the attack at a mcdonald's and the woke christmas advert. woke mass christmas advert. that's all to come your way very, very shortly with me patrick christys on . patrick christys on. gb news clearly off to an absolute flyer gbviews@gbnews.com is that email address? what do you make of that advert? i'll see you after the headlines. hopefully . we the headlines. hopefully. we >> good afternoon . soon it's >> good afternoon. soon it's just gone. 3:00. i'm rhiannon jones in the newsroom . jones in the newsroom. hailstones as big as golf balls have battered parts of england as storm. kieran brings with it gusts of more than 100mph. a major incident was declared in hampshire and the isle of wight while flood warnings are in place along the south coast, southern rail and southeastern have issued travel warnings and hundreds of schools across the south are closed . a red wind south are closed. a red wind warning has been issued in the

channel islands, where winds have reached up to more than 100mph. north northern gaza is coming under intense fide airstrikes from the israeli military as hamas launches a series of missiles towards israel . while at least a dozen israel. while at least a dozen combat jets launched missiles at hamas targets. while artillery placements opened fire from ground positions as it comes after fresh strikes this morning killed two hamas leaders in jabalia, an area used as a refugee camp. gaza's media office, which is run by the hamas terrorist group, says 195 palestinians were killed and the united nations says it has serious concerns. israel actions could amount to . war crimes. could amount to. war crimes. well, that is the rafah border crossing is open for limited evacuations from gaza for a second day, at least 335 foreign nationals left yesterday . dozens nationals left yesterday. dozens of the severely injured were also taken for treatment in

egypt following an internationally brokered deal. it's understood around . 7500 it's understood around. 7500 foreigners will leave gaza over the next two weeks. the foreign office is aware of around 200 uk nationals in gaza . well, nationals in gaza. well, meanwhile, back here, police are investigating what's been described as a hate crime after a building in london was covered in red paint. messages about the israel—hamas war were painted onto the building where weapons firm leonardo's, based with the entrance splattered in red paint , two men were arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated criminal damage. in other news, the bank of england has held the base interest rate at 5.25. it's the second month in a row that it's being kept unchanged after 14 consecutive hikes. the announced it will provide some relief to borrowers . however, relief to borrowers. however, the bank has downgraded its forecast for economic growth ,

forecast for economic growth, saying inflation could stay higher for longer. chancellor jeremy hunt says his autumn statement will set out the government's plan to boost growth. bank of england governor andrew bailey says it's too early for interest rate cuts. >> there is absolutely no room for complacency. inflation is still too high. we will keep interest rates high enough for long enough to make sure we get inflation all the way back to the 2% target . we will be the 2% target. we will be watching closely to see if further increases in interest rates are needed. but even if they are not needed, it is much too early to be thinking about rate cuts. >> while shadow chancellor rachel reeves says the figures show britain is heading in the wrong direction . wrong direction. >> well, interest rate hikes have been paused today, but they remain at historic highs and for the 1.5 million people looking to refinance their mortgages next year, that will mean on average an additional £220 every

single month. the bank of england today have revised down from low growth. next year to no growth at all. the conservatives have failed on the economy. it is working. people that are paying is working. people that are paying the price . paying the price. >> the covid inquiry has heard that matt hancock wanted to decide who should live and die should hospitals become ovennhelmed. lord simon stevens, who is chief executive of nhs england at the time , said he england at the time, said he discouraged the former health secretary's plan, preferring to leave such decisions to the medical profession. the inquiry is continuing . the prime is continuing. the prime minister has played down concerns of a terminator style rise of the machines on the second day of the ai safety summit, rishi sunak struck a more optimistic tone at bletchley park today, saying it's important to assess the risks without being too alarmist i >> -- >> ai has the potential to transform our lives in every aspect, from health care to education and our economy . education and our economy. thanks to the actions we've

taken this week, britain is well placed to be at the forefront of that change. there's debate about this topic. that change. there's debate about this topic . people in the about this topic. people in the industry themselves don't agree and we can't be certain. but there is a case to believe that it may pose risks on the on a scale like pandemics and nuclear war. and why , as leaders, war. and that's why, as leaders, we responsibility to act, we have a responsibility to act, to take the steps to protect people. that's exactly what people. and that's exactly what we're doing. >> this is gb news across the uk on tv , in your car, on digital on tv, in your car, on digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play gb news. that's farewell from me. now it's back over to . patrick over to. patrick >> okay, so it's poppy day. well, london poppy day anyway, a collection day supported by members of the armed forces, all in aid of the poppy appeal for the royal british legion, which is an issue that's very close to. i know my viewers, my listeners hearts. and i went and spoke to these wonderful people earlier westminster earlier today at westminster

tube which greatly tube station, which i greatly enjoyed whilst highlighting, of course, appeal for the course, my own appeal for the royal british legion. now, one of people i spoke to at of the people that i spoke to at the was the minister for the event was the minister for veterans johnny mercer, veterans affairs, johnny mercer, and what he had and here's what he had to say. he so is the poppy day he so why is the poppy day so important to you? >> , we've we've sort of >> look, we've we've sort of built up the way the nation supports veterans. right. and obviously, a blend between obviously, it's a blend between statutory and third statutory provision and third sector. sector done an sector. third sector has done an amazing this space over amazing job in this space over many years. and know, chief many years. and you know, chief amongst rbl , this is amongst them, the rbl, this is their day for raising money their main day for raising money for poppy fund. so all for the poppy fund. so it's all kind to the wheel kind of shoulders to the wheel to we're here and to make sure we're down here and raising for them. i know raising money for them. i know you do a lot of great work for veterans. >> i think some people might be scratching as to why scratching their heads as to why people have to work so people like you have to work so hard the drum for our hard to bang the drum for our veterans community. and you know, you think that is? know, why do you think that is? do enough? do you think we do enough? generally as country, as a generally as a country, as a society, thank our veterans? society, to thank our veterans? >> look, societies >> look, i think societies always got it. and you can see that if you look at when there was an uptick in sort of casualties on iraq casualties and so on from iraq and and the work of

and afghanistan and the work of people for heroes people like help for heroes dunng people like help for heroes during time during that time was extraordinary. giving extraordinary. and the giving from public was from the british public was extraordinary. i there's extraordinary. i think there's always challenge always been this challenge of marrying the kind emotional marrying the kind of emotional commitment to veterans to changing like to changing what it feels like to be a veteran kind of be a veteran through kind of policy, the intellectual application of policy in government. i came government. that's what i came into government try and into government to try and change. and i'm really proud that have. we've got the that we have. and we've got the uk's veterans uk's first office of veterans affairs. cabinet affairs. we have a cabinet minister responsible for veterans now veterans affairs. so we're now up there with our us and australian new zealand australian and new zealand allies. do allies. but there's more to do and always more to and there'll always be more to do. think we have do. but i think we have transformed it to be transformed what it means to be a veteran in this country. why should donate? a veteran in this country. why sho i ld donate? a veteran in this country. why shoi know donate? a veteran in this country. why shoi know we'vemate? a veteran in this country. why shoi know we've gote? a veteran in this country. why shoi know we've got a cost of >> i know we've got a cost of living crisis at the moment. i know people are really scraping a together try and a few pounds together to try and put of food on the table put a bit of food on the table and people are incredibly generous of that in generous despite all of that in this why should people, this country. why should people, if have a couple of if they have got a couple of quid spare, why should give quid spare, why should they give it appeal? look it to the poppy appeal? look i think it's important to remember that despite, you know, the incredibly life we incredibly privileged life we have country, the way of have in this country, the way of life, is not free. life, we have is not free.

>> and actually, people >> right. and actually, people have there, got their have gone out there, got their hands and sacrificed life hands dirty and sacrificed life and body mind for and limb and body and mind for our of life. and i just our way of life. and i just think you know, the nation has a duty not only the duty to them, not only the government, everybody, the government, but everybody, the rbl community. across rbl and community. rs across the country duty to look country we have a duty to look after when they come home. after them when they come home. it's basic concept. it's a pretty basic concept. lots people always ask, how lots of people always ask, how do i do that right? today is a really good of doing that really good way of doing that because do because the rba will do fantastic across many fantastic work across many sectors and i would encourage you what you you to go out and give what you can and just just a quick can today and just just a quick one with you, viewers and one with you, our viewers and our are managed to our listeners are managed to raise £180,000 at the moment. >> we're hoping 200 grand. >> we're hoping for 200 grand. i think. think it might be think. i think it might be doable things are going. doable the way things are going. just a quick message for them, if that's all right. >> yeah. thank you much >> yeah. look, thank you so much for generosity. i can for your generosity. all i can say that it genuinely changes say is that it genuinely changes lives, you give lives, right? what you give genuinely lives lots genuinely changes lives and lots of said, asked of people, like i said, asked me, do i how do i get me, how do i how do i get involved in this process? i don't know anybody in this process veterans. you process of helping veterans. you do is do this and your money is directly changing their lives and improving their lives

through rbl. thank so through the rbl. so thank you so much for what you've done, what gb has done, and see gb news has done, and let's see if get to 200 grand and if we can get to 200 grand and keep going. >> great stuff there. now >> yeah, great stuff there. now over course of this show, over the course of this show, i'm going to playing some i'm going to be playing you some interviews that i've done with serving some of them serving veterans, some of them very, moving emotional very, very moving and emotional or sorry, serving or actually, sorry, serving military should military personnel. i should say. emotional say. very moving, very emotional stuff. giving.com/page stuff. just giving.com/page four slash poppy, the slash gb news poppy, is the appeal going at appeal that we've got going at the moment and you wonderful people so raised people have so far raised a staggering £189,559. so hats off to you all. massively appreciated . the original target appreciated. the original target was supposed to just be ten grand, which we would have all been blown away with here. so the fact that you've managed to dip into your pockets and get £189,559 together is unreal. so thank you. thank you. thank you, everybody just give me a.com/page. fonnard slash gb news poppy. but in the uk we have seen even more protests and action and tensions ramping up ahead of remembrance sunday with the foreign office being the

target of some of those protests today. yeah there we go. it also comes as media circulates online advertising tickets to the planned national rally on armistice day. okay so there are tickets being offered for people to go and attend a pro—palestine rally and a march in london on the saturday, november the 11th. so on armistice day, there are even in some cases putting coaches on from leicester . and coaches on from leicester. and one of those places as well is batley, which was the infamous scene of batley grammar school, where a teacher has, as i understand it, still had to go into protective custody and change their identity and all sorts to sorts because they managed to stoke some racial tensions there. i believe that they were accused of showing a picture of the prophet mohammed some the prophet mohammed to some students, right students, and that kicked right off. people in that area off. and so people in that area have that it is tasteful have decided that it is tasteful and nice and appropriate to be coming to london on armistice day to stage a rally. what do

you make of that? vaiews@gbnews.com. i'm very keen to get your views on all of that. keen to get your views on all of that . now, keen to get your views on all of that. now, israel, keen to get your views on all of that . now, israel, though, keen to get your views on all of that. now, israel, though, is claiming that it's killed two senior hamas leaders in strikes on the jabalia refugee camp in gaza. the un, however, raised serious concerns that the idf's operation could amount to war crimes after targeting the civilian heavy area. it does come as the first british nationals have left gaza via the rafah crossing, with prime minister rishi sunak pledging to do whatever he can to help others escape. our security editor mark white is actually there for us in sderot in southern israel at the moment. he's going to fill us in with the very latest. mark, thank you very, very much. so what's going on where you are? there >> well, we've had the sound of explosions really all day long. but within the last hour , things but within the last hour, things have really intensified and what we've been watching from our vantage point here overlooking northern gaza is , is these

northern gaza is, is these aerial bursts , two artillery aerial bursts, two artillery bursts that . but, you know, for bursts that. but, you know, for all intents and purposes , they, all intents and purposes, they, you know, flash in the sky. but this is a deadly firework that sends shrapnel. i'm just going to get out of the way because that's another aerial burst. so you should any second now see the burst in the air and then the burst in the air and then the fragments coming down towards the ground there. these are deadly shrapnel fragments that are designed and to go after enemy positions out in the open. after enemy positions out in the open . and they've been firing open. and they've been firing them really from from the left and from the right over this area of sort of it's almost like open ground before you get to the forest built up area in northern gaza. israeli troops had kind of pushed on beyond that point. and it may well be that point. and it may well be that some of the hamas terrorists now have used the tunnel systems to come up behind

the idf fighters. and that's why we're seeing these fragmentation devices, if you like , these devices, if you like, these aerial bomb, aerial bursts, sending the shrapnel down to the ground there to try to take care of those fighters who are in that position. we also about a 40 minutes or so ago, patrick saw 12 israeli combat jets come over and begin bombing northern gaza as well. what we've got is an operation that's coming down from where we are, the north of gaza , heading down towards gaza gaza, heading down towards gaza city and then south of gaza city. another israeli military column is pushing in from israel , pushing towards the coast to the coastal road there. and when they've completed that particular mission , then it will particular mission, then it will be basically gaza city itself will be cut off, effectively encircled, and then at some

point, the decision will be made, patrick, to move in and to try and go after hamas in its stronghold of gaza city . and stronghold of gaza city. and really, we're talking about huge and i'm just going to step out of the way again, another bombardment. so you'll see one of these aerial bursts again any second now over the battlefield justin second now over the battlefield just in front of us there. and these frags bits of shrapnel heading down towards those hamas fighters . so, as i say , the fighters. so, as i say, the decision will be made at some point once they have isolated gaza city to move in that will be without a doubt , the most be without a doubt, the most difficult part. patrick of the battle ahead , because they are battle ahead, because they are so well entrenched within gaza city and within the civilian population in gaza city. also so of course, they have the underground tunnel network all around there and even popping up just behind us there, it's clear

all over the gaza strip, hundred of miles of tunnels. they have been preparing for this battle for a long time. hamas and that's why it is going to be a long and difficult battle for the israelis to finally achieve their end goal, which is to destroy this terrorist group . destroy this terrorist group. >> yeah, absolutely. look, ma, thank you very, very much. smart white there. our security editor on in sderot, which on the ground in sderot, which is in southern israel. you see a heck of a lot military heck of a lot of military activity there . and it is activity there. and it is because of what we're seeing there, that conflict that is spilled onto the streets of spilled out onto the streets of britain . a story that know britain. a story that i know has got lot you very, very got a lot of you very, very worked and something that worked up and something that we're a very close look we're having a very close look at on this show today is to going be those protests going be those planned protests organised saturday, november organised for saturday, november 11th, lot of 11th, armistice day. a lot of people getting touch now, people are getting in touch now, john why have they john says. so why have they given them permission for this to go ahead the 11th? because to go ahead on the 11th? because as far as i know, you can'tjust as far as i know, you can't just have marches and protests throughout london when you feel like it. i do hope that it

like it. and i do hope that it is more people who will attend the armistice celebration, says tom or remembrance day, as opposed to people who are attending that other rally. yeah, absolutely . there's a lot yeah, absolutely. there's a lot of people as well just calling for reciprocal kind of respect , for reciprocal kind of respect, really saying that the people of britain have accepted these these marches being quite sympathetic them in many sympathetic towards them in many cases, despite some the cases, despite some of the security concerns have been security concerns that have been raised. result, despite raised. as a result, despite some language that's raised. as a result, despite some used, language that's raised. as a result, despite some used, despite ge that's the being used, despite some of the bans have been there bans that have been there saying, fully support hamas, saying, i fully support hamas, some of the divisions that that has frankly, as has stoked. and frankly, as well, the astonishing well, despite the astonishing rise we well, despite the astonishing rise seen we well, despite the astonishing rise seen a we well, despite the astonishing rise seen a 1,500% we well, despite the astonishing rise seen a 1,500% increasee well, despite the astonishing rise seen a 1,500% increase in have seen a 1,500% increase in anti—semitism in the last year, which is absolute astonishing when you think about how how much of an increase that is people saying, well, look, why can't we actually now have some kind of reciprocal level of respect ? why can't the respect? why can't the organisers of this march says ulez not show reciprocal respect and allow us to have our remembrance weekend with the reverence it deserves ? i'll be reverence it deserves? i'll be very upset if this goes ahead.

well, i hate to break it to you, but as though it very but it looks as though it very much is going to go ahead. what do make of that? should do you make of that? should people do you think? people step in, do you think? should the should people of the pro—palestine community, should people of the pro—pofzstine community, should people of the pro—pof the e community, should people of the pro—pof the organisersimmunity, should people of the pro—pof the organisers ,1munity, should people of the pro—pof the organisers , others 1, some of the organisers, others step in and say, right, okay, just just not this weekend. just not this weekend? i mean, let's be . the issue that's be honest. the issue that's raging at the moment in israel and is not going to go away and gaza is not going to go away anytime is it? they could anytime soon, is it? they could have a different have a march on a different weekend. no doubt they will continue that, loads continue to do that, but loads more on that story on our website. news dot com. website. go to gb news dot com. it's fastest growing it's the fastest growing national in national news site in the country. got all best country. it's got all the best analysis, all the big opinion and of the latest breaking and all of the latest breaking news. a moment, we news. now, in just a moment, we will the latest this will discuss the latest on this vile mice incident at mcdonald's, because there's been some there. don't mcdonald's, because there's been some if there. don't mcdonald's, because there's been some if you've there. don't mcdonald's, because there's been some if you've seen there. don't mcdonald's, because there's been some if you've seen it.5re. don't mcdonald's, because there's been some if you've seen it. peoplem't know if you've seen it. people have craze of have now started a craze of throwing into mcdonald's throwing mice into mcdonald's because mcdonald's because apparently mcdonald's supports also supports israel. but i'm also going to be playing you this marks and spencer's christmas advert. of advert. now, i'm sure loads of you have already seen it. it's caused a huge amount of controversy online variety caused a huge amount of co different online variety caused a huge amount of co different reasons. variety caused a huge amount of co different reasons. 'woke' of different reasons. the woke

bngade of different reasons. the woke brigade out in force, aren't brigade are out in force, aren't they? ticks every kind they? saying it ticks every kind of box that could of diversity box that you could possibly imagine and other people that it seems people are angry that it seems to have replaced christmas with christmas. with christmas. what is wrong with recognising that this recognising the idea that this is a christian festival, essentially christian day? why essentially a christian day? why is that happened? also they're saying that it's promoted completely wrong message. it completely the wrong message. it appears to be about appears to be all about selfishness and not about generosity. love. but generosity. and love. but i think arguably the most entertaining bit has been the grovelling apology that marks and spencers have had to issue because dared in their because they dared in their advert have those kind of advert to have those kind of christmas hats that were coloured red and white and green burning in a hearth. okay and now people, despite the fact that the advert was recorded in august, are saying that that is offensive to people who support palestine because those are at least some of the colours of the palestinian the world palestinian flag. the world really has lost the plot, hasn't it? patrick christys gb news

sunday mornings from 930 on. gb news . news. >> welcome back. 3:22. are watching and listening to me. patrick christys on gb news. well, look, why don't we have a little look? shall we, at this outfit that's caused all of the controversy? so it's the m&s christmas , although i'm not christmas, although i'm not actually sure you're allowed to call it that. this miss advert. ha oh, i would do anything for.

love >> you know, it's true. and that's how far . that's how far. >> oh, i would do anything for. love oh i would do anything for love but i won't do that . no love but i won't do that. no i won't do that. i would do anything for love. anything you'll be dreaming of. but i just won't . won't do that . you'll be dreaming of. but i just won't . won't do that. no just won't. won't do that. no no, no. i just won't do that . no, no. i just won't do that. but i won't . i no, no. i just won't do that. but i won't. i won't. no, no. >> oh, this christmas . do only >> oh, this christmas. do only what you . love. oh i would do what you. love. oh i would do anything for love. >> i'd give be dreaming of.

anything for love. >> i'd give be dreaming of . but >> i'd give be dreaming of. but ijust >> i'd give be dreaming of. but i just want won't do that . i just want won't do that. >> okay well they're kind of been accused of playing woke diversity bingo. they're at least by our very own martin daubney who was doing the show just before mine , who says, you just before mine, who says, you know, obligatory gay know, there's an obligatory gay couple there. there's no heterosexual sight. heterosexual couple in sight. there's a quite an ethnically diverse spread , isn't there, as diverse spread, isn't there, as well. they set fire to christmas cards. there's no sign of any kids in there, really. and that message end, i think message at the end, i think overarching message really is have a very selfish vice—miss , have a very selfish vice—miss, isn't it? which i'm not sure is entirely in the christmas spirit, but i thought it was actually a promo for the advert that really got them into trouble. woke crowd trouble. so the woke crowd jumped on this image. if you're watching us on tv or online, you'll be able to see it. if you're listening on radio, i'll talk you through it. so it's got those christmas party hats that talk you through it. so it's got thostend'istmas party hats that talk you through it. so it's got thostend to mas party hats that talk you through it. so it's got thostend to get party hats that talk you through it. so it's got thostend to get inrrty hats that talk you through it. so it's got thostend to get in your ats that talk you through it. so it's got thostend to get in your crackers you tend to get in your crackers and fire like hearth. and it's a fire like a hearth. now colour of these hats now now the colour of these hats happens green, white and.

happens to be green, white and. and okay so they also and red. okay so they also happen to be some of the colours in the palestinian flag and they were accused of trying to burn that in the fireplace. and the fact is, though, that this advert was filmed back in august, but that didn't seem to make difference. so make much of a difference. so there was a little bit of a pile on on twitter, just a few angry, quite irrational people , which quite irrational people, which prompted marks and spencer naturally, in the climate that we live in at the moment, to release a grovelling statement today we shared an outtake image from christmas clothing and from our christmas clothing and home was recorded home advert which was recorded in the intent was in august. while the intent was to playfully show that some people just don't enjoy wearing paper christmas hats over the festive we have removed festive season, we have removed the following feedback and the post following feedback and we apologise for any unintentional hurt caused . oh unintentional hurt caused. oh look, forgive me. you know , look, forgive me. you know, surely even the people most sympathetic to the pro—palestinian cause would have to recognise they do not have a monopoly on the colours. red, white and green. just ask the italians for example. i mean, i'm not sure how they would feel

about it, whether they got particularly on particularly outraged on twitter. who we're twitter. maybe that's who we're really look really talking about. but look now pro—palestinian activist now a pro—palestinian activist has been arrested after has actually been arrested after he released hordes of spray painted mice allegedly into a crowded mcdonald's in birmingham . there was a video that was widely circulating on social media and an activist who appears to hold a pro—palestine number plates appears to release spray painted red, green and black mice into the restaurant in a protest over the chain, allegedly giving free meals to israeli soldiers . our reporter israeli soldiers. our reporter jack carson joins me now from outside a mcdonald's in small heath in birmingham . so, jack, heath in birmingham. so, jack, there has been a development on this story . this story. >> yeah, that's right. as you mentioned, patrick, last night, that arrest of the of a 32 year old man in connection in suspected, of course , of suspected, of course, of committing of course, those mice attacks . he's currently still attacks. he's currently still being interviewed. there's been no update from the police. so far yet today, but they are still also on the lookout. west

midlands police say for a 30 year old bilal hussain, believed to be from birmingham, they would to talk to of would like to talk to him. of course, with these would like to talk to him. of cours attacks with these would like to talk to him. of cours attacks as with these would like to talk to him. of cours attacks as well. with these would like to talk to him. of cours attacks as well. theythese would like to talk to him. of cours attacks as well. they have mice attacks as well. they have said that they've executed a number attempts at an arrest number of attempts at an arrest warrant over the past past 24 hours, but have so far been unsuccessful . so they are unsuccessful. so they are appealing to the to to the the pubuc appealing to the to to the the public for information of public for any information of course, on whereabouts. we course, on his whereabouts. we know yesterday, of course, i reported that up in west yorkshire in bradford, where a starbucks and a mcdonald's have both had windows smashed with hammers and also sticking sex thrown in that restaurant by community pro palestine campaigners that an arrest of a man in his 20s west yorkshire police confirmed yesterday had happened. we've again had no further update on on that. but of course there's lots of questions about where these people get these mice from, where these mice have come from. well, patrick, there are well, simply, patrick, there are lots pet shops around cities, lots of pet shops around cities, around towns. there are private sellers as well that sell mice for feed for pets or either to feed things such as live reptiles like snakes and things. and so i

could find many, many adverts of people selling mice around birmingham that i could buy for £5 each. so that gives you a little bit of an insight as to where maybe the supply of these mice come of course, mice has come from. of course, when at the boxes in when you look at the boxes in the videos being thrown, there are quite a substantial number in so there there in there. so there there obviously is organisation obviously is some organisation in attacks have in to these attacks that have been place. of course been taking place. of course they're coming social they're all coming from social media the israel media posts. the israel mcdonald's franchise was posting. of course, we know they've talked about supplying meals to idf soldiers. they've offered discounts to security forces . but the mcdonald's forces. but the mcdonald's corporation did tell gb news that they were deeply concerned about the incidents, which they say are a result of disinformation. and our position on on the conflict in the middle east. they say that mcdonald's corporation is not funding any governments involved in this conflict. they conflict. and action, they say, from developmental from our local developmental licence licensee, business partners were made independently with our mcdonald's consent or approval . of course, as we

approval. of course, as we talked about yesterday, it's not just here in birmingham that these attacks have been taking place. as i said in keighley in bradford, but also protest generally outside mcdonald's in bristol as well. there was nobody entering that mcdonald's, but protests still took place. it's a global boycott by it's part of a global boycott by pro—palestinian protests as they spread across social media. of course, those videos went viral, didn't they , all social didn't they, all over social media those when those media with those when those attacks took place. and of course, it's that it's course, it's not just that it's starbucks as well. it's disney as well who these pro—palestinian protests as view as having pro—israel views . and as having pro—israel views. and so those boycotts are supposedly taking place globally . but it's taking place globally. but it's only really here in birmingham that we've seen multiple cases of action. but of course, the worry is after that stick insect attack in in bradford , that attack in in bradford, that there are possible copycats , there are possible copycats, attacks that might well be happening across the country soon. >> indeed. jack, thank you very much. jack carson there outside of mcdonald's in small heath in birmingham. i just want to point you in the direction of something. i'm going to be

talking the talking about throughout the course show. so is course of this show. so there is an event scheduled to take place on 11th of on saturday the 11th of november. being organised november. it's being organised by of al—aqsa , a by the friends of al—aqsa, a peace in palestine. i'm going to read to you here the event. read out to you here the event. so saturday, the 11th of so on saturday, the 11th of november, we will march again for in london, the for palestine in london, the last march in london, we made history as half a million people marched through the capital. we have hired coaches go down to have hired coaches to go down to london leicester for anyone london from leicester for anyone who wants to join the demonstration and show their support palestine , you can support for palestine, you can pay support for palestine, you can pay £20 to get on one of those coaches apparently it leaves at 830. i'm not advertising it. i'm just saying what they're doing, although how many although i don't know how many people viewing this show people in our viewing this show now that an advert. now will see that as an advert. yes. this be taking place yes. should this be taking place ? think of people are ? i think a lot of people are saying, it should should saying, no, it should not should there more respect shown? there not be more respect shown? actually because 11th of november part of the november is part of the remembrance weekend, isn't it? do have to have this? have do we have to have this? i have serious concerns, way, serious concerns, by the way, for for massive for the potential for massive escalation in terms of violence on the streets of britain. if that takes place, would you see that takes place, would you see

that huge sign of that as a huge sign of disrespect whatever your disrespect despite whatever your views about what's going views may be about what's going on in the middle should on in the middle east? should that banned, that particular that be banned, that particular march, that particular protest? just another quick update for you . and this is one of the you. and this is one of the reasons why i think it's particularly important that we're this now is a bit of we're doing this now is a bit of a show of strength and solidarity. raising money solidarity. we are raising money for poppy appeal. it's for here the poppy appeal. it's just giving.com/pay, fonnard slash gb news poppy . and thanks slash gb news poppy. and thanks to you wonderful people we have now . raised £190,835, which is now. raised £190,835, which is an absolutely astronomical amount of money. i'm immensely grateful for you. it's for an incredibly good cause. the royal british legion doing their bit for our veterans. and i think now with everything that we're seeing in streets seeing going on in the streets of britain, we need to show our support more than ever. just giving.com/page, slash giving.com/page, fonnard slash gb news poppy. but in a moment, we'll get the latest on storm kieran right across the kieran from right across the country including storm country including from a storm chasen country including from a storm chaser. right . this chaser. yes, that's right. this and much more to bring you and so much more to bring you between now the end of the

between now and the end of the houn between now and the end of the hour. it's your hour. but first, it's your headunes. headlines. >> patrick, thank you very much and good afternoon. >> it's 332. this is the latest hailstones as big as golf balls have battered parts of england as storm kieran brings gusts of more than 100mph. a major incident was declared in hampshire and the isle of wight while flooding flood warnings are in place along the south coast. >> the covid inquiry has heard that matt hancock wanted to decide who should live or die should hospitals become ovennhelmed. lord simon stevens, who was chief executive of nhs england at the time , said he england at the time, said he discouraged the former health secretary's plan. the inquiry continues . police are continues. police are investigating what's been described as a hate crime after a building in london was covered in red paint. messages about the israel—hamas war were painted on the building and two men were arrested on suspicion of

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little bit of their storm, kieran is causing chaos as he is battering the uk. thousands of homes have been left without power. hundreds of schools have been forced to close with some areas hit by and more than areas hit by gusts and more than 100 an hour. so these are 100 miles an hour. so these are pictures from dover, where the port temporarily due to port closed temporarily due to the extreme weather conditions . the extreme weather conditions. good wouldn't be good grief. you wouldn't be caught you? caught in that, would you? in southsea slabs were southsea paving slabs were pred southsea paving slabs were ripped and thrown across the ripped up and thrown across the coastal path. a heavy rain and wind swept in. absolutely astonishing. this, isn't it? well, gb news is southwest of england. reporter jeff moody is, i hope, still in stow beach in devon. geoff, i must say i do not envy you today . so how bad not envy you today. so how bad is it where you are ? is it where you are? >> no, it's been a very cold and wet day. patrick but never mind. i've been on the beach when it's been nice weather in the past, so i don't mind too much. yeah the storm was passed here to be honest. it's just the aftermath now, which is a lot of wind. a lot of wind and a lot of rain.

it's now it's progressed through to london and up into the west midlands leaving midlands too. but it's leaving behind a certain degree of devastation . ian, we're hearing devastation. ian, we're hearing about a holiday park that's been flooded in dorset. we're hearing that there are floods in teignmouth, a car in sidmouth was washed out to sea earlier on today, so there's still plenty of mopping up to be done. and it's not over yet because although the worst of the storm is through down here in the south, the problem now is the high tide . and when the high high tide. and when the high tide comes in tonight, that's when we could see a lot of flooding. so it may be a very different picture come the morning over a hundred thousand homes were without electricity in devon and cornwall this morning. those have been restored. and we're hearing that engineers came down from right across the uk. they travel down to the south—west today to look at those power supply and to restore power to those houses.

that's now been done. but the warning is there will be more power cuts to come . so they're power cuts to come. so they're giving some some fairly obvious advice, but they're saying charge your phones us, charge your phones , make sure you've your phones, make sure you've got warm clothing and make sure you've got torches handy. so that's the advice for now. we'll be looking tomorrow at the clean up operation and that's when we'll get a real sense of how bad things have been. >> absolutely. well, geoff, you take care. all right. jeff moody, there, who's out and about for us in stow beach in devon. some shocking scenes and i think one for our radio listeners there, despite the fact the storm has passed, are you still getting the sense of the battering the wind battering his microphone? our microphone? aren't you and our northern ireland reporter dougie beattie down for us. beattie is imported down for us. dougie, and dougie, thank you very much. and yeah, are the scenes like yeah, what are the scenes like where you are there ? well where you are there? well thankfully, nothing like jeff, but we have had torrential downpours over the last couple

of weeks and that has swollen the rivers here. >> there's various problems that, of course, councils not to talking one another building on floodplains up and down the river. it comes from one end of northern ireland to the other. yesterday it was the clan roy river in newry that burst its banks and the newry that banks and the newry canal that did damage there, did serious damage there, causing thousands of pounds . and causing thousands of pounds. and this morning, well, late yesterday evening, the river bann burst its banks in spectacular fashion in and around portadown and scarborough. there has been thousands of pounds worth of damage done, millions of pounds worth of damage done to businesses and most of all, this is the reality of it here. this is the reality of it here. this is a family home behind me. they've raised their family here since the 1990s. and the river came down here. it has gone down substantially , but it has substantially, but it has flooded this property out along with another row of them beside me. and that's the same the whole way through this area at this minute in time. and it's hard breaking for these families because if you're a private house owner, unlike a housing

executive or council house owner, you will be housed. they will come they will drain will come out, they will drain the for you. of course, the system for you. of course, if you're a private property owner, well, you've owner, well, then you've got a different altogether. owner, well, then you've got a different to altogether. owner, well, then you've got a different to wait altogether. owner, well, then you've got a different to wait on together. owner, well, then you've got a different to wait on your her. you have to wait on your insurance companies. and that could weeks. they're could be two weeks. they're telling not remove telling them do not remove carpets , do remove flooring. carpets, do not remove flooring. we need to see this. and of course, the damp continues course, the damp just continues to rise in these properties and cost cause more and more problems. but really , the problems. but really, the government right across the uk now needs to have a look at what it's doing with planning and most of all, what it's doing with agriculture. they withdrew a subsidies for a lot of these subsidies for farmers , for cutting hedges, farmers, for cutting hedges, cleaning out drains and shocks, and that is all now on sodden ground . it's coming in to the ground. it's coming in to the river all in one go. and of course , that is causing course, that is causing problems. environmentalists saying we don't want you cleaning out drains , we don't cleaning out drains, we don't want you doing this. there's new etcetera that are there. well, this the end result of that . this is the end result of that. and we will all feel this. patrick in our insurance premiums within the next two

years. dougie thank you very much. >> dougie beattie they're imported down, okay. so imported down, right. okay. so the channel islands have been absolutely battered as well. and one jersey resident said hailstones are bigger than golf balls had broken our windows, but we thought that we try and get a kind of amateur storm chaser on. okay. so just a word of warning. this guy is , i of warning. this guy is, i think, out currently getting battered by the elements. so i've got no idea whether or not this is going to work. but danny borges has been storm chasing on the island of guernsey this morning and he joins me now live. danny you are currently holed a in a car, aren't holed up in a in a car, aren't you? but going to play you? but we're going to play some of the footage that you've been providing online and you've been providing online and you've been out and about chasing these storms , 100 mile been out and about chasing these storms ,100 mile an hour plus storms, 100 mile an hour plus winds . no . okay. unfortunately, winds. no. okay. unfortunately, we can't hear danny there, but there we go. all right. okay, danny, we'll come back to you. and i'm hoping that we might be

able to play a couple of the little clips that danny has actually provided, though. so this driving around . this was danny driving around. there you i mean, good there you go. i mean, good grief, he's a braver man than me. i wouldn't fancy being driving in of that. driving around in all of that. and winds were and he says the winds were upwards of 100 miles an hour . upwards of 100 miles an hour. and he's getting very enthusiastic about this , danny. enthusiastic about this, danny. so hopefully back to so we'll hopefully go back to him some point. so we'll hopefully go back to him some point . but yes, no, him at some point. but yes, no, he's been doing a bit of amateur storm chasing for us there. right. well look, coming up in just a moment, liam halligan will join me in the studio for an update on the interest rates. how is that going to affect the money your pocket? and we'll money in your pocket? and we'll be discussing royal british be discussing the royal british legion that so many legion poppy appeal that so many gb viewers and listeners gb news viewers and listeners have really throwing their gb news viewers and listeners hav(weight'eally throwing their gb news viewers and listeners hav(weight behind|rowing their gb news viewers and listeners hav(weight behind massivelyeir full weight behind massively appreciated. we are now up . at appreciated. we are now up. at £191,379. it's . just £191,379. it's. just giving.com/page/gb news poppy. so thank you very much for showing our military heroes is a heck of a lot of love. i went

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me, michael portillo gb news britain's news channel . okay so britain's news channel. okay so the bank of england has held the base rate of interest at 5.25% for the second month in a row.

>> but governor andrew bailey says the interest rates are expected to remain high for a little while yet. >> you know, we're not talking about cutting interest rates. there's discussion in there's been no discussion in the about cutting the committee about cutting interest think that interest rates. we think that interest rates. we think that interest have to interest rates will have to other things equal . we other other things equal. we think interest rates will think that interest rates will have remain where they are have to remain where they are for an extended period of time to get inflation back to target. that's simply the judgement . that's simply the judgement. >> okay. well, chancellor jeremy hunt, however, is staying positive ahead of the autumn statement this month. he's been saying inflation is falling , saying inflation is falling, wages are rising in the economy is growing . uk been far is growing. the uk has been far more resilient than many expected, but the best way to deliver prosperity through deliver prosperity is through sustainable growth. joining me now cut through the noise and now to cut through the noise and all of this tells us what's really going on is gb news economics and business editor liam halligan on the money . liam halligan with on the money. liam halligan with on the money. liam as we predicted, patrick, this time yesterday, the bank of england has actually held interest rates for the second month in row at 5.25. month in a row at 5.25. >> let's have a look at where interest rates have come from

over years. mortgage over recent years. many mortgage holders know this. many holders will know this. many savers this back in savers will know this back in 2017. they were still very low ten years after that, global financial crisis. in two thousand and seven, eight. then they went ultra low during covid lockdown down to a quarter of a% since 14 successive rises since then, 14 successive rises all the way up to 5.25. they were held there last month . were held there last month. they've been held there again this month. a lot of people will now say the interest rates have peaked. but as governor of the bank of england, andrew bailey was there, it's going was saying there, it's going to be of table top mountain be a kind of table top mountain sort peak rather than an sort of peak rather than an alpine up and then down alpine up and then sharply down peak. think interest rates peak. i think interest rates will stay here for a good few months yet. probably into the new okay. new year. okay. >> so what this mean >> right. so what does this mean for savers? the average man and woman on the street? the cost of living crisis, that stuff? >> well, a lot of young families there. they will have weathered massive increases in their mortgage payments during the increase rates, increase in interest rates, which big which i just referred to big monthly outgoings, bigger than they thought when took on they thought when they took on their fact that

their house. the fact that interest rates have now peaked mean that mortgage could mean that mortgage rates could start quite soon. so start coming down quite soon. so if you are going to buy a house, it's probably easier raise it's probably easier to raise the now, also, if the finance. now, also, if you're a business with a variable rate loan, again, those punishing interest rate rises should stop. on the other hand, if a saver where you're if you're a saver where you're not going get any more for not going to get any more for your but it's interesting your money, but it's interesting that jeremy hunt just said what we is when inflation we really need is when inflation ends gets down to 2, we need economic growth. you'll remember that liz truss was pilloried when she tried come up with when she tried to come up with some policies for economic growth, taxes less growth, cutting taxes and less red so on. but even the red tape and so on. but even the labour party , even the labour labour party, even the labour party, are now emphasis rising growth. so why don't we look , growth. so why don't we look, have a at shadow chancellor have a look at shadow chancellor rachel reeves on building site rachel reeves on a building site in stevenage, less. the in stevenage, no less. the glamour in a bob the builder hat. oh good. >> labour's plan to put economic stability at the heart of everything that we do and national wealth fund to invest alongside businesses in the jobs and the opportunities of the future and our reforms to the

planning system, to get britain building are all about generating the economic growth and the improvements in living standards that, frankly, we haven't had for 13 years under the conservatives . the conservatives. >> i'll be honest with you, liam, i didn't listen to a word she said there because i was too busy looking at how ridiculous she looked. >> what a coincidence that she just to be on just happened to be on a building site all doing building site all day doing a bit pointing . and what do bit of pointing. and what do they that the time? they do that all the time? because because it's because it's because it's showbiz ugly people. showbiz for ugly people. patrick, now look, the patrick, you know, now look, the reality is the reality is here that the labour party have got some good in my some really good ideas. in my view, growth. they're their view, on growth. they're their main lining on the housing market. they're saying, remember keir starmer's party conference speech in liverpool? they are really shaking up the planning laws or at least they say they're going to shake up the planning that is what's planning laws and that is what's going economic growth. going to drive economic growth. but good news but look, there's some good news here. may be that interest here. it may be that interest rates have now peaked. one proviso, economists, we are dismal scientists. i have to say

this proviso. one proviso is why my inflation now not come down from 6.2% where it is all the way down to three and then 2% over the coming months. the reason it may not come down, patrick, is that there's a lot of geopolitik danger out there. you've got the opec energy exporters cartel , a lot of the exporters cartel, a lot of the middle eastern countries working with the russians. they're constrained the amount of oil and gas that's coming onto global prices global markets, energy prices could spike this winter. last winter was relatively mild. it looks as if winter is going to be colder this year. so it may be colder this year. so it may be that the utility bills of uk households do spike. the energy bills of uk firms. households do spike. the energy bills of uk firms . they do spike bills of uk firms. they do spike this winter and if so , that will this winter and if so, that will lead to higher inflation and that, i'm afraid, will mean that the bank of england's, you know, sense that maybe interest rates have peaked. may not last. sense that maybe interest rates have may ed. may not last. sense that maybe interest rates have may have may not last. sense that maybe interest rates have may have to ay not last. sense that maybe interest rates have may have to go not last. sense that maybe interest rates have may have to go up last. sense that maybe interest rates have may have to go up again. they may have to go up again. that's not my central scenario. it's not my central scenario. i don't the most likely don't think it's the most likely outcome. it be outcome. but it will be irresponsible not mention it, irresponsible not to mention it, youabsolutely. look, liam, >> absolutely. look, liam, thank

you very, very much for all of that. halligan their that. liam halligan their economics editor economics and business editor and look now we are going and yeah, look now we are going to try and emphasise on the word try to here go back to the channel islands because they've been absolutely battered and one resident of jersey has been talking about hailstones bigger than golf balls. but danny borges has has been storm chasing on the island of guernsey this morning . and he guernsey this morning. and he joins me now right, danny, how's the storm tracing going? >> good afternoon, patrick. yeah, not so bad . yeah, not so bad. >> the storm has definitely dropped off now, but earlier on it was devastating. the winds peaked at 100 mile an hour plus. ihave peaked at 100 mile an hour plus. i have never, ever seen a storm like that in my lifetime . like that in my lifetime. >> and danny, i mean , some >> and danny, i mean, some people would say, you know, you've got to be a certain type of person who decides to go out there and drive around and brave there and drive around and brave the elements like you. i mean, what what made you want to go and do it? well i like storms. >> first of all.

>> first of all. >> and second, instead of everybody going out having to experience it and put themselves in danger, why not just have one mad man go and do it and mad man go out and do it and everybody can watch him instead. >> so unfortunately, it turned out i was that mad man and out that i was that mad man and i every single minute it. >> absolutely. our viewers on >> absolutely. so our viewers on telly will be able to see some of you driving around at the moment. i mean, there's a heck of a lot of this footage to get through, some of it more through, some of it much more extreme this, say. extreme than this, i must say. but danny, you were saying you've seen anything quite you've never seen anything quite like not not not as severe >> yeah, not not not as severe as what this storm was. i mean, i've seen some strong winds probably mile an hour plus probably 80 mile an hour plus over here, never seen a over here, but i've never seen a hundred hour over hundred mile an hour peak over here. i mean, our sister island jersey that took more of a battering than what guernsey did . i believe they had a mini tornado on the east coast of the island, which devastated a clove. just thoughts and clove. so just thoughts and prayers are with them and hope that they're all safe and well . that they're all safe and well. >> viewers , again, >> yeah. and our viewers, again, will be able to see some of the footage. you can really tell

when you see the puddles on the road and just getting absolutely blown around wind. blown around by the wind. did you any moments, you ever have any hairy moments, danny? do you think you were you were safe or were always going to be safe or not quite? >> uh, no. i always thought i was safe, there was quite was safe, but there was quite a hairy moment when the seawater was coming over the sea defences is one of them hit the windscreen. it was that there was water. thought was that much water. i thought it come through, it was going to come through, but it didn't. and uh, but luckily it didn't. and uh, yeah, really enjoyed being yeah, just really enjoyed being out storm. it was just out in that storm. it was just great. absolutely great. was fantastic. >> you get a bit of a rush >> do you get a bit of a rush out it? out of it? >> certainly do. certainly >> yeah, certainly do. certainly do. certainly different do. it's certainly different to fishing sure. fishing, that's for sure. >> yeah. so you are are you normally you're normally out fishing. i take it. >> yeah. so i'm i've got a obviously a youtube channel. i did it on my fishing channel there. normally it's just sea fishing videos . but with that fishing videos. but with that storm approaching , i couldn't storm approaching, i couldn't miss opportunity to live miss an opportunity to live stream that. so everybody around the world could see what storm kieran going to bring kieran was going to bring towards islands. towards the channel islands. >> look , thank you >> gosh. well, look, thank you very, very much. you see it

very, very much. you can see it there that footage. is it there on that footage. is it coming over the sea wall there? good well, look, you take good grief. well, look, you take care, right? push care, all right? don't push yourself too far and end up something happening something terrible happening to you. after you. all right, mate? look after yourself. borges. yourself. it's danny borges. he's storm chasing. i he's been out storm chasing. i love people . i love people. it love people. i love people. it takes all sorts, doesn't it? but look, just again, just to round off this particular hour. thank you much to everybody who's you very much to everybody who's been to the justgiving been donating to the justgiving page giving.com/page been donating to the justgiving page slash ng.com/page been donating to the justgiving page slash gb:om/page been donating to the justgiving page slash gb news.|ge been donating to the justgiving page slash gb news. poppy, we fonnard slash gb news. poppy, we are way up now to £192,300 to show our brave veterans and their families some love as well for all the sacrifices that they make for our country. but plenty more to bring you in just a moment, including we've got the prime minister's speech ai. prime minister's speech on al. is to be a threat to is it going to be a threat to all of our lives? hopefully not. we will be talking as well we will be talking more as well about poppy appeal, because we will be talking more as well aspoke poppy appeal, because we will be talking more as well aspoke to poppy appeal, because we will be talking more as well aspoke to some appeal, because we will be talking more as well aspoke to some ofypeal, because we will be talking more as well aspoke to some of ourl, because we will be talking more as well aspoke to some of our warecause i spoke to some of our war heroes earlier on today, so it'll be nice to hear from them. and to be talking and we're going to be talking about starmer. he took his about keir starmer. he took his poppy to about keir starmer. he took his poppy to rant about poppy off duty to rant about islamophobia of islamophobia on the streets of britain that m&s christmas britain and that m&s christmas advert christys news,

advert patrick christys gb news, britain's news channel >> alex burkill here >> hello, it's alex burkill here again with your latest gb news weather whilst storm weather update whilst storm kieran clearing away, kieran is now clearing away, there unsettled there is further unsettled weather as we look weather to come as we look towards weekend. the low towards the weekend. the low that is now pushing that is kieran is now pushing into the north sea, still bringing some exceptionally strong winds, particularly to southeastern parts. but southeastern coastal parts. but the worst of the weather is now clearing away. heavy rain across eastern parts of the uk as we go through this evening and overnight, likely to see some further flooding across eastern parts scotland, perhaps parts of scotland, perhaps north—east well. north—east england as well. further and south, yes, further west and south, yes, some showers, but also some drier , clearer weather. drier, clearer weather. and under clear skies, i'm under those clear skies, i'm expecting temperatures to take a little bit of a dip so we could get into mid single in get into mid single figures in some rural spots. as we some prone rural spots. as we look friday. then still look through friday. then still heavily influence of heavily under the influence of the low that is kieran. but it's in north sea and so bringing in the north sea and so bringing blustery showery weather particularly north particularly to eastern north eastern the uk . also eastern parts of the uk. also some showers feeding down on that north northwesterly wind across parts of northern ireland, wales into southwest

england. meanwhile, in the southeast staying here, a southeast, staying drier here, a greater chance of seeing some sunshine and of around 14 sunshine and highs of around 14 or 15 celsius into saturday. and we are going to see a spell of wet and windy weather pushing its way the south. so its way up from the south. so turning across parts of turning wet across many parts of england wales. not to the england and wales. not to the same we've today , same scale as we've seen today, though, and a drier picture for scotland northern ireland. scotland and northern ireland. more to come as we go more showers to come as we go through sunday. but at the moment, it does look like monday's going to be a little bit see later. bit quieter. i'll see you later. bye bye

>> it's 4 pm, it's patrick christys. it's gb news. now, have they got no decency whatsoever? because protests are now set to be planned for armistice day on the 11th in london. and in fact, they are busing people in from places like leicester . should there not like leicester. should there not be a respectful pause as the nafion be a respectful pause as the nation pays homage to our military heroes? both serving and fallen ? do you not think and fallen? do you not think it's a bit of a disgrace that people would want to go and tip up and protest about the events of palestine on that particular day ? we'll be taking a look at day? we'll be taking a look at that. but hey, look, i suppose it makes it even more important, doesn't it, you people doesn't it, that you good people out donate to the out there can donate to the poppy out there can donate to the poppy plea? we've been running a justgiving page just giving.com fonnard slash paige fonnard slash gb news poppy . so far you slash gb news poppy. so far you wonderful people have managed to raise more than £193,000. and it

is for people like this just a small bit of remembrance. >> once a year is not too much to ask for. >> and the poppy appeal now goes to help even more veterans. >> absolutely . >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> look, you'll be hearing a lot from some of those serving military personnel went military personnel who i went out at the out and caught up with at the poppy out and caught up with at the poppy appeal westminster tube poppy appeal at westminster tube station but station earlier today. but in other we'll chatting other news, we'll be chatting about this keir starmer supposed veterans snub. many of you will have that he did his big have seen that he did his big plea for islamophobia awareness month yesterday . that in itself month yesterday. that in itself went down incredibly badly with a lot of people. but eagle eyed viewers noticed he didn't have a poppy 0" viewers noticed he didn't have a poppy on when he was doing it, despite being pictured wearing a poppy despite being pictured wearing a poppy earlier so why did he poppy earlier on. so why did he take poppy that's what take the poppy off? that's what it appears it like it appears it looks like in order to do a video about islamophobia this country. islamophobia in this country. very behaviour. we'll be very bizarre behaviour. we'll be having at that. having a little look at that. i'm going to be talking as i'm also going to be talking as well sunak's affairs. now, well about sunak's affairs. now, rishi was supposed to be rishi sunak was supposed to be talking in about1 or 2 minutes talking in about 1 or 2 minutes time at a conference about al.

we understand that may have been delayed a little bit, so we'll throw to that when he gets there. but there's still loads more on the agenda more to come on the agenda with me, right me, patrick christie's right here . gb news. yes. so like here on. gb news. yes. so like i said, we were planning to go now actually to rishi sunak. he's been held up as we understand it. so i'll go to him as quickly as we possibly can, talking about al, in the meantime, about al, but in the meantime, want views. i think the big want your views. i think the big one today is whether or not those protests planned on armistice day should be cancelled. of cancelled. just a matter of decency. forget? do you decency. do they forget? do you think, the only reason think, that the only reason they're allowed to have those kind protests is because kind of protests is because people and died for the people fought and died for the freedom in this freedom to do that in this country? vaiews@gbnews.com. but right it's headlines right now it's your headlines with . patrick thank you with tatiana. patrick thank you very much and good afternoon. >> 4:01 hailstones as big as golf balls have battered parts of england as storm, kieran bnngs of england as storm, kieran brings with it gusts of more

than 100mph. a major incident was declared in hampshire and the isle of wight while flood warnings are in place along the south coast, warnings are in place along the south coast , southern warnings are in place along the south coast, southern rail and southeastern have issued travel warnings and hundreds of schools across the south are closed . and across the south are closed. and across the south are closed. and a red wind warning has been issued in the channel islands, where winds have reached more than 100mph. the prime minister says moves by the us to safeguard the use of artificial intelligence are very welcome . intelligence are very welcome. and speaking at the ai safety summit, rishi sunak struck an optimistic tone , saying it's optimistic tone, saying it's important to assess the risks without being too alarmist. the prime minister is due to give a speech in a few moments time. we'll bring you that live here on gb news. northern gaza is coming under intensified airstrikes from the israeli military as hamas launches a series of missiles towards israel. at least a dozen combat jets launched missiles at hamas targets while artillery

placements opened fire from ground positions. it comes after fresh strikes this morning killed two hamas leaders in jabalya , an area used as jabalya, an area used as a refugee camp. gaza's media office, which is run by the hamas terrorist group, says 195 palestinians were killed. the united nations says it has serious concerns israel's actions could amount to war crimes. the rafah border crossings opened for limited evacuations from gaza for a second day. at least 335 foreign nationals left yesterday . dozens nationals left yesterday. dozens of the severely injured were also taken for treatment in egypt following an internationally brokered deal. it's understood around 7500 foreigners will leave gaza over the next two weeks. the foreign office is aware of around 200 uk nationals in gaza . police are nationals in gaza. police are investigating what's been described as a hate crime after a building in london was covered

in red paint with messages about the israel hamas war were painted on the building where weapons firm leonardo's is based with the entrance splattered in red , two men were arrested on red, two men were arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated criminal damage. now let's bring you on to interest rates . and you on to interest rates. and the bank of england has held the base interest rate at 5.25. it's the second month in a row it's capped the rate unchanged after 14 consecutive hikes. the announcement will provide some relief for borrowers. however, the bank has downed graded its forecast for economic growth, saying inflation could stay higher for longer. charles jeremy hunt says his autumn statement will set out the government's plan to boost growth. bank of england governor andrew bailey says it's too early for interest rate cuts . early for interest rate cuts. >> there is absolutely no room for complacent . see inflation is for complacent. see inflation is still too high. we will keep

interest rates high enough for long enough to make sure we get inflation all the way back to the 2% target at we will be watching closely to see if further increases in interest rates are needed . but even if rates are needed. but even if they are not needed, it is much too early to be thinking about rate cuts. >> shadow chancellor rachel reeves says the figures show britain is heading in the wrong direction. well interest rate hikes have been paused today, but they remain a historic highs and for the 1.5 million people looking to refinance their mortgages next year, that will mean on average an additional £220 every single month. >> the bank of england today have revised down from low growth. next year to no growth at all. the conservatives have failed on the economy. it is working. people that are paying the price . the price. >> right. let's cross live now to the ai summit at bletchley park, where the prime minister is speaking after breakthroughs

which change possibilities for humanity . humanity. >> so there could be nowhere more fitting for the world to come together to seize the opportunities of the greatest breakthrough of our own time. while giving people the peace of mind that we will keep them safe . i truly believe there is nothing in our foreseeable future that will be more transformative for our economies , our societies, and all our lives than the development of technologies like artificial intelligence . but as with every intelligence. but as with every wave of new technology, it also bnngs wave of new technology, it also brings new fears and dangers. so no matter how difficult it may be, it is the right and responsible long term decision for leaders to address them. thatis for leaders to address them. that is why i called this summit. and i want to pay tribute to everyone who has joined us and the spirit in which they have done so for the first time ever, we have brought together ceos of world leading ai companies with countries most advanced in using it and representatives from across academia and civil society and

while this was only the beginning of the conversation in, i believe the achievements of this summit will tip the balance in favour of humanity because they show that we have both the political will and the capability to control this technology and secure its benefits for the long term. and we've achieved this in four specific ways until this week , specific ways until this week, the world did not even have a shared understanding of the risks . so our first step was to risks. so our first step was to have open and inclusive conversation , to seek that conversation, to seek that shared understanding . we analyse shared understanding. we analyse the latest available evidence on everything from social harms like bias and misinformation to the risk of misuse by bad actors through to the most extreme risks of even losing control of ai completely. and yesterday we agreed and published the first ever international statement about the nature of all those risks . it was signed by every risks. it was signed by every

single nation represented at this summit , single nation represented at this summit, covering all continents across the globe and including the united states and china . some said we shouldn't china. some said we shouldn't even invite china. others said that we could never get an agreement with them. both were wrong . a serious strategy for al wrong. a serious strategy for al safety has to begin with engaging all the world's leading ai powers and all of them have signed the bletchley park communique . signed the bletchley park communique. second, we must ensure that our shared understanding keeps pace with the rapid deployment and development of ai . that's why development of ai. that's why last week i proposed a truly expert global panel to publish a state of ai science report. today at this summit, the whole international community has agreed this idea is inspired by the way the intergovernmental panel on climate change was set up to reach international science consensus with the support of the un secretary general. every country has committed to nominate experts and i'm delighted to announce

that turing prize winner and godfather of ai yoshua bengio has agreed to chair the production of the inaugural report . third, until now, the report. third, until now, the only people testing the safety of new ai models have been the very companies developing it. that must change. so building on the g7 hiroshima process and the global partnership on al like minded governments and ai companies have today reached a landmark agreement. we will work together on testing the safety of new ai models before before they are released . this they are released. this partnership is based around a series of principles which set out the responsibilities we share, and it's made possible by the decision i have taken along with vice president kamala harris . for with vice president kamala harris. for the with vice president kamala harris . for the british with vice president kamala harris. for the british and american governments to establish world leading ai safety institutes with the pubuc safety institutes with the public sector capability to test the most advanced frontier models. in that spirit , i very

models. in that spirit, i very much welcome the agreement of the companies here today to deepen the privileged access that the uk has to their models , that the uk has to their models, drawing on the expertise of some of the most respected and knowledgeable ai experts in the world. our safety institute will work to build our evaluations process in time to assess the next generation of models before they are deployed next year. finally fulfilling the vision we have set to keep ai safe is not the work of any single summit. the uk is proud to have brought the world together and hosted the world together and hosted the first summit, but it requires an ongoing international process to stay ahead of the curve on the science and to see through all the collaboration that we have begun today. so we have agreed that bletchley park should be the first of a series of international safety summits with both korea and france agreeing to host further summits next year. the late stephen hawking once said ai is likely to be the best or worst thing to

happen to humanity. if we can sustain the collaboration that we have fostered over these last two days, i profoundly believe that we can make it the best because safely harnessing this technology could eclipse anything we have ever known . and anything we have ever known. and if in time history proves that today we began to seize that prize, then we will have written a new chapter worthy of its place in the story of bletchley park, and more importantly , park, and more importantly, bequeathed an extraordinary legacy of hope and opportunity for our children and generations to come. thank you . to come. thank you. >> okay. so that is prime minister rishi sunak. there talking at bletchley park about this ai safety summit, hoping that we get it right to harness the potential of ai and frankly, not have to deal with any of the potential negatives of it as well. we'll get you more on that very shortly. but look , earlier very shortly. but look, earlier on today, i was at westminster tube station in london and i met

up with our veterans minister, johnny mercer , and a lot of johnny mercer, and a lot of serving military personnel as well, because it is poppy appeal time for the royal british legion. now, you've got a contrast. all of this. that's going on with some of the madness and the protest that we're seeing out there on the streets. people literally streets. people now literally organising, buses on organising, putting buses on from leicester go from places like leicester to go and people down to london and drive people down to london so armistice they so that on armistice day they can go and protest. they're hoping million people on hoping for 1 million people on the streets protesting about what's going on in palestine on armistice day. well, look , we armistice day. well, look, we thought we weren't going to let that knock us off our stride. we have got a just giving page up at moment. it's just at the moment. it's just giving.com/page, slash giving.com/page, fonnard slash gb and so far you gb news poppy and so far you wonderful people have managed to raise in excess of actually i'm going to get the very latest one up now to the minute yeah £193,076. considering it was an original target of ten grand. you've done incredible work there. that really is the there. and that really is the true pride of britain . but i true pride of britain. but i caught up with johnny mercer earlier on, and here's what he

had to say. he said, why is the poppy had to say. he said, why is the poppy day so important to you? look we've we've sort of built up the way the nation supports veterans . veterans. >> right. obviously, it's a >> right. and obviously, it's a blend strategy provision blend between strategy provision and third sector and third sector. third sector has done amazing job this has done an amazing job in this space many and you space over many years. and you know, amongst them, the know, chief amongst them, the rbl main day for rbl, this is their main day for raising money for the poppy fund. it's all kind of fund. so it's all kind of shoulders the to make shoulders to the wheel to make sure we're down here and raising money for them. i know you do a lot great work for veterans. lot of great work for veterans. >> people might be >> i think some people might be scratching their heads as to why people have to work so people like you have to work so hard to the for our hard to bang the drum for our veterans do you veterans community. why do you think that is? do you think we do enough? generally, as a country, society, to thank do enough? generally, as a cou veterans? society, to thank our veterans? >> look, think society's >> look, i think society's always it. and you see always got it. and you can see that if you look at when there was an uptick in sort of casualties so iraq casualties and so on from iraq and afghanistan, the work of people for heroes people like help for heroes dunng people like help for heroes during was during that time was extraordinary. giving extraordinary. and the giving from public was from the british public was extraordinary. there's extraordinary. i think there's always challenge always been this challenge of marrying of emotional marrying the kind of emotional commitment veterans to commitment to veterans to changing feels like

changing what it feels like to be veteran through of be a veteran through kind of policy. intellectual policy. the intellectual application of policy and government. that's what i came into government and into government to try and change. really proud change. and i'm really proud that and got the that we have. and we've got the uk's office of veterans uk's first office of veterans affairs. a cabinet affairs. we have a cabinet minister for minister responsible for veterans affairs. now veterans affairs. so we're now up there with us and up there with our us and australian and new zealand allies. but there's more to do and always be more to and there will always be more to do. but i think we have transformed what it means to be a this why a veteran in this country. why should people donate? >> got a cost of >> i know we've got a cost of living crisis at the moment. i know people are really scraping a together try and a few pounds together to try and put a bit of food on the table and people are incredibly generous of that in generous despite all of that in this people, this country. why should people, if got a couple of if they have got a couple of quid spare, why should they give it the poppy look it to the poppy appeal? look i think it's important to remember that despite, you know, the incredibly life incredibly privileged life we have way of have in this country, the way of life is not free. life we have is not free. >> right. and actually, people have there, their >> right. and actually, people have dirty there, their >> right. and actually, people have dirty and here, their >> right. and actually, people have dirty and sacrificed heir >> right. and actually, people have dirty and sacrificed life hands dirty and sacrificed life and limb and body and mind for our of and i just our way of life. and i just think, you know, the nation has a duty to them, not only the

government, but everybody. the rbl the rbl and communities across the country. duty to look country. we have a duty to look after when they come home. after them when they come home. it's a pretty basic concept. lots ask, how lots of people always ask, how do right? today is a do i do that? right? today is a really good way of doing that because do fantastic because the rbl do fantastic work many sectors i'd work across many sectors and i'd encourage you to go out and give what you can today. >> and just just a quick one with our viewers and our with you, our viewers and our listeners have managed to raise about at moment. about £180,000. at the moment. we're for 200 grand. i we're hoping for 200 grand. i think. it might be think. i think it might be doable way are going. doable the way things are going. just a message for them, doable the way things are going. juthat's message for them, doable the way things are going. juthat's all message for them, doable the way things are going. juthat's all right.age for them, doable the way things are going. juthat's all right. yeah.r them, if that's all right. yeah. >> look, thank so much for >> look, thank you so much for your generosity. all i say your generosity. all i can say is that it genuinely changes lives, what you give lives, right? what you give genuinely lives lots genuinely changes lives and lots of asked of people, like i said, asked me, do i how do i get me, how do i how do i get involved this process? involved in this process? i don't know anybody in this process veterans. you process of helping veterans. you do your money is do this and your money is directly their lives directly changing their lives and improving their lives through the so you so through the rbl. so thank you so much what you've done, what much for what you've done, what gb done, and let's see gb news has done, and let's see if can 200 grand and if we can get to 200 grand and keep going. if we can get to 200 grand and keeyeah,|g. if we can get to 200 grand and keeyeah, indeed. let's see if we >> yeah, indeed. let's see if we can to grand. the latest can get to 200 grand. the latest update is £193,221. and thank

you much to everybody who's you so much to everybody who's donated. had steve donated. we've had steve and michelle £5. michelle have just put in £5. helen's put in a tenner. thank you very much. baggy has given us £20, says baggy , someone us £20, says baggy, someone who's just put the name. we will not which i think is not forget, which i think is appropriate, put £50 in plus appropriate, has put £50 in plus £12.50 gift aid. that gift aid makes all the difference and but it's one thing listening to johnny mercer, who's the minister for veterans affairs, is another thing, listening to me as well. but me rattling the can as well. but earlier today honour earlier today i had the honour to go speak to two serving to go and speak to two serving members of our armed forces. in fact, i listened to them play actually in the military band that was at westminster tube station . and look, just listen station. and look, just listen to how i think moving and emotional some of the things that they had to say actually, ah, i'll throw it over to them. i'm here with piper walsh and drummer aldridge. thank you very, much. we were just very, very much. we were just treated to one of your performances there, if you can call it that. so thank you very much, shapps i just ask much, shapps and can i just ask you first, why the poppy appeal is important for you? well

is so important for you? well you've got to remember how you've got to remember now how many died for many people actually died for thislike i'm years old, boys >> like i'm 24 years old, boys as young as 15, 19. we're as young as 15, 17, 19. we're dying for this country's freedoms against evil. >> you can't even imagine nowadays . so small bit of nowadays. so just a small bit of remembrance once a year is not too much to ask for. and the poppy appeal too much to ask for. and the poppy appeal now goes to help even more veterans who fought against taliban . against evil like the taliban. so it's a way of so it's just it's a way of giving back, showing giving back, of showing appreciation to those who've come before, are still come before, those who are still here now and how much they mean to us. >> very, very strong what >> very, very strong stuff. what about sir? about yourself, sir? >> have to say exactly >> well, i have to say exactly like my here. i do feel like my walsh here. i do feel like my walsh here. i do feel like it's a small token to the community just to give back. it is nice to see a lot of people wearing the for the remembrance . wearing the for the remembrance. it's just one whole month. or we can ask, just like i said , for can ask, just like i said, for everyone to wear it and just to show even the people who are alive today who still fought back then, it shows that they are still supported now .

are still supported now. >> absolutely. and look on behalf of everyone, i think i can speak on behalf of everyone for this and just say thank you both of you, for everything that you do. and would you just mind maybe saying a message to people about really why they should donate really to this cause? >> well, i say it's the goodness inside you and in your heart that everyone has. just bring it out for a small time this year and give something even if it's 5 or $0.10. you don't know whose life that could change or who that help because there's that could help because there's a lot of people down on their luck at moment and they luck at the moment and they could you. what you could need you. what made you want up? want to sign up? >> so joining, i was >> so before joining, i was doing care and wildlife doing animal care and wildlife conservation in a community college and i saw on advertisements that some of the military go abroad to help wildlife conservationists stop poachers and stuff like that . so poachers and stuff like that. so it was my initial reaction then to jump on board to that. it was my initial reaction then to jump on board to that . and to jump on board to that. and oncei to jump on board to that. and once i joined , i volunteered, once i joined, i volunteered, volunteered technically to be a part of this fantastic was

really interesting because there's a million different reasons why people join , aren't there? >> and i think that's testimony to all the kind of different remits that our armed forces can coven remits that our armed forces can cover. what about yourself? you know, you're i can tell you're deeply passionate about this. on. >> on. >> i do. i have a long family history with my two uncles and my grandfather who sadly couldn't get in. he was too short to guardsman and my short to be a guardsman and my brother and i decided brother before me and i decided to continue on the family line and pretty much pay respects to the gave my the regiment that gave my brother of the best the regiment that gave my broth(of of the best the regiment that gave my broth(of his of the best the regiment that gave my broth(of his life. of the best the regiment that gave my broth(of his life. so: the best the regiment that gave my broth(of his life. so i've best the regiment that gave my broth(of his life. so i've come years of his life. so i've come to it five of the best of to give it five of the best of mine and, well, it's hard. and i thought it would be. but i do enjoy it. >> oh, good stuff. thank you very much, both of you. absolute pleasure. pleasure. pleasure. absolute pleasure. and well i just thought it well done. oh, i just thought it was really incredible. was really, really incredible. some very well spoken, articulate , passionate young men articulate, passionate young men there. aren't they their there. aren't they doing their bit country, just bit for king and country, just giving .com fonnard slash page four slash gb news poppy is people like that you are showing your too. so thank you your gratitude too. so thank you very much for everybody who's donated . but look, israel is

donated. but look, israel is claiming that it has now killed two senior hamas leaders in strikes on the jabalia refugee camp in gaza. the un, however, has raised serious concerns that the idf's operation could amount to war crimes after targeting the civilian area. our security editor mark white, is in sderot in southern israel for us. mark, what's the latest where you are ? what's the latest where you are? >> well, the artillery barrages that we were hearing when you came to us last hour have died down a bit. so it's a bit of a sort of early evening lull at the moment. and actually the gloom behind us is in gaza, but there's not much in the way of illumination because the main power supplies, of course, have been cut to the gaza strip or p°p been cut to the gaza strip or pop out of the way and let you zoom in towards gaza . there. zoom in towards gaza. there. there are a few lights , but there are a few lights, but these are just the lights that they've managed to keep burning through the generators that they have in various locations

throughout the strip . there's throughout the strip. there's also i don't know if you can see on that shot what looks like sort of something orange burning. we think that's a fire that's burning in one of the upper stories of one of the taller buildings in that community in northern gaza , just community in northern gaza, just down there. and throughout the day to say this area has been getting a tremendous pummelling from air, from combat jets, from artillery positions on the ground , as those soldiers push ground, as those soldiers push fonnard, these israeli soldiers that according to benjamin netanya , who have now reached netanya, who have now reached and passed through the outskirts of the capital, gaza city. and that could well be because those particular troops are heading right towards the coastal road to try to encircle gaza city. it's the plan , we understand, to it's the plan, we understand, to cut off gaza city from the north

and from the south. and then at some point will come the very, very significant job of trying to go into gaza city proper. and to go into gaza city proper. and to deal with those hamas positions, which are very dug in. of course , into that capital in. of course, into that capital city through the tunnels in positions waiting to try to ambush the israelis as they push in. >> mark white, thank you very much. she's our security editor from sderot in southern israel. look, in just a moment, we will discuss this marks and spencer and madness. yes, they've gone all woke and then pathetically apologetic for their latest, seemingly deeply controversial christmas advert , patrick christmas advert, patrick christys gb news, britain's

isabel monday to thursdays from. six till 930 . six till 930. >> welcome back. 426 you're watching and listening to patrick christys on gb news well, i think it probably is about time, isn't it, that we gave you a little glimpse of the advert that has caused so much controversy. it's been trending onune controversy. it's been trending online non—stop since the moment it not, may i add, it came out and not, may i add, in good way, m&s well, how's in a good way, m&s well, how's that christmas ? although it's that christmas? although it's not even a christmas advert, is it? it's a this advert has it backfired . ha oh, i would do backfired. ha oh, i would do anything for love.

>> you know, it's true. and that's how fast . oh i would do it. >> okay. so they've landed themselves in hot water because this advert goes on to show people ripping up traditional christmas decorations options. and it was a pro bono for the advert, though, however , that advert, though, however, that really got them into trouble with the crowd as what with the woke crowd as what appears to be the colours of the palestinian flag are burning in the fireplace. for what it's worth, it's also the colours of wales, italy . early christmas as wales, italy. early christmas as well, i think is probably the most important aspect of this anyway . the fact that the advert anyway. the fact that the advert was also filmed in august didn't seem to make a blind bit of difference. m&s had to issue had to. they did a grovelling apology. we're so sorry that we've done this. we're so sorry for offending people. we didn't mean anything by it. mark hoath joins me now. is a reform uk candidate. mark, thank you very , candidate. mark, thank you very, very much. so what do you make

of this this m&s advert then ? of this this m&s advert then? >> well, i just think it's ridiculous , the fact that it's ridiculous, the fact that it's been that they've had to apologise for it. >> those colours represent christmas red, you know, father christmas red, you know, father christmas green for tree and holly and silver bells , holly and silver bells, etcetera, etcetera. and it's just another example where we see our traditions being watered down on the back of woke , woke down on the back of woke, woke and multiculturalism . and multiculturalism. >> um, i mean it appears to promote exactly the opposite message for christmas, by the way, i think, which is firstly that of course it is a christian celebration . i know christmas is celebration. i know christmas is for everyone, but you know, the fundamental underpinning point of it is that it is christian religious event, isn't it? so there's that and they've kind of erased that by calling it this mess. they've then decided to say that, you know, you need to just make it all about you, which is again, one of the opposite things about christmas, isn't it? generosity and isn't it? about generosity and love and all that love and family and all of that stuff. really a time stuff. it's not really a time for selfishness, if for selfishness, is it? if anything, should a time anything, it should be a time for selflessness.

>> exactly . >> yeah, exactly. >> yeah, exactly. >> and i think the whole advert itself rubbish. christmas itself is rubbish. is christmas really? and what it stands for for, everybody else. >> but i think this protest around the colours in the, in the fire is just as i said at the fire is just as i said at the start, just another example actually what i did was i actually what i did was i actually contacted a friend of mine who a muslim guy and he's pretty pro—palestine, and i asked his opinion on this and he said, it makes us look ridiculous. >> the fact that people have complained about an advert on marks and spencer's for marks and spencer's and, you know, the fact that those colours happen to be colours of christmas and that they're in there. and as you said at the start of the intro, you know, wales, italy, mexico, they all have those colours in their flags . it's colours in their flags. it's nothing to do with it. >> it was >> and as you said, it was filmed in august as well. >> and this is another example of the minority dictating to the majority . m ajority. >> majority. >> but i also think mark is a really cast iron example of how you can do whatever you want to

try to appease as many different people as possible. you know, there's a good level of ethnic diversity in that advert there. you've got non nuclear families. you've got non nuclear families. you've got non nuclear families. you've got what appears to be a gay couple as well. you're not really mentioning christmas. so anybody who isn't christian will not feel excluded from this advert and still , still you end advert and still, still you end up issuing a toe curling grovelling apology because you will never get it right if you show an inch, people will take a mile. but look, mark, thank you very, very much for your take on that advert. it's mark. there's a reform uk candidate. yeah, quite a lot of impact here for that in the inbox. gb views at gb news news.com. um, it looks like a fire risk to me, says paul like a fire risk to me, says paul. yeah at the very least it's a fire risk. paul i'll take that coming up though. keir starmer says the islamophobia awareness month is coming at a difficult time british difficult time for british muslims. even have an muslims. should we even have an islamophobe awareness islamophobe here? awareness month was his poppy month and where was his poppy dunng

month and where was his poppy during statement to the during his statement to the british muslim community as well? i think i'm right in saying he was pictured wearing one earlier on in the day. did he really take it off to do a video about islamophobia in this country? and actually, is it just completely tone deaf as well, given the astonishing increase seeing in anti increase we are seeing in anti semitism? and it is as well, remembrance month , isn't it? so remembrance month, isn't it? so the timing of this is pretty poon the timing of this is pretty poor. but first is your latest headlines. we're taciana . headlines. we're taciana. >> patrick, thank you. this is the latest from the newsroom . the latest from the newsroom. the prime minister says his safety summit would tip the balance in favour of humanity. speaking a short while ago at bletchley park , rishi sunak said bletchley park, rishi sunak said the achievements of the summit show the political will and capability to control this technology and secure its benefits for the long term . benefits for the long term. hailstones as big as golf balls have battered parts of england as storm, kiran brings gusts of

more than 100mph. a major incident was declared in hampshire in the isle of wight. while flood warnings are in place along the south coast . place along the south coast. police are investigating what's been described as a hate crime after a building in london was covered in red paint. messages about the israel—hamas war were painted on the building to men were arrested on suspicion of racial aggravated criminal damage . for more on all of those damage. for more on all of those stories, you can visit our website , gbnews.com . website, gb news.com. >> okay. website, gbnews.com. >> okay. welcome back. you are watching and listening to me, patrick christys right here on gb news now. as a heck of a lot on the agenda today, isn't there part of the news agenda today, though, is being driven by something that keir starmer said and released yesterday afternoon

and released yesterday afternoon and evening. now keir starmer decided to virtue signal and do a big appeal for islamophobia awareness month. okay. and he was saying that british muslims need to be able to feel like their whole selves, their true selves on the streets of britain. i wonder how secretive in certain parts of the country british muslims really have to be. we have seen recently, haven't we? scenes of them praying outside downing street , praying outside downing street, which is, of course, absolutely fine. it's well within their rights. there's no problem with that. visual visible that. it's a visual visible display of religious faith. and i think that is a wonderful thing in the round. but the point stands where are these real issues about muslims potentially not feeling comfortable to walk the streets that keir starmer appeared to allude to? he's also courted massive controversy after massive controversy now after some eyed individuals some eagle eyed individuals realised that he appeared to be wearing a poppy at an event earlier in the day and not for that video. we have a clip now of what keir starmer actually

had to say and i will be asking off the back of it whether or not you think it was tone deaf, whether or not you think we need an islamophobia awareness month. >> this islamophobia awareness month comes at a deeply troubling time for muslim communities across britain . communities across britain. we've seen a devastating rise in islamophobia, leaving people feeling fearful and unsafe in their own country . i've heard their own country. i've heard first hand of women wearing huab first hand of women wearing hijab who are too scared to travel by public transport and of muslim families being abused as they leave the mosque . hate as they leave the mosque. hate crimes are deeply damaging, both for every affected victim, but for every affected victim, but for community parties. and we all bear a responsibility to do all bear a responsibility to do all we can to stamp out hate. >> okay. there you go. what do you make of that? if he really has taken his poppy off, why and this video, as far as i can tell, has managed to please absolutely nobody on line. we all know that keir starmer is

copping it from certain elements of the muslim labour vote because he's not calling for an all out ceasefire between israel and hamas . that has led to and hamas. that has led to plenty of local labour councillors throwing the towel in and deciding that they don't want anything to do with the party anymore. it's led to friction within party friction within his own party and now think he decided that and now i think he decided that he was going to release that video. as i understand it, he did similar video did not release a similar video last year when there was presumably another islamophobia awareness month. the timing of this, has deemed to this, though, has been deemed to be insensitive and tone be pretty insensitive and tone deaf. we have seen a 1,500% increase in antisemitism on the streets of britain within the last year, and i think it's reasonable to say that anybody who's got eyes in their heads and is on the side of that has conceded that the major problem facing society moment, as facing society at the moment, as bad any incident of bad as any incident of islamophobia i don't islamophobia is, and i don't want to diminish that. the major problem the streets of problem facing the streets of britain moment is britain at the moment is anti—semitism. if he's also decided his poppy off anti—semitism. if he's also decthat his poppy off anti—semitism. if he's also decthat , his poppy off anti—semitism. if he's also decthat , is his poppy off anti—semitism. if he's also decthat , is that1is poppy off anti—semitism. if he's also decthat , is that1is fquite off for that, is that not quite disrespectful to patriotic

british muslims who actually care about remembrance day and actually care about the sacrifices that our armed forces have made for us? maybe you even serve in our armed forces for goodness sake. so there is that there is another incident taking place due to take place on saturday, the 11th of november on armistice day. and it is a march for palestine in london. i think a lot of people had really hoped clung on to some kind of vein of hope that decency, common decency would come to the fore here. and it is not. there is an event taking place thanks to the friends of al—aqsa. they want peace in palestine and they are putting on buses for people to come leicester, batley , to come from leicester, batley, of course, the scene of the infamous batley grammar school where has to go where a teacher has had to go into and change their into hiding and change their name live under police name and live under police protection because showed protection because they showed a picture prophet mohammed picture of the prophet mohammed to as they're busing to some kids as they're busing people into london people in from their into london for they hope going to for what they hope is going to be a million person march on be a 1 million person march on saturday, november the 11th. i don't think that should go ahead. i think that that should be stopped. shouldn't it just as

a simple matter of respect . but a simple matter of respect. but talking respect , it is a talking of respect, it is a massive collection day for the armed forces today , all in aid armed forces today, all in aid of the poppy appeal for the royal british legion. now, i went out earlier on in light of the fact that we are trying to raise a little bit of money through you. wonderful people who so far have raised £196,363 for the poppy appeal. it's just giving.com/page, fonnard slash gb news. poppy, earlier on i went out and about in westminster and i decided to catch up with a couple of serving military personnel, including sergeant kelly. here's what he had to say. >> i think it's really important that not just here to raise for money rbl, but also to sort of raise . mind everyone again of raise. mind everyone again of the sacrifices made in the past and the present. and i think by doing this, it sort of reiterates to the public, you know, what actually goes on and the way things are in this day and age. we need to not forget what's in the past. what's happened in the past.

>> a lot of people >> i think a lot of people assume that the poppy appeal is all about world war i and world war ii. and it's is war ii. and it's not, is it? i was just wondering if you might be able to tell us a little bit about your kind of military journey, as were. journey, as it were. >> yeah. well myself, i joined in 2003. >> around about the >> that was around about the time and afghanistan time iraq and afghanistan started. done several started. so i've done several tours of both at and basically , tours of both at and basically, you know, i've lost friends , you know, i've lost friends, i've had friends injured and it bnngs i've had friends injured and it brings a lot of bad, you know, bad thoughts to sort of the past . so it means a lot to me by doing this today. it sort of gives me that time to remember them. and things that we did in them. and things that we did in the past. them. and things that we did in the paryou think as a country we >> do you think as a country we do enough to acknowledge and remember and show gratitude for the incredible sacrifice vices that people have made, but also the sacrifices like yourself that you are prepared to make if needed? >>i needed? >> i think we do. i think, you know, it's publicised enough

now. a lot of people know what's going on. but yeah, i mean, it's notjust going on. but yeah, i mean, it's not just about the one day. i mean, the sunday, the remembrance sunday is probably the thing, but leading up to the big thing, but leading up to that we're doing that is what we're doing this for and obviously by for today. and obviously by doing it puts it over a doing that, it puts it over a longevity of time of people remembering now we've got a poppy remembering now we've got a p°ppy appeal remembering now we've got a poppy appeal based on a justgiving page. >> that's all going to the royal british legion just giving.com/page four slash gb news poppy , there's about 180 news poppy, there's about 180 grand so far. people can go directly to the royal british legion website. you can donate there. know they couldn't there. i know they couldn't chuck few quid if anyone's chuck a few quid if anyone's carrying cash these days around. you've a card machine you've got a card machine as well, see. so there's well, i can see. so there's really is excuse really there really is no excuse to not donate. but can i just ask you, without wanting to rake up too traumatic for up anything too traumatic for you anything that, some you or anything like that, some stories out to you stories that stand out to you from serving that from your time at serving that might, you know, give people a little bit of an insight into why it's so important to donate. >> i feel , you know, over the >> i feel, you know, over the past 21 years, you know, everyone talks about going on

operational tours and stuff like that. it's not just about that. it's about the build up, you know, the whole process of, you know, the whole process of, you know, training for this, you know, training for this, you know, it takes a your know, it takes a lot of your time up. so you know, it's a lot of hard work prior to go in. and obviously, when you come back, you know, you've got family, friends, stuff friends, all that sort of stuff you miss. so you know, there's a big sacrifices you need to make by so yeah, by doing this job. so yeah, massive sacrifices, not just in terms of physical sacrifice and all of that, but the sacrifice that they're prepared to make. >> they know exactly what they're doing. they know that they're doing. they know that they could being some they could end up being some kind disaster and they know kind of disaster and they know that they're going be that they're going to be prepared towards some of prepared to run towards some of the events imaginable. the worst events imaginable. and gb listeners gb news viewers and listeners have come out in have absolutely come out in force for our armed forces. justgiving.com fonnard slash page, fonnard slash gb news. poppy, page, fonnard slash gb news. poppy, just a quick update in the last couple of minutes, we've gone up by nearly a grand actually £197,248. now marilyn's just chucked £100 in. thank you very, very much, marilyn. that's great stuff. linda's giving a

fiver and someone as well has given £500, which is absolutely astonishing. thank you. i know that times are tough at the moment, but i think more so than ever really, especially in light of some other events that are taking place in this country and on our streets at the moment. it really means the to world be able show little bit of able to show a little bit of respect, bit of respect, a little bit of gratitude our armed forces gratitude to our armed forces and british legion, to and to the british legion, to help them get some housing, to help them get some housing, to help them get some housing, to help them get some mental health care, wherever care, to help them get wherever they employment they can. even some employment advice when they are just back to street. really does to civvy street. it really does mean and i know from mean the world. and i know from the individuals talking to the individuals i was talking to earlier how much they earlier today how much they really what you really appreciate what you wonderful viewers wonderful people gb news viewers and listeners are doing. so thank you. thank you. thank you. justgiving.com/page fonnard slash let's see slash gb news. poppy, let's see if can get to £200,000. but if we can get to £200,000. but the worst of storm, kieran might have passed , but it's left a have passed, but it's left a load of damage in its wake as high winds and weather warnings remain. we be storm chasing remain. we will be storm chasing up down with our up and down the uk with our brave team of intrepid reporters. i'm patrick christiansen, news. this

>> gb news. welcome back. >> gb news. welcome back. >> earlier we heard from rishi sunak speaking at the world's first ai safety summit , first ai safety summit, highlighting the potential benefits of ai, but being able to recognise the dangers. well, let's talk now to our deputy political editor, tom hannood wood, who's been at bletchley park for us. and who was in the room. tom so certainly this has been an historic summit here at

bletchley park, the place that basically invented the modern world of computing and now is setting pace for the modern world of ai regulation, artificial intelligence is a technology that is set to change all of our lives more than the smartphone, more than the personal computer, probably more than the internet, even in terms of how we do our work, how we interact with the world. >> this is seismic , and we're at >> this is seismic, and we're at the foothills of something huge here, which is why it's so important that here at bletchley park , the world has come park, the world has come together, not just eight countries, including the us , the countries, including the us, the eu china and of course, the eu and china and of course, the united kingdom. but also, of course, the seven leading ai companies coming together to sign two vital documents . sign two vital documents. firstly, the bletchley declaration. this sets a common understanding of what frontier ai is for the first time and sets out what the risks of this enormously powerful technology

are. and secondly, the commune , are. and secondly, the commune, okay, that has come from this summit and the four big takeaways are understanding the risks define learning frontier ai sitting up ai safety institutes and an intergovernmental panel assessing these risks and these new models and finally, the fact that this is not the last summit on al safety. this is the first of many six monthly summits to come next in south korea, in six months time. and then in 12 months time. and then in 12 months in paris , in france, months in paris, in france, trying to keep up with that rapidly developing pace of this technology. i think most fair assessments of this summit today and the last two days here in bletchley park can be that the united kingdom has set in train here something historic . here something historic. >> oh, good as being world leading. fantastic. tom, thank you very much. tom hannood there. gb news is deputy political editor. i wonder with that whether or not the ai knows that whether or not the ai knows that we're doing all of this and

it's already working to undermine it, but anyway, storm karen has caused chaos as it swept the uk. the main swept into the uk. but the main damage appears to damage thankfully appears to have . already have been done. already thousands homes were left thousands of homes were left without hundreds of without power. hundreds of schools forced to close. some areas hit by gusts of more areas were hit by gusts of more than 100 miles an hour. well our northern ireland reporter dougie beattie is in portadown and gb news is southwest of england. reporter jeff moody is at instow beach in devon. jeff i'm going to go to you first. are you all right ? right? >> yeah, i'm all right. >> yeah, i'm all right. >> thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> i could do with some soup. um, yes . the worst of the storm um, yes. the worst of the storm is over, but it is leaving in its wake. some quite serious winds, very fierce winds and plenty of rain to who it doesn't seem as though there's been too much damage. certainly we're not heanng much damage. certainly we're not hearing of any loss of life as yet. a man has been treated for hypothermia when he got stuck in his car , he tried to drive his

his car, he tried to drive his car through a flooded road and the rac is saying, look, just be really careful and don't if you see a road is flooded, don't think, well, that's just a little bit of water and try and drive over it because you will get stuck. and we're hearing several instances of that happening . um, we're also happening. um, we're also heanng happening. um, we're also hearing that the refugees are still on the bibby stockholm barge. apparently they have been feeling seasick today, but the home office has said there's no plans to move them, that they think that the barge is very, very securely moored in portland. so that's all right. as i say, there's well, there were 100,000 homes that were without power. people have been working right throughout the day. engineers have been coming down from all over the country to the west country to try and get as many people back , many get as many people back, many people's power back as they can in. and now they're saying

there's only about 20,000 that don't have power. i mean, still, that's quite a considerable number, isn't it? 20,000 people who are going into tonight with no power. but we are hearing the worst of it is over and it's now just a case of the clean up operation . operation. >> an absolutely. jeff, thank you very much. you have certainly earned an evening by a roaring fire. let's go over now to dougie dougie beattie , who is to dougie dougie beattie, who is in portadown for us. dougie, it's not quite as windy where you are at the moment, but i mean, the devastation has been extensive, hasn't it . oh in extensive, hasn't it. oh in fact, i think i think the devastation has been so extensive that we might have lost dougie beattie microphone there. sorry about that, dougie. there we go. nothing worse, is there, i imagine, than being stood out freezing cold stood out in the freezing cold and driving rain all day and the driving rain all day with floodwater behind you. yeah. stinking of sewage, etcetera with and for your etcetera. with and for your microphone not to work. but there we go. alas the job of a roving reporter. anyway, look,

can say everybody can i just say to everybody there quite big news there is some quite big news that has just happened here, a bit of breaking news. and it is in relation to what a wonderful , in relation to what a wonderful, generous patriotic and generous bunch of patriotic and loving and caring individuals you are, the gb news viewers and the gb news listeners, the gb news poppy appeal has hit. £200,000. absolutely amazing effort. everybody so, so, so well done . it's just well done. it's just giving.com/page four slash gb news poppy we set out to raise ten grand. we started the just giving on monday afternoon. so since monday afternoon you have raised . £200,000 for the royal raised. £200,000 for the royal british legion to help get veterans into housing. if they're struggling with that at they're struggling with that at the moment. so get them into employment. if they're struggling with that at the moment help with their moment to help them with their mental health, to help their families, are families, if their families are struggling bereavement, families, if their families are strugglin it bereavement, families, if their families are strugglin it really areavement, families, if their families are strugglin it really is�*avement, etcetera, it really is a monumental , etcetera, it really is a monumental, herculean effort. this is unbelievable .

this is unbelievable. unbelievable. the reason why we did this was because some parts of the uk are struggling to find poppy of the uk are struggling to find poppy sellers at the moment. people are carrying less and less with them as well . so less cash with them as well. so those that you would those donations that you would normally a quid the in normally chuck a quid in the in the box, that's happening the poppy box, that's happening a less. i thought, a little bit less. so i thought, well, look, let's see what we can do. let's see what you can do. thank much for do. and thank you very much for everybody has done it. i everybody who has done it. i actually can name the person who got us. i've got it in front of me to the £200,000 mark. he's called gary . you love to see it. called gary. you love to see it. thank you for making this a top news story. let us never forget the freedom that we now have as a result of very good men and women who sacrificed so much to enable a great britain. gary, i can't think of a better message to bring up the £200,000 mark. a massive pat on the back, everybody. it will go to making a massive difference . it will a massive difference. it will help to save lives actually for people, especially if they're struggling for mental health. it will help to improve lives as well. it will help to well. and it will also help to honour so thank you very

honour live. so thank you very much, everybody, from bottom much, everybody, from the bottom of heart, from everyone here of my heart, from everyone here at news. and should at gb news. and you should genuinely yourselves a genuinely give yourselves a massive back because genuinely give yourselves a maraive back because genuinely give yourselves a ma:a wonderful, back because genuinely give yourselves a ma:a wonderful, wonderfulcause it's a wonderful, wonderful thing the news thing that you, the gb news viewers and listeners have done all run up to remembrance all in the run up to remembrance sundays justgiving.com fonnard slash page, fonnard slash gb news poppy now in other news. yes. coming up in the next hour, well, pro—palestinian protesters , they're organising a national march, but yeah, here we go. it is taking place on remembrance day. i suspect some of this stuff is one of the reasons why so of have come out in so many of you have come out in force and donated to a good patriotic cause . but the plans patriotic cause. but the plans have been met with outrage. okay so we're going to be talking about all of that, supposedly going to putting buses on going to be putting buses on from like leicester to from places like leicester to get saturday, get them down for saturday, november want november the 11th. they want 1 million marching on million people marching on armistice just not sure armistice day. i'm just not sure that's that that's acceptable. is that appropriate? reasonable ? i appropriate? is it reasonable? i don't think it is. we'll be talking and talking about the marks and spencers talking about the marks and spencer's christmas advert as well, is, spencer's christmas advert as well, is, of well, which apparently is, of course, huge of course, a huge amount of controversy slow police . you

controversy and slow police. you know, one area, it can take know, in one area, it can take around 13 hours to get a police officer . if you ring 999 around 13 hours to get a police officer. if you ring 999 and say that you've been burgled or crucially and i think more importantly, really, if you're saying that you're the victim of domestic abuse, i mean, you really need the police there in a hurry, don't you? so heck of a lot on the agenda in the next houn lot on the agenda in the next hour. gb views of gbnews.com is that email address. i hope to hear you. it's patrick hear from you. it's patrick christys here news. and we christys here on gb news. and we very are the people's channel. >> it's burkill here >> hello. it's alex burkill here again your latest gb news again with your latest gb news weather update. storm weather update. whilst storm kieran away , kieran is now clearing away, there unsettled to there is further unsettled to weather come as we look towards the weekend as low that is. the weekend as the low that is. kieran now pushing into the kieran is now pushing into the north bringing some north sea, still bringing some exceptionally strong winds, particularly southeastern particularly to southeastern coastal but the worst of coastal parts. but the worst of the weather is now clearing away. heavy rain across eastern parts of the uk as we go through this evening and overnight, likely to see some further flooding parts of flooding across eastern parts of scotland, perhaps north—east england well. further west england as well. further west and south, yes, some showers, but also some drier, clearer

weather under those clear weather and under those clear skies, expecting skies, i'm expecting temperatures to take a little bit of a dip so we could get into single figures in some into mid single figures in some prone rural spots as we look through friday. still through friday. then still heavily under influence of heavily under the influence of the is kieran, but it's the low that is kieran, but it's in the north and so bringing in the north sea and so bringing blustery showery weather, particularly eastern particularly to eastern north eastern uk , also eastern parts of the uk, also some showers feeding down on that north northwesterly wind across parts northern across parts of northern ireland, wales into southwest england. meanwhile, in the southeast here, a southeast, staying drier here, a greater chance of seeing some sunshine and highs of around 14 or celsius into saturday. and or 15 celsius into saturday. and we are going to see a spell of wet and windy weather pushing its way up from the south. so turning wet across many parts of england wales, the england and wales, not to the same seen today, same scale as we've seen today, though, drier picture for though, and a drier picture for scotland and northern ireland. more as we go more showers to come as we go through sunday. at the through sunday. but at the moment, does look like moment, it does look like monday's be a little monday's going to be a little bit quieter. i'll

>> it's 5 pm. it's patrick christys. it's gb news. now we start with a war hero's warning to not take part in any pro—palestine protest due to take place over the remembrance weekend armistice day on november the 11th. there are big protests planned. they want 1 million people on that day , on million people on that day, on that special day. surely that is in poor taste. what do you think? maybe you think is everybody's democratic right to

protest whenever they want? no matter what occasion. but a war hero is urging people not to do it. really because of that kind of taste and decency element. we'll to wait and see if we'll have to wait and see if their warnings heeded. but their warnings are heeded. but pc plodding along. yes, that's right. certain pockets right. there are certain pockets of the where are of the uk where there are better, responsive police better, more responsive police forces than others. and in one place, all place, i'll be revealing all very shortly in one place, it can take you hours and hours and hours if you call up and say you're the of ongoing or you're the victim of ongoing or domestic abuse, or if somebody in your and they're in your house and they're robbing and police can take robbing it and police can take hours turn so we're going hours to turn up. so we're going to having a look at where in to be having a look at where in the is the least the country is the least responsive forces are. responsive police forces are. we'll also be talking about this responsive police forces are. wewell. ;0 be talking about this responsive police forces are. wewell. m&s talking about this responsive police forces are. wewell. m&s islking about this responsive police forces are. wewell. m&s is woke about this responsive police forces are. wewell. m&s is woke christmas as well. m&s is woke christmas advert disaster but it's not actually a christmas advert really it's a christmas advert that's just one of the things wrong with it. by the way. it's caused a huge amount of controversy, massive backfire, caused a huge amount of contthey've massive backfire, caused a huge amount of contthey've evensive backfire, caused a huge amount of contthey've even had )ackfire, caused a huge amount of contthey've even had to kfire, and they've even had to apologise for something utterly ridiculous. again, i was telling you all about that shortly. and finally. well, you. finally. well, thank you. i honestly don't know what to say.

i'm completely blown away. £200,000 has now been raised by all of the gb news viewers and listeners for the poppy appeal in some parts of the country that were struggling to sell to poppies people to sell poppies find people to sell those poppies, you've those poppies, and you've stepped the void. and stepped in to fill the void. and really you should be so amazingly proud of yourselves. it the to me. know it means the world to me. i know it means world to all it means the world to all the veterans there and veterans out there and their families well. £200,000 has families as well. £200,000 has now been raised for the royal british legion's poppy appeal from you wonderful people. it's just .com fonnard slash just giving .com fonnard slash page four slash gb news poppy , i page four slash gb news poppy, i just wonder how high this thing can go. patrick christys. gb news. okay. loads on. i will see you the other side of the headunes you the other side of the headlines with tatiana . patrick. headlines with tatiana. patrick. >> thank you very much and good afternoon. this is the latest from the gb newsroom. northern

gazais from the gb newsroom. northern gaza is coming under intensified airstrikes from the israeli military as hamas launches a series of missiles towards israel . our homeland security israel. our homeland security editor mark white is near the gaza border. mark, what's the latest ? latest? >> well, intense ified airstrikes and ground artillery strikes throughout the afternoon and into this evening in northern gaza as those troops continue to push south towards gaza city . now, the israeli gaza city. now, the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, has said that the troops have actually reached the outskirts of gaza city. a moved beyond those outskirts. we know that there are troops in the south of the gaza city area heading towards the coast. and the plan apparently is to encircle gaza city. now, while the fighting continues in northern gaza, in the south, at the rafah crossing, more people

have managed to get out and across the border into egypt . across the border into egypt. president biden has just confirmed that 74 dual national us citizens have crossed. we were expecting about 400 today and antony blinken , the us and antony blinken, the us secretary of state is on a visit to the region. he has reaffirmed the american viewpoint that israel has the right to defend itself as there are growing calls for a ceasefire. america says these humanitarian pauses but a ceasefire know that israel has the right to continue with this operation . this operation. >> our homeland security editor mark white there near the gaza border. mark, thank you . the border. mark, thank you. the prime minister says his i safety summit would tip the balance in favour of humanity. summit would tip the balance in favour of humanity . speaking favour of humanity. speaking a short while ago at bletchley park, rishi sunak said this had been achieved by establishing a shared understanding of the risks. an expert panel will and

reaching an agreement on testing the safety of new ai models before they're released . he before they're released. he says, safely harnessing this technology could eclipse anything we've ever known for the first time ever, we have brought together ceos of world leading ai companies with countries most advanced in using it and representatives from across academia and civil society . society. >> and while this was only the beginning of the conversation , i beginning of the conversation, i believe the achievements of this summit will tip the balance in favour of humanity because they show that we have both the political will and the capability to control this technology and secure its benefits for the long term hailstones as big as golf balls have battered parts of england as storm kieron brings with it gusts of more than 100mph, a major incident was declared in hampshire in the isle of wight, while flood warnings are in place along the south coast, southern rail and southeastern have issued travel warnings and

hundreds of schools across the south are closed. >> a red wind warning has been issued in the channel islands, where winds have reached again more than 100mph. the bank of england has held the base rate interest rate at 5.25. it's the second month in a row it's kept the rate unchanged after 14 consecutive hikes . the consecutive hikes. the announcement will provide some relief to borrowers. however, the bank has downgraded its forecast for economic growth, saying inflation could stay higher for longer. chancellor jeremy hunt says his autumn statements will set out the government's plan to boost growth. bank of england governor andrew bailey says it's too early for interest rate cuts . early for interest rate cuts. >> there is absolutely no room for complacent . see inflation is for complacent. see inflation is still too high. we will keep interest rates high enough for long enough to make sure we get inflation all the way back to the 2% target at. we will be watching closely to see if

further increases in interest rates are needed. but even if they are not needed, it is much too early to be thinking about rate cuts. >> as shadow chancellor rachel reeves says the figures show britain is heading in the wrong direction on interest rate. >> hikes have been paused today, but they remain at historic highs and for the 1.5 million people looking to refinance their mortgages next year, that will mean on average an additional £220 every single month . the bank of england today month. the bank of england today have revised down from low growth next year to no growth at all. the conservatives have failed on the economy. it is working people that are paying the price . the price. >> the covid inquiry has heard that matt hancock wanted to decide who should live and die . decide who should live and die. why should hospitals become ovennhelmed ? and lord simon ovennhelmed? and lord simon stevens, who was chief executive of nhs england at the time, said he discouraged the former health secretary's plan, preferring to leave such decisions to the medical profession . the inquiry

medical profession. the inquiry is continuing . this is gb news is continuing. this is gb news across the uk on tv , in your across the uk on tv, in your car, on digital radio and on your smart speaker. by saying play gb news now it's back to . patrick >> the m&s christmas advert is a complete shocker that yet again capitulates to the woke diversity mafia. the word christmas is changed to the christmas is changed to the christmas . obviously we couldn't christmas. obviously we couldn't possibly dwell on it being a christian festival to celebrate the birth of jesus christ and the birth of jesus christ and the whole point of it, as far as i can tell, is to pump out a message of complete and utter selfishness as opposed to love and generosity. and that's before we've got started on the pathetic, obligatory apology. they felt compelled to dish out to pro—palestine. i'm offended by everything . brigade. here's by everything. brigade. here's the advert . oh, i would do the advert. oh, i would do anything for. love

>> you know, it's true . and >> you know, it's true. and that's how fast . oh, will do that's how fast. oh, will do anything for. love that's how fast. oh, will do anything for . love oh, that's how fast. oh, will do anything for. love oh, i will do anything for. love oh, i will do anything for. love oh, i will do anything for love. but i won't do do that . no, anything for love. but i won't do do that. no, i won't do that. i would do anything for love. anything you'll be dreaming of. but i just won't. anything you'll be dreaming of. but i just won't . won't do that. but i just won't. won't do that. no no, no. i just won't do that. i'll go. no this christmas . i'll go. no this christmas. >> do only what you . love. oh i >> do only what you. love. oh i would do anything for love.

>> i will be dreaming of. but i just won't do that . just won't do that. >> well, as you can see, there is the obligatory amount of racial diversity in there. not really much of a nod to the nuclear family, the elderly or children . our very own martin children. our very own martin daubeny's tweets summed up the views of many people who endured what marks and sparks served up there on a silver platter of wokery. he said early contender for worst christmas out of the year from m&s. obligatory gay couple no heterosexual couple in sight . the couple no heterosexual couple in sight. the family is black, obviously . they set fire to obviously. they set fire to christmas cards and who stole all the kids. but but things went from bad to worse for m&s because there was another online backlash this time because they defended palestine supporters. so one original bit of content shows christmas hats being burnt in a fire. now these hats apparently were red, white and

green. well, they were. they just happened to be those colours. i wonder why. maybe that might have something do that might have something to do with it. don't know. with it. i don't know. christmas. prompted christmas. but this prompted a furious from people furious backlash from people saying they were and i'm saying that they were and i'm not burning the not joking now burning the colours of the palestinian flag . colours of the palestinian flag. right. well, firstly, this advert was filmed in august, something that tan france, who is a man who appears in this advert, who apparently stars in advert, who apparently stars in a show called the queer eye, pointed out. secondly, palestine does not have a monopoly on those colours, no more than the italians or the mexico mayans or the welsh do. but obviously m&s did what all pathetic companies do and completely capitulate. they issued a grovelling apology. so they said . today we apology. so they said. today we shared an outtake image from our christmas clothing and home advert which was recorded in august. it showed traditional , august. it showed traditional, festive coloured red green and silver christmas paper party hats in a fire grate . while the hats in a fire grate. while the intent was to playfully show that some people just don't enjoy wearing paper christmas

hats over the festive season, we have removed the post following feedback and we apologise for any unintentional hurt caused as well as compensated author and friend of gb news chris rose tweeted this isn't just pathetic , this is pathetic . this is just , this is pathetic. this is just hard proof that even when you go massively out of your way to tick every possible box and do everything you can to keep the mob happy, you won't. everything you can to keep the mob happy, you won't . you'll mob happy, you won't. you'll never win. it's a bit too early to be saying this. i think, but i will say it anyway. don't have a merry christmas . have a very a merry christmas. have a very merry christmas . well, that's merry christmas. well, that's what i think. i want to hear from you. vaiews@gbnews.com. we will be debating the m&s advert a little bit later on this hour, but yes. okay. today people are out in force delivering poppies,

selling poppies and crucially as well, in the case of the gb news viewers and listeners donating to the poppy appeal because the royal british legion is having one of their major for poppy day donation today. and went donation days today. and i went and spoke to some of the wonderful people earlier today at tube station . so at westminster tube station. so i enjoyed actually i greatly enjoyed actually meeting these people. these are the people who are actually meeting these people. these are the peo members re actually meeting these people. these are the peo members ofactually meeting these people. these are the peo members of our ally meeting these people. these are the peo members of our armed serving members of our armed forces. i'm very pleased to say i'm ecstatic, actually, because i'm ecstatic, actually, because i can't believe it. i'm blown away that. you have away to say that. you have raised more than £200,000 raised now more than £200,000 for the poppy appeal. in fact, it's gone up . to £204,385 at the it's gone up. to £204,385 at the moment that i'm talking to you now, it's just giving.com/page, fonnard slash gb news poppy. never in a million years did we think that we would be able to raise this amount of money. it's all down to the generosity of our viewers and our listeners. we really are the people's channel. and it is because of people like you putting the great into britain. so great into great britain. so thank you. thank you. thank you. but get opportunity to but i did get the opportunity to speak some people who who

speak to some people who who these donations are for. i think, you obviously think, you know, obviously primarily is to primarily people think is to remember world remember the fallen world war one and people one and world war two and people maybe from iraq and afghanistan, etcetera , as well. but it's also etcetera, as well. but it's also those are currently serving those who are currently serving at moment like these two at the moment like these two young lads who i caught up with at westminster . i'm here with at westminster. i'm here with piper walsh drummer piper walsh and drummer aldridge. thank you very, very much. just treated to much. we were just treated to one performances there, one of your performances there, if you can call it that. so thank you very much, shapps and can just ask you first, why can i just ask you first, why the poppy appeal is so important for you've got to remember >> well, you've got to remember now many actually now how many people actually died this country. like i'm died for this country. like i'm 24 old, as young as 24 years old, boys as young as 15, 17, 19 were dying for this country's freedoms against evil. you can't even imagine nowadays. so so just a small bit of remembrance once a year is not too much to ask for. and the poppy too much to ask for. and the p°ppy appeal too much to ask for. and the poppy appeal now goes to help even veterans who fought even more veterans who fought against the taliban. against evil like the taliban. so it's just it's a way of giving back, of showing appreciation to those who've come before those are come before or those who are still how much they

still here now and how much they mean to us very, very strong stuff. >> what about yourself, sir? well say exactly like well i have to say exactly like my walsh here. >> i do feel like it's a small token to the community just to give back. it is nice to see a lot of people wearing the for the remembrance . it's just one the remembrance. it's just one whole month. or we can ask, just like i said, for everyone to wear it and just to show even the people who are alive today who still fought back then , it who still fought back then, it shows that they are still supported now. >> absolutely. and look, on behalf of everyone , i think i behalf of everyone, i think i can speak on behalf of everyone for this. and just say thank you, both of you, for everything that you do. and would you just mind maybe saying a message to people about really why they should donate really to this cause ? cause? >> well, i say it's the goodness inside you and in your heart that everyone has. just bring it out for a small time. this year and give something, even if it's five $0.10. you don't know whose life that change or who life that could change or who that help because

that could help because there's a people on their a lot of people down on their luck the moment and they luck at the moment and they could need you. >> made you want to sign up? >> so before joining, i was doing animal care and wildlife conservation in a community college, i saw on college, and i saw on advertisements that some of the military go abroad to help wildlife conservationists stop poachers and stuff like that. so it was my initial reaction to jump it was my initial reaction to jump on board to that and once i joined, i volunteered, volunteered technically to be a part of this. >> fantastic. i was really interesting because there's a million different reasons why people join. aren't there? and i think that's testimony to all the kind of different remits that our armed forces can cover. what about yourself? you know, you're i can tell you're deeply passionate about this. go on. >> i do. have a long family >> i do. i have a long family history uncles and history with my two uncles and my grandfather who sadly couldn't in. was too couldn't get in. he was too short to be a guardsman and my brother before me and i decided to continue on the family line and respects to and pretty much pay respects to the that gave my the regiment that gave my brother years of the best

brother five years of the best years his life. come years of his life. so i've come to it of the best of to give it five of the best of mine and, well, it's hard. and i thought it would be, but i do enjoy it . enjoy it. >> oh, good stuff. thank you very both you. absolute very much. both of you. absolute pleasure. absolute pleasure. and well could listen to well done. i could listen to those all day. don't know those two. all day. i don't know about but yeah, you about you, but yeah, thank you very everybody been very much. everybody who's been donating, it coming. donating, please keep it coming. it's giving dot com fonnard it's just giving dot com fonnard slash slash gb news slash page fonnard slash gb news p°ppy- slash page fonnard slash gb news p0ppy- and slash page fonnard slash gb news poppy. and it's for wonderful young them well as, young lads like them as well as, of our fallen heroes of course, our fallen heroes from , um, the past. now from, um, the past. now pro—palestinian protesters are unbelievably organising a national march to boycott this remembrance day as concerns grow about community tensions on the commemorations for our fallen heroes , the plans and remarks heroes, the plans and remarks have been greeted with outrage, however, by members of the veterans community. many are warning that the action will alienate thousands from the palestinian cause. joining me now is former british army officer is henry bolton . henry, officer is henry bolton. henry, thank very, very much . thank you very, very much. should march , which should this march, which includes people being bused in from places like leicester for

£20, by the way , be banned ? £20, by the way, be banned? >> well, first of all, patrick, if i may just want to say a big thank you on behalf of everybody who has served past and present for your efforts. it's been absolutely outstanding. >> the response . and i just want >> the response. and i just want to i just want to say that forgive me, i appreciate it, but it's definitely it's definitely down to the viewers and listeners. >> but i absolutely. but thank you. on. carry on, henry. you. come on. carry on, henry. carry on. >> should this take >> um, should this take place? >> um, should this take place? >> march not take place. >> and i say that look, first of all, let's recognise that there's a huge amount of concern out there from everybody, myself included , about civilian included, about civilian casualties, the collateral damage that relating to the war that's going on in gaza at the moment and indeed on on israel's northern border and so on with lebanon, with hezbollah. >> and so on. but but but fundamentally we've got to recognise that whilst people have got every right to express that right, the idea that that something is being organised

with the full knowledge that it is likely to be perceived as a provocation, as a challenge, if you like, to the british culture, historic event of the 11th of november is shocking the if sir mark rowley, the commissioner of the metropolitan police and westminster city council and sadiq khan as mayor of london allow this to go ahead . i, i can only i can only assume conclude that they are actually supporting hamas and these protests that are in effect anti—israeli in nature at the moment. they're not hostile in terms of militant. but the moment. they're not hostile in terms of militant . but there in terms of militant. but there is i saw the protest at the beginning of the week. >> i think it was on monday. i watched it go past waterloo. >> and it is a call for resistance against israel. >> the continuation of that was the part of the march i saw was peaceful. so you know, and you're showing now the that i

think that's either saint pancras or liverpool street station. these are not simply protests expressing concern about civilian casualties . and about civilian casualties. and there's more to it than that. and i've worked in many muslim countries and i've seen this sort of encroachment on by muslim cultures on the, if you like, the native culture. we don't have a problem with what they're protesting against in terms of civilian casualties. but do not please, i beg you , do but do not please, i beg you, do not bring your conflict onto the streets . streets of great streets. streets of great britain by disturbing one of the most sacred events of our annual calendar year. don't do it. >> yeah. don't allow it to take place. >> that's my message to the met police commissioner. >> yeah, henry, it's strong stuff. loads of people will agree you on that. just agree with you on that. i just think it's time, surely, for common to prevail common sense to prevail and go. we have to stop this now. just just for this day. it should be a sacred day in britain's calendar, for goodness sake. it should be a sacred day, a sacred couple of days in britain's

calendar. it should be a sacred month. >> it is , absolutely. >> it is, absolutely. >> it is, absolutely. >> patrick. >> patrick. >> look, you know, they've had ample opportunity to make their feelings known. no doubt there will be other protests as well. but on this day, on the 11th of november, it is outrageous that we are sitting here wondering whether or not this is going to be allowed to go ahead. and the fact that it's been publicised already suggests to me that they've already got the authority for it happen. that authority for it to happen. that authority for it to happen. that authority to be rescinded authority needs to be rescinded and need to get and ministers need to get involved. because othennise and ministers need to get irdolved. because othennise and ministers need to get irdo not. because othennise and ministers need to get irdo not think because othennise and ministers need to get irdo not think that|use othennise and ministers need to get irdo not think that ifie othennise and ministers need to get irdo not think that if there'swise i do not think that if there's any disruption on the 11th, whether it's whatever events it is on the 11th of the 11th, i think the british people will probably turn against this. at the moment, there's probably turn against this. at the moment , there's concern probably turn against this. at the moment, there's concern it may spill over to more than that. and it's irresponsible to court that possibility . court that possibility. >> okay, henry, look, thank you very , very much. that's henry very, very much. that's henry bolton there is a former british army officer. do you agree with henry? do you disagree with him? we live in a free country. should he be allowed to protest?

whenever whatever whenever you want about whatever you vaiews@gbnews.uk but you want. vaiews@gbnews.uk but very we'll discuss the very shortly we'll discuss the slow police. yes a freedom of information request has found that domestic abuse and burglary victims can be left waiting up for 13 hours for police to attend. i mean, it's absolutely staggering, isn't it? patrick

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>> hello, welcome back. >> hello, welcome back. >> now, yesterday circus dalma marked the start of islamophobe beer awareness month by hitting out at the devastating surge in discrimination against muslims. while the labour leader said it came at a troubling time for muslims in britain, with the met police recording a 140% increase in islamophobic offences this month compared to the same penod month compared to the same period last year. so do we need an islamophobe here? awareness month. joining me now is protestor activist and iranian dissident is vahid beheshti. shahid, thank you very, very much. do we need an anti islamophobia month ? islamophobia month? >> i think we need that. >> i think we need that. >> we need to or we need that to educate our people about what is actually islamophobia is right, because whenever we are going to talk about what the extremist, the terrorist they using islamophobia as a baton , as islamophobia as a baton, as a tool to quiet us.

>> so you think you think sometimes the word islamophobia is used to protect people who are actually quite radical. >> exactly. exactly >> exactly. exactly >> they they have been using this against us. look islam is like other religion is a religion of peace. so we have to differentiate the pure islam from the terrorism, from the extreme ism, from what this violations, which we are witnessing now in the whole world and in the streets of london under the name of islam. >> and whenever we are going to talk about it, they said, okay, you are spreading islamophobia . you are spreading islamophobia. >> they cannot label me with this stuff. i'm a muslim. they cannot label me as who cannot label me as someone who is anti—immigration. i'm an immigrant. but is anti—immigration. i'm an immigrant . but we is anti—immigration. i'm an immigrant. but we have to educate our youth as they are doing. look what happened yesterday . last night they came yesterday. last night they came and threw red paint on the building of foreign office and the gate of number 10. so this

is happen. this is surprisingly maybe eight hours after the speech of supreme leader of iranian regime ali khamenei. ali khamenei yesterday in his speech, he stated, you k usa and france are a standing against islam. so basically he gave the jihad a statement to the muslims. and we see this events few hours later . and then we are few hours later. and then we are going to talk about this. they said, okay, they are spreading islamophobia . this is against islamophobia. this is against our religion. this is this thing, these violations, this extremism has got nothing, nothing to do with islam. and we have to stand strong in front of it. i said in the last interview with yourself, i said, if we are going to open our gates, we have to see who we are letting in. we have to check the backgrounds and we have a big problem of extremism here at the moment.

and we let it happen for so long. and we have to be aware of it at the moment. >> okay. so keir starmer is obviously pointing to what he says. well what is according to reports are 140% increase in islamophobia . i might politely islamophobia. i might politely direct the leader of the opposition towards the 1,500% increase in anti semitism that we've had during the same time period. many people are thinking that it was quite tone deaf of him to say that we should have a or b b b marking and anti islamophobia month whilst everything is taking place on the streets of britain like it is. >> yes, it let me put it that way. we are going back 88 years ago, world war ii. look what happened. they put david starkey on the house of jewish people. they come and throw red paint out. this is these things were happening in the time of world war two and that we are witnessing thing i am insisting ,

witnessing thing i am insisting, yes, we have to have a islamophobia month to educate the people actually what is islamophobia to? they cannot stop us because we the tools of islamophobia, whenever we are going to talk about the extremism , islamist extremism, extremism, islamist extremism, islamist fascism. so we have to educate our people. that's our stance . stance. >> but can i just thank you very much for coming in. thank you for having me. really interesting talking to you. and we'll talk again very soon. thank you very, very much. vahid beheshti activist beheshti there is an activist protester, iranian dissident now different story entirely. now freedom of information request by the liberal democrats has found that domestic abuse and burglary victims are left waiting up to 13 hours for waiting for up to 13 hours for police to attend. the lib dems say that the conservatives have left forces overstretched left police forces overstretched and able focus on crime like and able to focus on crime like burglaries and, course, burglaries and, of course, domestic as joining domestic abuse as well. joining me discuss this is former me now to discuss this is former senior investigating officer at the is simon harding. the met police is simon harding. simon, you much. simon, thank you very much. people incredibly people will be incredibly concerned to find that in

concerned to find out that in certain of the country, certain parts of the country, you can wait 13 hours for a police officer to arrive. if you are the victim of domestic abuse. >> yeah, certainly. and i think, you know, the figures aren't acceptable . acceptable. >> police forces and >> all and police forces and police officers won't feel it's acceptable either. you acceptable either. but, you know, mentioned just now, know, you mentioned just now, you know, there perhaps are causes for this that now need to be listened to a bit stronger in 2012. you know, 30,000 officers went on a march when the budgets were cut to say there will be consequences to this. you know, there are concerns , licences to there are concerns, licences to budget cuts police stations budget cuts and police stations closed and all those sort of things that have talked about almost every day, know, and almost every day, you know, and when get that, then when you get that, then obviously one of the biggest problems now on the back of that as is that is the chipping as well is that is the chipping away at police. you know, and of course, know, have course, you know, police have got it wrong in many, many cases at moment. this at the moment. but this continued red brick chipping continued red brick of chipping away police is now away at the police is now causing a lack of recruitment and lack of recruitment and an and a lack of recruitment and an increase in retention. and these are the met have

are figures that the met have released government released and the government have released. know, released. and so, you know, if you want all that you want to put all that together there, then realistically what do get realistically what you do get is there's enough around there's not enough cops around and these protests. and now look at these protests. how cops are being used on how many cops are being used on that will the figures that and what will the figures be around police year? be around slow police next year? yeah exactly. >> the two worst areas apparently at birmingham, west where 13 hours and where you can wait 13 hours and thames valley as well, where supposedly you can wait 11 hours. presumably it's very disheartening police disheartening for the police as well, know, i do well, because, you know, i do know watch know police officers who watch and this show, for and listen to this show, for example, i think rightly, example, who i think rightly, quite annoyed sometimes because they hear stories like this, hear me banging about stories hear me banging on about stories like they go do you not like this and they go do you not understand that we are doing the very it is very best that we can? it is just resources thing . just a resources thing. >> yeah, it is. and i think , you >> yeah, it is. and i think, you know, these are the ones that you're waiting 13 hours for are not your emergency calls. the 909, you know, i've got to get there as quickly as possible. this is the next grade down. this is the next grade down. this is the next grade down. this is one where something this is the one where something has happened. there's no threat to know, perhaps to life. um, you know, perhaps it doesn't need that absolute

emergence response. but, but still, obviously those times are still, obviously those times are still very concerning because you that is a long, long you know that is a long, long time to especially if your time to wait, especially if your house been and house has been burgled and things insecure you're things are insecure and you're waiting forensics to come waiting for forensics to come and all that kind thing. so waiting for forensics to come and a itthat kind thing. so waiting for forensics to come and a it will kind thing. so waiting for forensics to come and a it will be d thing. so waiting for forensics to come and a it will be it's thing. so waiting for forensics to come and a it will be it's notng. so waiting for forensics to come and a it will be it's not great yeah, it will be it's not great to hear and cops aren't sitting there, you know, making the times trying to times longer. they are trying to get to call call in get from call to call to call in with now minimum number of people and with with the foresight really that it's going to get worse. >> yeah. look, simon, thank you very, very much. simon harding there. he's former senior investigating at the met investigating officer at the met police right. investigating officer at the met police right . okay. investigating officer at the met police right. okay. coming up, we'll be debating that woke and apologetic for their apologetic stance for their latest christmas advert. and promotional clip for it as well. when will any of this end? when will it end? never, i suspect, just kind of death spiral of wokery that we're in. but that and much, much more to bring you in just a tick. but right now it's the headlines with tatiana . it's the headlines with tatiana. patrick thank you. >> 533 this is the latest from

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christmas. but it was a promo for the advert that really got them into trouble. initially with the woke crowd as what appears to be the colours of the palestinian flag burning in the fireplace. can i just say again straight away that palestine does not have a monopoly on the colours red, white and green ? colours red, white and green? but the fact is that the advert was filmed back in august as well, and that didn't seem to make a difference to people who were crying out for a fence on all of this. m&s had to issue an apology because it looked like they were burning the palestinian didn't, palestinian flag. it didn't, by the nothing like the way, it looked nothing like they the they were burning the palestinian flag. but anyway, here's discuss. this is here's the discuss. this is rebecca deputy leader of rebecca jane, deputy leader of ukip, maya a ukip, and maya riaz is a publicity you, publicity coach. both of you, thank very much. thank you very, very much. rebecca, start with you . i rebecca, i'll start with you. i mean, was it for you? do mean, what was it for you? do you think? you think it was you think? do you think it was the wokery or apology ? the wokery or the apology? >> oh, crikey. that's a good question. actually, no, it's both for me because is both for me because it is clearly not them burning the flag in the slightest. obviously, like you just said,

you know, this was filmed back in august. they weren't to know what was going to happen . but what was going to happen. but then got m&s who are the then we've got m&s who are the ultimate apologises for everything that they seem to do. in my opinion, when you don't have the intent to cause offence, i don't understand why they are apologising. you know, at the end of the day you're there to sell a few jumpers, you're not there to be a political party, so keep yourself out of it because your customers are everybody . you're customers are everybody. you're going to offend somebody by pulling it or running with it. keep your nose out of it. make sure that everybody knows your intentions were good and carry on. >> on. >> maya, i think you might have a slightly different view. is that right? >> i do, yeah . okay. it was >> i do, yeah. okay. it was filmed in august, but it was released in the last few days, three weeks within when the whole nation knows the colours of the palestinian flag. >> so let's take the point of an advert, right? >> as a pr expert, i'm here to

talk about what an advert does and why it exists. it's there to maintain a brand's value and image . image. >> and so anything that is a misstep in that is going to harm an advert. so a brand's reputation. >> so an advert should do three things. >> it should align with the brand's value, it should resonate with the target audience and most importantly , audience and most importantly, it should avoid causing offence. >> so when tensions are high and when masses name has been brought into a variety of discussion with what's happening in israel and palestine in particular, where discussion about boycotting of products , i about boycotting of products, i am shocked. that has been brought into the public domain . brought into the public domain. like how could they not have thought about it? and if you think adverts can just finish when an advert is brought into the public domain , it goes the public domain, it goes through extensive process, a

review process both internally and externally and in the current climate , i think it was current climate, i think it was really damaging and it's a bit too little too late to remove it with an apology . with an apology. >> it's too late. gosh. okay i don't know. rebecca, what do you don't know. rebecca, what do you do you think that maybe people just thought these are the colours of christmas and that's that? yeah >> yeah. it's not like, you know, they weren't burning unusual colours and it was party hats, you know, let's not forget that. obviously, when we talk about a brand's reputation, i kind of look at it in a little bit of a different way. we apologise when we do something wrong. when they that wrong. when they did that advert, they do something advert, they didn't do something wrong. potentially wrong. you could potentially interpret that they're releasing it now. is something wrong? but actually their intention was never begin with. so if never there to begin with. so if they're now saying sorry for it, i don't believe their apology . i don't believe their apology. and furthermore, actually and furthermore, it actually damages their brand for me because actually i don't believe a word that you're saying now. and i'm going to believe a

and i'm not going to believe a word that you say in future either, because this is not a sincere apology, it, maya? sincere apology, is it, maya? >> if i went to your house or something and opened the bins and in that bin there was a something blue, white and red , something blue, white and red, and i accused you of chucking the british flag into a bin. and actually it just wasn't that at all. you'd probably think that was a bit ridiculous, wouldn't you? >> yes. and that's a different point here. when the tensions are high. yeah it is. when tensions are running high, when m&s is brought into a variety of conversations that are discussed earlier with boycotting what is that? >> what is that? >> what is that? >> why? >> why? >> just sorry, just go on educate because maybe your viewers and listeners don't know all about that. why is that? i i'm also not aware of that alignment. >> i just know online there's a lot of conversation about boycotting products that are unked boycotting products that are linked to israel. so, for example , i know starbucks ,

example, i know starbucks, mcdonald's and m&s name has been brought into that. so whether that's true or not, i'm not here to discuss that. i'm here to say that the reason i agree with rebecca, i don't believe that apology is not sincere. however they clearly felt it was wrong for them to remove it and it's not just about the colours. i agree. it's festive colours. i'm not disagreeing with that. but when we say seeing those colours all across our news screens, all across social media and then there's a burning of that along with the brand being brought into different conversations about boycotting, about being augned about boycotting, about being aligned with israel and palestine conflict. i think it was very silly of them to have let this go into the public domain . in let this go into the public domain. in i'm just going to go to youtube to come back to that. >> really. do you think there's maybe a danger of overthinking things and looking

things here and people looking for none was into for offence when none was into intended really . who you are . intended really. who you are. >> so was that rebecca. >> so was that rebecca. >> sorry. i think my mic cut out there. rebecca do you think that was a danger here? are people being too easily offended? yes absolutely. >> you know, we are turning into a nation of people who are easily offended and we raise our hands and go, oh my goodness, in constant perpetual outrage. you know, that's not the britain that we were all belong to today, you know, and that's not our traditional values . you our traditional values. you know, we need to do we do need to stop this whole woke culture and this constant state of offence. and like i said, i don't think that their apology is genuine in the slightest. i also don't think that they've realised that they've done anything wrong. i think they're just backing down. >> can i just the people that jump >> can i just the people that jump on something i just want jump in on something i just want to in on something because to jump in on something because a people shouting that, a lot of people shouting that, but actually you need to remember me who are remember people like me who are your as well. your customers as well. >> i think one the things

>> i think one of the things that maybe have been that maybe might have been alluding was the alluding to, maya was that the m&s was partly founded by a jewish man, right. and i think that's of this that's where a lot of this outrage is coming from, isn't it? whether or it? and i just wonder whether or not caved in to not they've caved in to anti—semitism. i'm here. >> well , i don't know. the >> well, i don't know. the history of m&s . however, what history of m&s. however, what i'm seeing is the conversation onune i'm seeing is the conversation online and the offence calls. yes. look is the offence apology and again is the offence. >> this is the thing is the offence not that that is a company that happened to have been founded by a jew and that i would argue that that's racism and that maybe the company has given to load of people who given in to a load of people who have decided to try to look for anything that happens to remotely resemble the palestinian and tries to palestinian flag and tries to bnng an palestinian flag and tries to bring an advert , maybe bring down an m&s advert, maybe because don't like jewish because they don't like jewish people or could people have felt that because it was founded by a jewish man? >> is taking offence to palestine ? so with that same palestine? so with that same argument , palestine? so with that same

argument, you can take it palestine? so with that same argument , you can take it across argument, you can take it across to the palestinians. so i think actually the burning of those , actually the burning of those, why do they need to burn those? you know, okay, if it was done in august , you know, okay, if it was done in august, put the colour orange in, there's more festive christmas colours . christmas colours. >> yeah. all right. >> yeah. all right. >> so ah, but in the current climate , with the tensions climate, with the tensions running as high as they are and you don't othennise keep it, keep the advert. why do they need to remove it? >> so rebecca, should we be, should we be changing? should we be changing everything to, to appeal to other people's cultural sensitivities? i mean , cultural sensitivities? i mean, they the name they already took the name christmas out of it. it's christmas. we can't less. i mean, grief. can you mean, good grief. can you imagine a second we imagine for a second if we acknowledge the birth of the baby jesus christian baby jesus in a christian country? terrible, country? it'd be terrible, wouldn't ? rebecca oh, has wouldn't it? rebecca oh, has frozen. all right, we're going to knock it on the head there. i've had enough of that, actually. rebecca james, deputy leader of ukip, and maya riaz, a publicity thank you very publicity coach. thank you very much, you. right. okay much, both of you. right. okay good just the mind good grief. i just the mind boggles me about all this

boggles for me about all of this stuff. just day in, day out. stuff. i just day in, day out. anyway, something much anyway, on to something much more more more positive. much more positive. you very positive. right thank you very much great british much to the great british public. because you have public. yes. because you have raised than £200,000 for raised more than £200,000 for the royal british legion . a the royal british legion. a staggering an staggering effort, an astonishing effort , a of astonishing effort, a bit of positivity of all of positivity in light of all of this weird lunacy that seems to be taking place at the moment. just giving.com/page, fonnard slash gb news poppy is where you can go to donate if you can afford it. £200,000 raised. amazing stuff . patrick christys.

people's. channel >> well , yes, i just wanted to >> well, yes, i just wanted to give another little cheeky plug, actually, because i've been meeting members of our armed forces today , all in aid of the forces today, all in aid of the p°ppy forces today, all in aid of the p°ppy appeal, forces today, all in aid of the poppy appeal, the royal british legion. i went and spoke to some wonderful earlier wonderful people earlier at westminster and westminster tube station and a man that you may recognise actually popped up as well. he was yesterday. was on the show yesterday. i think we can hear from andy now , think we can hear from andy now, can't we? the royal british legion's poppy appeal team. here we are at westminster station and viewers and and our regular viewers and listeners will recognise this wonderful it's andy wonderful face here. it's andy from the royal british legion's p°ppy from the royal british legion's p°ppy andy from the royal british legion's poppy andy why are poppy appeal team. andy why are you here today? >> thank you, patrick. lovely to see you again here. well, today, london poppy day. it's our biggest fundraising day the biggest fundraising day of the p°ppy biggest fundraising day of the poppy we're poppy appeal. and we're delighted today we've got delighted that today we've got over personnel in over 1000 military personnel in uniform london uniform have come into london with 1000 volunteer with over 1000 volunteer collectors as well. >> we're across 70 stations and transport we're hoping transport hubs, and we're hoping today raise over £1 million

today will raise over £1 million for the armed forces community that need our help. >> from the royal british legion. >> and just today, you think today is. >> yeah, we're obviously we're quite nervous about that that figure. really figure. but we're also really excited. got we've got all the >> we've got we've got all the volunteers in place, the public has generosity already this has the generosity already this morning been incredible . morning has been incredible. >> so we're across the whole of the london. and the network in london. and today, you know, today also, today, as you know, today also, we've got brand new the we've got our brand new the plastic free poppy , which is plastic free poppy, which is making its first appearance in the this year. and the poppy appeal this year. and everyone wears poppy everyone that wears the poppy today it really of shows today, it really kind of shows that care. what love that they care. and what i love today people are coming up to today is people are coming up to the armed forces and actually thanking for their service. thanking them for their service. so really, you gives so that really, you know, gives us warm feeling in our us a lovely warm feeling in our heart well. heart as well. >> congratulations on >> well, congratulations on everything. with everything. good luck with that £1 target. do our £1 million target. we'll do our best to and make best to try and make that possible well. we can. possible as well. if we can. well, £200,000 of that and the rest has already been rest actually has already been raised the wonderful gb news raised by the wonderful gb news viewers listeners, is viewers and listeners, which is a herculean effort. and if you do a little bit of spare do have a little bit of spare cash, then please to cash, then please go to justgiving .com fonnard slash

page justgiving .com fonnard slash page fonnard slash gb news poppy. giving .com fonnard poppy. just giving .com fonnard slash slash gb news slash page fonnard slash gb news poppy. and while i was there, i also opportunity to also had the opportunity to speak corporals who are speak to two corporals who are helping you have helping out today. you may have seen in the background seen them in the background there i was talking to there when i was talking to andy. corporal smallwood. >> just for a good cause. yeah, we're just selling poppies and trying raise some money. trying to raise some money. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> seems to be going >> and it seems to be going quite far. quite well so far. >> well. yeah. >> yeah, very well. yeah. >> yeah, very well. yeah. >> everyone's generous >> everyone's been generous today, so. yeah, it's been good. yeah. >> i'm a variety of different poppies as well, it must be poppies here as well, it must be said. so have we got here said. so what have we got here then? this is a then? so these are, this is a this your key rings and this is your key rings and you've just got your standard ones with your date on people, like collecting with the like collecting these with the date, year. date, get them every year. >> bit more expensive. >> but people have been buying these as well. it's been good. yeah, lovely. >> absolutely. and can i just bnng >> absolutely. and can i just bring well? that bring you in as well? is that all can i just get you all right? so can i just get you to introduce yourself as well? and just say, yeah, why? are and just say, yeah, why? why are you why is it so you here? what's why is it so important for you? so i'm dominic allen the royal lancers. >> so for me, exactly the

same. >> it's representing, you know, the regiment and the wider the regiment and also the wider for uk as well. for the uk as well. >> know, we're bringing >> you know, we're bringing remembrance keeping is very remembrance keeping it is very important especially, and remembrance keeping it is very irknowant especially, and remembrance keeping it is very irknow at especially, and remembrance keeping it is very irknow a lot especially, and remembrance keeping it is very irknow a lot of especially, and remembrance keeping it is very irknow a lot of people:ially, and remembrance keeping it is very irknow a lot of people in.ly, and remembrance keeping it is very irknow a lot of people in theind remembrance keeping it is very irknow a lot of people in the uk i know a lot of people in the uk as well. >> charles, can i ask you what made you sign up then? made you want to sign up then? because for someone like me, it's immense it's just shows an immense amount bravery and courage amount of bravery and courage and the sacrifices that you guys have potentially prepared to make. unreal. make. i find that unreal. >> yeah, it was just from a young age. >> just always wanted to join >> i just always wanted to join the army, really. >> and joined about, so i >> and i joined about, so i joined 2018 and just joined in 2018 and yeah, just something different yeah, something different and yeah, just, something different and yeah, jusiand what yourself? what >> and what about yourself? what was you? do you think was it for you? do you think that want to join? that made you want to join? because mean, just incredible because i mean, just incredible bravery. was it bravery. so for me, it was it was a family thing, really. >> i've i've had family serve in the i thought i'd try the past and i thought i'd try and carry the tradition. and carry on the tradition. >> and i'm very proud of it to do and why is it so important, >> and why is it so important, do you think, for people to donate little bit of money? donate a little bit of money? i mean, what it mean to you mean, what does it mean to you guys really? because you know, it's important, i suppose , for it's important, i suppose, for the public to show that they

really care because it must be difficult for you at time . difficult for you at time. >> yeah, especially times at the minute. very generous. >> i mean , a lot of people have >> i mean, a lot of people have donated today. and yeah, like i say, very generous. donated today. and yeah, like i say absolutely. ous. donated today. and yeah, like i sayabsolutely. and i'll just say >> absolutely. and i'll just say the same thing for you as well. you know, what does it mean when someone, you know, gives a little money because, little bit of money or because, you , it's difficult times you know, it's difficult times in this country at the minute and i don't always think that we show to chaps show enough gratitude to chaps like so suppose does like yourself. so i suppose does it it make you feel all it does it make you feel all right? it make you feel wanted? >> no. it's heartwarming. very i think it's heartwarming to see people know, keeping people still, you know, keeping up tradition of getting people still, you know, keeping up poppyadition of getting people still, you know, keeping up poppy going| of getting people still, you know, keeping up poppy going inf getting people still, you know, keeping up poppy going in remembrance . the poppy going in remembrance. >> it's can i just say >> it's good. can i just say thank you very much on behalf of all the gb news viewers and listeners, thank you very much for everything that you that you do for us keeping us safe do for us and keeping us safe out there. >> and massively, massively >> and it's massively, massively important. cheers. all right. important. so cheers. all right. take you. right. take care. thank you. right. well, giving fonnard well, just giving .com fonnard slash news well, just giving .com fonnard slash and news well, just giving .com fonnard slash and that news well, just giving .com fonnard slash and that total news well, just giving .com fonnard slash and that total now news well, just giving .com fonnard slash and that total now that; poppy and that total now that you have raised is very close, just shy of £210,000, £209,138.

never in a million years did anyone, i think, think when we set out to raise ten grand to begin with, to fill the void from a poppy seller in brighton who they couldn't replace, did any of us ever think that you would get to that astonishing figure? so thank you very much, everybody. are the everybody. you really are the very, of british very, very best of british michelle coming your michelle dewberry is coming your way shortly. be with way very shortly. she'll be with you the next hour, followed you for the next hour, followed as ever nigel farage and then as ever by nigel farage and then jacob rees—mogg. so make sure that it gb news this that you keep it gb news this evening. there really is no need to anywhere else. thank you to go anywhere else. thank you again everybody again for everybody who's donated and watched and listen to i will see you to this show, i will see you in a little bit. care. a little bit. take care. >> hello again, it's alex burkill here with latest gb burkill here with your latest gb news update. not news weather update. whilst not everywhere stormy everywhere saw the stormy weather, very wet and weather, it was very wet and very windy for some particularly southern parts due to storm. kieran however, that feature is now clearing its way into the north sea, still bringing some blustery very wet weather to blustery and very wet weather to eastern parts of the uk, particularly eastern scotland, north east england as we go through the night and into

friday here, we are going to see some heavy rain, clearer some further heavy rain, clearer skies towards the west and the south. and here under those clear skies , it is likely to clear skies, it is likely to turn little chilly . some turn a little chilly. some places get into your places could get into your low to mid single figures as we go through friday. then we are going to see further wet weather, particularly for eastern parts scotland and eastern parts of scotland and north—east could see north—east england. could see some further flooding here with more disruption to travel likely as elsewhere, as well. elsewhere, scattering of showers coming down on a north northwesterly wind. so particularly across parts of northern ireland, feeding northern ireland, but feeding into and wales as well. into england and wales as well. some sunny breaks in between the showers and likely to see showers and we're likely to see highs around 14 or 15 highs of around 14 or 15 celsius. so a touch higher than today the weekend . and today into the weekend. and saturday may start with some mist and fog patches, particularly in the north. then a swathe weather and a swathe of wet weather and strong winds pushes its way up from affecting many from the south, affecting many parts england wales. parts of england and wales. also, showery outbreaks also, some showery outbreaks across far north of scotland across the far north of scotland , something drier and , but something drier and brighter between. brighter in between. more showers as we go through sunday

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a refugee camp , is it? you tell a refugee camp, is it? you tell me. and have fallen foul of the offence brigade for showing . are offence brigade for showing. are you ready? trigger warning . are you ready? trigger warning. are you? sat down in a comfortable place. they've had the audacity. everyone to show some christmas colours as it is apparently deeply offensive because it seems to represent according to some anyway, the palestinian flag and those hats that were christmas colours were being burn . what is this country burn. what is this country literally going insane ? and literally going insane? and speaking of this country, whilst watching those christmas ads, personally i couldn't help but feel that they seem to be chipping away at our traditions and our culture and our family units. the wants needs and feelings of minority groups being prioritised over the majority. am i wrong .