we are, where think i know where we are, where we are. >> we're not sure. right. putin's revenge or is it the wagner group boss who crossed putin has been killed in a jet crash? will have the very latest i >> -- >> sick joke. that's how our very own nigel farage describes quite rightly, the 2.4 million payout to the former boss of natwest, alison rose. some of it, of course, is our public money. >> are we at breaking point? how many more migrants can we take in? we're moments away from the home office releasing their annual immigration stats. we'll have the very latest with mark white. >> and talking of statistics , >> and talking of statistics, gcse results today, do you remember the terror? i do. a nervous day for many parents and the children across the uk as there's going to be a lower proportion of top grades overall this morning because the marking is going back to pre—pandemic levels .

levels. i do remember the terror of gcse results. >> yeah. >> yeah. because >> yeah. because there >> yeah. because there was >> yeah. because there was no email, there was no phone call. it was a letter on the doormat. it was a letter on the doormat. i think we had to go into school to get ours. >> i seem i seem to remember, but yeah , let us know this but yeah, let us know this morning. it's one of those difficult balancing acts, isn't it? tell children really it? we tell children it really matters. and if they don't matters. and then if they don't get the grades, them it get the grades, we tell them it doesn't matter. doesn't really matter. >> talking, of course, >> and we're talking, of course, to mullins, who set up to charlie mullins, who set up that incredible business, pimlico plumbers, because he's saying obsess saying we shouldn't obsess about a—levels people into apprenticeships. >> so let know your thoughts >> so let us know your thoughts this gb at this morning. gb views at gbnews.com. but first of all, in the newsroom, it's tatiana sanchez. >> beth, thank you and good morning. this is the latest from the newsroom . the government the newsroom. the government says it's closely monitoring the situation in which the wagner boss, yevgeny prigozhin, was believed to have been killed in a plane crash . russia's aviation a plane crash. russia's aviation authority has confirmed he was

one of ten people on the passenger list for the plane that crashed in the west of the country last night. the mercenary group says that both prigozhin and commander, prigozhin and their commander, dmitri died as a result dmitri utkin, died as a result of the actions of traitors to russia, adding that they were true patriots of their motherland . and it's understood motherland. and it's understood the aircraft was route to the aircraft was en route to saint petersburg from moscow. the bodies of all ten people travelling on board have been recovered the site . a recovered from the site. a watchdog has found serious misconduct at a british charity set up to support asylum seekers in france . its care for callais in france. its care for callais lacked appropriate governance structures, had poor internal finance and an inadequate handung finance and an inadequate handling of complaints . the handling of complaints. the charity's founder, clare moseley , stepped down after the charity commission found hundreds of thousands of pounds had been made to her personal bank account. home secretary suella braverman said politically motivated activists masquerading as humanitarian eyes are undermining the government's efforts to stop illegal migration. with no regard for

the will of the british people . the will of the british people. and patients are being warned of severe delays as consultants in england begin a two day strike routine . hospital care is routine. hospital care is expected to come to a standstill, with nhs leaders anticipating major disruption in the british medical association also announced medics will go on strike in late september and early october as the unions dispute over pay continues . the dispute over pay continues. the government insists the issue is over after giving consultants a 6% pay rise. a health secretary steve barclay, says the strikes are damaging patients . you can are damaging patients. you can get more on all of those stories by visiting our website at gbnews.com. now it's back to andrew and . bev andrew and. bev >> good morning to you. the government says it's monitoring closely the plane crash which apparently killed yevgeny prigozhin. he is, of course , the prigozhin. he is, of course, the wagner terrorist who dared to

attack the authority of vladimir putin, the russian aviation authority confirmed his name was on the flight manifest . on the flight manifest. >> now, this comes, of course, exactly two months to the day after the wagner group chief's failed mutiny against putin. on june, the 23rd. and wagner unked june, the 23rd. and wagner linked telegram channels are reporting that the plane was shot down by russian surface to air missiles, but provided no evidence for the claim. >> well, let's talk to the former senior military intelligence officer, phil ingram. phil, morning. intelligence officer, phil ingram. phil, morning . you can ingram. phil, morning. you can never quite believe anything that comes out of the kremlin under vladimir putin. and while they say prigozhin's name was on they say prigozhin's name was on the manifest , they say prigozhin's name was on the manifest, i was reading some of the papers today how there are apparently some of prigozhin allies who've his name allies who've taken his name 4 or 5 prigozhin. so his name might be on the manifest, but which prigozhin is it? >> well, bobby ewing can come out of the shower back into dallas again after having been killed. it wouldn't surprise me if prigozhin suddenly appears on balance of probabilities. he's.

he's probably dead. but as you say , we can't be certain about say, we can't be certain about this. his own telegram channels and they would do this if they were trying to bluff it. are saying that he died in the crash along with some of his other senior leaders. >> and it's almost that sort of john le carre wellber in here phil aren't we because although the headlines are saying he's dead, we can't be certain . and dead, we can't be certain. and it does feels like we're reading something literary spy something in a literary spy novel. something in a literary spy novel . well i think everything novel. well i think everything to do with russian politics. >> it's the links into organised crime and the oligarch network that's out there and the machinations between different countries . this is like a john countries. this is like a john le carre novel. and actually i think if you put it together and put it to a publisher, they'd say this, this could never exist. you know, there's so much more going on in the background that don't know about that we don't know about vladimir was upset at vladimir putin was upset at prigozhins attempted coup, but he started to isolate him and push him away much earlier than that. but whenever prigozhin was

being openly vocal against the defence minister, shoygu, the commander of operations into ukraine, gerasimov, and started to suggest that he had political ambitions to take over from putin. should putin be disposed and that's what will have upset vladimir putin. and of course we're you know, there are russian regional elections in september and we've got presidential elections next yeah presidential elections next year. and putin is very good at removing anyone who suggests that they want to oppose him but doesn't he need these mercenaries, phil prigozhin's mercenaries, phil prigozhin's mercenaries, to support him in the war in ukraine? >> and if they if they if they have downed him and killed him, will they still be loyal to putin? >> he doesn't need them in ukraine at all. you know, they took over a year to capture seven kilometres of territory around an insignificant little town called bakhmut , and town called bakhmut, and therefore they didn't do very well. they did very well in the

information sphere because you'd have thought that everything that was happening with the russians happening through that was happening with the russiansbut happening through that was happening with the russians but that'sening through that was happening with the russians but that's just; through that was happening with the russians but that's just the �*ough wagner. but that's just the power of prigozhin again, that power of prigozhin again, that power of prigozhin will have upset vladimir putin and prigozhin made by putin were prigozhin was made by putin were the wagner group have got much greater influences on the global stage inside syria supporting bashar al assad and russian activities there, but more importantly, inside africa, supporting some of the despot regimes there are around regimes that there are around and exploiting natural resources , in particular gold mines, diamonds , mines, hardwood diamonds, mines, hardwood suppues diamonds, mines, hardwood supplies and oil supplies and it's those precious metals and precious stones and precious goods that are funding a lot of the oligarchs, continual activity . they can move diamonds activity. they can move diamonds around the world in a way that they can't move cash around the world now because of the sanctions that are against them. so it's that link that is vital to keep the wider russian state political interests in africa going. but more important, political interests in africa going. but more important , the going. but more important, the underpinning from a wider criminal oligarch network and

keeping that financing and moving and putin will have had to make sure that he's got some mechanisms in place to control that before he carried out this assassination . whether he's assassination. whether he's managed do or not, time managed to do that or not, time will tell , phil, how will only tell, phil, how important is. >> was prigozhin to the wagner group who are they without him? is there is there an automatic second in command if it turns out that it was him on this jet, he has got he's got nominated security commands, but a second command was was killed in the jet. >> his third in command was killed in the jet. you know, we had utkin prigozhin and utkin. well, utkin set the wagner well, utkin set up the wagner group then brought prigozhin group and then brought prigozhin in financier. prigozhin in as his financier. prigozhin made the made his money not from the selling hot dogs and saint petersburg, he petersburg, which is where he started in selling food started, but in selling food into the wider russian military and a multi—billion dollar contract that he'd negotiated with putin and he financed it. and then we had chekalov , who and then we had chekalov, who was the head of security for wagner. so the top three are

dead there are and will be other successors that are that are nominated. but it's a bit it's a bit headless and that will have . wagner from a from a business perspective , they'll have perspective, they'll have difficulty to work out where they're going and there'll be some angry individuals in there i >> -- >> it seems unlikely just to put myself in the head space now, as if i was running a private army around the world. it seems unlikely , silly, that so many unlikely, silly, that so many senior members of that group would all be on that one flight. knowing that they all have a price on their head . surely they price on their head. surely they wouldn't have all been on there together. it'd be like the royal family all flying together. you know, there are reasons why these individuals are kept separate , common sense would separate, common sense would dictate that you wouldn't do that. >> however, arrogance and naivety at suggest that naivety at times suggest that you do . you know, remember you do. you know, i remember flying kosovo with a whole flying into kosovo with a whole of the intelligence services from nato in one chinook helicopter . the last time that helicopter. the last time that we put lots of our intelligence

services on the chinook helicopter was out of northern ireland, and that crashed and caused huge problems. you'd have thought the thought we'd have learned the lesson. had an lesson. we didn't. we had an arrogance that made us forget the lessons. and prigozhin will have done the same . almost have done the same. almost certainly there will be a successor in there. he's got big supporters. you know, we've got suvan and supporters. you know, we've got suvari and others that are on. so there's a lot more to play out in this just from the way you're speaking. >> phil, does your hunch , your >> phil, does your hunch, your instincts, you've been observing this world for a long time. is your hunch that he has got his man, putin yeah. >> my hunch is that prigozhin has been assassinated in this , has been assassinated in this, and putin was doing it as much to send a or get rid of prigozhin as to send a message to the other dissenters, political dissenters that there are coming in. you know, navalny, novichok in his underpants prigozhin his aircraft gets shot down out of the out of the sky. other oligarchs have chosen to take up

window cleaning and fallen out of the ninth floor window or choose a heart attack next saturday. you know, he's got a complete list and whether prigozhin was given a choice off the list whether it was the list or whether it was imposed on him, we've to imposed on him, we've yet to find out. imposed on him, we've yet to fin(|t»ut. imposed on him, we've yet to fin(|t shows, doesn't it? he >> it shows, doesn't it? he still his grip on power, much as we like to think it's fading or weakening. phil doesn't to weakening. phil doesn't seem to me he's lost. he still he me that he's lost. he still he can still pull those levers when he needs to . he needs to. >> he still pull the levers >> he can still pull the levers when he needs to. but the more he has to do this, the more he's going to have to do it. and therefore, that's suggesting that greater dissent that there's greater dissent building and at building up against him. and at some go other some stage it'll go the other way the other way way and it'll go the other way very rapidly. and that could be even dangerous. i don't very rapidly. and that could be even whetherigerous. i don't very rapidly. and that could be even whetheryoums. i don't very rapidly. and that could be even whether you were don't very rapidly. and that could be even whether you were across the know whether you were across the debates in america overnight, know whether you were across the debatecourse, erica overnight, know whether you were across the debatecourse, thea overnight, know whether you were across the debatecourse, the republican but of course, the republican wannabes had their debate. >> we're going be talking >> we're going to be talking about later. and trump did about them later. and trump did about them later. and trump did a with tucker a sit down interview with tucker carlson. in it, trump was carlson. and in it, trump was his usual ebullient self about the if he was the fact that if he was president, this war could be ended he right? no ended tomorrow. is he right? no >> no, he's not right. you know, he's he is almost certainly

influence by vladimir putin. the only way this war could end tomorrow is if putin withdraws us. and i don't think trump has got the power to do that. um, even with the relationship that they've got, if stopped they've got, if he stopped funding the ukrainians, the war would just go on longer and longer and longer, become more and potentially spill out into into the rest of europe. so trump playing to his domestic trump is playing to his domestic audience with your wild claims, as he always does . as he always does. >> all right. >> all right. >> that's phil ingram, former intelligence officer. phil, thanks so much forjoining us and explaining it so well. puts it well, doesn't he? sure it so well, doesn't he? i'm sure he's right. he is dead. but it's just you never quite know with russia, you? never quite russia, do you? never quite know with the gangster putin. >> a murky, dark sea. they >> it's a murky, dark sea. they swim in over there, isn't it? >> they also make the point. i mean, why would the three top brass all be the same plane brass all be in the same plane knowing that putin's gunning for them yes them anyway? yes >> i thought phil >> well, i thought phil explained it all brilliantly. what do you think? what are your theories home? gb views at gb theories at home? gb views at gb news. three are dead, the news. if all three are dead, the

world slightly better place world is a slightly better place without knows? without them. well, who knows? >> although be three >> although there'll be three horrible take over. horrible monsters to take over. >> the devil. you know, >> better the devil. you know, sometimes former sometimes right now, former natwest chief executive dame alison to receive alison rose is set to receive a £24 million pay package. a £2.4 million pay package. a month after quitting. >> well, she didn't >> well, actually, she didn't quit. was forced to go by quit. she was forced to go by the board natwest bank, which the board of natwest bank, which met 10:00 night. and her met at 10:00 at night. and her resignation announced 130 resignation was announced at 130 morning. resigns. resignation was announced at 130 morning. resigns . at 131, morning. nobody resigns. at 131, she was fired and she was fired. of course, let's not forget why, following the row over the closure of our very own nigel farage whose bank account at coutts told the bbc coutts when she told the bbc business editor simon jack that he didn't have enough money in the account, she's getting her notice, period. it's a shocker. >> it really is. company >> it really is. the company said continue to review said it will continue to review her planned pay and bonus payouts on its findings. payouts based on its findings. but of course nigel joke . nigel but of course nigel joke. nigel joke. nigel farage said it's a joke. nigel farage said it's a joke. this is what he had to say. >> my own subject access request that i put into natwest to find out what she knew about what was going on. after 30 days i was

told we can't give it to you, mr farage. it's complex. that will come back at the end of october. and so what's happened is they've agreed to give her the payout. but before get the payout. but before we get the results the inquiry and results of the inquiry and frankly , i think the whole thing frankly, i think the whole thing is sick joke , i don't disagree is a sick joke, i don't disagree with that. >> in milwaukee for the now, rupert lowe is a former brexit party mep and joins us now. >> rupert, i have a very simple question on the taxpayer owns nearly 40% of this bank. therefore, the chancellor of the exchequer should intervene on behalf of the taxpayer as representing the largest shareholder to say you're not getting the payoff love because you broke every rule in the banking book. breaching confidential city briefing, the bbc at a charity lunch in front of 500 people and a scandal less egregious breach of the rules. how can she possibly be given £2.4 million of money when you consider 40% of that is coming from the taxpayer ? well well, well. >> i think the key question .

>> i think the key question. good morning anyway. nice to be on your show. i think the key question is , was she a good question is, was she a good leaver or a bad leaver? >> and you touched on that just now because it wasn't actually , now because it wasn't actually, i think the board who got it was, in the end an intervention either by the prime minister or the chancellor saw the chancellor who clearly saw this being an incorrect this as being an incorrect decision. the board actually unanimously supported alison rose . she has admitted that it rose. she has admitted that it was her who breached simon jack , it took some some time to reach that conclusion and one could argue that she was either dupuchous could argue that she was either duplicitous or she lied in the way she briefed him because she accused nigel of falling beneath the criteria that is required by the criteria that is required by the bank. whereas in actual fact, when the actual freedom of information request came back, it was quite clear that it was a clash of political beliefs and views . so she she basically, in views. so she she basically, in my view, broke at least three of the 11 golden rules of regulation . and i think you can regulation. and i think you can judge for yourselves. those

three are one. you are supposed to act with integrity . number to act with integrity. number two, your act due to act with due skill care and diligence. and the sixth rule is with due regard to the interests of your customers and to treat them fairly well . all i think on fairly well. all i think on those three counts. alison rose clearly failed. and the fsa, which howard davies, who was her chairman , he drafted the 11 chairman, he drafted the 11 bafic chairman, he drafted the 11 basic rules of good regulation, which were ported through to the fca and pray . which were ported through to the fca and pray. it's which were ported through to the fca and pray . it's quite fca and pray. it's quite extraordinary that the board stood by her and it's even more extraordinary now that they contemplating paying her not only a pay off, but i also read an article suggest that she might be in line to get the exercise of her various options between now and 2028. i think david davis observed. had it been some junior clerk in the bank, they would have been fired with no compensation if you're guilty of gross misconduct, which clearly she she she was either you say duplicity or she

lied. and she also breached all these fca rules . really, she these fca rules. really, she should be she should be going with no pay off. the other question i've got , which i wrote question i've got, which i wrote an article for the telegraph about this is why is the fca not investigating this? why are they not having a full inquiry as to how a clear bank of the size of natwest, which is so important to the country which so the viewers remember was actually bailed out by the taxpayer, as you quite rightly say, the taxpayer owns, i think, 13, just over 39% of the bank still having sold down some of its shareholder , adding because shareholder, adding because under fred goodwin, the bank basically already in the past has shown it had a board that didn't challenge the chief exec . and clearly in this case, the board unanimously supported alison rhodes, even though she breached these rules, which howard davies himself drafted. my howard davies himself drafted. my other question is why is howard davies still there? you know, he should have gone . know, he should have gone. >> and rupert on on on the

treasury. you're right . the treasury. you're right. the chancellor intervened with treasury minister number 10 to get rid of her because howard davies and the board of the bank said stay on. so if said she could stay on. so if they rid of her, the they can get rid of her, the chancellor and the treasury, they can block pay off, they can block this pay off, surely? well they should do they should block it until there's been a full inquiry. >> the bank, i understood, was doing inquiry, which doing an internal inquiry, which i think is reached a i don't think is has reached a conclusion yet. therefore, it's totally improper to even consider paying any money until that investigation has been complete. but given that alison rose has actually admitted that it was her, it took some time and a bit of pressure to for her to admit that she did actually brief simon jack at this charity dinner , but she's admitted it. dinner, but she's admitted it. so if that's the case, to me and i've run many companies and had to sit in judgement on these things, it's a slam dunk. i mean , she's she's guilty of she's a bad leaver. she she should be treated as a bad leaver. >> okay. rupert, can we just ask you we're waiting for the latest

immigration figures this morning. you're a former brexit mep. what are you expecting ? mep. what are you expecting? >> i don't really have a have a view. i think the whole thing is a calamity . you know, as i've a calamity. you know, as i've said in the past, we've seen australia resolve the problem with regard to her borders. it's quite extraordinary that a sovereign country of the status of britain can't keep these boats out . i mean, we have boats out. i mean, we have a navy, we have treaties that allow us to return them. you've seen australia do it and you know it's an ongoing disaster. and when i was an mep in the west midlands, as you say, we saw wells being filled up with illegal immigrants and damaging communities. i mean, the whole thing is, is a, it's a national scandal, an and if the tories don't sort it out, they're going to suffer at the polls as a result. >> okay, rupert, good to see you. rupert lowe mp there. >> and they deserve to suffer the ex brexit mep sorry. yeah they deserve to suffer at the

polls don't get sorted polls if they don't get sorted out, they will. >> got some good news for >> i've got some good news for you. oh prince harry's on his way oh not permanently, way home. oh not permanently, please tell me he's not bringing that walker said to tell us cameron walker said to tell us all about it. cameron. cameron >> good morning. cameron will be a bit more objective about meg than was. i thought i do than i was. i thought that i do think would warm the think that would warm the cockles andrew's he cockles of andrew's heart and he would start to drown in the milk of human kindness. >> i mentioned harry, >> if i mentioned prince harry, i will remain impartial. >> here to attend an >> he's coming here to attend an award ceremony. wellchild he's been harry award ceremony. wellchild he's beermeghan harry award ceremony. wellchild he's beermeghan meant harry award ceremony. wellchild he's beermeghan meant to harry award ceremony. wellchild he's beermeghan meant to attendy and meghan meant to attend the awards last year, it awards last year, but it happened to be on the 8th of september, was day the september, which was the day the late so they to late queen died. so they had to cancel harry flew up to cancel and harry flew up to scotland year. however, scotland this year. however, meghan coming, which was meghan not coming, which was a big me actually, big surprise to me actually, because is going to be because he is going to be attending both them expected because he is going to be attbejing both them expected because he is going to be attbe ing both them expected because he is going to be attbe in dusseldorf1em expected because he is going to be attbe in dusseldorf two expected because he is going to be attbe in dusseldorf two days:ted to be in dusseldorf two days after for prince harry's invictus so why is it invictus games. so why is it that meghan has decided or not expected come and accompany expected to come and accompany prince wellchild prince harry to the wellchild awards ? awards? >> what's your conclusion? what's view ? what are they what's your view? what are they

telling palace? telling you at the palace? >> think there's >> well, i think there's a couple of options. the palace are telling there are are telling me that there are absolutely plans for absolutely no plans for reconciliation. william and catherine making catherine firmly not making plans to meet harry when he's in the uk. the king and queen expect to be at balmoral, marking the death of the late queen private lee there. as for meghan , perhaps it could be meghan, perhaps it could be childcare . she wants to spend childcare. she wants to spend a few extra days with lilibet and archie in california before she flies to germany for her nanny . flies to germany for her nanny. >> she's got to be using that as an excuse. an excuse. >> an excuse. >> it could be. she's seen some of the opinion polls, which shows that meghan's popularity in the uk is great put it in the uk is not great to put it mildly, to put it mildly. not great in america. but she didn't come to the coronation king come to the coronation of king charles partly charles iii, we believe partly it could because of those it could be because of those opinion polls and maybe she doesn't want to upstage harry either , because if meghan and either, because if meghan and harry went, could perhaps harry went, it could perhaps upstage itself. and upstage the event itself. and prince harry's charity work. we've seen , haven't in the we've seen, haven't we, in the last months with the last few months with the invictus netflix trailer, invictus games netflix trailer, something meghan something which meghan again wasn't included in? they're kind

of going professionally in their separate ways at the moment . separate ways at the moment. >> all this about her >> and what's all this about her engagement ring? we keep engagement ring? cameron we keep heanng engagement ring? cameron we keep hearing she's been seen hearing that she's been seen without engagement ring . without her engagement ring. >> there are reports >> yeah. so there are reports which are suggesting that the engagement is being resized engagement ring is being resized or refitted, but she has been spotted on a number of occasions without wearing the engagement ring, which , by the way, i read ring, which, by the way, i read the £156,000 that ring cost. >> why did somebody have to spend that much on an engagement fing? >> well, there's a lot of money, but. >> well, he has a lot of money. he got a lot of money from his father every year when he was working royal from the duchy of cornwall. >> i would never have enough money 156,000 engagement or money for 156,000 engagement or grated cheese. there some grated cheese. there are some things just i'd never things that you just i'd never be enough to grated be rich enough to buy. grated cheese of them. cheese is one of them. >> i mean, maybe. maybe meghan just. >> but. but the ring. yeah, maybe. would she? maybe. oh, why would she? >> lost or put >> as she lost weight or put weight is that why she's weight on. is that why she's having to have this ring reset? >> not sure. >> we're not sure. >> we're not sure. >> saw her on a walk, didn't >> we saw her on a walk, didn't we? out in the wilderness?

perhaps didn't want lose perhaps she didn't want to lose it the wilderness. it out in the wilderness. i think a friend of hers put a photograph of the pair of them on on instagram something, on on instagram or something, but i think that's quite but she has i think that's quite a point. think the wider a small point. i think the wider point we haven't harry point is we haven't seen harry and together for a very and meghan together for a very long now. long time now. >> we see them at the >> will we see them at the invictus games, which is his big charity? >> let's remind people it's a good supports good charity. he supports soldiers, military people who've been injured. >> injured. been injured. >> it's injured. been injured. >>it's it's injured. been injured. >>it's it's greatd. been injured. >> it's it's great success >> it's a it's a great success for harry. >> it is. >> it is. >> will she be there with him for that? >> well, it's something which meghan on meghan has supported harry on over a number of years. from my understanding. she very much understanding. she was very much expected in dusseldorf expected to attend in dusseldorf in the she's in september. but the fact she's not in london not going to wellchild in london two days before puts a big question over the question mark over over the whole for me. if she whole event for me. if she doesn't turn think doesn't turn up, i think a bigger mark as well. bigger question mark as well. so we'll wait and see. she we'll have to wait and see. she is expected attend, though, is expected to attend, though, at the moment, know some of at the moment, we know some of the trashier emails sorry, websites america already websites in america are already speculate the speculate about the state of the marriage. yeah, from my understanding, reports understanding, those reports are very much inaccurate in terms of living in separate houses. however, various they are

clearly their however, various they are cleaiways their however, various they are cleaiways of theirair own ways in terms of their professional lives. >> okay, thank you so >> okay, cameron, thank you so much. is britain's much. right. this is britain's newsroom we've got newsroom on gb news. we've got mark white the studio with mark white in the studio with us. immigration figures in just a don't anywhere. a moment. don't go anywhere. >> to be shocking. >> they're about to be shocking. >> they're about to be shocking. >> temperature's rising. >> the temperature's rising. boxt sponsors of boxt solar are proud sponsors of weather news . weather on gb news. >> hello. very good morning to you. there'll be some heavy rain around this morning and into the afternoon that will be replaced by scattered showers with a cooler feel in the south and really it's an unsettled picture emerging over the next few days across many parts of the uk. heavy outbreaks of rain sliding across the far south and southeast during the morning associated with with the boundary of some thunderstorms developing over northern france. they'll still be the potential for showers in the southeast by the afternoon. and there's also an area of heavy rain moving north across northern scotland into orkney by the afternoon, showers elsewhere . but the showers elsewhere. but the driest brightest weather driest and brightest weather will across northern england, will be across northern england, west south—west of west wales and the south—west of england. it will feel a

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gb news morning. >> it's 10 am. on thursday, the 24th of august. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with bev turner and andrew pierce. >> and are we at breaking point? the home office has released their annual immigration statistics, their backlog of asylum the guess asylum cases in the uk. guess what? a new all time record high. >> putin's revenge . the wagner >> putin's revenge. the wagner group boss who crossed putin has been killed. we think , in a jet been killed. we think, in a jet

crash. we'll have the very latest. >> sick joke. that's how our very own nigel farage describes the 2.4 million payout to the ex natwest boss, dame alison rose, a lot of that well, 40% of it is pubuc a lot of that well, 40% of it is public money gcse results today. >> a nervous day for many parents and kids across the uk as it's expected, there'll be a lower proportion of top grades overall this morning . overall this morning. is going to bring those statistics and we knew they'd be bad , bad, bad, bad. bad, bad, bad, bad. >> i don't get a grip of these immigration figures. tories are doomed. >> it's legal and rare refugees, asylum seekers as well. so we're to going be breaking down the numbers with mark white this morning. your morning. let us know your thoughts. vaiews@gbnews.com. as always, though, always, first, though, here's tatiana sanchez in the newsroom

i >> -- >> beth , thank you very much and >> beth, thank you very much and good morning. this is the latest from the newsroom . the backlog from the newsroom. the backlog of asylum cases in the uk has hit a new record high home office figures released in the last half an hour show more than 175,000 people were waiting for an initial decision on an asylum application in the uk at the end of june this year. that's up 44% on last year , nearly 24,000 on last year, nearly 24,000 initial decisions were made and the home office says it's due to more cases entering the asylum system than receiving initial decisions . we'll bring you more decisions. we'll bring you more on this as we have it. decisions. we'll bring you more on this as we have it . while on this as we have it. while those figures come as a watchdog has found serious misconduct at a british charity set up to support asylum seekers in france, care for calais lacked appropriate governance structures, had poor initial finance and an inadequate handung finance and an inadequate handling of complaints . the handling of complaints. the charity's founder, claire

mosley, stepped down after the charity commission found hundreds of thousands of pounds had been made to her personal bank account . had been made to her personal bank account. home had been made to her personal bank account . home secretary bank account. home secretary suella braverman said politically motivated activists masquerading as humanitarians are undermining the government's efforts to stop illegal migration with no regard for the will of the british people . the will of the british people. the government says it's closely monitoring the situation in which the wagner boss, yevgeny prigozhin , was believed to have prigozhin, was believed to have been killed in a plane crash. russia's aviation authority has confirmed he was one of ten people on the passenger list for the plane that crashed in the west of the country last night. the mercenary group says that both prigozhin and their commander, dmitri utkin , died as commander, dmitri utkin, died as a result of the actions of traitors to russia, adding that they were true patriots of their motherland. it's understood the aircraft was en route to saint petersburg from moscow. the bodies of all ten people travelling on board have been recovered from the site at pace

, patients are being warned of severe delays as consultants in england begin a two day strike routine . hospital care is routine. hospital care is expected to come to a standstill, with nhs leaders anticipating major disruption in the british medical association . an also announced medics will go on strike in late september and early october as the unions dispute over pay continues . the dispute over pay continues. the government insists the issue is over after giving consultants a 6% pay rise. health secretary steve barclay says the strikes are hurting patients. >> we've accepted in full the recommendations of the independent pay review body that looks at the importance of retention in importance of career progression . it means career progression. it means that total earnings for an nhs consultant will be £134,000 a year with a pay rise this year of 6. and as i say , that is on of 6. and as i say, that is on top of changing pension taxation, meaning that consults will benefit from one of the most generous pensions in the pubuc most generous pensions in the public sector. and so we've accepted in full the

recommendation and i urge the bma to call and enter the strike because the strike ultimately damages patients . damages patients. >> the number of students receiving the highest gcse grades has fallen from last yean grades has fallen from last year, but still higher than before the covid pandemic. it follows a spike in higher grades in 2020 and 2021, when exams were cancelled because of covid and results based on teachers assessments . overall, there were assessments. overall, there were over 200,000 fewer top grades. this year compared with last year , school secretary nick gibb year, school secretary nick gibb told gb news this morning it's important to get gcse grading back to normal . and former us back to normal. and former us president donald trump is expected to surrender in georgia today to face charges of trying today to face charges of trying to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election. in the state. trump did not take part in the republican candidates debate last night. he's facing dozens of criminal charges and will go on trial several times in the next few months, even as he campaigns to become the president again in

the 2024 us election. then yesterday , his former lawyer, yesterday, his former lawyer, rudy giuliani , surrendered to rudy giuliani, surrendered to fulton county jail over charges related to efforts to overturn those election results in georgia. the former new york city mayor agreed to $150,000 bail this is gb news across the uk on tv , in your car, on uk on tv, in your car, on digital radio and on your smart speaken digital radio and on your smart speaker. by saying play gb news now it's back to andrew and . bev now it's back to andrew and. bev let's not bother doctor. >> welcome back to the show. it's 1005. this is bev >> welcome back to the show. it's1005. this is bev and andrew on gb news. you've been getting in touch this morning. gwen has said it's great news that prince harry is coming home, continuing his charity work. to him. i know work. well done to him. i know you way. you feel the same way. >> well, he does good charity work. i'm particularly pleased he's coming home without her. liz will be more liz says there will be more pubuchy liz says there will be more publicity for the invictus games as are involved. as netflix are involved. meghan is publicity is for all the publicity. to be fair harry, and not

fairto harry, and i'm not always some people say always fair. some people say he's great job with the he's done a great job with the invictus games. yes, i think he really has. >> really has. and >> yes, he really has. and somebody my just lost somebody else. my i've just lost my messages saying about grated cheese. there's a great cheese. yes, there's a great history great. history about great. >> i was talking about >> because i was talking about the fact prince harry's engagement for meghan cost engagement ring for meghan cost £156,000. seems a lot to me. it is a lot. you said the same. you said doesn't matter rich said it doesn't matter how rich you were, wouldn't buy you were, you wouldn't buy grated cheese. explain. >> was , is it doesn't >> my point was, is it doesn't matter how rich i would be, i would never accept it or spend £150,000 on one ring. i think that's obscene . which led me to that's obscene. which led me to think that no matter how rich i was, i'd never buy grated cheese. >> because you can grow your own. >> you can always create your own cheese . but i'm sorry, it own cheese. but i'm sorry, it kind of threw everybody a little bit just subject. bit just on that subject. >> phil ashford says, my >> phil from ashford says, my wealth, my wife tells me grated cheese at costco cheaper than cheese at costco is cheaper than non cheese. so how did non grated cheese. so how did you so you you that? so maybe you shouldn't. anyway, it's the great great mystery. but we're >> the great mystery. but we're here now, right? here to solve them now, right? >> mysteries. the backlog of

asylum it's asylum cases. guess what? it's set record high. 175,000 set a new record high. 175,000 people are waiting for a decision on an asylum application at the end of june. >> illegal immigration into the uk across the channel has soared in recent years. of course, albanian have made up a large part of that. they represented the most common nationality applying for asylum to june 2023. so to get a little bit more information on this, we are joined white. so joined now by mark white. so that's couple of extracts that's a couple of extracts we've said there. what is we've said there. what else is in these figures, mark? >> well, yeah, on that figure, 175,400 odd, who were still waiting for an initial decision on their asylum application as that's in the year to june 2023. now that's a 44% increase on the previous year, which was 120 44% increase on the previous year, which was 122,000 in that year. now the government will argue that they are dealing with the legacy backlog first. those who have been waiting the longest

and in that they say they are making progress. but of course with every week and month that passes, more people come across the english channel and are added to the asylum backlog. >> what's happening in other countries in europe? are they having the same problems? >> well, they do have problems, but from what we know of, a lot of european countries, they seem to be much faster. germany for instance, much faster in actually processing and deciding on someone's asylum application than they are here in the uk. we can also say that the number of people waiting more than six months for an initial decision on their asylum has gone up 57, 88,080 9000, i should say , of 88,080 9000, i should say, of those in the year to june had been waiting more than six months for an initial decision. and as we know , some people have and as we know, some people have actually been waiting for years for that asylum application to

be fully decided upon in terms of small boats , you forgive me of small boats, you forgive me if i'm looking at various phones here, a lot of figures coming in. >> they've literally just come in. well, yeah, it's hot on my phone. >> certainly a thousand small boats arrived across the channel in the year to june 2023. now we're going back a bit because obviously we know that as of yesterday, we were seeing more than 19,000 people had crossed. this year alone. but just take this as you know, the year to june 2023, so that 1000 small boats was up or slightly fewer, i should say , than the 1115 i should say, than the 1115 small boats who crossed the channelin small boats who crossed the channel in the previous year. but the crucial thing here is there are more people on these boats than there were the previous year as well. fewer boats with more people on them. yeah and with in terms of the

nationalities, you mentioned albania in the introduction, albania in the introduction, albania has actually sort of dropped way down the list. but afghanistan in the year to june was the biggest nationality represented 23,000 odd people there. iranians were next on the list, 921,000 indians, 867. >> what are indians coming ? what >> what are indians coming? what are they fleeing? well, what persecu nation? what war is there in india? one of the most successful economies. they just put a flipping rock on the south pole of the moon. >> absolutely. that be to >> absolutely. that will be to be decided by those who assess these asylum applications , but these asylum applications, but eventually boot them all out , eventually boot them all out, boot them all out . well, many boot them all out. well, many people might agree with you, but certainly, certainly the number the number of people from the indian subcontinent is up . we indian subcontinent is up. we should also say that actually there were some statistics that came out with a breakdown a bit more recent. and they actually

showed that turkish nationals ills had increased and were up into that second position. >> there's no war there. >> there's no war there. >> well, it's possible that they may come from turkish areas of turkey, turkey and of course , if turkey, turkey and of course, if there is fighting amongst the turkish kurds and the turkish government or there has been yeah , yes, indeed. well, we yeah, yes, indeed. well, we don't know yet because it hasn't been decided . and as i say, from been decided. and as i say, from what we know of the asylum backlog, it could be some time before it's ever decided. >> it's a mess, isn't it, mark? >>— >> it's a mess, isn't it, mark? >> it's a mess, isn't it, mark? >> it is. >> it is. >> and do we know getting any better? we had that figure of 660,000 net migration , which i 660,000 net migration, which i think was june. yeah >> so now this is different, though. this is a different we were confused when we were first assessing the immigration figures. these were office for national statistics annual figures that come out each year . the figures we're looking at today are the home office figures that come out in. they

are looking back on the year to june. so they're slightly different, but they do give an indication, some interesting stats on work visas. i can tell you that the overall number of work visas that have been granted has risen by 45% to 321,000 work visas that were granted to overseas national in the year to june . within that the year to june. within that skilled worker visa grants increased by 34% to 69,421. and again, health and care visa grants increased by a whopping 157, compared with the previous year to . 121,290 study visa year to. 121,290 study visa grants are another very contentious issue . as you know, contentious issue. as you know, they're up 23% to 498,626 in the

year to june. for how many? >> 498,498. >> 498,498. >> half a million student visas were granted. now, those grants were granted. now, those grants were indian nationals , up 54% at were indian nationals, up 54% at 142,848. chinese . nationals made 142,848. chinese. nationals made up the second biggest overseas nationality granted student . nationality granted student. visas 107,670. and now this is very contentious within the whole student visa debate . whole student visa debate. almost a quarter of all those student related visas that were granted were granted to dependents of students. so 150,000 are students aren't visas were granted to family members in the year to june . members in the year to june. now, that's a rise of 71. and they've clamped down on that this year, though haven't they? well, this is certainly what suella braverman has said, that she wants to make it much more

difficult for our family members , dependents to come across with with these students because, i mean, 150,000, a whopping number of extra visas to be granted in a year. >> okay, mark, thank you. fascinating. right >> our home security editor. yeah, always interesting . yeah, always interesting. >> let's let's sort of consider this in a little bit more detail and get some ideas of how this might be working out in actuality from the refugee and asylum director asylum rights director of amnesty steve amnesty international uk, steve valdez—symonds . amnesty international uk, steve valdez—symonds. hi amnesty international uk, steve valdez—symonds . hi steve. um valdez—symonds. hi steve. um a few things, a few things that occur to us there is we're looking at these figures. i mean, we're literally getting these hot off the press, so we're writing them down 44% increase in the backlog of cases for people who haven't been processed in a year. some of them waiting more than six months, some of them waiting more than why why is more than a year. why why is that taking so long? is it because of people like you making the more making the system more complicated and slowing down the

single biggest reason i've said this many times over the last few years , while the asylum few years, while the asylum backlog keeps going up, is because ministers have instituted a policy of attempting simply not to determine people's claims. >> they have only this year gone to the extent of passing law that will in the future require them not to determine people's claims. and if you keep doing this, your backlog will get bigger . we this, your backlog will get bigger. we have got to the extraordinary position where the french asylum system that has been and still receives many more people into it than does this country has a smaller backlog than this country has. why? because for tens of thousands of people, they are trapped in a system that refuses to process their claims. >> but it's not in the political

interest, is it, steve, for this british government, which said it would be tough on immigration, said many years ago it immigration down to it would get immigration down to tens thousands for them to tens of thousands for them to not get to grips with this backlog. get people backlog. and to get people either settled here or booted out if their bogus claims. it's not in anyone's interest . not in anyone's interest. >> but unless you are in the business of making money out of the ever growing business of accommodating people or receiving money from the home office around border secured city, or perhaps you're in the business of exploiting the people who are left in limbo . people who are left in limbo. no, i agree with you that it's not in the political interest of anyone at all. it's certainly not in the taxpayers interest. and it's not in the interests of the people's caught in the system. but amnesty warned government about this years ago, and we've kept warning them and they have ignored this. and as we predicted, the backlog has

continued year on year to grow. >> they could deal with one aspect of the backlog, steve, by saying to people who are coming here from india out, there's no conflict in india , there's no conflict in india, there's no civil unrest in india. it's a relatively prosperous country which has just put a device on the south side of the moon for the south side of the moon for the first time. i'm intrigued. why we are letting any of them in at all. why >> well, you mentioned two countries i think, earlier, both india and turkey, where you raised your eyebrows at that. and it may not persuade you. i don't know . but my organisation don't know. but my organisation , a leading human rights organisation across the world, has been particularly targeted . has been particularly targeted. and in both of those countries , and in both of those countries, including members of staff being prosecuted as if terrorists and detained indefinitely for very long periods of time by the governments in in turkey in particular, the amnesty office

largely having been shut down at times in india. largely having been shut down at times in india . it largely having been shut down at times in india. it shows you that there are profound human rights concerns and growing ones in both those countries . in both those countries. >> just just explain that to us a little in a little bit more detail, steve. so if you are an indian man and you want to come and live here and life is so desperate in india that you are forced to go onto these boats, what kind of what what might you be in danger of from the indian government? under what sort of circumstances? because that's nearly a thousand indian nearly a thousand odd indian people, presumably a majority of them men. what is what is it that they are doing in india that they are doing in india thatis that they are doing in india that is that is considered to be illegal or inappropriate by the government? >> well, one of the big things going on in india at the moment has been a massive crackdown on any political opposition , on any political opposition, on particularly on anti—muslim grounds , as india has grounds, as india has a government that that is a very

heavy nationalist hindu government , that that makes a government, that that makes a lot of play out of dissent . lot of play out of dissent. kerbing race relations and religious relations in its own country . and so if you are country. and so if you are persecuted in that country by those reasons , yes, you may have those reasons, yes, you may have reason to flee. i am not here to say that every person crossing the channel of any nationality is necessarily a refugee . but if is necessarily a refugee. but if you want to know whether any of the indian people who do so are refugees, you will have to determine their claims. refugees, you will have to determine their claims . and determine their claims. and there are certainly good reasons for some people in india to need to flee . to flee. >> and turkey , we think of >> and turkey, we think of turkey as being a lovely country. many people will have been there for their summer holidays this year, 867 people from sorry, turkey up 45. what kind of situation might individuals find themselves in turkey, which mean they want to

come and live here? well again, you have a massive political crackdown in that country by the president that has been going for on several years now. >> in some ways encouraged, i'm sad to say, by the european union when the uk was a member de doing a not very clever deal with that country. all over trying to protect european countries from receiving , countries from receiving, particularly syrian refugees . particularly syrian refugees. and that has licenced a huge increase in political repression increase in political repression in turkey to the point at which amnesty's international senior members of staff have been incarcerated in turkey over recent years for long periods of time on trumped up charges . so time on trumped up charges. so amnesty knows full well about the persecution that continues to happen , and many people to happen, and many people suffer from in that country. >> i just want to ask one quick question. tiktok video this week, young guy making it look

like the holiday of a lifetime coming over here. i don't know whether you saw the video. we've got a picture of it here. how does this help the situation? we want people to stop taking that journey over the channel. and this look like an this makes it look like an appealing option. what are your responses this, steve? um responses to this, steve? um well, i can understand why it causes people some anxiety and such like, but i'm sure it has absolutely no impact on the reason why why people in northern france who either have strong connections in this country, including family , flee country, including family, flee or cannot get into an asylum system that receives so many more people than does this country. >> and receive brutal treatment in northern france, will continue to attempt to make journeys to seek a place of safety here that is not like a place of safety. >> it looks like a place of luxury. marie that's the problem, isn't it? >> i wouldn't want to be stuck, frankly, in a hotel room indefinitely in this country.

no. perhaps i wouldn't take to tiktok . not that no. perhaps i wouldn't take to tiktok. not that i no. perhaps i wouldn't take to tiktok . not that i know much tiktok. not that i know much about that , to be perfectly about that, to be perfectly honest. to play videos of myself. but it looks a pretty bonng myself. but it looks a pretty boring and depressing lifestyle, to be honest . and yes, maybe at to be honest. and yes, maybe at the moment in time that he chose to make his video. he showed some happiness and whatever. well, good luck to him. his asylum claim, if he's made one, deserve to be treated with respect and if he's entitled to asylum , he ought to be granted asylum, he ought to be granted it and be able to get on with his life here. if not, then yes. steps can be taken to return him. where he has come from. >> okay. thank you, steve. thanks. good to talk to you. steve valdez—symonds there from amnesty international, uk. >> we didn't get a chance to talk about care for talk to him about care for calais, which is had calais, the charity which is had a charity commission a huge charity commission investigation. appears that investigation. it appears that £340,000 of charity's money was paid into the bank account of the woman running charity. the woman running the charity. apparently banking apparently to save banking costs. we're going to talk about that. talk about that that. we'll talk about that in a bit. now the british government

says plane says it's monitoring the plane crash allegedly killed crash that allegedly killed yevgeny prigozhin. he is, of course, the wagner terrorist vigilante. what you vigilante. call him what you will. the russian aviation authority on authority says his name was on the flight list. that's right. >> wagner linked telegram >> the wagner linked telegram channel. is another channel. so telegram is another type of social media, a bit like twitter reported that the jet was shot down by russian surface to air missiles, but provided no evidence for the claim . evidence for the claim. >> we're going to speak now to con coughlin, who's defence editor in chief, foreign affairs columnist at the telegraph. call morning to you. >> good to be with >> hi, andrew. good to be with you good talk you. >> hi, andrew. good to be with youcon good talk you. >> hi, andrew. good to be with youcon con,d talk you. >> hi, andrew. good to be with youcon con, we talk you. >> hi, andrew. good to be with youcon con, we were you. >> hi, andrew. good to be with youcon con, we were talking >> con con, we were talking earlier about this. anything that out of the kremlin that comes out of the kremlin and putin, we always have to have a bit of a health warning, don't we, they don't don't we, because they don't tell are you tell the truth. are you convinced , con, in your with all convinced, con, in your with all your great experience writing your great experience of writing about russia, that they have got him all i can say, andrew, is it looks that way and certainly the people i'm talking to here in london and in washington , an it

london and in washington, an it does seem that putin's got his man, he's got his revenge. >> but, you know, until you've seen the body, until there is some kind of official confirm nafion some kind of official confirm nation that he was on the plane and it really was prigozhin . and and it really was prigozhin. and then, you know, there will be an element of doubt and as we've seen over the years , andrew, you seen over the years, andrew, you know , with putin, you never know, with putin, you never really get the truth. i mean, this man is a pathological liar . and it's one of the reasons, you know, he stays in power. he keeps everybody guessing about what he's up to and what his motives are. um, but certainly it does look as though we've seen the last of britain , and i seen the last of britain, and i don't think anyone's going to mourn his loss. >> of course, we were saying con just a little earlier about the fact that it wasn't only prigozhin who was on this flight , also i think at least 2 or , but also i think at least 2 or 3 of his deputies. and how likely it would be that they would be on a jet at the would all be on a jet at the same moment. do you think it's

plausible that they took that risk ? risk? >> well, it looks like it. and i think the reason for this, bev, is that they've been lulled into a false sense of security. i mean, i think everybody was really surprised that prigozhin was allowed. was allowed to maintain his freedom after his failed coup attempt back in june. remember, his forces shot down a number of russian military helicopters. they killed russian russian military personnel . now, that's high personnel. now, that's high treason by any other test. and yet he was still allowed to keep his plane fly to belarus to fly to saint petersburg. he was in africa at the weekend , according africa at the weekend, according to his website . so perhaps , you to his website. so perhaps, you know, again, putin's a very cunning operator here. perhaps he managed to persuade the whole wagner group leadership that , wagner group leadership that, you know, they had their freedom back. they were not under threat. they got careless. they

got on the plane and the plane seems to have blown up in mid—air , i suppose. mid—air, i suppose. >> yeah, just briefly, cohen, does this if they have assassinated him, does it is this a sign of putin's strength or is it actually, perversely a sign of his increasing insecurity and weakness ? insecurity and weakness? >> well, if you if you look at the wider context, andrew, we've had 2 or 3 generals die , die in had 2 or 3 generals die, die in mysterious circumstance in the past week . one of them was the past week. one of them was the guy that helped putin build his great palace down at sochi. and knew all this sort of secret bunkers. he's now dead. and then you add to that dalton's death and you see in my in my opinion , and you see in my in my opinion a , and you see in my in my opinion , a very beleaguered putin. he couldn't go to the brics summit in south africa. he had to do it by video link because he's wanted for war crimes, as you know. i suspect the net is closing in on putin and these are the acts of a desperate man.

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wagner group's leader has been killed in a plane crash. russia's aviation authority says yevgeny prigozhin was one of ten names on the passenger list, but there's been no confirmation that his body is among those recovered . his mercenary group recovered. his mercenary group believes both he and commander dmitri utkin were killed as a result of the mutiny against russia's top military brass two months ago . the asylum backlog months ago. the asylum backlog has hit a record high with more than 175,000 people waiting for an initial decision. the application at the end of june, that's up 44% on last year. application at the end of june, that's up 44% on last year . the that's up 44% on last year. the home office says it's a similar rise to those seen in the european union . on paper , agents european union. on paper, agents are being warned of severe delays as consultants in england begin a two day strike routine. hospital care is expected to come to a standstill , hospital care is expected to come to a standstill, while hospital care is expected to come to a standstill , while the come to a standstill, while the british medical association has also announced medics will go on strike in late september and early october as union's early october as the union's dispute over pay continues, the government says it's already

given consultants a 6% pay rise. the number of students receiving the highest gcse grades has fallen from last year , but fallen from last year, but remains higher than before the covid pandemic. overall, there were over 200,000 fewer top grades this year compared with last year . you can get more on last year. you can get more on all of those stories by visiting our website, gbnews.com . i'm our website, gbnews.com. i'm dereck bullion sponsors the finance report on gb news for gold and silver investment . gold and silver investment. here's a quick snapshot of today's markets. the pound will buy you 1.26, nine, $7 and ,1.1693. the price of gold is £1,513.05 per ounce. and the ftse 100 is at 7350 points.

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received their gcse results this morning. >> and the number receiving the highest grades has fallen from last year. but it's still higher before the covid pandemic. >> so overall, there were over 200,000 fewer top grades this year compared with 2022. and joining us now is the former owner of pimlico plumbers, charlie mullins . good morning, charlie mullins. good morning, charlie mullins. good morning, charlie . good morning. charlie. good morning. >> good morning. now i don't know if you could do i guess it was o—levels? >> forgive me, but i think it was o—levels in your day. i don't want to cast aspersions on your age, but you did o—levels. do you remember? do you remember what you got? was it a wonderful day? it made you the day? is it made you the multi—millionaire you are now ? multi—millionaire you are now? >> certainly i mean, i'd >> certainly not. i mean, i'd didn't do o—levels. i didn't even know we had any levels when i was at school . you know, i've i was at school. you know, i've always been against it because i feel that it's . it's feel that it's. it's unnecessary. obviously it runs up a massive debt and i think we have to realise there's also a better option today. so an old fashioned idea of, you know,

putting bums on seats, charging people £50,000 and promise them a wonderful job, which they don't get. i mean, the best thing i think about is going to university now is means it looks like you'll get a job in mcdonald's or stacking shelves in in tesco's. you know the answer is to get an apprenticeship . the answer is apprenticeship. the answer is that we need the government to get behind it and start funding apprenticeships . and the way apprenticeships. and the way randy is too, is now to start doing fully funded government apprenticeship scheme straight from school and give people more incentives , increase the wages , incentives, increase the wages, let them know how successful we let them know how successful we let them know that there's life without a degree. let them know that that you can own your own company and you can. i mean , if company and you can. i mean, if you take an apprenticeship, if you take an apprenticeship, if you do an apprenticeship now and you do an apprenticeship now and you happen to learn the skill you happen to learn the skill you will guarantee you will never work. you will earn loads of money, probably wind up being

a millionaire. and what needs to do is just promote more and more. we should we need to stop all these old university people sell by date. we need to stop all these busybody teachers that keep saying, oh , universities. keep saying, oh, universities. the only way there is an option and the best option you can do is to get a job, earn money while you're learning, and don't put up with all this nonsense about getting yourself into debt and believe me, i wish everybody great luck with their results. but don't worry about your result. if i'm being honest, but don't worry about your result. if i'm being honest , the result. if i'm being honest, the worst results, the better the job you're going to get right? what gets you a job is enthusiasm, drive, ambition and the will to want to succeed . not the will to want to succeed. not not the fact that you can have all this other nonsense. >> john, i completely agree with you. when i left school many years ago, having an apprenticeship very noble apprenticeship was a very noble career option . but the number of career option. but the number of apprenticeships last year

actually . 289,000 to actually fell from. 289,000 to 275,000, and they dropped 50% in engineering. so the government isn't listening to you , but they isn't listening to you, but they aren't listening. >> you are right. but i was working. i was . i was working. working. i was. i was working. believe it or not, as an adviser with david cameron regarding apprenticeships at the time. and we had it going right and we was on schedule to get 3 million a year apprentices on board. and it was working wonderfully . it's it was working wonderfully. it's giving businesses more incentives. we was increasing apprentices wages and then all of a sudden unfortunate . we of a sudden unfortunate. we changed, we changed prime minister and the next guy that come in, he's obviously a great bercy graduate. you know , got a bercy graduate. you know, got a few quid. he feels that's the way forward. so they've actually you're right. way forward. so they've actually you're right . we just we're not you're right. we just we're not doing enough incentive came up with a scheme from probably ten years ago with the government and said rather than give students and youngsters a job

allowance or job benefit money give it to the employer, then increase their wages, give them a job that they want to earn and incentivise people into the business and you need people like myself, alan sugar, peter jones , bass there's loads of jones, bass there's loads of that there that you know, didn't go to university. you only need the basics. but, but don't worry about not getting good results if you can read them right. and you've got a brain in your head and you've got ambition incentive, you can go out and you can conquer the world and a work ethic. >> charlie mullins which you definitely represent work definitely represent a work ethic his house in ethic from his house in marlborough . you so much marlborough. thank you so much for joining us this morning. forjoining us this morning. if that you that doesn't tell you everything, don't know, what everything, i don't know, what does. apparently worth does. apparently he's worth about self man. about £70 million self made man. >> up pimlico plumbers >> he set up pimlico plumbers with on his own and with a tool bag on his own and he's made this a great success. >> andrew pierce is talking to carole malone. if you're watching, she normally buses in making great with matt making a great noise with matt had my chair i want had fallen off my chair i want

to ask you, malone you're a little bit older than me. >> you still remember the >> can you still remember the terror? saying yes. terror? thanks for saying yes. sorry, well, a sorry, darling. well, you look a bit older, you don't bit older, too, if you don't mind. but can you restore? remember terror when remember the terror when that o—level envelope dropped the o—level envelope dropped on the doormat? yes, of course. >> i can. and never >> i can. and i was never expected to get any because i failed my 11 plus. >> i went to a secondary >> and i went to a secondary school. so. luckily, my school. so. and luckily, my school. so. and luckily, my school this deal with school had this this deal with the where if you the local grammar where if you are at a subject, you went are good at a subject, you went there for lessons. so yes, i was really, really lucky and got them all. but of course was. them all. but of course i was. i was because, you know, for me, eveni was because, you know, for me, even i didn't go to university because parents literally because my parents literally couldn't send me. so couldn't afford to send me. so just them like just getting them was like a feat. and helped into feat. and it helped me get into journalism, i journalism, which was what i wanted to do. >> but you went on to do a—levels, did you? yeah i did a—levels, did you? yeah i did a—levels, so i stayed on till 18. >> in fact, my, my english teacher and my four master came to said to my to my house and said to my parents, okay, she got the o—levels. can you afford to keep her a—levels? because she her on for a—levels? because she will my parents will get them. and my parents had never considered it because they any education they didn't have any education and well, we'll make

and they said, well, we'll make sure we can. so they they sure we can. so they did. they scrimped they got scrimped and scrape and they got me through and yeah, amazing. matthew it a big tenants >> matthew was it a big tenants moment for you that moment for you when that envelope yeah it was. envelope arrived? yeah it was. and the butler bring them and or did the butler bring them for results. for you? the results. >> you, andrew. no my >> thank you, andrew. no my dad's parents left austria as jewish refugees with very little indeed. jewish refugees with very little indeed . and he ended up being indeed. and he ended up being a high court judge, shows high court judge, which shows what do . yeah. you know, what you can do. yeah. you know, his were german his parents were german speakers, are my speakers, right? those are my grandparents now. but it was all about education, education, education. whether education. i don't know whether because we were immigrant family originally , refugees, that there originally, refugees, that there was that emphasis to sort of get on in the world. but you don't have to do it. i mean, i'm all for what was saying for what charlie was saying about importance of work about the importance of work ethic, and it's also about getting with people. getting on with people. getting on is crucial. my on with people is crucial. my wife, way , she became wife, by the way, she became a partner her firm in her partner in her law firm in her late 20s. she didn't to late 20s. she didn't go to university, did she not? she did not go to university in the traditional sense. she did stuff online. traditional sense. she did stuff onune. a traditional sense. she did stuff online. a fantastic online. she's a fantastic lawyer. enormously of lawyer. i'm enormously proud of her and also impressed by what she's achieved. it just shows i

ended up getting a first at cambridge. you can go down that route. wife earns more than do. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> but. but. but blair's big mistake amongst many, in my view is insists that everybody is this, insists that everybody yet more 50% school yet more than 50% of school leavers had to go to university. insanity >> well, you call it insanity. the one thing i will say about university , which goes beyond university, which goes beyond just what you learn academically, beyond what academically, right? beyond what it qualifies you to do professionally , is just that it professionally, is just that it gives you hinterland . it gives you a hinterland. it socialises you. it enables you to out life skills . the to work out life skills. the problem is, since since i was since i was at university, andrew, though we've had tuition fees . yeah. and that makes life fees. yeah. and that makes life incredibly tough. so i think there'll be a lot of people watching this morning look there'll be a lot of people wamring this morning look there'll be a lot of people wamring this plumbers look there'll be a lot of people wamring this plumbers and ook at mr pimlico plumbers and think, i like a bit of that. >> yeah, apparently someone just told me my he's worth told me in my ear he's not worth 70 million. he's worth 250. >> really? god. 70 million. he's worth 250. >> i really? god. 70 million. he's worth 250. >> i don't lly? god. 70 million. he's worth 250. >> i don't know god. 70 million. he's worth 250. >> i don't know whether it was charlie himself who requested that. that it was. it that. i clarify that it was. it was he was like you all to know he's not worth 70 million. he's worth 250 million. and he didn't

get any gcses. if you watched it. >> and you know, the other day, carol, we had keir starmer a the labour leader saying nowadays he wouldn't be afford go wouldn't be able to afford to go to university because of tuition. but this is a man who's pledged. reverse pledge pledged. he's reverse his pledge to abolish tuition. >> there a of >> you know, there is a lot of pressure on kids, i think, to go to university and maybe it's the failed ambitions of some parents who because of who didn't get there because of exactly what we're talking about, money, whatever. and maybe they want. but maybe that's what they want. but i just think, you know, i actually just think, you know, the of emphasis has to the same kind of emphasis has to be apprenticeships. be put on apprenticeships. and i was at you saying the was astonished at you saying the number of have gone down number of them have gone down going you if going down. wouldn't you know if i my again, i'd be a i had my time again, i'd be a plumber. i'd be a female plumber because loads of people because won. loads of people would you because you're a would want you because you're a woman in house woman and you're in your house and trust and they'd probably trust you more boy. i shouldn't more than a big boy. i shouldn't say that because i'm not casting aspersions plumbers, aspersions on male plumbers, but. can charge anything but. and you can charge anything you job. you like for a job. >> i mean, plumbers and electricians are royalty. >> huge amount more >> they earn a huge amount more than a lot of university graduates. let's also get graduates. but let's also get apprenticeships in manufacturing. we do so much

better in this country in manufacturing, like we used to, like now. i think, like germany does now. i think, by the that was a ill by the way, that was a very ill judged remark by keir starmer. well, saw where he. what well, i just saw where he. what is how saying why are is how are you saying why are you making a point the fact you making a point of the fact that was so difficult for you that it was so difficult for you to universities if you're to go to universities if you're not reverse tuition not going to reverse tuition fees? doesn't add up. fees? it just doesn't add up. >> now, that was one of his policy when he became policy pledges when he became labour of the many labour leader, one of the many that he's dumped. he's now that he's dumped. and he's now saying an outrage, isn't it? >> well, this me h- it? >> well, this a very strong >> well, this is a very strong was a very privileged too. was a very privileged boy too. he a very good grammar he went to a very good grammar school had lots and lots school and he had lots and lots of advantages. parents of advantages. his parents were not but they weren't poor ehhen >> it became a private school ehhen >> it he :ame a private school ehhen >> it he was a private school ehhen >> it he was there.'ate school while he was there. >> yeah, of course. >> yeah, of course. >> school continues to let >> the school continues to let him a lot of him stay there where a lot of the kids were paying. him stay there where a lot of the well, kids were paying. him stay there where a lot of the well, you; were paying. him stay there where a lot of the well, you wouldn't/ing. him stay there where a lot of the well, you wouldn't want >> well, you wouldn't want to. you wouldn't to boot you wouldn't want wanted to boot him he can't be blamed him out. and he can't be blamed for what happened he was for what happened when he was 16. his dad was 16. i think his dad was a toolmaker, wasn't shoe toolmaker, wasn't he a shoe maker? i mean, he was he was probably maker? i mean, he was he was probabidad his own business. >> i think his dad owned the factory. >> he plug e he was a factory. >> he he was a working >> yes, he did. he was a working class made good were. class boy, made good as it were. >> so i think he got

>> so i think he has got that working. thought was working. i just thought this was an remark. an ill judged remark. >> one many. >> yeah, one of many. >> yeah, one of many. >> right. should we talk about the letby inquiry? the lucy letby inquiry? carol? yeah. this might be concluded from this is. there's now >> yeah, this is. there's now calls public as calls for a public inquiry as opposed normal, soft, opposed to the normal, soft, toothless follows opposed to the normal, soft, toothlkind follows opposed to the normal, soft, toothlkind hospitalfollows opposed to the normal, soft, toothlkind hospital tragedy. opposed to the normal, soft, tootii kind hospital tragedy. opposed to the normal, soft, tootii kind it|ospital tragedy. opposed to the normal, soft, tootii kind it should tragedy. opposed to the normal, soft, tootii kind it should itagedy. opposed to the normal, soft, tootii kind it should it should and i mean, it should it should not public inquiry. not be a public inquiry. it should we should also should also we should also get to point say to the point where we say criminal proceedings should be instigated. these were instigated. if these people were found we had whole found culpable, we had a whole host managers. had the host of managers. we had the hospital had the hospital managers, we had the nursing fully nursing managers comply fully ignonng nursing managers comply fully ignoring of trained ignoring the concerns of trained consultants. no less than seven of them complained to these managers. and, you know, they gaily waved off. and you, gaily waved them off. and you, as the story has unfolded, we discovered that it's like us discovered that it's like an us and thing between and them thing between consultants now managers and consultants now and managers and the managers, both nursing and general managers of hospitals think consultants are a pest. they think they're a pain, a nuisance, and not nuisance, and they're not listening this is, listening to them. and this is, you god the consult you know, thank god the consult in that hospital chester in that hospital in chester persevered, thank god, because how many more babies would have died. >> but if they'd been in the first place, carol, it would have stopped three. have stopped at three. >> have at

>> it would have stopped at three. but you know, we've got to of this because we to get out of this because we now some of managers now know some of the managers involved here, called tony involved here, a guy called tony chambers nursing chambers and one of the nursing managers went on. they just kelly, they went on. they just left. they packed up and went to another very highly paid job in the nhs. and one of the blokes retired and is now living in the south of france in a farmhouse with his £1.8 million pension pot. so, you know, these pot. so so, you know, these people have to be if they are found culpable in any way , pay found culpable in any way, pay for these deaths, they should. they a system where they should be a system where they are struck off and never allowed to work in the nhs. >> i wonder if the government are put judge led are not going to put a judge led led would have led inquiry, which would have obviously powers to obviously different powers to enforce people to come and give evidence. as carol says, if they're in their french chateau and wanting come here and and not wanting to come here and cooperate , maybe police cooperate, maybe the police should involved . maybe should be involved. maybe it should be involved. maybe it should police investigation instead. >> yeah, i simply don't know enough about the evidence to say the police should get involved. that's for them to decide. but i do that when seven babies do think that when seven babies are , a statutory

are murdered, a statutory inquiry with a sort of powers that you just mentioned is probably what's needed . and i probably what's needed. and i think that we have to learn. i mean , this isn't going to be an mean, this isn't going to be an nhs wide inquiry, it has to be very specific. but it has to should be a wide it has to show people that there is accountability. if there is if there is anyone else culpable for the deaths of these babies beyond the murderer herself , we beyond the murderer herself, we need to know and management across the nhs need to know that this thing can never , ever this thing can never, ever happen again. >> but it does keep happening again and we know it has. and look stafford in 2010, 1400 look at stafford in 2010, 1400 people died needlessly there because of the kind of ups that we're and yet it's we're seeing here. and yet it's happened again. there have been other in other hospitals. the one in scotland where babies scotland where all the babies died the died in scotland and the maternity so is maternity unit. so it is happening. this has to be happening. so this has to be across the nhs because what those in chester are those consultants in chester are saying that since this happened , they're getting calls from consultants and lots of other hospitals who are saying exactly

what you is what happened to you is happening us. so this is happening to us. so this is happening to us. so this is happening everywhere. happening to us. so this is happenimanagemente. wants to >> the management just wants to do to protect do anything to protect the reputation hospital. they reputation of the hospital. they don't about the don't give a stuff about the patients and the doctor. don't give a stuff about the pat the; and the doctor. don't give a stuff about the pat the medics,e doctor. don't give a stuff about the pat the medics, of octor. don't give a stuff about the pat the medics, of course , are >> the medics, of course, are held up before the the held up before the gma. the general council for general medical council for anything for blinking the wrong way . no body for way. no similar body for management in the nhs. >> but you know what is astonishing that this astonishing is that this hospital spent 325 grand of hospital has spent 325 grand of our money, money that could have been patients. they been spent on patients. they spent it on a pr company to try and limit the damage. there reputational damage. well, didn't it i mean. >> well, quickly say that the sun and i'm not a massive fan of the newspaper the sun, the newspaper in their sun says editorial, which is why we're talking about this. partly they don't it to be wide. don't want it to be nhs wide. they that that would they think that that would distract, think, from the distract, i think, from the specifics of the horrors of this case. that doesn't mean that if we have a proper inquiry into the specific into the horror and the specific into the horror and the tragedy , that wider lessons the tragedy, that wider lessons won't be learned. and they absolutely need to be. we need to have a system where

management is properly accountable. that's not to accountable. and that's not to say that know or don't know say that i know or don't know whether and this say that i know or don't know whet was and this say that i know or don't know whet was responsible and this say that i know or don't know whetwas responsible , and this say that i know or don't know whetwas responsible , but and this say that i know or don't know whetwas responsible , but wei this case was responsible, but we need out. need to find out. >> yeah. need to find out. >> and|. need to find out. >> and a system whereby people feel the that they feel within the nhs that they can blow and they can can whistle, blow and they can raise without raise inquiries without someone's feelings being hurt or without somebody being offended . i mean, this is about life . . i mean, this is about life. >> this is a this is a great point actually, that whistleblowers nhs and whistleblowers in the nhs and historically have been treated like the scum of the earth. they have been hounded they have been hounded out. they have been careers have been bullied, their careers have been ruined. >> down. immediate with >> sit down. yes. immediate with lesley say we're very sorry lesley and say we're very sorry for suggesting you're a baby killer of course are. killer of course you are. >> bank, is >> west bank, which is an outrage . outrage. >> yes. >> yes. >> that what we're doing? >> is that what we're doing? >> is that what we're doing? >> think got time. >> i don't think we've got time. we've time. you be we've got time. but you will be back with many back next time with so many great alison. great stories today, alison. >> much. great stories today, alison. >> yes�*nuch. great stories today, alison. >> yes . uch. >> yes. >> yes. >> english rose, matt and carol, thank . now, at this >> english rose, matt and carol, thankwe're . now, at this >> english rose, matt and carol, thankwe're going . now, at this >> english rose, matt and carol, thankwe're going to now, at this >> english rose, matt and carol, thankwe're going to be r, at this >> english rose, matt and carol, thankwe're going to be not this >> english rose, matt and carol, thankwe're going to be not yet. time, we're going to be not yet. we've still got an hour to go going the immigration going over the immigration figures just a moment. figures in just a moment. they're the press they're hot off the press and they're they they they're terrible. they are. they aren't good. but depending on which at it, which way you look at it, they're good .

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gb news good morning. >> it's 11 am. on thursday. the 24th of august. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner . turner. >> good morning. so are we at a breaking point? the home office have their annual have released their annual immigration and the immigration statistics and the backlog of asylum cases in the uk has hit a new record high and is it putin's revenge? >> the wagner group boss who crossed putin, he organised that coup. attempted coup has apparently been killed in a jet crash. we're going to you crash. we're going to bring you

the on that . the very latest on that. >> thick joke. >> it's a thick joke. >> it's a thick joke. >> that's how our very own nigel farage describes the £24 million payout for the ex natwest boss alison rose. some of that, of course , remember, is of that, of course, remember, is pubuc of that, of course, remember, is public money. your. of that, of course, remember, is public money. your . money and public money. your. money and wales hits the brakes are set to bnngin wales hits the brakes are set to bring in a 20 mile an hour speed limit. >> is this sensible road safety orjust >> is this sensible road safety or just the latest >> is this sensible road safety orjust the latest declaration or just the latest declaration of war on the motorists? get in touch at gbviews@gbnews.com . touch at gbviews@gbnews.com. mile an hour speed limit. we've got in most parts of london. it's a joke because i think the average speed in london now is 3 or 4 miles an hour because of the congestion caused by those wretched . wretched cycle superhighways. and get the and that's before we get the extension the ultra low extension of the ultra low emission zone. >> in car, think >> i often sit in the car, think i'd to go at 20 miles an i'd love to go at 20 miles an houn i'd love to go at 20 miles an hour. i but in wales, hour. i wish. but in wales, because open roads, a lot of them know houses on them. more

rural . it's 20 miles them know houses on them. more rural. it's 20 miles an them know houses on them. more rural . it's 20 miles an hour rural. it's 20 miles an hour appropriate in those sorts of settings. i'm not sure that it is, be completely honest. is, to be completely honest. first news first of all, though, news headunes first of all, though, news headlines with tatiana sanchez . headlines with tatiana sanchez. >> beth, thank you. this is the latest from the gb news room. the government says it's closely monitoring reports that the wagner group's leader has been killed in a plane crash. russia's aviation authority says yevgeny prigozhin was one of ten names on the passenger list, but there's been no confirmation that his body is among those recovered . his mercenary group recovered. his mercenary group believes both he and commander dmitri utkin were killed as a result of the mutiny against russia's top military brass two months ago . the backlog of months ago. the backlog of asylum cases has hit a record high. more than 175,000 people were waiting for an initial decision on their application in at the end of june. that's up 44% on last year. the home office says europe has seen a

similar rise , adding that it's similar rise, adding that it's doubled spending on the asylum in the last year to £4 billion . in the last year to £4 billion. meanwhile, an inquiry into care for calais has found serious misconduct by the british charity , which was set up to charity, which was set up to support asylum seekers in france. the charity commission says it lacked appropriate governance structures, had poor internal finance and an inadequate handling of complaints . inadequate handling of complaints. s the inadequate handling of complaints . s the charity's complaints. s the charity's founder, claire mosley, stepped down after the watchdog found hundreds of thousands of pounds had been paid into her personal bank account . patients are being bank account. patients are being warned of severe delays as consultants in england begin a two day strike routine. hospital care is expected to come to a standstill , with care is expected to come to a standstill, with nhs leaders anticipating major disruption. the british medical association also announced medics will go on strike in late september and early october as the unions dispute over pay continues , as dispute over pay continues, as the government insists the issue is over. after giving

consultants a 6% pay rise, health secretary steve barclay says the strikes are hurting patients . patients. >> we've accepted in full the recommendations of the independent pay review body that looks at the importance of retention , importance of career retention, importance of career progression , and it means that progression, and it means that total earnings for an nhs consultant will be £134,000 a year with a pay rise this year of 6. and as i say, that is on top of changing pension taxation, meaning that consultants benefit from one of the most generous pensions in the most generous pensions in the public sector. so we've accepted in full the recommendations and i urge the bma to call an enter the strike because the strike ultimate damages patients , the number of damages patients, the number of students receiving the highest gcse grades has fallen from last year but is still higher than before the covid pandemic . before the covid pandemic. >> it follows a spike in higher grades in 2020 and 2021, when exams were cancelled because of covid and results based on teachers assessments. overall there were over 200,000 fewer

top grades this year compared to last year. while we spoke to some students about their results and their plans for the future , i'm really happy with my future, i'm really happy with my results . results. >> i got two nines, a's, three over eights, three sevens, and then i got a distinction in dance. >> i've got 195 eights and a few sevens , so i'm very happy. i'm sevens, so i'm very happy. i'm going to do maths, geography and computer science in barnsley. sixth form a—levels . sixth form a—levels. >> i think i've done really well. i've got quite a few eights, a couple sevens , eights, a couple sevens, everything that i wanted to get and more for college. so i'm really looking forward to going to enrol later belief because we had to wait a while to get results and i've know that i've, i've done well and what are you going to go on to do do doing biology, chemistry and history a—levels for me. >> us president donald trump is expected to surrender in georgia today to face charges of trying today to face charges of trying to overturn the result of the 2020 election in the state .

2020 election in the state. trump did not take part in the republican candidates debate last night. he's facing dozens of criminal charges and will go on trial several times in the next 18 months, even as he campaigns to become president again the 2024 us election . again in the 2024 us election. yesterday, his former lawyer, rudy giuliani, surrendered to fulton county jail over charges related to efforts to overturn those presidential elections in georgia. the former new york city mayor agreed to a $150,000 bail . and finally, paddington bail. and finally, paddington bear will appear on ten special stamps released by royal mail to mark his 65th anniversary. six of the stamps feature images from animator ivor wood's comic strip cartoons, first published in the london evening news in the 1970s. the other four are from paddington's first television series designed by wood from 1976. it's the first time paddington bears been dedicated his very own stamp set . this is gb news across the uk

on tv in your car, on digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying, play gb news now it's back to andrew and . bev back to andrew and. bev >> thank you, tatiana. now, before we break down the immigration stats the home immigration stats from the home office, let's hear what the education secretary gillian keegan today about gcse keegan said today about gcse results . results. >> the decision we made two years ago. but what i want to say, chris, is a massive congratulations. you can feel the excitement in the hall today . everybody, their parents and most all the students are most of all the students are very excited and i think the message has got through. there was a lot of people very nervous about to collect about coming to collect their results, but they have done brilliantly is brilliantly resilience is something that's shone through this year group and they have got results and really got fantastic results and really are going able to go are all going to be able to go on to a huge variety of extra things they do at the next things they can do at the next stage . things they can do at the next staggiven much in school >> given how much in school lessons missed the lessons they missed during the pandemic. scrap pandemic. is it time to scrap the compulsory resets in maths

and english? >> it's really important that people have and english. people have maths and english. that's do research. you that's why we do research. you can see the data that people do a better over their lifetime a lot better over their lifetime if get maths and english. if they get maths and english. so worth persevering with so it is worth persevering with maths and english and we're getting those getting a lot more help to those people need to catch up with people who need to catch up with maths and english as well. >> union leader geoff barton has said today the government didn't invest in education invest sufficiently in education recovery from the pandemic and failed to just high level concerns about poverty and concerns about child poverty and this widening attainment gap. do you him ? you agree with him? >> attainment gap was >> well, the attainment gap was actually quite actually narrowing quite considerably from 2010 to before the pandemic. so under this conservative government, we got it down 9.1, which was amazing. and, you know, we were really pleased with that. now it has taken a step back the taken a step back in the pandemic. we've put £5 pandemic. we've we've put £5 billion into catch up, nearly 4 million catch up tutoring courses have been taken. that's a lot of catch up that people have done. and you see the evidence of up in the evidence of the catch up in the results what would you results today. what would you say to children you've been results today. what would you say to todaydren you've been results today. what would you say to today who you've been results today. what would you say to today who haven't)een results today. what would you say to today who haven't done meeting today who haven't done

as thought as well as they thought they'd do? say, look, do? i would always say, look, this is one moment. is this is one moment. this is to get the next stage. get on to the next stage. there's different there's many different destinations. there's many different you and different options for you and many know. i went to many people i know. i went to a school where 92% of the kids did not their gcses. i was one not pass their gcses. i was one of the 8% at and you know, many , many people will find lots of different routes in and different routes in life and we're help lots of we're there to help you. lots of different you to go different options for you to go on and achieve your potential . on and achieve your potential. >> that gillian keegan, the >> that was gillian keegan, the education secretary, didn't mention, of course , fact mention, of course, the fact that of grades is that the number of top grades is down what also just down 22. you know what also just kills me is she stood there talking about all this resilience it's smiley resilience and it's all smiley and they're resilient because of the which them the lockdowns which kept them off weren't off school, which weren't entirely for that demographic. >> get started on >> but don't get me started on and i haven't quite got and also, i haven't quite got the the the bottom of even in the last yean the bottom of even in the last year, 10% of those kids who did those gcses missed a lot of school time. >> why ? and also, we've never >> why? and also, we've never got found. and the 100,000 kids who disappeared from the system dunng who disappeared from the system during lockdown never gone back, never back into schools. never went back into schools. and that's tragic because you

can't get that education back, can't get that education back, can you ? now we're talking can you? now we're talking immigration. backlog of immigration. the backlog of asylum cases. guess what? it's hit another record . high, hit yet another record. high, 170 5500 people were waiting for an initial decision on asylum application at the end of june . application at the end of june. mark white is our home and security editor who's been delving deep into these appalling figures . appalling figures. >> yeah, i've needed a few coffees to get through this. >> think so ? >> think so? >> think so? >> i think i need some smelling salts to get over bad they are. >> the government will argue that legacy asylum that the legacy asylum applications they are dealing with are not going down. so in other words, those that have been waiting the longest. but the is , all of the time the trouble is, all of the time more people are coming across the channel, for instance, and claiming the just claiming asylum. the numberjust creeps up. let's take a look at those numbers . so the actual those numbers. so the actual number of total , 175,457 people number of total, 175,457 people were waiting for an initial decision on an asylum application in the year to june.

that's up 44% from . the 122,213 that's up 44% from. the 122,213 at the end of june 2022. now that's the highest figure since current records began in 2010. albanian asylum applications, well, they accounted . for 11,790 well, they accounted. for 11,790 of the total , up 52. that of the total, up 52. that probably is because , of course, probably is because, of course, we know that last year, 13,000 or so albanians came across the engush or so albanians came across the english channel and 90% of those albanians then went on to claim asylum. also a really interesting % of the albanians interesting% of the albanians claimed asylum . 90% of those claimed asylum. 90% of those came across the channel on small boats, went on to claim asylum. others, of course, went on to claim that they were victims of modern slavery. >> i thought we had a return, but most of them disappeared

from within weeks. from hotels within a few weeks. haven't got a good haven't we since got a good return well, have haven't we since got a good re returns well, have haven't we since got a good re returns deal well, have haven't we since got a good re returns deal withiell, have haven't we since got a good re returns deal with albania 1ave a returns deal with albania where pay the government to where we pay the government to take back. i am i take them back. if i am i paraphrasing little. paraphrasing a little. >> yeah. i'm still waiting on a real number of how many real accurate number of how many people who have crossed in small boats have actually been returned to albania since this deal we get from the home office quite regularly. the fact that a thousand albanians have been returned to that country , the returned to that country, the vast majority of those are foreign national offenders who were serving prison sentences and then they are deported back to albania and a few in there are small boat arrivals, people watching and listening will be asking the same question why doesit asking the same question why does it take so to long process an application? >> why ? why is it taking six >> why? why is it taking six months, nine months, 18 months? why >> you know, i think it's because the whole operation around what is an industry now in terms of dealing with people, if they, for instance, those

crossing illegally across the channel from the get go, where they fall into the hands of the people smugglers who school them in the best way to get to north—west france, to what do and what to say when they're there to stand. the best chance of getting across. then the sort of getting across. then the sort of the charities and human rights groups who offer best advice to the people. and then when they come here, all of the lawyers, the human rights lawyers, the human rights lawyers and groups who are , i lawyers and groups who are, i think, much more adept these days, being able to figure out ways of ensuring that those people that come across stand the best possible chance of getting asylum. and i think the net result of that also . so, you net result of that also. so, you know , the numbers coming across know, the numbers coming across is a contributory factor . know, the numbers coming across is a contributory factor. but i think the net result of all these avenues of appeal does slow the process right down. >> and we know some of these human rights lawyers because the mail expose this last month and some of these have been some of these firms have been shut temporarily, shut down, at least temporarily, were seekers false

were giving asylum seekers false information on to how get around the interviews . the interviews. >> well, if you speak to those in government circles, there's a real concern that actually this might be more widespread, i'm sure, than is being reported. we can't prove it, though, and it's difficult territory to start , difficult territory to start, you know, casting those kind of aspersions on the legal profession. >> small boats, mark, let's look at the figures for small boats from today. >> yeah, just before we get to that, this i'm sure, will actually make the blood boil among many people on this already and indeed on the asylum system and how much it's cost ing in the year to june, 3.97 billion, almost £4 billion is in that year to house asylum seekers and for the wraparound services . now that seekers and for the wraparound services. now that is seekers and for the wraparound services . now that is nearly seekers and for the wraparound services. now that is nearly . services. now that is nearly. double the £21 billion that was

spent on asylum seekers the previous year. and then if we go back a decade , it was half £1 back a decade, it was half £1 billion. so that just shows you the very significant rise over , the very significant rise over, well, a decade really. see this is and this is what you were saying then really isn't it? >> i do want to get on to the numbers small but numbers of small boats, but where is money to be made where there is money to be made like that, eye—watering of like that, eye—watering sums of money, there are too many vested interests keep this system going. >> well, that may be that may be true. the there are certainly lots of companies out there involved in this sort of wrap around services for asylum seekers. i wouldn't ever suggest that they are not interested in deaung that they are not interested in dealing with the small boat crisis , but they certainly do crisis, but they certainly do operate and win contracts as a result of the very significant numbers that are coming across as far as small boats are concerned. and in terms of significant numbers, a thousand small boats arrive and in the year to june 2023, slightly

fewer than the 1150. in the year ending june 22nd. but there are more people on the boats or there were in the year to june an average of 44 people on each of these boats coming across. and in terms of the nationalities represented and afghanistan was the top nationality represented on the boats 1474. then came the iranians at 9 to 1 and indian nationals at 867. we've seen some more recent figures actually , that suggests turkish actually, that suggests turkish nationals have taken up that second position. and is there some evidence as well, mark, that not only are they shoving more people on the boats, but some of the boats are getting bigger, yes, they're bigger, too. yes, they're getting and a bit more getting bigger and a bit more robust as robust as these made to order plastic boats can be. but because clearly there were issues in the fact that you had plywood bottoms on these boats and that was in some instances

when they were hit by waves, did integrating the boats. they've reinforced the bottoms. they're pushing more people. we saw some boats coming across 65, 70, even 80 people all on these boats in recent months . there is work, recent months. there is work, there's visas . do you want me to there's visas. do you want me to talk about that or have we run out of time? >> we've run out of time, but it's never enough with you, mark. but doubt you'll be mark. but no doubt you'll be looking in looking at these figures in more detail day as detail throughout the day as well. and pip bedtime detail throughout the day as well. bedtime|nd pip bedtime detail throughout the day as well. bedtime reading.edtime detail throughout the day as well. bedtime reading. yeah e reading. bedtime reading. yeah >> yes. you won't get much sleep i >> -- >> no. >> no. >> we're going to speak now to the former director general of the former director general of the tony smith. the uk border force, tony smith. tony way look tony matter, which way we look at figures, there any at these figures, is there any comfort, encouragement comfort, any encouragement whatsoever that the government are even a slight grip are getting even a slight grip on this crisis ? yes a small comfort. >> i think , andrew, and that >> i think, andrew, and that that comfort only comes from the fact that we are dealing with a global problem and that actually the number of asylum applications in the uk 78,000 and according to these figures,

there's only sixth highest in europe and in america it's 2.3 million now, which is a very significant proportion of their population coming by regularly. so we are not exempt from a global movement of people . and global movement of people. and the fact that we have the channel actually is in some ways an advantage really that we would, i think, get a great many more if we didn't have the channel and we were in europe or in the schengen zone. >> yeah , tony, interested >> yeah, tony, i was interested to mark saying to hear what mark was saying there that they there about the fact that they there about the fact that they there been slightly fewer there have been slightly fewer about in the about 100 fewer boats in the year up to june than in the previous 12 months. but the boats are getting bigger. does that make the border force job easier or more difficult? >> um , well, there certainly >> um, well, there certainly have been monitoring trends and mark is very good at this actually in monitoring trends of what is coming across every day i >> -- >> he's lam >> he's right to say the boats are getting bigger. there is work going to on figure out

where they're being sourced from . um, the real problem is not so much the size of the boats for the border force. it's a dangerous operation. and i've been out on the boats myself recently border force been out on the boats myself re

there, the treaties are there, we can turn these boats around. that's australia when that's what australia did when these politicians tell us that in this studio are they telling us right? is that how it is? us it right? is that how it is? and if so, why aren't they doing it ? it? >> well, i think andrew, because borders are two way streets these days and you can't simply put shutters and stop put up the shutters and stop people coming across, of course, a maritime border. people coming across, of course, a maritime border . we have to a maritime border. we have to have an agreement with the french. we've got some agreements with the french as you in terms of you know, in terms of interventions on the french beaches, not so on the beaches, but not so on the maritime side. the australian case, we haven't really got time to go into that was different because was intervention to go into that was different bec high was intervention to go into that was different bec high seas. vas intervention to go into that was different bec high seas. andrew vention to go into that was different bec high seas. andrew they)n to go into that was different bec high seas. andrew they did the high seas. andrew they did have opportunities to return people java and and people to java and india and they nauru agreement. they had the nauru agreement. we've rwanda which has yet we've got rwanda which has yet to materialise. of course , but to materialise. of course, but we yet to return hardly we have yet to return hardly anybody. i think that's come across on a small boat other than foreign national offenders. returns are really, really low. and my experience, the and you know, my experience, the only way to send a real only real way to send a real message to migrants the message to migrants and the smugglers won't be

smugglers is that you won't be allowed to stay here. but as you know, say, last five know, as you say, the last five number still here. number people are still here. their backs up for their backs, their backs up for years years kind of a years and years in a kind of a limbo position . and that isn't limbo position. and that isn't so for them. if they're so bad for them. if they're well looked to looked after, they're going to continue , aren't they? okay. >> thank you, tony. thanks for joining former joining us this morning. former director of the uk director general of the uk border force. tony smith there. director general of the uk bstillr force. tony smith there. director general of the uk bstill thinke. tony smith there. director general of the uk bstill think the ny smith there. director general of the uk bstill think the most1ith there. i still think the most persuasive thing i've heard when all the time we spent all the time that we spent talking is that talking about this is that if people asylum people are genuine asylum seekers, to people are genuine asylum seeke|from to people are genuine asylum seeke|from their to people are genuine asylum seeke|from their country to people are genuine asylum seeke|from their country of to apply from their country of origin overseas , apply online in origin overseas, apply online in a world of tech, and therefore , a world of tech, and therefore, for those who are genuinely in need of safety can come and those who aren't don't bother. >> you're also struck by how many are coming from afghanistan. how many safe countries they pass through countries do they pass through in europe to to us? in europe to get to us? >> well, have of course, >> well, we have of course, we have with afghanistan have a policy with afghanistan because we withdrew so quickly and left them and literally left them overnight. the taliban are overnight. and the taliban are not friendliest not the friendliest of governments shouldn't governments and we shouldn't have involved the have got involved in the flipping first flipping war there in the first place. >> thank you, mr tony blair. exactly opened the exactly who also opened the floodgates migrants

exactly who also opened the flood eastern migrants exactly who also opened the floodeastern europe. migrants exactly who also opened the floodeastern europe. thankrants exactly who also opened the floodeastern europe. thank you, from eastern europe. thank you, mr tony blair. >> so in the next half an hour, we're to going be talking about whether an is too whether 20 miles an hour is too slow to dry. if it does , the slow to dry. if it does, the limit, save lives and maybe the planet. we're going to be looking at the facts about that. this newsroom on

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turner. >> so next, we're going to be talking about this 20 mile per hour speed zone. they've been introduced widely in london and across the country, and they're set to cover 125 miles of transport for london managed roads by 2024. >> and in wales, the same speed limit is set to be introduced in built up and residential areas this autumn. but is it a good idea it all about saving this autumn. but is it a good ideiplanet? it all about saving the planet? >> well, joining us is >> well, joining us now is a senior lecturer sustainable senior lecturer in sustainable construction and climate change ,john construction and climate change , john grant. good morning, john. nice to see you again . and john. nice to see you again. and just just tell us, first of all, what is a lecturer in sustainable construction and climate change? what do you teach your students ? teach your students? >> what do i teach them ? um, i >> what do i teach them? um, i think the clue's in the title, so for about 25 years now, i've been trying to put forward this idea that we can design our cities fundamentally to work without having cars as as well as things like renewable energy and resilience to the extreme weather that we're experiencing through the climate change. and

these these sort of this collapse that's that's ongoing without really any urgency. so you know, my agenda is that there is a better world that we can aspire to. you know, that's that's what it is. it isn't all doom and gloom. all right, john. >> so a city without cars. do you do you have a car ? you do you have a car? >> i do, yes. oh well , that's >> i do, yes. oh well, that's not exactly practising what you preach to your students, are you 7 preach to your students, are you ? huh? now, ask me how much i use my car. use my car. >> use my car. >> well, how much do you use my car? >> right. so i come in on the bus. i come in on the bus every day. i fill my car if i need to. once a month , you know? and once a month, you know? and that's more than enough. >> john, is it a gas guzzling car, owning a car, john and how much gas goes? car is it a gas guzzler ? guzzler? >> your car is it a gas guzzler? >> your car is it a gas guzzler? >> it's a under under one litre. it's under one litre. it's quite a the littlest car i could get away with . away with. >> so, listen, when you drive in

your car , how how do you do? you your car, how how do you do? you edge over the 20 miles an hour speed limit at all. and if you ever well, usually go on. >> sorry. >> sorry. >> no, no , no. >> no, no, no. >>— >> no, no, no. >> i was going to say, when you're driving, how much when we're driving, how much should we're driving, how much should we be thinking about the speed and the damage speed might and the damage the speed might be environment? be doing to the environment? because this story be doing to the environment? beultimately this story be doing to the environment? beultimately all this story be doing to the environment? beultimately all about,s story be doing to the environment? beultimately all about, right? is ultimately all about, right? >> that's a really >> yeah. no, that's a really good point. glancing down is really not what you want to be doing when you're driving around the so i have one of the place. so i have one of these maybe i don't know how these and maybe i don't know how many cars have but i have many cars have this, but i have this on my that i can this gadget on my car that i can set limit and it sets set a speed limit and it sets off a little buzzer. when i go over it. and if i am driving, which is, like i said, quite rare and i'm in a 20 mile an hour zone, i quickly set that out and then don't need to worry . but but even if people did sort of drift over that 20 mile an hour speed limit, it still bnngs an hour speed limit, it still brings you a lot lower than 30. and the survivable city, of course, is much , much higher,

course, is much, much higher, weirdly, between in those ten miles an hour. i mean, it doesn't sound like a lot, but there is a significantly more survivable rate if tragically, you you hit a pedestrian . you you hit a pedestrian. >> so that's because of the speed you're driving in terms if you hit a pedestrian. but how environmentally does it make any difference whether you're going 19 miles hour or 27 miles an 19 miles an hour or 27 miles an houn 19 miles an hour or 27 miles an hour, john? >> oh, i'm afraid i'd need to get down to the maths on on that oi'ie. >> one. >> but it is a non—linear relationship , so >> but it is a non—linear relationship, so pushing >> but it is a non—linear relationship , so pushing away >> but it is a non—linear relationship, so pushing away a long takes significant more energy. the faster you go. so slower speeds take take a lot less energy to keep you going. so there is a there is an energy advantage for doing that. but you know if we insist on driving half tonne to a tonne vehicles around stopping and starting those is a is a key player as well and maybe if you're slower

the junctions could cope with you not having to come to a complete halt before you pull away . so there's all sorts of away. so there's all sorts of advantages. so it's a super complicated calculation, but fundamentally, i'm in it for saving people's lives. first of all, sorry, but here's the thing, john, because we're all trying to get this balance right, aren't we, between living with a cleaner planet? >> cleaner seas. i'm you >> i want cleaner seas. i'm you know, i'm my jury's out on whether the air is getting cleaner dirtier, to be cleaner or dirtier, to be completely but i also completely honest. but i also just live my and my just want to live my life and my car. need my car to get car. and i need my car to get around. take the kids around. i want to take the kids to their activities. i want to all their activities. i want to all their activities. i want to to supermarket . and to go to the supermarket. and it's it's a bit kind of it's sort of it's a bit kind of grating when we're thinking we have be driving slower, have to be driving slower, taking as get taking twice as long to get anywhere because because of some science which very unsettled science which is very unsettled about we're affecting about whether we're affecting the , it's a again, a very the planet, it's a again, a very good point. >> and the first thing you need to be appreciate is that i'm not sure if you're going at 30 miles an hour in normal city anyway, an hour in a normal city anyway, isn't isn't london way, way

below 20 miles an hour ? below 20 miles an hour? >> if you get above four, you're lucky . if you get above four in lucky. if you get above four in london, that's the truth. yeah. so? >> so maybe this 20 mile an hour thing is kind of moot. and do you know what's what's kind of interesting slow all interesting is if you slow all the down a little bit, the cars down a little bit, that's what i was getting at. you actually perhaps a you actually perhaps get a better of traffic so you better flow of traffic so you can continue a little bit better. but back to your point of your rights as a person to drive , that is an important one. drive, that is an important one. and i'm really, really sorry to say this, that that you knew. you knew i was going to say this , that that while this 120 years of having your own transport box that you can get into outside your house and get out of somewhere else is just awesome . wonderful. >> it's just brilliant. just it's just brilliant. >> don't take it away from me, john. don't force me back on the horse . don't force killing on

horse. don't force killing on a horse. don't force killing on a horse. this is progress. >> it is progress. but it is also the emissions from that are just huge. you know, the emissions from suvs is actually more than our aviation industry. and i'm not saying that that gets the aviation industry off the hook and just saying that i'm not sure we appreciate what significant levels of emissions come out of our cars and that we have to move away from those as much as possible. and i wish we had the kind of support for people , working people, good people, working people, good people, working people, good people who currently need to use their cars to have an alternative rather than getting alternative rather than getting a big stick and smacking them over the back of the head with a massive fine, which i am not happy about. >> good. well, we agree on that, john. always good to talk to you, mate . you, mate. >> free buses come great. >> free buses come great. >> come on. free buses . john

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people. channel big night. >> huge night. huge night last night was republican presidential debate. >> the first one, donald trump wasn't there, but still stole the show. we're going to talk to greg swenson, who's a great supporter whose supporter of this program, whose republicans abroad. greg, how come trump won and he come donald trump won and he wasn't even there ? he's not wasn't even there? he's not there. well, we thought he was there. >> he's there. he'll be there. >> he's there. he'll be there. >> we thought he'd be there. >> he's there. he'll be there. >> we'lliought he'd be there. >> he's there. he'll be there. >> we'll just1t he'd be there. >> he's there. he'll be there. >> we'll just we'llj be there. >> he's there. he'll be there. >> we'll just we'll just there. >> we'll just we'll just carry on talking. he greg on talking. there he is. greg there you are. lovely. greg. donald debate donald trump won the debate without appearing there. without even appearing there. he's dominating the he's dominating all the headunes he's dominating all the headlines united states. headlines in the united states. greg, . yeah it's a greg, do explain. yeah it's a it's a tricky one.

>> i don't think that he won by not being there. i think it was actually a great opportunity for the candidates and especially the candidates and especially the ones that really were on the that came out of this debate looking good . but i'm not sure looking good. but i'm not sure about that. i think trump would like to think that. but i think the general consensus on the right is that it was a mistake. while, you know, arguably a good tactical move by trump not to join the debate, i think it was a mistake. i think a lot of the consensus or generally the consensus or generally the consensus consensus on the right suggests it was a mistake because it gave the you know, it really gave the other candidates an opportunity. and it makes trump look a little petty. and i also think because he hasn't been making a lot of campaign stops in the early states , it's stops in the early states, it's consistent with the argument that he thinks he deserves it and will work for it. >> greg trump's logic was and he said this in the tucker carlson interview, so he did a tucker

carlson interview on twitter, which overnight has been watched more than 100 million times, arms that will be presumably many more viewers than were actually watched . ron desantis, actually watched. ron desantis, vivek ramaswamy and everybody else doing their debate. and he said , why do i need to be there? said, why do i need to be there? i'm so far ahead in the polls. i don't need to stand alongside that lot. how did you think he did in the interview with tucker ? >> 7. >>i ? >> i think he did very well. i mean, it was it was pretty you know, it was pre—planned . it was know, it was pre—planned. it was taped earlier in the day or earlier in the week . i think he earlier in the week. i think he had a chance to, you know, they had a chance to, you know, they had some chance to do some edits. and it was just what trump and look, i would trump wanted. and look, i would argue that it was a tactically it was a good move. and he probably got more views than than actual debate. i'm not than the actual debate. i'm not sure calculate that. sure how they calculate that. but look, it was it was an important moment for trump to demonstrate to the people that he wants to earn the nomination. and he didn't do that by not showing he he always gets a lot

of attention. the attention is always on trump today. clearly, it will be on trump when he when he goes down to georgia . but, he goes down to georgia. but, you know, and that's typical of this campaign so far. the other candidates had a great opportunity last night. they took it. but then today it will be back to trump. and last night, to a certain degree, it was back to trump. >> okay , thanks. we just one >> okay, thanks. we just in one name. name. who won name. i want one name. who won the your opinion, from the debate in your opinion, from the debate in your opinion, from the of the candidates? the rest of the candidates? i think were eight of them think there were eight of them in in my opinion , honestly, in in in my opinion, honestly, in terms of attention getting it was vivek. >> there's no doubt about it. it doesn't mean that he won and did the best thing for his candidacy , but he definitely got the most attention. i think the one who comes out of this looking the best is ron desantis. but but but clearly he doesn't have the gift that vivek has in terms of debating and getting attention right . right. >> well, we will continue to watch greg. will watch it, greg. and we will continue your on continue to hear your take on it. you so much, greg it. thank you so much, greg hansen, caramelos come crashing into really clap.

>> she really did clap. >> she really did clap. >> disorganised . >> so disorganised. >> so disorganised. >> matt stadlen just wafted in gracefully. >> i thought , this is really >> i thought, this is really interesting, your point about the tucker carlson interview this is another step along what i think is a worrying trend where for massive name politicians and there's no bigger name than trump are able to escape the scrutiny not just of the so—called mainstream media, but also of their opponents . opponents. >> and you don't think tucker carlson gave him a proper to watch that interview in full? >> very watchable . the >> it's very watchable. the worry is that tucker carlson is not in the big media anymore . not in the big media anymore. he's no longer at fox and so forth . so it's a different set forth. so it's a different set of rules. i want our democratic candidates on both sides of the pond to be properly scrutinised i >>i -- >> i know. i love it. i love the fact that he can take that control. carol as i like the fact that trump can choose where he wants to do that sit down interview because it's like the implication from what matt's saying that other saying is that those other outlets an agenda, outlets don't have an agenda, that they're more impartial. i

see it the opposite now. i see people like the bbc having an agenda and i don't think they are impartial. that's why new channels like us. >> yeah, i mean, i think it's very i mean, i think trump is quite i quite smart in these things. i think people attack think the more people attack him, the things he gets him, the more things he gets charged people charged with, the more people are for and are going to vote for him. and we terrifying we could have this terrifying scenario where, you know , he's scenario where, you know, he's the president, he might even be in jail. yeah. and he can still do it from jail. >> but you've got to think in this country, i'm a theresa may ducks debate. ducks the leadership debate. >> amber rudd stand in >> she got amber rudd stand in for her on one occasion and bofis for her on one occasion and boris johnson flatly refused to do a bbc interview with andrew neil. >> got castigated by a >> but he got castigated by a landslide. got he was he was. landslide. he got he was he was. did he? he didn't care. and he had for it. had his reasons for it. and i think reasons good think his reasons were very good for for everyone for him and not for everyone else him. else but for him. >> don't think we should >> but i don't think we should encourage because do encourage it. no, because i do think being interviewed think that being interviewed by andrew andrew pierce and andrew neil or andrew pierce and your self, i think this is your good self, i think this is really important. i just come back bbc thing. don't really important. i just come bacithis bbc thing. don't really important. i just come bacithis line3bc thing. don't really important. i just come bacithis line that:hing. don't really important. i just come bacithis line that the]. don't really important. i just come bacithis line that the bbcon't really important. i just come bacithis line that the bbc has buy this line that the bbc has an agenda. i worked at the bbc

in nine and i can in news for nine years and i can honestly say no. one i worked with ever tried to be biased. doesit with ever tried to be biased. does it mean there's not some sort of unconscious bias along the way? we're human beings , but the way? we're human beings, but there that i was aware. >> but the current director general, tim davie, has said there inbuilt institution. there is an inbuilt institution. >> i was just going to bias >> i was just going to say bias , john humphrey said , but john john humphrey said something similar, but i interviewed radio interviewed him for the radio times europe forth. times on europe and so forth. >> there was a sort of perhaps a when the last time you when was the last time you worked bbc to worked for the bbc needs to be ironed out? worked for the bbc needs to be irorare)ut? worked for the bbc needs to be irorare you just out about how >> are you just out about how they when you work for they when did you last work for they when did you last work for the quite ago. exactly. >> i think it's changed. >> i think it's changed. >> and they hated the and >> and they hated the beat and they they made they hated brexit and they made no conceal their contempt. >> a lot of people who voted, who remain argue that the who voted remain argue that the bbc gave too prominence, bbc gave too much prominence, which tough. bbc gave too much prominence, whiciremember question time >> i remember that question time programme had one programme i think had one brexiteer of course . brexiteer in about. of course. >> i mean, it's just tough that it a shocker. it was a shocker. >> at the other day >> but look at the other day they only had they did a question i watch question time. i didn't watch question didn't question time anymore. i didn't find did find unwatchable. but they did have a panel only an audience only brexit. are we to going only of brexit. are we to going

talk stories, you reckon? >> that's what going talk >> that's what i'm going to talk about? well, not >> that's what i'm going to talk abotin well, not >> that's what i'm going to talk abotin it well, not >> that's what i'm going to talk abotin it . well, not >> that's what i'm going to talk abotin it. i'll well, not >> that's what i'm going to talk abotin it. i'll just well, not >> that's what i'm going to talk abotin it. i'll just say. ll, not him in it. i'll just say. >> okay. you go first. okay. whatever yeah. prince harry is back. he's coming back to the uk in september, september the 8th, which is the anniversary of the queen's death. last year. i find this on the surface seems like a bit of a non—story because the rest of the royal family aren't doing anything. there's going to be getting together. the be no getting together. the queen and camilla, sorry , queen and camilla, sorry, camilla and the king are to going spend time in quiet reflection, which they're reflection, which means they're not so not doing anything. and so there's nothing and there's nothing planned. and i find thing looking find the only thing looking behind i think behind this story, i think there's more it than meets there's more to it than meets there's more to it than meets the would harry the eye. why would harry come? for start ? because, you know, for a start? because, you know, there lots of other there are lots of other charities. you know, wellchild is charity, is a really important charity, a very but there very worthy charity. but there are other charities. are lots of other charities. turned on in recent turned his back on in recent years. but he's coming for this. and year he was supposed to and last year he was supposed to be at the wellchild day with meghan and that of course, it was september the 8th when the queen died. so he couldn't do it. so he may be coming for

that, but i think it's more than that, but i think it's more than that coming without that when he's coming without meghan and i'm meghan this time. and you, i'm thinking, meghan this time. and you, i'm thistories america. mean, of stories in america. i mean, they've any they've never seen together any more. they have separate engagements time. engagements all the time. and i'm thinking, that marriage i'm thinking, is that marriage so rocks, he's now so much on the rocks, he's now thinking, what going thinking, oops, what am i going to i be making things to do? should i be making things into uk ? that's what was into the uk? that's what i was thinking. else would he thinking. why else would he come? know, has turned come? you know, he has turned his back on the uk other than to come for moneymaking come here for moneymaking assignments because eve assignments because it's the eve of anniversary of the of the anniversary of the queen's death. >> lot of publicity >> it'll get a lot of publicity in america. >> yes, you know, royal road >> yes, but you know, royal road america is on to him now. >> know, you >> you know, america is you know, they don't love him anymore don't love anymore and they don't love the pair more. pair of them any more. >> i i say carol >> so i was i would say carol was right at first when she said it a non—story. is it was a non—story. it is a non—story, except that it sells papers. and that's why papers and people who don't want to see prince harry, whatever you call him these days, anywhere near the public sphere, actually love it it sells newspapers. it because it sells newspapers. i think let's take it at face value. prince harry is coming back to this country to do really important charity work

for a very worthwhile child's charity. and how can we criticise him for not wife's not coming ? i don't know about as coming? i don't know about as a mother , it is very odd. i'm not mother, it is very odd. i'm not on telephone communication terms with so sorry. >> let me just drop that. he's dropped his false leg . now that dropped his false leg. now that really wasn't me. for once. >> it was andrew just to respond to that point very quickly, if i may, because it is odd that she's not there. the point about marriages. right. and onto marriages. right. and i'm onto my marriage, know my second marriage, what we know about marriage is that. thank you, andrew. you you, andrew. no. are you watching, laura? no one knows what's on someone's marriage. >> no, we know that. but it's just very odd . well, why just very odd. well, why wouldn't we speculate? that's. >> that's exactly why we're here. we're here to speculate . here. we're here to speculate. of it is. of course it is. >> they put >> they have put their relationship they have out there. >> they said yes. >> they said yes. >> not together anymore. >> w- w— m of at home with >> equivalent of at home with the kardashians. yeah. when >> equivalent of at home with tithink'dashians. yeah. when >> equivalent of at home with tithink aboutins. yeah. when >> equivalent of at home with tithink about harry ah. when >> equivalent of at home with tithink about harry coming when >> equivalent of at home with tithink about harry coming over1 i think about harry coming over here, now here, i'm always thinking, now it's just going to another it's just going to be another episode. netflix . he's episode. on his netflix. he's lost trust completely. this lost my trust completely. this wonderful young prince that he was. now i just now suspicious

that him coming here coinciding, admittedly this coincidence of dates with the wellchild award but being able to in the narration of his documentary will no doubt mention the fact that it's the anniversary of the queen. of course it was. >> course, thing i >> of course, the thing that i find, thing i find sad. >> and look, m a sad. >> and look, m >> and look, we do learn a bit about ourselves through huge pubuc about ourselves through huge public such as the royal public figures such as the royal family, we see ourselves reflected it's reflected. it's what shakespearean about shakespearean tragedy was about when king died. the whole when the king died. the whole country was implicated. and what i is that he doesn't i find sad is that he doesn't seem be talking his dad seem to be talking to his dad and his brother because that mirrors experience, talking. >> can we move on? >>— >> can we move on? >> heroes and heroines. meghan doesn't her hero doesn't talk to her hero heroines. collins , who's on heroines. joan collins, who's on houday heroines. joan collins, who's on holiday with our very own andrew pierce. well this you in the swimming pool we're about to see? >> no, this is joan and percy in the swim. >> well, we know it's joan and percy, but you were in. >> me. oh, is. this >> this is me. oh, this is. this is this is me. yes, this is is you. this is me. yes, this is their lovely house in the south of france. >> percy >> that's percy on the right. joan fabulous in the joan looking fabulous in the flowery >> is joan's. >> is joan's. >> that's the guy on the >> that's me and the guy on the left renee, who is one of

left is renee, who is one of joan's many advisors. >> is he not? >> is he not? >> 92, the man in the >> and he's 92, the man in the black shirt. >> yeah, the so what >> yeah, that's the one. so what i to know is, when i want to know is, so when you and joan were in the pool together, right, joan? and joan were in the pool togjoan. right, joan? and joan were in the pool togjoan. rigino.»an? you >> joan. no. no. well, you wouldn't dare. joan's 90 year, whatever. 60, whatever. who had the better body ? i'm guessing it the better body? i'm guessing it was joan. >> she's got a much better body. >> she's got a much better body. >> i bet she has. >> i bet she has. >> extraordinary picture in the papen >> say papen >>il papen >>-- >> does say this is joan collins. we're collins. the reason we're talking about she's on talking about this, she's on page three today swimsuit page three today in her swimsuit . would you be happy about this? no. you know her very well. yeah. >> yeah, she looks amazing. oh, she fabulous. >> yeah, she looks amazing. oh, she wouldn't s. say that? we >> why wouldn't she say that? we didn't. me when i was on the last or time before bev last time or the time before bev about of was last time or the time before bev about older of was last time or the time before bev about older people, of was last time or the time before bev about older people, sex was last time or the time before bev about older people, sex lives.s about older people, sex lives. yeah. and i think having 90 yeah. and i think having a 90 year old woman fabulous year old woman looking fabulous , younger husband, , but her much younger husband, he's stereotype. he's younger stereotype. >> . >> yes. >> yes. >> can we ask him can we ask you about know they about this because you know they everyone's said that marriage wouldn't last. everyone said it was a marriage of was like a marriage of convenience. da da da. but they look like they're besotted. >> they had a 20th anniversary party, a few party, which i was at a few months been married

months ago. she's been married to percy now longer than her four she was 94, but four husbands. she was 94, but together they are incredibly happy and is that because percy is compliant or do they have a she talks about him in a way that i've never heard of talk about anybody. >> she says that he's her soul mate. >> he is. he's great and there's a great spark. remember the famous where said famous point where someone said about she just about the age gap? and she just said yes, well, if said very sweetly, yes, well, if he dies, he it's true. said very sweetly, yes, well, if he that he it's true. said very sweetly, yes, well, if he that is it's true. said very sweetly, yes, well, if he that is true it's true. said very sweetly, yes, well, if he that is true . it's true. >> that is true. >> that is true. >> what else? this makes me think actually , as think of that actually, as someone has not someone in my family has not been very well. and it makes me think lottery of old age. think of the lottery of old age. i've joan. i've i've interviewed joan. i've interviewed her son, sasha , a interviewed her son, sasha, a lovely man, a very good artist, a very successful artist. yeah. but also interviewed jackie but i also interviewed jackie collins, some time collins, quite some time ago and got wonderfully with collins, quite some time ago and got the'onderfully with collins, quite some time ago and got the authorjlly with collins, quite some time ago and got the author . ly with collins, quite some time ago and got the author . and with collins, quite some time ago and got the author . and she/ith collins, quite some time ago and got the author. and she died her. the author. and she died far too young. she did . and when far too young. she did. and when you to your sort of 70s or you get to your sort of 70s or 80s, most people are 80s, i mean, most people are living longer now, aren't they? yeah, predictor. yeah, there's no predictor. see someone it up at 90 is someone living it up at 90 is fantastic. great. but it reminds you that not gets that you that not everyone gets that love, lovely story the love, that lovely story the other day the woman who's other day about the woman who's reached of reached the grand old age of

114. >> think you're going to >> do you think you're going to make no. >> do you think you're going to ma let's no. >> do you think you're going to ma let's hope. no. >> do you think you're going to ma let's hope. malone o. >> do you think you're going to ma let's hope. malone 0. don't >> let's hope. malone i don't think live think people want me to live that long to you. >> think true. >> i think it's true. >> i think it's true. >> and i'm sure your husband >> and i'm not sure your husband wants go on 140. >> and i'm not sure your husband waris go on 140. >> and i'm not sure your husband wari haven't go on 140. >> and i'm not sure your husband wari haven't seenn 140. >> and i'm not sure your husband wari haven't seen her 140. >> and i'm not sure your husband wari haven't seen her for). month. >> he's back today for the first time in a month. >> looking forward to seeing you. a romantic you. yes. might be a romantic reunion, that's reunion, anne. well, that's private go. >> off you go. >> off you go. >> move on. show's over. >>— >> move on. show's over. >> great to >> right. kevin malone. great to see matthew see you as always. matthew stutland you. stutland great to see you. >> have a fight >> and they didn't have a fight this time, which is very disappointing. >> we've got have week. >> we've got we have our week. it's marvellous. that's it's been marvellous. that's it for up for britain's newsroom today. up next, desk with next, it's the live desk with mark pip. and here is mark. mark and pip. and here is mark. tell coming hi, mark. >> yes, question this high noon, will owner be will wagner owner be orchestrating move on orchestrating another move on putin? course, as the kremlin putin? of course, as the kremlin stays silent the fate of stays silent on the fate of prague , gaussian warnings that prague, gaussian warnings that his could bring his his death could bring his private heading back to private army heading back to moscow? we'll assess the latest on that. also, fingerprinted and, of course, possibly facing that mugshot . yes. former that mugshot. yes. former president trump is just hours away from turning himself in at that georgia jail. we'll have the latest live from stateside

and how our energy bills could be putting us in for another long, cold, lonely winter. ofgem saying it could be even worse than last year. that'll cheer you up . the temperature is rising. >> boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> hello very good morning to you. there'll be some heavy rain around this morning and into the afternoon that will be replaced by scattered showers with a cooler in the south and cooler feel in the south and really it's an unsettled picture emerging over the next few days across many parts of the uk . across many parts of the uk. heavy outbreaks of rain sliding across the far south and southeast during the morning associated with the boundary of some thunderstorms developing over northern france. they'll still be the potential for showers in the southeast by the afternoon. and there's also an area of heavy rain moving north across northern scotland into orkney by the afternoon, showers elsewhere . but the driest elsewhere. but the driest and brightest weather will be across northern wales northern england and west wales

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