>> well. >> well. >> a very, very good afternoon to you. it's 3:00 pm and welcome to you. it's 3:00 pm and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. we're broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk. on today's show, super yachts disaster one dead and six missing after a yacht carrying mostly british passengers was caught in a tornado and capsizes off the coast of italy . british tech coast of italy. british tech entrepreneur mike lynch was one of the men on board. we'll bring you all of the latest and operation early dawn, an emergency plan to avoid overcrowding in british jails has been triggered this morning, the government has announced. in the government has announced. in the wake of the speedy sentencing of those involved in the recent violent disorders. now they'll be sent to police stations across britain and more than 18 million fines were issued last year. motoring fines, an astonishing 4 million of which were referred to bailiffs . here's a nationwide,

bailiffs. here's a nationwide, politically motivated wave of clean air zones driving this fresh war on motorists and an exclusive investigation carried out for gb news shows that the number of illegal immigrants being supported by british taxpayers. that's you has doubled in three years. more than 100,000 are now being supported by the british state, with an astonishing 96% of all illegal immigrants getting benefits and free accommodation from british taxpayers . from british taxpayers. well, the show always a pleasure to have your company. i hope you had a fantastic weekend. today's big question i'm asking to you is the honeymoon period over for sir keir starmer and the labour party. a shock new poll today says 52% of brits are not happy with the direction of travel of the country. only 22% are happy. sir keir's personal ratings have

taken a 7% decrease. they're not happy with him. i wonder why that is. could it be that the jails are full.7 except if you post facebook posts that the government doesn't like, could it be there is no for money pensioners winter fuel allowance, but plenty of money from public sector union workers. the same ones who who paid £480,000 to sir keir starmer's personal office in the last term. none of that is illegal. but is it a question of priorities and is that why the british public are increasingly saying they're unhappy with sir keir starmer.7 let me know your thoughts. use your ways. it's gbnews.c0m/y0ursay. thoughts. use your ways. it's gbnews.com/yoursay. that's your headunes gbnews.com/yoursay. that's your headlines with sophia wenzler. >> martin. thank you. good afternoon. it's 3:02. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. one person has died and six are missing after a super yacht carrying british passengers sank off the coast of sicily, the

british, registered 56 metre bayocean, had 22 people on board when it went down after being struck by a tornado. >> the yachts, owned by the family of british tech entrepreneur entrepreneur mike lynch, who is believed to be among those unaccounted for divers, are now combing the waters as search efforts continue around the wreck. >> 50m underwater so far , 15 >> 50m underwater so far, 15 people have been rescued, including a one year old girl. as we look at these pictures of the recovery efforts, let's hear from meteorologist jim dale, who told us earlier 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 this, this type of event, a waterspout is quite unusual. so 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 in manchester a 43 year old

woman has died and two others are in a critical condition following a triple stabbing in manchester. >> a 22 year old man, believed to be known to the victims has been arrested on suspicion of murder. greater manchester police are appealing for witnesses as they continue their investigation into what they say is an isolated incident. meanwhile, there'll be no punishment for anyone handing in zombie knives and machetes into police stations ahead of a new ban . restrictions come in next ban. restrictions come in next month. the government stopped short of making ninja swords illegal, but insists that will happen soon. policing minister dame diana johnson said the pubuc dame diana johnson said the public should do the right thing and surrender any dangerous weapons . prisons minister lord weapons. prisons minister lord timpson claims he's inherited a justice system in crisis , as justice system in crisis, as plans to address overcrowding in jails are activated in northern england. operation early dawn will see defendants who were remanded in custody waiting for a court appearance held in

police cells for longer. it's separate to the early release scheme for some offenders, which kicks in next month to 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 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 election. the tories deputy chairman, matthew vickers, has resigned. he stepped back from the role to support robert jenrick as the next conservative leader . he next conservative leader. he says jenrick is the standout candidate with a compelling vision for rebuilding the party. 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 the moves aimed at creating a buffer zone between the two countries dunng zone between the two countries during an overnight address, the ukrainian president praised his troops efforts and also called for the removal of restrictions on donated weapons used 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. last month, donald trump was confirmed as the republicans pick just a few days after he survived an assassination attempt . americans will head to attempt. americans will head to the polls in november. our us correspondent steve edgington is in washington , dc. for us. he 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 few decades . and this time few decades. and this time around, kamala harris has won

not 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 walz 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 2023, most for unauthorised holidays. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm sophia wenzler more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code , alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts .

slash alerts. >> thank you very much , sophia. >> thank you very much, sophia. now we start off the show with the latest on the super yacht sinking in sicily. british tech tycoon mike lynch is missing after his yacht capsized following a tornado. mike lynch of the uk's bill gates was once ceo of hewlett—packard. he is said to be worth £986.4 million, and he was awarded an obe for his services to enterprise in 2006. we will come back to that shortly. that story shortly, but we're going to move on now to talk about politics at the top of this hour, because a concerning new poll is in which is basically saying that, sir keir starmer's popularity has taken a bit of a drubbing. he's down minus seven points in his personal popularity poll and the direction of travel. ipsos mori

poll shows that only 22% of brits are happy with the direction of travel of the country, versus 52% who say that they are unhappy. now, before they are unhappy. now, before the general election. many of us asked was there going to be a honeymoon period for the labour party.7 and it appears if the data is to believe, that that honeymoon period is over. now to discuss this, i'm now joined in our studio by our political edhon our studio by our political editor, chris hope. chris, welcome to the show. so some stark numbers and a lot of people were saying, give it to a christmas. things might settle down, but i'm afraid, chris, the data, the numbers coming out for the labour party are looking like pretty grim reading. it's still the summer you mentioned a honeymoon there, martin. >> great to be on the show again with you in westminster. it's barely a wet weekend in bognor. forget a fairly glamorous honeymoon for this prime minister, sir keir starmer. ipsos mori poll the ninth. the 12th of august. he's found a big drop in perception of both

himself. this, this of the pollsters have found it. angela rayner and rachel reeves 52%. more than half of those polled felt the government was heading the wrong direction, 22% in the right direction, 19% uncertain, for him personally, he's down. he's it was 38% favourable, 33% unfavourable, down seven points since the election for keir starmer. again with rachel reeves, a slight narrow narrowing there 36% unfavourable, 33% favourable. so you have got this lack of any kind of real outpouring of love for our prime minister and his new team. perhaps not surprisingly, only 1 in 5 people, adults who could vote and did vote, 1 in 5 people who could vote voted for him. 1 in 3 of those who did vote voted for him. so quite, quite small numbers here. and i think there's a lack of, certainly not not the same as tony blair when he really walked on water for the first three years of his time in government, back in 97. >> and there are very real set of challenges. that's one way of putting it. crises, you could call them facing sir keir

starmer, the small boats crisis shows no signs of slowing down. almost 5500 now have arrived since keir starmer was elected prime minister almost 500 on saturday alone . chris. and then saturday alone. chris. and then the feeling of double standards around the winter fuel bill we saw that was a saving of 4 billion, but a 10 billion outpouring to public sector pay strikes. and it's come off the back of news over the information. nothing illegal going on, of course, that unions have donated the thick end of half a million pounds to starmer's top team since 2019, totally permissible. but of course it does plant the seed of doubt that is this government there to look out for its union chums and not pensioners .7 chums and not pensioners? >> that's the criticism and it hasn't yet been answered properly. you have got these big pay properly. you have got these big pay rises. the polling was done before. 14% pay rise for aslef workers. of course it did include or was aware of 20% rise for junior doctors, 5.5% for pubuc for junior doctors, 5.5% for public sector workers, and they have removed this winter fuel

allowance. that is a lingering concern. you see, you've seen in the today's daily express all six candidates on the tory side are saying they will restore that universal benefit this winter fuel allowance, which we i mean, there's a choice being made here in government between supporting people, public sector workers and others with pay rises above inflation 2 or 3 times more than inflation in some cases. and yet, yet removing this basic right to being keeping warm for so many pensioners is a choice they might regret. >> and it's worth noting that keir starmer hasn't appeared on social media now for four days. that's quite a lengthy absence by any elected parliamentarian, let alone the prime minister. he's getting a lot of stick of course, when he does post because of locking horns with elon musk, the owner of x , elon musk, the owner of x, formerly twitter. so it's not just from the british electorate that this prime minister is getting sick. he's getting a lot of flack from people across the world for free speech. >> he's not be fair. he's not a great tweeter. martin. he has tweeted just recently about the

a—level results day on thursday. and after that, the anniversary of victory in japan day for the uk allied forces in the second world war also spoke about the middle east with other world and world leaders. we might see more from him about about gcses on thursday. he courses in northern ireland today. he might be elsewhere in the uk tomorrow and later in the week. so i think he's not the kind of like an elon musk firing off, tweets at any opportunity. but yeah, i mean yeah, he is getting a hard time on, on social media. he has told us in briefings we've had with his team over the past few days and weeks that he doesn't want to get engaged in a battle on twitter. >> yeah. well, moments ago, sir keir starmer was speaking to the media in northern ireland, where he will discuss the recent riots with the head of the police service there. and here's what he had to say. >> i mean , northern ireland here >> i mean, northern ireland here today for three purposes. firstly, to meet the psni officers who have been on the front line during this disorder. many of them have been injured and my purpose was to say to

them, thank you for what they have done. we make big asks of them, they step up and they deserve our thanks. i have also had the chance to speak to the psni senior leadership about the challenges that they face, and that the support that they need. and then thirdly, and very importantly, to speak to some of the communities most impacted about the fear that they have, the anxiety that they have about the anxiety that they have about the recent disorder. the disorder is intolerable. it is incapable of justification. it is clearly racist, and it does not represent the modern, forward looking northern ireland that i know that this place is. so. i am very pleased to achieve all those three things today, and to work with all communities to work with the psni and others to work with the psni and others to ensure that we handle this situation, not just the immediate disorder, but also the longer term work that's necessary to ensure that we have that one northern ireland approach that i know represents

the northern ireland a modern northern ireland. >> now, chris, a lot of people will be looking at that. and they were saying all along that sir keir starmer may have read the room wrong by branding all of the protesters as racist or far right or thugs. he's had time to think on that. he's had time to think on that. he's had time to think on that. he's had time to reflect on that. there's been a popularity backlash today in northern ireland. he's saying the same thing. he's still saying these protests were clearly racist. >> well, that's that's strong . >> well, that's that's strong. clearly racist is stronger than saying far right. towards the end he did there talk about having one northern ireland bringing communities together. and i think we're yet to see that properly in the riots we saw in england in those dozen or so towns and cities earlier this month. i mean, and the big concern there is, is attacking anybody concerned about immigration, saying they're clearly racist. i think he's only appending that to the rioters, but certainly there's work to be done to understand why there's concern about immigration and to recognise that isn't necessarily a far right or a racist position to

take. >> okay, chris, stick with me, because i'm now joined by the head of communications at cwu , head of communications at cwu, chris webb. chris, welcome to the show . so the topic of union the show. so the topic of union donations is in the news again today. of course, nothing wrong or illegal with that. it's a totally normal part of the british political landscape. and the labour party reports out sir keir starmer's team has received £480,000 from the union since 2019. d0 £480,000 from the union since 2019. do you think this lends credibility or fuel to the fire, though, that at the moment this labour party seems hell bent on pleasing the unions, on paying back, giving a inflation busting pay back, giving a inflation busting pay rises to union workers and meanwhile pensioners are losing their winter fuel allowance. is this government in it for the unions ? unions? >> nice to be on. >> nice to be on. >> thanks for the invitation. i think, you know, the first thing i want to say is that trade union donations are the most honest money in politics. so what you have is you have people giving ten £0.20 a week, hundreds of thousands of

workers, millions of workers from all over the country to have a say, to have an influence and to try and improve their lives in and out of work. now that money is much better, much honest, and much more open than , honest, and much more open than, say, a tory party backed by a billionaire donor or any party who has a big donor who comes in and says, here's my money on the table. that's the way i want you to treat working people. i don't want you to improve terms and conditions. i don't want you to legislate. so it's harder for me to sack people. i don't want any improvement to the lot of working people in this country. so trade union money is it's quite sad the way you introduced it. there is without doubt the most honest, the most transparent. it is there. so unions can work with the labour party to try and improve working people's lives and things that work, and in out of work for people in this country. in terms of the connection with the pensioners. two two wrongs don't make a right. you know that that that connection you've made there labour. we believe, you know, that that should be means tested and that people, if they

need that payment, should get that payment. but, you know, the accusation after 14 years of tory rule where workers have been absolutely hammered, whether it be the financial crash, the pandemic, the cost of living crisis , where every living crisis, where every single crisis the people have had to pay the price are those seemingly at the bottom. the frontline workers. whilst we've had ceos getting dozens and dozens of million pounds payment , dozens of million pounds payment, we've had shareholders getting hundreds of millions of pounds. we've had dodgy ppe contracts handed out for hundreds of millions of pounds during the pandemic, and not a single word chris, chris, chris. yet when the little man or little woman gets a pay rise, you want to come on and you want to make a show of it, know what i'm saying? >> there are two different things because one is public money and one is private money. in this instance, if union workers are getting 5.5%. nhs workers are getting 5.5%. nhs workers , teachers, inflation workers, teachers, inflation busting pay rises , that carries busting pay rises, that carries a cost of £10 billion, half £1

billion to the junior doctors, £100 million to the train drivers last week. all of this will certainly increase because more and more unions, no doubt your own, might be going up and asking for a bag of silver. so what i'm saying is, if rachel reevesis what i'm saying is, if rachel reeves is the financially prudent chancellor, the £22 billion, this massive black hole we inherited from the tories, well, they've just thrown another 12, 13 billion into that black hole . black hole. >> well, you know, the way you've introduced that there, martin, is embarrassing a bag of silver. this is money that working class people need to put food on the table, a roof over their heads to be able to live their heads to be able to live the working class people pay it through their taxes. >> yeah, they that's the point. >> yeah, they that's the point. >> and you know what? there's a there's a truth that needs to be said in this country. if the tories and the condemned government have dismantled infrastructure, and if we truly want a better nhs, if we truly want a better nhs, if we truly want a better transport system, a better communication system, a better postal system, then we're going to have to pay to make that better. because quite frankly, due to the deliberate

mismanagement of the key infrastructure structure of this country, they all across all of our networks, whether it be post telecoms, rail, nhs energy is in disrepair and we are going to have to slowly rebuild that and thatis have to slowly rebuild that and that is going to come at a cost. but do you know what's nice to see? it's nice to see frontline workers getting a pay rise isn't it? rather than frontline workers having their pay suppressed whilst millionaire ceos get rewarded for doing absolutely nothing, i think it's actually a really positive turn of events. >> well , of events. >> well, chris webb, there'll be many, many people watching this show who haven't had any form of pay show who haven't had any form of pay rise in a while and they were the ones bankrolling the union pay rise , pay rises coming union pay rise, pay rises coming down the line. but look, i appreciate your opinion. you're appreciate your opinion. you're a passionate fella. please come back on again. >> excellent. that's wrong , >> excellent. that's wrong, that's wrong, that's wrong, that's wrong, that's wrong, that's wrong. you can't. you put that. you're you're you're introducing that that terrible and embarrassing race to the bottom attitude robbing peter to pay bottom attitude robbing peter to pay paul. everybody deserves a pay pay paul. everybody deserves a pay rise. there's plenty of money. >> everybody isn't getting a pay

rise. chris. my point is, the people who are the front of the queue now, the labour party are in power are the unions. that's my point. it'd be great if everyone could get a pay rise. but i live in a world where i know that's not permissible because we're £2.7 trillion in national debt. chris you've just made a brilliant case there. >> join a union. everybody watching, join a trade union. >> all right, chris webb, superb head of comms at cwu. thank you very much for joining head of comms at cwu. thank you very much forjoining us. now, the final three weeks of our 30 zero zero £0 great british giveaway, in fact, might be the final fortnight, so there's plenty of time still to get your entry in. now, what would you do with all that extra wonga? well, hazel details that you need for a chance to win it. >> celebrate a spectacular summer with your chance to win an incredible £30,000 in tax free cash in our great british giveaway. it's the biggest prize of the year so far and it's totally tax free. what would you spend that on luxury holidays? a new car or just put it away for

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next. welcome back. it's 326. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. the latest on the super yacht sinking. now in sicily. british tech tycoon mike lynch is missing after his yacht capsized following a tornado. now mr lynch is dubbed the uk's bill gates was once ceo of hewlett packard and gb news home and security editor mark white joins us now. mark looking like a tragedy off the coast of sicily . tragedy off the coast of sicily. what's the latest? >> well, indeed, the shock waves really sent through the business world with the news that mike lynch was on board. that yacht and is now missing. sadly presumed dead. it was very early this morning, just after 430 local time, when that bay, just near palermo was struck by a very strong winds and a tornado

or a sea spout, as it's known out at sea. one of the boats that was nearby at the time managed to manoeuvre and steer into the wind, but somehow the bayesian , the superyacht that bayesian, the superyacht that mike lynch and others were on board, was struck directly by this sea spout and smashed to pieces. knocked over the mast is believed to have been smashed off the vessel. it's well and it's now in 50m of water on the seabed with divers looking for survivors. well, we spoke a little earlier to captain carsten borner, who was on that vessel nearby to the superyacht bayesian at the time, and this is what he recalled this morning. >> we got a very strong orcan gust . yeah. and we had to start

gust. yeah. and we had to start the engine to keep the ship in an anchor position, and we watched the ship behind us not to touch them. yeah and, we managed to keep this ship in position and after the storm was oven position and after the storm was over, we noticed that the ship behind us was gone . and then we behind us was gone. and then we saw a red flare . yeah. so my saw a red flare. yeah. so my first mate and i went to, to the position, and we found this life raft. yeah. drifting but anything inside with 15 people inside or 15 people. 15 people inside, four people injured , inside, four people injured, three heavily injured. yeah and we brought them to our ship . and we brought them to our ship. and then we communicated with the coastguard. and after some time, the coastguard came , and later the coastguard came, and later they picked the injured people. and when we one, two hours

later, they picked up the other people. >> well, the body of a man has now been recovered from the waters near the wreck site. of the six others who are still missing, at least four are believed to be british nationals . believed to be british nationals. british nationals made up the majority of those 22 people who were on board. that yacht and were on board. that yacht and were indeed amongst the 15 that were indeed amongst the 15 that were rescued. and as you heard, there from the skipper, at least three of those in a serious medical condition , and mark this medical condition, and mark this superyacht 50 metre boat, the bayesian £14 million worth, no doubt, would have been very , doubt, would have been very, very well maintained, very, very well crewed mark. >> this has all the hallmarks at this point of simply being a force of nature, a tragic accident. >> yes, it seems certain that it was a freak accident as everyone at the time is talking about the

horrific weather conditions that suddenly descended on that bay. and indeed there are some other cctv footage of one of the nearby marinas that that same time that shows really strong gusts of wind blowing through the marina. so probably very little. the crew on board that yacht could do to prevent it from being tipped over. and now, of course, ending up 50m down on the seabed . the seabed. >> okay. thank you, mark white. and of course we'll cross back to you throughout the show for a full update on that story as it develops. mark white, our homeland security editor. thank you very much . now, still lots you very much. now, still lots more to come between now and 4:00, including what's happening in ireland as masked foreign men have started patrolling rural areas. as you can see on your areas. as you can see on your screen areas. as you can see on your screen there, looking decidedly menacing and fenced off containment centres. what on earth is going on inside these places? i'll speak to a political expert for a full insight, but first, it's time

for your latest news headlines with sophia wenzler. >> martin. thank you. good afternoon. from the gb news room at 331. your headlines as you've been hearing a british tech tycoon, mike lynch, is among six tourists missing after a luxury yacht sank in a storm off the coast of sicily . the superyacht coast of sicily. the superyacht bayocean capsized near palermo. 15 people have now been rescued and one body, believed to be the boat's chef, has been recovered from the water. charlotte, a british tourist who survived the wreck, says she held her one year old daughter afloat to stop her from drowning in what she's described as darkness and chaos. the uk foreign office is in contact with local authorities and says it's ready to assist those affected . a triple those affected. a triple stabbing in manchester has left one woman dead and two other people in a critical condition, including a teenager. a 22 year

old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the attack in the girton area last night. police are treating it as an isolated incident, but believe the suspect was known to the victims. detectives are now appealing for witnesses or dash cam footage . meanwhile, people cam footage. meanwhile, people handing in zombie knives and machetes to police stations ahead of a new ban won't be punished. restrictions come in next month. the government stopped short of making ninja swords illegal, but insists that will soon happen. 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. defendants awaiting court in the north of england will be held in police cells until a prison space becomes available . that's part of plans available. that's part of plans to ease overcrowding . separate to ease overcrowding. separate measures next month will see some offenders released after serving 40% of their sentences . serving 40% of their sentences. however, the prison governors

association says it's not sure whether the emergency measures will make a difference. the children's commissioner says police forces should only strip search a child when it's a life threatening situation . a report threatening situation. a report suggests there's a new case every 14 hours in england and wales, and 1 in 20 searches don't follow official procedures. the tories deputy chairman, matthew vickers, has resigned. he's stepped back from the role to support robert jenrick as the next conservative leader. he says jenrick is the standout candidate with a compelling vision for rebuilding the party and america's top diplomat is warning the latest push for a gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal is probably the best, and possibly the last opportunity . anthony blinken has opportunity. anthony blinken has met the israeli prime minister, urging the country towards an agreement both israel and hamas have accused each other of obstructing talks. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm sophia wenzler more in

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welcome back. your time is 338. i'm martin daubney on gb news now operation early dawn because emergency measures to ease prison overcrowding have been activated by the ministry of justice after hundreds of rioters were charged for their role in the recent social unrest. now, this means the defendants waiting across the north of england for a court appearance will be kept in police cells until prison space is available. well, joining me now is the retired prison governor and great friend of the show, vanessa frake. vanessa, always an absolute delight to have you on gb news. you know, the last time we spoke, vanessa, we were talking about how the fact the prisons were at bursting point, they were almost

full. only 700 spaces left across the entire prison system in england. and wales. and then vanessa frake, sir keir starmer and the police decide to go on a mass arresting spree . over mass arresting spree. over a thousand people now nicked. who would have thought the prisons are full and as a consequence they are having to put them in nics. >> well good afternoon. first of all, martin, thanks for having me on as usual. you know, we are where we are, aren't we? you know, when we last spoke, i actually said that we can't have our prisons system full. what if we had riots? and lo and behold, we had riots? and lo and behold, we had riots and, you know, now around about a thousand people have been arrested, 400 odd charged, 100 odd had been sentenced. these are these operation early dawn will keep, prisoners in police cells who are awaiting magistrate court appearances. it's, it's totally separate from crown court appearances. who prisoners who go to crown court will go from

the jails to the crown court and straight back to prison. but you have to bear in mind that each time we keep a prisoner in a police cell, it costs around £300 a night. so it's not a cheap exercise by any stretch of the imagination, i think the, the imagination, i think the, the government is, is desperate measures, what is it? desperate times . calls calls for times. calls calls for desperate, desperate measures. and, you know, this is this is sort of the prelude to the mass release from prison of around 5500 prisoners in september, and then again in october. so, you know , i said, you know, our know, i said, you know, our prisons have reached bursting point. and, you know, i can't say it any clearer than that. and, you know, every , every week and, you know, every, every week we seem to have a new, crisis amongst amongst the prison service . and it's very service. and it's very disheartening to see to be honest. >> now, vanessa, you have been nothing if not consistent on

this point. every time we've spoken about the fact that the prisons are almost full. and so again, i put it to you. is there again, i put it to you. is there a feeling that people are going to prison for things like facebook posts or being in the vicinity of a riot? and on the one hand, vanessa, the government needs to look tough on these riots. but if the bandwidth, if the prison capacity is already at breaking point, vanessa, they're already talking about letting people out, having served 40% of their term. if it's less than four years now, you know as well as i do, vanessa, that that can be for years could be like a serious drug offence. this could be serious criminals who are being released to make way for people who post on facebook. that can't be right, >> look, i understand that the government had to make a stand and wanted to look as the public demanded, you know, tough on crime and, but, you know , i crime and, but, you know, i think there were some people there who were swept up by it all who made stupid comments, who have had an unblemished

criminal record for their entire life, made one stupid mistake and have ended up paying dearly for it. and not just them , but for it. and not just them, but their family as well, was that their family as well, was that the right thing to do? well, you know, i'm i'm a clear believer that, you know, short prison sentences, do not work the short, sharp shock treatment does not work, it's been proven not to work . people often come not to work. people often come out resentful. they come out aggrieved at the fact that they've, you know, now been put into prison, and commit further crime, so you know, it's very difficult . it's a fine balance, difficult. it's a fine balance, but i think, a lot of those that were convicted and sentenced to short term sentences, i think there was one that was convicted. the first one was sentenced to two months. well, you know, out of that two months, he'll do four weeks. what what use is that to anybody? he'd have been far better doing that four weeks in,

in serving the community that he offended in is my observation , offended in is my observation, you could have kept him on a strict licence. strict conditions, and made him pay his dues back into society. that way , dues back into society. that way, so it's a very like i say, martin, it's a very difficult situation. all round. i do, i do see the need. to use the prisons as a deterrent. but you know, there were serious offences much more serious offences, during the last sort of 2 or 3 weeks of that disturbances. and i think that disturbances. and i think that the focus should have been on them, not just, those that got swept away with it. >> superb. sir. vanessa frake always a font of knowledge and common sense. and you're right. i mean, if the prisons were full and these riots came, which you said could happen, and now the knicks are full, where are they going to put them? if there's another set of riots, maybe in the canteen. vanessa frake always a pleasure to have you on the show. thank you very much. now, is the war on motorists

getting totally out of hand? because as local councils are sending bailiffs to collect as traffic fines rise and guess what? a lot of it is being dnven driven by clean air zones. i'm martin daubney on gb

welcome back. your time is 347. i'm martin daubney on gb news now . martin daubney on gb news now. locals in rural ireland are watching masked foreign men being seen being planted all around the country in sites which seem to resemble military camps . locals are living in camps. locals are living in fear. so i had to find out today what on earth is going on in ireland and joining me now to discuss this is the member of the irish freedom party, herman kelly. herman welcome to the show. always a delight to have you on. now, the video, which we're about to show on screen now, has been viewed getting on

for 1.5 million times and on social media. herman kelly, can you explain to us what on earth is going on? this appears to be military aged men dressed like militia. they look like they're in the army parading around rural ireland. please explain what on earth is going on. >> the hard to believe part , >> the hard to believe part, martin, is this is not a un unusual occurrence in ireland. >> in the last number of months, because there's been an. this is in thorntonhall, but there's been a number of incidents where you have foreign men wearing balaclavas coming round and harassing local irish people as they're just walking around their area like you've been a number of cases. this is in thorntonhall, which isn't that far from here. that's in county meath. i would say roughly 20 miles from where i am at the moment . but you've had instances moment. but you've had instances in newtownmountkennedy, south of dublin, where you have all these men, and also you have these men trying to hide their faces as they're trying to walk in. now,

given that 85% of people who land in dublin airport and who seek to claim asylum in dublin airport, 85% of them over 7000 people claim that they between getting on the plane and getting off at dublin airport, claim that they have lost their passport. so we now we know that we're we are being lied to and it's just another instance of the irish government allowing themselves to be taken for a ride by people who are basically young, fit , economic migrants young, fit, economic migrants who are in ireland for the free stuff. why? because they get free medical care, free accommodation , free welfare, accommodation, free welfare, even free legal aid, getting everything free from the state, subsidised by the irish taxpayer . subsidised by the irish taxpayer. it's actually madness. and what has just happened? you're probably aware of because i've seen it reported in the news on gb news that an irish priest was stabbed right outside an army

barracks on friday night here in ireland by an islam, a young islamic terrorist who has been radicalised. the police tell us by online communication along with isis and al—qaeda, and it is unbelievable that the symbolism makes clear that the state is unable or unwilling to protect the citizens of the state. when a priest is slashed. now, this guy slashed the priest 20 times and the priest had 20 large gashes in his arm . but the large gashes in his arm. but the state is unwilling or unable to protect the citizens. and ireland is becoming a very unsafe place because of large scale unvetted immigration. >> okay, herman kelly, thank you very much for that concerning update. and of course, we'll make sure we cross back to you throughout the months and weeks as it goes on. herman kelly, thank you very much for joining

us. now next story now has the war on motorists gotten far, far worse because councils are turning to bailiffs to collect unpaid traffic fines, with a number of cases doubling since the pandemic. listen to these figures. last year alone, more than 18 million penalty charges were issued across the uk and the number of cases referred to bailiffs has gone through the roof, with officials seizing and even selling vehicles when fines go unpaid. 4 million visits from the bailiffs to motorists. i'm joined now by the motoring journalist and car dealer danny kelly, who joins me on the show. danny, an absolutely astonishing number of cases being referred to bailiffs. hard working motorists find themselves once again on the wrong end of the law . law. >> what it illustrates, martin, is how easy it is to get a ticket nowadays in the united kingdom , particularly if you kingdom, particularly if you like the capital city. which of course is london and the ulez the clean air zone. i drive down to london on a weekly basis, and

i would say that the signage is minimal, so it's to easy miss. transport for london give you three days to actually pay the £125 if you're driving £12.5 if you're driving a non—compliant car on at the stroke of midnight on day four, you get hit with a pcn, a penalty charge notice of £150. and it's quite curious , martin, and it's quite curious, martin, that transport for london give a non—compliant owning vehicle. three days to pay the £125. if you're in bristol and birmingham, they have identical ulez schemes. you get six days. so transport for london making it as difficult as possible and as punitive as possible for motorists who may just blissfully be unaware that they're about to drive through a clean air zone. and once you get this penalty charge , notice this penalty charge, notice martin, then some people will bury their head in the sand hoping that it goes away. some people may take it on as a challenge and they may say, well, they'll have to take me to court and invariably you will get taken to court because councils don't mess around because they see this as an incredibly important revenue

stream . again. tfl martin £220 stream. again. tfl martin £220 million a year for ulez non—compliant vehicles, of which 80 of which 80 were from pcns penalty charge notices. i did some research before the show and there are currently 810,000 open pcns which were. that was the latest figures for six months between march 23rd, and i think it was august 24th. i may have got those months the wrong way round, but basically 810,000 pcns floating in the aether and the car owners just hoping they go away, and danny , what's go away, and danny, what's astonishing when you look at the breakdown of these figures, a decade ago, 83% of all these penalty charge notices were for parking offences . parking offences. >> now it's only 47%. 19% are for road tolls like ulez, 8% for clean air zones. and we've got a quick actually we have to leave it there. danny kelly, always a delight to have you on the show. it seems to be, though, that the

courts are pursuing these because they agree politically with the schemes behind them. thank you very much, danny kelly, always an absolute pleasure. now next. extreme. extreme misogyny will be treated as a form of extremism under new government plans, but will this threaten free speech? well, let me tell you, i'm from nottingham and they introduced misogyny as and they introduced misogyny as a hate crime in 2016. it was a total disaster and i'll tell you why after this. i'm martin daubney on gb news, but now it's your weather with alex burkill . your weather with alex burkill. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news >> hello again. here's your latest met office weather update for gb news. lots of wet and windy weather to come as we go through this week. and we have already seen things turning pretty unsettled for some of us. already today there is a system coming in from the west already

bringing quite a bit of rain across parts of northern ireland into scotland, and we're going to see more rain affecting parts of northern england, wales and the southwest as we go through this evening. that rain then continuing its way southeastward. so although it's largely fine through much of today in the southeast, it is going to turn wet as we go through the early hours of tomorrow morning. there will be some clear skies following, but also plenty of showers around and as a result, temperatures not dropping a huge amount, many places holding up in mid—teens celsius. first thing tomorrow morning. that system is still going to be across parts of the southeast, so quite a cloudy start here. some outbreaks of rain as well, but it will clear away elsewhere. yes, there will be some sunny breaks around, but also quite a few showers, particularly across parts of wales and southwest england. also some showers for northern england too. plenty of showers for northern ireland and down the western side of scotland. further east, it's likely to be a bit of a dry , brighter start a bit of a dry, brighter start here, albeit for shetland. there could be some persistent rain around through the day really, once we say goodbye to that system in the southeast, we are

going to have lots of showers for many places. and yes, some sunny spells in between the showers. but do watch out for some strong, blustery winds, especially towards western coasts. this is where we have the risk of seeing some coastal gales, and all the time those strong winds are going to make it feel a little bit fresher than it has done of late. quite an autumnal feel to things at the moment , an autumnal feel to things at the moment, with temperatures only just about getting into the high teens or low 20s for many of us. more showers to come, particularly across northern and western parts as we go through tomorrow evening. towards the southeast, a greater chance of having a fine end to the day. there is likely to be some very wet weather arriving as we go through wednesday into thursday, particularly across northern and western parts of the uk. so do stay up to date by that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb. >>a

>> a very, very good afternoon to you. it's 4:00 pm and welcome to you. it's 4:00 pm and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. we're broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk. on today's show, superyacht disaster as one dead and six missing after a yacht carrying mostly british passengers is caught in a tornado and capsizes off the coast of italy. british tech entrepreneur mike lynch is one of the men on board. we'll bring you all of the latest and operation early dawn. it's an emergency plan to avoid overcrowding in jails, and it's been triggered this morning. the government has announced in the wake of the speedy sentencing of those involved in the recent violent disorder and more than 80 million fines were issued last year. and an astonishing 4 million were referred to bailiffs. these are nationwide, politically motivated wave of clean air zones driving this war on motorists, and an exclusive

investigation carried out for gb news shows that the number of illegal immigrants being supported by british taxpayers has doubled in three years. more than 100,000 are now being supported by you, the taxpayer, with 96% of illegal immigrants getting benefits and free accommodation from you. the great british taxpayer. and that's all coming up in your next hour . of the show, always next hour. of the show, always a delight to have your company. is the honeymoon over for sir keir starmer's labour party? just a short while into sir keir's premiership and already 52% of brits are unhappy about the direction of travel of the country. only 22% are happy. sir keir starmer's personal popularity opinion has gone down by a full seven points in the wake of the recent riots, and also those union pay rises.

what's your take? do you think the honeymoon is over? is this normal? we were just getting used to a new government. it's your show. get in touch. you know how gbnews.com/yoursay get over your comments and i'll read out the best before the end of the show. but now it's your latest news headlines. >> good afternoon. i'm sophia wenzler from the gb newsroom at 4:00. your top story this hour. one person has died and six are missing after a superyacht carrying british passengers sank off the coast of sicily . the off the coast of sicily. the british registered 56 metre bayocean, had 22 people on board when it went down after being struck by a tornado. the yachts, owned by the family of british tech entrepreneur mike lynch, who is believed to be among those unaccounted for. divers are now combing the waters as the search efforts continue around the wreck. 50m underwater. so far, 15 people

have been rescued, including the wife of mike lynch and a one year old girl. as we look at these pictures of the recovery efforts, let's hear from meteorologist jim dale, who told us earlier 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 this, this type of event. a waterspout is quite unusual. so 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 back in the uk in manchester. >> a 43 year old woman has died and two others are in a critical condition following a triple stabbing. a 22 year old man, believed to be known to the victims, has been arrested on suspicion of murder. greater manchester police are appealing for witnesses as they continue their investigation into what they say is an isolated

incident. meanwhile there'll be no punishment for anyone handing zombie knives and machetes into police stations ahead of a new ban . restrictions come in next ban. restrictions come in next month. the government stopped short 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 weapons . prisons minister lord weapons. prisons minister lord timpson claims he's inherited a justice system in crisis as plans to address overcrowding in jails are activated in northern 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 to the early release scheme for some offenders, which kicks in in the next months to more than half of the 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. starmer, with 38% on both sides. rishi sunak and the conservatives ratings haven't changed since the election. the tories deputy chairman, matthew vickers, has resigned. he stepped back from the role to support robert jenrick as the next conservative leader. he says jenrick is the standout candidate with a compelling vision for rebuilding the party. 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 the moves aimed at creating a buffer zone between the two countries dunng zone between the two countries during an overnight address, the ukrainian president praised his troops efforts and also called for the removal of restrictions on donated weapons used against russia . in other news, the russia. in other news, 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. last month, donald trump was confirmed as the republicans pick , just a few days after he pick, just a few days after he survived an assassination attempt. americans will head to the polls in november. 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 few decades. and this time around, kamala harris has not won any democratic primaries . 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. >> 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 2023, most for unauthorised holidays . those are the latest holidays. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm sophia wenzler more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone , sign 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. >> thank you sophia. now to the latest on the superyacht sinking. the tragedy in sicily. british tech tycoon mike lynch is missing after his yacht capsized following a tornado.

mike lynch was dubbed the uk's bill gates was once in charge of autonomy, a cambridge software house, and is worth a reported £986.4 million. now gb news, home security editor mark white joins us now. mark, it's looking increasingly like a tragedy off the coast of sicily. what do we know? >> yeah, and it is a real tragedy. the business world will be reeling from the news that mike lynch has been reported missing. and sadly presumed dead. now, this is a man who, as you mentioned, there was really a tech entrepreneur of some considerable standing in the uk. he sold his company, the autonomous autonomy corporation, to hewlett—packard in 2011 for more than £10 million. and indeed , he was accused of fraud indeed, he was accused of fraud by the us. he stood trial in a

us federal court and, unlike so many people in the us federal court system who take a plea deal court system who take a plea deal, he decided to contest it and fight it and had about a 97% chance of failure. but he succeeded. he got a jury to believe that he was not guilty of any kind of business fraud, and he was cleared just in june of this year. so it's very probably the case that this trip out there, off italy in this luxury yacht with other members of his family , was a trip to of his family, was a trip to celebrate and relax after what had been a tumultuous few years for this business tycoon. and now, of course , to end in such now, of course, to end in such appalling tragedy with 22 people who were on board this yacht , 15 who were on board this yacht, 15 thankfully rescued, but six

others reported missing. and now one confirmed dead. a little earlier, we heard from captain carsten borner , who was in the carsten borner, who was in the bay at the time that this huge storm and the waterspout that you can see on the screen there struck and smashed into the bayesian yacht, sinking it very quickly. this is what captain carsten borner said this morning when we got this very strong orcan gust. >> yeah , and we had to start the >> yeah, and we had to start the engine to keep the ship in an anchor position. and we watched the ship behind us, not to touch them. yeah and, we managed to keep this ship in position and after the storm was over , we after the storm was over, we noficed after the storm was over, we noticed that the ship behind us was gone . and then we saw a red

was gone. and then we saw a red flare. yeah. so my first mate and i went to, to the position, and i went to, to the position, and we found this liferaft. yeah. drifting. but anything inside with 15 people inside or 15 people. 15 people inside. four people injured , three four people injured, three heavily injured. yeah and we brought them to our ship. and then we communicated with the coastguard. and after some time, the coastguard came. and later they picked the injured people and when we one, two hours later, they picked up the other people. >> and among the 15 people that were rescued was a mother from the uk called charlotte, quoted in the italian press as saying that she was thrown into the water alongside her baby, one year old baby girl called sophie and she said she scrambled to

hold sophie above her head in the water to stop the young infant from drowning as she was screaming, screaming for help and martin, all she could hear was the screams of others who were in the water alongside her and mark white. >> it's worth pointing out that mike lynch, i've just learned, was previously on the board of the bbc and also a business and tech adviser to david cameron. so a man with very , very well so a man with very, very well established connections in terms of the craft itself. mark 50 metre boats 14 million worth. no doubt it would have been in a fantastic state of repair , well fantastic state of repair, well crewed, well looked after. it appears we saw those pictures there of that astonishing sight. it appears just to be an act of nature, a tragedy. >> yes. i mean, we've got some images of this superyacht alongside in a port that was filmed just recently , and this filmed just recently, and this really was a superyacht we hear

or see, of course, are used to seeing these huge monstrosity superyachts that are tied to the likes of russian billionaires that are actually just big motor boats. this was a yacht . boats. this was a yacht. absolutely. in in name and in design with, we're told, the second tallest mast in the world, a huge tall mast , sleek world, a huge tall mast, sleek lines, a beautiful vessel that people obviously paid lots of money to go on inside. it was, you know, a very luxurious experience, but it was, of course, designed to zip through these ocean waves once these sails were at and were up and of course, people paid lots of money for that particular experience. a holiday of a lifetime. but tied up and moored in a bay as it was, it was like

any other vessel , in a bay as it was, it was like any other vessel, you in a bay as it was, it was like any other vessel , you know, any other vessel, you know, susceptible to the weather and it was a ferocious storm that swept through this bay early this morning. >> thank you very much, mark white, for the latest on the yachting tragedy in sicily . now, yachting tragedy in sicily. now, moving on, the government's recent decisions to have taken a toll on the approval rating of keir starmer, as a poll from ipsos says that 52% of people in britain think the country is moving in the wrong direction. labour plans to repeal the strikes act also, which could lead to more frequent and disruptive industrial action. and at the same time, cuts to winter fuel payments are expected to hit the most vulnerable in society . and with vulnerable in society. and with over 5000 migrants crossing crossing the channel since sir keir starmer came to power. has the prime minister got a mountain to climb? well, i'm joined now in the studio by our political editor , chris hope. political editor, chris hope. chris, pretty sobering set of

statistics here. 52% believe the country is going in the wrong direction. only 22% think the direction. only 22% think the direction of travel is favourable. and sir keir starmer's personal polling also taking a bit of a nosedive. is the honeymoon over? >> well, yes. i mean, it does seem that way, doesn't it? rather than a honeymoon, a wet weekend in bognor, i think. martin, we think back down to the last comparable landslide for the labour party back in 97. and it felt then that tony blair could, could walk on water. i mean, he got through all sorts of issues there just by batting them away with the size of, of his, of his win there in that 97 election. again, a very big majority for the labour party, 170 or so tory labour mps. and yet look at how the british pubuc yet look at how the british public appears to be falling out of love with with the winner of the election just six short weeks ago this week, this ipsos poll , august weeks ago this week, this ipsos poll, august the weeks ago this week, this ipsos poll , august the 9th, the 12th, poll, august the 9th, the 12th, it found that 52% of people felt the government is heading in the wrong direction. 22% think it's

in the right direction, and 19% have no view. it may be no surprise because of course, the landslide win by the labour was was a very, very small one. given the fact that only 1 in 5 adults have voted for them , 1 in adults have voted for them, 1 in 3 of those who voted vote for ready for labour. and that's why it's difficult. even with keir starmer, he is down seven points on favorability scale since the election. so 38% in favour and 38% against him. and we can maybe draw a line from what they're doing. they've taken away the winter fuel allowance from from millions of pensioners. that's the moment we might be an issue this winter. and they're giving pay rises to their public sector workers. many of them backed by unions who are supportive. >> and i wonder, chris, if the reaction to the recent riots and some of the linguistics used were a part of that. can we look at this clip now? because a short while ago, sir keir starmer was speaking to the media in northern ireland, where he will discuss the recent riots with the head of the police services there. and here's what he had to say.

>> i mean, northern ireland here today for three purposes. firstly, to meet the psni officers who have been on the front line during this disorder. many of them have been injured and my purpose was to say to them , thank you for what they them, thank you for what they have done. we make big asks of them, they step up and they deserve our thanks. i have also had the chance to speak to the psni senior leadership about the challenges that they face, and that the support that they need. and then thirdly, and very importantly, to speak to some of the communities most impacted about the fear that they have the anxiety that they have about the anxiety that they have about the recent disorder. the disorder is intolerable. it is incapable of justification. it is clearly racist, and it does not represent the modern, forward looking northern ireland that i know that this place is. so. i am very pleased to achieve all those three things today to

and work with all communities, to work with the psni and others to work with the psni and others to ensure that we handle this situation, not just the immediate disorder , but also the immediate disorder, but also the longer term work that's necessary to ensure that we have that one northern ireland approach that i know represents the northern ireland and modern northern ireland of the future . northern ireland of the future. >> chris, the disorder was clearly racist, is what sir keir starmer said there. now, a lot of people in the aftermath of the riots in 2011 said, well, let's look at the disorder and what caused it. what are the underlying socioeconomic, factors, the unhappiness from the communities that conversation hasn't happened this time around. in fact, sir keir starmer is now doubling down, saying that the disorder was clearly racist. is that the kind of almost tone deaf language that's driving? do you think some of this popularity decline with sir keir.

>> so he said there that it's intolerable, incapable of justification and clearly racist. now that was about the violence he talked to today. he said that communities impacted by violence and of course all violence is intolerable, you know, and it's never right to get involved in fights and rioting in that way. get involved in fights and rioting in that way . the problem rioting in that way. the problem that he's got here. sir keir starmer is he's done very well with the bits he's good at, which is getting the prosecutorial service working, talking to police, dealing with authority and the like. but what he is doing to tackle the underlying causes of some of these issues, he talked there about this one northern ireland approach, but we haven't yet seen anything yet in england. but after the riots here about what happened there and whether the government understands the frustration with immigration, it's not a far right thing or to be concerned about it. that's the point. and this issue, i think there's a lot of room to a lot of areas. the government has got to learn on this. >> and the actual fact we just featured herman kelly in ireland, the republic of ireland and the huge frustrations there are mirrored to what happened in britain and in northern ireland.

we saw riots in belfast and i wonder if this branding these people as racist. chris hope is not really helping matters at all. in fact, this is what seems to be dividing the country. >> well , to be dividing the country. >> well, yeah, i mean, again, you can't justify any violence at all, martin. ever. but i think just going to down labelling like that is difficult because it will just offend groups who aren't fighting, getting violent. but do have concerns about migration. and that's what i think this government is failing to get any kind of light touch on. >> okay. thank you very much, chris. i've always a pleasure to see you in the next hour. now, on the same token, a extreme misogyny will be treated as terrorism for the first time under new government plans to combat the radicalisation of young men online. home secretary yvette cooper has ordered a review of britain's counter extremism strategy, with the aim of tackling violence against women and girls in the same way as islamist and far right i'll speak to jess gill after the

break. welcome back. it's 424 now. extreme misogyny will be treated as terrorism for the first time under new government plans to combat the radicalisation of young men online. now to discuss this, i'm joined by the commentator jess gill. jess, welcome to the show. what could possibly go wrong with criminalising the things that men say online? >> well, thank you so much for having me on. not only is this tokenistic and divisive, but it's also ironic coming from the party who can't even define what a woman is. i think it's absolutely ridiculous. the reason why we have an upsurge of misogyny is less because of andrew tate, and more so because of mass immigration, because of two tier policing. as a woman, i don't feel safe going out in the streets of london because of how they've treated the country. i know if something does happen, the police aren't going to

respond. and unfortunately, britain has become somewhere that isn't safe. >> now, jess, the fact of the matter is we have existing laws which quite rightly tackle the vast majority of things you may call misogynistic. in nottingham, my home city in 2016, they introduced misogyny as a hate crime . 83 incidents in as a hate crime. 83 incidents in ten months, 5031 of them could have been dealt with by the existing law. but jess, 52 of them were hate incidents, not real crimes. name calling tweets or even women overhearing offensive jokes . we don't need offensive jokes. we don't need new laws. we just need to enforce existing laws. right >> i think even existing laws have gone too far. i think any censorship of free speech is absolutely unnecessary, and it's an infringement on people's liberties and rights. in all honesty, this is a product of a low trust society where you can't just have a frank conversation when somebody says something a bit disrespectful. instead, they feel the need to hide behind a keyboard or do a

saucy report to the police. it's not necessary, and it also undermines actual allegations of assault and even worse when it comes to women. and it isn't safe to be a woman in the uk, unfortunately. but again, misogyny isn't the reason young boys watching andrew tate isn't the reason and people saying mean things to women on twitter is not the reason that isn't the real problem. going on for women. the reality is it is because of things like the police disintegrating and because of mass immigration that you can't feel safe on the streets. and that's because of the government failing its duty towards its community, as the government often does. when the state has got too far. and that's the reality of it. i think young boys look towards people like andrew tate and jordan peterson, who's a less toxic example of that, as somebody as a role model, because they lack role models, because they lack role models, because we have so many broken families in the uk, because we've lost the need for family

and community, and that's why they look towards these figures. >> okay, jessica, we have to leave it there. we've simply ran out of time. thank you very much. now thugs continue to roam the streets of london on their e—bikes and scooters to steal phones from members of the public. now it's become a massive business. look at this footage on your screen now for these gangs and police still haven't got to grips as you can see, this happened yesterday. you can see how they target you on the streets. there's a bloke with his phone and how quickly your phone is gone. watch the fat of their hoving interview in the white t shirt. looking at his phone. bash someone goes by on an e—bike and your phone goes walkies. they've all got something in common. the stolen phones, their tracked owners are seeing their devices end up at the ports of china. i'm joined now in the studio by the former met detective and great friend of the show , peter bleksley. of the show, peter bleksley. peter, this will come as absolutely no surprise to you. mobile phone theft going through the roof. and it's basically not crime. that's even solved.

>> no, it's a considerable sized industry in the met police area alone. there's over 100 of these crimes every day as borne out by recent statistics. >> they are stealing these with impunity. and as often as i speak to yourself and others and try to impart some advice to people, it's natural that in 2024, if you're going around the streets of london, you might be using your phone to make a call. you might be looking at your phone to follow where you're going. if you're not familiar with the with the location, and unfortunately , these people so unfortunately, these people so often on these silent approach electric bikes creep up behind you. you've no idea they're there. bump. your phone is gone , there. bump. your phone is gone, only to arrive in shenzen in china and you've got no chance of getting it back. >> and the stats are eye—watering. there's been a 24% rise in knifepoint robberies year on year, and there's also been a 20% increase of these kind of robberies, but only 5.7%

of them get solved, let alone people go to jail. brings me to my next point, peter. i was really keen to ask you about the new plans introduced today to put prisoners who there's no room for them in nics into police stations. peter, you're a police stations. peter, you're a police officer of many, many years experience in standing. what could possibly go wrong? >> police stations are not designed to hold prisoners long term. that's what prisons are for. so of course there's not the exercise facilities, there's not the catering facilities, and much more. so it's largely going to be a rather uncomfortable experience for prisoners being held there. it's also going to hoover up a lot of police officer time. officers will be taken away from other duties to patrol those those cell corridors and make sure that people don't self—harm, don't attempt to escape. and all the other things that frustrated prisoners are likely to get up to. >> now the big question then, of

course, is if the prisons are full and then the nics are filled with the people who are the overspill, what happens if there's another riot? where do they go then? the canteen ? they go then? the canteen? >> maybe. >> maybe. >> maybe. >> maybe they'll ask for volunteers to see if you can house a hoodie rather than hugging a hoodie, which cameron wanted all those years ago. i mean, i jest, let's hope we don't get any further outbreaks of rioting because the criminal justice system, which is crippled, it's on its knees in every aspect of it. if we take policing at the front line through to the cps, then the courts, then the prisons, then probation , it's all not probation, it's all not functioning as it should. although, of course, when the political will was there, rightfully so, from starmer. to get on top of these riots, we saw just what the system can do when there's the political will and the policing will. i would say now with regards to crime on our streets , it's got to the our streets, it's got to the time where we need that . time where we need that. political and policing will not just for riots , but to make our

just for riots, but to make our streets safe once again. the trouble with that though, peter, many people will be going hurrah ! many people will be going hurrah! >> i agree with you, but where the where in the heck are we going to put them if there's nowhere to store them? what we build more nics, there are more prisons coming online and hopefully next year we should get another 2 or 3 and they're going to be substantial prisons and we need but but the criminal justice system, the establishment everybody's known about this for years. >> the population has been growing like tremendously in recent years. so you have a bigger population. you're going to have a bigger proportion of that population going to prison, build the prisons, have suitable sentences. let's have deterrence. let's have police officers on the street. let's make our high streets attractive. once more by getting on board this shoplifting epidemic. and as for the knife crime and the violence against women, three more women murdered this weekend. all by men, all by knives, apparently. allegedly. come on. we've got to get on

board these problems and make this nation a better place for everyone. >> peter bleksley. every time you come in, i want to do this. and i want to do it again and shake your hand. always an absolute pleasure to have you on the show. peter bleksley legend. thank you. there's lots more still to come between now and 5:00. an exclusive investigation carried out for gb news shows the number of illegal immigrants being supported by british taxpayers. yep, that's you. has doubled in three years. but first, it's time for your latest news headlines with sophia wenzler . wenzler. >> martin. thank you. good afternoon from the gb newsroom. it's just gone 430. your headlines. a british tech tycoon, mike lynch, is among those six tourists missing after a luxury yacht yacht sank in a storm off the coast of sicily. the superyacht bayocean capsized near palermo. 15 people have now been rescued and one body, believed to be the boat's chef,

has been recovered from the water. charlotte, a british tourist who survived the wreck, says she held her one year old daughter afloat to stop her from drowning in what she's described as darkness and chaos. the uk foreign office is in contact with local authorities and says it's ready to assist those who are affected. a triple stabbing in manchester has left one woman dead and two other people in a critical condition , including a critical condition, including a teenagen critical condition, including a teenager. a 22 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the attack in the girton area last night. police are treating it as an isolated incident, but believe the suspect was known to the victims. detectives are now appealing for witnesses or dash cam footage . meanwhile, people cam footage. meanwhile, people handing in zombie knives and machetes to the police stations ahead of a new ban won't be punished. restrictions come in next month. the government 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 weapon, arguing there's no legitimate need to have one. defendants awaiting court in the north of england will be held in police cells until a prison space becomes available. that's part of plans to ease overcrowding. separate measures next month will see some offenders released after serving 40% of their sentences. however, the prison governors association says it's not sure whether the emergency measures will make a difference . the will make a difference. the children's commissioner says police forces should only strip search a child when it's a life threatening situation. a report suggests there's a new case every 14 hours in england and wales, and 1 in 20 searches don't follow official procedure. the tories deputy chairman, matthew vickers, has resigned. he stepped back from the role to support robert jenrick as the next conservative leader. he says jenrick is the standout candidate with a compelling

vision for rebuilding the party. america's top diplomat is warning the latest push for a gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal is probably the best and probably the last opportunity. antony blinken has met the israeli prime minister, urging the country towards an agreement. both israel and hamas have accused each other of obstructing the talks. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm sophia wenzler more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gb news. >> .com forward slash alerts . >> .com forward slash alerts. >> .com forward slash alerts. >> thank you sophia. now, if you want to get in touch with me here @gbnews and you know what to do, simply go to gbnews.com forward, slash your say hundreds of comments in already and i'll read out the

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welcome back. your time is 439. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. nearly 500 migrants crossed the channel in small boats on saturday alone, according to the home office. and that makes it now more than 5500 illegal migrants since the labour party came into powerjust six weeks ago. taking the tally now to more than 19,000 this year. i'm joined now by the chairman of migration watch and great friend of the show, alp mehmet alp. welcome to the show. good to be here. it's groundhog day once again. how many times have we had this conversation about no government, no politician? certainly no prime minister seeming to get a grip of this problem. the labour party are now in power. not only is the

situation continuing, it appears to be getting worse and it will get worse still. >> i'm afraid if i remember rightly the last time i was on your show. martin, it was shortly after tony blair intervened with his speech, when the message essentially was care, get a grip of immigration. >> if you don't, you're in trouble. >> well, he should take heed because he hasn't got a grip and shows no sign of getting a grip. >> and there seems to be no one around him who's able to give him the right sort of advice to show and suggest what needs to be done. >> certainly, with regard to the boats, the boats that are coming over the channel at the moment. >> alp they seem to be supersized really long, precarious overladen we've seen disasters, you know, in recent weeks . is there a shift in weeks. is there a shift in strategy? they seem to be packed

to the rafters now 5060 plus per vessel. we saw the 492 make it on saturday in just nine boats. that's 55 per day. you can see on your screen . now these are on your screen. now these are massive and they're bowing in the middle. they're often deflating and getting into trouble. it seems at the moment that the people smugglers are taking bigger and bigger risks, and they don't care about the safety of those people on board. >> they never have cared. they couldn't care two hoots how many are going to die. >> what the risks are. >> what the risks are. >> and they will continue because there's lots of dosh to because there's lots of dosh to be made. keir starmer said that he's going to smash the gangs. yeah right. smash the gangs. they're laughing themselves silly all the way to the bank. their bank accounts are burgeoning with the money that they can make. and if they can get even bigger boats and pack even more in my goodness, they will. this is where keir starmer, sir keir starmer really

has got to get a grip if he wants to do anything about thwarting these floods of people now who are coming across the channel and will continue to come . 19,000 already this year, come. 19,000 already this year, i suspect it will be closer to 40 50,000 by the end of the yeah 40 50,000 by the end of the year. that's not acceptable. >> so we could be on for a bumper or even a record year in terms of that deterrent. now, you and i have spoken many times in the past about rwanda. certainly it had its flaws, mainly the massive cost. not a single flight got off the ground. that was largely because of the activists, the lawyers, the echr call it what you want. nevertheless, that was scrapped . nevertheless, that was scrapped. now the plan to smash the gangs, can we smash these gangs any more than we can stop the drug gangs out? >> no, there's no question of it. it's impossible. i mean, there seems to be a thought that there seems to be a thought that there is a mr. big or several mr

bigs, and they're all sitting there planning and plotting. it doesn't work that way. and they know that the government knows this through our agencies. the sort of people that they are bringing together now to form this, this group to be headed by an individual whose identity isn't known yet. they know what's been going on. a lot of the work that keir starmer yvette cooper are suggesting is going to be done is already being done, and it hasn't had any impact at all for so long. as people arrive, they're able to stay and they know they're going to stay. they're not going to be removed, they're not going to be removed, they're not going to be removed, they're not going to be sent back either, whence they came or to their own countries. they will continue to come in ever greater numbers and more will die. bear that in mind . more will die. bear that in mind. more will die out. >> we saw under david blunkett, under the tony blair regime, there was a much more robust attitude towards deportation. do you see any appetite within the

current regime to go back to bafics current regime to go back to basics, as it were, to go back to the blair years of actually getting tough or this processing, the backlog, this thousand extra lawyers? is that more likely to result in more people being able to get the right to remain ? right to remain? >> yes, that's exactly what's going to happen . i see it as going to happen. i see it as more an amnesty , frankly, than a more an amnesty, frankly, than a speeding up of people coming here. that is not going to dissuade anyone from jumping into a boat . that's not dissuade anyone from jumping into a boat. that's not going to put the fear of god into the gangs. i'm afraid they're going to come in ever greater numbers, as i say, and more will die. >> and tony blair gave that stark warning. you've got to get a grip fast or this is going to haunt you. what would you say to sir keir starmer if he was watching the show? >> well, i would say, sir keir, stop getting your umbrella out in a thunderstorm with the wind blowing a gale wind. you're not going to protect yourself.

you've got to get serious. we've got to detain people. we've got to deal with them quickly. we've got to remove them. that's the only way it's going to stop. >> would you like to see a deal with a third party country? we've seen italy and albania do some kind of off shore containment deal. do you think you'd like to see that? and is that likely with the political direction of travel we're seeing with the labour party, >> i think they will shy away from doing it. but ultimately, this problem doesn't begin on the shores of calais and dover. it goes much further back than that. and whether we like it or not, i think we've got to get a grip internationally as well. but we're out of the eu. we work on our own now. we've got the laws that are in place to stop it all. we're not using our laws. all we're doing is standing back and letting it all happen and kicking it into the long grass. we're going to have a review. we're going to have a

study that's a nonsense. frankly, it's sir humphrey at large yet again, the chairman of migration watch, thank you very much for joining migration watch, thank you very much forjoining us in the studio. >> always an absolute delight to have your knowledge. now harry and meghan wrap up their trip to colombia, not their royal tour, but was it a complete and utter charade? a waste of time? i martin daubney on gb news british

channel. welcome back. it's almost 10 to 5. i'm martin daubney on gb news. the duke and duchess of sussex have finished their quasi royal tour of colombia . continue royal tour of colombia. continue around the south american country. the duchess of sussex said that their daughter lilibet has finally found her voice at the age of three, no doubt talking about climate change or feminism, and speaking on a panel at an afro women and power

event, meghan markle said she was so proud that her daughter has found her voice and of course, feels empowered . well, course, feels empowered. well, joining us now is the former royal correspondent michael cole, not former royal correspondent present day legend michael cole. michael, let me ask you this question. most of columbia didn't seem even aware this tour was going on. those who were aware didn't particularly care. what was the point of it? >> well, back in california, where no doubt they're having a healthy breakfast this morning, the sussexes will be reflecting on their semi—royal tour of columbia and counting it a success. and in their terms, of course, it was. they were met by people who were delighted to see them. nothing went wrong, as you said . they they ticked all their said. they they ticked all their boxes. said. they they ticked all their boxes . she wore some very nice boxes. she wore some very nice expensive outfits, >> and it was quite a show. >> and it was quite a show. >> and there's no doubting the star of the show . and there she star of the show. and there she

is, smiling permanent smile . and is, smiling permanent smile. and you can't get away from it . you can't get away from it. she's to the manor, born in fact, actually to the palace born. she would have been a great asset had she chosen the wider stage . the bigger stage wider stage. the bigger stage buckingham palace could have given her instead of scooting off to canada and then to america , the prince looked a america, the prince looked a little bit more hesitant or diffident, even . but when he was diffident, even. but when he was with children, planting trees and drumming drums, and with his wounded veterans who go to the entirely admirable invictus games , which he set up, he games, which he set up, he looked happier , what was it all looked happier, what was it all about? i think we're entitled to ask that question , meghan. you ask that question, meghan. you know, at one stage wanted to work for the state department, the american foreign office, and she she did a stint as , down in she she did a stint as, down in buenos aires in argentina, in the embassy there. and she speaks spanish. one wonders, you know , she she sometimes players

know, she she sometimes players come in three acts. she had the, the acting career, then of course, she was a royal duchess, now, is she preparing for something else? goodness knows. america could do with a few talented and perhaps good looking people in politics. they haven't had too much luck in that area in recent months, it seems to me. and of course, she would be on the democratic ticket. and in california there have been people like schwarzenegger. and to not mention ronald reagan. not to forget ronald reagan, both of them actors of some skill, very, very differently who went on to be governors of california . be governors of california. >> and michael, the scintillating prospect of lilibet finding her voice. i wonder how that voice will be used . michael, may that voice be used. michael, may that voice be used. michael, may that voice be used for climate change, for institutional racism. for more of the same. a future star in the making. can't wait.

>> well, i think what that little child won't be saying is hello, grandpa, which is a great, great tragedy because hasn't met king charles, hasn't met thomas markle, her her maternal grandfather. such a shame. they go around the world and you know, they're trying to do good and there's enough bad in the world. we want some good. we welcome the good. but it's not enough to say, children and, mothers good slavery and online bullying, bad, invictus games. wonderful. you've got to actually take that home. you've got to actually live that life. you've got to bring it into your own family. and if you can't make bridges within your own family, what hope have you got in making bridges to other communities, other faiths, other beliefs? >> well, thank you, michael and certainly columbia. and before them, nigeria got the kind of pubuchy them, nigeria got the kind of publicity you cannot buy. or maybe they did buy it . that's

maybe they did buy it. that's a topic for another conversation. thank you very much, michael cole. now is the honeymoon over for sir keir starmer's labour party because shocking new data out today, say 52% of the british public are not happy with the direction of travel of the country. and just earlier today, keir starmer in northern ireland, calling those riots racist. is that the kind of language which you think unites the country? i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel. now it's time for your. weather. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on . gb. news on. gb. news >> hello, very good evening to you. here's your latest gb news weather update brought to you by the met office . plenty of the met office. plenty of showers as we go through tomorrow and some blustery gusty winds too. but before then there's a lot of cloud. there's a lot of rain because of a frontal system that's already

made its way in from the west. and as we go through the next 12 hours or so, it's going to continue to push east and southeastwards, bringing quite a wet story across many parts of england and wales for a time, with that rain feeding into the southeast as we go through the early hours of tomorrow morning behind it, there will be some clear skies around, but also some showery bursts, especially across parts of scotland. temperatures not dropping a huge amount. in fact, in the southeast it is going to be another warm night, some places only falling to lows of around 17 or 18 celsius. as we go through tomorrow morning, though, there will be some hefty rain across the far east of scotland and the northern isles also plenty of showers feeding into western parts of scotland into western parts of scotland in between. something a little bit drier and brighter for some, but also more showers across northern ireland. some parts of northern northwestern england and in fact down the western side of england and wales. there will be some showers feeding in something a little bit drier and sunnier for more central eastern parts of england, although in the far southeast that front will be lingering here for a time. so a grey, damp start to

the day for some before that front clears away. by the afternoon behind it. for many, it is going to be a showery day and some of those showers will be heavy and there are some gusty, blustery winds to watch out for too, especially in the northwest, making it feel a little bit cooler for some. but there will also be some sunny spells. and in the east southeast in the sunshine, feeling quite warm with temperatures in the low to mid 20s. wednesday gets off to a fine start for many of us, but some very wet and windy weather is going to feed in from the northwest as we go through the day , particularly affecting day, particularly affecting scotland and perhaps northern ireland too. now the rain is going to be quite heavy and will last as we go into thursday, and it's all due to the remnants of what was hurricane ernesto, the other side of the atlantic . i'll other side of the atlantic. i'll see you again soon. bye bye. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers , sponsors of up. boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on

gb news. >> a very, very good afternoon to you. it's 5 pm. and welcome to you. it's 5 pm. and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. we're broadcasting live from the heart of westminster. and of course, that's all across the uk now. a shock new poll shows that only 22% of brits believe the country is moving in the right direction under sir keir starmer, with more than double that, 52% are unhappy about the direction of the nation's travel. and with the prime minister's popularity plummeting 7% since he was elected, the question today is this is the honeymoon officially over for the labour party ? and over for the labour party? and could this be joe biden's swan song? well, us president joe biden will take centre stage at tonight's democratic national convention in chicago, but is his legacy in jeopardy as thousands of protesters hit the host city, demanding an end to military aid to israel . and

military aid to israel. and there's been a superyacht disaster because one is dead and six missing after a yacht carrying mostly british passengers was caught in a tornado and capsizes off the coast of sicily. british tech entrepreneur mike lynch is one of the men on board. we'll bring you all of the latest and jokesters have named the funniest jokey pun at this year's edinburgh fringe festival. 2000 members of the pubuc festival. 2000 members of the public voted for their favourite punchline, but have we lost our funny bones? that's all coming up in your next hour. of the show. always a pleasure to have your company. so 52% of brits are unhappy about the direction of travel under the labour party. a short while ago, sir keir starmer in northern ireland branded the recent riots as clearly racist. is that the kind of language that you expect from

our prime minister? is that the kind of language that brings us together , or should we be saying together, or should we be saying things like those riots that happened recently? i condemned the violence, but i'd like to talk to you about the underlying reasons that drove them. why are you unhappy? tell me. i'm the prime minister. after all, that's what we saw in the aftermath of those riots in 2011, when it was the mostly black community who were impacted. let me know your thoughts on all of that. gbnews.com forward slash your save. and now it's time for your latest news headlines . latest news headlines. >> good afternoon from the gb newsroom. it'sjust >> good afternoon from the gb newsroom. it's just gone 5:00. your top story this hour. one person has died and six are missing after a superyacht carrying british passengers sank off the coast of sicily. the british registered 56 metre bayesian had 22 people on board when it went down after being struck by a tornado. the yachts owned by the family of british

tech entrepreneur mike lynch , tech entrepreneur mike lynch, who is believed to be among those unaccounted for. divers are now combing the waters as the search efforts continue around the wreck. 50m underwater. so far , 15 people underwater. so far, 15 people have been rescued, including the wife of mike lynch and a one year old girl. as we look at these pictures of the recovery efforts, let's hear from meteorologist jim dale, who told us earlier 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 this, this type of event. a waterspout is quite unusual. so 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 back in the uk in manchester. >> a 43 year old woman has died and two others are in a critical

condition following a triple stabbing. a 22 year old man, believed to be known to the victims, has been arrested on suspicion of murder. greater manchester police are appealing for witnesses as they continue their investigation into what they say is an isolated incident. meanwhile, there'll be no punishment for anyone handing in zombie knives and machetes into police stations ahead of a new ban. restrictions come in next month. the government 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. prisons minister lord timpson claims he's inherited a justice system in crisis as plans to address overcrowding in jails are activated in northern 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 to the early release scheme for some

offenders, which kicks in next month to. meanwhile, a young mother pushing a pram has become the latest defendant to appear in court after widespread rioting across the uk. 21 year old nivi smith, from oldham, will be sentenced in september for violent disorder outside an asylum hotel while she was pushing her child in a pram . pushing her child in a pram. 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 view of sir keir starmer, with 38% on both sides. rishi sunak and the conservatives ratings haven't changed since the election. the tories deputy chairman, matthew vickers, has resigned. he stepped back from the role to support robert jenrick as the next conservative leader. he says jenrick is the standout candidate with a compelling vision for rebuilding the party. 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 the moves aimed at creating a buffer zone between the two countries. dufing zone between the two countries. during an overnight address, the ukrainian president praised his troops efforts and also called for the removal of restrictions on donated weapons used against russia and 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. last month, donald trump was confirmed as the republicans pick just a few days after he survived an assassination attempt. americans will head to the polls in november. 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 few decades . and this time few decades. and this time around, kamala harris has won not 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 walz . nominee, tim walz. >> and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm sophia wenzler more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> thank you sophia. now the

government's recent decisions have taken a toll on the approval ratings of the prime minister, sir keir starmer , as minister, sir keir starmer, as a poll from ipsos mori says that 52% of people think britain is moving in the wrong direction. now the labour party plans to repeal the strikes act, which could lead to even more frequent and disruptive industrial action and disruptive industrial action and at the same time cuts to winter fuel payments are expected to hit the most vulnerable this winter and with over 5500 migrants now crossing the channel since the keir starmer came to power as the prime minister got a mountain to climb. well, joining me now in the studio is our political edhon the studio is our political editor, chris hope . chris. so editor, chris hope. chris. so when the sir keir starmer was elected as prime minister, a lot of people said there will be a honeymoon period. there always is. give it to christmas. people said chris. we're nowhere near christmas and it seems that that love affair is over. tell us more. >> sadly, more of a one night stand than a lengthy marriage. i think between the electorate and

sir keir starmer. look at this ipsos mori poll between august the 9th, the 12th, they found a big post—election drop in perceptions of the prime minister, angela rayner, and his deputy and rachel reeves, of course, the chancellor. 52% of people think the government is heading in the wrong direction. 50% think in the right direction. 19% don't have a view. maybe no surprise, given the slimness of the of this labour landslide. who supported the government? 1 in 5 adults backed labour at the election last month. only 1 in 3 of those who voted voted labour because of the way the chips fell in our electoral system. it meant there was a massive landslide majority for the for the labour party. why is that? well, you're looking at maybe concern about the ripping away of the winter fuel allowance, which we saw for millions of pensioners saving billions for the government. but at what political cost? at the same time, this government has been putting money, shovelling money into the pockets of public sector workers and the like 14% pay sector workers and the like 14% pay rise for aslef via trade

train operators, 22% for junior doctors, 5.5% for millions of pubuc doctors, 5.5% for millions of public sector workers. all these numbers are many are several times. if not more, than double inflation. big question marks. and we don't know why we're not being told why in this polling. but you can look at what's happened, and it seems that the government has been making big choices politically quite early on in their time. >> chris, as well as the crises you mentioned, they're small boats, crisis not getting any smaller. the fuel bills for pensioners. a lot of people feeling that pensioners are back of the queue behind the union chums of the labour party. but can we also talk about some of the language that sir keir starmer has been using in particular, earlier on today he was in northern ireland speaking to the media, where he discusses the recent riots with the head of the police services in northern ireland. here's what starmer had to say. >> i mean , northern ireland here >> i mean, northern ireland here today for three purposes.

firstly, to meet the psni officers who have been on the front line during this disorder. many of them have been injured and my purpose was to say to them , thank you for what they them, thank you for what they have done. we make big asks of them, they step up and they deserve our thanks. i have also had the chance to speak to the psni senior leadership about the challenges that they face, and that the support that they need. and then thirdly, and very importantly, to speak to some of the communities most impacted about the fear that they have the anxiety that they have about the anxiety that they have about the recent disorder. the disorder is intolerable. it is incapable of justification. it is clearly racist, and it does not represent the modern, forward looking northern ireland that i know that this place is. so i am very pleased to achieve all those three things today, and to work with all communities to work with the psni and others to work with the psni and others to ensure that we handle this

situation, not just the immediate disorder, but also the longer term work that's necessary to ensure that we have that one northern ireland approach that i know represents the northern ireland a modern northern ireland of the future . northern ireland of the future. >> so chris, clearly racist. now, some people undoubtedly were. but the way that the pubuc were. but the way that the public tends to receive that sort of messaging is that the riots themselves, per se, were. and therefore anybody who agrees with them, or even the underlying situations and circumstances is racist. do you think that kind of language is helpful? >> probably not. we saw language far right to describe the people protesting about after the southport killings, again, no one is justifying the violence, but to say that is almost implying that anyone concerned about migration is far right. and that is what so annoys gb news viewers and listeners. and in there he said he's talked he

talked. today the prime minister to communities impacted by the violence. he said that it was intolerable, incapable of justification and a clear racist. no one is justifying violence is surely the response to that. but what will you do to try and address the concerns? he's done very well as prime minister cracking down quickly. he's got all the levers pulled in the right direction in terms of criminal justice, getting people jailed very quickly to demonstrate that there are consequences for violence and, and rioting. but what are you doing to try and sort out the concerns which are being held by many people about immigration locally? that is a political challenge. he's yet to face. >> and hundreds of people have been getting in touch. i ask you throughout the show for your views. i just posted on social media about these comments. the riots are clearly racist and absolute abundance of comments coming in. just pick one here. chris. from a gb news viewer called june who says this. it's so for easy keir starmer to call people who are concerned about immigration racist and forgetting about knife crime, as he won't have the immigrants

around him where he lives at number 10 and protected by security. what june is basically saying here is that anybody who complains about knife crime or the riots is put into this, this, this box of being a wrong'un of being a racist. and many, many people, chris, are waiting for the conversation. the more progressive conversation, as we saw post 2011 riots, then starmer also banged them up swiftly. there was uniformity of approach, but what we saw after 2011 was a more involving conversation about! more involving conversation about i want to understand your frustrations. why did you riot and how can we prevent that from happening again with that kind of language? chris, it doesn't look like we're getting any nearer. that kind of hasn't happened yet. >> and maybe the individual who best place to do that is angela raynen best place to do that is angela rayner. yeah, she's she's the local government community secretary. she might be well placed for that kind of conversation . coming from a very conversation. coming from a very working class background in, in greater manchester, it could be her conversation to have going forward, but so far there's no attempt to do that. and that, i

think, is a frustration you're seeing there from june and others. >> although in that same poll, angela rayner's unfavorability. 36% versus 33% favourable. so she's got a minus three favorability rating. so keir starmer is on parity of zero, but he's down seven points. can i ask you chris i understand you're chairing the show i did all last week gb news tonight at seven. and then farage all week. what can we expect to get from you this week. >> that's right. we're looking at union donations to labour. we're going to be talking to sean simon, a former labour mp and minister, about whether this matters, whether it matters that some labour mps are given lots of money by unions. we have our panel of money by unions. we have our panel, moutaz ahmed from the telegraph , nigel nelson, our telegraph, nigel nelson, our senior political commentator, also sir conor burns, talking about operation early dawn, keeping criminals in police cells and not. and is it okay for the for the police and looking at some recent issues and demonstrations there in bournemouth and also looking at the issue of out of hours

texting people out of hours , is texting people out of hours, is that a minor aggression? so when you text me, i won't complain to hr gb news if it's out of hours. >> but i often do text, you know, all the time. yeah. because because we're always working on stories. we never stop. politics never stops. do you think just just pulling back now to this this sir keir starmer situation, do you think i mean you've you've been around in politics. you've seen governments, governments come, you've seen them go . there's you've seen them go. there's always a backlash. but as you said before, tony blair, he was like walking on water when he first got in. david cameron had a period of grace. everybody seemed to have a pier of grace. this seems to be unusually short. >> it does seem short, certainly with blair. blair had 2 or 3 years of nothing touching. i think the tory party was so exhausted and spent and william hague was hardly the greatest leader, frankly, back then. but yeah, and there is no real opposition at all. i mean, rishi sunak's reportedly been away on holiday. we've got six candidates who are there's no one really. no one's coordinating their response to the government. so it should be quite an easy time for them. but they have, you know, we are

waiting to see how they're going to reach out to all communities after these riots. >> okay. superb. don't forget chris is back seven till eight tonight. you get lots more of that story on our website. sir keir starmer thinks the riots are clearly racist. what do you think? well, thanks to you, gb news. com is the fastest growing national news website in the country. it's got breaking news and all of the brilliant analysis you come to expect from us here @gbnews now as the final two weeks of our 30 zero zero £0 great british giveaway . so great british giveaway. so there's still plenty of time to get your entry in. now what would you do with all that lovely wonga? well here's all the details that you need for your chance to win it. >> celebrate a spectacular summer with your chance to win an incredible £30,000 in tax free cash in our great british giveaway. it's the biggest prize of the year. so far and it's totally tax free. what would you spend that on? luxury holidays? a new car or just put it away for a rainy day? whatever you'd do with £30,000 in tax free cash ,

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welcome back. your time is 522. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. the presidential race is heating up as the democratic national convention gets underway. kamala harris will be formally confirmed as the party's presidential candidate. but as thousands of protesters, as you can see on your screen, hit the host city demanding an end to military aid to israel, could joe biden's gaza policy become a liability for kamala harris's campaign? well, joining me now is democrat and feminist lawyer gloria allred. gloria, welcome to the show. so we just saw some pictures on the screen there of the a sizeable body of protesters amassing outside of this. how much could i ask you? do you think this is going to be a headache for the democrat party? we saw in the united kingdom the pro gaza candidates taking seats and a lot of votes away from the labour party. could there be a similar

backlash in america ? backlash in america? >> well, it depends on what happens at the protest. >> if it's a peaceful protest and i am here in chicago, i am a delegate from california to the democratic national convention, which begins today and tonight when president biden comes and speaks and in addition, we're looking forward to other wonderful speakers other nights of the convention, former president obama , hillary president obama, hillary clinton, will also be speaking tonight . tonight. >> michelle obama is going to be speaking , and we are just going speaking, and we are just going to have a great time here. >> we all believe in peaceful protest are guaranteed by the first amendment of the united states constitution, but and chicago, i believe, is prepared. we know that at the democratic convention in chicago in 1968, there was not a peaceful

protest, and there was a lot of blood in the streets because police were beating up on protesters who were protesting the vietnam war and the united states involvement in it. but chicago says that it is prepared this time that they've had much more training of the police, and they are ready for the protest. we'll have to see. we're talking about possibly in excess of 10,000 protesters in the street , 10,000 protesters in the street, and we know that some of them were not peaceful at other gatherings, but right here. but our goal is we want to unify, we want to do what the famous labour organiser , mother jones labour organiser, mother jones said, which is don't agonise, organise, and we want to be a united, unified democratic party to elect kamala harris as the as the next president of the united states. and i'm excited. i know, kamala harris , the vice

kamala harris, the vice president. i knew her when she came to visit me when she was in her first race for district attorney, she won that in san francisco. she went to on win a race for attorney general, then for united states senator from california. so we're excited not only because she'll be our first woman president and of course, you and the uk are way ahead of us, i had the honour of meeting margaret thatcher one time, and so you're much more progressive in terms of women. in, in government than we are. but we always say a woman's place is in the house, the house of representatives and the white house. so we're ready for everything to happen at this convention. and we're just joyous as opposed to the rage and the anger by the former president. who is name calling, as he always does, trying to bully our candidate, kamala harris. it's not going to work, we're the party of joy. they're

the party of anger in the past, and we're going to win. >> okay, well, i hope you have a safe and peaceful conference for those protesters outside there, gloria. but don't forget, hillary clinton said she looked forward to being your next president. didn't quite work out for her that time. gloria allred, have a fantastic time . allred, have a fantastic time. >> thank you. and she won 3 million more votes than trump. but because of our archaic electoral college system, she did crucially, crucially, wasn't elected president. >> we have to leave it there. thank you very much for joining us. have a safe and peaceful conference now, the latest now on the super yacht sinking in sicily. british tech tycoon mike lynch is missing after his yacht capsized following a tornado. mike lynch , dubbed the uk's bill mike lynch, dubbed the uk's bill gates, is said to be worth almost £1 billion and gb news homeland security editor mark white joins us now . mark, a white joins us now. mark, a terrible tragedy. it looks like, off the coast of sicily. what do we know? what's the latest ?

we know? what's the latest? >> yeah. so it was a real ferocious and unexpected storm that hit the coastline just a few miles from palermo, where this yacht was anchored. we've got some video where we can show you the harbour. one of the local harbours there where the intensity of the wind and the rain lashing in to that harbour gives a real indication of just how powerful those winds were and the difficulty they added difficulty for any of the shipping out there, including this yacht that then sunk , is this yacht that then sunk, is that there was a nazi, tornado, a waterspout that was born of these high winds as well. and thunderstorms that were out there. and that just collided as far as we were to led believe. with the yacht snapped the main mast and overturned the yacht.

and it's now lying within 50m of water. the divers are down there. they have very sadly noficed there. they have very sadly noticed that there are bodies within that yacht. we know there are . still six people who are are. still six people who are missing, unaccounted for at this houn missing, unaccounted for at this hour. we do not know how many bodies they have spotted inside the yacht. they've seen them through the portholes of that boat, and they are now in the process of gaining access to the boat, which at that kind of depth is obviously a very precarious job for those deep sea divers to undertake as well . sea divers to undertake as well. one body of a man has been recovered, but they have not been identified at this stage. and as you mentioned in your introduction there, mike lynch, the tech entrepreneur very widely known and regarded here in the uk, is one of those missing. sadly presumed dead. and he is someone who had, you

know, a very prominent career in the tech industry. he was embroiled in a financial scandal and went to trial in the us, the federal court there and decided to fight that allegation against him of fraud instead of actually taking a plea bargain. he had a 97% chance of losing, but he won. he convinced the jury, and that was just in june. martin. so this trip out , on the so this trip out, on the mediterranean, in that super yacht was no doubt with other members of his family an opportunity for him to relax, to try to put the events of recent years behind him. but of course, it has now ended in the most appalling tragedy and mark white mike lynch was also on the board of the bbc. >> a previous advisor in terms of business and tech, to prime minister at the time, david

cameron. mark, is it now your understanding that this is less of a rescue mission and more of a recovery mission ? a recovery mission? >> sadly, it is. anybody in the water, even on the surface after that length of time, there would be very little hope. probably of finding them alive and in the immediate search area, there was a number of search and rescue assets looking around that area. so the working assumption is those who have died have probably died inside the yacht. remember, it was just after 4 am. when this very bad weather struck, and most people would have been asleep in their cabins , have been asleep in their cabins, probably unaware of what was happening until it was too late. >> okay. thank you. mark white for the latest there on the super yacht disaster off the coast of sicily. thank you very much. there's lots more still to come between now and 6:00, including jokesters have named

the funniest person the funniest joke of the year. this year's edinburgh festival fringe will put them through their paces. are they funny? but first, it's time for your latest headlines with sophia wenzler. >> martin. thank you. good afternoon. from the newsroom at 531, your headlines as you've been hearing, one person has died and six are missing after a superyacht carrying british passengers sank off the coast of sicily. the british registered 56 metre bayesian had 22 people on board when it went down after being struck by a tornado. the yachts, owned by the family of british tech entrepreneur mike lynch, who is believed to be among those unaccounted for. divers are now combing the waters as search efforts continue around the wreck. 50m underwater. so far , 15 people underwater. so far, 15 people have been rescued, including the wife of mike lynch and a one year old girl. wife of mike lynch and a one year old girl . a triple stabbing year old girl. a triple stabbing

in manchester has left one woman dead and two other people in a critical condition, including a teenagen critical condition, including a teenager. a 22 year old man has now been arrested on suspicion of murder after the attack in the girton area last night. police are treating it as an isolated incident, but believe the suspect was known to the victims. detectives are now appealing for witnesses or dashcam footage . meanwhile dashcam footage. meanwhile people handing in zombie knives and machetes to police stations ahead of a new ban won't be punished . restrictions come in punished. restrictions come in next month. the government stopped short of making ninja swords illegal, but insist that will soon happen. 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 one. defendants awaiting court in the north of england will be held in police cells until a prison space becomes available. that's part of plans to ease overcrowding. separate

measures next month will see some offenders released after serving 40% of their sentences. however, the prison governors association says it's not sure whether the emergency measures will make a difference . and will make a difference. 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 2023, most for unauthorised holidays. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm sophia wenzler more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com. >> forward slash alerts . >> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> cheers! britannia wine club

proudly sponsors the gb news financial report , and here's financial report, and here's a quick snapshot of today's markets. >> the pound will buy you $1.2982 and ,1.1726. the price of gold is £1,928, and £0.70 per ounce, and the ftse 100 closed the day at 8356 points. >> cheers, britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report . financial report. >> thank you sophia. now it's absolutely kicking off on our website about the comments. sir keir starmer saying the riots were clearly racist. over 500 comments in only half an hour. now tonight dewbs& co is hosted by emily carver and she joins me now on the show. emily, what's on your menu? >> yes. well, labour trigger operation early dawn to

desperately try and free up some prison spaces. but could we see criminals walk free? and does britain have a benefits blame culture? work and pensions secretary liz kendall certainly thinks so. she says it's time to end the divisive rhetoric that blames people on welfare. what do you make of that? and just 22% of brits believe that the country is heading in the right direction under the labour party. is that fair? we'll get stuck into all of that and more. so do stick with us. 6 to 7:00 i'm in for dewbs & co. it will be i'm in for dewbs& co. it will be a fantastic panel tonight, so don't miss it. >> magnificent . looks like it's >> magnificent. looks like it's going to be a great show. 22% of people happy. well, none of them are getting in touch with me. i'll tell you that. much for free. they are very, very disgruntled about the rights being called . clearly racist. being called. clearly racist. emily carver superb. 617 your dewbs& co tonight. if you want to get in touch with all those people. like i said, over 500 comments in over just people. like i said, over 500 comments in overjust 30 comments in over just 30 minutes. simply go to

gbnews.com/yoursay and i'll read out the best of your a little later the show. keep them

welcome back. it's 539. we're on the final furlong. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. operation early dawn because emergency measures to ease prison overcrowding have been activated by the ministry of justice after hundreds of rioters were charged for their role in the recent social unrest. now, this means that defendants waiting across the north of england for a court appearance will be kept in police cells and not prisons until prison space is available. what could possibly go wrong? well, joining me now to discuss this is our political correspondent, olivia utley. olivia, for months and months and months before the general election, even we heard that the prisons are completely full. and

then sir keir starmer arrested 1100 people after the social unrest. guess what? there's no space in our mix. which now means they're going to your local cop shop. tell us more. >> well, this is a measure that is actually often brought in by various governments. it's not a labour policy. in fact, the last conservative government did something very similar last may. and essentially it does what it says on the tin when there isn't enough space in prisons. and as you say, there is never enough space in prisons, the people who have been convicted will be held in police cells while waiting for a prison cell to become available. obviously, the problem there is it just stores up problems for the future. if you start to fill up the police cells, then what happens when people come in and need to be detained before their court heanng? detained before their court hearing? and what ends up happening is that court hearings get delayed or cancelled or adjourned. and so there's a huge, huge blockage in the system, which never really gets to be released. that said, the government does desperately have

to do something. it is a disaster waiting to happen. it really, really is just a tinderbox . and there are now tinderbox. and there are now about 300 places only left in male prisons across the uk. the prison sector likes to operate with about 1400 spare places, and prison leaders have said if it goes anywhere below 300 places, then they simply won't be able to operate at all. we are at breaking point with this. another idea which the government has had to try and ease. this problem, which may have a bit more of an effect than this operation early dawn, is this this policy that they're implementing from the 10th of september, whereby prisoners will semi—automatically be released after serving 40% of their sentence, rather than 50% of their sentence? now, this might help to ease the overcrowding problem, but of course it is very, very controversial. we know that the pubuc controversial. we know that the public care very deeply about law and order and about keeping prisoners locked up for ,

prisoners locked up for, ideally, their whole sentences. there could be a real problem for keir starmer if even one of these prisoners who were released early ends up committing a crime. in the time where they should have been in prison, then there will be a really big spotlight on the labour government at the moment, the government is sort of framing all this in terms of urgency and immediacy. they're saying this is a desperate problem that the conservatives have left us with. we've inherited it and this is the only thing we can do. but that isn't really the full story. actually, this labour government is ideologically opposed to holding people in prisons for longer sentences, and the new prisons minister, james timpson, thinks that lots and lots of people who are in prisons shouldn't be in prisons. so i think this is something which we can expect to see a lot more of as we see more of the labour government. >> but olivia utley hundreds and hundreds of people getting in touch with this show today. agree with mr timpson that people shouldn't be in prison for posting facebook messages, for posting facebook messages, for getting involved in riots in a fringe capacity . is

for getting involved in riots in a fringe capacity. is this in that sense, a kind of pr disaster of the government's own making? it's fine to get tough on crime. it's fine to say we're going to throw the book at you if you get involved in a riot, but there's no nix to send them to, and you're having to go to your local police station. as peter bleksley pointed out earlier, not equipped for anything like a long term incarceration of inmates there. normally an overnight job or 24 hours or 48 hours for questioning. that means frontline coppers having to go into police stations to become de facto prison wardens. is there a feeling that getting this clampdown , this toughness this clampdown, this toughness dunng this clampdown, this toughness during the recent riots has actually created a headache of the government's own making? >> well, it does seem to be sort of mixed messages from the government. you've got keir starmer going really, really hard on these rioters, which has proven to be popular according to public opinion polling and as you say, 1100 of them have now been arrested about half of those have already been charged. but at the same time, there is a

massive overcrowding problem in prisons. so to try and ease that, keir starmer is talking about allowing prisoners to be released early. now, which prisoners will be released early? starmer has already made clear that those convicted of violent offences and domestic abuse for example, won't be eligible for that early release and he has also said that those rioters will not be eligible for early release either. now, not every single one of the rioters who have been arrested so far are necessarily particularly violent. and could there be a situation later down the line where, because someone was involved in these riots, they are automatically detained for much longer than someone else who is in prison, who may have committed a crime which most people in the public would , people in the public would, would think would be more dangerous to public safety. i mean , we don't know what's mean, we don't know what's happening yet, but there could be accusations further down the line of sort of two tier policing, if that were to come to pass. >> and it's worth bearing in mind you're absolutely correct to point out that there won't be violent criminals released or

those with domestic abuse prosecutions , but up to four prosecutions, but up to four years can include fairly heavy weight drug dealers, so they will be allowed out after 40% of their time. but you won't be allowed out if you're one of the rioters, no matter your involvement. olivia utley superb. thank you very much for being all over that story. as ever now, jokesters have named the funniest pun jokes at this year's edinburgh festival fringe . year's edinburgh festival fringe. are they very funny? well, i'll be joined by the comedian adam coombes next to discuss them. i martin daubney on gb news, news channel

welcome back. it's 548. final final furlong with me martin daubney on gb news now the funniest joke of the edinburgh fringe festival has been revealed and you're in for a treat . or are you now? for a treat. or are you now? don't shoot the messenger. but

here's the joke. i was going to sail around the globe in the world's smallest ship, but i bottled it. you get it? well, comedian mark simmons says he's really pleased to get the award. a decade on from his first appearance at the festival. but does he deserve it? well, joining me now to dissect other people's jokes is the comedian adam coombes. adam, always a delight. so it's that time of year where we read out the funniest jokes of the fringe. for starters, before we get into the actual jokes , who votes for the actual jokes, who votes for them? is this the public or is this like a board of luvvies? yes, it's a bit of a mixture, martin. it's the public and a bit of board, so there's a bit of both, but it's important not not the comedians. >> it's mainly the public. >> it's mainly the public. >> and it tends to be a sort of puntastic award all the jokes tend to be puns, what do you make of it? is it funny? >> look, i, i have a personally quite a quite a dark sense of humour. however, if you look at the edinburgh best jokes of the

award, best jokes of the fringe, they're always sort of puns and sort of family friendly sort of christmas cracker, christmas cracker jokes. christmas cracker, christmas crackerjokes. i think the cracker jokes. i think the intent is just sort of like keep the spirit light and jovial. it might not be my personal cup of tea, but yeah, you know, some people, some people arguably, undoubtedly have found it funny. >> let's go through a few of the others then. we've got the top five jokes here. maybe you can give them a little score for me. adam, we have the number one there. that's the one about the bottling, about the ship. this one. i've been taking salsa lessons for months, but i just don't feel like i'm progressing. it's just one step forward and two steps back again. >> again , i some people find >> again, i some people find these funny. they're all kind of like dad jokes. i, i'm hesitant to sort of criticise these jokes, because i know some of the comedians that i've gigged with, some of these comedians, and they are actually genuinely quite funny. so these christmas cracker jokes aren't quite funny. so these christmas crackerjokes aren't necessarily cracker jokes aren't necessarily representative of their full set, i'll say. >> and that was that was by alec snook. that one there. this is number three on the list. i ate a horse at a restaurant once. it wasn't great. the starter was

all right, but the mane was dreadful . yeah. dreadful. yeah. >> i mean, again , there is >> i mean, again, there is somebody watching this show right now laughing their head off. so again, not my cup of tea, but, you know, must be funny to someone. >> and that was by alex kitson. this one is by arthur smith. this one is by arthur smith. this was number four. let's go through it once more. i'm sensing you're not going to burst out into into unbridled hilarity, but let's fire this one. i sailed through my driving test. that's why i failed it, >> i like that. i actually don't mind that, but i think i have a bias. i do, i do, actually. i know, i know, arthur, and i do like him. i've gigged with him a lot. so i would say if out of all of those, that would be the one. i'd probably chuckle and 90, one. i'd probably chuckle and go, yeah, that's pretty funny. >> yeah. see, i quite like that. that's arthur smith. so that's your mate. so you're saying that was funny mainly because you know him. you don't want to. guilty as charged. yeah. your neck wrung. let's have the final one. this is from mark simmons. >> you know mark simmons i've gigged with mark a couple of times. >> yes i'd say. will that affect

your laughter or not? at this i will try and remain impartial and remain impartial. this is the number five joke of the edinburgh fringe. five out of five i love the olympics. my friend and i invented a new type of relay baton. well, he came up with the idea and i ran with it. >> yeah, i mean, if i was in the right type of mood, if i, if i had a if i had a drink or two, i think i'd laugh at that. yes. >> that one definitely got you there, adam. right. so five out of five, i would say you gave two of them laughter material, mainly because, you know, the comics in question. yes. so also, i think it's important to probably mention these jokes are inherently funnier when the comedians are delivering them and you are seeing them live rather than sort of read through the news. >> so i will give that a bit of a doubt. there is more of an atmosphere when you are there at the show, and you're hearing them being performed live by the comedian themselves. >> so adam, as well as saying the jokes weren't funny, you were blatantly criticising my delivery on my show. you're absolutely right. i also i also want to say it wasn't all these comedians are inherently funnier

than me, and i mean no disrespect to any of them. >> they're at the fringe. i'm not. i haven't been there for a few years, so nothing but respect and congratulations to the to these comics. >> and adam, quickly, how important are these jokes in terms of defining people's careers? i mean, is this the moment the hollywood moment where you make the breakthrough and make £1 million and have a life of luxury? oh i think i wish that was the case. >> i know, i know a lot of these comedians who probably think that would hopefully that would be the case as well. but it's not really. it's a nice thing to have. it's a nice little thing to sort of put on your resume, the reality of it is the fringe. the edinburgh fringe is much of it is much of it. it's a good thing. it's not really as relevant as it used to be. we are sort of seeing declining audience numbers. people are sort of realising it's quite expensive to go to the fringe. there's a lot of politics involved. unfortunately, the spirit of it is still there and the comedians are the people, but a lot of it's less of a meritocracy and it's more about money. so yeah, superb stuff. >> adam. thank you very much for joining us. and i noticed there was no jokes on that list from bobby davro, who did appear at

this year's edinburgh fringe. probably not the right kind of comedian, is he? and he completely insulted my delivery of the jokes. there totally agree. now then, up next is dewbs& co tonight, of course, hosted by emily carver. and then at 7 to 8 pm, it's gb news tonight and tonight's hosted by chris hope. chris is going to do a superb job. he's also chairing farage for the entire rest of the week. thanks for your company today. hundreds of comments about sir keir starmer's clearly racist riots. now it's your weather with dunno. it's . weather. dunno. it's. weather. >> looks like things are heating up boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news >> hello. very good evening to you. here's your latest gb news weather update brought to you by the met office . plenty of the met office. plenty of showers as we go through tomorrow and some blustery gusty winds too. but before then there's a lot of cloud. there's a lot of rain because of a

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