsing that, but i am endorsing this game at this lgbt pride event. >> no it's not. it is absolutely no difference. it's throwing tomatoes. it's a bit of fun. >> i mean, it's throwing problem is you say, you say, oh, it's only a milkshake. and then the next person with a slightly different perspective will say, well, it's only an egg. it's only an egg to the face. and then someone else will say, well, it's only a fist to the chin. it's fine. >> do you remember, do you remember when you go down this dark john prescott, who got who got egged and then promptly deau got egged and then promptly dealt with it? like, how many times a week do we watch that on youtube? come on. this is absolutely. >> he was attacked first. i mean, i defend the right for someone to smack someone back. >> what was the time when everyone kept throwing? i think i think the point is, is that this is this is aimed at this is aimed at his politics as well. >> this is aimed at nigel farage's politics. and i say this, if you were to say i'm going to put a trans person up on a board, throw milkshakes

over that trans person politically, it it that's the message they're trying to drive, though a lot of course it wouldn't be okay. >> no, no. >> no, no. >> hold on. why would that not be okay. >> why would that not be okay to characterise all trans person with one symbol and then throw sponges at it? no, no. so this is nigel farage. >> he's they're attacking nigel farage because of his politics and because of who he is and what he stands for. and you could make the same statement about an lgbt+ activist and say the same thing. if there was a common person to do that for somebody at a different fair had a cardboard cut—out of tony blair and was throwing sponges at it, would you have a massive problem with that? >> yeah, i don't like that. i don't like it sponges. i don't like it. i don't like any any kind of. >> what if it was india willoughby to nana's point india willoughby. >> that's my point. if it was a willoughby throwing sponges or milkshake at him. sorry. her. >> is it, is it. »- >> is it, is it. >> is it, is it. >> i honestly think i don't know which one they want me to say. said all of them. just andy willoughby's is a the first time |, willoughby's is a the first time i, when i saw this , i did just i, when i saw this, i did just think of when you put your teacher in the little stocks and throw sponges at them.

>> i just think that's as deep as it goes. so india willoughby wants to step up and do that then nigel france didn't step up. >> so if there's a cardboard cut—out of india willoughby, at an event, say a reform event, not that that would ever happen to be fair or or some sort of event. so i'm using lgbt. it's not that it was a different one. that would be okay with it. >> no, of course it wouldn't be. >> no, of course it wouldn't be. >> okay. so how is it okay for them to do that to nigel farage? >> nigel farage has justified himself to be in many people's eyes, a villain with his policies. >> well, that's if you agree with puts him up forjudgement. >> and if, if it's going to be a bit of light ridicule, then. >> so what say that about india willoughby? >> so if she was there really, she's just living her life and being a person in the world. what does she do? they're an activist for her, for her own rights, for trans rights. >> she's an activist as. and nigel farage is somebody who steps up for his political views on on reform. so let's be honest. so if it was india willoughby at a different event that by your logic, that has to be okay. >> by my logic, i don't think they're i don't think they're you can't i think it's quite an easy debate.

>> i don't think we should be promoting any source of physical attack against not against any attack. >> that's it is it is a joke. it's just a joke. >> i don't think it's acceptable at the time when, when ex—presidents are being. >> but i do think that nigel farage is, is more of a fair target than someone like india would be. >> i don't know, how can you say that for them? >> because he's just because you agree with india's politics? >> not really. i'm sure nigel farage wouldn't find it that offensive to have sponges thrown at him in this setting, i think i think at a time when his good friend donald trump was almost killed by an assassin, two mps, how can you compare? how can not compare a gun attack with sponge? >> i've spent a lot of time with nigel many years ago, before he really blew up in 2015, when he was campaigning with ukip, the amount of times he had to flee from town halls, giving speeches from town halls, giving speeches from far left agitators, having meals with his family and his kids in pubs when far left. >> i think it's comparable. >> i think it's comparable. >> i think it's comparable. >> i mean, there's an episode of mr bean where he puts himself in the sponges thrown at him. >> i'm pretty sure it's really not that taking you seriously on that. >> listen. thank you very much, amy. nigel and also alex armstrong. right. stay with us. time to get your latest news

headunes time to get your latest news headlines with tatiana sanchez. >> nana. thank you. the top stories . several eurostar trains stories. several eurostar trains have been cancelled and delayed after a series of arson attacks in paris. the service has told customers to cancel their trips today if they can. amid ongoing disruption to its services. at least three train lines were targeted just hours before the olympic opening ceremony, affecting almost a million people. the state owned sncf says its services were the victim of what it calls a massive attack, which they say was aimed at paralysing the network. hundreds of people were seen protesting outside mayor andy burnham's office, accusing greater manchester police of racism. it's after a video emerged appearing to show a greater manchester police officer kicking a suspect in the head. three officers were seriously injured as they attended to reports of an assault in the airport car park , assault in the airport car park, which happened before the event.

seenin which happened before the event. seen in a video. four men were arrested on suspicion of assault and affray, and the police watchdog has launched an investigation . mel stride has investigation. mel stride has become the fourth conservative mp to enter the race to become the party's next leader. the shadow work and pensions secretary joins james cleverly, tom tugendhat and robert jenrick in the contest to take over from rishi sunak , the regulator that rishi sunak, the regulator that oversees nhs care services in england is not fit for purpose. that's according to the health secretary, an independent review into the care quality commission has revealed significant internal failings that are hampering its ability to keep a check on health and social care institutions. and barack obama and his wife, michelle, have endorsed kamala harris to become the next president of the united states. in a video released moments ago, mr obama said he couldn't be prouder to support the vice president and he'd do everything to get her into the oval office . and those are the

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world's going to burn nana and it's being blamed on climate are you ready? you're

>> it's just coming up to 40 minutes after 10:00. this is britain's newsroom with me , nana britain's newsroom with me, nana akua and ben elianne. >> very good morning to you. now, climate group round our way say global warming is putting our kids education at risk, as classrooms are apparently worryingly hot now. >> sensors were placed in seven schools across england which recorded temperatures of 26 degrees last month. well, joining us now is senior meteorologist and at british weather services jim dale. jim so talk us through this this concern about these these hot classrooms . classrooms. >> okay. so this stems from what we've seen in the last three days, to be honest with you, this is globally speaking, rather than necessarily uk speaking. but there's a you know, when we get in the mix, it goesin know, when we get in the mix, it goes in that direction. we've seen three degrees, so far where

the london area, for example, has surpassed 30 degrees c, we've got a fourth one coming on tuesday just for a bit of notice, a bit of forward notice for, for listeners, and when it gets to that sort of temperature, you remember in our classrooms we don't have air conditioning. so, you know, the way they built the structure around them just means it's intolerable to actually be in those classrooms. now, how many times that happens in a year? you're quite right. probably not that many, but it is accelerating based on what the metaphors have said in the last couple of days about the temperature profile moving upwards , us exceeding 30 degrees upwards, us exceeding 30 degrees c as a sort of general sort of pattern going forward . so in pattern going forward. so in other words, more days of 30 degrees c, and it doesn't have to get to 30. you know, when you get to a plus 25, that's the sort of conditions that is very hard to study, very hard. you know, your mind process sort of goes down. >> haven't they got air conditioning? i mean i just conditioning? i mean ijust think they have haven't they got . think they have haven't they got. and where are you, by the way? you look like you're somewhere hot. are you somewhere nice and exotic. >> yeah i am, i can you're a bit

jealous of this one, but i can work anywhere in the world. i'm actually in, phuket in thailand, >> and how did you how did you get there? >> i swam all the way. you flew, didn't you, on those gas guzzling. >> yeah, but but when, when i, when i, if i fly anywhere and at the moment it's once a year, give or take, >> i pay back the carbon tax every single time. because that's what. jim. >> what do you mean? you pay back the carbon tax? what does that mean? >> well, when you get on an aeroplane, you get the option of, of paying an extra bit to, to offset your carbon footprint . to offset your carbon footprint. and what they do, it's their way. well you've not you've not crossed this, this path. but that's exactly what's happening. >> yeah. so you pay a couple of quid in somewhere elsewhere promises to plant some seeds and some trees somewhere. >> right. >> right. >> all while you're chopping trees down for wind turbines. >> well, that will that will, that will depend on the company themselves and how they do it. but it's to be what it is. no. you laughing at it. that's what it's there for. so that they and it's there for. so that they and it's called, by the way, that

that kind of thing is called passive greening. that's exactly what we need to take the cities and the towns that we've got and other parts of the world have got into an area where passive example if you. >> jim, jim, can i ask you something? can i ask you something? can i ask you something? just in march, you came on gb news breakfast and you said that april onwards this summer in britain was going to be i think it was terrifyingly hot. i think let's take a quick look at what you said. >> so next expectation is we get into to we're going to see a switch change come april. watch it . okay i'll say it on this it. okay i'll say it on this program now we will see hot weather starts to bake in during the course of april . and at the course of april. and at times in the summertime, we're not we're not divorced from what's going on around the globe and what's going on around the globe is quite frightening in terms of the temperature profiles . profiles. >> jim, how do you expect the pubuc >> jim, how do you expect the public to believe anything you say when you get it wrong? so many times, not just you, but all your climate alarmist cohorts? yeah. no. >> simply because i didn't get it wrong, let's just talk about the april no hang on, let me explain. so i was expecting the hit to be starting in april.

didn't mean it was going to continue continuous all the way through the summer. and i did say at times during summertime that we would get there. so the bit about april, you're quite right that that missed us. it went into france and other places , spain particularly, and places, spain particularly, and greece never made it to the uk. that's absolutely fair enough. it's a forecast, but as i've already said to you, we've three times we've seen 30 degrees, past surpass in the uk, a fourth one about to arrive and look , one about to arrive and look, just have a look around the globe at what's going on. we've just we've just had now three days in a row sunday, monday, tuesday that surpassed the global heat record of all time. so this is not fake. it's not imaginary. >> you guys need to know . know >> you guys need to know. know i do hear you, but, globally, cold deaths are nine times higher than heat related ones. so you. i don't hear you going on with the same vigour about cold. cold kills more people than heat. >> no it doesn't. yes. let me explain why it doesn't. now, let

me explain why. because when there's a death by heat, for the most part it's recorded as heart failure, stroke and other symptoms other than putting heat on the on the death certificate. cold is very different. >> come on, jim, you're not. now you're a medical expert. seriously >> and you have just actually said that heat deaths are actually accelerating at pace. think about the hard march for example, only, only only a month or so ago , a thousand people or so ago, a thousand people dead there, you know, these deaths are occurring and not just deaths, but the floods, the wildfires in, in canada have unprecedented levels. this year and last year, the same sort of thing. >> a lot of the graphs don't show much change in the amount of wildfires. look i'm hearing you, but i'm just concerned that you're not as as sort of concerned with the fact that more people die of cold. and they do. you can't say that because it's recorded differently or there's something different. it's not true, jim , i different. it's not true, jim, i think your narrative is coming from from that sort of, drainpipe that continually feeds

the misinformation, because that's basically what? no, it's from the world data. org. i'm reading it on their site and it says this is a repost of a website . website. >> yeah, in the past. you're right. cold kill more than heat. well, you've just changed your mind. no, i'm talking about now. i'm talking about this last year or so , the climate change is or so, the climate change is accelerated. the heat is accelerated, which is why we're seeing the records. what we see. see the shirt? see this? you know what this stands for? it's 200 years of, of the same thing. we've been talking about global temperatures. >> and you can see 200 years of data is nothing in the grand scheme of the history of the earth. it's like taking a one minute chart from stocks and seeing what stock has done over the past one minute you've had a bit of a pump, the stock's risen high and people saying oh my gosh look how well this stock's performing. look at it properly over the course of well he would argue that he is. >> but jim can i just say something. you just said there snippet. you said so in the past cold had killed. but because of this year or the year before now the thing has changed. i mean,

again, alluding to his point, you look over a long period of time, and the reality is that cold kills more people than heat. and i my thoughts are, why don't you talk more about that? >> okay, so look, it's not a race to the bottom nana whether they're killed by cold. and by they're killed by cold. and by the way, global warming , if you the way, global warming, if you like, also constitutes a thing called chaos , where you do get called chaos, where you do get zones of very cold, intense weather. so i don't want to argue about whether or not cold or hot is the biggest killer. >> of course you don't. oh and there. >> but no, it's not a case of that. they're both killed. they're both extremes that we need to avoid. i'm going to give you three words here, okay. education. you need a lot of education in terms of educating people to climate change. what's going on? the debate that we're having now is a good, good debate. it's a really good debate. it's a really good debate. we need more of it. we're running out of time. >> what's the other thing? education. second one, one last thing. >> adaptation. we need to adapt. i'm sure you would agree to that. >> whether i agree with you. and i think we do adapt. we adapt probably better towards if it's too cold, we can heat things up,

or if it's too hot we can cool things down. and i think that is the answer. jim dale, sorry about that. we are running out of time. we've got to move on. thank you. >> can i just say, you know, respect to jim for his passion? i'm not on board with it at all. but when you're dialling in from thailand, he's to warn everyone about the climate emergency. >> his carbon though if you're a complete scam, if your house, if your house was burning down and earth has a few years left to 90, earth has a few years left to go, you would not be getting on a plane going to thailand, you wouldn't go back into your house. >> i to grab i think it's highly hypocrite. >> grab a cigarette. >> grab a cigarette. >> if your house i think it's highly. >> you wouldn't do it to do that. >> but he's not here to defend himself right now. he was earlier, right? let us know if you've been impacted as well. we're talking about the arts and the olympics. has that affected you at all? millions of people have been. are you one of them? this is britain's newsroom on gb

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britain's newsroom all right, now let's move on to this big story. the nhs is urging blood donors, donors to come forward amidst an urgent shortage of certain blood types. >> the health service has issued an amber alert. that's after national stocks of o an amber alert. that's after national stocks of 0 negative and o national stocks of 0 negative and 0 positive blood types fell to unprecedented low levels. >> now, it's understood that the recent cyber attacks affecting london hospitals and more people missing appointments has contributed to the shortage. >> we're joined now by pharmacists tara and govind. good morning torin, thank you for joining us. when did we know forjoining us. when did we know about this crisis with o forjoining us. when did we know about this crisis with 0 blood types? has it been looming on the horizon for a while, or was it suddenly just popped up? >> well, we're always encouraging people to give blood, >> and it's a really one of those things that we can all think about doing and whether it's appropriate for you to do so. we'll go on to. but the cyber attacks did have a part to play cyber attacks did have a part to play because it meant that blood checks couldn't be carried out as quickly as usual. so there was actually a 94% increase in demand. compared to the same

penod demand. compared to the same period last year. demand. compared to the same period last year . and obviously period last year. and obviously blood types, you might not know your blood type, but that can be checked out when you go and do a blood donation, for example. but, o blood donation, for example. but, 0 negative blood is the universal blood type, so it's safe for all patients who require blood transfusions. and it makes up about 16% of all hospital orders. so in, in in an emergency, it's important that we have those supplies and someone from giving blood because some people might want to do it, but might not be sure why, whether they are eligible to do it. okay, so the starting point is that you're fit and well and normally you'll be aged between about, 17 to 65. and that you're a healthy weight. i think that's the important starting point, and then there are, there is some eligibility criteria. so if you've had some types of cancer and you've got some heart conditions, and if you've had an organ transplant, you've had an organ transplant, you can't donate blood. there's other criteria as well. i really

do encourage people and you can go on the give blood website and the nhs website. find out if you are suitable. it takes about an hour of time in terms of and in that time you'll only actually be giving blood for about 5 to 10 minutes, and then it's really the just the checking. you're okay before checking you're okay after having a biscuit. make sure you're in your you're okay after you've done it. and i think, you know, just please find out if you are eligible and, and go and find out about some more information because it's really going to help everybody. >> very briefly, if you've had a transfusion, can you give blood, you know , and if you've had, and you know, and if you've had, and so there's lots of people. >> it's you need to check for you as an individual because i think it's important for you to also know, for people to know, whether or not, for example, there's some active sexual activity in some cases you may have to wait. so i think the best thing for people to do is to plug in their individual criteria and check that out. but

please go and look and see if you are eligible. >> torin , thanks very much. >> torin, thanks very much. appreciate your time and we encourage anyone at home if you can give blood, do so. admittedly, i've wanted to for many, many years and i just haven't done it. and it's something i know i should do. >> have you ever given blood? >> have you ever given blood? >> do you know your blood type, no. >> i had hip surgery a few years ago, and i was told them, but i can't remember what it is now, so the answer is no. >> you could have done that in one second. all right, stay with us. this is britain's newsroom. we are tv news. the people's channel. alex, has your weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . solar sponsors of weather on. gb. news >> good morning. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. for many across the south. fine day today with sunny spells further north. there'll be some sunshine but there will also be showers. some heavy ones around at times too, particularly in western scotland. but we've also got

some this morning over northwest england and as we go through the day, a few more will start to develop, particularly for northern ireland, right across northern england, 1 or 2 for wales. but much of southern england , east anglia staying england, east anglia staying dry, staying fine with some lengthy spells of sunshine. and when the sun pops out, temperatures getting up into the low, maybe mid 20s across the south—east. further north, mostly stuck in the high teens and it will feel cooler when the showers come through and they will come through. they'll tend to zip through on a fairly brisk breeze across scotland , so breeze across scotland, so a real mix of sunshine and showers here through the day. one minute it's dry, the next you're in a downpour . it's the same for downpour. it's the same for northern ireland again. some heavy showers here, but tending to move through the showers more scattered across northern england. so i'm not going to rain all day. far from it. there'll be some lengthy dry and bright spells. 1 or 2 showers across mid and south wales , but across mid and south wales, but much of south wales, much of southern england, the midlands and east anglia. just staying dry fine with some decent spells of sunshine. staying fine and dry into this evening also and even further north. actually the

showers this evening will tend to fade away. so many places becoming dry overnight. some lengthy clear spells, maybe a little bit of mist here and there, temperatures mostly dipping down to 10 or 11 celsius across the north. single digits in rural spots further south 11 or 12. so a fresh start to the weekend, but for many it will be a fine bright and sunny start to the weekend. there will be showers again tomorrow, developing across northern ireland, northern england and wales. 1 or 2 getting into the east. but again, i suspect much of eastern england dry and probably a much drier day for western scotland tomorrow as well. feeling a bit warmer in the sunny spells across the south—east, and most of us set fair for sunday. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news

>> good morning. it's 11:00 >> good morning. it's11:00 on friday, the 26th of july. we are live across the united kingdom. this is britain's newsroom with ben leo and me. nana akua. >> very good morning. hope you're well now , as paris you're well now, as paris prepares for the olympics, the french rail network has been hit by vandals, impacting almost 1 million people. mark white has more . more. >> well, these incidents are causing huge disruption to the high speed rail network heading to paris as authorities there prepare for a massive security operation around tonight's opening ceremony , health opening ceremony, health secretary wes streeting claims the nhs watchdog is not fit for purpose as hospitals go unchecked . unchecked. >> for nearly a decade, i was stunned. >> i mean , i knew that the nhs >> i mean, i knew that the nhs was broken and i said that on day one, but what i didn't anticipate was receiving a report that revealed that 1 in 5 health and care providers has

never been inspected . never been inspected. >> he's not giving up, is he? prince harry's crusade against the tabloids continues the duke of sussex claims he'll keep meghan markle away from the uk over safety fears . over safety fears. >> a knife or acid, whatever it is and these are things that are a genuine concern for me. it's one of the reasons why i won't bnng one of the reasons why i won't bring my wife back to this country. >> it's just appeals for people 0 with negative type blood to o with negative type blood to urgently donate a stocks drop to unprecedentedly low levels. charlie peters has more . charlie peters has more. >> there are less than two days left of, oh negative stocks . left of, oh negative stocks. it's the universal donor blood group. it's the house red. and if you've got it, the nhs needs it. well, here in west london the blood donation drive is on the blood donation drive is on the way. >> he's a good lad, charlie peters, isn't he ? the house red

peters, isn't he? the house red i likes that made us giggle. i need to find out my blood type. how do i do it? do you know? >> well, i presume you go to the doctor and then they will inject you and scoop out some of your blood. >> right. okay, i think i need to donate. >> i've wanted to for years. oh, actually, you could probably go to one of these donation places and they will do. >> you could give blood anyway, and they will tell you what your blood group is. >> yeah, i'll tell. >> yeah, i'll tell. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> tell me afterwards i know what mine is. what is it a negative. >> is that is that a rare one, >> is that is that a rare one, >> not so much. well, it is ish. it is ish, but yeah, a negative. that's me. >> yeah, i really do need to do it. i've been thinking about it for years. i never seem to get around to doing it, but, yeah, i'm going to make it my mish o negative. >> the universal donor. everybody wants you, ben. >> hit me up, scotty. >> hit me up, scotty. >> take it, take it. his house. fred right. we'd love to hear what you think. send us your comments. post your thoughts, gbnews.com/yoursay. but first, let's get to some news with tatiana. >> nana. thank you and good morning. the top stories eurostar is advising travellers to cancel trips to paris today if they can, after a series of

arson attacks just hours before tonight's olympics opening ceremony. at least three train lines were targeted, affecting nearly a million people. the state owned sncf says its services were the victim of what it called a massive attack, which they say was aimed at paralysing the network. the company is warning the situation could last all weekend, while repairs are conducted. the family at the centre of a video that appears to show a greater manchester police officer kicking a suspect in the head, are appealing for calm justice and peace. >> no racist police . >> no racist police. >> no racist police. >> okay, now you know hundreds of people have been protesting outside mayor andy burnham's office, accusing greater manchester police of racism . manchester police of racism. it's after three officers were seriously injured as they attended to reports of an assault in the manchester airport car park, which happened before the events seen in the video that included a female officer who suffered a broken nose. officer who suffered a broken nose . four men were arrested on nose. four men were arrested on suspicion of assault and affray,

and the police watchdog has launched an investigation. retired scotland yard detective mike neville told gb news that those speculating online and in the media are not helping the situation, just whips up a storm. >> it isn't good enough to say things like that . if we're going things like that. if we're going to come out with comments like that, let's have some facts and evidence. and this is where we could have facts and evidence , could have facts and evidence, because that's an airport. it's covered by cctv. it could take months, you know, to review all that footage. but the facts are they could do the main bits of it within a number of days. my expertise was dealing with cctv. so if you get the key pieces of footage, really? you could have the most of it dealt with within a few days. and this is what it needs to be doing to stop all this, speculation and trouble . this, speculation and trouble. >> in other news, mel stride has become the fourth conservative mp to enter the race to become the party's next leader. the shadow work and pensions secretary joins james cleverly, tom tugendhat and robert jenrick in the contest to take over from

rishi sunak. he says the tories should avoid veering too far to the right and focus on unity. >> i also got to go deeper into the centre ground. we've got to become that party that has a broad appeal for competency in government that channels aspiration, opportunity, all of the things that conservatism has traditionally been about for and which there will always be a strong appetite amongst people if we can get the right platform together. and i believe that i am the leader that can bring us together as a to party fashion a unified programme that can appeal broadly, that will take time and a huge amount of work. but i believe i've shown in my track record that that's just the sort of thing that i can do. >> the regulator that oversees nhs care services in england is not fit for purpose. that is according to the health secretary , an independent review secretary, an independent review into the care quality commission has revealed significant internal failings which were affecting its ability to monitor health and social care institutions. the cqc inspects

around 90,000 services, including hospitals , gp including hospitals, gp practices, care homes and dental surgeries. the regulator says it accepts the findings , but wes accepts the findings, but wes streeting told gb news he's stunned . stunned. >> there are, you know, cases of hospitals not being inspected for over a decade, a care provider that hadn't been inspected since 2015, and even the ratings that are published and that we use as the to public make choices about where to receive health or care, some of those are, frankly , bogus those are, frankly, bogus because of the way in which they've been put together based on either partial inspections or piecing together more recent inspections with historic verdicts on those health and care providers, drivers are still paying too much for petrol amid warnings that the industry is failing consumers. >> the competition and markets authority issued a report last

year that found fuel prices were significantly above historic levels. but a year on, it has seen little progress and says retailers are still failing to pass on a drop in wholesale pnces pass on a drop in wholesale prices to motorists. it says the government should use new legislation to force companies to be more transparent about their pricing. it comes as the margin of petrol at supermarkets remains roughly double what it was in 2019, and in the us, barack obama has endorsed kamala harris to become the next president of the united states . president of the united states. in a roughly one minute long video of a private phone call that can be seen between the former president and his wife, michelle obama, with mr harris , michelle obama, with mr harris, mr obama said he couldn't be prouder to endorse the vice president and said he'd do everything to get her into the oval office . and those are the oval office. and those are the latest gb news headlines for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code,

or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> welcome back. it's 1108 ben and nana with you on britain's newsroom live across the united kingdom only on gb news. >> right. >> right. >> lots of you've been getting in touch with your thoughts and comments. let's see what people have been saying . right. i've have been saying. right. i've got one from oh , here we go. oh, got one from oh, here we go. oh, bill says to me, you voted boris nana. so this is your fault. the whole mess with the conservative party is sort of blaming me, yeah. >> yeah , yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> how is it your fault, exactly? because i voted , apparently. >> because you voted for boris years ago. >> i mean, obviously, but that was years ago. lots of comments as well, karl says so. they are so concerned about the environment in paris. instead of the athletes walking into a stadium, they're putting them on diesel powered boats and chugging them down the river. we were talking earlier as well to jim about the environment, weren't we? >> yeah, that was funny, wasn't

it, nadine, you say on email, good morning. last weekend my daughter searched a very wide area 50 miles to find an appointment to donate blood . we appointment to donate blood. we only found one appointment that week, but there were others . not week, but there were others. not until late september and beyond. so. yeah. proving quite difficult to donate blood. even if you want to do it . if you want to do it. >> yeah, because there's a whole system. actually, it's not so straightforward. you can't just p0p straightforward. you can't just pop in like you used to be able to. it's very different these days, this one from tim says, mel stride. he's lucky. some of the devon folk kept him in reform were on his tail. this was with regard to the tory leadership. we're saying that only the men have thrown their hands into the ring. no women so far, what else have you got ? far, what else have you got? >> anything else, >> anything else, >> ian says ben and nana the hottest place in this country is often heathrow airport. why? because of the huge amount of concrete. so let's demolish cities like london and turn them back into farms and fields. cities like london and turn them back into farms and fields . god, back into farms and fields. god, i don't know about that, >> and then liza , about the >> and then liza, about the olympics says, i think i'll give the olympics a miss. this year, that's her thoughts on al, >> have you ever been to the

olympics? >> never. >> never. >> i was meant to go in 2020 with my old newspaper. i was looking forward to it. they called me and said, do you want to cover the olympics? and i was absolutely buzzing, it was in tokyo, of course. and then about two weeks later, covid reared its head and the japanese authorities said, you can still come, but you can only stay whilst you're in the country, in your hotel or the media centre at the main stadium. they said, we're going to put an ankle tracker on your a gps on your ankle to track your movements and if you dare go outside to a restaurant or try and explore some parks in tokyo city, you're going to be in big trouble. so i just thought, well, what's the point? i might as well just report on it from my sofa back home, >> and i've got one here from wrath of destiny saying mel stride the perfect example of everything which kept voters at home on election day. yep. the perfect candidate for the tory leadership. i hope he wins as it will bring about the final chapter in the history of the conservative party and ensure that reform have a clear run next time around . next time around. >> yes, and lots of talk as well about the manchester airport

incident yesterday. of course, this yesterday the officer involved was suspended this morning the lawyer for the quote unquote victim was saying that he had a cyst on the brain. clearly they're going for some sort of claim here. but do you know what's funny? there's no mention of, the woman who had her nose smashed to pieces. the other officers who were hospitalised after being assaulted. >> well, we'll wait and see what happens with all that, because we haven't seen the full footage. and i think that would be most interesting. but this one for you from steve b says, for your blood type, go into the nhs app, type in your details and it will show you your blood type or contact your gp. i didn't know that. >> okay, thank you for that. >> okay, thank you for that. >> thank you for your emails. keep them coming in. let's move on to our top story this morning. france's high speed train lines have been targeted by several malicious acts, including arson. ahead of tonight's olympic opening ceremony. joining us now is journalist alex seale. good morning. alex what's the latest on this? please >> yes. so, there was a series of fires, that hit the french

speed rails today, and 800,000 customers are affected. and because the olympic games are starting this evening in paris, lots of heads of states and world families are arriving in the french capital. so it's really chaos for french passengers. and the eurostar has said that, people should avoid travelling and lots of trains have been cancelled. so it's really chaos for, for people and the french authorities have, said that, you know, they were expecting attacks in paris or a malicious attack. and, and this happened on the day of the start of the olympic games. >> yeah. this feels like, i think we're probably not doing it, you know , enough. we're not it, you know, enough. we're not doing it justice by just calling these vandals. this felt like a more coordinated attack. is that the impression that you get from what has happened ? what has happened? >> yes, absolutely. the french

prime minister has said he's going to. we would like to find and punish the people who were responsible for this attack. and they're now rail workers working on the scenes to try to repair this, the rail lines, because lots of people have been affected and, and can't go to the olympic games or now we're in the summer. so in the summer, lots of french people like to go on holiday. so it ruins their houday on holiday. so it ruins their holiday plans. and it's really, chaos for them. >> yeah. okay. journalist alex hill, thanks very much for that update. we're joined now in the studio by our home and security editor , mark white, mark, any editor, mark white, mark, any more updates from your end? >> well, i mean, other than just acknowledging the severe disruption, we understand that there were five separate attacks, and it targeted electronic boxes. junction boxes, setting those on fire, burning wires. and that's what's severely affected the lines. taking them out of service

effectively. so what the networks, the rail networks in particular, the high speed networks are trying to do is put some of the trains onto slower lines. but in doing that , lines. but in doing that, clearly that has a knock on effect because the trains are taking longer. so quite a few services are being cancelled. eurostar have just urged customers not to show up because of the very significant delays. at least 800,000 customers on the high speed rail networks have been affected by this, and now attention will turn to who might be responsible for this and all eyes fingers may be pointing at russia because we heard just a few months back from emmanuel macron saying that he was in no doubt at all that vladimir putin would be attempting, through his supporters, to disrupt the olympic events. >> but why would he be? i mean, you know, vladimir, vladimir

putin has got his hands tied with ukraine. he's losing people and money and everything. why would he be interested in the olympics? what would be the benefit to him? >> well, what the french authorities would say is that it doesn't stop him or his supporters still actively going out of their way to disrupt events, either physically or actually, in terms of disinformation of accused russia in recent weeks of being involved in a significant campaign of disinformation to try and talk up the threat levels out there on on social media. there was an incident actually , just a month after actually, just a month after emmanuel macron's comments in may. in germany, where an arms factory was the subject of an arson attack that was linked back to russia. there was also an incident just recently in london, where a business linked to ukraine was a subject of an

arson attack that the authorities here have linked to kremlin. linked people and indeed diplomatic attache was expelled from the country as a response to that . so there's no response to that. so there's no doubt that authorities in germany, in the uk, in france do see the hand of russia involved in quite a lot of the activities. >> all right. listen, mark, we will leave it there. thank you very much. mark white is our in security editor up next, stop swearing. i kind of like it. that's the message to f1 drivers as their bosses tell them to keep communication clean over the radio. is this snowflake great britain? this is britain's newsroom on gb news

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nana with you on britain's newsroom. only on gb news. and we're delighted to be joined by author and broadcaster eamonn turner and political commentator alex armstrong in the studio. welcome back guys. what should we start with? what about let's start with hospitals, amy nicole turner. >> ministers have declared that the nhs watchdog is not fit for purpose. that is the cqc, the quality care commission. >> yeah. so this is the quality, the care quality commission . so the care quality commission. so it's the regulator of hospitals care homes, health care settings. and wes streeting has basically got a report back that has found it's completely not fit for purpose. it like everything in the nhs, it's completely broken, one example was a maternity hospital was rated good despite having loads of babies dying unnecessarily, and a history of ignoring whistleblowers, one hospital went unchecked for ten years. one fifth of hospitals haven't even been checked at all, so he's he's calling for this to be deau he's he's calling for this to be dealt with, but i think a lot of it comes down to staffing levels ,

it comes down to staffing levels, resources. it's another thing in the nhs that's just not really got the funding , not really got got the funding, not really got the recruitment already got the retention. so it's made actually the task of regulating impossible because they haven't got the resources you know, there's so many of these regulators now and so many of them are utterly useless and spent millions and millions of millions of taxpayers pounds on them. >> and what do they do? i mean, amy, that's relatively shocking stuff. we're hearing here. and it's it just baffles me that the taxpayer could spend so much money on these things. expect them to work for the british public, and we get nothing out of it other than people sat on their bums in an office typing rubbish reports away. and then they say everything's good, everything's fine. who regulates the regulators? >> not as much of people sitting on their bums. it's like there's not enough bums in the office. there's just. not enough bums in the office. there'sjust. it'sjust not enough bums in the office. there's just. it's just been an impossible task due to. i know you say like, so much money has gone, but not quite enough money. surely there's better ways to work. >> well, like care and all these reports work within the actual

institutions, within the hospitals, within the care homes. you know, it's the same as when we regulate schools, we have people going out to these schools and, and regulating them and, and making sure they're up to standards. but even then, we know the schools are prepared for them, so they look better than they actually are. >> well, some of these care commissioners, it was that their first day. so they've never done it before. so the first time they've ever even set foot into they've ever even set foot into the hospital. >> yeah. there were there were examples of inspectors having never been in a hospital before. but again , i think it comes down but again, i think it comes down to that whole recruitment and retention thing. you're not getting the staff, you're not keeping the staff, and there isn't enough staff . so it was keeping the staff, and there isn't enough staff. so it was an impossible task. i don't think it's i don't think that the people working at the care quality commission were in any way not doing their jobs. there's just not enough people there to do the job. >> you've been very generous to some of them. i think some of them probably don't care. some of them do, but i wouldn't say they all did. right. what about they all did. right. what about the tory leadership race? i mean, does anyone is anyone interested in this? now for four men have thrown their hat into the ring. no women at all yet, although we are expecting them

to do so. >> yeah, well, we expect kemi badenoch and priti patel at least to be throwing their hat in the ring, and of course suella braverman be careful. no throwing. right. no throwing acid. >> no, no, no throwing your hat in the ring is a turn of phrase. >> it's not it's not a but you can never be too sure, so be careful. >> i know a lot of people on the left like to take things very literally. >> so i mean, so for me, like, i mean, look, look at the list of people who are on who are already throwing their hat. king james cleverly boring, tom tugendhat, boring robert jenrick, a little less boring, but still, no. and it's not really that charismatic and exciting. really interestingly conservative post put out a poll today and they showed. they asked if you're a tory members, you had to be a tory member to vote and suella braverman absolutely trashed them all in the in the members votes. right. but is she even going to get enough votes from tory mps to get on the ballot? >> probably not. >> probably not. >> was this not their mistake? last time they didn't listen to their own members, which is why they've lost a lot of them. >> but they did. they listened to their members when they picked liz truss, but it was before that that liz truss wasn't the most popular one in the actual, group of mps that

were standing. >> she was the most popular one left against rishi sunak. i mean, who wanted rishi? nobody. so they were like, okay, well, we'll give her a shot. at least she's putting out tory talking points and rishi wasn't. so again, it comes down to the conservative party not listening. they're now they're all now saying that tom tugendhat is their best chance. >> who is the liberal democrat ? >> who is the liberal democrat? >> who is the liberal democrat? >> he's just as rubbish as keir starmer. he's more boring. i mean, he looks like a virgin. >> don't know these names, though. most people do not know. they don't. but when i hear mel stride, i just think he's the one that tried to cut the welfare. tom tugendhat army guy, james cleverly, the one that made the date rape joke. yeah, like this is robert jenrick tough on immigration. suella friend mickey mouse murals. remember that when he painted over the mickey mouse murals? yeah, these are kind of all i really think people remember these guys for. oh, do you think these guys for. oh, do you think the tories aiming at a toast ? i the tories aiming at a toast? i think they could, if they pull it back to the centre and they remember who they were before brexit? >> i think if they remember before, that's what they've been doing, that's what they've been doing. and they completely got trounced in the general election. the problem is the

conservative party has forgotten that they are the conservative party, not the liberal democrats. and this is this is the big issue. if you put nigel farage on that ballot and you put it to members, he would trounce them all. he would leave dust behind him because that think you've been spending too much time at this desk. >> i think i think a lot of people feel like since brexit, the conservative party morphed into ukip. no, i need to pull it back. ukip are you the nice, soft . soft. >> no, no, amy. >> no, no, amy. >> no. high immigration record. high taxes since the world war, gender ideology in schools , in gender ideology in schools, in what in what universe is any of that remotely even centrist, let alone right wing? the policies since 2019, since brexit, since the whole ethos of conservative party. >> okay, so if we think about the last conference, the way they talked about migrants, the way they trashed lgbt people, how they talk, let's judge them on how they act, their record high migration record taxes, gender ideology in schools, open borders, crime through the roof . borders, crime through the roof. >> how is any of that right wing? >> i think everything what

they're trying to they're trying to absolutely reverse. >> but let's let's look at it happened on also the language around immigration is just totally look at look at amy it happened on their watch though is what we're saying. yeah. >> but they're trying to make out like it. absolutely didn't. they don't want to look at the actual numbers. >> tom tugendhat was was on this was on this channel the other night putting out his pitch to be leader. and his key thing was echr. but we know we know what he actually said was that he , he he actually said was that he, he doesn't want to leave the echr until all these conditions have been met. it's just until all these conditions have been met. it'sjust a until all these conditions have been met. it's just a talking point to get him to get reform votes, to bring in one more story, >> i'm a formula one fan, but we can widen this debate out, not just about formula one. so dutch driver max verstappen, the world champion, he's been slammed for being a bit sweary over his communications with his team. so in formula one the communications are made public. you can hear what the drivers are saying to their teams. and at the weekend max was effing and blinding about tyres and strategy. should is there a place for swearing in public? and also do sports stars ? are and also do sports stars? are they role models and b should they role models and b should they be swearing in public?

>> i'm totally fine with them swearing. these are these are highly paid professional athletes. they need to release athletes. they need to release at the end of the day. this these these these men are driving i don't know how many 100 miles an hour putting their lives in danger to go around the race course for entertainment for and money and for money, of course, a large amount of money, of course. and frankly, if you don't like the swearing, switch it off. >> switch it off. in general. are you swearing? >> you imagine if everyone at home could hear what goes through these mics and the brakes when we're off air. that because it's their kind of conversations that they have while they're in the car. right. that gets made public that would be mortifying. that's what i can say, but no, i think i think with this case it was more like, yes, we have cathartic swearing. we all love swearing, but it was more of the impact it was having . more of the impact it was having. so it was the it felt more like slightly mean the way he was speaking and slightly aggressive to, to the person he was speaking to rather than the swearing itself. i'm not sure, so it was the bonding more just i think it's just a high pressured environment. >> you tend to if you're in a

really high pressure, if you're getting sworn at all the time through your earpiece, is it okay? >> change your job. >> change your job. >> you still need to be respectful. actually, even if you are swearing and you know, so if he's doing it in a certain tone, is that okay to swear in the workplace? >> just quickly. yes. >> just quickly. yes. >> yeah it is. yeah. yeah, i think so. yeah as long as, as long as, as long as it's expressing an opinion about something. not at some stage what the are you doing, depending on, depending on if i was doing something a bit foolish, maybe i might deserve it. some people are very sensitive, and, yeah, it's always quite unpredictable. >> i don't think you can swear in the workplace anymore. you're going to come a cropper. >> really? not these days. >> really? not these days. >> not since the tories made everyone woke up. now what about. let's find we might have time to squeeze in this one. the olympic gold medal winner, diver jack laughter, has revealed what name has revealed that he is part of a group of british athletes who have signed up to raunchy online onlyfans to help fund their paris dream. eamonn nicole turner , nicole turner, >> no alex, i think you were a bit more . bit more. >> oh well, yeah. >> oh well, yeah. >> well, i mean, so look , i'm >> well, i mean, so look, i'm actually going to defend him here because he's not getting he's not stripping down. he's

actually more clothed than he is in the olympics. so this is just a way for him to be able to fund his dream. and if there isn't other opportunities available to him while he's training to be an olympian for our country, i will support him on that. and if that's the way he chooses to make money, totally fine with it . make money, totally fine with it. he's like i said, he's not doing anything that is nefarious whatsoever, that people that take photos of him and put them on all the picture agencies in exactly the same dress that he's wearing on onlyfans, they're making a load of money off his pictures. >> so he's you say he's still wearing the speedos? >> yeah, at least he's getting paid for it. >> at least he's getting paid. i did do the twitter research before we read the story. just just to be very clear to the audience, i'm not paying for his onlyfans, but do you know who else has an onlyfans at the moment? >> lily allen, have you heard about this? >> she's selling pictures of her. >> she's selling pictures of her feet. >> yes, but that's very sexualised though, and i think that's different to what he's doing. >> he's got money, he's wealthy. he's doing it to fund his thing. >> well, he is, but wouldn't you think that our olympians deserve more? >> exactly. so that they don't have to do this? >> well, that would be great.

>> well, that would be great. >> that would be great story. that would be great. why are our britain's best athletes who are going to compete at the olympic games, flogging pictures on onlyfans to fund their. well, i do agree. >> i do agree you're passionate about something. >> you'll go to certain lengths to do things. this is a point that they shouldn't have to. >> that's the point. i do agree to do that. >> well, maybe he's just taking control of his images because like we said, he's not he's not wearing anything different to what he wears in the pool. >> he might quite enjoy it as well. you never know i know. yeah. >> stop talking. all right . you >> stop talking. all right. you are none of that in the workplace. >> none of that in the workplace. >> well, thank you very much. alex armstrong and also amy nicole turner. right now, though, it's time to get your latest news headlines with tatiana sanchez . tatiana sanchez. >> nana. thank you. the top stories from the gb newsroom. eurostar is advising travellers to cancel trips to paris today if they can, after a series of arson attacks just hours before tonight's olympics opening ceremony. at least three train

lines were targeted, affecting nearly a million people. the state owned sncf says its services were the victim of what it called a massive attack, which they say was aimed at paralysing the network. the companies warning the situation could last all weekend while repairs are conducted . hundreds repairs are conducted. hundreds of people were seen protesting outside mayor andy burnham's office, accusing greater manchester police of racism . manchester police of racism. it's after a video emerged appearing to show an officer kicking a suspect in the head. three armed police were seriously injured as they attended to reports of an assault, which happened before the event. seen in the video, which has been shared online, the police watchdog has launched an investigation . mel stride has an investigation. mel stride has become the fourth conservative mp to enter the race to become the party's next leader. the shadow work and pensions secretary joins james cleverly, tom tugendhat and robert jenrick in the contest to take over from rishi sunak . in the contest to take over from rishi sunak. he says

in the contest to take over from rishi sunak . he says the tories rishi sunak. he says the tories should avoid veering too far to the right and focus on unity. the regulator that oversees nhs care services in england is not fit for purpose. that's according to the health secretary, an independent review into the care quality commission has revealed significant internal failings that are hampering his ability to keep a check on health and social care institutions . and in the us, institutions. and in the us, barack obama has endorsed kamala harris to become the next president of the united states. in a roughly one minute long video, a private phone call can be seen between the former president and his wife , michelle president and his wife, michelle obama, with mrs. harris, mr obama, with mrs. harris, mr obama said he couldn't be prouder to endorse the vice president and said he'd do everything to get her into the oval office . and those are the oval office. and those are the latest gb news headlines for now , 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 .

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throughout the show, will be at a at a stand up position by the arc de triomphe, and she'll have guests with her there in paris . guests with her there in paris. she's looking, of course, at the security situation in the city. and just as we're talking now, it seems like there might be a problem with one of the airports, some tentative reports there that there might be some disruption . very, very curious. disruption. very, very curious. what's going on. and hopefully we will learn more throughout the course of the program . but the course of the program. but yes, half here from midday in london. meanwhile, it's 1:00 london. meanwhile, it's1:00 overin london. meanwhile, it's1:00 over in paris, and that's where sophie will be of course. >> what else are you focusing on this afternoon? >> well, my goodness, we've seen this care quality commission. investigation. it seems like it is dire. we're going to be looking at how this is affecting people on the ground, because it seems like it's a very patchy situation across the country. some areas good, some areas bad, some we just don't know the quality of the care that we're getting. so that's another huge issue that we're looking at. >> wow. sounds like a broadcasting spectacle. the uk, paris, france, very continental

all over the world, yeah. mark white reckons that perhaps russia involved in the. >> well, this is the thing. it doesn't seem like it is a sort of isis style islamist thing, because it's targeting infrastructure rather than people, and it's clearly designed to break the key nodes of transport. i've been looking at these maps that show precisely where things have been broken, and it's stopping people coming in from the east, from the north, from the west. >> it's quite sophisticated. >> it's quite sophisticated. >> there was an attempted one from the southern light for these four lines. there was an attempted one on the south that had been disrupted, that had actually they prevented, prevented that disruption. but it could be that there's something now going on with airports. we're keeping our eyes across it. and of course, we'll have all the latest. >> so fragile, isn't it? everything's so fragile and intricate and quite easy to tamper with. and i suppose we saw a bit of that when we had the blip. with all that computer systems and people could travel anyway. so we're. yeah, but it just shows how asymmetric these systems are. >> we're talking a lot in warfare as well. some guy with a

drone can take out, you know, a multi—million pound tank. and in the same way, we saw in with with gatwick a few years ago , with gatwick a few years ago, one drone in the sky can ground an airport for days. it is actually quite scary to think how fragile some of these systems we rely upon are. i mean, one little bit of track set alight can can stop trains running on there for a whole weekend. more than a million people estimated to be affected. i mean, what more could be coming? we're going to be keeping our eyes across that throughout the show. >> okay, sounds like a cracking show . tom from the uk sophie show. tom from the uk sophie reaper live from france. good stuff. looking forward to it. >> right? >> right? >> moving on though, let's know if you've been impacted, of course, by what happened with the rail network in paris ahead of the olympics. i mean, people are calling it vandalism, but i would call it sort of an intricate sort of plot to, i don't know, stop the olympics or get it, you know , almost get it, you know, almost 1 million people have been and there we are live trackside in paris, workers in. >> hi viz, if you're listening on radio, all gathered around the tracks, the railway line

trying to fix whatever damage has been done there. and as tom mentioned, calling this vandalism kind of underestimates it a little bit because this seems sophisticated. all the lines going into paris? well, most of them anyway. the key lines have been affected, not just random ones here and there. it does seem like there has been some thought put into this, and there may be other networks being affected too. >> stay with us. we'll keep you informed and up to date. this is britain's newsroom on gb news

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midlands reporter will hollis has this report . has this report. >> at the international bomber command centre in lincoln, a day dedicated to honouring its namesake , roy briggs risked namesake, roy briggs risked everything flying in bomber command . now aged 99, the command. now aged 99, the wireless operator had one of the most dangerous jobs in the war bombing berlin . bombing berlin. >> i couldn't believe it, really. i thought , is >> i couldn't believe it, really. i thought, is this me or am i dreaming that a 20 year old boy from, from the back streets of battersea was flying over germany in a lancaster? i've got three old age pensioners looking after me . after me. >> marking bomber command day, roy joins some of the last remaining veterans who flew the deadliest of missions. but toward the end of the war, dropping food not bombs became the task. >> before we took off, we heard

that mr churchill was going to make a statement in the commons at 3:30, and we dropped food and we were on our way back and i tuned into the bbc and i heard him say, tomorrow will be v—e day. good night and memory. >> this is the fourth bomber command , created to preserve the command, created to preserve the memory of the people who served in the most perilous place, the sky. some 58,000 people died serving with bomber command here at the centre. their names are included on memorial walls. the setting for a service , setting for a service, remembering their role, securing peace. remembering their role, securing peace . nikki van der drift is peace. nikki van der drift is chief executive. >> we need to remember that all efforts should be made to protect peace and freedom, and every day those in the military are fighting that fight for us. >> with members from 62 countries, the allies fighting in bomber command took the war

to the heart of germany . colonel to the heart of germany. colonel jonathan bouchard is from the canadian air force. this year it commemorates 100 years of service. >> the contribution that our people did standing next to allies and partners back then is to be remembered nations once more , coming together not to more, coming together not to defend, but to remember. >> will hollis gb news in lincoln . lincoln. >> i'm just reading here bomber command, 55,573 young men died flying with bomber command dunng flying with bomber command during world war ii. and that's more than those who serve in the entire raf today. so, salute , entire raf today. so, salute, our fallen pilots. >> right well up next, if your blood type 0. find out why the nhs needs you, you're with britain's newsroom on gb. news

good morning. 47 minutes after 11:00. this is a gb news. well, britain's news channel. now the nhs is urging blood donors to come forward amid an urgent shortage of certain blood types. >> the health service has issued an amber alert after national stocks of o an amber alert after national stocks of 0 negative and 0 positive blood types fell to unprecedented low levels. >> now, it's understood that the recent cyber attacks affecting london hospitals and more people missing appointments has contributed to the shortage. so joining us now is gb news national reporter charlie peters. charlie, what can you tell us? >> well, that umbrella has been issued after supplies of 0 negative blood types has dropped to unprecedentedly low levels. just 1.6 days remain of stock against a target of six days. and as you said, nana, that's been caused in part by that cyber attack last month by a

russian group called killin, a ransomware attack which hit a third party organisation called synovus, which conducts pathology work for the nhs at key london hospitals. it's understood that there, at around 10% of their operating capacity , 10% of their operating capacity, now to check blood types. and while those checks can't go ahead as efficiently as they used to, we're back to using only emergency blood types such as o only emergency blood types such as 0 negative in surgeries, urgent surgeries, cancer surgeries, and of course, emergency situations when the air ambulance or response vehicles are on the ground so they've issued this urgent blood drive. and i'm very happy to say i'm joined now by michael thache, who's the head of the region for london and the south east for nhs blood and transplant. michael, why is this drive going on and what are you keen to see achieved? >> so we have an urgent appeal at the moment for more donors from all groups to come forward and donate. >> it's really important at the moment we've got 45,000 appointments available, roughly

between now and the end of september. and what that means is donors coming forward, or our amazing members of the general public, will be able to help rebuild our stocks at the moment to where we need them to be. >> obviously, we're here in westfield, in in west london for this drive, but this is happening nationwide. where else can people donate? >> absolutely. so we've got lots of appointments available , of appointments available, particularly in our city centre locations and our town locations. if you visit blood .co.uk, we will make sure that you get an appointment. if you're particularly from a no donor group, several mobile areas where people can donate but 25 locations. >> which towns and cities can people visit this weekend or as soon as possible to get those donations sorted? >> so if you visit .co.uk, you'll be able to find a full list of the donor centres and the locations that are available. but if you look at london in particular, we've got around about 5000 appointments available over the next couple of weeks for you to book an appointment. so as you mentioned, we're here at shepherd's bush today. you know what? just one of our many centres where you're able to donate. so please do visit blood .co.uk . and our systems are a

.co.uk. and our systems are a little bit busy at the moment. we're seeing a great response from our donors and the general public. from our donors and the general pubuc.so from our donors and the general public. so please be patient and wait. but we will make you an appointment. >> just 8% of the nation has 0 negative blood groups, but it's 16% of the use for the nhs. can you reassure people who might be concerned about this amber alert and what it might mean for their nhs appointments? >> yeah, so amber alert means that we're having to restrict the use of oak group in hospitals to make sure that we're prioritising for the most urgent care. however, what we are doing is making sure that we're working with our colleagues in nhs england to help rebuild our stocks. and just to reassure you that you will continue to be seen as needed.so will continue to be seen as needed. so please do continue to see the nhs in your usual way. >> thank you michael, so don't panic if you need to see the nhs. >> that care will still continue, but those stocks of o—negative blood, that urgent emergency use that can be given to anyone, the universal donor, is that now 1.6 days left the nhs blood and transplant group

urgently needs people to come forward and help replenish those stocks. after the nhs was hit by that devastating cyber attack last month by a russian aligned cyber attack organisation. >> thank you very much, charlie peters . that's charlie peters peters. that's charlie peters out there discussing the shortage of blood 0 negative and 0 positive. >> if you've got a few quick emails on that, someone saying, john addis nhs calling for blood groups. >> i've tried to make an appointment and the nearest and earliest is 15 miles away in 12 weeks time, and someone else , weeks time, and someone else, sean, you say blood shortage. what's the point of the nhs app and gp apps not sending messages asking for blood if they need it? i haven't had one. >> well, tony collins says my wife would give blood as she has a rare blood blood type. unfortunately her age is against her. she's 73, this one on the tory leadership. steven brown. he says nobody but nobody will vote tory again. they denied the members of vote when sunak was parachuted in by the

establishment and another one on. we were talking about sustainable fuel and we spoke to jim dale earlier about climate . jim dale earlier about climate. and vicky says some airlines are using a sustainable fuel source. so it's a start because jim was somewhere else in some locations, somewhere near obviously flew their cars , etc. obviously flew their cars, etc. need cleaner fuels and not electric vehicles, which are not environmentally friendly and china are raping africa for their minerals etc. unchecked. thank you. >> we're just going to go to see some pictures now from france kings cross actually where it looks like team gb athletes have been impacted by the arson attacks in paris. so this is in london. i understand they're trying to get to paris, obviously to compete at the olympics. the opening ceremony starts this evening, but because of this i was going to call it vandalism. but quite, quite clearly organised sabotage where the train lines in france have been taken down in arson attacks and so on. they just can't get there. >> so, you know, we will keep an eye on this story as well. >> obviously, we want our athletes to get there. it's not just impacting athletes. of course, the general public going about their business, trying to

travel between the two places will struggle as well . so we will struggle as well. so we will struggle as well. so we will keep you updated on all, if anything new develops within apparently one. >> i mean, i was speaking to sophie reaper live from paris earlier and i was saying tens of thousands affected, but it's actually it's 1 million now. yeah, 1 million people. and it's been a bit of a pr nightmare for the paris olympics so far. we had the horrific news of that gang rape of the australian woman involving five men. we had warnings from the israeli foreign minister who was saying that they fear their athletes are going to be attacked by, iran, this situation here, it goes on and on, >> okay. >> okay. >> and so more on this of your message as well. anna says this mel stride because we're talking about mel stride, the leadership is certainly a candidate. i would never vote for centre right. he says he stands for not what i want. i'd like to see the right of the tories, aka reform. >> that's for all from us for today. thank you for joining >> that's for all from us for today. thank you forjoining us. today. thank you for joining us. thank you for your emails. thank you. nana and i'm back tonight covering patrick's show. tune in and nana's back tomorrow, 3:00.

>> be there. be square. up next. good afternoon. >> britain, early this morning, acts of sabotage were carried out in a prepared and coordinated manner against states train infrastructure. not my words. the words of the french prime minister. just one hour ago. we'll be live in paris as it appears the olympics are under attack . just how affected under attack. just how affected will we be? and will tonight's opening ceremony go off as planned? that's after your weather. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on . gb. news weather on. gb. news >> thanks for joining weather on. gb. news >> thanks forjoining me weather on. gb. news >> thanks for joining me for your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. a mix of sun and showers today, with most of the showers across the north are largely fine. day across the south. low pressure is dominating things. sitting up between the uk and iceland. the closer you are to the low, the more showers you're going to get

through. the day today. so plenty of them coming into western scotland . further south, western scotland. further south, many places across southern england, particularly southeast and east anglia, will stay dry, but the showers could be on the heavy side as they zip through across parts of scotland. plenty of showers developing through the afternoon, especially across northern ireland, and some scattered across northern england in the sunny spells across the east, temperatures getting into the 20s, maybe even the mid 20s in and around the caphal the mid 20s in and around the capital. we'll see more heavy showers developing through the afternoon and into the evening. across parts of scotland, so becoming more widespread here, some developing across to the north—east. so if you're travelling this friday evening, just bear in mind, particularly across scotland, northern ireland and the far north of england, going to catch these heavy downpours. one minute it's dry, the next minute you've got a lot of spray and surface water on the roads. the showers are much more scattered further south, but there will be some for wales, the midlands, maybe the overall for south west england too. but as i mentioned from east anglia down to the south—east, most places staying dry through the afternoon and into the evening. as we go

through the evening, the showers further north will also tend to fade away. so for many places it will be a dry night. the winds will be a dry night. the winds will ease a little bit across scotland and northern ireland too. we'll see a few more showers developing into southwest scotland by the end of the night, but for many clear skies a little cooler than quite a few recent nights as well. onto the weekends and saturday again, a mixture of sunshine and showers. the main focus for showers. the main focus for showers likely to be northwest england. initially southern scotland , but we'll see some scotland, but we'll see some heavier showers developing across wales and perhaps into the midlands. possibly the odd rumble of thunder along with north—east england, a drier day for scotland and northern ireland and again mostly fine across east anglia and the south—east. bye for now . south—east. bye for now. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers . sponsors of boxt boilers. sponsors of weather on gb

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>> well. >> well. >> good afternoon . britain. it's >> good afternoon. britain. it's 12:00 on friday, the 26th of july. i'm tom harwood , olympics july. i'm tom harwood, olympics under attack. a coordinated series of apparent arson attacks have paralysed high speed rail lines just hours before the citywide opening ceremony, almost a million passengers are affected, with disruption set to last for days. we're live in paris, not fit for purpose. health secretary wes streeting slams the care quality commission, saying he was stunned by the scale of problems faced within the nhs and the care system . i'm speaking to care system. i'm speaking to health experts to gauge the true scale of the problem , plus chaos scale of the problem, plus chaos in manchester for a second night as police stations are pelted with eggs and tram lines blocked following the suspension of a police officer over a video appearing to show police brutality. but is there more to it ?