those are the words of migrants. those are the words of home secretary yvette cooper as she vows to supercharge immigrant removals to levels not seen since theresa may was prime minister. do you believe her.7 >> minister. do you believe her? >> and hoping for a miracle? divers begin day three of the search of the capsized super yacht , with one person confirmed yacht, with one person confirmed dead. six people still missing. but the development there is that apparently they have now smashed their way into the hull of that ship. we'll bring more to you as we get it. we will indeed. >> and labour's bombshell tax on brits chancellor rachel reeves is poised to unveil her in quotes. aggressive tax raising agenda as she's accused of hypocrisy over receiving £300,000 or so in donations and freebies, just as she scraps winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners. >> and are we raising a snowflake generation? why did so many pupils skip their exams? because they have anxiety. actually, do parents need to tell them to toughen up ? tell them to toughen up? >> and hefty hippo's greedy

gorillas will take you live to whipsnade zoo as it hosts its annual animal weigh in today. >> well, we've got loads to go out there, but there is a developing story that's just coming through to us here. so we'll give you a bit more info on this as we get it. but the headuneis on this as we get it. but the headline is this man charged in pakistan over southport disinformation that fuelled riots. it's an individual called farhan. asif is alleged to have worked for a particular news site that supposedly gave the wrong name. and nationality of a man who was believed to be involved in the southport attack. of course, that man didn't turn out to exist. it poses some very interesting questions. this, doesn't it, about misinformation online, about misinformation online, about where this misinformation came from and about the far right and whether or not they were entirely to blame for everything that was whipped up there. it's one to watch, i

think, to give you some updates on this. >> yes, it's quite incredible that the authorities in pakistan have charged a man with cyber terrorism in relation to disorder that we saw in this country. it's a very curious one. we're going to get some updates on that, find out a little bit more about exactly what he's been charged with and what he's been charged with and what the allegations there are. but this all relates to a website called a channel three now, which apparently he is the sole publisher of a sole editor of. so presumably the accusation is that he was spreading this disinformation that fuelled or kicked off the unrest here. can that possibly be true? it's all a bit off. we'll find out more. >> it's all a bit odd, but yes, we are going to be leading though with yvette cooper immigration comments. do you actually believe her when she says she's going to round up and deport people? by the way, the far left have got hold of this and they're not happy. but we'll have all of that after your headunes have all of that after your headlines with tatiana . headlines with tatiana. >> emily patrick, thank you very much. and good afternoon. the

top stories this hour. a team of four british inspectors from the marine accident investigation branch have now arrived in sicily, where they're expected to look at the site of the sinking yacht as the search for six people now enters, a third day, they're expected to carry out preliminary assessment of the site today. the maib is looking into what happened because it's understood the vessel was flying a british flag. the italian coast guard hasn't ruled out the possibility that those missing, including technology tycoon mike lynch and his 18 year old daughter hannah, may still be alive, with experts suggesting air pockets could have formed as the yacht sank. rescue teams are providing an underwater drone in the effort to help with the search for potential survivors. mike lynch's friend and former business partner david tabizel says mike has the strength to survive. >> if there's any chance of him surviving this, he has the strength , the strength to do strength, the strength to do this and i hope that we aren't talking in the past tense. he is

a remarkable man and if you've had the blessing and the honour to have worked with him or known him, this is he's a force of nature and somebody who i think, will become a business, an intellectual and scientific legend in the decades to come. >> the home office has outlined plans to tackle illegal immigration, including deploying 100 new intelligence officers to target people smuggling gangs. the home secretary has announced the new measures to boost britain's security and to target, dismantle and disrupt organised immigration crime networks. yvette cooper has also outlined the government has new plans for the next six months to achieve the highest rate of removals of those who don't have the right to be in the uk, including failed asylum seekers. as part of its plan, the government says it will reopen immigration removal centres in hampshire and oxfordshire, adding almost 300 beds. the conservatives have said labour were not serious about tackling

the people smugglers or stopping the people smugglers or stopping the boats . official figures the boats. official figures show. the rising cost of public services and benefits caused government borrowing last month to surge on the year before borrowing . the difference borrowing. the difference between spending and tax income hit £3.1 between spending and tax income hit £31 billion between spending and tax income hit £3.1 billion last month, around £18 billion more than in july last year. the increase means borrowing has hit its highest level for the month since 2021. the ons also revealed the uk's national debt remained at its highest level since the early 1960s. in other news, the new research project has found that drones can be safely used to deliver urgent blood stocks between hospitals. researchers from nhs blood and transplant wanted to see whether a component of blood can be delivered using drones without compromising its quality . they compromising its quality. they sent identical stocks via road and to air assess any impact. overall, ten blood packs were sent on ten journeys, five by land and five through the air, and the results showed that

drone delivery did not influence the blood quality or longevity . the blood quality or longevity. now, as people awaiting over a decade for social housing in more than 80% of councils, the liberal democrats are urging the government to relax planning laws in these areas to help drive the building of social homes. the party says councils should be able to buy land to build on cheaper rates. they are calling on the government to support local authorities who currently have to pay higher rates for land to build on. councils have to buy land for their hope value instead of their hope value instead of their current value, preventing social homes from being built on available land . housing available land. housing spokesperson for the lib dems helen morgan, told gb news this morning that every government that has promised to build housing at scale has failed, haven't built housing at scale since the 1950s and that's why we've got, you know, millions of people , 1.2 we've got, you know, millions of people ,1.2 million people on people, 1.2 million people on social housing waiting lists, families that will have inappropriate housing they are living in, you know , seven living in, you know, seven people in a two bedroom house in

one case that i'm trying to deal with at the moment. >> and we need to recognise that young people need somewhere to live. and i think that immigration isn't is a factor, but it's not the primary driver. we have just failed to build housing for the modern generation , and romanian police generation, and romanian police have raided the home of internet personality andrew tate as part of a new investigation into crimes including human trafficking and money laundering. >> andrew tate has been accused of having formed an organised criminal network in early 2021, in romania and britain, along with his brother tristan. they have denied the charges and a trial date hasn't yet been set. prosecutors allege that 37 year old tate, his 36 year old brother and two women set up a criminal organisation and sexually exploited several victims. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news

alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> welcome along everybody. it is 12:08 now. home secretary yvette cooper has pledged to deport more than 14,500 illegal immigrants over the next six months. if successful, it will be the fastest deportation rate since 2018, when theresa may was prime minister. >> yes. so the plans will involve the expansion of two immigration detention centres and are being seen as an attempt to counter criticism that the new government's decision to scrap the rwanda scheme has left the uk without a deterrent. >> well, let's discuss this further now with our homeland security editor, mark white. mark, loads of questions about this because, you know, how can we deport people , especially if we deport people, especially if they're not coming from quote unquote safe countries? there's also talk about where these people are going to be stored.

in the meantime, we had huge hoo ha, didn't we, about things like the bibby stockholm and all of that. mainly whipped up by laboun that. mainly whipped up by labour. so how is she going to do this? >> so these are the enforced removals of people who don't have the right to remain here. so only a fraction of them are actually people that come across the channel. the vast majority of illegal immigrants in this country are people that come on student visas on tourist visas, have come into the country via other means and have overstayed their welcome here. and they are then working in the illegal economy. and some estimates put the number of people working in the number of people working in the illegal economy as up to 1.5 million people. it's absolutely enormous. so this is just a small drop in the ocean of that. and the previous government as well, was involved in going after those working illegally. we saw immigration enforcement step up their operations in fact, i think we can bring you some video that we filmed not

that long ago out with immigration enforcement as they raided a scrapyard in east london, employing illegal people in that area. now, that was one of multiple immigration enforcement raids taking place on a regular basis. and that is, you know, something that immigration enforcement are trying to do, but they only have finite resources to be able to do that. also lumped in to this are your foreign national offenders. so thousands of people languishing in our prisons who are foreigners, who, when they've served their sentence, will be removed as well. now the previous government, as i said, was stepping up efforts to remove people. they removed 7000 people last year, up from 4000 the previous year. it's ambitious, but if yvette cooper can manage to get 14,000 people removed, then it will be significant.

>> so these deportations, we have no idea what the breakdown might be in terms of how they entered the country. so it could be that this is 14,500 students who've overstayed their visas. this could be 14,500 people who've got in the back of a lorry at some point and are working in a car wash near you. it could be a number of different, different types of people. >> i think i can tell you for certain that a small proportion of those who are removed will be those who have come across the channel illegally , because that channel illegally, because that has been the breakdown over a number of years now that the vast majority of people are these visa overstayers, foreign, national offenders and the like. now that might change as the government says it's going to prioritise the processing of these people who are coming across the channel and then claiming asylum. so that might well increase. but as patrick alluded to just in the previous question, to me, you've got this issue of people who can't be

returned to so many different countries iraq, iran , countries iraq, iran, afghanistan, syria, sudan , afghanistan, syria, sudan, eritrea, there are so many. and that's not going to change no matter who is in government. yeah. >> and it's that question of deterrent specifically with the idea of the small boats. if you scrap rwanda. also, the conservatives under the illegal migration act had it so that you would never be able to claim asylum. but actually labour are going to let all of those people claim or at least claim for asylum, aren't they? >> they are , and they say going >> they are, and they say going to process them much more quickly . but to process them much more quickly. but i think what will be the net result of processing them much more quickly is that there will be quicker decisions to effectively give people the right to remain in the uk, even if they decide that you can't gain asylum, you have no right really to asylum because you come from any number of these countries, some of which i've just listed. we can't return you to these countries, so you'll get leave to remain in this country anyway. as good as asylum. >> and one of the issues is when

we're talking about asylum claims is that even if there's a no to begin with, you can go through the court system, you can appeal. are they going to try and streamline that or cut it back in one way or another? >> well, there is restricted by the way in which our legal system operates, as the previous government was. and they'll rapidly find that to be the case, because, as you say, you know, with asylum applications, even foreign national offenders, they are the number of foreign national offenders that get released from prison . and then, released from prison. and then, under things like , you know, the under things like, you know, the un human rights legislation on the right to a family life are able to successfully appeal the decision to return them to jamaica or wherever it might be, and they get leave to remain. anyway, it's very frustrating for government and this government like the last, will find out just how frustrating it is. >> mark, i'm a bit confused because if you arrive in this country by irregular, illegal

means crossing the channel that is written into law as patrick said, and you're. but everyone who does that is allowed to claim asylum, then. is there such a thing as an illegal migrant under this government? >> this government has already started changing the terminology for those . it's gone back to for those. it's gone back to where we were previously describing them as irregular migrants. however, the previous government , as we know, passed government, as we know, passed legislation, the illegal migration bill, which determined that anybody coming across the channel was an illegal immigrant and as such had no right to claim asylum. so the government is going to have to change, policy and change the law to be able to ensure that people can actually claim asylum again and are not illegal immigrants, presumably on that. >> then labour are going to have to change that law. so they're going to have to essentially repeal the illegal migration act. so in the next few weeks or however long it could be, that's one to watch, that labour are basically going to repeal the illegal migration act.

>> we think, well, if they don't, then they leave themselves open to a challenge from the other side who say that you can't do this because a law was passed that says anyone coming across the channel by irregular means is deemed illegal and therefore is not eligible for an asylum claim. so it'd be interesting to see just how they get on and whether they have to amend that law once again. >> quite interesting to have a load of right wing immigration lawyers, wouldn't it, if they actually, they actually brought actually, they actually brought a court case to say you're not adhenng a court case to say you're not adhering to the illegal immigration act, which would be fascinating. well indeed. >> goodness me. well, thank you very much, mark mark white, our home and security editor editor, for taking us through all of that. >> yes, indeed, look, just before we go to our next guest, i think it might be interesting just to hear a little bit from a home office minister that we had someone working who's in the home office just to try and sell this to us, right. because basically they are now going to have to try to sell this idea that, illegal migrants are going

to be kept in detention centres for longer, and then 14,500 of them are somehow going to be deported just magically. so here they are. >> we need to see this action taken, working alongside europol and our international partners so that we can see this action being taken. that's having then an impact on what we're seeing on our borders. but it's also really important that we see enforcement, and that's why we're increasing as well. over the next six months, a surge in returns, because it's really important that those who have no right to stay are also removed from our country. and just in the last six weeks alone, we've seen nine flights, nine return flights, including our largest ever chartered charter return flight with over 200 people returned to their country of origin who have had no right to stay . stay. >> okay, well, let's introduce now human rights lawyer shoaib khan. shoaib, great to see you. thank you very, very much. so labour have set out these particular plans. will you be bringing a raft of lawsuits

against this? >> i don't know, to be honest. i mean, considering the situation as it as far as we know right now, as, as usual, all we have is this rhetoric slogan. we don't really know what they mean and how they're going to do it. so we know what the target is. you know, we're going to be deporting or removing the largest number of people ever within this period. and does anyone know how they're going to do it, so i think, you know, that's the whole point of it, isn't it, but also, i mean, i think other than the specifics of this policy, the whole point is, i mean, i think it's quite ridiculous, especially considering a new government that has just come in, considering the past 14 years. we know, you know, the home office or many other government departments, immigration, asylum, everything was in total. you know, you know, quite chaotic, you know, quite destroyed in many ways after the tories left them. so i think labour needs to take its time. i don't think anyone would blame them if they took a few months to come up with a sensible, workable policy. they shouldn't just be saying, okay, we got rid of rwanda. so before the media and other people come out , and other people come out, although all they're really saying here, all they're really

saying here, all they're really saying here, all they're really saying here is that they're going to try and deport 14,000 people, which is something that governments have been at least trying to do for years and years. >> and years. i mean, i don't see how this is diving in headfirst to changing things dramatically. is it? >> no, that's the whole point. it's not changing things. but we know that, you know, theresa may, amber rudd, you know, the list of priti patel, sajid , list of priti patel, sajid, everyone just kept saying these things and none of it happened. and that's my point. how are you going to do it? we know, you know, i mean, do you think the government should be trying to deport people who are here illegally and what it needs to be doing is set up a humane fair, right. respectable, reasonable system. if at the end of that. yes someone needs to be removed, then yes. but the whole point is, if we're going to say, you know, within six months, we pledge to remove 15,000 people, then we know what's going to happen. >> five months mark white just told us that most estimates say about 1.5 million people are in this country illegally. so 14,500 is just a tiny, tiny fraction of that, i don't really understand the point you're

making. >> no, the point i'm making is it's going to be the, you know, the easiest people, the people who can easily be deported. and that's what they're going to go after. they're not going to deal with any complex cases. they're not, you know , anyone who they not, you know, anyone who they think either doesn't have the resources to bring a legal challenge, someone who won't be able to fight against homewards those are the people they will be targeting, people just arriving in the country for instance, people just arriving at airports. you know, if a thousand of them get deported, students who just arrive in the country and they get sent back to the countries, that's a thousand and just 15 more times you do that, that's the target met. but has it actually made any difference? okay, that's the whole point. they're just going to be going after the easiest cases. and that's why i think these targets are ridiculous. the point is take your time, set up a workable , humane system. up a workable, humane system. >> okay. >> okay. >> all right. thank you very much. take care. that's shoaib khan, the human rights lawyer. can i just say one thing very, very quickly before we go to our next guest? i think sometimes the psychology of some of these human rights or immigration lawyers is a case that's just happened literally in the last couple of days, where an asylum seeker has been jailed for attempted murder after stabbing his own solicitor. okay. and

that solicitor is quoted as saying that he feels sorry for that particular individual because he had a complicated five years of residency applications and he would have been granted permanent residence had he not stabbed him. and you think, what is the psychology of some of these people that are. >> well, that's an extreme case. >> well, that's an extreme case. >> i've thought of working in the legal in the legal profession when it comes to this. i think that says a lot. >> i mean, i would agree with the show that targets can be a bit pointless, but the idea that they should just take their time and spend years and years and years consulting on these types of things is for the birds. anyway, the search continues for those missing aboard the sunken superyacht in sicily. divers have now broken a window and entered the vessel's hull. >> yes. so this comes as italian officials began to investigate whether hatches have been left open by crew members, and that may have caused the yacht to sink. we get the latest now from italian journalist angela correa. so, angela, thank you for joining us. and there's forjoining us. and there's a lot happening literally as we speak at the moment. apparently they've entered this ship. some question marks, i think, from people over here as to why it's

taken them so long to do that. what do you know about what's going on? >> first of all, the time of the compression, the saturation that the divers have to follow, it's a protocol. when they go down, it's very deep. it's some 50m, so it takes them one minute to go down, one minute to go, to come back up. it's already two minutes. and down underwater they can stay only ten minutes per dive. plus a lot of furniture, pieces of furniture and objects. they are in the middle of the way and the spaces are very, very narrow. in fact, the divers , they are employed, the divers, they are employed, they are cave divers. so they are professional in this in caves , so very narrow spaces. caves, so very narrow spaces. and yes , right now they are also and yes, right now they are also using , rov remote operated using, rov remote operated vehicle because, to try to , to vehicle because, to try to, to see what's, what's inside. if they find anyone .

they find anyone. >> well exactly. and people desperately clinging to hope that there may be some kind of air pocket in there. but the other development today is that the kind of call for potential prosecution here is already starting the investigation as to whether or not hatches or portholes were left open. could you just explain that to us, please ? please? >> yes. the prosecutor's office of termini imerese, which is a municipality in palermo, has already opened an investigation because to understand exactly what happened , because this was what happened, because this was a new vessel, a luxury vessel, and it was built in 2008 and refurbished in 2020. so they want to understand why it went down so quickly. like apparently like 60s and the boat was underwater on. moreover, the divers are saying that the boat doesn't have damages and it

seems like also the sailing mast is intact, so and all the other boats in the harbour, they weren't damaged the wind. there was a strong wind because we have the videos, but there are still many questions. yeah, that's why the investigation. >> now, angela, there have been people who have given short interviews in relation to this who either were on board or who the captain has spoken to the local press very briefly from his hospital room. are we expecting any kind of press conference with those investigating this? usually? usually there is something like that. when there's a massive search operation like this. >> so far, they haven't announced any imminent press conference, so maybe they will in the next day. so right now they are talking to the survivors. >> indeed . and so that search >> indeed. and so that search operation and rescue operation hopefully anyway, is continuing as we speak. like i've said, and the latest development is as we understand it, they have now

smashed their way into the hull of this ship. so there's been some progress there. and i do wonder whether or not that well, frankly, what that means when they think about their chances for survival, we're hearing about the possibility of air pockets. angela, you know, is that kind of hoping against hope?is that kind of hoping against hope? is there? is that what you're hearing from from the italian authorities that they think that there's still at least a chance that some people could be alive? there >> i'm not too sure they are, positive, but the hope is the last to die, so we are still hoping until they find anyone, we keep hoping. >> yes. well, thank you very much indeed, angela corrias. thank you for your time. appreciate it. italian journalist . journalist. >> thank you. gosh. well, yeah . >> thank you. gosh. well, yeah. all keeping hopeful. i suppose we will keep you updated on any developments there. like i said, it does appear that they have made some progress in terms of getting into that ship now. >> so it's easy to say, isn't it,— >> so it's easy to say, isn't it, to say, you know, why is this taking so long? why is it

why have they not, you know, rescued these people or found them in whatever state? but i guess if it is 50m underground, if you can only go down for ten minutes, you don't want to, you know, create more damage. things become quite fragile. the divers think though as well, because she was saying there it's all about regulation and everything. >> it's all about regulation and i can get that. but i do wonder what some of those divers are thinking. do they do they know that they could spend longer down there, but because of the law, they're going to have to come up sooner. and that must be quite frustrating for them. suppose. >> well, presumably you can do yourself quite a lot of damage staying underwater under that much pressure. i don't know. i'm not a diving expert, but yes, this is three days now into the into the search. right. well, with labour cutting winter fuel payments , many of you may start payments, many of you may start to feel the pinch a little bit later on in the year. >> indeed. yes. well, the government is now advising those at risk from their cuts to claim at risk from their cuts to claim a pension top up. it could reportedly help an estimated 800,000 lower income pensioners to boost their bank account by around £4,000. that's a lot of

money, right? it's a lot of money, right? it's a lot of money helping them fend off the pressure put on them by the treasury. >> this is this is silly, isn't it really? because you say we're going to scrap the winter fuel allowance, and then people who were never on pension credits are now going to go for those. yeah, and then do you actually end up saving any money in the treasury. >> well, this is it. and the, the other aspect of this as well is that rachel reeves is coming under fire herself because of the amount of donations and quote unquote, freebies that she has reportedly accepted recently. you know, around £330,000. that's not uncommon, by the way, for politicians, certainly ones who are, you know, in a position of power. but the contrast there, isn't it, when we're talking about tax cuts and we're talking about we're talking about tax increases, i should say, and we're talking about pensioners maybe having to suffer. yes. we're not talking about tax cuts. >> alas, one day, not talking about tax cuts, we will let you know if there are ever any tax cuts. but we're joined now by our reporter ray addison rea . i our reporter ray addison rea. i believe you've been talking to people out and about. tell us a bit about this. lots of concern that perhaps well over this winter fuel payment, but also

about potential hikes in our taxes coming around the corner. >> well, prior to this announcement, anyone born before or on the 22nd of september of 1958 would have been eligible for this £300 winter fuel allowance top up. but now, if you're not on means tested benefits, then you will miss out. that's around 10 million people, or around 88% of those who were previously receiving it. only 1.4 million people will now receive it. but as you were saying , the department for work saying, the department for work and pensions estimating that around 880,000 people could be eligible, what they need to do now is go on to the government websites and try and find out if they can make a claims for that means testing. but people here in crawley of all sorts of ages have told me that they are very, very disappointed with this new policy. one gentleman describing

it as monetary abuse of the elderly, got a town of around 120,000 people. around 13% of those are of pensionable age. and this was a conservative constituency for the last 14 years. it flipped to labour at the last election, and some of the last election, and some of the labour voters telling me they feel very, very disappointed now that they that this decision has been made, this decision has been made, this is what local people had to tell me. >> i've got friends that are struggling in any way. so without that winter fuel payment , without that winter fuel payment, they're going to be really troubled. >> it's such a fine line of approximately £20 or so between getting it and not getting it. and i think a lot of people are going to struggle that are very much on that borderline and doctors a big rise given the railway workers a big rise and they're taking the money off of us. >> us. >> and i think that's disgusting by the sounds of it. >> i'm going to get no payment this year, which i'm very deflated about because, you know, we're the people they should be helping .

should be helping. >> well, yougov has done some polling and they've found that 59% of people who were asked are against this plan. this plan change by the labour government . change by the labour government. and people here are telling me that they feel they're now going to be struggling significantly and will have to either reduce the amount of heat that they use in their homes or the amount of food that they eat . food that they eat. >> thank you very much indeed. interesting that people are saying, you know, they've got the money for these pay offers for train drivers, but for not fuel payments for pensioners. it is. politics is all about priorities and trade offs, and it's which ones you go for. yeah, i mean the latest case, it's punishing the pensioners in a way. >> yeah. i mean the latest stats i saw today on it was that about 53% of people think that this winter fuel payment reduction for pensioners is a bad idea. it might also just prove to be a false economy, which is exactly what you were saying earlier, emily, which is that if more people just go on to claim, you know, what they can claim as

opposed to before when they were just getting it naturally, then that could cost us all more money because there are a lot of older people who don't really want to always sign up for various benefits. >> they don't really always want to get the most out of the state as they can. but then if you're told your winter fuel allowance is going, you're obviously going to look into these pension credits , see what else you can credits, see what else you can you can manage to get. so this might be a bit of an own goal for rachel reeves, because it makes her look a bit nasty, but then it may not even save any money anyway. yeah. so we shall see what actually happens in the budget. but that's the plan so far anyway. >> it is well we've got loads more coming up on the show snowflake generation okay. so children now are apparently skipping exams. important exams like gcses because of anxiety. well i'm sorry, but who's letting them do that? who is letting them do that? who is letting them do that? who is letting them do that ? are the letting them do that? are the parents letting them do that or the schools letting them do that? i do wonder as well, if the parents are also signing them up to various different benefit systems as well. could that be part of a sharp rise in, you know, disability allowance for adhd and the like and

anxiety, of course. >> but perhaps this is all a knock on effect of all of those lockdowns during covid. let us know your thoughts. we'll have that debate after your news headunes. headlines. >> emily, thank you very much and good afternoon. we start this news bulletin with some breaking news. a murder investigation has been launched after four people died in a house fire in bradford in the early hours of this morning. officers were called just after 2:00 by the fire service to reports of a house fire at a property on westbury road. a 29 year old woman was pronounced dead at the scene. three children, two girls aged nine and one and a five year old boy, were also taken to hospital. all three have died from the injuries they suffered in the fire. a 39 year old man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder and taken to hospital with critical injuries. more on this as we get it. in other news, a team of four

british inspectors from the marine accident investigation branch have arrived in sicily, where they're expected to look at the site of the sinking yacht . at the site of the sinking yacht. that's as the search for six people now enters. a third day. they're expected to carry out a preliminary assessment of the site today. the mib is looking into what happened because it's understood the vessel was flying a british flag. the italian coastguard hasn't ruled out the possibility that those missing , possibility that those missing, including technology tycoon mike lynch and his 18 year old daughter hannah, may still be alive, with experts suggesting air pockets could have formed as the yacht sank. rescue teams are providing an underwater drone in the effort to help with the for search potential survivors . the search potential survivors. the home office has outlined plans to tackle illegal immigration, including deploying 100 new intelligence officers to target people smuggling gangs. the home secretary has announced the new measures to boost britain's security to and target, dismantle and disrupt organised

immigration crime networks. yvette cooper has also outlined the government has new plans for the government has new plans for the next six months to achieve the next six months to achieve the highest rate of removals of those who don't have the right to be in the uk, including failed asylum seekers. as part of its plan, the government says it will reopen immigration removal centres both in hampshire and oxfordshire, adding almost 300 beds. and official figures show the rising cost of public services and benefits caused government borrowing last month to surge on the year before borrowing hit £3.1 billion last month, around £1.8 £3.1 billion last month, around £18 billion more than in july. £1.8 billion more than in july. last year. the increase means borrowing has hit its highest level for the month since 2021. the ons also revealed the uk's national debt remained at its highest level since the early 1960s, and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news

alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> welcome back to good afternoon britain with me emily carver and patrick christys. todayitis carver and patrick christys. today it is now 1234 and a debate is raging over whether today's youths are being coddled into becoming what's called a snowflake generation. overly sensitive , unprepared for the sensitive, unprepared for the real world out there that's been intensifying with recent events sparking fresh controversy . yeah. >> so look on one side. concerns about rising exam anxiety and absenteeism amongst gcse students fuel the argument that we need to do something to change our education system, because it piles too much stress onto young kids and it damages them mentally. of course, the other side to this is that you need to grow up, get stuck in,

be told that you have to do things occasionally in life that you don't like, and life isn't always easy. snowflake, i wonder which side you're on. >> patrick christys on the other side. well, this is another part of the conversation really. television presenter kirstie allsopp. now she decided to let her 15 year old son travel across europe on interrailing without adult supervision . and without adult supervision. and that's ignited a bit of a debate about whether we underestimate young people's capabilities by sheltering to them too much, she said. you know, if you're afraid as a parent, if you're always scared of things that could happen, then you pass on that anxiety to your children. yeah. so she said, it's perfectly fine. >> so look, are we now guilty of raising a snowflake generation? get your views coming into this. so gbnews.com/yoursay are we raising a generation of softies? well, i think it's time that we, we put this one over to our to our guests, didn't we? joining us now is journalist and author juue us now is journalist and author julie cook, who thinks that it is good for teenagers to have a bit of independence. we also had

child behaviour expert amanda jennen child behaviour expert amanda jenner. julie, i'll start with you on this. so are we actually raising a snowflake generation? >> i think if you look at it on maps as you just have, it can look that way. >> i don't think all of us are, but i think if we do, as you say, allow people to have time off from an exam because they're anxious. unfortunately, that anxiety is only going to be postponed until the next time you're going to be anxious. so a job interview, for example, or a person you don't like in the workplace that we all have to deal with at times , or the deal with at times, or the anxiety of going for a doctor's appointment on your own the first time. >> there's all these first times for young people that they have to overcome, and exams are hugely important to their future. >> so i for one, i have a 15 year old son who's going to take his exams next year, and i wouldn't allow him to take time for off anxiety because number one, it's a really important time of your life. but number two, you're only postponing anxiety further down the line at other points in your life. >> amanda, do you think that some parents indulge their

children's anxieties a little bit too much? so, you know, if your child came to you as a parent and said , you know what, parent and said, you know what, mum, i'm just feeling far too anxious to do this exam tomorrow. i mean, what should a parent say ? parent say? >> i think, you know, there's two sides to this. i'm a parent. i've got a 17 year old. i've actually just been through it. so it was, you know, we had quite a tough time with it. and i think that for children that are of suffer with anxiety and mental health, you know, this this could really, level it up from just going into an exam. so we have to be very careful. there's a certain line that we can cross with just saying you have to sit that exam. that's it . have to sit that exam. that's it. but you know, there's an increase of self—harm . you know, increase of self—harm. you know, children becoming like recluses. they don't want to mix with people because they're so nervous about taking their exams. so we have to listen to them. we can't. you know, i totally disagree with forcing a child to do it. if they suffer with anxiety. i, you know, i know they have to do it. and i'm

heanng know they have to do it. and i'm hearing what you say. but i think that there's been so many cases and i hear it all the time andifs cases and i hear it all the time and it's worrying. it's a worrying. it is worrying. >> i do i do think that another thing that's worrying, though, julie, is how many young people are not even bothering to look for work these days? how many young people are signed off on some kind of mental health issue? and adrian has just been in touch on your side. say, a lot of these kids are spoilt rotten by mummy and daddy. that's the trouble. and i would argue that missing an exam causes more anxiety than doing it and not necessarily doing that well , precisely. that well, precisely. >> as i say, it's a very important time . rightly or important time. rightly or wrongly, that is the time that your life is kind of decided to some degree, whether you'll go and do an apprenticeship or get and do an apprenticeship or get a job or go to college and then university, it's quite an important crossroads in young people's lives . and i think if people's lives. and i think if you don't take that at that time, the anxiety, as i say, kicking down the curve will still come back to you. you will see your peers moving on through the education system or getting

a job, and you won't. that's more anxiety. you're going to be worried about yourself. oh, i should have done it. oh, why didn't i do it? i think there are some things in life we just have to get on with and do. unfortunately, we're not asking them to go off to war, thank god or to, you know, do something horrendous. it's doing an exam which everybody else is doing. i agree, if someone suffers extreme terrible anxiety to the point of needing medication, that's a different issue . but i that's a different issue. but i think it's wrong to say, oh, you're feeling a bit anxious about it, don't do it. i think that's part of life. unfortunately it is part of life. >> i mean, that's true, isn't it, amanda? i mean , anxiety is it, amanda? i mean, anxiety is a normal feeling that most of us will have at one point in our lives, if not at one point dunng lives, if not at one point during the day. it is something that we have to learn to, well, work with. isn't it ? amanda, if work with. isn't it? amanda, if you just say, you know, you don't have to do anything that makes you feel more anxious, then you're not going to achieve much, are you, amanda? >> no. i mean, you know, at the end of the day, we've all been there, haven't we started our first job and, you know, i remember feeling anxious a very long time ago when i sat my

exams and, you know, walking into that room. but the trouble is, there's a lot of children that are suffering, you know, because they're silently and having anxiety. and this is the problem where we have to, you know, watch out with our children for that. but i also think there's a lot of pressure. you know, the minimum is five gcses. that's you know, but they're saying to take 9 or 10, that's a lot of gcses for a child to take. and i think some schools are great because they can go separately, you know, if they're worried about walking into that big room where there's lots of children scribbling away and answering everything, and you're sat there, i remember, i remember that day. so obviously i had a little bit of anxiety, but i think that, you know, there's got to be allowances. yes they do need to experience these things and come out of their comfort zone. but there's a line that we have to be very careful of crossing. >> i put one question because this is kirstie allsopp that has sent her child, 15 years old, interrailing around europe. i mean , julie, would you allow mean, julie, would you allow your 15 year old son to do that? >> i would actually, i've actually just written a piece on

this today for a newspaper, because i don't often agree with kelsey allsopp on this, i really do. he's only just shy of 16, this boy. anyway, it's not sort of like, you know, he's he's really underage, and i think i've written my piece. i think it's really important to test our comfort zones. he wasn't thrown into kabul. he was travelling around european cities with a friend. and he'll have lifelong experiences from that. and i think, again, she's being sort of vilified for this by a lot of the mummy mafia saying that, you know, it's incredibly dangerous and neglectful, but actually 16 used to be i mean, i've interviewed people who were 16. they ran off to the navy 50 years ago. they left their mother a note and joined the navy. >> growing up later and later, aren't we really in a lot of ways. i mean, amanda, would you or would you be worried about allowing your child to go off at that age? >> yeah. i mean, my son went travelling. he was like 20 and i was worried. so 15 i definitely don't, you know, i was like crying my eyes out when he left. but 15 i definitely my daughter's 17. but 15 i definitely my daughter's17. and seriously, she's really independent. but i would really worry. i mean it is a big thing to do. at 15. you're

not an adult. >> would you say no? would you just say no? >> i would say no. i'd say no. no. well, there you go. i do agree with it. i'd say no, no. >> two different types of parents, two different decisions there. i think there is a difference with gender. sometimes, though, i think sometimes mums are a little bit, a bit more worried about their daughters, perhaps with respect to safety. but i mean, maybe someone will argue with me on that point. but thank you very much. julie cook, journalist and author, and amanda gina, child behaviour expert. look forward to reading your article, julie, on that one. >> right. we've got we've got some good comments here as well. so i'm going to i'm going to whizz us into the your say inbox here. oh what's in there. imagine what this country will be like when we get our first snowflake. prime minister says philip. well, quite. although, you know, we are where we are, christine says, oh, come on. i started full time work at 15 years old. stop mollycoddling. and i wonder if this cuts to some kind of generational thing, whether there is some truth to the idea that people grew up a bit quicker earlier on, and i wonder if some of that is to do with the idea that we didn't

have as many creature comforts. so i think to my parents generation, certainly the generation, certainly the generation before that, we didn't have all of these things the, the, the everyday luxuries some people take for granted do say though, and a lot of older people will say this, that it was so much safer in the past, you know, i was allowed to just go out on my bike with my friends all day. >> i'd just come back for dinner. they wouldn't know where exactly we were, but they weren't worried about our safety. i feel like these days parents are so worried about their children's safety. >> for me, there's two separate issues here. i know they roll into one because we're talking about young people and whether or not they can be adults and they can. they can do adult things, or they can deal with a bit of stuff. the exams thing for me will be a non—negotiable. now every single person in this country has to take exams at a certain age and with the best will in the world, you are not special in that regard. you have to do that exam and even if you don't do your best or you fail or whatever, you've still done it. because if you can't do that, how on earth are you going to deal with going into a workplace environment? your boss shouting at you, dealing with pressure, dealing with other people's money? if you work in an environment where you're trying to, you know, be part of

a business, you're dealing with other people's money and you're going to think everything's optional, aren't you? >> yeah. if you're told to, you know, you have a big pitch to do at work and you say, oh, i can't actually, you know , yeah, it's actually, you know, yeah, it's a little bit too stressful. i couldn't do it. well, you're not going to do very well in life, are you? no. but then also children have gone through quite a lot with lockdown, patrick. they have they, you know, were at home not really speaking to each other apart from maybe exchanging texts and yeah, maybe phone calls, although a lot of young people don't even like to make phone calls anymore. so a lot was disrupted. i could see why there's a heightened sense of anxiety, but i also do think it's indulged a little too i do. >> i do think, though, the interrailing thing, this idea of travelling around europe when i was 15 years old, i mean, i'm a recipe for disaster. oh my gosh, can you imagine what would have happened? no, that's a shocker. >> i found you in a skip and we talk about it all the time, don't we? >> this idea that europe is becoming less safe and that everything feels a bit less safe and crime. so for me, they're slightly two slightly different issues. you know, i would, i would, i would make a child do an exam even if they got a bit anxious, i would be less inclined to go and, you know,

let them walk around, let them walk around somewhere in europe that might have a few issues these days, you'd be more worried about a girl, wouldn't you? >> yeah. obviously being on her own. yeah. yeah >> unless she knew kickboxer. >> unless she knew kickboxer. >> well, keep your views coming in on this. i mean, lots of you saying how much older you were as a young person than than children are today. i think that's true. i think we're growing up much slower. you know, lots of people living with their parents till they're in their parents till they're in their mid 30s. i mean, you know, you're not going to be as independent as if you're paying all your own bills and your own mortgage and all of that. >> it's like this idea that we're getting a lot of this in. just final comment on this, a lot of people saying like, surely anxiety is normal. we all feel anxious sometimes. and i think there is this thing, isn't there, that some things in life, unfortunately, you're supposed to feel a bit anxious about and sometimes some things happen in life that you're supposed to feel a bit depressed about because they're sad. that doesn't necessarily mean to be diagnosed, maybe. but anyway, that's all this safe space stuff, isn't it? >> a safe space? it's a safe space here. yes. get your views in. let us know your thoughts.

we've got lots more coming up, including this . this zoo including this. this zoo weighing hefty hippos, greedy gorillas. what animal will we see? what are you doing? >> i used to get weighed at the zoo. anyway, we've got all that and more coming your way. very, very shortly. takes me back. keep it. good afternoon. britain, right here on gb news. yes

>> well, 1249 is the time you're watching and listening to good afternoon britain . now, from afternoon britain. now, from giraffes to giant snails, tigers , giraffes to giant snails, tigers, tortoises, thousands of animals will step , slither and crawl will step, slither and crawl onto the scales. today at whipsnade zoo for their annual weigh in. i went on a school trip there once. oh, good. >> did they weigh you? >> did they weigh you? >> no, no, they would have thought that would encourage eating disorders or something. fair enough . snowflakes. well,

fair enough. snowflakes. well, there we go. >> gb news reporter will hollis is there. how are they going on? well annie . ranger. hollis. well annie. ranger. hollis. beijing ranger. hollis they're always dreamed of . always dreamed of. >> do you know? i didn't know i was going to dress like this until two minutes before i left the house at 5:00 this morning. i thought, you know what? let's go.the i thought, you know what? let's go. the whole hog. and we're on safari today . and we do have safari today. and we do have some of the most fantastic animals today. we've got you the elephants, and they are just finishing off their meal where the head keeper, stefan , is the head keeper, stefan, is throwing them a little bit of a food so we can see them right in front of us. these are just some of the 10,000 animals that are going to be weighed today. and over the days around this period, we've also seen aardvarks. we've seen bears, we've seen giraffes. but elephants hold a special place in my heart because of the film jungle book. and i know a lot of people love to come and see them here at whipsnade zoo, which is the uk's largest of the keepers

here. so you work with animals that aren't just the elephants , that aren't just the elephants, but but what's so special about these animals here at whipsnade in bedfordshire? >> i think what's we have well, we give people the opportunity to come and see these animals , to come and see these animals, probably give a lot of people and kids the opportunities to see animals. they would never be able to see in in the flesh as they can do as they can do here. and when they come here as well, the, the knowledge that they take back and, and hopefully the difference they will make by going back home, small differences in the way that they live their lives will make a huge difference on life, on on wildlife all over the world. >> these elephants aren't native to bedfordshire. they're asian elephants. and you're going to be weighing them. how much do these elephants weigh ? more than these elephants weigh? more than you'd expect. >> yeah. so we weigh these elephants. actually, not just once a year. we weigh them every month. and the heaviest

elephants we have is mingyong. he's a bull. he weighs 4300 kilos, that's . our calf is now kilos, that's. our calf is now two years old, and she weighs about 600 kilos. and the thing is, with with elephants, if they would get too heavy , they become would get too heavy, they become overweight. and that's something we don't want to happen. you know, we look at the elephants, not set their weight, but also their body condition scoring. and we've got a very close connection with our nutritionists and we evaluate their diets on a, on a quarterly basis. so we see what's the weight of the elephant if they put weight on have they lost weight. and then we can make adjustments to that. now one of the things with an elephant is because it's so big, everything is big about an elephant and also their poo. so if an elephant does a poo, they can lose about 50 kilos. so a weight loss of an elephant of 50 kilos is not something that we'll worry about. and even 100 kilos is not a big deal. >> 50 kilos is pretty much as much as i weigh. and that's what just one elephant poop? yeah,

one elephant poo can weigh up to 50 kilos. >> especially with a bull. mingyong >> wow, that is incredible. it's not just elephants here. there are thousands of visitors. what doesit are thousands of visitors. what does it mean ? having people does it mean? having people come, particularly in the summer holidays, to see the elephants, the giraffes and the aardvarks? >> i think for us in the summer holidays, when people come over, is showing the animals to the general public, but also talk about the conservation work that's happening all over the world by zsl. so it's not just the people working here on site, but it's all the people working in asia and africa and south america, different places in europe and making a difference down there to protect the species that we keep. and there are big elephants like like asian elephants, but also like small animals, like partridge snails. there's like last year were released again in in the wild. >> and those are some of the smallest animals. you've got the biggest animals here, and it makes a big contribution to conservation as well, doesn't it? stefan what a day to be out here in the field, not the day that you want to be in the studio . studio. >> no. oh well, well done mate. this is fantastic.

>> magnificent creatures. thank you so much. will will hollis ranger hollis there at whipsnade zoo. we've got lots more coming up on today's show. don't go anywhere. we'll be back with you in just a tick after the weather forecast. actually . forecast. actually. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news. >> hi there and welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. fine for many today, but it is turning increasingly cloudy and there will be some very unsettled weather returning to the northwest through the afternoon and evening. a couple of low pressure systems, one containing the remnants from an ex—hurricane x hurricane ernesto, and as such it contains a lot of moisture that will result in an increasingly wet day for much of scotland, especially western scotland and

northern ireland. the winds picking up here, some light outbreaks of rain pushing into parts of north wales. otherwise, for the rest of the country it's turning cloudier but it's staying dry . temperatures up to staying dry. temperatures up to 21 or 22 celsius in the southeast. mid to high teens further north and feeling unpleasant as the rain turns heavier and more prolonged into the evening and that wet weather could result in some significant impacts, some flooding as the rain tots up to 100 150mm through the rest of wednesday and into the start of thursday, turning wet across northern ireland, northwest england and parts of wales as well. but for eastern england, as well as parts of eastern scotland , the parts of eastern scotland, the south. it's mostly dry , albeit south. it's mostly dry, albeit cloudy and breezy overnight and increasingly windy, with those winds picking up to 50 or 60 miles an hour through irish sea coasts. that could affect first thing thursday higher routes across southern scotland and northern england. so an

unsettled start to thursday, but a mild start to the day. 15 or 16 celsius at first and cloud and rain will spill south eastwards during the morning, clearing up across scotland and northern ireland with bright spells and showers following here. but it's going to turn into a cloudy and drizzly day for much of england and wales. eventually, brighter skies return , albeit with cooler air return, albeit with cooler air and 1 or 2 showers. the bank houday and 1 or 2 showers. the bank holiday weekend, after a wet friday looks brighter, with a few showers. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers. sponsors of weather on gb

>> well . >> well. >> well. >> good afternoon britain . it's >> good afternoon britain. it's 1:00 on wednesday, the 21st of august. i'm patrick christys and i'm emily carver. lock up and deport more migrants. those are

the words of home secretary yvette cooper as she vows to supercharge immigrant removals to levels not seen since theresa may was prime minister. but when you look at the detail of this, you've got to ask, do we believe her? >> hoping for a miracle. divers begin day three of the search of the capsized superyacht. one dead and six people still missing. could they still be found alive ? were open portholes found alive? were open portholes to blame for sinking and labour's bombshell tax on brits? >> as if anyone could have seen this coming. chancellor rachel reevesis this coming. chancellor rachel reeves is poised to unveil her, quote, aggressive tax raising agenda as she's accused of hypocrisy . why? well, because hypocrisy. why? well, because she apparently received more than £300,000 in donations and freebies as she scraps the winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners . millions of pensioners. >> yes. so yvette cooper she

wants to remove more than 14,000 illegal migrants in the next six months, and that would technically make it the fastest swathe of deportations since theresa may was in power. but that's only in 2018. they're talking about. so that's the plan. we don't know who those particular illegal immigrants are. mike white telling us that they may not actually be people who've crossed the channel illegally. they may well be students who have overstayed their visa. they may well be tourists who've overstayed their visa. could be all sorts of different types of people who are here. exactly illegally. >> well, it's very unlikely actually, to be channel migrants. it'sjust actually, to be channel migrants. it's just raised the question, is this a deterrent? because it's a deterrent. a lot of those channel migrants are coming from countries that were not deemed to be safe. are they? so they are probably not going to be the ones to go back. it's fascinating because we're going to go into the detail of this. there's also a big controversy, ironically, from the left, about where some of these people are going to be housed. another big story that we're going to talk about as well was a development which is a man has now been charged in pakistan over the

southport disinformation that fuelled the riots. there's a lot to talk about there. does that change people's views about where this riot all started from? but anyway, we're going to be talking about all of that. and well, yes, we don't know if he came up with this theory that the southport attacker was an illegal migrant, that crossed on a channel, of course, that was found to be completely untrue, >> but yes, cyber terrorism is apparently the charge. it's very curious. we're going to get some, some more information on that one in a little bit, but do get in touch, gbnews.com/yoursay. but should we get the headlines for tatiana ? we get the headlines for tatiana? >> emily. thank you and good afternoon. the top stories a team of four british inspectors from the marine accident investigation branch have arrived in sicily, where they're expected to look at the site of the sinking yacht as the search for six people now enters a third day. they're expected to carry out preliminary assessment of the site. today, the maib is

looking into what happened because it's also understood the vessel was flying a british flag. the italian coastguard hasn't ruled out the possibility that those missing, including technology tycoon mike lynch and his 18 year old daughter hannah, may still be alive , with experts may still be alive, with experts suggesting air pockets could have formed as the yacht sank. rescue teams are providing an underwater drone in the effort to help with the search for potential survivors. mike lynch's friend and former business partner david tabizel, says mike has the strength to survive . survive. >> if there's any chance of him surviving this, he has the strength, the strength to do this and i hope that we aren't talking in the past tense, he is a remarkable man and if you've had the blessing and the honour to have worked with him or known him, this is he's a force of nature and somebody who i think, will become a business, an intellectual and scientific

legend in the decades to come . legend in the decades to come. >> in other news, the home office has outlined plans to tackle illegal immigration, including deploying 100 new intelligence officers to target people smuggling gangs. the home secretary has announced the new measures to boost britain's security to and target, dismantle and disrupt organised immigration crime networks. yvette cooper has also outlined the government has new plans for the government has new plans for the next six months to achieve the next six months to achieve the highest rate of removals of those who don't have the right to be in the uk, including failed asylum seekers. as part of its plan, the government says it will reopen immigration removal centres in hampshire and oxfordshire, adding 290 beds. the conservative party have said labour were not serious about tackling the people smugglers or stopping the boats . police have stopping the boats. police have launched a murder investigation after a delivery driver was involved in a collision during an attempted theft of his van. west yorkshire police says officers were called shortly before 7 pm. yesterday following reports of a man found

seriously injured in wortley in leeds. seriously injured in wortley in leeds . officers found the victim leeds. officers found the victim unconscious. he was given emergency treatment but was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later. police say the victim, in his 40s, had delivered a package to an address about half a mile away at around 6:45 pm, and had returned to his van to find a man attempting to steal it. when he tried to stop the offender, he tried to stop the offender, he drove off at speed with the victim , only partly in the victim, only partly in the passenger door of the vehicle . passenger door of the vehicle. official figures show the rising cost of public services and benefits caused government borrowing last month to surge on the year before borrowing hit £3.1 billion last month, around £1.8 £3.1 billion last month, around £18 billion more than in july £1.8 billion more than in july last year. the increase means borrowing has hit its highest level for the month since 2021. the office for national statistics also revealed the uk's national debt remained at its highest level since the early 1960s. now, as people are

waiting over a decade for social housing in more than 80% of councils, liberal democrats are urging the government to relax planning laws in these areas to help drive the building of social homes. the party says councils should be able to buy land to build on at cheaper rates. they are calling on the government to support local authorities, who currently have to pay higher rates for land to build on housing. spokesperson for the liberal democrats, helen morgan, told us that every government that has promised to build housing at scale has failed, haven't built housing at scale since the 1950s. >> and that's why we've got, you know , millions of people, 1.2 know, millions of people, 1.2 million people on social housing waiting lists, families that will have inappropriate housing they are living in, you know, seven people in a two bedroom house in one case that i'm trying to deal with at the moment. and we need to recognise that young people need somewhere to live and i think that immigration isn't is a factor, but it's not the primary driver. we have just failed to build housing for the modern generation , and romanian police

generation, and romanian police have raided the home of internet personality andrew tate as part of a new investigation into crimes including human trafficking and money laundering. >> andrew tate has been accused of having formed an organised criminal network in early 2021, in romania and britain, along with his brother tristan. they have denied the charges and a trial date hasn't yet been set. prosecutors allege 37 year old tate, his 36 year old brother and two women set up a criminal organisation and sexually exploited several victims . and exploited several victims. and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts .

forward slash alerts. >> welcome back to good afternoon britain now. home secretary yvette cooper has pledged to deport more than 14,500 illegal immigrants over the next six months. if successful, it will be the fastest deportation rate since 2018, when theresa may was the prime minister. >> yes. so the plans will involve the expansion of two immigration detention centres andifs immigration detention centres and it's all being seen as an attempt to counter some of the criticism over this new government's decision to scrap the rwanda scheme. so we have mark mark white in the studio with us, our homeland security edhon with us, our homeland security editor, to talk us through this. is this a is this a dramatic change in policy here, mark? >> well, it's certainly an uptick, i think, in the number of removals that the government wants to try to get done within six months, 14,000, which is ambitious . last year, the ambitious. last year, the previous government, which was also increasing the number of enforced removals, had managed to remove 7000 in the space of a year.

to remove 7000 in the space of a year . so it to remove 7000 in the space of a year. so it will require an effort. immigration enforcement have been very busy and we're told they will continue to be busy. we were on a raid with immigration enforcement not that long ago at a scrap yard in east london, where they rounded up a number of illegal immigrants. but really, the frustrating thing that i know will annoy many of our audience is that these people are arrested , these people are arrested, they're documented, they are then usually released on bail. and for quite a significant number of them, they disappear back into the illegal. >> so what we're looking at here is a scrappage yard where they suspect some illegal migrants are working illegally in this area , and they sort of go in for area, and they sort of go in for area, and they sort of go in for a big raid. >> yeah. and there are so many businesses right around the country that are either knowingly or unwittingly employing illegal immigrants. and it's a monumental task that immigration enforcement face because the estimates and they are only estimates, are that

there are 1.5 million people working in the illegal economy in the uk that are out there undocumented and hiding in plain sight. we heard a little earlier from seema malhotra, the home office minister, about just what the government is planning . the government is planning. >> need to see this action taken. working alongside europol and our international partners so that we can see this action being taken. that's having then an impact on what we're seeing on our borders. but it's also really important that we see enforcement, and that's why we're increasing as well. over the next six months, a surge in returns, because it's really important that those who have no right to stay are also removed from our country . and just in from our country. and just in the last six weeks alone, we've seen nine flights, nine return flights, including our largest ever chartered charter return flight with over 200 people returned to their country of origin who have had no right to stay .

stay. >> right. and some of the plans are to expand the size, i guess, or at least the use of some detention centres. i believe there are two now. these are quite controversial, aren't they? in terms of how people are kept, i know people on the left are already talking on social media and elsewhere about how how this is a harsh policy already. >> yeah. i mean, immigration detention came in for a bit of a kicking a few years back in a review that found the conditions were were not optimal for housing. those that are awaiting removal from the country and we have seen over recent years actually a reduction in the number of people being placed in immigration enforcement. but it's not many anyway. it's under 2000 currently in immigration enforcement around the country. and what the government is talking about is expanding a couple of facilities, bringing some more facilities back into use to create another 290 places. as i say, a complete

drop in the ocean when compared to the scale of the problem we're facing. >> yeah, indeed. and now. so in amongst all of this, which is labour saying that we're going to try and deport 14,500 people and you know, we're going to really ramp up the deterrent here. well, the deterrent that a lot of people want for illegal immigration is literally what we're seeing in the channel now in this same article, labour sources have claimed that efforts to stem channel crossings were already starting to have an impact, with fewer migrants reaching british shores in small boats. in the six weeks since the election than in the same period last year and in 2022. so is there any truth to that? because as far as i'm aware , labour have currently aware, labour have currently said now that even if you come across the channel in a small boat, you will be guaranteed the opportunity to at least claim for asylum. whereas the conservatives had said no, you can't do that. >> well, in terms of the numbers we held the previous government to account on the numbers, we'll do exactly the same thing with the labour government. and, you know, they can finesse and juggle know, they can finesse and juggle the numbers around to make it look good from their point of view. but the fact is,

we are currently 10% up . on we are currently 10% up. on where we were at the same period last year in terms of the numbers we've crossed, it's over 19,000 and we're rapidly heading to overtake the 29,000. that total for the whole of last yeah total for the whole of last year. so that's up. this government is in charge. it needs to own it. they now have to deal with the crisis in the channel and in terms of that crisis, of course, they scrapped on the very first day the rwanda deterrent that the previous government would have been involved in taking people in planes to rwanda. by now, they were going to get the first flights off the ground within a week of the election. so that would have been under way , and would have been under way, and we would perhaps have been able to see whether or whether or not it was actually a deterrent, but instead we've got this border security command, the new mantra from this government is smash the gangs. well they haven't evenin the gangs. well they haven't even in almost two months since

the government have come into office, appointed the head of this new border security command. we don't have a boss yet for this massive job, but they're getting 100 new investigators. okay so they're ramping up some of the. well, when you consider a major investigation, you could have upwards of 20 investigators involved in that. anyway you're talking about complex investigations dealing with organised crime groups internationally . it requires a internationally. it requires a lot of investigators. okay. >> well, mark white thank you very much indeed. i mean, people found it so frustrating when the government, conservative government kept saying, oh, numbers are down on the last yeah numbers are down on the last year. if you check this like small little amount of time between that year and that year and now the labour are doing exactly the same. >> well, they are doing exactly the same. yes. >> playing around with the statistics currently appears to be zero deterrent. >> but moving on to a different story, because as the search continues for those missing aboard the sunken superyacht in sicily, divers have now broken a window and entered the vessel's hull. the italian coast guard has also begun using a robot

which can function for up to seven hours underwater, to help assist in the for search survivors. >> this comes as italian officials began to investigate whether hatches left open by crew members may have potentially caused the yacht to sink so quickly. >> well, let's cross live now to sicily, where we've got our gb news reporter adam cherry for the very latest. so adam, there have been a few big developments already today . already today. >> that's right. this this robot, they're using is significant because it allows them, of course, to stay underwater for a lot longer. and previously, when they were just relying on the divers themselves, the diving crews, themselves, the diving crews, the fire and rescue, they could only stay underwater for up to 12 minutes before having to resurface. this is a huge development. they were also using a simpler, less sophisticated robot yesterday. this one is an upgrade on that. they do think they are close to the cabins we've just seen. actually in the last few minutes, one of the rescue crews returned to the port behind me. this entire section of the port,

excuse me, is taken over by fire and rescue crews. it stretches the entire way across here. and so they think they're approaching the cabins where if there are air pockets and there are survivors, that is where they expect to find them. of course, with every second that passes, this becomes less likely, not least not just for the amount of time underwater, but also if there's any movement in the ship at all that can cause the air pocket to release quicker. so they don't want to do that, and they're being very delicate. one of the other issues was the debris with inside the ship or with inside the yacht, which was preventing any significant exploration. they are now slightly more confident that they're making significant progress, but we still have not found any signs of life yet . of life yet. >> i believe we're finding out a little bit more about the captain now. i believe the local press managed to get a managed to speak to him very briefly from his hospital room. he said he didn't see the tornado coming or he didn't see this coming is

what he said. it turns out he's a 51 year old new zealander who's been he's been doing this for years and years and years, for years and years and years, for decades since he was a teenagen for decades since he was a teenager. he's been working on boats. so this guy, top of his game, presumably he's worked for billionaires before . he knows billionaires before. he knows what he's doing. so it does appear as if this, you know, absolutely out of nowhere . absolutely out of nowhere. >> yeah. experts are calling this a black swan event. just the perfect confluence of seriously bad circumstances that led to this. it's not something you can plan, although in retrospect, it seems obvious that keep the windows closed. but look at the weather just today. it's perfect. you don't expect something like this to happen. so i really i think it's just the worst sort of the worst . just the worst sort of the worst. good luck. really >> indeed. well, adam, thank you very much. i know we're going to be going back to adam cherry throughout. if we do get any updates, it does appear as though they are now in the wreckage as it were, of that superyacht, and they are approaching the cabin. so i suppose that we will find out

one way or another in the next couple of hours whether there is any hope. >> so live, live footage there of the search and rescue operation. pretty calm waters today. stunning scenery around that area of sicily. we've got lots more coming up on today's show, including rachel reeves. doesit show, including rachel reeves. does it look like we're going to have an aggressive tax bombshell coming down the line? >> well, she's copping it a bit, isn't she ? because it's emerged isn't she? because it's emerged that reportedly she's accepted around £300,000 worth of donations and freebies. well fine. but if she's also going to be taking money away from pensioners in the dead of winter, maybe that's not a particularly good look. the kind of things the tories would have been hammered for another story as well. a man has been charged in pakistan over southport disinformation that they say fuelled the riots. what's going on there? and does that change the narrative about some of the disorder that we saw? stay tuned

welcome back to good afternoon britain. now chancellor rachel reevesis britain. now chancellor rachel reeves is set to plough ahead with her tax bombshell and end breaks for the wealthy, apparently. >> reports suggest her autumn statement will attempt to fill an apparent black hole in her budget and see her introduce a key manifesto pledge of taxing those private schools. >> but look, there's loads to go at here, okay? we've got the winter fuel payments, we've got tax hikes. we've also got this. now her being called into question over accepting around £300,000 worth of donations and freebies, not necessarily uncommon for someone who's in a position of power, but the opfics position of power, but the optics of it are. >> and of course, there's a rather generous pay offers to the public sector. train drivers, junior doctors, etcetera, etcetera. what does this actually mean for this tax bombshell? is it going to get bigger and bigger and bigger? well, joining us now is our political editor, christopher hope. christopher, a chancellor always has a hell of a lot to

balance . rachel reeves has an balance. rachel reeves has an extremely difficult job. do you think there may be any surprises when it comes to this filling, this financial black hole ? this financial black hole? >> hi, emily. hi, patrick. i think this chancellor is making choices and will see the result of those choices in the october 30th budget. >> there's some figures out today from the office for budgetary responsibility looking at borrowing. >> they found that the government was meant to borrow just £100 million. >> i say just but that's not not a lot in terms of the government £100 million in july. instead, it borrowed £3.1 billion in july. that means they've overspent over borrowed by three by £3 billion. and the obr say this was strong growth in public sector pay. so what's been going on is the government's been finding money despite saying it's a black hole of 20 billion or so, at the end of end of july, they have found more money to pay , more money to junior

to pay, more money to junior doctors, to public sector workers , most recently to train workers, most recently to train drivers, the rmt, the train cars. they're looking for more money as we speak. there's a meeting we expect with the rmt and tomorrow with network rail. they have got they have basically spending money. they're choosing to spend money while withdraw benefits from 11 million pensioners. that's the winter fuel allowance. and the today's guardian talks about the fact that the treasury is quite interesting. it talks about the fact of lightly planned tax increases over concern about this black hole and the quote given to the guardian from the treasury is fascinating. they say they're we don't expect we don't accept the positive economic inheritance, which of course, we've heard about from jeremy hunt and senior tories, given the decade they went before. but regardless, nothing in the recent data the government says, can offset the scale of the black hole in the pubuc scale of the black hole in the public finances that we're looking at. so they claim there is this £22 billion black hole thatis is this £22 billion black hole that is preparing us for tax increases. maybe in capital

gains tax and inheritance tax and elsewhere. but despite that, they are spending lots of money on public sector pay. and that's the choice they've made. >> so sorry christopher. i mean thatis >> so sorry christopher. i mean that is absolutely astonishing. those numbers. so we've had a labour government for six or so weeks now and you're saying unless i misheard, you're saying that they've , they've, they've that they've, they've, they've borrowed what, three point something billion pounds more than they were expecting to initially . sorry. just go over initially. sorry. just go over that again for me, that number again patrick. >> yeah. yeah. they borrowed £3.1 billion in july and the obr expected borrowing to be £100 million. so the extra 3 billion has been borrowed. in july the obr say they're saying it's part of that is strong growth in pubuc of that is strong growth in public sector pay. so the price being paid by all of us, all of us are paying a price for the largesse being showered on pubuc largesse being showered on public sector workers at the moment. i mean, christopher, and looking forward, and that is

that that's notwithstanding, emily, the fact that there is a £20 billion black hole before all this happened, which the government's talked about, and we're seeing reports in the guardian, which is very much a laboun guardian, which is very much a labour, labour friendly newspaper, saying they're they don't believe suggestions of a positive economic inheritance. there was a big black hole that has got to be filled. >> i mean, christopher, presumably rachel reeves will say , that pay offers in the say, that pay offers in the pubuc say, that pay offers in the public sector are investment. so we're borrowing to invest in our pubuc we're borrowing to invest in our public services. but usually when one thinks of investment, they think of, i don't know, infrastructure, the actual railways or building more hospitals or building more schools and the like. can these generous pay offers actually be framed as investment ? framed as investment? >> well, it could be. i mean, emily, everything is a trade off in, in in government because there's a limited amount of money they can spend. i mean, pensioners might be are upset. they're losing their winter fuel

payment, but they might be pleased that nhs workers are getting a pay rise because everyone uses the nhs. so money goes around here in the economy and they're spending money in a different way. there's a choice being made by this government, but they are looking, it looks like a tax increases. of course, they're not doing it in certain areas income tax, national insurance and the like. we heard that during the election. but in other areas we are looking at tax increases and hearing that from the guardian. so there's a choice being made already just six weeks into this government that will have a big impact on millions of people come october. >> yeah, we'll have on millions and millions of people. and that choice is essentially that in order to pay the unions, pensioners are going to have some kind of benefits taken away from them, and taxes are going to go up for basically everybody in one way or another. >> yeah, it's not the unions. it's all public sector workers. of course, many of them are unionised, but yeah, there's a choice being made here. i mean, you know, to you could argue that it's quite difficult to go

against the pay review bodies. the biggest number of this pay increase is by the 5.5% increase on average. i think for public sector workers it does go up and down, but for different groups because they have to honour that. and that is double inflation. that looks like it's been part of the cost here. that's been given, the obr are talking about today. it's quite difficult to go against the pubuc difficult to go against the public public pay review bodies. the tories would have been under similar pressure to honour them too. >> and there's quite a lot about in the papers about how rachel reeves has accepted, you know, £300,000 plus of political donations and freebies along the way in recent months and years. is that extraordinary? is she one of the biggest people who get all of these prizes, essentially from people who want to donate to her? she is strong offender . offender. >> yes. all this information, the information comes from the mps of register of interest in the house of commons, and she's declared her figures from june 2023 to july 2024. i mean, it's

basically any money coming in, £300,000 is a lot of money. of course, she was running an office as shadow chancellor, and that would have allowed her to pay that would have allowed her to pay for extra staff if she wanted to, to hold the government to account because he can't get any state money for that. although there is a degree of short money to allow for research purposes, but it does include nearly £13,000 for writing a book and a £30 bottle of wine . of wine. >> right. okay. all right. so will she have to pay any tax on that ? that? >> i don't know that. that's a great question, patrick. i don't know if this tax i'm not sure if these are gifts and if they're taxed or not. i'll find out for you. >> yes, please find out for us. that would be interesting to know. >> sorry for. sorry for putting you on the spot there, christopher. apologies. thank you very much. >> christopher hope, our political editor there in westminster, bringing us the very latest on on rachel reeves. >> that is unbelievable. it is it is extraordinary. so we're six weeks into a labour government and they said , okay, government and they said, okay, there'll be no taxes on working

people. they've said £3.1 billion worth of borrowing , billion worth of borrowing, higher than expected borrowing in july. that going that going to drive public sector pay rises. and i mean ijust to drive public sector pay rises. and i mean i just find that absolutely astonishing. and the choice that has been made there is , is pensioners, there is, is pensioners, pensioners are going to suffer as a result in part. >> absolutely. i mean, it's going to be a costly budget. i think if they're spending like this, the idea that labour want a loveless landslide, okay, with not a particularly high share of the vote with not a particularly high approval rating, keir starmer's approval ratings already tumbling, aren't they? >> i just wonder whether or not they are going to find themselves being one of the most unpopular governments. very, very quickly especially, you're not swayed by the argument. >> you're not swayed by the argument that, you know, doctors deserve more pay. it's not excel centre workers deserve more. >> i'm not swayed by the argument they work harder if they're not swayed by the argument that junior doctors have said that they're going to strike again, the train drivers are still on strike. i do not

believe that teachers and other areas of the nhs are going to accept a 5.5% pay offer when they've just seen some people get 20 odd percent. i don't think they're going to accept that. there you go. i mean, i think this is going to absolutely spiral massively out of control. and what votes are they going to gain from it? there's only so many wealthy people they can they can tax to the hilt . the hilt. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> it's all happening very quickly. >> billionaires leaving the uk. it's all happening very high rate. yeah. need them here. so they can pay their taxes for all of this. pay the train drivers wages. anyway, lots more coming up on today's show. we're going to be digging into that story from pakistan . yes. a man has from pakistan. yes. a man has been arrested, charged with cyber terrorism in relation to sharing on his website misinformation about the southport stabbing and his identity. >> but the other aspect of this is that people in this country were subsequently arrested for resharing what that individual who is believed to be from pakistan actually put out originally, the first person to do it? well, they're talking about actually did it come from russia or florida? and you look at it right in the court and you

think, hang on a flipping minute, who are we really locking up here? what for? and doesit locking up here? what for? and does it change the narrative about some of the disorder that we saw in those riots? >> well, we'll find out more for you after the headlines. >> emily, thank you and good afternoon. the top stories this houn afternoon. the top stories this hour, a team of four british inspectors from the marine accident investigation branch have arrived in sicily, where they're expected to look at the site of the sinking yacht as the search for six people now enters a third day, they're expected to carry out a preliminary assessment of the site today. the italian coast guard hasn't ruled out the possibility that those missing, including technology tycoon mike lynch and his 18 year old daughter hannah, may still be alive, with experts suggesting air pockets could have formed as the yacht sank. rescue teams are providing an underwater drone in the effort to help with the search for potential survivors , the home potential survivors, the home office has outlined plans to

tackle illegal immigration, including deploying 100 new intelligence officers to target people smuggling gangs. the home secretary has announced. the new measures to boost britain's security and to target , security and to target, dismantle and disrupt organised immigration crime networks. yvette cooper has also outlined the government has new plans for the government has new plans for the next six months to achieve the next six months to achieve the highest rate of removals. of those who don't have the right to be in the uk , including to be in the uk, including failed asylum seekers. as part of its plan, the government says it will reopen immigration removal centres in hampshire and oxfordshire, adding 290 beds. official figures show the rising cost of public services and benefits caused government borrowing last month to surge on the year before borrowing hit £3.1 billion last month, around £1.8 £3.1 billion last month, around £18 billion more than in july £1.8 billion more than in july last year . the increase means last year. the increase means borrowing has hit its highest level for the month since 2021, the office for national statistics also revealed the uk's national debt remained at its highest level since the

early 1960s, and a £3.1 million uk government package to tackle mpox will ultimately benefit us all, according to the africa minister. on a visit to a biomedical institute in the democratic republic of congo, minister for africa lord collins pledged the money to prevent the spread of the disease previously known as monkeypox. according to the world health organisation, around 15,000 cases of mpox have been detected in the drc this yean been detected in the drc this year, with 500 deaths reported , year, with 500 deaths reported, and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code , or go to gbnews.com. >> slash alerts

>> okay welcome back. and look, i do have some breaking news to bnng i do have some breaking news to bring to you, which is that police have now launched a murder investigation after a delivery driver was killed trying to stop the alleged theft of his own van. >> well, sps gb news home security editor mark white. for more details on this. what exactly has happened here? >> i completely horrific incident that unfolded at just before 7:00 last night. the details really only now emerging. but this driver and amazon driver was in wortley in leeds. he was delivering a package to an address there and returned to his van to find someone trying to steal it. now it appears that the amazon van driver then tried to get into his own vehicle. he was hanging out of the passenger door as the thief drove off in this ford transit cargo van, a silver ford transit cargo van, a silver ford

transit cargo van, for half a mile up the road , with this mile up the road, with this delivery driver hanging half in, half out of the van and at one point in heights drive in wortley, the van collided with two parked cars. you can see the van there , which was recovered van there, which was recovered some six miles away from the murder scene and is now being forensically examined. but that van, travelling at speed, collided with two parked cars, trapping and badly injuring the driver who was in the passenger side. he was left in a heap on the road. local people rushed to his aid, tried to help him, but he was just so badly injured that he died at the scene. >> i mean, this sounds like another day in lawless britain , another day in lawless britain, doesn't it really? an individual just going about their daily business, trying to do their job, comes back, sees a opportunistic theft, tries to do something about it, and they are sadly dragged for a while, then

left for dead in the road. >> and what this highlights actually is really a new developing trend in robberies that have been taking place, in conjunction with the gig economy, where you have now, of course , so many people ordering course, so many people ordering home deliveries of food, but of goods from the likes of amazon as well. and you've got these thieves who target these delivery drivers, either to steal their van because you steal their van because you steal their van because you steal the van, there could be all manner of valuable items in that van, and you get a van or indeed, if you're a delivery dnven indeed, if you're a delivery driver, they're mugging you, stealing your money or whatever, sometimes as little as a pizza , sometimes as little as a pizza, you know? but this is what's happening, and it's really worrying for those that are involved in going into areas, often at night in some estate in the middle of nowhere, that they don't know, and then they get ambushed and robbed . but here, ambushed and robbed. but here, this is a very extreme example

of a robbery where the driver has tried his to best stop it. it's, you know, it's not worth your life at the end of the day. but he was clearly determined to not let this guy get away with stealing his van and potentially his livelihood . and as his livelihood. and as a consequence, now, of course, he has died. there is a murder investigation, no arrest as yet, but a very, very worrying development. >> absolutely no care for life at all. thank you very much , at all. thank you very much, mark white. please do bring us any developments as and when you hear them. >> we'll have more on it at the top of the next hour from mark. it's also worth noting the time that this is believed to have taken place at 6:45 pm. on tuesday on a street in a residential area. no concern, no concern for anyone being around at all. so mark, mark will give us a few more details on this. at the start of the next hour, but we've got another interesting story to bring you. now, in a recent briefing has raised serious eyebrows. okay

because apparently british foreign aid has been directed towards affluent regions in upper middle income countries. so areas that are wealthier than parts of the united kingdom itself and that report has come from the institute of economic affairs . affairs. >> it has indeed. so it's entitled robin hood in reverse and essentially highlights instances where the uk taxpayer has funded projects in prosperous cities such as beijing, kuala lumpur, mexico city. and of course, it is sparking a debate over whether foreign aid is being misallocated, whether it's time to reassess the criteria for all of this aid, are we neglecting our own communities to pay for things that essentially don't need to be paid for by us, or go to places that are wealthier than us? >> given that we've just borrowed £3.1 billion more than we were expected to, and our taxes are all about to go up by the sounds of things. joining us now to discuss is communications officer at the iea. it's harrison griffiths . harrison,

harrison griffiths. harrison, thank you very, very much. can you just explain to us exactly what's going on here then? so we've been giving money to places that are actually wealthier than parts of the uk . wealthier than parts of the uk. >> yeah, you're absolutely right, patrick. i mean, there are some pretty staggering findings in this paper. you've already mentioned beijing, which is as a whole region , richer is as a whole region, richer than four of the regions of the uk, and it goes all the way up to cordova city in china, which is richer than 69 regions. it's got a gdp per capita comparable to swansea. so this is some pretty bizarre upward redistribution of wealth from our government. >> i mean , that sounds quite >> i mean, that sounds quite incredible. so regions where the gdp is a is the same as swansea. that's not exactly what people would think, where people would think that their aid money would be going. but i'm looking at some of the examples you have in your report. projects include an all female traditional chinese opera in shanghai, a rural crafts exhibition in shenzhen, and a temporary cycle lane in mexico city , explain if you can,

mexico city, explain if you can, harrison, why we're doing this . harrison, why we're doing this. >> it does seem bizarre on its face, but there is a pretty simple explanation for it really. so imagine that you're a bureaucrat of some kind, a civil servant, or a decision maker, and you've been given a pot of money that needs to be spent, because we commit every year to spending 0.5 to 0.7% of our gdp on foreign aid . and you're based on foreign aid. and you're based there. you've got a pot of money to spend and you're in a country like, say, mexico, where some regions are incredibly deprived and definitely places where perhaps we should be spending foreign aid. and also, you know , foreign aid. and also, you know, places like mexico city, which are pretty affluent . again, one are pretty affluent. again, one of those places that's partly ficher of those places that's partly richer than the rest of the uk. are you going to base yourself and are you going to base your operations in a place where the living standards are better, where the connections are better , where the connections are better, or are you likely to go out there and go into some of, you know, the planets? you know, because our aid workers is because our aid workers is because our aid workers is

because our aid workers prefer living and working and setting up projects in the in the more affluent areas. >> fantastic. seriously. >> fantastic. seriously. >> brilliant. >> brilliant. >> well, yes, in a lot of ways. so the law that governs this, the 2002 international development aid act, basically says that ministers have an awful lot of discretion about where this money goes. and that means that when you have these decision makers on the ground, they are going to follow those incentives. it's not necessarily, you know, people being evil or lazy, it's just where life is kind of easier and more convenient. and so that's where a lot of money ends up going. we don't expect that makes sense. >> when you put it that our money's, it makes sense when you put it like that. harrison i'm sorry. harrison. we'll have to speak again because we have to leave it there. but great to speak to you. harrison griffiths communications officer at the iea. >> we'll be hearing a lot more about this story. we'll be heanng about this story. we'll be hearing a lot more about it. we've just had that double whammy of us borrowing within one month of a labour government, £3.1 billion more than expected , taxes going up, than expected, taxes going up, pensioners suffering, etc. so the public sector can receive whopping great big pay rises.

and then this story lands about the idea that you wonderful people watching and listening to this have funded an all female traditional chinese opera in shanghai. >> lucky we'll make the most of it. >> absolutely not. it sounds well, i wouldn't let me in. were they paid for it? or maybe the opera's all female. not the audience, i don't know. either way, i don't care. why can't that money go to barnsley? seriously, we may as well. >> not just barnsley. enjoy the fruits of our labour in shanghai. nice little trip . shanghai. nice little trip. ridiculous. anyway, at least the congestion apparently is getting better in kuala lumpur. we've helped pay for some ai driven measures. i'll sleep better now. so there you go. this is good afternoon, britain on gb news. we've got lots more coming up on today's show. i'll let you introduce this one. >> oh, okay. well, it's a bit of a shift, so apparently a pentagon ufo expert is now claiming that they have come into possession of some quotes . into possession of some quotes. non—human material. yes okay, well, we'll find out more, won't we? but maybe, just maybe, they walk amongst us and potentially they work in our foreign aid

welcome back. do you believe in auens welcome back. do you believe in aliens ? well, an american aliens? well, an american military veteran and intelligence agent has claimed that the usa has been recovering auen that the usa has been recovering alien technology from ufo crash sites. yes. so luis elizondo says that he worked at the pentagon and that he knows that they have recovered material thatis they have recovered material that is not from this earth. he resigned after believing his government wasn't taking the threat of ufos seriously. well, joining us now is the presenter of that ufo podcast, andrew mcmillan. andrew what's going on here then? so have they been covering up alien material from us. >> us. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> now, i don't think the claims that are being made in luis elizondo's book imminent are new, but i think what we have to pay new, but i think what we have to pay attention to is the seniority of one luis elizondo and two, the people who recruited him, and indeed the people he worked for, which was the department of defence and the department of defence and the pentagon .

the pentagon. >> right. so basically, he was high up. he would he would have beenin high up. he would he would have been in a position to know, is what you're saying ? no, no, no , what you're saying? no, no, no, i think the aliens might have taken us off air. i think if you didn't believe in. oh, you're back, you're back. sorry. we had some interference there, presumably from the pentagon, but carry on. so so do you. do you think that do you think that he was in a position to know about this? >> yeah, he would have been. he would have been speaking to the individuals who were, taking part in these investigations. you're showing some of those clips just now that potential incursions by objects controlled by a non—human intelligence , by a non—human intelligence, potentially we are not seeing auen potentially we are not seeing alien necessarily, but something non—human, interacting on a daily basis with the us military, modern day, but also going back to the 1940s. >> right . and why would they be >> right. and why would they be covering this up from us, do you think? and can i also ask, you know , what is seems a bit far know, what is seems a bit far fetched to me? >> andrew, i'm a sceptic.

>> andrew, i'm a sceptic. >> yeah. very fair , multiple >> yeah. very fair, multiple reasons. when people say sceptical, i think as a species we are relatively new in terms of what we do in space. but right now we've got a robot on mars that drives about and has a little helicopter drone. every so often comes up, flies about ten feet from it to collect samples, and comes back. now, a species a couple of hundred years down the line from us, we'd have far better technology than that. so who is to say what we're encountering aren't just really advanced probes from something else that's just slightly ahead of us in the technological scale? i don't think that's too far. too, too far stretch of the imagination. >> and the implication with what this particular chap was saying is that actually, the us government has known about this for a very, very long time, and they are actively keeping that from us. and why would they be doing that? why wouldn't they just say , because when you do just say, because when you do see things like what we just saw there, which was made public, the new york times did a big expose on all of this, and actually, you know, the world didn't end. we weren't all outside fighting each other for scraps of food and burning down the nearest lidl. were we? we just thought, oh, that's quite cool. >> yeah, i think about four

years ago we were close to fighting each other for scraps of toilet roll. so i think there are potentially that can kick off, and the public has a lot of other things that i think they deem more pressing, which i completely understand. people have got bills to pay. your reporting previously on those foreign aid developments. it's a topic that for many isn't threat. seriously. but i think now we have to look at it and maybe take a step back, look at the people coming out. now talking about ufos and thinking, is there something to this that we've maybe been overlooking? >> yeah. if these people are coming out and they are more and more senior, and it's less likely that you can say, oh, you've got a tinfoil hat on and you've got a tinfoil hat on and you live somewhere in rural texas and you've got, you know, and you just kind of are a bit thick basically, you know, then then actually then you have to you have to kind of, you know, put some put some credibility to it. andrew. look, thank you very much. in case you couldn't tell, i could obviously talk to you about this for hours. emily. less so, but we'll just have to maybe catch up sometime. andrew mclellan there. he's the presenter of that ufo podcast. look, i think it's fascinating. i enjoyed the conversation. >> i enjoyed the conversation. i

didn't have much to add to myself, but that's good because i know this is a passion of yours. you're not passionate. >> i'm not a complete lunatic. passion. i just think it's interesting you keep seeing more and more evidence of some stuff that people are more and more willing to talk about. >> why would the us government hide non—human material from us? the aliens? >> maybe because they want to reverse engineer that material. emily. and then conquer the world. but you know. hey, who knows, right? anyway, we've got loads more coming your way, haven't we? including the . weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hi there. it's time for the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. wet and windy , increasingly so in the windy, increasingly so in the northwest overnight , drier northwest overnight, drier elsewhere. and for all of us it will be a relatively mild, if not warm night to come. a couple of low pressure systems heading our way. the one to the south,

contains the remnants from hurricane ernesto. no longer a hurricane, but containing a lot of tropical moisture, and that moisture resulting in a lot of rainfall across north western parts overnight, especially western scotland, where there's a rain warning in force because of the risk in places of 100 to 150mm of rain, especially west highland and skye , a risk of highland and skye, a risk of localised flooding. additionally, increasingly strong winds will affect irish sea coastal areas. the hills of northern england and southern scotland, and some higher routes as well could be affected by those winds. first thing to the woods of southeast largely dry overnight and during the morning on thursday, if rather cloudy. by on thursday, if rather cloudy. by this stage, the rain is pushing into northern england, wales and the southwest, but it's clearing from scotland and northern ireland. brighter skies follow, albeit with a scattering of showers into western scotland, northern and western parts of northern ireland, interspersed by sunny spells. so a brighter day to come for

scotland and northern ireland. sunny spells and showers, england and wales. meanwhile again a lot of cloud cover but this time with the band of rain sinking southeast , fizzling out sinking southeast, fizzling out as it pushes into the southeast . as it pushes into the southeast. so light intermittent rain more than heavy and persistent wet weather. but it's going to feel cool with the breeze continuing into thursday afternoon. sunny spells to begin the evening across central parts, but increasingly cloudy and increasingly cloudy and increasingly wet weather arrives from the west once again. an unsettled night and early friday before that all clears to sunny spells and showers for the weekend . weekend. >> that warm feeling inside from

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investigation has been launched after a delivery driver died trying to stop the alleged theft of his van in leeds. we'll have the latest. >> lawless britain and hoping for a miracle. divers begin day three of the search of the capsized superyacht. they have managed to enter the yacht now and apparently are approaching the cabins. all is well with the use of a specially designed brand new robot. >> yes, and labour's bombshell tax on brits. chancellor rachel reevesis tax on brits. chancellor rachel reeves is poised to unveil, apparently an aggressive tax raising agenda. she's been accused of hypocrisy as well over receiving 300,000 or so poundsin over receiving 300,000 or so pounds in donations, freebies etc. just as she scraps winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners. it also looks like the new labour government is spending way more than was predicted. >> £3.1 billion more and killer nurse case must be reviewed. nadine dorries is the latest to join the growing number of

former cabinet ministers and high profile journalists actually calling for an urgent review into multiple baby murderer lucy letby. what on earth is going . earth is going. on? okay, so look, we've got a heck of a lot to get through this houn of a lot to get through this hour, but i just want to tell you about something else that we're doing. we've actually managed to get hold of somebody who has got a bit of an exclusive for us here @gbnews, andifs exclusive for us here @gbnews, and it's in relation to an individual who's in pakistan, who's been charged now with cyber offences over spreading terrorism, cyber terrorism, over spreading misinformation in the wake of that southport stabbing and that apparently caused some of the riots and the disorder that we saw. this is a really fascinating story that i wonder whether or not we'll change the narrative in relation to what really sparked those riots sparked that disorder. and we have got someone who's very much in the know here, and i believe

he has a document for us that he's going to show us in a few minutes time. so make sure you keep it gb news. this is a very big story of serious implications, actually, for some of the people who are facing charges. i think in this country in relation to the riots. >> so absolutely, do stay tuned for that. you won't want to miss it. gbnews.com/yoursay is the way to get in touch as always. but let's get the headlines with tatiana sanchez . tatiana sanchez. >> emily, thank you and good afternoon. the top stories a team of four british inspectors from the marine accident investigation branch have now inspected the site of the sinking yacht in sicily as the search for six people continues. there carried out a preliminary assessment of the site today . assessment of the site today. the mib is looking into what happened because it's also understood the vessel was flying a british flag. the italian coastguard hasn't ruled out the possibility that those missing, including technology tycoon mike lynch and his 18 year old

daughter hannah, may still be alive , with experts suggesting alive, with experts suggesting air pockets could have formed as the yacht sank. rescue teams are also providing an underwater drone in the effort to help with the for search potential survivors. mike lynch's friend and former business partner david tabizel says mike has the strength to survive. >> if there's any chance of him surviving this, he has the strength, the strength to do this and i hope that we aren't talking in the past tense, he is a remarkable man and if you've had the blessing and the honour to have worked with him or known him , this is he's a force of him, this is he's a force of nature and somebody who i think, will become a business, an intellectual and scientific legend in the decades to come . legend in the decades to come. >> in other news, the home office has outlined plans to tackle illegal immigration, including deploying 100 new intelligence officers to target people smuggling gangs. the home secretary has announced the new

measures to boost britain's security to and target, dismantle and disrupt organised immigration crime networks. yvette cooper has also outlined the government has new plans for the government has new plans for the next six months to achieve the next six months to achieve the highest rate of removals of those who don't have the right to be in the uk, including failed asylum seekers. as part of its plan, the government says it will reopen immigration removal centres in hampshire and oxfordshire, adding 290 beds. the conservative party have said labour were not serious about tackling the people smugglers or stopping the boats . and as stopping the boats. and as you've been hearing , police have you've been hearing, police have launched a murder investigation after a delivery driver was involved in a collision during an attempted theft of his van. west yorkshire police says officers were called shortly before 7 pm. yesterday following reports of a man found seriously injured in wortley in leeds. officers found the victim unconscious . he was given unconscious. he was given emergency treatment but was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later. police say the

victim, in his 40s, had delivered a package to an address about half a mile away at around 6:45 pm, and had returned to his to van find a man attempting to steal it. when he tried to stop the offender, he tried to stop the offender, he drove off at speed with the victim , only partly in the victim, only partly in the passenger door of the vehicle . a passenger door of the vehicle. a pakistani web developer is facing a criminal charge over claims he spread misinformation about the accused. southport attacker. documents shared exclusively with gb news show that 32 year old farhan asif has been charged with cyber terrorism after false claims quickly spread online that the suspect was a muslim immigrant to the uk. pakistani police say that asif claims he is not the original source of the false information, but that he reposted it from social media after three young girls were fatally stabbed at a holiday club in southport on the 29th of july. rumours, including a fake name for the suspect spread on x, formerly known as twitter ,

x, formerly known as twitter, appearing to originate from an apparent news website called channel three, now . a £3.1 channel three, now. a £3.1 million uk government package to tackle mpox will ultimately benefit us all, according to the african minister. on a visit to a biomedical institute in the democratic republic of congo, minister for africa lord collins pledged the money to prevent the spread of the disease. previously known as monkeypox. according to the world health organisation, around 15,000 cases of mpox have been detected in the drc. this year, with 500 deaths reported. the world health organisation declared an upsurge of mpox cases in the drc. a public health emergency of international concern in an announcement last week . official announcement last week. official figures show the rising cost of pubuc figures show the rising cost of public services and benefits caused government borrowing last month to surge on the year before borrowing hit £3.1 billion last month, around £18

billion last month, around £18 billion more than in july last yeah billion more than in july last year. the increase means borrowing has hit its highest level for the month since 2021. the office for national statistics also revealed the uk's national debt remained at its highest level since the early 1960s. and european brown bears a bongos and a red billed hornbill have been measured today during the annual weigh in at whipsnade zoo in bedfordshire. it's an important part of the care for these animals. it keeps track of the creatures vital statistics, helping zookeepers keep track of the health and wellbeing of all the health and wellbeing of all the animals at the conservation zoo . those are the latest gb zoo. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts .

slash alerts. >> welcome back to good afternoon britain . now this is a afternoon britain. now this is a breaking story, a developing story that we brought you just towards the end of the last houh towards the end of the last hour. police have launched a murder investigation after a delivery driver was killed trying to stop the alleged theft of his own van in leeds yesterday evening. >> yes . the victim yesterday evening. >> yes. the victim is yesterday evening. >> yes . the victim is believed >> yes. the victim is believed to be a man in his 40s and has not yet been named by police. >> well , let's speak now to not yet been named by police. >> well, let's speak now to gb news home and security editor mark white marcus appears to be yet another example of lawless britain . what's gone on? britain. what's gone on? >> yeah, an absolutely appalling incident . there's an amazon incident. there's an amazon driver. he was delivering a parcel to an address in wortley in leeds last night, as you say, early, early on, not even 7:00 in the evening. it would have been light in a residential area. he returned to his van to find that someone was trying to steal his van, and it seems that

he was determined clearly not to let that thief get away with his van. he tried to get into the van. he tried to get into the van. he tried to get into the van. he was hanging out of the passenger door. apparently you can see that van there that silver ford cargo van that was recovered six miles away from the murder scene . he held on to the murder scene. he held on to the murder scene. he held on to the van, hanging out the passenger door. it drove for half a mile at speed through this residential area in wortley before colliding with a couple of parked vehicles in heights drive in wortley. at that point , drive in wortley. at that point, the driver was very severely injured, tossed from the van lying in the road. members of the public rushed to try to help the public rushed to try to help the van driver . paramedics the van driver. paramedics arrived, but there was nothing they could do for him. he was so badly injured. >> this sounds like a very extreme example of a trend that

we've been reporting on quite a lot. we've spoken before of course, about shoplifting. we've spoken before about how delivery drivers are being targeted in terms of what cargo they've got on board, what deliveries, you know, ocado, vans, people nicking all the food out of the back or tool theft as well. this impacting people who drive around in their white vans. they leave them parked and everything gets nicked out the back. this is getting worse. >> yeah, it's the brazen nature and you know , involved in now and you know, involved in now these thefts be it from a shop, be it from the back of a van, where people just think they can come with impunity to steal what they want, and they'll never be challenged. and they can walk away from it. and a few brave people do decide to challenge them. and on occasions that can end as it has in tragedy, i should say we've heard a statement from west yorkshire police. this is from senior investigating officer, detective chief inspector james entwistle, who said this appears to be a truly shocking incident where the victim has been killed while

going about his business as a parcel delivery driver. we're carrying out extensive enquiries to establish the full circumstances and to identify the person who's incredibly dangerous actions have been responsible for causing his death. so as we speak, we have forensic teams poring over that cargo van, trying to get every fibre, every piece of dna to try to lead them to a suspect. because what we know about suspects, criminals, they're usually recidivists they'll have offended before they'll have come into the criminal justice system. their dna, fingerprints will be on record. so the chances are that within hours, within days, the police will be able to catch up with this person. >> and presumably, they'll be plenty of eyewitnesses. if this was a residential area and in in, in in the light of day. thank you very much . mark white. thank you very much. mark white. our home security editor. >> yeah. thank you. well, what we want to try and do is find a

little bit more about what this ongoing police investigation is probably going to look like. an absolutely horrific case, just an individual in his 40s trying to go about his daily business, do his job, and then before you know it, he's hanging out the side of his own van while someone drags him through a residential area. we get the thoughts now of former detective superintendent at the metropolitan police shabnam chaudhry, shabnam , thank you chaudhry, shabnam, thank you very much for joining chaudhry, shabnam, thank you very much forjoining us. in terms of this investigation. now, you will have presumably ring doorbell footage, so you'll have all sorts of cctv. what kind of thing will be going on right now to try and get hold of this individual? >> well, i think the key priority here is the forensic ation of the van in which this perpetrator who killed this man in his 40s, will have been . so in his 40s, will have been. so as your colleague has said, that they will be poring over that they will be poring over that they will be looking to fast track any immediate forensic opportunities that may identify him if his dna is on the system. and then working from there, he drove six miles away, so they'll have some form of a timeline which they're trying to develop

in terms of the streets in which that vehicle drove where it drove to, where it ended up, and what ring doorbell, cctv, dash cam , anything which would locate cam, anything which would locate where he actually got out of the van and where he travelled to from there on. so there will be extensive enquiries. there will be a number of officers working on that. there will also be doing house to house enquiries, looking for all of that cctv evidence. but the key here will actually be the van in terms of any forensic dna that may link him and his identification to this horrific, horrible, shocking crime. >> it really is, this type of thing. okay. this is a very extreme example, but this type of thing has almost become an occupational hazard for delivery drivers. people who who work with small white vans or indeed large white vans in terms of tools being very expensive tools, very valuable tools being stolen out the back of vans,

you've got people having all of their groceries nicked out the back of a van and deliveries, etcetera , etcetera. i mean, how etcetera, etcetera. i mean, how can the police tackle this type of problem , people being so of problem, people being so brazen that they'll either nick things out the back of a van or actually try and steal the whole van and by doing so, kill someone. >> well, the problem here is that theft from motor vehicle , that theft from motor vehicle, motor vehicle theft, shoplifting, as we've just heard, your colleague discussing none of these are key priorities within policing . and since there within policing. and since there have been less police officers, they've removed people like motor vehicle squads, drug squads, burglary squads. so all these teams that work in collaboration together with partners to try and tackle this type of crime is no longer something that is a priority for policing. so it's made it much, much more difficult. i alone was yesterday in co—op in london, somewhere , and i saw a guy going somewhere, and i saw a guy going through the checkout, you know , through the checkout, you know, the self—service checkout and literally helping himself to

goods. i looked at the cashier there. she saw what was going on, but she just gave me the you know, i can't do anything about it. why would i put myself at risk if the staff are not doing this ? this? >> well, that's, that's exactly the point. so if you just stay on the line for us, please. because we're looking now at live pictures of this scene. so this is, i believe , the road this is, i believe, the road where this incident took place. and it is in leeds. and if you are just joining us, i'll just give you a quick recap of what is a horrific situation that took place at about 6:45 pm. last night as a delivery driver parked his silver grey transit van up to go and deliver some goods to somebody. when he came back, there was an individual stealing his van. he tried to get back into the van via the passenger window. it's believed he then unfortunately, was dragged for about half a mile. and then sadly, well fell out of that van and died. and then the individual who was driving it is believed to have continued for around another five, and a half miles before the van came to a

halt. that person is still on the run, the police doing everything they can to try to track that person down. now, can i ask, is it a depressing state of affairs now, though, that if you do see someone trying to steal your car with your goods inside it, or whatever, the best thing to do unfortunately now is just let them do it because, you know, this could happen . know, this could happen. >> it's really sad to say that, but in some instances, yeah, i mean, for me, i know what i would do because the natural instinct of my policing career would jump, jump out at me. but, you know, the advice to many people is either call the police, which, you know, they're not going to come because it's not going to come because it's not a 999. it's not an emergency. as such in certain circumstances, or just allow the perpetrator to walk off with your goods. and that is the problem . these thieves, these problem. these thieves, these criminals are absolutely brazen because they know that they can get away with it. they walk in and they actually fill up bag loads of shopping for whatever it is that they want. and these aren't people that are poverty stricken. there are some where, you know, there are issues

around that, but i don't generally see that. i see people just walking in helping themselves to whatever it is that they want to do as probably do you would you then intervene in something like that? and the advice would be is to your life is far more valuable. this is such a sad, sad situation. this guy is the same guy that probably drops goods off at your doors and many hundreds of thousands of amazon drivers . thousands of amazon drivers. really sad. >> yeah, this should not be an occupational hazard, this type of thing. and i hope we can get to a place in this country where shoplifting is taken seriously , shoplifting is taken seriously, where it can be a police priority. the same with theft varne theft, all of these things, you know, people become more and more brazen, as you say, shabnam, if these things aren't, you know, cut off at the root. thank you very much for your time. really appreciate it. shabnam chowdhury, a former superintendent at the metropolitan police. >> we'll have more information on that as we get it. one would hope that given the amount of forensic evidence and cctv footage and the ability to track a vehicle in this country, that hopefully at some point in the next few hours, somebody might be apprehended for that. but

this is another, i think, very important story, one that i suspect we're going to be heanng suspect we're going to be hearing a lot more about. a man in pakistan has now been arrested and charged after allegedly spreading misinformation that fuelled riots in the uk. >> yes. so according to the police in pakistan, farhan asif was linked to a website that gave out a false name for the suspected southport attacker and suggested he was an asylum seeker who arrived in the uk on a small boat. now a lot of people, of course, have said that this disinformation was one of the key reasons why all the unrest kicked off. >> and the point is, we've also seen people arrested in this country for sharing this information. now, on your screens right now , you can see screens right now, you can see the charge sheet issued by the pakistani authorities. so this is exclusive here to us @gbnews so that is the charge sheet that's been issued by the pakistani authorities for that individual. what i would like to

take us now to senior broadcaster sabir shah, who knows. i think a bit more about all of this. so can you can you just thank you for joining us. can you tell us what's going on here? because this was i mean, the biggest story in britain here for the best part of a week. and it looks as though now a man in pakistan has been arrested and charged over potentially helping to start this whole thing. what's going on? >> well, the man who's called farhan asif, he's 32 years old. >> he was arrested yesterday from a posh residential locality of defence housing authority in lahore. now he was presented before the court today and the court has handed him over to the police on one day. physical remand. now, a physical remand would mean that police would do all under its control to extract the truth from him and ask him as to what were the reasons for

spreading disinformation, which inched spreading disinformation, which incited rioting in britain. and they would also like to know, who else was with him, they would like to know the names , would like to know the names, and they will submit a complete report of the investigation , to report of the investigation, to the court tomorrow . remember, as the court tomorrow. remember, as i said, the investigation authority is the federal investigation authority, which is a key probing agency in pakistan. there is a lot of, chaos within the agency . they chaos within the agency. they want to investigate the matter fully because there there are all eyes on it from within pakistan and from all the western media outlets, particularly in britain. yes >> and is there any indication here that the uk authorities have been working with the pakistani authorities on this case and also, what do we know about this website that this man was allegedly working for channel three? now, i believe

it's called where this information was posted , information was posted, >> ma'am, the first part of your question, you say he's been investigated and the way the things are moving, it could not have been possible had british authorities not been involved. i think he has been arrested on their tip off from lahore, and number two, as far as , the number two, as far as, the second part of the question, can you please repeat it? >> what do we know about the website that he was allegedly running this channel three? now to be honest with you, i've spent 33 years in journalism in pakistan with pakistan's largest media group, the jang group, and geo. >> i am a prolific writer. i had never heard of this website before. it seems that the name etc. had been copied from a western website just to deceive the readers . number one and the readers. number one and number two, as the man himself said that he had copied the information from a, social media account which seemingly is true

to me because i have never heard the name of this journalist before. i myself am very well known here in pakistan, and i known here in pakistan, and i know everybody who is doing some significant journalism anywhere on websites or in mainstream media. you know, i have not heard the name of this man before , and, it's done , before, and, it's done, allegedly done all of the connect, the connections going a little bit there. >> so we'll have to just we'll have to just call it a day there. but can i say a massive thank you for shedding some light on on this case for us. and we'll probably go back to you. is there any developments though, senior broadcaster in pakistan. that story. just to recap, a man has been charged with cyber terrorism offences over spreading misinformation about those riots and the causes of the southport attacks . so of the southport attacks. so that's one to watch. but, we have got a lot more coming your way and i have just been informed, that there's an update for you on this super yacht that

has sunk. so make sure you stay tuned and we will have all the very latest news for you in just couple of minutes. don't anywhere.

>> well, we've got some breaking news to bring you. according to reports from a source close to the sunken yacht and the matter, the sunken yacht and the matter, the rescue and search operation. rescue divers have now recovered two bodies from that superyacht that sank off the coast of sicily. just a bit earlier this week. >> yeah. so reuters is now reporting that there have been two bodies recovered from this super yacht. as we know, crews managed to enter that yacht earlier today and they dove down. there was also a new kind of robot mechanical search device that was being used. they managed to smash their way into the hull and were approaching

the hull and were approaching the cabin areas. since then, it has now emerged that breaking to news bring you that unfortunately, it appears as though they have recovered two bodies from that submerged yacht. let's just go to sicily now, to the scene and speak to gb news reporter adam cherry . gb news reporter adam cherry. so, adam, this is certainly a major development. it appears that now they're saying they've recovered two bodies. >> that's right . patrick, >> that's right. patrick, they're not saying who they're not identifying those bodies at the moment. all we know is they have just discovered those two of the six missing individuals on this yacht . we had expected on this yacht. we had expected some progress as we spoke. as i discussed with you in the last houh discussed with you in the last hour, they were using more sophisticated technology. they were using this this new robot, which can be underwater for longer periods. and they were approaching the cabins where they suspected these missing people would be. and it appears that that has now produced this result. so a very sad moment. there are still four others, either missing or indeed perhaps

deceased as well, but we don't have confirmation on that. we don't have the names of those two discovered in the last few moments . two discovered in the last few moments. it's all moving very quickly now as a result of the increased search efforts. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> adam, this is a tragic development. there were many holding out hope that somehow people would be able to still be alive underneath that water in that super yacht . talk of that super yacht. talk of perhaps air pockets in that sunken yacht. >> can i just say what i was looking at on your screens? now, if you're watching us on television, is live images just above where that boats were sunk. right. and we brought you some of these images earlier in the day when there was a little bit less activity there. so it appears to be at least one more boat. there now, certainly more people on it. and so there will be some kind of recovery operation taking place as we speak. adam, when because you're you're near this scene now . so you're near this scene now. so when this news started to emerge, in fact, i think we can see another boat actually entering the shot there just to the left as well. so and things are really hotting up on that

particular site at the moment. you know, was there an increased presence that you saw around there with the helicopters going over? was there any indication adam, from you there, that they might have been some development here? >> yeah, it got it got busy very quickly. in fact, just behind me. you can't see on the screen at the moment. but another helicopter landed within the last 20 minutes or so and all the staff immediately headed towards the other end of the pier, which is where the most of the activity is, is just across from the boats on the water itself. because the sinking, the sinking itself was very close to shore. yes there's quite a large there's quite a large presence actually, of boats. >> there's a large boat that is now there. i'd say there are about two larger boats and a couple of dinghies there out on the water, which will be above where the super yacht has sunk . where the super yacht has sunk. adam. as of now we don't have anyidea adam. as of now we don't have any idea of the identification of the bodies that have been recovered. we just know that two bodies have now been recovered out of the six that were still missing . missing. >> that's right. we don't have any more details at this point,

although i would expect that we'll find out a lot more very, very quickly given the speed at which things are moving and things are moving now. >> yeah, yeah. we're just heanng >> yeah, yeah. we're just hearing as well that, rescue teams did not immediately give the names or the sex of the drowned people who are the second and third victims of the shipwreck, to be found. yes. the body of the yacht's cook , body of the yacht's cook, ricardo thomas, was located shortly after the vessel sank. so now the death toll as we know it stands at three from this disaster. >> i mean, this will be an absolute hammer blow for anyone who was holding out hope. really, of those air pockets in there, given that what we what we know now, and i would imagine that the thinking would be that we would get some kind of resolution for the rest of the people quite quickly, if they have just managed to get themselves into the cabins there and find what they've found so far , it would imply that maybe far, it would imply that maybe they can get to the rest of the boat as well, perhaps a bit later today . adam, do we have

later today. adam, do we have anyidea later today. adam, do we have any idea at all about whether or not the families of the people who were on that boat are still in the area? i know that the captain of that ship was interviewed a couple of days ago. do we do we know much about that ? that? >> my understanding is the families having been discharged, the victims , the excuse me, the the victims, the excuse me, the survivors having been discharged from hospital in palermo, about ten miles from here, have now been moved along with friends and family , to a hotel much and family, to a hotel much closer to porticello , where we closer to porticello, where we are now. so they are all very close by and we understand the captain himself was taken to a hospital room , presumably hospital room, presumably injured, and he just had one thing to say to the press, didn't he, that he did not see this coming. >> a very experienced, captain had been working in this industry for decades , 51 years old, >> just to just say sorry, adam, we're getting some information through here, and it just says

this is just a quote here that one of the two bodies found by the divers is quotes a heavily built man. now, obviously, we don't necessarily want to speculate on exactly who that might be at the moment, but that is just the latest for us, which is just the latest for us, which is one of the two bodies that the divers have found is quotes a heavily built man. and that is according to a source on the scene. so we will, you know, as and when we get any kind of formal identification, we will bnng formal identification, we will bring that to you here. but that is if you're just joining us on television now, the scene in palermo, there where divers have managed to get down into that superyacht that sunk close to three days ago now, in what is believed to have been a complete freak weather incident. and they have now identified two more bodies on that boat. and adam, just to clarify as well, they're saying that this incident, they think is some kind of quote, black swan event. what does that mean ? mean? >> well, it means it's something that you can't anticipate. but in retrospect appears obvious. if you hear keep windows and

hatches closed on your vessel, you think that makes sense. but given that this is a, the weather here has been perfect for most of the time i've been here, and indeed always is. you don't expect something like a tornado or a waterspout to inflict this kind of damage at this time of year. >> no, no . well, thank you very >> no, no. well, thank you very much, adam, for bringing us that breaking news that tragic confirmation that two more bodies have been found bringing the death toll to three. thank you very much indeed, adam cherry. there in palermo. >> yeah, well, we'll have much more on that as we get it. and we'll bring you all of the latest breaking news. we do have a lot more coming up on today's show as well, but it's time to whizz you over now to get your headunes. whizz you over now to get your headlines . on. headlines. on. >> patrick, thank you very much. and good afternoon . some and good afternoon. some breaking news as you've just been hearing, divers have recovered two bodies out of the missing six following the sinking of a luxury yacht off

the coast of sicily. one other was, of course , identified was, of course, identified already. ricardo thomas was located shortly after the vessel sank, so that death toll now at three. we are just also hearing and as you've just heard, that one of the two bodies just found is a quote , heavily built man, is a quote, heavily built man, that coming from sources on the scene, the boat owned by the wife of british tech entrepreneur mike lynch, was carrying 22 passengers and crew and was anchored off the port of porticello, near palermo, when it capsized during a storm. a pre—dawn storm on monday. rescue teams did not immediately give the names or the sex of the drowned people, who are the second and third victims, as i say of the shipwreck, to be found. rescue teams have been using an underwater drone in their efforts to help with the search for any more potential survivors . police have launched survivors. police have launched a murder investigation after a delivery driver was involved in a collision during an attempted theft of his van, west yorkshire

police says officers were called shortly before 7 pm. yesterday following reports of a man found seriously injured in leeds. officers found the victim unconscious. he was given emergency treatment but was pronounced dead at the scene. a short time later. police say the victim, in his 40s, had delivered a package to an address about half a mile away at around 6:45 pm, and had returned to his to van find a man attempting to steal it. when he tried to stop the offender, he tried to stop the offender, he drove off at speed with the victim, only partly in the passenger door of the vehicle . a passenger door of the vehicle. a pakistani web developer is facing a criminal charge over claims he helped spread misinformation about the accused. southport attacker. documents shared exclusively with gb news show that 32 year old farhan asif has been charged with cyber terrorism after false claims quickly spread online that the suspect was a muslim immigrant to the uk. pakistani police say that asif claims he's not the original source of the false information, but that he

reposted it from social media after three young girls were fatally stabbed at a holiday club in southport on the 29th of july. rumours including a fake name for the suspect spread on x appearing to originate from an apparent news website called channel three. now and a £3.1 million uk government package to tackle mpox will ultimately benefit us all. that's according to the africa minister. on a visit to a biomedical institute in the democratic republic of congo, minister for africa lord collins pledged the money to prevent the spread of the disease previously known as monkeypox. according to the world health organisation, around 15,000 cases of mpox have been detected in the drc this yeah been detected in the drc this year, with 500 deaths reported , year, with 500 deaths reported, and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. 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

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>> okay. welcome back to good afternoon britain. it is now 240. now we have two breaking news stories to bring you for the rest of the hour. one, we have the very sad confirmation that two bodies have now been recovered from the sunken yacht, bringing the death toll to three. as we understand. and also this murder investigation that's been launched in leeds. a delivery driver, his van attempted theft of his van. he tried to save it. he tried to get back in the van, but sadly was brought to his death. so a murder investigation up in leeds. our reporter will be on the scene for that as well. >> we're going to be taking you to both those scenes in the next few minutes. but before that, we're going to go to martin daubney, who is up at three. martin, what's coming up on your show? >> well, as well as all the latest breaking news, i'm joined today by two extraordinary gb

news viewers with the people's channel. the first paul duran to 78 year old grandad who's on a hunger strike because of the state of broken britain , illegal state of broken britain, illegal immigration, axing the winter fuel allowance and two tier justice. he says he's prepared to die for his cause. he'll join me today in the studio and we will make sure that this government hears his message. our second viewer, jess, was so concerned about the proliferation of 20 mobile phone shops in her hometown of reading. she made a video about it asking what on earth is going on? the truth is shocking . a web on? the truth is shocking. a web of money laundering and people too afraid to speak the truth. that's all coming up. three, two, six. >> well, martin, that's going to be an absolutely fantastic show. aside from all the breaking news, you said there are two really important stories i know are , you know, bang in line with are, you know, bang in line with exactly what gb news viewers and listeners care about. so make sure that you keep it. gb news martin daubney three till 6 pm. but look, let's just crack on a little bit with one of the developing stories that we're bringing in right now. police

have launched a murder investigation after a delivery driver was killed trying to stop the alleged theft of his own van in leeds yesterday evening. >> yes, the victim is believed to be a man in his 40s. he's not yet been named by the police. >> well, gb news reporter anna riley is now on the scene for us in leeds. anna, this is an absolutely astonishing case. it cuts right to the very heart of lawless britain at the moment, doesn't it? this was, well, not quite broad daylight, but i suppose it was really 6:45 pm. last night in a residential area. what do we know ? area. what do we know? >> yes. >> yes. >> truly shocking and amazon delivery driver in his 40s going about his daily business. he'd made a delivery here along heights drive in wortley. this is where we can see police cordon in place. actually, several police cordons around the area as police continue to investigate to comb through cctv footage, dashcam footage, door cam footage and also to comb over the delivery van itself. we

know that it happened at 645 last night. the delivery driver was out making deliveries, came back to his van and saw that it was attempting to be stolen. he tried to stop that . he tried to tried to stop that. he tried to prevent the theft and as that happened, he was dragged for at least half a mile down the road by the person trying to steal his van. and that eventually caused his tragic death in the line of him trying to protect the property, trying to protect that amazon vehicle. we know that amazon vehicle. we know that amazon vehicle. we know that amazon have spoken out about it. they've said it's a terrible incident and our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with the delivery drivers, loved ones, families and colleagues and that they'll do anything that they can to assist police in their investigations. we know that the victim's family have been informed. the victim has not been yet named. and, of course, that manhunt continues for the person responsible in this murder probe. the senior

investigating officer for west yorkshire police, detective chief inspector james entwistle, has said that the investigation remains at an early stage. but based on what police currently know, it appears to be a truly shocking incident where the victim where the victim has been killed while going about his business as a parcel delivery driver. his family have been informed . they are completely informed. they are completely devastated about what has happened and that police are working to support them in this difficult time and are doing everything that they can to try and get them the answers that they need. carrying out extensive enquiries to establish the full circumstances and to identify the person who's incredibly dangerous actions have been responsible for causing his death . police also causing his death. police also say they've spoken to a number of witnesses. we know that in the aftermath of the incident, residents living around here tried to come to the aid of the delivery driver, but he tragically could not be saved.

so police doing door to door enquiries also looking at that cctv footage. and this is something as well that that shocked residents here as well. residents have spoken to media and they've just said it's normally a quiet area and something devastating for them to happen in their community. so yeah, that police cordons remain all around the road in this area as police try and find the ones responsible and look, thank you very, very much. >> i know that you're going to be keeping us updated and hopefully the individual or individuals who are involved in this can be apprehended as quickly as possible. and unrwa riley will have all of the important updates for us right here on gb news. thank you. and look, when we come back, we will actually have some more information. now on another very serious breaking story for you, which is the recovery of two bodies from that super yacht in sicily. one of those bodies has been reported to be that of a large male, a well—built man. hopefully we can get a bit more information for you on that. and we're going to take you right to

the scene with our reporter, adam cherry. so stay tuned

>> okay. welcome back. it is now 249 now, as we were just telling you , we just brought you the you, we just brought you the news that according to reports from a source close to the matter, rescue divers have now recovered two bodies from the superyacht that sank off sicily earlier this week. now, rescue teams did not immediately give the names or the sex of those who drowned. they are the second and third victims of the shipwreck now to be found . shipwreck now to be found. >> yes, exactly. because the body of the yacht's cook , body of the yacht's cook, ricardo thomas, was actually located near the vessel shortly after it sank. just in terms of the latest that we are getting for you now , sources around the for you now, sources around the scene are telling us that one of the two bodies found by divers is that of a heavily built man, and this of course, is not to confirm exactly who that individual is or anything along those lines, but there were

numerous different people who remain missing. one of them is mike lynch , who is, you know, mike lynch, who is, you know, beenin mike lynch, who is, you know, been in the news quite a lot recently. there's also a lawyer from a prominent law firm as well. let's cross to sicily now and speak to gb news reporter adam cherry, who has some latest for us now. adam, last time we spoke to you, there had just been a kind of hive of activity that had taken place there after the discovery of these two bodies. what have you got for us? >> so now the entire pier, i mean , clearly locals have heard mean, clearly locals have heard the news because it's getting very , very busy out here very very, very busy out here very quickly. the entire pier where the emergency responders have been parked is now completely full. it's been quieter today compared to yesterday. an ambulance, several ambulances actually have just okay and these are live images for you of that rescue operation or search operation and recovery operation. >> now sadly in sicily. so and

previously earlier on in the day, there was just 1 or 2 boats there. and those boats had actually required the use of a new submersible robot, which was able to spend longer at the bottom of that seabed, more than 50m down than the human beings themselves could. then the divers could, because they were sadly limited to about 12 minutes per dive. anyway, the developments today have been that they managed to gain access to the boat. they managed to gain access to the hull and then go from cabin to cabin and what we're hearing now is that they have sadly recovered two bodies, presumably from those cabins. but adam, we lost you for a second there. but you're saying that actually now what we're heanng that actually now what we're hearing is that that area around where you are now is becoming increasingly busy as people are expecting more discoveries, presumably quite soon. >> yes, we are expecting more very soon, if you can. if you can hear there's another helicopter is just landing. there are several more ambulances and the entire pier is now completely packed out with emergency services personnel and local people who are hearing the news and gathering to see what happens. >> yes . and as we were reporting

>> yes. and as we were reporting earlier, six people were missing. two bodies have now been recovered. four are still missing inside this superyacht or so we can presume the recovery efforts still very much on their way. there was some hope, wasn't there, that there may have been air pockets within this yacht that may have kept some of those people alive, presumably . now there is a lot presumably. now there is a lot of concern for the fate of those who were left on this yacht . who were left on this yacht. >> yes, there is unfortunately, and this was the concern was that the air pockets were going to were going to be would be affected very quickly either by, you know , passage of time or any you know, passage of time or any movements of the ship. and frankly, we're now three days in. so it looks like that possibility has now extinguished. >> there was some serious question marks starting to emerge over the capability of the italian rescue operation. actually, people were wondering, well, why on earth is it taking so long to gain access to the boat? why on earth is it taking

so long to find out, especially in a situation where conceivably every single second or minute matters? if you are dealing with a case where people are trapped in an air pocket, although perhaps it may emerge over time that they knew something a lot earlier than what they told us, and that this was always just going to be some kind of recovery operation. not so much a rescue operation. adam cherry, thank you very much. we'll be going to you for regular updates over the course of the day here @gbnews. it's adam cherry who's at the scene for us there. he said that ambulances were starting to arrive, which implies that they think they're going to get those bodies up to the water quite quickly. we have not had those bodies named or formally identified yet. only one of them, we've been told, is that of a well—built man. unfortunately for the families involved as well, mike lynch is 18 year old. daughter is still missing and we await information as to whether or not there are any survivors in that incident . any survivors in that incident. >> yes. and if any identifications are made, i'm sure martin in his programme will update you on any developments there. but as patrick says, two more bodies found and recovered very sadly

in this tragic incident off the coast of sicily. thank you very much indeed forjoining us this much indeed for joining us this afternoon on good afternoon britain. some heavy to news bnng britain. some heavy to news bring you this afternoon, very sadly, but we'll be back tomorrow from 12:00 with good afternoon, britain. i'll see you again. >> i'll be back on tonight, 9 to 11 pm. as well. so keep your gb news. lovely. all right. well done so far . well done . done so far. well done. >> hi there. it's time for the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. wet and windy, increasingly so in the nonh windy, increasingly so in the north west overnight. drier elsewhere , and for all of us, it elsewhere, and for all of us, it will be a relatively mild, if not warm night to come. a couple of low pressure systems heading our way. the one to the south contains the remnants from hurricane ernesto, no longer a hurricane , but containing a lot hurricane, but containing a lot of tropical moisture, and that moisture resulting in a lot of rainfall across north western

parts overnight, especially western scotland, where there's a rain warning in force because of the risk. in places of 100 to 150mm of rain, especially west highland and skye , a risk of highland and skye, a risk of localised flooding. additionally increasingly strong winds will affect irish sea coastal areas, the hills of northern england and southern scotland , and some and southern scotland, and some higher routes as well could be affected by those winds. first thing to the woods of southeast largely dry overnight and during the morning on thursday, if rather cloudy. by this stage, the rain is pushing into northern england, wales and the southwest, but it's clearing from scotland and northern ireland. brighter skies follow, albeit with a scattering of showers, into western scotland. northern and western parts of northern and western parts of northern ireland, interspersed by sunny spells . so a brighter by sunny spells. so a brighter day to come for scotland and northern ireland. sunny spells and showers. england and wales. meanwhile again a lot of cloud cover but this time with the band of rain sinking southeast, fizzling out as it pushes into the southeast . so light the southeast. so light intermittent rain more than

heavy and persistent wet weather. but it's going to feel cool with the breeze continuing into thursday afternoon. sunny spells to begin the evening across central parts, but increasingly cloudy and increasingly cloudy and increasingly wet weather arrives from the west once again. an unsettled night . and early unsettled night. and early friday before that, all clears to sunny spells and showers for the weekend. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on

gb news. go away . go away. >> a very good afternoon to you. it's 3 pm. and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. we're broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk. on today's show, the grim discovery as two bodies have now been found in the search for six missing people

after divers searched the underwater wreck of the superyacht off the coast of sicily. now, how likely is it now that others will be found alive, or are we hoping for a miracle? another breaking story. a delivery driver who was just doing his job has been killed while trying to stop his van from being stolen. a manhunt is underway for his thieving attacker. and we'll be live from leeds with all of the latest. and the home secretary, yvette coopeh and the home secretary, yvette cooper, has promised to deport 14,000 illegal immigrants and foreign criminals by the end of the year. but with over 19,000 arriving via dinghies so far this year and well over 1 million already inside britain, is this once again, the government's talking tough in the face of an immigration crisis. they simply cannot stop . crisis. they simply cannot stop. and chancellor rachel reeves is warning hard pressed brits to brace themselves for more tax hikes after the labour party borrowed £3 billion extra in july to bankroll. guess what?

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