good afternoon lovely people. you're with me patrick christys gb news. now coming up on, the rails, strikes and acts of economic terrorism. 40,000 members of the rmt union calls for in five trains to be cancelled today as workers look to head back to the office after the christmas break. it's supposed sadly costing our economy billions of pounds. mick lynch, though, still thinks , the

lynch, though, still thinks, the whole justified has to whole thing's justified has to be a change. we've been hearing the same stuff six months or more. that they want to facilitate settlement. what i got to prove that now they've got to prove that now they've got to prove that now they've got to change equation. got to change the equation. i he's going to put people off taking a train for unless they absolutely have to totally self. but transport secretary mark harper is calling on members harper is calling on rmt members to the picket line and, to get off the picket line and, get round the negotiating table, are holding are rail strikes holding ordinary workers like you to ransom? also this hour, interview with itv v. prince harry has said that he wants father and brother back . do you father and brother back. do you think charles and william should forgive or is he done too much? and this is a big one. this is a big one that i want your views on today. ladies and gents mrs. trump yourselves. and are we going to see the return of the mask, the uk? how security agency is warning people to stay at they unwell at home if they feel unwell because the stuff and because he's done the stuff and wear when outside . here's wear face when outside. here's what i want from you today , what i want from you today, ladies gentlemen. email me. ladies and gentlemen. email me. jb views gb news don't uk get

jb views on gb news don't uk get yourself on the telly first things first. should charles and wills forgive ? but then there's wills forgive? but then there's this one i think is the this one as well. i think is the bigger one. will you return ever to wearing a mask and why? and looking a little bit further the road. should we ban people coming china ? coming in from china? vaiews@gbnews.uk get yourself on the telly . good afternoon. on the telly. good afternoon. it's 3:02. i'm tamsin roberts in the gb newsroom over . 40,000 the gb newsroom over. 40,000 rail workers is staging fresh strikes this week causing disrupt for people returning to work after christmas break. only four out of five trains are running as members of the rmt union network rail and i4 train operators are walking out for 48 hours from today. they'll walk out on friday whilst drivers at the aslef union will strike on thursday. it's part of a long running dispute overjobs and conditions which rmt general

secretary mick lynch tells us is vital for the future of the industry. up to the government now to show us that mean business and that they want facilitate some talks rather undermining them as we believe did before christmas by putting provisions in that they know none of the railway going to accept. so if we can get some realistic talks with some proposals and progressive talks will work with all the parties to get that on. but transport secretary mark harper says it's time for the unions get off the picket line and rather to negotiate table. government's going to continue to work really hard to try and help bring the two sides together to get this resolved. i know how frustrate this is for commuters and the dangerisit this is for commuters and the danger is it puts people off the railways, which is a bit self—harm on the part of the rail that haven't settled this dispute. what i think the government can do is make sure it was a fair and reasonable offer on the table which there is facilitate negotiations between employers , trade unions

between employers, trade unions and try and make sure we get this dispute for the travelling pubuc. this dispute for the travelling public . the government insists public. the government insists it's doing everything possible to increase hospital capacity as top medics describe the current as unbearable . more than a dozen as unbearable. more than a dozen nhs trusts and ambulance services declared incidents over the festive period . the royal the festive period. the royal college of emergency medicine says somewhere between 3 to 5 people are dying each as a result of delays in care. the government says it's given the nhs and social care sector an additiona l £41 billion over the additional £41 billion over the next two years. people travelling to england from china will not be forced to quarantine . they test positive for covid arrival. the government says the move is about collecting information due to the beijing refusing to share its own data. following a surge in case numbers there testing will be optional for passengers landing at london heathrow . under the

at london heathrow. under the new measures, people flying to england from china will required to show a negative covid test before boarding the plane . a before boarding the plane. a conservative has told gb news she wears stop proof jacket for protection and when meeting local constituent . virginia local constituent. virginia crosbie warned of the scale of abuse. politicians face. she says she's faced threats before and that things have not improved ramps since death of sir david amess was fatally stabbed during a constituent surgery in october 2021. labour mp jo cox was also murdered in thousand and 16. i have been. i have in difficult situations and ihave have in difficult situations and i have surgeries. i do face face surgeries where i wear a stab . surgeries where i wear a stab. obviously, following the murder of david amess and also i have i have security protection as well. and i think it's important that i have direct contact with my constituents and this is this is one of the things that i have

to do to in to ensure that i that i to do to in to ensure that i thati can to do to in to ensure that i that i can actually do the job i was elected to do. a marriage british couple are among four people killed in a mid—air crash between two helicopters in australia yesterday . diane and australia yesterday. diane and ron hughes from merseyside were on holiday when the accident happenedin on holiday when the accident happened in gold coast region. three others were left critically injured . queensland critically injured. queensland police say the initial investigations indicate the collision occurred when one helicopter was taking off and the other was landing . russia the other was landing. russia says three of its soldiers have been killed in a ukrainian attack in the occupied region of donetsk on new year's eve . donetsk on new year's eve. ukraine initially claimed it killed 400 russian fighters, a claim russia called an exaggeration . the attack hit exaggeration. the attack hit temporary barracks in the eastern ukrainian of makita , eastern ukrainian of makita, where russian forces have been stationed hundreds of thousands

of fans have gathered to pay their respects to brazilian footballing . pele, who is due be footballing. pele, who is due be buned footballing. pele, who is due be buried today. a procession has led his coffin from the stadium of his former club santos through the city on top of a fire engine . earlier, newly fire engine. earlier, newly sworn brazilian president lula joined 150,000 people who filed a coffin at the santos football club grounds. the three time world cup winner lost, his battle with cancer last thursday . he was 82. this is gb news will bring you more news as it happens, of course. now, though, straight back to . straight back to. patrick right? loads for you. today was dancing with the strikes though. 40,000 members of the rmt union begun their first two day walk out of the week to day. network

rail said the strikes will result in 20% of services running. earlier today, gb news to transport secretary mark harper , who maintained that the harper, who maintained that the government is hard to resolve the dispute and urged rmt leader mick lynch to negotiate . offer mick lynch to negotiate. offer was put to rail unions. two of the unions accept that deal on network rail the rmt . a third of network rail the rmt. a third of their members did vote for it, though they were instructed to. not but they're still not willing to . what is a very fair willing to. what is a very fair , reasonable offer. so look, government's going to continue to work really hard to try and help bring the two sides together to get this resolved. my together to get this resolved. my new year message to mick lynch be make a year's lynch would be make a new year's resolution, the picket resolution, get off the picket line, the, negotiate table line, round the, negotiate table and these damaging and let's get these damaging strikes there's strikes to an end. there's a fair and reasonable pay offer on the for people you the table for the people you represent. so let's get round represent. mc so let's get round table and see if we can table and let's see if we can get the dispute out. you know, this is fascinating, actually, ladies and gents and i want to get input this. have you get your input on this. have you

now support these now got less support these striking workers light striking rail workers in light of the fact that maybe your christmas was bit ruined, that christmas was a bit ruined, that it's dragging on far too it's been dragging on far too long. i with interest some reports that said it cost the hospitality sector one and a half pounds in december half billion pounds in december . is it now economic ? i'm going . is it now economic? i'm going to go to olivia utley all political correspondent on this because olivia there's lots get into your head most notably for me fact that the government appears to be quite keen on the idea that apparently only 2000 members of the rmt need to change their minds about this strike before any referendum that they would do would mean that they would do would mean that they would do would mean that they didn't strike if they wait out, then don't wait it out, then they don't offer more money. yes. offer them any more money. yes. so this is the line that's being pushed this morning by chuvalo, who negotiator network who the chief negotiator network rail. and he's that what happened last time is government put forward its pay offer and it was rejected . but over 30% of was rejected. but over 30% of rail workers actually it. and he's saying that they didn't give the union didn't give their

workers enough time to consider the offer before making them vote on it. and what he's hoping and what the government is clearly hoping is that if offer is put forward again and the workers are given a little bit more time, only you say more time, then only you say 2000 of them would have to change their vote for the december pay offer to accepted so that to be the is the government's idea for a solution for this. but then you've got mick lynch saying morning that he is to strike all the way through to may june. so he's going to keep on playing hardball. yeah he has now. just worth reminding ourselves of what that offer reportedly was. so the public overseen by the department for transport had offered a 5% pay rise in 2022, backdated to so last year, the year just 5% and a 4% pay rise yearjust 5% and a 4% pay rise from the start to 2023. also job security basically. so no compulsory redundancies for the next year. some would say it's not a bad offer now , that was

not a bad offer now, that was accepted by a couple of unions. the rmt still playing hardball on this aslef another . they are on this aslef another. they are also threatening strike action and are as far as i'm aware. anyway to train drivers . when anyway to train drivers. when i look at the figures being offered, the rmt and the fact that the train drivers are normally or they are the best paid people on the train service, i wonder whether not pubuc service, i wonder whether not public support for this now just hit rock bottom public has already been declining month on month pretty much so in november pubuc month pretty much so in november public support was thought from august and september. yes hope is for the government that if it keeps repeating these figures, the figures, all of it the median salary for train staff is between 38,050 £4,000, which above the median average for the country . then public support country. then public support will start ebb away. i think you're right in suggesting that there are people whose christmases were ruined by it and who are feeling less. the other thing that the government is hoping actually the is hoping that actually the train that the strikers, the

actual workers many of them is being reported this morning have , been on strike for 20 of the last 200 days. 10. that's a lot of money they're losing. so the government hoping that if it holds out and keeps playing hardball back , then a yes public hardball back, then a yes public will start draining away. but also, support for the unions will start draining away among the workers themselves. yes, absolutely . the other elements absolutely. the other elements to this, which is that they are trying to promote this line that it's a massive of self—harm. and again, people home will be listening on your radio, whatever you're i want whatever you're doing i want your on this because. if your input on this because. if your input on this because. if you will be you have a person who will be looking, a season ticket. so looking, get a season ticket. so a railcard season ticket now. now they are thousands and thousands pounds and annual thousands of pounds and annual season ticket monstrous season ticket is a monstrous amount of money. what do you really go on now and i'm sorry to wonder with this work from home generation as well whether or actually they're just or not actually they're just putting themselves of putting themselves out of business the business because what be the point a season ticket point of getting a season ticket if frankly cannot sure if you frankly cannot be sure whether that train is

whether or not that train is going even yeah, and going to even run? yeah, and that's line that that's definitely a line that the is pushing hard the government is pushing hard at the moment essentially the government has government will taxpayer has been rail been propping up the rail network whole of covid network for the whole of covid times just the network is times and just the network is actually getting back up and running again we've got all these strikes. so there certainly is an argument essentially sort of turkeys for christmas. exactly. you could say the unions are sort of hoping for a general strike of 1926 or whatever when strikes were of crippling the country. but as you say, the sort of work from home generation with everything digitalised , isn't it everything digitalised, isn't it just possible at least the government is sort of hoping that people will just turn away from the rail network altogether and that takes the wind out of the union's sails a little bit? yeah, absolutely . thank you very yeah, absolutely. thank you very much. you're going to be keeping us date. there are any us up to date. there are any developments as the developments on this as the progresses, utley. there progresses, olivia utley. there are reports and are political reports and i wanted from, as you well wanted to hear from, as you well know, show about you know, this show is all about you viewers listeners. and viewers and the listeners. and i want know what impact that want to know what impact that continued strike action on our

railways having as with just railways is having as with just normal i believe, as normal people, i believe, as well. so understand that we well. so i do understand that we might about to some point go might be about to some point go to who is of our to someone who is of our viewers. i believe, yes, this is luke luker. thank you very much. i wasn't sure we're going to get you then, but it's good stuff that we wanted to get you. all right. okay so just talk me through experiences where through your experiences where you bothering you are now. is it bothering you? strikes this rail you? the rail strikes this rail start is just get absolutely ridiculous i tweet up ridiculous. i put a tweet up last about it and i've had lots of sort of like and abuse saying you know so it's not it's not just about pay it's about, you know, getting rid of them. get rid of the ticket offices. you know, obviously how could disabled people get the disabled people get on the train? obviously there's no guard not just guard to the side, not just about pay. they say it's, about the pay. they say it's, about the pay. they say it's, about the pay. they say it's, about the cost of a service that they're going to lose while on they're going to lose while on the railway. okay alright. the railway. yeah. okay alright. so have sympathy for so do you have any sympathy for when emerged they've when it's emerged that they've been backdated a been offered 5% backdated for a yean been offered 5% backdated for a year, 4% going forward from around today really. and as well suppose in any way essentially job security for the next year

or so. do you think should just get to work . yeah, just get get back to work. yeah, just get back work . the service, even back to work. the service, even when the trains, you know, are meant to be running, they're always cancelled there's no always cancelled or there's no it for all. there's it was a train for all. there's always some issue that sickening problems. i think they just need to get back to work now obviously not going to sell to what the government proposed for their plans . what the government proposed for their plans. no, what the government proposed for their plans . no, they're not their plans. no, they're not now. i was floating idea just an idea whether not this was idea as to whether not this was some kind of economic terrorism, rather the country to . rather holding the country to. we're billions of pounds we're losing billions of pounds would the hospitality would appear the hospitality industry alone according to reports that out yesterday reports that came out yesterday , one and a half , lost about one and a half billion the month of billion pounds the month of december. say , on the sign december. they say, on the sign of working people, these barons who a decent wage who earn a decent wage themselves, you are as understand it, a working person it's affected you . you lost it's affected you. you lost work? yeah lost work. today. i was meant to be filming in. i'll get to work this this is an ongoing even when it was with covid ongoing even when it was with covm they ongoing even when it was with covid they reduced our train

service to 2 hours in the day because they said because of covid that wasn't enough drivers . so where i live it is quite rural. so we've always had quite a big negative impact getting into london obviously where east sussex is, is a very commuter town. so a lot of people rely on the railway to get into city. okay all right. very quickly, very finally, your message to mick . he needs to sort it mick lynch. he needs to sort it out and stop ruining people's lives and yeah, just get on with it . okay. good stuff, luke. it. okay. good stuff, luke. i look after yourself and good luck going to do over the work. the work picks for you. you the work picks up for you. you can get yourself on the train at some point and appreciate you making the time today. making the time for us today. thank later, all the thank very much. later, all the best all right. okay. now best mate. all right. okay. now the has also led the strike action has also led to warnings from campaign to start warnings from campaign is could be is that passengers could be alienated from trains. talking about be about this before, will you be less to use the train? less inclined to use the train? i certainly will anyway. in westminster that government westminster that the government and rishi sunak preparing to push laws push through their strike laws when parliament this month the legislation would enforce a minimum service level on public

transport strike action around 20, which is supposedly the number that we're getting today. apparently unions are expected to take legal action against a move. yes, another legal battle for the government contend for the government to contend with earlier on the of state of work pensions mal said that work and pensions mal said that he didn't think there is a crisis within the nhs ambulance service that pay would service and that pay would create inflation. so this is all about the pay rises giving in to pay about the pay rises giving in to pay demands. let's a listen. the important thing here is, i think firstly that the government has prioritised nhs and our prioritised the nhs and our social care sector so a lot more money £8 billion actually over the next three years being put in on amounts by the chancellor recently. secondly making sure that got staffing of that we've got the staffing of the that's more and more the nhs. so that's more and more nurses than that than before where we are already about 10% more, both nurses and doctors than we had pre—pandemic and making sure that we therefore then focus on investment. we're getting backlogs down and

increasing the provision of health and social care more generally. what the unions and ourselves entered into is a where we have pay review bodies. for example, in the case of the nurses and nhs workers, they came forward with proposals in many cases far higher suggested levels of pay settlement than we were putting forward as a government in terms of affordability and we have accepted all of these review body recommendation in full. so i don't accept that we haven't been engaged in that sense or indeed subsequently where meetings have been held between ministers and unions. but the fundamental problem here , cathy, fundamental problem here, cathy, is that the level increase that's being sought and you mentioned nurses, we have huge sympathy for . mentioned nurses, we have huge sympathy for. nurses do an extraordinary job day in, day out, tirelessly up down the country, but nonetheless to be seeking 19.2, which is % above seeking 19.2, which is% above a level of inflation, that is now falling . yeah, and that's the falling. yeah, and that's the key point. and i wonder whether or not the moments of max mum

damage has gone for these barons, whether or not it's to do with nhs drives, strikes, whether or not it's to do with rail strikes, it's kicked off in the the i'll go the inbox. by the way, i'll go your email shortly. there's been a sea in views. it used to be very on the rail strikes. very split on the rail strikes. now getting is one way now all i'm getting is one way street that straight. it's street and that straight. it's not i met let's put not happy i never met let's put that way. i'll go to your email shortly. go shortly. i'm going to go now though to euston station with paul hawkins for great stuff. though to euston station with paul hyouins for great stuff. though to euston station with paul hyou very»r great stuff. though to euston station with paul hyou very»r greaforuff. though to euston station with paul hyou very»r greaforjoining thank you very much for joining us on this. our national reporter. what's the lay of the land reports land there? i'm reading reports say going to be say passengers are going to be put by good put off travelling by for good because strikes. yeah because of these strikes. yeah thatis because of these strikes. yeah that is the worry. the longer because of these strikes. yeah that strikes worry. the longer because of these strikes. yeah that strikes go rry. the longer because of these strikes. yeah thatstrikes go on, the longer because of these strikes. yeah that strikes go on, patrick. jer because of these strikes. yeah that strikes go on, patrick. the the strikes go on, patrick. the rail industry after covid was already in decline and passenger numbers were going down, it then started to recover and revenues started to recover and revenues started to recover and revenues started to pick again. then started to pick again. and then we industrial. now started to pick again. and then we industrial . now the we had this industrial. now the problem lot of are problem a lot of people are making temporary plans to get around these strikes. around these rail strikes. they've been going on for they've almost been going on for so so you say to so long. so when you say to people another strike people there's another strike on, go car, they on, they don't go shop car, they got one right. have to got another one right. have to revert to plan b but the longer

this on plan b then becomes their permanent plan they their permanent plan and they stay the railways, the stay away from the railways, the railways taking revenue railways taking the revenue they need the taxpayer props need either the taxpayer props them railways fall them up or the railways fall into they into disrepair as they did dunng into disrepair as they did during seventies. the during the seventies. in the 19805. during the seventies. in the 1980s. that's why we've 1980s. and that's why we've spent having to money spent so long having to money back the railways and why back into the railways and why the taxpayer has had to subsidise a lot of tickets. so that be big problem for that will be a big problem for the railway industry if the if the railway industry if the if the strike continues. that speaking to our anti members they admit the striking will continue that they will carry on with the that they had speaking to mick lynch the boss of the rmt earlier he said that the fundamentals of the conversation have to change, but he is open sitting around the negotiating table . the government end table. the government to end this industrial action. well, we want a resolution? we're ready and able to discuss with the companies and the government whatever they want to put that on with here in. the transport secretary saying that keen to convene talks and if there's an invite be there today tomorrow . invite be there today tomorrow. well whenever it is that they

want to get but there has to be a change. they've put provisions and conditions into the documentation with the train operator and companies that they know. none of the railway unions can accept they want bring can accept they want to bring back driver only operation they want rid of guards right want to get rid of guards right across fleet and across the railway fleet and across the railway fleet and across railway service. across every railway service. they us to accept that as a they want us to accept that as a principle they know we can never do that . it wasn't in the do that. it wasn't in the documentation and the discussions before and they chose weekend when we thought we were working up towards a deal to put that in. so undermine the talks and stop the. yeah so really those are the red lines the sand things like driver only trains overpay it it feels like there can be some negotiate when it comes to figures and numbers but on like driver only trains that's where the big fundamental issues are . that that's where the big fundamental issues are. that £2.5 billion has been lost to the hospitality industry. the uk from june to this week, according to that's

up this week, according to that's ”p by this week, according to that's up by £1,000,000,000 on what they thought they were going to lose. so these these strikes are having a big impact on the hospitality industry in the wider for workers that wider and for the workers that are striking themselves they've lost yeah lost three weeks pay now. yeah exactly. look, thank you exactly. paul, look, thank you very, much. paul hawkins, very, very much. paul hawkins, our national reporter from outside station. wonder outside euston station. i wonder those images you used to know those images of you used to know what of the lobby what used seeing of the lobby area , that being packed full area, that being jam packed full of they thing of commuters. they might a thing of commuters. they might a thing of past the knock on effects of the past the knock on effects of the past the knock on effects of trains is that supposedly anyway more people taking to their cars and in line the season ticket cost for trains can be mean massive amounts of can be i mean massive amounts of money. thousands, thousands, thousands pounds steve thousands of pounds steve has just touch. says that just been in touch. he says that if he gets a relatively old petrol car, he can get that with the petrol uninsured a year for two half grand that is two and a half grand that is with pat jennings they do. otherwise, insurance is an otherwise, the insurance is an absolute to absolute whopper. seems to be fair. however, people being pnced fair. however, people being priced well aren't priced off roads as well aren't they? charge is ulez they? congestion charge is ulez of stuff. so i'm wondering of that stuff. so i'm wondering whether going to be whether not we're going to be staring the barrel of staring down the barrel of unreal work home unreal renting work from home culture, knock on effects to culture, a knock on effects to

the community we're the community of this we're witnessing only thing a massive change just in the way change really just in the way that we live our lives. but what's the impact in the short term, these continued rail strike action having our strike action is having on our road network? what i want to find out what was all people are likely to permanently back to their cars. i think they're being priced out in the market the money it would the amount of money it would cost day is cost me to london every day is an shocker. edmund king an absolute shocker. edmund king is the president the is here. the president of the aa, of the roads. aa, the king of the roads. edmund, thank you much. edmund, thank you very much. i'll seeing highways i'll be seeing our highways taking an absolute pounding or no. interesting, patrick, no. well interesting, patrick, because we certainly more breakdowns at moment today. that would be expected because the first day most people go back to work after new year's. that's always a busy day this morning . always a busy day this morning. we had two and a half thousand breakdowns before breakfast and we think breakdowns today will be about doubled. but it is interesting whether more people are taking to the roads because if you discount today, which

knew would be busy anyway and you look back over the last month we've certainly seen and in breakdowns and normally that is an indication that more people are on the roads and dunng people are on the roads and during that time obviously yes we've had bad weather but also we've had bad weather but also we've had bad weather but also we've had quite a few strike . so we've had quite a few strike. so i certainly think of the periphery quite few people in a much more dependent on cars than pubuc much more dependent on cars than public transport. yeah i think so to be honest with you , you do so to be honest with you, you do own a car and you know, you can actually you can actually get from a to b , you know, as long from a to b, you know, as long as you can put the key in the ignition, your foot to the floor, you can get to where you actually want to go. and a lot of the time it's more comfy. you can put the radio on this. you have coughing and have people coughing and sneezing and all of sneezing near you and all of this stuff that you do get on the trains i mean, are you expecting that going forward now? are just going now? more people are just going use their cars despite fact use their cars despite the fact that to be

that they're going to be clobbered things like clobbered with things like utilising congestion charges all this yeah this eco nonsense. yeah i do think difference between think be a difference between london and some of the main cities . and outside of those cities. and outside of those outside of those areas , we will outside of those areas, we will see a big increasing coal use . i see a big increasing coal use. i mean, still in london, as you say , there is the congestion say, there is the congestion charge , the low emissions jobs charge, the low emissions jobs that 16 being out to the whole of the m25 network and also parking in london . you haven't parking in london. you haven't got company policy is incredibly expensive . so i do think london expensive. so i do think london is a bit of a special place in of it's difficult to drive there anyway but outside and then there is no doubt in terms of there is no doubt in terms of the breakdowns we're seeing we are seeing increase in coal use and many of those people would have been people who would have used the railways, they would have used the railway to get away on christmas eve. they couldn't use them on christmas because of the strike . so because of the strike. so there's no doubt for some people

, some lines, the passages will be reduced and the roads will get busier . be reduced and the roads will get busier. adrienne, thank you very much. and king , the very much. and king, the president of the gbviews@gbnews.uk asking you, do you support these strikes? i have support for the striking unions. it's blackmail . this is unions. it's blackmail. this is according to mark. however, somebody name escapes somebody else name escapes me right it's not just right now. does. it's not just about they say don't about pay. they say they don't safe train that would say safe on a train that would say drive with a staff or a drive only now with a staff or a driverless as and i can driverless as well. and i can completely understand , you can completely understand, you can see the screens that see on the screens now that prince harry's because coming up more revelations from prince harry of the of his harry ahead of the of his upcoming memoirs . in an upcoming memoirs. in an interview with itv , he's claimed interview with itv, he's claimed that he wants to reconcile with his . is it too late his and brother. is it too late for harry or do you think charles and wills should forgive and forget? are is views strong? this already? i'll to that this already? i'll go to that shortly. vaiews@gbnews.uk i will back and i take this will be back and i take this year on we've got brand new of the family join us across the entire united kingdom we cover the issues that matter to you gb

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channel or i'm people is back at it the duke of sussex has said he wants to reconcile with the king i'm the prince of wales. i'm not sure i believe him you but his claim that the palace willing to do so prince harry has revealed his the story in a set his side of the story in a set of interviews which is set to air two days ahead of the publication of his highly anticipated memoir, spare.

here's what we can here's a taste of what we can expect to this way the expect needed to be this way the leaking and the plummeting . i leaking and the plummeting. i want a family, not an institution they feel as though it's better to keep us somehow as the villains they've shown absolutely willingness absolutely no willingness reconcile. i would like to get my i would like . well, my back. i would like. well, there we go. cameron walker, royal correspondent, joins me now. cameron, what can we expect from all these interviews ? well, from all these interviews? well, from all these interviews? well, from the trailers, it looks like it's going to be much the same arguments that he made in the netflix documentary series last month. talking about month. patrick talking about well accusing the palace of and briefing journalists in order to make himself and his wife meghan look like villains and to look like the villains and to make prince william and the king and members royal and other members of the royal family look slightly family perhaps look slightly better now. the two charities which have been released, one from cbs in the united states and from itv in the uk and one from itv here in the uk take two slightly different narrative . the first in cbs is narrative. the first in cbs is very much talking about those palace allegations that i was talking about, the leaking the

briefing and then itv document trailer at least we don't know what's in the full documentary, but does talking about him wanting to reconcile with his brother and his father wanting them back and he talks about he wants a family not an institution but the problem is patrick you kind of have to things you can't slate the institution your family represent but also you want represent but but also you want the family back. no, exactly. and i think a lot of people might be wondering whether not archie should be him. the apologising as opposed to maybe reading between the lines, looking apology . the looking for an apology. the royal family. yeah, well, he's doing interviews in order doing these interviews in order to autobiography has to promote his autobiography has been written by ghost—writer, but it's very much his was about what we're going to get next week on on the 10th of january. we know he's going to go into a lot of detail about his experience of his mother's death and walking behind her clearly and walking behind her clearly and spoken about this and he has spoken about this in the very traumatic the past a very traumatic experience for him. but from reading papers over the reading the papers over the weekend. he's to weekend. it like he's going to heavily slate his brother at

that talking about the time where he was trying to thrash out this divorce deal this so—called divorce deal deal when he was stepping back , a senior he was stepping back, a senior working member of the royal family and that's perhaps that's quite hitting home for some people that he is really distressed diana's think that her two boys are very much at odds each other still. yeah look, cameron, thank you very, very much for that i know we're going to be dipping in and out of this story and you'll be a busy man in the coming weeks, as well this memoir is just of well as this memoir is just of interest. will you what do you be to read this memoir be having to read this memoir cover cover overnight so that cover to cover overnight so that you report for us? you can report on it for us? well, we'll have to and well, we'll have to wait and see. i we always we can see. i think we always we can get audiobook version get the audiobook version read by you even by harry himself. and you even even it up so you can even speed it up so you can listen prince harry on double speed to say, yes, that's the way to do i think isn't say oh if you could just find to just shoot directly into your shoot it directly into your brain. to waste your brain. is he down to waste your time thank you very much time on it. thank you very much come walk that all come on walk that all road correspondent lot of love

correspondent not a lot of love for harry in the inbox gbviews@gbnews.uk uk. john s question she's a question whether or not she's a little bit damaged or maybe needs a little bit of needs to seek a little bit of help. a lot of people he's actually out his actually already called out his own they own family and therefore they should apologising him. should be apologising him. elizabeth says, call me cynical, but is he asking for way back? but is he asking for a way back? so a title. well so children gets a title. well that sure you keep that you go make sure you keep getting it john there getting into it john there strong views your way but strong views coming your way but this big for you now this is a big one for you now i've teasing it throughout i've been teasing it throughout the show we're going to come to it very shortly. and it very, very shortly. and i want hear you. massively want to hear from you. massively strong on this. would you strong views on this. would you ever face mask ever return to wearing face mask this talks of slippery this winter? talks of a slippery slope covid slope when it to covid restrictions question marks as to whether or not we should be restricting people from restricting people coming from china really china and what that would really mean. know your mean. let me know your views gbviews@gbnews.uk mean. let me know your views gbvieito @gbnews.uk mean. let me know your views gbvieito wearing/s.uk mean. let me know your views gbvieito wearing a.uk mean. let me know your views gbvieito wearing a face mask? return to wearing a face mask? i'm to have a big debate i'm going to have a big debate on that very, shortly. but on that very, very shortly. but nasty headlines. i thanks very much, patrick. it's 334 i'm tamsin roberts in gb newsroom with the headlines . over 40,000 with the headlines. over 40,000 rail workers are staging fresh

strikes this week, causing disruption . people returning to disruption. people returning to work after the christmas break only out of five trains are running as members of the rmt union at network rail and, 14 train operators are walking for 48 hours from today. they'll walk out again on friday whilst drivers in the aslef will strike on thursday . it's part of the on thursday. it's part of the long running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions the government . it's doing government. it's doing everything possible to increase hospital capacity as top medics describe . the current situation describe. the current situation as unfair but more than a dozen nhs trusts and ambulance services declared critical incidents over . the festive incidents over. the festive penod incidents over. the festive period the royal of emergency medicine says somewhere between 3 to 500 people are dying week as a result of delays in urgent care work and pensions. secretary mel stride says more evidence is needed to support those figures . mortality rates,

those figures. mortality rates, in fact across many advanced economies running well ahead of where they normally be . so where they normally be. so whatever it is that's causing that may not be the specific point that's being raised here. so i think we have to look at that with some caution can mp has told gb news she wears a stab proof jacket for protection when meeting local constituents. virginia crosbie warned of the scale of abuse politicians face. she she's had threats against her and things have not improved and peace since the death of sir david amess who was fatally stabbed during a constituency surgery in october thousand and 21. labour mp jo was also murdered . in 2016 . tv online and murdered. in 2016. tv online and dab+ radio. this is.

gb news. yeah. welcome back , big one. yeah. welcome back, big one. this, ladies and gentlemen, because the uk health security agency is warning people stay at home or wear face mask if they feel unwell this winter. the comes as a senior nhs boss says the health service is under unbearable strain as pressure is mounting on the government to take action. there is well, the former head of the royal college of nursing, dr. peter carter, says the service is now in a major crisis, with critical incidents declared our number of health threats. we all know about all of that. a lot of that has got to do with strikes, etc, but more importantly, i'm just wondering whether or not we're witnessing the old slipping slide into covid slide back into the covid restrictions. already a conversation or conversation about whether or not restrict people not we should restrict people coming from now, can coming in from china. now, i can see sides of that by way. see both sides of that by way. my see both sides of that by way. my inclination is to go, no, because that's how it starts. and of a you start

and all of a sudden you start blocking from different blocking people from different countries back countries and we're back to where were. however british where we were. however a british woman point earlier woman made a point earlier today. said, well, today. he said, well, his parents vaxxed. they stuck parents got vaxxed. they stuck to stuck the to the rules. they stuck the regs. we don't need now is regs. what we don't need now is for to have their liberties for them to have their liberties curtailed , because new curtailed again, because a new variant to come variant has been allowed to come in. then we go a more in. but then we go a more immediate, pressing sense. i'm on mask watch now. so will you digging masks and it digging out your masks and it back this winter. i'm joined back on this winter. i'm joined by bacteriology professor hugh pennington and professor of medicine paul hunter. so we've kind of gone professor with professor. i want know. i'll start with professor of medicine paul hunter for us is a professor as someone has just said in my ear. yes it is right. professor of medicine paul hunter, do you think that we need to be starting to wear masks again as a matter of course on things public course on things like public transport transport? no, i think they providing that we are not quite ill with respiratory infection i think they the current advice is very clear . if current advice is very clear. if you are ill and you've got

particularly if you're able with influenza that you stay at, if possible, and if you can't if that's not possible, then you should wear a mask. you're ill. there is no suggestion . i don't there is no suggestion. i don't think we should be going to the down the route of advising otherwise asymptomatic people , otherwise asymptomatic people, be wearing masks anymore . okay be wearing masks anymore. okay hugh, your view? same question as get things going with why we've done a lot of really all your take on this you should be wearing masks on public transport. oh i agree with paul basic. the issue really is we know that masks are a reduce the risk if you're infected of you , risk if you're infected of you, someone else . and you know, someone else. and you know, that's the advice. it's being given. basically, if you're ill, if you've respiratory symptoms, wear mask, if you have to go out face just to stay inside. so you're not going to infect anybody. what maybe your family but you know. but you're not going to infect anybody else and but wearing masks in general is not very good protective not a very good protective anyway . so there's no need to

anyway. so there's no need to wear masks on public transport and so on you should avoid going on transport if you've got symptoms . well well one of the symptoms. well well one of the rights that i mean, this idea that you shouldn't come into the office, if you will. i mean, it's the bane of people's existence is the dawn of time coming and old coming into the office and old terry's that on his days terry's never that on his days coughing up they need it coughing up a lung they need it before know going around the before you know going around the office before covid. office that was before covid. professor. q can i just stick with on something that you with you on something that you mentioned? work? well, mentioned? do masks work? well, it's get really it's difficult to get really good evidence . lots to do with good evidence. lots to do with a sort double blind trial. you sort of double blind trial. you know, it's almost impossible . know, it's almost impossible. but evidence that they but there is evidence that they do in the that they do work in the sense that they reduce rate , the likelihood reduce the rate, the likelihood that you've got a virus and that if you've got a virus and you're breathing it out, the is going catch some of the virus going to catch some of the virus . on the sort of mask . it depends on the sort of mask , how you wear it. and that's . it depends on the sort of mask , hoof you wear it. and that's . it depends on the sort of mask , hoof the wear it. and that's . it depends on the sort of mask , hoof the problems1d that's . it depends on the sort of mask , hoof the problems with at's . it depends on the sort of mask , hoof the problems with general one of the problems with general wearing you know, that people sort cover their nose very sort of cover their nose very well. the is coming out well. the virus is coming out windows, for example. there's moss do work. they reduce the if you're infected or passing the

virus on to somebody . but the virus on to somebody. but the evidence that they protect you if you don't have any symptoms and you're in a place where this virus is far, far from good, and if it were very, very well designed masks that are being measured to fit your face and all that kind of thing, and they've got proper filters in them. quite a different issue. we're really talking about we're not really talking about that thing. think that sort of thing. i think we're just talking the ordinary surgical surgical type of surgical surgical mask type of just normal garden variety just the normal garden variety mask. yeah, exactly . i'll throw mask. yeah, exactly. i'll throw it back to you. professor of medicine hunter. my concern with this is that it's a little bit of a slippery slope and it's almost like gesture politics in this case, gesture, medicine where they go, okay, just put a mask on and it's designed to make it look like the government is doing something about the is doing something about it. the local authority is doing something maybe something about it and maybe make doreen from number 40 to feel safer when she gets on the bus. you concerned that bus. are you concerned that we're going a slippery we're going to have a slippery slope covid here ? i slope back into covid here? i can't see us going down that

slope at all. be honest, i think it makes good sense that if you are ill and if you are infectious and you cannot for whatever reason, stay at home, that you do best, your best to reduce risk to others. but extending that to further restrictions is, you know, that's that i can't see that happening at all, to be honest . happening at all, to be honest. we all going to be having a conversation a little bit later on about whether or not we should be allowing in from china. so say that for china. so i'll say that for later on. i'll stick with you, paul, later on. i'll stick with you, paul , at the later on. i'll stick with you, paul, at the moment, because one of the big concerns for me about the initial pandemic stuff was the initial pandemic stuff was the amount of fear being pumped into people. understand into people. and i understand initially had a right initially why people had a right to be scared about it. but until the harm to people and now we're seeing present seeing people who didn't present themselves gp's or themselves that gp's or hospitals or don't feel they need knock on need to and then knock on effects we're getting of effects that we're getting or of that winter , people have that it's winter, people have colds, people have covid does exist although does a jab to are

three things that i've just mentioned that do you think that headunes mentioned that do you think that headlines like concern for wearing masks people shouldn't go to work if they're real and. all of this actually is doing a fair bit to strike fear into the hearts of people when a lot of people would say we need to be told this, this is just common sense. well, is common sense. paul well, is common sense. paul well, is common sense. i if you are ill sense. i mean, if you are ill within flu enza you are within flu enza and you are quite poorly should not be going to you know, to work full. stop. you know, not only is that for your not only is that bad for your colleagues that you might actually infect but it's bad for your if are and you're your health if are and you're not well if you're sick so you know it's it common sense but i think it's important to reiterate common sense . we're in reiterate common sense. we're in the situation that we are at the and i mean part of me is also quite about the amount of environmental that masks were doing because that's a better blow to them. it could have moved for a period of time for all over the street or you see them washing up on beaches and all of this. professor. q can i

just ask you, in your opinion, kim, masks do bit more harm kim, masks do a bit more harm than. kim, masks do a bit more harm than . good, because would have than. good, because i would have thought i was constantly thought if i was constantly rereading this thing and, we've also well and knock on also seen as well and knock on effects to children because especially years, especially formative years, children, see people children, they can't see people talking, can't learn facial talking, they can't learn facial expressions and stuff like this could do more harm than could must do more harm than good. well, there are downsides yes. if you're wearing a mask and somebody is to liberate you, it comes because you're not there . but i think, you know, in there. but i think, you know, in general the view is that masks give you a degree of protection if, you know, if you're wearing one and you're ill and you're pushing out the virus if you're not ill and you're trying to protect yourself whilst far less effective unless you're going to get one of these, you know, very complicated ones, which we're not talking. so i think on balance then of course, i suppose you can say, well, the mask manufacturers are doing really quite well well. yes, yes , they are indeed. it's a good time to be in the mask game. i suppose. well thank you very

much both you bacteriologist professor pennington and professor pennington and professor of medicine paul hunter. really informative discussion i think about medicine about exactly how much good otherwise actually good or otherwise they actually do . is it just good or otherwise they actually do. is it just some kind of performative action , you performative action, do you think? you doing it so think? will you be doing it so rather unsurprisingly the overwhelming majority of you in my email address your my inbox email address on your screen just now gb at screen is just now gb at gbnews.uk is anti mask feeling the need to wear it ? certainly the need to wear it? certainly not feeling the need to wear it, especially if it's compulsory. and i do wonder or not, we're going to end up in this situation now where we're seeing just things like cold and flu on the we see that every the rise, we see that every single, especially given that we are locked for however single, especially given that we are loitled for however single, especially given that we are loit seems for however single, especially given that we are loit seems to for however single, especially given that we are loit seems to be however single, especially given that we are loit seems to be hovther long, it seems to be on the increase now. covid may be spiking light of what's going spiking in light of what's going on in china. that is quite scary stuff, but whether or not you will just be inclined to go. will now just be inclined to go. absolutely wore a mask the absolutely no. i wore a mask the first around. i will not be first time around. i will not be told to wear one again. i suspect, i suspect ended suspect, i suspect if we ended up situation they up in a situation where they were made mandatory, i suspect the civil disobedience be

the civil disobedience will be through including through the roof, including likes elizabeth my likes of elizabeth is in my inbox now. mask wearing, inbox now. no mask wearing, definitely no lockdowns. definitely no more lockdowns. she goes to, on talk about she also goes to, on talk about something to talk something that i want to talk about the next hour, which is about in the next hour, which is about in the next hour, which is about in the next hour, which is about in from china. about people in from china. we're cases we're seeing massive cases in china. and very much two china. okay. and very much two sides to this. should we be blocking people from flying in from china in the case of whether or not it creates new variants . we get new variants variants. we get new variants here. serious question to here. serious question as to whether not would actually whether or not we would actually stop any new variants coming in anywhere live in global anywhere we live in a global world, from china are world, no flights from china are allowed, elizabeth allowed, though, says elizabeth and come in as and i, the people who come in as well from things like freight goods and all of that stuff. she says that it would basically be bad country. what do bad for this country. what do you thing? it's you think about this thing? it's a if you start a slippery slope. if you start banning coming from banning people coming in from any maybe we any country. i think maybe we could next. although i can could be next. although i can see behind it see. the logic behind it gbviews@gbnews.uk lots. you've been as well on been getting in touch as well on rail says. have rail workers, mark says. i have no support for any striking unions. it's blackmail, deserve reasonable but most unions. it's blackmail, deserve rettheseyle but most unions. it's blackmail, deserve retthese strikes but most unions. it's blackmail, deserve retthese strikes are but most unions. it's blackmail, deserve retthese strikes are politicalyst of these strikes are political dnven of these strikes are political driven by greed and idleness

kevin says the union has my full support to strike the government is wasting tens of billions in various ways, including, by the way, to be kevin on a variety of different covid things. i'll give you the now they have the audacity about decent audacity to quibble about decent pay audacity to quibble about decent pay rise . okay all right well pay rise. okay all right well look thank you very much. everyone who has been getting in touch. i'm going to keep going with inbox, think, for with the inbox, i think, for a little while, although within the minutes, supposedly the next few minutes, supposedly cristiano ronaldo will be presented shift will presented this as a shift will be as an al nasr be presented as an al nasr player in riyadh after he signed a £175 million a week deal in saudi arabia, having terminated his manchester united last month, the 37 year old posted on social earlier from a seat on a private jet . he said, see you private jet. he said, see you soon, nasser fans. there you go . meanwhile, of course, as well, a footballing right is due to be buned a footballing right is due to be buried later today after thousands of fans waited to pay their specs as pele's coffin lay in state at the home of his former club, santos the three time world cup winner, three

time world cup winner, three time he scored more than a thousand goals in his career, died saturday on the 29th of december at the age of 82. and that was after a battle with cancer. that was after a battle with cancer . i that was after a battle with cancer. i believe that was after a battle with cancer . i believe he might be cancer. i believe he might be able to speak to sports journalists, an official biographer, pele. so official biographer. pele harry harris. harry, thank you very much to have you on the show. so it's all going to such sad circumstances, but just talk to me little bit about pele, me a little bit about pele, really. i suppose were his really. i suppose you were his biographer. what's he like ? biographer. what's he like? well, i don't know whether you can spot it just above my head. there is a pele shirt signed by pele to me . and i can show you pele to me. and i can show you this . it's an pele to me. and i can show you this. it's an invite to pele to me. and i can show you this . it's an invite to private this. it's an invite to private dining with bobby charlton and pele . and i've spent many, many pele. and i've spent many, many in pele's company hours researching the book and interviewing him for the daily mirror over many years . and, you mirror over many years. and, you know , i've never met and met

know, i've never met and met quite a few from diego maradona , johan cruyff, george best, etc. i've never met anyone as more personable , has a smile on more personable, has a smile on his face for everyone. he never says no . a picture with anybody says no. a picture with anybody has as much interest people as they have in him . you know, he they have in him. you know, he wants to know their story as as everyone wants to know his . he's everyone wants to know his. he's just so crunchy. it was so approachable. it was just incredible just to see it and i had many occasions you can see quite a few of them where i had the pleasure of seeing him and he never said no to a photograph with me. i've got hundreds of them around the house, but you know, i've written 86 books now and i've got say that of all of those 86 books, i take most immense pride from the ability to have written his story first published in 2000 and updating

2018 . but i published in 2000 and updating 2018. but i didn't published in 2000 and updating 2018 . but i didn't actually want 2018. but i didn't actually want to write a biography without his permission without knowledge and approval and he was suffering a bit of a dip actually in his life he'd been in politics, he'd been ostracised by fifa. yes, fifa could only be fifa who'd ostracised pele and yet turned up as . they ostracised pele and yet turned up as. they did today and suggests to every club around the world should have a stadium named after him. every country should have a stadium named after anyway, you know , it was after anyway, you know, it was it was just great to meet him so many times and to be the author of this book . when i approached of this book. when i approached him and said, look , i'd like to him and said, look, i'd like to write a book about you actually got up off his feet , gave me got up off his feet, gave me a great big hug and actually said, i can't believe anyone wants to write about my life . yet write a story about my life. yet now said, there's to big now he said, there's to big football. and so it was obviously very, very sad. you know , about pele. and i suppose know, about pele. and i suppose it's a combination and say of a celebration of his life and

remembering, i'll give you the greatest footballer who's ever lived and in the same breath. now we await the announcement, the unveiling press conference forth the unveiling press conference for th e £175 the unveiling press conference forth e £175 million a year for the £175 million a year cristiano impossibly likes to think of as the greatest of all time. how do you compare the two ronaldo and pele ? no comparison ronaldo and pele? no comparison , i'm afraid you know , i in , i'm afraid you know, i in fact, one of the things i asked pele that, you know who do you think might one day take your crown as the greatest ever player? i asked him at the time when neymar was breaking through the absolute well, peter ronaldo was in his pomp. it was absolutely fantastic when i asked him that a messy was number one player in the world at that time and of course we had diego maradona and he said to me when my mother and father father gave birth to pele, they the mould. they will never be another pele. and he was absolutely they won't be another pele . he is the undisputed pele. he is the undisputed number. in fact, he and mohammed ali, my view of the two greatest

ever athletes ever live. oh, fantastic stuff. well, i suppose i might as well know that it needs cheeky plug because you, of course, are the of pele. but what's the book called and where can people get it ? well, can people get it? well, surprisingly enough it's called his life and time. surprisingly enough it's called his life and time . oh, there you his life and time. oh, there you go . all right. thank you very go. all right. thank you very much. it's great fans. i believe we actually throw over to live pictures of ronaldo's unveil playing in real this is just a little glimpse . that was harry little glimpse. that was harry harris by the way who is the official biographer of pele who is coughing, i suppose you could say is being able to be viewed by the public at santos where he played throughout his career, arguably the greatest of all time. we're witnessing the unveiling. a is unveiling. a man who is essentially full on from his status as one of the greatest of all time. i don't cristiano ronaldo saudi arabia ronaldo that in saudi arabia unveiling they're on unveiling they're putting on a show a half aren't they over

show and a half aren't they over there rather ironically of course unveiled and saudi course being unveiled and saudi anyway that would get you all with me. patrick christys on gb news coming up some properties now more than 40,000 members of the rmt walk out on british railways. again, health secretary warning that action secretary is warning that action could off using the could put people off using the network all together and more people who are on well are being encouraged to stay at home and wear a mask kicked off in the inbox about the mass. i'll go that shortly. would you welcome the return of face coverings this very much doubt this winter i very much doubt that would harry that you will would also harry and said that he and meghan. he said that he wants some kind of reconciliation with his family. can't feel is can't help but feel harry is there has sailed there that particular has sailed dining relentlessly on dining out relentlessly on family . it's not dining out relentlessly on family. it's not a dining out relentlessly on family . it's not a particularly family. it's not a particularly classy look, is it? but why else would you expect gbs on gb news uk? let get a taste. i could uk? let us get a taste. i could see that in coming people. i'll see that in coming people. i'll see you in just a tick off the weather. hello again. it's aidan mcgivern office. mcgivern from the met office. rain will ease overnight rain today will ease overnight in places, but stays in many places, but it stays windy and winds are bringing very mild conditions during the next of days the winds

next couple of days the winds coming up all the way from the south—west. packed, south—west. tightly packed, i suppose. south—west. tightly packed, i suppose . and this stream of suppose. and this stream of southwesterly air will continue to bring mild air, not even mild air than we've seen as we started the week northern scotland's been colder, but even here it is turning milder and the many wetter as we head into the many wetter as we head into the evening some persistent and heavy across scotland could cause issues over the higher parts where it's been very wet recently and some snowmelt and for wales as well some , wet for wales as well some, wet weather could cause some issues overnight, but the rain in many places eases. there'll some places eases. there'll be some cloud it cloud breaks developing, it stays though and those winds bnng stays though and those winds bring mild 12 celsius in the south. first thing, 5 to 8. further north. and as the wet starts the southeast. but that clears east. scotland takes a bit longer to , clear the rain bit longer to, clear the rain but for many it's drier and brighter day. the main area of showers affecting northern ireland, southern scotland, northern england otherwise decent cloud breaks sunshine coming through for the midlands and eastern england in

particular very mild 13 or particular and very mild 13 or 14 celsius in the south, 8 to 10 further north, some damp weather affecting the far southwest and then the south during second half of wednesday . that mostly half of wednesday. that mostly disappears overnight . it stays disappears overnight. it stays cloudy towards the southwest with some spots of rain. it'll be further showers in the northwest as . well, but for northwest as. well, but for many, it's a dry start thursday, a little less mild . still, a little less mild. still, temperatures above average and some sunshine. first thing for eastern england. northern scotland, northern scotland, perhaps a touch of frost. otherwise it's frost free. a lot of cloud rushes in from the west through the morning, so any sunshine tending to disappear by the afternoon sometime weather about but most places dry for scotland northern ireland where it tends wet and then later on much windier. it tends wet and then later on much windier . some days on gb much windier. some days on gb newsroom 930, it's tominey for a politics show with personality . politics show with personality. then at 11, michael portillo for topical discussion debate some

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channel it's just gone for a clerk you're with me patrick christys on gb news and coming your way this hour, the transport secretary says the rail, maritime and transport to get off the line around the off the picket line around the negotiating passengers negotiating table as passengers face fresh disruption from strikes . rmt mick lynch , strikes. rmt boss mick lynch, though, still thinks strike action is justified. it's to be action is justified. it's to be a change. we've been hearing the same for six months or more that

they want facilitate a settlement where they've got to prove that now they've got to change the equation . well i'm change the equation. well i'm whether it's him he's got something to prove supposedly anyway the rmt members are teetering on the edge of a reversal. they've got enough are they about to go bust? do you think they'll accept an think they'll just accept an offer crocombe ? but what's offer on crocombe? but what's the continued cost strike the continued cost of strike action uk economy as a action on the uk economy as a whole? who's actually whole? and who's actually funding mercenary unions? whole? and who's actually f|wantg mercenary unions? whole? and who's actually f|want to mercenary unions? whole? and who's actually f|want to know. 1ercenary unions? whole? and who's actually f|want to know. okay,ary unions? whole? and who's actually f|want to know. okay, i'mjnions? whole? and who's actually f|want to know. okay, i'm going? i want to know. okay, i'm going to discussing actually to be discussing who is actually funding are funding these unions. what are they their money from they getting their money from anyway? discuss anyway? will also discuss a prince with a plea to his family in interview with itv, prince in an interview with itv, prince harry said that he wants his harry has said that he wants his father back. oh, father and brother back. oh, bless him . interview comes bless him. the interview comes out weekend two days before out this weekend two days before his memoir is published presumably crayon. have presumably in crayon. have we heard prince's story? heard of the prince's story? i have. and what do you wear a mask again to save the nhs in the uk health security agency is warning people to stay home if they feel unwell and wear face coverings when . let me know what coverings when. let me know what you think about all of this.

vaiews@gbnews.uk will you return ? to wearing a face mask return? to wearing a face mask before actually makes headlines . hi before actually makes headlines. hi minutes past four. i'm out. i'm strolling gb newsroom. over 40,000 rail workers are staging fresh strikes this week causing for people returning to work after the christmas break. only four out of five trains are running as members of the rmt and network rail and 40 train operators are walking out for 48 hours from today. they'll strike again on friday whilst drivers in the aslef union will walk out on thursday. it's part of the long running dispute over pay jobs conditions which the rmt general secretary mick lynch says is vital for the future of the industry. up to the government now to show that they mean business and that they want to facilitate some talks rather than undermining them , as we than undermining them, as we believe they did before christmas, putting provisions in that know none of the railway

unions accept. so if we can get some realistic talks with some proper and progressive talks will work with all the parties to get that on. however, the transport secretary, mark harper says it's time for the unions to get off the picket line and get round the table. government's going to continue to work really hard to try and help bring the two sides together to get this resolved. i know how frustrating this is for commuters and danger is it puts people off using the railways which is a bit of self—harm on the part of the rail unions that haven't this dispute. what i think the government can do is make sure there's fair and reasonable offer on the table, there offer on the table, which there is. facilitate negotiations between employers , trade unions between employers, trade unions and. try and make sure we get this dispute resolved for the travelling public. the government , it's doing government, it's doing everything possible to increase hospital capacity . as top medics hospital capacity. as top medics describe the current situation as unbearable. than a dozen nhs trusts and ambulance services

declared incidents over the festive period . the royal festive period. the royal college of emergency says somewhere between 3 to 500 people are dying each week as a result of delays . urgent care. result of delays. urgent care. but the work and pensions , mal but the work and pensions, mal stride says evidence is needed to support those figures . to support those figures. mortality rates, in fact across many advanced economies running well ahead of where they would normally be. so whatever it is that's causing that may not be the specific point that's being raised here. so i think we have to look at that with some caution. people travelling to england from china will not be forced to quarantine if they test positive for covid on arrival . the government says the arrival. the government says the move is about collecting information due to the beijing government refusing to share its own coronavirus data following a surge in cases there. testing will be optional for passengers landing at heathrow airport in london . under the new measures, london. under the new measures, people flying to england from china will be required to show a

negative covid test before boarding the plane . a boarding the plane. a conservative mp told the gb news she wears a stab proof jacket for protection when meeting local constituents. crosby warned the scale of abuse politicians facing. she says she's faced threats before and things have not improved for mp since the death of sir david amess who was fatally stabbed dunng amess who was fatally stabbed during a constituency surgery in october 21. the labour mp jo cox was also murdered in 2016. i have been in difficult situations and i have surgeries . i do face to face surgeries where wear a stab jacket or following the murder of david amess . and also i have i have amess. and also i have i have security protection as well and i think it's important that i, i have direct contact with my constituents and unfortunately this is this is one of the things that i have to do to in to ensure that i that can actually do the job that i was elected to do . a married british elected to do. a married british couple are among four people

killed in a mid—air crash. couple are among four people killed in a mid—air crash . two killed in a mid—air crash. two helicopters in australia yesterday. diane ron hughes, aged 57 and 65 from merseyside, were on holiday when. the accident happened in coast region. three others were left critically injured . queensland critically injured. queensland police say the initial investigations indicate the collision occurred when one helicopter was taking off and the other was landing . russia 63 the other was landing. russia 63 of its soldiers have been killed in a ukrainian attack in the occupied of donetsk. it happened on year's eve. ukraine initially claimed it killed 400 russian fighters , a claim the kremlin fighters, a claim the kremlin has described it as an exaggeration . the attack hit exaggeration. the attack hit temporary barracks in the eastern ukrainian city of macheath where russian forces have been stationed and hundreds of thousands of fans have gathered to pay their respects to the brazilian footballing legend pele, who is to be buried today. legend pele, who is to be buried today . a professional procession today. a professional procession is last . led the coffin from the

is last. led the coffin from the stadium of his former club santos through the city, top of a fire engine. earlier newly sworn in brazilian lula da silva joined 150,000 people who file past the coffin at the santos football stadium , the three time football stadium, the three time world cup winner lost his battle with cancer last thursday at, the age of 82. and is it for the moment, this is gb news. we'll bnng moment, this is gb news. we'll bring you as it happens. but now it is back. patrick ryan. welcome back, everybody now i know that we're all sick of all this strike nonsense, okay? but it is the news. i'm going to talk about it a little bit because a pay deal has been accepted by the tea ssa and unions, but more strikes are taking place across the coming week rmt members out over to week as rmt members out over to 48 and aslef strike

48 hour period and aslef strike on thursday aslef them all. train drivers rmt more signatures , platform staff, etc. signatures, platform staff, etc. anyway, mick lynch has threatened that action could even last beyond may if the government doesn't come forward with what he sees as a reasonable. however, people are questioning whether or not he's actually got the capacity to because a lot of workers are now skint joining workers on a picket line at euston station. he transport secretary he blamed transport secretary malcolm lack of malcolm barber for the lack of resolution dispute resolution of. the dispute in december. well we've got our reporters up and down the country getting to get the latest on the rail struggles for us. paul hawkins, i'll start with you. paul hawkins. euston station, what's the latest? what you hope the latest where i you up? hope the latest where i am is i'm just hearing that the prime minister, he merriman will meet drivers that meet aslef train drivers that you just mentioned. patrick early next week and that he department for transport hopes meet the rmt union as. mick lynch has reportedly told the media mick lynch, the boss of the rmt has reportedly said that they're just trying to on whether it'll be monday or

tuesday . so given that the tuesday. so given that the network rail chief executive tim schaeffler also said this morning , that he thinks a deal morning, that he thinks a deal is within touching distance and, that there is a general consensus the two sides do want to get around the table, that happen. and so talks are ongoing . but the question is what kind of conversation they have. and it's not so much about pay. it's about the reforms to the railway. so the rmt were saying that, look before christmas we sat down with the rail delivery group, which represents the rail franchises and network rail the government threw this condition that they want to introduce driver only trains . that is driver only trains. that is absolutely a red line for us so that would it would obviously the fundamentals of the conversation need to shift from one side or the other or they at least to find a compromise but at least they are to sit around the table. but in the meantime week the strikes continue today, 48 hours lasting today and tomorrow, another tomorrow, then another friday and then that has and saturday and then that has left train drivers even on

thursday , meaning that a large thursday, meaning that a large part of the network part of the uk's rail network is disrupted . this industrial disrupted. this industrial action continues and for the strikers themselves, they've lost three weeks of wages and i think i suspect anyway is a little bit about what the governments in the rail operators are actually going to be looking at because they're going to be thinking whether or not got money to not this lot of got money to continue with the strike action and a rise in leads for rosanna. i you very, very much. i thank you very, very much. what's where you are . what's going on? where you are. good patrick. yes good afternoon, patrick. yes it's been an rmt picket line earlier here today . and the earlier here today. and the staff are out strike. the union leaders saying yes, pay part of why they're on strike , the why they're on strike, the rising cost of living. but it is the terms and conditions. rising cost of living. but it is the terms and conditions . they the terms and conditions. they really want to get round the table . talk about. like paul table. talk about. like paul said the driver only trains are a line and the thinking ahead . a line and the thinking ahead. well that redundancies been spoken about and that's that obviously they don't want to sign up to and a new contract .

sign up to and a new contract. speaking to passengers here has been a limited service running at leeds similar to across the country around only 20% of services running compared to passengers been a mixed response from them in terms of their support for the strike. some are saying, yes, we back them. we understand there's a cost of living crisis and. we support them and the line earlier actually some a member , the actually some a member, the pubuc actually some a member, the public came over and gave chocolates. the people that were were striking but also speaking to passengers they've said, you know, this is the first week back from christmas, new year's break, and we're just getting a bit sick and tired it now. you know, these have been going on for months and they're wanting to see a resolution . they are to see a resolution. they are indeed on a thank you very much trying to rally their appeals hawkins at station us hawkins at euston station us just in on the just filling you in on the situation on ground of the situation on the ground of the very when comes to the very latest when it comes to the negotiation process place negotiation process taking place as bind . what as more rail strikes bind. what do you make of it at home, ladies and. the big one there is

not just about the pay, okay? this ain't about conditions. okay it's job security okay but also it's job security in the future. and i think this is one of things that is one of the things that doesn't to be banging doesn't appear to be banging on too about why? well, too much about why? well, i suspect is because we live in suspect it is because we live in a changing people are a changing world, people are working a little bit working from home a little bit more, they? services more, aren't they? rail services or of rail services are or the use of rail services are down and potentially with the increase in technology as well says jobs could become well says and jobs could become well , i obsolete, but less , i say obsolete, but less needed, less necessary . and does needed, less necessary. and does the taxpayer really have to pay to keep people in work ? the to keep people in work? the situation around them is changing . this just the world we changing. this just the world we live in. and also as well with the people who are working on the people who are working on the particular railways involved and different jobs that there are, going say this are, they're going to say this might unpopular opinion. might be an unpopular opinion. it's not the only really it's not the only job you really think can you not think you can get. can you not get another job? vaiews@gbnews.uk. rmt mick lynch says that he understands frustration over the strikes, but advised coastal communities to look what the to also look at what the government the companies are government and the companies are doing. just bear in mind on that

as well, he says, what the government companies are government and the companies are doing was given to doing a pay offer was given to them 5% pay rise backdated to january 2020 to a 4% pay rise in the start of 2023. no compulsory redundancies for a supposedly the health secretary's pumped . the health secretary's pumped. he says the strike action could turn passengers from the railways for good. is he right on britain's railway still a success business model. and this is a importance. joining me now is a importance. joining me now is andy roden, who is deputy of the modern railways magazine. thank you very much, andy . all thank you very much, andy. all the railways in that form, a system , business model , not with system, business model, not with the current structure , the rail the current structure, the rail industry. no, it's too fragmented. there's too many parties involved . there's no parties involved. there's no coherent planning. and in policy terms, in government in the 22 years i've been doing this, we've actually had a government policy that says we want the railways to do look , i think a railways to do look, i think a lot of people would be up for a bit of a pay rise for rail

workers or most workers in general just a bit of one. but what i don't during the middle of a cost of living crisis, the vast majority of people will back rise to just keep back is pay rise to just keep people in a job that maybe doesn't need to exist or to prop up a service that being used as much as it once was with things like work from home, etc. do you think it makes good financial sense for the taxpayer to be footing the bill for the railway to the extent that the union barras wants at the moment ? to the extent that the union barras wants at the moment? i think makes sense for the government to support the railways because we're going to need a massively the future. and if we start chopping things out, if we start chopping things out, if we start making really swingeing cuts, we're going to regret it. it's 60 years this year since dr. beeching did his infamous report and hundreds and thousands of miles of railways that we could really use now , that we could really use now, there of really cuts there is talk of really cuts across the network in terms of services there's talk of a lot ofjob services there's talk of a lot of job losses. now job rolls are changing technology is evolving.

this cutting edge technology being deployed on the railway and in its stages, that is going to change a of roles our roles in our have changed massively since we and that's that's one thing but the great drag here is driver operation that's that's a complete red for the unions and it's not quite what it sounds the proposals are to keep people on board the trains but it's drivers opening closing doors and making sure crucially passengers aren't trapped when . passengers aren't trapped when. the train's about to go. and if you fancy looking an ipad so screen due to work out whether that's as anyone trips you've got better eyesight than i have now get this this is another now i get this this is another point i want to drill down point that i want to drill down on again, just looking on because again, just looking at from taxpayer side and at it from the taxpayer side and by way, for anyone who is by the way, for anyone who is talking to the screens now by the way, for anyone who is talkin pat the screens now by the way, for anyone who is talkin pat one screens now by the way, for anyone who is talkin pat on the screens now by the way, for anyone who is talkin pat on the side ens now by the way, for anyone who is talkin pat on the side of; now by the way, for anyone who is talkin pat on the side of them going pat on the side of the work is, well, actually, i really live for you. i'm taking exactly the same stance as keir says the people, says on the side of the people, not union embarrassed to not the union embarrassed to take you up with him, but in terms trains, a, it

terms of only trains, a, is it really? let's but also be is what the unions really want is for the taxpayer to pay for some people to keep jobs that don't really need to exist . well really need to exist. well driver only operation done well is safe . the big issue here is is safe. the big issue here is that even if the union said, okay , we'll go with it, it can't okay, we'll go with it, it can't be deployed anyway . there's some be deployed anyway. there's some trains that don't have the kids in are too old to put it on the staff training requirements and on and so forth. so even if you said we're going to push the button now running the button now running across the country all all routes, it will take years before the savings the government wants make now on the government wants make now on the railway actually come into effect. and it strikes me is a bit like poking a bear somewhere it hurts making it really when you don't actually have go near this bear any time soon take that off the table i think we'll have a deal and then focus on where the efficiencies can really be made and sooner and okay alright. thank you very much is deputy editor of modern

railways magazine. andy rhoden , railways magazine. andy rhoden, great to have you on the show. thank you. fascinating picture this definitely well, this really and definitely well, i there's a lot wrapped up i think there's a lot wrapped up to when it comes to should to it when it comes to should the have pay for the taxpayer have to pay for jobs maybe need to exist. jobs that maybe need to exist. do people, amy, this, does do people, amy, on this, does anyone us have the god anyone any of us have the god given right to in a specific role in specific sector? and if, unfortunately , situations change unfortunately, situations change working from home, for example, trade demand goes down, a particular type of job could be done. some form of technology or with view of staff. should the taxpayer to pay to just keep you in. there some form of in. there is some form of charity i'm not sure i can understand what the union about wanting do. that's job. wanting to do. that's their job. they're protecting workers. that's enough. that's absolutely fair enough. but actually, in the cold light of times. but of day just the times. but i have pay for particular have to pay for particular individual to have a job that frankly doesn't need to be done anymore and that don't anymore on and that i don't think there think so personally. but there we more from we go. let's more now from westminster, political westminster, a political reporter, utley. and when reporter, olivia utley. and when i say westminster, i mean the political of course, political view it of course, what political of what is the political view of this? hawkins, our this? think paul hawkins, our national might be a

national said there might be a fresh round of negotiations taking yes. we've taking place. yes. so we've heard today mark harper heard today that mark harper and, ed mick lynch are going to start talks again next week . start talks again next week. mark hoffer is pushing for why is it this week? why are they still on the picket lines instead of talking to us this week? but yes, they reopening talks whether talks will talks, whether these talks will get anywhere , anyone's guess. i get anywhere, anyone's guess. i mean, we've got the chief negotiator of network suggesting that we could actually be on the verge of a breakthrough because the last deal which was put forward by the government in december was rejected . but over december was rejected. but over 30% of rail workers actually accepted . he's making the point accepted. he's making the point that only 2000 people would need to change their votes for that deal to, then be accepted. so there there is a possibility that that december offer perhaps increase bonuses, increase pensions, increase holidays. that's another it's something think suggested could get it over the line but it's hard to see how with this any train

sticking point still in place and the obviously doesn't want to concede on the idea that driver any train are dangerous because then it would mean that it would be basically impossible to reform the rail network. we honestly wonder whether or not there's going some form of there's going be some form of self—sabotage because if self—sabotage here, because if do drive do press ahead with the drive for would be an for early trains would be an inclination the people inclination from the people who are those to make it are working on those to make it seem more dangerous than they are. obviously, i would hope not. could do it, not. actually, they could do it, couldn't could couldn't they? could deliberately into an unsafe situation. wait situation. we have to wait and see. hopefully we don't find that out. but as it currently stands, there is stands, olivia, there is absolutely political stands, olivia, there is absolutefrom political stands, olivia, there is absolutefrom any)litical stands, olivia, there is absolutefrom any ofical stands, olivia, there is absolutefrom any of mainstream support from any of mainstream political parties for of the action lynch is action that mick lynch is talking about and the line talking about here and the line even from like lib even from people like the lib dems a we wouldn't let it dems is. a we wouldn't let it get this, we're going to go get this, so we're going to go back in time. people we're going to go back in time change. to go back in time and change. change now. and b, change where we are now. and b, we'd down and so no we'd sit down and talk. so no policy giving into mick policy is giving into mick lynch whatsoever. alec no. and well got some parts of the labour party very supportive of strikers and very strikers in general and a very worried possibility worried about the possibility that strikes could that

that some strikes could be that strike as riots be curtailed . strike as riots be curtailed. but essentially you've got starmer and of the labour frontbench not actually coming down hard either way and the implication that were they in government they wouldn't really be behaving that diff. well it is interesting because we have to wait and see on that one. i wonder whether or not there's an undercurrent with the labour party saying what you need to say to get elected and then we may see some true colours. keir starmer to jeremy starmer very close to jeremy corbyn, a very long time corbyn, 20 for a very long time and that can't have just been a matter of choices otherwise. you some shifter some kind of shape shifter i think thank you very think olivier thank you very much. utley there much. olivia utley there political reporter giving you the latest political the very latest on the political angle of the strikes. that's enough of strong sense to people. we're on patrick people. we're moving on patrick christys coming up, christys on gb news. coming up, this without you. this show nothing without you. make of your make sure you keep all of your views in gives gbnews.uk views coming in gives gbnews.uk the ones want your views on the big ones want your views on okay fact that okay in light of the fact that we're about to hear yet more from prince harry, do you think that should that charles william should forgive says wants more forgive him? he says wants more family think

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channel welcome back. everybody is 4:23 lots. you've been getting in touch with those on mask wearing, stu says . if you only wearing, stu says. if you only wearing, stu says. if you only wear a mask when having a cold, it will alienate you . i doubt it will alienate you. i doubt mark stuff is okay. fair enough. we're going read that gary says in my opinion, the jowls were virtually forced on the public and do not paper masks don't ehhen and do not paper masks don't either. if you're vulnerable or ill, then just stay inside . this ill, then just stay inside. this is in relation to the fact that now we're being urged everybody, if you have any symptoms, don't go into the office and do wear masks, come and say, is this not common sense? this often common sense? is this so often before, dawn of time, before, since the dawn of time, people say, oh, look, you people would say, oh, look, you have the flu, please for the love into love of god, don't come into work, you get everyone else, and yet they still date. rob says, if is, do we think if the question is, do we think we'll again on we'll be wearing masks again on public? response will be, public? my response will be, what does good? what transport does good? actually fair. yes. with the actually be fair. yes. with the ongoing action, maybe we ongoing strike action, maybe we won't the if won't even have the option. if you desperate a mask, you desperate to wear a mask, you desperate to wear a mask, you actually be to

you won't actually be able to wear because there wear one because actually there won't be a train for you to get on. if mick lynch has way. look, i just wondered whether or not this start. this a this is the start. this is a pretty slight. we're seeing covid example, covid cases, for example, in china we china absolutely skyrocket. we will alright, that's will go, yeah, alright, that's china. what's got do china. what's that got to do with us? well, a lot of chinese people come country, for people come to this country, for example, winter. well, example, it's winter. well, we're seeing general we're just seeing a general rise in things cold, flu and, in things like cold, flu and, covid. wonder, though, covid. i just wonder, though, whether to end whether or not it's going to end up becoming a slippery slope of stuff. this, because stuff. hear out on this, because later on i'm going to be talking about whether not we think we about whether or not we think we should shutting borders should be shutting the borders to for that part, to china. china for that part, by have oh, by the way, have said, oh, there'll be retaliation. well, you what? i think the chinese government has heck of government has got a heck of a lot answer for, frankly, lot to answer for, frankly, anyway, comes anyway, when it comes to coronavirus don't coronavirus i don't think they've away a heck of a they've got away a heck of a lot, i'm not too bothered. lot, so i'm not too bothered. what retaliation they want. i would imagine they're not to invade as result of us invade taiwan as a result of us stopping people coming in from china that china in the middle of that ongoing covid crisis. but hey, i've before, i've been wrong before, but whilst i am in favour of some restrictions for. people coming from just wonder

restrictions for. people coming from or just wonder restrictions for. people coming from or not|st wonder restrictions for. people coming from or not thatonder restrictions for. people coming from or not that isder whether or not that is a slippery slope, how it starts all a sudden, france all of a sudden, france or germany oh, had too germany say, oh, we've had too many now. we're going to many cases now. we're going to start china. now start from china. oh, now britain have too many cases britain have got too many cases going to stop you and. then we're back the middle of it we're back in the middle of it and were back in the and we were right back in the thick all of those covid thick of all of those covid restrictions. for what we've restrictions. i'm for what we've got have a way many got vaccine now have a way many people what for jobs i people have had what forjobs i think is it five how did think is it for five how did that get boosted up your that get boosted up to your eyeballs these can't you eyeballs these days? can't you people to go about their lives in light of i in the cold light of day? i don't the vast of the don't think the vast of the british public will tolerate any more can more restrictions that can damage them, economically or frankly, will lead to the other knock health consequences knock on health consequences that waiting that we've seen people waiting for operations of the for routine operations of the nhs, having pay go, nhs, people having to pay to go, people being able to get people not being able to get treatment, etc. maggie has said yes, mask. if got a cough yes, wear a mask. if got a cough or a cold. otherwise it's a waste. an anti social. i also think maggie terrible for. well, yes. okay third of the death rate but also children young children early years children they need to learn facial expressions basic communication

skills. what people are saying , skills. what people are saying, how people react. and i think it's a really bad thing for them . i also think it's a visible sign of capitulation and weakness . i'm not digging out weakness. i'm not digging out anyone who does a mask, by the way. i'm not saying that. but i think as a society, as a whole, i find it like a little bit of a visible sign of kind of almost giving in to something would. adrian says, i think if someone with cold, flu or covid a face with a cold, flu or covid a face mask, be breathing back mask, they'll be breathing back in virus particles. in all the virus particles. that breathing, worse. breathing, making it even worse. i only say leave face mask for the medical professionals. and that interesting i that is interesting because i haven't medical haven't seen medical professionals on earlier and i asked outright did not asked them both outright did not whether they that whether or not they thought that masks actually much of a masks actually made much of a difference both difference and they both said, well, really much of a well, not really that much of a difference. it depends on the mask, but they just mask, of course, but they just basically no actually to, basically said no actually to, be honest with you that masks really too really don't tend to make too much difference. want to much of a difference. i want to know views on all of this. know your views on all of this. my concern, of course, is mainly with coming in from as with coming in from china as well. and one of my producers made point this,

made a really point on this, which was his parents, they both adhere to all of the rules originally and they got their jobs and did everything by the book and they played those rules so that one day they could have their freedoms back or not. they should have had freedoms should have had their freedoms taken another taken off them is another question, of course. but so they can have their freedoms. but is isn't just allowing people isn't now just allowing people to in from country to wander in from a country where know they've got sky where we know they've got sky high and potentially high covid cases and potentially new going new variants? and are we going to seeing in a couple to be seeing in a couple of months the likes of chris months time the likes of chris whitty all of a whitty reimagined all of a sudden back in form sudden we're back in some form of lockdown. not sure how of lockdown. i'm not sure how people actually to that. people would actually to that. the big one i've been the other big one i've been getting today as getting you all on today as well, course, it's something well, of course, it's something we're going to talk about a little later on, which is little bit later on, which is prince he's to be doing prince harry. he's to be doing an itv an interview with itv and i think with cbs as well we've got his back coming out. and his books back coming out. and i was whether or not you was asking whether or not you think, prince harry or indeed king charles and prince william, i say, seek i should say, should seek reconciliation harry. reconciliation with harry. harry is that. look at the is calling for that. look at the front the today. harry front in the mail today. harry i would my father and brother

would like my father and brother back. well, here we back. right. okay. well, here we go. charles third and go. king charles third and prince definitely prince william will definitely welcome harry the welcome harry back into the family thing family as it's the royal thing to this is. shane, shane to do. this is. shane, shane think they're going to take the high ground here. however, i think condition think it be with the condition that publicly retracts all that harry publicly retracts all of the year or of the lies the last year or more, one of the interesting arguments i've heard about why king charles and william don't want to engage too much with harry is because all the trust has gone. how you not know that he's wearing a microphone or that he's got a camera with him? and we saw on with the netflix documentary didn't for goodness sake and he's probably going to go tell everything to meghan. go to tell everything to meghan. goodness will goodness knows where that will end wonder whether or not end up. i wonder whether or not now think actually now they just think actually harry his bed and he harry has made his bed and he can in it. we've had a lot of people keep into this. people keep getting into this. harry shut up and stop harry should shut up and stop with the. this is the view of juue with the. this is the view of julie of courses of eugenie six six sick to death of whingeing they want it private say lock yourselves one of the 15 yourselves in one of the 15 bathrooms in montecito never come please. julie's strong

come out, please. julie's strong views on all of this. yes privacy argument is an interesting one. harry's on it is that he feels as though he's got to get his side across. my argument, though, heard argument, though, is we've heard it we've heard it it now, right? we've heard it relentlessly over again. relentlessly and over again. i don't know about , relentlessly and over again. i don't know about, but relentlessly and over again. i don't know about , but sick don't know about, but i'm sick and tired hearing and tired of not hearing anything new either. give us a gold, harry, or want. okay. gold, harry, or do want. okay. i want to know specific things or nothing at all. and frankly as well this is all got and well this is all he's got and it's a bit sad when of this it's a bit sad when all of this is over . i it's a bit sad when all of this is over. i can't but wonder is over. i can't help but wonder whether not we're going whether or not we're going to see on with the see harry on dancing with the stars the us or i'm stars in the us or i'm a celebrity. get me out of there as some kind of matt hancock style rehabilitation exercise. anyway keep your views coming in. get you all the in. lovely to get you all on the airwaves. thank very much, airwaves. thank you very much, everyone getting everyone who is getting in search leaves gbnews.uk. everyone who is getting in searchlup.as gbnews.uk. everyone who is getting in search lup. the gbnews.uk. everyone who is getting in search lup. the gb healthjk. coming up. the uk health security said you should security agency said you should put a face mask on this winter if you are going out in public. when i will ask when you feeling i will ask whether actually and whether they actually work and would wear one again. would you ever wear one again. we've the views on i'm we've on the views on that i'm going to get some now but first c.s. going to get some now but first cs. lewis headline . it is half

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while the duke of sussex. that's harry said that he wants both his father and brother back in a recent interview to be broadcast this sunday. just days before the publication of his new memoir, spare prince harry's latest intervention is expected to rock buckingham palace. let's just a quick look, shall we? need to be this way. the leaking and the planting. i want a family , not an institution. they family, not an institution. they feel as though it's better to keep us somehow as the villains they've shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile . i willingness to reconcile. i would like to get my father

back.i would like to get my father back. i would like to have my brother me meaning . okay. brother back. me meaning. okay. all right. now it's time for the thoughts of royal commentator caroline austin . caroline, good caroline austin. caroline, good of you on the show? we go your views on this prince harry stuff says that he wants his father and brother back. isn't he and brother back. well, isn't he just behaving a toddler? but he's an adult, there are he's an adult, so there are consequences . well, if he wants consequences. well, if he wants his father brother back, he's going a very way about getting the rescinded because anyone watching this will know if you say it in a relationship or a relationship down bit with a husband , brother, sister, go husband, brother, sister, go friend, boyfriend. the first thing that goes out is trust. and that's the problem here. i don't think the royal family trust harry at all. and they have had ample to feel rather worried about his pronouncements . he's damaged. yes, of course he is. and the book i'm sure will be full of explanations as to why he feels the way he does.

what is growing up and he seems have a real thing about the fact that he is as this is provocatively titled the spare no in reverse . there's a lot no in reverse. there's a lot yeah. he an accident but you're right and are children all around the african continent born into abject poverty. people in this country born into abject poverty who suspect will be very happy to be the quote unquote spare. now, there are elements of prince harry's life that, of course, are desperately, desperately sad . don't think it desperately sad. don't think it could have been easy growing up in family in a lot of in the royal family in a lot of ways full glare of the ways in the full glare of the pubuc ways in the full glare of the public eye, the press, with public eye, with the press, with the certainly the the paps, as certainly in the bad days of the press, his bad old days of the press, his mother passing. yeah. all of that. mother passing. yeah. all of that . but is mother passing. yeah. all of that. but is there mother passing. yeah. all of that . but is there not mother passing. yeah. all of that. but is there not a huge element of narcissism here from prince harry that he thinks that in some way he's the only one who has gone through grief or gone through a difficult child and now he's pour his guts and now he's to pour his guts out to the nation. a lot of people will say, well, actually

harry, i did have similar stuff in upbringing well. yes of in upbringing as well. yes of course, his problems are played out on a very public stage . but out on a very public stage. but i think you're absolutely right. and the danger for him going forward is the fact that the globe is beginning to suffer a sussex overdose . sussex fatigue sussex overdose. sussex fatigue on, a huge level. we've heard it . we do get it. harry, you had a rough after the death of your you have all of those years in the royal family and then woke up to the fact that this wasn't for you and you made your decision rather to go and live out the united states of america . what interested me in recent docu series was him saying there were five options on the table that sandringham summit of 2021 was all in, one was all out, and the one that he and his wife wanted to be off in and off . we wanted to be off in and off. we never heard what the other two. oh, come . if you consider royal oh, come. if you consider royal so toxic because they appeared

to. why did they want to be half in it in the first place? there are all sorts of loose ends here as. this sort of literary damocles dangles over the head of the royals next week. yeah, indeedi of the royals next week. yeah, indeed i am looking at harry that and thinking he is incredibly damaged and wondering whether or not actually in each bit how. well, i'm sure if he hasn't had access to health throughout life, what chance do the rest us have? one thing i will give him here, he's made it kind of okay to talk about mental health issues . that's mental health issues. that's a good thing. and i to say that if he was a spare hour at first, he seemed to be making a very good of it. he was loved. huge popular. and of course, he's in afghanistan . he had his afghanistan. he had his charities out in africa and of course, the invictus games was a great jewel in the royal crown. he seems to forgotten what he was capable doing and what we all hoped it on doing. and now we have this book which

apparently , according to leaks apparently, according to leaks from , the sussex side is too from, the sussex side is too hard on king charles third, but is going to be very tough reading for brother william and yes, for william's wife kate. don't forget in docu series, harry appeared to suggest he'd been married because . she was been married because. she was the right mode rather than the fantastic love affair that sprang up between meghan and harry. yeah i think is incredibly disrespectful . that incredibly disrespectful. that is incredibly disrespectful . is incredibly disrespectful. kate's and, quote, disrespectful to william and also as well. it strikes me , though, harry feels strikes me, though, harry feels as , though, he's the only person as, though, he's the only person in his life who's ever found love like he's unlocked the key to happiness, which, again , i to happiness, which, again, i find incredibly narcissistic . do find incredibly narcissistic. do you think there are less there ? you think there are less there? some whopping great big revelations and i mean absolute corker's not just, oh, my brother shouted at me once. i mean, good grief, i haven't brother shouted at me once. i mean, good grief , i haven't got mean, good grief, i haven't got any brothers or sisters. i used

go around to my mates house and they had brothers to beat the living daylights of other. living daylights of each other. i you wouldn't put on a i mean, you wouldn't put on a book because it's so book you because it's so commonplace. idea commonplace. i mean the idea that might have at some that william might have at some point shouted at harry they point shouted at harry as they were growing. mean stop the were growing. i mean stop the press. unless some press. but unless there is some absolute whopper there absolute whopper in there i think just going to think everyone's just going to go that's enough. now go right that's enough. now we've heard all of this . well, i we've heard all of this. well, i think a fleshing out of the little bones in the closet that have already been rattled for a yeah have already been rattled for a year. he's got to this vast sum of money. he's offered this a full book deal for the sussexes. we've had the bench the poetic efforts . the duchess. we've got efforts. the duchess. we've got this coming up. there's a proposed book on wellness. and now of , course, it's rumoured now of, course, it's rumoured that meghan is going to write a memoir of her life , the royal memoir of her life, the royal family. is that going to be a pretty small. she was only there for about 18 months. yes indeed. yeah. it will be a small book . yeah. it will be a small book. well, although it would add to the fire that you could make out of all of the spare copies of

spare, should they be banned from attending the coronation? well the optics of that would look bad for king, who, of course, in his first statement, his first speech to us expressed , his love for harry and meghan hoped that they would establish a success civil life out in america . and of course, you can america. and of course, you can offer an invitation to a couple, but it doesn't mean to say that they have to accept it, but that would them in very would put them in a very difficult position indeed, wouldn't they then wouldn't it? because they then be really have no moral be seen really have no moral high ground at all. having just said through harry, he would love to be reconciled with his father and brother. well, there you are. perhaps his efforts will crowned literally . well, will crowned literally. well, indeed. now this is just speculation, of course . how long speculation, of course. how long do you reckon, harry, stay married to malcolm ? know now married to malcolm? know now this the million dollar question. i wonder how. many bookmakers have been approached over that one. she has been called a degree wife . in other called a degree wife. in other words, it takes three years to get a degree . she's been there

get a degree. she's been there for a while now. but i have to say . i wouldn't put any bets on say. i wouldn't put any bets on this the moment. harry betrays himself as a man deeply in love and certainly greatly influenced his his wife, who many have accused of manipulation . i think accused of manipulation. i think freud did have an absolute field day with harry when i did . freud did have an absolute field day with harry when i did. i did. i did relent little bit and watched some of their stock that night or whatever you want to call the docu series on netflix, mainly because , i was in it, mainly because, i was in it, archie, which i don't like to go on about. i don't want to bang on about. i don't want to bang on about. i don't want to bang on about the fact that i was in this on the fame. i don't want to start it out. my people knowing that actually the knowing that i was actually the dog shows, but i did watch upset that was in and just that i was in and i just thought, good grief, he thinks he's married. his mother and i found quite actually. found it quite weird actually. he portraying a lot of he to be portraying a lot of issues he's got around his mum and that had and the struggles that she had on to meghan. and clearly they've got a very personal relationship . again, i find a relationship. again, i find a bit weird. and then he's the location, think the location, i think the

documentary finished with documentary kind finished with him driving through california going, this where going, i think this is where my mother would have retired to. and i actually thought, you know, lot know, there's a lot psychologically him that psychologically to him that caroline of it is caroline i think a lot of it is centred around mommy issues. oh totally . i got exactly the same totally. i got exactly the same impression . you he really did impression. you he really did seem to say that in meghan he'd found the qualities embodied in the mother that he lost so very . and he had married well neo diana and the two of them together were going to change the world. my wish really , as the world. my wish really, as a new year dawns would be that we'll get beyond this most looking back at the past and, looking back at the past and, looking at all the things that were wrong, slights real and imagined that these two go out there and do some good, use them on and their position to really bnng on and their position to really bring light in to lives that stock all the slagging off of the royal family and know one of the royal family and know one of the taglines in the interview is silence is betrayal but you know silence is betrayal but you know silence can be golden and can be common sense . and i think king

common sense. and i think king charles is acting exactly the right way, oh, if you don't feed , fire, it tends to die down. and yeah , so they lay them and and yeah, so they lay them and there are certain types of people out there who do want to be in a relationship with someone who want to isolate them from everyone. this is on a grand scale because it's the royal family. of course, isolate them from everyone take that they have essentially and then just toss them to the kerb. we see that all the time. i see that all the time. and you have have a look around you and go actually, is everyone else the problem here? if she's got a problem here? if she's got a problem with. absolutely everybody is it entire everybody else, is it entire family and friends who are the problem losing problem? is it worth losing entire friends over. entire family, friends over. caroline, leave it caroline, i've got to leave it there, afraid. thank you there, i'm afraid. thank you very much, steph. caroline, ashton, commentator. ashton, royal commentator. fantastic stuff. insight that right health security right the uk health security agency advised adults to agency has advised adults to stay at wear a mask when stay at home or wear a mask when going outside reduce the going outside to reduce the spread it comes amid spread of illness. it comes amid warnings from medics that the

pressure the nhs is unsustainable and a&e departments in a complete departments are in a complete state but rishi sunak state of crisis. but rishi sunak is confident that the health service has sufficient funding to with the extra winter to cope with the extra winter demands. number ten has stressed it is in no compulsory to it is in no way compulsory to wear mask whilst ill, is wear a mask whilst ill, but is a return to covid style much as necessary alleviate the strain on the nhs. joining me now to discuss this is miller, founder of the together declaration, which is a group which holds and opposes the return of anything covid style related measures on data and covid expert tim white. thank you very, very much both of you. tim, i'll start with . of you. tim, i'll start with. data and covid expert. do you we're on the brink of a return to some of covid measures or mandatory mask. and would you support it if we were on? patrick. good afternoon . to patrick. good afternoon. to answer your question in short. no, i don't. i think the advice is correct in what i said. and i think anything that we can do as a nation help protect the most vulnerable and help protect our nhs. has to be good news. this

is voluntary in the same way that you would look at so on i guess with discussed patrick if someone sneezed all over you without trying a hand or without trying to put a hand or a handkerchief up, then think a handkerchief up, then i think we can the same sort of we can have the same sort of reaction people deliberately reaction if people deliberately avoid don't avoid wearing masks and don't cover noses when they are cover their noses when they are clearly infected with something. yeah it's i mean, it is common sense , but. alan, how do you sense, but. alan, how do you feel ? miller now sense, but. alan, how do you feel? miller now is the founder of this together declaration. how do you feel about fact how do you feel about the fact that we're being told this by health? my concern is that it scares people. well, i think it is a few things. firstly, there's a discussion about a return to the kind of advice from uk jsa that we saw during restrictions , lockdowns. that is restrictions, lockdowns. that is to do with something else. so on the one hand you've got a question of the nhs , how it's question of the nhs, how it's coping or not coping, why a&e is so backed up. we lost 40,000 care workers. that's having a huge impact in care and we've got beds that are being blocked because . they wouldn't take the

because. they wouldn't take the vaccine, the mandate, for instance. we've also got a situation where bureaucracy and management needs to be addressed in the nhs and we've got a situation where gp's have not been seeing people. people have been seeing people. people have been going to a&e, all this has led to a situation we see every winter. but now on steroids because we had a covid nhs and people were going in and what people were going in and what people warned with both lockdowns and a covid on nhs was we would see many, many consequences in cancer heart and strokes. we've seen all of that now. then the conversation about whether we should then be wearing which we've had lots of research the last couple of years and cloth masks and it's pretty much been very difficult to find any conclusive that they were of any benefit except . in were of any benefit except. in fact the government with the not you name the patron so called psychological unit actually said we want people to wear masks so that they actually are scared and they know that they take it seriously and stay at home. it's just a continuation of a really big now the reality is, well is

on this patrick is people can make judgements like they always do adults make judgements and if they're sick and if they think really sick then they may make a decision not to go to work or take other measures. but the idea we're going to start masking up to try and stop the spread of things at this point is both i think damaging and ridiculous. i'll come back to you. there's a lot that there's a lot there. tim i'll throw it back your way. dates from covid expert. tim why do masks actually work ? well, to some actually work? well, to some extent, yes. the jury is out. i think what a lot of the studies that we've seen have shown is if you try to enforce mask and make it mandatory on a nation , then it mandatory on a nation, then we've seen that there hasn't been very positive results because those who want to wear the mask do so anyway with just guidance and mandatory. and guidance and not mandatory. and those who don't want to won't do so anyway and won't change their lifestyle. but we know absolutely it does help absolutely that it does help prevent the spread of disease .

prevent the spread of disease. and the main thing is giving people the reassurance that they are okay , stay at home when they are okay, stay at home when they are okay, stay at home when they are sick, that they should be under people who should be taking these measures to and stop other people getting sick . stop other people getting sick. no one to want our aged or parents become sick because parents to become sick because someone else is carrying a disease and carrying on as if they don't . i accept all the they don't. i accept all the political points that all this make, but i think it just comes down to fundamental for the people in society . okay. well, people in society. okay. well, there you go, i suppose, alan, there's that side of it isn't there. which that maybe it's about respecting for other people in society. i know a lot of this is by the way, this is exact point that tim is trying to make. but i know there was a lot it when the pandemic first kicked off, which was if care about other people, you'll do it was the same thing with the jobs act thing the with the with act thing with the with the with that mask as they that with mask wearing as they all. you don't want to kill all. if you don't want to kill my you'll get your my nan, then you'll get your jobs. didn't that. okay, jobs. and i didn't that. okay, i know that's not what tim was

saying, but i didn't like that kind of stuff. do you feel as though the are more of though the masks are more of a cycle thing people than cycle thing for people than anything absolutely part anything they're absolutely part of also part of of a nudge. they're also part of a restrictive attitude. there's no conclusive that were no conclusive that there were any real benefit. but i also think fact we've got think the fact that we've got a situation we've got a cost situation where we've got a cost of lockdown, cost of living crisis, we've got around 5 million people that are not working britain. the working in britain. that's the actual number we lots of people working in britain. that's the actu are umber we lots of people working in britain. that's the actu are taking we lots of people working in britain. that's the actu are taking timeyts of people working in britain. that's the actu are taking time off if people working in britain. that's the actu are taking time off sick. yple that are taking time off sick. that's in the nhs as that's true in the nhs as elsewhere and now we're more stay at home when we've had over two and a half years of this when what we need to do is have productivity and robust dynamic situation . we've been told by situation. we've been told by the uk say it's not just for adults, it's also for children. we're talking about now something that endemic that something that is endemic that we would need to get on with and live. we've had enough disruption it's been disruption that it's been categorical to our categorical damages to our health system to our economy , to health system to our economy, to families and business. and this is ongoing. well we've seen the same repetitive thing. it's

almost like insanity when you do something , it doesn't work and something, it doesn't work and then you repeat it again. yeah, well. well i can see you shaking your head a bit that same go on. well i do understand what alan's and i do understand that a lot of people have a similar of view. i think you have to the front line and a lot has been made the problems with the nhs and nurses and the doctors and the nurses and the doctors are saying, look, 30% of our hospital beds currently hospital beds are currently taken the term at taken for the short term at least by people suffering from covid covid flu. then if we can leave that just a little bit as a society by not necessarily wearing a mask and no, i don't agree that that should be compulsory and i don't think we're going to those restrictions. patrick but just to moderate and just to understand we can help understand that we can help a little bit to alleviate this crisis, wonder whether though, crisis, i wonder whether though, tim, you know, where it tim, you know, where does it end? i was hearing tim, you know, where does it end? is i was hearing tim, you know, where does it end? is a i was hearing tim, you know, where does it end? is a iinas hearing tim, you know, where does it end? is a i in wales'ing tim, you know, where does it end? is a i in wales is; tim, you know, where does it end? is a i in wales is a things is a guy in wales is a health adviser in wales said don't go on long jogs because the longer the jog the more likely you are to end up needing some ambulance. at what some kind of ambulance. at what point, actually have

point, tim, do we actually have to ourselves in cotton wool to wrap ourselves in cotton wool to wrap ourselves in cotton wool to protect nhs? we're not really that our are that that to serve our nhs are that to serve chip it is indeed to serve us chip it is indeed and i agree with that point and i do agree with that point and i do agree with that point and think previous example and i think the previous example , just a bit of nonsense that. i think mostly normal people would ignore that's kind of like the extreme of the health angle, if you like i think just as we say i said earlier, just be respectful, just understand there isn't a need to return to scale measures of mandatory mask wearing but just show some respect and not be frightened, not be bullied into going into a workplace if you need to and hopefully in society, the people want to wear a mask, will feel comfortable to do so and won't feel like going to be ridiculed on the tube on a bus like that. absolutely you know, it's interesting, isn't it, because that side of things i was very anti—mask wearing initially. i didn't didn't find didn't like i didn't find comfortable. i was pretty sceptical. the actual point of them in the first and all them in the first place and all of stuff. and i like of the stuff. and i didn't like the draconian laws. it was part of package draconian

of a wider package of draconian laws. didn't like, it's laws. i also didn't like, it's fair say, but i always felt fair to say, but i always felt like the odd one out because i was i wasn't wearing a mask earlier i wouldn't want earlier on. i wouldn't want anyone though people anyone to feel as though people look them for wearing a look down on them for wearing a mask it's very much a personal choice. where i have an issue with it when it becomes with it is when it becomes mandatory, right. think mandatory, right. and i think that's bit of a that's a that's a bit of a problem. but i'll i'll give the final over to alan. do you final word over to alan. do you firstly you feel about firstly, how do you feel about the that chris whitty was the fact that chris whitty was knighted but also on knighted by the way, but also on top do you think if there top that do you think if there was anyone who stood before was anyone who now stood before us seeing an increase us and we are seeing an increase in cases coming in from we're going to pre—empt lockdown, or do you think the british public would accept any of this anymore? i don't think that we're going to allow i know that many of us would fight tooth and nail against it. i think experience in china was demonstrated . absolutely. do demonstrated. absolutely. do not. but they're utterly devastating i also think to tim's point we should remember that it might you know, some people just wear a mask. we should think about how quickly these things impacted the images

should think about how quickly thesyweiings impacted the images should think about how quickly thesywe saw. impacted the images should think about how quickly thesywe saw. rl)acted the images should think about how quickly thesywe saw. rl delay the images should think about how quickly thesywe saw. rl delay use images should think about how quickly thesywe saw. rl delay us notages that we saw. rl delay us not being allowed to see them, still in some trust in social. you cannot go in sometimes with masks. they've still got that part of the ancient health and safety there, theatrical of safety there, a theatrical of virtue in many ways , not virtue in many ways, not actually something that makes benefit . and the idea now when benefit. and the idea now when we should be getting to grips with resolving the issues of the nhs and he said we're doing this is really problematic. just a final point very quickly , very final point very quickly, very quickly unavailable is actually the same amount that if social care, if we actually that's what's holding it up the amount of people in social can we had those 40,000 people reinstated that we resolved and that's why together got that campaign as well. thank you all both of you very, very much. good stuff. that's done, everybody. thank you, alan miller. that he was they found out they got the declaration, a group which wholeheartedly, of course, opposes any those percentage takeover measures on data and covid. spoke experts in what covid. i spoke experts in what fascinate the way so far. fascinate by the way so far. yeah get started on of yeah to get us started on of anyone thinks that not

anyone who thinks that not something should there's something they should there's not purpose which not much of a purpose which i think is a good thing a little bit realism because we lost bit of realism because we lost a lot that in the first lot of that in the first pandemic. not coming your pandemic. those not coming your way. i will be going way. i will not be going anywhere. hope. don't either. anywhere. i hope. don't either. hello aidan here hello it's aidan mcgivern here from met. today will from the met. rain today will ease places, ease overnight in many places, but windy those but it stays windy and those winds are bringing very mild conditions during. the next couple days, the winds coming couple of days, the winds coming up way the up all the way from the southwest packed, southwest tightly packed, i suppose this stream of southwesterly will continue to bnng southwesterly will continue to bring mild air, if not even mild air than we've seen as we started the week northern scotland's been colder, but here it is turning milder and the many wetter as we head into the evening subsistence . and heavy evening subsistence. and heavy rain across scotland cause more issues over the higher parts. it's been very wet recently and there's some snow melt and for wales as well some wet weather could cause issues overnight. but the rain in places eases. there'll be some cloud breaks developing. windy, developing. it stays windy, though, and winds bring mild air. 12 celsius in the south.

first thing, 5 to 8. further north and it's a wet starts in the southeast. but that clears northeast scotland takes a bit longer to , clear the rain but longer to, clear the rain but for many it's drier and brighter day . the main for many it's drier and brighter day. the main area of for many it's drier and brighter day . the main area of showers day. the main area of showers affecting ireland, southern scotland, northern england , scotland, northern england, otherwise decent cloud breaks and sunshine coming through the midlands eastern in midlands and eastern in particular mild 13 or particular and very mild 13 or 14 celsius in the south, 8 to 10 further north, some weather affecting the far southwest . affecting the far southwest. then the south during the second half of wednesday. that disappears overnight, but it stays cloudy towards the southwest with some spots of rain. it'll further showers in the northwest as well. but for many, it's a dry start to thursday, a little less , but thursday, a little less, but still temperatures above average and some sunshine first thing for eastern england northern scotland. northern scotland, perhaps touch of frost. otherwise it's frost free. a lot of cloud rushes in from the south—west through the morning . south—west through the morning. so any sunshine tending to disappear by the afternoon

sometimes weather about but most places dry except for scotland . places dry except for scotland. ireland, where it turns increasingly wet , then later on increasingly wet, then later on much windier.

welcome back, everybody is bang on 5:00 here with me patrick christys on gb news. and coming up this hour, the real strong tenants of economic , 40,000 tenants of economic, 40,000 members of the rmt union calls for in five trains to be cancelled. today's look to head back to the office after the christmas break is supposedly our economy billions pounds? should they be allowed to get away with this nonsense when a decent pay offer has been put on the table? transport secretary mark harper is calling on rmt

members to get off the picket and get the negotiating and get round the negotiating table. all the rail strikes holding ordinary workers to ransom should they be banned. also hour in an interview with itv prince harry has said he wants his father on brother back. wah, wah, wah, wah is a bit too late for that, if you ask me. do you think that charles and william should forgive harry, or has he done too much loads of. he's on that already. the big one. i already. and is the big one. i want your views on this one today. okay. oh, are we going to see return of max uk see the return of max the uk health security is health security agency is warning to at home if warning people to at home if they unwell wear they feel unwell and wear face coverings outside. we're coverings when outside. we're adults. do we need this kind of advice. do this of advice. do need this kind of infringements lives here. infringements on lives here. what you today. what i want from you today. okay. vaiews@gbnews.uk yourself on the telly with views . on the telly with your views. charles forgive charles and wills. forgive harry. this is a big what many would you return to wearing mask and would you be happy if we arrivals from china gbviews@gbnews.uk yourself on the box. but before that if you

like excuse . good afternoon at like excuse. good afternoon at 5:02 i'm out i'm strolling the gb newsroom. as you've been hearing, over 40,000 rail workers are staging strikes this week, causing major for people returning to work the christmas break. four out of every five trains have been cancelled as members of the rmt union network rail and 14 train operators are walking out for 48 hours from today. they'll the same again on friday whilst drivers in the aslef union will strike on thursday. it is part of the long running dispute over pay conditions which rmt secretary mick lynch says is vital for the future of the industry. up to the government now to show us that they mean business and that they want to facilitate some talks rather than undermining them , as we believe they did them, as we believe they did before christmas, by putting provisions in that . they know provisions in that. they know none of the railway unions are going so if we can going to accept. so if we can get some realistic talks with some proper proposals and

progressive talks , will progressive talks, we will work with the parties to get that with all the parties to get that on. transport secretary mark harper. however says it is time for the unions to get off the picket line to and around the negotiating table . the negotiating table. the government's going to continue to hard try and to work really hard to try and help bring two sides together to get this resolved . i how get this resolved. i know how frustrating this is for commuters and the danger is it puts people off using railways, which is a bit of on the part of the rail unions that haven't settled this dispute . what settled this dispute. what i think the government can do is make sure was a fair and reasonable offer on the table which there facilitate which there is facilitate negotiations between employers and unions and try and and trade unions and try and make sure we get this resolved for the travelling public . the for the travelling public. the government insists it's doing everything possible to increase hospital capacity , as top medics hospital capacity, as top medics describe the current situation as unbearable . more than a dozen as unbearable. more than a dozen nhs trusts ambulance services declared , a critical incident declared, a critical incident over the festive the royal college emergency medicine says

somewhere between 3 to 500 people are dying unnecessary each week as a result of delays in urgent care. but the work and pensions , mal stride says . those pensions, mal stride says. those figures should be looked at with caution . mortality rates, in caution. mortality rates, in fact , across many advanced fact, across many advanced economies are running well ahead of where they would normally be . whatever it is that's causing , that may not be the specific point that's being raised here. so i think we have to look at that with some caution. people travelling to england from china will not forced to quarantine if they test for covid on arrival . they test for covid on arrival. the government, however, says the move is about collecting information due to the beijing government's refusal to share its own coronavirus data following surge in case numbers. their testing be optional for passengers landing at london heathrow. under the new measures flying to england from china will be required to show a negative test before boarding plane . conservative mp has told plane. conservative mp has told gb news wears a stab proof

jacket for protection when meeting local constituents . meeting local constituents. virginia crosby warned of the scale of abuse politicians face. she says she's faced a threats before and things have not improved for mp the death of sir david amess who was fatally stabbed during a constituent knee surgery in october 2021. labour mp jo cox was also in 2016. i have in difficult situations and have surgeries. i do face to face surgeries where i wear a jacket. obviously following the murder of david amess and i have i have security protection as well. and i think important that i direct contact with my constituer and unfortunately this is this is of the things that i have to do to in to ensure that i that, i can actually do the job that was elected to do. a married british couple are amongst people killed in a mid—air crash between two helicopters in australia yesterday. diane and hughes, aged 57 and 65, from merseyside,

were on holiday when . the were on holiday when. the accident happened in the gold coast region. three others were left critically injured . left critically injured. queensland police say the initial investigations indicate the collision when one helicopter was taking off and the other was landing . russia the other was landing. russia says 63 of its soldiers have been killed . a ukrainian attack been killed. a ukrainian attack in the occupied region of donetsk on, new year's eve. ukraine initially claimed it had killed 400 russian fighters, but that claim , the kremlin says, is that claim, the kremlin says, is an exaggeration . the attack hit an exaggeration. the attack hit temporary in the eastern ukrainian city of makkah, where russian forces have been stationed and with ukraine. the prime minister says they can count on the uk for ongoing long term support. rishi sunak held a call with president volodymyr zelenskyy this afternoon and he pledged to provide further equipment in the coming weeks to help ensure ukraine's victory on the battlefield. the uk recently delivered more than 1000

anti—air missiles in recent days in response to a renewed of russian attacks and hundreds , russian attacks and hundreds, thousands of fans have gathered to pay their to the brazilian footballing pele, who is due to be buried today. a procession has led his coffin from the stadium of his former club, santos through the city on top of a fire engine. earlier, the newly in brazilian president lula da silva joined 150,000 people to file past the coffin at the santos football stadium. the three time world cup winner pele died cancer last thursday at the age of two. this is gb news. we'll bring you more as it happens. but now it is back to . patrick all right. people are all sick of this strike. we're going to

take a slightly different angle on it now because more disruption is taking place on. the railways this week as a result of that strike action. but could just tip of but this could be just tip of the as lynch said, the iceberg, as lynch has said, industrial his union industrial action by his union continue may. i've got a continue until may. i've got a feeling he's bluffing and i'm not afraid call out. not afraid to call out. basically around of britain's railway closed this railway lines are closed this evening thousands of evening as tens of thousands of workers and workers at network rail and train operators . stage 248 hour train operators. stage 248 hour walkouts this week but the health secretary has said that he is claiming that the rmt basically should get off the picket line and get round the negotiating table. the transport secretary should say, what about the cost of strike action anyway? the ukhospitality said that rail strikes in december cost pubs, restaurants and hotels in the uk around one and a half billion pounds and is the reason part of the reason why i am willing to call mick lynch out on this only i don't think he's got it in him to last until may. only thing it's going to cost his own members far more money than they are willing to accept . they've already had a

accept. they've already had a heck of a lot of time off work. juuan heck of a lot of time off work. julian jessop is independent economist, pleased economist, and i'm pleased to say me now. julian say he joins me now. julian thank much. i wonder or thank you very much. i wonder or not, the government realised that only to get around that they only to get around 2000 members of the rmt to switch their view and then basically they have to call the strike action off because that's all that's in ballot. and i wonder whether or not mick lynch knows that his view his members haven't the money either. well well, i think i think you make a good point there. and on the one hand, of all strikes going on, this is probably the most damaging in terms of its economic impact. but even so, think the figures are think some of the figures are a bit i'm well aware bit exaggerated. i'm well aware of the hospitality numbers , but of the hospitality numbers, but i suspect that a lot of that money simply be spent later or in other ways. so the economic damage may not be as much as the rail workers hope. but also pubuc rail workers hope. but also public sympathy for is relatively low for all sorts of reasons, not least the fact many rail workers are relatively well well—paid . and the final point well—paid. and the final point is that if railways were a

purely private business, and to a large extent they are, then they wouldn't be looking to make big pay rises that the unions are demanding because railways themselves , businesses that are themselves, businesses that are in trouble particularly for a lot fewer people travelling to work now a lot more people working from home now. the railways are not a particularly profitable business and they simply can't afford big increases without big increases increases without big increases in productivity with the unions willing to yield to it. where do you go as far as to say there is terrorism? i imagine if i engagedin terrorism? i imagine if i engaged in an activity that cost, even if the figure exaggerated one and a half billion to any industry in december i would expect to be banned from doing that or the rail union's economic terrorists. well i mean that they're certainly trying to cause harm obviously if the weren't causing harm they wouldn't any effect on on the employers or on wider public opinion. so some extent they are trying to cause harm. i personally think though that

banning strikes on the railway should be a resort. i've still got some sense of the idea that people should allowed to withdraw their labour if they don't feel they're properly paid or looked after. i also think the energy forces will play a role here, as you suggested yourselves when rail workers go strike, they're not being paid and they're protected . the and they're protected. the business that employs them. so i wouldn't go as far as banning on the railways, but i certainly think they should be restricted as far as possible. and i think the rules by now, if anything should be tightened rather than relaxed as of the political parties. yes, can't but parties. yes, i can't but wonder, julian, whether or not mick is kind of like cult mick lynch is kind of like cult leader in a way willing to lead a workers off the edge a load his workers off the edge without kind financial without, any kind of financial parachute whatsoever. if you happen to be rail worker, we keep hearing about how hard up you the minute because you are at the minute because you are at the minute because you haven't got any money for this, that and the other. the cost crisis is going cost of living crisis is going through inflation is through the roof inflation is going how on going through the roof. how on earth expect them to earth does he expect them to

actually taking days off actually keep taking days off work. mm. well a tricky work. mm. well it's a tricky trade—off isn't it. if you are on strike and think that you know, can get more as know, can get more money as a result, might be worth result, then it might be worth continuing. the continuing. but if the government showing no signs government is showing no signs of the companies of giving in and the companies don't the anyway, don't have the money anyway, then risk that you then there is a risk that you just end up losing days or, weeks of salary while damaging business that employs you. so it's it's a very difficult it's a it's a very difficult trade off obviously, which is across mattock and fox cause. well but you have to ask whether at the end of the day, you know , so long rail strike is best interest of its members, let alone the travelling and businesses that rely on it. but mick lynch himself is one thing, but the and that's the rmt but the aslef unions. there is a pubuc the aslef unions. there is a public support train drivers who are on a decent wage already . i are on a decent wage already. i mean there's probably absolutely nil is that . well that's of the nil is that. well that's of the problem it's relatively easy to draw up a sympathetic case for you know front line nursing for example rather less so for train drivers given that they

relatively well paid . and also relatively well paid. and also if they do get round to well—paid it, will feed directly through to the. realistically, where else would the money come from if it costs more to travel by rail than , the commuters by rail than, the commuters would be paying more. it's a different to the nhs where you could possibly that costs could possibly that the costs were by somebody else. were paid by somebody else. yeah. somebody else and if yeah. somebody else and that if they tax bill or they pick up the tax bill or whatever else it might be to pay higher ed salaries, but in the railways the money to come railways the money has to come from. railways themselves. railways the money has to come from. ryou've themselves. railways the money has to come from. ryou've raised;elves. railways the money has to come from. ryou've raised a.ves. railways the money has to come from. ryou've raised a few yeah well, you've raised a few decent that decent points, which is that a lot train staff are already. lot of train staff are already. well in relation to what they do, that the impact that they might be various might actually be on various things hospitality things like the hospitality sector exaggerated . sector is being exaggerated. however, time however, at the same time i think the optics of one and a half billion pounds being lost in is more likely in december is more likely to turn public against them turn the public against them than to get them onside. than it is to get them onside. it's not a particularly good business begin with, business model to begin with, le. a pay rise i.e. doesn't warrant a pay rise on top of that. i want your final view on this now which has come country actually afford come the country actually afford it. about or it. so forget about whether or not it because you not it's worth it because you wouldn't for service

wouldn't paying for a service that people actually that fewer people are actually using and it wouldn't make sense give people pay for a job give people a pay rise for a job that frankly doesn't need to exist. of cases. but exist. in a lot of cases. but actually, can country afford actually, can the country afford can to give can the country afford to give them kind of money that they're after? well, it's good way of after? well, it's a good way of looking it. i think, looking at it. i think, obviously people bigger obviously giving people bigger pay obviously giving people bigger pay increases will you pay increases will cost, you know, substantial know, a fairly substantial amount offset amount of money, have to offset against disputes against the costs of disputes continuing. i think it varies frankly, from from sector to sector i think you need to look at this on a on a case by case bafis at this on a on a case by case basis that probably may well be a case to pay nurses a bit more to support the nhs and offset some of costs, the health some of the costs, the health costs, including as well as the economic costs . railways, i'm so economic costs. railways, i'm so sure. i think that, you know, fundamentally this model that needs a rethink can i think exactly i think mick lynch is trying to rage against the dying of the light and we recognise there's issues play in terms of his industry. i mean i think the absolute small mindedness of a lot of people who are going on strike calling you got another,

you it's a bit of roll you know it's a bit of a roll industry this is the only job donei industry this is the only job done i was destined to be a rail my was road worker. my my dad was a road worker. my grandfather worker. grandfather was a rail worker. it's only for me. it's the it's the only for me. it's the only job i can ever have. if the industry changes and you've got to change. look, to chop and change. but look, thank very julie, thank you very much, julie, just that are independent that there are independent economists well, economists right? well, i believe now i can talk to a man. i mean, he's been the i mean, he's been off the airwaves about minutes. okay airwaves about 20 minutes. okay this guy. so it's about time to him. back on now. simon calder , him. back on now. simon calder, the chap who you regularly see popping up a the chap who you regularly see popping up a of popping up in a variety of different locations . simon, am i different locations. simon, am i right in thinking ? you are right in thinking? you are currently plane . i've just currently on a plane. i've just arrived in egypt , met a currently on a plane. i've just arrived in egypt, met a guard at airports , patrick. and at some airports, patrick. and at some point he a great, great pleasure to be here . point he a great, great pleasure to be here. i'm point he a great, great pleasure to be here . i'm enjoying the to be here. i'm enjoying the i will be enjoying the warmth , the will be enjoying the warmth, the sunshine. and i even got here would you believe on a train that ran to time and really to hear your discussion just now i think possibly increasingly we

will see more and more people who are deciding that they cannot for economic reasons continue to strike. we're now into 20 days by the end of this strike, if the workers from the rmt union who work for network rail and as a result of that, i think we are going to see possibly a weakening of this. i talked to mick lynch as she'd used it this morning and i got the sign . this is someone who the sign. this is someone who desperately wants to settle the dispute because . he knows that dispute because. he knows that he is members just can't take much more of this. now he just wants to sit around the table . i wants to sit around the table. i think he's mugged himself off. simon to use a colloquial phrase, are you back? i think he's mugged himself because. he's mugged himself off because. actually, very actually, he's gone in very bullish he's we've bullish. and he's still we've got the i'm sorry. i got the public. i'm sorry. i will actually public support is dropping because. chosen to dropping because. he's chosen to strike same time as strike at the same time as people that the public more people that the public care more about nurses paramedics about nurses and paramedics and people save lives, people who actually save lives, not miserable. like

not make lives miserable. like some train workers or some of the train workers or whatever. and now all of a sudden workers have gone skint. the hardball the government's hardball with them and i'll just wonder whether or not we're watching mick desperately mick lynch now desperately trying on to his own trying to cling on to his own job. oh, look, i think he does he does have the interests of his members heart and he's done phantom really well as has we let the cheap. oh yeah general. so in terms of looking after his members interests in general over the past think he's been in place for six years now rail workers have done relative pretty well compared with the rest of society now there's still number of low paid workers and the final settlement. patrick undoubtedly include huge rail workers who at the bottom at the salary scale getting a percentage increase that's quite a lot more but ultimate b he is a lot more but ultimate b he is a man who wants a settlement. the sense that they are onto here and they think that they

can force him to accept these changes to terms and conditions . but meanwhile, of course, here are so it's going to be 20 days of rmt strikes in 200 days, six days of aslef strikes. and as we were hearing passengers walk away just thinking, i can't take the uncertainty. no you and i, patrick, we're just going to let me just comment on this, because because you write, why, why? why on earth would i get a season ticket now? it would me thousands and thousands of thousands and thousands of thousands pounds. and before i know pops up and know it, mick lynch pops up and cancels flipping service. know it, mick lynch pops up and can

that's actually going to become a serious matter of contention because like so many kind of quayside public sector pensions, it's going to look unsustainable to the generation of people who are going to have to pay for it. but yes. and by the way, on the season ticket that you're not buying, neither is anybody else. and that's part of the problem this huge. what's of pounds that people pay to commute from woking from winchester from redding from basildon from stephen into london that to underpin the finances that's exactly exactly yes indeed to try and enrage the dying of the lie. thank you very much, simon. call to that for me egypt apparently . great. when we first apparently. great. when we first tried to speak to him, he was actually an aeroplane. but even by calder standards that was exceptional as the independent's correspondent that right. what about the political the prime minister facing mounting pressure take action on the strikes. our political reporter olivia me. olivia, olivia utley joins me. olivia, you i was back in favour

you know, i was back in favour of the idea that, you know, people should be allowed to is if i look lynch if the more i look at mick lynch his face more i think just banning. yeah problem banning. yeah well the problem getting banned prime minister has been about this legislation that curtail strike rights for a long time now but backbenchers are getting a bit tetchy because it hasn't actually been a david about when this is going to be brought forward and it's now being suggested that as you might expect , it's possible that might expect, it's possible that the courts and lords could end up blocking that sort of legislation the other is legislation anyway. the other is that if they did start to that even if they did start to get moving on it right now and there's they all there's indication that they all it take at least six it would take at least six months. so in the short term, that isn't no political strategy. the government strategy. what the government seem to be hoping for is that we're actually to a deal we're actually closer to a deal than looks like are. so than it looks like we are. so obviously there was an offer that was put forward by the government rail december government rail in december which offer rejected the which would offer rejected the chief and chief negotiator for network rail , chief and chief negotiator for network rail, tim chief and chief negotiator for network rail , tim shuffler, has network rail, tim shuffler, has pointed out that actually if

2000 people change their vote, then offer could be accepted. so then offer could be accepted. so the government strategy seems to be at some point soon to put that offer to members again and put pressure on mick lynch to give them a bit more time to think about it because essentially last time mick lynch said this is the offer from network rail don't want it. network rail we don't want it. you've a couple days to you've got a couple days to think about it and you go, the government's hoping that we can actually get that leeway there. perhaps throwing in a sweetener of better pensions , better of better pensions, better bonuses, holidays, but bonuses, better holidays, but not moving substantially on pay. yeah and i think it's doable because think the optics of it could be easily done if people are now to see they've are now starting to see they've just christmas dinner, just had christmas dinner, maybe the has been sucked out. the wedding has been sucked out. that sells the initial round of strikes. please us strikes. also please look at us to to next fly the red flag and all stuff. well, all of this stuff. well, actually, they've really got actually, now they've really got wives and kids or husbands and kids whatever say actually kids or whatever say actually what's happen to what's going to happen to houday what's going to happen to holiday go on this holiday that we might go on this summer what can i eat you summer or what can i eat you know. yes. and that's certainly an issue because there are people last

people who've spent 20 of last 200 that's one in 200 days striking. that's one in ten. it's striking and they're missing out on huge amounts of pay missing out on huge amounts of pay goodness and they just have as because actually so as well because actually so a loads of we had a viewer loads of people we had a viewer on answer he on earlier on his answer he couldn't auditions he's couldn't to auditions he's missing power but he's missing out on power but he's not got a pension pot to fall back on about he's not even a pot you know but anyway pot to you know but anyway i think it's absolutely shocking they miserable they deserve to be miserable they deserve to be miserable they are ruining other they actually are ruining other people's lives in my view. anyway. thank you. anyway. olivia, thank you. really that political reporter, right? moving you with really that political reporter, rightpatrick moving you with really that political reporter, rightpatrick christys you with really that political reporter, rightpatrick christys up you with me, patrick christys up more revelations prince harry revelations from prince harry of the upcoming the release of his upcoming memoirs interview with on memoirs and an interview with on tv. it's claimed wants to reconcile with his father and brother. well, can cry brother. well, he can cry a river county let's have river county the. let's have a look at weather .

welcome back wonderful people. now the nhs under pressure with

the government insisting is doing everything possible to increase hospital capacity as . increase hospital capacity as. top medics describe the current situation unbearable. well in the past few minutes the health secretary, steve barclay, has denied that the pressure on nhs has exposed a failure by the government to prevent people dying unnecessarily . when asked dying unnecessarily. when asked about how unprepared the government regarding the strikes , we'll get stuck into this by the way , this is his response . the way, this is his response. discussed this again with the chief officer and also with the medical of nhs england . it has medical of nhs england. it has always been part the recognition of the pressures of covid that that would have an impact on people seeking services during the pandemic. example people were more reluctant to go and see their gp start particular has had an impact on cardiovascular risks . there's cardiovascular risks. there's other factors as well terms of the backlogs on operation . yes, the backlogs on operation. yes, it's important that we get the ambulances to people quickly as well but there's a range of

factors that are played in particularly into those cardiovascular deaths, which is the prime issue when . we're the prime issue when. we're looking at the challenge terms of excess deaths. so this is something . chief medical something. chief medical officer, the nhs medical director. have looking at very closely. it why we're so focussed on getting people out of the hospital who need to be there because . that in turn will there because. that in turn will speed up the ambulance delays and get those ambulances back out. responding to calls . yeah. out. responding to calls. yeah. i mean it's not rocket science . i mean it's not rocket science. it we scared the living daylights of people during a pandemic. they able to get medical care for a variety of very treatable issues. now we've got a load excess deaths we've got a load excess deaths we've got piling pressure on got people piling pressure on the nhs left, right and centre and of shock horror. they and of course shock horror. they couldn't as well couldn't get treatment as well because the because some people, the nhs told to on strike and it's told us to go on strike and it's so we have flu and cold. i mean it's not rocket science anyway, but the in the harry and meghan sagaif but the in the harry and meghan saga if the trailers anything to go saga if the trailers anything to 90 by saga if the trailers anything to go by we now have more an idea of what to expect prince of what to expect in prince harry's anticipated harry's highly anticipated memoir presumably been memoir, presumably has been

written . a snippet of written in crayon. a snippet of an interview the an interview ahead of the release. book, the release. the upcoming book, the duke is heard saying, duke of sussex is heard saying, i would like to get my father back.i i would like to get my father back. i would like have my brother back. the prince also on to it's absolute willingness to say it's absolute willingness to say it's absolute willingness to reconcile, although it is not clear what he is actually referring to. more light on referring to. shed more light on this. joined by royal this. i am joined by royal writer and commentator michael this. i am joined by royal write|michael,|mentator michael this. i am joined by royal write|michael,|men sick michael this. i am joined by royal write|michael,|men sick ofichael this. i am joined by royal write|michael,|men sick of him el cole. michael, he's sick of him as . well, we must talk as well. well, we must talk about it, but let's talk about it, patrick, about this is really all about . it's about really all about. it's about money. the sussexes have sold out completely to commerce . out completely to commerce. they're using the crown as their calling card, but essentially it's about to money support. their very expensive , which their very expensive, which starts with private and very expensive security arrangements. now, prince harry was paid . wait now, prince harry was paid. wait for it. 31 million usd for this book , which of course has been book, which of course has been written by. an american

ghost—writer . and the publishers ghost—writer. and the publishers penguin random house. and there is looking out to us it could it is looking out to us it could it is called spare but it could called stare couldn't it? because he's looking there like henry the eight in that hole by him portrait looking out and challenging the world. penguin penguin random . i need to get penguin random. i need to get that money. they need to be starting to make a profit. then these two interviews, one of them on it, the on sunday night and one of them on cbs in america will are the most fantastic free publicity because you couldn't buy that it would cost millions but yet it is an advertorial for this book . they advertorial for this book. they couldn't do it for the vice . so couldn't do it for the vice. so you just can't just ask michael this not a bit self—defeating because. all it takes is for one person to buy copy of harry's book and tell us all in the

media. what's in it? and then we regurgitate to the world and nobody has to buy it. regurgitate to the world and nobody has to buy it . well, nobody has to buy it. well, yeah, but that that printing this thing worldwide in 16 different languages but they're so desperate to get the money back and even in little woodbridge not far from here it was being offered on pre—orders at half price a month before christmas because you see what they've done is they have no future except in the world they've chosen to live in they are owned body so now by netflix netflix have invested something like $120 million in them and they wanting and more video productions from them e—commerce will squeeze them dry until they've got the last ounce of bile out of them with a tax on their on the family and is the family remember that gave him life love fame and fortune but

all of that is forgotten and it takes a stupid to be in a hole and reach for a bigger shovel. but here is saying i want to be reconcile with my i miss my brother . i reconcile with my i miss my brother. i miss my reconcile with my i miss my brother . i miss my father. well, brother. i miss my father. well, it's history change way of going about signalling you want reconciliation be slagging them off it wouldn't it wouldn't matter at all if it was some famous actor complaining about his upbringing but it matters only they are royal and it's their royal status that they're trading on. i really do wonder how it's going to be before harry if he hasn't realised he's made a catastrophic mistake . made a catastrophic mistake. because that netflix documentary, by the way went down like a cup of cold steak. no, with usual times no, just with the usual times like i frankly hated it like me. i frankly hated it going all of this going into it and all of this stuff. the only reason watched stuff. the only reason i watched parts michael still had parts of it, michael still had to go on about this was. i was in it . i was to go on about this was. i was in it. i was it. but i'll in it. i was in it. but i'll just bring it up. i didn't want

to bring it up. okay. but anyway, and so i decided to watch a snippet. oh, she wanted to see part. he is a classic. anyway, you can write but anyway, you can write that. but and seriously , i mean, actually, and seriously, i mean, actually, i find it that now people i just find it that now people are going to be like, well, that was bad . that didn't down was bad. that didn't go down well book presumably will be well the book presumably will be one long whinge fest man i'll go down particularly well he is almost just a page disaster for himself . you hit the nail on the himself. you hit the nail on the head there, michael. potentially because he's an idiot . well, i because he's an idiot. well, i think it's all very sad because i saw him when was a little boy. i saw him when was a little boy. i saw him on his first. i saw on his first day at nursery school minor's nursery school with mother and going in and coming out at lunchtime with his his single puppet that he'd made for. he was so loved by princess diana was his brother and. i can't get away from fact that she would be if she were alive. and i wish she were she'd be devastated this because

essentially patrick it's all unnecessary and it's all terribly trivial compared with the other stories you've been deaung the other stories you've been dealing with today and compared with what's happening only two time zones away in ukraine it is utterly and these people ought to grow up if harry wants us to respect him we should respect his family it's such a shame because he had all archie harry and it is worthwhile pointing out that he did serve twice in afghanistan and that really has actually something to be incredibly proud . patrick, where incredibly proud. patrick, where did where did the happy prince go? where he gone? well into , go? where he gone? well into, oprah's bosom, by the looks of things. but look, thank you very, very much. my uncle there, the wonderful royal writer and commentator as been getting in touch on this very issue there. i can see a flood of prince harry related emails coming into my inbox gbviews@gbnews.uk uk. but we're moving on from that just briefly. we're going to go to the headlines because. i am patrick christys. this is gb news transports. mark news on the transports. mark

harper says that travellers positive covid on arrival positive for covid on arrival from from china to the uk from the uk from china to the uk from the uk from china to the uk from china won't have to quarantine, but they will have show a negative test before boarding a flight. beijing has condemned move. i mean, yeah, there's lots of things to condemn about beijing in this will going on anyway will be what's going on anyway are right to get tough on are we right to get tough on china like china first if you like headunes. china first if you like headlines . it's 533 i'm out china first if you like headlines. it's 533 i'm out i'm strolling the gb newsroom over 40,000 rail workers have been staging strikes causing for people returning to work after the break. only a fifth of all services are running today as members of the rmt union network and 14 train operators are walking out for 48 hours and they will walk again on friday whilst drivers , the aslef union whilst drivers, the aslef union will strike on thursday . the will strike on thursday. the government insists it's doing everything possible to increase hospital capacity as top medics

describe . the current situation describe. the current situation as unbearable . more than a dozen as unbearable. more than a dozen nhs and ambulance services declared critical incidents over the festive period . the royal the festive period. the royal college of emergency medicine says somewhere between 3 to 500 people are dying each week as a result of delays in urgent care and the health secretary steve barclay says more funding's for social care focusing funding on to the backlogs. for example getting more diagnostic hubs in place. getting the surgical hubs were rolling out, getting backlog from the pandemic , backlog from the pandemic, that's been the key priority . that's been the key priority. that's where we've surged additional funding . but we also additional funding. but we also recognise the big pressure that we're seeing play through in terms of ambulance handover is largely triggered by those who are fit to leave hospital but delayed in doing so and we need to feel big capacity and that is often about having the right social care to do so . and of social care to do so. and of thousands of people lined the streets to pay respect to , the

streets to pay respect to, the brazilian footballing legend pele who will be buried today, his casket was taken through the streets . santos it has now streets. santos it has now arrived at the funeral site where a private family ceremony is being held . earlier, the is being held. earlier, the newly sworn in brazilian president, lula da silva , joined president, lula da silva, joined 150,000 people to file past the coffin at the santos football stadium. the three time world cup winner, pele died from cancer last thursday at the age of 82 . tv, online and dab radio. of 82. tv, online and dab radio. this is gb news. don't go anywhere. we will be back in. just a moment.

welcome back. now the break we were discussing the latest on the and meghan saga with harry's

new spare about to hit the shelves. apparently it was already being offered on half price before christmas, but we won't get into that. i hate to say it anyway. lots of you have been getting in touch on. this christine says harry and meghan have far for have gone far too far for a reunion to happen. this is because harry apparently saying that he wants relationship back with brother and with his with his brother and his father. i just don't buy with his with his brother and his fébyer. i just don't buy with his with his brother and his fébyer. i way, ion't buy with his with his brother and his fébyer. i way, anyoney with his with his brother and his fébyer. i way, anyone who that. by the way, anyone who wants out with wants a relationship out with their father their brother and their father does not behave this way. throwing your family under the bus, tune millions of bus, the tune of millions of pounds. is well, he pounds. if someone is well, he didn't the money didn't really need the money making this poor making it like it was this poor little forgotten found freedom and this he had mummy's trust fund anyway. how fund for goodness anyway. how dare he meghan dare harry think he and meghan can is and chase can carry on. this is and chase carry like have been carry on like they have been doing continue to do and doing and continue to do and then try to worm his way back in. he hurts our beloved queen and philip, caused me and prince philip, and caused me and prince philip, and caused me an of stress. i an immense amount of stress. i agree. actually a huge agree. he actually caused a huge amount stress in end of amount of stress in the end of our lives. final moments of our lives. that final moments of the lot times for the dedicated lot of times for the dedicated lot of times for the service to see things that they never had to make sacrifices they had

sacrifices didn't go. they had to anything they want to do anything they didn't want to do anything they didn't want to king charles to do, mary says. king charles wisdom love, and wisdom sent his love, and william kate invited to meet william and kate invited to meet mourners queen's funeral mourners at the queen's funeral . surely . two olive branches, surely only. just look at harry now . only. just look at harry now. and i actually think i've started to see someone who doesn't appear to be particularly well. i just think i'm looking someone who's got massive, massive issues and can i just love this out there as well i said earlier on. and then if you're just joining or not. but do anyone else get this? the bits of that, harry and meghan netflix docu drama that watched. well actually well i thought he's actually in a weird relationship with a very weird relationship with meghan of mummy meghan there's a lot of mummy issues isn't susan issues there, isn't there? susan says, meghan played the says, i think meghan played the biggest con trick the royal biggest con trick on the royal family harry really want to family does harry really want to make up with king and his make up with the king and his brother? personally, i he's hoping can get into hoping he can get back into royal family for more material to sell it to the highest bidder. i call but one. bidder. i call out but one. yeah, we missed. is yeah, we missed. the trust is completely if harry's completely gone. but if harry's book out. these two book comes out. these two interviews on tv, and think interviews on tv, and i think it's they're going to drop it's cbs. they're going to drop in a couple of days. and his

book out next week. right. book comes out next week. right. and suppose meghan's and then suppose be meghan's memoirs pointed memoirs which someone pointed out have out is going to have to be pretty flipping show it pretty flipping show on it because only in the because she was only in the royal for 2 minutes. royal family for 2 minutes. they're to out. once they're going to come out. once that was done, surely they've got nothing else to say. and so far not been not bound for far it's not been not bound for the royal family. and if the biggest revelation, which if you read the press so far appears to be the biggest revelation about his brother, is that his brother shouted at him during a highly emotionally charged meeting when he leaving the royal family he was leaving the royal family i mean, as your brother of a shout out, the sister of a shout out, you mean it's hard to stop the press stuff, is it? but that we you go right now that from we know from thursday apparently is that flights from that is on direct flights from china we'll have to provide a negative covid test 48 hours of departure. in order to be able to fly to the uk, better contact our people cases in china. absolutely skyrocketing. they have zero—covid policy have horrible zero—covid policy that was never going to work. shock, horror. didn't work. shock, horror. it didn't work. it vaccine. the use it was the vaccine. the use even it was the vaccine. the use ever. also doesn't really .

ever. that also doesn't really. and they now are basically saying the angry about the idea that we might chinese people from coming to this. that we might chinese people from coming to this . very much from coming to this. very much two sides to this. so today we had the arrivals who test positive once they arrive in the uk will not have to quarantine so i have to do a test before they got if they test positive when they get out of the quarantine transport secretary mark harper said that the move test those coming into the country on flights from china is about collecting him the about collecting him due to the beijing government to beijing government refusing to share coronavirus data. share its own coronavirus data. but beijing has condemned move. should we be tougher on china? charles parson , a senior charles parson, a senior associate fellow at risi and spent over years working as a diplomat in. china, thank you very much. joining me now. can you forgive me? i have a huge amount of resentment towards the chinese government. i do not buy the initial narrative about the old wet markets and the virus starts mean that i do not buy that they didn't know more about it and i actually think the

chinese government needs to be made to pay . is there any way we made to pay. is there any way we can do that ? well, i entirely can do that? well, i entirely agree with you that their behaviour at the start of this crisis, when they give us all the information that we should have had earlier and indeed now , mean if chinese are travelling there, know details there, we need know any details about , any new variants, etc, so about, any new variants, etc, so that we can take our measures. so i fully , fully agree with you so i fully, fully agree with you on that can actually take any measures against china that is specific . well, i mean, when you specific. well, i mean, when you talk china, you're talking about the chinese communist. yes. the government. chinese , chinese government. all chinese, chinese citizens. because you know, should we be taking measures against chinese citizens who want to to our country ? i'm want to come to our country? i'm not so sure that we should if the dangers form of infection, aren't that great. i suppose one of the big questions for people will be they did everything right , this country, so they right, this country, so they followed all the rules when. they were told to follow them and they all their jobs of and they had all their jobs of this stuff. and then they did

all of that so that they could hopefully the back hopefully have the freedoms back at point. if there a at some point. if there is a genuine if some new, more genuine that if some new, more transmissible, more deadly variant or just something else entirely frankly emerged in china . would the chinese china. would the chinese government tell us about that? if the answer to that question is no, then i think we owe it to our citizens, don't we, to block people coming in from . well, we people coming in from. well, we won't know where. the chinese government will tell us and. more importantly, whether they would tell us in time. and i think that some the actions that a of governments are taking now which is to test aircraft wastewater . i what's going wastewater. i what's going through the toilets that is probably . it sounds as though probably. it sounds as though that might be the most effective method of finding out as quickly as possible whether on whether there are new variants. but for ihope there are new variants. but for i hope that our government is putting as much pressure as governments on the chinese governments on the chinese government to say, look, we need this information if there any new variants we need to know

about them so that we can alter our accordingly. yeah now when it comes to you, obviously have a lot of experience, i defer massively to your extremely high level of knowledge than i do. i'm a cop on a stick, really. but you actually was a diplomat in china for 20 years. do you think those any any possibility whatsoever that covid was something deliberate by the chinese government ? no, i really chinese government? no, i really don't think that that is the case. as ever in, diplomacy in life generally, i think up is in 98% of the time and that's how i go around is so i'm conspiracy 2% of the time. i mean you know the and the danger to the communist itself. i think , have communist itself. i think, have been evident even even at the time they had the experience. and in 2003 of sa's in a sense a forerunner greatly frightened them. i mean, why what is what is noticeable is it for a, you know a country and a government that's meant to be so good

planning how badly planned? i mean, if you've gone through the songs experience gone songs experience and gone through covid years ago , how through covid years ago, how come you're in such a bad way now? i'm just getting a little of a sense of deja vu where we got rumblings, didn't we? a couple of years ago, something kicking off bit china around kicking off bit in china around the area . and then, the wuhan area. and then, you know, of sudden it to and know, all of a sudden it to and then i think we started banning coming then coming in from china and then before you know it was already here and we looking at well are we ban people from and we going to ban people from and france yeah you think france then. yeah do you think there's that there's any chance that what we're now pave way we're seeing now might pave way for us having to sit through yet again of chris whitty and his dreaded next slide please ? well, dreaded next slide please? well, it's not so much a china question as a covid and scientific question whether there'll be a new variant that is that is that much more damaging to us. is that is that much more damaging to us . so but there damaging to us. so but there have been i don't think that in essence , china is responsible essence, china is responsible because . that will i mean, because. that will i mean, whether it's the sports world, it will come in. so i think we need to prepare for that. but we

can't sort of, you know , there's can't sort of, you know, there's no china angle on that. and you know, fair enough. i mean, one china say that they will be a bit miffed if we decided to block their citizens coming in. what they realistically do what could they realistically do in mean, they're in retaliation? i mean, they're not invade taiwan not going to invade taiwan as a result of they know it. i think that would be anything really specific. i mean, obviously, they prevent citizens they could prevent citizens going to china, but i didn't expect at the moment, very many of citizens want that, given of our citizens want that, given what situation is. so what the situation covid is. so i think there's a large element of bluff frequently is when china says, you know, do that and we'll be very and we'll take measures. often they don't. so i don't think we need to be put off by that. no, i mean, i think we need to decide are scientists decide what is the best policy for us and we go ahead and do it irrespective of the but irrespective of the chinese. but at time , saying to the at the same time, saying to the chinese, scientists are chinese, our scientists are saying we need order to make . saying we need order to make. you can't go around three years later doing what did years later doing what you did years ago. think that china got ago. do you think that china got off very very lightly for?

whilst it's impossible to air, is an increasing amount of i would say , a very plausible would say, a very plausible evidence or certainly speculation about the exact origins of the coronavirus potentially at the institute of virology , whether or not, as you virology, whether or not, as you said earlier on, it was, a bit of a mistake as to or not what exactly happened there. do you think china got off quite lightly, given what we've seen happen rest of the world happen in the rest of the world now? i mean, it did bring the to its knees. yeah. i mean , again, its knees. yeah. i mean, again, when you think of likely that begs the question of what precisely you couldn't do to ensure that didn't. precisely you couldn't do to ensure that didn't . so it's ensure that it didn't. so it's not i think it's quite possible. i don't know. and anyone yet knows the origin of virus and it may well have through a leak or inadequate protocols, security protocols at that laboratory that be the first time that china has not followed decent security protocols and caused

any problems . but but but i know any problems. but but but i know you know beyond that it hasn't got a well in one sense it's too early to say because is certainly suffering now its economy is suffering its people are suffering. yeah maybe that will a lesson to say. well in the future kind of be more forthcoming. yeah i and sharing with so that's the thing and i do it very i do find it very difficult for me personally anyway to separate my initial of resentment for i think the initial handling of the coronavirus crisis talking to where we are today but it is important to say as well as the you alluded to you know you don't want to take action against just ordinary chinese citizens. there is a distinction between of between chinese citizens and, of course, is going to course, the chinese is going to have leave there. but have to leave it there. but thank very very much, thank you very very much, charles there's senior charles parson. there's a senior associate spent 20 associate at rusi and spent 20 years a diplomat. years working as a diplomat. china now moving on from china right now moving on from that. well, that's slightly, i suppose but suppose same, same, but different. uk

different. yesterday the uk health advice as health security issued advice as hospitals battle a in hospitals battle a rise in flu covid cases. the new covid strep a cases. the new advice brits should advice suggests brits should wear face stay at home if wear face and stay at home if they feel ill. as the nhs battles the winter illnesses however numbers that emphasise that it however numbers that emphasise thatitis however numbers that emphasise that it is not compulsory to wear a face mask unwell. no wear a face mask when unwell. no anyway, as the health anyway, it comes as the health service under the pressures service is under the pressures of waiting times of record waiting times and overcrowding is a return to koci selamaj is necessary to help protect nhs well. gb news is the people's channel and this show is nothing without you. so joining now is gb news joining me now is gb news viewer, julie ford. thank you very much, really great to have you on the show, julie, from bedfordshire. how you bedfordshire. julie, how do you about that should about the idea that we should masks on public transport things like that will you be masking up hi patrick thanks for having me on. i certainly won't be masking up. no, i think it is yet again. another sticking plaster bits of rhetoric from the council from from the government lets everyone wear a mask. it will take the pressure of the nhs. that's really not what's going to happen. a lot of the viruses

that looking at a mask doesn't really have any effect on. so i think it's really for me just a of a gimmick really. i can't the logic in it the same as we have with covid covid wasn't even an airborne virus we had to wear masks. so i didn't really see logic in that, although i did wear my mask, it was a legal requirement. well, this is the thing, isn't it? it's this business a legal business of being a legal requirement. you requirement. julie, are you looking now and looking around now and getting a little of deja vu, the china little bit of deja vu, the china stuff going on at the minute cases increasing. that's all of us testing before they arrive. you it's not you know, a kingdom, it's not a massive before we maybe start banning china banning people coming from china full new variant full stop you know new variant i mean, gracious me . mean, goodness gracious me. remember that period of time when every single variant when we had every single variant under nepalese was under the sun, the nepalese was one on the front page one that was on the front page of so literally of papers. and so literally about 30 seconds after the papers were printed, people out said no such thing said there's no such thing as the nepalese. mean, are you the nepalese. i mean, are you concerned that we're to concerned that we're going to slip back restrictions ? no slip back into restrictions? no i don't think so. i think when had covid the first time because we hadn't had anything that

dramatic before, we didn't know what we were dealing with. we didn't know what it was capable of. i think all of those of. and i think all of those lockdown measures the right lockdown measures were the right thing while worked out thing to do while we worked out what kind of it was. but realistically covid is a virus. a so of course a virus, a host. so of course it's going to mutate to ensure that can carry on having a host but won't be there to get rid of its host because as soon as you get rid of host, it is no longer a virus so it will be extinct itself. so i don't see that we were to go into were going to go back into lockdown or any of those extreme measures because i don't think covid will mutate covid itself a virus will mutate to point where it needs to be to a point where it needs to be locked again. okay. all locked down again. okay. all right. do you think that right. and do you think that basically if people do, why do you look at them a bit differently? would you think it's just a personal choice? no, i think a personal choice. if they want wear a mask who am they want to wear a mask who am i to say they should or shouldn't? what want to shouldn't? if what they want to do, them feel safer? do, it makes them feel safer? absolutely. let wear absolutely. let them wear a mask. okay. look. thank mask. okay. lovely look. thank you very much. julie, it's been great have you on the show.

great to have you on the show. and hope bedfordshire is and i hope bedfordshire is lovely this of year. it's lovely at this of year. it's juue lovely at this of year. it's julie ford there from gb julie ford there from is the gb news view is the view news view and it is the view as you make this go round. so you make this show go round. so thank very, very much. you thank you very, very much. you can be like julie you can get in touch gb is gbnews.uk a member of team give you of our team might give you a little find yourself on little about find yourself on the but yes going to the television but yes going to go to the inbox to off the go to the inbox to round off the show. harry wants to show. i think harry wants to reconcile with his family so the ensemble trading on his royal in america financial deals. america is huge financial deals. he and family can be funded he and his family can be funded by taxpayer, by the british taxpayer, including from including security. that's from suzanne season. i suspect that you're can't help you're right that i can't help but as though meghan's but feel as though meghan's getting harry, getting in there going. harry, harry is going to pay for the security anyway. greg says patrick, thank you for the laughs. you do that the chinese vaccines aren't any good as if ours are better. and greg that's the point as well. although to be fair, think there's only so much we do and this is much that we can do and this is why i'm against any more. why i'm really against any more. i want to see. if there i would want to see. if there are any more restrictions, i fixed number on the amount of a fixed number on the amount of a fixed number on the amount of a fixed number the amount cases fixed number on the amount cases and of per day and the amount of deaths per day

. any kind of . we had any kind of infringement of civil liberties ever that not to ever again. and for that not to be and for that be be deviated and for that to be based on good sound science, you know, i think it was my gove. he said was sick of experts, said he was sick of experts, wasn't a actually you know wasn't a well actually you know what was with the what i kind of was with the coronavirus as well because they were all time. i mean were wrong all the time. i mean if weren't any other line if there weren't any other line work, they wouldn't a job work, they wouldn't have a job with but thank very with that. but thank you very much. everybody been much. everybody who has been getting trevor one getting in touch. trevor one final patrick you say he final one. patrick you say he supports strike. this supports right to strike. this is on the strikes on the rail. so said he so i thought you said he supports to strike and supports the right to strike and then you you think they then you say you think they should banned you should should be banned you should try having pays having a job which pays a pittance when you're working conditions been reduced to 19th century well, century levels. well, to be honest you that trevor, honest with you that trevor, actually, know, i'm not actually, you know, i'm not causing harm on causing massive economic harm on my costing my own, not costing the hospitality and hospitality sector a one and a half billion pounds over the busiest period. i'm busiest christmas period. i'm costing the hospitality sector two a billion pounds. two and a half billion pounds. is not stopping isjuly. i'm not stopping ordering and from ordering men and women from getting work any one of the getting to work any one of the things lynch of things that the mick lynch of this world are actually on the side the workers is deluded

side of the workers is deluded anyway, trevor, thank you anyway, we go. trevor, thank you very rise. okay believe very much. rise. okay i believe i it's over. now to the i can love it's over. now to the michelle dewberry up with michelle dewberry who is up with dewbs& for the next hour. dewbs& co for the next hour. michelle do got coming up on michelle do you got coming up on your it. we your show hello patch it. we know now that the nhs has know by now that the nhs has absolute mess around in this circle. saying circle. many are now saying time for critical incident for a national critical incident be declared, means that be declared, which means that the army could be drafted to in on the emergency care. i to on the emergency care. i have to kind chocolate little because kind of chocolate little because feel for the army they feel so sorry for the army they do everything but is do get roped everything but is this answer nhs. i this the answer for the nhs. i also want to a bit more into some of strikes that are some of the strikes that are coming up too. and a tory mp has got in hot water because, he's saying response to the fire saying in response to the fire brigade. is saying the fact brigade. who is saying the fact the £2,000 is what some people earning and many firefighters in their words, not mine, to be forced to use food banks are earning that of dosh. patrick, the tory mp saying that's because they don't want to privatise and has privatise and that has infuriated people and. lastly, should women have a legal right to know what men are being paid . this is all about the gender pay gap . this is all about the gender pay gap and apparently this is

tough on the least of many females priority is their legal right to see . so that would mean right to see. so that would mean that i right to see. so that would mean thati can right to see. so that would mean that i can find out. for example, what your own record found out while you're at it as well. michelle's so gutsy. it can game anyway, can play that game anyway, right? jeffrey would do that right? so jeffrey would do that go it be on that. so the next we always got buddies with obviously from wall to wall to that we are like, thank you very much everyone is watching and listening getting in touch onune listening getting in touch online as well. i'll be back a little later on coverage of little bit later on coverage of the wonderful steyn who, by the wonderful mark steyn who, by the wonderful mark steyn who, by the on the mend, the way, is on the mend, apparently . the way, is on the mend, apparently. i'm sure you'll all be be back on be pleased to now be back on till. make sure till. but before that make sure you in to michelle dewberry you tune in to michelle dewberry with james co. it's going to with james and co. it's going to be absolute rollercoaster, be an absolute rollercoaster, a show yesterdays is show certainly if yesterdays is anything by. oh, i still love anything to by. oh, i still love back hello it's aidan back. hello again it's aidan mcgivern here from the met office rain will ease overnight in many places but it stays windy and those winds are bringing very mild during the next couple of days. the winds coming up all the from the southwest, tightly packed , i

southwest, tightly packed, i suppose. and this stream southwesterly air will continue to bring , if southwesterly air will continue to bring, if not even milder , to bring, if not even milder, what we've seen as we started the week northern scotland's been cold. but even here it is turning milder and the many wetter as we head into the evening some persistent and heavy rain across scotland cause more issues over the higher parts where it's been very wet recently and the some snow melt and for wales as well some wet weather could cause some issues overnight. but the rain in many eases some cloud eases there'll be some cloud breaks . it stays though breaks. it stays windy though and those winds bring mild at 12 celsius in the south. first thing, 5 to 8 further north. and as the wet starts in the southeast. but that clears north—east scotland takes a bit longer to clear the rain , but longer to clear the rain, but for many it's a drier and brighter day. the main area of affecting northern ireland, southern scotland northern england, otherwise decent cloud breaks and sunshine coming through for midlands and eastern england in particular, and very mild 13 or 14 celsius in the south 8 to further north,

south 8 to 10. further north, some damp weather affecting the far southwest , then the south far southwest, then the south dunng far southwest, then the south during the second half of wednesday. that disappears overnight . it stays cloudy overnight. it stays cloudy towards the south—west with some spots of rain. it'll further showers in the northwest . well, showers in the northwest. well, but for many, it's a dry to thursday, a little mild, but still temperatures above average and some sunshine thing for eastern england. northern scotland, northern scotland, perhaps a touch of frost. otherwise it's frost free. a lot of cloud in from the south—west through morning. so any sunshine to disappear by the afternoon sometimes with about but most places dry except for scotland northern ireland, where it turns increasingly wet and then later on much windier. we are gb news right across ? the nation you can right across? the nation you can get us on television, on radio, all digital we're absolutely everywhere. amazing you see.

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hello there. it's 6:00 michelle dewberry and this is dewbs& co the show where we'll get into some of the things that have got you talking today. and i'll tell you, isn't it this cause talking for weeks and months now, the nhs, let's face it, it is pretty much broken now. is it is