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lifetime. prime minister rishi sunak in the last few minutes has been speaking for the first time since returning from his summer holiday. here's what he had to say . say. >> yeah, we're planning for winter in the nhs earlier than we've ever done before. that's why today i'm announcing £250 million to invest in more a&e capacity in 30 different sites across the country . earlier this across the country. earlier this yeanl across the country. earlier this year, i announced our urgent and emergency care recovery plan . emergency care recovery plan. that's about more beds, more ambulances, faster discharge , ambulances, faster discharge, all of which improves patient care. and although we've still got work to do, we're starting to see the results of that ambulance response times have come down considerably. a&e performance is improving and today another step on that today is another step on that journey to a better performing nhs, delivering better care for people particularly this people, particularly this winter. bring down winter. and will it bring down waiting lists? well, this is about urgent and emergency care waiting lists? well, this is abormakingt and emergency care waiting lists? well, this is abormaking sure emergency care waiting lists? well, this is abormaking sure thatergency care waiting lists? well, this is abormaking sure that this cy care waiting lists? well, this is abormaking sure that this winter and making sure that this winter

the well prepared and the nhs is well prepared and invested. separately, we have a plan to bring down waiting lists. i'm pleased that we've practically eliminated the number waiting two number of people waiting two years. earlier this year , we years. earlier this year, we practically eliminated the number one number of people waiting one and a years and unfortunately, a half years and unfortunately, the progress that we were making has stalled because of the industrial action. that is unfortunate. the government accepted recommendations of accepted the recommendations of the independent bodies for around 9% pay rise forjunior around a 9% pay rise forjunior doctors, and i'd like to see them accept that they can get them accept that so they can get back we all get back to back and we can all get back to treating patients getting treating patients and getting those down. those waiting lists down. but i also that the nhs also point out that the nhs across uk is grappling with across the uk is grappling with the aftermath of covid and in fact waiting wales are fact waiting lists in wales are far higher than they are in england. people waiting england. people are waiting far longer. demonstrates longer. that just demonstrates that is a broad issue. but that this is a broad issue. but we're investing and making a difference. now other questions. >> average wages are rising fastest records began . fastest since records began. what does mean for your what does that mean for your target halving inflation target of halving inflation by the the year? the end of the year? >> well, inflation is my number one to bring down, and one priority to bring down, and that's why i set it out in my

five priorities as the first one. >> why? because it's inflation that's making people feel poorer. eating into the poorer. it's eating into the savings account, savings in their bank account, making money making sure there's less money that at the end of the that they have at the end of the month. why we need to month. and that's why we need to bnng month. and that's why we need to bring it down. and that's how we'll bring down interest we'll also bring down interest rates the pressure on rates and ease the pressure on people's now we are people's mortgages. now we are making not making progress. i'm not complacent. have complacent. and we'll have more numbers week, numbers this week, which hopefully continued hopefully show continued downward inflation. downward movement on inflation. but stick the but we've got to stick to the plan. that taking plan. that means taking the right, decisions right, responsible decisions for the . we being the economy. we being responsible borrowing, with responsible with borrowing, with pubuc responsible with borrowing, with public pay. and if we do public sector pay. and if we do that, we will bring inflation down, ease the burden the down, ease the burden on the cost of living for people and i think people me. they think people can trust me. they know that i know how to manage the economy. will the economy. i will get inflation everyone, inflation down for everyone, ease the burden on the cost of living. and doing that, we living. and in doing that, we will bring will also be able to bring interest down over time too. >> but will they now go up with spiralling wage costs? >> interest rates obviously are a bank of a question for the bank of england, the best way be england, but the best way to be able bring interest rates able to bring interest rates down them going up is down and stop them going up is to bring inflation down. that's why priority my five

why my first priority of my five priorities inflation priorities is to halve inflation and making progress. the and we are making progress. the last of numbers had last set of numbers we had showed inflation was showed that inflation was falling faster people falling faster than people expected. work expected. now we've got work to do. get numbers do. we'll get more numbers tomorrow, important tomorrow, but it's important that we stick to the plan. the plan is working. i think there is the end of the is light at the end of the tunnel and get through tunnel and if we get through this, people will really start to the benefit in their bank to see the benefit in their bank accounts, their pockets as accounts, in their pockets as inflation fall. inflation starts to fall. >> turn to the bibby >> just turn to the bibby stockholm barge. you stockholm barge. were you personally warned about potential health risks to migrants potential health risks to miglook, what's happened is >> look, what's happened here is it's that we go through it's right that we go through all checks and procedures to all the checks and procedures to ensure and health ensure the well—being and health of who are being of the people who are being housed barge. but taking housed on the barge. but taking a what is this about? a step back, what is this about? this fairness. it's this is about fairness. it's about unfairness , in fact, about the unfairness, in fact, of british taxpayers forking out 5 or £6 million a day to house illegal migrants in hotels up and down the country. with all the pressure that puts on local communities. we've got to find alternatives that's communities. we've got to find alterrthe'es that's communities. we've got to find alterrthe barge that's communities. we've got to find alterrthe barge is that's communities. we've got to find alterrthe barge is about. 's communities. we've got to find alterrthe barge is about. that's what the barge is about. that's why we're committed to it. but more fundamentally, we've just why we're committed to it. but morto1undamentally, we've just why we're committed to it. but morto stop mentally, we've just why we're committed to it. but morto stop people .y, we've just why we're committed to it. but morto stop people coming�* just why we're committed to it. but morto stop people coming here got to stop people coming here in place illegally. in the first place illegally. that's my

that's by one of my five priorities, is stop the priorities, is to stop the boats. we've passed tough new laws they come into laws that when they come into force, to do force, will enable us to do that. we're already seeing that. and we're already seeing numbers this year are lower than they've previous years. they've been in previous years. that's time that's that's the first time that's happened. look, know there's happened. look, i know there's a long go on this, but i am long way to go on this, but i am determined fix this problem. determined to fix this problem. and are making progress and and we are making progress and people reassured we people can be reassured that we will it. will keep at it. >> there's been a social media trend for young people gathering to steal shops to allegedly steal from shops in london, street. who's to allegedly steal from shops in lo charge street. who's to allegedly steal from shops in lo charge our street. who's to allegedly steal from shops in lo charge our teenagers/ho's in charge of our teenagers nowadays? parents, police nowadays? is it parents, police or should tiktok and other social take a social media channels take a tougher, role? tougher, tougher role? >> know, this >> yeah, look, you know, this obviously while i was obviously happened while i was abroad. i've got to say, abroad. and i've got to say, it's appalling. think criminal it's appalling. i think criminal damage, criminal behaviour is unacceptable. fully damage, criminal behaviour is unaccepthe e. fully damage, criminal behaviour is unaccepthe police fully damage, criminal behaviour is unaccepthe police in:ully damage, criminal behaviour is unaccepthe police in bringing support the police in bringing those people to justice. and i want anyone watching who's thinking about see thinking about this see something to know something like this, to know that will be met with the that they will be met with the full the law because full force of the law because that of behaviour simply that type of behaviour is simply unacceptable in our society . unacceptable in our society. >> just finally, are you a taylor swift fan? >> been very lucky have >> i've been very lucky to have a holiday over the a really nice holiday over the past week. spent a lot of time past week. i spent a lot of time

with my kids. but look, i'm back at work focusing on the things that matter people, and that matter to people, and that's about, you know, ensuring that matter to people, and that'theiout, you know, ensuring that matter to people, and that'the nhs you know, ensuring that matter to people, and that'the nhs has know, ensuring that matter to people, and that'the nhs has thew, ensuring that matter to people, and that'the nhs has the investment that the nhs has the investment it so that it can it needs now so that it can perform well in winter and perform well in the winter and get care need. it's about get the care we need. it's about ensuring can make ensuring that we can make progress stopping the boats. ensuring that we can make progcrucially, opping the boats. ensuring that we can make progcrucially, it'sing the boats. ensuring that we can make progcrucially, it's about; boats. and crucially, it's about halving inflation so that we can ease the burden on the cost of living. those are the things i'm focussed on. >> i want thank you. >> i want to thank you. >> i want to thank you. >> thanks very much. >> thanks very much. >> i'm so disappointed. he >> oh, i'm so disappointed. he didn't was didn't say whether he was a taylor swift fan or not. >> that's that was a few more important things than about taylor no. taylor swift. oh, no. >> the most important >> i think the most important thing the taylor swift thing there was the taylor swift question, he expertly question, which he expertly swerved back to those swerved going back to those domestic because domestic issues because allegedly he went to a taylor swift but just swift concert. but not just that. spin class themed that. also a spin class themed with taylor swift. should with taylor swift. music should we talk about we talk we talk about should we talk about cost of living crisis? about the cost of living crisis? perhaps important. perhaps that's more important. >> prime >> rishi sunak the prime minister his first minister giving his first interview there since he got back holiday and went to back off on holiday and went to see swift. one of the see taylor swift. one of the things has been saying, things he has been saying, though, is that things he has been saying, thougis is that things he has been saying, thougis light is that things he has been saying, thougis light at is that things he has been saying, thougis light at the is that things he has been saying, thougis light at the endthat things he has been saying, thougis light at the end oft things he has been saying, thougis light at the end of the there is light at the end of the tunnelin there is light at the end of the

tunnel in the cost of living crisis . he tunnel in the cost of living crisis. he was asked tunnel in the cost of living crisis . he was asked whether crisis. he was asked whether wages will force the bank of england to push up interest rates further to kerb inflation. he does say that that is a matter for the bank england, matter for the bank of england, but says the plan is working i >> -- >> it's a hint really as to what we might expect to hear tomorrow. of course, no one knows what the numbers will be tomorrow apart from a very small select group of people, independent from government. but the does have its the treasury does have its own assessments as well that are usually within 0.1 or 0.2 points of the official assessment as well. so perhaps this is a hint that the prime minister thinks there's going to be some better news on inflation tomorrow. >> yeah, we will be speaking to our economics editor liam halligan a little later about all and the minister all this. and the prime minister was also about the bibby was also asked about the bibby stockholm remember stockholm barge. if you remember , people were moved off their on friday legionella bacteria was discovered in the water supply last week . now he was asked last week. now he was asked a question about whether he was personally warned about the potential health risks for

asylum seekers. and he kind of dodged it, didn't he? he said. what has happened is that it is right that we go through all the checks and procedures to ensure the well—being and health of the people housed on the people being housed on the barge. >> it's got a of get out >> it's got a bit of a get out clause doesn't he, having clause there, doesn't he, having been holiday last two been on holiday for the last two weeks, happened, weeks, whatever happened, whether the oxford street whether it was the oxford street chaos, was the bibby chaos, whether it was the bibby stockholm situation , the prime stockholm situation, the prime minister has been able to sort of step back and talk of take a step back and talk about the round, about the issue in the round, perhaps we're going to dig more deeply into these subjects as time goes on, however. >> yes, absolutely . now, gb news >> yes, absolutely. now, gb news has given exclusive access has been given exclusive access as immigration officers launched as immigration officers launched a major crackdown on food delivery companies who've been employing illegal immigrants. >> home office officials say working in the shadow economy is a, quote, major pull factor for those embarking on often dangerous, illegal journeys to the uk. >> our home and security editor mark white was with enforcement officers as they carried out raids across the country in

towns and cities across the uk . towns and cities across the uk. >> these delivery drivers are everywhere. we all use them, but increasingly the person who turns up at your door is breaking the law. we can reveal a massive surge in the number of illegal immigrants working in the delivery sector . we're with the delivery sector. we're with immigration enforcement officers in brighton city centre , a joint in brighton city centre, a joint operation with sussex police as they target the delivery drivers, they suspect of working illegally . police have just illegally. police have just stopped this rider on the seafront as they carry out checks. seafront as they carry out checks . immigration enforcement checks. immigration enforcement teams hang back out of sight so as not to alert other drivers that they're around this riders. documents checked out and he was cleared to go just round the corner . our other immigration corner. our other immigration officers have stopped an indonesian delivery driver, but he is currently under arrest. >> so first of all, i need to

take a photograph of him. >> checks on him, indicate he is working here illegally and likely faces deportation . just likely faces deportation. just four years ago, immigration enforcement were only really encountering a handful of illegal immigrants working in the gig economy. now it's vast. it is one of the key target areas for these officers. this operation is part of a major crackdown, specifically target those exploiting the gig economy where legitimate self—employed delivery drivers often rent out their accounts to undocumented workers. >> they're undercutting legitimate employers and they're undercutting legitimate employees, both who are trying to undertake things playing by the rules. it really is it really is a major issue . really is a major issue. >> immigration key comes to the door , please, in east london. door, please, in east london. >> other officers are targeting the homes of undocumented drivers . drivers. >> you don't see them coming in and out. did i have a motorbike? the suspect here has, it seems ,

the suspect here has, it seems, moved on to another address . moved on to another address. >> not uncommon given the transit nature of undocumented immigrants back in brighton this brazilian rider has just been arrested after trying to escape by going the wrong way up a one way street . way street. >> he spotted immigration officers , we think, and he's officers, we think, and he's tried to flee. it looks the early indications are that he's working in breach of his entry conditions to the uk . conditions to the uk. >> there are those who feel these riders are doing little harm and these raids are a distraction from the trauma and tragedy unfolding all too often in the mediterranean and in the engush in the mediterranean and in the english channel. this past weekend . but authorities say weekend. but authorities say illegal working and illegal journeys are absolutely linked . journeys are absolutely linked. >> illegal working is a major pull factor for illegal migration into the uk. if you know you're coming to the uk with a job, you're more likely to travel here illegally and also undertake potentially unsafe journeys. >> home office say many

>> the home office say many delivery companies are increasingly cooperating in the efforts to stop illegals exploiting their services , but exploiting their services, but they still need to do far more to check those delivering food and goods in their name are who they say they are. mark white gb news brighton . a home and news brighton. a home and security editor. >> mark white is with us in the studio . it seems like it was studio. it seems like it was pretty busy. >> mark yeah , increasingly so >> mark yeah, increasingly so for these immigration enforcement teams, right across the country, they've really stepped up the number of raids more than double the number of raids that they carried out the year before . but it's a huge year before. but it's a huge problem, particularly the gig economy. effectively, those freelancing now and within that gig economy , those delivery gig economy, those delivery drivers . and what's happening is drivers. and what's happening is that legitimate drivers that are taking up accounts with all of these delivery firms are just

renting them out to those that they know are undocumented workers who are willing to do it for far less, to give them a cut of the money that they're earning . and so for the delivery earning. and so for the delivery companies, it's quite difficult because they've obviously, given the contract to legitimate drivers. but the legitimate drivers. but the legitimate drivers are breaking the law by then hiving it off to all of these undocumented workers. >> it is difficult, i suppose , >> it is difficult, i suppose, because there is a labour shortage in the united kingdom right now. there are clearly more jobs available than there are people to do those jobs. so to some extent, isn't this a function of the sort of imbalanced economy we have? yeah i mean, it's a big age old argument , i mean, it's a big age old argument, isn't it, about the grey economy , the illegal grey economy, the illegal economy, the black economy, whatever you want to call it. >> and the fact that so many people are working in that it unregulated area are not paying

into the exchequer. they're is no official figures as such . but no official figures as such. but economists recently calculated that it could be be about 10% of the country's gross domestic product , 220 the country's gross domestic product, 220 billion at least each year. that is not going into the exchequer. so, yes, there's a big argument, isn't there, for , you know, taking there, for, you know, taking these people out of the shadows and making them righteous again and making them righteous again and getting them paying into the economy. however, in doing that, the counter argument from the government is that all you do is encourage many more people to come because they see that many of those that are crossing the channel and coming in by other means . it's not just the channel means. it's not just the channel are coming because they want to work in this country. >> the government recently

announced harsher penalties for employers, but what are you therefore saying? that that's not going to make a difference because the employers don't know that this is going on in this sector. >> it's really difficult for any employer as such to be brought to account in that sense . it was to account in that sense. it was a court of appeal case in 2021 around these drivers and the conclusion and the ruling of the court of appeal is that they are self employed and freelancers. so that the companies themselves cannot be held responsible for what these drivers do . and of what these drivers do. and of course, they're at fault. the individual drivers. so if they find people who are working illegally that are undocumented , then, yes, they can trace that back to the person who owns the account and they can be charged and they can be fined. so there is some accountability and the delivery companies are saying that they are cooperating,

increasing fully with the home office, that they're actually carrying out some spot checks themselves. but it's such a vast industry dodi and there are so many thousands of drivers that actually carrying out effective spot checks. that would be a deterrent , probably going to be deterrent, probably going to be pretty difficult . pretty difficult. >> now, how do we know that this is a growing problem? as you were saying, the police are carrying out now more operations than they before, could it than they were before, could it not be that simply a function that the police are carrying out more operations and therefore they're people ? they're finding more people? >> no, mean, the they don't >> no, i mean, the they don't have official figures. they can give me. but what they tell me is that day in, day out, give me. but what they tell me is that day in, day out , the job is that day in, day out, the job they do, what they see across their desk in terms of the investigations and the offenders has you know, they were dealing they said just 4 or 5 years ago with just a handful al of people working illegally in a gig economy as as these deliver lorry drivers now it's one of their major sort of they

describe it as threat areas. so one of the main sort of target areas for them in terms of those they go after. so they say we can only take a face value of what they say is a case. but i think probably many people sitting at home were probably aware of, you know, using these delivery apps of being told that so—and—so is on his way and his scooter and you're tracing the particular route that they're taking. and then they knock on the door and it's someone completely different from the person that's on the app . not in person that's on the app. not in every case, but in the majority of cases , is that it's likely of cases, is that it's likely that that person is an illegal worker who has been, you know, given that person's account. but most companies don't question it. >> would they? >> would they? >> well, no. i mean, but they could, you know, if they have concerns about that, they could report that to the delivery

companies , as you would hope companies, as you would hope they delivery companies might make some inquiries. that's possibly one of the avenues that people are concerned about that could could do that. but it seems to be, according to authorities, that was speaking to me , so vast and to me, so vast and well—established that it's very, very difficult to get a handle on it. okay >> well, thank you for bringing us more information on it and bringing it to light for a lot of us, because so many people wouldn't know about that now. >> absolutely fascinating images as former as well. well, coming up, former president the united president trump of the united states faces the fourth criminal case brought against him in just as months . this after as many months. this after he was charged attempting to was charged with attempting to overturn the 2020 election defeat in the state of georgia. we'll have more of this after a short break. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers. proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> hello. much of the uk are

enjoying some pretty fine weather this week with lots of sunshine around. yes, there will be a few showers here and there, but most places will be dry and feeling in that sunshine as feeling warm in that sunshine as well. at the pressure well. we look at the pressure pattern can high pattern then you can see high pressure really continuing to build west. that's build in from the west. that's what's bringing increasingly fine, sunny weather fine, dry and sunny weather across few across the country. still a few showers towards north—east, showers towards the north—east, closer area of low closer to that area of low pressure, though. a pressure, though. here's a picture through tuesday pressure, though. here's a picture and through tuesday pressure, though. here's a picture and overnight,esday pressure, though. here's a picture and overnight, then, evening and overnight, then, as you lot of places you can see, a lot of places will be dry overnight. still a few showers across parts of scotland, northeast england. these fade away we these tending to fade away as we head through and head through the night and actually for of england, actually for much of england, wales, northern ireland, will actually for much of england, wallargely:hern ireland, will actually for much of england, wallargely clearireland, will actually for much of england, wallargely clear skiesd, will see largely clear skies developing overnight that see largely clear skies develeadlg overnight that see largely clear skies deve lead to )vernight that see largely clear skies deve lead to )verrorht that see largely clear skies deve lead to )verror miss that see largely clear skies deve lead to )verror miss 1that see largely clear skies develead to )verror miss 1 orit see largely clear skies deve lead to )verror miss 1 or 2 will lead to one or miss 1 or 2 mist and patches and also mist and fog patches and also turning fairly chilly as well in some but in towns some rural spots. but in towns and temperatures holding and cities, temperatures holding up 13 is your up 10 to 13 degrees. is your overnight lows. so under those clear off to a pretty clear skies, we off to a pretty fine for much of the fine start for much of the country. thing country. first thing on wednesday a of wednesday morning. a lot of sunshine, particularly across england, northern england, wales, northern ireland, more cloud, though, continuing to affect parts of scotland gain or scotland with a gain 1 or 2 showers and actually for much of

the day, most places will be dry. like i said, still the risk of an isolated shower across england wales, still further england and wales, still further showers of showers affecting parts of scotland, but scotland, northeast england. but most fine most places will be dry, fine and warm as well. 26 degrees there london 20s for there for london and low 20s for scotland. northern ireland. scotland. and northern ireland. we thursday, scotland. and northern ireland. we again, thursday, scotland. and northern ireland. we again, that thursday, scotland. and northern ireland. we again, that largely rsday, scotland. and northern ireland. we again, that largely drny, then again, that largely dry theme continue with theme looks set to continue with clear skies for many areas, some sunshine towards sunshine particularly towards the north—west the west and the north—west a bit cloud towards the east bit more cloud towards the east coast, in coast, but again in that sunshine feeling warm, warmer still head into friday. still as we head into friday. but with that, an increasing risk of showers and thunderstorms that warm feeling inside boxt boilers, proud inside from boxt boilers, proud sponsors on .

britain's news. channel welcome back to the live desk on gb news. former us president donald trump and 18 of his allies have been charged in the state of georgia for election interference. >> he's been charged with 13 counts, including vice slating georgia's racketeering act. >> that solicitation of violation of oath by public officer conspiracy to impersonate a public officer and commit conspiracy to commit forgery . forgery. >> now, in a phone call, trump allegedly pressured georgia's republican secretary of state, brad raffensperger , to find brad raffensperger, to find enough votes for him to win georgia . georgia. >> we have won this election in georgia. the people of georgia are angry. the people of the country are angry, and there's nothing wrong with saying that,

that you've recalculated. >> well, mr president, the challenge that you have is the data you have is wrong . data you have is wrong. >> you should want to have an accurate election . and you're accurate election. and you're a republican , we believe, but we republican, we believe, but we do have an accurate election. you know, i know you don't know . no, you don't. you know what they did and you're not reporting that's criminal reporting it. that's a criminal offence. i want to find . offence. i just want to find. $11,780 because we won the state. >> if we have to stand by our numbers, we believe our numbers are right . are right. >> that call from january the second, 2021. now, if found guilty of some of these charges , the former president could face between five and 20 years in prison . in prison. >> donald trump denies any wrongdoing and has called the charges a witch hunt. joining us from washington, dc to discuss this further is us political analyst eric hamm. eric, good to see you again here on gb news. this charge , is it more this charge, is it more startling than the others? and

if it is , how is it? if it is, how is it? >> well, it certainly makes donald trump far more vulnerable than any of the other cases. and the reason for that is if donald trump is convicted on at least one of these charges, and we know that there are 13 charges pending that requires a mandatory minimum in prison , mandatory minimum in prison, which could be as a minimum of five years. and while donald trump is running for president of the united states, because this is an actual state case and not a federal case, there are no protections for him from the state if, in fact he is convicted . so, for example, if convicted. so, for example, if donald trump actually does win the presidency of the united states, he still will be held accountable in the state of georgia. if in fact, he is convicted, which means he will have to actually go to prison . have to actually go to prison. and because in the united states , in the constitution, there are what is called states rights. so the constitution, the framers of

the constitution, the framers of the constitution, the framers of the constitution created it such that all of the power does not rest with the federal government . but states do have rights and one of those rights is to provide accountability for criminal acts. and so donald trump does not have any protections from any office or from any federal entity if, in fact, he is convicted of these charges. and many believe that donald trump was certainly in the most vulnerable position in with this with these charges , with this with these charges, because this is one case where we actually hear donald trump's voice on an audio recording attempting to pressure a state official to overturn an election on his behalf. >> so, eric, if i'm understanding you correctly, what you're saying here is because this is a state charge rather than a federal charge , if rather than a federal charge, if donald trump is found guilty and sent to prison in georgia and then elected from prison, he

wouldn't be able to pardon himself. >> exactly . he will not be able >> exactly. he will not be able to pardon himself in this particular case, which is why many believe , myself included, many believe, myself included, these were the most serious charges. and to just give an indication of how serious these charges are, this is the one case of all the four cases that we have seen brought against donald trump for and separate jurisdictions. this is the one case that donald trump has attempted at least twice to get this prosecutor for fani willis removed from this particular case. no other case has donald trump made an effort to try to remove a prosecutor from the case. and the reason being is because donald trump is far more vulnerable in this particular case than any other case, because we have not one but two audio recordings of donald trump attempting to try to coerce state elected officials to overturn the election . we know overturn the election. we know about that infamous call with

the secretary of state, brad raffensperger. and for viewers to understand it is the secretary of state in the state of georgia that actually certifies the elections in those states. donald trump attempted to call that individual as well as the former speaker of the state house of representatives in georgia. so we know about two phone calls that donald trump made that certainly speak to his his culpable in this particular case. there are suggestions now then that that although he is currently the republican front runner , could the spell be runner, could the spell be broken in light of these latest charges ? i don't think so. in charges? i don't think so. in fact, i think we will see donald trump extend his lead over his competitors in the gop nomination process . competitors in the gop nomination process. in addition to that, i think donald trump will continue to see we will see his popularity continue to grow among the base of republican voters and more importantly ,

voters and more importantly, donald trump will continue to raise millions of dollars as a result of this. this recent indictment as well . this has indictment as well. this has nothing to do with any way, shape or form stopping donald trump on his from his march to the presidential. i mean , to the the presidential. i mean, to the republican nomination . and i republican nomination. and i think that's going to continue with this indictment, although i suppose whilst he's clearly very, very popular amongst the base of the republican party at the same time, this may well turn off those crucial in dependent registered swing voters who are the people who potentially decide the election. >> so whilst it might entrench donald trump with the republican base , it may well make it harder base, it may well make it harder for him to win the general. >> that's a very astute observation. in fact, george is going to be a very , very going to be a very, very interesting place now because this is a key battleground state that that both donald trump and joe biden , if donald trump is

joe biden, if donald trump is the nominee , both of these the nominee, both of these candidates will need this state in order to claim victory in the presidential election . and so presidential election. and so now it will be very curious to see how voters in georgia will look at this process and what that will mean heading into the polls in 2024. if in fact, joe. donald trump is the nominee. because remember , it is a jury because remember, it is a jury of donald trump's peers in the state of georgia that actually came down with this bill of indictment against donald trump, as well as some of his other closest allies as well, us political analyst eric ham. >> thank you for your thoughts. what an absolutely extraordinary set of circumstances and actually, these this case in georgia could be one of the this could play out on live television. >> yeah. yeah no, it's the only trial that could be absolutely the trial that could play out on television. and as we were heanng television. and as we were hearing from eric, potentially the consequential of all of

the most consequential of all of the most consequential of all of the trials and all of the different indictments we've seen in recent weeks. >> stay us here on the live >> stay with us here on the live desk on gb news. still to come, the darwin 200 has set sail from plymouth. what is that? i hear you ask? well, it's retracing the footsteps of charles darwin to centuries ago. before that , to centuries ago. before that, let's sail over to paul hawkins for the latest headlines . it's 1232. >> i'm paul hawkins in the newsroom. we start with some breaking news because in the last hour, norfolk and suffolk police have admitted that personal information of 1230 people, including victims of crime and witnesses , was crime and witnesses, was included erroneously in freedom of information responses . both of information responses. both forces have attributed it to a technical issue . figures from technical issue. figures from the office for national statistics show wages rising at a record level in the three months to june. inflation is

currently 7.9, but with regular pay currently 7.9, but with regular pay growing by 7.8% for the last quarter . pay growing by 7.8% for the last quarter. darren morgan, pay growing by 7.8% for the last quarter . darren morgan, the quarter. darren morgan, the director of statistic sticks at the ons, has suggested people's real pay is recovering and the prime minister says the government must stick to the plan to bring down inflation. >> it's inflation that's making people feel poorer. it's eating into the savings in their bank account, making sure there's less that they have at the less money that they have at the end month. that's end of the month. and that's why we it down and we need to bring it down and that's how we'll also bring down interest rates and ease the pressure on people's mortgages. now progress. now we are making progress. i'm not we'll have not complacent. and we'll have more week which more numbers this week which hopefully movement on inflation. downward movement on inflation. but we've got to stick to the plan. that means taking the right, responsible decisions for the being responsible the economy, being responsible with borrowing with public with borrowing and with public sector if we do that, sector pay. and if we do that, we will bring inflation down. >> british politicians will be asked if they've had any issues accessing their bank accounts or have had their accounts closed without notice as part of an inquiry by the uk's financial watchdog, the financial conduct

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evolution , that challenged the evolution, that challenged the very foundations of our beliefs and changed scientific thought forever . it's hoped and changed scientific thought forever. it's hoped this and changed scientific thought forever . it's hoped this voyage, forever. it's hoped this voyage, which is scheduled to clock up 190,000 nautical miles in two years, will inspire a new generation of explorers to follow in his footsteps . jeff follow in his footsteps. jeff moody gb news. i could watch a video of that boat for hours on end ship. >> ship ? not a boat end ship. >> ship? not a boat ship. >> ship? not a boat ship. >> more than a boat. >> ship? not a boat ship. >> more than a boat . once >> ship? not a boat ship. >> more than a boat. once in a lifetime adventure. absolutely fantastic. >> but in other news, the prime minister is hopeful that inflation will fall tomorrow in some much needed good for news the uk economy. >> rishi sunak has reiterated, however, that the government will stick to their stringent plan even if more progress is made and well well in inflation is my number one priority to bnng is my number one priority to bring down and that's why i've set it out in my five priorities as the first one. >> why? because it's inflation that's making people feel poorer. it's eating into the

savings in their bank account, making there's money making sure there's less money that end of the that they have at the end of the month. why we need to month. and that's why we need to bnng month. and that's why we need to bring down. that's how bring it down. and that's how we'll down interest we'll also bring down interest rates and ease the pressure on people's mortgages. are people's mortgages. now we are making progress. not making progress. i'm not complacent. and have more making progress. i'm not complacethisand have more making progress. i'm not complacethis week, have more making progress. i'm not complacethis week, which re more numbers this week, which hopefully continued hopefully show continued downward movement on inflation. but to stick to but we've got to stick to the plan. that taking the plan. that means taking the right, decisions for right, responsible decisions for the economy, being responsible with , with public with borrowing, with public sector and we do that, sector pay. and if we do that, we will bring inflation down, ease the burden on the cost of living for and think living for people and i think people trust me. they know living for people and i think peofi knowtrust me. they know living for people and i think peofi know how me. they know living for people and i think peofi know how to a. they know living for people and i think peofi know how to manage now living for people and i think peofi know how to manage the that i know how to manage the economy. will get inflation economy. i will get inflation down for everyone, the down for everyone, ease the burden of living. burden on the cost of living. and doing that, we will also and in doing that, we will also be able bring interest rates be able to bring interest rates down over to the prime minister. >> speaking a little earlier this let's digest this morning. well, let's digest this morning. well, let's digest this now with gb news political editor hope . and editor christopher hope. and thanks for joining us, christopher. first of all, the prime minister seemed fairly bullish there about tomorrow's inflation numbers . does he know inflation numbers. does he know something that we don't? well he

shouldn't technically. >> these are oas numbers and they are produced. he may have a feeling they may see figures below the line . aside from the below the line. aside from the oas looking that gives him oas looking at that gives him some i mean, it's what some optimism. i mean, it's what we all need to hear because the figures out today showing spiralling inflation spiralling wage inflation can mean the is now mean that the city is now looking at maybe 6% bank of england base rate by next march , up england base rate by next march , up from that's a big , up from 5.75. that's a big worry for anybody facing remortgaging at the moment. so i think he's come back from his houdayin think he's come back from his holiday in la with trying to find positivity find some kind of positivity here. there's a risk, of course, politically, if he talks, starts talking about seeing light at the end of the tunnel like he has done here at this has done to me here at this hospital milton keynes. the hospital in milton keynes. the worry is that doesn't worry there is if that doesn't happen, people are to happen, people are start to ask the pm, well, why do you say that? don't forget, norman lamont in some trouble for lamont got in some trouble for talking green shoots talking about the green shoots of in the early of recovery back in the early 90s, and that was used to really have a go at him over what he was, what he forecasting. so i think you know, the pm is being optimistic. back optimistic. he's coming back from we're

from holidays hoping we're seeing the end seeing the beginning of the end of issue of high high of this issue of high high inflation rates and high interest rates too. and that's the concern is that will it actually happen? >> the suggestion seems to be or the worry seems to be, christopher, that these wage increases then could lead to that rise in interest rates again . that's the big worry. again. that's the big worry. >> as i say, the city is now forecasting a 0.25% increase in the bank of england base rate as far ahead as the next march. and that, of course, is an election yeah that, of course, is an election year. what mr sunak knows and he told me here in milton keynes that by trying to bring down control inflation, it's like a tax cut. it makes us all feel a bit richer because our money goes further. but if we're looking at interest rates going high march, that gets high until march, that gets quite high until march, that gets quhe day high until march, that gets quite day for him. quite near polling day for him. and knows pressure and he knows that's the pressure on more can he do, on him. what more can he do, though? here show that though? he's here to show that he's in charge. he he's the guy in charge. he understands the pressure on household and he's household finances and he's desperate down desperate to try and bring down inflation. interesting inflation. it's interesting looking ahead a potential

looking ahead to a potential general election because the tories are still 20 points behind in the polls. >> the prime minister said today that people can trust him on the economy. but but looking at where public opinion is, what focus groups are saying, it seems like the people of britain at the moment at least don't think he's got to find some kind of red meat to try and cheer up the base. >> i mean, i think the hope for the for number 10 and the tory strategist is that that that number is made larger because lots of dope nose are not saying they'll vote tory. they're not saying labour saying they'll vote labour either or snp, either either or lib dem or snp, but they're going vote but they're not going to vote tory for many , there's a tory yet. so for many, there's a chance here that the polls can narrow, but many are thinking and hoping that mr sunak might bnng and hoping that mr sunak might bring out some form of a glimpse of a hinterland that he can imagine if he wins another term as prime minister. we haven't seen it yet . seen it yet. >> political editor christopher hope , thank you very much for

hope, thank you very much for that. well, uk wages grew by 7.8% between april and june, marking a record growth rate since 2011. that is according to new figures from the office for national statistics . national statistics. >> but this, of course, comes as the united kingdom unemployment rate is also on the up, rising to 4.2% in the three months to june. to 4.2% in the three months to june . well, let's get more on june. well, let's get more on this now with economics and business editor liam halligan with on the money . now liam, it with on the money. now liam, it was so fascinating listening to the prime minister speaking in milton keynes earlier because he sounding very optimistic peculiarly. and yet the data that we've been seeing thus far has given at least people in the city cause for worry. >> he seems to have had some restorative time with his bucket and spade, doesn't he , since and spade, doesn't he, since he's been away. but this data , he's been away. but this data, if i'm honest, is mixed . so if i'm honest, is mixed. so let's have a look at it. so wage data came out this morning, actually wages between april and

june compared to april and june last year were up . if you last year were up. if you include bonuses by 8.2. and inflation in june was 7.9. that means inflation is less than wages, which means real wages after inflation have gone up. and that's the first time they've gone up since october 2021. unemployment as you say, has also gone up quite sharply from 4 to 4.2. but still very low by historic standards. and the reason i say that these numbers are mixed is , well, numbers are mixed is, well, there are two. first is that they are averages . so if you they are averages. so if you work in a nice ritzy private sector job or in parts of the pubuc sector job or in parts of the public sector, you will have got a chunky pay rise. but if you work in the gig economy, this average means nothing to you because you won't have had a pay rise. you'll have had absorb rise. you'll have had to absorb all inflation and so on all the inflation and so on while rents going up and while your rents going up and all are going up. and all your costs are going up. and i think the other reason why this is mixed is because i'm afraid the fact wages have afraid the fact that wages have gone and real wages have gone gone up and real wages have gone up inflation, plus the

up ahead of inflation, plus the fact that gdp numbers last week weren't particularly bad actually , they were better than actually, they were better than expected. that i'm afraid, makes it more likely that when the monetary policy committee of the bank of england meets next, when they their next decision on they have their next decision on they have their next decision on the 21st of september, as things currently stand, it means rates are more likely to go up rather than to be held this is the age old phrase, perhaps if this isn't hurting, it isn't working. >> perhaps what the city would like to see, what the bank of england would like to see actually is not real wage growth . now, the government at least seems concerned about a wage price . you think that price spiral. do you think that because wages are now ahead of inflation, that will just keep pushing prices up further? >> i don't actually . a lot >> no, i don't actually. a lot of these wage rises are in the pubuc of these wage rises are in the public sector, actually, as strikes settled and workers strikes are settled and workers are getting on even if the headune are getting on even if the headline number is within inflation, they're often getting one off annual payments that

aren't baked into their permanent pay. but they add to the wage growth that we've got there . i actually think the wage there. i actually think the wage price spiral, such as it is , is price spiral, such as it is, is diminishing. i think inflationary pressures now are coming out of the system. if you look at things like producer prices, they're actually falling. it's not just that they're going slowly. they're going up less slowly. they're falling some they're falling under some definitions. that's why definitions. so that's why i've been for many been saying, tom for many months, april, in months, since april, in fact, that i actually the bank that i actually think the bank of should holding of england should be holding interest fact interest rates now. but the fact that headline number is that the headline number is high, the fact that real wage growth is now a thing, the fact that wages on average aren't lagging inflation in any more, if only for one month, means that i think the monetary policy committee , as things stand, are, committee, as things stand, are, i'm afraid, going to put rates up again for the 15th time in a row. crikey not good if you're a young family with a mortgage. not bad. if you're a saver, as long as the banks of course pass those savings on. >> and when rishi sunak says people trust i know how people can trust me, i know how to manage the economy, so to manage the economy, he so much about the economy, though,

is hands , isn't it? is out of his hands, isn't it? >> absolutely . absolutely. do >> absolutely. absolutely. do you when he said back you remember when he said back in january, it seems like an age ago, he's got his five pledges, one is to halve one of which is to halve inflation. a lot of us said, but that's to do with him. that's nothing to do with him. if comes down or not, if inflation comes down or not, that will be because of what the monetary committee does that will be because of what the m

inflation number, the july inflation number, the july inflation that inflation number. if that inflation number. if that inflation number. if that inflation number with inflation number starts with a six, i predict it will down six, as i predict it will down from 7.9% in july. in june, sorry. then i think pressure for the bank of england to hold rates will become even more intense . but rates will become even more intense. but i think rates will become even more intense . but i think they'll intense. but i think they'll resist that pressure and i think rates will go up again . i say rates will go up again. i say with regret hugely significant. >> liam no doubt we'll be talking to you tomorrow when these when these from 7 am. when these numbers come out. what is your sense of where the treasure is at this because they produce their own assessment of where they think the ons is going to put its number. and usually it's not that far off. the prime minister sounded optimistic this morning. do you think that internally the treasury agrees with you that that inflation perhaps is coming down by more than one percentage point? >> well, the treasury by definition, a more definition, is a much more political organisation than the bank the bank of bank of england. the bank of england is statutory independent ministers by law can't tell it what to do. and obviously by law

minister, the treasury there minister, the treasury is there to do what ministers want. so i think the treasury's always going be predisposed towards going to be predisposed towards keeping as low as keeping interest rates as low as possible. of england is possible. the bank of england is going disposed towards going to be disposed towards squeezing of the squeezing inflation out of the system. why the system is system. that's why the system is set up as it is. i think what's really floating rishi sunak boat at the moment, putting a little spnng at the moment, putting a little spring step comes spring in his step as he comes back holiday. are those back from holiday. are those growth numbers? they pretty growth numbers? they were pretty feeble, nought point 2% growth dunng feeble, nought point 2% growth during the second quarter. but we've avoided recession and it may be schadenfreude , but may be schadenfreude, but europe's biggest economy, germany , is in recession. the germany, is in recession. the imf has been disproved yet again. they said at the beginning of this year, oh, uk is going to be the slowest growing economy in europe. and of it's all over the of course, it's all over the television news and all over the front newspaper the front of the newspaper is the fact britain wasn't fact that britain wasn't the slowest growing the slowest growing economy in the g7 so far this year and avoided recession. who says that? who says that's why i think says that? so that's why i think the chancellor can be and indeed the chancellor can be and indeed the prime minister can be

justified in having a little bit more optimism than, say , a month more optimism than, say, a month ago given those gdp numbers. but if we get another interest rate rise and then another interest rate rise, people will start accusing the bank of england of pushing the uk into recession . pushing the uk into recession. >> okay. thank you. really interesting as always. thanks for that . for that. >> well, that's it for the first hour of the live desk this afternoon. we'll be back very shortly after this with more from the united states as former president trump is charged for a fourth time, see you very shortly . the temperature is shortly. the temperature is rising, boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> hello, much of the uk are enjoying some pretty fine weather this week with lots of sunshine around. yes, there will be a few showers here and there, but most places will be dry and feeling in that sunshine feeling warm in that sunshine as well. we look at the pressure pattern then you can see high pressure really continuing to build west. that's build in from the west. that's what's bringing increasingly

fine, sunny weather what's bringing increasingly fine, the sunny weather what's bringing increasingly fine, the countryy weather what's bringing increasingly fine, the country now. ither what's bringing increasingly fine, the country now. still across the country now. still a few towards few showers towards the north—east area north—east closer to that area of low pressure, though, here's a picture. then through tuesday evening then evening and overnight. then as you lot of places you can see, a lot of places will be dry overnight. still a few parts of few showers across parts of scotland, england. scotland, north—east england. these away as we these tending to fade away as we head night. and head through the night. and actually of england, actually for much of england, wales, northern ireland, we will see largely clear skies developing that see largely clear skies develeadlg that see largely clear skies deve lead to that see largely clear skies deve lead to or that see largely clear skies deve lead to or miss that see largely clear skies deve lead to or miss 1that see largely clear skies develead to or miss 1 orit see largely clear skies develead to or miss 1 or 2 will lead to one or miss 1 or 2 mist and fog patches and also turning fairly chilly as well in some in towns some rural spots. but in towns and temperatures holding some rural spots. but in towns and to temperatures holding some rural spots. but in towns and to 13temperatures holding some rural spots. but in towns and to 13 degrees.jres holding some rural spots. but in towns and to 13 degrees. is s holding some rural spots. but in towns and to 13 degrees. is your ding up 10 to 13 degrees. is your overnight lows. so under those clear skies, we get off a clear skies, we get off to a pretty fine start for much of the first thing the country first thing on wednesday morning. of wednesday morning. a lot of sunshine, particularly across england, sunshine, particularly across england more cloud, though, ireland. more cloud, though, continuing to affect parts of scotland 1 or 2 scotland with a gain 1 or 2 showers and actually for much of the day, places will be the day, most places will be dry. still the risk dry. like i said, still the risk of isolated shower across of an isolated shower across england wales, still further england and wales, still further showers of showers affecting parts of scotland, england. scotland, northeast england. but most fine most places will be dry, fine and as well. 26 degrees and warm as well. 26 degrees there for london, low 20s for scotland and northern ireland. we ahead into thursday.

we look ahead into thursday. then dry then again, that largely dry theme to continue with theme looks set to continue with clear many areas, some clear skies for many areas, some sunshine towards clear skies for many areas, some sun west towards clear skies for many areas, some sun west and towards clear skies for many areas, some sun west and the towards clear skies for many areas, some sun west and the north—west the west and the north—west a bit more cloud towards the east coast, that coast, but again in that sunshine feeling warmer sunshine feeling warm, warmer still into friday. still as we head into friday. but that, an increasing but with that, an increasing risk showers and risk of showers and thunderstorms. >> temperatures boxt >> the temperatures rising, boxt solar sponsors solar our proud sponsors of weather . gb news, like all weather on. gb news, like all families , we have arguments families, we have arguments every now and then. >> but actually we agree on what the mission of gb news is. and that's the most fundamentally important thing. >> gb views provides the kind of platform form that lets all voices be heard. >> you don't hold back. we're free to say what we really think. >> just because some people who live in a tiny little westminster bubble think that their particular story is important. that's not the most important. that's not the most important story for me, and important. that's not the most importhey story for me, and important. that's not the most importhey will for me, and important. that's not the most importhey will be' me, and important. that's not the most importhey will be difficulti often they will be difficult stories and stories that you won't find on the establishment media because what people think in the north england may be in the north of england may be very to what they're very different to what they're thinking counties. thinking in the home counties. >> going to on

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a lifetime. and trust me, i will get inflation down. >> that is the message coming from the prime minister today on his return to work from his summer holidays. we're live with our political editor as rishi sunak visits a hospital in milton keynes. now, though, let's get your headlines with paul hawkins. >> good afternoon . it's 1:01. >> good afternoon. it's 1:01. i'm paul hawkins in the gb newsroom . the prime minister has newsroom. the prime minister has said wages rising at their fastest rate for 22 years is, in his words , light at the end of his words, light at the end of the tunnel. figures from the office for national statistics show wages rising at a record level in the three months to june to close the gap on price rises . inflation june to close the gap on price rises. inflation is june to close the gap on price rises . inflation is currently rises. inflation is currently 7.9, but with regular pay growing by 7.8% for the last quarter . growing by 7.8% for the last quarter. darren morgan, growing by 7.8% for the last quarter . darren morgan, the quarter. darren morgan, the director of statistics at the office at the ons , has suggested office at the ons, has suggested people's real pay is recovering and the prime minister says the

government must stick to the plan to bring down inflation. its inflation that's making people feel poorer . people feel poorer. >> it's eating into the savings in their bank account, making sure there's less money that they the end of the they have at the end of the month. and that's why we need to bnng month. and that's why we need to bring it down. that's how bring it down. and that's how we'll down interest we'll also bring down interest rates the pressure rates and ease the pressure on people's we are people's mortgages. now we are making not making progress. i'm not complacent and we'll have more numbers this week which hopefully continued hopefully show continued downward inflation. hopefully show continued dowwe've inflation. hopefully show continued dowwe've to inflation. hopefully show continued dowwe've to to inflation. hopefully show continued dowwe've to to the ition. but we've got to stick to the plan that taking the right plan that means taking the right responsible decisions for the economy, responsible with economy, being responsible with borrowing, sector borrowing, with public sector pay - borrowing, with public sector pay . and do that, we will pay. and if we do that, we will bnng pay. and if we do that, we will bring inflation down. >> meanwhile, uk unemployment has risen to 4.2% in the three months to june. that's a rise of 0.3% on the previous quarter. however, the number of uk job vacancies has fallen by 66,000 between may and july . donald between may and july. donald trump is facing his fourth indictment, this time in the state of georgia. the former us president is accused of trying to overturn his 2020 election loss to joe biden . the 13 felony

loss to joe biden. the 13 felony charges include falsely saying that election fraud had occurred and urging state officials to violate their oaths of office by altering the election results . altering the election results. he's the front runner as the republican nominee in next year's presidential election. mr trump denies any wrongdoing . trump denies any wrongdoing. back here at the metropolitan police say three people are facing trial over alleged offences stemming from an investigation into breaches of the official secrets act. five people were initially arrested in february as part of an investigation by the met's counter—terror command . three of counter—terror command. three of the five who are believed to be bulgari nationals were later charged with possession of false identity documents and appeared in court last month. all five were released on police bail until september. the home office has exclusively told gb news there's been a huge increase in undocumented immigrants exploiting rules to work in the food delivery sector. it says restaurants and small businesses offering delivery services are being urged to carry out more

detailed checks on their drivers to crack down on scams. home office officials say working in the shadow economy is a major pull factor for those embarking on often dangerous illegal journeys to the uk . british journeys to the uk. british politicians will be asked if they've had any issues accessing their bank accounts or have had their bank accounts or have had their accounts closed without nofice their accounts closed without notice as part of an inquiry by the uk's financial watchdog , the the uk's financial watchdog, the financial conduct authority announced plans to review banking practises involving so—called politically exposed people. the investigation comes after gb news presenter and former ukip leader nigel farage revealed that coutts bank closed his account over his political views . nhs hospitals in england views. nhs hospitals in england will get a £250 million boost from the government to increase capacity as part of the urgent emergency care recovery plan. money will create 900 beds to relieve pressures and help cut waiting times . 30 nhs waiting times. 30 nhs organisations will benefit from the investment. the majority of schemes will be completed by

january to help deal with winter pressures. the royal college of nursing , however, has questioned nursing, however, has questioned who will staff the new beds, given the recruitment problems in nursing. health minister in nursing. but health minister will quince says they taken will quince says they have taken that account . that into account. >> staffing a key component >> staffing is a key component of plan. additional of this plan. the additional staffing numbers will come from that £1 billion budget, so the additional revenue funding which will flow through nhs england through to those 30 trusts we have of course over the past year has seen an additional 6000 doctors and 15,000 nurses, but each of those trusts that have committed to build those 900 additional beds within their trusts have assured us and nhs england that they will be able to staff them with the funding suppued. supplied. >> today marks two years since the taliban took control of afghanistan after after a withdrawal of a 20 year occupation by western allies. people have been demonstrating outside parliament in soledar city with afghans and opposing the taliban rule. aid organisations have also urged government ministers not to abandon afghans. cabinet office

minister johnny mercer, who served in afghanistan, acknowledged some people had been left behind after the taliban takeover. in august 2021 and still have not been brought safely to britain . this is gb safely to britain. this is gb news across the uk on tv, in your car on digital radio and on your car on digital radio and on your smart speaker by playing gb news. now back to malcolm . in i news. now back to malcolm. in i think your name is tom. >> it is. >> it is. >> well, i'm standing for in mark so we'll let that slide. but former us president donald trump and 18 of his allies have been charged in the state of georgia for election interference. >> he's been charged with 13 counts, including violating georgia's racketeering act sausu georgia's racketeering act salisu citation of violation of oath by a public officer conspiracy to impersonate a pubuc conspiracy to impersonate a public officer and conspiracy to commit forgery. >> in a phone call, trump allegedly pressured georgia's republican secretary of state,

brad raffensperger, to find enough votes for him to win georgia . georgia. >> we have won this election in georgia. the people of georgia are angry. the people of the country are angry. and there's nothing wrong with saying that, that recalculated . and. that you've recalculated. and. >> well, mr president, the challenge that you have is the data you have is wrong. >> you should want to have an accurate election. and you're a republican. >> we believe that we do have an accurate election . accurate election. >> no, i know you don't. no no, you don't. you know what they did and you're not reporting it. that's a criminal offence. i just want to find . 11,780 just want to find. 11,780 because we won the state. >> we have to stand by our numbers. we believe our numbers are right . are right. >> if found guilty of some of the charges, the former president could face between 5 and 20 years in prison . and 20 years in prison. >> donald trump, of course, denies any wrongdoing and has called the charges a witch hunt. >> joining us now is american political and communications

consultant liz maher. good to see you in the studio this afternoon, liz. what do you make then of what's happened today ? then of what's happened today? kay i won't say the word on television , ann, but would it be television, ann, but would it be right to say donald trump is in deep bleep? >> yes, indeed . yeah. we'll have >> yes, indeed. yeah. we'll have to find some synonym for really ? yeah, i think this is i think this is the big one. this the this is the big one. this is the big that people have been big one that people have been waiting first waiting to drop. the first indictment that you had that came out new york city. i came out of new york city. i think most people are not taking that seriously, including most democrats. think democrats. most people think that's up the that's really conjured up the one have in one that you have that's in florida relating to the documents. serious documents. that's very serious because more has come on because as more has come out on that, it has become clear that more and more was done really to obstruct and to continue committing things that look very much like criminal offences is so that one is quite serious as well. well, the indictment that you in washington, dc that you have in washington, dc that relates january 6th relates to the january 6th insurrection and obviously is serious, , i think, serious, that is also, i think, pushing some somewhat new terrain legally and so that's a

little bit harder to know exactly how it's going to go, although it is washington dc and i think it would be pretty easy to get a jury there to convict trump of really just about anything you up with, what anything you came up with, what was 96% voted in was it, 96% voted democrat in washington, dc. >> yeah, right. >> yeah, that's right. >> yeah, that's right. >> that's to say that >> now, that's not to say that democrats incapable of democrats are incapable of being impartial but if you want impartial here, but if you want to pick a city where it's going to pick a city where it's going to be tougher trump, clearly to be tougher for trump, clearly washington, dc is going to be one but this is the one of them. but this is the really serious one for a couple of reasons. one, we're not talking about federal charges here indictments. talking about federal charges here state indictments. talking about federal charges here state level. ctments. talking about federal charges here state level. sotents. talking about federal charges here state level. so he ts. talking about federal charges here state level. so he if he this is state level. so he if he were to get back into office, you know, there's always been this he pardon this question, can he pardon himself? well, first of all, we don't know the answer to that. but in this case, we know he very definitively cannot because but in this case, we know he veryisafinitively cannot because but in this case, we know he veryis state vely cannot because but in this case, we know he veryis state levelannot because but in this case, we know he veryis state level stuff. because but in this case, we know he veryis state level stuff. this use this is state level stuff. this is federal addition, this is not federal in addition, this is not federal in addition, this is in a state that he is happening in a state that he lost. what's at issue is the fact that he lost this is a state that has voted for anti trump republicans. us so you do have plenty of republicans in the state who have been willing to part ways with him, stick

with their principles and i think that raises some really interesting questions what interesting questions about what the could look like, the jury pool could look like, because have some because you will have some people are inherently not people who are inherently not inclined to him, not inclined to believe him, not inclined to believe him, not inclined necessarily to take his word for things . in addition to word for things. in addition to that, though, you have some people who are more conservative inclined, very different to washington, , but who have washington, dc, but who have seen lot of the lies seen through a lot of the lies and the obfuscation previously. and quite and i think that's quite dangerous for him. >> i was also reading that when he comes to court , he's likely he comes to court, he's likely to have his mugshot taken this time. yeah, so it was fingerprints. so this makes it different again . different again. >> so in a number of ways. georgia has very different rules here. it has a broader we're deaung here. it has a broader we're dealing with a statute called rico, different states have different versions of this. but this was this is legislation that was put in place to deal essentially mob style essentially with mob style racketeering, corruption . right. racketeering, corruption. right. georgia has a pretty expansive rico law . it's going to be a lot rico law. it's going to be a lot easier to convict at any of these 19 people who've been

charged under that georgia law than it would be in some states. but in addition, when you look at the underlying crimes that are alleged, there's are being alleged, there's plenty of stuff out there publicly that demonstrate that that it's not even that happened. it's not even like they're relying on some sort super secret evidence sort of super secret evidence that nobody has seen to date . that nobody has seen to date. they've got a lot on him. and so he's dealing with a bad legal environment just terms of the environment just in terms of the legal he's up legal framework. he's up against. with a bad against. he's dealing with a bad fact set, including the audio that you played and he's also doing this in a state that, yes, does elect republicans us. but, you know, brad raffensperger , you know, brad raffensperger, who's on that tape, who he's pressuring , he specifically went pressuring, he specifically went against brad raffensperger and tried to get him out of office in the midterm elections in 2022. he explicitly exhorted his followers to vote against brad raffensperger. brad raffensperger. brad raffensperger won his primary and he stayed in office. so did the georgia governor, who trump also campaigned against and ran against, won his primary , stayed against, won his primary, stayed in office. this is not a great environment for him to be in. >> what donald trump might say

is that these are rhinos, these are republicans only. are republicans in name only. and actually, this tape and actually, what this tape shows nothing of the sort in shows is nothing of the sort in terms of him trying to invent ballots. he genuinely believes that he won that state and he was saying you need to look in every nook and cranny to find where votes might where these votes that might have mysteriously disappeared. so yeah, argument about so yeah, so his argument about that comment, the that particular comment, the 11,780, that was an 11,780, is that that was an aspirational statement and not actually urging somebody to do something criminal. >> but the problem is when you look crimes that are look at the crimes that are being alleged, only one being alleged, that's only one of you can say, okay, of them. you can say, okay, fine, that aspirational . but fine, that was aspirational. but there plenty that has already there is plenty that has already been out there publicly that hasn't dependent on hasn't been dependent on subpoena power or anything that the got this the prosecutors have got in this case that shows that you had people were up in this people who were tied up in this orbit were messing around orbit who were messing around with voting machines. that's illegal. also have people illegal. you also have people who were sworn in under oath and who were sworn in under oath and who then gave false testimony . who then gave false testimony. that's perjury. you also have people who signed documents under oath. that's perjury . and under oath. that's perjury. and once you tie all of those things

together with very broad together with a very broad racketeering statute, it makes it very easy. certainly it may be hard to convict trump himself just because i don't think i mean, we have no precedent of doing that. right. all of this is in the american is unprecedented in the american system people it just system. people may find it just a bridge too far to convict the former president. but i think if you're any of those other 18 people, you've got to be very, very worried today because it's very, conceivable that is very, very conceivable that is that interesting, though, very, very conceivable that is that irallesting, though, very, very conceivable that is that irall ofing, though, very, very conceivable that is that irall of those iough, very, very conceivable that is that irall of those other because all of those other points point those points that you point to, those are the other individuals, are about the other individuals, not donald himself. not about donald trump himself. >> like only thing >> it looks like the only thing really directly to really pointing directly to donald trump is are these audio recordings you don't under the rico statute in georgia, it doesn't have to point directly to trump long as he's tied up to trump as long as he's tied up in and as it is in and as long as it is furthering the conspiracy that he's part to, you don't need he's a part to, you don't need to him directing he's a part to, you don't need to this him directing he's a part to, you don't need to this isn directing he's a part to, you don't need to this is the recting he's a part to, you don't need to this is the whole point. rico >> this is the whole point. rico statutes are used to go against the mob now, rudy giuliani the mob now, when rudy giuliani ironically here the ironically charged here with the thing used to use to thing that he used to use to prosecute bosses when rudy prosecute mob bosses when rudy giuliani went after john prosecute mob bosses when rudy giuliani went afterjohn gotti ,

giuliani went after john gotti, nobody had to actually nobody ever had to actually prove that. john gotti personally told the person who killed somebody as a mafia hitman it. fact , you hitman to do it. in fact, you would be able show that would never be able to show that because way that the because the whole way that the mob structured is mob is structured is specifically avoid that. specifically to avoid that. nonetheless john gotti to nonetheless john gotti went to jail rudy giuliani put him jail and rudy giuliani put him there. you're rudy giuliani, there. if you're rudy giuliani, you've worried you've got to be very worried today you're being hit today because you're being hit with same of with exactly the same side of the statute that you use the type of statute that you use to that away . to put that guy away. >> all district attorney >> all the district attorney here in this case needs to do is prove something against 1 or 2 of these dozen plus of these of these dozen plus individuals. they all go to individuals. and they all go to prison ? prison? >> not necessarily. i think it depends the fact depends a lot on the fact pattern and the specifics. but i will tell you that with regard to some things that are to some of the things that are alleged, not something alleged, it's not something where just 1 or 2 people were doing them. there were a lot of people that were caught in people that were caught up in this. and the president's this. and now the president's going with of going to argue with much of this. on legal this. he was relying on legal advice was given and that advice that was given and that may be enough to sort of raise that glimmer that small, small glimmer of doubt that would be enough to cause to be found not cause him to be found not guilty. i for a lot of

guilty. but i think for a lot of these other people, are these other people, they are well cooked. we shall well and truly cooked. we shall see happens. but i don't see what happens. but i don't think this is going to be a particularly difficult case to prove of the people prove for a lot of the people who are under indictment this who are under indictment at this point. president, point. for the president, like i say, i think there's a lot that's very open and shut here, but you may find that there is and it only takes one juror out of 12. you may find that one juror feels that they just can't quite get there to vote to convict a former president. and that may be the way that he gets out of this. but i think this is a very serious case. i think this in the florida one, despite the fact that they are happening in areas that are far friendlier to republican owns and have to republican owns and you have a more trump voters, i think a lot more trump voters, i think these are the two that are really and could really these are the two that are really him and could really these are the two that are really him theand could really these are the two that are really him the biggestd really these are the two that are really him the biggest downfall. cause him the biggest downfall. >> all gosh >> all wow. gosh >> all wow. gosh >> well, liz murray, it's been an absolutely fascinating conversation. thank you much conversation. thank you so much for your insight to for your your insight there to this me . well, a this you for having me. well, a historic tall ship set sail from plymouth this morning on a round the world adventure that

retraces the footsteps of charles darwin two centuries ago. >> the ship will stop off at various ports around the world teaching conservation and natural history . our south—west natural history. our south—west of england reporter jeff moody went to investigate . went to investigate. >> after two years in the planning , the adventures start planning, the adventures start now . the oosterschelde is now. the oosterschelde is setting sail from plymouth today, retracing charles darwin's famous journey on hms beagle. the ship will stop in every major port where darwin made landfall. 51 week stays teaching conservation and natural history. it's the brainchild of stuart mcpherson . brainchild of stuart mcpherson. >> we've partnered with local conservation groups with amazing projects on a rainbow of subjects all around the world. they'll be studying animals from giant tortoises in the galapagos to whale sharks in tahiti. and everything you can imagine between the ship will

circumnavigate the globe and countering storms and adverse weather. >> something that holds no fear for captain herbert nabb . he's for captain herbert nabb. he's been at the helm of this ship for 30 years and then these these beautiful moments like sometimes you hoist the sails. >> you're like in a gentle breeze and they start filling and then the ships start picking up speed. it's like it's almost almost like, you know, she's spinning like a cat. and then that it really makes it worthwhile. well, this isn't just about the adventure. >> it's also about the learning. whilst they're circumnavigating the globe , they're offering up the globe, they're offering up the globe, they're offering up the most exciting classroom in the most exciting classroom in the world. yeah >> so the idea is over the weeks as we're travelling around the world, we are going to broadcast live from the ship, live from different islands and ports and places we're visiting into the classroom. so we'll get classrooms, we get to see the ship, they'll get to meet scientists, explorers, conservationists from all over the world, and they'll get to spend some time with some of the

ambassadors. jane goodall, sylvia and darwin. sylvia earle and sarah darwin. >> charles darwin is credited with single most important with the single most important human the theory of human thought the theory of evolution, that challenged the very foundations of our beliefs and changed scientific thought forever. it's hoped this voyage, which is scheduled to clock up 190,000 nautical miles in two years, will inspire a new generation of explorers to follow in his footsteps . jeff follow in his footsteps. jeff moody . gb news. moody. gb news. >> that's a trip and a half, isn't it? >> no, i'd love to get on board that. i mean, to circumnavigate the world on a ship that could have sailed 200 years ago is a tall, mind blowing. >> when we come back , the >> when we come back, the spotlight is on the delivery companies as the home office cracks down on illegal workers . cracks down on illegal workers. we've got an exclusive report. stay with us. >> looks like things are heating up. boxed boilers , proud up. boxed boilers, proud sponsors of weather on gb news.

hello >> much of the uk are enjoying some pretty fine weather this week. lots of sunshine around. yes, there will be a few showers here and there, but most places will be dry and feeling warm in that as well. we look that sunshine as well. we look at pressure pattern. then at the pressure pattern. then you high pressure really you can see high pressure really continuing from the continuing to build in from the west. that's what's bringing increasingly fine, dry sunny increasingly fine, dry and sunny weather increasingly fine, dry and sunny weataer increasingly fine, dry and sunny weata few showers increasingly fine, dry and sunny weat a few showers towards the still a few showers towards the north—east, area north—east, closer to that area of low pressure, though. here's the through the picture. then through tuesday evening and overnight. then, can a lot of then, as you can see, a lot of places be dry overnight. places will be dry overnight. still showers parts still a few showers across parts of scotland, england. of scotland, northeast england. these fade away as we these tending to fade away as we head through night. and head through the night. and actually england, actually for much of england, wales, northern ireland, we will see largely clear skies developing overnight and that will or miss 1 or 2 will lead to one or miss 1 or 2 mist and fog and also mist and fog patches and also turning chilly as well in turning fairly chilly as well in some rural spots. but in towns and cities, temperatures holding up 13 degrees. your up 10 to 13 degrees. is your overnight under those overnight lows. so under those clear get a clear skies, we get off to a pretty fine start for much of the country first on the country first thing on wednesday lot of wednesday morning. a lot of sunshine, particularly across england, wales, northern ireland. more cloud, though, continuing parts continuing to affect parts of

scotland with a gain 1 or 2 showers and actually for much of the day, places will be the day, most places will be dry. i said, still the risk dry. like i said, still the risk of an isolated shower across england further england and wales. still further showers affecting parts of scotland, showers affecting parts of scotmost places will be dry, but most places will be dry, fine as well. 26 fine and warm as well. 26 degrees there for london. low 20s for scotland and northern ireland. ahead into ireland. we look ahead into thursday, again, that thursday, then again, that largely theme set largely dry theme looks set to continue skies for continue with clear skies for many areas, sunshine many areas, some sunshine particularly the west particularly towards the west and a bit more and the north—west. a bit more cloud towards east coast. cloud towards the east coast. but again sunshine, but again in that sunshine, feeling warmer still as we feeling warm, warmer still as we head that, head into friday. but with that, an risk of showers an increasing risk of showers and thunderstorms. >> things are heating >> looks like things are heating up. boilers proud sponsors >> looks like things are heating upweatherooilers proud sponsors >> looks like things are heating upweather on ers proud sponsors

this evening. gb news the people's channel. britain's watching young . watching young. >> it's 124. welcome back to the live desk here on gb news. >> campaigners have warned that thousands of potential online groomers and offenders are still active as the online safety bill continues to be delayed. >> the nspcc claims that 34,000 onune >> the nspcc claims that 34,000 online grooming crimes have been recorded by uk police in the last six years, and the bill needs to be passed quickly in order to prevent further harm. >> joining us now from the nspcc is their associate head of child safety online policy, richard collard. richard good to see you this afternoon . how this afternoon. how disappointing is this? i mean, it must get to a point where you wonder whether this bill is ever to going become law .

to going become law. >> yeah, we've been as nspcc, we've been arguing for the bill now for about six years now. and the trend just keeps on increasing. >> so it's incredibly important that we can finally get to a stage where we've got an online safety act . but we need to safety act. but we need to remember that even once the bill is passed, it's going to take a couple of years for regulation to come in effect. and what we needis to come in effect. and what we need is for the online platforms , social service , the social media service misses the messaging services where this abuse is taking place . we need them to step up and take action now. and they have that. it's completely within their right to start , you know, their right to start, you know, getting ahead of the game and implementing policies and procedures that actually protect children . children. >> now, this is a huge piece of legislation, and there are some parts of it that i think no one would disagree with. but of course, other elements course, there are other elements of this bill, perhaps why it's taken long that a hugely taken so long that a hugely controversial the imposition for companies to put sort of scraping software on all of our phones to read all of our

messages and get around the protections that these companies put in our messages to keep things private away from prying eyes of companies or governments. isn't this a big privacy concern for many people as well ? as well? >> i think the privacy concern has been blown out of proportion . what this bill does is make sure the platforms that children use have a obligation to protect children on. and this means that they need to risk assess their platforms, work out if there's a risk of children being groomed on it, and if there is, they need to put in place mitigations to protect children. there seems to protect children. there seems to be a real want to put children's safety on one side and privacy on another and battle them against each other. but actually, that's not what needs to happen. we need to make sure that technology companies are having discussions are having sensible discussions and look to embed technology that actually achieves both at once. that actually achieves both at once . there's no reason that once. there's no reason that these companies that have apparently engineered their way

out of protecting children can't also find solutions for private messaging that still preserve our privacy . our privacy. >> we're hearing about it more and more now, richard, how worried are you by the threat that al poses to children ? that al poses to children? >> yeah, it's definitely something that's concerning me and what we've seen over the last few months now is a number of cases of child ai created child abuse images. so synthetic images of children depicting their abuse . and we know that their abuse. and we know that this is being used by abusers as a way of indoctrinating new people. it's forming new networks . and at the moment, networks. and at the moment, it's quite unclear to us whether the online safety bill in its full form can tackle this type of abuse. it looks like it has a role in playing, in stopping the dissemination of this type of material, but a lot of this this crime taking place offline. crime is taking place offline. but what we're likely to see from this is child safety

organisations becoming overwhelmed with a number of images of children which they can't chew , you know, determine can't chew, you know, determine whether they're real children or synthetics or overwhelm the safeguards in response. but also it's likely to lead to more people viewing this type of material and can lead to people looking to start to create, you know , real images and, and look know, real images and, and look to create to take part in in contact abuse as well. >> that is hugely concerning. on the other side of this as well within this legislation is a lot of this obligation for age verification within companies when accessing adult material online. one of the ways in which companies are proposed young aduh companies are proposed young adult companies are proposing for this to happen is for everyone accessing those websites to provide credit card information on to these companies that some might not believe are particularly above board companies. does that not

create a huge financial risk for law abiding adults ? might this law abiding adults? might this not have an unintended consequence of exposing financial information to these companies or indeed drive giving law abiding adults away from the surface web to access the dark web to get around this legislation ? legislation? >> well, i think that's where we have a regulator in place that can help these companies make sensible decisions when it comes to something like age assurance technology , there's a of technology, there's a range of different ways do it. but we different ways to do it. but we do to sure that do need to make sure that children aren't accessing age inappropriate content such as , inappropriate content such as, because these sites and the content that's there has not been created for them . so that been created for them. so that that needs to happen. and we see it already in things like gambling legislation where if you are to gamble , you enter a you are to gamble, you enter a certain amount of details , you certain amount of details, you verify age, and then you're verify your age, and then you're able access it. so i think able to access it. so i think that it can be done in a privacy preserving way. and i think that's the job of a regulator of

is realistic to think that is it realistic to think that intelligence that 17 year old boys will find no way around this sort of legislation , this this sort of legislation, this piece of legislation isn't about removing all risk to children. there's of course, going to be cases where people can get round, but actually on the grand scheme of things , we need to scheme of things, we need to make sure that 13 year old children shouldn't be accessing that abusers and perpetrate . that abusers and perpetrate. users are not able to easily contact the children and look to groom them . and that is groom them. and that is something that should be done at scale. it won't be a perfect piece of legislation, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try in the first place and it should be really up to the platform firms where they have the real ability to prevent this, to disrupt abuse, to prevent children seeing inappropriate content. it should be up to them to enforce their own terms of services that often say they won't allow this to happen in the first place. >> and ipsis richard collard, appreciate your time this afternoon. thanks very much.

well still to come, we've got a special report on the 25th anniversary of the omagh bombing, which tragically killed 29 people. >> before we get to that, however, it's your headlines with paul hawkins . with paul hawkins. >> thanks, tom. it's 131. with paul hawkins. >> thanks, tom. it's131. i'm paul hawkins with the latest from the newsroom . norfolk and from the newsroom. norfolk and suffolk police have admitted that personal personal information of 1230 people, including victims of crime and witnesses , was included witnesses, was included erroneously in freedom of information responses . both information responses. both forces have attributed it to a technical issue . in a joint technical issue. in a joint statement, they said the data was hidden from anyone opening the files, which were issued between april 2021 and march 20th, 22. that's where this lunchtime the prime minister has called wages rising at their fastest level for 22 years. light at the end of the tunnel figures from the office for

national statistics show wages rose by 7.8% in the last quarter , but inflation is currently 7.9, bringing it down is the key, according to rishi sunak, it's inflation that's making people feel poorer. >> it's eating into the savings in their bank account, making sure there's less money that they of the they have at the end of the month. and that's why we need to bnng month. and that's why we need to bring it down and that's how we'll also bring interest we'll also bring down interest rates pressure on rates and ease the pressure on people's now we are people's mortgages. now we are making progress. not making progress. i'm not complacent. we'll have more complacent. and we'll have more numbers this week, which hopefully show continued downward on inflation. hopefully show continued dowwe've on inflation. hopefully show continued dowwe've got on inflation. hopefully show continued dowwe've got to on inflation. hopefully show continued dowwe've got to stick)n inflation. hopefully show continued dowwe've got to stick to inflation. hopefully show continued dowwe've got to stick to the ition. but we've got to stick to the plan. that taking the plan. and that means taking the right responsible decisions for right, responsible decisions for the economy being responsible right, responsible decisions for the eborrowing,»eing responsible right, responsible decisions for the eborrowing, with responsible right, responsible decisions for the eborrowing, with public sible with borrowing, with public sector pay. and if we do that, we bring inflation down. we will bring inflation down. >> the metropolitan police say three people are facing trial for allegedly breaching the official secrets act. five people were initially arrested in february as part of an investigation by the met's counter—terror command. three of the five were believed to be bulgarian later bulgarian nationals, were later charged possession of false charged with possession of false identity appeared

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the people's . channel the people's. channel >> welcome back to the live desk on gb news. the prime minister is hopeful that inflation will fall tomorrow in some much needed good news for the uk economy. yes. >> rishi sunak has reiterated, however, that the government will stick to their stringent economic plan even if more progress is made . progress is made. >> well, inflation is my number one priority to bring down and that's why i set it out in my

five priorities as the first one. >> why? because it's inflation that's making people feel poorer. eating the poorer. it's eating into the savings their account, savings in their bank account, making sure there's less money that have at the end of the that they have at the end of the month. why we need to month. and that's why we need to bnng month. and that's why we need to bring that's how bring it down. and that's how we'll also bring interest we'll also bring down interest rates pressure on rates and ease the pressure on people's mortgages. now we are making progress. i'm not complacent. and we'll have more numbers week, which numbers this week, which hopefully show continued downward hopefully show continued dowwe've got stick to the but we've got to stick to the plan. that means taking the right, responsible decisions for plan. that means taking the righeconomysible decisions for plan. that means taking the righeconomy and decisions for plan. that means taking the righeconomy and being ons for the economy and being responsible with borrowing, with pubuc responsible with borrowing, with public and if we do public sector pay. and if we do that, we bring inflation that, we will bring inflation down, ease the burden on the cost of living for people. and i think people can trust me. they know how to manage know that i know how to manage the i will the economy. i will get inflation down for everyone, ease the burden on the cost of living doing we living and in doing that, we will also able to bring will also be able to bring interest down time interest rates down over time to. >> well, joining us more joining us now for more this is gb us now for more on this is gb news new political editor christopher chris, to christopher hope. chris, good to see is so interesting to see you. it is so interesting to see you. it is so interesting to see the prime minister so chirpy, frankly , this morning chirpy, frankly, this morning when given the wider context in

terms of the economy and in terms of the economy and in terms of the economy and in terms of polling, perhaps he doesn't have reason to be so chirpy . well he may know chirpy. well he may know something we don't know, which is what the inflation figures might say . might say. >> tomorrow. the he is saying there there's downward pressure and we might see some news tomorrow. and clearly he's indicating something may be in the aether. of course, these are ons figures independently drawn up. don't know what they are. up. we don't know what they are. he see figures within he may see figures within within the structure that we the government structure that we don't know yet. so the hope is that there some progress that there can be some progress on that would be a on inflation. that would be a relief the spiralling relief given the spiralling costs then what costs of wages. and then what the that's had now on the bearing that's had now on interest with some in the interest rates with some in the city now forecasting the bank of england base rate going to 6, 6% next year, next march and that's in the run up to a very short run up to the likely election in the second half of next year. so he can see the political issues here. he's back, though, here. he's come back, though, from la showing from his holiday in la showing he's the guy who can fix things. he's focussed on, on, he's totally focussed on, on, on, on on halving inflation.

that's his target. it remains on, on on halving inflation. thatarget target. it remains on, on on halving inflation. thatarget forget. it remains on, on on halving inflation. thatarget for this it remains on, on on halving inflation. thatarget for this yearnains on, on on halving inflation. thatarget for this year .ains on, on on halving inflation. thatarget for this year. well, his target for this year. well, let's see if he can do it. >> he says it's important that we stick to the plan. the plan is working. i think there is light at the end of the tunnel, but i guess it's a question of how long is this tunnel? that's right. >> mean we go back to those old enough to remember this back to the early 9090s when norman lamont spoke about the green shoots of recovery and they didn't appear for a very long time. and that became standing time. and that became a standing joke there was almost time. and that became a standing jowish there was almost time. and that became a standing jowish fulfilment|ere was almost time. and that became a standing jowish fulfilment amongstalmost time. and that became a standing jowish fulfilment amongst the>st a wish fulfilment amongst the tory government stage. tory government at that stage. let's words let's hope that those words don't come back to bite. rishi sunak he's saying light sunak he's saying there's light at of the tunnel in the at the end of the tunnel in the second week of august. well, how will look will that tunnel look in november? december >> interesting , >> well, it's interesting, though, to think about when this next general election might be. there's a there's a school of thought that rishi sunak might want to a gordon brown want to do a gordon brown and leave the last possible leave it till the last possible minute. course , this is a minute. of course, this is a decision that is now within the gift of the prime minister. well

it is in his gift after the last government repealed the fixed term parliaments act, brought in by by the liberal democrats in 2010 to try and make sure the elections every five years is now up to the pm when he does it. >> the big risk, though, tom, as you know, is whether he's seen to be squatting in downing street, outliving his time, and there's almost an energy behind it fuel the anger it might almost fuel the anger in labour, the labour party. why is this guy still why is this guy still there? why won't he, know, call the won't he, you know, call the election? defy to call the election? i defy you to call the election. that kind of language will start coming from as will start coming from labour as we next year. of we go through next year. of course, labour's and course, labour's parts and figures now response to figures just now in response to this inflation, this spiralling wage inflation, saying the average pay has saying that the average pay has gone up by just £0.03 since 2010, much of that period, of course, was when there was very low, very low inflation. but those figures now look quite difficult for government to handle. >> okay . gb news political >> okay. gb news political editor chris hope, thanks very much. talk to you later. >> now , today marks 25 years >> now, today marks 25 years since the omagh bombing, which has been described as the single

biggest loss of life during the troubles, an attack which was carried out by a dissident republican group, the real ira. >> no one has yet been convicted , and a public inquiry is now being set out. our northern ireland reporter dougie beattie has been in the town today. >> we remember those who have died . james barker, aged 12, of died. james barker, aged 12, of fernando black , hugo baselga , fernando black, hugo baselga, aged 12. >> geraldine bertelsen, 43. deborah ann cartwright, 20. gareth conway . 18 . the himars gareth conway. 18. the himars that watch over the garden of remembrance in omagh each represents a life lost . on the represents a life lost. on the 15th of august 1998 .

15th of august 1998. >> michael gallagher is the spokesman for the families and lost his son aiden in the blast. >> and as i came in the road i could see people walking out, mainly women and children with blood streaming down. >> and i thought, my god, what has happened here? and i got as close to the bomb scene as i could. and there was a young soldier there, and he was part of the cordon. i could see that he himself was shocked at what he himself was shocked at what he had seen and about half one in the morning, i was invited into a room where there was a young policeman and a young policewoman and i knew by the nature of the questions they were asking me that it wasn't going to be a good outcome. and after that we were then taken to the temporary mortuary . the temporary mortuary. >> given the facts that this was the largest single loss of life in northern ireland's troubled past , and in northern ireland's troubled past, and that the good in northern ireland's troubled past , and that the good friday past, and that the good friday agreement had already been signed, you would have imagined those that carried it out would have already faced the law . but

have already faced the law. but 25 years on, the families are still seeking justice. >> there have been a number of different investigations ranging from the police investigations to ombudsman investigations . to ombudsman investigations. >> jonathan keegan, parliamentary under secretary of state, says an inquiry is now on its way . its way. >> i think the important point is now that the government in in february responded to the legal case by announcing a public inquiry , the device was built inquiry, the device was built and driven from the republic of ireland and that means any inquiry will have to have equal powers there and the irish minister for european affairs, peter burke, will only respond when they see the terms of reference . reference. >> we always had our tarnished image. hal martin, our minister for justice, helen mcentee, have forjustice, helen mcentee, have met with many of the victims. we haven't seen the final terms of reference for the forthcoming inquiry of yet, and the inquiry as of yet, and the government in ireland will obviously once

obviously respond to that once we see the final terms of reference for the inquiry . reference for the inquiry. >> jolene marlow, seven teen avril monaghan, 30, and her unborn twins, evelyn and emer maura monaghan, 18 on 25 years have gone by and with no real answers . answers. >> those that lost their loved ones are determined that they will be remembered . dougie will be remembered. dougie beattie gb news. omagh . 29, beattie gb news. omagh. 29, victims that day , 16 of them victims that day, 16 of them under the age of 25. >> well , we under the age of 25. >> well, we can under the age of 25. >> well , we can now under the age of 25. >> well, we can now speak under the age of 25. >> well , we can now speak with >> well, we can now speak with the first non local journalist at the scene in 1998 and that is eamonn malley. eamonn 25 years. but in many ways , maybe for you, but in many ways, maybe for you, it seems like yesterday . it seems like yesterday. >> yes.

>> yes. >> and an extraordinary experience. my wife and i were in donegal on holidays and of course i didn't ever recognise holidays really, you know, and i was alerted to the bomb and my wife and i drove directly to omagh and i was the first reporter working at sort of belfast level , reporter working at sort of belfast level, northern ireland level, to have arrived . and when level, to have arrived. and when i arrived there, there was white tape of the habitual white tape. the area was sealed off and there was a police officer at there was a police officer at the tip and i got out of the car at this stage and i approached him and the hope that he was going to fill me in with some details so that i could start reporting immediately. but he just the poor his just exploded. the poor man, his green shirt, the ruc officers , green shirt, the ruc officers, psni, ruc officers in those days wore green shirts and it was splattered in blood . and he just splattered in blood. and he just he just exploded , did in anger he just exploded, did in anger against me. but in the course of his anger, he painted an extraordinarily picture of what he had just seen when the bomb

went off. and people actually seem to have been not wilfully , seem to have been not wilfully, but almost like by by trying to clear the town , the impact was clear the town, the impact was even greater and the bomb went off. and he told me of a going into shops and ripping out shelves from the shops literally to make makeshift stretcher chairs to get people away. it was an extraordinary outburst, but my god, the description which he gave was frightening because i went straight to her at that point in time , and it at that point in time, and it was an awful, awful experience. the worst and the worst of it all is, of course, despite all that has been done so far in terms of examinations of the scene and everything like that, the truth of that bomb has not emerged , and i doubt if

fact, probably extraordinary. the largest loss of life of any one event during the troubles. and it came after the troubles. and it came after the signing of the good friday agreement . yeah. agreement. yeah. >> and it's such a long campaign for the families of the victims to get justice. yes. they've been on that quest for the last 25 years. and that public inquiry is finally due to happen. but the spectre of terrorism in northern ireland certainly hasn't gone away. and eamonn marley, i think we can bnng eamonn marley, i think we can bring you back in on maybe you can answer answer that for me or just talk about that a little bit more, especially in light of what's happened over the last few days with with that massive data breach in northern ireland, the of terrorism still the threat of terrorism still remains as. >> yes , but, you know, compared >> yes, but, you know, compared to the life in which i was involved as a reporter 25 years ago, this is a completely new environment. there was worrying is scary. it's unsettling . it's

is scary. it's unsettling. it's unsettling for police officers, for their families and even families living beside police officers, because there's nobody among us here in northern ireland who does know a police family. i dealt with the police officers down the years. i would have recognised i would recognise them wherever i go . recognise them wherever i go. and i knew a lot of those people who were killed. i was at the funerals of so many of those people, but it's hard to compare today with the life in which i was involved as a reporter back then. now dc caldwell was shot and very lucky to survive by dissident republicans recently and dissidents are still with us. but the capacity is not as great as in the ages of the era of the ira, the provisional ira. but it doesn't mean that they're not capable of killing somebody or planting a bomb. the capacity is still there, and this leak is so debilitating and so on. on the mining of the police service

in so many ways. the mining of the police service in so many ways . and one travels in so many ways. and one travels in so many ways. and one travels in hope that we won't witness any more or anything comparable to the attack on the on the life of dc caldwell recently incidents are isolated eamonn had to say there absolutely technicals let us down. >> but the 25th anniversary of the omagh bombing we remember today but today is also the second day of the grim green homes festival in edinburgh , homes festival in edinburgh, which aims to help people

into energy to scotland. reporter tony mcguire. tony it sounds actually quite invaluable this . yes, that's correct . this. yes, that's correct. >> and certainly the edinburgh festivals are still going strong. we're about halfway through the month of august , through the month of august, but, you know, away from the fringe and the tattoo and the film festival, you get these smaller festivals that seem to really be going from strength to strength. it's in the strength. so whether it's in the kind of the fun end of the spectrum, the magic festival and the festival all, or the craft beer festival all, or whether we get green homes whether we get the green homes festival were at today. whether we get the green homes festias. were at today. whether we get the green homes festias you were at today. whether we get the green homes festias you say, were at today. whether we get the green homes festias you say, this; at today. whether we get the green homes festias you say, this beguniay. whether we get the green homes festias you say, this begun last and as you say, this begun last yearin and as you say, this begun last year in 2022 and for the first time it's now all under one roof. and all the events over the course of this week are really geared towards two things awareness of carbon neutrality and how we get there as consumers , but also the consumers, but also the reduction of energy bills, which of course has become such a major talking point for everybody over the last couple of years. so i spoke to a couple

of years. so i spoke to a couple of the attendees who had sessions on today about what really it was that kind of helps us get the word out there to get awareness and to get educated down into the hands of everybody who could benefit . heat networks who could benefit. heat networks is isn't so big here in the uk at the moment, but where it works particularly well is where you have a number of buildings on a single site that can be controlled by one organisation, the university of edinburgh, that has five campuses and on each one of those campuses you have one single plant room or energy centre. so rather than having a boiler in each building, you've just got one plant room and one energy centre thatis plant room and one energy centre that is connected through pipework . all the different pipework. all the different buildings on that campus. >> in part it's about having these kind of conversations and running the sorts of events that we're running this morning. it's about bringing people into that

conversation an and talking about how we make our lives better , because an awful lot of better, because an awful lot of people, of course, now, particularly since the current energy crisis, can't actually afford to heat their homes as and there are there have to be better ways of doing that and there we go. >> and certainly i also spoke to fiona, fiona and hodgson, sorry, who is the chief executive and she was basically saying that delegate feedback work has very much painted the picture, that people feel empowered to have this information at their disposal . disposal. >> all tony mcguire thank you. and there's me thinking the edinburgh festival was only about jokes and comedy about green warm homes as well. >> well, in the next hour, our exclusive report on the crackdown of illegal workers employed by delivery companies. really important stuff. do not go anywhere . a brighter outlook go anywhere. a brighter outlook with boxt solar

>> proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello much of the uk are enjoying some pretty fine weather this week with lots of sunshine around. yes, there will be a few showers here and there, but places will dry and but most places will be dry and feeling in that sunshine as feeling warm in that sunshine as well. the pressure well. we look at the pressure pattern then you see high pattern then you can see high pressure continuing pressure really continuing to build in from the west. that's what's bringing increasingly fine, dry and sunny weather across still a few across the country. still a few showers towards northeast, showers towards the northeast, closer of low closer to that area of low pressure, here's pressure, though. here's a picture. through tuesday picture. then through tuesday evening as picture. then through tuesday evercan as picture. then through tuesday evercan see, as picture. then through tuesday evercan see, a as picture. then through tuesday evercan see, a lot as picture. then through tuesday evercan see, a lot of as picture. then through tuesday evercan see, a lot of places as you can see, a lot of places will be dry overnight. still a few showers across parts of scotland, northeast england. these away as we these tending to fade away as we head through the night. and actually england, actually for much of england, wales, we will wales, northern ireland, we will see skies see largely clear skies developing that developing overnight and that will to one or miss 1 or 2 will lead to one or miss 1 or 2 mist and fog patches also mist and fog patches and also turning chilly as well turning fairly chilly as well in some spots. in towns some rural spots. but in towns and temperatures holding and cities, temperatures holding up degrees. your up 10 to 13 degrees. is your overnight under those overnight lows. so under those clear skies, we got off to a pretty fine start for much of the first thing on

the country first thing on wednesday morning. lot wednesday morning. a lot of sunshine, particularly across england, wales, northern ireland. though, ireland. more cloud, though, continuing to affect parts of scotland gain 1 or scotland with a gain 1 or 2 showers actually for much of showers and actually for much of the day, places will be the day, most places will be dry. i said, still the risk dry. like i said, still the risk of isolated shower across of an isolated shower across england wales, still further of an isolated shower across england affectinges, still further of an isolated shower across england affecting parts.l further of an isolated shower across england affecting parts of urther showers affecting parts of scotland, northeast but scotland, northeast england. but most will dry fine and most places will be dry fine and warm 26 degrees there warm as well. 26 degrees there for for scotland for london. low 20s for scotland and ireland. we look and northern ireland. we look ahead into thursday, then again, that looks that largely dry theme looks set to clear skies to continue with clear skies for many some sunshine many areas, some sunshine particularly towards the west and the north—west. bit more and the north—west. a bit more cloud the east coast, cloud towards the east coast, but in that sunshine, but again in that sunshine, feeling warm, still as we feeling warm, warmer still as we head but with head into friday. but with that, an showers an increasing risk of showers and thunderstorms, brighter and thunderstorms, a brighter outlook proud outlook with boxt solar proud sponsors weather on gb news sponsors of weather on gb news i john gb news because i was sick and tired of not hearing my views being represented , not views being represented, not just mine, but so many people that i knew and spoke to. >> just couldn't get my voice >> i just couldn't get my voice out there. i couldn't say anything. i couldn't do anything. i couldn't do anything. the narrative anything. whatever the narrative was, of had follow it. was, i kind of had to follow it.

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from plymouth retrace the footsteps of charles darwin to two centuries ago and taking outstanding young naturalists on the educational trip of a lifetime. i'm and trust me , i will get and trust me, i will get inflation down. >> that's the message from the prime minister on his return to work from his californian summer retreat , but he certainly retreat, but he certainly sounded well rested. but before we get into all of that, here are your headlines with paul hawkins . hawkins. >> good afternoon . it's just >> good afternoon. it's just gone 2:00. i'm paul hawkins in the gb newsroom . norfolk and the gb newsroom. norfolk and suffolk police have admitted that personal information of 1230 people, including victims of crime and witnesses , was of crime and witnesses, was included erroneously in freedom

of information responses . both of information responses. both forces have attributed it to a technical issue in a joint statement, they said the data was hidden from anyone opening the files, which were issued between april 2021 and march 20th, 22. the prime minister has called wages rising at the fastest level for 22 years. light at the end of the tunnel. figures from the office for national statistics show wages rose by 7.8% in the last quarter, but inflate is still currently 7.9, bringing it down is the key, according to rishi sunak , it's inflation that's sunak, it's inflation that's making people feel poorer. >> it's eating into the savings in their bank account, making sure there's less money that in their bank account, making sure have's less money that in their bank account, making sure have at.ess money that in their bank account, making sure have at the money that in their bank account, making sure have at the end ey that in their bank account, making sure have at the end of that in their bank account, making sure have at the end of the: they have at the end of the month. and that's why we need to bnng month. and that's why we need to bring and that's how bring it down. and that's how we'll bring interest we'll also bring down interest rates ease pressure on rates and ease the pressure on people's now we people's mortgages. now we are making progress. i'm not complacent. we'll more complacent. and we'll have more numbers this week which hopefully show continued downward movement on inflation. but we've to stick to the but we've got to stick to the plan. that means taking the right responsible decisions for the responsible

the economy, being responsible with with public with borrowing, with public sector . and if we do that, sector pay. and if we do that, we will bring inflation down elsewhere . elsewhere. >> this afternoon, the metropolitan police say three people are facing trial for allegedly breaching the official secrets act. five people were arrested in february as part of an investigation by the met's counter terror command. three of the five who were believed to be bulgarian related, charged with possession identity possession of false identity documents and appeared in court last month. all five were released on bail until september . donald trump has called his fourth set of charges a witch hunt. the former us president made the comments in a post on his truth social media platform. he's been given a fourth indictment, this time in georgia, accusing him of trying to overturn his 2020 election loss to joe biden and the 13 felony charges include falsely saying that election fraud had occurred and urging state officials to violate their oaths officials to violate their oaths of office by altering the election results. he's the front runner as the republican nominee in next year's presidential

election and denies any wrongdoing . back here, the home wrongdoing. back here, the home office has exclusively told gb news there's been a huge increase in undocumented immigrants exploiting rules to work in the food delivery sector . it says restaurants and small businesses are offering delivery. services are being urged to carry out more detailed checks on their drivers to crack down scams , as home office down on scams, as home office officials say working in the shadow economy is a major pull factor for those embarking on often dangerous illegal journeys to the uk . british politicians to the uk. british politicians will be asked if they've had any issues accessing their bank accounts or have had their accounts or have had their accounts closed without notice . accounts closed without notice. it's part of a plan by the part of an inquiry, i should say, by the uk's financial watchdog , the the uk's financial watchdog, the financial conduct authority announced plans to review banking practises involving so—called politically exposed people. the investigation comes after gb news presenter and former ukip leader nigel farage revealed that coutts closed his bank account over his political views . nhs hospitals in england

views. nhs hospitals in england will get a £250 million boost from the government to increase capacity as part of the urgent emergency care recovery plan . emergency care recovery plan. the money will create 900 beds to relieve pressures and help cut waiting times. 30 key nhs organisations will benefit from the investment. the majority of schemes will be completed by january to help deal with winter pressures as the royal college of nursing. however has questioned will staff the questioned who will staff the new beds, given the recruitment problems in nursing. but health minister will quince says they've into account. they've taken that into account. >> staffing is a key component of this plan. the additional staffing numbers will come from that £1 billion budget, so the additional revenue funding which will flow through nhs england through to those 30 trusts we have of course over the past year has seen an additional 6000 doctors and 15,000 nurses, but each of those trusts that have committed to build those 900 additional beds within their trusts have assured us and nhs england that they will be able

to staff them with the funding suppued. supplied. >> today marks two years since the taliban took control of afghanistan following the withdrawal of western allies. people demonstrated outside parliament earlier today in solidarity with afghans and opposing the taliban rule. aid organisations have also urged government ministers not to abandon afghans, veterans minister johnny mercer, who served in the country, acknowledged some people had been left behind after the taliban takeover and still have not been brought safely to britain . this is gb news across britain. 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 back to tom and pete . now back to tom and pete. >> thanks, paul. gb news has been given exclusive access as immigration officers launched a major crackdown on food delivery companies who've been employing illegal immigrants. >> us home office officials say

working in the shadow economy is a major pull factor for those embarking on often dangerous illegal journeys to the uk . illegal journeys to the uk. >> our homeland security editor, mark white, was with enforcement officers as they carried out raids across the country in towns and cities across the uk. >> these delivery drivers are everywhere. we all use them, but increasingly the person who turns up at your door or is breaking the law, we can reveal a massive surge in the number of illegal immigrants working in the delivery sector . we're with the delivery sector. we're with immigration enforcement officers in brighton city centre , a joint in brighton city centre, a joint operation with sussex police as they target the delivery drivers, they suspect of working illegally . police have just illegally. police have just stopped this rider on the seafront as they carry out checks. seafront as they carry out checks . immigration enforcement checks. immigration enforcement teams hang back out of sight so as not to alert other drivers

that they're around this riders documents checked out and he was cleared to go just round the corner. other immigration officers have stopped an indonesian delivery driver here, but he is currently under arrest i >> -- >> so first of all, i need to take a photograph of him. >> checks on him, indicate he is working here illegally and likely faces deportation in just four years ago, immigration enforcement were only really encountered ing a handful of illegal immigrants working in the gig economy. now it's vast. it is one of the key target areas for these officers. this operation is part of a major crackdown, specifically targeting those exploiting the gig economy, where legitimate self—employed delivery drivers often rent out their accounts to undocumented workers. >> they're undercutting legitimate employers and they're undercutting legitimate employees, both who who are trying to undertake things,

playing by the rules. and it really is it really is a major issue. >> immigration key comes to the doon >> immigration key comes to the door. please >> in east london. other officers are targeting the homes officers are targeting the homes of undocumented drivers. you don't see them coming in and out. >> do they have a motorbike? >> do they have a motorbike? >> the suspect here has, it seems, moved on to another address. not uncommon given the transitory nature of undocumented immigrants . it's undocumented immigrants. it's back in brighton. this brazilian rider has just been arrested after trying to escape by going the wrong way up a one way street. >> he spotted immigration officers , we think, and he's officers, we think, and he's tried to flee . it looks the tried to flee. it looks the early indications are that he's working in breach of his entry conditions to the uk. there are those who feel these riders are doing little harm and these raids are a distraction from the trauma and tragedy unfolding all too often in the mediterranean and in the english channel. >> this past weekend. but authorities say illegal working

and illegal journeys are absolutely linked to the illegal working is a major pull factor for illegal migration into the uk. >> if you know you're coming to the uk with a job, you're more likely to travel here illegally and also undertake potentially unsafe journeys. >> the home office say many delivery companies are increasingly cooperating in the efforts to stop illegals exploiting their services , but exploiting their services, but they still need to do far more to check those delivering food and goods in their name are who they say they are. mark white gb news brighton in our home and security editor mark white joins us in the studio. >> mark, is this an issue up and down the country or only centred on certain areas? >> no, it's definitely an issue. according to immigration enforcement, that is affecting community cities right across the country with undocumented

workers, illegal immigrants working in the delivery food sector , not just even the big sector, not just even the big cities , smaller towns as well , cities, smaller towns as well, even those that are not sort of part of the big sort of apps of deliveroo and uber eats and just eat and alike , you know, just eat and alike, you know, just local china teas or indian takeaways that might have their own drivers . according to own drivers. according to immigration enforcement, in some cases there that can be illegal workers, too. so they've launched multiple raids in the last few months right up and down the country . me and have down the country. me and have made many, many arrests, hundreds of arrests and seizures dunng hundreds of arrests and seizures during that time . but it's during that time. but it's a problem, they say , that's just problem, they say, that's just very , very big and difficult to very, very big and difficult to get to grips with because it is so prevalent in communities right across the country . right across the country. >> it's often said one of the

biggest pull factors about the united kingdom is that we don't have sort of a government issued id card as many continental european countries do. it's easier to get casual work in the united however, i united kingdom. however, i suppose show suppose this example would show that this is actually sort of subcontracting from individuals who are legitimately employed . who are legitimately employed. this isn't something that any sort of id scheme would fix. >> no. and i mean even with the id scheme , yes, you'd have to id scheme, yes, you'd have to hand over an id card, which many people say they're completely opposed to , but what's the opposed to, but what's the system that works at the moment 7 system that works at the moment ? if you are a foreign national and you're here in this country , if you want employment, you have to hand over your passport. so effectively you're giving an identity document to authorities and to an employer to prove that you have the legitimate right, right to be there and working. but you're right, this gets around it effectively because there is a legitimate person

that may be a foreign national working here legitimately. it may be a uk national living and working here. who gets this contract from whichever delivery company and then decides, well, i can make some more money by getting a whole host of other people who may well be illegal and unentitled to work just to take over my franchise houses and to go to in deliver and to give me a cut of what they're earning there is a school of thought that this wouldn't be happening if people were allowed to work while their claims were processed because not being allowed to work. >> i think they get less than £6 a day. what do you what do you say to those? >> yeah, well, the whole issue of asylum seekers and whether they should be allowed to work, for instance , is one of those for instance, is one of those that crops up a lot . right? and that crops up a lot. right? and just generally the sort of the illegal undocumented economy , illegal undocumented economy, the grey economy or the black

economy or the shadow economy , economy or the shadow economy, however you want to refer to it , it is massive in terms of the number of people involved. some estimates north of 1.5 million people. it's been by groups of economist . it's estimated economist. it's estimated perhaps to amount to about 10% of the uk's gdp, about. 220 billion a year, at least . but billion a year, at least. but money that's not going to the exchequer. so, yes, there are those that say bring them out of the shadows, make them legitimate, allow them to work . legitimate, allow them to work. and the same with asylum seekers . but the government couldn't consistently argues that if you do that all you then do is just make it that much more attractive for people to get to the uk to try to get to the uk because according to the government, they say the majority of those that want to

come by irregular routes across the channel or however they want to get here, they want to do it because they want employment , because they want employment, they want that money to send back to their families in whichever country they come from. so it's a difficult one. there are definite benefits to the uk of bringing these people out of the shadows, but then also the downside side, according to the government, is you're taking many, many more across with this pull factor . across with this pull factor. >> well, mark, thank you very much for that. and i also must say that i enjoyed your attempt to dance around politically to dance around the politically correct whether this is to dance around the politically corrblack, whether this is to dance around the politically corrblack, the whether this is to dance around the politically corrblack, the greyther this is to dance around the politically corrblack, the grey or r this is to dance around the politically corrblack, the grey or the s is the black, the grey or the shadow economy by just naming them all, by naming them all, thereby offending people with grey offending grey hair, no doubt offending shadows to where shadows as i like to help where i can. >> tom mark white, thank you very well, today marks two >> oh, well, today marks two years since the taliban seized the afghan capital of kabul and forced the country's internationally backed president, ashraf ghani, to flee, leading to desperate scenes at kabul airport as

people tried to get out of the country . country. >> yeah, who can forget those images from two years ago? well, despite that amount of time, having passed the fallout from nato's from afghan nato's evacuation from afghan khan remains immense. with many afghans being left in limbo as they seek to claim asylum. in other countries, including, of course , here in the uk. well course, here in the uk. well joining us now in the studio is the defence editor of the evening standard , robert fox. evening standard, robert fox. >> and thank you very much for joining us this afternoon. it's hard to believe that this was two years ago . have we learned two years ago. have we learned any lessons from what many people would describe as a less than graceful retreat? >> not much . >> not much. >> not much. >> there are a lot of lessons to be learned and a lot of things, curiously, were done quite well, particularly by the soldiers and marines on the ground. >> and from what i hear from immediate at eyewitness accounts, they behaved a lot better than some of their american counterparts who did a lot of shooting. may lot of shooting. you may remember said that they remember they said that they

were attack, it was were under attack, but it was quite of it's quite a bit of it's self—generated, i'm afraid it was a disaster. it was a huge sorry, the old cliche intelligence failure . why was intelligence failure. why was there little warning now? it'd be a bit subjective . i've spent be a bit subjective. i've spent a lot of time in afghanistan since 1989, off and on, and it was quite clear that this regime was quite clear that this regime was failing . the people very was failing. the people very close to the brits like samizdat special forces commander , special forces commander, brilliant, partly british trained british educated, said be careful . the doha agreement be careful. the doha agreement done by trump and then endorsed by biden was a dud and we have seen where we didn't do quite so well in sudan. again, showing we hadnt well in sudan. again, showing we hadn't learnt the lessons from op pitting and when we look at these images as we are now, robert , thousands of people dead robert, thousands of people dead , desperately trying to get out i >> -- >> there was the images, weren't there, of the people clinging to there, of the people clinging to the plane as it took off. i mean, it was it was awful. and

many of those people were left behind. and what sort of life do they have now left behind? yes. and what sort of life do they have now? i find it incredible that the taliban has today declared a national holiday . declared a national holiday. >> yes. and the taliban in particularly in particular areas, have clamped down. they've clamped down in inverted commas, even on the drugs trade. but we'll see how that one goes, because it's such an important revenue earner. i think the brits made a mistake and i think they made a fundamental mistake from the cameron government, they made a fundamental mistake from the cameron government , the from the cameron government, the first cameron coalition on and david cameron was persuaded by friends of his who i happen to know that he could do a deal with the taliban . trump felt, of with the taliban. trump felt, of course, he could do the deal to end all deals with absolutely everybody. cobleigh and all. you could blame the palestinians , could blame the palestinians, isis, whatever trump was the art of the deal. it just wasn't available . and the commanders at

available. and the commanders at the time well known to all of us, including the chief of the defence staff, said, yes, you could do a deal with this thing. it won't be so bad. but it's getting worse. and the problem is point. we cannot get in is your point. we cannot get in sufficiently to get a purchase on this taliban regime to say, look, hey, stop it . they're now look, hey, stop it. they're now stopping ten year old girls going to school in some parts of the country. question who is funding this? it can't be entirely pakistan because pakistan is in turmoil, probably from the gulf. >> i mean, it's for girls in afghanistan, isn't it, that it is particularly awful . and i is particularly awful. and i think a survey has been done recently where 8% of people know someone out there who's tried to commit suicide and the mental health issues, the fact that they can't get an education, they can't get an education, they can't get an education, they can't they can't go out their lives are just done for. oh, yeah. >> there's another thing, though , too. this is to me they can say it's ideology. it isn't. there's something in elements of

this taliban regime, which is utterly cynical. it is self—serving. power groups, their power warlords themselves who overthrow the warlord regime. and that's why it goes off the boil. you know, when you go to big strategic conferences, whether it's nato, whether it's the g7, the g 20, it's way down the g7, the g 20, it's way down the agenda . you wait because the agenda. you wait because i think it's going to be a particularly critical one. qatar ized by triggered by ukraine in the general assembly meeting mid september. there's going to be a real bust up. you're making all these claims, the plan to stabilise and grow to afghanistan, particularly as it was rebooted in 2005, was if you look back on it, absolutely crazy . it was pie in the sky. crazy. it was pie in the sky. one of the best un civil servants. staffan de mistura, who is in charge , he said, look, who is in charge, he said, look, robert, all these people , your robert, all these people, your military colleagues from the british still think you can make this it'll never be this work. it'll never be switzerland or off the himalayas i >> -- >> what does this say about

british operational independence or perhaps operate regional impotence? we couldn't have stayed there when the americans withdrew. >> no, but . withdrew. >> no, but. but we could have persuaded the americans to stay behind in the way that they have in syria for example. and that's the point that biden would never buy it because he has form when he was vice president, he had a stand up, bust up row. who can blame him? in some respects with hamid karzai, the president who was utterly corrupt , absolutely was utterly corrupt, absolutely proven, still around , still proven, still around, still still a power broker . so he was still a power broker. so he was doing a pontius pilot. sorry, to the historical metaphor. he was washing his hands of it. and it washing his hands of it. and it was a disgrace. and this is the kind of thing that we've got to learn from your point about resilience and armed services and say and it's going to be dnven and say and it's going to be driven by, unfortunately , by driven by, unfortunately, by ukraine. we've got to start a fundamental reform about what defence security or resilience really means. defence security or resilience really means . we've got enough really means. we've got enough money. 50 billion is pretty good

to spend , to spend on this . to spend, to spend on this. we're not spending it very well. i do just in the short time we have, i do want to just ask you about the lives of afghanistan. >> barnes people from afghanistan living here, thousands of whom are still in hotels, thousands of whom are facing homelessness . you know, facing homelessness. you know, we have let them down, haven't we? >> well, it's not good because you heard from mark. there's something actually really disjointed, dysfunctional about our whole approach to asylum seekers, refugees, illegals . seekers, refugees, illegals. these people who are coming in, it's awful to talk about. but these people, they are people. they are human capital. and that's the thing that really shocks this is valuable shocks me. this is valuable human capital because a lot of these people are highly, highly qualified. they were doctors who had interpreters had to become interpreters because earn more because they could earn more money. could great money. they could be of great value to us. >> and they were not worked for the british afghanistan. and the british in afghanistan. and we treating sort day to we are treating sort of day to day . day. >> and it's not a party political thing because i think it's right across the political culture i'm

culture in this country. i'm really set on on on this . really quite set on on on this. they think of the daily gain from when am i going to get a vote? am i going to lose a vote? they're no, there should be a quiet review about how to maximise human capital. yes, you can somebody blameworthy for can say somebody blameworthy for trying seek asylum, trying to illegally seek asylum, but if you get talented kids who are young adolescents, you want to get them into some kind of education system. this is not pollyanna pie in the sky because otherwise they could become gangsters or worse . gangsters or worse. >> yeah, they have something to contribute, don't they? >> they certainly do. and i suppose our numbers are suppose as our army numbers are dwindling, perhaps perhaps getting some people had getting some people who had helped british army helped out the british army before would not be before back in would not be going on that i prophesied. >> not necessarily >> probably not necessarily quite lifetime, but quite in my lifetime, but i think are going have to think we are going to have to have kind of national have some kind of national service . gosh. have some kind of national senwell . gosh. have some kind of national senwell , . gosh. have some kind of national senwell , that'siosh. have some kind of national senwell , that's that's another >> well, that's that's another interview , robert. there's a interview, robert. there's a whole a whole box of i'm looking booking my ticket with you guys. >> you we'll get you back. >> you we'll get you back. >> no, it's such it's such a sprawling issue, all of this.

but the break, history but after the break, history revisited . we will report on the revisited. we will report on the ship, followed ing the route of charles darwin and hms beagle. two centuries ago. it's such amazing imagery. this you have to stick around for it. see you very shortly. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers. proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> hello, much of the uk are enjoying some pretty fine weather this week with lots of sunshine around. yes, there will be a few showers here and there, but most places will be dry and feeling warm in sunshine as feeling warm in that sunshine as well. at the pressure well. we look at the pressure pattern. see high pattern. then you can see high pressure really continuing to build in the west. that's build in from the west. that's what's bringing increasingly fine, weather what's bringing increasingly fine, the weather what's bringing increasingly fine, the country. weather what's bringing increasingly fine, the country. weath few across the country. still a few showers the north—east, showers towards the north—east, closer area of low closer to that area of low pressure, though. here's a picture. tuesday picture. then through tuesday evening as evening and overnight. then as you lot of places you can see, a lot of places will be dry overnight. still a few across parts of few showers across parts of scotland, england. scotland, north—east england. these tending to fade as these tending to fade away as we head and head through the night. and actually of england, actually for much of england, wales, northern ireland, we will

see largely clear skies developing that developing overnight and that will miss 1 or 2 will lead to one or miss 1 or 2 mist fog patches and also mist and fog patches and also turning chilly in turning fairly chilly as well in some spots. in towns some rural spots. but in towns and temperatures holding and cities, temperatures holding up 13 degrees. is your up 10 to 13 degrees. is your overnight lows. so under those clear we off a pretty clear skies, we off to a pretty fine start much of the fine start for much of the country first thing on wednesday morning. sunshine, morning. a lot of sunshine, particularly across england, wales, more wales, northern ireland. more cloud, though, continuing to affect with affect parts of scotland with a gain 2 showers and actually gain 1 or 2 showers and actually for much the day, most places for much of the day, most places will dry. i said, still will be dry. like i said, still the risk of an isolated shower across england and wales, still further showers affecting parts of england. of scotland, northeast england. but will fine but most places will be dry fine and warm well. 26 degrees and warm as well. 26 degrees there london, low for there for london, low 20s for scotland ireland. scotland and northern ireland. we into thursday. we look ahead into thursday. then largely then again, that largely dry theme continue with theme looks set to continue with clear for many areas, some clear skies for many areas, some sunshine towards sunshine particularly towards the northwest, the west and the northwest, a bit towards the east bit more cloud towards the east coast. but again in that sunshine feeling warm, warmer, still friday. still as we head into friday. but that, an increasing but with that, an increasing risk showers and risk of showers and thunderstorms warm feeling thunderstorms that warm feeling inside boilers, proud inside from boxt boilers, proud sponsors of on .

this evening. gb news the people's . channel people's. channel >> welcome back. a quick bit of breaking news for you. six former metropolitan police officers have been charged with sending grossly offensive, racist messages on whatsapp. >> all of the officers charged are over the age of 60, with the two youngest both having retired from the met in 2015. the six men will now appear at

westminster magistrates court on thursday, september the 7th. >> in other news, the historic tall ship set sail from plymouth this morning on a round the world adventure that retraces the footsteps of charles darwin. >> two centuries ago, the ship will stop off at various ports around the world teaching conservation and natural history. >> our south—west of england. reporter jeff moody reports . reporter jeff moody reports. >> after two years in the planning , the adventures start planning, the adventures start now the oosterschelde is setting sail from plymouth today. retry crossing charles darwin's famous journey on hms beagle . the ship journey on hms beagle. the ship will stop in every major port where darwin made landfall. 51 week stays teaching conservation and natural history. it's the brainchild of stuart mcpherson . brainchild of stuart mcpherson. >> we've partnered with local conservation groups with amazing projects on a rainbow of

subjects all around the world. they'll be studying animal calls from giant tortoises in the galapagos to whale sharks in tahiti . and everything you can tahiti. and everything you can imagine between the ship will circumnavigate the globe and countering storms and adverse weather. >> something that holds no fear for captain herbert nab. he's been at the helm of this ship for 30 years. >> and then these these beautiful moments like sometimes you hoist the sails. you're like in a gentle breeze and they start filling and then the ships start filling and then the ships start picking up speed. it's like it's almost almost like, you know, she's spinning like a cat . and then that that really cat. and then that that really makes it worthwhile. >> well, this isn't just about the adventure here. it's also about the learning . whilst about the learning. whilst they're circumnavigating the globe, they're offering up the most exciting classroom in the world. >> and yeah, so the idea is over the weeks as we're travelling around the world, we are going to broadcast live from the ship, live from different islands and ports and places. we're visiting

into the classroom . so we'll get into the classroom. so we'll get classrooms, will get to see the ship, they'll get to meet scientists, explorers, conservationists from all over the world, they'll get to the world, and they'll get to spend time some of the spend some time with some of the ambassadors sylvia ambassadors jane goodall, sylvia earle darwin . earle and sarah darwin. >> charles darwin is credited with the single most important human thought the theory of evolution , that challenged the evolution, that challenged the very foundation of our beliefs and changed scientific thought forever . it's hoped and changed scientific thought forever. it's hoped this and changed scientific thought forever . it's hoped this voyage, forever. it's hoped this voyage, which is scheduled to clock up 190,000 nautical miles in two years, will inspire a new generation of explorers to follow in his footsteps . jeff follow in his footsteps. jeff moody gb news. wow >> stunning pictures there. still to come , a big jump in still to come, a big jump in wages . should we be thrilled or wages. should we be thrilled or worried about the bank of england's reaction ? we'll be england's reaction? we'll be discussing that after your headunes discussing that after your headlines with paul hawkins . headlines with paul hawkins. >> thanks, pip. it's 232. i'm

paul hawkins with the latest from the newsroom . the from the newsroom. the metropolitan police says six former officers have been charged with sending offensive racist messages on whatsapp. the messages were shared within a closed group, but the force says the officers were not serving at any point during their participation in that group . the participation in that group. the officers who retired between 2001 and 2015 will appear at westminster magistrates court next month . north norfolk and next month. north norfolk and suffolk police have admitted that personal information of 1230 people, including victims of crime and witnesses, was included erroneously in freedom of information responses . both of information responses. both forces have attributed it to a technical issue in a joint statement, they said the data was hidden from anyone opening the files, which were issued between april 2021 and march 20th, 22. the prime minister has called wages rising at their fastest level for 22 years. light at the end of the tunnel. figures from the office for

national statistics show wages rose by 7.8% in the last quarter. but inflation is currently 7.9, bringing it down is the key, according to rishi sunak, it's inflation that's making people feel poorer. >> it's eating into their savings and their bank account, making sure there's less money that at the of the that they have at the end of the month. that's why we need to month. and that's why we need to bnng month. and that's why we need to bring and that's how bring it down. and that's how we'll bring interest we'll also bring down interest rates the pressure on rates and ease the pressure on people's now we are people's mortgages. now we are making progress. i'm not complacent we'll more complacent and we'll have more numbers this week which hopefully continued hopefully show continued downward on inflation. downward movement on inflation. but got to stick to the but we've got to stick to the plan. that means taking the right, decisions for right, responsible decisions for the economy, being responsible with with public with borrowing, with public sector . and if we do that, sector pay. and if we do that, we will bring inflation down. >> elsewhere this lunchtime, the metropolitan police say three people are facing trial for allegedly breaching the official secrets act. five people were initially arrested in february as part of an investigation by the met's counter terror command. three of the five who believed to be bulgarian

nationals were later charged with possession of false identity documents and appeared in court last month. all five were released on bail until september and a reminder, you can get lots more on all those stories by visiting our website, gbnews.com .

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>> welcome back to the live desk here on gb news now uk wages grew by 7.8% between april and june , marking a record growth june, marking a record growth rate since 2011. that's according to new figures from the office for national statistics. >> but this comes as uk unemployment is also on the up, rising to 4.2% in the three months to june. >> well, joining us now is our business and economics editor liam halligan . and liam, this is liam halligan. and liam, this is perhaps a mixed basket of news. should we be glad , mad or sad should we be glad, mad or sad that wages are rising so much that wages are rising so much that the government has warned about what's known as a wage price spiral ? price spiral? >> give me a one handed economist screamed napoleon bonaparte, because people like me is always on the one hand and on the other. you're right. it is a really mixed picture. on the one hand, it's great that average wages are up. they're actually up more than inflation. as i'll show you in a moment. on the other hand, i'm afraid it is an average lots of

an average wage and lots of people working in the gig economy have wage economy won't have had wage rises, course. and it also rises, of course. and it also means rises means interest rate rises are more likely . means interest rate rises are more likely. so means interest rate rises are more likely . so interest rates more likely. so interest rates from the bank of england , from the bank of england, currently 5.25, haven't yet peaked , unfortunately. let's peaked, unfortunately. let's just have an eyeball of some of the numbers here came out this morning from the office for national statistics, and they show wages, including show that wages, including bonuses and bonuses, aren't just sort of city workers . lots of sort of city workers. lots of pubuc sort of city workers. lots of public sector people have been getting bonuses, is up 8.2% between and june compared between april and june compared to quarter, as we say, to the same quarter, as we say, three months the year before inflation in june was 7.9. so you'll see there inflation is less than the wage increase and that means real wages have gone up . and that's the first rise in up. and that's the first rise in real wages post inflation wages since october 2021. unemployment as you say, up from 4 to 4.2. still pretty low by historic standards , but a chunky increase standards, but a chunky increase because the economy's been slowing quite sharply. it's still growing . just we're not in

still growing. just we're not in recession, but that slowdown has started to impact the labour market. >> and this wage increase isn't keeping up with the pace of price rises. >> it hasn't been since october 2021, but now for the first month it is wages, including bonuses 8.2% up during the quarter , april, may and june . quarter, april, may and june. >> inflation in june, 7.9. so it's only for one month. a little of light, some people will say, particularly if they're close to the conservative government or the cost of living crisis, clearly it's over old boy. i would say no because these are average wages and many, many people wages and for many, many people they won't have had a wage rise anywhere near 7.9. >> that is a rise. if we >> and that is a rise. if we minus inflation of 0.3, people might not really be feeling that it's tiny, but you've got to take your kids where you can get them. >> tom the economy is not a barrel of laughs at the moment, but it is interesting that for the first time since october 2021, we do now have a wage wage

increases on average. as i've stressed , that are less than are stressed, that are less than are outpacing the rate of inflation. tomorrow we get a new inflation number and i think it will be a lot less than 7.9. the inflation number for july, lot less than 7.9. the inflation number forjuly, i think it will be six point something, maybe 6.5 or even below and then wait for government ministers to crow real wage growth is positive. we're out of the cost of living crisis. no, because this is about averages and a lot of people, they don't live in an average world. they live in their world. >> and then turning to interest rates, which are currently 5.25, there speculation that there is now speculation that they could go up to six peak of 6. >> yeah 6.- >> yeah , so 6.— >> yeah , so we have 6. >> yeah , so we have in financial >> yeah, so we have in financial markets, you have these things called forward markets where people bet for, you know, they they take out loans and they they take out loans and they they they bet on where insurance if you look at the loans that have been extended id you can see where the market on balance thinks interest rates are going to peak. look, a month ago the world thought that interest rates in the uk were going to

peak at like and one half, peak at like six and one half, maybe even 7. mortgage of maybe even 7. mortgage rates of 8. crikey and people now think the market now thinks we're looking at a peak of 5.75 to 6. but since these numbers came out, you're exactly right. that imputed peak , that kind of the imputed peak, that kind of the bets in the market that where we think interest rates are going to peak has gone up away from five and three quarters nearer to six. we won't know until september the 21st. that's when the monetary policy, unless you're a saver, that's that's bad. yeah. if you're a saver , bad. yeah. if you're a saver, you know, maybe your bank's passing on the interest rate rise. maybe they're not. they're certainly dragged their feet when do that. a lot of when they do that. a lot of ministers select committee chairs from the house of commons or other people in public life, you know, gobby journalists like me pointing the me have been pointing at the banks saying, when are you banks and saying, when are you going to pass on those interest rate rises? when rate rises? because when someone's mortgage, the someone's got a mortgage, the interest rate rise goes the interest rate rise goes up the next you you get you next day, you know, you get you get text your your

get a text from your your mortgage or or a letter mortgage provider or or a letter if snail so if they're using snail mail. so they're very to pass on they're very quick to pass on they're very quick to pass on the mortgage costs, but not so quick on the savings quick to pass on the savings rates. look, i think the rates. but look, i think the bank of england should be pausing rate rises. now, i've been many been saying that for many months. they will. months. i don't think they will. and because wage growth is now buoyant of inflation, buoyant and ahead of inflation, yes, that means that real wage growth is there. people say growth is there. some people say that means the cost of living crisis is drawing to a close. but those economists on the mpc one handed, two handed or whatever they are in napoleonic terms, they will be using that to say we need to raise interest rates even more . sorry about that. >> well, on that cheery bit of news, liam halligan, thank you very much for bringing us the very much for bringing us the very latest there and making sense incredibly complex sense of an incredibly complex economic picture and staying with economics because how long do you work for yourself and how long are you in reality working for the government? >> well, today is known as cost of government day 60% of the way through the year , corresponding

through the year, corresponding to the 60% of national income spent by the state. >> yes, the adam smith institute has worked out that this year the average british taxpayer has worked for 227 days to pay for their share of taxes and government spending. and that is the latest year on record . even the latest year on record. even when factoring in the years of pandemic spending . pandemic spending. >> well, to tell us more is the co—founder and president of the adam smith institute. madsen pirie. good afternoon to you. thanks for talking to us on gb news. that does sound like a heck of a lot of days that we're working for the government of course it is because 60 years ago tax freedom day came in mid—april and now here we are and it comes in mid—june. >> and that is just the taxes that are taken from us. when you add in borrowing, we get the total cost of government. it means that three out of every five you're working five days you're working for the government rather than for yourself. and we ask, can yourself. and we ask, how can britain get the growth needed to get a goldilocks economy now , a

get a goldilocks economy now, a goldilocks economy means we have historic interest rates at about 5% to make it worth saving . but 5% to make it worth saving. but we want wage rises to be higher than that. and that means increased productivity . how increased productivity. how would you increase productivity when the government is taking all of the money that might be used for investment and growth ? used for investment and growth? >> it's a problem that really has to be solved . has to be solved. >> government is spending too much . now, you might say, well, much. now, you might say, well, it's all worthwhile because it goes on good causes . no, it goes on good causes. no, it doesn't. a lot of it goes on. diversity officers . good diversity officers. good heavens, dysphoria awareness courses. you can i could go through the civil service and cut 20% straight away. for a start, those shirking from home. i think would be better off being unemployed at home. and that would save a huge chunk of money. and that would mean money available for growth. >> dr. pirie it does seem that this is a remarkable statistic when more than half of all spending in the economy comes

from the government . to from the government. to a layman, that might seem that sort of the people that make the money need to be more than half , and then the people who spend that money need to be less than half. it sort of doesn't really work if the unproductive bit is bigger than the productive bit . bigger than the productive bit. >> can you sell that? yes >> can you sell that? yes >> economists reckon the highest it should be. this is not recommend added. this is the highest you can get away with without it adversely affecting everything would be about 47. now currently we're talking over 60. so clearly money is being diverted into spending, which should be going on investment on starting up new businesses, on helping businesses come up with new ideas , create new jobs , all new ideas, create new jobs, all of the things that were supposed to be looking for britain to do in the future and were not. >> it is fascinating to look at how things have changed. i was just i couldn't believe the

figures is that the government is spending more today than it did during the pandemic. how is that possibly correct? well well, the answer is it isn't . well, the answer is it isn't. >> obviously, politicians are doing something wrong. now you've got two choices. one, get them to do something right or two, change the politicians . i two, change the politicians. i suppose there is a third, which is change the policy. we can't go on like this. there's a famous song, i think, suspicious minds, that has that line in it , but it's never been more true today than it is now. something has to give. we can't go on syphoning off such a huge proportion of the national product into government programs that are not part of the market. they're not part of the decisions ordinary people make about where to work, what to buy, to what sell, what to invest in, whether to save, whether to buy a house or whatever. oh, no , none of that whatever. oh, no, none of that is possible because the government is taking the money . government is taking the money. now >> it's 227 days now for the

average british taxpayer. what do you think is a is a reasonable number for that to come down to? adam oh, i reckon to be one of the hawks on this. >> and i think the reason i'm not is probably about 25. but and what is called in the trade and what is called in the trade an outlier. and most people would say, well, maybe something like 35 would be reasonable, but 62 is by no means reasonable. thatis 62 is by no means reasonable. that is beyond the pale and it is crippling britain . and if is crippling britain. and if rishi sunak really wants to achieve growth, he's going to have to do something about it and he's going to have to do something about it within the next 18 months because there's an election coming. and if he doesn't do it, someone else will. >> although minister >> although the prime minister was sounding rather bullish about on the economy about his grip on the economy earlier was but earlier when he was talking. but fascinating to hear from you this afternoon. thanks very much, for talking to us on much, adam, for talking to us on gb news or professor smith. >> professor, sorry , dr. madsen >> professor, sorry, dr. madsen pirie, president of the adam smith institute. >> i apologise. >> i apologise. >> that's sorry , adam smith, of

>> that's sorry, adam smith, of course , the economist who wrote course, the economist who wrote the wealth of nations in 1776. that's when it was published the same the same year that the united states of america declared independence. fun fact. thank you. >> thank for that. >> thank you, for tom, that. right. carshalton south right. carshalton in south london is latest town to london is the latest town to protest the ultra low protest the upcoming ultra low emission expansion on the emission zone expansion on the 29th of august. >> this comes as sir keir starmer revealed clean air zones were now tory policy and vowed to ditch commitment to clean air zones across the country following that uxbridge by—election backlash . by—election backlash. >> well , we by—election backlash. >> well, we can by—election backlash. >> well , we can cross over now >> well, we can cross over now to carshalton and speak with gb news london reporter lisa hartle, who has been at the protest today. lisa how well supported or not was it then ? supported or not was it then? there's lots of tooting going on behind you, that's for sure. probably you can probably still it's hard to hear you because it's hard to hear you because it's so loud here. >> you can probably see the protest still taking place behind us. there's been so many

people sharing their stories today about why and how this is going them. spoke going to impact them. we spoke to local mp and he said that to the local mp and he said that he started a petition where he's got 7500 signatures. that's elliot colburn , and we've got a elliot colburn, and we've got a little clip from him now. and he explains just why this is so important and why he's trying so hard fight against it and hard to fight against it and anti ulez campaigners have joined together today , along joined together today, along with councillors from with some councillors from sutton , all to come and sutton as well, all to come and continue protests against continue the protests against sadiq khan's plans to expand ulez outer london, ulez here to outer london, including carshalton and wallington. >> and i'm very happy to be joining them spread that joining them to spread that message i still joining them to spread that mess.people i still joining them to spread that mess.people every i still joining them to spread that mess.people every single still and meet people every single day and every who haven't every single week who haven't actually that ulez actually heard that ulez is expanding and it's important expanding and it's so important that still raise awareness, that we still raise awareness, especially as it's due to be rolled out in couple of weeks. rolled out in a couple of weeks. the thing the financial the main thing is the financial element scheme . people element of the scheme. people are worried about are really worried about being able afford able to pay able to afford to be able to pay this £12.50 a charge, but this £12.50 a day charge, but also relatives or also for their relatives or their carers or someone to their carers or someone else to come and visit them from outside of perhaps , who doesn't of london, perhaps, who doesn't have the opportunity have have the opportunity to have a

say this scheme are say on this scheme but are having to it to come in to having to pay it to come in to shop, lots of local shop, but also lots of local businesses that about businesses have said that about they're people they're worried that people won't be coming into london anymore to advantage of anymore to take advantage of their that a their businesses and that is a real concern . real concern. >> so it's two weeks to the day when this expansion, this ulez expansion, will see all of greater london. so everything inside the m25 will be affected. so if you're driving a non—compliant vehicle after this two week period, then you could be charged £12, £0.50 a day. and being here today, i've covered a few different ulez stories now and you know, the stories i'm heanng and you know, the stories i'm hearing about the way this is going to impact people with with their mental health. some people are desperate. got some are so desperate. we've got some boxes you, some clips from boxes for you, some clips from people to here people that we spoke to here just explain how this is just to explain how this is going impact going to impact them. >> i think a lot of people >> i think what a lot of people don't realise is if you don't realise is even if you don't realise is even if you don't it still affects you. >> you know, if you need tradespeople to come into your to house do work your to house do work on your property, if you if you have elderly relatives elderly or disabled relatives that to come in, all

that need carers to come in, all of are affected by of these people are affected by it. >> and this is not fair. it's picking on the older, the poorer, etcetera. now on a personal of view, the personal point of view, the reason come that i'm not reason i come is that i'm not well, i've copd round well, i've copd the air round here is fine. i monitor it. i cannot afford to sell my car. i cannot afford to sell my car. i cannot afford to drive my car. >> it is not compliant. it's a 14 year old diesel car. it's absolutely perfect for my needs. ihave absolutely perfect for my needs. i have four children and. and there's no other i have no opfion there's no other i have no option but to keep it. and there's nothing really i can do i >> -- >> so obviously , the mayor of >> so obviously, the mayor of london, sadiq khan, is saying that he's pushing this forward because air pollution, as he says, is affecting thousands of people every year. and he says that he's offering a scrappage scheme so that people can trade in their non—compliant vehicles for are compliant and, for ones that are compliant and, of course, he has said that a lot of the cars in london are already compliant, though today from the people i've been speaking to have said that

that's very different story that's a very different story for even with the for them. and even with the scrappage scheme they scrappage scheme, they can't afford change vehicles afford to change their vehicles in time. >> well, lisa hartle, thank you very much for bringing us that news that protest down in carshalton. >> so contentious with more contentious stories coming up is patrick christys. what have you got? hello >> well, i've got rather a lot on actually a new smuggle route into britain apparently the into britain apparently for the human eu rather human traffickers, the eu rather predictably, saying, no, we're not to help out. when not going to help you out. when it the migrant crisis, it comes to the migrant crisis, many people would argue why would suppose after we would they? i suppose after we left the net zero referendum, afghanistan on, of afghanistan two years on, of course. speaking course. are we speaking to a veteran who lost his veteran there who sadly lost his legs in that fight? just asking, was it all worth it really, when you up? i'm doing you add it all up? so i'm doing quite a lot on that. and the 20 mile an hour zones as well, are they actually bad news for emergency so there's emergency vehicles? so there's quite play today. quite a lot to play for today. thanks patrick. >> to it. thank >> we look forward to it. thank you watching. see tomorrow. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> temperature's rising. >> the temperature's rising. boxt solar proud sponsors of weather . gb news. weather on. gb news.

>> hello, much of the uk are enjoying some pretty fine weather this week. lots of sunshine around. yes, there will be a few showers here and there, but most places will be dry and feeling warm in that sunshine as well. look at pressure well. we look at the pressure pattern. then can see high pattern. then you can see high pressure really continuing to build west. that's build in from the west. that's what's bringing increasingly build in from the west. that's what's biand ng increasingly build in from the west. that's what's biand ng incrweather fine, dry and sunny weather across still a few across the country. still a few showers towards the north—east closer that area low closer to that area of low pressure, though. here's a picture. then through tuesday evening then as evening and overnight, then as you see, a lot places you can see, a lot of places will be dry overnight. still a few across parts of few showers across parts of scotland, england. few showers across parts of scotla tending england. few showers across parts of scotla tending to england. few showers across parts of scotla tending to fade|gland. few showers across parts of scotla tending to fade|glandas we these tending to fade away as we head the night. and head through the night. and actually england, actually for much of england, wales, northern ireland, we will see largely clear skies developing that developing overnight and that will lead to one or miss 1 or 2 mist and fog patches and also turning well in turning fairly chilly as well in some spots. but in towns some rural spots. but in towns and temperatures and cities, temperatures holding up degrees. is your up 10 to 13 degrees. is your overnight lows. so under those clear skies, get off to a clear skies, we get off to a pretty fine start for much of the first thing on the country first thing on wednesday a lot of wednesday morning. a lot of sunshine, across sunshine, particularly across england, wales, northern ireland. more cloud, though, continuing of continuing to affect parts of scotland 1

scotland with a gain 1 or 2 showers and actually for much of the most places will be the day, most places will be dry. said, still the risk dry. like i said, still the risk of an isolated shower across england and wales, still further showers affecting parts of scotland, but scotland, northeast england. but most places will be dry fine and warm as well. 26 degrees there most places will be dry fine and warlondon, ll. 26 degrees there most places will be dry fine and warlondon, low6 degrees there most places will be dry fine and warlondon, low 20s grees there most places will be dry fine and warlondon, low 20s fores there most places will be dry fine and warlondon, low 20s for scotland for london, low 20s for scotland and we look and northern ireland. we look ahead then again, and northern ireland. we look aheélargely then again, and northern ireland. we look aheélargely dry then again, and northern ireland. we look aheélargely dry theme hen again, and northern ireland. we look aheélargely dry theme looksjain, and northern ireland. we look aheélargely dry theme looks set, that largely dry theme looks set to clear skies for to continue with clear skies for many areas, some sunshine particularly towards the west and north—west more and the north—west a bit more cloud east coast, cloud towards the east coast, but again in that sunshine feeling warm, warmer, as feeling warm, warmer, still as we but with we head into friday. but with that, increasing risk of that, an increasing risk of showers and thunderstorms. the temperatures rising, boxt solar, proud of weather on .

gb news. >> it's 3 pm. it's patrick christys. it's gb news. now there is a new smuggler's route into britain. apparently. i will tell you exactly where these people are coming from and where they are looking to enter britain in just a tick. but when it comes to the migrant crisis, apparently the message from the european you're european union is, well, you're on your supposedly the eu on your own, supposedly the eu will allowing us any kind will not be allowing us any kind of return agreement to france. what do you make of that? i think it just emphasises that we really up for our really have to stand up for our own , doesn't will own borders, doesn't it? i will also be discussing this as well own borders, doesn't it? i will awe're discussing this as well own borders, doesn't it? i will awe're goingssing this as well own borders, doesn't it? i will awe're going t01g this as well own borders, doesn't it? i will awe're going to be :his as well own borders, doesn't it? i will awe're going to be chatting, ll own borders, doesn't it? i will awe're going to be chatting, of . we're going to be chatting, of course, load the course, load about the afghanistan war. too years afghanistan war. it's too years on the taliban regaining on from the taliban regaining kabul on from the taliban regaining kabul. i will be asking, was it all actually worth it? and a little bit of good news as well