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of cigarettes. will it help people stub out the.7 >> people stub out the? >> and just how much does support do junior doctors have from the public? health bosses have warned that the nhs cannot take any more disruption , even take any more disruption, even amid yet more strikes . we're amid yet more strikes. we're live from a picket line . live from a picket line. >> and breaking news in the last hour now. they've netted neymar, the p56 hour now. they've netted neymar, the psg superstar becomes the latest player to head to saudi arabia . all that and much more arabia. all that and much more to come. first, though, let's kick off with the news roundup. here's tatiana . pip. here's tatiana. pip. >> thank you and good morning. this is the latest from the newsroom. the government's under pressure to explain why there were delays in removing migrants from the bibby after from the bibby stockholm after traces of legionella were discovered . dorset council says

discovered. dorset council says home office contractors were told about the bacteria on the day asylum seekers boarded the barge. all 39 people were removed from the vessel on friday, at least three days after concerns were raised. labour leader sir keir starmer says the government is failing to tackle the issue . to tackle the issue. >> i don't think the answer to this is barges is hotels , this is barges is hotels, massive costs £6 million a day airbase , buses, that's a that's airbase, buses, that's a that's the symptom. the problem is that the symptom. the problem is that the government has not done enough work to break the gangs that are running this trade, this vile trade, and to process s the applications. and so the government has made a complete and utter mess of this . i mean, and utter mess of this. i mean, small boats week last week was a complete fiasco . we would fix complete fiasco. we would fix the fundamentals, go after the gangs that are running this and process the claims. so we do not have this problem in the first place. >> the government is set to announce new plans to ensure cancer is caught earlier performance targets will be scrapped replaced with a

scrapped and replaced with a new, diagnosis standard new, faster diagnosis standard which will see patients who've been urgently referred receiving a diagnosis within days. a diagnosis within 28 days. patient s with cancer will then start treatment within nine weeks from the date referral weeks from the date of referral . the nhs believes the proposals will help save more lives, but cancer research uk says current missed targets represent years of underinvestment by the government . it comes as junior government. it comes as junior doctors in england continue their four day strike. it's estimated a million procedures and appointments will be cancelled and rearranged due to the action. the walkout started on friday. it ends at 7 am. tomorrow. it's the fifth round of strikes by british medical association members since march over a pay dispute. chair of the bma. east midlands junior doctors committee, jamshid khan , says the government should pay junior doctors fairly if it wants waiting lists to go down. >> the government has refused to come to the negotiating table , come to the negotiating table, so we've got a very clear demand which is we want to be paid a bit more than £14 an hour. so to

restore our pay back to the levels it was in 2008 would be to bring our pay up from £14 now to bring our pay up from £14 now to £19. now the government's unwilling to invest in the staff. we're people who are staff. we're the people who are going down the waiting going to bring down the waiting list if they're not paying list. and if they're not paying us, means that the us, it just means that the services are to get worse services are going to get worse to people are still in a serious condition after a car crashed into a campsite in pembrokeshire. >> nine people were hurt when the vehicle flipped and rolled ploughing into them at the newgale site on saturday night. one of those critically injured was airlifted to hospital. a child and baby were in a tent that was hit, but they escaped serious injury. the number of people killed in the hawaii wildfires has now reached 93. it's feared the number of victims could still climb with hundreds of people still missing. the historic resort town of lahaina on the island of maui was mostly destroyed. and the federal emergency management agency estimates it will cost more than £4 billion to rebuild

. network rail has released video of dangerous behaviour level crossings . cctv level crossings. cctv compilation shows a person doing press ups , dog walkers sitting press ups, dog walkers sitting their pets on the tracks for photos and children putting stones on the line . nearly 50 stones on the line. nearly 50 cases of misuse have been reported by train drivers or were caught on camera in worcestershire and the west midlands. so far this year. network rail is trying to raise awareness and discourage people from risking their lives . from risking their lives. reports of vehicles being driven the wrong way down the motorway in england have risen by 13% in the past year. national highways figures shows nearly 900 incidents involving on coming vehicles. that's an average of more than 16 a week. the aa has called the increase frightening and said they're often either down to drunk drivers or people being overly reliant on their satnav . pubs in england and satnav. pubs in england and wales will be allowed to continue selling takeaway pints. the rules were brought in to

help pubs during covid lockdowns. they were meant to end in september, but the government has decided to keep the laws which means the licencing laws which means establishments don't need an extra licence for site sales extra licence for off site sales . as this is gb news across the uk on tv, in your car, on digital radio and on your smart speaker by simply saying play gb news now it's back to pippin. tom welcome back to the live desk conservative mps have called french efforts to stop small boats crossing the english channel pathetic after six people died attempting the journey on saturday and the crisis continues as a leaked government document shows the home office is planning to house migrants in disused raf bases for up to five years. >> this comes as 16,600 have crossed the channel so far this yeah >> labour leader sir keir starmer says air bases are not the way to solve this situation

i >>i -- >> i think everybody has got to face up to the fact that the government has broken the asylum system and i do not want to use barges , hotels, air bases barges, hotels, air bases because i do not think that is the way we fix the problem. now, it may be that we're going to inherit a very bad situation just as we are on the economy and on health. but fundamental italy, you get through italy, you can't get through this by more barges. you get through this by tackling the criminal gangs that running criminal gangs that are running this trade and by this terrible trade and by processing the applications . and processing the applications. and i think anybody watching this would be pretty shocked to learn that of all the people who arrived by small boats in the last year or so, the government has only processed 1% of their applications . and that's the applications. and that's the root government root problem. government failure? well joining us in the studio now to discuss this is gb news political correspondent olivia utley and olivia. >> sir keir starmer, i suppose is hitting on something that many people feel there has been government failure here. >> well, yes. i mean, if you look at the track record of both

rishi sunak and boris johnson and i suppose time in and liz truss, i suppose time in government , doesn't really government, it doesn't really feel progress has been feel as though progress has been made this issue . last week we made on this issue. last week we saw the first time a 755 migrants crossed the channel in a single day and we also reached the milestone of 100,000 migrants having crossed the channel since 2018. i mean, you could argue, i think quite reasonably, that that's not for want of trying on the part of the government this year. rishi sunak agreed a deal with the albanian prime minister to make it send albanian it very easy to send albanian migrants albania , which migrants back to albania, which sounded it was going be sounded like it was going to be a at the time, a big breakthrough. at the time, albanians responsible for albanians were responsible for 90% the traffic across the 90% of the traffic across the channel but in their place we have more afghan refugees coming across the channel. we have more turkish refugees. so it's a bit of a many headed hydra. you solve one problem and another one pop up in its place. keir starmer has said that his plan to tackle the migrant crisis is to tackle the migrant crisis is to reach a new deal with the eu and with france . of course, and with france. of course, that's much easier said than

done. has given £500 done. rishi sunak has given £500 million to france just this year in an attempt to make the relationship work better and to and to try and solve the problem upstream. um, and so far it doesn't seem to be working particularly well, in part because the french have a policy not to intercept boats once they've sailing, which they've started sailing, which means police means that the french police have very short window means that the french police hawhich very short window means that the french police hawhich to very short window means that the french police hawhich to gety short window means that the french police hawhich to get those't window means that the french police hawhich to get those boatsiow in which to get those boats between them, leaving the beaches and setting out for the channel. >> so keir starmer, they're saying that he doesn't believe barges answer. neither barges is the answer. neither air he didn't air bases, but he didn't actually definitively rule out using them. he just said he didn't think they were the answer. >> well, and we've already had labour shadow ministers saying that they would be prepared to carry on. they think that they will have to carry on using barges etcetera once they get into power . so barges etcetera once they get into power. so keir starmer is being practical about being sort of practical about the this just shows the situation. this just shows the situation. this just shows the extent to which labour really does believe and i think quite a lot the country quite a lot of the country believe that that labour really is government in waiting. is the government in waiting. now start being now they have to start being practical about policies. i

mean, it's mean, that said, he says it's not doesn't say not the answer. he doesn't say what the answer is. that is the luxury of being leader of the opposition. >> i suppose it's so interesting listening keir starmer listening to keir starmer talking he doesn't listening to keir starmer talkirto he doesn't listening to keir starmer talkirto use he doesn't listening to keir starmer talkirto use them, he doesn't listening to keir starmer talkirto use them, but-ie doesn't listening to keir starmer talkirto use them, but he doesn't listening to keir starmer talkirto use them, but he feels't want to use them, but he feels like might have to the like he might have to in the same he says he doesn't same way that he says he doesn't want those new oil and gas licences and yet if they're already approved, the labour party cancel he's party won't cancel them. he's almost sort for free almost riding sort of for free on tory turmoil and getting perhaps the benefits of the policy of the policy with none of the drawbacks the of the selling drawbacks of the of the selling of policy. of that policy. >> absolutely is. i think >> he absolutely is. i think you've that he's the you've said before that he's the luckiest his ducks luckiest man alive. his ducks just to into a row all just seem to fall into a row all the time. he can easily say, well, this is the government's fault. they've created this crisis, is the only crisis, but now this is the only way got to solve it. i way we've got to solve it. i find it really interesting to see labour has moved on see how much labour has moved on this just sort of or this issue in just sort of 7 or 8 months at the end of last yeah 8 months at the end of last year, it was hard to get a labour shadow minister to come out say the channel out and say that the channel crisis even a problem. it crisis was even a problem. it sounded as though just felt sounded as though they just felt that borders were that porous borders were necessary desirable necessary and desirable in the modern now you're hearing

modern age. now you're hearing keir starmer say that. yeah, although doesn't it's although he doesn't think it's the ideal solution. he would be prepared house migrants on on prepared to house migrants on on barges. a real shift in barges. that is a real shift in the conversation and shows the extent to he is really extent to which he is really trying appeal that centre trying to appeal to that centre ground, are worried ground, who are very worried about this problem. >> now we talked about the figures, the number of people crossing over the crossing the channel over the last the tragedies last few days and the tragedies that happened on saturday. one of the things been of the things that has been blamed is that at the moment there's french there's actually fewer french police officers patrolling the beaches because so many of them are on leave. do you think that is a factor? >> i'm sure that is a factor. apparently at the moment, 20% of french guards are on french patrol guards are on leave and then there are, of course, so many other factors, too, this idea that once too, this idea that that once once ship has left, once the once the ship has left, once the boat left is in the boat has left or is in the water, the french police can't intercept it. i mean, if you can just imagine stretch, it's just imagine this stretch, it's about of channel. it's about 50 miles of channel. it's dark. the migrants usually leave at night. there dunes at night. there are sand dunes on the beach. there are plenty of places migrants sort of places for migrants to sort of places for migrants to sort of camp where there of set up camp where there hidden from police eyes. and

then there are sort of literally mere moments when the police can can seize those ships. and if you've even got a small reduction in the number of police officers on those shores, it's just very, difficult. it's just very, very difficult. >> calling it >> i think they're calling it swarming tactics that the swarming the tactics that the smugglers at the smugglers are using at the moment. they're setting the moment. so they're setting the boats off simultaneously at all different so the different locations. so the security officers haven't got a chance of. >> yeah. and of course, meanwhile , you've got we've meanwhile, you've got we've heard reports of gunfire heard these reports of gunfire taking place , fights breaking taking place, fights breaking out on the beaches as between afghans and kurds. so the police are pretty busy dealing with that as well. so they're pretty thinly stretched out across, as i say , a very long stretch of i say, a very long stretch of channel gunfire on those beaches hasn't been heard in 70 odd years. >> but just finally, it is interesting to hear, sir keir starmer say that that figure, that astonishing figure, only 1% of recent arrivals actually having been processed. i suppose this is nothing to do with the number who actually cross, but this is pertinent with regards

to those who have to be put up in hotels or on barges or in airfields fields. i suppose the labour has a point here. labour party has a point here. if more these people were if more of these people were processed, either be processed, some could either be deported the real deported or enter in the real economy and pay for themselves rather than be supported by the taxpayer. >> well, absolutely . and >> well, absolutely. and obviously, mean, lots of obviously, i mean, lots of people believe that this is the crux problem. it takes on crux of the problem. it takes on average, it's 450 days average, i think it's 450 days to process a migrants claim that is over a year. so it's no wonder that we have this £6 million a day tax bill for housing migrants. we've got a backlog of 170,000 hundreds coming over every single day. and then there's a huge, huge bottleneck as it takes over a year for their claims to be processed. so yes, i mean, speeding up that that process would be great. how the labour party would manage it isn't quite clear the moment. it quite clear at the moment. it sounds though office sounds as though the home office is pretty dysfunctional is really pretty dysfunctional andifs is really pretty dysfunctional and it's going to take a of and it's going to take a lot of hard work to get that process moving quickly. >> quickly, any word >> just very quickly, any word yet on when will or might yet on when people will or might be moving back on to the bibby

stockholm barge? >> it's not yet clear . ministers >> it's not yet clear. ministers are still saying that they would like to get get migrants moving back on to that bibby stockholm barge. but while the legionnaires virus is there, legionnaires virus is out there, it's hard to know. okay. it's really hard to know. okay. >> thank you . >> for now, olivia, thank you. well, we will move on to our next guest to talk about this. it's former home office minister norman baker. good afternoon to you, norman. thanks for thanks for joining us. how would you tackle it then in terms of the engush tackle it then in terms of the english channel crossings? because so many arriving in just a few days , do you think the a few days, do you think the french need to step up patrols? do we need to push for another agreement , which we do we need to push for another agreement, which we probably wouldn't get? what do you think we do? >> do an agreement? this is this is a major problem for all european countries. and i have to say, it's going to get worse. it's going to get worse because we've got more and more dysfunctional countries across the world, partly due to western interfere . and i might say, like

interfere. and i might say, like iraq and syria and afghanistan , iraq and syria and afghanistan, where many of these migrants are coming from . so we need to have coming from. so we need to have a proper foreign policy to try and stabilise these countries . and stabilise these countries. that overnight, but that won't happen overnight, but it's important point to it's a very important point to make . secondly, we need to get make. secondly, we need to get some agreement with other european whether european countries, whether they're in the eu or otherwise . they're in the eu or otherwise. you know, when we were in the eu, we had something called the dubun eu, we had something called the dublin which enabled dublin agreement, which enabled us to return people to other eu countries. now obviously that lapsed left the eu. the lapsed when we left the eu. the eu also had agreement, had agreement with 24 countries outside eu to return people outside the eu to return people to those countries. we can return to albania, but nobody else. so we have to look at this on a multinational basis. we cannot solve it ourselves . and cannot solve it ourselves. and actually it's looking at the wrong end of the microscope to worry about the french or lefty lawyers or the press or the opposition or something. this is a massive migration wave and it has to be dealt with really at source that we're going to deal with this. and really whether or

not the boats come across or are stopped in the channel, you know, that's only a temporary matter be considered . it matter to be considered. it really isn't going to solve the problem going to problem at all. we're going to get migration from get more migration from dysfunctional countries. and i have say, getting a lot have to say, we're getting a lot of migration as well as a consequence of climate change and shortages, which are and water shortages, which are now becoming quite worrying across the world. >> norman i'm just looking at the figures for the dublin regulation returns that occurred before the united kingdom left the european union in 2018. the inflow due to dublin was six times the outflow . in fact, in times the outflow. in fact, in the previous three years as well, 2017, 2016, 2015, the number coming into the uk via the dublin returns agreement was higher than the number leaving due to that agreement. it's not particularly a panacea . particularly a panacea. >> i accept that there was a case and i do think we pushed our end of it as much as we should have done. but i come back to the point that we have

to deal with this on a multinational basis. you know, we cannot physically put up a wall. donald trump style between ourselves and france. simply ourselves and france. it simply isn't going happen . these isn't going to happen. these boats continue to come boats will continue to come across and they cannot be stopped. and but what i do agree with, by the way, the earlier point that keir starmer made or not, i'm not going to apologise for labour party, but it's absolutely scandalous. only 1% of people arrive last year of people who arrive last year have been processed. if that processing increased processing rate increased dramatically , we wouldn't have dramatically, we wouldn't have the massive bill for the taxpayer we presently have. i also think there's a for case when people do arrive here. many of whom have got skills. why why can't they work? why can't they work, which is a matter of dignity and would take dignity for them and would take the british the burden off the british taxpayer. paying taxpayer. they started paying taxes because the taxes well, because the government say it would government would say it would make this too attractive a country to come to, wouldn't they, allowed to they, if people were allowed to work pretty attractive anyway, work? pretty attractive anyway, isn't worrying about isn't it, without worrying about that, do you think there would be a better chance of getting agreement with with a better

agreement with with a better agreement with with a better agreement with france over this if labour were in power? >> because as you know, in recent months the tories haven't done a lot to ingratiate themselves to the french, have they?i themselves to the french, have they? i mean, do you remember what liz truss said last year when she was prime minister for that spell ? that very short spell? >> i mean, look, both >> well, i mean, look, both bons >> well, i mean, look, both boris johnson and liz truss were unnecessarily to the french unnecessarily rude to the french and is no point in being and there is no point in being routed. it doesn't routed. the french. it doesn't achieve all. in achieve anything at all. in diplomatic it's useless diplomatic terms. it's useless and counterproductive . and in fact counterproductive. rishi sunak, i think has got a better arrangement with the french, but i mean, i do think we need a clean start with both the french and the rest of the eu in of our relations. eu in terms of our relations. they our neighbours, whether they are our neighbours, whether we not, and we should we like it or not, and we should get with neighbours, just get on with our neighbours, just as would your door as you would with your next door neighbour wherever you live. neighbour or wherever you live. >> it was fascinating to watch rishi over the elysee rishi sunak over in the elysee palace february, i think palace in february, i think it was. with him as was. i went along with him as part of the press delegation. he went there, shook macron's went out there, shook macron's hand, hugged other closely hand, hugged each other closely , the words friends , tweeted out the words friends really emphasised, seem to get on well, didn't they?

friendship. and of course, we again tens of millions of again sent tens of millions of pounds to the french for more of these patrols paying a these patrols are paying for a new over as well to process new send over as well to process things near calais. but we keep doing this. we keep doing new agreements with the french. and the one thing that they say they will not do, a bilateral agreement with the uk on, no matter who's in charge, is a returns agreement. >> yeah , well, they ought to >> yeah, well, they ought to really. i mean, we need to push for that. and i think, um, i suppose it's a possibility if there were a change of government, the french might be more willing to look at that. i don't know. but i mean, in terms of the money we're giving to the french, all i would say is we've got with the french got a contract with the french and it up didn't and whoever drew it up didn't read small print, did they? read the small print, did they? >> norman really >> norman baker really appreciate this appreciate your thoughts this afternoon, office afternoon, former home office minister. for minister. thanks thanks for talking here on gb news. talking to us here on gb news. stay with us because coming up well, after the break, much well, after the break, how much support doctors support do junior doctors actually have from the public? >> comes as they continue yet >> it comes as they continue yet another summer strike. more on

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watching. >> welcome back to the live desk on gb news. just a little update on gb news. just a little update on the bibby stockholm home barge. there seems to be quite a lot of concern in contradiction about who knew what when. dorset council saying home office contractors were notified about the results about legionella being found on the boat last monday . and the government isn't monday. and the government isn't really saying that . number ten really saying that. number ten in the last few minutes, says the home office, is still clarifying . when officials were clarifying. when officials were made aware of issues on the

barge, they say they were made aware on thursday evening about the results of the test. asked who made the decision to put people on the boat before the test results came back. number ten say it was a decision taken by the home office in conjunction an decision taken by the home office having all the relevant tests being done and making sure that the checks were in place. and downing street is still declining to say when people might be returned to the bibby barge . bibby stockholm barge. >> well, lots more, no doubt to come on that as things develop up the timeline seeming, seeming rather murky, still . but but rather murky, still. but but moving on to perhaps other issues of worry for the government health bosses have warned that the nhs cannot take any more disruption amid the four days of strike action staged by staged by junior doctors as services are at tipping point, according to nhs providers, with the cost of covering the industrial action at an estimated £1 billion, as well as leading to thousands

more postponed treatments for patients. how much support do junior doctors actually have from the public? our reporter anna ryley has this report . anna ryley has this report. favourites station . favourites station. >> it's the fifth time junior doctors have walked out of the wards this year as their union. the british medical association, have refused to accept the government's final offer of a 6% pay government's final offer of a 6% pay rise and instead want a 35% uplift. but doctors on the picket line at leeds general infirmary and across england are also fighting for improvements in the nhs . in the nhs. >> as we're here making a stance because it is imperative that we save our nhs. each and every one of my colleagues here on the picket lines as well as their work, have already conceded an exit strategy. if this dispute is not settled, they're looking at other countries, they're looking other professions looking at other professions altogether. this is how desperate we are. it is

heartbreaking that patients actually coming in as actually end up coming in as an emergency operation when they could safer , better could have had a safer, better outcome. operation on an inactive list. and this is the result of the pressures and the massive pay cuts and funding cuts that the government have forced nhs . forced upon the nhs. >> industrial action has led to 835,000 postponed appoint payments and this is adding to the hospital backlog that topped 7.6 million for the first time at the end of june this means nearly 1 in 7 people like anastasia tempest are on a hospital waiting list. >> i've actually got a serious gastro enterology problem and it affects my nerves. i've been on affects my nerves. i've been on a waiting list for over three years. and i'm interested . this years. and i'm interested. this is a new thing. i'm interested in going private. if the nhs will allow this. i realised that the nhs on one level is successful , but on another level successful, but on another level it's cracking down.

>> and here's what people in yorkshire think too. the ongoing junior doctor strike action. >> they've been let down by government after government after so long. they argue that money, they work hard and they're just it's not recognise and suits for them striking . and suits for them striking. >> but i don't support the amount of money they're asking for. i think it's ridiculous compared to other pay deals. it's all about the money, you know, the mind chatter about the money. >> then other people's health. and i don't believe i think it's wrong what you're doing a fantastic job and they should be paid triple the amount than what they're getting paid now the hospitals full it is, hospitals are full as it is, and, you know, there's no reason for the junior doctors to be on strike. >> the industrial action is due to end at 7 am. on tuesday with the bma urging the government to get back to the negotiating table or face further strikes . table or face further strikes. anna riley gb news as well. >> joining us now to tell us

more is nhs gp dr. raj arora . more is nhs gp dr. raj arora. good afternoon to you. thanks for thanks for talking to us again . we've heard what people again. we've heard what people think there or a few people think there or a few people think strike junior doctor strike ends tomorrow. has it achieved anything at all? this latest strike? >> it's that's a tough one i think. i think it has achieved again the awareness and it obviously the junior doctors are out there striking. they're not in the hospitals. they're not giving up. and that's the message that's been given out, which i think is super important given the junior given that, you know, the junior doctors breaking point doctors are at breaking point and the it was interesting the response from the public. obviously, it's quite mixed. and i would that i think you would expect that because, the nhs is because, of course the nhs is already pressure. you already under pressure. and, you know, want to be know, doctors don't want to be striking. of course there's striking. and of course there's been a disruption we been a big disruption and we know we that. but i think know we know that. but i think also there's been a mixed response. some of the response. and now some of the pubuc response. and now some of the public supporting public certainly are supporting junior and junior doctors as well and saying , you know, they they saying, you know, they they ought to given their ought to be given their uplift or restoration as it was, or their restoration as it was, and be paid what they deserve

and to be paid what they deserve to be paid in line with, obviously, inflation. but i think not it's not clear to the pubuc think not it's not clear to the public really what junior doctors do. now. everyone's aware of that. how much of the workforce they make up. and i think those kind of things can lead maybe some you lead to maybe some public, you know, as though why are know, feeling as though why are they but really and they striking? but really and truly, they are breaking truly, they are at breaking point. so think it's good point. so i think it's good that they gone with the they have gone ahead with the strike. yeah, whether strike. but yeah, whether there's to be negotiations strike. but yeah, whether there at to be negotiations strike. but yeah, whether there at the to be negotiations strike. but yeah, whether there at the table,a negotiations strike. but yeah, whether there at the table, that'stiations back at the table, that's another story. >> is interesting looking at >> it is interesting looking at where opinion is on this where public opinion is on this because there is general sympathy in terms of saying that the junior doctors should get some of pay rise. but then some sort of pay rise. but then when you drill down into that sympathy and say, should junior doctors get a 35% pay rise , most doctors get a 35% pay rise, most of the public focus groups and polls show that people think that that is excessive at a time like this. have the junior doctors , to some extent, shot doctors, to some extent, shot themselves in the foot by asking for such a high pay increase

when most of the public thinks that that that would be excessive at this time . excessive at this time. >> yeah, great point. i think, look, it's not first of all, it's not a pay rise. okay. so it's not a pay rise. okay. so it's a pay restoration that needs to be made really clear that it's actually not an uplift on on their pay to go back to where from 2008 there's been no restoration in pay. they're restoration in pay. so they're actually back foot when restoration in pay. so they're ac comes back foot when restoration in pay. so they're accomes to back foot when restoration in pay. so they're accomes to their ack foot when restoration in pay. so they're accomes to their financeswhen restoration in pay. so they're accomes to their finances and] it comes to their finances and their salaries. so i understand that that point view, that from that point of view, having been a junior doctor myself, is very difficult. i having been a junior doctor mysthat.; very difficult. i having been a junior doctor mysthat. buty difficult. i having been a junior doctor mysthat. butythinkult. i having been a junior doctor mysthat. butythink what i get that. but i think what you're saying correct. you you're saying is correct. you know, difficult time know, it's a difficult time financially for the government, for that's happened for everything that's happened with brexit. think with covid brexit. so i think there's needs to with covid brexit. so i think thear's needs to with covid brexit. so i think thea discussion needs to with covid brexit. so i think thea discussion whethereds to with covid brexit. so i think thea discussion whether that 10 be a discussion whether that negotiation is that get 35% negotiation is that they get 35% now, which is probably unlikely or going get, or whether they're going to get, you some restoration you know, some some restoration over a number years, which over a number of years, which might be more feasible or there might be more feasible or there might a discussion about the might be a discussion about the future and how that works when it comes to the money, which might be more acceptable, i don't i think, again, don't know. but i think, again, that discussion has to happen. so the government to so we need the government to

come the table talk come and set the table and talk about going forward. but about that going forward. but yeah, because of yeah, of course, because of where are in, know, in where we are in, you know, in the economy right now, there will public, you know, who will be public, you know, who feel actually the junior feel that actually the junior doctors this feel that actually the junior docto in this feel that actually the junior docto in time. this feel that actually the junior docto in time. and this feel that actually the junior docto in time. and that's1is feel that actually the junior docto in time. and that's the point in time. and that's the question that think the question that i think the government need to address and actually come up with a solution. not. and solution. and it's not. and i know public are saying, oh, know the public are saying, oh, you know, it's all about money. it's just about money. it's it's not just about money. it's about of let down. you about the years of let down. you know, this is a loaded strike. so not just we're striking so it's not just we're striking for days. are. for five days. here we are. there was strike a few years there was a strike a few years back. ended a few days back. it ended after a few days or whatever. but i think the question how much longer question now is how much longer are going to the are you going to push the workforce in the nhs to keep working destroying unless working and destroying unless you've shifts as a you've done those shifts as a junior those shoes, junior doctor in those shoes, you really know what what you don't really know what what they're fighting for. and i've been there. know how it been there. i know how tough it is. >> okay. h- h— >> okay. doctor raj, aurora, thank much for talking to thank you so much for talking to us. to have to us. we will have to have to leave but i know we leave it there. but i know we will talk to you again. do stay with us. coming up, are you a smoker? what words of encouragement your encouragement inside your cigarette packet encourage you to be discussing

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news. the people's channel, britain's news . news. the people's channel, britain's news. channel >> welcome back to the live desk. it's 1221 now. now the sorry, it's 1239. it's 2022 one. i just made up sorry, it's 1239. it's 2022 one. ijust made up some numbers i just made up some numbers there. i'm not sure what on earth i'm why on earth is going on? do you wear glasses ? on? do you wear glasses? >> you don't wear glasses? >> you don't wear glasses? >> normally i don't wear glasses at all. >> yourself to specs on some >> get yourself to specs on some numbers that haven't made up numbers that i haven't made up because 13% of people because currently 13% of people in smoke and the in england smoke and the government is considering to

change tack to get people to give up smoking by adding words of encouragement to cigarette packets. >> yes, the consultation launched today and includes adding inserts with health and financial benefits of giving up as well as support support available to those trying to stop. >> now, the health secretary steve barclay, has said that smoking places a huge burden on the nhs directly causing a whole host of health care issues and costs the economy billions every yearin costs the economy billions every year in lost productivity. >> smoking remains the leading preventable cause of illness and death in the uk, with around 76,000 people dying from it every year. simon clarke , every year. simon clarke, director of smokers rights group forest, says, well , you can tell forest, says, well, you can tell us. simon, but i understand you're not against you're not against these inserts, are you? and why not? because i'm surprised, actually , that you're surprised, actually, that you're not against it. surprised, actually, that you're not against it . well i'm not not against it. well i'm not against them in principle because as they could be used

to, to good. >> i mean, for example , all they >> i mean, for example, all they could be used in a very constructive way by educating and informing smokers about other alternative products, reduced risk products like e—cigarettes, heated tobacco , e—cigarettes, heated tobacco, nicotine pouches. these products all carry a lot less risk than combustible tobacco. so if the inserts were used to educate smokers about that , i don't see smokers about that, i don't see any problem at all. i think what we want to avoid is yet more sort of gory health warnings because they just simply invoke warning fatigue . and if smokers warning fatigue. and if smokers feel they're being nagged, for example, if they're being told, oh, you're spending £2,000 a year on tobacco, you could have a nice holiday , i think people a nice holiday, i think people just switch off because we all spend our money in different ways. i don't smoke, but i do spend a lot of money on alcohol and if i choose to spend my money on alcohol rather than having a holiday during the yeah having a holiday during the year, my choice. that's year, that's my choice. that's got absolutely nothing do year, that's my choice. that's got ethelutely nothing do year, that's my choice. that's got {the government.) do year, that's my choice. that's got {the government. so do year, that's my choice. that's got {the government. so ito year, that's my choice. that's got {the government. so it does

with the government. so it does depend what they put on these inserts. issue well inserts. the other issue as well is who's going to pay for them, because the concern is that if the cost of these inserts is passed on to the consumer, that's going to drive the price of cigarettes up even more . now, of cigarettes up even more. now, at the moment, between 80 and 90% of the cost of a packet of cigarettes goes to the government. already so this argument, for example, that smoking costs the nhs a huge amount of money, i'm afraid it's simply not true. the alleged cost treating smoking related cost of treating smoking related diseases on the nhs is estimated to be £2.5 billion a year, but smokers contribute over £10 billion in tobacco taxation . so billion in tobacco taxation. so no smoker should feel guilty about their habit. they are making a huge contribution to the economy and to the nhs in particular. >> well, perhaps they shouldn't feel guilty towards the nhs , but feel guilty towards the nhs, but they might feel guilty towards themselves. after all, we have seen fairly conclusive evidence that although some people might enjoy it, it's not a good habit

to have. it's not a healthy habit to have. perhaps that's one of the reasons why the rates of smoking in england in particular has almost halved in the last decade . ed well, the last decade. ed well, i don't think there's a sane adult in the united kingdom, including every smoker who isn't well aware that there are serious health risks associated with smoking. >> but at the same time there are millions of smokers who get are millions of smokers who get a great deal of pleasure from smoking. now we're almost not allowed to talk about that these days. we're meant to assume that smoking is this dirty disgust eating habit, and every smoker wished they'd never started. that's simply isn't true. yes, of course , there are some of course, there are some smokers who want to quit. some smokers who want to quit. some smokers who want to quit. some smokers who wish they'd never started. but we've done research using a very credible research organisation based in glasgow, which found that if you're talking about confirmed smokers , which are those smokers who enjoy smoking and don't want to quit , oh, enjoy smoking and don't want to

quit, oh, let's enjoy smoking and don't want to quit , oh, let's see if we can quit, oh, let's see if we can just re—establish connections to simon clark there. >> it seems like we have a bit ofissue >> it seems like we have a bit of issue getting to the getting to the region of cambridgeshire beanng to the region of cambridgeshire bearing that was talking. oh, there we go. clearly clearly the fibre connection is reaching out to the rural parts of the united kingdom as well. simon clark sorry about that . we're going to sorry about that. we're going to dive straight back in. we lost your connection for a second, but but you were saying that some smokers feel like they get a sense of pleasure from this , a sense of pleasure from this, despite knowing the health risks i >> -- >> yes, >> yes , indeed. and we all get >> yes, indeed. and we all get through the our lives in different ways. some of us drink, some of us eat comfort food, which some people might refer to as junk food. and other people choose to smoke. and that's what government has that's what the government has to is to respect. tobacco is a perfectly legal product of people choose to smoke. that's a matter for them. it's not really a matter for government. now, government does have a role to play government does have a role to play educating people about the health smoking. so i health risks of smoking. so i have problem at have no problem with that at all. but if smokers choose to

ignore that government advice, they choose to ignore that information that they're perfectly entitled to because, say in life , we get through life say in life, we get through life in different ways and smoking for a lot of people is not just a pleasure. it's actually a comfort in difficult moments. that's one of the reasons we were to a ban on were always opposed to a ban on smoking outside for smoking outside hospitals, for example, regarded as example, which we regarded as quite if you've quite cruel. because if you've just had bad news, maybe you've been told you've got a certain disease or maybe relatives have been told bad news about somebody who's in hospital and you're then told you can't light a cigarette on the hospital grounds. that's outrageous. so the same thing goes back to this incense. we have no problem in principle incense long principle with incense as long as the information is constructive . constructive. >> wouldn't the shock of being told you got lung cancer make you want to stop smoking straight away? simon oh, yes, absolutely. >> i mean, i think a reason that a lot of people quit smoking is because they've had a health scare . that's perfectly normal .

scare. that's perfectly normal. i mean, the other reason i think that people give up smoking, you see it in young adults who are having children when they decide they're going quit. perhaps they're going to quit. perhaps in late 20s, early 30s, in their late 20s, early 30s, when they're having children. obviously the price of cigarettes has forced a lot of people quit. but i think when people to quit. but i think when you're talking about using taxation as a form of social engineering to force people to give up, i think that's when we're getting into dodgy territory. likewise, what we've seen over the last ten, 20 years is what i would call creeping prohibition. you've seen successive governments try to make it increasingly difficult for people to light up in public places. that's what the smoking ban was all about. it wasn't to protect the health of bar workers because there wasn't any clear evidence that bar workers health was at risk from passive smoking . it was designed to smoking. it was designed to reduce the number of places where people could smoke, trying to force them to quit. and that's what's wrong if we simply stick to education, that's absolutely . absolutely fine. >> sorry to jump in just i just

want to get another question in. we're running out of time. i just wanted to ask, do you do you smoke? >> no, i don't. >>— >> no, i don't. >> no. okay >> no. okay >> you don't. but but if or when you did, would you have actually bothered look these bothered to look at these inserts if they were there in these packets of cigarettes? if you're having would these packets of cigarettes? if you'actually having would these packets of cigarettes? if you'actually bothering would these packets of cigarettes? if you'actually bother to would these packets of cigarettes? if you'actually bother to read ould these packets of cigarettes? if you'actually bother to read what you actually bother to read what was ? was inside? >> well, i think initially people will do, yes. i mean, it's a bit like when they put health warnings on the cigarette pack, when they then put on graphic health warnings and people said, oh, these are absolutely disgusting. they're grotesque, , you know, grotesque, they're, you know, most smokers will give up what happens they very quickly happens is they very quickly become part of the furniture. so they have only very limited they have only a very limited success rate. they have an initial impact, but very soon smokers get used to them and they simply switch off. so if they simply switch off. so if they are going to include inserts, i think they would need to be coming up with new information on a regular basis because i think smokers will look at them initially . but to look at them initially. but to

be honest, by the time you've seen all the warnings about smoking, you've bought your cigarettes from behind the counter where they're out of sight in shops, you've seen the graphic health warnings on the packif graphic health warnings on the pack if you're still smoking after that , i don't really think after that, i don't really think an insert is going to make much difference. >> yeah, i think that is a fair point. >> people do get desensitised to these things. simon clarke, director rights director of smokers rights group forest, much for forest, thank you so much for your this afternoon. your time this afternoon. >> friend mine smoked , >> a friend of mine who smoked, she went see a hypnotherapist she went to see a hypnotherapist and like that never had another cigarette since. >> see, friends of mine who smoked, who've switched to vaping have found that to be the most useful thing. i'm a real sceptic about the sort of warnings on packets. just warnings on packets. people just completely if completely ignore them. but if there's a credible there's if there's a credible alternative that much less alternative that is so much less harmful , people can then get harmful, people can then get their nicotine that way. >> but vaping is still not safe , it? , is it? >> it's much, much safer than smoking. completely, smoking. that is completely, completely consensus scientifically . scientifically. >> okay, aiden, do you smoke ? >> okay, aiden, do you smoke? >> okay, aiden, do you smoke? >> i gave up in 2006, just eight months before i was diagnosed

with type one diabetes diabetes. so very, very lucky so i was very, very lucky because smoke because i've had still smoke now, diabetic, i'd probably now, as a diabetic, i'd probably be my eyesight, be compromising my eyesight, but i stupid enough to start i was stupid enough to start when i was 22. >> good to know >> okay, well, good to know you're actually here. too you're not actually here. too good to hear you're not good to hear that you're not actually here to talk about smoking. to smoking. you're here to talk about because to the about sport. because to the great football fans up about sport. because to the greadown football fans up about sport. because to the greadown the football fans up about sport. because to the greadown the country, fans up about sport. because to the grea down the country, the; up and down the country, the premier league returned to this weekend with manchester city beginning weekend with manchester city beginniinewly promoted burnley against newly promoted burnley and , playing in the and luton town, playing in the premier league for the first time in their history. >> now elsewhere, neymar has become the big name become the latest big name footballer to agree a big money move to saudi arabia deal move to saudi arabia in a deal that will reportedly see him pocket an astonishing £275 million over the two year contract. >> but so sports broadcaster and journalist aidan magee is here to add non—smoker is here to tell us all about it. should we start with neymar then this is a £77 million deal. agreed with psg, yet another footballer going to saudi arabia . going to saudi arabia. >> yeah, exactly. i mean, look,

psg were meant to be the club taken over by the qatari royal family in 2011. nobody was meant to have more money than them. but even they're being outbid by the mean, look, it's the saudis. i mean, look, it's good them as well. good business for them as well. this is a player who is not performing at his peak right now. 31 years two now. he's 31 years old, two years left contract. but years left on his contract. but the are just the numbers are just eye—watering mean, weekly eye—watering i mean, his weekly wage £1.3 wage is going to be £1.3 million, monthly wage £5.6 million. wage , seven million. his hourly wage, seven wage, million. yes. and wage, 5.6 million. yes. and hourly wage of £7,716. hourly rate wage of £7,716. £0.89. i mean, i'd work here for half of that. so just so we're clear, so eyewatering numbers. look, he's not as i say, he's not at his peak and people are forgetting as well for some of these clubs offloading forgetting as well for some of these players, clubs offloading forgetting as well for some of these players, saudi; offloading forgetting as well for some of these players, saudi isffloading forgetting as well for some of these players, saudi is actually| these players, saudi is actually quite a convenient stalking horse everyone's horse there because everyone's moaning it and saying moaning about it and saying they're the transfer they're distorting the transfer market. have market. but liverpool have unloaded players. market. but liverpool have unloewould players. market. but liverpool have unloewould not players. market. but liverpool have unloewould not have players. market. but liverpool have unloewould not have gotyers. market. but liverpool have unloewould not have got anywhere they would not have got anywhere near kind of fees for near those kind of fees for had they been on a normal they been selling on a normal european market. so there they been selling on a normal eur

going achieve career. going to achieve in his career. well, done a lot already. well, he's done a lot already. he's called prince who he's often called the prince who never king because he never became a king because he never became a king because he never quite usurped messi and ronaldo, years ahead ronaldo, who a few years ahead of him as the elite player in the world, or the standout player the world. but player in the world. but nonetheless, for nonetheless, it's ominous for the the premier league the rest of the premier league because go into because when players go into negotiations, going to negotiations, they're going to be saying, well, actually can be saying, well, actually we can get much saudi. and get this much from saudi. and that's seeing the that's why you're seeing the money more money reaching even more exorbitant money reaching even more exo and. it darling. money reaching even more eonnd.1t darling. oh, no, no. >> i was just saying, it's extraordinary seeing saudi arabia stretching to arabia really stretching to almost sport. this almost every single sport. this is sort of market for is a real sort of market for them, for potential them, for their potential geopolitical influence around the is the the world. and what is the consensus really in the sporting community about? >> well, my question would be, does sportswashing actually work ? does result of qatar ? does as a result of qatar holding the world do we holding the world cup, do we think or worse of qatar, think better or worse of qatar, having had that experience? they put brilliant show, but put on a brilliant show, but actually of human actually some of the human rights are known rights abuses are better known to casual person the to the casual person on the street they were this street than they were maybe this time last year. in fact, the tournament was awarded back in 2010, 13 years ago. 2010, 2013, sorry, 13 years ago. so in terms what's happening

so in terms of what's happening now, liken it to the premier now, i liken it to the premier league's had it's had things its own for 30 odd years. right? own way for 30 odd years. right? it's a little bit like when uber came attacked the came along and attacked the black black cabs black cabs or the black cabs were unhappy because they couldn't the money couldn't make the money they were saudi arabia were making before saudi arabia has very aggressive were making before saudi arabia haterms very aggressive were making before saudi arabia haterms of very aggressive were making before saudi arabia haterms of howery aggressive were making before saudi arabia haterms of how quickly 'essive were making before saudi arabia haterms of how quickly theye in terms of how quickly they want this to happen. that means getting in as quickly as getting players in as quickly as possible make league possible to make their league the in the world. the number one in the world. they've long way to they've still got a long way to go do that. tom, there has go to do that. tom, there has been precedent well. back in been precedent as well. back in the the north atlantic the 80s, the north atlantic soccer america, pele, soccer league in america, pele, beckenbauer, rodney marsh, all these to to these players went to went to these players went to went to the but was no the us, but there was no infrastructure supporting it coming. way. and once coming. the other way. and once that kind filled that vacuum was kind of filled and was nothing coming and there was nothing coming underneath collapsed underneath it, it collapsed within about three years, i think. don't think it's going think. i don't think it's going to but also to happen with saudi, but also with a few years ago, we with china. a few years ago, we saw massive money going into there. government, there. the chinese government, funnily to funnily enough, thought to themselves, this themselves, well, actually this isn't doing our local game any good. they an good. so they imposed an immediate tax. so if you spent £100 million on a for £100 million on a player for a chelsea player, you had to pay £100 million to the chinese government. soon put

government. so that soon put a stop to that. so, we've seen stop to that. so, so we've seen what saying is we've seen what i'm saying is we've seen these kind of we've seen these dynamics the short these kind of we've seen these dynanwhether the short these kind of we've seen these dynanwhether i the short these kind of we've seen these dynanwhether i mean,e short these kind of we've seen these dynanwhether i mean, oneort these kind of we've seen these dynanwhether i mean, one thing term, whether i mean, one thing we about saudi is they do we know about saudi is they do have the money, it's whether have the money, but it's whether they achieves they have whether it achieves for want it to for them what they want it to achieve the pitch, as it achieve off the pitch, as it were. >> quick word as well, aiden, about the semi—finals the about the semi—finals of the women's world cup. england are playing matildas playing australia, the matildas then build up then thursday. yes that build up is starting. yes. how is already starting. yes. how how? are the how? i mean, who are the favourites to win to this. favourites to win to win this. >> well favourites as of >> well the favourites as of pnor >> well the favourites as of prior england's game against prior to england's game against colombia, england were installed as favourites. think they as the favourites. i think they should at should have been favourites at the are the the beginning. they are the european after european champions after all. we've an exponential growth we've seen an exponential growth in the women's over the in the women's game over the last six years and so last five, six years and so england are roughly where they should great should be. they're showing great proficient in just getting through argue through games. i'd argue that only against only the third game against china, what china, they really show what they're capable australia they're capable of. australia were people's mind they were in some people's mind they were in some people's mind they were the favourites because they were the favourites because they were hosts. but were they're the hosts. but i would spain as well. in the would say spain as well. in the other semi—final against sweden, they're goals, they're scoring a lot of goals, but expecting though to, but i expecting them though to, to way. think if to go all the way. i think if they and they became the

they and if they became the european and world champions that's statement for the that's a real statement for the game country and the game in this country and the growth of it in years. growth of it in recent years. >> okay. >> okay. >> we'll >> well, we'll keep our fingers crossed. yeah, absolutely. >> up in >> 1130 wednesday, build up in sydney in sydney? sydney tomorrow in sydney? >> yeah. the last time went >> yeah. the last time we went live what's it called? live to, what's it called? boxpark with the fans. >> i've been many times. >> i've been there many times. >> i've been there many times. >> was scoring and there >> england was scoring and there was excitement whatsoever. was no excitement whatsoever. i couldn't understand it. >> there might be a time >> maybe there might be a time delay quarterfinal. >> maybe there might be a time delwas quarterfinal. >> maybe there might be a time delwas that?quarterfinal. >> was that? >> was that? >> no, it wasn't the >> no, no, it wasn't the quarterfinal. it earlier in quarterfinal. it was earlier in the it might be china game. >> it might be the china game. >> it might be the china game. >> anyone would have thought england were losing, which was a bit odd. >> whereas for the the >> whereas for the euros, the excitement it was excitement was palpable. it was right country. right across the country. >> anyway, you >> absolutely. anyway, thank you very to see you both. >> good to see you both. >> good to see you both. >> good to see you both. >> good to see you. thank you. we'll stay with have we'll do stay with us. we have plenty more up for you plenty more coming up for you here the live desk on gb news here on the live desk on gb news at the top of the hour, including the latest on what's going bbc stockholm going on with the bbc stockholm barge. of who said barge. there's a lot of who said what, and we'll trying what, when and we'll be trying to dissect it. do stay with us. >> the temperature's rising. boxt proud sponsors of boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on . gb news.

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gb news. >> good afternoon. it is 1:00. you're watching the live desk with pip thompson and tom harwood on gb news. coming up this monday lunchtime . this monday lunchtime. >> the migrant crisis could last another five years. so says a leaked home office document . and leaked home office document. and in the last hour, downing street has said it's standing by the use of barges to house asylum seekers. despite the ongoing situation with the bibby stockholm odesa under fire. >> russian drone attacks leave three injured. we'll have the latest from ukraine as both sides claim success. >> and just how much do support

the junior doctors have from the public? health bosses have warned that the nhs cannot take any more disruption amid yet more strikes. we're live from a picket line . picket line. >> plus, we promise it is true this time summer is coming, even though we're not far off the end of it. we'll have a weather forecast in the studio with us to discuss . rumours. no, it's to discuss. rumours. no, it's not rumours. we've just said it's true. it is going to be a scorching weekend . first, scorching weekend. first, though, here's your headlines with tatiana . with tatiana. >> pippa, thank you very much and good afternoon. this is the latest from the newsroom. bidders for retailer wilko have been given until wednesday to put forward offers to the put forward offers to buy the firm . the high street chain fell firm. the high street chain fell into administration last week, putting the future of its 400 stores and around 12,000 workers

at risk . it's understood at risk. it's understood administrators from pwc have set the deadline to try to secure a dealin the deadline to try to secure a deal in a bid to save jobs. the deadline to try to secure a deal in a bid to save jobs . sinn deal in a bid to save jobs. sinn fein says part of last week's police data leak has been posted on a wall facing its offices , on a wall facing its offices, describing the move as sinister . the party's policing spokesperson , gary kelly, says spokesperson, gary kelly, says the document , with the spokesperson, gary kelly, says the document, with the names of officers removed , was posted on officers removed, was posted on the wall overnight with his photo and a threatening message . he says this is a very public indication that the dissidents have access to information and represents a very real threat to the officers. the names of 10,000 police employees were published online by mistake . the published online by mistake. the government says it's trying to clarify when officials were made aware of the legionella concerns on board the bibby stockholm. it's after dorset council said home office contractors were told traces of the bacteria were detected on the day asylum seekers boarded the barge. all

39 people were removed from the vessel on friday. downing street says it expects them to return to the boat as soon as possible. but labour leader sir keir starmer says the government's failing to tackle the issue . failing to tackle the issue. >> i think the answer to this is , is barges is hotels massive costs £6 million a day. air bases that is that's the symptom. the problem is that the government hasn't done enough work to break the gangs that are running this trade, this vile trade, and to process this, the applications. and so the government has made a complete and utter mess of this . i mean, and utter mess of this. i mean, small boats week last week was complete fiasco . we would fix complete fiasco. we would fix the fundamentals, go after the gangs that are running this and process the claims so we do not have this problem in the first place . place. >> two men were taken to hospital after being stabbed in a homophobic attack outside a nightclub in southwest london. both men, aged in their 20s and 30s, were on clapham high street on sunday night when they were

targeted. they were treated in hospital and discharged . the met hospital and discharged. the met police is searching for the suspect , but the government is suspect, but the government is set to announce new plans to ensure cancer is caught earlier before violence targets will be scrapped and replaced with a new, faster diagnosis standard which will see patients who've been urgently referred receiving a diagnosis within 28 days. patients with cancer will then start treatment within nine weeks from the date of referral. the nhs believes the proposals will help save more lives, but cancer research uk says current miss targets represent two years of underinvestment by the government . it comes as junior government. it comes as junior doctors in england continue their four day strike. it's estimated a million procedures and appointments will be cancelled and rearranged due to the action. the walkout started on friday and ends at 7 am. tomorrow. it's the fifth round of strikes by british medical association members since march over a pay dispute. chair of the bma. east midlands junior doctors committee, jamshed khan , says the government should pay junior doctors fairly if it

wants waiting lists to go down. the government has refused to come to the negotiating table , come to the negotiating table, so we've got a very clear demand which is we want to be paid a bit more £14 an hour. bit more than £14 an hour. >> so to restore our pay back to the levels it was in 2008 would be bring our pay up from £14 be to bring our pay up from £14 now £19 now. the government now to £19 now. the government is invest in the is unwilling to invest in the staff where the people are going to down the waiting list. to bring down the waiting list. and they're not paying us, it and if they're not paying us, it just means the services, just means that the services, you going to get worse . you know, going to get worse. the number of people killed in the hawaii wildfires has now reached 93. >> it's feared the number of victims could still climb with hundreds of people still missing . the historic resort town of lahaina on the island of maui was mostly destroyed. the federal emergency management agency estimates it will cost more than £4 billion to rebuild a network rail has released video of dangerous behaviour at level crossings. ct mtv compilation shows a person doing press ups, dog walkers sitting

their pets on the tracks for photos and children putting stones on the line. nearly 50 cases of misuse have been reported by train drivers or were caught on camera in worcestershire and the west midlands. so far this year. network rail is trying to raise awareness and discourage people from their lives . this from risking their lives. this is gb news across the uk on tv in your car, on digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play gb news now it's back to tom and . pip back to tom and. pip >> welcome back to the live desk. the government will continue to host two house migrants on barges as that is despite the bibby stockholm having to be evacuated after traces of legionella bacteria were found. >> meanwhile , a leaked >> meanwhile, a leaked government document shows that there are . the home office is there are. the home office is planning to offer asylum seekers rooms in a disused raf bases for

up to five years. >> well , up to five years. >> well, labour leader sir keir starmer has said his party could inherit a very bad situation. but using barges , hotels or but using barges, hotels or disused air bases is not the way to fix the problem . to fix the problem. >> everybody's got to face up to the fact that the government has broken the asylum system and i do not want to use barges , do not want to use barges, hotels, air bases , because i do hotels, air bases, because i do not think that is the way we fix the problem. it may be that we're going to inherit a very bad situation just as we are on the economy and on health. but fundamentally , you can't get fundamentally, you can't get through this by more barges. you get through this by tackling the criminal gangs that are running this trade and by this terrible trade and by processing the applications . and processing the applications. and i think anybody watching this would be pretty shocked to learn that of all the people who arrived by small boats in the last year or so, the government has only processed 1% of their applications. that's the root problem. government failure. >> sir keir starmer speaking in quite echoey not so quite an echoey room. not so long ago. well, joining us now in the studio is gb news

political correspondent olivia utley. and olivia , we're getting utley. and olivia, we're getting new now from number 10 new lines now from number 10 about who knew what and when, when it came to this legionella scare on the bibby stockholm. who's telling the truth? >> well, it's very hard to get to the bottom of it. it sounds as though the home office had wind of what was going on days before suella braverman found out least that's what suella out at least that's what suella bravermans people are briefing the and it's really the newspapers and it's really not clear at all. and it actually does really matter who knew what when because obviously there were lots and lots of concerns with the bibby stockholm already before this story broke. we knew that there were there were fire concerns. there were plenty of other health and safety concerns, and migrants were put on board anyway. because of the anyway. is that because of the home office was just desperate to that one of their to show that one of their migration policies could be put into action? if so, lives into action? if so, were lives sort of deliberately or neglectful , put at risk? it's neglectful, put at risk? it's not quite clear . and it also not quite clear. and it also matters because the ministers

are they still want are saying that they still want to use these barges for housing migrants that shouldn't come as a big surprise. they've already earmarked barges. earmarked quite a few barges. they've put 3700 they've got plans to put 3700 migrants on a couple of barges that they've that they've they've got permission for. so they're pressing ahead with this policy. and what the safety concerns are will become more and more important. >> because was robert >> yeah, because it was robert jenrick, it, who said >> yeah, because it was robert jenri it , it, who said >> yeah, because it was robert jenri it was, it, who said >> yeah, because it was robert jenri it was, i it, who said >> yeah, because it was robert jenri it was, i think, ho said >> yeah, because it was robert jenri it was, i think, safe, id that it was, i think, safe, decent accommoda nation. but those words sound now so hollow in light of what's happened over the last few days. well, exactly i >> -- >> and the problem is that this isn't this isn't a one off sort of fluke problem with the bibby stockholm. this is a legionella bacteria flourishes in stagnant water and it's expected that any barge will be on stagnant water. so how is the government going to deal with this problem on going into the future? because they've already got three barges earmarked and between them, they could be they could be housing thousands of migrants. >> well, i think isn't it 51,000

people currently in hotels ? so people currently in hotels? so how many barges do you need? >> two and a backlog altogether for the backlog is 170,000 plus the hundreds who are coming over every the hundreds who are coming over eve legionnaires the hundreds who are coming over evelegionnaires disease the hundreds who are coming over eve legionnaires disease was >> legionnaires disease was found the house of commons in found in the house of commons in 2020. barge has been 2020. this barge has been used for work as at shipyards. it's been used in germany . it's been been used in germany. it's been used in the netherlands before. been used in germany. it's been use not the netherlands before. been used in germany. it's been use not theimpossiblejs before. been used in germany. it's been use not theimpossible task fore. been used in germany. it's been use not theimpossible task to e. it's not an impossible task to get on this barge. get people on this barge. i suppose perhaps the theory here might be that the government was upset by the delays, the delays in terms of the fire inspection, the delays in terms of whatever else, and perhaps that inspired them to not be so thorough when it came to checks to rush ahead. >> absolutely. i think that what we're seeing here is it could be that there's quite a lot of government frustration. they are desperately trying to clear this backlog. the bibby stockholm will only house 500 migrants. i mean, that is a drop in the ocean compared to that backlog of 170,000 and won't make a very big dent at all on on the on the

£6 million a day bill for taxpayers. if migrants staying in hotels and even that has caused problem after problem after problem . so it might be after problem. so it might be that the government is sort of struggling to work out which of the concerns being raised, which are safety concerns are the safety concerns being raised legitimate raised are sort of legitimate safety concerns, which really, really need looked into really need to be looked into properly which just properly and which are just people never policy people who never like the policy in first place. kicking in the first place. kicking their of pram. their toys out of the pram. >> legionella disease >> i mean, legionella disease can very, very can potentially be very, very serious. in 10 pneumonia serious. 1 in 10 pneumonia die from legionnaires disease. well, also interesting that also what's interesting is that despite quite the debacle, let's say, of the last few days with the barge, the prime minister still has confidence in the home secretary and the work of the home office. >> yes . i home office. >> yes. i mean, there have home office. >> yes . i mean, there have been >> yes. i mean, there have been conservative mps over the weekend calling for suella braverman to go . i don't think braverman to go. i don't think any of them have actually put their names to that at the moment. they're anonymous briefings really briefings as it doesn't really feel at that feel as though we're at that stage yet. the outbreak of legionnaires disease, i mean, couldn't really have been prevented by the home secretary , although course we don't

, although of course we don't know she heard , although of course we don't know it. she heard , although of course we don't know it. calls she heard , although of course we don't know it. calls for she heard , although of course we don't know it. calls for to he heard , although of course we don't know it. calls for to herieard , although of course we don't know it. calls for to her go d about it. calls for to her go are probably a bit of a kind of august silly season story, but but if there isn't progress made on this migration issue, which rishi sunak has said over and over again, is one of his top five priorities, it might be quite a good excuse come the reshuffle for rishi sunak to get rid of suella braverman. and i mean, i think it's fair to say that the two aren't particularly natural bed mates. their politics are really quite different. and it was thought when sunak prime when rishi sunak became prime minister suella minister that he brought suella braverman team braverman onto the team essentially throw a bit of essentially to throw a bit of red meat to the backbenchers who essentially to throw a bit of red |didn'to the backbenchers who essentially to throw a bit of red |didn't really)ackbenchers who essentially to throw a bit of red |didn't really trustenchers who essentially to throw a bit of red |didn't really trust him ers who essentially to throw a bit of red |didn't really trust him .�*s who essentially to throw a bit of red |didn't really trust him . so /ho who didn't really trust him. so if can sort of pin all of the if he can sort of pin all of the migration problems that we've had on suella braverman, that might excuse for her, might be a good excuse for her, for him rid of her. for him to get rid of her. >> there have been so many rumours of this reshuffle that is have happened. is supposed to have happened. i mean, wallace remarkably, is mean, ben wallace remarkably, is still the defence secretary, despite having said that he'd stand many weeks stand down in many, many weeks ago. getting out your ago. so getting out your political when political crystal ball, when might expecting this might we be expecting this so—called stamping so—called authority stamping reshuffle actually to take

place? >> well, i think it surely has to be pretty soon after we get back into to the parliament sitting again , i would have sitting again, i would have thought that it should be a while before party conference season. >> so then the new ministers can sort of parade the ministers. >> exactly. and get their chance to their say. it would seem to have their say. it would seem quite odd to have old ministers coming and making their big coming up and making their big dramatic speeches party dramatic speeches at party conference only to be sacked. a few later. so presumably it few days later. so presumably it is going to happen soon, would is going to happen soon, i would have sort of september have thought, sort of september . had, as you say, . but we have had, as you say, rumour after about this rumour after rumour about this reshuffle and as yet rishi sunak doesn't seem have to doesn't seem to have managed to doesn't seem to have managed to do it could be because he is do it. it could be because he is still seen as pretty weak within his party. he doesn't really his own party. he doesn't really have the support of lots and lots of backbench peers and it could be that the sitting cabinet realised that understand his weakness and a and are using that to kind of cling on to their positions. >> are that he is >> well, we are told that he is a workaholic. perhaps while he is away in california with his family swift's family attending taylor swift's themed classes. that was

themed spin classes. that was themed spin classes. that was the last thing i read about his holiday. perhaps while he's riding those stationary bicycles , he's thinking about moving the chess cabinet chess pieces around the cabinet table. chancellor safe, isn't he? >> jeremy hunt is not going anywhere. >> well , he clearly knows >> well, he clearly knows something . something. >> it would . it would be a >> it would. it would be a dramatic move if you were going to move hunt, it would be a dramatic apparently there are disagreements between the two of them, though. >> so but it would be odd >> so but it would be an odd move. ever thus. move. it was ever thus. >> has there ever been a chancellor and a prime minister who along like swimming who have got along like swimming friends the friends and living living in the flat? next to one another? flat? next door to one another? it's it's peculiar system, it's a it's a peculiar system, olivia thank you very much. >> which conservative mps have called french efforts to stop small boats crossing the english channel pathetic after six people died attempting the journey on saturday. let's cross to montpellier in france and speak to author and journalist jonathan miller. jonathan, good to have your company this afternoon . our french efforts afternoon. our french efforts pathetic, do you think ? pathetic, do you think? >> well, they don't seem to be

terribly effective. there's really two problems in november, rishi sunak flew to paris and warmly embraced emmanuel macron , the french president and said he was confident that a new agreement between the british and the french would put an end to these boat people. >> and he handed macron a cheque for £80 million. and since then there's no evidence whatsoever that the french have kept their side of the bargain because the boats keep on coming and this happensin boats keep on coming and this happens in two ways. first of all, on the beaches themselves, the police seem very unwilling to engage with the actual transport part of this of these hundreds of people a day who are crossing the channel some gendarme took it into their into their orbit to slash the rubber boats with with knives, with box cutters. but they were told to stop because it was private property . and there are drones

property. and there are drones flying over the channel and yet these migrants are getting on to what's essentially an uber service, transporting people over the channel and the british are just picking them up, which is a bizarre situation . but more is a bizarre situation. but more fundamentally , there are clearly fundamentally, there are clearly enormous criminal enterprise here, generating millions and millions of pounds a week, transporting hundreds and hundreds of these enormous boats into france . and yet there seems into france. and yet there seems to be absolutely no action on on to be absolutely no action on on to dismantle these enormous criminal networks. and cut off this this this migration at the source. so it looks from here and i know a lot of french police have talked to a number of people who've been up there trying to deal with the situation that it's really it's farcical and the british government have completely lost control of the situation . the control of the situation. the french government doesn't seem particularly be motivated to do

anything about it. in fact, they're people who say they're quite delighted to see these migrants leave because they take the problem off their hands and pushit the problem off their hands and push it onto the hands of the british. so it doesn't seem like the situation is anywhere close to being solved. jonathan, isn't part of the problem that we need more safe routes to the uk ? more safe routes to the uk? >> and if that does happen , then >> and if that does happen, then tragedies like we saw on saturday and the numbers of people crossing the channel that that would be tackled. we won't have people dying like they are because they can get here more safely. >> well, you know, the safe route issue is an interesting issue, but it seems that the british government is completely incapable of processing the claims that they have a there's a huge backlog . a lot of these a huge backlog. a lot of these people may well have claims to be political for political asylum, but others are economic migrants . sorting out the two,

migrants. sorting out the two, you negotiating the complex cities of the british legal system, which is very favourable to delaying tactics by lawyers, presents a huge problem. but in the meantime , the immediate the meantime, the immediate crisis is that hundreds of people a day are crossing the channel on rubber boats. it's extremely dangerous . many are extremely dangerous. many are getting killed and organised crime is running this and there seems to be no effective effort on the british side or on the french side to stop it . and french side to stop it. and indeed the opposite is true too. it seems to me that the french i think it's not completely unfair to say that the french are quite happy to pretend to do something about it and do nothing. and the british are behaving in a in a in an extraordinary way where they're simply allowing this to go on and in australia, when the when boat people were coming, the government actually pushed them back and said no , you can't them back and said no, you can't come in, whereas we're apparently the british government is apparently sending

lifeboats into french territorial waters to rescue people off rubber boats who've been escorted into the sea by the french coast guard. >> why is there so such a such little impetus from the french executive to do more, perhaps to negotiate a returns agreement with the united kingdom to perhaps remove their policy of just ignoring the boat as as soon as it hits the water here. surely these stories, because they're such big stories in the united kingdom , deaths in the united kingdom, deaths in the channel united kingdom, deaths in the channel, it's enormous news. it's so tragic. are these as big stories in france ? stories in france? >> no, they're not, actually. it's in france. the story is much more the noble , the noble much more the noble, the noble french police doing their very best. and the focus in france is there is a certain impetus to get these people off french territory. but the french are actually much more worried when

it comes to migration than about the billion people in africa who'd like to cross the mediterranean. and there are already boat people arriving thing from algeria who've made the journey across the sahel from war torn countries like like mali and niger and so they're very, very, very, very worried . and of course, this is worried. and of course, this is fuelling right wing rage in france . many politicians, such france. many politicians, such as marine le pen , are very as marine le pen, are very concerned that france is losing control of its borders and really what's happening in calais is a bit of a sideshow. it it's you know, it's easy to say to see why the french would much rather these people who are in calais just go to britain and get out of their hair. well, they turn their attention to the porous borders they have in italy , where many, many italy, where many, many thousands of migrants are arriving every day. french cities are in big trouble with a lot of civil disorder. some of

it caused by migrants at. and so, no, calais does not occupy the same space in the french media as it does in the british media. >> well, jonathan miller, author and journalist speaking from the south of france, thank you very much for your perspective on this issue. really, really interesting stuff there. absolutely >> us here on the live >> stay with us here on the live desk on gb news. we will be talking about the nhs strikes that just will not go away. we are live on picket line for are live on a picket line for the fifth junior doctors strike this . this year. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers. proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> hi there. it's aidan mcgivern here from the met office with the gb news forecast. drier, brighter and warmer weather is on the way for later this week , on the way for later this week, but we've started monday with outbreaks of rain clearing northeastwards across the country. still some persistent wet associated wet weather associated with a number of weather fronts that are affecting northern england into parts of wales. for the

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>> hello, you're with the live desk on gb news. health bosses have warned that the nhs cannot take any more disruption amid the four days of strike action staged by junior doctors , staged by junior doctors, services are at tipping point, according to nhs providers , with according to nhs providers, with the cost of covering industrial action at an estimated £1 billion, as well as leading to thousands more postponed treatments for patients . but how treatments for patients. but how much support do junior doctors have from the public? now? anna riley has this report . riley has this report. favourites do we want it now? >> it's the fifth time junior doctors have walked out of the wards. this year. their union, the british medical association , have refused to accept the government's final offer of a 6% pay government's final offer of a 6% pay rise and instead want a 35% uplift. but doctors on the picket line at leeds general infirmary and across england are also fighting for improvements

in the nhs . in the nhs. >> we're here making a stance because it is impera lviv that we save our nhs each and every one of my colleagues here on the picket lines as well as at work, have already conceded an exit strategy. if the dispute is not settled, they are looking at other countries. they're looking at altogether. at other professions altogether. this desperate are. it this is how desperate we are. it is heartbreaking that patients actually coming as an actually end up coming in as an emergency when they emergency operation when they could better could have had a safer, better outcome operation on an elective list and this is the result of the pressures and the massive pay the pressures and the massive pay cuts and funding cuts that the government have forced upon the government have forced upon the nhs. >> industrial action has led to 835,000 postponed appointment cuts and this is adding to the hospital backlog that topped £7.6 million for the first time at the end of june. this means nearly 1 in 7 people like anastasia tempest are on a hospital waiting list. >> i've actually got a serious gastro enterology problem and it affects my nerves . i've been on

affects my nerves. i've been on affects my nerves. i've been on a waiting list for over three years. and i'm interested . this years. and i'm interested. this is a new thing. i'm interested in going private. if the nhs will allow this. i realised that the nhs on one level is successful , but on another level successful, but on another level it's cracking . it's cracking. >> and here's what people in yorkshire think too. the ongoing junior doctor strike action. >> they've been let down by government after government after so long they argue that money, they work hard and they're just it's not recognised for them striking. >> but i don't support the amount of money they're asking for. i think it's ridiculous compared to other pay deals . compared to other pay deals. >> it's all about the money. you know, the money, just about the money. then other people's health. and i don't believe i think it's wrong. >> you're doing a fantastic job and they should be paid triple the they're the amount than what they're getting now, the hospital getting paid. now, the hospital is it is at. is full as it is at. >> and, you know, there's no

reason for the junior doctors to be on strike. >> the industrial action is due to end at 7 am. on tuesday with the bma urging the government to get back to the negotiating table or face further strikes . table or face further strikes. anna riley, gb news and thanks to anna for that report. >> but let's get more on this now and speak to our gb news east midlands. reporter will hollis, who's at a picket line in nottingham, and will, i can't count the number of times we've come you and other gb news come to you and other gb news reporters around the country at picket it seems like this picket lines. it seems like this is never ending story. what is a never ending story. what what are they saying that's different today ? different today? >> yes. well, here at the queen's medical centre in nottingham, there has been a picket line. >> it's the fifth time that junior doctors from the british medical association have been joining picket lines. the ch is one of the busiest emergency departments in europe and it sees about 600 or so people a day. but of course, it'll be a

little bit quieter today, particularly because so many appointments will have been postponed or downright cancelled because some people will have chosen to go private . you did chosen to go private. you did heah chosen to go private. you did hear, of course, just a few moments ago from people in yorkshire the reaction of the public. but today i've been speaking to the people who were on line at this one on the picket line at this one here nottingham. there was here in nottingham. there was about so junior doctors about 20 or so junior doctors that you can tell that showed up. you can tell that showed up. you can tell that junior doctors that they're junior doctors because course, quite lot because of course, quite a lot of them are quite young, although doctors can mean although junior doctors can mean pretty anything up the pretty much anything up to the most doctor role of most senior doctor role of consultant and i was speaking to one person who was a british medical association rep on the picket line today about why they're strike all this they're still on strike all this time later , since the first one time later, since the first one began, doors have always been open for stephen barclay to come to the table and talk to us. >> we're trying to a fair >> we're trying to get a fair and reasonable offer. so is and reasonable offer. so that is to and junior doctors to try and get junior doctors pay to try and get junior doctors pay from £14 an hour where it pay up from £14 an hour where it is currently up to £19 an hour. the government's offered us 6%

and that is still a real terms pay and that is still a real terms pay cut for this year alone. i think for me and for a lot of doctors, we wouldn't be able to justify not doing anything. so before the strikes even started, the list were 7 the waiting list were at 7 million. i was to tell million. i was having to tell patients instead of waiting patients that instead of waiting two months for appointment, two months for an appointment, they're ten they're having to wait ten months. the week waiting months. the two week waiting list. the government can't even keep the moment. if keep to that at the moment. if we anything, doctors we didn't do anything, doctors would continue leave the uk would continue to leave the uk and patients wouldn't receive the that they should the care that they should be receiving . receiving. >> so the number that the junior doctors want is 35. that's how much they want their pay to go up by. you might be thinking inflation has been at 10, around 10% for quite a while. they don't want that. they want it to go right back to 2008. that was the last time they said they had an above inflation pay rise. so. steve barclay the health secretary, he says they're not to going go back to the negotiating table. but he is happy to talk about how he can make conditions better for junior doctors in hospitals like

this of course that's not this. but of course that's not what want. ultimately, what they want. ultimately, they do more pay for the job do want more pay for the job that they say is still the same, even though it's years later even though it's 15 years later as well. >> will hollis, thank you very much for very latest there much for the very latest there from the site of where junior doctors were on the picket line, although perhaps maybe not as many as are actually on strike. one wonders if they're not on the picket line. perhaps they're having a lie in. having a lovely lie in. >> yes, well, they might be doing something much more constructive, tom, but but , hey, constructive, tom, but but, hey, don't jump to conclusions. >> it's monday. >> it's a monday. >> it's a monday. >> coming a positive way to >> coming up, a positive way to kick the smoking habit . and here kick the smoking habit. and here comes the sun at last. we're pretty sure of that. but first, what we are sure of is that is the news now with tatiana . pip. the news now with tatiana. pip. >> thank you and good afternoon. this is the latest from the newsroom. shin fein says part of last week's police data leak has been posted on a wall facing its

offices , describing the move as offices, describing the move as sinister for the party's policing. spokesperson gary kelly says the document , with kelly says the document, with the names of officers removed was posted on the wall overnight with his photo and a threatening message . he says this is a very message. he says this is a very pubuc message. he says this is a very public indication that the dissidents have access to information and represents the very real threat to the officers . the names of 10,000 police officers and staff were published online by mistake. the psni says additional security and reassurance patrols are already in place across the country . two men have been country. two men have been stabbed in a homophobic attack outside a nightclub in south—west london. they were targeted while standing outside the venue on clapham high street last night. both were treated in hospital and later discharged. police are searching for the suspect , a father and mother suspect, a father and mother have been spared jail time for the death of their three month old daughter. kyra was killed by a family dog. she was attacked in march last year in a car park in march last year in a car park

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people's. channel >> good afternoon. it's 20 to 2, and this is the live desk here on gb news, ukraine says it is making some success pushing back russian troops in the south—east where ukrainian forces are trying to retake russian occupied territory. but russian attacks on ukrainian cities continue to exact a toll drone strikes on odesa overnight caused significant damage and left three injured and the ukrainians are accusing the russians of targeting cargo ships in the black sea, a violation of international law . violation of international law. let's get more on this from the former president of ukraine, petro poroshenko. and mr poroshenko, thank you so much for joining us here this forjoining us here this afternoon . firstly, let's zoom afternoon. firstly, let's zoom into what exactly has been going on in the black sea yet more russian attacks. they seem to be steps up. is this a step change from what we have seen before or increased levels of russian aggression ? aggression? >> what is important is that

russia has no success on the battlefield . battlefield. >> and if we're talking about the south direction of the action of ukraine and armed forces, this is demonstrating that they are shelling very heavily zaporizhzhia kherson, odesa sumy . odesa sumy. >> and this is the russian reaction of the efficient of the action of ukrainian armed forces. we definitely have the certain careful success by taking the original and by moving slowly to the direction of melitopol and berdyansk . but of melitopol and berdyansk. but the main thing is that the russia has no initiative . they russia has no initiative. they try to seize the initiative, but unsuccessfully . and the russia unsuccessfully. and the russia do not keep the situation under control for ukrainian counteroffensive operation to be

more successful, we need ready electronic warfare system. we need counter—battery and definitely we need the f—16 as a plane to cover to stop russian dominance in the in ukrainian area. and the same time they say that it area. and the same time they say thatitis area. and the same time they say that it is some people who are waiting for success in the ukrainian armed forces to go faster. but i just want to remind you that this is not a hollywood film. this is not a barbell pancamo this is just a heavy job, very which we pay very high price for dup paid ukrainian soil. and with that situation, i want to thank our british partners. first of all, for the storm shadow, long—range

missile. and this is not from me . this is i just because i'm on the battlefield every single week and i just want to deliver you the messages from our soldiers messages from our officer, because storm shadow help us to destroy russian ammunition , to destroy russian ammunition, to destroy russian communication centre, to make stronger our offensive operation . and with that situation , i . and with that situation, i think you demonstrating the position of real partner. we feel your shoulder . feel your shoulder. >> and could i just ask you, as well about president zelenskyy, what he has tweeted in the last few minutes and he says the ukrainian people are extremely brave and courageous . s we know brave and courageous. s we know that freedom is priceless. and we have to keep in mind that every day should yield results in the defence of ukraine is every day yielding results ? every day yielding results? would you say ? would you say?

>> look, first of all, i'm very much proud with the armed forces of ukraine. and if you ask me what is the best diplomat who make an efficient operation with the russian , this is the armed the russian, this is the armed forces of ukraine. and i'm proud that me as a fifth president of ukraine, create the armed forces based on the nato standard switching from the soviet model of the armed forces. and now this is the clash between ukraine and russia and ukrainian armed forces building a nato standard with a motive , hated standard with a motive, hated soldier fighting for our land and with that situation, i think this has delivered a certain results and mr zelenskyy and president zelenskyy and me , we president zelenskyy and me, we all are soldiers and we do not have any other priority than to free our occupied land to just protect sovereignty and

territorial integrity of ukraine and to make russian through out from ukraine. and with that situation , we definitely should situation, we definitely should keep the unity and inside ukraine and keep unity in the world and definitely i'm absolutely confident that putin must be stopped here in ukraine, not let him go to any other european nation. >> well , petro poroshenko, it's >> well, petro poroshenko, it's always a pleasure to speak to you.thank always a pleasure to speak to you. thank you so much for joining us this afternoon on gb news. former president of ukraine, petro poroshenko there. and i have to say , it is it is and i have to say, it is it is always so interesting to see how ukraine, a country that has such a smaller population than russia that been siege. they that has been under siege. they are holding the line and not just holding the line. they're pushing i think pushing forward as well. i think back to when president zelenskyy pushing forward as well. i think back 1to nhen president zelenskyy pushing forward as well. i think back 1to the1 president zelenskyy pushing forward as well. i think back 1to the unitedient zelenskyy pushing forward as well. i think back 1to the united kingdom skyy pushing forward as well. i think back 1to the united kingdom ,kyy came to the united kingdom, spoke hall. i was spoke in westminster hall. i was there. was standing he sort

there. i was standing as he sort of held that that that helmet, that fighter helmet aloft that fighter pilot helmet aloft and us wings to and said, give us the wings to protect our freedom. that helmet is now on display in speakers house, in parliament. lindsay hoyle has put it up in a in a in a glass case. and it just it reflects what petro poroshenko was saying. there they are holding the line. but in to order push the russians significantly back , they need significantly back, they need that extra air power. yeah absolutely. >> thank you very much to the former president of ukraine for talking to us. now, the government is considering a change of tack to help people give up smoking by adding words of encouragement to cigarette packs. well the consultation launched today includes adding inserts with health and financial benefits of giving up, as well as support available to those trying to stop . health those trying to stop. health secretary stephen barclay has said that smoking places a huge burden on the nhs directly causing a whole host of health problems and costs the economy billions every year in lost

productivity . productivity. >> smoking remains the leading prevention cause of illness and death in the uk, with around 76,000 people dying from it every year. >> well , we every year. >> well, we can talk to dr. rob branston , a professor at the branston, a professor at the tobacco control research group . tobacco control research group. what do you think of this idea then, professor? is it going to make a difference ? make a difference? >> i think this is a very welcome measure and it certainly will make a difference. at the moment , we know that will make a difference. at the moment, we know that this has been applied to tobacco markets in canada and israel and australia have also announced their intention to do so . and their intention to do so. and their intention to do so. and the research that's taken place in the markets where it has already been applied shows that it is effective and can make a real difference to smokers who want to quit. so it is a very welcome update for the uk tobacco control canada has about equal numbers of smokers as the united kingdom, about 13% of canadians smoke around 13% of brits smoke .

brits smoke. >> why would this make a significant difference ? yes. significant difference? yes. well we're at the point now where everyone who smokes knows it is bad for them. >> and so we need to try a whole range of other measures to encourage those 6.6 million uk citizens who still smoke to give up their deadly habit . so like up their deadly habit. so like canada , we're having to extend canada, we're having to extend our range of tobacco control regulations to try to do more to help those people who perhaps need that little bit more education or that little bit more encouragement to quit their deadly habits. and these inserts are one possibility. the government is looking to deploy in the uk . in the uk. >> one thing i'm not totally convinced by is that people are going to read them regularly. yes, they might. the first time and have a quick read and say, oh, what's this? but after that , what are they really going to bother to look at it ? bother to look at it? >> well, the evidence from canada shows they will. so something like 1 in 3 smokers looks at least once a month at those inserts . and those people

those inserts. and those people who look are a lot more likely to quit their deadly habits. yes. so you're right. not everyone is going to look every time they open their packet of cigarettes. but over course cigarettes. but over the course of their habit, there is the evidence suggest it will evidence to suggest that it will be looked at by a number of smokers and hence can make a difference . difference. >> is there any evidence that the plain packaging has made a particular difference in the united kingdom ? it strikes me united kingdom? it strikes me that most smokers continue to happily buy and sort of a desensitised sometimes to this messaging. isn't it the case that perhaps more muscular policy has worked more, maybe smoking bans or on the other hand , different incentives, the hand, different incentives, the rise in vaping has clearly had perhaps the biggest effect in this country . well to answer this country. well to answer your first point, yes, there is evidence to show that standardised packaging has had a significant and real impact on the uk market for tobacco products. >> the point about standardised packaging is it's supposed to de—glamorize the habit, so the real impact is long term in that

fewer people will hopefully start the habit. but there has also been evidence to show there have been changed trends in the marketplace which show that the policy of plain packaging has been helpful in addressing tobacco use today. as for the wider trends that you allude to with things like vaping, et cetera. clearly there are now increasing substitutes for tobacco products and that is important because it helps consumers who wish to quit smoking. so sustain their nicotine addictions and therefore make the transition away from smoking that little bit easier here, though, of course, we do have to remember that there isn't zero risk attached to these new products . attached to these new products. so these products are recommended to be a helpful way of quitting smoking, but something that ultimately should be moved away from as well. >> okay. dr. rob branston, a professor at the tobacco control research group . appreciate your research group. appreciate your thoughts on this topic, which we're getting plenty of views coming in about, so we'll read

you out some of those later. >> well, moving on, if the summer showers have you down in the dumps, don't fear because according to the met office, temperatures could reach a heady 30 c in parts of the uk this weekend. >> until then, though , a yellow >> until then, though, a yellow rain warning is in place for northern england and wales. there's always a catch, isn't there, with the potential for actually seriously flooding and disruption to infrastructure and transport. so do watch how you go if you are on the roads in those areas. >> well, to tell us more and to make sense of this peculiar mixed picture is weather journalist nathan rao. and nathan. afternoon. should we be getting out the brollies or the sunglasses ? sunglasses? >> i think you should be getting out. both. mean, today , where out. both. i mean, today, where do start today? a do we start today? there is a rain warning that's sort of in the of the uk. the north of the uk. >> met office. >> that's a met office. >> that's a met office. >> rain warning till 8 pm. today for up to about three inches of rain. >> so that's a serious issue. if you get heavy downpours there. but put your but if you have put your barbecues away and you've packaged for summer

packaged them up for the summer and your sunglasses and you've put your sunglasses away, you can get them back out again at end of this again because at the end of this week, are rising week, temperatures are rising again. weekend again. this weekend could be possibly best weekend for possibly be the best weekend for about weeks. if you've about six weeks. if you've been fed up all the miserable, fed up with all the miserable, wet it's about wet and rain. it's been about six had six weeks since we've had a really nice weekend. temperatures late 30s by temperatures in the late 30s by the sorry, late 20s, late 20s by the sorry, late 20s, late 20s by the end of this, we don't get too excited. >> not like last summer. no >> it's not like last summer. no by the this week and then by the end of this week and then the weekend maybe touching 30 and then beyond touch go. and then beyond touch and go. >> looking pretty good. >> but it's looking pretty good. so summer is not over yet, is it? >> right. it's going to be potentially hotter than la. >> well, yeah, it could be. >> well, yeah, it could be. >> it depends. if you pick a place in la and you pick a place in the uk, now the south of the uk is always going to get the warmest temperatures because that's warm from that's where the warm air from the going to come the continent is going to come up, between low up, sandwiched between low pressure and high pressure to the west and high pressure to the west and high pressure now, if pressure to the east. now, if you go to around heathrow or saint james's park or those metoffice recording stations, sometimes a very sometimes you can catch a very high because they're high temperature because they're they're they're they're the places that they're

looking you looking for them. and if you contrast that somewhere contrast that to somewhere in la. they're not l.a. where maybe they're not getting day, you getting quite so good a day, you could this contrast of you could get this contrast of you could get this contrast of you could get this contrast of you could get a hotter day than somewhere so there's somewhere in la. so there's a bit trickery in there, bit of media trickery in there, a of media play with that. a bit of media play with that. but, but yes, you know, a really nice hot spell. unusually warm, actually end august actually for the end of august because above average. because it's well above average. these temperatures. but yes, we could get some nice temperatures. the temperatures. so get the get the sunglasses temperatures. so get the get the sun so sses temperatures. so get the get the sunso sses weekend, possibly >> so this weekend, possibly quite nice. know weather quite nice. i know that weather forecasting is really quite good in five and ten day forecasts now, but after it gets a now, but after that, it gets a bit sketchy . but with with bit sketchy. but with with perhaps crystal ball out perhaps the crystal ball out will this nice weather sustain or is it just going to be this one weekend and then that's kaput? >> well, i have to say, my crystal ball has failed me in previous occasions. but since you've gone there , the met you've gone there, the met office is saying that beyond the end of next week, the south is probably going to hold on to any of the better weather. it all depends which wind direction depends on which wind direction we mentioned, we've we get. as i mentioned, we've got to the west of got low pressure to the west of the uk and high pressure to the east of the uk and if you think

about plates that about two spinning plates that go directions, that go in different directions, that funnels warm air in between, funnels up warm air in between, which are. so which is where we are. so depending that battle depending on how that battle sort of plays out, will depend on long warmer on how the how long the warmer weather this is weather holds out. and this is very difficult to predict at the met office is sort of saying, you know, beyond next week, we could warmer temperatures could get warmer temperatures holding the south. holding out in the in the south. but north more but the north may be more unsettled, but overall, the picture showers picture is sunshine. showers unsettled, but maybe with temperatures above average. but as tom, it's really as you said, tom, it's really hard to 10 days, hard to say. but 5 to 10 days, especially when you've these especially when you've got these pressure going and pressure battles going on and it's opposed to last year it's not as opposed to last year when we had strong high pressure over the and get over the uk. and when you get high very hard to high pressure, it's very hard to shift. we may get low pressure, try to budge it out the way try to budge it out of the way from atlantic, but we from the atlantic, but we haven't that now. we've got haven't got that now. we've got one on either so there you go. >> crystal ball. thank you. >> crystal ball. thank you. >> all sounds really, >> know, that all sounds really, really and hopeful. really good and hopeful. slapping cream it. slapping the sun cream on it. >> finally, some barbecue. >> finally, some barbecue. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> in next hour, we'll be >> in the next hour, we'll be returning main story of returning to our main story of channel crossings street channel crossings downing street saying by of saying it stands by the use of barges house people. the

barges to house people. the latest next. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers. proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> hi there. it's aidan mcgivern here from the met office with the gb news forecast drier, brighter and warmer weather is on the way for later this week , on the way for later this week, but we've started monday with outbreaks of rain clearing northeastwards across the country. still some persistent wet weather associated with a number weather fronts that wet weather associated with a nun affecting eather fronts that wet weather associated with a nun affecting northern)nts that wet weather associated with a nunaffecting northern england are affecting northern england into parts of wales for the rest of monday. some thundery showers developing as the main band of rain eastwards and rain clears eastwards and there'll be some scattered showers elsewhere across the uk into the evening. but it eventually a drier theme emerges as we go into tuesday morning . as we go into tuesday morning. still some cloud and some showers into the west, but we've got some clear spells emerging in the south and southeast . in the south and southeast. temperatures staying at around 12 to 14 celsius. so we start off tuesday with still some

shower rain affecting eastern scotland. north east england and scattered showers further west as well into the afternoon . the as well into the afternoon. the cloud will build and it will tend to lift into fairly widespread showers . but there'll widespread showers. but there'll also be some sunny spells in between and it will feel pleasant in the sunny spells, certainly compared with monday's weather 24 celsius, the high in the south, but warmer weather to come later this week as a ridge of high pressure starts to build. we're going to see a bright start to the day on wednesday once any early fog clears and then spells for clears and then sunny spells for many on wednesday and more especially into thursday, will lead to rising temperatures up to mid to high 20s in places to the mid to high 20s in places that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers. >> proud

gb news. >> good afternoon. it is 2:00. you are watching the live desk with pip thompson and tom harwood on gb news. coming up in the next hour. >> the migrant crisis could last another five years. so says a leaked home office document saying the government will use former raf bases and a prison to house asylum seekers. the labour leader refuses to rule out doing the same . the same. >> meanwhile, the government promises to keep using barges to house migrants despite the detection of the bacteria that causes legionnaires disease on the bibby stockholm .

the bibby stockholm. >> just how much support do junior doctors have from the public? well, health bosses have warned that the nhs cannot take any more disruption amid yet more strikes. we're live from a picket line . picket line. >> plus , you don't have to be >> plus, you don't have to be religious to care about this. we'll be talking about the surge of interest in old mediaeval churches . more and more of of interest in old mediaeval churches. more and more of us are giving to money restore ancient places of worship. before all of that , your before all of that, your headunes before all of that, your headlines for tatiana . pipp. headlines for tatiana. pipp. >> thank you and good afternoon. this is the latest from the newsroom. sinn fein says a redacted version of the police data leak has been posted on a wall facing the party's offices . the party's policing spokesperson , gary kelly, spokesperson, gary kelly, described the move as sinister.

he says the document with the names of officers removed was posted with his photo and a threatening message last week. the details of 10,000 police officers and staff were published online by mistake. sinn fein says the latest incident indicates that dissidents have access to information , often posing a real information, often posing a real threat to officers . the psni threat to officers. the psni says additional security and reassurance patrols are already in place across the country . in place across the country. bidders for retailer wilko have been given until wednesday to put forward offers to buy the firm. the high street chain fell into administration last week , into administration last week, putting the future of its 400 stores and around 12,000 workers at risk. it's understood administrators from pwc have set the deadline to try to secure a dealin the deadline to try to secure a deal in a bid to save jobs. locals in nottingham say they're disappointed . disappointed. >> the very sad because wilko has been around forever. >> it's the first place that you think of going to when you want a bargain on a bit of a shock

really. >> another shop to go when it's actually one that you can go where little bits like if b&m haven't got it? wilko two nine times out of ten got it. it's unfortunate that , you know, a unfortunate that, you know, a shop like this, which actually serves the community really well , the league is being taken out from it. from underneath it. >> was very, very shocked >> i was very, very shocked because it's the right place because it's in the right place for people shop , shop and it for people to shop, shop and it has very good stuff. >> the staff are very friendly and i think they've got a good range of stuff that they sell. and i'm just very sad that it's closing . closing. >> two men have been stabbed in a homophobe pick attack outside a homophobe pick attack outside a nightclub in south west london. they were targeted while standing outside the venue on clapham high street last night. both were treated in hospital and later discharged. police are searching for the suspect . a searching for the suspect. a father and mother have been spared jail time for the death of their three month old daughter . kyra was killed by daughter. kyra was killed by a family dog. she was attacked in march last year in a car park in

lincolnshire . the siberian husky lincolnshire. the siberian husky caused her head and neck injuries . lincoln crown court injuries. lincoln crown court heard the animal was one of 19, kept by 55 year old vince king and 41 year old karen alcock . and 41 year old karen alcock. the government says it's trying to clarify when officials were made aware of the legionella concerns on board the bibby stockholm. it's after dorset council said home office contractors were told traces of the bacteria were detected on the bacteria were detected on the day asylum seekers boarded the day asylum seekers boarded the barge. all 39 people were removed from the vessel on friday. downing street says it expects them to return to the boat as soon as possible. but labour leader sir keir starmer says the government is failing to tackle the issue . to tackle the issue. >> i think the answer to this is barges is hotels , massive costs barges is hotels, massive costs £6 million a day. air bases. that's that's the symptom. the problem is that the government hasn't done enough work to break the gangs that are running this trade, this vile trade, and to

process the applications. and so the government has made a complete and utter mess of this. i mean , small boats week last i mean, small boats week last week was complete fiasco. we would fix the fundamentals, go after the gangs that are running this and process the claims. so we do not have this problem in the first place. >> the government is set to announce new plans to ensure cancer is caught earlier performance targets will be scrapped and replaced with a new, faster diagnosis standard, which will see patients who've been urgently referred receiving a diagnosis within 28 days. patients with cancer will then start treatment within nine weeks from the date of referral. the nhs believes the proposals will help save more lives, but cancer research uk says current missed targets represent years of underinvestment by the government . it comes as junior government. it comes as junior doctors in england contend knew their four day strike. it's estimated a million procedures and appointments will be cancelled and rearranged due to the action. the walkout started

on friday and ends at 7 am. tomorrow. it's the fifth round of strikes by british medical association members since march over a pay dispute . network rail over a pay dispute. network rail has released video of dangerous behaviour at level crossings . behaviour at level crossings. cctv compilation shows a person doing press ups , dog walkers doing press ups, dog walkers sitting their pets on the tracks for photos and children putting stones on the line . nearly 50 stones on the line. nearly 50 cases of misuse have been reported by train drivers who were caught on camera in worcestershire and the west midlands. so far this year. network is trying to raise network rail is trying to raise awareness discourage people awareness and discourage people from their lives . this from risking their lives. this is gb news across the uk on tv, in your car, on digital radio and on your smart speaker by simply saying play gb news. now it's back to pip . tom thanks , tatiana. >> you are watching the live desk on gb news. the government will continue to house migrants

on barges. that is despite the bibby stockholm having to be evacuated after traces of legionella bacteria were found. >> meanwhile, a leaked document shows that the home office is planning to offer asylum seekers rooms in disused raf bases for up to five years. it comes as 16,600 have crossed the channel so far this year. >> and we are also hearing that ministers are admitting that they may need to learn lessons from the bibby stockholm incident that's come from number 10. the government, though , is 10. the government, though, is standing by the use of barges to house people. well. earlier, we spoke to former home office minister norman baker. he warned that the crisis is going to get worse and need to get on with worse and we need to get on with our french neighbours. >> this is this is a major problem for all european countries . and i have to say countries. and i have to say it's getting it worse. it's going to get worse because we've got more more dysfunctional got more and more dysfunctional countries the world, countries across the world, partly western partly due to western interference, i might say, like iraq and syria and afghanistan,

where many of these migrants are coming from. so we need to have a proper foreign policy to try and stabilise these countries. that won't happen overnight, but it's a very important point to make. secondly, we need to get some agreement with other european countries, whether they're in eu or otherwise. they're in the eu or otherwise. you know, when we were in the eu, we had something called the dubun eu, we had something called the dublin which dublin agreement which enabled us return people to other eu us to return people to other eu countries . now, obviously that countries. now, obviously that lapsed when we left the eu. the eu also had agreement, had agreement with 24 countries outside the eu to return people to those countries. we can return them to albania , but return them to albania, but nobody else. so we have to look at on a multinational at this on a multinational basis. we cannot sort as ourselves. both boris johnson and liz truss were unnecessarily rude to the french and there is no point in being rude to the french. it doesn't achieve anything diplomatic anything at all. in diplomatic terms, useless and in fact terms, it's useless and in fact counterproductive, which is sunaki counterproductive, which is sunak i think has got a better arrangement with french. but arrangement with the french. but i think we need a clean start i do think we need a clean start with the french the

with both the french and the rest the eu in terms of our rest of the eu in terms of our relations. they are our neighbours, whether we like it or and we should get on or not. and we should get on with neighbours, just as you with our neighbours, just as you would with your next door neighbour wherever live now. >> norman baker, the former home office minister, speaking there. he mention dublin he did mention the dublin agreement had as a agreement that we had as a member the european union, member of the european union, although important although i think it is important to that were to note that while we were a part of those dublin regulations, migrants were regulations, more migrants were moved united kingdom moved into the united kingdom than out as a result than were moved out as a result of that scheme . but let's get of that scheme. but let's get more now with gb news political correspondent olivia hartley. and i'm keen to find out the timeline of exactly what's been going on with this barge , who going on with this barge, who knew what and when . knew what and when. >> so it seems that what happened, what the reports were getting is that last monday , the getting is that last monday, the local council in dorset were made aware of the legionnaires bacteria from the uk health department. so it was jenny harries , the medical officer who harries, the medical officer who let the dorset council know. now the dorset council claimed that

it told the home office straight away, but ministers say that they didn't hear about it until thursday, so it's not clear where the hold up was, where the civil servants in the home office who were sitting on the information, presumably accidentally not handing it over to or ministers not to ministers or ministers not being completely honest. it was steve barclay who said that ministers hear about it ministers didn't hear about it until thursday. perhaps he doesn't when suella doesn't know exactly when suella braverman but braverman heard about it, but the information was given to dorset on the monday . dorset council on the monday. did they not pass it over? who didn't over? didn't pass it over? >> surely, surely. olivia, you're not suggesting or the government's suggesting here government's not suggesting here that not that civil servants might not have every jot that civil servants might not havetittle every jot that civil servants might not havetittle of every jot that civil servants might not havetittle of their every jot that civil servants might not havetittle of their email ry jot that civil servants might not havetittle of their email lists: and tittle of their email lists in of august? could in the height of august? could it have been that civil servants, perhaps even servants, perhaps weren't even in office might have in the office and might have been netflix at been watching some netflix at home? i'm not home? i don't know. i'm not casting aspersions i'm casting aspersions here. i'm just thinking what might some senior ministers be senior ministers perhaps be thinking? senior ministers perhaps be thinkmean, there are 14,000 >> i mean, there are 14,000 civil in the home civil servants in the home office have office and it doesn't have a reputation for being a particularly efficient and well organised department. so it's possible that this is that this

is simply an admin error, essentially, that ministers weren't told on time . i mean, weren't told on time. i mean, there are those who are saying that ministers should have asked for the results. the legionnaire bacteria test was carried out weeks ago , a couple of weeks ago weeks ago, a couple of weeks ago and it you could argue that it ministers should have actually sought out that information rather than waiting for civil servants to hand it over. i mean, that said, if it was with the dorset council , it does feel the dorset council, it does feel very, very odd that it wasn't passed on. >> but it does sound like the prime minister's office, number 10, is admitting that lessons could be learned . his spokesman could be learned. his spokesman saying we'll be communicating with all relevant groups to see if we can learn something. as you would expect in any public health situation. >> yes , good blanket statement >> yes, good blanket statement there from the prime minister's office. think can office. i don't think anyone can object lessons be object to lessons could be learned. office is learned. the home office is being pretty defiant about this. they that, well, they are saying that, well, suella hoffman's office is saying that as soon as they had the information, they acted very, quickly indeed. but very, very quickly indeed. but

they didn't receive they just didn't receive the information thursday information until thursday when that public. they acted that was made public. they acted immediately, just where was the hold what we're going hold up? that's what we're going to have to wait and find. >> dorset council is defending its of the situation as its handling of the situation as well. so it's all it's all still very isn't and very unclear, isn't it? and still no word as to when people will move back onto the barge. but sound are but it does sound like they are going to is still the plan. going to that is still the plan. >> it does sound like they're to going are really, going ministers are really, really to make this work. really keen to make this work. they've lot of they've jumped through a lot of holes this point. they holes to reach this point. they were had to go to the were they they had to go to the supreme court about it. the dorset council took them to court and they managed court about it and they managed to loop. the to get through that loop. the last they want to last thing they want now is to be is to be thwarted at this 11th hour. so they are going to do everything they possibly can to sure that the that to make sure that that the that the barge can into the barge can can go into action. the 16 people who have been for, i think at 16 been tested for, i think at 16 people been for people who've been tested for legionnaires disease have tested negative, pointed legionnaires disease have tested negthat , pointed legionnaires disease have tested negthat it pointed legionnaires disease have tested negthat it sometimes pointed legionnaires disease have tested negthat it sometimes takes ed legionnaires disease have tested negthat it sometimes takes up out that it sometimes takes up to weeks for symptoms to to two weeks for symptoms to show . it's still possible show. so it's still possible that actually has the that someone actually has the disease, if not feels the

government will put a lot of resources into getting all the testing complete so it can be made safe. >> okay, olivia, for now, thank you much. you very much. >> josh well, let's return >> josh well, now let's return back a story that we were back to a story that we were looking at in the last hour about government plans to help people give up smoking by adding words of encouragement to cigarette packets. we're getting lots and lots of messages from you. mike has written in to say , this might sound bad, but i smoke because i enjoy it. i'd rather live my life enjoying what i do and die younger than live longer and not do what i enjoy. >> okay, that is a valid, valid, valid point. yeah. steve says as a smoker who has finally given up after over 40 odd years of smoking , i can tell you the smoking, i can tell you the decision to give up comes only from the individual will. no amount of scare tactics, gruesome photos or quotes will make any difference. >> and michelle has written in to say a smoker is a smoker. you can put cards inside packs with words of encouragement. none

nothing can stop a smoker smoking unless they want to stop. well, i suppose the point about the little packages is that or the little messages is it it's supposed to encourage the smoker or help, but perhaps , perhaps it's not going to be that convincing. >> says it is >> james, meanwhile, says it is nice to see the government being proactive about stopping this disgusting habit. but i don't think it will have any impact whatsoever . so he's think it will have any impact whatsoever. so he's sounding very pessimist , nick. i mean , i very pessimist, nick. i mean, i just still don't think that people are going to read it. >> i think people might treat it as a bit of a joke , like as a bit of a joke, like a christmas cracker having a message like a penguin biscuit. i don't know. >> perhaps there'll be penguin biscuit. >> perhaps there'll be penguin bisiwhen you last have one of those? >> i probably in my lunch box about 20 years ago . about 20 years ago. >> but no, i don't know. >> but. but no, i don't know. little, little messages, unique messages is perhaps. perhaps they'd make a difference on the margin. it doesn't sound like it's going to be something seismic, does it? >> maybe idea is a good >> maybe any idea is a good idea because smoking is still costing

the nhs. we're told . an the nhs. we're told. an additional £2.4 billion, although social care costs, we had over a billion. >> we had the guest on earlier who was telling us that smoke taxes from smoking raised 10 billion. >> so perhaps actually it's a net revenue raiser, although the government does say it wants to get smoking down to zero by 2030. so it does have a way to go there. >> well, it's like it's target over over petrol and diesel cars, we'll see. cars, isn't it? we'll see. >> well, the influential federation of small businesses has, in other news, backed the gb news don't kill cash campaign as the move away from cash gathers pace, small businesses and the self—employed are raising concerns that card companies could monopolise on the shift and impose extra charges . charges. >> as our economics and business editor liam halligan has this special report out from london. >> taxi driver howard taylor says cash now accounts for just a 10th of the money he takes each day. like countless cabbies across britain, howard now

relies on card payments with the company that facilitates such payments, taking 2% of everything he makes. but howard is concerned that as cash disappears , the card payment disappears, the card payment firms will become even more dominant and could increase how much they charge . much they charge. >> what happens in the future is anybody's guess. so i've got the game to themselves and there is no cash charge . what they like, no cash charge. what they like, no cash charge. what they like, no one's got any options . no one's got any options. >> and worries you? >> and that worries you? >> and that worries you? >> yes yeah. i don't like >> yes. yes yeah. i don't like anybody to be in control of. too much control over everybody else. when you else. and especially when you talk something as basic talk about something as basic as one's finances , as howard's one's finances, as howard's views shared by countless other self—employed and small business owners who've contacted gb news says the federation of small businesses also worries that card payment companies could charge firms more as competition from cash disappears with higher charges being passed on in the form of higher consumer prices. >> so if we ended up with a cashless high street , then that

cashless high street, then that is a big competitor to the card companies in terms of a payment method gone without that competitor , naturally that gives competitor, naturally that gives them more of a monopoly position. and so it's not that much of a stretch of the imagination that they could then put their fees because for put up their fees because for a retailer they may have no other way of taking payment. since the covid pandemic, more and more shops, and pubs only shops, cafes and pubs only accept card payments . yet accept card payments. yet 5 million of us in the uk still rely on cash every day, which accounts for 6 billion transactions a year. that's why gb news has launched our don't kill cash campaign . and i call kill cash campaign. and i call on the government says our petition to introduce legislation to protect the status of cash as legal tender and as a widely accepted means of payment in the uk until at least 2050. and when it comes to card companies potentially charging traders and taxi drivers more financial consultants say that's actually already happening . already happening. >> when you make as a seller a card payment , make

>> when you make as a seller a card payment, make a sale on a card payment, make a sale on a car , you're supposed to get car, you're supposed to get 99.8% of the value. >> if it's a debit card and 99.7% if it's a credit card . 99.7% if it's a credit card. >> but the industry with the agreement of the regulators who are supposed to police this along now that the deductions on card payments can go up by 7, up to 7. >> so it it already is costing , >> so it it already is costing, that's a real danger. >> the card payment companies deny any abuse of market power , deny any abuse of market power, but cabbies like howard remain concerned that as we go cashless payment charges will rise. liam halligan . gb news thanks to liam halligan. gb news thanks to liam for that report. >> and remember, if you have not yet signed, get over to our website gbnews.com or use your smartphone or tablet to scan the qr code on your screen. right now we're aiming for 300,000

signatures. three times the level we need to get it debated in parliament. >> brilliant. and we're moving ever closer to of that figure. let's take you to the united states now because we are seeing live pictures from atlanta in georgia, where security has been increased as donald trump braces himself for his fourth criminal indict moment. those are the latest pictures as prosecutors at the courthouse are expected to present a grand jury with the findings from their two and a half year investigation into former president donald trump and a number of his allies for their alleged attempts to overturn donald trump's narrow election loss in georgia in november 2020. if we remember back to january, the second, 2021, there was this infamous phone call between donald trump and the secretary of state of georgia, where he attempted to ask or allegedly attempted to ask or allegedly attempted to ask for extra ballots to be,

quote unquote, found in order to shift the result in the wake of that election. >> it caused a big media storm at the time. but over the last two and a half years, there have been special prosecutors looking into this, particularly this phone call , into this, particularly this phone call, but other into this, particularly this phone call , but other records into this, particularly this phone call, but other records as well, to see if this broke the law . and this morning in the us law. and this morning in the us this afternoon in the uk, we'll find out if this indictment does take place . take place. >> and yes, so the grand jury will likely decide within days whether for mr trump will be indicted for interfering in that presidential election in georgia . and can you believe he has already been indicted in three separate cases this year and he remains far ahead of competitors in the race for the 2024 republican nomination , despite republican nomination, despite all these legal cases. absolutely. >> it is extraordinary to think back to that phone call that instigated this particular investigation. he asked the

georgia's he asked georgia's secretary of state to, quote unquote, find . 11,780 votes. unquote, find. 11,780 votes. now, that's just one more than it would have taken to overturn the results in that state. a pretty extraordinary phone call. it will be interesting to hear what the defence s of trump and his allies will be, but as we say, live pictures here of the courthouse in atlanta, georgia . courthouse in atlanta, georgia. >> you're watching the live desk on gb news. coming up, the boom in church restoration. we'll be to talking the friends of friendless churches about why people want to save our ancient places of worship. the details next. that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. of weather on. gb news. >> hi there. it's aidan mcgivern here from the met office with the gb news forecast. dry air, brighter and warmer weather is

on way for later this week, on the way for later this week, but monday with but we've started monday with outbreaks of rain clearing northeastwards the northeastwards across the country. still some persistent wet weather associated with a number weather fronts that number of weather fronts that are affecting northern england into parts of wales. for the rest monday. some thundery rest of monday. some thundery showers developing the main showers developing as the main band rain clears eastwards band of rain clears eastwards and there'll be some scattered showers elsewhere across the uk into the evening. but but eventually a drier theme emerges as we go into tuesday morning . as we go into tuesday morning. still some cloud and some showers into the west, but we've got some clear spells emerging in the south and southeast . in the south and southeast. temperatures staying at around 12 to 14 celsius. so we start off tuesday with still some showers , rain affecting eastern showers, rain affecting eastern scotland. north east england and scattered showers further west as well into the afternoon. the cloud will build and it will tend to lift into fairly widespread showers . but there'll widespread showers. but there'll also be some sunny spells in between and it will feel pleasant in the sunny spells,

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this evening. gb news is the people's . channel people's. channel >> welcome back. it's 2:27 now. whereas most of us take our chances, perhaps for granted, one charity is seeking to restore britain's forgotten mediaeval churches and preserve them for future generations . them for future generations. >> us, founded in 1957, friends of friendless churches now has around 60 churches in its care and uses heritage grants and donations to restore these little citadels of british history, some of which are 900 years old. >> well, let's hear more now from the director of friends of friendless churches, rachel morley. and rachel, thank you so much for making the time for us this afternoon. i suppose some people might be surprised to learn that there are churches sort of dotted around the country, some of which are almost a thousand years old.

>> yeah, it's incredible . i >> yeah, it's incredible. i mean, coming here as an irish woman, i just loved seeing and finding and exploring all of these little lost pockets of england and wales. um, they're full of like local legend and, and, and local history and it's such a, they're such a brilliant way of, of learning about the country. so yeah. >> and are many of them in a really bad state of neglect then um . um. >> oh golly. well i suppose in england there are about 16,000 anglican churches in wales there's about 1300. so um, i think there's not a huge proportion of them which are in really dreadful condition, like this one here on the screen. but some of them are , are quite some of them are, are quite neglected and in our case, you know, we have 60 churches in our care and we take on more every year because they close. and some of the reasons that they close just because the cost close are just because the cost to repair them and the skills to

repair them are too great. um and that's, that's a real shame because they are the architecture and spiritual, um , architecture and spiritual, um, kind of legacy of generations , i suppose. >> we are a less religious country now than we used to be. one of the reasons why these churches might be falling into disrepair is that fewer people are worshipping. is there a case for sort of changing the purpose of these churches to museums or perhaps other sort of roles that they can take on in society ? they can take on in society? >> yeah, i think definitely . i >> yeah, i think definitely. i think they can absolutely have a role as a as community centres . role as a as community centres. as so for instance, some of some of the churches in our care, um , you know, they're the only pubuc , you know, they're the only public building left in, in a village and it is used for community events such as, you know, fetes and scout halls and those sorts of things . and other those sorts of things. and other ones are used as like for instance we've got one which is

a stained glass studio, a stained glass artist studio in, in, in essex. so i think there's lots that can be done with these places. um, our concern is that they pass out of pass out of the pubuc they pass out of pass out of the public realm because throughout their lives they've been community buildings, they've been locally endowed and supported by local people. so that we feel that they should remain in some sort of communal use for sure . use for sure. >> i know you've been helped by the national heritage memorial fund, but also individual donations to what? what is the attraction often for people do they say, in helping to preserve mediaeval churches? because of course, we're always getting literature , aren't we, through literature, aren't we, through our door wanting to us support many charities ? many charities? >> yeah , that's a very good >> yeah, that's a very good question. i think , um, well, i question. i think, um, well, i think a lot of people realise that , um, think a lot of people realise that, um, these churches are, um, they're supported by, by volunteer hours, by, you know,

by a worshipping community that isn't necessarily there to support a grade one listed building. they're there for , building. they're there for, for, for a different reason. so i think definitely to support, to support those groups that that look after our built heritage for us. um, i think i think definitely post pandemic so when people were you know confined to england or wales say there was a lot more exploration of your local area. and i think that definitely made people value what was on their doorstep so much more. and we've definitely seen , you know, an definitely seen, you know, an increase in membership and donations in the last three years. um but also i think , you years. um but also i think, you know, they are they're just the greatest repositories of kind of art and architecture and they're every where and for the most place they're open . and i mean, place they're open. and i mean, we should really recognise, um, what we've got, what we've got in this country. it's fantastic. i really, really special parts of history, i suppose.

>> rachel morley , director of >> rachel morley, director of friends of friendless churches , friends of friendless churches, thank you so much for your time here on gb news. this afternoon. >> now , coming up, it is >> now, coming up, it is falklands day. did you know the anniversary of when the islands in the south atlantic were first sighted? we'll be talking more about that shortly before that, here's headlines with here's your headlines with tatiana . pip. tatiana. pip. >> thank you and good afternoon. this is the latest from the newsroom. shin fein says a redacted version of the police data leak has been posted on a wall facing the party's offices as the party's policing spokesperson gary kelly described the move as sinister. he says the document with the names of officers removed was posted with his photo and a threatening message last week. the details of 10,000 police officers and staff were published online by mistake . published online by mistake. sinn fein says the latest incident indicates that dissidents have access to information posing a real threat to officers. the psni says

additional security and reassurance patrols are already in place across the country . the in place across the country. the government says it's trying to clarify when officials were made aware of the legionella concerns on board the bibby stockholm. it's after dorset council said home office contractors were told traces of the bacteria were detected on the day asylum seekers boarded the barge . all seekers boarded the barge. all 39 people were removed from the vessel on friday. downing street says it expects them to return to the boat as soon as possible . two men have been stabbed in a homophobic , phobic attack homophobic, phobic attack outside a nightclub in south west london. they were targeted while standing outside the venue on clapham high street last night. both were treated in hospital and later discharged. police are searching for the suspect . bidders for retailer suspect. bidders for retailer wilko have been given until wednesday to put forward offers to buy the firm. the high street chain fell into administration last week , putting the future of last week, putting the future of its 400 stores in around 12,000 workers at risk . it's understood

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on gb news. we are hearing this a lot at the moment, aren't we? health bosses warning that the nhs cannot take any more disruption amid the four days of strike action staged by junior doctors , services are at tipping doctors, services are at tipping point , doctors, services are at tipping point, according to nhs providers, with the cost of covering this industrial action at an estimated £1 billion, as well as leading 2000 more postponed treatments for patients . yes, but how much patients. yes, but how much support by how much support do junior doctors actually have from the public? anna riley has more . on arbitration now. more. on arbitration now. >> it's the fifth time junior doctors have walked out of the wards this year. their union, the british medical association, have refused to accept the government's final offer of a 6% pay government's final offer of a 6% pay rise and instead want a 35% uplift. but doctors is on the picket line at leeds general infirmary and across england are

also fighting for improvements in the nhs . in the nhs. >> we're here making a stance because it is imperative that we save our nhs . each and every one save our nhs. each and every one of my colleagues here on the picket lines as well as at work, have already conceived needed an exit strategy. this dispute exit strategy. if this dispute is settled, they are looking is not settled, they are looking at other countries. they're looking at other professions altogether. this is how desperate we are. it is heartbreaking that patients actually end up coming an actually end up coming in as an emergency operation when they could safer and could have had a safer and better operation on an better outcome operation on an elective list. and this is the result of the pressures and the massive pay cuts and funding cuts that the government have forced upon nhs . forced upon the nhs. >> industrial action has to led 835,000 postponed appointments and this is adding to the hospital backlog that topped 7.6 million for the first time at the end of june. this means nearly 1 in 7 people like anastasia tempest are on a hospital waiting list. >> i've actually got a serious gastroenterology problem and it

affects my nerves . i've been on affects my nerves. i've been on affects my nerves. i've been on a waiting list for a for over three years. and i'm interested. this is a new thing. three years. and i'm interested. this is a new thing . i'm this is a new thing. i'm interested in going private if the nhs will allow. yes i realise that the nhs on one level is successful , but on level is successful, but on another level it's cracking . another level it's cracking. >> and here's what people in yorkshire think too. the ongoing junior doctor strike action they've been let down by government after government after so long. >> they argue that money, they work hard and they just it's not recognised for them striking. >> but i don't support the amount of money they're asking for. i think it's ridiculous compared to other pay deals . compared to other pay deals. it's all about the money. >> you know, the manchester about the money, then other people's health. and i don't believe, i think it's wrong. >> you're doing a fantastic job and should paid triple and they should be paid triple the of what they're the amount of what they're getting paid now the hospitals are is .

are full as it is. >> and you know , there's no >> and you know, there's no reason for the junior doctors to be on strike. >> the industrial action is due to end at 7 am. on tuesday day with the bma urging the government to get back to the negotiating table or face further strikes. anna riley . gb further strikes. anna riley. gb news and thanks to for anna that report. >> let's get more now with gb news east midlands reporter will hollis, who is in notts , where hollis, who is in notts, where there has been a picket line this morning. there has been a picket line this morning . yes well the this morning. yes well the queen's medical centre is one of the biggest emergency departments in europe . departments in europe. >> around 600 people go into a&e every single day of course, it is a lot quieter right now , is a lot quieter right now, though, because junior doctors are on strike. this is the fifth wave of strikes that members of the british medical association have taken part in. ultimately, what they want is a 35% pay increase. they say that will

take it back to the levels that they were on in 2008, five, 18 years ago, and bring it right back up to where it should be because of 15 years of below inflation pay rises . now, you've inflation pay rises. now, you've heard from people in yorkshire, you've heard about the support as well as the lack of support from some people for this ongoing strike. but today , as ongoing strike. but today, as you say, there has been a picket line outside of this hospital as there will have been outside of many hospitals around the country. and i've been speaking to some of the junior doctors about why even now months on, they remain on picket lines as doors have always been open for stephen barclay to come to the table and talk to us. >> we're trying to get a fair and reasonable offer. so that is to try and get junior doctors pay up to try and get junior doctors pay up from £14 hour where it pay up from £14 an hour where it is currently up to £19 an hour. the government's offered us 6% and that is still a real terms pay and that is still a real terms pay cut for this year alone. i think for me for and a lot of

doctors, we wouldn't be able to justify not doing anything. so before the strikes even started, the waiting lists were at 7 million. i having tell million. i was having to tell patients instead waiting patients that instead of waiting two an appointment, two months for an appointment, they're to wait ten they're having to wait ten months. the week waiting months. the two week waiting list. government can't even list. the government can't even keep at moment. if keep to that at the moment. if we didn't anything, doctors we didn't do anything, doctors would continue the uk would continue to leave the uk and patients wouldn't receive the care that they should be receiving . receiving. >> well, it was a 6% pay increase that junior doctors had. steve barclay the health secretary, says there is no more room for negotiations, but he's happy to talk about how he can make their environment a little bit better . but that make their environment a little bit better. but that isn't what they want ultimately, they want more money for the job that they say is exactly the same since 2008. but of course , we do have 2008. but of course, we do have those record breaking waiting times. 7.5 million people on the waiting list for a hospital appointment. >> indeed . will hollis, thank >> indeed. will hollis, thank you very much for that update . you very much for that update. >> now, if you haven't remembered, today is falklands

day, celebrated on the 14th of august. every year this commemorate it's the first sighting of the falkland islands by the english navigator and explorer john by the english navigator and explorerjohn davis by the english navigator and explorer john davis . by the english navigator and explorerjohn davis . on by the english navigator and explorerjohn davis. on this day in 1592. might i add, before the argentinians got there, some celebrations include a thanksgiving service , followed thanksgiving service, followed by wreath laying and a military parade. >> but what else is happening today ? today? >> well, joining us now is the communication manager for the friends of the british overseas territories, oliver wilder . territories, oliver wilder. spin. thanks for joining territories, oliver wilder. spin. thanks forjoining us, oliver. so, first of all, what doesit oliver. so, first of all, what does it mean to celebrate falklands day ? falklands day? >> well, it's a great reminder of the history of the falkland islands, which goes back over 450 years. and to remember the role that the uk has played right from the beginning in 1592, as you've just said, it was a british sailor who discovered the islands a century later, in 1690, it was another engush later, in 1690, it was another english sailor, john strong, who

made the first landing. and then in 1766, we had the first british settlement on the island and the links between the falklands and the uk are stronger than ever, and it's great to celebrate what is a very important part of the british family. >> what does it say then to those who might not think of the focus islands as british? of course, we know that the argentinians continue to claim that these aren't the falkland islands, they're islas las malvinas. what's their claim ? malvinas. what's their claim? >> well, their claim is that for a period in the early 19th century, a state which preceded modern day argentina had nominal control of the islands . but when control of the islands. but when you look at the broad history of the islands, it's very clear that the uk has the strongest claim. but actually the history doesn't really matter. what matters is the principle of self—determination . the self—determination. the islanders have said time and time again they are british. they want to remain british. a decade ago, in 2013, they voted

on a turnout of 92. by 99.8% to remain british. so their voice is very clear. self—determination is a principle enshrined in the un charter, which argentina is supposed be a signatory to. so it's about time that they respect the wishes of the islanders . islanders. >> and since 1982, the lives of people living on the falklands . people living on the falklands. i mean they have been transformed. what is life like for people living there today? >> well , the falklands are very >> well, the falklands are very prosperous . it's a great success prosperous. it's a great success story of the local government and the british government working together. they've got a very successful squid fishing industry . so actually, gdp per industry. so actually, gdp per caphain industry. so actually, gdp per capita in the falklands is the fourth highest of any country or territory in the world, which is something we should really celebrate. they've got an amazing array of biodiversity , amazing array of biodiversity, over a million penguins living there. it's also an important albatross breeding ground . so we albatross breeding ground. so we can really celebrate that . in can really celebrate that. in the years since the war, the the 40 years since the war, the falklands islands have gone from

strength . strength to strength. >> well, thank you so much for coming on to talk about what should be a very celebratory day. oliver wilderspin of the friends of the british overseas territories there. thank you. >> something completely different now because as we were telling you earlier, neymar has become the latest big name footballer to agree a big money move to saudi arabia in a deal that will reportedly see him pocket an astonishing . £275 pocket an astonishing. £275 million over the duration of his two year contract. >> and elsewhere, football fans up and down the country will have been greatly relieved , have been greatly relieved, served as the premier league returned this weekend with manchester city begin their title defence against newly promoted burnley and luton town playing in the premier league for the first time in their history . history. >> we can now speak to former professional footballer jason cundy , who can bring us up to cundy, who can bring us up to date with what's been going on. good to see you, jason. this afternoon. afternoon. afternoon. good afternoon. should start with

should we should we start with neymar this move from paris neymar then this move from paris saint—germain to saudi arabia. he's yet another player off their . their. >> yeah he's his options were limited. he wanted to go back to barcelona but the wages are so vast that there are very few clubs in fact, there's only a couple of areas in the world that can afford him. >> and he's gone out there to saudi. manchester united didn't want city didn't want him, man city didn't chelsea his options were chelsea and his options were limited, the sort of money limited, but the sort of money that he's he's earning is absolutely and absolutely eyewatering. and they're it they're going to continue, it would saudi try and would appear saudi to try and get all of the best talent in the world over where they're playing. >> it's so interesting looking at the sort of furore around these different moves and the growth in which and the investment, perhaps i should say, in which saudi arabia is putting into football. but of course they've been doing it with many other sports as well. well, is this fundamentally shifting how the game is being perceived by fans is i don't think that there's going to be any threat to the premier

league. >> i know they get a lot of big names over there, but i don't know what the standard of football is going to be like. there's no history there. they won't, don't think, to be able won't, i don't think, to be able to any of the big to compete with any of the big leagues. course, when you leagues. but of course, when you get the best players in the get in the best players in the world over there, there's going to interest. but i'm not to be some interest. but i'm not convinced going to be convinced that it's going to be anything to many people, anything that to many people, certainly in europe, are going anything that to many people, ce be nly in europe, are going anything that to many people, ce be watching ope, are going anything that to many people, ce be watching too are going anything that to many people, ce be watching too closely.ng to be watching too closely. >> i suppose i should ask >> and i suppose i should ask you slightly tongue in you about a slightly tongue in cheek front page on the cheek first front page on the sun it says kane sun this morning. it says kane could germany. could play for germany. it's referring not, course , to referring not, of course, to harry kane, but to but to harry kane's son. to be who , if he's kane's son. to be who, if he's born in germany, could, of course, end up playing for the german side. oh, yes. course, end up playing for the geraan side. oh, yes. course, end up playing for the gera tongue oh, yes. course, end up playing for the gera tongue inh, yes. course, end up playing for the gera tongue in cheek. >> a tongue in cheek. absolutely. if he can go on a having a career anywhere near what his dad's done, then he's going to be a hell of a player. so, look, harry, he's had to make the he to move make the move. he had to move on. got a huge amount of on. spurs got a huge amount of money now it's going to money for him. now it's going to be where they spend that money and replace him. think and replace him. but i think young has a long way

young kane has got a long way off yet. >> also other big news >> also some other big news today is chelsea agreeing this deal brighton midfielder deal for brighton midfielder moises caicedo? now that's a 115 million. he could have gone to liverpool, but he's chosen chelsea . chelsea. >> yeah. yes what a lovely position to be in when you're going for over £100 million like the liverpool or chelsea. from what i can gather, he's got a lot of friends that play in london. i think it's just down to lifestyle and personal choice where to reside and where he wants to reside and that been, i believe, the that has been, i believe, the tipping factor to why he's ended up at set at chelsea . up at set at chelsea. >> okay. jason cundy , we could >> okay. jason cundy, we could talk to you about so much more. there's so much going on, man united, playing wolves tonight and everything that's going on with harry maguire. but apparently we haven't got time, so about that. so i'm so sorry about that. but let's you on again very let's get you back on again very soon. thanks so much, jason. >> good day. >> good day. >> now the influential federation of small businesses has gb don't has backed the gb news don't kill campaign , even as the kill cash campaign, even as the move away from cash gathers pace, small businesses and the

self—employed are raising pace, small businesses and the self—emjthat d are raising pace, small businesses and the self—emjthat d arecompanies concerns that card companies could monopolise on the shift and impose extra charges . well, and impose extra charges. well, our economics and business editor liam halligan has this special report out. london taxi driver howard taylor says cash now accounts for just a 10th of the money he takes each day. >> like countless cabbies across britain, howard now relies on card payments with the company that facilitates such payments, taking 2% of everything he makes . but howard is concerned that as cash disappears , the card as cash disappears, the card payment firms will become even more dominant and could increase how much they charge . how much they charge. >> what happens in the future is anybody's guess. so i've got the game to themselves and there is no cash charge . what they like, no cash charge. what they like, no cash charge. what they like, no one's got any options . and no one's got any options. and that worries you? yes yeah. i don't like anybody to be in control of too much control over everybody else, and especially when you talk about something as bafic when you talk about something as basic as one's finances. >> howard's view is shared by

countless other self—employed >> howard's view is shared by coursmall)ther self—employed >> howard's view is shared by coursmall business —employed >> howard's view is shared by coursmall business owners yed >> howard's view is shared by coursmall business owners who've and small business owners who've contacted gb news us, the federation of small businesses also worries that card payment companies could charge firms more as competition from cash disappears with higher charges being passed on in the form of higher consumer prices is if we ended up with a cashless high street, then that is a big competitor to the card companies in terms of a payment method gone without that competitor, not really. that gives them more of a monopoly position. and so it's not that much of a stretch of the imagination that they could then put up their fees because for a retailer they may have no other way of taking payment since the covid payment out. since the covid pandemic , more and more shops, pandemic, more and more shops, cafes pubs only accept card cafes and pubs only accept card payments . yet 5 million of us in payments. yet 5 million of us in the uk still rely on cash every day, which accounts for 6 billion transactions a year. that's why gb news has launched our don't kill cash campaign . i our don't kill cash campaign. i call on the government, says our petition to introduce

legislation to protect the status of cash as legal tender and as a widely accepted means of payment in the uk until at least 2050. and when it comes to card companies potentially charging traders and taxi drivers more financial consultants say that's actually already happening . already happening. >> when you make as a seller a card payment , make >> when you make as a seller a card payment, make a sale on a card payment, make a sale on a card , you're supposed to get card, you're supposed to get 99.8% of the value. >> if it's a debit card and 99.7% if it's a credit card . 99.7% if it's a credit card. >> but the industry with the agreement of the regulators who are supposed to police this allow that the deductions on card payments can go up by 7, up to 7. >> so it it already is costing . >> so it it already is costing. >> so it it already is costing. >> that's a real danger. the card payment companies deny any abuse of market power, but cabbies like howard remain

concerned and that as we go cashless payment charges will rise . liam halligan gb news says rise. liam halligan gb news says thanks to liam for that report. >> now, while i suppose some taxi drivers are clearly concerned , they're the reason concerned, they're the reason why this is spreading so much is so many people find it so much more convenient as well. it's a really finely balanced thing . really finely balanced thing. >> absolutely. before we go, we must just you this, this must just tell you this, this funny story . a cinderella funny little story. a cinderella hunt underway for the owner hunt is underway for the owner of a pair broken shoes. do of a pair of broken shoes. do they belong to you ? they were they belong to you? they were left outside a lancaster repair shop which has now been fixed by the owner. he repaired the store's owner. he repaired the store's owner. he repaired the broken strap for free. the owner thinks somebody had a bit of a heavy night out on friday night and left them there on saturday morning. so do get in touch with us they're yours touch with us if they're yours or you know whose are, or if you know whose they are, because otherwise might get because otherwise they might get sold bum. sold on bum bum. >> day cinderella story. >> modern day cinderella story. love well, much more to come love it. well, much more to come with. news. patrick christys with. gb news. patrick christys is next. >> that warm feeling inside from

boxt boilers is proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. of weather on. gb news. >> hi there. it's aidan mcgivern here from the met office with the gb news forecast. dry air, brighter and warmer weather is on the way for later this week, but started monday with but we've started monday with outbreaks rain clearing outbreaks of rain clearing northeastwards across the country. some persistent country. still some persistent wet weather associated with a number fronts that number of weather fronts that are affecting northern england into parts of wales for the rest of monday. some thundery showers developing as main band of developing as the main band of rain clears eastwards and there'll be some scattered showers elsewhere across the uk into evening. but eventually into the evening. but eventually a dry , clear theme emerges as we a dry, clear theme emerges as we go into tuesday morning. still some cloud and some showers into the west, but we've got some clear spells emerging in the south and southeast. temperatures staying at around 12 to 14 celsius. so we start off tuesday with still some showery rain affecting eastern scotland and northeast england

and scattered showers further west as well into the afternoon. the cloud will build and it will tend to lift into fairly widespread spread showers, but they'll also be some sunny spells in between and it will feel pleasant in the sunny spells, certainly compared with monday's weather, 24 celsius, the high in the south, but warmer weather to come later this week as a ridge of high pressure starts to build . we're pressure starts to build. we're going to see a bright start to the day on wednesday once any early fog clears and then sunny spells for many on wednesday and more especially into thursday, will to rising temperatures will lead to rising temperatures up the mid to high 20s in up to the mid to high 20s in places that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, proud sponsors of weather on

it's 3 pm. is patrick christys. it's 3 pm. is patrick christys. it's gb news. we're tackling all of the big topics this hour. who is to blame for what happened in the channel over the weekend that migrant tragedy? is it us? everyone seems to think so. is it the french? what are they playing with £480 million playing at with the £480 million we've is it the we've given them? is it the human is yet again, human trafficker is yet again, people are queuing today to people are queuing up today to make crossing across make that crossing across the channel. do that? if you're channel. why do that? if you're putting yourself in a putting yourself in such a dangerous situation? lots to unpack other news, unpack there. other news, though, to though, we're going to be talking this. apparently talking about this. apparently patients in wales and scotland are being told to use the nhs in

england because their respective governments there are making such a hash of it. so actually, could the nhs be trusted under a labour government given what's going on in wales? in other news, we'll be talking about this as well. remarkable this story so the founder story actually. so the founder for extinction rebellion for one of extinction rebellion has come out against ulez. for one of extinction rebellion has come out against ulez . find has come out against ulez. find out why in just a tick. i will also be discussing this as well. yes stars just gratuitously wants throw one in there wants to throw that one in there at 3 pm. on monday. but at 3 pm. on a monday. but apparently been apparently there's been a startling in the number apparently there's been a stipeople in the number apparently there's been a stipeople going in the number apparently there's been a stipeople going to1 the number apparently there's been a stipeople going to pawnbrokers . of people going to pawnbrokers. why? well, because they need cash. why? well, because they need cash . and all this ties into cash. and all of this ties into our don't kill cash campaign. patrick christys . gb news. i'm patrick christys. gb news. i'm also going to be asking you a little bit about this, you know, level crossings. let's play the footage, right? so level crossings. rail has crossings. now, network rail has revealed a astonishing video of people letting their kids play on them . they've got dogs on them. they've got dogs sitting down on them as well, people posing for pictures, people posing for pictures,

people standing