gb news. well >> good morning. 930 on monday, the 9th of september live across the 9th of september live across the uk. this is britain's newsroom with andrew pierce and bev turner. very good morning. >> so winter fuel rebellion. labour mps could refuse to vote with the government on their plan to cut the allowance for pensioners, as the health secretary admits he is not happy with the decision, but insists that it with the decision, but insists thatitis with the decision, but insists that it is necessary and the unions are piling on the pressure too. >> they're urging the prime minister to do a u—turn and winter fuel as day two of the tuc congress gets underway, we'll be going live to the general secretary, paul novak. speech a little later. >> and can you afford it.7 parents are asked to prove they can't afford private school

fees, as the government's vat rate takes its toll. >> well, who'd have thought it.7 british buyers company. a damning new report exposes shocking bias from the bbc in its coverage of the israel—hamas war, with 1500 instances of bias against israel identified. >> and it's the harris honeymoon over the first major survey to show a drop in support suggests this is the end of vice president kamala harris's euphonc president kamala harris's euphoric august, as it's been called , and weight loss pills. called, and weight loss pills. >> did you know that greater manchester has the highest popularity for weight loss pills .7 popularity for weight loss pills? similar to ozempic? but would you take them ? you take them? well, from that part of the world, greater manchester. >> interesting that, isn't it? why? why the mancunians are more susceptible to sales of weight loss pills on the internet? i don't know, i don't know .

don't know, i don't know. >> are they safe? the pills they're using? >> well who knows? gbnews.com/yoursay first though, the very latest news with tatiana sanchez . tatiana sanchez. >> bev turner. thank you . the >> bev turner. thank you. the top stories leaders of two of the biggest unions have put further pressure on the government over its plans to cut winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners in england and wales. unite and the pcs union have both criticised the plan, while paul novak, head of the trades union congress, says the government should rethink the plan and consider other lines of support for pensioners. the health secretary says the policy will have a negative impact on his constituents , but insists it's constituents, but insists it's a necessary move. mps will vote today on the plans to scrap the payment. the prime minister says the cut is necessary due to the state of the country's finances. new analysis has revealed. significant corruption took place in the handing out of covid contracts during the

pandemic . official reports pandemic. official reports identified that 135 high risk contracts with a value of £153 contracts with a value of £15.3 billion, had three or more corruption red flags . corruption red flags. transparency international uk are requesting the national audit office public accounts committee and chancellor rachel reeves look into the findings. it comes as the impact of the covid pandemic on nhs workers, patients and the delivery of health care is set to be examined by a public inquiry, with the first public hearing being held today. in other with the first public hearing being held today . in other news, being held today. in other news, hollywood actor idris elba will join the prime minister in downing street to launch a new effort to tackle knife crime . effort to tackle knife crime. alba arrived to number 10 a short while ago and alba, who is an anti—knife crime campaigner, will join the prime minister this morning, as they say to launch the coalition, which aims to stop young people from being dragged into violent gangs. the coalition will bring together campaign groups, families of people who've lost their lives to knife crime and young people who have been affected by it, as

well as alba and the home secretary, yvette cooper. and the government is in the process of banning ninja swords and strengthening the law on online knife sales . and noel gallagher knife sales. and noel gallagher says he's thrilled and honoured to have his portrait added to the national portrait gallery, despite he says, being a grumpy middle aged man who hates having his picture taken. the picture, taken by zoe law , will go on taken by zoe law, will go on display for the first time on the 29th of november as part of the 29th of november as part of the london gallery's legends exhibition, which will feature 100 portraits taken by law of people who have influenced her life and career. the image of gallagher will remain part of the gallery's permanent collection once the exhibition ends on the 2nd of march next yeah ends on the 2nd of march next year. and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour . half an hour. >> good morning. 934 this is britain's newsroom live across the uk on gb news with me, bev

turner and andrew pierce. >> well it won't go away, will it. winter fuel. it is turning into a massive political car crash. frankly for the government. keir starmer was on the interview round yesterday and saying it's tough. we've got to make tough decisions. fine. make tough decisions to make sure they're the right ones . sure they're the right ones. yeah, absolutely. >> well, he could be facing a rebellion over the government's plans to cut winter fuel payments, with reports that as many as 5050 labour mps could refuse to back the policy. >> and of course, if they abstain, they'll keep the whip. but if they vote against, they'll be suspended. >> yeah, well, health secretary wes streeting has said he's not remotely happy about having to take money away from pensioners. he's not going to say he's happy about it, obviously. is he through cuts to the allowance but insisted it is a necessary move. >> so the vote tomorrow comes on the plans to scrap winter fuel payments. it's £300 a year for those who don't qualify for pension credit and this comes as there's been a report done by steve webb , who was a lib dem steve webb, who was a lib dem pensions minister, which suggests a million pensioners below the poverty line will lose

this money. yeah, and there's a million more who don't claim the pension credit. and if you try and claim the pension credit, good luck with that because it's 243 questions. they are byzantine in their complexity. >> and this could be the council tax, the poll tax issue for this government actually within nine weeks of being in office. >> yeah . >> yeah. >> yeah. >> let's talk to gb news political correspondent katherine forster now. good morning. catherine. this is proving to be something of a i was going to say a pain in the neck, but it's worse than that for keir starmer and his government, isn't it? the backlash has been enormous. >> yes. good morning both. it really has. this is going to save the government £1.4 billion a year. but my goodness, they are burning through huge amounts of political capital with this because they have upset not just millions of pensioners, but dozens of their own backbench labour mps, the liberal

democrats, the conservatives and across the political spectrum, pretty much united in condemning this move. now we understand there is up to 50 backbench mps who are going to struggle to support it. i think we can read into that that they're likely to abstain, we don't know how many might actually go that step further and vote against. now, people who abstain are going to get away with that. and if you actually vote against it, get away with that. and if you actually vote against it , that's actually vote against it, that's potentially quite serious because we saw with the rebellion on the two child benefit cap, the prime minister, the whip was withdrawn from seven who voted against. so i don't think there'll be many to vote against. and worth saying. of course , this is going to go of course, this is going to go through anyway because the government's got a huge majority, but i think what it does signal is just how

incredibly unpopular this move is. now, the prime minister doubung is. now, the prime minister doubling down again yesterday, saying, look, i'm prepared to make the unpopular decisions that are necessary, we have to take these measures. we've got this £22 billion black hole left by the previous government. but worth saying, of course , this is worth saying, of course, this is a political choice that the prime minister and the chancellor, rachel reeves , are chancellor, rachel reeves, are making, because 9 billion of that black hole has been created by this government in choosing to give the above inflation pay rises to public sector workers. so, absolute uproar. no sign of it lessening at all, and this probably the first of many, many big rows that the government is going to face because of course, we've got the budget coming on october the 30th and who knows what else there may be in that

patch of katherine forster. >> i heard a government minister on another station actually talking where he virtually implied were working. people come first and the tories now have got a great charge to make against this government. they're punishing pensioners because mainly the tories strongest level of support is amongst the over 70s . over 70s. >> okay. yes, i see what you mean there. >> well and i would just keep making the charge. oh, you're punishing pensioners are you. because you think they vote tory. oh well a legitimate question to put to it is it is a legitimate question. >> andy has said when any pensioner dies due to hypothermia or starving, starmer and labour should be charged with corporate manslaughter and the cause of death should be starmer. >> well, on the front page of the mail today, i know about this story because i wrote it. it's in 2017. theresa may's government floated this idea and the labour party published research , extensive analysis research, extensive analysis which showed if the winter fuel

allowance was removed from 10 million people, exactly the same policy, which starmer is going for now up to 4000, 3850 pensioners were estimated to die from hypothermia. blimey. so if that was the and keir starmer was in the shadow cabinet in 2017. so if that was his view then how is he doing it now. >> quiet medieval britain isn't it. >> right. well let's talk now to jasmine birtles from money magpie. good morning jasmine . magpie. good morning jasmine. andrew was just saying then how how stressful this is for a number of people. it's a sort of clumsy question, but how poor do you need to be, to be able to claim this still? is it going to be based on, you know, the amount of assets that people have, their income and the paperwork to get through this onune paperwork to get through this online paperwork is huge. >> yes. well, you basically need to be on pension credits essentially to be able to continue to have the winter fuel

payments, so that that does mean that you have to be having just not really coping on the money that you're getting from the state pension and any other pension. so you have to be on pension. so you have to be on pension credits. the thing is that a lot of people are trying to get themselves onto pension credits at the moment. i have a friend whose sister is trying to apply for pension credit and it's taking months. so it's likely that if you're if you're applying at the moment and as i say, there are a lot of people who are, you're not going to get it in time for this winter. and that's something that she's very concerned about . and it's it is concerned about. and it's it is a difficult i do i do understand in a way, why the government is, is doing this because, you know, on the one end of the scale, you've got a lot of retirees who are actually doing very nicely. thank you very much. and this has been the case for a couple of decades that, there have been people who are doing very nicely

and really don't need the winter fuel payments at all, but then you have a significant number, and i would say a growing number now, particularly with the price of gas and electricity going up. who are really worried , really, who are really worried, really, genuinely worried that they're going to be cold this winter. >> just in one way they could do this, surely. i'm not an accountant and i'm not the chancellor. but if they linked the winter fuel allowance to the pension and if people are a high rate taxpayer, they'll pay tax on it. so the government will get revenue that way. and if people are low income pensioners who are not paying any tax, then they will get they will get the full £300. >> yes, i think that's a very good point. and that is something that has been pointed out with the increase in the state pension, you know, as we know with the triple lock, the state pension went up quite a lot this year. and they're saying that it's going to go up by at least 400, an average of

£400 next year as well. so that does mean that a lot more pensioners are put into the tax bracket. and as you say, that means that they they have to pay tax. it's very difficult for them to get out of paying tax on that. so you would think as you say, that this the money would actually be coming back. and you know, you mentioned keir starmer earlier and he did say when he was not in power, he said what a terrible thing it would be to remove the winter fuel payment and labour wouldn't do that kind of thing. now it's marvellous what you can say when you're not actually in power and can't be held accountable. >> yeah, i mean it's so easy in opposition, isn't it? so easy to attack , attack, attack. and of attack, attack, attack. and of course , pointing out that 2017, course, pointing out that 2017, when he was part of the shadow cabinet, yasmin, labour was saying that to take the winter fuel away would lead to the early deaths of up to 4000 pensioners. >> yes. and you know that that's

based on some fairly decent, calculations. i think that and thatis calculations. i think that and that is genuinely the worry that we have some pensioners really on, on the breadline. they're wondering whether to heat or eat, and it really we're going to get some, some very nasty and upsetting stories if this goes through. and one of the things that particularly upsets people, i think is what the money is going, going to go to, i mean, for a start, people have pointed out that the mps themselves have their gas and electricity paid for by the taxpayer, in their extra homes, and also the fact that we are very happily giving 11.5 billion to other countries to help allegedly with their net zero target. now, if we stopped that and gave it to the pensioners , i think people would pensioners, i think people would be much happier. so this i think that's that's annoying people.

the money that's going away from the people , from elderly people, the people, from elderly people, from people who are vulnerable and going to who knows, who knows what. some ngos in other countries working on some alleged net zero projects that that doesn't help. i think labour's point of view. >> yeah, you're right, jasmine. the british public are starting to see that on the horizon aren't they? so thank you. so much. jasmine birtles there from money magpie. up next is labour's private school tax discriminatory. one mother is taking the government to the high court. she fears her daughter will be forced to leave school because of her plans with britain's newsroom

gb news. it's 948. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. >> so labour's plan to impose vat on private school fees is

now going to end up in court. there's been a high court challenge over a claim it's breaching human rights law. >> so lawyers have written to the treasury arguing that the policy discriminates against children with special educational needs, forcing them out of schools if their parents cannot afford the higher fees. this comes as one counsellor has been caught sending a poorly worded email asking one mother for evidence she can't afford her private school fees in order for her daughter to be considered for a state school. so we're joined now by former conservative mp for wickham, steve baker. steve morning, thanks so much forjoining us. this morning. good to see you. let's first of all talk about if we can this legal challenge. so children who have a special educational needs statement won't have to pay the vat on their private school fees. but it's those children who might have learning needs, who require a smaller classroom but don't have a statement. those are the ones , presumably, which would be ones, presumably, which would be included in this legal challenge. >> well, yes. and that's why the

statements are so very precious to parents. it's something i've seen throughout my 14 years in parliament. is that parents can be absolutely desperate to get that statement and get the support that their children need. and of course, support is, in short supply because it's a, you know, extra teachers to help. children are a scarce and expensive resource. so i'm afraid special educational needs has been a long term problem. and labour's plans will undoubtedly make things worse for the young people and their parents in the circumstances you describe. but they can just afford to go to an independent school. can't afford the 20%, but haven't got a statement on their special needs. it will be a very, very worrying time for those parents. >> do you think the government thought this through in its entirety, steve, because there are a number of parents with special needs children who have been who have been caught in this, and they don't have especially high incomes. and the children are in that private school because of the very nature of the children's learning difficulties. >> i don't believe for one moment that labour thought this

through. if i've counted the exceptions correctly. so far, families of members of the armed forces will be exempt. children with statements , as you've said, with statements, as you've said, will be exempt. and it's a sign that labour's policy is unravelling. but i'm afraid we shouldn't too be surprised about this. in my view, labour's great prize is to appear to be the sensible party and the natural party of government. that's why they're being so tough on public spending. and i think the vat on school fees policy was always a sop to their left , so they could sop to their left, so they could get away with using the private sector in healthcare, for example. and it was always a policy which they could unravel. and i think what we're seeing is the progressive unravelling of the progressive unravelling of the policy. it's extremely hard to predict what effect it will have on places like wickham, where we've got excellent schools, including grammar schools, including grammar schools, we've got a prep school and we've got wickham abbey, a really outstanding girls school for older girls . and, you know, for older girls. and, you know, it's extremely difficult to see what will happen to our schools,

particularly when parents need places mid—year. so yeah, a very stressful time all round. >> let's talk about this story , >> let's talk about this story, steve, because this is in your neck of the woods. this is the mother who, as you said, you've got this grammar school system in that area, which is amazing, also explains why you have very high property prices in that area as well. there's no such thing as a free, brilliant education, it seems these days. but this mother has enquired about whether there would be a space at one of those schools and apparently the email has said, well, can if you can afford a private school, you're going to have to pay for it. >> yeah. so i had the privilege of being able to contact the leader of the council and ask him about this. and i'm afraid a junior official made a mistake in the choice of words. they asked the parent to prove that they couldn't pay the fees, and they're not allowed to do that. and it was a mistake. and i don't want to bear down on that junior official too much because they'll be having a tough enough time. and i think in any system, you have to expect that officials will make mistakes. and of course, this one's got

national prominence, which is fair enough. but i think we should be absolutely clear. there's no question of parents having to prove they can't pay the fees in order to get a state school place. that's not how it works. the problem is that there are just too few state school places, and particularly in really great schools. and, you know, parents are going to be extremely disappointed if they try and get a grammar school place in wickham when they pull, if they pull their children out of an independent school. so it's going to be very, very stressful. this mistake doesn't help, but it does at least give us an opportunity to say that nobody is going to be required to prove they can't pay the fees . to prove they can't pay the fees. thatis to prove they can't pay the fees. that is not how the system works. and it was a mistake. it's not my place to apologise for it. it would be for the council, but i'm sure everybody involved is very sorry and particularly to the parents who were worried by it. >> yeah, i get that. but doesn't it show how quickly and how easily an email can be sent that thinks that is an okay question to ask you know, like you say, the person isn't here to defend themselves, but it's a it's a vindictive tax. this steve,

isn't it? it is punishing those who've worked really hard or are even taking loans off the grandparents, or being given money to subsequent off grandparents. it's cruel. >> yeah, absolutely. i would certainly agree that this tax is cruel and vindictive . it's cruel and vindictive. it's absolutely typical of labour to object to parents looking after their children as best they can. they think they're on the moral high ground because they'd like everyone to have exactly the same start in life. that is, of course, impossible because whether we like it or not, parents will have different means, different talents for looking after their children. i believe that every parent should believe that every parent should be able to do their best for their children, and absolutely. >> and that used to be the way, unfortunately, for a lot of time, steve beaten by the clock, don't go anywhere. has the bbc been found out for being biased? this is britain's newsroom >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb

news. >> good morning and welcome to your latest gb news weather forecast from the met office. well today for most of us it's certainly going to be a bit of a dner certainly going to be a bit of a drier and brighter one compared to the weekend, but there's still plenty of cloud around first thing this morning across many central and eastern parts, sunshine further west and that will gradually push its way a little bit further eastwards as the day goes on. so by the afternoon , i think many central afternoon, i think many central areas beginning to brighten up, but always the best of the sunshine further west. but then later on in the day we will start to see this next area of cloud and rain spreading across the far west of scotland and northern ireland. a fresher feeling day for all of us. we could still see highs reaching the high teens across the south. so as we end monday afternoon , so as we end monday afternoon, we start to see this area of rain move in across many western parts of scotland, eastern scotland hanging on to some dner scotland hanging on to some drier and brighter weather. here that rain also arriving into northern ireland. but for many parts of england and wales it should be a fairly dry end to

the day, although we may still just hang on to the cloud and some outbreaks of rain across the very far east of england. so as we move into the evening and overnight period, this area of cloud and rain will slowly spread its way south eastwards . spread its way south eastwards. but for many southern areas we probably will remain dry , with probably will remain dry, with the best of the clear skies and winds also beginning to increase across the far north, giving a very blustery end to the night. and for most of us, a cooler night. but for most towns and cities we will hold up into double figures. so tuesday morning we start off with some sunshine across the southeast. but this area of cloud and rain will continue to track its way southwards. behind it, much colder conditions , a colder conditions, a strengthening wind and that will bnngin strengthening wind and that will bring in a fairly frequent amount of blustery showers. and some of these showers will be quite heavy and thundery by the end of the afternoon. that cloud and rain will arrive into the far south, but hanging on to something a little bit warmer here. but as i mentioned further north, pretty cold for the time of year. >> that warm feeling inside from

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millions of pensioners in england and wales. unite and the pcs union have both criticised the plan, while paul novak, head of the trades union congress, says the government should rethink the plan and consider other lines of support for pensioners. wes streeting says he's not remotely happy about having a vote to take money away from pensioners, through cuts to the winter fuel allowance. the health secretary says the policy will have a negative impact on his constituents, but he also insists it's a necessary move. mps will vote today on the plans to scrap the payment. new analysis has revealed significant corruption took place in the handing out of covid contracts during the pandemic, official reports identified that 135 high risk contracts with a value of £153 contracts with a value of £15.3 billion, had three or more corruption red flags. transparency international uk are requesting the national audit office public accounts committee and chancellor rachel reeves look into the findings. it comes as the impact of the

covid pandemic on nhs workers , covid pandemic on nhs workers, patients and the delivery of health care is set to be examined by public inquiry, with the first public hearing being held today . hollywood actor held today. hollywood actor idris elba is joining the prime minister in downing street to launch a new effort to tackle knife crime. elba, an anti—knife crime campaigner, joined sir keir starmer at downing street this morning as he launches the coalition, which aims to stop young people from being dragged into violent gangs. the coalition will bring together campaign groups, families of people who've lost their lives to knife crime and young people who have been affected by it, as well as idris and the home secretary, yvette cooper. sir keir starmer says he wants to make it harder to buy dangerous weapons online, and he's pledged to double down on efforts to tackle knife crime. measures to empower local leaders to take control of bus services have been unveiled by the government. transport secretary louise haigh claimed her bus revolution will save vital routes nationwide. legislation giving all local

transport authorities new powers to run their own bus services will be laid before parliament today. there are only a few areas in england where the local bus company is owned by the council, and supporters say it means profits can be reinvested into services . the metropolitan into services. the metropolitan police didn't get everything right and could have made arrests sooner. when policing recent large scale protests. thatis recent large scale protests. that is coming from the force's assistant commissioner, matt twist, who's responsible for protest and public order policing across london. also said the force used an infinite number of tiers of policing in response to criticisms of the met adopting a two tier stance. it comes as a new major report revealed the scale of the impact caused by a new era of increasingly disruptive protests on public service and finances, and public tourism and retail . and public tourism and retail. now, cancer deaths in the uk could increase by 17% by 2029 when compared with the last five years, the charity warns. cancer

research uk also projects new diagnoses to jump by more than a fifth during the same period. experts say the stats highlight the devastating impact cancer continues to have on people across the uk. they also urged the government to develop a long term strategy for the disease, with a focus on funding, research, early diagnosis and prevention . noel gallagher says prevention. noel gallagher says he's thrilled and honoured to have his portrait added to the national portrait gallery, despite, he says, being a grumpy , despite, he says, being a grumpy, middle aged man who hates having his picture taken. the picture, taken by zoe law, will go on display for the first time on november the 29th as part of the london gallery's legends exhibition , which will feature exhibition, which will feature 100 portraits taken by law of people who have influenced her life and career. the image of gallagher will remain part of the gallery's permanent collection once the exhibition ends on the 2nd of march next yeah ends on the 2nd of march next year. and at midday today, the army will mark the accession of

king charles with a 41 gun salute in green park and a 62 gun royal salute at the tower of london. while the anniversary of him taking the throne fell yesterday, gun salutes don't take place on sundays. while the king spent the day privately with a trip to church on what was the second anniversary of the late queen elizabeth, the second, 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 gb news. >> com forward slash alerts . >> com forward slash alerts. >> com forward slash alerts. >> good morning. this is britain's newsroom live across the uk on gb news me bev turner and andrew pierce. >> well there's a new report has come out. it's fascinating. it accuses the bbc of breaching its own editorial guidelines more than 1500 times during the israeli hamas war, with coverage

being heavily biased against israel. >> bbc has claimed to have associated israel with genocide more than 14 times than it did hamas, and with breaching international law six times more than the terrorist group. >> well, let's talk to the former head of religion at the bbc, akil ahmed akil. >> the bbc has to be said, say they have problems with the methodology of how this report was was concluded and the use of ai. but if it's right for 1500 breaches, that is a staggering figure. >> well, it would be staggering if it was. you know, i think we have to put it into context as well. this is a report that's been produced by an israeli law firm. and of course, you know, there are reports on all sides as well which put out which look at particular kind of things from different perspectives. the centre for media monitoring has issued a report a few weeks ago which accused broadcasters of being biased against palestinians. so the fact of the

matter is there are lots that exist. i agree, if it was 1500 and you could pinpoint them accurately, then i think there's accurately, then i think there's a question to be asked. but i think that the issues around ai are something as well. and i think also as well, you've got to look at the wording of the report as well. and some of the things that it says, it talks not about due impartiality, but about a sympathetic approach to things. and i think you can't do that in news. you can't you can't judge things on sympathy. so i think the fact of the matter is it's a complicated picture. but we must remember that this is not an independent report done. and we're in the midst of a war in the midst of a war. people, the propaganda and all sorts of things happen. and i'm not saying that that's that's the case. exactly. in this instance. but it's not an independent report. it is done by a and is headed up by a lawyer who heads up a firm in israel. you would imagine that that that's why the bbc has to look at this from one perspective. but also i think we also have to remember and report on that as well, that actually this isn't like 20 thousands of people going through every single amount of footage. what the bbc is saying. and i think

they'd be right. they're using they'd be right. they're using the same language that all broadcasters like sky, itv , broadcasters like sky, itv, channel 4 news are using as well. >> no, no, no, that's not right though is it? sorry, sorry, sorry. that's not right. they're not using the same language because the bbc has this deep seated reluctance to describe hamas as a terrorist organisation. >> so that particular. no you're not you know, andrew, at that particular time, all other broadcasters were using the same description because it was not for them to define somebody as a terrorist at that time. so at that time, channel 4 sky were also using that same language at that time as well. >> is that right, though? do you think that's the language that should have been used at that time? because we certainly had described hamas as a terrorist organisation. >> they used them at that time as a proscribed terrorist organisation rather than calling them, because then that would be then taking a stand, calling them terrorists. and i think it's the it's the, it's the problem with al is actually it picks out certain words without putting it into context to actually how it's been used to define that particular thing on screen at that time . so what? so

screen at that time. so what? so if you say something is a genocide, it may be somebody else has said something's a genocide rather than you. the reporter calling it a genocide. and that's the issue here. it's about the it's the weight you put on the particular words rather than the word itself. >> i hear what you're saying very much about the fact that this could be a biased report, which found the result it was looking for. it was commissioned by trevor asserson, who runs israel's largest insurance sorry, legal firm. so i can understand where i come from . so understand where i come from. so what would the bbc do in response? because presumably they could put the language through the same ai software and come up with a different conclusion if they wanted to prove that it was bias you could do. >> but i think you've got to remember as well. you're picking up if you can pick a word out in al. so the way it works is you ai. so the way it works is you ask it for a look for a particular kind of word. what that doesn't do is put it into the context of how that word was used at that time. does that make sense? >> it does make sense. >> it does make sense. >> and so therefore you can actually choose what you want

from something if you really want to get it to work to say certain things. and as i said, there are other reports which accuse broadcasters in the uk and abroad of being biased against the against the palestinians. and i would expect that, quite frankly, that you would have this on all both sides would be not happy because both sides have a particular agenda that they want people to adhere to. >> one of the reports that the report highlights, is this it says israel's response in the days since the war was another example of its indifference to the suffering of the palestinian people. well, that's blatant editorialising it might be, i don't know. >> i don't know the context in what how it was said. but you're right. it sounds like it. but again, i don't know the context in what that was said. the fact of the matter is, i mean, if you look at things, i mean, look, for instance, the other day, the bbc has said it's not going to air the disaster and relief commission's , you know, what's commission's, you know, what's it called now ? the, the kind of it called now? the, the kind of the appeal that deck is going to be running. they're not going to be running. they're not going to be running. they're not going to be running it. now, many people are saying that's a, that's a bias against the people in gaza who are suffering. but the fact of the matter is these things

are happening. this is this is one report. there are many other things happening, i think, not having not running the appeal as they didn't run the appeal a few years ago as well, you know, for many people they'd say, why would you not run an appeal which is actually trying to help people who are suffering at this particular moment in time. so the fact is, there are people who are angry with the bbc on all sides. there are people who are angry with broadcasters on all sides, quite frankly, and that's always going to be the case. and i'll be very surprised if any one side was happy with the coverage right now, because if you're seeing some of the things that we're seeing on the news, it makes both sides look really bad. and there's some huge elephants in the room here, aren't there? there are things that actually, you know, there are things that we as individuals really want to say. we really want to express. we say to hamas, let get let those hostages go. we would also be saying to israel, do you think this is proportionate? we'd be saying to the to our own governments, you know, it's one thing talking about a ceasefire. it's another thing when you're arming one side. all of these kind of things are happening around us and people get quite

passionate and angry about them. and i think if you look at these reports, all of these reports, in that context, it kind of like makes a little bit more sense. and i think the bbc are right to say you can't judge something purely on al. and also we can't do we can't have sympathetic reporting because of because of the extreme atrocity that happened on october 7. because if that was the case, then palestinian supporters would be then saying, what about sympathetic reporting about the kind of carnage that we've seen you know, inflicted on the people of gaza as well ? it's people of gaza as well? it's not, you know, it's a mess. yeah, sure. >> should the bbc remind people that hamas is dedicated? it's almost in its dna to wiping israel off the face of the earth . israel off the face of the earth. >> listen, you know, it does. it does , it does. does it remind does, it does. does it remind people that there are members of the israeli government who are also you've also talked about eradicating gaza palestinians as well. i mean, the fact of the matter is we know what the hamas charter is. it's been mentioned quite i'm not sure. >> i'm not sure you would know, and i'm not sure you would know

that watching and listening to the bbc, i'm not sure you would know that hamas's charter. >> well, you want to focus on the bbc, andrew. i understand that, yes, i do, of course i do. >> that's what the reports about. and it's the state broadcaster. >> they want you to focus on the because it's the state broadcaster which we all pay for. >> of course i want to concentrate on no different to sky's or channel four's. no, this is different. the bbc is the national broadcaster. it is different with respect. and it's paid for by the public through the licence fee as well by it's regulated in the same way. >> that's what i'm trying to get at. but i'm making the point. >> i'm not sure by watching and listening to the bbc, you would know what's in hamas's charter. i don't think you would know that. i think you would do. >> but if you were to say, well, i'm sorry, i disagree. piece of news, if you were to say to me that you mentioned it in every single piece of news, i don't think that's going to happen. >> every single thing you need to do it every time. but i think, when did you last hear it? >> but but, andrew, you know, when you're making when you. well, it has been mentioned i'm sure i'm, i know for a fact it would have been mentioned, but the fact of the matter is, you can't say every single day

because it's in every single news report, you are not going to give every single bit of historical evidence. no one gives any historical evidence to the nature of the gaza conflict or the palestinian conflict or the israel didn't exist until pre 1948, and that there were other people living there. no one talks about that or where people have come from. we don't talk about the fact that that, benjamin netanyahu's family have come from poland and his name is something different. we don't talk about that because it's not relevant in context for absolutely every single report. when it's relevant, you mention it. >> well, i don't think it's mentioned enough, but and i'm not saying it should be in every single report. do you accept, echo that perhaps the bbc has got questions to answer here, even with even even with the issues over the methodology of obtaining this? >> because i think all broadcasters i, i genuinely believe this and this is not me trying to deflect. i'm just saying simply not just the bbc. i think all broadcasters, there has to be a report, and i think there would have to be an independent review into how we how how it how this conflict has been reported on because the fact of the matter is, it's been very hard to report on this conflict because you're not allowed into gaza unless it's actually dictated to by the idf. so the fact of the matter is, you're relying on people on the ground in, in gaza itself to

give you that kind of coverage. now, with that that comes under, there's all sorts of caveats about what is right or what is wrong or what is what, what you're being led to believe, etcetera. on both sides. and i think we need to look at how we report on these conflicts in the kind of era that we're in now, where we have social media, but we have also the inability to get into locations. and i think i think you know, anybody who feels that any one broadcaster has got this right, i think they'd be living in fantasy land. having worked in war zones and conflict zones myself, it's difficult to get that information out . and i think on information out. and i think on this particular conflict, it's been even harder because you're not really allowed in. and it's not really allowed in. and it's not safe to be in there as well. and i do know people who've been working for other broadcasters, not just for the bbc in, in gaza and in israel. and it's tough. the the work that they're doing, whether it be in the west bank or israel or gaza, it is really tough right now to get information and to get it safely as well. and to get it in a way where you're not being dictated

by either side as to what they want you to see, understandably, because that's what happens in a war. >> okay. all right. thank you. akil ahmed, the former head of religion at the bbc, a bbc spokesperson said we have serious questions about the methodology of this report, particularly its reliance on al to analyse impartiality. we're required to achieve due impartiality rather than the balance of sympathy proposed in the report. we believe our knowledgeable and dedicated correspondents are achieving this. >> up next, we're going through the papers and here's one for you. should the england manager, football manager anneliese sing the national anthem with the team before the matches? you're with britain's newsroom

gb news. >> welcome back. it's 1020. this is britain's newsroom with me, bev turner and andrew pierce. matthew laza and emma woolf are with us. they are. >> they are. you're an ex—labour. >> good morning, i am. >> good morning, i am. >> well, they're doing brilliantly, aren't they? >> well , it's clearly it's a

>> well, it's clearly it's a difficult week. the prime minister was out yesterday. all guns blazing. >> it's monday morning. >> it's monday morning. >> it's monday morning. >> i heard a government minister say seven times this morning. it's a difficult decision. it's the wrong decision. >> well, i don't think it's an easy decision, but i think it is the right decision. i mean, if i was a labour mp, right or wrong, i wouldn't have done it if i, if i'd been the chancellor. but now they've done it, they've got to stick to their, got to stick to their guns because otherwise they look. well i think that presumably we'll have a small rabbit out of the hat on the terms of take up of pension credit, >> so even though it's wrong, you've got to stick to it. >> well, i think it's a i think i think it's very finely balanced decision. i think that they that they, they, they saw a bigger gap in the books when they got in than they wanted to. no labour mp wants to vote to keep the winter fuel allowance, which after all, was a labour invention. we've discussed it before. how many chances? i think you said last last week that it's gone through seven chancellors. is it including tory chancellors? so you know, getting rid of the winter fuel allowance for most pensioners, but not all pensioners, the very poorest pensioners will still get it is not what labour people

want to do. >> baker, a former pensions minister on the liberal democrat side, said there are a million pensioners. steve webb, sorry , pensioners. steve webb, sorry, who are below the poverty line, who are below the poverty line, who will not get it and they will not because they are not entitled to pension credit, pension credit and that is the that's the 1 million pensioners in poverty. you're taking away the 800,000 more pensioners are entitled to pension credit. >> and so what i think the government will do today is i don't know if the million in the 800,000 within that don't know if the million in the 800,000 within that million, but 800,000 within that million, but 800,000 more are entitled to pension credit. we need a massive campaign to encourage poorer pensioners to take up the help that's there. we know that there's reluctance for some older people because they don't like to apply for benefits. >> i'm really embarrassed to see labour supporters and labour advisers and labour voters defending this. this is about morals. and stop saying, oh, it's about unpopular decisions and tough choices. this is going to save them. what, 1.4 billion it actually people are really angry about this and really sad. and there are pensioners out there who will miss out. 10 million by the way are being are having it withdrawn. the most vulnerable are just terrified

now. they are terrified to put their heating on. they will be cold this winter. yes, more of them should be taking up pension credit, but lots of them don't. lots of lots of pensioners are not online. they can't do those phone lines. they don't know how to do that. they are simply going to be vulnerable and cold. and it's just such a it's such an odd decision to make. who do you hit first when you come to power? who do you hit? you hit the most vulnerable. it's such vindictive children . vindictive children. >> they're hitting children with the private school tax and they're hitting the elderly. yes. >> with this. and meanwhile, a lot of vulnerable people as well on the nhs said it will take months to get the pension credit. it will take months. but but that's not the point. there are lots of older people. they're not rational, they're not thinking, well, i can claim it back. they don't have cash the way that we do. they can't tide themselves over. they will just not put the heating on. i was talking to a lady who lives on our ground floor. she said, i'll just stay in one room with my blanket on. >> and i think, yeah, it's not easy and it's not necessarily it's not easy to defend it when it's not easy to defend it when it wasn't in the manifesto as well. now the billion pounds saved and £11 billion still going on foreign aid. the argument on the other side of the of the thing is the other

side of the, the other side of the argument is that when you take things like that, like the two child benefit cap, the two, the two child cap on benefits, people think it's just for child benefit, but it's actually on all benefits. after the second child. you don't get extra , child. you don't get extra, extra benefits. you know that that affects families as well. but that's having to stay because there is no money. so thatis because there is no money. so that is the argument the prime minister is making. but it's a very emotive one. and yes, there are pensioners who are not entitled to pension credit but are far from well—off, who are going to worry about paying their bills. and that is the case. >> sorry, sorry to interrupt again. you just said there's no money. well, there's money for train drivers. there's money for junior doctors, there's money for foreign aid. i'm not saying those things are wrong, but there is money. there is money for the choices that labour have made. >> and i think the optics of effectively the first two decisions being yes to a public sector pay rise. i think the pubuc sector pay rise. i think the public sector pay rise is justified. we're talking about nurses and teachers and police officers who are going to get the pay rise. they deserve. but i think it's a very difficult decision to make this, and i suspect politically as well as morally, probably they're regretting it deeply as well. but now they are trying to stick to their guns and you can just hear the tories now, most people over the age of 70 vote

conservative. >> yeah, well whack tory voters, that's what we're doing. we're whacking tory voters because we're going to support our pubuc we're going to support our public sector mates and our train drivers and the noisy union barons from aslef with huge inflation busting pay rises. but we're going to screw the pensioners. >> yeah, i think i think that 63 is now the age when if you , when is now the age when if you, when you hit 63, you're more likely to vote tory than labour. below that you're more likely to vote labour than tory. so clearly if there was a political calculation that went into this, it was a cynical one. i actually i mean, talking to people, you know , inside number 10 and 11, know, inside number 10 and 11, i don't think it was done as cynically as that. they basically thought we have to make a cut. this was obviously presented on the list of options and they thought this was probably the sort of a quickest and easiest one, because of course, at the moment millionaires get the, get the winter fuel allowance and quite a lot of rich pensioners. pensioner poverty is halved in the last 25 years. fuel poverty is halved for pensioners. but that doesn't mean. but if you're on 15 grand a year and you're worrying about putting your

heating on, that doesn't mean anything. so i think it was something that looked like good on paper, getting their their energy bills paid by the taxpayer. yeah, well, they get their second one in many cases have fought for our country. >> most of them have worked all their lives, paid into the system. they're being punished. >> i think that there will be. i wish there was a way of doing this, which meant that that it was only the very richest pensioners that didn't get it. and it didn't hit the poorer ones. i mean, if i was the chancellor, i mean, you know , i chancellor, i mean, you know, i personally think, well, i'm not i'm not going to be forced into saying i think it was wrong. i think it was because it wasn't . think it was because it wasn't. i'm going to say it wasn't a mistake. take him. >> if it was a tory government, you'd say it was wrong. >> well, what i think the question for the tories is, andrew, is what would the tories cut? because they've got to find the money. >> they've got 121 mps, they've got no, they're in opposition. you're in power now, mate. own it. >> i think. well i am owning it in the sense that they've taken the difficult decision and they're going to stick with it. but you know, if i was running the country, it wouldn't have been the decision that i personally would have taken an unpopular decision. >> it's morally bankrupt. it's a cruel decision. it's a vindictive decision. >> this is interesting because maggie's got in touch at home and she said, and people are saying, you're doing a very good

job of trying to defend the indefensible. but maggie said, stop trying to defend it . stop trying to defend it. pensioners have no scope to increase their income. that's what makes it wrong. >> yeah. i mean, if you're a great point, because that is a very good point, maggie. you know, the pensioners, they can't go out and get a job. >> they can't add a few more hours at work. they can't go and get something part time. that's why it's so cruel. >> many of them are at the limit of what they can do. we've already cut back over the last few years with cost of living crisis, and we've seen the energy price cap, you know, go up. >> so i think i mean, maggie's absolutely right. it's very, very difficult for, you know, a large, you know obviously most pensioners, if you think i know, i know and i keep hearing this thing about optics, which i'm sorry, is political. >> yeah. that's awful. chancellor's credibility andrew rawnsley writing about the chancellor's credibility. it makes me so angry because these are real people's lives. yeah. you know what it's like. >> absolutely. and look, every tweet that labour politician has sent for five months, every tweet a labour politician has sent about, you know, people having to choose between heating and eating is quite rightly being raked up . let's see if being raked up. let's see if there's more support for people who are above pension credit. but didn't come out today. >> broadcast around this

morning. dame diana johnson, a home office minister in 2005. it's a really important policy and only labour can protect the winter fuel allowance from the wicked tories, i think. >> i mean, i have she was defending. yeah. and i'm not i'm not a minister you're using she kept saying it's a different. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> well i mean i would go further than the minister would. i mean i would say it's a decision that i wouldn't have taken. i think that i think it's a decision that's backfired. i'm not even saying necessarily that i would have stuck to my guns in the way they are. i'm just saying they're going to because they've decided to make it an issue of confidence, really boost their politics. that may be a mistake. >> they would really boost their popularity right now just to reverse this, you know, just to just say we got that wrong flip flop. well, of course it would. of course it would. >> but it's still there's no you're right. there's no there's no good way. yeah >> there of course there is an argument to say that multi—millionaire pensioners don't need this. right. we all agree with that. if you're living in a big house and you've got your country pile and you've got your country pile and you've got your country pile and you've got your cars, you don't need this few hundred quid a year. so they started out with the right intention, but terribly executed. >> so the problem is , i mean, i >> so the problem is, i mean, i remember william g. stewart used

to present 15 to 1, the quiz show. so when i, when i was working on the one show, he wanted to make a film, which we made about how people like him didn't deserve the winter fuel allowance, and so, you know, i think that's absolutely right that the very richest and there are, you know, quite a lot of rich pensioners, that's not the majority, but there are and including the king. so i would have taxed it for higher rate taxpayers, which obviously some people's investments and pension income is such that they pay that. the problem is, is the blunt instrument because most pensioners don't do a tax return. so therefore a lot. but i mean it's a mess. it's a mess. >> the job of government is to think these things through. yeah. and let's have a campaign where wealthier pensioners and i know plenty of wealthier older people that say, i send that £300 to charity, let's have a campaign where those people work out a way to send it back or to not claim it or whatever it is, but to do this and to terrify older people, to terrify them . older people, to terrify them. about this winter, there must be some sort of online simplicity in a tick box exercise. >> they think. i think they think the dwp computer wouldn't cope with anything other than take jasmine. >> burton's about this. why

can't they pay the £300 into the people's state pension? and then if you're a high paid taxpayer, you're going to pay high rate tax. she gets money back. >> that is one of the solutions she could have done. and then they decided to do this very blunt instrument because they thought it was a clever and simple and clean thing to do. >> in a sense, it means test it for you. >> yeah, i mean, it only means test it for higher rate taxpayers. well, obviously there are still people on 30 and 40 grand that would be getting that, but don't pay tax at all. >> you're not going to pay any tax on it. >> and if you guys think that earning 15 grand living on £15,000 a year is means that you can just have your heating. >> absolutely not. and that's and i think no, no, i don't emma. and i don't think the government very, very low salary. absolutely. and that's why it's such a blunt instrument and that's why it's backfiring so, so disastrously. and look, you know, we're in the state where we could see, you know, up to 50 mps rebel. and if he doesn't withdraw the whip from them, he's going to look weak because he withdrew the whip on the on the two, on the two child benefit cap. >> they are cowards. they'll abstain rather than vote against. >> and now probably just about just about save their lives. but it's a big, big baptism of fire for a lot of the new mps. there's one of the new mps who used to work for the national

pensioners convention who's been going around, you know, sort of giving seminars, apparently for the new mps, explaining just how many people are going to be for paul many people are going to be for paul. yes, absolutely. yeah. yeah yeah. older chap. yeah. he spent a lot of his career , spent a lot of his career, campaigning on pensions issues and he's persuading other people. >> yeah . and we have that labour >> yeah. and we have that labour analysis this morning from 2017, don't we, showing that that withdrawing the winter fuel allowance would lead to could lead to up to 4000 excess deaths. so those are deaths okay. >> emma matthew. thank you. thank you. now you'll be back in the next hour. we have loads of great stories to get through. we will do them in the next hour. but first of all, here's tatiana sanchez with your headlines. >> thank you. and good morning. the top stories, leaders of two of the biggest unions have put further pressure on the government over its plan to cut winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners in england and wales. unite and the pcs union have both criticised the plan, while paul novak, head of the trades union congress, says the government should rethink the plan and consider other lines of support for pensioners . wes streeting says

pensioners. wes streeting says he's not remotely happy about having a vote to take money away from pensioners through cuts to the winter fuel allowance. the health secretary says the policy will have a negative impact on his constituents, but insists it's a necessary move. mps will vote tomorrow on the plans to scrap the payment . new analysis scrap the payment. new analysis has revealed. significant corruption took place in the handing out of covid contracts dunng handing out of covid contracts during the pandemic, official reports identified that 135 high risk contracts, with a value of £15.3 billion, had three or more corruption red flags . corruption red flags. transparency international uk are requesting the national audit office public accounts committee and chancellor rachel reeves look into the findings. it comes as the impact of the covid pandemic on nhs workers , covid pandemic on nhs workers, patients and the delivery of health care is set to be examined by a public inquiry, with the first public hearing being held today. with the first public hearing being held today . hollywood being held today. hollywood actor idris elba is joining the prime minister in downing street

to launch a new effort to tackle knife crime. elba an anti—knife crime campaigner, joined sir keir starmer this morning as he launches the coalition, which aims to stop young people from being dragged into violent gangs. the coalition will bring together campaign groups, families of people who've lost their lives to knife crime and young people who have been affected by it, as well as idris and the home secretary, yvette coopen and the home secretary, yvette cooper. sir keir starmer says he wants to make it harder to buy dangerous weapons online, and he's pledged to double down on efforts to tackle knife crime . efforts to tackle knife crime. and noel gallagher says he's thrilled and honoured to have his portrait added to the national portrait gallery. despite, he says, being a grumpy middle aged man who hates having his picture taken. the picture taken by zoe law , will go on taken by zoe law, will go on display for the first time on november the 29th as part of the london gallery's legends exhibition, which will feature 100 portraits taken by law of people who have influenced her life and career. the image of gallagher will remain part of the gallery's permanent

collection once the exhibition ends on the march of on the 2nd of march. next year. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. i'll be back in half an hour. >> so let's come. is the momentum for kamala harris to secure the keys for white house slowing down, a poll suggests. so don't

it it is it is 1037. it is 1037. this it is 1037. this is it is 1037. this is britain's newsroom gb news andrew pierce and bev turner. >> so as all eyes turn to the first us presidential debate between kamala harris and donald trump tomorrow, concerns are starting to emerge for team kamala. >> polls are indicating that she's now dropping in the polls for the first time since she was parachuted to in replace joe biden as the democrat nominee, a new york times survey shows that trump is now edging out harris

48% to 47% among likely voters nationally. well, let's talk to talk about this to the race, to the white house of a professor of international studies, david dunn. david, it's only one poll, but team kamala won't be very happy because it does buck a trend which had seen her edging ahead and apparently enjoying a honeymoon with the voters . honeymoon with the voters. >> yes, i mean, she has had a remarkable august whereby she arrested the terminal decline of the opinion polls for joe arrested the terminal decline of the opinion polls forjoe biden, where he was losing competitiveness across the nation. apart from in the rust belt. and what she has done is in that period , she has restored in that period, she has restored the polls to parity and made arizona and nevada and even nonh arizona and nevada and even north carolina competitive. so the momentum was with her, and there was the expectation that she would get a further bounce after the democratic national convention. that hasn't happened. and what's happened

instead is that the polls for the last week or so have more or less flatlined. and then we get this one poll, the new york times siena poll, saying that actually, trump nationally is ahead.soit actually, trump nationally is ahead. so it shows that this is it remains a really tight race. and if you dig down into that poll, it also shows some interesting other details. for example, only 9% of respondents said that they thought they needed to know more about trump . needed to know more about trump. yet 28% of respondents said they needed to know more about harris. and of course, harris has been fairly tardy about actually doing interviews and opening up on policy specifics. so they may actually want to look at those details and think again about how much they put out to the country. on the specifics of her policies. but it also shows the way in which the republicans have been very effective in trying to actually push the narrative out there, that she is this san francisco liberal. i was talking to a friend in north carolina

yesterday, and he was saying that the attack ads are relentless and are pushing out clips of her from when she , you clips of her from when she, you know, early in her career when she took more liberal positions and using those to great effect, to actually tarnish her image and, and push that line out that she is this dangerous radical. >> david, i wonder what impact bobby kennedy supporting trump in the last couple of weeks or so has done in terms of trump. you know, traditionally , a you know, traditionally, a democrat was standing as an independent and has now said he will effectively step down and support donald trump. and he would very much appeal to people for whom donald trump might be a little too unpalatable. >> yeah, it's an interesting one, isn't it, >> yeah, it's an interesting one, isn't it , because, well, one, isn't it, because, well, while biden was in the race, he was polling 15% when biden and when there was a desire for a third party candidate, anything but these two old men. when biden dropped out his support fell away to between 3 and 5%. and the opinion polls. and he recognised that actually that was going to be a humiliation. so he actually approached both

them , both camps, the harris them, both camps, the harris camp and the trump camp , trying camp and the trump camp, trying to actually do a deal whereby he would get a position in either one of those administrations in return for their support. harris refused to talk to him, so he threw his lot in with trump. now, the impact of that, of course, there's two aspects of that. i mean, if he could transfer that 3% across, then that would be significant given how tight the race is. but it's not just the fact that he threw his lot in. trump then announced that he would be involved in his transition position and indeed, that he would have a position in the administration. so it may well be that actually, even though he brings that 3%, which is questionable to the to the trump campaign, it may be that some people who really don't like him and see him as a rather controversial and eccentric character that actually may make some people turn against trump. given that trump has now embraced kennedy and made him part of his administration. so it's difficult to tell the specifics of what the impact of rfk junior's, withdrawal and switch to support trump will

actually have. >> david, just finally, the big debate is tomorrow, the first one between the two of them. how important are these debates in determining how people vote, particularly when it's such a close race? as we see at the moment ? moment? >> ordinarily they're not that significant, but of course, this race is anything but ordinary. and what we saw the last time is that actually the debate had a huge impact, both in terms of actually making biden drop out and slightly wrongfooting trump in that trump expected to go against biden, and he had that sewn up, of course, trump struggled to find his feet on this. so this will be watched by tens of millions. it will be watched as blood sport because it is likely to be vicious. it is likely to be hugely significant. and each side is spending massive amount of time preparing their attack lines and their defences. we actually hear that kamala harris has someone actually dressed up as trump in an ill fitting suit in a long time, wearing three inch heels to give the impression of this tall, commanding person they've never met before in person. so

it will be the first time they meet personally. the chemistry of jannik sinner watch. it's going to be extraordinary, extraordinary theatre to be involved in, and the consequences may well be significant. >> interesting. thank you. david professor in international studies and fabulous talker. he barely stops for breath. david, you don't have to do a lot to do it. >> david dunn the trump lookalikes, complete with an orange wig and she's debating does she rehearses with. absolutely. i just think it's beyond immature. it's satire. >> she has somebody dress up as donald trump because she needs to because she can't imagine just having a debate with someone that doesn't look like donald trump. >> that tells you a lot, doesn't it? >> it tells you a lot. >> it tells you a lot. >> i mean, i'm so looking forward to this debate. i think probably most people will watch it with the head of their hands going, is this really the best that america has to offer? >> 330 odd million. and that's it. those two. >> well, let us know what you think. this morning, gbnews.com/yoursay. but up next, guess where has the highest

popularity for weight loss pills? similar ozempic? we'll tell you after

break. good morning. it's 1046. break. good morning. it's1046. is britain's newsroom on gb news. >> so weight loss drugs are being used more frequently around the world. but some experts are concerned that people are not using them correctly. >> so new research has revealed the hotspots in the uk for people researching these drugs, with bolton being at the top of the list. >> our north of northwest of england reporter sophie reaper spoke to one woman who lost. get this ten stone using one of these drugs. wow >> saxenda wegovy . and of course >> saxenda wegovy. and of course ozempic just some of the weight loss drugs making recent headunes loss drugs making recent headlines used to suppress appetite if taken correctly, these drugs can help those who needit these drugs can help those who need it to lose large amounts of body fat . just one of those

body fat. just one of those people was colleen calnan . people was colleen calnan. >> i was over 25 stone at that point and was delusional and i had amazing results. i lost like ten stone and it was a hard journey. 150%, but it was one of the best things i've done. obviously, i've had a gastric sleeve now. now i'm back to what i should be, i suppose. >> but despite her amazing results, colleen still advises caution. >> it's dangerous. it's a black label medication. yes, it changed my life, but it needs to be used responsibly. >> speaking on weight loss drugs , >> speaking on weight loss drugs, the national medical director for the nhs has also warned medical professionals to take care. he said there can be dangerous if they're being prescribed without proper checks, so online pharmacies and clinics need to act responsibly. they should have safeguards in place , including checking place, including checking a person's weight in person to keep patients safe at the prestwich pharmacy in greater manchester, they're advising

people only to use these products with the appropriate support. >> always use a professional you may need to get bloods done. you certainly have to measure your blood pressure. it's really important that you have a support network that helps you get to your target goal. this isn't about a quick fix, it is about a lifestyle change. >> however, despite warnings, these weight loss drugs are still in high demand in particular, new data from the simple online pharmacy has found that four of the top ten places in the uk researching these drugs can be found in greater manchester, with the town of bolton taking the top spot. would you ever consider using a weight loss drug? >> no, not. not me. not because of my age and because of the, complications of using them. >> i would just because i think it's easier than going to the gym. and obviously everyone my age wants to be skinny and fit work, and it would have a really

bad side effects. >> and absolutely, if you're going to lose weight, you should do it the ethical way, like working out a topic that divides opinion. >> the use of weight loss drugs has skyrocketed in recent years, and for now at least, it's a growing trend. sophie reaper gb news. >> absolutely fascinating. my hometown of prestwich there. now we're joined by health editor at the sunday express, lucy johnson. to just reflect on this a little bit more. morning, lucy. great to see you, does this mean that we've effectively, as a nation, kind of given up on the idea that you can control your weight with hard work , diet, exercise, and hard work, diet, exercise, and maybe also understanding the emotional relationship that we all have to food. >> i think there is a danger that we're going down that route . that we're going down that route. obviously, we have seen this has been promoted by celebrities. it's been promoted by influencers, and it's recently been touted as the holy grail of

medicine for the fountain of youth that we've seen people , youth that we've seen people, spate of reports reporting that, you know , it's reducing the risk you know, it's reducing the risk of heart disease and strokes and arthritis. so there is a danger that we're seeing this as a sort of, you know , a magic medicine. of, you know, a magic medicine. but actually the enthusiasm for this job drug is outpacing the evidence. and we haven't had it on the market for very long. and there is a very, very concerning concern among doctors that there are some severe side effects for people who may not need the drug. the benefits don't outweigh the risks of the drug . outweigh the risks of the drug. and that can we've seen over 200 deaths worldwide, and we've seen people with inflammation of the pancreas, kidney problems , and pancreas, kidney problems, and also loss of bone and muscle mass. so a lot of that weight loss is not just fat, but it's a

loss is not just fat, but it's a loss of bone mass and muscle mass. and that doesn't come back on.and mass. and that doesn't come back on. and when you as soon as you go off the drug and it's important to note here that 70% of people do go off the drug within two years of taking it. and that's partly because a good proportion of them have severe side effects, including nausea and vomiting. when you come off that drug, then the weight just goes back on. so of course, if your doctor prescribes it because he says that this the benefits of this drug are likely to outweigh the risks, then, you know, that's that's very much worth considering. but increasing numbers of people are going to online pharmacies, which are unregulated , filling which are unregulated, filling in forms. so self—reporting and getting on these drugs without proper checks. and there's and that's the worry. >> is there anything that can be done to stop this explosion in unregulated drugs on online? lucy. because it seems more and more people are bypassing the gp, perhaps because the gp is not going to prescribe the drug to them and they'll get get them

by hook or by crook. can they can it be can there be anything done to crack down on it ? done to crack down on it? >> well, this has been a really interesting topic of debate. it's not just these drugs. it's not just the weight loss drugs that people are getting. opioids so dangerous sort of painkillers that long term, you know, can be very harmful and all sorts of things online through the pharmacy. and there have been calls to try and tighten up the regulations around the, around these online pharmacies and get people to, prove who they are , people to, prove who they are, get their gp records to corroborate what they're saying. but with the nhs and the state that it's in, it's quite difficult to push these calls forward because there is such an unmet demand for patients and gps. there aren't enough of them, and people are, you know ,

them, and people are, you know, waiting too long to see their gp. so there is a need to tighten up, and there's also a need to look at our own food environment, our toxic food environment, our toxic food environment, our toxic food environment, our supermarket shelves are full of junk foods. our streets are full of fast foods. we are addicted as a nafion foods. we are addicted as a nation to unhealthy foods which are full of fats and carbohydrates and not very nutrient rich. and we are we are two thirds of our population, of our adult population is obese. >> it's a problem. lucy, i'm so sorry to interrupt you. we've beaten by the clock, i'm afraid. lucy johnson from the sunday express. in just a minute. we're going to be going to the tuc conference to hear the general secretary, paul novak. don't go anywhere. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news .

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>> well. >> well. >> 11 am. on monday, the 9th of september, live across the uk. this is britain's newsroom with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> good morning. so the unions are piling the pressure on starmer. union leaders are urging the prime minister to do a u—turn on plans to cut winter fuel payments as day two of the trade union congress gets underway. we're going to be going live to the general secretary, paul novak's speech very shortly . very shortly. >> and there's talk that dozens of labour mps could refuse to vote with the government on the planned cuts in allowance for pensioners. the vote is tomorrow. the health secretary wes streeting he's admitted he's not happy with the decision but insists it's necessary. >> and guess what? nhs in decline a major new report has found progress in the health service is going backwards for

the first time in 50 years, with failures in basic care and rising mortality rates. >> and the anthem snub. so should the england football manager sing the national anthem before the games, while lee carsley doesn't seem to think so, saying he wants to focus on the football . the football. >> and two years on, it's been two years since the death of her majesty the queen. but what did meghan markle decide to do with oprah winfrey on the eve of this significant anniversary ? significant anniversary? >> looking at that image of the queen, you miss her? i just miss her smile. yeah, she looked lovely. >> she's so different, wasn't she? you know, the new generation? >> i'm afraid so. and i'm afraid i saw pictures of the king coming out of church. he just doesn't look very well. he's having treatment for cancer. he just didn't look well at all. >> he didn't, did he? no. no, he didn't look well. gbnews.com/yoursay for your thoughts this morning. first,

though, the very latest news with tatiana sanchez . with tatiana sanchez. >> beth. thank you. the top stories leaders of two of the biggest unions have put further pressure on the government over its plan to cut winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners in england and wales. unite and the pcs union have both criticised the plan , while both criticised the plan, while paul novak, head of the trades union congress, says the government should rethink the plan and consider other lines of support for pensioners. wes streeting says he's not remotely happy about having a vote to take money away from pensioners, through cuts to the winter fuel allowance. the health secretary says the policy will have a negative impact on his constituents, but insists it's a necessary move. mps will vote tomorrow on the plans to scrap the payment . new analysis has the payment. new analysis has revealed significant corruption took place in the handing out of covid contracts during the pandemic. official reports identified that 135 high risk

contracts with a value of £153 contracts with a value of £15.3 billion, had three or more corruption red flags. transparency international uk are requesting the national audit office public accounts committee and the chancellor, rachel reeves, look into the findings. it comes as the impact of the covid pandemic on nhs workers , patients and the workers, patients and the delivery of healthcare is set to be examined by a public inquiry, with the first public hearing being held today. with the first public hearing being held today . hollywood being held today. hollywood actor idris elba is joining the prime minister in downing street to launch a new effort to tackle knife crime. elba, an anti—knife crime campaigner , joins sir keir crime campaigner, joins sir keir starmer this morning as he launches the coalition, which aims to stop young people from being dragged into violent gangs. the coalition will bring together campaign groups, families of people who've lost their lives to knife crime, and young people who have been affected by it, as well as idris and the home secretary, yvette coopen and the home secretary, yvette cooper. sir keir starmer says he wants to make it harder to buy dangerous weapons online, and he's pledged to double down on

efforts to tackle knife crime . efforts to tackle knife crime. measures to empower local leaders to take control of bus services have been unveiled by the government transport secretary, louise haigh claimed her bus revolution will save vital routes nationwide. legislation giving all local transport authorities new powers to run their own bus services will be laid before parliament today. there are only a few areas in england where the local bus company is owned by the council, and supporters say it means profits can be reinvested into services . the metropolitan into services. the metropolitan police didn't get any , didn't police didn't get any, didn't get everything right and could have made arrests sooner. when policing recent large scale protests that coming from the force's assistant commissioner matt twist, who is responsible for protest and public order policing across london, also said the force used an infinite number of tiers of policing in response to criticisms of the met adopting a two tier stance. it comes as a new major report revealed the scale of the impact

caused by a new era of increasingly disruptive protests on public service and finances, and public tourism and retail . and public tourism and retail. cancer deaths in the uk could increase by 17% by 2029, when compared with the last five years, the charity warns. cancer research uk also projects new diagnoses to jump by more than a fifth during the same period . fifth during the same period. experts said the stats highlight the devastating impact cancer continues to have on people across the country. they also urged the government to develop a long term strategy for the disease, with focus on funding, research, early diagnosis and prevention . noel gallagher says prevention. noel gallagher says he's thrilled and honoured to have his portrait added to the national portrait gallery, despite, he says, being a grumpy middle aged man who hates having his picture taken. the picture, taken by zoe law , will go on taken by zoe law, will go on display for the first time on the 29th of november as part of the 29th of november as part of the london gallery's legends

exhibition, which will feature 100 portraits taken by law of people who have influenced her life and career. the image of gallagher will remain part of the gallery's permanent collection once the exhibition ends on march the 2nd. next year , ends on march the 2nd. next year, and the army will mark the accession of king charles today with a 41 gun salute in green park and a 62 gun royal salute at the tower of london. while the anniversary of him taking the anniversary of him taking the throne fell yesterday. gun salutes don't take place on sundays. the king spent the day privately with a trip to church on what was the second anniversary of the death of queen elizabeth. the second. and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez . more from me in half an sanchez. more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone , sign 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. >> forward slash alerts. >> welcome back to britain's newsroom live across the uk on gb news bev turner and andrew pierce. so the unions are piling pressure on sir keir starmer to u—turn on the government's plans to scrap the winter fuel allowance for pensioners as day three of the trade union congress gets underway. >> head of the tuc paul novak says the government should rethink the plan and consider other lines of support for pensioners. will join us now from the tuc conference, which is being held in brighton, is gb news reporter adam cherry. adam, this should be a big moment for the labour government and the tuc. the tuc have been campaigning for labour to win an election since the one last they won in 2005. we were expecting the prime minister to be there tomorrow making a speech, but instead it's being overshadowed by this all consuming row over winter fuel . winter fuel. >> yeah, that's right andrew, a dark cloud looming over what should be a bright day for the

labour government and the trade unions. we're going to see paul noeps unions. we're going to see paul noel's speech very shortly. actually. he's about to take to the stage in just a few minutes. we're expecting him to say that the labour government, they're pleased they're here, and the prime minister has the interests of working people at at his heart in a way that conservatives never did. however, these unpopular decisions on things like the winter fuel allowance, the two child benefit cap and even on pay child benefit cap and even on pay restoration in their terms , pay restoration in their terms, those things need to be need to be scrutinised and the unions will pressure the government on those matters. they're going to say he's going to say they will work together on those things . work together on those things. he echoed those sentiments last night as well, and i believe he's just about to speak shortly. so i think we'll throw to him in just a moment, guys. so he will be delivering his speech as we as we speak on air now. so that's adam cherry. now i think we can go to it okay. >> thanks adam. >> thanks adam. >> and to union morally bankrupt governments this country has ever seen. and congress it feels good to be meeting here in

brighton for the first time in 15 years under a labour government with 174 seat majority . now some tory government with 174 seat majority. now some tory mps had the good sense or the lack of backbone to do the chicken run before the votes were cast, the likes of kwasi kwarteng and michael gove scuttling away from the mess that they left behind. others decided to face the voters. and while i am not one to revel in other people's misfortune , i have to say i misfortune, i have to say i enjoyed every single portillo moment. in the early hours of july, the fifth. it was a roll call of political failure. gillian keegan gone grant shapps gone. penny mordaunt gone. jacob

rees—mogg gone . and of course , rees—mogg gone. and of course, the former prime minister that couldn't outlast the lettuce . couldn't outlast the lettuce. liz truss gone . all now liz truss gone. all now political history. congress. goodbye and good riddance to every single one of them . now every single one of them. now they may be gone, but their miserable legacy remains. the legacy of public services ruined by negligence and austerity, the legacy of an economy shattered by a shambolic brexit. and the legacy of a britain divided by nasty culture wars, dodgy ppe contracts and downing street parties. it has been a tough 14 years for the people that we represent. a tough 14 years, but ones we can look back on with some pride because despite the

attacks , despite the anti—union attacks, despite the anti—union legislation , despite the legislation, despite the relentless squeeze on wages, we stood firm defending working people, fighting austerity , people, fighting austerity, helping labour to rebuild. and we should be proud of our achievements. in the last 12 months alone, our membership up by 90,000. unions winning for workers up and down the country . workers up and down the country. and on top of all that, one standout victory . cast your mind standout victory. cast your mind back 12 months. congress in liverpool and then our special congress in december. we pledged to fight the tories spiteful attack on the right to strike and fight it. we did. a year on and fight it. we did. a year on and those appalling laws are about to be repealed and repealed before they have ever been used. congress, generations of working people fought for the right to strike and thanks to you, thanks to every union in this room. thanks to the whole

of the trade union movement , we of the trade union movement, we have protected the fundamental right to strike for future generations of working people . generations of working people. that's the difference unity makes, and that's the difference solidarity makes. and that's the difference labour in government makes. let me say up front, we won't always agree with the new government on every issue, but we know keir starmer and this government have the interests of working people at heart in a way that the conservatives never did and never will. congress, no government can put right 14 years of tory chaos overnight and in fact, no government can take on the job of rebuilding this country on its own. so yes, it is vital that labour delivers its mandate for change. a new deal for working people, delivered in full, stronger pubuc delivered in full, stronger public services, clamping down

on the tax cheats and the non—doms bringing our railways back where they belong in public ownership . but congress politics ownership. but congress politics isn't a spectator sport , and isn't a spectator sport, and neither is the long, hard job of rebuilding our country. we can't just elect a government, sit back and ask them to right every wrong. we need to roll up our sleeves and get involved. so let's pledge today we'll work with the new government to rebuild our public services. we'll play our part in recasting britain's industrial future. and above all, we'll work with the government to face down those on the right who wish to sow division and discord in our communities. and our message to the tinpot politicians , the the tinpot politicians, the street thugs and any ragtag group that tries to promote their message of hate is clear. not in our workplaces, not in our communities, not on our

watch . last year, i watch. last year, i told you about my family and their story. a story common to so many of us working class people. hard working class people. hard working people, some born and bred here in the uk, some migrants from ireland, from poland, from as far away as hong kong, people who came to britain and built their lives and raised their families here, they and generations of other migrants from the west indies, from across europe, from so many other places, are now part of us enriching our communities, working alongside us, our neighbours and our friends and they represent this country far better than the far right ever. they represent this country far better than the far right ever. will. i don't believe for one will. i don't believe for one moment that most of those who moment that most of those who voted reform at the last voted reform at the last

election are racist. but let me election are racist. but let me say this say this clearly and unequivocally. nigel farage isn't a friend of the working class. he's a fraud , a public class. he's a fraud, a public school educated, private equity loving , nhs privatising, putin, loving, nhs privatising, putin, apologist fraud . my grandad joe apologist fraud. my grandad joe came to britain with the polish raf and played his part in the fight against fascism eight decades ago in may, i found myself in southern poland, boarding an overnight train to kyiv to meet our sister unions. i visited a power station razed to the ground by russian rockets. a small city apartment blocks destroyed by missile strikes, and i visited the

by the russian who was wounded by the russian shelling that killed her mother . shelling that killed her mother. six weeks after my visit , putin six weeks after my visit, putin bombed that same children's hospital, operating theatres , hospital, operating theatres, wrecked kids with cancer , wrecked kids with cancer, traumatised doctors and nurses hunting through the rubble for their colleagues. so when i see farage making excuses for putin's illegal and indefensible invasion of ukraine, it turns my stomach . congress. i'll say it stomach. congress. i'll say it again the far right hate mongers are no friends of the working class. they're not patriots. they are frauds . and we had the they are frauds. and we had the proof of that. we had the proof of that just a few weeks ago in southport. we saw a deep and unimaginable horror. three children who lost their lives in the most terrible of circumstances . one of our own,

circumstances. one of our own, david stancombe, a cw member , david stancombe, a cw member, lost his daughter elsie, aged seven. some decided to use that tragedy as an excuse to attack places of worship, to loot shops , places of worship, to loot shops, to attack the same emergency workers who rushed to save lives. some used it to promote conspiracy theories and fake news, and some use it to drive clicks to their social media platforms. but that wasn't most of us, and it wasn't the best of us. and we should never forget that the overwhelming majority of people in this country are decent , our of people in this country are decent, our kind, and our generous . they're the ones who generous. they're the ones who rebuilt a wall outside a mosque, who swept up the debris after the riot, and who gathered to not hate, but to show their love and their grief for the victims. and so i want this movement to be clear. we will always stand

with the decent majority , and we with the decent majority, and we will always work to bring communities together. that is our ambition and our responsibility . our movements responsibility. our movements are rooted in communities across the country, on the shop floor, in the office, the work canteen, the community centre, the high rises and the high streets demonstrating by actions as well as words that solidarity is the living, breathing spirit of this movement . solidarity here at movement. solidarity here at home, solidarity in every community and solidarity across the globe as well. and that includes our calls for peace, the return of hostages and an immediate ceasefire and respect for international law in gaza. an end to the carnage that has seen innocent people targeted trade union buildings bombed and children starving, and a future

built on a two state solution, a safe and secure israel and a safe, secure and free palestine as well . solidarity as well. solidarity also means standing up against injustice, something this movement has always done for the 97 victims of hillsborough , for the of hillsborough, for the lawrence family, the shrewsbury 24, the sacked union members at gchq, the victims of the horizon scandal, the miners brutalised at orgreave and of course, those who died tragically. and we know avoidably at grenfell as a son of merseyside. i am proud that the labour government has committed to bring forward the hillsborough law. never again should the state hide behind lawyers and legal arguments . lawyers and legal arguments. never again should working class families be denied justice for decades.

families be denied justice for decades . so a new government and decades. so a new government and a new opportunity. our movement playing its part to rebuild the country and to bring our communities together. something we have done throughout history, helping to rebuild the country after the second world war, helping to create the nhs, helping to create the nhs, helping workers win maternity pay helping workers win maternity pay and protections against discrimination, and in recent years, protecting workers during the pandemic. designing the furlough scheme, leading the fight for a minimum wage all down to this movement. but all of those achievements, everything we aspire to do, needs a growing, vibrant , needs a growing, vibrant, inclusive trade union movement . inclusive trade union movement. congress, employment rights count for absolutely nothing. if you don't have a strong union to enforce them. cabinet ministers can't get you a pay rise or stop you being bullied at work, and mps can't hold every bad boss to account. that's our job. the job

account. that's ourjob. the job of the trade union movement . so of the trade union movement. so our challenge now more reps , our challenge now more reps, more unionised workplaces, more wins for workers. last year i told congress we'd train at least 500 new black activists . least 500 new black activists. todayi least 500 new black activists. today i announced it. in fact, we trained 534 new black activists . and those new activists. and those new activists. and those new activists are just the start . activists are just the start. each and every year we'll train hundreds more new. jobs, and we'll take the trade union message into more workplaces , message into more workplaces, working with good employers to secure the decent jobs our members deserve. >> novak, the general secretary of the tuc. he is arguably the most powerful trade union official in britain. unless i missed it, he didn't mention the row over the winter fuel allowance. but that's because he represents working people. and i'm telling you , bev, ministers i'm telling you, bev, ministers think what matters most are working people, not pensioners. >> he's a very good orator. if you wanted somebody to fight

your corner, i imagine he's very good at that. but that for me was just your classic nasty lefties. he started out his speech just naming people , speech just naming people, dancing on the graves of mps who lost their seat. it's not classy . lost their seat. it's not classy. it's not dignified. it doesn't have any dignity. you've worn brilliant labour. one. fantastic. i'm happy for you. but there's no respect to calling out people like jacob rees—mogg and personally attacking nigel farage. >> the public school educated. is that now a term of abuse? to say you went to a private school? >> it's stoking the class wars, it's stoking division. and he then said about, you know, the far right who used southpaw again , just throwing that lazy again, just throwing that lazy term around those . it is people term around those. it is people like that who are pushing the traditional labour voter into the arms of reform, and they don't see they're doing it. i'm not saying that's a bad thing, but they don't have the awareness to realise who their base is, that they're losing . base is, that they're losing. remember, they got 34% of the votes, and he stood there as though they'd got 74% of the votes, and labour and reform

were second to labour in 100 seats. >> they're breathing down their necks, snapping at the heels. >> i mean, you know, he sounded like a man who was is he's boasting about repealing the anti—strike laws. he's going to boast about overhauling workers rights, bowing to the demands on pubuc rights, bowing to the demands on public sector pay. that is a glimpse of a very empowered left wing trade union congress who are going to make problems for businesses. >> yeah, and they'll be embracing the all conquering hero keir starmer tomorrow. yeah. >> and you'll be there. >> and you'll be there. >> i'll be there, i'll be there. i'll be. you can't wait. from brighton i'm sure the brotherhood and their sister would be thrilled to see me. >> when you walk through the doom >> when you walk through the door, it's like lightning strike and the red carpet gets dragged up very quickly. right. don't go anywhere. in a minute, we're going to be talking about with the england manager. sing the national anthem. us us know your thoughts. this is

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gb news. it's1126. is britain's newsroom live across the uk with andrew pierce and bev turner former labour adviser matthew le tissier and broadcaster emma woolf. >> bad parenting teachers have got to call it out, apparently. what's this about? >> well, good luck with that. have you ever tried talking to aggressive parents about bad parenting? they are amongst the most aggressive people in the whole world. anyway, this is sir michael wilshaw, the former chief of ofsted. he says that teachers are increasingly deaung teachers are increasingly dealing with very, very aggressive parenting, very bad parenting and disruptive. sorry. yeah. teachers dealing with disruptive behaviour , they're disruptive behaviour, they're not even able to do classroom activities for more than about ten minutes, because children's attention span is so short, because of social media, because of , you know, no because of social media, because of, you know, no discipline phones, social media. exactly. and no discipline. such low discipline standards at home, he says. teachers should feel empowered to talk to parents and to say to them, you're really bad parents, you know, and i really, really think that's a tough ask for, for teachers. do you?i tough ask for, for teachers. do you? i do see, i had a similar

conversation recently with with one of my kid's teachers where i was saying that they shouldn't have their phones in the school. >> once they get to school, they should go in a locker. they shouldn't have them buzzing in their bag,. and she said, but we get parents who say, you know, my child is so tired because they've been on their phone all night. and i said to the teacher, and what do you say then? and she said, it's really difficult because i can't say you shouldn't let your child be on the phone all night. i said, yes, you can. you can empower that that parent. >> have you ever in a cinema, asked a child or a parent behind you to stop kicking the seat? have you ever on a bus? there's something about parents of who are not bringing up their children properly. we know what we're talking about here. those parents are super , super parents are super, super aggressive. when you try and suggest, you know , who do you suggest, you know, who do you think you're telling? it's my child that i actually think that's really hard for teachers. teachers are often quite, quite young, quite inexperienced, if they're, you know, in the younger stages at primary schools, they're often it's their first job. they're in their first job. they're in their 20s calling out that kind of bad parenting. it's but, you

know, it's the good parents who would listen to advice and the bad parents who would be very aggressive towards teachers. but i do think most parents want what is best for their child. >> and if that's in the classroom, they want them to be learning. they want them to concentrate, and sometimes they just need help. and it can be a case of it's how you deliver that. >> if you want good. if you if you're trying to be a good parent, you're going to be open to that kind of thing. you're going to be making, you know, you're going to be making an effort. you're going to be, you know, doing your best. it's the parents who are not turning up on time. >> it used to be that parents were afraid of being of being called into school, weren't they? they were more afraid of being called. that's what i mean than the than the than the pupil themselves. but now it seems that we've sort of gone to this idea that children can do no wrong, that they're literally they're basically a bit like labour seats election strategy. they're ming vases who have to be carried with, you know, from o be carried with, you know, from 0 to be carried with, you know, from o to 18 be carried with, you know, from 0 to 18 without anything, anything, you know, without anything, you know, without anything unpleasant happening to them. and that's not what life is like, and that's not sometimes we need to be told we're doing things wrong.

>> yeah. do you remember the story of parents feeding fish and chips or something through the school? >> oh, yeah. >> oh, yeah. >> yeah. to the children. because they weren't eating the school food, you know. >> well, i think and i just wonder whether a lot of teachers will be pleased to hear this, because i think they do need some. they do get mixed messages about what they can and can't say. >> i led a strike at my primary school in leafy hertfordshire. i'm right on rights. rights for packed lunches. yeah, yeah. did you win? no, i nearly got expelled. >> i don't normally, but that's fine. >> but when the parents were told. >> don't say that at the tuc today. >> stop feeding fried food through the gates to your children. they got very aggressive towards the towards the teachers footballer. >> let's talk about football. not so much about football. >> yes . it's not my not so much about football. >> yes. it's not my area of expertise, but the national anthem, the new england manager is on a six month trial. >> yeah, he's called lee carsley. he's played it. he was in charge for the first time on saturday in ireland against ireland. he refused to sing the national anthem and will continue to refuse sing the national anthem. football is the national anthem. football is the national game of this country, like it or not. i think he's failed his trial. clear off. >> well, i mean, that's what a

lot of people think. however, the fa's spin doctors are out in force. or certainly his spin doctors are out in force today because the message being put out on all the back pages is ready to rain is a typical out on all the back pages is ready to rain is a typical headune ready to rain is a typical headline that he's passed his headune ready to rain is a typical headline that he's passed his test, and he said he was plagued test, and he said he was plagued by self—doubt. is the line by self—doubt. is the line that's been put out to the to that's been put out to the to the sports journalists. but now the sports journalists. but now i know i'm the right man for six i know i'm the right man for six months, six games. test. and it months, six games. test. and it seems that he's saying he's got seems that he's saying he's got over his his self—doubt and is over his his self—doubt and is trying to get over the row about trying to get over the row about the anthem. >> maybe he just doesn't like the anthem. >> maybe he just doesn't like singing in public. some people are shy. singing in public. some people are shy. >> he didn't sing the irish >> he didn't sing the irish national anthem, i think. national anthem, i think. >> yeah , when he played for >> yeah , when he played for >> yeah, when he played for ireland, he played for ireland. >> yeah, when he played for ireland, he played for ireland. >> yeah, look, i think this is >> yeah, look, i think this is really petty. just sing the really petty. just sing the anthem. most of them don't sing anthem. most of them don't sing it. they just sort of mark their it. they just sort of mark their mama. they just mouth the words. mama. they just mouth the words. i think it's a bit odd. i think it's a bit odd. >> well, i was listening, but >> well, i was listening, but actually, if he gets the results, the fa will probably actually, if he gets the results, the fa will probably confirm him as coach. confirm him as coach. >> he can't be worse than gareth >> he can't be worse than gareth southgate. >> i was listening to a radio southgate. >> i was listening to a radio programme that i rememberjohn programme that i rememberjohn redwood, when he was tory welsh redwood, when he was tory welsh secretary, and he didn't know secretary, and he didn't know the words to the welsh national the words to the welsh national anthem, and he and he and he anthem, and he and he and he mouthed them and it haunted the mouthed them and it haunted the

rest of his career. i heard him claiming he did. same happened to john. yeah, that's what i mean. so john redwood is what we need to move on.

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currently being held. campaigners have expressed concern over what they see is a lack of representation of bereaved families , and hollywood bereaved families, and hollywood actor idris elba joined the prime minister in downing street to launch a new effort to tackle knife crime. elba an anti—knife crime campaigner, joined sir keir starmer this morning as he launched the coalition, which aims to stop young people from being dragged into violent gangs. the coalition will bring together campaign groups , together campaign groups, families of people who've lost their lives to knife crime and young people who have been affected by it, as well as idris and the home secretary, yvette coopen and the home secretary, yvette cooper. sir keir starmer says he wants to make it harder to buy dangerous weapons online and he's pledged to double down on efforts to tackle knife crime . efforts to tackle knife crime. 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. >> up at noon . good afternoon >> up at noon. good afternoon britain, with tom and emily back from a holidays just in the nick of time. >> emily good grief. flight cancelled last night. flight delayed this morning. okay. british airways and now british airways have been cancelling flights left, right and centre. but i thought it wouldn't happen to me. but it did, so i left patrick in baggage reclaim to sort out that and dash studio. >> well done. >> well done. >> all morning we were sitting there, fingers crossed, tracking your flights as you were landing. thank goodness our studio is in paddington because anywhere else in the country you probably wouldn't have made it. >> so yes, i'm delighted to be here. and what a day. >> yes, it is accession day. so in just a few minutes time, we'll be seeing the 41 gun salute from hyde park marking the king's accession to the throne. and then an hour later, at 1:00, not to be outdone, a 62 gun salute from the tower of

london. >> oh, are you going to explain why the 62 versus the 41? >> so he gets a lot of he gets a lot of salutes. >> he gets a lot of salutes. we're also going to be talking about talking to alastair stewart, former gb news presenter , about this potential presenter, about this potential labour rebellion on the winter fuel allowance. what's going on there? i've been reading while i still, whilst i was away, a few columns about just how miserable keir starmer has been over the last few weeks, why he's doing he's aged already. >> well, he's got very grey hair now. how. >> now. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> there was also a picture of him playing football in one of the papers today. he's put on a piled on the weight and that is a problem with that job. no exercise. yeah you're eating all the wrong time. >> your feelings. boris johnson said. >> yeah. the thing that he hated most about the job. yeah. if he wants to order in his favourite takeaway . yeah. by the time it takeaway. yeah. by the time it goes through security, through the gates, it's checked and all the gates, it's checked and all the rest of it gets up to the number 10 flat. it's cold. yeah, yeah. so he's eating disgusting food. he can't leave the front gates without a swarm of special agents around him. can't go for

agents around him. can't go for a run, can't go to a normal gym. bofis a run, can't go to a normal gym. boris used to cycle everywhere . boris used to cycle everywhere. >> let's get out. >> let's get out. >> the smallest violin, though, for keir starmer, right? because and also, maybe that's why rishi sunak used to fast himself and sit on his stationary bike having meetings. >> there you go. >> there you go. >> make sense right to that. well, you won't be talking about that probably at midday, but lots of other interesting stuff. and in just a moment, what did meghan markle do on the eve of the anniversary of the death? talked about herself. britain's newsroom on gb

welcome back. >> yep, time is 1140. people have been getting in touch quite a lot. i think. >> yeah, a lot of you were wound up >> yeah, a lot of you were wound ”p by >> yeah, a lot of you were wound up by the trade union congress. sorry. andrew and bev says an i've had to switch it off. i couldn't listen to any more from the union marxist on the platform. she says if that's not hate speech, i don't know what is. that's kind of what i was saying about how divisive and cruel it was. >> it was aggressive to awful.

>> it was aggressive to awful. >> june says that. wow, what a frightening, aggressive man who's leading people in this country in a union. he sounds like a man with a chip on his shoulder. i wouldn't be in his union. in this day and age, we need more class. not bullying. totally agree. another one. janet, i couldn't listen to that union bloke, watching colin from accounts. i know it's sort of like he's. he's a bit like he's colin from accounts, and he's suddenly got all this power on stage. i know what you mean. >> he's a good he's a i mean, he's he's a powerful speaker. >> but it was the content was just cruel. >> i think the left have got to give up this idea that they've got the monopoly on kindness and compassion, because everything we've seen in the last few weeks tells us that that is an outdated stereotype , what else outdated stereotype, what else have you been saying at home? dubbing needles, says novak, the delusional padraig said, i see the unions have come out against the unions have come out against the removal of the pensioners fuel allowance. does this mean they're going to give back their massive pay rises? >> no they're not. >> no they're not. >> and of course i'd argue you couldn't do both. you couldn't give the trade unions. what did

the doctors get? 22% to the turner diaries 15%. and the pensioners are cut. yeah that's it. yeah. >> this one says labour apparatchiks are emerging from their slumber. that's what it feels like, doesn't it? that celebratory tone. it's fine to celebrate . they've won. celebrate. they've won. >> they've got well, it's triumph, you know , it's his triumph, you know, it's his triumphalist174 seat triumph, you know, it's his triumphalist 174 seat majority. >> great. well done. congratulations. do something good with it. why not? yeah. >> on a very small margin of share of the vote. by the way . share of the vote. by the way. >> absolutely 34%. right. you've seen pictures. now the build up to the gun salute that's going to the gun salute that's going to be fired for the anniversary of the king's accession. we're going to bring you more of that as it happens, i'm in the mood for a bit of pomp and ceremony, aren't you? >> we need this because it's because it was two years ago. >> well, it's today. >> well, it's today. >> that's it? yes. the queen died two years ago. >> yesterday. the queen died accession today . accession today. >> yeah. and of course it is , as >> yeah. and of course it is, as we just said then, the country is beginning to mark the respect of that two year anniversary

since the queen died. meghan markle, obviously, she chose the eve of that anniversary to come out and do an interview with oprah winfrey. we'll tell you about that in a moment. >> rather tactless, i thought. >> rather tactless, i thought. >> well, yes r , quite, which is kind britain's newsroom on

gb news. >> well, over the weekend, the country remembered the poignant passing of queen elizabeth ii two years since her death. where is that time gone? >> oh, crazy isn't it? well, king charles and queen camilla attended a church service near balmoral to pay their respects, and a gun sukh gun salute would take place for the anniversary of the king's accession today. so meghan markle attended oprah winfrey's book club in california on the eve of the anniversary. it also had prince harry's spare memoir on display , harry's spare memoir on display, provocative, deliberately, in my view. >> so let's talk to the royal commentator richard fitzwilliams. richard, meghan and harry could have been in all sorts of places yesterday, but

she deliberately chose to be with oprah winfrey. that interview she did with oprah winfrey caused huge upset within the royal family to have done it. on the second anniversary of the queen's death , and to have the queen's death, and to have the queen's death, and to have the book spare in the back framed conveniently in in the film footage is doubly provocative. what do you think ? provocative. what do you think? >> well, i think it was an absolutely dreadful choice of venue to appear, especially, as you say, on a very, very special anniversary. i mean, we all know that when meghan and harry gave their interview on oprah, which is quite frankly, i'd call it infamous, i mean, there's no doubt at all that although they didn't plan this by the time the interview aired, prince philip was in hospital. we know that he died shortly afterwards. and we also know that the interview caused.i also know that the interview caused. i mean, it was like exploding a nuclear weapon in

the courtyard of buckingham palace. what is remembered is that the queen's comment some recollections may vary sums it up very well, but that was absolutely tasteless. place to be seen especially. we know that meghan and oprah are friends, but to be actually seen in a place which brought back memories of that interview on that anniversary, extraordinary . that anniversary, extraordinary. >> charles. yesterday, richard , >> charles. yesterday, richard, how do you think he looked ? how do you think he looked? >> well, i think that, looks i think , perfectly reasonable. i think, perfectly reasonable. i mean, given the circumstances, if you look at the fact that unfortunately for the royal family, two of its members are, of course, fighting serious illness. this is extremely unfortunate, but king charles is

unmanaged, i think, not only to continue with his basic royal duties, but he seems to look well. and i think he he sees this as a challenge. and it's a challenge. he's determined to overcome. and i think also that, when he goes abroad and this is something we're looking forward to, the royal family senior members doing more of where as and when possible, when in october, he attends chogm in samoa and then . samoa and then. >> i think we've lost richard . >> i think we've lost richard. >> i think we've lost richard. >> i think this will be quite a test, but i'm looking . test, but i'm looking. >> richard, i'm afraid we have to go because we're going to see the live pictures of the build up to the gun salute will be fired to mark the anniversary of the king's accession. >> we'll be going to that shortly. so if you're listening on the radio now, the horses are there with the cannons. they will be unleashed in a matter of seconds. we'll see you tomorrow . seconds. we'll see you tomorrow. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of

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afternoon and into the evening. staying bright in the east of scotland but increasingly cloudy. northern ireland likewise seeing some rain turn up likewise seeing some rain turn ”p by likewise seeing some rain turn up by evening and temperatures of around 15 celsius. but we've got this slice of fine weather through the midlands, southern england, south wales as we head into the evening and overnight, we keep the clear spells across the south and southeast, but cloudier skies arrive into scotland, northern ireland, northern and western england as well as wales. outbreaks of rain, mostly light and patchy in the south, but further north that rain will be heavy, accompanied by a strengthening wind. temperatures overnight dipping to 11 or 12 celsius, but an unsettled start for northern and western parts of the country. first thing a spell of wet weather moving south through scotland and northern ireland, eventually into central and northern parts of england, as well as wales. northern parts of england, as well as wales . showers to the well as wales. showers to the south of that and to the north of that , with some brighter of that, with some brighter skies in between the showers, but also a blustery wind and

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gb news. >> good afternoon britain . now >> good afternoon britain. now it's a slightly different start to the show. today we're standing by for the gun salutes that will be fired to mark the anniversary of the king's accession to the throne. >> yes, a momentous occasion. i believe we can go straight live to our royal correspondent, cameron walker, who is in hyde park. as you can see, there live pictures. cameron, tell us what we can expect . we can expect. >> good afternoon emily. well, of course, this is the second anniversary of the accession to the throne of king charles iii, of course, that the 8th of september was yesterday. but because that fell on a sunday,

it is tradition that the king's troop, royal horse artillery, is firing a 41 gun salute here in hyde park today. the monday immediately following it. so what we've just seen or or just missed is the 71 horses pulling six first world war era 13 pounder field guns over the grass. and they've quickly been placed into position, ready for this gun salute. the guns have been detached, the horses have been detached, the horses have been escorted to a safe area and at exactly midday, the 41 gun salute will happen , marking the salute will happen, marking the second anniversary of his majesty king charles the third's accession to the throne , now the accession to the throne, now the king's troop, royal horse artillery, are well practised in the ceremonial gun salutes. it was them this time two years ago, that fired the death gun salutes marking the passing of her majesty queen elizabeth the second. but we also have a very special accompaniment to the gun salutes here today in hyde park. if we can just pan to the right.

here we have the welsh guards , here we have the welsh guards, the band of the welsh guards who are going to be accompanying the gun salute here. they have just returned from arras in northern france, where they were given the freedom of the city of arras, marking the 80th anniversary of the welsh guards liberating that city city from nazi germany. so they are expected to be playing during this gun salutes which will be taking place, as i say, at midday, a 21 gun salute is the tradition, but because it is in a royal park that is hyde park, an extra 20 guns have been added to the firing of that. but elsewhere at 1:00 we're expecting another big gun salute. 62 of them. and that's happening at the tower of london. the honourable artillery company will be doing that. and it is tradition. it's the pomp and ceremony of the british military, a special celebration of the military to the head of the armed forces, king charles the armed forces, king charles the third. it happens every yeah the third. it happens every year. crowds have gathered in hyde park on both sides of the

safe zone. media have also gathered here as well. so it is going to be incredibly loud as perhaps you would expect. just a couple of minutes to go, tom and emily. >> it is, of course, a momentous occasion. this is what britain does. occasion. this is what britain does . well, this is what the does. well, this is what the royal family is all about. the institutions that our country is built upon, the traditions, these, these gun salutes going back to the to the 15th century. i've been reading this morning originally ships that were coming into port would fire blanks out of their cannon to show that they came in peace, and that they weren't bristling with with loaded weaponry . and with with loaded weaponry. and that became the sort of ceremony that became the sort of ceremony that we have continued for centuries in this country. let's listen in as it looks like there is . action. is. action. >> so the gunners here, they're wearing their full distinctive dress uniform, which includes

gold braided jackets and busby hats. the guns are the regiment's colours. actually, that's kind of equivalent to the infantry regiment ceremonial flag with battle honours, which we are well versed to with each trooping the colour. every year in june, to mark the king's official birthday and so these guns, these 13 pounder world war two era guns, three world war one era guns are afforded due respect throughout the route. here we are just a minute or so to go a few seconds away from that first gun being fired by the king's troop, royal horse artillery. the flag has just been raised . been raised. >> now the 21 gun salute comes from the idea that three guns would be fired on shore for every gun that would be fired by a ship. seven cannon on the ship fired three for each, making 21 on land. but of course, as cameron, you were saying, a royal park adds 20, making this a 41 gun salute that will be

starting precisely at midday today, marking two years since the official accession of king charles to the throne. a day, of course, of celebration of a new king, but also a twinge of sadness to mark the passing of the late queen as well. let's listen . in. now listen. in. now.