gb news. >> good afternoon britain. it's 12:00 on tuesday the 27th of august. i'm tom harwood and i'm emily carver . august. i'm tom harwood and i'm emily carver. misery awaits sir keir starmer braces the public for hard times ahead as he lays out the foundations for a brutal budget. he says he'll clean up the country like he cleaned up the country like he cleaned up the riots and saying sorry is enough. >> now police are increasingly letting knife and sex offenders escape prosecution. if they say sorry. more than 147,000 people accused of offences including sex crimes, violence and weapons possession are being given community resolutions instead of facing prison and slumming it

with rats and moles. >> yes, soldiers on an raf base in oxfordshire are living in squalor amid leaking pipes. rat infestations, unreliable hot water and moulding shower rooms. how can we treat our troops like this? >> and perhaps some good news for you? you're going to be the one that saves me the biggest british guitar band of the last 30 years. oasis are reforming after feuding brothers noel and liam gallagher apparently made peace. >> now sir keir starmer has been out in the downing street garden in the last hour or so, saying it's going to be a tough year ahead. things are going to get worse before, in his words, they get better. >> oh fantastic. what a positive, positive vision for

the country. it's a bit miserable, isn't it? >> it's hardly. things can only get better isn't it? no. >> pretty miserable things are going to get worse. i've been left in the worst situation that any prime minister could ever be left in the finances are completely in tatters. there's no money for anything apart from the trade unions. the worst. you've got to suck it up, world war, as in as in the equivalent state of the country now is being, billions of dollars in debt to the americans losing you know, the third of the world's surface that was once controlled by this country. >> is it really equivalent? i mean , i can think of several mean, i can think of several government inheritances over the last 80 or so years that are that are pretty dire . i mean, in that are pretty dire. i mean, in 1974, the country was only a year or two away from an international monetary fund bailout. is he really suggesting that today is worse than 1974? >> i think it perhaps might suit him. >> i think it might suit him to suggest it is . suggest it is. >> don't you think that today is worse than 1979?

>> i think he is, yeah. >> i think he is, yeah. >> with with the winter of discontent. is he suggesting that today is worse than at any point in the intervening 80 years? i mean, it beggars belief. >> it does beggar belief. >> it does beggar belief. >> and , you know, he goes on to >> and, you know, he goes on to say, i'm going to be really tough on the trade unions. i'm going to be really tough on pay with the unions, >> but has he not seen the headlines? >> his team have already sorted all that out. oh, yeah. they've already offered all of those pay offers. so £11 billion on those pay offers. so £11 billion on those pay offers, those bumper pay rises for junior doctors stretching beyond 24%. >> they've given bumper pay rises to all across the public sector workers, the train drivers , everyone else. and now drivers, everyone else. and now they're complaining that they've run out of money and loads of talk about all the violent riots that we had this summer. >> no mention of course, of any violence over the carnival. no, that wouldn't fit the narrative, that wouldn't fit the narrative, that wouldn't fit the narrative, that wouldn't fit the narrative. i mean, we heard about his job at the cps about a million times too. but anyway, get your thoughts in. perhaps you think you know he's right to point out

that things are pretty rubbish, and that perhaps things will have to get worse before they get better, but yes, let us know . get better, but yes, let us know. gbnews.com/yoursay. but it's your headlines with sophia . your headlines with sophia. emily. thank you. good afternoon. it'sjust emily. thank you. good afternoon. it's just gone 12:00. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. your top story this hour. newsroom. your top story this hour . the newsroom. your top story this hour. the prime minister has warned the october budget will be painful, but the country will have to accept short term pain for long term good during his speech in downing street earlier, sir keir starmer warned things will get worse before they get better and next week's return to parliament will not be business as usual. he also addressed the recent riots, saying they showed the cracks in our society after 14 years of populism and failure . speaking populism and failure. speaking a short while ago, the prime minister also reiterated that economic growth is the top of the government's priorities . the government's priorities. >> i promised that we would get

a grip on the problems that we face and that we would be judged by our actions , not by our words. by our actions, not by our words. i said before the election and i say it again really clearly today , growth. and frankly, by today, growth. and frankly, by that i today, growth. and frankly, by thati do today, growth. and frankly, by that i do mean wealth creation is the number one priority of this labour government . this labour government. >> it all comes as the prime minister faces pressure over accusations of cronyism as conservatives demand an investigation into recent civil service appointments. speaking earlier on gb news shadow science and tech secretary andrew griffith says it's hypocritical for to labour talk about trust in politics. >> in particular, he promised to introduce new levels of transparency and integrity . and transparency and integrity. and yet what we've seen week by week over the last few weeks over the summer is revelations about labour appointments to the civil service, the independent civil

service. these aren't just the normal special advisers that all governments make political to . governments make political to. appointments these are some of the top roles in the independent civil service that labour has been giving to donors and its political supporters. so it's pretty rich to talk about trust in politics at the same time as that. >> in other news, now three men have been arrested after a stabbing at notting hill carnival that left a 32 year old mother fighting for her life. it comes after five more people were stabbed and 230 arrested on the closing day of the event. police have also said that 15 officers were assaulted and 90 arrests were made on the first day of the event . from today, day of the event. from today, the nhs 111 helpline will now offer mental health support to adults and children in crisis. local health systems previously had their own separate phone lines, which took about 200,000 calls per month. it makes the nhs in england one of the first countries to offer such a

support service for mental health issues, as well as for physical problems . russia has physical problems. russia has launched another wave of about 200 drone and missile attacks at ukraine overnight. at least five people have been killed and dozens injured due to the strikes, which appeared to be the biggest attack on the country in weeks. the country's president, volodymyr zelenskyy, said it was vile and claimed the attack had targeted civilian infrastructure. it comes after the kremlin said there would be a response to ukraine's incursion in russia's kursk region . in the us, mark region. in the us, mark zuckerberg has admitted facebook and instagram were wrong to censor posts about covid during the pandemic. in a letter to a us committee investigating onune us committee investigating online content moderation, mr zuckerberg said senior white house officials repeatedly pressured the company after joe biden was inaugurated in 2021. he said that facebook made some choices that it would not have

made today back in the uk. katie price has arrived at court for her latest bankruptcy hearing after being warned by a judge that she must attend with no ifs or buts. the former glamour model was arrested at heathrow airport earlier this month after failing to attend a previous hearing. judge daniel shaffer told miss price she would be brought back into custody if she did not attend today's hearing. last week, a judge ruled that her tiktok income would be suspended as part of efforts to pay suspended as part of efforts to pay off money. miss price owes . pay off money. miss price owes. and after lots of speculation, oasis are officially reuniting nearly 15 years after they split. so sally can wait. >> she knows it's too late. as we're walking on by liam and noel gallagher are getting back together for oasis's long awaited reunion with a worldwide tourin awaited reunion with a worldwide tour in 2025.

>> the britpop band, who released their chart topping album definitely maybe around three decades ago, announced a series of dates kicking off their tour in cardiff. local people in manchester are excited about the news. >> yeah . very excited. it's >> yeah. very excited. it's going to be interesting to see how long it lasts for though, because you never know with those. >> yeah, i'm really happy. i'm going to try for tickets on saturday. >> excited about it, but probably won't get tickets. >> i'm going to get me ma and da to try and get on it for me as well. but yeah, i'm buzzing me. i'm a massive oasis fan. i've seen liam gallagher a few times, but together, man, it'd be sick. yeah those are the latest gb news headlines for now. >> i'm sophia wenzler more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts .

slash alerts. >> good afternoon britain. it is 12:09. now the prime minister is warning chancellor rachel reeves budget in october might be quite painful for all of us. yes just a bit brutal, perhaps. >> speaking in downing street's rose garden. interesting choice that sir keir starmer told reporters things are worse than we ever imagined because of this £22 billion black hole in the pubuc £22 billion black hole in the public finances, he says, was left by the 14 year conservative government. >> but he says all the pain in the short term will be worth it for what he describes as long term good. >> well, there you go. that about sums it up. so joining us from downing street is our political editor , christopher political editor, christopher hope. christopher, i note that you weren't actually called on for a question. >> gb news viewers didn't get to hear what you might have asked. >> what were you going to ask and why do you think he didn't call upon you ? call upon you? >> yes. hi, emily. hi, tom. yeah.i >> yes. hi, emily. hi, tom. yeah. i mean, i've been to three

of these press conferences with the prime minister since he won the prime minister since he won the landslide victory last month, and he hasn't called me any of them. i mean, no problem here. it's a free country. they can call who they like. i just think the gb news viewers and listeners, the amazing people who tune in to us, have particular questions. they want to get the pm to speak to, and he doesn't want to do that. so that's up to him. he has called us one colleague, i think since since in the five press conferences i can count since the election. so we'll we'll keep asking the questions for our viewers. why would have asked him was the one that's been dogging the, the shows i've been dogging the, the shows i've been reporting to over the past month or so? does he feel that concern about immigration is a far right question, or does he recognise it as a widespread concern about levels of illegal and legal migration across the country, and how would you address those concerns? that was my question. we don't know the answer because he didn't chose to not answer it. instead, he took questions from other journalists, not gb news, but he he made very clear he did defend cutting the winter fuel

allowance for about 11 million pensioners. and because he says that we need to make tough choices, he said those pensioners want to rely on an nhs that works on trains that work. and that's how he justified that apparent trade off between cutting that the £300 fuel allowance for all those pensioners and getting those pensioners and getting those those deals done, all of them are above inflation, many of them many times above inflation. with public service sector unions. he inflation. with public service sector unions . he also, inflation. with public service sector unions. he also, i think, most crucially, i think for viewers and listeners, he looked forward to the budget. he said. it's going to be painful in his language. he also said there that those with the hardest shoulders should carry the burden. so it really is teeing up. i think , weeks of up. i think, weeks of speculation about how hard and how difficult that budget will be for so many britons on october the 30th. >> now there's a huge amount of speculation, chris, over where the pain is going to fall. of course, to some extent the labour party, the government now

have boxed themselves in. they say they're not going to raise national insurance, income tax or vat, but there is a whole host of other taxes that could be raised or indeed fiddled with thresholds that could be changed. >> tom, you're totally right. and of course, that triple lock for working people was only for that. so there's a suggestion they might increase national insurance for employers because they pay their share of nick as well as employees. don't forget , well as employees. don't forget, he said, all i would ask for you is we're looking at short term pain for long term good. so maybe they might try and say we're going to increase taxes across these areas and then cut them before the election in 2028, 2029. but he was asked about this. he did say there was about this. he did say there was a triple lock for working people. so there is speculation here. they might try and push up the employees employer's side of that, as well as taxes on on pensioners and savings , pensioners and savings, dividends and other areas of wealth such as capital gains

tax, increasing that from maybe 21% to as high as 40%. to equalise that, with income. but that's all to come. that was this. the pm here was setting the scene, i should say. by the way, it was never called the rose garden. when i started out in journalism, it was called the garden. it became the rose garden. it became the rose garden when david cameron and nick clegg had their love in back in 2010, after their coalition agreement and that's really because the white house have a rose garden. i counted one rose bush in that garden. i'm just going to say it one rose bush. oh, really ? rose bush. oh, really? >> so it shouldn't really be called the rose garden. >> watching the west wing far too much. i think that's infected british political journalism. >> christopher. >> christopher. >> it's a real shame you weren't able to put that question to the prime minister, because it's an important one. >> and none of the other journalists touched that issue. so thank you very much indeed. christopher hope, our political edhon christopher hope, our political editor. it's also a question that keir starmer has dodged in the past. so it would have been good. that's a shame. but he will persevere. he will persevere absolutely tenaciously. >> but let's get more reaction . >> but let's get more reaction. now. we're joined by media commentator paul connew . paul,

commentator paul connew. paul, this was an interesting pitch from an incoming prime minister. to some extent, he still sounded a bit like the leader of the opposition . opposition. >> well, not not really. i mean, i'm sure critics are going to call this a doomsday speech. i would i would term it a brutally candid speech, and i'm sorry that you didn't get to ask the question from gb news, but compared to rishi sunak, starmer takes many more questions and awkward questions. sunak always gave the impression that he would. he limited the number of questions and gave the impression he resented even being questioned . being questioned. >> is that true, paul? >> is that true, paul? >> is that is that true? >> is that is that true? >> is that is that true? >> i mean, do you have any data to back that up? >> did he take four questions whereas keir starmer takes five? >> what all you've got to do is revisit clips of sunak press conferences, and you will see, and you will see what i mean. you know, the limited throughout throughout his candidacy and his leadership, starmer takes far

more questions than sunak did . more questions than sunak did. and you can you can research that yourselves and you'll find i'm right . i'm right. >> well, i'm sure that people will be able to remember back to keir starmer's own leadership campaign and the pretty tight media controls around that. but let's not dwell on that point of particular, because there is this interesting issue that was raised about all of these new political appointments to the civil service, whether it's the treasury, the cabinet office, the science department, treasury, the cabinet office, the science department , former the science department, former labour party campaigners and donors getting positions, senior positions in the civil service, i want you to take a listen to how keir starmer, the prime minister, answered that question. >> look, andy, most of these allegations and accusations are coming from the very people that dragged our country down in the first place. so you'll forgive me if i take that approach to it. we are going to fix the

foundations. we've got to do it at speed, and i'm determined to have the right people in the right places to allow us to get on with that job. i'm enormously aware of how big a task this is and how we have to move at pace, and how we have to move at pace, and that's why we're getting the best people into the best jobs. but i'm not really going to take lectures on this from the people who dragged our country so far down in the last few years. thank you . thank you. >> do you think it's good enough to just say that? oh, it's just the tories saying this. it's a question asked by someone from channel five, their political edhon channel five, their political editor. it's been running the in the times and the sunday times. this is a legitimate question. and he seemed to say, oh, it's just the tories. i can ignore it. >> well, i'm a labour supporter, but not an uncritical one. i think there are questions that he has to answer on, on that i don't know the facts about the lord. ali pass , but i think that lord. ali pass, but i think that needs answering. but it's a bit rich to have the tory party chairman talking about integrity and cronyism given, given the tory government's history of cronyism on, you know , and ppe

cronyism on, you know, and ppe awards to, to donors and cronies. so i think it's, it's a bit it's a bit rich that one. but yes starmer does have genuine questions to answer on that. and i trust he will answer. he will answer them standards for himself. sure, it'll pop up at the first pmqs of parliament next week. >> yeah i mean he's set these standards for himself. >> i mean, he pledged throughout the campaign that he was going to be the one to completely destroy any cronyism, to remove it in its entirety, to get everything back to whiter than white in politics. and then he just dismisses, dismisses any question relating to that in his own administration . own administration. >> i mean, i'm sure rishi sunak is taking a sunshine holiday in california. >> we'll ask that question on the pmqs next wednesday . and the pmqs next wednesday. and let's see how let's see how starmer handles it there. it is a legit question, but but i think as i say, i think it's a bit rich for the tories to

actually be screaming and shouting about integrity and cronyism with their with their history. but but i think what, what today was really and the rose garden was a fascinating choice. the scene of that infamous boris johnson lockdown breaking gathering and also the infamous , the infamous infamous, the infamous appearance by by a certain adviser after his trip , test his adviser after his trip, test his eyes out. and i think i think he was chosen for that very. >> paul. >> paul. >> we're going to have to end it there. but thank you very much indeed. it was great to talk to you. media commentator and labour supporter paul connew, yes. interesting choice of location. >> well, in other news, now police are allowing increasing numbers of violent offenders to escape prosecution simply if they say sorry. >> well, the telegraph has revealed more than 147,000 people accused of offences including sex crimes, violent assault, possession of weapons have been handed community resolutions in the past year.

>> well, the figures show a 40% increase in the number of offenders now escaping prosecution in favour of community orders. >> okay, well, we have home security editor mark white with us in the studio. what exactly is a community resolution? is it basically saying sorry? >> no, it's not as simple as that. >> it does an act of contrition is key to being able to decide whether this should go down the road of a formal criminal sanction, potential prosecution and a penalty, whatever that might be. either a fine community service or, in more serious cases of course, prison. but it's an act of contrition. it also has to be the victim in a case, deciding that they are happy for this to be dealt with by means of a community resolution, and it should for be fairly minor offences such as

anti—social behaviour. the people that should be granted community resolutions should by and large be people who are first time offenders, but whether that is the case or not, we don't know. but what we do know is evidence that over the past five years, the number of these community resolutions has absolutely shot up by 40%. and if we drill down into things like the violent crime, for instance, that we hear so much about and how this government, like the last, is determined to crack down on it. well, in terms of violence against the person, there's been a 57% increase in there's been a 57% increase in the number of community resolutions for violent crimes and also for possession of, offensive weapons such as knife knives. that's gone up 77% being deau knives. that's gone up 77% being dealt with by way of a community knives. that's gone up 77% being deau knives. that's gone up 77% being dealt with by way of a community resolution. resolution. >> that is extraordinary because >> that is extraordinary because

mark, as you 77% being mark, as you explained, these community resolutions are meant to for be low level offences. you graffiti a wall. you know, you say you're 16 years old, you apologise. the community accepts that. maybe you scrub it off and then everything sort of is settled and you don't have a black mark against your name. fine. that's that's probably quite a good way to settle things . it quite a good way to settle things. it seems like it's grown and expanded beyond this very limited situation for which it was envisaged. i mean, violent offenders now being able to do this seems extraordinary . this seems extraordinary. >> it does have that feel, as i say, we don't know the details of the individual cases involved, but purely just looking at the evidence of the way in which it's expanded and the fact that it will be unpalatable for many people. the thought that you

unpalatable for many people. the thought that yand an apology and an agreement and an apology and an agreement and an apology and an acceptance on the part of the victim. there will be many people that think, given the significant rise in violent crime in particular knife crime, where we've seen in eight force areas over the past year, record levels of knife crime, including the metropolitan police , which the metropolitan police, which has seen 14,000 knife related offences in the past year, almost 15,000, in fact, there were people understandably will be saying surely possession of a knife. you can't dispose of that through a community resolution like this. there has to be some kind of a sanction to act as a deterrent . deterrent. >> well, absolutely. >> well, absolutely. >> and it's just another, you know, i guess a symptom of our broken criminal justice system at the moment, or at least extremely strained criminal justice system. there's also another story in the times about how convictions through the courts for shoplifting are down 60% in the last decade, and we're always hearing about how shoplifting is at a record high.

we'll talk about that a little bit later, i hope, because in response to the telegraph story about these community resolutions, a home office spokesperson has said the following. this government recognises violence against women and girls as a national emergency. we expect police to treat all sexual offences with the seriousness it warrants. >> we have a mission to halve such appalling violence within the next decade by reforming the police response to these crimes and strengthening the entire criminal justice system to make sure that dangerous offenders are relentlessly pursued and victims are given the specialist support that they need. >> okay. well, this is good afternoon, britain. we're on gb news. lots more coming up on today's show, including raf bases. this is a gb news exclusive. some of these bases where our troops are staying are practically unliveable. we'll have that

next. >> good afternoon. britain it's 27 minutes past midday. >> it is indeed. >> it is indeed. >> and soldiers at an raf base have said their accommodation is in an unliveable condition . here in an unliveable condition. here are some pictures that we're showing you now. gb news can reveal that troops posted to raf benson in oxfordshire are living in squalor, leaking pipes, rat infestations , infestations and infestations, infestations and the like. >> well, our national reporter, charlie. reporter charlie peters has this exclusive and joins us in the studio now . charlie, in the studio now. charlie, looking at some of those pictures, it is astonishing. the conditions our troops are living in. >> absolutely. and this is a frontline station, raf benson in oxfordshire. it houses both operational and support squadrons of the raf and it's a tri service station. so the personnel who've spoken to us about this are from the army. despite being posted at an raf base. and they said that this transit accommodation they're living in. so people are passing through this space as well is severely substandard. now soldiers don't have permission

to speak to the press, though . to speak to the press, though. they've spoken to us on condition of anonymity. but the details they've shown us and shared with us are shocking rat infestations, leaks and mould are disturbing to see, especially when you consider who is staying in them. people who should be fighting fit to defend the nation. are they getting sufficient sleep, rest and recuperation and welfare in such space? and the bigger question is just how widespread is this issue? we know that there is a £4 billion backlog of repairs required for the military housing estate. earlier this yean housing estate. earlier this year, a girl was rushed to hospital because of an injury she sustained due to the mould in the military accommodation. she was staying in. so what's been leaked to us from raf benson? perhaps not the best word to use, considering those pipes are bursting in. their accommodation is just. i think, accommodation is just. i think, a small example of a much wider issue that's been going on in our military housing stock and what can they do about it? >> do they have, you know ,

>> do they have, you know, maintenance teams that they call and they're just not getting a decent response on this? is it just years of neglect or presumption that they'll just put up with it because they're dutiful people? what is this about? >> well, it's about money fundamentally, but also surely it's about will, because as many analysts have said to us, when we've raised the story in the last day or so, there is a double standard here, perhaps when we know that asylum seekers and people coming over on the channel are very quickly put up into plush hotels when there is insufficient accommodation for them. soldiers, on the other hand, are dealing with mould and leaks and rat infestations. and on that i think we're delighted to be joined now by philip ingram, a retired military intelligence colonel down the line. and philip, seeing this footage from raf benson and heanng footage from raf benson and hearing what you've heard about that so—called double standard, i think you raised with me. what's your reaction to seeing that footage from raf benson and some of the conditions that our troops are living in? >> unfortunately, i'm not surprised. you know, i joined the army in 1984 and have lived in some quite good accommodation

in some quite good accommodation in different places, but some appalling accommodation in different officer's messes, you know, portacabins in the middle of southern england, where you can see the light coming through between the gap between the roof and the walls, you know, rats running around, not uncommon. mice, not uncommon, mould on in bathrooms and elsewhere. not uncommon. unfortunately and nothing's been done about this. it was highlighted in a labour party, look at service accommodation whilst they were in opposition last year. but it seems that with the cuts that are coming into, government spending this year , since spending this year, since they've got into power, that there's going to be even less money available to try and fix some of these issues. >> and philip, you've told me yesterday that this has been a problem for successive governments. do you have confidence that this will now be fixed with more information coming out about these dire accommodation situations ? accommodation situations? >> i have no confidence whatsoever that it's going to be

fixed. you know, the mod is very good at turning around and saying people are our most important asset, but actually when you look at the investment that they put into looking after their people, whether it be accommodation, whether it be food, whether it be terms and conditions, every time you look at it, they seem to be being eroded more and more and more. the new, minister for defence people and veterans, al kearns , people and veterans, al kearns, turned round and said that , you turned round and said that, you know, he could justify a 6% rise in accommodation charges because i can speak from my own personal experience of families living in accommodation. that's a good deal accommodation. that's a good deal. well, i keep getting reports in my role as a co—founder of the independent defence authority that, there are reports of rat infested infestations. no hot water, no heating mould, no electricity in accommodation blocks for days, and the, the minister of defence seems to be doing nothing about it. they say their hands are tied with the contracts that

were signed. many years ago. >> well, thanks, philip, for your take there concerning reports. tom and emily and in reaction to what we've raised, i did get a statement from the mod and a spokesperson told me that this new government is committed to improving the state of service housing as part of our drive to renew the nation's contract with those who serve our governments. first, king's speech committed to the creation of a new armed forces commissioner to be a strong independent champion for service personnel and their families and help improve service life. >> a new commissioner, but perhaps not extra spending . perhaps not extra spending. we'll see how that all goes. charlie, thank you so much for bringing us that story. >> always a new commission or a new appointment or a new consultation, a new quango can't solve nothing. a new quango can't solve it . taxpayer can't solve it. taxpayer expense? and anyway, we're going to be moving on. we've got the headlines. i also want to say that mark white is going to be back in at the top of the next hour to discuss some of the violence that we saw at notting hill carnival. keir starmer didn't mention any of it. of

course, he didn't. sadiq khan hasn't mentioned any of it ehhen hasn't mentioned any of it either, but there was a lot of violence, and we're going to get some more information on that for you. but let's get the headunes for you. but let's get the headlines with safiya . and, headlines with safiya. and, emily, thank you. good afternoon. your headlines from the newsroom. it's just gone 1230. the prime minister has warned the october budget will be painful, that the country will have to accept short term pain for long term good. during his speech in downing street earlier, sir keir starmer warned things will get worse before they get better and next week's return to parliament will not be business as usual. he also addressed the recent riots, saying they showed the cracks in our society after 14 years of populism and failure. speaking a short while ago, the prime minister also reiterated that economic growth is the top priority of the government. >> i promised that we would get a grip on the problems that we

face and that we would be judged by our actions, not by our words . by our actions, not by our words. i said before the election and i say it again really clearly today , growth. and frankly, by today, growth. and frankly, by that i today, growth. and frankly, by thati do today, growth. and frankly, by that i do mean wealth creation is the number one priority of this labour government . this labour government. >> three men have now been arrested over the stabbing of the 32 year old mother at the notting hill carnival, which left her in a critical condition. the woman was attending the family day of the carnival on sunday with her young child when she was stabbed. the met police say. it appears she became caught up in the middle of an altercation between two groups of men, but it's unclear if they were known to her. it comes after five more people were stabbed and 230 were arrested on the closing day of the carnival, and mark zuckerberg has admitted that facebook and instagram were wrong to censor posts about

covid during the pandemic. in a letter to a us committee investigating online content moderation, mr zuckerberg said senior white house officials repeatedly pressured the company after joe biden was inaugurated in 2021. he said that facebook made some choices that it would not have made today. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm sophia wenzler more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash

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emergency powers to counter onune emergency powers to counter online misinformation with proposals potentially putting social media giants in the crosshairs of these new regulations. >> well, the centre for countering digital hate has suggested that ofcom be granted the authority to act swiftly dunng the authority to act swiftly during crises to amplify harmful content. >> many alarm bells ringing these recommendations follow recent riots triggered by disinformation spread on platforms like x, formerly twitter, highlighting the urgent need for stronger regulatory measures. >> perhaps, some might say. >> perhaps, some might say. >> well, joining us to discuss this now is the editor of spiked magazine, tom slater. tom this is a very, interesting proposal, i suppose. ofcom wants the regulator of the airwaves now being more and more seen as the regulator of speech online, as well. >> and it's one of those many things we have to thank the tories for. >> unfortunately, under the online safety act that was passed last year , ofcom is

passed last year, ofcom is essentially going to be the regulator of social media and onune regulator of social media and online speech, and this call for the government to be empowered to put even more pressure on ofcom in times of crisis, to put pressure then on social media companies to take down certain forms of content shows where this is leading. >> and, you know, i don't need to tell you too, given the kind of demented campaign that ofcom have waged against gb news, that just because a regulator presents itself as terribly impartial, that it will always act in a terribly impartial way? so very concerning for freedom of speech, i think, and drawing on this broader sort of response we've seen to the riots, which is rather than focusing on the behaviour and the crimes that were committed, this conviction that it's free speech that is the problem and therefore needs to be clamped down upon. i think this is another example of that. >> now you say the conservatives are partially to blame for this, and that is certainly, certainly the case. >> but there were quite a lot of people within the conservative party who wanted to push back on some of this regulation who put forward the case very strongly forward the case very strongly for free speech. do you sense

there's that same, element within the labour party, within the labour government, within the labour party, within the labour government , that the labour government, that there are voices there who do care about free speech? >> in a word, no. i mean, i've seen no indication of that whatsoever. i think especially this kind of iteration of the labour party seems to not care about these civil liberties issues at all. it doesn't resonate with them. we've already seen them nix the higher education freedom of speech bill. they completely dismiss the idea that campus censorship is a problem, and similarly, i think the concerns raised by civil libertarians , whether it's civil libertarians, whether it's from the tory backbenches or anywhere else , they just don't anywhere else, they just don't resonate with them. they fundamentally see this as a problem of we need to control the media landscape, or we need to control the social media landscape more and free speech and civil liberties be damned. so i think whilst things were bad under the tories in relation to a lot of these issues, things can only get worse, right? >> this is so interesting because it's only in the last 12 hours or so that we've seen a letter from mark zuckerberg , the letter from mark zuckerberg, the owner of meta, facebook,

instagram, all the rest of it, who has written to a congressional committee on the hill in washington, dc , saying hill in washington, dc, saying he regretted the action that particularly facebook took under the pressure from the biden white house during the pandemic, cramping, clamping down on ironic content on comedic content, on jokes about the pandemic, or even on posts about, for example, the lab leak theory, once seen as a crank conspiracy, now seen as a mainstream theory of the origin of the virus in the context of mark zuckerberg, someone who was a big donor to left wing politicians in the united states. now saying that actually he went too far in those years, it seems that the united kingdom rather than learning the lessons of that, is going in precisely the wrong direction . the wrong direction. >> absolutely. if anything, it wants to double down on what america has demonstrated is such

a toxic and dangerous strategy. what we saw during covid, particularly in america, but obviously had ripple effects across social media in general, was effectively the government outsourcing censorship to the private sector, putting them under a lot of pressure in constant contact with the social media companies in facebook's case, even being sent certain tweets, certain trends and saying, is this something that we should clamp down upon? is this something that we should censon this something that we should censor, sending that to the cdc and then essentially taking their orders from there? this is something that we really shouldn't repeat . and i think shouldn't repeat. and i think what we're seeing from zuckerberg and other social media magnates is not necessarily a principled concern about freedom of speech, although you do get that in some quarters. i think they're starting to recognise that being ianed starting to recognise that being invited to be the kind of de facto ministry of truth is a pretty raw deal for them. aside from anything else, they're the ones who are going to have to take the flack for what are essentially government decisions. >> yeah, tom, i completely get that. >> and i agree, i agree with you to a large extent, but these tech guys, they do have a lot of power, don't they? in some ways they may have even more power than our elected politicians in a lot of ways. they have all our

data. they can potentially, potentially, if they wanted to shape, you know, outcomes of elections by pushing certain material if they wanted to, affecting algorithms that people see. how do we hold these big tech giants to account ? tech giants to account? >> well, i think the starting point always has to be that it should be about upholding our rights, not diminishing them. but the problem is, is that any government, any party who are interested in regulating tech, who are interested in this whole area, it's because they don't think these companies are going far enough, whilst there is definitely kind of cause i would say to suggest to social media companies, if they're of a certain size, you know, why should they be clamping down on perfectly legal speech? as has often been the case, the issue that we have to confront is that there is no party of government, certainly, which is making those kinds of arguments. so it really falls to us to try and put that pressure on them, to not go along with what they're being demanded to go along with. >> well, tom slater , editor of >> well, tom slater, editor of spikes, really appreciate your thoughts on this developing story. real, real concern , i

story. real, real concern, i think, for many people in this country. >> thanks, regulators deciding what you can and can't say what's true and what's not true on any given day. but isn't this terrifying thing? >> i mean, they talk of this as sort of, oh, we need this regulator for the internet, as if the internet is like broadcast. it's sort of this little box over here. this sort of everything else is here and the internet is here. but no, the internet is here. but no, the internet is everything. now every aspect of our lives is touched and influenced by the internet in some way. it's not a sector of the economy. in many ways it is the economy. so if you have an internet regulator that's just a regulator of everything. every industry is in some way online, is in some way connected to the internet. what you're doing is not creating a regulator for one little thing over there. you're creating a regulator for everything. >> yeah, i sometimes wish we just lived in the analogue world. anyway this is good afternoon britain on gb news. was it easier? was it easier? we've got lots more coming up on today's show. we are going to be talking about what everyone is talking about what everyone is talking about. the big oasis

reunion and lots more. of course, stay with

us. >> good afternoon britain. just coming up to 10 to 1. >> yes. and after much speculation, oasis are officially reuniting. >> if you hadn't heard, nearly 15 years, 15 years after they split. >> well, liam and noel gallagher are coming together back for the band's long awaited reunion, with 14 uk shows scheduled now for next summer. >> it's going to be very difficult. isn't it good to get to get tickets for this? the iconic brit pop group chart topping album definitely maybe was released nearly three decades ago now, and they'll kick off their tour in cardiff, making a highly anticipated return to the stage. >> they go, well, let's cross over to the northwest of england

now with our reporter sophie reaperin now with our reporter sophie reaper in manchester. in many ways, the spiritual home of oasis. sophie, this is a huge deal. deal >> it is indeed. it's the geographical and spiritual home of oasis. of course, the gallagher brothers, born just a few miles down the road from here in burnage, where we are today. we're here at the boardwalk nightclub. i don't actually believe it's open anymore, but back in the good old days, back in the 90s, it was the home of the madchester music scene. of course, the era that oasis was born into. now, this was where they actually, in fact, did their first ever gig. and if we would have come along to this tom and emily, we would have paid £3 a ticket, which, according to the bank of england in these days, would have cost £6.68. i have a feeling that people these days, if they're going to try for tickets, come saturday for this tour, they will be paying somewhat more than that. but whether or not the cost may not even be an issue for some people. i think

what most people are concerned aboutis what most people are concerned about is whether or not they can even get tickets. of course, 14 tour dates there will be thousands and thousands of tickets, but one would imagine that they will still be like absolute gold dust. earlier on, we spoke to some people in manchester to find out their concerns about obtaining tickets . concerns about obtaining tickets. >> i'm buzzing. i'm a massive oasis fan. i've seen liam gallagher a few times, but together, man, it'd be sick. yeah, my boyfriend is very, very happy. >> he said it was. you're not that bothered. i don't care that much. >> it'd be great if you get tickets. big fans, i'd say my brother. definitely more so. but i'd try and get tickets to go thinking they might need some money. >> do you reckon that's what it's for ? it's for? >> you know, that's what my first thought was . first thought was. >> and that is what the big question is. are people going to be able to get tickets? i think it's likely that those tour dates will be added to we've got 14. will there be any more? that is the big question here today. >> that is the big question.

thank you so much sophie reaper. you're in manchester for us. good stuff. nice to hear what people are saying on the streets. yes patrick is absolutely desperate to get his hands on some tickets and he wants to go in manchester. >> much more desperate than you are. >> i'm not bothered about oasis myself. i do like some of their songs. >> i think they've got maybe three good songs, three songs that literally everyone in the country knows the lyrics to. yeah, and no. >> don't worry, we won't do that. >> no, we're not going to. we're not going to have a sing song live on television. >> you're gonna have a sing song. you're not gonna have a sing song. but it will be interesting to see the two brothers back together. it will be interesting. it will be interesting to see the brothers back together and see if they are actually mates again. >> yes, because there is this theory that they're not. they're not actually they've not actually made up. one of them's had a very expensive divorce. and this is all a money making exercise. you know, you need to raise you need to raise a few tens of millions. >> wouldn't it be nice to have a talent that you could just like, switch on when you're in need of a bit of cash? oh, you know, you've you've stopped your your act for decades . but, you know,

act for decades. but, you know, ineed act for decades. but, you know, i need a bit of cash. i'll just do a sell out tour. >> i just know that there's this avalanche waiting of, like, sort of this big dam of tens of millions of pounds, and i can just. i can just smash the dam whenever i want, and all the money comes tumbling down upon me and my brother. so you know what? >> i'm trying to get tickets for ricky gervais. he's added a few dates to his his calendar, so i'm going to try and get those. those usually go like gold dust. he is very funny. he is very funny. >> it's funny because i don't think many people are commissioning him on the television despite his tickets selling quite well. >> well, he gets netflix series, that's true. netflix series , but that's true. netflix series, but yes he has. people have tried to cancel him, but he's too to big be hosting the oscars or the golden globes anytime soon. no, he shines a mirror up to their face, doesn't he? anyway we've got lots more coming up on today's show, including what's been happening at notting hill carnival over the weekend. why there's been a bit of silence from the labour side .

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>> well . >> well. >> well. >> good afternoon britain. it's 1:00 on tuesday the 27th of august. i'm emily carver and i'm tom harwood. misery awaits, sir keir starmer braces the public for hard times ahead as he lays the foundations for what could be a brutal budget. he says he'll clean up the country like he'll clean up the country like he cleaned up the riots, is saying sorry enough. >> police are increasingly letting knife and sex offenders escape prosecution if they say sorry. with more than 147,000 accused of offences including sex crimes, violence and weapons possessions now being given

community resolutions instead of facing prison, just say sorry . facing prison, just say sorry. >> and have shoplifters been emboldened as the number of shoplifters punished by police falls by a staggering 98%, shopkeepers say the lack of enforcement has led thieves to think they will not be held responsible for their actions . responsible for their actions. >> you're going to be the one that saves me the biggest british guitar band of the last 30 years. oasis are reforming and after the feuding brothers noel and liam gallagher make peace. but will it . peace. but will it. last? >> yes, we're going to also be talking to mark white, our home and security editor , about the and security editor, about the notting hill carnival, because i don't know if you've noticed, but there's been a bit of a silence from the government on this one. >> sadiq khan hasn't mentioned

anything now, of course , lots of anything now, of course, lots of people went to the carnival, had a fantastic time, blah blah blah blah blah. but there was a huge amount of violence. there were also sex assaults. there were also sex assaults. there were also a number of police officers that were harmed and injured, and there seems to be no mention of this all. a little bit of a whitewash , perhaps. perhaps it whitewash, perhaps. perhaps it doesn't fit the narrative. i'm not sure it's interesting because of course at any big event there are going to be moments of disorder, there are going to be issues, and the police are going to have have to police are going to have have to police it. >> that's that's why these big events are registered and policed and all the rest of it . policed and all the rest of it. but it does seem that this event does proportionately for the number of people who go have a higher amount of violence. and there are questions to be asked about how it is managed, about how it is policed, about what, frankly, could be done better. there is a woman in hospital fighting for her life today because of a serious stabbing incident that happened on the family day over the weekend. we're going to be digging into that. >> we are indeed. and why this silence from some of our politicians anyway? gbnews.com

forward slash your say, but let's get the headlines with sofia . tom. emily. thank you. sofia. tom. emily. thank you. good afternoon. i'm sophia wenzler with your headlines at just after 1:00. the prime minister has warned the october budget will be painful, but that the country will have to accept short term pain for long term good. during his speech in downing street earlier, sir keir starmer warned things will get worse before they get better and next week's return to parliament will not be business as usual. he also addressed the recent riots, saying they showed the cracks in our society after 14 years of populism and failure. speaking a short while ago, the prime minister also reiterated that economic growth is the top priority for the government. >> i promised that we would get a grip on the problems that we face and that we would be judged by our actions, not by our

words. i said before the election, and i say it again really clearly today, growth. and frankly , by that i do mean and frankly, by that i do mean wealth creation is the number one priority of this labour government . government. >> it all comes as the prime minister faces pressure over accusations of cronyism as conservatives demand an investigation into recent civil service appointments. speaking earlier on gb news, shadow science and tech secretary andrew griffith says it's hypocritical for labour to talk about trust in politics. >> in particular, he promised to introduce new levels of transparency and integrity. and yet what we've seen week by week over the last few weeks over the summer, is revelations about labour to appointments the civil service, the independent civil service. these aren't just the normal special advisers that all governments make political appointments to. these are some of the top roles in the independent civil service that

labour has been giving to donors and its political supporters . so and its political supporters. so it's pretty rich to talk about trust in politics at the same time as that . time as that. >> in other news, three men have now been arrested over the stabbing of a 32 year old mother at the notting hill carnival, which left her in a critical condition. the woman was attending the family day of the carnival on sunday with her young child when she was attacked. the met police say it appears she became caught up in the middle of an altercation between two groups of men, but it is unclear if they were known to her. it comes after five more people were stabbed and 230 were arrested on the final day of the carnival . from today, the nhs carnival. from today, the nhs 111 helpline will now offer mental health support to adults and children in crisis. mental health support to adults and children in crisis . local and children in crisis. local health systems previously had their own separate phone lines, which took about 200,000 calls per month. it makes the nhs in england one of the first

countries to offer such a support service for mental health issues, as well as for physical problems . russia has physical problems. russia has launched another wave of about 200 drone and missile attacks at ukraine overnight. at least five people have been killed and dozens injured due to the strikes, which appeared to have been the biggest attack on the country in weeks. it comes after the kremlin said there would be a response to ukraine's incursion in russia's kursk region. meanwhile, ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy said it was a vile and claimed the attack had targeted civilian infrastructure . mark zuckerberg infrastructure. mark zuckerberg has admitted facebook and instagram were wrong to censor posts about covid during the pandemic. in a letter to a us committee investigating online content moderation, mr zuckerberg said senior white house officials repeatedly pressured the company after joe biden was inaugurated in 2021. he said that facebook made some choices that it would not have made today, and after lots of

speculation, oasis are officially reuniting nearly 15 years after they split . so sally years after they split. so sally can wait. >> she knows it's too late. as we're walking on by liam and noel gallagher are getting back together for oasis's long awaited reunion with a worldwide tourin awaited reunion with a worldwide tour in 2025. >> the britpop band, who released their chart topping album definitely maybe around three decades ago, announced a series of dates kicking off their tour in cardiff . local their tour in cardiff. local people in manchester are excited about the news. >> yeah. very excited. it's going to be interesting to see how long it lasts for though, because you never know with those. >> yeah, i'm really happy. >> yeah, i'm really happy. >> i'm going to try for tickets on saturday. >> excited about it but probably won't get tickets. >> i'm going to get me ma and dad to try and get on it for me as well. but yeah, i'm buzzing me. i'm a massive oasis fan. i've seen liam gallagher a few

times, but together, man, it'd be sick. yeah those are the latest gb news headlines for how. >> now. >> i'm sophia wenzler more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> good afternoon britain. it is 1:08 now. we were going to take you to downing street. unfortunately there is a dignitary visiting there. our reporter is not allowed on the streets at this moment in time, but as soon as katherine forster is allowed in front of the camera, we'll be right to downing street. in the meantime, in the meantime, three men have been arrested following the stabbing of a 32 year old mother at the notting hill carnival, which has left her fighting for her life. >> now. this comes as it was revealed a fourth person attending the event has been

left in a critical condition after receiving head injuries. >> well, in total, just over 330 arrests were made over the carnival weekend for a range of offences including violence, sexual assaults and attacks on police officers. >> okay, well let's get some more on this with gb news home and security editor mark white, mark, as ever , lots of people mark, as ever, lots of people want to celebrate this as a wonderful event in the media, but every year there is a lot of violence that goes along with it, and criminality as well, where are we on this year? >> well, for many people that attend the notting hill carnival, it is a wonderful event and something they look forward to. but there is also no getting away from the fact that there are shocking levels of violence and criminality at this carnival every single year. this yean carnival every single year. this year, 330 arrests, as you said, ten stabbings or slashings, one instance of corrosive substance being thrown over people for

individuals, for people now in critical condition, fighting for their lives in hospital. and they include a mother, 32 year old woman who was with her young child when she got caught up in the middle of a gang fight gang warfare really, two feuding sides and she got stabbed as these two gangs try to reach each other . all the more each other. all the more shocking because this happened on sunday. and for those that know, carnival sunday is billed as family day. it's the day when out of the two days, you have lower levels of criminality. you still have criminality though, and on that day 104 people were arrested and three people in total were stabbed. so there are some serious issues that come up year after year. and in fact, this year was worse than last yean this year was worse than last year, which was a particularly bad year with 270 arrests and

eight people stabbed this year. we had ten people stabbed or slashed . and that acid attack as slashed. and that acid attack as well. and what we've had in the day now since carnival ended is a complete lack absence of any condemnation coming from any politician, be it in the mayor's office, i.e. the mayor, sadiq khan.in office, i.e. the mayor, sadiq khan. in fact, we can show you the tweet that he put out or the posting that he put out on x over the weekend in which he praised the carnival. hopefully we've got that post, have we? >> sadiq khan, his tweet. he put out a very appraising message, didn't he? a very positive message about how wonderful the carnival is. there we go, there we go, >> and seeing, you know, clearly a joyous event that brings communities together. he wants to of course, accentuate the

positive , but he has said positive, but he has said nothing about the fact that 50 of his he's responsible for policing in the capital, 50 of his police officers were injured in incidents during the two days of carnival. 330 people arrested, four people in his capital city fighting for their lives in hospital . after those lives in hospital. after those spate of stabbings. no word on that and no word from any labour politician now in government, of course, nothing from the home secretary , nothing from the secretary, nothing from the communities minister or indeed the prime minister. at his news conference again today, where he is telling us how tough he is, how determined he is to end the violence that we saw afflicting so many of our towns and cities dunng so many of our towns and cities during that period of the riots. quite right. you want to get to gnps quite right. you want to get to grips with that, but you can't have one rule where you come

forward and you condemn utterly the violent scenes that are playing out on our streets, and then not apply that same measure to a carnival that has just seen a particularly violent weekend. i would say. >> i think you put that very well, but why are they turning a blind eye or appearing to turn a blind eye or appearing to turn a blind eye? why do they find it so difficult to condemn violence when it's at the notting hill carnival? >> well, i think this gets to the heart of why so many people across the country are very frustrated with where we find ourselves at the moment. they see a authority figures, politicians , just petrified to politicians, just petrified to say anything that might stalk community tensions that might have them cast as somehow being racist and you have people in communities right across the country who see that and believe that that is a two tier

policing, a two tier approach from the politicians who are only too willing to condemn and to come down hard on those, quite rightly , when they break quite rightly, when they break the law but aren't willing it seems to apply that same level of scrutiny to those offending in other, more diverse communities, and even just the police officers being injured. >> i find it hard to believe that there would be a single other event that took place in our capital city in london, where the mayor of that city would would not comment on 50 police officers being injured on 330 arrests. these are gargantuan numbers. i mean, these would be front page numbers if it were any other event. when you put it like that, it's utterly shocking, isn't it, that we don't have any kind of response from people in charge, those in charge of the police, those politicians in charge. >> we have this debate. it rages

year after year about is notting hill the proper place to have so many people crammed in to the narrow streets of this west london location. and time after time you get policing leaders and others with perhaps a more responsible head on suggesting that what we should have is a flotilla of marchers and floats heading off to a bigger open area like hyde park, where the event people have room to breathe. they're not crammed in, tensions aren't as high. the police can control it, and the paramedics and ambulance can reach people much more easily than they can in these very difficult to reach areas. we've got a bit of video. hopefully we can show you, which is of an arrest that's taken from a balcony area looking down, and that gives an indication of just how difficult it is for the police to make these arrests.

it's called notting hill arrests. two there you go. you can see any time they make arrests you need dozens of officers around one single person they're arresting so that they can push through the crowd so that they're not attacked by a violent mob themselves. now thatis a violent mob themselves. now that is just completely out of proportion when you have to have so many police officers just to make one arrest and often arrests won't be made because it is just too dangerous and problematic to get in to and effect that arrest. and what they do then is try and identify them from cctv and arrest them at a later date. but it's just not ideal, is it? >> well, that's exactly what a former police officer told us the other day. who's who's worked at the carnival a number of times. he said, you know, it's just not worth it in some scenarios to go in and try and

arrest someone because it could cause, you know, a huge ruckus. >> so i've spoken to many police officers over the years. i've covered carnival many times in the past as well, and actually been on ride alongs with the officers pretty much every officers pretty much every officer i've ever spoken to tells me how much they detest having to be on duty covering the carnival. not that they detest the people or anything like that, but just the job in carnival. they just say it is horrific , the crushing that goes horrific, the crushing that goes on, the hostility that there is towards the police from certain sections of that community. it is you know, something that of course they are required to do as part of their job. you know, it's an all hands to the pump type situation and it's difficult to get out. you might get out of it one year, but the next year you'll have to play your part and although you do sometimes see some police officers getting stuck into the extracurricular activities, you know, body popping, i don't i

don't blame them for that. you know, there are police officers who are trying to engage with the community, trying to gain a level of acceptance. but, you know, from some within the community up in notting hill, there is no level of acceptance. they look upon the police as the enemy, and that is evident by the number of arrests , offensive the number of arrests, offensive weapons, for instance, the vast majority of those arrests were for carrying that number of knives. >> 330 is a high, high number. but looking at what we saw in your video there and what we know about how reluctant the police are to sometimes go in to the crowd and make an arrest if they see activity. i put it to you that that number is actually massively underplaying the amount of arrests. the number of arrests that we would have seen had the police been able to go and arrest anyone at will without the difficulties of stopping by and having to assess

whether it would actually create more problems if they make that arrest or not. >> yeah, exactly. and i mean, it's the same kind of scenario that did play out in some of the towns and cities where we saw riots, where the crowd is so agitated. it's in an area that is enclosed. if we think of harehills in leeds, for instance, where police took the decision not to actually move in and make many arrests on the night for fear of sparking even more violence. so the same kind of calculations are being made in the minds of those officers in the minds of those officers in command who will feel that, you know, the restraint is the better the better course of action to, to, to move forward with and then try. but you're right, you can never fully account for all those committing crimes when you're trying to look at it after the fact and try and piece together what has happened and identify people.

really just from cctv or body worn camera. thank you so much for talking us through all of that mark white our homeland security editor. >> i just can't get my head around why the home secretary or sadiq khan doesn't just come out and condemn the violence whilst also saying it was a fantastic event for others. i mean , you event for others. i mean, you know, you don't have to, you know, you don't have to, you know, want to ban the event to actually condemn the violence that took place anyway, in other news, yvette cooper has pledged to crack down on what she calls the shoplifting epidemic after new analysis revealed that police have effectively ceased punishing shoplifters. >> well, this is despite the number of shoplifting offences reaching record levels. yes, just 431 shoplifters were handed fixed penalty notices in the year to march, which represents a staggering 98% drop on a decade ago. >> now, this lack of enforcement has led shopkeepers to fear that thieves are being increasingly emboldened. they feel they'll never be punished for their offences. >> let's get the thoughts now of james treadwell, who is a professor of criminology at the university of staffordshire.

james, thanks for joining us. i suppose the first question is we are seeing a rise in shoplifting, but a fall in prosecutions surely these two things are related. >> afternoon , tom, absolutely. >> afternoon, tom, absolutely. they're related. and they also relate to the previous story as well. i think, you know, a message that i would put out fairly consistently to my students is that when you have complete non—enforcement of the law, the group that are most emboldened are offenders. so if you create a situation whereby there are forms of crime that you you turn a blind eye to it. for some in society, the message that will very much come from that will very much come from thatis that will very much come from that is i can get away with it and i can do this as i like. now we tend to think of shoplifting as a kind of low level entry, criminal activity, the sort of thing you know, children do in, in corner shops. but it's massively, massively damaging for business. and increasingly because of that non—enforcement of the law, we've seen more and more sophisticated offenders become involved in, in very

profitable forms of, of shoplifting group based collective activity, which is kind of sustaining alternative marketplaces and is sustained by alternative marketplaces, very often online as well, which makes them vast sums. and they know that they can get away with it and that there's very, very little enforcement that's coming from from criminal justice agencies, because the criminal justice system is a total mess. >> well, james, i mean, it's almost like raising a child. if they get away with one thing, they'll continue to stretch the boundanes they'll continue to stretch the boundaries and do more. and more wrong doing. but this question, when people talk about shoplifting, there are people who like to say, well, the only reason people are shoplifting is because they're in desperate need of food. they're starving. they've got a child that they need to feed, and the rest of it, it's all to down austerity and the economic situation. but it is it is gangs, isn't it? it is people who are doing this almost professionally now .

almost professionally now. >> yeah. there are different forms of shoplifting. so a large amount of shoplifting as well is to essentially pay for, intravenous drug use. very often and addiction to heroin and crack cocaine . so those that crack cocaine. so those that will do that will, will steal consistently and frequently when they're liberty and do so, you know , time after time after know, time after time after time, very often targeting consumables that can be resold very, very quickly. you know, and we've got to a stage in the uk now where, where we put security tags and boxes around packs of lurpak , it means that packs of lurpak, it means that those items are very much there . those items are very much there. that's one form of shoplifting. and there will be some people who are shoplifting, essentially because they can't now get access to goods that they used to be able to afford. there will be some, but that isn't the main dnvenl be some, but that isn't the main driver, i don't think at all. i think a great deal of shoplifting now is does involve gangs of organised offenders that essentially know that, you know, they're only going up against the forces of and this

is the other aspect, big business, because if they target smaller and independent retailers who have less ability to employ security and so on, they can do that with with very little consequence . therefore, little consequence. therefore, they're moving into areas and locations that they haven't traditionally gone to and committing offences almost with impunity. and making large sums of money while doing it. impunity. and making large sums of money while doing it . and of money while doing it. and that is, you know, that is not how we conceive of, of shoplifting, but it is a reality that that's occurring in just about every police force area in the uk. >> it's a bleak picture. you paint. james but thank you so much for helping us through this story. james treadwell, professor of criminology at the university of staffordshire there. >> it's depressing, isn't it? if you own a shop and the constant worry is that someone's just going to come in and nick something and then get away with it time and time again, and then pnces it time and time again, and then prices rise as a result. well, yeah, for the rest of us. yeah. we've got lots more coming up on today's show, including the british red cross has apparently

gone woke. we'll reveal all after this

>> good afternoon. britain. it's 1:27. >> yes. and the british red cross is facing quite a bit of backlash. why? because it's published a new inclusive language guide which critics say prioritises political correctness over its core mission. >> well, the guide advises staff to avoid traditional terms like ladies and gentlemen and maiden name in favour of more inclusive language. >> his maiden name, sexist, i don't know. >> or belittling? belittling, perhaps. >> critics, including politicians and members of the public, argue the charity has been hijacked by political extremists , distracting it from extremists, distracting it from its humanitarian focus with unnecessary and divisive changes. >> well, joining us now is the

head of campaigns at the taxpayers alliance, elliott keck . taxpayers alliance, elliott keck. and, elliott, of course, you're from the taxpayers alliance. this is important because the red cross receives quite a bit of taxpayer money. >> yeah, you're absolutely right, tom. obviously, this is not a public sector organisation. >> it's not a quango. it's not a ministerial department. it's an independent charity. but it does receive an absolutely huge amount of its budget from taxpayers . it's about £400 taxpayers. it's about £400 million over the last five years. it normally averages somewhere around a quarter of its budget every year from taxpayers. so what it does with that money is of course very important. and the british red cross does an extraordinary amount of very, very important work. and it is generally deserving of those taxpayer receipts . but i deserving of those taxpayer receipts. but i think what was revealed today in the daily mail is worrying. it does show that there is a potential takeover by some extreme forces inside the organisation. >> yes, it's a bit bizarre that they feel the need to do this stuff, isn't it? and i wonder how much these kind of language guides actually end up costing the charity. and perhaps the

taxpayer even because, you know, you probably have to consult on what's inclusive enough when it comes to language, it probably has to be updated every year. >> well, yeah, absolutely. language is always changing around these issues and often completely unbeknown to the people that then have to use that language. for example, i had never heard the term minoritized ethnic group before, but according to this inclusive language guide, that's now the appropriate term to use. and of course, when it actually delves into some even more troubling things like issues around the use of single sex facilities. and we've seen these inclusive language guides across the actual public sector as well. we know that they have caused a lot of trouble for staff and employees. and, you know, it does concern me and it should concern everybody that the british red cross is spending potentially quite large amounts of time on what are pretty radical areas of political discussion, rather than on its core focus of delivering humanitarian support to those that need it. >> so, elliot, there's minoritized ethnic group, not minority is minority ethnic group. now, now offensive? i

genuinely can't keep up with this stuff. this is this is a this stuff. this is this is a this is a linguistic minefield. perhaps, perhaps we do need these language guides after all. otherwise. otherwise, no treading on treading on landmines. >> well, i suppose if it stops people from getting into trouble. but i think i'd rather an organisation that receives such large amounts of taxpayers money. i think i'd rather them be a bit more generous to their staff and to their volunteers. assume that actually, if you're working at the british red cross and work volunteering for the british red cross, it's likely that you have pretty good intentions. and maybe we should be slightly more forgiving on the language that people use, i mean, idiot, i mean ordinary people must it must feel very stifling to work at some of these organisations. >> i mean, being told that terms like elderly youngster and pensioner should be shunned to head off potentially negative stereotypes, or you can say everyone, folk or all, because that's inclusive, but you may want to say they or them in certain situations and always refer to women, girls and people who menstruate as to not, exclude transgender people. i

mean, er, anyway, elliot, we're going to have to leave it there, actually. but thanks for talking us through all this. i'm just having a look at all the words that we're going to be banned from saying in the future. thank you. elliot keck, campaigns manager at the taxpayers alliance, our head of campaigns. yes. well, perhaps i should draw you up a list of words you can't use around me. >> well, i was on the tube earlier today, and i noticed that they do say ladies and gentlemen, still on the london underground. i figured i just i'm thinking now, how long is that going to last? when are they going to get get rid of that and didn't british airways get rid of that. >> they might . well hello people. >> it just it sounds very alien, >> it just it sounds very alien, >> well can't say that at least, at least we know that our taxpayer pounds and pennies are going to such good causes . and going to such good causes. and we do indeed. we've got lots more coming up for you, for you on the show. we're going to be talking to a former chairman of the bma because there's another row ensuing in that union. but after your news with sophia .

after your news with sophia. tom. emily. thank you. good afternoon. your headlines from the gb newsroom at 134. the prime minister has warned october's budget is going to be painful . october's budget is going to be painful. during his speech in the downing street rose garden. sir keir starmer warned things will get worse before they get better and next week's return to parliament will not be business as usual. he also addressed the recent riots, saying they showed the cracks in our society after 14 years of populism and failure. speaking a short while ago, the prime minister also reiterated that economic growth is the top priority of the government. >> i promised that we would get a grip on the problems that we face and that we would be judged by our actions, not by our words. i said before the election, and i say it again really clearly today. growth and

frankly, by that i do mean wealth creation is the number one priority of this labour government. >> in other news, three men have now been arrested over the stabbing of a 32 year old mother at the notting hill carnival, which left her in a critical condition. the woman was attending the family day of the carnival on sunday with her young child when she was stabbed. the met police say it appears she became caught up in the middle of an altercation between two groups of men, but it is unclear if they were known to her. it comes after five more people were stabbed and 230 were arrested on the final day of the carnival. and mark zuckerberg has admitted that facebook and instagram were wrong to censor posts about covid during the pandemic. in a letter to a us committee investigating online content moderation , mr content moderation, mr zuckerberg said senior white house officials repeatedly pressured the company after joe biden was inaugurated in 2021.

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>> okay. welcome back. it is 138 now. doctors are resigning from the british medical association. their union protesting its opposition to a key review on gender identity services for children. >> well, the review, led by paediatrician hilary cass, suggested that halting the prescription of sex hormones to young patients and has sparked a deep rift within the bma. >> yes. so critics argue that the union's stance, driven by a vocal minority , does not reflect vocal minority, does not reflect the broader membership's views, leading to a significant internal backlash and growing resignations within the organisation. >> well, joining us is the former chairman of the british medical association's gp committee, doctor lawrence buckman. thank you so much for joining us today. this does seem to be a strange row that is

going on within the british medical association. is this going to have a material impact on this organisation's relationship with the profession ? relationship with the profession? >> i doubt it, >> i doubt it, >> i'm baffled by the position of the bma council. i don't understand a union getting involved in what is a primarily an evidence based medicine debate, trans rights see this issue as very important to them . issue as very important to them. i understand that, but the bma should be standing behind whatever evidence there is. and hilary cass published pretty clear evidence to me , and i'm clear evidence to me, and i'm mystified . why, why the bma mystified. why, why the bma council took a contrary view of course, there will be divided views within the bma, and i think resigning is never a solution. what you have to do is complain bitterly and make

effort to change the bma council policy , and i hope that's what policy, and i hope that's what they'll end up doing, because i think the policy is misguided. >> yes, a consultant radiologist and a member of the council of the bma, jacqui davis, she's been talking to the media about this, and she seems to think that they have absolutely no evidence for their opposition to this review. the cass review is not a matter for a trade union. it's not our business as a union to be doing a critique of the cass review. it's a waste of time and resources, this is just clearly an ideological pursuit, really, from a from a few people. >> i would have thought so. jacqui davis, and i have not always agreed, but i certainly agree with every word she said on this. i'm i just don't understand why politics intrudes into medicine in this way about this subject. and i don't think the bma is unique, by the way. i think this is an area where people have very, very strong views, quite understandably, if

they're patients with gender dysphoria. but i think the, the use of a union to debate evidence when there is clear evidence when there is clear evidence and no obvious evidence against the cass review , i think against the cass review, i think is, is very powerful. >> just to to just clarify exactly what we're talking about here and where this tension is, this is about the prescription of sex hormones to young patients with gender dysphoria . patients with gender dysphoria. that seems to be the sticking point in this particular disagreement. some people within the council believe that you should be able to prescribe these types of sex hormones to young patients. others clearly do not. is that is that the main point of difference here? >> these are not sex hormones. these are puberty blockers, which is one kind of sex hormone . which is one kind of sex hormone. but it's not the prescription of which is one kind of sex hormone. but it's not the prescription of all hormones to transgender all hormones to transgender children. it's not that it's children. it's not that it's about puberty blockers. and the about puberty blockers. and the thin sex hormone . evidence is that puberty evidence is that puberty blockers may affect fertility blockers may affect fertility

and most definitely give you and most definitely give you thin bones . thin bones. >> and the irony, of course, is that the cass review isn't saying that they should be blocked forever. it's saying that there should be a study , that there should be a study, perhaps the first proper study, on on the outcome of all of these, that there will be a medical trial, which seems to be supported across the political spectrum. but i put it to you, doctor laurence buckman, that that perhaps you have too high a view of the bma to start with. as you, as you, as you say, it is a trade union. and very often in these discussions, we sort of talk about the bma as if it's not a normal trade union, but it is. that's that's what it is. i mean, it's the same as the rmt. it's the same as unison or unite. i mean, it fits in that category and they're all political organisations. they're all trade unions, they're all political a very wide

believe. there is a very wide spectrum of political views , spectrum of political views, i'm, i'm one of the lucky people who's been accused of being a closet trot and a tory lapdog. within the same week . so within the same week. so i actually think the bma council has overstepped its mark. i think it's nothing to do with the trade union, whether it's like the other trades unions or not. we can have a debate about that another time. but the fact is that i think doctors should be paying attention to evidence and the evidence of hilary cass review is we need to look a jolly sight more carefully before we start handing out this medication . okay. medication. okay. >> well, thank you very much indeed , doctor lawrence buckman, indeed, doctor lawrence buckman, you are the former chairman of the british medical association's gp committee . association's gp committee. thank you very much indeed. i mean, it's even like the student unions you know, they start to try to dictate on on whether the menus should be vegan or, you know, whether you're subscribed to this language inclusivity guide or , or i don't know what guide or, or i don't know what else they might dictate on, you

know, about this. i have opinions on everything. >> i spent years in the in the student union movement, which was i'd never be able to tell. you know, i think the problem with student politics is that the stakes are so low. that's true. well, that's a good thing. >> i think. >> i think. >> but but it does. it does mean that the language and the highfalutin ness of it all becomes so very high. the lower the stakes are . but the chair of the stakes are. but the chair of the stakes are. but the chair of the british medical association, professor philip banfield, has commented on this. he says as the bma has made clear, our evaluation of the cass review will begin from a point of neutrality. listen carefully to those most impacted by the need for safe and reliable gender dysphoria, healthcare services and the evidence led. indeed, the cats review itself highlights that it's impossible to generate any definitive report in the absence of robust data, and states that it is a critical for all future services to form a learning environment as the evidence base grows. all right. >> okay. that was a lot of words, but yeah, i mean, i mean,

it's interesting, isn't it? because this bma spokesperson says this, but then you have a council member telling the times that they shouldn't be doing this. this is a complete waste of time and resources. just leave it alone. >> the statement from the bma is saying, well, the cass review calls for greater evidence, so we're taking this upon ourselves to do it. but the cass review says that there's going to be this trial that's doing all the. why are you running a parallel assessment? i have no idea. >> i have no idea. anyway, we've got lots more coming up. stick with us. we are going to be going to manchester to see what the people of that great

us. okay. welcome back. it is now 149. you're watching and listening to good afternoon britain and yes, oasis have officially announced that they're back. they're reuniting and they're going to be doing a massive tour around the uk. so let's cross over to northwest of england to our reporter there, sophie reaper, who is in

manchester for us, sophie, very interested to know what the reaction is there in manchester. >> well, the fans of oasis here can finally stop crying their hearts out now can't they , after hearts out now can't they, after they've been given everything they've been given everything they ever dreamed of? sorry, had to get that. had to get it. good. but yeah , there's a lot of good. but yeah, there's a lot of excitement. a lot of excitement here in manchester today. i think this has been a long time coming . obviously, as we talked coming. obviously, as we talked about before, this is the home of oasis. this is where the band was born. this is where the gallagher brothers grew up. behind me here is the boardwalk club, where they performed their first ever gig. now i'm sure it's before our time and your time, of course, being 91, but my cameraman assures me that this was the place to be back in the early 90s, but yes, manchester and oasis, they just go hand in hand so people here today very, very excited. but there is that big question about whether or not people are going to be able to get tickets.

there's 14 dates on that tour that's been announced today, four of them here at heaton park in manchester, four of them at wembley, and then two in cardiff, two in edinburgh and two in dublin. now that might seem like a lot to some people, especially given the size of those venues, but given there's going to be hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world vying to get those tickets, i think it's going to be a bit of a struggle now. this morning we spoke to some people here in manchester asking them about tickets and how excited they are. this is what they had to tell me . what they had to tell me. >> absolutely brilliant. best news i've heard in well , 15 years. >> i'm buzzing. i'm a massive oafis >> i'm buzzing. i'm a massive oasis fan. i've seen liam gallagher a few times, but together, man, i'd be sick. >> yeah, my boyfriend is very, very happy. he said it was . very happy. he said it was. you're not that bothered. i don't care that much. >> it'd be great if you got tickets. big fans, i'd say my brother . definitely more so. tickets. big fans, i'd say my brother. definitely more so. but i'd try and get tickets to go thinking they might need some money. >> that's what it's for , you know? >> that's what my first thought was. was. >> was. >> i think a lot of people will

have been asking what that lady said there. do they need some money? but i myself agree with the first gentleman who said this is the best news in music for 15 years. i'll certainly be going for tickets. come saturday. >> sophie, i've got to ask your opinion. where do you fall on the big debate as to whether this is a cynical ploy or a real rekindling of hearts ? rekindling of hearts? >> i have to be really honest with you, tom. i don't particularly care one way or another. i have been an oasis fan for my whole life. i was born and raised. my dad's a massive oasis fan, so i've been born and raised on that music. i am just so thrilled that i'm hopefully if i can get tickets going to be able to see them live. so whether they're arguing, whether they're not, i don't particularly mind. i'm just over the moon that finally it's happened. >> well, sophie, sophie, sophie, if you don't manage to get your hands on a ticket, don't look back in anger. yeah look back in angen back in anger. yeah look back in anger. thank you very much. sophie reaper live. you've been wonderful. >> wonderful ? yeah.

>> wonderful? yeah. >> wonderful? yeah. >> okay. right. well, we have time for some views after that clanger. >> i thought that was great. anyway, well , dan, dan was not. anyway, well, dan, dan was not. was not a big, big fan of all of the oasis chats. but don't worry, we've got much more substantive issues as well. not least , we're substantive issues as well. not least, we're talking about the issue of the prime minister's speech this morning. it seems to have been that we've got a rather uncomfortable fiscal statement in october, a very uncomfortable fiscal statement as far as fiscal statements go, very much saying that we've got misery to look forward to before things get better. >> terence says. sir keir starmer hasn't taken a single question from gb news at any of these press conferences. what is he afraid of? disgusting behaviour from a man who claims to want to represent all the people in this country? strong stuff from terence, >> linda has got in touch to say we were just talking to doctor lawrence buchman, who was the former chair of the of the gp's

committee on the bma. well, he used to also be linda's local gp many years ago and was a fantastic doctor, says linda. so what a small world that is. >> it's a small, small world. it's a small, small world. and steven says no. james says when i watched and listened to that appallingly dreadful speech, my first thought was, whoever wrote this to him has definitely got it in for him. it was a speech designed to bring down, with a crash any sitting prime minister. gosh strong stuff. do let us know if you thought it was a fantastic speech , but yes, was a fantastic speech, but yes, we're not looking at too much balance in the inbox at the moment, lots of you also saying that starmer is wrong to refuse to condemn any of the violence at notting hill carnival, but do get in touch if you have a country or even contrarian view. >> gbnews.com/yoursay is the way to get involved. we'll get some more later in the program, but of course, much more to come for our final hour before we rev to on all those other stories, here's the weather and a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news .

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2:00 on tuesday the 27th of august. >> i'm tom harwood and i'm emily carver. >> misery awaits sir keir starmer braces the public for hard times ahead as he lays the foundations for a brutal budget. he says he'll clean up the country like he cleaned up those riots and carnage at the carnival. >> police arrest three people in relation to the stabbing of a 32 year old woman at the notting hill carnival , with over 330 hill carnival, with over 330 arrests in total . offences arrests in total. offences including sexual assaults and attacks on police officers slumming it with rats and moles.

>> yes, soldiers on an raf base in oxfordshire are living in squalor amid leaking pipes. rat infestations , unreliable hot infestations, unreliable hot water and moulding shower rooms. how can we treat our troops like this? >> and walking back into fashion? the world senior dance tour has announced that walk on girls will make a return to televised dance for the first time in six years, after they were banned due to sexism concerns . so here they are. concerns. so here they are. they're back one for the dads . they're back one for the dads. one for the dads. >> i don't know why they were ever banned. i mean, it's one of these things. it was actually a really interesting piece in the times yesterday. oh yes. about how sort of a lot of the politically correct stuff that really took hold in sort of

2016, 17, 18. we're sort of seeing a road back from that, like the formula one girls and all of that, the formula one girl or even it looked across at the democratic national convention in the united states and just saw there wasn't any use of the sort of language that, you know, the sort of safe spaces that people had come to talk about. there was even a group , white dudes for kamala, group, white dudes for kamala, which you wouldn't have seen, sort of, you know, self—identifying white people saying it's self identifying. right? so it's all this, it's all this stuff that the idea that this sort of a lot of the language policing that we saw, in the last 5 or 10 years might now we might have reached a tipping point and things might start to sort of withdraw and change back. >> oh, now that is wishful thinking. i mean, we just did a story on inclusive language guide, so perhaps you're pushing it, but maybe, maybe it's becoming edgy not to be politically correct all the time. that would be nice. well, if young people, you know, actually, you know, said what they thought and things. >> well, it's the idea that sort of perhaps we've seen this with gen z a lot as well. the idea

that actually gen z, gen z, i'm not american. i will never say gen z. oh no, i just did it. >> but back to the walk on girls. >> but but no, but i think this is related because it's the idea that perhaps the millennials were the most sort of terse about everything like this. and actually we're now seeing a new generation that's coming up that actually is a bit more , i don't actually is a bit more, i don't know, open to ideas. >> well, why don't we have the men with their kit off too at the dance? i mean, why not some women go and watch? >> well, i mean, there is magic mike, which is a big show that lots of women go and watch, and that's absolutely fine. it's not really the same as you know, i don't know, i don't know . don't know, i don't know. >> i've never been to any of these establishments that i'm thinking of anyway. gbnews.com/yoursay is it good thing to bring back these, these girls at the darts? why not? gbnews.com/yoursay but it's your headunes gbnews.com/yoursay but it's your headlines with sofia . tom. headlines with sofia. tom. emily. thank you. good afternoon. from the gb newsroom.

it's just gone 2:00. your headlines. some breaking news in the last half hour, israel's military says it has rescued a hostage who was kidnapped by hamas on the 7th of october. the idf say 52 year old kaid farran ali kadi, is in a stable condition and is being transferred for medical checks at a hospital following a complex operation in southern gaza. the hostages families forum said in a statement. his return home is nothing short of miraculous. it said he had endured 326 days in captivity . endured 326 days in captivity. the prime minister has warned october's budget is going to be painful . october's budget is going to be painful. during his speech in the downing street rose garden , the downing street rose garden, sir keir starmer warned things will get worse before they get better and next week's return to parliament will not be business as usual. he also addressed the recent riots, saying they showed the cracks in our society after 14 years of populism and

failure. speaking a short while ago, the prime minister also reiterated that economic growth is a top priority of the government . government. >> i promised that we would get a grip on the problems that we face and that we would be judged by our actions, not by our words . by our actions, not by our words. i said before the election and i say it again really clearly today , growth. and frankly, by today, growth. and frankly, by that i today, growth. and frankly, by that! do today, growth. and frankly, by that i do mean wealth creation is the number one priority of this labour government . this labour government. >> it all comes as the prime minister faces pressure over accusations of cronyism, as conservatives demand an investigation into recent civil service appointments. speaking earlier on gb news, shadow science and tech secretary andrew griffith suggested it was hypocritical for labour to talk about trust in politics. >> in particular, he promised to introduce new levels of

transparency and integrity. and yet what we've seen week by week over the last few weeks, over the summer is revelations about labour appointments to the civil service, the independent civil service. these aren't just the normal special advisers that all governments make political appointments to. these are some of the top roles in the independent civil service that labour has been giving to donors and its political supporters. so it's pretty rich to talk about trust in politics at the same time as that. >> in other news, three men have now been arrested over the stabbing of a 32 year old mother at the notting hill carnival, which left her in a critical condition. the woman was attending the family day of the carnival on sunday, with her young child when she was attacked. the met police say it appears she became caught up in the middle of an altercation between two groups of men, but it is unclear if they were known to her. it comes after five more people were stabbed and 231 arrested on the final day of the

carnival . president zelenskyy carnival. president zelenskyy says ukraine has successfully run a test of its first ballistic missile. it comes after russia launched about 200 drone and missile attacks at ukraine overnight. at least five people have been killed and dozens injured due to those strikes, which are believed to have been in response to ukraine's incursion into russia's kursk region . russia's kursk region. meanwhile, ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy said it was vile and claimed the attack had targeted civilian infrastructure. back in the uk , infrastructure. back in the uk, from today, the nhs 111 helpline will now offer mental health support to adults and children in crisis. local health systems previously had their own separate phone lines, which took about 200,000 calls per week. it makes the nhs in england one of the first countries to offer such a support service for mental health issues, as well as for physical problems. mark zuckerberg has admitted facebook and instagram were wrong to

censor posts about covid during the pandemic, and he was wrong to bow to pressure. in a letter to bow to pressure. in a letter to a us committee investigating onune to a us committee investigating online content moderation, mr zuckerberg said senior white house officials repeatedly pressured the company after joe biden was inaugurated in 2021. he said that facebook made some choices that it would not have made today . and after lots of made today. and after lots of speculation, oasis are officially reuniting nearly 15 years after they split . so sally years after they split. so sally can wait. >> she knows it's too late. as we're walking on by liam and noel gallagher are getting back together for oasis's long awaited reunion with a worldwide tourin awaited reunion with a worldwide tour in 2025. >> the britpop band, who released their chart topping album definitely maybe around three decades ago, announced a series of dates kicking off their tour in cardiff. local

people in manchester are excited about the news. >> yeah. very excited. it's going to be interesting to see how long it lasts for though, because you never know with those. >> yeah, i'm really happy. >> yeah, i'm really happy. >> i'm going to try for tickets on saturday. >> excited about it but probably won't get tickets . won't get tickets. >> i'm going to get me and dad to try and get on it for me as well. but yeah, i'm buzzing me. i'm a massive oasis fan. i've seen liam gallagher a few times, but together, man, it'd be sick. yeah those are the latest gb news headlines. >> for now, i'm sophia wenzler more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code , alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> good afternoon britain. it is 2:09. now the prime minister is warning chancellor rachel reeves

budget might be quite painful for all of us. oh, lovely. >> yes. speaking in downing street's rose garden, where there's only one rose bush, apparently sir keir starmer told reporters things are worse than we ever imagined and this is all to do with this £22 billion black hole in the public finances that he says has been left by the 14 year conservative government. >> well, it was a coalition government. >> i knew you were going to say that. >> but he says that all the pain in the short term will be worth it for the long term. good. >> those with the broadest shoulders should bear the heavier burden . and that's why heavier burden. and that's why we're cracking down on non—doms. those who made the mess should have to do their bit to clean it up.and have to do their bit to clean it up. and that's why we're strengthening the powers of the water regulator and backing tough fines on the water companies that have let sewage flood our rivers, lakes and seas. but just as when i responded to the riots, i'll have to turn to the country and

make big asks of you as well to accept short term pain for long term good. that difficult trade off for the genuine solution . off for the genuine solution. and i know that after all that you have been through, that is a really big ask and really difficult to hear. that is not the position we should be in. it's not the position i want to be in. but we have to end the politics of the easy answer that solves nothing . solves nothing. >> well, joining us now is our political correspondent, katherine forster, because catherine, this was a big political ploy from the prime minister ruling the pitch for what's to come . what's to come. >> yes, indeed. good afternoon. tom and emily. well, it's clear

they promised change, but they're saying they need a decade. and we knew that their inheritance was bad. they didn't want to talk about it before the election. the institute for fiscal studies were very keen to say there's going to be awful decisions to make. but now lo and behold, they've been not quite two months in office. they've discovered, they say, this £22 billion black hole. they say that things are worse than they could ever have imagined , and there is going to imagined, and there is going to be pain to come. i think they are very, very worried that although they have this big majority and many of the seats that they won, they won with very small margins and things could change and turn against them quite quickly. now, rachel reeves, with the budget at the end of october, is clearly they're not saying so explicitly, but it seems clear that they are going to be raising taxes now . they've said

raising taxes now. they've said they won't raise vat at national insurance income tax , but insurance income tax, but there's all sorts of other taxes that have not been ruled out. and basically they're laying this all at the foot of the previous government saying, look what a terrible job the conservatives did. look at the rot they've left us with. they are tying the riots to that as well. and it's all a bit groundhog day, to be honest, because it really reminds me of what the coalition government did in 2010. of course, labour infamously left that note saying there's no money left. the coalition government then made all sorts of unpopular decisions. we had austerity . the decisions. we had austerity. the blame was put fair and square on the previous labour government. of course, they had a worldwide economic crisis to deal with, but the coalition government and the conservatives capitalised on blaming labour for many, many years. and i think now we're going to have the same thing on the other side of the fence, with labour blaming the conservatives at each and every

opportunity and the decisions that are coming, which it sounds are going to be very painful, are going to be very painful, are all going to be blamed on the conservatives. and i think the conservatives. and i think the fact that they were in the rose garden, you know, not missing an opportunity to have a dig there, the scene of the crime, if you like, in terms of dominic cummings with that non—apology after he'd driven up to durham in the height of the covid lockdown, then sat in the rose garden and famously didn't apologise , pointing out the apologise, pointing out the parties that had happened in downing street. but you know, this government has a huge majority, but it was a very sobering press conference and quite depressing really. and of course, we've already got all these questions about trust and integrity following these various cronyism allegations. >> yes . and he didn't like being >> yes. and he didn't like being asked about those, did he? a couple of the journalists there did put that to him about potential hypocrisy. and you know, who why exactly were these

labour advisers and people close to the labour party, given these civil service roles and the questions over wahid ali and why he had a number 10 security pass and the like? he seemed to completely dismiss this as just, you know , the tories and the you know, the tories and the right wing press, you know, ramping this stuff up. will that wash ? wash? >> yes he did. well, i don't know, because he said again, i'm determined to restore honesty and integrity to government. that was one of their main selling points , if you like, to selling points, if you like, to the electorate that they were going to clean up politics. now they're not even two months in office. we've got all these questions about civil service jobs that have been given to people with close links to laboun people with close links to labour. we've got this row about this donor that was given a pass and the prime minister simply did not want to go there either. with the questions of journalists or later in the lobby briefing, i went to with the prime minister's spokesman.

the prime minister's spokesman just said, you know, the giving out of passes as number 10 processes, not something that i can get into. sir keir starmer did just say when pushed as he was repeatedly, that lord alli had had a temporary pass and that he no longer had a pass. but why did he need a pass in the first place to come into downing street for the odd meeting here and there for a few weeks? frankly, you don't need a pass to do that. it's not difficult for somebody to come out and sign you in as a visitor. so i think there's still a lot of questions and frankly, not many answers. and i don't think it is a good look for a new, supposedly squeaky clean government. i do think there's legitimate questions about this and not many answers. >> well , katherine forster live >> well, katherine forster live from college green outside parliament. >> thank you very much for that stinging analysis. i need a sip of water. yeah, i might i might have a sip of water, a little sip of water. >> it's got a bit of a frog in

his throat. throat? oh, god. i can't speak either. anyway, shall we speak to political commentator benedict spence about this speech? benedict, your thoughts on the tone of that speech? a little bit miserable. i mean , people might miserable. i mean, people might say i didn't vote for things to get worse before they eventually got better. >> well, to be fair, i don't think anybody could ever accuse the keir starmer of being a particularly upbeat character. >> so i think this is sort of par for the course. >> but absolutely, this is the sort of thing that i think people were fearing. they might not have voted for it, but they probably did suspect that something like this was going to come down the line. that the labour party would offer sort of, you know, steady managerialism and that they'd come out after a couple of weeks wringing their hands, looking very glum, going, it's much worse than we thought, even though we told you we were the best prepared government in a generation. and we understand everything that needs to be done are in fact, we were not quite across our brief, and there's lots and lots of money that needs to be found for all sorts of things. don't pay any attention to what's going on behind the curtain, and to all the money for our union friends and climate aid and that sort of

thing. no, no, you have to focus very firmly on the fact that this is all the conservatives fault. and oh, by the way, don't pay fault. and oh, by the way, don't pay attention to what role covid, policies and bailouts and what have you played in all of this and that. we backed all of this. no, no, it's all the conservatives fault. and i mean, look, i think that there is a lot of sympathy from among many members of the public that actually, yes, the government for the last 14 years, while various governments over the last 14 years haven't left the country in a particularly good state. but i don't think there's going to be a great deal of sympathy. i don't think there's going to be a great deal of patience for labour coming out and saying things are going to get a lot worse. you might get the short term relief when he inevitably comes out. keir starmer and rachel reeves and increased capital gains tax probably increase inheritance tax probably. as we all know , tax probably. as we all know, apply tax probably. as we all know, apply vat on things like school fees and lots of people on the left will cheer because it means that the rich are being hammered . that the rich are being hammered. and then after about 12 months, when services still aren't improving and they're being cut, i think a lot of people will be very unhappy. >> well, this is the interesting point, isn't it? everyone points to austerity in 2010, 2011,

2012, saying that that was all cuts. a lot of it was tax rises. there were lots of tax rises in that time as well. of course, extending vat and all the rest of it. but but that is what austerity is. it's not just about fiscal consolidation through spending reduction. it's also through growing income . so also through growing income. so one could very reasonably use that word austerity to describe the tax rises to come. this will be an austerity budget. >> oh there's no could about it. that's absolutely what this is. the problem is the conservatives can't really sit there and go, oh no, it's austerity. given that they gave the country austerity a few years ago. but the irony of all of this is the labour party has spent the last 14 years saying austerity is what has led to these problems in the first place. and in some cases, in the case of the criminal justice system and the fact that we don't have enough prison spaces, they are right. so to then foist this onto the country and say that this is all

fiscal responsibility, that this is the grown up thing to do is i mean, it's it would be amusing if it didn't mean people are going to get a lot poorer as a result. but there is an irony to it. but of course, there isn't really an opposition to speak of right now to actually hold the government to account because they're too busy taking as long as they possibly can to have a leadership contest. and nobody's quite sure what any of the conservative candidates think. and, you know, we're just reminded that we had such an excellent set of politicians in charge of this country that have left us in this mess. >> benedict, what did you make of the metaphor he chose to use, of the metaphor he chose to use, of the metaphor he chose to use, of the way he cleaned up the riots. it's the same way he's going to clean up the country. >> oh, i think he would have absolutely got a b grade at his engush absolutely got a b grade at his english literature gcse. i thought it was phenomenally, really well done. it didn't really well done. it didn't really require a lot of thought, did it? i don't really know what you know. returning a garden to pubuc you know. returning a garden to public services supposed to mean . public services supposed to mean. perhaps they'll have part of the notting hill carnival there next year to alleviate some of the pressure. but beyond that, i think he's really good at pandenng think he's really good at pandering to a certain segment of society that really likes to

operate on vibes. it's all about the bankers, the bonuses. it's going back to that sort of thing. it's that sort of language of, oh, those tories, why aren't they up to no good? all the tories and again, pay no attention to what's currently going on in number 10 and who's getting passes for paying the amount of money. i don't think it was particularly inspiring. i don't think he is the sort of person that can do inspiring. again, i think his whole shtick was i'm a managerial type. i'm, you know, i'm quiet, i'm efficient, and i'm going to get things done that way. whether or not people actually buy it, i don't know. i think it's going to be interesting. him saying that, you know, that this is going to be short term pain, whether or not anybody buys that act, whether or not anybody believes that any of the taxes that he's about to bring up are ever going to go down again. i'm not sure. i don't really think he is the performer. i think that he is just the bearer of bad news. and on that, i think everybody would absolutely believe him . believe him. >> well, benedict spence, i'm feeling i have to say i'm not feeling i have to say i'm not feeling deflated. a lot more positive after all of that. but, thank you very much for making us all so much more miserable,

>> things can only get worse. >> things can only get worse. >> let's talk about something more cheery next time. >> can i just say one thing? we had to say one thing. so the liberal democrats, you know, they should. i would hope, want to be, you know, opposing the government . they put out a press government. they put out a press release from their leader and all it was doing was slagging off the conservatives. no actual mention of labour at all, even though it was keir starmer giving the speech. yes, which is interesting to note. >> yeah. just just, just putting out a statement from ed davey about one sixth of parliament. yeah. only the out of touch seats, only the out of touch conservative party will deny, deny the scale of the challenges facing the new government and the new parliament. >> he goes on, so yes, i find this fascinating because also, of course, keir starmer, his big deflection whenever he was asked about something about the about the civil servants to the political activists who've suddenly become senior civil servants, about the donors who suddenly have passes, about the way that the internal machinery of government is being fundamentally changed. >> he goes, oh, well, the tories

did it too. and every, every single answer, it seems to be it's all the tories, the tories, the tories, the tories only have 121 seats. keir starmer has over 400. are we really going to be focusing the microscope on the people with 121 seats and giving a free pass to the people with the largest parliamentary majority since tony blair? i mean, this is what the liberal democrats are doing . it's democrats are doing. it's actually not 400 and whatever seats, it's 480 seats because you need to add the lib dem total to the labour total . total to the labour total. they're seemingly acting in concert in parliament. >> well, could this be a reason why keir starmer didn't pick on christopher hope for a question earlier at the press conference? scared of some of the scrutiny? perhaps although there were a few difficult questions asked of him, you can, you know, assess how he answered them. anyway, we've got lots more coming up on today's show, including the notting hill carnival. there's been a bit of a silence from labour politicians , not least labour politicians, not least keir starmer himself, over the number of stabbings and violent

assaults at that carnival that

next. >> good afternoon britain. it's 2:26 now. three men have been arrested following the stabbing of a 32 year old mother at notting hill carnival, which has left her fighting for her life. >> yes, this comes as it was revealed a fourth person attending the event has been left in a critical condition after receiving head injuries. >> well, in total, just over 330 arrests were made over the carnival weekend for a range of offences, including violence, sexual assaults and attacks on police officers. >> okay, well let's get more on this with gb news home and security editor mark white. mark, amongst the festivities quite a bit of violent crime.

>> yes, indeed. and those arrest levels are up on the year before , levels are up on the year before, which was a pretty violent year , which was a pretty violent year, with 270 arrests over the two days of carnival. there are 50 more than that this year , and more than that this year, and two more stabbings than there were last year, in fact. add to that an acid attack that took place and four of those who have been injured over the weekend are now fighting for their lives in hospital. so some real concern, despite, of course, all the words about what a joyous occasion it is. and it is, of course, for many people that go to the notting hill carnival. but there's no getting away from the fact that there are some significant levels of violence dunng significant levels of violence during this two day period. >> it is stunning to look at some of this footage that we're showing on television now. the number of police officers that is required to, even by the looks of it ,

is required to, even by the looks of it, make just one arrest. this is a this is a very, very difficult terrain for the police to operate within. >> it's a difficult terrain because there are elements within the crowds there who are very hostile towards the police. but there are also dealing with huge packed streets as well. and they need to be in force to effectively put a cocoon around someone who has been either arrested or if it's an injured person . it's the same process to person. it's the same process to get that person out of carnival. it requires dozens of officers in this big, cocoon just pushing their way through the huge crowds in these narrow streets in west london to get to safety and inevitably , inevitably, and inevitably, inevitably, there are issues just around crushing these events. but when people are crammed in, tempers can flare. and there are those elements, as always, who attend

carnival because they want to square off against rival gangs. >> yeah , absolutely. and, some >> yeah, absolutely. and, some of your people at home watching this may have noticed that there hasn't been much said from our from our leaders for example, the, the mayor of london, he hasn't said anything about any of the violence. i don't think keir starmer has. i'm not sure our home secretary has mentioned it either. why do you suppose there's this sort of silence? >> well, you'll have to ask them why they haven't commented. but in terms of comments, we've got one posting that's up on the screen on x from sadiq khan on the first day of carnival, telling everyone what a joyous occasion it was bringing communities together. now that may well be true in part, but there is no mention from a man who's responsibility , who's one who's responsibility, who's one of his key roles as the mayor of

london is as the police and crime commissioner for the capital city and for the metropolitan police, and not one mention and condemnation of the violence that led to 50 police officers being injured. not one mention of the ten people who were stabbed or slashed , or the were stabbed or slashed, or the person who was had acid thrown onto them. not one mention of the four people who are currently fighting for their lives. and it's not just sadiq khan, other politicians who are in charge now, and the labour government, the home secretary, the prime minister held a news conference today at which he told us just how determined he was to get to grips with the violence that we've seen in cities across the country in recent weeks. quite right. you want to get to grips with that level of violence and attacks on the police. this level of

criminality. but you can't buy, you know , the same token, then you know, the same token, then ignore when that exact same level of violence. police officers being injured is happening at a supposedly joyous occasion. a festival in the capital city over the weekend. >> that's what it looks like. it looks like this . these cases of looks like this. these cases of violence don't fit the government narrative or don't fit sadiq khan's narrative. you know, if there'd been a this kind of violence, i don't know, outside of a london football match, i'm sure sadiq khan would have had something to say. it's very odd and i think it's the wrong decision not to put out some kind of statement, some kind of update . you've got the kind of update. you've got the metropolitan police putting out updates on all the assaults and all the weapons they've seized is responsible for the metropolitan police. >> you mentioned you mentioned football. that's a good analogy or comparison, actually, in terms of what we're seeing on the streets of notting hill. so 7000 officers far more than

would ever be required on a busy weekend of football. the ten premier seven premier league clubs and various lower league clubs and various lower league clubs in the capital. 7000 officers, the football clubs, although they're criticised for not giving as much money as they should, are required to pay for policing within the grounds and the immediate sort of environment around football stadia. so they have to pay the police for that service. it still costs millions of pounds a year to police football, but notting hill carnival, an event that takes 7000 police officers every year to police that doesn't pay any officers to do that. so it's a huge drain on resources. of course, it's a big cultural event that is celebrated rightly by many people in the capital. but for years there has been this

argument about putting it in a more appropriate location. so not taking it out of the heart of west london and indeed even starting in traditionally notting hill. but then maybe going to a more expansive area like hyde park, which is easier to control. you've not got people crowded in the emergency services like the ambulance and saint john's ambulance crews can get into people that have been injured in those crowds, but the people in charge of carnival hold a lot of sway. they say no, and the politicians never really argue with that decision. by them to stay put. >> it's very odd. it's very odd. i don't know how you can say you're getting tough on crime, you're getting tough on crime, you're clamping down on all crime and then not even mention a swathe of violence just in the day before. mark white, our home and security editor. thank you very much indeed. >> well, this is good afternoon britain on gb news. much more to come. not least we're going to be catching up with what the people of manchester think about a certain reunion .

a certain reunion. >> good afternoon. your headunes >> good afternoon. your headlines from the gb newsroom. it's just gone . 230. the prime it's just gone. 230. the prime minister has warned october's budget is going to be painful. dufing budget is going to be painful. during his speech in the downing street rose garden, sir keir starmer warned things will get worse before they get better and next week's return to parliament will not be business as usual. he also addressed the recent riots, saying they showed the cracks in our society after 14 years of populism and failure . years of populism and failure. in other news, israel's military says it has rescued a hostage who was kidnapped by hamas on the 7th of october. the idf say 52 year old kaid farran ali kadi, is in a stable condition and is being transferred for medical checks at a hospital following a complex operation in southern gaza. the hostages families forum said in a statement. his return home is

nothing short of miraculous. it said he endured 326 days in captivity . three men have been captivity. three men have been arrested over the stabbing of a 32 year old mother at notting hill carnival, which left her in a critical condition. the woman was attending the family day of the carnival on sunday with her young child when she was stabbed. the met police say it appears she became caught up in the middle of an altercation between two groups of men, but it is unclear if they were known to her. in total, just over 330 arrests were made over the carnival weekend for a range of offences, including violence, sexual assaults and attacks on police officers . and katie price police officers. and katie price has had her bankruptcy court case adjourned until next month so she can attend a private interview instead with miss price's lawyer citing her mental well—being as a consideration. the former glamour model was arrested at heathrow airport earlier this month after failing

to attend a previous hearing. the judge then told miss price she would be brought back into custody if she did not attend. today's hearing . those are the today's hearing. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm sophia wenzler more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward alerts

>> good afternoon britain. it's 20 to 3. now. here's an interesting one for you. more than 3500 current and former employees of the retail giant next have won a six year legal battle over an equal pay claim. yes, an employment tribunal found that store staff who are

predominantly women, should be paid the same as the warehouse workers who are predominantly men. this, despite the two jobs. well, frankly, being different. >> oh, this annoys you, doesn't it? lawyers representing the shop staff describe the ruling as hugely significant, and that the amount of back pay owed could be more than £30 million. 0h could be more than £30 million. oh my goodness, they might have the well, an unintended consequence of shutting down next. but this is extraordinary. >> people who work at the back room were getting one. and this is men and women, but mostly men 90% men. well if the women who worked at the front of house wanted more money, they could choose to work back of house. >> but they don't want to do they don't want to do that strong enough. >> they get more flexibility, work in front of house. it's a different job, so it gets paid less. >> you know. >> you know. >> shall we discuss this £15 an hour each? >> yeah. go on then. andrew. lilico. andrew, explain this to us. this is agitating tom quite a bit. he thinks it's totally unfair because one job is

different from the other . different from the other. >> well, this goes back to some some very long standing pay legislation. >> go back to the 1970s. >> go back to the 1970s. >> and one of the elements of this is not merely that you get paid the same for the same job, but also for a job of equal value and in recent years, in a number of cases, this isn't the first. >> there were the cases from tesco and asda as well. >> it's the legal interpretation of what this , of equal value of what this, of equal value means. >> it's either been clarified or extended depending on your point of view, and it now seems to encompass jobs which are belong to completely different labour markets. >> but nonetheless, are assessed by as being of the same value and part of what being of the same value means is that that they involve the same kind of demands upon the staff. in some cases, these these have involved creating independent experts to assess what the nature is of the jobs and decide to what extent they're fair or unfairly paid.

andrew, on this, on this basis, it's really quite medieval. i mean, back in the medieval period, people used to have special committees to decide what the just price and the just wages were that people should be paid. this is pretty much the same kind of thing. we're going back and we're deciding much the same on much the same basis as before. >> yeah, completely. i mean, but perhaps more people would think, well, this is a bit like a sort of central commissar saying how much your job is worth, rather than the market saying you know, supply and demand. yeah, yeah, yeah. tom, i get the wage level. i get that says politicians or judges or bureaucrats setting them up. >> i can see i can see why that is wrong or perhaps not particularly efficient , but but, particularly efficient, but but, andrew, there are a lot of the time women's jobs, women's jobs in inverted commas, are paid less. do we need something to sort of help that ? sort of help that? >> i think the one of the things that i found particularly interesting here was that it wasn't considered a defence,

that the amount being paid was the going rate for the job. and so if you have separate jobs and separate labour be able to be paid the going rate for the job. if the going rate for the job. if the if the women's job are being paid less, then presumably that's because the going rate for the job is less. now, if you've got employers who are systematically deciding where they allocate men and women, and then they decide to put the women in the places which are lower paid and they're and they're in a position to set what the salaries are. that would be one set of things, but it's a completely different situation if what you're talking aboutis situation if what you're talking about is separate labour markets and we're having an assessment that says the labour market, the market price is not an adequate defence for you to say that that's what you should charge. think of this as well. suppose that you had a firm that you were trying to compete with, the firm which separated these activities out, and so you had one firm that was doing the back office activities and one firm that was doing the front office activities that in whichever one of those is being paid, the less would then be in a position to

compete, outcompete a firm that combined those two activities, because the firm that combines those activities has to pay it, the higher they can't pay it. the lower price, or they won't be able to attract any of the staff to the higher paid employee. so this is one of the things this would tend to do is to break up firms into their component parts. >> but andrew this is old legislation. this is all done under the guise of the equal pay act which comes from, i think 1971, barbara castle, all the rest of it. it seems to have changed though. i mean , you changed though. i mean, you didn't used to get cases like this or perhaps you did, but am i am i overinterpreting what is going on here? that that that we're having a level of state intervention in what people can be paid. that is far beyond what we used to have. >> well, i'm an economist rather than a lawyer, so i would struggle to give you a definitive statement. but my understanding is that a number of more recent legal cases have tended to extend the interpretation of the law, rather than it being a matter of

some new law turning up. and this could have been something which the conservative government, for example, we have for the past 14 years. they could have passed some legislation that that changed what this point was. they chose not to. and i think it is a change. i think absolutely, if you're in a situation where it's not a defence anymore, that you're charging the market rate for the wage, it's a different thing. if you've got some separate negotiation, you're in a power to set it. but if you're if it's not a defence that you're paying the market rate, then absolutely we are back. we are right back to the age of just prices. another thing just to say here is if this applies , to say here is if this applies, why wouldn't it apply to the pnces why wouldn't it apply to the prices that are charged to people? i mean, women buy certain products more than men. men buy certain products more than women. why wouldn't you go and you say, have an assessment of how difficult it was to produce those two things. and say, well, if the difficulty is the same, you're not allowed to charge more to the woman than the man. i don't see why wages are special here. if this principle is a correct one, it should be applied to everything. >> that is, men's shoes are cheaper than women's shoes.

that's the way the market decides. women spend more money on shoes. women are willing to spend. on shoes. women are willing to spend . they're willing to spend spend. they're willing to spend more money on shoes, even though they're so much smaller . they're so much smaller. >> they're probably fancier as well. andrew thank you so much for coming for talking us through what is an extraordinary change or what seems to be an extraordinary change, but perhaps what will be more of one with the labour party proposing to bring in not just the equal pay act for women, but they want to do one for racial minorities as well . that was in the as well. that was in the manifesto. so it could be that we're going to see a lot more of this where some sort of external force is telling a business, no, you can't charge someone that i completely agree with you. >> i do agree with you. i do agree with you. the only thing i would say is that i do think some businesses think they can get away with paying women less because they just assume that women don't need as much, or they have a man looking after them or whatever, but less than them or whatever, but less than the market rate. >> i mean, you know, if the woman wanted it might be like a historical thing , right? in this historical thing, right? in this instance, if the woman wanted to be paid more, she could have just said, i would like to work in the back room, please. >> she could have just got in

the warehouse where the men are. >> well, there were some men in the front room who were also earning less. i mean, it's not a gender thing. retail consultant nonsense. yeah. no, i do agree with you. >> that's my only point of being contrarian. anyway, we've got lots more coming up on today's show. gendered issue. dance girls are back. what do you make

>> good afternoon britain. it's just gone 10 to 3 now. six years ago, dance girls were banned in the uk, but now they're back. >> how did this happen? here to discuss it is former model and commentator danielle mason. danielle thank you very much indeed. so this has been a bit of a u—turn, hasn't it? so why did they get rid of them and why have they got them back? okay, so in 2018 there pdc head barry hearn announced that he was going to scrap the walk on

girls, i think this is a lot to do with women's rights and equality. so they scrapped them. but in the meantime the f1's still be going with the girls and the boxing still goes with the girls . the girls. >> but, the darts stopped. >> but, the darts stopped. >> there's been petitions going on here, there and everywhere which have reached thousands of signatures. >> so what they've decided to do is bring the girls back. now in 20 for october's world senior match. >> w st in york. so they basically tried to align with the broader society. >> they were hoping that not having the girls there would be more of a family thing, and people could concentrate on the sport rather than oogling at the girls . girls. >> but i've looked at what the girls are wearing and it's not like they're in knickers or anything like that. they are in nice dresses with sashes. i mean , nice dresses with sashes. i mean, even short dresses, granted. >> yeah, well , but they, they do

>> yeah, well, but they, they do get the crowd going and they do bnngin get the crowd going and they do bring in sponsorships and things like that , which would put them like that, which would put them to sort of get to, to sort of walk on before sort of judge up the crowd and get everyone get the crowd and get everyone get the get the atmosphere going. >> yes. i mean, myself being a woman, i would prefer there girls there because they give it more of a show and for me, better looking than the darts place. yeah, no, they definitely are . are. >> i mean, balances it out, right? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> to be fair, i find darts quite boring. >> i don't mean that rude, but the girls for me would really get me going. like, because they bnng get me going. like, because they bring such a good, vibe atmosphere to, to the darts and they don't have to go out wearing sleazy outfits. they can go out in suits and things like that. and it would still get the crowd charmed and going. >> it is interesting that this was a bottom up movement, as you've been describing, that there were petitions from darts fans to bring the girls back , fans to bring the girls back, that this was sort of an executive decision to get rid of them , thinking that this would them, thinking that this would be good for the people, but actually the people disagreed.

>> yes. well, they they wanted to align with women's rights, and they didn't want people looking at the girls as eye candy. they wanted to make it more about the sport and more family orientated. boring. but yeah, for me, i find that quite bonng yeah, for me, i find that quite boring as well. so i'm pretty happy that the girls are coming back and the girls are, you know, it puts them in a job again and it brings more entertainment and sponsorship to that job, which is more money. >> it sounds like a good thing all round. >> absolutely. danielle, thank you so much for coming in and talking us through that issue. former model. really appreciate your perspective. >> as long as none of the men are leering at them, it's all good. oh, i am a harmless flirt. >> all the men will tell their wives they are not leering. >> yes, of course they will, tom. anyway, thank you very much indeed for watching. good afternoon. britain this afternoon. britain this afternoon. it is, of course, martin. up next. we'll be back tomorrow at midday , with tomorrow at midday, with a brighter outlook with boxt solar. >> sponsors of weather on gb news .

news. >> hello again. here's your latest gb news. weather update coming to you from the met office. a bit of rain to come through the next couple of days, and a little bit of cloud at times too. but towards the southeast it's actually looking largely fine and here it's going to be pretty hot because we are ahead of this frontal system that's lying across us, and it's this front that's brought a fair amount of rain and will continue to do so through this evening and overnight across parts of northern england, into the west midlands, across wales , maybe midlands, across wales, maybe southwest england. seeing a bit of rain too. towards the northwest there'll be some showery rain around and some of this could be a little bit on the heavy side across parts of scotland, but in the southeast here it's staying largely dry. we have some warm air and so temperatures here not dropping a huge amount despite the fact that there will be some clear skies. so a pretty fine start for much of the midlands parts of east anglia and southern southeastern england. on wednesday morning across the southwest. watch out for some mist and fog patches and a bit of rain around too. also some

rain for parts of wales and northwest england first thing and some further showery rain feeding into western parts of northern ireland and western parts of scotland as well. further east, across both of scotland and northern ireland, it's looking drier , although it's looking drier, although there could be some showery bursts around, more showery rain then feeding its way across parts of northern ireland and western scotland. as we go through the day, and we still have a front lingering across some parts of northern england pushing into the midlands. perhaps, albeit this front doesn't look like it will bring much widespread rain, it just could bring some heavy outbreaks for some of us towards the south southeast of the uk. it's looking largely dry, some bright sunny spells and with that temperatures higher than today likely to get into the high 20s, highs around 28 or 29 celsius, perhaps some showery rain then continuing across, particularly scotland as we go through the end of the day on wednesday. but a lot of that then does clear through as we go overnight, and then there's plenty of dry weather to come as we go through the end of the week. but do watch out for some showers, particularly towards the north and west on thursday .

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