of arms sales to suspension of arms sales to israel. he's managed to alienate a key ally , upset british jews a key ally, upset british jews and stands accused now of lying to the white house. is he fit for the job and a war on motorists? >> labour could make electric car owners pay per mile in the latest attack on drivers, with campaigners urging the chancellor to bring in the controversial measure. but hang on a minute. isn't this a tax on working people who are told to go green? >> and the gaza group, fears of sectarian politics as britain now has a group of five mps elected on a palestine ticket, spearheaded by jeremy corbyn. what could this mean for british politics? >> and an islamist who stabbed a woman in the neck in marks and spencer's has avoided jail. instead, he received an indefinite hospital order. is that really .

that really. justice? >> yes. we've got a huge amount coming up on the show, so do get in touch. gbnews.com forward slash your say to join our conversation this afternoon on good afternoon britain. now one licences will be suspended, stressing it's nobritain. nowm'” licences will be suspended, of the questions to that we want to ask is well are you proud to stressing it's nobritain. now one well are you proud to to ask is well are you proud to be british. but not just that. be british. but not just that. why are people not proud of why are people not proud of britain's history anymore. this britain's history anymore. this is a new survey that's come out is 7 survey that's come out today, and it's essentially is a new survey that's come out today, and it's essentially saying that rates of the number saying that rates of the number of people who are proud to be of people who are proud to be british and proud of our history british and proud of has plummeted to a new record of people who are proud to be britiplummetedd of , of people who are proud to be britiplummeted to »f l of people who are proud to be britiplummeted to a new,,, low. they think it's because the of people who are proud to be britiplummeted to a new record has plummeted to a new record low. they think it's because the war generation are dying off. war generation are dying off. and with that patriotism. and with that patriotism. >> yeah, i also think people are now taught to be very critical taught to be very critical of britain, aren't they? i don't now taught to be very critical of britain, aren't they? i don't think it's rocket science is. i think it's rocket science is. i think it's rocket science is. i think if you're constantly think it's rocket science is. i think if you're constantly pumped full of this idea about pumped negative past, britain's negative past, britain's negative past, etcetera, and he keeps saying, etcetera, and he keeps saying, you know, statues commissioned you know, statues commissioned to commemorate the wrongs of the to commemorate the wrongs of the transatlantic slave trade and transatlantic slave all of that stuff, then you end to commemorate the wrongs of the transathat ic slave to commemorate the wrongs of the transathat stuff, le to commemorate the wrongs of the transathat stuff, then you end up in a position where actually all of that stuff, then you end up in a position where actually

people are naturally a bit more people are naturally a bit more critical of britain. >> yeah. i mean, you've got a critical of britain. >> yeah. i mean, you've got a bbc proms presenter coming out bbc proms presenter coming out to say rule britannia is to say rule britannia is incredibly problematic every incredibly problematic every single year. >> royal balcony is a bit too single year. >> royal balcony is a bit too white. >> every single year. anyway let white. us know your theories on why patriotism essentially is >> plummeting in this country. gbnews.com/yoursay. but it's your headlines with tatiana . your headlines with tatiana. >> emily. thank you and good afternoon. the top stories. there's been a backlash over the decision by the government to suspend some arms sales to israel, including from the former prime minister, boris johnson, who's accused sir keir starmer of abandoning the country. foreign secretary david lammy says the decision follows a review which found there was a clear risk they might be used to commit a serious violation of international humanitarian law. mr lammy says around 30 of 350 licences will be suspended, stressing it's not a

step. but defence secretary john healey insists israel's security will not be weakened by the decision. shadow transport secretary helen whately says it is bad timing. well, i think it's really important that we stand firm in our support of israel in their conflict with hamas, which of course is a terrorist organisation. i, like many people, i am concerned about the humanitarian situation in gaza, but we know hamas is using people as human shields and still has israeli hostages. in fact, one of the problems with this announcement is one of timing. it was just a few days ago that hamas murdered six hostages, rather than release them and write on the back of thatis them and write on the back of that is this announcement by labour about limiting arms sales to israel. in other news, tom tugendhat has launched his tory leadership campaign, the shadow

secretary, minister, security minister setting out his vision w vision minister setting out his vision for the future of the party and for the future of the party and for the future of the party and for the future of the party and for the future of the party and for the nation . mr tugendhat is for the future of the party and for the nation . mr tugendhat is for the nation. mr tugendhat is one of the six tory mps vying to for the nation. mr tugendhat is one of the six tory mps vying to be rishi sunak's successor, says be rishi sunak's successor, says he'll promise to reset the he'll promise to reset the party's relationship with the party's relationship with the public. mps returned to westminster yesterday after the summer recess, as james cleverly and kemi badenoch also launched their campaigns. mr tugendhat has promised a return of honesty to politics. >> we must change and britain deserves better and we need a different government, one that will serve our country with conviction and act for you. my mission is the happiness and prosperity of the british people . prosperity of the british people. now it's easy to say, but it's tough to deliver because at its heart, it's about putting the government back at the service of the people. it's about investment and innovation , but investment and innovation, but it's also about freedom. freedom to succeed and yes, freedom to fail. it's secretary john

test for the show after detector test for the show after being accused of cheating on his fiancee. steve's son, carl woolley , says his father had woolley, says his father had continued to be very upset in the following days and would call him up to six times a day. the government has pledged to crack down on snatch thefts after cases soared by more than 150% in the last year. an estimated 78,000 people on more than 200 a day had their phones or bags stolen in the year leading up to march this year. that's according to the home office analysis of data from the crime survey for england and wales. that's more than double the 31,000 incidents in the same penod the 31,000 incidents in the same period to march last year. police intelligence shows that the increase is likely driven by greater demand for second hand phonesin greater demand for second hand phones in the uk and abroad. tech companies and manufacturers will be called to attend a home office summit on the issue, looking at the new innovations that could take on the illegal market. and a yellow weather warning for heavy rain has been

issued for a large part of the uk. the met office warning covers the east of england, south east, east midlands, west midlands , south—west london and midlands, south—west london and also parts of wales. the warnings of heavy showers and perhaps thundery as well, are in place from 9 pm. tomorrow until 9 am. thursday morning. there's a small chance homes and businesses could be flooded as well, according to the warning . well, according to the warning. and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> good afternoon britain. it's 12:08. now. the uk government has sparked controversy after suspending 30 arms export

licences to israel, although it insists it still supports the jewish state's right to defend itself and that the uk remains a staunch ally of israel. >> well, making the announcement, foreign secretary david lammy said there was a clear risk that the arms could be used to breach international humanitarian law. >> look, for me this all zones in on david lammy's competence. that's the discussion that i think we need to be having. the move has been roundly criticised, with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu denouncing the decision to suspend some arms sales to israel. he says it's shameful and it will only embolden hamas. >> well, the united states, too, are said to be very disappointed with one white house source even reportedly claiming sir keir starmer's government assured us they wouldn't do this. so did david lammy lie to the white house there's a question. >> yeah, well, look, let's get a lot more on this now with gb news political correspondent olivia utley, who is outside the foreign office for us. olivia, this is raising serious, serious questions about the competence of both starmer and lammy, allegations of lying to the

white house, you know, angering british jews and also as well potentially alienating a key ally in the middle east. what's going on? >> well, it's a really interesting story, and it's difficult to get to the bottom of why david lammy and keir starmer have chosen to make this move now. david lammy, the foreign secretary, is trying to maintain that this is all basically a sort of technicality that he has received this review and this review reveals that it is possible that british exports could be used in israel to break international law. and in light of that, he is suspending this particular arms license. he's 30 different arms licences . now, different arms licences. now, the material effect on israel will actually be very small. it will actually be very small. it will be britain provides altogether 0.02% of israel's arms . so you altogether 0.02% of israel's arms. so you might wonder why the foreign secretary is sort of bothering to do this at all when, as you've said, that it has angered the white house and angered israel to the question

is, is it really a technicality , is, is it really a technicality, as david lammy is claiming, or is it political? because we know that the us haven't gone nearly as far as britain at some points, the us has threatened to suspend arms licenses, but it hasn't actually done it. and kamala harris has said that it isn't something that she is planning to do. so could it be that rather than simply being guided by this technical review, david lammy feels under pressure from his backbenchers and potentially those with big populations of muslim constituents to do something now that doesn't seem impossible because we know that ever since october the 7th, last year , keir october the 7th, last year, keir starmer has been under massive pressure by sections of the labour party to go further in its reprimands of israel. in fact, i would say that there's probably been the issue that has been most difficult for keir starmer ever since he first became leader of the opposition back in 2020. so is this a

technicality ? is it all about technicality? is it all about this one specific review, or is it something more political? and if that is the case, then this could be really, really tricky. for david lammy and keir starmer because yes, there are those in the labour party who think that the labour party who think that the government should be harsher on israel. but there are also those.in on israel. but there are also those. in fact, two ministers have expressed their disquiet at the decision who feel that the government should be doing everything that they can to back israel. so this is a contentious issue, and i don't think david lammy is going to be able to just explain it away by talking about this review. >> okay. well, thank you very much indeed. olivia utley gb news political correspondent there outside the foreign office in westminster. now for some more reaction. we are going to be joined by former chairman of the defence select committee, tobias ellwood. tobias ellwood, thank you very much indeed. was this an error of judgement? is this an error of judgement? is this an error of judgement on the part of our foreign secretary, david lammy ? secretary, david lammy? >> no, i don't think it is. and we need to distinguish our support for israel. israel is a close ally, an important friend

of britain. but also what prime minister netanyahu has been doing in the conduct of this war. only a few months ago, let stress raf jets were scrambled to help defend israel from that large scale iranian drone and missile attack. iran has promised to retaliate again soon. i'm sure we could easily see britain step in to support our friend, but yesterday's announcement comes after weeks and weeks of warnings not just from britain but from the international community as a whole. david cameron made this point as foreign secretary that israel simply wasn't doing enough to take all possible measures to prevent civilian suffering and damage to the infrastructure, and more generally, denying the scale of urgent aid in gaza, which the un is calling for. the united states have been very frustrated that ceasefire plan after ceasefire plan. it's netanyahu that's walked away from this because there's been nothing agreed itself. i've been critical or supportive of israel and its right to defend itself,

but very critical on the utility of its force, which seems to be without a strategy as to where it goes in the longer term. and america's now openly frustrated that netanyahu has stalled so many ceasefire opportunities. and instead, israel has deployed its superior military might. >> tobias , with respect to >> tobias, with respect to damage to infrastructure. >> and that's what's to led britain's decision today to suspend america's also deeply, deeply frustrated america is also deeply frustrated with david lammy. >> i mean, they've basically accused him of lying to them. so in one fell swoop, you know, israel's not happy with us now. we've got an ally there in the middle east, surrounded by a sea of people who are, frankly, rabid islamists who want to wipe them off the face of the earth. and america, who is our other great ally. now, both of those people are absolutely fuming with us. i mean, they can't be seen as a masterstroke, can it ? seen as a masterstroke, can it? >> i'm not receiving the same messaging from washington, dc. there is no way that something as important as this, as this symbolic though it may be, would have been done without the

backchannel conversations with the united states . and as the united states. and as i stress, this is not about a question about support for israel as a country. it's about questioning where netanyahu has taken his country. this questioning where netanyahu has taken his country . this conflict taken his country. this conflict there, rather than finding solutions, has actually escalated. iran is now involved. the proxies are involved as well. the prospect of escalation of miscalculation is huge . of miscalculation is huge. >> and is that not the issue, though? tobias ellwood, is that not the issue? they're fighting a war on multiple fronts now to remove a portion of arms sales. yes, it may well be symbolic because it's such a tiny proportion that david lammy has decided to halt him. but they're fighting a war on multiple fronts. do we not need to be seen? is it not very important that we are seen to be backing israel 100%? >> we back israel, but that doesn't give them carte blanche. that doesn't give them the freedom to do absolutely anything. hamas is a terrorist group and they are fighting in

the most barbaric way. but israel has signed up to international laws. it's part of the international community, and therefore they must abide by the rules of war. and we're seeing questions being raised. and that's why it's right that a friend says to israel that, look, what's happening, look where you're going. when it comes to the point that britain and the united states and others have to create our own jetty, our own maritime capability to get aid in, because the land crossings are closed to support the people of gaza that are caught up in this war. that's when the decision making of netanyahu, of the government is putting question , not our putting question, not our support and friendship for israel, which is unquestionable. >> well, i just wonder whether or not actually we are friends of israel anymore. labour aren't friends of israel, aren't they? they've had labour mps out on the stump at these pro—palestine rallies and marches for absolutely ages. now we've got the gaza gang there. the former leader of the labour party is spearheading that. a man that

keir starmer tried to get elected, not once but twice. this cabal of the pro gaza politicians and david lammy has used his first opportunity pretty much in the house of commons since becoming foreign secretary to withdraw some support from israel. if i was hamas, i'd be very happy with david lammy now. >> yes, perhaps you would. and you can take that position. i'm not in parliament anymore. i'm actually in georgia in tbilisi, which has got its own challenges. whether it took turns towards moscow or looks west in the next election. what i can say, though, is, as a former middle east minister is that i look at what's going on there very, very carefully indeed.the there very, very carefully indeed. the problem , the indeed. the problem, the prospect of escalation, you know, america has time and again asked netanyahu , netanyahu to asked netanyahu, netanyahu to come to the table to help a ceasefire, to secure the release of hostages. and again, and again, netanyahu has refused to. and there are some internal israeli politics at play here. so i understand your concerns,

and you're absolutely right about those individual voices within labour that have said things which are just inappropriate. that doesn't prevent britain from recognising where things are going in supporting israel's right to fight, not questioning how it chooses to fight, making sure we stay within international norms. >> okay, well, what about the timing of this then, when israel are burying murdered hostages in their country? the timing of this, surely you can't agree that this is the right timing . that this is the right timing. >> it is unfortunate that happens. i'm not here to justify the timing at all. i'm simply saying the bigger picture here of what i've seen, and i've stood up in parliament when i was there again and again and again, i've asked israel's parliament, government, netanyahu , what is your tactics netanyahu, what is your tactics here? what is the strategy? where is all this military might being deployed in gaza taking us? and it's not been clear. even the military themselves, the voices have questioned what netanyahu is doing. and i stress we need to separate that from

our support for israel itself. how you conduct war is important in today's day and age. if you stoop to the levels of the people that you're fighting, what are you actually fighting for? >> if for? >>ifa for? >> if a terrorist organisation had entered british territory and killed more than a thousand people and taken people hostage and said that they were going to do that again at the very next opportunity, and then a key ally of ours decided to withdraw arms sales to us. how would that make you feel? >> i'm sorry. i'm sorry, but you're over , over you're over, over oversimplifying it. and maybe you're trying to make a political point, or maybe you're just making a general point. it's not the same. about 40,000 civilians in gaza have been caught up with this. and those families that have lost, loved ones as well, they are now prime real estate there to be recruited by further terrorist groups in gaza. what is the future for gaza in the. i'm not

clear what the plan is, what israel actually wants to do. and like i stressed again and again, anthony blinken was in the region only a couple of weeks ago saying, please, netanyahu , ago saying, please, netanyahu, come to the table, sign this ceasefire to release those very hostages that you've just spoken about. so, yes , i stress we must about. so, yes, i stress we must support israel as a country, but we also have the right to criticise any country on the manner in which it prosecutes war. >> okay. can i just just double check on something because i think it might be quite important bit of context here because you actually, i think went to afghanistan, didn't you, in the wake of the taliban takeover there. and i think you did quite a big piece about how the taliban were changed. and now it turns out that they're not changed, are they? because they've just said that women can't talk outside. >> can you oversimplify what i regret? that you're oversimplifying what i said, and i'm probably not going to give me time to do justice. 40 million people in afghanistan feel abandoned by the international community. britain and america . and my request was and america. and my request was to open the british embassy

there as the united nations is calling for and actually help the people that are there. the taliban aren't able to cope. and there's an organisation called isis k there that will grow to be larger than al—qaeda in the future because the taliban aren't in control. and yes, you're right, they come out with these diktats that are produced by kandahar, the ministries that are run in kabul by a separate unit, a separate entity of the taliban actually want to engage with the international community. that does not not mean recognising the taliban at all. what it means is preventing the collapse of afghanistan, becoming a failed state. and if afghanistan collapses and becomes a vassal state of china, creates another terrorist group called isis k that starts attacking western cities and places. it's doing so in germany already . where do those migrants already. where do those migrants then go to when they want to see safe haven? they'll come this way into europe as well. so there's a myriad of problems there's a myriad of problems there that because it was very difficult for us to depart, we

then don't want to raise. i got criticised for my visit , i criticised for my visit, i understand that, but i dare to pose questions that i'm afraid the international community continues to ignore all right, tobias, thank you very, very much. >> tobias ellwood there, the former chairman of the defence select committee. >> well, in the next hour , we're >> well, in the next hour, we're going to be joined by the former defence secretary under tony blair, geoff hoon, to see what he has to say about david lammy's position as foreign secretary and his decision to at least partially suspend these arms sales to israel. this is good afternoon, britain. we're on gb news. we've got lots more coming up on today's show. >> yeah, well, is the government falling asleep at the wheel? chancellor rachel reeves is being urged to introduce a pay per mile scheme on zero emission vehicles, as labour now rev up their plan to avoid a, quote, black hole. interesting isn't it. you know, people were told they wouldn't be taxed on working people. is this now going to be a tax on working people who were told to go green? >> the good ones who went green. yes. >> oh well anyway, that's all to come after this

>> welcome back to good afternoon britain. you're with me. emily carver and patrick christys. it's now 1225. and is the government falling asleep at the government falling asleep at the wheel? chancellor rachel reevesis the wheel? chancellor rachel reeves is being urged to introduce a pay per mile scheme on zero emission vehicles. that's as labour revs up their plan to avoid a black hole from lost fuel duty revenue. you see what's happening here? >> yeah, indeed. the scheme would charge drivers of zero emission vehicles or electric cars based on how far they travel. all right. >> okay, well, let's dig a little deeper with the ceo of eva england, james court. james, thank you very much indeed. you're a passionate advocate for the electric vehicle. if i just bought an electric vehicle and then heard because the government's worried about the loss of fuel duty on the petrol and diesel cars that i was going to be charged every mile i drove or might be, i'd be a bit miffed.

>> yes. and i think you'd be right to, this, i have to stress, has been a policy proposal that has been put into but put into treasury's before budgets for the last 20 years. the reason it hasn't happened is because it's an incredibly difficult thing to do. some of the things that i think our members and wider would want to see is a fairness. you've got to make sure that evs are still going to be cheaper than petrol. we're still trying to encourage people into this. you need to be given a long time to prepare , given a long time to prepare, and i think there are other complexities to this as well. like, i'm very lucky. i live in london, huge amounts of money is spent on my public transport if ichoose spent on my public transport if i choose to take a car, and being subsidised to do something else. my sister, on the other hand, lives in devon. doesn't have public transport and would be overly punished for this. so i think there are lots of things that this policy could address, but a poorly designed one i think would definitely set back this agenda. yes, because james,

i remember it was all sort of seen as conspiratorial thinking. >> people were asking why sadiq khan put up all these thousands of cameras around the centre of london and the outskirts of london, to why is the same thing happening in other cities like birmingham and oxford and leeds? all these cameras going up? could it be that that was all, you know, happening to prepare for a countrywide scheme, pay per mile ? per mile? >> no, i don't, i don't believe that. i think ulez has got a very and the congestion charge before that and other schemes around the country have got a very defined purpose and that's to clean up our, our air. and that certainly happened, however, there are still criticisms with, with those schemes that even we would have they're taking away the relief that electric vehicle drivers have for the congestion charge next year. that's far too early in this, in this, i don't think anybody is thinking as we move to higher ev ownership , that evs

to higher ev ownership, that evs don't have to pay and contribute towards the, the, the roads and the infrastructure. that's needed. but bringing it into early when we've already seen the difficulties that we're trying to get people into these cars through some of the misinformation and trying to sort of spread the good things about evs. this is just another thing that i think will lodge in consumers minds that , oh, maybe. consumers minds that, oh, maybe. >> can i just ask, you know, how people it absolutely is. how much misinformation is there? i mean, you know, people do talk about some of the components that go towards making electric vehicles being incredibly damaging, not just for the environment, but other human beings, especially in parts of africa where you see, you know, a lot of slave labour, child slave labour being used for it. if you look at some of the countries now that have got huge amounts of the resources, whether it's china or afghanistan, i mean, are we going to end up making them wealthier as well? and also just anecdotally, i mean, i know people who've got electric cars and, it's a nightmare for them where they have to drive long distances and they have to plan their entire lives around where their entire lives around where the charging port is and all of

that stuff. i mean, that's not misinformation, is it? that's just the reality of owning an electric vehicle. and now if you've done the right thing, you're going to have to pay per mile. >> well, let's take those two things separately. one around the supply chain. firstly, some of the minerals that you're talking about, they're being phased out. they're being much reduced. and i suppose the counterfactual to that is also we are replacing petrol and oil. and from memory for the last sort of god knows how many decades the people that were supplying, giving our money to for petrol and oil aren't exactly completely squeaky clean when it comes to human rights. now, the second point about the ease of driving electric vehicles is at the moment, the charging infrastructure is good. we've got polling coming out that over 90% of ev drivers are currently satisfied, and, on the whole, people are very happy about it. that's not to say it can't get better and it must get better, but the idea that you've got to plan your life around it and drive down to the west country constantly, i've not had problems there. i've had a problems there. i've had a problem in london, which has some of the best infrastructure in the world, and it took me

about five minutes to go and find a new charger. it really isn't the doomsday scenario that people think it is. they're actually very they're very convenient, much more convenient than a lot of cases. and a lot cheapen >> yeah, well, they're losing out on all of this fuel duty. they're going to have to start charging the ev drivers a lot more, i imagine. but thank you very much, james court, ceo of eva england. thank you very much. great to have you on. well, they're not cheap. >> they're not cheap to buy. >> they're not cheap to buy. >> well there's you know , >> well there's you know, there's a range isn't there. yeah. there's a range you can get your little leaf or whatever it is nissan leaf. yeah. but that's the car they're quite cheap aren't they. the car tesla's not so much. exactly they're not so much. >> yeah. but it's the same equivalent isn't it. it's like oh well you know you could you could live somewhere awful. at least you've got rid of the older diesel that charged you, what, £15 to move it, £15 to move it off the driveway and look, when we come back after the news, we're going to be talking about whether or not you're proud to be british, because a recent survey has revealed that pride in britain's history has fallen sharply over the past decade. now we want to

know from you why you think that is all right. so get your views coming in. gbnews.com/yoursay going to be having a bit of a chat of that off the back of schooling. >> is it that people who fought in the war are sadly dying, so there's less of that patriotism from that respect? or, you know, i think it's schooling. i think it's schooling. is it multicultural britain? is it being taught to you know, always criticise your history rather than, i don't know, celebrate it, send in your views. gbnews.com forward slash kwasi. or perhaps you think it's nonsense. perhaps you've never been prouder to be british. but it's your headlines with tatiana sanchez. >> emily, thank you and good afternoon. the top stories. we start with breaking news this hour that five children have been arrested over the murder of an 80 year old man. he was walking his dog in a park in leicestershire when he was seriously assaulted by a group of young people on sunday, and

then he later died in hospital. a boy and a girl, both aged 14, and one boy and two girls, aged 12, have been arrested on suspicion of murder. police are appealing for witnesses to come forward and police are also saying that due to prior police contact with the victim, the force will be making a voluntary referral to the independent office of police. conduct more on this as we get it. in other news, there's been a backlash over the decision by the government to suspend some arms sales to israel, including from the former prime minister boris johnson, who's accused sir keir starmer of abandoning the country. foreign secretary david lammy says the decision follows a review which found there was a clear risk they might be used to commit a serious violation of international humanitarian law . international humanitarian law. mr larry lammy says around 30 of 350 licences will be suspended , 350 licences will be suspended, stressing it's not a blanket ban andifs stressing it's not a blanket ban and it's not an arms embargo. however, the former defence secretary, grant shapps, has told media this morning that the suspension was akin to student

politics and also called it a very retrograde step. but defence secretary john healey insists israel's security will not be weakened by the suspension . tom tugendhat has suspension. tom tugendhat has launched his tory leadership campaign today. the shadow security minister setting out his vision for the future of the party and for the nation. mr tugendhat is one of the six tory mps vying to be rishi sunak's successor, says he'll promise to reset the party's relationship with the public. he also promised a return of honesty to politics and the inquest of steve dymond, a guest on the jeremy kyle show has heard that the 63 year old died of an overdose of morphine and a heart problem. he is suspected to have taken his own life seven days after filming for the itv programme in may 2019, he had taken a lie detector test for the show after being accused of cheating on his fiance. steve's son karl says his father had continued to be very upset in

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>> okay, 1237 is the time you're watching or listening to good afternoon britain and how proud are you to be british? well, a brand new survey has shown that overall, there's been a steep decline in the proportion of people who take pride in this country's achievements. in 2013, 86% of those asked said they were proud of britain's history. this fell to less than two thirds ten years on. so just in ten years it's gone from 86 to

less than two thirds. something is happening now. this has been framed by the researchers as saying that britain has become more inclusive into its in its attitudes to what towards what it means to be british. so while we're less likely to take pride in britain's history, we are more critical about its politics. but there's still national pride in the country's cultural achievements and sporting achievements. what do you make of that? >> well, i think this is an absolute disgrace personally and it's hardly any wonder, is it, that we struggle to recruit people to our armed forces anymore? is it any wonder , anymore? is it any wonder, really, that we have massive issues and sectarianism, both in the house of commons and out on the house of commons and out on the streets? i mean, you know, it's all very well and good to say that, you know, there might have been the odd little historical wrong that we do need to acknowledge, but i think when that becomes all encompassing and constantly critical and it becomes mainstream to be able to say things like, gosh, that royal family, aren't they awfully white or things like that? and you know, talking about the awful symbolism of our

flag, whether or not, you know, when you get to the situation in britain, which we did get, where a parish council in norfolk decided that flying the union flag outside their hall building might be seen as divisive , but might be seen as divisive, but it's not seen as divisive. to have the flag of other nations knocking about everywhere you look, whether that's, you know, the palestinian flag everywhere or whatever. i find that absolutely astonishing. and i think that comes from education. i must also say, i do think it comes from a lack of integration, and i think that's an issue as well . an issue as well. >> certainly as you become a more multicultural country, you need to make sure that people you know, sign up to the same values, genuinely feel british. a lot of the time, people may say , you know, i'm british, but say, you know, i'm british, but i don't necessarily feel proud to be british, which is sad. >> there's no there's no attempt to make people or encourage people who move to britain to actually whether that's fit in. but also to whether actually

appreciate this country. i personally find it a little bit cheeky if you move somewhere and then consistently it off. i mean, you've been getting in touch with your views. this is from barry, who says that proud british, we can be proud of our history and we should be. unfortunately, very recent history and woke schooling puts doubtin history and woke schooling puts doubt in some people's minds, and there's quite a lot of this going about at the moment. you know, people saying that they think the education system has got a lot to do with it. well, the thing is, when people talk about britain's history, there's about britain's history, there's a lot of focus on our imperial past. >> and so therefore britain can never be forgiven for wrongs that happened in the past. people are encouraged to look at britain's history in a very critical way , but there doesn't critical way, but there doesn't seem to be any balance. you don't learn about, you know , bar don't learn about, you know, bar the nazis, you don't learn about all the shocking things, shocking, terrible things that other countries have done. >> well, every country has done some really fruity stuff. and that's because, frankly, the

human race used to be much more brutish and brutish. yeah, he still can be, but that's very rare that we've lived in such a long period of peace. but that's the other aspect of it. you know, go around the world and, you know, i'm sorry, but but what other countries are, you know, as maybe inclusive, etc. as we are, if we're talking about being ashamed of our own history? well i'm sorry, but does that not mean that maybe other countries should be? interesting point here from aaron, by the way, says he was born in england from indian heritage. i was brought up to be proud and respectful to this country. i'm so much more patriotic than most of my ethnically english friends, which is actually sad to see. it seems a lot of my friends are conditioned to hate themselves, he says he thinks it's a culture from school. they appear to be worried about being accidentally racist. it needs to change. this is not racist to support your own country and wave your own flag. aaron, thank you very much . flag. aaron, thank you very much. i couldn't agree with you more. it seems to me that's common sense that does seem to me like common sense, because i mean, fundamentally you need something that binds you. >> otherwise, what are you as a country? you're just a piece of land. you know you need to buy into the idea of being british.

otherwise presumably, we all fall to pieces. i mean, andrew says , extremely proud of our says, extremely proud of our history, proud to be british, but now embarrassed to be british under our labour government and their actions . government and their actions. lots of you are saying this. i'm very proud of our country's history , but ashamed of the history, but ashamed of the state of our country today, says andrea . williams says i'm proud andrea. williams says i'm proud to be british of our glorious history and empire. i'm not proud. however, what it is now . proud. however, what it is now. so this is the thing people used to be proud or proud of. a britain gone , but not so much britain gone, but not so much today. so there you go. i do also wonder if you want to be too miserable about it. you know, it's still two thirds that are proud. >> yeah, but i do also wonder if there's a bit of stigma attached to that level of pride. you know, if you want to go to the proms and sing rule britannia or something fascist, you know, you're a fascist or you know, you're a fascist or you know, you see someone out and about and they've got a flagpole in their front lawn. racist. you must be sorry. the racists there live at number 42. >> it's a bit jingoistic, isn't it, to sing the rule britannia. yeah, yeah. so bbc proms presenter has apparently said that that song is incredibly

problematic. so there you go. this happens every single year. doesn't it? someone says the songis doesn't it? someone says the song is problematic, then there's huge amounts of debate over whether it is problematic. no one ever says sorry, no. no conclusion has ever come to and people will continue singing it. >> yeah, i think there are some people, especially the kind of academic types where i think you see a lot of this. i think from the metropolitan left, where they feel as though they've accessed a higher echelon of intellect by virtue of being able to be more critical of our society and our way of life, that actually intelligence is directly linked to how much you dislike your country, whereas actually, ironically, i think that makes them really stupid because they could just leave, couldn't they? >> i do think there are things where everyone, you know, gets behind, you know, like the olympics. i think everyone was proud of britain for doing so well or big sporting events. big cultural events, but yes, we are a divided country. we are a divided country. >> well, what do you make of that poll and how do we reverse it? because that's not a good trajectory to be on, is it, where everybody dislikes this

fantastic country. gbnews.com forward slash your say you can literally have your say. but we do have loads more coming up today don't we. >> yes jeremy corbyn he's joined forces with four other pro—palestine independent mps to form the independent alliance parliamentary group, promising to provide hope in a parliament of despair. of course, they're already calling on david lammy to initiate an entire arms embargo against israel. >> well, keir starmer want him to be prime minister not once, but twice, didn't he? we'll have a bit more on that after this.

>> okay. well good afternoon britain. it is now 1247 now, after being kicked out of the labour party, the former party leader jeremy corbyn is labour party, the former party leaderjeremy corbyn is now leader jeremy corbyn is now forming a new parliamentary group, the independent alliance sees the islington north mp

joined with four other pro—palestine members in the house of commons. >> they'll now be as big as reform uk and the dup. well, we are joined now by the executive director of the henry jackson society, alan mendoza. alan gosh , society, alan mendoza. alan gosh, you know, it's easy to forget, isn't it, that our current prime minister tried to get jeremy corbyn elected not once, but twice. but what do we know about this, this cabal of the pro gaza gang? >> well, it's sort of no surprise that they've come together. because essentially they all do share very extreme views on the gaza conflict. and it sort of makes sense for them to be working together on that and a whole raft of issues where it seems they also have found common cause. and i guess it's the old corbynite agenda resurrected, which is why he makes the perfect leader for this party. it'll be interesting to see who else they attract, though. i know he's been, you know, he's been trying to reach out to former labour colleagues, some of the suspended ones, for example, to see if they'll join. and then there's a question of what they will be doing nationally, locally going forward as well. so it's an

interesting, you know, addition to the uk political scene, although not a particularly welcome one. >> how noisy do you think they will be? >> oh, they'll be very noisy. but then jeremy corbyn has been noisy throughout his political career, at some times to strong effect , sometimes not. i think, effect, sometimes not. i think, of course, the difference here to previous times is that the four, the other four, i suppose corbyn to an extent as well, demonstrated that they were able to overturn, you know, significant labour majorities in order to be elected. and that noise therefore, may well have some impact on the labour party's thinking on certain issues as well, because it may be concerned that other seats may also be flippable by, you know, sort of fellow travellers for this new party are a couple of these people relatively fruity characters? >> could you suggest, i mean, you know, one of them, i believe. well, did beat jonathan ashworth in his seat in leicester south. there were

strong allegations of serious misinformation being put around, about jonathan ashworth in the run up to that campaign. and, you know, obviously, the mp in question here would absolutely deny any kind of links if indeed doesin deny any kind of links if indeed does in very strong terms here, deny any links. i want to make that very clear, but, you know, there was an individual who was, you know , allegedly part of that you know, allegedly part of that campaign or in the orbit of that campaign, who was, you know, charged with with terror offences. i mean, is this not a little bit bit odd, really, that you've got this cabal now? >> well, it's concerning, it's completely concerning. and, you know, obviously the mps concerned themselves may well, as they say, have had no direct input. but we have to wonder what might have attracted people who have been put up , on terror who have been put up, on terror charges to support or be, you know , sort of seen to be know, sort of seen to be supporting the campaigns of some of these mps? that in itself is a question for those mps to ponden a question for those mps to ponder. at the very least, they've had nothing to do with, you know, these alleged offences, of course. but, why is

it that people around them have been attracted in that way? by the way, the same question of course, went back to mr corbyn all those years about anti—semitism in the labour party. he himself stressed many times he wasn't an anti—semite. yet weirdly, on his watch, antisemitism in the labour party increased dramatically. so what was it that might have attracted such people to, you know, his labour party? i think those are the questions that people want to know more about and to think about. and those mps should probably be answering, you know, how they conduct themselves and what points they're doing to sort of think about what kind of supporters they might be attracting. again, as you stated , attracting. again, as you stated, no linkage at all between them directly and this, but the people around them seem to be, you know, unpleasant people. >> yes. very interesting indeed. a first move today, second day back of term , the mps have back of term, the mps have signed a well, these five mps signed a well, these five mps signed this letter essentially calling on david lammy to go far further with this arms sale suspension. with israel, there's going to be a lot of these kind of press releases, statements put out, pushing the labour

party to get tougher on israel. how do you see that playing out? >> well, look, politics is politics. they've got their views, you know, and the democracy they've got their right to express them. there's no situation about that. but i think the question is how do people respond? that's going to be the big question. and i think we've already seen, haven't we, with this arms embargo decision, the government trying very hard to have its cake and eat it. on the one hand, it wants to signal both to its own backbenches, but also to this group. look, we're doing something we are, we are, you know, we're restricting arms to israel just as you wanted. on the other hand, it's trying to tell israel. no, but don't worry, we've only done a few and they're not things you really particularly need. they're things you can replace with other sorts of suppliers. so don't worry, we're still with you. but halfway houses never work, and the reality is, the government has to decide whether it wishes to stand with its democratic ally, israel, facing unprecedented threats from all sorts of terrorist organisations and iran, or whether it wishes to stand, frankly on the side of the terrorists and support the

people who want to bring israel down, you know , hamas, down, you know, hamas, hezbollah, iran, in that kind of context, these are very difficult things. and the government will have to take away, in my view, it has to stop listening to domestic political considerations and look internationally instead at britain's foreign policy. >> okay, alan, thank you very much. alan mendoza there, who is the executive director? henry jackson society. we do have some breaking news just in french media are reporting that a migrant boat had capsized off the french coast, and a rescue operation is currently underway. ten people are said to be in a critical condition. so very serious news coming out of the engush serious news coming out of the english channel there. yes. >> we're going to bring you more on that after your weather with annie shuttleworth. so stay with . us. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news >> hello. welcome to your latest

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gb news. >> good afternoon britain is 1:00 on tuesday the 3rd of september. i'm patrick christys and i'm emily carver lammy lambasted is the foreign secretary, david lammy, woefully out of his depth after announcing the partial suspension of arms sales to israel, he's managed to alienate a key ally upset british jews and also as well the americans will be joined by former defence secretary under tony blair, geoff hoon. >> we will indeed, and war on motorists. labour could make electric car owners pay per mile in the latest attack on drivers , in the latest attack on drivers, campaigners urging the chancellor to bring in the controversial measure. but is this not a tax on working people who were time and time again told to go green? >> i think it might be. and the

gaza group fears of sectarian politics now, as britain has a group of five mps elected on an overtly pro—palestine ticket, spearheaded by the one and only jeremy corbyn, who our prime minister tries to get elected twice. what could this mean for british . british. politics? well, get your views coming in thick and fast. as you can tell, there's a heck of a lot to go out there. but there's another story that's actually gathering a bit of momentum. and i think we want to try to raise that with you as well. so this is an individual who is an islamist terrorist. he was found guilty of stabbing a woman in the neck at marks and spencer's in a in a knife attack. he then proceeded to attack somebody at a secure hospital as well a member of staff there. both times he was found with, you know, having mentioned things about the quran

and having mentioned things about and the idea that marks and spencer's was in some way funding israel and all that stuff anyway. so that guy has done those things and he's not gone to prison. no, not gone to prison. instead he's got one of these indefinite hospital orders. well, for me, it raises the question, isn't anyone who subscribes to that particular kind of ideology or does those kind of ideology or does those kind of ideology or does those kind of things insane and mental? so does this now set a precedent that if you behave like that in britain, you commit one of those attacks that you won't go to prison, you get some kind of hospital order. >> yeah, we've seen quite a lot of this, haven't we, valdo calocane he was given an indefinite hospital order, i believe instead of going to prison, the victims families. this is the nottingham stabbing attack. the victims families. horrendous by the fact that he wasn't given prison time. instead other people say, well, actually, these indefinite hospital orders are actually a good thing. they get the help they need. potential

rehabilitation that they wouldn't receive in prison. but is it justice? is it justice? >> no. well, i find it hard to see. so this is this is this is monowar hussain. he's 60 years old, you know, they found a note written in urdu which read, oh, israel, you are inflicting atrocities on palestinians and marks and spencer is helping you financially, he apparently called an a worker at a health care centre a filthy pig, and tried to stab them as well. i mean, i'm sorry, but he tried to go on a rampage at marks and spencer's and stabbed a woman in the neck and then went on to commit further crimes. >> is a hospital order the right way to deal with with people like that? i mean, presumably his defence gave a very strong defence, strong case that he had mental health issues, but even so is that justice for the great? >> i think it's all great on people. let us know your views gbnews.com/yoursay. we've got loads coming your way, haven't we? after the headlines, tatiana . we? after the headlines, tatiana. >> good afternoon. the top

stories, some breaking news just in french media. are reporting that a migrant boat has capsized off the french coast and a rescue operation is currently underway. ten people are said to be in a critical condition. more on this breaking story. as it comes to us. our other top story today, there has been backlash over the decision by the government to suspend some arms sales to israel, including from the former prime minister boris johnson, who's accused the labour leader of abandoning the country. foreign secretary david lammy says the decision follows a review which found there was a clear risk they might be used to commit a serious violation of international humanitarian law . international humanitarian law. mr lammy says around 30 of 350 licences will be suspended . he licences will be suspended. he stressed it's not a blanket ban andifs stressed it's not a blanket ban and it's not an arms embargo. however, former defence secretary grant shapps has told media today that the suspension was akin to student politics, also calling it a very retrograde step. but defence

secretary john healey insists israel's security will not be weakened by the suspension of some arms exports. but shadow transport secretary helen whately says it is bad timing . whately says it is bad timing. well, i think it's really important that we stand firm in our support of israel in their conflict with hamas, which of course is a terrorist organisation. i, like many people, i am concerned about the humanitarian situation in gaza, but we know hamas is using people as human shields and still has israeli hostages. in fact, one of the problems with this announcement is one of timing. it was just a few days ago that hamas murdered six hostages, rather than release them and write on the back of thatis them and write on the back of that is this announcement by labour about limiting arms sales to israel. in other news, tom tugendhat has launched his tory leadership campaign the shadow security minister setting out his vision for the future of the party and the nation. mr tugendhat, one of the six tory mps vying to be rishi sunak's successor, says he'll promise to reset the party's relationship with the public. he also promised a return of honesty to

politics. >> we must change and britain deserves better and we need a different government , one that different government, one that will serve our country with conviction and act for you . my conviction and act for you. my mission is the happiness and prosperity of the british people. now, it's easy to say , people. now, it's easy to say, but it's tough to deliver because at its heart, it's about putting the government back at the service of the people. it's about investment and innovation, but it's also about freedom . but it's also about freedom. freedom to succeed and yes, freedom to fail. it's about a commitment to grow our economy and to see our people prosper. >> chancellor rachel reeves has defended the decision to cut winter fuel allowance payments for some pensioners. she said it should be offset by increases to pensions and lower energy prices this winter compared with last yeah this winter compared with last year. ms reeves said the state

pension was worth £900 more than last year, and she said it will rise again next april under the triple lock. but mps have raised concerns about cuts to the winter fuel allowance, with one person saying that 90% of pensioners in devon and cornwall will be affected. she also confirmed that the government will be capping corporation tax at 25%, as part of a tax roadmap for businesses , which will be for businesses, which will be set out at the budget . five set out at the budget. five children have been arrested over the murder of an 80 year old man who was walking his dog in a park in leicestershire when he was seriously assaulted by a group of young people on sunday. and he later died in hospital. a boy and a girl, both aged 14, and one boy and two girls aged 12, have been arrested on suspicion of murder. police are appealing for witnesses to come forward and due to prior police contact with the victim, the force will be making a voluntary referral to the independent office of police conduct . in office of police conduct. in other news, headteachers and

schools in england will now be told on a monday if they are due an ofsted inspection that week. it comes after a major review found that ofsted's response to a headteachers suicide following a headteachers suicide following a school inspection was defensive and complacent. the independent review was commissioned after an inquest last year concluded that a critical ofsted inspection contributed to headteacher ruth perry's death. mrs. perry took her own life after an ofsted report downgraded her primary school in reading from its highest rating of outstanding to its lowest rating of inadequate over safeguarding concerns . and over safeguarding concerns. and the inquest of steve dymond, a guest on the jeremy kyle show, has heard that the 63 year old died of an overdose of morphine and a heart problem. he is suspected to have taken his own life seven days after filming for the itv programme in may of 2019. he had taken a lie detector test for the show after being accused of cheating on his fiancee. steve's son carl says

his father had continued to be very upset in the following days and would call him up to six times a day . and those are the times a day. and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> welcome back. now the uk government, specifically david lammy, has sparked controversy after suspending 30 arms export licences to israel whilst insisting it still supports the jewish state's right to defend itself and that the uk remains a staunch ally. >> well, making the announcement, foreign secretary david lammy said there was a clear risk that the arms could be used to breach international humanitarian law. >> however, the move has been

roundly criticised, so the israeli pm benjamin netanyahu, has denounced the uk's decision to suspend some arms sales to israel after a shameful one that will only serve to embolden hamas. >> okay, well, let's head back to the foreign office and get more with our political correspondent, olivia utley. olivia, what's the latest on this, then ? this, then? >> well, the government is doubung >> well, the government is doubling down and defending its decision to change the deal of arms exports to israel. david lammy is essentially claiming that it's all a sort of technicality, that he's read this review. that suggests that israel could be using british arms to break international law, and therefore he feels that he has no choice but to do this. ed miliband has weighed in now, too, just speaking to reporters earlier today, he doubled down on the government line. this is what he had to say. >> always said, and we believe that israel has a absolute right to defend itself. but within

international law and the foreign secretary took advice as he said he would, on whether there was a risk that british arms sales would be used in breach of international law , or breach of international law, or that's why he made the decision he did to ban the export of some arms to israel. i think people across britain will think we're right to say israel has a right to defend itself. we are also right as a government to say that all countries we deal with must uphold international law, and that's the position that we've taken . we've taken. >> well, the problem for ed miliband and david lammy with this line that israel has a right to defend itself, but if there's a risk that it is breaking international law, then britain will withdraw arms. the problem with that statement is that the us has decided not to go as far as britain at certain

points, the us has threatened that it will change its policy of exporting arms to israel. but kamala harris is so far saying thatis kamala harris is so far saying that is not something that is on the horizon. that's not something that she wants to do. and actually the us are showing displeasure with the british government's decision. is the british government sort of claiming that it is prepared that the us would be prepared to break international law in a way that britain wouldn't be prepared to? and actually, is all of this getting a little bit political? could it be that david lammy and keir starmer are changing their line on this, because they are really feeling the heat from their own backbenchers , many of which have backbenchers, many of which have large muslim majorities in their constituencies. ever since october 7 last year, there has been pressure on labour to be a bit harsher on israel and that is what they have now done. but the international community doesn't seem to be responding, particularly favourably. >> no, it's a right mess , >> no, it's a right mess, olivia, thank you very, very much. olivia utley there outside the foreign office for us. let's get the thoughts now of former

defence secretary geoff hoon. geoff, you know, there were serious questions raised about david lammy's competence before all of this. in fact, there's been serious questions about it for years, actually. but now he has got the position of foreign secretary, and he uses his first real opportunity in parliament to manage to alienate british jews and offend israel as well. he's been accused of lying to the americans. i mean, it's not a great start, is it? >> i mean, what's important about this is that he's got to take decisions in the interests of britain and in terms of britain's observance of international law, as i understand it, these discussions on arms sales and the relevant licences actually began in the course of the last conservative government. and that doesn't surprise me, because in my time in the ministry of defence , in the ministry of defence, certainly we had to deal with advice from foreign office lawyers and by and large, without in any way criticising

them. they tend to take a very strict line in relation to these licences. and once the foreign secretary had received the advice, i assume, from foreign office lawyers, that this could be at risk of breaching international law, i'm not sure he had a great deal of choice in the matter. he had to come to parliament, almost certainly at the first opportunity, and make the first opportunity, and make the statement that he made. >> but if he believes that to be true, that our arms may be being used in violations of humanitarian law , international humanitarian law, international law, then why not go the whole hog and suspend all the arms? all the arms , licences, all the arm s, licences, licences? all the arms, licences, licences? he's only gone for 30 out of 350. why has he not gone for a blanket ban? >> well, first of all, he said there's a risk. he didn't quantify the risk, admittedly, but nevertheless, the risk is what he is dealing with. secondly, as i understand the statement, other items supplied to israel by the united kingdom directly were not likely to be

used in gaza. so the short list of 30 items was simply those items that were at risk of being used in breaching international law, not items that were suppued law, not items that were supplied generally for israel's defence. and as has been said throughout the united kingdom , throughout the united kingdom, stands by israel's right to defend itself. >> because should we not be beefing up israel's defences when they're, you know, we have shared enemies in that region or at least shared threats in that region, and they're fighting a war on multiple fronts, not just in gaza. surely we should be telling the world that we will stand by israel in a very dangerous world. >> well, that's actually what we're doing. if you look at the numbers, there are 350 licences. only 30 have been suspended. therefore the remaining defence equipment is already and continuing to be supplied to israel. so we are standing by

israel. so we are standing by israel in that sense. >> not really. on the day that they were burying people who were kidnapped and massacred by hamas and then withdrawing some things. also, you know, there's a wider context here, isn't there? which is that a procession of labour mps have been more than happy to go out and be surrounded by goodness knows who at these pro—palestine demonstrations that have been blighting this country for a long period of time. some would say they've been happy to do that. you've even got a former labour party leader who, you know , david lammy stood by, who know, david lammy stood by, who the current prime minister tries to get elected twice, who's just formed an offshoot that is overtly pro—palestine now as well. i mean, it could be i mean, it could be quite a strong case, couldn't there, for the fact that the labour party has picked a side in this, and that side actually is not israel. >> well, i started out by saying that this decision was taken necessarily in the interests of the united kingdom and indeed in our obligations to international law. and i, i believe that the government have respected those

decisions very clearly in this. they've not bowed to pressure from their own backbench mps. they've not bowed to pressure from demonstrations. they've said this is what is necessary in the interests of the united kingdom and admittedly, in the interests as well, of defending israel, which i certainly strongly believe in. >> so this has nothing to do with, you know, labour mps who are fiercely pro—palestine on this issue, who want to see an arms embargo, who want to see a ceasefire immediately, nothing to do with that pressure at all. >> also, sorry, labour mps as well, who've had you know, pro—palestine brigade turning up outside their offices, turning up outside their houses, all of this kind of stuff. you know, you don't think that maybe there's been intimidation, hasn't there? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> well, at the risk of repeating myself and i apologise for doing so, but having dealt with foreign office lawyers over many years, when i was in the ministry of defence, they will have provided advice once that advice is available to the foreign secretary. he really

doesn't have a great deal of choice because at some stage that advice would emerge and he would find himself in great difficulty. so following that advice , and whilst i recognise advice, and whilst i recognise that the timing of this was unfortunate, nevertheless, at the same time he would have an obugafion the same time he would have an obligation to go to parliament as soon as he could. and that happened to be the first day back after the recess. >> should he not have let the americans know? i mean, they've been quoted as saying that they labour told them that they weren't going to do this. i mean, how long does it take to just pick up a phone? >> well, i'd be very surprised if that source that you're quoting was was accurate. i'm pretty confident that these matters would have been communicated to the united states pretty much as soon as the decisions were taken. that was always my experience in the ministry of defence, and as far as i'm aware , in the foreign as i'm aware, in the foreign office as well, there is a very close connection between the two departments. the state department and the foreign office. as far as foreign affairs is concerned, and the respective ministries of defence .

respective ministries of defence. l, respective ministries of defence. i, i respective ministries of defence. 1, i was regularly in i, i was regularly in communication with the pentagon . communication with the pentagon. if we were likely to take any decision of this kind of this significance, we would have communicated that with the americans at a very early stage. >> okay . well, thank you very >> okay. well, thank you very much indeed. geoff hoon, former defence secretary. fantastic to speak to you. thank you. >> look. more on that breaking news we brought you at the end of the last hour actually. and it's quite a disturbing update. a migrant boat has capsized off the french coast. but according now to french media, at least ten migrants have died and several others are in a critical condition. so that is an ongoing incident that's taking place in the channel as we speak with the rescue operation and sadly, a recovery operation taking place as well. >> so that's according to the french media that we're reporting. at least ten migrants have now died in the channel and several others are said to be in a critical condition. we'll keep an eye on any developments there in the channel, but a huge , in the channel, but a huge, significant loss of life there reported by the french media. so we'll bring you any developments as we get them. >> absolutely. well, look, we've got loads more to come on

today's show. and do we have two tier sentencing in the uk? it's got a heck of a lot of you going in the inbox. got a lot of you going online as well. a man who stabbed two women in a supermarket and a male nurse in a separate incident has been handed an indefinite hospital order rather than a prison sentence. and you know, the issue here is, well, if he is indeed, you know, an islamist. well, i'm sorry , but aren't they well, i'm sorry, but aren't they all mentally ill? so why, what precedent does this set going forward? we'll have more detail on that

>> good afternoon britain. it is now 122 now an islamist who launched an anti—israel knife attack in burnley has been given an indefinite hospital order instead of a prison sentence. now, in 2020, 60 year old

munawar hussain targeted marks and spencer's because he believed the shop funded israel in persecuting palestinian people in the middle east. >> so he entered the burnley, m&s and stabbed the store manager and a customer. he was then detained under the mental health act, and he went on to stab a male nurse in a mental health hospital. he believed the nurse had converted to islam from christianity or the other way round. yeah okay. telling police that he thought it was it was wrong. yes. thought yeah, exactly. he thought he converted the other way, didn't he? and called him a filthy pig and then tried to stab him. so is it right that a man that attempted to murder three people has been spared jail? >> yeah. why does this happen? joining us now is barrister rebecca butler, rebecca, reading this case, a lot of people will think, well, why on earth is he not behind bars? this is someone who had an ideology. it sounds like it's someone who conducted himself in a very violent way. a stabbing a woman in the neck and then going on to harm two

others. why would someone like that get a hospital order rather than a prison sentence? >> yeah, i think it's important to make clear that these people aren't in your local district general hospital. they're actually insecure units. so they have been denied their liberty, as society would expect . so, you as society would expect. so, you can only get a hospital order if you have a diagnosed mental health disorder. you can't claim, that you want to go to a different sort of custodial sentence because you have mental health issues. it has to be proven by psychiatrists. and then the sentencing court be that magistrates or crown court will then decide whether to detain you under, you know, section 37 of the mental health act. this is not a light sentence in any terms , because, sentence in any terms, because, you know, if somebody without mental health problems commits a violent offence, they'll pretty

much know how long they're going into hospital for somebody under section 37 of the mental health act does not know how long they're going to be detained for. there is no date of release. there is no parole date. so it's not an easy option. no, i understand that. >> but, rebecca, i think my concern would be that is his mental health problem, not radical islam. and then if anyone is now guilty of committing an islamist offence, can't they just claim to be mental? >> i think that is an assertion that might find disfavour, if you made that, frankly, no, i mean, it is an ideology. it is, in my opinion, and probably yours, a warped ideology. but i don't think it would fall under, you know, the normal psychiatric icdm categorisations that we have for mental health disorders in the uk. >> yeah , because this came up in >> yeah, because this came up in a big way with the nottingham

stabbings . valdo calocane he was stabbings. valdo calocane he was given a hospital order instead of a prison sentence. and the victims families have challenged it and they continue to do so when people will listen, and we see this happen with violent criminals that they're given a hospital sentence, which must be more cushty than going into a prison cell. it must be. and there is a, you know, a chance of being treated and made a better person in a specific medical sense, which a lot of people might support, but it doesn't feel necessarily like punishment in the way that a victim might actually want from our criminal justice system. >> well , our criminal justice system. >> well, punishment, as we see it in, in most western democracies, is a combination of a punitive and a rehabilitation element to your sentence . now, element to your sentence. now, you know, if you committed murder and you didn't have a diminished responsibility defence to it, which would result in you going into section

37, mental health detention , 37, mental health detention, then you would have a parole date. you would have a minimum time that you would have to serve under our system. now, the valdo, cochrane, you know, martyr last year , you know that martyr last year, you know that i understand fully. and of course , we all do. we fully, course, we all do. we fully, fully empathise and sympathise with the families of the murdered victims in that case. but if you look at it in the round, you can't possibly believe that anybody who wasn't of a disordered mind would commit the offences that he did. >> i get it, but that's that's what i kind of don't quite get, rebecca. because you're absolutely right. you know, if anyone commits these kind of crimes, surely by definition they are mentally unwell. and so where does that end? you know, this is this is can you justify if someone you know is found with bomb making equipment, if you're going to blow yourself up on the underground, you must be mentally unwell. but that's also a terror offence, isn't it? so

you're saying you would need that? you would need a specific medical diagnosis and is that quite hard to get then . quite hard to get then. >> yes, absolutely. you can't just rock up and say i've got diminished responsibility . diminished responsibility. please believe me. you have to have independent psychiatric assessment. and it's not just one either. you know, each side can appoint their own experts. it is absolutely not a soft opfion it is absolutely not a soft option to get a hospital order because you have indeterminate detention . now there. you know, detention. now there. you know, by the way, the comforting figure is that only 1% of the prison population actually is detained under the mental health act. it's about 8000 currently. the reoffending rates are exceptionally low for people who are then subsequently released under section 47 back into the community under sort of controlled environment. but don't make the assumption that it is cushy or comfortable because it really isn't. they

have lost their liberty. they don't see their family. have lost their liberty. they don't see their family . they are don't see their family. they are very, very restricted in what they can and can't do. you know, it is punishment and it is an indeterminate punishment. some might say that actually, that is pretty harsh, that they don't know on day one when they're ever going to be released. if at all. >> i mean, not for a violent criminal. i'm sure most people wouldn't have any sympathy in that respect, but they may see it as, yes, he is confined to a space. he doesn't know when he's going to be allowed to be free again. so how dissimilar is it from being in a in a prison cell? but people are concerned about what happens next. when will he be allowed out if he can prove to a mental health practitioner or whoever's working at this unit that he's now in, that he's sane of mind? will he be allowed out? >> to be honest, they're under far greater supervision because they're under medical supervision following a mental health tribunal following a hearing. and at those hearings,

expert evidence is submitted. they they do not generally have success at those mental health tribunals. quite often the patients think they're better than they actually are. and you'll have the medical, the clinical staff plus a professional judge making a decision on release . but release decision on release. but release is not without condition. and they're then supervised under mental health legislation and by mental health legislation and by mental health legislation and by mental health experts. actually, if you release somebody on probation from a prison , their probation from a prison, their supervision is significantly less because of the burdens placed on the probation service , placed on the probation service, which, by the way, we're about to see a major crisis in probation with this mass release of prisoners that we're expecting over the next six weeks. >> all right. well, thank you very much indeed, rebecca butler, great to talk to you, barrister. of course. thank you very much. >> yeah. i mean, look, i defer to her better knowledge on this. absolutely. but i find i find it very difficult to understand

what the difference is between radical islamist ideology and being diagnosed with a mental health problem . health problem. >> also, there's just a deep lack of trust in the criminal justice system. absolutely. and also just in our institutions, whether it's mental health, whether it's mental health, whether it's mental health, whether it's hospitals. >> so he struck up a friend with a male nurse. he struck up a friendship with a male nurse who spoke hindi. he said they discussed the nurses religious background during which this individual urged him to read the quran. he asked to use a knife from the kitchen, was given a knife and then shouted you dirty pig knife and then shouted you dirty pig before attempting to stab the man. you know, i don't know. look, i, i find it, i find it very, very. i also wonder how dubious, how many more resources are needed for hospital orders. >> you're going to have to have several staff looking after you, giving you specific treatment for your condition , and then, for your condition, and then, you know, clearly still a threat in that hospital wing. anyway, this is good afternoon, britain. let us know your thoughts. we've got lots more coming up today as well. an inquest has been opened into the death of steve dymond,

who took his own life after appearing on the jeremy kyle show back in 2019. this is very interesting case in. we're going to bring you the latest after your headlines with tatiana . your headlines with tatiana. >> and emily, thank you very much. and we start with some breaking news that at least ten people are believed to have died after a boat with dozens of migrants capsized in the english channel migrants capsized in the english channel, according to french media. the french coast guard has said more than 50 people have been rescued during its search and rescue operation. many of these people reportedly require emergency medical treatment. a huge emergency search and rescue operation is now underway. more on this as we get it. in other news, there's been backlash over the decision by the government to suspend some arms sales to israel, including from the former prime minister boris johnson, who's accused sir keir starmer of abandoning israel. foreign secretary david lammy says the decision follows a review which found there was a clear risk that they might be used to

commit a serious violation of international humanitarian law . international humanitarian law. mr lammy says around 30 of 350 licences will be suspended , licences will be suspended, stressing it's not a blanket ban andifs stressing it's not a blanket ban and it's not an arms embargo. however, former defence secretary grant shapps has told media today the suspension was akin to student politics, also calling it a very retrograde step. but defence secretary john healey insists israel's security will not be weakened by the suspension of some arms exports . suspension of some arms exports. tom tugendhat has launched his tory leadership campaign, the shadow security minister setting out his vision for the future of the party and the nation. mr tugendhat, one of the six tory mps vying to replace rishi sunak, says he'll promise to reset the party's relationship with the public. he's also promised a return of honesty to politics and the inquest of steve dymond. a guest on the jeremy kyle show has heard. he died of an overdose of morphine and a heart problem. the 63 year

old is suspected to have taken his own life seven days after filming for the itv programme in may of 2019, he'd taken a lie detector for test the show after being accused of cheating on his fiancee . steve's son karl says fiancee. steve's son karl says his father had continued to be very upset in the following days and would call him up to six times a day . and those are the times a day. and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez, more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward alerts

>> welcome back to good afternoon britain . now an afternoon britain. now an inquest has begun today into the death of 63 year old steve dymond, who took his own life

after appearing on the jeremy kyle show back in 2019. >> yes, his son has given evidence this morning at a coroner's inquest in winchester. >> it's a story that actually gnpped >> it's a story that actually gripped the nation at the time and has rumbled on ever since, culminating in this inquest today. and gb news national reporter charlie peters was in court. he joins us now. ashley. charlie, thank you very much. could you just run us through exactly what happened here for people who don't don't remember the situation? >> of course. good afternoon . >> of course. good afternoon. patrick. emily. well, this is the start of a five day hearing at the winchester coroner's court, assessing not only the cause of steven dymond's death, but also what might have contributed to it and how it occurred. so the hearing started today with the coroner, jason pegg, opening the proceedings and then the counsel to the inquiry , miss spearing, reading inquiry, miss spearing, reading out a tribute to steve dymond from his brother leslie, described him as a brave member of the rnli who always

volunteered and we moved quickly, then to an in—person testimony given by his estranged son karl woolley, the son of steve dymond, who was describing the days after he appeared on the days after he appeared on the jeremy karl programme in may of 2019. now that episode was never aired, but there was some description of the experience inside the itv studios, where steve dymond is said to have been egged on. the crowd is said to have egged on by the presenter jeremy kyle, who pounced on steven dymond. now he was in the studios to prove that he had not cheated on his ex—fiancee jane callaghan, and had taken a lie detector test to prove that that was the case. but the lie detector test, it said , was pushed into his face said, was pushed into his face and he was booed by the crowd as he came out into the studios. and in that testimony from karl woolley, we heard that steve was made to feel like an idiot by

the presenter. karl woolley is a strange son, also described speaking to him for the first time in many years in a phone call while steve dymond was in the taxi on the way back from the taxi on the way back from the programme, he said that it sounded like he was crying, that he tried to calm him down, to console him and tell him that everything was going to be all right. but he was so emotional that day and that was the first of many phone calls that followed in the seven days after the airing. that again, was not put on television. i spoke to him for many days after that. mr woolley continued several times a day, sometimes he appeared very good, but then quickly deteriorated. now the court also was read extracts from a note that mr dymond left to his son, where he said that he was proud of him and he apologised for what was going to happen. now mr woolley was then questioned by neil sheldon kc, who's the lawyer representing jeremy kyle in these proceedings. he asked him if there was any reference to mr kyle or indeed the

programme during that letter. and mr woolley, the son, confirmed that that was not in the letter at all. the proceedings here continue this afternoon . afternoon. >> yeah. no, indeed. and i mean, it raised serious questions. i think, you know, about the about the jeremy kyle show, about lie detectors, about all sorts that was going on there and really the moral ethics and also the aftercare team as well. charlie. look, thank you. thank you very much. and are you going to be keeping us up to date on everything that's going on there? i actually went to watch a jeremy kyle show live. >> i'm glad you told this story. >> i'm glad you told this story. >> yeah, i mean, it's relevant, right? because obviously this guy, sadly, you know, took his own life as a result of it . and own life as a result of it. and i'll be honest with you, i can understand why, because a lot of people who are guests on the jeremy kyle show, if you want to call them guests, i suppose , call them guests, i suppose, would have had absolutely no idea what was about to hit them. and it is a very surreal experience. you know, we work in tv. a lot of people behind the scenes here who are producers ,

scenes here who are producers, etcetera, work in tv. but if you look at i'm not being trying to be mean here, but if you do look at some of the demographic that maybe were regular guests on the jeremy kyle show, it was a very, very different experience for them than, frankly, their day to day lives . and they were really day lives. and they were really confronted by some absolutely horrendous things , including a horrendous things, including a lie detector test or a dna result or a lot of a very, very, you know, bolshy host who was very in your face, who was making, you know, television that was entertainment out of people's lives. right? and i will preface this by saying, i do not have a massive problem with the jeremy kyle show. i watched it myself. i think about about 5 million people a day, watched it. so a lot of people had big problems with the show. a lot of people did have big problems with that documentary that came out about what was going on behind the scenes, the producers overworked. >> they were you know, had to meet their targets in terms of getting this person on that person, on trying to find people who would come on to the show , who would come on to the show, some of them not all in the best mental condition, potentially. yes absolutely. they hadn't done enough checks on whether people

could actually cope with this level of scrutiny. i mean, being plunged from your ordinary life into that kind of situation where there's crowds of people wanting the biggest drama possible at your expense. bring in the lie detectors, which aren't 100%, exactly exact, it's aren't 100%, exactly exact, it's a huge amount of stress to put on people. was it a moral show? i mean, you went along, you were there in the crowds enjoying the drama, but a lot of people were. it was people were watching. it was fantastic. >> i was in the holding pen at itv. before you go on with with the with the, with the other people in the audience and you get some producers that came out and they said, okay, so today i'll never forget this. they said, okay, today we've got, we've got someone who's been reunited with their father after all these years, someone who survived a house fire and all of that. and the crowd was like, oh, they weren't only joking. we've got two lesbians, a lie detector and a dna test, and everyone was like, whoa, i think you go out and it's this bear pit and these poor people who've

obviously never seen a tv camera before in their lives are being made to do lie detectors, dna tests, jeremy cowell screaming in your face and do you know what i would have thought of you back then? calling you all sorts and then they beam that out to 5 million people on national television. i'll be honest with you. i can see why stuff like this has happened. >> someone's sat at home thinking, oh, good grief, look at these scumbags. aren't i so much better? aren't i? haven't i got such better morals or. that would never happen in my family or, you know, that's the whole point, isn't it? it is kicking people when they're down. i'll be entertainment purposes. and you lapped it up. everybody. >> i think everybody in part was culpable when it came to the jeremy kyle show, and i will say that i am absolutely staggered on reflection now , looking back on reflection now, looking back at it several years down the line, that it was only someone like steve dymond who sadly, you know, lost their lives as a result of this . i am i am result of this. i am i am amazed, really, i am amazed by it. but there is that question oven it. but there is that question over, you know, if there wasn't demand for that type of show, then it wouldn't have run for so

long. incredibly popular. i think it was itv's most popular daytime show, i think anyway, for years and years and years, millions and millions of viewers . millions and millions of viewers. >> perhaps you watched it and perhaps you wouldn't. today watch something like that, or now we've got all sorts of iterations, haven't we? you know, love island, that's not always great for people. you've got other reality shows, naked attraction, all sorts also to be fair, just quickly, to be fair on jeremy kyle, this wasn't his , on jeremy kyle, this wasn't his, you know, this these he's recreating things like jerry spnnger, recreating things like jerry springer , these shows that all springer, these shows that all existed elsewhere, you know. >> yeah. yeah anyway. right. well, it's an interesting one, isn't it? right. okay >> well in this case, yeah, but according to new research , women according to new research, women in the south—west of england live up to two and a half years longer than women in the north of the country, whilst also spending less of their lives for more money. what's going right in the south west?

north? well, good afternoon britain. it

is now 149 and our women in the nonh is now 149 and our women in the north are being failed. a shocking new study has found stark regional disparities in the life expectancy of british women , depending on where they women, depending on where they live. >> so apparently those in the south west live up to two and a half years longer than their northern counterparts, who also face longer work hours and lower pay- face longer work hours and lower pay. so we should all move down to the south—west. no, don't don't do that. >> well, let's speak to the executive director of health eqtu executive director of health equity north, hannah davis. hannah, thank you very much for coming on the show. so why is this then, that if you live in the north and you happen to be a woman, you're going to live less long? >> there's a number of reasons and a lot of it is to do with the inequalities that the north has seen over the past number of years. so, the north has been hit by the cost of living crisis. it's been hit by austerity , harder than the rest austerity, harder than the rest of the country for example, welfare cuts in blackpool were £690 per person compared to £190

per person in the much richer cambridge, but then there's been underinvestment in education systems, in health systems and in even things such as transport that we know help productivity and help improve the outcomes of people across the north of england. so what's underlying the vast majority of this is increased poverty in the north of england . of england. >> okay. so this this we're the greatest. i mean, i'm saying this as someone who's from the north, right? this can't just be a coincidence, >> it's not a coincidence, for example, we know in education one of our earlier health secretary north reports , pupils secretary north reports, pupils in london get paid , get more in london get paid, get more funding per pupil than they do in the north of england. there's very systematic, underfunding of the north of england. transport is the same, and there's been the, the poorest people in the north have been hit hardest. so

cost of living crisis, even so much as homes are colder in the north of england. and yet the families in the north pay for gas is actually higher on average than those in the south of england. so there's a number of england. so there's a number of reasons for this, but a lot of reasons for this, but a lot of it comes down to increased poverty and deprivation. >> so tell us exactly where in the country you live the longest as a woman and where exactly you live? the shortest . live? the shortest. >> so you're likely to live longest in the south—east of england. there are areas in the south—east of england that suffer from deprivation, but overall, you're more likely to live longer and you're likely to have six years more of healthy life in the south of england and the worst area at the moment is in the north—east of england. and if you think you've got six years less of healthy life that means it has massive implications for pensions. so women who are reaching pensionable age in the north east, for example, are in far worse health and working in

worse health and working in worse health and working in worse health than those who are in the south—east of england. so there are a number of different ways that this inequality is entrenched for women in the north of england. >> yeah, i don't like this because it paints that picture of , oh, it's because it paints that picture of, oh, it's grim up north. you know, i love the north. and i've only really moved down here because this is where the studio is, you know, and i can't really i'm nowhere near famous enough or celebrity enough for them to build a studio in my own home yet. so, you know, i can't do that. but it is a shame , really, that. but it is a shame, really, can i ask, is there a similar picture for men at all? i mean, is it is it is this just stats about women or men dying younger up north as well? do we know? >> yeah, men are dying younger up north as well. i mean , we up north as well. i mean, we focus this report on women because we look at all kinds of things, such as childbirth, which doesn't affect men. but yeah, men have outcomes as well. absolutely and can i just say, i absolutely love the north. i live here, i've spent the vast amount of my life here. i spent amount of my life here. i spent a few years away in london, but i'll forget about that. i love living in the north of england, and this report shows that women

in the north, they work hard, they work harder, on average, than those in the rest of the country, and they put money back into the economy. £10 billion has been paid. care is put into the economy by women in the north of england, and that's £2 billion more than if they did the same amount of caring as those in the rest of the country. so we are hard working. we are the bedrock of our communities and we live in a beautiful place as well . but we beautiful place as well. but we have been failed and that's what this report sets out to address. okay. >> well, thank you very much indeed, hannah davis, executive director of health equity north, who's done this research into into life expectancy, depending on where you go. i mean, i don't know what the solutions are. you can't just redistribute wealth from the south to the north, can you? so it's got to be about kick starting local economies and better schooling and better everything. really. yeah. that's where life expectancy comes down to being healthy, being fit, not being worked to the bone. maybe more working in jobs that actually require quite a lot of

strain on your body. maybe as well. i don't know. yeah, possibly. >> possibly. we'll see a great picture though is it. it's not it's not a great picture. but you know, i'm happy to represent the north though. but anyway we've got loads more coming up on your show today . we're going on your show today. we're going to be getting an update on the channel. migrant boat capsizing french media report that sadly, ten people have died. stay tuned for the latest. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news >> good afternoon. welcome to your latest gb news weather update brought to you from the met office through the rest of the day, there is a risk of showers for some of us, but also some sunny spells and clearer skies will lead to a cooler night tonight for many areas, but particularly across northern areas. now this weather front is pushing into parts of scotland, northern ireland through the rest of today, bringing a risk of showers here and any showers

across the south and east will push away to the east as well. so quite a lot of cloud to come across much of scotland and then into parts of wales, northern england overnight as well as the southwest. to the north, though, we'll see clearer skies developing, as well as a few showers, particularly across southern areas of scotland and northern ireland. but under the clear skies, temperatures could fall as low as 2 or 3 degrees across rural parts of scotland. further south, a milder night than that , but definitely cooler than that, but definitely cooler than that, but definitely cooler than it has been lately. so with clearer skies across more northern areas, it will be a bright but chilly start to the day across western and central areas of scotland in particular. as i said, there's a risk of some quite heavy showers across southwestern areas of scotland, as well as northern ireland. we could see some hail, possibly some thunder in there through the rest of wednesday. a few showers still across parts of the midlands, southern counties of england too, with a bit more cloud around. but i think there will be some sunshine on offer despite the slightly cooler start on wednesday and a mix of sunny spells and a risk of showers through the rest of the

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it is now 2:00 on tuesday the 3rd of september. i'm emily carver and i'm patrick christys. well, as we brought you last hour at least ten people are now believed to have died after a boat with dozens of migrants capsized in the english channel. that's according to french media. >> so the french coast guard has said that more than 50 people have been rescued during its search and rescue operation. >> many of these people reportedly require emergency medical treatment. a huge emergency search and rescue operation is underway. >> we can go now to mark white, our home and security editor, to provide an update on this incident. mark. thank you. what do we know? mark. thank you. what do we know? >> well, this is a very significant tragedy that's unfolding in the english channel on the french side of the channel. it was about 1130 in the morning local time, when rescue services got reports of a migrant boat in difficulty. and in sinking a number of maritime assets and search and rescue helicopters have been sent to

the scene . now, there are the scene. now, there are conflicting reports at this hour about just how many people have been killed and injured in this incident, coastguard reports suggesting five confirmed fatalities but other reports from french media, now widely circulating, putting that death toll at closer to ten. so very significant resources that are there, we should say, as well, on the english side of the channel on the english side of the channel, a lifeboat came into dover with a number of people that had been rescued. now, we don't know if this was in relation to the incident that unfolded on the french side of the channel, or whether there was a separate incident. it's perfectly possible . we've had perfectly possible. we've had another busy day in the english channel today , we're told, with channel today, we're told, with up to 300 migrants who have made that illegal crossing from france already into uk waters,

following the more than 350 who embarked and made it to uk waters yesterday. so at the moment we're still very much in a search and rescue phase of the response to what has happened . response to what has happened. not far from boulogne sur mer. which is further down, of course, the coastline further south from calais, but very significant search and rescue assets still in that area and deaung assets still in that area and dealing and searching for any more in the way of survivors from this migrant boat. >> yeah. gosh. >> yeah. gosh. >> okay. well, thank you very much indeed, mark white, for bringing us that update . mark bringing us that update. mark white our home and security editor there. ten, another ten, potentially ten deaths in the channel this is an emergency. >> it is it is an absolutely an emergency, look, we'll obviously have to wait and see what our prime minister, our home secretary, have to say about all of this. we've got loads more on as well, though, over the course

of the next hour. but before we get stuck into all of that, it's time for your headlines with tatiana. and. >> patrick, thank you . and as >> patrick, thank you. and as you've just been hearing, the french coastguard has confirmed that at least five people have died after a boat with dozens of migrants capsized in the english channel. but french media are also still reporting ten deaths. the french coastguard says more than 50 people have been rescued dunng than 50 people have been rescued during its search and rescue operation. many of these people reportedly require emergency medical treatment. and as you've just been hearing as well, a huge emergency search and rescue operation is underway . in other operation is underway. in other news, there's been backlash over the decision by the government to suspend some arms sales to israel, including from the former prime minister boris johnson, who's accused sir keir starmer of abandoning the country. foreign secretary david lammy says the decision follows a review which found there was a clear risk they might be used to commit a serious violation of

international humanitarian law . international humanitarian law. mr lammy says around 30 of 350 licences will be suspended, stressing it's not a blanket ban andifs stressing it's not a blanket ban and it's not an arms embargo. however, former defence secretary grant shapps has told media that the suspension was akin to student politics, also calling it a very retrograde step. but defence secretary john healey insists israel's security will not be weakened by the suspension of some arms exports. shadow transport secretary helen whately says it's bad timing . whately says it's bad timing. >> well, i think it's really important that we stand firm in our support of israel in their conflict with hamas, which of course is a terrorist organisation. >> i, like many people, i am concerned about the humanitarian situation in gaza, but we know hamas is using people as human shields and still has israeli hostages. and in fact, one of the problems with this announcement is one of timing. it was just a few days ago that hamas murdered six hostages, rather than release them and write on the back of that is

this announcement by labour about limiting arms sales to israel . and tom tugendhat has israel. and tom tugendhat has launched his tory leadership campaign, the shadow security minister setting out his vision for the future of the party and the nation . mr tugendhat is one the nation. mr tugendhat is one of the six tory mps vying to be rishi sunak's successor , says rishi sunak's successor, says he'll promise to reset the party's relationship with the public. he also promised a return of honesty to politics. >> we must change and britain deserves better and we need a different government , one that different government, one that will serve our country with conviction and act for you. my mission is the happiness and prosperity of the british people. now it is easy to say, but it's tough to deliver because at its heart , it's about because at its heart, it's about putting the government back at the service of the people. it's about investment and innovation, but it's also about freedom . but it's also about freedom. freedom to succeed and yes, freedom to fail. it's about a

commitment to grow our economy and to see our people prosper. >> and the inquest of steve dymond, a guest on the jeremy kyle show, has heard that the 63 year old died of an overdose of morphine and a heart problem. he is suspected to have taken his own life seven days after filming for the itv programme in may of 2019, he had taken a lie detector test for the show after being accused of cheating on his fiancee. steve's son karl says his father had continued to be very upset in the following days, and would call him up to six times a day. days, and would call him up to six times a day . and those are six times a day. and those are the latest gb news headlines for now , i'm tatiana sanchez. more now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts .

slash alerts. >> yes, good afternoon britain. it is 2:07 now. the uk government has caused massive controversy. david lammy in particular, it must be said , particular, it must be said, after suspending 30 arms export licences to israel , whilst licences to israel, whilst insisting somehow that it still supports the jewish state's right to defend itself. and the uk remains a staunch ally. >> yes, well, making the announcement, foreign secretary david lammy said there was a clear risk the arms could be used to breach international humanitarian law in the hands of the israeli government. >> well, there's a lot going on here really, isn't there, because the americans have come out and essentially accused the labour government of lying to them. at least a source has said they weren't going to do this. you've got the clear implications of what it means about a key ally there in the middle east, doesn't it? and question marks over whether or not the labour party here is caving in to the pro—palestine bngade? caving in to the pro—palestine brigade? you know, several of their mps have received threats or had them turning up outside their office. has that influenced them in some way? but we're joined now by the defence and foreign affairs editor at the telegraph, john coughlin . so

the telegraph, john coughlin. so thank you very much for joining us today . okay. so this has us today. okay. so this has caused massive controversy , as caused massive controversy, as has david lammy made a mess of this . this. >> i think the timing, first of all, is atrocious. i mean, the announcement, just as israel is burying its hostages does not send a very reassuring message in terms of britain being an ally of israel. they've been looking at this for some time. i do think that the labour party has a big problem with the left, who've been agitating not just for scaling down support for israel, but ending it altogether . israel, but ending it altogether. so, you know, the labour party is in a real fix over this. and when andrew mitchell says that this this looks like labour's playing to the backbenches, i think there's some justice in that comment. >> but he's still getting a lot of grief from the left on this. he is. they're saying he should have gone further. there should be a total arms embargo on israel. we should boycott israel. we should boycott israel. this doesn't go far

enough. so he's sort of in the middle ground here, isn't he, where he's pleasing no one. >> that's right. emily and don't forget the lib dems. the lib dems are also agitating for a complete ban on israel. i mean, the problem is, you know , when the problem is, you know, when you look at the broader geopolitical picture, you know, hamas is backed by iran. iran is one of our enemies. you know , if one of our enemies. you know, if you look at the our strategic objectives, russia , china, iran, objectives, russia, china, iran, nonh objectives, russia, china, iran, north korea, these are our big enemies . north korea, these are our big enemies. hamas is linked to iran. so, you know, by by by taking this action against israel, we're actually sending a message to iran that we're not serious about confronting iran and all the terrorist groups it sponsors in the region. >> we spoke to tobias ellwood and geoff hoon earlier in the show, and they said that this will have been a sensible , well will have been a sensible, well thought through decision based on the evidence that the foreign office had. they say that, no, this doesn't necessarily contradict the statement that we

are staunch allies with israel and we support their right to self—defence. but we were thinking on the other hand, well, actually it does send a message at this very moment that actually, you know , we're not actually, you know, we're not fully behind israel. >> yeah. and if you're a hamas terrorist sitting in a bunker in gaza and you've just executed six hostages and you know, the response from the uk is to take action against israel. you're let out a little cheer. and furthermore, it will. i mean, people say israel is blocking the ceasefire, the ceasefire deal that was proposed by the biden administration ten days ago was rejected by hamas. hamas is rejecting a ceasefire. hamas is rejecting a ceasefire. hamas is executing hostages. hamas has threatened to execute more hostages. and what do we do? we give the israelis a kicking. >> yeah, i find it absolutely remarkable. benjamin netanyahu has called the suspension of ukip arms shameful. he's also

said we'll win this with or without british help. and actually, just to clarify on this as well, how important is israel to us, especially in an intelligence sense, given the fact that that is a region of the world that, well, frankly, is full of islamists who would quite like to see us wiped off the map, i would imagine. >> yeah, it is quite an important strategic partnership. and it's been like that for about a decade or so. we have very good relations with the israelis on the intelligence front and to a lesser extent on the military front. and the intelligence sharing is vital on things like the iranian nuclear program, the iranian backed terrorist networks that are not just in the middle east. they are here in the uk, we've seen evidence of iranian terror cells operating in london in the last couple of years. m15 i think, said last year they disrupted ten iranian inspired plots in the uk. so our intelligence gathering and sharing with the israelis is vital to our

national security, which is why i find when people like tobias ellwood and geoff hoon say that this is a good thing to do. i think we're shooting ourselves in the foot. >> yeah, but we can't deny that there are millions if not billions of people who are deeply concerned with israel's actions in gaza and the loss of innocent life over there. if our government wanted israel to change tack in the way they responded to the hamas terror attack on their territory, then is this not a way to do that? >> well, david lammy went out to israel in august and he basically pledged allegiance to israel, supported israel's right to self—defence. everybody wants the gaza conflict to end as i said, the last ceasefire proposal that the biden administration put together with the help of qatar, which sponsors hamas with the help of the egyptians, was rejected by hamas. you know, you can't have

peace if your enemy just wants to carry on fighting. there seems to be the narrative that it's actually, the, the israelis that are the difficult negotiating partner rather than, i think hamas than hamas. hamas has won the propaganda war, hands down. and whatever the israelis do, they're accused of war crimes. they're accused of all kinds of things. >> but this is a problem. this is whether or not this labour party is compromised. when you've seen its former leader, who is now setting up a group of five, the gaza gang , as i'm five, the gaza gang, as i'm calling them, five of them now are quite radical bloc in parliament, you know, our current prime minister tried to get that guy elected twice, jeremy corbyn. you've seen several labour mps on the stump at these pro—palestine marches, perfectly happy to wander around with people with deeply antisemitic slogans. from the river to the sea, beamed across on our houses of parliament, etc, with people also on top of that turning up outside their offices. i've attended some of those situations where it's been

incredibly intimidating for people. it's whether or not the labour party is now actually seriously compromised, especially because you see some of them who've got mps who've got high muslim populations , got high muslim populations, pro—palestine populations within their own seats, you know, so as our labour party being got at in that sense. >> well, it is and that's not forget that at the general election , several high profile election, several high profile labour candidates lost to pro—palestine candidates. i mean, john ashworth being the most high profile victim of that. so of course, labour, even without jeremy corbyn, is looking over its shoulder at the pro gaza sentiment within its the labour party and also on the extreme left. so, as i said, when andrew mitchell says this is this is david lammy playing to the backbenches, i think there's justice in that . there's justice in that. >> is david lammy out of his depth? that's the question we've been asking because, he's our foreign secretary and it's a

very important job as you. well know, is he up for it ? know, is he up for it? >> well, i mean, he's he's upset. the israelis . and the upset. the israelis. and the other thing which has emerged today is he's also upset the white house. now, we're talking about the importance of israel as an ally. but in terms of our national security, the united states is pivotal. so if by making this token gesture, david lammy has managed to upset the biden administration , which is, biden administration, which is, you know, a leftist administration itself and is sympathetic to the new labour government, well , that, again, government, well, that, again, is shooting yourself in the foot diplomatically. so, you know, he's got a lot to learn. i mean, i fear that david lammy could be another robin cook, if you remember, robin cook and his ethical foreign policy, which caused all kinds of problems for us in the blair government, i think we'll see a lot of this with david lammy. >> yeah, but how big a problem is that? i mean, the idea that david lammy, i mean people the

thing is this, this shouldn't this, this is not a shock to anyone. for years and years and years, people have been questioning david lammy's competence. and now here he is with a serious position of power at a very, very difficult time geopolitically. and lo and behold, his competence is seriously being called into question in a way that might make all of our lives less safe. i mean, what what has to happen here, do you think? well what what needs to happen is downing street needs to get a grip of foreign policy. >> i mean, over the last two decades or so, key foreign policy initiatives are taken by by downing street, and the fact that david lammy has been let loose to follow his own agenda , loose to follow his own agenda, and he's got quite a sort of leftist group around him at the foreign office. so, you know, i think this could be a real problem for our own national security interests going forward. >> i mean, he did say, didn't he, that a labour would comply with any arrest warrant from the international court of benjamin

netanyahu, he did say he wasn't going to ban arms sales to israel. gone back on that. i mean, there are big questions here. do you think it's fair for bofis here. do you think it's fair for boris johnson to question whether he's on the side of hamas, or is that too far? >> well, i think boris is entitled to his views. i mean, bofisisl entitled to his views. i mean, boris is i mean, for all his faults, boris, when he was prime minister and less so when he was foreign secretary, but certainly when he was prime minister he understood the really important issues on the on the world stage and certainly in terms of his support for israel , his support support for israel, his support for ukraine was peerless. and i think, you know, boris has every right to criticise lammy. and, you know, i do think, as i said, the hamas terrorists hiding in those tunnels in gaza will be, you know , celebrating lammy's decision. >> yeah. i mean , that's that's >> yeah. i mean, that's that's one thing i care about, you know, has david lammy just made hamas happy? and that's that's an issue? if the answer to that

question is yes, if the answer to that question is ever yes, then i think there has to be some serious scrutiny on that. but look, thank you very, very much. great to have you on the show. i'm glad to be here. thank you. his defence and foreign affairs editor at the telegraph. well, in other news, chancellor rachel reeves is defending her decision to cut the winter fuel allowance payments on some pensioners, saying increases to the basic state pension will make people £900 better off than a year ago. but she continues to face quite a lot of backlash, actually from her own party and the conservatives. well just a bit. >> i believe we're now joined. >> i believe we're now joined. >> oh yeah. sorry just to say one thing as well. another reason why it's particularly controversial is that ed miliband is out again today saying saying how well he's done in terms of getting green energy investments. i'm going to i'm just going to read this to you now, the results are in. the government has secured a record breaking 131 new clean energy projects in the last renewable auction. he says they inherited auction. he says they inherited a broken energy policy. now they're acting immediately to fix it, to which all the response has been, well, hang on a minute. that tender process started under the conservatives and the other aspect to it is as

well. well, can the old people get the winter fuel allowance back now, please? >> no, it doesn't look like they're going to. there certainly is going to be no debate and vote on the matter. but we are joined by gb news political correspondent katherine forster. catherine, this issue isn't going away for the new labour government. winter fuel allowance. one of the first things that they announced and then did essentially no vote in parliament at the same time as giving away huge pay offers to the public sector. some say to their trade union paymasters, i mean, where are we with all of this ? this? >> yes, a bit of a grilling in the commons for the new chancellor, rachel reeves . but chancellor, rachel reeves. but of course, she fell back on, didn't she? when asked about so many things. all will be revealed in the budget on the 30th of october. but of course we do know that they are removing the winter fuel allowance for all but the poorest pensioners. and with that, rachel reeves is sticking

to her guns. she basically said, look , you know, pensioners are look, you know, pensioners are now getting £900 a year more than previously. that's going to help. and also the government are trying to boost the take up of pension credit because if you qualify for pension credit, you qualify for pension credit, you qualify for pension credit, you qualify for the winter fuel allowance. and that is worth nearly pension credit can be up to worth £4,000 a year. the problem is that it's all very complicated to fill in and to get. so there is a lot of unhappiness across the political spectrum about the decision that labour have made about these choices. we've heard it's painful, but many pensioners feeling that they are being punished. it isn't going away. the lib dems and the conservatives have called for a debate that doesn't look like it's going to happen, but plenty of labour mps unhappy about it to their inboxes, full of very

unhappy, very worried pensioners. so this is an issue thatis pensioners. so this is an issue that is not going away at all how. >> now. >> absolutely, catherine. well, thank you very, very much for bringing that to us. obviously, we're going to have to watch this space when it comes to what goes on with pensioners going forward. katherine forster but another thing is that labour are apparently considering raising the retirement age, so raising the retirement age, so raising the retirement age to 68, i think it is on top of that. the retirement age to 68, i think it is on top of that . you think it is on top of that. you know, that's something that will ignite a huge they're going to be working till 85, aren't we? the thing is, in this line of work for us, you'd want to i'd, you know, i'd like to see some jobs you can do for longer. >> certainly. yeah. anything that's backbreaking, you certainly can't. >> no, this is it. i mean, there's a big difference between there's a big difference between the kind of stuff that i do sitting behind this desk, running my mouth off and someone who actually does a manual trade, you know, but time to get out and about. >> you know, a bit of strain. oh, yeah. but yes, this issue about these i think maybe we'll talk about these, these auctions on this green energy. ed miliband basically patting

himself on the back with this big thing on social media, saying how fantastic , record saying how fantastic, record breaking 131 new clean energy products in the latest renewable auction round. lots of people pointing out that actually that was the conservatives doing. yes, because they upped the subsidies. >> well, the words untruth piled upon untruth is now surrounding ed miliband. they're surely not ed. surely. not surely. >> anyway, we've got lots more coming up on today's show, including the latest official figures reveal that the number of brits requesting to change gender has risen by up to 75% in just two years, with millennials and gen zs believed to be the primary drivers of the surge. and apparently you can now register for a fiver . register for a fiver. >> yeah you can. this is going to get worse, not better. genderless britain. welcome to that hellscape

welcome back to good afternoon britain. so new government data reveals an astonishing rise in the number of britons seeking to change genders. so 75% up the applications to do it in just two years. >> well, the surge driven by younger generations and a significant drop in application fees, marks a record high for gender change requests in this country. >> the labour party's recent pledge to simplify the gender recognition process could see these numbers climb even further as well. so i mean, this is really quite amazing. times we live in in a way. >> well, joining us now to discuss this is gender critical policy researcher lottie moore. lottie 75% increase in just two years. what's behind that. >> yeah. well i mean i think if you look at the at the data from the ministry of justice, that is definitely, you know, people born from 2000 onwards. >> so, who are now 24. so it's definitely kind of young , young

adults, >> but i mean, you know, in lots of places now a pint costs more than it does to change your sex legally, >> and that, i mean, it is unbelievable. >> and also what you're talking about is, you know, you're talking about a piece of paper that says that you are something which you're not. so although we have the concept of legal sex in this country in reality that's a fiction because there's only sex. there's no such thing as legal sex. really. in reality , legal sex. really. in reality, where's this coming from, lottie? >> so, you know, okay, so it's the younger generation. we get that now. this is something that i refuse to believe that for the entirety of human history, there was this amount of people who were continually wrestling with the body that they were born in with, that they were born with, and that they were they were desperately trying to get out of it. and all of this stuff, which implies to me that actually, maybe children are being taught this a bit. is that is that

unfair, or have i said something dangerously transphobic there? >> no, i don't think that's transphobic at all. >> i think that's that's bang on to be honest. patrick, i think i mean, you know, we know we know that schools, have been teaching gender ideology stonewall, who have now , you know, sort of kind have now, you know, sort of kind of, a sort of pushing back a bit from the t, have been pushing gender ideology in schools, for years. and i think that, if you tell a child that they can years. and i think that, if you tell a child that they can change sex and you've got change sex and you've got children, are impressionable, children, are impressionable, then they'll believe you . and i then they'll believe you . and i then they'll believe you. and i think that it's really then they'll believe you. and i think that it's really irresponsible, and so i think irresponsible, and so i think that this is the sort of natural that this is the sort of natural process if this starts in the process if this starts in the classroom. and we also know that classroom. and we also know that schools are transitioning schools are transitioning children, you know, without children, you know, without their parents knowledge, their parents knowledge, sometimes socially. yeah sometimes socially. yeah socially transitioning their children. yeah, exactly. then, then then this is the natural their parents knowledge, sometimes socially. yeethen, children. yeah, exactly. then, then then this is the natural step. is that as soon as they step. is that asthat

become adults that they can get this certificate that basically says that they're the opposite this certificate that basically says that they're the opposite sex, so i think that the other sex, so i think that the other thing is that, you know, i would thing say, you know, anneliese dodds who has consistently said, you say, you know, anneliese dodds who has consistently said, you know, we need to make this it's know, we need to make this it's really complex and it's really really complex and it's really difficult. it's clearly not because all of these people are successful in doing it, i mean, m7; 41:12? it??? 3717�*54957'7, i n m7; 41:12? it??? 3717�*54957'7, in doing it, i mean, successful in doing it, i mean, surely it should be complex and surely it should be complex and difficult. >> i mean, it's a life altering difficult. >> i mean, it's a life altering decision. there should be a few decision. there hoops to go through, don't you think, but what we often talk about this issue with regard to men who are transitioning to women because of the impacts on things like sports or women's spaces and prisons, etcetera, etcetera . but i'm particularly etcetera. but i'm particularly worried about teenage girls , worried about teenage girls, because i know there's been a very steep rise in the number of girls who are saying that they are a boy or they're experiencing gender dysphoria or whatever. and i've read a lot about this, and a lot of people have looked into this. they see it as a social contagion, almost akin to eating disorders. often

girls who that, if you

need to, you know, history is a good teacher, and i think we need to look back. >> and there's nothing wrong with being gender nonconforming. and, you know, not all girls have to, you know , slap the make have to, you know, slap the make up on and wear a pink dress and high heels. do they could i just ask you, you know, we were we were playing some footage there whilst you were talking of these big, you know, pro—trans marches and their call is trans liberation. >> now , trans liberation now. >> now, trans liberation now. well, what are they not liberated? i mean, what what is it that's holding people back? i don't get it. you can clearly change gender for the price of a pint in this country at the moment. and there appears to be a ready supply of doctors willing to do pretty much anything that you ask them when it comes to this. i mean, what what what what is the liberation that we need now? >> i think that there is because there has been a pushback on this stuff from women who understand that sex is real, and that that has implications , that that has implications, within our public policy. i

think that, there is a difference. you know, you can't get your own. you can't get your rights by taking away from someone else's . and actually, someone else's. and actually, everyone in this country has human rights. there is, you know, we have a very, very good, equalities legislation in the uk, that generally works quite well, but that does not mean that you can take someone else's sex based rights away from them just because you, you know, you feel like you want to you feel like you want them. that's an entirely different thing. >> yeah . it's. yeah, it's >> yeah. it's. yeah, it's exactly that. it's not it's not, it's not liberate what's liberating for one person might massively infringe on the human rights of another. martin i suppose. well thank you very much. it's great to have you on the show. lots more there. as gender critical policy researcher, we've got lots more coming up on today's show. >> we're going to bring you more reaction to the british government's controversial decision to suspend some arms sales to israel. there's a lot of political fallout across the pondin of political fallout across the pond in israel, of course, and in this country. and it's only just beginning to unravel. so there's david lammy going into number 10, and we've got your

headunes number 10, and we've got your headlines with tatiana . headlines with tatiana. >> emily. thank you. the top stories. the french coastguard has confirmed at least five people have died after a boat with dozens of migrants capsized in the english channel. french media are still reporting ten deaths. the french coast guard says more than 50 people have been rescued during its search and rescue operation. many of these people reportedly require emergency medical treatment. a huge emergency search and rescue operation is underway now. there's been a backlash over the decision by the government to suspend some arms sales to israel, including from the former prime minister boris johnson, who's accused sir keir starmer of abandoning israel. foreign secretary david lammy says the decision follows a review which found there was a clear risk they might be used to commit a serious violation of international humanitarian law. mr lammy says 30 of 350 licences

will be suspended, stressing it's not a blanket ban. and he says it's not an arms embargo. however, former defence secretary grant shapps has told media the suspension was akin to student politics, also calling it a very retrograde step. but defence secretary john healey insists israel's security will not be weakened by the suspension of some arms exports . suspension of some arms exports. tom tugendhat has launched his tory leadership campaign today, the shadow security minister setting out his vision for the future of the party and for the nafion future of the party and for the nation . mr tugendhat, one of six nation. mr tugendhat, one of six tory mps vying to replace rishi sunak, says he'll promise to reset the party's relationship with the public. he's also promised a return of honesty to politics, and five children have been arrested over the murder of an 80 year old man. he was walking his dog in a park in leicestershire when he was seriously assaulted by a group of young people on sunday, and died in hospital. a boy and a

girl, both aged 14, and one boy and two girls aged 12, have been arrested on suspicion of murder. police are appealing for witnesses to come forward and due to prior police contact with the victim, the force will be making a voluntary referral to the independent office for police conduct and those are the latest gb news headlines for now. more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward alerts

>> okay, welcome back to good afternoon britain. it is now 238 and it is martin daubney next. he's up at 3:00 with his show three till six. martin what's up . three till six. martin what's up. >> well today i'm asking the

question is the united kingdom is britain becoming no country for old folks during the budget? we found out that the dementia tax is coming back via labour. the £86,000 cap is being scrapped. then they came for the winter fuel tax. now today rachel reeves is being urged to increase the retirement age to 68. that's designed to save £68 billion a year. well, that's what we spend on asylum. and we found out on friday we spent £8 billion a year on benefits for unemployed immigrants. is the social contract being broken with this country? the ethos of work hard, plan for your future, do the right thing. simply going out of the window now or old people expected to bankroll the feckless. the work shy and those who come from overseas. and what does that say about the united kingdom? is this a terrible direction for our country? has the labour party declared war on old age pensions? that's coming up on my show 3 to 6. >> and also martin as well as i'm sure you will bring up. but,

you know, this is something that keir starmer can't get away on. he's got a tax exempt pension deal himself. isn't it. so you know you look at it if, if this was the tories in charge now they'd all be banging on about you with your gold plated pensions and your massive houses. you don't understand. ordinary old working people are, well, pot kettle black. here we are, martin. >> yeah. i think we've always known that. >> it's one rule for them and one rule for the rest of us. and i think now there's a very, very different set of rules for our beloved pensioners. i just think that it's got to a stage now where they don't vote for the labour party. so why base any of our policies around them? they're instead treated as a cash cow to bankroll the rest of the country. it's a terrible inversion of what you and i know to be right and wrong. >> they don't care about getting the pensioner vote back, but they're desperate to get the pro gaza back vote, aren't they? but martin, i'm looking forward to your show. three till 6 pm. you'll be electrifying the airwaves as ever. >> that social contract. it's a shattered, creaking at the seams. >> doesn't exist, doesn't exist, doesn't exist, doesn't exist. it doesn't exist, doesn't exist. it doesn't exist. exist? no. >> people feel powerless with

the way their taxes are spent. you know, you work hard, you save, you work throughout your life. you bring up your children nicely. you do all the right things, and then you're clobbered. >> there's no other walk of life, is there as well? are the people who do pay more tax, get relentlessly, have their arm twisted behind their back and told go and pay a bit more. >> and then the millionaires, you know, on a flight out of here. great. okay. well, the political fallout from labour's decision to suspend some arms export licenses to israel is continuing. prominent politicians, including boris johnson, dame priti patel accusing them of portraying the betraying israel. >> yes, we're going to head back now to the foreign office. get more from our political correspondent olivia utley olivia. i'll take it. david lammy hasn't come out and apologised yet. then >> he hasn't. the government has very much doubled down on its position to halt the export of arms to israel. materially. this isn't going to make a huge difference to israel. britain only supplies 0.02% of israeli arms. but it's about the sort of statement of intent. david lammy

claims that britain is still 100% backing israel's right to defend itself, but its actions speak differently and it should be noted that britain has now gone much, much further than the us in its sort of slap on the wrist to israel. the us has threatened at some point that it might withdraw an arms deal with israel, but it hasn't actually gone that far. and kamala harris has so far said that she wouldn't go that far. so of course, the question is, is this actually political? is they are david lammy and keir starmer , david lammy and keir starmer, under pressure from backbenchers within their own party, and also some of those five backbenchers who were elected , independent who were elected, independent backbenchers who were elected on a purely pro gaza ticket, jeremy corbyn among them, are they putting pressure on the labour party to change its stance on israel? someone like zarah sultana, who just had the whip suspended but still a, you know, was elected as a labour mp. she has she has said that actually britain hasn't gone far enough.

so you see, the government is completely stuck between a rock and a hard place here. you've got people like boris johnson saying that this does not show that britain is securing israel's right to defend itself. and then you've got those on the far other side suggesting that britain should actually go further. so what does keir starmer do about this? at the moment he seems to be trying to fudge it and sort of saying that it's all about a technicality. it's all about this specific legal review. and in principle, britain still still respects israel's right to defend itself. but actions speak louder than words. >> yes , indeed. where do they go >> yes, indeed. where do they go from here? seem to have upset everyone. not going far enough or going too far? well, thank you very much olivia utley. our political correspondent there outside the foreign office , outside the foreign office, hiding behind a legal technicality. >> surely not. it's not keir starmer, is it the guy who was the prosecutor for not hiding behind a legal technicality anyway? who would have thought it? but this is good afternoon, britain. you are watching gb news and after the break we're going to tell you this one. this is a bonkers story.

going to tell you this one. this is a bonkers story . okay, so is a bonkers story. okay, so hold on to your hats. well it is funny the taxpayers. it's funny because of the incompetence. so we're going to tell you about a £51 million car park being built in oxfordshire. but it can't be used because it's not connected to a main road. there's more to it as well. look, stay tuned for that £51 million of oxfordshire residents money. just. gone. seen a bit

>> okay. welcome back. you're watching listening listening to. good afternoon britain. now this is a story . a £51 million car is a story. a £51 million car park built in oxfordshire . park built in oxfordshire. sounds great if you're a car driver and need a parking space. >> we do need. you do need parking in oxford. it's a nightmare. it is a nightmare. >> absolute nightmare. in the

city centre. you can't get a parking space for love nor money. no, but this one is a purpose made one. but it can't actually be used because it's not connected to the main road and reportedly won't be until 2027. so they've spent £51 million making this beautiful car park. i mean, it looks quite nice, doesn't it? yeah. >> very rarely does a car park get described as beautiful, but i'll take your point. as far as car parks go, i suppose that's what i meant. >> quite attractive as far as car parks go. it's quite a nice one. yeah, there it is. >> look at it go. i would go as far as to say that's quite a pretty car park. yes, exactly. yeah. well, so then then then what happened? >> well, essentially they ran out of money. >> they might not have run out of money. and it turned out that it wasn't connected to a road. >> no, they can't afford to build an access road. so whose idea this was and what went wrong with the design, well, it begs the question, who was organising this? all the council, obviously was the council. >> so the funding to construct the road in and out of the car park in a place called eynsham in oxfordshire, has not yet been

secured, even though the site itself has already cost £51 million. the council admitted that this park and ride scheme, which has 850 spaces, will not be fully operational for at least another 2 or 3 years. can i again just stress what a car park is? a bit of tarmac, isn't it? it's not the car park. bits of tarmac, a few lines there. i mean, i reckon, i reckon we could build one in a couple of weeks. >> i think we could. yeah, yeah, we probably couldn't construct it, could design it maybe. >> oh, flat on the ground, put some tarmac on it. >> oh, flat on the ground, put some tarmac on it . crucially a some tarmac on it. crucially a shelf. crucially put a road leading up to it. you know, that's the crucial element. >> that is also why was this car park needed. it looks like it's in the middle of a field. >> yeah, well, it's just it's absolutely bonkers. so planning problems are stopping motorists from getting to it as well. the county council needed further funding, they say. joining us, i believe shortly, or indeed now is oxfordshire county councillor liam walker. liam, thank you very much. whose fault is this ? very much. whose fault is this? >> well, this is ultimately a

failure of the lib dem green county council coalition that we have in place. and forgive me, this isn't a virtual background. >> i'm on my holiday in rome, but i couldn't miss the opportunity to really talk about the. >> it took them less time to build that. >> now that the park and rides. >> now that the park and rides. >> yeah, well , thousands of >> yeah, well, thousands of years ago there were gladiators in here battling . in here battling. >> it feels like that now in oxfordshire against this anti motorist coalition. i mean it's ludicrous that we've now got a £51 million park and ride with no access . exactly as you were no access. exactly as you were just saying. >> and look they knew this was going to happen. i told them years ago that this was going to be the case. it was their decision, their political decision, their political decision to pause the improvements to the a40 as 100 over £100 million that was going to improve the a40 from the previous government. they decided to pause it, and that would have delivered the roundabout into this site. so they knew this was coming. and now they're saying that basically it's going to be up until 2027 before you can access this rather beautiful car park . this rather beautiful car park. but ultimately it's also costing the taxpayer more now because the taxpayer more now because the council is going to have to

pay the council is going to have to pay for the maintenance to keep it nice and clean. >> goodness me. so, liam, is this is this an issue to do with the net zero drive then? they didn't want to build more roads, but they did build a car park. but they can't possibly build a road because that would be bad. >> yes, well the lib dems don't like cars and don't like car parks. >> it's probably why it's sat there empty for so many more years. >> but you know, it's something we're seeing. they've just spent £8 million changing roads to 20 mile an hour. only changing the speed signs years ago. we told them that won't work. and now they're having a go at the police because the police won't do the enforcement. it's bonkers. and ultimately it's costing taxpayers more. >> but liam, can i just ask as well, is there not a serious question marks to be had about how on earth all of this money has been racked up? so, you know, again, car park, tarmac, a few white lines, you know , all few white lines, you know, all right. might be some might kerb. all right. £51 million. bit of curve a bit of curve . you just curve a bit of curve. you just said there that the road signs changing everything to 20 miles an hour was how many million? i

mean, sorry, but what on earth is going on here? where's. >> it's not their money, liam. who's negotiating this? >> it's our money as taxpayers. >> it's our money as taxpayers. >> welcome to my world battling this every single day against these complete, i have to be very careful what i say, but, you know, these anti motorists coalition is the phrase that i use. but look, in your local elections next year and we've got local elections next year and this is the opportunity to kick these guys out and bring back some common sense and just stop this waste. council tax going up year after year after yeah going up year after year after year. it's got to stop. we can't keep on like this. >> it'sjust keep on like this. >> it's just unbelievable. >> it's just unbelievable. >> it's just unbelievable. >> it'sjust >> it's just unbelievable. >> it's just the fact that the planning application went in in 2021. that's according to the report. so then it won't even be functional till 2027. maybe, maybe, i mean, and also it's difficult to park around oxford isn't it. anyway it's difficult. so it is a good idea to have more car park spaces . more car park spaces. >> it is going to get much difficult because i don't know if you're aware, but the lib

dems want to put up their new anpr cameras, much like we've seen sadiq khan in london. so basically it means that all the main routes into the city will be anpr cameras. if you drive through, you get a ticket. there's only going to be one route into the city, which is botley road, which is currently closed because of network rail. so this is only going to get worse. and that's why we need these park and ride sites. and hopefully more so people can actually get into oxford . actually get into oxford. >> no. absolutely astonishing. >> no. absolutely astonishing. >> what about i mean it would be great. you know, if everyone could just cycle everywhere. but i mean, what about people who need to carry things, have children are disabled. i mean , children are disabled. i mean, it's a nonsense, liam. we're going to have to leave it there. very sorry, but enjoy your trip to rome. it looks a beautiful day. yeah. have a wonderful time. >> no, seriously. thank you. what a way to end the show. and it does sum it up, doesn't it? we used to build things like that behind liam there. the colosseum. and now we've got something we're responsible for. some absolute idiots here in oxfordshire who can't even build a flipping car park or can build. this is decline. >> maybe this is why so few people are proud to be british. >> well, i'm still very proud. just not because of stuff like

this, not these councillors spending our money like it's theirs. well, thank you very much. i've thoroughly enjoyed today's show. actually, i must say, thank you for being my co—host. it's good. >> we're actually. i'm actually off wednesday. thursday friday. but i'll be back on monday. >> yeah, and unsurprisingly, so will i. but i'll be back. i'll be back 9 pm. tonight, though, so i'll see you then. we've got a great show lined up. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of weather on gb news. >> good afternoon. welcome to your latest gb news weather update brought to you from the met office through the rest of the day. there is a risk of showers for some of us, but also some sunny spells and clearer skies will lead to a cooler night tonight. for many areas , night tonight. for many areas, but particularly across northern areas. now, this weather front is pushing into parts of scotland, northern ireland, through the rest of today, bringing a risk of showers here and any showers across the south and any showers across the south and east will push away to the east as well . so quite a lot of

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gb. news >> well . >> well. >> well. >> a very good afternoon to you. >> a very good afternoon to you. >> it's 3:00 pm and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. we're broadcasting live from the heart of westminster and all across the uk. on today's show, after slashing pensioners winter fuel allowance

to save £4 billion today, rachel reeves refused to rule out raising pensions tax in her autumn budget. now, with all these attempts to save money targeting the elderly, is britain beginning to feel like no country for old folks ? next no country for old folks? next story israel's prime minister blasts the uk government's move to suspend certain arms sales to his country as shameful. benjamin netanyahu also claimed that britain's decision to withhold weapons will only embolden hamas and disaster in the english channel, as 12 people have reportedly died after attempting to make the perilous journey. the french coastguard have already begun an extensive rescue operation, but when will we see any real to action prevent these dangerous crossings from happening ? and crossings from happening? and it's full steam ahead for the government's plans to nationalise the railways. the transport secretary says that passengers have been let down by private operators for way too long. but does this make? does

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