gb news. >> well good afternoon britain. it's 12:00 on friday. the 16th of august. i'm emily carver and i'm darren grimes. not terminating here. the government's joy at striking a pay government's joy at striking a pay deal with train drivers could be short lived, as it's revealed train drivers on lner are to stage yet more strikes. they're claiming a breakdown in industrial relations will labour continue to cave under union pressure? yes. >> mick whelan says in solidarity in his email to union members are not with the nation. unfortunately prince harry takes a veiled swipe at elon musk , a veiled swipe at elon musk, suggesting fake news on social media sparked the recent disorder on our streets . what disorder on our streets. what else will he say on this extravagant trip to colombia and have food delivery services become a magnet for illegal migrant workers?

>> last month, the home secretary said nail salons and car washes will be the target of illegal migration raids. could food delivery riders be . food delivery riders be. next? yeah. so, darren, the government seems to think that offering these generous pay offers to train drivers, to junior doctors, to public sector workers in general is going to completely resolve the issue of industrial relations won't be any more strikes. no. >> the old adage, emily, give them an inch, they'll take a mile has never been more relevant. right now. right? i mean, i just got off, i just said before the break, i just got off a train this morning. they're saying now on a saturday and sunday they're going to be off on strike again over an issue unrelated to pay over workers rights and all these other issues. so i'm sorry, but there's just going to be a never ending list of demands because once you cave in, they realise

they can get more and they do it again and again. and i'll tell you what, there are people in this country struggling a hell of a lot more than train drivers on 60 grand, soon to be nearly 70 grand. you know, it ain't a bad pay packet, is it? >> well, this is the thing as well. and with, you know, the winter fuel allowance being taken away from millions of, of pensioners, have the government got their priorities right? i mean, a lot of you will think you know what, junior doctors should be paid more. you want nurses to be paid more, but train drivers, they seem to be the most militant unions and they seem to always get their own way . is it they seem to always get their own way. is it right they seem to always get their own way . is it right that the own way. is it right that the government have caved in? we've got the budget. rachel reeves going to do her budget quite soon now . october, i believe it soon now. october, i believe it is. what exactly is going to be in there to pay for this all, to pay in there to pay for this all, to pay for this all. and you know, with the train drivers it's three year pay deal. what happens after three years? >> well, there are whispers on inheritance tax and things like that. so again, it's going to be the pensioners who are bashed on this isn't it. >> well, let us know your thoughts . gbnews.com/yoursay do thoughts. gbnews.com/yoursay do you think this is going to be the end of the strikes, or are

you a little bit more sceptical? anyway, let's get your headlines with cameron walker . with cameron walker. >> good afternoon. it's 12:02. i'm cameron walker here in the gb newsroom, and we have some breaking to news bring you. an army chaplain has been stabbed multiple times outside of a barracks in ireland. police have confirmed the man, in his 50s, received a number of stab wounds. he's been taken to hospital in galway. a teenage boy was restrained by members of the defence forces outside renmore army barracks before armed police responded and arrested him at approximately 1045 last night. police say the scene remains sealed off for investigations this morning. the victim's injuries are serious but not thought to be life threatening and in the last houn threatening and in the last hour, actually, he has released a statement. his name is chaplain paul murphy. and he said friends , thank you for your said friends, thank you for your prayers, love and concern . sorry prayers, love and concern. sorry that i can't reply to all messages and take all the calls coming my way. i'm doing okay, just awaiting surgery. all will

be well . in other news, victims be well. in other news, victims of the infected blood scandal can receive support scheme payments for life under changes to a multi—billion pound compensation plan. meanwhile, those who were subjected to unethical research will get up to £15,000 extra. that's after the government accepted the majority of recommendations from an independent review into planned compensation for victims. some 3000 people across the uk are estimated to have registered interest with the compensation scheme . ministers compensation scheme. ministers have been accused of prioritising unions over pensioners, to according the times, tens of thousands more rail workers are set to get above inflation, pay rises, which is expected to cost the treasury more than £100 million. the transport secretary, louise haigh, says the pay rises are better value for taxpayers than allowing train strikes to continue. but it's been claimed that the terms offered to aslef union members could have a knock on effect, with with other rail

unions . foreign secretary david unions. foreign secretary david lammy has arrived in jerusalem with his french counterpart stephane sojourn, to urge a ceasefire in the war in gaza. it's the first joint uk france visit to the region in over a decade, where the ministers are expected to occupy the expected to visit the occupied palestinian territories. lamey and sojourn are expected to stress that, and i quote, there is no time for delays or excuses from all parties on a ceasefire deal. from all parties on a ceasefire deal . in other news, prince deal. in other news, prince harry appeared to subtly weigh in on the recent riots in the uk, which were partly sparked by onune uk, which were partly sparked by online misinformation. the duke and duchess of sussex have used their first day of their official visits to colombia to highlight online safety, where harry and said what happens onune harry and said what happens online within a matter of minutes, transfers to the streets as people are acting on information that isn't true. the couple were officially invited by the country's vice president, francia marquez, who says she

was moved by their controversial netflix documentary where they laid bare their troubled relationship with the royal family, leading to their eventual departure as working royals . during eventual departure as working royals. during a panel talking about online misinformation, though, prince harry suggested education could help the public spot fake news. >> a lot of people are scared and uncertain, and i think one of the solutions to that is education and awareness, because it's becoming it's becoming harder and harder to stem the flow from the source and therefore really it comes to down all of us to be able to spot the true from the fake . spot the true from the fake. >> the number of pharmacies in england could fall below 10,000 for the first time in almost two decades. that's a warning from the national pharmacy association, which claims seven pharmacies, a week have so far closed this year. cuts to budgets and medicine becoming more expensive have been blamed if numbers fall below 10,000, it will be the lowest number since

2005. a cliff edge return to commercial bus fares in england could be around the corner after the government refused to commit to extending the £2 cap since january last year. a single bus fare in england has been capped at £2, something bus companies say is vital for young people to enhance their access to education and jobs. the government is working with the industry to find a solution . two industry to find a solution. two doctors and three others, including a personal assistant to actor matthew perry, have been charged with supplying the friends star with ketamine. the assistant has since pleaded guilty. the powerful sedative caused the actor's death from a drug overdose nearly a year ago. the us attorney general says the defendants, including a woman known in los angeles as the ketamine queen, were part of a criminal network that gave the drug to perry and others . well, drug to perry and others. well, those are the latest gb news headunes those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm cameron walker. 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. >> good afternoon britain. it's 12:28 rather, and we have some breaking news here for you. an army chaplain has been stabbed multiple times outside of a barracks in ireland. police have confirmed the man in his 50s, received a number of stab wounds. he's been taken to hospital in galway. >> yes. so this morning, chaplain paul murphy has released a statement saying, friends, thank you for your prayers, love and concern. sorry that i can't reply to all messages and take all the calls coming my way. i'm doing okay, just awaiting surgery. all will be well so joining us now in the studio is our home and security edhon studio is our home and security editor, mark white. mark, what do we know?

>> well, this incident unfolded at the irish defence force barracks, renmore barracks in county galway at 1045 last night . county galway at 1045 last night. this chaplain, father paul murphy, was confronted and stabbed by a teenage boy. as you've reported there multiple times now, army personnel were quickly on the scene. we understand that. they fired a number of warning shots , reports number of warning shots, reports that they fired up to five warning shots before then detaining this teenager. now the irish police , the gardai, the irish police, the gardai, the gardai attended and including the garda siochana armed response unit and that teenage boy has been taken into custody. but we don't know much more about him at this stage or indeed what on earth the motivation was for what seems to be a senseless attack on this

priest, but thankfully, father murphy has been well enough to send this message out on facebook just to assure people that he is recovering, that he is on the mend. but a shocking incident of course. and i mean, evenin incident of course. and i mean, even in the irish republic, we know here in this country and indeedin know here in this country and indeed in the north of ireland, there are big security concerns around army barracks. but it's the same. the world over. they are targets for people, for whatever reason, that might have either a political motivation or otherwise . and as such, that's otherwise. and as such, that's why, of course , barracks in any why, of course, barracks in any country are well guarded . country are well guarded. thankfully, there were personnel on scene to be able to intervene and to save this priest from further harm. >> now, i mean, lieutenant colonel mark teton in this country. mark, not too long ago had a similar horrible event

occur. had a similar horrible event occur . now, had a similar horrible event occur. now, his had a similar horrible event occur . now, his wife had a similar horrible event occur. now, his wife was had a similar horrible event occur . now, his wife was the had a similar horrible event occur. now, his wife was the one that found him. god bless her. now i'm wondering, you mentioned there that these happen. the world over these attacks on barracks, in particular in personnel working within them. it does seem, though , from these it does seem, though, from these two stories that, you know, it'll be on the radar of our viewers much more than it would have been, you know, a while back how worried should we be about an increase in these kinds of attacks? >> well, i mean, clearly it's the second such notable incident , the second such notable incident, this one, of course, being in the irish republic. but it is of concern and anyone from the military, we don't know whether this chaplain was actually an army uniform in the previous incident , the officer was in incident, the officer was in uniform as he was walking home when he was attacked. so that will be investigated. hopefully that detail will come out in the fullness of time. but clearly he

was just by the army barracks . was just by the army barracks. so in an area of heightened risk anyway, as these high security barracks are. so yeah , there is barracks are. so yeah, there is concern, whether it does , concern, whether it does, there's no indication that this is part of a pattern in any way. we just don't know what the motivation for this particular stabbing was. but clearly of concern and that's why the garda siochana detectives are now in the process of speaking to this teenager, to try to get as much information as they can, because they will want to know as quickly as possible whether there is any wider threat to military personnel or wherever in the irish republic. >> absolutely. well, thank you very much indeed. mark white, our homeland security editor. please do come back if we if we learn anything more. thank you . learn anything more. thank you. >> now, the government's joy at striking a pay deal with the aslef union and bringing an end to the pay dispute with train

drivers, well, it could be quite short lived as it's revealed that train drivers on l.n.e.r. are to stage a series of strikes claiming a breakdown in industrial relations. >> oh, brilliant. that's your line, isn't it? >> here we go again. >> here we go again. >> well, let's get more with gb news political editor, christopher hope. christopher, the government have been well, congratulating themselves on reaching these pay deals, putting these pay offers offers across. they claim that this will put an end to these costly strikes. will it ? strikes. will it? >> well, it seems not, frankly. and. hello, darren. hello, emily. from the heart of westminster. now, yesterday we heard how louise hay, she's the transport secretary, had brokered a deal between the train operating companies and the drivers, costing well over £100 million, a 14% pay raise over three years for drivers . over three years for drivers. today we hear from the same union, aslef, that got that deal

with the train operators that their l.n.e.r. drivers that's up their l.n.e.r. drivers that's up the east coast spine of our country are going to strike every weekend for the next three months. now, aslef said there's a breakdown in industrial relations bullying by management. they allege, and persistent breaking of agreements. mick whelan, who is the aslef general secretary. he says this dispute is separate from the pay rises brokered by the government . but it does lead the government. but it does lead you to think that maybe we're going to see increased industrial unrest after these generous deals have been struck by the government. you go back to 22% pay rise for junior doctors, 5.5% pay rises for millions of public sector workers. all these numbers are double or more than that than the inflation rate of 2.2% this week. but even that number is ticking up to maybe 2.75% by the end of this year. and that's ticking up to maybe 2.75% by the end of this year . and that's the end of this year. and that's the worry. are these pay rises going to be inflationary? gps, we're told today, are demanding 11% pay told today, are demanding 11% pay rise to take their pay back to what it should have been had

they had pay rises since 2018, 2019 now age uk. now they're involved because there's been choices made by this government in the first six, first six weeks. the government has removed this winter fuel payment from pensioners. this winter for millions of pensioners at the same time as giving above inflation pay rises to public sector workers. age uk has been saying today they think that is unfair. they've been told it's unfair. they've been told it's unfair by many pensioners who get in touch. so battles here being fought. nick thomas—symonds, by the way, he is the cabinet office minister. he has said that he doesn't think this is something which is prompting disputes. i think the truth will tell on that . truth will tell on that. >> yes. i mean, christopher , >> yes. i mean, christopher, it's tricky, isn't it, for the labour government. are they going to want to be perceived as letting the unions run things, letting the unions run things, letting the unions boss them around? yeah that's the risk they've got, emily, because of course these are no strings deals. >> they deal with the train

drivers . 14% pay rise over three drivers. 14% pay rise over three years. no strings attached. taking the average pay pay for the train drivers to £70,000 a yeah the train drivers to £70,000 a year. the tories say the government is making a choice here. they're going to support the unions, support public sector workers. that's maybe their support base and the expense of other people, other cuts, maybe even tax rises in the october 30th budget. so we'll wait and see if nick thomas—symonds is right. he says it won't trigger other inflationary pay demands, but that may not be the case. we'll watch it play out over the next few months. >> okay. well, thank you very much indeed, christopher. hope our political editor there, live in westminster college . green. in westminster college. green. >> now, folks, for more reaction, we're going to speak to the political commentator peter spencer. hello peter. >> hello there darren. >> hello there darren. >> now, peter, i mean, have you any sympathy whatsoever for this idea that, you know, these bumper inflation busting pay increases can actually stave off the strikes because we were told by labour, were we not, that

labourin by labour, were we not, that labour in power would mean that the strikes end ? the strikes end? >> well, i mean , ministers of >> well, i mean, ministers of either stripe, frankly, are damned if they do and damned if they don't. and this sort of thing. i mean, you go back to what looked like sort of something approaching a general strike under the tories, and they fronted up to the unions and, and in the end , most of the and, and in the end, most of the unions caved in. of course, it's not greatly to be wondered at, because when you're on strike, you're not actually being paid. so there's a, there's a disincentive to , to, to down disincentive to, to, to down tools at any moment. when it comes to starmer's , approach to comes to starmer's, approach to it, certainly it is more conciliatory. i mean, we're not into the harold wilson beer and sandwiches at number 10 sort of territory, but they have taken that decision to at least sukh to end the rail. the train drivers strike as best they can.

and as you say, inevitably there is going to be a knock on effect from other unions saying , well, from other unions saying, well, me too. i have to say that i have. me too. i have to say that i have . so spare a thought for have. so spare a thought for poor keir starmer's pain over all this. but he's had his teenage kids screeching at him over the cancelled holibobs after the riots, and now he's got this on his plate. i mean, peter, i'm sure there's not that much sympathy out there . much sympathy out there. >> peter. i mean, the difficulty for labour, though, is that of course, aslef as a union is affiliated with the labour party. there's a lot of , you party. there's a lot of, you know, power play there, isn't there? peter >> there's bound to be. of course there is. yes, yes. i mean, historically, you know, the labour party was was born of the labour party was was born of the trade union movement. so obviously there are going to be closer links between the labour party, which was the and that means they can be influenced and arguably bullied far more than the conservatives. well there is that danger of course. i mean, i can also see, in fairness, the other side of the argument, which is it's jolly inconvenient

for the travelling public when there is when there are train strikes every few minutes and they can't get to work or do the other things that they need to do. so i can see the logic behind thinking, let's just bang this on the head and get it over with. unfortunately, as you rightly pointed out of course the knock on effect does means that getting it over with is yet to be done. >> but peter, if i were a union boss, i'd be thinking, can probably get some more out of these guys. can probably get some more. you know, they're desperate to end these strikes. well, why not push them a little bit further? i mean, that's bafic bit further? i mean, that's basic psychology, isn't it? really peter? >> well, of course it is. and that's my point about the knock on effect. and so there is that danger that if you give, if you give an inch, you get someone starts to demand a mile. and of course, the backdrop to all of this is that we have had a pretty dire economic situation for a fair number of years, and a cost of living crisis. and so there's an awful lot of

disgruntled groups of workers out there. i mean, i come back to it, the tories did do most of the heavy lifting with all this and what the labour party, what the current government is faced with, is something of a residue. but that residue may, as you rightly say , have a sting in its tail. >> yes. and peter, mick whelan has said that actually the company lner they continued, which is the east coast main line , their continued failure to line, their continued failure to adhere to agreements and failure to resolve outstanding industrial relations issues, strike action will be taken as follows. so it's talking about august till november. that's quite a long time and i'm wondering how much of a blow will this be for keir starmer. because he would have thought, oh goody goody. you know we've got the trains off our backs. we've given them these inflation busting pay increases. that's going to be great. the public will love this, only to then be told, actually we are one of the biggest operators in the country, is going back on strike. >> oh yes. i mean, there's keir starmer for all his preparation

for coming into office, has been on an extremely steep learning curve. i mean , just let us let curve. i mean, just let us let us cast our minds back to the riots of a week or so back where, starmer played an absolute blinder of a hand in that he named and shamed culprits and gave them extremely swift justice. and that certainly scared them off. big time. but at the same time, there is the longer term problem of how in god's name do you regulate social media? and the answer to that was someone like elon musk in charge of x is going to be extremely hard. and so that, again, is a long term problem. and most certainly for keir starmer and his ministers, life is going to be a jolly sight trickier than they anticipated. >> well, thank you very much indeed, peter spencer, political commentator. and of course, darren, you know, there's all this talk about how labour are going to nationalise the railways. i mean, there's absolutely no guarantee that that would remove the threat of

strikes. it could make it greater. there's absolutely no guarantee that that will reduce the price of your tickets ehhen >> no, because helena chard is a state owned operator. you know, eleanor, very much is. and every weekend, emily, i'm just going to say this not to be egotistical. the only reason they've done it is to stop me doing the saturday five, isn't it? that's what it is. what are you going to do? >> i have to get yourself a no i well, i will, i will a little e—bike. >> cycling. cycling. >> cycling. cycling. >> anyway, coming up we're going to be off to colombia because harry and meghan are continuing their quasi royal tour. they have been speaking out yet again against fake news on social media. don't go anywhere

okay. welcome back. it's 1225 and the duke and duchess of sussex claim we're no longer debating facts online as their welcome to columbia for their four day quasi royal tour.

>> facts. what do they know of facts arriving in the capital pagoda today? it's their truth. they met columbia's vice president yesterday. francia marquez and her husband. now the couple travelled to south america to address concerns surrounding social media and the world's digital future. prince harry says we need to be more cautious when adopting artificial intelligence. >> ai is scary and i think, i think a lot of people are scared and uncertain . and i think one and uncertain. and i think one of the solutions to that is education and awareness , because education and awareness, because it's becoming it's becoming harder and harder to stem the flow from the source and therefore really it comes down to all of us to be able to spot the true from the fake . the true from the fake. >> i'd love to see prince harry debate elon musk. >> well, i'm sorry to be honest with you. what i will say, emily, is what does prince harry

know about sunderland? what does he know about why sunderland would feel like they a riot ought to happen or whatever else. prince. >> he's living in california. he knows all. we're joined by former royal butler grant harrold, grant, i guess this is their. thank you forjoining us. their. thank you for joining us. i guess this is what they want to be known for now, isn't it? prince harry and meghan as well, about how they want to improve the future of social media. they want to rid the world of fake news. they want to take the tabloids and the evil press to task, but do they have the capabilities or qualifications to do so in a constructive way ? to do so in a constructive way? >> hey, good morning emily hand. nice to see you both. >> it's interesting, isn't it? >> it's interesting, isn't it? >> because the way obviously, he's this is very much a personal thing. it's a public platform, which is why obviously they're doing this , this three they're doing this, this three day is it sorry, four day visit, but they are obviously using it to kind of get their messages across as well. >> which is again, it's not

unusual. >> you know, you have other world leaders or members of the royal family that will when they do engagements, they sometimes speak of personal things or things that they're passionate about, which is great. but as you've just said, it is this love hate relationship which historically the royal family as we know, have always had a bit of a love hate relationship with with the media. >> but, you know, they got on really well with them. they worked together. i think that's obviously what harry and meghan are wanting. but, you know, one minute they seem to kind of obviously attack the media or, you know, the kind of social media and the next minute they're obviously trying to embrace it. and now they're trying to talk about this, this how dangerous it can be with fake news, which is true. but we already kind of know that. but i think this is maybe from a more personal point of view, and i've got no issue with anyone kind of saying what they're saying. but you know, you've got you kind of can't keep changing what you feel you either want to support and work with. for example , the and work with. for example, the media or you don't. and that's obviously including social media as well. and the facts. yeah, i mean, that's the thing about media is it's very easy these days to put out false

information. really easy. but we're all aware of that, aren't we? well, i'd like to think we are. >> well, yes. i mean, grant, it was very easy to put out information on the royal family being a racist household, wasn't it . it. >> exactly. and this is the thing. and you diane. exactly. this is where it's very dangerous with, with. i won't say i don't want to say fake news because i'm only going by what was what they said. obviously i want to believe it's fake like all of us, you know. but but even starting that debate, even bringing that up, is not. it's not really. i don't think personally, it's a sensible move. i mean, you know, because, again, not just because the royal family, it's your family as well. and this is where it gets really tricky. and that's obviously what's caused this breakdown with any question. and you know, just spreading as the royal family would say spreading obviously what they would class as fake news. and this is where it is dangerous. and you've got to be so careful for everybody, not just for them. >> i mean , does this fall under >> i mean, does this fall under

the i'm just trying to think about what their brand exactly is now because they're not working royals. they live in california. so they're not really i guess they're still the duke and duchess of sussex, which is fantastic. and all. but does this all come under their sort of philanthropy umbrella or the thought leaders of tomorrow? i'm just trying to think what this is all about, because it's sort of it's politics, isn't it? >> it is. which the royals are not ever really supposed to get involved in. i mean, historically , it's all we'll historically, it's all we'll look at. we won't go into it, but historically in the past we've lost the monarchy because of politics. so you know, that's why they always avoid it. now, of course, they are no longer technically waycross, but as i keep pointing out, he is still a senior member of the royal family. he's still a council of state. he he would be asked to step in if, god forbid, something happened to the king among others. but he has one. he's still on that role . so he he's still on that role. so he you know, he's still even though he's not a working member, the royal family, he's still an important part of the royal family. so getting involved in politics is really not a good

idea. and it's what they're trying to now achieve. everyone's a bit confused because there have been so many. i don't know whether so many transformations, so many things that they've tried to do. and now they seem to prevent this carrying out tours and of course, they're well within their rights. i mean, we have i mean, our class is celebrity royals, which is what they are. you know, they're obviously celebrities and they're still royals. so it's a very difficult and unusual role that they've taken on. and i suppose they're trying to work out how they want to do that. and it is it is tncky to do that. and it is it is tricky because you know, they do kind of keep changing what they want to do at the moment. this this resembles a royal tour, but it's not a royal tour technically, because they're not undertaking it on behalf of the king, which is what if it was in his name? that's very different. and also the things he talks about have to be approved by the palace. it's all got to be arranged. this is just the two of them doing a tour. but again, it looks and acts and everything about it seems like a royal toun about it seems like a royal tour, but it's not. it's a tour by the duke and duchess of sussex in their own right. >> yeah. i think it all makes sense for harry. i mean, it is

the media and social media that is what he wants to campaign on. thatis is what he wants to campaign on. that is what he cares passionately about. meghan, it's a little bit different though, isn't it? because, you know, on the one hand she's selling her jam and her sort of lifestyle brand. then she's off to colombia on these quasi royal trips, and then she's also getting involved in the social media, the children's stuff. i mean, i'm not saying that people shouldn't have multiple strings to their bow, but i just wonder if there's maybe a little bit of a conflict there coming down the line. but grant, harold, thank you very much indeed. former royal butler, always great to speak to you. >> coming up, folks, the government announces victims of the infected blood scandal will receive financial support for life. it follows that damning report released earlier this yeah report released earlier this year. we'll have more of after your headlines with cameron walker . walker. >> darren. thank you. it's 1232. >> darren. thank you. it's1232. i'm cameron walker here in the newsroom. an army chaplain has been stabbed multiple times outside of a barracks in ireland and has been taken to hospital.

a teenage boy was restrained by members of the defence forces outside renmore army barracks before armed police responded and arrested him at approximately 1045 last night. the victim's injuries are serious but not thought to be life threatening, and this morning that victim, chaplain paul murphy, he has released a statement. he said, friends, thank you for your prayers, love and concern. sorry that i can't reply to all messages and take all the calls coming. my way. i'm doing okay. just awaiting surgery. all will be well . surgery. all will be well. victims of the infected blood scandal can receive support scheme payments for life under changes to a multi—billion pound compensation plan. meanwhile, those who were subjected to unethical research will get up to £15,000 extra. that's after the government accepted the majority of recommendations from an independent review into planned compensation for victims. some 3000 people across the united kingdom are estimated to have registered interest, with the compensation scheme.

ministers have been accused of prioritising unions over pensioners, according to the times. tens of thousands more rail workers are set to give above inflation pay rises, which is expected to cost the treasury more than £100 million. the transport secretary, louise hayes, says the pay rises are better value for taxpayers than allowing train strikes to continue. but the terms offered to aslef union members could have a knock on effect with other rail unions, it's been claimed, and aslef has announced today. train drivers on lner are today. train drivers on lner are to stage a series of strikes on the separate issue of claims breakdowns in industrial relations and the breaking of agreements by the company . the agreements by the company. the number of pharmacies in england could fall below 10,000 for the first time in almost 20 years. that's a warning from the national pharmacy association, which claims seven pharmacies a week have so far closed this yeah week have so far closed this year. cuts to budgets and medicine becoming more expensive has been blamed . if numbers fall has been blamed. if numbers fall below 10,000, it will be the lowest number since 2005 and

prince harry has appeared to subtly weigh in on the recent riots in the uk, which were partly sparked by online misinformation. the duke and duchess of sussex have used their first day of their official visits to colombia to highlight online safety, where harry said and i quote what happens online within a matter of minutes, transfers to the streets and people are acting on information that isn't true. the couple were officially invited by the presidents vice by the country's vice president, francia marquez, who says she was moved by their controversial netflix documentary where they laid bare their troubled relationship with the royal family, leading to their eventual departure as working royals . well, those are the royals. well, those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm cameron walker. 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

>> okay. welcome back. you're watching good afternoon britain with me emily and darren. now lots of you have been getting in touch about these strikes, which don't seem to be ceasing. >> no, i mean, grumpy grandad gets in touch and he says, i'm an old soldier. i'm on less than 20 k a year. so when i hear about people going on strike, they get three times what i get. it really winds me up and free speech. >> i don't think that's your your name, but yes , free speech your name, but yes, free speech says. so elena, our train drivers get a pay rise just 48 hours later. they're striking every weekend from august to november. that's 22 days of chaos. and it's not about money anymore. they're complaining about management bullying at this point. they're taking the absolute mick tilly says. i've seen it all before. unions running the country, christine. absolutely serves starmer right. give the rich train drivers a big rise and they threaten again. i think it's funny.

everything will backfire on him. >> but then dave, emily says elena are still striking because their strikes were so not solely to do with pay. it's the conditions they expect drivers to work , i.e. conditions they expect drivers to work , he no guards on to work, he no guards on trains or ticket inspectors. and he says as far as i'm concerned, their conditions are a health and safety issue to staff and customers, so they are justified . customers, so they are justified. >> it might be true, but i mean, you know, look at businesses, look at the private sector. they have to constantly adapt, you know, people do lose jobs. redundancies are made . but then, redundancies are made. but then, you know, more businesses are set up different ways of working are made. i mean, it might sound cruel at the time, but actually if the railways don't adapt to the changing times, then i mean, it's just going to be more and more costly for the rest of us because, as beth says, the sooner driverless trains are brought in, the better. >> so that could happen. you know, that's the other view and it could happen. >> i think it's happening in other countries. >> it is. yeah. it definitely. well, there we go. >> we'll come back to that because lots of you have been in touch. keep them coming. keep them coming. thank you very much for those. >> now folks, it's been revealed

that the victims of the infected blood scandal will receive support scheme payments for life as part of changes to the multi—billion pound compensation plan. >> now, those who were subjected to unethical research will also get up to £15,000 extra and others will receive a social impact award recognising the consequences of any stigma surrounding the disaster. >> now we'll discuss this further with gb news very own political correspondent, olivia utley. olivia thank you very much for joining utley. olivia thank you very much forjoining us. as ever. much for joining us. as ever. what's the latest there ? what's the latest there? >> well, it's a relief for the victims of the infected blood scandal that it's been announced today that they will start receiving their payments by the end of this year. rishi sunak and jeremy hunt promised in in april or may of this year that the payments would be rolled out by the end of 2024, but of course, straight after that the election was called and it was all a little bit up in the air for a while. labour has confirmed today that payments will begin and they will last for the rest of the lives of all

of the victims and the victims. the families of victims who have already, sadly died. it is a huge amount that the government has pledged it could could reach up to about £10 billion, is the best estimate and individual victims could receive up to £2 million over the course of their lifetime. obviously, the government has really no choice other than to go ahead with this. it is one of the worst medical scandals in british history. there is also, as you mentioned there, this £15,000 sort of bonus payment, if you like, for specifically people who were who were tested on who were used as basically human guinea pigs, mostly children at a school in hampshire who suffered from haemophilia, who were injected with blood containing hiv or hepatitis when they didn't even need to get the factor five injection. so those those boys who are now men will receive this extra £15,000. now, lots of them have already said

that they find the £15,000 price tag an insult. they are very happy, of course, that they will be getting this payment at last. that payment, which will be paid to them for the rest of their lives. but that £15,000 figure they are not happy with at all. it will be interesting to see how the dust settles around this, because obviously the, the compensation package overall possibly £10 billion is enormous. but after waiting so, so long to receive justice and with that, that seemingly quite insulting £15,000 figure for those boys, it could be that victims still aren't happy. >> well, thank you very much indeed. olivia utley gb news political correspondent. thank you darren. the scope of this compensation is absolutely enormous. and you can understand why. the horror, the stigma of the ill health that people suffered, is absolutely enormous. it's also, you know , enormous. it's also, you know, family, even friends, victims , family, even friends, victims, parents, etc, etc. are children and the like. i mean , it's

and the like. i mean, it's absolutely enormous. the government are going to have to really plan how they how they're going to be able to pay for this all. >> and also how do you actually quantify how much compensation people ought to be paid . right. people ought to be paid. right. you know, the 15 grand figure there, people saying that's actually quite insulting. yeah. with this being one of the biggest, scandals within the health care service overall, you know, how do you put a price on that and stop it from getting incredibly expensive? indeed, at a time when we're getting rid of winter fuel payments and all these other things , emily and these other things, emily and i remember for how long when we were reporting on this, when the government, previous government announced that there would be this support, people saying, why has it taken this long to sort out this, this scandal that's shaken so many people and so many people have experienced ? many people have experienced? >> please do get in touch with your views on this. what do you make of the compensation, do you think that £15,000 is probably a little bit insulting? actually to those victims, those young victims? but anyway, we're going to move on because we've got lots more to talk about. the premier league, of course, is kicking off again . you'll be

watching. >> i am indeed. so we're asking who are the favourites to lift the prestigious trophy this season. well, find out after this

>> right. well some lovely people have been in touch with us today. >> they have indeed. shirley says. afternoon both. good afternoon to you, shirley . could afternoon to you, shirley. could you please find out how much the average train driver gets paid? then do the same for carers, nurses , teachers, etc. oh, nurses, teachers, etc. oh, i think i know the general answer. train drivers get paid double or triple the pay of others that do much more important jobs in society. then there are the vulnerable of society who are having things like the winter fuel payment taken away. shirley says this is wrong and unfair and the government has its priorities all wrong. shirley

not holding back there. emily. yeah. >> so train drivers, i think average is about 60 k, 60 k a yeah average is about 60 k, 60 k a year. that's going to go up to within three years up to closer to 70. >> exactly. and one of the other comments made the point that actually bus drivers, they collect the fares. they do everything they get people on, they don't have a guard standing guard with them, you know, and they often get a lot of abuse . they often get a lot of abuse. they do indeed. >> the train drivers are protected a little more from that. but yeah, what i was reading earlier about how they've still got the right because this was a no strings attached pay offer that the government offered aslef union, the train drivers and you know, they can still if they start their lunch break. yes. if they start their lunch break and then the manager comes over and says, hey, hey, darren. hey, darren. then they can start their lunch break again because they've been interrupted by their boss. and that's not fair. >> it'sjust that's not fair. >> it's just it's very french, isn't it? >> it's very french. >> it's very french. >> incredibly french. where the unions have absolute power over this one industry. and it seems to be the sort of , you know, to be the sort of, you know, longing for the halcyon days of

old pre—thatcher where the unions did actually have a really large amount of power and sway in the country. >> i mean, do you think i mean, i'm interested to know if you at home think that we're sort of moving in that direction, sort of the pre—thatcher 1970s moving in that direction, sort of the pre—thatcher1970s where the unions had a huge amount of power to just disrupt everything. i guess the counter to that is that the conservatives didn't manage to sort out these pay disputes. and yes, they stuck to their guns and said, we're not going to give you these pay rises. but what did we see? huge amount of days lost, lots of money lost in the economy as a result. >> but then i remember sadiq khan when he was elected in 2016, he said i'll end the strikes. there will be no more strikes. there will be no more strikes. tfl will run like clockwork with me and then, lo and behold, how many strikes have there been, emily? loads. >> well, madeleine says, why do we still need train drivers? we've had docklands light railway railways since 1987. we have no train driver on those trains. they work fine and in the last 30 plus years they could have sorted out the rest of the railway network to be the same as the dlr. well, i'm

telling you there, the unions would not be happy with that. no they would not, because then they'd lose jobs, then they'd lose jobs. but matthew says, heading full speed back to the 70s. there you go. yeah and that's a really good point, actually , because, i mean, if we actually, because, i mean, if we do go back to the 1970s, remember what happened in the 70s, and a lot of viewers will be well aware , three day working be well aware, three day working week, winter of discontent. >> you had bags of rubbish piled up on the streets. there was a load of people going on strike every two minutes in loads of industries and we couldn't. we were the sick man of europe. we were the sick man of europe. we were no use to man nor beast. so, you know, we can't go back in that direction. i think unionisation has its place. of course it does. and to help workers to fight off what could be a pretty big business. but i'm sorry we can't go back to those days of what was madness for any supposedly advanced economy. i mean, i wonder what keir starmer is going to do here, because they obviously

decided that their tactic was going to be make this go away, pay going to be make this go away, pay them off, make the strikes go away. >> and, but we're going to move on because the football is back and we can't forget that. that's and we can't forget that. that's a bit lighter, a bit brighter, a bit happier. >> although one viewer did remind oh, us, one viewer did remind oh, us, one viewer did remind us, mind, that we actually were not talking about the cricket. so i do want to give a shout out to that viewer and say i'm so sorry. you are right, the cricket is still on going emily. the cricket is still on going. >> but let's speak to harry harris, who is a football writer. yeah and find out more. yeah. harry, what have we got going on then with the old football? >> well, it all kicks off tonight with manchester united, no one really has much confidence in den haag. the manager who was kept on by the skin of his teeth when they. the club interviewed 2 or 3 prospective candidates, wouldn't pay prospective candidates, wouldn't pay them enough or wouldn't give them enough money in the transfer market. whatever the reasons, they all turned it down and they were left with, what was supposedly a dead man

walking, but he's still walking, how long for? ten hag. will it be? ten days? ten months? i'm not sure he's going to last the season. that's for sure. >> well, harry, though, at the end of last season, though, ten hag did seem like the sort of comeback kid, right? because everyone was saying, oh, that's it. he's gone. he's a goner. that's over. he's done as rishi sunak. and then, like lazarus , sunak. and then, like lazarus, he rose back from the dead. >> he did well, he got to hand it to him. he's still there. but you know, players being players and we've come across them over many years. they know the score and they know his time is limited. and he's he's made some significant signings and 1 or 2 very good signings. they've got to be fair to him. very good signings. they've got to be fairto him. or the very good signings. they've got to be fair to him. or the club and the new new backers are in place. so you never know . he's, place. so you never know. he's, he's got half a chance. but yeah i don't think he's going to be much of a chance in a sense because, you know, he really hasn't got the majority of the fans behind him. he hasn't got the players behind him. he's got

some new signings in. it really is going to be the focus. and of course one of his top signings is centre half. got injured before even the season started so he's not had much luck and he had a lot of injuries last season. so there's something not quite right behind old trafford that's i mean harry, do you think there's going to be a difference with actually winning the premier league this year? >> do you think arsenal might finally be able to break through properly ? properly? >> well, i think there's going to be a lot of surprises this yeah to be a lot of surprises this year, funnily enough, because i think, you know , manchester city think, you know, manchester city winning four in a row. that was some feat. but winning five, i just don't think that's feasible. and they've got some problems as well. you know here's my prediction. i think this is pep guardiola's last season for a number of reasons. okay. >> harry i'm so sorry. we're going to have to leave it there because we've come to the end of the hour. but that was harry harris. please stick with us because we're, we've got a lot more on our plate. >> indeed you. we have indeed . >> indeed you. we have indeed. >> indeed you. we have indeed. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb

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gb news. >> a very good afternoon . it's >> a very good afternoon. it's 1:00 on friday 16th of august. i'm darren grimes and i'm emily carver. an army chaplain has been stabbed multiple times outside of a barracks in ireland. police have confirmed the man, in his 50s, has been taken to a hospital in galway, and a teenage boy has been arrested. we'll have the latest. yes and not terminating here. >> the government joy at striking a pay deal with train drivers could be short lived, as it's revealed train drivers on lner are to stage yet more strikes, claiming a breakdown in industrial relations while labour continue to cave under union pressure and have food

delivery services become a magnet for illegal migrant workers. >> last month, the home secretary , yvette cooper, said secretary, yvette cooper, said nail salons and car washes will be the target of illegal migration raids. could food delivery riders be . delivery riders be. next? now send your views and post your comments folks, by visiting gbnews.com/yoursay. you have been getting in touch and anna has written in and we were speaking about this during the break. anna says rishi been off the radar is actually very annoying. rishi being rishi sunak of course remember him? this failed prime minister off on a holiday, probably not oblivious to the chaos here with the standard rolling salary after quitting the post. are the tories absent, is the question. >> well, there's no real opposition at the moment. it might be one of the reasons why reform is polling so well at the

moment, 21% in one poll. >> that's above the conservatives, which is quite extraordinary really, considering there's such a young party, 21%, just one poll, but it is a snapshot and it had labour down by six points. >> i mean, i think the tories need to get their act together and just choose a leader sooner rather than later. if they drag this out, there really is no opposition. when huge decisions are being made. winter fuel allowance , massive pay, offers allowance, massive pay, offers to public sector workers and train drivers, junior doctors, etc. etc. this sort of stuff needs discussing not only within your own party surely, but how then, though emily, do they actually manage to bridge the gap of needing to get together the two voting sets of reform and the conservatives to actually challenge labour at the next election? >> can they do that within five years? actually consolidate that vote when all of the leadership contenders have said, i ain't having anything to do with mr farage? >> well, it's that argument, isn't it, that it would . be

isn't it, that it would. be better to unite the right. but i don't think nigel farage is having any of it either. let us know what you think. the conservatives. yes, let us know what you make of it all. gbnews.com/yoursay. but it's your headlines. first with cameron walker. >> good afternoon. it's 1:02. i'm cameron walker here in the gb newsroom. an army chaplain has been stabbed multiple times outside of a barracks in ireland . outside of a barracks in ireland. police have confirmed that the man, in his 50s, received a number of stab wounds. he's been taken to hospital in galway, a teenage boy was restrained by members of the defence forces outside renmore army barracks before armed police responded and arrested him at approximately 1045 last night. police say the scene remains sealed off for investigations to continue. the victim's injuries are serious, but they're not thought to be life threatening. and this morning the victim, chaplain paul murphy, he has released a statement. he said friends , thank you for your friends, thank you for your prayers, love and concern. sorry that i can't reply to all messages and take all the calls coming my way. i'm doing okay.

just awaiting surgery. all will be well and some breaking news. now we're going to take you live to preston crown court where roger heywood is being sentenced for violent disorder and assaulting an emergency worker following the disorder in blackpool on saturday. the 10th of august. we'll bring you more as we get it. but it's a judge roberts altham, who is carrying out the sentencing at the moment . out the sentencing at the moment. victims of the infected blood scandal can receive support scheme payments for life under changes to a multi—billion pound compensation plan. meanwhile those who were subjected to unethical research will get up to £15,000 extra. that's after the government accepted the majority of recommendations from an independent review into planned compensation for victims. more than 30,000 people who received nhs treatments between the 1970s and early 1990s were infected with contaminated blood . ministers contaminated blood. ministers have been accused of

prioritising unions over pensioners, according to the times, tens of thousands more rail workers are set to get above inflation pay rises, which is expected to cost the treasury more than £100 million. the transport secretary, louise haigh, says the pay rises are better value for taxpayers than allowing train strikes to continue. but the terms offered to aslef union members could its claims have a knock on effect with other rail unions? and aslef has announced today that train drivers of lner are to stage a series of strikes on the separate issue of claimed breakdowns in industrial relations and the breaking of agreements by the company . agreements by the company. foreign secretary david lammy has arrived in jerusalem with his french counterpart stephane . his french counterpart stephane. sojourn to you to urge a ceasefire in the war in gaza. it's the first joint uk france visit to the region in over a decade, where the ministers are expected to visit the occupied palestinian territories. lamy and sojourn are expected to stress that there is no time for delays or excuses from all

parties on a ceasefire deal. prince harry has appeared to subtly weigh in on the recent riots in the uk, which were partly sparked by online misinformation, where harry said what happens online within a matter of minutes, transfers to the streets and people are acting on information that isn't true. the couple were officially ianed true. the couple were officially invited harry and meghan by the country's vice president, francia marquez, who says she was moved by their controversial netflix documentary where they laid bare their troubled relationship with the royal family leading to their eventual departure as working royals . departure as working royals. well, during a panel discussion on misinformation, prince harry suggested education could help the public spot fake news. >> a lot of people are scared and uncertain, and i think one of the solutions to that is education and awareness, because it's becoming it's becoming harder and harder to stem the flow from the source and therefore really it comes down

to all of us to be able to spot the true from the fake a cliff edge, return to commercial bus fares in england could be around the corner after the government refused to commit to extending the £2 cap since january last yeah >>a yeah >> a single bus fare in england has been capped at £2, something that bus companies say is vital for young people to enhance their access to education and jobs. the government is working with the industry to find a solution . two doctors and three solution. two doctors and three others, including a personal assistant to actor matthew perry, have been charged with supplying the friends star with ketamine. the assistant has since pleaded guilty. the powerful sedative caused the actor's death from a drug overdose nearly a year ago. the us attorney general says the defendants, including a woman known in los angeles as the ketamine queen, were part of a criminal network that gave the drug to perry and others . were drug to perry and others. were those other latest gb news headunes those other latest gb news headlines for now? and cameron walker more in half an hour for

the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone , sign up to to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> well good afternoon britain. it is now 108 and an army chaplain has been stabbed multiple times outside of a barracks in ireland . police barracks in ireland. police confirming the man is in his 50s and has been taken to hospital in galway and a teenage boy has now been arrested. >> this morning, chaplain paul murphy released a statement saying the following. friends, thank you for your prayers , love thank you for your prayers, love and concern. sorry that i can't reply to all messages and take all the calls coming. my way. i'm doing okay. just awaiting surgery. all will be well. >> okay, well , joining us now is >> okay, well, joining us now is our home and security editor, mark white with us in the studio. mark, what do we know

about this incident? >> well, it was just before 11:00 last night. and father murphy, we understand, was the main gates into renmore barracks in county galway when this attack happened. thankfully, he was near the main gate because there was then army personnel who were on guard duty that were able to come to his assistance, but not before he'd been stabbed multiple times. we are told that army personnel fired a number of warning shots, some five shots that were fired before this suspect. teenage boy , described suspect. teenage boy, described as 16 or 17, was wrestled to the ground, detained and arrested by the garda and he has now been taken to a police station. a garda station where he is being questioned. but we don't know at this stage any anything about the motivation for this seems

like a senseless attack. we don't know as well whether father murphy at that point was in uniform or wasn't in uniform, but he was at the main gate of the barracks, of course, which any army barracks has just that higher degree of risk because of attacks that we've we've known about at army barracks around the world, really. >> and mark, father murphy there says he's waiting for surgery. do we know how serious it must be in order for there to be surgery? >> he is seriously injured, non—life threatening. we're told. thankfully. but he was clearly still able either to type himself or to dictate a message on social to media all these very worried friends and well—wishers who've been contacting him just to say that, you know, he is on the road to recovery, but clearly he will require surgery following those

multiple stab wounds that he received. >> now, it's something that has been spoken about, is how some people in our armed forces may not always feel comfortable wearing their uniform out and about. now, as you say, we don't know if father murphy was wearing anything. army related, but he was outside a barracks. is this something that people in the armed forces are actually talking about? whether they feel safe in their in their uniform? >> yeah. i mean, that debate has been sparked a number of times over the years with threats that have been made towards military personnel at times of heightened tension, particularly in the middle east and, of course, incidents. some of them tragic. we remember lee rigby back in 2013, stabbed to death outside the woolwich barracks in south—east london. there was a big debate then about whether military personnel should wear uniform. now he wasn't wearing uniform. now he wasn't wearing uniform at the time, but of course he was in close proximity

to an army barracks at that point. and then, of course, we just need to remember the incident last month in gillingham in kent, outside the brompton barracks, where lieutenant colonel mark heaton was stabbed. multiple times and was stabbed. multiple times and was lucky to escape with his life. he's making a slow recovery after that attack now. he was in uniform, leaving the brompton barracks and heading home just a short distance away in gillingham when he was attacked. so there is there is a heightened risk because of the job they do, and there are people out there that want to do our and other people's armed forces personnel harm. >> well, thank you very much indeed. mark white, our homeland security editor, rather depressing that people in our armed forces need to think about that. >> it definitely is. >> it definitely is. >> but shall we move on? because the government, they've been pretty happy in the last couple of days striking this pay deal

with the aslef union, bringing an end to the pay dispute with train drivers. but could it be short lived? >> it could indeed not only have train drivers at lner announced a fresh set of strikes , but a fresh set of strikes, but ministers have been accused of prioritising unions over pensioners. >> well, a fresh row could also be brewing, with the rmt union now after their general secretary, mick lynch, threatened fresh industrial action from his members if they don't get the exact same pay deal as aslef. you can see what's happening here, can't you, darren? >> yeah. why are the heads of all these trade unions called mick? emily. that's what i want to know. we're going to get the thoughts now of mick, mick, mick. now we're going to get the thoughts of former labour minister bill rammell. bill don't worry. i won't ask you why. every trade union member is called mick. but i would like to know, do you think this is a bit of a is this a bit of a faux pas for the prime minister? because of course it was, you know, said with much gusto, we're going to end the strikes. and this pay increase was what was going to

do it. it ain't happened. >> well, i think the dispute at lneris >> well, i think the dispute at lner is particularised to that regional rail company, and there's still two weeks to go before suggested strike action. and i think negotiations are going to take place. it's not about pay , it's actually about about pay, it's actually about working conditions and management . and i think it can management. and i think it can almost certainly be resolved, but you know what? we're seeing is about fairness and getting britain back to work. the tories always keep public sector pay excessively low, and that causes real problems in terms of recruitment, retention and morale within those services, which affects the public services. and this is about rebalancing and getting it right and a pay rise. if we're talking about the train drivers, is ultimately, i think, a better deal for the taxpayer than a dispute carrying on, which has already cost more than 800. >> i take your point, £8 billion. i take your point bill.

but this pay offer to the train drivers? absolutely no strings attached, no question of improved productivity, no question of removing some of these antiquated practices, specifically over lunch breaks and the like. absolutely no strings attached. so if i was a union boss, i'd be thinking, well , after three years, we're well, after three years, we're going to do exactly the same thing again, threaten a few strikes and the labour government will just give us what we want. bill, is that the way to run a country? >> well, i actually think there is a fair point being made around some of the antiquated working practices. and i hope that as we move forward, those will be tackled. >> but there hasn't been it wasn't in the offer. >> sure. but because there's been an absolute imperative to end these strikes at this particular time, which have already cost us over £850 million. and that's just the cost to the rail companies, quite apart from the knock on cost to the economy and economic growth, i also think it's worth pointing out these are not

excessive pay deals. it's actually 14.25% over three years, and that's actually less than the inflation rate for those three years. >> i know, but you consider the fact that, you know, it's going up to almost 70 grand, though, bill. and a lot of our viewers are saying, well, howie, hang on are saying, well, howie, hang on a minute here, 70 grand. i wouldn't mind that. >> well, everybody , whatever >> well, everybody, whatever they earn has seen their cost of living go through the roof and their pay packets are going up. >> as much as keir starmer is putting up train drivers , though. >> well, we're seeing a rebalancing across the board . rebalancing across the board. we've seen the deal for the nurses and the teachers. we've seen the junior doctors. we're now seeing some of these rail initiatives. it is a reality that under the last government, pay that under the last government, pay was excessively kept down. people were hit massively by cost of living rises and it didn't resolve the strikes. you know, we were we were faced constantly within the nhs by

operations being cancelled through strikes in the rail companies, you know, services being cancelled because of the strikes we're putting . right. strikes we're putting. right. >> okay. what went wrong? what about what about the taxpayer and also what about those who are having their winter fuel allowance taken away? i mean, that's going to affect millions of pensioners . it's not hard to of pensioners. it's not hard to see why some of those people might think, hang on, this government's got their priorities wrong. >> well , i priorities wrong. >> well, i don't think pensioners have been deprioritized actually , deprioritized actually, pensioners are the group that has been most protected over the last 25 years. >> and the reality is, hang on, where was getting rid of the winter fuel allowance in the manifesto? i don't remember reading it. >> yeah, because we hadn't seen the full extent of the fiscal inheritance. >> we would face. >> we would face. >> oh no no no, sorry. >>— >> oh no no no, sorry. >> it's a reality. the one you look, for example, we also didn't we also didn't. no no no. hold on. >> look at the 4.8 billion being spent as an overrun on hotels for asylum seekers, which jeremy

jeremy hunt had kept hidden. from from the red book. that's the reality. and, you know, in terms of pensioners, there has always been a case for means testing the winter fuel allowance because you talk to many, many pensioners who don't need it. they would say that should be brought in to alignment. >> yes, but it should have been. >> yes, but it should have been. >> labour should have been up front about that. it should have been upfront about that. there was also nothing in there about pay was also nothing in there about pay settlements with the public sector either. that's all been taken by surprise. but it's also a little bit awkward, isn't it? as well? because, because because rachel reeves talked down this economy so much when they were in opposition saying it's in the worst state ever, worst state ever. you know, the worst state ever. you know, the worst inheritance since the war and all of that. and then it turns out that actually the economy is on the up. >> well, well hold on. you know, the inheritance we face on the financial front and the institute for fiscal studies have confirmed this this morning, whilst the economy may be growing, the public finances

are in a historic, disastrous state because of what we were left by the tory party. that's what we're trying to make. good. >> okay, good stuff. thank you very much. bill rammell former labour minister. always great to talk to you. thank you. >> less the tories more covid lockdowns. i would say, emily, but yeah, >> well, it's been revealed that victims of the infected blood scandal will receive support scheme payments for life as part of changes to the multi—billion pound compensation plan. >> those who were subjected to unethical research will also get up to £15,000 extra, and others will receive a social impact award, recognising the consequences of any stigma surrounding the disaster. >> okay, well let's speak to gb news political correspondent olivia utley olivia. talk us through this then . through this then. >> well, essentially back in april this year, the conservative government, as was promised that victims of infected blood would get the payout that they have been

waiting so long for. but shortly after that, the general election was called and then obviously, everything was flung into complete uncertainty. today, labour have doubled down on the conservatives commitment. so they have said that victims of they have said that victims of the infected blood scandal will start to receive payment from this year, and anyone who was directly affected and the families of anyone directly infected, will receive money for the rest of their lives . that the rest of their lives. that could amount to up to 2 million for some victims, the overall compensation package. there are varying estimates, but it's thought to be around £10 billion over the course of the lifetimes of these victims. obviously, the government doesn't have any choice but to go ahead with this. this is one of the worst scandals in british history, and it has taken a shockingly long time to resolve years and years ago, this this was a scandal that took place between the 70s and the 90s. these victims have been begging for compensation for decades, in some cases. now

so the labour government has no choice but to proceed. and on the whole, it sounds as though victims are happy. if that's the right word, with the money that they will be receiving. but there is this slight complication as well as the general payouts for all victims of infected blood. some people will be receiving an extra payout because they were treated basically as human guinea pigs at the pacific school in hampshire, haemophiliacs were given blood that they didn't need as literally just a scientific experiment. now those people, those who those who have are still alive will also receive a £15,000 payout on top of the general fund that they'll be getting now , lots of those be getting now, lots of those victims have already come forward and said that £15,000 is derisory. they are not happy with that at all. they think it's insulting. it'll be interesting to see how the government proceeds with this, because obviously the overall package is just huge , package is just huge, unsurprisingly given the situation. but if those victims

want to get more than £15,000, it looks quite likely that the government will have to cave and give it to them. >> okay. well thank you very much indeed. olivia utley political correspondent in westminster. now coming up on the show, the home office is reportedly considering banning silent prayer outside abortion clinics. is this the right move from the government? we'll have that debate after this. stay

>> good afternoon. britain it's 125. now, according to reports, the home office could ban silent prayer outside abortion clinics over concerns that it's intimidating to women who use the facilities with safeguarding minister jess phillips saying the government would look to

implement safe access zones around clinics imminently. >> however, on the other side of the debate, anti—abortion campaigners have criticised the proposed ban as an attack on free speech and also on freedom of religion. >> so is that the case? >> so is that the case? >> is that the case? well, we've got anti—abortion campaigner isabel vaughan spruce, who thinks people should be allowed to silently pray outside abortion clinics as a form of protest . and reverend michael protest. and reverend michael cochrane, who thinks silently praying outside abortion clinics is more about soft martyrdom than genuine debate. i hope we've reflected your views correctly there. shall we start with isabel ? isabel? why do you with isabel? isabel? why do you think people should be allowed to silently pray if it's intimidating to women ? intimidating to women? >> firstly, i should say that i don't think silent prayer is a form of protest. >> i mean, buffer zones were only voted in off the back of outrageously untrue stories that were shared by those who have a vested interest in abortion. we've already seen that where

local pspos have created a form of buffer zones around abortion centres, such as the one in birmingham that i've been outside. the police have gone far beyond the scope of the law in arresting christians simply for their silent, imperceptible thoughts. that's something that wouldn't be accepted against any other group. it just seems like christians are fair game. no matter how peacefully we conduct ourselves . ourselves. >> well, reverend michael coren, what do you say to that? this is an attack on christians and their right to silently pray. >> well, i'm in toronto, so it's much earlier here. >> and the first thing i did before i walked the dog, before i made my coffee, was to sit down and to pray. >> prayer is the centre of my life, has no meaning actually, in my life without prayer. i hope that doesn't sound too grand, but it's a quintessence of who i am, it's not about proximity. it's about sincerity. i pray for all sorts of things. prayer changes me more than anything else, but i pray for people. this morning i pray for people. this morning i pray for people in gaza and israel and ukraine and russia. i'm quite a long way from those places. when

you pray, you pray to god. you don't diminish god by thinking he has to be somehow just around the corner. you pray to god who listens to your prayers. and i'm absolutely fine with people praying if they're opposed to abortion. i'm not a fan of abortion. i'm not a fan of abortion. i'm not a fan of abortion. i would love rates to drop and there are various ways we can achieve that. so i don't think this is about prayer. i think this is about prayer. i think this is about prayer. i think this is about a physical presence, which. well, i mean , presence, which. well, i mean, surely we can agree on this. be problematic, maybe intimidating for women who are going in. it is their right. if you disagree with abortion as a right under british law , fine campaign british law, fine campaign against that change. a government . government. >> reverend michael, would you be comfortable? would you be comfortable seeing, you know, let's say a woman outside an abortion clinic silently praying , abortion clinic silently praying, being dragged off by the police in handcuffs ? in handcuffs? >> no, i'm not comfortable with anyone being arrested. and people are often arrested for the wrong reasons. with all due respect, i think that's a false

image. if people break the law, there are consequences. now, i do agree that christians are often treated in a way that other religions aren't. i agree with you on that. and i have lots of problems with how this government is reacting to all sorts of things, but i'm just trying to be reasonable here and that people, women have a right to access abortion without any fear of intimidation or just feeling awkward in any way. that's their right. if you want to change that, you have to change the government. i don't think this is a free speech issue. and again, i think it does diminish that. how profound and vital prayer is. >> isabel, what would you say to that? because i mean many on your side of the fence. isabel, i think, would argue that actually they are praying for the individuals that they see coming in and out of these places , and that actually the places, and that actually the presence of them being there is to reflect their prayers for that individual at that moment. >> firstly, i'd say that nobody has a right to not feel awkward or not to be made to feel awkward. not that that's why we're there, or that our presence does that, but that. but that's not a right that anyone has. many of the women

that i've connected with over the years and it's about 20 years of going outside of abortion centres, have chosen life, have have managed to continue a pregnancy because of the support that we've given them and because of what many have done for them . these are have done for them. these are mothers who otherwise would have been pressured into having an abortion just by their circumstances, or those around them, and i think we're really seeing a case of two tier policing here, you know, and i'm glad more people are having concerns nowadays about the two tier policing policy, you know, because quite frankly, pro—lifers have been at the brunt of this for a very long time, you know, there was an article recently about how women are spat on outside abortion centres. they are, and it's me and my volunteers, not those going in, those going in are prayed for. they're offered help. this isn't something that's intimidating to women, andifs that's intimidating to women, and it's not harassment. and these are things, you know, harassment is something that's already illegal in this country. but in the new laws that are being proposed, the new buffer zones, the word influencing is used. and it's unprecedented to have such an ambiguous word like this used in law, to explain

criminality. we need clarity in law when i'm outside the abortion centres, standing there silently praying there's other people standing there silently, maybe having a cigarette , maybe maybe having a cigarette, maybe waiting for a partner who's in the abortion centre, maybe waiting for a taxi. police aren't coming to ask, but do you have do you have material with you? >> soi you? >> so i don't know, a placard or or a t shirt or anything that shows that you are an anti—abortion campaigner at the abortion centre that i'm going outside of at the moment. >> i have never, ever had a single poster, not any of my volunteers, though that's not what you believe. if you if you read things in the media, we don't carry any posters whatsoever. we stand there and we in the past, we've had leaflets that offer help to them. but when i've been arrested, i haven't had anything on me at all to show i'm pro—life, and my prayers even were imperceptible. silent prayers . yet twice i've been prayers. yet twice i've been arrested, and being given tickets and fines, i, i think we have to be candid because

sometimes reality is getting rather distorted . rather distorted. >> i think, you know, you're going to be arrested and there's usually someone there with a camera filming you being arrested that goes online quite quickly. we've seen this replicated in north america, too. i'd like to build a coalition of people who have reservations about abortion. i'd like to make sure that, for example, women in difficult circumstances are getting financial support. i'd like to make sure that paternity payments are enforced, that there's day—care so the poor women can actually maybe if they have a real choice, continue with the pregnancy. but i can tell you what's happening in the united states, and i'm there very often when abortion is criminalised , women still get criminalised, women still get abortions. if they have the money, it's poor women who are forced into greater poverty. i just want a more holistic response to this. and i don't think i'll say once again, i don't think by praying close to someone, even if you're praying for that person, and i respect your sincerity in this, but you can pray for that person anywhere you like or that's being said is in this area. there is a feeling of intimidation when you say women

don't feel intimidated with all due respect, i don't think we can speak for other people in such a way. >> i mean , that's true, isabel >> i mean, that's true, isabel just we haven't we've run out of time. but isabel, to just come back to that point, i mean, reverend michael almost suggesting there that you kind of know it's going to happen. you've got the camera crew there or the camera ready to take the arrest. so almost not not a setup , exactly, but sort of you setup, exactly, but sort of you want to publicise it ? want to publicise it? >> i would like to i'm concerned about how we could possibly know this. this is something that i've been doing for 20 years, going outside an abortion centre. and it's always been our policy, if at all possible, to have somebody else there as well. so in those instances that he's talking about when it's been filmed, yes, i've had a partner sitting in a car nearby, and this has always been the case that there's, there's two of us, if at all possible when doing pro—life activity. and the reason is because of the fact that we are often the victims of abuse, and we need to have a witness there. so yes, it was filmed by a friend of mine, and they were there to make sure that i was safe and that i was protected. and thank goodness that they were there, because

it's not just the locals we need protection from, it's the police as well. >> okay, well, really appreciate both of your points of view, isabel vaughan spruce and reverend michael corin, lots of food for thought there, darren. definitely. >> yeah. absolutely. >> yeah. absolutely. >> interesting. >> interesting. >> please let us know your views at home as well. now a menorcan village dubbed the spanish mykonos will hold a referendum on banning tourists completely. >> another place we can't go. we'll have plenty more after these headlines with cameron . these headlines with cameron. >> thanks, darren. >> thanks, darren. >> it is 134. i'm karen walker here in the gb newsroom and we have an update for you on that stabbing in ireland. irish police have confirmed they are investigating a potential terrorist link to the attack on the army chaplain at a barracks in galway. that's after the army chaplain chaplain was stabbed multiple times last night. police confirmed that the man is in his 50s. he received a number

of stab wounds and he's been taken to hospital in galway. a teenage boy was restrained by members of the defence force outside renmore army barracks before armed police responded and arrested him at about 10:45 pm. police say the scene p.m. police say the scene remains sealed off as investigations continue. the victim's injuries are serious, but they're not thought to be life threatening and that victim has been named this morning . has been named this morning. he's chaplain paul murphy and he's released a statement he said, friends, thank you for your prayers, love and concern. sorry that i can't reply to all messages and take all the calls coming my way. i'm doing okay, just awaiting surgery. all will be well . in other news, victims be well. in other news, victims of the infected blood scandal can receive support scheme payments for life under changes to a multi—billion pound compensation plan. meanwhile, those who were subjected to unethical research will get up to £15,000 extra. that's after the government accepted the majority of recommendations from an independent review into planned compensation for victims. more than 30,000 people

who received nhs treatments between the 1970s and early 1990s were infected with contaminated blood . train contaminated blood. train drivers on lner are to stage a series of strikes , claiming series of strikes, claiming a breakdown in industrial relations and breaking of agreements. hundreds of members of aslef will walk out every saturday between august 31st and november 9th, and every sunday from september the 1st to november the 10th. a total of 22 days. the dispute is separate from the long running row over pay, from the long running row over pay, which is set to be resolved after a new offer this week from the government foreign secretary, david lammy. he's arrived in jerusalem with his french counterpart stephane sojourn, to urge a ceasefire in the war in gaza. it's the first joint uk france visit to the region in over a decade, where the ministers are expected to visit the occupied palestinian territories to . david lammy territories to. david lammy appeared optimistic that peace talks are going well. >> i am pleased that the reports

out of qatar suggest that the first day of hostage talks has gone well, and it has been important to listen to ministers here in israel and hear too, from them that they hope that we are on the cusp of a deal and prince harry has appeared to subtly weigh in on the recent riots in the uk, which which were sparked partly online by misinformation. >> duke, the duke and duchess of sussex have used their first day of their official visits to colombia to highlight online safety, where harry said what happens online within a matter of minutes, transfers to the streets and people are acting on information that isn't true ? information that isn't true? well, those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm cameron walker, more in half an houh >> cheers. >> cheers. >> britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial

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>> good afternoon britain. it's 141. we're going to return to that breaking story that irish police are now investigating a potential terrorist link to an

attack on an army chaplain at a barracks in galway. >> well, let's get more with our home and security editor, mark white, a terrorist link that changes things. >> yes it does. there had been reports that were circulating unconfirmed on social media, that reported that this young man, teenager that was arrested after this stabbing and during the stabbing was muttering words about the middle east and about potentially irish military involvement. there we didn't report that. we didn't have any information to corroborate that at the time, but now that seems perhaps to be a bit more credible with the confirmation coming through from the police in ireland that they are now looking into a potential terrorist motivation for this attack. it happened at 1045 last

night as father paul murphy was at the main entrance to renmore barracks in county galway when he was attacked at the entrance . he was attacked at the entrance. luckily, because it's an army barracks and it's at the main entrance, there were army personnel on guard duty that were able to respond quickly. they fired, we're told, five shots, warning shots before then , shots, warning shots before then, wrestling this youth to the ground and handcuffing him before the gardai got there. >> i mean, mark, this comes at a time of heightened tension in the republic of ireland. this is the republic of ireland. this is the kind of thing that a lot of people will be saying, you know, the irish government especially will be saying that let's let's not, you know, let's get the facts on the ground before we actually , you know, kick off actually, you know, kick off about something like this, which is a horrible thing to have happened, but to establish the facts out of fear of there being the kind of things that we've

seen outbreak out in this country. >> no, there is huge sensitivity in the irish republic at the moment because of what is happening in terms of mass migration in particular, the number of asylum seekers that are being accommodated right across the republic. that has led to very significant tensions, protests and even violence with people concerned in their local communities about what they see as a security risk, an uptick in crimes in certain areas . and there will be certain areas. and there will be some real concern about the potential, unrest that could be sparked from an incident like this. now, we don't know anything about the background of the individual. and that will come out in the fullness of time. but i think given that climate, it's probably , i think, climate, it's probably, i think, a bit surprising that the police in ireland have come out so quickly to say that they are

investigating a terrorist motivation. yes that's that's very true. >> actually, we don't often hear any suggestion of motive for rather a long time. and as you say, particularly with the current climate or the division and tensions that there are in ireland , and to an extent as ireland, and to an extent as well, here in the united kingdom. but, so what we know at the moment they are just investigating a terror link, and this may be off the back of reports that there was this muttering about the middle east and about irish involvement in campaigns over there, presumably, i think, given the sensitivities we've spoken about for the police in ireland, even to come out at this stage and say they're investigating a terrorist motivation probably indicates that there was a fairly clear indication that terrorism may be the root motivation for what happened outside these barracks. >> i just thought we've got no choice but to actually release a statement and update the public on what is being investigated, i

think. >> yeah . i mean, if it's as >> yeah. i mean, if it's as clear cut as this , just, what, clear cut as this, just, what, 12 hours or so after the incident itself, for them to add to the statement, it would probably be, you know, the information that they may or may not really be anything to do with the utterances. we don't know if those comments are actually true. but it may be that a check of who this person is of this person's links, of what this person may have posted on social media, which all can be done pretty quickly once a person is in custody and their identity obtained, that could tell them really quite quickly that, yeah, this individual we think, may well be motivated by terrorism , and if that's the terrorism, and if that's the case and there are no we hear all the time about potential mental health issues, which i know annoys so many people, but it is a factor in a lot of live

investigations where, you know, you don't get normal people that go off and decide to stab people multiple, multiple times. so often there is , you know, issues often there is, you know, issues that are linked to mental health as well. doesn't mean they haven't been motivated by someone else or some ideology, but in this one, there's no mention from what the police have said in a statement about mental health concerns, just that they're investigating a potential terrorist link and nearly everyone has a massive digital footprint. >> now . so yes, as you say, the >> now. so yes, as you say, the motive could perhaps be found quite quickly, but mark white. thank you very much indeed. our homeland security editor, thank you very much for that update. >> yeah, lots more coming up on today's show. after this short break, we'll have the latest on the split of the year . will we the split of the year. will we as fans come to terms with the end of tommy and don't go anywhere. >> we'll tell you

okay. welcome back. 150 is the time and we're going to get to the showbiz now because there's quite a lot going about, including the shocking news that five arrests have been made with the following the death of actor matthew perry. the friends, star of course. so let's get more on this and everything else with media commentator paula london. paula, thank you very much indeed. so what's the latest on this then? okay. well there's been five arrests. so far. one man has actually pled guilty . man has actually pled guilty. >> this is kenny. he was the living assistant. >> he's pled guilty to charges related to his death. >> and there's four other people that have been arrested. >> a middle man and two registered doctors, and also a lady known as the ketamine queen. >> very glamorous woman. it's unbelievable what she's done. her name is jasmine sanga. >> it's not her first rodeo, as it were. she's been arrested. before she was indicted, she was involved in the death of another hollywood star, cody mclaury, in 2019. she didn't face charges

and this man did die of an overdose. >> now she's been charged with five charges, not just for ketamine , also methamphetamine. ketamine, also methamphetamine. she's looking at life in jail. wow. >> oh my goodness. yes. and there's also been a dramatic split, of course, in the uk world of showbiz. this of course, the love island star molly—mae and her soon to be husband. or now not so tommy fury, the boxer tommy. >> there was going to be a reality television show and that's been cancelled as well. >> oh yes, it's very sad. they've been together for five years and they were such a good looking couple. >> they seemed very happy and obviously they had their delightful baby as well. so it's always sad to see a relationship break down. unfortunately, her sister is not around to support her. she's very close to zoe, but lois zoe is now on her honeymoon, so she's away. molly's not particularly close to her mother. i don't, i don't, i believe either, and yeah, it's really hard, but she is a very strong woman. she's very independent. she's successful. so i don't think she'll just stick around for the celeb couple. >> thing for viewers that don't know who molly—mae is, who is

she? she's an influencer. >> she was an influencer before she did love island, but now she's amassed a fortune. she's a multi—millionaire and she's also a role model to young girls, so i can't see her sticking with a man that's cheating so much . man that's cheating so much. obviously tommy's cousin, the other fury, the boxer, he's cheated a lot of times on his wife, and she's stuck by him. but i don't think molly will. apparently, he's cheated multiple times and there were rumours, and i must stress that these are rumours. >> but of another child being involved. >> rumours? yeah. i mean, i wouldn't confirm anything , just wouldn't confirm anything, just rumours. but apparently the rumours. but apparently the rumour mill is spiralling and spiralling. >> right? so are you. are you expecting paula molly—mae to actually put rumours and things to bed eventually and come out with a statement or something to that effect? an interview maybe? >> yes. yeah, probably with a big magazine for a lot of money as well. yeah, it was molly that decided to release a statement saying she was splitting up. she believes he's been on reform not just once . she has to take care just once. she has to take care of her baby. and yeah, i wish him the best, but i think that she's a role model. i don't

think she'll go back to a cheese her. >> yeah, she's got two personalities, really, doesn't she? she's got her front facing. i'm the big influencer. i'm very glamorous. but then her other personality is just sort of sitting at home with the baby while tommy fury was off doing all his boxing and all these parties and trips. >> heartbreak, no doubt as well. >> heartbreak, no doubt as well. >> it is. absolutely. and we're going to have to leave it there. sorry, paula, but that was fantastic, giving us all the updates on the showbiz media commentator. of course. now coming up, we're going to have more on that breaking news. we brought you that irish police are now investigating a potential terrorist link to that attack on an army chaplain at a barracks in galway. stick with . us. >> for a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb. news on. gb. news >> hello. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. some fine weather around today and

for most of us going to last through the weekend as well. not too hot, not too cold. most places dry and seeing some sunshine. we are between weather systems. well most of us are because this one is going to approach the far north of scotland. it's not going to be completely fine here. there will be showers and quite a brisk and gusty wind at times , gusty wind at times, particularly tonight. patchy rain clearing away from the southeast. early doors this morning. so now it's fine and bright sunny spells for the most part. a bit more cloud at times over northern england, northern ireland, but generally a fine summer's day with temperatures pretty close to the average. quite warm still in the southeast, but not as hot as it has been. obviously feeling cool with the gusty winds and the fairly frequent showers across the western isles and the northern isles. they'll keep going well into the evening. a few showers over the highlands , few showers over the highlands, but further south. any showers i think few and far between the odd one possible in the glasgow area and across ayrshire. most of northern ireland will stay dry again . showers can't be dry again. showers can't be completely ruled out here this evening, but for most of england

and wales it is going to be a fine day and a fine evening. not particularly warm . temperatures particularly warm. temperatures will dip away. it's going to be a more comfortable night for certainly much of eastern england, where it has been very warm and humid recently. we'll keep some showers going in. northern scotland gets a bit windier actually here as we go through the night as well. so quite a blusterous night across northern scotland, but elsewhere the winds fairly light and that will allow those temperatures to dip down to single figures in some rural spots. so as i said, much cooler than recent nights. so a fresh start to the weekend. but a good looking day tomorrow. actually not as many showers across the highlands. still 1 or 2. maybe over the northern isles. still quite breezy here as well, but generally most places dry. fine, yes, some cloud, but there will be some blue sky as well when the sun's out. temperatures generally high. teens across the north, mid 20s across the southeast . mid 20s across the southeast. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers. sponsors of weather on

gb news. >> good afternoon britain. it's 2:00 on friday. the 16th of august. >> i'm emily carver and i'm darren grimes . darren grimes. >> now, an army chaplain has been stabbed multiple times outside of a barracks in ireland. police are investigating. now a potential terrorist link. we'll have the latest . latest. >> and not terminating here. the government's joy at striking a pay government's joy at striking a pay deal with train drivers could be short lived . as it's could be short lived. as it's revealed, train drivers on lner are to stage yet more strikes , are to stage yet more strikes, claiming a breakdown in industrial relations. will labour continue to cave under union pressure and have food delivery services become a magnet for illegal migrant workers? >> last month , the home >> last month, the home secretary said nail salons and car washes will be targeted by illegal migration raids . but

illegal migration raids. but could food delivery drivers be . next? >> on that story that you mentioned there, emily, viewers should get in touch with us actually on that. are you worried that actually these apps, you know, these jobs where you can turn up and you don't have to in certain cases, you know, log in with your id or anything like that? face identification. apparently it. well face identification seems to do better with white faces and not asian. oh, really? yeah, there's something wrong with that. as well. so they're asking the question, are these apps being used and abused by those who don't have a right to be actually be in the country whilst they're being put up in expensive hotels? >> i mean, i won't name any names, but i have had times where i've used a delivery service and you get the name of the person on the app and they haven't matched up at, say, with

the person who arrives at the door and you can see how it happens. >> be easily abused , often if >> be easily abused, often if you look at it from the perspective of potentially businesses knowing this is going on, maybe i'm not saying they do. i'm not saying they do, but if they know that it's going on, well, it's, you know, it keeps the costs down, doesn't it? but you mentioned illegal migrant. you're going to obviously work for far less. >> and you mentioned earlier nail salons and the like are being investigated. i wonder if a yvette cooper the home secretary will turn our attention to these apps too. >> well, yeah, i know mark white last year went on a couple of raids where they were stopping delivery riders and checking their identification and things like that, and seeing sometimes they're legitimate, sometimes they're legitimate, sometimes they are not. so it's one of those big problems. i mean, where do you even begin with that? there must be hundreds of thousands of these delivery riders up and down the country. but yes, i imagine this is going to have to be yet another priority for the home office. gbnews.com/yoursay, please do get in touch . but first, it's get in touch. but first, it's your headlines with cameron .

your headlines with cameron. >> thanks, emily. good afternoon. it is 2:02. i'm cameron walker here in the gb newsroom. irish police are investigating a potential terrorist link to an attack on an army chaplain at a barracks in galway. that's after an army chaplain was stabbed multiple times. police have confirmed the man in his 50s, received a number of stab wounds. he was taken to hospital in galway and a teenage boy was restrained by members of the defence forces outside renmore army barracks last night. armed police had responded to the incident. the victim's injuries are serious but they're not thought to be life threatening. this morning, that victim, chaplain paul murphy, has released a statement . murphy, has released a statement. he said friends, thank you for your prayers, love and concern. sorry that i can't reply to all messages and take all the calls coming my way. i'm doing okay just awaiting surgery. all will be well . victims of the infected be well. victims of the infected blood scandal can receive

support scheme payments for life under changes to a multi—billion pound compensation plan. meanwhile, those who were subjected to unethical research will get up to £15,000 extra. that's after the government accepted the majority of recommendations from an independent review into planned compensation for victims. more than 30,000 people who received nhs treatments between the 1970s and early 1990s were infected with contaminated blood . train with contaminated blood. train drivers on l inaya are to stage a series of strikes, claiming a breakdown in industrial relations and breaking of agreements. hundreds of members of aslef will walk out every saturday between the 31st of august and the 9th of november, and every sunday from the 1st of september to the 10th of november, a total of 22 days. the dispute is separate from the long running row over pay, which is set to be resolved after a new offer. this week from the government . foreign secretary government. foreign secretary david lammy has arrived in jerusalem with his french

counterpart stephane sojourn, to urge a ceasefire in the war in gaza. urge a ceasefire in the war in gaza . it's the first joint uk gaza. it's the first joint uk france visit to the region in over a decade, where the ministers are expected to visit the occupied palestinian territories as well. david lammy appeared optimistic that peace talks were going well . talks were going well. >> i am pleased that the reports out of qatar suggest that the first day of hostage talks has gone well , first day of hostage talks has gone well, and it has been important to listen to ministers here in israel and hear too, from them that they hope that we are on the cusp of a deal. >> prince harry has appeared to subtly weigh in on the recent riots in the uk, which were partly sparked by online misinformation. harry said what happens online within a matter of minutes , transfers to the of minutes, transfers to the streets and people are acting on information that isn't true. the couple were officially invited

by the presidents vice president, sorry, by the country's vice president, francia marquez, who says she was moved by their controversial netflix documentary where they laid bare their troubled relationship with the royal family, leading to their eventual departure as working royals. during a panel talking about online misinformation, prince harry suggested education could help the public spot fake news. >> a lot of people are scared and uncertain, and i think one of the solutions to that is education and awareness , because education and awareness, because it's becoming it's becoming harder and harder to stem the flow from the source and therefore really it comes down to all of us to be able to spot the true from the fake. >> the number of pharmacies in england could fall below 10,000 for the first time in almost two decades. that's a warning from the national pharmacy association, which claims seven pharmacies a week have so far closed this year. cuts to budgets and medicine becoming

more expensive have been blamed . more expensive have been blamed. if numbers fall below 10,000, it will be the lowest number since 2005. two doctors and three others, including a personal assistant to the actor matthew perry, have been charged with supplying the friends star with ketamine. the assistant has since pleaded guilty. the powerful sedative caused the actor's death from a drug overdose nearly a year ago. the us attorney general says the defendants, including a woman known in los angeles as the ketamine queen, were part of a criminal network that gave the drug to perry and others. the us attorney, martin estrada, claims the defendants took advantage of the defendants took advantage of the friends star. >> these defendants took advantage of mr perry's addiction issues to enrich themselves . they knew what they themselves. they knew what they were doing was wrong. they knew what they were doing, was risking great danger to mr perry. but they did it anyways . perry. but they did it anyways. >> well, those are the latest gb news headlines for now, i'm cameron walker. 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. >> welcome back. it's 208, so let's start with that breaking story that irish police are now investigating a potential terrorist link to an attack on an army chaplain at a barracks in galway. >> yeah, let's get more with our home and security editor mark white. mark, what is the latest that we've got there since that update? >> well, that confirmation from the irish police that they are looking at the potential for there being a terrorist motivation here. in fact, the statement that they put out says the special detective unit of an garda siochana is involved in this investigation. one line of inquiry is to establish if this

attack had a terrorism motivation . the suspect, they motivation. the suspect, they say, remains in detention and is being questioned in a garda station in northwestern region. their period of detention, they say, has now been extended. they've also said that garda siochana wishes to reassure the pubuc siochana wishes to reassure the public that at this time it's not believed that the incident is part of a wider conspiracy. however, without doubt, security at army military installations across ireland will be upped at this time because they just don't know. clearly, as they delve down into the background of this individual, just whether there might be other people that are involved. >> has that happened in this country, mark, like the uptick in security outside of prison, prison barracks, army barracks rather. >> well, we don't really get to

hear about that. but for instance, when we had the lieutenant colonel, mark eaton, who was stabbed multiple times outside brompton barracks in kentin outside brompton barracks in kent in gillingham just last month . there is no doubt that month. there is no doubt that there would have been an uptick in the security around barracks, across the country. and also probably words of advice really, about going out and about in uniform. i mean, they don't want to tell people not to wear uniform because you should be proud to wear the uniform in this country, ireland or wherever you are. but clearly we're in troubled times. there is a heightened risk for military personnel in particular. so there there are concerns around that. we don't know if the chaplain that was stabbed multiple times last night in galway, father , paul night in galway, father, paul murphy, whether father murphy

was in uniform or not. we understand he just left the front gates of the barracks . front gates of the barracks. renmore barracks in galway , when renmore barracks in galway, when he was approached by a youth, there was a confrontation. he ran back inside , through the ran back inside, through the gates, into the barracks , gates, into the barracks, apparently pursued by this suspect, and was then stabbed multiple times. and at that point , armed multiple times. and at that point, armed army personnel who were on guard duty at the barracks opened fire. five times. warning shots, we were told that were fired before they then wrestled a suspect to the ground. >> and just just very quickly , >> and just just very quickly, presumably when there is a suggestion that there is a terror motive is dealt with in a in a different way from, you know, other knife attacks that may happen in this country or in ireland. >> well, there's always yes, more in the way of resources and expert counterterrorism resources that are brought to bear.

resources that are brought to bear . if resources that are brought to bear. if there's resources that are brought to bear . if there's believed to be bear. if there's believed to be a sort of political terrorist motivation to any particular attack, and they will be using all of the resources they have within garda siochana and also liaising with the likes of the security services and counter—terrorism policing in this country, because we're clearly so close, we share a border and there is always the potential for links to the uk as well. so no indication that that's the case. but all of these avenues are being explored as this investigation , which is as this investigation, which is still very much in its infancy but is going forward. and i think for the and garda siochana to come out and say at this early stage that they're looking at a potential terrorist motivation, would probably indicate that there is some clear evidence pointing in that direction. okay. >> well, thank you very much indeed. mark white, our homeland security editor. >> now, the government's joy at

striking a pay deal with the aslef union and bringing an end to the pay dispute with train drivers could be short lived. yes. >> not only have train drivers at lner announced a fresh set of strikes remarkably, but ministers have been accused of prioritising unions over pensioners. >> yeah, a fresh row could also be brewing with the rmt union after their general secretary, mick lynch, threatened fresh industrial action from his members if they don't get the exact same pay deal as aslef. who could have possibly predicted that? emily. >> well, let's get more from our gb news political correspondent o political editor christopher hope, christopher, are doesn't look great for the labour government, does it? that after you offer this whopping inflation busting pay rise , inflation busting pay rise, there's immediately a fresh, fresh series of strikes announced ? announced? >> no it doesn't. and hello both again from college green outside parliament. yeah. this is this

is lner drivers. they're represented by the aslef trade trains union. they're going to strike from august 30th 1st to november 10th on every saturday and sunday. going through that penod and sunday. going through that period every every every three weeks. forgive me. they're striking reportedly over the fact that some bonuses were paid to managers to run the service dunng to managers to run the service during previous strikes. this is separate to the pay deal agreed by aslef, with the train operators brokered by louise hague, the transport secretary. that 14% pay rise over three years. it comes as, of course, we know gps are asking for 11%. we saw junior doctors get 22%. pubuc we saw junior doctors get 22%. public sector workers got 5.5%. that's millions of public sector workers getting 5.5%, costing the taxpayer billions of pounds. there are choices being made here politically by this government. they've removed the winter, the winter fuel allowance from millions of pensioners. so the message is pensioners. so the message is pensioners might go cold this winter if they can't afford put

the heating on. but public sector workers, train drivers, doctors and like all get pay rises. that's a choice the government's made, whether it's right or wrong. but certainly pensioners are furious about it. age uk says today it's been inundated with messages from pensioners about the impact of losing their winter fuel payment. some are commenting age uk say the charity that they feel they are being treated as a lower priority and that's unfair. and a for their their side. mick whelan he's the aslef general secretary. he says this battle with lner bosses is a breakdown in industrial relations bullying by management, they say, and persistent breaking of agreements. ministers themselves, they're on the back foot about this because they're saying that they think it's unfair to suggest that other pubuc unfair to suggest that other public sector workers will ask for more money. but clearly the tories think that now this genie is out of the bottle. this is a ratchet that will go ever upwards. >> well, i mean, that just strikes me as as obvious, right? i mean, the tories have got a

point there, christopher hope. and i'm afraid, you know, labour saying that they'll be the ones to end the strikes. well, i can remember christopher hope and you can point out if i'm wrong on this, but i seem to remember a certain sadiq khan promising the same thing when he was elected in 2016. and, well , that elected in 2016. and, well, that ain't happened, has it ? ain't happened, has it? >> no it hasn't. i mean, i think the problem is here. you've got a new government coming in on on goodwill . you know, they've won goodwill. you know, they've won a landslide majority and they want to get the country working again. so they've struck these pay again. so they've struck these pay deals with the doctors, with pubuc pay deals with the doctors, with public sector workers or that was recommended of course, for the public sector workers by the various pay review bodies. and now with the train drivers, they want to show that we can get things done. but there are no strings attached, no productivity gains required. that's what the tories were asking for. so while yes, it's quite easy, as we all know , quite easy, as we all know, spending money is easy, the hard bits are attaching strings to how that money is spent and making savings and that's what

it seems. so far. this labour government has avoided taking on and that could be a problem going forward. >> yes , the budget will be >> yes, the budget will be interesting, that's for sure. thank you very much, christopher hope. our political editor. thank you . now have a food thank you. now have a food delivery services become a magnet for illegal migrant workers. >> yeah. last month the home secretary said nail salons and car washes will be the target of illegal migration raids. but according to home office statistics, 2 in 5 delivery riders stopped during a series of random checks in april of 2020. three were found to be working illegally. >> that's a large proportion. 2 in 5. so in response, they say employee employers must play a critical role to combat this type of illegal working. yeah. >> joining us now is the former home office minister, norman bakeh home office minister, norman baker. norman good to be with you. we just found out from, well, one of our viewers has just messaged in actually saying that hong kong have been tackling this issue. so it isn't

just isolated to the united kingdom. right? there is a problem with these apps potentially being abused . potentially being abused. >> well, look, i mean, you've got a kind of grey economy here where people can work as kind of effectively self—employed, but also they should be properly registered on the books. and it suits some of these people very well. these companies, i mean, to not pay too much attention to where people have come from to keep their wages down and say nothing about it. so the responsibility of primary responsibility, in my view, is with those who are employing these people, they should make sure, first of all, people who are employed are legally able to work. and secondly , that they work. and secondly, that they they pay their taxes and national insurance and everything else. and but thirdly, also, which hasn't been done to make sure that those who are properly employed have proper terms and conditions. and you may remember the dispute in london with uber drivers who uber were underpaying and not recognising his proper employees, and that had to be rectified through the courts. >> i mean, norman, we're

essentially subsidising these companies to employ these illegal migrants because, you know, the home office saying that, asylum seekers who crossed the english channel were even found to have been earning up to £1,500 per month from these food deliveries, while staying in taxpayer funded hotels. so, you know, it's great for the food delivery companies. you know, they can get people on the cheap and more people willing to work for them while we're putting them up. >> well, i mean, look, there may be illegal migrants, and i'm sure there are. there are also people who perhaps are on benefit in this country who are working for these companies. there may be students in their houday there may be students in their holiday time who are legitimately working. there's a whole range of people, but it comes down to the employers to make sure that they are employing people legally and employing people legally and employing them properly under proper terms and conditions. and that's not happening, you know. so their responsibility is with them really? >> yeah. but it might it might just be it's a case of the technology here. you can just get round it. so they think they're hiring darren. but then actually jacob starts using your details, takes your phone and

starts doing it. and obviously these companies can't be, you know, meeting up with every different delivery driver every day to check. >> yeah. i mean, i'm very happy for darren to come round with my pizza , but, i'll be round in a jiffy. >> i finish at three. norman, do you think we need id cards? is that the solution? pardon? do you think we need id cards? is that the solution here? >> i don't like id cards. i mean, when i came into government in 2010 and the coalition between the lib dems and conservatives, we stopped id cards, which are a very heavy handed measure and effectively illiberal and give too much power to the state. and no, the answer is, is to make sure that companies themselves take responsibility. and if companies are employing people improperly, then the companies themselves are properly fined and discourage them doing so. that's how we deal with this. >> well, it's a bit of a safety risk, isn't it? if 2 in 5 delivery riders going to your front door, are actually illegally here, illegally working at least, does it make you feel that secure? does it?

>> well, i mean, i don't think i don't necessarily think that people who are working in this grey economy are necessarily a threat to public health or pubuc threat to public health or public order. >> no, not necessarily, but we don't know who they are. we don't know who they are. we don't know who they are. we don't know whether they're here, why they're here. >> well, i mean, i'm in favour of people being properly registered and properly employed. and that's what i meant. the point i made a moment ago.cani meant. the point i made a moment ago. can i make a wider point, actually, which is that i've always taken the view, which is not necessarily shared by very many people. i don't know. i don't like people being kept on by the public purse and doing nothing. i've always been in favour of people who come over here, whether they're legally here, whether they're legally here or otherwise earning a living and paying taxes and insurance properly, and contributing to the national picture. and a whole lot of people sitting around doing nothing for months isn't very good. use of people that could be used for proper purposes. >> well, hang on, norman, because you might as well put up a big on the white cliffs of doveh a big on the white cliffs of dover. you might as well put up a big poster, a big advertisement that says, come one, come all. former home

office minister norman baker says you can come and you can work, and we'll even put you up in a hotel. who wouldn't want to come in those circumstances? >> it's part of it's part of a package and part of the package is making sure the home office does what it never does. do which is process people much more quickly than it does and eliminates people who shouldn't be here. well norman, we know how difficult it is to get returns agreements with some of these countries. >> you know as well as i do that it's very difficult for taliban to remove people , even if they to remove people, even if they don't have a legitimate asylum claim. you know, you might be able to with vietnam, you might be able to with albania, romania, other countries like those. but there's a lot of other countries, people are coming from where we don't seem to have that capability. but thank you, norman. i appreciate this conversation. always good to get your view and experience on on these types of matters, yeah. >> your pizzas around the corner, norman. >> it's staggering, isn't it? 2 in 5. i mean, this was just one, you know, this was one swathe of random checks of delivery rights. exactly. yeah. that's

very high. >> it is. no, it is. and but a lot of viewers, one of our viewers, mark, just wrote in, he says, if this was conducted in april 2023, what did the conservatives do about it? quite nothing but well coming up. well they might have done some raids. >> they might have done raid stop checks. yeah, stop checks on these apps though in particular what's happened there coming up back to bogota. >> bogota. bogota. bogota. bogota. as the sussexes continue their quasi royal tour slamming fake news on social media. that's to come. after this

>> well good afternoon britain. it is now 226 and the duke and duchess of sussex, they claim we're no longer debating facts online. they are welcomed to columbia for their four day

quasi royal tour. yeah. >> arriving in the capital, bogota , yesterday. bogota, yesterday. >> well done, well done . >> well done, well done. >> well done, well done. >> they met colombia's vice president, francia marquez and her husband. now the couple travelled to south america to address concerns surrounding social media and the world's digital future. >> was that the aim of the whole trip? well, allegedly, prince harry says we need to be more cautious when adopting artificial intelligence. yes well, ai is scary. >> and i think, and i think a lot of people are scared and uncertain. and i think one of the solutions to that is education and awareness , because education and awareness, because it's becoming it's becoming harder and harder to stem the flow from the source and therefore , really it comes down therefore, really it comes down to all of us to be able to spot the true from the fake. >> well, that was a whole lot of nothing, wasn't it?

>> wisdom? >> wisdom? >> yes. we're going to get the thoughts now of former royal correspondent at the sun, charles rea. charles, you're a ray of sunshine, my friend. what did you make of that ? did you make of that? >> well, that's been used before. well i have to say, i actually agree with harry and anyone else who says that we have to be cautious about things that appear on social media. we only have to look back less than ten days as to what happened in this country, when wrong things were used on social media and we had riots in the street as a result of what harry is saying, fake news, what the difficulty is of course, is how do you spot fake news? >> i try to be very, very careful with my twitter or x account as you as you want to call it, because i see an awful lot of things on there that, to be perfectly honest , i think i'm be perfectly honest, i think i'm reading fairy tales. you know , reading fairy tales. you know, half the time. so i think he's right. i think we need to be more cautious, and i think it's

incumbent on governments in particular to try to do more, you know, to police this wild west that we've got of social media. >> well hang on, charles, is there not a worry here that actually this is a member of the royal family being seen to enter politics on a visit because obviously, disinformation and fake news is a controversial topic because who is the ultimate arbiter of truth and fact? >> so do you trust to harry determine? >> well, i don't trust harry to determine that. no after of the things he's said and been proven wrong on or to have been, you know, unfortunately not in full grasp of the facts, but you know, is this a worry, especially on a visit that hasn't been authorised by the foreign and commonwealth office? >> well, it's i don't think it is a worry. i mean, i like you, i'm very suspicious of anything that harry actually says. i just happen to agree with this point that things need to be done to make us, online, platforms safer ,

make us, online, platforms safer, particularly for younger people, but , you know, he's particularly for younger people, but, you know, he's out. he is in effect, out of the royal family, as is meghan, they don't work, you know , go by the rules work, you know, go by the rules of protocol that other members of protocol that other members of the royal family tend to abide by, you know , they've gone abide by, you know, they've gone to colombia, you know, the uk foreign office has warned people shouldn't shouldn't go to certain parts of the us, actually says that people from the states should actually rethink their plans of going there, so , you know, all the there, so, you know, all the rules are being broken by, harry and meghan or as i like to call it, meghan and harry, because she seems to be the one who's leading the sort of thing in colombia. they never actually say what they want, though, in terms of social media and things. >> i mean, do they actually have anidea >> i mean, do they actually have an idea of what the, the, the onune an idea of what the, the, the online media landscape should look like? i mean, there's clearly a veiled attack on elon musk and the like, but do they just want anything nasty off

their. do they just want things that, you know, are then proven to be untrue at some point off there? you know , it's easy to there? you know, it's easy to stand and say, i want the online to world be safer and it to be less nasty, and for there to be less nasty, and for there to be less untruths on there, it's much more difficult, as we found out in this country and every other country, to actually work out what the policy looks like. >> you're absolutely right, emily, that it's all very well. everybody jumping on the bandwagon and saying, oh, we've got to clamp down on social media like i'm suggesting that as well . but, you know, they as well. but, you know, they haven't come up with any solution to it. any, any, any program to, to make it safer and healthier for, for people to use , healthier for, for people to use, which is a big problem , but which is a big problem, but there isn't anybody who's actually come up with any plans, you know, to make it safer and healthier. i mean, we've already heard, you know, about whatsapp and the problems that it's having and trying to protect, protect young children. so it is a big, big issue this is and i just think that governments

really need to especially our government really needs to get involved in this and to try to do something and come up with a solution that can help. >> well, thank you very much indeed. >> well, thank you very much indeed . charles rea, a former indeed. charles rea, a former royal correspondent at the sun, sympathetic to what prince harry had to say there about the, you know, the wild west online. i just think, you know better at least to go after the platform owners rather than individuals who, you know, post misinformation or whatever. you know, some people aren't even some you know, everyone is an absolute expert on everything. and you are free to just you know, do what you will on social media. that's true. but yes, we have got a bit of breaking news. we're hearing that the border force are now announcing that they may strike at heathrow airport. yes. >> so the pcs union says border force staff at uk's london heathrow airport are to take industrial action for 23 days from august 31st. i mean, sir keir starmer is having the right time of it, emily, isn't he? >> is there a bit of momentum here? could we actually, despite

what the government are hoping, could we actually see that these pay could we actually see that these pay offers are actually encouraging more and more public sector workers to go on strike? >> a winter of discontent. >> a winter of discontent. >> i hope not, but the ball seems to be on the roll anyway. coming up, we'll have more on that breaking story that irish police are now investigating a potential terror link to an attack on an army chaplain at a barracks in galway. that's after your headlines with cameron . your headlines with cameron. >> good afternoon. it's 233. i'm cameron walker here in the gb newsroom. irish police are investigating a potential terrorist link to an attack on an army chaplain at a barracks in galway, who was stabbed multiple times . he was taken to multiple times. he was taken to hospital with serious injuries, which are not thought to be life threatening. a teenage boy was arrested by armed police during the incident last night. the victim this morning has been named as chaplain paul murphy and he's released a statement. he said friends, thank you for your prayers, love and concern. sorry that i can't reply to all

messages and take all the calls coming my way. i'm doing okay. just awaiting surgery. all will be well . and some breaking news be well. and some breaking news as you've been hearing. hundreds of border force staff at britain's busiest airport, london heathrow , will go on london heathrow, will go on strike from the 31st of august to the 3rd of september. the pubuc to the 3rd of september. the public and commercial services union says a refusal to work overtime will also last until the 22nd of september. more details on that as we get it . details on that as we get it. victims of the infected blood scandal can receive support scheme payments for life under changes to a multi—billion pound compensation plan. that's after the government accepted the majority of recommendations from an independent review into planned compensation for victims. some 3000 people across the uk are estimated to have registered interest with the compensation scheme . an inquest compensation scheme. an inquest into the death of a 13 year old girl with a severe dairy allergy has concluded that she died after drinking a costa coffee hot chocolate following, and i quote a failure to follow the

processes in place to discuss allergies. hannah jacob died within hours of taking the drink in february 2023. the assistant coroner doctor shirley radcliffe, also said there had been a failure of communication between the coffee shop staff and hannah, jacob's mother. a post—mortem found hannah died after suffering from a hypersensitive anaphylactic reaction triggered by an ingredient in her hot chocolate . ingredient in her hot chocolate. train drivers on lner are to stage a series of strikes claiming a breakdown in industrial relations and breaking of agreements. hundreds of members of aslef will walk out every saturday between the 31st of august and november. the ninth and every sunday from the 1st of september to the until the 10th of november. a total of 22 days. the dispute is separate from the long running row over pay, from the long running row over pay, which is set to be resolved after a new offer this week from the government . foreign the government. foreign secretary david lammy has arrived in jerusalem with his french counterpart stephane

sojourn, to urge a ceasefire in the war in gaza. it's the first joint uk france visit to the region in over a decade, where the ministers are expected to also visit the occupied palestinian territories . and palestinian territories. and prince harry appeared to subtly weigh in on the recent riots in the uk, which were partly sparked by online misinformation. the duke and duchess of sussex have used their first day of their official visit to colombia to highlight online safety, where harry said and i quote, what happens online within a matter of minutes, transfers to the streets and people are acting on information that is not true . information that is not true. will those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm cameron walker for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code , alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com. >> slash

>> right, it's 239. shall we speak to martin daubney? who's up next at 3:00? we always do this at this time. absolutely. martin, have you just seen that, so we've heard that aslef, the train union, are actually going to strike again despite the pay offer. and now we're hearing that the border force, too, are at it . at it. >> well, don't forget when border force went on strike last time, things were better. the army stepped in. >> nobody even noticed. >> nobody even noticed. >> it was the least effective strike of all time . but let's be strike of all time. but let's be honest, the absolute state of the unions, the absolute state of great britain. those of us darren and emily, who said we'll be going back to the 1970s before the general election. well, we were called conspiracy theorists. and look what's happening. the trains are grind to a halt. the doctors are queuing up for their bag of silver. the nurses, the teachers , silver. the nurses, the teachers, billions and billions and billions and billions and billions being thrown into that so—called black hole. well, it's now a super black hole. it's

getting bigger. we're back to the days of warm sandwiches and curly sandwiches and warm beer and all the rest of it. it's going to be flat caps and whippets soon. we're back to the 70s. things are getting terrible. let's be honest. they're putting train drivers before pensioners . they're before pensioners. they're robbing pensioners of their winter fuel allowance to pay their union mates. and everybody who raises about us before the general election. well, we were called conspiracy theorists and guess what? it's turned out to be true. >> well, hey, do you think this is a return to a winter of discontent, then? are you expecting more of these trade unions to say, well, i'm going to get in on that act. >> it follows the reason that everybody who knocks on the door at number 11 is getting a bag of silver . yesterday, 15% was given silver. yesterday, 15% was given to train drivers and still they're going on strike. mick lynch, the grinch who stole christmas. he wants the same deal christmas. he wants the same deal. they will all be back for more. and there's more. what about tomorrow? the premier

league returns six times. the tin eared tristram's that the premier league think it's a good idea to take the knee. here's what i think is going to happen. fans will boo. doesn't matter what they say about this being an initiative to kick racism out of football, it's associated with black lives matter in britain. black lives matter. the metropolitan police took the knee to them. keir starmer took the knee to them. football fans hate it. they're going to boo. i think they're going to be filmed. they're going to get banning orders. what next? will they get arrested? will they lose their jobs in the current environment? don't rule it out. i was speaking to two former england players who who think this has got no place in the modern game, and i totally agree with them. >> well, it sounds like a fantastic show , martin. we'll fantastic show, martin. we'll stick with the programme for you three till 6:00. see you later. >> all right. now we're going to return to that breaking story. irish police are now investigating a potential terrorist link to an attack on

an army chaplain at a barracks in galway. >> yes, father paul murphy, who's in his 50s, was stabbed multiple times outside renmore barracks and was rushed to hospital. >> well, joining us now is former scotland yard detective mike neville. mike, thank you very much for joining mike neville. mike, thank you very much forjoining us. i mean, the protection that's going to have to be ramped up around these barracks is going to be at the focus of the state's view right now, isn't it ? state's view right now, isn't it? >> it is truly shocking and i'm just i'm a i'm a veteran as well. >> and the padre is a vital part of any regiment. and we don't see much of this in ireland. you know, in the southern ireland, to see a priest, an army officer stabbed like this. i mean, it's a good work by the garda that they've got a suspect in custody already, but very worrying that they think terrorism may be unked they think terrorism may be linked to it. >> and what happens when there's a suggestion that terror is involved in something like this?

who gets involved? how is it investigated differently, what happens essentially? >> well, you can be assured if terrorism is mentioned, you have the highest quality officers involved. >> and of course, there's international links. >> so the garda, the southern irish police will be linked in with the northern irish police if needed. >> and also scotland yard. and so all sorts of intelligence will be brought in. it depends what kind of terrorism they're speaking about. of course, when we're in ireland, we're thinking of the ira and the ulster unionists. but that really has died down. so could it be islamic terrorism or some other branch until we know exactly what it is , but we really can't what it is, but we really can't say what the police will do next. >> yeah. mike, with your background, with your history, what do you say to those that are saying, oh, well, we're getting to the point now where on in both the republic and in

the united kingdom, we're going to have to start telling our military to stop wearing their uniform outside of the barracks. i mean, of course. >> and it's really worrying because we have the colonel stabbed in medway. >> we don't know what the we don't know the motives behind that. yet again, the police successfully arrested a suspect . successfully arrested a suspect. but this is a really new thing in the south of ireland that this would happen. it's, you know , we associate terrorism know, we associate terrorism with, with ulster , with northern with, with ulster, with northern ireland. so it is a bad thing because i think people do respect serving personnel and veterans and to stop them wearing uniform, it really does send the wrong message to the community. >> well, thank you very much indeed. mike neville , former indeed. mike neville, former scotland yard detective. thank you very much for your time. it's truly shocking, isn't it? it's truly shocking, isn't it? it is, but that is a debate that is had and has been had because of what's happened to, you know, members of our armed forces who just wear their uniform, but

yeah, we'll bring you any disgrace. no, it is a disgrace. we'll bring you any updates as and when we get them. of course, lots of you have been getting in touch as well about the unions. yeah. >> nc has got in touch and says i'm a working class public servant. i'm disgusted at the unions and my pcs union. her union. yeah, they're a disgrace. have no idea about true poverty and more concerned with palestine than uk workers. >> well, this is the thing. you know, a lot of people sign up to a union because they want to have their workers rights protected. fine. but then you often have to sign up to all the causes, all the causes as well, which could be anything from palestine to, i don't know what else. >> and the question is, do they represent the working class anymore? you know, a bit like the some argue the labour party has done. have they actually strayed away from their true mission statement? >> well, hopefully they can stop this strike action at border force. although, as martin said last time they got the army involved and it actually was okay, well, it's not the armed forces job though, is it not,

but anyway , anyway, anyway, but anyway, anyway, anyway, we've got lots more coming up, including a christmas in north korea. >> well, it could be on the cards as the hermit nation opens its doors to travellers for the first time in five years. emily's off. more on this after this

>> okay. 250. we've still got time to sneak in this rather bizarre story. a potential new houday bizarre story. a potential new holiday destination is now available this christmas. >> yeah, honestly, once you hear where it is, you'll be desperate to go. north korea is set to reopen the mountainous city of samjiyon to foreign tourists in december. that's according to tour operators in china. >> this comes after nearly five years of border closures. that was reportedly due to the covid pandemic. but i guess the

question is, would you travel to the hermit kingdom? yeah, let's speak to the sun reporterjoe hadden. >> joe, have you been then in your role as a reporter on all of these issues, >> first of all, thank you. thank you for having me, darren and emily, i i've not had the luxury of going yet. a christmas in north korea. sounds like quite the adventure, but no, i mean , fingers crossed. mean, fingers crossed. >> hopefully i'll get sent out there soon. >> i mean, joe, it, you know, you see those aerial images, don't you, of north korea compared to south korea? and in nonh compared to south korea? and in north korea, there's no lights on. so do they show you even if you go there as a tourist, you'd only see the sort of squeaky clean bit, the socialist utopia bit. >> i mean, that's certainly what it sounds like. >> i mean, as you mentioned in the intro there, you know, this chinese tour operator has said that they'll be flying people out, but it is exclusively to this one city. tianjian. so it's worth bearing in mind. obviously, i can't imagine people are going to get a lot of

free reign to go around and do as they please. at the moment, like i said, it's just restricted there. pyongyang is totally off limits at the moment, but i imagine that you will be very heavily guarded as you go around the place, so i can't imagine it will be quite the christmas adventure of sorts. but but i'm sure it'll be exciting nonetheless. >> joel, do you think this will be the sort of, you know, the instagram hungry for likes, the sort of those social influencer types who'll be thinking, wow , i types who'll be thinking, wow, i could really get some bang for my buck if i go on this holiday. >> i mean, i'm sure , i'm sure it >> i mean, i'm sure, i'm sure it certainly set instagram alight to go out there. i imagine i mean, from what we've been told from from this chinese tour operator, it seems more like it's going to be people from china and russia who are going to be flying out there. so it certainly seems like as much as, you know, if there are some influencers over here in britain that want to go out there, i think it's going to be unlikely. i think that more than more than likely, it's going to be people from countries that are sort of

traditionally closely tied to nonh traditionally closely tied to north korea. >> i mean, i'd be worried as a westerner and a journalist at that to be banged up, find myself in a, in a horrible jail. >> you know, kim jong un takes a fancy for you and that's it. you're in part of his sort of harem taken to his tent. >> yes, >> yes, >> so. absolutely. i mean, you know, the journalists have been there in the past, you know, but as you know, it's not a surprise. they're very selective over who they send over there. you know, i mean, we've had our own reporters go out there back in 2012, but but as i said, you know, i think they'll be very selective over who is allowed to go out there, so if there are any influencers that do want to try and try and get the likes in by going out there, i mean, by all means, try your luck. obviously, this chinese firm, they are taking tickets now so you can try. but as i said, you know, it's going to be a tough one. i reckon. >> no thank you, joe, i'll leave that one to you. if it's all the same. >> thanks, joe. joe hadden from the sun. thank you very much

indeed for writing this. this report here. i was about to say, oh, you know, why don't i swap my honeymoon to thailand for a honeymoon to, to north korea? >> i don't think a certain mr christie's would be best pleased. do you? i don't know. >> a bit of adventure. well, it would be an adventure. something a bit different. >> something to tell gb news about. >> and our viewers definitely wouldn't let us report from there. >> no, no, they definitely wouldn't. >> anyway, that's it from us. >> anyway, that's it from us. >> yes. it's been marvellous. thank you for having me. >> it's been a lovely friday afternoon and it is time for the weekend now for us. yeah, but don't go away. are you back? >> i'm back on tomorrow. >> i'm back on tomorrow. >> yes, tomorrow. 6:00. well, tune in to that. but don't go anywhere. it is. martin up next. enjoy . enjoy. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of weather on gb news . news. >> good afternoon. welcome to your latest weather update from

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gb. news >> a very good afternoon to you and a happy friday. it's 3 pm. and a happy friday. it's 3 pm. and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. we're broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk. well, today's show . an army uk. well, today's show. an army chaplain has been stabbed multiple times outside of a barracks in ireland. police are investigating a potential terrorist link. we'll have all the latest . the latest. >> well, the police in ireland say that a terrorist motivation is now being considered. the chaplain himself is recovering in hospital , chaplain himself is recovering in hospital, undergoing chaplain himself is recovering in hospital , undergoing surgery chaplain himself is recovering in hospital, undergoing surgery . in hospital, undergoing surgery. >> thank you. mark. more on that throughout the show and the absolute state of the unions. despite the train drivers being

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