the ban on petrol cars to delay the ban on petrol cars and diesel cars, which is scheduled for 2030. >> yeah, quite right . scheduled for 2030. >> yeah, quite right. now scheduled for 2030. >> yeah, quite right . now after >> yeah, quite right. now after our very own nigel farage continues his fight to prevent anyone from being banned. the former brexit secretary, david davis, is drawing up a bill to give every brit the legal right to a bank account. give every brit the legal right to a bank account . we're going to a bank account. we're going to a bank account. we're going to be talking to david on this very show this morning . very show this morning. >> superb and all we edging ever closer to a nuclear wall. well, former russian president dmitry medvedev issued a nuclear threat following a ukrainian drone strike in the heart of moscow . strike in the heart of moscow. >> we're going to be to talking a security expert to see what that might mean for the russia—ukraine conflict . so let russia—ukraine conflict. so let us know your thoughts this morning, gb views at gbnews.com is email address , as always. is the email address, as always. but all, here's but first of all, here's the very headlines very latest news headlines with tamsin .

tamsin roberts. >> beth, thanks very much and good morning from the gb newsroom. it's 931, a retired british miner has been released from a prison in cyprus after being jailed for the manslaughter of his wife. david hunter was given a two year sentence for killing his terminally ill wife at their home in paphos in 2021. the 76 year old has been released after cypriot authorities calculated his time to serve. hunter claimed his wife asked him to end her life as she suffered from blood cancer. end her life as she suffered from blood cancer . the end her life as she suffered from blood cancer. the prime minister has confirmed hundreds of new oil and gas licences will be granted in the uk. downing street has also confirmed millions of pounds for a new carbon capture scheme in north—east scotland. number ten says the move will help britain achieve net zero carbon emissions and boost british energy independence . mr sunak energy independence. mr sunak will visit scotland today to highlight the country's vital role in the government's energy

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beth and. martin >> and thank you for that, tamsin. the prime minister has announced in 100 licences for nonh announced in 100 licences for north sea oil and gas exploration as he kicks off a week of campaigning on britain's energy security . energy security. >> so rishi sunak will also set out new funding for carbon capture technology, with estimates that it could create up to 21,000 jobs. but environmental group greenpeace uk has voiced its concerns over the new carbon capture projects due to the use of fossil fuel. of course they have. >> it comes as he faces pressure from within his own party over his environmental pledges with mps urging him to delay the ban on petrol and diesel cars at 2030. >> well , 2030. >> well, piers 2030. >> well , piers pottinger 2030. >> well, piers pottinger is 2030. >> well , piers pottinger is with >> well, piers pottinger is with us here this morning . political us here this morning. political commentator. morning, pierce. thank you very much for joining us. when we talk about carbon capture offsetting the oil and

gas drilling, do you think most people this is people understand what this is when to green issues when it comes to green issues and energy issues, it sometimes feels the technology is so feels like the technology is so complicated that it's quite hard for us laymen to understand what it's going to mean for the pound for us laymen to understand what it's go pocket. |ean for the pound in our pocket. >> that's definitely >> i think that's definitely true and carbon capture and the way it has to be piped and they're going to store it under they're going to store it under the north sea is a fairly kind of baffling process to most people, but it will create 21,000 jobs in scotland and that is very positive. and i think what rishi has done today, rather than being rather wishy washy, he's actually done something. i mean , he's also something. i mean, he's also talked over the weekend about being a friend for motorists . being a friend for motorists. but unfortunately, what he's actually done is asked the department of transport under mark harper to review the situation with ulez and consult right now. how long is that going to take.7 and whitaker on

gb news last night said, look, let's have some action. and i think i hate to quote edward heath , but in the past, edward heath, but in the past, edward heath, but in the past, edward heath used a quite effective election slogan, which was actually often not words. and i think that's what the british people want to see. and some of this green policy is very complex . it's not complex. it's not straightforward . but unlike the straightforward. but unlike the labour party , this is at least labour party, this is at least costed and makes sense. and the labour party changed their policy on this every five minutes. so one doesn't know really where they stand and greenpeace attack this carbon capture programme simply because they have to . they have to. >> i'm going to take you up on a point there. i wonder if this is clear or if it is actually wishy washy because there's no detail in the policy. 100 new licences sounds great, but what does that mean? we know, for example, that one third these companies are one third of these companies are foreign owned, so this is money going out of north going straight out of the north sea, russia , china, sea, straight to russia, china, saudi arabia . what people really

saudi arabia. what people really care about is, is their gas and electric bills . now, we've got electric bills. now, we've got no detail here. i just wish that they would actually say to us, we're going to do this and that means no more £3,000 a year bills, no more 2000 a year bills, no more 2000 a year bills, but instead cheap, dependable energy for britons. we haven't got to that level yet, though, have we? so is this just yet more posturing, piers? >> well, i think, i >> well, i think, you know, i wish it was more better defined. and as i said earlier , action, and as i said earlier, action, not words. that's what we need. and of course , with this and of course, with this introduction of heating pumps in people's homes, which is going to cost a fortune, ten grand upon the people who actually make the heating pumps have said themselves they're not that effective, particularly in scotland. no. so it's a complex and rather muddied water still. and i think clarifying action is essential here. >> and isn't this also just the fact that nobody has forward planned this issue? no, every every single government seems to

have kicked it into the long grass and thought, well, i'll let the next lot deal with it when we're not here anymore. >> that's why out of >> and that's why a year out of the yes. say we're the air. yes. and say we're going do this by such and going to do this by such and such. >> but why i think it's >> but that's why i think it's so that we what so important that we know what keir intends do , keir starmer intends to do, because looks in the because if as it looks in the polls and things are changing, i think think this needs think i think this needs to be changing but if he changing every week. but if he does board at the next does sweep the board at the next election really need to election, then we really need to know what his plan is without flip absolutely flip flopping. absolutely >> don't know. >> and we don't know. >> and we don't know. >> right. >> that's right. >> that's right. >> an advantage for >> which is an advantage for rishi because he's trying to get some clarity here, although it's still confusing to a lot of people . and, you know, i think people. and, you know, i think you've got to be you've got to set out an agenda that's realistic. for example, that whether we stop petrol and diesel cars in 2030, it seems to me incredible when there aren't enough charging stations for electric cars . absolutely. you electric cars. absolutely. you can't suddenly just pick this number, say we're going to stop , then it doesn't work. and

again, with nuclear power, which is a big, very essential fuel element in the future , smaller element in the future, smaller nuclear power stations , you nuclear power stations, you can't build them overnight . it can't build them overnight. it takes years to do that and switch the our sources of energy. >> yeah, i think we do know we do have clarity on labour's policy and that is if these licences aren't finalised before the next election, which is pretty unlikely, then they will scrap them, they'll revoke the licences. could be on licences. so this could be on a highway to nothing anyway , highway to nothing anyway, angela rayner said last sunday that ulez will be in every town and city in britain if labour come to power. so there's an opportunity here for tories opportunity here for the tories to say no , we're going to actually say no, we're going to actually say no, we're going to net but to row back on net zero, but they're not that. they're they're not doing that. they're not in my opinion, not doing enough. in my opinion, because it's baked into law, it's to hit 2050 net it's mandated to hit 2050 net zero targets. isn't that the problem? the tories can puff up their chests all they like, but can they actually deliver when they're tied to this battleship chain? >> no, i think i think it's going to be difficult for going to be very difficult for them. said , and think them. as i've said, and i think they more or less created

they have more or less created their own problems here by by setting, casting all these things in stone and then but the other point is these endless reviews and consulting , they reviews and consulting, they they surely they've got enough information, they've got specialised departments. they ought to be able to say, right, this is what we're going to do . this is what we're going to do. instead we get these endless consulting and reviewing situations. we had another one over the weekend . the equality over the weekend. the equality and human rights commission is investing, updating its chairman, baroness faulkner and kemi badenoch announced that she's taken on a king's counsel, a highly expensive barrister to launch an inquiry into the inquiry that's looking into baroness morgan. why doesn't she get them round the table and say, what's going on here and sort it out? >> but back to these deals, surely , you know, for example, surely, you know, for example, if a block of flats is granted planning in your local area, they say, okay, you can do that, but there must be some affordable you

affordable housing and you have to a library to to build a library as well to get we will get planning. okay, yes, we will do why the tory do that. why don't the tory government say these government say to these licensees, yes, can licensees, yes, yes, you can have a licence to drill new oil, but we want british first. we want dependable city. we want to take it at the lowest market price . so it's baked into these price. so it's baked into these deals that we have energy security , the kind of thing that security, the kind of thing that would have saved us from all the nightmare the ukraine nightmare of the ukraine war. can detail on can we have some more detail on these ? if they can't these deals? if they can't strike a deal, why are they strike a good deal, why are they in government? >> well i mean, we >> absolutely. well i mean, we don't know what the are don't know what the deals are yet see some yet, but we need to see some detail. people will have to apply and there may be apply for. and there may be competitive. there may be competitive. so there may be foreign and british companies. but the one thing that's so important for us is to have our beef survive with our own energy and not rely increasingly on mr putin and other despots around the world controlling our energy, including china , who are energy, including china, who are getting more and more involved in the energy world and taking more and more energy for themselves . but also it's not

themselves. but also it's not just in the uk, it's a bigger issue , but also doubling our issue, but also doubling our imports of us liquid gas, 9 to 10,000,000,000m3 was shipping over the sea at huge carbon footprint. >> cost of shipping simply to have a surely the future is to is to get british shale out of the ground and be self sufficient and sovereign. >> yeah. i mean i think you're right. but what you're demonstrating is how complex an issue this is. there are so many elements to it. you can't just come out with a couple of soundees come out with a couple of soundbites and expect to sort the whole energy crisis. politics is soundbites, but it feels like there's so many different entities being kept happy, isn't it? >> that's the thing . it feels >> that's the thing. it feels like the eco warriors, the people who who don't want us to use fossil fuels have vested interests. the governments are always is that very difficult balance between ensuring householders that we can actually turn on our electricity , but then also keeping happy the people who are convinced that we need to save the planet. by that we need to save the planet. by that, it's

difficult. >> is. difficult. >> it is. right, piers. lovely to excellent. thank you >> it is. right, piers. lovely to much excellent. thank you >> it is. right, piers. lovely to much . excellent. thank you >> it is. right, piers. lovely to much . right llent. thank you >> it is. right, piers. lovely to much . right now,. thank you >> it is. right, piers. lovely to much . right now, ukrainian u so much. right now, ukrainian president zelenskyy has president vladimir zelenskyy has warned that is coming to warned that war is coming to russia and said that attacks on russian are now inevitable. >> yeah, follows a drone >> yeah, this follows a drone attack moscow that targeted attack in moscow that targeted the city's financial district, causing damage to skyscrapers. >> joining us now for >> so joining us now for analysis the security expert analysis is the security expert will good morning, will. will geddes. good morning, will. great to see you just explain to us which buildings were actually targeted in russia, because i think that's quite a key part of this story , isn't it? this story, isn't it? >> yeah, absolutely . i mean, a >> yeah, absolutely. i mean, a lot of people have been reporting that there's been have been indiscriminate attacks against the financial district and against the sort of the ultra worthy sort of or well worth wealth . i'll get my teeth worth wealth. i'll get my teeth in the ultra wealthy , obviously, in the ultra wealthy, obviously, within moscow. but actually , within moscow. but actually, these are being very targeted and very directed attacks against ministry of defence buildings. and those that are involved, especially in some of the propagation of propaganda . the propagation of propaganda. and one of the targets actually

that was hit last night was actually the offices for fancy bean actually the offices for fancy bear, which is an environment, as we've heard before, that's been involved in distributing malware ransoms there into the west. so this is a particular sort of office where some of the bots have been used to, again, deluge social media within russia and ensure that putin's narrative is heard as above pretty much anybody else's . pretty much anybody else's. >> well, when you look at the risk of nuclear war currently , risk of nuclear war currently, apparently it is the highest since the depths of the cold war . but just to reassure people out there, this is this is posturing largely , isn't it? posturing largely, isn't it? we're not actually facing armageddon , are we? armageddon, are we? >> no, i don't think we are. i mean , there are huge concerns mean, there are huge concerns over a particular project that was developed since 2018, which is called the poseidon torpedo . is called the poseidon torpedo. this is a particularly nasty piece of equipment or armament, which has about 100 megatons of capability to cause tsunamis. and it could be directed,

obviously, against countries against ports. and one of the greatest risks could it could be that it would be directed towards odesa which is obviously still held by ukraine. now, there have been a lot of developments, obviously, over the , and there been the weekend, and there has been obviously conference in obviously this conference in nairobi, obviously between russia african countries nairobi, obviously between russiathe african countries nairobi, obviously between russiathe supplyn countries nairobi, obviously between russiathe supply of ountries nairobi, obviously between russiathe supply of grain es nairobi, obviously between russiathe supply of grain .s nairobi, obviously between russiathe supply of grain . and about the supply of grain. and one the things that russians one of the things that russians have contravening have been doing is contravening the agreement that was set up last year for ukraine in terms of it actually shipping out grain because it's one of its major manufacturing capabilities. but i think in the deployment of the poseidon, i think it's very, very unlikely because obviously then all cards, all negotiations, all agreements will be taken off the table. and there are discussions about a peace talks potentially starting this week in saudi arabia . arabia. >> just to press you on that a little bit. well, i thought that was one of most interesting was one of the most interesting things that came out of putin's meeting the african meeting with with the african leaders you leaders was that he said, you know, peace know, their solution for peace and he effectively said he's quite attractive to me, didn't he? what did mean by that?

he? what did he mean by that? and there any chance of a and is there any chance of a peace deal ? peace deal? >> well, i think there is. i think there's got to be a hope for a peace i mean, for a peace deal. i mean, inevitably, this conflict can't continue longer. for continue for any longer. for zelenskyy very clear zelenskyy has made it very clear , said, the lead to , as you said, in the lead to this that that he is this story, that that he is going push fight into going to push the fight into russia. going push it russia. he's going to push it into . and part that is into moscow. and part of that is very along the same lines very much along the same lines that in the uk during world that we in the uk during world war ii sent raf bombers to berlin to again just bring the threat home to people in their own country to say you are involved in this conflict. this conflict is not remote from you. this isn't just something you're going to hear about the radio going to hear about on the radio or social media or read or see on social media or read in the news, but in terms of this in nairobi, it this conference in nairobi, it wasn't a success, as one would have hoped. there were only about half the number of leaders that attended that would have been or certainly were there last year . so in terms of coming last year. so in terms of coming to of resolution, this to some sort of resolution, this is very questionable. and there's also the continued operations by the wagner group in africa right across,

obviously, the crescent of africa and in other sort of conflict areas as well. >> and will, how much of an influence been the influence has been the expansionism of nato , something expansionism of nato, something that donald rumsfeld , the that donald rumsfeld, the legendary us defence secretary, warned against for many decades? gorbachev yeltsin said this would be a red line. now we're moving towards this softer israel style membership where the nato unions are directly financing ukip military action. how much of that is a factor, do you think, in putin revving up the rhetoric ? the rhetoric? >> well, you're absolutely right. i mean, it sort of presents two particular dilemmas. it presents the dilemmas. it presents the dilemma of putin seeing that nato is providing more support. i mean, one of the things that nato and the coalition and the supporting countries have tried to desist from was any kind of aerial support or aviation support by increase their capability, their finances and everything else. putin has really only two choices. he either goes even more on the offensive, which at the moment is not successful. ukraine had a

very successful weekend in terms of repelling some capabilities , of repelling some capabilities, although russia has come back saying that there was an attack on the black sea peninsula of crimea by 25 ukraine drones, which they successfully shot down. however, nato involvement is showing that there's a never ending supply of potential armaments support and even membership, although nato has not granted ukraine membership quite yet . but how long they can quite yet. but how long they can continue to do so or not do so is a big question. >> yeah. okay. many big questions. thank you, will. we'll get is there security expert just feels doesn't it like there's no incentive of no for peace . for peace. >> that's right well it also feels like there's very political little political will from from the liberal side because talking to putin is verboten. you're not allowed to negotiate with him. so what's plan b? eternal war? plan b? an eternal war? absolutely right. >> so let us know your thoughts this morning. vaiews@gbnews.com. we will get to as we vaiews@gbnews.com. we will get to but as we vaiews@gbnews.com. we will get to but let's as we vaiews@gbnews.com. we will get to but let's to; we vaiews@gbnews.com. we will get to but let's to this can. but let's go back to this issue capture and issue of carbon capture and nonh issue of carbon capture and north oil well in and of

north sea oil well in and of itself. liam halligan that doesn't sound terribly interesting , does it? interesting, does it? >> it is interesting, but this is what people are worried about is what people are worried about is how going to affect our is how is it going to affect our bills you beyond the bills once you get beyond the bonng bills once you get beyond the boring geo scientific ? i think boring geo scientific? i think this is hugely interesting. >> i sell it to me. >> well, well. >> well, well. >> talk to anyone in any pub about the £2 a litre oil and diesel and petrol and diesel and you know you will have an even more impassioned conversation than you will about the football . frankly, this is hugely we've got to stop being kind of the pubuc got to stop being kind of the public can't handle these complex things. of course they can. this is hugely important. so on that basis , check out this so on that basis, check out this graph, if we can put it on the screen. >> this always helps a good graph and really graph and it is really important. go for it. >> this is a graph of north >> so this is a graph of north sea gas production. and sea oil and gas production. and if keep it on the screen if we can keep it on the screen until i finish talking about it until i finish talking about it until 2000. that was until the year 2000. so that was our north production, our peak. north sea production, 2.5 million barrels there of oil and natural gas liquids and over and natural gas liquids and over a million and a half barrels of natural gas , oil equivalent,

natural gas, oil equivalent, huge figures there. in 2000, we were producing 4% of the world's oil and natural gas from the nonh oil and natural gas from the north sea. and you see there the forecast from 2024 onwards. it's destined to go down rapidly . destined to go down rapidly. even if labour don't ban all new nonh even if labour don't ban all new north sea oil and gas licences. that graph is assuming the labour policy doesn't happen. it's from the office for budget responsibility. >> so is that with the new licences, that's with the new licences, that's with the new licences, still not very impressive . impressive. >> it's still going to fall off the cliff . now pin back your the cliff. now pin back your ears because this is the really important what share important statistic. what share of our energy current comes from oil and gas ? oil and gas? >> about 86. >> about 86. >> it's actually 80% right. there you go . despite there you go. despite renewables, because 40% of our electricity is from gas, 85, you're 86. number is the number of homes that use gas fired boilers . so of homes that use gas fired boilers. so this of homes that use gas fired boilers . so this is of homes that use gas fired boilers. so this is still hugely important. transport is massively still oil and gas,

renewables in many ways actually make energy more expensive because you have to have gas fired power stations on standby . yeah. so what's actually happening now is the rubber is hitting the road and politicians and frankly , the media class are and frankly, the media class are starting to understand how important oil and gas actually are. even the climate change committee, which is the government's kind of in—house conscience , so called on net conscience, so called on net zero issues, very much a pro environmental group within government . even they admit that government. even they admit that by the end of the 2030 we'll still be using oil and gas for over half our energy. even if all the net zero stuff that we want to happen actually happens. so why import that energy when that costs a lot more and leads to a much, much greater carbon footprint? >> so rishi sunak making this decision to introduce these new licences has been inspired by what? >> what is it? >> what is it? >> it's been simplistic to say it's about russia, ukraine, russia. >> ukraine has certainly to led a focus on energy issues .

>> ukraine has certainly to led a focus on energy issues. i'll grant you, bev, until a year ago, energy issues were the preserve of sort of nerdy eco economics people, frankly. but when you have the worry that we're going to have no energy security party and oil and petrol and diesel does go up to £2 a gallon, as i said, and obviously it becomes really, really important. but the thing now is that rishi sunak is seeing the reality of these issues , the reality that the gmb issues, the reality that the gmb , the third biggest union in this country , absolutely detests this country, absolutely detests . keir starmer's ban on new petrol and diesel licences in the north sea because 200,000 people work in the oil and gas industry in this country, 25,000 industry in this country, 25,000 in aberdeen. if he's going to do anything with the tories in scotland, you can't just wipe out the oil industry or certainly encourage its demise and nuclear also takes a long time . hinckley points taking time. hinckley points taking a long time. sizewell oil over there in the east of england . there in the east of england. and the government's saying it's small nuclear modular reactors

grant shapps told me last week he hopes to have a decision by 2019 on sorry, by 2029, a decision on who's actually going to build these small modular nuclear reactors . six years nuclear reactors. six years until a decision. >> do you think what we're seeing, liam, at the moment is the cost of net zero, which everyone agrees with versus the cost. see the cost, the cost. when we see the cost, the pounds and the pence of the individual, right. individual, you're dead right. people about people are really angry about petrol, about gas , about their petrol, about gas, about their heating. we a clear heating. and if we had a clear route to cheaper bills, if the tories package this as we're going to do this, and therefore you x pounds, you will save x pounds, they sweep the next general election. so why they do that? so why don't they do that? >> well, my column at the weekend that. martin weekend was exactly that. martin if want support for if the tories want support for net they're going to have net zero, they're going to have to that renewable to show that cheap, renewable energy cheap but energy leads to cheap bills. but it doesn't at the moment, actually leads more expensive actually leads to more expensive bills. and that's a bills. and that's and that's a provable statement . look, this provable statement. look, this is going to be one of the battlegrounds of the next election. when you look at polls, a lot of polling evidence and you'll it endlessly

and you'll hear it endlessly cited in the media, oh, 75% of people support net yeah, people support net zero. yeah, but question is, are loaded. but the question is, are loaded. and then if you look at a question up, do question that follows it up, do you net it's you support net zero if it's going to cost household going to cost your household money people, then money over half of people, then refuse. there is no clear technological path . look, technological path. look, electric vehicles now a lot of people in the industry, they won't speak out publicly. they're really worried about electric vehicles because they need so much lithium. have you seen happened lithium seen what's happened to lithium pnces seen what's happened to lithium prices the year? that prices over the last year? that sounds weird. a bloke in sounds really weird. a bloke in a pub literally came up to me at the weekend started talking a pub literally came up to me at th

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good morning. it's 10:00 good morning. it's10:00 on monday. the 31st of july. already this is britain's newsroom on gb news with bev turner and martin daubney today. superb >> i'm playing andrew pierce today. i hope i'm not doing too badly. the prime minister will use a visit to scotland to announce 100 licences to extract oil and gas from north sea. oil and gas from the north sea. as part of a push towards as part of a major push towards energy what does energy security. but what does that your bills?

that mean for your bills? >> this comes, of course, as the government faces pressure to do more support motorists . rishi more to support motorists. rishi sunak ordered a review into sunak has ordered a review into low traffic neighbourhood roads. conservative mps are urging him to delay the ban also on petrol and diesel cars, which is due in 2030. yeah, and after our very own presenter, nigel farage continues his fight to prevent anyone from being debunked , the anyone from being debunked, the former brexit secretary, david davis, is drawing up a private member's bill to give every brit the legal right to a bank account . account. >> we'll be speaking to him shortly on the show and the big brother is watching you. >> facial recognition cameras were used to catch a single sex offender who attended the queen's coronation. is this a good way to catch criminals or are we turning into a dangerous big brother . big brother. state >> it's fascinating that issue, isn't it? i mean, on the one

hand, are they catching the wrong ones? but on the other hand, bev, are all of us being facially scanned we facially scanned wherever we move particularly big move around, particularly at big events like the coronation and innocent, wonderful but innocent, wonderful event, but actually. beep . actually. beep, beep, beep. we're being watched. and we're all being watched. and what what next and what next. >> and what next and what next. that interesting for that story is interesting for all reasons. us all sorts of reasons. let us know your thoughts this morning. gb dot com is gb views at gb news dot com is the email address. first of all, though, you're very latest news with roberts . with tamsin roberts. >> bev thank you and good morning from the gb newsroom . morning from the gb newsroom. it's 10:01. the prime morning from the gb newsroom. it's10:01. the prime minister says hundreds of new oil and gas licences will be granted in the uk . downing street has also uk. downing street has also confirmed millions of pounds for a new carbon capture scheme in north—east scotland . number ten north—east scotland. number ten says the move will help britain meet its 2050 net zero commitment and boost british energy independence . it's amid energy independence. it's amid ongoing rounds in the conservative party over the future of its climate commitments. rishi sunak is visiting scotland today, where he'll highlight the country's

vital role in the government's energy security plans. >> we're announcing these new licences in the north sea with more to come, which will ensure our energy security moving forward. it means we'll be less reliant on hostile foreign actors for our energy baseload, for the fossil fuels that we're to going be relying on for some years to come, which will mean that we are reducing our co2 emissions by not importing those fossil fuels . but the fossil fuels. but the announcement future and announcement on future and further carbon capture and storage projects means that we'll be taking that carbon dioxide out the atmosphere dioxide out of the atmosphere and it onto the north dioxide out of the atmosphere and which it onto the north dioxide out of the atmosphere and which means the north dioxide out of the atmosphere and which means that north dioxide out of the atmosphere and which means that getting to sea, which means that getting to net zero will be more achievable. >> well, that was mp andrew bowie. meanwhile mps say the government's nuclear plans are more of a wish list. government's nuclear plans are more of a wish list . the more of a wish list. the committee says there's no clear strategy for achieving the goal of net zero by 2050. a nuclear roadmap is due to be published by the government by the end of the year. former conservative party leader sir iain duncan smith says we should be using more of our own resources as why

aren't we using our own resources? >> and here's the problem right now because of this kind of really , i suppose, a religion, really, i suppose, a religion, a new religion on net zero, what's actually happened is that to hide our own carbon emissions, we end up buying oil and gas from countries in the far east, particularly well, not the far east in the middle east. and that means they still have to drill for this stuff. they still produce the carbon only. we don't have it set against our targets because we're not doing it ourselves . it ourselves. >> a british man has been released from prison in cyprus after being sentenced for the manslaughter of his wife. david hunter was given a two yearjail hunter was given a two year jail term for killing his terminally ill wife at their home in paphos in 2021. the 76 year old has been released after cypriot authorities calculated his time to serve. hunter claimed his wife asked him to end her life as she suffered from blood cancer. as she suffered from blood cancer . plans to house thousands cancer. plans to house thousands of migrants in bbc stockholm. barge in dorset could face

delays after reports of facility hasn't received approval from local fire services. the barge is expected to host around 500 men at a time, but there are fears the vessel could become a fire trap. the government says the barge is undergoing final preparations to comply with regulations . it preparations to comply with regulations. it comes as the government aims to provide cheaper accommodation for those arriving in small boats . new arriving in small boats. new rules have come into force which will prevent serious criminals gaining british citizenship . gaining british citizenship. whip changes to the good character requirement of citizenship applications will see tougher rules applied to anyone who has received a 12 month prison sentence . s month prison sentence. s currently in attempt to gain british citizenship, will normally be refused if an individual has received a four year jail term . the home office yearjail term. the home office said the reforms will remove the previous rules whereby some criminals could be granted that after a certain number of years have passed . 1 in 4 gps now have

have passed. 1 in 4 gps now have private medical insurance due to concerns over long nhs waiting lists. a survey found 21% have personal insurance and 4% have it through their employers . it it through their employers. it comes as the nhs waits . lists in comes as the nhs waits. lists in england have reached a record level of 7.4 million patients awaiting routine treatment . the awaiting routine treatment. the court of appeal is set to give its ruling on the right to wild camp in dartmoor. national park. earlier this year , a high court earlier this year, a high court judge ruled against getting permission. the darwalls said wild camping was not intended to cause that . but the that court cause that. but the that court of appeal, they're giving its ruling on the right to wild camp in dartmoor national park. time is running out for people to use any non barcoded stamps today. the last day they can be used to post items from the 1st of august. any item with an old style stamp will be treated as having insufficient postage and liable for £1.10 surcharge fee . liable for £1.10 surcharge fee. the changes affect any

non—barcoded stamps featuring the late queen's profile on a plane background, any special stamps with a picture or christmas themed stamps can still be used even if they don't have a barcode . this is gb news. have a barcode. this is gb news. more from me shortly. now though, it's back to beth and . martin >> good morning. thanks for joining us. it's 1006. >> good morning. thanks for joining us. it's1006. so the conservative mp david davis is proposing a new law which would prevent brits from being de—banking. >> yeah, the former minister said it is a travesty that nigel farage and others have been blacklisted for their political views . he is now drawing up a views. he is now drawing up a private member's bill to give every brit the legal right to a bank account . bank account. >> so former brexit secretary david joins us now. good david davis joins us now. good morning, david. thank you. thank you. ever so much for joining morning, david. thank you. thank you. ever so much forjoining us this monday morning. i was going to say this summer's morning,

to say on this summer's morning, but it's actually tipping it down it would come, down outside. and it would come, i as a surprise to some i think, as a surprise to some people know that don't people to know that you don't already right to have already have a right to have a bank account in this country because having one means you because not having one means you really can't function barely in society anymore . society anymore. >> well, that's right . i society anymore. >> well, that's right. i mean, we used to have a right when the before we privatised the post office, we had that right because the government could insist that anybody could at least have a post office account. mean, very account. i mean, not very sophisticated, least they sophisticated, but at least they had and you're right, had an account and you're right, i mean, the ability of banks to stop your account to de—banking was not widely known. i mean, i first raised it, oh, two years ago with another victim suffered really in a similar way to the way nigel farage did. but unlike nigel, he didn't want his name in the public domain. unlike nigel, he wasn't willing to put up a really serious public fight. and so we couldn't do anything about that. i couldn't move the government. i couldn't move the government. i couldn't move the government. i couldn't

move the banks . but once they move the banks. but once they did it to nigel, well, of course they bit off more than they could chew. and what we've what the world at large is now clear on is that banks can arbitrarily cut off your banking services . cut off your banking services. and that, as you say, is quite wrong. i mean, we're shutting, we're shutting ticket offices , we're shutting ticket offices, railway ticket offices now, you can't even buy a train ticket if you haven't got a credit card or a bank account of some sort. now to do it online. so the sheer size of online transactions , the size of online transactions, the sheer reduction in the use of cash, the all the social trends mean we really have to have a bank account to operate a normal life. and therefore people should have that right. so david, talk us through for the layperson how the private member's bill works and how likely is this to be mandated into british law ? careful, into british law? careful, you'll lose most of your audience to this . but very, very audience to this. but very, very quickly . we have a ballot for

quickly. we have a ballot for private members bills each year. you can win that . there are some you can win that. there are some ways of taking what's called the ten minute rule bill and carrying it through if everybody supports it . so those are the supports it. so those are the sort of two big mechanisms . if sort of two big mechanisms. if that doesn't work, you can tack something on to a piece of government legislation exists already, although of course the ideal and i'm sort of hoping that they'll give in the ideal is the government picks it up and actually does it itself. so there are three strands you can pursue and i will pursue all of them until we get what we want. and why might they not do that, david, given that we've just said how it is, what said how important it is, what might resistance be from the might the resistance be from the government ? well, there have government? well, there have been there been a variety been there have been a variety of pressures . i mean, about of back pressures. i mean, about i think in the middle of june when claire fox tried to move a motion which would do away what they call politically the issue of politically exposed persons,

people like me or indeed like like nigel, who have had political influence or have political influence or have political influence or have political influence and the idea that they they shouldn't be they shouldn't be able to have bank accounts and without very strict controls because they might be bribed. so that was the that was what she tried to get changed and there was back pressure and i understand the back pressure came the home office, came from the home office, specifically from m15 and the police forces , because they saw police forces, because they saw that this was a weapon for them in the fight against international crime. but it's a very, very crude weapon, a very heavy handed weapon. so that's one reason. second reason is, of course , you know, don't course, you know, don't underestimate the banks themselves. they have huge influence in government. they they they have access to the treasury and so on. the treasury doesn't want to upset them or or damage them or indeed undermine our own banking capabilities. but nearly every other country has this right. you know, the france , if you live in france, france, if you live in france, you've got a right to a bank

account. and so there i think there's no overwhelming reason that there might be a lot of inertia , a lot of hesitation . inertia, a lot of hesitation. but frankly, if they're faced with the option of me moving a private member's bill or doing it themselves, they might think it's the easier thing to do it themselves. >> yeah. david, what's been fantastic about this campaign, you know, nigel utilising gb news to force political change. thank for taking this up on thank you for taking this up on behalf nigel, but not just behalf of nigel, but not just nigel, because we saw initially it was like, well, it's nigel farage. who cares? and now we saw miller, remainer farage. who cares? and now we saw shapps,ar, remainer farage. who cares? and now we saw shapps, of remainer farage. who cares? and now we saw shapps, of coursenainer farage. who cares? and now we saw shapps, of course .ainer farage. who cares? and now we saw shapps, of course . so er farage. who cares? and now we saw shapps, of course . so this grant shapps, of course. so this is of course, is now across the political spectrum. but david are more concerning thing for me is emergence thousands of is the emergence of thousands of small business people having their accounts frozen out. what i want to ask you as part of gb news don't kill cash campaign , news don't kill cash campaign, i'm hearing that people that are trading in cash are looked upon in in a in a in trading in cash are looked upon ininainainan unsatisfactory way by banks because they want the cash to die out. they're closing the

thousands of banks. is this you think the weaponization of closing down bank accounts part of the banks are raising cash from the way we trade ? from the way we trade? >> i'm not sure . i think there >> i'm not sure. i think there are two different things going on there. and look, you can see from the point of view of the banking sector , the point of banking sector, the point of view of the large corporate sector not having to deal with cash saves them money. you know, it saves them having to go through all the issues of having to transfer, transport, arrange payments, having safes and so on. tills and the rest so you can see why it's much cheaper. so i think that's a straightforward economic pressure, but anything else i don't like the idea of doing away with cash because at the end of the day cash is an anonymous medium. you know, if i if i buy something with a credit card or i buy something with anything else, it tells all sorts what i'm doing sorts of people what i'm doing now doesn't matter. in my case, it's much public domain, it's pretty much public domain, but of people want but lots of people might want to want privacy. i want to keep their privacy. so i think actually the removal of

cash got all sorts other cash got all sorts of other problems associated but problems associated with it. but you're quite right, the removal of means of of cash means the denial of a bank is a is a bank account is a is a destroying measure . it's destroying measure. it's something which can completely wreck your business. i mean, there have been i mean i mean by there have been i mean i mean by the way, it's not thousands. i think it's tens of thousands. i mean, nigel has shown today it's about a thousand a day. so you're talking tens of thousands of businesses and they're of small businesses and they're just destroyed by just completely destroyed by this. i mean, big ones can sort of find way around it. but of find a way around it. but small you do if small ones, what do you do if suddenly you can longer pay suddenly you can no longer pay the can no longer the bills? you can no longer receive money by by or by bank transfer. and so on. you know, you're out of business. you're dead. so we know the removal of cash makes this a lethal action. >> david rishi sunak even before he was prime minister, even before he was prime minister, rishi sunak was incredibly excited by the idea of central banking, digital currencies. he is a technocrat at heart. we know that his number two, jeremy hunt, is very much very keen on

the way that china often runs life out there. do you think that you are the exception amongst those , the people in the amongst those, the people in the conservative party who think like that in wanting to keep cash? what does rishi sunak think? does he want to keep cash ? >> well, 7- >> well, i ? >> well, i think rishi is a fan of digital cash and in that i think he's wrong. frankly i think he's wrong. frankly i think the risks with digital cash are really, really quite serious . but, you know , he was serious. but, you know, he was he was you know, he was a chancellor. you know, he's surrounded by people for whom this makes life a bit more convenient. one of the great pressures in modern life is that convenience overcomes really important. traditional rights , important. traditional rights, whether it's privacy or whether it's independence or whether it's, you know, all these things. so i'm afraid i think both. i think rishi is wrong in that respect. i think what will happen as people discover some of the weaknesses and problems

of the weaknesses and problems of digital currency is they'll pull back and realise that it's a dangerous mechanism by itself anyway , if you allow it by anyway, if you allow it by itself. so i'm afraid. i'm afraid. there's one area where i disagree with our prime minister. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and you know, we've seen this moving from politics, david, into the bank, spying on people, social media feeds, you know, rank and file members of the pubuc rank and file members of the public having their social media feeds, their facebook accounts, their twitter accounts monitored by banks and insidious attack on free speech, as well as the financial aspect. mr davis this is this is one of the reasons, incidentally , that gb news is so incidentally, that gb news is so important because a lot of the people doing this won't think they're being prejudiced. >> they're surrounded by a single view of the world. right. we see this everything, whether it's brexit or woke issues or whatever they see this single view of the world. they think anybody outside it is somehow strange or extreme. and one of the great things that the

introduction of gb news has done is said, no, no, there are a lot of very, very sensible people who take who disagree with you. take a different view and you know what we're trying do? what nigel we're trying to do? what nigel is trying to do to break that is trying to do is to break that single grip of on public opinion and successfully, i think i mean, it's one of the reasons that you've overtaken sky and other it's because other people. it's because you're actually reflecting what real people actually think it takes a lot. >> that's why we love having you on the show. david davis because you are also from our very own brand of common sense and it is lovely to see you this morning. thank so much. warms the thank you so much. warms the cockles heart. cockles of my heart. that doesn't it? >> takes a lot to make bev >> it takes a lot to make bev turner blush, but it does. i think you blushed, you know? >> but it's right. and and we are change the are trying to change the narrative we're trying to narrative and we're trying to not just want help. we are not we just want to help. we are the people's channel. and so much do is driven by much of what we do is driven by what people at home talk about, want to see, as you say, these small businesses, fine. if you're multi—million pound you're a multi—million pound corporation have corporation and you can have your doesn't your bank account, it doesn't

matter. doesn't you matter. and it doesn't and you don't cash, you don't don't care about cash, you don't want it costs you money. but want it. it costs you money. but if you're a decorator in redding. got your back. >> e! e’— @ i'm saying. that's >> that's all i'm saying. that's exactly what. >> it's a superb example of joined thinking. joined up joined up thinking. joined up campaigning, journalism, politics, people, power, campaigning for change. it's absolutely fantastic . and i'm absolutely fantastic. and i'm really chuffed that mr davis is getting stuck in there in parliament. it's brilliant. yeah. >> and as he says about our viewers, we couldn't be here making these changes and making this of if you this sort of noise if you weren't in every day. so weren't tuning in every day. so we're very grateful our we're very grateful to our viewers listeners, of viewers and our listeners, of course, on dab radio and listening app. right. listening on the app. right. still come is big brother still to come is big brother watching? yes. facial watching? well, yes. facial recognition to recognition cameras were used to catch sex offender during catch one sex offender during the coronation. the queen's coronation. >> the way forward or >> is this the way forward or are heading into dangerous are we heading into dangerous big territory that warm big brother territory that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers proud sponsors of weather on gb news >> hello there. good morning. i'm jonathan vautrey who is your gb news weather forecast

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gb news. >> good morning . it's 1024. >> good morning. it's1024. you're watching britain's newsroom on gb news with martin daubney and bev turner. >> so the prime minister is announcing 100 licences for nonh announcing 100 licences for north sea oil and gas exploration as he kicks off a week campaigning on britain's week of campaigning on britain's energy security. week of campaigning on britain's energy se rishi. week of campaigning on britain's energy serishi sunak week of campaigning on britain's energy se rishi sunak will also >> yeah, rishi sunak will also set out new funding for carbon capture technology, with estimates that it could create up to 21,000 jobs. >> but environmental group greenpeace uk has voiced its concerns over this new carbon capture project due to the use of fossil fuels . of fossil fuels. >> well, they would do, wouldn't they? >> let's cross now to grangemouth in scotland, which is the site of the largest oil refinery in europe. to speak to our scotland reporter tony maguire. tony carbon capture sounds complicated . what's the sounds complicated. what's the deal ? yeah definitely.

deal? yeah definitely. >> it does, doesn't it? but the truth is that the carbon capture programme has been an experiment ongoing for quite a number of years now, and this week in fact, today we're going to finger out how that it becomes one of two prongs and rishi sunak its energy security plan. now, the first one, as you mentioned at the top there is he's expecting hundreds of new oil and gas licences to be permitted in the north sea and around 40% of that oil, would you believe , actually goes you believe, actually goes through grangemouth here behind me. but certainly that is in complete contradiction to what we've heard from labour, who have keir starmer earlier in the year saying that there would be no new licences as and yes, the second prong there seems to very much be carbon capture. there's going to be two projects. one will be down in the humber and it will be the viking project . it will be the viking project. it good, good strong name. there

and up here, the acorn project , and up here, the acorn project, which is backed by the likes of shell and companies like ineos, who run grangemouth here, they will be contributing. now the idea is that carbon monoxide offset from various petrochemical plant will be trapped , reported back up to the trapped, reported back up to the north sea using the legacy network for haulage and the platforms and the drilling to be embedded deep within the north sea. now, rishi sunak has expected to speak a little bit later today and actually, if we go a bit further back to the budget, we would remember that the chancellor had actually put together around 20 billion over the next two decades for this carbon capture. and but certainly any chief executive here said that's about half of what's needed for the uk's carbon monoxide capture project. so we'll wait and see what comes out of aberdeenshire later on

today. >> okay. thank you, tony. tony mcguire on a beautiful sunny july morning in scotland . and july morning in scotland. and honestly that global warming . honestly that global warming. tony mcguire thank you ever so much. i'm still a bit confused about what this carbon capture is. isn't that because i know that if you're if you're building houses and you build them with like hemp and wood and stuff, you are capturing the carbon in the products that you're building. the house with. how is it working in the oil and gas? >> so carbon can be captured via vegetation ? yes, basically co2 vegetation? yes, basically co2 is plant food, but in this instance it's co2 that's produced in the manufacture, say, of extraction of gas is captured and it's pumped back underground into the rocks where the gas once was. and the theory being it can be stored there indefinitely. it's very expensive. it's very laborious, and a lot of people think it's just simply a gimmick to pacify the greta thunberg type. well this man might know the answer to this. >> thank thank you, martin.

>> thank you. thank you, martin. i felt like had a very i felt like i had a very interesting biology sort of lesson there back at school. but listen, the listen, jack richardson is the head energy and environment head of energy and environment on think tank the think on the think tank at the think tank onward. has martin tank onward. jack, has martin summed pretty well there what summed up pretty well there what this capture and this carbon capture means. and if it's that easy. why if it is, it's that easy. why don't we do that everywhere all the time and keep eco zealots like you happy ? like you happy? >> thanks thanks very much >> yeah. thanks thanks very much for having me. so martin did just give a very good description of the technology itself. i think what he kind of missed, though, is that it's going to be a big industry. so as the north sea oil and gas runs out, it's a very mature basin. we've been producing oil and for about 50 years and gas for about 50 years there. we're to be there. we're going to be capturing carbon not just from oil gas production, also oil and gas production, but also from things like steel manufacturing. then we're manufacturing. and then we're going that back going to be putting that back into caverns . and the into the caverns. and the greatest is, that greatest thing is, is that because the the north sea because the uk has the north sea caverns, we're also going be caverns, we're also going to be pumping carbon. so pumping in europe's carbon. so they're be basically they're going to be basically paying they're going to be basically paying to store their paying us to store for their carbon. so going to make carbon. so we're going to make a whole industry for those oil and

gas which otherwise gas workers which otherwise might up losing their jobs might end up losing their jobs in decades time as in a couple of decades time as we oil and gas we run out of oil and gas anyway, using their anyway, and using their expertise bury the carbon in expertise to bury the carbon in terms of pacifying greta thunberg, think doesn't thunberg, i think she doesn't really like and neither really like ccs and neither does greenpeace but the greenpeace apparently. but the climate committee and the climate change committee and the international climate experts all say that we definitely do need it. >> many years left do we >> how many years left do we have? jack oil and gas in have? jack of oil and gas in this country if we just carry on drilling at the same rate we're doing at the moment? >> so the last statistic that i read was from the north sea transition authority , which is transition authority, which is the regulator of the oil and gas industry in this country. the regulator of the oil and gas industry in this country . and industry in this country. and they're expecting even with new licences and everything going all fine . so that's not all fine. so that's not including the windfall tax that the governments put on the oil and industry labour and gas industry or labour cancelling new licences. but they're still expecting a 75% drop in in oil and gas production for the north sea by 2035. >> no, but how many years have we got left? how many years? if we got left? how many years? if we just carry on drilling now,

we just carry on drilling now, we carry on keeping people's homes our fridges homes warm and our fridges working our our fires working and our our fires burning. how many years, how many decades till run out ? many decades till we run out? >> possibly about two, i think so. maybe up until 2040. but then even if we continue producing. come on. yes. >> no, no, no , no, no, no, no, >> no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no . no, no. >> what? jack? jack, you're failing to admit there is advances in technology which will allow to us extract if we can't currently do . and also can't currently do. and also let's think about onshore oil shale. we have trillions and trillions of cubic metres of shale gas beneath our feet , but shale gas beneath our feet, but of course we're not allowed to mine that because of the precise resistance. let's get back to what's on offer now. people really care about their bills, about energy being cheaper, yet we don't really get any offers from the sustainability mob. the renewable crowd. we're told it's cleaner. great. but will it be cheaper? we're never given anything concrete. surely the opportunity here for the

conservatives is to form a wedge issue saying we not only agree with north sea oil being more of a resource for british consumers , but we're also going to offer cheaper bills. but the renewable people haven't ever been able to offer that to us. have they ? offer that to us. have they? >> so the government last year , >> so the government last year, 2022, after the invasion of ukraine, they released a bunch of mythbusters saying that more drilling in the north sea will not lead to lower bills. i think that's still true. and even if we did manage to a fracking revolution, which we haven't been able do the past been able to do over the past ten years, that also wouldn't budge the price. um, whereas if you go to renewables and nuclear to other more efficient, fundamentally forms of energy production and crucially reform our power markets so that they're not so led by the price of gas, which we can't control because it's a globally traded commodity, able to commodity, we will be able to move cheaper energy. i think move to cheaper energy. i think especially what's what's very important well energy important as well is energy efficiency upgrades, efficiency and home upgrades, which want . which people definitely want. and on that point and just finally, on that point , should the conservatives make it issue? think

it a wedge issue? i don't think that would be politically sound for the conservatives because the the public do the majority of the public do want that zero. and that's including the majority of conservatives well . conservatives as well. >> okay. conservatives as well. >> well, we could have talked for but i'm afraid for longer, jack, but i'm afraid we've of thank you we've run out of time. thank you so for joining we've run out of time. thank you so forjoining us. we'll so much forjoining us. we'll talk to you again soon. jack richardson, who's the head of energy environment energy and environment at onward. this onward. now, still to come this morning, the summer of morning, more of the summer of is summer? morning, more of the summer of is well,�*ner? morning, more of the summer of is well, ier? morning, more of the summer of is well, i think it's meant to >> well, i think it's meant to be on paper of discontent. >> advice workers, >> citizens, advice workers, they're for very they're striking for the very first time in hull and east riding and a much more coming your way after the morning news headunes your way after the morning news headlines roberts . headlines with tamsin roberts. >> martin. thank you. here are the headlines at 1032. the prime minister says hundreds of new oil and gas licences will be granted in the uk. downing street has also confirmed millions of pounds for a new carbon capture scheme in north—east scotland. number ten says the move will help britain meet its 2050 net zero

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>> welcome back to the show . >> welcome back to the show. it's 1038. you're watching britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce. that's me. i've transitioned martin daubney and bev turner are now we were talking before the break to david davis mp who said some

lovely complimentary things about gb news. >> if you didn't see it, i'm sure we'll have it on our twitter feed soon. and he was talking about our don't kill cash campaign in relation to nigel losing bank nigel farage losing his bank account. been in account. you've all been in touch, said, i've got a touch, cath has said, i've got a disabled son doesn't disabled son who doesn't understand banking. he only uses cash. what happen? cash. so what will happen? >> from hinckley >> yeah. and jeff from hinckley is saying the problem with cash for small businesses is it's old technophobes keeping technophobes insist on keeping using it. well, you know, that's their they're allowed to their duty. they're allowed to do that sits in a pub or cafe and you see that youngsters no longer use it to some extent. >> my actually, who's >> but my son actually, who's 19, still use cash, 19, he does still use cash, which find interesting . which i find a bit interesting. but you know what i it is but you know what i think it is with the as well. if they with the kids as well. if they go out some of them buy a go out and some of them buy a round drinks and then they'll round of drinks and then they'll just them, buy the just give them, i'll buy the dnnks just give them, i'll buy the drinks it's easier for drinks and then it's easier for them just give them the them to just give them the tenner, you know, to me and amongst teenagers, sometimes tenner, you know, to me and amongs'useenagers, sometimes tenner, you know, to me and amongs'use cash. s, sometimes tenner, you know, to me and amongs'use cash. cath�*netimes tenner, you know, to me and amongs'use cash. cath from res tenner, you know, to me and amongs'use cash. cath from the they do use cash. cath from the wirral said a local wirral has also said a local hsbc to me closed a week hsbc branch to me closed a week or so ago. and as well as that disappointment and the fact that we longer have any in

we no longer have any bank in our town, boarded up the our town, they boarded up the outside machine supporting our town, they boarded up the outrstory machine supporting our town, they boarded up the outrstory of machine supporting our town, they boarded up the outrstory of banksine supporting our town, they boarded up the outrstory of banksine �*wantingig the story of banks not wanting us to the cash. thank you us to use the cash. thank you for support. us to use the cash. thank you for cath support. us to use the cash. thank you for cath yeah. rt. us to use the cash. thank you for cath yeah. so many stories on >> cath yeah. so many stories on that coming in, but really, that coming in, but it's really, really heartening. that coming in, but it's really, reaibeveartening. that coming in, but it's really, reaibev don't|ing. to know >> bev don't you think, to know that got david davis that we've got david davis trying get a law through off trying to get a law through off the nigel farage the back of nigel farage speaking behalf of speaking out on behalf of thousands of thousands of people out this has out there? i think this has become new campaigning become a real new campaigning point to see point for nigel. so great to see this purpose joined up this political purpose joined up thinking. nigel gb news parliament. think it's amazing. >> bev yeah, a team now >> bev yeah, what a team now over 60 hull and east riding citizens advice workers have over 60 hull and east riding citize on advice workers have over 60 hull and east riding citize on strike workers have over 60 hull and east riding citize on strike for rkers have over 60 hull and east riding citize on strike for thes have over 60 hull and east riding citize on strike for the very e gone on strike for the very first time. the workers first time. yeah, the workers voted over voted for strike action over a dispute about pay and working conditions. >> they're due to hit the picket lines. times next lines. three more times next month. to our month. so let's talk to our yorkshire humber. reporter yorkshire and humber. reporter anna joins us now. anna riley, who joins us now. anna, good morning citizens advice. those advice. it's one of those organisations you think you might until you need might not need until you need it. offer a very important it. they offer a very important service. why they taken service. why have they taken this decision on? >> good morning, bev. yes, this decision on? >> good morning , bev. yes, they >> good morning, bev. yes, they certainly do . they offer a wide certainly do. they offer a wide range of advice to millions of

people every year, whether that's face to face services in places like this one in the centre of hull , the wilson centre of hull, the wilson centre, or whether it's online from advice about debt to housing to working and law. so a wide range of help that is given and especially with the cost of living crisis as well . the living crisis as well. the citizens advice bureau have seen so many more referrals , but they so many more referrals, but they are on strike today . as you have are on strike today. as you have said, more than 60 workers that are gathered here behind us on the picket line. and i'm joined by ray davies. he is the unite representative . so just tell us representative. so just tell us what this strike action is all about. >> okay. yeah, it's about pay . >> okay. yeah, it's about pay. it's the fact that over the last 20 years, we've we've had an affiliated agreement here with the same sort of agreement that local authorities have. it's sort of awarded each year. and for 20 years we've abided by that agreement . and for the last that agreement. and for the last ten years, it's not really work

for us because there's been either zero or below inflation in pay rises. advisers for instance, have actually lost 27% of their real terms income over the last ten years. and last yean the last ten years. and last year, which is the year we're talking about and disputing, is the first year it really turned a little bit around in our favour. and this is the first year that the employer says, no, we're not paying. >> and citizens advice have said themselves that they feel that they have given a credible pay offer, especially in the financial circumstances that we are in now . are in now. >> yeah, well, unfortunately it's the employers offer is simply not enough. it doesn't address the inflation rates that we're all suffering. it doesn't address the last ten years of real terms, pay cuts that hopefully once one time we might be able to turn around. you know it has the employer has an income of around £32 million a yeah income of around £32 million a year. it has reserves in excess of £1 million. and we feel that they could do better. >> and it's a flat fee of £1,925

that you're looking for every worker. and how are workers feeling here? there's obviously a bit of anger to come out and pick it. yeah they are. >> they're very angry at the way they've been treated. in all honesty, you know, we really didn't expect this and, you know, we're all using our voice today to say, you know, we have had enough really. today to say, you know, we have had enough really . we're putting had enough really. we're putting ourselves in front of the public and saying , ourselves in front of the public and saying, can we have a ourselves in front of the public and saying , can we have a little and saying, can we have a little bit of fairness, please, from the employer? we need to, in a way, keep up with the local authorities because also they are the workers that are comparators to ours. so we'll start losing staff if we're paid less and all that sort of thing. so it's really not good. >> and what would you say to people today that are unable to use the service? you know, we've mentioned just then that we're in a cost of living crisis. what would you say to people that are not able to today because of this this strike? >> yeah, we're really sorry that

we've got a very, very much reduced today. we know reduced service today. we know how important cities of ice is to vulnerable people out to how vulnerable people out there . my understanding is that there. my understanding is that we do have someone giving out information and leaflets in the reception about other sources of information about cities of ice stuff online, perhaps via webchat . but of course, we're webchat. but of course, we're back at work tomorrow , but we're back at work tomorrow, but we're also on strike next week on monday, wednesday and friday. thank ray. thank you, ray. >> that's the feeling from >> so that's the feeling from the picket line here in hull. and as ray just mentioned , three and as ray just mentioned, three more days of strike action next week. if unite the union here, feel that their pay demands are not thank you, anna. not met. thank you, anna. >> thank you. anna riley there in hull. now we are moving on to be joined by our political commentator, bushra shaikh, and a familiar to face us all, gb news presenter emily carver. emily, i don't think we've actually together before. actually worked together before. >> , we haven't been on a show >> no, we haven't been on a show together. we've a of together. we've had a lot of coffee in the canteen. >> done a lot of >> we've done a lot of gossiping. nice to have you here. >> talking about sparks will fly

in a way. sparks will fly right? >> illegal migrants starting right? >> i|this|l migrants starting right? >> i|this fireigrants starting right? >> “this fire risk. ts starting right? >> “this fire risk. turnirting right? >> “this fire risk. turn the; with this fire risk. turn the migrant barge into a floating grenfell. this is the bibby stockholm, not another hurdle. >> me. this article in >> goodness me. this article in the on the front page the times on the front page details how all big sites details how all three big sites that government are trying details how all three big sites th.make government are trying details how all three big sites th.make work'nment are trying details how all three big sites th.make work at1ent are trying details how all three big sites th.make work at the are trying details how all three big sites th.make work at the momentg details how all three big sites th.make work at the moment all to make work at the moment all have massive issues. essentially so the barge apparently has fire safety risks which perhaps is unsurprising . really. it's not unsurprising. really. it's not really made for this purpose. and then you've got scampton apparently they can't find people to survey some of the buildings there. so that's not a goer yet. and then you've got raf wethersfield site where everyone has scabies or at least there's worries about people having scabies, tuberculosis, etcetera, etcetera . so suella etcetera, etcetera. so suella braverman has got herself quite a bit of a headache and over the weekend there were all these stories about how the traffickers are using tiktok to advertise these illegal routes and getting around the rules on tiktok by using emojis. i do

think this is making a mockery of our country, actually now. absolutely absolutely. it's a joke. >> but i want to put this to you because i've interviewed locals in portland who don't want this i >> -- >> i've interviewed people, the anti—racists don't want it because guess what? it's to going place a huge burden on the local health. there is nobody wants this. i think it's a stain on our collective society that it exists. but isn't it it even exists. but isn't it funny how they suddenly are caring about the human rights of the rest points on the board? but the residents are sure because this isn't a floating prison , the inmates will be prison, the inmates will be allowed to come and go onshore as they please. yeah. this story seems to me to be kind of the wrong way around . we're caring wrong way around. we're caring about people who've entered the country illegally , but we don't country illegally, but we don't care about the people who are taxpaying in bill. taxpaying and in the bill. >> look, what you're >> martin look, what you're saying absolutely right. saying is absolutely right. right. the story is right. but i think the story is more about we don't want to have another episode like grenfell. i think issue. and think this is the issue. and whilst need concerns whilst we need to have concerns for community and our

for our own community and our society, is the priority, society, which is the priority, we do have an issue with migrants . do them here migrants. we do have them here already the country. it's already in the country. it's a question of how we dealing question of how are we dealing with the barge is one of the with it. the barge is one of the things that the government are doing to say it's going to doing to say that it's going to tackle the large number of migrants. going to work? migrants. is it going to work? question that personally question mark that i personally don't it will. however, don't think it will. however, every single life is every single human life is worthy caring about, and we worthy of caring about, and we do have them our country. it do have them in our country. it becomes portland. well, no, people have to also people in portland have to also be a priority, and that's up to the government and i feel like the government and i feel like the tory government are failing at this miserably now attitudes. >> are just hardening attitudes. >>much are just hardening attitudes. >> much because ust hardening attitudes. >> much because it's hardening attitudes. >> much because it's justening attitudes. >>much because it's just it's|g so much because it's just it's making a mockery of our borders. we clearly don't have them . they we clearly don't have them. they are porous and people essentially are caring less and less because they're seeing people completely taking people just completely taking advantage of system and advantage of our system and then, you know, people are complaining about the hotel accommodation . i mean, look at accommodation. i mean, look at the calais jungle. it's a bit of a step up, isn't it? emily in a pimlico hotel also, what absolutely beggars belief is that nobody thought about the

fire safety of this vehicle . fire safety of this vehicle. >> you know, if you if you set up a new business or you want a host, an event, you have to do your fire checks. you have to get the local fire office to sign off your event. and that's what's happened here, that somebody, presumably a lawyer in the has said, the background has said, oh, what can them on? i know what can we get them on? i know we'll get them the fire we'll get them on the fire safety. somebody's ticked safety. surely somebody's ticked that box already, bushra. that's what blows my mind. that box already, bushra. that's thofylows my mind. that box already, bushra. that's thof course,y mind. that box already, bushra. that's thof course, theyld. that box already, bushra. that's thof course, they take tick the >> of course, they take tick the box. this is not just a problem about the barge. this is a problem about our general council housing that people are housed country. it housed in in this country. it literally says fire service approval remains pending that means they haven't got the yes go to you can get people on this. so is this a question of just the barge or is this a question that we really need to be considering? a fire safety question. >> they knew that they would never get them on the barge because nobody looked at the because nobody had looked at the fire safety. >> it's also worth >> well, and it's also worth pointing out there have been a large number of arson attacks in

asylum hotels across asylum seeker hotels across the country. in country. we've seen hotels in brighton to the ground by brighton burnt to the ground by the residents. >> don't think there's >> i just don't think there's ever going to be a totally 100% % accommodation. that ever going to be a totally 100% % have ccommodation. that ever going to be a totally 100% % have toymmodation. that ever going to be a totally 100% % have to just, dation. that ever going to be a totally 100% % have to just, you )n. that ever going to be a totally 100% % have to just, you know, that ever going to be a totally 100% % have to just, you know, find|at we have to just, you know, find in a matter of days. i mean already the barge would be full just the amount people just from the amount of people who one day. i mean, who crossed in one day. i mean, it's crazy. >> you know, i'm just in 1000 barges. emily, is, barges. emily, the thing is, the issues we're facing right issues that we're facing right now appeared out of now haven't just appeared out of nowhere this was at the point nowhere. this was at the point where boris shut down the processing , those that processing pathway, those that were legal. so this is now this is now this is now. >> i don't buy the i don't buy the idea that more safe, safe and legal routes would stop people getting onto dinghies because whole point is that because the whole point is that they're trying bypass that . they're trying to bypass that. >> you're saying >> but then what you're saying is border is we've always had a border problem , whereas why is it now? problem, whereas why is it now? are we highlighting immigration? why were the immigration or illegal immigration was getting worse? processing worse? shut the processing systems. meant that people systems. it meant that people had to actually had nowhere to go, who actually wanted to claim refuge somewhere. well, they go to hotels. >> we're spending £7 million a

day on hotels. >> clearly the pull factors aren't being eroded . and i don't aren't being eroded. and i don't think this will change a single thing. we have to move on to the think this will change a single thingstory,1ave to move on to the think this will change a single thingstory, though,nove on to the think this will change a single thingstory, though, and on to the think this will change a single thingstory, though, and let'so the think this will change a single thingstory, though, and let's go 1e next story, though, and let's go to the front to you, bushra, and the front page the sun rishi sunak page of the sun rishi sunak banging about up for banging on about stand up for motorists they're now motorists and they're saying now get a move on and prove it. >> rishi sunak, i believe is done a u—turn. i to never done a u—turn. i he to me never really for anybody that really stood up for anybody that drove. he was very quiet about this and it's interesting because driver and because i'm also a driver and we've the ulez happening in we've got the ulez happening in the background that being the background with that being expanded approved, the background with that being expararei approved, the background with that being expararei are approved, the background with that being expararei are a rights d, the background with that being expararei are a rights for what are what are the rights for people who drive cars in london in this country? i really do not know. and now obviously he's standing up and he's saying i'm going against the woke going to go against the woke crowd make sure that crowd to make sure that motorists country, you motorists in this country, you know, fair say, are able know, get a fair say, are able to drive . parsing out. i don't to drive. parsing out. i don't i don't know. hasn't hasn't he called for a bit of an inquiry a review of them this is what winds me up. >> i'm just going to let somebody else go and it makes a front page at the weekend . i am front page at the weekend. i am for the motorist with picture

for the motorist with a picture of him behind the wheel a of him behind the wheel of a stationary car and saying he's pro motorist and all done, pro motorist and all he's done, he's are he's said to someone, where are you have a look at ulez you going? have a look at ulez and see if it's working. please yeah. >> and the low traffic neighbourhoods which are really annoying. in annoying. i've been trapped in one got fined. one of those and got fined. i didn't even notice it really wasn't that obvious. they are that it. was there an ad? yes, a review. it's good news is because clearly he he wants to take into account the fact that a lot of people do not like these systems that have been imposed and a lot of them were imposed. during imposed. remember, during the pandemic some of pandemic sneakily, like some of these ridiculous cycle lanes that such a hazard. there's that are such a hazard. there's one north london that goes one in north london that goes all from finchley, north all the way from finchley, north finchley, i don't know finchley, into i don't know where to, it totally where it gets to, but it totally blocks traffic and it's totally dangerous. but anyway, that's a that's a that's a tangent. but essentially there's pressure now for him to scrap this 20, 30 ban on petrol and diesel sales. >> and call me a cynic, but bofis >> and call me a cynic, but boris promised a review of hs2 and that they promised to do it. and then there's an election.

then they forget about it, kick into the grass and move on. look, i want to get to this next story because we're all really interested in this one. and this is story. emma is a fascinating story. emma emily bazball about a sex offender who was caught via cctv footage charles's footage at king charles's coronation and the ethical and moral implications of what this means. because on the one hand, they caught a bad guy. on the other hand, they're scanning the entire crowd. >> sorry. >> yes, sorry. >>- >> yes, sorry. >> this just online? only. >> is this just online? only. that's why i'm looking at my, my phone. yes a wanted sex offender. they have these cars. the police have these cars and they have cameras on them. and they have cameras on them. and they go around and clearly they were checking millions of individuals or thousands of individuals. they spot one individuals. and they spot one who turns out to be a sex offender who's on the list and they that sounds like they catch him. that sounds like good the face of it, of good news on the face of it, of course. but is it proportionate to be. no, to be videoing, videoing and all of these people just to find one person? i don't know. >> the thing is, christopher, this surveillance state is coming through without any laws or to keep it in or legislation to keep it in

check. and if we aren't quick, this will all become normalised and that we have our faces scanned everywhere . where if scanned everywhere. where if i even if i go into the supermarket and you know it now, all the checkouts, they have the camera when you're doing your self checkout, i like to use a person if there is one, but if i can't, the first thing i do is i get a plastic bag and i put it over the camera. i love that and then i carry it ahead. me i'm tempted sometimes and i carry on and sometimes the shopkeepers will person working will or the person working at the co—op, tesco , the shop co—op, tesco, sainsbury's, whatever, oh, sainsbury's, whatever, say, oh, you've your bag. and you've got to move your bag. and i no, i don't. i don't give i say, no, i don't. i don't give you permission take picture you permission to take a picture of and they just laugh of my face. and they just laugh at away. at me and walk away. >> i personally, i think that's brilliant. i've actually spoken >> i personally, i think that's brioneit. i've actually spoken >> i personally, i think that's brione of i've actually spoken >> i personally, i think that's brione of those, tually spoken >> i personally, i think that's brione of those, oney spoken >> i personally, i think that's brione of those, one ofpoken >> i personally, i think that's brione of those, one of oneen >> i personally, i think that's brione of those, one of one of to one of those, one of one of the people that worked there in tesco's said, why do you tesco's and i said, why do you have these? you have have these? why do you have them? they absolutely don't them? and they absolutely don't know. oh, we know. no, they just say, oh, we think case somebody shoplifts think in case somebody shoplifts or just food or or they just steal the food or something like that. i'm like, no, why you have these? no, but why do you have these? do understand that this a

do you understand that this is a shoplifter will walk up to a till home like i, till and sort of go home like i, i go in there and just get my phone out and take of phone out and take lots of pictures of myself, like just just for fun to show. it's such a and it's such. it's a, a joke and it's such. it's a, it's people do not have privacy anymore. it's scary that we are going that going in this direction, that everyone vetted. you know, everyone is vetted. you know, you're your face, your you're scanned, your face, your face scanned where is this face is scanned where is this going and you're right. going to stop? and you're right. we to start figuring out we need to start figuring out what laws are around this what the laws are around this and and and why they're doing this and what it for. what they're doing it for. because got access to because we haven't got access to that information. yeah. >> the going? >> where's the data going? >> where's the data going? >> yeah, big >> yeah, that's the big question. who's got this data? what's with it? and we what's done with it? and are we even do have any power even do we have any power whatsoever to say where where it goes will bear? goes in 2023 will bear? >> resemblance it >> no resemblance to where it will go in 2025, 2027. that's why to be having these why we have to be having these conversations we've why we have to be having these con\finisheds we've why we have to be having these con\finished that we've why we have to be having these con\finished that first we've just finished that first one. thank you, emily. i'm bushra. right. in few moments thank you, emily. i'm bushra. right.going few moments thank you, emily. i'm bushra. right.going have�*w moments thank you, emily. i'm bushra. right.going have�*w mo on nts we're going to have more on rishi carbon capture project. >> yeah, more to come on that in the next hour. we're gb news britain's channel. britain's news channel. >> from >> that warm feeling inside from boxt proud of boxt boilers. proud sponsors of weather on gb news. >> good morning . >> hello there. good morning. i'm who

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gb news. top of the morning. >> it's 11 am. on the 31st of july. monday, this is britain's newsroom. with me, martin daubney and bev turner. >> good morning. thank you very much for joining >> good morning. thank you very much forjoining us. so the much for joining us. so the prime minister will use visit prime minister will use a visit to scotland 100 to scotland to announce 100 licences to extract oil and gas from north sea. it's part of from the north sea. it's part of a towards energy security. >> it comes as the government faces pressure to do more to support motorists as rishi sunak orders a review into low traffic neighbourhoods. ltns. conservative mps are urging him to delay the ban on petrol and diesel cars, which currently is 2030 . 2030. >> still surprises me that 2030

is when we're due to get rid of our cars. that is round the corner. we're not going to be there, are we? right. let us know your thoughts. vaiews@gbnews.com first of all though, latest news though, here's your latest news with tamsin roberts . with tamsin roberts. >> beth. thanks very much . good >> beth. thanks very much. good morning from the gb newsroom. it's four minutes. it's 11:00. it's four minutes. it's11:00. the prime minister says hundreds of new oil and gas licences will be granted in the uk. downing street has also confirmed millions of pounds for a new carbon capture scheme in north—east scotland. but it comes amid ongoing rows in the conservative party over the future of its climate commitments, with some mps saying the government lacks a clear strategy . rishi sunak is clear strategy. rishi sunak is visiting scotland today , where visiting scotland today, where he'll highlight the country's vital role in the government's energy secure city plans. under secretary for state andrew bowie told gb news the licences will help britain meet its net zero pledge. we're announcing these new licences in the north sea

with more to come, which will ensure our energy security moving forward. >> it means we'll be less reliant on hostile foreign actors our energy baseload, actors for our energy baseload, for the fossil fuels that we're going to be relying on for some years to come, which will mean that our co2 that we will be reducing our co2 emissions by not importing those fossil fuels . but the fossil fuels. but the announcement on future and further carbon capture and storage projects means that we'll taking that carbon we'll be taking that carbon dioxide atmosphere dioxide out of the atmosphere and storing it the north and storing it onto the north sea, means that getting to sea, which means that getting to net zero be achievable i >> -- >>a >> a british man has been released from prison in cyprus after being sentenced for the manslaughter of his wife. david hunter was given a two yearjail hunter was given a two year jail term for killing his terminally ill wife at their home in paphos in 2021. the 76 year old has been released after cypriot authorities calculated his time to serve. david hunter claimed his wife asked him to end her life as she suffered from blood cancer and plans to house thousands of migrants in the bibby stockholm barge in dorset

could face delays after reports the facility hasn't received approval from local fire services . the barge is expected services. the barge is expected to accommodate around 500 men at a time , but there are fears the a time, but there are fears the vessel could become a fire trap . the government says the barge is undergoing final preparations to comply with regulations . new to comply with regulations. new rules have come into force which will prevent serious criminals from gaining british citizenship . changes to the good character requirement of applications will see tougher rules applied to anyone who has received a 12 month prison sentence. currently, applications are normally refused for people who've been given a four year jail term . 1 in 4 gps now have jail term. 1 in 4 gps now have private medical insurance due to concerns over long nhs waiting lists. a survey found 21% have personal insurance and 4% have it through their employers . it it through their employers. it comes as the nhs waiting list in england have reached a record level of 7.4 million patients waiting routine treatment . the

waiting routine treatment. the court of appeal is set to give its ruling on the right to wild camp in dartmoor national park earlier this year, a high court judge ruled against granting people the right to pitch tents overnight without obtaining landowners permission. locals say wild camping was not intended to be covered by the legislation , while campaigners legislation, while campaigners say that a long standing precedent for wild camping exists in the national park . exists in the national park. time is running out for people to use any non barcoded stamps. today is the last day they can be used to post items from the 1st of august. any item with an old style stamp will be treated as having insufficient postage and be liable for a £1.10. search charge fee . the changes search charge fee. the changes affect any non barcoded stamps featuring the late queen's profile on a plain background . profile on a plain background. any special stamps with a picture or christmas themed stamps can still be used even if they don't have a barcode . a

they don't have a barcode. a town in shropshire has been given a magical makeover with knitted and crocheted characters from the harry potter series as ellesmere yarn bombers have been decorating the town since 2018. this year's summer theme was inspired by the desire to bring j'oy inspired by the desire to bring joy to holidaymakers and locals . harry potter, hagrid and dobby are among the characters who can be seen on the trees, benches and postboxes . the creations and postboxes. the creations will remain on display until september, and the group have set up a crowdfunder to support future for yarn bombing projects . this is gb news. more from me shortly. now though, is back to beth and . beth and. martin and thanks for that update. >> tamsin. while the prime minister is announcing 100 licences for north sea oil and gas exploration as he kicks off

a week of campaigning on britain's energy security. >> so the pm will also set out new funding for carbon capture technology, with estimates that it could create up to 21,000 jobs. but of course, environmental group greenpeace uk has voiced its concerns over the new carbon capture projects, with due to the use of fossil fuels . so joining us now is tory fuels. so joining us now is tory mp craig mckinley to give us his take on rishi sunak energy plans . good morning, craig. can you give us a little bit more detail around this intention to give another 100 licences? what will it mean for the british billpayer ? billpayer? >> well, it should mean securing of supply. i mean, what has been the point over these last few years? just last year alone we spent £40 billion importing norwegian gas. then we've imported from qatar or even as far away as australia on lng ships . i far away as australia on lng ships. i mean, if far away as australia on lng ships . i mean, if co2 far away as australia on lng ships. i mean, if co2 is the concern here, super cooling gas in australia, shipping. well, exactly halfway around the world

on a diesel powered ship and then reclassifying it in a port in the uk is not a very green measure. so this should be a substitution of what i'd call good common sense in the uk so that we can be domestic sourced long into the future . i mean, long into the future. i mean, all of those environmental groups are all up in arms today because they seem to want net zero tomorrow. i'm afraid it's not as simple as that. even the climate change committee and organisation don't usually have a great deal of time, for they reckon that we will need gas and oil in the uk as part of our energy mix up to 2050 and beyond. we were blessed with gas reserves just as norway has been massively exploiting them over the last few years. while we've been lagging rather so why on earth wouldn't we swap that foreign supplier for domestic supply? because on the back of that we get jobs, investment, a nice lot of tax. quite useful as well , and a nice lot of tax. quite useful as well, and a big balance of payments saving. so this is all

about domestic supply keeping the jobs and the money at home, getting the tax out of the back of it. and very, very importantly, on the back of the ukraine war for not being reliant on on foreign actors. so i'm very supportive of this today. i'm very supportive of this today . i think it's great news today. i think it's great news and i suppose the move towards carbon capture a very, very immature technology. of course , immature technology. of course, if this works, there's going to be an energy cost. i mean, if you capture the carbon, it's going to be more expensive than doing nothing. but if this is a technology that can be proven to work, continue somewhat work, life can continue somewhat unchanged rather than some of the more outlandish ideas on the net zero pathway. so i'm very supportive today. >> craig speaking a lot of common sense there , but do we go common sense there, but do we go far enough with this? i mean, it's all very well saying we're going to have 100 more licences away, those those away, but a third of those those companies are foreign owned, russian , chinese, even saudi russian, chinese, even saudi arabian. what about a more sensible long term solution ?

sensible long term solution? let's go shale. let's offer people a clear point of difference between the greta thunberg , which seem to have thunberg, which seem to have impregnated every political party trying to count out the net zero zealots, but not actually offering clarity on cheaper bills. people are looking down the barrel again. craig of pricier bills this winter as a front page of the express yesterday. still no clarity on what this actually means to the consumer. surely if rishi sunak came out and said tories, 20% cheaper energy, you'd sweep the board at the next general election. why can't we that? we do that? >> well, i've been a big supporter of shale gas, as you know, and it's monday and i always my shale gas tie on always wear my shale gas tie on always wear my shale gas tie on a monday. it's a little tradition of mine because if the us hadn't gone up the route of massive shale gas exploration , massive shale gas exploration, then the lights would literally have gone out across a lot of europe and particularly the uk. it's been good enough for the us and again been blessed with those reserves in very many parts of the uk. i think that

needs exploiting a little bit further and everyone jumps up and down and says there's like to be seismic activity and all the rest of it. well let's look at that rather more carefully. let's try and exploit it in the in the places that are least interfering with people. but we very much celebrate geothermal, geothermal is potentially a future source. and the geothermal test drilling sites in the west country in cornwall actually create more of a seismic activity than we've seen through those early test sites for shale. i mean, we are in a world where we need cheap energy. the rest of the world is has got cheap energy. you only have to look at china for it is going, oh, i think we've lost it. >> what a shame. we've just getting through a stride there. >> we have just lost him. i was going to ask him about cars then and the that it looks like and the fact that it looks like the also are getting the press also are getting onside terms supporting onside in terms of supporting the motorists . and also is the motorists. and it also is going give a question going to give him a question from had sent john b said

from john had sent john b said net zero is in any case a nonsense. what does it actually mean? it's just a slogan dreamt up mean? it's just a slogan dreamt ”p by mean? it's just a slogan dreamt up by some focus group. scrap it and get serious. i think he's back.is and get serious. i think he's back. is he? >> i think we've got craig kinley back. craig, i think you hacked into there by just stop oil. you're in your full flow there, craig. so fire away and could please ask you about could we please ask you about the proposed ban on diesel cars ? 2030 it was touted last week . ? 2030 it was touted last week. rishi was looking at it rowing back on that, but now it seems that's not the case. the sun, the front page of the sun today are very clear. now just get on with show you actually with it and show you actually support the motorists and stop talking and start acting . talking and start acting. >> well, something very strange happened just a couple of weeks ago at uxbridge. we've done a lot conservatives since 2019, lot as conservatives since 2019, not for the good on the not always for the good on the back of cop26 and boris boosterism and all the rest of it. we brought the date for the cancellation of new diesel and petrol cars and vans back to 2030, quite uniquely in the

world you've got the eu at 2035 and beyond, you've got the us at 2035. why on earth are we going up this route of, you know, electric vehicles from 2030? it makes no sense. but uxbridge did show us something. it shows that when we are supportive of the motorists at and obviously the big usp that we offered the electorate on on that election was our opposition to ulez. electorate on on that election was our opposition to ulez . then was our opposition to ulez. then we get votes and we won an election, an election which many on paper would have said would have been quite impossible. so i would have thought if we're looking for clear blue water between us and labour and a means we can still win means by which we can still win this being very, very this election, being very, very favourable to the motorist , of favourable to the motorist, of which there many tens of which there are many tens of millions of them, will show that we're onside with common sense. but i can see no point at all in banning the car in 2030 or new cars when the rest of the world isn't . and if you can give me isn't. and if you can give me the figures as to much the figures as to how much that's to stop global that's going to stop global warming uk alone, warming by the uk alone, advancing the banning of these

vehicles by five years, then i'll be very pleased to hear it. but let's not forget britain is only a 1% output of global co2 to china in one year, has a new incremental co2 output equivalent to the entirety of the uk in the last eight years. china has output co2 that is more than the uk's since the industrial revolution. we can have discussions about that good, bad or indifferent about climate change and co2, but frankly , if a meteorite was to frankly, if a meteorite was to wipe the uk off the map tomorrow, it would be barely a rounding error in the co2 balance sheet . so let's get some balance sheet. so let's get some sensible policies . stop the sensible policies. stop the greenwash and i think there is a pathway to net zero, and that is domestic gas first. and as we move towards nuclear, which is way overdue, and i put the force of this right back to 1997 when tony blair said , i see no future tony blair said, i see no future or economic future for new craig. rather, you're whilst

you're whilst you're on such a common sense crusade, i love to hear this. >> let me ask you one last question about gb news don't kill cash campaign. we're edging. i think, towards 250,000 signatures. we might have even hit that by now and we had david davis on here earlier saying that he was in support of that campaign . our viewers certainly campaign. our viewers certainly are the messaging us every day saying much they cash saying how much they value cash in do you agree ? in their pocket. do you agree? >> i agree absolutely and completely . i, i am very, very completely. i, i am very, very alarmed . and the thoughts about alarmed. and the thoughts about alarmed. and the thoughts about a bank of england crypto type currency, i can see no reason for it. if you look at the paper that they wrote in february, it's got lots of things about what cryptocurrency or uk one means, but no reason as to why cash is very important . we're cash is very important. we're already seeing a lot of cashpoint machines being taken out, higher charges , banks being out, higher charges, banks being reluctant to take cash , i'm reluctant to take cash, i'm afraid. banks deservedly are on the ropes at the moment for many reasons, not least de—banking

and nigel farage's experience that he's had. i think they'd better start listening to the pubuc better start listening to the public offer the service that they're there for , and we need they're there for, and we need cash to continue , not least for cash to continue, not least for older people or just you and i who really don't want to be doing £0.85 for a coffee at a in a cafe. it's quite daft and being tracked everywhere we go. >> craig mckinley you're welcome back anytime . and you have been back anytime. and you have been a breath of fresh air and an absolute joy on the programme this morning. thank you so much and i very much like your monday tie. for south tie. conservative mp for south thanet of this thanet there. in terms of this don't kill cash as well. karen has said i took my grandchildren into barnsley yesterday after an afternoon eldest afternoon of shopping. my eldest grandson a children's ride , grandson saw a children's ride, a fire engine. he and his little brother and wanted brother ran up to it and wanted a i said okay, look a ride. i said okay, look to where put money in. where to put your money in. there no slot, only a there was no slot, only a contactless payment. had contactless card payment. i had to in for the sake of the to give in for the sake of the kids, was furious. kids, but inside i was furious. >> yeah. lin echoes >> yeah. and lin echoes something which really gets my goat. they are a train to

goat. they are taking a train to london euston from preston on thursday to attend a wedding on the friday, to only be told the buffet buffet cart buffet card. the buffet cart announced machine announced that the card machine was not working and they weren't taking cash. so can't even taking cash. so you can't even get a glass of water or a beer or a sandwich on a now, or a sandwich on a train now, because take cash . because they won't take cash. it's an outrage. >> britain. we're not >> broken britain. we're not ready we're just ready to lose cash. we're just not tech isn't there ever not the tech isn't there or ever , frankly. teaching union , frankly. right. teaching union in england is due to announce the results ballot on the results of its ballot on whether to accept the government's a 6.5% pay government's offer of a 6.5% pay increase end strike action. increase and end strike action. >> and let's speak to gb news political reporter, catherine, for this. catherine the for more on this. catherine the strikes been going on strikes have been going on forever. it feels like groundhog day. i thought a few weeks ago the government had made a full and offer 6.5. the new and final offer of 6.5. the new the most militant has to be said and the biggest of the british teaching unions expected to decree on this today . do you decree on this today. do you think they'll go for it and we can end this strike misery ? can end this strike misery? >> i suspect they will simply because, first of all, it's 6.5.

they got 5% last year. and when the government announced in mid—july that it was going to go along with all the independent pay along with all the independent pay review bodies recommendations, the prime minister, the education secretary gillian keegan, and all four teaching unions really released a joint statement saying that they were recommending this to their members, that it was properly funded because that had been a real concern. so the education unions, all of them, and of course the eu is the biggest. it's got about 500,000 members, the biggest education union in europe and have recommended this. so i mean, let's see. but i would think it is likely now, of course , the nursing union a of course, the nursing union a few months back they were recommended to take the offer. they didn't. but they subsequently balloted and they didn't make the threshold . so didn't make the threshold. so let's see. but parents up and down the country will be hoping and praying because a lot of

students have lost eight days of education this year. that's nearly two weeks. so not just the effect on all the things that the children haven't learned , especially after learned, especially after a pandemic when schools were closed twice , but also the huge closed twice, but also the huge knock on effect on parents who have to take time off work. it's been an absolute nightmare. so we will see in the next hour or two. >> great. will you let us know? i will. how long have we got ? 45 i will. how long have we got? 45 minutes. so if we don't cover it , mark and pip will, i am sure. thank you, catherine. all right. can we take some more views? yes. i like hearing from you at home. i've missed you. and in fact, bob had got in touch saying, back, bev. we saying, welcome back, bev. we missed you, missed you. well, i missed you, too, said, don't too, bob. diana said, don't forget can cash forget that people can get cash from local office. i from their local post office. i rarely from anywhere else. >> and eileen says, i've had a nightmare at my local mcdonald's . drive through corbishley . the drive through corbishley wasn't they wasn't working, and they and they not take my cash. you they would not take my cash. you made me realise how dependent i am cashless payments , which am on cashless payments, which has frightening reality i >> -- >> asian right. still to come,

we're going to have more on the prime minister's carbon capture project with liam

that's welcome back. it's 1122. you're with britain's newsroom on gb news with myself. martin daubney and bev turner. >> so rishi sunak is setting out new funding for carbon capture technology with estimates that it create up to 21,000 it could create up to 21,000 jobs. but environmental group

greenpeace has voiced its concerns. >> well, they would. they wouldn't they? it comes as he faces pressure from within his own party over his environmental pledges mps urging him to pledges with mps urging him to delay the ban on petrol and diesel cars, which currently is the year 2030. >> so let's talk to our economics and business editor liam halligan this morning. second today, liam, this is second time today, liam, this is a for us and even a treat for us and i'm even working on video wall. working on a video wall. >> you'll have a smirk as >> bev so you'll have a smirk as board of graphics pretty soon to explain this stuff. >> it to us in >> explain it to us in its simplest form, 100 licences simplest form, 100 new licences with carbon capture. what difference is it going to make to people? okay >> on the north sea, we still use oil and gas for three quarters of our energy needs. that's heating homes, that's generating electricity and powering cars. 75% of our energy is still oil and gas and we import half of that energy. so this is a big deal. the north sea is due to decline from its peak back in 2000 when it used to produce two and a half, 3

million barrels of oil and gas equivalent a day. it's now under a million, but still rishi sunak ask says he wants to quote max out north sea oil production. this is a complete u—turn . this this is a complete u—turn. this is sunak and hunt may be in the wake of that uxbridge and south ruislip by—election, which the tories only won because of opposition to sadiq khan's ulez emission zone scheme . um, the emission zone scheme. um, the tories are now saying whereas david cameron used to say vote blue, get green. they're really saying vote blue. maybe scrap some green if you think it's costing you and your family too much. because as we said before now, i mean, pointed out now, i mean, martin pointed out that lot of the opinion polls that a lot of the opinion polls show there's support show that there's big support for yeah there is. for net zero. yeah there is. there if the leading there is support. if the leading question is posed in a particular way. and if you then answer a follow up, do you support net zero if it's going to and your household to cost you and your household money? people say money? over half of people say no . no. >> yeah, precisely. no. >> and |, precisely. no. >> and i precisely. no. >> and i think ely. no. >> and i think that's the key point. and we haven't had today liam, any of indication

liam, is any kind of indication about this posturing about what all this posturing means. we have more about what all this posturing means. sovereignty.iave more about what all this posturing means. sovereignty. great.)re about what all this posturing means. sovereignty. great. we energy sovereignty. great. we can store more of this when we need when wind drops and need it, when the wind drops and when no solar and need it, when the wind drops and when at no solar and need it, when the wind drops and when at the no solar and need it, when the wind drops and when at the mercylar and need it, when the wind drops and when at the mercy of and need it, when the wind drops and when at the mercy of importing d we're at the mercy of importing 9 to 10,000,000,000m3 of gas from the usa. but what we really want to hear, don't we, liam, you speak to people all the time . this will drop my bills by 20. if they did that, they'd sweep the board at the general election. so current end, election. so at the current end, user for uk households for user price for uk households for electricity is ,45 per what they call kilowatt hour. >> this is the specialised unit that they use . so it's ,45. in that they use. so it's ,45. in the us, it's ,18 and it's a european union average of ,25 compared to 45 here. even though we are now on some days using 35 or 40% of our electricity is generated by renewables, which are meant to be much cheaper. so the trouble with this is and i've explained this to several cabinet ministers who don't

understand it, they do now after i've explained it, it's just unbelievable . and certainly i've explained it, it's just unbelieonile . and certainly i've explained it, it's just unbelieon the and certainly i've explained it, it's just unbelieon the shadowtainly i've explained it, it's just unbelieon the shadow frontbench people on the shadow frontbench as well. problem is that you as well. the problem is that you can only use renewables if you have backup baseload for those many days and sometimes weeks at a time, particularly in winter when energy demand is high, when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine. so in order to have the renewables that we have , in order to have moved have, in order to have moved away from a quarter of our electricity being generated by coal just 12 years ago to only 2% now, you have to have gas fired power on standby that you can literally just fire up at short notice to stop what we call power outages or blackouts . this is why and that's really, really expensive to have those gas fired power plants on standby not being used until you need them. you've got all the people there, all the fixed costs, getting the thing up to speed you can just turn the speed so you can just turn the and you get extra power. so and you can get extra power. so that extra renewables actually increases the price to end users

and the government's got to sort this out because unless this move to renewables , this move to move to renewables, this move to net zero actually leads to cheaper bills soon rather than easily the most expensive bills in europe , then we're not going in europe, then we're not going to have any support at all for a lot of these policies. and the public's desire for net zero will fade away . will fade away. >> do you think sorry , you hang >> do you think sorry, you hang out with a lot of politicians. liam do they even know what net zero means? do you remember there was a brilliant clip onune? there was a brilliant clip online? was it was it in the european parliament or was there was a load of global leaders who were sat around and it might have australia actually have been in australia actually a and a net zero conference and somebody asked them, what does net zero actually mean? and all of people who were sat of these people who were sat there decisions about there making decisions about green issues couldn't actually define net was. when define what net zero was. when you talk to them, do they get it or is it just something they've jumped? >> in my experience, politicians fall camps, and fall broadly into two camps, and i unfair by naming i won't be unfair by naming any particular is my particular names, but this is my experience. over years, i've experience. over 30 years, i've

been doing this stuff right, to talking politicians about really complex things that massively affect people . and affect ordinary people. and politicians are either really , politicians are either really, really into subject and they really into a subject and they know much it that they know so much about it that they know so much about it that they know too much to become a minister. have to sit on minister. so they have to sit on the back benches. knowledge is dangerous little dangerous or they know so little about they want to know about or all they want to know is do i vote? what is which way do i vote? what side are the good guys on? which way telling me to way is my party telling me to fall in this particular issue? but what's happening now, and this is democracy. people talk about, labour party about, oh, the labour party split split. it's split the tory party split. it's all terrible. no, this how all terrible. no, this is how issues get resolved. we have open and honest discussions and what's happening now , and i'm what's happening now, and i'm really grateful for it in the last few weeks and months. and i think gb news has played a part here. now here. absolutely we are now having discussion . should having a real discussion. should we this ban on new petrol we have this ban on new petrol and cars by 2030? well, and diesel cars by 2030? well, germany's just gone to 2035 and they've got the greens actually in power in a coalition. a lot of people in the industry are now saying, well, 20, 30, it's really early. we're probably not going to be people are

going to be ready. people are now understanding, as you said , now understanding, as you said, martin, that you don't do martin, that if you don't do nonh martin, that if you don't do north sea, you then have to import oil and gas. even the head of the climate change commission , a government body commission, a government body advisory body, says we'll still be using gas for half be using oil and gas for half our down from three our energy down from three quarters the end of 2030. quarters by the end of the 2030. if import from america, from if you import from america, from australia, from qatar , their australia, from qatar, their lng, lng imports from the us, they have three times the carbon emissions of north sea gas. crazy right? so to get us gas , crazy right? so to get us gas, buy it in the us gas , ify it, buy it in the us gas, ify it, make it into a liquid , stick it make it into a liquid, stick it on a ship. diesel 3500 miles across the atlantic then regasify it three times the carbon just so we can say we're not using the north sea. >> and i think we can't underestimate the role that that oxbridge byelection has played. well, think it's maybe it's a well, i think it's maybe it's a catalyst, but a catalyst. catalyst, but it's a catalyst. >> the. yeah, it's >> it's the. yeah, but it's unearthed something that's been going on just below the mainstream media. >> can i quickly ask you about

windfall taxes? they're something that the labour party especially as weaponized you especially as weaponized if you make money, will make too much money, will tax you. course spooks you. of course that spooks investors and gives investors and it gives instability . they're reluctant instability. they're reluctant to invest. there's been a development. >> glad you asked me >> yeah, i'm glad you asked me that, because we've got that, martin, because we've got to keep bringing actually to keep bringing what's actually happening news gb news happening in the to news gb news viewers so viewers and listeners. so ordinarily, north sea operators, instead of 19% corporation tax, now 25, that all ordinary , ali, now 25, that all ordinary, ali, they've been paying 30% for years. right because they're mining something that is sort of the state's oil and gas. so they've paid 30% windfall tax and then they paid a supplementary bit for years. it was 40. and then sunak came in as chancellor and went from 40 to 65. so you've invested all this money in a north sea oil or gas field and suddenly massive parts your profit are being parts of your profit are being taken away that you were going to use some of that money to pay back you took on. back the debts that you took on. and are often very small and these are often very small companies operating in the north sea, big oil and gas sea, not the big oil and gas majors, because this stuff is quite difficult to lot of quite difficult to get. a lot of the aren't

the big companies aren't interest paid. so we're now at a windfall tax of 65. and then hunt in and sent it to 75 hunt came in and sent it to 75 and then he extended it from 2026 until 2028. so three quarters of all oil and gas profits , even if the war in profits, even if the war in ukraine ends and prices have come down, prices are now below where they were before the war in ukraine. and yet the oil and gas companies i hold no candle for them. they're businesses. but if i was an investor in a business or just a citizen of business or just as a citizen of the uk to take away 75% of their profit until 2028 almost regardless of what happens to the to the price the government's put in some mechanism. on we might reduce it. these are really punitive it. so these are really punitive taxes and now labour is saying, oh, when we come in we're going to bring in a proper windfall tax. more than 75. >> it's like back to that's mad, that's mad. it's like back to the liam well, it is, but the 70s. liam well, it is, but at least in the 70s, at least in the 70s, we were one of the world's leading oil and gas producers. >> we're now a major power energy importer and that's one

reason bills are so high reason why bills are so high when people try and heat their homes and fill their cars. >> liam halligan, thank you so much. right. still to come, you won't was seen won't believe who was seen paying won't believe who was seen paying with cash at a supermarket , but it paying with cash at a supermarket, but it just proves that don't kill cash is a is a campaign which covers all sides of the political spectrum. you don't want to miss that. first history news with thompson . history news with thompson. >> beth, thanks very much. here are the headlines at 1131. the prime minister says hundreds of new oil and gas licences will be granted in the uk. downing street has also confirmed millions of pounds for a new carbon capture scheme in north—east scotland . number ten north—east scotland. number ten says the move will help britain meet its 2050 net zero commitment and boost british energy independence . it's amid energy independence. it's amid ongoing rails within the conservative party over the future of its climate commitments . a british man has commitments. a british man has been released from prison in

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gb news. >> welcome back. it's 1140. you're watching britain's newsroom on gb news. with me, andrew pierce , who's andrew pierce, who's transitioned into martin daubney and bev turner. we actually had and bev turner. we actually had a tweet about a message about that. >> somebody had tweeted in, didn't they? there we go. right at the there , said, i at the bottom there, said, i thought pierce from ralph. >> i thought pierce may >> i thought andrew pierce may have access to some super health regeneration science until i realised he was using his stunt double. resemblance is double. your resemblance is uncanny. are you related? well, ralph, what ralph, i'll tell you what happened. actually upside happened. actually hung upside down all my down last night. had all my blood out and had it blood drained out and had it replaced and i actually. this is me, andrew pierce. >> well, i hope andrew is having

a holiday. he's one of a lovely holiday. he's one of the working in the hardest working men in the media. a day media. he needed a day off. right? going to be joined right? we're going to be joined now. now by now. we are joined now by political bushra political commentator bushra sheikh and news presenter political commentator bushra sheikicarver. news presenter political commentator bushra sheikicarver. soiews presenter political commentator bushra sheikicarver. so emily,'esenter political commentator bushra sheikicarver. so emily, should emily carver. so emily, should we about just stop annoying we talk about just stop annoying people, the organisation which has basically appeared as a result of just stop oil, that's not their actual name , but we not their actual name, but we can't it at this time. yes can't say it at this time. yes >> and daily mail. the mail >> and the daily mail. the mail onune >> and the daily mail. the mail online has revealed who they are and they are a couple of poshos. a couple of hooray henrys. one is called archie manners and his mate josh peters. they're in a business together . they do business together. they do youtube pranks for a living and so they've decided to take on just stop oil and show them for what they are. an annoyance . what they are. an annoyance. >> that's archie we're looking at on the screen there. >> yeah, look. >> yeah, look. >> so that's the battle of the poshos. apparently is poshos. and apparently he is prince harry's mate. i don't know how much of a close mate probably not too but, you probably not too much. but, you know, know each other. know, they know each other. >> he was texting him when harry was court case and archie

was in his court case and archie was in his court case and archie was harry to was outside. harry texted him to say, doing outside say, what are you doing outside my case? they be my court case? so they must be fairly. my court case? so they must be fairoh, they're on. they're on >> oh, so they're on. they're on texting, texting which texting, texting terms, which is quite imagine quite close, really. i imagine prince harry on texting prince harry isn't on texting terms with that many people. no, not he's got such has not because he's got such has got such paranoia, doesn't he? not because he's got such has got |jch paranoia, doesn't he? not because he's got such has got |jch psayroia, doesn't he? not because he's got such has got |jch psayroia, dtalkingie? not because he's got such has got |jch psayroia, dtalking to can i just say about talking to anyone i smell a rat on this case. >> oh, on i smell a rat because i've got mates who sneaked into that well. and that event as well. and they were to hijack it. they were trying to hijack it. they got nicked within moments because outside because they were outside as these at the back with these guys were at the back with orange and they orange balloons. and yet they didn't out. orange balloons. and yet they did but out. orange balloons. and yet they did but he out. orange balloons. and yet they did but he says out. orange balloons. and yet they did but he says it'th. orange balloons. and yet they did but he says it's because he >> but he says it's because he comes across as so posh, possibly that no one could possibly that no one could possibly causing trouble. >> is it another guerrilla >> is it just another guerrilla way to us talk about we've way of to us talk about we've taken sides with these people, but talking about but we're still talking about just maybe, maybe they're colluding. >> bushra , could they be >> bushra, could they be colluding with stop oil colluding with just stop oil >> i don't so. ijust >> i don't think so. i just think there is this just a counter annoyance that they have. everybody is have. i think everybody is annoyed oil, just annoyed with just stop oil, just stop regular people's stop disrupting regular people's lives school runs lives who want to do school runs and to work. and we are just and go to work. and we are just bored by it all. and i think

that's what they're doing. they're trying to say, look, we're mates. used to be we're all mates. we used to be at together. stop at school together. just stop doing nobody doing what you're doing. nobody cares. might a cares. yes, there might be a climate but stop climate crisis, but stop annoying people. it's getting to that point. >> do you know what i find funny? chap, archie funny? this chap, archie banners, to radley banners, he went to radley college, think £48,000 a year. college, i think £48,000 a year. and what has he become? a youtube prankster . so there you youtube prankster. so there you go. money well spent . go. money well spent. >> but that's what that's the trouble. that's what their jobs are days, isn't it? and he are these days, isn't it? and he will living of that. will make a living out of that. well, it just blows my mind anyway, right ? what are we anyway, right? what are we talking about next? north sea. nonh talking about next? north sea. north sea oil, oil drilling of 100 licences. >> we've talked about it all morning. we've some great morning. we've had some great common on who was common sense mps on who was saying, great, but what we saying, yeah, great, but what we really about is really want to know about is will it give us cheaper bills? we know detail, do we? we don't know any detail, do we? >> have enough details we don't know any detail, do we? >> it. have enough details we don't know any detail, do we? >> it. i have enough details we don't know any detail, do we? >> it. i thinkhave enough details we don't know any detail, do we? >> it. i thinkhaveaenough details we don't know any detail, do we? >> it. i thinkhavea goodh details we don't know any detail, do we? >> it. i thinkhavea good idea ails for it. i think it's a good idea actually. i think that fact actually. i think that the fact that everything kind that everything was kind of privatised already, we've got things happening in russia at the this the moment in ukraine. this is about ultimately this about i mean, ultimately this is about i mean, ultimately this is about going help about is it going to help regular people home

regular people at home initially, to going no. regular people at home initiiisy, to going no. regular people at home initiiis going to going no. regular people at home initiiis going to to going no. regular people at home initiiis going to takeoing no. regular people at home initiiis going to take someio. regular people at home initiiis going to take some time. this is going to take some time. and we know this, but i do like the idea. i like the idea that rishi is starting off rishi sunak is starting this off because have because i think this should have been a long ago. been done a long time ago. >> emily. >> emily. >> well, think it's very >> well, i think it's very interesting what so interesting because what is so frustrating thing is that rishi sunak conservatives , sunak and the conservatives, successive leaders have tried to appeal to the green lobby and they've made it extremely difficult for oil and gas companies . i mean, there are companies. i mean, there are a number of businesses up in the nonh number of businesses up in the north sea who are thinking, you know what, the point? we know what, what's the point? we never when we're to never know when we're going to be with windfall we be hit with a windfall tax. we never when the rules and never know when the rules and regs are going to change. we never going to never know if we're going to be banned because just stop oil are kicking up a and it's kicking up a fuss and it's incredibly difficult for them to know to invest here or know whether to invest here or not. i'm that this not. and i'm hoping that this gives the green light to gives them the green light to continue on their work , not continue on with their work, not only i a family only because i have a family member have to move to member who might have to move to indonesia result all the indonesia as a result of all the difficulties in the north sea and knowing they have and not knowing if they have a business but it's all business there. but it's all mixed messages, isn't it? because now the labour are because now the labour party are

coming on no, coming out and saying, on no, this new licences , this is terrible. new licences, this is terrible. new licences, this is terrible. new licences, this is not what we should be doing. so what are these businesses supposed to be doing doing. so what are these b|because. supposed to be doing doing. so what are these b|because there's;ed to be doing doing. so what are these b|because there's probably doing doing. so what are these b|becausa there's probably doing doing. so what are these b|becausa labourprobably doing doing. so what are these b|becausa labour government.|g afraid of a labour government. >> i've got through an >> now i've got through an entire show without mentioning brexit, which amazing. i'm brexit, which is amazing. i'm going now brexit, which is amazing. i'm going i now brexit, which is amazing. i'm going i think now brexit, which is amazing. i'm going i think as now brexit, which is amazing. i'm going i think as an now brexit, which is amazing. i'm going i think as an issuer brexit, which is amazing. i'm going i think as an issue that because i think as an issue that divides the conservative party, this is a new brexit because on the one hand we have the kind of sheer tories who are terrified of losing their seats. the liberal democrats university towns where we know net zero is the new religion. on the. on the other we the wall other hand, we have the red wall where just cheaper where they just want cheaper bills. and so we kind bills. and so we have a kind of philosophic politically philosophic and politically divided conservative party and it's all fair and well for people. sense guys people. no common sense guys like mackinnon. come on people. no common sense guys like say, mackinnon. come on people. no common sense guys like say, yeah,(innon. come on people. no common sense guys like say, yeah, this)n. come on people. no common sense guys like say, yeah, this is come on people. no common sense guys like say, yeah, this is nonsense. and say, yeah, this is nonsense. we drill for shale. we need to drill for shale. that's to happen, is that's not going to happen, is it? into the it? because baked into the government's law, making theresa may's legacy one of her few great, great legacy is this is mandated for net zero to 2050. so is all of this is just hot air, it seems. >> so i think ultimately when we look at this story and what

people are talking about is this saying that is this going to benefit great britain? and i'm on position where we need to on the position where we need to be rich again with our oil and gas resources. if you look at other countries, a lot of their nchness other countries, a lot of their richness comes from these resources. great britain doesn't have that. we're always buying it from somewhere else. we're always it. and if always importing it. and if those things and resources get more ends up more expensive, who ends up paying more expensive, who ends up paying the taxpayer if paying the taxpayer does. but if it's our as, then we get to use it's our as, then we get to use it how we want to use it. so this definitely is good move. this definitely is a good move. and protesting and the only people protesting this ones the this are the ones about the climate . climate. >> that's what's frustrating >> that's what's so frustrating is people don't seem to is that people don't seem to understand that if we don't dig it up here, we're not going to stop just it up here, we're not going to stop to just it up here, we're not going to stop to it just it up here, we're not going to stop to it from just it up here, we're not going to stop to it from dodgy going to import it from dodgy regimes well i mean, regimes elsewhere. well i mean, our viewers have been getting in touch and it does touch this morning and it does feel there's of feel like there's a sort of change in the air little bit change in the air a little bit on steve has yes, we >> so, steve has said, yes, we have climate change. no, we cannot change it, nor should we. it's simply of earth's it's simply part of the earth's cycle. always will be. net cycle. and always will be. net zero a scientific zero is a scientific impossibility. our impact on

climate change is minute. tiny enough that it makes no difference. >> yeah, and a great point here, alex from alex who's picking up on people agree with the concept of net zero. of course we want to save the planet, but they're never polled on the cost . and never polled on the cost. and what we're seeing now, emily, is the cost coming to the forefront . are saying could . alex here are saying could someone the someone please highlight the green mr yousuf is green nonsense that mr yousuf is trying to put through the scottish parliament? he is trying put through to trying to put a law through to make illegal to sell your make it illegal to sell your house pump. emily house without a heat pump. emily so basically £10,000 so that means basically £10,000 for you to be even allowed to sell your house in scotland. cal surprise has gone down like a cup cold, sick. cup of cold, sick. >> do know what? when i. >> do you know what? when i. when despair the when i despair about the government here westminster , government here in westminster, i just look north of the i mean, just look north of the border where humza is off border where humza yousaf is off his rocker. if i'm allowed to say that he's. he's he's doing this plan for new passports . this plan for new passports. he's got this big plan for independence and all of this. and it's like, well, come on, people about other things. people care about other things. yeah, caring yeah, mate, talking of caring about things, let's talk about other things, let's talk about other things, let's talk about cars, then . about cars, then. >> bushra and this war on the

motorists, it feels like again, it feels like that has changed a little bit over the weekend. and i think we can i don't think we can underestimate impacts underestimate the impacts that the by—election had. underestimate the impacts that the you by—election had. underestimate the impacts that the you know,'—election had. underestimate the impacts that the you know, all.ection had. underestimate the impacts that the you know, all creditshad. underestimate the impacts that the you know, all credits ,ad. and, you know, all credits, people like alan miller in this together been together declaration who've been shouting unpop shouting about the unpop popularity of the ulez get a move on and effect on move on zones and the effect on the working person man white van man who can't afford to upgrade their car. are you going to be paying their car. are you going to be paying £12.50 a day and there's massive area around london and of course rishi sunak is now coming out and saying, well, i'm going to review this. do you feel his heart is really in it? is he on the side of the motorist? >> i don't think so. i think it's a little bit too late. when i about that, was i was reading about that, i was like, why have you stayed quiet for a this for so long this isn't a this ulez expanded . that ulez is being expanded. that means was introduced before means ulez was introduced before that. so london was already affected ulez . and then affected by ulez. and then you've expansion. now you've got the expansion. so now people obviously standing up people are obviously standing up against it because they're saying, well, on second. against it because they're say thought , on second. against it because they're say thought it on second. against it because they're say thought it was on second. against it because they're say thought it was just second. against it because they're say thought it was just forcond. against it because they're say thought it was just for inner

we thought it was just for inner london being london and now it's being extended many more people. extended to so many more people. who knows when that's going to stop? even further. stop? it might go even further. and read story and actually, i read a story over the weekend about this one woman going woman who said it was going to cost more £200 cost her more than £200 additional a month, which is a lot of money for people. it's a huge ridiculous. huge amount. it's ridiculous. >> it must be pointed out, >> and it must be pointed out, emily, that politically she it was pulled was the tories that pulled the pin on this grenade. ulez was boris's idea to shapps boris's idea to grant shapps mandate that it to be mandate that it had to be extended extended to in its second underpin tfl second format to underpin tfl funding. okay >> sadiq khan was getting dangerously close to suggesting this isn't all steve khan's fault. no sadiq khan. >> sadiq khan wants to swallow all london up and then angela all of london up and then angela rayner said she wants this in every town and city. my point is, they're all as bad each other. >> angela said that >> angela rayner said that she wanted in every on sky wanted it in every city on sky news. i out the other day news. i came out the other day and oh, people don't like and said, oh, people don't like ulez and maybe we need a rethink. just, you know, rethink. she just, you know, floats with the wind, doesn't she? absolutely. floats with the wind, doesn't she? atit'thely. floats with the wind, doesn't she? atit's about but a >> but it's about but it's a money—maker scheme, isn't it? absolutely. scam . the absolutely. it's a scam. the millions they've generated millions that they've generated for the local.

>> and it's also because sadiq khan this book khan has written this book hasn't he, about climate change and pollution. and he's been trying to pr it left, and trying to pr it left, right and centre presumably ulez is centre and presumably ulez is quite tool, i think. quite a useful tool, i think. >> it is. >> sure it is. >> sure it is. >> i think it's in fiction >> i think it's in the fiction section, but seriously, ulez section, but but seriously, ulez generates half a billion quid or it will do when it's expanded per year and that's without the fines. that's just the toll. now i think around the country. mps politicians, councillors, they look at this and they're licking their lips. well that's just easy money. it's for money easy money. it's new for money old rope. european union old rope. the european union addicted net addicted to these sort of net zero think they just addicted to these sort of net zero to think they just addicted to these sort of net zero to tax think they just addicted to these sort of net zero to tax us ink they just addicted to these sort of net zero to tax us to; they just addicted to these sort of net zero to tax us to deathjust addicted to these sort of net zero to tax us to death and they want to tax us to death and they think we should be happy. and uxbndge think we should be happy. and uxbridge said, actually, uxbridge has said, actually, give vote on it give us the chance to vote on it and going to stuff it. and we're going to say stuff it. we it. we don't want it. >> traffic >> and the low traffic neighbourhoods like i live in west london and we had the under the we the cloak of lockdowns as we came were various came out and there were various no entry signs and little orderly that have been cut orderly roads that have been cut through, across so that through, built across so that you couldn't do that anymore. and mum coming to pick up the and my mum coming to pick up the kids one day accidentally turned down realise

kids one day accidentally turned dov1 signs realise kids one day accidentally turned dov1 signs are realise kids one day accidentally turned dov1signs are deliberatelyalise kids one day accidentally turned dov1 signs are deliberately note the signs are deliberately not clear and there's a £65 ticket. you know, this is just cruel. it feels it's cruel and you know, it's targeted. >> it's targeted at the people who are already struggling. it's targeted to the poorer families that afford it. i have that can't afford it. i have said over and over again that this i absolutely this is a scam. i absolutely despise khan for doing despise sadiq khan for doing this. fine. you wanted in the this. fine. you wanted it in the city and honestly, he city of london. and honestly, he has everybody has destroyed london. everybody says most hideous says that is the most hideous place drive . you can't in place to drive. you can't get in and out your cars anywhere. and out with your cars anywhere. to in south to the point where in south london point you couldn't london at one point you couldn't even left off a high street even turn left off a high street at any street. it was ridiculous because done all because they'd done all these signs, wrong signs, which was totally wrong and not to mention the fact and not also to mention the fact that you don't if that you don't even know if you're going through at the you're going through ulez at the moment. getting fined moment. people are getting fined and getting things through through post boxes. through the post boxes. >> so a lot of people are very worried about the number of cameras put cameras that sadiq khan has put up. absolutely everywhere. i mean, people were vandalising them, weren't they, because of them, weren't they, because of the also this pay per the ulez. but also this pay per mile scheme, we might see basically driving is just going to cost more and more and more.

the will still be able to the rich will still be able to drive, the ordinary person drive, but the ordinary person is going to struggle and their business collapse as well. business might collapse as well. >> pointing out >> it's worth pointing out everyone always everyone says, oh, you're always talking about london. no, no, no. newcastle, no. we have this in newcastle, it's birmingham, it's in it's in birmingham, it's in norwich, york. it's norwich, it's in york. it's in cambridge, oxford . so in cambridge, it's in oxford. so in nottingham. in norwich . they're nottingham. in norwich. they're trying it, they're going try trying it, they're going to try it in nottingham. liverpool. it on in nottingham. liverpool. this is going nationwide. the bad in london. bad idea is start in london. they used to start in america. they used to start in america. the is start in london. the bad idea is start in london. they get out nationwide. they get rolled out nationwide. be before we all be awake to this before we all get excuse to look at tom >> now any excuse to look at tom daley in his trunk. something for that picture , for everyone in that picture, i'll tell you. olympic champion in tom daley. let's just warm the cockles of our heart. there he is. look, he's been in retirement. he's had a son with his his male partner. and now he has announced that he is going to come out of retire . do you to come out of retire. do you greet this with celebration ? greet this with celebration? >> yeah, it's going to dust off those budgie smugglers. and i'm sure that will delight many house wives and house husbands across the nation. but it's a

heartwarming story. >> it does. it does. warm my heart. emily, you were a diving fan . fan. >> um, sure, sure , sure. fan.— >> um, sure, sure , sure. i fan. >> um, sure, sure , sure. i like >> um, sure, sure, sure. i like a bit of diving. i like a bit of diving. i like the synchronised swimming. i quite like that, too. it's quite fun to watch. >> he doesn't do that bit daily, i think. >> yeah, he's a he's a sweetie pie isn't he? pie really, isn't he? >> an icon of british sport >> he's an icon of british sport holding union. jack flag. holding up his union. jack flag. i think he's more than a sweetie . he'd agree with . i'm not sure he'd agree with that definition , but you that definition, but if you remember, his first remember, he did his first olympics. bushra 15 years ago. he was only 14 at the time when he stood on that diving board against the backdrop of beijing. such iconic. it's amazing . and such iconic. it's amazing. and now he wants to come back. i think it's lovely. >> why not? why not? i know that when it comes to sports, the retirement ages much retirement ages are much youngen retirement ages are much younger, because younger, obviously, because you're athlete. but think you're an athlete. but i think why daley, come back. we why not tom daley, come back. we will have you, i think. great britain and it doesn't britain needs you and it doesn't matter do. i think matter what you do. i think everyone should appreciate that if to come out of if you want to come back out of retirement, know, if he retirement, you know, if he doesn't then a

doesn't do well, then it puts a bit of downer your career, bit of a downer on your career, doesn't it? >> great britain need him apparently with his son who said, want you said, daddy, i want to see you dive olympics. dive in the olympics. >> inspiring. oh, >> oh, that's inspiring. oh, well, lovely time well, i've had a lovely time having here today. having you here today. fantastic. come having you here today. fanté anytime, come having you here today. fanté anytime, won't come having you here today. fanté anytime, won't thati back anytime, won't you? that is it britain's newsroom today back anytime, won't you? that is itup britain's newsroom today back anytime, won't you? that is itup next,in's newsroom today back anytime, won't you? that is itup next, it's newsroom today back anytime, won't you? that is itup next, it's the vsroom today back anytime, won't you? that is itup next, it's the live m today back anytime, won't you? that is itup next, it's the live deskiay . up next, it's the live desk with mark longhurst and pip tomson. and pip says, tell us what you've got on the show today, pip. hi >> hello to you. yeah, well, rishi sunak has announced those nonh rishi sunak has announced those north oil gas licences . north sea oil and gas licences. he is being attacked by lots of environmental groups branding it an utterly reckless decision. but he does say that banning everything is not the answer to climate change. we'll also be talking about david hunter, who's walked free from court after killing his seriously ill wife. is it now time for assisted suicide to be legalised that and much more coming up on the live desk here on gb news. now here's your weather that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers proud sponsors of weather on . gb news.

weather on. gb news. >> hello there. good morning. i'm jonathan vautrey here with your gb news weather forecast provided by the met office july has been a relatively wet and dull month for many of us and there's up from there's not much let up from that enter the final day that as we enter the final day of the month itself. area of the month itself. this area of the month itself. this area of is still of low pressure is still gradually its way into gradually pushing its way into us with lingering weather fronts, of fronts, providing outbreaks of rain through english channel rain through the english channel across of scotland across parts of scotland as well. showers bubbling up in between that the risk of some rain for pretty much all locations breezy as well, locations quite breezy as well, still particularly along some coastal areas. a few scattered, sunniest spells trying to poke their way through that might allow temperatures allow those temperatures to climb 20, 22 c across climb towards 20, 22 c across some areas of wales, southern england, but also the northern isles off a fair isles getting off with a fair amount throughout amount of sunshine throughout the rain, will the day. the rain, though, will be steadily its way be steadily tracking its way still of scotland still across areas of scotland overnight. continuing overnight. showers continuing across england , perhaps across northern england, perhaps across northern england, perhaps a ones pushing across a few sharp ones pushing across southern wales into southern england. we into the england. as we head into the early hours tuesday morning early hours of tuesday morning with and cloud that with the breeze and cloud that is around, won't too

is around, it won't be too chilly overnight. most us chilly overnight. most of us holding up around 1214 c, but slightly fresher compared the slightly fresher compared to the humid had humid nights that we have had last head into last night as we head into tuesday itself slightly quieter day overall. there will still be showers around for plenty of us, but easing off a touch as we head into the afternoon and evening, perhaps some longer spells of rain for southwest scotland. northern scotland. parts of northern ireland temperatures ireland as well. temperatures just they just holding up where they should be around 19 to 23 c. but there's further wet and windy weather as we head into wednesday as well. enjoy the rest of your day by that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, proud sponsors of weather on

gb news. >> it's 12 noon on. you're watching the live desk here on gb news. coming up this monday, lunchtime , boosting britain's lunchtime, boosting britain's energy independence or a culture war on climate. >> the prime minister flies to scotland to announce hundreds of new oil and gas licences for the nonh new oil and gas licences for the north sea. we're there live . the north sea. we're there live. the husband who killed his dying wife in cyprus walked free from court. >> former miner david hunter sentenced for the man's slaughter of his terminally ill wife their paphos . home in 2021. >> and war is returning to russia . that's the warning from russia. that's the warning from ukrainian president vladimir zelenskyy as drones are downed over moscow. former russian

president dmitry medvedev says his country may be forced to use nuclear weapons if the attacks continue . continue. >> and we'll have more on the crackdown to prevent serious criminals from gaining british citizenship. we'll have the latest live from the home office . first, the headlines with tamzin . mark tamzin. mark >> thanks very much. good afternoon from the newsroom. it's 12:01. the man who chaired it's12:01. the man who chaired the government's net zero review says modern voters will vote with their feet at the next election as he lashed out at plans to grant hundreds of new oil gas licences. chris oil and gas licences. chris skidmore described the plans as the wrong decision at the wrong time . rishi sunak is visiting time. rishi sunak is visiting scotland today, where he'll highlight country's vital highlight the country's vital role government's energy role in the government's energy security plans. under secretary for state andrew bowie told gb