>> well. >> well. >> very good morning to you. hope you're well. it's 930 on friday august the 9th. live across the uk. this is britain's newsroom with me, ben, leo and nana akua. right. >> so coming up police chiefs are told to stay on high alert in the face of more disorder as the prime minister praises the force's response to the violence. this week, chris hope has more . has more. >> no trouble last night from rioters , thankfully across the rioters, thankfully across the country. but sir keir starmer says that he must. his team must remain on high alert this weekend . weekend. >> and a divided britain, the mayor of london, sadiq khan, declares he no longer feels safe as a muslim in london. with the ongoing unrest, so is this genuine concern or is he maybe playing the victim and trouble for taylor? >> taylor swift's wembley show might, not go ahead next week. with beefed up security as her

vienna performances are cancelled over terrorism fears . cancelled over terrorism fears. would this put you off going and highway code headache almost half of drivers admit they don't know the hierarchy of responsibility that was added to the driving rule book. >> two years ago. do you ? >> two years ago. do you? a hierarchy of responsibility? nana. yeah. well, basically. >> okay, so if you're a person, you are actually the most important thing on the road . and important thing on the road. and if you're a cyclist and the people are more important than you and it goes on and on depending on how big you are and, and people can literally step out into the road. and if you don't stop as a driver or they on corners, if you the pedestrian basically has the right of way. pedestrians. >> number one. yeah. cyclists number two. yeah drivers bottom of the pile, >> well, i think what's after driver probably maybe motorcyclist will be a cyclist. then you've got the drivers and then you've got the lorries and so on and so forth. >> you reckon you'd pass your test now? of course i would.

>> i'm brilliant. >> i'm brilliant. >> i'm brilliant. >> i like to think i would. i was 17 when i passed 34. now i've never had a crash. touchwood. >> have you had any points? >> have you had any points? >> a few, i hadn't had any points for about like 40 years or 30 years. >> yeah, about 40 years. and then i just couldn't stop myself. >> yeah. good. go. well, let us know what you think. how is your driver's license bolstering with points? three points. have you got. are you an angel like nana? >> well, not anymore. send us your thoughts. post your comments. gbnews.com forward slash your save. but first, here's the news with mark . white. >> well good morning to you. it's 932. the latest headlines from the gb news centre. sir keir starmer has said swift justice and tough sentencing has been a deterrent to more violent disorder. addressing his third emergency cobra meeting since the southport riots, the prime minister told the meeting that police need to remain on high alert. 6000 public order officers mobilised in recent

days will remain on duty this weekend as more protests are expected in a number of areas of the country . well, several the country. well, several police forces have issued further cctv appeals to identify suspects they believe to have been responsible for some of the violence and disorder detectives investigating riots in merseyside issued images of ii merseyside issued images of 11 people after a separate appeal helped identify individuals earlier this week, greater manchester police have issued a similar appeal for information they're asking the public to contact them directly or crime stoppers anonymously, if they recognise any of the people pictured. the mayor of london, sadiq khan, has claimed he does not feel safe as an openly muslim politician following the riots. asked by reporters if he felt safe during the riots given his religion, he said clearly i'm not safe, which is why i've got police protection. the mayor

expressed alarm at recent events, comparing them to the racial tensions he faced growing up in the 1970s and 80s donald trump has agreed to debate vice president kamala harris on television in the race to the white house, it's been confirmed the republican nominee will debate his democratic rival on the 10th of september on the us network abc. and trump told a news conference at his florida home last night that he wants to add two more debates on fox news and nbc. the former reality tv star katie price is due to appearin star katie price is due to appear in court today after being arrested at heathrow airport last night. it comes after a judge issued a warrant following her failure to attend a high court bankruptcy hearing last month. price was declared bankrupt in november 2019 and again in march this year. well,

those are the latest headlines from the gb news centre. for now, i'll be back in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gb news.com forward slash alerts . news.com forward slash alerts. >> thanks, mark and good morning to you back home. it's 935 ben and nana with you on this friday morning. i was about to say glorious friday morning, but i left for work this morning at five. yeah, pitch black rain smashing down the trees were blowing in the wind. it felt like winter november or something, but apparently it's meant to be a bit of a scorcher this weekend. well, today, apparently 25 degrees the weekend in the 30s. >> typical, because i've got my show at 3:00 and everyone will be sunbathing. >> you'll be stuck in here. >> you'll be stuck in here. >> no. well, i like being here, but that's people won't watch because they're they're doing other stuff. >> there is concern, though, that this hot weather coming this weekend, the heatwave in

london on monday, i think, or tuesday, it's meant to be 32 or something. but anyway, this weekend apparently if it is hot weather, which it should be, is going to encourage more potential riots and violence. >> they need rain. they actually praying for rain when it comes to racing because then people 90, to racing because then people go, do you know what i don't fancy it because i'm going to get wet, so forget it . yeah. but get wet, so forget it. yeah. but anyway, is that some. >> yeah, it's , it is a concern. >> yeah, it's, it is a concern. hopefully we don't see any more rioting. it was quelled of course overnight yesterday and the day before. so fingers crossed that's the end of it. but regardless, the prime minister, sir keir starmer, told an emergency cobra meeting last night that police still need to remain on high alert now. >> this comes as the suspended labour councillor has been arrested after footage emerged of him online, which he allegedly incited the murder of anti—immigration protesters. well, he i think he called them nazis and said cut all their throats, which is what he said. >> yeah, i mean, it's pretty shocking. they very swiftly arrested him. so anyway, the question is , should we be braced question is, should we be braced for more disorder? our political editor , chris hope, joins us editor, chris hope, joins us now. good morning chris. thanks

for joining us. what do you make forjoining us. what do you make of sir keir starmer's comments? should we be bracing ourselves for more disorder this weekend ? for more disorder this weekend? >> morning, nana. morning, ben. yeah, there's no question. that's what the prime minister told his meeting of the in cobra, the cabinet office briefing room last night. his top aides. he made very clear to them they should. he wants his team on high alert. this weekend. he said he thanked the police and the wider criminal justice system for their support. so far, i think in the past eight days, nine days of rioting since those dreadful killings in southport last week and the pm has showed his strength in terms of being able to get the cps to get the prosecutions going through the system, get the court sentencing, demonstrate to people thinking about rioting that you could get a prison within days of the trouble last week in almost record time, and that appears to have worked. this is an area where the prime minister is absolutely trained up for, as being a former director of public prosecutions,

the next step is more challenging. for him. it's the politics of to how how to deal with the concerns that may have led to the violence not justifying at all. but there are widespread concerns amongst communities. gb news viewers and listeners about immigration and how is that being tackled, particularly illegal immigration? and how will the government deal with that? because frankly, the last tory government failed on that. he said last night, though, to his group, to the understood told the cobra meeting there was no doubt he felt that levels of policing in the right places, the thousands of police deployed around the country in the trouble spots has led to calming it all down, and i think the issue this weekend is will it get worse? we have got the football season restarting, that that could be, people. people may want to go to games rather than go have it. any any trouble on the streets. and that could be a good thing. but there's no question the government remains on high alert. the troubles were only last on tuesday, and now it's friday, so there's no

reason why it's ended yet. >> well, chris, i mean, we will play >> well, chris, i mean, we will play that clip in a moment, but i just wanted to talk about sadiq khan because he's basically saying that he. no longer feels safe as a muslim, there was a piece in the guardian. this is also quoted in the daily telegraph. he said he is not safe as an openly muslim politician in the wake of the riots. well, i mean, of course we had the pro—palestinian riots and the jewish people were saying exactly the same, has there been any more updates on his his comments , his his comments, >> not yet. nana. i mean , sadiq >> not yet. nana. i mean, sadiq khanis >> not yet. nana. i mean, sadiq khan is a really important figure in law and order in this country. he's obviously mayor of london, and that means he has oversight of the work of the met police chief, sir mark rowley. so he is saying maybe personally, that he feels he has said he felt triggered by the riots. and he of course, he he, he blamed the far right, as the government has done, for the troubles. and he says he feels triggered by that. he has talked before about the levels of security he has. he doesn't

really want to go into that too much because that might draw attention to it. but he does . he attention to it. but he does. he does have to be be protected. and if he's saying that how he feels, that's him. as a as a muslim man. but you're right that the jewish community has felt under threat since the, the, the, the war in gaza broke out. and the way that they feel felt pressured by palestinian protesters. so he's probably speaking as an individual muslim man, but it's hardly it doesn't it doesn't reassure necessarily about the state of policing in london for him to say that, chris, if i could just very briefly, probe your own mind on labour's performance so far since winning power and the general election, how long has it been? >> five, six weeks or so? how do you think they're getting on? because they've had some unprecedented events to deal with, not least these riots. they've had the £20 billion black hole, surprise, as they describe it. how do you think they're performing? do you think they're performing? do you think they would have won any more new voters off the back of their performance in recent weeks ? performance in recent weeks? >> that's a great, great

question, ben. i've been reflecting on that. i mean, just a week last monday, we heard from rachel reeves when she removed the winter fuel payment from millions of pensioners. she gave a pay rise above inflation to millions of public sector workers. she gave a 22% pay rise to junior doctors. i mean, there were choices being made here, which weren't really signalled at all during the general election. and then they walk straight into to this as ever events buffet governments. i think they've got to grips with, with the violence. i think sir keir starmer can look back on the week and think he did show firm leadership. he did deal with it. i think the language was questionable to say that it was questionable to say that it was a far right issue when of course, as we know from our mailbox mailbag @gbnews, it's far more complicated than that. immigration is a widespread concern across all groups. it's not a far right issue, and i'm yet to see a clear demonstration from the government. they understand that, but this is

what happens in government. i mean, i think they have i think the i think about the policy last week, ben, when they had that did that issue with the pensioners, that was quite an aggressive moment for this government so soon, having just won power that justified that by saying that there's a £22 billion black hole and we'll hear more from the government in the budget in october. it may be just now with these troubles may be past. we hope they're past, that the government might get back to talking about policy and looking forward into this crucial budget on in early october. >> well, now a lot of people are saying that the riots are as you as we've talked about it, a symptom of the mass immigration. and people want to talk about it. but keir starmer was asked quite directly with regard to what he was going to do about it. and this is what this is this, this is the question and this is how he responded . how he responded. >> oh, here it comes. >> oh, here it comes. >> it will be now the time to engage with the underlying tensions that are in communities

over the issue of immigration. >> the first priority is safety and security of our communities. >> so he didn't sort of fully answered the question. he did talk about safety and security in the communities. but but there wasn't much else with regard to immigration, what are youn regard to immigration, what are your, what are your thoughts on how perhaps he should have answered it or what do you think going forward, the effect of that sort of lack of ability to answer this question will have on the british public? >> i think so, i mean, he's stressing, isn't he, the prime minister that he's focus is on deaung minister that he's focus is on dealing with the law and order issue, which he knows a lot about. of course, he was the director of public prosecutions. he knows , how the cps works. he he knows, how the cps works. he was a dpp in 2011 when those riots happened . i should say riots happened. i should say that so far, 500 arrests across the country. back in 2011, it was 3000. so we're barely a sixth of the way there to the scale of the troubles back in

2011. so but he saw that happen. he got, and i've heard some sources in close to him saying they gave a kick up the bum to some, some extent in the cps to get them going, get them motoring on, getting , getting, motoring on, getting, getting, prosecutorial choices made and getting and getting showing people that if you do riot that there will be real world consequences for you very rapidly. but the next question, i think for the government is more tricky. how do they deal with the concerns about immigration? how they deal with the underlying issues in so many communities, so many across the country, a dozen towns and cities where rioting happened thatis cities where rioting happened that is a problem, not least how, how do, how do, how does people organise in that way on social media? that's one issue. but also the concerns in those communities are yet to be talked about. i think properly by this government . government. >> okay. our political editor, christopher hope, thank you very much from downing street. >> right up next, our very own andrew pierce is gearing up for his performance at the edinburgh fringe festival. we'll check in with him in just a tick here with him in just a tick here with britain's newsroom on

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and good morning i'm nana akua. this is ben leo. we are britain's newsroom this morning and of course a gb news presenter. andrew pierce is in edinburgh today for his second appearance at the fringe festival. he sent us this report . festival. he sent us this report. >> andrew pierce here in edinburgh, outside the city council office during this remarkable fringe festival, the biggest festival of its kind in europe. and who better to talk to than councillor cammy day, who is the leader of edinburgh city council? councillor, you must be very proud of this festival. >> absolutely. this year we're seeing nearly 5000 acts to perform from across the world, people coming to what i think is the best city in the to world perform and show what they can do across the world. so yeah, we're absolutely excited. it's a great time to be in the city. >> it doubles in size, effectively. this city he does.

>> we see the population boom. we see people travelling from the neighbouring communities around edinburgh as well. by the way, edinburgh has always been the festival city of the world and we welcome everyone to come here and enjoy the fantastic offerings of our many, many festivals. >> why is it so successful and why is it such an important part of scotland? if not the country's social calendar? >> i mean, it's in part our heritage here for 75 years or so, built up by local people and a huge audience that attends these shows, our local people from edinburgh and around scotland as well as well as that huge international presence. it's grown from a small local festival in edinburgh to be probably one of the best in the world, and we're absolutely proud of that and it makes edinburgh. it's one of the reasons that makes edinburgh the best in the world and continues for 75 years, and i hope for 75 years more. it's one of the many festivals we have in the city across the whole whole year. >> what's your favourite part of it? do you like the comedy, the singing, the scottish culture? what is the best part for you? >> i like the fact that we've got it's an international city just in the high street here. every day you'll hear music, comedy, entertainment from across the world. i myself have

been to see some taiwanese show, some chinese shows. we've seen some chinese shows. we've seen some korean shows and of course some korean shows and of course some local talent here from edinburgh we have the international festival alongside the fringe at the same time, and that just brings thousands of acts to the city from across the world. yes, only the other day there were a group of corporates from from brazil and one of the fantastic dancers across from across the world and here in high street, with local students performing everything. so there's something for everybody here in edinburgh now there's a storm cloud brewing for you because for the second time in two years, there is a prospect of a bin strike across scotland. >> we saw it in 2022, an embarrassment for edinburgh when the eyes of europe, if not the world, are on the city. the scottish government are saying that it's the snp government of course, are saying they'll find more money. how important is it that that strike is called off? >> it's absolutely for the city. it's we need to hold off. so we it's we need to hold off. so we i have, along with my colleagues, cosla, which is a convention of local authorities, have been meeting now for weeks, if not months to try and resolve this and local government have

been have been having their funding cut for the last decade or more here in edinburgh. we're the lowest funded council in the whole of scotland as a capital city, but we have been arguing for many, many months and weeks to try and resolve this and the last few weeks we've managed to get the snp government reps around the table , and that around the table, and that happened just a few weeks ago. and after this interview, i'll be joining the meeting this morning. and there's been a special leaders meeting called a 930 to try and resolve the bin strikes. and i'm confident that today, with the support of the scottish government, our trade union colleagues and local government, we will hopefully get a deal across the line today to avert the strike action from happening , leaving it very late. happening, leaving it very late. >> that's why you have to start on what is it on wednesday next week on the 14th, and that's why i've called for the scottish government to be round the table many, many weeks or months ago. >> and i hope that as a result of today's decision, if we get that across the line, we will move to say we need cosla, the trade unions and government round the table earlier on in this stage. so we don't have this stage. so we don't have this situation coming here again. we want to have the strikes, not happening. we want to celebrate what the city can offer for the next few weeks

here and welcome more and more people to enjoy edinburgh's offerings. >> it's all about money. the bin men want more money. they men and women. i should say they want a decent pay rise and i respect that. >> and i respect the right to take industrial action should they need to. they shouldn't have to, you know, and i think what they're asking for is not to different from what's been agreed in the rest of the uk . agreed in the rest of the uk. and that seems a fair settlement. >> just finally going back on to a positive note, it's the edinburgh festival . you are, edinburgh festival. you are, expecting to see a million people here during the town city. have you ever performed in the festival yourself? >> i've not performed. i was once pulled on stage by pan am to take part as an act on a drag act . yeah, many, many years ago. act. yeah, many, many years ago. but i'll leave that to the professionals . and my job is to professionals. and my job is to help run the city and get the best for her. >> so we're not going to see you in a drag show this week or next week. >> not this year. >> not this year. >> all right. this is a councillor, cammy day. he's the leader of edinburgh city council, revealing another side to his character. do you know anything about him and pan am great friends thank you for

joining us and let's hope the bin strike is called off. councillor. >> i'm confident we'll get that sorted. >> all right. great to talk to you. >> thanks sir. >> thanks sir. >> that's councillor cammy day, the leader of edinburgh city council, and i'm at edinburgh for, for today and tomorrow. it's a remarkable festival. and it's a remarkable festival. and i heard the sound of bagpipes as i heard the sound of bagpipes as i was walking up here. i hope that doesn't sound too cliched, councillor. so back to you. gb news in the studio , the news in the studio, the legendary andrew pierce >> he's at the edinburgh fringe. we'll be talking to him a bit later on as well. yeah, so there's a lot going on here on gb news. stay tuned. gbnews.com/yoursay we'd love to hear your comments on it. coming up, sadiq khan says he no longer feels safe as a muslim. he actually said his words were that he felt triggered by the events of last week , and was events of last week, and was heartbroken that his children's generation had felt scared. now that's interesting. he's saying that's interesting. he's saying that because for weeks, in fact, months, the jewish people have been saying they don't feel safe in the streets of london, his very capital city. yep >> jewish people. but londoners for years and years who have been subject to terror attacks, knife crime, you know, oh, you don't feel safe. well, you've

got a bodyguard of contingent of ten people. you roll around with security by your side all the time. so imagine how londoners feel. imagine how jews feel. since october 7, there you go. >> well, you know, khan, ladies and gents. well, that's his thoughts. but maybe. is he justified? what do you think, gbnews.com/yoursay? this is britain's newsroom on gb news step to take now because alex has your . weather. has your. weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news >> hello. very good morning to you. here's your latest gb news weather forecast coming to you from the met office. a bit of a grey muqqy from the met office. a bit of a grey muggy start for some of us this morning, but we will see increasing amounts of sunshine as we go through the day. that's because most of the cloud is going to drift away towards the east as we go through the morning, and so then plenty of sunshine following in behind, especially across england and

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live across the united kingdom. this is britain's newsroom with me nana akua and ben leo. >> very good morning to you. hope you're doing well . now hope you're doing well. now police chiefs are told to stay on high alert in the face of more disorder, as the pm praises the force's response to violence this week and a divided britain . this week and a divided britain. >> the mayor of london, sadiq khan, declares that he no longer feels safe as a muslim in london. with the ongoing unrest and tax breaks for parents with and tax breaks for parents with a declining birth rate is giving couples a five grand tax break just the incentive they need for families to have more children. >> one think tank certainly thinks so, and highway code headache. >> almost half of the drivers admit that they don't actually know the hierarchy of responsibility. that was added to the driving rule book. two years ago, but do you ? years ago, but do you? well, we'd love to hear what you think. send us your thoughts.

post your comments gbnews.com/yoursay. >> lots going on today, mayor of london sadiq khan says he's, he feels like a victim in london. he fears for his safety . feels like a victim in london. he fears for his safety. he's been triggered by the rioting this week. what about the knife crime, >> what about all the stuff that's been going on in the streets since for years, whilst he's been in charge of london and, similar to harry and meghan, where harry said that meghan, where harry said that meghan doesn't want to come back because it's unsafe, >> you've got bodyguards. sadiq khan rolls around with a massive contingent of big burly blokes. yeah, you know, they've certainly been to the gym, had a few steaks. tough, tough bodyguards, no one else has that. the people living in london for the past couple of decades don't have that. they've been subject to terrorist attacks. the jews who have been subject to all they've been subjected to over the past, well, months, since october the 7th, you know, welcome to the world of londoners. >> well, welcome to the real world. but the bottom line, i mean , yes, i give him that. he mean, yes, i give him that. he is a high profile figure. so, you know, you've got to give him that. he's more likely to be a target. but the bottom line is this, quite simply, it's his london. he's in charge. and you

know, what's he going to do about it? >> do you know what i'd say? i'd say, sadiq, it's part and parcel of living in a big city, my friend. >> but first, let's get your latest news with mark white. >> good morning. it's 1002. latest news with mark white. >> good morning. it's1002. the latest headlines from the gb news centre. and we start with some breaking news. and an 18 year old iraqi national has been arrested in vienna in connection with the investigation into an alleged plot to attack a taylor swift concert in the austrian capital on wednesday. all three of the us singer's performances at vienna's ernst happel stadium were cancelled , and two other were cancelled, and two other suspected extremists were arrested by local police. the iraqi national arrested is believed to have come from the same group as the main suspect, a 19 year old austrian with nonh a 19 year old austrian with north macedonian roots. sir keir starmer has said swift justice

and tough sentencing has been a deterrent to more violent disorder. addressing his third emergency cobra meeting since the southport riots, the prime minister told the meeting that police need to remain on high alert. 6000 public order officers mobilised in recent days will remain on duty this weekend as more protests are expected in a number of areas of the country. the cabinet minister nick thomas—symonds, has warned that committing violence and disorder will be pursued. >> if you are out on our streets, if you are found to be or you plead guilty to violence on our streets or threats of violence, then you will face the full force of the law , whoever full force of the law, whoever you are. and i think that's a very strong message. the government has been sending out . government has been sending out. >> well, several police forces have issued further cctv appeals

to identify suspects they believe to have been responsible for some of the violence and disorder detectives investigating riots in merseyside issued images of 11 people after a separate appeal helped identify individuals earlier this week. greater manchester police have issued a similar appeal for information they're asking the public to contact them directly. alternatively, they can contact crime stoppers anonymously if they recognise any of the people pictured . the mayor of london, pictured. the mayor of london, sadiq khan, has said that he claims that he doesn't feel safe as an openly muslim politician following the riots. asked by reporters if he felt at risk dunng reporters if he felt at risk during the riots given his religion, he said clearly i'm not safe, which is why i've got police protection . the mayor police protection. the mayor expressed alarm at recent events , expressed alarm at recent events, comparing them to the racial tensions he faced growing up in

the 1970s and 80s. well, donald trump has agreed to debate vice president kamala harris on television in the race to the white house. it's been confirmed the republican nominee will debate his democratic rival on the 10th of september on the us network abc. and trump told a news conference at his florida home last night that he also wants to add two more debates on fox news and nbc. the former reality tv star katie price is due to appear in court today after being arrested at heathrow airport last night. it comes after a judge issued a warrant following her failure to attend a high court bankruptcy hearing last month. price was declared bankrupt in november 2019 and again in march this year. well, those are the latest gb news headunes those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'll be back with more in half an hour.

>> in the meantime, for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> good morning. hello and welcome. this is britain's newsroom live across the uk on gb news with ben , leo and me. gb news with ben, leo and me. >> nana akua morning. we've nearly made it to the end of the week haven't we. just about there. it's been a bit of a hectic week. now the prime minister told an emergency cobra meeting last night that police need to remain on high alert. >> now this comes as a suspended labour councillor has been arrested after footage emerged of him online, which he allegedly incited the murder of anti—immigration protesters . anti—immigration protesters. >> meanwhile, as we just mentioned, london mayor sadiq khan claims he feels triggered by the disorder and no longer feels safe in this country. as a muslim . so the question being muslim. so the question being what sir keir starmer, the labour leader, the prime

minister going to do about the bubbung minister going to do about the bubbling unrest? well, he was asked a question yesterday by a reporter whether eventually he will get to the crux of the crux of it all immigration, massive immigration. what are you going to do about it? this is what he said. >> if we have indeed turned a corner and seen an end to the violence, is now the time to engage with the underlying tensions that are in communities over the issue of immigration? >> the first priority is safety and security of our communities. and yes, last night was much better than was expected. but we are not going to, you know , give are not going to, you know, give up on our efforts here. that's why it's very important that i continue my discussions coordinating with law enforcement, with police leaders to make sure we've got the right officers in the right place to keep pushing on the criminal justice response. i was very keen that we were able to demonstrate that if you're involved in disorder, within days, you'll be in the criminal

justice system . and some people justice system. and some people starting long terms of imprisonment that needs to continue. and so that is my sole focus . focus. >> so your sole focus as people starting long term and focusing on people who are long term imprisonment, that now he he did say that he doesn't want to put what is it plaster or band aid kind of politics i think. i can't remember the exact phrase that he used, but to me, that's exactly that. you're dealing with the actual. the result rather than the problem itself. and he seems to be seems to feel that he's done a good job. but my also point with that is that if a few people going to prison has a brilliant effect and actually stops people from rioting, then rwanda would have worked. >> do you know what? i don't think so. keir starmer and labour care about the immigration concerns from people in this country because they're not labour voters. i think they've got their massive majority, they've got their agendain majority, they've got their agenda in play now and why should they care about it? they've got five years of doing what they want. they're already doing it with their green schemes. net zero ed miliband's

running riot with wind farms here, there and everywhere. solar plants. they don't need to pander to the concerns of those who have worries about immigration because they're in power for five years and they've got a stonking majority. >> well, they may have a stonking majority in terms of seats, but let's be honest here, 20% of the electorate voted for him, 80% did not vote for him. so i don't. but what i am concerned about is the sort of the way the heavy clampdown on literally anyone who dares to express their views in terms of mass immigration, because i don't know whether other people will be brave enough to protest. and then the almost ignoring of the counter demonstrations where they were shouting free palestine, which i think can be quite intimidatory to jewish people, that seems to be okay, that that was okay. and then, of course, the councillor, which we won't mention now because obviously that is an online that's an ongoing investigation. but anyway, we move on. what are your thoughts? gbnews.com/yoursay. but now our political correspondent olivia utley joins us. now. can we start let's start with sadiq khan's comments. olivia, tell us about those .

about those. >> yeah. sadiq khan did this quite moving interview yesterday where he talked about how he, as a muslim and openly muslim politician, no longer feels safe in london. he said he felt triggered by the events of last week, and he said that he hoped that his generation would be the last to experience racism in the caphal last to experience racism in the capital. but he now feels that his children, too, are experiencing that sort of racism. he also pointed the finger a little bit for the riots at former conservative ministers . lee anderson, who was ministers. lee anderson, who was a conservative deputy chairman of the party and has now been re—elected as a reform mp, and suella braverman, the former conservative home secretary. now both of those mps made comments, controversial comments. they were seen as at the time about immigration. and sadiq khan has suggested that the comments, like that have helped stirred up the problems that we're seeing on the streets today. it's quite interesting. it seems that what's happened in the past few daysis what's happened in the past few days is this, argument has moved

from the streets, from the riots on the streets , which now, on the streets, which now, finally, the government seems to be getting a grip on to the more sort of political sector. and it'll be really interesting to see how that develops over the coming days. will we see people like suella braverman , robert like suella braverman, robert jenrick lee anderson hitting back at the labour government at the same time? of course, the labour government has actually been given a bit of a leg up by rishi sunaks outgoing conservative government in that immigration. legal immigration to the uk has declined year on year from last july because of those conservative policies to stop people coming here on student and care visas, bringing their families over immigration on those visas has gone down from over 90,000 by nearly a third, so that might help keir starmer address the root of this problem, even though it's something that lots of labour mps criticised at the time. >> olivia utley, thank you very much. that's our political correspondent, olivia utley, a quick email, if i can read it.

>> yes, please. just on sadiq khan and good morning to you. you say welcome to the real world, sadiq. now you know how the jewish population of london feel as they face pro—palestine marches, which you openly support ? support? >> well, it seems a bit the gall, and i don't mean to be rude, but the gall of him to, you know, not realise how unsafe i mean, welcome to the world of london in terms of knife crime. i mean, a lot of people do not feel safe on the streets. i mean, we're known now as the watch theft capital after people are stealing watches , mugging are stealing watches, mugging people and taking watches. yes. the police did react to this, but let's be honest, none of these people have protection or any of the things that sadiq khan has. the benefit of. so i just find it unbelievable. >> sadiq khan's infamous response to one of the many terror attacks london has been subject to in recent years. his response was this is part and parcel of living in a big city. well, sadiq, welcome to the club. that's all i can say. >> well, anyway , police chiefs >> well, anyway, police chiefs are being told to stay on high alert. joining us now is oliver lawrence. he's host of protect and serve podcast and a former

police officer. so what are your thoughts then sadiq khan saying he's feeling unsafe , most people he's feeling unsafe, most people in london probably feel unsafe. what do you feel should be done about this? >> yeah. morning, nana. morning, ben. yeah. listen nobody should feel unsafe in this city. and as much as i disagree with most of sadiq khan's politics, i think he's probably one of the most divisive politicians in the country , he should feel safe in country, he should feel safe in the city, as should his family. but equally, these are the challenges. these are the fears that londoners have been living with and people across the united kingdom now for many, many years. you look at the current terror threat level in the uk. it's at substantial, which means a terror attack is likely. we've got people now and fans of taylor swift worrying about upcoming concerts here in the uk because of events in europe, in austria, you know, these are troubling times. you know, we have a knife epidemic in london in terms of the stabbings that we see and ongoing tensions, and it's all about maintaining sort of a threat and risk picture and understanding what are the current challenges. and we've got to have difficult and courageous conversations around what are these challenges, what do people fear in different

communities and bring people together? we only saw last week sadiq khan put out a tweet which was incredibly divisive, you know, asking people just to focus on the welfare of brown and black people in our communities. we should be bringing everybody together and looking after each other, not just isolating any one particular community. >> oliver, what do you make of, concerns that there may be some more trouble this weekend, especially off the back of the fact that it's meant to be quite a nice weekend, weather wise . a nice weekend, weather wise. >> yeah, but i think there's going to be the risk of challenges for the remainder of the summer. tensions are incredibly high, and it's upon all of us. community leaders, politicians and the police to reduce the tensions which exist within our communities. but that doesn't mean engaging with everybody, not just any one particular community, not sitting in front of a camera with a bunch of community leaders. you need to get in front of everybody and discuss these issues openly tackle the big conversations. you know, our front line police officers do a remarkable job in keeping us safe. they've been incredibly brave over the past week to ten days, and that will not change. they will still they will still be there. they will still be

standing tall. they will still be standing strong. and they'll still protect all of us. but it's a behind all of us social media, politicians, media representatives, everybody to bnng representatives, everybody to bring everybody together and just bring the tension right back down into a calm atmosphere. >> but, but, but sadiq khan is in charge of london. he liaises with the police and crime commissioner for the metropolitan police. he's actually involved in who becomes the crime commissioner. so i'm just surprised that he's only just surprised that he's only just realised that the streets of london are incredibly unsafe, and he's the person behind a lot of the reasoning as to how the whole thing is policed. my question is this do you think that because of the pro—palestinian protests, which in my view, were not policed effectively, that this sort of riotous behaviour has been enabled? >> yeah, totally. and i think over a period of months we've seen, policing not respond probably as effectively as it could do in terms of the pro—palestinian protest. the jewish community have felt incredibly isolated and alone and obviously in a great deal of fear. you know , sadiq khan has fear. you know, sadiq khan has the luxury of having a close

protection team, he drives around in an incredibly expensive protective vehicle. and those luxuries, not the luxuries that every other londoner or our jewish community have. so i think it's upon him. you know, sadiq khan has only really sort of taken a notice in policing and safety in the last few years before then, it wasn't really on his radar. he's not a huge supporter of frontline policing and law and order in london. if he was, we wouldn't see the issues that we were having and we'd see a tougher crackdown on crime. but that's not his ethos, so i think it's incumbent on him to make sure that it incumbent on him to make sure thatitis incumbent on him to make sure that it is his number one priority. and it's not about just living in a city as a consequence. these are people's lives that he's having to look out for. and as the mayor of london, he has huge responsibilities. he needs to start taking them very seriously. >> well, thank you very much, oliver. lawrence really good to speak to you. that's oliver lawrence. he's the host of protect and serve podcast and a former police officer. >> it was good, wasn't he? >> it was good, wasn't he? >> it was very good. >> it was very good. >> good. good talker. right. up next with a £5,000 tax break. encourage you to have more kids, what about you, nana?

>> it's not enough money. no, it's nowhere near. doesn't cover it. what am i talking about? i'm not sure it's enough to mend the, the slice of soul that is scrubbed out your chest at 4:00 in the morning when the baby's up and asking to be fed, and you're going to work the next morning at seven, >> you can say at least i'm being given five grand. yeah. at least. no, i don't think five grand covers it. let us know what you think. gb news. >> com i think a bigger incentive would be perhaps to provide cheaper nursery places and things like that, enabling people to send their kids to nursery so they can go to work and so on and so forth. and five grand just does not cover it. >> yeah, it's a great debate. a couple of years back, i used to say, if you can't afford to have kids, don't have them. don't be selfish. but now the plunging birthrate, i just say have kids. if you can find a way to deal with it and let know what you think. you with britain's

tick. 1021 you're with ben tick. 1021you're with ben and nana on britain's newsroom on gb news. we're also joined by writer and broadcaster emma webb and director of world right, kerry dingle in the studio. we were just having a quick chat, actually. we'll get to the story. we're not going to start with it, but i said, would you go to mars, and there's a reason behind this conversation. would you go to mars to start a human colony on the planet, knowing you'd never come back? i said, yes because you'd go down forever. >> absolutely not. >> absolutely not. >> as the new neil armstrong. anyway, we're going to get to that story. >> it might. but then i said to you, it might be like total recall, a film that none of you have seen, which is a classic. my have seen, which is a classic. my god, it's good. right? >> what should we start with? >> what should we start with? >> should we start with the thugs? right. thugs jailed and shamed on tv as the court get tough. i'm going to start with you, emma webb. what's your view on this? >> well, i've consistently said that when people break the law in the course of protesting, that they should feel the full force of the law, which is the term everybody is using now, very unusual for this to be televised. they're obviously trying to make an example of these people. we've also seen this strange case of a 50 odd

year old woman who's been arrested for sharing misinformation online. right, i have lots of i mean, the news has been absolutely replete with accusations of two tier care, but the reality is that, you know, when we've seen other protests and other people breaking the law, if you remember, during the blm riots, there was a police officer who actually had a collapsed lung because somebody threw, something at her horse that bolted. if anybody remembers that really sort of, graphic footage that was being shared online, then, and we didn't see the same sort of, insistence on making an example of these people. and i think if you police the protest in the first place across the board, you wouldn't end up with riots. >> but keir would argue that he wasn't in charge at that point. so it's not really on the knee. he took the knee a few days later. >> that says it all, doesn't it? this man forget everything else that's happened in the recent weeks or years. the fact that he and angela rayner took the knee

for black lives matter says all you need to know about sir keir starmer kathy gyngell. >> what do you think? >> what do you think? >> well, i don't, i mean, i think people should be locked up if they've been acting like racist thugs. >> and i do agree with the points about two tier care. and i think musk was right on that. but what i'm worried about is the broader crackdown and the crackdown on free speech. and i think that does, ethnic minorities a huge disservice. and it's a massive attack on all of us as citizens. and i don't think you can deal with the problem by saying you can't say this. you just talked about a woman getting locked up. and i'm really worried that rather than tackle the underlying political discussion, a crackdown on free speech and our civil liberties drives these kind of hard, right ? drives these kind of hard, right? racists underground and makes things worse and carrie is absolutely right, i think, because, with the crackdown on free speech that we've seen, it's same with david amess. >> we see this to shift

immediately talking about what people are saying online, and the message is being sent by the director of public prosecutions, the cps, by mark rowley, by west midlands police, is that you may be arrested if you share footage of the of this disorder online. and if we didn't have the amazing citizen journalism that we've had showing not just the footage of this protest, but of other protests as well, and of the riots and even of the of the counter protests of the guy who's now been arrested, the labour councillor who was talking about slitting, rioters throats, if it wasn't for that footage being shared online, the british public would simply not know what is going on on their streets. and they have a right to know. and i'm really concerned about this immediate focus on, misinformation and cracking down on just quickly , cracking down on just quickly, why i know the answer, but why wouldn't they know why without x or elon musk? >> why wouldn't they know? >> why wouldn't they know? >> because the mainstream media just simply don't show the footage . gb news will report on footage. gb news will report on these things, but the majority

of news outlets just simply don't and without without having and, you know, a lot of news outlets actually use the footage thatis outlets actually use the footage that is caught by those citizen journalists and posted on on platforms. >> i do think that the, the, the obsession with misinformation is misplaced. and in fact, the police and the government ought to take heed of their own hysteria around this because, well, we've, you know, this idea that was going to be 100 riots was fear mongering and exaggeration. >> and the guy from hope not hate on them believing their own hypein hate on them believing their own hype in fact, which was misinformation. >> and we're all capable of questioning what's going on online. and i think it's wrong to say these, riots are a product just of, you know, twitter or of x, because that actually forgets the prejudices and fears that preceded, you know , misinformation and what know, misinformation and what happenedin know, misinformation and what happened in south. >> well, that's the thing, isn't it ? it silences people from

it? it silences people from giving information and also how does somebody know that something that they're retweeting is definitely misinformation . and what were misinformation. and what were you saying? >> that's what the community notes are good for. and actually there's a two tier, sort of condemnation of people sharing misinformation because there was even one mp who shared the misinformation about a muslim woman being acid attacked. and does that not stir ? does that not stir? >> who first tweeted that? emma? was it nick lowles hope not. hate far left. and he also, why has he not had a knock on the door? >> he should have. >> he should have. >> he should have. >> he also a 55 year old grandmother was nicked yesterday for retweeting information she claimed this is her defence. she claims she was retweeting the identity. false identity of the southport attacker. nick lowles of hope not hate was the first person to say muslims have had acid thrown over them . acid thrown over them. >> and that 50 odd year old woman also prefaced her tweet by saying if this is true now the guy from hope not hate that you mentioned why is he running? he also said about the 100, riots that were planned, he even tweeted saying yes, this was a hoax, but look how many people have come out on the street to

show that they're anti—racist and so on. so there's a completely, sort of, sorry. >> we're going to i was going to say, well, obviously nick lowles isn't to here defend himself, and we'd love it if he would come in and defend himself, actually explain how he's, retweeted something or made comments that were actually incorrect and has not been arrested. and i would think that he, perhaps sir keir starmer should be looking at that. >> he came and started from him. cleveland police had to respond to him and say this isn't true. he then apologised for it doesn't matter if he's apologised, so did the woman who was arrested yesterday. >> he should be arrested. >> he should be arrested. >> i'm just amazed that these people think that their their left wing, when actually they support racial thinking. you know, i see myself as left wing . know, i see myself as left wing. i'm to the left of labour because i find labour's racial thinking appalling. and these hope not hate people are to me are sort of grievance cultivators and they support racial difference, which has been part of the problem. >> you carry out a traditional leftist and you're of the ilk of, say, baroness claire fox. she's a massive leftist, but she's still not, you know , the

she's still not, you know, the kind of leftist we see today who are militant. i mean, i'd argue almost fascist in nature censorship. authoritarianism. >> it does make you not want to identify as left wing at all, because things have shifted so far in my day. if you were anti—racist and an activist, as i've been all my life, you believed in one human race. you didn't go along with this idea of racial difference, and that also would lead you to , to not also would lead you to, to not treating people in this sort of differential way. >> and so as you were saying, ben, you know , about the way ben, you know, about the way that this is, being reported on in across many other channels, not gb news, but if you just take the example of, of sky news and the responses to that sky news footage, the guy in the background with a massive sword, i'm guessing he's not bought a next day delivery. he's not got that specially for the occasion. >> walking past as she was pointing to a taxi and sky news are doing everything they can to dodge facing the reality that the people behind them are intimidating their female journalists. >> and wielding weapons. i mean,

it's absolutely outrageous. and if it wasn't for people going out on the streets , as i say, out on the streets, as i say, not just this protest, but others as well. i mean, a lot of the footage of the pro—palestine marches and the anti—semitism that took place, there wouldn't have been caught if it had not been caught by those citizen journalists . journalists. >> and i just say that that that clip, if i don't know whether any of you have seen it, it's a sky news reporter who is talking about a supposed far right attack at a taxi rank. and as she's speaking behind her are a group of men who appear to be muslim, holding machetes and all sorts of things. weapons clearly with their faces covered, walking past. and she actually sides with a lacerated liver, didn't he? >> yeah. should we talk astronauts very quickly? we've got a minute left. so two nasa astronauts are stranded on the international space station for two months, and they may be forced to stay until february 2025. so they were only sent for a day, apparently. but they won't be sent back if they can't be rescued or get back in time until february. would you go to the moon or mars if you can come back? >> absolutely. absolutely not.

it's like one of my worst fears. it's like one of my worst fears. it's like one of my worst fears. it's like those, you know , it's like those, you know, movies when people are sort of lost in space and then about to suffocate or total recall. >> i love that as, as and nana says , absolutely terrifying. says, absolutely terrifying. >> but surely these astronauts, you know, they can't be risk averse when they're going to go into space. they must know that these things might occur and, ben, you've said that you want to go down in history as the sort of first coloniser of mars. >> mad man. >> mad man. >> i've got to say, i've got a weird vision, a weird dream that me and my son jude will one day. elon musk maybe, or someone will blast us off to mars to, you know, begin life on on mars. >> you know, it's that. >> you know, it's that. >> well , if my >> you know, it's that. >> well, if my younger boy is old enough, he can come as well. but it would just be great to be the neil armstrong of. >> he's not answer the question. you're doing a keir starmer. >> it'll be the neil armstrong of my generation. >> all right. yeah. >> all right. yeah. >> listen, emma webb and kerry dingle, thank you very much. let's get your latest news headunes let's get your latest news headlines with mark wise .

headlines with mark wise. >> good morning. it's 1031. headlines with mark wise. >> good morning. it's1031. the latest headlines from the gb news centre, an 18 year old iraqi national has been arrested in vienna in connection with the investigation into an alleged plot to attack a taylor swift concert in the austrian capital on wednesday. all three of the us singer's performances at vienna's ernst happel stadium were cancelled and two others suspected extremists were arrested by local police. the iraqi national arrested is believed to have come from the same group as the main suspect, a 19 year old austrian with nonh a 19 year old austrian with north macedonian roots . sir a 19 year old austrian with north macedonian roots. sir keir starmer has said swift justice and tough sentencing has been a deterrent to more violent disorder. addressing his third emergency cobra meeting since the southport riots, the prime

minister told the meeting that police need to remain on high alert. 6000 public order officers mobilised in recent days will remain on duty this weekend as more protests are expected in a number of areas of the country . the family of a the country. the family of a retired british doctor have issued an urgent appeal after he went missing in the french pyrenees almost three days ago. 67 year old tom doherty, from saint albans , was hiking and saint albans, was hiking and camping near col desko when his family lost contact with him on tuesday. a search is underway involving dogs and helicopters. his daughter says the family last heard from doctor doherty via whatsapp. he sent the messages asking for help and told them he'd fallen and couldn't move. donald trump has agreed to debate vice president kamala harris on television in the race to the white house,

it's been confirmed the republican nominee will debate his democratic rival on the 10th of september on the us network abc. and trump told a news conference at his florida home last night that he also wants to add two more debates on fox news and nbc , and the former reality and nbc, and the former reality tv star katie price is due to appearin tv star katie price is due to appear in court today after being arrested at heathrow airport last night. it comes after a judge issued a warrant following her failure to attend a high court bankruptcy hearing last month . price was declared last month. price was declared bankrupt in november 2019 and again in march this year. will those are the latest gb news headunes those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'll be back with 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 gb news.

>> .com. forward slash alerts . >> .com. forward slash alerts. >> .com. forward slash alerts. >> thanks, mark. talking about being stranded in space, donna, you have said you are a member. good morning donna. i would love to be stranded in space right now. it's got to be donna. yeah, exactly. >> with you? exactly. well stay with us. we'd love to hear your thoughts. gbnews.com/yoursay. up next, are we a divided nation? london mayor sadiq khan says he no longer feels safe here as a muslim, what does the prime minister need to do to ensure everyone feels welcome? you're with britain's newsroom on gb news

right. well, it's just coming up to 38 minutes after 10:00. good morning. if you've just tuned in. welcome. this is britain's newsroom with ben, leo and me. nana akua. >> should we read some emails?

>> should we read some emails? >> yeah, let's do some of these things. >> right. >> right. >> well, i've got one here from . >> well, i've got one here from. donna. she's the one who also tweeted, i would love to be stranded in space right now. she said we should all be tweak the so—called offensive tweet and watch the government eat its own tail. i'm not sure which tweet it is, but i hear you. i hear you, >> david, you say, talking about space and colonising planets. you say, why not send sir keir starmer to mars. good idea. >> i don't think he'll go . >> i don't think he'll go. >> i don't think he'll go. >> michael says. how do we trust starmer? the man who took the knee after the black lives matter riots? i know we sort of joke about that and trivialise it, but for me it's quite an apt point. it's kind of like your judgement is horribly wrong, black lives matter wants to defund the police, bring down the west, take down capitalism . the west, take down capitalism. and if you ask me, it was actually very racist. well, it was racist. >> it was deeply offensive because i and i can remember at the time saying, this is awful, it should be all lives matter. and i was castigated by lots of people. a lot of very liberal woke people saying, oh, that's terrible. all lives shouldn't

matter. it's black. and i'm like, well, no, because it's offensive to the people whose life you haven't included in there. so it should be all lives matter. and i think it's quite a divisive narrative . and also it divisive narrative. and also it turned out that the organisers in the states , were fraudulent in the states, were fraudulent as well. it did. patrisse cullors oh yeah. >> who mansions everywhere, sending money all over the 90 million that they spent. >> and she had to justify where the money went and it didn't go to the right places. and that's not me making allegations. you can read all about that. it is true. okay. i've got one here from john andrews. he says , ben, from john andrews. he says, ben, why is there not a mugshot of the bloke who had a baseball bat in his hand and the one that stabbed the sky news varne tires with a knife, and other protesters on the roundabout, and the people driving the two black audi estate cars . why have black audi estate cars. why have we not seen any mug shots of them being arrested and sent to prison for three years? >> yeah. who knows, maybe the police are trying to track them down or, you know, who knows, but i just i mean, similar i said yesterday, it's fine. the sun front page yesterday pictured all the far right rioters who had been banged up within a day of being arrested. three year sentences for some of

them. and i said, well, why isn't the same happening to those guys who are assaulting police officers at manchester airport weeks back? they're giving press conferences, playing the victims, saying they're going to sue greater manchester police . they've on manchester police. they've on cctv smashing officers faces and breaking them. one of the one of the noses, if we can, if we can deliver justice that quickly and rightly, it's great. it should be celebrated. we need to apply it to equally equally. >> right. well, london mayor sadiq khan claims that he feels triggered by the disorder and no longer feels safe in this country. as a muslim, it comes as antisemitic incidents in the uk more than doubled in the first half of 2024, compared with the same period the previous year, and that's according to the charity the community security trust. now, the prime minister has quite a big job on his hands to restore law and order, while former labour adviser scarlett mccgwire joins us in the studio. scarlett, so how do you feel that sir keir starmer has done so far ? so far? >> i actually think he's done incredibly well . i mean, the incredibly well. i mean, the first riot in southport took everybody by surprise. i mean, it began with, you know, an

absolute tragedy. and then, somebody tweeted that it was that that it was a muslim asylum seeker who'd done it and bang, you had you had people going for the mosque. i mean, you know, it was absolutely terrible what happened. and then and then it escalated. and then, you know, the police got a handle on it. and they did it. and what's interesting is that there were the riots in 2011 over a black guy being killed by the police. and actually, what sir keir was then, director of public prosecutions and he learned from that, that what you do is you go big on arresting people and sending them to jail, and it sends out a real message that keeps other people off the streets. >> well, there's stories doing the rounds this morning that labour will be releasing. all those who have been arrested, after they've served something like 30 or 40% of their

sentences. so you know, they're giving people sentences and appearing tough and yet on the flip side, they're saying, oh, it's okay. you can you can come out of jail. >> this this isn't labour. this is what happens if you're sent to jail. >> who's sorry? who's in power? it is labour. >> hold on. can i can i finish my sentence? if you're sent to jail and this has been going on for decades, i mean, i don't know when it began. if you're sent to jail and you behave well in jail, you get out early . in jail, you get out early. everybody knows that, right? and you tend to get out sort of 30 or 40% of your sentence . so it's or 40% of your sentence. so it's nothing to do with the rioters . nothing to do with the rioters. this this has been happening to everybody who's been sent to jail. >> no, this is this is new labour plans. yvette cooper saying that people who get given low term sentences between 1 and 3 years will be released early, earlier than normal. and those who are well behaved, having committed certain offences will be released early as well. yeah, that's not an old this is new labour policy, but this has been a policy forever. i mean it's not it's a new labour policy.

>> no, it is a policy that that. so if you get given if you get given five years, you don't do five years, right. unless you're in trouble in jail. i mean, it's a way of, of, of getting people to actually behave better in jail. >> it's just a way of emptying the jails more quickly as we. >> but this has been going on. this has been going on for years. >> i'll take that. that you are right with that. can i just ask now with regards to keir starmer, he was given a very direct question as to how he's going to handle immigration and what he's going to do about the underlying causes of a lot of the rioting and a lot of the upset. but he's has evaded the question repeatedly, you know , question repeatedly, you know, what would you say to that? because there are underlying causes that haven't been addressed and the british public want him to address them . want him to address them. >> yeah. and so, i mean, i think i just heard on here that, that actually i mean legally. so there are two different things. there's legal and illegal immigration. right. and and actually what most people mind aboutis actually what most people mind about is illegal immigration. and he's said that he is that

he, that he's putting on a task force for the boats. but i think so the best way to stop the boats coming is to actually for people to know that they're going to be processed and what happens now at the moment is you can spend three years in a hotel waiting to be processed. so you think, well, i might as well come over when the albanians started coming over in masses and, and we did a deal with the albanian, with albania, that we would send them straight back. the albanians stopped coming. >> so the answer isn't processing them quickly. it's stopping the boats, isn't it? >> yeah, but the albanians stopped coming over on the boats because they knew they were going to be sent straight back and actually what, what we need to do is we need to have a we need to get the processing so that when i first got involved in politics, a very long time ago, it it was weeks right . it ago, it it was weeks right. it then became months. it is now years. what we need to do is if we process processed people quickly, but we let in, we allow

was it 90? >> what's the percentage that people who get processed are admitted to this country? so if you increase it, you'll just increase more people coming here, i think i think the point is being missed entirely here. >> may i suggest that the main concern isn't illegal migration, which is something like 40 to 50,000 small boats a year. it's 10 million people in this country over the last 20 years. without the infrastructure to support them. schools, hospitals, gps. >> okay. well housing. >> okay. well housing. >> okay. well housing. >> okay. i'm just saying that thatis >> okay. i'm just saying that that is the main priority of it. >> okay. i'm going to say two things. one is that when i hear people interviewed about what they mind about, it is illegal. it is it is it is the boats. right? >> i well, well when i, when i hear people being interviewed. >> right. as far as legal migration goes, we need to what we need to do is we need to train more people in britain so that we don't need that. we don't need agree with that in our sentiments. >> we do need to train more people in this country so that we can use our the people who are here. scarlett mccgwire, thank you very much. thanks, scarlett. thank you. right up

next, andrew pierce is in edinburgh getting ready for his fringe festival appearance. hopefully he'll be wearing a kilt. i hope this is britain's news on gb

>> welcome back. 1049 ben and nana with you on britain's newsroom on gb news. now let's check in on our very own andrew pierce, who's in edinburgh for the fringe festival . andrew, the fringe festival. andrew, where are you? where's your kilt ? where are you? where's your kilt? we want to see the kilts. >> well, i'm not wearing a kilt because i simply don't have the legs for it, let me tell you. but i'm at one of the most remarkable spots in edinburgh. a top. the castle rock, edinburgh castle, one of the most visited sites in the whole of europe. and i'm with the chief executive, jason barrett of edinburgh royal military tattoo. it is the most popular military music festival in the world. why? >> well, i think firstly we've been around the longest 74 years and we're excited to celebrate our 75th next year. so that's

the first thing. and we just bnng the first thing. and we just bring enormous talent from across the globe. it's made up of really four elements that i like to talk about. firstly, it's the military and that long standing relationship that we have to the scottish traditional arts, which people come here to see. 40% of our audience is international. then the cross cultural international elements like this year we have an act from india and then of course , from india and then of course, the castle behind us. so you combine those things and why wouldn't it be the most popular 9000 people? >> come here every day. how how do you how can you explain why it's still so popular after so long? and it's changed. and i came ten years ago, and it's a different show now, isn't it? it is. it is. >> yeah. no, it's evolved and it's progressed as you would think it would. there were times years ago where people were abseiling off the castle and there was sort of gun drills and things like that, more of a sort of a military display. what we have done recently as we've evolved is to progress it to be maybe more entertainment, with

still the core being military. so you're going to get the massed pipes and drums, you're going to get military formations, you're going to get those things, but you're going to get some of the state of the art projection, sound, lighting that you've ever seen. so i think coming out of covid, we hired our first creative director ever. he brought in best in class in the entertainment industry to elevate our offering. we couldn't be more thrilled. >> so you've got a pretty spectacular light show here. >> we do. yeah, the projection is stunning, to the point where we turned the castle into the taj mahal during the indian show. >> how amazing. yeah. that's amazing. now, how important is it that somebody like you with a military background is in charge of this? and, of course, i have to tell you, i have to do as i'm told here because jason, not just military, he was a colonel in the american royal marines. so if he says jump, i'm going to jump. but is it important because you've got a business background as well? >> i do, yeah. my time was was with the us marines predominantly. and then i was had the good fortune of being with the royal marines in iraq and afghanistan. so i mean that that combination has set me up

well to to, be a part of the tattoo. well, i think the military is an important part. that's the core and the foundation of the tattoo. so my familiarity is helpful with that. but coupled with that, having 11 years running restaurants and hospitality offerings has also helped so that customer facing combined with the military background, you know, i feel pretty comfortable in this setting and we call it the edinburgh royal military tattoo. >> do we see many royals here? >> do we see many royals here? >> well, we do throughout the years. we had prince edward last years. we had prince edward last year and we had princess anne this year, our patron, just a couple of days ago and it was a great visit. we're so pleased to have her come. >> she's formidable, isn't she? >> she's formidable, isn't she? >> she's formidable, isn't she? >> she is . people say she's the >> she is. people say she's the hardest working royal and i would say that now she she usually comes to our final rehearsal out at redford barracks. she spends 5.5 hours with us out there meeting every single cast member. and she prefers that to coming to the show. so it was quite a feat to bnng show. so it was quite a feat to bring her to the show this year. >> yeah, yeah. is there a particular highlight this year? it's called journeys. is that

for any significant reason? >> well, journeys for a couple of reasons. the first year coming out of covid was voices, stories and journeys. so voices that give you stories that can take you on journeys is a bit of the thread between that. but this is a royal navy lead and so with that exploration, discovery, travel are all parts of those threads that come through. and with a maritime, nautical element to it as well. >> just finally, one of the most spectacular parts of the tattoo is the flyover. the with the royal air force. now there are certain politicians perhaps i won't say which ones, but if we talk about a colour that might give the game away, do you think perhaps it's not very environmentally friendly, but the flyover will continue, won't it ? it? >> yes. and that's a sensitive matter that that has surfaced somewhat to us, a bit surprisingly. but look, the tattoo takes the environment very, very seriously , like like very, very seriously, like like any company would we take people's mental health very, very seriously, but but the flyovers are something that we enjoy. we like, and we hope they continue. >> all right . that's jason

>> all right. that's jason barrett, chief executive of the royal military tattoo. i think i might be here a bit, a little bit later, because i wouldn't want to miss all those people in their military uniform. so back to you in in london, we're going to you in in london, we're going to get the weather now. and by the way, i did say on gb news yesterday it wasn't going to rain in edinburgh. it did. and i got caught in it and it rained very heavily. so i've got my brolly today, always have a brolly today, always have a brolly in edinburgh in scotland. back to you from royal military tattoo . tattoo. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news . news. >> hello. very good morning to you. here's your latest gb news weather forecast coming to you from the met office. a bit of a grey muqqy from the met office. a bit of a grey muggy start for some of us this morning, but we will see increasing amounts of sunshine as we go through the day. that's because most of the cloud is going to drift away towards the east as we go through the morning, and so then plenty of sunshine following in behind, especially across england and

wales for scotland, northern ireland and perhaps the far north of england. here there will be some showers around a bit fresher here as well, temperatures just about peaking in the high teens. low 20s, but highs of around 25 or 26 celsius towards the south—east a few showers across northern parts will continue as we go towards this evening, and do watch out for some heavy bursts. the odd rumble of thunder isn't out of the question, and here there will be some blustery winds at times two also a few showers across parts of northern ireland, maybe northern england. as we head through this evening, but further south, like it will be through much of this afternoon. it is going to be a dry, fine end to the day with some late sunshine for many of us as well. overnight there will be a bit more cloud starting to push its way in across western parts. so especially across parts. so especially across parts of wales and western england, it is going to turn cloudier and then a bit wetter as well. further north, some more showers across parts of scotland, eastern parts generally clinging onto something a bit drier and a bit clearer too. it is going to be quite warm and humid, especially in the south, temperatures not

dropping a huge amount here could be a little bit uncomfortable for sleeping . uncomfortable for sleeping. tomorrow. gets off to a wet start, then across western parts, some heavy rain, especially over the hills over western parts of england and wales, and then a lot of cloud and a bit of rain, at times spilling its way eastwards before clearing away towards the east. as we go through the afternoon with again a decent amount of sunshine following in for many, some more showery rain across parts of scotland and here temperatures once more high. teens low 20s. highs around 26 celsius towards the south—east of the uk. sunday is going to be a dry, sunny day for many of us and with that sunshine and light winds, it's going to feel hotter too. highs in the low 30s. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb

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across the uk. this is britain's newsroom with me, ben, leo and nana akua. >> well is there more disorder on the way? as sir keir starmer tells police chief to stay on high alert and a divided britain, the mayor of london, sadiq khan, declares he no longer feels safe as a muslim in london, with the ongoing unrest. >> is this a genuine concern or is he perhaps playing the victim? >> tax breaks for parents with a declining birth rate is giving couples a five grand tax break. the incentive for families to have more children. one think tank seems to think so. >> highway code headache almost half of drivers admit they don't know the hierarchy of responsibility that was added to the driving rule book two years ago. i don't do you ? ago. i don't do you? >> so you don't know the hierarchy of driving? i mean , hierarchy of driving? i mean, it's really simple. the literally the pedestrian is king and anything and it works out

whatever your coat of armour is. so the bigger your coat of armour, the more the lower down the pecking order you are. >> well, that kind of makes sense because this day and age, motorists seem to get treated like the whole time . parking like the whole time. parking charges, parking tickets, cameras everywhere , anpr so the cameras everywhere, anpr so the pedestrian is first two seconds cyclist, >> yeah. cyclists and then you've got i think you have motorcyclists, then you have people in cars, then you've got the lorries at the top there somewhere . so yeah, pretty much. somewhere. so yeah, pretty much. and pedestrians, if they step out in front of the sort of car along the if they're standing by the pavement, they look like they're going to cross. they have the right of way. >> right. so everyone who doesn't pay road tax, cyclists , doesn't pay road tax, cyclists, pedestrians, they're more important than motorists. is that it ? i'm afraid so. that it? i'm afraid so. >> that's how it goes. >> that's how it goes. >> understood. >> understood. >> it's their basic. send us your thoughts, post your comments . gbnews.com/yoursay. comments. gbnews.com/yoursay. but first, here's the news with mark . white. mark. white. >> good morning. it's 1102. mark. white. >> good morning. it's1102. the latest headlines from the gb

news centre, an 18 year old iraqi national has been arrested in vienna in connection with the investigation into an alleged plot to attack a taylor swift concert in the austrian capital on wednesday. all three of the us singer's performances at vienna's ernst happel stadium were cancelled and two others suspected extremists were arrested by local police. the iraqi national arrested is believed to have come from the same group as the main suspect, a 19 year old austrian with nonh a 19 year old austrian with north macedonian roots . sir a 19 year old austrian with north macedonian roots. sir keir starmer has said swift justice and tough sentencing has been a deterrent to more violent disorder. addressing his third emergency cobra meeting since the southport riots, the prime minister told the meeting that police need to remain on high alert. 6000 public order officers mobilised in recent days. they'll remain on duty

this weekend as more protests are expected in a number of areas of the country. cabinet minister nick thomas—symonds warned those committing violence and disorder will be pursued. >> you are out on our streets if you are found to be or you plead guilty to violence on our streets or threats of violence, then you will face the full force of the law , whoever you force of the law, whoever you are. and i think that's a very strong message. the government has been sending out . has been sending out. >> well, several police forces have issued further cctv appeals to identify suspects they believed to have been responsible for some of the violence and disorder detectives investigating riots in merseyside issued images of 11 people after a separate appeal helped identify individuals earlier this week. greater manchester police have issued a similar appeal for information

they're asking the public to contact them directly . contact them directly. alternatively, they can contact crime stoppers anonymously if they recognise any of the people pictured . the mayor of london, pictured. the mayor of london, sadiq khan, has claimed he does not feel safe as an openly muslim politician following the riots. asked by reporters if he felt at risk during the riots given his religion, he said clearly i'm not safe , which is clearly i'm not safe, which is why i've got police protection. the mayor expressed alarm at recent events, comparing them to the racial tensions he faced growing up in the 1970s and 80s. the family of a retired british doctor have issued an urgent appeal after he went missing in the french pyrenees almost three days ago. 67 year old tom doherty, from saint albans , was doherty, from saint albans, was hiking and camping near kolisko when his family lost contact with him on tuesday. a search is

underway involving dogs and helicopters. his daughter says the family last heard from doctor doherty via whatsapp. he sent the messages asking for help and told them he'd fallen and could not move . donald trump and could not move. donald trump has agreed to debate vice president kamala harris on television in the race to the white house. it's been confirmed the republican nominee will debate his democratic rival on the 10th of september on the us network abc. and trump told a news conference at his florida home last night that he also wants to add two more debates on fox news and nbc. during his news conference, mr trump claimed his opponent wasn't intellectually up to the challenge . empty shops and challenge. empty shops and restaurants are being used by organised crime groups for large scale cannabis growing operations, according to the national police chiefs council.

the npcc said empty pubs , office the npcc said empty pubs, office buildings, cafes and nightclubs have also been targeted by the gangs. more than 3000 cannabis plants with an estimated value of £2 million, were grown in a former department store in newport, south wales, before it was raided by gwent police recently , former reality tv star recently, former reality tv star katie price is due to appear in court after being arrested at heathrow airport last night. it comes after a judge issued a warrant following her failure to attend a high court bankruptcy heanng attend a high court bankruptcy hearing last month. price was declared bankrupt in november 2019 and again in march this year. 2019 and again in march this year . well, those are the latest year. well, those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'll be back with 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. >> seven minutes after 11:00. welcome! this is britain's newsroom live across the uk on gb news with ben leo and me nana akua. >> now, london mayor sadiq khan claims he feels triggered by the disorder we've seen in recent weeks and no longer feels safe in this country. as a muslim now , in this country. as a muslim now, this comes as antisemitic incidents in the uk more than doubled in the first half of the yean doubled in the first half of the year, compared to last. >> so how do we make everyone feel safe? that is the question. well, we're joined by broadcaster fahima mahomed and chairman of the national jewish assembly, gary maund . right. i'm assembly, gary maund. right. i'm going to start with you, gary bond, as the chair of the national jewish assembly. what are your thoughts on hearing these words from sadiq khan? >> i think one has to condemn all forms of anti—muslim hatred, but what is angling behind sadiq khan's words is what he wants to

see is a formal definition of islamophobia and what there's far too little publicity given to the fact that there's a huge difference between the two. we have to condemn hatred of muslims, but we must be free to criticise any religion that we like and any attempt to restrict freedom of speech is to be utterly opposed. >> fahima mahomed your thoughts on on sadiq khan's comments ? on on sadiq khan's comments? >> i think that it is right to say that certain individuals feel threatened if it is a personal experience. i'm myself visibly seen as a muslim women going out feels anxious regardless of being in the uk. in london, where a lot of the things hasn't happened. but i just feel that way because of, you know, what's been seen, what's been heard. i've had personal whatsapp messages sent to me of, you know, people that are being attacked on the streets that have not been reported. they are scared to go out. and if it is because people are openly saying because you're muslim, because you come from a

particular background or faith, then that needs to be, you know, adhered to. i personally know a lot about racism coming and being brought up from south africa, understanding how it, you know, unfolds. being in the uk, i've always been proud of the fact that this does not happen here and it's history. and for it to happen in 2024, in this kind of space is really appalling. every community has got, you know, bad eggs. there's loads going on in every community. but when it comes to one particular one, it seems to be that it's the focus, like as if it's, you know, it's everybody and it's not the case. >> well, what about but what about the fact? i mean, i'll stay with you. fahima that dunng stay with you. fahima that during the sort of the rioting or not even actually know the palestine pro—palestine protests, there were riots initially at the start of them. but what about during there where sadiq khan didn't really do very much, though, did he? because there were a lot of jewish people that were afraid to go out. >> i mean, i'm really surprised that that is really being brought up because as far as i

know, doing research, there has been 13 jewish organisations that actually participated in the pro—palestine marches. yes, they were disruptions, but it was very minor and they've been sorted to. but the way in which it's been rhetoric out there to say that that was exactly how it was now, and it's just been for only people that were, you know, against jewish. that is completely incorrect. and again, you know, we see this kind of appued you know, we see this kind of applied behavioural psychology and the stochastic kind of terrorism of the underlying sort of, you know, propaganda out there targeting specific groups and trying to demoralise certain protests that are really in line with the actual law of the land. not there's a lot there. >> so can i get gary to respond to your initial comments with regard to, because i think she referred to that it's not true that the jewish people were the overwhelming majority of jewish people have been intimidated, and in some cases even feeling terrorised by the marches that have been taking place on a regular basis over the last 11 months. >> and quite frankly, sadiq khan

has responsibilities there and we want to see these marches brought to an end, quite frankly. and also the waving of the palestinian flag is actually a terror flag, because that flag symbolises not support for a palestinian country, because if there was, they would have been massive demonstrations when bashar assad was massacring tens of thousands of palestinians a few years ago. no, that flag symbolises hatred of jews , pure symbolises hatred of jews, pure and simple. >> that is so incorrect. >> that is so incorrect. >> and i cannot believe you're actually saying that there are so many jewish people that holds that flag up. i know of people personally that would do that. thatis personally that would do that. that is a it's, you know, a flag of a country, not of a group on one particular region in the actual area. so that is a real misinformation that is being put out there. and it's stuff like this that actually goes out there and causes the disruption and the misrepresentation of people that are going out there

innocently, just in solidarity does not mean that we are in. sorry, sorry to in the seine got it. >> sorry to interrupt you. do you accept though , that jewish you accept though, that jewish people, since october the 7th in this country and indeed around the world have felt very unsafe ? the world have felt very unsafe? >> if they have that experience of it and feeling that way , i'm of it and feeling that way, i'm not going to disregard that. absolutely. but the fact that what's being said that, you know, the palestinian flag represents terrorism and is out there, you know, in that sort of way is really, really wrong to say at the end of the day, even i will stand by and say that most people that have attended there are from a variety of backgrounds, and that's just not being reported clearly. and it's really it's absurd, to be honest. >> we understand that lots of people are from different backgrounds. but again, the point is, a lot of jewish people find the flag intimidating and there was some a lot of chanting from the river to the sea. i mean, would you not acknowledge that that in the protests is somewhat intimidatory to many jewish people? >> well, then why is netanyahu

saying the same thing? you know, he's been mentioned that river to the sea most of the time. again, we are just polarising and using certain people, focusing on that as if to say that that is something which is there to demonise and scare people. if you feel that way completely , you know, have your completely, you know, have your right to say that. but that's not the meaning of what it really represents. and if the president himself, from the his own country talks about it, then no one addresses that. i'm really appalled as to the way in which people are speaking and getting away with it. this is the kind of you know, propaganda and the kind of dangerous kind of rhetoric and language and terminology and distinctions that are put out there that are putting lives at risk every single day. >> let's be can we carry on, please? can we be clear on what from the river to the sea actually means? it means the end of the state of israel, probably throwing all the jews out of israel, possibly murdering them. thatis israel, possibly murdering them. that is what that expression means. and the terror flag that goes with it supports that view. terrorist attacks by palestinian groups have been committed for

many, many years now on a regular basis . regular basis. >> i mean, if you think about that, then maybe we should talk about looking at the israeli channels right now. who is actually advocating for hideous crimes. maybe we should talk about that. not just one side. it is so much atrocities happening right now, which is not in line with any civilisation, with any kind of human rights or international law. we cannot sit here and just talk about, you know, a flag being terrorists when people are committing atrocities every single day against even civilised law and order, how can you completely abhorrent, how can you compare anything to what happened on the 7th of october, when 1200 innocent people were massacred by hamas? >> a palestinian group which has large scale support from the so—called palestinian people? you can't compare anything with that. not since the holocaust. >> i'm sorry to interrupt, but i'm just trying to tell you that no one has actually said that, you know, we are approving of

7th of october, but it did not start there. and at the same time, you know, that's the only point that people point across. there has been atrocities for decades against the palestinian people. and nobody speaks about that. there has been hamas is only in one region. what about the west bank? what about the other areas in the whole of that area? and that region? at the end of the day, you can't speak like that. the palestinians. >> i'm gonna have to stop you there because the terrorist society theme has been really good to talk to you. i have to stop you there. i'm gonna give you gary a chance to respond. you've got about 10s. >> you know, most of the atrocities committed against the palestinian people have been committed by arab governments, not by jewish people. they've been committed by arab governments. and when that happens, you are silent. you are only interested in when there's a jewish dimension to the issue. >> okay. well, listen, we've got to leave it there. we've got to leave it there. thank you. it's really good to talk to you for him. thank you for your thoughts. and also gary mond, really good to talk to them. >> right. okay. >> right. okay. >> we've got some breaking news for you now. two tube lines have been suspended due to an

incident involving a trespasser incident involving a trespasser in london. >> the metropolitan and jubilee lines are the ones affected with all services in and out of marylebone station facing disruption. >> travel editor at the independent simon calder, joins us now from victoria station. simon, that's my local station . simon, that's my local station. what's going on then? is it causing chaos on the underground? >> it certainly is , yes. and >> it certainly is, yes. and what we've had actually for about the last two hours is a trespasser. apparently a man on a bridge in the area of willesden green in north west london, who has effectively brought the not just the jubilee line and the metropolitan line to a halt there, but also halted all trains going in and out of london marylebone station on chiltern railways. so that's causing a fair amount of mayhem, there's a bit of mayhem behind me. they've just started drilling. i'm not sure what they were working on, but, real problems, right across the rail network. in fact , thameslink, network. in fact, thameslink, which is the main north south

line through the middle of london, they've had massive problems, the link between london bridge and blackfriars, was broken earlier. on top of that, we've also got, problems between luton and saint albans, which has meant anybody trying that north south line has faced real problems . stansted airport real problems. stansted airport to cambridge, that's been having problems. and i'm also learning that there's issues in birmingham on the line going from birmingham new street to lichfield trent valley and to, walsall as well. so wherever you're going, hope for the best, but be prepared for delays and disruption. and of course we got the august bank holiday coming up. >> oh deary me. yeah indeed. the summer holidays people taking their kids out to london, events and attractions and whatnot. simon, i'm slightly disappointed you're not on a yacht somewhere like you normally are or. >> yeah, well, living living the dream. >> just trying to keep up with what's happening with the, travel business. but seriously, if you are travelling over the august bank holiday weekend, if

you're going on the east coast main line, the line at london kings cross, which goes up to yorkshire, north east england and scotland , that's going to be and scotland, that's going to be closed on sunday the 25th of august, we're also going to see big problems on saturday and sunday, 24th and 25th. if you're trying to get from south wales, cardiff or swansea through to london. long diversions adding an hour to the journey . good an hour to the journey. good luck everybody. >> thank you. thanks, simon. we'll be better off staying here for now. the weather's going to be great simon calder thank you. >> why does nothing ever work? broken britain, nothing works. >> some things work, some things work. the most important and busiest times i know. >> well, they always do that. >> well, they always do that. >> don't they? it's like bank shut when everyone's finished working. so you can't use them. up working. so you can't use them. up next we're going to talk about meghan markle's sparkling jam. my favourite subject? this is britain's newsroom on gb news

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good morning. if you've just tuned in, where have you been? this is britain's newsroom with ben leo and me. nana akua joining us, writer and broadcaster emma webb and director of worldwide cherry kerry dingle in the studio. right. should we start with visa kerbs which spark rapid fall in new migrants kerry dingle, well, i'm very much a pro—immigration person. >> always have been , but i do >> always have been, but i do see it as something that's been used to attack, working class people, you know, using mass immigration. but i think we're facing an underpopulation time bomb , actually. and we already bomb, actually. and we already know that universities have been ripping off overseas students. we know and rubbish courses along with it. and we and relying on that money and we also know that, you know, thousands of migrants have come in to take care jobs because it's been such a terrible area of low pay and people have been so underskilled so i don't think

we can solve the problems , we can solve the problems, simply by, castigating, immigration and blaming it for everything i think we have to deal with serious underlying problems. >> we've also got a lot of people who are on benefits and not coming to work and things like that. so we've got that issue, >> emma webb well, on the population timebomb. it's been a long term unsustainable policy to keep bringing in people to try and make the population more stable. the solution would actually be for a government to actually be for a government to actually sort of like, pull themselves together and have some pro—family policies because it's actually been more expensive for people to have families even over if during the, leadership of a conservative government. but on on this , story in particular on this, story in particular the, the, the this is really the dividends of the conservatives policy. so yeah, again, another one, the labour party are living off the family silver a bit and

probably this is going to go the other way. they're going to undo this. good work. well no. >> at the moment they're saying that they have no plans to change this at all. >> well they already have dropped the tory plans to have the minimum salary threshold for spouses of migrants. so they're showing signs that, i mean, do we believe anything they say? they said they weren't going to raise taxes and now they're already talking about doing that. so i think the signs are that. so i think the signs are that they are not going to be as as robust as the conservatives were at least trying to be, i don't think that this is going to be long term good news. and as as you were saying before we were on air, nana that, you know, it's not just about legal migration. it's also about these illegal boat crossings, last week, the news was that 3000 odd had come across 4000. now 4000. i mean, it's ridiculous. it's exponential . and the labour exponential. and the labour party are sending the message to those who want to cross illegally that they'll be most welcome here, including all of this talk of having an amnesty for asylum seekers. so i think

this is a little bit of good news from the previous government that is going to go away quite sharply. >> it makes you wonder why rishi sunak called the election when he did so. labour have inherited great economic gifts, inflation down, interest rates coming down. what a plonker. then migration figures coming down. it just makes you wonder. i mean it's very bizarre decision probably had enough hasn't he. >> i mean you know it wasn't it wasn't fun being rishi sunak for the last few months or. >> no no i guess not. should we move on to this taylor swift story? so, her concert in vienna in austria was has been cancelled, hasn't it, because of this terror threats and isis unked this terror threats and isis linked man was plotting to, i mean, i guess do similar to what we saw in manchester arena with the ariana grande bombing and blow kids up . blow kids up. >> two teenagers, actually the teenagers, i think what's interesting is we've already seen the sort of tone change and instead of calling these terror attacks what they are, you know , attacks what they are, you know, islamist, isis related, they're already removing the word islamism and it worries me because our failure to discuss

what islamism represents and that includes hamas, and the anti—human barbarism that these people are both propagate and carry out is what we should feel unsafe about. >> and we can make a distinction between, you know, islam and islamism, which i think we should, but we are facing with keir starmer, possibly a new blasphemy law. yes. which will make things even worse . would they? >> labour. labour may adopt the all parliamentary party group on islamophobia. the definition which, by the way, emma was one of the 18 demands of the muslim vote organisation , who said to vote organisation, who said to sir keir starmer and labour unless you give us these 18 demands, including arms embargoes and israel, which they've honoured last week, and this one redefining islamophobia , this one redefining islamophobia, you're not getting our vote back. and now labour are rumoured, now they've got a load of independent mps as well who are backed by this muslim vote organisation. >> so, yeah, i think it's a real

problem because there have been people who have been pushing for a very long time actually to stop using the term islamist on the grounds that it's islamophobic people who have done research into islamism, not islam, but the political philosophy. there's a very, very distinct history that it is obviously, the ideology that drives these terrorist attacks, that those people have also been accused of islamophobia in the past. the appg definition on islamophobia is straightforwardly a blasphemy law by the back door. it is completely toxic. it would prevent us from being able to discuss any of these issues. whatsoever, so yeah, i think, would you go to these new taylor swift dates in wembley in a couple of weeks? >> bear in mind what's happened. i mean, just to go back to taylor swift, you mean as an act of as an act of support or. >> yeah. i mean, if you had tickets for that gig, bear in mind, what's happened in vienna, would you still go or would you be proud? yeah, i think people should. and i understand why people would be concerned, particularly given everything that's been sort of like kicking off here in the last couple of

weeks, but the reality is that because of what happened at the manchester arena attack, we actually do have pretty robust security. there were certain measures that were brought in at these sorts of venues after that attack to try and prevent them from terrorist attacks. and yes, of course, islamists are still wanting to target the uk, but i don't think that we should live our lives cowering from these people because that's the purpose of terrorism, is to stop us from living our lives the way that we want to. >> i think i think you're absolutely right. we shouldn't be intimidated. i'm not a taylor swift fan, so i wouldn't have a ticket either. but but i do worry, and i think we should be concerned about the extent to which sort of woke identitarian ideas have captured our police force. and so you can have all sorts of processes put in place post what happened in manchester. but i think we should be worried about that in terms of what that then means, what gets reported if people are freaking out about being called

islamophobic? yeah. >> and of course we know i mean that there's this overall shyness to call things what they are. and the police haven't exactly shown themselves to be deserving of public trust . deserving of public trust. >> well, it's got two stories i want to squeeze in. firstly, fines for seaside swearers people in seaside towns are facing being fined £100 for swearing. thanet council will see such measures carried out. >> welcome to rules, britannia. i think it's terrible. i mean, if you're a tourist, are you allowed to say mad? i don't know, if you're from france, can you swear in a foreign language? i mean, the whole thing. these are, you know, public space protection orders. this pspo phenomena gives a green light to your yellow vest wearing jobsworths who want to go around policing what we do on our beaches. i think thanet, our council, are shockers. >> i could be bankrupted by this when i'm not on air. i've got a mouth like a sewer. i think it's

crazy, i mean, it's actually quite a serious. there's a serious aspect to this story, which is that we yet again, we see the police policing things that they that really are not their business, but ignoring the things that they really ought to and making it up as they go along. >> they'll be councillors. >> they'll be councillors. >> they'll be councillors. >> they can't when it's somebody they can, they can't stop shoplifting, but they can fine you for swearing and very quickly, meghan's charm duchess of sussex domestic dream has been put on hold after her soon to launch lifestyle brand suffered a trademark setback. well, i've got a great quote here from the article on this subject, >> it said that a source close to the launch said that the plan is to sell meghan as a beacon of inspiration, aspiration and attainability because you too could marry a prince and make jam. >> i feel unwell, i do not want to watch cookery programmes by privileged entitled grievance culture . culture. >> individuals like meghan say what you really think. >> kerry, please . >> kerry, please. >> kerry, please. >> i don't eat jam anymore. after the incident, it's put me off. >> i've not had anything.

>> i've not had anything. >> i'll tell you about the incident after the news. >> i've had nothing to eat today and i now want some toast and jam. so mark white has got your news. i'm going to go make some toast. >> good morning. the latest headunes >> good morning. the latest headlines from the gb news centre at 1131. the prime minister has issued a warning to those using social media to encourage violence and disorder. visiting the metropolitan police command centre in central london, sir keir starmer said social media is not a law free zone. he said the police are actively pursuing those breaking the law online, with more swift sentences expected to be handed down today. he said it was a reminder to everyone that whether they're directly involved or remotely involved, all those people are still culpable . an 18 year old iraqi culpable. an 18 year old iraqi national has been arrested in vienna in connection with the

investigation into an alleged plot to attack taylor swift at the concert in the austrian capital on wednesday. all three of the us singer's performances at vienna's ernst happel stadium were cancelled and two other suspected extremists were arrested by local police . the arrested by local police. the iraqi national arrested is believed to have come from the same group as the main suspect, a 19 year old austrian with nonh a 19 year old austrian with north macedonian roots . the north macedonian roots. the family of a retired british doctor have issued an urgent appeal after he went missing in the french pyrenees almost three days ago. 67 year old tom doherty, from saint albans , was doherty, from saint albans, was hiking and camping near col desko when his family lost contact with him on tuesday. a search is underway involving dogs and helicopters, his daughter says the family last heard from doctor doherty via

whatsapp. he sent them messages asking for help and told them he'd fallen and couldn't move. former reality tv star katie price is due to appear in court after being arrested at heathrow airport last night. it comes after a judge issued a warrant following her failure to attend a high court bankruptcy hearing last month . price was declared last month. price was declared bankrupt in november 2019 and again in march this year. empty shops and restaurants are being used by organised crime groups for large scale cannabis growing operations , according to the operations, according to the national police chiefs council . national police chiefs council. the npcc said empty pubs, office buildings, cafes and nightclubs have also been targeted by the gangs. have also been targeted by the gangs . more than 3000 cannabis gangs. more than 3000 cannabis plants , with an estimated value plants, with an estimated value of £2 million, were grown in a former department store in

newport, south wales , before it newport, south wales, before it was raided by gwent police recently. well, those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'll be back with more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> thank you. mark right up at noon. good afternoon britain with cameron and emily. right. what's coming up on your show. >> good morning. well, the prime minister has been at the control centre of the metropolitan police this morning. he insists that the police need to remain on high alert for further riots, and also said that the swift justice that we've seen in the courts can act as a bit of deterrent. >> so it'll be interesting to discuss that. on his thoughts. >> yes, i think he may well be asked about the football. also. he's going to be asked about his

social media as well. presumably i wonder what he'll have to say. there's a lot of pressure now to crack down, isn't it? sadiq khan himself is saying, i don't feel safe as a muslim, and we also should crack down on social media posts online. lots of people calling it a wild west out there, but i'm slightly worried slightly worried. we've already seen arrests for online content for posting online, for retweeting false information. is this a slippery slope to some kind of authoritarianism? believe it or not, in venezuela there is currently a ten day twitter ban because of a disputed election over there. could we see some kind of twitter blackout in this country? i mean, it's not that pie in the sky, is it? >> i think that's also related to elon musk challenging the president. what's his name? is it maduro to a fight? so maduro said elon can come to venezuela and they'll have a cage fight. it was all going on on twitter very bizarre. but in all seriousness, it's chilling. this attack on on twitter, on free speech online protesting. if you protest the online safety act. i mean, i think the concern is

that how on earth can you evenly apply these laws across the entirety of social media? >> which posts do you focus on? is it just if someone reports you, are they going to be scouring the internet non—stop? i mean, do we seriously have the resources to be able to police every social media platform? but also we want to talk about a rather shocking manhunt that is now ongoing. a 44 year old man, we understand who could be violent and a menace to women is on the run. so we'll try and keep you up to date with that. oh, good. >> nice man on the run. women under threat. welcome to britain. thank you. see you at midday. all that and more to come still to come on our show. we're going to get an update from the prime minister on his plans to keep communities safe. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. back in

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41 minutes after 11:00. this is britain's newsroom with ben leo and me. nana akua. >> let's check in on our very own andrew pierce to. he's in edinburgh for the fringe festival. andrew what's going on? >> hello again from edinburgh. the fringe. nothing is defines a fringe more than comedy. if you think billy connolly and rowan atkinson, they had big breaks in edinburgh fringe. and i'm talking to a very popular comedian on the fringe. darius. hello. tell us what you're doing here in this month. >> i'm doing two shows. i'm doing a solo show called don't be shy. fill in the words, and i'm doing a show. i'm hosting a show. the 10th annual hater's ball , which show. the 10th annual hater's ball, which i, co—created with your gb news colleague, leo kearse. right. we invite the funniest, most outrageous comedians to come on down from all over the world and hate on topics that suggested by the audience. so it's a different show. it's improvised, it's produce, it's super fun. it's a decade of destruction now, so

it's been going a long time. so it's been going a long time. so it's a really fun show. so that's what i'm up here doing. >> why is comedy so integral to the festival? darius, in your view ? view? >> i think you know why. i think comedy is just something anyone can do, and it looks like anyone can do, and it looks like anyone can do, and it looks like anyone can do it. but when you see it done really well, it just creates a connection with people that they really enjoy and they like and also when you watch comedy, really good comedy is always truthful. and i don't think we're hearing the truth from everywhere else in our entertainment or media at the moment. >> and it's irreverent. >> and it's irreverent. >> it's irreverent. yeah, can be not mine. it's very serious. >> i don't believe that. i don't believe that. and do you have any areas that you avoid or any areas that you particularly like to do? i mean, i'm thinking about the political establishment. do you lampoon the political establishment? i mean, business community. >> i mean, i'm not a particularly political comedian, but i don't censor myself. i'll talk about anything . if it's talk about anything. if it's funny. i will say it, regardless of if people choose to take offence, i can't help how you take it. so i'll say what i want. i think as a comedian, all

comedians can say what i want. i think we kind of pass that, that curve now where people banging on about cancel culture, that's kind of stopped now . people have kind of stopped now. people have realised it's passe, they're bored of it. they've realised what comedy is rubbish. so now they're like we just said, yeah, it's rubbish, comedy is rubbish, it's rubbish, comedy is rubbish, it's just rubbish. people just listen. it's not hard, just be funny. that's all. the audience care about. yeah that's it. and if you want to do that politically, if you want to do topically with props, however, it just be funny. that's all that counts. >> do you have a worry that you're going to dry up when you're going to dry up when you're on stage? >> oh not anymore. i mean, i've doneit >> oh not anymore. i mean, i've done it a long time now, i guess when you first start, you know, you run out. but now i'm. i'm good enough to go off the cuff. if i run out of things to say. >> okay. were you funny at school? i mean, where did you get your gift for comedy from? >> yeah, i was, i was actually funny at school. i was a, i was a bit of a the class clown, but inever a bit of a the class clown, but i never really thought of stand up as a career. i think that's a difference. some people went into stand up as a career, and you can kind of see it because they're like very they are very

well scripted, well, well written, but everything's very meticulous. whereas i just got into comedy to be funny and some of the best comedians just they're just funny. so they what they're just funny. so they what they put down is just funny. there's no ulterior motive, nothing to like. they're not thinking about it too much, like it's not. i can't say this because it will offend them. it's like, this is funny. take it or leave it right. >> we've only got about 30s left when you're not in edinburgh. you're performing all year round. >> all year round. leo and i do a podcast alicia kearns gb news host. we do a podcast together called the three speech podcast. it's on a hiatus at the moment because we're both lazy, but we do that together. and we ran this show, the haters ball. so if you come to edinburgh , come if you come to edinburgh, come down 9 pm. at the apex hotel in the grassmarket, you are cordially invited, cordially ianed. invited. >> and we love him because he thinks woke comedy isn't funny. >> i mean, everyone thinks woke comedy isn't funny. not just me. darius, good luck with the show. >> i'm going to come and see you tonight. >> that'd be brilliant. >> that'd be brilliant. >> the haters ball. here i am in edinburgh. going to go back now to nana and ben. i think he's very funny. don't you .

very funny. don't you. >> yeah. he's a good lad. >> yeah. he's a good lad. >> thanks, guys. >> thanks, guys. >> nice to see a show. thank you guys. thank you andrew. >> enjoy. >> enjoy. >> yeah the left don't do comedy. they can't meme online. they don't do comedy. they're not very funny people. miserable bunch. >> well listen lots of you've been getting in touch with your views, jill says i think we're talking about sadiq khan. i think khan is just parroting the whole islamophobia narrative again. agenda again. how can you see a soldier, three young girls getting stabbed , killed and then getting stabbed, killed and then say, i feel danger, beggars belief. >> yeah. interesting, sharon, you say we've not heard a word from rishi sunak or anyone from your position in recent days. true. good point. i can't remember and david shore, good morning david. you remember you say ben nana. where is the leader of the opposition in the current crisis? >> yeah. where is he ? indeed. >> yeah. where is he? indeed. >> yeah. where is he? indeed. >> unless i've just missed it. have you seen anything? >> no. >> no. >> he's in he's in la isn't he. >> is he. >> is he. >> he's in la. he's. he was there last. pictured at five star michelin starred restaurant enjoying food with his wife akshata murty, right. john says this is supposed to be a christian country, but as a christian, i no longer feel safe

living here anymore, >> michael, you say, how can we trust starmer, the man who took the knee after the blm riots? yes, i said that as well, >> lots of great messages. theresa said labour intended to overhaul the pensions, but before rachel reeves takes from pensioners, she should look at all the mps. they all earn at least £90,000 a year. they get perks with the job. so she should stop that. it's the biggest gravy train. what a waste of money. yeah that's not all they get though, remember? it's all the other bits and pieces. if you're in the cabinet, you get another wage as well. >> i actually think mps should be paid more, but that's a different. >> i think i did at one point feel they should be paid more, but i, i just feel they should be paid the average wage in this country and they should do things for the passion of the job, just like they expect the nurses and doctors to do. >> i reckon our current crop and many of them are so low grade. i think we need good people from top ftse 100 companies, from corporate boardrooms like rishi sunak, >> well, that's where he's from. >> well, that's where he's from. >> we need the money. does he? but. >> well, he's one of those though, the ones that you've just said from ftse 100 companies, top bosses. now i think you need people who are

passionate about the job, who are prepared to be committed, and they should be paid similar wages to nurses, i reckon. but up wages to nurses, i reckon. but up next we're going to get an update from the prime minister on his plans for the police and how he'll keep communities safe. you're with britain's newsroom gb news

>> welcome back. the prime minister sir keir starmer, has just spoken to reporters about the safety of communities in britain amid these riots this week. let's take a listen. >> i think it's really important that we maintain high alert. i've always been here at the control room of the met, looking at what's essentially the nerve centre, but my message to the police and all of those that are charged with responding to disorder is maintain that high alert. i am absolutely convinced that having the police officers in place these last few days in the right places, the swift

justice that's being dispensed in our courts have had a real impact, but we have to stay on high alert going into this weekend because we absolutely have to make sure that our communities are safe and secure and feel safe and secure. >> the start of the football season in england, is that going to make things harder or easier? >> i think a lot of things in the mix this weekend, but of course , whatever the challenge, course, whatever the challenge, we have to rise to it and that's why i've had cobra meetings. that's why i've been talking to the police today about their plans for the weekend . yes, plans for the weekend. yes, football is added into the mix. there are other things in the mix, but our focus has to be absolutely , solely on the absolutely, solely on the safety. and, you know , security safety. and, you know, security of our communities. and that's exactly where it is. >> the mayor of london, sadiq khan, has said the online safety bill is not fit for purpose. what plans do you have to look at that again in relation to onune at that again in relation to online and social media? >> the first thing i'd say is this is not a law free zone, and

i think that's clear from the prosecutions and sentencing today. we're due sentencing for onune today. we're due sentencing for online behaviour. today. we're due sentencing for online behaviour . that's online behaviour. that's a reminder to everyone that whether you're directly involved or whether you're remotely involved, you're culpable. and you will be put before the courts if you've broken the law. and so that's happening today, that sentencing. i do agree that we're going to have to look more broadly at social media, after this disorder. but the focus at the moment has to be on dealing with the disorder and making sure that our communities are safe and secure. >> would it be helpful if people like elon musk were more mindful of who they let on their platforms? if he was more mindful of what he actually posts, i think people should be mindful of the first priority, which is to ensure that our communities are safe and secure. >> the vast majority of the pubuc >> the vast majority of the public are absolutely repulsed by what they've seen in this disorder. they don't want it,

and they expect all of us, myself included, to do everything we possibly can to ensure that the disorder stops. and that's why the message to those that are thinking about getting involved in disorder of any sort is very clear. if you involve yourself in disorder, then the full force of the law will be applied. and the fact that we've seen this week people not just in court, but being sentenced to significant terms of custody for their behaviour just a few days ago , i think is just a few days ago, i think is a very important message to anyone who's thinking of getting involved in the coming days. >> well, >> well, he's >> well, he's talking >> well, he's talking about swift justice there, isn't he? but there's a lot of things that don't seem to be as swift, though. but that's what he was saying. he said a rise. he's got to rise to the challenge. that's why he's had so many cobra meetings and he's going to focus on safety and security of our streets. online safety. what about the online safety bill which i thought was interesting? i think that he's annoyed with elon musk from for having a go at him on twitter. and i think

he's for on elon musk next. >> i think those comments from sir keir starmer, there are quite chilling, actually, saying that the online world isn't a law free zone. we're going to look more broadly at social media in the coming weeks and months. he looks a bit tired. sir keir starmer, do you think, a bit rattled? >> i don't think so. i thought he looked quite like a strict headmaster who's just, you know, sort of put the nation to task , sort of put the nation to task, >> i don't think he'll last long to be honest. >> do you don't think so? >> do you don't think so? >> no. well. well, i do find some of the things that are going on chilling. i think it's almost a silencing of speech and not allowing those who have a different view to say things, but we'll see how it goes. hopefully he will eventually come to on gb news and speak to us as well, so we can put direct questions that would be to good him. that would work nicely. >> thank you forjoining us >> thank you for joining us today, i hope it's been informative, informative and fun. i'm back tonight with mark dolan. >> nana is back tomorrow. i'm back tomorrow. >> 3:00 britain's good afternoon britain with cabinet and emily. it's too much britain. >> thanks both coming up, it's too much britain. >> thanks both coming up , the >> thanks both coming up, the prime minister has responded to calls for a crackdown on social media use, reminding the public that the online world is not a

law free zone. so is this a threat to free speech and an urgent manhunt? >> a patient from a mental health facility is on the run. he's absconded now four times. police are warning that he could be a threat to women and also a violent individual. we'll keep you very much up to date on that. so stick with us. 12 to 3. good afternoon. britain coming up after the weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news . hello. good morning. news. hello. good morning. welcome to your latest gb news, weather update brought to you from the met office. a pretty overcast and muggy day today. rain is going to spread in from the south and west though tomorrow is looking that much brighter wherever you are. so this weather front warm front at first bringing in that muggy air will spread in from the southwest, bringing with it outbreaks of quite heavy rain at times, particularly across northwestern areas, but across

western coast, the hills of wales, the south—west, it's going to be a lot of cloud around through this afternoon, and that thicker cloud will spread up into northern areas of england. much of scotland as well, the far north—east of scotland staying clear of the rain through much of the day, but elsewhere risk of drizzly outbreaks of rain and temperatures not doing too badly. but i think you'll really nofice badly. but i think you'll really notice that muggy feel through this evening. the rain will spread up further north and east, moving into parts of northern scotland, into the northern scotland, into the northern isles and the far north—east. some heavy bursts across parts of aberdeenshire are possible. temperatures in the mid—teens. for many of us, it's going to be a rather muggy night tonight. lots of cloud around across northern ireland, across much of northern england as well. the coasts here still feeling pretty drizzly and overcast, a little bit dry across southeastern areas, but i think still there's the risk of some drizzly rain through this evening. and it's definitely going to remain quite grey. lots of cloud overnight as well . as of cloud overnight as well. as i said, it's going to be a very mild night. quite a close night as well. it will turn a bit

fresher from the north and west as the night progresses. that's as the night progresses. that's as the night progresses. that's as the main weather front clears away to the south, so turning a bit fresher across northern ireland, much of scotland, the far north of wales, but still that muggy feel by tomorrow morning across southern areas of england that will likely linger through the first few hours of friday. some drizzly rain possible here. but then once it does clear, it is going to be a brighter day on friday, more in the way of sunshine, particularly as we head into the afternoon. still, though, across many northern areas of scotland, a bit of a breeze and a risk of some showers, but temperatures around average for the time of yeah around average for the time of year. that's all for now and i'll see you again later. bye bye. that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on

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cameron walker. keir starmer responds to calls to clamp down on social media following the nationwide riots. he warns the pubuc nationwide riots. he warns the public that the online world is not a law free zone . could there not a law free zone. could there be a threat to free speech and a divided britain? >> the mayor of london, sadiq khan, declares he no longer feels safe as a muslim in london. with the ongoing unrest and rioters out early , ministers and rioters out early, ministers are changing the law to allow some criminals to leave prison early to tackle the overcrowding crisis . crisis. >> so some who were jailed for the riots, could they be released early? >> and migrants numbers fall applications for skilled worker health and care and student visas to come down in the uk by more than a third, compared with last year. will labour benefit from changes made by the conservatives? >> and an urgent manhunt for a man described as a violent mental health patient and a risk to women after he absconded from a care facility, reportedly for