gb news. >> janice good morning. it's 930 on monday the 19th of july. live across the uk. this is britain's newsroom with me bev turner and dawn neesom. because andrew is lying on a yacht in his budgie smuggler. >> thanks for that mental image, bev. i really don't need that now. operation early dawn . now. operation early dawn. emergency measures to prevent overcrowding in prisons has been triggered as more rioters are sentenced. but is it just another of sir keir starmer sticking plaster solutions? >> and labour appear to have caved in again. they're announcing new laws to make it easier for unions to strike. but by relaxing the rules for nhs workers to walk out. is sir keir starmer putting lives at risk? >> and the big story? misogyny will be treated as a form of extremism under new government plans. but is this just a threat to free speech? >> indeed it is. across the pond, vice president kamala harris leads donald trump in the

polls. would you believe it? as she prepares for her headline moment at the democratic national convention that starts tonight. we're going to be looking forward to it. >> indeed. and meanwhile, harry and meghan are depart columbia. but the verdict's out on whether their public tour was a. success. >> and that breaking news that only occurred about five minutes ago. this is about it sounds like a tourist ship just off the coast of sicily. there are numerous people still missing numerous people still missing numerous lives lost, and a lot of them are brits. >> seven people missing, including children, we believe. so we'll be bringing you up to date on that story. but this show isn't about us. well, it's about you. mainly, it's normally about you. mainly, it's normally about andrew pierce. it's normally about andrew, but he's not here. isn't his budgie smugglers? thanks bev. and you can get in touch very easily. it's by visiting gbnews.com/yoursay. but first, here's the news headlines with saint francis .

saint francis. >> bev. dawn, thank you very much indeed. and good morning to you. just after half past nine, we will start with a recap of that breaking news just being mentioned there coming to us this morning from sicily, where we know that a large sailboat with an estimated 22 people on board has sunk off the coast of palermo in sicily, leaving seven people at this stage missing. italy's coast guard and firefighters have so far rescued 15 people, including a child believed to be one year old. that's after the british flagged vessel was hit by a tornado and went down in rough seas at around sunrise this morning. those rescued we believe, include british passengers along with citizens from new zealand, sri lanka, ireland and france. they are all in a stable condition , according to reports condition, according to reports coming to us from italian media and the reuters news agency. and

divers now continuing that search around the wreck, which is lying 50m deep underwater and around half a mile off the coast of sicily, any more details? of course. we will bring to you throughout the rest of this morning. but as i say at this stage, seven missing and 22 people originally on board that vessel, it has now sunk . people originally on board that vessel, it has now sunk. in other news, emergency measures to avoid overcrowding in jails are expected to be triggered today. are expected to be triggered today . operation early dawn will today. operation early dawn will see defendants due to appear in court waiting longer. it follows concerns that recent sentences for rioters who took part in violent disorder have led to a lack of prison spaces. there'll be no punishment for anyone safely handling handling zombie knives and machetes into police stations ahead of a new ban. restrictions come in next month, and the government has at this stage stopped short of making ninja swords illegal, but insists that will happen soon.

policing minister dame diana johnson says the public should do the right thing and surrender any dangerous weapons, arguing there's no legitimate need to have them . it's emerged that one have them. it's emerged that one child is strip searched by police in england and wales every 19 hours. a new report by the children's commissioner has found. 1 in 20 cases didn't follow official procedures . the follow official procedures. the ukrainian president claims the uk's support for the war effort is slowing down, as he appealed for more aid. but the prime minister, sir keir starmer , minister, sir keir starmer, maintains there is unwavering support for ukraine and he says that position has not changed since the incursion into russia . since the incursion into russia. america's top diplomat will meet the israeli prime minister this morning as part of the latest efforts to push for a ceasefire and hostage release deal in gaza. it's anthony blinken's ninth trip to the region so far since the war began in october, both israel and hamas have accused each other of obstructing those talks , and

obstructing those talks, and parents in england face higher fines from today if their children are taken out of school without permission. penalties have increased to £80 for every five days of absence, which will rise to £160 if unpaid. within three weeks. nearly 400,000 fines were issued between 2022 and 23, most of those for unauthorised holidays. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. plenty more on that. breaking story out of italy this morning with bev and dawn. i'll be back with you in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> hello and welcome! this is britain's newsroom at newsroom live across the united kingdom

on gb news with bev turner. that's her and me. dawn neesom team girl. this morning. >> now extreme misogyny. it's appropriate. it's going to be treated as terrorism for the first time under government plans to combat the radicalisation of young men online, we're going to be talking about that this morning. there's a lot to get stuck into. but we want to start with this breaking news, don't we? seven people are missing after a yacht carrying mostly british people was caught in a tornado and sank off the coast of palermo , off the coast of palermo, italy's coast guard and firefighters rescued 15 survivors, including a one year old child, after the british vessel went down. we've got mark white with us here to tell us a little more, mark. what do we know? >> well, there were 22 people on board this yacht altogether. 15, thankfully, were rescued. a tornado you just never hear about tornadoes that often in europe that are of any measure destructive and especially at this time of the year. but clearly there was a storm. it produced a tornado. it got this yacht into very severe

difficulties where it was sinking. and of course, those people were ending up in the water. so we know that of the 15 arrested or i should say rescued, and indeed , we don't rescued, and indeed, we don't know actually if these are the ones rescued, but there were one new zealander, a sri lankan , two new zealander, a sri lankan, two french citizens, an irish national on board as well. the rest were all british. and sorry, but we don't know the breakdown of, whether any of those nationalities have just listed are among the 15 that have been rescued and who the other seven are in terms of their nationalities . among those their nationalities. among those arrested was a one year old girl. >> mark, do we know whether it's a it's a day charter trip that they've taken, or is it a sort of like a group of people who have hired the boat or on a on a sailing holiday around the coast? do we know any more details about that yet? >> it certainly seems to be a

little bit more organised than just the daily charters, judging by the sort of the expensive nature of the yacht in question. but you can still charter them, obviously, for, for a period of, of days or even weeks. so it seems to be that set up rather than necessarily someone that owned the yacht, but clearly, everyone will be anxious to find out what has happened to those who are missing and who indeed the these people are. this is to the these people are. this is to the north end of the north end of the island of sicily. that this rescue operation is concentrated on. at the moment, seas are a lot calmer now, but clearly the more people are in the water, the more time that passes. even in that area of the world where the seas are just a bit warmer, it's still not a good sign. >> do we know when this happened, mark? was it in the middle of the night? do we presume they were sleeping on the yacht? >> seems to have been late at night. from what we were told. and i don't know whether people

were up on deck because of the bad conditions and preparing for the potential of the yacht getting into difficulties, or whether they were completely caught by storm, the storm itself, that will come out. i mean, we're still in the very early stages of getting some interim information from the italian coast guard, but it's perfectly possible if we're talking about a tornado, it's perfectly possible that it just caught this yacht completely off guard and no one knew. terrifying. >> yeah, it can be just an isolated thing as well. tornado. it's not like just rough weather over the whole. >> well, absolutely. >> well, absolutely. >> yes. i mean, they can just spnng >> yes. i mean, they can just spring up given the conditions. but, you know , normally they're but, you know, normally they're called a sea spout when they're out at sea. >> are there any numbers yet that people can get in contact if they're worried about loved ones on holiday out there. >> well, there's the british embassy and i don't know the number, but the website is there. you can just google the uk foreign office for either the foreign office number or the british embassy in italy. that should be able, if they've not

already set up a hotline, i'm sure they will be doing that. okay. >> thank you. mark i've just been to sicily this summer and watersports and the sea there and snorkelling and yachts is a huge part of their tourist industry. yes, absolutely. we'll bnng industry. yes, absolutely. we'll bring you that as it evolves. now moving on. rough start to the week for the government . a the week for the government. a new ipsos poll revealed a substantial drop in favorability for labour following their landslide election victory last month. >> that honeymoon period hasn't lasted long, has it? 52% think that britain is moving in the wrong direction under labour, with only 22% in favour of the government's approach. >> so sir keir starmer remains the most popular politician, with a 38% favorability rating , with a 38% favorability rating, with a 38% favorability rating, with angela rayner a close second at 33%. >> rachel reeves comes in third at 27%. i feel like we're doing the top of the pops countdown. we should have some music to go with it, right? to explain what's going on exactly here is gb news political correspondent olivia utley . olivia, that olivia utley. olivia, that honeymoon period is well and truly over by the sounds of it. >> well, it really is. and i

think those figures there don't don't tell the full story because yes, keir starmer has a 38% popularity rating in that 38% popularity rating in that 38% of people think that he's doing a good job. 38% of people precisely also think that he's doing a bad job. so his net favorability rating , as it's favorability rating, as it's known, is zero. that's pretty unimpressive for a prime minister who came to power on such an enormous victory just over a month ago. to put it in perspective, it's a little bit better than than the popularity rating for boris johnson. two months after his 2019 election victory. but it's less popular than boris johnson was at the beginning of the covid pandemic, andifs beginning of the covid pandemic, and it's much, much less popular than tony blair was at the beginning of his 1997 term in office. keir starmer always had a bit of a problem with personal popularity ratings, even when labour was polling very, very high over the election campaign. and don't forget that actually in the election, although they did win that big majority, the share of the for vote labour wasn't that big, and keir starmer always struggled to get

his popularity, personal popularity ratings up . for a popularity ratings up. for a long time, they were hovering around the same level as rishi sunak's, which is saying something given how popular unpopular that conservative jeremy corbyn rate higher than keir starmer as well as jeremy corbyn did, at one point rate higher than keir starmer and jeremy corbyn's performance in the 2017 general election, actually saw a labour winning a bigger share of the vote than keir starmer won in the last election. but because of the way first past the post works, that doesn't matter too much. >> i mean, .keirstarmer is >> i mean, .keir starmer is currently making jeremy corbyn look like donald trump. frankly, in terms of politics, from what i can see. and a big part of that, olivia, is free speech. and we're getting this picture now of labour basically hunting out ideologies to clamp down on. and i'm talking specifically this morning about this idea that misogyny could become a terrorist offence. what's been happening? >> well, we always thought that, you know, because labour have massively painted themselves into a corner economically. they've said that they're not going to be raising any taxes on

working people. so vat national insurance or income tax, that means that they can't they can't really change the conservatives plans for public spending. so what are they going to do? what can they do to show that there is a difference between the government that went before and this one? well, one thing that they seem to have decided on is social issues sort of culture war issues, if you like. so for example, turning inside our heads. >> yes. that's the worrying bit. >> yes. that's the worrying bit. >> so turning misogyny into a into a potential terrorist offence. this is something which we've seen a lot of from keir starmer since he became prime minister. a lot of people have suggested that he is acting more like the prosecutor that he once was, the, the director of the cps , than the politician that he cps, than the politician that he is. now. you've seen something relatively similar in terms of his approach to the riots on the whole, his approach to the riots has been going down pretty well with the public, but it has very much been a question of, you know, round up as many of these people as possible, arrest them and get them in prison. that may be the right approach, but it

isn't so much of a politician's approach. he doesn't really want to talk about potentially the issues behind those riots in fact, whenever any discussion of that comes up, he tends to try and shut it down. he's on much more comfortable ground when he's making laws and trying to enforce them. >> okay. super good to see you, olivia. thank you. right up next, meghan and harry have finished their sort of royal tour of colombia. they would certainly like that, wouldn't they? apparently, even the locals were confused as to why they were there. >> well , with good they were there. >> well, with good reason. we all are. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. don't go too far. we'll see you

soon. >> welcome back. 947 britain's newsroom with me, bev and dawn. this morning. >> right. okay, let's recap that. breaking for news you. now, seven people are missing after a yacht carrying mostly british people was caught in a tornado and sank off the coast

of palermo, italy's coast guard and firefighters rescued 15 survivors, including a one year old child. but after the british flagged vessel was hit by a tornado and went down in rough seas at sunrise so people would have been asleep. we're bringing you all the latest on this story as and when it develops. bev, you've just come back from sicily. i find it's absolutely horrific, this story. >> it's kind of like your houday >> it's kind of like your holiday nightmare, isn't it? when i was. i've got one daughter who inexplicably has a bit of a fear of water and sailing and boats, and we even just went out on a snorkelling vessel off the coast of sicily, just in this same area. and she was saying, is it going to sink, mummy? is it going to sink? it's me . fine. and you say, no, no, me. fine. and you say, no, no, no, you're going to be fine. of course you're gonna be fine. and most of the time you are fine. but this is just the worst nightmare. >> yeah, it's near palermo. it's hit by a tornado at 5 am. in the morning. so people have been asleep in their cabins. we don't know how many children on this boat, but it sounds like several families on there. so i'm assuming that there were several children on there as well. a one year old child has thankfully been rescued, and it sounds like

the italian coastguard were on the italian coastguard were on the scene pretty fast. four britons, two americans and a canadian. we are still getting more news coming in on that, and just breaking at the moment, italian media are reporting that a body has been found by rescuers searching for survivors. but the good news is a mum and baby are among those 15 rescued. and we're just looking at pictures of the boat there. it's a it looks like a fairly high end. yeah 180 foot yacht carrying 22 passengers. >> we believe it was a it arrived in porticello after stopping in milazzo and sailing alongside and sailing alongside cefalu. it must be that particular region, we think the boatis particular region, we think the boat is called bayesian, a luxury boat, which sails under a british flag, gross tonnage of 473 tons, built, by british flag, gross tonnage of 473 tons, built , by the 473 tons, built, by the viareggio shipyard in 2008, it was refitted in 2020. its capacity for 11 guests and ten

crew members. so it sounds like one of those incredibly luxurious us yachts. maybe has taken 2 or 3 families. maybe. or maybe . maybe a holiday. yeah. maybe. maybe a holiday. yeah. you know, with multiple families, friendship groups on board, it sounds like it was heaven, which turned into hell. >> and it's obviously the height of the holiday season there. we don't have a number for you yet if you need to get in contact. obviously lots of people have, families out there on holiday at the moment, so the best advice we can say at the moment is contact the italian embassy. go on to the website if you need more information on that story. but we will bring you as much information as and when it happens throughout the show this morning. >> right. the duke and duchess of sussex have finished their royal tour. the quasi royal toun royal tour. the quasi royal tour, you might say, of columbia continuing around the south american country. >> the duchess of sussex has said that their daughter lilibet has found her voice. she's three, bev, she's three. she's found her voice . found her voice. >> found her voice. now normally you'd just say, oh yeah, my

daughter's talking now. we're frankly, at the age of three, she should be talking. she's she's talking. but of course, meghan's child just doesn't learn to talk. she finds her voice, but she's found her voice about being a feminist. >> this is the point of this. it was a speech meghan was giving about empowering women. look, i'm with her on this one, okay? by i'm with her on this one, okay? by the way. but meghan lilibet is three. i mean, you know, she was speaking at an afro women and power event . and power event. >> and meghan markle said she was so proud that her daughter has found her voice and feels empowered . empowered. >> she gets more than her fair share of the toys from her brother. i mean, you know, look, she does have a point , okay? she does have a point, okay? empowering women is very important no matter how old they are. but there are some people that are saying sanctimonious waffle. >> well, it's a bit silly, isn't it ? it's like she has to wrap it? it's like she has to wrap every life event in some sort of. she's basically very much on on labour's , boat with this, on labour's, boat with this, isn't she, about the idea? you find some ideology and you just hook yourself to it. you either raise it or you silence it, raise it or you silence it, raise it or silence it. we're

joined now by gb news royal correspondent cameron walker to tell us how it went. cameron was slightly giggling here about meghan markle, saying her three year old daughter has found her feminist voice. but how did the tour go down overall? is this a positive for the sussexes ? positive for the sussexes? >> to be honest, bev, i think it depends who you ask and usually i'd be giving you the highlights and the lowlights of this. as you say, quasi royal tour. but i'm finding it quite difficult to do that, to be honest. the reason being is everything around their tour , all the around their tour, all the engagements was very, very controlled. so there was one independent journalist who was accredited to cover the entire toun accredited to cover the entire tour, who clearly was kept a close eye on at all times. it was very kind of brief pool copy, like journalists copy from each engagements, the photographs and the videos. you've been seeing. all were suppued you've been seeing. all were supplied by the sussexes team. so they were, you know, kind of heavily edited. they were all muted, so we couldn't actually hear what the duke and duchess of sussex were saying. all the photographs looked very glossy. they all looked amazing. meghan, as you can probably imagine. but i think that and then the question is, well, what were

they trying to achieve here? because clearly they're no longer working members of the royal family. so therefore they have a right to do a tour as they please. they don't need to invite lots of media along with them, but arguably the biggest lie—in was actually prince harry. appearing to weighed in on the recent uk riots where he talked about what happens online within a matter of minutes, transfers to the streets, talking about online misinformation, which was a key theme of the sussexes tour. but that was picked up by another camera and it certainly wasn't in the pool copy we got from the accredited journalists. so that was kind of almost like a mishap, almost like an accident that that got out there. and then of course, you spoke about the duchess of sussex as an afro women of power event as well, talking about her daughter, princess lilibet finding her voice. perhaps another key theme was of course, female empowerment for meghan. she also spoke about the fact that young boys need to learn to listen to women as well. so there was certainly getting their messages out there. but in terms of what was their key aim, that remains unclear because it was really

hard to try and dissect exactly what their aim was for this toun >> do we know who was paying for it? cameron >> we don't have any confirmation as to who was paying confirmation as to who was paying for it. clearly it wasn't british taxpayers. i suspect there was some taxpayers from from columbia who of course who were who who were having to pay for the security arrangements. we're not sure if harry and meghan also paid their way. >> okay. super. thank you. cameron, thanks so much for joining us. we're going to bring you the latest updates on this situation in sicily. seven people are missing after a british yacht capsized. >> but first it's weather with amy. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news >> hello and welcome to your latest gb news. weather update from the met office a change in the weather on monday. for many of us still dry across far eastern parts, but there will be rain arriving from the west and it will be turning windy. so the

far southeast and eastern parts of england still quite a dry and bright start to the day, but it's going to be cloudy and turning steadily wetter and windier as we head through the rest of monday, particularly going to be turning quite windy through the irish sea gales arriving here through the afternoon, and we have a rain warning in force as well for parts of southwest scotland. under that cloud and rain, we're going to be seeing temperatures at best in the mid or high teens, but it will be still quite warm across southeast england heading through the rest of the day. we do still have some warm evening sunshine on offer for the southeast of england, but we already have some quite heavy, showery rain moving into southwest england and to wales as well. very damp across northern ireland and north—west england. and this is where we have the warning in force across southwest scotland through this evening. difficult driving conditions with that rain as well, a touch lighter across the northeast. but again it's going to be a damp evening for most with that strong wind as well. through the rest of monday evening, that rain is going to

continue to sink south and eastwards as we head through the evening and it will turn a little bit, clearer from the west, but still with some blustery showers moving in as well. rain may take a little while to clear across the southeast and the far northeast of scotland, and with those cloudier conditions and that strong wind temperatures will be more in the mid teens, a little bit higher than we've seen the last couple of days. then through the rest of tuesday it will be bright sunny spells, but also some heavy showers too, particularly for parts of central and northern england and northern ireland and northwest scotland will be seeing heavy, blustery showers as well, particularly windy across the far northwest of scotland too. temperatures here again in the mid or high teens and feeling quite cool. but the further southeast is still going to be feeling quite warm in that sun. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather

gb news. >> good morning. it's 10:00 gb news. >> good morning. it's10:00 on monday the 19th of july. live across the united kingdom. this is britain's newsroom with the gorgeous bev turner and me dawn neesom in for andrew pierce. >> slightly more gorgeous than andrew pierce. i didn't say that right. british ship sinks in sicily . seven people missing as sicily. seven people missing as the sailboat is hit by a tornado. 15 have been rescued so far. the italian coastguard continues their search. >> wes streeting lie—in. we are getting news that one body has been recovered from the scene of that yacht sinking . 19 of those that yacht sinking. 19 of those on board were either british or dual british nationals. >> operation early dawn emergency measures to prevent overcrowding in prisons has been triggered as more rioters are sentenced. but is this just another of sir keir starmer's sticking plaster solutions ? sticking plaster solutions? >> and across the pond, vice president kamala harris leads donald trump in the latest polls. apparently, she prepares

for her headline moment at the democratic national convention that starts tonight . that starts tonight. >> it's going to be interesting stuff. meanwhile, prince harry and meghan markle depart columbia, but the verdict is out on whether the public tour was a. success. >> and we're going to tell you what was officially the funniest joke at the edinburgh fringe festival. >> to be fair, it did make you laugh though, when i told you it was your delivery because you were so convinced it was going to be bad to look in your eyes. we'll wait to hear what you think of it. and it's very easy to join the conversation this morning. we need to talk to you. we love talking to you. this is what it's all about. you just go to gbnews.com/yoursay and join the chit chat with bev and i. very easy. but first let's get those news headlines with sam francis .

francis. >> very good morning to you. it's just after 10:00 and as we heard there from mark white, we will start with the recap of that breaking news coming to us from sicily this morning . seven from sicily this morning. seven people are still missing after a yacht carrying mostly british people was caught in a tornado. and sank in the early hours of this morning off the coast of sicily. that vessel has been named as the bayocean, a luxury yacht which is believed to have the second tallest mast in the world, believed to have also been hired out by local tourists there. officials in the area say 15 passengers were rescued from that boat just after sunrise this morning. a one year old was among those saved by authorities and has now been taken to hospital, along with the mother. we believe italian media are also reporting in just the last few minutes that a body has been found, one body by rescuers so far this stage and divers are now continuing the search around the wreck, which lies 50m deep

below the water and half a mile off the coast of sicily, and plenty more on that as details continue to come into us from the scene with our homeland security editor , mark white, security editor, mark white, throughout the rest of this morning . well, in other news, morning. well, in other news, there will be no punishment for anyone safely handing zombie knives and machetes into police stations ahead of a new ban. restrictions come in next month. the government stopped short, though, of making ninja swords illegal, but insists that will happen soon. policing minister dame diana johnson says the pubuc dame diana johnson says the public should do the right thing and surrender any dangerous weapon, arguing there's no legitimate need to have them. pfisons legitimate need to have them. prisons minister lord timpson claims he's inherited a justice system in crisis as plans to address overcrowding in jails are activated today in northern england , operation early dawn england, operation early dawn will see defendants who are remanded in custody waiting for a court appearance held in police cells for longer. it's separate, though, to the early

release scheme for some offenders, which kicks in next month as well . more than half of month as well. more than half of people think britain is heading in the wrong direction, as an opinion poll suggests a drop in support for the new labour government. an equal percentage of adults have a favourable or unfavourable view of sir keir starmer, with 38% of those surveyed falling on both sides. rishi sunak and the conservatives. meanwhile, their rating hasn't changed since the election . america's top diplomat, election. america's top diplomat, anthony blinken is currently speaking with israel's prime minister as negotiations for a ceasefire in gaza continue. it comes days after mediators from the us, egypt and from qatar presented a modified proposal aiming at bridging long standing gaps between the two sides. hamas has claimed, though, that recent talks have been impeded by the prime minister, president benjamin netanyahu, setting out new demands here. the prime minister insists support for ukraine is unwavering after volodymyr zelenskyy suggested

that uk backing for aid is slowing down. it comes after ukrainian forces destroyed a second bridge in the kursk region as forces continue their incursion into russian territory. it's thought that that move is aimed at creating a buffer zone between the two countries during an overnight address, the ukrainian president praised his troops and also called for the removal of restrictions on donated weapons that ukraine is using against russia . the democratic national russia. the democratic national convention kicks off in chicago later today, where kamala harris will be officially announced as the party's nominee for the us presidential election comes after last month, donald trump was confirmed as the republicans pick, and that was just a few days after he survived an assassination attempt. americans are set to head to the polls in november, and our us correspondent steve edgington is in washington, dc. for us, he says the dnc will be a critical test for the party. >> this is unprecedented. there has been democratic primaries or

votes for their candidacy for the last, you know , decade, a the last, you know, decade, a few decades. and this time around , kamala harris has not around, kamala harris has not won any democratic primaries. she's been installed as the candidate by, essentially, president biden and barack obama. so this is a real key test for the democrats. she's almost certainly going to get the candidacy. and she's also chosen her vice president nominee, tim waltz . nominee, tim waltz. >> turning back to news here in the uk, a line to us from dartford this morning that a 20 year old man has been charged with murder and of a sexual offence on a dead body. police say they found a woman who'd been stabbed at her home in kent early on saturday morning. ernestas juska has been is due rather in court today . well, the rather in court today. well, the remnants of hurricane ernesto are set to batter parts of the uk this week, bringing winds of up to 60 miles an hour a yellow weather warning for rain has

been issued for scotland . it been issued for scotland. it covers the southwest of the country from this afternoon and northwest for most of wednesday, and thursday, and finally , a and thursday, and finally, a joke for you from the edinburgh fringe festival. it's the best joke, apparently. here it is. i was going to sail around the world in the world's smallest ship, but i bottled it . that gag ship, but i bottled it. that gag belongs to comedian mark simmons, who says he's really pleased to get the award a decade on from his first appearance at the festival, 15 one liners made the shortlist . one liners made the shortlist. those are the latest gb news headunes those are the latest gb news headlines for now, i'm sam francis, back with you in half an hour for the very latest gb news to direct 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. okay, good morning. >> welcome back to britain's

newsroom live across the uk on gb news. with me bev turner and dawn neesom. >> and indeed breaking news now on that yacht tragedy in italy. one person has been confirmed dead and six people are still missing after a yacht carrying mostly british people was caught in a tornado and sank off the coast of palermo. >> well, joining us now is our home and security editor, mark white, to tell us more about it. mark, we're sort of still getting information about this yacht, but registered to the uk. am i right? what more do we know? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> british flagged vessel called by cien, it's described in superyacht times as one of the largest super yachts in the world. it's 160ft long, so a significant sized vessel, apparently it was, anchored in the port of porticello or porticello. in the north end of sicily . it had left the port. sicily. it had left the port. there was a storm that struck this vessel around about 5 am.

local time this morning, and the yacht capsized, obviously , those yacht capsized, obviously, those on board were thrown into the water. 15 of those people in the water. 15 of those people in the water were rescued, but another seven were missing and being searched for. of course, you just bring the news. now, that one of those seven has been confirmed dead, their body has been recovered from the sea. we don't know the name. age or sex or nationality at all, so that kind of information will come out in the fullness of time. but the vast majority of the people on this yacht, there were 22 people on this yacht. so again, that gives you an indication of the size of it . 19 of them, it the size of it. 19 of them, it seems, were either british or dual british nationals. seems, were either british or dual british nationals . one seems, were either british or dual british nationals. one was irish, one new zealander, one sri lankan, two anglo french.

the rest were british nationals. so it you know, it's very possible that some or all of those who are missing may well be british. so are really intensive search operation. that's still going on in that area. the italian coastguard, as you can see there, this is the italian fire and rescue service actually posted this video that shows the scene of the search. basically, that yacht is now lying in 50m of water. so pretty deep down they've called in specialist dive teams to go down. and indeed it was a diver that recovered this body a short time ago. and the working theory is that the people who remain unaccounted for may well still be inside this yacht. and the hope has to be that there are pockets of air inside the yacht, and that they could still be reached. but obviously time is of the essence here, mark. >> it looks very lovely and calm

in that footage. we're just seeing now. but we believe this happened around 4 or 5 in the morning. and if you look , cctv morning. and if you look, cctv footage, online shows that there's a torrential rain and wind and the, the where the boat was anchored. it was anchored in the bay. there was a freak tornado happened . so it's a very tornado happened. so it's a very unusual weather development to have caused this as well, because it looks so calm now when you look at those pictures. but imagine 4 or 5 in the morning when you're asleep, especially if you've got little ones with you. >> yeah, i mean, italy has gone through like so many places in europe , a real heat wave in europe, a real heat wave in recent weeks . recent weeks. >> but just in recent days there have been some fairly significant storms in parts of italy and over sicily as well. and it was a storm we understand, that struck when this yacht was about a mile offshore and capsized the yacht. so as i say, what we've got now is this very intensive, rescue operation . they obviously know

operation. they obviously know where the yacht is. it's all about getting those specialist divers down to the yacht and being able to explore it. it's not uncommon for vessels to sink and therefore for there to be pockets of air that people can survive in if they can get to those areas , especially with a those areas, especially with a bigger vessel like this yacht , bigger vessel like this yacht, it's certainly possible. >> well, what we're looking at, some of the details here, apparently to charter this yacht . apparently to charter this yacht. it costs £166,000 a week, a one year old baby was saved by divers, which is extraordinary. yeah, it would suggest that maybe there was some sort of warning. it doesn't sound like there would have been warning to get any any of the passengers onto any safety vessel. so if it's a tornado at 5:00 in the morning. >> yeah. i mean, it's possible we don't know the details of the rescue. it's possible some may be managed to get to a lifeboat from the yacht. it it just depends how sudden it was. but if these reports of a tornado are borne out, then of course, a

tornado can be just very sudden. you just don't know. you know that you're encountering bad weather, but the next second a tornado is bearing down on you as bev says, you know, the chances of actually being alerted and able to get into a rescue or lifeboat could be very small indeed. >> one eyewitness was saying the boat was all lit up and then suddenly it just disappeared. yeah, that would have happened very quickly. mark white thank you very much for bringing us up to date, and we will bring you the latest updates on that story throughout the program. that's right. >> now, emergency measures to ease prison overcrowding have been activated by the ministry of justice after hundreds of rioters were charged in their role for their role in the recent unrest. >> this means defendants waiting across the north of england for across the north of england for a court appearance will be kept in police cells until prison space is available, so let's cross now to former police superintendent leroy logan to see what what you make of this, leroy. >> good morning. thank you very much for joining >> good morning. thank you very much forjoining us, we've seen much for joining us, we've seen this extraordinary clampdown in the last couple of weeks on

people saying things on social media, some of it inciting violence, some of it perhaps a little nebulous and might wriggle free of that definition. i might argue, particularly expressing opinions in anger. and then beating them quite quickly . what what will the quickly. what what will the implications be if those sorts of people are being locked up and yet others who might have, committed more serious, let's say, physical crimes rather than verbal crimes are released ? verbal crimes are released? >> well, i'd like to think these offences are being judged on the merits, and they will be swift justice for the violence and thuggery. and i call it urban terrorism, they were terrorising communities the length and breadth of the country, and they were all working in concert, especially through social media. so this was a really planned sequence of events . and whether sequence of events. and whether you, you, you attended in curiosity, got caught up in the moment and then he became a

criminal. so be it. >> have no sympathy. i mean , >> have no sympathy. i mean, it's sort of like the government are saying that early release, which is operation early dawn, which is operation early dawn, which means people will be kept in jail cells before sent to prison, may delay court trials, but also triggering the early release of prisoners, but this will not apply to rioters or anyone taking part in any of the unrest. recently they will be treated in the same way as sex attackers and terrorists, and they will not be up for early release. do you think that's the right way to do this? >> they've got to send a strong signal that people can't just, decide to just come together in a collective critical mass of violent thuggery and then expect when they've got court, to get sympathy or leniency , just sympathy or leniency, just understand what how this occurred in southport, three young girls were killed and numerous others were injured, including the staff . and then on including the staff. and then on top of that, they created fake

narrative from that tragedy. and then organise a whole band of people across the country. this is not just a small matter, it's a really serious matter. and there was a report put, put out, about three years ago by assistant commissioner neil basu. he said one of the most existential threat to the public is right wing fascism. and this played itself out. so in all honesty, i have no sympathy for them. and if they can't do the crime, don't don't expect well, if you're going to do the crime, you've got to do the crime. the time we correct. >> we've discussed this a lot in the last couple of weeks on this channel. and i think what we want to focus on a little bit today, leroy, is, is this new twist in this story, which is that there aren't enough prison places, particularly given the punitive sentences which have been dished out in the last couple of weeks. people involved

in the rioting , what do labour in the rioting, what do labour do on the whole about the number of prison places? because there clearly aren't enough, in your view, are we locking up too many people anyway for things that don't mean that they that don't require a restrictive sentence like that? >> well, the tory government was into lock em up and throw away the key. so we've got one of the biggest prison populations in western europe, even though we're not part of the eu, but geographically, that is the case. and as a result of that, we now have a real problem with, capacity. now they they said even one of the first things they said when they came into government last month was they have to release certain people, those that pose no threat or risk to the public. and, you know, there could be tagged and so forth. so i know that they have contingency plans as well. so it's not just, oh, well,

they're just going to bang up people in police cells and, other sort of areas. but like everything, they've got to judge it on its merits and lock up the ones that need to be locked up and keep the ones who pose any risk. >> leroy, the other story i know you wanted to talk about and again, another fairly horrific story. one child is strip searched every 14 hours. according to a new report by the children's commissioner , children's commissioner, including where they they don't have a parent or guardian present and black children are also four times more likely to be strip searched. we're talking about children here, leroy. what do you think of this ? do you think of this? >> i am absolutely devastated by it. this shows a lack of ethical leadership, a lack of accountability. no transparency. unfortunately, we had a series of home secretaries were just off the chart. and so they fuelled the culture and the really toxicity of it so that

not only internally, because we've seen disproportionalities now black police officers and police staff are dealt with, but externally. and one of the major, well outcomes was , strip major, well outcomes was, strip searching children . i was a cop searching children. i was a cop for 30 years. i never strip searched a child. >> but if you're a 17 year old, six foot three, 17 year old man, because this is under 18 and you might be carrying a couple of knives , i am absolutely okay knives, i am absolutely okay with you being strip searched . with you being strip searched. >> yeah, but we're talking about not just strip searching. if you've got reasonable grounds based on good sound intelligence. yes but it's quite clear. not only are they going on a fishing expedition and stopping certain people randomly, but they're not adhenng randomly, but they're not adhering to the process. i don't mind if you say right. is 16 year old six foot odd, possibly carrying knives? get an appropriate adult. get, a

guardian or a social worker. if you can't take them to the station and wait for that person to attend the station, well, 90%, don't let me finish. don't just cut corners. and then when you get found out, plead innocence. this thing has been going for on years. and in all honesty, the child commissioner doing this work since, child q in 2020, i believe she's doing the home office work. that's the amazing thing. the home office should be doing this, not her, but she's she's doing it so that the home office will now take it on. well, now we've got a labour home secretary, yvette cooper. we might start to see them getting a grip of those rogue officers . and hopefully it will officers. and hopefully it will help the good cops to call out the bad cops. >> and what circumstances would you strip search, leroy? and can you strip search, leroy? and can you just explain what that is? doesit you just explain what that is? does it mean simply take your jacket off? or does it mean you need to come to the police station and take off all your clothes? >> strip searching is normally

more than just your outer clothing, so it can come to , clothing, so it can come to, down you know, the your, your vest and, you know, lower garment. but that shouldn't be donein garment. but that shouldn't be done in the public domain. it should be done at least in a van or to a police station. and the intimate searches, when they take down take off everything and they examine every orifice, and they examine every orifice, and that is. >> and this and this isn't that. and you would hope the circumstances for that would be extremely rare. and we're very, very high bar don't assume, don't assume. >> because, you know, one of the things is this is about street stop and searches . i would like stop and searches. i would like to know how many custody office strips and searches are carried on. i mean, even as a superintendent in hackney , i had superintendent in hackney, i had real problems holding my custody officers to account how they would strip search everyone and they hated me for it because i had to hold them to account. and that leads on to the other issue. what are the supervisors doing to hold these rogue

officers to account? it's either they're being kept in the dark and they're not going out to see what the officers are doing, or they're complicit. and if you're complicit, you're just as guilty as the rogue cops. >> okay. all right. thank you. leroy, good to see you. thank you.thank leroy, good to see you. thank you. thank you for your insight. your experience. nine out of ten were searched on suspicion of carrying drugs. >> yes, absolutely. right we move on. though. sir keir starmer has been accused of weakening his support from ukraine. more of that coming next. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. we'll see you

soon. hello and welcome back. now breaking news that one person is dead and six people are missing after a yacht carrying mostly british people was caught in a tornado and sank off the coast of palermo in italy. >> joining us now is meteorologist jim dale, who also served in the royal navy as

forecaster to warn the captain of weather related issues. good morning jim. right. can you just. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> morning. just explain to us what what is a tornado? we might all presume we know, but why do they happen? and do you get any warning? >> yeah. good question . >> yeah. good question. actually, if it's at sea, it's not a tornado. officially. technically, it's a waterspout. same phenomenon, comes out the bottom of a cumulonimbus cloud. so those are the thunder type clouds that you that we see often in summertime. so do you get warnings? well, i'm not sure at this. this when this actually, incident occurred, whether it was dark or not, it was the early hours. i'm assuming it was. so. any observers looking at the weather at the time perhaps would have been taken a little bit by surprise , to say the least, the surprise, to say the least, the synoptic situation , by that i synoptic situation, by that i mean where the lows and the highs were , there was a big, highs were, there was a big, a big area of low pressure on them. there was activity already in place . and if you look a

in place. and if you look a little bit further north into austria, vienna way, there was big, big deluges there as well, but big floods off the same low pressure area . so it was a pressure area. so it was a danger zone. so i don't know what what the situation was on this particular yacht, whether they had a meteorologist on board or anybody who was, was, was, was, was trained. but sometimes these things do occur, particularly this , this type of particularly this, this type of event. a waterspout is quite unusual. so if it if it hit directly then it would have been a little bit of a, let's just say a catastrophic impact. and obviously it has been it sounds like, jim, that the boat was moored in the bay to escape the bad weather, which had been happening overnight. >> and we believe this happened about 4:35 am. in the morning. but as you say, these waterspouts, if they hit and they're quite localised, aren't they?if they're quite localised, aren't they? if they hit where you happen to be moored, really it's going to be a pretty, pretty quick thing for that boat to go down, >> yeah. these these are catastrophic events. i've actually seen a tornado in real

life, and they are extremely powerful, extremely scary. they move very quickly. so it's a case of no escape. if they were moored, that's a good thing. at least they weren't at sea. because an investigation will obviously now take place to see what the situation was. but if people were on board at that time likely to have been asleep, so not in the best situation to necessarily escape , but as necessarily escape, but as i said to you, these things happen extremely quickly, it's one of those weather phenomena that that we, we don't hope happens to you to yourself or to people around you, but occasionally and especially at this time of year, in that kind of situation, they do occur, and unfortunately , do occur, and unfortunately, this is, this is one that that has that has created already a casualty and probably more to follow. >> what would a rescue operation look like under these circumstances, do you think , jim? >> very difficult. first of all, because it happens so quickly , because it happens so quickly, it's almost over before any, any emergency services can arrive.

so i again, i don't know the circumstances in terms of whether were people in the water, but you've got to think it would have been extremely disturbed , situation in terms of disturbed, situation in terms of the wreckage. that would have been involved. the ship apparently overturned and capsized and went down. and therefore, you know , people therefore, you know, people asleep at the time probably , i asleep at the time probably, i hate to say this, but we've seen incidents in the past where ships and boats have gone down and there's been no chance of survival simply because of the speed of things. so the emergency services would have arrived, i'm sure pretty quickly. but what they'd have been able to do in that moment in time, i don't know. again for the incident, investigation to take place. >> jim, from what we understand, there are four coastguard vessels , a coastguard helicopter vessels, a coastguard helicopter and a fire brigade helicopter. and divers are still searching the wreck site as you say, these incidents happen very quickly. and people on that boat would have not had much chance to get off. but i mean, this bad weather that this part of the

mediterranean has been experiencing recently. how common is it? >> well, that's a big question, don, look, we are in unchartered waters, quite literally in unchartered waters in terms of weather phenomena and what's going on, you know, not just in this part of the world. look sicily, particularly this part palmero in the northern side, they've been suffering drought rather than necessarily big rainfall, big events like this. but the heat that's been generated, that mediterranean sea that you're now looking at on the picture a couple of three days ago reached an all time record high. that's energy for you. i need to make this absolutely clear. when we talk about climate change, we talk about, the transference of that energy into the atmosphere. what then ensues is part of a part of what we're all warning about, that these things. now, not every event is climate change, but this mediterranean particular part of the mediterranean sea has warmed up to a record extent. so that again, probably will be part of

the equation in terms of feeding that particular cumulonimbus cloud and the and the water spout strokes and stroke tornado that then followed. >> jim just very quickly, we're running out of time. but you mentioned that, you know, some sometimes these boats do have forecasters or meteorologists on them. i mean, is that a common thing then? >> no, it's not a common thing. to be honest with you, a yacht that size probably will not. they should be getting the advice they should be taking weather advice, etc. but as i say , middle of the night, say, middle of the night, everybody's asleep . sadly, it's everybody's asleep. sadly, it's one of those things that occur from time to time. >> thank you jim, thank you so much for joining >> thank you jim, thank you so much forjoining us. these yorkshire luxury yachts, of course, looking at reports that had ten crew and 12 passengers. yes. you know, they take a huge amount of staff to run these yachts. you've got apparently the captain has survived as far as we know. we will bring you the updates on this throughout the updates on this throughout the show. now though, time for your very latest news headlines with sam francis.

>> very good morning to you. just coming up to 10:32 and an update then on that breaking news we're covering here @gbnews this morning. one person has now died six still missing after a luxury yacht sank off the coast of palermo when it was struck by a tornado at around sunrise this morning . the british registered morning. the british registered 56 metre bayocean had 22 people on board, believed to include 12 passengers and ten crew members. they included british, american and canadian nationals, 15 have survived, including a one year old child, and we believe the mother of that child may have been rescued and taken to hospital in a stable condition. though we are hearing that five people taken to hospital did not require treatment, and we'll bnng require treatment, and we'll bring you more on that as we get it. details coming to us throughout this morning on the condition of those people rescued divers now combing the waters as search efforts

continue. you can see live pictures there of the scene just off of the coast as the wreck is currently lying 50m deep and half a mile off of the coast. here, emergency measures to avoid overcrowding in jails have been triggered today. operation early dawn sees defendants due to appear in court waiting for longer. it follows concerns that recent sentences for riots who took part in rioters, rather who took part in rioters, rather who took part in violent disorder , took part in violent disorder, have led to a lack of prison spaces . there'll be no spaces. there'll be no punishment for anyone safely handing zombie knives and machetes into police stations ahead of a new ban. restrictions come in next month. the government stopped short, though, of making ninja swords illegal, but insists that will happen soon. policing minister dame diana johnson says the pubuc dame diana johnson says the public should do the right thing and surrender any dangerous weapon, arguing there's no legitimate need to have them. well, it's emerged that one child is strip searched by

police in england and wales every 14 hours. a new report by the children's commissioner found 1 in 20 cases didn't follow official procedure . follow official procedure. ukrainian president claims the uk's support for the war effort in russia is slowing down, as he appealed for more aid. the prime minister, sir keir starmer, though, maintains there's unwavering support for ukraine. and that position, he says, has not changed since the incursion into russia . america's top into russia. america's top diplomat is meeting the israeli prime minister today as part of the latest efforts to push for a ceasefire and hostage release dealin ceasefire and hostage release deal in gaza . it's anthony deal in gaza. it's anthony blinken's ninth trip to the region since the war began in october. both israel and hamas have accused each other of obstructing the talks , and obstructing the talks, and parents in england face higher fines from today if their children are taken out of school without permission. penalties have increased to now £80 for every five days of absence, which will rise to £160 if

unpaid. within three weeks. nearly 400,000 fines were issued between 2022 and 23. most of those for unauthorised holidays . those for unauthorised holidays. those are the latest updates from the gb newsroom for now. i'll be back with you in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> cheers! britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report . financial report. >> well, let's take a quick look at the markets for you this morning. the pound will buy you $1.2964 and ,1.1745. the price of gold , £1,930.50 per ounce, of gold, £1,930.50 per ounce, and the ftse 100 is at 8296 points. >> cheers ! britannia wine club >> cheers! britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news

financial report . financial report. >> thank you very much, sam. still to come, kamala harris is leading the polls ahead of donald trump. but how will that last? this

hello. welcome back. it is 1039. yeah. time is flying . this is yeah. time is flying. this is britain's newsroom with bev turner and with me in for andrew wright. >> let's see what you are all saying at home now. >> we were discussing earlier about the fact that we've got operation more early dawn. we've got our own operation early dawn. >> very much so. yeah, indeed. >> very much so. yeah, indeed. >> but the government's operation early dawn is to allow prisoners out of prison earlier to reduce their sentences in order to make space for the new people who've been arrested in the last few weeks. and some of

you are not happy about this. sue has got in touch at home and says, why don't leroy and the rest of the lefties admit that they don't believe in do the crime, do the time for anything other than people who do not agree with their far left views? now, leroy, our police officer is not here to defend himself, so he might disagree with that. but she says opposition to the left is being stamped upon and people threatened before it can take hold. would it be bad if labour got. i thought it would be bad if labour got power, but not this bad. thank you. >> they are hitting those pensioners, aren't they? this is interesting as well because the other subject leroy was talking about was nye bevan was our child. children being strip searched and the fact that black children are more likely this is ian. good morning ian. ian says ian. good morning ian. ian says i am a black man. i've got no issue with black lads being searched most nights. most knife attacks are black on black for a variety of reasons. my suggestion is a less invasive search. hand—held metal detectors are my proposal, which would involve a quick scan for blades. very sensible suggestion. it is . suggestion. it is. >> although 90% of these searches are for drugs. now you could say if they are children, are they being used to run those

drugs for gangs? so there might absolutely be a relevant reason for a police officer to say to a 13 year old, are you carrying drugs? no officer, we're going to have to find out if you're carrying drugs. and so that i can see the circumstances under which the police might need. >> it'sjust which the police might need. >> it's just the fact that there needs to be. when you're talking about 13 year olds, there needs to be a responsible adult, 100% a parent or a guardian or someone there. you can't just strip search a 13 year old. let's face it, these are probably likely to be vulnerable children from a rather chaotic backgrounds. >> anyway. the last thing they needis >> anyway. the last thing they need is more trauma. keep your messages coming gbnews.com/yoursay. >> okay, right. okay, let's go to the other side of the pond where politics is even more madder than here. now, thousands of people are expected to travel to chicago for the 2024 democratic national convention. >> 5000 delegates and alternates are due to gather to approve a party platform, and vice president kamala harris and minnesota governor tim walz will formally accept the party's nominations. >> joining us now is amy tarkanian, former chairwoman,

chairwoman of the nevada republican party. amy, thank you so much forjoining us this so much for joining us this morning. amy, what are we expecting to happen at this congress this week? >> well, first of all, thank you for having me. secondly, you described our political atmosphere perfectly . we are atmosphere perfectly. we are quite mad over here. and it seems with every twist and turn, you know , it's unbelievable. and you know, it's unbelievable. and so i think this week the democrats are riding on an extremely high note of enthusiasm, positivity . and enthusiasm, positivity. and they're going to continue that route. and take it as far as they can. they don't even necessarily have to break down a number of policy issues at this point. as long as donald trump continues to, you know, attack the vice president on her ethnicity, on questioning if she's even valid to run for president, it's unfortunately, it's been overshadowed. so they are probably just going to touch on some bullet points.

are probably just going to touch on some bullet points . and with on some bullet points. and with their platform, i know that they're going to be focused on reproductive rights, tax credits the economy to some aspect. and then for the rest of the time we're going to hear from the who's who of the democratic party. you're going to have speakers like former president bill clinton, former president barack obama, first lady michelle obama, secretary of state hillary clinton. and then on top of that, you know, there's entertainers from hollywood, john legend, the singer has been confirmed. and of course, the wild rumours and people are keeping their fingers crossed since kamala harris walks out on stage to beyonce's freedom. people are hoping that beyonce, or even taylor swift will show up . so this is going will show up. so this is going to be quite the show for the democrats this week. >> amy, do i sense some frustration from you that even though you're a republican, you think maybe having donald trump at the head of your party might cost the republicans the

election? >> yes. and i was extremely hopeful and pleased when the last three weeks of when president biden was still considered the democratic nominee, it seemed that president trump had become quite the statesman. he was listening to strategists telling him just to strategists telling him just to remain quiet, let biden fall apart on his own. and he was doing a good job at that . but doing a good job at that. but then as soon as the top of the ticket changed on the democratic side, he has quickly gone back to his old ways of verbally lashing out and not remaining focused on the tasks at hand. >> do you think jd vance would be the better prime candidate ? be the better prime candidate? >> oh no, i was not happy with that choice either, and i think that choice either, and i think that that choice was made, out of overconfidence. i think that at that point when he was pulling, when trump was polling at a much better pace, when he was going up against biden, he chose a mini version of himself.

and we're seeing now you know, a lot of comments that are coming to the forefront. and these aren't comments that were made, you know , decades ago. these you know, decades ago. these these were made quite recent. and it's not somebody who's evolved over time. but but he's looking more like an opportunist. you know, you go from calling president trump america's hitler to all of a sudden one of the best presidents of your time. i mean, it doesn't make sense. >> okay. great to see you, amy. fascinating as always. amy tarkanian there, former chairwoman of the nevada republican party. >> it's going to be fascinating. i wonder if kamala will actually say something. all i've heard her do is whoop! yes, this is marvellous. vote for us. haven't actually heard her say anything constructive, she says just lots of contradictory sentences, which start with one thing and then kind of end with another word soup coming out, isn't it? but be interesting and say, should i get taylor swift or beyonce out there? >> that's it, that's it. >> that's it, that's it. >> then it's done, isn't it? i was hearing her talk about the fact that democracy is so strong but so fragile. that's the kind of classic kamala harris. >> what does that actually mean?

kamala >> up next, the government want misogyny to be treated as the same way as far right and islamist extremism, which seems to be heading down a rather chilling path to censorship. and what do they even mean by misogyny? and we're going to bnng misogyny? and we're going to bring you the latest, of course, on this super yacht, which has sunk off the coast of italy. more details emerging. don't go anywhere. this is britain's newsroom on

gb news. it's almost 1050. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. >> now, home secretary yvette cooper has ordered a review that will look at tackling violence against women and girls in the same way as far right and islamist extremism. but could a new law cracking down on misogyny threaten free speech? well, to discuss this further is deputy director for the free speech union, ben jones, who

joins us now. >> morning, ben. thank you for joining us. right. can you explain if you can, what the government are proposing here? because my understanding is that if a teacher, for instance, sees a boy in the class who might be heading down the route of, say, islamic extremism, they would report that child to prevent program is what we're looking at here. teachers being encouraged to snoop on boys and to grasp them in for what might just be finding out who they are as a man and how they feel about girls and women. >> yes , that's exactly right. we >> yes, that's exactly right. we need to see the detail of what the government is proposing. but i think what the suggestions we've seen so far are likely to be incredibly censorious. i think they are going to start treating boys and young men as potential terrorists who are, in fact, completely innocent and engagedin fact, completely innocent and engaged in perhaps distasteful but laddish banter of the sort that just goes on, and i think

we can also see that there has been part of this process with the prevent programme that was set up primarily to tackle islamist extremism. of course, this country has a has a gigantic problem with islamist extremism. as we have seen frequently in these protests in london every saturday now for nearly a year. and i think what's going to happen is that the prevent programme is going to continue to have this phenomenon of mission creep where it is capturing more and more innocent people in this dragnet. and to give one example, i mean , we have seen example, i mean, we have seen christians who have been referred to the prevent programme because they don't believe in gay marriage, which of course, nowadays is a minority view. most people do accept gay marriage, but nonetheless it remains the right of people for religious or other reasons , to say that marriage is reasons, to say that marriage is between a man or a woman. nonetheless we've seen teachers like doctor bernard randall for instance, referred to prevent for being extremists, for holding that view. >> ben, what worries me about this , i mean, you know, reform this, i mean, you know, reform the prevent programme has been

proven not to be fit for purpose. i mean , that's several purpose. i mean, that's several inquiries have proven that particular point. but what what worried me was yvette cooper's turn of phrase at the weekend, where she says, we are looking at hateful beliefs . so this is at hateful beliefs. so this is literally 1984, come to come to life, isn't it? >> yeah, absolutely. and we've seen just in the last six weeks from this government an absolute onslaught on freedom of speech. we've seen the scrapping at the attempted scrapping of the freedom of speech act that would protect free speech at universities. we have this proposal for a definition of islamophobia that would be a de facto blasphemy law. we now have this proposal for misogyny being treated under the prevent programme. we've had this incredibly draconian approach to freedom of speech following the protests and following the riots. we have to ask what is going to come down the track next? >> so the problem is , ben, no >> so the problem is, ben, no one's no one's defined what extreme misogyny actually is or even the word misogyny. >> ben . because i don't know

>> ben. because i don't know about you, but i find that word deeply troubling. if you are a little bit sexist or you don't promote the woman in the office because it just hasn't occurred to you because you're more inclined to promote the men or you don't network with women, it might just be that that gets described as misogyny, whereas you may not hate women at all. you may really, really like women. and these practical issues which affect women , issues which affect women, genden issues which affect women, gender, pay gap, child care issues predominantly for feet of women. all this noise around what you're thinking is doing nothing to practically help women's lives. >> the other issue related to that is, of course, that if you look at the statements of labour cabinet ministers and members of parliament on the trans debate and one of the first things that occurred to me about this definition is it going to include trans women as well? are we going to get to the farcical position where expressing gender critical beliefs, i.e. believe in biological reality? and are we going to get to the point

where expressing that sort of view is going to be treated as a misogynistic hate crime? and from the last six weeks, i don't think we can trust this government to do anything with any common sense or reasonableness or any sense of proportionality when it comes to freedom of speech. as i said, we've seen this absolute onslaught. okay, lovely. >> thanks, ben. ben jones from the free speech union. we knew it was gonna be bad under laboun it was gonna be bad under labour. i had no idea it was going to be this bad. >> no, i know. okay, more to come on. the yacht capsizing in the mediterranean. but up to the weather now . weather now. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news . news. >> hello and welcome to your latest gb news, weather update from the met office. a change in the weather on monday for many of us. still dry across far eastern parts , but there will be eastern parts, but there will be rain arriving from the west and it will be turning windy. so the far southeast and eastern parts of england still quite a dry and bright start to the day, but

it's going to be cloudy and turning steadily wetter and windier as we head through the rest of monday, particularly going to be turning quite windy through the irish sea gales arriving here through the afternoon, and we have a rain warning in force as well for parts of southwest scotland. under that cloud and rain, we're going to be seeing temperatures at best in the mid or high teens, but it will be still quite warm across southeast england heading through the rest of the day. we do still have some warm evening sunshine on offer for the southeast of england, but we already have some quite heavy, showery rain moving into southwest england and to wales as well. very damp across northern ireland and north—west england. and this is where we have the warning in force across southwest scotland through this evening. difficult driving conditions with that rain as well , a touch conditions with that rain as well, a touch lighter conditions with that rain as well , a touch lighter across the well, a touch lighter across the northeast. but again it's going to be a damp evening for most with that strong wind as well . with that strong wind as well. through the rest of monday evening, that rain is going to continue to sink south and eastwards as we head through the evening and it will turn a little bit, clearer from the

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gb news. >> it's 11:00 gb news. >> it's11:00 on monday gb news. >> it's 11:00 on monday the 19th >> it's11:00 on monday the 19th of august. live across the uk. this is britain's newsroom with me bev turner and dawn neesom in for andrew pierce. >> and indeed the breaking story this morning. british super yacht sinks. one person is dead and six are still missing after and six are still missing after a boat carrying mostly british people was caught in a tornado and sank off the coast of palermo in italy . palermo in italy. >> well, italian rescue services have confirmed that the body recovered is that of a man, and they are now searching inside they are now searching inside the yacht with dive teams . the yacht with dive teams. >> an operation early dawn emergency measures to prevent overcrowding in prisons has been triggered as more rioters are sentenced. but is this just another of sir keir starmer's sticking plaster solutions? >> and across the pond ? vice >> and across the pond? vice president kamala harris leads donald trump in the polls as she prepares for her headline moment at the democratic national convention. and that starts tonight. >> and prince harry and meghan markle have left columbia. the

verdict is out on whether their pubuc verdict is out on whether their public tour was a success. i'm sure in their opinion, it very much was. >> their censored tour, where the only journalist reporting on it was from a glossy magazine and a friend of the couple. who'd a thunk it? hey, yeah, the control that they are trying to exert over their image to the world is just extraordinary. the best quote from a journalist who did actually get to talk to some people out there was from a local who said, what are they even doing here? yeah yeah, some of the even apparently some of the, the local dignitaries there didn't know who they were. i know who'd have thunk it. but they thought it was successful. >> i'm sure they did. i'm sure they did. they think everything they did. they think everything they do is successful. right. get in touch at home. gbnews.com/yoursay first, though, the very latest news with sam francis .

with sam francis. >> dawn, beth, thank you very much indeed. 11:02 and the top story this morning is, of course, that breaking news coming out of sicily, that one person has died and six still missing after a luxury yacht sank off the coast of palermo when it was struck by a tornado at around sunrise. the british registered 56 metre bayocean, had 22 people on board, ten crew members, 12 passengers, including british, american and canadian nationals. 15 including british, american and canadian nationals . 15 survivors canadian nationals. 15 survivors have been taken to hospital , have been taken to hospital, including a one year old child and the mother . they have been and the mother. they have been rescued and are believed to be in a stable condition at this stage. as we heard at the top of the hour, divers are now combing the hour, divers are now combing the waters as search efforts continue around the wreck, which currently lies 50m deep below the water and around half a mile off of the coast. well, as we look at these latest pictures into us from the scene, let's hear from meteorologist jim dale, who told us earlier that

the weather in the area was treacherous. >> it was a danger zone, so i don't know what what the situation was on this particular yacht, whether they had a meteorologist on board or anybody who was, was was , was, anybody who was, was was, was, was trained. but sometimes these things do occur , particularly things do occur, particularly this, this type of event, a waterspout is quite unusual. so if it if it hit directly then it would have been a little bit of a, let's just say a catastrophic impact. and obviously has been and plenty more on that story with our homeland security security editor mark white this morning. >> well, here there'll be no punishment for anyone safely handung punishment for anyone safely handling zombie knives and machetes. back to the police stations ahead of a new ban. restrictions come in next month. the government, though, has stopped short of making ninja swords illegal because it insists that will happen soon. policing minister dame diana johnson says the public should do the right thing and surrender any dangerous weapon, arguing that there is no legitimate need to have them . a new report from

to have them. a new report from the children's commissioner has found one child is strip searched by police in england and wales every 14 hours. figures suggest over 3000 strip searches were carried out on children by police forces between january 2018 and june of last year, around 1 in 20 cases, they say weren't compliant with they say weren't compliant with the legal codes of practice and black children were also over four times more likely to be strip searched than white children . prisons minister lord children. prisons minister lord timpson claims he's inherited a justice system in crisis, as plans to address overcrowding in jails have been activated in northern ireland this morning . northern ireland this morning. operation early dawn will see defendants who are remanded in custody and waiting for a court appearance held in police cells for longer. it's separate, though, to the early release scheme for some offenders, which kicks in next month . more than kicks in next month. more than half of people think britain is heading in the wrong direction, as an opinion poll suggests a drop in support for the new

labour government. an equal percentage of adults have a favourable or unfavourable view of sir keir starmer, with 38% on both sides. rishi sunak and the conservatives ratings haven't changed since the general election . in other news, the election. in other news, the prime minister insists support for ukraine is unwavering after volodymyr zelenskyy suggested that the uk is backing its aid and slowing down. it comes after ukrainian forces destroyed a second bridge in the kursk region as forces continue their incursion into russian territory. it's thought the move is aimed at creating a buffer zone between the two countries. well, during an overnight address, the ukrainian president praised his troops for their efforts and also called for the removal of restrictions on donated weapons that are being used against russia . in the us, used against russia. in the us, the democratic national convention is kicking off in chicago later today, where kamala harris will be officially announced as the party's nominee for the us presidential election. that's after last month donald trump was confirmed

as the republicans pick. that was just a few days after he survived an assassination attempt. americans are set to head to the polls in november, and our us correspondent steve edgington is in washington, dc. for us, where he says the dnc will be a critical test for the party. >> this is unprecedented. there has been democratic primaries or votes for their candidacy for the last, you know , decade, a the last, you know, decade, a few decades. and this time around , kamala harris has not around, kamala harris has not won any democratic primaries. she's been installed as the candidate by, essentially, president biden and barack obama. so this is a real key test for the democrats. she's almost certainly going to get the candidacy . and she's also the candidacy. and she's also chosen her vice president nominee, tim waltz , a 20 year nominee, tim waltz, a 20 year old man, has been charged with murder and of a sexual offence on a dead body. >> police found a woman who'd been stabbed at a home in dartford in kent, early on saturday morning and

ostaszewska, from the same town, is due in court today in worcester. 55 year old woman has been accused of being part of a global monkey torture network that paid people overseas to kill baby monkeys online. adriana orme is charged with posting 26 videos and one image of the animals being tortured, sending those images to a chat group. the 37 year old, a 37 year old woman, has already pleaded guilty earlier this year after an investigation into separate animal torture charges . separate animal torture charges. the remnants of hurricane ernesto are set to batter parts of the uk this week, bringing winds of up to 60 miles an hour and heavy rain. a yellow weather warning has been issued for parts of scotland that covers the southwest of the country from this afternoon, and the north—west for most of wednesday and thursday . those are the and thursday. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm sam francis. your next update from the newsroom just after half past 11 for the very

latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> thank you very much, sam. hello and welcome this is britain's newsroom live across the united kingdom on gb news with bev turner and me dawn neesom. >> so back to this breaking news. this morning that one person has lost their life at live and live and six people are missing after a yacht carrying mostly british people was caught in a tornado and sank off the coast of palermo. >> joining us now is our home security editor, mark white to bnng security editor, mark white to bring us up to date on this breaking story. mark, can you bnng breaking story. mark, can you bring us up to date on the latest developments? >> yes, well, it's the italian fire service that coordinates search and rescue operations across italy. they've been very proactive in getting latest video out there. they've sent us some of the latest video now that we can show you, which shows that operation off the

coast of sicily, this vessel went down about 4:35 am. in the morning when this bad weather struck, and you can see there these are the dive teams that are heading out to the site , the are heading out to the site, the very latest information we've got from the italian fire and rescue service is that the body of a man was recovered on the seabed, we believe outside the yacht, next to the yacht. but those dive teams that you can see just gearing up there to get into the water to continue that search again, and this is rather sad and grim to news bring you those that fire and rescue spokesperson has told italian media that those divers had seen bodies inside the yacht. they

could see them through the portholes in the yacht . and so portholes in the yacht. and so there is now an operation underway to get inside that yacht because of course, the hope always has to be that there may be an air pocket or two inside that yacht, that there might still be survivors inside the vessel, but not good in terms of the information coming out from the italian search. and rescue service that they have seen bodies inside the vessel. it's incredible. >> it does sound like it was very qatar. you can see the latest pictures there. it sounds like a complete catastrophe that it happened so fast. a local fishermen said they saw what happened , how the yacht capsized happened, how the yacht capsized but didn't find any passengers. and they raised the alarm and said, we went there straight away. but all we found was cushions, wood and materials from the boat . literally, it from the boat. literally, it disappeared before their eyes. by disappeared before their eyes. by the sounds of it. it all happened very suddenly. >> i'm not sure if we've got this image. hopefully we are. there's an image that is the

last image taken that's known to have been taken off the yacht last night. it was taken, very late last night, and it shows the yacht actually all lit up. it's a still image showing that yacht at night . there you can yacht at night. there you can see the very tall mast from the yacht. it's out in the bay. there and this, we're told, was really just half an hour or so before that storm struck, there were reports from people that they could see the yacht lit up one moment, and then suddenly it had disappeared from view. so if these reports of a tornado are correct or a waterspout, as it would have been out to sea are correct, then it can clearly strike very suddenly and those on board would have had no time to react. >> this boat mark, i'm looking at pictures of it online. here is was so beautiful. one of

those incredible luxury yachts. if you're listening on the radio, it's very difficult. you know let's just describe it. it's like a navy blue, a dark blue hull, beautiful wooden deck . blue hull, beautiful wooden deck. the white i don't my i'm afraid my terminology around boats is not great, but the beautiful white central part of the boat, very distinctive silver sails, enormous. 180 foot yacht. we know there were ten crew on board and 12 passengers. and it's called the bayesian as we know. do we know who owns it, mark. >> well, all we know is it's british flagged and we're looking at more videos that describe perfectly the description that you were giving there . bev, this is a proper there. bev, this is a proper yacht. there. bev, this is a proper yacht . so we often think of yacht. so we often think of super yachts. we think of these big vulgar vessels that are owned often by russian billionaires. and they're not yachts at all. they're motorised. this of course, it will have a motor on board, but

it's designed as a sailing yacht with those sleek lines, those tall masts to be able to catch the wind and of course, people pay the wind and of course, people pay many hundreds of thousands of pounds to get on these yachts to and enjoy the holiday of a lifetime . so without a doubt, lifetime. so without a doubt, the people on board this yacht will have been able to afford a very lavish trip on this particular boat and on this particular boat and on this particular yacht , but we don't particular yacht, but we don't know who actually owns it . know who actually owns it. whether people just apparently the yacht itself has been advertised on these super yacht magazines as being for rent. so you would then imagine it stands to reason that it's not the owners of the yacht who would have been on board, but people who have spent a very significant sum of money to hire the vessel for however long it is. >> if you're listening on radio, it is one of those boats. if

you're on holiday and you're walking round a harbour or marina, you would stop and go, wow! and you'd take a picture of it. it's one of those boats. mark white thank you very much. now let's go live to italy to talk to italian journalist paolo diana, to bring us up to date on what is actually happening on the ground out there. hello. thank you very much for joining us.can thank you very much for joining us. can you. it's an awful, tragic story and thoughts with everyone involved. obviously can you bring us up to date with what's happening in italy at the moment? >> it is a horrible tragedy, so far we know that they helped, one girl who was who is a one year old girl, and she's in hospital with her mother and the father as well. they are in good conditions or considered . so conditions or considered. so they were rescued. but yeah, they were rescued. but yeah, they are still six. people that are not found and their bodies inside the yacht. and we know that the yacht is under the water. 49m down. so i think we

will have more news, today, dunng will have more news, today, during the course of the day , during the course of the day, and we will know if they will find someone who is still alive, it's such a tragedy because from what we know, everyone was sleeping in their cabins, and the storm struck around five in the storm struck around five in the morning, and it broke the sailing mast. the morning, and it broke the sailing mast . that's why. then sailing mast. that's why. then the yacht went unbalanced, and, and the people who could jump into the water, they saved themselves basically . but the themselves basically. but the ones who couldn't were sleeping. they were trapped, it's a very sad tragedy. >> but, paola, how how popular are these sorts of holiday trips in this area around sicily to charter these beautiful boats? >> well, they're very popular and around, sicily, there are many beautiful islands. so with a yacht of 57m, you can assume they were going on a cruise

around these islands. and it should be safe. the problem is that the yacht was anchored in the harbour. so in, in deep water, it wasn't really, in the most secure place. and unfortunately, we know that now the weather has become more tropical in italy. yeah, many people know that. but actually, there are many more storms now, compared to the past. there are many more storms now, compared to the past . and we compared to the past. and we know that whenever you are on a yacht, even if it's a luxury yacht, even if it's a luxury yacht, you are in danger. if you are, anchored in the harbour. >> and what do we know any more about the nationalities of the people on the yacht ? people on the yacht? >> well, i heard that there were, one new zealanders. citizen, two anglo french , citizen, two anglo french, citizens and one from sri lanka and the others were are british. >> right. so is it. so we don't

know the i mean, i'm assuming those were the crew and it was a british family or a british group of friends that had rented the yacht out for their holiday. >> yes, exactly . yeah. and there >> yes, exactly. yeah. and there are ten people of the crew. so it was definitely a well staffed yacht and no one ever thought it could have happened. and there was another yacht next to this one in the harbour when the storm struck. and in fact , the storm struck. and in fact, the people of this yacht helped. they were the first one helping, the ones who jumped into the water. it's such a terrible tragedy. we really hope we will find the six missing, >> it's a terrible tragedy, as you say, paolo. and very unusual, actually. it sounds. it sounds very much like one of those incidents where it is nature red in tooth and claw. this is the might of the weather and the ocean, which can just happenin and the ocean, which can just happen in a moment and luckily does remain very rare. how unusual will it be for the

coastguard to deal with this sort of incident, and how well equipped and prepared would they be for this sort of event? >> well , it's definitely be for this sort of event? >> well, it's definitely unusual because, we never heard about something similar in the past. definitely 10 or 20 years. it's really , destiny. we might say. really, destiny. we might say. tragic or destiny, but definitely around palermo , the, definitely around palermo, the, the coastal, maritime forces, they're really, really good. and they're really, really good. and they're used to, help, you know, fishermen's and yachts and of course , help boats in the middle course, help boats in the middle of the mediterranean sea. so they're very well equipped and we know they're doing everything they can to, to save , the they can to, to save, the survivors. let's hope for this . survivors. let's hope for this. >> okay. brilliant, >> okay. brilliant, >> italian journalist paolo diana . they're bringing us up to diana. they're bringing us up to speed on that story, which is a houday speed on that story, which is a holiday heaven turned holiday hell. >> it's just horrific , isn't it? >> it's just horrific, isn't it? and as i said, thoughts with

everyone. and if you are worried, please do get in touch with the italian embassy if you need any help and advice on. are you worried about maybe people you worried about maybe people you know on holiday out there? we will continue to bring you updates on that story throughout the show. >> that's right. but up next, we're also going to be discussing whether sir keir starmer has given up on ukraine. zelenskyy certainly putting him under more pressure. this is britain's newsroom live across the uk on gb news

>> welcome back. it is 1122. this is britain's newsroom live across the united kingdom with dawn neesom and bev turner. >> did they just catch me putting my seat up there? yes, i'm afraid we came in and i said, oh, you're very old. >> and i was trying to slump and hope no one would notice. i look, you're taller than andrew pierce, right? >> we are joined in the studio by former labour adviser, matthew laza writer and journalist emma woolf in the

studio. right. what do you want to talk about, guys, we've obviously we've been trying to play obviously we've been trying to play with our chairs for the day. >> just go up and down on the chairs. matthew. >> that's misogyny. there's so much going on. let's talk about the misogyny. yes. the idea , the misogyny. yes. the idea, emma, that saying something which might be sexist, not necessarily misogynistic. i have a real problem with that word. i think it's used too liberally. it doesn't mean anything might actually end. you find you having a knock at the door now. what's going on? what are we doing with labour? >> seem to be obsessed with onune >> seem to be obsessed with online at the moment, don't they?! online at the moment, don't they? i mean, there's so much crime and misogyny and violence towards women and girls, which i think we can all agree is absolutely unacceptable happening in real life irl. but labour's focus and maybe matthew can explain this. labour's focus at the moment seems to be hurty words, offensive stuff online. they seem to be really going for it online. so this is the home secretary. yvette cooper is now claiming many young people are being radicalised into misogyny by misogynistic influencers. so again, it's online and in real

life. i mean, people like andrew tate is what she's talking about. yeah but as ann widdecombe has been pointing out, lots of this stuff is happening. we have laws against violence towards women and girls, which is, you know, absolutely not acceptable. we have laws. we have laws against misogynistic hate speech. actually, if you're preaching misogyny that can be prosecuted as well is already part of the prevention programme. and she's saying, yeah, she's saying enforce this stuff, stop inventing new laws and new restrictions around all this stuff online. and actually, let's look at the problem. let can we just reflect on the fact that we have record low conviction rates for real crime, like rape, like domestic violence, domestic abuse towards women and girls , towards women and girls, towards misogyny, all of that stuff. we have a lot of laws within the workplace against misogyny, which is where people have often, you know, seen misogyny and sexism happening. but this obsession at the moment with with incitement online, i don't understand why labour have become so. >> it's because it's dead easy

and it costs no money. matthew. that's the problem. if you want to deal with boys self—esteem, boys with low self—esteem are the ones who deride women and say nasty sexual things about them. the boys with no self—esteem. what do those boys how do they get self—esteem? good sports facilities, good music facilities at school, youth clubs, local mentors in the area. all that stuff takes time and investment. much easier to say, i'm going to shut up andrew tate and look like i'm doing something online. >> well, i think you need to do both. i certainly think you absolutely need to. we've seen youth services hollowed out. we've seen absolutely the things that connect people because of course, everybody was i mean, young people were had two years when they weren't allowed to most of the time to go out and socialise in the way that they would have done before . i mean, would have done before. i mean, i think i don't think this is labour saying that if you're going to crack a sexist joke on twitter, you're going to be banged up. is it? totally is. i think, i think, i think it's been overreported, but it is saying that people like andrew andrew tate are going to be treated like terrorism because of course, what we have seen in other countries is incel

terrorism. we've seen attacks. i mean, you know , a lot of mean, you know, a lot of shooters in the state, terrorism, then . terrorism, then. >> absolutely. if you are going to go and stab women in the street, be arrested, throw away the key. as far as i'm concerned, if you're andrew tate onune concerned, if you're andrew tate online saying things which might you might find unpalatable, i want to hear them. >> i think i think , i think i'm >> i think i think, i think i'm saying things that are unpalatable is one thing. i think saying things that incite people to violence is another thing. so we'll have to see exactly where in the proposed if there are proposed changes. at there are proposed changes. at the moment, it's just a review where the line is drawn. so the problem, matthew, is with no one's defined what extreme misogyny is yvette cooper couldn't define it. >> but she she actually used it. she actually used she. absolutely. she actually used the phrase hateful beliefs. what does that she's equating it with far right and islamist extremism. >> she's equating misogyny and misogynistic influencers with far right and islamist extremism. it's very strange. and then also to be locking people up for this kind of stuff while we're emptying the prisons of people who have actually

committed actual violent and violent acts and criminal. >> well, one of the things they've done is they were originally going to they were originally going to they were originally going to make sort of misogyny as a generally punishable offence, and that's actually been dropped, quietly dropped. so i think what they're trying to do is say, okay, we're not going to sort of criminalise everyday misogyny, as it were, but we're going to we're going to clamp down on the most egregious examples, which we think , are basically inciting think, are basically inciting people to do violence. i mean, that's, that's that's what they're thinking is where is the line? >> who are they to say, what is misogyny? who are they? there's this trend in america, particularly at the moment of tradwives. i'm sure you've seen it. yeah. this is traditional wives. this is women. and it often has a very christian undercurrent. women who want to stay at home, have children, have loads of children, be there when their husband comes home at the end of the day, dresses, wearing a nice dress, and they're very old. there's even a gay version of it as well. and there's well, there might be for now, but they're a 1950s version of what womanhood looks like , of what womanhood looks like, right? yvette cooper would say thatis

right? yvette cooper would say that is misogynistic. >> i mean, i think it's very difficult because if she's just saying that, it's that it's that it's people's hateful beliefs. you cannot criminalise beliefs. you cannot criminalise beliefs. you cannot criminalise beliefs. you can criminalise incitement to hatred. you can criminalise incitement to violence, but you can't criminalise beliefs you want to stay in. so i'd say to my law, you've got to be very careful, particularly at the moment after we've seen with the riots and it's a slightly unrelated story, but today it looks like it could be the end of the office party, because angela rayner is clamping down on harassment at work, quite rightly. but will that tip over into saying you can't have the office christmas party? now, some of us may say that was a great relief. although i enjoyed the gb news christmas party, the only office party i've ever enjoyed, but that's because it's the only one you're invited to. >> matthew. let's be honest. no, but it's no. that's always a bit mean. sorry. that's being misandrist isn't it? >> that's i don't well, i won't tell you. i mean, when i was, when i worked for the leader of the labour party, i was and this is absolutely in the secret santa. it wasn't the leader who was who picked me out of the hat. somebody actually got me a blow up sex doll. can you imagine that in the in this

decade? but it is an interesting ihave decade? but it is an interesting i have a very important question. >> was the was the sex doll male or female? >> it was appropriate. okay. >> it was appropriate. okay. >> good. i was just checking. >> good. i was just checking. >> i was wondering where that one was going. >> can i just point out i left it on the table and one of my female colleagues took took, took, took it with them. >> but you weren't offended by that? >> no, but i mean, it's the sort of thing that now would see that person cancelled. yeah. >> and should it i mean, i think that was probably on the edge, particularly as they got a female member of staff to go and buy it, take them to soho. >> but it was i mean, it didn't i mean, that was one of my favourite colleagues who did it. so exactly. >> it's, you know, it is the thought police, isn't it? but the serious side of this story is that a woman is killed by a man every three days in the uk, and that's why i mentioned there is real domestic abuse and violence going on, and that every day on our streets and rape convictions are at an all time low. >> and yet we're talking about the online stuff and there is also so we do need to i mean, as bev says, we do need to support that, you know, the next generation of men trolling boys now, police should be out on the streets. they should be going after people who are committing crimes, not just they should be

increasing the prosecution rate. absolutely. through social media all day long. we agree they're not trained for that. >> it's also just bear in mind this women have been killed in these numbers for decades. before andrew tate was on the internet. like this hasn't changed. and this is what's behind the andrew what social media takes away people's personal empowerment? >> well, in many ways we've seen attitudes to women change massively since, you know, since i was a child, you know, clearly women are much more empowered now, quite correctly , now, quite correctly, >> and so maybe i'm not sure i agree with that . agree with that. >> but what is behind the andrew tate phenomenon is the thing that i've been banging on about for months, which is this addiction , children and young addiction, children and young peoples screen addiction, and the fact that they're at home, they're alone, they're anxious, they're alone, they're anxious, they're depressed, and they're staring at people like the pandemic online. if they were out on the playing fields or in a youth club, they wouldn't be looking at this nonsense on their phones. >> if this if this government were remotely serious about this and the effect on young boys and girls. i've said it before, i don't like banning things, but you need to ban smartphones for the under 16. you need to make them socially unacceptable so that 13 year old boys are not sat in their room watching pornography and thinking, is

that what i'm meant to do with a woman one day? because the chances are it's probably not. >> and that's what fuels misogyny. >> yeah, and lots of lots of people. you are agreeing, richard. blaming people online is a distraction to look like they are doing something when they are doing something when they aren't. this is headline stuff, not tackling what's actually going on. >> right? matt. emma, thank you so much . >> right? matt. emma, thank you so much. right. >> right? matt. emma, thank you so much . right. still to come so much. right. still to come this morning. prince harry and meghan markle. they've left columbia. the verdict is out on whether their public tour was a success. >> success. >> we'll be keeping you up to date on the british superyacht that has sunk off the coast of italy. but time now for the news headunes italy. but time now for the news headlines with sam francis . headlines with sam francis. >> very good morning to you. just after half past 11 and the top story of the day, one person has died, six people still missing after a british flagged superyacht sank off the coast of sicily. it's understood the vessel capsized when it got caught up in a tornado just after sunrise. 15 survivors, including one child and the

mother, were rescued. they're now in a stable condition in a local hospital . however, divers local hospital. however, divers are still combing the waters as search efforts continue around the wreck, which lies 50m deep and half a mile off the coast. if you're watching on television there, you can see some unfortunately distressing images of that body being recovered . of that body being recovered. meanwhile, some more breaking news for you this time. coming to us from manchester. a 22 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a triple stabbing there last night. a 43 year old woman died at the scene. a 17 year old girl and a 64 year old man are still in a critical condition after suffering serious stab wounds. police say they are treating that attack as isolated, but at this stage they believe the suspect was known to the victims . suspect was known to the victims. detectives are now appealing for any witnesses or dash cam footage from barnard road in the

gorton area . there'll be no gorton area. there'll be no punishment for anyone safely handing zombie knives and machetes into police stations ahead of a new ban. restrictions come in next month, but the government stopped short of making ninja swords illegal, insisting that will happen soon. policing minister dame diana johnson says the public should do the right thing and surrender any dangerous weapon, arguing there's no legitimate need to have them . the children's have them. the children's commissioner says police forces should only strip search a child when it's a life threatening situation. a report out today suggests there's a new case every 14 hours in england and wales, and 1 in 20 of those searches don't follow procedure. the prison governors association says it's not sure whether emergency measures introduced today will help tackle overcrowding in jails . operation overcrowding in jails. operation early dawn has been triggered in the north of england, as more people are sentenced for their part in the riots. earlier this month , the ukrainian president

month, the ukrainian president claims the uk's support for the war effort is slowing down as he appealed for more aid. the prime minister, sir keir starmer, though, maintains there is unwavering support for ukraine and says that position has not changed since its incursion into russia and parents in england are facing higher fines from today if their children are taken out of school without permission. penalties have now increased to £80 for every five days of absence, which will rise to £160 if unpaid within three weeks. nearly 40,000 fines were issued between 2022 and 23, most of those for unauthorised holidays . those are the latest holidays. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'll be back with you at midday for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com. >> forward slash alerts .

>> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> thank you very much , sam. and >> thank you very much, sam. and now we've got a real treat for you coming up at noon. a good afternoon britain with emma and emily, another teen girl combo i know. teen girl loving this girl . know. teen girl loving this girl. >> so what if there aren't any misogynists out there? i'm sure there are not our viewers. >> so what's coming up in your show? >> we've got a few talking points today, don't we? i don't know if you've heard the last night of the proms now, there's always a controversy around this, whether you're allowed to sing rule britannia or whether you're allowed to sing jerusalem. but this year, apparently, ticket holders may have any protest flags confiscated. so you're not allowed to bring a protest flag. but what exactly is a protest ? but what exactly is a protest? >> that's my question. what is it? could be the union flag. bev turner. >> oh, no, it'll be palestinian flag. >> i think they're trying to get rid of the palestinian flags. what about the european union flag? is that now a protest flag? is that now a protest flag? yes, because we are out of the european union. >> so waving that around last year didn't loads of people, they were handing them out as you went in i thought so. >> so the question is, rather

than having people waving a israeli flag and a palestinian flag and maybe getting into a brawl at the proms, why did they not just say only the union flag? >> i would have it. only the union flag and commonwealth. >> there were people being offended by the union flag. >> well, this is the thing we're going to debate whether only union flags should be allowed at the british prom. but what about the british prom. but what about the english flag? >> well, they say that the flag of saint george is a protest flag. >> well, in any context, a flag can be a protest, can't it, so, anyway, what are we leaving? would you leave? would you leave your pet lots of money in your will? >> no. >> no. >> if i was left a pet with a load of money that had inherited the pet wouldn't last long. i'm just saying . oh, well, just just saying. oh, well, just putting that out there now. >> lagerfeld reportedly left ,1.2 million to his cat. i think it being pampered at the it was being pampered at the palace of versailles ever since. so there you go. so that's a fun one. i think if you want to look ahead to your will, which perhaps is a little depressing, but personally think if you've if you've got that to money leave to your cat, why not.

>> if i did, i would would you of course i would. love for i'm not going to be her friend to be pampered at versailles. no. >> what about. what about your friends? >> friends? yes. i'd be happy to take your all. your inheritance? yes >> you could look after my cat. >> you could look after my cat. >> on a more serious note, our labour capitulating to the trade unions. it very much looks like it. of course. they've been funding the campaign since before the general election, because they've had so much money from the unions. >> and now they're doling out all of the taxpayer cash. >> brilliant. and you can't say pet anymore. the geordie slang at newcastle university, of all places. >> they have told students that because of diversity and inclusion , the word pet is off inclusion, the word pet is off limits. i always thought pet was quite a gender term. oh, wow. >> all right sweetheart, so a few things to get you going. >> thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> oh, my. >> oh, my. >> amazing. right. all that from midday. and we're going to be keeping you updated for the next 20 minutes or so in this search for the survivors of this british super yacht, which has sunk off the coast of italy. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. don't go anywhere yet

>> welcome back. it's 1141 and this is britain's newsroom on gb news with bev turner and dawn neesom. >> some breaking news now in the story of the british superyacht sinking, the foreign office have released a statement which says we are in contact with the local authorities following an incident in sicily and stand ready to provide consular support to british nationals affected . affected. affected. affected. >> right, okay. i mean, we will bnng >> right, okay. i mean, we will bring you up to date story on that as it happens. so please don't go too far. but for now we are going to talk about another story. and that is the duke and duchess of sussex who have finished their semi royal tour of colombia, continuing around the south american country. the duchess of sussex said that their daughter lilibet has finally found her voice . she's finally found her voice. she's three, by the way she was

speaking. >> i just have to have a minute to just take that in. speaking on a panel at an afro, women in power event, meghan markle said she was so proud that her daughter has found her voice and feels empowered by it. do you think that's when she's like asking for a rice cake? or can they put on nickelodeon? >> no, she's stating her feminist principles. i was reading between the lines of what meghan was saying, and i think that's what she's on about, because this is about empowering women, even when you're three. some people have said it's sanctimonious waffle, not us. obviously but we're joined now by colombian journalist juan david botero to how was it ? juan, thank you very how was it? juan, thank you very much for joining how was it? juan, thank you very much forjoining us. first of much for joining us. first of all, how has the tour gone down in colombia ? in colombia? >> good morning to you and to all your viewers. thank you for inviting me. well, a harry and meghan, they began their tour, four days of activities by showing the women, like you said . showing the women, like you said. and we see this visit in a

different way. you know, we don't have any expectations of , don't have any expectations of, royalty, of any expectations of their visit, like a, i don't know, like a different view, like, like, like you have a i think the visit of meghan. excuse me . excuse me. >> we can carry on. carry on. we can hear you. >> okay. a the visit of meghan and harry has an important meaning, especially for the invitation that made that made vice president francia marquez. i think a the special subject of this visit is the women and the cyber violence that have the digital environment. and that's the point we can solve the, the harry, the prince, harry and meghan markle in different activities and in different conversations with the social leaders and foundation. and that's like a little bit of the

resume of their visit. >> do we know why they chose colombia ? one, were they invited colombia? one, were they invited there because of this conference going on, or was it their choice to factor this into their schedule? do you think ? schedule? do you think? >> no. >> no. >> this invitation, it's planning or it's in the agenda of vice president francia marquez. like a year ago. they have been trying to invite , have been trying to invite, prince harry and meghan , but for prince harry and meghan, but for their agenda, they cannot be in their agenda, they cannot be in the country for 2023. but, the invitation, like you said, began like, from netflix series. that vice president francis marcos. so. and she she saw in in meghan especially a like the woman fight for the rights and for after the pandemic in in the uk royalty i imagine a francia marquez saw a history that she

can bring us to colombian people to know a little better. what is the role of the of the woman in that environment of royalty, polemic and in environment of a political leadership or a social leadership , if you can call it leadership, if you can call it like that? oh, come on, it did. >> colombia obviously is a country that has its problems. certainly financially there's a lot of very poor people . now, lot of very poor people. now, this this tour has cost quite a bit of money. helicopters here and there are, cars all over the place. are people a bit annoyed about how much money is actually being spent on harry and meghan there? are they quite happy to have them there? >> well , the majority of people >> well, the majority of people like, you know, it's like a semi show. >> of course . no. so a lot of >> of course. no. so a lot of people is happy because we don't have this type of visits in colombia . and it's like, colombia. and it's like, something strange for us that a couple near to our royal family came to our country and, and

have a relationship with our government. but in the other way, yes. like like, you know, this is a polemic government that a spend a lot of money in, in different things. that doesn't help the people, especially in my opinion , this especially in my opinion, this visit cost us $2 million from our taxes and, i'm not happy with that. i'm happy with the subject of a royal power and in in meghan and in vice president francis marquez. but i think that we could make the things different to be a visit with much less money. you know , and i much less money. you know, and i think it's not the right way to make that visit , but it sent a make that visit, but it sent a present or a president, sorry, a to make things better for the future with visits like that.

>> okay. thank you so much . >> okay. thank you so much. colombian journalist juan david botero, $2 million of taxpayers money. >> wow. and they haven't got a lot of money in colombia. and they've got lots and lots of problems, especially with crime. >> yeah, right. stay with us this morning. we're going to be keeping you up to date with what's happening in sicily after this superyacht sank, with one person confirmed dead and six missing, some of them believed to be britons. britain's newsroom on

gb news. something a little different now. one of the last stilton cheese makers . cheese makers. >> tummies rumbling. >> tummies rumbling. >> we're sitting here talking about this as well, is at risk of closing after its parent company announced that it may stop production. our east midlands reporter, will hollis, has this story from leicestershire. of course , leicestershire. of course, stilton is one of britain's best loved foods. >> the salty cheese with blue centre can only be made in the

east midlands, but is exported around the world. richard is head cheesemaker at long clawson dairy . dairy. >> this has got a nice even blowing radiating from the centre of the cheese all the way to the outside. it's got an open, flaky texture. this cheese will break down to make a superb stilton. >> over ten years, the number of stilton makers has halved, with the market shrinking by 15% in june. danish food giants arla announced a proposal to cease production at its site in melton mowbray . tuxford and tebbutt is mowbray. tuxford and tebbutt is the last stilton cheese maker in the last stilton cheese maker in the town, putting 60 jobs at risk. melton mp edward argar says the loss would hurt the area. >> first of all, the key priority must be to support the people who are affected by arla's announcement. the employees here at tuxford and tebbit. second thing is stilton is a fantastic product. we've got to keep championing it. we've got to recognise there are other amazing stilton producers out there. we've got to get

behind them. we've got to champion and be proud of this iconic british product. >> stilton is a speciality food. many people only eat it at christmas, but with rising costs and price, some are buying it even less . even less. >> obviously it is quite expensive, but we don't have it that often that we can't afford it pretty much any time of the week. >> there is always stilton in our home. >> if we want to buy some for a special occasion, then we'll we'll buy it as a protected food. >> stilton can't be changed or made elsewhere, like champagne in france. despite that, the king of english cheese is coming under threat. >> these coats are developing really nicely and we've got bill mathieson is managing director at long clawson dairy. >> on a personal level, we're very positive about what's happening with stilton. i think if you take an industry level, what we've been seeing is we've been seeing a decline in stilton . been seeing a decline in stilton. our mission as a business is to make sure that what we are doing is broadening out stilton usage

beyond the cheese board, because only 20% of households ever have a cheese board. so we're looking at putting it in burgers. we've got burger malts, we're putting it in snacking. the complete disappearance of stilton is unlikely, yet every vanishing cheese maker increases uncertainty. >> will hollis gb news in melton mowbray thank you very much. >> we are pretty much done for today. are you here all week? >> i'm here all week. yeah. sorry about that. >> all week. lovely, brilliant. well andrew pierce is sunning himself somewhere this week, so it will be me and dawn monday to thursday this week. thank you very much for joining thursday this week. thank you very much forjoining us thursday this week. thank you very much for joining us this morning. emma and emily will be here. it's been an all girl gb news team girl o'clock this morning. >> absolutely . yeah. and we're >> absolutely. yeah. and we're loving it. we are. you can't argue these days. >> emily carver and emma webb with me today. labour are accused of capitulating to the trade unions. that says keir starmer's popularity ratings take a nosedive and protest flags have been banned at the last night of the proms.

>> but should they only allow the union jack? we'll also be talking about whether or not you would leave money to your pet. >> yes, and your will. i mean, you know, some people prefer their pets to people , don't their pets to people, don't they?! their pets to people, don't they? i know, so you would. that's all to come after the weather. >> looks like things are heating up . boxt boilers sponsors of up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news >> hello and welcome to your latest gb news. weather update from the met office. a change in the weather on monday for many of us. still dry across far eastern parts, but there will be rain arriving from the west and it will be turning windy, so the far southeast and eastern parts of england still quite a dry and bright start to the day, but it's going to be cloudy and turning steadily wetter and windier as we head through the rest of monday , particularly rest of monday, particularly going to be turning quite windy through the irish sea. gales arriving here through the afternoon, and we have a rain warning in force as well for

parts of southwest scotland under that cloud and rain, we're going to be seeing temperatures at best in the mid or high teens, but it will be still quite warm across southeast england heading through the rest of the day. we do still have some warm evening sunshine on offer for the southeast of england, but we already have some quite heavy , showery rain some quite heavy, showery rain moving into southwest england to and wales as well. very damp across northern ireland and north—west england. and this is where we have the warning in force across southwest scotland through this evening. difficult driving conditions with that rain as well, a touch lighter across the northeast. but again it's going to be a damp evening for most with that strong wind as well. through the rest of monday evening, that rain is going to continue to sink south and eastwards as we head through the evening and it will turn a little bit, clearer from the west, but still with some blustery showers moving in as well. rain may take a little while to clear across the southeast and the far northeast of scotland, and with those cloudier conditions and that strong wind temperatures will be

more in the mid teens, a little bit higher than we've seen the last couple of days. then through the rest of tuesday it will be bright sunny spells, but also some heavy showers too, particularly for parts of central and northern england and northern ireland and northwest scotland will be seeing heavy, blustery showers as well, particularly windy across the far northwest of scotland too . far northwest of scotland too. temperatures here again in the mid or high teens and feeling quite cool, but the further southeast is still going to be feeling quite warm in that sun. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb

well. >> well good afternoon britain. it's 12:00 on monday the 19th of august. i'm emily carver and i'm emma webb. superyacht disaster one dead and six missing after a yacht carrying mostly british passengers is caught in a tornado and capsizes off the

coast of italy. we'll bring you the latest. >> and operation early dawn, an emergency plan to avoid overcrowding in jails has been triggered this morning. the government has announced. in the wake of the speedy sentencing of those involved in recent violent disorder and giving in to the unions. >> starmer is accused of capitulating to trade union bosses, as it's revealed more than half of labour mps took donations from unions ahead of the election, plus , starmer the election, plus, starmer plans to make it easier for trade unions to strike and royal rumble . rumble. >> prince andrew is under increasing pressure to leave his royal lodge home after reports the king has laid off the duke of york's security . of york's security. team for. >> and something else we want to get your views on. today is the latest polling for sir keir starmer. it's not looking

particularly rosy for him. it does seem that in terms of