not been damaged painting, have not been damaged and all the public are safe. after the fire ripped through the roof of the historic building earlier, somerset house will remain closed until further nofice will remain closed until further notice as an investigation into the fire that damaged the roof is conducted . in ireland, a is conducted. in ireland, a teenage boy has appeared in court charged over the stabbing of an army chaplain outside renmore barracks. a 16 year old renmore barracks. a16 year old boy, who cannot be named due to his age, has been remanded in custody. gb news home and security editor mark white has more. >> this short court hearing gave us the firmest indication yet of an apparent terrorist motivation to this attack. outside the irish army barracks on thursday evening. the suspect, a 16 year old boy, according to the court , old boy, according to the court, appeared to have a radical islamist mindset and possessed material linked to the islamic state terror group. the victim , state terror group. the victim, father paul murphy, was returning to the barracks in his car when he was confronted and

stabbed multiple times. security cameras recorded 20 separate stabbing movements. he suffered multiple deep lacerations . the multiple deep lacerations. the teenager has been remanded back into custody in scotland. >> a member of the snp has been kicked out of the party for comments about the israel—hamas war, described as utterly abhorrent. john mason has been accused of flippantly dismissing the deaths of more than 40,000 palestinians. the msp has been stripped of the party whip following the social media post. party officials will now meet to discuss a fixed time period of suspension. in other news, it's reported the former newsreader huw edwards is now accused of sexually assaulting a 27 year old man in a west end club after sending explicit text messages. this follows earlier revelations that the 62 year old admitted receiving child sex images and videos. the alleged victim claims edwards, who continued

despite being asked to stop, was a brazenly aggressive and got off on the risk of getting caught. it's also alleged in the daily mail and the sun newspaper, the former bbc star threatened to kill anyone who looked at the man, whom he described as his possession , and described as his possession, and anyone travelling to an african country affected by a new strain of m—pox is being urged to get vaccinated. fresh advice has been issued by the european centre for disease and prevention and control after the virus emerged in the congo. more than 500 people have died on the continent so far this year. sweden has recorded its first case while pakistan is trying to establish whether a person there is infected . those are the is infected. those are the latest gb news headlines for now, i'm sophia wenzler more in 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 .

gbnews.com forward slash alerts. >> good evening. hope you're well at home. it's been six weeks since labour took government while pledging to end the small boats crisis. but tonight i can exclusively reveal that after another bumper load of small boat channel crossings today, more than 5500 illegal migrants have now arrived in britain since keir starmer's government swept to power on july the 4th. at least nine small boats made the perilous journey across the channel today, containing 450 undocumented migrants from the continent and beyond. the grim total for the year so far is 19,000. let's be clear we've no idea who these people are, where they came from, or what their intentions are. while in britain. so keir starmer, our prime minister, promised to smash the gangs by setting up a border command unit. he scrapped the rwanda plan. he's allowed 100,000 illegal migrants to

apply for asylum, and his deputy, angela rayner, has warned brits that every borough in the uk must take their fair share of illegal migrants in their communities. this is a national emergency. the safety of our nation is at risk , and of our nation is at risk, and failure to get a grip of this crisis is only encouraging. even more death and horror in the channel. tonight i ask, does the government care.7 does sir keir starmer care.7 is anyone listening? the starmer care? is anyone listening? the country needs answers. let's cross live now to gb news home and security editor mark white, who's been keeping tabs on today's grim milestone. mark, this is a rather chilling a chilling development. i guess, since labour took over. they promised to smash the gangs. they scrapped rwanda. there's been nothing to replace it. and now today we hit 5500 and 19,000 for the year. what's going on with our country, mark? >> yes. sadly, it's not an

unexpected development, if anything. actually, there are probably a slightly fewer coming across than we would have expected now that we're in the height of summer. but there have been some days where it's been a bit windy in the channel, including this week. so i was in dover earlier in the week on the cliff top there reporting on another milestone that 5000 migrants had crossed the channel illegally since labour came to power . and then we had 2 or 3 power. and then we had 2 or 3 days of windy weather. and it's only now this weekend that things have calmed down enough to allow more boats to come. and sure enough, we heard just after 11:00 this morning, the border force vessel rhiannon ranger coming in with 50 odd migrants. it returned again with another 40 migrants. then the border force vessel defender was in as well, with 135 migrants on board and so it continued throughout

the day with our, producer down in dover estimating that at least nine small boats came into uk waters carrying more than 450 people, taking the total for the year to now more than 19,000. and of course, that milestone as well to 5500 since labour came to power, promising to smash the gangs, they scrapped the rwanda deal on the first day in office. it was, according to sir keir starmer, a gimmick. instead, what he wants to do is go after the people smugglers . but that's the people smugglers. but that's going to take some time. they haven't even managed to appoint a new senior officer in charge of this new border security command. and that's what, over six weeks since labour came to power . so they've got some way power. so they've got some way to go to achieve this goal of supposedly smashing the gangs. and while they don't do that, then all of the time when the weather improves, we'll get boat

after boat load . coming to the after boat load. coming to the uk, mark is this a national security risk? >> how does it present itself when it comes to the safety of our country and the great british public? >> it's undoubtedly a national security risk. security sources have told me in the past that they are very concerned that individuals with extremist links have undoubtedly crossed the engush have undoubtedly crossed the english channel. some they know about , others that they don't about, others that they don't know about. and of course, add to that the process of throwing identity documents into the engush identity documents into the english channel as they're told to do by the people smuggling gangs. it makes identifying those individuals that much more difficult. and then just add the security concerns around the general tension that it's bringing to the nation. now, the government, those in authority, don't like to talk about this and wake in the wake of the riots that we've seen. but there

is a correlation. there is a tension in communities right across the country by mass migration. but in particular by the illegal immigration across the illegal immigration across the channel, by those then claiming asylum and being housed in hundreds of hotels right across the country. there is barely a community in the country that hasn't seen a local hotel requisitioned by the home office for use by migrants, and that brings with it tensions. and until that's properly addressed , those tensions are addressed, those tensions are not going to be alleviated. >> yeah, of course. and angela raynen >> yeah, of course. and angela rayner, as i mentioned, saying that every borough in the uk will be taking their fair share of migrants, whether they like it or not, just briefly. and finally, mark, i'm not sure if you know the answer to this question, but do you have any idea on the demographics or the profile of the 400 odd people who arrived today ? who arrived today? >> i can almost certainly tell you that at least 85% of them will be young males, because thatis will be young males, because that is the pattern we've had

since 2018. since this crisis began, in terms of countries where they are from iran and syria and iraq and afghanistan, increasingly some from vietnam and china. but those main countries that are listed before those countries where it's deemed too dangerous to actually return these people to, is where most come from . most come from. >> okay. mark white, our home and security editor. thank you very much for that rather chilling update. thank you. let's get the thoughts now of my panel tonight. writer and broadcaster nina myskow, former newspaper editor neil wallace, and the journalist and broadcaster aidan magee. good evening to you all. bear with me whilst i jog myself over here. nina, let's start with you. it feels to me like. well, it's a fact, actually. gb news is the only mainstream broadcaster or media entity that seems to be following this national crisis so intently. we have someone down in dover day in and day

out, monitoring the crossings, counting how many people are there. why does it feel like nobody else cares about this? >> everybody cares about the situation. everybody cares about it. but some people aren't doing it. but some people aren't doing it in such an inflammatory manner. not everyone who comes to our shores is an economic migrant or a terrorist. they are . migrant or a terrorist. they are. they are. many of them are refugees because . refugees because. >> hang on a minute. are you saying are you saying anything? i said then was inflammatory. >> i think that the fact that that that you keep you keep hyping it up, that these people could be dangerous, you know, that that makes it seems like we're being flooded with people who are, going to be of a danger to people in this country. the fact of the matter, you said the 500 people arrived today. that doesn't surprise me in the least. the weather's fabulous. if you'd said to me in the middle of winter that it was, you know, where there's where there's storms and snow falling, that there were 500, then i'd think, well, does that make it okay then? >> just because the sun's out,

it doesn't make it. >> you know, everybody understands this is a big problem. it's not just a big national problem. it's a big international problem and should be treated as such. but you cannot berate keir starmer. six weeks down the track when he's been very busy for not having done anything. i'm sorry you cannot berate him. you cannot. the thing is, you cannot just suddenly set up an entire system. >> he rebranded this existing unit of the border force command and put some some bows and whistles on it. and then he's not even hired a boss for it. they want more . they want more. >> presumably they want to. listen, let me just let me just before we go, any further, i don't vote labour. i didn't vote laboun don't vote labour. i didn't vote labour. so although i'm thrilled that the tories are out and keir starmer, a grown up, is in, i am not an apologist for keir starmer. >> the grown ups are in. >> the grown ups are in. >> i absolutely do say that. well, i think you'd call keir starmer a grown up. he's boring enough to be a grown up. so you know, why not. yeah. >> okay, neil, what do you make of this. and nina's saying that it's not right to suggest that any of these people could be a potential risk to the public safety. i'm not saying any of these people. >> i'm saying you're implying

that all of them are. no i didn't. well, you imply that a great majority of them, you were saying they're all, let's let's just be a bit realistic about that. >> that guy mark white is a brilliant reporter. i've known him for years. i've followed him for years. yeah. one of the vital things he said in that broadcast is 85% of those who are landed today, as there were yesterday and the day before, and the day before were young men . they are not fleeing men. they are not fleeing families. they are not people with a long history of persecution. many of them will come from countries that have nothing to do with great britain. now we have historic ties with all variety of countries around the world. most of these migrants are not. these illegal migrants are not from this country. and what we're not missing here is so easy to say. you're being inflammatory . the you're being inflammatory. the problem is that those people who

were absolutely wrong to riot. absolutely. it's quite right that they get sent to jail for 5 or 6 years. totally agree with all of that. but you know what? nobody's listening to them. keir starmer made all this fuss about this. it was one of his five big pledges. my big border unit. i'm going to have it ready to go bang. but six. nina. nina, he's six weeks and he's no. but that's nonsense with respect. nonsense with respect. can i just finish ? go ahead. the point just finish? go ahead. the point is , he has had an open track to is, he has had an open track to government for months. so the woman, sue gray, who was his right hand man, as it were , right hand man, as it were, right, he's had in place for almost a year. so if this is one of your big things, what you do is you put these people in place, you line them up ready to come. and he's not done it because all keir starmer ever doesis because all keir starmer ever does is talk for headlines. and he doesn't do anything.

>> so it's a problem. everybody knows his pay rises. >> this is this is a side. this is a side problem anyway 5000 doesn't touch the sides. i mean you're talking of net migration. now of 685,000 people now most of them will end up not working. and i'll give you an example. i actually have direct contact. yeah, i think i think two thirds, two thirds, two thirds will end up not working. we don't we don't know what they're going to be doing. also legal migration also. yeah legal legal migration also. yeah legal legal migration is what i'm talking about. yeah. also i rent a lot of these people right by the tory government. i'll give you. yeah, absolutely. absolutely. i completely agree with you. completely agree with you. the students come to me, they bring their families over. i'll give you one example. i've got one guy you one example. i've got one guy who rents off me. he's claiming universal credit of £435 a month because he can't afford, through his deliveroo job, to pay his wages. so yes. okay. these big, these big multinational companies are getting away with paying. they're paying their staff a pittance , but it's the state who pittance, but it's the state who are paying me to house them . are paying me to house them. >> aidan, am i being inflammatory by suggesting some of these people 85%, as mark

white alluded to, of fighting age males, young, fit, strapping men coming to britain? am i being inflammatory? >> i don't, i don't, i don't i don't think you're being by the way, let me make clear. >> but, nina, before you chime in, throwing their passports in the water, throwing their mobile phonesin the water, throwing their mobile phones in the water, not knowing who they are, that would that i understand all of that. >> but saying that 85. you're implying that 85% are potential terrorists? that's what you're saying , isn't it? no. saying, isn't it? no. >> young, strapping men. he's not saying that. no, he's not saying that. what he is saying is we don't know what they are. now, i, i'm quite happy for people to enter this country. if i say i check them out, i look at them, i say, yeah, i want them into my house. but what the problem is, is they are coming here pretending to be one thing and being something else. now, actually, aidan touched on something very, very important here, legal migration, which incidentally, the tory government did a huge clampdown

on in the last year. most of that set it up themselves. >> they did. >> they did. >> they did set it up. they did. it was boris johnson who encouraged the students. yeah. >> he said he also neil neil, he's the real guy was a guy called tony blair who, if you remember, threw open all the borders. but he also he also made it only 12,000 people would come to the country. >> it's two. it's the same. it's the same crisis. but it's slightly two different strands of illegal migration. everybody's cocked up over the past. well, since tony blair it was tens of thousands. negative. sometimes pre blair. and now it's the hundreds of thousands. it's a joke. but my issue tonight is these hundreds daily almost of undocumented men coming to britain. it's a security risk. i mean ijust don't understand how you can't be a little bit concerned that we don't know who they are or where they're going. >> of course i am concerned. everybody is concerned . but you everybody is concerned. but you cannot talk about these people because you're you're othering them. >> you're making how would you like us to describe them? you can talk, you can talk. >> you can call them migrants. you can talk. you can talk to them, you know, because they're not migrants. >> they're illegal migrants. well, they are they are here

illegally. >> and i don't think you're being inflammatory are legal through the in the international law, they are legally allowed to travel through safe countries to the country that they want to go to, to go to france, go stay in belgium. >> they want to go to now, look, in 2019, how many boats came? how many people came across in boats? do you know that in 19? >> probably not as many thousand. >> yeah. under 2000. 1850. so this is all happened on the conservative watch and since brexit you keep trying to blame the tories . the tories. >> i have no love for the tories. are you saying as if it's dig, dig at me. i don't care about the tories. >> brexit since brexit because we have you have to be able to return people. we need a system where people can be processed in other countries, processed in their own country, processed in france. oh rwanda was indeed a gimmick. it was an absolute joke andifs gimmick. it was an absolute joke and it's costing 727 aidan magee. >> well , the other countries, >> well, the other countries, the eu itself is now exploring that with african countries.

>> the italy in particular is forging the way, trying to find safe third countries. they're simply following a way to deal with an intractable problem . with an intractable problem. >> i don't i don't think you're being i don't think you're being inflammatory, ben. but also you cannot expect any prime minister whether he has the will or not to do anything in six weeks. it's just not realistic. >> okay. good stuff. thank you. panel. we'll be back shortly, the home office have said tonight the new government is taking steps to boost our border security, setting up a new border security command, which will bring together our intelligence and enforcement agencies equipped with new counter—terror style powers and hundreds of personnel stationed in the uk and overseas to smash the criminal gangs making millions in profit. great stuff. hope you get a move on. coming up, prissy patel is fighting kemi badenoch james cleverly robert jenrick mel stride and of course, tom tugendhat to be crowned the next conservative leader. but has she just blown it with that rather tone deaf answer on immigration? we'll play answer on immigration? we'll play that full clip shortly. also tonight, harry and meghan's

immense security detail in colombia revealed helicopters, drones , 14 police cars and drones, 14 police cars and a flurry of vans. the question begs who is paying for it all? but up next, more on our gb news exclusive on the migrant crisis with boris johnson's former immigration minister kevin foster and kevin is going to go head to head with nina on this debate as well. this is ben tonight only on news. back in a

tick. welcome back. this is ben leo tonight only on gb news. it's time now for our head to head . time now for our head to head. and let's start first by speaking with former tory immigration minister kevin foster, who served under boris johnson's government. kevin good evening. thanks for joining johnson's government. kevin good evening. thanks forjoining me. what do you make of this? gb news exclusive tonight? the grim milestone actually that 5500 small boat arrivals have arrived in britain since labour took

power, 19,000 so far this year and 400 odd today alone. what do you make of this ? you make of this? >> well, sadly, it's not a surprise. ben it's. and i suspect it will get a lot worse as the summer continues. you know, you see what labour did when they first day one. they abolished the rwanda scheme, which was the option for removal to a safe third country of those arriving via small boat who could not be sent for various reasons back to their country of origin, or the safe and democratic country they've just left, i.e. france , because of left, i.e. france, because of a refusal to accept returns there and secondly, you know, talking about effective, you know, fast processing better words, you know, fancy words for rubber stamping a lot of approvals. it's not a surprise that people think it would be worthwhile getting in a boat and crossing the channel. >> okay, kevin, i'm not going to let you off the hook of course, bofis let you off the hook of course, boris johnson was in power between 2019 and 2022. what have you got to say for yourself and your party and your government in your contribution to this

mess? >> well, i think what we'd say, ben, is first we saw the emergence of these small boats, and partly there was crackdowns on other ways of coming in to the uk. secondly, we started to look for innovative solutions. and that's partly where the issues around rwanda came up, because you have this , this because you have this, this dilemma of what do you do with those you turn down or those who've come in some cases actually had lawful status, actually had lawful status, actually living in the european union or a european union country came to the uk to then claim asylum, but the country they've left won't take them back. the country of origin is a country, shall we say, for example, syria or eritrea, a country that will refuse to accept returns, or a country where clearly we are very unlikely to get a hearing from the regime there about what we do. and we based it very much at learning from greece and australia . now we face all sorts australia. now we face all sorts of barriers in our way to doing so. but that was the drive we had and you can see some of the

some of the impacts. for example, the albania arrangement, which we give credit where due to robert jenrick for the work that he did on that one under rishi sunak administration, where we could get a deal with the country of origin, we could fast process and get people back to their home country. and of course that's the key. where do you send people? because if you turn people down, but you've got no route of return or nowhere to actually send them, then inevitably you end up stuck with them. >> kevin, i'll just ask you about the tory leadership race in one second. but you just mentioned you looked at greece and australia. australia, of course, physically turned the boats back. they put migrants in humane lifeboat style vessels. they turned them back to offshore processing sites and tony abbott won election overnight. and do you know what the small boats stopped. so if you say that your government at the time looked at australia, why didn't you just try and enact that? >> well, certainly in terms of the australian territorial waters, they have a slight advantage of the fact that there is international waters between them and some of the countries that were the source, whereas of

course, in the channel there is no gap between uk and french territorial waters. and france was always very clear it would not, under any circumstances, allow us to turn boats back, i.e. to play them into their waters. but even then that still isn't the core of it. the core is. you could actually have a with a returns agreement, you know, mr macron may 1st day want to rethink whether the chaos he sees in the pas de calais is really a good outcome for french french citizens because of this ability to cross the channel. but certainly it was things we looked at, although it is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the busiest shipping lanes in the world, what we actually really needed to look at is where could we return people? once you've picked them up in the sea, what can you what can you do with them? the ideal scenario would be a returns agreement with france, but given the constant non to that idea , the constant non to that idea, the constant non to that idea, the alternative was then look at third countries in exactly the same scenario as australia, with some of the countries that it wanted to return people to who would refuse. and as part of a wider approach, because it's not just about the third processing. australia similarly changed its

law and we also looked at greece with things like accommodation centres, where again, not just put, you know , housing people put, you know, housing people in, for example, hotels moving towards accommodation. so it's a whole system approach. it's not just one thing that solved the australian problem. as you say, tony abbott got strong support for it. >> okay. let's bring in writer and broadcaster nina myskow now to debate you on this. kevin kevin nina reckons i'm being inflammatory for even raising the point that we don't know who these people are and they are potentially dangerous. the question is, are they dangerous? am i being inflammatory by raising this point? >> yeah, i think you're right, ben, to point out the cohort who arrives via small boats, if you then compare them to the cohort that arrives via resettlement routes or for example, the ukrainian roots, for example, ukrainian roots, for example, ukrainian roots, for example, ukrainian roots were mostly dominated by women and children are resettlement routes are mostly dominated by families . mostly dominated by families. small boats, as you pointed out, are mostly dominated by single men aged 18 to 40. a very

different cohort of people. and where you would say , where you would say, particularly given they've come through a number of safe countries , i'm more looking for countries, i'm more looking for the economic opportunity of coming to the united kingdom rather than being able to apply for asylum just somewhere safe i.e. what would be wrong with applying for asylum in france if that was your main concern? >> nina, i think i'm right, kevin, in saying that, when the ukrainian situation happened, you suggested via a tweet that they should apply under the seasonal workers visas rather than we should take them in as refugees. i mean, that caused such a fuss that you took that down, but it goes to showing your humanity in these situations for families, for people to come here from ukraine, which that was i was just going to say that goes towards your humanity, which people must have in a situation like this . of course it's of like this. of course it's of course it's a terrible situation. and there are always going to be economic migrants, but there are ways of dealing with this. and hopefully keir

starmer is setting up a system. you need to have people processed in other countries rather than have them desperate to come here. you need to be able to process them once they get here quickly. and in fact , get here quickly. and in fact, kevin, i assume that you're part of a home office, which is which quite frankly wasn't fit for purpose. and the backlog of people building up was ridiculous. it just was so inefficient. there was just no room. and as for the rwanda scheme, it was complete pie in the sky because as far as i understand it, there were never any more than 300 hotel rooms and once you got the first plane load off the ground, if you'd got the first plane road off the ground and filled those rooms, and then what would happen that wouldn't deal with the thousands? >> it was meant to be a deterrent, nina, was it not? kevin? well, yeah. >> well, first, the prospect of it initially had an impact. secondly, it wasn't going to be cut just at 300. at 300, there would have been the prospect to do to do more. of course, initially you work with any country in terms of a deal. and

as we say, we've seen the australian experience with nauru in terms of the impact that's had on their numbers. and again, you know, we have to have a position that if you just fast process someone well, but you've got nowhere to remove someone to who you refuse. well, you know, we all know what comes next. and as for somewhat, mr starmer says, you know, the smash the gangsis says, you know, the smash the gangs is a sound bite. it's not a real solution. well, how do you know this? >> how do you how do you know that, kevin? how do you know that? that if you think it's possible to smash the gangs have been doing nothing on this area? no, i understand that, but it's not been a cohesive, coordinated effort and quite frankly, quite frankly, since brexit, since brexit, our relationship with europe is not conducive to them cooperating with us and certainly france. boris johnson's relationship with the french was was just ridiculous. there was no way they were going to help us and if you know that any after any divorce law enforcement people will go at each other. >> it's still as strong as it's ever been. it's in it's in our mutual interests to work in

terms of shared intelligence. >> and i think we've been well, i'm not responsible for the trends for the transition arrangements and working closely with our teams and the home office to do that. >> but, you know, what about i'm not really sure what the difference is between a small a border security command and a small boats operational command, which hopefully you'll have somebody more efficient. >> i was going to say brexit also meant that the dublin agreement, which allowed us to remove people, to, to the country from where they came once brexit happened, that was not part of the deal. so that again, brexit screwed that up . again, brexit screwed that up. >> the dublin protocols didn't allow you to bring them back to their original home country. in theory, you could take them back to the country where they first entered the eu. but given you couldn't do returns to key entry countries like greece and italy, that rather made it somewhat because no one was going to come to the eu into austria for example. >> we're fast running out of time, unfortunately. can i ask you something? would you take this 400 odd people who came today, the illegal migrants into dover? would you take a couple

of them in your house? >> i don't have a house. i have a flat. it is a one bedroom flat. okay. with a small balcony. and there is no room for anybody else. if somebody wants to perch in a window box, they're perfectly welcome. >> okay, so if you had a if you had a spare bedroom or two, you'd be happy to take in an unknown 20 year old male. you don't know who he is, where he's from, what his name is. >> you'd be happy with that situation. pardon? completely hypothetical situation. i have noidea hypothetical situation. i have no idea if i had a bigger house. if i were. >> it seems strange that you're so. you're so happy to accuse me of being inflammatory by raising concern that we don't know who these people are yet, you're not so quick to answer whether you'd have one in your house if you had space. >> i, as i say, i have no room in my flat. but if you if you did have space and that's not the same thing. and i am very aware that a lot of what has happenedin aware that a lot of what has happened in this country in the last month has been exacerbated by inflammatory language, and i think we should all be very careful of the words that we choose and the way we use them, because i've been i've been very polite and moderate tonight.

>> i've merely raised the latest influx of unknown undocumented men coming to britain. people have a right to know who these people are . they have a right to people are. they have a right to raise their concerns. they have a right to raise their fears without being called racist or far right thugs or any of that. but kevin foster, thank you for joining us tonight. nina myskow, thank you as well. you'll be back soon with the panel. right. that was spicy coming up. priti patel is fighting kemi badenoch james cleverly robert jenrick mel stride and tom tugendhat to be crowned the next conservative leader. do any of those guys take your pick ? but has she just take your pick? but has she just blown it with that rather tone deaf answer on immigration to our political editor, christopher hope? that full clip coming shortly, but next, harry and meghan's immense security detail in colombia revealed helicopters, drones, 14 police cars and a flurry of vans to boot. cars and a flurry of vans to boot . so who's paying for it boot. so who's paying for it all? nick peiser, the senior global reporter at the man online, is the ground in for us next. he's live. this is ben leo

tick. welcome back to ben leo. tonight only on gb news. i was about to say we're going to cross to bogota in colombia to speak with the mayor, don lie—ins, senior global reporter on the harry and meghan faux royal tour. but apparently nick's been, i don't know, kidnapped by some cartels or something because he's having some trouble connecting with us. so we're going to go back to our panel now. nina, neil and aidan magee. and we're just going to talk about harry and meghan. apparently reports today say that in colombia, they're being protected by a so—called ring of steel. so we've got drones, we've got helicopters, a convoy of 14 cars and vans . apparently of 14 cars and vans. apparently the government and the police deployed armoured vehicles as well, while armed officers and soldiers patrolled the roads too. so first of all, nina, who is paying for this, do you reckon? it seems like a cushy pr job for colombia. >> well, it's not. it's not the british taxpayer. put it that way. >> thank goodness for that. >> thank goodness for that. >> hurrah! >> hurrah! >> i would imagine that the

colombian government is paying for it. i mean, this is sort of the security that they must be accustomed to south america. i mean, just i'm not being flippant, but but many, many years ago, in 1981, i went to, argentina at the invitation of freddie mercury when the queen played their first gigs. >> and when we arrived, freddie mercury invited you to argentina? yes. were you friends with him? >> yes. >> yes. >> what was he like? i mean, we should do a whole new segment on this bombshell revelation. >> no, no, he was he was lovely. he was very, very shy. he was very, very shy, man. i was known as the queen of pop on the sun. that was my job. i you know, i went around the world talking to rock stars. so anyway, i went, i went to south america, at freddie's invitation. and when we landed, the airport shut down every announcement, and it played only queen music. so people must have been, you know, missing their flights. anyway, when we came out of the airport, we were guarded. this is you know, by this convoy of motorcycle and great big trucks with sort of holes out the side

with sort of holes out the side with guns poking through. so this is south america. and so i would imagine it's not very much different in colombia. decades later , i think they were later, i think they were thinking of shooting uni. >> yes, but this is the significant point of all this really, isn't it? >> why are they there? what connection has britain got, particularly with colombia and don't forget, prince harry refuses to bring his children to meet their grandfather, king charles, because he says the security, the lack of security here means it's too dangerous to come here. and yet, there he is in colombia. and of course, let's not forget that colombia has been riven by a vicious civil war for years , and there civil war for years, and there was an attempt to settle it several years ago. but there is a rising tide of, extreme left wing agrarian revolution going on there. but they've chosen to go there now. what could it be? could it be all the headlines?

could it be all the headlines? could it be all the tv footage? could it be all the tv footage? could it be them simply , yet could it be them simply, yet again, trying to force their way, their faces onto the british newspapers? >> neil, that's the last thing they want. they don't want to be. they hate that. that's why privacy and privacy , megan. privacy and privacy, megan. that's why meghan won't come here. >> nina. are you. i'm sorry to ask. are you. are you being sarcastic there or are you joking? >> that's what i was wondering. i was wondering that actually. >> are you being serious? >> are you being serious? >> no, i'm not being serious. >> no, i'm not being serious. >> i of course, of course i am. being. you are being serious. >> i am being serious. this is. this is ridiculous. but you know, you know you you're saying that you know, why would why would they go there? you know, british don't go. you know, harry is not a part of the british royal family in britain . british royal family in britain. >> it's a huge it's a having his own way. >> there . and if he wasn't, you know. >> but why is he doing. >> but why is he doing. >> it's a huge deflection tactic on behalf of the government and the vice president there. let's face it. i mean, she's under threat. she's under pressure. there because she's flying by helicopter everywhere. she's being i mean, she's to be fair,

she has been a target of assassinations all the rest of it. although that's what that's what they say. we have no way of kind of verifying that. but look, i think it probably works well for both parties. it shows the shows the government in a good light. look who we're pressing the flesh with. and if theyif pressing the flesh with. and if they if harry and meghan are serious about advancing their projects, that they're meant to be meant to be mindful of and concerned about, then i think that, you know, maybe it suits their end as well. it's all good pr that's all it could amount to. >> yeah, just a pr stunt. >> yeah, just a pr stunt. >> well, i find it rather ironic. they're talking about misinformation online and the truth online. i mean, you're not going to listen to people who, in the oprah winfrey interview, committed or told. at least you know, 12 lies about it's not true. >> that is not true. 12 tell me, tell me the 12 lies, then. >> well, off the top of my head, they said that they were three. >> it was three years ago. >> it was three years ago. >> they said they were married in the days. in a private ceremony before their wedding. they said archie was denied a title because of his race. absolute bs. >> they didn't say that. they didn't say. they said. they didn't say. they said. they didn't say. they said. they didn't say. he was denied a title because of his race. they

what they did say was that a member of the royal family had asked about the colour. >> no, that's a separate that's a separate that's a separate thing. >> speculated about the colour of his skin. >> they were two separate incidents, but that's just pure mischief making. >> surely i mean, if you're going to go through that, surely you have to give us a bit of a leaning as to who or give us an idea as to who said that. >> well, well, because they were protecting them. >> because they're protecting them. >> they they they protect they didn't come out with the names, the names. >> why say it at all? >> why say it at all? >> the names? >> the names? >> why say it at all? >> why say it at all? >> so. well, because quite a shock. quite a shocking thing. if you're if you're a woman and you're pregnant, you're being pressurised on all sides. you're having problems, you know, with with your emotional well—being and somebody speculates about the colour of the child that you're about to produce. if true , you're about to produce. if true, i think we all remember that . i think we all remember that. >> do you do you remember that phase phrase? wonderful phrase. i think it was the queen's recollections. may differ. >> oh, you know, didn't it come out later? >> i've just googled some because i couldn't remember. off

the top of my head, they all said meghan said she had her passport taken away, which was nonsense because she went to new york for that 500 k baby shower, she said that she wasn't. her mental health woes were ignored, which was nonsense. >> that's not that. >> that's not that. >> you have no idea whether it's nonsense or not. you have absolutely no idea what she was. >> of course, what's always important to remember this. they tried to parallel princess diana , tried to parallel princess diana, who was a sweet, naive country girl. meghan markle was a tv star from america who had been previously married. she wasn't some naive kid coming into this. nobody. it's a nonsense, she saw an opportunity. >> she saw an opportunity to him, didn't she? >> why are you. we've got to move on. >> vilified. >> vilified. >> he was filling her boots. she wasn't naive because meghan, before she even met harry, went to london to meet the showbiz editor of the mail on sunday on a kensington rooftop rooftop bar begged for a column inch in the showbiz spread just an inch linking her with ashley cole. >> and then, years later, she says to itv's tom bradby, oh,

i'm so not, you know, i didn't know what the british tabloids were anyway. coming up, jimmy savile jimmy savile, jonathan king, stuart hall, chris denning, rolf harris and now grim new allegations tonight, again against the bbc's huw edwards. just what is going on at the corporation. but next, who's your pick for the next conservative leader has pretty blown her chances after that interview with chopper. i'll play interview with chopper. i'll play you that full clip in just a sec. and by the way, beyond your pick for tory do you even are the tories relevant

welcome back to ben leo. tonight the first of tomorrow's newspaper front pages are dropping imminently. newspaper front pages are dropping imminently . but first, dropping imminently. but first, the tory leadership race is well underway. but former home secretary priti patel dropped jaws in an exclusive interview with gb news political editor christopher hope. after seemingly shrugging off the tories dire record on immigration net migration has gone up 2 million over four

years. >> you don't want to say that was too much. i mean, many would say it is too much, but you can put context to it and i think it's too lazy. >> if i may say so. i think it's really quite sloppy to just go around, you know, the merry go round on this in the sense that students we shut down, don't forget, during the pandemic, our borders were effectively closed. there was no travel. what about all those international students? they came in after the pandemic? are we saying that they should not have come into they should not have come into the country? so what their families there, didn't they? >> on your watch, the system? >> on your watch, the system? >> actually, no , no. you have to >> actually, no, no. you have to again, which students brought their families . look at the their families. look at the categories and the criteria. i do think, you know, put the facts and the context around this. and one final point to make points based system the brightest and the best. i was the one that put a skills criteria to it. you don't come to our country through the points based system unless you're sponsored, unless you're paying you're sponsored, unless you're paying thousands of pounds for your visa, the immigration health surcharge, and your sponsored. these are people that come here and work and contribute to our country and

our tax base. >> well, there we go. well, that comes as a damning ipsos poll showed 3 in 5 brits don't care who becomes the next tory leader, laying bare a high level of public apathy over the party's latest leadership battle. priti patel, of course, is fighting kemi badenoch. james cleverly , robert jenrick mel cleverly, robert jenrick mel stride and tom tugendhat to be crowned the next conservative leader. but has she just blown it with that rather tone deaf answer on immigration? joining me now is former adviser to michael gove. charlie rowley. good evening charlie. good evening. your presence this evening. your presence this evening. thank you for having me. first of all, when was the last time you spoke to your old boss, michael gove, not that long ago. >> he actually. the last time we spoke, he messaged me when i was on this channel to say, very well done. in fact, he followed me on and we had a nice chat down the line. >> have you asked him who he wants to be the next leader of your party? >> i haven't and i wouldn't ask because he will, i'm sure, make up his own mind just as we all would. >> okay , well if you were going

>> okay, well if you were going to punt on it, who would he be going for? i mean, he was a massive kemi backer before, wasn't he? >> i think he supported kemi in the last leadership. but, who knows, i will, i will try and get in touch with him and try and get you an answer. >> okay. a very political answer. i can see you've learned from the best there from your old boss. but on the topic of priti patel, did she blow it there with that answer? because lots of the tory base online, lots of the tory base online, lots of the tory base online, lots of our viewers are saying, pretty surprisingly just doesn't get it. like lots of your tory cohorts. she doesn't get it. why not just say, even if you believe that, why not just say, yeah, we got it wrong. we broke our election promises, i've got a plan for the future. but she just seemed to say it wasn't a problem. you know, who cares? >> well, i think, in answering that question for pretty, you know, you need to be absolutely clear. and there was a little bit of confusion there. but because overall, the tory party after election after election manifesto manifesto has pledged to bring the numbers of migration down into this country that clearly hasn't happened. now, there are reasons for that. and a lot of what priti was saying is part of the reason.

so, you know, you can choose to exclude students from those migration numbers. what she didn't mention there is obviously the influx of people coming from ukraine, which is absolutely right. >> but there is even without hong kong and ukraine, they'd still be. >> exactly, exactly. so there is the context that priti was talking about. but fundamentally you've got to grip the issue, which is to say, yes, we got it wrong. the numbers were far too high. there's a reason why those numbers did creep up. but she was right to articulate when she was right to articulate when she was home secretary, bringing in the points based system to make sure that you have the brightest and the best that come into this country. >> but she she didn't say we got it wrong. so did she make a mistake by not doing that? >> well, i think it's going to be very difficult for a four of the six contenders, actually, because two of them were former home secretaries. that's pretty. and james cleverly at two out of the four, the remaining two, tom tugendhat and robert jenrick, immigration minister and security minister, both in the home office. so they would have had a conversation about all things going on in the home office. so they've all got to be able to justify what their what the issues were or sorry, what went wrong in the past, why

those numbers didn't come down, what their plan is for the future and how they're going to bnng future and how they're going to bring those numbers down. >> okay, one one word answer. who's your pick for the leader? >> i'm currently undecided. i'm undecided. undecided undecided. >> all right. former adviser to michael gove. charlie rowley. thank you very much. nice to see you.thank thank you very much. nice to see you. thank you. coming up, the first of tomorrow's newspaper front pages are on the way imminently. the panel are riled and ready to get stuck in. and there's five people, including medics, were arrested over the death of actor matthew perry. what does it say about hollywood's drug culture? and of course, the latest revelations on bbc presenter huw edwards. stay with us. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news >> hello there. welcome to your latest gb news. weather forecast over the next 24 hours, high pressure largely holding on across the uk, keeping it fairly dry and settled. a few showers still in the flow and we can see that on the bigger picture. generally low pressure to the

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revealed in the last hour that more than 5500 small boat arrivals have now landed in britain under our new labour government. does anyone care? do they care? are they listening ? they care? are they listening? also, as five people, including medics, are arrested over the death of beloved actor matthew perry? what does it say about hollywood's drug culture? and could taylor swift save the uk economy? kinsey schofield joins us live from los angeles. i'll have all of the first newspaper front pages hot off the press, and my panel are riled and ready to get stuck in. writer and broadcaster nina myskow and former newspaper editor neil wallis and journalist and commentator aidan magee. and how much would you pay for a bacon sarnie porridge and a cup of . coffee? the huw edwards saga takes another dark turn .

another dark turn. next. >> good evening. i'm sophia wenzler from the gb newsroom at 10:00. your top story this hour. a 7.2 magnitude earthquake has struck off the east coast of russia's kamchatka peninsula with a tsunami warning in place. the quake struck at 8:10 pm. uk time, and it could be felt 100km from the epicentre. that's according to the us geological survey. the us national tsunami warning centre has said there's a tsunami threat for russian coastal towns from the quake . a coastal towns from the quake. a fire at somerset house in central london has been contained after around 125 firefighters were called to tackle the blaze . priceless tackle the blaze. priceless artworks, including a van gogh painting, have not been damaged and all public are safe. after the fire ripped through the roof of the historic building earlier, somerset house will

remain closed until further nofice remain closed until further notice as an investigation into the fire that damaged the roof is conducted . in ireland, a is conducted. in ireland, a teenage boy has appeared in court charged over the stabbing of an army chaplain outside renmore barracks. a 16 year old boy, who cannot be named due to his age, has been remanded in custody. gb news home and security editor, mark white, has more . more. >> this short court hearing gave us the firmest indication yet of an apparent terrorist motivation to this attack outside the irish army barracks on thursday evening. the suspect, a 16 year old boy, according to the court , old boy, according to the court, appeared to have a radical islamist mindset and possessed material linked to the islamic state terror group. the victim , state terror group. the victim, father paul murphy, was returning to the barracks in his car when he was confronted and stabbed multiple times. security cameras recorded 20 separate stabbing movements. he suffered multiple deep lacerations. the

teenager has been remanded back into custody and it's reported that former newsreader huw edwards is now accused of sexually assaulting a 27 year old man in a west end club after sending explicit text messages. >> this follows earlier revelations that the 62 year old admitted receiving child sex images and videos. the alleged victim claims elle edwards, who continued despite being asked to stop , was brazenly aggressive stop, was brazenly aggressive and got off on the risk of getting caught. it's also alleged in the daily mail and the sun newspaper, the former bbc star threatened to kill anyone who looked at the man whom he described as his possession. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm sophia wenzler more in an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gb news. >> com forward slash alerts .

>> com forward slash alerts. >> com forward slash alerts. >> the huw edwards scandal has deepened tonight, and it begs the question how this man was ever allowed to run riot under the bbc's watch. it's now been reported the disgraced former beeb star allegedly sexually assaulted a 27 year old man in the toilets of a posh club after sending him sordid text messages. it's alleged edwards, 62, met up with a man behind his wife's back before groping him in a west end member's club. the man, aged 27 at the time, told the daily mail one of the most shocking things was how brazenly aggressive he was. i think he got off on the fact that he was a powerful figure, and that he could get away with grabbing me in the toilets like that before the meeting. edwards allegedly bragged, you're getting assaulted in the ivy. i'm so effing horny, it's indecent. edwards, who pled guilty to accessing a litany of vile child sex abuse images this month, also said he felt, quote , very

also said he felt, quote, very possessive about the 27 year old warning he would kill anyone who looks at him. the alleged victim described the encounter as overwhelmingly predatory and said he broke off contact with edwards shortly afterwards. so look, the edwards scandal is the latest in a long line of paedophile sagas dating back decades to have marred the bbc's reputation. jimmy savile, jonathan king, stuart hall, chris denning, rolf harris and now again tonight, huw edwards. has the bbc got a problem? let's get the thoughts of my panel tonight. writer and broadcaster nina myskow, former newspaper editor and media consultant neil wallis, and journalist and commentator aidan magee neil. i'll start with you as the former fleet street man. nina you, of course, the queen of fleet street. neil. what do you make of this? has the bbc got problem? >> i think they've got a particular kind of problem. which is that they worship their stars and their stars can do

whatever they like , and so they whatever they like, and so they protect them at all costs. that goes , those stars know that. and goes, those stars know that. and because they are the face of the biggest media organisation in britain, arguably the world, 156 million reached worldwide, i believe the bbc, it's huge, absolutely enormous. so it, it makes them feel very powerful. and they are. and eventually they start believing they can walk on water. and the truth is, they can walk on water. that utany they can walk on water. that litany of names you just read out, how did all of those people get away with it so long? and how did this one and incidentally, this is an interesting story today. this will not be the only instance like this. there will be many more, because people who behave like that do not actually do it as a one off. >> hang on a minute. so you

think there's more potential predators in the bbc? >> no. no more stories about. there will be more stories about huw edwards that are exactly like that. do i believe there's other predators at the bbc? i think there are people who've abused their position at the bbc. >> yes. it's not dissimilar to sport if you're in football. neil. no he covered sport in in his papers down the years and it often footballers crept onto the news pages . if you're delivering news pages. if you're delivering results on the pitch you'll be amazed what you can be forgiven for. and it's not just a bbc problem. we've all worked in organisations where the people at the top are delivering, they're performing well, and so their excesses that we might put it in inverted commas, are just tolerated. that little bit more, in fact, in a big way. and also you have a series of acolytes around them. they're feeding off the fame of that particular individual. they know the key to their success is hanging on their success is hanging on their coattails. we see it all their coattails. we see it all the time. there's a chain of command. there's a hierarchy, and you have to absorb yourself in that to get to the top, and people will do whatever they can. it's a brave person, ben, to stick their neck on the line

when you're down there and say, this is wrong because, you know, if you unless you're really stupid that you're going to be out the door pretty quickly. and that's how that's how the whole culture proliferates. >> well, in the bbc's defence, of course, they say they didn't know what huw edwards was up to. of course they would never have known. and they're now trying to claw back not just the £200,000 he was paid in licence fee cash between november and april when he was arrested. but of course, this £300,000 a year pension that he's going to be getting. tim davie has said he'll be getting that pension regardless of whether he's banged up for ten years or not, because they can't do anything about it. >> i think that's completely wrong. and to be fair to the bbc, although why should be, i don't know, idea. itv also worshipped their stars. anybody who makes them money yes, is a golden goose and they. >> i think it's the same in most organisations. exactly. >> but the thing is, and also we're talking about jimmy savile. he fooled not only the bbc, he fooled margaret thatcher, he fooled the royal prince charles. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> so he fooled everybody. so

it's not just let's go for the bbc because they are particularly susceptible to this. these these men are particularly good at, you know, they're manipulators. >> they're not sure. that's the man i wanted to be looking at on a saturday night with his. >> i've met him and savile. yes, i met him. he was just. i thought he was just totally creepy. i just didn't. >> yeah, i met him, too. >> just creepy. >> just creepy. >> but so many people say that their experiences of savile were akin to yours. louis theroux said that he knew at some point he was a wrong'un. loads of other people have. i don't know, he was wrong. >> i just thought he was a creepy. >> it's hindsight though. it's hindsight though as well. you know you don't necessarily you can put yourself in that position and say, oh yeah, i had my suspicions. but did you really? i'm not. i'm not sure. >> well, i think there's the truth in that. i think you can meet people and are uncomfortable because they're uncomfortable because they're uncomfortable people and then years later, maybe a story like savile will come out and you think, that makes sense. you know, people, people just make you feel uncomfortable. >> i interviewed rolf harris once.i

>> i interviewed rolf harris once. i sat down with him for an houn once. i sat down with him for an hour, and i have to say, i didn't feel any kind of, oh, god, this man's a predator of any kind or . well, there was any kind or. well, there was nothing at all remote. they need to have some charm about them. >> if they're going to get people to do things, they don't want to do. >> an enormous charm. and i once sat next to him at a charity dinner. i think it was wife. the other side, and felt there was nothing untoward about him, apparently. >> vanessa feltz, as far as i remember, said that she felt something was slightly off with rolf harris at one point. oh. but, you know, as you said in hindsight, it's a wonderful course it is, and i just wonder, you know, the bbc, of course, they've said that they had no idea this was going on under huw edwards. but you know, if more of this happens in the coming years at the bbc, do we need some sort of inquiry or, you know, because this is essentially taxpayer money funding this organisation and their track record thus far isn't good. >> the problem is that, you know, we've all worked in office situations and people start to get a bit of a reputation if

they're creepy and there's something untoward about them. the problem with big organisations and big stars in big organisations is there is a fear, as aidan quite rightly mentioned , there is a to culture mentioned, there is a to culture protect them and excuse them and to be fearful of rocking the boat. to be fearful of rocking the boat . you hear you hear it all boat. you hear you hear it all the time. you read about it in law firms you've seen it in who was it? the a major figure in mcdonald's, wasn't it in america? had to resign because it turned out he was having affairs with junior employees in affairs with junior employees in a position of that person. >> at the bottom, you're tossing away your career because if you're asking the person in the overarching position of the organisation to make a choice between somebody down here or someone up there, we both know who they're going to go for. >> we all know they're going to go for and the thing is, it starts kind of gradually, because when, you know, when the career takes off and somebody is a success, you know, and if they

have little foibles, like they only want, you know, certain makeup artists, certain makeup artists, or they only want somebody to be managers , you somebody to be managers, you know, coffee in this particular mug, little tiny. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. and then it gets bigger and bigger. and so that everything that they want demanding that that's going to make them perform to, to make the company money is, is tolerated somehow short obviously if people. but i wonder how many people at the bbc must have known of huw edwards proclivities that that he was, you know, more interested in young men than than his wife? >> well, i have i've spoken to people who worked closely with huw edwards as recently as this week, and they said it was always obvious that he liked young men. but as far as the paedophilia aspect is concerned, no, they had no idea. >> but it was, interesting that when this story started to break, there's a very i give you a very brave presenter at the bbc called victoria derbyshire, who pursued on newsnight, of which she was the main presenter, and she knew of

incidents and she pursued that story, was one of the reporters because they had heard the rumours, they had heard the undercurrents and they were able to follow it and they put together actually a very important piece of television journalism that helped bring him down and helped expose him eventually. >> but that's the difference, though, isn't it? it took somebody on long sort of a line to him or his kind of level in the organisation to bring him down. nobody at the bottom is going to do that. >> i remember that it was in the early days when the sun was still kind of drip feeding information. they couldn't maybe get past the legalities of the story. so they were doing things sort of half baked, getting in a bit of a tangle for it. and then of course, victoria derbyshire did the piece on newsnight. i think it was about the reports or complaints from a young staff member, young staff members to. yeah. and i've got to say props again. i've said it before on this channel in recent weeks. props to the sun for their reporting. props to victoria derbyshire. >> victoria derbyshire takes courage. >> she she she is so strong and

she was treated badly by the bbc before the before the pandemic. her show, her morning show was dumped and she was pretty much washed up, as it were. come the pandemic. they brought her back and she was an absolute stalwart. >> and you know what? in the face of a absolute litany of lefty supporters, jon sopel, other people, owen jones saying whatever happens behind closed doors is up to up to huw edwards. it doesn't matter. this is something about nothing. and actually they've been left with 999 actually they've been left with egg on their face, their judgement of characters and your earlier point was 100% right and i praise you for it. >> the sun showed immensely immense courage in the current media atmosphere in the current media atmosphere in the current media ecosystem. if you like to have the courage to pursue the story and not let it go, and to face up all of the barrage of big bbc figures, big media figures trying to damage their story and beat them down and they wouldn't give in and full praise to them.

>> yep, it's the sun wot won it. there you go, nina. neil. aidan, thank you very much. we'll be back with us very shortly with the first of tomorrow's newspaper front pages. they'll be on the way at 10:30. and also coming up. we'll bring you tonight's greatest britain and union jack. but next, as five people, including medics, are arrested over the death of beloved actor matthew perry, what does it say about hollywood's drug culture? and could taylor swift save the uk economy? kinsey schofield joins us live from los angeles. this is bel—air tonight only on gb news. back in a t.

welcome back to bernalillo . welcome back to bernalillo. tonight it's time for us news now with the showbiz and royal reporter kinsey schofield. this week, five people have been charged for their involvement in the drug related death of friends star matthew perry. the actor died in la last october. a post—mortem examination found a

high concentration of horse tranquilliser ketamine in his blood. police say a criminal network took advantage of his addiction issues. kinsey. good evening. good morning. good afternoon. i think it is where you are. what does this say about hollywood's drug culture? >> i mean, i think that unfortunately, it's hasn't changed since we lost michael jackson. you know, you look at michael jackson's death, his accidental overdose in 2009, it was ruled a homicide because the drugs were administered by his personal physician , doctor personal physician, doctor conrad murray, at the time, to help jackson sleep. he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and sent to prison for four years. and now we have two out of the five charged in matthew perry's death. medical doctors. this is being described as an underground ring because two of those physicians were forging prescriptions and swapping meds. then we had someone named the ketamine queen who deals with only high profile celebrity clients and uses her

home in north hollywood to store, package and redistribute narcotics. there was a middleman arrested, and then perry's personal assistant and unlike the jackson case, it was perry's personal assistant of 25 years who gave him that deadly dose of ketamine, one of three injections that day. >> wow . yeah, that is >> wow. yeah, that is astonishing. it did remind me of michael jackson's case. i'm a massive jacko fan and yeah, had some memories, so in terms of matthew perry, i don't agree with this, but some people are saying, look, he was a multi—millionaire hollywood star. surely he should be taking responsibility for his own actions . why is everyone else actions. why is everyone else getting the blame? he is the one who ultimately decided to sniff or inject the ketamine. however he did it, it wasn't. >> yeah, he was injected. >> yeah, he was injected. >> i think that he i mean, he was also telling us he was soben was also telling us he was sober. so at the time of his death, a lot of people like myself were hesitant to say this could be a drug overdose . we could be a drug overdose. we were very concerned about our language. i will tell you that

matthew perry's stepfather, his name is keith morrison, and he has been a dateline correspondent, which is a crime investigation program beyond popular here in the states . for popular here in the states. for as long as i've been alive , as long as i've been alive, probably keith has been very close to law enforcement. and if i'm being honest with you, i know a lot of people are looking at this saying he's getting special treatment because he's a celebrity, but i also think he's getting special treatment because of his, you know, stepfather. and i understand law enforcement has worked very closely with his stepfather, keith, for many years now. and i think that they did this as in an effort to bring him some peace and his family some peace . peace and his family some peace. >> kinsey, i don't know if you saw this clip doing the rounds onune saw this clip doing the rounds online in the wake of matthew's death, but he was it was a clip of matthew talking about one of his favourite quotes from fellow hollywood starjim carrey. actually who said, i pray and i for hope everybody to one day achieve their dreams and, you know, make as much money as they

can and achieve whatever they want to achieve because they'll realise soon afterwards that it doesn't solve any of the pain inside. it doesn't solve your problems. and matthew perry was sat there saying, you know, i had untold amounts of money. i had untold amounts of money. i had the best life ever. but i still had these internal problems which none of that could solve. >> well, it also doesn't buy you very good friends, ben, because his personal assistant of 25 years, you know, i imagine if somebody around you that long, wouldn't you want to trust and hope that they have your best interest at heart? and we know that this is the individual that gave him that last dose that ultimately killed him, and he has copped a plea deal. so he is going to work with prosecutors to ensure that the two that have pled not guilty , have a very pled not guilty, have a very tough case against them. but money does not buy you happiness. and it does not buy you good friends. >> indeed. have we heard anything from matthew's friends co—stars, jennifer aniston or anyone like that? >> not yet. i imagine that they're going to be very careful

with how they speak about this, until maybe we see these people taken to court in october because they don't want to be accused of swaying a jury or a decision maker in any way , shape decision maker in any way, shape or form. >> okay, sad news. we'll keep a keen eye on that. should we move over to taylor swift? she's, of course, in the uk at the moment. on her eras tour. she's at wembley. i think she concludes maybe tomorrow night for dates here. apparently she's giving us a pretty decent boost to the uk economy. do you reckon that she actually has that much of an impact economically in the countries that she goes to? >> i think she does. >> i think she does. >> i think she does. >> i mean, i know that we considered her a superstar here in the states when the heiress tour was, was here. and then, when she loses places like over terror threats, you see these people, i mean, thousands of people, i mean, thousands of people take to the streets devastated over it. singing her songs. i mean, taylor is all of

these people are buying costumes, not only tickets, they're buying costumes, they're buying crazy costumes. they're buying crazy costumes. they're buying friendship bracelets, they're buying diy friendship bracelets. she is a force. all of her own, you know, financially, i also think just culturally. and it's a great time to see her right now because some of the ticket pnces because some of the ticket prices have dropped as drastically as 90%. when i was there, when prince william was there, when prince william was there, they were over £700 a seat. right now they're about £400 a seat. so if you can afford it, she's going to put on afford it, she's going to put on a great show. i take advantage of it. >> that's the kind of figure i pay >> that's the kind of figure i pay for arsenal tickets these days. look, i don't know if you're a swiftie kinsey, but i've always said, look, i respect her for doing her thing and hustling and being a success, but i just. i don't get it. can you explain to me what her x factor is? why so many people love and adore her? >> well, i can tell you i'm more of a swiftie when she's not talking politics. i'm much more into her when she isn't getting

political. i think it's that she's a girl's girl. the music she's a girl's girl. the music she writes, you can relate to, i've cried over. i can give you the names of the men i've cried over to some of her songs, specific songs. and i just think she's she's ambitious. she's a hard worker, and she shows you that if you work really hard, your dreams can come true. and she's done it. she's, you know, she's done it. she's, you know, she's not kim kardashian. and you know what i mean when i say that she's done it in an ethical way, and she's done it through hard work and legitimate talent. and i think that that is something to be admired. >> yeah. you mentioned her. her sometimes wading in on politics. of course, donald trump actually right now as we speak, is talking to supporters in pennsylvania. and that is the state where he was shot last month and arguably nearly died. i mean , can you imagine the i mean, can you imagine the state of the world now? there we are, live pictures from pennsylvania, where donald trump is speaking at a rally. it's the first time, as i said, he's returned to that state since the assassination attempt this week. he's kind of pushed back against his advisers and even people

like nikki haley who have said, you need to stop the attacks on kamala harris, you need to stop questioning her race, whether she's black or not. you need to stop calling her dumb. and it does feel that he's potentially fumbling the ball in the last quarter here. i mean, he was untouchable after that assassination attempt, but kinsey, he's come out tonight or last night and said, i'm going to carry on doing what i'm doing. is he wise to be going against his advisers? >> yeah. i mean, he says they want me to be nice, but they're not being nice to me. they want me. they want to put me in prison, trump's strength is to focus on the economy and how the cost of living was much more comfortable under a trump administration. we weren't at war with anyone. and our borders, you know, they were much better protected under the trump administration . i do think trump administration. i do think kamala is fair game. and when i was tuning in and watching this a few minutes ago, he was tearing into her time magazine coven he tearing into her time magazine cover. he has to be careful. i don't think he should fixate on the personal attacks, but i do think if he focuses on numbers

and money and how our groceries and money and how our groceries and gas, i think that that's a much more beneficial to his campaign. >> yeah. i mean, look, i'm not a political mastermind, but as i said, he was literally untouchable in the days after that assassination attempt. and he could have even if he didn't believe it. i argue he could have just said, you know what, guys? it's really humbled me. i'm going to i'm going to work for all of america. i'm going to unite everyone and just kind of blag it for 2 or 3 months until the election. but you know, donald being donald, he's just ploughed on ahead, just very quick answer to this. who's going to win in november? kinsey. >> oh my gosh, you know what. it's i don't know i don't know l, it's i don't know i don't know i, i taylor swift of course. >> of course. kinsey schofield live from la. thank you for joining me tonight. i really appreciate it. as always. thank you. coming up, how much would you. coming up, how much would you pay you. coming up, how much would you pay for a bacon sarnie a cup of porridge and a coffee? i'll tell you the full reason for that question in just a tick. i'll also bring you tonight's greatest britain and union jack shortly. but next, a first look

at sunday's newspaper front pages, and panel are riled ready to get stuck in. this

tick. ben leo tonight only on gb news. time now for the first of tomorrow's front pages . let's tomorrow's front pages. let's start with the independent patients face crisis. shortages of vital nhs medication. the health service issues warning over the supplies of nine key drugs for treatments such as schizophrenia, bipolar, adhd etc. etc. the mail on sunday £14 billion bill for care's shabby union cave in his capitulation to his union paymasters. the full bill has been revealed and the sunday express. how many shops will freeze this winter? rachel reeves has buried a report apparently revealing the devastating impact of axing winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners. i really like this story panel. nina.

neil. aiden. welcome back. £14 billion bill for care's shabby union cave in. so apparently the pay union cave in. so apparently the pay rises to junior doctors, the train drivers gps are coming next. probably radiographers and paramedics, whoever else. it's christmas, isn't it? for public sector pay workers £14 billion. >> nina myskow, >> nina myskow, >> the how can you call a payment a pay rise to a doctor, to a teacher ? shabby. to a teacher? shabby. >> it depends if they're worth it, but they are. >> the thing is. but these. but. but the pay rises that the teachers and are getting are from the pay advisory boards. they're the same. this is an independent board that said this is what they should get. now why have these? >> i'd love to know how many how many teachers are on the pay advisory board. oh, for heaven's sake. >> look, you know, you cannot be clapping for nurses and doctors dunng clapping for nurses and doctors during a pandemic. and then suddenly say they're they're evil, you know, horned union.

whatever. >> i don't think anyone's saying they're evil, though, are they? >> no, but grasping on something, they they everybody deserves a decent wage for a decent day's pay- decent wage for a decent day's pay. we've had an economic crisis. we've had rampant inflation. people need to be paid fairly . and keir starmer paid fairly. and keir starmer has come in as far as i understand it, to wipe the slate to, to start things to on a good bafis to, to start things to on a good basis , to build from there. and basis, to build from there. and if you, if you, if you're going to have continuing strikes, continuing , whingeing, he's been continuing, whingeing, he's been accused he's been accused tonight, keir starmer, of treating the taxpayer like a cash machine. >> oh that's ridiculous. >> oh that's ridiculous. >> this is the male typical. >> this is the male typical. >> but do you not do you not see. sorry. go on. sorry. go on. no, i was going to say. do you not think that it sets a bad precedent? as soon as you give out that money to one organisation, another one comes back and it sends a message out there that striking works. i

thought we got away from that at the end of the 70s. >> hang on, hang on, nina. other people please. of course. so what? we. one of the first things that happened when the government announced that it was going to give the 14% pay rise to aslef, that's going to take them from an average of 60,000 a year to 69,000 a year. immediately. what happened was that the other rail unions came in and said, well, we want the same. now, what you've triggered here, what he has triggered here is the classic domino effect. so you hang on, nina, hang on. so you've got a situation where the, the junior doctors who are on an average of it doesn't matter what that minimum is, it's a token. the average pay of a junior doctor is in the 80 odd thousand. they're being given 20%. now, what does that say to the rest of the people in the economy? it says, get on this gravy train and that's where this 14 billion. and the point

being , nina, this 14 billion. and the point being, nina, what you have to understand is they have ruled out all the ways that you can raise a lot of money in tax, all the big tax revenues. they've already said in the general election they will not raise. so they're going to come after pensioners one or the other. pay papers here, pensioners. the winter fuel payments. and i'm lucky i get it. but i can afford i can afford not to have it, but i can afford not to have it, but i know, i know pensioners who can't afford to pay and they're going to come after people like you, my friend. >> landlords, people with investments, with properties, capital gains tax is probably in october going to be hiked up to. >> yeah, it will. >> yeah, it will. >> it will be tax. >> it will be tax. >> it will be tax. >> i think it will cause stagnation in the market because it means that people like me are less likely to sell. >> i mean, are you happy with that? >> it's not a pressing concern for me right now because i have no plans to sell anything. but you never know anything. you could be. >> just reflects the total, the total envy.

>> but if rachel reeves says there's a 20, she needs to raise £20 million. it's not me. not the mail. sorry. billion rachel reeves says she needs to raise £20 billion. you tell me, nina, where is she going to get it from? >> i have no idea. >> i have no idea. >> i'm not an economist. >> i'm not an economist. >> it's going to. but let's wait. let's wait. so you can't possibly say it's fine? >> no, i'm not saying you don't know. >> i'm not saying you don't. you don't say that in your own. >> so you don't know whether i think it's fine or not to say, i think it's fine or not to say, i think it's fine or not to say, i think it is. it is the only thing that can happen after these 14 years where the tories have raped and pillaged their way through the country, they have stripped this country out, filling their own pockets and the pockets of their cronies . the pockets of their cronies. instead of running the country for the sake and the good of the people who live here. >> well hang on, labour have just been accused of hiring a was it a civil servant who was previously one of their big donors? two. so you can't if you're going to be funded by russians, by god knows who else.

no they're not. who give an example funded by russians. >> oh, listen, what about which russian? >> lebedev. what about. has he not donated money to the conservative party? >> he was a tory donor. >> he was a tory donor. >> i mean, he doesn't give money to the government. >> well, he was a conservative party donor. >> what government was in power? it was the tory government. wasn't it just on labour. >> all these trade unions who are getting 14 billion. >> all of them . not all of them. >> all of them. not all of them. >> all of them. not all of them. >> aslef granted 100 grand, didn't they? >> 180,000. >> 180,000. >> do the nurses deserve a pay rise ? rise? >> do the nurses deserve a pay rise? well it depends at what level you start to look at. >> the thing is, you deserve a pay >> the thing is, you deserve a pay rise. >> do doctors deserve a pay rise? >> but we're talking 20%. >> but we're talking 20%. >> we're talking. we're talking 20% here. and if we're talking 20%, £30,000 a year. >> so not nurses, no doctors. >> you mentioned doctors. >> you mentioned doctors. >> how about train drivers and how £69,000 a year? let's take let's take. are they poor? >> let's take the case. are they

poor? >> let's take the case of the train drivers then. okay. are you happy to get on a train dnven you happy to get on a train driven by some 23 year old who's hung over and had. well, they probably do. >> probably happens anyway. probably happens anyway . no. probably happens anyway. no. just look. >> responsible job that takes a lot of training. >> not poor neither. 20%. a 20% increase. look i don't know. i don't know if you get. i don't know anyone who gets a 20% increase without getting a promotion to just have that slapped on the end of your salary. i do think it's uncomfortable for taxpayers. i really do. >> why would you get on a plane that was that was piloted by an amateur? but it happened. >> probably happened. no one says as an amateur, though, is it? >> are you saying you need to get a certain standard of person to drive a train? >> but we're not talking about bringing new people into it. it's existing ones. >> being honest, i'm not sure about a hung over train drivers 23 years old standard would happen anyway. a refugees are welcome protest at a refugees are welcome protest . some of are welcome protest. some of those attending. i asked this a similar question to you , nina.

similar question to you, nina. actually some of those attending were asked if they would house a refugee. this is what they said. >> i just noticed your placard saying refugees welcome it. i'm just wondering if you'd like to go down on a list saying you're willing to take the refugees into your home because, the only problem is i rent. you rent? yeah. maybe an issue. >> yeah , because they've got. >> yeah, because they've got. >> yeah, because they've got. >> well, well, if i had any space, i would had any space. >> it wouldn't be a nice place to bring them because it's a bit overcrowded. >> right. yes >> right. yes >> sorry. >> sorry. >> rental. yeah. yeah. you can't do it. yeah someone else's job. yeah. yeah. no, i'm sorry, i can't. you can't take one i don't have, i don't have, i don't have, i don't have, i don't have the space i oh there we go. >> when push comes to shove would you take a migrant in your home. >> well, i offer you a famous person who stood up with her husband and said. we will take refugees in our home. her name is yvette cooper, who happens to be the home secretary. and she and her husband, who ? what was and her husband, who? what was he called? ed? balls. balls. balls? who was one of the big brownite brownite brown

government cabinet ministers. they said we will take refugees in our home. gosh, it never happened. >> fancy other people do. but the thing is, whether you would take a refugee in your own home, whether you have space or not, is irrelevant. no it's not. refugees should be processed, put to work, pay taxes, pay their own way. >> so where should they? where should they go? if not in your home? where should they be? where should they live? >> what they live in a flat or there aren't any? >> there's brits who don't have accommodation. >> well, that's why we need to build more . more houses. build more. more houses. >> okay, but can't we build more houses? >> let me, let me just let me just get this out with so there aren't houses. there's a critical housing houses. >> there are there are enough houses just to squeeze people in. there are enough houses. >> what kind of life or nation is that? just cramming bodies into homes? >> because the last government had . i take >> because the last government had. i take this >> because the last government had . i take this back to my had. i take this back to my schools , i take this back to my schools, i take this back to my medical services. i take this back to mid beds thatcherite nina, i agree. who who , who who

nina, i agree. who who, who who promoted the sale of council flats and then never. >> we're going off track. i agree previous government wasn't meant to be replaced. tories included. haven't built enough homes so that we agree on. so with that considered, why would you allow these people to come in en masse? >> they will they will be processed. and then if they are to go where to camp here, you can't say that. you cannot say that we cannot take any more people. if we can take 600,000 supposed legal migrants, we can take boat people to aden. >> would you take a migrant in your home? >> no, no no no, not enough space. no, no, i've got enough space. no, no, i've got enough space. but no, i just want to i don't want them there. i don't want them in my house. i want other people there. i want people i want loved ones there. no no. >> i mean, the big issue that goes with this, it's all very well glibly saying let them all in. but it's not them all. >> the point being, it needs to be strategized if it's going to happen. >> not 1 or 2 houses, there are not enough houses. there is more

important actually, there's not enough hospitals. there's not enough hospitals. there's not enough gp surgeries, schools, there's not enough schools. there is simply not the infrastructure. and well , let's infrastructure. and well, let's look at the migrants then. >> yes, the illegal migrants who are putting a strain on the system. yes. boat people . system. yes. boat people. >> yes. yeah. it's both. >> yes. yeah. it's both. >> we're sorry to interrupt. we're fast running out of time because we've got more papers to come, but i just find it fascinating when we all agree there's not enough housing. people are struggling. >> you can't just keep building, though, ben. that's the thing. you just can't. >> struggling to get houses. we all agree there's not enough housing. yes, the tories are to blame. yes, previous governments are to blame. we all accept that. so why then, knowing that, would you encourage more and more people to come? >> let's just put a wall around this island. you cannot do that. >> well, where are they going to go? >> absolutely cannot. we don't we don't want to let them work. let them pay taxes. >> two thirds of the ones here don't work. okay. >> we've got to move on. nina. nil. aidan. great stuff. thank you very much. >> no, they don't, because that's been analysed by the government. >> okay. >> okay. >> ding, ding. round is over now. more papers are on the way

ina in a minute. how much would you pay how much would you pay for a

welcome back. more front pages have just dropped hot off the press. let's start with the sunday telegraph. extreme misogyny to be treated as terrorism under this new labour government. and at the bottom, clapping for the nhs like a national religion is dangerous, says watchdog. stop treating it like a cult. here, here. the sunday mirror kyle walker, the man city footballer ready to hit lauren with harassment case. former wife or girlfriend don't really care. the sunday times

don't shoot, we're conscripts, begs the captured russians and a nice royal story at the bottom. william wouldn't invite harry to his coronation, according to friends. yeah, don't blame him. don't blame him. >> i think william's mean. i think he's entitled and i think he's a complete pain. >> oh , nina, say what you really >> oh, nina, say what you really think i've heard. >> i've heard other people say that to me. >> i don't think. i don't think he wants to be king. i think he's trapped. >> oh, okay. well, look, we're not going to talk about the royals. we're going to talk about greggs, the bakery. because this morning, long story short, i went into greggs and i got a bacon sandwich and a coffee and whatever it was about seven in the morning, some guy walks in and looted the top shelf of breakfast goodies and just walked out and i laughed. i said to the staff, did you see that guy? and they just laughed and said, yeah, we can't do anything about it. anyway, i put that on twitter. it went viral. it's had more than a million views today and so on and so on. ithen views today and so on and so on. i then followed up with this tweet and i said, well, this hauli tweet and i said, well, this haul i got, including a bacon

sarnie, some porridge and a coffee only cost me a fiver. so for me, it pretty much felt like it was free. anyway, i thought it was free. anyway, i thought it was free. anyway, i thought it was quite a cheap breakfast. the response, the toxic vitriol i got for that tweet calling me out of touch, calling me deluded because it was a fiver. because it was a fiver. >> well, they thought it was expensive. >> yeah, yeah. bear in mind this is central london. so i want to ask you guys and you guys at home. gbnews.com/yoursay is am i out of touch? am i doing a lee anderson there by saying, you know, oh my god, cheap breakfast for a fiver. >> i think you are actually because, oh nina, people don't have fivers to people don't have people can't afford to buy breakfast out . never mind. it breakfast out. never mind. it costs a fiver. people can't afford that. >> you laugh. i'm somebody that's breakfast out quite, quite often. usually. no no, no. but usually it's greasy spoon crap places. right. but there's no no way. you can't get anything for a fiver. >> you really can't get breakfast in central london for anyone watching from outside london, i know there's plenty of you. probably the majority. breakfast in london normally costs about nine, ten, £11. you're paying £4.50 for a coffee. and if you go to gail's a posh bakery, it's another

three £4 for i would imagine. >> i agree that as, as prices 90, >> i agree that as, as prices go, that is relatively inexpensive, but the whole concept of buying breakfast, which you could easily have at home on your porridge, that's cheap as well, that's not cheap ehhen cheap as well, that's not cheap either. porridge would cost you like £0.30 a serving, for god's sake . sake. >> you know, the point is, i wasn't at home with a. >> why didn't you have it before you left home? >> oh, i live in. i'm not going to get into it. i live two hours away in brighton and i stayed overnight. but i just wanted a breakfast on the go. >> if he'd wanted it in a hotel, it probably would have been £20. >> i'm telling you, people can't afford to have breakfast out. >> yeah, but it's not. you're assuming. you're assuming they have it. you're assuming they have it. you're assuming they have that every day. >> well, do you have it every day. >> porridge. >> porridge. >> yeah, >> yeah, >> no a fiver. you're £5. greggs breakfast every day. >> you don't. do i have to spend more than a fiver anyway, these people online, i mean, they're a bunch of weirdos. to be honest. they were saying that i was out of touch. what world do i live in? and i just couldn't really.

>> there is a difference, i suspect, between out of london and in london. in london, you go to almost any coffee chain and you would be lucky to get away with a cup of coffee for under £4. yeah. so if you've got that horse it's almost the price of a pint isn't it? did quite well, thank you. >> i agree, i agree you did well. >> but, but but the point that people are making is that people can't afford to waste money on food, that they could provide for themselves at home. >> okay, i shall not share my breakfast any more on social media. time now for tonight's greatest britons for porridge though. thank you very much. time now for tonight's greatest britain and union jack has, nina, your gb nominee, please, >> obviously taylor swift, she's provided so much happiness for over five nights to so many young girls and women. she's such a wonderful, wonderful role model. strong woman, talented, brilliant. and it's a very benign , kind, inclusive benign, kind, inclusive atmosphere . atmosphere. >> got it. have you been to her concert? >> no, i couldn't get a ticket. i saw some, i saw some punters today knocking around. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> dressed up neil, your gb nominee.

>> she's my greatest britain. yes. right. i'm going to have to look at my phone here to give you this name. his name is chris zachetti. yeah. he is the head of the care commission. and they are the people who released the report last week into the horrors of the valdo calocane knife massacre. yeah, he's the guy who ran amok in. i think it may have been. it was in nottingham. >> nottingham? yeah. yeah >> nottingham? yeah. yeah >> and he stabbed a young couple to death. he stabbed. pardon me a completely innocent guy walking by. he ran over people. what his commission did , what his commission did, however, was to reveal the appalling treatment or lack of treatment . he'd appalling treatment or lack of treatment. he'd had eight, ten opportunities to lock him up before he was able to kill. >> great. aidan, your gb nominee. >> great. aidan, your gb nominee. >> not a person, but a great british institution nonetheless.

60 years of match of the day tonight. it should be on around about now or thereabouts, but it's had controversies over the years. it's spawned some wonderful it's spawned some wonderful it's spawned some wonderful talent. des lynam, gary lineker , mark lawrenson, gary lineker, mark lawrenson, alan alan hansen . they've not alan alan hansen. they've not fiddled with the format too much. it's a rarity in that the ratings have actually gone up over 20 years, rather than gone down 3.8 million per average viewer, and i think it deserves a little bit of a mention. >> i used to love match of the day. des lynam was my man, but unfortunately lineker is now at the helm. >> 25 years of him tonight as well, so it's not going to be, lineker. >> it's going to be taylor swift today. i >> it's going to be taylor swift today.ii >> it's going to be taylor swift today. i i admit i really don't get taylor swift for the music side anyway, but there was a review in the telegraph today saying that, you know, she bnngs saying that, you know, she brings so much love and positivity to young people at a time when, you know, the world is pretty cruddy place at times. so taylor swift is my gp. we've got to be very quick. who's your union jackass nominee very quickly liz truss no sense of humour. >> storming off a stage at the sight of a lettuce. >> i'll leave her alone, neil.

>> i'll leave her alone, neil. >> oh come on, transport secretary louise hague, who sanctioned the 14% pay rise for aslef train drivers from 60,000 to 69,000 for some aidan magee london mayor sadiq khan wants to impose rent controls in london. >> according to him, landlords are to blame for everything. no, they're not okay, >> of course my union jackass is. sadiq khan. can't stand the man i think he's pretty dishonest. and. yeah, no, no more explanation needed. that's it for tonight. we're fast out of time. thank you guys at for home joining us. thank you nina. thank you neil and aidan. it's been spicy, to say the least. i'll be back tomorrow from 9 pm. next up, it's headliners. p.m. next up, it's headliners. and that's after your weather with greg. good night. have a good weekend . good weekend. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar. sponsors of weather on . solar. sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> hello there. welcome to your

latest gb news weather forecast over the next 24 hours, high pressure, largely holding on across the uk, keeping it fairly dry and settled. a few showers still in the flow and we can see that on the bigger picture. generally low pressure to the north, high pressure extending in from the southwest, keeping most weather systems at bay for the rest of the weekend through this evening and overnight largely dry across much of the country. a few showers still possible across parts of scotland, northern england, down into wales and the west country, but most places dry as we head through the night and towns and cities generally holding up in double figures. but in the countryside dipping to down around 7 or 8 degrees. so a bit of a fresh start to sunday, but there'll be plenty of sunny spells, showers, though possible in a few places, most prevalent across central and northern parts of scotland. temperatures here first thing sunday morning around 10 to 12 celsius. so on the fresh side, best of the sunshine towards aberdeenshire, northern ireland, northern england also a few showers possible, largely in the west,

the east generally dry and 1 or 2 showers for wales and the west country. parts of the midlands over into east anglia, southeast england. plenty of sunshine to start sunday through the day . start sunday through the day. well that high pressure generally keeps things dry and settled for many parts more in the way of sunny spells for parts of wales, western parts of england, northern ireland that we saw quite a cloudy picture on saturday. a few showers still possible across scotland, but they do start to ease later in they do start to ease later in the day. breezy here. temperatures on the cool side . temperatures on the cool side. 1516 celsius in the sunshine rising into the low 20s. highs around 25 celsius for london. then it's all changed slowly through monday as a weather system moves in from the atlantic. outbreaks of rain pushing in across northern ireland. the winds picking up through the irish sea as well. gales developing later on in the day. best of the sunshine holding on across the southeast. temperatures here around 25 or 26 celsius and staying unsettled right through much of the week. see you soon. >> that warm feeling inside from

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gb news. >> good evening. i'm sophia wenzler from the gb news room at 11:00. your top story this hour. gb news can reveal that more than 5500 illegal migrants have

now arrived in britain since labour came to power on the 4th of july. at least nine small boats made the journey across the channel today , containing the channel today, containing 450 migrants. the total for the year so far is 19,000. it comes after prime minister sir keir starmer had promised to smash the gangs by setting up a border command unit. the gangs by setting up a border command unit . a fire at somerset command unit. a fire at somerset house in central london has been contained after around 125 firefighters were called to tackle the blaze. priceless artworks , including a van gogh artworks, including a van gogh painting, have not been damaged and are all public are now safe after the fire ripped through the roof of the historic building earlier , somerset house building earlier, somerset house will remain closed until further nofice will remain closed until further notice as investigations into the fire that damaged the roof is conducted . in other news, in is conducted. in other news, in ireland, a teenage boy has appeared in court charged over the stabbing of an army chaplain outside renmore barracks. a 16 year old boy, who cannot be

named due to his age, has been remanded in custody. gb news home and security editor mark white, has more. >> this short court hearing gave us the firmest indication yet of an apparent terrorist motivation to this attack outside the irish army barracks on thursday evening. the suspect, a 16 year old boy, according to the court, appeared to have a radical islamist mindset and possessed material linked to the islamic state terror group. the victim , state terror group. the victim, father paul murphy, was returning to the barracks in his car when he was confronted and stabbed. multiple times. security cameras recorded 20 separate stabbing movements. he suffered multiple deep lacerations . the teenager has lacerations. the teenager has been remanded back into custody. >> now, greater manchester police have launched a murder investigation after a man who became trapped in a burning building died in hospital . building died in hospital. officers were called to a fire on dunbarton green in wigan

early on wednesday morning. it's