of have been in the past anyway. of misconduct. telling you misconduct. i'll be telling you exactly what for in just a tick. but this story is absolutely massive you just get the massive and you just get the sense this is going to develop over this show. over the course of this show. russian warlord yevgeny prigozhin dead after prigozhin presumed dead after a plane crash yesterday. the latest is that that plane might have been tampered with. there may a bomb on board. may have been a bomb on board. we'll keep you up date on all we'll keep you up to date on all of that. there's growing of that. and there's growing calls to repay calls now for britain to repay slavery reparations from just throughout our history. basically where do you stand on that? it does appear like there's a bit of a sea change in this. those calls are only getting louder. but the question is, do we pay what are is, who do we pay and what are we for? suppose , and we paying for? i suppose, and this well. rishi sunak is this one as well. rishi sunak is in water. this has passed in hot water. this has passed a lot of people by today. rishi sunak foul of the sunak has fallen foul of the parliamentary standards committee. relation to committee. it's in relation to his wife's links to a childcare company. how serious is this for our prime minister? all of that coming your way with me . patrick coming your way with me. patrick christys . gb news and another

christys. gb news and another little treat for you. we have a gb news exclusive on the nigel farage de—banking scandal. trust me , you are not going to want to me, you are not going to want to miss it. it will make you laugh and cry all in one go. gb views our gbnews.com is that email address but right address? get in touch. but right now with tatiana . patrick. >> thank you and good afternoon. this is the latest from the newsroom. 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 among those recovered. his mercenary believes both he mercenary group believes both he and commander utkin were and commander dmitri utkin were killed as a result of the mutiny against russia's top military brass two months ago . meanwhile, brass two months ago. meanwhile, ukraine's navy and military conducted a special operation overnight in russian occupied

crimea . officials say a drone crimea. officials say a drone destroyed a russian long—range anti aircraft missile system yesterday , president vladimir yesterday, president vladimir zelenskyy vowed to end russia's occupation of crimea . gb news occupation of crimea. gb news understands the government is looking to block the former natwest chief executive's multi million pound payout. but dame alison rose quit after it emerged. she talked about nigel farage's finances to a journalist . farage's finances to a journalist. her actions are being independently investigated. the treasury says it will decide whether to take action if any wrongdoing is found and the board doesn't cut her £24

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 i've had to wait a while to get results and i know that i've, i've done well and what are you going to go on to do ? going to go on to do? >> i'm doing biology, chemistry and history. a—levels >> the education secretary , >> the education secretary, gillian keegan, says the government has invested to help pupils catch up since the pandemic . pandemic. >> well the attainment gap was actually narrowing quite considerably from 2010 to before the pandemic. so under this conservative government we got it down 9.1, which was amazing . it down 9.1, which was amazing. and, you know, we were really pleased with that. now it has taken a step back in the 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 in the evidence of the catch up in the results today. >> is gb news across the uk >> 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 . patrick back to. patrick >> well, it's an electric news agenda today. we start with today's immigration figures, shocking as they are, and the number of asylum applications to the uk has hit the highest level in two decades. and the government is facing biggest government is facing its biggest ever backlog, with more ever asylum backlog, with more than 175,000 people waiting for an initial decision on their applications to stay in the uk. gb news viewers can see some of the migrants who have arrived in dover today . more than 19,000 dover today. more than 19,000 people have now crossed the channelin people have now crossed the channel in not so small boats. so far this year, and a huge number of those migrants will be included in today's figures, which are the 12 months up to

june. which are the 12 months up to june . so it's important to june. so it's important to remember that. let's have a look at some of these key figures, shall we? it's easier to digest this way. i've just said, the this way. as i've just said, the headune this way. as i've just said, the headline that more headline figure is that more than 175,000 are than 175,000 migrants are now awaiting decision as to awaiting a decision as to whether or not they can stay. that's an increase of 44% on last and the number of last year. and the number of albanians asylum albanians applying for asylum has increased by 52. it is exactly 1000 small boats were detected that, believe it or not, is down. on the previous month. almost 1500 of the channel migrant arrivals were afghans . interesting number of afghans. interesting number of indians arriving as well. and there are big rises in the number of work visas and skilled worker visas . the number of worker visas. the number of health care visas issued was up by a massive 157. there were almost half a million study visas. and this is a fascinating one because crucially, more than 150,000 study visas were granted to dependants, which is an astonishingly high number, isn't

it? i'm joined now by our deputy political editor, tom harwood, who's going to try and help us digest these numbers a little bit. tom, it's difficult to know where start. mean, the where to start. i mean, the record asylum backlog, really, i think, and cost of the think, and the cost of it is the place. >> absolutely. place. >> and >lutely. place. >> and there '. place. >> and there are competing narratives here. the one narratives here. on the one hand, if you listen to a government spokesperson today, they'll that they're they'll tell you that they're processing asylum processing more asylum applications than ever before. >> that's true. >> and that's true. >> and that's true. >> the backlog is growing. >> but the backlog is growing. >> but the backlog is growing. >> and why is that ? >> and why is that? >> and why is that? >> there are even more new arrivals than the increased pace at which those arrivals are being processed. >> so, yes, the government is processing them more quickly, but there are simply more than they can process in that time . they can process in that time. and have this and therefore we have this number 175,000, the largest number over 175,000, the largest asylum backlog on record , more asylum backlog on record, more than £6 million a day being spent on accommodation. >> yeah, it's absolutely staggering, isn't it? really and the cost in the round, i think for that is around £39 billion, i believe. and also so a sharp increase in the number of student visas as well .

student visas as well. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> the number of staff visas is up >> the number of staff visas is ”p by >> the number of staff visas is up by 23. >> but what's really interesting, diving down into these figures, that's 498,626, almost half a million student visas in the year to june . but a visas in the year to june. but a quarter of those well , 24% of quarter of those well, 24% of those aren't to students at all. they're to the dependents of students . so 1 in they're to the dependents of students. so 1 in 4 they're to the dependents of students . so 1 in 4 study visas students. so 1 in 4 study visas aren't going to people who are actually studying in the united kingdom. they're going to people who are the dependents of people who are the dependents of people who are the dependents of people who are studying in the united kingdom and do we know what the kind of rules and regs are around really if around that really like if anyone into university anyone gets into university here, a right to here, do they have a right to bnng here, do they have a right to bring a few with bring over a few people with them? well, the government was going these rules, going to tighten up these rules, so that the future so i expect that in the future quarters we see these quarters when we see these particular numbers, the number of dependents will be coming down because that's one of the policies braverman policies that suella braverman the was to going the home secretary was to going tighten up. that was an announcement several months ago

from government. announcement several months ago from indeed nment. announcement several months ago from indeed .ment. announcement several months ago from indeed . so, it. announcement several months ago from indeed . so, look, work >> no, indeed. so, look, work visas are up as well. visas are up 45% as well. i think a lot of people will understand the health care side of that. but some other areas are interesting. like you said, study up 23, dependents up 24. family visas up 110% asylum. the highest in two decades, 154,000 through safe and legal routes. apparently so safe and legal routes do exist. >> apparently they do , although >> apparently they do, although the critics of government asylum policy would say they are limited and difficult to access, there are a big safe and legal routes from certain countries, but from other countries it's harder . so but from other countries it's harder. so argue the but from other countries it's harder . so argue the critics of harder. so argue the critics of government policy. but it is interesting. you mentioned health and social care as an area over 2.5 times the number coming in the previous 12 months have come in this 12 months on those health and social care visa routes , the nhs did a big visa routes, the nhs did a big expansion programme, particularly social care visas were expanded in the last 12

months and we're really seeing that reflected in the figures as well. >> how is this going to play for rishi sunak and the tory government? >> well, this is an important point that this is not >> well, this is an important poirnet that this is not >> well, this is an important poirnet migrationt this is not >> well, this is an important poirnet migration figures; not >> well, this is an important poirnet migration figures .not >> well, this is an important poirnet migration figures . we're the net migration figures. we're not we're not seeing the net migration we'll migration figures today. we'll have till november to have to wait till november to see those. we're seeing see those. what we're seeing today is the number visas today is the number of visas issued and indeed the asylum backlog , but interestingly backlog, but interestingly contained within the release today is a significant decrease in one area and that is the number of ukrainian visas being granted. perhaps obviously it's now more than a year since that war started. and so that gives us a hint that actually net migration, when we get that official net migration estimate, will be lower this year than it was last year, although not by substantially. >> i'm also just having a little look at the nationalities of people coming across the channel so this is small boat arrivals from january to june this year. i mean, there's so much in these figures, but afghan on the figures, but afghan on the figure here is 1474. iran 921.

india 867. a lot of people were scratching their heads about india thinking, you know, why are so many people coming from that? >> yes, it's fascinating because the largest nationality coming on legal health and social care visas is indian. and so it's slightly curious to see that 867 indian individual males have come via small boat claiming asylum when so many other indian people are claiming legal right to work in the united kingdom through other routes. it does raise an eyebrow that the third largest deter nationality on small boats and that is a crucial qualifier. a lot of the people that come across, we do not know the country from which they and therefore they they come and therefore they don't get factored into those top countries you top three countries that you read out there. but of those that we know about, their place of origin , india, the third of origin, india, the third largest country on small boats, although another crucial bit of complex key to all of this, only around half of the asylum applications came from small boats. so of those extra 97,390

asylum applications , around half asylum applications, around half came from small boats . came from small boats. >> yeah, no, absolutely, tom look fantastically well summarised. like i said, loads to get through loads of different aspects to it will continue apart continue to pick those apart throughout the course of the show. do you about show. but how do you feel about them? and cbnnews.com. them? gb views and cbnnews.com. i'll how stephen i'll tell you how stephen kinnock them. kinnock feels about them. he's the immigration minister. the shadow immigration minister. he the government's asylum he says the government's asylum policy chaos . policy is in chaos. >> what this new statistic show is that the government's completely lost control of our immigration system in the asylum system is in chaos. 175,000 in the backlog and tens of thousands in hotels costing the taxpayers £6 million a day. and everything in these statistics shows that the number of small boat crossings are also increasing. and on the work based side of migration, we've got a record number of skilled work visas, which just shows that the government's not doing enough to invest in local skills and employers are reaching too

much for migrant labour. >> okay, all right. i am joined now by conservative mp for south thanet craig mackinlay. craig thank you very much for joining us. great to have you on the show. look, before i talk to you about what care for calais have been up to, which i think is certainly something that our viewers care a lot about and is a growing issue potentially there. can i just ask you about these numbers that have come out today, you know, record asylum backlog, the cost is spiralling . let's start with that aspect to it . to it. >> well, i can say nothing more than, you know, i'm very disappointed , very disappointed disappointed, very disappointed because some of these problems are domestic problems. we are not getting through the backlog. and i don't know why we're not getting through the backlog. and for every day not getting processed , that's another £100 processed, that's another £100 of accommodation and support for them . so i would have thought, them. so i would have thought, say this at the home office would be wanting to get these

numbers down. >> craig, i'm really sorry about this. i'm really sorry about this. i'm really sorry about this. craig we'll just have a little bit of problem with your microphone. get it microphone. we will get it sorted. craig sorted. apologies. craig mckinlay sorted. apologies. craig mcisouth thanet. another story for south thanet. another story that to that we're going to be discussing, as going to discussing, as i was going to with we with craig, well hopefully we can sorted. can get his microphone sorted. is refugee is this controversial refugee charity? not that they would see it that way, of course. care for calais, which shot to prominence really. think in light of really. i think in light of the channel migrant crisis, doing a lot work on the other side of lot of work on the other side of the channel and a lot of work here arrivals hotels , here for arrivals at hotels, giving of advice as giving people a lot of advice as well. the controversial charity has today been blasted by a watchdog over quotes , serious watchdog over quotes, serious misconduct and mismanaged involving its founder . so i'm involving its founder. so i'm just going to read out what this says. now, according to the charity commission report on care for the care for calais, the organisation which does deliver aid camps et cetera. aid to migrate camps et cetera. had an unhealthy reliance on clare moseley , who was their top clare moseley, who was their top dog really. and there was quotes in appropriate blurring of the lines as she served as both a chief executive and a trustee

and one of the major scandals in this anyway centres around her having £340,000 paid into her personal bank account. they say as an attempt to save money on foreign exchange fees. so vehicle for their part say that look, basically what happened was we started out as a small charity then the need for us increased and we increased massively and we weren't in a position to be able to handle that for quite a while. and so this where while. and so this is where we are since made are and we have since made changes. so that's that view. but was interesting but i thought it was interesting to it you. don't to bring it with you. i don't think any i'm think we're having any dice, i'm afraid mckinley. so afraid with craig mckinley. so what for us now afraid with craig mckinley. so ngo for us now afraid with craig mckinley. so ngo to for us now afraid with craig mckinley. so ngo to someone for us now afraid with craig mckinley. so ngo to someone , for us now afraid with craig mckinley. so ngo to someone , i for us now afraid with craig mckinley. so ngo to someone , i mean, now afraid with craig mckinley. so ngo to someone , i mean, even is go to someone, i mean, even better, of course , we're going better, of course, we're going to go very shortly to mark white, our home security editor. why may ask? well, because why you may ask? well, because russia . yes. and reported russia. yes. and the reported death the wagner group boss, death of the wagner group boss, yevgeny prigozhin. there are claims that the mercenary chiefs own pilot is responsible . all i own pilot is responsible. all i want to emphasise that this is an incredibly fast moving news

story. of course, coming out of a part of the world where there is a lot of disinformation on prigozhin was listed as a passenger on a plane which crashed north of moscow last night. there were no survivors. it comes two months after he led an aborted mutiny against russia's armed forces. an aborted mutiny against russia's armed forces . our home russia's armed forces. our home security editor, mark white, has has all the latest on this right now. so the latest line is that what, there might have been a bomb on board or something? is this right? >> yeah. i mean, not all cliche. there more questions than there are more questions than answers. more answers. has never been more true with regard to this particular mystery. but there are pro—kremlin telegram channels linked to law enforcement. apparently now stating that a pilot who worked for the wagner group, who actually owned the company that provided the private jets for yevgeny prigozhin, is a key suspect that this pilot had

access to the aircraft itself . access to the aircraft itself. if on the ground before after it took off and that then moved off himself , if took off and that then moved off himself, if he disappeared, went to another city in russia , to another city in russia, according to these law enforcement sources are suggesting that it was an improvised explosive device, a bomb that was planted in the i think it was the landing gear of the plane, which then exploded when that aircraft or after that aircraft had taken off for saint petersburg. >> yeah, and that is a significant development because i was on air last night just after this was break and we started getting these videos that our tv and online viewers will see, which is of the smouldering wreckage a plane smouldering wreckage of a plane tumbling out the sky and tumbling out of the sky and i spoke to the head of the home affairs select committee who was saying that foreign affairs saying that the foreign affairs select should say, select committee, i should say, who was that initial

who was saying that initial reports indicate reports appeared to indicate that it might have been shot out of with missile. of the sky with a missile. they could claps, which could hear two claps, which apparently certain apparently indicates a certain type surface air missile type of surface to air missile being used . now, that being used. now, it appears that that narrative has changed. the other think other developments, i think isn't it, which that putin isn't it, which is that putin was supposedly being rushed back to the kremlin over there. so they were saying about that it could play very badly for him in russia. and now that finger of blame swung around to blame has swung around to somebody within. >> wagner yeah. i mean , i think >> wagner yeah. i mean, i think it's all indicative of the disinfo formation that swirls around everything that comes out of moscow and many people as far as yevgeny prigozhin was concerned and believed that it was only a matter of time before putin would have his revenge and that this man would be taken out of the picture. so no surprise , of the picture. so no surprise, really, amongst many people at the events that took place . we the events that took place. we have nothing , of course, to have nothing, of course, to independently verify that this

might have been linked back to the kremlin, but intelligence sources in countries around the world, including including the uk, the us and others , certainly uk, the us and others, certainly very suspicious as to who might have been behind the apparent death of yevgeny prigozhin, i should say. as well, apparent death, although we're getting reports that his remains may have been identified and we've no way of independent verifying it because, of course, moss moscow controls all of the news around this particular event. and there are lines that are coming out. it may have been a missile that took it down. it may have been a bomb. it may have some deliberate have been some deliberate attempt to sabotage the aircraft in some way mechanically or it might have been a complete accident . i think the latter is accident. i think the latter is probably the most or the least likely explanation as to why this jet plummeted to this fireball on the ground . yeah, indeed. >> now, there is a wider

political picture here and a wider military picture here as well. now ukraine are saying that they've carried out a raid in crimea. what's the significance of this? >> yeah, we should say as well that some russian official sources pointing the finger of suspicion. we yevgeny prigozhin's demise is at ukraine on but president zelenskyy has fired off to say nothing thing to do with us. you need to look closer to home but yes you're right. this military operation that took place on the crimean peninsula for i think, very significant because it was a land operation, a small incursion, but nonetheless , it's incursion, but nonetheless, it's very significant because the first time, as far as we know now, that ukrainian troops have gone on the ground in crimea since it was annexed by russia in 2014, we have some pictures, hopefully, that show how this special operation that took

place that we don't have the pictures , but this operation pictures, but this operation that took place over night, as far as we know from ukrainian special forces or perhaps marines on the ground, we know as well that royal marines were training ukrainian marines in recent months in tactics that were apparently adopted in this particular operation on crimea , particular operation on crimea, landing them by watercraft , by landing them by watercraft, by boat, rigid, inflatable or perhaps onto the beaches there. and we believe the target was some kind of air defence system in crimea. that according to the ukrainians, they haven't given a great deal of detail, but they said that they've inflicted casualties on the russian forces on the ground and also damage to this installation. >> yeah, i mean, it's a really important update that really and the fact that we've trained them and might have had a hand in the tactics were that tactics that were used in that latest think is

latest assault i think is really, important. we'll really, really important. we'll have some of those pictures later just want later on. but i just want to return prigozhin issue. return to the prigozhin issue. right. benefit would it right. what benefit would it have been for putin to have offed him if that is what's happened? because a lot of people are saying that prigozhin has a big russian nationalist following for understandable reasons that he was seen as a hero. we've seen some pictures of apparent wagner soldiers , of apparent wagner soldiers, almost like worshipping at a shnne almost like worshipping at a shrine for this guy. so could that have actually dented putin's popularity if he was seen to have been the one that metaphorically pulled the trigger? >> well, it's a calculation, isn't for putin? i mean, as isn't it, for putin? i mean, as far as yevgeny prigozhin was concerned , there is no doubt he concerned, there is no doubt he was a threat. he led his forces on this rapid march, this drive up to moscow that ended as rapidly as it began . but for a rapidly as it began. but for a time , all of vladimir putin's time, all of vladimir putin's regime was looking very, very precarious indeed. there were fights on the ground. they took

a russian city on their way towards moscow, russia . and towards moscow, russia. and soldiers were killed in this. it was a massive blow to the authority of vladimir putin. now if you take yevgeny prigozhin out of the picture, if you are vladimir putin, one, it gets rid of a significant threat because as you point out, yes, not only did he have thousands of men at arms , but he did have this very arms, but he did have this very significant following within the country as well. among certain in portions of the population . in portions of the population. so an ongoing potential threat there, but also from putin's point, if he was in any way behind what has happened to yevgeny prigozhin , it sends out yevgeny prigozhin, it sends out a very clear message that you don't mess with the boss. >> oh, absolutely, 100. and many people will be surprised if indeedit people will be surprised if indeed it has actually happened and that prigozhin has been killed in a plane crash, that it took that long, to be honest.

but very, but mark white, thank you very, very our very much. mark whitener, our home believe very much. mark whitener, our hmight believe very much. mark whitener, our hmight be believe very much. mark whitener, our hmight be able believe very much. mark whitener, our hmight be able to believe very much. mark whitener, our hmight be able to bringelieve very much. mark whitener, our hmight be able to bring back; i might be able to bring back into craig into the fray now, craig mckinley, conservative mp for south down great to see you again. twice in show. craig again. twice in one show. craig hey, but there we go. right? yeah. good. so look, yeah. very good. so look, can i just you again these just ask you again about these this asylum but this record asylum backlog, but specifically as well, when it comes of comes to the amount of dependents are dependents that students are able over, i did really able to bring over, i did really think this was something that you were going stop. you guys were going to stop. that's well absolutely. that's up 24. well absolutely. >> there was talk that it should be only for very limited number of advanced courses like courses that dependents can come over. but yeah, we haven't seen that so far. hopefully that is around the corner and these numbers will in the future come down quite dramatically because you know, no matter what your thoughts are in this area, you simply don't have the uk in terms of education and accommodation and health care and all of these things. i'm afraid. you know, people don't like anybody to say, but we are a very highly densely populated

country. and these additional numbers are strains on, you know, every area of public services. now, these numbers are far too high. i don't know why they're so high. you mentioned earlier on the ukraine issue may come through and as potentially some ukrainians do go home, let's hope they can soon with a with with things changing over there . but yeah, these numbers there. but yeah, these numbers cannot continue . we've got cannot continue. we've got various schemes to get care workers in obviously an area that needs, you know, many hundreds of thousands of people. we have a lot of pressures in care, a lot of pressures in the nhs . but you know, i do worry. nhs. but you know, i do worry. are there some that are perhaps acting somewhat unscrupulously using some of these schemes to get people into the uk via what i might call the back door? so i think there's a lot of work here to do and particularly suella braverman and i look forward to having a very robust conversation with her. when we come back in a couple of weeks. yeah. >> all right, craig, look, thank you very much. it's craig you very, very much. it's craig mckinley he's the

mckinley there. he's the conservative mp south conservative mp for south thanet. just thanet. now, look, i'm just going to preview a story going to just preview a story that i'm going to be talking about after the news. right. so the uk, i'm reading headline the uk, i'm reading a headline now, calls for now, uk cannot ignore calls for slavery reparations . that is slavery reparations. that is according to a un judge. so a leading judge at the international court of justice has said that the uk will no longer be able to ignore the growing for reparation for growing calls for reparation for transatlantic slavery . he this transatlantic slavery. he this isjudge transatlantic slavery. he this is judge patrick robinson and he's presided over the former yugoslav president slobodan milosevic is at trial. he said that the international tide on slavery is turning . now, whether slavery is turning. now, whether or not you think that britain does owe any slavery reparations, and please let me know. you can see the email address there, gb views. cbnnews.com. this is a very, very contested debate and discussion, isn't it? what is true is that calls are growing now has a lot to do with the world that we live in. doesn't it? people say, well, it's woke some people say that it's more aware the big sticking point for me in order to pay

me on this is in order to pay reparations , have have reparations, you have to have people been directly people that have been directly harmed of this and harmed as a result of this and some people who have directly done the harm. and right now in britain and i know that some people disagree with on people will disagree with me on this view, this, in my personal view, i don't think there are people who have been direct harmed by the transatlantic slave trade. and there are a group of people who directly the harming . and directly did the harming. and therefore, for me it would seem as though it would be a little bit to me you. bit unfair to get me you. everyone, we know to pay for something that we had absolutely nothing to do with. there is also, , the idea, isn't also, of course, the idea, isn't there, of whether we there, of whether or not we would reparations to would also owe reparations to the of this. they the irish in all of this. they seem very, seem to get very, very forgotten, don't why is it forgotten, don't they? why is it just african just caribbean and african countries ? what about the irish countries? what about the irish population if we're doing it, hey, if doing it. but it hey, if we're doing it. but it all goes quiet about that doesn't it? wonder gb doesn't it? and i wonder why. gb views gbnews.com. i'll be views a gbnews.com. i'll be having a big discussion about whether think we owe whether or not you think we owe slavery reparations. is this leading judge at the united nafions leading judge at the united nations right? they keep nations right? should they keep their are they their nose out of it? are they all , frankly, all actually, frankly, just after of britain's after a little bit of britain's cash? again , where is that

cash? and again, where is that at the moment? in the middle of at the moment? in the middle of a cost of living crisis? but find out why. rishi sunak talking has been found find out why. rishi sunak talkin of has been found find out why. rishi sunak talkin of breaking|s been found find out why. rishi sunak talkin of breaking the zen found find out why. rishi sunak talkin of breaking the mpsyund find out why. rishi sunak talkin of breaking the mps code guilty of breaking the mps code of conduct . i also have a gb of conduct. i also have a gb news exclusive for you. it's the latest on the nigel farage de—banking scandal. i tell you what, you will not believe the person that was allowed to keep a bank account, but nigel farage wasn't . i'll a bank account, but nigel farage wasn't. i'll fill you in very shortly. but right now is your latest headlines with tatyana . latest headlines with tatyana. >> patrick. thank you and good afternoon. this is the latest from the newsroom. the government says it's closely monitoring reports that the wagner group's leader has been killed a plane crash . 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 were killed as a dmitri utkin were killed as a result of the mutiny against russia's brass two

russia's top military brass two months ago , michael hillier and months ago, michael hillier and rachel fulstow have been jailed for the murder of an electrician in wigan. the former couple shot liam smith in the face and covered him in acid in november last year. hillier was sentenced to at least 33 years in prison . to at least 33 years in prison. fulstow, who met the victim on a dating app, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 30 years. the backlog of asylum cases has hit a record high, more than 175,000 people were waiting for an initial decision on their application 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 doubled spending on asylum in the last year to nearly £4 billion. donald trump's due to surrender himself on charges of trying to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election in georgia. these are live shots of fulton county jail, where we're expecting trump to arrive

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gold and silver investment looks like things are heating up. >> box boilers proud sponsors of weather on . gb news afternoon. weather on. gb news afternoon. >> i'm alex deakin and this is your latest weather update from the met office for gb news many of us having a fine evening out there, largely dry bright, there, largely dry and bright, but we showers, but where we do have showers, they quite heavy and that's they are quite heavy and that's mostly across northwest mostly across the far northwest and the far southeast . low and the far southeast. low pressure is controlling things up to the northwest, bringing some pretty wet conditions across western scotland and shetland as well. but also in the south—east we've seen some heavy downpours , a bit hit and heavy downpours, a bit hit and miss, but still some thunderstorms possible into this evening they do tend to evening before they do tend to scoot the showers will scoot away. the showers will keep western scotland. keep going in western scotland. we'll see 1 or 2 for northern ireland, northwest but ireland, northwest england. but for a dry night ireland, northwest england. but for a a dry night ireland, northwest england. but for a cooler a dry night ireland, northwest england. but for a cooler night. dry night ireland, northwest england. but for a cooler night. quite ght ireland, northwest england. but for a cooler night. quite alt ireland, northwest england. but for a cooler night. quite a bit and a cooler night. quite a bit cooler recent nights. cooler than recent nights. single figures certainly in rural , not towns and rural spots, not many towns and cities, 10 11 to start cities, about 10 or 11 to start friday. friday will start with quite a bit of sunshine, i

suspect, the midlands , suspect, over the midlands, eastern england much of the eastern england and much of the south. but it is going to be a case of watching showers case of watching the showers develop day across develop a very wet day across the north of scotland. the far north of scotland. caithness sutherland, orkney, wet and windy elsewhere there'll be of a breeze at times be a bit of a breeze at times and there'll be that mixture of sunshine and scattered showers. but chunk of the day but a good chunk of the day should be dry, but cooler feel should be dry, but a cooler feel certainly across south—east certainly across the south—east compared today. less humid. compared to today. less humid. saturday a similar story. saturday is a similar story. yes, there'll be some sunshine , yes, there'll be some sunshine, but showers on but probably more showers on saturday. and again, some pretty heavy a of and heavy ones. a risk of hail and thunder as well . nowhere immune, thunder as well. nowhere immune, but a lot showers but after a lot of heavy showers on saturday, it will turn a bit dner on saturday, it will turn a bit drier brighter the drier and brighter through the long weekend , although long weekend, although never particularly . particularly warm. >> looks like things are heating up . boxed boilers proud sponsors up. boxed boilers proud sponsors of weather on . of weather on. gb news. >> now to a gb news exclusive

and ministers could block a payout worth millions of pounds to natwest. chief dame alison rose, who quit over the nigel farage de—banking row. it was revealed yesterday that dame alison is in line for an exit package worth £2.4 million while she serves out a 12 month gardening leave. i mean , it is gardening leave. i mean, it is nice work if you can get it, isn't it? i am joined by the man who broke the story. it is our very own political editor, christopher hope chopper. so the government could step in. could they ? yeah, they're watching they? yeah, they're watching very closely, i think ears pncked very closely, i think ears pricked up at the reports in gb news website and the station yesterday about the £24 million possible payout to dame alison rose. >> they're concerned about this issue of de—banking, whether that's a reward for failure of some sort. don't forget, of course , patrick, there was course, patrick, there was a review going on. travis smith, a law firm, is looking into this , law firm, is looking into this, the whole issue of the whole the whole issue of nigel farage, his bank account, how treated, was he how it was treated, was he treated differently because he was and have was a brexiteer and may have brought embarrassment on brought some embarrassment on coots, part of natwest.

coots, which is part of natwest. so report comes back, so when that report comes back, if that report shows that the board haven't really done much to with . alison rose then to deal with. alison rose then the government step in. the government can step in. don't own a big don't forget, they own a big chunk in this company don't forget, they own a big chunk 35, in this company don't forget, they own a big chunk 35, 38, in this company don't forget, they own a big chunk 35, 38, forgives company don't forget, they own a big chunk 35, 38, forgive me mpany don't forget, they own a big chunk 35, 38, forgive me is)any around 35, 38, forgive me is owned by you or me as taxpayers dating back to the financial crisis . earlier, dating back to the financial crisis. earlier, i dating back to the financial crisis . earlier, i spoke to crisis. earlier, i spoke to gillian earlier , julie keegan gillian earlier, julie keegan spoke to reporters about her view. >> well, obviously that's for natwest and its shareholders , natwest and its shareholders, but i can understand why people do think, you know, it does look quite high and i would expect that they would consider, you know, what the public think about it, particularly given the circumstances of her departure . circumstances of her departure. that's gillian keegan, the education secretary, to talking reporters earlier. >> there's clearly is some concern here amongst ministers and i've been talking to senior people and they people in the treasury and they are looking at this very closely. of de—banking closely. the idea of de—banking is not right. really. everyone should have the right to a bank. and seems interesting, and it seems interesting, doesn't people like doesn't it, that people like nigel farage even jeremy

doesn't it, that people like nigel theige even jeremy doesn't it, that people like nigel the chancellor n jeremy doesn't it, that people like nigel the chancellor was'emy doesn't it, that people like nigel the chancellor was also hunt, the chancellor was also turned down for a bank account because seen to because these people are seen to because these people are seen to be or have some kind of be risky or have some kind of risky personal profile which could the banks could damage, damage the banks in question. >> yeah, but apparently a de—banking didn't matter for prolific serial killer rose west choppen prolific serial killer rose west chopper. this is the other story that's dropped today. rose west was allowed to keep her cooperate bank account having been found to be a serial killer . well this falls into the bracket of . bracket of. >> you couldn't make it up, patrick, doesn't it? but that is thatis patrick, doesn't it? but that is that is correct. we read in the telegraph today that rose west, the murderer of ten women and girls in 1995, had a review into banking, was subject to a review of banking by the co—op or co—operative bank slogan ethical now and always as they looked at it in 2014 and they decided to allow her to keep on with her, her bank account because it would have been damaging for her daughter . would have been damaging for her daughter. for rose west, of course, resides in hmp newhall in yorkshire . quite why she

in yorkshire. quite why she needs a bank account prison needs a bank account in prison is a different question altogether. its altogether. the co—op, for its part , says we wouldn't discuss part, says we wouldn't discuss individual customer details, but frankly, this shows into some stark relief that , you know, and stark relief that, you know, and obviously the co—op doesn't bank nigel farage or tory mps , not nigel farage or tory mps, not that we know of, and nor would it because can't it tell us because they can't discuss they discuss the details of who they bank. ifs discuss the details of who they bank. it's real problem bank. but it's a real problem here. think that almost we're here. i think that almost we're going degree and going towards a degree and almost to bank almost be a right to a bank account could be enshrined in law point because this law at some point because this seems law at some point because this see its now , just one more >> it does now, just one more quick one with you, chopper. well, you. rishi sunak well, i've got you. rishi sunak has of parliamentary has fallen foul of parliamentary standards. is that right? in relation to his wife's links to a childcare company? how big is this for the prime minister ? i this for the prime minister? i think we'll give him the benefit of the doubt on this one. >> patrick, his akshata, >> patrick, his wife, akshata, held firm called held shares in a firm called koru kids . mr held shares in a firm called koru kids. mr sunak was asked in a session in parliament by labour mp catherine mckinnell whether whether he had any interest to declare on the issue of childcare policy. now this

company deals in childcare and could have benefited from a government policy. mr sunak had declared this interest in a ministerial interest list which is published twice a year but in fact hasn't been published for a year because of the various issues in government . but it issues in government. but it wasn't in his mps wasn't declared in his mps register and that's published every and because of every two weeks. and because of that lack of declaration, that latter lack of declaration, he's and he's given a he's apologised and he's given a slight rap on the knuckles by the authorities behind me, but nothing more than that. it it was an oversight. patrick give him a break. >> give him give him a break. hey, i'm not i'm not doing anything. i'm merely anything. i'm just merely highlighting it. jumper thank you much, christopher you very much, christopher there are article editor with are billions article editor with the whole of stories . the whole series of stories. now, here's question for you . now, here's a question for you. do you that we should have do you think that we should have to pay money because of this country's role in the slave trade hundreds of years ago? one respected judge certainly thinks so, say respected and not only that, patrick robinson says that we should pay more than £188 trillion. so it's not just the

reparations , it's the scale of reparations, it's the scale of it. members of the royal family, including the prince and princess of wales, were met with protests demanding reparations when visited caribbean when they visited the caribbean last year. joining me now is dr. alka sahgal cuthbert, who is the director of dodi that divide us and yeah, there we go. thank you very, very much. and so what do you think about all of this? and should be paying slave should britain be paying slave reparations and reparations of any to of trillions? >> no , no. >> no, no. >> no, no. >> i think i think we need to really refocus this . really refocus this. >> you know, so far, it's all it's very easy to get caught up on. should we shouldn't we pay reparations ? and the numbers of reparations? and the numbers of things like that or but i think what's you know, we need to turn the spotlight a bit on the united nations report and its authors ourselves here and some of the spurious , you know, of the spurious, you know, methodological moral and political assumptions that underpin this report . you know, underpin this report. you know, it's based on huge moral assertions which are really,

frankly, quite dodgy . and so to frankly, quite dodgy. and so to beefit frankly, quite dodgy. and so to beef it up, what they've done is hired the services of a corporate finance company to come up with a whole, you know, sort of shed load of statistic modelling of what former colonies might have made if it were not for slavery . so it's a were not for slavery. so it's a really speculative , imagined really speculative, imagined scenario. and meanwhile, in the real world, 200, in the intervening 200 years, you know, the fortunes of all countries, colonies and colony ized colonisers and colonised have changed and developed dramatically. you know, in 2022, the former colony, rwanda, for example , had a higher level of example, had a higher level of rate of growth of gdp than its former colonies. france and belgium. so you know, this idea that there are these countries that there are these countries that are sort of still , you that are sort of still, you know, living with abject deprivation because of something that happened 200 years ago,

really doesn't pass the reality test in any sense at all. and never mind the moral messages that , you know, all white people that, you know, all white people as citizens have this moral debt . but these countries have been for independent a long time. you know, india was colonised and yesterday it sent you know, it sent the spaceship, the first country to send a spaceship to the south pole. i mean, it's just frank hinckley, a very degraded and patronising view of it did. >> and i must say, i've found i've found out to my peril that the vast swathes of indian twitter's community do certainly not enjoy being reminded of the fact that we do continue to give them quite a bit of money every single year. however on that thing that you've said there about the kind of anti white ness of all of this, i'm going to drill down on it because it does appear as though there is a bit of a concerted effort at the minute. i think, to really slam britain or british culture or dare i say it, kind of white

brits in a way, for things that i mean, we didn't really have anything to do with . anything to do with. >> no, i think i think you're right, patrick. i think this speaks to a broader political problem that we have , which is problem that we have, which is not just in britain, but i think in the anglo—american sphere, which is that our political , which is that our political, social and cultural and intellectual elites have really lost confidence . s they lack a lost confidence. s they lack a vision. they're not quite sure what they're doing, why they're here or why what direction they can give their existence and their work. and i think , you their work. and i think, you know, we feel that i think loads of we all many, many of us feel that in kind of everyday feeling of stagnation and frustration we feel with when we try and engage in in ordinary things in public or civic life and i think this i think predispose them to really kind of grab on to the simplistic moral message that if you like, it's the equivalent of the indulgences, you know, like

centuries ago. it's a way of they can take on the burden of white guilt. they can make the right noises, they can set up certain projects. chuck the money about and give and kid themselves that they have a moral purpose . moral purpose. >> all right, look, thank you very, very much. great to have you on show, always, dr. you on the show, as always, dr. aukus cuthbert there, the director us, director of don't divide us, well—worth checking out some of the work that do right. the work that they do now right. if hoping sky if you were hoping that sky high energy bills coming an energy bills were coming to an end, have some bad end, then i might have some bad news and the news for you. and it's the poorest people in england who will affected . why? will be worst affected. why? we'll shortly. patrick we'll find out shortly. patrick christys gb news, britain's news

that i knew had dewbs& co weeknights from . six weeknights from. six >> well, welcome back . it is 348 >> well, welcome back. it is 348 and 39 seconds. you're watching patrick christys on gb news. at 4:00, i will have the latest immigration figures as the uk's asylum backlog hits a record high. but millions of households in england are expected to face higher energy bills this winter, despite the energy price cap decreasing. the resolution foundation think tank warns that withdrawn energy support and an increase in the daily standing charge will lead to higher costs for about 1 in 3 households. our economics and business editor liam joins with on liam halligan joins us with on the money . well, people were the money. well, people were obviously hoping the opposite would be true. they were there's been an assumption that, of course, this winter energy bills will be lower because inflation is coming down and they

obviously spiked after the war in ukraine began last year. >> but that may not be the case. you know, the kids are about to go back to school. the nights will soon be drawing in. don't shoot i think shoot the messenger and i think policy households are policy makers and households are thinking winter thinking about the winter because winter actually because last winter was actually quite . and this winter is quite mild. and this winter is likely to be colder according to meet geological forecasts. let's have a look at some details. now. the reason i'm talking about about this today, patrick, is tomorrow ofcom will announce a new energy price cap and it's set to fall. we think from £2,074 a year where it currently is to 1878. and that will kick in on the 1st of october, going to december . in on the 1st of october, going to december. this is in on the 1st of october, going to december . this is a cap on to december. this is a cap on the unit cost of electricity, not on the overall bill. but we know that the subsidy of about £400 per household, that's come off our bills automatically, that's now gone plus , we also that's now gone plus, we also know and this is shapo to the resolution foundation, didn't know this. they've managed to eke out the information that

ofgem is allowing going forward , the energy companies to increase the standing charges. now, that's what everyone pays, a kind of connection fee, even though, you know , the houses though, you know, the houses have been connected for decades . but if you look at the bill, there's a standing charge. and if ofgem are going to allow energy producers to increase the standing charge as they are in order to sort of recoup money because a lot of the energy companies went bust . and then companies went bust. and then that's really unfair that's kind of really unfair here because that hits every single household the same way. however much electricity you use and however wealthy, the households, you see what i mean? so it's what we call it's what we call regressive live. it means poorer people suffer more and so i think when ofgem announced the energy price cap tomorrow, they're going to have tomorrow, they're going to have to say something about this announcement from the resolution foundation that standing charges are up. are going to go up. >> yeah, just seems bizarre. >> yeah, it just seems bizarre. i mean, what is the justification it? justification for it? >> justification for justification for it? >:will justification for justification for it? >:will be justification for justification for it? >:will be thatustification for justification for it? >:will be that the ication for justification for it? >:will be that the energy for it will be that the energy companies money.

companies lost a lot of money. a lot of went bust. those lot of them went bust. those that to absorb that still exist had to absorb the ones and their the other ones and their customers . and so they to customers. and so they need to recoup some money. but what does this actually people at this actually mean for people at home? graphic, home? here's another graphic, which illustrate which i hope will illustrate that. which i hope will illustrate that . so the resolution that. so the resolution foundation forecasts that 7.2 million homes as your 1 in 3 in million homes as your1 in 3 in england that you mentioned will face higher bills this winter than last winter . crikey. we than last winter. crikey. we think the average standing charge is going to go up to about £300 a year from just over £200 a year at the moment, a lot of money. it is a lot for any household. we also know patrick, if you've been filling up your van or your car lately, petrol pnces van or your car lately, petrol prices are going diesel prices are going up. diesel pnces prices are going up. diesel prices oil prices are going up and oil pnces prices are going up and oil prices have been going up 20% since late june. and wholesale gas prices are up over 50% since mid july . and there's lots of mid july. and there's lots of geopolitical angst out there. you've got saudi arabia joining this bloc of what we call brics, brazil, russia , india and china. brazil, russia, india and china. they're not going to be doing the west many favours in terms

of producing more oil to keep the price down. we know that there are strikes for gas workers australia . that means workers in australia. that means less liquefied natural gas . less liquefied natural gas. they're the second biggest exporter of that the world on exporter of that in the world on global markets, which will lead to higher gas prices. so look , to higher gas prices. so look, what i'm trying to say here is that an overall that there's an overall assumption out there that energy bills going be lower bills are going to be much lower this coming winter than last winter. and hate say it, winter. and i hate to say it, i don't think you can make that assumption without being complacent. it may not turn out that way. >> thank you very, very >> liam, thank you very, very much. halligan our much. liam halligan now our economics editor economics and business editor whizzing through all of the latest when it to that latest when it comes to that mean people out mean bad news for people out there. well there. and i think as well a little unexpected say the little bit unexpected to say the least. a lot of people least. i imagine a lot of people really that really did think that they assumed probably got really did think that they assbaded probably got really did think that they assbad as probably got really did think that they assbad as it probably got really did think that they assbad as it could probably got really did think that they assbad as it could possiblyily got really did think that they assbad as it could possibly get.)t as bad as it could possibly get. but alas, we're paying for even more. just time but alas, we're paying for even mojust just time but alas, we're paying for even mojust a just time but alas, we're paying for even mojust a coupleiust time but alas, we're paying for even mojust a couple oft time but alas, we're paying for even mojust a couple of quickime for just a couple of quick emails the end. emails before we go to the end. i've lot coming in on i've got a lot coming in on the discussion we're having and discussion that we're having and we'll again in the we'll be having it again in the 5:00 about reparations and 5:00 hour about reparations and whether we are going to whether or not we are going to end paying some of those

end up paying some of those things tune of £13 things and to the tune of £13 trillion, the way, is trillion, by the way, which is supposedly what some study has calculated, and no, calculated, that we owe. and no, we should not be doing this. it says, nobody today says, joe, nobody alive today is responsible slavery . also, a responsible for slavery. also, a lot of people are very quick in the inbox. gb views at gb views .com to say, well, if we have to pay .com to say, well, if we have to pay reparations, then do we claim reparations? for claim some reparations? for example vikings? what example, from the vikings? what about the french going back to 1066 and beyond? so a lot of reaction negative. it must be said to us, paying reparation . said to us, paying reparation. but those clamours are not going away. but when i come back, the number of asylum applications to the uk has hit the highest level in decades and the in two decades and the government the biggest government is facing the biggest ever backlog . ever asylum seeker backlog. we've more than 175,000 we've got more than 175,000 people waiting for an initial decision on their application. also on top of that massive increase in student visas and with it a massive increase in the number of dependents coming as well. so i'll be teeing off on all of this when i come back. stay tune . stay tune. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar proud sponsors of weather

on . gb news afternoon . on. gb news afternoon. >> i'm alex deakin and this is your latest weather update from the met office for gb news many of us having a fine evening out there, bright, there, largely dry and bright, but where do have showers, but where we do have showers, they quite heavy and that's they are quite heavy and that's mostly the northwest mostly across the far northwest and the southeast. low and the far southeast. low pressure is controlling things up to the northwest, bringing some pretty wet conditions across western scot island and shetland as well. but also in the south—east, we've seen some heavy downpours, a bit hit or miss, but still some thunderstorms possible into this evening do tend to evening before they do tend to scoot away. the showers will keep going in western scotland. we'll for northern we'll see 1 or 2 for northern ireland, north england. but we'll see 1 or 2 for northern irelmany, orth england. but we'll see 1 or 2 for northern irelmany, orth be england. but we'll see 1 or 2 for northern irelmany, orth be a england. but we'll see 1 or 2 for northern irelmany, orth be a dry|land. but we'll see 1 or 2 for northern irelmany, orth be a dry night but for many, it'll be a dry night and cool night. a bit and a cool night. quite a bit cooler recent nights. cooler than recent nights. single in single figures certainly in rural spots, many and rural spots, many towns and cities , about 10 or 11 to start cities, about 10 or 11 to start friday. friday will start with quite a bit of sunshine, i suspect, over the midlands , suspect, over the midlands, eastern england much of the eastern england and much of the south. but it is going to be a case watching the showers

case of watching the showers develop a very wet across develop a very wet day across the scotland. the far north of scotland. caithness, orkney, caithness, sutherland, orkney, wet and windy elsewhere there'll be a bit of a breeze at times and there'll be that mixture of sunshine scattered showers. sunshine and scattered showers. but good chunk of day but a good chunk of the day should a cooler feel should be dry, but a cooler feel certainly across the south—east compared to today. humid . compared to today. less humid. saturday is a similar story. yes there'll be some sunshine, but probably more showers on saturday. again, some pretty saturday. and again, some pretty heavy ones. a of hail and heavy ones. a risk of hail and thunder well. nowhere immune, thunder as well. nowhere immune, but lot of heavy showers but after a lot of heavy showers on saturday, will a bit on saturday, it will turn a bit dner on saturday, it will turn a bit drier brighter through drier and brighter through the long never long weekend, although never particularly warm . particularly warm. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on .

gb news is 4 pm. is patrick christys. >> it's news immigration capitulation . that's what i'm capitulation. that's what i'm going in on today. record asylum seeker backlog , record costs. seeker backlog, record costs. we've had huge amounts of increases for the work visas , increases for the work visas, huge increases in student visas and of course huge increases on dependence. a lot to pick through there on a similar note, care for calais, that migrant charity, they are in hot water for previous misconduct . i'll be for previous misconduct. i'll be telling you all about that very, very shortly. i'm also going to be about this, a fast be talking about this, a fast moving out of moving picture coming out of russia . what is russia at the moment. what is the latest on yevgeny

the very latest on yevgeny prigozhin? on prigozhin? was he blown up on this was the plane shot this plane? was the plane shot down? he the at down? was he on the plane at all? white with us all? mark white will be with us to through that noise and to pick through that noise and ulez cameras. yes. so tuesday is ulez cameras. yes. so tuesday is ulez here the greater ulez day here on the greater london area, but apparently 90% of the new ulez cams have been trashed , vandalised, nicked . trashed, vandalised, nicked. people clearly not that happy about it. and another one for us this hour as well . louis theroux this hour as well. louis theroux has come out swinging against the bbc, where, of course, he does a huge amount of work for saying that they are too afraid of which is not of causing offence, which is not a problem. i appear to be afflicted patrick christys afflicted with patrick christys . gb news. heck of a lot to go out fast. moving pictures today. vaiews@gbnews.com for all of your emails, but right now it's your emails, but right now it's your headlines. your emails, but right now it's your headlines . patrick your headlines. patrick >> thank you. 4:01. this is the latest from the newsroom. 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 believes he and commander believes both he and commander dmitri utkin were killed as a result of the mutiny against russia's top military brass two months ago . meanwhile, ukraine's months ago. meanwhile, ukraine's navy and military conducted a special operation overnight in russian occupied crimea. officials say a drone destroyed a russian long—range anti aircraft missile system yesterday. president vladimir zelenskyy vowed to end russia's occupation of crimea . gb news occupation of crimea. gb news understands the government is looking to block the former natwest chief executive's multi million pound payout. dame alison rose quit after it emerged she talked about nigel farage as finances to a journalist . farage as finances to a journalist. her actions are being independently investigated. the treasury says it will decide whether to take

action if any wrongdoing is found and the board doesn't cut her £2.4 million severance package. her £2.4 million severance package . the backlog of asylum package. the backlog of asylum cases has hit a record high by more than 175,000 people were waiting for an initial decision on their application at the end of june. that's up 44% on last yeah of june. that's up 44% on last year. the home office says europe has seen a similar rise , europe has seen a similar rise, adding that it's doubled spending on asylum in the last year to nearly £4 billion. a former couple have been jailed former couple have been jailed for the murder of an electrician in wigan . michael hillier and in wigan. michael hillier and rachel foster , who shot liam rachel foster, who shot liam smith in the face, then covered him in acid in november last year. hillier was him in acid in november last year . hillier was sentenced to year. hillier was sentenced to at least 33 years in prison . at least 33 years in prison. fausto, who met the victim on a dating app, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 30 years. detective inspector lee shaw spoke on behalf of the family after sentencing . he liam was after sentencing. he liam was more than just a family member to us. >> he was our rock , our liam.

>> he was our rock, our liam. >> he was our rock, our liam. >> he had the biggest and most kind hearted soul and would literally do anything for anyone i >> -- >> but we are always asking ourselves, why did this happen to liam? why do his two boys now have to live with the knowledge that their loving father was taken away from them in the most barbaric of circumstances ? barbaric of circumstances? >> is donald trump is due to surrender himself on charges of trying to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election in georgia . these are live in georgia. these are live pictures outside the fulton county jail, where we're expecting trump to arrive later. 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 in the 2024 us election . his former 2024 us election. his former lawyer, rudy giuliani , lawyer, rudy giuliani, surrendered yesterday . patients surrendered yesterday. patients are being warned of severe delays as consultant in england strike for two days. routine

hospital care is expected to come to a standstill , with hospital 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 . health secretary continues. health secretary steve barclay says an increase has already been agreed . has already been agreed. >> and 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 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 the most generous pensions in the public sector . so we've the public sector. 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 remains 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. this year compared with last year . and finally , london zoo is year. and finally, london zoo is staging its annual weigh in penguins, tigers and gorillas are among the 14,000 animals being measured by zookeepers over the next year. the zoo says keeping records helps ensure every creature that's cared for is eating well and growing at the rate it should . this is gb the rate it should. 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 . patrick >> we start with today's immigration figures and the number of asylum applications to the uk has hit the highest level

in two decades and the government is facing its biggest ever asylum backlog, with more than 175,000 migrants waiting for an initial decision on their application to stay in the uk. gb news viewers can see some of the migrants who arrived in dover today . more than 19,000 dover today. more than 19,000 people have crossed the channel in small boats, so far this yean in small boats, so far this year, and a huge number of those migrants will be included in today's which are up to today's figures, which are up to the 12 months up to 2nd june. let's have a look at some of these these key numbers. there's quite a lot to digest here. so the headline figure for me anyway, is that more than 175,000 migrants are waiting for a decision on whether they can stay. that is an increase of 44% on last year and the number of albanians applying for asylum has increased by 52. exactly 1000 small boats were detected . 1000 small boats were detected. that's, believe it or not, down on the previous 12 months, almost 1500 head of the channel migrants arrived were afghans. a very interesting national

breakdown, by the way, which i'll bring to you shortly on the nationalities of people coming across the channel but there are big the number of work big rises in the number of work visas and skilled worker visas , visas and skilled worker visas, the number of health care visas issued was up by a massive 157. there was almost half a million study visas and crucially, more than 150,000 study visas were granted to dependents . and that, granted to dependents. and that, i know, is a huge bone of contention for a lot of people . contention for a lot of people. it's a pick through the noise. it's a pick through the noise. it's deputy political editor tom harwood. tom, thank you very much. mean, this is pretty much. i mean, this is a pretty devastating spreadsheet the devastating spreadsheet for the government. a government government. well a government that it's wants bring that says it's wants to bring down migration . down net migration. >> these aren't good headline numbers , although we must say numbers, although we must say that this is not the net migration figures that we're seeing today. we'll have to wait until november to see the official net migration statistics this gives us an element and an indication of what those might be. these are published quarterly. they're the number of visas issued , the

number of visas issued, the number of visas issued, the number of visas issued, the number of people who have arrived asylum, all arrived and claimed asylum, all those sorts of things. and they do indication actually do give an indication actually one of the indications they give is that the overall net migration number for this year is likely to be lower than last yean is likely to be lower than last year, not because we've got fewer people coming to study or to work, but because we've got fewer, particularly ukrainians and hongkongers coming over in these numbers compared to last year. yeah >> exactly. and you mentioned there about studying the numbers of people coming over on student visas . and i think it gets a lot visas. and i think it gets a lot of people going, doesn't it? the idea of bringing depends idea of them bringing depends it's remember it's over. i can remember heanng it's over. i can remember hearing about was trying to clamp down on this, but it doesn't appear so. well this is, of course, the months to of course, the 12 months to june. anything that has changed >> so anything that has changed and been some policy and there have been some policy tweaks in the last six or so months that won't, of course, affect all of these figures . so affect all of these figures. so the number study visas that the number of study visas that were issued . were 498,626, but were issued. were 498,626, but around one quarter of those 24%

of the study visas didn't go to people who were studying in the united kingdom. they're going to people are classed as people who are classed as dependents people who are dependents of people who are studying the united kingdom . studying in the united kingdom. so if we look at that overall number, 498,000, almost half a million, it's actually a lot lower. it's more like . 350,000 lower. it's more like. 350,000 students and 150,000 dependents. well, we heard gcse results day today. >> we had a—level results day last week, i think it was . it's last week, i think it was. it's all rolled into one for me now, but and that there were but and we know that there were issues with with british students being able to get in certainly to their first choice universities and then through clearing as well. then you clearing as well. and then you look and you look at these numbers and you think, well, that's why. >> ask universities >> well, if you ask universities and the universities of and the universities sort of groups, they will that groups, they will say that they are desperate need of are in desperate need of international students because they pay much more than they pay so much more than british students do . british british students do. british students, of course, are massively subsidised by foreign students . and at a time when students. and at a time when inflation is fairly high. but

tuition fees have stayed frozen, universities are facing a real terms cut in their funding unless they recruit people from overseas . so i don't think we overseas. so i don't think we should be particularly surprised that seeing so many that we're seeing so many overseas students, because that's precisely what the universities have been recruiting for. >> people >> many people will be scratching their heads wondering >> many people will be scratour|g their heads wondering >> many people will be scratour economyzads wondering >> many people will be scratour economy appears|dering >> many people will be scratour economy appears to ring >> many people will be scratour economy appears to be] >> many people will be scratour economy appears to be in why our economy appears to be in such dire straits and stagnant at visas are at best. whilst work visas are up 45. yes it's a huge rise in work visas and particularly the largest rise has been in health and social care. >> new social care visas are more liberal regime of social care visas was instituted in the last 12 months, and so health and social care visas are up by 2.5 times compared to the year before. and that's largely dnven before. and that's largely driven by a social care increase, largely by people of indian origin , people of indian indian origin, people of indian origin. >> that's interesting , isn't it, >> that's interesting, isn't it, really? and we're also seeing family visas up 110, which is i think feeds into the narrative

that people say, which is that if you can make it to britain, then you can just bring your family. >> it certainly does indicate that the government has said that the government has said that it wants to reduce some of the elements of dependence coming over. and there have been some announcements in the last 12 months to that effect , but it 12 months to that effect, but it doesn't seem to be having an overall large effect, at least on these numbers. and we must remember that these numbers are the to june. so not the year to june. so not everything that's changed in the last months will be last six or so months will be filtered last six or so months will be filt> okay. just one more final one. there are a heck of a lot of to get through here. of stats to get through here. this in relation to the small this is in relation to the small boat arrivals from to june boat arrivals from jan to june this . nationalities. okay this year. nationalities. okay afghanistan 1474 under taliban occupation . a lot of people occupation. a lot of people could understand why the people from afghanistan would be maybe wanting to come to britain, iran 921, of course , iran, you know, 921, of course, iran, you know, not exactly a particularly nice place for many people to live . place for many people to live. lots of political refugees, lots of female refugees , one would

of female refugees, one would imagine, although 87% of small boats have been men, boats arrivals have been men, india . for 867 arrivals. india. for 867 arrivals. perplexing india , really, perplexing india, really, because the fifth largest economy in the world got a space program famously. so and yet we've got people fleeing . we've got people fleeing. >> yes, it's interesting because this is the third largest cohort out of those whose nationality we know who are arriving in small boats. now, there are lots of people who arrive on small boats who we don't know the nationality and so they nationality of. and so they don't these don't get classed into these numbers. be numbers. and that might be why some at these some people look at these numbers. for example, 867 indians across in small indians coming across in small boats . is that really the third boats. is that really the third largest nationality coming across would the across? that would make the numbers small . numbers seem relatively small. perhaps it's because a of perhaps it's because a lot of the across, we the people coming across, we don't nationality of don't know the nationality of they passports they throw their passports overseas and the rest of it. overseas and all the rest of it. but but it is interesting to look 867 indians arriving by small boats . india is not small boats. india is not a country that is war torn. it's a democracy . it's a it's a democracy. it's a it's a developing nation becoming ficher

developing nation becoming richer and more scientifically developed. but also curiously , developed. but also curiously, there are lots of legal ways that indians can come to the united kingdom . i mentioned the united kingdom. i mentioned the health and social care route before a plurality of people coming work in health and coming to work in health and social the united social care in the united kingdom indian. does kingdom are indian. so it does sort beg the question why sort of beg the question why would people choose come would people choose to come illegally by small boats when they could get a job in the normal way, as many of their compatriots have done ? compatriots have done? >> interesting, interesting. time will tell . tom harwood time will tell. tom harwood thank much. deputy thank you very much. our deputy political to political editor. i'm going to lob now to the shadow lob us on over now to the shadow immigration minister, stephen kinnock, the kinnock, who says that the government's is in government's asylum policy is in chaos. these new statistics chaos. what these new statistics show is that the government has completely lost control of our immigration system. >> the asylum system is in chaos. 175,000 in the backlog, tens of thousands in hotels costing the taxpayers . £6 costing the taxpayers. £6 million a day and everything in these statistics shows that the number of small boat crossings are also increasing. and on the work based side of migration,

we've got a record number of skilled work visas, which just shows that the government's not doing enough to invest in local skills and employers are reaching too much for migrant labouh >> oh, well, there we go. i mean we've got a labour government, shadow minister there, dennis mcshane, by the way, joins me now. i should have introduced him first. macshane, him first. denis macshane, thank you very, very much. and a labour mp there saying that what we're relying too much on, on migrant labour, what's going on? the world's flipped upside down, isn't it ? he's making that very isn't it? he's making that very good point . good point. >> you were saying a lot >> i mean, you were saying a lot of indians are are they of indians are coming. are they coming of see rishi coming in to sort of see rishi sunak? now the role model sunak? see, now the role model come britain as in india, and come to britain as in india, and you a billionaire you become a billionaire at 20 years later? >> i don't know. >> i don't know. >> all i know is we've got the worst pair of home secretaries. it's not just suella braverman , it's not just suella braverman, it's priti patel. >> before her, we nearly had diane abbott one point, so be diane abbott at one point, so be careful 13 years ago, i mean, >> well, 13 years ago, i mean, you were still at school, so that's to all way you were still at school, so that'sthere. to all way back there. >> diane really wasn't going to come but we just

come home. secretary but we just have you know, there the have got, you know, there the ant and dec. if they were running a football club, they'd have their ear. why have been out on their ear. why are they kept in post? >> it is it is an >> well, it is it is an interesting point, which is that i think if i just bring up a couple of the other stats here because there are so many of them work visas 45. them now, were work visas up 45. and relatively and yet we have a relatively stagnant study visas up stagnant economy study visas up 23. now, i can understand that side of it. it's tom harwood was saying there , it's i think it's saying there, it's i think it's a shame, but universities a shame, but the universities don't of don't want to go out of business. more business. they make more money off i get off foreign students. i can get that. is this that. what i don't get is this back door into britain, which we are yet to slam shut. 24% of dependents as well. increase in the amount of dependents coming oveh the amount of dependents coming over. i mean, there is and then you look at the 110% increase in family visas. you look at the 110% increase in family visas . realistically, at family visas. realistically, at the moment , family visas. realistically, at the moment, if you can get to britain, not only can you stay here, but so can your family. >> but if you are recruiting, as i understand it, i agree with you, we should be training up our people. look at today's our own people. look at today's stats and the number of

apprenticeships are collapsed in all the key areas. building electrician, technicians , it electrician, technicians, it maths. we are not training our people and i don't even know that's not a responsibility of suella braverman, but i don't even know who the education secretary is. gillian keegan yeah. >> oh another one. some days it looks as though she doesn't know who education secretary. looks as though she doesn't know who anotheration secretary. looks as though she doesn't know who anotheration se be tary. looks as though she doesn't know who anotheration se be fired. well, another one to be fired. >> so that's our problem. >> so that's our problem. >> we've just turned our back on training our own people. >> all right. i'm going to read you headline now. okay. and you a headline now. okay. and this is relation care this is in relation to care for calais, a charity that calais, which is a charity that has caused a lot controversy has caused a lot of controversy because huge amount of because they do a huge amount of work the work on the other side of the channelin work on the other side of the channel in camps there in channel in those camps there in the jungle. and then the calais jungle. and then a lot of work with people when they arrive here. they have boasted, you could say recently, about how none of the people that they were helping to support ended up on the bibby stockholm barge. they do a lot of at the migrant hotels . of work at the migrant hotels. they own website appears they their own website appears to indicate that they help people claims, people with legal claims, etcetera, etcetera .

etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. i'm going to read you the headline. was watchdog headline. dennis was watchdog blasts refugee blasts controversial refugee charity care for calais for, quote, serious misconduct involving disgraced founder who, quote, had affair with tunisian migrant pepper sprayed an asylum seeker and threatened to drag a female volunteer by the bleeping hair. not a great day for care for i mean, not a lot of care for i mean, not a lot of care for calais there. i would see. well obviously care for a tunisian asylum seeker. >> i'm not sure if we should have accused every political animal and people who run a charities like that are very political of disgrace just because they have sex. i mean , because they have sex. i mean, we're moving into funny. well, i think the disgrace element was more around the idea that of that £340,000 was paid into a personal bank account. >> they say, in an attempt to save money on foreign exchange. >> looked into this >> well, i looked into this because before coming here, you asked it and i did asked me about it and i did checkit asked me about it and i did check it out . now, i have worked check it out. now, i have worked in france. no secret. i've lived in france. no secret. i've lived in france. no secret. i've lived in france. i've worked in

switzerland. the rip off switzerland. and the rip off charges of english banks, when you transfer money, i mean, forget them not closing down. poor old nigel farage's account . they take so much money out of any body who has to operate in two countries. this lady, who certainly seems a very driven , certainly seems a very driven, if you like, slightly eccentric person , but she did a lot of person, but she did a lot of good , said we can save £3,000, good, said we can save £3,000, stop the banksters getting that money to do good if it goes into an account that i might have in france. now they have said there's not the slightest shred of evidence of any mis approach . creation wasn't done properly . so the blob, i mean, the blob controls the charity commission, like all these public bodies, the blob doesn't like anybody doing anything outside their rules. this woman did. she's resigned. >> it's also it's also more abouti >> it's also it's also more about i get all of that. but it's also more about the way it was run. so apparently it was in breach of the complaints policy. the charity to identify breach of the complaints policy. th manage to identify breach of the complaints policy. th manage conflict entify or manage the conflict of interest or loyalty , which interest and or loyalty, which arose not just, of course,

between the director, claire mosley, but also her sister, who was in a prominent position. her sister apparently apparently was in charge of investigating her as well over various different allegations . apparently, they allegations. apparently, they didn't keep proper records , didn't keep proper records, etcetera. do you know it is a bad look for a charity that increasingly people people fear for is blurring the lines between illegal crossings and then massive amounts of taxpayers money being wasted on the asylum crisis and actual charity work. >> yeah, i don't i don't think that's a fair point. i mean, an iron rule i would say is don't make these things into family businesses that always inevitably goes wrong. i remember ten years ago, i think my daughter very excited. she's half french, so she wanted to go to calais with all of her friends from her uni or maybe even her sixth form, just in those days. it wasn't a sin to be in cali and to come to britain to help with charity

handouts , but it's clearly got handouts, but it's clearly got wrong . it's good rap over the wrong. it's good rap over the knuckles. it's a reminder. our real problem is how do we stop so many people heading for britain? well and some people might say that might say that capital has got quite a big hand in the amount of people coming to britain. that's what needs to be stopped. the answer is fire these useless suella bravermans and priti patel's right . get and priti patel's right. get into it. why do so many other european countries are able to say , send people home straight say, send people home straight away, no messing around. sweden, for example . they are obeying eu for example. they are obeying eu rules . it's a very good country rules. it's a very good country in terms that receive much more generous. we don't have all the hate the swedish press. we hate in the swedish press. we get am going to politely push >> i am going to politely push back a little bit on on how how well is doing with the well sweden is doing with the migrant when you have a migrant crisis. when you have a look and nobody look at how and oh, nobody nobody europe , nobody in nobody in europe, nobody in europe, i travel in europe a lot is doing well with the migrant crisis. it's a global crisis , a >> it's a global crisis, a european crisis. but we do european wide crisis. but we do see the problem. >> the problem with the migrant crisis in sweden not been as

crisis in sweden has not been as a of the swedes as it a result of the swedes as it it's never the result it is. >> we've got kurdish gangs, you've got violent people coming in. there's no question about that. but just processing them . that. but just processing them. i mean, if suella braverman and priti patel have been in charge of recruiting the british army in 1940, we'd still be waiting now to get enough men to cross the channel. i mean, they are useless. get rid of them. come on, stop defending them. all right . right. >> fair enough. dennis, thank you very, very much. i was wondering, i've got to be honest, i was wondering, with my heart mouth a second, heart in my mouth for a second, where were you? you were going with that 1940s analogy, but i think that think you navigated that relatively dennis mcshane think you navigated that relativof' dennis mcshane think you navigated that relativof course dennis mcshane think you navigated that relativof course it nnis mcshane think you navigated that relativof course it is is mcshane think you navigated that relativof course it is importante there, of course it is important to kathakali of course to note that kathakali of course do basically they do say that basically they started out as a very small charity. then the problem got very started very big and they started growing weren't growing hugely and they weren't really for really initially equipped for that. all of the problems that. and all of the problems have been absolutely, unequivocally sorted out. now good. right so the release good. okay. right so the release of today's figures do coincide

with that report, which i've alluded numerous times with with that report, which i've allude macshane.'ous times with with that report, which i've allude macshane. so; times with with that report, which i've alludemacshane. so i'm|es with with that report, which i've alludemacshane. so i'm going h denis macshane. so i'm going to tell up tell you what i've got coming up very, very shortly. we're going to talking, of course, about to be talking, of course, about the latest goings in russia the latest goings on in russia and happening in and indeed what is happening in russia, there russia, because there was a mercenary against vladimir mercenary coup against vladimir putin. that was two months ago, almost to the day, in fact, to the day yesterday. and now it's reported, sid, that you've , reported, sid, that you've, jenny prigozhin, has been killed in a plane crash. initially it was said that that plane was shot down. now it looks it shot down. now it looks like it might now might have blown up. now a potentially have just potentially it could have just been who been technical faults. who knows? hopefully does knows? mark white hopefully does and us very, very and he'll be with us very, very soon. homeland security soon. our homeland security edhoh soon. our homeland security editor, gb editor, patrick christys gb news, britain's news

online gb news. britain's news channel. online gb news. britain's news channel . will welcome back. channel. will welcome back. >> it's 426. you're watching patrick christys on gb news. now in a few moments time i will bnng in a few moments time i will bring you a gb news exclusive on the multi—million pound payout. the of the disgraced former boss of natwest who quit over the nigel farage de—banking scandal and anti ulez protests have been going on for months , but some going on for months, but some people in south—east london have taken it a step further after almost 90% of the cameras were put out of action. but over to russia now and the reported death of wagner group boss yevgeny prigozhin prigozhin was a listed passenger on a plane which crashed north of moscow last night . there were no last night. there were no survivors. it comes two months after he led an aborted mutiny against russia's armed forces. i'm joined by our home and security editor, mark white.

and, mark, i believe you've got some breaking news for us. >> yeah, last about >> yeah, warned last hour about it. information that is it. this information war that is raging in the aftermath of raging now in the aftermath of this crash, very latest is that reuters is reporting that they have spoken to two unnamed us officials and they say that preliminary reports they are working on suggest that this plane was brought down by ground to air missile fired within russia. they stressed that it's preliminary reports , but that preliminary reports, but that they're working on. but that is their belief that it was a ground to air missile fired from inside russia that brought down this plane. now, i talk about an information war because we've also had reports that a pilot that flies for the wagner group actually owns the airline that provides the private jets for the wagner group he is being named as a key suspect by by

russian security sources, someone that they want to speak to . this individual apparently to. this individual apparently had access to the plane on the ground , then disappeared off to ground, then disappeared off to another city in russia. they claim that it was an improvised explosive device placed in the landing gear of this aircraft. and then there's another story doing the rounds that are apparently there's a gifted creative wine that was sent on board this aircraft that somehow exploded at altitude . so take exploded at altitude. so take your pick on the potential scenarios. >> either way . either way, what >> either way. either way, what has happened is that a plane has fallen out of the sky and then we see it on the ground and that everyone on board that plane is believed to be dead. i suppose the question is, is this chap even plane ? even on that plane? >> that's more information >> well, that's more information that's out. the that's coming out. and the difficulty is that russia really controls access to all of the

key questions that we need answered here, because the body, the remains are in their control all. so any tests that are being done on them, they control . and done on them, they control. and the narrative about what they found or they control there is reports that are coming out of moscow suggesting that he has been identified . and yevgeny been identified. and yevgeny prigozhin from from remains that were recovered from the scene. but as i say , all reports coming but as i say, all reports coming from one side, nothing western nafions from one side, nothing western nations can independently verify. unfortunately, one of the things that we can verify, though , is that ukraine managed though, is that ukraine managed to carry out a raid in crimea and actually britain's got a lot to do with this, haven't we? well, potentially we have, yes. this was an operation , ian, that this was an operation, ian, that involved ground and troops, ukrainian ground troops. you can see video now of those ground troops in crimea having been

landed on the beach by by, we think, rigid inflatable hull craft. we understand the operation was to take out an air defence site on within crimea and that according to the ukrainians, it was successful. there was loss of life on the russian side and they managed to inflict significant damage on this facility . now you mentioned this facility. now you mentioned the british angle. we can tell you that within recent months , you that within recent months, this ukrainian special forces , this ukrainian special forces, their marines have been training with the royal marines . and with the royal marines. and indeed, just in recent weeks, the royal marines released this video of them training those ukrainian forces for just the type, we think of beach landing that took place in crimea . yeah, that took place in crimea. yeah, you can see those rigid inflatable coming to the shoreline there and the troops

going through just the kind of scenario that they might be involved in. and i think patrick, the reason that ground troops, even in a modest capacity on the ground in crimea is significant is because until now, we've had kind of stand off attacks on crimea , the likes of attacks on crimea, the likes of attacks on crimea, the likes of attacks on crimea, the likes of attacks on air defence installations , the kursk, ridge, installations, the kursk, ridge, the it links crimea with the mainland as well that has been attacked by drones as from the sea and by missiles as well . so sea and by missiles as well. so stand off attacks . this the stand off attacks. this the first time that we've had troops on the ground. so very significant. >> mark, thank you very much. mark white there. homeland security editor. loads more to come between 5 pm. find come between now and 5 pm. find out in rishi sunak has been out why in rishi sunak has been found breaking the mps found guilty of breaking the mps code and how serious code of conduct and how serious is for our prime minister ? is this for our prime minister? but first, your headlines but first, it's your headlines with . patrick.

with tatiana. patrick. >> thank you and good afternoon. this is the latest from the newsroom . the government says newsroom. 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 the yevgeny prigozhin was one of ten names on the passenger list, but there's been no confirmation that his body is among those recovered . the backlog of asylum recovered. the backlog of asylum cases has hit a record high. more than 175,000 people were waiting for an initial decision on their application at the end of june, the home office says it's doubled spending on asylum in the last year to nearly £4 billion. donald trump is due to surrender himself on charges of trying to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election in georgia. these are live pictures of fulton county jail in georgia , where we're in georgia, where we're expecting him to arrive later. you can get more on all of those

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on. gb news now to a gb news exclusive and ministers could block a payout worth millions of pounds to natwest chief dame alison rose, who quit over the nigel farage de—banking row. >> it was revealed yesterday that dame alison is in line for an exit package worth £2.4 million, while she serves out a 12 month garden leave. now i'm joined by our political editor christopher hope chopper. there you go . i mean, this is just you go. i mean, this is just nice work if you can get it, isn't it really? you know, you can break pretty much loads of rules in the book cause a massive scandal, you know, brief the bbc will wave goodbye to you of your own accord and give you two and a half large on the way out . out. >> well, i've got to call you off on one thing now, patrick. you said break all the rules, and that's the very point that that they're that this inquiry they're looking bank and looking at at coutts bank and natwest, break rules natwest, did she break any rules when that bbc when she spoke to that bbc reporter and then of course the

bbc reporter talked about bbc reporter and talked about nigel details, she nigel farage's bank details, she resigned. whether there's resigned. but whether there's any actual breaking of rules is what inquiry by travis what this inquiry by travis smith , the law firm, looking smith, the law firm, is looking . at earlier, gillian keegan spoke, spoke to reporters, saying that there is some concern and there is some concern and there is some concern in government suggesting real concern amongst the banks. the . they want to look the treasury. they want to look at and there's any, any at this and if there's any, any feeling inquiry has feeling that this inquiry has found some breaking of rules, as you it, and yet pay is you say it, and yet her pay is not docked , then government not docked, then the government can own more than can step in. they own more than a third of the shares. that's us as taxpayers own more the as taxpayers own more than the shares the shares in shares, a third of the shares in natwest . that ministers natwest. that gives ministers significant influence over the company. there's feeling company. so if there's a feeling that punished that they're not really punished . ang dame alison rose for .ang dame alison rose for what's happened there, they will step in. no no, indeed. >> i mean that is to going be an issue. and of course there's another little quite humorous, but concerning to but concerning aspect to the de—banking at the moment de—banking crisis at the moment involving one prolific serial killer . killer. >> that's right. rose west. she's a woman, of course, who

killed ten women and girls jailed in 1995. a different bank called the co—operative bank reviewed its banking arrangements . reviewed its banking arrangements. in reviewed its banking arrangements . in 2014 and reviewed its banking arrangements. in 2014 and found that it should carry on banking. rose west. rose west living at the moment in hmp newhall in yorkshire. you might wonder why she needs to be in a bank if she's in prison. she needs to be in a bank if she's in prison . co—op's motto she's in prison. co—op's motto ethical now and always. patrick well, clearly , clearly, no, well, clearly, clearly, no, absolutely . absolutely. >> yeah. no. and that there's no need for anyone to ever question that at all. just another one political story , really, which political story, really, which is about rishi sunak now, i mean, initially this looks quite concerning, especially in light of the boris johnson ousting, you know , was misleading you know, was misleading parliament or or lies or, you know , ethical behaviour. don't know, ethical behaviour. don't ask the co—op of course, but, but what's going on? what's going on with rishi sunak? i believe he's fallen foul of something, hasn't he ? that's right. >> there's a minor rap on the knuckles for rishi sunak. there are two big interests that they

the register of interests. they have to register these ministers and must put and mps, ministers must put their details into the ministerial register that's ministerial register and that's published once a year. and then of course they also have to register their mps interests . register their mps interests. and often things are the and often the two things are the same sunak he same thing. rishi sunak he passed some big, some big policy earlier this year that helped child care and getting more people more, more mums at home, getting their kids into childcare , giving vouchers. getting their kids into chilc called giving vouchers. getting their kids into chilccalled koru| vouchers. getting their kids into chilccalled koru kids:hers. getting their kids into chilccalled koru kids that's firm called koru kids that's koru kids could have benefited, but also what was not disclosed at the time by mr sunak to mps was his wife, akshata murty had shares in this company. now he had declared that interest in a ministerial register but not in the mps register. that was an inadvertent mistake and the authorities behind me say matters closed. it was inadvertent and patrick therefore no problem. here, move on. >> okay . all right. fair enough. >> okay. all right. fair enough. choppeh >> okay. all right. fair enough. chopper, thank you very much . chopper, thank you very much. christopher hope, our political edhoh christopher hope, our political editor, whizzing through a couple political couple of decent political stories there, as you would expect. yesterday's show expect. now, on yesterday's show

, avoiding , i discussed ways of avoiding the ultra low emission zones right. you could get a tractor. yeah. you could ride around in a classic car. you can even ride around in a tank. well, now it seems that people are taking the law into their own hands ahead of the expansion coming into effect next tuesday. nearly 9 in 10 cameras set to enforce the expanded ulez have been stolen or damaged in south—east london. campaigners say the cameras are being targeted by soul traders who rely on non—commercial giant vans and fear that the charge will force them out of business. so basically the working class fighting back, some would say . fighting back, some would say. joining me now is retired scotland yard detective inspector hamish brown. hamish, thank you very much. so, i mean, look, obviously this is illegal, right ? but i suppose it just right? but i suppose it just shows the strength of public feeling against they would maybe call it righteous civil disobedience. what's your view as a as a copper ? as a as a copper? >> well, good afternoon to you,

patrick. >> that's an interesting introduction. >> yes . yes, certainly. >> yes. yes, certainly. >> yes. yes, certainly. >> emotions run high, don't they, with the environment . they, with the environment. >> and we've had seen that on slavery and people have views . slavery and people have views. >> but as you correctly alluded to, you know, someone goes and smashes up a camera or something like that , they're going to be like that, they're going to be arrested or they commit a crime of criminal damage unless they run off with it . run off with it. >> well, that's stealing. it's theft. i think we understand that. >> and we've seen these sorts of cases go to court with all sorts of protesters , some where the of protesters, some where the courts have been very sympathetic jury verdicts have gone their way. >> others , however, have not. >> others, however, have not. >> others, however, have not. >> and they've ended up in prison. so just bear in mind, this is a crime. prison. so just bear in mind, this is a crime . the police will this is a crime. the police will act and they might find themselves in a little bit of trouble , irrespective of what trouble, irrespective of what their views are. >> and talking of views, you know , there are some people know, there are some people passionate for the environment actually would applaud these

measures and the police of this. i would argue, is the ballot box not taking the law into your own hands ? hands? >>i hands? >> i mean, there is there is an interesting aspect to this, which is that it appears anyway to a lot of people that if you are in favour of extinction rebellion or just stop oil, you can break the law. and a lot of the time you can get away with it. but if you are not in favour of a new charge being enforced by somebody who you may or may not have voted for and that might put you out of business and you decide to stick a sticker across the camera. there's more chance of you getting caught for that. you getting caught for that. do you think suggestion think there's a suggestion the police care more one kind police care more about one kind of the other? of crime than the other? >> no, i think the police will see . see this as a crime. >> there'll be complaint. >> there'll be a complaint. there'll a cost this as well. >> and please bear in mind the people who are nicking the camera or whatever they're doing or smashing them up, they're going to leave wires exposed. >> it's going to be a danger to other people. >> it's going to be a danger to oth so )eople. >> it's going to be a danger to oth so there's a knock on effect

>> so there's a knock on effect as well. yes it's a difficult path. sometimes for the police, whoever they're dealing with . whoever they're dealing with. the more extreme sides, people do have these passionate views , do have these passionate views, but also there is the law to uphold. we must of course, danger to other people. >> we mustn't cause expense to other people. >> and prefer this going >> and i prefer this going through the ballot box , through through the ballot box, through the courts, the criminal the courts, not the criminal courts and having debate there . courts and having debate there. that's what civilised society is all about. >> i mean, it is actually inherently a very. well, i was going to say brave in inverted commas here, brave thing to do to try to damage a camera , to try to damage a camera, because by definition you are going to be caught on that camera, aren't you? so yes , as camera, aren't you? so yes, as your lead picture showed , your lead picture showed, someone doing just that. >> so there might be probably not to going get away with it, basically. >> no, no, look, hamish, look, thank you very, very much . it's thank you very, very much. it's hamish brown there who is a retired scotland yard detective. inspector just retired scotland yard detective. inspectorjust giving his views inspector just giving his views on it. mixed bag on it. on it. mixed mixed bag on it. ultimately, course, ultimately, it is, of course, a crime can't condone crime. but you can't condone

things vandalism or theft things like vandalism or theft in some cases, and wanton destruction of property, criminal damage all of criminal damage and all of that stuff but to have 90% of the stuff. but to have 90% of the cameras in a specific part of the area where they're going to roll out ulez, that really does show , i think, anyway, the show, i think, anyway, the strength of public feeling against it . and at what point against it. and at what point will it become untenable to have those cameras there? i mean, if they're getting bumped much they're getting bumped off much faster anyone can replace faster than anyone can replace them, know, is that not them, you know, is that not a visible sign? and then i suppose the other side of this is that, again, it's just more money for the taxpayer, isn't it? because the taxpayer, isn't it? because the taxpayer, isn't it? because the taxpayer will have paid for those the those cameras and the enforcement policy, enforcement of the policy, presumably pay the presumably will pay for the repairs then repairs of them. and then presumably as well, might presumably as well, we might have for some have to pay legal aid for some of find of the people who find themselves court having themselves in court having done it. there we the it. so anyway, there we go. the bbc from bbc has come under attack from one stars . one of its biggest stars. documentary louis theroux documentary maker louis theroux says that avoids covering says that it avoids covering difficult subjects because it's scared of being criticised and causing offence, which is not something that particularly seems to bother me. patrick

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sunday mornings from 930 on gb news is . welcome back. news is. welcome back. >> it's 448. you are watching patrick christys on gb news at five. i will have the latest immigration figures as the asylum backlog hits a record high. but the bbc has come under attack from one of its biggest stars documentary maker louis

theroux says that it avoids covering difficult subjects because it's scared of being criticised . criticised. >> but i wonder if there is something else going on as well and that the very laudable aims of not giving offence have created an atmosphere of anxiety that sometimes leads to less confident, less morally complex filmmaking . filmmaking. >> yeah, or just not caring about whether or not you offend about whether or not you offend a certain type of person, but being absolutely terrified of offending a different type of person. maybe joining me now is former bbc reporter and the author of can we trust the bbc, robin atkin. robin, thank you very , very do think very, very much. do you think the so crippled by fear the bbc is so crippled by fear that it swerved certain topics? do you think louis theroux has got a point? has he ? got a point? has he? >> well, i think you made the point actually, patrick, and it's one i wholly agree with . it's one i wholly agree with. look, the bbc doesn't care about offending people like me . it offending people like me. it doesn't offend. it doesn't care

about perhaps offending people like you. what it cares about is offending people who it thinks are like itself. i mean , it's are like itself. i mean, it's the bbc tiptoe around a particular set of issues which are dear to its heart and dear to the heart of many of its supporters. but it doesn't. it doesn't mind at all about offending people who come if you like, from a socially conservative point of view, which i do , you know, indeed. which i do, you know, indeed. >> i mean, there are two sides to this. there's the kind of slightly humorous side for me where like i was on iplayer last night and i was having a look through some of their documentaries. there's some very good i mean, good stuff on there. i mean, undoubtedly very, undoubtedly there is some very, very there right? undoubtedly there is some very, very if there right? undoubtedly there is some very, very if you there right? undoubtedly there is some very, very if you look|ere right? undoubtedly there is some very, very if you look a'e right? undoubtedly there is some very, very if you look a lot ght? undoubtedly there is some very, very if you look a lot oft? but then if you look a lot of especially content especially bbc three's content and things, is just and other things, it is just like a bingo card of a variety of different woke issues presented a smorgasbord of presented by a smorgasbord of different people who all seem to be the boxes. right. be ticking the boxes. right. and it seem to be that it does just seem to be that that seems to be me how

that seems to be for me how their ideas meetings go , which their ideas meetings go, which is how many boxes can we tick with of content? with this piece of content? let's something about that. let's make something about that. but then there is the side but then there is the other side of actually of it, which is actually i think, quite concerning when you look at how they didn't really properly report certain stories like grooming gangs, british, pakistani grooming, gangs, for example. so you've got two example. and so you've got two different sides of a fence there not caused. one, they want not being caused. one, they want to virtue signal and therefore protect themselves from criticism from other people. but also, i think in some ways maybe distort the facts or the reality, because that's an uncomfortable topic for them that they to criticised that they want to be criticised for. kind of for. so we've got to kind of pincer movement here. >> absolutely >> yeah, you're absolutely right. i mean , what this goes to right. i mean, what this goes to is the heart of what the bbc is. you've got to understand what kind of an organisation the bbc is and what its core values are. now you use the term woke and i think it goes back to when we used to call this stuff political , correct stuff. when i political, correct stuff. when i was working at the bbc, it was

quite clear that there were issues that the bbc would not coveh issues that the bbc would not cover. i'll give you an example. when i was a reporter back in the 1990s, there was there were alarming statistics about street crime in london. this was muggings. now . and the truth is muggings. now. and the truth is that most muggings in london at that most muggings in london at that time were carried out by black youths and the bbc. i know this because i complained about this because i complained about this very subject to them . they this very subject to them. they would not report the fact that there were particular groups who were inordinately responsible for that level of crime . at the for that level of crime. at the same time , the bbc was outraged same time, the bbc was outraged by so called stop and search. now you know, you can put those two things together very simply and you can see why the cops

would want to use stop and search when there was a high level of street crime . but the level of street crime. but the idea of stop and search and particularly of what we now call racial profiling is absolutely verboten as far as the bbc is concerned, even though it's so obviously the case. you know, i mean, it's a that's an example . mean, it's a that's an example. i mean, that's going back in time a while. but the example you use about grooming gangs and the bbc tiptoed around that subject and it had to be absolutely led by the nose as to report that subject . i mean, it report that subject. i mean, it happens on a daily basis. i was listening to the bbc just yesterday and, you know, they were they were talking about at the boats coming across the channel and in incredibly sympathetic tone was used on reporting that subject as if,

okay, we might all feel sorry for people who are forced into that situation. but, you know, there's a reality here which the bbc does not report. and it's just evidence of a deep set bias within the corporation. that's what it comes down to. it's as simple as that . simple as that. >> well, robin, it's strong stuff and it's one of the reasons why we get you on. we're certainly not afraid of offending people or tackling controversial topics and i hope it stays way. robin it always stays that way. robin atkin former atkin there, of course, former bbc reporter and author of can we trust the bbc? look, doubt we trust the bbc? look, no doubt the course , will say the bbc, of course, will say they've a difficult job they've got a very difficult job to do. and they're offending to do. and if they're offending both argument, then both sides of the argument, then hey, are actually hey, maybe they are actually doing can doing something right. you can make about make your own minds up about that, can't you? but the number of to uk that, can't you? but the number of hit to uk that, can't you? but the number of hit highest to uk that, can't you? but the number of hit highest level» uk that, can't you? but the number of hit highest level in uk that, can't you? but the number of hit highest level in twok has hit the highest level in two decades. the government has got its biggest ever asylum seeker backlog. for me, of the backlog. for me, some of the more interesting on this more interesting figures on this are the nationalities of who people coming across the people are coming across the channel and the amount of channel are and the amount of student and their student visas and their dependents. we're accepting.

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gb news. >> good evening . it's 5 gb news. >> good evening. it's 5 pm. it's patrick christys is gb news news and record after record after record. the latest immigration figures have dropped record asylum backlog, record cost , huge record asylum backlog, record cost, huge increase in the number of student visas , huge number of student visas, huge increase in the number of dependents as well. be picking through those figures very shortly. other big story shortly. the other big story today , course, this today, of course, is this russian warlord killed , russian warlord killed, apparently if goni prigozhin has supposedly been killed in a plane crash in russia. we will have updates on that because frankly, the keeps frankly, the story keeps changing what may or may

changing as to what may or may not actually happened to not have actually happened to him. have the latest. him. we'll have the latest. growing calls well a un growing calls as well from a un judge to say that britain should be paying not millions , not be paying not millions, not billions, trillions of pounds in slavery reparations. where do you stand on all of that? and i wonder how long it's going to be before the irish community starts piping up and saying that we owe something well. we owe them something as well. why always just africa and why is it always just africa and the caribbean? why not pay the world we're and world while we're at it? and finally, this one as well for you yes, dodges you this hour. yes, harry dodges william uk . i william whilst in the uk. i wonder what it will take for those two brothers to make up and where is meghan markle's engagement ring? patrick christys news . gb views. the christys dup news. gb views. the gbnews.com is that email address? make sure you get in touch loads of top topics to go out there. i will be firing on all cylinders after your bulletins with tatiana . patrick.

bulletins with tatiana. patrick. >> thank you very much and good afternoon. 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 crash . 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 on that. his body is among those recovered , and his mercenary recovered, and 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 . meanwhile, brass two months ago. meanwhile, ukraine's navy and military conducted a special operation overnight in russian occupied crimea . officials say a drone crimea. officials say a drone destroyed a russian long—range anti aircraft missile system. yesterday. president vladimir zelenskyy vowed to end russia's occupation of crimea . gb news gb occupation of crimea. gb news gb news understands the government is looking to block the former natwest chief executive's multi—million pound payout. dame alison rose quit after it emerged. she talked about nigel

farage as finances to a journalist. her actions are being independently investigated and the treasury says it will decide whether to take action if any wrongdoing is found and the board doesn't cut her £2.4 million severance package . the million severance package. the backlog of asylum cases has hit a new record high. more than 175,000 people were waiting for an initial decision on their 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 europe has seen a similar rise, adding that it's doubled spending on asylum in the last year. doubled spending on asylum in the last year . to nearly £4 the last year. to nearly £4 billion. a former couple have been jailed for the murder of an electrician in wigan. michael hillier and rachel fulstow shot liam smith in the face. then covered him in acid in november last year, hillier was sentenced to at least 33 years in prison . to at least 33 years in prison. fulstow, who met the victim on a dating app, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 30 years. detective inspector lee shaw

spoke on behalf of the family after sentencing . after sentencing. >> liam was more than just a family member to us. he was our rock , our liam. he had the rock, our liam. he had the biggest and most kind hearted soul and would literally do anything for anyone . but we are anything for anyone. but we are always asking ourselves why did this happen to liam ? why do his this happen to liam? why do his two boys now have to live with the knowledge that their loving father was taken away from them in the most barbaric of circumstances ? circumstances? >> donald trump's due to surrender himself on charges of trying to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election in georgia . these are live shots in georgia. these are live shots outside the fulton county jail , outside the fulton county jail, where we're expecting trump to arrive later. he's facing dozens of criminal charges and will go on trial several times in the next 18 months. even as he campaigned to become president again in the 2024 election. his former lawyer , rudy giuliani, former lawyer, rudy giuliani, surrendered yesterday . the

surrendered yesterday. the justice secretary has ordered an independent public inquiry into the case of a man who was wrongly jailed. andrew malkinson spent 17 years in prison for a rape he did not commit. he had his 2003 conviction overturned by the court in july following new dna evidence potentially linking another man to the crime lord. chancellor alex chalk says the inquiry will also address how the case was handled . how the case was handled. >> andy malkinson suffered an appalling miscarriage of justice as indeed, by the way , did the as indeed, by the way, did the victim of this dreadful crime . victim of this dreadful crime. >> and that's why i've ordered an independent inquiry that will look at the actions the look at the actions of the police. the cps and the ccrc to get to the bottom of what went wrong and crucially, why it took so long for the truth to come out. >> so andy malkinson , who has >> so andy malkinson, who has conducted himself with extreme , conducted himself with extreme, ordinary dignity in the circumstances he deserves answers. >> and this inquiry will deliver them . them. >> patients are being warned of severe delays as consultants in

england strike for two days. routine hospital care is expected to come to a standstill, with nhs leaders anticipating major disruption . anticipating major disruption. the british medical association also announced medics will go on strike in late september and early october , as the unions early october, as the unions dispute over pay continues. health secretary steve barclay says an increase has already been agreed with , accepted in been agreed with, 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 . 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, thatis 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 the most generous pensions in the public sector . so we've the public sector. 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 year but remains 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. this year compared with last year . and finally, london zoo year. and finally, london zoo staging its annual weigh in penguins, tigers and gorillas are among the 14,000 animals being measured by zookeepers over the next year . every being measured by zookeepers over the next year. every mammal bird, reptile fish is being monitored . the zoo says keeping monitored. the zoo says keeping records helps ensure every creature that's cared for is eating well and growing at the rate it should . this is gb news rate it should. this is gb news across the uk on tv , in your across the uk on tv, in your car, on digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play gb news us now it's back to . patrick >> we start with today's

immigration figures and the number of asylum applications to the uk has hit the highest level in two decades. as the government is now facing. on top of that is biggest ever asylum backlog, more than 175,000 people waiting for an initial decision on their application to stay in the uk. so gb news viewers will be able to see some of the migrants who arrived in dover today. some of the 19,000 who have crossed the channel in small boats. this year alone, a huge number of those migrants will today's will be included in today's figures, which are the 12 months up to june . but i want to break up to june. but i want to break it down for you a little bit more. let's look at some of the key figures come out today, key figures to come out today, shall said, the shall we? so as i just said, the headune shall we? so as i just said, the headline figure that more headline figure is that more than 175,000 migrants are waiting decision on waiting for a decision on whether or not they can stay . whether or not they can stay. that, in case you are wondering, is an increase of 44% on last yeah is an increase of 44% on last year, which is staggering really , and the number of albanians applying for asylum has increased by 52% in exactly 1000 small boats were detected .

small boats were detected. that's, believe it or not, down on the previous 12 months, almost 1500 of the channel migrants arrivals were afghans. an astonishing number of indians as well. and there are big rises in the number of work visas and skilled work visas. the number of health care visas issued was up of health care visas issued was ”p by of health care visas issued was up by a massive 157. there was almost half a million study visas and crucially , more than visas and crucially, more than 150,000 study visas were granted to dependents . i am 150,000 study visas were granted to dependents. i am joined 150,000 study visas were granted to dependents . i am joined now to dependents. i am joined now by our deputy political editor, tom harwood . tom, i mean, the tom harwood. tom, i mean, the standout one there. i suppose, is the asylum seeker backlog and the cost of it . the cost of it. >> absolutely. and the backlog is growing. it's not shrinking, of course , the government wants of course, the government wants to get rid of that backlog. but now standing at over 175,000, although if you speak to people from the government, what they might tell you is actually more people now being processed people are now being processed than any previous point, the than at any previous point, the number being processed and given decisions is actually up. it's just the number arriving is

dwarfing that. so even though more people are getting decisions, more quickly than in previous years , the number who previous years, the number who are arriving is higher than that. and therefore it's just not keeping pace with the inflow. >> no, indeed . i mean, the other >> no, indeed. i mean, the other aspects of it, i think really as well is about the number of student visas, which is , again, student visas, which is, again, quite startling. so in the year ending june 20, 23, there . were ending june 20, 23, there. were 498,626 sponsored study visas . 498,626 sponsored study visas. that's 23% more than the year ending before. and remarkably, 142,848 of them were given to indian nationals , an increase of indian nationals, an increase of 54. yes >> so to make it simple, we'll just call it sort of half a million, give or take 2000, half a million study visas issued in the 12 months to june . but of the 12 months to june. but of those, 150,000 were not to

students . they were to the students. they were to the dependents of students . so dependents of students. so actually only 350,000 to people coming to study , 150,000 to coming to study, 150,000 to people who are dependents of those coming to study , i.e. what those coming to study, he what might be described as more normal migrants. that's about a quarter of that figure, which is a very interesting breakdown. and given that the government has promised to cut down on dependents coming sort of piggybacking off the back of student visas , it will be student visas, it will be interesting to see if this is something that changes as the further quarterly numbers come out, because the government did want to change policy there. >> people might look at >> a lot of people might look at this we >> a lot of people might look at thi have we >> a lot of people might look at thi have a we >> a lot of people might look at thi have a crisis we >> a lot of people might look at thi have a crisis in we >> a lot of people might look at thi have a crisis in the we >> a lot of people might look at thi have a crisis in the channel/e do have a crisis in the channel because it does not appear to be that to into that difficult to get into britain bring britain and stay here and bring your family . but just referring your family. but just referring to what is going in the to what is going on in the channel the channel as well. the nationalities interesting , nationalities are interesting, aren't there? aren't they a breakdown there? afghans iranians again , an afghans iranians again, an interesting number of indians coming over, which is a big surprise. we're looking to another bumper trade with another bumper trade deal with them now. they've fired them now. they've just fired

something off the south pole something to off the south pole of the moon, they ? and of the moon, haven't they? and yet over across the channel. >> it's interesting . india, of >> it's interesting. india, of course, is a dynamic developing economy becoming a rich country, one that we really do want to have close trade links with and actually the number of indians coming across by legal routes is quite high. you mentioned the number of students , but also number of students, but also particularly in health and social care visas. it's the largest single nationality of people coming over to work in the health and social care sector. they are coming from india. so people might raise an eyebrow at why so many indians are coming across in small boats. what would be the point? the point in doing that? india is not a war torn country. why would they be, quote unquote claiming asylum in the united kingdom when if they wanted to sort of get a work route in, they could work in the nhs , they they could work in the nhs, they could work in the social care sector. they could come sector. they could even come to study our study at one of our universities. but people who are coming boats coming across on small boats haven't those routes. it

haven't chosen those routes. it does wonder why. but of does make you wonder why. but of course that's the third largest nationality. other than afghans, iranians iraqis who some iranians and iraqis who some might argue had more legitimate claim to claim the don't knows as well. >> and that is a big thing as well. there is a huge don't know factor when it comes to a lot of the channel migrants just for the channel migrants just for the overarching political reaction , clearly it's the overarching political rea(great , clearly it's the overarching political rea(great news , clearly it's the overarching political rea(great news forlearly it's the overarching political rea(great news for rishi it's the overarching political rea(great news for rishi sunak . not great news for rishi sunak. labour jumped it a bit, labour have jumped on it a bit, haven't they, and said we've got a reliance on foreign labour, which know, of people which you know, a lot of people scoffed at really given who was saying but the, the saying it. but yeah, the, the overarching political reaction to it is interesting because this is a good news day for this is not a good news day for the government. this is not a good news day for the you ernment. this is not a good news day for the you can1ent. quite big >> you can see in quite big detail some of the what some might describe as policy failures of the government or at least mismatch between least a mismatch between government rhetoric and government rhetoric and government policy, especially when looking at the legal when we're looking at the legal migration routes . when we're looking at the legal migration routes. this is specific policy we've got a huge increase in the number of people coming social coming to work in the social care sector. that's because there specific there was a specific liberalisation to the social care recruitment call

care visa, a recruitment call went government that was went out for government that was a response specific policy . a response to specific policy. see, now, that doesn't quite match the government's rhetoric of down of wanting to bring down numbers, does match their numbers, but it does match their policy. it's a really policy. so it's a really interesting conversation, but perhaps biggest perhaps it's not the biggest political that the political hit that the government will take because buned government will take because buried these is buried in these numbers is a much, much lower figure for some of these asylum application grants going out. many fewer ukrainians, many fewer hongkongers than last year. ukrainians, many fewer hongkongers than last year . so hongkongers than last year. so when overall net migration figures come out in november , figures come out in november, it's likely that we'll have a lower net migration number for this year than we saw last year. >> yeah, indeed. and that will be something that the government is desperately hoping to cling on harwood thank you on to. tom harwood thank you very much, our deputy political editor a fantastic job editor doing a fantastic job of wheeling you through an incredible data there incredible amount of data there . with me now is incredible amount of data there .with me now is kim incredible amount of data there . with me now is kim rye, incredible amount of data there .with me now is kim rye, a local journalist from kent. kim, thank you very, very much . great thank you very, very much. great to have you on the show. the record asylum backlog . i'm just

record asylum backlog. i'm just having a look at the bottom of my screen there. 175,457 migrants currently waiting for an asylum decision. what do you make of that ? make of that? >> well, there are all sorts of strands to this. and what i particularly wanted to bring up was what another item of news today. was what another item of news today . care for calais? today. care for calais? >> yes , care for kelly. >> yes, care for kelly. >> yes, care for kelly. >> the charity who have just been found by the charities commission of been guilty of serious mis conduct and yet they're still going to be allowed to operate . i've seen allowed to operate. i've seen them on the beach in action. i've seen them as soon as the migrants disembark the lifeboat, they are there at the front between the migrants and the police handing over gift bags. i haven't seen them this year doing it at dungeness because there have been fewer landings at dungeness, but they were certainly doing it last year and ihave certainly doing it last year and i have sent some footage to you of this and i want to know why they're still operating, because what i see is the police stand

and watch while they give gift bags to the migrants who have not yet been searched . and not yet been searched. and sometimes i've seen them boarded on coach without having been searched at all. this is a serious security issue and nobody is doing anything about it. i've been trying to get this in the news now for over over a year or perhaps two years. but obviously now it's come out in the news today and it is topical. that's why i'm raising it . it. >> okay. okay. yeah, i'm i'm just going to say again, so when i think initially the reports broke, i saw them this morning about watchdog blasting care for calais. i'll be honest with you, i had assumed that it might have been something to do with what are they doing to facilitate the transportation of people across the channel? is there something underhand on? it comes underhand going on? if it comes to legal advice to giving people legal advice and helping to aid and abet essentially human trafficking, etcetera, it's actually it's not that.isit etcetera, it's actually it's not that. is it the what the

watchdog have gone after them for is a financial issues basically . but these, they say, basically. but these, they say, have been resolved. they said serious misconduct and mismanagement . that was in mismanagement. that was in relation to claire mosley. she was paid around £340,000 into a personal bank account. so that they say they were looking to avoid foreign exchange fees. there also not a proper there was also not a proper complaints policy so that when complaints policy so that when complaints were made, they were investigated, to investigated, just according to what here by what i'm reading here by her sister, example , there were sister, for example, there were also that threatened also claims that she threatened to around by the to drag someone around by the bleeping hair and also pepper sprayed a refugee in self defence as well. grief. so the story, the headline initially , i story, the headline initially, i think, could have been seen as a bit misleading. and i understand that kathakali say, well, look , that kathakali say, well, look, we were a small charity initially and the need for us grew massively , therefore we grew massively, therefore we weren't on top of our books, etcetera . they say they've etcetera. they say they've sorted out, but what you're sorted it out, but what you're alluding an issue that alluding to is an issue that i think a lot of people do care about, which is whether or not groups a bit like care for

calais are helping with the flow of people across the channel >> all right. well the other strand of that investigation was safeguarding issues. you can quite clearly see that on the charities commission website and i drew attention a long time ago to a few parts of the media of a newspaper article that appeared in in june last year in a newspaper, a french newspaper called la voix du nord, which i think means the voice of the north, in which and you can look this up because i'm looking at the link right now and one of their operators was clearly very clearly said . i'm their operators was clearly very clearly said. i'm going to their operators was clearly very clearly said . i'm going to have clearly said. i'm going to have to keep i'm afraid . to keep i'm afraid. >> i'm afraid i've got to look. kim i am very sorry about this, but i've got to cut in because we've got some breaking news. i will have you back on and we'll happily finish this conversation. kim, it's kim rydeh conversation. kim, it's kim ryder, journalist ryder, who's a local journalist from kent. i do have some breaking now. breaking for news you now. president putin has commented on the group the death of wagner group boss evgeny prigozhin . for the first evgeny prigozhin. for the first time, mark white joins me in the

studio now, security editor. well, the first confirmation really the very highest really from the very highest possible russian military , possible russian military, russian government source, the president ant that yevgeny prigozhin is dead . prigozhin is dead. >> vladimir putin speaking . to >> vladimir putin speaking. to russia, 24, has said that he sends his condolences to yevgeny . precautions family now , quite . precautions family now, quite what the family will make of those condolences from the man that many people, especially in the west, actually believe may have ordered the death of yevgeny prigozhin. i'm not quite sure vladimir putin goes on to say, i've known prigozhin since the 90s. he was a talented businessman . well, yes, i think businessman. well, yes, i think he's certainly had some talents . this was a man who was jailed in 1981 for robbery and theft. he then came out of prison and

ran a hot dog stand. but soon after that, he was actually running a top restaurant in russia. so clearly there was some talent, but the talents led him in the direction of actually running the biggest mercenary group in russia that that has been responsible, according to western officials , for some western officials, for some pretty horrific atrocities around the world. but president putin also talking about the investigation mission. he said we will look into what investigators say may be the cause is of the inside . isn't cause is of the inside. isn't the crash of this air aeroplane that he said that may take some time to get that expert analysis. of course, this follows other breaking news just in the last hour that reuters was reporting to us officials

speaking anonymously and saying that they believe the preliminary analysis shows that this was ground to air missile , this was ground to air missile, a ground to air missile fired from within russia at this aircraft as it headed toward saint petersburg. >> okay. so again, we've had relatively recently a claim of it being a ground to air missile, which flies in the face of the claim that landed about an hour and a half ago, which appeared to suggest that maybe it was some kind of explosive device that was planted in the landing also landing gear, which also contradicts a claim that it might have been exploding box might have been an exploding box of . but now we have of wine. but now we do have vladimir putin sending his condolences to the prigozhin's family, which would appear to indicate this is as close as we've got to actual confirmation that prigozhin is dead, isn't it? >> yeah. welcome to russia that thrives on disinformation. and of course , this if western

of course, this if western analysts and governments are right and actually the finger of blame does point directly at the kremlin, then clearly they need a back story . one story that's a back story. one story that's currently emerging is that this pilot that flies for the wagner group that actually owns the airline, that provides the private jets for the wagner group, is a prime suspect, someone they want to speak to that had access to this jet when it was on the ground prior to its departure to and may have planted or at least been knowledgeable about. not as far as we know. again it's kind of these are reports that come out on telegram channels linked to law enforcement agencies in russia. it's all very you know, there's so many different messages that come out. we have to have, you know, take a step back and be a bit circumspect about some of the reports that are coming out. but, of course,

yes , i think the breaking news yes, i think the breaking news this hour, which is important, just reiterate , is that for just to reiterate, is that for the first time, the head of the russian government, the president, vladimir putin, has effectively confirmed aimed that yevgeny prigozhin died in this aircraft by sending his condolences , his to the family, condolences, his to the family, despite being a prime suspect in the killing . the killing. >> bryant mark, thank you very much. mark wight there. our home and security editor. right. i've got a little bit more breaking news for you now. detectives investigate fighting the fire at the crooked house pub in henley in the west midlands have arrested two men. the pub was burnt down on the 5th of august. a 66 year old man from dudley and a 33 year old man from milton keynes have been arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life. they remain in custody today and are being questioned by officers whilst the investigation continues. so a significant

development now in the case of the crooked house pub . more on the crooked house pub. more on that, of course, as we get it. but prince harry is set to visit the uk next month on the eve of the uk next month on the eve of the anniversary of the queen's death, but he's not expected to meet his father and his brother . but massive questions are growing now. where is meghan markle ? they seem to be spending markle? they seem to be spending quite a lot of time apart, don't they? and crucially, where on earth is their engagement ring? patrick christys. gb news, britain's

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news. the people's channel, britain's news. channel >> welcome back. 5:27 pm. you're watching patrick christys on gb news a little later this houh on gb news a little later this hour, we will debate whether the uk should pay reparations for its part in the slave trade . as its part in the slave trade. as one respected judge claims, we owe more than $18 trillion. i think they can swivel , owe more than $18 trillion. i think they can swivel, don't you? prince harry will return to the uk next month, but he's not expected to see his brother or father during the stay. the duke of sussex is set to make an appearance at an event for the wellchild september , wellchild charity in september, one day before the first anniversary of the death of the queen. joining me now to discuss this is prince harry's biographer , angela levin. biographer, angela levin. angela, thank you very much. as talk of mystery. hello, angela. so mystery surrounding why meghan markle's engagement ring is where meghan markle is. why are they doing separate things all of a sudden ? i just wonder, all of a sudden? i just wonder, do you think if they did get divorced and harry apologised,

everyone would forgive him ? not everyone would forgive him? not immediately . immediately. >> i think it would take time and he would have to apologise a great deal for saying all these dreadful things he has and a lot of which were totally untrue too. but his father, his only brother, who he told me that they couldn't be more close , they couldn't be more close, who's the only person he trusted ? his his sister in law who he said was the sister he'd always wanted , camilla, who he'd said wanted, camilla, who he'd said was a very nice woman. he felt sorry for what she had to deal with. >> i, him and william know all that. >> and of course , you know his >> and of course, you know his father, the king it's been shocking and opening up all the families sort of secrets, which nobody should actually reveal to the world. shocking behaviour . the world. shocking behaviour. yeah, but i think that the royal family are now moving on. you know, he doesn't want to be part of them. the tears are over and

they are getting on with things and i think that they are including william and catherine, very strongly with all the things that they do and they believe in the same things. and they've both been really hurt. all four of them have been very hurt . so it's working very well i >> -- >> do you think that there should have been some attempt whilst harry's in the uk to actually have a moment of reconciliation or at least maybe a photograph together or something? >> well , king something? >> well, king charles and queen camilla are up in scotland . camilla are up in scotland. they're taking the first year after bin elizabeth's death very quietly . and people are going to quietly. and people are going to visit them. so they're that way . and carrot for william and catherine are going to wales to go to a church that queen elizabeth liked to go to a great deal elizabeth liked to go to a great deal. and in that way , now he's

deal. and in that way, now he's prince of wales . he can actually prince of wales. he can actually see people and do that. whether they're doing it deliberately . they're doing it deliberately. lee so that they avoid. harry i wouldn't be surprised . wouldn't be surprised. >> so do you think that part of it genuinely could be that they are trying to avoid harry whilst he's in the uk? no not at all. >> i think one of the reasons is, is that harry's all the time asking for apologies. i think if you look through and i don't suspect you will, but i sort of told myself to do it in his book spare. you see, there are hundreds of things that he wants apologies for and i just don't think they want to get into that argument . you know, if harry argument. you know, if harry said something like, look, please forgive me, let's draw a line on it, let let's move forward. it's not as clinging on to this negative lifestyle. and that's one reason. what do you think, angela? >> angela, what do you think?

what do you think the latest is when comes to him and meghan? when it comes to him and meghan? because doing numbers because they are doing numbers of meghan of things separately. so meghan apparently not to the apparently is not going to the invictus been there invictus games. she's been there before. apparently she's not in the for it. the promo for it. >> going there . >> she's going there. >> she's going there. >> she's going there. >> she is now going. she is now going. right. okay. it's hard to keep to be honest with you. keep up, to be honest with you. so. as far as so. so that would be a as far as recent times are concerned, a relatively rare joint appearance for wouldn't it ? for them, wouldn't it? >> yes. it's the first for >> yes. it's the first time for over three months. she's over three months. but she's going to give a talk, i.e. lecture on courage and things like that. >> wait a minute. hang on a minute. i'm so sorry to interrupt immediately, but meghan is going to give meghan markle is going to give a lecture on courage to a load of people who have been wounded in battle for their countries with courage and resilience. >> those are the two things that have been said. yes, i to . love have been said. yes, i to. love and when you see that when she walked around , she had a patch walked around, she had a patch on her arm which keeps her calm with all the things that she has to cope with. well, you know ,

to cope with. well, you know, you could laugh if it wasn't so terrible, but she's going to go there. harry's going to do the last speech, but she's going there right at the end. she won't be there all the time. what i think is going on is that anything negative, harry, has to do in his own you might do in his own when you might need things are need a partner, when things are difficult . felt like courts difficult. felt like the courts and like the coronation and like trying to promote his book. your partner should be there because they help you psychologically and physically. all that. she's not there. but meghan , i think not there. but meghan, i think because of these new pr people, it's all upbeat, it's all wonderful, all the things she's going to do, a lot of which just die a death, but it keeps her going that she's fantastic. she's got a tig , she's going to she's got a tig, she's going to do a film. she's going to be politician. you know, you couldn't up it. so couldn't keep up with it. so she's just going there to help the poor victims of injury. i think. >> i think there's a few. i think there's a few people who will quite like her to become an astronaut, actually. but, angela, thank you very, very

much, as ever. angela levin there harry's there and prince harry's biographer . there and prince harry's biographer. right. there and prince harry's biographer . right. okay. there and prince harry's biographer. right. okay. loads more between now more still to come between now and will debate and 6 pm. we will debate whether should give money to whether we should give money to countries to apologise for our role in the slave trade. hundreds of years ago. not just a bit of money by the way. trillions, now it's your trillions, but now it's your headunes trillions, but now it's your headlines ellie costello . headlines with ellie costello. >> patrick, thank you. it's 533. i'm ellie costello in the gb newsroom . russia's president newsroom. russia's president putin has sent his condolences to the family of the wagner group leader who was reportedly killed in a plane crash north of moscow yesterday . he described moscow yesterday. he described yevgeny prigozhin as a talented businessman who he's known since the 90s. the mercenary boss was one of the ten people named on the jets passenger list. detectives investigated the fire at the crooked house pub in himley have arrested two men on suspicion of arson with intent

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solar proud sponsors of weather on . on. gb news. >> here's a question for you. do you think that we should have to pay you think that we should have to pay money because of this country's role in the slave trade hundreds of years ago? one respected judge thinks so. and not only that , sir patrick not only that, sir patrick robinson says that we should pay more . than £18.8 trillion. more. than £18.8 trillion. i mean , look, even people surely mean, look, even people surely even people who think we should be paying money for reparations can't seriously think that it should be £188 trillion. members of the royal family, including the prince and princess of wales, were met with protests demanding reparations when they visited the caribbean last year. one that will last year. one area that i will say that this this judge who works at the united nations is right, that calls for right, is that calls for reparations are not going away.

calls for reparations are getting louder. calls for some kind of historic compensation. the they are getting louder. okay whether or not we should do that, someone emailed in earlier on actually to me that the on actually to tell me that the calls to swivel, calls to tell them to swivel, they put quite as they didn't put it quite as nicely are also getting nicely as that. are also getting louder. and that's certainly the camp am in. royal camp that i am in. but royal broadcaster and commentator rafe heydel—mankoo me now. heydel—mankoo joins me now. ralph, thank you very , very ralph, thank you very, very much. lovely background there. ralph fantastic. well, what do you think about this? and £18 trillion for reparations . you're trillion for reparations. you're laughing. go on. why >> well, it's absolutely absurd , isn't it? >> i mean, it amounts to actually the entire globe's gdp thatis actually the entire globe's gdp that is being asked to be paid over here. we have to say. all right, this chap is a judge at the at the icj. but this is not an actual ruling of the icj. he's not speaking or making a statement on behalf of the icj or in that capacity . or in that capacity. >> this man is an activist. he's from the caribbean and he has been a leading activist for reparations for jamaica and

elsewhere for a long, long time. >> so this man is not making a politically neutral statement when he when he says all of this. >> and it also, you know, we have to ask questions, you know, since when do we pay for the sins of our forebears? >> example , you know, >> for example, you know, there were only 3000 slave owners in britain. >> the vast majority of people in this country were living lives of abject poverty and hardship, akin to serfdom. >> and you sort of have to question why british taxpayers who descend from those poor peasants and hard working industrial people should be paying industrial people should be paying reparations when they have no part to play in slavery. >> also, we now have 16% of this country were foreign born. why should people born in afghanistan , iran or india have afghanistan, iran or india have to pay reparations to people in jamaica? and what about the descendants? >> yeah, just that, just on >> yeah, just on that, just on that, i think that, right. because i think that's a really interesting point. viewers will point. and as our viewers will have to our have been able to see and our listeners will soon out, listeners will soon find out, actor, writer femi actor, filmmaker and writer femi nylander joins us now. femi, nylanderjoins us now. femi, thank much . it's on thank you very much. it's on that want ask

that point that i want to ask about practicalities how about the practicalities of how this would work. just this would work. let's just assume right . assume that we do it right. let's just assume that britain does whatever does it well, whatever percentage rafe said there of our population currently residing it was not residing in britain, it was not british born. you'd also have a load of people who first load of people who will be first and second generation, quite possibly countries where possibly from countries where there saying that we owe reparations to do so. so who is paying reparations to do so. so who is paying this then ? paying this then? >> so i mean, firstly, i'm british born , but i am british born, but i am descendant of nigerians. >> and if you compare how much wealth i have or how much income ihave wealth i have or how much income i have to people who live in nigeria today , i make nigeria today, i make a significant and by significant i mean tens or hundreds or more than hundreds more than them because of the fact that i live in the uk, because the uk is the sixth richest country in the world. previously the fifth before brexit. >> so the fact that the uk is wealthy benefits the people living in the uk now. and also

no one is saying that i, as a nigerian person should personally put money in my pocket and it in terms of pocket and give it in terms of reparations to a caribbean . reparations to a caribbean. people are saying that the uk as an entity which became rich by leading the slave trade and which has passed that wealth on to subsequent generations , owns to subsequent generations, owns because we all know about inheritance and we all know that wealth is inherited. i'm sure you're going to leave money to your children when you die. um, some that wealth should be some of that wealth should be returned caribbean returned because the caribbean today poor and of today is largely poor and of course, africa itself . when course, africa itself. when a large portion of your workforce aids young, youthful population is stolen and taken away, your economy obviously takes a hit. if a large proportion of young men in the united kingdom were stolen from the country , now it stolen from the country, now it would affect the future of the united kingdom. >> all right, ralph, come back to that then . to that then. >> well, firstly, i would say if as a nigerian, if britain is to pay as a nigerian, if britain is to pay reparations and i think,

femi is a nigerian and other nigerians should also pay reparations because we to reparations because we have to remember was the west remember it was from the west coast of africa, from states like benin and nigeria today that slaves were enslaved by other africans . other africans. >> you know, there were as many slaves bondage slaves kept in bondage and slavery africans as were slavery by africans as were transported the atlantic . transported over the atlantic. no white men were going inland and capturing slaves. they were purchasing sold them purchasing slaves sold to them by african chiefs of western by the african chiefs of western africa . so if britain is being africa. so if britain is being asked to pay for slavery, then obviously people in nigeria should also be paying for slavery. >> also . >> also. >> also. >> so, you know, femi has just said the caribbean is very said that the caribbean is very p00h said that the caribbean is very poor. caribbean poor. actually, the caribbean are income countries far are middle income countries far wealthier than african wealthier than the west african countries where the slaves countries from where the slaves first came. >> you know, the gdp per per headin >> you know, the gdp per per head in benin, for example, is approximately 1500 dollars a yeah approximately 1500 dollars a year. you go to somewhere like barbados, it's $14,000 a year. >> you know , portugal, the >> you know, portugal, the biggest slave trader of all, is a poor country today. slavery didn't benefit these european powers. >> as is often said in this

country. >> in the uk, slavery only contributed to about 3% of capital formation. >> the caribbean states is impossible to tell me why the canbbean impossible to tell me why the caribbean state should be receiving any reparations money. you might make an argument for west africa, but caribbean west africa, but the caribbean states been neglected states have not been neglected or badly treated today. sure the slaves themselves had terrible lives , but the descendants of lives, but the descendants of slaves living today in the canbbean slaves living today in the caribbean have a far better quality of life and a far longer life expectancy. >> okay. >> okay. >> all right. i'll let femi come back. so, femi, how do you respond to that claim there that that africans and descendants of africans should also be paying reparations for the other africans that they enslaved ? africans that they enslaved? >> i mean, i don't know how much rafi knows about it, but of course, i think that within nigeria , there's conversations nigeria, there's conversations to had about particular to be had about particular traditional leaders, etcetera. and parts of the country that have wealth. i mean, any country where is exploited, where one part is exploited, another part there should be some kind of retribution. retributory justice going on. and i wouldn't be opposed to certain have enriched

certain people who have enriched themselves within africa of these kind of these these these these kind of these these these these actions having to pay something . i'm not no one's something. i'm not no one's saying that that's not saying that that's that's not the the main the thing. but the main beneficiary of slave trade, beneficiary of the slave trade, of was what? can i just of course, was what? can i just finish? main beneficiary of finish? the main beneficiary of the slave trade was, of course, the slave trade was, of course, the countries . the uk and european countries. also, when you look at the actual of countries actual economics of countries like caribbean. yes. like the caribbean. yes. countries caribbean countries in the caribbean tend to countries to be wealthier than countries in africa . however, when you in africa. however, when you talk about for $1,000, we have to remember this is one purchase parity adjusted, which means when you talk about $14,000, that isn't $14,000. that's what you could buy. how much money you'd need in the local currency to be able to buy $14,000 worth of bread or of this or of the other. so in terms of actual currency exchange, that isn't $14,000. , so when you $14,000. and also, so when you look barbados for example, a look at barbados for example, a lot wealth barbados is lot of the wealth of barbados is very, very concentra dated very, very, very concentra dated in some of the tax exiles and very wealthy people who have emigrated to barbados to benefit

from the tax scheme that the actual name of population of barbados are relatively poor compared to western countries , compared to western countries, including portugal. >> all right, ralph, come on. >> all right, ralph, come on. >> yeah . every single country in >> yeah. every single country in the caribbean has a higher gdp than west african nations. >> let's let's use another measure. every form of british colony in the caribbean has a high quality of life and ranked higher on the un's human development index than all of the rest of south america. all of the spanish and portuguese colonies. and of course , femi colonies. and of course, femi hasn't addressed life expectancy . life expectancy is about 15 years higher in the caribbean, compared africa, compared to west africa, a direct benefit there. look, if we were having discussion we were having this discussion about reparations in 1807 or 1833, when we led the world in abolishing slavery, of course would in favour of it because would be in favour of it because the alive. but the people then were alive. but as great as bayard rustin, the great socialist , socialist and america socialist, socialist and america said , and this was a man who was said, and this was a man who was given the presidential medal of freedom posthumously by barack obama, he said, if my great grandfather picked cotton for 50 years, may deserve some years, he may deserve some reparations. but didn't pick

cotton. and nobody owes me anything . anything. >> okay, femi, look, just final, final word to you on this . with final word to you on this. with respect, do you think that some people this would be a controversial view, which is why i want your take on it. do you think are some people would be right in saying that people need to things of the past to get over things of the past and instead of maybe blaming things for where their own lives are at now , maybe just, you are at now, maybe just, you know, trying to improve their own lives now ? own lives now? >> no. i mean, i think the clearest example that people today might still be poor because of what happened to their ancestors is the fact, as ralph just mentioned, in 1807, reparations but reparations weren't paid, but they were paid. reparations were paid. the paid. but they were paid to the slave owners huge of slave owners, a huge amount of taxpayer money has been up until about ten years ago, has basically been paying off the debt that was given to that was taken out from the public purse in order to pay off slave owners, in order allow them owners, in order to allow them to free their slaves. and the people are wealthy. people today are still wealthy. the fortunes are still the huge fortunes are still there based off the fact that

they slave owners were they were slave owners were bought so you can pay bought out. so if you can pay back money to the slave owners and well, taking your and say, well, we're taking your property them their property and giving them their freedom, to freedom, so we're going to give you of pounds. in you billions of pounds. in today's can today's money, i get you. can you not? >> your point. i get both >> i get your point. i get both of your points. are we of your points. and we are we are to have to go now. are going to have to go now. thank of thank you very much, both of you. that actor, you. femi nine under that actor, filmmaker, writer and the royal broadcaster rafe broadcaster and commentator rafe heydel—mankoo. thoroughly thank you very much. thoroughly enjoyed know you're enjoyed that. now, i know you're loyal listeners love loyal viewers and listeners love me don't write this, me. okay? i don't write this, but . but would you believe that but. but would you believe that not everyone feels the same way? i know coming now. in i know what's coming now. in fact, in india i am currently pubuc fact, in india i am currently public number one and i public enemy number one and i will be reading some mean indian tweets very shortly. i'll explain everything in a little bit. patrick christys gb news,

the people's. channel >> welcome back. it's 551. you're watching patrick christys on gb news. now in yesterday's show, i reacted to india landing a spacecraft the moon by a spacecraft on the moon by calling on them to return the £23 billion of foreign aid that £2.3 billion of foreign aid that we sent them between 2016 and 2021. and i would like to take this opportunity to apologise to nobody and double down on that . nobody and double down on that. i do think it is actually time that we had our money back , but that we had our money back, but you would not believe the reaction . yes, that's right. it reaction. yes, that's right. it has kicked right off. i've been getting death threats on twitter. i've been getting death threats on instagram. so so's my

missus as well. the tractor down people are saying unspeakable things about my mother as well . things about my mother as well. lovely bunch. okay. well that's now. so when was the last time the uk landed anything on the moon? brexit man is jealous. good.thank moon? brexit man is jealous. good. thank you very much. i believe we've got. i believe we've got others. you are living in your own. make believe world of . come back to of self—importance. come back to reality. and apparently reality. oh, and apparently there's yeah here we there's one more. yeah here we go. it's okay to have jealousy. hopeit go. it's okay to have jealousy. hope it doesn't affect your health. they. i think. i tell you what. i don't know who selected out there. you what. i don't know who sele(it's out there. you what. i don't know who sele(it's amazing out there. you what. i don't know who sele(it's amazing you ut there. you what. i don't know who sele(it's amazing you found'e. you what. i don't know who sele(it's amazing you found time hey, it's amazing you found time in your day go through mean in your day to go through mean tweets thank very tweets about me. thank you very much. also those are the tweets about me. thank you very much politeilso those are the tweets about me. thank you very much politeilso thatyse are the tweets about me. thank you very much politeilso that younre the tweets about me. thank you very much politeilso that you could most polite ones that you could possibly have come up with. i have been absolutely copping it. pubuc have been absolutely copping it. public number one, public enemy number one, not just india, but as michelle just in india, but as michelle dewberry to say to me dewberry is happy to say to me everywhere as well. well, i thought that guy was saying that you self impotence. >> thought, how on earth would >> i thought, how on earth would he the way in india? he know all the way in india? >> how did find that >> yeah. how did you find that out? how do you out? i mean, how do you what what's thing say. yeah >> anyway, he didn't say that. he yes it is. he said important. yes it is.

two i'll back two times. so i'll get us back on track. well i don't know. yeah, i think you're a national treasure. >> thanks so it wasn't designed for me to fish for compliments. i just it as an i was just using it as an opportunity to double and opportunity to double down and say think if you find say that. i do think if you find something at the back of the press, talking press, what you're talking about, you've not got death threats. i'll show about, you've not got death thre them i'll show about, you've not got death thre them a i'll show about, you've not got death threthem a minute.'ll show about, you've not got death threthem a minute. see, ow you them in a minute. see, everyone that they get you them in a minute. see, everycthreats that they get you them in a minute. see, everycthreats on at they get you them in a minute. see, everycthreats on socialy get you them in a minute. see, everycthreats on social media. death threats on social media. >> no, no, but they're funny because of because i'm getting a lot of memes i understand memes that i don't understand because they're not in a language or they're language that i talk or they're of, specific in of, like, specific moments in bollywood again, of, like, specific moments in bollystraight again, of, like, specific moments in bolly straight over again, of, like, specific moments in bolly straight over my again, of, like, specific moments in bolly straight over my head.|ain, goes straight over my head. >> they got 30s. oh, there's nothing someone nothing worse than when someone insults register it >> you don't quite register it is anyway, was to is there anyway, i was about to say something and i remembered where which is national where i was, which is national television. anyway, coming up , television. anyway, coming up, the . is this the northern eaton's. is this what we need to fix a levelling up in this country? i want to get the immigration story get into the immigration story as lots of stuff coming as well. lots of stuff coming up. at his look at up. look at his face. look at his got a cheeky his face. it's got a cheeky little . what's made you laugh? >> like you've got you, you. i, i these. anyway look. i just enjoy these. anyway look. right. we've butchered right. sorry. we've butchered this. tune to michelle this. just tune in to michelle dewberry the next hour dewberry for the next hour and do a favour. be

do yourself a favour. it'll be great. tomorrow . great. i'll see you tomorrow. >> looks like things are heating up. boxed boilers are proud sponsors of weather on gb news . afternoon. >> i'm alex deakin and this is your latest weather update from the met office for gb news many of us having a fine evening out there largely dry and bright, but we do showers , but where we do have showers, they are heavy and that's they are quite heavy and that's mostly the northwest mostly across the far northwest and far southeast. low and the far southeast. low pressure is controlling things up to the north—west bringing some pretty wet conditions across western scotland. and shetland as well. but also in the south—east, we've seen some heavy downpours , a bit hit and heavy downpours, a bit hit and miss, but still some thunderstorms possible into this evening they do tend to evening before they do tend to scoot away. the showers will keep western scotland . keep going in western scotland. we'll see 2 for northern we'll see 1 or 2 for northern ireland. north west england. but for be night for many, it'll be a dry night and night. a bit and a cooler night. quite a bit cooler nights. cooler than recent nights. single certainly in single figures certainly in rural towns and rural spots, many towns and cities, about 10 or 11 to start friday, friday will start with quite a bit of sunshine. i suspect, over the midlands,

eastern england and much of the south. is going to be south. but it is going to be a case of watching the showers develop day across develop a very wet day across the far north scotland. the far north of scotland. caithness, orkney , caithness, sutherland, orkney, wet and elsewhere . wet and windy elsewhere. there'll be a bit of a breeze at times and there'll be that mixture of sunshine and scattered showers. but a good chunk day should be dry, chunk of the day should be dry, but a cooler feel certainly across south—east compared across the south—east compared to humid . saturday to today. less humid. saturday is a similar story. yes there'll be some sunshine, but probably more showers on saturday. and again, pretty ones. again, some pretty heavy ones. a risk hail and thunder as risk of hail and thunder as well. nowhere immune, but after a heavy showers on a lot of heavy showers on saturday, it will turn a bit dner saturday, it will turn a bit drier through drier and brighter through the long never long weekend, although never particularly warm . particularly warm. >> looks like things are heating up. but boilers proud sponsors of weather on .

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do that mythical levelling up between north and south? your thoughts and the uk birth rate is the lowest it's been in 20 years. many are now saying it's time to incentivise people, perhaps with a tax system to have more children . is that what have more children. is that what we need to be doing? is that the priority when it comes to tax reform or not? and prince andrew, do you reckon that me and you taxpayer ears should be funding his security ? and are funding his security? and are you sitting down? do you know the figure now when it comes to immigration in this country? we have backlog asylum have a backlog now, an asylum backlog, 175,000 people waiting to be properly processed. what an absolute joke. and if i've got time for it, i want to talk to you about covid, apparently. oh, can you believe it? apparently another various about to hit town massively . really to hit town massively. really broad, aren't you ? perhaps, broad, aren't you? perhaps, though, you're one of those people that say no. michelle, what we need is a return to covid measures. oh, give me a break. you tell me why i'm

wrong. we'll have it all to