next weekend. protest are on next weekend. protest officials say they will stay away from the cenotaph on remembrance day, but will the two minute silence be respected ? two minute silence be respected? and later on, with a fresh weather warning across the south, i'll be joined by a weather journalist, nathan rael on the very latest with storm karen. and do get in touch . send karen. and do get in touch. send me your thoughts on gbviews@gbnews.com or message me on our socials. it's very simple . we're at gb news but first let's catch the news with the lovely sophia . thank you, dawn. lovely sophia. thank you, dawn. >> good afternoon. it's 12:00. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. the prime minister says plans by some groups to protest during remembrance commemorations are provocative and disrespectful. in a statement , rishi and disrespectful. in a statement, rishi sunak said the right to remember in peace and dignity must be protected . dignity must be protected. labour leader sir keir starmer echoed the comments, saying he supports the police in whatever

action is needed . it comes after action is needed. it comes after reports of plans by demonstrators to march during remembrance events calling for a ceasefire in the israel—hamas war. at least 15 people have been killed and 60 wounded in an israeli airstrike on an ambulance convoy in gaza. that's according to the hamas led health ministry . israel's health ministry. israel's military said it struck an ambulance it claimed was being used by hamas militants. it said hamas fighters were killed in the strike and accused the group of transferring militants and weapons in the ambulances . weapons in the ambulances. meanwhile, palestinian red crescent has condemned the strikes, saying it amounts to a war crime. it released a statement saying one of its own ambulances was hit with the strike, several strike, killing several civilians and injuring dozens more . a un official warns that more. a un official warns that there's no place that is safe in gaza right now as the conflict continues. you un refugee agency director tom white said there is little the organisation can do to protect gazans trying to shelter as israel continues its

ground offensive. it comes as israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu, rejected calls from the us secretary of state for a humanitarian pause. that's until 240 hostages are taken by hamas are freed. anthony blinken is meeting middle east foreign ministers in jordan who are calling for a ceasefire while in jordan, he visited a un relief centre and praised them for the extraordinary work they're doing every single day as a lifeline to palestinians in gaza. >> and a great a great cost . >> and a great a great cost. more than 70 members of unrra have lost their lives . thousands have lost their lives. thousands are putting their lives on the line every single day to show up at work to help people. i have extraordinary admiration for the courage that they're showing to british nationals are on the list to leave gaza through the rafah crossing today. >> it comes as scotland's first minister, humza yousaf , says his minister, humza yousaf, says his family have been able to leave

gaza through the crossing. palestinian officials say more than 700 nationals have than 700 foreign nationals have crossed the past two days, crossed in the past two days, including dozens of critically injured people . suella braverman injured people. suella braverman ian wants to restrict the use of tents by homeless people in towns and cities . the home towns and cities. the home secretary posted on acas we cannot allow our streets to be taken over by rows of tents occupied by people, many of them from abroad, living on the streets as a lifestyle choice. reports say the crackdown would target tents that become a nuisance, such as blocking shop doonnays and the charities , doonnays and the charities, which hand out camping equipment, face being fined over 200 flood alerts remain in place across the country after the destruction of storm ciaran. there's a yellow weather notice for heavy rain across the south and southwest of england today, which will remain in place until midnight. meanwhile, parts of eastern scotland are also being warned to expect heavy rain and strong winds . russell brand is strong winds. russell brand is being sued by a film extra who

claims she was sexually assaulted on a us movie set. the accuser says the actor appeared intoxicated and was carrying a bottle of vodka when he approached her on the set of arthur in 2010. the lawsuit has been filed in new york and is the first accusation to be made against brand in court. brand has not yet responded to the lawsuit and an effigy . of sadiq lawsuit and an effigy. of sadiq khan will go up in flames today as part of bonfire night celebrations. edenbridge bonfire society in kent will burn a giant effigy of the london mayor in the form of ulez camera to raise money for local charities. this society burns an effigy of a prominent topical celebrity every year . former effigies every year. former effigies include boris johnson , liz include boris johnson, liz truss. harvey weinstein , donald truss. harvey weinstein, donald trump and katie hopkins. truss. harvey weinstein, donald trump and katie hopkins . as this trump and katie hopkins. as this is gb news across 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 dawn .

back to dawn. >> thank you, sophia. now let's get started with today's topic , get started with today's topic, shall we? a lot to get through. packed show . now, nowhere is packed show. now, nowhere is safe in gaza. a united nations official has said there is little they can do to protect civilians as israel vows no ceasefire until hostages are released and casualties are mounting among the hamas run health ministry claims an israeli missile struck an ambulance convoy yesterday evening, but the violence may not end here. and escalation into all out war in the middle east remains very much on the table. hezbollah's leader, nasrallah, has said that some claim we are about to engage in the war. i am telling you , we the war. i am telling you, we have been engaged in this battle since october the 8th. israel in turn, warned them of a response of unimaginable, unimaginable magnitude if they decide to enter the war proper . in good enter the war proper. in good news, though , scotland's first news, though, scotland's first minister, humza yousaf, says his

family have been able to leave gaza through the rafah crossing. they were among 92 british nationals trapped in the enclave. they got approval to travel into egypt . our security travel into egypt. our security editor mark white, now joins us from tel aviv to bring us up to speed on what is happening literally as we speak. mark thank you very much for joining us again. could you tell us the latest events are out there . latest events are out there. >> well, the latest development reports are that the idf has said that they are going to allow this pause for vehicle traffic to move down the main highway in gaza from the north of gaza down to the south to allow more people to leave the area as per their instructions , area as per their instructions, they've been telling people to leave northern gaza for the better part of, what, ten days now, at least . but we know that

now, at least. but we know that there are still 350 to 400,000 odd people who have chosen to remain or are unable to move for whatever reason . about a million whatever reason. about a million people have moved south. that window, though, in terms of the highway being safe , according to highway being safe, according to the idf, is only three hours. it's from 1:00 to 4:00 our time. so not a lot of time at all to try and move south on that road. and we just don't know the circumstances of people if they don't have vehicles actually getting south is going to be next to impossible . so some real next to impossible. so some real concern. anthony blinken, the secretary of state for the us , secretary of state for the us, is still in the region, in jordan at the moment. he's been meeting a number of middle eastern leaders, having been here in israel yesterday , here in israel yesterday, meeting both the israeli prime minister and the israeli president . and although the us

president. and although the us is reiterating its response, its complete support for israel in prosecuting the war and continuing to defend itself, and that goal of destroying hamas is the us is urging caution as far as the civilian population is concerned. it wants to see the humanitarian pauses and it's not alone in that many of israel's allies are now calling for the same. they say these are not cease fires that the still support israel's right to continue the war effort. but to have a number of short pauses that would allow for more aid to get in and for the injured to be treated and for more people to evacuate from the north to the south of gaza . south of gaza. >> mark, i understand you had a pretty near—miss yourself overnight , which gives you pretty near—miss yourself overnight, which gives you you know, a sense of what it is like

for ordinary people living in israel and indeed in gaza . could israel and indeed in gaza. could you just just paint a picture of what happened, what it was like to come under rocket . fire? to come under rocket. fire? >> yeah, well, a tiny, tiny. any sense of what it's like to be living in israel? i think and under the constant threat of hamas rocket attacks , we were hamas rocket attacks, we were filming in a town called sderot in in the south of israel. it's one of the closest points to the border with gaza. it's only a kilometre away from northern gaza. and not just me, but gaza. and notjust me, but dozens of camera crews from around the world there on a hillside overlooking northern gaza. and you know, the concern is actually that we may well have been deliberately targeted because for some time now hamas has not been targeting stare, not because as a community, it's been evacuated. but last night, as we finished for the day, we

were leaving, we were heading to our vehicle. so the alarm sounds and the alarm signifying an air raid . when you're so close to raid. when you're so close to the gaza border , you've just got the gaza border, you've just got seconds to react it. and we did what was supposed to do. we had our ballistic armour on our helmets. we ran for the bomb shelter. but as i say, with just seconds to go, the cameraman and the head of security just made it a couple of steps ahead of me into that bomb shelter. they were just in the entrance to the shelter. i was just before the entrance to the shelter when the rocket impacted. and it was only 6 to 8ft away from where i was at that time, just on the other side of railings, we are the bomb shelter was in a nursery right next to a kindergarten . right next to a kindergarten. luckily, no children in there. they've been evacuated along with everyone else. but the detonation of that rocket was

incredibly well, it really was the impact almost blew me off my feet. our ears all of us, our ears were ringing, were dusted ourselves down and went back out to look at the damage that was done. and there was shrapnel and all of the buildings and cars around. why, you know , how we around. why, you know, how we managed to avoid being struck by the shrapnel for one thing is, you know , a great mystery. but you know, a great mystery. but so grateful for that. and yeah , so grateful for that. and yeah, it does to a very small degree, given extent , an understanding given extent, an understanding of what the israelis are up against on every day. these alarms are going off in communities right across israel and people run for the shelters. we you know, head to the shelters briskly as well. but you never think the rockets are going to come down. and, of course, this just shows you they do and they can come very close indeed. and that, you do and they can come very close indeed. and that , you know, indeed. and that, you know, experience of an impact is as of

nothing really compared to the munitions that are being directed towards gaza itself . directed towards gaza itself. are hamas targets are much more powerful, explosive lives. and we know, of course , about the we know, of course, about the many civilians that are being caught up in those regular explosions over there . explosions over there. >> mark, thank you very much for that. that's mark white, our home and security editor there, joining us from tel aviv at the moment where he is currently safe. and i just wanted to talk to mark about that, just to get a pen portrait of what it's like for out there, because we for people out there, because we get news daily basis. get the news on a daily basis. we all the facts and the we hear all the facts and the figures. hear the figures. we hear all the rhetoric. butjust figures. we hear all the rhetoric. but just get rhetoric. but just to get a small of what it's like small feeling of what it's like for families living out for the families living out there day in, day out there under this day in, day out . absolutely horrific. so thanks , mark. and the crew. they're doing sterling job and let's doing a sterling job and let's hope stay right now. hope they stay safe right now. you get loads more that you can get loads more on that story . on protesters are

story. on protesters are protesters are gathering for a third successive weekend for a ceasefire in gaza . thousands are ceasefire in gaza. thousands are expected to march in london today amid row over protest planned a week time which could disrupt remembrance day events. so let's cross to trafalgar square now and speak with our political correspondent , political correspondent, katherine forster catherine, thank you very much for joining us this morning. can you tell us what's happening where are what's happening where you are now? yeah so i'm here in trafalgar square in central london, where people are beginning to gather for this pro—palestinian protest rally. >> call it what you will. now it's due to have a minute's silence at 1:00. and then from about at 230, it's expected that all the people gathered here and i expect there will be thousands this is the third saturday in a row that these protests have been held in central london.

and, of course, we've seen them throughout the united kingdom and throughout the world. what we're expecting then is for them to march down whitehall, which you could just see over my shoulder, just to the right of nelson's column and the fountain and marched down whitehall past all the government buildings , all the government buildings, past all the cenotaph . and i past all the cenotaph. and i just walked up from there a few minutes ago and it is the police extremely well prepared. there's about 1600 met police officers on duty. there are metal barricades all the way down whitehall and around the cenotaph . the cenotaph is very cenotaph. the cenotaph is very much barricaded off. and i was talking to the police specifically stationed at the cenotaph. they say they're very clear here. they've been briefed very clearly , they say, on what very clearly, they say, on what would constitute grounds for arrest. obviously be displaying arrest. obviously be displaying a hamas flag , a hezbollah flag, a hamas flag, a hezbollah flag, both proscribed terrorist

organisations, potential having your face fully covered, although they said they would have a conversation with somebody and find out what their intentions were, i asked them about the chance from the river to the sea. they weren't really going to be drawn on that, but it's a huge operation in for the police, a lot of manpower required and of course, real concerns about what happens next, next saturday, where there planning , next, next saturday, where there planning, again, one of these weekly protests that's but that also is on armistice day isn't it a commemorate marking the end of the first world war with a two minute silence at the cenotaph . now, rishi sunak, the cenotaph. now, rishi sunak, the prime minister has made it clear he said it would be provocative and disruptive , respectful. the and disruptive, respectful. the home secretary has talked about these as hate marches, but currently no sign whatsoever of them being banned and the police treading quite a fine line. they've come in for criticism

for not being tough enough . if for not being tough enough. if i expect they are going to be more proactive, they're going to be looking at social media. are there was a couple of arrests yesterday of girls that had displayed the paratroopers on their backs at the 1st march. so it will be interesting to see how this unfolds. previous ones have been largely peaceful, but of course, there are always people on the extremes that do not take the majority view here. >> that's katherine forster there. thank you very much for joining us, catherine, and covering the march , the peace covering the march, the peace for palestine march, that is due to take place in london today. now pro—palestine protesters are also expected to turn out in large numbers on armistice day next weekend. as catherine was just alluding to there, tens of thousands are expected to march through london next weekend calling for ceasefire. now calling for a ceasefire. now rishi sunak, as you've just heard catherine say, has called the and the plans provocative and disrespectful, warning that war

memorials such as the cenotaph could be desecrated. but the palestine solidarity campaign say they have no intention of marching on or near whitehall. we'll see when we believe it. we now joining me is political commentator matthew stadlen and former brexit party mep belinda de lucy, now obviously welcome both . thank you forjoining me both. thank you for joining me on a saturday morning. i'm losing track of the day. it's saturday morning. obviously there's a march going on today, but the one that's garnering most of the headlines today is the one that is due to take place over armistice weekend next weekend. now we've heard how rishi sunak has described it. we have heard how suella braverman has described it as a hate march . braverman has described it as a hate march. i'm braverman has described it as a hate march . i'm just braverman has described it as a hate march. i'm just going to come to you first on this one, belinda. do you think this march should be going ahead on that day ? day? >> no, no, i don't. my blood has been running slightly cold over the last four weeks, witnessing what's been happening on our streets and in our stations

more. no go areas for our british jewish community. we you know, it's well known these marches are infiltrated by anti—semites , islamist terrorist anti—semites, islamist terrorist sympathisers as they know this. and the frequency of them, the constant day after day , protest constant day after day, protest after protest. it's now becoming quite intimidating and it's become more about what the impact it has on the local community and on british national identity and to choose as armistice day to keep running their protests. i think it's hugely disrespectful, not just to all of those who sacrificed their lives , including many of their lives, including many of our family members, uncles, grandparents , but 400 british grandparents, but 400 british servicemen and women have been recently killed in action in afghanistan , and there are 400 afghanistan, and there are 400 british families who've lost loved ones relatively recently. and this is a day for many of them, i presume, where they see

them, i presume, where they see the nation thanking their families for their sacrifice and paying families for their sacrifice and paying homage and having reflect on over those recently killed as well. and how many families will now be put off from coming to london because there is that threat of violence from these marches. if they were peaceful, why are so many wearing masks ? s why are so many wearing masks? s if they were peaceful, why are pro—israel ? p protests pro—israel? p protests being told stay at home? because told to stay at home? because there's pro—palestinian one there's a pro—palestinian one nearby their nearby and it might put their safety at you know, there safety at risk. you know, there are many incidences where are so many incidences where they don't scream peaceful. to me, think more me, i think it's more about intimidation and very intimidation and a very anti—british feeling about our values and respecting our dead and those who've sacrificed everything for us. >> feelings are indeed running very high in all communities. matthew, now the organiser of the , have made very the march, have made it very clear have we are not clear they have said we are not going the cenotaph, we are going near the cenotaph, we are not down whitehall. not going down whitehall. however, social however, if you look on social media, take long media, it doesn't take long for you find messages encouraging you to find messages encouraging people to go whitehall, go to people to go to whitehall, go to the cenotaph and ruin the two minute silence. basically now beunda minute silence. basically now belinda thinks this march

shouldn't be taking place at all, but we have a democracy . we all, but we have a democracy. we have a right to free speech in this country, and we have a right to protest. so what do you make of what is happening next weekend? >> yeah, i think fundamental to our democracy is the right to protest . if we do protest, we protest. if we do protest, we must do so peacefully and within the law. if we start banning tens of thousands of people from peacefully protesting whatever one might think of the messages within their march, we start very quickly to become in a very dark place as a country. what other protests would we want to have banned ? i'm jewish myself. have banned? i'm jewish myself. i don't actually feel there are any no go areas in my home town of london or in my country of britain. but i deeply sympathise with those jews who feel that there are absolutely everything needs to be done to uphold the law. and that includes clamping down very, very firmly on anti—semitism. let me just say this about armistice day. it's my freedom to respect armistice day. it's my freedom to honour

those two minutes of silence. that's what i'll be doing. my grandfather on my mother's side won the military cross in the second world war ahead of the d—day landings. this matters very deeply and personally. to me, matters to tens of me, it matters to tens of millions of us across the country. doesn't mean country. but that doesn't mean that other people are not to free protest peacefully on issues that they care deeply about. >> so with anti—semitism up year . on year 1,353% out as you've just said, you are jewish. matthew, how do you feel when you hear phrases like from the river to the sea and jihad? i mean, what does that mean ? mean, what does that mean? >> well, there's just no room for chance of jihad in this country , although i understand country, although i understand there are different interpretation of it. most people's interpretation of the chance of jihad is holy war. so i say that the police i would say that the police should very hard on should clamp down very hard on that. this is being whipped up. i think , on both sides and i think, on both sides and sadly, it's being partly whipped up sadly, it's being partly whipped “p by sadly, it's being partly whipped up by the home secretary. i don't think these are, by and

large, hate marches . i don't large, hate marches. i don't think that most people, or at least i hope that most people who chant chant is who chant that chant and it is a controversial chant from the river to the sea , think about river to the sea, think about annihilating israel or annihilating israel or annihilating jews. anyone who does issue that chant with that intent. obviously is despicable. and beneath contempt. but i don't think it is responsible politics for our home secretary to describe tens of thousands of people who at least claim to be marching in the name of peace as haters. >> i. belinda yeah , i slightly >> i. belinda yeah, i slightly take issue with that . again, if take issue with that. again, if it was one protest organised and to highlight that the civilian suffering , this is almost every suffering, this is almost every single day now this is taking over our station lines and our streets. how many days is it just now for indefinitely until they get their way, we are going to have to see our streets lined with people who admit their groups are infiltrated by haters. and the other thing i

just quickly want to say, dawn, this remembrance day, it's not just for british people. thousands of muslims and hindus also sacrificed themselves in the fight against. their efforts were instrumental in north africa. it's the one day this country could come together and unite above religion and politics. and it's been taken away from us. there is a sinister agenda behind the constant, repetitive process that we are seeing, and there is intimidation . my jewish friends intimidation. my jewish friends are scared of going to the synagogue. i'm glad that you're not. but there are many jewish people who do feel threatened by the of the the constant presence of the intimidating characters, bad characters that infiltrate these i >> why do you think you brought up? we've had the static protests at liverpool street station and king's cross, and i believe there is another one planned either for this weekend or next weekend. i couldn't quite work out which weekend it was going for the whole of trafalgar square, bringing that area standstill. i mean, area to a standstill. i mean, how do you feel about the way police policing these events police are policing these events ? i mean, what they did at the

stations, the protests is was illegal. so why why are the police not doing anything? well, the government sort of blamed the government sort of blamed the they you know, it's not >> they say, you know, it's not up to us. it's up to the police. the police blame legislation. it's circle where it's this massive circle where nothing's and nothing's going to get done. and even do make arrests, even if they do make arrests, this is not going to stop the hate. not going to stop hate. this is not going to stop the and feeling the movements and the feeling and of anti—semitism. and the rise of anti—semitism. much needs to be done, much more needs to be done, especially in our schools and universities where the conservatives overseen conservatives have overseen politicisation of our schools and universities and indoctrination of subtle anti—semitism coming through and anti—semitism coming through and anti british values. i want to be really clear on a couple of things. >> i hope i've sort of been clear enough so far, but protests have to be within the law, that means that if law, and that means that if they're outside the law, the police job. police need to do their job. of course that's crucial . course they do. that's crucial. secondly, the that secondly, the fact that i support the right of people to protest peacefully doesn't mean that i agree with everyone on that i agree with everyone on that march. obviously, i don't agree with the criminal elements on march or there on that on that march or there would criminal elements, but

would be criminal elements, but also what does free palestine actually mean? would an actually mean? what would an israeli government is in my view, a far right government. and a lot of people's views. but actually and i think they should absolutely withdraw from the west from illegal west bank from the illegal settlements free settlements. but what does free palestine mean when you palestine actually mean when you think gaza? the israeli think about gaza? is the israeli government to strip government supposed to strip down the protective fence , the down the protective fence, the infrastructure of defence around gaza, when it knows that gaza is run by a death cult that would like do what they did on like to do what they did on october the 7th all over again, stated that they would do that again tomorrow. >> have >> unfortunately, we have to move debate now . so move on from this debate now. so thank much, matthew thank you very much, matthew stadlen deluise. as stadlen and belinda deluise. as i said feelings running i said, feelings are running very high now. you are watching and listening to gb news saturday with me, dawn neesom. lots more coming up on today's show. but let's first let's take a look at the weather's a look at what the weather's doing with jonathan. hello there. >> i'm jonathan vautrey here with your gb news weather forecast by the met forecast provided by the met office. those of us gearing up for celebrations for some fireworks celebrations this , mainly to think this evening, mainly to think about taking umbrella,

about taking an umbrella, particularly for central northern of england and northern areas of england and wales. some outbreaks of rain quite cloudy here. further heavy showers and thunderstorms. also pushing areas pushing into southeastern areas of . the driest intervals of england. the driest intervals for areas of scotland and for inland areas of scotland and northern few coastal northern ireland. a few coastal showers to deal with. but underneath spells , underneath those clearer spells, some overnight . some fog could form overnight. and we'll also see those temperatures drop certainly temperatures drop off. certainly down single figures in temperatures drop off. certainly domcountrysideiingle figures in temperatures drop off. certainly domcountryside ,1gle figures in temperatures drop off. certainly domcountryside , underneath in temperatures drop off. certainly domcountryside , underneath the the countryside, underneath the cloud, elsewhere, just holding up a touch but could up a touch higher. but it could be off be quite murky to start off sunday and it take be quite murky to start off s|little and it take be quite murky to start off s|little bit and it take be quite murky to start off s|little bit of and it take be quite murky to start off s|little bit of time.nd it take be quite murky to start off s|little bit of time for it take be quite murky to start off s|little bit of time for all take a little bit of time for all that eventually clear that cloud to eventually clear its towards the north, its way off towards the north, see some the as well, see some of the fog as well, just clearing way just slowly clearing its way off parts scotland and then into parts of scotland and then into the afternoon, a bit of an east west our weather. the west split in our weather. the showers way in showers feeding their way in from could be from the west again, could be quite heavy times. quite heavy at times. eastern areas with areas staying largely dry with some sunshine some prolonged sunshine in there. temperatures ranging between 10 and 14 c. as we start off the new working week, low pressure is still close by, but it's situated to the north—east of us. so we start feeding in this airflow this north westerly airflow quite persistently. so relatively similar situation compared to sunday, where those

showers will continue to push their western areas, their way in to western areas, may to arrive further may begin to arrive further inland as head throughout the inland as we head throughout the day. certainly the further day. but certainly the further east more likely east you are, the more likely you dry and that you are to stay dry and see that sunshine. situation in sunshine. similar situation in as we head into tuesday, but wednesday may see some slightly more area of rain more persistent area of rain beginning enjoy your beginning to arrive. enjoy your evening. bye bye. >> bye . oh, thank you very >> bye bye. oh, thank you very much, jonathan. and lots more coming on today's show with coming up on today's show with fresh weather warning across the south, i'll be joined by weather journalist nathan rahl on the very latest with storm ciaran and we expect over and what we can expect over bonfire weekend. of that and bonfire weekend. all of that and much more to come. i'm dawn neesom watching and neesom and you're watching and listening gb news, britain's listening to gb news, britain's news channel .

gb news radio. >> it's 1231. gb news radio. >> it's1231. i'm sophia gb news radio. >> it's 1231. i'm sophia wenzler in the newsroom . conservative mp in the newsroom. conservative mp bob stewart has told chief whip simon hart he wishes to surrender the tory whip while he appeals against his conviction . appeals against his conviction. the beckenham mp was found guilty of a racially aggravated pubuc guilty of a racially aggravated public order offence as he racially abused a man after he allegedly told him to go back to bahrain outside the foreign office last december. the chief magistrate said stewart will not be jailed . the prime minister be jailed. the prime minister says plans by some groups to protest during remembrance commemorations are provocative and disrespectful. in a

statement, rishi sunak said the right to remember in peace and dignity must be protected. labour leader sir keir starmer echoed the comments, saying he supports the police in whatever action is needed . a un official action is needed. a un official warns that there is no place thatis warns that there is no place that is safe in gaza right now as the conflict continues. as un refugee agency director tom white said, there's little the organisation can do to protect gazans trying to shelter as israel continues its ground offensive . it comes as israel's offensive. it comes as israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu rejected calls from the us secretary of state for a humanitarian pause until all the 240 hostages taken by hamas are freed. anthony blinken is meeting middle east foreign ministers in jordan who are calling for a ceasefire . russell calling for a ceasefire. russell brand is being sued by a film extra who claims she was sexually assaulted on a us movie set . the accuser says the actor set. the accuser says the actor appeared intoxicated and was carrying a bottle of vodka when he approached her on the set of

arthur in 2010. the lawsuit has been filed in new york and is the first accusation to be made against court. brand against brand in court. brand has not yet responded to the lawsuit . and you can get more on lawsuit. and you can get more on all those stories by visiting our website, gbnews.com. now it's back to dawn . it's back to dawn. >> thank you, sophia. welcome back to gb news saturday with me dawn neesom . turn on your tv dawn neesom. turn on your tv onune dawn neesom. turn on your tv online and on digital radio. now the worst of storm ciaran may be oven the worst of storm ciaran may be over, but there's always a but. the met office has warned we won't be seeing blue skies this weekend. extreme weather looks set to continue with yellow warnings for rain stretching across the south coast of england. hey. bom by weekend now, joining me now is weather journalist nathan rahl to explain what's going on and when will next see some sunshine. nathan good afternoon. good afternoon. thank you. i was going to say good morning. i'm completely glued.

>> way that you've said. >> and there's bad weather >> and there's more bad weather to and it's itjust to come. and it's and itjust happens to come. and it's and itjust hapand; to come. and it's and itjust ha|:and here i am. >> and here i am. >> and here i am. >> here you are to tell me all to tell you all about it right. so what's happening with the weather? thankfully we're not expecting to see anything like we've the few we've seen over the past few days that has passed. >> now, there is, as you mentioned, warning for mentioned, another warning for rain the southern flank rain across the southern flank of and runs until of the uk, and that runs until midnight tonight. so if you're in area and you're in that warning area and you're having bonfire parties tonight, in that warning area and you're havingoneifire parties tonight, in that warning area and you're havingone toe parties tonight, in that warning area and you're havingone to e partiebut night, that's one to watch. but thankfully , it's sort more thankfully, it's sort of a more unsettled, mixed picture going fonnard the weekend, a bit fonnard into the weekend, a bit clearer tomorrow, but it's been an extraordinary week of weather, couple of weeks of weather, a couple of weeks of weather, a couple of weeks of weather these storms that weather with these storms that weather with these storms that we keep getting coming into the uk. how unusual these storms? >> know, know, >> i mean, you know, you know, i remember storms, these remember winter storms, these things happen. but they things happen. but are they genuinely more dramatic or are we making more of it right. >> really good question, because these storms are not unusual for these storms are not unusual for the time of year. we are in storm season after all. and these low pressure systems these are low pressure systems which atlantic which come in off the atlantic and and they cause and into the uk and they cause storms. was very unusual storms. what was very unusual

about storm and i remember about this storm and i remember last week was on your and last week i was on your show and i suspect we might get i said, i suspect we might get storm week storm ciaran this week and it was just glimmer of a storm on was just a glimmer of a storm on the models. very the weather models. very, very rapidly into rapidly on wednesday night into thursday, and what happened? intensified. and what happened? it moved over the jet stream into a cold region of air in the united states. and that gave it a boost of energy. and then it moved across the atlantic. and that's we saw it and was that's why we saw it and was explosive. cyclogenesis very that's why we saw it and was explo and cyclogenesis very that's why we saw it and was explo and deepening. is very that's why we saw it and was explo and deepening. is vethat's that's why we saw it and was explo ewasieepening. is vethat's that's why we saw it and was explo was such ning. is vethat's that's why we saw it and was explo was such ni surprise that's why it was such a surprise to some and theresa coffey some people. and theresa coffey saying it was the wrong kind of rain, from the wrong rain, it was from the wrong direction . direction. >> yes, was quite strange. >> yes, that was quite strange. >> yes, that was quite strange. >> yeah, was was the >> yeah, that was that was the week this actually came week before this actually came in now theresa in from the west. now theresa coffey that if the rain coffey said that if the rain comes in the east, we're comes in from the east, we're not for it. for not prepared for it. for it, i think be from the west or be think be it from the west or be it the if you get it from the east, if you get enough it, we're going to get enough of it, we're going to get flooding. so i don't really know what that meant. this one what what that meant. this one came the and that's came in for the west and that's really unsettled really where our unsettled weather from. weather comes in from. >> we have another one >> okay. do we have another one on way? >> okay. do we have another one on there|y? >> okay. do we have another one on there is no named storm on >> there is no named storm on the next one would be the way. the next one would be debbie. not there but debbie. it's not there yet, but will debbie for

will be debbie. debbie for debbie. named that one? >> who named that one? >> who named that one? >> are you to take >> these are you have to take that up the met office and that up with the met office and met eireann who name storms met eireann who name our storms but debbie. but the next one will be debbie. there's the forecast there's nothing in the forecast to going to get to say that we're going to get anything quite as severe as we've over 36 we've seen over the last 36 hours as it's bit more of just hours as it's a bit more of just an unsettled until an unsettled picture. up until the and then the middle of november and then it's colder. so wrap up it's turning colder. so wrap up and with you on and take a brolly with you on bonfire tonight, just in bonfire night tonight, just in case. the showers right. >> okay. and sort if you're >> okay. and sort of if you're celebrating night, celebrating tomorrow night, i think it's going think tomorrow night, it's going to a bit better. think tomorrow night, it's going to yes. bit better. >> yes. >> yes. >> tomorrow night should be better. weather better. the unsettled weather will met will have cleared the met office. that is office. weather warning that is in will have expired in place now will have expired by then. may issue by then. they may well issue another one. something crops another one. if something crops up these weather up in that time. these weather warnings are cropping up very, very sporadically. warnings are cropping up very, verkeep sporadically. warnings are cropping up very, verkeep an sporadically. warnings are cropping up very, verkeep an sitwradically. warnings are cropping up very, verkeep an sit aincally. warnings are cropping up very, verkeep an sit as i:ally. warnings are cropping up very, verkeep an sit as i said, so keep an eye on it as i said, we're in an unsettled period of weather, so it's always worth looking forecast and looking at the forecast and seeing region seeing where your region is going wet windy. going to be wet or windy. >> much you get in >> how much water do you get in general with these you general with these storms? you nofice general with these storms? you notice kieran notice you said that kieran suddenly of like a suddenly got a sort of like a turbo charged. >> yes, it did. >> yes, it did. >> but much warning we >> so but how much warning do we genuinely it's sort genuinely get? i mean, it's sort of like, you know, people

certainly in the country, certainly in the west country, we're talking to people in jersey yesterday, jersey and guernsey yesterday, we've really suffered. and you see pictures still see some horrific pictures still not now not looking that calm. now but how do we get of how much warning do we get of these right now? how much warning do we get of the storm right now? how much warning do we get of the storm ciaramt now? how much warning do we get of the storm ciaran undennent >> storm ciaran undennent explosive , which explosive cyclogenesis, which was the rapid that i love it. it's also called a weather bomb or a bomb cyclone. >> that's a good one. yeah, like that one that happened on tuesday. >> and we saw the effects of the storm wednesday thursday. >> and we saw the effects of the stoit1 wednesday thursday. >> and we saw the effects of the sto it happens nesday thursday. >> and we saw the effects of the stoit happens nesdirapidlythursday. >> and we saw the effects of the stoit happens nesdirapidly .|ursday. >> and we saw the effects of the stoit happens nesdirapidly . now, |y. so it happens very rapidly. now, modern technology and modern met office technology and forecasting technology is very good. we spot these things good. we can spot these things coming, don't know coming, but we don't know how intense they're going to be sometimes until really at the last but it's worth last minute. but it's worth pointing storm pointing out that this storm tracked to the south and tracked further to the south and it really unleashed most of its fury across northern france. and the had it been the channel islands had it been slightly to the to the north of that, we would have got more of an impact in the uk. so we actually dodged it a little bit. but of easy but in terms of how how easy they are to predict, we can see low pressure systems coming in and that's what meteorologists that's what the met office are always this sort always looking at. but this sort of intensification is

of rapid intensification is something that's catching us by surprise. a bit. you know, surprise. quite a bit. you know, recently what why in this country we're british, after all. >> we talk about the weather a lot and why are we always caught? we seem to be caught out the government seems to caught out local authorities seem to be caught when you know, we caught out when you know, we know these storms are coming. >> , think just we >> yeah, i think we are just we just loved i think we love to be caught out. just loved i think we love to be cauwe out. just loved i think we love to be cauwe always complain about the >> we always complain about the weather never weather and we are never prepared weather. be it prepared for the weather. be it summer be winter summer heatwaves, be it winter snow, be rain, which will snow, be it rain, which will disrupt the railway lines. we are never, ever prepared for it. and i think that's part of our british charm. we just we complain about the weather all the we're never ready the time and we're never ready for don't know why we're for it. i don't know why we're not ready for it because in sweden get sweden and scandinavia, they get far we do and far worse winters than we do and they seem to run seamlessly. we get snow in get a flicker of snow in november and everything grinds to a halt, grind to a halt. >> it's a cliche, but it's true. >> it's a cliche, but it's true. >> is it on one leaf on the line? who knows? >> in local tube, it's a >> in our local tube, it's a tube station underground. we've

got you got warning signs up saying, you know, line. yeah, know, leaves on the line. yeah, it's underground. know, leaves on the line. yeah, it's well, 'ground. know, leaves on the line. yeah, it's well, ifound. know, leaves on the line. yeah, it's well, if the d. know, leaves on the line. yeah, it's well, if the leaves come in >> well, if the leaves come in from west, it's the wrong from the west, it's the wrong it's right? it's the wrong sort, right? >> kind. what it >> wrong kind. that's what it is. right. okay. >> i'm to ask you to cheer >> i'm going to ask you to cheer me okay? i know where you're >> okay? i know where you're going yourself. going with this yourself. >> it is >> christmas. yes, it is literally just around corner literally just around the corner . going to be a white one? . is it going to be a white one? >> i'm in i'm in >> well, luckily, i'm in i'm in a where it's two months a position where it's two months away, pretty much say away, so i can pretty much say what i like. >> when it comes round, >> and then when it comes round, i can get with it. however i can get away with it. however i can get away with it. however i that it's two i won't do that now. it's two months any months away and with any certainty, say 5 to 10 certainty, i always say 5 to 10 days when you tell the days is when you can tell the weather. however, done weather. however, i've done a little of snow digging to little bit of snow digging to see what we get. now, see what we can get. now, according to met office, according to the met office, three and this three month forecast and this gives indication gives us a sort of an indication of in a chance of whether we'll be in a chance for there's a 15, chance for it. there's a 15, 15% chance of being colder between now and january. a 20% chance of january. okay. a 20% chance of it being milder now and it being milder between now and january it january and a 65% chance of it being average age. so it's likely to be average. >> now, ladbrokes, i asked him about a white christmas , a 6 to about a white christmas, a 6 to 1 chance in london, which i believe is about 14. >> so take that and do whatever

you will with it. the honest answer is too early to tell. >> right. >> right. >> okay. well, you're not really helping there, are you? but the general advice for bonfire weekend going weekend for everyone going out and having try and have a good time is take your brolly. yeah, take wellies . yeah. take your wellies. yeah. possibly thermals is going to be quite warm little bit colder quite warm a little bit colder than average about 1411. >> really cold. not it's not >> not really cold. not it's not a chiller. a little bit lower temperatures than average. but i think know take coat, take think you know take a coat, take a prepared for some a brolly, be prepared for some rain and have some fun. >> right. well, what it's >> right. well, that's what it's about, that's great. about, isn't it? that's great. >> thank about, isn't it? that's great. >> very thank about, isn't it? that's great. >> very much thank about, isn't it? that's great. >> very much for thank about, isn't it? that's great. >> very much forjoining:hank about, isn't it? that's great. >> very much forjoining us1k you very much for joining us today. things you very much for joining us today. and things you very much for joining us today. and we things you very much for joining us today. and we hope|gs you very much for joining us today. and we hope we've weather and we hope we've cheered you up a tiny weeny bit. there's a percentage you you heard the maths. i'm not going to do them again for you about maybe white christmas. fingers maybe a white christmas. fingers crossed. maybe a white christmas. fingers crosse about it, wouldn't we? snow moan about it, wouldn't we? snow everywhere. right. okay. now, moan about it, wouldn't we? snow everofhere. right. okay. now, moan about it, wouldn't we? snow everof you. right. okay. now, moan about it, wouldn't we? snow everof you havet. okay. now, moan about it, wouldn't we? snow everof you have beeniy. now, moan about it, wouldn't we? snow everof you have been sending us lots of you have been sending us your emails planned your emails on the planned pro—palestine protest , which pro—palestine protest, which could disrupt remembrance day events simon good events next weekend. simon good afternoon. simon says, i believe that people do have the right to protest, but not every week .

protest, but not every week. well, yeah, and next weekend is very important, obviously. david says that no protests should be allowed anyway near the cenotaph next weekend . that's what our next weekend. that's what our guest belinda was saying, wasn't it? it's such important day, it? it's such an important day, certainly people who've it? it's such an important day, certain veterans. ple who've it? it's such an important day, certain veterans. meanwhile served veterans. meanwhile stephen says there's no problem in people demonstrating on the day provided they don't encroach any other remembrance day proceedings. remember this day isn't only about the cenotaph. our service all over the our service is all over the country . yeah, absolutely. country. yeah, absolutely. that's a good point . country. yeah, absolutely. that's a good point. but country. yeah, absolutely. that's a good point . but keep that's a good point. but keep your in. actually, your views coming in. actually, this is all about you. we love listening and watching , listening and watching, listening and watching, listening to your views. it's not about me. it's about what you think , right? you are you think, right? you are watching listening. gb news watching and listening. gb news saturday neesom . saturday with me. dawn neesom. lots on today's lots more coming up on today's show . over 40% of pet owners show. over 40% of pet owners report that their pets are afraid of fireworks . our afraid of fireworks. our reporter anna riley will tell you how to keep your furry friends safe this weekend. all of that and much more to come. you're watching and listening to

sunday mornings from 930 on . gb news. >> welcome back to gb news saturday with me. dawn neesom on your tv, online and on digital radio. now with just a week to go until armistice day filled to remembrance have been opening across the country with 55,000 wooden crosses and other commemorative markers placed into the ground across the six sites. the fields act as a tribute to those who have lost

their life in conflict. our west midlands reporterjack their life in conflict. our west midlands reporter jack carson has been along to the national memorial auditorium to find out more . more. >> in a week's time, the nation will come together on armistice day , honouring those who have day, honouring those who have served this country at six locations across the country . locations across the country. fields of remembrance pay tribute to all those who have lost their lives in conflict from the first world war to the present day. in a special service this week, accompanied by a fly—past at the national memorial arboretum field open to the public, more than 15,000 crosses and commemorative markers have been planted at the arboretum and director of remembrance at the royal british legion, philip rawlinson, says the field is about coming together . together. >> i think the coming together of so many tributes, it's just is, at the is, especially here at the national memorial arboretum where planted together national memorial arboretum wia �*e planted together national memorial arboretum wia giant planted together national memorial arboretum wia giant phenomena together national memorial arboretum wia giant phenomena .)gether national memorial arboretum wia giant phenomena . asther national memorial arboretum wia giant phenomena . as you can in a giant phenomena. as you can see behind us, poppy, it really, really the symbolism really reinforces the symbolism of remembering together the

rbl's red poppy bringing us together and uniting us in, remembering those who served our country, lost their lives , and country, lost their lives, and also us coming together to hope for a peaceful future. >> the of remembrance at >> the field of remembrance at the memorial arboretum the national memorial arboretum is part of the is an important part of the royal british legion's history , royal british legion's history, continuing a tradition that beganin continuing a tradition that began in 1928 when poppies were planted around an original wooden taken from the wooden cross taken from the battlefield grave of an unknown british soldier in the grounds of westminster abbey. mark smith served with the royal artillery and intelligence corps. he and the intelligence corps. he says seeing support every year for poppy appeal fills him for the poppy appeal fills him with gratitude. >> i feel immensely grateful. i really do. as a veteran, as an injured veteran and somebody who knows the reason why , why we do knows the reason why, why we do what we do for the poppy appeal to public support is to see the public support is humbling and it's wonderful and it's great to that they're it's great to know that they're not only thinking about those that gone before us, but that have gone before us, but those are around and those that are still around and those that are still around and those are still yet to come i >> john parks is an army veteran who served in the third staffordshire regiment between

1991 and 1994, at the height of the covid 19 pandemic. in 2020, john developed a condition called charcot foot syndrome , a called charcot foot syndrome, a deterioration of bones and soft fissue deterioration of bones and soft tissue in the foot. john says support from the british legion was invalid , able to his was invalid, able to his recovery . recovery. >> when i was diagnosed with this charcot foot, i was told i couldn't walk on it and i wasn't allowed to walk on it. i couldn't work . couldn't work. >> so we were living . on £97 >> so we were living. on £97 a week sick pay and we just couldn't live. >> we couldn't pay the bills. the royal british legion got in contact and they said, a lady called caroline quinn from the local office in birmingham and she says, you need help . 2021 she says, you need help. 2021 i ended to have my leg amputated , ended to have my leg amputated, which was absolutely catastrophic. and the british legion were there to pick up the pieces and help us. and they

helped us tremendous . asli, if helped us tremendous. asli, if it hadn't have been for caroline and the british legion, i wouldn't be here today to tell to tell the story. >> the fields of remembrance are also located in london, cardiff, belfast, gateshead and swindon, with more than 55,000 tributes planted in total , a poignant planted in total, a poignant reminder of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice . jack carson ultimate sacrifice. jack carson gb news staffordshire . gb news staffordshire. >> thank you, jack . very moving >> thank you, jack. very moving report there. now let's have a look at a story that has turned more than a few heads this week. it's still raging online and has developed legs, as we say in the newspaper business. now, marks and spencer's apologised and pulled its christmas online advert after people claimed it was the burning of paper hats in a great resembl labelled the palestinian flag burning . the palestinian flag burning. the simple fact was that as you can see the picture there, the simple fact was the paper hats were traditional. christmas colours of red, green and silver, which people took to be white. now, following criticism ,

white. now, following criticism, the retailer dropped, it was an instagram outtake, basically . instagram outtake, basically. from the main advert. volan crismon. the retailer dropped the instagram post claiming that it was an outtake image that was recalled in august. but blimey ha, it's still going on online. it's certainly ruffled a few feathers and is continuing to rustle them, including my next guest. joining me now is gb news presenter of the saturday five, benjamin buttennorth . now, benjamin buttennorth. now, benjamin, you have spoken quite eloquently about this row during the week already . so what do you the week already. so what do you make of the whole fuss around ? make of the whole fuss around? there's 2—2, two elements to this story now. one, the burning of the paper hats, which happened to be the same colour as the palestinian flag and also the italian flag, but the italians have quite quiet italians have been quite quiet on what do you make of all on it. what do you make of all this i mean, it's still this fuss? i mean, it's still raging online now. >> you know, in >> well, you know, in journalism, have something journalism, we have something called silly season, which is when on. when there isn't much going on. and everyone goes a bit mad in summer. like we're summer. and i feel like we're having season .

having a winter silly season. but look, some people found having a winter silly season. but quite some people found having a winter silly season. but quite offensive. )le found having a winter silly season. but quite offensive. that's found this quite offensive. that's evidently you have the evidently true. so you have the colours are coincidentally colours which are coincidentally the palestinian the colours of the palestinian flag paper are flag and those paper hats are burned the fire in this burned in the fire in this instagram advert that m&s put out. i think the idea that out. and i think the idea that this was filmed in august, so it was filmed long before for the 7th of october atrocity and the latest conflict in the middle east started. but some people said that they should been said that they should have been conscious that they conscious of it, that they should known better in should have known better in their to their marketing department to remove these colours and the burning them, it's burning of them, because it's going provocative some going to be provocative to some people. look, think those people. now, look, i think those people. now, look, i think those people greater people probably need greater things to worry about. i'm not sure it's, you know, it's obviously not really about the palestinian then it's palestinian flag, but then it's grown into this idea that the advert in general is insulting. so is the main tv advert, so this is the main tv advert, isn't it? >> because that was instagram >> because that was an instagram promotion for the advert promotion almost for the advert and it was defended by tan france, who was one of the stars of tv advert, who you of the tv advert, who said, you know, basically get a grip. it was filmed in august their was filmed in august and their traditional christmas colours , traditional christmas colours, but that and but everyone ignored that and still going on about and

still going on about it. and also mentioning fact that also mentioning the fact that other things in the advert happen and white. so happen to be blue and white. so therefore is promoting israel i >> yeah, there's a woman in it, i think she's famous, but i can't remember her name, but she has blue and white eyeshadow on and so the suggestion was that that was a subliminal message. i think believe think unless you believe that a combination mystic think unless you believe that a comeas ion mystic think unless you believe that a comeas running mystic think unless you believe that a comeas running the mystic think unless you believe that a comeas running the m&s mystic meg was running the m&s marketing department, were marketing department, they were not forecasting a great middle east and it in east conflict and sticking it in their christmas so you their christmas advert. so you know, something slightly know, there's something slightly preposterous, but you're absolutely right that that it has on and it has seemed has moved on and it has seemed to. tell me tell me how to. yeah. tell me tell me how has it on? has it moved on? >> now the complaint ? >> i'm going to mispronounce 7 >> i'm going to mispronounce her surname. so will you remind me this as katharine birbalsingh i >> she is headmistress of michaela or michaela community school in london. she's known as the district headmistress, isn't she? she's very strict, very old school. she has written a letter to marks and sparks saying she is compelled to express her deep disappointment and outrage at the christmas advert . she says the christmas advert. she says you have a duty as a national

department store to keep the spirit of christmas alive for the sake of our children. when our nation is on its knees trying to keep our spirits high for year. this is trying to keep our spirits high for the year. this is trying to keep our spirits high for the time year. this is trying to keep our spirits high for the time foryear. this is trying to keep our spirits high for the time for you. this is trying to keep our spirits high for the time for you to his is not the time for you to encourage people ignore the encourage people to ignore the inspirational of inspirational spirit of christmas self—sacrifice, christmas. self—sacrifice, gratitude , giving of one's time gratitude, giving of one's time and finances to help fellow man. now the advert is tongue in cheek look, isn't it people sort of like, you know , i'm not going of like, you know, i'm not going to get stressed out by this christmas. i'm not going to slave over the ovens. you know, stay out wrapping presents all night time. night a little bit of me time. so why are people getting angry with that? >> you're right. so in >> yeah, you're right. so in the advert these advert they not only put these red , white and green party hats red, white and green party hats in a fire, but you see someone hitting an elf baseball hitting an elf with a baseball bat flying off. bat and it flying off. >> you see people, a real elf by the way. people. yes, indeed. >> up one. and you see >> a made up one. and you see people sort of not wanting to cook the idea is cook and things. and the idea is that do you at christmas that you do you at christmas s it's about being with your family. having the family. it's about having the joy necessarily about joy and not necessarily about spending seems spending money, which seems rather institution spending money, which seems

rath(exists institution spending money, which seems rath(exists for institution spending money, which seems rath(exists for you institution spending money, which seems rath(exists for you irspend)n that exists for you to spend money in it. now the suggestion is that not defending the is that it's not defending the spirit of christmas. i actually would disagree with britain's strictest headteacher because i think surely the spirit of christmas, especially if you're a traditional christian outlook on it, is that people get together they together not that they necessarily all the knick necessarily have all the knick knacks up and that they spend the small fortune on on food and clothing and the rest of it that you and she has you could do. and so she has expressed anger and said expressed anger and has said that comes to that actually when it comes to their apology for that red, white party hats, that white and green party hats, that they should that apology they should rescind that apology because those are colours of because those are the colours of christmas and that they've backed down on christmas as a british institution, as part of our british life. well you know, i think that's probably quite unreasonable because m&s unreasonable because i think m&s was in to apologise for was mistake in to apologise for it in the first place because i don't think most people were offended. i'd seen that instagram in the first instagram advert in the first place it only after the place and it was only after the apology occurred to me apology that it occurred to me it you it could have been the, you know, it like the know, it looked like the palestinian flag colours. >> it's anti is it. it's a >> it's not anti is it. it's a load baubles. yeah see what i

load of baubles. yeah see what i did there. are on the did there. why are you on the big money. benjamin buttennorth there . thank you very much for there. thank you very much for coming in and talking the m&s christmas we'll christmas advert and we'll see you later on on here, will we? >> unfortunately, you will. >> unfortunately, you will. >> in. what >> unfortunately, you will. >> are in. what >> unfortunately, you will. >> are you in. what >> unfortunately, you will. >> are you on? in. what time are you on? >> 7 pm. on the saturday. five. >> 7 pm. on the saturday. five. >> sure you >> marvellous. make sure you tune that. it's been tune in for that. it's been a great fun right now in a statement marks and spencer's great fun right now in a stateisaid. marks and spencer's great fun right now in a stateisaid. markrwe|d spencer's great fun right now in a stateisaid. markrwe shared cer's great fun right now in a stateisaid. markrwe shared an�*s have said today we shared an outtake from our christmas outtake image from our christmas clothing home advert clothing and home advert which was recorded in august. it showed traditional, festive coloured red, green and silver christmas paper hats in the fire. great and while the intent was to playfully show that some people just don't enjoy wearing paper christmas hats over the festive season have removed festive season, we have removed the following feedback and the post following feedback and we any we apologise for any unintentional hurt caused . well, unintentional hurt caused. well, there you go. so lots more coming up on today's show. a un official has said there is no safe place in gaza. this comes after a recent rocket attack in the south. i'll be joined by our editor from the zone to tell us more on that. all of that and much more to come. i'm dawn

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gaza. said there is no safe place in gaza . this comes after a recent gaza. this comes after a recent rocket attack near news media in the south of israel . i'll be the south of israel. i'll be joined by our security editor who was that media zone at who was at that media zone at the time. then we'll be going live to a pro—palestinian protest in london. but all eyes are on next weekend. protest officials say they will stay away from the cenotaph on remembrance day. but will the minutes, two minutes silence actually be respected? and coming up at the end of the hour , for the second time in a row, the bank of england left rates on hold at 5.25, the highest level in 15 years. i'll be breaking down what it means for the pennies in your pocket. the small amount there are and do get in touch . send me your get in touch. send me your thoughts on gbviews@gbnews.com or message me. thoughts on gbviews@gbnews.com or message me . really really or message me. really really simple on all the socials we're at gb news. but first, here's the news with sophia . the news with sophia. >> good afternoon. it's 1:01.

i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom . conservative mp bob newsroom. conservative mp bob stewart has told chief whip simon hart he wishes to surrender. the tory whip while he appeals against his conviction in the beckenham mp was found guilty of a racially aggravated public order offence. he racially abused a man after he allegedly told him to go back to bahrain. outside the foreign office last december , the chief office last december, the chief magistrate said stewart will not be jailed . the prime minister be jailed. the prime minister says plans by some groups to protest during remembrance commemorations are provocative and disrespectful. in a statement, rishi sunak said the right to remember in peace and dignity must be protected. labour leader sir keir starmer echoed the comments, saying he supports the police in whatever action is needed . at least 15 action is needed. at least 15 people have been killed and 60 wounded in an israeli airstrike on an ambulance convoy in gaza. that's according to the hamas led health ministry . israel's led health ministry. israel's military said it struck an ambulance it claimed was being used by hamas militants. it said

hamas fighters were killed in the strike and accused the group of transferring militants and weapons in ambulances mean while the palestinian red crescent has condemned the strikes, saying it amounts a war crime. a un amounts to a war crime. a un warns that there is no place thatis warns that there is no place that is safe in gaza right now, as the conflict continues . u.n. as the conflict continues. u.n. refugee agency director tom white said there is little the organisation can do to protect gazans trying to shelter as israel continues its ground offensives. it comes as israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu, rejected calls from the us secretary of state for a humanitarian pause until all 240 hostages are taken. taken by hamas are freed. anthony blinken is meeting middle east foreign ministers in jordan who are calling for a ceasefire. while in jordan , he visited a un in jordan, he visited a un relief centre and praised them for the extraordinary work they're doing. >> every single day as a lifeline to palestinians in gaza and a great a great cost .

and a great a great cost. >> more than 70 members of unwra lost their lives . lost their lives. >> thousands are putting their lives on the line every single day to show up at work to help people. i have an extraordinary admiration for the courage that they're showing. >> 88 british nationals are on their list to leave gaza through their list to leave gaza through the rafah crossing today. it comes as scotland's first minister, humza yousaf , says his minister, humza yousaf, says his family has been able to leave gaza through the crossing. palestinian officials say more than 700 foreign nationals have crossed in the past two days, including dozens of critically injured people . suella braverman injured people. suella braverman wants to restrict the use of tents by homeless people in towns and cities . as the home towns and cities. as the home secretary posted on nxt. we cannot allow our streets to be taken over by rows of tents occupied by people, many from abroad and living on the streets as a lifestyle choice. reports say the crackdown would target tents that become a nuisance,

such as by blocking shop doonnays and that charities which hand out camping equipment face being fined over 200 flood warning alerts are still in place across the country after the destruction of storm ciaran . the destruction of storm ciaran. there's a yellow weather notice for heavy rain across the south and southwest of england today, which will remain in place until midnight. meanwhile, parts of eastern scotland are also being warned to expect heavy rain and strong winds . russell brand is strong winds. russell brand is being sued by a film extra who claims she was sexually assaulted on a us movie set. the accuser says the actor appeared intoxicated and was carrying a bottle of vodka when he approached her on the set of arthur in 2010. the lawsuit has been filed in new york and is the first accusation to be made against brand in court. brand has not yet responded to the lawsuit and an effigy of sadiq khan will go up in flames today as part of bonfire night celebrations . edenbridge bonfire celebrations. edenbridge bonfire society in kent will burn a giant effigy of a london mayor

in the form of a ulez camera to raise for money local charities. the society burns an effigy of a prominent topical celebrity every year for effigies include bofis every year for effigies include boris johnson, liz truss, harvey weinstein and donald trump, and katie hopkins . weinstein and donald trump, and katie hopkins. this is gb news across 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 dawn . dawn. >> thank you very much. sophia right, let's get straight into today's topic, shall we? nowhere is safe in gaza. a united nafions is safe in gaza. a united nations official has said there is little they can do to protect civilians, as israel vows to no ceasefire until the hostages are released . and casualties are released. and casualties are indeed mounting. the hamas run health ministry claims an israeli missile struck an ambulance convoy yesterday evening, but the violence may not end there. an escalation

into all out war in the middle east remains very much on the table. hezbollah's leader , table. hezbollah's leader, nasrallah, has said that some claim we are about to engage in the war. i am telling you, we have been engaged in the battle since october the 8th. israel in turn, warned them of a response of unimaginable magnitude if they decide to enter the war proper . in they decide to enter the war proper. in good they decide to enter the war proper . in good news, they decide to enter the war proper. in good news, though , proper. in good news, though, scotland's first minister, humza yousaf , says his family have yousaf, says his family have been able to leave gaza through the rafah crossing . they were the rafah crossing. they were among 92 british nationals trapped in the enclave. that got approval to travel into egypt. now, as curator mark white joins us from tel aviv to bring us up to date and give us further development this afternoon. mark, thank you very much for joining us once again. so can you tell us what's been happening today ? happening today? >> yeah, we are in the middle of the briefest of pauses at the moment. the israeli defence forces have said that they will allow a three hour window for

residents in northern gaza to get south down through the main highway there. but that's only three hours, barely enough time to get a vehicle and get down there. never mind if you're going to struggle for transport in an area that has been severely affected by israeli bombing in recent days. we've got about an hour or so to go in that pause and then i think it's back to systems normal in terms of what israel is doing and striking hamas targets . but it's striking hamas targets. but it's very difficult, obviously, to avoid civilian casualties because according to latest estimates . some 350 to 400,000 estimates. some 350 to 400,000 people still remain in the north, despite for the better part of two weeks. the israelis insisting that they've got to move south out of harm's way. and even in the south, you're not out of harm's way.

and even in the south, you're not out of harm's way . it's not out of harm's way. it's a bit better. but there are still the bombing of targets in the south of israel. we heard of an operation in the south of gaza, i should say . we heard of an i should say. we heard of an operation over night that targeted hamas terrorists who came out from a tunnel system in the south there as well . so it's the south there as well. so it's still risky there. but clearly a lot less risky than staying in the north. >> it does. it doesn't seem an awful lot of time, does it? the three hour warning you're in, you're in tel aviv at the moment, mark. yesterday, we had the hezbollah leader, nasrallah, in talks about basically a lot of very, very strong and frankly, scary rhetoric. now you're back in tel aviv. how has that gone down in tel aviv? what what's what's the feeling there from both the civilians and the government's reaction? and indeed, what the newspaper is saying ? saying? >> well, i don't think anybody was surprised by the usual poison that he was spouting towards israel. the israeli people who he believes should be

wiped off the face of the earth. and indeed, america , who he and indeed, america, who he claims are ultimately behind this all in israel, is just america's puppet. that's the usual rhetoric that we expect from hassan nasrallah . what from hassan nasrallah. what everybody was waiting for was an indication of whether his terrorist group, hezbollah, was going to enter this war in a very significant way. now he said he indicated that wasn't going to happen , but he did say going to happen, but he did say that it seems as though we will get an uptick in the activity in the missiles and munitions being launched over the border from hezbollah fighters . and true to hezbollah fighters. and true to his word, i think from first thing this morning, we've had more rocket and missile attacks into northern israel, more coming from the north, actually, than have come out of gaza, perhaps understandable given the

operations against hamas in the south at the moment aimed at degrading that terrorist group there. but we've had a lot of alerts, about half a dozen, at least alerts in northern israel throughout today . throughout today. >> and hezbollah are a lot stronger , have better military stronger, have better military training, have better weapons than than hamas. so there is a big worry that if they do get involved, it's going to be very, very difficult for israel to. >> yeah , absolutely. because, >> yeah, absolutely. because, you know, they are are much, much stronger as you say, than hamas, as a fighting force. they have 150,000 missiles and rockets and other munitions to hand that they could use in in an all out war. and actually in sort of upping the ante over the last day. now they have been firing, it seems , larger firing, it seems, larger missiles that israeli military positions on the border there with a large explosion at an israeli military post. this

morning. so it has all the potential still to widen out into quite a significant confrontation in in the north of israel. >> and is there any i mean, we've heard sort of like thankfully sort of like many of the brits were trapped in gaza, have made it safely into egypt. is there any more on is there any more news on the hostages are still held in hostages that are still held in gaza ? gaza? >> no news at all as yet other than, you know, suggestions that negotiations are still continuing with qatar acting as a broker between the israelis and hamas with a view to trying to release more. a massive said they can't release any more hostages without a ceasefire. israel is saying we will not ceasefire until you release the hostages . so catch 22 there as hostages. so catch 22 there as as far as those hostages are concerned. and i think in the meantime, israel's just going to continue to prosecute the war and hope that as it does that,

that it can rescue hostages itself, such as the female soldier from the idf that they managed to rescue about 5 or 6 days ago. right. >> well, okay, that's mark white. our our gb news homeland security editor there joining us from tel aviv. thank you very much for that. mark all right. you can get lots more of that story our website , story on our website, cbnnews.com. the fastest growing national news website in the uk, by the way, it's got the best analysis and opinion , as well as analysis and opinion, as well as its latest breaking news. so much more of that story on there as well as many others. now protesters are gathering for a third successive weekend to call for a ceasefire in gaza. thousands are expected to march in london today amid a row over protests planned a week time which could disrupt remembrance day events. so i think we can cross now. yes, we can. let's cross now. yes, we can. let's cross to trafalgar square and speak to our political correspondent , katherine correspondent, katherine forster. catherine can you tell

us what's happening where you are at the moment? >> yes . good afternoon, dawn. >> yes. good afternoon, dawn. i'm here in trafalgar square, in the very centre of london, where people are gathering behind me for this saturday's pro palestine protest . of course, palestine protest. of course, these have been happening on a weekly basis ever since hamas committed those horrendous atrocities on october the 7th, where they went into israel and slaughtered 1400 innocent is reilly's. but of course, the attention has subsequently shifted on what is happening in gaza as israel moves in, tries to root out the terrorists. and of course, there have been large numbers of civilian casualties. so stop the war and a half a dozen other groups have banded together here for this rally . together here for this rally. now there's going to be a minute's silence . and it's minute's silence. and it's ultimately they've encouraged people to have local protests and then meet here. the main

rally here will kick off at about 2:30. it's unclear here whether they are to going march down whitehall now or not. there's a big arcades. i walked up from westminster just over my left shoulder for behind the fountain. you go straight right down to westminster along whitehall, with all the government buildings . now that government buildings. now that whole road is barricaded off. the cenotaph is barricaded . the cenotaph is barricaded. talking to police there they were saying they expect protests to march down whitehall. do a loop and end up back here. but talking to some of the organised leaders here just a few minutes ago, they seem unclear whether thatis ago, they seem unclear whether that is going to happen or not. but talking to some of the ladies , there are some very ladies, there are some very moving pictures down on the ground next to the fountain of people that have been killed in gaza , largely by israeli bombing gaza, largely by israeli bombing . since october the 7th. lots of

pictures of very young children , pictures of very young children, babies, toddlers, lots of children. and we know, of course, that estimate had over 9000 people have lost their lives in gaza. that's according to the hamas health minute history. but talking to some of the girls there, i said, what do you ultimately want? and they will say, well , we obviously will say, well, we obviously want a ceasefire and ultimately we want palestinians to be able to live in peace. but when i said to them, what do you think of what happened, what hamas did on october the 7th to israel , on october the 7th to israel, all the tone rather changed. and she looked at me and she said, is this an interview? i said, no, i'm just trying to understand your views. and she basically said, well , look what basically said, well, look what israel been doing to israel has been doing to palestine for years and for decades. so very scant sympathy , decades. so very scant sympathy, certainly from some people here or what has happened to israel

in the last few weeks. and of course, for the plight of those 250 hostages. so we will see what develops this afternoon and then, of course, there's due to be another protest in a weeks time, which also falls on armistice day. so real concerns being expressed from the prime minister and the home secretary about potential disruption to that. about potential disruption to that . and a about potential disruption to that. and a very tough job for the police . the police. >> it's a very sombre as you say, the pictures of the missing and dead children there. i mean, obviously, we remember the israelis on october the seventh as well. but interesting , you as well. but interesting, you said the mood changed when you started talking about what what the hamas had done in israel . the hamas had done in israel. how helpful do you think on the ground rhetoric from suella braverman branding these marches as hate marches is to how people are feeling . in are feeling. in >> well, certainly we know that feelings are running extremely high. there's been a massive rise in anti—semitic incidents .

rise in anti—semitic incidents. since october the 7th, both here and around the world. also islamophobia is on the rise. people seem increasingly divided , added going into their bunkers on one side or another . , added going into their bunkers on one side or another. i think the home secretary's comment have really fed into that. she described these marches as hate marches at the beginning of the week, and then she doubled down on that again yesterday . she on that again yesterday. she said talking about this protest next week would be entirely unacceptable to desecrate the armistice day with a hate march through london and rishi sunak has used softer language, but obviously they would prefer this march next week didn't go ahead , march next week didn't go ahead, though they are stopping short of banning it. but they're saying they expect the police to be robust in using all their powers. but it's incredibly difficult, isn't it? it's very nuanced. there's been a huge amount of death and destruction

on both sides in the last few weeks and indeed for years. and decades. and though clearly , we decades. and though clearly, we ultimately everybody wants the war to stop . but there is a huge war to stop. but there is a huge amount of blame, both israelis for palestinians and palestinians, for israelis . so palestinians, for israelis. so a really difficult situation. that potential for escalation in the middle east and also for more difficulty and unpleasantness on the streets of great britain . the streets of great britain. >> thank you, catherine. that's katherine forster, our gb news political correspondent in trafalgar square there, waiting for the start of the palestine palestine peace march to come up. now over to the us. now president biden has called for a pause in the israel—hamas conflict as white house officials say work to secure hostages is ongoing . and anthony hostages is ongoing. and anthony blinken set to meet with foreign ministers across the middle east. on top of all this, the leader of the lebanese terror group hezbollah claimed in a speech yesterday that the us was completely responsible for war

in gaza. joining me now to unpick all of this is us political analyst eric ham . political analyst eric ham. eric, thank you for joining political analyst eric ham. eric, thank you forjoining me. eric, thank you for joining me. eric, thank you for joining me. eric, what do you make of what what you've heard over the past 24 hours ? 24 hours? >> well, yeah. i mean, we know that the white house is doing a very delicate dance on this situation. it's one of the reasons why by secretary of state tony blinken is there. and i think what we're seeing here is the administration is attempting to do privately what many people want to see the administration do publicly and thatis administration do publicly and that is to rein in israel and try to find a way to find an end to the solution. so as to ensure that other country is particularly iran , does not particularly iran, does not become more involved . become more involved. >> and how does the rhetoric that was used yesterday by hezbollah , how does that go down hezbollah, how does that go down in america in general? you know, basically america are to blame for this ? for this? >> well, right now in the united

states, it's a tinderbox. i mean , we're seeing a lot of protest demonstrations . and also, too, demonstrations. and also, too, there is a concern about the growing rise of anti—semitism and islamophobia taking place in the united states. we know that already. one young man at an elite university , he has been elite university, he has been arrested for hate language that he has been using . and also, of he has been using. and also, of course, we cannot forget that there was a six year old palestinian american boy that was stabbed to death by someone. is now being called a hate crime. so what's taking place right now in the gaza strip is also, i think, being reflected in not a good way here in the united states. >> and we've also seen similar to what has been happening here andindeedin to what has been happening here and indeed in france, we've seen young americans going around and tearing down our missing posters for the israeli children and babies that are missing. indeed, in that attack on october the 7th. i mean , how widespread is

7th. i mean, how widespread is that in america ? that in america? >> oh, it's very much so. in fact, you're seeing it all across social media where people are tearing down these posters and these signs and again, it shows just how polarising this situation is . situation is. >> latest poll seemed to show that biden is out of out of step with with the younger voters in in america. you know, they are increasingly sympathetic to the palestinian cause while biden is not calling for a full ceasefire yet, how is that going to play out politically ? out politically? >> well, politically , it could >> well, politically, it could be problematic because we know in a state like michigan , which in a state like michigan, which is a key battleground state, that either candidate is going to need to win. there is a large arab—american population in that state. in fact, if you go back to 2020, president biden won the arab american population with

59% of the vote. right now, he's showing that he's only polling at around 17. so he's got a lot of work to do with that community. but again, what we're seeing here is this is just a very delicate dance. in fact, there's already been one resignation the biden resignation from the biden administration in protest to the united states support of israel. >> i was going to say, that's i mean, we see that very clearly in the uk at the moment. i mean, certainly with opposition certainly with the opposition party, literally party, labour are literally tearing over tearing themselves apart over this situation. so is this situation. so that is reflecting in american politics as well . oh absolutely it is. as well. oh absolutely it is. >> and i think what we're seeing here is, you know, there are a number of politicians who have called out israel . and of called out israel. and of course, we're seeing , at least course, we're seeing, at least with younger americans , there is with younger americans, there is this growing discord taking place as well. but again , it's place as well. but again, it's a nuanced issue where it's not necessarily islamophobia versus

anti —semitism. necessarily islamophobia versus anti—semitism. i think what we're seeing here is many young people in particular want to see a more balanced approach by the united states in relation to the ongoing conflict. yeah eric, as you say, it's very divisive and it's incredibly difficult to get to a nuanced debate going on. >> this one. you know, hezbollah rhetoric yesterday was, well, what we would expect actually very much anti—america . how do very much anti—america. how do you if hezbollah and iran do get more involved, what do you think biden and america's reaction will be? well we've already seen the united states beef up its presence militarily in the region, and that's meant to be a deterrent. >> but also, president biden has continued to double down on his support for israel. and i think if we do see see more involvement by iran or hezbollah, i think you will see the united states take a more proactive role in this conflict .

proactive role in this conflict. >> licht when you say proactive, more, more military action, absolutely right. okay. oh, eric, thank you very much for joining us this afternoon. that's our eric hamm in america, a us politico analysis there doesn't sound very good news either. now, you are watching and listening to gb news saturday with me. dawn neesom . saturday with me. dawn neesom. lots more coming up, including some fun stuff, i promise. but first, let's . well, not so much first, let's. well, not so much fun. maybe let's take a look at what that weather is doing with jonathan. >> hello there. i'm jonathan vautour here with your gb news weather provided weather forecast provided by the met office. those of us gearing up for fireworks up for some fireworks celebrations this may celebrations this evening may need taking an need to think about taking an umbrella, particularly for central northern of central northern areas of england and wales. some outbreaks rain quite cloudy outbreaks of rain quite cloudy here, further showers and here, further heavy showers and thunderstorms also pushing into southeastern england. southeastern areas of england. the intervals for inland the driest intervals for inland areas of scotland and northern ireland. showers ireland. a few coastal showers to but underneath to deal with. but underneath those spells, fog those clearer spells, some fog could form overnight. and we'll also temperatures drop

also see those temperatures drop off, down low off, certainly down into low single figures in the countryside underneath the cloud, , just holding countryside underneath the clo a i, , just holding countryside underneath the clo a touch , just holding countryside underneath the clo a touch higher. just holding countryside underneath the cloa touch higher. but holding countryside underneath the cloa touch higher. but htcould up a touch higher. but it could be start off be quite murky to start off sunday morning and it will take a little bit of time for all that cloud to eventually clear its towards the north its way off towards the north sea. some of fog well, sea. some of the fog as well, just slowly its off just slowly clearing its way off parts into parts of scotland and then into the of an east the afternoon, a bit of an east west in our weather. the west split in our weather. the showers feeding their way in from west could be from the west again, could be quite times. eastern quite heavy at times. eastern areas largely areas staying largely dry with some sunshine in some prolonged sunshine in there. temperatures ranging between 10 and 14 c. as we start off the new week, low off the new working week, low pressure still close by, but pressure is still close by, but it's to the north—east it's situated to the north—east of us. so we start feeding in this north westerly airflow, quite . so relatively quite persistent. so relatively similar compared to similar situation compared to sunday where those showers will continue to push their way into western areas, may to western areas, may begin to arrive further inland as we head throughout the day. but certainly the further east you are, are to are, the more likely you are to stay and see sunshine . stay dry and see that sunshine. very similar as we very similar situation as we head but wednesday head into tuesday, but wednesday sees slightly more sees some slightly more persistent rain persistent area of rain beginning enjoy your beginning to arrive. enjoy your evening thank you,

jonathan. >> now lots more coming up on today's show. up to 40% of pet owners report that their pets are afraid of fireworks . our are afraid of fireworks. our reporter anna riley will tell us how to keep our furry and hairy friends safe. this including some very interesting animals she's got with her. stay tuned. all of that and more to come. you're watching and listening to gb britain's news channel .

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six till 930. >> it's 130. six till 930. >> it's130. i'm sophia wenzler in the newsroom concert lviv mp bob stewart has told chief whip simon hart he wishes to surrender the tory whip while he appeals against his conviction . appeals against his conviction. the beckenham mp was found guilty of racially aggravated pubuc guilty of racially aggravated public order offence. he racially abused a man after he allegedly told him to go back to bahrain. outside the foreign office last december , the chief office last december, the chief magistrate said stewart will not be jailed . the prime minister be jailed. the prime minister says plans by some groups to protest during remembrance commemorations are provocative and disrespectful . in and disrespectful. in a statement, rishi sunak said the right to remember in peace and dignity must be protected. labour leader sir keir starmer echoed the comments , saying he echoed the comments, saying he supports the police in whatever action is needed . a un official action is needed. a un official has warned that there is no place that is safe in gaza right now as the conflict continues.

un refugee agency director tom white said there is little the organisation can do to protect gazans trying to shelter as israel continues its ground offensive . it comes as israel's offensive. it comes as israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu rejects calls from the us secretary of state for a humanitarian pause until all 240 hostages taken by hamas are freed. antony blinken is meeting middle east foreign ministers in jordan who are calling for a ceasefire . to russell brand is ceasefire. to russell brand is being sued by a film extra who claims she was sexually assaulted on a us movie set. the accuser says the actor appeared intoxicated and was carrying a bottle of vodka when he approached her on the set of arthur in 2010. the lawsuit has been filed in new york and is the first accusation to be made against brand in court. brand has not yet responded to the lawsuit . and you can get more on lawsuit. and you can get more on all those stories by visiting our website gb news.com all those stories by visiting our website gbnews.com now it's back to dawn .

back to dawn. >> thank you, sophia. welcome back to gb news saturday with me. dawn neesom on your tv onune me. dawn neesom on your tv online and on digital radio. now fireworks season. it's a season now, isn't it? goes on forever. a time of year that many pet owners fear for the pdsa quoted up to 40% of pet owners report that their pets are afraid of fireworks . luckily, the with the fireworks. luckily, the with the correct preparations, you can help keep your pet whatever it is calm and safe. now say whatever it is for a reason, because coming up now gb news yorkshire and humber reporter anna riley joins us with some very cute friends . good very cute friends. good afternoon. thank you very much. right. what's going on there then ? then? >> good afternoon, don . we are >> good afternoon, don. we are at bridlington animal park with these gorgeous meerkats. you can come here and have a make out experience and they're even more snuggly than cats, really. they're absolutely gorgeous. but

these are some of the animals, like our pets at home that are going to be feeling the impact of bonfire night and this evening as well with fireworks going off. so there's 102 species of animals here from meerkats to birds of prey to zebras and camels . and all the zebras and camels. and all the animals react differently , don't animals react differently, don't they, to the fireworks? yeah it depends. sorry. and this is paul . he's the owner of the animal park here. >> it depends how the house. really? they're in an enclosure. in a cage. they've got nowhere to hide in a field . they've got. to hide in a field. they've got. they've got somewhere to run away from it. if they're in a stable, it's dark. they can't see or hear the fireworks. it depends how the house and what recommendations , what tips would recommendations, what tips would you give pet owners this you give to pet owners this evening tomorrow to keep the evening and tomorrow to keep the pets safe when the fireworks are going off? well, the effect of a firework is obviously of firework is obviously lots of noise, sound and lots of noise, lots of sound and lots of light . if you noise, lots of sound and lots of light. if you can eliminate those two things, if you can keep it safe . by keeping it

keep it safe. by keeping it indoors, making it dark and make it a little bit of noise, perhaps turn the radio or turn the tv up. and obviously lots of cuddles, lots of cuddles. >> these meerkats definitely love of music love them. and in terms of music as well . paul, what kind of as well. paul, what kind of genres work as well for pets? >> well, apparently the only thing this time is reggae and classical. well, i don't know whether going to do any whether it's going to do any good, but that's a recommendation this year about is the recommendation. recommendation this year about is tso recommendation. recommendation this year about is tso there mendation. recommendation this year about is tso there we 1dation. recommendation this year about is tso there we 1datjohn reggae recommendation this year about is tclassicalwe1datjohn reggae recommendation this year about is tclassicalweturnjohn reggae recommendation this year about is tclassicalweturn gb1 reggae recommendation this year about is tclassicalweturn gb news|ae are classical or turn gb news up on full volume to keep your pets safe and make sure that they don't get disturbed by those fireworks that will be going off this weekend. >> oh, that's lovely. that's so cute. anna. riley, thank cute. anna. anna riley, thank you much for joining cute. anna. anna riley, thank you much forjoining us cute. anna. anna riley, thank you much for joining us there you so much for joining us there with lots of good advice on how to your safe over the to keep your pets safe over the bonfire season. because let's face it, they started about a week ago and they're going to go on week, aren't on for another week, aren't they? oh of advice. they? so. oh lots of advice. okay right now, lots of you have been getting in touch on topics

we've been discussing. there'll be more on meerkats later, don't worry. that m&s advert worry. including that m&s advert which caused so much controversy this week . pamela. good this week. pamela. good afternoon, pamela says totally shameful that a group of vocal people can dictate what we're allowed to view if something is offensive. to me , i simply offensive. to me, i simply switch it off. alleluia. common sense. meanwhile billie says the advert was filmed months ago. i can't believe m&s has bowed down to a small group of outraged people and there are people that are permanently outraged. these days, aren't there? meanwhile, janet , you days, aren't there? meanwhile, janet, you say marks and spencer should know better. they should have reassessed the advert given should know better. they should hav currentessed the advert given should know better. they should hav current events|e advert given should know better. they should hav current events and ivert given should know better. they should hav current events and neveriven the current events and never released it in the first place. they're if they do and if they don't. interesting point actually. yeah they did have time to think it might have been filmed in august, but they only put it out recently when they knew this was going on. so good point right. your point. right. but keep your views coming in. you are watching and listening to gb news saturday with me. dawn neesom. lots more coming up. you

may include another meerkat or two, aren't they ? for the second two, aren't they? for the second time in a row, though, the bank of england has left rates on hold of 5.25, the highest level in 15 years. i'll be breaking down what it means for the pennies in your pocket, but all of that much more to come. you're watching and listening to gb news, britain's news channel .

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gb news the people's. channel >> hello. and welcome back to gb news. saturday with me dawn neesom on your tv online and on digital radio. now, i've not meant to say this , but i'm going meant to say this, but i'm going to before the break, we had some gorgeous meerkats on with advice about how to take care of your pets the fireworks season pets over the fireworks season as and the producer as it narrows and the producer has just confessed in my ear that once spent a week at that he once spent a week at school having to pretend to be a meerkat, like meerkat, meerkat, walking like a meerkat, probably like a meerkat probably talking like a meerkat knowing but now we're knowing him. but now we're asking for proof. as in asking him for proof. as in pictures. so let's hope we can do that. i what? a do that. i mean, what? why a meerkat. he to be a meerkat. he wants to be a monkey. case, that's a ring monkey. any case, that's a ring tailed lemur. even i know that. he didn't look that. that's he didn't look like that. that's a ring tailed lemur. oh, my god . a ring tailed lemur. oh, my god. zoology degree. wasn't this the strongest point there, was it? right now, for the second time, let's talk some serious stuff. for the second time in row, for the second time in a row, the england left rates the bank of england left rates on hold at 5.25% highest on hold at 5.25% at the highest level years. the bank level in 15 years. the bank boss, andrew bailey, said it was

much too early to thinking much too early to be thinking about rate cuts. but some good news. evidently. the bank expects inflation to fall sharply in the coming months. now i'm sorry, all of this terrifies me because i just get the mortgage demand and go, oh yeah, have everything. joining me to explain what the hell is going on is director and co—founder of investment advisor regionally, justin urquhart stewart . justin, what's going stewart. justin, what's going on? well, first of all, can i be a sloth if i have a choice? >> well, yeah, we were just doing that. >> you can, but that just means you just hang around and very good much. what's good at doing that much. what's i a monkey would i think i think a monkey would be because just be good because i can just pretty much like be like myself, basically. >> unrelated. >> no, it's unrelated. yeah. >> no, it's unrelated. yeah. >> yeah. i think. i think we'll stick those. right. so stick with those. right. so yeah. they to do yeah. and they don't have to do with interest you with interest rates. you do. what's going on? okay >> it looks as >> interest rates. it looks as though rates have >> interest rates. it looks as though in rates have >> interest rates. it looks as though in the rates have >> interest rates. it looks as though in the uktes have >> interest rates. it looks as though in the uk andlave >> interest rates. it looks as though in the uk and also in the peaked in the uk and also in the us. that's good news. however if st bart's with you isn't there , st bart's with you isn't there, it always has. butjust st bart's with you isn't there, it always has. but just to cover your backside just in case. so what you've got inflation is

going to come down. the problem we've this they've we've had with this is they've been rates up, been putting interest rates up, which actually not really which actually does not really affect inflation. they say inflation, we need put interest rates up. yes, you do that. if there's a consumer boom to stop rates up. yes, you do that. if therand| consumer boom to stop rates up. yes, you do that. if therand i:onsumer boom to stop rates up. yes, you do that. if therand i going1er boom to stop rates up. yes, you do that. if therand i going outjoom to stop rates up. yes, you do that. if therand i going out spendingtop you and i going out spending money, borrowing more to cool it all enough, there all up. funnily enough, there isn't a consumer boom. >> haven't been doing that. >> we haven't been doing that. >> we haven't been doing that. >> opposite to >> it's exactly the opposite to all putting up all of that. so putting up interest doesn't interest rates doesn't do it. what you do is supply what you need to do is supply issue terms of inefficient issue in terms of inefficient supply, proper supply supply, the proper supply lines, the commodities the cost of commodities and those things. and those sort of things. and putting interest rates have putting up interest rates have been however, putting up interest rates have been stopped. however, putting up interest rates have been stopped. that'siowever, putting up interest rates have been stopped. that's good.lr, it's now stopped. that's good. i believe they should start cutting , but i think they cutting them, but i think they should them this time. cutting them, but i think they swilld them this time. cutting them, but i think they swill certainly them this time. cutting them, but i think they swill certainly bit.em this time. cutting them, but i think they swill certainly bit. |si this time. cutting them, but i think they swill certainly bit. is ithis time. i will certainly bit. is it would have gone against what they'd been hinting towards. and one have to they'd been hinting towards. and on(is have to they'd been hinting towards. and on(is try have to they'd been hinting towards. and on(is try being have to they'd been hinting towards. and on(is try being consistent. we to they'd been hinting towards. and on(is try being consistent. thisy be is try being consistent. this one generally is consistent, totally , because what totally wrong, because what they've done is been doing it at they've done is been doing it at the wrong time. so what we need is the economy to get going. how do that? put in do you do that? put in confidence. where does confidence. where does confidence the confidence come from? well, the cost getting cost of your stuff, getting inflation down and inflation coming down and stabilising, say the housing

market, because your biggest asset is looking rather asset suddenly is looking rather wobbly. gives you wobbly. and that gives you confidence and then you're going to more investment coming to see more investment coming from investment from that, more investment actually, seeing actually, then start seeing more jobs get the growth jobs and you get the growth spiral, albeit slowly. it'll be very slow, but we're on the right side of this now . but very slow, but we're on the right side of this now. but i'd rather they actually started taking on it to actually taking action on it to actually encourage growth how encourage growth because how many put interest many times do they put interest rates up? >> it like 15, 15 times in >> was it like 15, 15 times in a row and the trouble is it doesn't it's not like a sort of an aspirin. >> have an aspirin. you've got a headache. that normally >> have an aspirin. you've got a heada in 5. that normally >> have an aspirin. you've got a heada in about that normally >> have an aspirin. you've got a heada in about an|at normally >> have an aspirin. you've got a heada in about an hournrmally >> have an aspirin. you've got a heada in about an hour or ally >> have an aspirin. you've got a heada in about an hour or two. works in about an hour or two. interest probably have an interest rates probably have an impact a year to 18 impact in about a year to 18 months. yet done 15 months. and yet we've done 15 virtually row. and it's virtually on the row. and it's just, the wrong just, i'm afraid the wrong thing to do at this. >> that was problem with it >> that was my problem with it because, mean, many people now because, i mean, many people now have fixed rate mortgages. so putting rates putting the interest rates constantly was not going constantly up was not going to have instantly , but have an impact instantly, but further line. so it has further down the line. so it has a worse effect for that . a worse effect for that. >> so what you actually have to do is, well, first of all, those interest rates should have gone do is, well, first of all, those intnbeforeites should have gone do is, well, first of all, those intnbefore becauseld have gone do is, well, first of all, those intnbefore becauseld haviweree up before because these were emergency from emergency interest rates from 2008 the banking crisis was

2008 when the banking crisis was there. and so we said, right, we're all in on life support here. interest rates close to zero areas, even zero in some areas, even negative. so if they had negative. and so if they had crept them up after that to around about 3—3 and one half, 4, which is long term, is where they be, it wouldn't have they should be, it wouldn't have been so painful. this time we been so painful. no this time we went 2008 where we are went from 2008 to where we are now. taken out their now. people have taken out their mortgages now, mortgages at 1 to 3% now, finding 7.89. it's not finding at 7.89. and it's not a matter of saying, oh, it's a bit more no it's devastating. >> it's expensive . >> it's very expensive. >> it's very expensive. >> people don't know >> and when people don't know what do, the what to do, what the alternatives they alternatives are, how they manage way it, it's manage their way out of it, it's not but actually it's not not easy, but actually it's not just money. it's pooling just saving money. it's pooling together to share together as a family to share the costs, maybe actually actually some of the actually share some of the responsibility for it, and also making sure that actually individuals have a better understanding of how how to run your money. we don't teach people that. >> we don't. why don't we teach that in school? why did i learn lots complicated algebra that lots of complicated algebra that i've how to i've never used, but not how to properly budget and deal with interest rates? >> risk is sounding >> well, the risk is sounding a bit banal over these things. i insisted last business. we

insisted in my last business. we went month a fifth went out once a month to a fifth and form of a school and sixth form of a school and sat and went through sat there and just went through the of not all of it, but the basics of not all of it, but how it, how to run a how to have it, how to run a pension, what do you do with a pension? fact, what found pension? in fact, what i found myself team myself talking to or my team talking was the parents. >> absolutely. but most of us are completely ignorant. >> of not >> it should be part of not a special part of the special cultural part of the syllabus. it's maths. syllabus. it's called maths. make so work make it part of that. so work out your in your maths out with your in your maths exams. actually how long does it take to pay off a mortgage? how much does it how much much does it cost? how much money to retire on? money do i need to retire on? >> what does this actually >> so what does this actually mean? so it's been held . so what mean? so it's been held. so what does actually for does this actually mean for as they penny in your pocket? >> well, what means is >> well, what it means is actually the cost of borrowing shouldn't be going any more. shouldn't be going up any more. that's of course, that's in theory. but of course, banks desperate to banks have been desperate to increase. want interest increase. they want an interest rates then they rates higher because then they can more. but also can charge more. but also they've of they've got a margin then of what they pay savers and what they pay out on savers and what they pay out on savers and what they pay out on savers and what they have to pay out. pay they so that's they actually get in. so that's why banking profit figures are now looking a lot better than before because of that spread. what this should also mean,

their of money isn't coming their cost of money isn't coming down, flat. so if you down, but it's flat. so if you can sort of survive at this rate, then fingers crossed it actually rates probably actually then rates probably should come in. i would should come down in. i would have , a couple of years. have thought, a couple of years. i'd like to it earlier. i'd like to make it earlier. other happen. i'd like to make it earlier. othe|around happen. i'd like to make it earlier. othe|around the happen. i'd like to make it earlier. othe|around the world. happen. i'd like to make it earlier. othe|around the world. there n. i'd like to make it earlier. othe|around the world. there are look around the world. there are quite them, but say the quite a lot of them, but say the price of oil shoots up again to $150 barrel. whoa. that's $150 a barrel. whoa. that's inflationary. and not back $150 a barrel. whoa. that's infthejnary. and not back $150 a barrel. whoa. that's infthe gatehouse not back $150 a barrel. whoa. that's infthe gatehouse again.lot back $150 a barrel. whoa. that's infthe gatehouse again. butyack $150 a barrel. whoa. that's infthe gatehouse again. but it:k at the gatehouse again. but it gives problems to try gives us more problems to try and manage. gives us more problems to try anc right. ge. gives us more problems to try ancright. okay. gives us more problems to try anc right. okay. and gives us more problems to try ancright. okay. and so finally, >> right. okay. and so finally, a quick one, because this is the $64,000 question, quite literally , is why do mortgage literally, is why do mortgage companies and that affects the rental market as well. obviously instantly put their rates up. but if you're saving with them, that doesn't happen straight away. why do do that? away. why do they do that? >> goes up like a rocket, >> it goes up like a rocket, down like a feather. yes and yes . why? because long as i'm . why? because if as long as i'm with the pack, i'm with the rest of the pack, i'm not out, i can raise my not seeing out, i can raise my rates and or not. my no one's going to notice . but of going to really notice. but of course, do notice course, actually, they do notice because now of people are because now a lot of people are sitting their cash and sitting with their cash and there's no shortage of money in this need to know there's no shortage of money in this they need to know

there's no shortage of money in this they getieed to know there's no shortage of money in this they get returns. now there's no shortage of money in this they get returns. not where they can get returns. not big bucks. called big fast bucks. that's called betting, returns betting, but reasonable returns over time a managed risk. betting, but reasonable returns over time a managed risk . and over time at a managed risk. and if you can do that, so what that means, therefore, can now means, therefore, people can now get their get higher returns on their on their savings at last. remember, only two years ago. well, it's still negative. you're actually getting 1, if you're lucky, when inflation is at 11% minus ten , inflation is at 11% minus ten, we're still inflation is ahead of it, but that will come down depending on things like the oil price . price. >> right. okay. well, unfortunately, we have to leave it there. thank you very much. very like, may very unclothed, like, if i may say so , more like a busy bee. say so, more like a busy bee. i think . informative one, right? think. informative one, right? that's justin urquhart stewart there. you much there. thank you so much for coming this coming in to join us this afternoon explaining interest rates mean now. rates and what they mean now. with just a week to go until armistice day, fields with remembrance have been opening across the country with 55,000 wooden crosses and other commemorative markers placed into the ground across the six sites. the fields act as a tribute to those who have lost their life in conflict. our west midlands reporterjack their life in conflict. our west midlands reporter jack carson has been along to the national

memorial arboretum to find out more . more. >> in a week's time, the nation will come together on armistice day , honouring those who have day, honouring those who have served this country at six locations across the country . locations across the country. fields of remembrance pay tribute to all those who have lost their lives in conflict from the first world war to the present day. in a special service this week, accompanied by fly—past at the national by a fly—past at the national memorial arboretum field open to the public, more than 15,000 crosses and commemorative markers have been planted at the arboretum and director of remembrance at the royal british legion, philippa rawlinson, says the field is about coming together . together. >> i think the coming together of so many tributes, it's just is, especially here at the national memorial arboretum where planted together where they're planted together in giant phenomena . as you can in a giant phenomena. as you can see behind poppy, it really, see behind us, poppy, it really, really the symbolism really reinforces the symbolism of remembering together. they are red poppy, bringing us together and uniting us in remembering those who served our

country, lost their lives , and country, lost their lives, and also us coming together to hope for peaceful future. for a peaceful future. >> field remembrance at >> the field of remembrance at the memorial arboretum the national memorial arboretum is part of the is an important part of the royal british legion's history , royal british legion's history, continuing a tradition that beganin continuing a tradition that began in 1928 when poppies were planted around an original wooden cross taken from the battlefield grave of an unknown british soldier in the grounds of westminster abbey. mark smith served with the royal artillery and intelligence corps. he and the intelligence corps. he says seeing support every year for poppy appeal fills him for the poppy appeal fills him with gratitude. >> i feel immensely grateful. i really do. as a veteran, as an injured veteran and somebody who knows the reason why , why we do knows the reason why, why we do what we do for the poppy appeal to public support to see the public support is humbling and wonderful and humbling and it's wonderful and it's great to know that they're not only thinking about those that gone before us, but that have gone before us, but those are still around and those that are still around and those that are still around and those yet to come i >> john parks is an army veteran who served in the third staffordshire regiment between 1991 and 1994, at the height of the covid 19 pandemic. in 2020, john developed a condition

called charcot foot syndrome , a called charcot foot syndrome, a deterioration of bones and soft fissue deterioration of bones and soft tissue in the foot. john says support from the british legion was invalid , able to his was invalid, able to his recovery . recovery. >> when i was diagnosed with this charcot foot, i was told i couldn't walk on it and i wasn't allowed to walk on it. i couldn't work . so we were living couldn't work. so we were living on £97 a week sick pay . and we on £97 a week sick pay. and we just couldn't live. we couldn't pay just couldn't live. we couldn't pay the bills. the royal british legion got in contact and they said, a lady called caroline quinn from the local office in birmingham and she says, you need help . 2021 i ended to have need help. 2021 i ended to have my leg amputated , which was my leg amputated, which was absolutely catastrophic. and the british legion were there to pick up the pieces and help us. and they helped us tremendous . and they helped us tremendous. asli, if it hadn't have been for caroline and the british legion, i wouldn't be here today to tell

to tell the story. >> the fields of remembrance are also located in london, cardiff, belfast, gateshead and swindon, with more than 55,000 tributes planted in total , a poignant planted in total, a poignant reminder of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice as jack carson gb news staffordshire . carson gb news staffordshire. >> thank you, jack. a very emotional post there . and for emotional post there. and for people asking my poppy is a dame vera lynn poppy by the way. so i was lucky enough to interview her. and i worry every year now , her. and i worry every year now, right? okay. the worst of storm. kieran may be over, but the met office has warned we won't be seeing blue skies this weekend. extreme weather looks set to continue with yellow warnings for rain stretching across the south coast of england. again, more well, northern more rain. well, in northern ireland, and businesses ireland, homes and businesses are assessing the damage following a week of flooding. flooding dougie beattie reports from northern ireland . to from northern ireland. to torrents of water flow through the city of newry. >> the river clanrye merging

into the canal and flooding out businesses and homes with the news last night. >> so there's no point coming up here last night. so i come up here last night. so i come up here this morning to see what the damage was. >> and as you can see there, that's the three, 4 foot of that's the three, 3 or 4 foot of water going into office. water going into the office. >> got in. and we can't >> if it's got in. and we can't get in to see what the story is. >> so local mp mickey brady praised council workers for their fast response. >> a number of years ago. the river was high, but i've never seen it this bad. >> i've never seen chugga chugga ange under 3 or 4 foot of water. >> businesses have had to close and in fairness, the council workers and the emergency services last night worked very, very hard to ensure that less damage was done than could have been done. >> the real problems here are around joined up policy and land management as was shown by the river bann when it to swole and caused flooding in portadown and carla lockhart explains . carla lockhart explains. >> i actually think it's more a

council working with with dfi roads it's council working with rivers agency. >> it's council working with northern ireland water . northern ireland water. >> so it's central government and local government actually being joined up in their planning going fonnard . and planning going fonnard. and whilst these bodies are often consulted by planning , i don't consulted by planning, i don't believe there's actually a real joined up approach to actually how we deal with with flood plains and flooding going fonnard. >> the land has been so saturated that in downpatrick , saturated that in downpatrick, the river quoile flooded the town's main shopping area and business owners want action and quickly. >> it means for our business that we do not know what the future holds. but the one point we want to make is that we need help . we need help from the help. we need help from the government . government. >> we need money and we need it now. >> it's a very bad situation and the council has a lot to answer for, i believe, for not looking at this .

at this. >> the jobs they've been doing are very, you know , putting a are very, you know, putting a patch on the on the job and instead of doing the job right and getting the drainage and some sort of way of control , the some sort of way of control, the floods , it's not just short term floods, it's not just short term , it's a long term with more rain arriving next week, many here are understandably anxious as dougie beattie . gb news, who devastating. >> good luck with everyone sorting that out. right. you've been getting in touch on fireworks and bonfire night. alex says people with autism like myself can be sensitive to the sound and fireworks can give me migraines. i know people aren't going to stop fireworks, but there should be warnings on all fireworks advising people to consider the sensitive as well. it's a problem . oh, good it's a real problem. oh, good luck then, jude says our two dogs are petrified of fireworks, so this year we're invested in pet cbd oil. it's made huge pet cbd oil. it's made a huge difference. that's cannabis oil, isn't okay. jill says . my

isn't it? okay. jill says. my cat minty is terrified and was hiding behind the sofa last night when the local junior school two streets away, had their fireworks. school two streets away, had theirfireworks. i school two streets away, had their fireworks. i also have a friend ex—military and friend who is ex—military and yeah, this is important and ex—military who really does not like the sound of fireworks. hear that a keep your views hear that a lot. keep your views coming in, though. subscribe to our channel follow our youtube channel and follow us socials. at us on our socials. we're at gb news. simple . lots more news. very simple. lots more coming up on today's show. now, a un official has said there is no safe place in gaza. this comes after a recent rocket attack near news media in south israel. i'll be joined by our security who's been at that media zone . all of that and more media zone. all of that and more to come. i'm dawn neesom and you're watching and listening to gb news, britain's news channel

away . hello and welcome to gb away. hello and welcome to gb news saturday. i'm dawn neesom and for the next hour i'll be keeping you company on tv, onune keeping you company on tv, online and on digital radio. keeping you up to date on all the stories that really matter to you coming up this hour. a un official there is no official has said there is no safe place in gaza. this comes after recent rocket attack after a recent rocket attack near news media in south israel. i'll be joined by our security editor who was at that media zone at the time. then we'll be going live to a pro—palestinian protest in london. but all eyes are on next week's end of protest. officials say they will stay away from the cenotaph on remembrance day, but will the

two minute's silence be respected? and at the end of the houn respected? and at the end of the hour, king charles and queen camilla have arrived home from their state visit to kenya. what is the trip? a success and do get in touch. send me your thoughts on gbviews@gbnews.com or message me on socials. really simple at gb news. but first, here's the news with sophia . here's the news with sophia. >> good afternoon. it's 2:00. i'm sophia wenzler in the newsroom. the prime minister says plans by some groups to protest during remembrance commemorations are provocative and disrespectful . in and disrespectful. in a statement, rishi sunak said the right to remember in peace and dignity must be protected . dignity must be protected. labour leader sir keir starmer echoed the comments, saying he supports the police in whatever action is needed . israel defence action is needed. israel defence forces have released footage of the military blowing up tunnels and clearing an area of explosive devices found in gaza.

un officials warn there is no place that's safe right now in gaza, as the conflict continues. it's after israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu rejected calls from the us secretary of state for a humanitarian pause until all 240 hostages taken by hamas are freed. anthony blinken is meeting middle east foreign ministers in jordan who are calling for a ceasefire . while calling for a ceasefire. while in jordan, he visited a un relief centre and praised them for the extraordinary work they're doing every single day. >> as a lifeline to palestinian boys in gaza and a great at great cost . more than 70 members great cost. more than 70 members of unwra have lost their lives. thousands are putting their lives on the line every single day to show up at work to help people . i day to show up at work to help people. i have day to show up at work to help people . i have extraordinary people. i have extraordinary admiration for the courage that they're showing . they're showing. >> 88 british nationals are on

the list to leave gaza through the list to leave gaza through the rafah crossing today. it comes as scotland's first minister, humza yousaf, says his family have been able to leave gaza through the crossing. palestinian officials say more than 700 foreign nationals have crossed in the past two days, including dozens of critically injured people . conservative mp injured people. conservative mp bob stewart has told chief whip simon hart he wishes to surrender the tory whip while he appeals against his conviction. the beckenham mp was found guilty of a racially aggravated pubuc guilty of a racially aggravated public order offence . he public order offence. he racially abused a man after he allegedly told him to go back to bahrain . outside the foreign bahrain. outside the foreign office last december, the chief magistrate said stewart will not be jailed . suella braverman be jailed. suella braverman wants to restrict the use of tents by homeless people in towns and cities . the home towns and cities. the home secretary posted on x. we cannot allow our streets to be taken over by rows of tents occupied by people. many of them from abroad, living on the streets as abroad, living on the streets as a lifestyle choice . reports say a lifestyle choice. reports say the crackdown would target tents

that become a nuisance, such as by blocking shop doonnays and that charities which hand out camping equipment face being fined . over 200 flood alerts fined. over 200 flood alerts remain in place across the country after the destruction of storm ciaran. there's a yellow weather notice for heavy rain across the south and south—west of england today , which will of england today, which will remain in place until midnight. meanwhile, parts of eastern scotland are also being warned to expect heavy rain and strong winds . russell brand is being winds. russell brand is being sued by a film extra who claims she was sexually assaulted on a us movie set . she was sexually assaulted on a us movie set. the she was sexually assaulted on a us movie set . the accuser says us movie set. the accuser says the actor appeared intoxicated and was carrying a bottle of vodka when he approached her on the set of arthur in 2010. the lawsuit has been filed in new york and is the first accusation to be made against brand in court. brand has not yet responded to the lawsuit . and an responded to the lawsuit. and an effigy of sadiq khan will go up in flames today as part of bonfire night celebrations.

edenbndge bonfire night celebrations. edenbridge bonfire society in kent will burn a giant effigy of the london mayor in the form of a ulez camera to raise money for local charities. the society burns an effigy of a prominent topical celebrity every year. former effigies include boris johnson, liz truss, harvey weinstein , donald trump and weinstein, donald trump and katie hopkins as this is gb news across 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 dawn . thank you very much dawn. thank you very much sophia. >> now let's get started on today's topics. nowhere is safe in gaza. a united nations official has said there is little they can do to protect civilians, as israel valves no ceasefire until the hostages are released and an escalation into all out war in the middle east remains on the table, with hezbollah's leader claiming the us is completely responsible for

the situation in gaza. it comes as us top diplomat antony blinken visits the region, meeting with arab leaders. meanwhile, 88 british nationals are expected to enter egypt via the rafah border crossing today, as heavy fighting continues in gaza itself . as security editor gaza itself. as security editor mark white joins us now from tel aviv. good afternoon , mark. can aviv. good afternoon, mark. can you bring us up to date on what's happening today ? what's happening today? >> well, just in the last few minutes, we've had major hamas rocket attack on the cities of ashkelon and ashdod , which are ashkelon and ashdod, which are south of tel aviv. but that can often signal a forthcoming attack on tel aviv as well as it normally gets hit when those communities further south have been hit. and itjust communities further south have been hit. and it just shows you that, you know, after the absolute pummelling that hamas positions are getting from israeli military over the past, well, more than two weeks now,

they still have the capability. they still have the resources to be able to pop out of tunnels , be able to pop out of tunnels, to set up these launchers quickly and to set off these rockets into israeli civilian areas. they've been well prepared for this battle that is now undennay . and they are in now undennay. and they are in the tunnel systems. hundreds of miles of tunnel systems running right around the gaza strip. but straight but particularly concentrated, we know, around gaza city and israel still has a job to do to actually get down and into these tunnels systems and into these tunnels systems and take these munitions dumps and take these munitions dumps and weapons and all of the hamas terrorists down in these tunnels out. it's not really done that. most of the fighting has been surface fighting. that has happened above ground, although they have been uncovering a

number of tunnel entrances and trying to blow them up as they go on. but all of the time there's so many of these entrances and exits throughout out the gaza area that hamas terrorists are popping up from them trying to ambush the israeli troops and get into close quarters fighting. we had reports yesterday from the idf of hamas terrorists actually jumping on to tanks that were so close in. it has been for the israelis as well. we've only heard in terms of the official death toll , about 23 idf death toll, about 23 idf soldiers killed . but we were soldiers killed. but we were told two days ago, 260 idf troops had been injured in the fighting and it may be considerably higher than that now in the two days since those figures came out on mark, one thing i wanted to ask you actually, because you are on the ground and you're sort of experiencing this in real time, have you had the chance to talk

to many the idf fighters themselves? >> i mean, they feeling? >> i mean, how are they feeling? what what do feel what are their what do they feel about what's happening to them at ? at the moment? >> yeah, the idf fighters don't really speak to to us be honest. they've got a job to do. the only communications we have with them is when we come , as we're them is when we come, as we're heading down to sderot the last couple of days, you come across the road checks and they tell us we can't go there. you need to go there . so it's brief go there. so it's brief conversations. don't into conversations. we don't get into the prosecution of the war with them , much as we'd like to. them, much as we'd like to. they've got a job to do. we leave them to that. but yeah, i mean , we've spoken to civilians mean, we've spoken to civilians as well who of course , feel that as well who of course, feel that the that israel absolutely needs to do what it's doing in terms of going after hamas and destroying hamas because we've heard the rhetoric from hamas leaders . one ghazi hamad , who leaders. one ghazi hamad, who was speaking on television in

lebanon just three days ago said that after the 7th of october, that after the 7th of october, that wouldn't be an end to it as far as hamas is concerned. they want to carry out many more strikes like that against israel. they're not after a ceasefire. they want to drive israel into the sea, obliterate israel into the sea, obliterate israel from the map. and i think that tells israeli people and certainly the politicians and the military are all they need to know about the sort of justification for the war, because there reasoning is if we don't take out hamas, this terrorist organisation nation, it will just regroup and it will strike again. it's done it in the past and it will continue to do it. and even as this war is waging, it continues to lob these rockets into civilian areas many times a day . areas many times a day. >> mark, thank you very much. that's mark wyatt , >> mark, thank you very much. that's mark wyatt, our home and security editor, live in tel aviv for us. mark, please do

stay safe right now, coming back to the uk , protesters are to the uk, protesters are gathering for a third successive weekend to call for a ceasefire in gaza. thousands are expected to march in london today amid a row over protest planned a week's time, which could disrupt remembrance day events now let's cross to trafalgar square and speak to our political correspondent, katherine forster, to find out how the march is about to start. i believe what's happening there . believe what's happening there. good afternoon, catherine. can you update us on what's happening ? happening? >> yes, hello , dawn. so lots of >> yes, hello, dawn. so lots of people gathered in trafalgar square just behind behind me over the last couple of hours. the protest rally call it what you will officially begins is at 2:30 this afternoon . now, i was 2:30 this afternoon. now, i was here at the first of these protests three weeks ago, a week following those atrocities committed by hamas in israel, where 1400 israelis were slain ,

where 1400 israelis were slain, watered the numbers at that march, which went on a long route from the bbc up in portland place right down to the cenotaph were massively massive , cenotaph were massively massive, bigger than they are so far today. but we're still waiting for it to start. so let's see what happens. there's about 1600 police on duty. i've talked to a few of them. they say they're very clear on what constitutes ground bounds for arrest, displaying of hezbollah or hamas terrorist flags . for instance, a terrorist flags. for instance, a face covering another potentially. but they say they would have a conversation with somebody and ask them to uncover their face if necessary . every their face if necessary. every now also, what's not clear is police earlier by the cenotaph told me that they were planning told me that they were planning to and they were expecting the protesters to march from from trafalgar square behind me. now

down whitehall, which is the street with all the government buildings between trafalgar square and the houses of parliament. so they've barricaded it off on both sides of whitehall for that. they've also barricaded the cenotaph off, complete , and it's now off, complete, and it's now sounding like that march may not happen and they may in fact stay in trafalgar square. so let's see what happens in the meantime, there's a number of people gathered down near the cenotaph with union jacks, british flags, england flag . and british flags, england flag. and of course, a lot of concern about what may happen next. next saturday there's due to be another pro—palestinian protest that is, of course, also armed this day commemorating the end of the first world war with a two minute silence at 11:00 at the cenotaph, a really big moment for britain and for people right around the world commemorating people that have

given their lives in war for all of us. so real concerns from the prime minister and the home secretary about that. the prime minister has said that he thinks it's provocative and disrespect fruitful for them to plan to have a demonstration next saturday. the home secretary going further, calling these hate marches now , at the moment hate marches now, at the moment the organisers are saying that they will not be anywhere near they will not be anywhere near the cenotaph at that time. and in fact, they're planning to start a couple of hours aftennards . but obviously a very aftennards. but obviously a very difficult situation and enormous pressure on the police whose resources are going to be extremely stretched catherine, thank you very much. >> that's katherine forster our news political correspondent, live , are in whitehall. there live, are in whitehall. there for us now. there's also a protest planned in glasgow. so let's go to join us. scotland. reporter tony maguire . hello. reporter tony maguire. hello. yes, you are there, tony. good

afternoon. can you update us on what's happening in scotland today ? today? >> good afternoon . >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. certainly a bit of a fluid situation here in scotland and originally the scottish palestine solidarity campaign had planned to meet here for a protest at 2 pm. in pacific quay. >> however , here from around >> however, here from around midday , we're learning that midday, we're learning that there was actually a large sit in in the middle of glasgow central station in the middle of town . originally they had posted town. originally they had posted the social media and what appeared to be 100 to 150 protesters participating in that. and then the plan was to march here to join the sps campaign. now now what we are seeing behind us is hundreds upon hundreds of protesters now joining in far more than we originally saw at glasgow central station. and more coming in from all the bridges over the clyde to join this protest. it's extremely loud here. and people are obviously extremely passionate. so much so that i took out my regular headset and

actually here so that i can hear you in the studio and here with my earphones. but things at the minute seem continually peaceful now, certainly this is one of seven protests happening around scotland , or at least seven, scotland, or at least seven, should i say, around three weeks ago i reported from a similar protest at the top of the cannon street in glasgow and that was one of four. but this this week, they're everywhere from glasgow to dunfermline, stirling , to dunfermline, stirling, aberdeen, dundee, dumfries and of course in edinburgh. so right across scotland to stop the war campaign coalition as well as this one here in glasgow with the scottish palestinian solidarity campaign . of course, solidarity campaign. of course, one of the other big story to really come out of scotland in relation to the gaza, the israel hamas conflict was that first minister humza yousaf , his minister humza yousaf, his in—laws were able to leave via the rafah crossing yesterday . the rafah crossing yesterday. however, many of her family still remains in gaza. but at the minute , that is the latest

the minute, that is the latest update. i think everyone maybe remembers the series of difficult to watch videos coming from the first minister's account showing his mother in law that emotional plea so peaceful here just now. but it's still early in the day. that's our tony mcguire. >> tony, thank you very much for joining us from the palestine peace march, carrying on in glasgow today . now. okay. this glasgow today. now. okay. this week in the covid inquiry. yes. it's still going on. we've had explosive evidence , shocking explosive evidence, shocking revelations and a bucket load of saucy language sources putting it mildly, isn't it? but one thing to come from the inquiry , thing to come from the inquiry, it appears that number 10 was thwart with indecision and chaos. after what we've heard so far, many people say we should have locked down harder. but considering we now know how lockdowns were decided, i want to ask , should we have locked to ask, should we have locked down at all? so joining me now is leader of the heritage party , is leader of the heritage party,

david kirton and gb news presenter benjamin buttennorth, jr . thank you very much for jr. thank you very much for joining me today. this afternoon . now the covid inquiry just checking how much it's actually going to cost us an estimated £410 billion. and all i've seen and witnessed so far is a lot of finger pointing . david, what do finger pointing. david, what do you make of what you've heard coming out of the inquiry so far? >>i far? >> i think it's been a farce so far and a very expensive farce. >> it's like a whitewash. >> it's like a whitewash. >> it's like a whitewash. >> it's the establishment question and the establishment about how well they did and then should we have locked down harder , sooner, longer, faster harder, sooner, longer, faster and all these kind of things. there's no acknowledgement, it seems to me , of how utterly seems to me, of how utterly destructive these lockdowns were and how completely unnecessary they were. i mean, i made the point from the very beginning that they were unnecessary. they affected small and medium sized businesses , mental health of businesses, mental health of millions of people, freedoms

were destroyed. our fundamental freedoms and children's education as well was being wrecked by these lockdowns. so there doesn't seem to have been any acknowledgement of that at all or any comparison to countries like sweden , which countries like sweden, which didn't lock down and actually had better outcomes than we did here. >> david yeah, absolutely. so i mean. benjamin let's come to you now. i mean, you know, lots of mudslinging, lots of name calling, very childish , calling, very childish, etcetera, but the etcetera, etcetera. but the bottom here is about bottom line here is about the lockdowns. dave thinks that they've caused more harm than than they did good. so what do you think? i mean, should we have not locked down or what do you think lockdown maybe. you think lockdown longer maybe. >> agree with many >> i mean, i agree with many of the scientists who are saying at this inquiry and in recent years that we should have locked down earlier. there study by earlier. there was one study by imperial college london that said we'd locked down two said if we'd locked down two weeks earlier, the 6th march, weeks earlier, the 6th of march, instead of the 23rd of march of 2020, we could have saved 20,000 lives from that first most

vicious wave of when we didn't know how to cope with the symptoms and to help people who were coming down with coronavirus. but look, david mentioned as his great mentioned sweden as his great example of what would happen now. for those who don't remember, sweden didn't lock down. pretty unique in down. it was pretty unique in that among part of the that among our part of the world. well, sweden had let me check 24,000 deaths of its 10 million population. take nonnay , million population. take nonnay, a very similar country, very similarly, laid out similar levels of wealth , very similar levels of wealth, very similar health care system, similar demographic of population . it demographic of population. it had 5000 deaths from its 5 million people. so it was a 250% higher death rate. once you account for the difference in population for sweden than nonnay, that is definitive evidence that if we hadn't locked down, we would have seen tens, if not hundreds of thousands of british people lose their thankfully did not. >> david, what would you say to that? >> no, absolutely. >> no, absolutely. >> i mean, you're comparing sweden with nonnay, but you're not with uk sweden with nonnay, but you're no other with uk sweden with nonnay, but you're

no other countries with uk sweden with nonnay, but you're no other countries . with uk sweden with nonnay, but you're no other countries . i with uk sweden with nonnay, but you're no other countries . i mean, uk sweden with nonnay, but you're noother countries . i mean, so uk or other countries. i mean, so this simply isn't the case. if we had locked down earlier that wouldn't have made any difference at all to the amount of deaths. there was a spike in deaths, absolutely. in april and may 2020. but then it dispersed again, like in the normal curve of any epidemic or pandemic that happens. but the fact is that now we know many, many of the deaths that were attributed to covid over the 2 or 3 years were not actually covid at all. they were other things, and they were mostly with people with co—morbidities, even at the time, we knew that people who were apparently, you know , dying were apparently, you know, dying with covid and there was a an excess mortality , the average excess mortality, the average age of people was 83. and so there were people with who were you know, sadly , you know , on you know, sadly, you know, on their way to dying anyway. so this is simply is not true that if we locked down earlier , it

if we locked down earlier, it would have had any impact. >> benjamin that was true wasn't it? there were people who were being chalked up as a covid victim when basically they were dying of cancer and would have died cancer any case, died of cancer in any case, i think what david is doing is merging two different issues. >> are people, >> one, that there are people, you for example , got you know, who, for example, got hit bus and then got covid hit by a bus and then got covid in isn't going to in hospital. that isn't going to be a covid death. but when you're trying to that you're trying to say that because had comorbidities because people had comorbidities such or skin such as asthma or skin conditions, things that were classed as co—morbidities, that made people more vulnerable , made people more vulnerable, well, the idea that they were somehow on their way out just because those issues because of those issues themselves is ridiculous. the evidence he tries to cite , evidence that he tries to cite, which statistics that which was some statistics that said something like only a third were really covid had people that had a condition such as eczema they didn't eczema and said they didn't count it wasn't only count because it wasn't only covid they had. that a covid that they had. that is a preposterous the preposterous way to do the numbers . and then he seems numbers. and then he also seems to what we now know. boris to echo what we now know. boris johnson in private, which johnson said in private, which was, oh, let the old people die. well, i tell you what, i think most people who are in their 80s

watching this or have parents and grandparents of that age wouldn't satisfied with wouldn't be satisfied with saying, i don't about saying, oh, i don't care about them. let's just them in them. let's just pop them off in march, 2020. think march, april, may 2020. i think thatis march, april, may 2020. i think that is an inhumane and irresponsible way for a government to behave and we know from the scientists that if they had locked down two weeks earlier in march 2020, then there could have been 20,000, many of them in that age bracket who survived. that is who had survived. and that is why lockdown was the right decision and should have been done earlier. david there were following the science lockdowns were important. >> , they were following modelling. >> so there was all kinds of modelling done, particularly that done by neil ferguson, which we knew right at the beginning was dodgy modelling. he initially said that if we don't lock down, we're going to have 500,000 people dying from this disease , covid or this disease, covid or sars—cov—2, whatever you like to call it. then on the day that they passed the coronavirus act, i think it was the 23rd of march, then he changed his figures from 500,000 to 50,000,

and then we found actually one of the figures that came from the covid inquiry itself was the actual number of people that actually died from covid was 177 that was given in the evidence . that was given in the evidence. so there there really were not that many people who actually died from covid and sars—cov two solely. and exclusively during that time . and the effects that that time. and the effects that it's had on the economy and on on the whole generations all the generations of people under 60 who were not dying, who were not susceptible and who were not in any danger from whatever was there , have had their lives there, have had their lives wrecked completely unnecessarily due to essentially dodgy modelling rather than in lyrical observed science . observed science. >> benjamin i mean, you know, the mental health consequences alone and the repercussions of those will go on probably for generations now . so if, if we generations now. so if, if we learn anything from this covid inquiry about how we treat a

future pandemic, do you think lockdowns will play an important part of any future pandemic ? part of any future pandemic? >> well, look, touch wood, there won't be a pandemic for another hundred seems to be hundred years, as seems to be the dispersal of them in the usual dispersal of them in human i think human history. but i think the problem is that when people list the consequences, the negative consequences that happened, those are a product of covid rather than of lockdown. the fact is that it seems to pretend that there was some perfect alternative that would have let all the old people live and all the young people go out and work and party and we couldn't have had deal covid we did had to deal with covid as we did there were people that have had mental consequences and mental health consequences and businesses damaged. businesses damaged, damaged. and that but still think that is bad. but i still think that is bad. but i still think thatis that is bad. but i still think that is preferable to of having potentially hundreds of thousands people lose their thousands of people lose their lives includes, by the lives. and that includes, by the way, those people that way, some of those people that had those negative consequences david and just david described and that i just mentioned of people mentioned. some of those people wouldn't alive at all if we wouldn't be alive at all if we hadn't done things lockdown hadn't done things like lockdown . and that is the . and i think that is the reality you have to take it reality that you have to take it to there a perfect to pretend there was a perfect alternative is untruthful it alternative is untruthful and it

is andits is misleading people and it's easy to years after the easy to do years after the incident . but at the time, the incident. but at the time, the vast majority people vast majority of people were glad kept safe and to stay glad to be kept safe and to stay home. many of them did it voluntarily, even when the rules weren't as strict. david, just voluntarily, even when the rules werefinals strict. david, just voluntarily, even when the rules werefinal question avid, just voluntarily, even when the rules werefinal question very just voluntarily, even when the rules werefinal question very quickly . one final question very quickly. >> do you think they'd ever persuade this country to lock down there was another down again if there was another pandemic? not. pandemic? absolutely not. >> i don't think the people of this country are going have this country are going to have it what they saw was it again. and what they saw was that the people were in that the people who were in charge of making the decisions weren't scared the virus weren't scared of the virus themselves were themselves because they were partying downing partying in 10 downing street. so didn't care. so they know they didn't care. they they they didn't know that they were not of any if they not afraid of any virus if they tried to pull this again, the people in this country are not going we're not going to have it. we're not going to have it. we're not going to have it. we're not going to lock down. >> fair and that's >> very fair point. and that's david kirton, of the david kirton, leader of the heritage benjamin heritage party. and benjamin buttennorth, presenter the saturday later buttennorth, presenter the saitonight. later buttennorth, presenter the saitonight. so later buttennorth, presenter the saitonight. so don't later buttennorth, presenter the saitonight. so don't miss later buttennorth, presenter the saitonight. so don't miss that. on tonight. so don't miss that. now you're watching and listening news saturday listening to gb news saturday with me, neesom. lots more with me, dawn neesom. lots more coming today's but coming up on today's show. but first, let's take a look at what that doing with jonathan. >> hello there. i'm jonathan vautour here with your gb news

weather provided weather forecast provided by the met office. those of us gearing up fireworks up for some fireworks celebrations this evening may need about taking an need to think about taking an umbrella, particularly for central northern areas of england and wales. some outbreaks of rain quite cloudy here, showers and here, further heavy showers and thunderstorms pushing into thunderstorms also pushing into southeastern areas of england. the intervals for inland the driest intervals for inland areas scotland and northern areas of scotland and northern ireland. a few coastal showers to but underneath to deal with, but underneath those clearer spells, some fog could and we'll could form overnight. and we'll also temperatures also see those temperatures drop off, low off, certainly down into low single in the single figures in the countryside underneath the cloud, holding countryside underneath the clo a i, holding countryside underneath the clo a touch holding countryside underneath the clo a touch butholding countryside underneath the clo a touch but itlding countryside underneath the clo a touch but it could up a touch higher. but it could be murky start off be quite murky to start off sunday morning and it will take a little bit of time for all that cloud to eventually clear its way towards north, that cloud to eventually clear its isome towards north, that cloud to eventually clear its isome of )wards north, that cloud to eventually clear its isome of the ds north, that cloud to eventually clear its isome of the fog north, that cloud to eventually clear its isome of the fog well,. see some of the fog as well, just slowly its way off just slowly clearing its way off parts and into parts of scotland and then into the afternoon, a bit of an east west split in our weather. the showers feeding their way in from could be from the west again, could be quite heavy at times. eastern areas dry areas seeing largely dry with some in some prolonged sunshine shine in there. temperatures ranging between 14 c. as we between ten and 14 c. as we start new working week, start off the new working week, low pressure is still close by, but it's situated to the north—east of us. so we start

feeding in this westerly feeding in this north westerly airflow quite persistently. so relatively situation relatively similar situation compared to sunday, those compared to sunday, where those showers continue to push showers will continue to push their to western areas , their way in to western areas, may begin further may begin to arrive further inland as we head throughout the day. the further day. but certainly the further east you are, the more likely you stay and see that you are to stay dry and see that sunshine. situation as sunshine. similar situation as we head into tuesday, but wednesday sees slightly wednesday sees some slightly more area of rain more persistent area of rain beginning arrive. enjoy your beginning to arrive. enjoy your evening. bye. thank you very evening. bye bye. thank you very much, jonathan. >> lots more coming up on today's show. charles and camilla have arrived home from their kenya. but their state visit to kenya. but was a success? all of was the trip a success? all of that and much more to come. i'm dawn neesom and you're watching and listening to news and listening to gb news britain's channel .

mornings from 930 on, gb news. >> it's 231. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. the prime minister says plans by some groups to protest during remembrance commemorations are provocative and disrespectful . provocative and disrespectful. in a statement, rishi sunak said the right to remember in peace and dignity must be protected. labour leader sir keir starmer echoed the comments , saying he echoed the comments, saying he supports the police in whatever action is needed . israel defence action is needed. israel defence forces have released footage of the military blowing up tunnels and clearing an area of explosive devices found in gaza meanwhile, a french military aeroplane carrying 18 tonnes of

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our website, gbnews.com now it's back to dawn . sophia back to dawn. sophia >> welcome back to gb news saturday with me dawn neesom on your tv online and on digital radio. now king charles and queen camilla have arrived home from their state visit to kenya. dunng from their state visit to kenya. during the trip , king charles during the trip, king charles had expressed the greatest sorrow and deepest regret over colonial atrocities committed by the british forces in kenya , but the british forces in kenya, but stop short of an apology. now, joining me is royal commentator rafe heydel—mankoo to give us a little bit more detail about how the trip has gone down and what charles made of it. and should he have apologised . ray, thank he have apologised. ray, thank you so much forjoining us this afternoon. so a success overall, the whole trip. do you think ? the whole trip. do you think? >> yes, i think by any measure, you know, the majesty visit to kenya was an absolute triumph. >> and i think it's going to

reassure also many people in the royal household that that these things do have a good future because this follows on the back of some less than successful royal visits to the caribbean recently by the prince and princess of wales. and you just have to recall the cries of long live the king that echoed out in mombasa when his majesty engaged in interfaith dialogue with religious leaders to see how much the kenyan people were so receptive to his majesty's visit and the sincerity with which he engaged with all sorts of issues and i think, you know, also it showed quite vividly what a priceless asset the monarchy is actually to britain to and britain's soft power status. britain's soft power status. britain ranks number two in the world as a soft power status country behind only the america and a large part of that is because of our monarchy. you know, all countries in the world have state visits, but the world's media don't cover the german president's state visit to a country or the italian president's state visit. no one actually knows who the german president italian

president or the italian president or the italian president and this also president is. and this also benefits like kenya to benefits countries like kenya to these are countries that never get positive attention from the world's when you world's media, except when you have like this royal have occasions like this royal state visit. so i think it was a success for everybody , actually. success for everybody, actually. >> actually, ralph, it's an interesting point there. you know, you know, has got know, you know, this has got world, world, media world, world, world media coverage . every you coverage. but every time, you know , our royals go anywhere , know, our royals go anywhere, that was a colony. we're asked to apologise. why don't other countries constantly get asked to apologise for what happened? around 300 or 400 years ago ? around 300 or 400 years ago? >> that's a very good question. >> that's a very good question. >> you ask. >> you ask. >> i mean, i don't i don't speak portuguese or french or spanish. >> and i'm sure there are calls for apologies from those former colonial powers, too. >> but it's always a one sided. >> but it's always a one sided. >> it's a one sided request for apologies . apologies. >> for example, with the slavery debate we've never see calls for apologies from the african tribal kings descends who were complicit in the selling of slaves, for example. >> there's mysterious silence. we don't see protests outside

the nigerian high commission or the nigerian high commission or the cameroon or sudan high commission for their role in slavery, for example. >> similarly in this case, and i think it was quite right for the king to express his deep regret and sorrow because british conduct. >> i have to say, the 1950s in kenya was reprehensible and that and that was a very heartfelt expression of regret and sorrow, stopping short of an apology because the can't apologise because the king can't apologise without the permission of the government and government government. and the government regards matter regards this as a settled matter . we've actually had . but we've never actually had an the mau mau. and an apology from the mau mau. and we recall the absolute we have to recall the absolute savagery with which the mau mau murdered white and african kenyans. murdered white and african kenyans . and remember, 98% of kenyans. and remember, 98% of the people that the mau mau murdered were their fellow black african kenyans. that's an uncomfortable reality that the left never raised. they want to they want to frame the uprising as white colonisers versus black colonised , where in fact, in colonised, where in fact, in large part it was also a civil war between kenyans . war between kenyans. >> and so it's always seems to me it's just a double standard

and a hypocrisy whereby it's always us who's being called to apologise. >> and never given to the >> and it's never given to the other to you're quite other side, to you're quite right think do you think the >> do you think do you think the king, if it had been left to him , able to , do you , he had been able to, do you think would have apologised ? think he would have apologised? >> it's a good question and it's not in my it's not my place or my position. and i don't have any inside knowledge to answer that . but what that that question. but what we have from majesty is have seen from his majesty is a much more direct approach to these topics than his late mother demonstrated . she was mother demonstrated. she was very keen to avoid made matters of controversy . i think he's of controversy. i think he's more he's more in touch with the changing circumstances of the 21st century. you also know that we have a big issue in this country with the youth of britain. we have never seen such a percentage today's a large percentage of today's youth favouring abolition of youth favouring the abolition of the monarchy. and we know that these are very important these issues are very important to the to the youth of today. and maybe is some way in and so maybe this is some way in which say, i do which he can say, look, i do understand your concerns, too. i'm not apologising, but i

certainly can reflect your concern way . concern in my own way. >> and of course, rafi charles has got another controversial trip coming up, hasn't he? is off to dubai for the climate summit. cop 28. what do you make of that? yes well, it's interesting, isn't it, that he was advised by his last prime minister, by liz truss, not to go on that trip. >> and now with rishi sunak, he rishi sunak seems to think there's no problem going. what so ever at the same time that rishi sunak has actually backtracked many of the backtracked on many of the climate commitments that the government making. government was making. >> don't think there's >> so i don't think there's anything wrong that. anything wrong with that. >> king one the >> again, the king is one of the great ambassadors for soft great ambassadors for our soft power there can be power status. if there can be some good with him going there, he's going there sign deals. >> going there to make >> he's not going there to make any for the british government. >> know now firmly that >> and we know now firmly that the is going the british government is going on a much slower track than than planned i don't see planned. so i don't i don't see it being that controversial, actually. >> so should he go, rafe? i mean, very hypocritical , isn't mean, very hypocritical, isn't it? he's been talking to it? i mean, he's been talking to trees but he's

trees for decades. so but he's not really going to achieve anything, is he? so why all anything, is he? so why jet all the there ? the way over there? >> i think it's >> well, i don't think it's hypocritical . i think he has hypocritical. i think he has a genuine passion and interest. and it doesn't matter and i don't it doesn't matter whether you're favour or whether you're in favour or you're favour of these you're not in favour of these issues. demonstrated his issues. he's demonstrated his own for this, and own concern for this, and i think he does get a lot of global recognition for that. whether believe in whether you believe in it, believe it or not. and believe in it or not. and actually, i think it's time actually, i think it's a time when actually shine, when he can actually shine, because know, as you said, because you know, as you said, you becky was to talking you know, becky was to talking plants. was engaged in plants. he was engaged in discussions plants. he was engaged in discussinand environment and farming and the environment and conservation time when conservation at a time when nobody was talking about these things back in the 1980s. and so very much, you know, hour very much, you know, his hour has not going to has come and i'm not going to deny him an opportunity to actually, you know, further his interest there. >> thank you very much. >> ray, thank you very much. that's rafe heydel—mankoo royal commentator this commentator joining us this afternoon . thank you much. afternoon. thank you very much. right. watching and right. you are watching and listening news saturday listening to gb news saturday with dawn neesom lots with me. dawn neesom and lots more today's show . more coming up on today's show. rishi this week's rishi sunak held this week's artificial intelligence safety summit as a diplomatic

breakthrough and that balance is being tipped in favour of humanity. he even sat down with elon musk, where the tech billionaire warned the ai could one day wipe out all jobs. billionaire warned the ai could one day wipe out all jobs . okay, one day wipe out all jobs. okay, all of that and much more to come. you're watching and listening to gb news, britain's news channel.

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radio. now rishi sunak held this week's artificial intelligence safety summit as a diplomatic breakthrough and that the balance is being tipped in the favour of humanity. he balance is being tipped in the favour of humanity . he even sat favour of humanity. he even sat down with elon musk. there they are where the tech billionaire warned that i could one day wipe out jobs. that's a billionaire warning about job losses. marvellous. but what does i really mean for britain's future? now joining me is al, expert and expert and futurist andrew eborn . andrew, thank you andrew eborn. andrew, thank you so much for coming. always join us. i love talking to you because you really understand this stuff and i'm scared of my mobile phone. don't even mobile phone. i don't even know how works. now the how that works. so now the summit quite successful . summit seemed quite successful. great success agreements were made et cetera. cetera. and made. et cetera. et cetera. and apart the bit about apart from the scary a bit about jobs actually being obsolete and we only work for pleasure . we only work for pleasure. neither the millionaire or the billionaire discussing that actually discussed how we pay our . but the thing i our bills. but the one thing i want talk to you today about want to talk to you today about is how ai images are affecting

our perception of what's going on in israel and gaza. >> yeah , absolutely. well, we're >> yeah, absolutely. well, we're living in a very diseased information age where basically you can manipulate anything and that we've seen from the jokey p°pe that we've seen from the jokey pope and a puffer to some really serious images which i talk about on fake or fact, which we do as a regular here. yeah this morning work on that sort of basis because as i you have basis because as i say, you have to and the to question everything and the first casualty in war is the truth. and been truth. and there's been propaganda both and propaganda on both sides. and you these fake images and it you see these fake images and it was today , wasn't was in the paper today, wasn't it, social media hosts , it, about social media hosts, war fake news and ai images war of fake news and ai images and even last week there have been a conflict like this where i and fake images and fake news have played such a huge part . have played such a huge part. and even last week, gerry adams posted an image which was shared to about over a million people, which showed a it looked like a palestinian with children in his arms, so that . yes, and that was arms, so that. yes, and that was fake. that was done by ai. and one of the ways you can check is look at the extremities , look at

look at the extremities, look at the fingers. you'll see they only like three fingers on only had like three fingers on one hand and six toes, that sort of is not of stuff. because ai is not perfect yet images. the perfect yet for images. the difficulty vocal difficulty comes when vocal stuff, recordings and we stuff, audio recordings and we had probably had the had slovakia probably had the very first election which was won as a result of a fake ai and the two candidates were neck and neck. the two candidates were neck and neck . but all of the two candidates were neck and neck. but all of a the two candidates were neck and neck . but all of a sudden, two neck. but all of a sudden, two days election, there days before the election, there was fake recording of was a fake recording with one of the candidates saying how he's going the election and going to rig the election and how buy it. and it how he's going to buy it. and it turned it was fake by ai and turned out it was fake by ai and the other candidate what the other candidate won. so what rishi even rishi warned about and he even said, look, hang about there being elections in the usa, in said, look, hang about there being and:tions in the usa, in said, look, hang about there being and indonesia|e usa, in said, look, hang about there being and indonesia andsa, in said, look, hang about there being and indonesia and maybe in india and indonesia and maybe in the what i the uk, which is what he said. i thank you. but he's really concerned about this. and what i was morning was talking about this morning on show when we're on the breakfast show when we're looking images, is one looking at fake images, is one of ones of at a beer of the ones of him at a beer festival where he didn't pull the pint. right. the perfect pint. that's right. and what and it was faked. and what happened you saw, he happened is, as you saw, he actually a perfect the actually did a perfect pint. the person just person next to him would just sort on as they sort of looking on as they normally do. but the way the image had manipulated was image had been manipulated was it head. so he looked it had a big head. so he looked stupid. and the person was

looking what looking askance like, what a wally, sort of stuff. wally, all that sort of stuff. so we've got question so we've got to question everything. the everything. and i say that's the reality. now all say the reality. now they all say the camera lie. well, that's camera doesn't lie. well, that's the lie the the biggest lie of all. the camera us and we camera is lying to us and we need to make sure we have the tools to make sure we question that. how ordinary that. so but how do ordinary people it? people question it? >> how i an image on >> how do i get an image on here? we ran out here? unfortunately, we ran out of very quickly, but do of time very quickly, but how do i image on here and know i get an image on here and know whether fake it's real? i get an image on here and know whether we fake it's real? i get an image on here and know whether we do {e it's real? i get an image on here and know whether we do with it's real? i get an image on here and know whether we do with andrew? i get an image on here and know whether we do with andrew warns so what we do with andrew warns fake give you the fake or fact is give you the tips you can reverse search certain images look certain images so you can look at things taken out at certain things are taken out of for history and so on of context for history and so on and so forth. >> can see when that image >> you can see when that image first things like first appeared. so things like google and google lens will do that. and again, those do again, we've got those tips. do look back on those. we're going to with the series and to continue with the series and look things regular look at things on a regular basis because they're fake information day. basis because they're fake infc wow. on day. basis because they're fake inchow. on thank day. basis because they're fake inchow. on thank divery >> wow. okay. thank you very much this much for coming in this afternoon. eborn afternoon. that's andrew eborn there, oh, there, an ai expert. oh, my gosh. scary stuff right gosh. it's scary stuff right now. andrew's not scared . i'm now. andrew's not scared. i'm scared, by way. he knows scared, by the way. he knows what the what he's talking about. are the snp . labour has recorded snp toast. labour has recorded its first westminster poll lead over the snp in scotland for

almost a decade , and this is almost a decade, and this is according to a recent poll . according to a recent poll. scottish turning scottish voters are turning against the chaotic conservatives . i think that's conservatives. i think that's a fair comment and snubbing humza yousafs party as support for independence dwindled . he's now independence dwindled. he's now joining me is stuart crawford, political commentator and former snp member , here to explain snp member, here to explain what's going on. now, the question we're asking is this the end of the snp or can they come back from this? >> good afternoon, dawn. i don't think it's quite at the end of the snp , but it's certainly the snp, but it's certainly i believe the end of the snp's penod believe the end of the snp's period in power for the next few years. >> the polls i mean one poll can't be relied upon, but the general trend in the polls seems to indicate that at the general election, which i think we're expecting sometime next year, the snp could lose up to half of the snp could lose up to half of the 3043 current seats that it holds at westminster, scotland

has now location of 59 mps at westminster , where the snp holds westminster, where the snp holds 43. >> at the moment it used to be 48, but there have been various defections to alex salmond's new alba party at and to independent candidates . and so it looks as candidates. and so it looks as if though that they're going to lose about half of those. and the interest ing result might be that the labour party in scotland and the snp in scotland hold roughly the same number of seats and obviously polls we've had polls before, haven't we? >> stuart , where i mean >> stuart, where i mean basically they actually predict absolutely nothing in the end. and it's worth pointing out that, you know, the snp are still the second largest party in scottish politics at the moment aren't they? so there is there is sort of like we don't know what's going to happen, we can't say. but how much of this is, you know, can blame can we lay at the feet of nicola sturgeon in. >> well well i mean the snp is the biggest party in scottish

politics by some considerable margin, depending how you measure it. but that margin is diminishing. and i think quite a lot of this can be laid at nicola sturgeons door. but the rot set in, if you like , after rot set in, if you like, after the defeat of the independence movement at the 2014 referendum, after which alex salmond resigned and then the snp fell into some sort of disarray, you'll recall alexander was in court at and for various alleged misdemeanour errors, all of which he was either acquitted for or not proven under the scottish third verdict that we have in our courts. and then fell out with nicola sturgeon . fell out with nicola sturgeon. and then there were lots of shenanigans to do with party shenanigans to do with snp party finances and the arrest and the release without charge of nicola sturgeon, her husband, the party treasurer colin beattie and so on and so forth. and now there's i mean there's quite a lot of evidence that the party has

basically split in a number of different ways. so they're in disarray and that is not a good way to enter an election . way to enter an election. >> no, absolutely. that's our stuart crawford, scottish political analyst . stuart, stuart crawford, scottish political analyst. stuart, thank you very much for joining us this afternoon on scottish politics and the fate of the snp at the next election. but that's it for me today. oh my god, it's gone fast . stay tuned gone so fast. but stay tuned because nana is up next and we are playing matchy matchy in our pink today. nana. what have you got coming up on your show? >> well, we've got a lot to do at the top of the first hour. we've got the david will we've got the david mellor will be we'll be talking to be live. so we'll be talking to him during the political spotlight. plus we'll obviously have yuri have a chat with yuri gala. we've been speaking him every we've been speaking to him every weekend, what's weekend, finding out what's happening . but we will happening in israel. but we will be discussing the pro—palestine march , which, of course, gary march, which, of course, gary lineker has piped up again. yes, that's the one thing we didn't have time to discuss today, have time to discuss that today, because, mean, why does he because, i mean, why does he feel the need? >> you know, maybe the >> i mean, you know, maybe the rhetoric suella braverman was rhetoric of suella braverman was a over the top. but but a bit over the top. but but what's why he have to speak

what's why does he have to speak about it? what's why does he have to speak aboand ? what's why does he have to speak aboand actually, >> and actually, when a situation to situation that was akin to germany or germany in the 30s occurred on the 7th of october, he was deadly which is he was deadly silent, which is very now he should he was deadly silent, which is very his now he should he was deadly silent, which is very his mouth. now he should he was deadly silent, which is very his mouth. but�* he should he was deadly silent, which is very his mouth. but it's should he was deadly silent, which is very his mouth. but it's soould open his mouth. but it's so we'll be discussing of that. we'll be discussing all of that. i've lizzie i've got the lovely lizzie cundy coming danczuk will coming in and simon danczuk will be my panellists and we'll also be my panellists and we'll also be the climate be discussing the climate climate control. >> gosh , absolutely. stuff >> oh gosh, absolutely. stuff loads of stuff. i just want a nice bonfire night, don't you? can we just have a nice bit of weather over bonfire night? bonfire weekend? >> it's just going >> actually, no, it's just going to. it's going to rain to. well it's going to rain isn't to be isn't it. it's going to be raining. polite way of raining. the polite way of saying know what? saying it, you know what? thanks, nana. >> you're really not helping. okay. lovely stuff okay. lots of lovely stuff coming with the very lovely okay. lots of lovely stuff comirakua with the very lovely okay. lots of lovely stuff comirakua with th matching �*ely okay. lots of lovely stuff comirakua with thmatching pink. nana akua in our matching pink. you've been watching and listening news saturday listening to gb news saturday with dawn neesom. thank you with me. dawn neesom. thank you so joining me. but so much forjoining me. but don't anywhere, because nana don't go anywhere, because nana isindeed don't go anywhere, because nana is indeed here. but first, let's take look at what that take a look at what that weather's going to over weather's going to be like over bonfire have a good bonfire weekend. have a good time safe .

time and stay safe. >> hello there. i'm jonathan vautrey you here with your gb news weather forecast provided by the met office. those of us geanng by the met office. those of us gearing up for some fireworks celebrations this evening, mainly to think about taking an umbrella, particularly for central northern of central northern areas of england some england and wales. some outbreaks of rain quite cloudy here, further heavy showers and thunderstorms also pushing into southeastern of england. southeastern areas of england. the driest intervals for inland areas scotland and northern areas of scotland and northern ireland. coastal showers areas of scotland and northern ire deal coastal showers areas of scotland and northern ire deal with. coastal showers areas of scotland and northern ire deal with. butastal showers areas of scotland and northern ire deal with. but underneath 's to deal with. but underneath those some those clearer spells, some fog could overnight . and we'll could form overnight. and we'll also those temperatures drop also see those temperatures drop off. certainly down into low single the single figures in the countryside , underneath the countryside, underneath the cloud, just holding countryside, underneath the clouctouch just holding countryside, underneath the clouctouch higher. ust holding countryside, underneath the clouctouch higher. butholding countryside, underneath the clouctouch higher. but itlding countryside, underneath the clouctouch higher. but it could up a touch higher. but it could be quite murky to start off sunday and it will take sunday morning and it will take a bit time for all a little bit of time for all that eventually clear that cloud to eventually clear its towards north its way off towards the north sea fog as well, sea. some of the fog as well, just clearing its way just slowly clearing its way off parts of scotland and then into the afternoon, bit of an east the afternoon, a bit of an east west weather. the west split in our weather. the showers way in showers feeding their way in from again, could be from the west again, could be quite at times. eastern quite heavy at times. eastern areas dry with areas staying largely dry with some sunshine in some prolonged sunshine in there. temperatures ranging between we between ten and 14 c. as we start off the new working week,

low pressure still close by, low pressure is still close by, but it's situated to the north—east so we start north—east of us. so we start feeding in this north westerly airflow quite persistently. so relatively situation relatively similar situation compared to sunday where those showers will continue to push their in to western areas, their way in to western areas, may begin to further may begin to arrive further inland head throughout the inland as we head throughout the day. certainly further inland as we head throughout the day. you certainly further inland as we head throughout the day. you certainlymore urther inland as we head throughout the day. you certainlymore likely . east you are, the more likely. i'm andrew doyle join me at 7:00 every sunday night for free speech nation. >> the show where i tackle the week's biggest stories in politics and current affairs with the help of my two comedian panellists and variety panellists and a variety of special guests . special guests. >> speech nation sunday >> free speech nation sunday nights from 7:00 on gb news the people's channel, britain's news channel every sunday from 11 join michael portillo. >> there will be topical discussion looking at the week before and the week to come, so kick back and relax at 11 am. on sundays on news with me, michael portillo , gb news, the michael portillo, gb news, the people's channel, britain's news

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hitting the headlines right now. this show is all about opinion. it's mine. it's theirs . and of it's mine. it's theirs. and of course it's yours. we'll be debating, discussing, and at times we will disagree. but no one be cancelled . so one will be cancelled. so joining me in the next hour broadcast from columnist lizzie cundy and also former labour party mp simon danczuk. cundy and also former labour party mp simon danczuk . before party mp simon danczuk. before we get started, let's get your latest news with sophia . latest news with sophia. >> good afternoon . it's 3:00. >> good afternoon. it's 3:00. i'm sophia wenzler in the newsroom. three people have been arrested at a pro—palestine protest in london. an met police confirm officers have made three arrests at piccadilly circus in central london. one person was arrested after they were seen displaying a placard that could incite hatred. two other people were arrested. one for breaching pubuc were arrested. one for breaching public order and other for assaulting a police officer . all assaulting a police officer. all three have been taken into

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