gb news. >> it's 3 pm. it's patrick christys is gb news. i've got a busy, busy hour coming your way. students have been booted out of luxury accommodation to make way for asylum seekers. i wonder what the refugees welcome student brigade are going to make of of that. in other make of all of that. in other news, of thousands of news, tens of thousands of people are dying whilst waiting on nhs waiting lists. it really is not good enough. i'll also be talking about this as well. should we bring back national service .7 we have a massive issue service? we have a massive issue at the moment with disaffected youth . would that be a way of youth. would that be a way of instilling patriotism and discipline in our youngsters? a lot of people certainly think that national service is a good idea. i'll also be talking about this, though, as well. maybe this, though, as well. maybe this chap is in support of it as well. grant shapps is our new defence secretary. be defence secretary. i'll be having at what actually having a look at what actually qualifies for the job qualifies him for the job other than to than just saying yes to everything sunak has everything that rishi sunak has to say and finally be afraid. be very afraid . radioactive nuclear very afraid. radioactive nuclear wild boars are on the loose.

i'll be telling you where very shortly . patrick christys. gb shortly. patrick christys. gb news loads on today. make sure that you get in touch. vaiews@gbnews.com. should we bnng vaiews@gbnews.com. should we bring back national service? if so, why ? if not, why not? let me so, why? if not, why not? let me know that email address again gbviews@gbnews.com. but right now it's your headlines. gbviews@gbnews.com. but right now it's your headlines . good now it's your headlines. good afternoon . afternoon. >> it's 3:01. i'm rhiannon jones in the newsroom . and we start in the newsroom. and we start with some breaking news this houn with some breaking news this hour. schools in england must shut buildings made with a type of concrete that is prone to collapse until safety measures are in place. the government's expected to announce that schools in england will immediately shut buildings made with a type of concrete that's prone to collapse until safety measures are in place. some

schools will have to relocate children to other teaching spaces . as more than 100 schools spaces. as more than 100 schools are being contacted before the start of the new term, which is, of course , imminent. and we'll of course, imminent. and we'll give you more on this as we get it on that developing story . it on that developing story. three in other news, a south wales police officer faces a criminal investigation for dangerous driving after two teenagers were killed in cardiff. 16 year old kyrees sullivan and 15 year old harvey evans died in may when they crashed on an e—bike cctv captured a police van following the teenagers just minutes before the fatal crash. the officer was previously served with a gross misconduct notice as was another officer. also in the vehicle . staff redundancy the vehicle. staff redundancy cases at wilko are due to start next week. the gmb union says it's after the only bid to buy the collapsed retailer fell through. the trade union says many staff will arrive at work

for their last day on monday, though it remains hopeful that a viable buyer could yet come forward . however, it says it forward. however, it says it must continue to prepare for the worst. more than 1000 jobs are at risk . grant shapps has been at risk. grant shapps has been appointed as the new defence secretary. that follows the resignation of ben wallace after four years in the job. he says he wants to explore different opportunities and spend more time with his family in his resignation letter, mr wallace says ministry defence is says the ministry of defence is back on the of being once back on the path of being once again world class education minister claire coutinho takes over as energy and net zero secretary, replacing grant shapps shadow attorney general emily thornberry says the changes are just a temporary measure . measure. >> it really doesn't matter how many new jobs rishi sunak gives to his friends, it's still moving the deck chairs. there's still a sinking ship. there's country really needs change and the only change that they're

going to get is if we get a labour government and we get a labour government and we get a labour government and we get a labour government soon, police officers will be automatically dismissed if they're found guilty of gross misconduct under new government plans , senior new government plans, senior officers will have more powers to sack rogue staff and be able to sack rogue staff and be able to dismiss those who fail. >> vetting checks. the government says the changes could be implemented as soon as next spring. policing minister chris philp told gb news the rules will strengthen the policing system. >> it'll make removal for gross misconduct automatic. it will make sure that specified criminal offences will automatically lead to misconduct and it will streamline and speed up the process for removing officers either guilty of or accused of misconduct or indeed of poor performance as well. there will be nowhere for them to hide and i think that will help. as you say, to rebuild pubuc help. as you say, to rebuild public confidence in policing . public confidence in policing. >> thousands of holidaymakers

have been waiting for days now to get home following delays caused by an air traffic control glitch . that's despite airlines glitch. that's despite airlines schedules return to normal and backlogs, clearing most flights to the uk from popular destinations, including majorca, crete and sicily are sold out until the weekend, and flights with spare seats cost more than £400, deterring new customers from buying them. the airlines say they are trying to fly people back as quickly as possible . south africa's possible. south africa's president has described a fire that ravaged an apartment block in johannesburg as a great tragedy. cyril ramaphosa says he hopes an investigation will help prevent a repeat of the incident , which has killed at least 70 people and left 40 others injured . the multi—storey injured. the multi—storey building caught fire in the south african city in the early hours of this morning, hours after the blaze broke out. authorities in charge of the building was still struggling to determine who may have lived there . and dup leader sir

there. and dup leader sir jeffrey donaldson has said it's time for change. change at the head of the police service of northern ireland. he says it's time for simon byrne to go . and time for simon byrne to go. and the key issue for the policing board now is to determine who's best place to win back public confidence. a recent court ruling deemed the chief constable's disciplinary actions against two junior officers as unlawful. the decision was reportedly driven by concerns sinn fein might withdraw support for policing, sparking accusations of appeasement from unionists. sinn fein denies any suggestion of attempting to influence the matter . this is gb influence the matter. 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 >> i've got some breaking news for you right at the start of this show. i'm for it. i'm going

to whizz you straight over to our home security editor, mark white. mark it involves the asylum accommodation asylum seeker accommodation centre is that centre at wethersfield, is that right? ongoing incident at >> an ongoing incident at wethersfield base which all three emergency services are attending. we've seen some video that shows ambulances and other emergency service vehicles heading down a country lane towards wethersfield , which of towards wethersfield, which of course is near brain tree in essex. it's the site of this asylum accommodation centre. now the details as we have it , the details as we have it, suggest that there has been some kind of an explosion within a building on the site . okay. so building on the site. okay. so sources confirm indeed just getting this from our producer, an explosion on at wethersfield asylum accommodation centre. it's believed , and we're told it's believed, and we're told that the explosion happened in an unused building on the site. there aren't believed to be any

injuries at this point, but sources say that the damage caused is not major and the caused is not major and the cause of the explosion in this stage anyway, it's not being treated as as malicious, but this is an ongoing incident. all three emergency services are still on site. it's worth reminding ourselves of what this base actually is. >> so this is the wethersfield asylum base in essex, isn't it? which had been due to house more than 1000 asylum seekers. >> may 1700 young men are supposed to be in this former raf air base and used by the us military for a time as well. there are supposed to be housed here by the end of the year. i think the progress in getting asylum seekers onto that site has been a bit slower than was first envisaged. so we think

there's around about 100, maybe slightly more than that there at this time. but there have been a number of problems with the ability to connect up utilities like water supplies . there was like water supplies. there was an outbreak of scabies and even tuberculosis . this that was , you tuberculosis. this that was, you know, announced with regard to those who had arrived at the base. so that caused ongoing problems as well. there was a report that we got access to just last week , actually, that just last week, actually, that spoke about ongoing issues with regard to fire safety , risk regard to fire safety, risk assessment tests or details that had yet to be fully re matured and signed off. but this incident, we don't think is related to any of that . it's related to any of that. it's worth, i think just reiterating for our audience, again, sources confirming an explosion in at the wethersfield asylum

accommodation centre in essex. it's believed that the explosion happenedin it's believed that the explosion happened in an unused building on the site. now we're told that that building is not one of the buildings currently being used by asylum seekers on the site. there aren't at this stage any anyway , we're told, any injuries anyway, we're told, any injuries as and sources say that the damage is not major, but all three emergency services still on scene. >> yeah. okay. mark, can i just ask you to stay there for me? if that's all right, because you'll be updates through in be getting updates through in real on this. i'm going to real time on this. i'm going to talk now about another asylum seeker that caught my seeker story that caught my attention today. whilst we await for a little bit more information on what's going on at raf wethersfield at the moment, just to reiterate all three emergency services believed be attending believed to be attending possible explosion at that site. we'll bring you more updates in just a few minutes time. but students are being turfed out apparently of luxury accommodate

fashion just before the start of their academic year to make way for asylum seekers so they can live there, rent free. the home office is reportedly looking to move seekers into a 405 move asylum seekers into a 405 bed block in bed student block in huddersfield that features, get this, a cinema room and a gym. of course it does. it would normally cost £10,000 a year to live there and some students who had already signed contracts to live now reportedly only live there now reportedly only have about a week to find somewhere else to live. rooms range from £200 a week, platinum studio flats , which has its own studio flats, which has its own fully furnished kitchen et en suite, bathrooms, bed study area, waterside canal views to a smaller bronze room, which is just a cool £135 a week. look surely i cannot be the only person who thinks it's unfair to give priority housing to young men from goodness knows where ahead of 18 year old students students. and today is also the day for genuine afghan refugees who have been living in hotels to be booted out of those hotels and potentially be made homeless. no doubt to make way for channel migrants who in

for more channel migrants who in all likelihood didn't help our troops fight taliban again . troops fight the taliban again. surely i cannot be the only person who thinks that prioritising people prioritising a group of people that ended up allowing to that we've ended up allowing to just enter this country would actually be a bit of a problem given the fact that we've turfed out a load of people who potentially helped us as well. but i suppose none of this really does it? as long really matters, does it? as long as we keep rolling out the red carpet for those coming across the that the channel well, i believe that we can now speak to mike jones, who is the executive director at migration watch. mike, i'm going to talk to you. initially about what's been going on. supposedly at some students accommodation in huddersfield. so i mean, look, this is going to be a recipe for disaster, is it not, that you end up with a load of probably young men coming across here living in luxury student accommodation in an area where we know it's probably going to be populated by you know, young, intoxicated people and enjoying their first forays into university life. i mean, i can't

see any problems happening here. >> yeah. i mean, first thing i'll say, patrick, is i feel absolutely devastated for the students. >> um , essentially they're >> um, essentially they're paying >> um, essentially they're paying the price for the government's overreliance on private sector accommodation when they're paying the price for an asylum system that's completely out of control and you have hard working students, they've got the grades they've taken out the loan, they've made the deposits sign the tenancy agreement, but they're being gazumped out at the last minute by the home office who are using their accommodation in to house illegal economic migrants and i feel this on a personal level because as a former phd student , yes, i spent a lot of time in higher education and one of the appeals of is living in a communal environment out with other students , leading an other students, leading an independent life , being within independent life, being within walking or busing distance from the campus and, you know,

integrating yourself in campus culture. >> and that opportunity is being denied to these students. >> i just think it's absolutely ridiculous, though, isn't it, really, that you'd end up with a luxury housing block? students who have probably gone through our education system, in all likelihood our likelihood gone through our education system, even if they've fair there they've not to be fair there people other countries people from other countries who've to get here who've worked hard to get here as their exams, as they've taken their exams, they taken out they probably taken out a student . some them student loan. some of them reportedly taken out reportedly have taken out tenancy agreements already. they've got about a week or so to go before the start of the new academic year and then wallop. all a sudden, wallop. all of a sudden, it turns we're rolling turns out that we're rolling out the carpet yet again for the red carpet yet again for people who quite possibly people who we quite possibly don't they are or where don't know who they are or where they're , what we live in they're from, what we live in a topsy turvy country where people who play by the rules are punished and lawbreakers are rewarded, and that's completely unethical . unethical. >> all essentially the students who have been turfed out at the

last minute, they'll have to find alternative means of accommodation , and some of them accommodation, and some of them will go into the private sector and they'll be sharing accommodation with non—students, which is not ideal for them. >> some may decide to stay at home with their parents and that can be very isolating. >> you know, it's difficult to go to university for the first time when you don't know anyone . and, you know, it's absolutely essential that they're living in student accommodation with other students . and of course, this students. and of course, this imposes a huge burden on the taxpayer . you know, we're taxpayer. you know, we're spending well over 6 million a day on housing for these illegal economic migrants in accommodation and the cost of the asylum system is now close to 4 billion. so it's an absolute disgrace. >> i mean, the one fascinating thing will be i've been talking about this for ages. a lot of people who hold up the refugees welcome banners, their lives are not touched by the asylum seeker crisis. they impacted crisis. they are not impacted upon negatively. you know, people don't end up living in an area where there is a mass

dumping of people and their local services aren't affected. but now it is starting to happen and it will start to happen in every single person's walk of life. we're see it life. and we're going to see it now the student community life. and we're going to see it no'well. the student community life. and we're going to see it no'well. and student community life. and we're going to see it no'well. and itudent community life. and we're going to see it no'well. and i thinkt community life. and we're going to see it no'well. and i think people unity life. and we're going to see it no'well. and i think people arey as well. and i think people are going unfortunately, learn going to, unfortunately, learn some is going to, unfortunately, learn s( recipe is going to, unfortunately, learn s( recipe for is going to, unfortunately, learn s( recipe for disaster is going to, unfortunately, learn s( recipe for disaster where is going to, unfortunately, learn s( recipe for disaster where you s a recipe for disaster where you are going to have young people enjoying a student freshers week, potentially getting themselves a little bit of themselves into a little bit of trouble vulnerable trouble and vulnerable situations drink situations through drink etcetera. then you're going etcetera. and then you're going to find themselves plonked in the brand asylum the middle of a brand new asylum seeker complex . i think it's seeker complex. i think it's absolutely . and i absolutely outrageous. and i think as well, another side of this, again, i do find utterly disgusting is that we've got genuine afghan asylum seekers here who help british troops dunng here who help british troops during the war who've been in hotels who we are now turfing out in some cases out potentially in some cases making homeless so that we can use those hotels for more asylum seekers just come across seekers who've just come across the channel. that again is a recipe for disaster. you know, we tell these people we're to going country better. going make your country better. we to the taliban. we hand it back to the taliban. we hand it back to the taliban. we give sanctuary we say we'll give you sanctuary

.then we say we'll give you sanctuary . then we them homeless. . then we make them homeless. i mean, we doing ? mean, what are we doing? >> well, know, ultimately we >> well, you know, ultimately we have a housing crisis . there are have a housing crisis. there are various reasons for this. and we don't have the time to go into each and every one. but essentially, there's a sort of supply side and demand side issue here. yes, we have restricting planning, restrictive planning laws , but restrictive planning laws, but we also have large scale immigration, which is taking place over many years. this has increased the value of property, it's increased rents . and, you it's increased rents. and, you know, ultimately it's imposing a huge burden on the younger generation. now who are spending an enormous amount disposable income. yeah >> no, exactly. exactly. it's absolutely ludicrous. all round. but look, mike, thank you very much. it's great to have you on at the top of the show. we're going to go back now to that breaking news story very quickly. but mike there quickly. but mike jones, there is the executive director of migrationwatch just on this. the home office have a home office have issued a statement always statement saying, we have always been upfront about the unprecedented pressure being put on system, brought

on our asylum system, brought about increase about by a significant increase in illegal in dangerous and illegal journeys country . we journeys into the country. we continue across continue to work across government local government and with local authorities identify a range authorities to identify a range of accommodation options. the government remains committed to engaging authorities engaging with local authorities and stakeholders as part of and key stakeholders as part of this process. huddersfield university have also issued a statement on this. huddersfield has sufficient student accommodation to meet the needs of our students and there are current vacancies available for any students affected by this who have not already been rehoused. please contact hud. let's at hudack uk. presumably people just coming across the channel on a dinghy could log into some fi and do that as well. but back to that breaking news with our home security editor mark white. mark, any update from weathersfield where there ongoing there is an ongoing incident? yeah involved an yeah this incident involved an explosion and all three emergency services are still on scene. >> but a bit more detail from a source close to the base information that they've received. it says an explosion was heard on the site and it was

located at a building or inside a building about 300m from the accommodation blocks that are housing these asylum seekers . it housing these asylum seekers. it was a disused building previously used. we're told by the ministry of defence police use as an evidence store . that use as an evidence store. that building has a gas fire suppression system . um, and it suppression system. um, and it seems that this system malfunctioned and releasing gas which resulted in an explosion that has damaged, slightly damaged and the roof of that building fire brigade, as i say, ambulance and police still on scene. no indication on of any injuries . and as i say, with injuries. and as i say, with regard to those asylum seekers being accommodated on that site, it was a fair bit away from them, but they will have heard this explosion as other people did, because i think it was quite a loud bang. >> no, absolutely. and >> yeah, no, absolutely. and i think a nutshell that is of think what a nutshell that is of where we are at the moment with

our asylum seeker crisis . so our asylum seeker crisis. so we've up previously with a we've ended up previously with a barge that took ages to arrive and cost millions to refit and then had to be evacuated because there was legionella on board. we've got an air base there that was commandeered despite court cases from the locals. they were completely ignored. and now at least one of those buildings apparently has in part exploded. so goodness knows what's going to the people on to happen with the people on that. we've got student accommodation is now being that. we've got student accortorodation is now being that. we've got student accorto housen is now being that. we've got student accorto house asylumi now being that. we've got student accorto house asylum seekersing used to house asylum seekers and we asylum seekers we have genuine asylum seekers being out the street being turfed out onto the street to make other people who to make way for other people who can live in taxpayer funded hotels . despite just coming hotels. despite just coming across the channel illegally. so there we go . gb views. there we go. gb views. gbnews.com get those views coming in. you are of course watching and listening to gb news. coming up, we will discuss record waiting wreaking record waiting times wreaking havoc the as around havoc on the nhs as around 121,000 died last year 121,000 people died last year whilst waiting for care . that is whilst waiting for care. that is according to a freedom of information request discovered by labour party . patrick by the labour party. patrick christys gb news, britain's

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sunday mornings from 930 on news . well, record waiting times are wreaking havoc on the nhs and around 121,000 people died last year whilst waiting for care. >> that's according to a freedom of information request by the labour party. but earlier on today i spoke to people just outside a local hospital around the corner from where i am here about what their experiences on

the have been like the nhs have been like and here's they to say. not here's what they had to say. not really, no, no . really, no, no. >> there's a lot of waiting time and things like that with them. you know, sometimes you get misdiagnosed as well with them. so yeah, i tend go to so yeah, i tend not to go to doctors tend not to go to so yeah, i tend not to go to doc'nhs. tend not to go to so yeah, i tend not to go to doc'nhs. now nd not to go to so yeah, i tend not to go to doc'nhs. now nd to: to go to so yeah, i tend not to go to doc'nhs. now nd to do go to so yeah, i tend not to go to doc'nhs. now nd to do like 10 so yeah, i tend not to go to doc'nhs. now nd to do like home the nhs. now try to do like home remedies when i'm sick and things that. the only things like that. yeah. the only things like that. yeah. the only thing to is the dentist for thing i go to is the dentist for my teeth not really. my teeth or not really. i haven't been the hospital haven't been to the hospital or the about about five the doctors in about about five years. six years? yeah, years. six years? yeah, yeah, yeah.the years. six years? yeah, yeah, yeah. the last time i went to the doctors because someone crashed into van and that's crashed into my van and that's the reason why i went the only reason why i went there, back there, because i had some back pains like that to pains and things like that to get and treated get diagnosed and treated for physiotherapy with physiotherapy because even with the nhs , the physiotherapy from the nhs, they me and then they they contacted me and then they said to me they'll contact me after the insurance physio deals with me. but this is still a versus me, just in case they could have done something more for me. you know, we try very hard. >> i work here. yeah. >> i work here. yeah. >> we very, hard. >> so we try very, very hard. i don't people realise how don't think people realise how hard working, especially hard we are working, especially with the the strikes and

with the with the strikes and everything, actually everything, to actually accommodate think, accommodate people. so i think, i we're against it all i think we're up against it all the is a huge the time. waiting is a huge change, but as i say , when change, but as i say, when you've got the electives and you've got the electives and you've got the traumas, the traumas take priority and then the electives get sort of pushed to one side, especially with the strike. so some of the hospitals you can't do both. >> i think we're working >> so i think we're working really, really hard behind the scenes, but i think the general pubuc scenes, but i think the general public goes into public don't see what goes into sort of doing a list on a day and making sure that people are actually priority list. >> i can't . cancer takes >> i can't. cancer takes priority . see, i mean, you know, priority. see, i mean, you know, all all cancer cases take priority from when they're diagnosed to when they're treated . there is a you know , an treated. there is a you know, an 18 week sort of schedule that we're supposed to keep to . i we're supposed to keep to. i don't know about things slipping through the net. of course, you know, if you're playing god with other people, then other things are going to be put to one side. but, you they can't do

but, you know, they can't do everything all of the time . and everything all of the time. and if set aside a list to do if you've set aside a list to do all your cancer cases and then you get a major incident out, yeah.then you get a major incident out, yeah. then unfortunately , yeah. then unfortunately, something has to give. so it's not black and white. very positive . positive. >> yeah. there you go. well, a range of views there from a chap who is using home remedies now because nhs waiting lists are too long. at the end too long. so one at the end there saying they've very there saying they've had a very positive who positive experience. someone who works look, works in the nhs saying, look, we're trying do all we can. we're trying to do all we can. it not black and white, we it is not as black and white, we have prioritise acute care have to prioritise acute care and understand and i can understand that. i just wonder though it's all very well these well and good doing these freedom requests freedom of information requests and know and saying, well, look, you know , look at how many people are dying waiting dying whilst on nhs waiting list, what was one the list, but what was one of the key causes of these waiting lists it not plunging all lists was it not plunging us all into not into lockdown? was it not shutting and shutting down the nhs and turning into a national covid turning it into a national covid service and people at service and were people not at the it's going to the time saying it's going to result this? joining result in exactly this? joining me now is dr. lawrence gerlis, who is a gp at same day doctor, ironically , given what we're ironically, given what we're just talking about here,

lawrence, thank you very, very much. chance to be a fine thing, wouldn't what what do wouldn't it? what do you what do you of the 120 odd thousand you make of the 120 odd thousand thousand people dying whilst waiting nhs care? well, you waiting for nhs care? well, you mentioned excess deaths due to lockdown in the country of the lowest excess deaths was sweden. >> is sweden because they didn't lock down? so i think we're still seeing excess deaths. >> 1000, 2000 people per week. >> 1000, 2000 people per week. >> no one's talking about this and a lot of those are on the waiting list . waiting list. >> and in a sense, cruelly and this sounds very cruel. >> that's the whole point of a waiting list. >> if people die on the waiting list, you've got 120,000 fewer people wait . people to wait. >> and it's just a way of rationing health care when supply is not enough to meet the excess demand. >> yeah, indeed . but what >> yeah, indeed. but what actually needs to be done about this now, though? i mean, you know , people will say, well, we know, people will say, well, we need to more money into need to put more money into our nhs. seemed like nhs. it just seemed like a bottomless pit , doesn't it? bottomless pit, doesn't it? yeah, well , look, the strikes yeah, well, look, the strikes don't help , although it's not

don't help, although it's not the root cause . the root cause. >> hospitals actually there are 30% more hospitals, doctors than there were ten years ago. >> but their output, their productivity has gone down dramatically. and i think we've seen over the past few weeks the way that management and hospitals function. and it's a hugely inefficient system . hugely inefficient system. general practise is different. there is a terrible shortage of gps and that's getting worse. but hospitals need to be more efficient. we hear stories , you efficient. we hear stories, you know, of operating theatres being locked, surgeons wanting to operate, but they're not allowed to listen. patrick we're going to have to live with this problem for years to come. there's not an easy solution to any this. this is the future. any of this. this is the future. and i agree with you, pouring more money into it. it's not going to go to the front line. you just get more and more layers of management. and we've seen what management does to the way the health service runs. >> just lastly on this, lawrence, you know, all lawrence, you know, it's all very labour very well and good. the labour party the that it party exposing the fact that it is a shocking amount people is a shocking amount of people dying . i

dying on nhs waiting list. i again will come back to what i said at start, is that said at the start, which is that i labour party i don't recall the labour party of that particular time opposing the in anything like the lockdowns in anything like the lockdowns in anything like the way i think many people the way that i think many people now is that it should now realise is that it should have happened that this have happened and that this could be a cause of that. but the party highlighted the labour party has highlighted a fair play, a tory weakness here. fair play, but what's the have you, have you, work in our health care you, you work in our health care system? i have you heard system? i mean, have you heard what party is saying what the labour party is saying as how they're going to as to how they're going to improve look, i've got a lot of >> well, look, i've got a lot of respect streeting, respect for wes streeting, but he's with some he's come out with some ridiculous things. >> talking about >> this week. he's talking about gp's being able to see gp's patients being able to see a named gp and giving more money to those practises that do that. and it just underlines how little he understands way little he understands the way the service works. so the health service works. so i'm not optimistic at all that anyone can make a change and if we do have a labour government next we're just going next year, we're just going to get same. get more of the same. >> unfortunately, it's just going of going to be a freedom of information request discovered by the conservative party instead. dr. lawrence, thank you very lawrence gill is very much. dr. lawrence gill is a same doctor, a gp there at same day. doctor, just very quickly, want to delve into the inbox. patrick, why on

earth are we putting asylum seekers in students accommodation? this is accommodation? i think this is an disgrace. that's an absolute disgrace. that's from but jeff leads me on from gary, but jeff leads me on to i'm going to be to a topic i'm going to be talking come back, talking about when i come back, which service . which is national service. should have national should we actually have national service? i think it would be a good way of teaching some children who are struggling at school skills, school some practical skills, maybe discipline as well , maybe some discipline as well, keeping of the clutches keeping them out of the clutches of and county lines, but of gangs and county lines, but also bit of patriotism. also a little bit of patriotism. but disagrees. is just of but jeff disagrees. is just of today's army is highly sophisticated and technically intense and a policing intense fights and a policing machine, a large number of people have conscription age in this country either would not or more importantly , could not more importantly, could not match to army requirements. i match up to army requirements. i hear you, jeff , but we don't hear you, jeff, but we don't know if we don't try, do we? so there go. a reminder of there we go. and a reminder of that we had there we go. and a reminder of th.the we had there we go. and a reminder of th.the i'll we had there we go. and a reminder of th.the i'll be we had there we go. and a reminder of th.the i'll be givingwe had there we go. and a reminder of th.the i'll be giving yowad at the top. i'll be giving you some updates on that shortly, which an ongoing at which is an ongoing incident at raf wethersfield, the airbase where asylum seekers are currently being housed, reports of and indeed every of an explosion and indeed every single emergency service on hand there. as far as we're aware, no

casualties, but more information as we get it. you're watching and to me patrick and listening to me patrick christys plenty christys on gb news. plenty more to between now and to bring you between now and 6 pm. a moment. we will pm. in just a moment. we will be whether we should be discussing whether we should be discussing whether we should be bringing national be bringing back national service after a house of commons leader penny morden. remember her sword . anyway, her with the big sword. anyway, she's backing great british national volunteering national service, a volunteering scheme. it's a good scheme. i think it's a good idea. think it's great idea. idea. i think it's a great idea. but first it's . but first it's. >> good afternoon. it's 332. i'm rhiannon jones in the newsroom . rhiannon jones in the newsroom. schools in england must immediately shut buildings made from a type of aerated concrete thatis from a type of aerated concrete that is prone to collapse until safety measures are in place . safety measures are in place. more than 100 schools are being contacted before the start of the new term. education secretary gillian keegan says it's the right thing to do for both pupils and staff. but the association of school and college leaders claims the government knew about the dangers back in 2018 and has

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across of wales and across much of wales and increasingly now across the midlands . midlands. >> a damp afternoon and evening for ireland and for northern ireland and southwest . the rain is southwest scotland. the rain is clearing away the clearing away from the south—west, but some heavy showers just grazing southernmost counties of england, particularly in the south—east. so may see a heavy downpour here through the night. further north, rain will further north, the rain will tend out, but it'll tend to fizzle out, but it'll make misty, murky make for quite a misty, murky night, night for most. make for quite a misty, murky nigiin night for most. make for quite a misty, murky nigiin northernight for most. make for quite a misty, murky nigiin northern scotlandiost. make for quite a misty, murky nigiin northern scotland turning but in northern scotland turning quite with clear skies quite chilly with clear skies again here. temperatures well down figures could down into single figures could be few mist and fog patches, be a few mist and fog patches, but from but they should clear from northern scotland. sunny northern scotland. then sunny spells across spells murky conditions across much of northern england, parts of southern scotland through the day. rain and drizzle on and off further south could start with some and low it some mist and low cloud. it should up and then should brighten up and then we'll see a sprinkling of showers come the afternoon. feeling humid feeling quite warm and humid here with temperatures in the low 20s 20 or 21 further north in this cloudier zone, temperatures somewhat temperatures struggling somewhat , particularly over northeast england. 15 or 16 celsius. england. only 15 or 16 celsius. but here comes high pressure pushing away at low pressure

systems and that will bring many of us a fine weekend. there'll be some wet weather in the far northwest, but generally turning largely dry , turning sunnier and largely dry, turning sunnier and also a bit warmer. looks also feeling a bit warmer. looks like things are heating up . like things are heating up. >> boxed boilers, proud sponsors of weather on . of weather on. gb news. >> well, what do you make of this? so every teenager in britain could be altered automatically signed up to national service . the plans national service. the plans would see 16 year olds participate in a two week civic exploration trip and complete a number of volunteer hours. so the proposed is for the return of national service have been backed by the leader of the house of commons, penny morden. i personally think this is a good idea. maybe it should be longer than two weeks though, but earlier i took the but earlier i took to the streets to ask people what they thought. reason thought. and the reason is because we've students because we've got students at

the school either not the moment at school either not attending getting bad grades attending or getting bad grades or getting involved with county lines, gangs , etcetera. lines, gangs, etcetera. apparently the pupil referral units, which is basically where we send kids just before we send them to a young offenders institute, is where horror criminal gangs target the next generation of drug dealers and people who are going to go out and continue stab people and continue to stab people to death streets. so those death in our streets. so those aren't also think we aren't working. i also think we have astonishing lack of have an astonishing lack of patriotism country . i patriotism in this country. i think of these things could think all of these things could be by national service. be solved by national service. so and about and so i went out and about and asked people what they made of it. should we bring back national and you national service and why do you think be so good then think it would be so good then get kids off the street, get homeless street, gives homeless off the street, gives everyone something to do. >> do you think even if it wasn't like mandatory for everybody, a good everybody, it might be a good way for children who are, say, at of going young at risk of going into young offenders send offenders units, etcetera. send them, in. them, send them, send them in. >> something to do. >> go give them something to do. if you're going to pay people to do might well do nothing, might as well pay them something. do nothing, might as well pay the well, something. do nothing, might as well pay the well, i something. do nothing, might as well pay the well, i grewething. do nothing, might as well pay the well, i greweth thinking >> well, i grew up thinking i might to do it, but you might have to do it, but you know, because they know, i didn't because they changed the rules. and would

changed the rules. and i would hate to square hate to be having to square bash, etcetera, which my dad, who army, said was who was in the army, said was a complete utter of complete and utter waste of time. wouldn't be in time. so now i wouldn't be in favour it. favour of it. >> you if you don't think >> you know, if you don't think it might a little bit of it might instil a little bit of discipline or national pride into probably it into people, yeah, probably it could, but that could be done by other ways. >> okay . >> okay. >> okay. >> what other ways would you do it? because there's a lot of children at the moment who are slipping net in slipping through the net in school. people as school. a lot of people feel as well though isn't well as though there isn't enough around. enough patriotism around. >> agree with >> yeah, i would agree with that. mean, i was in the that. but i mean, i was in the scouts and you know, i went to church. we should church. maybe we should be investing sorts of investing in those sorts of things instead. >> would be very >> i think it would be very complicated, just because people have like a range of backgrounds and situations . owens i don't and situations. owens i don't think it should be mandatory. i think it should be mandatory. i think it should be mandatory. i think it could be optional. i think it could be optional. i think it could be optional. i think it genuinely depends on the home situation or what the issue is there, because maybe structure and discipline isn't the it might be the way forward and it might be in therapy . in therapy. >> why would you have done national ? national service? >> loved to . yeah,

>> i would have loved to. yeah, i think i was very bored in my teens. >> it would have provided a good outlet for my home situation . outlet for my home situation. >> when i work in a school and i just think that that could really be a progression for it. and i never was against it in any way. yeah. >> you think it might be especially good for some naughty kids? >> no, no. especially i think it's good everybody. it's good for everybody. good background. it's good for everybody. good bac putting . it's good for everybody. good bac putting them it's good for everybody. good bacputting them into some kind >> putting them into some kind of structured environment where they skills, they they can learn skills, they can get they get something on their cv, they can respect other ways. i can get respect in other ways. i think would be very helpful think it would be very helpful when about national when i talk about national service, it doesn't necessarily when i talk about national service, be ioesn't necessarily when i talk about national service, be ioesn't forces.arily when i talk about national service, be ioesn't forces. you have to be armed forces. you know, plenty of know, there are plenty of services police service services like the police service or others that they could order to participate in. so i'm not signing up people sending signing up to people sending children into war. do children to into war. but i do think there are other useful services that nation can benefit from. for those that may be struggling to get employment, you know, you can actually go into that sector instead get a decent salary and get some self—confidence from it as well. >> well, we go . the people

>> well, there we go. the people have spoken, but scheme have spoken, but the scheme was proposed think proposed by conservative think tank i am joined now tank onward. and i am joined now by valentin , senior by francois valentin, senior researcher at onward. so what do you do? national service ? well you do? national service? well thank you so much for having me on, patrick. >> i think fundamentally, the idea we are defending it onward is about having shared experiences for young people all across our country , giving them across our country, giving them an outlet to build a sense of belonging and community that we know they are craving for . know they are craving for. again, i think we need to clarify this would not be military service early on, you had someone saying the army would use for those would have no use for those people. absolutely right would have no use for those peopwould absolutely right would have no use for those peopwould focusing.y right would have no use for those peopwould focusing onight would have no use for those peopwould focusing on having . we would be focusing on having a would be a civic scheme which would be focussed on building skills, on community work, and you know, this would be a two week residential phase with a part time, year long community work on the second phase and i think the questions you asked the people you met were good, good, very representative of the uk as a whole. it is a immensely

popular idea. we've got 57% of respondents backing the idea of national service, even young people who often people say, well, young people don't want to do it. actually, young people are three times more likely to support it than they to support it than they are to oppose it. >> that's important. i think that's important. i just that's important. can i just pause is pause you there? because this is the that actually the thing, right? that actually what on at the what i think is going on at the moment in our younger communities is that all too often they've got broken home lives. divorce rate is massively on the rise, so they're not happy at home and they go to school and they're being made to study subjects that have no interest practical use for interest or practical use for them whatsoever. so they're bored and then they can go out on the streets and there's a ready of and ready supply of drugs and probably cash well. and we probably cash as well. and we end the ongoing stab a end up with the ongoing stab a thon we in this thon that we have in this country the moment the country at the moment and the total breakdown of law and order. think children order. i think what children want is to actually have practical skills to be practical skills and to be enthused and something like national service would be great for them. and it would make them more inclined to actually like

this country as well. so in our report, we kind of identified the three main issues that young people were faced and we call them unskilled , unhappy and them unskilled, unhappy and unmoored and unskilled as you said, there's a kind of gap between what young people learn and the skills they need . and the skills they need. >> the workplace. a lot of those skills know, skills are not, you know, academic they are soft academic skills. they are soft skills. are confidence . and skills. they are confidence. and both employers young people both employers and young people are telling us that there's a gap between what they have and what will need on the what they will need. on the unhappy front, there is a huge what they will need. on the unhapin front, there is a huge what they will need. on the unhapin mentalhere is a huge what they will need. on the unhapin mental health a huge what they will need. on the unhapin mental health crisese what they will need. on the unhapin mental health crises , surge in mental health crises, as i think the number of referrals to mental health for mental health issues has surged to 1.1 million. and again, there's a sense of patriotism which is also waning, and young people themselves feel less patriotic than previous generations. exactly that. generations. yeah exactly that. >> and at the very least, what we would end up with instead of children to sit children being made to sit through another physics through a yet another physics class another whatever class or yet another whatever else , they actually be else, they would actually be able okay maybe able to go look. okay maybe i didn't hugely well didn't do hugely well academically school, but what academically at school, but what you will be able to see is a

reference here from the person who some who helped me to do some national and excelled national service. and i excelled at particular maybe, at this particular thing. maybe, maybe inclined to go and be maybe more inclined to go and be an or a mechanic or an engineer or a mechanic or have some of the practical trades actually need. trades that we actually need. i think two weeks doesn't sound like long enough , though. i like long enough, though. i think i think it's got to be at least two years, isn't it? >> so i'll pick you up on the first part. you're absolutely right. looked plenty of right. we've looked at plenty of international studies, international studies, international experience courses with some kind of civic scheme. and the for money is and the value for money is usually fantastic for every pound you put in, you get 2 to 3 to 4 to 5 back for , you know, to 4 to 5 back for, you know, the returns usually very positive for kids are really happy to have gone for it. employer ability increases increases markedly and so on all those metrics for the feedback we're getting is very positive and we settled on on two weeks rather than two years because i think two years for everyone can be very costly and very hard to implement for logistical feasibility of it would be very

tncky. feasibility of it would be very tricky . and that said, we would tricky. and that said, we would be encouraging people who want to further to do one to take a step further to do one year of optional service, which would allow them to continue and become real leaders in that space. >> fantastic stuff. i think it's a tremendous idea and i think our politicians will be mad not to actually enact this. francois valentin, researcher at valentin, senior researcher at onward. look, i think this could be a fantastic catchment zone for those children who people can see it coming a mile off are going to end up on the streets in a load of trouble with a criminal record. is the criminal record. this is the kind thing we need to be kind of thing that we need to be doing. he said there, the doing. and as he said there, the evidence that those evidence suggests that those children actually want to do it evidence suggests that those chiwell. actually want to do it evidence suggests that those chiwell. but|ally want to do it evidence suggests that those chiwell. but coming1t to do it evidence suggests that those chiwell. but coming up,» do it evidence suggests that those chiwell. but coming up, we it evidence suggests that those chiwell. but coming up, we will as well. but coming up, we will be you the very latest as well. but coming up, we will be the you the very latest as well. but coming up, we will be the ongoingthe very latest as well. but coming up, we will be the ongoing incident latest as well. but coming up, we will be the ongoing incident at est as well. but coming up, we will be the ongoing incident at the on the ongoing incident at the wetherspoon field. seeker wetherspoon field. asylum seeker airbase, been airbase, where there has been reports of an explosion and all three emergency services on the scene. all of that coming our way very shortly. patrick christys gb

news britain's news . channel news britain's news. channel >> welcome back. patrick christys here on gb news with you all the way through until 6 pm. now an explosion at the p.m. now an explosion at the wethersfield airbase was located at a building about 300m from the accommodation used for asylum seekers. it was a disused building previously used by the ministry of defence as an evidence store . our home evidence store. our home security editor, mark white has the very latest on this ongoing breaking news story. mark. >> essex fire and rescue service have now put out a statement . have now put out a statement. they have confirmed that four

different fire crews attended the scene from braintree , the scene from braintree, halstead and saffron walden and also the urban search and rescue team was called out there as well . they've issued more well. they've issued more detail, they say that on arrival, crews found that the pressure in a fire suppression system had built up, which created an explosion as we know, and also created a hole in the roof, which we think is about not a massive hole in the roof, about a foot and a half diameter in the roof that that crews have worked on the site, according to the fire service , is to make the the fire service, is to make the scene safe . no one was injured scene safe. no one was injured or had to be evacuated . we know or had to be evacuated. we know this building, which was housed by the ministry which used to

house the ministry of defence police on site , has was is about police on site, has was is about 300m away from where the main accommodation blocks housed . accommodation blocks housed. asylum seekers are . asylum seekers are. >> yeah, i mean, no doubt this will be a massive setback for the home office looking to house 1700 young men at this site. i can hear now the phone calls coming in to the home office from various different charities and law firms saying you want to put asylum seekers on a base that could explode at any moment i >> -- >> well, there's no doubt. i think this is another embarrassing setback for the home office because clearly we be given that this is in parts a disused site. there are buildings that are not up to standard pretend , really standard pretend, really hazardous that will be used by those who say that no asylum seeker should be housed anywhere near buildings that potentially

are unsafe . if we know, of are unsafe. if we know, of course, that just in recent weeks there were health concerns surrounding the base and outbreak of scabies and even tuberculosis , which have since tuberculosis, which have since we are told, been dealt with satisfaction really that all the protocols worked there. but there's other issues with regard to wethersfield in terms of the fact that they're still trying to refurbish a lot of these accommodation blocks to eventually house 1700 young men. now at the moment we don't believe there's much more than 100 or so asylum seekers on site because of all the problems we've spoken about . it seems we've spoken about. it seems that that pace of moving asylum seekers on to the site has been rather slower than first envisaged and exactly . envisaged and exactly. >> i mean, when people were saying that they didn't think this site was suitable to house asylum fair, asylum seekers, to be fair, i don't think anybody has explosion their bingo cards , explosion on their bingo cards, did they? but alas, that appears

to be what we've had today. all the services are the emergency services are on hand the moment. just hand at the moment. just important we're important to emphasise, as we're aware, aren't aware, there aren't any casualties . casualties. >> n casualties. >> i think as far as >> yes, i mean i think as far as the emergency the initial emergency is concerned, has been dealt concerned, that has been dealt with. the units that are with. some of the units that are there have been seen leaving the site. so there's still some emergency services on site because there was a big response from all three emergency services because they didn't know, obviously , how big this know, obviously, how big this explosion was , whether people explosion was, whether people were actually caught up and injured. that's why you got this very significant emergency service response as they've been able to deal with the actual incident, which was a relatively small explosion that caused some damage to the roof. they've been able to push or pull some of their appliance , his and other their appliance, his and other emergency service vehicles back away from the site. all right. >> well, look, mark, i'll be talking to you in the next hour about any more updates from wethersfield, if you're just joining us. yes. there's been an explosion at that asylum seeker

accommodation , although accommodation centre, although apparently it was in a disused building nobody hurt. building and nobody was hurt. i'll be talking to you i'll also be talking to you about our new defence secretary in hour well. but in the next hour as well. but look, bit light look, a little bit of light relief for you at the end of this hour. this my pick this hour. okay. this is my pick of i just story of the day. i just pick a story for that you might not have for you that you might not have seen or should it be pig of the day? yes that's right. because nuclear the day? yes that's right. because nuclewar the day? yes that's right. because nuclewar in the the day? yes that's right. because nuclewar in the 1960s the day? yes that's right. because nuclewar in the 1960s hase cold war era in the 1960s has found a major of found to be a major cause of high levels of radioactivity in central boar central europe's wild boar population. that is according to new research. so previously the porkers high in radioactivity have been blamed for the 1986 chernobyl disaster. but scientist s from vienna's university of technology and leibniz university of hannover found that their radioactivity is to a significant degree caused by older cold war nuclear bomb blast tests. so yes, there you go. if you are out and about at the moment, watch out . okay. at the moment, watch out. okay. for those radioactive nuclear infused balls that are rampaging across the countryside and also

bad news for truffle eaters as well, because apparently the truffles are in the area. you might now also be eating a radioactive truffle. so there we go. just watch out, everybody. radioactive wild boars are indeed on the loose. so just thought i'd let you know about that as a bit of light relief at the end of the hour. now you're watching and listening to me patrick christys here on gb watching and listening to me patrickplenty/s here on gb watching and listening to me patrickplenty/s herto»n gb watching and listening to me patrickplenty/s herto bring you news. plenty more to bring you in next two hours, including in the next two hours, including all updates the ongoing all the updates from the ongoing incident wethersfield incident at wethersfield airbase. more as well on our national service debate. should we back national we be bringing back national service? are we to you service? are we to talking you about that the ulez about all of that and the ulez cameras? it actually to okay cameras? is it actually to okay hack patrick hack them to pieces? patrick christys. news britain's news hack them to pieces? patrick christys.a news britain's news hack them to pieces? patrick christys.a brighter3ritain's news hack them to pieces? patrick christys.a brighter3ritain's with; channel a brighter outlook with boxt proud sponsors of boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on . gb news alex deakin weather on. gb news alex deakin here with your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. some warm and sunny weather the through the weather on the way through the weekend. before we get weekend. but before we get there, today there, some rain around today across south and the west. across the south and the west. much of scotland, northeast england dry away from england staying dry away from these weather but they these weather fronts, but they

have bringing a fairly dull have been bringing a fairly dull and scene across much of and damp scene across much of wales and increasingly now across a damp across the midlands. a damp afternoon and evening for northern ireland and south west scotland. the rain is clearing away south—west, away from the south—west, but some showers just grazing, some heavy showers just grazing, southernmost counties of england, particularly in the south—east so may see a heavy downpour here through the night. further north, the rain will tend to fizzle out, but it'll make for a misty, murky make for quite a misty, murky night, a mild night for most. but in northern turning but in northern scotland turning quite clear skies quite chilly with clear skies again well again here. temperatures well down single could down into single figures could be and fog patches, be a few mist and fog patches, but from but they should clear from northern sunny northern scotland then. sunny spells murky conditions across much of northern england, parts of southern scotland through the day rain drizzle on and off day. rain and drizzle on and off further south could start with some low cloud. it some mist and low cloud. it should brighten up and then we'll see a sprinkling of showers afternoon . showers come the afternoon. feeling humid feeling quite warm and humid here in the here with temperatures in the low 20 or 21. further north low 20s 20 or 21. further north in this cloudier zone, temperatures struggling somewhat, particularly over north—east england, only 15 or 16 celsius, but here comes high

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gb news. >> it's 4 pm. is patrick christys. it's gb news now . christys. it's gb news now. students have been turfed out of luxury accommodation to make way for asylum seekers. i surely cannot be the only person who thinks it will be a terrible idea to plonk a load of asylum seekers in amongst a group of students during freshers week. but what about this as well? afghan asylum seekers so genuine asylum seekers who actually helped our troops in afghanistan are now being booted out of hotels potentially made homeless in some cases, yet again. so we can make way for people who have just rocked up illegally across the channel. why it that we the channel. why is it that we are doing everything we possibly can at the expense of everybody else to look after channel migrants and we'll also be discussing this story as well. though the hunt is on for two men who are believed to have attempted to abduct an 11 year old off street in south—east

old off the street in south—east london. ian, disturbing stuff, child snatching appears to be on the rise in britain. i'll also be discussing this story as well. we have a new secretary of state for defence grant shapps. what do we make of him? what do we know about him? how fit is he for the job and what is in his brief that will all be coming our very shortly. little our way very shortly. little fact and some good news. fact file and some good news. that's brexit britain that's right. brexit britain is revving that's revving up again. yes, that's right. we are seeing right. so we are seeing an increase car manufacturing increase in car manufacturing liam halligan our very own. we'll explain all of we'll be here to explain all of that brexit news for you that good brexit news for you very shortly. patrick christys . very shortly. patrick christys. gb news always play for this. our loads on the agenda and more on that breaking news coming out of raf wethersfield as well, where reports of an explosion all three emergency services on the scene that is at that asylum seeker base, gbviews@gbnews.com is our email address. get in touch. don't be shy, but right now is your headlines.

>> patrick thank you very much and good afternoon. this is the latest from the newsroom. schools in england immediately shut buildings made with a type of concrete that's prone to collapse until safety measures are in place . some schools will are in place. some schools will have to relocate children to other teaching spaces . more than other teaching spaces. more than 100 schools are being contacted before the start of the new term . education secretary gillian keegan says it's the right thing to do for both pupils and staff . but the association of school and college leaders claims the government knew about the dangers in 2018 and had been too slow to respond . a south wales slow to respond. a south wales police officer faces a criminal investigation for dangerous driving after two teenagers were killed in cardiff. 16 year old kyrees sullivan and 15 year old harvey evans died in may when they crashed on an e—bike cctv captured a police van following the teenagers minutes before the

fatal crash. the officer was previously served with a gross misconduct notice, as was another officer also in the vehicle . staff redundancies vehicle. staff redundancies wilco are due to start next week . the gmb union says it's after the only bid to buy the collapsed retailer fell through. the trade union says many staff will arrive at work for the last time on monday , though it time on monday, though it remains hopeful that a viable buyer could yet come forward. it must continue to prepare for the worst at more than 1000 jobs are at risk . grant shapps has been at risk. grant shapps has been appointed as the new defence secretary following the resignation of ben wallace after four years in the job. he says he wants to explore different opportunities and spend more time with his family in his resignation letter, mr wallace says the ministry of defence is back on the path to being once again world class education minister claire coutinho takes over as energy and net zero secretary, replacing shapps shadow attorney general emily thornberry says the changes are a temporary measure .

a temporary measure. >> it really doesn't matter how many new jobs rishi sunak gives to his friends , it's still to his friends, it's still moving. the deck chairs and there's still a sinking ship . there's still a sinking ship. this country really needs change and the only change that they're going to get is if we get a labour government and we get a labour government and we get a labour government and we get a labour government soon, police officers will be automatically dismissed. >> if they're found guilty of gross misconduct under new government plans, senior officers will have more powers to sack rogue staff and be able to sack rogue staff and be able to dismiss those who fail vetting checks. the government says the changes could be implemented as soon as next spring. police think minister chris philp told gb news that the rules will strengthen the policing system. >> it'll make removal for gross misconduct automatic. it will make sure that specified criminal offences will automatically lead to misconduct and it will streamline and speed up the process for removing young officers either guilty of

or accused of misconduct or indeed of poor performance as well . there will be nowhere for well. there will be nowhere for them to hide and i think that will help. as you say, rebuild pubuc will help. as you say, rebuild public confidence in policing . public confidence in policing. >> thousands of holidaymakers have been waiting for days to get home following delays caused by an air traffic control fault. it's despite airlines schedules returning to normal and backlogs, clearing most flights to the uk from popular destinations , including majorca, destinations, including majorca, crete and sicily are sold out until the weekend, and flights with spare seats cost more than £400, deterring new customer from buying them. the airlines say they're trying to fly people back as quickly as possible . dup back as quickly as possible. dup leader sir jeffrey donaldson , leader sir jeffrey donaldson, has said it's time for change at the head of the police service of northern ireland. he says it's of northern ireland. he says wsfime of northern ireland. he says it's time for simon byrne to go. and the key issue for the policing board now is to determine who's best placed to win back public confidence. a recent court ruling deemed the chief constable disciplinary

actions against two junior officers unlawful. the decision was reportedly driven by concern sinn fein might withdraw support for policing , sparking for policing, sparking accusations of appeasement from unionists. sinn fein denies any suggestion of attempting to influence the matter . and pret influence the matter. and pret a manger has been fined £800, £1,000 after an employee got stuck in a freezer. the worker was trapped for 2.5 hours in a walk in commercial freezer at a store in london in 2021, wearing just jeans and at store in london in 2021, wearing just jeans and a t shirt in temperatures of —18 degrees. she was treated for suspected hypothermia. an investigation found there was no suitable risk assessment for employees working in temperature controlled environment . it's in temperature controlled environment. it's this is gb news across the uk on tv in your car , on digital radio and on car, on digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play your smart speaker by saying play gb news. now it's back to . play gb news. now it's back to. patrick so students are being

denied the chance of moving into luxury accommodation just before the start of their academic yeah >> but the rooms won't be empty . no, that's right, because the home office is reportedly looking to move asylum seekers. obviously into a 405 bed student block in huddersfield. the features are all things a cinema room, a gym . it's got all sorts. room, a gym. it's got all sorts. this place really. it has, hasn't it? which usually costs around £10,000 a year. it comes amid increasing pressure on student housing near university campuses and shadow immigration minister stephen kinnock argues that students are paying the price for the government's reliance on emergency accommodation . an yeah, all accommodation. an yeah, all right, fine. but what about just the general safety risk of cramming a load of people who have just arrived to this country potentially? you know, we don't necessarily know exactly who they are or where they're from or you can almost guarantee of guarantee the vast majority of them be and them are going to be men and plonking an area that plonking them near an area that

is to be populated is going to be populated by quite lot young boozed up quite a lot of young boozed up women. hillman women. but nick hillman is the director education director of the higher education policy and me policy institute and joins me now. nick, can this really be happening university happening that university students who have quite possibly gone an education gone through an education system here, grades in some here, got the grades in some cases, it says here actually secured a tenancy agreement, a very nice student block are being booted out for asylum seekers . seekers. >> i am very, very surprised by this story. >> i've never come across anything quite like it. >> these students had signed contract acts, were getting ready to move in for the new academic year and they've had the rug literally pulled from under their feet. i think it's very strange and i think it reflects the fact that students often fall through the gaps between different government departments . departments. >> the home office doesn't particularly care about students, but sadly, the education department and the housing department haven't fixed this either . this either. >> i mean, it just seems absolutely bizarre, though, doesn't it ? surely there must be doesn't it? surely there must be other forms of accommodation.

how can it be right that students turfed out you know, just before the start of an academic year, but also in some cases still being made to live in proximity? i mean, i can see this coming now that i'm going to end up talking a story to end up talking about a story in not too distant future in the not too distant future where some kind where there has been some kind of desperately situation of desperately sad situation occurring involving somebody who's just arrived this who's just arrived to this country and somebody who has been a vulnerable student, potentially in of potentially in a state of distress after night out . distress after a night out. >> well, i think there's a lot of sense in what you say. of course, we expect that the home office to use some unused student accommodation blocks, but this is not just an unused student accommodation block. this is a student accommodation block that's been pretty full in recent years. and huddersfield field was recently, earlier this week, declared to be an amber risk, orange risk of not having enough student beds this year. so i don't think this is the right solution option to fix the home offices problem of course

not processing people quickly enough and deciding what to do with them. >> so you think that this area was already struggling for student accommodation then? initially and then now this has made it worse ? made it worse? >> well, if you'd asked me a few weeks ago, i would have said huddersfield actually probably did of spare accommodation. >> but as i say, earlier this week , the guy who knows more week, the guy who knows more about student accommodation than anybody else alive , a man called anybody else alive, a man called martin blakey, said huddersfield was at risk of running out of rooms, and that's partly because students live in huddersfield when they're studying in other places, too. >> some manchester students live in huddersfield, for example, not only huddersfield. >> students who live in huddersfield. >> i just find it absolutely bonkers that the only human rights that seem to be preserved in this country are the human rights people have rights of people who have arrived mean, arrived here illegally. i mean, we've students have we've got students who have supposedly contracts supposedly signed contracts saying this is theirs for saying that this is theirs for the year, will have paid a decent amount money for it,

decent amount of money for it, will very to will have worked very hard to get the situation where they get to the situation where they can actually get to a university to study, rack up to study, to rack up a lifetime's worth of debt. and then the opportunity then they have the opportunity to with a gym to live in a place with a gym and cinema room. and instead and a cinema room. and instead people are now just going to be moving in, despite the fact that they've only just arrived here. i it absolutely bonkers. they've only just arrived here. i aboutolutely bonkers. they've only just arrived here. i aboutolutely bonirights of what about the human rights of the students? i tell you what will fascinating, though, will be fascinating, though, is that the that i imagine that the demographics the students demographics of the students would hashtag would normally be the hashtag refugees welcome brigade, perhaps that might change if they start to see this affecting them . them. >> well, actually, some of the students in that block would have been highly likely to be international students themselves . themselves. >> so not necessarily >> so this is not necessarily brit versus people from other countries. >> many of them will have been international students. >> what would to see is >> what i would like to see is the office sitting around a the home office sitting around a table with the education department, with the housing department, with university parties, and actually all the heads being knocked together to come to a more sensible solution than kicking students out who've signed a contract, who deserve

to have some accommodation that they've got ready to pay for some money, has already changed hands and they're having to have refunds where are those students going to live now? >> i hope they'll find somewhere else to live. >> but, you know, term is term starts pretty soon. >> term starts pretty soon. and i anybody that if i think anybody can see that if accommodate should around accommodate should cost around £10,000 i'm sorry, but £10,000 a year. i'm sorry, but i think that that is probably a bit too good being used bit too good to be being used for the current situation that we have at the moment. but i do thank you very much for coming on at the top of this hour. nick hillman, the director of the higher policy higher education policy institute. follows institute. and it also follows an we've got with afghan an issue we've got with afghan asylum being booted asylum seekers being booted out of way for of hotels to make way for channel migrants yet again. now, what's to them? channel migrants yet again. now, whethey to them? channel migrants yet again. now, whethey just to them? channel migrants yet again. now, whethey just going to them? channel migrants yet again. now, whethey just going t

engaging with local authorities and stakeholders as part and key stakeholders as part of this process. don't we just and key stakeholders as part of this jup:ess. don't we just and key stakeholders as part of this jup:ess. ritz? don't we just and key stakeholders as part of this jup:ess. ritz? seriouslyjust offer up the ritz? seriously i mean, it will be a matter of time before that's all. that's left. huddersfield university have a statement as well. have issued a statement as well. huddersfield has sufficient student meet huddersfield has sufficient stumeeds meet huddersfield has sufficient stumeeds of meet huddersfield has sufficient stumeeds of our meet huddersfield has sufficient stumeeds of our students meet huddersfield has sufficient stumeeds of our students and et the needs of our students and there are currently vacancies available. fine. but where available. yeah fine. but where and do those vacancies all have and do those vacancies all have a cinema room and a gym? but but new figures today show that car production in the uk increased by a third compared to by almost a third compared to a year this is a little year ago. so this is a little bit of brexit. britain good news with twist. marks the sixth with a twist. it marks the sixth consecutive month of growth , consecutive month of growth, with than 76,000 vehicles with more than 76,000 vehicles rolled off production lines last month. car makers have been month. uk car makers have been hit by a global shortage of chips the pandemic. but with chips and the pandemic. but with increased demand for electrified cars , the future is looking cars, the future is looking promising for the british car production. right. let's get more this now with gb news more of this now with gb news business and economics editor liam on the money liam halligan with on the money . okay. right. decent news then. this is good news, patrick. >> the british car industry

directly and in the supply chain and so on. it employs the thick end of a million people. well, we are still a major car maker, albeit that most of the car makers in this country, they are actually owned by companies overseas . these but putting that overseas. these but putting that aside, it still generates huge tax revenue for the uk. you know, good skilled jobs , often know, good skilled jobs, often in parts of the country where there aren't lots of good skilled jobs . let's have a look skilled jobs. let's have a look at some of the numbers . and at some of the numbers. and these the smmt , the these are from the smmt, the society of motor manufacturers and traders , as the of go and traders, as the kind of go to place . plug in hybrids that you've got a bit of a you've got a motor in there and a battery, but you also use petrol or diesel. they made up 40% of the cars made in

july. so 2/5 an 85% of the cars we produced in july and throughout the year, they're actually shipped overseas. so it's not as if they're all being sold in the uk. on the contrary. but that's good. that earns us foreign exchange revenue that keeps the exchange rate firm britain paying its way. and to according smmt. they don't according smmt. and they don't just these things just make these things up, they're authoritative. they they're very authoritative. they reckon on for 860,000 cars reckon we're on for 860,000 cars in total output for this year. that's 11% up in total output for this year. that's11% up on in total output for this year. that's 11% up on 2022. not back to pre—pandemic levels when we were basically punting out over a million cars a year. but this is a very credible fightback by the british car making industry i >> -- >> no, indeed. and it is a reason to be cheerful, i think, isn't it? there is a lot of doom and gloom out there at the moment. i'm aware of that. but i think it's important not to lose sight of things when they're going well. >> yeah, we've we've been >> yeah, we've been we've been reporting events reporting all day on events at wilko, the major street wilko, the major high street chain, of people chain, when lots of people worried their jobs, worried about their jobs,

rightly employees, rightly so, 12,500 employees, 400 i personally think 400 branches. i personally think a those employees will a lot of those employees will keep jobs. i think keep theirjobs. i think a lot of the stores will be taken over by other discount chains. but just to cars, it's just to go back to cars, it's interesting. patrick i said there that 2/5 of cars made in there that 2/5 of cars made in the uk are now evs, electric vehicles or hybrids. we've got this ban on looming on the honzon this ban on looming on the horizon 2030 where new petrol and diesel cars will be outlawed. let's just say that again , that wasn't a mistake . again, that wasn't a mistake. new petrol and diesel cars will be outlawed in this country. apparently by 2030. yeah it's not going to happen. it will be pushed back and one reason it will be pushed back is because the public isn't buying it. you've now got with all these evs being produced , of course, evs being produced, of course, the making industry is going the car making industry is going nuts this stuff, but you've nuts for this stuff, but you've actually got dealers now saying there are too many electric vehicles . yeah, we can't sell vehicles. yeah, we can't sell them. this is virtually few motors. they include brands including bristol street, motors, other marques that we know very, very well. they're now saying the supply of new and

electric vehicles is outstripping demand, forcing manufacturers to slash prices in an effort to shift stock . recent an effort to shift stock. recent increase supply of new evs appears to be exceeding retail demand , creating an imbalance in demand, creating an imbalance in pipeline inventory, the company said . even elon musk , tesla's said. even elon musk, tesla's they are now being discounted and a lot of this , i think, is and a lot of this, i think, is because a lot you know, they're out of range for lots of ordinary families anyway in terms of the price and that word range looms large because of so—called range anxiety often the amount of distance you can travel on. one charge isn't what the manufacturers say it is. it's often quite a lot less in reality. and of course , there reality. and of course, there aren't nearly enough charging points being rolled out. so we are doing well. we are producing lots of cars. we are motoring towards that pre—pandemic level of a million cars a year. we may get there in the next couple of years. that's a really good comeback because a lot of people said no way will the british car

industry come back. a lot of industry come back. but a lot of these evs, we're making it doesn't to demand for them. >> no, this is it. but it's also about impact on people's lives. on tuesday, i was in bromley and people talking there people were just talking there about people's about the impact on people's lives. cameras going up lives. ulez cameras going up near so it's going near a cemetery. so it's going to cost £12.50 to visit your to cost you £12.50 to visit your mum's grave for goodness sake, which disgusting. which is, i think, disgusting. and you've got the general and then you've got the general impact people's that is impact on people's lives that is going taken different going to have taken different routes the cost of it to routes or the cost of it to local businesses. are they going to lower footfall to see a lower footfall because fewer coming in and fewer people are coming in and now looking electric now you're looking at electric vehicles you're going vehicles as well. you're going to to thinking taking to have to start thinking taking more and time out more pre—planning and time out of day is this charged up? of your day is this charged up? have got enough range? what have i got enough range? what about something unexpected have i got enough range? what about si've�*thing unexpected have i got enough range? what about si've suddenlyxpected have i got enough range? what about si've suddenlyxpectoj have i got enough range? what about si've suddenlyxpe(to go happens, i've suddenly got to go to end the country to the other end of the country and like you said, aren't and people like you said, aren't buying don't it. buying it. they don't want it. >> let me say something >> well, let me say something heretical. done the heretical. i've done the reporting bit. let me give you a bit of an opinion bit as somebody that's followed the british 30 odd british car industry for 30 odd years, younger, i'm older years, as i'm younger, i'm older than i don't reckon than i look, um, i don't reckon that evs are necessary. the way to all right. the

to go. all right. the governments across the world, they're throwing subsidies at evs. manufacturers really evs. manufacturers are really going it. does it really going for it. does it really make sense transport around make sense to transport around a half tonne battery? no. does that make sense? does it make sense to build cars, evs that use five times more copper than conventional cars that use these rare earths, these minerals that are found in the central african republic? >> and who's mining china ? >> and who's mining china? >> and who's mining china? >> difficult places, places that aren't always, with all respect , friendly towards the west. i think other technologies will break through . and it strikes me break through. and it strikes me that the government, by not just backing evs, but pretty much saying you have to have one by law, by 2030 if you want to buy a new car, that's never the way to go. one final example. do you remember maybe you're a bit young. there those young. there were those fluorescent bulbs you fluorescent light bulbs as you had traditional light bulbs. they were banned in two thousand and the eu. we had to and seven by the eu. we had to all fluorescent ones. they all get fluorescent ones. they turned be useless. but turned out to be useless. but a few years later, hey presto, technology out with led technology came out with led far better had to throw away better and we had to throw away . been forced to buy all

. having been forced to buy all those light bulbs. those fluorescent light bulbs. i've a drawer them i've got a drawer full of them at home. i've got a drawer full of them at ithanks for that. i'm not >> thanks for that. i'm not surprised. i this is the surprised. i mean, this is the thing well for anybody who's thing as well for anybody who's got stuff, i just got faith in this stuff, i just ask you, have faith in ask you, do you have faith in politicians? a lot of the time? because those are the people who are making a these are making a lot of these decisions. and if you answer that no more, then that question, no more, then i'm afraid the future is afraid probably the future is not particularly bright. not looking particularly bright. if all of these if you're backing all of these big agendas. big green agendas. but liam, thank liam our thank you, liam halligan, our economics business editor economics and business editor now should every now coming up, should every teenager britain signed teenager in britain be signed up to the idea is to national service? the idea is being by leader the being backed by a leader of the house commons and

britain's news. channel well , every teenager britain's news. channel well, every teenager in britain could be automatically signed up to national service . to national service. >> the plans would see 16 year olds participate in a two week civic exploration trip and complete a number of volunteer hours. look what does all of this really mean in common? speak essentially things like task building, etcetera. but i think we should go one step further and actually make it the kind of national service that i think people think about. think most people think about. okay. army, okay. which is joining the army, joining forces. it's joining the armed forces. it's still of discipline in still a bit of discipline in them. keep them out of the clutches of these drug gangs and also little bit more also make them a little bit more patriotic than we are patriotic than they are. we are sleeping towards disaster, i think lot of different think in a lot of different aspects this nation right aspects in this nation right now. and frankly, a load of other appear to be other people appear to be willing, willing to willing, perfectly willing to indoctrinate children with transgender ideology. and goodness what else. why goodness knows what else. so why can't nation do a bit of

can't this nation do a bit of positive indoctrination as well and get them singing the national actually national anthem and actually learning this? learning how to defend this? dear itook learning how to defend this? dear i took to the dear nation? but i took to the streets today ask whether or streets today to ask whether or not should back not we should bring back national service . do you think national service. do you think it will be so good that gets national service. do you think it wi offe so good that gets national service. do you think it wi off the good that gets national service. do you think it wi off the street, hat gets national service. do you think it wi off the street, gets|ets kids off the street, gets homeless off the street, gives everyone something to do? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and think even if it >> and do you think even if it wasn't mandatory for wasn't like mandatory for everybody, might a good everybody, it might be a good way children who are way for our children who are say, going into young say, at risk of going into young offenders to offenders units, etcetera, to send send them, them send them, send them, send them in, go give them something to do. >> if you're to going pay people to do nothing, you as well to do nothing, you might as well pay to do nothing, you might as well pay something. pay them to do something. >> well, i grew up thinking i might have to do it, but, you know, i didn't they know, i didn't because they changed rules. and i would changed the rules. and i would hate square hate to be having to square bash, etcetera, my dad, bash, etcetera, which my dad, who army, was who was in the army, said was a complete and utter waste of time. so now wouldn't be in time. so now i wouldn't be in favour it, you know, in favour of it, you know, in favour, you don't think it might instil little bit instil a little bit of discipline national pride discipline or national pride into people? >> yeah, probably it could, but that other that could be done by other ways. are the ways ways. okay. what are the ways would you do it? because there's

a of children at the moment a lot of children at the moment who through the net who are slipping through the net in a lot people feel in school. a lot of people feel as well as though there isn't enough around. as well as though there isn't enoyeah, around. as well as though there isn't enoyeah, i around. as well as though there isn't enoyeah, i would around. as well as though there isn't enoyeah, i would arourwith >> yeah, i would agree with that. i was in the that. but i mean, i was in the scouts and i went to church. maybe we should be investing in those sorts things instead. those sorts of things instead. >> it would be very >> i think it would be very complicated. and just because people a range of people will have like a range of backgrounds and situations, i don't think it should be mandatory. i think it could be optional. i think it genuinely depends situation depends on the home situation and the issue is. there and what the issue is. there because structure and because maybe structure and discipline way discipline isn't the way forward. might be in therapy i >> would you have done national service? >> i would have loved to, yeah. i think i was very bored in my teens. i think i was very bored in my teens . it would have provided teens. it would have provided a good outlet for my home situation. >> i work in a school and ijust >> i work in a school and i just think that that could really be a progression for it. and i never was against it in any way. >> yeah. you think it might be especially good for some naughty kids? no no. >> i think it's good

>> especially i think it's good for everybody. good background. yeah. into some yeah. putting them into some kind environment kind of structured environment where skills, where they can learn skills, they something their they can get something on their cv, respect in cv, they can get respect in other ways. >> i think it would be very helpful talk about helpful when i talk about national doesn't national service, it doesn't necessarily to armed necessarily have to be armed forces. you know, there are plenty of services like the police service others police service or others that they could participate in. they could also participate in. so signing up to people so i'm not signing up to people sending children war, sending children to into war, but i do think there other but i do think there are other useful services that nation can benefit from. for those that may benefit from. for those that may be struggling to get employment , you know, you can actually go into that sector instead, get a decent salary and get some self—confidence from it well. self—confidence from it as well. yes >> well, there we go. i mean, there was an overwhelmingly positive response to that. pete has in the inbox. gb has been on in the inbox. gb views and peter, views a gbnews.com and peter, you're after my own heart. you're a man after my own heart. anyone with knife anyone caught with a knife straight into national service. minimum. suppose minimum. six months, i suppose the to that peter, might the counter to that peter, might be that we then train that knife holder. how to use a gun and that could end up posing more issues on the streets. but i

actually take your point at face value. i was having a look at the pupil referral units as well. so we have a lot of issues with unruly children in schools at the moment, kids who maybe come from broken homes, maybe they they've adhd they say that they've got adhd or whatever, or maybe they're just annoying violent or whatever, or maybe they're just those1noying violent or whatever, or maybe they're just those people violent or whatever, or maybe they're just those people are .ent or whatever, or maybe they're just those people are now brats. those people are now being swept up by drugs, gangs in pupil referral units . so in pupil referral units. so they're using them as like a kind of training ground and then they go and be using county lines, drug dealing and whatever else, and start waving knives around at notting hill festival like saw the weekend. so like we saw over the weekend. so if specify physically if we specify physically targeted children well targeted those children as well and national and put them into national service, them of service, gave them a bit of discipline, them bit of discipline, gave them a bit of order, taught them a practical trade. you know, i think one of the for kids here the biggest issues for kids here as is, is boredom. we make as well is, is boredom. we make them in a classroom and them sit in a classroom and learn about geography when actually will be actually what they will be better being out and better doing is being out and about learning something and keeping colt joins about learning something and kee now. colt joins about learning something and kee now. combatcolt joins about learning something and kee now. combat veteran s about learning something and kee now. combat veteran who's me now. a combat veteran who's a regular news. trevor, regular here on gb news. trevor, great see you. thank you very great to see you. thank you very , very look, where do you

, very much. look, where do you stand on the of national stand on the idea of national service? it's a service? do you think it's a good or a bad thing? oh good thing or a bad thing? oh first of all, patrick, thank you for having me on. >> it's, um, i'm sort of split because, , if you want to because, um, if you want to start national service, i'm a firm believer that you get the people coming across on our boats they want to earn boats if they want to earn a british passport or british citizenship, then maybe let them serve and help serve in our country and help fix military. so i look at fix our military. so i look at it from that point of view. and then again, we lots of men then again, we have lots of men coming far as coming across. so as far as children are concerned , i think coming across. so as far as chiineed are concerned , i think coming across. so as far as chiineed toe concerned , i think coming across. so as far as chiineed to fix ncerned , i think coming across. so as far as chiineed to fix educationi think coming across. so as far as chiineed to fix education first. < we need to fix education first. i mean, jesus, patrick, our politicians don't even know what a woman is, how we met the these what if these guys join army what if these guys join the army and identify as a female? and then identify as a female? you know, what the hell? what the do we do with these the hell do we do with these with um. today's with these kids? um. today's children broken from children are broken from education and not necessarily from their parents, from from their parents, but from education. them . i education. we see them. i watched your last segment, so we're seeing students kicked out and people being put in their homes. have we got? those homes. what have we got? those people over people that were taking over student accommodation made

student accommodation and made them in the british armed them serve in the british armed forces help lift our country forces and help lift our country at the minute. um you mean we've now got a transport guy in charge of the military, maybe charge of the military, so maybe he could help? um, there's so much going on. i'm sort of. i looked at today, but whenever i got your message and i looked at it, cost £37,000 to train an ordinary soldier. there's1 million children having mental health issues . if we were to health issues. if we were to bnng health issues. if we were to bring them into the military, where do we put them? we have disbanded. we have disbanded that many units and got away and got rid of thousands and thousands of soldiers were do we put these kids now? you know, there's not enough battalions for them all. and i think i think what's interesting is something that you said there, trevor ashley, is about whether or not we should be putting channel migrants or asylum seekers through some kind of national service because national service because national service because national service is not just about the military. >> right. i mean, that is kind of the parameters of the discussion that been

discussion that we've been having it's about all having here. but it's about all sorts different stuff. sorts of different stuff. national can be things national service can be things to do with police. can to do with the police. it can just quite just to be do with quite literally some form of national service for the country, which is patriotism in is still a bit of patriotism in you as well. i mean, maybe that's quite a idea. trevor that's quite a good idea. trevor well, patrick, i mean, sit and chat to you every other week. >> with some great >> we come up with some great ideas, nothing's ever ideas, but nothing's ever implemented. are at implemented. we are seeing at the minute our politicians now i'm going to say this and i know i'm going to say this and i know i'm going to say this and i know i'm going get a knock on my i'm going to get a knock on my door by police , but our door by the police, but our politicians have us. they politicians have failed us. they have country and i'm have failed our country and i'm probably going to get arrested very but country very shortly. but our country needs coup. need a coup. we needs a coup. we need a coup. we needs a coup. we need a coup. we need to get veterans out there to these politicians to remove these politicians because are destroy ing because they are destroy ing our country. letting country. they're letting people come are now taking over come in who are now taking over our education, taking over our houses, luxury apartments, students kicked out, students being kicked out, living veterans camps . living in veterans camps. they're living disused they're living in disused military sites . are are military sites. are are services, armed services , services, armed services, accommodation is falling apart and do you know what? there's no way i can't anything way i can't see anything positive if i'm honest. patrick

well, there are. >> you know what, trevor? i mean, obviously i'm going to just say that you know, i think that we don't necessarily need a coup. think that's probably coup. i think that's probably enough of trouble enough to get us out of trouble there. you know, there are there. but you know, there are there. but you know, there are there are some positive elements of there are positive of it. there are positive elements, think, because there of it. there are positive ele|people think, because there of it. there are positive ele|people slillik, because there of it. there are positive ele|people still like acause there of it. there are positive ele|people still like you se there of it. there are positive ele|people still like you in there are people still like you in this believe that this world who believe that there something there is something worth fighting for when comes fighting for when it comes to this country. and there's something that's worth protecting that's something that's worth preserving, even if, unfortunately, decisions are made more made by people much more important that may important than we are. that may be at times mean that it makes our difficult our lives more difficult going forward. army forward. but, you know, the army or military in general or the military in general surely people bit of surely can teach people a bit of discipline well. and i do discipline as well. and i do think trevor, that think trevor, as well that boredom big factor for boredom is a big factor for a lot of kids. i know that, you know, my mum always said to me, only boring people get bored and i understand. i think i understand. but i do think that if kids are made day in, day out to go and sit in a classroom and study something that absolutely then that they absolutely hate, then you it's you are going to end up it's going lot more likely going to be a lot more likely that kids decide that they're going go to the wrong side going to go on to the wrong side

of law. if you actually of the law. but if you actually taught them something practical, kept them active, and kept them fit and active, and you bit of discipline you did have a bit of discipline from some bloke might be from some bloke who might be shouting them saying, you've from some bloke who might be sho tong them saying, you've from some bloke who might be sho to iron them saying, you've from some bloke who might be sho to iron yourn saying, you've from some bloke who might be sho to iron your shirt ing, you've from some bloke who might be sho to iron your shirt and you've got to iron your shirt and poush got to iron your shirt and polish boots. that could do polish your boots. that could do them a bit party again, them a bit of good party again, that sense. that makes sense. >> to going go back to >> but i'm to going go back to 2014. whenever i was starting to leave military, i worked in leave the military, i worked in colchester, the colchester, known as the glasshouse, which is a military prison. go there and prison. so let's go to there and people arrested and people were getting arrested and sent for misdemeanours. sent to jail for misdemeanours. it stage that in jail it got to the stage that in jail the army made a decision that you weren't allowed to make detainees. bill their boots and their stuff . you weren't allowed their stuff. you weren't allowed to them and shine to make them polish and shine things that was classed things because that was classed as purpose. it wasn't as on purpose. it wasn't purposeful activity. so even prisoners were being told that you can't tell them what to do and you can't shout at them. and even the prisoners were handing sergeants reds and yellow cards. so yeah, if we did bring back national service for children, 16 year olds, plus it would be i would say that human rights lawyers would open up a shop ,

probably. >> but, you know, i think i think we'd start to see the benefits of it. i think if kids actually if kids were given a choice between that or going to a young offenders unit, then maybe they'd start doing but maybe they'd start doing it. but trevor, to have to trevor, we're going to have to leave there. my man. leave it there. my good man. thank you much. always thank you very much. always a pleasure. trevor cole, who is a combat now, look, combat veteran. now, look, coming shortly, we will coming up very shortly, we will be discussing our new defence secretary, was secretary, grant shapps, who was described a former described there by as a former transport man. hopefully he's better organising better at organising the military trains, military than he was the trains, but ben wallace but he's replaced ben wallace right as right now, though, as he headunes. right now, though, as he headlines . patrick thank you headlines. patrick thank you very much. >> this is the latest from the gb news room. breaking news. the boss of easyjet has demanded that a full independent review is launched into the air traffic control failure that happened earlier week . the airline's earlier this week. the airline's chief executive said the incident, which wrecked the travel of around a quarter travel plans of around a quarter of million people, must not of a million people, must not happen again . schools in england happen again. schools in england must immediately shut buildings made of made with a type of

aerated concrete that's prone to collapse until safety measures are in place. more than 100 schools are being contacted before the start of the new term. the education secretary says it's the right thing to do for both pupils and staff . if for both pupils and staff. if and grant shapps has been appointed as the new defence secretary following the resignation of ben wallace , resignation of ben wallace, education minister claire coutinho takes over as energy and net zero secretary, replacing shapps. and net zero secretary, replacing shapps . you can get replacing shapps. you can get more on all of those stories by visiting our website, gbnews.com i >> -- >>a >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on . gb news alex deakin here on. gb news alex deakin here with your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. >> some warm and sunny weather on the way through the weekend. but before there, some but before we get there, some rain across the rain around today across the south the west. much of

south and the west. much of scotland, northeast england staying away these staying dry away from these weather have weather fronts. but they have been bringing a fairly dull and damp much wales damp scene across much of wales , increasingly now the , increasingly now across the midlands , a damp afternoon and midlands, a damp afternoon and evening for northern and evening for northern ireland and southwest . the rain is southwest scotland. the rain is clearing from the clearing away from the south—west, some heavy south—west, but some heavy showers just grazing southernmost counties of england, particularly in the south—east. so may see a heavy downpour here through the night. further north, the rain will tend fizzle out, but it'll tend to fizzle out, but it'll make misty, murky make for quite a misty, murky night, mild night for most, night, a mild night for most, but scotland turning but in northern scotland turning quite chilly with clear skies again temperatures well again here. temperatures well down figures down into single figures could be mist fog patches, be a few mist and fog patches, but should clear but they should clear from northern scotland. then sunny spells conditions across spells murky conditions across much of northern england, parts of southern scotland through the day. rain and drizzle on and off further south could with further south could start with some low it some mist and low cloud. it should brighten up and then we'll see a sprinkling of showers afternoon. showers come the afternoon. feeling and humid feeling quite warm and humid here temperatures in the here with temperatures in the low 20s 20 or 21 further north in this cloudier zone, temperatures struggling somewhat , particularly over north—east

england, only 15 or 16 celsius. but here comes high pressure pushing at low pressure pushing away at low pressure systems and that will bring many of us a fine weekend. there'll be some wet weather in the far northwest, but generally turning largely dry , turning sunnier largely dry, turning sunnier and also feeling a bit warmer. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on . on. gb news. >> well, number 10 has appointed grant shapps as our new defence secretary after ben wallace's resignation this morning . it is, resignation this morning. it is, believe it or not, his fifth cabinet post in a year or so in september 2022, he was removed as transport secretary. then he was appointed home secretary for six days. in the same month he was made business secretary in february 23rd. he was made energy security secretary and today he becomes defence

secretary. good stuff . the secretary. good stuff. the former head of the british army , lord dannatt, has asserted that he knows very little about defence, but i mean, when's that ever stopped him from taking a job?i ever stopped him from taking a job? i suppose . but grant shapps job? i suppose. but grant shapps has already reaffirmed the mod support for ukraine, which, as far as i can tell, is all you need to do to be popular in britain right now. drape yourself in ukrainian flag yourself in the ukrainian flag and be that. get your and that'll be that. get your photo next zelenskyy photo taken next to zelenskyy and jobs are good'un. anyway, he says he's going to fight says that he's going to fight against putin's barbaric invasion stuart crawford, invasion in stuart crawford, defence former defence analyst and former british officer me british army officer is with me now. does shapps know now. does grant shapps know anything about defence ? anything about defence? >> i suspect lord dannatt is absolutely correct and he knows very little about defence. but i would say in his defence, if i may , that you don't have to need may, that you don't have to need need to know a great deal as the old saying goes, you don't have to know how the ship's engine works if you're captain of the ship. but you need to know what

it can do and if he can answer that and the conundrum, then he'll be off to a good start. >> yeah, i mean, i can't help but feel, though, that politics is a bit of a weird thing. like, you know, if you want an operation in doing, you know, you don't just rope in a bloke off the street to oversee what a surgeon is doing. do you surgeon is doing. do you? you get an aeroplane and you want get on an aeroplane and you want to holiday and then, you to go on holiday and then, you know, of a sudden tracey, know, all of a sudden tracey, who at the co—op, who normally works at the co—op, is the thing. why is is flying the thing. why is politics the sector of politics the only sector of society don't employ society where you don't employ someone who absolutely is an expert run the expert in their field to run the department that they're in charge accommodate of factors? >> i mean, you know, it's well known that shapps is a is a chum of the prime minister's and in politics all over the world, loyalty sometimes overcomes or is preferred to ability . the is preferred to ability. the truth of the matter is that the other two prospects, particularly penny mordaunt, who i think most of the armed forces would have welcomed as the new

defence secretary , are too defence secretary, are too powerful and that would have given her a springboard possibly to challenge for the leadership of the conservative party. so i think that's why she has been avoided . i mean, grant shapps is avoided. i mean, grant shapps is the sort of, you know, one size fits all. he's been minister for everything and with the general election looming next year, he may not be in post for very long anyway . anyway. >> well, i think well, i think i'm right in saying he was home secretary for six days. i would like to know again what on earth he'd managed to impact when he was transport secretary removed in september 2022, october 22nd, appointed home secretary for six days, same month he was made days, yet same month he was made business secretary then he was energy security secretary. we we're not massively energy secure, are we? actually as well, which is something that might in all of might be worth noting in all of this. and i can't but this. and i can't help but wonder as well whether or not he's the job by telling he's got the job by telling rishi worry, rishi sunak, don't worry, i won't ask for any more funding for defence. for our defence. >> well, that would be worrying if that was the case because

defence is, as you as we well know, and we've discussed it before, patrick is not the happiest department of government in the uk at the moment. underfunded under resourced and in many ways unloved . and that's perhaps unloved. and that's perhaps because the old adage that there are no votes in defence applies. so i would hope very sincerely that he would be batting on behalf of the men and women that he now represents. but whether there is any slack in the system is another question altogether . is another question altogether. >> does it matter? do you think that people who are in our military would have wanted another person as defence secretary? i mean, do you think they should be consulted at all? because surely you've got to respect the person who's running the show . the show. >> yes, well i guess that i mean people in the military are consulted via general elections when they, when they obviously vote for the party government that that they prefer . that that they prefer. >> and i don't think that if we

got down to the sort of idea of voting for the next secretary of state for defence amongst armed forces personnel, state for defence amongst armed forces personnel , that would be forces personnel, that would be a very good way to go. but i think that the armed forces personnel will have views as and if they're being properly led, then those views will be represented through the senior command. >> okay . all right. and i mean, >> okay. all right. and i mean, look what what score would you give him in comparison to ben wallace? i mean, if we where is he on the scale of, you know, nought being whoever else and ten being ben wallace . ten being ben wallace. >> oh, well, i wouldn't, i mean, i wouldn't give ben wallace ten. i'd have ben wallace done about five i think. and yes, yes. because he's i mean, you know the old chinese proverb , loud the old chinese proverb, loud thunder. but few raindrops applies. i think . i think he applies. i think. i think he talked a good show . he was talked a good show. he was welcomed in by armed forces personnel because of his background and albeit at a junior officer level . and

junior officer level. and everybody hoped that had high hopes that he'd sort things out . but he proved unable to do very much at all apart from his sort of unwavering support from ukraine. >> well , this is it, isn't it? >> well, this is it, isn't it? this is this is it. it's fascinating, isn't it, that i think grant shapps has got the memo, which is in order to succeed in british politics at the moment, you have to make it very clear much you love very clear how much you love ukraine. but thank very much ukraine. but thank you very much for that is, of forjoining me. that is, of course, stuart crawford, their defence analyst former defence analyst and former british army officer. a relatively review of relatively scathing review of grant shapps who doubt in grant shapps who no doubt in about days time will about six days time will just have job. you're have another job. you're watching listening watching and listening to gb news. next, donald trump is news. now, next, donald trump is the man to save the west. that's according to hungarian prime minister viktor orban. we will be discussing this and much, much more next. i'm patrick christys on gb news. we are britain's news .

sunday mornings from 930 on. gb news, the hungarian prime minister has claimed there is no way that ukraine will win the war against russia. >> in an exclusive interview with tucker carlson, viktor orban said that there is only one person that can save the western world and that person is donald trump. joining me now is former adviser to donald trump, sebastian gorka. sam is always fantastic to have you on the show. is donald trump the saviour of the west ?

saviour of the west? >> well, if you just look at the four years that he was in the white house, you know, facts speak for themselves. wolves. we had a border that actually functioned . we had the strongest functioned. we had the strongest economy the world had ever seen. just by any measure. and guess what? no new wars . one of the what? no new wars. one of the platforms of president trump as a candidate was secure the border, make america great again. and one of the key things is he said is no more stupid wars. and it's really weird that , you know, the first time putin invaded georgia, bush was in power. the first time that he invaded ukraine, obama was in power and then we're here for four years in the white house. and putin doesn't do anything. little kim is put back in his box in north korea , we declare box in north korea, we declare a trade war with china for their exploitative policies . and guess exploitative policies. and guess what? president trump leaves office and putin invades ukraine again. so i think the facts speak for themselves that if you want the world to be a safer

place, you need an alpha male like my former boss back in the oval office . oval office. >> yeah. i mean, is there something to be said for the fact that actually alpha males should be in positions of power? do you think? >> well, look, i stole a phrase, a motto from the us marine corps when we were in the white house to describe the, you know, the arrival of team maga , team arrival of team maga, team america first in the west wing. and i said , no better friend, no and i said, no better friend, no worse enemy. and it's not just, you know, orban in hungary. we've got the leader of the opposition, the guy likely opposition, the guy who's likely to argentine to unseat the argentine president. we've got javier melaye saying the greatest threat to the west right now is joe biden. okay so it's very clear . you know, it's clear when clear. you know, it's clear when you've got a doddering senile old guy who doesn't know where he is half the time in control of the nuclear football , all our of the nuclear football, all our allies are afraid and the bad guys like putin, like xi jinping, they decide it's time

to take action. >> yeah, but you also just have to look at what it means for britain as well, right? because you know, we now are being pushed around by the bloke that you described there as being senile, etcetera. you know , he's senile, etcetera. you know, he's over there in ireland saying that this is all the best. you know, his relatives, i mean, you have to go back to the dawn of time to find any of joe biden's relatives in ireland. by the way, some of them are just fossilised in the rock. they're giant's causeway. but alas, there you know, trump there he is. and you know, trump is he's our friend. is there saying he's our friend. and, you know, we were not paying and, you know, we were not paying for a in ukraine even paying for a war in ukraine even when president trump was in power. >> yeah , look, it it's not just >> yeah, look, it it's not just joe. remember joe's old boss, joe. rememberjoe's old boss, obama, who came to the uk to lecture the brits on, oh, if you dare to leave the eu , you'll be dare to leave the eu, you'll be at the back of the queue . sorry, at the back of the queue. sorry, what the. what the hell have you got to do with brits deciding to be independent again? in the

biggest vote in their history? so, yes, i mean , whether it's so, yes, i mean, whether it's biden, whether it's obama, these are the people who think they know what's good for everyone . know what's good for everyone. in the meantime, everything is falling apart. you think you've got a problem. and god bless nigel farage every day for banging the gong. but you think you've got a problem with a few boats every other day under biden in this country, we've got 6000 illegal immigrants crossing the border every 24 hours. in the border every 24 hours. in the last 12 months, we had 110,000 people die of fentanyl and drug overdoses that are coming across the border. so this is what happens when people who hate the west are in control of the west . of the west. >> yeah, i'm inclined to agree with you. seriously. i look around now and i wonder, you know, and i also look around in this country and we've done a discussion national discussion there about national service. can't help but service. and i can't help but think that patriotism has appeared to become really appeared to become a really dirty anyone who backs dirty word. and anyone who backs britain loves britain britain and loves britain is seen criticised, is seen as is criticised, is overtly which

overtly criticised for it, which is bonkers because we all freely choose live here. you know, choose to live here. you know, if we're horrible little if we're such a horrible little country, why does every single person from all around world person from all around the world want and live here? what want to come and live here? what will trump to stop the will donald trump do to stop the channel migrant crisis? do you reckon? >> well, he makes sure that people were arrested, aged and turned have a buddy of turned around. have a buddy of mine. he's a former commissioner of customs and border patrol, mark border mark morgan. he ran the border for the president. i asked for the president. and i asked him my daily radio show, him on my daily radio show, i said, mark, we've got like 6 million people have come into america illegally that we know of in the last two years under biden. can we even deport that number? and he said to me, he said, yeah, we can deport them. and i said , how? and mark said, and i said, how? and mark said, one by one, you build the wall, you send out the border forces, kick everybody back. real asylum seekers like my dad. my dad was a refugee to the uk. why? because he escaped a communist political prison. if you just want a better life, you're not an asylum seeker. you're an

economic migrant. and guess what? people need to get in line. prove that they can actually contribute to the uk and then be allowed in. >> said, look, thank you very much. it's always an absolute pleasure to have you on. take care and to see you looking so well as well. fantastic seb gorka there. former adviser to donald trump. right. okay on to another story that you may well have missed is a bizarre one. this and it's certainly for not the faint hearted. a 25 year old man was caught having sex with a cow after a suspicious farmer set up cctv. apparently he cried in court after being confronted about this sordid out sneaking into the farm in the dead of night. he was caught after a local farmer had installed cctv and an alarm system, fearing that somebody had been tampering with his livestock. he is due to be sentenced next month. that is one of the most bizarre stories doing the rounds today. it is , doing the rounds today. it is, yeah.i doing the rounds today. it is, yeah. i mean, how on earth did

the how suspicious do you have to be that is happening to rig up a cctv system around your cattle shed as well as there's so many questions there that i think i fear will always remain unanswered . but don't go unanswered. but don't go anywhere. plenty more to bring you in the final hour. patrick christys here on gb news. we are, of course, britain's news channel. stay tuned . channel. stay tuned. >> the temperature's rising . >> the temperature's rising. boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on gb news at alex deakin here with your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. >> some warm and sunny weather on the way through the weekend, but before there, some but before we get there, some rain today across the rain around today across the south and the west. much of scotland, northeast england staying these staying dry away from these weather have weather fronts, but they have been fairly dull and been bringing a fairly dull and damp scene across much of wales , increasingly now across the midlands , a damp afternoon and midlands, a damp afternoon and evening northern ireland and evening for northern ireland and southwest scotland. rain is southwest scotland. the rain is clearing from the clearing away from the south—west, some heavy

south—west, but some heavy showers just grazing southernmost counties of england, particularly in the south—east. so may see a heavy downpour here through the night. further north, the rain will tend to fizzle out, but it'll make misty, murky make for quite a misty, murky night, mild night most, night, a mild night for most, but northern turning but in northern scotland turning quite clear skies quite chilly with clear skies again temperatures well again here. temperatures well down single figures could down into single figures could be mist fog patches, be a few mist and fog patches, but should from but they should clear from northern scotland. then sunny spells conditions across spells murky conditions across much of northern england, parts of southern scotland through the day. rain and drizzle on and off further south could with further south could start with some low it some mist and low cloud. it should brighten up and then we'll see a sprinkling of showers come afternoon. showers come the afternoon. feeling humid feeling quite warm and humid here temperatures here with temperatures in the low 20s 20 or 21 further north in this cloudier zone, temperatures struggling somewhat , particularly over northeast england, only 15 or 16 celsius. but here comes high pressure pushing away at low pressure systems and that will bring many of us a fine weekend . there'll of us a fine weekend. there'll be some wet weather in the far northwest, but generally turning largely , turning sunnier and largely dry, turning sunnier and also feeling a bit warmer.

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have been booted out and asylum seekers move you couldn't seekers move in. you couldn't make could you? it the make it up, could you? it is the latest instalment of absolute margaret place in margaret madness taking place in this yes. now, is this country. ulez yes. now, is it ever okay to justify civil disobedience ? well, yes, but disobedience? well, yes, but vandalism , that's the question vandalism, that's the question mark at the moment. as more and more of these ulez cameras are coming to a very unfortunate end. i mean, good grief, i wonder why that could be. but yes, i'm also going to be talking about this as well. hundreds of thousands of people have died whilst waiting for nhs care. i mean, it's obviously not good enough at the moment, is it? but what can be done to cut down on that backlog and make sure care in sure that we get better care in britain? very concerning story. this one as well. hunt now for the child snatchers . yes. so the child snatchers. yes. so cctv image and images themselves have been released of two people who allegedly tried to grab an 11 year old girl off the street in south london before or somebody managed to intervene. and stop them. it's child

snatching actually on the rise in britain . patrick christys . gb in britain. patrick christys. gb news. get in touch. vaiews@gbnews.com loads to go out there can you ever justify vandalism if it's a cause that you particularly feel strongly about , like the destruction of about, like the destruction of these ulez cameras? gb views and gbnews.com right now as your headunes. headlines. >> patrick thank you very much and good afternoon. this is the latest from the newsroom. junior doctors and consultants will be taking joint strike action in england for the first time in history in the health service across september and october. they'll walk out for four days in their long running dispute over pay. the british medical association says consultants will strike on september the 19th and 20th with junior doctors also walking out on

september 20th, followed by strikes on september 21st and 22nd. both consoles and junior doctors will strike again on october 2nd, third and fourth. emergency care will continue to be provided . schools in england be provided. schools in england must immediately shut buildings made with a type of concrete that's prone to collapse until safety measures are in place. some schools will have to relocate children to other teaching spaces. more than 100 schools are being contacted before the start of the new term . education secretary gillian keegan says it's the right thing to do for both pupils and staff . but the association of school and college leaders claims the government knew about the dangers in 2018 and has been too slow to respond . a south wales slow to respond. a south wales police officer faces a criminal investigation for dangerous driving after two teenagers were killed in cardiff. 16 year old kyrees sullivan and 15 year old harvey evans died in may when they crashed on an e—bike cctv

footage captured a police van following the teenagers minutes before the fatal crash. the officer was previously served with a gross misconduct notice , with a gross misconduct notice, as was another officer. also in the vehicle . staff redundancies the vehicle. staff redundancies at wilko are due to start next week. the gmb union says it's after the only bid to buy the collapsed retailer fell through the trade union says many staff will arrive at work for the last time on monday, though it remains hopeful that a viable buyer could yet come forward and it must continue to prepare for the worst. more than 1000 jobs are at risk . the worst. more than 1000 jobs are at risk. grant shapps has been appointed as the new defence secretary following the resignation of ben wallace . resignation of ben wallace. after four years in the job. he says he wants to explore different opportunity edges and spend more time with his family . in his resignation letter, mr wallace says the ministry of defence is back on path to defence is back on the path to being again world class being once again world class education minister claire coutinho takes over as energy

and net zero secretary, replacing shapps shadow attorney general emily thornberry says the changes are a temporary measure . measure. >> it really doesn't matter how many new jobs rishi sunak gives to his friends, it's still moving. the deckchairs , there's moving. the deckchairs, there's still a sinking ship, there's country really needs change and the only change that they're going to get is if we get a labour government and we get a labour government and we get a labour government and we get a labour government soon. >> police officers will be automatically dismissed if they're found guilty of gross misconduct , they're found guilty of gross misconduct, ducked under new government plans , senior government plans, senior officers will have more powers to sack rogue staff and be able to sack rogue staff and be able to dismiss those who fail vetting checks. the government says the changes could be implemented as soon as next spring. policing minister chris philp told gb news the rules will strengthen the policing system. >> um it'll make removal for gross misconduct automatic. it will make sure that specified criminal offences will automatically lead to misconduct

and it will streamline and speed up the process for removing officers either guilty of or accused of misconduct or indeed of poor performance as well. there will be nowhere for them to hide and i think that will help as you say, rebuild public confidence in policing . confidence in policing. >> the boss of easyjet has demanded that a full independent reviews launched into the air traffic control failure that happened earlier this week. the airline chief executive said the incident , which wrecked the incident, which wrecked the travel plans of around a quarter of a million people, must not happen again. flights to and from uk airports were restricted for several hours on monday afternoon as national air traffic services was unable to process flight plans automatically and thousands of holidaymakers have been waiting for days to get home following delays caused by that air traffic control fault . it's traffic control fault. it's despite the airline schedules returning to normal and backlogs clearing most flights to the uk from popular destinations, including majorca , crete and

including majorca, crete and sicily. a sold out until the weekend. the airline say they're trying to fly people back as quickly as possible . and former quickly as possible. and former us president donald trump has pleaded not guilty to charges in georgia related to his attempted overturn, his attempt to overturn, his attempt to overturn the 2020 election defeat . the plea means that defeat. the plea means that he'll not appear in person in court next week to face the charges he's been charged with 13 felony counts, including racketeering for pressuring state officials to reverse the 2020 presidential election decision. the latest charges mark trump's fourth indictment since launching his re—election campaign for president in 2024. 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 an explosion at back to. patrick an explosion at

the wethersfield airbase was located at a building about 300m from the accommodation used for asylum seekers. >> it was a disused building previously used by ministry of defence police as an evidence store. our home security editor mark white has the very latest for us. mark >> well, the incident as such is now at an end and the emergency service response is being scaled down. clearly there will be an investigation that's carried out. it seems that this fire suppression unit that was in this disused building had some kind of malfunction . the gas had kind of malfunction. the gas had built up and that caused an explosion, which created a hole about a foot and a half in diameter on the roof of this building. that building we're told, is about 300m away from the accommodate blocks where the asylum seekers are at the moment . so none of them caught up in this, but it is an issue that clearly people around that area

and those representing asylum seekers are very concerned about because of the potential for people to be injured, caught up in issues of safety around that base, which is in part at a disused base . they are clearly disused base. they are clearly refurbishing and trying to bring back into use a number of these accommodation blocks. but there have been all manner of issues around the reconnection of utilities around these blocks . utilities around these blocks. there have been health concerns regarding outbreaks of scabies and tuberculosis . this, we and tuberculosis. this, we believe that there's just over 100 or so asylum seekers now on that base. there trying by the end of this year to get 1700, apparently , and they say they're apparently, and they say they're on track . but it seems from what on track. but it seems from what we can. we can. >> we can. >> it's just blown up . yeah, >> it's just blown up. yeah, difficult to see. >> well, from what we can see, the pace of those asylum seekers

going on to the base seems to be a bit slower than what was first envisaged. and yes , i think envisaged. and yes, i think there will be a great deal of concern about the potential health and safety ramifications for the base as a whole. where are we, mark, in general here? >> so we've got the bibby stockholm barge that came in a little bit late and little bit little bit late and a little bit over budget and then had legionella allegedly, legionella on board, allegedly, and now we've got a base and then now we've got a base here that again, we've had to refurb. it went through court, didn't it, with the locals who were annoyed about the were very annoyed about it. the home essentially said we home office essentially said we don't what think, we're don't care what you think, we're going people on it going to put people on it anyway. now of anyway. they're now some of that's blown up. is there an issue with scampton as well? meanwhile, crossing meanwhile, people are crossing the continually the the channel continually to the tune so far. this yeah >> the policy of trying to get people under standardly out of expensive hotels and into larger scale adapted accommodation centres is unravelling because we've seen of course the issues

around whether field they're still pushing ahead with putting migrants on that site and say that they are on track. but with the bibby stockholm of course we had that legionella bacteria in the water system that caused that site to be evacuated after the first 50 odd asylum seekers arrived there. it's going to be at least another couple of weeks before anybody goes back onto that site . and yes, you're that site. and yes, you're right, scampton the third of those locations where they wanted to put up to 2000 asylum seekers , the first of those seekers, the first of those asylum seekers should have been on site already , but that's been on site already, but that's been knocked back until at least october because of it. issues in trying to get the trades in the contractor to actually do the refurbishing work on the buildings. >> yeah , why don't we just put >> yeah, why don't we just put grant shapps in charge of it? he's in charge of absolutely everything else. he's had five cabinet jobs already so far in the year. mean, why not the last year. i mean, why not

give this? you know, i mean, give him this? you know, i mean, that seems to be way that that seems to be the way that it's going, it? mark, it's going, doesn't it? mark, thank you very, very much. mark wight there. our homeland security i just security editor and yeah, i just find very frustrating. want find it very frustrating. i want to think. to know what you think. vaiews@gbnews.com. for vaiews@gbnews.com. i mean, for the out the conspiracy theorists out there, easy to see some there, it's easy to see why some of this stuff might seem a bit deliberate. how can it this deliberate. how can it be this bad? how we not manage to, bad? how can we not manage to, as a nation, a few people as a nation, get a few people who've come to this country illegally into some accommodation where they can be processed? it just seems remarkable that it's beyond the wit but i'm going to wit of man. but i'm going to cross now wethersfield, where cross now to wethersfield, where alan me. he's the alan mckenzie joins me. he's the chair fields association, chair of the fields association, which campaigns against inappropriate unsuitable inappropriate and unsuitable development at the airfield . and development at the airfield. and today you've been vindicated with an explosion . with an explosion. >> well, it certainly does highlight the problems that the home office have up on the airbase. i think it goes beyond that. i mean, we believe that was a far extinguisher which exploded . but a group of exploded. but a group of representatives did visit the

site last week and in being shown round questions were asked about the risk assessments, which had been done there because they noticed that fire doors didn't fit in the accommodation block . the fire accommodation block. the fire doors were being jammed open by fire extinguishers, which should have been on the wall. they were asked about whether the void in the accommodation block had been inspected for fire breaks because if it's entirely open from one end to the other, the risk of fire spreading very, very rapidly from one end to the other of the block is very, very high. they were asked about fire, evacuation procedures and assembly points. didn't have a clue . it was pointed out that clue. it was pointed out that after grenfell, now the government is very, very worried about the accommodation of this sort of site as and there are personal liabilities involved for the operator on the site. there are even even cylinders of

oxygen in the gym just lying there. i mean there's been no risk assessment done properly on this airbase . they have hurried this airbase. they have hurried to put asylum seekers on there . to put asylum seekers on there. they're finding out the difficulties now. they've only got to 100. there should in fact be nobody on that base at the moment until they've done their proper risk assessments and made sure it's safe and haven't even touched on contaminate , for touched on contaminate, for heaven's sakes. well touch on it now . the every single us heaven's sakes. well touch on it now. the every single us air force base around the world has left contamination on it . force base around the world has left contamination on it. in the states there are so many class actions going on because of because of other chemicals that have been left behind in bases. it's unreal. the same situation has been left behind and us air force bases worldwide . i mean, force bases worldwide. i mean, they've been there for years on on whether spilled. we know that in one of the woody sites there

is a large excavation, an agent orange is actually buried there. that's depher, which was used in the vietnam war. so there's no way you want anyone to go near that nuclear bombs . there's a that nuclear bombs. there's a nuclear arsenal for the cold war that unexploded bombs, they haven't done a proper unexploded bomb inspection survey yet of the place. it's a place which which held nuclear bombs. >> just just, just. i just want to i just want to be clear on a couple of things. okay. firstly, were people still living on that base before and then had to be booted out because was it okay for them to live with agent orange or or potentially bombs underneath? was that what was happening before people were living with that constant threat, before the asylum seekers? is that right ? seekers? is that right? >> you have to question whether the ministry of defence should have been allowing people to live on a site that had not been

investigated properly and the risk assessments being carried out properly . yes, there are out properly. yes, there are military families housed up there. yes there are ministry of defence police who are housed up there and you have to be concerned in those instances. >> do you have to be concerned? i think it's remarkable that people weren't more vocal about that being concerned. then where were human rights brigade that being concerned. then where were butruman rights brigade that being concerned. then where were but obviously1ts brigade that being concerned. then where were but obviously1ts inow de that being concerned. then where were but obviously1ts inow do then? but obviously we now do have concerned for what, have to be concerned for what, few asylum seekers are on this particular site. i imagine that they evacuated they will be evacuated relatively will they not? relatively soon. will they not? >> they should be previously , >> they should be previously, you know, the only reason that we've managed to highlight out the problem of contamination is because we've issued freedom of information requests from the ministry of defence, the ministry of justice and the home office . if we hadn't done that, office. if we hadn't done that, probably nobody would have known about it ever. >> i just find it absolutely remarkable to the point where i do genuinely. i don't think i

can hide anymore that i'm completely at my wits end, that we've got 20,000 people a year coming across the channel and the best that we can do is a rickety barge with legionella on it and a place that may well have dangerous chemicals under any moment. explosion and to the detriment of your local community as well . i just find community as well. i just find it absolutely astonishing . alan, it absolutely astonishing. alan, thank you very much. alan mckenzie there is the chair of the fields association who's trying to obviously stop what's going at wethersfield. going on at wethersfield. another option, course, would another option, of course, would be students out of their be to boot students out of their accommodation allow channel accommodation and allow channel migrants in. it's migrants to live in. oh, it's happening. yes of course it is. the office is reportedly the home office is reportedly looking to move asylum seekers into student block into a 405 bed student block in huddersfield features cinema huddersfield features a cinema room, gym . it usually costs room, a gym. it usually costs £10,000 a i don't think £10,000 a year. i don't think there's any indication that there's any indication that there's agent orange or unexploded war two bombs. unexploded world war two bombs. there time. it comes there but give it time. it comes amid increasing pressure on student housing near university campuses. she shadow immigration minister stephen kinnock argues that students are paying the

price government's price for the government's reliance on emergency accommodation. foreign yeah , accommodation. foreign yeah, okay. russell quirk joins me now, political commentator and property expert . robert, thank property expert. robert, thank you very much. russell this does seem i mean, a little bit bonkers, doesn't it, that fee paying bonkers, doesn't it, that fee paying students who've already signed tenancy agreements will be booted out to make for be booted out to make way for channel migrants a little bit? >> i think that's rather an understatement, patrick. >> i think that you share my >> and i think that you share my i your outrage and i'm i share your outrage and i'm sure you share my view that this is i was going to say the beginning of a slippery slope, but it kind of feels to me that we're about three quarters of the way down that slippery slope, leads a slope, which leads to a completely and utterly broken britain. now that we britain. the fact now that we have 168 students that have all signed agreements to in signed agreements to live in reasonable accommodation so they can studying next week and can start studying next week and the home office have seen fit to effectively commandeer that block of luxury apartments with a cinema room and with a gym. as you say, i think is absolutely astonishing. it's like something out of an armando iannucci

political sitcom. it's like the thick of it. you can just imagine some hapless, idiotic minister for some ridiculously named department thinking what a goodidea named department thinking what a good idea this is. named department thinking what a good idea this is . as if good idea this is. as if students and sorry, i'm ranting here, patrick apologise, but i'm so , so sick of where we are as so, so sick of where we are as a country, particularly over the fact that as we know , a large fact that as we know, a large chunk of asylum seekers are not coming from war torn countries. they're coming as economic migrants from places like albania and india, they are being put up in hotels and accommodation like this in the lap of luxury . whilst we have lap of luxury. whilst we have 500 veterans on the streets, we have 270,000 homeless people. we have 270,000 homeless people. we have 10,000 families in bed and breakfast accommodation and yet still i'm looking at here w—w—w dot gov.uk and i kid you not asylum support what you'll get right? that is the domain name of the home office website that if you're an asylum seeker

anywhere in the world and you decide that you fancy a nice, cushy, easy life. well, the home office website patrick tells you exactly what you can expect to get when you land on the shores of this once great country. and i'll tell you what it says free housing. i kid you not cash support. it says here you'll get £47, 39 for each person in your household . this will help you household. this will help you pay household. this will help you pay for things. no kidding. we will give you extra money for mothers and young children . mothers and young children. extra money. if someone in your family is pregnant. free health care and free education. is it any wonder that we have upwards of 80,000 people a year landing on these shores? generally mostly illegally . mostly illegally. >> but the other element of this student story, which i think should be getting more airtime , should be getting more airtime, is what happens at university . is what happens at university. you end up with a lot of people normally around the age of 18 who like to go out and enjoy themselves of an evening and maybe get themselves into quite

vulnerable situations where alcohol is involved. and some of those people may of course, well be women. i would imagine about 50% of those may be young women who'll experiencing the who'll be experiencing the freedom from their families freedom away from their families for the first time. then for the first time. and then what is introduce a load what we do is introduce a load of people who've arrived to of people who've just arrived to this dare it , this country and dare i say it, are probably young man into a situation where there's to situation where there's going to be a of young, vulnerable , be a lot of young, vulnerable, drunk women hanging around in the middle of the night and i can't be the only one who can have concerns about that. >> well, it's a culture clash, isn't it? and look, you know, i'm believe it or not, i welcome immigration britain. but immigration in britain. but i think immigration should be controlled selective. it controlled and selective. it should deciding who comes should be us deciding who comes here and people that want to help all this once help us all benefit this once great nation. what we cannot have is a tinder box of people being kind of plonked into the middle of towns. take weathersfield that you were just talking about, just now with this incident this afternoon. you know, addition of some you know, the addition of some 1500 kind of men, male 1500 generally kind of men, male asylum seekers in their 20s adds

nearly 10% to the population of that part of braintree. now you cannot tell me that that is going to go without any incident . and actually not just the culture clash , the social issues culture clash, the social issues that are bound to occur. what about the police response ? what about the police response? what about the police response? what about the police response? what about the poor beleaguered nhs that we keep hearing about? what about the councils infrastructure ? how on earth is infrastructure? how on earth is britain's supposed to cope with this ongoing flow , this this ongoing flow, this invasion? and i know that word is often criticised when we talk about immigration, but when it comes to illegal immigration taken by economic migrants, that have out, it is an have their hands out, it is an invasion and it's about time that someone somewhere , some that someone somewhere, some part of our radical, callously inept government actually did something about this issue because frankly, it is the biggest issue that this country faces now. it's certainly going to be the biggest issue in the run up to the general election. >> yeah, but but it will be an issue that shapes the future of this country. that's the

this country. and that's the thing. the rapidly changing demographics, rapidly demographics, the rapidly changing as well changing cultural values as well . you very, very . russell, thank you very, very much. quirk , political much. russell quirk, political commentator, expert as commentator, property expert as well. emails coming in well. loads of emails coming in in favour of russell gb views at gb views .com. keep them coming. i've office i've got a home office spokesperson stating here, which i can all agree. i'm i think we can all agree. i'm very glad to have. we we've always upfront about the always been upfront about the unprecedented pressure being put on asylum brought unprecedented pressure being put on by.ylum brought unprecedented pressure being put on by significant brought unprecedented pressure being put on by significant brouinn about by significant increase in dangerous journeys dangerous and illegal journeys into we continue into the country. we continue to work across government with work across government and with local identify local authorities to identify a range accommodation options range of accommodation options as remains as the government remains committed local committed to engaging with local authorities stakeholders authorities and key stakeholders . process , . as part of this process, huddersfield university is also piped up. they've said huddersfield are sufficient student accommodation to meet the needs of our students and there are current vacancies available for any students affected who have not affected by this. who have not already been rehoused. can already been rehoused. you can contact hud huddles at holac . contact hud huddles at holac. .uk. great. brilliant . .uk. great. okay, brilliant. coming up, grant shapps has been called up to the new defence secretary job, but is he up for the job? what will this mean for britain's it

britain's armed forces and is it ever okay to vandalise something? so i'll be asking in relation to those ulez cameras that mysteriously continue to be vandalised by patrick christys gb news,

britain's news. channel >> well, number 10 is appointed grant shapps as the new defence secretary after ben wallace resignation this morning. it is his fifth cabinet post in a year . so in september 2022 he was

removed as transport secretary. thenin removed as transport secretary. then in october he was appointed home secretary for six whole days in the same month he was made business secretary and then he was made energy security secretary. and today he becomes the defence secretary. grant shapps has already reaffirmed, of course , the mod's ongoing and of course, the mod's ongoing and unwavering support for ukraine in their fight against putin's barbaric invasion , which may barbaric invasion, which may well be the only thing he has to say or do ever in this job. chris hope, our political edhoh chris hope, our political editor, joins me in the studio. i mean, grant shapps, i mean, how long is it before he's just got as well? got my job as well? >> might have a go. >> well, he might have a go. he's done some telly before. patrick not as well as you, of course. very much. i mean, there patrick not as well as you, of cosomevery much. i mean, there patrick not as well as you, of cosome concern:h. i mean, there patrick not as well as you, of co some concern amongstn, there patrick not as well as you, of cosome concern amongstn, tired is some concern amongst the red wall, mps in the north, wall, the tory mps in the north, because they're at this because they're looking at this guy appointed, replacing guy being appointed, replacing ben wyre and north ben wallace, wyre wyre and north preston. three new appointments to government grant to the government today. grant shapps, welwyn the shapps, welwyn hatfield in the south. claire coutinho is now the east the new net zero secretary east surrey david johnston wanted mp, now a junior mp in education in all in the south south they've

lost a senior person apart from rishi sunak being of course a richmond mp for yorkshire. but ben a northerner though. well let's , let's, let's not doubt let's, let's, let's not doubt that. but let's say, you know, ben wallace was the was this kind of standard bearer for the nonh kind of standard bearer for the north and fought the corner he's gone replaced by three mps in the south—east that is concerning tory mps one who sent me a text saying northern mps are pretty angry on the whatsapp groups and losing the most senior in the senior northern in the government in the government northerner in the government. maybe government. it feels like maybe in the dean's criticism was right. interesting you right. now. interesting you recall letter from the weekend. >> that absolutely. nadine >> that is absolutely. nadine dorries yeah, yeah, dorries actually, yeah, yeah, yeah. you've been so yeah. because you've been so it's off your it's been popping off in your whatsapp. yeah maybe the northerners disinvited northerners are being disinvited exactly right. northerners are being disinvited exathis'ight. northerners are being disinvited exa this mps whatsapp because >> this mps whatsapp because remember that criticism from nadine dorries, it was dismissed by lots people who think they by lots of people who think they know politics. if you know about politics. but if you read closely , there were read it closely, there were things in there which they've got listen to in 10 downing got to listen to in 10 downing street it's chiming street and i think it's chiming now we'll see this idea for now and we'll see this idea for today was the order of the amuse bouche. know you're man of bouche. i know you're a man of fine dining much. patrick

fine dining very much. patrick stream culture, a street culture ahead of a massive reshuffle after party conference after the tory party conference in october and before the in early october and before the king's speech in the 17th of november. that will be a reset that we're going to see a lot more people like claire coutinho, 2019, in coutinho, elected in 2019, in a cabinet already just four years later, 29, 29 as 2019 later, more 29, 29 as 2019 enters coming into the top level in government. and that'll be that'll be the team around rishi sunak to fight starmer next on the street about grant shapps though i mean jack of all trades master of none. well five jobs in is a lot. five jobs. in a year is a lot. five jobs. grant yeah, i mean, he is competent . i grant yeah, i mean, he is competent. i think he's a great communicator after he talks down the line from his home address very well. i mean, he's good at the zoom calls and stuff. i think you're defending the uk think if you're defending the uk involvement in the ukraine war, that's becoming an increasingly a pr exercise to make sure that support for it carries on. he's a great communicator. he's less experienced at the machinations of the mod, and that's a problem because you've got to grip the money because you're battling

with budgets. you're with over budgets. you're spending department asking for more money from the treasury. >> the rumours of why he >> one of the rumours of why he got the job is because he was saying that he won't ask for any more well, called more money. well, he has called for spending on gdp in the for 3% spending on gdp in the past on defence and now it's like, not yet. like, no, not there yet. >> in the he's backed 3% >> so in the past he's backed 3% of which is the of big of which is the kind of big number. yeah. and that's like billions and billions and billions. so think me billions. so i think for me he's, a safe pair of he's, he's, he's a safe pair of hands and he's a good communicator because think the communicator because i think the debate for debate about the support for the war ukraine going to get war of ukraine is going to get more interesting in the election. how long keep election. how long can we keep supporting it of course, supporting it for? of course, everyone the ukrainians, everyone admires the ukrainians, but drain resources but there's a drain on resources which could become a problem in the of course, the future. well, of course, i think it becoming a problem think it is becoming a problem now, honest you. now, to be honest with you. >> nothing against the >> and it's nothing against the ukrainians whatsoever. but, i mean, look. right. and mean, you just look. right. and one of the i'm covering one of the stories i'm covering next is about ulez, for goodness sake, which is about, you know, in view, a lot of that is to sake, which is about, you know, in withiew, a lot of that is to sake, which is about, you know, in with taxing.ot of that is to sake, which is about, you know, in with taxing wealthier is to sake, which is about, you know, in with taxing wealthier people do with taxing wealthier people in order that they can keep propping up some of poorest propping up some of the poorest people. it was ever thus, though. ever

though. patrick it was ever thus. ever thus. but thus. it was ever thus. but i think now it's taking the absolute biscuit. but you absolute biscuit. but thank you very, christopher. very, very much, christopher. i hope all the latest on hope that with all the latest on our brand spanking new defence secretary grant shapps. but coming i was talking about coming up as i was talking about some have some ulez protests, others have taken detection taken to vandalising detection cameras. taken to vandalising detection caiteras. taken to vandalising detection cait ever okay to excuse one is it ever okay to excuse one saint vandalism? but first, here's headlines here's your latest headlines with tatiana . patrick. with tatiana. patrick. >> thank you . it's 531. this is >> thank you. it's 531. this is the latest from the newsroom. schools in england must immediately shut buildings made with a type of aerated concrete that's prone to collapse until safety measures are in place. more than 100 schools are being contacted before the start of the new term . the education the new term. the education secretary says it's the right thing to do for both pupils and staff . the boss of easyjet has staff. the boss of easyjet has demanded that a full independent review is launched into the air traffic control failure that happened earlier this week. the airline chief executive said the incident, which wrecked the travel plans of around a quarter of people, must not of a million people, must not happen again . and grant shapps

happen again. and grant shapps has been appointed as the new defence secretary. that's following the resignation of ben wallace . education minister wallace. education minister claire coutinho takes over as energy and net zero secretary, replacing shapps. energy and net zero secretary, replacing shapps . you can get replacing shapps. you can get more on all of those stories by visiting our website gbnews.com . direct bullion sponsors the finance report on gb news for gold and silver investment . gold and silver investment. here's a quick snapshot of today's markets . the pound will today's markets. the pound will buy you $1.2671 and ,1.1687. the price of gold is £1,532.80 per ounce, and the ftse 100 closed at 7439 points. >> direct bullion sponsors the

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be a few mist and fog patches, but they should clear from northern scotland sunny northern scotland then. sunny spells conditions across spells murky conditions across much northern england, parts much of northern england, parts of scotland the of southern scotland through the day . rain and of southern scotland through the day. rain and drizzle on and off. further south could start with some mist cloud. it with some mist and low cloud. it should brighten up and then we'll of we'll see a sprinkling of showers come the afternoon. feeling humid feeling quite warm and humid here with temperatures the here with temperatures in the low 20s 20 or 21 further north in this cloudier zone, temperatures struggling somewhat , particularly northeast , particularly over northeast england. 15 or 16 celsius. england. only 15 or 16 celsius. but here comes high pressure pushing away at low pressure systems and that will bring many of us a fine weekend. there'll be some wet weather in the far northwest, but generally turning largely , turning sunnier and largely dry, turning sunnier and also feeling a bit warmer. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on . on. gb news. >> well, recently there has been

a massive increase in criminal damage and theft, especially to ulez cameras and infrastructure . the met has confirmed that it is investigating hundreds of reports of criminal damage. activists claim to have destroyed , defaced or stolen destroyed, defaced or stolen almost 600 cameras in the past few weeks . do we think almost 600 cameras in the past few weeks. do we think this is ever justified ? i mean, it's everjustified? i mean, it's criminality, it's criminal behaviour . criminality, it's criminal behaviour. yeah. we've even had politicians coming out, though, recently and saying that it's hard for them out hard for them to come out against kind stuff against this kind of stuff because they believe that because they don't believe that the is, in fact, the ulez policy is, in fact, just. joining me now is a scientist for extinction rebellion is pete knapp. pete, thank very great to thank you very much. great to have show . you not have you on the show. you not adverse to a little of civil adverse to a little bit of civil disobedience. in favour adverse to a little bit of civil disthisdience. in favour adverse to a little bit of civil disthis civile. in favour adverse to a little bit of civil disthis civil disobedience?3vour of this civil disobedience? >> yes, of course . i think >> yes, of course. i think there's a limit, though , in what there's a limit, though, in what that means. >> i think in this case, smashing up the face of a bank. >> no. >> no. >> yeah , i think the victims in >> yeah, i think the victims in this case, though, are the are the children of in the cities ,

the children of in the cities, whereas, you know, the kind of civil disobedience that guess would be behind a more target towards people who are damaging the environment . the environment. >> okay so you are not in favour of people taking a hacksaw to a ulez camera if it might even charge them, say , £12.50 to take charge them, say, £12.50 to take their kids to school or go and visit their mum's grave. but you would be in favour of people sitting in a road and blocking an ambulance. >> well i don't think there's any been they've never been any cases of ambulance being blocked. but in this case i think in when we talk about we've got it on video. >> so yeah. all right but carry on. it doesn't facts don't matter. go on, carry on. >> that they do matter. they're afraid of information requests have been made and there have been no counts. but in this case, when we talk about the whether people can get into the ulez zone or not, whether they have to pay the fee , i think we have to pay the fee, i think we have to pay the fee, i think we

have to pay the fee, i think we have to kind of balance this. the kinds of people who or the kinds of vehicles who have to pay kinds of vehicles who have to pay the charge will have to be older than euro six, which is before they were made before 2015. so there are very few cars out there that that are that are that old. >> and they only the only the cars by and large are owned by the by the poorest people. right. so can i just ask about and that's why the scrappage scheme helps many of these people. >> i think there are there are a few where the scrappage scheme isn't helping and this is a problem . problem. >> well, the scrappage scheme isn't helping , isn't helping isn't helping, isn't helping anyone who's got a car that's worth than £2,000 and who worth more than £2,000 and who doesn't already have the savings in order to be able to afford a new car. it's just one thing. getting £2,000 for your car, but then thing being getting £2,000 for your car, but then to thing being getting £2,000 for your car, but then to and thing being getting £2,000 for your car, but then to and thinganother able to go and afford another car. able to go and afford another cah you able to go and afford another car. you can't really car. i mean, you can't really get an electric vehicle for two grand, you ? grand, can you? >> oh, sure. yeah electric vehicles are a different, different kettle of fish , different kettle of fish, though. i mean, when we talk

about euro six, that's not an electric vehicle. ulez isn't about electric buying all vehicles, but here's what i agree with a lot of the people who are against ulez. i think that it was it really needed to be a lot more ambitious. i think we when ulez was expanded, it aimed to reduce the kind of pollution called nox , which is pollution called nox, which is no. two. it's a kind of gas which exacerbate asthma and even can create asthma and the idea is to reduce that . but there is to reduce that. but there were there could have been some other great ways to do that. for example, if all of the buses were electrified, if all the taxis were electrified, that would have made an enormous difference. and it wouldn't. yeah and that's that's the reason i think, why people are smashing cameras to pieces because they are looking at the impact going to be around 3% better air quality , something better air quality, something along those lines. >> and i believe that's from a study that the mayor of london

and his office paid around £800,000 for imperial college london, and then had it quotes, independently peer reviewed by a bloke who it's turned out was also on the payroll from city hall. yeah. and so people look at this and they think this is a complete and utter con . complete and utter con. >> yeah, i can i can see that. and i, i am a champion of clean air. i think that it's a really good thing to be pushing for. but i think there are really good ways to do that. and ulez is a small step in the right direction, but it's made mistakes along the way. and as as you say, when it's peer reviewed by people who are on the on these it can make the on these panels, it can make people feel uneasy about it . people feel uneasy about it. >> but you're a scientist. come on. you're you're a scientist, right? like you do you think this is dodgy science ? this is dodgy science? >> i don't think it's dodgy science . i think that it the science. i think that it the savings in in nox in london may be margin with this ulez but

here's the really interesting point . the here's the really interesting point. the most here's the really interesting point . the most polluted parts point. the most polluted parts of london are actually in these areas where ulez is going to be expanded. so some parts of kingston, for example , are over kingston, for example, are over ten times the guideline for nox. nowhere in central london is in that spectrum. we have other areas like croydon and brent and merton, which are all like the worst parts of london. london's air quality for nox , but they're air quality for nox, but they're all going to be in this area , all going to be in this area, which is where the ulez expansion is going to be. but what about the people in these areas who are thinking, right, well , i areas who are thinking, right, well, i don't want to drive my car anymore . maybe it's too car anymore. maybe it's too expensive. i'll get the bus instead said, yeah, i think this is area where the scheme is another area where the scheme hadnt is another area where the scheme hadn't been expanded enough. i think we could have expanded these bus schemes . the santander these bus schemes. the santander cycle scheme, the cycling infrastructure into these areas where ulez has been on that.

>> i'll agree with you. what we've got at the moment appears to me anyway to be the absolute worst of both worlds, right, which is that we've got people being i will being disadvantaged for i will say, questionable personal benefit. in a way that benefit. and in a in a way that has been presented with the science. when you have a look at it in terms of whether or not the study was paid for, whether or was or not that study was independently reviewed by a bloke also paid for by bloke who was also paid for by city bad. plus city hall. that looks bad. plus they've the things city hall. that looks bad. plus they you the things city hall. that looks bad. plus they you would the things city hall. that looks bad. plus theyyou would argue he things city hall. that looks bad. plus they you would argue would gs that you would argue would mitigate the cost of this to people, he better public transport, public transport transport, that public transport being this being green in itself. so this hasn't happened. which does leave to wonder whether or leave me to wonder whether or not actually people like like yourself are in favour yourself who are in favour obviously of doing everything that we possibly can for the environment, used environment, are being used by the of london to actually the mayor of london to actually just tax grab people to pay for poor people in london and just use this as an excuse. i mean, do you do you as though do you do you feel as though your is being shamelessly your cause is being shamelessly used here? >> no, i think it is an incremental benefit for the i

think some of the taxes that you mentioned i think are actually a good thing. i think if we were to tax suvs , for example, much to tax suvs, for example, much more than are , that would more than they are, that would be a good thing because be a really good thing because the number of suvs in london is really skyrocketed . and the really skyrocketed. and the amount of resources needed to make these things, as well as the amount of space they take up on the roads. is going out of control? >> is it worse? is it worse than than having some of the components for an electric vehicle mind out the ground vehicle mind out of the ground by a armed congolese orphan ? >> well, 7— >> well, no, i ? >> well, no, i think that 7 >> well, no, i think that we shouldn't looking to get new shouldn't be looking to get new electric cars either . i shouldn't be looking to get new electric cars either. i think we should be trying to electrify and expand public transport and improve cycling infrastructure . improve cycling infrastructure. >> interesting. so, look, i actually really do enjoy our conversations, to be honest with you. i genuinely mean that. and ihope you. i genuinely mean that. and i hope to have you back on very, very soon. it's peaking out. there is i can mention before we head is the other area is head off is the other area is with gas stoves and gas heating.

>> so this is an area where nitrogen dioxide, which is the main pollutant, trying to be addressed with ulez , is the addressed with ulez, is the second biggest contributor in the country and especially in london is from gas use. we know that in in homes with gas stoves , with have nitrogen dioxide maybe four times higher than homes with electric stoves. okay children living in in households that use gas stoves are 42% more likely to have asthma. >> i'm can guarantee i will be willing to put a tenner on with you right now that it is probably about two years time, max, before we're banning gas stoves in homes as well. i'm sure. i'm sure it will have. i'm sure. i'm sure it will have. i'm sure it will happen. there you go. we'll have to see all you will have to wait two years to get your ten in house. anyway, thank you much, pete. now, thank you very much, pete. now, who's for who's the scientist for extinction rebellion, right? coming up, police are issuing images of very serious story. this suspected an this of two men suspected of an attempted abduction of an 11 year old girl in south east london. the hunt is for on these alleged child snatchers. patrick

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on gb news, the people's. channel >> welcome back. it is 5:48. you're watching and listening to me. patrick christys on gb news now, the metropolitan police has released two images of suspects in an attempted kidnapping in south—east london. an 11 year old girl was saved by a woman in a green dress who became alarmed

when she overheard the man asking the girl if she was alone . deeply distressing case is peter kirkham is a former detective police inspector at the met. peter, thank you very , the met. peter, thank you very, very much. i mean, it sounds like in this case the 11 year old girl got very lucky. but it is an astonishing situation where supposedly there are people out there lurking on the streets looking to snatch kids. you >> yes, it's something that doesn't happen very often, but it does happen from time to time . brilliant work by the lady in the green dress keeping her eyes and ears about her and acting when she's got some suspicions that something's wrong, making sure that the child , who's sure that the child, who's obviously pretty defenceless against two grown men , is okay against two grown men, is okay and i'd basically freezing the situation at very best. and in fact, the men, i understand, made off as soon as she

intervened and but yes, it could have been far more serious. well i find perplexing about this. >> is it appears to clearly be opportunistic . so there is no opportunistic. so there is no way that those individuals could have known that an 11 year old girl would have been walking the streets on her own when they set out that day. i mean, do do we have of people in this have networks of people in this country who are constantly prowling looking kids ? i i, prowling looking for kids? i i, i don't think so . i don't think so. >> it's hard to know what's there when you're talking about very small numbers , but i don't very small numbers, but i don't think so. these things are not very common at all. as i say , very common at all. as i say, um, a big proportion of them turn out to be linked to some sort of family dispute or family. break—up um, where the people seeking to take the child are acting for an estranged partner or whatever for um, and so , so that that puts

so, so that that puts a different complexion on it. it's still very serious, still a serious criminal offence . uh, in serious criminal offence. uh, in most circumstances . um, but not most circumstances. um, but not quite the same as a stranger abduction . um, if we go back to abduction. um, if we go back to the 70s, 80s, 90s, we had stranger abductions all the time that frequently came to a tragic end with the murder of the child . and, um, we don't, we simply do not see those anymore on anything like the same scale . anything like the same scale. >> i suspect that might be because of the, the increase in technology and cctv, which leads me to my next question, which is that faces the people who that the faces of the people who the police they want the police have said they want to this now have to talk to about this now have been there for the best part been out there for the best part of 48 hours, really. and as yet, as you're we've as far as you're aware, we've not those not managed to track those people i find, you people down, which i find, you know, quite hard to believe in this and age . this day and age. >> no . um, people need >> yes and no. um, people need to see the images before they make the connection . and, um ,

make the connection. and, um, you you wouldn't believe how long it is after the event and how much publicity there's been before somebody comes forward and says, oh, i hadn't seen the images before now, and they've been out there for excuse me, they've been out there for years and decades , sometimes and decades, sometimes everywhere . and some people everywhere. and some people simply do not look at newspapers , do not look at tv or radio news. and so they simply haven't made the connection . made the connection. >> okay. well, peter, thank you very, very much for coming on and talking about this and sharing a bit of light onto it. and hopefully now , you know, and hopefully now, you know, more people will have these more people will have seen these pictures. can have a look more people will have seen these pi

appear are in the business of stealing kids off the streets in our capital city. but difference, different stuff . difference, different stuff. >> now, michelle dewberry you say a different stuff, but i was listening to that. if you think this is just something happening in this capital city, got in this capital city, you've got another got another thing coming. i've got a real about this issue real concern about this issue and there's a lot of and i think there's a lot of these are going on these things that are going on that not hearing that we're perhaps not hearing about. talking the about. i'm talking to the director group called director of a group called action against abduct tomorrow, and want to get into and i really want to get into this because i'm really concerned children should be concerned our children should be absolutely the streets. absolutely safe on the streets. but actually, when you look at the number abduct actions of the number of abduct actions of children, on the rise. children, it's on the rise. >> yeah, it is. which i find staggering, especially considering an considering that we've got an increase etcetera. and increase in cctv, etcetera. and people had well documented people have had well documented cases as grooming gang cases such as the grooming gang cases, which that was a fight to get the truth about that. by get the truth out about that. by the way, the grooming gang situation under situation was swept under the rug massively and yet rug massively big time. and yet it appear now that, you it does appear now that, as you were that child were saying, that child abductions are on the rise. >> to me , i >> but it's like to me, i remember time where that would remember a time where that would have been front page news.

>> yeah, all been a >> yeah, we'd have all been a little little girl almost little a little girl almost potentially snatched potentially getting snatched off the daylight by the street in broad daylight by two men that would have two random men that would have been kind of put your cup of tea down. >> stop in your tracks. whoa. there occurring there tiger. what is occurring in world now? it's almost in this world now? it's almost become kind of. yeah. you know, one of those things i'll i'll tell you what i'll tell you as well while i'm on my little rant. yeah. something that's caught my eye today. i don't know you've discussed it or know if you've discussed it or not. this convicted not. is this man, this convicted man identify as a man who decided to identify as a female when it came to the sentence thing? did you cover this? >> no, i'm not covering it today . i mean, they're all at it now, though. >> i am appalled. but don't worry, because if anyone's sitting oh, don't sitting there going, oh, i don't miss it's all miss gender, someone, it's all right. because this fella, he's got shirt on, a pink got a pink t shirt on, a pink pair of shorts and pink nail varnish and pink headband. so is definitely woman. definitely a woman. >> want >> you know why they want to do it, reckon well, a couple it, i reckon is well, a couple of firstly, because of reasons. firstly, because they they're going they know that they're going to get in a male prison. get battered in a male prison. >> guy didn't >> you know, this guy didn't even prison. but my worry even go to prison. but my worry about this and i've got a lawyer on, about when on, talk to me about this when you've got convicted, they

you've got a convicted, they have sex register, have to sign the sex register, whatever called. now does whatever it's called. now does this sex this person go on the sex register man or a woman? if register as a man or a woman? if i am a parent of a little kid and i'm being made aware because i've done research a i've done my research of a of a potential, whatever am potential, you know, whatever am i out for a man? i looking out for a man? am i looking out for a woman? >> and what name is on and >> and what name is it on and what name is it as well? >> get to the bottom of it. >> i'll get to the bottom of it. >> i'll get to the bottom of it. >> you go. michelle >> well, there you go. michelle dewberry will be up next. it sounds an absolute corker sounds like an absolute corker of doesn't say i will of a show. doesn't say i will see you tomorrow at three. take easy. >> looks like things heating >> looks like things are heating up. boilers, up. boxed boilers, proud sponsors weather on gb news sponsors of weather on gb news is . alex deegan here with your is. alex deegan here with your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. >> some warm and sunny weather on the way through the weekend. but get there, some but before we get there, some rain today across rain around today across the south and west. much of south and the west. much of scotland, northeast england staying dry from these staying dry away from these weather fronts , but they have staying dry away from these weathringing , but they have staying dry away from these weathringing a but they have staying dry away from these weathringing a fairly|ey have staying dry away from these weathringing a fairly dullave staying dry away from these weathringing a fairly dull and been bringing a fairly dull and damp scene across much of wales and increasingly now across the midlands is a damp afternoon and evening northern and evening for northern ireland and southwest scotland. the rain is clearing away from the

south—west, heavy south—west, but some heavy showers grazing southern showers just grazing southern most counties of england, particularly in the southeast . particularly in the southeast. so may see a heavy downpour here through the night. further north, the rain will tend to fizzle out, it will make for fizzle out, but it will make for quite night, quite a misty, murky night, a mild but in mild night for most. but in northern turning quite northern scotland turning quite chilly with clear skies again here. well down here. temperatures well down into could a into single figures could be a few fog patches, but few mist and fog patches, but they northern they should clear from northern scotland. sunny spells scotland. then sunny spells murky across much of murky conditions across much of northern england , parts of northern england, parts of southern scotland through the day . rain and southern scotland through the day. rain and drizzle on and off further south could start with some cloud . it some mist and low cloud. it should brighten up and then we'll see a sprinkling of showers afternoon. showers come the afternoon. feeling and humid feeling quite warm and humid here temperatures here with temperatures in the low 20 or 21 further north low 20s 20 or 21 further north in this cloudier zone, temperatures struggling somewhat , particularly over north—east england, only 15 or 16 celsius. but here comes high pressure pushing away at low pressure systems and that will bring many of us a fine weekend. there'll be some wet weather in the far northwest, but generally turning largely dry, turning sunnier and

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is no longer in the cabinet as rishi got anything against us northerners. i hope not. and i can tell you what has absolutely infuriated me tonight. have you seen this story? look at this fella on the screen . yes, that's fella on the screen. yes, that's right. he is a man. he's even got stubble. but yes, you see? you can see, right. he's got a pink t shirt, pink shorts and a pink t shirt, pink shorts and a pink headband and pink nail varnish. he now reckons that he is a woman. why this is important this important is because this man was being a, decided was charged for being a, decided to transition to be a woman when it came to the sentencing. i am very concerned about what this means for child safety in this country. how do you sign a sex register to warn people and make children ? are you a man on