gb news. >> it's 3 pm. is patrick christys. >> it's gb news. >> it's gb news. >> now, have you seen the footage? i will show you if you haven't of drunk french border cops getting boozed up, getting larry starting fights. apparently touching women up. crucially not actually stopping migrants crossing the channel. it's absolutely hilarious . apart it's absolutely hilarious. apart from the fact that we, of course, are the taxpayer who are paying course, are the taxpayer who are paying for it, i will also be talking about this story as well. pensioners should they well. pensioners now should they get greater protections when it comes to the triple which comes to the triple lock, which side fence are on side of the fence are you on here? pensioners it too here? the pensioners have it too good. not have it good good. do they not have it good enough this is another enough? this is another controversial one you. the controversial one for you. the el bulli debate. should we ban these xl bully dogs? is it the dog's fault? is it the owner's fault? we'll be getting stuck into that. and a final for into that. and a final one for you hour as well. china you this hour as well. china yes. high up has china yes. how high up has china infiltrated our government and our infrastructure? everything and how have we let it happen? patrick christie's . gb news get

patrick christie's. gb news get those emails coming in thick and fast. vaiews@gbnews.com. the first one for you today is should we stop sending money to the french to protect our borders ? gb views our borders? gb views our gbnews.com. but right now it's your headlines. >> good afternoon . 3:01. i'm ray >> good afternoon. 3:01. i'm ray addison in the newsroom. and some breaking news for you. cheshire constab says they are aware of an email which has been sent to a number of schools in chester and ellesmere port , chester and ellesmere port, which made threats to pupils and staff. the force has now launched an investigation and officers have been attending schools to provide reassurance. the force says it's doing all it can to locate the person responsible for these emails. now, of course, this is a developing story. we'll bring you more as we get it. now barclays bank is cutting over

450 staff unite the union who represents employees at the bank, has branded the decision as unnecessary and unjustified add. they say it will leave people gravely concerned about their job people gravely concerned about theirjob security and their job security and livelihoods. they've criticised barclays for cutting jobs at a time when it's making big profits . well, gb news can profits. well, gb news can reveal that more than 3000 migrant have crossed the english channel over the last 11 days. it coincides with the longest run of good weather so far this year. run of good weather so far this year . home run of good weather so far this year. home office figures run of good weather so far this year . home office figures show year. home office figures show that 144 channel migrants crossed on monday in three boats today. so far, just two boats have crossed , carrying around have crossed, carrying around 100 people. the total figure is 17% down when compared to the same period last year. in national news. and north korea's leader , kim jong un is in russia leader, kim jong un is in russia ahead of a meeting with president putin. it's only the seventh time that kim has left his country, although his last russia trip was back in 2019. they're expected to discuss

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meanwhile the average growth in pay meanwhile the average growth in pay remained at a record high of 7.8. it . wilko is closing 24 of 7.8. it. wilko is closing 24 of its stores across the uk today, with hundreds of workers set for redundancy. the retailer is going into administration with all the discount chains all 400 of the discount chains shops set to close by october . shops set to close by october. over 12,000 staff are likely to lose their jobs. jeff moody is commercial director of the british independent retailers association. he says it's a sad day for the high street . day for the high street. >> some of these people may fail in jobs in retail, which would be great, but this is now a time where the government really needs to question how it's to going support the high street and how it's going to change it. >> money should >> we don't think money should be think be poured in what we think is proper relief business proper relief for business rates, business plan rates, allowing business to plan and invest and business rates relief ends in april next year. so we don't know what the new policy will be. >> so if they tell us what it is now, businesses can make that decision. >> regulators may have breached

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has injured her hand before a visit to a prison in surrey, princess catherine was pictured with her right index and middle fingers bandaged together , fingers bandaged together, saying she sustained the injury at home on a trampoline . at home on a trampoline. kensington palace says it's nothing serious. the future queen went to see how prisoners at hmp hyde town are supported to manage and recover from their addictions , serving prisoners addictions, serving prisoners who've suffered from addiction sat down with princess kate to talk about their experiences . talk about their experiences. this is gb news across the uk on television , in your car, on television, in your car, on digital radio, and on your smart speaker by saying play gb news. now let's get straight back to . patrick >> british taxpayer are paying for french police to get drunk, grope women, start fights and joke about how they don't even want to stop channel migrants in the express basically sends a mole into the local bars around the calais area to see what they

could find. and it did not disappoint. they saw officers buying bottles of spirits costing hundreds of pounds, touching up women and starting fights, reportedly while the officers, party traffickers took the chance to launch fleets of boats. it's worth noting that between 2014 to 2021, the uk taxpayer gave the french more than 170 million quid's worth of armed money to supposedly tighten up the borders , and then tighten up the borders, and then a follow up payment of a cool £62 million in 2022 to 2023 to toughen up anti—smuggling operations, we are due to give them around £467 million over them around £467 million over the next three years. that is a heck of a lot of booze for the old gendarmes, isn't it? rishi sunak says that money is really making a difference. oh, well, yeah , it is. they've all got yeah, it is. they've all got liver cirrhosis. their handshake first thing in the morning, and liver cirrhosis. their handshake firstlocal] in the morning, and liver cirrhosis. their handshake firstlocal barthe morning, and liver cirrhosis. their handshake firstlocal bar and norning, and liver cirrhosis. their handshake firstlocal bar and kebabg, and liver cirrhosis. their handshake firstlocal bar and kebab shops the local bar and kebab shops have trebled. they're takings. i mean, express spent week have trebled. they're takings. i m

were cavorting. and i think we can have a little look there. we go. look at this lad. there he is. we've got people dancing on tables, taking their clothes off the belt comes off in a minute. if we stick with. there he is. get your belt off, lad. fantastic. lads, lads, lads, get your belt off, lad. fant.stag. lads, lads, lads, get your belt off, lad. fant.stag. stag. lads, lads, get your belt off, lad. fant.stag. stag. well,lads, get your belt off, lad. fant.stag. stag. well, whilst stay stag. stag. well, whilst this happening, a great this was happening, it's a great night isn't it? 2017 night out, isn't it? 2017 migrants crossed the channel and made it to britain. good look at that. oh, anyway , one bloke from that. oh, anyway, one bloke from the company, republican security division. i'm not fluent , which division. i'm not fluent, which is paid by britain to be posted in calais, said we don't stop the migrants. that's great, isn't it? it's not our job to stop them . a couple of days ago stop them. a couple of days ago , i let a family that wanted to leave. they touched my heart before . we are cops. we are before. we are cops. we are humans . when i see those migrant humans. when i see those migrant families, i just want to let them be. i should not say that. but we cannot welcome all the misery in the world to france. i do have sympathy, by the way, for some of the people crossing the channel, but when you look

at the people crossing, crossing the channel, they're in certain situations think really, situations and you think really, whose job is it to stop those? but anyway, you shouldn't really have that have said that. whoever that border it border guard was, because it makes money makes us want our money back, doesn't it us frankly, doesn't it? it makes us frankly, want the boats back want to turn the boats back around and stick french with around and stick the french with them. do you know how many them. so do you know how many brits could be helped with just shy of £500 million? we've got three main problems here. one is our government telling us that britain's skint, but they have . britain's skint, but they have. spent £500 million on a project that they know isn't working . that they know isn't working. the second problem is the french are perfectly happy to that are perfectly happy to take that money spend it down the pub. money and spend it down the pub. meanwhile, the third problem thousands continue to thousands of people continue to come illegally across the channel that the channel it is clear that the french will do just enough to keep the money coming. we'll keep the money coming. we'll keep spending the money. okay. and then the taxpayers , you, me, and then the taxpayers, you, me, everyone we know pays twice because we continue to pay for everybody over here as well. i mean, it was great work by the express to unearth this. but

let's be honest , it was hardly let's be honest, it was hardly the most sophisticated investigation in the world, was it? go to calais , hang around a it? go to calais, hang around a pub and see what the border guards are up to. and if that's all it took to prove that the only from migrant only winners from the migrant deal that we've got with the french are the calais bar owners. grief . well owners. then good grief. well that's what i think. vaiews@gbnews.com get those emails coming in thick and fast. pretty straightforward. do you think? off the back of what we've seen there, we should stop sending the french? sending money to the french? around million. but as we around £500 million. but as we revealed last week that french police have stopped more than 15,000 migrants from reaching the uk in small boats so far this year. this is kind of what i was saying about i think they'll do just enough to keep they'll do just enough to keep the money coming. but we also have police have footage of french police slashing and puncturing rubber dinghies. again, i will emphasise that was not a beached whale. you there . that was whale. you saw there. that was a dinghy before they reached the

water. the water. so unequivocally the french something rishi french are doing something rishi sunak has repeatedly said that his to stop the boats is his plan to stop the boats is working and the number of migrants crossed the migrants who have crossed the channel this year is down by around 17% compared to this time in 2022, which is why we have this discussion, isn't it? do we start giving the french money? is it absolutely okay for them to out of ours be going down the boozer and getting on it? but i think the more revealing thing now for me anyway was that they said you know, look, we said that, you know, look, we are beings first, i are human beings first, which i understand human understand we're human beings first. we just let first. sometimes we just let them through. but in that case, what are really paying for? i what are we really paying for? i am joined now live from paris by journalist david chazan. david thank you very much. great to have you on the show. let's have a broader discussion , really, a broader discussion, really, i think, about whether or not we should spend money should continue to spend money sending it to the french, really, and whether or not they have much of desire to stop have much of a desire to stop the channel migrants. you get the channel migrants. do you get the channel migrants. do you get the maybe the impression that maybe they're laughing the british they're laughing at the british taxpayer

they're laughing at the british taxpaye never got that impression. >> and personally , on many trips >> and personally, on many trips to calais , i've always talked to to calais, i've always talked to french police and i've never seen anything that would back up that report in the express. >> i mean, big scoop. >> i mean, big scoop. >> patrick, please go drinking when they're off duty and sometimes they dance and get up to pranks . and i mean, those to pranks. and i mean, those anonymous quotes that the express came out with, he could express came outwith, he could have been a wind up by a cop. after a few drinks. it i don't think it really proves very much the sense i've had from the french police trying to do what's really a very difficult job. >> they're out there at all hours in all weathers. >> um is that it doesn't matter. even if they are even if they have got £500 million from the uk, they, they still haven't got enough officers to police every square inch of a coastline stretching for hundreds of miles. and so at the end of the

day, some people are going to get through. but i'm going to quote from a gb news story just a week ago saying that the french police stopped 15,000 migrants from crossing so far this year and so to a certain extent , it seems to be working extent, it seems to be working to a certain extent. >> a lot of people say that it's the weather, though, and i get what you mean. david. look, hey, everyone's perfectly entitled to go and hit bars. and go out and hit the bars. and i've a couple of i've danced on a couple of tables time. mind tables in my time. i don't mind admitting belts come admitting even the belts come off to time, dare off from time to time, dare i say even the shirt. but when you listen quotes like , look, listen to the quotes like, look, a days ago, i let a couple of days ago, i let a family go that wanted to leave. we don't stop the migrants. it's not our job to stop them. there is a sense , i think from my is a sense, i think from my perspective , maybe, that some of perspective, maybe, that some of these french cops could be getting a much tougher gig in paris or in certain other areas where they'd be right at the coalface. and this, to be fair, looks a bit like a holiday for

them. and that holiday is being paid by the british taxpayer for. >> well, i've never had that impression from what i've seen them doing in calais. >> and again , i think the fact >> and again, i think the fact that they've stopped 15,000 migrants from crossing the channel so far this year speaks for itself. >> and i would question whether an individual police officer is going to take the decision not to stop some dodi crossing. there are usually other officers present and they would probably object the french police that i've spoken to understand very well that they are policing along britain's border , even if along britain's border, even if they're actually doing it on french soil and they are being or not them . but their or not them. but their government has received money from the british government to do this job. and from what i've seen, they do try to do it. i mean, there were several french police officers recently attacked with clubs and rocks by

migrant boats on the beach. those migrants succeeded in crossing the channel and they're now in jail in the uk. so those french cops who were injured, one of them had an open head wound. another one was hit in the ribs. one on the arm, and they definitely weren't . they definitely weren't. >> no, i get that look , i do >> no, i get that look, i do really get that. and in fact, that's a topic that i'm going to be doing at the top of the next houn be doing at the top of the next hour, which is about human traffickers basically schooling these channel migrants in violence of getting to violence as a way of getting to the uk. the discussion i'll be having then is what of having then is what kind of people really getting as people are we really getting as opposed not opposed to whether or not they're you know, they're all genuine, you know, bleeding heart refugees, etcetera. will chat etcetera. we will have that chat a on. there a bit later on. there was another though, another line in this, though, really, which is about really, i felt, which is about them talking about, well, look , them talking about, well, look, we are human beings. we as cops are are human beings. et cetera. we cannot welcome all the misery in the world to france. and my big scepticism about asking the french to patrol their borders our borders is because i actually would

expect them to feel the same way. i would feel about it, which is why should we be keeping these people all in our country and do they think that ? country and do they think that? >> well, i think there is probably a feeling among many french police officers as there is. i'm sure, among british police , that neither country can police, that neither country can take all the misery in the world. >> and some of these people really are fleeing desperate economic conditions and repressive regimes , particularly repressive regimes, particularly afghans fleeing the taliban and so on. so on. >> so on. >> um, but i don't i never got the sense that they were happy just to let them go. i think some french police have said to me they feel that the french authorities ought to be doing more about deporting migrants applications for asylum in france are rejected, but but no,

i mean, maybe maybe it's happening. i haven't seen any evidence of it . evidence of it. >> and this report really doesn't convince me now. >> fair enough. look david, thank you very much. absolute pleasure. great to have you and your view there from across that strip of water all the way in paris, david. she's down there. french journalist, right? well, british in france, british journalist in france, i should say. loads should say. really loads of people touch with the people getting in touch with the inbox. just delve inbox. i'm just going to delve into of gb views into a couple of these gb views of that email of gbnews.com is that email address . i of gbnews.com is that email address. i was asking of gbnews.com is that email address . i was asking whether of gbnews.com is that email address. i was asking whether or not the boozy not in light of the old boozy french guards, should we french border guards, should we now stopping sending money now be stopping sending money to the french? huey patrick is the french? huey says patrick is not it's time to not rocket science. it's time to throw a line and tow people back to the french coast. loads of people saying there's loads of people saying there's loads of people here. yeah, people are saying it here. yeah, absolutely . loads people absolutely. loads of people are. and mentioned it in my and again, i mentioned it in my monologue top. if if monologue at the top. if if, if we are spending hundreds of we are just spending hundreds of millions so french millions of pounds so french border get a break border guards can get a break from you know, the rioting from, you know, the rioting streets of paris and they can go and in hotels somewhere and stay in hotels somewhere on the area and order a load the calais area and order a load of, you know, off the shelf kind

of, you know, off the shelf kind of booze from bars, etcetera , of booze from bars, etcetera, dance tables, get their kit dance on tables, get their kit off touch women up, then, off and touch women up, then, yeah, would that maybe yeah, i would argue that maybe we should just be towing the boats what's the boats back because what's the point? lot of point? but of course, a lot of people quote maritime law at me when that. i'm saying when i say that. and i'm saying the who attack the the migrants who attack the police detained the migrants who attack the poliisent detained the migrants who attack the poliisent back detained the migrants who attack the poliisent back to detained the migrants who attack the poliisent back to their detained the migrants who attack the poliisent back to their homeained and sent back to their home country, you country, says andy. andy, you make point. we did make a good point. we did a story last week about this attacks on the french officers on which was terrible on the beach, which was terrible . and then made their way . and then they made their way to then they're . and then they made their way to prison then they're . and then they made their way to prison in then they're . and then they made their way to prison in britain. they're . and then they made their way to prison in britain. well,hey're in prison in britain. well, there's a couple of things there. they're not britain there. they're not from britain to they're from to begin with. they're from other also other countries. and also the attacks in france. so other countries. and also the atta

stop sending money to the french in that boozed up in light of that boozed up border video, but loads border guard video, but loads more on our more on this story on our website gbnews.com. the fastest growing national news site in the country. analysis the country. best analysis big opinion the latest opinion and all of the latest breaking news. so let's bring you some of that breaking news, shall we? administrators for wilco have reached a deal which could see up to 71 of the company's sites turned into poundland stores after reaching a deal with pepco. wilco is closing 24 of its stores across the uk today , with hundreds of the uk today, with hundreds of workers set for redundancy . the workers set for redundancy. the retailer is going into administration and all 400 of the discount chain shops are set to close by october. i will read that for you one more time because that is just breaking right now, which is that administered matters willco administered matters for willco have which could have reached a deal which could see to 71 those companies see up to 71 of those companies size turned poundland size turned into poundland stores reaching a deal stores after reaching a deal with pepco. we obviously await to see what that would mean in terms whether or not the terms of whether or not the people working at stores people working at those stores will info will still have a job. more info on it. but the

on that as we get it. but the state pension will rise by 8.5% next year . it's state pension will rise by 8.5% next year. it's opened up a complete can of worms. it's led to more calls for the government to more calls for the government to ditch the triple lock. but do pensioners really have it? so good for me , it comes down to good for me, it comes down to this i'll nail colours to the this i'll nail my colours to the mast. you're a pensioner and mast. if you're a pensioner and your financial situation changes , in many cases , you have lost in many cases the ability to go out and get anotherjob and then make good on your own finances. which is why think after pay tax why i think after you pay tax your whole life, we should look after that's where i'm at. after you. that's where i'm at. if disagree, in touch. if you disagree, get in touch. vaiews@gbnews.com keep the triple i'm triple lock. that's what i'm saying. patrick gb news britain's news .

sunday mornings from 930 on. gb news is . welcome back. news is. welcome back. >> it's 324. you're watching and listening to me. patrick christys on gb news on your tv or your radio. now, in a few minutes time, in the wake of more attacks from xl bully dogs, i will ask, is it time for the breed to be banned? or actually, should we just be prosecuting the owners? and there's the latest the china spy scandal latest on the china spy scandal as well. but for some breaking news, pound landowner pepco has agreed to buy up 71 wilco stores . administrators for the collapsed retailer have said it's a of light for the high street retailer with reports this morning that it would have to shut up shop forever. i am also going to be having a big chat about pensions , the triple

chat about pensions, the triple lock. whose side are you on, young versus old. but here to break down of those break down both of those stories, and stories, our economics and business halligan, business editor liam halligan, who joins me now with the who joins me now with on the money . we'll start with the money. we'll start with the breaking stuff. well, what's going on? >> we've said, haven't we, patrick, in these conversations for many days now, just because the whole of the media is reporting wilco deal collapses. it doesn't mean that sites won't be bought. there are 450 wilco stores across the country, 12,000 employees and many of those stores are in good locations and other discounters will want them. we know that bmgn discount power have taken 50 of the stores or so , 50 of the stores or so, unfortunately. david puttnam , unfortunately. david puttnam, who is the owner of hmv, he was going to take 200 stores that fell by the wayside that they don't underestimate the chances that some of that deal could come back and now again, as we've discussed, pepco, which owns poundland, have decided to buy 71 or so stores. look this is bad news for wilco in the

round. a lot of people are to going lose their jobs, but some going lose theirjobs, but some of their real estate is valuable. and some of the businesses are valuable and they will picked up. will be picked up. >> quickly, so i do >> and just quickly, so i do want spend of time on want to spend a bit of time on the pensions, don't know the pensions, but we don't know yet or let's say yet whether or not, let's say a wilco becomes a poundland are the working for the staff just start working for poundland? know. >> don't know individual >> we don't know individual staff. but poundland staff. but if poundland are buying store , they're buying a wilco store, they're buying a wilco store, they're buying store because that buying that store because that particular which they've particular store, which they've sussed clearly viable . sussed out, is clearly viable. so they're likely to rebrand it. it may be that the wilco brand itself is separately sold off. there's an online the various onune there's an online the various online retailers that are looking for the brand. so looking for the wilco brand. so let's see what happens. not all is not entirely lost. this is what happens when you have administration negotiations and everyone's fighting over the assets, trying to pay as little assets, trying to pay as little as possible for as as they as possible for as much as they can get. >> w- w— e yeah, no, 100. so >> absolutely. yeah, no, 100. so watch this space when it comes to wilco. but think unless to wilco. but i think unless you're at wilco, i you're happy to work at wilco, i would maybe the bigger would argue maybe the bigger issue the country is about issue for the country is about pensions that's to pensions and that's going to affect us one day. it's affect us all one day. it's

affecting of people now, affecting a lot of people now, an us with an increasing number of us with an increasing number of us with an and there an ageing population and there seems bit hoo ha seems to be a bit of a hoo ha going yet again about the going on yet again about the triple lock, me thinking triple lock, it got me thinking right. how good do pensioners really have it? >> 5 really have it? >> well, let's have a look at why we talking about why are we talking about pensions of pensions today? it's because of the that out. the wage numbers that came out. so me. it's a little so bear with me. it's a little bit complexity but bit of complexity here, but we'll that and then we'll get through that and then we'll get through that and then we to the bigger we can go to the bigger discussion on now. we learned this from the for this morning from the office for national this morning from the office for natiiaverage earnings the that average earnings across the uk between and july were uk between may and july were 7.8% higher, excluding bonuses than may to july 2022. and because inflation in july was 6.8, that means inflation is lower than the rate at which wages are rising. prices are going up less fast than wages. that means real wages are going up. actual purchasing power is going up. now that that pay number, you got there, 7.8, it's 8.5. if you include bonuses and the treasury tends to benchmark pensions to either earnings, which in this case are 8.5% with

bonuses or the rate of inflation in september or 2.5, whichever is the greater. in september or 2.5, whichever is the greater . okay. now 8.5% is the greater. okay. now 8.5% is the greater. okay. now 8.5% is the greater. okay. now 8.5% is the bigger of all those three numbers is. and so if they follow precedent, that means next april, based on these latest wage numbers in the run up to september, pensioners will get an extra 8.5. and how much is that £692 a year, which makes the basic state pension £8,814. >> now that's not massive or is it? >> so by international standards thatis >> so by international standards that is not big for a developed country. >> so when people say, i'm a young person who can't afford to get on the property ladder, my wage hasn't gone up by whatever it is, etcetera, etcetera , why it is, etcetera, etcetera, why should this person who's retired have an 8.5% increase on the state pension ? it's worth noting state pension? it's worth noting that that takes them only to something like £8,800 a year, which i would challenge most people to live on. >> yeah. no, absolutely . i mean >> yeah. no, absolutely. i mean

many will have other many pensioners will have other benefits. they have other benefits. they may have other pensions if they're, they're pensions if they're, if they're lucky . but look, this is the lucky. but look, this is the clash generations means we clash of generations means we live in a country , we live in live in a country, we live in a sort of western world where the baby boomers, if you like, people that born from the people that were born from the late kind of late late 40s to the kind of late 50s, 60s after the second 50s, early 60s after the second world they have got a much world war, they have got a much higher property higher rate of property ownership. got much ownership. they have got much better prevention provision. but workplace pensions, all these kind of things that people your age. patrick and frankly, my age can dream of though my can only dream of though my generation has had a bit more luck property ladder than luck on the property ladder than your generation . this your generation. so this is a big issue . and it's not just big issue. and it's not just it's not just the tories who are saying they might not observe the lock. angela rayner the triple lock. angela rayner no less. you know, the deputy labour leader , the sort of labour leader, the sort of supremo of the labour left, she was a tuc conference, a trade union conference earlier today and even she wouldn't confirm that labour will maintain the triple lock increasing pensions by as much as i just suggested

there, 8.9% if that's what they 8.5% if that's what they actually go with , that's about actually go with, that's about £10 billion. how much is £10 billion. that's two ipp on the bafic billion. that's two ipp on the basic rate of income tax. that's a lot of moolah. and people have been emailing me today saying, oh, but why are young people worried ? you know, pensioners worried? you know, pensioners have been emailing me, i pay tax all my life. i paid for in my pension. so the young people aren't paying for it now i'm afraid that misunderstands with all respect to those elderly people , how the british people, how the british government actually manages or fails to manage pension provision. there is no pension pot for the basic state pension. it's paid for out of general taxation today. so effective only young people today are paying only young people today are paying the pensions of old people today. that's just how it works. >> well, suppose it becomes a little bit more of a moral question, doesn't it, really? which is that because for me

it's that let's say, you know, everything went belly up me everything went belly up for me in big i should not be on in a big way. i should not be on the realms of possibility. i would have potentially another 35 age to make 35 years of work age to make that up. whereas somebody in their 70s. that's right. doesn't have that. that's right. and that's why i come down on the side of let's just keep the triple lock and look after the pensioners. >> yeah. look, no one no, no one's going to be no one's pension is going to be no one's pension is going to be no one's basic state pension to one's basic state pension is to going reduced but what going be reduced right. but what we're the triple we're saying and the triple lock is recent is only a relatively recent thing, during the thing, it came in during the coalition era, 2010 2015. it coalition era, 2010 to 2015. it does get pretty chunky because pensioners had a 10% increase in their pension last year because inflation was so high. it was the inflation one rather than average earnings or 2.5% that was higher to 10. then 8.5. i mean, no one who's working or unless you're some kind of finance tycoon or a or a television presenter , i don't television presenter, i don't know many of those. you you know, no one's going to be getting wage rises that are more

than 10% at an 8.5. so in that sense, a lot of a lot of younger people would say it's unfair and here's one other thing, patrick. the basic state pension is paid to everybody. it's called universal. and that's what william beveridge wanted in his report after the second world war that created the welfare state. but lot of people who state. but a lot of people who are wealthy, they're are very wealthy, they're getting state pension, getting the basic state pension, they're their wine they're using it for their wine fund. they're using it for fund. yeah they're using it for their skiing fund. so shouldn't it tested? but it be more means tested? but then start means then when you start means testing , it's really testing things, it's really difficult people difficult because most people fall just one or other side of the test and causes the means test and it causes a lot of business. it's nothing about this is easy. >> it's not easy, it's not easy, but it's a good conversation to be having. thank you much. be having. thank you very much. we've got to go. we've got to be having. thank you very much. we'liamt to go. we've got to be having. thank you very much. we'liam halligan ile've got to be having. thank you very much. we'liam halligan there. |ot to go. liam halligan there. economics and business editor. we're a we're going to having more of a chat later chat about the pensions later on, so your views coming in. on, so get your views coming in. still loads more come between still loads more to come between now braverman now and four suella braverman pushes american now and four suella braverman pushexl american now and four suella braverman pushexl dog, american now and four suella braverman pushexl dog, sayingamerican now and four suella braverman pushexl dog, saying there can now and four suella braverman pushexl dog, saying there are bully xl dog, saying there are clear danger. i will clear and lethal danger. i will speak to an expert who can tell us what this

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wednesday afternoon. that rain will push into parts of wales and northern england throughout thursday morning as well, bringing these areas a much cloudier and damp day on thursday. to the south and east, though staying milder. and that theme continues through the rest of the week into the weekend of the week and into the weekend with increasing risk with an increasing risk of thunderstorms across south eastern but cooler eastern areas. but cooler further north looks like things are heating up. >> boxed boilers, proud sponsors of weather on . gb of weather on. gb news. yeah this debate has been going on for a couple of days. >> it continues today and it's about those xl bully dogs. the mother of a ten year old boy who was by an american bully was killed by an american bully xl has questioned why the government hasn't acted sooner to the breed. home secretary to ban the breed. home secretary suella braverman is seeking urgent advice on whether to ban it, calling it a clear and lethal danger , particularly to lethal danger, particularly to

children . but are the dogs children. but are the dogs bullied by name? bully by nature ? is it the owner's fault ? a lot ? is it the owner's fault? a lot of people think it is the owner's fault. and also, what does banning the dogs look like? seriously do we do we have dog catchers going around with a big net euthanizing dogs? is that what happens? seriously, maybe some people think that's what should happen. i'm joined now by hannah molly, who is a dog behaviourist hannah, thank you very, for firstly, are very, very much for firstly, are these american bully axe owls just just genetically dangerous ? yes. >> i don't think that they are. i think can you breed a dog to be aggressive ? of course you be aggressive? of course you can.can be aggressive? of course you can. can you traumatise buys a dog such that it becomes more likely to be a bite risk? absolutely is it the fact that even 50% of the dogs who look like these dogs are that way? i don't think so. absolutely not. we cannot throw the baby out with the bathwater on this. and i totally understand that when

we see a sort of pattern like we're seeing that it's these types of dogs that are doing these these kinds of horrific injuries and fatalities across the uk that we jump straight to the uk that we jump straight to the breed. but actually it's rarely the breed . even in rarely the breed. even in america, they found that they did a study of over 256 dog bite related fatalities . and what related fatalities. and what they found was there were often loads of factors that contributed and they weren't breed related. it was things to do with the owner not being present, the dog being neglected, isolation from people. and i think as well when it comes to looking at just banning this breed, we have to really be careful here. as you say, think logistically , what say, think logistically, what are we talking about? are we saying want suddenly our saying that we want suddenly our vets and our rescue staff who are already under enormous mental health pressure doing their day to start basically killing, killing dogs? >> yeah, i i'm inclined to basically agree with everything

that you said, really. i mean, i very much on that side of things, i'm just going to show i've got look, i've got a bit of footage i would like to preface what i'm about to show by saying first foremost, any dog first and foremost, an any dog attack awful, right from attack looks awful, right from any the very any breed of dog. the very nature this quite nature of it, this is quite distressing going to distressing what we're going to show we'll just we'll show now. so we'll just we'll play show now. so we'll just we'll play attack by an xl bully. play an attack by an xl bully. right? so be aware everybody's of a sensitive nature that this is might you. is probably might offend you. anyway, it . so, okay, anyway, let's play it. so, okay, so this is this is this is the one that's caused the latest hoo—ha. it's the petrol station. it's in midlands. there's it's in the midlands. there's a bully there goes bully dog there that goes after someone. is the back end of someone. this is the back end of a clip . actually, the dog had a clip. actually, the dog had already been on the rampage for already been on the rampage for a bit. it's attacking numerous people. that people. we can all see that someone runs the dog goes people. we can all see that somethemjns the dog goes people. we can all see that somethem and the dog goes people. we can all see that somethem and it the dog goes people. we can all see that somethem and it continues.] goes after them and it continues. okay. there we go. so that's that's one of the attacks that has caused this big huha. one thing that i will say and i'm not going to pass comment on the owners of that particular dog owner, but when see about owner, but when you see about who to buy these dogs,

who likes to buy these dogs, normally often get people normally you often get people who are very open about it. they say , i'll sell these things to say, i'll sell these things to drug and to gangsters drug dealers and to gangsters because hard. because they want to look hard. and the point that and i would make the point that maybe wouldn't really maybe they wouldn't really train any that me and any dog. so that to me and advertises the fact that it's not really necessarily the dog's fault . fault. >> absolutely not. exactly. you know, and they cut their ears off. you know, they try make off. you know, they try and make them even worse. i we them look even worse. i think we have really careful here. have to be really careful here. you know what i see when i see these attacks is it's a human problem. a breed problem. it's not a breed problem. it's not a breed problem. dogs look problem. we created dogs to look like and they're doing, like this. and they're doing, you know, many of them are just horribly frustrated . and i horribly frustrated. and i appreciate that there is potential higher level of risk because of their size and their mouth size. and i don't think anybody is denying that. what i'm saying is that i really don't think banning the breed is the safest way to deal with what i've been looking at with parliament for the last year, which is rise in dog bites and deaths for 30 years this has been getting worse. >> well, that's interesting. no, hang on a minute. that's

interesting, right? that is interesting. you've been interesting. so you've been looking attacks over the looking at dog attacks over the last okay and so last 30 years. okay and so what's the general trend been there? where do bully xl's fit? because, hey, look, i hold my hands up and go if the reality is that the vast majority of people getting killed or attacked by dogs in this country are victims of excel bullies, then i would be more inclined to say ban the breed . okay, but say ban the breed. okay, but what's the reality as far as you're aware? >> so the first thing to say is that the data is appalling because we don't record dog bite data consistently across the country, and that has been the first thing that we've really wanted to push for is a national dog data collection form dog bite data collection form that that is the that everybody uses that is the same. the epidemiology same. so the epidemiology artists, when they do their research, actually measure research, can actually measure like like a lot better. like for like a lot better. that's first thing to say. that's the first thing to say. the second thing to say is that in breed this is a in terms of breed and this is a sticky because people sticky wicket because people find it difficult to measure, the difference is that pit the difference is that a pit bull or it a excel bully? bull or was it a excel bully? was it an american bulldog? it depends that down.

depends who wrote that down. it depends who wrote that down. it depends who wrote that down. it depends who looked dog at depends who looked at the dog at the over 30 years, the the time. over 30 years, the excel is number five in excel bully is number five in that breed list. so, yes , in that breed list. so, yes, in more time, we see that more recent time, we see that excel bullies a hot to trot excel bullies are a hot to trot the dog of the day. 30 years ago it was the rottweiler . so we it was the rottweiler. so we have an issue here that goes on. >> we're rottweilers doing this kind of stuff. you know, was this because we didn't i don't think we banned them. are we rottweilers ? no. rottweilers? no. >> the dangerous dog act >> when the dangerous dog act was originally brought in, it was originally brought in, it was it was rottweilers that triggered it. and we ended up looking at it and really arbitrarily putting four breeds of dog on the list. and since then, we as a country have gone. that's a dangerous dog. and we've got this stuck in our head now. it's really difficult for us to get away from this narrative of which is dangerous, that there are dangerous that there are some dangerous dogs and every other dog is safe and so this is where we find, you know, in alder hey hospital in 2021, the dogs that were most likely to bite children and provide, you know, for children

to go to hospital were shih tzus, french bulldogs and jack russells. and we're not talking about that, you know. no well, no. quite broad. >> look, i you know, i think it's an absolute tragedy that anybody is, of course, attacked ever by by a dog or anything. and i do think that it's fair to say that maybe some dogs are perhaps genetically , slightly perhaps genetically, slightly more to aggression. more predisposed to aggression. and dog to be and if that dog happens to be massive, as well, then that can pose problem . however, i am pose a problem. however, i am firmly on the side of it's the owner's fault , primarily over owner's fault, primarily over the dogs and it's going to take some shifting for me on that one. i think. but we need to see we need to see owner education. >> that's what we want. >> that's what we want. >> we want to see owner education. i do. i think as well. i think some people we should ban more people should maybe ban more people from to from keeping dogs as opposed to the breed . i would be up for the dog breed. i would be up for that. hannah, we're going to have to leave it there. thank you much. really, really you very much. really, really informative. hannah molly there, who's a dog behaviourist, right? some are warning some senior tory mps are warning that westminster could have been

infiltrated a chinese spying infiltrated by a chinese spying cell . i mean that. and where cell. i mean that. and where else? let's be honest with you. patrick christys gb news, britain's news .

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number of channel migrants this year passes 23,000, i will discuss fears from authorities that more hardened criminals are travelling over from france and pose a threat to law abiding brits. it has also, by the way, kicked right off in my inbox about the bully xl dogs. quickly. sorry, patrick, but we do need dog catchers to shoot these dogs and the woman you're interviewing needs her head examining if she thinks otherwise. there's richard strong richard, then strong stuff, richard, but then complete opposite here. it's entirely the are entirely how the dogs are brought the same brought up. they said the same about staffies years ago, and we used have issues with gangs used to have issues with gangs using them and now you don't hear about them. there are still thousands, of thousands, if not millions of staffies has staffies around the uk. it has polarised inbox gb views the polarised the inbox gb views the gbnews.com. more on that later on. but now to the latest on the chinese spy scandal. some tory mps are pushing rishi sunak to label china a threat after a parliamentary researcher was arrested on suspicion of spying. he says he's completely innocent . okay. i'm joined now by our political correspondent catherine forster. catherine,

thank you very much. i mean , thank you very much. i mean, isn't it just quite obvious that china are a threat and rishi sunak should be labelling them as that? i mean, what's the what's going on? well many people certainly would think that china were a threat to our national security. >> and of course, when rishi sunak was running for the leadership , he labelled them as leadership, he labelled them as such. leadership, he labelled them as such . but as soon as he got into such. but as soon as he got into office, actually in power, he downgrade added that to an epoch defining challenge and talking to keir starmer yesterday, the labour leader, he wouldn't call them a threat either. so so there's a lot of concern in the building behind me among some hawkish tory mps in particular, people like iain duncan smith, former party leader, that in fact this one alleged chinese spy, fact this one alleged chinese spy, we should say, he has denied any wrongdoing and he is yet to be charged with any offence, but that he might be one of others, that there could

be several people working within parliament, ostensibly for the uk who are actually working on behalf of the chinese. now this, of course, is very worrying, rishi sunak said that at the g20 he spoke to the chinese . pm made he spoke to the chinese. pm made it clear that such behaviour was totally unacceptable . oliver totally unacceptable. oliver dowden, the deputy prime minister, is saying there's a strong case to place china on this , this foreign influence this, this foreign influence registration scheme. now if they did that, basically china would be deemed a potential risk to uk safety and interests and the consequence of that would be if they were put on this list that people working for the chinese state or companies with links to the chinese state would be obuged the chinese state would be obliged to declare their interest and tell the government what they were up to. the consequence of not doing that would potentially be five years in jail. but we don't know that

that's going to happen. and of course , for all the words about course, for all the words about talking tough on china, the bottom line , as kemi badenoch, bottom line, as kemi badenoch, the business secretary said, is that we have to find a way to rub along with them because we have a huge economic interest in doing so. they're the world's other superpower. along with the us, we've got £100 billion of trade with them. a year. we actually export . £38 billion of actually export. £38 billion of goods from the uk to china. that's in the year to the end of march, just gone. so a lot of money rides on our relation with china, which is why for all the words, for all the talk of threats, the government takes a rather more softly , softly approach. >> yeah , really interesting >> yeah, really interesting stuff. i mean, thank you very, very much. catherine forster our political correspondent, just reacting to the latest in this quote chinese spy quote unquote chinese spy scandal. i want to make it very clear again that the individual

embroiled in all of this, accused of this, accused of all of this, completely it all. very completely denies it all. very bizarre think the bizarre story. but i think the overarching there is we overarching thing there is we have politicians who, when they're out of top jobs , are they're out of top jobs, are perfectly willing to say that china a threat and china is a massive threat and they serious harm to this they do serious harm to this country don't us country and they don't wish us particularly then they particularly well. and then they get top jobs and they get into those top jobs and they they they scale it back to what was a to an epoch was it from a threat to an epoch defining issue. i've scaled you down from a threat to an epoch defining issue. well, thank you very, very much. even the leader of the labour party. i'm not saying, of course, that they are a can understand a threat and i can understand that the names diplomacy. that in the names of diplomacy. but evidence do but i mean, how much evidence do we have to have that china does not wish us particularly well and are actually and that they are actually pretty dangerous, not just here, but the but for the entirety of the western everybody western world. everybody knows that. why about it? and that. so why lie about it? and the why we lie about it the reason why we lie about it is because they are a threat and they like bullies they often behave like bullies when politely suggest that when we politely suggest that maybe behave a bit maybe they want to behave a bit nicer say nicer in hong kong, they say things like, well, if you want war with china , well, we don't war with china, well, we don't want war with china. just want war with china. we're just asking behave a little

asking you to behave a little bit but anyway, there bit better. but anyway, there we go. for patrick's go. now it's time for patrick's pick day. when i focus on pick of the day. when i focus on a isn't dominating a story that isn't dominating the news agenda but still the news agenda but is still caught one caught my beady little eye. one american created quite the american caver created quite the fuss after a team of more than 200 needed to pull 200 experts was needed to pull him from the depths of one of turkey's deepest caves. 40 year old mark dickey emerged from the mauka cave in southern turkey a week after he fell ill while over 3000ft beneath the earth's surface . we're showing him surface. we're showing him images here now of this individual being hoisted . individual being hoisted. absolutely remarkable, isn't it , to think that he was rescued more than a week after after falling ill below the earth's surface, 3000ft below as well. still a work by the turkish rescuers is reminiscent, isn't it, of those those thai cave boys who were pulled out of that cave after however long that they were in there? i think that's fantastic. were unfortunate for him. of course, when he emerged the world was still in the same shape as when he left it, and i would not be

surprised decided he surprised if he decided he wanted spend another wanted to go and spend another week down sometimes week down there. sometimes i have jumping have thought about jumping into a giant turkey and a giant cave in turkey and burying my head from some of the news that i have to deliver every single day. but there we go. report that go. anyway a report claims that law are law enforcement authorities are worried facing an worried that the uk is facing an influx hardened criminals influx of hardened criminals arriving , arriving on small arriving, arriving on small boats, travelling across the channel. trafficking gangs channel. human trafficking gangs are teaching migrants to be violent towards authorities in order to get what they want . and order to get what they want. and it opens up the discussion for me . what kind of person is me. what kind of person is coming across the channel and shall we all just stop saying bleeding heart liberals that they are all refugees? patrick christys gb news britain sees john a brighter outlook with boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> good afternoon . well, the >> good afternoon. well, the thunderstorm risk will continue across southeastern areas through this evening. elsewhere though, it will turn dry and chilly as well. so we've got a front that's been sat across the

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gb news. >> here's 4 pm. it's patrick christys. it's news. and a new report shows that human traffickers are schooling channel migrants in the art of violence in order to get them across the channel. and into britain. what kind of people are we now importing into britain ? we now importing into britain? how worried should we be? and is it time that more people stood up for the pensioners, people who've paid into the tax system all their lives, people who've worked in our public services , worked in our public services, people who've literally built britain and now in their dotage , potentially could have the triple lock wrestled away from them, they have loads of them, or do they have loads of property ? they too property? have they had it too good long time? there's good for a long time? there's a big debate to be here. shall big debate to be had here. shall we our pensioners? in we protect our pensioners? in other talking we protect our pensioners? in other this talking we protect our pensioners? in other this as talking we protect our pensioners? in other this as well. talking we about this as well. should we build more now? this is build more prisons now? this is a one. the prison population a big one. the prison population rising. we're giving people shorter not in shorter sentences. we are not in some anyone up. some cases, locking anyone up. why well, because we haven't got anywhere them, anywhere to put them, which means have violent thugs means that we have violent thugs rampaging through the streets or mickey prison sentences.

mickey mouse prison sentences. i think time that we built think it's time that we built more prisons. one more for you as well. a little bit left field. is it okay to buy kids booze? now? i'm talking about your own kids for a start. and i'm about in your i'm also talking about in your own did you know that own home. did you know that apparently apparently you can give kids booze from the give your kids booze from the age of five in your own home? i find that absolutely remarkable. but should we be looking to but yes, should we be looking to change the when comes change the law when it comes to buying patrick buying kids booze? patrick christys . gb news. right. get christys. gb news. right. get your emails coming in thick and fast. gb views a gbnews.com. a couple of big ones to get your teeth stuck into there. the pensions one has gone big in the inbox so far. should we build more prisons and is it okay to buy kids booze? but right now it's headlines polly it's your headlines with polly middlehurst . patrick thank you middlehurst. patrick thank you and good afternoon to you. >> well , the top story from the >> well, the top story from the gp newsroom today is that the poundland owner, pepco , has poundland owner, pepco, has

finally agreed to buy up 71. >> wilko high street chain stores . stores. >> that comes as the retailer prepares to close 24 of its outlets today , with the rest to outlets today, with the rest to shut by next month over 12,000 jobs are at risk, although poundland says they do plan to offer roles to some wilko team members . members. >> meanwhile, barclays bank is cutting over 450 of its staff unite the union, which represents employees at the bank, has branded the decision unnecessary and unjust . and they unnecessary and unjust. and they say it's to going leave people concerned about their job security and their livelihoods. and they've criticised barclays for cutting jobs at a time when it's making big profits . gb news it's making big profits. gb news can reveal that more than 3000 migrants have crossed the engush migrants have crossed the english channel over the last 11 days. that coincides with the longest run of good weather so far this year. home office

figures show that 144 channel migrants crossed on yesterday in three small boats . well, today three small boats. well, today so far, just two boats, each carrying around 100 people have made the journey . the total made the journey. the total figure is down 17% on the same pefiod figure is down 17% on the same period last year. in national news. and north korea's leader, kim jong un is in russia ahead of a meeting with president putin. it's only the seventh time he's left his country , time he's left his country, although his last trip to russia was in 2019, the two leaders are expected to discuss a deal to supply humanitarian aid to north korea in exchange for supplying russia with munitions for its war against ukraine. that comes amid warnings from washington that the two countries shouldn't be agreeing on an arms deal. more than 10,000 people are feared missing in libya due to floods caused by storm. daniel dams have burst and buildings have been swept away as huge volumes of water coursed through large parts of the coastal city

of derna . the bodies of more of derna. the bodies of more than 1000 people have already been recovered there. one of libya's government ministers described the conditions as disastrous . he for the disastrous. he for the chancellor is defending the british job market, despite rising unemployment figures released today across the uk. unemployment rose by 0.1, reaching 4.3% in july, while job vacancies fell below 1 million. jeremy hunt says that figure remains below many of our international peers. meanwhile the average growth in pay remained at a record high of 7.8% in stars of sport and reality tv have been meeting at number 10 downing street to discuss online safety today. that's as the online safety bill returns to the house of commons for its final reading. the planned law imposes new legal dufies planned law imposes new legal duties on big tech company is to crack down on online trolls. michelle donelan secretary of

state for science innovation and technology, says it will make the uk the safest place in the world to be online. >> this is going to be a game changer when it comes to online safety, especially for our children and when you consider the impact of the material that they're seeing at the moment, it has to stop and that's what this bill is delivering. this bill is protecting our children. it's giving parents confidence to know that when they can't watch them 24 over seven, all the time, but when they're on their phones, they're not going to be subjected to this kind of material that is going to be devastating potentially their devastating potentially to their mental well—being . mental health and well—being. >> regulators may have breached environmental law by allowing water companies to discharge large sewage outside exceptional circumstances. that's according to the government watchdog norman gee. it's only allowed following unusual heavy rain to prevent flooding in homes. however for the office for environmental protection , says environmental protection, says

defra, the environment agency and ofwat may have misinterpreted the law . for misinterpreted the law. for steve reed is shadow environment secretary. he says the breach is shocked thing to find out that the government itself may have broken the law by their failure to intervene with these water companies who are themselves illegally dumping raw sewage in our waterways just goes to show that it our waterways just goes to show thatitis our waterways just goes to show that it is the government that is at fault for what we're seeing in our rivers , in our seeing in our rivers, in our lakes, and lapping up onto our beaches at the moment. >> raw sewage stinking , toxic >> raw sewage stinking, toxic sewage that will disgust people up and down this country that this conservative government has allowed this to happen . allowed this to happen. >> cheshire constabulary say they are aware of an email which has been sent to a number of schools in cheshire and ellesmere port, which made threats to pupils and staff . the threats to pupils and staff. the force has now launched an investigation and officers have been attending schools to provide reassurance. police say it's doing all it can to locate the person responsible for the

email . the person responsible for the email. meanwhile, the the person responsible for the email . meanwhile, the princess email. meanwhile, the princess of wales has injured her hand before a visit to a prison in surrey. princess catherine was pictured with her right index and middle fingers bandaged together , saying she got the together, saying she got the injury at home on a trampoline. kensington palace says it's nothing serious. the future queen went to see how prisoners at hmp high down are supported to manage and recover from addiction . with gb news across addiction. with gb news across the uk on your tv, in your car, on your digital radio, and on your smart speaker by saying play your smart speaker by saying play gb news. this is britain's news . channel news. channel >> well, we start this hour with a gb news exclusive . more than a gb news exclusive. more than 3000 migrants have crossed the engush 3000 migrants have crossed the english channel in the longest run of good weather so far this yeah run of good weather so far this year. more than 3250 people crossed the channel in 11 straight days of small boat activity. the run of good weather results in the biggest single day figure for the year

so far. when 872 people crossed in 15 small boats on saturday and that was on the second. so as a run of good weather there and that has now topped 3000 people. but the thing that really concerns me, apart from all of it, actually is that apparently now human traffickers have been telling the migrants to be violent, encouraging violence in order to help get them across the channel and that leads the question, i think, pretty obviously , about what pretty obviously, about what kind of person are we really importing into britain. mark white joins me now, our home and security editor. mark, those numbers stark, but not surprising , especially in light surprising, especially in light of fact that we've seen some of the fact that we've seen some french guards getting french border guards getting rather as well, rather boozed up as well, which i is absolutely hilarious, i think is absolutely hilarious, apart from the that we're apart from the fact that we're paying apart from the fact that we're paying for that and the levels of now that of violence, it appears now that some people willing to to some people are willing to go to get britain. ithink get to britain. i think it should a concern. get to britain. i think it shoyeah a concern. get to britain. i think it shoyeah , a concern. get to britain. i think it shoyeah , i| concern. get to britain. i think it shoyeah , i thinkarn. get to britain. i think it shoyeah , i think this is perhaps >> yeah, i think this is perhaps an what those an indication of what those french police are doing when they're boozing up in the

they're not boozing up in the hotels at the end of the shift on beaches around calais and on the beaches around calais and dunkirk, no doubt that dunkirk, there's no doubt that that however frustrated we might be, that they're not doing what the belgians do , which is when the belgians do, which is when these boats get into the water, they turn them back . they have they turn them back. they have they turn them back. they have the policy of when the boats hit the policy of when the boats hit the they stand back . but the water, they stand back. but they have been trying to go to some of busier beaches to some of the busier beaches to get to the boats, to puncture them . but as a result of that, them. but as a result of that, what we've been seeing in recent months is a shift towards much more in the way of violence on those beaches. and we had a court case just at the end of last week, patrick, in which two migrants who had attacked french police officers, they've been part of a mob that had attacked them on a beach near calais , them on a beach near calais, were caught eventually when they actually got across the channel, there was 51 of them who attacked those police officers who were trying to puncture their boat on the beach. they

managed to fight the officers off. yeah then get across to the uk . they were subsequently uk. they were subsequently arrested and convicted. but this is part and parcel of what i think the people smugglers are doing. they're trying to make sure that those migrants who are taking to the boats know what to do and are robust against the french to try to stop the boats being punctured so that they do get off to sea. yeah, indeed . get off to sea. yeah, indeed. >> look, in the last hour and i think we might be able to bring up some more footage in just a second. actually which was of these border these french border guards, police , you down pub police, you know, down the pub after a shift, dancing on tables, belt comes off, tables, the belt comes off, report from the express said that they were spending hundreds of pounds worth of essentially british taxpayers money on booze . the reports of them starting fights, groping women , all of fights, groping women, all of this part of me thinks this stuff. part of me thinks that everyone's allowed down the pub after a day at work and certainly i don't condone, by

the way , the groping of women or the way, the groping of women or the way, the groping of women or the starting of fires. it's more the starting of fires. it's more the drinking that i'm talking about here. and fact is about here. and but the fact is they were saying there that they weren't necessarily doing everything weren't necessarily doing ev stop ing weren't necessarily doing ev stop these migrants. and then to stop these migrants. and then then i think, well, if they're deaung then i think, well, if they're dealing with people throwing stones, waving knives or bits of wood at them and starting fires and things all day, every day and things all day, every day and that is becoming increasingly regular, i'd be more inclined to wave those people off as well . people off as well. >> yeah, well, listen, a couple of things. i'd say about this. obviously in the express and this particular story today , this particular story today, which really to look at it, you know, it seems quite shocking, but effectively what that is are police officers who are on assignment at they have been sent to they're not from calais. they've been sent to calais or dunkirk . they're staying in dunkirk. they're staying in local hotels around that area. it's at the their shift. it's at the end of their shift. they're having drink, they're having fun, they're relaxing. if they were doing that instead of actually being on the beaches,

then you could be angry and annoyed with them. but yeah, you know, listen, they're doing i've been on plenty assignments with lots of other journalists where the scenes are not dissimilar to when we're all staying down route in a hotel. so i'm not going to criticise this. >> no, no, i think it is a bit galling, though, for the british taxpayer to just see that. i mean , i think we can all mean, i think we can all understand that people like a party, but i suppose if it's the thought of, look, we're paying for that , well, are we paying for that, well, are we paying for that, well, are we paying for that? >> i mean, they will get probably expenses to stay at the hotel, but wherever they might be assigned, if it's away from base, that's what's happening to them. you could argue that, yes , in the round, i suppose indirectly, there is uk taxpayer payers money that is paying for them to be in a hotel, but they've done no shift. they've done no shift on the beach, being attacked by the people smugglers and the migrants. i

don't begrudge them going and having a couple of beers at the local hotel. the bigger story for me i think is the way in which these people smugglers are becoming increasingly desperate, because there is no doubt from what we're witnessing on the other side of the channel the french are making a bit of a difference around calais and dunkirk . it's pushing the people dunkirk. it's pushing the people smugglers much further south in order to then get the beaches off the boats, off the beaches further south. it's a logistical nightmare for them to get the boats all the way south, to get the migrants all the way south to do that. so i think they're getting increasingly frustrated and they're getting increasingly violent and encouraging the migrants to be increasingly violent to ensure they get off shore. well, they are. and that's the biggest it is the biggest story. >> and also, as as a few >> and also, as well as a few stories rolled into one here, because then could say, because then you could say, well, british is well, the british taxpayer is paying well, the british taxpayer is paying so british paying twice. so the british taxpayer for the taxpayer is paying for the french or not stop french to stop or not stop boats, etcetera . but then we're

boats, etcetera. but then we're also the who also paying for the people who do make it across. and if those people who have violence in people who have used violence in order here, i would argue order to get here, i would argue that should immediately stop you from from coming . i don't think from from coming. i don't think you are any longer a poor refugee, desperate need and all of this stuff if you've attacked french police in order to get to britain, i think that's a very legitimate point. >> the managed to identify by two individuals that we were talking about at the end of last week who had attacked the french officers on the beach because they'd got close enough to the officers. this is the footage here. and you'll see it in a second where we've slowed down this footage and then it will zoom right in on this individual that's what the border force and police were able to do. and they could identify a couple of these people off the boat. but they weren't the only two. there was 50 odd people on the beach and a very significant number of them

weren't just coming and swinging sticks, but they were throwing rocks at the police officers . rocks at the police officers. and that's what actually injured the officers. >> and i think it's legitimate to ask, isn't it? look, on top of this, we are dealing with people who clearly have travelled a heck of a long way people who clearly have traget ed a heck of a long way people who clearly have tra get there. eck of a long way people who clearly have traget there. and )f a long way people who clearly have tra get there. and that'sng way people who clearly have tra get there. and that's the vay to get there. and that's the final leg of their journey. and they be blocked they don't want to be blocked from doing that and so are from doing that leg. and so are willing to resort to , i would willing to resort to, i would say, extremely violent tactics in order to get to britain. i think that much is obvious. but i would then have serious concerns about let's say we put them in a hotel or a b&b or whatever, and they don't like it, or then we say to them, we're to going deport you. oh have we imported some people who are clearly very willing to use violence ? violence? >> well, this gets back to the crux of the issue that the government has argued about for some time and has , i think, some time and has, i think, a very legitimate point, which is the fact that we don't know who the fact that we don't know who

the majority of these people are, because the vast majority of them destroy their documents, throw their identification documents or their passports , documents or their passports, arts cards, mobile phones, things that could make it easier for the authorities to get a handle on exactly who these individuals are in trustingly. there are some legislation that is going to be starting to work its way through parliament this week, which is aimed at ensuring that those who assess people's asylum claims take into consideration if they don't have documents, if they've destroyed or throwing away the documents. and that's a big black mark against them, if that's the case. >> you know, i earlier today actually, i spent this morning at a very interesting place and i'm going to be putting out what i've found here later on this week. i was at a another shipping container accommodation centre in ealing . and what

centre in ealing. and what i witnessed there and again, i will put this together as a package, i'll get it out later in the week, but was legal immigrants and british citizens being forced to live in uninhabitable conditions ? uninhabitable conditions? actually uninhabitable conditions , right. and i got conditions, right. and i got quite angry at the fact that some of those people that we are seeing now coming across the channel will bump those people down. a priority waiting list and i think this is going to end up being a big issue of our time really, that people who are prepared to use violence come here illegally, throw their documents overboard. know , documents overboard. you know, all of that stuff are in this country treated as more of a priority as legal immigrants with kids and british citizens. again often with very young kids who are forced to live in some of these shipping container things. and i think that's a massive issue. >> yeah, i can relate to that. and a lot people will relate

and a lot of people will relate to that as because i was up to that as well because i was up in blackpool at the end of last year up in blackpool, seeing homeless people all on the streets sleeping in doorways in the shadow of a hotel that was full of asylum seekers and amongst those homeless people were are two ex veterans . so you were are two ex veterans. so you can understand absolute fully the real anger that there is out there in the community, what they see as preferential treatment for people who have crossed into this country illegally. because remember, it is now illegal. we've passed the illegal immigration bill in the commons, which means anyone crossing the channel now, you can't refer to them really as asylum seekers because as they're deemed to have entered they're deemed to have entered the country illegally according to what is on the statute books. all right, mark, look, thank you very much. >> whizzing us through a few stories there. stories from the channel there. the 3000 in the last 11 the numbers, 3000 in the last 11 days. having a look at the days. also having a look at the human traffickers. they're telling people to human traffickers. they're telliincreased people to human traffickers. they're telliincreased levels people to human traffickers. they're

telliincreased levels of eople to human traffickers. they're telliincreased levels of violence use increased levels of violence in order to get to britain. and of course, that we're of course, the issue that we're paying of course, the issue that we're paying around £500 paying the french around £500 million are we getting? million and what are we getting? are getting load of are we just getting a load of boozed french border guards boozed up french border guards going the all the going out on the razz all the time? so on something else now, a shocking report found a shocking report has found that almost female surgeons almost 1 in 3 female surgeons working in the nhs have been sexually assaulted in the last five years, which i find absolutely remarkable for all the wrong reasons. is this the health service's me too moment? patrick christys gb news, britain's

>> britain's news. channel >> britain's news. channel >> it is 423. we're watching and listening to me patrick christys on gb news on your tv, online and radio. now the prison population has doubled since 1993, so in a few minutes time i will ask do we need to build more prisons? but now to an alarming new report which has been branded the nhs . me too been branded the nhs. me too moment. it's found that almost 1 in 3 female surgeons working in the nhs have been sexually assaulted in the last five years. the survey of more than 1400 people says medical staff are forced to operate in an unsafe working environment . so unsafe working environment. so here are the main findings of this survey which was released this morning. 11 instances of rape were reported , also, 30% of rape were reported, also, 30% of female surgeons who responded

had been sexually assaulted in the last five years. a massive 89% of women had witnessed sexual harassment over the same pefiod. sexual harassment over the same period . it's quite shocking. period. it's quite shocking. stats there, really, isn't it? especially when you consider who presumably is doing the sexual assaulting there. i'm joined now by daisy cooper , who's the by daisy cooper, who's the deputy leader of the liberal democrats. daisy, thank you very much for coming on. what's your overall takeaway from these stats then? really well, they're absolutely shocking and it's not just the stats, but some of the testimonies in the report are really you know, they sort of send shivers down your spine. >> they're really quite terrifying. there are testimonies from some female surgeons who have said that they were in middle of actually were in the middle of actually operating on an anaesthetised patient. so somebody's been put under. patient. so somebody's been put under . the patient. so somebody's been put under. the female surgeon is operating on them in very complex, delicate way . and they complex, delicate way. and they have a male colleague who's

rubbing themselves up against the female surgeons in a very provocative and sexual fashion dufing provocative and sexual fashion during that actual operation. so it is absolutely shocking that the scale of the sexual misconduct that is happening, but also it has a knock on effect for patient safety as well, which is also equally as terrifying. i've spent 2 or 3 years trying to uncover whether the scale of sexual misconduct in the nhs as a result of the fact that i have constituents who have themselves had a similar kind of experiences . and similar kind of experiences. and i found it enormously frustrating that there is no consistent collection of the data that we need to really expose the scale of this. this report today came from a survey specifically of female surgeons . but, you know, quite frankly, it could be the tip of the iceberg. so what is the solution then, apart from obviously stopping men sexually assaulting women , which, appears to women, which, alas, appears to be beyond us cameras in be almost beyond us cameras in surgeries ? no, i think cameras surgeries? no, i think cameras in surgeries is the correct

answer. clearly that's a very intimate place where patients are very vulnerable. i don't think that's the right answer. what i think needs to happen is, first and foremost, there needs to be the routine collection of data on this. there needs to be a very specific complaints code so that we can actually record and see how many incidents, instances of sexual misconduct there actually are in both hospital and other health settings. and if we can see the scale of it, then that should feed into the performance of the performance ratings of individual hospital trusts and other medical trusts as well. that's the first thing. the second thing is that some of these allegations and revelations are not dissimilar from the revelations that we heard recently about conduct within the metropolitan police in london, and that rightly prompted there to be an independent inquiry into the culture and standards in the met. police i think it's the time has now come for a similar kind of independent investigation into this kind of culture of sexual misconduct within the nhs .

within the nhs. >> mhm no, indeed. i mean i think everyone would be inclined to agree with you. i mean the testimony the stats here are testimony on the stats here are absolutely shocking, quite surprising but, surprising i must say. but, but, but something needs to done but something needs to be done about all. look, daisy, thank about it all. look, daisy, thank you very much. it's great you very, very much. it's great to have you on the show to and reveal what's been going on and hopefully have in hopefully we can have a chat in a few time and they'll at a few weeks time and they'll at least the ball on. least be the ball rolling on. something that done about least be the ball rolling on. sorofthing that done about least be the ball rolling on. sorof thisi that done about least be the ball rolling on. sorof this is1at done about least be the ball rolling on. sorof this is daisy done about least be the ball rolling on. sorof this is daisy cooper. |e about all of this is daisy cooper. there leader of there is the deputy leader of the liberal democrats. yeah well, i mean, it's quite startling news that we're just going to move on now. and just to reiterate something that broke which is broke in the last hour, which is that landowner, pepco, has that pound landowner, pepco, has agreed to buy up to 71. wilko stores now 300 branches and thousands of jobs still remain in jeopardy. is a rescue deal involving the owner of hmv collapsed earlier this week . collapsed earlier this week. here to break that down to and talk to us as well about, well, arguably a bigger story for the nafion arguably a bigger story for the nation as a whole, which is about where on about pensions, where are you on the pensions triple lock our the pensions triple lock is our economics business economics and business editor liam the money

liam halligan with on the money . we'll go with the breaking bit first, which is wilko. what's going on? >> so wilko has got 400 stores, iconic high street discount name it went into administration in august , but there was it went into administration in august, but there was a deal on the table for the hmv owner , the table for the hmv owner, david puttnam to buy 200 of those stores that's fallen through. there's still a deal on the table for b&m, a discounter to buy 49 stores as the status of that is uncertain. but what we do know now, and we've speculated about this on gb news for a while, patrick, is that pepco, the holding company of poundland , which lots of gb news poundland, which lots of gb news viewers and listeners all know they're going to take 71 stores now , that doesn't surprise me. now, that doesn't surprise me. out of those 400 wilko stores, some of them aren't in good locations. frankly some of them are in very good locations and are in very good locations and are of themselves profitable . are of themselves profitable. when a company goes into administration . an wilko has administration. an wilko has been around since 1931 as the wilkinson family , as in the

wilkinson family, as in the razor family . when you've been razor family. when you've been around that long, you have an incredible brand. brand is incredible brand. the brand is valuable, but wilko simply run out of cash. that's why other discounters, other investors are circling for these assets and it seems that pepco are hoovering up 71 stores, just as bad, we hope are hoovering , up 49, but hope are hoovering, up 49, but still a long way short , as you still a long way short, as you say, of the 400 stores that they're all together. >> yeah, absolutely. and we'll have to keep people updated as to what this means for jobs, etcetera, going forward. and crucially it means crucially as well, what it means for street. but for your high street. but pensions now, this is, pensions right now, this is, again in the news today and it's going be a big debate. it's going to be a big debate. it's going to be a big debate. it's going to be a big debate. it's going to a big issue if i was going to be a big issue if i was a pensioner i think i would a pensioner now, i think i would be a little bit worried about whether or not my triple lock was going to be maintained, whether or not i was going to continue to have the promises that have been delivered to me before, or should i be worried as a pensioner? should pensioners be worried at the moment they're going moment that they're going to basically cash? right. basically be short cash? right. >> lot patrick. let's

>> a lot there, patrick. let's say outset that none of say at the outset that none of what say suggests or what i say say suggests or implies that people are going to lose basic state pension. lose their basic state pension. 11 million people get the basic state pension and for many of them, a big part of their them, it's a big part of their cash each week and month. what we're talking about, as you say, is the triple lock that was the coalition era legislation that is the triple lock that was the coaliti

6.8. that means that wages are going up faster than prices. hooray. which means that on average, people's wages aren't now being completely eroded by price inflation. purchasing power is increasing. that will feed into economic growth. now, the triple lock, as you mentioned, i've explained it now we've got 8.5% wage growth and that includes bonuses. and that's the benchmark that the ons and treasury usually use to increase the base rate pension . increase the base rate pension. so given that we've just had you tend to have wage growth in the summer to autumn before prices in the summer to autumn before lead into the pension change the following april . so we're following april. so we're talking about what will happen when the fiscal year 2024 opens. now that triple lock , you've got now that triple lock, you've got 8.5% increase in wages across the economy, plus bonuses that could be could be used to benchmark that basic state pension increase. and if that happens , patrick, you'd see the happens, patrick, you'd see the bafic happens, patrick, you'd see the basic state pension go up from

by about £692 a year to just over £8,800. none of us this is certain because these figures have have set off a wave of speculation today. >> yeah, no, exactly. i mean, this is this is going to rumble on and it will do indeed. in the next hour, i'm going to have a big debate on this, whether or not we should looking not we should be looking to change triple lock, whether change the triple lock, whether or actually should be or not actually we should be doing means testing, doing things like means testing, pensions, not young doing things like means testing, pensiorhave not young doing things like means testing, pensiorhave rightiot young doing things like means testing, pensiorhave right whatsoever doing things like means testing, pe say rhave right whatsoever doing things like means testing, pe say the le right whatsoever doing things like means testing, pe say the oldies right whatsoever doing things like means testing, pe say the oldies have whatsoever doing things like means testing, pe say the oldies have got tsoever to say the oldies have got it too want a bit of money. too good. i want a bit of money. liam. thank much. liam liam. thank you very much. liam halligan economics and halligan our economics and business keep business editor. look, keep your emails we're of emails coming in. we're out of time segment now, time in this segment now, gbviews@gbnews.com. to gbviews@gbnews.com. i'll go to those emails those pension emails shortly. they the they are flooding in, by the way. but still to come, between now 5:00 the uk's now on 5:00 with the uk's prisons breaking i prisons at breaking point, i want we build want to ask, should we build more prisons? but first, it's your headlines with polly middlehurst . middlehurst. >> patrick, thank you. the top stories this hour, poundland owner pepco has agreed to buy up

to 71 wilko stores. that comes as the retailer prepares to close all its outlets by next month . poundland also plans to month. poundland also plans to offer roles to wilko team members where possible. but barclays bank is cutting over 450 staff. unite the union, which represents employees at the bank, has branded the decision unneeded and unjustified . they've criticised unjustified. they've criticised barclays for cutting jobs at a time when it's making big profits and gb news can reveal that more than 3250 migrants have crossed the english channel over the last 11 days. that coincides with the longest run of good weather so far this year . today, two boats carrying around 100 people have made the journey . more on all those journey. more on all those stories by heading to our website, gbnews.com . website, gbnews.com. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar the proud sponsors of

weather on . gb news good afternoon. >> well, the thunderstorm risk will continue across southeastern areas through this evening. elsewhere though, it'll turn dry and chilly as well. so we've got a front that's been sat across the middle of the country that is pushing eastwards overnight out taking with it a lot of the rain and behind that it will turn fresher . but for the afternoon, though, we've still got some persistent rain over the likes of yorkshire, lincolnshire and in the south—east where there's a warning force for warning in force for thunderstorms that rain thunderstorms as that rain clears overnight, there will be quite a lot of cloud around in its wake and that cloud will cling to the hills and coasts across kent and sussex, elsewhere , though, a dry and elsewhere, though, a dry and clear night and a chilly one, particularly for any scottish glens where there's a risk of frost to start on wednesday morning. so crisp, more morning. so a crisp, more autumnal feel to the start of wednesday for the bulk of the uk , but it will feel that much cloudier and milder across the south—east the odd shower could

break out through the morning as well here. otherwise though, a dry day for much of wednesday. cloud will thicken through the day though, and rain will arrive across northern ireland and northwestern by northwestern scotland by wednesday afternoon . that rain wednesday afternoon. that rain will push into parts of wales and northern england throughout thursday morning as well, bringing these areas a much cloudier and damper day on thursday to the south and east, though staying milder and that theme continues rest theme continues through the rest of and into weekend of the week and into the weekend with increasing risk of with an increasing risk of thunderstorms across south eastern areas. but cooler further north, a brighter outlook with boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on . sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> well, as police searched for terror suspect daniel khalife following his escape from wandsworth prison, a picture emerged of a jail in crisis. there were claims that the jail

was understaffed and had too many prisoners. the prison population in england and wales has doubled in the last 30 years. it's not a shock, is it? when you look at population growth in general, mass immigration, etcetera , obviously immigration, etcetera, obviously we're going to end up with more people prison it's people in prison and it's projected could increase projected that it could increase by than 20,000in the next by more than 20,000in the next four years. so is it time to build more prisons? joining me now is retired prison governor vanessa . vanessa, thank you vanessa. vanessa, thank you very, very much. hey look, maybe you've got a completely different view to me on this. i don't know. but it seems blindingly obvious to me that we are have to build more are going to have to build more prisons, we're going prisons, otherwise we're going to end up with criminals walking free because we ain't got anywhere them . anywhere to put them. >> well, that is one view. absolutely >> yeah, you could look at it like that, but you have to think, well, where's all this money coming from to build all these lovely new prisons? you know, our, prison population know, our, our prison population has, like you said, expanded like fourfold since the early 1990s. and it's predicted to go

over 100,000 by about 27, 2027, 2028. so clearly , we need to do 2028. so clearly, we need to do something now . where do you say something now. where do you say like it's not just wandsworth pfison like it's not just wandsworth prison that is overcrowded? wandsworth was actually in third in the table of most overcrowded prisons. leeds was first followed by durham and then wandsworth. i think it's something along the lines of 60% of our prisons are running overcrowded and by overcrowded, there is a limit to what the prison is built to hold. in wandsworth case, it's around about 900, slightly over , but about 900, slightly over, but it's currently locking up over 1600 men. so clearly it was it was running . at 163% over its was running. at 163% over its certified normal accommodation , certified normal accommodation, which is just ridiculous. but but you then have to look who are we actually locking up? so we're in this country , we seem we're in this country, we seem to be locking up a lot of

foreign national prisoners because we can't deport them for fast enough. a lot of prisoners who shouldn't be in prison, who have mental health issues, learning disabilities , who have learning disabilities, who have got themselves in bother and nobody knows what to do with them. so what do we do? we put them. so what do we do? we put them in prison. and then you've got, of course, the short termers, the non—violent, first time offenders that the judiciary in this country seems to be absolutely desperate to lock up behind bars. this is an interesting one. >> but that is that is that's a really interesting point. now, i just to cut in on that just want to cut in on that because as report regularly on because as i report regularly on lawless walking lawless britain, people walking around shoplifting , left, right around shoplifting, left, right and centre couldn't give a toss. i don't think they're going to go prison. all that stuff i don't think they're going to gi prison. all that stuff i don't think they're going to gi also �*ison. all that stuff i don't think they're going to gi also reportill that stuff i don't think they're going to gi also report quite that stuff i don't think they're going to gi also report quite oftentuff i don't think they're going to gi also report quite often on . i also report quite often on you're more serious offenders who regularly appears don't who very regularly appears don't get the kind of sentence that many might is many people might think is fitting crime that fitting for the crime that they've but we are they've committed. but we are clearly locking up some people. my clearly locking up some people. my view is i don't understand

how unless we build more prisons, we are going to end up having to let some nasty people out of court without going to jail , aren't out of court without going to jail, aren't we? because we will run out of space. surely we already have . already have. >> but. but you could have said that in the 1990s when they started , you know, making cells started, you know, making cells that were built for 1—1 prisoner or they put bunk beds in them either side. so it now holds for prisoners. so you know, i don't think we're actually worrying about about are we running out of space today . but what i am of space today. but what i am saying is in the longer term, we need to look at the prisoners that we're locking up . what is that we're locking up. what is the point of locking up somebody for three months who's shot lifted? i don't know, a bottle of whisky . okay. so in that of whisky. okay. so in that three months, the prison hasn't got time to do anything with him. he'll serve half of that sentence . sentence. >> so is it not a deterrent? is it not a deterrent? no >> no, it's not. because in that three months he'll serve six weeks, he'll lose his home.

he'll lose his job. he'll probably lose some part of his family. so when he's released after six weeks, what does he do? where does he go? where does he live? well, he goes on to commit more crime. those sentenced to less than 12 months for non—violent offences. 63% of those will re—offend within the first 12 months of upon their release. you know , this is release. you know, this is costing us money. it's costing me money as a taxpayer. it's costing your viewers money as taxpayers . surely there is a taxpayers. surely there is a better option . well, i agree. better option. well, i agree. >> i agree with you. everybody i look, i get i get the points that you're making right. i mean, the other side to it, which maybe we haven't considered, is the fact that our population is going to keep growing. so just by virtue of the fact that we're going to end up continuing to have this population boom, i would say that even just for that alone, we need to build we do need to build more prisons, like to build prisons, like we need to build more like we need to more hospitals, like we need to build schools, need build more schools, like we need to everything, to build more everything,

really. it's one really. i mean, i think it's one thing maybe just well, thing maybe just saying, well, if stayed as are today if we stayed as we are today with the number of people the with the number of people in the country, know, then we country, we, you know, then we can to manage things country, we, you know, then we can but to manage things country, we, you know, then we can but the to manage things country, we, you know, then we can but the fact manage things country, we, you know, then we can but the fact mtwe're things better. but the fact is we're going to up with millions going to end up with millions more here the few more people here in the next few years. surely therefore years. so surely we therefore have more prisons as have to have more prisons as well. no >> well, yes and no . i mean, it >> well, yes and no. i mean, it would be lovely if we could get rid of all the old victorian prisons that are currently not really fit for purpose and by that i mean wandsworth, wormwood scrubs, pentonville, brixton , scrubs, pentonville, brixton, you know, lincoln, leeds , all of you know, lincoln, leeds, all of these are old victorian prisons that, you know , they're really that, you know, they're really not fit for purpose . it's very not fit for purpose. it's very difficult for staff to do anything bar lock and unlock people in those kinds of prisons. you may say, well, that's a good thing. don't commit the crime, but actually that's just not going to happen , is it? >> well, yeah, i suppose . i >> well, yeah, i suppose. i mean, it's interesting to get your take on it because i'll be honest with you, i mean, my, where i kind of come down is like, well, yeah, if you didn't

commit a crime, you commit a crime, then you wouldn't risk of wouldn't have the risk of getting i do getting into prison. and i do think you commit crime think that if you commit a crime where could up going to where you could end up going to prison and you get let off with a the wrist, is that a slap on the wrist, is that really from really going to deter you from doing again? but i do take doing it again? but i do take your point that then you are your point that then if you are put prison for six and put in prison for six weeks and in weeks, you've lost in that six weeks, you've lost your wife's left, your house, your wife's left, your house, your wife's left, you you haven't got a job, you and you haven't got a job, then when you come you're you and you haven't got a job, the|really| you come you're you and you haven't got a job, the|really going:ome you're you and you haven't got a job, the|really going tore you're you and you haven't got a job, the|really going to come you're you and you haven't got a job, the|really going to come yorand not really going to come out and probably right side probably stay on the right side of maybe. yeah. so probably stay on the right side of it's maybe. yeah. so probably stay on the right side of it's an naybe. yeah. so probably stay on the right side of it's an interesting]. so look, it's an interesting discussion. vanessa, thank discussion. vanessa, look, thank you have you you very much. great to have you on the show, as ever. and i'll go one more. on. you want go on one more. go on. you want to make a point quickly? go on. >> say, can't to make a point quickly? go on. >> make say, can't to make a point quickly? go on. >> make those say, can't to make a point quickly? go on. >> make those sorts can't to make a point quickly? go on. >> make those sorts of can't to make a point quickly? go on. >> make those sorts of prisoners we make those sorts of prisoners instead having months instead of having three months or sentence? why can't or six weeks sentence? why can't we them community we put them in the community and make the community make them work for the community that they've offended against? >> right. they could >> that's all right. they could go community. go and work in your community. i'll of mine. you i'll keep them out of mine. you know? right. you take care. know? all right. you take care. look, vanessa, always a good. always pleasure take always a good pleasure to take care freight there. care of vanessa freight there. former prison governor. right. care of vanessa freight there. formelookon governor. right. care of vanessa freight there. formelook let's)vernor. right. care of vanessa freight there. formelook let's stillior. right. care of vanessa freight there. formelook let's stillior. thist. okay. look let's still on this hour at 70% of 15 year olds have

had an alcoholic drink. okay. but is it ever right for an aduu but is it ever right for an adult to buy booze for underage kids? patrick christys gb news, britain's news

mornings from 930 on gb news is . welcome back. >> it is 446. you're watching and listening to me. patrick christys on gb news on your telly and on your radio now at five. as the number of channel migrants this year passes,

23,000, i will be having a chat about fact that apparently about the fact that apparently more violent criminals about the fact that apparently m0|coming violent criminals about the fact that apparently m0|coming over'iolent criminals about the fact that apparently m0|coming over fromt criminals about the fact that apparently m0|coming over from france,als about the fact that apparently m0|coming over from france, but are coming over from france, but here's a question for you can it ever be right for a parent to buy booze for their kids ? 16 and buy booze for their kids? 16 and 17 year olds are allowed to dfink 17 year olds are allowed to drink beer or wine or cider with food in a pub or restaurant if they're with an adult . and they're with an adult. and here's something that i seriously did not know until today. i don't know whether or not i should be telling you this. actually, it's his legal for five year drink for five year olds to drink alcohol at home. a remarkable but is it irresponsible for parents to let their kids drink booze or is it okay to let them have the occasional drink, break them in early ? i'm joined now by them in early? i'm joined now by them in early? i'm joined now by the journalist and authorjulie the journalist and author julie cook. julie thank you very much. is it all right to give kids booze ? booze? >> no, it's not. not at all. and i was shocked, like you and i read today that at five plus, you can drink in the home. i had noidea you can drink in the home. i had

no idea that that existed as a law. >> it makes you think that you missed out. you probably missed out for 15 years, didn't you? >> exactly . >> well, exactly. >> well, exactly. >> i grew up in the 70s and 80s as a child where you know, your dad would say, have a sip of been >> you know, it was all very let the kids have a drink at home. and if i'm honest, patrick, by the time i 13, i was half the time i was 13, i was half cut, the time. cut, half the time. >> really isn't very good. >> so it really isn't very good. i think it's good to i don't think it's good to introduce to kids. introduce alcohol to kids. young. normal misses it. young. it just normal misses it. and was reading a piece as and i was reading a piece as well that there's the myth well today that there's the myth of the sort of french and italian culture drinking and italian culture of drinking and it's fine and apparently it's all fine and apparently that myth. it's all fine and apparently tha apparently nyth. it's all fine and apparently tha apparently they still >> apparently they still have alcohol problems. >> complete myth we >> it's this complete myth we have if you drink the have that if you drink at the table like the french, you're going okay. going to be okay. >> yeah, an interesting >> yeah, it's an interesting one, though, isn't it? because i suppose are suppose i mean, there are children who led incredibly children who led an incredibly sheltered life and then got to the age of 18 and went absolutely berserk because they'd not had any experience of dfink they'd not had any experience of drink or whatever . they'd not had any experience of drink or whatever. but then there are also maybe children

who were allowed booze from a young age like that , glass of young age like that, glass of wine, maybe from the age of about 12 or 13, who have also gone on to be alcoholics. so it's almost like there's no science there? but science to it, is there? but would frown on a would you actively frown on a parent who let a 13 or 14 year old have glass of wine at home old have a glass of wine at home with the meal ? with the meal? >> i think i would. and i know that sounds terrible. i think, you know, 17 you're on the cusp of 18. it's not that bad. of being 18. it's not that bad. i think, know, my son's 14 i think, you know, my son's 14 and say, no, absolutely not. and i say, no, absolutely not. mainly because i was, you know, a terrible binge drinker in my youth, in my 20s. it was kind of the late 90s, early 2000 when everyone was drunk all the time. and it was completely normal. but i really do put that down to starting young and it being normalised by me. my, my own family and parents friends of mine who's family and parents were always like, yeah, it's fine . and i think i'm not like fine. and i think i'm not like that. as a result, would you raise the drinking age legally? >> think ? >> do you think? >> do you think? >> i'm not sure about that one because i think, you know, the

whole america 21 thing, i'm not sure we would tolerate that. perhaps and i think i think 18 is possibly, you know, the right age still. i wouldn't do that. i don't think i just think we seem to be banning everything. >> the thing, you to be banning everything. know, it's disposable. know, it's like disposable. they ban bully dogs , ban them, you know, bully dogs, ban them, you know, bully dogs, ban them. and this is the thing . comes . now, whenever anything comes in, . you know, in, there's a problem. you know, ban just ban it. in, there's a problem. you know, ban just ban it . and ban it. just ban it. and i wonder how long it's going to be before go, know, before we just go, you know, even that are 16 or 17, you even kids that are 16 or 17, you know, meal with their know, out for a meal with their parents, having parents, we ban them from having booze, year olds. booze, you know, 18 year olds. we that . we to make we ban that. we need to make them and paul, me just think them 21. and paul, me just think there's be a bit of there's got to be a bit of personal responsibility to it all. i mean, let's put it this way. julie drink way. julie i don't drink anymore, so sometimes anymore, right? so sometimes i lacked personal responsibility when can when it came to booze. so i can see. don't that was see. i don't think that was because my parents let me have a glass of wine with dinner when i was 13 or 14. you know, i think maybe people need to be able to make mistakes. what make their own mistakes. what do you yeah i see that. you think? yeah i can see that. >> and with you. that's >> and i'm with you. that's interesting. i too, don't drink any because i can't just

any more because i can't just have i know. have one. you know? i know. i can't just one. can't just have one. so i stopped a few years ago, but because that, because i've because of that, because i've taken responsibility that, taken responsibility for that, i now don't want to introduce alcohol to young children because i believe genuinely it can be a slippery slope and, you know, addiction is rife in this country with so many things. you know, why why don't you sort of another thing early if you can avoid it. >> look, w" w“ >> okay. look, julie, thank you very julie, stuff. very much. julie, great stuff. as ever. and i'll be chatting to you very no doubt. julie you very soon, no doubt. julie cook has a journalist and cook that has a journalist and author discussing about author just discussing about whether ever okay to author just discussing about whe kids ever okay to author just discussing about whe kids booze ever okay to author just discussing about whe kids booze and ever okay to author just discussing about whe kids booze and we r okay to author just discussing about whe kids booze and we looky to get kids booze and we look forward to reading your emails on that. vaiews@gbnews.com. now it's on that. vaiews@gbnews.com. now wsfime on that. vaiews@gbnews.com. now it's time for patrick's pick of the day. okay, so this i think is great. and especially in light of what we've just been talking about the last hour. talking about in the last hour. i about a man who spent i talked about a man who spent a week cave more than 3000ft week in a cave more than 3000ft underground before he was rescued. whether or not he was just trying to escape his misses, i don't know. we'll have to ask him. but i am now

focusing on a little portuguese village where residents woke up on sunday to find their streets had been flooded and by red wine bemused, locals could only look at that bemused locals could only watch on as an estimated 2.2 million litres of wine from two large tanks flowed through the streets. the distilling company apologised for the damage and said that it took full responsibility for the bizarre incident. can i just say let's just keep these images going right? 2.2 million litres of red wine flowing down the road and bemused locals. i'm reading this out again so they could only watch on. i beg to differ. i've just said i don't dfink differ. i've just said i don't drink any more. i've got to be completely honest with you. if i was in one of those houses, i would have seen that as a sign from god that i had to go outside and bury myself in that road. just frankly , just road. and just frankly, just drown in the stuff. i mean, come

off it. yes. locals could only watch on. no, you couldn't only watch on. no, you couldn't only watch on. no, you couldn't only watch on get the bucket out. right. get in the street. fill it up. get absolutely stuck in. thatis it up. get absolutely stuck in. that is an excuse for a month long party in that small portuguese village. isn't it? i mean, good grief. i think that's absolutely fantastic . but i do, absolutely fantastic. but i do, i must say , i do feel very, very i must say, i do feel very, very sorry for the poor. no doubt . sorry for the poor. no doubt. quite small vineyard and winery that has lost an entire season's worth of takings there as a result of it flowing down the street. but that for me, would have been bliss. it is, of course, the nightmare scenario for anyone who has to deal with me afterwards. but there we go. yeah. and just in case you missed it earlier on here is this clip this american this clip now of this american caver rescued from caver who was rescued from a caver who was rescued from a cave by a team of more than 200 experts, answers the age experts, which answers the age old many turkish old question how many turkish experts does take to get experts does it take to get america caver out of a hole? 40 year old mark dickey emerged from the mauka cave in southern turkey a week after he fell ill

while over 3000ft beneath the surface. he's okay now. he's got out . i surface. he's okay now. he's got out. i mean, surface. he's okay now. he's got out . i mean, fantastic effort. out. i mean, fantastic effort. like i said earlier, unfortunately for him, the world was still in the same method it was still in the same method it was when he went down hole. was when he went down the hole. but we now a report but there we go. now a report claims that law enforcement authorities are worried that the uk is facing an influx of hardened criminals arriving on small boats travelling across the channel. that wouldn't be a shock, i don't think, to anyone who watches this show regularly. seriously what kind of person are allowing across the are we allowing across the channel? are they all refugees and for and asylum seekers? sympathy for anyone is. but are anyone who actually is. but are we an increase of violent we seeing an increase of violent criminals? christys gb criminals? patrick christys gb news, news channel. news, britain's news channel. >> the temperature's rising . >> the temperature's rising. boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> good afternoon. well the thunderstorm risk will continue across southeastern areas through this evening. elsewhere, though, it will turn dry and chilly as well . so we've got chilly as well. so we've got a front that's been sat across the

middle of the country that is pushing eastwards overnight, taking with it a lot of the rain and behind that, it will turn fresher. but for the afternoon, though, we've still got some persistent rain over the likes of yorkshire, lincolnshire and in the south—east where there's a warning in force for thunderstorms as that rain clears overnight, thunderstorms as that rain clears overnight , there will be clears overnight, there will be quite a lot of cloud around in its wake and that cloud will cling to the hills and coasts across and sussex, across kent and sussex, elsewhere , though, a dry and elsewhere, though, a dry and clear night and a chilly one, particularly for any scottish glens where there's a risk of frost start on wednesday frost to start on wednesday morning. so crisp, more morning. so a crisp, more autumnal feel to the start of wednesday for the bulk of the uk , but it will feel that much cloudier and milder across the south—east the odd shower could break out through the morning as well here. otherwise though, a dry day for much of wednesday. cloud will thicken through the day though, will arrive day though, and rain will arrive across northern ireland and northwestern scotland by wednesday afternoon . that rain wednesday afternoon. that rain will push into parts of wales

and northern england throughout thursday morning as well, bringing these areas a much cloudier and damper day on thursday to the south and east, though staying milder and that theme continues through the rest of into the weekend of the week and into the weekend with increasing risk of with an increasing risk of thunderstorms across south eastern areas. but cooler further north, the temperatures rising , boxt further north, the temperatures rising, boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on gb

news >> good evening. wonderful people. it's 5 pm. it's patrick christys is gb news. some breaking news for you which i will tell you more about in a second with mark. people smugglers, people smugglers, alleged people smugglers, alleged people smugglers have arrested . smugglers have been arrested. and so i will have some more of the info on that breaking news story for you in a tick. story for you in just a tick. but we're also going to be talking about this story as well. violent on their well. violent migrants on their way human way to britain, human traffickers apparently schooling some in how to be some migrants in how to be violent in to order get to britain. what kind of people are we importing ? other news we really importing? other news about today that i'll be getting stuck into? should we? yes. instead of, you know , kill all instead of, you know, kill all excel bullies like it seems to be, the headlines across all the national press should we actually are actually save them? are there these child these dangerous, ferocious child eating beasts or actually, it eating beasts or actually, is it the owners who are to blame? and maybe we should be going after them instead? big discussion. i'm shortly be i'm not shortly i'll also be talking another hot talking about this. another hot topic protect the topic for you. yes protect the pensioners. so we're saving xl

bullies pensioners. this bullies and pensioners. this houn bullies and pensioners. this hour, should we hour, apparently. but should we be looking after the pensions triple lock our pensioners paid into the tax system their entire lives they need looking after in their dotage or or are they quite wealthy sitting on property and they need to make way for the youth. and i think i've got one more as well, haven't i? yes, i do indeed. on china. china was climate con, so even ourselves, even if we bankrupted ourselves, sacrificed ourselves at the altar of the big green agenda , altar of the big green agenda, it would mean national. unless china does anything, it's china going to do anything? no. so what's the point? patrick christys . gb news. yeah going to christys. gb news. yeah going to be a fast paced. we're going to be a fast paced. we're going to be starting with that breaking news for you , which is about news for you, which is about alleged smugglers being alleged people smugglers being arrested. what does this mean for the channel migrant trade ? i for the channel migrant trade? i will tell you in a second after your we're polly your headlines, we're polly middlehurst .

middlehurst. >> patrick, thank you. good afternoon . well, the poundland afternoon. well, the poundland owner, pepco , has agreed to buy owner, pepco, has agreed to buy up to 71 wilko stores . that up to 71 wilko stores. that comes as the high street chain prepares to close 24 of its outlets today with the rest to shut by next month . that means shut by next month. that means over 12,000 jobs are now at risk, although poundland says they do plan to offer some roles to wilko team members where possible . meanwhile, barclays possible. meanwhile, barclays bankis possible. meanwhile, barclays bank is cutting over 450 jobs unite the union, which represents employees at the bank, has branded the decision unnecessary and unjustified . and unnecessary and unjustified. and they say it will leave people concerned about their job security and livelihoods. and they've criticised barclays for cutting jobs at a time when it's making big profit. s now gb news can reveal that more than 3250 migrants have crossed the engush migrants have crossed the english channel over the last 11 days that coincide with the longest run of good weather so

far this year. home office figures show that 144 channel migrants crossed yesterday in three small boats . today, so three small boats. today, so far, three boats have crossed carrying around 120 people. the total figure, though, is 17% down on the same period last year. down on the same period last year . now down on the same period last year. now some breaking news that's come to us in the last half hour. a resident street in glasgow has had to be evacuated after the discovery of a suspected unexploded ordnance device force. police scotland tell us they were called shortly after midday to a property after it was found in a back garden. the explosive ordnance disposal team has been dispatched to the property and a cordon is in place around where it's been found . people in surrounding found. people in surrounding properties as well have asked to been asked to leave their properties as a precaution until the item can be safely disposed of. we'll keep you up to date on that one. and more breaking news

in the united states. the republican speaker of the house of representatives has called for an impeachment inquiry into us president joe biden. kevin mccarthy says lawmakers in his party have uncovered serious and credible allegations lines into the president's conduct , the president's conduct, labelling it a culture of corruption. republicans have accused the democrat leader of profiting while he served as vice president from 2009 to 2017 through his son hunter biden's foreign business ventures. the white house has said there's no bafis white house has said there's no basis for any investigation , basis for any investigation, action and staying with overseas news, north korea's leader, kim jong un is in russia ahead of a meeting with president putin. it's only the seventh time he's left his country , although his left his country, although his last trip to russia was in 2019, the two leaders are expected to discuss a deal to supply humanitarian aid to north korea in exchange for supplying russia with munitions for its war

against ukraine. and that comes amid warnings from washington that the two countries should not be agreeing on an arms deal while here at home, stars of sport and reality tv have been meeting at 10 downing street today to discuss online safety. that's as the online safety bill returns to the house of commons for its final reading. the planned law imposes new legal dufies planned law imposes new legal duties on big tech companies to crack down on trolls . michelle crack down on trolls. michelle donelan, who's secretary of state for science innovation and technology, says it will make the uk the safest place in the world to be online. >> so via this bill, we're making cyberflashing illegal and making cyberflashing illegal and making intimate image abuse illegal. and we're also making the promotion of self harm illegal. this is going to be transformational. it is going to be groundbreaking . be groundbreaking. >> now, surrey police say they're working to secure the safe return of sarah sharif's five siblings from pakistan on

the ten year old was found dead at a home in woking in surrey last month. her father , last month. her father, stepmother and uncle quickly left the uk a day before with all her siblings. the force left the uk a day before with all her siblings . the force says all her siblings. the force says it's working with international authorities after a pakistan court ruled the children would be temporarily moved to a government. child care facility . regulators may have breached environmental law by allowing water companies to discharge sewage outside of exceptional circumstances, and that's according to the government watchdog. normally the practise is only allowed following unusually heavy rain to prevent flooding in residential homes. however, the office for environment protection says defra, the environment agency and ofwat may all have misinterpreted the law. steve reedis misinterpreted the law. steve reed is shadow environment secretary and he says the breach is shocking to find out that the government itself may have broken the law by their failure

to intervene with these water companies who are themselves illegally dumping raw sewage in our waterways. >> just goes to show that it is the government that is at fault for what we're seeing in our rivers, in our lakes, and lapping up onto our beaches at the moment . raw sewage stinks the moment. raw sewage stinks ing toxic sewage that will discuss people up and down this country that this conservative government has allowed this to happen. >> now , the princess of wales >> now, the princess of wales has been seen with an injured hand while on a visit to a prison in surrey today , kate was prison in surrey today, kate was pictured with her right index and middle fingers taped together and she said she'd injured herself at home on a trampoline. kensington palace saying it's nothing serious . the saying it's nothing serious. the future queen went to see how prisoners at hmp high down are supported and managed to recover from addiction . with gb news from addiction. with gb news across the uk on your tv, in your car , on your digital radio. your car, on your digital radio. and now on your smart speaker by saying play gb news. this is britain's news .

saying play gb news. this is britain's news. channel >> yes, hello . i start this hour >> yes, hello. i start this hour with some breaking news and two lorry drivers have been arrested in connection with a major organised crime conspiracy to smuggle migrants to the uk in the back of lorries. mark wyatt our home security editor, has the details and joins me now. mark. >> yeah, these are two lorry drivers by the name of nikolai tom moore from arad in romania and vasily barkov , also from and vasily barkov, also from romania . both men in their 40s romania. both men in their 40s who have been arrested in connection with what is an ongoing , very significant ongoing, very significant national crime agency investigation in into a huge people smuggling operation that is not using small boats as time, but using lorries to take people to the uk and indeed to smuggle people out of the uk. that's quite often well used in,

you know, for those that have been perhaps convicted or are about to be convicted of significant crimes to smuggle them out of the country and away from uk law enforcement. so both these men are were , according to these men are were, according to these men are were, according to the national crime agency , the national crime agency, believed to be linked to a kingpin of a london organised crime network, a man called mohammed mukhtar hussain. now mohammed mukhtar hussain. now mohammed mukhtar hussain was arrested . you can see him in arrested. you can see him in this video and then convicted in june of this year. sentenced to ten and a half years in prison for a leading role in this huge people smuggling operation in these two lorry drivers who were arrested just in the last week are now being or in the process of being extradited back to the uk to stand trial with regard to

that first man, nikolai tommy, he is charged suspected of trying to smuggle nine migrants out of the uk. he was he was stopped and then he was bailed to go back to answer police bail with an eventual trial. but according to authorities, absconded headed back to romania and was arrested in the last week. as far as the second man, vasily lord balfe cove, is concerned , he is accused of concerned, he is accused of smuggling two people in in the back of his lorry and dumping them at thurrock services in essex in addition to that, as part of this ongoing investigation, five other lorry drivers have been convicted of smuggling people in in the back of their lorries . five mini cab of their lorries. five mini cab drivers are due to go on trial

in january of next year. i think what this highlights, patrick, is , is that those coming over is, is that those coming over illegally to the uk are not just using the most high profile route, which is the small boats. they are also coming in the back of lorries. now you look at this, this is slightly different, but it's still a significant problem . this is significant problem. this is khalife and this is the port of calais and the lorries and the car park. >> there you see him wearing fluorescent bright white shoes. you see channel migrants >> they are trying to get into the back, checking the back of these lorries and trying to sneak into the back of those lorries. now, the difference between this and the arrests that have been made in connection with this conspiracy is that these are lorry drivers who , unbeknown to them, are who, unbeknown to them, are suffering an intrusion from migrants on the ground at calais . the big people smuggling

conspiracy that the national crime agency are investigating relates to complicit lorry drivers . so lorry drivers that drivers. so lorry drivers that are being paid to smuggle people either to the uk or an organised crime big organised crime conspiracy . yeah. conspiracy. yeah. >> look, mark, thank you very much. well that's the breaking news at the top of the hour. mark white there are home security editor with the very latest on that same same but different because different now, really because this warning more hard this is a warning that more hard and criminals are crossing the channel boats. the channel in small boats. now, the times that people smugglers times says that people smugglers are migrants in are training migrants in violence and criminality . gb violence and criminality. gb news can reveal that more than 3250 migrants have arrived in small boats in 11 straight days of good weather. law enforcement agencies in this country are said to be alarmed by the prospect of migrants coming over with the intention of inflicting violence . it basically, if you violence. it basically, if you look like you're going to get stopped on the french side, it's not rocket science, is it? kick off, be as violent as possible,

maybe they'll let you across. which i can understand is happening. what happening. and then also, what does for kind of does that mean for the kind of people we are allowing here people that we are allowing here in country ? and what will in this country? and what will happenif in this country? and what will happen if they don't get their own joining me now is own way? joining me now is immigration harjot singh immigration lawyer harjot singh harjot. very, very immigration lawyer harjot singh harjot.if very, very immigration lawyer harjot singh harjot.if somebody ery, very immigration lawyer harjot singh harjot.if somebody can very immigration lawyer harjot singh harjot.if somebody can bey immigration lawyer harjot singh harjot.if somebody can be proven much. if somebody can be proven to have used violence on the other side of the channel before getting to britain, people getting to britain, many people would say that that should be straightforward deportation . is straightforward deportation. is it as that ? it as simple as that? >> all depends which country >> it all depends which country they're convicted in. so if they're convicted in. so if they're convicted in this country of it, then yes, have country of it, then yes, we have a for deporting an to be a case for deporting an to be automatically deported. >> somebody needs to be convicted for more than a year. >> so they need to get a sentence more 12 months sentence of more than 12 months in in order to do to be in jail in order to do to be deported automatically. that's what the current government does . so that definitely is something . that needs to be done. >> but once again, the conviction, the trial all takes time. it all takes money. could take a year to come to court and then, you know, after that , then, you know, after that,

they've got to do their sentence and then be deported. >> so it's not as perhaps as easy as some people think because we're just them , because we're just grab them, put them a boat and send them back. >> okay. all right. and that deportation be to deportation would be where to their because deportation would be where to their say because deportation would be where to their say they because deportation would be where to their say they come because deportation would be where to their say they come beca|sudan let's say they come from sudan or iraq. what happens there? >> yeah, well, the initially it would be to their home country or claimed asylum in or if they've claimed asylum in any safe country before they can try, they can try to deport them there. if there's a civil war in their country and they can't be returned, then they can always raise a human rights claim and say, well, hold on, you can't send us back. there's a war. there's a fear of us dying. >> so to be clear >> right? so to just be clear then, somebody had tried to >> right? so to just be clear thera somebody had tried to >> right? so to just be clear thera frenchebody had tried to >> right? so to just be clear thera french gendarmetried to >> right? so to just be clear thera french gendarmetrie the kill a french gendarme on the beach and then got in a boat and come to britain and then when they got to britain, didn't like they got to britain, didn't like the bab that we'd put them in. so then a assaulted a member of staff and then we arrested them. and then they say , my home and then they say, my home country has got a civil war. we just keep them . just keep them. >> well, no, what happens is

they'll get convicted, they'll get tried, they'll be put in to prison. they could be detained afterwards . but essentially, we afterwards. but essentially, we can't send people back to countries where there's wars and no matter what happen, because well, the fact is, if they die there, then it's on our head. so it's against human rights. it's literally see, you cannot do that. it's against the law. so then we'd have to consider some alternative as to what to do , alternative as to what to do, perhaps keep them detained in a detention centre for the barges. you know these a new centres opening up perhaps, but essentially, yeah, that's it. that's what happens . so the idea that's what happens. so the idea would be for them to the ideal would be for them to the ideal would be for them to be caught in france and convicted there . in france and convicted there. well, as opposed to coming over here. >> yeah indeed. so the british pubucis >> yeah indeed. so the british public is looking at human trafficking gangs that are apparently schooling people in how they're getting increasingly desperate. the desperate. okay. and the schooling people in violence to cross the channel, you know,

goodness knows what will happen when they're over here. the when they're over here. but the kind we've kind of the triple worry we've spoken a lot about the triple lock about pensions . lock today, about the pensions. the triple worry with this is that violent in that if they're violent in france and the violent over here, realistically there is every they're to every chance they're going to end staying anyway . that end up staying here anyway. that that my concern, which that really is my concern, which is that we are to going just is that we are now to going just have to allow not only people who illegally, but also who entered illegally, but also violent as well , all violent people as well, all dependent on what country they come from. >> but once again, if they're coming country where coming from a country where there's they pretty much there's a war, they pretty much know they're to get know that they're going to get asylum country. so asylum in this country. so there's need them. there's no need for them. there's for to be there's no need for them to be violent there. there's no need for them to buy in to a for them to buy in to commit a crime. so they're the ones i think be think perhaps we shouldn't be worried that are worried about the ones that are perhaps to be worried perhaps we need to be worried about the ones that about are the ones that are coming and thinking, well, coming here and thinking, well, you scared of going you know, i'm scared of going back countries where back. but to countries where there wars and where we there aren't wars and where we can people back . can send people back. >> andre, thank you >> all right, andre, thank you very, much. higherjarocin very, very much. higher jarocin bongile there, who's an immigration just kind immigration lawyer, just kind of giving us a little bit of a breakdown, really. again, i know

a people will emailing a lot of people will be emailing in gbviews@gbnews.com. this in gbviews@gbnews.com. look this is questions. is one of the big questions. if somebody country where somebody is from a country where there okay, do there is genuine war, okay, do you them if they commit a you deport them if they commit a violent here? i mean, you violent crime here? i mean, you can't unfortunately at the moment would on the moment i would come down on the parts i think we should parts of. yes, i think we should people might be shouting at their now, going, how their tv screens now, going, how could you, monster? go, could you, you monster? i'll go, well, violent. i'm well, if you've violent. i'm sorry. bridge too sorry. that's maybe a bridge too far. but well, moving on far. but but well, moving on from that now, this from that now, because this is another has got you another topic that has got you all going the inbox. it's all going in the inbox. it's about the excel bullies. these big dogs. now, the mother of a ten year old boy who was killed by an american bully xl has questioned why the government hasn't acted sooner to ban the breed . home secretary suella breed. home secretary suella braverman is seeking urgent advice on whether to ban it, calling it a clear lethal calling it a clear and lethal danger , particularly to danger, particularly to children. but are the dogs bullied by name? bully by nature. this has split viewers so far . some nature. this has split viewers so far. some people saying yes, literally . one person emailed in literally. one person emailed in to say i'd round them up and

shoot them. i then had another email, the next email off the back which was it's back of that, which was it's always the owners to blame, not the i think the dog, which i think summarises basically where the nafion summarises basically where the nation but i'm nation is on this. but i'm joined by journalist michael nation is on this. but i'm joined who yy journalist michael nation is on this. but i'm joined who yy believe.;t michael nation is on this. but i'm joined who yy believe. michael,l walker, who i believe. michael, great you on the show. great to have you on the show. right. tell us about your so have you got one of these dogs then? what's your setup? so i co—own a half bully with my ex , co—own a half bully with my ex, so i can't introduce you to her now, unfortunately, because she's at his house. >> but yeah, we've had her since she was months. she is half she was six months. she is half bully. half bully , half bully. so half bully, half staffie and compared to sort of your viewers comments who you sort of just read out, i'm actually in the middle on this. i it the dog as much as i think it is the dog as much as the and i'm in favour of the owner and i'm in favour of some sort of ban american some sort of ban on american bullies might sound strange. >> as an owner one, but i do >> as an owner of one, but i do think we should breeding think we should stop breeding them. it was probably a them. i think it was probably a mistake let them sort of mistake that we let them sort of grow a breed to such a degree grow as a breed to such a degree that we have over and above the staffie, i think is a sort staffie, which i think is a sort of nicer dog overall. my

concern, though, is the way that we have potentially begun discussing as a nation, discussing this as a nation, because we should because why i think we should neuter en masse essentially neuter them en masse essentially , we do need to recognise that there are currently a lot of bullies in the country who are people's family dog, and you can't just have a situation where these where anyone with one of these dogs the state dogs is demonised and the state takes away because people dogs is demonised and the state takes raised away because people dogs is demonised and the state takesraised away idogs se people dogs is demonised and the state takesraised away idogs in people dogs is demonised and the state takesraised away idogs in good.e have raised these dogs in good faith. they're members of people's families now. so we have recognise that problem have to recognise that a problem has have to has been created, but we have to sort resolve this in sort of resolve this in a considerate way as opposed to necessarily a completely i suppose at the moment they're being demonised, which i can see why that's happened. there have been some terrible things that have happened. been some have happened. there's been some horrible videos, but i think there's policy mistake, there's been a policy mistake, which this which is to let this go on this long. but can't have a long. but we can't have a situation you're just situation whereby you're just mass dogs or making the mass culling dogs or making the lives owners miserable. lives of dog owners miserable. yeah completely with yeah no, i completely agree with you on this. >> look, you mentioned distressing videos. there is just warning for just a little warning for viewers sensitive viewers of a sensitive disposition. going play disposition. i'm going to play you clip now of you a little clip now of probably latest that

probably the latest thing that sparked latest discussion on sparked the latest discussion on an bully attacking someone in an xl bully attacking someone in birmingham or a few people in birmingham or a few people in birmingham so we'll that. birmingham. so we'll play that. we'll clip and i'll we'll play that clip and i'll just you, look , just ask you, michael, look, your your experience of one of these dogs. right. you tweeted something that i quite something that i found quite interesting, which is i'm paraphrasing your dog was paraphrasing here, your dog was a mental until it got to a bit mental until it got to about years and then it about two years old and then it calmed down. so is the problem younger bullies, think ? younger bullies, do you think? >> um, well, i mean , i would >> um, well, i mean, i would like to see the evidence on this because i haven't seen the data. >> it's very difficult to know what precise dogs are doing these attacks. my these attacks. but from my experience , well, one, that experience, well, for one, that would have happened experience, well, for one, that wotdog have happened experience, well, for one, that wotdog becausea happened experience, well, for one, that wotdog becausea hapjnever, ever my dog because she's never, ever shown whatsoever shown any aggression whatsoever towards a person. >> she is. she can snap at >> now she is. she can snap at other dogs. obviously, she's never another but never harmed another dog, but she other dogs. but she can snap at other dogs. but she's never shown any kind of aggression towards person. aggression towards a person. but she reactive she was very, very reactive until turned around to and until she turned around to and especially until after she was neutered. there would need to neutered. so there would need to be more research on this. but one thing i think could be the case you knew to them

case is that if you knew to them all and you stopped the breeding of new ones, within of new ones, then within a couple we'll have couple of years we'll just have a load of neutered older bullies who be less reactive . now, who will be less reactive. now, this is a hypothesis i haven't done the scientific study here, but experience, i think but my own experience, i think we could probably let the dogs die naturally and continue die out naturally and continue to have good lives and that we could sort of phase out this problem as opposed to doing something, you know, quite extreme. >> i find it interesting. so you and the co—owner of this dog, you know, norm people. right. and it doesn't sound like your dog is a monumental threat to society and has expressed little to no interest in ripping the face off a child at any moment in his life. i then also look at some of the other people who regularly get these dogs. now, let's be honest , a lot of them let's be honest, a lot of them are drug dealer gangster are kind of drug dealer gangster types. an types. you want one as an extension persona . and extension of their persona. and it is no surprise to me that therefore their their are therefore their their dogs are aggressive because i think you could i mean, you wouldn't trust them with any animal. arguably those kind of people, they're

deliberately trying an deliberately trying to have an aggressive this aggressive dog. so this is this is i'm at on this this is where i'm at on this this kind debate owner kind of debate about owner versus you do seem to versus dog. but you do seem to think that there is a there is actually a bit of a problem with the you? the with the breed. don't you? i think think there is think you seem to think there is something with dog. something going on with the dog. yeah. yeah >> i mean i think it's i think the statistics show that it is something do the breed the statistics show that it is som also g do the breed the statistics show that it is som also g experiencee breed the statistics show that it is som also g experience ofyreed and also the experience of raising she is much raising this dog. she is much harder than previous harder to train than previous dogs. we her dogs. now the reason we got her is we were looking for is because we were looking for a staffie cross. now a staffordshire bull terrier looks a is a bit like a bully, but is a little smaller. and i think little bit smaller. and i think look, don't necessarily look, again, don't necessarily quote my quote me on that, but my understanding is they've been bred over period of a couple understanding is they've been br

let to let alone sort of react to things. the bullies are very, very reactive. so i think there is the is something going on in the genetics of that which genetics of that dog, which means probably shouldn't genetics of that dog, which means to probably shouldn't genetics of that dog, which means to continue' shouldn't genetics of that dog, which means to continue to rouldn't genetics of that dog, which means to continue to grow1't allow them to continue to grow as family pets in this issue is just we manage this transition? >> yeah, how do we do it? low mark are fascinating stuff. thank much for coming thank you very much for coming on. mean, on. good luck as well. i mean, i really hope for the sake of you and co owner and the and the and the co owner and the dog nothing we don't take dog that nothing we don't take that idea of going around dog that nothing we don't take that dog idea of going around dog that nothing we don't take that dog catchers|oing around dog that nothing we don't take that dog catchers with around dog that nothing we don't take that dog catchers with giant d dog that nothing we don't take that now catchers with giant d dog that nothing we don't take that now and 1ers with giant d dog that nothing we don't take that now and just with giant d dog that nothing we don't take that now and just exterminating nets now and just exterminating an entire breed i'm not an entire breed of dog. i'm not in of that at all. but i in favour of that at all. but i think you proposed a genuinely reasonable solution there, which is breeding and you is you stop the breeding and you control the ones already control the ones that already exist. maybe exist. i mean, maybe, maybe mandate muzzles when they're out. i don't know. anyway, we could talk about this or we could talk about this or we could about this all day, could talk about this all day, but to go. but i'm going to have to go. michael sorry. michael walker there, xl bully there, who owns an xl bully cross. to get to cross. i think i tried to get to the of exact the bottom of the exact breed there. anyway, can get there. but anyway, you can get loads this story on our loads more on this story on our website gbnews.com is the website says gbnews.com is the fastest growing news fastest growing national news site all the site in the country. all the best opinion, all best analysis, big opinion, all the news now in best analysis, big opinion, all the wake news now in best analysis, big opinion, all the wake of news now in best analysis, big opinion, all the wake of the news now in best analysis, big opinion, all the wake of the parliamentary n

the wake of the parliamentary spying scandal. business secretary said secretary kemi badenoch said that ban chinese that we can't ban chinese products reach products if we're going to reach our based our net zero targets based hinckley if china doesn't do anything about the environment, then why should we? because it's not going to make a bit of not going to make a blind bit of difference. christys

britain's news. channel >> welcome back. 527 you're watching and listening to me patrick christys on gb news on your tv online and radio. now with the state pension set to

rise by more than 8% next year, costing taxpayers £9 billion in a few moments , i will ask a few moments, i will ask whether it's time to ditch the triple lock. i don't think it is, so stop the hate . but there is, so stop the hate. but there we go. now, though, more on the china spying scandal. we go. now, though, more on the china spying scandal . also kind china spying scandal. also kind of weirdly rolling into stuff about net zero. business secretary kemi badenoch says that the uk needs to continue engaging with beijing if we are to meet our net zero targets. a bit of a confusing one. this speaking on a tour of the mini factory in oxford, she announced £600 million worth of investment to produce only electric cars by 2030. badenochs said china is leading on this technology , so leading on this technology, so we wouldn't be able to get to where we want to get to on net zero by completely stopping or banning chinese products. quite a lot to unpack here. ed gamble joins me now, is the leader of the climate party . ed, thank you the climate party. ed, thank you very, very much. so his national security , a price to pay for

security, a price to pay for hitting net zero. yeah >> oh, gosh, what a question. >> oh, gosh, what a question. >> i mean, i'm not an expert on national security, but it seems to me that kemi badenoch has got herself confused. herself terribly confused. >> i mean, there she is, you know, in an ev manufacturing facility and she should be talking about net zero. i think, and steering well clear of the connection to security. >> to that. connection to security. >> it's to that. connection to security. >> it's difficult,|at. connection to security. >> it's difficult, though, i think, it, because the think, isn't it, because the bits we need she's bits that we need is she's saying for those electric vehicles come from china and china news rather a china is in the news rather a lot at the moment for spying on us. >> us. >> yes, i think that we've got to we've grip the metal, to we've got to grip the metal, get on with this a bit. >> you know, roll our sleeves up and that mean, lot and that i mean, it's a lot worse her comment worse than just her comment actually suggests. >> i mean, the >> i mean, looking at the figures on here, figures before i came on here, i mean potentially by 2025, mean china potentially by 2025, ubs get ubs is projecting they get control of the control of a third of the lithium supply the whole lithium supply in the whole world. get control of world. they get control of 50% of the cobalt. >> that's forgetting the >> and that's forgetting the human rights issues that go with that. >> e- that. >> clearly china is going >> that clearly china is going to interested than to be a lot less interested than other countries. >> so need to be doing >> so what we need to be doing is forward targets, is bringing forward our targets, getting getting getting serious, getting the supply britain

supply lines set up to britain and make sure that and starting to make sure that the business, the manufacturing and are here. the business, the manufacturing anclook, are here. the business, the manufacturing anclook, because are here. the business, the manufacturing anclook, because we'veere. >> look, it's because we've outsourced you our outsourced our, you know, our industry 40 years, industry for the last 40 years, but everything is controlled but now everything is controlled and not by china. >> so when you say speeding up our targets, what do you mean what mean is that and the what i mean is that and the climate party has saying climate party has been saying this the start. this right from the start. >> we to getting in >> we need to be getting in control of the clean control of the new clean industrial by having industrial revolution by having a 2050 net zero target as kemi badenoch has shown today. >> we're sitting at the back of the queue. >> so china's the technology i >> k- k china's investing, >> see, china's investing, china's everything china's growing everything and the on renewables are the figures on renewables are absolutely astound sounding. >> i mean, we've got something like 50% of wind turbines worldwide being made in china . worldwide being made in china. >> 66% of the solar panels. they also responsible for something like 30% of the world's entire pollution . pollution. >> they may be, but let's not get caught up on what actually may be a distraction. >> here is an opportunity for the uk . we could lead this clean the uk. we could lead this clean industrial revolution. we can bfing industrial revolution. we can bring forward our targets, get it done early . everyone's going

it done early. everyone's going there. patrick we've got 149 countries of the world out of 195 have set net zero targets. so you don't even have to believe i don't mean to offend you when i say this, but it just sounds very wishy washy because china and india are going to do absolutely china and india are going to do absalltely has told us, >> all india has just told us, don't a developing don't lecture a developing country. way, as country. by the way, as a developing country that just sends into the side sends them into the far side of the filed something the moon and has filed something at sun. would argue at the sun. so i would argue they've but they've developed right. but developing on climate developing country on on climate change, do change, they're going to do nothing. china you know, nothing. china to, you know, uses amount of coal. uses a huge amount of coal. they've an absolute they've got an absolute astonishing record when it comes to the current climate mess that we're now . in the last few we're in now. in the last few years alone, for example , years alone, for example, they're responsible for a lot more the more of the damage to the environment through environment than we had through the revolution environment than we had through tithey're revolution environment than we had through tithey're not revolution environment than we had through tithey're not going revolution environment than we had through tithey're not going to evolution environment than we had through tithey're not going to changen . they're not going to change and they've also, virtue of and they've also, by virtue of getting pally with getting very pally with countries like afghanistan, getting very pally with countwe; like afghanistan, getting very pally with countwe withdrew, anistan, after we withdrew, managed to section a load of the section off a load of the world's capacity for things like lithium and cobalt. as you've just said, so just said, they're so us bringing own net bringing forward our own net zero targets, i just don't see how that makes a blind bit of

difference. >> can we look at it slightly differently because looks differently because it looks like arguing on basis like you're arguing on the basis of of altruism. of sort of altruism. >> we've do it because >> we've got to do it because it's for the world. and we it's good for the world. and we and or may not disagree and we may or may not disagree on it because on that, but let's do it because we national self—interest we want national self—interest to we want britain to come first. we want britain to come first. we want britain to money. cetera . to lead, have money. et cetera. we've our manufacturing we've seen our manufacturing sector decline, but from 25% or nearly 30% back in 1970, down to under 10% today. you know, we don't make any stuff anymore. that's why we have a big problem with inflation, with cost of living. >> the thing with the eighth largest money factory in the world. now it's leapfrogged france. >> f- f— >> well, we leapfrog. we actually down, though, actually just go down, though, of course, only about five years ago. sneaked back ago. so we've just sneaked back up france have up and us and france have been level quite while now . but level for quite a while now. but overall, a massive overall, we've seen a massive decline over the last 30 or 40 years and that's something that's stopping us having money in the pocket we can in the public pocket that we can pay in the public pocket that we can pay nhs, the police and pay for the nhs, the police and any elsewhere. that's why we're always go from always stealing to money go from from to pay paul, because from peter to pay paul, because we don't enough stuff here we don't make enough stuff here and and an and sell it. and here's an opportunity 80 talking

opportunity 80 we're talking about now and we're saying about china now and we're saying we're not you know they're not going to help us on the net zero targets and save the world. okay. well, let's do it for self—interest. let's lead this industrial try industrial revolution. let's try and china back us in and put china back behind us in the mirror and let's the rear view mirror and let's start money here. get start making the money here. get control minerals for control of those minerals for britain. get the supply lines built get scale going in built up and get scale going in britain on these new technologies because the world's going it going there whether we like it or world is going there. >> and i would certainly agree with variety of things with you on a variety of things that you said. there if we can cut out of stuff, i think cut china out of stuff, i think it's worth everyone's while. thank great thank you very, very much. great to short and sweet, to have you on short and sweet, but nonetheless. but worthwhile nonetheless. that is leader is a gamble. there is the leader of party. let me of the climate party. let me know you make of that. know what you make of that. vaiews@gbnews.com. now still to come, we come, between now and six, we will discuss it's time will discuss whether it's time for overhaul of state for an overhaul of the state pension. to rise by pension. this is set to rise by 8.5% next year. it's a massive issue do issue this a massive issue. do you young people have you think that young people have a right to say, all these a right to say, look, all these you've had it too good for too long, time now for us to long, it's time now for us to reclaim some of your wealth. but now as your headlines with polly

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well. so we've got a front that's been sat across the middle of the country that is pushing eastwards overnight, taking with it a lot of the rain. and behind that, it will turn fresher. but for the afternoon, though, we've still got some persistent rain over the likes of yorkshire, lincolnshire and in the south—east where there's a warning in force for thunderstorms . as that rain thunderstorms. as that rain clears overnight, there will be quite a lot of cloud around in its wake and that cloud will cling to the hills and coasts across kent and sussex, elsewhere , though, a dry and elsewhere, though, a dry and clear night and a chilly one, particularly any scottish particularly for any scottish glens there's a risk of glens where there's a risk of frost to start on wednesday morning . so a crisper, more morning. so a crisper, more autumnal feel to the start of wednesday for the bulk of the uk, but it will feel that much cloudier and milder across the south—east the odd shower could break out through the morning as well. here otherwise though, a dry day for much of wednesday. cloud will thicken through the day and rain will arrive day though, and rain will arrive across northern and across northern ireland and northwestern scotland by wednesday afternoon in that rain

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has joined the prime minister in refusing to commit to keeping the triple lock in place if they win the next election. this is deeply controversial . many deeply controversial. many pensioners think i've paid into the system my entire life . i've the system my entire life. i've never stopped my hand out when asked for anything i should be getting this pension and this pension increase. they also say the increase isn't massive. i can't live just off the state pension alone. come on. what's the hoo ha about then? you've got people got a lot of young people saying, where's my saying, well, where's my handout? the cost of handout? okay, the cost of living can't go on the living crisis can't go on the property ladder. you're in your 70s you're in £1 70s and you're sitting in £1 million with just one million house with just one of you. come need to spread you. come on, i need to spread the a little bit. so the wealth a little bit. so therein the debate, therein lies the debate, basically. i'm going to be basically. so i'm going to be asking, should we keep the triple lock? firstly on this is our economics and business editor liam halligan on the editor liam halligan with on the money . okay. right. so set the money. okay. right. so set the scene for us to begin with and then if you wouldn't mind, tell me a little bit about why maybe we younger people have a right

to say we should be getting rid of the triple lock on lots of complicated ideas knocking around here, so let's just go through them. >> the triple lock was introduced during the coalition pefiod introduced during the coalition period and basically it says is that the basic state pension each year must increase either

bonuses and that's 8.5. that's higher than the rate of inflation is. and that's higher than 2.5. and that's why people are saying it may be next april. we use this benchmark to increase the basic state pension by 8.5. and that's after a 10% rise in the basic state pension last year because inflation was so high that in real money, patrick, if that 8.5% rise goes through the triple lock holds pensioners from april will get £692 extra. a year. the basic state pension 8814. now a lot of young people are saying hang about, we're not saying there isn't pensioner poverty, but there are special benefits for

pensioner poverty , winter fuel pensioner poverty, winter fuel allowance, other kind of support , income support and so on. a lot of young people are saying a lot of young people are saying a lot of young people are saying a lot of these pensioner was they got houses, they bought houses cheaply. we can't get on the property ladder. they're saying we are paying the money into the exchequer that is actually paying exchequer that is actually paying for these pensions because there's no kind of pension . pension. >> it, right? this >> well, this is it, right? this is key. that's a key. is really a key. that's a key. this point because as this is the key point because as i've got an email in now, patrick, i've paid in, paid into it for 35 years. i won't name you some people for 40. and yet we are one of the lowest paid pensioners. so there is a feeling out there amongst pensioners that they paid into the system all their lives. they've paid for their own pension and i absolutely , pension and i absolutely, absolutely recognise that sentiment and i've got many emails saying the same thing as well. >> and the basic state pension in the uk is relatively low among wealthy countries like ours. so so elderly who have

paid all their life. they're saying, well, it's only a small pension, you know, on your bike son, i deserve this. maybe fewer avocado sandwiches and go to ibiza. less young people and you could be able to afford to buy a house. i could counter that easily, but. but i won't at this stage. what i would say, though, is there's a of a myth is that there's a bit of a myth here. are paying in to here. yes, you are paying in to the system. you are paying into national but it all national insurance, but it all just into one massive pot just goes into one massive pot and spent immediately. and is spent immediately. there is stock. there is no fund of is no stock. there is no fund of pension assets invested somewhere that pays the basic state pension. it's a pay as you go pension rather than a funded pension. >> okay. right. good stuff. now i'm joined by rebecca o'connor, who's the director of public affairs at pensionbee , who joins affairs at pensionbee, who joins me now in just a second. i believe so, rebecca. yes, there we go. thank you very much. right why should we keep the triple lock? there will be people, pensioners now shouting at their tv screens going, oh, come on, we need this triple a,

why? >> in many ways, pensioner income from the state pension still playing catch up with previous years where pensioners didn't get regular rises, the triple lock was introduced to make sure that their incomes did rise and it's still taking effect to some degree . effect to some degree. politicians who introduced it years ago would say that actually we still need it because it's not high enough yet. so you know, obviously the cost of the public purse is really significant. it's particularly significant after two years of way above average rises. and, you know , for rises. and, you know, for argument's sake, let's say the earnings data comes down next year , inflation data comes down year, inflation data comes down and we go back to normal. but we've scrapped the triple lock and oh my goodness , you know, and oh my goodness, you know, pensioners aren't able to keep up . up with. >> exactly. and i think i think rebecca, me, part rebecca, as well. for me, part of comes to this, which of it comes down to this, which is, let's say somebody my age fell onto hard times or , or lost fell onto hard times or, or lost my or the cost of living my job or the cost of living crisis really bit me. i would have opportunity for the

have the opportunity for the next 30 or 40 years maybe to try to make that back because of my age , or i would have the ability age, or i would have the ability to maybe do a bit of overtime to try to mitigate the financial issues that we've the issues that we've got at the minute, etcetera. but if someone's in their 70s, they are not really able to do that and therefore that is why it's vitally important for them to have this guaranteed triple lock in the pension. that will probably be where i'm coming at this from. is that fair enough? do you think? >> i think that's completely do you think? >> enough.1at's completely do you think? >> enough. iit's completely do you think? >> enough. i think,npletely do you think? >> enough. i think, youtely do you think? >> enough. i think, you know, fair enough. i think, you know, you the option to you don't have the option to work. that you have work. that is why you have to retire certain people retire at a certain age. people can't on and on forever. can't go on and on forever. i mean, you can continue mean, if you can continue working, do continue working, people do continue working, people do continue working state pension, working past state pension, entitlement that's great. entitlement age, that's great. but everybody can do that. but not everybody can do that. this why the state this is why we have the state pension designed to pension and it's designed to keep people out of poverty who can't do anything that any can't do anything about that any longer themselves through longer for themselves through work . so would also like to work. so i would also like to make point that i'm future make the point that i'm a future pensioner , you're a future pensioner, you're a future pensioner, you're a future pensioner, and if we do away with these protections now, we do away with them for the

working today , working population of today, tomorrow. and i certainly wouldn't be able to find the pension income to replace my own with private pension savings between now and then , there's an between now and then, there's an estimate of around £250,000, which was what you would need for your pension pot if you were to buy the same sort of income that the state pension currently gives, is an awful lot for gives, which is an awful lot for people up. people to make up. >> look, rebecca, >> all right, look, rebecca, thank o'connor thank you. rebecca o'connor there, who's director of there, who's the director of pubuc there, who's the director of public affairs pension . be public affairs at pension. be outside you very, very outside to. thank you very, very much. end up much. we're going to end up talking this in the coming talking about this in the coming days and in the coming so days and in the coming weeks. so we will have more we will have much more of a discussion on this. but i am bang of time that bang out of time for that now, i'm afraid. after i'm afraid. but after an alarming the number of alarming rise in the number of attacks those american actor attacks by those american actor bully is bully dogs, i'm asking today, is it time to ban that controversial patrick controversial breed? patrick christys

the people's. channel >> welcome back. it is fast approaching 10 to 6. you are watching and listening to me. patrick christys on gb news on your radio and tv and online. any you want. basically now let's bring you some brilliant news portugal. yes, that's news from portugal. yes, that's true . residents of a village true. residents of a village woke up on sunday to find that their dreams had been answered , their dreams had been answered, their dreams had been answered, their streets had been flooded with red wine, bemused , locals with red wine, bemused, locals could only watch as an estimated 2.2 million litres. i'm going to repeat that 2.2 million litres of wine from two large tanks flowed through the streets. the

distilling company apologised for the damage. can i just be the first to say no need to apologise, my friends. absolutely no need. if you could funnel that straight into my front room and leave it there for the week that it would take me to plough my way through your plonk, i would be perfectly happy for it. but there we go. they've apologised nonetheless. fantastic. juburi joins fantastic. michel juburi joins me now. up next, will be dewbs & me now. up next, will be dewbs& co michel. i i'm in awe. >> i'm watching those scenes unfold

>> it is a complete and utter waste, but trying to get red wine out of like clothing items. >> if anyone's had their washing out, if that's spilled over into anyone's back garden, i would not be happy about damage. >> cause you know what? it's not it's not funny when anyone's

convinced me to soften my opinion a little bit. but i want to debate what one of my viewers was. >> well, not one. quite a lot of them actually were saying, michelle, all dogs should be muzzled in public. all that's what my viewers were saying. >> so, you know what i always say? just about me. say? it's not just about me. it's them. it's about them. >> so to put it to the >> so i'm going to put it to the nafion >> so i'm going to put it to the nation tonight. dogs. well, that is the debate to be had. a lot of my viewers that should. >> i also wonder how muzzle >> i also wonder how you muzzle a you know, the it's a pug because you know, the it's all it's snout, isn't it? all it's all snout, isn't it? >> details. >> details, details. >> details, details. >> mask. >> you have to mask. >> you have to mask. >> you have to mask. >> you let the details >> you have to let the details get in the way of a good debate. but no, i know. what have we done know that done that before? i know that there'll lot strong there'll be a lot of strong opinions that because my opinions on that because my inbox yesterday was really divided. strength opinion from massive strength of opinion from people saying, absolutely, that should were should happen. then there were lots of people getting in touch saying, oh, at baby,

saying, oh, look at my baby, look at my granddaughter's best friend, friend. friend, look at my best friend. i many funny pictures i got so many funny pictures and videos of people's dogs last night well, which did night as well, which really did make on the make me chuckle. relaxing on the surface with their feet up like they were humans the they were humans and all the rest it was fabulous. i rest of it was fabulous. so i wanted at that tonight. wanted to be at that tonight. i also wanted to at the also wanted to be at the rhiannon ignition plate rhiannon ignition number plate recognition. litter recognition. if you took litter out your fast food, you know, out of your fast food, you know, when to drive through. when you go to a drive through. yeah. your yeah. should you have your registration number on the litter know i mean? litter? you know what i mean? >> yeah, agree with yeah. >> yeah, i agree with you. yeah. >> yeah, i agree with you. yeah. >> go your mcdonald's, >> if you go to your mcdonald's, whatever got, they've whatever you've got, they've got your on your reg number, you print it on the you took it out the package. if you took it out your window, well guess what? you're going be getting found you're going to be getting found and be getting and you're going to be getting fined. that fined. so i want to debate that high well. do we need high streets as well. do we need a royal to save our high a royal charter to save our high streets? we high? streets? do we need high? does it anymore? >> what does that mean, a royal child? well, you've got watch child? well, you've got to watch dewbs& you want know dewbs& co if you want to know those details. those kind of details. >> yeah, educate in >> yeah, i can't educate you in year >> yeah, i can't educate you in yeacan't it away for free. >> can't give it away for free. >> can't give it away for free. >> do you think it is? what >> what do you think it is? what do think it is? yeah i've do you think it is? yeah so i've got that coming up as well and lots of other stuff. i like to

react what my viewers have on react to what my viewers have on their and i'm their minds as well. and i'm hoping impressed hoping i'm very impressed with your attire your coordination with my attire tonight. that the tonight. so i'm hoping that the fashion, the fashion stakes continue to be as high with my panel well. panel as well. >> oh, good. who's on it? >> oh, good. who's on it? >> foster peter edwards. jacqueline foster peter edwards. baron and baroness foster. >> i'll tell you, one of the things i to put to them things i want to put to them both, angela rayner she's saying that trade unions, would that trade unions, she would give power. give them more power. >> ask >> and i've got to ask my viewers in this country, viewers tonight in this country, do you think trade unions should have we had more have more power if we had more power to the unions , would power to the trade unions, would that country in the in that move our country in the in the place or not? the better place or not? >> what's dewbs& co up next? we're being told to shop now. we are. i'll see you tomorrow at £0.03 pm. thank you very much. lovely bye. looks like lovely people. bye. looks like things heating up . things are heating up. >> boxed boilers, proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. of weather on. gb news. >> good afternoon . well, the >> good afternoon. well, the thunderstorm risk will continue new across southeastern areas through this evening. elsewhere, though, it will turn dry and chilly as well . so we've got

chilly as well. so we've got a front that's been sat across the middle of the country that is pushing eastwards overnight, taking with it a lot of the rain and behind that, it will turn fresher . but for the afternoon, fresher. but for the afternoon, though, we've still got some persistent over likes persistent rain over the likes of lincolnshire and of yorkshire, lincolnshire and in the south—east where there's a warning in force for thunderstorms that rain thunderstorms as that rain clears overnight, there will be quite lot of cloud around in quite a lot of cloud around in its wake and that cloud will cling to hills and coasts cling to the hills and coasts across and sussex . across kent and sussex. elsewhere, though, a dry and clear night and a chilly one, particularly for any scottish glens where there's a risk of frost to start on wednesday morning. so a crisp, more autumnal feel to the start of wednesday for the bulk of the uk. but will feel that much uk. but it will feel that much cloudier and milder across the south—east. the odd shower could break out through the morning as well here. otherwise though , a well here. otherwise though, a dry day for much of wednesday . dry day for much of wednesday. cloud will thicken through the day though, and rain will arrive across northern ireland and northwestern scotland by wednesday afternoon. that rain will push into parts of wales

and northern england throughout thursday morning as well, bringing these areas a much cloudier and damp day on thursday to the south and east, though staying and that though staying milder. and that theme continues the theme continues through the rest of week and into the weekend of the week and into the weekend with an increasing of with an increasing risk of thunderstorms across south eastern areas. but cooler further . north further. north >> looks like things are heating up with boxt boilers

and today marks the beginning of the end . very sadly for wilkos. the end. very sadly for wilkos. as the first stores closed their doors forever round about eight. now, some people are saying that we need a royal charter to save the high street in britain. do we? what does that even mean? and does the high street have a place in our lives like it once did? do you know the drill did? and do you know the drill on dewbs& co? it's not just about it's very much about about me. it's very much about you. one of my debates you. so one of my debates tonight is driven by your comments . last night we were comments. last night we were talking about dangerous in talking about dangerous dogs in particular the bully dogs. i was

saying that i think that they