very good morning. thank you >> very good morning. thank you for joining us. so not one day forjoining us. so not one day in jail. the former face of the bbc, huw edwards, has avoided prison for accessing indecent images of children . what message images of children. what message does this send to the victims and potential offenders? we'll be talking to one psychologist about the effect sick note britain. >> a surge in long term illnesses made britain the sick man of europe, with almost 1 million people out of work due to their health. skivers or genuinely ill. we're asking what you think and trump speaks out. >> former president donald trump thanks the phenomenal secret service who saved his life after that second foiled assassination attempt. here he is. >> very peaceful, very beautiful weather. everything was beautiful. it was a nice place to be. and all of a sudden we heard shots being fired in the air. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> he also thinks god wants him to be president. that's interesting. i'm not sure he has a vote. junior doctor pay deal. the health secretary, wes

streeting, is pleased. he says, that they finally agreed to a new pay rise, a whacking 22%, bringing the strikes to an end. what would the doctors want next? >> and breaking overnight, the rapper sean diddy combs has been arrested over sex trafficking allegations . allegations. >> i think people are appalled by the huw edwards verdict , by the huw edwards verdict, don't you? >> i do, i do. »- >> i do, i do. >> i do, i do. >> i mean, social media was awash yesterday with the reaction to this , particularly reaction to this, particularly given the sentences that were handed out after the riots, after the southport stabbing and that series of events which saw hundreds of people arrested and actually many of them get sentences, which was for posting things on social media. >> yeah, vile things on social media they have done. but some getting 15 months, 18 months. and edwards walks , walks, walks and edwards walks, walks, walks free from court and his

mitigation. oh, i didn't go to oxford university. it was very difficult. oh, my dad was so strict. come on. >> pathetic excuses with his. >> pathetic excuses with his. >> he's not the victim here with his massive pension pot. young children. >> yeah. with his pension pot still intact, with his enormous earnings over the last few years, it does feel deeply unfair . gbnews.com/yoursay for unfair. gbnews.com/yoursay for your thoughts this morning. we'd to love hear from you. firstly, the very latest news with sam francis . francis. >> very good morning to you from the newsroom. it's just after 9:30. >> the top story this morning. >> the top story this morning. >> the top story this morning. >> the health secretary, wes streeting, says the end of a pay dispute with junior doctors marks the first step in the government's mission to reform the broken health service. members of the british medical association have voted to accept the government's offer of a 22% pay the government's offer of a 22% pay rise over two years. however, the conservatives are warning the government not to set a precedent by awarding striking workers with what they've described as bumper pay

rises. in the us. donald trump has spoken publicly for the first time since being targeted in an apparent assassination attempt on his florida golf course at the weekend. speaking in a live stream on social media, the former president described being grabbed by secret service agents after 4 or 5 gunshots rang out. 58 year old ryan wesley. ruth is facing federal gun charges after a secret service agent spotted his rifle poking through the bushes and opened fire on him. mr trump also praised his protection team and in a rare show of political unity, he commended president joe biden for giving him a call. here, a man accused of killing the wife and two daughters of bbc racing commentator john hunt bbc racing commentatorjohn hunt in a crossbow attack, has been charged this morning with their murders. karl clifford, from enfield, will appear at westminster magistrates court facing three counts of murder and the 26 year old is also facing charges of false

imprisonment and possession of an offensive weapon . 61 year old an offensive weapon. 61 year old carol hunt and her two daughters, louise and hannah, were found fatally injured at their home in hertfordshire on their home in hertfordshire on the 9th of july. john hunt and his surviving daughter aimee say their devastation cannot be put into words . the prime minister into words. the prime minister says he's angry after seeing photos of offenders celebrating their early release from prison, after the government's plan to ease overcrowding. 1700 inmates were freed last week, with some seen toasting outside with their family and friends. seen toasting outside with their family and friends . sir keir family and friends. sir keir starmer says he blames rishi sunak, accusing the conservative government of delaying action until after the july election, leaving him to deal with the crisis . he says overcrowding crisis. he says overcrowding forced a choice between releasing prisoners or stopping arrests , cracking down on people arrests, cracking down on people smugglers. that's the aim of a new £75 million funding boost from the home secretary. the plan will bolster border

security with new tech and more officers at the uk's border security command. it comes after a deadly weekend of channel crossings, where eight migrants died and over 1000 others arrived on uk shores . yvette arrived on uk shores. yvette cooper says criminal gangs are putting lives at risk and the extra funding will, she says, help dismantle smuggling networks. money from the scrapped rwanda scheme will fund the project alongside an extra 100 specialist investigators . 100 specialist investigators. meta has banned russian state media from its platforms for what it's described as a deceptive online operation. the ban covers facebook, instagram, whatsapp and threads, with enforcement rolling out over the next few days. the social media giant says the move marks an escalation from previous actions, where the platforms had limited the reach of some outlets and blocked their ads . outlets and blocked their ads. and finally, if you look up at london's skies, well, drones could soon be seen whizzing overhead carrying blood samples

between some hospitals. the project, starting this autumn, will cut transport times from 30 minutes to under two minutes, speeding up some critical blood tests for surgery patients. it's the first initiative of its kind in the capital, regulated by the civil aviation authority, and could pave the way for future nhs drone deliveries. experts say they hope it will transform healthcare logistics across london. those are the latest headunes london. those are the latest headlines for now. i'll be back with you at 10:00 for a full round up. >> 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. >> very good morning. 9.37 tuesday morning. this is britain's newsroom live across the uk on gb news with me bev turner and andrew pierce.

>> well the fury of the public has not abated in any shape or form, has it? the face of the bbc. huw edwards appalling crimes. effectively he was paying crimes. effectively he was paying the for those images. his lawyer said they were gifts for the, but up to £1,500 to look at children as young as seven. the judge said his long earned reputation started but he didn't go to prison. >> he didn't, and the court heard that he paid, as you said, about £1,500 to a sent him 41 illegal images over whatsapp. this is between december 2020 and august 2021. he's been asked to repay the £200,000 salary that he received since his arrest , but he will keep that he received since his arrest, but he will keep his massive pension. >> also, the £200,000 he he was paid by the bbc after he was arrested on those incredibly serious charges in november. he keeps that money. the bbc said they were going to try and get it back. what have they done about it? >> this is you see, this is a society lives or dies on how it treats its old people and its

children. and right now, we're doing a really bad job on both both of those things in this country. >> and i will say this for the magistrate, the chief magistrate who sentenced him, huw edwards huw edwards , he was following huw edwards, he was following guidelines and the guidelines say you have to take into account the fact it was a first, first offence as far as we know and that he pleaded guilty. i don't know why that makes any difference whatsoever. >> well, there are these aggravating and mitigating factors as well, aren't they? in terms of the sentencing, which can move that starting point up or down within the range, the offence committed whilst on licence, age and or vulnerability of the child depicted discernible pain or distress suffered by the child depicted. >> children were under, some of them were under ten. >> it's so dark and so depraved, actually, that it still baffles me that how we can live in a society where somebody that is asking for these images, like you said yesterday, it's not just a case of he turned on his phone and somebody accidentally

sent him some pictures. >> he was soliciting it. >> he was soliciting it. >> soliciting it. those people need the harshest of sentences and if we believe in children being important and describe some of the photographs of young boys being exploited as amazing. >> yeah. and what's amazing is he's not in prison, and he walked out bold as brass, didn't he, from court, looking as if he hadnt he, from court, looking as if he hadn't got a care in the world. >> and it really does play into this idea that we're living in a two tier society , particularly two tier society, particularly two tier society, particularly two tier society, particularly two tier justice under two tier care. it seems if you're part of the capitalist establishment, you can walk free even having done something as serious as this. >> and that's what people are going to think. they're going to think it's because it's huw edwards he gets off. >> it might be. >> it might be. >> let's talk to trauma therapist zoe clews, who joins us now. zoe, i saw some of your reaction on social media. fair to say you were enraged by what happened yesterday in court. tell us why. well it's an absolute insult to the victims. >> and survivors of these heinous crimes. and these

people. you know, i work with the victims, and i work with the survivors. and i have done for many, many years. and these children who have been subject to atrocity, they grew up into adults . and those adults have to adults. and those adults have to spend decades, if not whole lifetimes, recovering. and i'm looking at that length of time and the courage that it takes that individual just to get up every day. half the time. and that's if they make it because it's, well documented that sexual abuse survivors have a higher risk of taking their own lives, a higher level of suicidal ideation, drug abuse, substance abuse , alcohol abuse, substance abuse, alcohol abuse, going into high risk situations. you know, if that individual is able to recover and many of them aren't, you know, that takes a whole lifetime. and that's a whole lifetime. and that's a whole lifetime. and that's a whole lifetime compared to his six months sentencing. >> zoe is it is it fair to say that sexual abuse, unwanted

sexual contact with a young person ? i mean, i would even say person? i mean, i would even say that you could be a teenager and be subject to this even over 16, but to a child is pretty much the worst thing you can do from a psychological and emotional point of view to a human being. >> i do, i do. i think that it's the worst possible thing that can happen to a child . perhaps can happen to a child. perhaps apart from seeing your own parents getting murdered, i cannot think of a single thing thatis cannot think of a single thing that is worse and the impact on a child's psyche is shattering. and that doesn't just disappear as they become an adult. and that doesn't just disappear as they become an adult . you as they become an adult. you know, that shows up in can show up in all areas of their life financially, emotionally, mentally , psychologically, mentally, psychologically, sexually, their ability to work, their ability to have relationships, their ability to get out of bed in the morning, their ability to function. it devastates people . and here we devastates people. and here we are with the most heinous crime, andifs are with the most heinous crime, and it's six months. and you know this, the worst thing is

this is nothing new, you know, the national crime agency said last year that you know, 8 in 10, people convicted in the uk over child abuse images, they avoid prison. so what's going on? this is disgusting. it has to change. >> well, that's the point. because the magistrate, lisa and was following the guidelines which said he had to mitigate because he was, a first time offender and he pleaded guilty. they're going to have to change the guidelines, aren't they, to enable that magistrate to have sent him to prison for a lot longer? >> i think so. look, legality and morality are two very different things, but the sake of child abuse victims, morality should now become legality. and we're just seeing another situation where law and justice are not bedfellows . are not bedfellows. >> zoe, it's sort of only really in kind of recent years, i'm thinking maybe 30, 40 years that it's even become acceptable to publicly speak about child sex abuse. is it more common now? it sounds like. but is this something that was just always happening, but it was behind

closed doors and people didn't know about it, but now that we're aware of it, is it easier for victims to come forward? do you think? >> i think it's always happened. we've always lived in a very sick, dysfunctional world. i think, things like the internet have made it more accessible, more easy for abusers to get access to children , which is access to children, which is which is disgusting. however, it is also there's more awareness, there's more recovery groups of people, there's more charities . people, there's more charities. people are able to speak about it. more social media has allowed people to speak about it more as well . and they've been more as well. and they've been praised for doing that and their bravery because when somebody does that, of course it allows another survivor to feel less ashamed of their own experience, because one of the worst things that happens to a victim or survivor of childhood sexual abuse is that they absorb the perpetrator's shame, and then they feel ashamed when it was never their shame in the first place to carry so by other people being able to talk about it, it can lessen that shame. so

i think i don't know if there's more. i think it's always, you know , been around. but i do know, been around. but i do think there's much more awareness and unfortunately, with the explosion of the internet , there is of course, internet, there is of course, more access for such nefarious activities as being able to access zoe just briefly, in his statement, he wittered on about how he felt he'd struggled all his life because he didn't go to oxford university, and he went to cardiff university about his strict father. >> he was trying to turn himself into the victim. the victims here are these young children who he ruthlessly exploited. do we know how any of those boys are? >> no, are? > no, no, are? >> no, no, no, we don't know. and we may never know either . and we may never know either. and we may never know either. and the thing is as well, when you know children's child sexual abuse, you know, when that happens, when that is documented in some way in that picture, those images are on the internet or whatsapp or wherever they are. every time those pictures are. every time those pictures are accessed, it's like that child is abused again. they are revictimized, so it's disgusting . revictimized, so it's disgusting. and the fact that he talked

about not getting into oxford, i mean, i just i find that really baffling. i mean, what's what to do with anything. and lots of people don't get into certain places. it's, it's, you know, and since when has a symptom of depression been accessing indecent images of children? yeah. >> how did you take the excuse of him having mental health issues and perhaps suicidal ideations as to why he couldn't go to prison, or he might be a victim because of his profile in prison? >> well, i think you know, if his mental health was so bad, then, you know, he would be in a psychiatric unit. i think, you know, as much as i work in mental health, it does seem to also get used as an excuse for so many things. and perhaps also it's an insult to people with mental health challenges who would never dream of accessing that kind of material. >> yeah, okay. zoe thank you so much. zoe clews, there a trauma therapist who works with people who've been sexually abused. let us know your thoughts this morning . gbnews.com/yoursay. morning. gbnews.com/yoursay. >> the excuses in in in his mitigation made made my stomach churn. >> actually, it made me also

think about when you've been such a megastar for so long. do you just surrounded by people who never challenge you and who will always confirm in your echo chamber that the way you're living your life is okay? >> very revealing comment from the from the bbc's media editor, >> saying that you always told don't be too clever and don't be. don't be funnier than hugh if you go on the same programme as him. is that right? oh yeah. an ego the size of a planet. >> i think they said something similar to me here. right? we've got some gear changing today , got some gear changing today, although not quite. we're going to look at some shocking statistics next about migrants and the amount of encounters that they have the police. don't miss this is britain's newsroom on gb

iii >> i'- >> 950 this 2mm i >> 950 this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. well, this is shocking. new report says migrants are 34% more

likely to be arrested in connection with crimes than uk nationals. >> so this comes at a time where, of course, prisons are overflowing. the government is battling to tackle tackle migration numbers. >> well, let's get more on this with the research director at the centre for migration control, robert bates, who has come up with this robert, contentious figures. how have you arrived at them? good morning. >> morning, guys. thanks for having me. so the first thing to note is that the home office has been repeatedly asked if it has this information on the arrest profiles and those that have fallen foul of the law and what their nationality actually is. now, they've repeatedly said that they don't have that. what we've done is we've sent freedom of information requests to all police forces across england and wales, asking them to provide us a breakdown of the nationality of those that they have ultimately arrested in the years 2021 to 2023. some of them have ultimately got back to us and said, no, we don't actually collect this data, which in itself is quite a ridiculous situation. of those that were able to get back to us, about 26

of the 42 in england and wales, we found that the arrest rate of migrants was actually 34% higher than it is of the native british population. and this is let's not forget, as beth points out , not forget, as beth points out, at a time when our prisons are absolutely overflowing, we have 10,000 foreign nationals currently behind bars, and we're also seeing increasing arguments about the economic costs that mass migration is imposing on the country . so mass migration is imposing on the country. so i'd argue mass migration is imposing on the country . so i'd argue that the country. so i'd argue that this now reflects as well that it's not just the economic arguments that are floundering, but it's also a problem that's making society less safe. >> robert, i was going to ask you why you felt this research was necessary. you've almost answered that question there, but just elaborate on it a little bit more, because this is the kind of research that a lot of people would not have, the backbone or the inclination to do. >> yeah. so i mean, there are a few sound tory mps that have been banging their head against a brick wall for the last few years, repeatedly asking the home office, have you got any information on the nationality of those people that are arrested? and ultimately the

response that they always get is, well , we response that they always get is, well, we don't response that they always get is, well , we don't collect is, well, we don't collect nationality. we collect ethnicity, i think what we've what we've found with this, with this research is, is twofold. it's the sheer scale of the arrest rate. but also it's the fact that the home office is just sheerly incompetent when it comes to collecting data. that would ultimately help us to have a more profound and more useful conversation about the costs that are being inflicted on britain by mass migration. >> is it incompetence, robert? or is it a deliberate decision that they don't want to get caught? get involved in all of this because it will be seen as some people will say, it's racism . racism. >> so i'm asked this a few times, i think there was there was a general sense in, in whitehall that the arguments around mass migration are so profoundly in favour of it being a universal good that they have almost for too long, kind of taken their foot off the gas when it comes to collecting this information. they've just assumed, well, the debate is settled. we know that this is vital for our economy. it's vital for our country. i

would argue that a lot of, a lot of ministers , especially in the of ministers, especially in the last conservative government, have been too pusillanimous when it comes to this issue and have been to, too meek in terms of addressing the more hard line problems that are posed by mass migration, we are ultimately , as migration, we are ultimately, as i've said, we're now seeing a huge, huge debate about the economic costs of migration, but simply not as has been done, to advance the arguments on the societal and the communal basis that mass migration is making us all less well off. okay. >> thank you robert. really interesting. robert bates there, the director at the centre for migration control research. >> and it's an important thing to discuss. and it's another reason why i think we've got over 10,000 foreign prisoners in our jails. over 10,000 foreign prisoners in ourjails. deport over 10,000 foreign prisoners in our jails. deport them. over 10,000 foreign prisoners in ourjails. deport them. that solves the prison crisis. >> i think we've just also heard the word of the day . the word of the day. pusillanimous. yes. robert just said that is a word that is not used enough to describe our government. pusillanimous. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> the last government being as bad. well, the last government did nothing about this. >> no. >> no. >> well, look, we want to hear from you, gbnews.com/yoursay. but up next, britain has become

the sick man of europe with a surge of people signed off long term ill. so are doctors too lenient? what's going on here? first of all, here's alex with your. first of all, here's alex with your . weather. your. weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news . news. >> morning. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. a sparkling day of sunshine for most of us. it is a bit cool out there. first thing and it is a bit grey in a few spots, but the mist and the low cloud should tend to clear away. the breeze is picking up a little bit across kent and along the south coast, and it's not gloriously sunny everywhere. there is quite a bit of thicker cloud across parts of northern scotland, with even a little bit of rain and drizzle here and there, but for most places it is a day of september sunshine and feeling quite pleasant in that sunshine. by quite pleasant in that sunshine. by this afternoon. certainly

warmer than last week 1920 . warmer than last week 1920. getting into the low 20s in a few spots across the south east and probably parts of the north—west as well, though there will be still quite a bit of thick cloud across the northern isles, especially shetland, well into the evening time. a little bit of drizzly rain here and quite cloudy at times over the western isles, but much of the mainland of scotland dry fine and sunny. same goes for northern ireland. plenty of sunshine here, lasting well into the evening, and much of england and wales too . as the easterly and wales too. as the easterly breeze starts to pick up, we could just start to see a bit more cloud coming into parts of east anglia and across the south east in general. that will increase as we go through the night, so turning quite cloudy across these eastern areas. some mist and fog likely through the night as well, but the thicker cloud and the rain and drizzle should clear away from shetland. and the vast majority having a dry night. still quite cool temperatures. well down into single figures, certainly in some rural spots. the nights though, will get a bit warmer as we go through the rest of this

week. so a bit of a grey start. maybe even parts of wales starting a bit drab tomorrow. but i'm pretty hopeful that that mist and low cloud will tend to melt away by late morning at the latest, and that will again reveal quite a bit of sunshine tomorrow. some of these eastern coasts may stay a little misty. more of a breeze across the south tomorrow again. so perhaps feeling cooler in that breeze. but again in the sunshine, temperatures likely to get into the low 20s. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather

gb news. >> good morning. it's10:00 on tuesday the 17th september. live across the uk. this is britain's newsroom with bev turner and andrew pitts. we've got to stop gossiping. >> we have moving on sicknote britain . britain. >> there's been a surge in long term illness. has it made britain the sick man of europe? it feels like it. with almost 1 million people out of work due

to their health, and that figure is predicted to rise much further. skivers or genuinely ill? what do you think ? ill? what do you think? >> and one day in jail, the former face of the bbc, huw edwards, avoids prison for accessing indecent images of children . children. >> trump speaks out the former president thanks the phenomenal secret service who saved his life after a foiled second assassination attempt and he describes the scene very peaceful, very beautiful weather. >> everything was beautiful. it was a nice place to be and all of a sudden we heard shots being fired in the air. >> and the woodford air show takes place in greater manchester today. it's the 100th anniversary and gb news is sophie reaper. is there ? sophie reaper. is there? >> it's chocs away here at the woodford airfield, as we mark 100 years of avro manufacturing here. a little bit later in the houn here. a little bit later in the hour, we'll be venturing inside this vickers vc10 for a little

look around . look around. >> how lovely . sun's out in >> how lovely. sun's out in manchester this morning. how gorgeous. get in touch with us, won't you? gbnews.com/yoursay. first, though, the very latest news with sam francis . news with sam francis. >> very good morning to you from the newsroom just after 10:00. the top story this hour. the health secretary, wes streeting, says the end of a pay dispute with junior doctors marks the first step in the government's mission to reform the broken health service. members of the british medical association have voted to accept the government's offer of a 22% pay rise over two years. however, the conservatives are warning the government not to set a precedent by awarding striking workers with what they've

described as bumper pay rises. and this morning, deputy leader of the liberal democrats daisy cooper told us her party still thinks more should be done as part of the answer is pay. >> but as i say, it's just a first step. what we liberal democrats want to see is a really ambitious budget in october. we want the labour government to use the budget to be a budget to save our nhs and care services, and as part of that, we want to see an increase in day to day spending, not by taxing struggling families, but by reversing the tax cuts for the big banks and closing the loopholes in capital gains tax. so the wealthiest pay a little bit more . but we also want to bit more. but we also want to see borrowing to repair our crumbling hospitals and gp surgeries to . surgeries to. >> donald trump has spoken publicly for the first time since being targeted in an apparent assassination attempt on his florida golf course. speaking in a live stream on the social media platform x, the former president described being grabbed by secret service agents after hearing 5 or 4 gunshots ring out 58 year old ryan wesley. ruth is facing federal

gun charges after a secret service agent spotted his rifle poking through the bushes and opened fire on the suspect. mr trump also praised his protection team and in a rare show of political unity, he commended the president, joe biden , for giving him a call. biden, for giving him a call. >> i was with an agent and the agent did a fantastic job. there was no question that we were off that course. i would have loved to have sank that last putt, but we decided, let's get out of here. we do need more people on my detail because we have 50, 60,000 people showing up to events and, you know, other people don't have that . people don't have that. >> the voice of donald trump there. a man accused of killing there. a man accused of killing the wife and two daughters of bbc racing commentator john hunt bbc racing commentatorjohn hunt in a crossbow attack , has today in a crossbow attack, has today been charged with their murders. carl clifford, from enfield, will appear at westminster magistrates court today facing three counts of murder. the 26 year old is also facing charges

of false imprisonment and possession of offensive weapons . possession of offensive weapons. 61 year old carol hunt and her two daughters, louise and hannah, were found fatally injured at their home in hertfordshire on the 9th of july. john hunt and his surviving daughter aimee, say their devastation cannot be put into words . the prime minister into words. the prime minister says he is angry after seeing photos of offenders celebrating their early release from prison. after the government's plan to ease overcrowding was introduced, 1700 inmates were freed last week , with some seen freed last week, with some seen toasting outside with family and friends. sir keir starmer blames rishi sunak , accusing the rishi sunak, accusing the previous conservative government of delaying action until after the election, leaving him to deal with the crisis. he says overcrowding forced him a choice between releasing prisoners or stopping arrests , cracking down stopping arrests, cracking down on people smugglers. that's the aim of a new £75 million funding boost from the home secretary .

boost from the home secretary. the boost from the home secretary. security command. it comes after a deadly weekend of channel crossings, where eight migrants sadly died and over 1000 others arrived . yvette cooper says arrived. yvette cooper says criminal gangs are putting lives at risk, and that the extra funding will help dismantle smuggling networks. money from the scrapped rwanda scheme will fund the project, along with an extra 100 specialist investigators . holocaust studies investigators. holocaust studies will become part of every school curriculum as sir keir starmer is vowing to make it compulsory for all schools. speaking at a holocaust education trust event, the prime minister committed more than £2 million to the lessons from auschwitz project, which includes visits to the camp and survivors testimonies. he compared fighting anti—semitism to his work reshaping the labour party , reshaping the labour party, pledging to lead the country in the same way. he's also calling for a bold response to raising

rising anti—semitism, pledging to build a national holocaust memorial . in to build a national holocaust memorial. in other news, to build a national holocaust memorial . in other news, meta memorial. in other news, meta has banned russian state media from its platforms for what it's described as deceptive online operations. the ban covers facebook, instagram, whatsapp and threads, with enforcement rolling out over the next few days. the social media giant said the move marks an escalation from its previous actions, where the platform limited the reach of outlets and blocked ads . the rapper sean blocked ads. the rapper sean combs , also known as p diddy, combs, also known as p diddy, has been arrested in new york. the 54 year old music mogul is mogul is under investigation for allegations including sexual assault and trafficking after a number of women came forward. combs has denied all the claims , combs has denied all the claims, though, and his team insist he is innocent and is ready to clear his name in court. is innocent and is ready to clear his name in court . and clear his name in court. and finally, if you look up at london's skies, you may see some drones soon whizzing overhead,

flying blood samples between some london hospitals. the project, starting this autumn , project, starting this autumn, will cut transport times from 30 minutes to under two minutes, speeding up critical blood tests for surgery patients. it's the first initiative of its kind in the capital, regulated by the civil aviation authority, and could even pave the way for future nhs drone deliveries , future nhs drone deliveries, with experts saying they hope it will transform nhs logistics . will transform nhs logistics. those are the latest headlines for now . i'll those are the latest headlines for now. i'll be those are the latest headlines for now . i'll be back with you for now. i'll be back with you for now. i'll be back with you for one round up at half past ten 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. >> welcome back to britain's newsroom live across the uk with me bev turner and andrew pierce. >> well, donald trump has been talking about the latest

assassination attempt, which was foiled, of course, by the secret service who stopped it. and it's like he was playing golf with friends at his own golf course in mar—a—lago. >> so body cam footage released by martin county sheriff's office shows the moment the suspected trump gunman, ryan wesley routh, is arrested. pretty dramatic. here it is. it's to your right. >> take two steps to your right . >> take two steps to your right. come back to your right. >> driver , walk straight back . >> driver, walk straight back. shani louk. shut up. you want to go? keep walking . depher go? keep walking. depher. ryan. yeah. >> and he's got his shirt. extraordinary. but i still think. how did he know donald trump was playing golf that day?

he'd been apparently waiting in trees , hiding in trees for 12 trees, hiding in trees for 12 hours. was he there just randomly in the hope that trump might be there? or did he know he must have known of course, because he doesn't play every day because he's out on the campaign trail. >> most days you wouldn't spend 12 hours in the bushes just with a with a gun and a gopro in case donald trump happens to you might not be there for another week. so it suggests what though? which suggests what that suggests that somebody within the trump camp, possibly, or somebody within the camp, or the security entourage or the cia, somebody gossiping carelessly , somebody gossiping carelessly, but it's very worrying. it is worrying . it's awful. and it is worrying. it's awful. and it is worrying. it's awful. and it is worrying because it does show that once seemed like it could have just been error twice. he's making it look much more likely. we do not want third time lucky with donald trump. we really don't want to see that. >> yeah, because i mean , and if >> yeah, because i mean, and if you remember, the head of the fbi said that they badly let trump down the first time. it was a major failure. i think this is going to turn out to be another failure again. >> but you see, he's got within

300 yards. the thing is, he he makes the most of this doesn't he? >> and he's so resilient. and he's so tough in these situations. he just plays into this idea that he is fearless and he will carry on playing golf. and nothing will get in his way. and he embodies that american spirit of determination. he did. and i sort of love him for that. he did rather bizarrely suggest that perhaps god had intervened. >> perhaps god wants me to be president of the united states. i thought, i'm not sure if god has a vote, actually, but that's an interesting idea. >> well, look, he's playing. look, he knows his american audience. and let's face it, he does believe that he's not making that up. i think he does believe that god wants him there. yeah. frankly, right now i would just pray to get him there as well. how i feel at the moment about the harris camp. but that's just my opinion. let us know your thoughts. >> gbnews.com/yoursay now, do you remember when we were known as the sick man of europe? that was in the 1970s, before thatcher came in and sorted out the trade unions and the number of strikes fell dramatically. well, we're now being called the sick man of europe for a completely different reason, because the number of economically inactive adults is likely to get this figure 4.3

million by the end of this parliament, 4.3 million. what's the matter with them? >> i find this fascinating change of social and cultural development that's going on at the moment, and it's escalated since the pandemic. it's escalated, of course it has. well, the left leaning institute for public policy research has warned that as rising numbers of people are signed off work with long term illness, better health is the most important medicine our economy needs for faster growth. >> well, let's discuss this further with mental health specialist sally baker. sally baken specialist sally baker. sally baker, good morning to you. i'm sorry, i'm very sceptical. that 4.3 million people will have a knee to be inactive, not working on long term sick benefit within the next 3 to 4 years. it's a staggering figure. this is a rich, relatively healthy country. how can it possibly be these figures be anything other than quite a lot of them are swinging the lead as my old dad would have said , it would be would have said, it would be very convenient just to blame

the individuals here. >> instead of systemic failure of austerity in the last 14 years of the tory government not funding the nhs properly, it takes, you know, 2 to 3 weeks to get to see a gp. there are waiting lists for mental health practitioners to intervene . i've practitioners to intervene. i've been a mental health practitioner for 25 years. myself and my colleagues have never seen these levels of anguish and distress that we're seeing today. it's a anguish and distress that we're seeing today . it's a different seeing today. it's a different world. it's not just about social and cultural society, it's about social and cultural collapse, >> sally, i have another theory on this as well. there used to be a time when people wanted to go to work because life was boring. if you didn't have a job, you didn't want to just sit at home with four tv channels and potter around the garden. and especially for young people now, they're never bored. they can just binge watch netflix series. they can be on their phone and lose hours from tech addiction. is that playing a part here?

>> that's not what anyone appears to. i there are young people used to aspire to, you know, getting qualifications, getting a job, getting an apprenticeship, moving out from home and starting their own lives, becoming a couple, starting their own families. those barriers to adulthood have been blocked for most young people . now there's housing people. now there's housing insecurity. they can't afford the rents, the job insecurity and low wages, low wages. this there is no aspirational pathway for young people anymore . it's for young people anymore. it's overwhelming and it's incredibly depressing to be at home in your 20s and 30s. no one wants to spend time doom scrolling , and spend time doom scrolling, and doom scrolling is actually really bad for one's mental health. it does. it lowers the mood. so this is a time when our young people don't feel as though they have any aspirational can achieve any aspirational can achieve any aspirational goals. it's hard . aspirational goals. it's hard. >> but if they go to university. sally, isn't that going to give them an aspiration to they get a degree which will then open up the jobs market much wider ?

the jobs market much wider? >> sally unfortunately one would think so. the social contract would be that if you went to university and you applied yourself, you come out now with tens of thousand pounds worth of debt, and that's going to inhibit you, you know, paying rent. it's going to inhibit you getting a mortgage later. people are paying, still paying their student loans into their well into their 30s and early 40s. it's an incredible situation that we've got ourselves into. and you have to think about mental health as a top of a slide and to stop yourself becoming mentally unwell and unable and economically incapable of working, you have to have interventions at an earlier stage of the downward slide. and we don't have those interventions now . if you wait interventions now. if you wait six between six months and two years, you can get between 8 and 10 cbt sessions and this all this tele and zoom therapy isn't enough to touch the sides of this level of distress and anguish. >> i agree with everything you

said there, sally, but what then do we do about it? because it can't. we can't. the nhs has never had more money and it would be wonderful to have a counsellor in every school and sixth form college and every university, and a therapist in every gp surgery that you could just go and we don't have it. so how do we how do we shift this? because we've got we've got to be some massive shift in attitudes that has. >> but even the return to work schemes that the government sponsor and tory government also sponsored have a strong element of mental support because they understand that long term sickness, long term inactivity breeds anxiety, breeds things like, you know, phobias about going outside, phobias, about returning to work. there is a huge groundswell of mental ill health that needs to be tackled . health that needs to be tackled. and why can't we have counsellors in every school, counsellors in every school, counsellors in every gp surgery? if we had an outbreak of broken legs and that would have to get sorted? this is an outbreak of

broken minds and it's post covid. we've got the first cohort of young children going into school with huge developmental delays on speech because they had to wait two years or more to get interventions from speech therapists. the whole system is broken and now we're not even 100 days yet into the labour government. wes streeting is trying and we've done the deal with the gp's now with the junior doctors. we're trying to turn it round. it needs to be turned round. all of those things that you said we can't have, we absolutely need. >> don't you accept that some people are not, are just putting it on sally. they just don't want to go to work. and the benefit and the benefit and the benefit and the benefit and the benefit system, there's been this ongoing problem where sometimes it's more advantageous to be on benefits than to take a low paid job. >> i don't believe it. i don't believe it, and i don't see it in 25 years. i don't see someone saying to me, oh, but i want to stay on the sick. and what stay in your i mean, it's they can't afford to heat their homes. i

can't afford nutritional food on the table. >> i there are some families, sally, that have been in long term benefit for generations. that's been research that's been done by the iain duncan smith's think tank the. >> this is going to be a minority aren't there. >> is it a minority. yes. it's a minority. other people. and in good or better times are aspirational to fulfil all of their potential, all of our young people's potential to be completely ruined. there's no more apprenticeships, there's no more apprenticeships, there's no more pathways to success and independence . who wants to be independence. who wants to be living in their parents house when they're a grown up? when they're over 18? no one should have to do that. >> i think there's probably somewhere between the two here and there. i think there are people who like, say , people who like, say, culturally, have only ever grown up with parents on benefits . up with parents on benefits. they also get benefits. but i'm with you, sally. i think they are the minority. but i also think there are some people who are stuck on benefits because they can't, for whatever motivational psychological reason they can't make that step. they don't know how to.

they lack the confidence. they lack faith that they're going to succeed. so they just don't bother trying and they feel they're going to fail. and it is a mess. and as you say , made so a mess. and as you say, made so much worse since the pandemic , much worse since the pandemic, particularly for the young people, because they were all on a path and we pulled the rug out from underneath them with no good reason. and they think, well, it might happen again, so why would i bother? because it might all happen again. a good reason. >> and i don't think the fear is that it might happen again. but the fear is that they've lost a lot of ground. and when you've lost a lot of ground and a lot of impetus, then you need to have a real intervention. and the tele therapy that the nhs is currently offering isn't enough. small group therapies, you know, that's cheaper than 1 to 1. the return to work schemes that are out there. they work in small groups and they've done amazing work rebuilding people's confidence, allowing people to rediscover their sense of self—worth. because one of the first things that goes with long term unemployment is a sense of self—worth. and that's overwhelming. and it's very hard

then to take any action because you just feel completely on the floor. yeah. >> and totally demoralised. sally, lovely to see you. thank you so much. mental health specialist sally baker there. >> is it . the very bleak part of >> is it. the very bleak part of that report is the prediction. it's just going to keep rising. it's just going to keep rising. it's going to get worse and worse and worse . worse and worse. >> well don't worry, the trial in universal basic income in wales under the labour government. so that might be in coming now and then. where's your incentive to go to work. yeah quite. up next. junior doctors have secured a 22% pay rise over two years from the government. they're doing all right. have they got labour over a barrel? now you're with britain's newsroom on

gb news. 1023 this is britain's newsroom. welcome back on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. we've got nigel nelson in the studio with us and a new guest for britain's newsroom. but you will know from dewbs& co reem ibrahim for the institute of

economic affairs. good morning to you both. good morning. shall we start on the huw edwards story, nigel, was this the right sentence? >> every front page? >> every front page? >> yes. i think it was the right sentence. and the reasoning for thatis sentence. and the reasoning for that is that, it was a sentence . that is that, it was a sentence. really? i would have expected that a six month suspended for this kind of crime is about right when you've got somebody who entered an early guilty plea, has shown remorse, has mitigation. >> you know, he's shown remorse . >> you know, he's shown remorse. >> you know, he's shown remorse. >> yeah. he he showed remorse to the police when he was being interviewed. >> he said he's very sorry. >> he said he's very sorry. >> i mean, one might say he was sorry to get caught as opposed to sorry for his actual actions. >> quite. you could both be cynical about it, but he expressed remorse, which is part of the sentencing process . so if of the sentencing process. so if you look at what would happen to somebody else, that's the kind of sentence you would have expected. and the other point, which is not part of this, but what would what would be achieved by sending him to prison? >> punishment. >> punishment. >> yeah, that's what everyone says. >> and how do we know he's how

do we know he's not going to carry on gazing at pictures of young boys under the age of ten? >> well, if he does and he's caught at it, he'll end up back in prison. if he doesn't, because he's got a suspended. well, you could say that about anybody. yeah, so the point i'm making is with someone like huw edwards, would prison have actually made a huge difference? >> i think this raises an issue that maybe we weren't aware of, that maybe we weren't aware of, that the sentencing is frankly, not strict enough. nigel's right. they're operating within the guidelines at the moment. the guidelines aren't right. surely the guidelines aren't right. >> and i think the reason why a lot of people are upset about this is just the pure hypocrisy of the current system. we know that after the horribly tragic southport murders, that people were talking about these conversations that actually on social media, many people were accused of crimes on social media. these sort of free speech crimes and were put in jail. the fact that those particular individuals were put in jail for their speech online. and huw edwards, who was looking at indecent images, paid for indecent images, paid for indecent images, paid for indecent images of young children, is not being put in

prison, i think is a very clear example of the fact that the justice system just is not fair. >> i quite agree with two tier justice. >> it really is. yeah, but the whole thing there is, you're not comparing like with like if you start comparing one crime with the other and is that one too severe or is that one too light. >> what would you think is more severe? somebody gazing at photographs of seven year old, eight year old boys for sexual gratification, which is an abhorrent crime and an absolutely abhorrent crime, or somebody putting something out on social media. >> the point about the social media do you think is most serious? well, it's not it's not a question of serious. >> i think it is. >> i think it is. >> well, you've got to take it in the round. the reason for those exemplary sentences for people who are putting hate on social media is because we were facing insurrection at the time that the whole point was to try and stop the rioters. but that is not the point of the judiciary. >> it's not to stop insurrection. at the time, there have to be rules across the board, otherwise it's policy. >> they don't. >> they don't. >> every every case is different. >> that's not legal. that's political. >> so we want sentencing to deter other offenders. >> yeah. and i agree with that.

absolutely. well how is that how he's got to spend a sentence. that was the point of the exemplary sentences for the people who were putting hate online. >> well, we're particularly talking about a father of five children, married father of five children, married father of five children, who has committed one of the most egregious crimes any person could ever do. and i just can't imagine how horrible it must have been for any of those children that were unfortunately, victims. and in in those particular images that he had paid £1,500 for. and in this country, you are then being arrested for writing something on social media. but if you commit such an egregious crime like this, you do not go to jail. i think that's absurd. and i completely disagree that it won't do us any good, or it won't do us any good, or it won't do us any good, or it won't do huw edwards any good. i think it will give all of us peace of mind that that disgusting human being is in prison, isn't it? >> about children, nigel? isn't that the difference here? because i said earlier a society that looks after its elderly and its young people is a society thatis its young people is a society that is doing the right thing here, and that's why i think it's different. if you're

putting some sort of hate on social media about the fact that you want a mosque to be burning down, which is a stupid and idiotic and anger driven thing to right, that is very different. >> what i'm what i'm trying to say is there is a victim that is a child. >> yes, absolutely. and that there's no question this is an absolutely foul crime . it is absolutely foul crime. it is absolutely foul crime. it is absolutely abhorrent. that's not the issue. the issue is what we're trying to do here is compare different crimes. and i don't think you can you could argue that a burglar doesn't get the right sentence when it comes to a white collar crime. somebody might go to prison for a long time for fraud. >> but it's not the right city, isn't it? it's about severity. and i think that, broadly speaking, we can all agree that saying something on social media, and i think it's a very good comparison because it was just so recent and the consequences were just so dire that something on social media, using your words, using your language, is absolutely not as severe as looking at indecent images of children. i think everyone can agree it is if it

causes deaths. >> i mean, the whole thing is those riots. if they continue, language cannot cause deaths. >> that's absurd. >> that's absurd. >> no, it's not absurd that if those people do not know the impact on these young children of being involved in this, you know, i get how do we know they're not there's not going to be suicides and ongoing mental health. >> i mean, this is terrible what he's done. >> but how would those children have been helped by sending huw edwards to jail? >> peace of mind, peace of mind. like if a rapist goes to prison, it's peace of mind if that particular person is gone. >> justice for the victims and they are children. and although we have to be clear that it wasn't the huw edwards was doing anything with these children, it wasn't that he was creating these images, but he's keeping that industry alive. he was one of the people paying for the product. if you're paying for the product, you're you're providing a demand for that. >> don't you think his mitigation was pathetic? i felt i felt so inadequate because i didn't go to oxford university. i went to cardiff. >> yes, some of those things were. >> and my father was very strict on the more serious side, on the more serious side, there was the mental health issues, the recognition that he was a

suicide risk. >> now those are just mitigations. i think that the if you're looking at the sentencing guidelines, first offender early guilty pleas, all that sort of stuff, that's that's well, i think the guidelines need to be changed. >> well, that's i think what it's raised, the awareness of is changed. shall we talk a little bit about maloney and starmer. we saw them in italy yesterday this italy albanian deal. what's the latest on that. >> it's really interesting. so we are going to be spending £4 million of uk taxpayer money. is going to be going to the rome process. on trying to reduce illegal migration. now i think it's really good that we are looking to other european countries trying to sort of look at the problem together, because ultimately this is a european wide problem. when people get to the channel, they've got there by crossing through europe. so if we can tackle the root of the problem there, then hopefully we can start to reduce illegal migration here. and italy have been pretty successful. they've been pretty successful. they've been able to reduce illegal migration over the last year by 60%. >> and this is because they've done deals with tunisia and libya. libya, yes. but and it

seems the tunisian and libyan authorities have taken the money from italy, but done. but dealt with the issue, whereas the french have taken the money from the british government and haven't. and we've got a french minister quoting one of the papers today saying the french government has not done enough to stop this vile trade. >> it is rather ironic that actually the countries where these people are often actually coming from are the ones that are actually dealing with the situation quite well. i think it's interesting in north africa specifically, the politics is very, very delicate. a lot of those governments sort of try to appear as though they are very democratic. but in reality are actually not. i am from north africa. i'm half moroccan. so i think it's interesting a lot of the time there is that kind of double standard. but when it comes to illegal migration, they clearly have shown and they've proven to western governments that if you ask us to take action and you provide us with the resources to, we will take action. >> what did you make of starmer meeting maloney? nigel, it seems like he's trying at least he's got an open mind. yeah, i think so. 50. >> so. >> i mean their politics are completely different. and so they stuck to things. they might

be able to talk. >> i'm not sure they are that different. >> but anyway, i mean rishi sunak said he got on with her very well. she's obviously incredibly personable because she seems to get on well with foreign leaders. i think that the key one there is looking at the key one there is looking at the albanian scheme, the idea of processing migrants offshore is a good one, we don't done it in rwanda. well, no, because there's different. it's completely different that the, the people who go to albania, if they're granted asylum, they'll be able to go and live in italy. the people who went, who would have gone to rwanda, wouldn't have gone to rwanda, wouldn't have been able to come back and live in britain. even if they'd got refugee status, i still think there'd be an easier. >> well, i mean, i'm sort of against the rwanda scheme because i think it would have been a waste of money and probably not work in the same way that a lot of money, we gave all of this money to france, and actually nothing was done. i suspect that a lot of the money we would have given to rwanda and the money we did give to rwanda, wouldn't have made much of a difference at all. i think that it really is a european wide issue, and i think that whilst european cooperation historically has been quite

difficult, i actually think that we've got to tackle the root of the cause. we know people are coming europe. they are being able to travel through before they get to the english channel. and we've got to tackle it there before they even get to the uk. >> okay . nigel nelson reem >> okay. nigel nelson reem ibrahim you'll be back in the next hour . saint francis is next hour. saint francis is waiting patiently with your headunes. headlines. >> very good morning to you . >> very good morning to you. it's 1032. exactly the top story this morning from the newsroom. health secretary wes streeting says the end of a pay dispute with junior doctors marks the first step in the government's mission to reform the broken health service. members of the british medical association have voted to accept the government's offer of a 22% pay rise. however, the conservatives are warning the government not to set a precedent by awarding striking workers with what they've described as bumper pay rises . they've described as bumper pay rises. donald trump has spoken publicly for the first time

since being targeted in an apparent assassination attempt on his florida golf course . on his florida golf course. speaking in a live stream on social media, the former president described being grabbed by secret service agents after 4 or 5 gunshots were heard . after 4 or 5 gunshots were heard. 58 year old ryan wesley ruth is facing federal gun charges after an agent spotted his rifle poking through the bushes on the perimeter of the golf course and opened fire on the suspect . mr opened fire on the suspect. mr trump also praised his protection team and in a rare show of political unity, commended president joe biden for giving him a call. commended president joe biden for giving him a call . a man for giving him a call. a man accused of killing the wife and two daughters of bbc racing commentator john two daughters of bbc racing commentatorjohn hunt in a crossbow attack , has been crossbow attack, has been charged with their murders. carl clifford, from enfield, will appear at the criminal court at the high court this afternoon. the 26 year old also faces charges of false imprisonment and possession of offensive weapons. well, this morning,

westminster magistrates court heard one of the daughters, louise hunt, had been found tied to a chair when officers attended a home in hertfordshire in july. she and her sister hannah had been shot with a crossbow and their mother, carole, had been stabbed with a knife . the liberal democrats say knife. the liberal democrats say the trust placed in them by voters must be repaid in full. after the party secured 72 seats in this year's general election. sir ed davey will pledge to finish the job of defeating the conservatives in his keynote speech at the party's conference later this afternoon, with health and social care at the front and centre of that speech , front and centre of that speech, and the lib dem leader is going to vow to focus on fixing the nhs despite years of what he calls tory mismanagement. he is also expected to accuse the conservative leadership race of scraping the bottom of the barrel and being out of touch with real people than we've done in cracking down on people smugglers. that's the aim of a

new £75 million boost from the home secretary. the plan will bolster border security with new tech and more officers at the uk's border security command. it comes after a deadly weekend of channel crossings, where eight migrants died and over 1000 others arrived. yvette cooper says criminal gangs are putting lives at risk and the extra funding will help dismantle smuggling networks. money from the scrapped rwanda scheme will fund the project alongside an extra 100 specialist investigators and the rapper sean combs , also known as p sean combs, also known as p diddy, has been arrested in new york. the 54 year old music mogul is under investigation for allegations including sexual assault and trafficking, after a number of women came forward. combs has, though, denied all claims and his team insists he is innocent and ready to clear his name in court. those are the latest gb news headlines for now, as i slowly disappear in my seat, i will hand you back to andrew and bev for the very

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parents are missing work due to their children being sick and not able go go to school. this

gb news. >> welcome back to britain's newsroom. you have been getting in touch at home. a lot of you incensed about nigel nelson's position on the huw edwards scandal and saying that, nigel said, of course, that he thought hugh had the appropriate sentence. anita said huw edwards was paying for another man to instigate the poses with a child doing god knows what. it's different than asking for the images . susan, who is a member. images. susan, who is a member. good morning, susan says nigel's views never fail to amaze me. we have a broken two tier justice system. a prison sentence was absolutely the only sensible outcome for huw edwards, but heigh ho. nigel says it's fine, heigh ho. nigel says it's fine, he said sorry when being interviewed by the police. it's not quite what nigel said when he said he showed remorse. >> and i said, how do you know he showed remorse. was it faux remorse? >> a lot of people very cross

with nigel for saying that. and i think the thing is, nigel was basically saying what they've doneis basically saying what they've done is within the guidelines of the sentencing and maybe huw edwards shouldn't be treated differently because he was huw edwards and the guy, which means the guidelines are wrong, needs to be changed. >> that's the point. >> that's the point. >> another one, nigel, is the ultimate example of the wet brigade. i hope you're watching in the green room. nigel, this be kind rubbish has to stop. there are limits to being kind. and people are getting away with appalling stuff because of the countries. >> nigel's are there. we are now we're moving on because what are we're moving on because what are we saying? >> this morning we've been speaking about sicknote britain. as more and more people are going off work due to long term sickness, and another survey, it's revealed that almost half of parents have to miss work due to their child being ill. >> often , family members are >> often, family members are drafted in to look after a sick child. >> well, let's talk to the parenting and lifestyle journalist annette kellow. annette, how big a problem is this? >> well, as a mum, i think there's a huge financial and mental strain for parents. but we have this system now where it

talks about they bringing a family member to help, but i don't think that's happening a lot of the time . i think people lot of the time. i think people are having to be off work , look are having to be off work, look after their child and often, sorry to say, but their school always calls the mum and then you have this situation where you have this situation where you have this situation where you have nobody to look after your child . people's your child. people's grandparents don't seem to want to do it so much , and often to do it so much, and often family members aren't just down the road. so what we have is no village. and i think it's really important when you have a child that you need that village. >> our children are getting more sicker than they used to be. or is it just that we take the odd sniffle a bit more seriously? now, since 2020? >> yes, i do think the odd sniffle can be. i know in my school they say three days away. you know the slightest little thing and it's like if you have a cold. yeah, no, please go in. yeah. >> and three days off if you have a cold for a child. >> and we wonder why all these parents aren't at work. >> and so it's very stressful. but i think as well they used to. >> is that a new thing? >> is that a new thing? >> when i was little. but you put your your children's school.

>> is that a new thing? three days off with a cold. >> i don't know, i don't know if they did before, but i know they say if they're ill or whatever. just. just send them. they don't want. they don't want them in. but if that must be hugely inconvenient, if you're a working mum. absolutely it is. if you're not a working mum, it's full time work looking after. what about the dads? come on now. on how. >> on now. >> i agree yeah, of course , but >> i agree yeah, of course, but the other. >> yes, it is very difficult. i mean, i have a child who has a condition which actually means he spends a lot of time in hospital at great ormond street. so i have the double whammy where he's missing time off. and i'm really lucky. i have loads of family around me and good childcare, so i'm able to work and everything is fine, but well, at times. but i know a lot of people that don't have that, and that means that a lot of women are going part time. they're giving up their careers because they just. it's not just the sickness, it's the whole thing . the school runs, the thing. the school runs, the pickups. >> i think some of these figures about people who could be working and aren't working, they're not necessarily on benefits, but some of them will benefits, but some of them will be people who, during the

pandemic, particularly parents, decided to get a different work life balance . they quite liked life balance. they quite liked being at home and they realise the children are benefiting from it. do you think those people are in these statistics? >> annette kellow of people staying at home with not working, who decided to not go back to work, of working age? yes, i think a lot of people don't want to go into an office anymore either. don't want to go into an office anymore either . they've had that anymore either. they've had that little bit of freedom and they're like, i'm not going in. and i know employers are trying to get them to go in, but they just want to be at home. they want to be near their children. if their children are sick, whether that's the mum or the dad and also a lot of people don't live near their office or wherever they don't want to commute. train fares have gone up, so they say, well, why should i pay? so you have this whole knock on effect throughout the economy. >> amazing isn't it? are these some of these children being a bit too mollycoddle in a sense by the schools, by saying three days away for a cold? >> yes. i would have to just go to school and that would be it. and yeah, you coughed and sneezed and other kids. that was that. >> that was it. yeah. >> that was it. yeah. >> and i mean, i'm a little bit

naughty and i just say, you know, don't say anything. you go in, you're fine. yeah. and you know what? >> they are fine. and that's not naughty. and we have to get back to a time when kids could actually go about their business with a sniffle. can we just ask you about this story that's broken this morning, which is keir starmer has pledged to make sure that every child in england learns about the holocaust at school. how can that not already be happening? >> well, i think it is happening in certain schools. my son goes to a church school, so they learn about everything. they visit mosques, they visit synagogues and they learn everything. but i don't think it's happening elsewhere. >> are you suggesting that religious schools , perhaps religious schools, perhaps muslim schools, aren't learning about the holocaust? >> no, i don't think they are. no, i mean, my son's school, which is attached to a church. we don't have anybody visit from anywhere else, but he often goes to visit other places. so i think religious schools do take it a bit more seriously , but it a bit more seriously, but just general. other schools that aren't associated with church don't know. >> if you are a religious school, then you're kind of outside of the main sort of state system sometimes. aren't you? so. sir keir starmer can tell schools of certain

religions you've got to learn about the holocaust, but they can choose to ignore his advice. >> i think and i think even if they are implemented to learn it, i don't think they're going to take it seriously necessarily. i think learning kindness , manners, loving kindness, manners, loving everybody from wherever they are is the most important values. >> okay . very interesting. >> okay. very interesting. >> okay. very interesting. >> all right. thank you so much. annette kellow there, lifestyle journalist and parenting expert . journalist and parenting expert. >> so time is coming up next. we're crossing into greater manchester because it's the woodford air show. it's the 100th anniversary. and there is some really rather fabulous old planes. >> oh, look at that. >> oh, look at that. >> really lovely. and we've got, i sophie reaper, this is newsroom live across the uk . nice

>> 10 to 11. it's britain's newsroom on gb news. we're smiling because it's 11. nearly smiling because it's11. nearly 11:00. we have our biscuits don't we. >> do we do . and somebody was >> do we do. and somebody was very kind and sent some biscuits in the other week . so they're

in the other week. so they're running a bit low to send some more if you're watching. >> and you sent the biscuits. >> and you sent the biscuits. >> yeah . >> yeah. >> yeah. >> we don't know who you were because you didn't say because we'd like to thank you. but if you want to send some more, we're more than happy because they don't pay us enough here on gb news to buy our own. >> you sound a bit like keir starmer. >> like keir starmer and his frocks. >> his wife. >> his wife. >> it's the hundredth anniversary of the woodford air show in greater manchester, and gb news, north—west of england. reporter sophie reaper is there in the sunshine. good morning sophie. right. tell us all about this extravaganza today. what are we going to see? >> well, good morning to you both. well, what you can see right now for our viewers at home, we are inside a vickers vc10. so we're going to come inside now so you can this is an actual vc10. so we'll join ian pete who is with us in the vc10 to talk all about it. good morning to you ian. good morning. good morning. now this obviously wasn't a craft initially produced by avro was it. but avro did have some influence eventually. >> absolutely. the vc10, these

aircraft were built around about 1962 onwards. and they, they flew for civilians and for the royal air force and around about 1988, british aerospace decided to change the design authority of the aeroplane from weybridge in london. up to here manchester design authority is very important because it makes certain that the aircraft is properly supported and in its operations and the manchester factories , both here at woodford factories, both here at woodford and at chadderton, picked up the design authority and for the rest of the royal air force fleet from 1988 through to 2013. these aircraft were supported out of manchester, the aircraft themselves, they had a role of carrying people and cargo, but one of the main roles was air to

air refuelling. that is in effect, a large service station in the sky, which used to provide fuel to the fighter jets and to other large military aircraft when on military operations. >> let me ask you, ian. of course, it's about celebrating all of aviation in greater manchester today, isn't it? but one of the big parts is that it's 100 years of avro here at woodford. now i'm not sure if we'll be able to see this, but through the window we can see one of the most famous crafts, an avro vulcan. i'm not sure if we can. how? well, we can see that, but we will be taking a closer look at it a little bit later on. talk to me about the vulcan. why it's such an iconic craft. >> okay, so the vulcan, around about 1946, 47, they became a requirement for a new bomber. we'd entered the nuclear age. we'd entered the nuclear age. we'd entered the jet age, and all of a sudden, the government wanted an aeroplane that could fly twice as high as a

lancaster, twice as fast as a lancaster, twice as fast as a lancaster , and carrying the same lancaster, and carrying the same kind of, payload in terms of weapons. but they couldn't actually tell anybody what that payload was. obviously, it was a nuclear bomb, but, avro came up with a design of an aeroplane, such a fantastic step change from the lancaster and those piston powered aeroplanes, they came up with the vulcan and the first vulcan flew in 1952, and they provided the strategic nuclear deterrent, for, for many years until replaced by the polaris system with submarines. >> it's so interesting speaking to you , ian. thank you so much. to you, ian. thank you so much. we've run out of time. i could speak to you for hours, but thank you so much for joining us. there we are. but this is just the beginning. there is so much excitement happening here at woodford today. and we'll be bringing you all the latest. we'll be in a lancaster in the next hour. so that's very exciting. >> okay. thank you sophie. do you know you're on the telly?

andrew pierce i forgot because we're talking about david laming a little bit because he's going to make a speech where he's going to say climate change is more dangerous for us than terrorism. >> what? what idiot . >> what? what idiot. >> what? what idiot. >> has a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. on. gb news. >> hi there and welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. high pressure is firmly in charge of our weather at the moment. that means dry for most with plenty of warm sunny spells as always an exception and in this case a cold front is bringing some thicker cloud at the moment to the far north of scotland. >> additionally, a few patches of cloud are rolling in on a bit of cloud are rolling in on a bit of an easterly breeze there into parts of kent. parts of essex, but that will tend to lift and break up through the day, and the cloud in the north and northwest of scotland will also

tend to break up and brighten up through the day, so warmer and dner through the day, so warmer and drier weather into the northeast of scotland. mid 20s possible here. low to mid 20s in some of the warmer spots elsewhere. so a pleasant day to come and by the evening sunny spells are starting to emerge. just about everywhere, with the exception of shetland and orkney, where we keep some low cloud and some light outbreaks of rain. northern ireland clear blue skies likewise for much of england and wales , however, the england and wales, however, the east to north easterly breeze is freshening and that's going to bnng freshening and that's going to bring some low cloud into east anglia and parts of the midlands through the night. so yeah, it's going to turn increasingly cloudy across central and southeastern parts in the north though, while the cloud disappears and we will see lengthy clear spells leading to 1 or 2 mist and fog patches , and 1 or 2 mist and fog patches, and rather chilly in some places , rather chilly in some places, particularly in some valleys and

some glens. but we start off wednesday with plenty of dry weather. at least there'll be some cloud across east wales into the midlands , central and into the midlands, central and southern england. but that will tend to fizzle away and retreat back to the coast, where it could remain through much of the day. otherwise, blue skies by the afternoon across the country and once again highs into the low to mid 20s. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on

gb news. >> morning, 11 am. on tuesday gb news. >> morning, 11 am. on tuesday the 17th of september. live the 17th of september. live across the uk. this is britain's across the uk. this is britain's newsroom with andrew pierce and newsroom with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> good morning. thank you for thank you for joining us. so sick note britain >> good morning. thank you for joining us. so sick note britain a surge in long term illness has a surge in long term illness has made britain the sick man of made britain the sick man of europe. there are almost 1 europe. there are almost 1 million people out of work due million people out of work due

to their health. do you think to their health. do you think the skivers or are people the skivers or are people genuinely more ill? genuinely more ill? >> not one day in jail. the >> not one day in jail. the former face of the bbc, huw edwards, avoids prison for accessing indecent images of children. >> and in a gb news exclusive this morning, rotherham rape gang survivors demand deportation for their abusers charlie peters has more survivors censored by the courts. >> one survivor last week said i am your karma. i am taking your freedom. as she addressed the defendants. but a judge said she couldn't tell them. she warned them she wanted them to be deported . deported. >> and the woodford air show is taking place in greater manchester today. it's a very special one. it's its 100th anniversary. our sophie reaper is there to see 100 years of avro at woodford, and the celebrations are just getting underway. >> later on in the hour, we'll

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genuinely more ill? >> not one the in jail. the genuinely more ill? >> not one the government's first step in the government's mission to reform the broken health service. members of the british medical association have voted to accept the government's offer of a 22% pay rise over two years. however, the conservatives are warning the government not to set a precedent by awarding striking workers with what they've described as bumper pay rises. earlier, the deputy leader of the liberal democrats, daisy coopen the liberal democrats, daisy cooper, spoke to us with their thoughts. >> part of the answer is pay. but as i say, it's just a first step. what we liberal democrats want to see is a really ambitious budget in october. we want the labour government to use the budget to be a budget to save our nhs and care services, and as part of that, we want to see an increase in day to day spending, not by taxing struggling families, but by reversing the tax cuts for the big banks and closing the loopholes in capital gains tax. so the wealthiest pay a little bit more. but we also want to see borrowing to repair our crumbling hospitals and gp surgeries to . surgeries to. >> donald trump has spoken publicly for the first time since being targeted in an

apparent assassination attempt at the weekend on his florida golf course. speaking in a live stream on the social media platform x, the former president described being grabbed by secret service agents after heanng secret service agents after hearing 4 or 5 gunshots ring out. 58 year old ryan wesley ruth is facing federal gun charges after a secret service agent spotted his rifle poking through the bushes on the perimeter of that golf course before opening fire at him. mr trump also praised his protection team and in a rare show of political unity, he commended president joe biden for calling him. >> i was with an agent and the agent did a fantastic job. there was no question that we were off that course. i would have loved to have sank that last putt, but we decided, let's get out of here. we do need more people on my detail because we have 50, 60,000 people showing up to events . and, you know, other events. and, you know, other people don't have that . people don't have that. >> the voice of donald trump there. well, here, a man accused of killing the wife and two

daughters of bbc racing commentator john daughters of bbc racing commentatorjohn hunt in a crossbow attack, has been charged with their murders. today, carl clifford, from enfield, will appear at the central criminal court sitting at the high court. this afternoon. the 26 year old is also facing charges of false imprisonment and possession of offensive weapons. 61 year old carol hunt and her two daughters, louise and hannah, were found fatally injured at their home in hertfordshire on their home in hertfordshire on the 9th of july. john hunt and his surviving daughter amy, have said their devastation cannot be put into words. the prime minister says he's angry after seeing photos of offenders celebrating their early release from prison. after the government's plan to ease overcrowding was launched , 1700 overcrowding was launched, 1700 inmates were freed last week, with some seen toasting outside with some seen toasting outside with family and friends. sir keir starmer blames the former prime minister, rishi sunak, accusing the conservatives of delaying action until after the general election, leaving labour to deal with the crisis. he says

overcrowding forced him to make a choice between releasing prisoners or stopping arrests . prisoners or stopping arrests. the liberal democrats say the trust placed in them by voters at the general election must be repaid in full after the party secured 72 seats. sir ed davey will pledge to finish the job of defeating the conservatives in his keynote speech at the party's conference. later, health and social care will be at the front and centre of that speech, with the lib dem leader vowing to focus on fixing the nhs despite years of what he calls tory mismanagement. he is also expecting to accuse the conservative leadership race of scraping the bottom of the barrel and being out of touch with real people . in the last with real people. in the last few minutes, the kremlin have responded to news that meta has banned some of its media networks from the platform they say meta is discrediting itself after those platforms have been banned. it covers facebook, instagram, whatsapp and threads

with enforcement rolling out over the next few days . the over the next few days. the social media giant said the move marks an escalation from previous actions it took, where the platforms limited the reach of the outlets and blocked some ads . the rapper sean combs , also ads. the rapper sean combs, also known as p diddy, has been arrested in new york. the 54 year old music mogul is under investigation for allegations including sexual assault and trafficking, after a number of women came forward. combs, though, has denied all claims against him and his team insists he is innocent and is ready to clear his name in court. he is innocent and is ready to clear his name in court . and clear his name in court. and finally look up at london's skies and you could see some drones soon whizzing overhead, flying blood samples between hospitals . the project, starting hospitals. the project, starting this autumn, will cut transport times from 30 minutes to under two minutes, speeding up some critical blood tests for surgery patients. it's the first initiative of its kind in the caphal initiative of its kind in the capital, regulated by the civil aviation authority, and could even pave the way for some

future nhs drone deliveries. experts hope it will transform healthcare logistics across london. those are the latest headunes london. those are the latest headlines for now. i'll be back with you in half an hour for another roundup for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> it's tea and biscuits 11:00. you know we like to do this. >> been caught in the act, >> been caught in the act, >> talking of caught in the act. now, here @gbnews, we don't we don't mind owning our normal human mistakes. so if you weren't watching just a minute ago . andrew pierce did a ago. andrew pierce did a classic. he completely forgot he was on tv. here it is. >> much excitement happening here at woodford today. and we'll be bringing you all the latest. we'll be in a lancaster in the next hour. so that's very exciting. >> okay. thank you . sophie >> okay. thank you. sophie >> okay. thank you. sophie >> that is a bit of it. i saw

something on the autocue and i thought, i'm not reading that. >> you've got to look at yourself. i know, i know. what are you doing? you can't just. you. >> you poor sophie. she was doing such a nice report to you. >> you weren't criticising sophie at all. no, it wasn't aimed at you. >> no. no, no. sophie. >> no. no, no. sophie. >> up in up north. exactly. it wasn't aimed at you, sophie. that was just andrew pierce. because, you know, tell them what you were cross about. >> well, the foreign secretary is going to make a speech today. where he's going to bang on about climate change. and it was written on the autocue that he was going to talk about the threat from climate change. no. what he's actually going to say is climate change is a much bigger threat than terrorism. tell that to the victims of the manchester arena bombing. 23 people killed. what a stupid thing for the foreign sector to say. that's what i was agitated about. why? >> he was cross? because he could see what was coming up and he wasn't going to say it, ladies and gentlemen. he was not going to say it. gbnews.com/yoursay to tell us your thoughts this morning. but now rotherham and rotherham. sexual exploitation survivor was ordered to remove a demand for

her abuser to be deported. gb news can reveal. >> woman gave a moving statement in sheffield crown court last week, over 20 years after she was groomed and abused from the age of 11 by the pakistani heritage men. >> charlie peters is here to explain more about this. charlie, just just kind of give us a little bit more flesh on the bones of this story because this is obviously many years ago. so this young girl who was abused has grown up, found her voice and made this statement to the court in 2003, she was 11 years old. >> she was groomed at her primary school playground. by the time she was 16, she had been sexually exploited by over 150 men, five of them. >> how is that possible, charlie? >> it was possible because so many authorities looked the other way during the height of this scandal throughout rotherham and south yorkshire, but also rochdale . telford in but also rochdale. telford in analysis, we've done at the channel over 50, over 50 towns across the country, she said . across the country, she said. >> she was like a rag doll, she said in her victim impact

statement. >> she was passed around like fresh meat. those are the words she used in court now in this case, this is a sub operation. an investigation from operation stovewood, the national crime agency launched that operation in 2014 because south yorkshire police had not done their job police had not done theirjob from 1997 to 2014, at the height of this abuse scandal, stovewood has identified some 150 victims. this one survivor that we saw in court on thursday is just one of them. but she gave what is undoubtedly one of the most emotionally charged and powerful things i've ever seen , which was things i've ever seen, which was she addressed her defendants in court directly , telling them court directly, telling them that they had lost. she said, you took my childhood, you took my freedom. but i am your karma. as they were sentenced to 106 years in total. but just before she gave that speech, i heard the cps barrister in brief conversation with the judge. mr justice slater, and they said before she gave this victim impact statement that any discussion on whether or not these men remain in the country is for the home office. now, she

then didn't deliver a part of her speech that was removed on the orders of the judge. but she's passed me since a full copy of the victim impact statement. she wanted to deliver , statement. she wanted to deliver, which includes the line, i'd like to request that two of the men are deported after they served their sentences. one of those men required an urdu interpreter in the court. he couldn't sufficiently understand engush couldn't sufficiently understand english as he was being sentenced, and throughout the trial 22 years ago, he abused this girl , trial 22 years ago, he abused this girl, attacking her when she was 11. but still he doesn't speak the language. and that's in part because he hails from pakistan, where many of the grooming gang abusers have done across the country. now, under the uk borders act two thousand and seven, any foreign nationals sentenced to a custodial sentenced to a custodial sentence of 12 months or more must be deported. that's the law. it rarely happens. in fact, because of the echr ruling and the government's commitment to refugee conventions. but here's more in the 2022 nationality and borders act this government now has the power to punish nations

that refuse to accept nationals being deported back. we can punish them by applying visa penalties. my sources tell me that the foreign office has consistently blocked any application of that power. now, there are about 40 people who've been prosecuted successfully in the rotherham abuse scandal. of 1150 victims, over 1500 victims originally identified by two previous government reports, just 40, none of them have been deported. many of them have dual nationality or are sole pakistani nationals. there are also other backgrounds involved. some british nationals as well . some british nationals as well. in rochdale, two men, cari ralph and adil khan. in rochdale, two men, cari ralph and adil khan . they were and adil khan. they were sentenced in 2014. they were ordered to be deported, had their nationality stripped. they're both still in the country as far as i can tell, based on my research. looking into situ for many years, more men have fled prosecution after fearing investigation than have been deported due to this heinous crime , possibly the heinous crime, possibly the worst sexual abuse atrocity in this country's history. >> who has the power to deport them? is it the judge who who

can say at the end of your sentence you're deported? or is it up to the home office? it's the home office. >> it's the home secretary. >> it's the home secretary. >> that power lies again. >> that power lies again. >> when i asked the home office about this case last night, the home office said, we don't comment on individual cases, but of course, the law is there for all of us to see any sentence over 12 months, foreign nationals must be deported . nationals must be deported. we'll follow this story, of course, and i'll continue to ask the home office if they have any plans on these ongoing legal proceedings with those two offenders that the victim wanted to raise in court. but she was denied the opportunity to do that. she was denied the opportunity to say what she wanted to say to those defendants. having said that, it was still an extraordinary and powerful delivery by the judge was would wouldn't allow her to say that. so i think there are some judicial rules on what's considered acceptable within a victim impact statement. but i do think many of our viewers and listeners will be hearing this story and thinking this girl has endured the most horrific and appalling abuse for decades. she was denied justice by authorities who did not want to act due to sexist attitudes towards the girls and fears of

being called racist and now she has this opportunity to speak and they said not quite. and she wasn't listened to. >> that's the thing, isn't it? there's no way that she didn't make her, you know , make make her, you know, make sentences, make statements to maybe teachers or the parents about what was happening and police officers, possibly she wasn't listened to. john has got in touch at home and he says victim impact statements should not be touched by the authorities. they should be able to say anything they want. the state is slowly trying to control everything and at some point we need to stand up to it. isuppose point we need to stand up to it. i suppose you have to have to look at them to make sure they're accurate. >> they have to and they have to sign an agreement that nothing included in it is prejudicial or false or defamatory. >> that's fine. there was no concern on that in these cases. that line was crossed out and the discussion i heard between the judge and the barrister, i should stress no other reporters are in the court to hear this. the sole reporter there covering that sentencing, they did say that's a matter for the home office. it's not for us to comment on. she wanted to say it. she couldn't. >> is she still in the rotherham

area? >> i'm not allowed to give that information. >> can i say, because i'm just hypothesising. if she were, if she was, it would be very nice if they would deport them, because then she'd never have to have the misfortune of running into them again. >> you know, andrew, i've met so many survivors related to this scandal across the country, and they all too often they say that they all too often they say that they are re—offended again when they are re—offended again when they get short sentences, their abusers and they see them again in the supermarket, in the street, in their local area. and i should also add in that sentencing in the public gallery packed by the families of those seven defendants, one of the abusers, as he was led out of court with a 25 year sentence, a daughter shouted i love you, dad! and there were sighs of exasperation as the heavy sentences were handed down. i've also consistently found a trend where people who are let out of prison after being sentenced for these crimes are allowed to return to the community without any sense of shame. >> extraordinary punishment. well like we said, we've been saying throughout the show in relation to the huw edwards story, look after children, look

after children. >> everything else takes care of itself. charlie, linda has got in touch at home. she said, charlie peters is our hero. she said, expose these horrific crimes 20 years. it's so disgusting , says linda. i could disgusting, says linda. i could cry for these victims. yes it is karma. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> absolutely right. and also grumpy grandad has said bev and andrew why are you not promoting patrick's justgiving page? it's very important. i'm shocked you're not behind it. thank you so much for reminding me. i bet you didn't watch the telly last night, did you? i didn't, he's always somewhere more glamorous. >> i was at dinner. >> i was at dinner. >> i was actually, i was in the gym. l >> i was actually, i was in the gym. i know you get that you need. so i didn't watch patrick's show last night. but thank you, grumpy grandad, for reminding me, because i did hear it on the radio when i was back cleaning my teeth a little bit later. patrick has got a fantastic campaign running. it's a fund raiser for friends of the elderly. inspired by sir keir starmer's inability to help these people keep their houses warm in the winter. watch patrick's show at 9:00 tonight, 9 to 11. i might be on the running machine. you'll be having a drink somewhere glamorous. 9 to 11 tonight.

watch patrick and you can get all the details on that, because ihave all the details on that, because i have to say, the amount that was even donated during the show last night was amazing, because this is because this is an issue that everyone is talking about. >> the wicked decision to take away winter fuel from 12 million pensioners. >> and because we have the best viewers in the world and they're very generous. up next, junior doctors have finally secured a pay doctors have finally secured a pay deal with the government. but what will they want next? we'll be asking that in just a minute. this is britain's newsroom

gb news. >> 11:20. gb news. >>11:20. this is britain's newsroom live across the uk. andrew pearson bev turner back with the panel reem ibrahim from the institute of economic affairs centre. right. it's fair to say it would. and centre left nigel nelson, who is the most unpopular man on gb news today after his stout defence of huw edwards appalling sentence. >> would you like to defend yourself and say you're not defender? >> nigel nelson i'm not defending, i'm not defending

paedophilia or. i'm just arguing that the sentence was appropriate. right, right. >> okay. we'll let you do that, so it appears outpouring of rage on social media and it appears that labour's lady starmer, who went to fashion week yesterday dressed in a very expensive frock , is trolling the british frock, is trolling the british pubuc frock, is trolling the british public on a day that she was criticised for taking free clothes off a labour donor. >> are they utterly tone deaf? >> are they utterly tone deaf? >> it's absolutely absurd. i think what's really interesting is the comms of the labour government seems to just be absolutely terrible, and the fact that in the midst of this clothes gate scandal, she thinks it's appropriate to then frolic around in in her new dress, i think is quite absurd. it just looks bad whether or not the dress was donated to her or not looks bad. in the midst of this conversation about the fact that they didn't declare the rest of her gift , particularly as she her gift, particularly as she made it absolutely clear in one of she's only done about 1 or 2 interviews. >> i am not going to be the

prime minister's wife. add on. i'm not going to be the conventional, traditional prime minister's consort, so you'll rarely see me effectively. so again begs the question why does she need £5,000 worth of clothes if she's not going to be going to all these public engagements? but secondly, but to go to the fashion week yesterday with this controversy raging, he's away abroad in italy and he's being asked all about it . it shows asked all about it. it shows she's cocking a snook, isn't she ? yeah. >> it comes across as very, very tone deaf. and this is the problem. and i think what's really interesting is the fact that the labour government just haven't got their line right. david lammy, the foreign secretary, then going on saying, well, actually what we should do is what the us do, which is we have a taxpayer funded budget for clothes. my god, how tone deaf can we be? and then at the same time, in italy, starmer being asked about it, saying, no, no, i don't think that's right. in any normal situation, at least i think before the bofis at least i think before the boris johnson era, any time two ministers, the prime minister and the foreign secretary especially disagree. so separately, publicly one would be required to resign that just

isn't the case anymore. we've lost all of that kind of sort of procedure and collective responsibility. there's also an element of hypocrisy here. keir starmer went after boris johnson for the wallpaper being donated to him, and at the same time he's frolicking around. his wife is being allowed to do that entirely, entirely freely. and of course, has landed front page of course, has landed front page of the mail whilst nigel. >> keir starmer is saying that he can't go into the football stands because of security reasons. yes. therefore, if i don't accept a gift of hospitality, i can't go to a game. i'm never going to go to an arsenal game again because i can't accept hospitality. he's pushing it a bit far. he didn't explain why he couldn't just buy himself a hospitality ticket anyway. >> no? well, exactly . and it's >> no? well, exactly. and it's not a very good explanation. rishi sunak went to southampton games and was happy to sit in the stands so ? so there was no the stands so? so there was no problem there. if the security detail that surrounds him says, look, this is actually dangerous, you don't go at all. i mean, it was as simple as that. the issue here is i'm not

worried about his football tickets. i think that's okay. i'm not worried about hospitality. i think there must be some common sense about what is acceptable and unacceptable. if you take expensive gifts, thatis if you take expensive gifts, that is bad optics. and so that is unacceptable. as a journalist or corruption. well, no, i think i think i don't think we go as high as that. it doesn't matter whether it's it might be. well, yes. it might be. >> but the point is that we don't know, isn't it. that's the point. and we don't we don't have the. >> but it's a bad look. >> but it's a bad look. >> it's a bad look simply to be taking the gift in the first place. as a journalist, i was happy to take hospitality from people whenever i was offered an expensive gift, i always turned it down. >> why ? i remember sending >> why? i remember sending a hamper back just because i didn't want. >> i didn't want to them to think i was beholden to them in any way. >> so why did the starmer's not feel like that when lord alli offered, that's what they should have done. >> but this is where i'm talking about common sense. i think that if they show some common sense about it, then it said , look, about it, then it said, look, no, we won't, we won't take that

money. and i don't believe there's corruption involved. i think that waheed alli was giving the money because he just gives money, but he was given number 10 powers. >> and this this does this does call into question. i mean, i know we're saying that it isn't corruption. and we of course have no idea what the full details of these stories actually are . but lord alli was actually are. but lord alli was given a pass to number 10. that is direct access to the prime minister. >> heard of nigel farage? >> heard of nigel farage? >> no, i agree, i mean, again, they haven't actually explained properly what he what he needed. >> can i just remind you what anthony said a couple of years ago? i'll tell you what andrew rayner said. what right does a man who lives on 150,000 a year ask tory donors to fund his luxury wallpaper habit? >> i agree, i mean , what we've >> i agree, i mean, what we've seen now since the election is the parties have kind of reversed. so the attacks the tories are making on labour are exactly the attacks that labour made on the tories, proof that no matter what colour tie you wear, if you are a politician, you are bound to end up taking on a lot of this kind of corruption.

>> i think it's just the nature of government, but i find still most puzzling about it. >> i mean, i thought it was bizarre that he took £20,000 from waheed alli for his wardrobe and his glasses because he earned plenty of money himself. leader of the opposition earns 155,000 a year. that's right. yeah, but then the £5,000 for lady victoria, his wife , he didn't think he needed wife, he didn't think he needed to declare it. >> well, i mean , from the labour >> well, i mean, from the labour party's biggest personal donor. >> he didn't think he needed to declare it. >> i think that the rules here are a bit opaque. >> i mean, they're not, and i know we will look at them outside and they go on and on and on. nigel, you and i know that i'm prepared to accept that. >> that is an oversight. come on. i'm not prepared to. clever lawyer is he shouldn't have taken taken the gifts in the first place. >> what do you mean? why would he not have realised the man who's given been given a free pass into number 10? who's given him £20,000 worth of gifts, has also given his wife £5,000 because he doesn't feel he needed to declare it . needed to declare it. >> it's not clear under the rules about about what you you and what you would declare it. >> right. >> right. >> let's let's move . let's just

>> let's let's move. let's just move on to another story, shall we? let's go. what's this story about the civil service chief under pressure amid anger over leaks and briefings. >> yes, yes, this is a cabinet office spokesperson that was sort of denied that the sort of richard case was the source of any of those leaks and the sort of negative briefing. this is the cabinet secretary, the cabinet secretary. yes. and what's really interesting is there are, of course, calls for him to resign as well. i think what's interesting about this, again, is that it sort of comes into this perspective that there are these particular leaks that are these particular leaks that are coming from government actually, interestingly relates the first story about the government's entire optics, their entire comms. and this kind of does come into question whether or not these particular perspectives are actually coming from inside the government itself. and i think that this is really a question for the public to decide. >> a lot of this is about sue gray, isn't it? who was brought in as chief of staff. she was a very senior civil servant, nigel. she was the one who conducted the investigation into partygate, which effectively finished off boris johnson. she's gone into number 10. she has made. there was a great line in the new statesman a few weeks

ago saying it's sue gray against everybody. she seems to have ruffled so many feathers and a lot of stories are being leaked about it, including i have to say, 1 or 2 to me and the suggestion now is that the cabinet secretary no less, simon case, the most senior civil servant in the land , may be responsible. >> yeah. which in fact they deny . >> yeah. which in fact they deny. i mean, of course they did, but it would be unprecedented if the most senior. >> yes, it would if briefing against the prime minister. >> yes. i've never heard of a cabinet secretary briefing staff. let me tell you , one's staff. let me tell you, one's never briefed me. >> well, i would have liked i knew a lot of cabinet secretaries and they never told me anything that was secret . me anything that was secret. >> right, so, yes, i think i think you have to be right here. and reem is right about about the comms that it goes into all of this, doesn't it? it's partly to do with the clothes. it's partly to do with winter fuel allowance . it's the way they put allowance. it's the way they put stuff out. when alastair campbell used to head up the operation in number 10, his view was that policy and presentation were was were flip sides of the same coin. yeah. the important thing is you get your message

right, whether it's to do with clothes, winter fuel, whatever it is. and they're not getting it is. and they're not getting it right at the moment. >> what's so interesting? throughout the whole month of august, we were seeing these leaked stories and we were not heanng leaked stories and we were not hearing about what the potential details of gb energy could look like, what the policy, the government, what kind of policies the government want to look. >> noises off were drowning out all the others. >> absolutely. and we all know that the month of august, as journalists is a little bit quiet. it's, you know, parliamentary recess. it's we call it the silly period where, you know, all these stories sort of come out and at the exact same time, the government should be at the forefront of leading on the narrative. and they just haven't. >> what's going i mean, i mean, the blair era, it was brilliantly stage managed, wasn't it ? but i thought it was wasn't it? but i thought it was bizarre. i was at the tuc conference last week. the prime minister makes a speech on the day they're voting in the afternoon on winter fuel. so the speech was always going to be blown out of the water by the by the huge revolt that could never have happened in the blair era. >> but that's what i'm talking about. it is how you how you do

the comms. the one thing i think government have a duty to do is explain to us what they're doing . explain to us what they're doing. so if you take winter fuel, i'm against the way they're doing it. i think it should have been thrown into the pension and tax. so richer people , richer so richer people, richer pensioners paid a chunk of it back. but however, rachel reeves apparently needs £1.4 billion now. and there's i can't think of another way you might get it. what she needs to do is explain why she needs that money, why it has to be right now, and why it is those particular people that are getting it. >> i mean, this entire poor pensioners. well, exactly. the fact that there's this £13,000 threshold, it wasn't ever explained. the fact that pension credit now they're trying to increase pension uptake of pension credit was never explained . actually, what could explained. actually, what could happenis explained. actually, what could happen is this could actually cost the treasury even more. but nobody's talking about it. >> i can tell you how to find the 1.4 billion. nigel, you cut it off the bloated international aid budget. can we spend the money here rather than did you know, andrew, that actually a lot of the money that we're spending in international aid is actually on areas of the world

that are wealthier than some parts of the uk? >> i'm sure that's right. >> i'm sure that's right. >> can we just bring you some breaking news? sorry, i was a little bit distracted then, a friend of mine, actually. ex—boyfriend, in fact. breaking news, tv and radio presenter jamie theakston has announced he's been diagnosed with stage one laryngeal cancer , this just one laryngeal cancer, this just announced he's only 53. jamie's got two teenage boys. beautiful wife, sophie as well. he said i have cancer, but cancer doesn't have cancer, but cancer doesn't have me. the prognosis is very positive. i'm hoping to be back with you in october. he, of course, hosts a radio show with amanda holden, heart breakfast. he said big thanks to his co—presenters and the global family who've been unbelievably supportive. be thankful for this day when i see you next. i've got a great story to tell. >> jamie. let's wish him all the very best. >> yeah, all the best, jamie. right, time now for your news headunes right, time now for your news headlines with san francisco . headlines with san francisco. >> very good morning to you. it's just after 11:30. the top story from the newsroom this houn story from the newsroom this hour. health secretary wes

streeting says the end of a pay dispute with junior doctors marks the first step in the government's mission to, he says, reform the broken health service. members of the british medical association have voted to accept the government's offer of a 22% pay rise over two years. however, the conservatives are warning the government not to set a precedent by awarding striking workers with what they've described as bumper pay rises. donald trump has spoken publicly for the first time since being targeted in an apparent assassination attempt at the weekend on his florida golf course . speaking in a live course. speaking in a live stream on social media, the former president described being grabbed by secret service agents after 4 or 5 gunshots were heard. 58 year old ryan wesley ruth is facing federal gun charges after an agent spotted his rifle poking through the bushes on the outskirts of that golf course. mr trump's also praised his protection team and in a rare show of political unity, commended president joe biden for giving him a call

here. a man accused of killing the wife and two daughters of bbc racing commentator john hunt bbc racing commentatorjohn hunt in a crossbow attack , has been in a crossbow attack, has been charged with their murders. karl clifford, from enfield, will appearin clifford, from enfield, will appear in court this afternoon facing three counts of murder. the 26 year old also faces charges of false imprisonment and possession of offensive weapons. 61 year old carol hunt and her daughters louise and hannah, were found fatally injured at their home in hertfordshire on the 9th of july. john hunt and his surviving daughter aimee say their devastation cannot be put into words . the liberal into words. the liberal democrats say the trust placed in them by voters must be repaid in them by voters must be repaid in full after the party secured 72 seats in the july general election, sir ed davey is set to pledge to finish the job of defeating the conservatives in his keynote speech at the party's conference in brighton.

this afternoon. health and social care will be at the front and centre of that speech, with the lib dem leader vowing to focus on fixing the nhs despite years of what he's calling conservative mismanagement. he's also expected to accuse the conservatives leadership race, currently ongoing, of scraping the bottom of the barrel and of being out of touch with real people . a new survey reveals people. a new survey reveals that over 1.7 million households in the uk won't be turning on their heating this winter, nearly double the number from last year. rising living costs are said to to be blame, with more than half of those surveyed by uswitch saying it's too expensive and many older residents losing winter fuel payments. another million households say they'll delay heating until december , while heating until december, while more than 17% plan to set their thermostat below 18 c to save money. and the rapper sean combs also known as p diddy, has been arrested in new york. the 54

year old music mogul is under investigation for allegations including sexual assault and trafficking , after a number of trafficking, after a number of women came forward. combs has denied all those claims, though, and his team insists he is innocent and ready to clear his name in court . innocent and ready to clear his name in court. those are the latest headlines for now. a full roundup at 12:00. first, though, a look at the markets for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone. >> sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code , or go to scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . gbnews.com forward slash alerts. >> cheers! britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report, as promised here is a look at the markets just after 11:30. >> the pound will buy you $1.3228 and ,1.1873. the price of gold £1,947.95 per ounce. and

the ftse 100 is at 8345 points. >> cheers ! britannia wine club >> cheers! britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report . financial report. >> barrier. emily and tom are with us to tell us what's coming up this afternoon. >> you introduce us now. no introduction. >> you need no introduction. >> you need no introduction. >> and it is me and tom. >> and it is me and tom. >> it is the required part of the program. we know half 11. >> what do you make of. >> what do you make of. >> what do you make of. >> what do you think of mauve? >> what do you think of mauve? >> do you like a mauve? >> do you like a mauve? >> mauve works terribly well on this set. no. >> perhaps not. >> perhaps not. >> i wore a shirt the other day and i just disappeared. >> blended into the background. you've got a light background. ours is dark blue. >> oh, well, maybe you'll be okay. >> perhaps we'll see. >> perhaps we'll see. >> we'll see. anyway, that is totally not important because we've got a jam packed, jam packed show coming up. we're going to start with them speaking to mark white, our home security editor, who was at the court yesterday for the sentencing of huw edwards. >> i mean, the backlash is huge, but what he's highlighting is not just the reaction of huw edwards in the court, which

perhaps was a little arrogant, but also the fact that he didn't get one of these sexual harm prevention orders. so he has unfettered access still to the internet. did i not say exactly that? >> yeah. i said, what's the point? i said, how do we know he's not going to go back on the internet looking? >> exactly. and especially if he is so disturbed and mentally unwell. >> it's a simple task of monitoring. it's not sort of restricting or anything like that. you'd think it's the lightest touch precaution, but but clearly the judge didn't feel that that was necessary. and of course, a lot of this has been resting upon huw edwards own claims about his mental health that he would be at risk in prison, that he would be a danger to himself, potentially. >> i'm sorry. >> i'm sorry. >> that's not is this rich man's justice. >> it's not an issue for the judge. >> he's been able to pay for all these experts to back him up with all of this. so what is his punishment? >> that's what i think. how is his life? >> he's going on a course. >> he's going on a course. he's going on a sex offenders course and he's going on a register for and he's going on a register for a few years. he'd already made

his money. he's not going to go and try and get a proper job and try and get a properjob anyway. >> keeps his gold plated bbc pension. >> he still hasn't given back the £200,000 he was paid from the £200,000 he was paid from the moment he was arrested, even though he wasn't working for the bbc at the time. shocking. it's a disgrace, really. what did they not what? what could the judge have given sexual harm prevention order. >> and that includes things like monitoring and prevention of onune monitoring and prevention of online material etcetera, but yes, but it's not just the huw edwards show today. >> we're also, of course, talking about the extraordinary decision of lady victoria starmer , the wife of the prime starmer, the wife of the prime minister, to wear thousands of pounds of designer clothing at london fashion week. she says, or at least those who defend her are saying, well, she's just trying to exhibit british fashion. i don't think she was the most famous person in britain or that the world is going to be taking notice of who? she's not a royal. starmer is right. but it's also very odd that at the same time, keir starmer is saying he's going to continue to accept gifts of items, of clothing, of glasses, of all the rest of it, football tickets. the person, of course, who paid for this stuff in the main gets a downing street pass.

and this is all in the context of taking money away from pensioners. >> it is a horrendous look for this gives you an insight into the man though. >> it's all about as long as i stick to the rules and i put it all into the system. what about the actual optics and morals of it? >> but he didn't stick to the rules because he didn't declare it. >> i know, but going forward, going forward, i'll fill in my forms and then i can accept whatever. >> and yet that's not what he said about boris johnson. >> it's not what he said. when, when, when a conservative peer paid for new wallpaper for downing street, which isn't even a personal gift to boris johnson, that's a gift for downing street in the director's box at arsenal, free of charge. >> and yet rishi sunak used to sit in the stand at southampton and pay for his own tickets. >> there you go. rishi sunak, man of the people now yesterday i thought the starmer's were behaving a little bit like lottery winners without any dignity whatsoever, but they're a bit more now, like x factor winners, aren't they? >> they're just taking it all as it comes. they'll take the freebies, they'll take the opportunities. >> and maybe this is just because i've been reading a book, but i think he's been

reading a book. i think it's quite napoleonic, napoleon, who sort of came from, you know, not not the higher echelons. you mean new money? >> it's a bit new money. well, no, no, it's just the lottery winner was napoleon, the son of a tool maker. >> napoleon? no. he was. he was the son of a minor corsican royal, corsican nobleman. >> but they had no money. he had lost the room. >> but sophie reaper is at the woodford airshow in greater manchester. >> save it for your show and we will come up with it. >> it'll be better. >> it'll be better. >> and also, foreign secretary david lammy is about to set out labour's clean energy plan and make a stupid claim. don't go anywhere. this is britain's newsroom on gb news.

david >> 1144. this is david >>1144. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pearson, bev turner. >> it's the woodford air show's 100th anniversary in greater manchester. and our sophie reaper gb news is west north—west london, north—west

london, north—west england . london, north—west england. reporter is there for us now , reporter is there for us now, sophie. what a lovely day . sophie. what a lovely day. >> it is indeed. now, you may be wondering why i'm crouched down like this. it's because we are in an actual replica of a lancaster bomber, one of the most famous craft produced by avro. but it's got all of its original features still inside . original features still inside. it is absolutely incredible to be inside it and joining us to talk a little bit now about that is the chairman and trustee of the avro heritage museum, terry barnes, thank you very much for joining us, terry. good morning to you. good morning. talk to me about the lancaster. obviously, this is one of the most famous crafts of world war ii. talk to me about the significance of it. >> right. well, the 4000 of these were made at woodford , these were made at woodford, and. but the significance of it is it held the most heavily bombed. it had the greatest capacity in terms of bombs of any allied bomber . so it could any allied bomber. so it could actually take a lot of munition, which even the american bombers could not do. so it was the

plane, the bomber of the war. it also was involved in operation manna, where it gave food to the dutch people. so it also brought back from operation exodus. it brought back prisoners of war. when the war ended. so we're really famous aircraft which had multi multi uses. but of course it was the bombing that it was the most famous for and a lot of people say that without the lancaster, the war would not have been as short as it was. it could have been even longer because the lancaster was able to hit targets which no other bomber could do. >> now, obviously we're here today. we're celebrating 100 years of avro, who produced hundreds of crafts, obviously didn't. they were celebrating avro. but we're also celebrating the heritage of aviation in greater manchester. what does it mean to you to be here today marking this very special occasion? >> well, we're very honoured and we're very proud of the fact that the museum and all our

volunteers who are tremendous volunteers who are tremendous volunteers and we're here to protect the legacy and the history and to inspire this and future generations of the aircraft industry in greater manchester, in particular, which dunng manchester, in particular, which during the war and beyond has war and beyond has during the war and beyond has been absolutely amazing. and been absolutely amazing. and there were so many world firsts there were so many world firsts that came out of the manchester that came out of the manchester and particularly avro. and particularly avro. >> thank you so much forjoining >> thank you so much forjoining us, terry. i mean, it really is us, terry. i mean, it really is truly so special to be, not to truly so special to be, not to just to be here, but to be here just to be here, but to be here inside this lancaster. i mean, inside this lancaster. i mean, what an incredible craft this what an incredible craft this is.thank what an incredible craft this is. thank you so much for is.thank what an incredible craft this is. thank you so much for joining us. what a special day joining us. what a special day and still so much more to come and still so much more to come with the fly—past later on with the fly—past later on today, which we're going to be today, which we're going to be bringing you live here on gb bringing you live here on gb news dambusters film . news dambusters film . news dambusters film. >> can you sing the song? news dambusters film. >> can you sing the song? >> can you sing the song? >> da da da da. >> can you sing the song? >> da da da da. >> da da da da. >> da da da da. >> da da da da. that's >> da da da da. that's it. >> da da da da. that's >> da da da da. that's it. >> very good, very patriotic. >> very good, very patriotic. right. the excitement is right. the excitement is building and it's not andrew building and it's not andrew singing any moment now. the singing any moment now. the foreign secretary, david lammy. foreign secretary, david lammy. that's not him. he's going to be that's not him. he's going to be making a speech setting out making a speech setting out labour's clean energy plan with labour's clean energy plan with the foreign secretary. doesn't the foreign secretary. doesn't

matter. there's trees in the background. that means it's about the environment. miss it. this is britain's

gb news. we are i say the excitement is go on, you go. >> cos he's like a coiled spring. >> the excitement is rising because the foreign secretary is going to make his first major speech. you'd think he'd be talking about foreign affairs, but actually he's going to be talking about climate change. but actually what's infuriated me, he's going to say in his speech, climate change is a more fundamental threat to the world than terrorism. i'm sorry. that is a scandalous thing to say. it's thoughtless and not thought through. and it will cause such offence to people who have been victims of terrorism. he's just arriving now at the platform so we can cross live now to the foreign secretary, david lammy. i make a prediction he won't be foreign secretary by the next general election . general election. >> my first set speech as foreign secretary.

>> i've wanted to do this for years. so i'm going to enjoy it, and this of course, is just after you hosted the colombian president of this year's nature cop, in cali this morning . cop, in cali this morning. conflicts in ukraine and the middle east have dominated my time in office so far. but i was very clear in opposition that in this job very clear in opposition that in thisjob i very clear in opposition that in this job i would focus on the most profound and universal source of global disorder the climate and nature emergency, over my political career, it has become clearer to me how this crisis defines our time . and as crisis defines our time. and as a young backbencher , i admired a young backbencher, i admired robin cook making climate a

geopolitical issue for the first time. he was a pioneer ahead of his time . four years ago, i his time. four years ago, i spoke about the essential link between climate justice and racial justice in a ted talk. and as shadow foreign secretary, i set out how our response to this crisis both can create an unparalleled economic opportunity. but also is central to the geopolitical challenge of our age, time and time again, it is the most vulnerable who bear the brunt of the crisis . from the brunt of the crisis. from ella kissi—debrah, a nine year old londoner killed in part by unlawful levels of air pollution

near her home to communities that are dear to my heart in the caribbean, whose leaders tell me they feel neglected as they struggle with stronger, more frequent tropical storms caused by a crisis not of their making. so our goal is progressive , a so our goal is progressive, a liveable planet for all now and in the future . but we need a in the future. but we need a hard headed, realist approach towards using all levers at our disposal, from the diplomatic to the financial. and i say to you now, these are not contradictions because nothing could be more central to the uk's national interests than delivering global progress on arresting, rising temperatures. my argument to you today is that

demands for action from the world's most vulnerable , and the world's most vulnerable, and the requirements for delivering security for british citizens , security for british citizens, are fundamentally aligned . and are fundamentally aligned. and this is because the crisis is not some discrete policy area divorced from geopolitics and insecurity. the threat may not feel as urgent as a terrorist or an imperialist autocrat, but it is more fundamental. it is systemic, it's pervasive and accelerating towards us at pace. look around the world. countries are scrambling to secure critical minerals just as great powers. once raced to control oil. we cannot let this become a source of conflict in the arctic and antarctic. global warming is driving geopolitical competition

over the resources lying beneath theice over the resources lying beneath the ice and in the amazon, there have been the worst droughts ever recorded. partly as a result of deforestation in the caribbean. i saw on day one in this job, the devastation caused by hurricane beryl , the earliest by hurricane beryl, the earliest forming category five hurricane on record , and in places like on record, and in places like the sahel, south sudan , syria, the sahel, south sudan, syria, rising temperatures are making water and productive land, even scarcer. these are not random events delivered from the heavens. these are failures of politics, failures of regulation, and frankly, failures of international cooperation and these failures pure fuel onto existing

conflicts and regional rivalries driving extremism and displacing displacing communities and increasing humanitarian need. and it would be a further failure of imagination to hope that they will stay from our shores. that we can keep them away. let's take migration. we are already seeing the climate that climate change is uprooting communities across the world, and by 2050, the world bank's worst case estimate is that climate change could drive 200 million people to leave their homes. or we could take health, the world health organisation says climate change is now the biggest threat to human health. we saw in the pandemic how quickly an infectious disease could spread from animals to humans and then from a city. the other side of the world to here

in britain . this becomes only in britain. this becomes only more likely as the climate and nature crisis grows , and this nature crisis grows, and this crisis threatens the things we take most for granted from the food that we eat to the air that we breathe. but despite all of this , there remains a tendency this, there remains a tendency for climate and nature policy to end up siloed . too often, it's end up siloed. too often, it's felt the preserve of experts and campaigners fluent in sometimes the impenetrable dialect of cops. but distant from others , cops. but distant from others, working on foreign policy and on national security. and that has to change. don't get me wrong, we absolutely need campaigners like those in this room, or experts like those working here at cu, and i'm grateful to them all. but today i'm committing to

you that while i am foreign secretary, action on the climate and nature crisis will be central to all that the foreign office does. this is critical given the scale of the threat, but also the scale of the opportunity, the chance to achieve clean and secure energy, lower bills and drive growth for the uk , and to preserve the the uk, and to preserve the natural world around us on which all prosperity ultimately depends. the truth is that in the last few years , something the last few years, something went badly wrong . badly wrong in went badly wrong. badly wrong in our national debate on climate change and net zero. i take no pleasure in saying that from the high point of bipartisan consensus at cop26, net zero

became under the tories, a battleground, a battleground of the worst type of narrow minded westminster tactical warfare. we've seen in the inflation reduction act in the united states, in the green deal, in the european union and the accelerating transition in china. >> foreign secretary david lammy there praising joe biden's inflation reduction act, a massive state spending package. the european union's green new deal the european union's green new deal, another similar massive state spending package. what on earth might he be suggesting here in the united kingdom? well, more on that later in the program. it's12:00. good afternoon britain. on tuesday, the 17th of september. i'm tom harwood and i'm emily carver backlash. yesterday's light sentencing of huw edwards ensures that the former bbc presenter avoids any prison time and will continue to have

unfettered access to the internet . child safety internet. child safety campaigners are appalled . campaigners are appalled. >> they are indeed, and fashion faux pas . >> they are indeed, and fashion faux pas. lady >> they are indeed, and fashion faux pas . lady victoria starmer faux pas. lady victoria starmer has been pictured flaunting thousands of pounds of designer fashion and luxury clothing amidst the glasses for parties. donations row . undeterred, keir donations row. undeterred, keir starmer says he will continue to accept lavish gifts from donor lord alli. does he get it? >> never enough doctors threaten to strike again despite accepting the government's inflation busting 22% pay rise, the junior doctors union says it's ready to call more strikes if pay rises don't keep coming, as the soft touch government accidentally opened the door to yet more industrial unrest and red light for motorists. >> london mayor sadiq khan has announced plans to ban cars, buses and taxis from london's iconic oxford street with a pedestrianised boulevard boost business or limit access. and could it even increase crime