the 27th of july. and this is the weekend on gb news. >> whole new title, whole new show and loads of fun coming up now. the paris olympic opening ceremony. did you live through that? the blue smurf has been branded the worst ever in competition's history. >> torrential rain. >> torrential rain. >> that was the upside of it and flags that weren't the right way up mocking the last supper. there's so much to talk about, isn't there? not to mention the naked blue smurf. then a third world war could erupt if donald trump loses the election. at least that's what donald trump says as he tries to mend an important political alliance with israel. does he have a point, though ? and how much point, though? and how much would you pay for fish and chips? it's the holiday season. come on. the definitive british summer dish is under threat this summer. thanks to a perfect storm of rising costs, with some places charging £37. how much would you pay for this classic friday night feast or saturday lunchtime ? i'm dawn neesom and lunchtime? i'm dawn neesom and this is the weekend .

this is the weekend. news. sexy new graphics, right? oh, right. i'll try and live up to that. the show is nothing without you and your views. that bit doesn't change, so let me know your thoughts on all the stories we're discussing today by visiting gb news. dot com forward slash yoursay and join the conversation! i love chatting to you last week, so make sure you get in touch today. but before i you know what's coming before we get stuck into today's story, here is the news with my lovely charm. ray addison . charm. ray addison. >> jess. dawn. good afternoon. 12:01. our top stories this houn 12:01. our top stories this hour. team gb has secured its first medal of the paris olympics with yasmin harper and scarlett mew jensen taking bronze in the synchronised three metre springboard diving event. china claimed gold and the us took silver. the results places

great britain equal fourth with kazakhstan on the medals table. rain is causing problems for outdoor events. meanwhile with the tennis delayed and skateboarding positioned postponed rather by 48 hours. meanwhile, eurostar passengers are facing ongoing travel disruption after arson attacks on the french railway network ahead of the games. 1 in 4 trains will not run this weekend, with the operator saying four have been cancelled today. travellers are being told today. travellers are being told to postpone their journeys if they can. the chief constable of greater manchester police says video footage of an officer seemingly kicking and stamping on a man at the airport is a source of profound regret. stephen watson insists the force is committed to supporting a criminal investigation into that officer's behaviour comes after the mayor of greater manchester appealed for a rigorous and swift investigation into allegations of assault. the police watchdog is now looking into the incident to determine

whether his use of force was acceptable in the united states. the fbi has u—turned over claims that donald trump may not have been hit by a bullet in pennsylvania. it comes after fbi director christopher wray told lawmakers the former president's injury could have been caused by glass. that's been denied by former white house doctor ronny jackson, who described the comment as wrong and inappropriate. the fbi has now issued a statement confirming trump was struck by a bullet where the whole or fragmented into smaller pieces. well, meanwhile, the israeli prime minister has visited donald trump at his florida resort. and a warning the following footage we're about to show contains flash photography. benjamin netanyahu rearranged his travel schedule to meet the republican nominee, a day after meeting president joe biden and vp kamala harris. president joe biden and vp kamala harris . trump recently kamala harris. trump recently criticised netanyahu for israeli security failures around the october 7th hamas attack . it's

october 7th hamas attack. it's thought the meeting could ease tensions between the two men. president biden is expected to announce plans to reform the supreme court on monday. sources suggest he's likely to back term limits for justices and an enforceable code of ethics. he's also expected to push for a constitutional amendment limiting immunity for presidents, follows a supreme court ruling in july giving presidents broad immunity from prosecution as the workers will stage a fresh strike in their dispute over hours and pay . the dispute over hours and pay. the gmb union says more than 170 of its members will walk out at the lowestoft store on the 9th of august. the last strike was held back in may, but gmb says senior management seemed to be burying their heads in the sand. asda has rejected the union's claims that no action has been taken, and is reassuring customers that the store will be open as normal. a common bacteria can melt certain cancers , scientists

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been branded the worst ever in the competition. i mean, did you watch it? come on. did you watch it? it went on for hours. and of course, the decision to have the ceremony outside hasn't gone down quite well with viewers who were left unimpressed by the whole show , reporting poor audio whole show, reporting poor audio caused by the torrential rain as the olympians soared down. the sign with on their boat endless boats, with some online joking the organisers needed to stop the organisers needed to stop the boats. see what we did there, adding to the upset and this i do know already upset a lot of you and many christians, including have slammed the ceremony for an apparent woke parody of the last supper, which, to be honest with you , which, to be honest with you, was that, as you can see on your screens now, the lady with the larger lady with the crown on andy lound, the drag queens recreating the last supper. and that's before we get to the blue smurf , the naked blue smurf now smurf, the naked blue smurf now keeping me company this hour. and they're thrilled. i know they they can't get they can't wait to get started on the

smurf. can you boys? no. see what i mean is the acting editor for conservativehome, henry hill . for conservativehome, henry hill. thank you. and co—founder of novara media, michael walker. thank you very much, gentlemen who are fully briefed on this story and were glued to every minute of that olympic ceremony, which may or may not still be going on. now, for all i know, to be honest with you, i mean, it felt like it was michael, i'm going to come to you first. i'm wearing blue in honour of the naked blue smurf, which is seared onto my eyeballs. go on. what did you make of it? come on. is it serious? first of all, an admission . an admission. >> i didn't watch the whole five hours, but i have seen the naked blue serve, so i can comment. don't you worry. >> except i've seen many of the clips on twitter. i've been on youtube. blue smurfs. how often do i in my in my dreams? >> more often than you might think. i think in many cases people are getting a little bit sort of carried away here. i mean, france is actually sort of if you think about it, this is the country of the moulin rouge.

you know, it's known for having sort of sexually suggestive commentary and entertainment. it's also known for sort of having , you know, satire in a having, you know, satire in a fairly sort of critical approach to authority. i can see why some people might find that last supper parody offensive. and i suppose what i would say to to, thatis suppose what i would say to to, that is i absolutely do think we should defend the right and celebrate. actually, people sort of taking on what are seen as sort of untouchable topics, but this obviously is sort of an event organised by the state, it's supposed to bring people together. i wonder if that was maybe a bit too risque for the opening ceremony of the olympics and should sort of be left to, to the cabaret. >> it is meant to be family friendly and they did do the cancan. to be fair, we had the cancan. to be fair, we had the cancan with traditional french saucy frilly knickers and things. you were impressed by that bit. the husband was, by the way, on that one. he loved that as his favourite bit. i can't think why. so. but we did do the traditional bit. we had the cancan that was lovely. and then it kind of got a bit weird. >> i mean, it did, i think, i

think the strange thing about all of these ceremonies is that you could do like a two hour one and you could put all the best bits in it, and people would really like it, and you could do it all at night, which means that all the impressive lighting would happen and everyone would be like, oh my god, you remember the french one? that was amazing. but instead i don't know if it's just that they have so many ideas and so many competing people. they want to include. but the boat thing honestly reminded me of the of the queen's diamond jubilee, when we also had a washed out boat ceremony. >> right. >> right. >> and i thought, you know, i'm a royalist. i thought it was generally a wonderful event, but you did have to feel for them when you had the her majesty and prince philip standing there in the torrential rain. >> prince philip got really ill after that, didn't he? i mean, people were treated for hypothermia. >> absolutely need faster boats at these things. yeah, well, giving them to the migrants, that would have been wonderful, wouldn't it? just a full on like james bond villain. motor hovercrafts, but it's always the case.i hovercrafts, but it's always the case. i think that you give some creative director this big spectacle. and for some reason, they need an editor. they need somebody to just come in and be like, that's a wonderful five hours of content. we're just

going to take this bit and run with that. but no one seems to do it. >> it was the first time that the olympic ceremony has been held , not in a stadium since the held, not in a stadium since the late 1800s. so fair play to the french to be imaginative. and they were, to be fair, trying to showcase their city with all the athletes going down the sailing boats. there's a lot of countries, really, a lot of countries. i'm surprised they had enough boats, considering how many they give to the migrants. but it just and the weather obviously didn't help . weather obviously didn't help. but michael, some people along the banks are the same. paid £2,500 to stand in the rain for five hours watching someone on a boat right over there waving a little flag, and maybe that's why they made it five hours long, sort of to give people their money's worth. >> because if you're paying by the hour, that obviously makes it cheaper to sort of drag it out a little bit. i totally agree. i think i was actually i was on, you know, a streaming platform last night just looking for the highlights, but they hadnt for the highlights, but they hadn't put one together by the time i was, i was searching maybe it's appeared today, but

five hours is way too long. did you watch the whole of it? the whole five hours? >> i am a serious journalist, so i. yes absolutely. >> what are you suggesting? i'm not. >> you could take it that way . >> you could take it that way. actually, no, i was doing my research, is what i meant. no i actually i don't know about you out there, but i actually got transfixed by. in the end. it was, it was, it was so bad. it was, it was, it was so bad. it was it was actually almost good. and i just think and it's like, you know , they had this one bit you know, they had this one bit there where they were paying tribute to all the feminist female french icons, you know , female french icons, you know, marie curie and all that lot. and it was like, great, this is fantastic. and then after that, literally every one that appeared to be female had a willy . yeah. i don't know why willy. yeah. i don't know why i'm looking at you in that way there, henry, but i mean, i guess! there, henry, but i mean, i guess i have to respond to this. there was a lot of drag queens going on there. yeah, well, again, i think this is it's part of french culture that they have this sort of cabaret. >> fringe. and it goes back a very long way. i think it's perhaps questionable to put that in your state sponsored ceremony ,

in your state sponsored ceremony, but it is undoubtedly a big part of the french and parisian scene, and it has been for a very long time. so it's not a mystery why. if you think you think okay, think about it. when we had our london one and we kept being like, oh my god, why is there this weird nhs cult like, what on earth is it with this right , like, what on earth is it with this right, right. if you give the british like creative classes , that kind of project, classes, that kind of project, that's what comes out. and i can easily imagine it being the case that if you're if you're the french government and you're like, okay, we're going to give this to someone in our creative sector, what they do is they go, okay, well, this is our demi monde. we're going to we're going to drag it out and put it in. and frankly, if the french government given it paid for it, it could have exercised some editorial control, presumably if it wanted to. so there has been a failure here on the part of the french state. if they didn't think any of this was appropriate, it shouldn't have been there. i do think there is also a problem, because i suppose in potentially sort of the implication in the way you presented it there, is that the whole thing was dominated by drag queens. and of course, if the whole sort of event was

about drag queens, it's like, well, why , why should this all well, why, why should this all be about drag queens? but as far as i understand, maybe 5 to 10 minutes involved lots of drag queens. and it just happens to be those are the scenes that everyone's sharing. now, if you see successes, people want to share that scene, then maybe those were the best parts. >> okay, so you mentioned, you know, the main bit featuring i'm not i'm not obsessed. i was very impressed that these people managed to dance in four inch heels in that i presume , also heels in that i presume, also was that because it was liberty, equality, fraternity ? equality, fraternity? >> was that the equality part where it's sort of i kept getting eternity because that went on for that length of time. >> so, you know, the serious side, the one that people are getting upset about. i completely understand this is the recreation of the last suppen the recreation of the last supper, with with the with the drag queens were discussed. what do you understand? as you can see on your screen there, we've got the larger lady plus size. i believe we have to call them these days with the crown on her head representing jesus. i'm guessing, with the disciples around her most of the. yeah, well, they're all drag queens , well, they're all drag queens, basically. so, i mean, what what do you make of that? i mean, do you understand why that's upsetting? >> this is the only part. so i

actually think that it being state sponsored, i think it being state sponsored and having drag queens is perfect and perfectly, you know , reasonable, perfectly, you know, reasonable, i do see why, as a christian, you might be a bit annoyed. not that this i think. absolutely. this is a fine piece of art. i mean, i might not like it as a piece of art, but, you know, i've got no problem with people making art that looks like that. it didn't move me particularly, but i could see why you might be annoyed that a state sponsored event that your tax paying, that your taxes are paying for, seems to be mocking your religion. i can see why someone might be annoyed at that. >> what do you make of it, henry? >> i mean, i think it's obviously it's in a very particular context in france because of the charlie hebdo massacre. >> this is the point i was coming through the, the and so on the one hand, it is important in france that you have, that you defend the right of a private organisation to, to mock religion. >> but i think one, it's the state and that is different. and i absolutely would not want the state to publish anything with a cartoon of muhammad or anything

else. right. so and i wouldn't, i would expect them to treat christianity the same way. but secondly, i always think that sometimes christianity is a bit of an easy target these days for people who want to be sort of posing as bold truth tellers against, like, this untouchable taboo. and it's like , fine, if taboo. and it's like, fine, if you were your grandfather's generation , like doing something generation, like doing something that takes the mick out of the christian church might have been really brave, but these days i don't think there's any courage in it. i don't think there's any originality or novelty in it. and so i think it was just pointless if nothing else was offensive and it was pointless. >> why do you think, henry, that it is acceptable? seemingly acceptable to mock the christian faith? but as we've just discussed on a serious note, you know, the charlie hebdo, the cartoon of muhammad, people lost their lives over that . so if their lives over that. so if they'd have tried that stunt with, i don't know, some image from islam last night we wouldn't be having a fairly light hearted chat about it, would we? i mean, we'd be worried that people were going to lose their lives over it. why is christianity acceptable to take the mickey out of? >> so i suppose the cynical

answer , which does have a lot of answer, which does have a lot of truth to it, is simply, as you sort of suggest, that the christians aren't going to kill anyone over it. i suppose. also, christianity, even in france, is part of like the national heritage, which means i think that even if you are an atheist frenchman, you can still feel that it's a part of your culture that it's a part of your culture that it's a part of your culture that it's okay to mock in the same way that as an atheist englishman, you might think the church of england is an acceptable target, whereas it's acceptable target, whereas it's a bit different if you're mocking judaism or islam. so i think that's probably the complaint. but it is important that the simple fact that christians won't murder anyone if you if you take the mick out of their religion. >> michael, just quickly, we are running out of time. we do have to go safely live in france, what do you make of that? i mean, i mean, i really agree with everything henri said. >> i think there's two issues here, which is i think people are right to feel more comfortable with people mocking their own culture. and obviously france has lots of muslims in it, but it's more a christian country than it is a muslim country. and so mocking your own culture, i think, is just more comfortable in every situation.

i also think that you're less likely to see in a muslim country some sort of blasphemous piece of performance art, and i think that is one of the strengths of sort of rich western countries, which is that blasphemy of the dominant religion is very much allowed , religion is very much allowed, >> yeah. okay. well, thank you very much for now. you're not going anywhere, by the way. you're not allowed. are you both wearing shorts? i've just noficed wearing shorts? i've just noticed as well. >> you weren't supposed to reveal that. i especially need this table. was going to be here. desk? >> yeah . >> yeah. >> yeah. >> very attractive legs. they have too, though i may say so is the weekend. come on, i can do this now. i've been allowed. right. for all the best analysis and opinion on the olympics and much, much more, please do go to our website which is gb news.com. now away from the opening ceremony. there are of course, plenty of events kicking off today. you know sport evidently. joining me now is our reporter sophie reaper to bring us up to date on up to speed. i could say good night, on what's happening with the actual sporting event. hello, sophie. how are you ? how are you? >> good afternoon. dawn. i'm very well, thank you. the

weather here in paris is a bit grim, but there's no time to complain about any of that. because what a morning it has been for team gb. i think we have to start first of all by saying we are now on the medal table. a bronze medal for our divers for yasmin and scarlett , divers for yasmin and scarlett, it didn't look like they were going to get it after they made a mess of one of their dives, but after the australians messed it up on the fifth, they've gotten on to the medal table and we are incredibly proud of them and i'm sure they're incredibly happy as well because yasmin, it is her birthday tomorrow. she'll be turning 24 years old tomorrow, so what a way to celebrate. but that's not all. we've had a resounding win in the hockey team, gb's men beating spain four nil in the last hour or so. adam peaty , last hour or so. adam peaty, current world record holder in the 100 breaststroke. he has cruised through to the semi—final of that first in his heat, second fastest time overall. we're also still going on with the men's first round of the qualifications in the gymnastics doing very well there, we've seen jake jarman ,

there, we've seen jake jarman, he's gone, he's top so far in the floor exercise. he's absolutely dominating that . he's absolutely dominating that. he's second in the vault as well, in fact, maybe third in the vault, but an incredible performance. so far. what a morning for team gb. and it's only set to continue. we've got more chances for medals to come. we've got the road cycling. both the men and the women. we've got more opportunities in the pool this evening. we'll see the likes of duncan scott and tom dean go in the men's four by 100 freestyle relay, so all eyes will be turning to the aquatic centre in a few hours time. so very, very exciting scenes here in paris and we're in the dodger fan park where i think you can see over my shoulder there is quite the atmosphere here, people. despite that weather, despite all the disruption that the conversations about security, people are loving it here in paris as they should be because it's the olympic games and it is underway, and especially for

team gb, we are having an absolutely storming morning so far , and we'll be bringing you far, and we'll be bringing you all the latest throughout the rest of the day with how team gb are doing and all the latest from the atmosphere here in paris. >> that's brilliant. thank you very much. that's the lovely sophie reaper live in paris for us and looking remarkably dry considering she's been getting soaked for like 24 hours solid now. thank you. and sophie is staying with us throughout the programme to bring us up to date on those medals. and congratulations already to team gb. that's an amazing start isn't it? excellent oh right. okay. well there's still plenty of time to enjoy a massive win this summer yourself. see what i did ? it's a great link. this did? it's a great link. this isn't it. this additional shows working really well. it is basically our biggest ever giveaway. it's your chance to win £30,000 in tax free cash. i know you really could be our next big winner and here is how you do it. >> celebrate a spectacular summer with your chance to win an incredible £30,000 in tax free cash in our great british

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soon. welcome back to the weekend with me. dawn neesom. i hope you're having a wonderful time out there . happy saturday, now, it's there. happy saturday, now, it's not going to be a naked donald trump , but we are talking donald trump, but we are talking donald trump. donald trump has slammed, kamala harris over her position on the israel—gaza war during a meeting with, netanyahu. let's

have a listen to what he said. >> he's a radical left person. san francisco destroyed san francisco. she's really a destroyer . she doesn't know how destroyer. she doesn't know how to build. and, i think her remarks were disrespectful . they remarks were disrespectful. they weren't very nice pertaining to israel. i actually don't know how a person who's jewish can vote for her. >> i well, the former us president also said a third world war could erupt if he loses november's election at his mar. this is what mar a lago estate. it was the first face to face meeting in nearly four years. the former us president also said he wanted to mend an important political alliance with the israeli prime minister, who had previously congratulated joe biden on his election victory in 2020, every time trump says anything at the moment, it the it goes around the world, doesn't it? so let's

see what my panel make of this one. i still have michael and henry with me. they haven't made a bid for freedom yet, which is a bid for freedom yet, which is a bit shocking considering how it's going so far , i'm going to it's going so far, i'm going to stop giggling, henry , i'm going stop giggling, henry, i'm going to come to you first on this one. i mean, most things trump said can be interpreted as fairly shocking, but this is a bit like if you're jewish, don't for vote how can you vote for kamala? kamala harris and especially seeing as her husband is actually jewish, i mean, it's yeah, i mean, it's i mean, donald trump is a remarkable sort of exercise in being so outrageous, so consistently and in such a sort of surreal manner that that each and every single individual thing he says gets lost in this great soup of the performance. >> but yeah, this is shocking. and this is his attempt to polarise around the issue of israel . obviously, israel is israel. obviously, israel is a very important american ally, and vice versa. and, is a pro—israeli. groups play a very big, important role in american politics. now, it's it is obviously shocking that he would try to divide, americans like

that. but i think the more interesting statement is his claim about world war three, because one thing that kamala harris has said that she'll do is gut the foreign policy team and have a very different foreign policy to joe biden and the tedious thing about this is that, no, there is not going to be world war iii. >> if donald trump doesn't win the election. the peoples of the world are not waiting with bated breath for him to be returned to the white house. but there is a serious risk of escalation in the middle east, right? you know, israel is currently obviously has its operation in gaza. it is i think it's not actively engaged with hezbollah, but hezbollah is definitely engaging with it. there are other iranian backed militias in other iranian backed militias in other parts of the middle east. like there is a real danger that a very sensitive part of the world could catch fire within the next president's term. and it's depressing that the only way that this story is being put in the public attention is through this absurd claim by donald trump, when, in a serious country, ideally, both candidates would be talking about a very real threat to global security and what they would do about it.

>> what do you make of it, michael? i mean, do you do you think the world would be a safer place if donald trump were the next president, >> probably not. i mean, donald trump's very unpredictable. i mean, you know, with donald trump, his presidency wasn't actually the worst presidency when it comes to foreign policy in recent history. that was clearly george w bush , who took clearly george w bush, who took us into iraq, with donald trump. the issue is the unpredictability. so he's the president where you're like, maybe, maybe there would be no wars or maybe he would just randomly press the nuclear button. so you've got this this huge spread of possibilities. i think on the issue of israel, i mean, i think it's offensive. what he's saying, because he's essentially saying jewish people should vote for whichever candidate is closer to netanyahu, which i think is offensive, my personal position on this is i think , both harris on this is i think, both harris and donald trump and the whole american political establishment really is way too soft on binyamin netanyahu . this is a binyamin netanyahu. this is a man, the international criminal court and their chief prosecutor has requested an arrest warrant against him for war crimes, and he was given about 50 standing ovations in the us congress.

now, the message that sends to the world that you've got someone who there is an arrest warrant which has been requested at the icc by the chief prosecutor to then be treated as a sort of godlike hero , at the a sort of godlike hero, at the at a joint session of congress, which is sort of a big honour to be granted , really, i think be granted, really, i think sends a terrible message. >> i think they shouldn't have welcomed him there at all. he shouldn't 100%. >> i think the idea that you can welcome someone who is under investigation at the icc to give them 50 standing ovations, i think is disgusting, actually. >> well, just quickly , henry, >> well, just quickly, henry, what do you think? do you think that they shouldn't have hosted netanyahu? >> i mean, i think they should. i think that fundamentally diplomacy is a matter between states. i think the idea of an international body putting an arrest warrant out for a, for an elected head of state is, is faintly ridiculous and america represented the real politic. i think that america should be using its leverage with israel much more effectively than it is. you know, america, the israeli state, is entirely dependent on the united states for its defence procurement and policy. and that should be

giving america more clout than it seems to have. but but no, the idea that you would allow some, international body to dictate interstate relations between two allies is ridiculous to me. >> interesting stuff. thank you very much. for now, gentlemen, i'm dawn neesom, and this is gb news. and there's lots more coming up on today's show. but first, it's the best time, isn't it? it's the news headlines with ray addison . you got that right. ray addison. you got that right. >> 1231 our top stories this houn >> 1231 our top stories this hour, team gb has secured its first medal of the paris olympics with yasmin harper and scarlett mew jensen taking bronze in the synchronised three metre springboard diving event. china claimed gold and the us took silver. the result places great britain equal fourth with kazakhstan on the medals table . kazakhstan on the medals table. well, the prime minister congratulated the divers for their efforts after winning team gb's first medals. keir starmer is in paris, where he's also been speaking to british athletes , wishing them luck as

athletes, wishing them luck as they prepare for their retrospective respective events rather. last night he attended the opening ceremony and posted a video on social media telling those competing the whole country is behind them . country is behind them. meanwhile, eurostar passengers hoping to travel to paris are still facing disruptions after arson attacks on the french rail network ahead of the games. 1 in 4 trains will not run this weekend, with the operator saying four have been cancelled today. saying four have been cancelled today . already, travellers are today. already, travellers are being told to postpone their journeys if they can. the chief constable of greater manchester police says video footage of an officer seemingly kicking and stamping on a man at the airport is a source of profound regret . is a source of profound regret. stephen watson insists the force is committed to supporting a criminal investigation into the officer's behaviour. the police watchdog is now looking into that incident to determine whether his use of force was acceptable. asda workers will stage a fresh strike in their dispute over hours and pay. the

gmb union says more than 170 of its members will walk out at the lowestoft store on the 9th of august. the last strike was held back in may. the gmb says senior management seemed to be, quote, burying their heads in the sand, as does reassuring customers that the store will be open as normal. okay, those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm ray addison more in half an hour . half an hour. >> thank you very much , ray. now >> thank you very much, ray. now remember, let me know your thoughts on all the stories we're discussing today by visiting gbnews.com/yoursay and join the conversation. and there's loads more coming up on today's show. would you pay £37 for fish and chips ? the for fish and chips? the definitive british summer dish is under threat this summer thanks to a perfect storm of rising costs . but how much would rising costs. but how much would you pay rising costs. but how much would you pay for the classic friday night or saturday lunchtime? don't mind when you have it. feast all of that and much more to come. i'm dawn neesom. this

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welcome back to the weekend. brand new show. brand new title. same old me . dawn neesom. sorry same old me. dawn neesom. sorry about that bit, now, lots of story to discuss. coming up. could free speech be under threat? this comes as the education secretary shelves free speech law put in place to tackle cancel culture and protect academics from expressing their views on campus, now we're starting with the serious stuff, but there are fish and chips to come, so don't go too far. now, henry has been a very, very, very good boy. and read all his stories. so, henry, tell us what's going on here. >> oh, it's like the reverse of my university experience. i'm the one who's done the reading, essentially. are you up against michael? >> come on. it's not a lot of competition here. >> essentially, the last government had passed a law that

was going to set up and power the office for students to protect freedom of speech on campus. it was going to have a new tsar who was going to have a scheme by which academics could could complain if they institution had punished them professionally for freedom of speech issues, and there was going to be a scheme of fines and other sanctions. and for some reason, the government decided the previous government, when they passed this act, they put in a regulation saying it wouldn't come into force until this august, obviously, by which point they've lost power . so point they've lost power. so bridget phillipson, the new education secretary, has simply suspended that regulation. and so now the bill will probably never come into force. and this comes hot on the heels of her decision to sack the, chairman of the office for students. now, you remember, over the past few years , the sheer volume of anger years, the sheer volume of anger when conservatives tried to do anything like this. bridget phillipson has just come in and been like, nah, don't want lord wharton out. he goes. so it's a it's an object lesson in how to wield power, basically from labour and the education department , because they've got department, because they've got no one to argue against them. >> have they really? they can pretty much do what they want. is this sound good to you,

michael? a good idea? well, now he's done the reading. >> i'll piggy back off that and give my, uninformed opinions, i think in terms of this, i actually do agree that there is actually do agree that there is a bit of a problem with cancel culture, and i would sort of support having a serious note. we have seen having having regulations to sort of push back against it. i suppose the, the sympathetic reading of this is that i think one thing everyone agreed on with this law is it would actually be quite difficult to implement. and obviously you've got a new labour government there saying we really want to focus on our priorities and if they want to focus on their priorities in education, which is essentially hiring new teachers in the maths department and helping universities with their financial black holes, which they're currently suffering from, do they want to be engaging a lot of political capital and energy, fighting battles over who can and can't speak on on campus because lots of people's suspicion about the conservatives on this was it wasn't really sort of a policy priority, but it was a political priority, but it was a political priority because they wanted to have an argument about cancel

culture and labour don't want to have that argument. so while i while i, i think there is a decent motivation for this policy, i'm not sure it was motivated by that decent motivation. i can see why labour can't be bothered with this, frankly. >> okay, shall we talk about something really interesting now? crisp and sexy answer my answer, didn't you? you were really, really , really really, really, really interesting, michael. very interesting. but fish and chips. let's be honest on saturday lunchtime are more interesting, aren't they? so the question is, gentlemen, would you pay £15 for fish and chips? this is the most expensive seaside chippies have been revealed and some of them are charging £15 in posh restaurants. blimey, you can pay £52, michael, i'm going to come to you first. it's probably a bit mean now, is that. would you pay? pail-7 >> pay? >> i pall-7 >> i did, i pay? >> i did, i did pall-7 >> i did, i did my research on this. i went to hastings last weekend. i got some fish and chips, which i ate on the beach. although my partner bought them, so i don't know how much it cost. >> oh, you cheapskate! cheapskate! skates >> yeah, i like it. cheapskate. i think it was cod, but.

>> okay, okay. >> okay, okay. >> oh, i'll say something else about it if you give us the background. because you know why it's gone up in price. >> yeah. i mean, well, one, i mean, we both live in london, so paying mean, we both live in london, so paying £15 for fish and chips, it's like it's probably. yeah, i wouldn't buy it. >> i wouldn't buy a fish and chips in london. for me it is more of a sort of when you go to the seaside, it's the sort of event. yeah. because it is, i think, overpriced for the quality of the meal, not as a sort of disc two fish and chip shops, just because, you know, as you'll explain, the price of the products have gone up. >> yeah. although weirdly, my, my, my parents hometown is like one of the furthest places from the sea in britain. and yet it has one of the best fish and chip shops i've ever had. berkhamsted. oh, right. right, right, right by the right, by the station. one of the best fish and chip shops i've ever found. but anyway, the actual reason it's more free meal for you tonight. sadly, i don't live there, but next i hope they're watching, but yeah, the reason it's more expensive is basically there's this perfect storm of cost pressures essentially, which is that wet weather has made potatoes more expensive because it's ruined the crops. the russians have stopped us fishing in the bering sea, which is massively impacted our ability to get the fish. yeah,

it is the russians fault. and then actually two twice the russians fault because they invaded ukraine. and ukraine is the source of a huge amount of the source of a huge amount of the oil that we, that we fry fish and chips in. so actually an awful lot of these independent retailers and a lot of fish and chip shops are independent family owned shops. they are hugely exposed to these price increases in a way that places like wetherspoons or supermarkets aren't. so there we go. that's why they're more expensive. >> is brexit anything to do with it? i just thought i'd ask because i'm unlikely to mention the b word doesn't seem to be anything to do with brexit, >> at all. >> at all. >> michael , >> at all. >> michael, you must be able to find something to do with brexit to do with it. come on. well when it came to fish and brexit, my understanding was the problems which did seem to be emerging were more for the producers of fish and fish products because it was harder to export it to france. >> so i'm not sure consumers of fish products were affected. if anything, it becoming harder to export sort of seafood to france should make it cheaper here. >> it's like those weird stories about did you see over the weekend about the russian consumer spending boom, because

nothing can leave russia now. so they're having massive have massive real terms, wage increases and a huge consumer market. caviar is really cheap. that's not what's supposed to happen. >> caviar and vodka very cheap. yeah. yeah probably quite nice. we should go on a trip . we should go on a trip. >> yeah. are we allowed to? >> yeah. are we allowed to? >> is that legal team outing? >> is that legal team outing? >> is that legal team outing? >> i think they'd arrest us, but i think i know, but is it illegal on our part? >> i mean, we've got sanctions on. russia will be allowed to go on. russia will be allowed to go on holiday. >> they would let you go. i think they'd probably just write you off if you did. >> okay. well actually, i'm just looking for the cheapest ones here. and i think i have new brighton, some £7, 67, in new brighton, some £7, 67, in new brighton for your fish and chips. there we go. it's not bad, is it? not your brighton because your brighton's a lot more. >> where's where's new brighton. >> where's where's new brighton. >> it's is it up near liverpool way. sort of in between liverpool and wales. >> i was too embarrassed to ask. but you did it for me. >> yeah, okay. and my job is rubbish. >> i'm just squinting at the map through my monocle, being like, where's new brighton? >> what the hell is it? he's up north up. it's in liverpool. basically. it's up north somewhere. okay. it's a bit further north in berkhamsted . fine. >> yeah that's fine. yeah that's fine. >> it's enjoyable. shall we go

to birmingham now? we're going to birmingham now? we're going to birmingham now. to birmingham now? we're going to birmingham now . yeah, let's to birmingham now. yeah, let's go to birmingham now, shall we? i know where birmingham is, birmingham city has seen it. stop sniggering. birmingham city has seen its third protest in under a fortnight, following a number of deaths on the city's roads, just last week, a 60 year old man was killed and another pedestrian injured in never ending story. isn't it this awful? better streets of birmingham has written an open letter urging city and regional leaders to declare a state of emergency for road safety. joining us now is gb news reporter jack carson to explain exactly what's going on. it's a horrible story, jack. what's happening exactly. >> there's just a culture that sort of boy raised well, what it feels like dawn here in birmingham is that it feels like particularly road safety campaigners have really reached that, that tipping edge, the tipping point where their frustrations are starting to boil over because of the serious situation that we find ourselves here in birmingham on the roads with consistent deaths by dangerous driving . dangerous driving. >> and matt mcdonald from better streets for birmingham, the campaign group that you can see in the background are protesting here in the city today , joins

me. >> i mean, matt, just kind of explain the state for us of birmingham roads at the moment. >> well, luke, jack our roads are in crisis. there are people dying left, right and centre or being seriously injured, you know, so regularly someone dies on our roads every two weeks in a collision. but the effects of these go beyond those tragic individuals and their families and their communities. it goes to everyone who has to walk our streets, who has to be in a perpetual state of anxiety at the speed in cars, the lack of enforcement, the fact that you always see people doing things like jumping red lights , using like jumping red lights, using the mobile phone while they're driving and speeding through residential areas. so this is a problem that affects us all throughout this city, and it's a problem that, as you said, there's a growing anger about. >> i mean, you can see the protest that we've got behind you. just explain why you felt the need to come out onto the road, you know, when it's a green man and protest like this. >> well, as you said, we're coming out onto the road when the signal is green to make our point. and it's a very powerful

way to make that point, because we take that road back for just 30 or 40s, we're not impeding traffic. we're not sitting there. we're not gluing ourselves to the road. this is the most civil of disobedience. we are coming there for a very brief period of time to hold up our signage, to engage with the traffic, and to show people that we will not back down in our struggle to make safer streets for everyone who uses them in this city. >> i mean, you know, people may have heard the horns in the background, you know, when you've gone out onto the road and maybe have stopped traffic. yeah. >> people say, is that not just turning people against you? >> you know, that kind of disobedience? you know, we've seen it with just stop oil. >> is that not turning people against you? >> maybe you know what, i appreciate what you're saying, jack, but there's there is a marked difference between what we are doing and what just stop oil are doing. so we just tactically, we come out into the road on a green signal and sometimes we hold the road for a few seconds longer, and that's all we do. we are out of the road within 30 to 40s. we do not impede the flow of traffic. we exit the road as soon as there is any sign of a blue light

coming through. this event is carefully stewarded and we engage with the traffic to cool tempers and explain what we're doing to people. and by and large, there is a huge amount of sympathy for what we are doing, even amongst the drivers who have to stop for an extra few seconds on their journey. and thatis seconds on their journey. and that is testament to the state that is testament to the state that we have got into with the city's roads and how desperately this change is needed. >> all right, matt, thank you so much for joining >> all right, matt, thank you so much forjoining us this much for joining us this afternoon. i mean, you've obviously seen the protest. that's that's going on as those those those campaigners head out onto onto the road and the council , onto onto the road and the council, birmingham city council have written to west midlands police asking if for a state of emergency on birmingham's roads to be declared in. and richard parker, the west midlands mayor, has also come out today saying that he wants to work actively and proactively with the police and proactively with the police and with the council as well with his plan to try and make birmingham's roads that little bit safer, something we definitely all need. >> thank you very much. jack carson in birmingham. with birmingham safe roads. right? i'm dawn neesom, this is gb news. there's loads more coming up on today's show now. as if it

couldn't get any worse in paris though it can. there are now allegations of sporting espionage. we'll bring you all the latest on that, all of that and much more to come. this is gb news britain's news channel. don't dare go too far.

hey. welcome back to the weekend with me. dawn neesom. sexy new graphics there. a talking of sexy. we have aidan magee with us talking about the actual sport that is going on in paris, rather than the rain or the opening ceremony. rather than the rain or the opening ceremony . and that's opening ceremony. and that's a scandal ready scandal on day one. >> aidan, there's a bit of scandal throughout the week . scandal throughout the week. actually. you consider that football match that took four hours and a disastrous var controversy. and obviously the chinese, the chinese athlete, he reckons he's been a subject of a of a doping plot. but anyway, more of that later. but bev priestman has been suspended. she is the coach of the canadian

women's team. they are the champions. don't forget they won. they won the gold three years ago. and they've been she's been reprimanded. yeah. football. sorry. yeah. yeah. so she's been sending a drone over to the new zealand training park and everyone's close together now. you don't have to do what leeds and derby did five years ago and send them down the other end of the country or other other region of the country. she sent a drone over to spy on on formations, tactics, team play pattern , shape, all the rest of pattern, shape, all the rest of it. and this has been canada admitted that this is this is going on the canadian federation. they said it's been going on for some time. they think it's been going on at the last olympics. >> did they not think it through that? it's actually not quite fair sportsmanship to spy on. >> well that's all very well. you don't think that until you get caught i imagine, do you? but then there's no i don't think there's any there's any actual rule against it. i mean, i was talking to stephen about it briefly, stephen dixon about it briefly, stephen dixon about it briefly, stephen dixon about it briefly this morning and he said, he said, you know, it's sharp practice, but it's not actually rule breaking, but it is against the spirit of what's going on. but you can tell a lot. i mean, my understanding

when i was on tabloids at the news of the world, you know, we always knew that my contact at man united knew that the team would always train in formation on the day before. but the day before the match. and so you knew exactly who was playing. and so that was good information for me. and now if you're playing against the opponent, if you're up against these opponents on the on a match day, it's absolutely crucial. if you're defending a set piece and you're defending a set piece and you know exactly where the ball is going to go, it's a big, big difference. and the players have come out now and said privately to the federation chiefs and said, look, this was going on three years ago. they reckon it's also going on in the men's section as well. and that is i don't want to link anything here. i don't want to i don't i don't want to say there's any connection necessarily, but it is coincidental that the, the canada are now managed by jesse marsch, who managed who was the successor at leeds united, to breathe for a brief time to marcelo bielsa, who was the man found guilty and apologised for that. >> for that indiscretion, we got a very quick, very quick minute , a very quick, very quick minute, probably less 30s on doping . probably less 30s on doping. >> yeah, sorry. there's a chinese swimmer who believes he is the focus of a plot on behalf

of the europeans and the americans to make to dope the chinese athletes. now you know your your your producer lewis, did make a good point this morning. he said, look, the way to avoid that and the way to not be paranoid about that is just don't do drugs. >> don't do drugs, kids. there you go. you heard it from you heard it from aidan magee. our sports supremo. there's much more coming up on that, by the way. thank you very much, aidan. i'm dawn neesom. this is gb news. loads more coming up on stage show, but it's time for the weather. on—air is it good for us or not? good >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . solar sponsors of weather on. gb. news >> good afternoon and welcome to your gb news weather update brought to you by the met office. well, it's been quite an unsettled start to the weekend with sunny spells and showers, but it is going to be turning dner but it is going to be turning drier and much warmer by the time we reach sunday. and the reason for this unsettled start is we have a frontal system moving its way in from the west, and that's brought with it some showers and some outbreaks of rain. now we could see some

showers lingering onto the evening, perhaps the odd heavy shower across scotland and northern england. but for most of the night it is going to be turning largely dry and settled. plenty of clear spells too, which means we're likely to see some mist and fog patches develop, particularly in those rural spots. so a cooler night to come. but most towns and cities remaining in the low double digits. so to start on sunday morning, there'll be plenty of bright sunshine around. but as i say, there will be some mist and fog, particularly around hilly areas of scotland. but for most of scotland, largely dry, just a few showers feeding into those western spots. most of the mist and fog is likely to be across northern ireland and western parts of northern england , and parts of northern england, and further east there'll be more of that bright sunshine, so some mist and fog across wales, perhaps devon and cornwall, but across the southeast quite a warm and bright start to the second half of the weekend. so for sunday, as high pressure builds across the country, that means a fine and settled day on

offer and plenty of warm sunshine across the country too. we may just start to see a bit more cloud feed into western parts of northern ireland and western parts of scotland, too. by the time we reach the afternoon, but otherwise plenty of dry weather, some warm sunshine and highs of 26 across the southeast. but elsewhere temperatures improved and mostly in the low 20s. so a dry evening to come . but that cloud will to come. but that cloud will continue to thicken in the west, with some, perhaps some outbreaks of rain overnight, too, and turning fairly blustery here as well. and as we head into next week, there'll be plenty of dry to weather come, perhaps some thunderstorms by midweek. that's it from me. bye for now. >> looks like things are heating up . boxt boilers sponsors of up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news

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hope you have a wonderful weekend. this is indeed the weekend. this is indeed the weekend on gb. news shiny new title, shiny new logo, and same old me. sorry about that bit. now the paris olympic opening ceremony has been branded the worst ever in the competition's history . lots to dig into there, history. lots to dig into there, so don't go too far on that one. then a third world war could erupt if donald trump loses the next election. that's according to donald trump . well, that's to donald trump. well, that's what he said to the israeli pm. in any case, is he right on that? and how much would you pay for your fish and chips? some places are charging up to £37. wow, i'm dawn neesom and this is the weekend . the weekend. it's quite relaxing. little montage there, isn't it ? but montage there, isn't it? but this show is nothing without you and your views. so let me know

your thoughts on all the stories we're discussing today by visiting gbnews.com/yoursay and join the conversation now. keeping me company this hour. i have a top team. we had the boys last time in their shorts. i might have mentioned it once or twice and now i have the ladies looking equally gorgeous . author looking equally gorgeous. author and broadcaster amy nicholl and broadcaster and journalist claire muldoon. and we will get straight into those stories, including, yes, the naked smurf bloke is back. but first it's the news with not naked ray addison . addison. >> there's a thought. good afternoon. 1:01. our top stories from the gb newsroom . team gb from the gb newsroom. team gb has secured its first medal of the paris olympics with yasmin harper and scarlett mew jensen taking bronze in the synchronised three metre springboard diving event . china springboard diving event. china claimed gold and the us took silver. the result places great

britain equal fourth with kazakhstan on the medals table. rain is causing problems for outdoor events , with the tennis outdoor events, with the tennis delayed and the skateboarding postponed by 48 hours. the prime minister congratulated the divers for their efforts after winning team gb's first medal. sir keir starmer is in paris, where he's also been speaking to british athletes, wishing them luck as they prepare for their respective events . last night he respective events. last night he attended the opening ceremony and posted a video on social media telling those competing the whole country is behind them . the whole country is behind them. meanwhile, eurostar passengers are facing ongoing travel disruption after arson attacks on the french rail network ahead of the games. 1 in 4 trains will not run this weekend , with the not run this weekend, with the operator saying four have been cancelled already today. travellers are being told to postpone their journeys if they can.the postpone their journeys if they can. the chief constable of greater manchester police says video footage of an officer seemingly kicking and stamping on a man at the airport is a

source of profound regret . source of profound regret. stephen watson insists the force is committed to supporting a criminal investigation into that officer's behaviour comes after the mayor of greater manchester appealed for a rigorous and swift investigation into allegations of assault. the police watchdog is now looking into that incident to determine whether his use of force was acceptable in the united states . acceptable in the united states. the fbi has u—turned over claims that donald trump may not have been hit by a bullet in pennsylvania. it comes after fbi director christopher wray told lawmakers the former president's injury could have been caused by glass. that's been denied by former white house doctor ronny jackson, who described the comment as inappropriate. the fbi has now issued a statement confirming that trump was struck by a bullet where the whole or fragmented into smaller pieces. meanwhile, the israeli prime

minister has visited donald trump at his florida resort. a warning the following footage we're about to show contains flash photography. benjamin netanyahu rearranged his travel schedule to meet the republican nominee, a day after meeting president joe biden and vp kamala harris. president joe biden and vp kamala harris . trump recently kamala harris. trump recently criticised netanyahu for israeli security failures around the october seven hamas attack. it's thought the meeting could ease tensions between the two men. well, that visit comes as israel launched an airstrike hitting a school in central gaza. the military says it was targeting a hamas command centre in inside the compound, which was being used to launch attacks against troops. israel defence forces added that civilians were warned ahead of the strike. gaza's hamas run health ministry says at least 30 palestinians were killed and more than 100 people were injured . president biden is were injured. president biden is expected to announce plans to reform the supreme court on

monday. sources suggest he's likely to block term limits for justices and an enforceable code of ethics. he's also expected to push for a constitutional amendment limiting immunity for presidents, follows a supreme court ruling in july, which gave presidents broad immunity from prosecution. asda workers will stage a fresh strike in their dispute over hours and pay. the gmb union says more than 170 of its members will walk out at the lowestoft store on the 9th of august. the last strike was held back in may, but gmb says senior management seemed to be, quote, burying their heads in the sand, as does rejecting the union's claims, and is reassuring customers that the store will be open as normal. and finally, a common mouth bacteria can melt certain cancers. scientists have discovered. researchers say they were surprised to find that fusobacterium was found to help

those with head and neck cancers visible. cancer cells were found to be reduced by 70 to 99%. it's now being keenly studied at guy's and saint thomas's, and king's college london. okay, those are the latest gb news headlines. for now. i'm ray addison more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> thank you very much. i've just noticed i actually matched the sexy new title, don't i? the weekend. welcome to the weekend. it's the weekend. hope you're having a good one. now let's get straight into today's story shall we? the paris olympic olympic opening ceremony has been branded the worst ever in the competition's history. the decision to have the ceremony outside hasn't gone down that well with viewers who were left

unimpressed by the whole show reporting poor audio caused by the near torrential rain. as the olympians sailed down. the sign in that endless convoy of boats. convoy the right word for boats . convoy the right word for boats. in any case, there was a lot of them, some online joking that organisers need to stop the boats. we've been saying that a lot, haven't we, adding to the upset and this, this has really got a lot of you annoyed many christians have slammed the ceremony for an apparent woke parody of the last supper. okay. well, i have the very lovely claire muldoon and amy nicholl with me this hour, keeping me company looking very gorgeous. thank you very much, ladies, for joining me. olympics is the only talking point. i mean, just coming to you first. claire. did you watch it last night? were you watch it last night? were you transfixed? i watched some of it . i watched only that much of it. i watched only that much that i could actually stomach because when it came on to the absolute parody, mockery , absolute parody, mockery, blasphemous act of the last suppenit blasphemous act of the last supper, it was just, for me, awful. i thought paris looked amazing, even in the rain . paris

amazing, even in the rain. paris is such a beautiful city, >> it had its dry run in terms of, security for the last year's world rugby world cup, of course. >> so that, for me was a trial run on how it would deal with the infrastructure needed to put on something as wonderful and as beautiful and as big for elite sportsmen in the world as the olympics. but unfortunately, the opening ceremony for me was an absolute mockery. it was blasphemous, but it also was just too long. it did go on. i thought of you, which is slightly scary for you. obviously i was watching it last night because you have a very strong faith. yes, i do, and so, i mean, i found it offensive last night and i don't particularly have a faith, but for someone like yourself watching that, i mean, we've been taking the mickey out of it, obviously, but i mean, it was offensive. it was. and it's all about the context. if the trans, gender people or if the trans, gender people or if the trans, or if the, just just explain what happened. you can see the picture on screen now as a recreation of the last supper,

with a plus sized lady, playing the role of jesus. jesus. yes. and surrounding her were the disciples who were all, drag queens. drag queens. we'll keep it. if we were to use the drag queensin it. if we were to use the drag queens in the context of paris is burning, that film about drags it drag queens in paris, then that would be fine. this is not in the context of olympic games . this is not in the games. this is not in the context of drag artists. this isn't the context of anything. this is just a plain, unadulterated mockery of the christian faith. and i have to say , if anyone with a christian say, if anyone with a christian faith were to be transphobic or were to speak out against, drag queens , then those of us that queens, then those of us that would would be deemed, you know, they'd want us locked up in jail , they'd want us locked up in jail, they'd want us locked up in jail, they'd want us locked up in jail, they'd want our opinion to be silenced. and yet those that want to promote an ideological way of life or their own way of life as they see it is allowed. why do you think they did it? without question. to be provocative . france is an

provocative. france is an incredibly an incredibly, provocative, secular society. and it's just pushing that boundary. but the other thing i would say, and i'm sure the two of you will, concur with this , of you will, concur with this, they would not do it against the prophet or against the religion of islam. well, yeah. amy coming to you. i mean, obviously we saw in paris the charlie hebdo incident they killed for that. people lost their lives over there. i just think we've set there. i just think we've set the bar, haven't we, in london because london 2012 opening ceremony. it was beautiful . phenomenal, >> so nothing's ever going to really compete with that. >> however, i'll take some good from it because celine dion's performance was was , was really performance was was, was really interesting to me because i've watched her recent documentary about her dealing with this stiff person syndrome. she's spent her life singing. >> no, it was brilliant, potentially taken away from her. >> she's got a syndrome where it affects the muscles and it affects the muscles and it affects her ability to sing in the way she used to, to support her voice. so i don't think people would have even realised

that she has been battling with that she has been battling with that problem. when she performed last night. so that was a highlight? no, that was highlight. >> we have to wait five hours. >> we have to wait five hours. >> also saying keir starmer and his poncho at work after 6 pm. on a friday. >> now to be fair , sir keir >> now to be fair, sir keir starmer, our prime minister, our prime minister didn't have one of the plastic rain ponchos on, obviously on the grounds that he realised he would like a giant condom because everybody else did. so he was actually looking vaguely cool and had a proper rain. >> very grumpy about it. >> very grumpy about it. >> he did look very grumpy and i don't blame him. it must. that called the sunak look. yeah, exactly. yeah. we've been here before with prime ministers. we know how this ends. this is the form, isn't it? but do you think claire is right to be upset by that last supper scene? >> i honestly, i haven't seen it enough to really say from the. >> you pretty much just need to see what we saw there. >> i know people do, parody the last supper or do impressions of the last supper. i know, like , the last supper. i know, like, there's an artist called jj adams who has all the villains,

one from pulp fiction, one from i don't know. i can't think so . i don't know. i can't think so. i don't know. i can't think so. i don't know. i can't think so. i don't really want to say much on it because i didn't see it. so i don't want to start having a massive opinion about something. i'm not that sure about. >> but the idea that you can it is on the screen. i mean, that's literally it. i mean, it is a recreation of the last supper featuring drag artists, most of whom look stunning. by the way, i think we normally say we should be able to make jokes about anything we should be able to parody. >> i get that, and it's free speech, but why christianity and not islam? i appreciate sikhism, hinduism. i just i not islam? i appreciate sikhism, hinduism. ijust i really not islam? i appreciate sikhism, hinduism. i just i really don't hinduism. ijust i really don't know what to say about it really. >> well, the french have got that great that that great expression, haven't they, agent provocateur. and that's exactly what they've been doing. very nice underwear. they even they even, you know , had, the boats even, you know, had, the boats going up the seine. but on the backdrop of that, there was the castle with marie antoinette and all the girls were holding the heads. so there was that with

the that. but that was historical accuracy in terms of louis and marie antoinette. for let them eat cake. and that is fine. but i just didn't get the last bit. i just didn't get the fashion show . i last bit. i just didn't get the fashion show. i just didn't get anything else about the elite of sport or france as a city. >> we can say, right , sport or france as a city. >> we can say, right, some people didn't like that, some people didn't like that, some people like that. that's a better, more healthy way of approaching it than having that censorship that they have around other religions, perhaps. well, see, this isn't even about censorship. anything about christianity. but surely that's better than the alternative where people feel like they. better than the alternative where pe >> but it's all about context, amy. it's all about context. and i'm afraid it just wasn't there. i'm afraid it just wasn't there. i as i said it, i just was i as i said it, ijust was watching vicariously through social media and then tuned in for cindy yu on social media. social media was actually the funniest part about the whole storm isha be honest, it was very amusing last night. okay, we ran out of time on that one, but we'll be coming back to that, obviously, because it is the main talking point this weekend. now for all the best analysis and opinion on that story and so much more, very easy. just go to our website, gb

news.com. now away from the opening ceremony, there's evidently some sport type stuff going on, and it started today, so joining me now is our reporter sophie reaper, who has beenin reporter sophie reaper, who has been in paris mostly looking like a drowned rat looking gorgeous right now. it's stopped raining, sophie, what's going on with you today ? with you today? >> well, good afternoon to you, dawn. i just want to start this live. if that's okay. by indulging myself a little bit, the olympics is really important to me because i. back in the good old days , used to be into good old days, used to be into athletics. so to show you, i used to be a member of bolton harriers. and this is the vest i used to wear . harriers. and this is the vest i used to wear. and the reason i show you that is because we're joined now by a very, very special guest, my former team mate, who would have also worn this vest, hannah kelly and she is going to be competing in the athletics in the women's four by 400 metre relay. so i think we can speak to hannah now. hi, hannah. are you okay? >> hi, sophie, i good, thank you. >> hello, lovely . now i can't

>> hello, lovely. now i can't see you, but i believe, having chatted to you earlier, that you've just finished a training session, haven't you? do you want to tell our viewers how that went? >> really good. it was the relay session . it's just practising session. it's just practising our exchanges and sharpening up before we get onto the track next week. >> amazing. now we of course both bolton harriers. we used to have the same coach. i should give him a little shout out. les hall, an incredible coach, how doesit hall, an incredible coach, how does it feel being here in paris, representing not just team gb, but all of us at bolton harriers? >> yeah. it's amazing. >> yeah. it's amazing. >> it's definitely a dream come true. the olympics is what you aim for when you first start athletics, and yeah, to have representing bolton. they've been my club for 13 years now and my coach for 13 years. so yeah, it means a lot to be here doing them proud . doing them proud. >> kwasi it was really, really special. but of course this is your first olympics, isn't it? but it's you're no stranger to major championships. you want to tell our viewers about what you've been up to? just this year alone? >> yeah, this. i'd say it's been a breakthrough year. i did, world champs indoors, where we

came third in the 4x4 relay and we broke the british record , and we broke the british record, and then we headed to the bahamas for the world outdoor relay championships, which we qualified for the olympics, and a few weeks ago, we were in rome for the, mixed four by fourth. >> so you took the bronze earlier this year, didn't you? and you broke the british record . and you broke the british record. let me ask you what you think your chances are in the 4x4 here in paris? not. i don't want to jinx it, but knock on wood. but what do you think? how you feeling? >> yeah, i think we've got a good chance. we've got a really good chance. we've got a really good team, you don't jinx anything, but we always aim for high. we've got a history of great relay runners, so we're just going to go out there and do them proud. >> hannah, thank you so, so much for joining us. we are so, so forjoining us. we are so, so proud of you for representing bolton harriers. i'm so happy for you. and i'll be watching you. i've got tickets for your event, so i'll be coming along to cheer you on. thank you so, so much. thank you so much. one of our incredible athletes of team gb there. thank you hannah.

what an incredible lady. we'll be cheering her on and that was great. >> and good luck to you and all your team mates. and sophie just very quickly. and we're running out of time. but do you wish you were competing yourself there now? >> i would love to have gotten to that stage. i used to be a long jumper, so i would have loved to get there, but this is a different kind of dream. this is my dream job. so to be able to report from the olympics on a topic that's so important to me is really, really special. i'm really grateful to gb news for letting me do this. brilliant. >> and you get a gold medal for doing so. sophie reaper live in paris for us and sophie will be joining us throughout the program. thank you very much. lovely. there's still plenty of time to enjoy a massive win yourself this summer. see what i did there with your chance to win a £30,000 in tax free cash, you could really be our next big winner. and here's how you do it. >> celebrate a spectacular summer with your chance to win an incredible £30,000 in tax free cash in our great british

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hey. welcome back to the weekend with me. dawn neesom. hope you're having indeed a wonderful weekend. thank you for joining us this saturday lunchtime. now, donald trump has slammed, kamala harris over her position on the israel gaza war during a meeting with benjamin netanyahu. let's have a listen to what he had to say . say. >> he's a radical left person. san francisco destroyed san francisco . she's really francisco. she's really a destroyer. she doesn't know how to build. and, i think her remarks were disrespectful. they

weren't very nice pertaining to israel . i weren't very nice pertaining to israel. i actually weren't very nice pertaining to israel . i actually don't know israel. i actually don't know how a person who's jewish can for vote her. >> okay, the former us president also said a third world war could erupt if he loses november's election. at least his mar—a—lago state, that was the first face to face meeting. you can see them there between trump and netanyahu in nearly four years. the former us president also said he wanted to mend an important political alliance with the israeli prime minister, who had previously congratulated joe biden on his election victory in 2020. okay. there's a lot to there, always is with american politics, isn't it? there's a lot to dive into here, amy. i'm going to come to you first here. what do you make firstly, of what our donald trump has said about kamala harris and the fact that you shouldn't vote for her if you're jewish? >> i feel like donald trump feels like she's catching up

with him a little bit, which has caused him to panic and spew a load of rubbish out, which is what he tends to do when he panics, if i was being generous, i could say it was hyperbole, but that's not the fact. the fact is that it's just absolute nonsense, kamala harris is actually married to a jewish man, which would make him the first jewish spouse of a vice president in us history. >> and she has two stepchildren as well. >> yeah, it's baseless . it's >> yeah, it's baseless. it's unfounded. it makes me think we spent so long saying, oh, biden doesn't make sense . trump doesn't make sense. trump doesn't make sense. trump lies constantly. and here's just a few examples of some more of his lies. >> what do you i mean, what do you make of it, claire? the thing that i can't get my head around as , the second in around as, the second in command, the vice, president of the leader of the free world, why, she didn't put her hand up sooner rather than later to say, look, things ain't good here in the state of denmark. something smells off with our leader, joe

biden, parking israeli—gaza palestine thing aside, parking trump for me, it's a massive, grave error of judgement on her part. i don't think she is fit to run the american people, nor the american country. not only because of that lack of judgement , because of that lack of judgement, but regardless of anything else, she's kept quiet for the past four years. she's done nothing. i don't think she actually wants the gig, i really don't, and all of this cheesiness with taking the phone from barack and michelle obama, walking through possibly rehearsed , oh, ever so slightly. rehearsed, oh, ever so slightly. and that's not even me being, i don't know, disingenuous. but then we say, oh, the french do then we say, oh, the french do the french. >> you know, this is an american. they're very american. that phone call was like, so typical. hey, michelle. like it was peak american, but the thing is, people are now levelling this cover up, this cover up idea at, at the democrats and saying, how long did you know?

but they must have lied to us, which is assisting trump's campaign. trump being somebody who has lied continually. he's no paradigm of virtue. he used to be a democrat, but like he has every step of the way misled the us government, his own family. everyone in his life. and yet and now we're saying biden might have covered up about his health, which will assist somebody who covers up about everything. >> i think the difference between biden and trump is that what you see with trump is what you get. >> absolutely not. >> absolutely not. >> beside the lies, apart from that. but with biden, we just don't know what's been going on. and for me, that looks the optic of that is that there's other people in the democratic party that are actually running the country, and it's not the president of the united states. why do you think they did cover up? because i agree with you on this one. i think i mean, it's been quite obvious to most people. yeah, there's been something very wrong with joe biden . so why was nobody in that biden. so why was nobody in that party saying, look, you know ,

party saying, look, you know, why were they i don't know, i don't know, i can't put my finger on it. >> i feel like he won the primaries. it's a constitutional situation where it would be a kind of questionable, whether he could even be replaced. and i think sometimes with these, with the fact that he was had problems cognitively, possibly they happened really fast . they happened really fast. possibly they happened really fast. so do you remember he did that awful debate, and then the week after he was at, nato and he suddenly seemed coherent again. so i don't know whether it was i don't i don't think he was coherent. >> i mean, i think, keir starmer as well is lacking in judgement. when he said that he found the president to be absolutely fine . president to be absolutely fine. what do you make of that? the second thing he said that, you know, is causing issue is the fact that, you know, the world is a safer place with him as president of the united states, generic, isn't it? what do you make to that one, amy? yeah, i guess he's like crossing his fingers. >> but it is true that this is

the first time that the us hasn't been involved in a conflict, and it was under his presidency. sorry. before now different, but then he always points to biden's withdrawal out of afghanistan. but that was actually his plan that biden was then left to execute . i don't then left to execute. i don't know, i think that's just a matter of luck rather than anything strategic that trump particularly did. >> do you think kamala harris would be a better president as far as world peace is concerned ? far as world peace is concerned? >> for everything that i believe for in, trans rights, for migrant rights, for ukrainians? absolutely. but whether america responds to her campaign is a completely different question. >> i mean , she has since she's >> i mean, she has since she's she's stood i mean , trump has she's stood i mean, trump has seen his his rating with american women go down in the polls. so she does seem to be taking some of the female vote away from him. i think trump will have to stop going for the cheap shots. i think that rhetoric is finished. and i think, people in america want a

president that will lead , that president that will lead, that will be strong, that will be virtuous. good luck in finding one of those, we it's difficult for to us find that in, in a prime minister in this country, however, he has to stop that because he's got such a high lead. he was in front of biden, but now she's catching up. she really is. >> she's catching up. and i also thought jd vance, even though again, he stands against everything i believe in, i thought he was going to cut through because of just who he is and his story, but he seems to have already lost so much support. >> the white trash working class rise to hillbilly elegy. >> it is an incredible story. it is like him or hate him, but the things that he said this week about childless cat ladies, again, anti—women , anti—women, again, anti—women, anti—women, have really unsettled a lot of people. and i think that is a galvanising kamala's campaign. >> would that just just very, very quickly, would that make you more inclined to vote for, regardless of which political side you were on, kamala harris, because she is a woman. and given what jd vance has said, it's the, it's the abortion

issue. >> so jd vance trump campaign completely anti—abortion in that speech that he gave where he said they were that rubbish about her never getting a jewish vote again. he also said she is for abortion up until birth and even executing babies after birth completely reasonable thing to say. i don't think so. so i think a for vote women is definitely a vote for kamala harris because of all the women's reproductive rights that comes attached to her campaign. >> that's the difference between, well, i'm completely against abortion because i'm very pro—life, and i think that it's because the sanctity of life is such that it's the right of the unborn child, the absolute innocent in all of this. that's why i agree with what jd vance has said . what jd vance has said. >> but then you can't be pro—life. you can only be forced birth . and with people like jd birth. and with people like jd vance, trump, what they want to also do is reduce welfare. so you force women to give birth and then don't support them when they do so . they do so. >> right? okay. there's a lot a lot of debate going on there.

thank you very much ladies. for now i'm dawn neesom. this is gb news and i'll run out of time on that particular one. but there's loads more coming up on today's show. but first, it's the highlight of my hour. it's the news headlines with ray. >> thanks, dawn. 131 news headlines with ray. >> thanks, dawn. 13! our top stories. team gb has secured its first medal of the paris olympics with yasmin harper and scarlett mew jensen taking bronze in the synchronised three metre springboard diving event . metre springboard diving event. china claimed gold and the us took silver. the result places great britain equal fourth with kazakhstan on the medals table . kazakhstan on the medals table. the prime minister has congratulated the divers for their efforts. sir keir starmer is in paris, where he's also been speaking to british athletes, wishing them luck as they prepare for their respective events. last night he attended the opening ceremony and posted a video on social media telling those competing that the whole country is behind

them . meanwhile, eurostar them. meanwhile, eurostar passengers hoping to to travel paris are still facing disruptions after arson attacks on the french rail network ahead of the games. 1 in 4 trains will not run this weekend , with the not run this weekend, with the operator saying four have been cancelled today. travellers are being told to postpone their journeys if they can. the chief constable of greater manchester police says video footage of an officer seemingly kicking and stamping on a man at the airport is a source of profound regret. stephen watson insists the force is committed to supporting a criminal investigation into that officer's behaviour. the police watchdog is now looking into the incident to determine whether his use of force was acceptable . his use of force was acceptable. asda workers will stage a fresh strike in their dispute over hours and pay. the gmb union says more than 170 of its members will walk out at the lowestoft store on the 9th of august. the last strike held back in may. but gmb says senior

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summer dish is under threat thanks to this summer's weather. summer weather. using that term loosely, how much would you pay for your so how much do you pay for your so how much do you pay for yours? all of that and much more to come. i'm dawn neesom. this is the weekend and this is gb news, britain's news channel. thank you

for. welcome back to the weekend with me. dawn neesom. the weekends. great. isn't it? it is the weekend. and it is saturday. and ihope weekend. and it is saturday. and i hope you have a wonderful, wonderful time out there. now it's lunchtime, so how much would you be willing to pay for a portion of fish and chips? the average cost of fish and chips has risen by 7%, and now sitting at £9.87, many seaside towns, however, are charging much more as robin hood's bay in yorkshire. beautiful is charging a whopping average of £14.73 a

portion, but some restaurants and other slightly posher £52. so well, what do you make? >> £5,252 for one portion? >> £5,252 for one portion? >> yes. how many portions do you want, young lady, restaurant, £62. >> i scanned over this this morning and i assumed that was your family. >> in case you have zoned out this is amy nicole getting very saucy about how much she's willing to pay for a portion. >> £52 for one portion of fish and chips. okay. wow. i thought that was for a family. and i'm still going to say. but that isn't that isn't a michelin starred restaurant. >> i mean, i, you know, i know you go all the time to those sort of places, like, how do you how many different ways are there to make fish and chips? >> this is what confuses me. >> this is what confuses me. >> evidently you can get them very posh . i mean, look that. very posh. i mean, look that. yeah. and mushy peas and a sample, well, yeah, the problem is as well, the sunflower oil that chippies traditionally used to fry said goods in came from the ukraine, so with the levies and the tax and the inability to source the oil, it has driven up

prices. and one of the fish and chip, family and a lot of them are independent, family owned. they are businesses as well. yeah they can't bulk buy the way that someone like wetherspoons can and often freeze their fish and their chips. so they are costing down and they can absorb the massive cost of these costs of the potato gloat because of the rain, the ukrainian 18 months since 1836. yeah spud flation it's called. yes. spud flation because of the weather. the return on the potatoes haven't been good. and you know, they can use up to what, a tonne a day of chips or something. wow. some chippies, but you just can't beat a good, decent fish and chips, i don't think. and the friday night constitution. remember? straight fish friday? yeah. you know, and i think it's something really nice to maybe go back to and aspire to and work towards. but, you know, let's just try and make it a bit cheaper and what's pease pudding? >> what is pease pudding . what. >> what is pease pudding. what. >> what is pease pudding. what.

>> i don't think pease pudding is mentioned here. >> it is, it is. have you got in your mug there . i'm reading your mug there. i'm reading about the £52 tom kerridge at harrods , one portion of fish and harrods, one portion of fish and chips. i'm still not over the £52, one portion of fish and chips. and it says it comes with, tartar sauce and pease pudding. and i just didn't know what pease pudding was. and the curry i think it might be a northern thing. is it because i feel like my husband, my husband is shouting at the screen now, right. saying what it is. yeah >> in the recesses of my mouth, you're talking to a complete philistine. i reckon if anybody, if anyone watching knows, can you get in touch with us? >> because i think it might be something to do with. i'm surprised it didn't seem ipp. >> something said of pease pudding. >> yeah, we need some help with that. but i thought maybe that could up the price. but they're charging £4.95 for a small sparkling water. now, that's not hard to say. that's ridiculous. >> it. well, russia have got something to do with this as well. russia pulled out of a 1956 deal allowing british boats to fish in the well. we can't keep blaming russia for everything. oh we can. no, we can't. what about brexit? can brexit? oh stop it . no, we're brexit? oh stop it. no, we're not blaming that either. i mean

yeah you can blame brexit for most things. >> yeah probably. i mean i think yes probably the import taxes and that often the red tape. absolutely no idea what. >> nothing at all to do with the fisheries commission or you know , fisheries commission or you know, spanish or norwegian fisheries going into our waters and stealing our fish. >> claire, you've done a really nice explanation, but i don't actually think there's any reason for it to be £52. well that's not that's tom kerridge at harrods, let's be honest. >> so that's and that's a pop up that's not going to be there from now to eternity, we are deaung from now to eternity, we are dealing with the bare facts of fish and chips around the country , seaside resorts. country, seaside resorts. they've gone up. let's get the price down or let's do without and let's go and support them. yeah, exactly. and buy them at the higher price. the cheapest one, actually in new brighton, which is liverpool , £7.67 if i which is liverpool, £7.67 if i went, i keep going. is that all right for you? >> i keep going back to this michelin star restaurant because i'm finding it fascinating. if i went there and it's two michelin stars, i would look at the menu and expect there to be exciting,

different things that i'd never tried before. not fish and chips. i can get that for £7 in. >> yeah you can. you've got, yeah, i've got a pop up north liverpool. i can go there. yeah. find out what pease pudding is. it's possibly. oh do they do that up there do you think. >> i think they do. >> i think they do. >> it's funny isn't it. i think i think someone has to tell you in your earpiece. dawn yeah. >> can. lewis. >> pease pudding is. >> can. lewis. >> pease pudding is . he's he's >> pease pudding is. he's he's he's doing some he's engaging some very important research as we speak. it's called googling. obviously, we just can't get the staff here, can we? or some of your viewers might know what was also it says also, come on, let's get these gb views up . if let's get these gb views up. if you order. well, it's a savoury porridge. oh, the voices in my head. >> i like the sound of that. like a gravy porridge. >> so you'd pay that? >> so you'd pay that? >> that might make me pay 52. no i don't, it's made up. we're not going to harrods any time. >> yeah. seeing as we're all so well educated here. oh, should well educated here. oh, should we talk about our , scrapping we talk about our, scrapping gcses as a government review ?

gcses as a government review? >> yeah. would that include food technology then? >> i don't know , i quite clearly >> i don't know, i quite clearly didn't do a good cake . i used didn't do a good cake. i used to, i used to do. home economics. it was called back in the day. it was any case, they are to be scrapped, evidently because they are pointless. >> well, it's an idea, and i there's something interesting. so this is from the education minister that worked with margaret thatcher in the 80s. kenneth baker, now in the lords. and he's come forward and said it used to be the case that 5% of children, stayed on beyond the age of 16, but now it's 80%. so why are we examining children at 16 and then 18? which made me think, yes , why are we doing think, yes, why are we doing that? and i'm a mother to a son who's he's not, he's, he's he's dyslexic . so he struggles dyslexic. so he struggles academically, but he's very bright in a lot of ways. so he had a verbal reasoning test and he absolutely aced the section on, visual mapping. and you can see it be the skills, say , an see it be the skills, say, an architect would have. but when it comes to english, he doesn't score as well. but his

intelligence is not a question. so if the testing was more fair, and it wasn't as aimed at solely academic kids, i think we would we would help a lot of people have more equity across, exam results, and we'd see more different types of intelligence. they do sound intelligence is in lack of supply coming here. >> and this middle of the desk here. i mean, there's one girl here, she took a gcse. she took 27 exams for. yeah i know, and they're so stressful aren't they. >> i think we you're at such an awkward time of your life when you're a teenager. it's such a already. so many things are changing, and then you're expected to do it as something incredibly high pressure as that. i still have dreams about my i still have dreams about do i still have ? i still have? >> oh, girls, get over yourselves. come on. >> i just remember it being so awful. >> it's a rite of passage. now, why are the thing where gcses fall down? in my view, is the fact that, yes, there's far too many exams and there's far too many exams and there's far too

many subjects . because then in many subjects. because then in the english and welsh system and the english and welsh system and the northern irish system, you then go from ten subjects down to three, and that is an absolute dying shame. and the jump absolute dying shame. and the jump between gcse and a—level is huge, absolutely huge . i think. huge, absolutely huge. i think. yes, they should look to scrap them. i think perhaps they need to invite educationalists to look at the english or the great british baccalaureate, like the french do. that supports children of all academic levels of all academic streams, and then they get the nothing is, streamed either. i think that's a really bad thing to do for children to scream from top set down to bottom set and everything else in between, because those that are in the bottom set, they know they're in the bottom set, even though it's not called the bottom set. and that sticks with them. and that, i think, affects their mental health. and i think it affects their ability and their confidence as well . whereas mix confidence as well. whereas mix the mixed ability classes, i

think are great because then the cream always rises to the top, you always see it, and then the children who do do well, they can actually help those that don't do as well because there's something for everyone in education. absolutely. we've got the arts, we've got sport, we've got academia. that's schooling, right? we need to make it a priority. we need to make it clear and honest and open to all. and i don't think gcses help or enable that. >> they do increasingly with sports at school , they're less sports at school, they're less keen on having winners, they're more keen on kind of which i don't agree with. but i always find that at odds with how, with the streaming at school, because the streaming at school, because the children are very aware of what academics are in. but when it comes to another strength that they might have, they're not allowed to celebrate. >> it has to be winners in life though. >> well, yeah, because my son excels at sports. i want him to. >> amy, there has to be. >> amy, there has to be. >> but, but but then it's a shame because he'll be in a lot

of the bottom sets for academics. but then in sport, he can't be at the top because there isn't a top and a bottom. well, there should be because what are we? >> what have we got on at the moment? the olympics? you can't be in the olympics if you're rubbish at sport. it's elite. we have to go . no. yeah, i run out have to go. no. yeah, i run out of time. seriously, are we going to harrods? i know, yeah, she's off. for how much? anyway and she knows what piece pudding is now. right. okay. go, go go go. i'm dawn neesom. this is gb news. evidently lots more coming up on today's show. weekend. hope you're having a good one. see you soon.

i welcome back to the weekend with me . dawn neesom. it's the me. dawn neesom. it's the weekend. and if you're having fish and chips and peas pudding, i think it was. hope you're enjoying it, now, birmingham city has seen its third protest in under a fortnight following a

number of deaths on the city's roads just last week, a 60 year old man was killed and another pedestrian injured, better streets for birmingham has written an open letter urging city and regional leaders to declare a state of emergency for road safety, joining us now is gb news reporterjack road safety, joining us now is gb news reporter jack carson to explain what this campaign is all about. good afternoon. jack. what what can you explain more about what the campaign is about, what they hope to achieve? >> yeah. good afternoon to you, dawn. well, we're here where there's been a protest today by better streets for birmingham. as the lights have gone red and the pedestrian green man has come on. they've walked out into the road holding placards holding signs, one of them saying no more deaths because it is becoming a bit of a serious situation. now here in birmingham and this campaign, better streets of birmingham feel like they've they've reached that breaking point now where things they believe cannot continue to go on as they are. i mean, just in birmingham, ten people have been killed over the past, just in the past kind of

seven months, you know, from the start of the year, 23 people seriously injured and they're all pedestrians or cyclists. they are people who are maybe using pavements or trying to cross the road that have been killed by things like dangerous driving, like going over red lights, like serious speeding. and this is not you know, outside of this is all within the city. we are just outside the city. we are just outside the city. we are just outside the city centre here, not far from the jewellery quarter, where, as you were mentioning last sunday, a 60 year old man was killed as he stood on the pavement, another seriously injured. in april, a four year old girl who was walking home with her mum was killed by a dangerous driver who was deemed by police to be unfit to drive. so this is the serious situation, of course, that people in birmingham are finding themselves in and calls from the streets of birmingham to the council who have responded in the past 24 hours, as has the west midlands mayor. mr parker, now the birmingham city council have written to the west midlands police, they've said

that they want a state of emergency declared within birmingham. they want more things like patrols, speed cameras , things like the cameras, things like the consultation for speed limits also coming down as well. so there's a big, you know, push now from council leaders and also richard parker who said he's going to meet with the transport secretary, louise hayes, next week, who he says he will have this conversation with. so this protest that we've seen today in birmingham is the third that they've had in the last two weeks. it's becoming a serious problem now here in the city. >> indeed . thank you very much. >> indeed. thank you very much. that's jack carson reporting live from birmingham on birmingham safe roads, i'm dawn neesom this is gb news and there's loads more coming up. so don't go anywhere. but first i think it is well, it's the weekend. literally the weekend. great title . and the weather is great title. and the weather is quite important. so let's have a look at what it's doing. here's honour with the good news. honoun honour with the good news. honour. please give us good news. >> a brighter outlook with boxt

solar sponsors of weather on gb news >> good afternoon and welcome to your gb news weather update brought to you by the met office. well, it's been quite an unsettled start to the weekend with sunny spells and showers, but it is going to be turning dner but it is going to be turning drier and much warmer by the time we reach sunday. and the reason for this unsettled start is we have a frontal system moving its way in from the west, and that's brought with it some showers and some outbreaks of rain. now we could see some showers lingering onto the evening, perhaps the odd heavy shower across scotland and northern england. but for most of the night it is going to be turning largely dry and settled. plenty of clear spells too, which means we're likely to see some mist and fog patches develop , particularly in those develop, particularly in those rural spots. so a cooler night to come. but most towns and cities remaining in the low double digits . so to start on double digits. so to start on sunday morning, double digits. so to start on sunday morning , there'll be sunday morning, there'll be plenty of bright sunshine around. but as i say, there will be some mist and fog, particularly around hilly areas

of scotland. but for most of scotland, largely dry. just a few showers feeding into those western spots . most of the mist western spots. most of the mist and fog is likely to be across northern ireland, and western parts of northern england, and further east. there'll be more of that bright sunshine, so some mist and fog across wales, perhaps devon and cornwall, but across the south—east quite a warm and bright start to the second half of the weekend. so for sunday, as high pressure builds across the country that means a fine and settled day on offer and plenty of warm sunshine across the country too. we may just start to see a bit more cloud feed into western parts of northern ireland and western parts of scotland, too , western parts of scotland, too, by the time we reach the afternoon, but otherwise plenty of dry weather, some warm sunshine and highs of 26 across the south—east. but elsewhere temperatures improved and mostly in the low 20s, so a dry evening to come. but that cloud will continue to thicken in the west with some, perhaps some outbreaks of rain overnight too, and turning fairly blustery here as well. and as we head into

next week, there'll be plenty of dry weather to come, perhaps some thunderstorms by midweek. that's it from me. bye for now . that's it from me. bye for now. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb. >> news . >> news. >> news. >> thank you very much. it wasn't too bad , was it, almost wasn't too bad, was it, almost summer. lots more coming up on today's show. the scandal rages on.the today's show. the scandal rages on. the bbc's director general has apologised to strictly come dancing contestants after complaints of abusive behaviour on that show. and god, that's getting worse. all of that and a much more to come. this is gb news. it's the weekend on britain's news channel with me. don't go too far off. see you very

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wonderful indeed weekend out there. now the paris olympic opening ceremony has been branded the worst ever in the competition's long history, so there's lots to go into there , there's lots to go into there, including naked smurfs. then i said it again. then prince harry says it's still dangerous for meghan to return to the uk. what do you think about that? is he right? and how much would you pay right? and how much would you pay for fish and chips? some places are charging. get this £37. i'm dawn neesom and this is the weekend. and if you are nipping out for some fish and chips, now's a good time not to do so . do so. it's great. i love that round thing with the weekend in it . thing with the weekend in it. it's like a plate for a fish and chips later. but this show is nothing without you and your views, so let me know your thoughts on all the stories we

are discussing today. very, very simple . visiting simple. visiting gbnews.com/yoursay and join the conversation and i have a real treat for you now. all right, it's not fish and chips, okay? and they're not naked and they're not painted blue, but it's close. keeping me company this hour is political commentator matthew stadlen. and broadcaster mike parry. thank you very much. and thank you very much for not coming naked and painted blue. just you didn't have to do that. thank you. but before we get stuck into today's story, and while i'm obsessed with naked blue men, here's the news with ray addison, who is neither naked nor . blue. nor. blue. >> it's actually in my contract that i don't do that . good that i don't do that. good afternoon. 2:01. our top stories this hour. 1000 police officers have been deployed as a rally led by tommy robinson. is held in central london. thousands are marching through the city,

waving flags and chanting. we want our country back. weaving their way through the streets from the royal courts of justice to trafalgar square, posting on x ahead of the event, mr robinson said it would be the biggest patriotic rally the uk has ever seen . protests by stand has ever seen. protests by stand up has ever seen. protests by stand up to racism and jeremy corbyn's peace and justice project are also being held . police are also being held. police are using powers under the public order act to keep the opposing groups apart . order act to keep the opposing groups apart. team gb has secured its first medal of the paris olympics with yasmin harper and scarlett mew jensen taking bronze in the synchronised three metre springboard diving event . china springboard diving event. china claimed gold and the us took silver. the result places great britain equal fourth with kazakhstan on the medals table. rain is causing problems for outdoor events , with the tennis outdoor events, with the tennis delayed and skateboarding postponed by 48 hours. the pm congratulated the divers for their efforts after winning team gb's first medal. sir keir starmer is in paris , where he's starmer is in paris, where he's also been speaking to british

athletes wishing them luck as they prepare for their respective events . last night, respective events. last night, he attended the opening ceremony and posted a video on social media telling those competing that the whole country is behind them. well meanwhile, eurostar passengers are facing ongoing travel disruptions after arson attacks on the french rail network ahead of the games. 1 in 4 trains will not run this weekend, with the operator saying four have been cancelled already today. travellers are being told to postpone their journeys if they can. the chief constable of greater manchester police says video footage of an officer seemingly kicking and stamping on a man at the airport is a source of, quote, profound regret. stephen watson insists the force is committed to supporting a criminal investigation into that officer's behaviour comes after the mayor of greater manchester appealed for a rigorous investigation into allegations of assault. the police watchdog is now looking into the incident to determine whether his use of force was acceptable in the

united states. the fbi has u—turned over claims that donald trump may not have been hit by a bullet in pennsylvania. it comes after fbi director christopher wray told lawmakers that the former president's injury could have been caused by glass. that's been denied by former white house doctor ronny jackson, who described the comment as inappropriate. the fbi has now issued a statement confirming trump was struck by a bullet where the whole or fragmented into smaller pieces . fragmented into smaller pieces. meanwhile, the israeli prime minister has visited donald trump at his florida resort and a warning the following footage we're about to show contains flash photography. benjamin netanyahu rearranged his travel schedule to meet the republican nominee, a day after meeting president joe biden and vp kamala harris. trump recently criticised netanyahu for israeli security failures around the october 7th hamas attack. it's thought the meeting could help to ease tensions between the two

men. that visit comes as an israeli airstrike hit a school in central gaza. the military says it was targeting a hamas command centre inside the compound, which was being used to launch attacks against troops. israel defence forces added civilians were warned ahead of the strike. gaza's hamas run health ministry says at least 30 palestinians were killed and more than 100 people injured. president biden is expected to announce plans to reform the supreme court on monday, sources suggest he's likely to back term limits for justices and an enforceable code of ethics. he's also expected to push for a constitutional amendment limiting immunity for presidents, follows a supreme court ruling in july giving presidents broad immunity from prosecution. asda workers will stage a fresh strike in their dispute over hours and pay. the gmb union says more than 170 of

its members will walk out at the lowestoft store on the 9th of august. the last strike was held back in may, but gmb says senior management , quote, seem to be management, quote, seem to be burying their heads in the sand . burying their heads in the sand. asda has rejected those claims and is reassuring customers that the store will be open as normal. and finally, a common mouth bacteria can melt certain cancers , scientists have cancers, scientists have discovered. researchers say they were surprised to find that fusobacterium was found to help those with head and neck cancers . those with head and neck cancers. viable cancer cells were found to be reduced by 70 to 99%. it's now being keenly studied at guy's and saint thomas's and king's college london. okay, those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm ray addison more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts .

forward slash alerts. >> thank you very much , bray >> thank you very much, bray wright. you have a wonderful weekend out there. welcome to the weekend with me, dawn neesom. it's a lovely, sexy new title. same old me. sorry about that bit though. right. and we've got some cracking stuff coming up to you to talk about, including the main talking point. everyone watched it last night, didn't they ? even if you night, didn't they? even if you were doing it from behind the sofa, looking through your hands , sofa, looking through your hands, the paris olympic opening ceremony has been branded checking notes here. the worst everin checking notes here. the worst ever in the competition's long history. the decision to have the ceremony outside hasn't gone down well with viewers who were left unimpressed by the whole show, reporting poor audio, torrential rain and endless display of boats and a horse that just seemed to go on and on and on forever, some online jokers i might have been. one of them were saying that the organisers needed to stop the boats . they didn't. organisers needed to stop the boats. they didn't. right. adding to the upset and this is

a serious part of this. many christians have slammed the ceremony for an apparent woke parody of the last supper. you can see it there. there's a plus size lady in the middle with drag queens re—enacting the last suppen drag queens re—enacting the last supper. basically, now i have a marvellous panel for you to talk about. this one. it's double m, it's matthew stadlen and a mike parry , mike, i mean, did you parry, mike, i mean, did you watch the olympics? >> well, i had the telly on, and i'm afraid my concentration wavered quite a few times during the course of it because i like to multitask, you know what mean? >> five hours. and i just. >> five hours. and i just. >> it was difficult not to have your your attention waver, though, wasn't it ? i agree, the though, wasn't it? i agree, the bit that caught me was i saw a balloon taking off with a fire underneath it, and i wondered when the balloon was going to burst into flames. i mean, it was a very, very odd opening ceremony. and i totally agree with the idea that to make an opening ceremony focused, you've got to have inside a stadium. you know, i've done about eight world cups and european and

olympic games, and if they get the opening ceremony right in the opening ceremony right in the stadium, it really does give a lift to the whole of the tournament. whereas this, you know, was struggled down 13 miles of river and you didn't know to where focus. i thought it was a disaster. but can i also say that the daily mail, a paper which, you know, i have some, you know, feelings about to call it la farce on the front today, largely because of the fact that demonstrators had held up all the trains and sabotaged them. i thought was really the wrong attitude to take. it's the olympic games. it's a worldwide thing. they tried their best to get it right. it didn't work out. but i'm not mocking them for it. they made an effort. >> you're not mocking them for it, but you are slamming them. >> i'm not slamming them. what? i'm. look, i admire their adventure in doing something different. and it was quite different. and it was quite different . it didn't quite work. different. it didn't quite work. but that's not to say that they shouldn't have tried to do something different. >> i wonder whether the reaction that we seem to have had as brits and i'm judging this really from social media, and it was getting a fearful beating on

social media. >> a funny though, wasn't it? >> a funny though, wasn't it? >> there were some good, there was some good memes and jokes going around, but i wonder whether actually around the world it was getting a bit of a better press . that's the sense better press. that's the sense that i've got. and i also get the sense that the french themselves were proud about it . themselves were proud about it. >> yeah, i think there were, you know, at the end of every olympics, the, the head of the olympics, the, the head of the olympics has to stand up at the closing ceremony and say thank you for all presenting the greatest ever olympics , right? greatest ever olympics, right? because obviously that means that you can forget about all the ones. all at atlanta. i did the ones. all at atlanta. i did the atlanta olympics in 1996, one of the great olympics. >> me too . >> me too. >> me too. >> i was there, right? and it was a disaster in transport. journalists couldn't get around atlanta because nothing worked. >> and michael johnson, yeah, michael johnson's gold boots i totally agree. so 1919, 1932, 1932. >> what? well, here's 200m michael johnson 96. you're talking about, aren't you in atlanta 1932 didn't it 19 seconds and oh, i'm sorry, i thought you were talking about 1932 olympics, which is before

my time. >> just slightly, to be fair. >> just slightly, to be fair. >> yeah, but anyway, the point i was going to make was that because it was so chaotic. and remember, at the end there was a pipe remember, at the end there was a pipe bomb, there was a security issue at london, a pipe bomb at the end, and there was a debate as to whether to say so. that's what the french are now worried about. what the french are now worried about . will they get the about. will they get the accolade? the greatest ever olympics? i thought, and i must say that back in 2010, it was an austerity election and i was producing the bbc's general election special event , which election special event, which was on a boat. >> yeah. and i got the london eye lit up in rainbow colours to represent the different parties. i got a projection, i think, of the exit poll on big ben, and i got about 600 people on this boat under the london eye, many of them celebrities, and there was just sort of one main problem, and that is that we lost power. so producing these and it got in the mail, of course, and all the rest of it, producing these big events is not easy. and we hadn't had a rehearsal, which i think viewers will be relieved because we didn't we didn't spend the money on a rehearsal, but was probably a mistake. and i don't think the

french had the opportunity to have a rehearsal. did they? because it was so, so grand in its scale. yeah i like you. i don't blame them for trying for years to think it through. >> that's true. >> that's true. >> to be fair, i think there are two big issues here. one was the rain and i really felt sorry for the french that it rained. i mean, of all times of the year in paris. yeah, it's not as good weather as in the south of france, but it is surely bad luck. that was one thing. had it been sparkling early evening sunshine, a different story perhaps, but also you can see on your tellies now it's very, very, very it was bleak and it was i think it's been raining again. this morning. so that's bad luck and that's quite interesting. i think that for all of human beings, sort of best endeavours, the weather still plays a very big part. you can't control the weather quite, can't control the weather quite, can you? >> but we could control other elements of it. now. i had the lovely clare muldoon earlier with me. she's a practising roman catholic. yeah, she was very upset about the depiction of the last supper using drag queens. understandably so, yes. now france is a christian country, you you we obviously

had the horrors of the charlie hebdo murder there over the depiction of the prophet mohammed. yeah. so how is it? okay. >> no, it's not okay. i thought it was to do that with christianity. i thought shocking, apparently. did it because the actual paintings in the louvre next door, isn't it ? the louvre next door, isn't it? so that's, you know, that's that's in france, the problem they have picturing jesus and his disciples. >> yeah. yeah >> yeah. yeah >> i thought it was shocking. >> i thought it was shocking. >> honestly, i would just say another misjudgement. yeah. okay firstly, very quickly just finish the second point that i didn't get to. i think i think it was it was difficult to make it was it was difficult to make it a spectacle, certainly for the people actually there in paris , but also to an extent for paris, but also to an extent for us that in fact it was so fragmented. going to your point about this last summer supper, i when i was watching it, i was so sort of bored by it that i didn't actually notice what was going on. but having noticed, brought to my attention by you. thank you very much. yeah. and as a lapsed christian, i mean, i was confirmed as a child, and my christianity has sort of faded away. i think it's i think it's

away. i think it's i think it's a mistake. i think it's silly, it's horrible. but i don't feel deep offence. i think, jesus, if, if, if jesus christ was real, if jesus christ really is the son of god, i think he'll he'll live with it. >> the last supper is in milan, by the way. just a oh is it? >> i thought it was in the louvre. i'm sorry. it must be. it must be another one. i'm not great on paintings. do you know what the problem the french have got? illustrated by their opening ceremony last night. there's not many famous french people. >> i thought that as well. they relied on the dull. just because he'd won all these. >> there's not many now. if it was like. when was england? 2012. okay, london. we've got david beckham, you know, we've we've got racing drivers who win world champions. we've got world beating athletics, we've got the beatles, we've got the queen, we have the queen, the queen. >> they chop their heads off in sudan. >> and that was about it. >> and that was about it. >> yeah. that's exactly i was going to say. and the problem was the french must have been scratched in the last four years saying we have no famous french people. what are we funny? >> they got serena williams and nadal >> they got serena williams and nadal, i mean mauresmo. fair enough. she was a pretty good tennis player. but yeah, i mean,

not massively. no huge figure. no absolutely. >> i couldn't identify one french. >> but are we being a bit mean as brits? >> well we are being a bit mean, but we're being absolutely honest . i but we're being absolutely honest. i mean, you but we're being absolutely honest . i mean, you know, yes, honest. i mean, you know, yes, i'm a i'm a european with a small e we're all together in europe. but let's face it, pal, we had the beatles and you had johnny hallyday. we also had. and that's the way it is. >> we also had danny boyle as well. yes we had i think he reigned supreme. i mean, his effort in 2012. yeah. i think most people know it. >> was it was i mean, i do think we did it and we had the queen and they insist on chopping their queen's heads off. i mean. exactly. yeah. had that didn't we. yeah. marie antoinette singing whilst holding her head. >> they had these sort of what looked like sort of giant cardboard cut—outs of royal figures, sort of almost floating in the water. >> that's right. >> that's right. >> i thought the horse was quite good. >> oh, god. >> oh, god. >> and by the way, their other problem and this might sound silly, is it should have been conducted in english. all the ceremony and all the people speaking should have done it in english. but the french are so proud and so pig headed. they

thought , no, we will do it proud and so pig headed. they thought, no, we will do it in french, whereas english is the biggest spoken language in the world. it should have been in english, honestly, but it was in france, to be fair to the french. yeah, but i don't care. what i'm saying is to. it might have been in france to do it in english, but it's a worldwide audience, so it should have been donein audience, so it should have been done in english, honestly. but they wouldn't do that because of course they would hate to recognise the language of america and the united kingdom. >> it was a reminder of the beauty of the of the parisian landscape or cityscape , wasn't landscape or cityscape, wasn't it? but you don't need remind in the 19th century, by the way, if you want to know more about paris, listen to my 20 questions with agnes poirier. >> that's a good tip. thank you very much. but we don't need to be reminded about how beautiful paris is, because if you've ever been there, it's the most beautiful city and the architecture is lovely and all that. architecture is lovely and all that . but they architecture is lovely and all that. but they didn't emphasise a lot of that in the opening ceremony last night. it was a dirty old river. they should have had the kinks song playing in the background. dirty harry, i'm glad you. >> i'm glad you mentioned what? yeah, you're having a good day today, aren't you, mr paris, am i? well, you mentioned the beatles earlier on and you

mentioned the kinks, but we did have my least favourite song of all time . imagine. i'm sure you all time. imagine. i'm sure you love it. >> okay. it's not john lennon's best song, in my view. >> it's not? no, absolutely. we did have. i don't even know it was some french. >> well, we haven't mentioned ceune >> well, we haven't mentioned celine dion yet. >> oh no no, no, let me get to. but we did have imagine right. imagine there's no countries literally as we watch bow after bow after bow. yeah joe, pass with every country in the world. >> exactly . >> exactly. >> exactly. >> imagine there's no religion been seen since the spanish armada. it was extraordinary. i mean, when they go around the stadium, i don't remember it lasting quite that long. it's part of the fun of this. it is part of the fun of this. it is part of the fun of the olympics. the opening ceremony where you see the athletes all excited. most of them will probably have colds now say, i mean, if you were the coach, he's like, hold on a minute, my athletes are standing there for three hours in the rain, getting hypothermia. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and the other problem is when you do it down like a 13 mile stretch, you're not focusing on where the all the action is going to happen in the olympics. you see what i mean? the olympic stadium was built for the olympics of the olympics. it's still there, but you kind of

quite didn't know what was going on. >> some people paid two and a half grand for those seats in the rain on the banks of the seine, to wave at someone through the rain mist. >> i do feel that if we if we had attempted something on that scale around london, were we ever to be given the olympics again, we would have done the pageantry more impressively. >> yes , sadiq khan wants the >> yes, sadiq khan wants the olympics again. of course he went over there and lobbied for 2040 london olympics. i think that's a rather selfish considering we had it in 2012. we bush. >> any chance to have a dig ? >> any chance to have a dig? >> any chance to have a dig? >> oh, we've run out of time. okay for all the best analysis and opinion, even better than these two on that story and much more, please go to our website gb news.com. now evidently the olympics is about sport as well, so not just the opening ceremony and there's plenty of stuff kicking off today. so to bring us up to date on that, we have sent the lovely sophie reaper out there in her waterproofs to cover the actual important stuff. sophie, take it away my lovely . lovely. >> good afternoon to you, dawn.

well, the waterproofs actually come off now because fortunately we're under a little bit of coven we're under a little bit of cover. thankfully, we're here at the la terres de jeu fan park here in paris, where the atmosphere is absolutely amazing . atmosphere is absolutely amazing. there's 1 or 2000 people in here who've who've dared to face the rain this afternoon here in paris. it's been a little bit grim, but the mood is still high, particularly for us brits who have made our way onto the medal table. finally, i say finally. of course, it's only the first day, but everyone's really keen to see us do really, really keen to see us do really, really well in this olympic games so everyone will be chuffed that we've made such a fabulous start now. we've been here all afternoon, we've had the opportunity to speak to some people, not just brits, people from all over the world. here's what a few of them had to say to me. >> we had such an amazing time at london. >> the atmosphere in london was just brilliant, so we thought, paris is on our doorstep, why would we not come? we watched the opening ceremony last night and, a bar close to where we're staying. there were people from chile, from hungary, from uruguay. >> the atmosphere was just ace. >> the atmosphere was just ace. >> we're going to see beach volleyball on monday.

>> we're supposed to see skateboarding today, but the weather, shot that down. so we'll try for monday. >> we've talked to a lot of other guys and women from netherlands. >> spanish people from all over the world. >> it's a beautiful city and it's such a unique event. so clearly we were able to make it so very happy. we're here. we went to a rugby match already and then we're going to see basketball today. we're going to water polo. the atmosphere and the chance of getting the olympics here in europe , so we olympics here in europe, so we thought it's a good idea to try to visit some games here. >> how fabulous was that hearing from some of the fans here in this fan park? i have to say, the two ladies we spoke to at the two ladies we spoke to at the start there, they had the most fabulous outfits and they were in full union jack dresses. what a way to represent team gb here on gb news. i can tell you dawn , the mood is high. it's dawn, the mood is high. it's only the first day and there's

already been so much excitement and yet there is still so, so much to come and we'll be bringing you all the latest here on gb news, the people's channel. >> thank you sophie doing a brilliant job. lots of love in the room for you. on our messages you can see the passion sophie has for the actual sport going on at the olympics. so lovely. well done sophie and she'll be joining us covering the whole event . thank you. now, the whole event. thank you. now, if you want to be a winner as well, like team gb are off to, this is your chance, we've got £30,000 in tax free cash to give away, and it's our biggest one even away, and it's our biggest one ever. and you could win it. and here's how you do it. >> celebrate a spectacular summer with your chance to win an incredible £30,000 in tax free cash in our great british giveaway. it's the biggest prize of the year. so far and it's totally tax free. what would you spend that on? luxury holidays? a new car or just put it away for a rainy day? whatever you'd do with £30,000 in tax free cash, make sure you don't miss

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hey, i'm loving that. that's really sexy, isn't it? welcome back to the weekend with me. dawn neesom . sadly, not that dawn neesom. sadly, not that sexy, but i'm trying, i'm trying. i'm wearing smurf blue now. royals royal blue. even prince harry has said it's still dangerous for his wife, meghan to return to the uk. in the prince's first interview since the conclusion of his court case with the mirror group, the duke of sussex stated he is fearful of sussex stated he is fearful of an attack on his wife if she returns to the uk due to the attention the couple attract . attention the couple attract. pensh attention the couple attract. perish the thought they'd do anything to attract that attention, but that's just cynical me, joining me now is royal broadcaster and commentator rafe heydel—mankoo , commentator rafe heydel—mankoo, with the lowdown on what's harry

done now, basically , yeah. done now, basically, yeah. >> i mean, it's such a risible case that he's put forward about why meghan can't come over here. >> this isn't a tv. >> this isn't a tv. >> this isn't a tv. >> this is a this was a television show called, about the tabloids under trial and all about trying to expose the tactics, illegal tactics used by the tabloid press. and it didn't just feature prince harry, this documentary. it also featured hugh grant, paul gascoigne, charlotte church were some genuinely horrifying stories about the impact that the media intrusion had on the phone hacking had on them. but amidst all of that, we also had prince harry's saga, where, of course, he seemed to be making arguments that didn't really hold true. i mean , look, firstly, america is mean, look, firstly, america is the land of assassinations as we've been reminded only two recently about and millom people. and, you know, harry and meghan live in a protected bubble. you know, when they go on a trip to somewhere like the uk, they arrive in a private jet, their bodyguards take them into an suv, which goes straight either to a luxury hotel or to a secure private or royal residence. so they never need to

get within, you know, 10 to 15ft of a member of the public. they don't need to publicise what they're doing on private visits. the queen used to go to kentucky all the time to see her friends stables. no one knew about those visits. they were done privately. so there's no there's no reason that any of that needs to take place. it's also the case that actually the those in charge of royal security here have said as long as they get advance notice, they can receive protection on a case by case basis. this is not about knives. this is not about acid. this is about meghan's fear of booing. and i think she is. she is petrified that the great british pubuc petrified that the great british public will vocalise their dislike of her. and i actually think now she's become quite britain phobic. i don't think she actually likes this country because of all the negative associations she has with it from her time living here. i don't think she's ever really fit in to this country anyway. you know, she's a california girl . she's not really part of girl. she's not really part of that british upper crust at that prince harry enjoys so much, and i just don't think she really wants to come down here, because there was no reason she couldn't

have come for the coronation. the security was fine for the wife of the president. it should have been fine for the wife of prince harry. prince harry should have brought his grandchildren to see his father after the cancer diagnosis. he's only seen lilibet once, archie. only a handful of times. i think this is all scapegoating for the real reason that they can't come over here. do you think though rafe being all honest no matter what? >> i mean? i know a lot. you know, meghan doesn't have her fans over here putting it mildly, but do you think the british probably would boo her? i honestly don't think we would. >> i think, well, look, i wouldn't be surprised if people do boo her, but i think generally what you have in these occasions, people just stay silent. what you don't get applause. i mean, you sort of see, the british are actually very decent people, not inclined to boo, but there certainly would be booing. but again , would be booing. but again, there's nothing stopping them coming on private visits that don't entail any engagement with the public at all, >> it's just doesn't go away. this one does it with those two, thank you very much , rafe, for thank you very much, rafe, for coming in explaining harry's latest reason for not bringing meghan over here, even though

his dad's not very well . that's his dad's not very well. that's rafe heydel—mankoo there on the latest from the royal family now i'm dawn neesom. this is gb news. it's the weekend. hope you having a good one. and there's loads more coming up on today's show. but first it is once again those news headlines with ray. >> thanks dawn 230 our top stories 1000 police officers have been deployed as a rally led by tommy robinson is held in central london. thousands are marching through the city waving flags and chanting. we want our country back. weaving their way through the streets from the royal courts of justice to trafalgar square. posting on x ahead of the event, mr robinson said it would be the quote , said it would be the quote, biggest patriotic rally the uk has ever seen. protests by stand up has ever seen. protests by stand up to racism and jeremy corbyn's peace and justice project are also being held. police are using powers under the public order act to keep the opposing groups apart . order act to keep the opposing groups apart. team gb has secured its first medal of the

paris olympics with yasmin harper and scarlett mew jensen taking bronze in the synchronised three metre springboard diving event. china claimed gold and the us took silver. the result places great britain equal fourth with kazakhstan on the medals table. the pm has congratulated the divers for their efforts. sir keir starmer is in paris, where he's also been speaking to british athletes, wishing them luck as they prepare for their respective events. last night he attended the opening ceremony and posted a video on social media telling those competing that the whole country is behind them . eurostar passengers hoping them. eurostar passengers hoping to to travel paris are still facing disruption today after arson attacks on the french rail network ahead of the games. 1 in 4 trains will not run this weekend, with the operator saying four have been cancelled this saturday. travellers are being to told postpone their journeys if they can. the chief constable of greater manchester police says video footage of an

officer seemingly kicking and stamping on a man at the airport is a source of profound regret. stephen watson insists the force is committed to supporting a criminal investigation into that officer's behaviour. the police watchdog is now looking into that incident to determine whether his use of force was acceptable. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm ray addison more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> thank you very much. right now i just want to say hello to henry. hi, henry. thanks for getting in touch. no, i'm not very good at doing my makeup. look. it's clear. come on, any case, plenty more coming up on today's show. but before i go

into all of that , here is the into all of that, here is the lovely nana akua . looking lovely nana akua. looking stunning. i mean, pretty in pink or what? to tell me what's coming up on her amazing show, which starts straight after this 3:00. >> yeah, well, thank you very much, stowlawn. >> well, look , we have to talk >> well, look, we have to talk about we obviously have to talk about we obviously have to talk about what's going on with the wokeist of the opening ceremony for the olympics. >> so i've done a monologue on that. >> blue smurf didn't do it for you. was that. >> i mean, it's like iggle piggle. it's like iggle piggle from the night garden. >> what was about that? >> what was about that? >> it's so embarrassing. so we're going to talk about that. that'll be my monologue. >> but i'm also going to ask whether you would join the police after some of the events that you've seen. would you personally join the police? and i'll ask the viewers, would you join the police? >> well, you know, there's literally no protection for people if they do. >> and, you know, i suppose obviously we can't talk too much about what's been happening recently. but the bottom line is there are many, many cases of this where obviously the police are vilified and we don't know the full details once again. >> so would you put yourself up for that? well, you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't at the moment. if you're a police officer, you i mean, and

your bosses will throw you under the bus most of the time, as well. they won't even stand up for you. well, that's what it looks like to me. also we're asking, is christianity fair again? because it does seem like you saw the opening ceremony where people are up in arms, but you know, that's nothing in contrast to what might happen to you if you did that to another religion. well, we all saw that with charlie hebdo. what i was going to say, we know exactly what would happen. and it's not not pretty at all. that's nana show at 3:00 coming up. you don't want to go anywhere. don't want to miss that, now. but i'm still here for now. before she comes on. but remember, let us know all your thoughts on the stories we're discussing today. very simple. visiting gbnews.com/yoursay and join the conversation. and yes, you can talk about my makeup. i don't really mind . honestly. there's really mind. honestly. there's lots more coming up on today's show. okay. food lunch time. would you pay £37 for fish and chips? the definitive british summer dish is under threat this summer dish is under threat this summer thanks to, spud flation. they call it. and the fact that it has rained constantly all of that and much more to come. i'm dawn neesom. this is gb news, britain's news channel. it's the

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hello. you're there. welcome back to the weekend with me. dawn neesom. the weekend. sexy new title. we're celebrating here. i have, by the way, we don't do this every week. actually. we do, but it's a celebrating our sexy new title and sexy new lie. and still me. sorry about that bit. any case, thank you darling. i have mike parry and matthew stadler still with me as well. a bit like a hollywood movie. yeah, it was, wasn't it? yeah. the weekend. the weekend. oh, right. okay oh was it, was it. yeah. >> the rings bell. >> the rings bell. >> didn't they used to be a magazine called weekend years ago when you and i were in fleet street, and we used to nick stories hours, hours and hours and hours of research into coming up with this sexy new

title about a show that goes out at the weekend. >> excellent. and you're dissing that? how dare you? >> i think we should raise a glass, don't you? >> okay. yeah. here's the weekend. thank you very much for joining us. i'm loving your company. it's really fun to have you on a saturday lunchtime. talking of lunchtime. right. okay how much would you be willing to? haven't drunk this yet. how much would you be willing to pay for a portion of fish and chips? now the average cost of a portion of fish and chips has risen by 7% and is now sitting at £9.87 deflation. we call it. many seaside towns, however, are charging much more as robin hood's bay in yorkshire. beautiful place and the humber charging a whopping average £14.73. but some restaurants the sort of restaurants the sort of restaurants mr parry hangs out in regularly, are charging up to 52. >> they do have two michelin stars we're talking about stop ruining it. >> honestly used to. you're incorrigible on this show, right? okay, i have a panel with me. you might have noticed that's matthew stadlen on that side. and that's mike parry on

that side, i have given them alcohol. it helps. so fish and chips, gentlemen. yeah. we haven't got you any fish and chips , obviously, because we're chips, obviously, because we're on a budget, how much would you pay-7 on a budget, how much would you pay? fish and chips for a tenner? >> i've got three examples. okay, so you always do, don't you ? very quickly. this week in you? very quickly. this week in bournemouth. anyone been to barmouth in wales? >> yes. >> yes. >> lovely place. amazing, isn't it ? it's a bit like the it? it's a bit like the canbbean it? it's a bit like the caribbean on a sunny day. anyway, i've just been looking at my wallet, you know, my digital wallet and for two cans of diet coke , about six of those of diet coke, about six of those condiments which cost quite a bit themselves, saying then plus two cod and chips, it was £24 in total, right? which means that the fish and chips were probably around about £9. that seemed decent to me . that's not bad, is decent to me. that's not bad, is it? but then you go down to bexhill on sea, where my in—laws are from. lovely part of the world. really nice actually. >> beautiful. >> beautiful. >> unbelievable. this is my memory and i hope i'm not doing them a disservice. very good fish and chips, but very expensive. and then my neck of the woods around portobello road in west london. i can't even bnng

in west london. i can't even bring myself to say on national television how much they cost, partly because i can't exactly remember, but also because i remember, but also because i remember almost tears almost literally falling down my cheeks. they were so expensive. but then the rents are very expensive in west london they are. >> don't you find that pre—covid and post covid prices, this massive leap from somewhere? i remember it being about £8.80 at my local fish and chip shop in surrey before covid. it's now about £13.50. that's large cod , about £13.50. that's large cod, chips and peas, alone and drink . chips and peas, alone and drink. but you told me about bournemouth. bournemouth was that eat in or eat out, eat out, eat out. right. what about this for eat in right now i'm going to bang the drum for wetherspoons. you can get drink and fish and chips at other places, but my personal experience of wetherspoons in epsom in surrey, a nice part of the world. fish, chips and peas and a pint of bitter £10.02 not bad. eat in, eat in a special pensioners deal though mike. >> oh sorry. i'm sorry.

>> that is for everybody. whether you are entering early middle age like me or whether you're a stripling youngster , he you're a stripling youngster, he said that when you said you were entering into early middle age to me in the green room, i thought you were being serious earlier. >> you then told me you're nearly 70. >> i'm. excuse me? i mean, what is this? what is this character assassination ? do we need this assassination? do we need this on this show? >> i've got to the age where i've now had to shave my beard off, which has gone white in order to look slightly more youthful. >> oh, right. okay. not working, but. but fish and chips is a staple diet in this country, and it's gone extraordinarily expensive in places where they can get away with it. >> serious point. has it gone expensive? >> cost of living, everything costs more, doesn't it? and that is a serious point. we don't talk about it enough. yes, inflation has come down. >> i blame putin for the level of fish. >> and you'd be right to 11 million people last year were struggling in this country. >> we're struggling to pay the bills . yes. that's an bills. yes. that's an unfathomable struggle. yeah. it's a sort of nation wide thing. yeah. and people are still hurting. i think. i mean energy is still expensive i agree. >> but just getting back to fish and chips, it used to be a

chippy tea was two and six. i mean, you know what i'm talking about. when i was a kid and all that go down the fish and chip shop, young michael and get us three portions of fish and chips and it was, it was, you know, it was coins and me dad's pocket. whereas now you don't get anything. a decent fish and chip shop for under 12. >> what about this u2 then? okay, so this morning i went to have a full english saturday treat down mick's cafe just off the portobello road. ways to go. when i was growing up with my dad, i went out with the dogs, sat down, really tasty, really good, proper , full english, good, proper, full english, massive sort of almost pint size fresh orange juice and a black coffee. how much would that do you think? in notting hill? >> £11. >> £11. >> well, in notting hill it was £18. £18 for a full english, a fresh orange juice and about going to bad . i haven't eaten since. >> yeah, well that'll keep you going all day. now the there is a general reason and it does involve russia. i mean obviously the invasion of ukraine pushed grain prices up. so that's all much more expensive because that's where our sunflower oil comes from. and the bering sea, where russia pulled out of a

deal allowing us to fish the barents sea. that's right, saying saying brits should lose weight and get smarter don't really say that. the russians said, well, you know, you should see that mr putin has quite a lot of strange things in size, but i mean, the cheapest one well, the cheapest one, according to this, it's in somewhere like skegness, isn't it? it is actually in new brighton, new brighton. now your neck of the woods hang on my playground. >> when i was a youngster. okay. we went off to new brighton on a friday night. we never got home because it was. it was full of discos and cheap pubs and all that and fish and chips. you're absolutely right on saturday lunchtime. >> but do you started the segment by saying that fish and chips in this pub go for about £39 or something? and i've got a question for you both. so this is tom kerridge's double michelin starred pub. i liked him interviewed him for the podcast. marlow. yeah. mbappe and question for if you are going to go to a michelin double michelin star, but would you, would you spend your money on fish and chips, or would you like something you would because it would be very good fish. can

you make fish and chips worth £39, or is it part of the fun of fish and chips? it is a bit greasy and you sort of £10 and you get your money's worth. >> good question. you know, in fleet street, dawn or what's the most famous wine bar in fleet street? el vino's . okay. i never street? el vino's. okay. i never been there. matt el vino. fantastic. it's underground. >> is it underground in the cellar? >> no no no, no, it's just at the divide of the strand and fleet street, opposite the high court. okay. and i took a mate there, and we hadn't been in fleet street for 20 years. and fish and chips, a full plate with lovely big fish , £17.50, with lovely big fish, £17.50, which i thought was very reasonable considering a large glass of red wine in the same establishment. >> we don't talk about so expensive cost £22. >> it's one i love mushy peas are not healthy. i like mushy peas with fish fingers, but i like ordinary garden peas with fish. i mean, it's not much healthier, but about fish and chips, is there? >> well, i mean, you can have a healthier version. you can air fry your chips. evidently. i

don't know what i'm talking about with cooking. honestly, quite clearly. but i have just read how many calories in a portion my favourite chips now, by the way, are triple cooked. >> i thought a triple cooked chip would be cooked dry. okay, i thought it'd be no good. they're fantastic. they're all fluffy in the middle. they're brilliant, they're crispy. i go everywhere now that sells triple cooked chips. stop, stop. >> do we like a battered sausage ? >> do we like a battered sausage? >> do we like a battered sausage? >> yes. >> yes. >> love it. no, but the difference between a good chip and a bad chip, they are worlds apart. >> this is. this is heavy political debate going on here on the weekend news show, and we can talk about chips. thank you very much , gentlemen. i'm dawn very much, gentlemen. i'm dawn neesom. this is gb news. and there's loads more coming up on this show the weekend, the scandal rages on. the bbc director—general has apologised for strictly come dancing contestants after complaints of abusive behaviour on the show. yes, it carries on all of that and much more to come. this is gb news, britain's news channel. go and get some chips if you really have to, but come back very soon because it gets even better.

soon. such a soothing piece of music , such a soothing piece of music, isn't it? welcome back to the weekend. that soothing piece of music tells you it's a brand new show. and same old me, though i'm dawn neesom. now, da da da da da da da. glitter balls. i'm sorry, i can't sing either. i'll shut up. the bbc's director general has apologised to strictly come dancing contestants after complaints of abusive behaviour on the show. this is the story that keeps on and on and on. tim davies said he was disappointed to hear that several celebrities had complained about how their dance partners treated them in rehearsals. now this story , it rehearsals. now this story, it started off with amanda abbington and it has just excuse the pun, got legs. joining me now is showbiz commentator daniel mason to explain the very latest on this on this ongoing saga, daniel, latest on this on this ongoing saga, daniel , thank you very saga, daniel, thank you very much for joining saga, daniel, thank you very much forjoining me. thank you, much for joining me. thank you, it just it's growing and growing

and growing. where do we start? i mean, what's the latest update on it? where do i start? okay, so we've got amanda abbington. latest. she's come out. she's done channel 4 news. she's done lorraine this week and she's basically come out and she said, giovanni, she can't give the ins and outs because she said, there's 50 hours worth of footage that she cannot get hold of and her lawyer team cannot get hold of. she said that bbc producers have not reached out to her to support her, even though tim davie has actually put out an apology there. but. so there's 50 hours of dancing blocked that she can't get hold of. that, she says, contains really important footage which shows, a humiliating and sexual kind of abuse . now, with this, kind of abuse. now, with this, the first we'd heard about the sexual kind of . yes. that has sexual kind of. yes. that has been mentioned before. yes. so this was channel 4 and lorraine

where, this was spoken about, giovanni has strongly denied all these allegations, and he says that he actually will have his name cleared by next week because he has some tape footage that will clear his name . so that will clear his name. so i don't know what that is. currently all lawyers are deaung currently all lawyers are dealing with this, but amanda abbington has said in one stroke that privately people have reached out to her producers. but then in another conversation, she said nobody from the bbc has reached out to her, so it leaves us feeling a bit, oh , i'm an, as to what's bit, oh, i'm an, as to what's going on here, we've got shirley ballas has broken the bbc band and spoken out on giovanni, saying that he's a long term friend of hers. she has nothing but good words to say about him, and she strongly supports him , and she strongly supports him, the same as piers morgan has come out today saying that he supports, bbc strictly, and he

himself would be looking for a good deal, yes. nice move piers. he was saying that he would like to save the show and take part , to save the show and take part, and he says that amanda should stop whingeing. right. well yeah, that's typical of piers, isn't it? unfortunately. run out of time there, daniel. but we do have a spokesman from giovanni has said we would urge people to wait for the review's conclusion and not to pay heed to these very serious and defamatory allegations that have no evidence in support of them. and meanwhile, a bbc spokesman has said we will not be commentating on individuals or engaging with speculation. however, as we have said previously, we will always listen if people want to make us aware of something or raise it with us directly and we have appropriate procedures and processes in place to manage this right. thank you very much, daniel mason, for bringing us up to date on that, so yeah, well, that's going to get huge , isn't that's going to get huge, isn't it? basically. right. well, i've been dawn neesom and this has been dawn neesom and this has been gb news the weekend. brilliant news. so thank you very much for joining brilliant news. so thank you very much forjoining me. but don't go anywhere though because

there's plenty more coming up on gb news today. in just a moment it's the lovely nana akua. and at 6:00 it's the saturday five, so i just want to thank all my panellists today especially. thank you for joining panellists today especially. thank you forjoining me on the thank you for joining me on the weekend, our first outing, hence the glass of bubbly. but before i go, i say goodbye to you and say hello to anna, who has the weather forecast for the rest of your weekend. take it away honour and thank you lovelies. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb. >> news . >> news. >> news. >> good afternoon and welcome to your gb news weather update brought to you by the met office. well, it's been quite an unsettled start to the weekend with sunny spells and showers, but it is going to be turning dner but it is going to be turning drier and much warmer by the time we reach sunday. and the reason for this unsettled start is we have a frontal system

moving its way in from the west, and that's brought with it some showers and some outbreaks of rain. now we could see some showers lingering onto the evening, perhaps the odd heavy shower across scotland and northern england. but for most of the night it is going to be turning largely dry and settled. plenty of clear spells too, which means we're likely to see some mist and fog patches develop , particularly in those develop, particularly in those rural spots. so a cooler night to come. but most towns and cities remaining in the low double digits . so to start on double digits. so to start on sunday morning, there'll be plenty of bright sunshine around. but as i say, there will be some mist and fog, particularly around hilly areas of scotland. but for most of scotland, largely dry, just a few showers feeding into those western spots. most of the mist and fog is likely to be across northern ireland and western parts of northern england, and further east there'll be more of that bright sunshine, so some mist and fog across wales, perhaps devon and cornwall, but across the southeast quite a warm and bright start to the second half of the weekend. so for sunday, as high pressure

builds across the country that means a fine and settled day on offer and plenty of warm sunshine across the country too . sunshine across the country too. we may just start to see a bit more cloud feed into western parts of northern ireland and western parts of scotland, too. by the time we reach the afternoon, but otherwise plenty of dry weather, some warm sunshine and highs of 26 across the southeast. but elsewhere temperatures improved and mostly in the low 20s. so a dry evening to come. but that cloud will continue to thicken in the west, with some, perhaps some outbreaks of rain overnight, too, and turning fairly blustery here as well. and as we head into next week, there'll be plenty of dry to weather come, perhaps some thunderstorms by midweek. that's it from me. bye for now. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers . boxt boilers.

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