november. of november. >> this is britain's newsroom on gb news. with me, tom hannood and emily carver. >> coming up today, uk in turmoil storm kiran leaves thousands without power and 80 flood warnings across the country are reporter geoff moody is in teignmouth . is in teignmouth. >> yes. well, the storm is over for now , but we are hearing of for now, but we are hearing of the clean up operation which will be taking place throughout the day. i'll be reporting live from teignmouth throughout the day . day. >> escape from gaza . 92 britons >> escape from gaza. 92 britons are expected to cross the border to egypt today as the idf continues its ground operations around gaza city. our security editor mark white will be here with the latest from southern israel . israel. >> and is remembrance day doomed? tens of thousands of pro—palestine demonstrators are planning to take to the streets of london on armistice day

saturday, november the 11th. should this be allowed ? should this be allowed? >> musk we talk about i well, at the end of the i summit, a rishi sunak rushed to down meet the world's richest man in lancashire , peter house and lancashire, peter house and discuss the future possibilities of this remarkable technology . of this remarkable technology. >> yes. and we're going to be speaking to security minister tom tugendhat in just a little moment. we'll be putting lots of those points to him today. please do email us, gbviews@gbnews.com with all of your thoughts , whatever they your thoughts, whatever they are. but first, let's get your headunes. headlines. >> good morning . it's 931. i'm >> good morning. it's 931. i'm sophia wenzler in the newsroom . sophia wenzler in the newsroom. the israeli military says it's surrounded gaza city with prime minister benjamin netanyahu

saying forces are at the height of the battle. further advances in the offensive against hamas. look set to involve urban warfare against an enemy fighting back with hit and run attacks from underground tunnels . israel's assault is complicated by the humanitarian situation and the more than 240 hostages still held by the terrorist group. that'll be the focus of antony blinken's visit to the region . the us secretary to the region. the us secretary of state is back in tel aviv, where he's expected to press mr netanyahu to agree to a humanitarian pause in fighting . humanitarian pause in fighting. gb news understands up to 100 british nationals trapped in gaza have been approved to travel through the rafah crossing into egypt today . the crossing into egypt today. the border is expected to open again for limited evacuations . dozens for limited evacuations. dozens of flood warnings remain in place across the country after the damage and disruption of storm. karen. almost 90 flood warnings are in effect with 235 flood alerts in parts of eastern scotland and england are being warned to expect heavy rain and

strong winds today and into saturday. nearly 150,000 homes were left without power on thursday, with around 11,000 still affected . meanwhile, all still affected. meanwhile, all schools on jersey remain closed, with people urged to stay at home. a woman has appeared in an australian court charged with the murder of three elderly people who were suspected to have died after eating poisonous mushrooms. aaron patterson is alleged to have hosted a lunch in july at her home in a small rural town in the state of victoria . police believe she victoria. police believe she served beef wellington, which may have contained deathcap mushrooms ex—husband, who mushrooms. her ex—husband, who was at the lunch, was present at the lunch, survived. however, his mother, father and aunt all died in hospital. she's been charged with three counts of murder and five of attempted murder . and five of attempted murder. and you can get more on all those stories by visiting our website, gb news.com stories by visiting our website, gbnews.com now it's back to tom and . emily

and. emily >> thank you. and very good morning to you. this is britain's newsroom here on gb news. now storm kieran has swept across the british isles and the channel islands , leaving roofs channel islands, leaving roofs torn off, homes and cars smashed out by, quote, golfball sized hailstones. >> hai lstones. >> yes, hailstones. >> yes, gusts of up to 100mph were recorded yesterday, almost 20,000 homes and businesses across the uk went without power at lunchtime . at lunchtime. >> well, the met office says it will continue to impact scotland and parts of northern england and parts of northern england and the damage will be long lasting. >> yes . so let's go live now to >> yes. so let's go live now to jeff moody who's in teignmouth. geoff thank you very much indeed for joining us. it looks like forjoining us. it looks like the calm after the storm where you are . you are. >> what a difference a day makes. just have a look at that sea. it's absolutely beautiful today. gorgeous sunshine , a today. gorgeous sunshine, a total and utter contrast to

yesterday. well storm kieran has now moved away . it's up in the now moved away. it's up in the north sea somewhere . it's now north sea somewhere. it's now the clean up operation. you can see here that people are out in force cleaning up the debris. just to give you an idea of the sort of debris i'm talking about, you can see that what this wall has done, apologies if you're on radio. basically, you're on the radio. basically, the have totally knocked the waves have totally knocked this over and the slabs and this wall over and the slabs and the paving stones, too. and if we walk up this way a little bit more, you can see quite substantial damage over here where the seatings are. and that gives you some idea of the force of those waves. still plenty of flood warnings in place , 88 flood warnings in place, 88 flood warnings in place, 88 flood warnings in place, 88 flood warnings along the south coast. flood warnings along the south coast . and 220 flood alerts. coast. and 220 flood alerts. that's they're dotted all over the country . so it's not over the country. so it's not over yet. but you can see on the pier the damage there, quite considerable damage with the high wind and waves. so yes,

still some flood alerts in place , but the worst of it was in jersey and in parts of cornwall. but basically, i think all in all, we've come out of it quite well. some damage to people's properties, some damage to people's roofs, some damage to pubuc people's roofs, some damage to public spaces . but so far, public spaces. but so far, fingers crossed, we're not heanng fingers crossed, we're not hearing of anything more serious. it could have been a lot worse . yes. lot worse. yes. >> no, certainly. and i suppose a knocked down wall is much, much preferable to any loss of life, which correct me if i'm wrong, geoff, but i don't believe we have heard any reports of . reports of. >> no, we haven't at all, which is very good, certainly compared to the storm a couple of weeks ago. yes we haven't heard of any reports of one man had hypothermia where he got stuck in his car. he tried to drive over a flooded road and the car broke down and he was stranded for a good period of time and he had hypothermia. but so far, that's all we're hearing. so, yes, good news.

>> well, thank you very much indeed. jeff moody there live from the devon coast line. and luckily, as we just said, no lives lost , but luckily, as we just said, no lives lost, but quite a lot of damage there in teignmouth anyway. israel says its forces have completed the encircle of gaza city as it continues to strike hamas militants in populated areas, with a spokesman calling it another significant stage in this war. yes >> so meanwhile, in the south, civilians have continued to pass through the rafah crossing in egypt with 982 britons expected to cross across the crossing today as israel surrounds gaza city. of today as israel surrounds gaza city. of course . city. of course. >> well, we'll be speaking to the security minister, tom tugendhat, in just one moment, but we are joined in the studio by conservative mp and fellow gb news presenter philip davies. thank much for thank you very much indeed for joining of british joining us. lots of british nationals trapped in gaza . we nationals trapped in gaza. we have seen there's been the go ahead for them to leave. when will this start? do you have any insight? >> no, i don't. i'm sure i'm

sure tom will be in a better position to comment than me. but obviously it's good news that people are being people are actually being allowed that trapped in allowed out that were trapped in gaza. obviously that british gaza. and obviously that british nationals think qatar nationals are, i think qatar have played a quite an important role in brokering this of role in brokering this kind of agreement, which sort of is part of their sort of growing influence on the diplomatic world stage that this crisis has brought about. so, yeah, that's good news. hopefully more, more and more innocent people will be able to get out of what the horrific situation that's going on in gaza. >> and it is fascinating because so often in this conversation, we keep hearing about gaza and the problems there and that israel is almost entirely to blame for that. but but, of course, the rafah crossing is with egypt. egypt has decided to keep that crossing closed for weeks and weeks and weeks despite what's going on in gaza. should we not be focussed a bit more on president sisi and his decisions that he's been making?

is this not to some extent a greater egyptian problem than the israeli one? >> yeah, i think there should be a lot more focus on on egypt and their and their role in this. but of course, what the egyptians, everybody acts in their own national interest. and of course, know, the of course, you know, the question people ask is, question people should ask is, well, egypt well, why have egypt so reluctant to open this crossing? and course, the reason why and of course, the reason why egypt so reluctant to open egypt is so reluctant to open the crossing is because they fear that some of the hamas terrorists the terrorists will use the opportunity get over the opportunity to get over the border than civilians . border rather than be civilians. so it will be an opportunity for the terrorists get into the terrorists to get out into egypt, which the last thing egypt, which is the last thing that they want. and they fear a lot of the organised crime that often comes along that. so often comes along with that. so you yes, i mean , in you know, yes, i mean, in a humanitarian situation when you need everybody doing their bit to try and help people out. but you know, you've also got to respect the fact that the egyptians are looking after their own national interests and you can understand their reluctance to something reluctance to open up something which abused by hamas which may be abused by hamas terrorists then leave the

terrorists who then leave the civilians in gaza. >> well, philip, just stay there for a moment, because we do now have the security minister, tom tugendhat, who joins us live from central london, live from the home office, i believe. tom, first of all, this has taken a long, long time to get this rafah crossing open. and i suppose it's a welcome move that it is open. but why has it taken three weeks ? three weeks? >> well, look, it's really very complicated crossing to open for exactly the reasons that philip was talking about there, which is that egypt and israel both need to agree and both sides are, of course, concerned about the possible departure of individuals who wouldn't be approved for travel. and that's approved for travel. and that's a matter of concern for everybody. what we've done , what everybody. what we've done, what the prime minister, the foreign secretary and many us have secretary and many of us have been is speaking to been doing is speaking to colleagues and partners in the region and in organisations that can to help open the rafah

can help to help open the rafah crossing, to look after british people, because, you know, the prime british prime aim of the british government protection of government is the protection of the that's the british people and that's what working on. what we're working on. >> tom, i'd like to ask you about protests over about potential protests over remembrance weekend, particularly on armistice day on saturday, the 11th of november. huge amount of concern over potential disruption due to pro—palestine marches. i understand that you have actually written to the mayor of london, the met police westminster council, asking that these protests be banned. the pro—palestine protests be banned from the area on that day. your colleague , henry smith, he says colleague, henry smith, he says that the military should be involved if needed. what do you say to that ? say to that? >> well, the military will be involved , of course, because involved, of course, because many military people will be marching, will be on duty in bands or in other roles. and many of us are the old and bold, as it's called , and getting as it's called, and getting older by the day certainly will

be around because this is a moment when many of us will be getting together and standing with friends who we fought side by side with. and now we'll be remembering those friends who didn't make it home. and so it's a day of great pride for a lot of us. but it's also a day of grief. so i hope my concerns are registered. and i know that chris philp and the home secretary and others have also raised concerns. and an raised concerns. and it's an important for all as a important moment for us all as a country for and many of us, the cenotaph ground. cenotaph is sacred ground. so let's that . let's remember that. >> i meant i meant in terms of policing the protests. if there is disruption, do you have faith that the police will manage this in an appropriate way. >> look, i hope that the police will make any requests that they need for any extra support that they they want from from whoever they they want from from whoever they need it. you know, at times like this, it's not unusual for other police forces to support the met. it's a it's a big day. there's a lot of pressure on them. but this is really a policing event. it's not a

military sense. military event in that sense. it's a it's an event for the it's not a it's an event for the military. but it's but it's a the security is provided best provided really by the police. so i hope matt ask for the so i hope matt will ask for the resources they need. >> you say to those who >> what do you say to those who say that british servicemen and women who fought in various wars have fought for the very freedoms that are now exercised by people who may want to say say things that might be viewed as distasteful, that might be viewed as inappropriate. but after all, it was the people that we honour this weekend who fought for their right to do so . fought for their right to do so. >> well, you're absolutely right, tom. i mean, you know, those of us who were lucky enough to wear the queen's uniform or now the king's uniform or now the king's uniform served in order to protect the freedoms that we enjoy. and those are freedoms under the law. let's not forget. and what we need to do is to and so what we need to do is to make sure that everybody is exercising their freedoms and freedom of is one of freedom of speech is one of those in order to be able to

enjoy. you know what's wonderful about the united about living in the united kingdom? what's wonderful about being british? think we being british? and i think we can that. and i think the can do that. and i think the policing does do that. what it does individual does is it protects individual rights speech and rights to freedom of speech and protest, it also protects protest, but it also protects the rights of others to be quiet and remember and to have that and to remember and to have that moment of grief that we share. >> so, tom, just to clarify, you don't believe the protests should banned altogether on should be banned altogether on armistice day, but that they should be moved elsewhere and made sure that they don't interrupt or disrupt military remembrance ? remembrance? >> look, i think the priority has to be to allow people to have that moment of grief, that moment of national mourning that we share together on the 11th of november at 11:00. and of course, on remembrance sunday, as well. and i think that's that's absolutely where the focus should be. of course, there are rights to protest at other of course, other times. of course, it's right people express right that people should express their views freely . but what's their views freely. but what's also right is others have also right is that others have the right to come together and

to quiet to be still. for to be quiet and to be still. for those minutes, which really those two minutes, which really unite us as a country and remind us the huge sacrifices paid us of the huge sacrifices paid by many. us of the huge sacrifices paid by now,|ny. us of the huge sacrifices paid by now, of. us of the huge sacrifices paid by now, of course , something >> now, of course, something that was crucial to the war effort 70 years ago was bletchley park. and over the last two days, we've seen the most monumental summit of world leaders represent countries from the united states to china coming together in the united kingdom and agreeing some foundational work on a global system of ai regulation on. but it all ended in a curious way last night as we dashed down to lancaster house, where the prime minister interviewed the richest man in the world. why did rishi sunak sit down with elon musk last night? >> so elon is one of those remarkable people in the world who has genuinely transformed . who has genuinely transformed. and two industries, one is the electrical vehicle industry and the other is the rocketing industry. and is now involved in

artificial intelligence. so i think the prime minister was doing absolutely the right thing and something that he's and something that frankly, he's pretty qualified to do pretty uniquely qualified to do amongst leaders , which is amongst world leaders, which is to not only our country to prepare not only our country but countries around the world for this global revolution, that artificial will artificial intelligence will bring. mean, tom, you know bring. i mean, tom, you know that even now people that there are even now people working ways of having working on ways of having targeted medicines to treat your cancer or not mine or to treat, you know, the way that you might need muscle regeneration or whatever. there are also whatever. and there are also different in people different ways in which people are use ai different ways in which people are use al to improve are trying to use al to improve education. in patch, there's education. in my patch, there's a fantastic school called hillview uses the arts and hillview that uses the arts and music to teach people maths and english, and there are any number of different individual ways we learn better. well, artificial intelligence will make even more accessible, make that even more accessible, even possible. so having even more possible. so having rishi and elon talking together about the possibilities and the hopes for the future i think is fantastic and demonstrates that this event in bletchley is going to be one of the things that the government is remembered for, not in 5 or 10 years time, but in 20 or 50.

>> tom it was a it was a little bit deferential, wasn't it? it was a of a it was a bit of a was a bit of a it was a bit of a love in. he said, you're known for being such a brilliant innovator and technologist and it's a privilege and it's been a huge privilege and pleasure you here. this pleasure to have you here. this is of rishi sunak icons , is one of rishi sunak icons, isn't it, guys , look, you're isn't it, guys, look, you're polite to your interviewers , polite to your interviewers, aren't you? >> i mean, when you when you when you when you're interviewing people, you're very often often often you're very often courteous . it shouldn't courteous to them. it shouldn't be that prime be surprising that the prime minister's to minister's courteous to elon musk and yeah, i mean, he's an inspirational guy in many ways for many people. mean, he he for many people. i mean, he he certainly raises he raises pubuc certainly raises he raises public opinion in various different but he's different ways. but what he's done transformed two done is he's transformed two major industries. that's a remarkable achievement. he's remarkable achievement. and he's done and now is approaching done so and now is approaching artificial intelligence in a way thatis artificial intelligence in a way that is open and is engaged and that is open and is engaged and thatis that is open and is engaged and that is looking for the ways that is looking for the ways that we protect ourselves as well we open up the well as we open up the opportunities think what opportunities and i think what rishi with the ai rishi has done with the ai safety summit, think the safety summit, i think what the prime is doing is prime minister is doing is making that britain is

making sure that britain is front and centre of the regulations of the safety script, that will script, if you like, that will keep all safe and getting keep us all safe and getting elon also getting elon to help, but also getting people mustafa sleiman people like mustafa sleiman and demis and course the demis hassabis and of course the people actually brought people who've actually brought this clifford and this together, matt clifford and ian hogarth is a fantastic achievement . you know, we're achievement. you know, we're demonstrating britain demonstrating that britain is not just of the world's not just one of the world's great countries. it great ai countries. and it really we're up there with really is. we're up there with the united states and china as the united states and china as the world's greatest ai powers, but also setting the rules but we're also setting the rules for demonstrating for the future and demonstrating that we're ready the that we're ready to set the agenda for others to follow. >> it was remarkable to see >> now, it was remarkable to see ian hogarth last night chatting with will.i.am in the audience of the of the conversation between between the prime minister and elon musk. but i do wonder that conversation did start looking to the very long term, did start talking about things such as a universal high income , a world where no one has income, a world where no one has to work is this getting a bit too highfalutin for what the prime minister might be better

fixed on, which is the issues that matter in the here and now, rather than in 50 or 100 years time . time. >> i think one of the things that nobody will ever say about the prime minister is that he doesn't do the detail on the here and now. he really, really does. a guy who really puts does. he's a guy who really puts the work in today. and i the work in today. and so i think it's amazing skill to think it's an amazing skill to be to put in the work on be able to put in the work on today whatever we need for today on whatever we need for today's economy, for today's health today's health care, for today's security , and also have security, and also to have a vision for the future and i think having balance is think having that balance is incredibly important. the incredibly important. what the prime minister doing with, incredibly important. what the primtwithlister doing with, incredibly important. what the primtwith elon, doing with, incredibly important. what the primtwith elon, but)ing with, incredibly important. what the primtwith elon, but also, /ith, incredibly important. what the primtwith elon, but also, asi, incredibly important. what the primtwith elon, but also, as you okay with elon, but also, as you rightly put it, ian is doing it with will.i.am, is being able to set out the or to think about the future with visionaries who have imagination and drive and have imagination and drive and have demonstrated again and again that they're very often ahead of the curve. >> well, thank you very much indeed your time, security indeed for your time, security minister tugendhat. minister tom tugendhat. thanks very for speaking to us very much for speaking to us this morning on britain's newsroom. thank you very much. so shall bring in philip

so shall we bring in philip davies ? davies? >> yeah, philip, what did you make that? it was very make of that? it was very interesting, i don't interesting, the sort of i don't know, almost, almost extra deference towards elon musk. it makes me think is the united kingdom government trying to get something out of elon musk? he's announced he's building these gigafactory, he's building batteries germany . do want batteries in germany. do we want one these in the uk to one of these here in the uk to say, well, any investment would be welcome in that regard? >> think it's about >> i don't think it's about that. i mean, rishi is that kind of person. i mean, you know, a tech geek. yeah, i think he's a bit of a tech geek, which i am not, but he's also, you not, but but he's also, you know, think the thing with know, i think the thing with rishi very interesting rishi is he's very interesting what other think. mean, what other people think. i mean, he's like that he's he's always been like that when was chancellor he was when he was chancellor he was very to colleagues very keen to speak to colleagues about they thought should about what they thought should be happening. and that kind be happening. and he's that kind of so i think was of person. so i think it was just character he was just in character what he was doing. think was with doing. i don't think he was with any ulterior i wouldn't any ulterior motive. i wouldn't read into it. but, you read too much into it. but, you know, look , we rely this in know, look, we rely in this in this country , in every country this country, in every country relies on its leaders, not just looking what's in political

looking at what's in political advantage for the next election, but looking at what's in the strategic interest of the of the country think this is one country. and i think this is one of those issues isn't of those issues that isn't really do much good really going to do much good for the conservative party at the next general election. but it is important future important for the future strategic of the strategic interests of the country , and think he should country, and i think he should be for that. be commended for that. >> tom sort of swerved my question about question really about the military being brought in to prevent pro—palestine protests from escalating on armistice day. he said , oh, well, of day. he said, oh, well, of course the military will be there for proceedings. of course, for the for the events. he also stopped short of saying that it should be banned. these marches remembrance marches over the remembrance weekend . what do you think ? do weekend. what do you think? do you trust that the police can manage these protests? because we have seen, unfortunately, there have extremes present there have been extremes present at recent protests . yes. at recent protests. yes. >> now, well, i'm not sure that they are capable of i mean, we've had much smaller protests that the police really haven't been able to police effective fully for one reason or another, have been seemed to be sort of

shy away from getting involved in they feared that the in case they feared that the situation inflamed by situation would be inflamed by getting involved. if getting involved. well, if there's there's be there's if there's going to be they a million they want a million people there, whether they'll get that or not a different kettle of or not is a different kettle of fish. going to be fish. but if there's going to be a bigger crowd, it's a much bigger crowd, it's difficult to see how the metropolitan going to metropolitan police are going to control than they have control it more than they have in the previous demonstrations. so is legitimate so i think there is a legitimate doubt that. personally, doubt about that. personally, i think power, think whoever has the power, there's a bit of a dispute as to who has the power to cancel this protest, it's home protest, whether it's the home secretary of london secretary or the mayor of london or metropolitan or the metropolitan commissioner. i don't who commissioner. i don't know who it but whoever it is, i it is, but whoever it is, i think they should exercise that power. absolutely take tom's power. i absolutely take tom's point about that . we fought for point about that. we fought for people's freedom to protest. i'm all for people having the freedom to protest . but also you freedom to protest. but also you should have to you should respect the freedom of people who don't want to protest and they want to go about their their as well. their their business as well. their their business as well. their their rights are just as important. that important. and i think that there's opportunity there's plenty of opportunity for protest. we've for people to protest. we've already of palestinian

already had lots of palestinian protest marches and demonstrations, whatever, and they them the week after they can do them the week after they can do them the week after the week that if they the week after that if they wish. i think don't think it's wish. i think i don't think it's unreasonable for the powers that be to say actually on this weekend, you are not going be weekend, you are not going to be allowed this protest allowed to do this protest because going to because we're going to concentrate on concentrate everything on the act remembrance that act of remembrance that is really important how really important to remember how these freedoms were won and why they're so important. and i don't think it's really unreasonable for anybody to say, let this weekend be sacred protest the following week if you want to, but not this weekend. whoever weekend. and whoever has the power protests power to stop these protests should exercise that power. >> do you think one of the worries of police is that worries of the police is that they don't really believe in their authority to some their own authority to some extent, that if they were to say you can't protest, extent, that if they were to say you can't protest , they extent, that if they were to say you can't protest, they might worry that a few thousand people might go on the streets anyway . might go on the streets anyway. and then what do they do? how do they balance that situation ? they balance that situation? >> so i think the police are slightly cowed. i think i think there's a debilitating culture in the police generally that people feel that it's better not

to make a bad decision than it is to make a good decision. and they try and avoid making any decisions at all because they feel that if make a feel that if they make a decision and something happens, nobody will back them up. and so i kind of i think there is that kind of debilitating culture in the police. you know, look, the police. but, you know, look, the job of police is to police job of the police is to police without and to without fear or favour. and to just the law is, just whatever the law is, exercise the law . and that's exercise the law. and that's that's what we should expect to police. too much to ask police. it's not too much to ask and too much to ask of and it's too not much to ask of senior police officers to back rank and file officers. thank you much indeed. you very much indeed. >> davies there. we'll >> philip davies there. we'll continue after continue this conversation after the good morning. the break. good morning. >> alex burkill here again >> it's alex burkill here again with your latest gb news weather update. whilst it won't be anywhere as it anywhere near as stormy as it was yesterday , for many us, was yesterday, for many of us, there is still some unsettled weather particularly weather around, particularly across eastern parts of scotland. north east england, a deep area of low pressure that was is now bringing some was kieran is now bringing some heavy rain and some strong winds here. we could see some further flooding and disruption to travel given how wet has been travel given how wet it has been in area during recent

in this area during recent weeks. also, a scattering of showers mainly coming showers elsewhere, mainly coming in from the north—west. some of them could be heavy and thundery, but sunny spells thundery, but with sunny spells in the south, we're in between in the south, we're likely to see highs around 14 likely to see highs of around 14 or 15 celsius, further showers continuing as go through the continuing as we go through the evening and overnight. still some of could be heavy, some of them could be heavy, couldn't rule out some rumbles of thunder, mainly areas of thunder, mainly in areas exposed westerly exposed to that north westerly wind towards the end of wind and then towards the end of the night, some persistent rain and starting and strong winds starting to push into southwest. we push into the far southwest. we may see a few mist and fog patches developing further north and could be a little chilly and it could be a little chilly where any clear skies where we see any clear skies developing well through developing as well through saturday itself. then any mist and fog will clear through the morning this swathe of morning and then this swathe of wet spills its wet and windy weather spills its way northwards across many parts of england and wales. something drier to the north of it, though some showery rain across the far north scotland and heavy north of scotland and heavy showers in in the showers following in in the south. and these could cause some as we go through some impacts as we go through the afternoon and the evening across south eastern parts, temperatures today

temperatures similar to today likely of around likely to see highs of around

>> good morning. it's 10 am. on friday, the 3rd of november. this is britain's newsroom with me, emily carver and tom hannood coming up on the show , escape coming up on the show, escape from gaza. >> 92 britons are expected to cross the border to egypt today as israel surrounds gaza city . as israel surrounds gaza city. in the north. mark white has the

latest from the gaza border . latest from the gaza border. well the us secretary of state, antony blinken, has just arrived in israel . in israel. >> he has met with prime minister benjamin netanyahu, calling for humanitarian pauses. but no let up in the bombardment here. looking over into northern gaza , uk, in turmoil as storm gaza, uk, in turmoil as storm kieran leaves thousands without power. >> 80 flood warnings across the country are reporter jeff moody is covering the cleanup efforts the day after the storm. >> storm kieran is over but the cleanup operation is just beginning . cleanup operation is just beginning. is cleanup operation is just beginning . is remembrance day beginning. is remembrance day doomed ? doomed? >> tens of thousands of propane palestine demonstrators are planning to take to the streets of london this weekend. is it appropriate for musk ? appropriate for musk? >> we talk about i at the end of the i summit, rishi sunak rushed down to meet the world's richest man in lancaster house and discuss the future possibilities of this remarkable technology

that's not elon musk, that's not elon unless he's aged quite lot. >> i think that's antonio gutierrez, who's in charge of the . the. un and of course, we want your views and opinions on all of the topics that we're talking about today. what do you make of the i armageddon and should palestinian protesters be allowed to march throughout armistice day? get in touch, gb views at cbnnews.com . but before views at cbnnews.com. but before all of that, here's your morning headunes all of that, here's your morning headlines with sophia . headlines with sophia. >> good morning. it's 10:01 >> good morning. it's10:01 o'clock. i'm sophia wenzler in the newsroom . the israeli the newsroom. the israeli military claims it has encircled gaza city with prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying forces are at the height of the battle

while further advances in the offensive against hamas look set to involve urban warfare against an enemy fighting back with hit and run tactics from underground tunnels. israel's assault is also complicated by the humanitarian situation and more than 240 hostages still held by the terrorist group. that'll be the terrorist group. that'll be the focus of antony blinken's visit to the region . the us visit to the region. the us secretary of state is back in tel aviv, where he's expected to press mr netanyahu to agree to a humanity pause in fighting . gb humanity pause in fighting. gb news understands up to 100 british nationals trapped in gaza have been approved to travel through the rafah crossing into egypt today. the border expected open again border is expected to open again for limited evacuations . for limited evacuations. palestinian officials more palestinian officials say more than 700 foreign nationals have crossed in the past two days include dozens of critically injured people . and it comes as injured people. and it comes as hezbollah's leader is set to make his first public comments since hamas and israel went to war. the powerful iranian backed terrorist group has been

engaging israeli forces along the lebanon border, firing rockets and using explosive drones . israel is responding drones. israel is responding with airstrikes and tanks warning hezbollah against opening a second war front. warning hezbollah against opening a second war front . the opening a second war front. the metropolitan police say it will use its powers to stop the disruption of remembrance weekend commemorations amid ongoing pro—palestinian protests . this tens of thousands have demonstrated others calling for an immediate ceasefire in israel's attacks on gaza planned to march in london on armistice day . there are fears the day. there are fears the protests could disrupt the two minute silence that commemorates those who've died at war. the met says officers will be deployed across the capital in what's being described as a significant policing and security operation. security minister tom tugendhat told gb news that people have the right to protest, but the focus should remain on remembrance. >> i think the priority has to be to allow people to have that moment of grief, that moment of national mourning that we share together on the 11th of november at 11:00, and of course, on

remembrance sunday as well. and i think that's that's absolutely where focus be. where the focus should be. of course, are rights to course, there are rights to protest at other times. of course, it's right people course, it's right that people should their views should express their views freely. but what's also right is that have the right to that others have the right to come together and to be quiet and to be still for those two minutes, which really unite us as a country and us of as a country and remind us of the sacrifices paid by the huge sacrifices paid by so many dozens flood warnings many dozens of flood warnings will remain in place across the country after the damage and disruption of storm. >> karen almost 90 flood warnings are in effect with more than 235 flood alerts as parts of eastern scotland and england are being warned to expect heavy rain and strong winds today and into saturday. scottish rail says full service has been returned at edinburgh waverley station after a signalling fault caused major disruption on zaralena jackson . murderer has zaralena jackson. murderer has won a bid to reduce the minimum term of his life sentence . term of his life sentence. jordan mcsweeney killed the 35 year old law graduate as she walked home from a night out in

east london last june. walked home from a night out in east london lastjune. mcsweeney who refused to attend his sentencing hearing last december, was handed a life sentence with a minimum of 38 years term . the court of appeal years term. the court of appeal ruled that this was too high and has reduced it to 33. a woman has reduced it to 33. a woman has appeared in an australian court charged with the murder of three elderly people who were suspected to have died after eating poisonous mushroom . as eating poisonous mushroom. as aaron patterson is alleged to have hosted a lunch in july at her home in a small rural town in the state of victoria. police believe she served beef wellington, which may have contained mushrooms . contained deathcap mushrooms. her ex—husband, was present her ex—husband, who was present at the lunch, survived. however, his mother, father aunt all his mother, father and aunt all died in hospital. she's been charged with three counts of murder and five of attempted murder and five of attempted murder . there's been a sharp murder. there's been a sharp increase in the number of jellyfish spotted around the uk and irish coasts. the marine conservation society says sightings are up 32% compared to last year, with 11% seen in large blooms of 100 or more. it's understood the increase

could be due to the changing temperatures of our oceans. but experts say more research is needed. experts say more research is needed . this is gb news across needed. this is gb news across the uk on tv in your car , on the uk on tv in your car, on your digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play gb news now it's back to tom and . emily >> thanks sophia. it is 1006 in the morning. north britain's newsroom on gb news with tom hannood and me, emily carver well, let's have a little look at what you have been saying at home and a lot of people have been writing in on this issue of the armistice day protests. >> lynn says says, i believe anyone interrupts the armistice day parade should be heavily punished. despicable >> well, it's interesting because john's written in and he may be in the minority this morning. he says the right to protest is fundamental. the march should go ahead and think about the feelings of the descendants of those

palestinians who fought with the british during world war ii and so on. wouldn't it be great if the organisers the protest the organisers of the protest marched matching israeli marched behind matching israeli and palestinian flags? utopia the question mark? perhaps john yes . yes. >> no, i think i think i think the day that protesters will march behind israeli and palestinian flags together seems a little bit further away. in the last three weeks than perhaps it did for any time since the camp david summit in back in the year 2000, when, of course, the palestinians walked away from the prospect of a two state solution. and tom tugendhat, we spoke to him earlier, security minister, he stopped short , didn't he, tom, stopped short, didn't he, tom, of saying pro palestine protests should be banned in london on armistice day . armistice day. >> but he made clear that he thought it was disrespectful if they intervened, if they interfered . interfered. >> but i think but i think that's the right thing to point out that we should allow disrespectful things in this

country. i don't i don't feel comfortable to say that you shouldn't be able to go on the street and say something that's very different from being able to lie in the road and block a car that i think is not a legal thing to do. but but but to go and march sort of and say your bit , i think and march sort of and say your bit, i think it would be flying in the face of those who died for the liberties of this country to not allow that. i mean , there are countries around mean, there are countries around the world that you can't taste in and there they're they're communist china and they're ayatollah led iran. >> i'm i'm not sure about that, tom. it's not as if there haven't been many pro—palestinian marches in the last few weeks . surely one day last few weeks. surely one day it could be prevented. >> well, i think i think clearly the compromise, if they didn't want to do it on armistice day. yeah, well , i think the yeah, well, i think the compromise here is don't do it near whitehall, don't do it near the where we're having the the place where we're having the solemn, sacred respect as we

should want off should if they want to go off and a in a distant and do it in a in a distant corner of london, then fair dos. yes >> well, christine says the march should stopped. it's an march should be stopped. it's an insult to our fallen soldiers. a lot of people would agree with you, keep your you, christine. but keep your views coming in at home. we want to them, said about to read them, mark said about the he said yesterday's the storm. he said yesterday's storm, miraculous storm, it's miraculous that nobody seriously injured or nobody was seriously injured or killed you go, killed were. there you go, silver lining to all of that awful , awful weather. awful, awful weather. >> was also praising the >> he was also praising the accuracy of weather warnings , accuracy of weather warnings, which don't often hear, which which we don't often hear, which we often hear. the we do not often hear. the weather terrible weather warnings have a terrible reputation , but i do think in reputation, but i do think in the last decade or so, they actually have got really rather good. and the one thing that i found is that when i have travelled countries that are travelled to countries that are less than the uk , the less developed than the uk, the weather warnings are terrible and you just cannot rely . the and you just cannot rely. the only thing that made me think actually are are weather forecasting is pretty good in this country is saying how bad it is in some other countries. >> well there we go. something to for. we know when to be grateful for. we know when a is about to hit at

least. >> well, the us top diplomat, the secretary of state, antony blinken, has arrived in israel to push for humanitarian pauses as the idf says its forces have completed the encirclement of gaza city, calling it another significant stage in this war. >> yes. meanwhile in the south, civilians have continued to pass through the rafah crossing. in egypt, the foreign office is able to a number of able to confirm a number of british nationals are among them i >> well, let's go live now to mark who on the ground mark white, who is on the ground on the border. mark we on the gaza border. mark we understand that antony blinken has met with the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu. what is the primary purpose of these discussions today . these discussions today. >> well, clearly , uppermost in >> well, clearly, uppermost in the minds of antony blinken and the minds of antony blinken and the us government is the ongoing situation as far as civilians trapped in gaza is concerned. now while the us government, of course, continues to support israel's right to defend itself.

what antony blinken is just trying to reiterate once again to benjamin netanyahu is that as a democra ac israel has a responsibility to look after civilians as well. now of course, benjamin netanyahu will point out that they have time and again asked people to leave gaza, told them that in northern gaza, told them that in northern gaza, you should move south because of what was about to follow. and hundreds of thousands of people have chosen not to do that. they've chosen to stay in northern gaza while all the israeli military push in down towards gaza city and that stronghold of hamas and that means when israel are called in to carry out airstrikes to support those ground troops , support those ground troops, they are going to target hamas positions . and they say that positions. and they say that hamas is well dug in to the civilian population, very cynically so . and as such, they

cynically so. and as such, they then there is no doubt that civilians are going to suffer. and as i speak, more in the way of barrage coming from the artillery placements beside us, i'm just going to get out of the way and let you have a look down toward northern gaza, where we're looking at at the moment is the community of beit hanoun , is the community of beit hanoun, which is north of gaza city . and which is north of gaza city. and that has been the scene of intense fighting over the last 24 hours. the israeli military say that there are well dug in. hamas positions around that city in the high rises and at ground level, as well as in another artillery round , heads down artillery round, heads down towards beit hanoun and also in the land in the open land outside. it seems to have been p°ppi"9 “p outside. it seems to have been popping up from tunnels to ambush the israeli forces. so while the a significant israeli

force is pushing down to gaza city and has now, we're told, encircle gaza city, it's clear there's still a lot of fighting that's taking place here, but it will be nothing as compared to the battles that will rage in gaza city, which, of course , is gaza city, which, of course, is hamas's stronghold . is it hamas's stronghold. is it actually matter that the idf have encircled gaza city if they've got all of these tunnels , if they can pop up and pop down anywhere that they want to, if the idf is around gaza city, above above ground is there not the possibility that hamas could come up behind them through this network of tunnels as that's exactly what we've been seeing here, tom. here in beit hanoun and the land and just in front of beit hanoun that you can see before us have been tanks out there and infantry men and women fighting up close and personal

to those hamas terrorists . and to those hamas terrorists. and what the israeli defence forces have said is that they've been so close, these hamas fighters at times have tried to clamber up on top of the israeli tanks , up on top of the israeli tanks, as they say, the israeli defence forces say that they have killed dozens of hamas fighters in this area overnight, but they're still there. and you're right. but the tunnel system , tom, is but the tunnel system, tom, is so immense, it stretches hundreds of miles and they've had many years to put those tunnel systems in place. and they have concealed the entrances and exits all over the place. so they can pop out and they can ambush, as you say , the they can ambush, as you say, the israeli military. we can see perhaps the dust tracks of some of the tanks up there that are pushing through that open ground towards beit hanoun. we've seen those tanks opening fire earlier this morning towards beit hanoun

and towards those hamas positions . and it's, you know, positions. and it's, you know, the israeli military admit it's going to be a very long and a very battle all on both sides . very battle all on both sides. we've already had 23 confirmed deaths among the idf forces . deaths among the idf forces. thatis deaths among the idf forces. that is no doubt to going rise significantly as they come face to face with their enemy, an enemy that has had a long, long time to prepare for this that is well dug in, that is set up ambushes in the way of improvised explosive devices, rpgs , anti—tank missiles , rpgs, anti—tank missiles, positions that they pop up from . positions that they pop up from. and they take a pop at the idf and sometimes of course, they're successful . i should just successful. i should just explain to you what we see and what we hear here. so you will regularly hear the rattling of the machine guns in sustained heavy machine gun fire every so

often, and that is clearly when the idf have made contact with hamas terrorists in a specific area . then very soon after that, area. then very soon after that, we hear the combat jets overhead and or indeed the apache helicopters and then the missiles rained down or the artillery rains down on the positions that have been called out to them by the ground troops, close air support effectively as another artillery round leaves our position here to head down towards beit hanoun . so that's the kind of combat they're engaged in part country, part urban . but it's going to part urban. but it's going to get very , very urban as they get very, very urban as they move into what is the most populous city in gaza . normally populous city in gaza. normally with more than a million or so residents , it's most have fled. residents, it's most have fled. but there are still a good hundred thousand couple of people in northern gaza who have not gone south. >> and mark, just very quickly , >> and mark, just very quickly, while we've got you, the israeli

government will be exploring opfions government will be exploring options as to what to do if they achieve their aim of destroying, annihilating hamas. what then happens to gaza? what sort of opfions happens to gaza? what sort of options might they be looking at? >> well, the israeli government haven't really gone into what they are going to do. if you were were you asking about the future of gaza? >> exactly. yeah >> exactly. yeah >> yeah . the israeli government >> yeah. the israeli government really haven't gone there. they said that their first priority and their only priority at the moment is to get the hostages rescued. and hamas destroyed. they haven't gone beyond that. thatis they haven't gone beyond that. that is for, they say, a later stage when they can discuss once they have removed hamas from the scene, which is not only, of course, a terrorist organisation, but it is the governing body in gaza itself . governing body in gaza itself. so they want them removed from

the scene. then there will be discussions as to what comes next. there is a fear though, in the arab world and particularly from israel's neighbours , that from israel's neighbours, that actually what we might see in the coming weeks is a forced removal of people from palestine , from gaza and from um, this area across the border into the sinai peninsula . that's why sinai peninsula. that's why egypt has been very vocal and said that there is no way that they would accept hundreds of thousands of people spilling over their border into the sinai peninsula with the possibility that they may be cleared out of this strip permanently . and this strip permanently. and israel, i don't think , has given israel, i don't think, has given that many guarantee that that won't happen. they've been quite silent on this as this far. >> well, mark, thank you so much for the very, very latest there on the israel gaza border there. we'll be back with you , of we'll be back with you, of course, if there are any

enormous developments there. and do stay safe. >> yes, very interesting . >> yes, very interesting. fantastic shots he's got there on the border . we have benjamin on the border. we have benjamin buttennorth in the studio with us, political commentator and gb news presenter . should we talk news presenter. should we talk about the pro—palestine protest? this is something that's concerning a lot of our viewers and listeners. as you can imagine, the focus being on the remembrance weekend , remembrance weekend, particularly armistice day, the saturday, the 11th of november. yeah there's been a lot of worry about this. >> and sir mark rowley, the head of the metropolitan police, has spoken it the last 24 spoken about it in the last 24 hours because there have been some plans to have one of these protests, about protests, which have had about 100,000 people on the same day as armistice day . now, the as armistice day. now, the organisers said that that's organisers have said that that's not something they're necessarily do. i think necessarily going to do. i think it's of a threat than it's more of a threat than a plan. but these events have been taking police taking up to 2000 police officers. of last officers. in the case of last saturday's march. they've been getting each weekend and getting bigger each weekend and there are fears both over the fact the remembrance day fact that the remembrance day service takes an enormous amount

of police resource. obviously, the attends alongside the monarch attends alongside lots of veterans and leaders of forces in our military. lots of veterans and leaders of forces in our military . and then forces in our military. and then you've had the fact that when you've had the fact that when you've got 2000 police officers that are needed for these protests, day to day policing across has been across london has been struggling. the london's metropolitan has metropolitan police force has had be bringing in officers had to be bringing in officers from the country from all around the country because they can't deal with day to you have such to day crime. when you have such a . mean, put that in a scale. i mean, to put that in context, officers, there is context, 2000 officers, there is about 34,000 the whole of the about 34,000 in the whole of the metropolitan to have metropolitan police. so to have so many in a tiny part of london is a real strain as well as the threat to be able secure the threat to be able to secure the remembrance parade, perhaps remembrance day parade, perhaps we should take a step back and remember why all of this is happening in the first place. because, benjamin, week you because, benjamin, this week you were the israeli were invited into the israeli embassy in london to see embassy here in london to see some footage that very few people around the world have seen. yeah, the israeli government hasn't published this online. an and this is footage of that mass acre three weeks ago. >> yeah. so i understand this is

very unusual for them to do this. >> but in new york and in london, they invited journalists to watch the raw footage from hamas of the 7th of october attack. so much of this is from hamas , live streaming from hamas, live streaming from cameras they had on their bodies that they were sending back to friends in gaza and it shows them slaughtering israelis as they get in there and it was deeply harrowing. there were images of and it's unpleasant to describe, i should warn people, but of babies in disney pyjamas that have been killed of people being shot as they desperately try to drive away in their car or of people who have been killed being spat on of the festival . festival. >> and there was a room that we saw a concrete room, which i take to be at the festival that was piled high with dead jewish bodies . bodies. >> and when i saw that, i just couldn't help but think if the holocaust had cameras, this is what you would have seen. and i think that's why the israeli

embassy took the extraordinary decision with the permission of the families, as much as they can to show journalists this evidence, because nothing says jews don't count like the number of people that you see on the internet, the conspiracy theorists and the racists who try to claim that this atrocity was not as evil as it was. and seeing that raw footage was incredibly harrowing . it's the incredibly harrowing. it's the worst thing i've ever seen . but worst thing i've ever seen. but it's so important that journalists see this so that they can communicate just how bad it is. of course, when i posted last night the description of what had happened , there were still so many people they didn't people saying they didn't believe that they want these believe it, that they want these slain have their slain civilians to have their tortured bodies broadcast the tortured bodies broadcast to the world. the message world. and i think the message we should take from that is that it is so important that decent people about people keep speaking up about this because they are trying to sow the seeds new holocaust sow the seeds of a new holocaust denial . well, benjamin, thank denial. well, benjamin, thank you much for that vivid you so much for that vivid description there. it's totally understandable why the israeli embassy is not making this footage public generally. i

understand you had to leave your phone outside the room so you could only take notes and did you know i was reading those notes back as i wrote up my report yesterday afternoon? and i mean, it really was harrowing to reflect on it. but i spoke to i was sat next to frank gardner, the bbc's war reporter, the bbc's veteran war reporter, and i said to him, have you ever seen anything like this? he seen anything like this? and he said, this this is truly said, no, this is this is truly abhorrent. i think is abhorrent. and i think there is abhorrent. and i think there is a temptation think this is in a temptation to think this is in the paradigm israel , the normal paradigm of israel, palestine conflicts in the palestine and conflicts in the middle know, it really middle east. you know, it really is we have seen is an atrocity that we have seen rarely in human existence. >> and as say , there are >> and as you say, there are still online. and still people online. and unfortunately, in our public who refuse to believe it or refuse to believe the extent of it or draw false equivalencies. but thank you very much indeed, benjamin benjamin buttennorth, the broadcaster , the journalist and broadcaster, for telling us about what was a harrowing experience the harrowing experience by the sounds it . sounds of it. >> well, still to come, king charles has expressed the greatest sorrow and deepest regret over colonial atrocities committed by the british forces

in kenya, but stopped short of a full apology . well, should full apology. well, should britain apologise ? this is britain apologise? this is britain's newsroom on .

weekend at 3 pm. on gb news, the people's channel, britain's news channel . news channel. >> very good morning. it's 1028. >> very good morning. it's1028. and you're with britain's newsroom here on gb news. with me , tom hannood and emily me, tom hannood and emily carver. you are indeed now king charles iii and queen camilla

conclude their state visit to kenya today . during the trip, kenya today. during the trip, king charles is expressed greatest sorrow and deepest regret over what have claimed to be colonial atrocities committed by the british forces in kenya. but he stopped short of an official apology. >> so with us now for the very latest is gb news royal correspondent cameron walker. cameron, thank you very much indeed. now, you've been following this trip in great detail. this is the final day. so what happened? >> it is they are currently on the way to the airport, actually to fly back all over , completed to fly back all over, completed their trip. >> however, today was a bit of a they had a bit of a problem. it was torrential and i mean was torrential rain and i mean proper torrential rain. and there was issue with that there was an issue with that because were meant to be because there were meant to be riding day in a tuk riding around all day in a tuk tuk, an electric tuk tuk, which would have really pleased king charles because how much charles because he knew how much he sustainable city. these he loves sustainable city. these are pictures them are the latest pictures of them to going sit into the tuk to going go and sit into the tuk tuk officer of tuk before a security officer of his decides it's too dangerous for the pair of them to ride

around in. so there's a bit of an awkward moment. you'll see it in a minute. minute if we keep watching these pictures. apologies if you're listening on radio, put them radio, but we'll put them on social aftennards. but social media aftennards. but a security whispers in his security officer whispers in his ear and then he kind of looks a little bit scuffled. and they have to get out of the tick, tick. and then wander over to a car. but this morning, the king has been talking to different interfaith leaders. so christianity, hindu , muslim and christianity, hindu, muslim and traditional african faiths , all traditional african faiths, all faiths, all talking about the importance of harmony between different religious groups. we know that in east africa at the moment, there is a big threat when it comes to terror groups such as al—shabab, the king really wanting to create interfaith dialogue in that region. queen has been region. the queen has been talking about domestic violence . talking about domestic violence. she's been a domestic violence centre as well in mombasa. so a very busy final day. but the rain didn't dampen their spirits apart tuk tuk ride, which apart from a tuk tuk ride, which didn't apart from a tuk tuk ride, which did it apart from a tuk tuk ride, which did i did enjoy the fact that the

>> i did enjoy the fact that the king was standing there. umbrella jealous as camilla was holding above holding a little umbrella above her, holding a little umbrella above hen hen holding a little umbrella above her, her. the king sort of her, above her. the king sort of felt perhaps that he didn't need one. briefly , what is one. just very briefly, what is the between this the difference between this expressing regret versus apologising? what's the line that the king is walking there? well, the king said sorrow not sorry. >> and legally, they have two very different connotations. it's thought that if he said, i am sorry for the atrocities committed 60 years ago, that opens the british government up to two problems when it comes to people filing different legal challenges in court. they made an out—of—court settlements in 2013 for the mau mau uprising. atrocities paid almost £20 million to 5000 kenyans, and they don't want to do that again. the british government, as it's understood. >> that's a very interesting distinction there, isn't it? >> sorry, sorry, not sorry . >> not? sorry, sorry, not sorry. >> not? sorry, sorry, not sorry. >> there we go. well, thank you. holy lawyered language. thank you very much, cameron walker. still to come , no jobs in the still to come, no jobs in the future . future. >> well, elon musk told the prime minister that artificial intelligence one day

intelligence may one day eradicate the need for your job entirely . surely. do you think entirely. surely. do you think i could take your job? let us know. gb views could do your job. rt.com easy. how do you know i'm not i as things stand that are much more after your morning news with sophia . morning news with sophia. >> it's 1031. morning news with sophia. >> it's1031. i'm morning news with sophia. >> it's 1031. i'm sofia wenzel in the newsroom . the israeli in the newsroom. the israeli military says its surrounded gaza city with prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying forces are at the height of the battle. further advances in the offensive against hamas look set to involve urban warfare against an enemy fighting back with hit and run tactics from underground tunnels. israel's assault is complicated by the humanitarian situation and the more than 240 hostages still held by the terrorist group that will be the focus of antony blinken's visit to the region. the us secretary of state is back in tel aviv, where he's expected to press mr netanyahu to agree to a humanitarian pause in fighting

92 british nationals trapped in gaza have been approved to travel through the rafah crossing into egypt today as the border opens again for limited evacuations . scottish first evacuations. scottish first minister humza yousafs in—laws are included on the list . are included on the list. palestinian officials say more than 700 foreign nationals have crossed in the past two days, including dozens of critically injured people . zara arlena's injured people. zara arlena's murderer has won a bid to reduce the minimum term of his life sentence . jordan mcsweeney sentence. jordan mcsweeney killed the 35 year old law graduate as she walked home from a night out in east london last june. mcsweeney who refused to attend his sentencing hearing last december, was handed a minimum life sentence of three of 38 years. the court of appeal ruled that was too high and has reduced it to 33 . dozens of reduced it to 33. dozens of flood warnings remain in place across the country after the damage and disruption of storm kieran . almost 90 flood warnings kieran. almost 90 flood warnings are in effect with more than 235

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that i and people that i knew had dbs that i and people that i knew had des and co weeknights from . six >> a very good morning. you're with britain's newsroom on gb news and it's 1037. my name is news and it's1037. my name is tom hannood and i'm with emily carver. you are indeed. >> so we're going to go and have a little look at rishi sunak's interview. sit down, interview with none other than elon musk . with none other than elon musk. >> talk with your kind of

observation. be on on al and the impact on labour markets and people's jobs and how they should feel about that as they think about this. >> well, i think we are seeing the most disruptive force in history here. you you know, we have for the first time, we will have for the first time, we will have the first time something thatis have the first time something that is smarter than the smartest human and that i mean, it's hard to say exactly what that moment is, but but there will come a point where are no job is needed . you can have job is needed. you can have a job is needed. you can have a job if you want to have a job, a sort of personal satisfaction, but the ai will be able to do everything. so i don't know if that makes people comfortable , that makes people comfortable, uncomfortable. it's you know, that's why that's why i say if you if you wish for a magic genie that gives you any wishes you want and there's no limit, you want and there's no limit, you have this three limit, three wish limit nonsense. you just have many, many wishes as you want . so it's both good and bad.

want. so it's both good and bad. one of the challenges in the future will be how do we find meaning in life ? meaning in life? >> how do we find meaning in life? well, to answer that elementary question , he said, uncomfortable. >> this might make you feel uncomfortable is what elon musk, it said. it makes me feel terrified that robots could become smarter than the smartest human on earth and that they could take all of our jobs. >> we're close to that point already. >> well, we might already be there. >> gpt four is better than humans at passing the bar exam, but let's discuss this more widely existential questions and the questions of the meaning of life. delighted to be joined by matthew stadlen, the political commentator , and reem ibrahim commentator, and reem ibrahim communications director at the institute of economic affairs. matthew shall we start with you ? matthew shall we start with you? this was an interesting gamble from the prime minister last night, finishing what was widely sort of assessed to be a relatively successful international summit, but with a

conversation with quite a maverick man. i thought it was an embarrassment as a proud british citizen . british citizen. >> the idea that my prime minister, our prime minister is there sort of in supplication to elon musk giggling along, laughing along sycophantically , laughing along sycophantically, interviewing him as though elon musk is the big guy in the room, which i suppose on one level you might argue he is. but nonetheless, for the british prime minister to admit that i thought that was really cringe making. >> is that a bit harsh and miserable? reem you know, nigel's written in. he says elon and rishi were brilliant, fantastic publicity for the uk and the conference. and for the conference. >> i do think it was fantastic publicity for the future of tech and for the future of innovation in country. i deeply in this country. i am deeply concerned by elon's comments regarding . i think they're regarding. i think they're entirely untrue to and effectively will be scaring people into thinking that actually ai and robots are going to be taking over everybody's jobs. i don't think that's true at all. i think we should be

excited about innovation. we should be excited about the prospects that i could provide this we're talking this country. we're talking about advancements. about medical advancements. we're talking about solving everyday problems and making all of lives that much easier. of our lives that much easier. we be excited by that we should be excited by that prospect, worried by it . prospect, not worried by it. >> isn't of the issues here >> isn't one of the issues here that elon musk was talking perhaps in centuries long time perhaps in a centuries long time frame and rishi sunak was trying to think about perhaps the next 5 or 10 years and perhaps it's more realistic that all of our jobs are going be augmented more realistic that all of our jobs madejing be augmented more realistic that all of our jobs made easier be augmented more realistic that all of our jobs made easier by�* augmented more realistic that all of our jobs made easier by ai ngented more realistic that all of our jobs made easier by ai in nented more realistic that all of our jobs made easier by ai in the:ed and made easier by ai in the immediate term, but perhaps we'll live in this utopian world where no one and we've got where no one works and we've got abundant resource and everyone's the of a billionaire the equivalent of a billionaire today. perhaps that's off in the future. >> one good thing about this interview and the fact that sunak did it is that we are talking about it on gb news because think we should spend because i think we should spend a in our national a lot more time in our national debate, in newspapers, on tv shows radio stations, talking shows, radio stations, talking about almost about something that is almost certainly say, certainly certainly i'd say, certainly fundamentally to change fundamentally going to change the we do business as human the way we do business as human beings. and it's not just the long term. it is the short term

fundamental mental changes are coming down the track. so it's right the prime minister is right that the prime minister is seeming least to take this seeming at least to take this seriously. journalists and seriously. we as journalists and commentators, i think we could spend more getting spend a lot more energy getting our hands dirty, trying to our own hands dirty, trying to understand implication as grim. >> do you think you're a little bit too relaxed about the dangers of artificial intelligence? should we not be concerned if robots become smarter than our smartest human on the earth? what could they do ? >>i ? >> i don't think so. and i think we've got to remember that al is based on history and it's based on information that's already out there. so when we're talking when talking about when we're talking about replacing jobs, you know, jobs that a human touch, that require a human touch, we're about people that we're talking about people that are required to communicate particular ideas. you know, i can't replace that, but i can make our lives incredibly be incredibly more easy when it comes to many of our different jobs. comes to many of our different jobs . what i am concerned about, jobs. what i am concerned about, though, is the relationship between these tech giants and the government . in this the government. in this interview, elon musk effectively

asked sunak for tax breaks for companies that are looking at particular technological innovations. and i think that that worrying. it's that is worrying. it's effectively rent seeking. it's these companies are these larger companies are trying to get the government to give them particular particular special privileges. i think we've got to allow the market to work and actually allow us as individuals to see out these technological advancements, because ultimately it will make our lives so much easier. >> it was it was interesting to hear not once but twice, elon musk in this conversation say if you want to look at two centres of excellence in the world, it's the san francisco bay area and the san francisco bay area and the greater london area. he was saying it made perfect sense for this ai conference to be in the greater london area, not quite london, buckinghamshire , but the london, buckinghamshire, but the fact that the uk is fairly advanced in this might surprise some people. >> we can do we do really good with our tech. look at east london, the old street , the with our tech. look at east london, the old street, the old street area. this is something that could become a real

strength for us. and absolutely wherever we can be at the forefront, we should be. i think there questions here there are two big questions here about one is is it going about al. one is how is it going to impact all of our everyday lives? sort of jobs are lives? what sort of jobs are going to be lost? how are we going to be lost? how are we going to be lost? how are we going to become a society that doesn't is the doesn't work if that is the ultimate implication of artificial intelligence? >> it won't be. it won't be. >> but it won't be. it won't be. people exact same people said this exact same thing when computers were invented everyone said all invented and everyone said all computers are going to take over. >> oven >> of our jobs and make us >> all of our jobs and make us all all it just didn't all all jobless. it just didn't happen. it won't happen. happen. and it won't happen. >> the fact that it hasn't happened computers doesn't happened with computers doesn't necessarily it won't necessarily mean that it won't happen ai. necessarily mean that it won't happen al. the other big happen with al. the other big question safety. we've question is our safety. we've always about idea question is our safety. we've al\creating about idea question is our safety. we've al\creating a about idea question is our safety. we've al\creating a frankenstein idea question is our safety. we've al\creating a frankenstein ,dea question is our safety. we've al\creating a frankenstein , a�*a of creating a frankenstein, a frankenstein's monster. are we going to create in my making something more intelligent than ourselves, something that is immune to our regulatory capacities? and if we do ultimately there is a chance, and i'm an optimist, not a pessimist, but there is a chance that it could destroy us. on the politics of this, who looked at

that clip from that interview and didn't ask themselves whether rishi sunak in couple whether rishi sunak in a couple of time will be the new of years time will be the new ceo of twitter. >> yes, it look like that. >> yes, it does look like that. >> yes, it does look like that. >> we move on to >> should we move on to something completely different? it's story of our it's a bit of a story of our time. this one apologises marks and spencer apologises and pulls christmas advert post after palestinian flag controversy . palestinian flag controversy. yes, this is something that you can't quite you have to see it to believe it. >> but reem, do your best. what is this story about? >> it really is quite silly. and i was seeing a lot of commentary on this on twitter. it's effectively the mass social media team that have decided to pull this advert as a result of people that are effectively to chronically online and see all of kind of commentary of this kind of commentary onune of this kind of commentary online of people saying that it's appropriate because of it's an appropriate because of course white and green course red, white and green these are lovely christmas colours but they also happen to be on the palestinian flag . and be on the palestinian flag. and people were offended as they always are on twitter. >> so the controversy was is still this advert showed

still from this advert showed that green white and red hat sort of burning in a fire and people thought that or some people thought that or some people implied were offended because it looked like the palestinian flag was burning. yeah. >> effectively, the news is people online were offended . people online were offended. >> this just crazy, though, >> this is just crazy, though, because what i found more offensive, matthew, was the advert itself regards of this these this red , white and green these this red, white and green hat in the fire. >> it's actually silver by silver. >> the advert seemed to be dismissing actually destroy annoying christmas traditions . annoying christmas traditions. and the message seemed to be just do whatever you like this christmas, don't care about your family. just do exactly what you want. if everyone did that, there would be no christmas traditions at all. >> so would you ban the whole advert? no i wouldn't ban it. >> i just wouldn't make it. >> i just wouldn't make it. >> tell you what, though, >> i'll tell you what, though, because ask him to find because i had to ask him to find this video for and when she this video for me. and when she showed kindly the video on showed me kindly the video on her mobile phone, i couldn't actually the where where actually see the bit where where the the palestinian actually see the bit where where the is the palestinian actually see the bit where where the is burning.the palestinian actually see the bit where where the is burning.thecourse,nian actually see the bit where where the is burning.thecourse, it's| flag is burning. of course, it's a ridiculous story. but what it

does show, think, is the does show, i think, is the extent which the horrors that extent to which the horrors that are playing the middle are playing out in the middle east now infecting east are now infecting our own society. we see it with the marches. some people very strongly of them. some strongly in favour of them. some people strongly against people very strongly against them. we see sorts of them. we see all sorts of tensions. we see rises in anti—semitism forth . anti—semitism and so forth. whichever way you look, what's happening the middle east has happening in the middle east has become tinderbox within our become a tinderbox within our own society. and this is just one offshoot of that. >> and it's so peculiar because this was filmed in august, long before i find it. i find it actually quite funny that they film fake snow and christmas adverts at the height of summer. but but there go. that's the but but there we go. that's the world advertising . but the world of advertising. but the fact then sort of fact that then people sort of projected own views onto projected their own views onto this really does say a lot about sort of how how discourse works today. >> it is and it's plain virtue signalling. and i really dislike the word woke, but i think it's the word woke, but i think it's the only word that's really appropriate here. you know, we've seen mass effectively try in show that different people like different types of

traditions at christmas effectively trying to say that you can throw out a lot of those old traditions let's all be all look at christmas in very, look at christmas in a very, very different let's very different way. let's celebrate set christmas celebrate it. they set christmas cards fire. yes, it's very cards on fire. yes, it's very sad very mean. and sad and very mean. and i personally wouldn't do it. is thatis personally wouldn't do it. is that is that sad? >> is that me, the message of >> is that to me, the message of this is don't about this is don't worry about consumerism. christmas is about family, consumerism don't care. >> i think it's fantastic things. of course , they care things. of course, they care about consumerism. just to be serious for a second. >> cards are not really just about consumerism, though, are they? they are sort of, for they? they they are sort of, for many people, a fundamental part of the christmas tradition. why are fundamentally, is are they fundamentally, this is are they fundamentally, this is a serious point. there are a lot of people the country who of people around the country who are lonely receiving are very lonely receiving a card, particularly if you're elderly and you don't necessarily have all the tech receiving a card at christmas or maybe even several cards can be a really important part of the yean >> well, now you're making dress. you're making me feel guilty for not sending christmas cards year. cards last year. >> to get in a >> i'm going to have to get in a whole host of them. oh i would

love to receive one from you. do you send a christmas card every year? >> i do, to be honest, to be very don't always. very honest. i don't always. but i i certainly to my i should. i certainly to my family for people who've sort of i should. i certainly to my family up�* people who've sort of i should. i certainly to my family up inzople who've sort of i should. i certainly to my family up in thee who've sort of i should. i certainly to my family up in the era io've sort of i should. i certainly to my family up in the era ofve sort of i should. i certainly to my family up in the era of email, of i should. i certainly to my family up in the era of email, it grown up in the era of email, it feels like such a such a bigger step because it's not something you do every day. >> i you get on for other >> i know you get on for other people christmas you can get people christmas now you can get online, can order it, you online, you can order it, you can add pictures, you can make it you. it personalise you. >> think it's lovely. and >> no, i think it's lovely. and also you can handwrite it. i think great. you can also think it's great. you can also do online just handwrite do it online and just handwrite it if that makes sense. it online if that makes sense. and then send it off. this is again the beauty of technology guys, have this, guys, but then you have this, then this perennial issue. >> who is on the christmas card list and who make it list and who doesn't make it onto the christmas card list? you'll always forget someone who's always who's close to you. you always sort offend in your friendship. >> neil kinnock the person that we be we might forget will be remembered someone else. remembered by someone else. but who have thought we'd have who would have thought we'd have gone burning gone from the burning supposedly, of the palestinian flag, this flag, which of course this wasn't, whether not we wasn't, to whether or not we should christmas cards. should send christmas cards. these actually us

these adverts actually make us think and talk like i do love. >> this is one of my favourite things this of year things about this time of year as into the sort of as we get into the sort of christmas spirit. and i know it's bit early for it's a little bit early for that, every year some of the that, but every year some of the big companies come out, the john lewis the advert, lewis advert, the m&s advert, all of these sort of these adverts of have a adverts sort of have become a bit of christmas tradition in bit of a christmas tradition in and of themselves. >> probably >> john lewis is probably question the question whether it's struck the right with this one. >> well i think i think it's interesting with the ad i mean of course it's again an advert that was filmed in august and then people offended about that was filmed in august and theyouzople offended about that was filmed in august and theyou know, offended about that was filmed in august and theyou know, someended about that was filmed in august and theyou know, some months jout that was filmed in august and theyou know, some months later, it, you know, some months later, as was announced. i think as it was announced. but i think it's interesting, doesn't as it was announced. but i think it'siconsumerism doesn't as it was announced. but i think it's iconsumerism butoesn't as it was announced. but i think it's iconsumerism but now�*t like consumerism but now loves the lewis tradition of the john lewis tradition of those adverts. >> i never said didn't >> oh, i never said i didn't like consumerism. said, it's like consumerism. i said, it's the right of any company the utter right of any company that wants pretend it's not that wants to pretend it's not into i agree go into consumerism. i agree to go down garden path. down that garden path. >> freedom freedom. >> freedom is freedom. >> freedom is freedom. >> to the >> well, from consumerism to the sunscreen the future, the sun sunscreen of the future, the sun scientists have developed a skin cream that heals sun damage . cream that heals sun damage. >> as it happens, this is a game changer. >> matthew well, when i started reading this piece this morning,

i thought this might be a i thought that this might be a way to fight back skin way to fight back against skin cancen way to fight back against skin cancer. who's cancer. and as someone who's had a basal cell carcinoma there before removed, this is obviously close to my obviously something close to my heart. may out to be heart. but it may turn out to be that. at the moment, it's that. but at the moment, it's actually about stopping the ageing process , stopping ageing process, stopping wrinkling, stopping, sagging and so forth. is this a consequence, at least in part from sun damage and what this cream will do if it actually is brought to market is stop that process as it's happening. so you put the sun cream on. the sun is trying to damage your skin, but actually the cream prevents that. so it could be a it could actually be a real game changer. why is this different from normal sun? >> i thought sun cream prevented your sun. yolii' sun. >> your sun. >> what sun does normally >> what? sun cream does normally and i'm i'm not a cosmetics expert , as you can probably see. expert, as you can probably see. but sun cream normally does but what sun cream normally does is supposedly help is supposedly tries to help prevent skin cancers and skin damage of that sort. although it's obviously better not to be in the sun than to wear sun cream or to have a hat. but again, i'm not an expert, so i

believe that this is doing is this is this is actually stopping the ageing process as say. >> so i believe the difference is that with regular sun cream, it blocks out the uv rays, which is of course damaging to your skin with this is a type of super melanin. >> i have the most melanin >> now i have the most melanin on this panel and i think that particularly difference that actually damage that actually the sun damage that thatis actually the sun damage that that is a result of the sun that when you're when you're in when you're when you're out in the sun, kind of damage the sun, that kind of damage that you receive as a result of that you receive as a result of that causes is probably the biggest ageing. biggest causer of ageing. the ageing wrinkling ageing process wrinkling etcetera. why the more etcetera. which is why the more melanin you have, the less likely see that kind likely you are to see that kind of sun damage. >> no need for botox then. tom so giving pasty people like so it's giving pasty people like myself the same sort of protection that people from like me with more melanin might have. >> that's a that's a remarkable thing . i suppose that's we've thing. i suppose that's we've had quite a technological focus . had quite a technological focus. >> news review brilliant . >> news review brilliant. >> news review brilliant. >> it is. >> it is. >> but but we do have one extra minute left and the final story today, rim, britain faces

recession risks. so after all of this technological promise and happiness, what's this risk from the bank of england? >> yeah. so the bank of england have warned that actually next year we potentially will see a recession, which of course , recession, which of course, anybody that's been following politics over the last few years knows that, you know, during an election it's the worst election cycle, it's the worst time for there to be a recession . i think that there certainly is some tax cuts, is room for some tax cuts, actually for some some proper rolling back of the state here. we saw this year that actually as a result of the obr statistics, we saw that the government's debt is actually not as high as we thought it was. what that does mean is that there certainly is some room for some true rolling back. >> 10s to you, matthew. >> 10s to you, matthew. >> politicians be terrified of tax cutting after the disastrous liz truss premiership. the other thing is if there is a recession thatis thing is if there is a recession that is absolute game over for rishi sunak and the tories. >> there we go. on that happy note. on that note of buoyance and positivity . well, we'll see,

and positivity. well, we'll see, we'll see. but let's have a little look at the weather. >> hello, i'm alex deakin. this is your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. not quite the calm after the storm, but certainly the weather. not as wild today as yesterday's storm. q1 continues to head out into the north sea . to head out into the north sea. there is another deep area of low pressure that will bring some wet and windy weather. this weekend. in between weekend. but in between the weather few weather systems, just a few showers today. having showers around today. having said , we are still close said that, we are still close enough to the storm in eastern scotland for more rain to potentially cause further potentially cause some further issues. have a met issues. so we do have a met office yellow warning here. plenty north—west plenty of showers for north—west england, wales , some for england, wales, some for northern ireland. too many northern ireland. not too many further and east, though further south and east, though many having dry and many places having a dry and bnght many places having a dry and bright day with some sunny spells feels cool though the spells feels cool though in the breeze. again, the winds are breeze. but again, the winds are nothing as strong as they nothing like as strong as they were we go through were yesterday. as we go through the evening overnight, a few the evening and overnight, a few more will across more showers will drift across the we'll see some the highlands. we'll see some filtering down across into northern wales and northern england and wales and then weather system then that next weather system starts arrive in the starts to arrive in the south—west. so more rain coming

in here the ground is in here because the ground is saturated . that could some saturated. that could cause some problems, too . a bit a chilly problems, too. a bit of a chilly one over northern england. northern scotland, some one over northern england. nortiand scotland, some one over northern england. nortiand fog scotland, some one over northern england. nortiand fog likelycotland, some one over northern england. nortiand fog likely and nd, some one over northern england. nortiand fog likely and somewme mist and fog likely and some pockets of frost. also possible temperatures up in the temperatures holding up in the south because the next of south because the next band of rain comes again, nothing as rain comes in again, nothing as heavy as from earlier in the week, but any extra rainfall could cause some issues. we have a met office at yellow warning across parts of southern england and the rain lingering across northern through the northern england through the afternoon. a cool day afternoon. so quite a cool day here in the south. it brightens up. get into the teens

now then lee anderson here join me on gb news on my new show, the real world. >> every friday at 7 pm. where real people get to meet those in power and hold them to account every week we'll be hearing your views from up and down the country. in the real world. join me at 7:00 on gb news, britain's news channel . news channel. >> good morning. it's 11:00 news channel. >> good morning. it's11:00 on friday. the 3rd of november. this is britain's newsroom here on gb news with emily carver and me, tom hannood. coming up today , escape from gaza, 92 britons are expected to cross the border to egypt today as israel surrounds gaza city . surrounds gaza city. >> we'll bring you the latest here on gb news as in turmoil, storm kieran leaves thousands without power and 80 flood

warnings across the country . warnings across the country. >> we our reporter jeff moody is covering the cleanup efforts the day after the storm. >> storm kieran is over but the clean up operation is just beginning . beginning. >> is remembrance day doomed? tens of thousands of pro—palestine line demonstrators are planning to to take the streets of london next weekend . streets of london next weekend. earlier, we asked security minister tom tugendhat, who is the priority . the priority. >> i think the priority has to be to allow people to have that moment of grief that moment of national mourning, that we share together on the 11th of november at 11:00. and of course, on remembrance sunday, as well . remembrance sunday, as well. >> can we talk about i at the end of the i summit, rishi sunak rushed down to meet the world's richest man in lancaster house. although we're looking at the un secretary—general there, antonio gutierrez, not elon musk, but it's all about the possibilities , the future possibilities of this remarkable and scaling technology . technology. >> he might be a very rich man.

he probably is, actually. >> i think if you're if you're the head of the un, i think you're probably you're not poor are, you know, not doing too badly . badly. >> yes. you've had quite a lot of interesting discussion of this ai summit. do you see ai as a fantastic opportunity for the future or a threat and a danger? >> no big, big questions. but of course, other stories. of course, other stories. of course, we want your views and opinions on the palestinian protests and much more besides gb views at cbnnews.com is the address to email into. that's after your morning news with sophia . sophia. >> good morning. it's 11:02. sophia. >> good morning. it's11:02. i'm sofia wenzler in the newsroom . sofia wenzler in the newsroom. the israeli military claims its surrounded gaza city with prime minister benjamin netanyahu

saying forces are at the height of the battle. further advances in the offensive against hamas look set to involve urban warfare against an enemy fighting back with hit and run attacks from underground tunnels . israel's assault is also complicated by the humanitarian situation and the more than 240 hostages still held by the terrorist group. that'll be the focus of anthony blinken's visit to the region. the us secretary of state is back in tel aviv, where he's expected to press mr netanyahu to agree to a humanitarian pause in fighting 92 british nationals trapped in gaza have been approved to travel through the rafah crossing into egypt today as the border opens again for limited evacuations as relatives of scottish first minister humza yousaf are included on the list. pal estonian officials say more than 700 foreign nationals have crossed in the past two days, including dozens of critically injured people . it comes as injured people. it comes as hezbollah's leader is set to make his first public comments

since hamas and israel went to war. the powerful iranian backed terrorist group has been engaging israeli forces along the lebanon border, firing rockets and using explosive drones as israel is responding with airstrikes and tanks warning hezbollah against opening a second war front. warning hezbollah against opening a second war front . the opening a second war front. the metropolitan police say it will use its powers to stop the disruption of remembrance weekend commemorations amid ongoing pro—palestinian protests. tens of thousands of demonstrators calling for an immediate ceasefire in israel's attacks on gaza planned to march in london on armistice day. there are fears the protests could disrupt the two minute's silence that commemorates those who've died at war. the met says officers will be deployed across the capital in what's been described as a significant policing and security operation. security minister tom tugendhat told gb news that people have the right to protest, but the focus should remain on remembrance, as i think the priority has to be to allow people to have that moment of

grief that moment of national mourning that we share together on the 11th of november at 11:00, and of course, on remembrance sunday as well. >> think that's that's >> and i think that's that's absolutely where focus absolutely where the focus should of there are should be. of course, there are rights to protest at other times. of course, it's right that people should express their views but what's also views freely. but what's also right that others have the right is that others have the right is that others have the right to together and to be right to come together and to be quiet and be still for those quiet to and be still for those two minutes, which really unite us country and remind us of us as a country and remind us of the huge sacrifices paid by so many of flood warnings many dozens of flood warnings remain in place across the country after the damage and disruption of storm kieran. >> almost 90 flood warnings are in effect in more than 235 flood alerts in parts of eastern scotland and england are being warned to expect heavy rain and strong wind today and into saturday. scottish rail says a full service has been returned at edinburgh waverley station after a signalling fault caused major disruption . zara alina's major disruption. zara alina's family have described the reaction of the reduction of her killer's sentence as a shallow

triumph, which sends a disheartening message to women , disheartening message to women, calling him a repugnant man . calling him a repugnant man. jordan mcsweeney killed the 35 year old law graduate as she walked home from a night out in east london last june. mcsweeney, who refused to attend his sentencing hearing last december , was handed a life december, was handed a life sentence with a minimum minimum of 38 years. the court of appeal has reduced that to 33 years. a woman has appeared in an australian court charged with the murder of three elderly people who were suspected to have died after eating poisonous mushrooms. aaron patterson is alleged to have hosted a lunch in july at her home in a small rural town in the state of victoria. police believe she served wellington, which served beef wellington, which may contained deathcap may have contained deathcap mushrooms as her ex—husband, who was present at the lunch, survived. however, his mother , survived. however, his mother, father all died in father and aunt all died in hospital while she's been charged with three counts of murder and five of attempted murder. there's been a sharp increase in the number of jellyfish spotted around the uk and irish coasts . the marine

and irish coasts. the marine conservation society says sightings are up 32% compared to last year , with 11% seen in last year, with 11% seen in large blooms of 100 or more. it's understood the increase could be due to the changing temperature of our oceans. but experts say more research is needed. experts say more research is needed . and this is gb news needed. and this is gb news across the uk on tv, in your car, on your digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play on your smart speaker by saying play gb news. now it's back to tom and . emily tom and. emily >> thanks, sophia it's 1106 tom and. emily >> thanks, sophia it's1106 in the morning. you're with britain's newsroom on gb news with me, emily carver and tom hannood . hannood. >> well, let's have a little look at what you've been saying at home. first of all, we've been talking about well, three big stories today. and one of the biggest has these the biggest has been these palestinian protesters. should they march on remembrance sunday orindeed they march on remembrance sunday or indeed the 11th of november on the saturday? and keith says that he doesn't think that

palestinian protesters should be allowed to protest. we need to respect our war heroes who gave us freedom. >> yes . and we see there from >> yes. and we see there from pete, sorry, i don't have my paper over here. pete says , as paper over here. pete says, as a veteran, this makes me sick to the core out of respect for what we have done for those who protest, keeping them safe from harm they don't know true british think you british values. i do think you make there on make a good point. there why on earth you choose to march earth would you choose to march on armistice day? but means on armistice day? but it means so much to british people. >> of course, it's distaste awful, but i think we should be allowed things allowed to do distasteful things and keith says keith's whole point was , as our heroes gave us point was, as our heroes gave us our freedom . well, freedom to do our freedom. well, freedom to do what do you have freedom? if you can't do distasteful things ? can't do distasteful things? >> think you're on the wrong >> i think you're on the wrong side this, i think it's side of this, tom. i think it's i think i wouldn't go on the march, but i wouldn't it. march, but i wouldn't stop it. well, it does not well, let's hope it does not interrupt any of the remembrance events. that would be just a ghastly. >> oh, and for balance , oscar >> oh, and for balance, oscar has written in to say, i fully support the protests. >> everyone should have a right

to demonstrate. so there you go. mixed opinions in the in the inbox, although think it's inbox, although i think it's fair many, many more fair to say many, many more people that this is people saying that this is entirely inappropriate and should be banned on armistice day . day. >> yes. i just wish it wasn't planned. that's my view, really. ijust planned. that's my view, really. i just it weren't the case i just wish it weren't the case that people would do such a thing. but it looks like the police going be working police are going to be working very to stop any potential very hard to stop any potential disruption conflict disruption or conflict there. >> but should stick with this >> but should we stick with this topic now, the idea these topic now, the idea of these protests that becoming so protests that are becoming so regular over the of regular now over the cause of gaza and palestine, more generally, we're joined in the studio by the political commentator john oxley. and john, this is sort of becoming a weekly event now. yes >> and i think what we've seen is this is really motivating a huge amount of people in this country who perhaps we don't always see out on protests . always see out on protests. >> and i think it's really interesting to see how this has galvanised so many people and is becoming an established thing. there's obviously quite a network there , and i think it's

network there, and i think it's something newly emerging in british politics and could really have electoral and political impacts as well . political impacts as well. >> yes. should we have a look at what the security minister, tom tugendhat , said about whether tugendhat, said about whether people have the right to protest in this way? >> i think the priority has to be to allow people to have that moment of grief, that moment of national mourning that we share together on the 11th of november at 11:00, and of course, on remembrance sunday as well. and i that's that's absolutely i think that's that's absolutely where should where the focus should be. of course, there are rights to protest other times. of protest at other times. of course, people course, it's right that people should their views should express their views freely. what's also right is freely. but what's also right is that others have the right to come together and to be quiet and to be still for those two minutes, which really unite us as a country and remind us of the huge sacrifices so the huge sacrifices paid by so many . m any. >> many. >> this is all about >> so this is all about competing rights for tom, the security minister. yes >> and i think that's the best way of looking at it. but also for you, i think there are too many people are called tom. >> so it's a deeply that's what

we ban . do you know what we should ban. do you know what it's what it's what it must be very irritating islamic very irritating in islamic countries say countries where you just say mohammed and everyone turns their don't know if their head. i don't know if that's appropriate that's an appropriate joke to make but yeah, but going make or not, but yeah, but going back the overall point, he's back to the overall point, he's he's back to the overall point, he's he':you know, people who died >> you know, the people who died in wars died for our freedom in the wars died for our freedom and that is our freedom to do stuff and to protest. and i absolutely agree with, i think both this is quite both of you that this is quite a disrespectful thing to to go disrespectful thing to do, to go out armistice day. is out on armistice day. it is probably it's probably counterproductive. it's not persuade people. not going to persuade people. it's alienate lot of it's going to alienate a lot of people. freedom means people. but freedom means allowing things that we allowing lots of things that we find distasteful and disagreeable. and we should be very, careful. it's one very, very careful. it's one thing if they're going out openly supporting violence and terrorism , it's something terrorism, it's something slightly different. if they're just heard. just making their view heard. well, the issue, well, i think that's the issue, isn't it? >> because unfortunately, we have of these have seen with some of these pro—palestine marches that they attract among the attract extremists among the throngs of people who rally in the pro—palestine protest posts. and that's the issue i think a

lot of people are concerned that the police aren't policing as as tough, as tough as they should be. essentially, they're being too soft. touch is what i'm trying to say. >> i, i think there's a definite argument there. >> and we've seen very shocking things said and done by some of these protesters. but i think we also have think how the also have to think about how the police these mass police handle these mass incidents, police strategy incidents, the police strategy generally is to record evidence and deal with them aftennards because as you're talking about respecting armistice day, going in mob handed to effect, to arrest 30 troublemakers in a crowd of 10,000 people, potentially , he creates a spark potentially, he creates a spark and a riot point that makes the whole thing far more disrespectful of the peace of armistice day than sort of letting these people carry on. and then going and seeing them. you record them, you the you record them, you have the evidence, and you can act aftennards. >> i think interesting point. >> i think interesting point. >> it's worth saying >> i think it's worth saying what police have said. so 17 what the police have said. so 17 hours put out a statement hours they put out a statement and that officers will be and saying that officers will be deployed on the

deployed across london on the 11th the 12th november 11th and the 12th of november for significant and for significant policing and security operation , absolutely security operation, absolutely committed the safety committed to ensuring the safety and security of anyone attending commemorative . we know commemorative events. we know that there are concerns about a demonstration by pro—palestinian campaigners. they say this is a weekend huge national weekend with huge national significance. will use all significance. we will use all the powers available to us to ensure anyone intent on disrupting it will knock succeed. so that's quite a strong tone from the police . strong tone from the police. >> yes, and it sounds like partly they've had a couple of weeks of dealing with these protests. they've got used to it. now, it's not taking them by surprise. and also to remember, this is such an, you know, big weekend of national significance that this will not just be a pubuc that this will not just be a public order thing. there will be counter—terror to take be counter—terror issues to take to in mind. so probably to bear in mind. and so probably you've got a of the met you've got a lot of the met working together and taking this quite seriously to make sure there are flashpoints, to there are no flashpoints, to make no major make sure there's no major incidents everyone safe, incidents to keep everyone safe, but to respect the but also to respect the boundanes but also to respect the boundaries around boundaries of the law around protest freedom to say what protest and freedom to say what

you want to say. >> now we just have a couple of minutes to dwell on another big political this week, which minutes to dwell on another big po course, this week, which minutes to dwell on another big po course, has this week, which minutes to dwell on another big po course, has been veek, which minutes to dwell on another big po course, has been veekongoing of course, has been the ongoing covid and perhaps one of covid inquiry and perhaps one of the biggest flashpoints was when dominic appeared before dominic cummings appeared before that . but there's that inquiry. but there's somewhat a little bit interesting saying who's had some thoughts on dominic cummings and his appearance before inquiry? that's before the inquiry? and that's the caprice . she the supermodel caprice. she appears in the i newspaper for today saying the most remarkable quote, she says , i'm a huge fan quote, she says, i'm a huge fan of dominic cummings. quote, she says, i'm a huge fan of dominic cummings . why is of dominic cummings. why is capnce of dominic cummings. why is caprice such a big fan of dominic cummings? well it seems like they're sort of backing each other. >> you know, people forget. but way back early in covid, before we'd even entered lockdown , we'd even entered lockdown, capnce we'd even entered lockdown, caprice was sort of on one of these tv panel shows, and she was calling for hard action, closing the borders, moving towards lockdown, and these health experts who were advising at the time, no, we didn't need to do anything, were were quite mocking of her. and it turned out really she was right. and

dominic cummings sort of highlighted this in his testimony or certainly talking around it, that she was right and they were wrong and that sometimes you need to listen to people without the expertise or people without the expertise or people are to people who are prepared to challenge people. so think challenge people. and so i think she's probably a bit of a she's probably got a bit of a soft spot for him. >> and this is a crucial point, isn't it? because at the start of pandemic, the narrative of the pandemic, the narrative as are set that, oh, as things are set is that, oh, the politicians were saying, no, we lock and we don't need to lock down. and all scientists were saying all the scientists were saying lockdown, but that's not what all the scientists were saying lockdwas. but that's not what all the scientists were saying lockdwas the: that's not what all the scientists were saying lockdwas the case's not what all the scientists were saying lockdwas the case atiot what all the scientists were saying lockdwas the case at all. vhat all the scientists were saying lockdwas the case at all. right what was the case at all. right through early march, the scientists were saying, don't lock true. and but >> that's exactly true. and but what we saw with people were taking it into their own hands. you was working the you know, i was working in the city and each day it city at the time and each day it was getting and emptier, was getting emptier and emptier, way a couple weeks way ahead, a couple of weeks ahead actual lockdown. and ahead of actual lockdown. and then was, i think then what happened was, i think it neil ferguson came out it was neil ferguson came out with this new model and it was that suddenly chucked the that that suddenly chucked the government into becoming much more in favour of lockdown and moving to it. but yeah, the grass roots thing at the start were people way , way more

were people were way, way more cautious than the government. >> represent lockdown >> i must represent the lockdown sceptics though, and sceptics among us though, and say that it seems as though there is an accepted storyline, a narrative now from this inquiry that the issues with the government's response were that they were not tough enough with their lockdowns , were not quick their lockdowns, were not quick enoughin their lockdowns, were not quick enough in introducing them. >> others might ask , was >> others might ask, was lockdown ever worth it? are we going to have that discussion with this inquiry ? i know you're with this inquiry? i know you're i know you're frowning there because i was i was sat through some of that testimony and i was like, they're not talking about lockdown at all. >> they're talking about politicians and their language. they're swearing they're talking about swearing more than they're talking about the epidemiological the actual epidemiological discussions the actual epidemiological disgood. ns be good. >> we're talking when >> no, but we're talking when they talking to dominic they were talking to dominic cummings, when hugo keith, kc was talking dominic cummings, was talking to dominic cummings, the was particularly the assumption was particularly from dominic, of course, but also line of questioning also in the line of questioning that the government had fallen short on its decisions in terms of the speed in which they were made. >> i don't i don't necessarily

think that that was the line of the questioning because i sat through the entirety of i don't think there's a narrative that that that the government made mistakes when they mistakes in terms of when they implemented lockdown rather implemented the lockdown rather than should been than whether it should have been implemented think implemented at all. i think there arguments in terms of there are arguments in terms of who when, whether who said what to when, whether bofis who said what to when, whether boris have gone boris johnson should have gone on that term. on holiday in that half term. that point of that was a big point of discussion. i think one of discussion. but i think one of the big takeaways for me was the lack of discussion over the actual epidemiological points. and perhaps that does feed into your argument. perhaps there should be listening have should be listening would have been difference if there had been the difference if there had been the difference if there had been more voluntary measures as opposed mandatory opposed to more mandatory measures john you've measures as john oxley as you've been saying, were been saying, people were starting things into starting to take things into their anyway. that their own hands anyway. that would been very would have been a very interesting would have been a very interestirthe way they've >> tom, the way that they've highlighted that boris johnson was talking about offs as was talking about trade offs as if was negative no, if it was a negative thing. no, in terms of whether we should have been shielding the vulnerable opposed to locking vulnerable as opposed to locking down all all of the public. >> yes. and i think there has been sensationalist been some sensationalist reporting . but after reporting around that. but after all, it is a legitimate

discussion to say if you've got if you've got a dichotomy between the economy and a certain section of society , certain section of society, where do you draw the line ? where do you draw the line? final word to you, john oxley . final word to you, john oxley. do you have faith in this inquiry that we now learn is going to stretch on for many, many more years? >> i think that's always >> well, i think that's always the question. seen the key question. we've seen time these time and time again these inquiries on forever. the inquiries go on forever. the sunday inquiry went on for years. it was hugely expensive and often fail to get into and often they fail to get into the real gritty questions as and they do get bogged down in supplemental things and the other problem is you're always chasing after the last crisis. they will come out with all sorts of recommendations about how we deal with the potential for the next pandemic. but but then there will be potentially a major terror attack and we'll find our response for that has been completely neglected in the same way that pre—pandemic planning had been. so i'm very sceptical that it will, you know, really help governments in future function . future function. >> yes, i don't i imagine most

people don't care so much about dominic cummings use of foul language, more so than they care about how decisions were made and why the restrictions were dropped and changed so much. why children perhaps were neglected when it came to the equation . an when it came to the equation. an done justify lockdown an all done to justify lockdown an all questions we want the answers to perhaps we will get those. it is going to be a very long and expensive inquiry. so there we go. so john oxley, thank you so >> so john oxley, thank you so much for talking us through those two enormous issues this week. yes thank you. >> storm, kieran , has >> well, the storm, kieran, has swept across the british isles and channel islands, leaving and the channel islands, leaving roofs cars roofs torn off, homes and cars smashed by golf ball sized hail stones as well. >> gb views from the channel islands have sent in their experiences of the carnage . experiences of the carnage. >> george i'm in jersey channel islands, where the storm passed through us in the early hours of this morning of sort of between two, three, 4:00. winds were reaching up to 104 miles an hour , cause extent of devastation,

particularly in the south of the island . many residents evacuated island. many residents evacuated throughout the night by the emergency services who were who were fairly well stretched. it is only a small island and as you can see in the background, there's still a lot of heavy rain in the in the sky. but generally the winds are just starting to ease off. um, fortunately , i was pretty lucky, fortunately, i was pretty lucky, as you can see in the background. just a load of fence panels down. so now i count myself very lucky . but unlike myself very lucky. but unlike many residents . in here in many residents. in here in guernsey , the intensity of the guernsey, the intensity of the storm hit us at around 2:30 am. and has been continuing to batter the island ever since . batter the island ever since. >> we've seen reports of over 70 trees down and that's probably just the ones reported on main thoroughfares in guernsey . we thoroughfares in guernsey. we have lots of small roads that they're covered in debris and

they're covered in debris and the clean up operation is going to take some time yet. the clean up operation is going to take some time yet . the to take some time yet. the government made a decision on tuesday to close all schools as given the intensity that the storm was going to have. and that meant that businesses also made the decision to close today . so pretty much we're in lockdown here in guernsey , lockdown here in guernsey, broken , broken, gone, broken , broken, broken, gone, broken, broken, broken, gone, broken, broken, gone for the roofs and the houses , police cars the houses, police cars littering the road , roads, littering the road, roads, ambulances , fire engines . ambulances, fire engines. >> i wouldn't be surprised if all the fire engines were out last night . all the fire engines were out last night. our all the fire engines were out last night . our next door last night. our next door neighbour, doris, who her house is flooded. my mum and dad were going around there to help them . going around there to help them. there's like two tonnes of sand on all our balconies as it's been thrown over. um yeah. jersey is pretty much said to everyone , don't go into work.

everyone, don't go into work. the majority of us just got the day off and you can see why. because it was carnage . everyone because it was carnage. everyone everything was just getting blown to the right . blown to the right. >> oh, can't age. that was stephen. jess and william and jack and thank you so much for sending us in your videos. of course, if you live in an area affected by these storms, then do get in touch. vaiews@gbnews.com. but let's now go live to jeff moody , who now go live to jeff moody, who is on the south coast of england. and, jeff, the clean up effort has begun . effort has begun. >> it has indeed. i mean, what a difference a day makes. i mean, it's glorious sunshine today and the waves here yesterday were absolutely huge. and you can see that the damage that they've caused, if you just look at this, this brick wall, the waves have been so strong and fierce that it's totally taken down these walls. and even the paving stones that were on top of the walls. and if you look over here and see the pier , for those

and see the pier, for those listening on the radio, the pier is part of the pier is totally destroyed. all of the cladding has come off of it. it's a it's a mess. it's a family run pier. and hopefully it won't take them too long to repair. but luckily, you were hearing just now how jersey and the channel islands had the worst of it. luckily here in the uk, this is the sort of thing we're dealing with. we're with of we're not dealing with loss of life. dealing with loss of life. we're dealing with loss of buildings, loss of infrastructure . for most of the infrastructure. for most of the situation seems to have gone away. now that storm, kieran, is up in the north sea and dissipating considerably . train dissipating considerably. train lines are open again , ferries lines are open again, ferries are open again . the crossing to are open again. the crossing to france is open , dover is fully france is open, dover is fully functional again, school bells are starting to come back as of monday. so really we are over the worst of it. but there are still some important flood alerts and some flood warnings in place. quite a few flood alerts , in fact, dotted right alerts, in fact, dotted right across the country, but most particularly up in parts of

scotland and in the south—east of england. the flood alert there is for saturday. so we are still looking at some torrential downpours on top of all the rain that we've had before. but nothing like we saw yesterday . nothing like we saw yesterday. so i think we got away with it lightly . well thank you very lightly. well thank you very much indeed. >> jeff moody there on the devon coast. >> yes. and thank goodness that we haven't seen any loss of life. it could have been so much worse. and we've had some people writing in actually saying that thank goodness that people have been that the forecasts that the weather forecasting has actually been pretty, pretty superb with regard this storm. regard to this storm. >> really appreciated >> yeah, really appreciated seeing what what life is actually like and the destruction that's occurred from our viewers. fantastic shots there. but obviously huge amounts of carnage and destruction. so what storms do? yes. >> well, still to come is an englishman's right to set off fireworks in his own back garden? is that a right of every

freeborn englishman or indeed this is an of the rest of the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland. out .

michael portillo gb news britain's new . channel britain's new. channel >> welcome back to britain's newsroom. it's 1128 and >> welcome back to britain's newsroom. it's1128 and you're with me. tom hannood and emily carver. >> you are now veteran charities are calling for tougher restrictions on the sale of fireworks . help for heroes and

fireworks. help for heroes and combat stress, say unexpected flashes and loud noises can bnng flashes and loud noises can bring back traumatic memories of combat. >> well, joining us to discuss this is the head of clinical and medical services at help for heroes, carol betteridge . good heroes, carol betteridge. good morning, carol. i suppose a lot of people would be worried at the prospect of further government restrictions on what people can buy. >> yeah, i completely understand that. and we don't want to affect people fun or the enjoyment of fireworks in november and other cultural events. but what we would ask is that there's an independent review on the sale to help people understand that it can have a really traumatic effect on veterans . as you can imagine, on veterans. as you can imagine, being in a conflict or involved in an explosion and then the sight sound and the smells of fireworks can have a really distressing effect on our veterans. and so we'd really like to be reviewed . like to be reviewed. >> carol, a lot of the time when

we talk about fireworks , we talk we talk about fireworks, we talk about pets. actually finding a lot of distress. many of our viewers won't be aware that this can be quite triggering for veterans. can you explain a little bit about the experience some veterans might have hearing fireworks ? fireworks? >> yeah, absolutely . as i said, >> yeah, absolutely. as i said, if you are in an explosion and it's that bright light, the loud noise and the smell that's really mirrored in the effects of the firework going off and 74% of our veterans in a recent survey would really like the days to be restricted. so perhaps in public events rather than in everybody's gardens , than in everybody's gardens, just to try and help them in that difficult experience of the firework . as you said, you know , firework. as you said, you know, we have a right to choose . we have a right to choose. everybody has a choice, but we would like you to consider those who fought and still fight to allow people to have that choice. just consider them this weekend and next weekend during

remembrance. just remember that you have that choice because of . you have that choice because of. >> well, thank you very much indeed, carol betteridge there, head of clinical and medical services at help for heroes . services at help for heroes. some food for thought there . some food for thought there. >> let's get some more analysis now from head of lifestyle now from the head of lifestyle economics the institute of economics at the institute of economic christopher economic affairs, christopher snowdon . christopher carols, snowdon. christopher carols, there asking for days where there asking for some days where fireworks are not set off to respect the wishes of our veterans . veterans. >> yeah , but which, which ones? >> yeah, but which, which ones? i mean , obviously the big one is i mean, obviously the big one is coming up november. the fifth. are we allowed to set fireworks off any other day for our birthdays , for anniversaries, birthdays, for anniversaries, for other celebrations? like i'm very sorry if people are distressed by by fireworks. i do genuinely do sympathise with any veterans with ptsd or so on, but i'm afraid there are all sorts of things that can always distress somebody or other at some point and you can'tjust go some point and you can't just go around banning things on that basis in my view. christopher

what do you think about carol also mentioned public events versus letting off fireworks in your garden . your garden. >> do you have sympathy with the view that perhaps fireworks should be left just to public should be leftjust to public monitored events ? monitored events? >> no, quite the opposite, actually. i think it's a lamentable turn of events over the last few decades that people have stopped letting off fireworks in their garden, which is much more fun than going to a firework display. i think firework display. i think firework displays are extremely bonng. firework displays are extremely boring . think governments boring. i think governments waste much money putting waste far too much money putting them on. they go too long. them on. they go on too long. apart from anything else, there's only about three different of fireworks, as different types of fireworks, as far and after far as i can tell. and after about minutes it all about two minutes it all gets a bit samey. whereas sticking a catherine wheel on your garden fence setting off is much fence and setting off is much more exciting. and there's also that element danger which you that element of danger which you don't to get with the don't tend to get with the government organised events. >> christopher, you're >> well, christopher, you're also time zone activist . of also a time zone activist. of course, you're campaigning for it to be more light in the evenings. does that not rather

contradict your pro firework position if it's to going be very, very bright in these dark winter evenings after your time zone reform that you've been trying to get british summer time throughout the whole of the yean time throughout the whole of the year, not undermine year, does that not undermine your for fireworks as well your case for fireworks as well this time of year? >> tom, it's getting dark. thanks greenwich mean thanks to the greenwich mean time fanatics getting dark at 5:00. under my sensible system , 5:00. under my sensible system, it will get dark at 6:00. either way, there's plenty of times to let off some plenty of time to let off some plenty of time to let off some plenty of time to let off fireworks in your garden. >> and christopher, do you have a dog? >> no, got a cat. >> no, i've got a cat. >> no, i've got a cat. >> and how does your cat fare when night when it's fireworks? night >> she loves it . i i'm not sure >> she loves it. i i'm not sure if that's true. >> my dog cowers terrified , >> my dog cowers terrified, shaking. and i think the problem is we all can prepare for bonfire night. but when there are fireworks going off, all throughout the autumn and winter, it can get quite tricky for people with pets and of course, veterans. as we were discussing to some extent, this

is an argument for planning reform build better insulated reform to build better insulated houses that keep out the big loud noises . loud noises. >> yes. and gardens, big spacious houses, not just flats , spacious houses, not just flats, but lovely suburban houses with nice big gardens to put a catherine wheel in. >> well, there we go. we've managed to tie the fireworks conversation into many other, many other subjects . thank you many other subjects. thank you very much indeed. christopher snowdon there, lifestyle snowdon there, head of lifestyle economics of economics at the institute of economic affairs. economics at the institute of eco much. affairs. economics at the institute of eco much. nanny state . >> much. nanny state. >> much. nanny state. >> when these stories all come together, know, got together, you know, we've got remember, fireworks remember, we've got fireworks night. we've got even even british summertime in greenwich mean wow what a show. mean time. wow what a show. >> know at home what you >> let us know at home what you think about that one. i imagine it will probably divide our viewers listeners. yes. it will probably divide our vieibecause listeners. yes. it will probably divide our vieibecause i steners. yes. it will probably divide our vieibecause i thinkrs. yes. it will probably divide our vieibecause i think everyone >> because i think everyone instinctively. well, like instinctively. well, it's like these you these marches again, you instinctively in instinctively want to be in favour of and respect favour of veterans and respect and being nice, but also you've got to support freedom. >> you do well . still to come, >> you do well. still to come, matt hancock has been in the news all week, but when he wasn't socially distancing from

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and people that i knew had dewbs & co week nights from . six & co week nights from. six >> well, it's 1140. sorry, i thought you were going to do that one, but it does actually say my name on the autocue should have paid attention there. is britain's there. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with me, tom hannood carver. hannood and emily carver. >> we've had of >> yes. now, we've had lots of emails coming the debate emails coming in over the debate around fireworks. lot around fireworks. a lot of veterans distressed by veterans can be distressed by fireworks so on. fireworks with ptsd and so on. it remind them of being at it can remind them of being at war or in a war zone. so who is this malcolm from carlisle who says , oh, no, we don't want to says, oh, no, we don't want to do that one. that's a bit rude , do that one. that's a bit rude, adrian. fireworks should be limited to certain days and times outside. that should be illegal or eligible for a fine. i think they should also use silent fireworks. need silent fireworks. you don't need the for the spectacle. >> you do need loud bangs. >> you do need the loud bangs. i find there are people who say

you can just replace fireworks with drones and drones are lovely. they can make pretty shapes in the sky, but you don't get fizz and the pop and the get the fizz and the pop and the excitement smell excitement and the smell and everything. makes the 5th everything. that makes the 5th of november very magical . of november so very magical. well, adrian the plague of well, adrian says the plague of irresponsible people with explosives brackets, fireworks, letting them through the letting them off through the night. fireworks should only be sold licenced organise sold to licenced organise events. so adrian with events. so adrian disagrees with me he wants me and he wants he wants a licence raj for fireworks and an has simple solution. has a simple solution. >> says defenders. my >> she says ear defenders. my husband uses them all the time, especially when i'm talking to him. well, there go . him. well, there we go. >> this paradise that is >> love this paradise that is that is, think, probably the that is, i think, probably the most sensible suggestion that we've in inbox over all. we've had in the inbox over all. >> but let's move on to other stories now. delighted to be joined the political joined by the political commentator matthew stadlen and the communications officer at the communications officer at the institute of economic affairs. reem ibrahim. and, matthew, let's start with you, because have been talking because we have been talking about these palestinian marches and particularly one that's planned for the 11th of november. >> yeah, so this is obviously

causing concern not just amongst police forces because the strain that they're under anyway on remembrance weekend , but also remembrance weekend, but also amongst jewish communities. and it's this wider question of how what's happening in the middle east, the horrors that we're witnessing, the horrors we saw in israel, the horrors that we're seeing in gaza are now being reflected within our own society and remembrance weekend of course, is a very , very of course, is a very, very important date in our national calendar. it's a moment when we respect and remember those who died in our name, in the name of freedom. that's why we're wearing poppies right now. so any hint that sunday itself, which is, of course, remembrance sunday, that's that's when the big ceremonies at the cenotaph takes place. any hint that that could be disrupted is very concerning. a lot of people will find very offensive this march as recent marches have taken place, is due to take place on the saturday, which is remembrance day, because it's the 11th, i think it would be

more concerning were it due to take place on the sunday. but there is some fear that there will be overspill onto the sunday and that will make the lives of police officers much more difficult than they othennise would be. >> and just just on that point , >> and just just on that point, do you think, therefore, that this march on the saturday should go ahead, almost let people let off steam then? so then the sunday is kept more sacred? i i just feel and we know that gb news brands itself as the home of free speech. >> of course, we understand there are limitations to free speech as well as responsibility as i feel that so long as people are demonstrating within the law and peacefully , we shouldn't be and peacefully, we shouldn't be stopping marches . so that would stopping marches. so that would even extend to sunday. do i think that people would be well advised to march on sunday? absolutely not. do i think that any support of hamas needs to be clamped down upon by the police? i absolutely do . any hint of i absolutely do. any hint of

anti—semitism . we need to root anti—semitism. we need to root this out . but anti—semitism. we need to root this out. but i do anti—semitism. we need to root this out . but i do believe anti—semitism. we need to root this out. but i do believe in the freedom to protest. >> reem. >> reem. >> i don't think we can understate how upset many british people will be if we do see mass protests during remembrance . remembrance. >> oh, of course. but i think that you know, as as matthew pointed out, we shouldn't just be banning things because people are upset i think that are upset by it. i think that emily would also maybe agree with me that we shouldn't be banning speech because some people offended or by people are offended or upset by it. now, course , as a result it. now, of course, as a result of these protests, many people will be upset because they feel as though it is taking away the limelight from those those incredibly people that incredibly brave people that fought our country. however, fought for our country. however, there are also many people that would like to go these would like to go on these marches because they feel as though they want to grieve with one for the millions one another for the millions of lives that potentially at lives that are potentially at risk result of this risk as a result of this horrible situation that is occurring in the middle east. i think it's important that we uphold freedom of expression, even if it's those for those people we may disagree

people that we may disagree with, though we that with, even though we know that this organised this march has been organised and to be busing in and it's going to be busing in people from all the country people from all over the country at same time as our veterans at the same time as our veterans , us and those who've given their security and their lives for our security and our freedoms should be respected and remembered . and remembered. >> and i cannot think of anything more tasteless. >> i, i would actually agree. i do think it's tasteless, but i think that ultimately we should we should be allowing people to do if wish to. and do that if they wish to. and i think that it's very dangerous territory that we can enter into think that it's very dangerous tewe)ry that we can enter into think that it's very dangerous tewe start at we can enter into think that it's very dangerous tewe start banningn enter into think that it's very dangerous tewe start banning protests 1to if we start banning protests because offended by because people are offended by them. as soon as we start banning language that are banning language that people are offended a offended by, we're entering a very, very , dare i say, very, very, dare i say, authoritarian slash dystopian era . when we start getting into era. when we start getting into that. and i think that, you know, i think gb news is fantastic for this, for allowing freedom of expression, allowing for open we for this kind of open debate. we have consistent about it, have to be consistent about it, even if it's things that we disagree have to still disagree with, we have to still allow to happen. allow it to happen. >> yes, i wonder if the compromise here and this is what the police are saying, is that

there will be no disruption of proceedings with relation to remembrance so protests, remembrance events. so protests, if they happen , can take place if they happen, can take place elsewhere , away from whitehall, elsewhere, away from whitehall, just to say on the substance of what some of these marchers are marching for, does it mean that i don't think they should be allowed to march, but i would ask them some serious questions. >> they me, palestine >> they say for me, palestine on the on the face of it, seems to be innocuous tous who wouldn't want be free? i just ask them want to be free? i just ask them this. if you're the israeli government who government and i'm someone who thinks government is thinks the israeli government is far and that netanyahu is far right and that netanyahu is a dangerous figure to be heading up in israel, not least because these attacks, these mediaeval attacks on israel happened under his watch, but also because under his premiership, illegal settlements have continued to be built in the west bank. but even if someone with the best of intentions, evans was prime minister of israel . how do you minister of israel. how do you free gaza when we know that there are people in gaza in the shape of hamas who want to wreak terrible atrocities in israel? >> well, this is a very good

point. we don't see people on these marches calling for, i don't know, free palestine from hamas, for example . hamas, for example. >> but also what does it mean to free gaza? israel is hasn't been in gaza for more than a decade. what it mean? withdrew all what does it mean? withdrew all of its troops? >> what think it means is >> what they think it means is presumably to take down the border fence because gaza is to some an open air prison. some extent an open air prison. what i ask these people is if you have a death cult that is in charge that strip land , charge of that strip of land, how government , even if how can any government, even if it is, as i say, well meaning and trying to do the right thing, even if it is ideally stick, how can it take down that security infrastructure when even when it existed, these atrocities were able to be perpetrated? >> i've got to say, i suspect that the majority of the people that the majority of the people that will be protesting on saturday haven't thought this far. >> and actually they don't really think beyond the sort of nofion really think beyond the sort of notion palestine. but notion of free palestine. but again, should be again, i mean, they should be free, free to do so. and we can have conversations as have these open conversations as i suspect what people generally mean say free

mean when they say free palestine is freedom the palestine is freedom from the illegal the illegal settlements that the israeli pushed israeli government have pushed fonnard. i worry that fonnard. and i do worry that many these protesters have many of these protesters have not come hard line against not come out hard line against against hamas and their and their absolutely horrendous actions on october 7th. and indeed to their own palestinians. i think they actually go further than just freeing the west bank. >> they use this phrase, this inflammatory phrase , don't they? inflammatory phrase, don't they? from the river to the sea. that includes gaza. so if you ask the vast majority of people on this march what they mean by free palestine, it would include freeing would suspect, freeing gaza. i would suspect, from the security apparatus . and from the security apparatus. and ijust from the security apparatus. and i just can't understand how you can logically have that position. >> and there's also the kind of people and i've seen many videos on marches people ask, on these marches of people ask, what do you mean by free palestine? you count palestine? where do you count palestine? where do you count palestine they say, palestine to be? and they say, all area from the jordan all of the area from the jordan river to the mediterranean sea, which annihilation which means the annihilation of the yes, i. the jewish state. yes, i. >> i hope i hope, conversely, that if you were to talk to most people on this march, they haven't thought that phrase through . and they did, they

through. and if they did, they wouldn't calling wouldn't be calling for the elimination israel. they elimination of israel. if they believe elimination of believe in the elimination of israel, afraid that amounts israel, i'm afraid that amounts to anti—semitism. oh a very severe type of it. >> i totally disagree. >> i totally disagree. >> i totally disagree. >> i think you can be anti. i think you can be anti—zionist without being anti—semitic. i think generally speaking, think that generally speaking, many confuse two, many people confuse the two, conflate and they tend conflate the two, and they tend to in but it is to go hand in hand. but it is absolutely a perfectly reasonable position to have to be anti zionist and not. >> is it is it is it a reasonable position to have to say that one country in the world uniquely shouldn't exist? >> yes, i mean, if you're if you're an anarchist and you believe you're against all states. >> but but that's the thing. if you're if you're someone who's against colonialism and you say, i don't think israel should exist australia or new exist or australia or new zealand or america or canada, then then reasonable i >> but if you but, but if you say that. >> but for jewish >> but only for the jewish state, raise an eyebrow? >> well, i think the idea >> well, i think that the idea here is that many people and again, this is a position i again, this is not a position i agree with, i believe the un agree with, i believe in the un solution two states, but solution in two states, but there many people would

there are many people that would hold the position that the establishment of the state of israel enforced upon israel was enforced upon them. and was promised in and it was it was promised in the balfour declaration only, and it was it was promised in the know, r declaration only, and it was it was promised in the know, just:laration only, and it was it was promised in the know, just:lara overjnly, and it was it was promised in the know, just:lara over 100 you know, just just over 100 years really was not years ago. it really was not a state that had pre—existed again, i mean, i don't believe in these arguments, but i'm saying that they are reasonable. >> i feel how far back you >> i, i feel how far back you go. i feel quite strongly about this. >> you're absolutely right that israel jews sometimes are israel and jews sometimes are conflated . anti—semites use conflated. anti—semites use israel as a way to express their anti—semitism. and some people who defend israel, right or wrong , use anti—semitism as wrong, use anti—semitism as a way of searching for impunity for israel. but if you are calling for the annihilation of the jewish state, yes, there are 2 million arabs. i think , who 2 million arabs. i think, who live within israel proper. but nonetheless, i cannot see how that comes from a position of anything other than anti —semitism. >> i anti—semitism. >> i think there are many people that would disagree with you. i mean, again, this is not a position i hold, but i'm saying that there are many people that would argue that historically,

looking way in which the looking at the way in which the effectively built effectively the west have built up states that the plo up these two states that the plo have failed hamas now have control over entirely. and control over gaza entirely. and there are other militant groups that have control over other palestinian there palestinian territories. there are many people that would hold the position that israel itself is unjust state. again, it's is an unjust state. again, it's not one i agree with. there are people who've lived there for decades, after decade after decade. are some families who >> there are some families who have there for hundreds of have been there for hundreds of years. and therefore, if you're calling for annihilation of calling for the annihilation of israel, in effect, you're calling millions of jews to calling for millions of jews to be displaced, that would be ethnic cleansing along anti—semitic lines. >> and a lot of jewish people in this country, unfortunately , and this country, unfortunately, and across the west, are genuinely fearful of what they're seeing on our streets, whether it's people ripping down posters of hostages that are still being kept by hamas, whether it's anti semitic chants, which we have seen, and jihad. people are scared . we can't underestimate scared. we can't underestimate that. >> it's worth thinking back to the camp david summit in 2000 as well, when there was a position

for a two state solution there on the table. >> i think i think the palestinian authority was offered something like 98% of the west bank and all of gaza and the rest of it. and because of this purist anti—israel position, palestine position, the palestine authorities at that summit walked away from offer, walked away from that offer, which seems extraordinary. which just seems extraordinary. >> that's a really tricky and important period of history because it did seem that there was hope many people do was hope and many people do blame aliens for the blame palestine aliens for the palestinian leadership at the time turning that time for turning down that opportunity. but if you ask some people are more sympathetic people who are more sympathetic to reasons they turned it to the reasons they turned it down, it because they down, it was because they thought it wasn't actually thought that it wasn't actually a palestinian state. so a viable palestinian state. so this is really tricky territory. it's enormously nuanced. the real tragedy for me, apart from the repercussions that we're seeing within our own society that we've talked about, the real tragedy for me is i cannot see how how this is solved. i cannot see how israel's legitimate security concerns tally with innocent palestinians , legitimate desire for freedom.

and that for me is a tragedy. and that for me is a tragedy. and i suppose israel will be thinking , and i suppose israel will be thinking, looking at the looking at looking at gaza, looking at the situation there. >> as soon as they leave. again it's probable , perhaps, that it's probable, perhaps, that hamas just grows back up again. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> and this is the problem with many people that are calling for a ceasefire. ultimately, we know throughout history when we see a cease fire, it freezes conflicts in the position that they are currently in that will again allow hamas to build up their their artillery functions even even more. and i think it's very, very we cannot underestimate the complexities of this conflict . but underestimate the complexities of this conflict. but and i think it's very important that we that we do so. but it's very interesting to see the way in which other countries have responded . mean, half responded. i mean, i'm half egyptian. we've seen the egyptian. we've seen the egyptian come and egyptian government come out and say are absolutely say hamas are an absolutely horrendous organisation. but again, we need to be thinking about the complexities the ground. >> well, such a complex issue, i'm afraid we have run out of time. were going to get to time. we were going to get to more stories, but this

conversation been conversation has been so fascinating. you, both fascinating. and thank you, both of for talking us through of you, for talking us through these, say, deeply complex these, as we say, deeply complex issues. and reem >> matthew stadlen and reem ibrahim, you very much ibrahim, thank you very much indeed. we've come the end of indeed. we've come to the end of our it has flown by again, our show. it has flown by again, tom, coming up next is tom, with you. coming up next is gb news with dawn neesom. gb news live with dawn neesom. today, newsroom today, britain's newsroom is back monday at 930 . back monday at 930. >> hello, i'm alex deakin. this is your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. not quite the calm after the storm, but certainly the weather. not as wild today as yesterday. storm kwarteng continues to head out into the north sea. there is another deep area of low pressure that will bnng area of low pressure that will bring some wet and windy weather this in between the this weekend. but in between the weather just few weather systems, just a few showers having showers around today. having said still close said that, we are still close enough to the storm in eastern scotland for more rain to potentially some further potentially cause some further issues. so we do have a met office yellow here. office yellow warning here. plenty for north west plenty of showers for north west england, wales, some for northern ireland, too many. northern ireland, not too many. further and east though further south and east though many places having and many places having a dry and a bnght many places having a dry and a bright day with some sunny

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metropolitan police have vowed to use all its powers to stop disruption of remembrance . disruption of remembrance. weekend commemorations amid ongoing pro—palestinian protests. will the police get a grasp of the situation or is the minute silence two minute silence indeed at risk ? then gb silence indeed at risk? then gb news understands almost 100 british citizens are on the list of foreign nationals due to leave gaza via the rafah crossing. today, our security editor mark white is on the ground and will give us all the latest on that. and it's the king's last day in kenya. his state visit will finish by sitting down with faith leaders to hear about their work in promoting peace, security and development in that country . all development in that country. all of that and much more. but first, here's the news with sophia . good