good afternoon, it's >> hello, good afternoon, it's saturday, the slst of august and saturday, the 31st of august and this is the weekend on gb news. hope you're having a wonderful weekend out there . now fans are weekend out there. now fans are up in arms as the oasis website crashes, with thousands waiting to see if they can get hold of tickets to their much anticipated reunion tour and more . drama for starmer as the more. drama for starmer as the problems pile up for the prime minister as his deputy, angela rayneris minister as his deputy, angela rayner is caught letting her hair down in ibiza and first cigarettes, now booze nanny state concerns raised over rumours of minimum alcohol pricing plans. what are they coming for next? and this could be good news. our weight loss jabs. the secret to eternal youth. new research reveals they can slow down ageing . now, for can slow down ageing. now, for some of us, that might be a bit too late. before you start messaging, i'm dawn neesom and

this is the weekend. and the weekend starts right . weekend starts right. here. it's so calming. that logo, isn't it? i love it , no, but isn't it? i love it, no, but this show is nothing without you and your views. so let me know your thoughts on pretty much what you want to talk about. what we're talking about. angela rayner raving in ibiza. are you fed up with that one oasis? are they coming for that pint you're going to have today? all of that coming up very easy to get involved. just visit gbnews.com/yoursay and join the conversation, keeping me company. this hour. we've got a great panel for you. it's going to get very fiery . is journalist to get very fiery. is journalist and broadcaster jj and obe and and broadcasterjj and obe and broadcaster mike parry. but before we get stuck into the stories, let's get the news headunes stories, let's get the news headlines with sam francis .

headlines with sam francis. >> dawn, thank you very much indeed. good afternoon to you. 12:02 and we'll start this hour with the latest news coming to us from gloucestershire that a 1777 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman was found dead there. officers were called to a house in fairfield road in cheltenham in the early hours of this morning, where they found a 66 year old woman with serious injuries and sadly she died at the scene . oasis fans are facing the scene. oasis fans are facing major challenges this morning, booking their tickets for the upcoming reunion tour. experts are also warning bots could be snapping up large numbers of the tickets, leading to website crashes and customers being blocked. ticketmaster, one of the major sellers, insists their site hasn't crashed, but fans are still reporting outages and long queues . police in the west long queues. police in the west midlands are actively investigating the fatal stabbing

of a 13 year old boy. a murder inquiry has been launched following the tragic incident in oldbury on thursday, with no arrests made so far. oldbury on thursday, with no arrests made so far . west arrests made so far. west midlands police have assured the pubuc midlands police have assured the public that those responsible will be brought to justice. chief superintendent kim madill is urging residents to come forward with any information and we are following active lines of enquiry to find the suspects. >> we know that the incident took place inside his home and i would appeal to anyone who has information to come forward. we have local officers and youth workers in the area over the coming days, so please speak to them directly. if you have any concerns or information that you would like to pass to us. >> travellers at heathrow airport are facing disruption this morning and as border force staff go on strike, around 650 members of the pcs union have walked out in protest over rota disputes. with that strike

lasting for four days. and further disruption is also expected from midweek next week as workers refuse to do overtime, leading to an overtime ban. despite the escalating tensions, the home office says it is committed to continuing the conversation to resolve the dispute . a newly elected labour dispute. a newly elected labour mp has issued a public apology over reports of serious faults in some of his london rental properties. jaz athwal, who represents ilford south, owns 15 flats where tenants have complained about black mould and ant infestations . he says he's ant infestations. he says he's shocked at the reports and vowed to take immediate action to address the issues . address the issues. international news and a 32 year old woman has been arrested in germany after six people were injured in a knife attack on a bus heading to a festival last night. three of those attacked in the incident, east of cologne, are in a life threatening condition, with another three have been discharged from hospital . discharged from hospital. authorities in germany say there is no evidence at this stage of

a political or a religious motive . fighting in gaza is set motive. fighting in gaza is set to pause tomorrow as part of a plan to roll out polio vaccines to hundreds of thousands of children. the scheme will be staggered during breaks in the conflict over three days. it comes as after last week, health officials confirmed that a baby had been paralysed by the virus. the first case there, in 25 years. the social media platform x , has been banned in brazil x, has been banned in brazil after a long standing disinformation row. the move follows a feud between elon musk and the supreme court in brazil over a failure to block accounts that were accused of spreading fake news and hate. in response, elon musk posted on x last night, calling the move an attack on the number one source of truth . new research reveals of truth. new research reveals that ozempic could do more than just fight obesity. it could also slow down ageing . in also slow down ageing. in a study of over 17,000 people over the age of 45, the anti—obesity

drug semaglutide not only reduced the risk of death for those with heart disease, but also cut mortality rates from all causes, experts say. the breakthrough could have significant implications for treating obesity and extending healthy lifespans . well, could healthy lifespans. well, could teachers classrooms be the future of education? a class of 20 gcse students at one london school certainly hope so. they are set to spend a year learning from. i the bots will personalise their lessons, identifying areas where the students could need more support, but headteachers say education shouldn't be taken out of educators hands. david game college, though, says the trial will be closely monitored to assess the impact on learning outcomes . and finally, parts of outcomes. and finally, parts of england could see flooding this weekend as heavy rain and thunderstorms sweep across the southwest. the met office have issued a yellow weather warning for flooding , power cuts and for flooding, power cuts and travel disruption. they say up to 75mm of rain could fall in

under an hour with lightning, hail and strong winds also posing threats on sunday. despite the uncertainty, residents across southern and central england are being urged to stay alert for sudden severe weather. those are the latest headunes weather. those are the latest headlines for now. i'll be back with another update date in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gb news. >> .com. forward slash alerts . >> .com. forward slash alerts. >> .com. forward slash alerts. >> thank you very much, sam. right let's get straight into today's stories. but first. but first i just want to read yous lot of getting frisky already, aren't you? gbnews.com/yoursay just want to read this out because you came to me quite early on. you said you might have seen me grab something off the desk and starbreaker. good afternoon. starbreaker said. what's in that bottle? we didn't

see what you did see it? and given that west ham are playing man city later on today, could be anything. could be gin, couldn't it? it wasn't. it was a soft drink. sadly any case now you know. so let's get straight into today's story, now to our top story . don't look back into today's story, now to our top story. don't look back in angen top story. don't look back in anger. although many of you are. many of you have probably punched your laptops already this morning. ticketmaster has crashed as oasis fans attempt to get hold of tickets for their reunion tour. according to betfair, fans are predicted to have just 7% chance of success today. good luck if you're trying to do this, with many set to experience major upset. and i've been reading some of the stuff online here. oh my god, some of you have spent hours on there. get to the ticket room just about to hit purchase and you get error 503 mysterious. whatever that means. i don't know, but it means you don't get your tickets after hours and hours. sympathies with you all, but oasis have issued a warning against people reselling those tickets. if you've got them at higher prices, because some of

them on the resale ticket sites have been going for up to £10,000 for a standing seat. a how did they get those tickets? b how are they reselling them ? b how are they reselling them? surely that's got to be some kind of illegal thing going on there in any case, joining me now to explain all of this madness is music publicist michael infant. michael, thank you very much for joining. now, lots and lots of very, very angry ' lots and lots of very, very angry , frustrated people have angry, frustrated people have been hitting refresh and staring at their laptops since 8:00 this morning, how what? firstly, this is an amazing feat of publicity, isn't it? the way this has been handled, the relaunch of oasis . handled, the relaunch of oasis. >> yeah. good morning dawn, >> yeah. good morning dawn, >> i just on your note there. i think i'll start a band called error 503, because i think actually that that'll cheer on a lot of searches moving forward , lot of searches moving forward, i look this morning on sites like, giga berg. i think it was. and i saw, i saw on there amazingly , tickets selling for 3 amazingly, tickets selling for 3 to £5000 and a top end. if you

go to the bottom of their, website offering, it was £104,000. now, i don't know what you get for £104,000, but of course, you know , clearly oasis course, you know, clearly oasis not seeing a piece of that . the not seeing a piece of that. the most important thing i think that we're seeing here is the spectacular rise of the way music concerts have grown in the last years. now. i did a bit of research and i've checked it back to 19, i think 89, when steel wheel, the rolling stones, promoted by michael cole, realised he was a sports promoter and he realised that people would go to concerts and he saw band aid and the success of band aid, where it was £25 a ticket back then for band aid, which was affordable. i mean , a which was affordable. i mean, a lot of money in the 80s, but still affordable. when you're talking of thousands of pounds, you know, it's not affordable. and of course, back then, bands like steely dan , you went along like steely dan, you went along as a fan to watch them, to watch them play the middle eight, to watch them play and perform. and this was very fan orientated. now it's a spectacular. the

pyros, the spectacular, the guests, whoever else is going to be there. that's what starts driving these inter mega shows. we've only got to see what taylor swift has done in the last three months of her touring and prices, and the celebration , and prices, and the celebration, the merchandise, so we can fully expect these spectacular shows not to be you know, a show like behind the greenford tavern back as it was in the 60s and 70s. but the alien sites, the bad sites, i don't know if there's criminality involved here, but certainly civil answer is the way the band are doing the right thing. they do this thing at comic con as well. if you try and buy tickets from second hand handlers, you may be refused entry. so a good warning to fans to try, but it's got enormously frustrating . and oasis are about frustrating. and oasis are about to enter. is it a farewell tour or is it, you know, is it frank sinatra? is it going to be more comebacks than frank sinatra? i don't know, the one thing i can say, and it's really important. nostalgic music is a legacy. it

is an amazing piece of british history, and it is also monetised at the highest level. we ourselves acquire music copyright. we spent millions buying music copyrights over the years, and i've discussed that on your show in the past, so we're going to see more of this. i'd like to see the jam reform. you know, i'd like to see a lot of the bands, lots of people have been saying that let's let's get paul weller and paul mccartney together because he talked oasis into it. now, mr weller changed his name to paul because he was a fan of paul mccartney . and i know that mr mccartney. and i know that mr foxton and mr mr buckler would be more than happy to get together and put these together . together and put these together. so i think we'll see more. but we've got to police the ticket price. it's got to be fan centric. we've got to make the fans can afford it. and can you criminalise it? no go back to the old days when ticket touts still do appear outside stadiums for football games, etc. it's a problem for many, many years, but i think with the internet now you can move in on these eagle eagle sites. and perhaps the biggest way of doing it is

the biggest way of doing it is the credit card companies being asked not to recognise these sites. and perhaps that's a civil action to say if you're in a second—hand retailing site, visa will only allow you to spend £500 or 300, put a maximum on the sites . but that's just an on the sites. but that's just an idea from me. oh, that's an interesting thought. >> just very, very quickly, michael, because we're running out of time before you go, this this concert feels like it's been oh, it's just oh, the boys are back talking to each other. let's do a concert. this has been planned for months and months. isn't it ? months. isn't it? >> listen, i think anything like hollywood is planned well in advance. perhaps whoever organised it can even get william and harry back together . william and harry back together. and perhaps they could do it. they could do a reunion tour. perhaps we saw the start of it, but. but i'd like to say that i think that seeing more legacy bands put back together is a must, and fans, real fans, need to campaign for that whilst the bands are still alive, paul mccartney famously said he would have got back together with the beatles. sadly, that's not going to happen. but hey, the rolling stones are still going out with

just a few of them. don't give up hope they're still rings from paul up hope they're still rings from paul, thank you very much. >> that's michael vincent, music publicist there. thank you very much for joining publicist there. thank you very much forjoining us and trying much for joining us and trying to make sense of well, the mad basically there is a bin oasis this morning. basically there is a bin oasis this morning . now let's see what this morning. now let's see what my panel make of that , i have my panel make of that, i have got my panel make of that, i have 90t jj my panel make of that, i have got jj and obi dada and the lovely mike parry dada. thank you very much for joining me. and mike, i'm going to come to you first because i know you're a big beatles fan. you're huge. and oasis have been accused constantly of just being a cut price a pound shop if you like, beatles. are you excited about them? yeah, absolutely. >> i mean , look, you know, i'm >> i mean, look, you know, i'm sorry, but i'm going back to the old days now. but when the beatles broke up, as far as i'm concerned, music ended. there was nothing going on until oasis came along. and i don't think they're a pound shop beatles. i think they've been influenced by the beatles, as almost everybody since the beatles has , but they since the beatles has, but they exhibited extreme talent , exhibited extreme talent, extreme music. musician what am

i going? musical talent okay, to be able to write their own songs, write their own records, which were just as exciting as some beatles tracks, but completely unique and different. i'm so glad they're getting back together again. and by the way, in my view, they've done it just in my view, they've done it just in time because neither neither of them has turned 60 yet. i think they're sort of 58 and 56 or 50, whereas michael, the publicist there, mentioned the rolling stones to me, the rolling stones to me, the rolling stones to me, the rolling stones are just a sheer embarrassment when they do a live concert now. i'm sorry. it's like watching some doddery old pensioner gasping for breath, you know, just about staggering around. and i don't want to see that, but i do want to see, oasis at their very, very best. i had a huge spat with liam gallagher a few years ago. >> that doesn't surprise me. yeah well, i just happened to be in a pub one day, and i was just flicking through my. >> what was twitter in those days? and he was again mowing. our kid won't talk to me. we can't get a reunion on. and i just put out a tweet bearing in

mind he gets millions saying, liam, that's because your brother noel is a lennon mccartney style, record writer and singer, whereas you are a pub singer and out, right? he came back with a volley of just a really abusive. i think i must be the most hated person in his life because he said, i wrote don't look back in anger. didn't you know that? and all this kind of stuff. so look, i'm looking forward to it tremendously. i haven't applied to tickets because that sort of thing is such an energy rush now. i think it's beyond me. >> i was going to say i thought given your relationship with them, they'd be, you know, might want to come to the gig. yes. come backstage with us. yes. how about you, jj? >> i was up this morning queuing. >> oh. were you? so you've been involved? >> i was involved , right? >> i was involved, right? >> i was involved, right? >> tell us. >> tell us. >> all three screens eventually had the error code. even on my phone. >> two laptops, three, 503 things. >> whatever it means. it's like the icloud. no one knows it's there. >> i got tickets, then i went to pay- >> i got tickets, then i went to pay. then the error comes up. but my friend nicole douglas,

who lives in australia, were on the phone at the same time. she managed to get four tickets to manchester. so i am going to go. >> so your friend in australia managed to get tickets for tickets for manchester? >> for manchester? >> for manchester? >> you in london, i'm assuming. yeah >> got zero, got nothing. >> got zero, got nothing. >> how long did it take you, jj, to get zero, >> 2.5 hours. nearly two 45 minutes. yeah. i was almost late here because i was still online, hoping i was going to get through again, but it didn't happen. well, this is the thing, isn't it? >> i mean, i have tried for tickets for the olympics. i was i remember doing that and it's like you're on there and it's like you're on there and it's like you're on there and it's like you're sort of like, you know, 450,000in the queue. and it's like, yeah, yeah, and, but, but you get so far in, you think, well, i can't walk away now. yeah exactly. >> the thing is, being in our business and dawn and i were in the newspaper business for a very long time. i'm arrogant enough to hope that somebody will invite me into their box at one of the. yeah, yeah, i just don't. i just have that arrogance of, you know, somebody will want me there. i mean, i've forgotten that i'm yesterday's man. and i still have this thought that i will. but the

idea actually, you know, staying up for six hours at night trying to get a ticket, those days are way behind me, right? >> yeah. okay. by the way, you've been told to shut up on here. you have master black belt. hiya. says mick jagger dances about, like a 20 year old, and he's not out of breath at all. well, yeah. i'm sorry. >> i think it's embarrassing . >> i think it's embarrassing. >> i think it's embarrassing. >> no, that's a bit harsh on sir mick. >> well, let's move to on something that other people are always saying is embarrassing . always saying is embarrassing. that's angela rayner she enjoys a vape, has spoken of a love of the lethal venom cocktail. yes labour's deputy prime minister angela rayner is certainly no stranger to a party. she has hit the headlines after she was spotted partying in the dj booth of an ibiza nightclub. oh, the horror , but that's very horror, but that's very different from the sombre tone of her boss sir keir starmer, struck on tuesday when he warned brits to be bracing for the pain yet to come. at the budget in october. now jj, we're going to come to you first on this one. i'm sure you've been partying in

the occasional dj box in your time. yeah. what do you make of this? having a go at angela? >> it's strange because most criticism i've seen about her is people. it's almost like a snobbish reaction to, oh, what's she doing over there ? partying. she doing over there? partying. why isn't she working there? they're on recess . she's on they're on recess. she's on holiday. she's doing nothing wrong. she's doing nothing wrong, and she wants to go to ibiza and party. it's not my kind of scene to be honest. ibiza. i prefer somewhere with a bit more alcohol and less of the other stuff. >> but she likes a venom. come on, she likes a venom. yeah, what a venom is. but it sounds lethal. >> some kind of strange mixed. mixed cocktail. yeah. i don't think. i don't see anything wrong with it. i don't think it's embarrassing, whether people like it or not, she is a she is a semi quasi celebrity, i suppose. and there are a lot of people who are going to be in ibiza from england who are going to see her and be like, oh yeah, look , rayner's raving with us look, rayner's raving with us and they're going to enjoy it. she was i mean, she was out there with denise van outen, i think at a high in ibiza, which used to be space. >> if you're of that generation. and who is this? nadine dorries has written a column about this today saying i don't begrudge

anyone a break, but angela rayner's behaviour demeans her office and calls her, you know, keeps going. oh, she's a granny. she's 44, by the way . she's 44, by the way. >> doesn't matter what age she is. >> people are being very sneery. i think it's because i don't think it's sneery at all. >> i think nadine doris is right. i don't agree with everything nadine doris says. you know, she's written a book of extraordinary claims about the political world. but just to get the timing at 6:50 pm. on wednesday night, angela rayner was chairing a political meeting. a government meeting. she's the deputy prime minister. and by 4 am, the following morning. yeah, right. the following morning i'm talking about less than eight hours later. so what? she's she's. well, hey, how did she get there? >> on a plane? mike it takes about two hours. who's playing easyjet? >> ryanair ? i have no idea. i'd >> ryanair? i have no idea. i'd like to know. but secondly. secondly, remember, she's part of a new government and should be seen to be putting all her energy into getting. she's on houday energy into getting. she's on holiday , getting the agenda

holiday, getting the agenda going. you're not on holiday. you've just come into government. she's on holiday, cancelled his his holiday. she should have cancelled hers. she's deputy prime minister. what about the other thing ? what what about the other thing? what about michael gove? just let me finish. the other thing is she's part of a government now which is taking the winter fuel payment off millions of pensioners. and yet she's illustrated here. but any time i want to go to the mediterranean, i can jump on a plane. i can jump i can jump on a plane. i can jump well, anytime it is. this is it after work. this is. >> yeah, but this is the specific time. she's. she's on holiday. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> she's entitled to a holiday. >> she's entitled to a holiday. >> the people who she should be serving, she's entitled to a holiday. >> and this is the time when mps are supposed to be on holiday. so she's actually done nothing wrong. you can say you don't like it, but this is her allocated holiday time. it's not dunng allocated holiday time. it's not during some global crisis when she's supposed to be at parliament. no one's been called back. she's on holiday, having a holiday. when michael gove was seen partying many times when he was in office at conferences, in random nightclubs which have the same opinion of that. >> michael gove also thought he looked pathetic. i thought for a man of michael gove's age to go

to a nightclub in glasgow or aberdeen and start giving it a so what's wrong with people dancing ? i think it's pathetic. dancing? i think it's pathetic. >> mike, you're ageist, you are , >> mike, you're ageist, you are, you are. i'm not ageing mick jaggen you are. i'm not ageing mick jagger. now it's i mean, we didn't see theresa may do. >> we did sort of thing the maybot. that's what we saw when she came on stage at the party conference. she didn't say flitting off in the middle of the night, saying, oh, i think i'll go to a disco in ibiza dunng i'll go to a disco in ibiza during recess. >> she can do what she wants. >> she can do what she wants. >> i think it just gives completely the wrong. >> so you want politicians? you want politicians to not have any fun when you're when you're an mp, you're saying you can't go to a nightclub. you can't go out and have have a dance and a boogie and have a drink. >> i want to know that the politicians who've been voted into office are applying themselves to their job, and frankly, even on holiday, very, very bad optics, just very quickly, because we are running out of time. >> were you as angry with, let's say, nigel farage, for example, straight after the general election , he left clacton, where election, he left clacton, where he had just won and flew out to america. were you as angry with him for doing that? >> well, he made that clear that that was part of his political job. he was going to america to study more about politics. okay

and we didn't see him. hang on. you didn't see it. you didn't see him in mar—a—lago. you know , see him in mar—a—lago. you know, giving it this on donald trump's dance floor. did you ? under the dance floor. did you? under the under the glitter ball. he went there because it was part of what he does. he's a politician. >> you've been drinking the kool—aid , mike. kool—aid, mike. >> right. maybe a venom. maybe. maybe a venom. thank you very much, gentlemen. a great fun, although slightly ageist, has to be said. right. i'm dawn neesom. this is gb news. and there's loads more coming up on today's show. first cigarettes, now booze. nanny state concerns raised over rumours of minimum alcohol pricing. oh lord, all of that and much more to come. this is gb britain's news channel. we'll see you very, very soon.

hello and welcome back. i'm dawn neesom and this is the weekend. indeed, on the weekend. and i hope you're having a really good one out there. now, loads of you have been sending your messages in and do keep them coming. and

lots of people are quite angry at mr perry, who is with me still for having a go at older people. mick jagger in particular. >> i'm not having a go at older people, having a go at older rock stars who actually should know that they are now an embarrassment when they try to get up on stage and perform like they did 60 years. >> but lots of people agree with you as well. brent in exeter. hi. brian says, rayna, this is angela rayner partying down in ibiza. rayna needs to grow up. the optics of her prancing around and sticking two fingers up at pensioners is appalling. absolutely look, it is completely possible to think what they're doing to pensioners is outrageous. and i think most of us do. i really do. however, it's also, you know, that doesn't mean you can't think that a politician, whoever they are, can go on holiday. and there is nothing wrong with middle aged women dancing in ibiza. >> precisely, exactly right. >> precisely, exactly right. >> okay. oh, and meanwhile, this is , a some. sorry, i pronouncing is, a some. sorry, i pronouncing that wrong on oasis. tickets.

360,000 people ahead of me in the queue. >> oh. >> oh. >> still queuing? yeah yeah. good luck with that one. now, you might need a drink if you're queuing. actually, to be honest with you, which is where this story comes in handy. pub bosses have been warned ministers could bnngin have been warned ministers could bring in minimum alcohol pricing as part of the government's pubuc as part of the government's public health drive. but a number 10 spokesman insisted there was no plans to introduce . there was no plans to introduce. such a measure. where have we heard that before? right. it comes as star announced he was considering banning smoking in beer gardens and pretty much everywhere else apart from your own back garden. i'm asking, are we heading towards the end? the era of prohibition? well, we've still got jj and mike parry with me , mike, i am going to i'm me, mike, i am going to i'm bravely going to start with you first on this one. yeah when i read about the smoking thing, my dad died of lung cancer. when i read about the smoking thing, i thought, right, okay. yeah. i mean, smoking is horrible. it does kill people. and we do need some. you know, this is worth talking about. the smoking thing, whether you agree with it or not, is another matter. but we do need to have this

conversation. but and then people say, oh, they'll be coming for alcohol next and they'll be coming for your fast food. and be careful what you wish for. you won't be allowed to eat a biscuit without being hauled off to jail. yeah, and the very next morning it's like, hold on. pub bosses have been warned ministers could bring in minimum alcohol pricing as part of the government's health drive. >> i mean, it's very typical of this government. they have a totally socialist view of life and that is we're the good people. we've got to look after you lot because you're the bad people. we will tell you to how run your lives. we know what's best for you. but more than anything, we want you to know that we're in charge and we can control your lives . and it won't control your lives. and it won't stop now. it won't stop at minimum alcohol pricing. i'll tell you what else is going to come , because this is the come, because this is the mindset of this government junk food treats. those are what they call the free refills of coffee. you know, in cafes and restaurants. alcohol. we're going to talk about minimum price rule. guilt free pints. they're going to put the calorie

content of your drinks. oh my god. on the front of the beer pumps. gambling, they'll have another assault on smoking outside. and the one that i think they'll go after as well because of their goody two shoes attitude to life is fishing. i think they'll go after fishing and say, that's got to be banned as well, because if they can ban it, they will ban it because they like to make your lives miserable to let you know they're in charge. >> but but however, they're not saying they're going to ban alcohol or they're going to ban no plans. they're not going to ban, which means yes, they are, which means we've got lots of plans. but it was the last government under sunak. it was the tories who wanted to actually ban smoking. i totally agree, didn't agree with that. labour are not saying they're going to ban smoking, they simply want to reduce it because it's bad for people's health. and 20, 30 years ago, when they started putting adverts on tobacco products, people had the same outrage then. but actually in the long term, it saved lives. and the reason i'm not completely against them putting a minimum price on junk food or making gambling harder is because all of the vices that

are bad for people happen predominantly in poor areas. i'm a working class guy. i grew up in a working class area. i still live in a working class neighbourhood and all we and then, you know, all we see around there is gambling shops , around there is gambling shops, takeaways, off licences, alcohol, cigarettes, all the things that are bad for us are given to us in those poor areas to make society wealthier. >> and, and that problem goes away itself . so growth in the away itself. so growth in the economy, that's what i would like, what i would like, what i would like is for them to make those things keep them in there if, if you want to, but make it more difficult just to make it more difficult just to make it more difficult just to make it more difficult for people to buy cigarettes, make it more difficult for junk food, because obesity is what's killing the country. you don't get growth if you close businesses down. >> we're not saying we're not saying closed businesses. >> you start banning pub gardens because smokers can't go there. you will close pubs down. i'm not saying to ban pubs, you suffer from this. i'm not saying society. jj you've got to balance the negatives of a situation with the positives and see what's best. don't always take all the negatives and say we're right smoking, but you're saying you're the one saying to ban, not me. smoking in pub gardens should be allowed because it's a freedom that we

have inherited in this country and we should cherish it, not ban it. it's outrageous. >> i'm not suggesting that we should ban smoking. that's the opposite of what i've said. i said we should make it more difficult which which successive governments have done. legislation has been going on for the last 20 years. so we don't smoke in pubs. yeah. and that's good and that's good. so if they, if they were to extend it to alcohol and to junk food and to gambling, i'd be okay with that. i'm not saying get rid of it. i'm saying make it more difficult. no i don't agree. >> but the thing is, with the alcohol thing, very quickly we run out of time so much because you two are so brilliant. i mean, sort of like the minimum alcohol pricing, which is that the government have denied they're doing. so don't hold your breath on this one. they've had it in scotland since 2018. and guess what it did in scotland. yeah. oh yes. they've had the highest number of alcohol deaths in three years after that. absolutely. >> i mean scotland and wales both have it. they're the worst drunk countries in the world. wales is the worst drunk country in the world. scotland announced only a month ago record numbers of deaths from drug addicts. so they know all about, you know how to manage society, don't

they? no they don't. >> right. >> right. >> okay. shall we move on? i'm dawn neesom. this is gb news. and there's lots more coming up on stage. quite fire, isn't it? on today's show. now, this could be good news. our weight loss jabs are secret to eternal youth. but first, let's get the news headlines with sam francis, who has already discovered eternal youth. so he doesn't really need it, does it? sam, over to you . over to you. >> dawn, thank you very much indeed. good afternoon to you. 12:33. and the top story this lunchtime , hundreds of thousands lunchtime, hundreds of thousands of oasis fans have been left disappointed after getting caught up in long online queues for tickets. the band's back together for a string of dates in the uk and ireland next year, but they've warned that tickets resold at inflated prices will be cancelled. some seats originally sold last night dunng originally sold last night during early access are now being resold for over £6,000. humanitarian workers are preparing for a major polio

vaccine vaccination operation in gaza starting tomorrow. brief pauses in fighting have been agreed to allow for the medical scheme to be rolled out there. it comes after last week health officials in the region confirmed that a baby had been paralysed by the virus in the first case in the territory in 25 years. a 77 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman was found deadin murder after a woman was found dead in gloucestershire . dead in gloucestershire. officers were called to a house in fairfield road in cheltenham in fairfield road in cheltenham in the early hours of this morning, where they found a 66 year old woman with serious injuries . she sadly died at the injuries. she sadly died at the scene . meanwhile, in the west scene. meanwhile, in the west midlands , police there say they midlands, police there say they are actively investigating the fatal stabbing of a 13 year old boy, a murder inquiry has been launched following the attack in oldbury on thursday, though no arrests have been made so far. detectives have assured the pubuc detectives have assured the public that those responsible will be brought to justice. the scottish national party are

accusing labour of taking a hammer to public services at their annual conference in edinburgh. the snp's westminster leader, stephen flynn, is set to deliver his first speech since last month's election, where the party lost dozens of mps. flynn is also expected to accuse the government of inflicting austerity cuts and misery on the public, and he'll position the snp as the party offering hope in the face of challenges . a 32 in the face of challenges. a 32 year old woman has been arrested in germany after six people were injured in a knife attack on a bus heading to a festival last night. three of those attacked in the incident, east of cologne are in a life threatening condition, with another three discharged from hospital. german authorities say at this stage there is no evidence of a political or a religious motive , political or a religious motive, and featureless classrooms with pupils being taught by ai are being trialled at a london school. this year, a class of 20 gcse students at david game college will spend the year learning from bots, the school

says the tech will pinpoint the area's pupils may need help with, but headteachers say education shouldn't be taken out of educators hands . those are of educators hands. those are the latest headlines for now, a full round up at the top of the 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

>> good morning . welcome back. >> good morning. welcome back. good morning. good afternoon even oh my gosh . which which even oh my gosh. which which bnngs even oh my gosh. which which brings me straight to this comment coming in from you which ihave comment coming in from you which i have to read out. dawn, how's your head. this morning, this afternoon even. sorry would you like some ear defenders sat between those two? must drive you mad. keep your comments in. especially those . it's a great

especially those. it's a great compliment. this is shut up. this is the weekend at the weekend. and it is indeed the afternoon. and i'm just checking dawn neesom still, right . okay. dawn neesom still, right. okay. now, serious subject are weight loss jabs. the secret to eternal youth? now, before you comment, i haven't obviously taken any, researchers have found that ozempic, which is used to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity , type 2 diabetes and obesity, could also slow down the process of ageing. it was also revealed that the drug could be used to treat, to treat a wide range of illnesses linked to heart failure, arthritis , alzheimer's failure, arthritis, alzheimer's and even cancer. it's starting to sound like a miracle drug. this isn't it. joining me now to discuss this is a gp doctor, lawrence gerlis. doctor lawrence, thank you very much for joining us. now you read forjoining us. now you read this about ozempic and zigi, which i thought was for people with type 2 diabetes, seems to do so much more. what do you make of what we're reading today? >> well, it's an interesting study. they gave quite a high dose 2.4 microgram milligrams of semaglutide ozempic for three

years, which is . a long time. years, which is. a long time. and you'd expect in three years that that sort of dose people would lose weight. which understandably, they did. and if you lose weight, it's good for your heart. it's for good diabetes, it's good for arthritis. you'll live longer. now, the question is, and this is still an open question, does ozempic have any additional benefit? right to living a long time other than losing weight and we don't know the answer to that yet. but i think, you know , that yet. but i think, you know, it's certainly encouraging. it's a medication that some of my patients need and ask for, and we use . and it doesn't work for we use. and it doesn't work for everyone, but it does help you to lose weight quite dramatically. and we haven't had anything for years that's effective in helping people to lose weight. so i think from that point of view it's useful. i don't want people to get carried away with the idea that we should give this to everyone. we'll all live longer. that's an argument. that's a line. i just don't think we should go down. i think we'd bankrupt the health

service overnight, and i'm not sure the benefit is exactly what people would expect. >> yeah, i was just going to. you beat me to that question, actually. so are there any downsides to this drug? i mean, i've read there are some side effects. >> yeah, i've seen people some people get very nauseous. it does cause a sense of nausea. that feeling you get of , you that feeling you get of, you know, after a meal, satiety, you're satiated. but that can actually cause nausea. there have been people with abdominal cramps, people with abdominal obstruction, i've seen people with odd side effects, hair loss, for example , some of my loss, for example, some of my patients have had. so you don't get anything for nothing. in pharmaceutical terms, you're going to expect some side effects, you know , just building effects, you know, just building on the point i made before the idea that you can, you know, get people to live longer. and that's for good the health service, you know, and it's the same argument about stopping smoking, whether it's in pubs or outdoors. it prevention is good

for the individual. if you want to live a long time , you're to live a long time, you're going to stay slim. you're going to keep fit. you're not going to smoke, you're going to reduce alcohol, you're going to have a low fat diet. all of those things are good for the individual. if you try and do it for the population. you know, i have to say this is a terrible thing to say. we all die anyway and most money is spent on us in the last three weeks of our life. so if you spend a lot of money on a prevention program, you don't necessarily save the health service money. good for the individual, but at the end, we all cost money in this free for all health service. and you know, if you're going to spend a fortune on injectable drugs and these are not cheap drugs. yes. yeah you're not going to see a benefit that's going to save the health service money either. in the long or girl. >> sorry. unfortunately we are running out of time though. but thank you so much for explaining that, thank you very much indeed. we are running out of time quickly, but i still have my panel with me, jj and mike, i'm going to come to you first.

mike, seeing as you're the elder member of the panel, ozempic and wegovy , i mean, it's, you know, wegovy, i mean, it's, you know, who wants to live forever . who wants to live forever. >> oasis would say right now, this ozempic . right. this ozempic. right. >> very quick answer. >> very quick answer. >> yeah. i wonder if it's going to the wrong people. a friend of mine, a female friend of mine who i didn't think was overweight, got hold of ozempic and now looks skeletal . she got and now looks skeletal. she got obsessed by it and started injecting it and i said to her, what's happened to you? what's wrong with you? she said, don't i look great? she'd been injecting himself with ozempic to get even slimmer. >> yeah, it's the old eating disorder thing. as well here, isn't it? yeah. >> look, it's not rocket science. this is misleading to say it's going to prevent ageing. what it does is it makes you lose weight, which means you're going to perhaps live longer. you're not going to have the other side effects of being obese. like the doctor says, eat healthy, drink less alcohol, don't smoke exercise. that's how people stay slim. this is not going to change your habits. you take ozempic all you want. you can still eat bad food and still your arteries will still be clogged up. yeah, so i'm not a fan of it. i think if you want

to live longer exercise, i'm not. >> and i got rid of my diabetes two by doing everything the doctor talked about. i was four stone overweight. i was i was drinking dandelion and burdock, eating chocolate and cakes. i gave all that up. i lost four stone in weight, exercised, and i literally got rid of type 2 diabetes. >> wow. >> wow. >> you reversed it, i reversed it, i reversed it, yeah. perfect. absolutely. for you. >> yeah, exactly. because this is the other problem with this drug is that you can buy it privately £200 a month, according to this report. and but people are buying it privately for the wrong reasons. many people who don't need to lose weight. so it's depriving the market people who are type two diabetic who really need it. >> yeah, it is, it is. but unfortunately it's capitalist society. if it's available to buy and you can afford to buy it, go for it, buy it. i know lots of people who are taking it, got lots of friends who buy it, got lots of friends who buy it, who don't need it, but they want to do it for aesthetic reasons. yeah, it's being abused. >> yeah, shadow of a doubt. >> yeah, shadow of a doubt. >> people are lazy. that's it. people are lazy. they want the magic bullet. they don't want to put in the hard work, the hard graft of, like mike did, of changing their habits. they just want a quick fix. and that's what we've got now. >> that's absolutely true. people should take me as an example of a medical miracle

because i'm serious. that's all i did was give up chocolate, dandern i did was give up chocolate, dandelion and burdock sweets. >> dandelion and burdock. yeah, iused >> dandelion and burdock. yeah, i used to. you're really showing your age, mike. >> dandelion in the middle of the night and drink a litre of dandern the night and drink a litre of dandelion and burdock. really? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> well, that's a sign of diabetes. >> yeah , yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> to the medical miracle that is mike parry. thank you very much. follow the shining example here, and to jj and obe , thank here, and to jj and obe, thank you very much for joining me today on the panel. i'm dawn neesom. this is gb news. and there's lots more coming up on today's show, djokovic crashes out of the us open. lots of sport as well. a bit of football coming up, which i'm very interested in, by the way. all of that and much more to come. is gb news britain's channel. we'll see you very

soon. hey welcome back to the weekend. at the weekend with me dawn neesom. hope you're having a cracking time out there. now

we're going to talk sport because it is indeed the weekend, tennis star novak djokovic has suffered a major upset at the hands of alexei popyrin , knocking him out of the popyrin, knocking him out of the us open. that's as football transfer window officially closed, with man united's jadon sancho sealing a deal with chelsea. see, i understood the second bit i was reading out there. you might have spotted that the first bit. no idea. tennis, joining me now to explain tennis and football is sports broadcaster aidan magee hit it over the net and you've got to try and keep it in the box. i've got that bit. yeah. got that bit. yeah. and then the rest of it completely over my head. >> well, look, it was huge news coming out of new york overnight. basically a couple of hours before i arrived this morning at about 5:00. and djokovic out of the us open. now, look, he's 37, science says, and time says that he can't go on forever. but he'd not he'd not been knocked out this early in in in the us open for 18 years. it means he's gone a year now without winning or he'll go a calendar year now without winning a grand slam for

the first time since 2017, when he had a bad year, he'd been consistently winning before that as well. i think it's to do with scheduling. i mean, as much as anything, he's been generally pretty good form. he got to the wimbledon final, he won the olympics. don't forget he won gold. yeah, yeah . so if you look gold. yeah, yeah. so if you look at tennis have been playing. yes it is . i mean you think alcaraz it is. i mean you think alcaraz went out the day before. the day before. right. a huge shock. so you've got the french open happening. end of may, start of june, then you've got wimbledon back on the end of that. always a problem with those two so close together. anyway, then you've got the olympics coming in, which only happens once every four years, and then you've got the us open on the back of that so people can moan how much sports people get paid and how often they play and their schedule, but it doesn't. you can pay someone $10 million or you can pay them $1 million. it doesn't make it doesn't increase their energy and their capacity to play . ask any sports capacity to play. ask any sports scientist and they will tell you the same thing. the numbers don't lie. and that's why he said he said yesterday it's the worst tennis i've ever played. so this morning he said, this is the worst tennis i've ever played. and he said that there were no physical issues. he said i just felt gassed out of energy

and that's why he lost. he lost in four sets. it wasn't even close against a guy. alexis dufresne , who is australian, but dufresne, who is australian, but with russian heritage, and he's not ranked number 24. he's he's had some reasonable form this yeah he had some reasonable form this year. he won in montreal recently but but shouldn't really be a threat to djokovic at this stage of the tournament. nonetheless he's out. dan evans and jack draper are still in for britain . now, who would have britain. now, who would have said, you've got two men, two, two, two british men still in the draw in the us open going into the second week and alcaraz and djokovic are both out. doesn't mean they're going to win, but if i were them, i'd be looking at the draw and thinking and thinking. the two big, the two, the two big hitters are out, right? >> okay. and a bit of football going on transfer window closed. >> it was an old school deadline day last night. dawn, the ones i used to be involved in outside the ground freezing my whatever's off and sell one in the morning and we saw some big deals last night. now, in my experience, lots of clubs said to me down the years, aidan, we really don't want to be the pantomime club on deadline day

because it conveys a bad image. you don't want to be that club scrambling around looking to do deals at the 11th hour because you don't have a strategy, you don't have a plan because your your transfer policy is throwing mud at the wall and hope that some of it sticks and you just closing your eyes and looking for players. and so that's what it felt like last night, because raheem sterling ended his misery at chelsea and goes to arsenal. good deal for arsenal because they're paying only paying half of his wages. there's no obugafion of his wages. there's no obligation to buy. arteta worked with him at manchester city. he's 29, he must have lots to give and he's got that crucial title winning experience that a lot of those arsenal players do not have . if he has the know how not have. if he has the know how he can impart onto those younger players, it could be the signing of the window, but he's got to be fit. he's got to be match fit. he's not able to play today. i don't think he was registered in time anyway, but it could be a good deal to them. it's a low risk one for arsenal and then of course sancho. jadon sancho, who's also had an even worse time at man united, goes to chelsea to replace sterling. and there are other deals as well. and ivan toney, i mean nobody wanted him in the premier league. yeah, he's 28. he's 28 and nobody everyone knows if they spend big on him now, they're not going to make any

money on him after the end of a four year contract. so he thought, well blow this, i'm going to take £50 million over three years in saudi. why not? >> well, lots of them do now don't they? and just very quickly, the paralympics were doing rather well aren't we. >> we are indeed four golds on day two to back up the two. we won on on day one, 15 medals in total. won on on day one, 15 medals in total . two. we're second. we're total. two. we're second. we're second behind china, who will always probably always win because they have more athletes. >> you're a genius. thank you very much brian. let's find out what the weather is doing. here's marco . here's marco. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news >> hello. here's your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. we're starting the weekend on a fine note across the bulk of the uk, but over the next couple of days things turning more unsettled. increasingly humid for a while and we'll start to see some thundery downpours developing in places too. high pressure is pulling away towards the north—east of the uk now, allowing a south easterly feed

to develop. this warm front starts to introduce more in the way of cloud from the south, particularly across parts of england and wales. as we head through the evening into the overnight period, 1 or 2 showers also breaking out from that cloud as it starts to thicken from the south, particularly towards the south—east of england later in the night. here there could be thundery in nature those showers, whereas towards the north—west it's clearest. we'll hold on to some good clear spells right through the night. here turning locally quite chilly with temperatures dipping into single figures , but dipping into single figures, but towards the south of the uk, increasingly warm and humid temperatures here in the mid to upper teens. so we start to sunday. then on a pretty clear note towards the north and northwest of the uk, 1 or 2 mist or fog patches in places, though soon burning away to give some sunshine temperatures. responding into the low teens by the early morning as the sun starts to get to work on those temperatures. further south, though , into england and wales though, into england and wales again, more in the way of cloud around. still 1 or 2 showers locally on the heavy side at this stage, mainly towards the south—east of england, and again 1 or 2 of those showers could be thundery in nature on the whole sunday will be a cloudy day. then on saturday i think the best of the sunshine lingering towards the north—west of the uk there. but elsewhere a fair bit

of cloud and a few showers also breaking out in places, particularly across central and southern parts of england and later across the north of england. to some of those showers, turning heavy and thundery, could give 1 or 2 problems, i think, in places with some flooding issues. so the best of the lingering brightness towards the north—west of the uk. notice, though, towards the south—east it's very warm and humid temperatures here into the high 20s.27 temperatures here into the high 20s. 27 celsius. that's 81 in fahrenheit, a bit cooler towards the north—west in the high teens into sunday evening, the showers start to migrate their way northwards, a few starting to push into scotland as we head through sunday evening. elsewhere, though, holding on to a few clear spells . on the a few clear spells. on the whole, though, the start of next week looks pretty unsettled. showers and longer spells of rain around perhaps turning a bit drier towards the middle part of the coming week. >> looks like things are heating up boxt boilers sponsors of weather

gb news. >> hello and good afternoon. it's 1:00 on saturday, the 31st of august and this is the weekend on gb news at the weekend. who'd have thought that ? weekend. who'd have thought that? ihope weekend. who'd have thought that? i hope you're having a wonderful weekend out there. see how many times i can mention the weekend. it's a plug for the show now we have to talk about this, don't we? because many of you are literally punching your laptops, throwing them out the window , throwing them out the window, stomping on them as we speak. fans are up in arms as the oasis website crashes with thousands waiting to see if they can get hold of tickets to their much anticipated reunion tour. hold of tickets to their much anticipated reunion tour . and we anticipated reunion tour. and we also have more drama for starmer as the problems pile up for the prime minister his deputy, angela rayner, is caught letting her hair down in ibiza and first it was the cigarettes. now are they coming for your booze? nanny state concerns raised over rumours of minimum alcohol pricing plans. rumours of minimum alcohol pricing plans . and across the pricing plans. and across the pond, former president donald trump has vowed to bring back the federal death penalty. big

question. is he right on that one? i'm dawn neesom and this is indeed the weekend . indeed the weekend. but this show is nothing without you and your views. and i think your name was joanne. joanne? yes. i'm just reading one of your views right now. see how it works, joanne . just don't have works, joanne. just don't have not have a home to go to. she's on every time i put gb news on. well aj joanne, thank you very much b it's because i'm good. well kind of and c is because the husband begs me to leave the house. okay, that's being completely honest, but let me know your thoughts on all the subjects we're talking about today or anything you want to chat about or just insult me. fine. whatever gbnews.com/yoursay and join the conversation now. great company for the next hour we have former labour advisor scarlett mccgwire

and journalist clare muldoon. thank you very much for joining me. ladies but before we get stuck into today's stories , here stuck into today's stories, here is the news with the very lovely sam francis . sam francis. >> dawn, thank you very much and good afternoon to you. 1:02 and well, if you haven't heard already, oasis fans are sharing their frustration and their anger after error messages and glitches hamper attempts to land tickets for the reunion tour next year. experts are also warning bots could be snapping up large numbers of the tickets, leading to website crashes and customers being kicked out of queues. ticketmaster, one of the major sellers, has insisted their site hasn't crashed, but fans are still reporting outages after this morning's rush . a 77 after this morning's rush. a 77 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman was found dead in gloucestershire . officers were gloucestershire. officers were called to a house in cheltenham in the early hours of this

morning, where they sadly found a 66 year old woman with serious injuries and she died at the scene . police in the west scene. police in the west midlands are actively investigating the fatal stabbing of a 13 year old boy. a murder inquiry has been launched following the incident in oldbury on thursday, though no arrests have been made so far. the west midlands force have assured the public that those responsible will be brought to justice. chief superintendent kim madill is urging residents in the area to come forward with any information, and we are following active lines of enquiry to find the suspects. >> we know that the incident took place inside his home, and i would appeal to anyone who has information to come forward. we have local officers and youth workers in the area over the coming days, so please speak to them directly if you have any concerns or information that you would like to pass to us. >> chief superintendent of the

west midlands force, kim madill. well, travellers at heathrow are facing disruption as border force staff go on strike today . force staff go on strike today. around 650 members of the pcs union have walked out in protest over rota disputes. with that strike lasting for four days. further disruption is also expected from wednesday, as workers refuse to do overtime despite the escalating dispute. the home office says it is committed to continuing talks with workers . a newly elected with workers. a newly elected labour mp has issued a public apology over reports of serious faults in some of his london rental properties. jaz athwal, who represents ilford south, owns 15 flats where tenants have complained about black mould and ant infestations. he says he's shocked at the reports and has vowed to take immediate action to address the issues . new to address the issues. new research has revealed that ozempic could do more than just fight obesity. it could also slow down ageing in a study of over 17,000 people, 45 years or

older. the anti—obesity drug semaglutide not only reduced the risk of death for those with heart disease, but also cut mortality rates from all causes. experts say the breakthrough could have significant implications for treating obesity, as well as extending healthy lifespans . in germany, healthy lifespans. in germany, a 32 year old woman has been arrested after six people were injured in a knife attack on a bus heading to a festival last night. three of those attacked in that incident east of cologne , in that incident east of cologne, are now in a life threatening condition, while another three have been discharged from hospital. german authorities at this stage saying there is no evidence of a political or religious motive and fighting will pause in gaza tomorrow as part of a plan to roll out polio vaccines to hundreds of thousands of children. that scheme will be staggered during breaks in the conflict over three days. it comes after last week health officials confirmed that a baby had been paralysed by the virus, the first such case in the territory in 25

years. and in brazil, the social media platform x has been banned after a long standing disinformation row. that move follows a feud between elon musk and the brazilian supreme court over a failure to block accounts that were accused of spreading fake news and hate. well, in response, mr musk posted on x, calling the move an attack on the number one source of truth . the number one source of truth. teachers are being replaced by ai in a pilot scheme in one london school, a class of 20 gcse students at david game college will try out the new technology this year. it means lessons will be led by bots instead of staff, which some groups say is concerning. however, the college says the trial will be closely monitored . trial will be closely monitored. and finally, it wouldn't be a news bulletin without some weather for you. parts of england could see flooding this weekend as heavy rain and thunderstorms are set to sweep across the south—west. the met office has issued a yellow

warning for flooding, power cuts and travel disruption. they say up to 75mm of rain could fall in under an hour on sunday with lightning, hail and strong winds also posing threats . those are also posing threats. those are the latest headlines for now. i'll be back with you for another update 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 the qr code, or go to gbnews.com. forward slash alerts . gbnews.com. forward slash alerts. >> thank you very much, sam. yeah, that that last report on the weather. well british summer over and done with i think last august. where did that go. but quickly. just want to say hello to catherine. hi, catherine. happy afternoon, on the comments that said poor dawn, but she has to really make herself read these comments. don't worry, i like you. thank you very much, catherine. i like you too and i

love reading the comments out. it's my favourite bit of the show. it really is so gbnews.com/yoursay very simple . gbnews.com/yoursay very simple. talk to me, i love it. it's all about you, not me. well apart from a little bit about me. any case, now to our top story a don't look back in anger ticket selling sales have crashed as oasis fans attempt to get hold . oasis fans attempt to get hold. of them for their reunion tour. according to betfair, fans are predicted to have just a 7% chance of success or good luck with that out there. and with so many set to experience major upset and laptop repair shop being very busy tomorrow, that says oasis have issued a warning against people reselling tickets at a higher price. and if you go on some of those resale sites, they are being listed already for over 7500 pounds. how is this happening? very annoying. joining me now is lead singer of oasis, brian mcgee. brian, hi. how are you doing? hello to you. good to see you. thank you for joining me this afternoon. no problem. now obviously you are an oasis tribute band. you're also very good. so this is good news for you. have you been

trying to get tickets this morning, though? yep. >> and i just got through and i just got kicked out right at the last minute. i selected my tickets and it kicked me off the site. so i'm back at the start of the queue, but i do have my laptop that's still 7000 to go. so fingers crossed for that one. but that doesn't do the same. but that doesn't do the same. but oh my god brian. >> absolute nightmare. how long were you trying to get them? >> since 9 am. this morning. i was like 80,000 in the queue or something. and then. yeah got all the way down to zero. got there and it started coming up with error messages. and then i didn't know to what do. it was stuck on it. and then eventually it came up and you're back at the start of the queue. >> there's a there's a reason that error 503, whatever that is, it's trending. >> yeah. whatever that is. yeah. yeah. >> so brian, i mean, i'm not giving up hope. no. good. good for you. i mean, you'd have thought, seeing as you are actually a very good tribute act, you'd get an invite from the lads. >> you never know. no, nothing as yet. but i'll keep checking my emails. you never know exactly. >> so. no, brian. joking aside, you must be actually like lots and lots of fans out there. really annoyed that you've spent all this time and effort. you

get to it, you're kicked off. you're accused of being a bot . you're accused of being a bot. the system freezes all the usual, and then you go on to the resale websites where they're already being sold 7500 pounds. >> yeah. that's awful. i mean, i don't know how they get away with it. i mean, surely there must be a way you can only resell on the site that you've bought them, like ticketmaster, so you shouldn't be able to download them and put them onto whatever it's called, viagogo or whatever it's called, viagogo or whatever , i just think, yeah, whatever, i just think, yeah, there must be more they could do. there's got to be, because the things like this will just keep happening and unfortunately, the touts will win every time, it's. yeah really bad, >> so, i mean, you're going to keep trying , obviously, but is keep trying, obviously, but is this good news for you and your tribute band? i mean , are you tribute band? i mean, are you going to get more work for this or. >> yeah. i mean , we're already >> yeah. i mean, we're already busy anyway, but recently it's gone. it's gone through the roof, with inquiries, we've been getting, it's. yeah it's going to be mega next year. it's going to be mega next year. it's going to be mega next year. it's going to be a lot of touring involved again. so yeah, i'm happy about

all that , certainly a buzz about all that, certainly a buzz about that. and just hope we get tickets to go and see see the real guys as well. but you never know, >> brian, can i ask you what is it about oasis in particular that has caused this, this complete madness where literally everybody wants to get tickets, even if they're not particularly an oasis fan? it's weird. it's like people are just getting i just i just want to go and see them now because of this feeding frenzy that they've created. >> i think that's what it is. and a lot of it's to do with social media and what's trending these days seem to find . so these days seem to find. so people will probably go to the gig even if they're not an oasis fan, so they can share it on their instagram. oh, look, i've got a ticket. do you know what i mean? and the world's a completely different place now from the 90s, and yeah , i think from the 90s, and yeah, i think that's got a lot to do with it. why there's so much demand. i mean, don't get me wrong, there's a lot of oasis fans, but i think there will be some that aren't as well. >> i think with the right age for nostalgia to start kicking in. brian, just quickly, when's your next gig? my lovely. >> next gig is tonight. we're up

in banff, up at supporting the bay city rollers. so that'll be an interesting. that's a gig. yeah yeah, it's a good one. brilliant. >> thank you very much . that's >> thank you very much. that's our brian mcgee, lead singer of oasis. our brian mcgee, lead singer of oafis.as our brian mcgee, lead singer of oasis. as you just heard playing tonight. if you can't get to see the real thing, get the tickets. i'm sure you can pop along, see bnan i'm sure you can pop along, see brian and his band. thank you very much. now, let's see what my panel make of this one. former labour adviser scarlett mccgwire and journalist clare muldoon. ladies, thank you very much for joining muldoon. ladies, thank you very much forjoining me this much for joining me this afternoon. scarlett, have you been hitting refresh on your laptop all morning? >> i'm not i mean, i think they're great. i think it's wonderful that they're having a reunion, but i'm not going to be part of it. but i think what's so awful is that you've got thousands, hundreds of thousands of people getting it. and then the people that somehow got vip tickets at the beginning, these are the people who are selling them off 7000. >> you assume it has to be. >> you assume it has to be. >> and because because they got them before before it opened and you just think, oh god, why, why do people do that? and you know , do people do that? and you know,

the next thing is, is there's going to be scam tickets is, is that people are going to be buying tickets thinking they're real and they're not. and, and it's a real shame. and of course, you know, we all know that the reason that liam gallagher said yes was because he was going to earn so much money. and so a lot of other people think they can do . i people think they can do. i think i think it's a great shame because i think i think it'll be really good fun for everybody. >> just on that, actually. >> just on that, actually. >> oasis issued a statement on on x three hours ago saying, please note oasis live 25 tickets can only be resold at face value via ticketmaster uk and twickets tickets appearing on other secondary ticketing sites are either counterfeit or will be cancelled by the promoters . well, you just don't promoters. well, you just don't do it. yeah, well, quite. >> but you hope that is the case. but many bands do put that warning out. but you still can end up buying buying tickets. i mean, back in the day i remember where queuing up for the tickets, queuing up for the tickets. in my case it was football tickets. if west ham were in a cup tie, i would go to

the ground and queue up for the tickets and buy them. >> so it evolved. then from queuing to calling, remember and landlines for tickets for bands that you wanted to go and see. goodness me , i saw michael goodness me, i saw michael jackson at glasgow green back in the day. so many great bands, so many wonderful people, and i think that's part of the actual experience. kids at the moment, with their widgets on their laptops, trying to get the tickets. there's people in america that have managed to secure them. absolutely. and australia and yet they can't get them here. yeah, i'd love to go and see them. i love liam gallagher. >> i think i think bordering on a bit of an obsession. >> i think well, well you're going to have to get on your laptop . laptop. >> no, no. if you're listening, but of course, yes, it is the right. we're talking about nostalgia . let's wind it up, nostalgia. let's wind it up, because a lot of people are going, i don't care about about oasis, but it's the whole phenomenon of what this has created. the nostalgia for a band that you went to see. i mean, what has it been, what, 14, 15 years? well, there were 8

in 96, 95, 96 for what, 14, 15, 15 years have been out of the game. so they've been split up for 15 years. so it's that nostalgia that you get after that length of time when you're a certain age looking back, don't you think? >> well, yeah. but also they've never been out of the newspapers, right? i mean , the, newspapers, right? i mean, the, the, the row between liam and noel has just gone on and on and on. >> some classic insults though, weren't they. oh no no no, my favourite is not. my favourite is noel saying about his mum i used to really like my mum until she gave birth to liam . she gave birth to liam. >> just a brilliant, just a brilliant line, isn't it? i mean thatis brilliant line, isn't it? i mean that is what's kept them relevant. >> yeah , but they're also very >> yeah, but they're also very good writers and write good songs. oh, the lyrics are amazing. >> they really, truly are . yeah. >> they really, truly are. yeah. >> they really, truly are. yeah. >> no, it's great, it's great music. and actually it transcends though. >> it transcends generations. >> it transcends generations. >> and i think that's what's really important is, is that that, that i'm, i'm old enough to be pre oasis and i remember

my father saying what about all this . don't my father saying what about all this. don't you find all this, you know, music, just noise and i went, no, no i love and i love pulp i went, no, no i love and i love pulp . i just think that, i mean, pulp. i just think that, i mean, i think there were some really, really good bands actually in the 90s. and you're right. and they transcend age. >> yeah, they do, but we don't have music now. all that stuff is so original now. it's just sounds, oh, you know, a bit mean. >> which brings us very neatly into the next story. have you done this on purpose? yes. i was just so clever. right, now she enjoys a vape and has spoken of her love for the lethal venom cocktail. no, not claire, we are talking labour seat. although that's probably true. we are talking labours deputy prime minister, angela rayner, and she's certainly no stranger to a party. is she ? she's hit the party. is she? she's hit the headunes party. is she? she's hit the headlines after years of partying in the dj booth, no less, at an ibiza nightclub. but that's very different, isn't it ? that's very different, isn't it? from the sombre tone, her boss, keir starmer , struck on tuesday keir starmer, struck on tuesday when he warned brits of the pain

to, you know, things can only get worse. very catchy to come in the budget in october, so let's see what we make of this one. i mean, claire, i'm guessing you don't have a problem with anyone going partying. >> no, i really don't. i really don't. she's not the only one partying there. she really isn't. >> but she's deputy prime minister, so she's responsible jobs. >> she's on a holiday. there's so many responses. there's so many people with responsible jobs. don that don't behave professionally or responsibly out of their hours. she's been papped. she's been caught. that's it. michael gove was caught dancing. i mean, for heaven's sake, who's the better dancer ? dancer? >> well, exactly. >> well, exactly. >> dance off, dance off. why >> dance off, dance off. why >> why are people getting so upset? scala about the fact that angela in recess . she's not angela in recess. she's not meant to be working? >> no. exactly. >> no. exactly. >> and also, i mean , can we >> and also, i mean, can we remember just how hard the mps were so suddenly the election was called? and then the day after the election , they they

after the election, they they found themselves in office. and i mean , keir, that's what they i mean, keir, that's what they were planning for scarlett. >> it wasn't a big surprise, i think. >> i think the july, the july the 4th election was a big surprise . people were expecting surprise. people were expecting to have a summer holiday. i mean, the july the fourth election was a big surprise to the conservatives let alone to laboun the conservatives let alone to labour. but look, they worked and they worked . keir cancelled and they worked. keir cancelled his holiday. angela had hers at the end. we know what sort of a person she is and we know she loves music and i remember her going to glyndebourne, which for the opera and being criticised for that. and she went, you know, just because i'm working class doesn't mean i can't do opera . actually, she loves opera. actually, she loves music. she was, i completely agree with claire. she was having a good time. i don't think she was being irresponsible. no, i think you're allowed to have a good time. and we all know about angela is, you know, she. she says herself, her and keir are yin and yang. and actually, that's why it works so well . that's why it works so well. >> right? but a lot of people on here are saying, look , literally

here are saying, look, literally within days of her boss keir starmer, making that things can only get worse speech. you're all going to suffer. what are we supposed to do? pensioners if she's not reading the room, she's not reading the room, she's paying for that herself. >> she's not taking the money from 10 million pensioners who won't get their winter allowance. i'm sorry. it's a non—news story. move on. >> yeah. i mean, i think it's been absolutely wound up by the tabloids. >> i'm more concerned about thatcher being removed from thatcher's room, actually, by keir starmer than the deputy prime minister enjoying the last days, the last halcyon days of summer. >> summer. >> yeah, because that is, i mean , >> yeah, because that is, i mean, look, keeping it real. whereas, i mean, you've brought this up now. i mean, i guess it's something that has annoyed a lot of you out there as well. is starmer removing that portrait of margaret thatcher from the thatcher room? >> yeah. what was he intimidated by her? do you think that was the wrong thing to do? >> i think i think it's fine. i think he can. what the guy who

painted, the artist who painted it said that he thinks that it shows what a good portrait it was, that it made him feel uncomfortable . and he says, uncomfortable. and he says, i take it as a compliment that it's still in number 10 and it is hung in number 10. it's just not hung in a room that people do a lot of work in. >> it's hung in number 10 because she's a former prime minister >> she's the only one. >> she's the only one. >> she's the only one. >> she's all the rest of them are up the stairs are up the stairs. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> she's also up the stairs as well. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i mean, and he'sjust put it >> i mean, and he's just put it in another room. i think it's i think it i think i think it's fine. i think i mean, why tom baldwin had to sort of announce it is because it's symbolic, because i think keir starmer was sending a message. >> i think he wanted the news out there . i think he's thinking out there. i think he's thinking this is another act of my misogyny. i think i will remove one of the most powerful women that's ever governed this country out of this space. this is the interest of the first female leader of a political party in this country, the first prime minister and how are labour doing on that front? >> scarlett ?

>> scarlett? >> scarlett? >> absolutely terrible. and i feel very embarrassed. and i think it would be great if we had a woman prime minister. but i do have to admit that i voted for keir against two other women because i thought he was the best. and i'm very, very hopeful that the next labour leader hopefully prime minister will be a woman. >> and could that next labour leader, prime minister, be the angela rayner? we've just been discussing? would you vote for her if she if she hits the right note? >> scarlett i don't i like a fun i think it could be angela raynen i think it could be angela rayner, but there are there are a lot of contenders, actually, one of the reeves sisters, perhaps. >> yes, i think probably rachel rather than ellie. yes. but i mean, there are others that that i mean, there are there's a lot of female talent. i, i don't think a man will get through next time. >> interesting. okay, well , let >> interesting. okay, well, let me know what you think of that one. gbnews.com/yoursay now i'm

dawn neesom and this is gb news. and there's lots more coming up on today's show. first they came for your ciggies, now they're coming for the booze. nanny state concerns raised over rumours of minimum alcohol pricing plans. all of that . much pricing plans. all of that. much more to come. this is gb news, britain's news channel. don't go too far. see you

soon. honestly right. okay. welcome back. this is the weekend with me. dawn neesom and my panel are already getting very, very, very frisky. it has to be said, but two women here. what do you expect? because we're talking about alcohol now. pub bosses have been warned. ministers could bring in minimum alcohol pricing as part of the government's public health drive. but a number 10 spokesman insisted there were no plans to introduce such a measure. so i wouldn't be holding your breath on this one. it comes after starmer said an outdoor smoking ban was being considered. so i'm

asking , are ban was being considered. so i'm asking, are we heading towards a new era of prohibition? what are they coming for next? your fried chicken ? your doughnuts. let's chicken? your doughnuts. let's see what my panel make of this one. i still have former labour adviser scarlett mccgwire and journalist clare muldoon. scarlett, i'm going to come. i thought this was. i thought when people were saying, right, the smoking ban . and look, my dad smoking ban. and look, my dad died of lung cancer, so i completely understand the debate around this that needs to be had.et around this that needs to be had. et cetera. et cetera. but then people are going, oh, be honest, don't worry about that . honest, don't worry about that. and then it'll be the fast food. and then it'll be the fast food. and i'm thinking, no, don't be silly. of course it won't. and this morning in the newspapers, we have our own ministers could bnngin we have our own ministers could bring in minimum alcohol pricing as part of the government's pubuc as part of the government's public health drive. >> yeah, and what a story. and number 10 says no. and we still say it might happen. i mean, when the story came about pub banning smoking in pub gardens. keir keir , i mean the prime keir keir, i mean the prime minister said yes, we are considering it. now they say they're not considering minimum alcohol pricing. so i assume

we're not. i mean, what's interesting about minimum alcohol pricing is the people who want it are the pubs, because it's about supermarkets, actually. it's about being able to go by masses of drink in the supermarket, and as the kids would say, is it pre flashed that before they go reload reload reload. >> i think pre preload before you're on the list just bring it down to pre pre trees. >> and it's about it's about drinking before you go out or not having. i mean it's not about stopping drinking. and the pubs say we'd like a minimum charge because then more people would come to us because actually i mean pubs are quite expensive, so. but but i think it's a completely non—story. if number 10 have said they have no plans, then it's not going to number 10. >> so they have no plans for a lot of things and then just completely flip flop on the whole thing. don't they, now, the policy was introduced by the snp in scotland and in scotland

it applies to shops and supermarkets as well as pubs, clubs and restaurants. >> it also applies to people wanting to buy presents for people here and sending them up. you can't do it and you can't send either over to northern ireland. if you buy certain brands of alcohol or certain brands of alcohol or certain brands of alcohol or certain brands of wines from certain shops, they won't be able to send it over to northern ireland because they've got the it's not minimum unit pricing of alcohol they've got there, but you can't get like some supermarkets might have 25% off if you buy six bottles or more. you can't then send that over to northern ireland. you can't also send up to scotland because they do have the minimum price of alcohol unit index up there and it is done. absolutely sweet fa for the people that are living there with abject addiction problems. >> well, i mean, since it's been introduced, alcohol abuse in scotland has risen the highest number of alcohol deaths in 2021, which was three years after this was introduced. yeah. >> if people are if people want

alcohol, they will buy it. and the thing that actually the problem with this is it actually disables people who actually want to save a bit of money, who do want to entertain, and who do want to be able to have the choice of having x or y, and that's been taken out of their hands. that's what i object to, is the authoritarian totalitarian network of it. and i do think we're heading into 1920s to 1933 of prohibition america. >> we're not. come on. they've. scarlett, they've said they have no plans. i mean, they've said, yes, we're going to do the smoking, right? i mean, when it came up and it would have been very easy to say, we have no plans. and and but number 10 said we have no plans to do it. i mean, i just, said we have no plans to do it. i mean, ijust, i said we have no plans to do it. i mean, i just, i just think it's anybody can any journalist can write a story. these people might do this. this is this is anidea might do this. this is this is an idea that but it's not going to happen. so i don't know why i think you're very brave to say

something's not going to happen in the covenant with the current government that we've got, because flip flop keir flip flopped before the election, and he is indeed. >> i think he's heading for more. >> just two years ago, rachel reeves was around back in the sun newspaper's campaign to keep fuel duty down. yes. and what's happening now? oh, yeah. >> diesel. exactly. >> diesel. exactly. >> and can we remember with fuel duty, the rac has said that the £0.05 of fuel duty was a complete waste of time because it just went straight into the petrol companies pockets. it didn't go to the drivers and the rac, the rac, the drivers lobby has said put it up because drivers , drivers won't even drivers, drivers won't even nofice drivers, drivers won't even notice the point. >> the point is one minute they're saying we're not going to do it and the next they do it. any case, i'm calm down. this is dawn neesom , it's gb this is dawn neesom, it's gb news and there's lots more coming up on today's show. we're going across the pond to donald trump, who has vowed to bring back the federal death penalty. is he right , though? but first, is he right, though? but first, let's get the news headlines with sam francis .

with sam francis. >> dawn, thank you very much indeed. good afternoon to you. just after 1:30. and the top story this lunchtime. a pensioner is being questioned on suspicion of murder following an incident in cheltenham, gloucestershire. police were called to a property in the early hours of this morning where they found a 66 year old woman with serious injuries. she sadly died at the scene . oasis sadly died at the scene. oasis fans are still struggling to land tickets for reunion gigs, with reports of website outages, glitches and long waits. the bandis glitches and long waits. the band is set to play 17 concerts in the uk and in ireland next summer, but the groups warned that tickets resold at inflated pnces that tickets resold at inflated prices will be cancelled. some seats originally sold last night dunng seats originally sold last night during early access are now being resold for over £6,000. police in the west midlands say they are actively investigating they are actively investigating the fatal stabbing of a 13 year old boy. a murder inquiry has

been launched following that tragic incident in oldbury on thursday, with no arrests made so far. west midlands police have assured the public that those responsible will be brought to justice. in germany, a 32 year old woman has been arrested after six people were injured in the second knife attack in just weeks, this time on a bus heading to a festival last night. three of those attacked in the incident east of cologne are in a life threatening condition, while another three have been discharged from hospital. german authorities say at this stage there is no evidence of a political or a religious motive . political or a religious motive. fighting is set to pause in gaza tomorrow as part of a plan to roll out polio vaccines to hundreds of thousands of children. that scheme will be staggered during breaks in the conflict over three days. last week, health officials confirmed that a baby had been paralysed by the virus, the first case in the territory in 25 years. back here, featureless classrooms

with pupils being taught by ai are being trialled at a school in london. this year. a class of 20 gcse students at david game college will spend the year learning from bots. the school says the tech will pinpoint the areas that pupils may need help with. but headteachers say education shouldn't be taken out of educators hands . and one of educators hands. and one final story for you. sadly, no pictures, but it's just too good not to bring you. kangaroos, alpacas and flying squirrels have been found in a car being smuggled across the greek border. turkish customs officials discovered the exotic animals hidden in the boot and in cages, but they will now be handed over to national parks . handed over to national parks. those are the latest gb news headunes those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'll be back with you in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward alerts

>> welcome back to the weekend with me dawn neesom. hope you're having indeed a wonderful weekend out there. now we are going across the pond because former president donald trump has, well said, some fairly astonishing things. he said he will bring back the federal death penalty on his first day in office. during an interview with the daily mail, he said he will use the full force of the law to go after major drug dealers and cop killers. and in trump's defence, he was standing at the mexican border and talking to some people who were telling some fairly horrible stories about losing loved ones. joining me now is professor of international studies and politics, david dunn. david, thank you very much for joining us. this afternoon. good to see you. david, what do you make of what you've heard from donald trump overnight ? trump overnight? >> well, this is a clear attempt to differentiate himself from both president biden , who has

both president biden, who has announced a moratorium on federal executions, and kamala harris, who has had a long term conviction of opposing the death penalty. >> so what he's doing is, is actually just demonstrating the clear water between himself and the democrats and what he's also doing is playing to the gallery because actually, the death penalty is usually administered at state level, and there are only really seven states that do that. and most states actually don't in practice institute the death penalty even though it's on their books. >> i was going to say how many states do still? i mean, how does the death penalty work? i mean, from what i understand, 13 federal death row inmates were executed before biden's attorney general overturned the death penalty in 2021, but 27 states still have it on their books. are they still, in theory, can? >> so it's the federal level. it's complicated. so the national level, the federal level and all 50 states that law

applies. so act of terrorism and murder of a congressman, murder of a state correctional official, things like that are eligible to be imposed by the by the national level. the federal level government . and then there level government. and then there are in addition to that, 27 states where it's state level, they actually can do it for state crimes committed in a state crimes committed in a state and administered by the state. but in practice, they say it's only seven. it's texas, florida , utah, missouri, florida, utah, missouri, oklahoma, it's southern states, but a minority of states that actually impose it. but it's a relatively small number of people who actually end up being executed in the states. so but what trump's suggesting is a widening, considerably of the federal level , sentence to federal level, sentence to include drug dealers, child rapists, categories where we don't normally expect the death penalty to be imposed. it's usually reserved for murder of one form or another. >> and do you think this would

be a vote winner for him? >> well, support for capital punishment actually has been in decline over the years through lack of confidence that it's actually imposed correctly. it's disproportionately imposed on people who are black or people who actually have mental illness , who actually have mental illness, there are lots of instances of where people have been found to be innocent after they've been executed. and of course, yeah, there's no coming back from that. so it's popular with a slight majority, maybe 55% of the population support the capital punishment. but it's in key demographics as well. it tends to be older people, less well educated people. typical trump voters. really. >> right. okay. thank you very much. that's david dunn, professor of international studies and politics there at birmingham university. thank you very much for joining birmingham university. thank you very much forjoining us. right now, let's see what my panel make of this one. again, it's a huge debate. it always has been a huge debate in this country, i still have former labour advisor scarlett mccgwire and journalist clare muldoon with me. clare, i'm going to come to you first on this one. it is one of those

debates that never goes away . debates that never goes away. interesting that trump has brought it up again in america, which , as we've said, does still which, as we've said, does still have the death penalty in our in 27 states. there is only two countries in europe that have the death penalty . one of them the death penalty. one of them is belarus who actually use it. it's on the statute books in russia. still no surprise there, i'm guessing, but they don't do it anymore. so what do you make? does donald trump have a point about the death penalty? no. >> as far as i'm concerned, the death penalty should be absolutely abolished. one life killed in that way is one life too many. and as you know, i'm a very i come from a very principled point of view in that life is sacrosanct. life is the most beautiful thing on earth , most beautiful thing on earth, and it must be enabled. every path of the way. and i'm not saying, and that's why we've got prisons, that's why we've got, prisons, that's why we've got, prisons to lock people away for

horrific, horrific crimes. and, you know , child rape, drug you know, child rape, drug deaths. it all has an impact massively on society, massively on families , massively on on families, massively on everything you could possibly go to. but i think if we were to come from first principles of we are jury sentencing death, we have got the power to take someone else's life. i think that's really bad because if one person dies, as i said, is just one person too many. but also if that person were actually innocent and we've had many miscarriages of justice, not only in this country, but across the world that have sometimes taken time to tease out the minutia and tease out the evidence, and only then has have verdicts been overturned. and we have to protect life. i think we really, honestly do . and i'm not really, honestly do. and i'm not for the death penalty. i am against abortion and i'm also against abortion and i'm also against euthanasia because life

is life transcends scarlet that that's a that's a very obviously passionate viewpoint there from claire. >> but many people are saying where there is no doubt, absolutely no doubt where someone is actually literally caughtin someone is actually literally caught in the act, say for example, i mean, i've got to be careful what we say here, but, you know, one case recently got people very upset was the murder of the three little girls in southport. do you think that is a classic? >> actually, yes. as far as we know, this person is seriously mentally ill. very, very autistic. >> we've got yeah, we've got to be careful because we. yeah. >> yeah. okay. and actually it's what claire has just said is, is that if you look at the people, who have been i mean, you look in this country, the people have been hanged. there are some miscarriages of justice, but also people with serious mental health problems . i mean, really, health problems. i mean, really, really serious . and i there is really serious. and i there is absolutely no doubt that you, you, you put them in prison.

it's just, i mean, if we talk about this country , i'm old about this country, i'm old enough to remember the guildford foun enough to remember the guildford four, right where a bomb was put in a pub in guildford and the birmingham six. this is the ira, this is the ira, both of whom ? this is the ira, both of whom? both. all the people who were convicted . and there was no convicted. and there was no question, they said, about the conviction, were innocent. yes. i mean, that's what and there is no question that those people would have been hanged, no question at all. so i but i also, like i do believe i do not believe in state to state executions. and the other thing is that actually what they found in america is that when there is an execution is , is that the an execution is, is that the violence? are outside the, the jail in other places it goes up. i mean, it doesn't it doesn't stop people from doing it. it encourages . encourages. >> no, it's not preventative at all. the death penalty does not prevent anyone. if you if it did ,

prevent anyone. if you if it did, there'd be no one locked up for any of these heinous crimes. so clearly it's not a deterrent . so clearly it's not a deterrent. so why have it? >> what about the fact that we are, as we all know now, have discussed it at length on, on, on this channel that our prisons are full, we don't actually have any prison places. >> just go and kill people because the prisons are full. >> if they've committed a crime and they have been sentenced if it's always if you know there's some people up in scotland, politicians, i would quite happily bring the death penalty in for, i wouldn't. >> i'm just saying that i know. >> i'm just saying that i know. >> no, but i know what you mean. i and i think, i mean, there is absolutely no question as we've just seen, that people who have committed violent crimes will go to jail and other people will be released. but i just think, i think you can't even if somebody is a serial killer, right? and has tortured their victims, i don't think they should. they should be executed. but i also

would really , really worry with would really, really worry with the way trump's doing it. would really, really worry with the way trump's doing it . and the way trump's doing it. and as, professor dunn said, you know, in the southern states, it's the black. it's the black men who are being who are being who are being found guilty and executed. right? i mean, there is a real problem about justice. >> there is. but as trump was saying, i mean, in his speech, i'm not i'm not saying whether he's right or wrong, but he was saying he was he was talking to people that have lost their lives to drug dealers. he goes, the average drug dealer kills 500 people during that person's lifetime. i would have no problem with the death penalty for those people. >> so what about people who own cigarette companies, right? i mean, you know, they kill people or big pharma , 80,000 people a or big pharma, 80,000 people a year die from cigarettes, right? and there are people making money out of cigarettes. and, you know, ken clarke, right? former health secretary is or was on the board of a cigarette company. i mean, if you're going to start that bit, you can you

can just take it a lot further . can just take it a lot further. >> corporate manslaughter. >> corporate manslaughter. >> donald trump said, right. okay. well, a very lively debate to end on. thank you. so much to my panel. that's former labour adviser scarlett mccgwire and jones, claire muldoon, thank you very much. >> joining me. lovely to see you. >> okay. all right. we're going to cheer up a bit now i think i'm dawn neesom and this is gb news. and there's lots more coming up on today's show. yes, we're going to talk royals and an ocean away . but in that an ocean away. but in that church, they were sitting pews away from each other and they still didn't talk. william and harry brothers are reuniting in oasis. why not? the royal family? don't go too far. that's coming up next on news

hello and welcome back to the weekend with me dawn neesom. now incredibly, today marks the 27th anniversary of princess diana's

death , with many taking to death, with many taking to social media to pay tribute to the late royal. this all comes as the prince of wales and the duke of sussex both attended the funeral of their uncle, but it wasn't the harmonious reunion many had hoped for. it's reported to have been frosty between the two of them, as they sat separately and did not talk in a very small church. joining me now with more on this story is former royal correspondent at the sun , charles rea. mr ray, the sun, charles rea. mr ray, thank you very much for joining me this afternoon. and charles, they went to the funeral, but by all accounts they were sitting in a church pews apart, but they didn't even acknowledge each other. >> no they didn't. it was a memorial . memorial. >> actually. >> actually. >> there had been a private funeral a few days beforehand. i'm not sure whether william or harry were actually at the physical funeral, but they were certainly there for memorial, and they came in towards the beginning of the separately sat at the back separately. no one

saw them speak to each other. >> the vicar today is in the sun, and he's quoted as saying that he spoke to both of them separately as they left the church, as vicars tend to do , church, as vicars tend to do, and those sort of occasions. and they, they both, both thanked him for the way he conducted the service. but he then also said that he never saw them speak . that he never saw them speak. and we also have people saying that at the reception after, because normally there is a reception as well with these sort of things that no one actually saw. william and harry within ten feet of each other. so they then left and went their separate ways. i suspect that harry is still in the country because, as you quite rightly said, in your intro, this is the anniversary of their mother's death. and i also suspect that both of them will not be there together, but separately will go together, but separately will go to althorp, to where she's buried, to pay their respects, which is something that they normally do. and they spend. the royals tend to spend this day in

quiet, private reflection, because the funeral was for lord fellowes, who was, you know, their mum, diana's brother in law. >> so it means a lot to that side of their family. >> oh yeah, and let's not forget that lady jane fellowes, the widow and her elder sister sarah mccorquodale, were very close to both william and harry. so you can imagine what it must be like for those two trying to smooth the way they are, constantly trying to find a way where they can be brought together. but i'm afraid we're not going to get an an oasis style reunion down the line, where they'll be appearing at some stage together in the very, very near future. >> do you think we might take some hope from the fact that harry hasn't updated the paperback version of his autobiography , spare, with some autobiography, spare, with some of the more sordid details of what happened since the hardback was published? people were

interpreting that as maybe there might be a bit of a thawing. >> i think people will be wrong entirely. i mean, the what he should have done is actually ask the, the publishers to either not bring out the paperback or to delay the paperback. it's coming out. i think , in a week coming out. i think, in a week or two weeks time. and that's just going to cause more angst for the royal family again, because remember the criticisms he said in spirit are still there? yeah absolutely. >> charles, thank you very much for joining us to bring us up to forjoining us to bring us up to date on all things, robert. it's the weekend, so let's have a look at the weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news . news. >> hello. here's your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. we're starting the weekend on a fine note across the bulk of the uk, but over the next couple of days, things turning more unsettled. increasingly humid for a while and we'll start to see some thundery downpours developing in places too. high pressure is pulling away to the

wall to the northeast of the uk, now allowing a south easterly feed to develop this warm front starting to introduce more in the way of cloud from the south, particularly across parts of england and wales. as we head through the evening into the overnight period, 1 or 2 showers also breaking out from that cloud as it starts to thicken from the south, particularly towards the south—east of england later in the night. here there could be thundery in nature. those showers, whereas towards the north—west it's clearest. we'll hold on to some good clear spells right through the night here, turning locally quite chilly with temperatures dipping into single figures, but towards the south of the uk . towards the south of the uk. increasingly warm and humid temperatures here in the mid to upper teens. so we start to sunday, then on a pretty clear note towards the north and northwest of the uk, 1 or 2 mist or fog patches in places, though soon burning away to give some sunshine. temperatures responding into the low teens by the early morning as the sun starts to get to work on those temperatures further south though into england and wales again, more in the way of cloud around. still 1 or 2 showers locally on the heavy side at this stage, mainly towards the south—east of england, and again 1 or 2 of those showers could be thundery in nature. on the whole sunday will be a cloudy day than on saturday. i think the best of

the sunshine lingering towards the sunshine lingering towards the north—west of the uk there, but elsewhere a fair bit of cloud and a few showers also breaking out in places, particularly across central and southern parts of england and later across the north of england, to some of those showers turning heavy and thundery could give 1 or 2 problems, i think in places with some flooding issues. so the best of the lingering brightness towards the north—west of the uk. notice though, towards the south—east it's very warm and humid temperatures here into the high 20s. 27 celsius. that's 81 in fahrenheit, a bit cooler towards the north—west in the high teens into sunday evening, the showers start to migrate their way northwards, a few starting to push into scotland. as we head through sunday evening. elsewhere, though, holding on to a few clear spells. on the whole, though, the start of next week looks pretty unsettled. showers and longer spells of rain around perhaps turning a bit drier towards the middle parts of the coming week. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, sponsors of weather

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>> good afternoon. it's 2:00 on saturday, the 31st of august and this is the weekend on gb news. on the weekend, indeed. and i hope you're having a smashing one out there. now we are going to talk about this because it's the biggest story of the day. and lots of you are looking back in anger this morning and how it went. fans are up in arms as the oasis ticket sites crashed, with fans now turning on each other , fans now turning on each other, as gen z are accusing of being accused of stealing the tickets from older folk who aren't so good at working the laptops. make this one make sense. more drama for starmer as the problems pile up for the prime minister as his deputy, angela rayneris minister as his deputy, angela rayner is caught letting her hair down in ibiza. there she is. you can see her busting some moves. and first they came for your ciggies. now they're coming for your booze. nanny state concerns raised over rumours of a minimum alcohol pricing plans. and bye bye, maggie. boris johnson claims margaret thatcher's portrait is glad to

no longer have to share an office with keir starmer, after the prime minister controversially removed that artwork. i'm dawn neesom and this is the weekend . this is the weekend. but this show is nothing without you and your views and it's really the highlight of my show is to please do keep them coming. i love reading your views , the good, the bad and the views, the good, the bad and the ugly, so let them . and it's ugly, so let them. and it's really simple to do as well. just go to gbnews.com/yoursay and join the conversation. we'll talk about whatever you want to talk about whatever you want to talk about. up to you . it's the talk about. up to you. it's the weekend after all. keeping me company this hour is journalist and broadcaster benjamin butterworth and president of the primrose league, henry bolton. thank you very much for joining me this afternoon, gentlemen. i really appreciate your time. but before we get stuck into the stories, let's get to the news

headunes stories, let's get to the news headlines with saint francis . headlines with saint francis. >> dawn, thank you very much indeed. and good afternoon to you. 2:02 and, well, the top story. it's the story we can't get away from today. error messages and glitches are hampering people's attempts to land tickets for the oasis reunion tour, and experts are warning bots could be snapping up large numbers of tickets leading to website crashes and customers being blocked. ticketmaster one of the major sellers, insists though their site hasn't crashed , but fans site hasn't crashed, but fans are still reporting some outages and long queues . in other news, and long queues. in other news, and long queues. in other news, a 77 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman was found dead in gloucestershire . officers there gloucestershire. officers there were called to a house in cheltenham in the early hours of this morning, where they found a 66 year old woman with serious injuries. she sadly died at the scene and in the west midlands , scene and in the west midlands, police are actively investigating the fatal stabbing

of a 13 year old boy. a murder inquiry has been launched following the incident in oldbury on thursday, though no arrests have been made so far. the west midlands force have assured the public that those responsible will be brought to justice. chief superintendent kim madill is urging residents there to come forward with any information, and we are following active lines of enquiry to find the suspects. >> we know that the incident took place inside his home and i would appeal to anyone who has information to come forward. we have local officers and youth workers in the area over the coming days, so please speak to them directly if you have any concerns or information that you would like to pass to us. >> chief superintendent of the west midlands force there, kim madill. well, travellers at heathrow airport are facing disruption today as border force staff start their four day strike. around 650 members of the pcs union have walked out in

protest over rota disputes. with that strike. as i say, lasting now four days further disruption is expected from wednesday two as workers refuse to do overtime despite . the escalating despite. the escalating tensions, the home office says it is committed to continuing the conversation to resolve the dispute. a newly elected labour mp has issued a public apology over reports of . serious faults over reports of. serious faults in some of his london rental properties. jazz athwal, who represents ilford south, owns 15 flats where tenants have complained about black mould and ant infestations. he says he's shocked at the reports and vowed to take immediate action to address the issues . new research address the issues. new research reveals that ozempic could do more than just fight obesity. it could also slow down ageing. in a study of over 17,000 people over the age of 45, the anti—obesity drug semaglutide not only reduces the risk of death for those with heart disease, but also cuts mortality rates from all causes, an

experts say the breakthrough could have significant implications on treating obesity and extending healthy lifespans . and extending healthy lifespans. turning to news in germany and a 32 year old woman has been arrested there after six people were injured in the second knife attack in just weeks, this time on a bus heading to a festival last night. three of those attacked in the incident east of cologne are now in a life threatening condition, with another three. they've been discharged from hospital. authorities there say no evidence at this stage shows a political or religious motive . political or religious motive. fighting is set to pause in gaza from tomorrow as part of a plan to roll out polio vaccines to hundreds of thousands of children. the scheme will be staggered during breaks in the conflict over three days. it comes after last week health officials there confirmed a baby had been paralysed by the virus in the first such case in the territory in 25 years. the social media platform x has been

bannedin social media platform x has been banned in brazil after a long standing disinformation row. the move follows a feud between elon musk and the supreme court in brazil over a failure to block accounts that were accused of spreading fake news and hate. in a response, though , elon musk a response, though, elon musk has posted on x calling the move an attack on the number one source of truth . and teachers source of truth. and teachers here are being replaced by ai in a pilot scheme. in one school in london, a class of 20 gcse students at david game college will try out the new technology this year, meaning their lessons will be led by bots instead of staff, which some groups though say is concerning. however, the college have said the trial will be closely monitored and finally, some weather for you. parts of england could see flooding this weekend as heavy rain and thunderstorms are set to sweep across the south—west. the met office has issued a yellow weather warning for flooding, power cuts and for travel disruption in some areas, with up to 75mm of rain expected

to fall in the space of an hour. with lightning and hail and strong winds also posing some threats . those are the latest threats. those are the latest headunes threats. those are the latest headlines for now. i'll be back with you for one more update 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. >> thank you very much, sam. now that weather story, can you believe it's september tomorrow? i mean, how did that happen? i think i blinked and missed august. that long. hot tuesday afternoon. i believe we had at one point. now let's get straight into today's story, shall we, our top story. don't look back in anger. but many of you, unfortunately, are, because this morning you have been battling your laptops and getting very angry indeed. the ticketmaster site has crashed as oasis fans attempt to get hold

of tickets for their reunion toun of tickets for their reunion tour. according to betfair, fans are predicted to have just a 7% chance of success, with many set to experience major upset. that says oasis themselves issued a warning against people reselling tickets at a much higher price. and if you look on some of the websites they have been going for 7500 pounds now. joining me is marketing expert polly arrowsmith. polly lovely. thank you for joining arrowsmith. polly lovely. thank you forjoining me arrowsmith. polly lovely. thank you for joining me this afternoon. lovely to see you. now, polly, i understand you've actually been trying to get tickets yourself as well today. >> i have, i've been actually logged on in a queue for five hours and 25 minutes. and yes, it's the queues. i'm probably only halfway through the queue, so they are claiming those tickets left. but i could be all day, you know. >> but the thing is, with polly, you get sort of like half way through this and you think, well, i've been on here too long now i can't give up. so you're just going to persevere? >> yeah. i mean, i think that's the case, isn't it? you know,

i've been doing other things initially. i actually was just looking and looking and just expecting to get my own turn. but, you know, it's just been so slow, and i now don't believe i'll get tickets. if i do, i think i'm going to do very, very well. >> good luck. lots and lots of people probably are getting very angry about the fact that the queueis angry about the fact that the queue is ridiculous. you get through. there are so many glitches on it, but also the fact that it's, you know, tickets are for resale on these sites. even though oasis say this isn't a thing and that you can't be doing it now, you're a marketing expert the way the oasis reunion has been sold has created this, i don't know, this fever to get these tickets. even fans who aren't fans, as it were, just desperate to get tickets just to say they've got a ticket. >> yeah, no, i agree. i mean , >> yeah, no, i agree. i mean, it's like taylor swift, wasn't it? you know, certain people had to have a taylor swift ticket. and it's exactly the same thing with oasis. you know, when you've got, you know , websites you've got, you know, websites like the bbc actually telling

you what you need to do to get tickets, you know, that this is, you know, like a social phenomenon. you know, it's sort of almost viral. but i think a lot of people are just trying to get tickets to sell on. so i think, you know, a lot of real fans aren't going to get the tickets. but also, i've actually ran in my previous incarnation in my career, i ran a data centre company, and we actually hosted, sites like ticketmaster. so you've also got to look at it from their point of view that the technology to do this is very, very expensive. and you only get these sort of big events a few times a year , and events a few times a year, and they even have issues, things like processing transactions, they're probably limited to processing maybe 10,000 transactions per minute. and if you think they're going to be selling 1.4 million tickets today , that's an awful lot of today, that's an awful lot of time to process. and there's very little they can actually do about that. that's the thing. so, you know their relationship with the banks all set . so i've

with the banks all set. so i've got some sympathy with ticketmaster i still think there are things that could be done. >> i said what things could be done. >> that was my next question because i mean , glastonbury because i mean, glastonbury seemed to manage to sell a lot of tickets in a short space of time without this sort of angst that's going for on people. >> well, glastonbury , you know, >> well, glastonbury, you know, you had to have a you went into a ballot, you had to have a number to, to actually even try and get tickets with this. the problem is there's so many bots, you know, people might have 20, 30, 50 bots, one individual. and if you're a tout, you may have several hundred. so there's a lot of people, there's a lot of ai trying to you know, the bots are trying to get the tickets as well as genuine fans. so that's why i mean, you probably got today. i mean, if they're selling 1400, 4 million tickets, you've probably got a couple of million people waiting, you know, and it's very, very difficult just to have that processing power for any company, you know , because you'd company, you know, because you'd have to scale up the

infrastructure by, say, a factor of ten, 20, 30, even 50 times. and no company is going to when you're looking at just basic infrastructure, there's tens of millions of pounds. so to it's not worth upgrading for them. they also know that people like myself are going to just continue waiting. >> you keep going. right. that's polly arrowsmith. thank you very much for trying to explain the mess that is the oasis ticket system today. and good luck getting yours, polly. now let us know your stories if you're having trouble or let us know what's been happening to you. i mean, so many people have been waiting like polly for hours on end. get to the actual bit where you buy your tickets, and then the error 503 comes up and you've wasted all that time. but then you go back on there again. now she enjoys a vape and has spoken of her love for the lethal venom cocktail, but labour's deputy prime minister angela rayner, is certainly no stranger to a party. she's hit the headlines after she was spotted in the dj booth of an ibiza nightclub, but that's a very different tone from, her boss keir starmer, isn't it? on tuesday, when he warned brits

to, things can only get worse indeed, or will the pain to come indeed, or will the pain to come in the october budget? right. let's see what my wonderful panel let's see what my wonderful panel, benjamin butler and henry bolton make of this one, because this is caused so much fuss. henry. i can't believe it. a woman goes on holiday to ibiza for a dance and a and a drink and has a nice time on holiday. what's the problem with this? >> i don't really see a problem . >> i don't really see a problem. >> i don't really see a problem. >> i don't really see a problem. >> i mean, you know, we all go on holiday. >> i used to go clubbing. >> i used to go clubbing. >> i used to go clubbing. >> i mean, you know, it's. >> believe it or not, benjamin's laughing. >> he can't imagine it quite . >> he can't imagine it quite. but anyway, the but i don't see a problem with it. the, the underlying issue, though, is not whether or not somebody goes a politician or otherwise goes clubbing or wherever it may be, and whatever club it might be. >> the for me, the thing is, she is the deputy prime minister of the government of the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland. >> right. and that carries some weight. >> and i think there is what we really need in positions like

that are people with with gravitas, people with presence , gravitas, people with presence, people who can command the world stage. >> and whilst i'm all for letting your hair down a bit, i haven't got very much. >> but whilst i'm all for that, you know, she just doesn't have that, >> there is absolutely no way that she has that. >> and that's more my problem rather than whether she goes clubbing somewhere. >> okay, benjamin, surely it's important , though, that angela important, though, that angela is doing the kind of thing that most normal people do . she's not most normal people do. she's not sitting in an ivory tower in north london like her barrister. our boss, keir starmer. she's actually a real person. isn't that what you want in politicians? >> well, i think we often talk about the fact that politicians aren't relatable, that we don't think they understand ordinary people's lives, that they seem to have very strange careers and backgrounds, which is true of a lot of high profile politicians. they tend to be very clever. they tend to be very clever. they tend to be very clever. they tend to be from a different world. and i think angela rayner here is , is acting like a lot of

here is, is acting like a lot of people would happily act, given the chance on holiday. you know, we might not all get let into the dj booth, but i think we'd all thrive at the opportunity. she's not drinking. it looks like she's got a bottle of water in her hand, so it isn't as though she's being irresponsible. which might be what would be? what would be wrong if she was drinking? >> well, yeah, she's on holiday. >> well, yeah, she's on holiday. >> indeed. and you know, i think a lot of us, you know, on a weekend away in benidorm, have done things that we might not report back to the office right. and, angela, would you tell? i won't, but angela rayner , you won't, but angela rayner, you know, i think there you have someone that actually a lot of people, especially a lot of women of her age, will think that's great, that someone's out there. you know, she is someone that didn't just come from poverty. you know, she couldn't even afford a bath as a kid. she was a carer for her mother and she had a child at 16. she's now a grandmother. indeed and i think someone that has achieved what she's achieved deserves a level of respect for that. and the idea that, you know , she has the idea that, you know, she has one saturday evening in august, i don't think is anything we should complain about. and if you don't want that, well then pick ed miliband or rishi sunak. people that are incredibly

strange. i just think it's a non—story to be honest. >> i think , you know. >> i think, you know. >> i think, you know. >> and so, but but you, you , >> and so, but but you, you, henry, you did say yourself that, you know, she has a very responsible job, so maybe it's not the most becoming thing she could be doing. so maybe. i mean, people are getting angry about it. >> yeah. no. and there is an element of that. >> and as i said. but, but she is in an environment in the house of commons where most of our politicians lack the gravitas, lack the strategic acumen, lack the ability to lead this nation through the complexity of problems that we've got all interconnected problems, and i think that's more of an issue. every politician that i hear at the moment, the conservative party leader, leadership candidates and not all of them, but some of them, you know, i did this and i grew up in priti patel. >> i, i cycled around wherever looking. we've all gone . looking. we've all gone. >> my dad was a toolmaker. >> my dad was a toolmaker. >> well, yeah indeed. we've all got stories to tell. what this country needs is not somebody who says, well, i used to cycle around on my bicycle like most

people did, or i went clubbing like most people did, >> we need leaders, politicians who can actually sort out the problems of this country. and not everybody can do it. >> everybody wants somebody who can, who listens, everybody wants somebody who can understand the problems of all communities on every level, within society, but they want somebody who can also lead the country. okay, benjamin, i mean, what i would say, you know, you talked about the gravitas of angela rayner. i think she has a lot of gravitas from from achieving the story. she has. but actually the role of deputy prime minister many prime ministers have never had a deputy. it's not a big post. it's not like being kamala harris and vice president. and so, you know, it's rather overpromoted simply because angela rayner is one of the most famous and most interesting politicians. we have the actual post is pretty much irrelevant. it doesn't even mean that if the prime minister is on holiday that you take over the reins . that you take over the reins. that's whoever the prime minister chooses and tends not to be the i'm going to say, the only reason that she's

interested in interesting is because she's quite gobby. yeah. she lives a fairly sort of flamboyant lifestyle. surely that's the point about her. >> she's gobby. she talks the same language. i mean, whether you respect her language or not, you respect her language or not, you know. >> fine. >> fine. >> i don't have a problem with any of that. what i have a problem with is people saying, well, she's great because of that. well, actually, she might be, but actually, we shouldn't be, but actually, we shouldn't be looking at all of that. we should be looking at how she contributes to solving the problems of this country and furthering the interests of the united kingdom and the british people. and i don't think that's a great deal . a great deal. >> okay, benjamin, this links us to another story we're talking aboutin to another story we're talking about in politics this week, doesn't it? i mean, sort of like, you know, women that do make a difference in politics. the big one obviously being one. margaret thatcher, who angela rayner's boss keir. keir starmer decided to remove the portrait from the margaret thatcher room in downing street because he found it uncomfortable. was that just an example of them shooting themselves in the foot again, do you think, benjamin.

>> i really think i think this is such a distraction for much more important things. i mean, first of all, it's not called the margaret thatcher room. that's just what it's known as. it is, in fact, an office in downing street, which clearly has had a lot of other occupants since. >> but father said it's an office in downing street that's had a lot of other occupants. it's not as crisp and sexy as the margaret thatcher room, is it? >> i mean, look, this is his office, right? it's where he's the prime minister. it's his building for the time being. it's our building, indeed. but you know , he's the he's the you know, he's the he's the person in charge of it, right? someone allocates the rooms and look, you know, it was simply moved from one room to another because i think there's a suggestion , as you say, that he suggestion, as you say, that he felt uncomfortable with this enormous looming picture of the portrait of margaret thatcher staring down. now, we know that before the election, he said that she was one of the few leaders, in his words, that had achieved meaningful change. so the idea that he doesn't care for some of what margaret thatcher achieved, for the fact that she was clearly a turning point prime minister in this country, i think, is unfair. but, you know, i think a lot of people are trying to make a bigger fuss over moving a portrait through rooms that none

of us will ever enter than things that are actually affecting millions of people's lives, like the cost of living, i think. yeah well, obviously that's very important. >> but what a lot of people are saying on here, henry, is the fact that it demonstrates the lack of respect that he has and the lack of respect he has indeed, for his job. >> and i think that's the point. dawn. this is an office that is it's in itself an institution of the nation . and i think, you the nation. and i think, you know, if he was as, effective , know, if he was as, effective, whether you agree or whether you don't agree with the politics. but if he was as effective as a national leader, he might find himself with a portrait in a room in an office in downing street . you never know. you street. you never know. you know, i you know that said, i don't think this is the big story in that respect . i think story in that respect. i think the big story in that respect is the big story in that respect is the prime minister allowing a labour party donor who is not a member of the government, who is not and was not ever an elected representative of anything,

allowing such a person to host a party, a social event in the ground in the garden of downing street, that is, that demeans the entire meaning of that building as the official residence and office of the prime minister, not of keir starmer. it's not his office. >> we're talking about lord alli, who is a donor who had a free pass to downing street, which he gave back fine straight away, that that happened to me, says all we need to know about keir starmer's respect for the office of prime minister. >> he sees it as an opportunity to further his agenda and that of a part of the labour party . of a part of the labour party. he doesn't see this as something that he he has a responsibility as a guardian of the nation's interests and its traditions and customs , almost like he thinks customs, almost like he thinks he's still leader of the opposition as opposed to prime minister. i think he thinks he's the leader of the nation. without any opposition. >> i think that's true. well, thatis >> i think that's true. well, that is true to be honest with

you. >> in a sense it is. but he's got to remember, this is a democracy, and i think he's forgetting that. and he's also forgetting that. and he's also forgetting the constitutional aspects of this not running roughshod through them. not yet. i suspect he will, but, i think he has got no respect for it. >> i really think, you know, unfortunately, moving a picture and having a member of the house of lords of 25 years into downing street is hardly running roughshod over democracy. >> well, we shall see, shan't we? right. okay much more to come. i'm dawn neesom. this is gb news and there is indeed loads more coming up for cigarettes now. they're coming for your booze. nanny state concerns raised over rumours of a minimum alcohol pricing plans. all of that and much more to come. this is gb news, britain's news channel, but pour yourself a swift pint if you one. see

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me dawn neesom. now, unfortunately i have some very tragic breaking news to bring you. i'm a 32 year old mum and a chef who were attacked in separate incidents whilst attending the notting hill carnival, a weekend have died, the metropolitan police have just confirmed. commander chairman brenner confirmed share maximum, who has been at the carnival last sunday with her daughter, died in hospital on saturday morning. he says the news of share's tragic death is devastating for her family and the wider community, and for all those involved in delivering the notting hill carnival separately, swedish national musee nato was also found unconscious on monday evening near notting hill. he has also died from his injuries, but that's live breaking news for you. police have confirmed that two deaths from this year's notting hill carnival incredibly sad news, obviously a young mum, a 32 year old, she was attending

carnival with the little girl and she was stabbed. it's. i've had my panel with me, benjamin butterworth and henry bolton. we're just going to quickly talk about this story because it's really, really sad. and you hoped that these people, you know, the both victims were going to come through. it's the news that nobody wanted and obviously thought with, with their families and with their friends and, and, you know, and everybody affected by this horrific event. i'm just going to come to you first, henry, on this obviously thoughts with those who have lost people. they love. but we come back now to that eternal question. is it time that the notting hill carnival is moved somewhere safer? >> i think whether that's the answer or not, i think there has to be a serious grown up and frank conversation about the carnival for many years now, it's been problematic. it's been very difficult to police. it's

almost impossible to police effectively, and i'm a former police officer. i've never worked the carnival i was in in thames valley police, but, i think one of the fundamentals of the role of the a fundamental principle , a foundation, if you principle, a foundation, if you like, of the police being able to provide security for the public, going about its lawful business, whether it's carnival or anything else, is for it to acknowledge the cause of risks to that public safety, to have a totally open conversation about it, honest , transparent it, honest, transparent conversation about it. because if you don't and you deny or keep some things off the table in that conversation, you will never design the right solutions for it . you will never keep the for it. you will never keep the pubuc for it. you will never keep the public as safe as you otherwise could do. we've got to have that honest conversation, and i don't like i have to say it's in the conversation of two tier policing. what we've got to do is we've. if i don't care who is

responsible for disorder, for knife crime, for, for car thefts, for whatever it might be, it is if it's criminal activity, it is criminal activity. and i don't care who you are, you need to feel the full weight of the law and if anything compromises that, then we're compromising public safety. >> benjamin , obviously, i think >> benjamin, obviously, i think we've got some photos now. i mean, the young mum, that's the chef , who lost his life there chef, who lost his life there and the young mum share maximum who's 32 years old. she was enjoying a family day with her little girl, and was knifed in the leg . it's alleged, trying to the leg. it's alleged, trying to break up a fight. the leg. it's alleged, trying to break up a fight . these are break up a fight. these are horrifically sad stories , horrifically sad stories, benjamin. what do you make of. i mean, we've heard. >> i mean, it's of course, a tragedy. you know, the daughter of the woman who's died saw her mother be stabbed. according to reports, she hadn't been involved in any disorder. she was caught between men that were

fighting, as you just described. yeah. >> we have to be careful because people have been arrested on this one. >> but, yeah, i was about to say in the allegations. yeah. and so, you know, that's incredibly tragic. i think the question about the notting hill carnival, i mean, these questions have been around for decades. they're not new questions. and you have to take into account the scale of it. over a million people, i think, are involved in the notting hill carnival. and so, you know, sometimes when you hear the numbers, it doesn't make any of it okay. but some of the stabbings and the drug deaungs the stabbings and the drug dealings and things like that that get arrested, well, in a city of the size of london, with that many people, it's not completely out of proportion, but clearly you have a situation where it's harder for police to manage these situations because of the scale. you know, london streets aren't particularly wide. it gets chaotic. you see some very disturbing scenes. what i'd say is that i've never been to notting hill carnival on the august bank holiday weekend, i go to manchester's pride festival, which corners off a big section of the city centre. it's gay village and it's absolutely rammed. it's incredibly busy and i've been

there 12 times since i was 18 and i've never seen, never seen so much as a fight. so clearly there is something about other events that have massive crowds that don't attract this kind of disorder. >> there are maybe there were 35 police officers injured at the notting hill carnival, 260 arrests, five at least five, maybe six stabbings. there were numerous sexual assaults. this is not how a weekend should be. a weekend out for the family. no even if there are, there's a million people there. this needs. we need a we need a conversation about this. >> okay. thank you very much for that, gentlemen. obviously, the tragic breaking news that two people who were injured at the nottingham carnival have sadly lost their lives. let's now go to sam francis, who has the full news headlines for you, including this breaking story. i'm sorry. sorry. we're not going to. sam just yet. we're

just gathering more information on that news story for you. we'll

soon. >> very good afternoon to you. you're live with gb news time just after 2:30 and before we head back to dawn . let's start head back to dawn. let's start with that breaking news we've been hearing from the metropolitan police in the last few minutes or so that a woman has died after being stabbed at the notting hill carnival. she was attending that event in london on sunday with her three year old child, the police saying she though , has now died saying she though, has now died from her injuries. she was attacked in broad daylight after she tried to intervene in a fight. the 32 year old was taken to hospital in a critical condition . but as i say, despite condition. but as i say, despite the best efforts of medical staff there, she has now died from her injuries and detectives saying they are working with the 32 year old's family and providing support to make sure

that her daughter, three year old, is safe and looked after. well, we're also hearing that a top chef attacked in a separate incident during the notting hill carnival has also died . police carnival has also died. police found musa qala m nato unconscious on the streets of queensway on monday night before paramedics arrived. a 31 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. however, police say they are still looking for witnesses who may have seen mousey between 1:00 on monday evening and at the time of the attack, just before 11:30 pm. so those two latest lines just coming to us from the metropolitan police that a woman and a man have both died following a stabbing, attacks, separate incidents at the notting hill carnival over the notting hill carnival over the weekend . and in other news, the weekend. and in other news, a pensioner is being questioned on suspicion of murder following an incident in cheltenham . an incident in cheltenham. gloucestershire. police were called to a property in the early hours of this morning where they found a 66 year old

woman with serious injuries. she sadly died at the scene of that incident and police in the west midlands are also actively investigating the fatal stabbing of a 13 year old boy. a murder inquiry has been launched there following that tragic incident in oldbury on thursday, though no arrests have been made so far. the west midlands force have, though, assured the public that those responsible will be brought to justice and also an attack in germany as well. a 32 year old woman has been arrested after six people were injured in after six people were injured in a knife attack there on a bus heading to a festival last night. three of those attacked in that incident east of cologne, are in a life threatening condition, while another three have been discharged from hospital. at this stage, german authorities believe there's no evidence of a political or a religious motive . political or a religious motive. and in other news, this afternoon , teachers, classrooms afternoon, teachers, classrooms with pupils being taught by ai are being trialled in a london school. this year, a class of 20

gcse students at david game college will spend the year learning from bots. the school says the tech will pinpoint the area's pupils may need help with, but headteachers say education shouldn't be taken out of educators hands . and finally, of educators hands. and finally, oasis fans, well, they're still struggling to land tickets for reunion gigs with reports of website outages, glitches and still long waits . the band is still long waits. the band is set to play 17 concerts in the uk and ireland next summer, but the group has warned that tickets resold at inflated pnces tickets resold at inflated prices will be cancelled . some prices will be cancelled. some seats originally sold last night dunng seats originally sold last night during early access are now being resold for over £6,000. that's the latest from the gb newsroom. for now, sophia wenzler will be back with your headunes wenzler will be back with your headlines at 3:00 and plenty more on those two breaking stories from the notting hill carnival throughout this afternoon. >> for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to

gbnews.com. forward slash alerts . gbnews.com. forward slash alerts. >> thank you very much, sam and welcome back to the weekend with me, dawn neesom. i'm unfortunately, we, as you've been hearing from sam in the news headlines, there we come with some breaking news for you that sadly, two people have died after being attacked in separate incidents at the notting hill carnival last week . cher carnival last week. cher maximum. she was 32 years old, was at the event last weekend on children's day on the sunday when she was stabbed , supposedly when she was stabbed, supposedly trying to break up a fight. she died sadly this morning, officers gave her emergency medical treatment until the arrival of paramedics at the scene, police have said, but unfortunately she was transported to hospital in a critical condition and she has sadly now lost her life. meanwhile musee nato, who was a

chef from dubai, was attacked in a separate incident. he was 41 years old and was found unconscious with a head injury in queensway on the monday evening. he also sadly has lost his life now, which means that this particular notting hill carnival is one sadly where again we are seeing a loss of life, which is just not what we wanted. you would, you would certainly praying that both of those people would recover from their injuries. i still have my panel with me, benjamin butterworth and henry bolton, and i hope you do understand that it feels wrong to talk about anything now apart from this, this horrific incident and where we go. i mean, it goes without saying, benjamin, that you know, our thoughts are with the people. you know, that have lost loved ones in this and all the people that have been affected by it. but the endless debate goes on now about notting hill carnival and, you know, is it still right to be holding the

carnival in the very narrow streets of notting hill itself? should it be moved somewhere safer, where crowds can be policed and where where people are safer? i mean, notting hill is a relatively small area . is a relatively small area. >> it gets incredibly congested in many ways . >> it gets incredibly congested in many ways. it's a >> it gets incredibly congested in many ways . it's a strange in many ways. it's a strange area to have something like this. but of course the notting hill carnival came about in response to, feelings from the black community, from the canbbean black community, from the caribbean community of police oppression , and they decided to oppression, and they decided to set this up as a celebration of their culture with a display of it. and so, you know, they always set this up as a, as something to embrace their culture to and share it. and it's become something that attracts people from all over the world. it's a famous carnival. it's incredibly beautiful. there are so many people that put so much effort into it, and it's , you know, you into it, and it's, you know, you only have to look at the videos of the incredible outfits and the joy that clearly the vast majority of the 1 million people that attend get out of this. and so, you know, i think it would be wrong. and clearly these people went along and they they were there to celebrate it. and it went tragically wrong. but a

lot of people enjoy it. and if we cancelled everything where a tragedy happened, where a crime happened, well, there probably wouldn't be much going on. and so i think the real question is about the ability to police it, the effect that gang crime and gang violence and organised crime interacting with the carnival, and the difficulty to get down those narrow streets. i think that's the real question. i think there shouldn't be an idea that notting hill carnival shouldn't go ahead, because if that, you know, if you banned that, you know, if you banned that, you'd ban glastonbury for goodness sake. you know, similar things happen there. >> but obviously, i mean, to be fair, we don't see we don't see knife murders at glastonbury, partly because you can check everybody before they go in is the point. >> so you have to raise these questions of how you can best manage the danger. yeah. >> i mean, henry, you are a former police officer, you you know, the policing operation for notting hill is huge. huge. i mean, my husband was down there helping a friend rig up a rig up a sound system, and he was talking to a couple of female police officers from the met there, and they were saying to him, look, you know, it's great. it's a great atmosphere. it's on

children's day. it's a great atmosphere at the moment . but it atmosphere at the moment. but it does have a darker side indeed when evening falls and they were saying there's two female police officers, they were saying we don't really want to volunteer to do this shift. it's not something we particularly look forward to now. the difficulty is, as a serving member of the met to police something of this scale, it must be it's almost impossible to organise . impossible to organise. >> i wasn't in the met and i never policed notting hill, but ihave never policed notting hill, but i have a lot of friends who were police officers and our police officers in the met and who have policed it, and the problem is there are so many problems. there's the sheer scale of the numbers, but there's also if there is an incident, how do you make your way through such seething masses to get to it? either to whether you're a paramedic or whether you're a police officer? there's very little that you can actually do , little that you can actually do, and so it is highly problematic, the but i think i mean, whatever

carnival you have of this nature, i mean, the rio carnival, there's sort of 17 to 25 people are murdered at the rio carnival in brazil every yeah rio carnival in brazil every year. there is a sort of there's an element within the carnival goers, the drugs dealers, the gang members and so on. who are the people who are really responsible for this and i, i do believe that in this country, we can do a great deal more to address those sort of problems. the old knife crime, we heard on the news just now that a 13 year old lad has very sadly died as well, indeed, as a result of a stabbing. you know. so well, indeed, as a result of a stabbing. you know . so we've got stabbing. you know. so we've got these stabbing incidents are becoming more and more common. we have to have a serious conversation as to why that is. and i don't think it's good enough to , to why do you think enough to, to why do you think it is, henry? >> well , i it is, henry? >> well, i think that there is a cultural element now that has established itself in british

society , particularly the society, particularly the canbbean society, particularly the caribbean community. >> but it's gone beyond that now where carrying a knife is a cool, trendy thing to do. you can buy zombie knives for 1520, £25, you know, quite easily. i mean , i'm ex—military as well. mean, i'm ex—military as well. these aren't knives that have any other purpose than to inflict injury on people . inflict injury on people. there's they're colourful. they're, they're , they're trendy they're, they're, they're trendy by design so that they attract younger people. and we these must be illegal to sell, not just simply to carry but we shouldn't be selling them. you shouldn't be selling them. you shouldn't be selling them. you shouldn't be allowed to buy them in the united kingdom. and we're not talking kitchen knives here. we're talking about you know, something totally different, we need to have an honest conversation about the gang culture that has established itself, particularly in london, but also elsewhere now and out of london. it's moving. i live in kent, but the gang culture has moved out of london. well, not out of london, but it is

grown tentacles that reach down as far as maidstone and, and even folkestone and places like that. and we've, we must to deal with that. i believe we must have an honest, full and frank conversation about the cultures in which these sort of these criminal activities originate and why they gain traction, because without recognising that we're not going to recognise or we're not going to recognise or we're not going to recognise or we're not going to be able to design an appropriate benjamin just quickly because we have to go to a break. >> what do you make about what henry is saying about knife crime? >> i mean, i think that the notting hill carnival becomes a bit of a tip of the iceberg for a problem that is there all year round, a lot of these gangland violence is postcode based. it's based on particular schools. people have gone to. and you get a situation very problematically where some people are carrying knives as a defence. that would kids that would openly say they don't want to, but then they're faced with a reality that none of us can really put ourselves in their shoes. and so i think

if you were to solve the problems that rear their head at notting hill carnival, then it would be a 12 month, a year project. you know, these young people don't get on this road to carrying a knife into drug deaung carrying a knife into drug dealing just on a bank holiday weekend. >> yeah, that's true. there's a deeper underlying issue that surfaces very publicly at the notting hill. >> it's about education, is it? but thank you very much for now, gentlemen. as i said, we are talking about the sad deaths of a share maximum and musa qala in nato who lost their lives, confirmed today at the notting hill carnival. go go to a quick

welcome back to the weekend with me, dawn neesom. now we have sad news for you. a 32 year old mum and a man who were attacked in two separate incidents over the

notting hill carnival weekend have died. the metropolitan police have confirmed. cher maximum, who had been at the carnival last sunday on children's day with a little girl , died in children's day with a little girl, died in hospital this morning. the news of cher's tragic death is devastating for her family. the wider community and all those involved in delivering the notting hill carnival, says a spokesman . carnival, says a spokesman. separately, musi m nato, who worked as a chef and was found unconscious on monday evening near notting hill, has also died from his injuries, police have confirmed. i still have benjamin butterworth and henry bolton with me and obviously it goes without saying that thoughts without saying that thoughts with everybody. you know, the families of these two victims and the people and you know , the and the people and you know, the people that knew them and loved them. and it's just an awful thing to have happened. and we were all hoping that cher would pull through because she's got three year old child who she was with when she was attacked, it's just a horrific story, benjamin. you can't begin to comprehend

when you go to an event that should be as joyous as a carnival. you just don't expect this to happen. over a million people go to the carnival over the two days in. most people go and have a lovely time. we've seen the brilliant costumes, the party atmosphere, the music people go to enjoy themselves and the fact that this, you know , and the fact that this, you know, it is a minority. and i am going to say that it is a minority , to say that it is a minority, ruin it for the so many people that work hard, put in the carnival together and go to enjoy it. >> yeah, of course, you know, the vast majority of people that go there for the black and canbbean go there for the black and caribbean communities whose culture is on display , who have culture is on display, who have worked so hard for this, you know, this is a really important occasion. and, you know, the vast majority enjoy it. there is clearly a danger with organised crime , with knife crime that crime, with knife crime that interacts with this. and it becomes a flashpoint because we see these stories every year. and i think that's why there are very difficult questions on to how police it. but also, it was mentioned earlier that , you mentioned earlier that, you know, often it is after dark. it is later at night when the tone

of this changes. so, you know , of this changes. so, you know, many, the vast majority of people won't witness any crime, let alone be affected by it. as we've seen in the tragic case of these two people that have lost their lives. and so, you know, i think it's important to have that perspective even at the time when you know something has gone so tragically wrong. you also have to feel for those police officers that had intervened in this scene that must be, you know, incredibly sad to learn that they weren't able to help in the end. >> yeah, that's i mean, henry , >> yeah, that's i mean, henry, you have been a serving police officer. i know, not in the met and not covering the carnival, but, you know, police are human. they do get affected by this as well. i mean, you know, you know, there were a couple of police officers who tried to save cheryl's life on the scene , save cheryl's life on the scene, but she was obviously critically injured, as we've learned today. and i find this very difficult because it genuinely upsets me. i know i'm sorry. >> and, you know, because i've beenin >> and, you know, because i've been in i've attended stabbings and i've attended public disorder things, and there have been situations where i've had to deal with people who have been fatally injured. and you can do nothing. and it is traumatic . can do nothing. and it is traumatic. but can do nothing. and it is traumatic . but police officers, traumatic. but police officers, we and i talk about, i criticise

the politicisation of police and all sorts of things, and i think we can do better as an institution. the police can do better, but the individual police officers and police men and women out there who who run towards danger to protect the public, they don't run away from it and they deal with the most appalling things so that the rest of us can rather forget that. so well done then. >> thank you. henry thank you. benjamin, don't go too far. loads more coming up. but first let's have a look at what the weather is doing for you. thank you for watching. i'm dawn neesom gb news. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news . news. >> hello! here's your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. we're starting the weekend on a fine note across the bulk of the uk, but over the next couple of days, things turning more unsettled increasingly humid for a while and we'll start to see some thundery downpours developing in places too. high

pressure is pulling away to the wall to the north—east of the uk, now allowing a south easterly feed to develop. this warm front starting to introduce more in the way of cloud from the south, particularly across parts of england and wales. as we head through the evening into the overnight period, 1 or 2 showers also breaking out from that cloud as it starts to thicken from the south, particularly towards the south—east of england. later in the night. here there could be thundery in nature those showers, whereas towards the north—west it's clearest. we'll hold on to some good clear spells right through the night here, turning locally quite chilly with temperatures dipping into single figures, but towards the south of the uk, increasingly warm and humid temperatures here in the mid to upper teens. so we start to sunday, then on a pretty clear note towards the north and northwest of the uk, 1 or 2 mist or fog patches in places, though soon burning away to give some sunshine temperatures. responding into the low teens by the early morning as the sun starts to get to work on those temperatures further south though, into england and wales again, more in the way of cloud around still 1 or 2 showers locally on the heavy side at this stage, mainly towards the south—east of england. and again 1 or 2 of those showers could be thundery in nature. on the whole sunday will be a cloudy day,

then on saturday i think the best of the sunshine lingering towards the north—west of the uk there, but elsewhere a fair bit of cloud and a few showers also breaking out in places, particularly across central and southern parts of england and later across the north of england, to some of those showers turning heavy and thundery could give 1 or 2 problems. i think in places with some flooding issues. so the best of the lingering brightness towards the north—west of the uk. notice though, towards the south—east it's very warm and humid temperatures here into the high 20s, 27 celsius. that's 81 in fahrenheit, a bit cooler towards the north—west. in the high teens into sunday evening. the showers start to migrate their way northwards, a few starting to push into scotland as we head through sunday evening. elsewhere, though, holding on to a few clear spells. on the whole, though, the start of next week looks pretty unsettled. showers and longer spells of rain around perhaps turning a bit drier towards the middle part of the coming week . coming week. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on

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