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

gifted a 15% pay rise yesterday, they are still set to strike every weekend for the next three months. border force have just piled in. they're walking out for 23 days and now gps are lining up for an 11% pay boost, with other unions queuing up for their pay day. is britain going back to the 1970s.7 and prince harry has caused a right royal riot by appearing to blame social media misinformation and hate, and even smearing elon musk for the riots in britain. does he have a point, or should the ginger winger keep his royal beak out.7 and do you fancy spending christmas on the costa del. kim jong un well, you might be in luck because north korea has opened its borders to foreign tourists for the first time in five years. just make sure that you're not the first to stop clapping. that's all coming in your next hour.

to stop clapping. that's all coming in your next hour . but coming in your next hour. but with the show an absolute pleasure to have your company. well, yesterday we were looking at the unions taking control of britain, something that was called a conspiracy theory before the general election. and now, look, 15% pay rise still not enough walking out every weekend for the next three months on the train. nick, mick lynch , he wants the same for his lynch, he wants the same for his union border force now walking out gp's teachers, nurses. where will it stop .7 i don't think it will it stop? i don't think it will. maybe they'll all be queuing up to knock on the door of number 11. are we going back to the 1970s? meanwhile, pensioners having their winter fuel allowance taken away. who's in control ? fuel allowance taken away. who's in control? who's fuel allowance taken away. who's in control ? who's got the most in control? who's got the most power? who do they answer to? let me know your thoughts. use your way gbnews.com/yoursay. but now your headlines with tatiana sanchez. >> martin. thank you and good

afternoon. >> the top stories from 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 in galway, who was stabbed 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 has been named as chaplain paul murphy , named as chaplain paul murphy, who has released a statement saying friends , thank you for 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 . 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 . planned compensation for victims. more than 30,000 people who received nhs treatments between the 1970s and early 1990s were infected with contaminated blood . infected with contaminated blood. and as you've been hearing at train drivers on lner are at a 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 end of this month and november ninth, and every sunday from september 1st to november the 10th. that's 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. well, that as border force staff at london heathrow airport are striking for 23 days from 31st of august, the long running dispute about enforced changes to terms and conditions, including the introduction of inflexible rosters, began in april. the pcs union says around

160 staff have left the border force because of the lack of flexibility, while others have been forced to change their working hours and practices . working hours and practices. foreign secretary david lammy has arrived in jerusalem with his french counterpart 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. 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. >> 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 streets and 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 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 to us be able to spot the true from the fake. >> in other news, the number of

pharmacies in england could fall below 10,000 for the first time in almost 20 years. that's the 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'll be the lowest number since 2005, and two doctors and three others, including a personal assistant to actor matthew perry, have been charged with supplying the friends star with ketamine . 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 to and others. us attorney martin estrada claims the defendants took advantage of mr perry . mr perry. >> these defendants took advantage of mr perry's

addiction issues to enrich themselves. they knew what they were doing was wrong. they knew what they were doing was risking great danger to mr perry . but great danger to mr perry. but they did it anyways . they did it anyways. >> and those are the latest gb news headlines for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> thank you tatiana. now irish police have confirmed a potential terrorist link after an army chaplain was stabbed multiple times outside a barracks in galway. police have confirmed. the man, in his 50s, has been taken to hospital in galway and a teenage boy has been arrested. and this morning, chaplain paul murphy has released the following statement. 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, but i'm doing just okay. just awaiting surgery all will be well. well, joining us now is our homeland security editor, mark white. mark, welcome to the show . how many random stabbing show. how many random stabbing attacks have we now seen in the last few weeks? few months? this one is very, very concerning with its links to the church, with its links to the church, with its links to the army. what do we know so far, mark? >> well, there's no doubt it has taken a serious and worrying turn with the confirmation that the irish police are now investigating the possibility that this was indeed a terrorist attack targeting this member of the military , this chaplain the military, this chaplain within the irish armed forces outside reform barracks in

county galway . now, this county galway. now, this incident unfolded at 1045 last night. father paul murphy was leaving the barracks when he was confronted by a suspect . the confronted by a suspect. the chaplain then turned round and tried to get back inside the barracks, got through the gate but was pursued. we're told, by the suspect and then stabbed multiple times. thankfully, of course , in an army barracks. course, in an army barracks. it's well guarded , and in the it's well guarded, and in the gatehouse in particular, there were personnel on the scene. they were there quickly. they opened fire, in warning shots, we're told five shots that were fired off in warning before the those service personnel then wrestled this teenage suspect to the ground, and he is now in custody . now the irish police custody. now the irish police have put out a statement within the last hour. it says one line of inquiry is to establish if this attack had a terrorism

motivation. they say that the suspect remains in detention, being questioned in a northwest regional police station . their regional police station. their penod regional police station. their period of detention, they say, has now been extended. and then they go on to say , and garda they go on to say, and garda siochana wishes to reassure the pubuc siochana wishes to reassure the public that this time it's not believed. this incident is part of a wider conspiracy. now, that might change depending on what they find as they delve into the background of this individual. but i think, martin, the fact that already at this early stage, after this attack, to come out and say that a line of inquiry that they are pursuing is a line of inquiry that leads them down the road towards terrorism, indicates, perhaps, that there seems to be some firm evidence pointing in that direction . direction. >> and, mark, do we know anything about how father murphy

was dressed? i asked that because, of course, we recently saw a stabbing at a barracks in in brompton and that was a of an officer in an army outfit. is there any indication that that was specific? obviously he was outside of this institution, but do we know anything about that? and isn't it incredible how the warning shots were fired? but actually this, this, this young assailant wasn't actually shot, shot dead or shot to be injured ? shot dead or shot to be injured? >> no. and i mean, those soldiers could well have opened fire to save life. it is in their, you know, rules of engagement in that sense. but they fired warning shots and then we understand used a baton and wrestled this attacker to the ground. at that point, we have no information as to whether the chaplain was in uniform, but he was leaving the barracks. we understand when he was confronted by this suspect

outside. and you're right that lieutenant colonel mark teton, who was stabbed multiple times and barely escaped with his life outside brompton barracks in gillingham in kent last month , gillingham in kent last month, was in full uniform, heading home. the fact is whether this chaplain was in uniform or not, he was coming directly out of a barracks gate and any army, establishment , barracks or other establishment, barracks or other military base is a high risk environment because we know that those with a political motivation in particular, have targeted military personnel in the past. we only need to think back to lee rigby back in 2013, outside the woolwich barracks, and that horrific murder carried out by two terrorists on that occasion, to know that the military in ireland, in the uk, all around the world can be a particular target for terrorist

motivations. and that is, sadly , motivations. and that is, sadly, it seems, the line of inquiry that the gardai are currently pursuing . pursuing. >> thank you, mark white, for that update. of course, we'll come back to you throughout the show for more. and of course, our thoughts and blessings are with father murphy. mark white. thank you very much. now the pcs union has announced that border force staff are set to go on strike for 23 days from the end of august. holiday timing, cynical merch this comes as the government's joy at striking a pay government's joy at striking a pay deal with the aslef union and bringing an end to the pay dispute with train drivers could also be short lived, because not only have train drivers , elianne only have train drivers, elianne announced a fresh set of strikes, but ministers have been accused of prioritising unions over pensioners. 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

do not get the exact same pay deal as aslef . the state of the deal as aslef. the state of the unions, who is running the country. that's the question i'm going to pose now to our political editor, chris hope. chris, yesterday we talked about this, about the £100 million given to aslef, about the 10 billion in public sector pay rises to nurses, to teachers, junior doctors getting half a billion now. and we said will the queue grow? chris we were prophetic. we called it right, but we didn't expect it to be the next blooming day. >> so what's happened today? briefly, very briefly. martin, don't go anywhere in september. no i'm not i'm not being entirely serious. but the border force at heathrow, 650 pcs members there, they're walking out august 30th 1st to september 22nd, a row about in force. changes to terms and conditions, 160 staff the tsa have left because of a lack of flexibility. that's heathrow separate to that lner, the line that goes down the eastern spine

of this country, its workers, its train drivers are looking at striking every weekend, going out for three months from august 31st. that is separate to the pay 31st. that is separate to the pay rise . agreed with train pay rise. agreed with train drivers the previous day . 14% drivers the previous day. 14% pay drivers the previous day. 14% pay rise over three years. that's 5% 20 2223 4.755%. last year and 4.5% this year. and it gets more interesting because if you've left and quit as a train driver before you get backdated pay driver before you get backdated pay so some people can be two years away from being a train dnven years away from being a train driver, they'll get a check in the post. pay for by you and me as, as as as taxpayers. aslef say about this the lner strike. they're saying that breakdown in industrial relations bullying by management . they claim management. they claim persistent breaking of agreements apparently goes back to a row about lner staff managers driving trains to break previous strikes. and that's what may have wound up aslef, mick, mick whelan, the aslef

general secretary, says it's different to the pay rise agreed by government, this issues here for nick thomas—symonds. he's the cabinet office minister. he's saying they don't think that this generosity with pay deals going back to junior doctors, 22%, 5.5% for public sector workers, that is not fuelling it. but many think it is. and age uk now that's a whole different story there because pensioners have lost their winter fuel payments. they're saying they've had lots of people emailing in about the impact of that. some are commenting. age uk says that they feel they are being treated as a lower priority and that's not fair. what they mean there is pensions to go cold this winter , while pochettino workers winter, while pochettino workers get big pay rises from the government. >> and chris hope, just when you thought it was safe to plan christmas again, mick the grinch lynch is rattling his sabre. he's saying we're expecting a parallel synchronise offer to that of aslef same deal, or they'll be down tools once again. and chris, isn't that the point ? wouldn't again. and chris, isn't that the point? wouldn't you again. and chris, isn't that the point ? wouldn't you give again. and chris, isn't that the point? wouldn't you give a bag of silver to one union? i'm

afraid the rest will be queuing up to thump on the door of number 11. >> the ocean rises, the boats go up. mick. mick lynch, of course, is the rmt general secretary. mick whelan is the train driver. is the two mick's, they're mick lynch, they're the guys who look after the tracks and maintain them. if they strike as well, we'll have real problems getting away this winter. i mean, this is the concern . the tories say is the concern. the tories say pensioners are being deprived of winter fuel allowance while money is being chucked at unions. >> well this rate, chris, we're spending christmas day here. i wouldn't mind it. yeah. pleasure. cheers. all right. see you in a bit. thank you very much, chris. so now i'm joined by economics commentator laurie laird, who joins me now on the show. laurie, the huge question is, is this how is this going to be paid for now, i don't expect to have an answer because bridget phillipson, the education minister, doesn't even know how the train pay rise yesterday was going to be paid for. but the numbers are starting to pile up. when you look at the, £10 billion being offered to the doctors, the nhs workers and the teachers, half a billion to junior doctors, 100 million to train drivers. this

is super economics and we already have a super sized black hole. >> well, look , martin, i'm going >> well, look, martin, i'm going to be real unpopular here, but let's start with the very bafics let's start with the very basics. if you want people to take these jobs , you're probably take these jobs, you're probably going to have to pay them. and i know these numbers, and i'm no apologist for unions here, but pubuc apologist for unions here, but public sector pay has lagged behind inflation. it has lagged behind inflation. it has lagged behind private sector pay for over a decade . so the unions are over a decade. so the unions are going to argue and with, you know , there is some know, there is some justification here that we have been underpaid for a decade and we're trying to catch up. now, a lot of these unions are in a pretty good bargaining position here because there are shortages across some of the industries that they work in. we know that there have been shortages, shortages in medicine. although nursing shortages, that's always sort of our shorthand for what's happening in the nhs, isn't it? nursing shortages have gone down a bit, but the government has

commissioned a report, hasn't become public yet that there will be a shortage of 100,000 railway worker and subway worker vacancies somewhere over the coming years. the average age of a railway worker is 45. if people are going to retire soon, so you can argue if you want people to do these jobs and we have we all acknowledge that pubuc have we all acknowledge that public services here are not what we want them to be. so you're going to have to get you're going to have to get you're going to have to pay these people if they want them to do the work. >> i'm joined by chris hope in the studio. he's got a question for you, laurie. >> laurie, i wondered, to what extent do you think these pay rises could be inflationary? i mean, it's all very well, you know, public sector workers, train drivers getting a big pay rise. good for them. but are we all going to bear the burden of that by higher inflation? >> look, chris, that's an absolutely excellent question. and when the last time the bank of england met at the beginning of england met at the beginning of the month, a lot of us and i include myself there thought that they wouldn't reduce interest rates because of these pubuc interest rates because of these public sector pay rises that are

coming down the, you know, coming down the, you know, coming down the pipeline . and coming down the pipeline. and andrew, sorry, i'm tripping all over my words today. andrew bailey, the head of the bank of england, was asked specifically in the press conference and he said, look, we don't really look that closely at the public sector. we look at it for what he called signalling effects. and forgive the pun, when we're talking about the railways, but they're more concerned about private sector workers. they think that can become more inflationary, and only about 18% of the workforce works in the pubuc of the workforce works in the public sector. it's a really good question. the bank of england is certainly keeping an eye on it, but at the moment they're not that worried about that caveat. and one of us should throw this in. bank of england's forecasts haven't been great lately. >> well , great lately. >> well, we're great lately. >> well , we're 22,000,000,000in >> well, we're 22,000,000,000in a black hole, apparently with 2.7 trillion in national debt by my reckoning, this black hole just got a heck of a lot bigger. there's only two ways of dealing with that. either we have tax

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football fever is set to grip the nation as the premier league kicks off again this evening. but with players set to take the knee six times this season in a bid to combat racism, is it time to call to call time on this performative nonsense that's coming soon? before that, the duke and duchess of sussex were welcomed in colombia as they began their four day tour of the south american nation. according to reports. prince harry took a swipe at elon musk following the southport riots, saying what happens online transfers to the streets in minutes as if he'd know. and he added that members of the public need to be more cautious when using artificial intelligence. >> ai is scary , and i think, and >> 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 thatis think one of the solutions to that is education and awareness , 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 . spot the true from the fake. >> i'm joined now by the royal commentator richard fitzwilliams to discuss this. richard, welcome to the show. i'll be straight with you. what on earth does a pampered prince who lives in beverly hills know about the reality of what causes riots on the streets of britain and why on earth is he getting involved in it all? >> well, he has got involved in it is part undoubtedly of a plan by the sussexes. we saw them briefly in jamaica in january. thenin briefly in jamaica in january. then in may they went to nigeria several days there. and of course meghan discovered she was 43% nigerian and also nigeria had joined invictus columbia. it happens, is the latin american country that is involved with invictus . but most specifically, invictus. but most specifically, this is about online abuse and

bullying and they are the sussexes have founded what they call the parents network, which will help parents who have been affected or harmed in by that. their children have been harmed or affected by online abuse of some sort or another. or affected by online abuse of some sort or another . and some sort or another. and there's no doubt that overall it's a laudable aim. what it has involved with. of course, some people are pointing out, so the levels, say, of crime in colombia and the fact that harry finds britain too dangerous to visit. but on the other hand, he's in a country which is notorious for its high rates of crime. >> well , more crime. >> well, more than that, richard, colombia is the 18th most dangerous country on the planet. you're 22 times more likely to be killed there than you are in uk. so this idea that it's somehow more dangerous in the uk is an absolute nonsense. but you're saying that he's

launching a anti—bullying initiative and he's the solution to this. it makes it even more tawdry then does it not, to be commenting on serious british social political unrest with a view to what, him having some sort of answer to bullying. he can be the solution? >> well, i think it's an attempt. and i mean, i do applaud it because there are very, very serious issues involved in this. and we saw on cbs trail for this. and meghan very controversially, i thought, brought up issues dealing with her own mental health. it was said that she didn't expect to be questioned about it, but there was a clip from their oprah interview shown . there's oprah interview shown. there's little doubt that the sussexes andindeedi little doubt that the sussexes and indeed i think we all should be concerned about abuses in this area. there's little doubt also that as society changes so radically, what we're seeing is partly an excuse, yes, for the

sussexes to tour abroad. the person, a former activist, the first, black vice president, francia marquez , is very francia marquez, is very involved in campaigns. i would say that anything that helps is to be welcomed. so as far as the tour is concerned , it's also tour is concerned, it's also very much an attempt by the sussexes to boost their international profile. and from that point of view, it's likely to be successful. one has, very sadly, to note that the king and queen, and also the prince and princess of wales for health issues aren't able to undergo to these tours, and the royal tour, and this is a sort of quasi royal tour, is one of the best ways that britain projected its soft power . the sussexes have soft power. the sussexes have jumped on the bandwagon . jumped on the bandwagon. >> yeah, i guess, of course, but they're not part of the royal family anymore. but point taken, richard fitzwilliams. thank you very much for joining richard fitzwilliams. thank you very much forjoining us. always very much for joining us. always a pleasure. why don't they just stick to being, i don't know,

royals and lots more still to come between now and 4:00, including thousands of victims of the worst scandal in nhs history , are finally set to history, are finally set to receive financial support for their entire lives. and about time too. don't go anywhere. but first, as your headlines with tatiana sanchez . tatiana sanchez. >> martin, thank you and good afternoon. the top stories 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 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 has been named as chaplain paul murphy, who's released a statement saying friends , thank you for saying friends, thank you for your prayers, love and concern . 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. that's after the government accepted the majority of recommendations from an independent review into planned compensation for victims . planned compensation for victims. some 3000 people across the uk are estimated to have registered interest with the compensation scheme . an inquest into the scheme. an inquest into the death of a 13 year old girl with a severe dairy allergy has concluded. she died after drinking a costa coffee hot chocolate following a failure to follow the processes in place to discuss allergies. hannah jacobs died within hours of taking the dnnkin died within hours of taking the drink in february last year. a post mortem found hannah died after suffering from a hypersensitive anaphylactic reaction. a statement was read on behalf of hannah, hannah's mother gave a statement on behalf of hannah this afternoon . behalf of hannah this afternoon. >> she had a known allergy from

a young age for her allergies were and took them very seriously . i were and took them very seriously. i have were and took them very seriously . i have always been seriously. i have always been extremely diligent in managing hannah's allergies, and she has never suffered a serious allergic reaction prior to this incident , allergic reaction prior to this incident, hannah loved allergic reaction prior to this incident , hannah loved life. incident, hannah loved life. >> she was a vivacious, caring, affectionate , outspoken and affectionate, outspoken and energetic child with a strong sense of right and wrong. >> hannah had everything to live for and was so full of life and promise , and prince harry promise, and prince harry appeared to weight 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 visit 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. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news

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welcome back. it's 338. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. 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 and those who were subjected to unethical research will also get up to £15,000 extra, and others will also receive a social

impact award. this will recognise the consequences of any stigma surrounding the disaster, and i'm joined in the studio now by gb. news, political correspondent olivia utley. olivia, welcome to the show. a long time coming this justice. and finally we're getting some details about the payments. tell us more. >> we are so a very, very long time coming. this scandal took place between the 1970s and the 1990s, and it's thought that about 30,000 people were affected by it. about 3000 people have already come forward looking for compensation. the scheme details of the scheme have been fully announced today . have been fully announced today. the previous government, the conservative government, committed to a serious repayment plan back in may. but there was a bit of a question mark over what would happen after the general election because of course, the election was called just a couple of weeks after that. the labour government have now said that payments will begin to be made by the end of

this year, which is what rishi sunak promised back in may. individual victims could receive up to £2 million each, and the whole package is worth estimated about £10 billion. now that is a lot of money. it will make a very big dent in the government's budget, but of course there is nothing else the government could possibly do . government could possibly do. this is one of the worst scandals. medical scandals, scandals. medical scandals, scandals of any kind really, in british history. now there is a there are a few more details that we know as well as the general payout for victims and their families , because the their families, because the families of those who have sadly died already will also receive payment. there are a number of people who are going to receive another fee. on top of that, a £15,000 fee. now those are specifically men who went to a mostly men who went to a school in hampshire, haemophiliacs, where they were treated with this infected blood. they didn't need the blood product at all. and were treated with it because they were essentially human

guinea pigs. for scientists trying to work out what would happen now, a lot of them have now died. there are some who are still living, and they will be given £15,000 on top of the regular payments . on the whole, regular payments. on the whole, infected blood victims seem satisfied. if satisfied can be the word in these circumstances with the package that they're receiving. but these particular people , the ones who were who people, the ones who were who were experimented on, who were receiving this £15,000, have already said that they think that payment is derisory. they're not happy at all. they think it's frankly insulting. and it will be interesting to see where the dust sort of settles on this, because it is a huge amount of money that the government is committing, but for people who have waited for so, so long and been treated abominably by government after government, it might just not be enough. >> and the £10 billion total costs are put in perspective . costs are put in perspective. that's roughly equal to the amount it's going to cost to give the nhs workers and teachers a 5.5 pay rise. this is precisely the sort of thing that

a government has to find the money for the duty of care for a scandal that rolled for on decades, and olivia at the time as well, the horror of the fact often this blood was coming from prisoners in america and prisoners in america and prisoners with drug habits who were being unscreened. and it was coming into our country infecting people oftentimes for many, many years who had no idea what was wrong with them at the time. well, absolutely. >> and as well as the obvious terrible physical impacts. and a lot of these people have now sadly died as a result of the diseases that they were infected with when they received this blood from , as you say, american blood from, as you say, american prisoners, american prostitutes , prisoners, american prostitutes, blood just not being screened at all. it was at a time when britain wasn't self—sufficient in blood , as well as the in blood, as well as the terrible physical effects, because they weren't told about the illnesses that they were suffering. they didn't understand what was wrong with them, some of them for decades. there's one man who i was reading about who didn't find out until 2013 that he'd been infected with hepatitis, the mental health impact has been

absolutely phenomenal as well, and obviously the impact on the families of his victims is huge, too, which is why this this package has to be quite so big. it's not just the surviving victims or even the families of those who've died. it's also people who are still living, the families of those who are still living, but who are in some cases disabled by their illnesses, unable to work. it's just a lot of compensation for so much time. >> and it's worth going back over some of the details on the day that this was announced on may the 20th, we had, we had people in the studio here who've been involved in this. we also had sir brian langstaff, who, who was who chaired the inquiry this 2500 page report. and he said that the doctors, civil servants and ministers had closed ranks. they completely tried to squash this down. the horrifying scandal could and should have been avoided. but a catalogue of failures led to a calamity. 3000 patients died or suffered miserably, and the

stories that came out of people being infected and their and their marriages broke down because their partners thought it was for other reasons. life's life's torn apart a systemic , life's torn apart a systemic, unprecedented 40 year cover up. that was andy smith, who was at the victims press conference. it was an incredibly emotional press conference, a deliberate destruction of records. that's another thing. they were it was another thing. they were it was a total and utter cover up. it took so long to get to this point. but as you see it, most people involved seem satisfied. isn't the word, as you said, but it's a resolution of sorts that will help them to move forward. well, exactly. >> and this is all as a result of that report that came out in, earlier this year. i mean, normally when you see a report of this kind looking back at a scandal that's gone on so long that, you know, there'll be a bit of, hedge, hedge hopping, it's not you know, it's normally

not quite that clear cut. there'll be some sort of excuses from the governments involved. this one was blistering in its criticism of institution after institution , government after institution, government after government, who allowed this to government, who allowed this to go on going on, be being covered up because so much of this scandal comes from the fact that it went on for such a long time and that for such a long time, the victims after that weren't able to claim any sort of compensation, even though their lives have been ruined and in lots of cases, they weren't able to work at all. so just the sheer scale and the length of time that it took for anything to be done about this crisis has made it so much worse than, than it was in the first place. and the report also made clear that almost all of the deaths , which almost all of the deaths, which have happened, those 3000 deaths which have happened, they were all pretty much avoidable. >> yeah. and it's worth just reading out a quick bit again of the impact statement from the victims press conference, which is incredibly moving. andy smith and claire walton said this,

we've been gaslit for generations. this report finally today puts that to bed. this can never happen again. the civil service closed ranks. we need systemic change. people have lost decades of their lives campaigning and that's added to the trauma. i sit here, one of 27,000 victims who've been infected . behind every one of us infected. behind every one of us sits a family in olivia utley. today perhaps they'll find some resolution and peace now. thank you very much. now, the premier league season is upon us, and we'll be getting much. we'll be getting the latest match predictions ahead of manchester united's match against fulham. i martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel

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premier league season kicks off this evening as manchester united take on fulham. now it's been confirmed that players will take the knee on six occasions this season as part of the campaign to stamp out racism in the game. now let's get the analysis of the former newcastle forward micky quinn. micky, always an absolute delight to have you on the show and as i said to you before, i used to edit loads of magazine. you're a legend off the pitch and on the pitch, and you still are a legend off the pitch. of course on talksport now i know that you like to be diplomatic. it's always in your nature, micky, to be diplomatic , but taking the be diplomatic, but taking the knee at football matches, it has been divisive in the past. there's no reason to say it won't be divisive when it returns. do you think it's the right thing for the premier league to do ? league to do? >> i think any gimmick or any thing that highlights racism is always the right thing to do.

martin whether it's strong enough to get the message through to fans, whether in this country or around the world when countries are watching our premier league, i hope it does. ihope premier league, i hope it does. i hope it does, you know, i just wish the premier league would come out and say it is to highlight racism. you know, we a lot of premier league fans think, is it because of the black lives matter in america, you know, when it first came oven you know, when it first came over. but it's it is the wider racism theme. that's why they're doing it. that's why they're highlighting it. is it effective? it's been it's been going on for since the early 80s. as long as i can remember. and nothing has fully worked for me. >> yeah. and it's worth pointing out, mickey, you're absolutely right that we've got say no to racism. we've got kick it out and there are anti—racism initiatives at practically every club up and down the land . now, club up and down the land. now, millwall do an excellent initiative . it's well drummed initiative. it's well drummed into fans, into players, into the entire etiquette of the game .

the entire etiquette of the game. and as you know, micky, we've been pretty successful on the whole in britain. you know phil well, mickey, it's terrible on the continent , especially in the continent, especially in eastern europe . eastern europe. >> definitely, definitely. i mean, i've seen english players in bulgaria had things thrown at them , monkey chants, you know, them, monkey chants, you know, and i can go back to when i was playing in the early 80s. martin, i had things thrown at me, john barnes had bananas, you know, so childish. and there's no need for it for me , the no need for it for me, the strongest thing to do with fifa to set a rule, a precedent throughout the game, premier league across europe that if a player feels he's being, you know, subject to racist chants or aggression on a football pitch, his place of work , then pitch, his place of work, then he's got every right to walk off that pitch that team have got every right to walk off that pitch and that's the way football fans, i'm afraid, are going to have to chin it and suffer because people are paying to watch the game. people are

paying to watch the game. people are paying to go into the turnstiles to watch a game, and they're the ones that are going to come off worst. and that to me would send a stronger message than t shirts would stamp racism out than taking the knee and all the other stuff that we've done down the years. >> well, mickey quinn, you got a point when the whole country's going on strike at the moment, so why not a few football players? they might as well join in. but on a serious point, you mentioned barnes. you there? john barnes came out and he said he felt taking the knee now has become an empty thing. and he he stands against it. >> i can see what he's saying to a point, but i still think anything that highlights it, you know , if we see it well for six know, if we see it well for six times this season, it's going to happen. and some kids said, dad, you know, why are they doing that? he hasn't seen it before. and his dad says it's, you know, to stamp out racism, to highlight racism. we don't want racism. then it's getting a message through somehow. is it as strong as it's ever been? no, you're right, you're right. but like i say, i think the

strongest thing they can do is walk off the pitch. it's all right. >> we've got to. we've got to leave it there. mickey, it's always a pleasure. we have to move on. thanks, mate. i've got a statement to read out from the premier league. and they said this. we are unified in our belief that any form of discrimination has no place within football or wider society, and we are committed to using our platform to help celebrate diversity and show our support in the fight against racism. therefore, we will continue to show solidarity by taking the knee at significant moments during the forthcoming season. diversity is central to the success of the game, and we feel strongly that people should respect others regardless of their ethnicity or background. now don't go anywhere. we've got much more on the strikes and also prince harry whingeing away again about the riots. this time i martin daubney on gb news britain's new national. >> 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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every weekend for the next three months. now, border force are walking out and gps are also lining up for their 11% pay boost. and they're all queuing up for their pay day. i'm asking, this is britain going back to the 1970s and prince harry has caused a right royal riot by appearing to blame social media misinformation and hate and even having a pop at elon musk for the riots across britain . does he have a point, britain. does he have a point, or should the ginger winger keep his royal beak out? and do you fancy spending christmas on the costa del kim jong un? well, you might be in luck because north korea has opened its borders to foreign tourists for the first time in five years. just make sure that you're not the last to stop clapping. and that's all coming in your next hour. stop clapping. and that's all coming in your next hour . of the coming in your next hour. of the show. always a pleasure to have

your company. another stabbing outside an army barracks, this time in ireland. it was brompton last month . what's going on in last month. what's going on in this country? it's been linked to terror. a father undergone dramatic surgery, an arrest has been made. armed police were involved. what's going on in this country is there any end to it? we'll have the full details on that story. let me know your thoughts. this is your show as much as mine and the way to do it, you know. gbnews.com forward slash your say but now your headlines. it's tatiana sanchez . headlines. it's tatiana sanchez. >> martin thank you and good afternoon. the top stories 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 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 has been named as chaplain paul murphy, who has released a statement saying friends, thank you for your prayers. love and concern. sorry 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, 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 treatment between the 1970s and the early 1990s were infected with contaminated blood . train contaminated blood. 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 end of this month and the 9th of november, and every sunday from september, the first until the 10th of november. that's 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. meanwhile, border force staff at london heathrow airport are striking for 23 days from the end of this month . the long running dispute month. the long running dispute about enforced changes to terms and conditions, including the introduction of inflexible rosters, began in april. the pcs union says around 160 staff have left the border force because of the lack of flexibility, while others have been forced to change their working hours and practices . foreign secretary practices. foreign secretary david lammy has arrived in jerusalem with his french counterpart to urge a ceasefire in the war in gaza. it's the first uk joint uk france visit to the region in over a decade,

where the ministers are expected to visit the occupied palestinian territories. 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. >> the mother of a 13 year old girl who died after having a severe reaction to a costa coffee hot chocolate , says coffee hot chocolate, says allergen safety training should not be treated as a tick box exercise. the inquest found a failure to follow the processes in place to discuss allergies. hannah jacobs died within hours of taking one sip of the drink in february last year. a post—mortem found hannah died

after suffering from a hypersensitive anaphylactic reaction. a statement was read on behalf of hannah's mother this afternoon. >> we had a known allergy from a young age for her allergies were and took them very seriously. i have always been extremely diligent in managing hannah's allergies, and she has never suffered a serious allergic reaction prior to this incident. hannah loved life . hannah loved life. >> she was a vivacious, caring , >> she was a vivacious, caring, affectionate, outspoken and energetic child with a strong sense of right and wrong. >> hannah had everything to live for and was so full of life and promise . promise. >> prince harry 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 streets and people are acting on information that isn't true. the couple were officially invited by the country's vice president, francia marquez in colombia, who said she was moved by their

controversial netflix documentary where they laid bare their troubled relationship with 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 that education could help the public spot fake news. >> people were 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 to us 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 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 have been blamed if numbers fall below 10,000, it will be the lowest number since 2005, and

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 almost a year ago. the us attorney general says. the us attorney general says. the defendants, including a woman in los angeles called the ketamine queen, were part of a criminal network that gave the drug to perry and to others. us attorney martin estrada claims the defendants took advantage of mr perry , and those are the mr perry, and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez . more now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone , sign up to news your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com >> forward slash alerts .

>> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> thank you tatiana. now irish police have confirmed that a potential terrorist link after an army chaplain was stabbed multiple times outside a barracks in galway. police have said a man in his 50s has been taken to hospital and a teenage boy has been arrested. this morning, chaplain paul murphy has released the following statement. 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 and all will be well. well, joining us now is our homeland security editor, mark white. mark a deeply troubling story. the second time now in a month, there's been a random knife attack outside an army barracks. of course, it was in brompton in july. we saw one here in kent. and now this in ireland. in galway, an astonishingly worrying story. what do we know

so far ? so far? >> well, clearly it's taken a serious and worrying turn with the police in ireland confirming that they are now actively looking at terrorism as a possible motivation for the attack on father paul murphy last night, late last night, just before 11 pm, the chaplain was leaving the army barracks in county galway when he was confronted by a suspect, a teenage boy. the chaplain turned round, tried to go back inside the barracks was pursued, we're told, by the suspect and then stabbed multiple times. now, because of course, it's an army barracks. and it was at the gatehouse . there were armed army gatehouse. there were armed army personnel on scene . very quickly personnel on scene. very quickly they opened fire with some five warning shots before eventually wrestling this teenage suspect to the ground, arresting him, and is now, of course , in

and is now, of course, in custody and being interviewed. father murphy himself has been seriously injured. he went underwent surgery today, but the good news, at least, is that he is not believed to be in a life threatening condition . threatening condition. >> it's just an incredible thing that they were so on hand to help. i mean, firing, warning shots could have been a very different outcome though. mark white. i mean, they could have fatally shot the assailant . fatally shot the assailant. >> yes, it's absolutely would have been in the rules of engagement to save life, to stop imminent threat, they decided to fire warning shots, but they could have shot this suspect directly . it's not shoot to directly. it's not shoot to kill, but shoot to stop. that suspect. they would have been within the rules of engagement to do that, but that suspect wasn't injured. we understand he wasn't injured. we understand he was restrained by those army

personnel and is now in custody. and i think it's interesting that garda siochana was so quick, really, to come out and confirm that they are looking at terrorism as a potential motivation to me , that really motivation to me, that really points to them probably having some firm evidence pointing in that direction, because there are real sensitivities in the irish republic at the moment because of mass migration, the number of asylum seekers that are being housed right across the island, you'll remember back in december, the stabbing of three schoolchildren and a school care worker by an immigrant that sparked a number of riots. so, as i say, some real concern . we don't know the real concern. we don't know the status of this suspect, but we just know that terrorism is a potential motivation. so there are real sensitivities,

potential concerns, and so to get the police, in that backdrop, with that backdrop coming out so quickly and to confirm that they are looking potentially at terrorism, i think points that i think fairly firmly in that direction concerning soori. >> thank you very much , mark >> thank you very much, mark white. and of course our blessings. go, go out to father paul murphy. thank you very much, mark. now moving on the pcs union has announced that border force staff are set to go on strike for 23 days from the end of august in a cynically timed holiday season strike. now, this comes as the government's joy at striking a pay government's joy at striking a pay deal with the aslef union and bringing an end to that pay dispute with train drivers could be short lived, because not only are the train drivers at lner announced a fresh set of strikes , announced a fresh set of strikes, but ministers have been accused of prioritising unions over pensioners. now fresh rail could also be brewing with the rmt union after their general

secretary mick lynch. yes, he's back threatened fresh industrial action from his members if they don't get the exact same pay deal as aslef. now yesterday we asked the question are the unions running the country today?i unions running the country today? i think we know the answer and i'm joined now to discuss this by gb news political editor , chris hope. political editor, chris hope. chris, just to repeat, yesterday, we were we were looking at the £100 million to train drivers off the back of £10 billion to nhs workers and teachers, half £1 billion to junior doctors. where will this end? we said, but even we're surprised that the very next day, the £100 million offer has been rebuffed. fresh strikes coming down the tracks and also border force walking out. what's going on? >> it's quite dizzying, isn't it, martin? so yesterday 14% pay rise for aslef train drivers. they when they strike. by the way the network grinds to a halt. and as a commuter into

london i know about that a lot. so that was 40% maybe costing 100 million or so three year pay deal over over three days. going back even includes money going back even includes money going back to staff who have left previously in previous years. they get a pay rise years after they've left that that company. and today we hear , don't we, and today we hear, don't we, from this strike. this is on the eastern spine of the rail network down this country. they're striking over a concern about management and bosses. they say that bosses are drove trains during previous strike action. aslef. so there's a breakdown in industrial relations. so while agreeing a 14% pay rise, there's another row breaking out between on this narrow line, the lner line separate to that, we've got border force staff going out heathrow between august 31st and september 22nd. 650 pcs members. that'll be very, very difficult if going on holiday might be slow, getting through customs and checks, 160 staff have left there already. the pcs says, because of lack of flexibility.

it does feel, as iain duncan—smith said, the former tory leader, that labour are throwing money at unions like confetti, and it does undermine slightly rachel reeves claim that there's a huge £22 billion black hole because they're spending money a lot of money on workers pay rises. we saw 10 billion going to public sector workers, 5.5% pay rise, hundreds of millions more going elsewhere, nick thomas—symonds, he's the cabinet office minister. he says it's unfair to suggest there'll be other unions demanding cash. but you set this , demanding cash. but you set this, don't you? and of course, the gps, 11%. forgive me. the gp's, the junior doctors, 22%. it goes on. pensioners sitting there watching gb news. they're wondering what has happened here because they have lost their winter fuel payment, age uk , winter fuel payment, age uk, normally quite a moderate pensioners. charity. they've been inundated with messages from pensioners about the impact of losing these payments. this winter. some are commenting that they feel they are being treated as a lower priority. and that's not fair .

not fair. >> and it's worth pointing out when they say it's unreasonable to say there'll be fresh demands. there have been 4 in 1 day. border force have come out aslef have now said no, no, we want more. the gps have ramped up from 7.4% to 11%. and now mick the grinch lynch is basically threatening to steal christmas again. that's 4 in 1 day. it's not unreasonable to say that there will be more. it's happening in real time in real time. >> mick lynch is the rmt general secretary. he's different to mick whelan, who's the train dnven mick whelan, who's the train driver, who's the rmt look after. they they maintain the network, yeah totally. i think we'll be there at the tuc conference next month where we might hear more of the same. the problem is you get a ratchet on pubuc problem is you get a ratchet on public sector pay. what's happened here is labour has come in, they've sorted out the ongoing pay issues. we saw many parts of the country grind to a halt under the tory party because the tory ministers, to because the tory ministers, to be fair to them, were demanding productivity improvements and elsewhere all those strings are being removed from the deals. they're simply giving them more

money, louise hague, as a transport secretary for example, with the aslef deal, on 2 or 2 days ago, that is the problem, i think. >> can i point something out to you, which i think is pertinent and that is who votes for which party. if you're a pensioner, there's a feeling definitely emerging that pensioners don't seem to matter to the labour party quite so much. you might say that's unfair, but £4 billion winter fuel payment, well, that's been chucked in the pot that's been dug out by the union demands. only 20% of the over 70s voted labour at the last general election, 46% voted conservative. 15 reform 11 lib democrats. is there a cynical side of this that. well, pensioners don't vote for us anyway, so why try and please them? >> that's not true across the board because all pensioners have lost this this winter fuel payment. the key number to think aboutis payment. the key number to think about is 63. that is the number the age at which you go from labour supporter to a tory supporter. 63 and that's why a

lot of the tory policies and at the beginning of the campaign in june and july, were aimed at pensioners . they they know they pensioners. they they know they vote tory. but, you know, we all know many pensioners who also labour supporters do. >> okay, chris, so thank you very much for joining >> okay, chris, so thank you very much forjoining us. and we'll have more of that story, of course, at 5:00. and there's plenty of coverage on our website gbnews.com. and you've helped to make it the fastest growing national news website in the country . so thank you very the country. so thank you very much. now brace yourselves, because it's the final three weeks of our 30 zero zero £0 great british giveaway. there's still plenty of time to get your entry in and trouser that cash andifs entry in and trouser that cash and it's all tax free. now here's the details that you need for your chance to win it. >> you really could become the next giveaway winner with your chance to win £30,000 in tax free cash to spend on anything you like. listen to what some of our previous winners have to say about winning big with us. >> hi, my name is victoria. i won the spring great british giveaway , so the day we got the giveaway, so the day we got the money in our bank account, everything just felt just a lot nicer. we went out for dinner

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welcome back. it's 424. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. football fever is set to grip the nation as the premier league begins this evening, with players set to take the knee six times this season, including tonight, in a bid. they say to combat racism. now the duke and duchess of sussex are now in colombia. of course , as they colombia. of course, as they begin their four day faux royal tour of the south american nation, according to reports . nation, according to reports. prince harry took a subtle swipe at elon musk following the southport riots , saying what southport riots, saying what happens? online transfers to the streets in minutes. and he added that members of the public need to be more cautious when using artificial intelligence. >> 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 thatis think one of the solutions to that is education and awareness , 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 and therefore, really it comes down to all of us to be able to spot the true from the fake . spot the true from the fake. >> well, let's get the thoughts now of the royal biographer ingnd now of the royal biographer ingrid seward. ingrid, welcome to the show . my question to you to the show. my question to you is simple. what does the ginger prince of beverly hills know about what's going on in the most depraved working class towns of britain in terms of the riots? why is he poking his nose in? >> i think he's always trying to, appear as if he's very worldly and wise and knows exactly what's going on. >> but you could tell from that clip about al that he didn't really understand that the one thing that we've all been doing is to take great care about the

real from the unreal, and it was it's harry is really brilliant at speeches when he's well rehearsed and probably when meghan's written them for him. but he's not very good at the ad lib. so i think that he made him look rather foolish, and i don't think he he doesn't understand anything about the riots in the uk. and i think he's not really in a position to comment on them. you know, people still, there's a lot of people out there's a lot of people out there who still fans of harry and we want him to, you know, to do the right thing. but he continually puts his foot in it. and of course, the only reason that they're even in colombia, or they were even in nigeria is because harry is a prince of the blood. and obviously the president and the vice president realise, you know , this is this, realise, you know, this is this, this, this young man, his father is king and his grandmother was queen before him. so, you know, they think that this is going to

influence british thinking . influence british thinking. >> but in the good old days of royal tours, actual royal tours, they were about promoting the royal family, promoting the united kingdom. this is about promoting the sussexes . promoting the sussexes. >> exactly. well, royal tours were always at the request of the foreign office and the host country usually paid for , for country usually paid for, for most things, you know. so it wasn't too much of a it was a burden on the taxpayer of the host country. but wasn't a burden on us, not particularly anyway. and it was always about banging the gong for britain. and i'm sure a lot of those royal tours were were pretty, pretty tedious and very exhausting. but i don't think any of us quite see what harry and meghan are doing in colombia, except promoting harry and meghan. >> do you think there's , >> do you think there's, something else? i mean, they seem to be promoting a country. it's a golden ticket for colombia. the sort of pr they

couldn't buy or are they buying it ? it? >> that i do not know. i mean, it is a golden ticket for colombia and colombia. i mean , colombia and colombia. i mean, it's not as if the other members of the royal family haven't been there. i mean, the duchess of edinburgh went there and charles and camilla went there when he was prince of wales. and it's it is a beautiful country and i think it's good that it's been brought to our attention. but i don't , i don't think anyone don't, i don't think anyone could tell you what harry's actually doing there. we know he's meeting some of the athletes of the invictus games. who are you know, who are going to go to whistler , when the to go to whistler, when the games is held there. and we know that he's going to cali , which that he's going to cali, which is a different town, and they're going to a music festival and they're going to see this great place. and i'm not sure if it's cali or somewhere else where was actually sort of put together by slaves. and though they love the

inference that meghan's, you know, forebears might have been slaves, but i think and i don't mean to be rude about meghan, but i think she'll say whatever she feels like saying , now, she feels like saying, now, ingrid, in this particular instance of the southport riot situation and the inference, the influence of social media, the king was very diplomatic, saying we should come together. >> but harry has been quite defiant. he was saying this spreads disinformation , this spreads disinformation, this creates tension. it's a very different position. is that the difference between a true royal who wants people to come together , and harry's position, together, and harry's position, where he's just in a sense feels like he's trying to stoke things up ? up? >> yes, i think harry gets very passionate about things, which is rather a, you know, a good when he was sort of within the royal fold, it was a very good thing to have, you know, like diana used to get very passionate about things and harry gets very passionate about things . he's harry gets very passionate about things. he's sort of focusing on

disinformation because all his life he's been plagued all his aduh life he's been plagued all his adult life he's been plagued by social media. and he used to just trawl through every tweet, which was really a very unwise thing to do . and i think that, thing to do. and i think that, you know, when, if he's going to speak out, which of course he has every right to do, he should be perhaps a little better informed before he does. >> okay. well, thank you very much for joining >> okay. well, thank you very much forjoining us. superb opinions. ingrid seward royal biographer. thank you very much. now, casa del kim jong un, because north korea is set to open its borders to foreign tourists for the first time in five years. do you fancy a trip to north korea? but first, it's your latest news headlines with tatiana sanchez . tatiana sanchez. >> martin, thank you very much. the top stories, breaking news meghan gallagher has resigned as scottish conservative deputy leader that news just in. that's

amid concerns over the alleged conduct of outgoing party leader douglas ross in relation to the general election. we'll bring you more on that. breaking story as we get it. in other news, 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 hospital with serious injuries, which are not thought to be life threatening . a to be life threatening. a teenage boy was arrested by armed police during the incident last night. the victim has been named as chaplain paul murphy, who has released a statement saying friends, thank you for your prayers, love and concern. sorry i can't reply to all messages and take all the calls coming my way. i'm doing okay, just awaiting surgery or will be well , just awaiting surgery or will be well, victims of just awaiting surgery or will be well , victims of the infected well, 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 into the death of a 13 year old girl with a severe dairy allergy has concluded. she died after drinking a costa coffee hot chocolate following a failure to follow the processes in place to discuss allergies . hannah jacobs discuss allergies. hannah jacobs died within hours of taking one sip of the drink in february last year. a post mortem found hannah died after suffering from a hypersensitive anaphylactic reaction. a statement was read on behalf of hannah's mother this afternoon . this afternoon. >> he had a known allergy from a young age for her allergies were and took them very seriously . i and took them very seriously. i have always been extremely diligent in managing hannah's allergies, and she has never suffered a serious allergic reaction prior to this incident, hannah loved life. >> she was a vivacious, caring, affectionate , outspoken and affectionate, outspoken and energetic child with a strong sense of right and wrong. >> hannah had everything to live

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channel. welcome back. it's 436. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. 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. i'm joined now by infected blood scandal victim sue watton. sue, welcome to the show. it's always an absolute pleasure to speak to you on the day of course. that historic day of the resolution, you join me in the studio here and you shared your story. for those who haven't heard your story. so would you mind sharing with us, please? what happened to you , to you, >> well, i was given infected blood , possibly by, a blood blood, possibly by, a blood transfusion sometime in the 70s or 80s, i'm not sure which, because, my medical notes have been, redacted or have disappeared, >> well, i know that, i didn't find out . i >> well, i know that, i didn't find out. i having >> well, i know that, i didn't find out . i having suffered many find out. i having suffered many years of ill health, i didn't find out until 2014. >> and sue you for that.

>> and sue you for that. >> sorry. in that time , i just >> sorry. in that time, i just had so many years of terrible illness. >> and the bottom line is so you had no idea what was wrong with you. you were suffering from ill health for a long, long time. how and when did you finally find out? and what did that news do to you , do to you, >> i found out in 2014, and it was as a result of a, a meeting with a doctor i hadn't seen before at a clinic i'd never been to. who just happened to ask me? had i had any blood transfusions pre 1991? >> we now know that that was a little bit of a spurious date for cut off purposes, >> but also, he asked me that. i said yes, he asked if he could test me for hepatitis a, b, c, hiv and vcjd , which i said yes, hiv and vcjd, which i said yes, not thinking for one moment that

any of that would come back as positive, but it did , i was positive, but it did, i was given hepatitis c and sue then. >> then you begin began, you got involved in the campaign for resolution? of course, the report the inquiry was published back in may and that was an historic moment. today we've got some more details about the payment schemes and the plans. can i get your take on if you think this is an effective and adequate resolution? >> i don't i don't know that resolution is the word. i think we're a long way along the road, because so many people have been affected , obviously just not affected, obviously just not just the infected, but those affected by this , people who've affected by this, people who've lost children, people who've lost children, people who've lost partners. and so many people have been affected as well. so i think we're a long

way along the road, and i think today's news is very welcome, and as i think all of us have said all along, and as i think all of us have said all along , this has been said all along, this has been about, finding the truth, and not just about money. >> okay. sue watson, thank you so much for sharing your story. and thank you for joining us. and, you know, it's just an absolute delight to see you well and happy. and i hope that this, this news today brings you some peace. thank you very much. sue. always an absolute pleasure. thank you. now a potential new houday thank you. now a potential new holiday destination may be available to you this christmas. it certainly is very different because north korea is set to reopen the mountainous city of samjiyon to foreign tourists in december, according to tour operators in china. now it comes after nearly five years of border closures due to the covid pandemic. so the big question is, would you travel to the

hermit kingdom? well, i know somebody who would. he'd travel anywhere for a day and i'm joined in the studio by the wonderful travel correspondent at the independent, simon calder. simon, absolute delight. it's an unusual place to go and spend christmas. the costa del kim jong un. but i'm suspecting you'd rather enjoy it. >> of course. yes. and loads of people would love to go there at the moment. as you say, they were the first to lock down. so before any other country had imposed any kind of international travel restrictions. january 2020 north korea just said, right, we're closed and they've kept the place closed pretty much until last year, when they started just a little bit . but tourism just a little bit. but tourism has simply stopped. and as you say, they are now looking at this place called samjiyon . your this place called samjiyon. your pronunciation was great. >> it's up near the chinese border and unlike the rest of nonh border and unlike the rest of north korea, where you normally

go in on a chartered flight from china, this one you would probably go across by land from china and you'd be exploring this some, very, very, elaborate by north korean standards , by north korean standards, resort where you are going to find it's a kind of well, it's not exactly vegas, but it's the closest they've got. >> and the idea is that holidaymakers from china and now any other country in the world will be able to go there and spend, well, quality time in the shadow of korea's highest mountain. >> now they're calling it a socialist utopia of such a thing exists. there is a little bit of controversy around it. apparently it was built with slave youth, labour. but let's not let that take away from the joy5 not let that take away from the joys of a package trip to north korea . will they allow anybody korea. will they allow anybody in, or will they only allow those, say, for those who politically agree with them? >> well, that's quite a difficult thing to establish . difficult thing to establish. now there are very, very good specialist tour operators who've

been running trips to north korea for many years and generally, they, you know, people are just really interested in it because apart from anything else, there's lots of so—called country counters who want to go to every country in the world. and obviously you've got to tick off north korea . i have to say that korea. i have to say that probably if you said, yeah, i'd love. i haven't got any plans for christmas. i'd love to go to nonh for christmas. i'd love to go to north korea. they would in pyongyang , the capital of north pyongyang, the capital of north korea. they just have a search online, say martin daubney. and it says on your application , it says on your application, you're a teacher or an engineer. you're not really, are you ? you you're not really, are you? you % gb news. so they might not allow you in, but it is a tiny, tiny shift and it does perhaps move us a little bit closer to when north korea might become a normal nation. and of course, as soon as that was to happen, i mean, if you go to south korea just below the demilitarised zone, this incredibly militarised area at the frontier, there's a station

waiting to take people on the train direct to pyongyang. they've even got platform two for pyongyang. so then we're not there yet. but it will be an exciting time as of now as i have you. >> can i please ask you about the strikes and the travel chaos at the moment? you and i have spoken several times in the in the past about border force. yes border force walking out 23 days from august the 31st seems timed as ever to cause maximum disruption, but the last time simon, you and i spoke, you conquered yourself. it was the least effective strike of all time. >> yes, that's what we have seen. this is a dispute which has been rumbling for on many months. and it's all about new rosters, which the union says are unfair. so 650 border force officers walking out on saturday, the 31st of august, all the way through till tuesday the 3rd of september. absolutely timed for the end of the school holidays. this great long rush coming in and crucially, one

reason it has been very ineffective is because people have been using e—gates. but when you've got families, kids under ten can't use those e—gates. so the idea is that that will perhaps cause problems. wait and see. heathrow says that they think they can get through, and i'm still waiting for a comment from the home office supervisor, simon calder. >> as always , an absolute >> as always, an absolute delight. thanks for coming to the studio. now, the premier league season is upon us and we'll be getting the latest match predictions ahead of man united's match against fulham later on. also, the taking the knee i'm martin daubney on gb news britain's news

welcome back your time is 448. i'm martin daubney on gb news. now to the great relief for football fans up and down the nation. the new premier league season kicks off this evening as manchester united take on fulham, but it's been confirmed that players will take the knee

on six occasions this season as part of the campaign. they say to stamp out racism in the game but as a divide, the terraces. well, joining us now to discuss this is football legend and england's most capped player, peter shilton, a hero of mine as a forest fan as well. schultz, always an absolute delight to have you on. so peter , we had have you on. so peter, we had taken the knee back in the depths of 2020 when it was widely acknowledged by fans to represent black lives matter. now the premier league, the fa, they might say that it doesn't anymore, that it's moved on, but anymore, that it's moved on, but a great deal of fans still associated with that. schultz and is it really the right time to be bringing it back, or should we be knocking this into the hedge ? the hedge? >> i think the last thing you said, we should be knocking it back in the heads because, you know, as you said, you know, second time around and the first time was not too bad. >> i mean, we had certain players who refused to take the

knee and just stood there, which caused a little bit controversy, i just think it's lost its impact now. i think, you know, it's , it's a little bit old hat. it's, it's a little bit old hat. you know, we do a lot in football, you know, kick out racism. and, you know, i personally don't think, you know, it's that bad. i mean , we know, it's that bad. i mean, we know, it's that bad. i mean, we know in other countries, especially eastern european countries, they can still be pretty bad. but in the modern world, i mean, we've got riots now. and, you know, we can single people out and put them in prison. i mean, surely if there's problems in a football ground, we could zoom in and take pictures of whoever's causing the problems and maybe make an example out of them . make an example out of them. >> and, schultz, you raise an excellent point there. and that was going to be my next question. if or maybe when fans boo taking the knee because they have a right to do that. right. and you're allowed to freely express yourself, or are you , express yourself, or are you, peter, can you see a situation where cameras within grounds

might zoom in onto fans on the terraces, or even other fans? film other fans? and will there be pressure to take action against those fans? could those fans be banned from the match or worse? i mean, people are being arrested now, peter, for placing social media posts. could this therefore bring those problems to the terraces and further divide the game ? divide the game? >> schultz yeah, i mean , you >> schultz yeah, i mean, you know, it wouldn't be a bad thing. i mean, booing is one thing, but it's still, you know, dissent , thing, but it's still, you know, dissent, isn't it? you thing, but it's still, you know, dissent , isn't it? you know, dissent, isn't it? you know, it's showing that you you don't agree with it. and it's a little bit racist. but i think yeah, i mean if you can get 1 or 2, i mean if you can get 1 or 2, i mean you wouldn't put them in prison, but you know, community service is you know, you do 100 hours of that, you soon realise what you know, you shouldn't have done it. so i think to a certain degree, as a principle. yeah. you know , let's technology yeah. you know, let's technology let's zoom in on if the real problems or if there's a

complaint of player complaints. you know, that somebody's chanted something to him, you know, let the player make it known to the referee. you can make it known to the authorities where in the ground it was , and where in the ground it was, and see if we can do something about it , you know, like i say, it, you know, like i say, technology is so good. now >> and, schultz, do you think there might be an issue with the players? i mean, you rightly said that not all players even wanted to take the knee. and we saw some pictures there of wilfried zaha, at the time was at crystal palace. he stood up, he defied it. there was a player for forest at the time, lyle taylor. he didn't take the knee. he didn't want to do it. les ferdinand of course, pal of yours. while at qpr as a director of football, he said that the gesture was empty. john barnes said the gesture was empty and he no longer wanted to do it, but by the premier league and the fa taking this position, is it putting the players under a necessary position , a necessary position, >> well , you know, as you just >> well, you know, as you just said before, you know, we had

players who didn't want to do it and you probably have the same again, i just think it petered out before, you know, it didn't. >> you lost the meaning of what it was supposed to be. and i can't understand why it's alright. it's four games, is it? or six games, but it's still sort of making it a anti—racism thing. and i think we've moved on from this. you know, i think we should be i mean, some people would say, well, you know, some people aren't you white? you know, it's racism is racism. and, you know, if we are going to get to grips with it, you know, i think maybe, you know, get 1 or 2 people, make an example out of them, let people know that you can target them in football grounds. and i think that could be a big deterrent. >> okay. and very quickly in a word, peter shilton, can nottingham forest survive the drop this year? >> i think so i think so, hopefully they're better than last year. but keep fingers crossed they've got leicester and southampton as well. but very soft spot for, for forest.

they've got to leave it there. >> always a pleasure mate. you take care legend. thank you. now we've got a statement here to read out. and it's this the premier league's no room for racism initiative. and they say this greatness comes from everywhere. which is why diversity on the pitch has played such a pivotal role in making the premier league what it is now. so if you're not a fan of this diversity, you are not a fan. that is why there is not a fan. that is why there is no room for racism anywhere. now we don't go anywhere because after the break we'll be talking about the latest on the strikes and also the latest on that tragic stabbing at the army barracks in ireland. but before that, it's time for your weather with alex deakin . with alex deakin. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news. >> good afternoon . welcome to >> good afternoon. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. the weekend weather continues. what most of us are seeing today

dry for many sunny spells and temperatures about close to average, which means it will feel pretty pleasant in the sunshine which many of us are seeing this afternoon. there is quite a bit of cloud around, but generally it's dry and we're seeing sunny spells. main exception to that in northern scotland, where it is gusty and blustery. there are quite a few showers coming in here, a few showers coming in here, a few showers also drifting across northern ireland through the evening and overnight also, but further south. the winds are pretty light. clear skies, quite a bit cooler. quite a bit fresher than many nights have been, particularly across the east. so a cool but bright start to saturday. there will be quite a bit of cloud again over western scotland and we are looking at more showers coming in over the highlands and the western isles, but they should tend to zip through. they should be pretty light. any showers through the central belt won't last long and there will be some spells of sunshine. the odd shower also zipping through across northern ireland, maybe northwest england too, but again, they won't last long. they'll move through most places just having a fine bright sunny start to saturday as we go

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gb news. >> a very good afternoon to you. it's 5 pm. and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. we're broadcasting live from the heart of westminster, all across the uk. on today's show, an army chaplain is stabbed multiple times outside of a barracks in ireland. police are investigating a potential terrorist link. we'll have all the latest with mark white. >> well, father paul murphy is undergoing surgery for the multiple stab wounds that he received. the police in ireland say that at the moment, they don't believe there is a wider conspiracy to attack army bases . conspiracy to attack army bases. >> we'll have all the latest, of course, throughout the show on that and next, the absolute state of the unions, because despite the train drivers being gifted a 15% pay rise yesterday, they are still set to strike

every weekend for the next three months. border force are also walking out and now gps are lining up for an 11% pay boost. and with other unions also queuing up for their payday, is britain going back to the 1970s? next up, prince harry has caused a right royal riot by appearing to blame social media misinformation and hate, and even having a pop at elon musk for the riots in britain. does he have a point, or should the ginger winger keep his royal beak out? and do you fancy spending christmas on the costa del. kim jong un? well, he might be in luck because north korea has opened its borders to foreign tourists for the first time in five years. that's all coming up in your next hour. time in five years. that's all coming up in your next hour . of coming up in your next hour. of the show. always a pleasure to have your company concerning times. the second stabbing now

outside an army barracks in the past month, of course, one at brompton barracks in kent in july. and now father murphy stabbed outside a barracks in galway. what's going on when people are attacked like this? what do you think that says about the state of the nation, the state of britain and the state of the world? please get in touch the usual way. gbnews.com forward slash your say or read some comments out before the end of the show. but now it's time for your headlines. and it's tatiana sanchez. >> martin thank you. the top stories 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 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 has been named as chaplain paul murphy, who 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 . victims of the infected be well. victims of the infected blood scandal can receive support scheme payments for life. that's 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 treatment between the 1970s and the early 1990s were infected with contaminated blood . infected with contaminated blood. 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 end of this month 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 border force staff at london heathrow airport are striking for 23 days from the end of this month . the long end of this month. the long running dispute about enforced changes to terms and conditions, including the introduction of inflexible rosters, began in april. the pcs union says around 160 staff have left the border force because of the lack of flexibility, while others have been forced to change their working hours and practices . working hours and practices. megan gallagher has resigned as scottish conservative deputy leader. that's amid concerns over the alleged conduct of outgoing party leader douglas ross in relation to the general election. in a statement on x, miss gallagher said she was deeply troubled by reports in the telegraph that current leader mr ross allegedly asked tory candidate kathleen

robertson if he could replace her. in july last year, a claim her. in july last year, a claim he has denied. mr ross says he accepted her resignation with regret . foreign secretary david regret. foreign secretary david lammy has arrived in jerusalem with his french counterpart 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. 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. >> the mother of a 13 year old girl who died after having a

severe reaction to a costa coffee hot chocolate, says allergen safety training should not be treated as a tick box exercise. the inquest found a failure to follow the processes in place to discuss allergies. hannah jacobs died within hours of taking one sip of the drink in february last year. of taking one sip of the drink in february last year . a in february last year. a post—mortem found hannah died after suffering from a hypersensitive anaphylactic reaction. a statement was read on behalf of hannah's mother this afternoon. we had a known allergy from a young age for her allergies were and took them very seriously. >> i have always been extremely diligent in managing hannah's allergies, and she has never suffered a serious allergic reaction prior to this incident . reaction prior to this incident. hannah loved life. she was a vivacious, caring, affectionate , vivacious, caring, affectionate, outspoken and energetic child with a strong sense of right and wrong. hannah had everything to live for and was so full of life and promise . and promise. >> the number of pharmacies in england could fall below 10,000

for the first time in almost 20 years. that's the 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'll be the lowest number since 2005 , and two doctors and three 2005, and 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, almost 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 to others. us attorney, martin estrada, claims the defendants took advantage of mr perry . those are the latest mr perry. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your

smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> thank you tatiana. irish police have confirmed a potential terrorist link after an army chaplain was stabbed multiple times outside a barracks in galway. police have said a man in his 50s has been taken to hospital, and a teenage boy has been arrested. this morning, chaplain paul murphy has released the following statement. friends, thank you for your love, your prayers and concerns. 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. well, joining us now is our homeland security editor , mark white. security editor, mark white. mark, a deeply concerning story. the second stabbing outside an army barracks. what do we know about the safety of father

murphy ? murphy? >> well, we know that he has undergone surgery. he is seriously injured, but thankfully, they do not believe that he is in a life threatening condition. and indeed, he has been well enough to either type or to dictate some words to those many people who have been enquiring after his condition. on hearing the news about this attack outside the reform barracks in county galway took place just before 11:00 last night as father murphy was leaving the barracks. he was confronted by a youth, a teenage boy, who then pursued him back into the barracks. according to sources, and the priest was stabbed multiple times because it was, of course, in the barracks there were armed officers on scene very quickly.

armed army personnel who opened fire but opened fire with warning shots. some five shots discharged and then those army personnel wrestled this suspect to the ground before police then detained him . i think it's detained him. i think it's noteworthy that the police and garda siochana have come out so quickly. just 12 hours after this attack, and said that a key line of inquiry for them now is whether this was motivated by terrorism, because there are real sensitivities, as we know, in the irish republic, a real concerns in recent months about mass migration, about asylum seekers in particular, being housed right across the republic. and we remember back to just last december when that shocking incident happened in dubun shocking incident happened in dublin city centre, outside a school where three schoolchildren and a school care worker were attacked and stabbed

by a suspect who was described as an immigrant. that sparked riots that took place in dublin. so some real sensitivities and the fact that the police have come out so quickly and said that they are looking at potentially terrorism as a motivating factor, indicates that the direction of travel is that the direction of travel is that they have some firm evidence pointing to that. >> thank you. mark white. and of course, our prayers are with father murphy. thank you very much. now, the pcs union has announced that border force staff are set to go on strike for 23 days from the end of august. now, this comes as the government's joy at striking a pay government's joy at striking a pay deal with the aslef train union and bringing an end to that pay dispute with train drivers could be short lived. now, not only are train drivers at lner announced a fresh set of strikes, but ministers have been accused of prioritising unions over pensioners. now to discuss this, i'm joined in our studio by gb news political editor

chris hope. chris, yesterday we were saying it feels like the unions are wagging the tail of government. they're taking over the country and today for fresh demands, we were right. >> yes. well, yeah . let's work >> yes. well, yeah. let's work through those four fresh demands, shall we? martin, we've got the lner drivers. they are striking every weekend for the next three months. august 30th 1st to november the 10th. that's down the eastern spine of the railway network. in this country. that is separate to the 14% pay rise. aslef train drivers got the previous day, brokered by transport secretary louise hague. aslef say this latest dispute with the lner management is a breakdown in industrial relations, bullying by management, they claim, and persistent breaking of agreements. i think it's linked to management on lner network driving trains on strike days, but we'll park that one. let's quickly move on to the pcs. the border staff , they're striking border staff, they're striking for 23 days from the end of this

month . they worry about changing month. they worry about changing changes in terms and conditions. that's been going for some time now. that strike action separate to that, we've got mick lynch now. he's not the same as mick whelan aslef mick lynch as the rmt. they're all called mick of course he's general secretaries but he's called mick lynch rmt. the rail maintenance union. he says not surprisingly, he wants the same deal for his members as aslef. rewind that. that's the 14% pay rise they got. and finally gps. they're looking for 11%. it comes on top of junior doctors getting 22% and public sector workers generally, millions of them getting 5.5%. who's going to pay for this? the tory party think it's not fair. and they do say that age, age uk point out the charity that we have got, the winter fuel payment has been removed from millions of pensioners. the choice being made here by the labour government. >> ding ding. all aboard the pay rise express and i'm joined now by gb news viewer and former train driver robert macmillan. robert, welcome to the show. so a noble profession. the driving of trains of course, are now

becoming very, very politicised. a lot of people saying 70 grand for a four day week, not bad. tell us why you believe train drivers deserve this pay rise . drivers deserve this pay rise. >> well good evening martin, firstly, i'm still a member of aslef in the retired section, and although we're not voting members, we still have our forums and meetings. the general secretary is an astute man. i value him and he still looks after me at this age , he has after me at this age, he has negotiated a good deal for his members. my take on it is always that pay settlements have to be reasonable. so they're not a four day week. if it's a four day week, it's because the contracted hours are worked. within four days. i think that's something which has to be explained to people. that's down to the management. as regards the lner dispute, management should either choose to manage or to drive trains. that's their

choice . choice. >> and don't you think it's fair to say, though , robert, some of to say, though, robert, some of this deal sticks in the craw a bit because it's backdated and we found out today that up to 2000 former drivers will be entitled to a pay rise, even though they no longer drive trains. that can't be right . trains. that can't be right. >> they would be entitled to it because they were still working dunng because they were still working during the period that the pay rises are going to cover, so they would therefore be entitled to that amount of rise for that period. there were several years when in fact , until this when in fact, until this settlement that train drivers didn't have a rise at all, i think the key to this current settlement is that the terms and conditions , which you might call conditions, which you might call spanish practices, the terms and conditions have been left alone , conditions have been left alone, certainly. i think that sundays need to be better covered. i didn't have compulsory sundays when i was working, but i had

committed sundays . so i when i was working, but i had committed sundays. so i think there needs to be, some a genuine effort to get the system moving again. i've suffered by not having the trains running. so has many other people. and we need to settle down and have a reliable railway system. >> okay. superb stuff. thank you very much for joining >> okay. superb stuff. thank you very much forjoining us. robert macmillan, former train driver and present day gb news viewer. so thank you very much for that. that's why i was a little bit easy on you now in her appearance on our very own choppers podcast, tory leadership candidate priti patel failed to apologise for record levels of migration during her time as home secretary. let's take a listen. >> of course, you were home secretary when immigration hit record levels. do you want to apologise for that? >> well, i think we have to look at context first of all. so and remember this 2019 election campaign , i was absolutely campaign, i was absolutely crystal clear. we as a party stood on a platform points based system, points based system . system, points based system. >> well, let's get some reaction

now to that astonishing interview i felt from the former home office minister, sirjohn hayes mp, who joins us now. sir john, welcome to the show. so that clip went out from chris hope on the farage show last night. i was chairing it and it raised a few eyebrows. a lot of people feel, sir john, that the conservative party got its backside kicked rather heavily at the general election because of precise things like astonishingly high levels of legal migration. and yet when that was put to priti patel, she refused to back down or apologise. in fact, was saying, well, that's just the way it is. do you think that's the right thing to do? or would that go down badly with conservative and perhaps even reform voters? >> well, i'm not going to i'm not going to start criticising priti patel or any other individual . priti patel or any other individual. but what's certainly true is that the last government didn't do enough to control legal migration. it ended with the outrage of net legal

migration to this country being over half a million in a year. now, no country can sustain that level of population growth purely from migration. >> and that was all about issuing too many visas for all kinds of things, all kinds of different visas, >> got out of control, >> got out of control, >> and as a result, we ended up with that situation. what that does, by the way, is several things. it displaces investment in their own workforce. >> it depresses wage levels. >> it depresses wage levels. >> it depresses wage levels. >> it puts immense pressure on pubuc >> it puts immense pressure on public services. everyone who comes needs a house. they need health treatment and all, and they use the roads. so of course, people who come to this country to work bring an economic benefit. everyone who comes also brings a cost. as i say, they use public services. they need housing and so on. so yes, i think the last government lost control of that, >> and as you suggest, the electorate were very disappointed by that. >> sirjohn, i'm also joined in

the studio by chris hope, who asked that question to priti patel. he's got a question for you now. >> hello, sir. john, i just wonder, i know you're backing robert jenrick for the leadership. what do you think your colleagues in parliament and party members might make of the lack of any kind of going towards an apology on allowing so many legal migrants to arrive here has caused so many political tensions in recent weeks. >> yeah. i'm not going to say start to criticise individuals. i mean , this was a collective i mean, this was a collective decision by government . i decision by government. i remember that when i was in government , i can well remember, government, i can well remember, david cameron saying that he wanted to reduce migration , but wanted to reduce migration, but every time he went to cabinet, there was always some special pleading. yeah. >> someone said, we need more construction workers. >> and someone else said, we need more nurses. need more i'iui'ses. >> need more nurses. >> and someone else said, we need more care workers. in the end, there were so many special cgses. >> cases. >> they all became special cases and migration as a result soared. >> so. >> so. >> so. >> so this is not about an individual, or an individual

having particular responsibility. >> this was a failure of successive governments, beginning with the blair government. the blair government opened the floodgates. of course , opened the floodgates. of course, and i think subsequent governments failed to close it with sufficient determination and vigour. so i would certainly want to cut legal migration as well as obviously dealing with the boats and illegal migration. >> so, john, i think you hit the nail on the head there. priti patel also said, well, we needed more nhs workers during the pandemic and then we needed more students because they brought money in justifying all of the things that a lot of voters felt very frustrated with. with that in mind, what level of immigration do you think would be acceptable? we talk about david cameron saying the tens of thousands people say, sing hosannas. if we've got anything approaching that. is that realistic ? realistic? >> what you need is a cap and what they do in australia, for example, is parliament votes annually on that cap. parliament comes to a decision. well what's

an appropriate level of migration? take into account some of the things you just said. there are, of course, occasions when we need people with skills to come to the country because we don't have them, but that's not an excuse for not skilling our own workers. we still have immense numbers of people on out of work benefits of working age, and some of those could be doing the jobs which are being done by people that were inviting to come to this country to do them . come to this country to do them. and so, yeah, let's have an annual cap. and let's debate that cap. according to need and give parliament a vote on it as they do, as i said in australia. >> okay. sir john they do, as i said in australia. >> okay. sirjohn hayes, thank you very much for joining us >> okay. sirjohn hayes, thank you very much forjoining us on you very much for joining us on the show. and also thank you to you, chris hope, an excellent interview with priya patel that's on chopper's podcast. you can catch it on the gb news website. please check it out. it's fantastic. now, as harry and meghan arrive in columbia, the duke of sussex hits out at the duke of sussex hits out at the spread of disinformation on social media following the uk riots. like he knows anything about social tension in working

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population are working from home in their pyjamas while watching loose women. the more sensible among us get the national express coach for long journeys. i certainly do. james, another james goes even further saying this labour has managed to please the lazy bone idle train drivers and given them even more of the taxpayers money. i don't think they call themselves lazy or bone idle to be fair, they've got a good pay deal here and on going to north korea. we had a story earlier on. we had simon calder, the travel legend, in about the fact that north korea is opening up to foreign tourists for the first time in five years. and he says, angela says this, why pay all that money to go to north korea, stay in this country instead, and enjoy all there is to offer in great britain and on the blood scandal issue, we had sue watson on earlier, she received infected blood in the 1980s,

didn't know for 20 years she was part of the public order team who fought so bravely and so valiantly for so long to get to resolution. she came into this studio set right here back in may, and was an incredibly emotional interview , and she emotional interview, and she says that at last, now people can start to move on. terry, however, says this the blood scandal pay outs of 40 years too late and back to the train strikes. this one's just in from dawn. it's so clear to me that two tier. sir keir starmer has now started a wave of obscene wage demands after robbing old age pensioners of their winter fuel payments. don't forget it's going to cost £10 billion for the public sector pay rises for nhs workers and teachers. the train strike pay rise is estimated at £100 million, half a billion for the junior doctors. and we could see the

same again if gp's get their way today. it came through that the gps have have rejected , have gps have have rejected, have rejected a 7.4. they want 11% of their pay rise . okay. and we've their pay rise. okay. and we've got another email here about taking the knee. and ashton says this. we should kick this spectacle out of the game. it divides the terraces in 2020. it may have been relevant, but now it no longer is. now quickly moving on. the duke and duchess of sussex are now in colombia as they begin their four day tour of the south american nation. now, according to reports, prince harry took a swipe at elon musk following the southport riots, saying what happens online transfers to the streets in minutes. well, i'm now joined down the line by the senior global reporter at the mailonline, nick pisa. nick, welcome to the show. always a pleasure to have you on. i understand that you're in colombia. they're keeping a close eye on this tour. tell us

how's it going? >> well behind me you can see the la giralda school, which i can tell you. >> about five minutes ago, harry and meghan left. they came here about an hour ago, and they spent some time with the students and the teachers here. >> the school actually won an award. it was named one of the best ten schools in the world and not for its education, but by the fact that it took a healthy lifestyle approach to the students and to the teachers. >> and harry and meghan were very keen to come here and see for themselves the lifestyle that the school encourages, the pupils and the teachers to take. >> and you may be able to see that the security is just winding down behind me. there are there were lots of police here, lots of soldiers, lots of police vans, drones overhead, keeping a watchful eye not only on harry and meghan, but also on the vice president, francia marquez, who has been the subject of numerous death threats and assassination attempts as well. >> i should actually tell you that when we came to this area this morning, about an hour and a half ago, the taxi driver did say to us, are you sure you're in the right area? because this, this part of town known as santa

fe in bogota, is actually described as a no go zone during the day. it's okay, but at night it is advisable not to come here. >> nick. that's an astonishing thing to hear. bearing in mind that earlier this week, prince harry said he didn't feel safe enough to go to his uncle's funeral in the united kingdom. and yet you point out they're a hotspot. in fact, colombia, the 18th most dangerous country on the planet. you're 22 times more likely to be killed in colombia than in the uk. and by the sounds of it, there , nick an sounds of it, there, nick an extensive security operation on the ground. >> oh, massively. massively. i mean, i don't know if you can see behind me, you can see the some of the favelas on the hill just behind me there is a sheer that you are struck by the amount of poverty in this area. i'm told that, well, as you probably know, in colombia, 1 in 3 people are on the poverty line and there are people homeless on the streets here. and this school. i'd say it stands out as a bit of a beacon in this area. but just to go back to your point, yes, the security has been absolutely astonishing. really on this trip, i counted at least 14 police cars and

police vans as part of the cavalcade that that came here with harry and meghan and the vice president. and as i say, they left about 15 minutes ago. now she's they're going to on a luncheon with the vice president in town. and then later on this afternoon, harry and meghan will see people from the team colombia of the invictus. sorry, the invictus team from colombia, which are competing in the games in canada next, next year. i should also say that all the venues i've noticed that they've chosen for the events that they're doing here in colombia on this four day visit, have all had underground car parks, underground bunkers. so they just are swept in and driven straight up to the venue and then you don't see them at all. there is no sort of as you would see maybe in the uk or on other royal tours, coming out and shaking hands with onlookers or well—wishers. there's nothing like that at all. it's just straight into the venue, straight into the venue, straight into the venue, straight in to meet the people there and then straight out again. >> and nick, can i briefly ask you, we've got about 30s. what's the reaction been like from the

colombian public towards the sussexes ? well, the few people sussexes? well, the few people that i've spoken to here this morning were they didn't actually know who they were. >> they were quite surprised, just wondering what all the security was about. so we had to explain to them who they, who they were and, and the history behind them, they , they they've behind them, they, they they've just barely nonplussed, really. they have other problems on their minds, far more so than their minds, far more so than the visitor of harry and meghan. in fact, the papers today , the in fact, the papers today, the papers today, there has not been that much coverage, of their visits. it's not as much as you would as you would expect. i think obviously they are being seen perhaps. maybe trying to cover up problems for the venezuelans. sorry the colombian government are facing themselves . government are facing themselves. >> superb. thank you very much. joining us there live report from bogota, colombia from nick pisa. excellent stuff. thank you very much. now costa del kim jong un, north korea is set to open its doors to tourists for the first time in five years. do you fancy a trip to the socialist utopia ? but first, socialist utopia? but first, it's your headlines with tatiana

sanchez. >> martin. thank you. the top stories 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 hospital with serious injuries, which are not thought to be life threatening . a teenage boy was threatening. a teenage boy was arrested by armed police during the incident last night. the victim has been named as chaplain paul murphy, who has released a statement thanking his friends for their support and assuring everyone that he'll be okay. 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 . meghan compensation scheme. meghan gallagher has resigned as

scottish conservative deputy leader. it's amid concerns over the alleged conduct of outgoing party leader douglas ross in relation to the general election, in a statement on x, miss gallagher said she was deeply troubled by reports in the telegraph that current leader mr ross allegedly asked tory candidate kathleen robertson if he could replace her in july last year. that is a claim he has denied. mr ross says he accepted her resignation with regret , says he accepted her resignation with regret, and an inquest into the death of a 13 year old girl with a severe dairy allergy has concluded. she died after drinking a costa coffee hot chocolate following a failure to follow the processes in place to discuss allergies . hannah jacobs discuss allergies. hannah jacobs died within hours of taking one sip of the drink in february last year , a post—mortem found last year, a post—mortem found hannah died after suffering from a hypersensitive anaphylactic reaction. a statement was read on behalf of hannah's mother this afternoon . this afternoon. >> she had a known allergy from a young age for her allergies were and took them very seriously . i were and took them very seriously. i have were and took them very seriously . i have always been

seriously. i have always been extremely diligent in managing hannah's allergies, and she has never suffered a serious allergic reaction prior to this incident , allergic reaction prior to this incident, hannah loved allergic reaction prior to this incident , hannah loved life. incident, hannah loved life. >> she was a vivacious, caring, affectionate , outspoken and affectionate, outspoken and energetic child with a strong sense of right and wrong. >> hannah had everything to live for and was so full of life and promise . promise. >> and those are the latest gb news headlines for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code , alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward alerts

>> welcome back. it's 539 on the final furlong i'm martin daubney on gb news now. an uncertain future for the oil and gas

sector is at the centre of a devastated housing market in the nonh devastated housing market in the north east. labour's pledge to stop granting oil and gas licences leaves many uncertain about their future in the industry. now to discuss this, i'm joined by the former snp for south scotland region , michelle south scotland region, michelle ballantyne. michelle, welcome to the show. so, lo and behold, if you to cease give out oil and gas licences, it has a measurable and tangible impact on local communities, none more so than what is happening around aberdeenshire. tell us more . aberdeenshire. tell us more. >> yes, i think what what is being missed here is that inevitably you're creating uncertainty. so oil and gas companies that are looking at scotland now in the north east and saying, well, the fields are mature, it's more difficult now to extract. it's more expensive to extract. it's more expensive to extract. it's more expensive to extract oil and gas from there . so they have to make there. so they have to make decisions. do they keep operating there or do they pull out and go somewhere where they will get better tax breaks, where they are more welcome and

where they are more welcome and where they are more welcome and where the fields are perhaps ficher where the fields are perhaps richer ? and when you do this, richer? and when you do this, inevitably you're going to lose a lot of high paid, skilled jobs and what a surprise it affects the housing market. aberdeen went through a massive boom with oil and gas. house prices were relatively high for the area, and now they're going to start falling and i don't think we've really seen it yet because there's that point where people have either got out or they've seen what's coming, they've sold their house. we haven't seen a huge dip, but it's coming and a lot of people who are sitting on their houses hoping they're going to get what they paid for them or hoping they're not going to be left in negative equity or out of pocket, are now going to be facing a pretty uncertain future. and the government is sacrificing them on the altar of the whole net zero question. >> and michelle, i come from a coal mining community. my dad was a miner. and what happened when the pits were closed ? those when the pits were closed? those areas never really recovered,

let alone house prices. there was no industry. the community started to crumble. do you think that that's what's happening here, as you said, this, this microcosm, this glimpse into a net zero future, it's just going to see communities that previously prospered and previously prospered and previously had social cohesion and purpose, and that wonderful sense of belonging simply going to be taken away because there is no underlying industry to pin it . it. >> absolutely. i mean, they reckon about 196,000 people are associated with the oil and gas industry in the north east. i mean, that's a lot of jobs. and these are highly skilled, well—paid jobs. and the talk of, oh, well, other things will come along . we all remember that it along. we all remember that it doesn't come along that quickly. and actually what you do is you not only draw away the industries, the industries go elsewhere, the skills go elsewhere, the skills go elsewhere, but the sort of things that come in take a long

time to establish. they take a long time to recover to the level that was there in the industry that was there. and sometimes they never, ever do . sometimes they never, ever do. and i think aberdeen is teetering now because actually what it's what is happening and this is probably the saddest thing is they are taking away what could be another 20 years worth of activity in the oil and gas industry. there isn't actually a need to remove it , actually a need to remove it, because what they're actually saying is we're going to stop it happening in aberdeen, and we're going to buy the oil and gas from somewhere else from a foreign country. we're going to transport it to britain, and then we're going to sell it for here whatever price the government or the industry from a foreign, foreign supplier offers. so so we really are being sacrificed . being sacrificed. >> okay. we have to leave it there. michelle ballantyne, thank you very much for joining us and sharing your experience there. thank you. always a pleasure. thank you. now campaigners are warning that pensioners face a cruel christmas freeze due to the

government's plans to scrap the winter fuel payments. and there are also warnings that the move will hit elderly people living in rural britain particularly hard, as they are more likely to be off the gas grid. now to discuss this further, i'm joined by the charity director of age uk, caroline abrahams. thank you very much for joining uk, caroline abrahams. thank you very much forjoining us on the very much for joining us on the show. caroline. a lot of people have been contacting here @gbnews saying as pensioners they feel completely abandoned by the government's priorities. caroline these priorities seem to be to take care of unions, of train drivers and the victims. the casualties in this have been pensioners, £4 billion worth of winter fuel allowance has been cut. tell us what. what are people telling you about this? across the uk ? across the uk? >> yeah. well good evening. >> yeah. well good evening. >> yes, we've been contacted by loads and loads of older people who are getting in touch by email and by phone to say how disgusted they are really with

the decision that the government's made. >> and also for those on lower incomes, really quite worried about what it's going to mean for them this winter and really at age uk, our position is that we accept that some people don't need their winter fuel payment and could forego it without really noticing it. if you're very well off, then that's the lucky position you're in. but there are, in our estimate, about 2 million older people living right across the uk , living right across the uk, including in rural areas, as you mentioned, who really do need that money and will badly miss it if it's not there, and who are at risk of missing out if the benefit is means tested and some people might say , well, how some people might say, well, how come? because surely means testing means that it goes to people who really need it. but that's not how it works in practice, unfortunately. >> and i could give you horrible detail about why that is, but the fact is that our estimate is 2 million people are in that position, and that's a real worry. >> and, you know, we'll all be hoping that it's just a mild winter. but if it's not, it's just around the corner and it's going to be very, very difficult

for lots and lots of pensioners. >> and caroline, you know , it's >> and caroline, you know, it's so upsetting to to, hear stories that, you know, we should be protecting our most vulnerable, our elderly, who've paid their pension, they've paid their tax, paid their stamp, all their lives. do people feel they're being abandoned and forgotten by this government? >> well , mostly what people this government? >> well, mostly what people are doing is just expressing surprise and concern that this change is happening. >> but of course, as you're as you're pointing out, there's also been some recent news about some industrial disputes being settled, some long standing ones and the expectation that some pubuc and the expectation that some public money is going to have to go into that. so it's true that some older people are putting those two decisions alongside each other and saying, well, hang on a minute, what does that mean about people thinking about us? and as i've said, i think some people can afford to give up the money. and of course, every year quite a lot of affluent people voluntarily give up the money and will no longer be able to do that. it's those people at the bottom really , and

people at the bottom really, and also people who are not very well and have to have the heating on up high who have really, really large energy bills. it's people like that that we're very, very worried about. and we do ask the government to think again , government to think again, because winter is just around the corner and we haven't got time to adjust and older people haven't got time to adjust. they're quite a big change in their finances. >> okay. thank you forjoining >> okay. thank you for joining us. caroline abrahams, the charity director of age uk. thank you. now coming up, would you ever go to north korea for your holidays? well, now you have that option as kim jong un has opened the borders to tourists. going to speak to legend who's been there.

welcome back. 10 to 6. the final. final furlong with me martin daubney now a potential new holiday destination, may be available to you this christmas because north korea is set to reopen the

mountainous city of samjiyon to foreign tourists in december. that's according to tour operators in china. now, this comes after nearly five years of border closures due to the covid pandemic. so would you travel to the hermit kingdom? well, let's get the thoughts now of the adventure travel blogger anthony middleton. and i believe you've already been to the socialist utopia . why? and what was it utopia. why? and what was it like ? like? >> it was everything that you would imagine in terms of the propaganda, the very heavy on the propaganda. >> it was tightly controlled . >> it was tightly controlled. >> it was tightly controlled. >> so i had an awareness that it wasn't the real north korea, if you like, but it was interesting in a, in a curious kind of way. >> and i don't think there's much different going now after, after covid with the new opening up, i think it's going to be exactly the same. >> and do you reckon they'll let any old person in, or will they allow people who say, for

example, may agree with their politics? i can't imagine, for example, that kim jong un would welcome somebody like me to go to north korea , to north korea, >> they would probably do a profile on yourself and see what you said beforehand, and you probably be in a bit of trouble, i should imagine, me being a travel blogger, i was a bit concerned that i might have said something. >> controversial before going. >> controversial before going. >> but i was lucky . that was >> but i was lucky. that was only concern that i had. but you might. you might be in a bit of trouble yourself. >> so ants tell us about. i mean, i read your travel blog on your adventure there. it sounds fantastic. just tell us quickly a few of the most amazing and wild and wonderful things that you saw in north korea , you saw in north korea, >> so, like i said, the propaganda is very big. it was very interesting for me who's been to the south korea demilitarised zone maybe four years before that, to see it from the other side and see what the soldiers were saying from their side of the story, from

their side of the story, from the korean war, which was obviously very different . i did obviously very different. i did see a big national parade that was one of the one of the former leader's birthday, when i was there. so it was a massive event and there was a giant synchronised dance that went on, and obviously everyone was dancing perfectly in unison, and that was very interesting to say the least. and yeah , i keep the least. and yeah, i keep using the word interest and in the back of my mind, i'm not stupid. i know what's going on behind closed doors, but a cunous behind closed doors, but a curious person who likes to travel a lot. i'm glad i went and of course answer what you shouldn't do is tell any jokes about the supreme holy leader, kim jong un. >> you might find yourself disappearing, but in a nutshell, would you recommend a trip to nonh would you recommend a trip to north korea ? north korea? >> if you want to? obviously, don't be naive and think that what you're seeing is how it is in in reality, know what you're

getting yourself into. obviously behave yourself. if you do go andifs behave yourself. if you do go and it's on you, it's on your , and it's on you, it's on your, you know, on your conscience. i probably wouldn't go, but i definitely wouldn't go back. actually and that's something that you're going to have to , that you're going to have to, make a decision yourself. but most importantly, behave yourself and you'll be fine. >> superb. well, you made it there. you made it out alive. well done. there's no chance of me going, particularly after making that little comment there about his supreme highness kim jong un. now, thanks forjoining jong un. now, thanks for joining this week. it's been fantastic. i'll be back at 3 pm. on monday. have a fantastic weekend now dewbs& co next. but now your weather with alex deakin . weather with alex deakin. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. >> good afternoon. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news.

the weekend well continues what most of us are seeing today. dry for many sunny spells and temperatures about close to average, which means it will feel pretty pleasant in the sunshine which many of us are seeing this afternoon. there is quite a bit of cloud around, but generally it's dry and we're seeing sunny spells. main exception to that northern scotland, where it is gusty and blustery. there are quite a few showers coming in here, a few showers coming in here, a few showers also drifting across northern ireland through the evening and overnight also, but further south. the winds are pretty light. clear skies, quite a bit cooler. quite a bit fresher than many nights have been. particularly across the east. so a cool but bright start to saturday. there will be quite a bit of cloud again over western scotland, and we are looking at more showers coming in over the highlands and the western isles, but they should tend to zip through. they should be pretty light. any showers through the central belt won't last long and there will be some spells of sunshine. the odd shower also zipping through across northern ireland. maybe northwest england too, but again, they won't last long. they'll move through most places just having a fine bright sunny

start to saturday as we go through the morning, some more clouds will bubble up in the sky, so it's not going to be one of those crystal clear blue sky days. there will be some clouds coming and going, but most places will still hang on to decent spells of sunshine . apart decent spells of sunshine. apart from the odd shower lingering over the northern isles, most places will also stay dry. still quite breezy in the north. not a day to be going up into the mountains of scotland unless you've got plenty of layers on it will be quite fresh, but in the south and the sunshine temperatures low 20s, maybe mid 20s across the southeast. still quite blustery across the northwest during sunday and still a few showers coming in over the highlands, the western isles and the northern isles. but most other places across southern scotland southwards, dry and fine, with decent spells of sunshine on sunday and again temperatures mostly in the high teens across the north. low 20s further south. enjoy your weekend! bye for now . weekend! bye for now. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on

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