. pensioners are forced to week. pensioners are forced to live off £15 a week food budget. we started a fundraiser exactly this time last night. okay. and in 24 hours, you have managed to raise . a staggering £102,858 raise. a staggering £102,858 plus, by the way, plus about 21 grand's worth of gift aid . so grand's worth of gift aid. so thatis grand's worth of gift aid. so that is what, probably about 124 grand or something. absolutely unbelievable effort just giving.com forward slash page forward slash save our seniors. all of that money goes to friends of the elderly. they give out grants. they help pay people's heating bills. they help take them to doctor's appointments. it's time to show our greatest generation that we really do care about them. it's just giving.com/page/save our seniors. thank you everybody who's given a little bit of money or a lot of money so far. also tonight the threat may not feel as urgent as a terrorist or

an imperialist autocrat. our foreign secretary thinks terrorism is less serious than climate change. we'll tell that to the manchester arena victims and violence like never before. i've got an illegal immigrant exclusive for you that will blow your minds. and there's more turmoil in the middle east tonight. at least nine people have been killed by a wave of pager explosions . yeah. there we pager explosions. yeah. there we go. on my panel tonight. it's broadcaster and columnist esther krakue, the director of the centre for migration and economic prosperity. stephen wolf and ex—labour minister bill rammell. oh and ed davey's still having fun out and about. it's on me. >> leave me. let me go and be unrwa. >> he obviously thought his mic was off, didn't he.7 get >> he obviously thought his mic was off, didn't he? get ready britain. here we go .

britain. here we go. keir starmer is getting handouts. the elderly won't be able to keep their hands warm . next. >> good evening. i'm sophia wenzler with your headlines just after 9:00 in lebanon, at least nine people have been killed and 2700 injured, including members of hezbollah terrorist group, when their pages exploded. today, you can see here footage appearing to show the moment one of the devices exploded . excuse of the devices exploded. excuse me. it's being described as the biggest security breach so far in nearly a year of conflict with israel. hezbollah claim israel is to blame for the pager blasts, adding they will get fair punishment. the israeli military say top commanders have held a situational assessment. meanwhile, the pentagon has confirmed the us defence

secretary spoke with his israeli counterpart today as they continue to assess what happened . continue to assess what happened. now back in the uk, the government says it is tackling small boat crossings on all fronts, following news that 10,000 people have crossed the channel since labour came into power in july. home office figures show 65 more migrants arrived on monday , bringing the arrived on monday, bringing the year's total to nearly 23,600, though that's down 1% from this time last year. the latest crossings follow the deaths of eight migrants over the weekend , eight migrants over the weekend, as the government boosts funding for border security. home secretary yvette cooper has announced £75 million for more officers , cameras and technology officers, cameras and technology to combat people smuggling. prime minister sir keir starmer says he's also looking at italy's immigration policies for possible solutions. meanwhile, the foreign secretary, david lammy, has said climate change is a more fundamental threat than terrorism. that's in his maiden speech given this

afternoon. he said that although the climate issue may not feel as urgent as terrorism, it is pervasive and accelerating towards us at pace. assuring the pubuc towards us at pace. assuring the public that it will be central to all foreign office policies . to all foreign office policies. lammy also announced the government would launch a global initiative to accelerate the rollout of clean energy. in other news, bbc boss tim davie says he can't see huw edwards ever returning to the corporation after the disgraced presenter admitted to accessing indecent images of children. speaking at the royal television society conference, davie called the former newsreaders actions appalling crimes that have damaged the bbc's reputation. he confirmed elle edwards continued to receive £200,000 in salary until formal charges were made, but the bbc is now seeking to reclaim that money. he also says the victims families remain the corporation's top priority and in the us , the rapper sean

in the us, the rapper sean combs, also known as p diddy, has pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking and racketeering charges. the 54 year old was arrested on monday in new york on three felony charges as he allegedly hit and abused women for over a decade. the music mogul is under investigation after a number of women came forward. combs has denied all claims and his team insists he's innocent and ready to clear his name in court . innocent and ready to clear his name in court. those are your latest gb news headlines. now it's back to patrick 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. >> hello and welcome along. now, just before we get stuck into tonight's show, i would like to start by saying a big thank you. yesterday i launched a

fundraiser for friends of the elderly. i'm sick and tired of the elderly in britain being put at the back of the queue. we have money for everyone else. it seems , but they have to lose seems, but they have to lose their winter fuel payments. their council tax is going up . their council tax is going up. as many as 4000 are set to die this winter. as a result of recent cuts. i think that's an absolute abomination , frankly. absolute abomination, frankly. so i set up the fundraiser this time yesterday in the last 24 hours, you have raised well more than £100,000. in fact, you've just raised another two and a bit grand in the last couple of minutes. it's now at £104,138. but if i scroll down a bit on the screen in front of me here anyway, that is plus £22,180 in gift aid as well. so you add that to that number there and it really is a remarkable effort. i would just like to say thank you. steve has donated £20 a minute ago. we've got catherine, £10 a minute ago, another steve, a linda and a jane has just given £40 as well. so thank you very much. all of that money goes to friends of the elderly.

in fact, like i was saying, with gift aid, it's much more than £104,000. and yesterday i set the target of 100 grand. but obviously, because you've already done that now 24 hours in, we need a new target. don't we? so the new target is £260,000. okay. y i can hear you asking. well, last year, friends of the elderly saw a 10% increase in the number of people desperate for financial help. and then they managed to give £260,000 worth of grants so that was in the year just gone. £260,000 worth of grants so that was in the yearjust gone. so was in the year just gone. so let's see if we can match that. those grants will go towards utility bills, food fixing, people's ovens, helping get people's ovens, helping get people to doctor's to appointments dentist appointments, paying for care. it is a disgrace that our greatest generation is suffering like this. you can make a difference. you can go to justgiving.com forward slash page forward slash. save our

seniors justgiving.com/page/save our seniors. there's a qr code on the screen just around there. there you go. there's a qr code there if you want to hover your phone over that. and some magic happens and it takes you to the to the page. but anyway, i really want to show the elderly in britain that we really do care because nobody voted for the pensioners to live in poverty, did they? anyway, i've rattled the cut enough. you'll be hearing a bit more from me on that later on in other news, sir keir starmer has gone full pig from animal farm much quicker than anyone expected because the prime minister is reportedly worth several million pounds. he had a highly paid legal career. he earns about 167 grand a year as prime minister despite this, he's accepted £75,000 worth of freebies. these include glasses, five grand worth of clothes, a personal shopper for his wife and hospitality. tickets to the football. his excuses are ridiculous. he says he'll still take donations from a chap called lord alli, the bloke who mysteriously had a pass for

downing street after the last election. starmer said i can't go into the stands at the football because of security reasons. therefore, if i don't accept hospitality, i can't go to a game. never going to an arsenal game again because i can't accept hospitality is pushing it a bit far. all right, well, it was fine for rishi sunak and his predecessorjeremy corbyn seemed to manage absolutely perfectly well at the football there. these freebies are becoming harder and harder to justify for sir keir starmer as angela eagle found out on the news this morning, the royal box at wimbledon hospitality at a coldplay concert. >> arsenal away games with the foreign secretary in tow. the list goes on. how does that augn list goes on. how does that align with the son of a toolmaker? man of the people image? >> well, i think he's an arsenal fan. i mean, it takes all sorts. isuppose fan. i mean, it takes all sorts. i suppose you can pay for his tickets like the rest of them . tickets like the rest of them. but. but we only know about this

because these things have been registered as appropriate. and i think the prime minister had his say on that. >> yeah. they can't justify it, really, can they? why can't he pay really, can they? why can't he pay for it all himself? seriously and whoever's running sir keir's comms wants sacking because they thought it was a great idea for him. and his wife. having just accepted £75,000 worth of freebies, including clothes and a personal shopper, to go to london fashion week. there you go. starmer himself was pictured alongside models like naomi campbell, and the more i see of starmer, the more i do wonder if he's actually in touch with the common man and woman he had to keep banging on about his dad's working class roots, and this is something the media will know. >> i said it many times in the election campaign. my dad was a toolmaker and he worked particularly with steel, as you do in tool making, of the sort that he was doing . that he was doing. >> is that all he's got? >> is that all he's got? you

know, north london dwelling , know, north london dwelling, gold plated pension, oxford educated, millions of pounds in the bank. i don't get the impression that he's actually that comfortable around normal working people. do you? how many pensioners could have heating this winter if keir starmer gave the treasury those donations back? the money is accepted in donations that could all come flowing back to heat a few pensioners homes, couldn't it? anyway, let's get to my panel. we've got columnist and broadcaster esther krakue, director of the centre for migration and economic prosperity, stephen wolf, and former labour minister bill rammell. so yeah, these these freebies that starmer's been getting. esther, it's becoming increasingly hard to justify why he couldn't just pay for those things himself, especially football tickets. >> well, i mean , i think the two >> well, i mean, i think the two main objections that i personally have with this is one, what was he getting in return for 75 grand worth of free stuff? because what people i mean, i know anytime we have a

story about, you know, lobbyists or mps accepting gifts or whatever it is, people get angry because they don't like, it's uncomfortable to actually rediscover the proximity between power and politics that actually wealthy people can effectively buy themselves access to politics like we've seen with with lord alli. so my question is, one, what did he agree to in exchange for that? was it just a gift? there's no such thing as like just free stuff. you must have accepted something. and the second thing is the hypocrisy. because we know that if this was the tories, you know, sleazy tories, as he liked to call them, he would be the first, you know, standing on his soapbox, making noise about it, shouting to the high heavens. and that's, that's, i think what annoys me. >> they'd make the point, wouldn't they? they'd very easily be making the point now. laboun easily be making the point now. labour, after the tories have chosen to make pensioners poorer, the adults are back in the room choosing between heating and eating. this, this winter and all you've been doing there is living it up in the royal box at wimbledon , the royal box at wimbledon, the hospitality section at arsenal. you know, or coldplay, all of that stuff. the personal shopper for the wife, i don't know. >> how do you come back from

this? that's my question. because his, his personal sort of rank rankings are just plummeting. >> well, i don't know, stephen. i mean , is this is this a big i mean, is this is this a big problem for him? does he look like a massive hypocrite? of course he looks like a massive hypocrite. >> this is the man that said i wanted to abolish the monarchy and yet he's become a sir. and then wanted to become a kc. and that's what he got. this is somebody that initially said he was opposed to what israel was doing. and now accepted donations, as did so many of his cabinet from those who are pro—israel. and he's changed his view on it and got rid of corbyn. this is the man says he's a man of the people. i'm a working class individual, yet manages to take away the heating grants from the working class grand grandparents and grandfathers of our country whilst he's getting his wife paid for by millions, and then this by a millionaire. and i think that hypocrisy will stay with him. but i say four legs good, two legs better . that's good, two legs better. that's exactly what he's the labour party, the same cheek of the same coin as another ex—labour

mp once said . same coin as another ex—labour mp once said. but i same coin as another ex—labour mp once said . but i say, why are mp once said. but i say, why are we surprised? yeah remember mandelson? he used to dine out in montenegro with russian billionaires on their yachts. you used to see blair flaunting himself with his millionaire friends around and of course, the reason why he is a massive hypocrite and doesn't understand the working class people is of where he lives, who he lives with. he's an islington boy . he with. he's an islington boy. he lives out there in the million pound. >> keir starmer doesn't actually like normal people, does he, bill? he doesn't actually like ordinary working class people. he never hangs around with them. >> does he ? complete and utter >> does he? complete and utter bunkum. you know , look, you bunkum. you know, look, you know, he's a man who stands up for working people. look at the workers rights that he's bringing in. what about, you know, decent pay rises for hard working people in the public sector for the first time in 14 years? yes, he he's in touch with ordinary people. i still remember the leadership debate with sunak. and there was something like a 37% gap in terms of which of these two

people is in touch with ordinary working people . working people. >> and keir was the clear winner because at the time people thought that rishi sunak was an out of touch millionaire who was quite elitist. and then it turns out that we've got another one of them in downing street now, haven't we? would you let your wife have a personal shopper or whoever? would you? >> hold on, hold on. >> hold on, hold on. >> ironic that esther asks what's being given in return? lord alli is a lifelong labour party member and supporter, and he gives money to the labour party. successive prime ministers have taken funding for clothes and other things. it's all. >> it's all it looks like he got access. >> he got free access to downing street, which the rest of us don't get. we didn't, we didn't have. he's got a nice way of celebrating having a party, the labour party, to, to then get 24 over seven access to downing street. listen they had it for a week as part of the transition. besides the point, week as part of the transition. besides the point , the average besides the point, the average person cannot buy that. and you have to admit here's here's the thing. i think with with the whole keir starmer debacle, the reality is you really can't shake off this image that is

just complete hypocrisy, because we know that if the roles were reversed, he would be shouting to the high heavens and i'm sorry, that's just not acceptable. and it's interesting, the language that the labour party uses. he's the man of the working people, right? but pensioners don't work. they can't work , they work. they can't work, they can't augment their wages. so he can't augment their wages. so he can he can happily put, you know, train drivers on a salary that most junior doctors wouldn't see for the first ten years of their career. but the extra £200 that granny or grandpa would need to actually supplement their heating bills dunng supplement their heating bills during winter. the danger that is unacceptable, which i think is unacceptable, which i think is the danger of this , though, is the danger of this, though, esther, is that we are turning our politics into a very american style of being bought. >> it. it has the image that our politics. yeah, politicians have been bought. it's always seemingly behind the scenes. now this is visible. this is like saying, wave your money and i'll become a lord. how do we know that lord alli didn't donate to the labour party and was promoted up the ladder because of that? in the in the past, we don't know . don't know. >> he's not got an official position. >> hold on. we don't know. you

know, everything has been declared. and when you talk about make it better. hold on. yes it does. that's the system we have all politicians telling us taken. >> so if you want easy access to downing street, all you need is half £1 million. no, but that's so much better. >> politicians we know in one form or another. hold on, hold on, patrick. all politicians in one form or another have taken donations. the key is that it's declarable . however, this is. declarable. however, this is. this is not corruption on the scale that we saw under the tories, where there was preferential access, where there was one lord darzi rule, there's just normal corruption and another rule for everybody else. >> starmer didn't actually declare the personal shopper. no he didn't. >> yeah. and it's just normal corruption. >> it's not excessive corruption. so that makes it much better. >> no, it's not corruption. and what happened there was that straightforward mistake. >> yes. it wasn't exactly. but do you see annette kellow bill? you know , when one person does you know, when one person does it, it's a it's a sin. and they have extreme corruption. >> this is normal. >> this is normal. >> everyone else does it. and you know, actually, it's not just the fact that it's an honest mistake. the other thing is maybe we should have a look at changing our system. maybe we should have a budget for prime

ministers and their wives to get to. >> well, i do, i to.— >> well, i do, i do to. >> well, i do, i do like the fact that david david lammy got it wrong again as foreign minister when he said that the wives of presidents in the united states get a budget. they don't. it's actually the president gets $50,000, the wife gets nothing. but that just goes to show david lammy again his lack of knowledge , something lack of knowledge, something catastrophically wrong in an interview, would it? >> but all right, well, look, you know, the jury's out. some people will say that, you know, it's absolutely fine. what he's doing. i just think that the timing of it is quite it's quite bad when you've got the winter fuel payments and everything, but i suppose it was ever thus, wasn't it? anyway, it's time now for the great british giveaway. what's that, sir keir? no, you can't enter. actually, you've had quite enough. anyway. time now for the great british giveaway and your chance to win the equivalent of having an extra £3,000 in your bank account every single month for the next year . that's a whopping the next year. that's a whopping 36 grand in tax free cash. here's all the details you need to make that money yours. >> this is your chance to win a £36,000 secret salary in the latest great british giveaway.

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it's stories like this that make it's stories like this that make it all the more important that we do . try our very best to hit we do. try our very best to hit the new target of £260,000. for friends of the elderly, you can play friends of the elderly, you can play your part by going to justgiving.com forward slash page forward slash , save our page forward slash, save our seniors and look, hey, donate what you can. i've got the latest number in front of me here on my on my phone. by the way, we are now up to £112,968. we started this show 20 minutes ago on 102,000. so that's that's basically just shy of, of 11 grand in no time at all. so thank you, thank you, thank you. that really will help save some lives this winter. but in other news, david lammy has just made this jaw dropping claim about climate change. the threat may not feel as urgent as a terrorist or an imperialist autocrat. so is the foreign

secretary right? does climate change pose a more fundamental threat than terrorism going head to head on this? are the defence and security expert stuart crawford and just stop oil spokesperson doctor bing jones. you won't want to miss that. stay tuned

welcome back to patrick christys. tonight we are only on gb news now. first is david

lammy right that climate change poses a more fundamental threat than terrorism? it's time now for the head to head . so you for the head to head. so you heard that right? so the foreign secretary , david lammy, made secretary, david lammy, made this jaw dropping claim about climate change earlier today. >> 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. >> he went to on frame climate change as the defining geopolitical challenge of the modern era, and the comments have certainly raised eyebrows, not least because lammy promised to place climate action and nature at the heart of britain's foreign policy. so how exactly that would work? i'm not sure. when we've got ongoing wars in ukraine, in the middle east. it also comes just weeks after a 26 year old syrian man was charged

following a terror attack in germany that left three people dead. and just last month, police in austria foiled a terrorist plot to kill tens of thousands at a taylor swift concert in vienna. so all of that, to be fair, mr lammy does feel quite pressing and urgent. so tonight i'm asking, is david lammy right that climate change poses a bigger threat than terrorism? let me know your thoughts. go to gbnews.com forward slash yoursay. you can tweet me @gbnews. well going head to head on this , we have head to head on this, we have got the defence and security expert stuart crawford. and i think that we were hoping to get a just stop oil spokesperson as well called doctor bing jones. but they might have had some difficulties with their connection. so stuart as it stands , the floor is yours. do stands, the floor is yours. do you think that david lammy is, out of line here? i mean, does he want to go and look the victims of the manchester arena bombing in the eye and say that to them, they should have been more worried about climate change, >> good evening patrick. i think i should preface everything i'm going to say with the observation that , according to observation that, according to

my westminster sources, david lammy is good at reading from a script, but not quite so good at thinking for himself. but i'm frequently asked what i think the biggest threats to in terms of global security are. and the uk security in particular. and climate change doesn't even come into the top ten, i'm not a religious person, but a good place to start is the new testament with revelations and the four horsemen of the apocalypse, which, as i'm sure you all know, are conquest, war, famine and death. and then off the top of my head, i came up with others, which included, pestilence, plague, terrorism , pestilence, plague, terrorism, both international and domestic , both international and domestic, immigration, legal and otherwise , immigration, legal and otherwise, poverty and religion. and i haven't even started on on others. now i'm prepared to accept that climate change, or as i prefer to call it, climate

variation , has an impact on variation, has an impact on most, if not all of those issues. but in terms of the biggest threat facing the world and the uk in terms of security, i think david lammy is really mistaken and badly so. >> okay. i mean, i did see one incredibly prominent political journalist who happens to do a lot for the sun tweet out that this david lammy speech was the worst political speech he has ever had the misfortune of listening to, which really is saying something . i think saying something. i think considering he must have had to listen to loads of them prattle on over the years. but, yeah, i suppose for david lammy, what that is, is an admittance now in full view of the public, that he is fully signed up to the idea that that the world is going to end as a result of climate change imminently and that that if you do believe that, then that has to be the most important thing for you. and that's now the thought process of our foreign secretary as china might be about to have a ban on taiwan as they're still going on in russia and ukraine.

obviously, we've got the middle eastern issue. i just wonder if he should stick to his actual job. >> well, i mean, i would tend to agree. i mean, climate change is agree. i mean, climate change is a bandwagon which is easy to climb on if you're seeking political approval and approval of your peers. but the no matter what, people may say, and i've read as much background on it as i can as a non—expert, the science is not settled at all. a lot of it is based on, computer modelling and funnily enough, i was up in the outer hebrides, which is a, i can tell you, a long, long way away from where i am now. over the last week and i visited an iron age settlement on the island of harris, and dunng on the island of harris, and during part and parcel of the description from the team there of what had gone on there, they indicated that the archaeological evidence indicated that when people lived there a thousand 1200 years ago, there a thousand 1200 years ago,

the weather was warmer and wetter. so i think really we've got to be conscious that this could just be a climate variation. >> all right. well, i'll tell you what. we are now going to be welcomed by our friend doctor bing jones. fantastic i'm very glad that we've got you on. now. you are, of course, a just stop oil spokesperson. now, if you've been listening, there's quite a lot for you to come back on at the moment. so so david lammy essentially was alluding to the idea that climate change is a more pervasive threat than things like terrorism, or indeed, maybe war, which i don't think is necessarily brilliant for a foreign secretary to be saying. but presumably you would agree with that , agree with that, >> hi there patrick. >> hi there patrick. >> i'm sorry, i've only just joined, so i didn't hear anything that has just been said. so i'm here, right? fresh. look, i'm so pleased that david lammy has said all this. it is so, so wonderful that somebody in authority is finally getting over to how enormous and urgent the climate crisis is. and of

course, it's not the same as terrorism, and it's not the same as war, but it's fundamental. it's absolutely underneath everything. and it's going to make everything worse. it's going to make cost of living crisis worse. it's going to make, any kind of, social problem worse, and to just reiterate what he said, i can just quote some of these things . just quote some of these things. he said it's fundamental. it's systematic, it's pervasive, and it's accelerating us. us towards, it's accelerating towards, it's accelerating towards us at pace. this is really the most serious thing that has ever happened to humanity. it's getting worse. every single day. and it's only when people in massive, really high authority like like david lammy start taking it really seriously. >> we've got. yeah, i mean okay, but i mean this is why we have things like an environment secretary or an energy minister

or someone like that. isn't it the foreign secretary's job? i mean, he's got a lot on at the moment also, that kind of thing about it being pervasive and rapidly approaching at pace. i mean , i can think of a few mean, i can think of a few terror attacks, stuart, where you could argue that the problem there has been rapidly approaching at pace. >> oh, absolutely. and i don't i mean, i would not want to be, critical of doctor bingham's sincerely held beliefs because i think it's important that people do get involved in these sort of issues and have beliefs that we can debate. but as i said previously to him joining us. i don't think climate change or climate variation, if you prefer , climate variation, if you prefer, makes the top ten of the risks facing the uk. and there are much more important things . much more important things. >> what more do you want? we've got storm boris causing probably billions of pounds worth of damage, killing 20, 30 people. dozens. yeah, but we've got you've got typhoon in vietnam killing 500 people. it's hardly

even making the quality water of a million homes, i don't think i don't think he's going to listen to me, stuart. >> do we? >> do we? >> yeah. all right. well, so. so your your point, doctor bing is, is that for you the climate emergency is literally the most important thing facing humanity. and therefore everything else naturally has to come . naturally has to come. >> second, this is not random right ? this >> second, this is not random right? this is as david lammy said it's a failure. it's a failure of politics. it's a failure of politics. it's a failure of politics. it's a failure of regulation and it's a failure of regulation and it's a failure of regulation and it's a failure of international cooperation. we have got to realise that it's getting worse and worse because fossil fuel companies are increasing the emissions that they produce every single day, and the only way to get on top of it is the job of the foreign secretary, because we need an international agreement. >> that's fine, but i do wonder, yeah, look, fine. but then i think unfortunately for unfortunately for both of you, possibly because i dare say that

stuart, who's a security expert, doesn't want our foreign secretary going around trying to convince the chinese to stop doing stuff with fossil fuels . doing stuff with fossil fuels. also, dare i say it, maybe, unfortunately for you, is that take this logic to its natural conclusion. it is david lammy who's going to have to go round and convince xi jinping and vladimir to putin stop doing things like burning coal, and i'm not sure i'm not sure he's the man for that job, but we wait and see, though, don't we? we will see. chaps, thank you very much. i'm sorry. i know it was massively disjointed because you had connection issues, but we got through it in the end, so i do appreciate it now. right. coming up, gb news can exclusively reveal that a judge has ordered a rotherham grooming gang survivor to retract her demand for her abusers to be deported. so what is so outrageous about that? and shouldn't sick criminals like the predators that abused her from the age of 11 years old, maybe be deported anyway? former tory mp brendan clarke—smith will be live very, very shortly. but next i'll be joined live by a pensioner who says that their

winter fuel payments will be a lifeline this winter. and that's why he's so worried for the millions of elderly brits who will have to survive without them. and it's stories like these that make it all the more important that we continue to do our best to raise a bit of money for friends of the elderly. so if you can, please go to justgiving.com forward slash page, forward slash , save our page, forward slash, save our seniors. please donate and let's help that £260,000 target. okay, i'll

okay, so it was just yesterday that i set up a fundraiser for friends of the elderly. and in just 24 hours, you have managed to raise more than £116,000. in fact, with gift aid , you've fact, with gift aid, you've raised an extra 20 grand. on top of that . it is amazing. thank of that. it is amazing. thank you so, so much. but i've set a new target for us now. and that target i would like to be £260,000. don't worry, i am going to be doing more over the course of the next weeks other than just sitting here on my backside asking you to give money, i but i want a bit of help from you on this as well. if you can come up with some ideas to make my life a little bit uncomfortable for a while that i bit uncomfortable for a while thati can bit uncomfortable for a while that i can do to encourage more donations, then please do email in and get in touch and let me know. but i have got some ideas and i'll be i'll be doing those in the coming weeks. but anyway, last year friends of the elderly saw a 10% increase in the number of people desperate for financial help. they gave them

£260,000 worth of grants. so i thought given the massive, massive response we've had so far, why don't we see if we can match that the gb news viewers and listeners so that we can show our oldest, our greatest, our best generation who looked after us when we were all youngen after us when we were all younger, that maybe we do actually really appreciate them. you can go to justgiving.com forward slash page forward slash, save our seniors . that's slash, save our seniors. that's justgiving.com/page/save our seniors to play your part. but it's the stories behind the numbers that really matter and that's why i'm delighted to now be joined by frances moore. frances, thank you so, so much. great to have you on the show . great to have you on the show. really appreciate you taking the time out of this evening to come on and say hello now. now, i understand, frances, that you are still going to get the winter fuel payment this year , winter fuel payment this year, but i was hoping you might be able to talk to us a little bit about how vital that is for you, what that means for you , and why what that means for you, and why it might be a concern that so many people now won't get it. >> i'm hugely upset by the way this government's going about everything, there's going to be

a lot of impoverished pensioners, we've , you know, pensioners, we've, you know, there's 800,000, i think , still there's 800,000, i think, still in the queue for pensions credit, that's , something actually, i that's, something actually, i think you might think about in terms of trying to help close that gap because once they have pensions credit, they'll then be entitled to winter fuel allowance. but warmth is everything. and i'm you know, i'm afraid i'm suffering from a few issues . and i've noticed as few issues. and i've noticed as we've had a slightly more chilly september, that i need heat to survive my terrier even he's my thermometer . he likes survive my terrier even he's my thermometer. he likes a survive my terrier even he's my thermometer . he likes a little thermometer. he likes a little bit of heat too . so, we need to bit of heat too. so, we need to do a lot more. yeah. you're doing you're doing brilliantly ,

doing you're doing brilliantly, the government doesn't seem to understand cash flow. there's no point saying, oh, well, there's going to be more money in april. that may be true, but bills have got it. >> you've got a long time. and it's not just the winter fuel payments, is it? frances says you'll be acutely aware the council tax only ever seems to go council tax only ever seems to 9° up council tax only ever seems to go up pretty much. so that's that's going to happen . there's that's going to happen. there's the single person's discount, which is apparently about to be scrapped as well. there's even talk of bus passes going for people over the age of 65. i think it is , i mean, this is think it is, i mean, this is this is quite astonishing, really , that all of those things really, that all of those things could mean that you're going to have to pay a heck of a lot more money for basic things in life. >> oh, yes . and you're leaving >> oh, yes. and you're leaving out this net zero madness by red ed, i mean basically the price of electricity is going to go

through the roof. it's not going down. that was a complete misstep by the by the incoming government , that's going to government, that's going to hurt. that's going to hurt everybody hurt our industry , but everybody hurt our industry, but is going to really take it out on pensioners. and that's my main concern. >> absolutely. and just in terms of for you then, frances. so i had a lady called sue on last night who was in quite a, quite a difficult situation and i'm quite keen to gauge a bit. what, what's your kind of, like, weekly food budget or what's, what's that kind of stuff? because i think you hear a lot, don't you, about. oh, pensioners, they're all millionaires, you know, they're all, they've all got these gold plated pensions. they're sitting back on, on property worth a couple of million quid each and everything, or i don't know if you don't mind maybe saying what is the kind of situation for you in terms of, you know, your weekly budgets and stuff? >> i've certainly noticed that food bills are going up . i can

food bills are going up. i can just about budget about £80. >> okay. so, so £80. and that that must mean that you have to i mean seriously check everything i mean, it's not as if there doesn't seem there doesn't seem like there's a huge amount of room for luxury there. frances. >> there's no room for any luxuries. it's really tough. and ihave luxuries. it's really tough. and i have to watch every single purchase i do because there is no margin. we pensioners, we don't have the luxury of lots of cash. we don't have the luxury of parliamentarians who can claim £4,000 for their second houses. in terms of heating, we don't have that, it's a really tough situation and i'm afraid this government just does not get it. >> okay, well, frances, look, i'd like to stay in touch with you, if possible, in the coming weeks. and certainly in the run

up to christmas. and i do wish you all the very, very, very best. and i really appreciate that you've. come on, you've been so honest and upfront about your situation in the hope that actually things can get better not just for you at all, but for, for, for for, millions of other people at the moment who are unfortunately of a certain age, staring down the barrel of quite a bleak winter, actually, possibly more than ever. >> very bleak, very bleak . >> very bleak, very bleak. patrick. it's shocking how a generation that has given so much is now just being dismissed. >> well, >> well, not >> well, not on >> well, not on our >> well, not on our watch, frances. you will not. you will never be dismissed here on gb news. so thank you very, very much, frances. and i wish you all the very best and i will stay in touch with you. all right. so you take care. frances moore there. and just as you would have been seeing there just giving.com/page/save our seniors is the link to that justgiving page. let's try and get friends of the elderly up to £260,000. we're nearly on 119

grand for a fundraiser that started less than 25 hours ago. so thank you very, very much . so thank you very, very much. everybody coming up, it's the gb news exclusive because there are gangs now in northern france rampaging through villages and attacking people who have apparently been trying to help them, including children. police are investigating a series of disturbing incidents amid a rise in violence in recent weeks . and in violence in recent weeks. and now, with 10,000 small boat arrivals coming up, you know, since keir starmer came to office, i mean, there's probably a couple of safety issues at play a couple of safety issues at play here that we'll have a little look at at ten. but next, gb news can also exclusively reveal that a judge has censored a rotherham grooming gang survivor, ordering her to remove her demand for her disgusting abusers to be deported from the uk. but what's so bad about that? and dare i say it, should we not maybe be deporting some those people? former tory brendan clarke—smith, he's got

next. welcome back gb news. can exclusively reveal that a rotherham child abuse survivor has been ordered to remove a demand for her abusers to be deported , while the woman gave deported, while the woman gave an incredibly moving statement at sheffield crown court last week, over 20 years after she was groomed and abused from the age of 11 by the pakistani heritage men. however, before she delivered her victim impact statement, the prosecuting barrister and judge conferred over the passages in her statement that had been removed. well, gb news has now seen the original copy of the speech that she intended to deliver, which has several sections crossed out. the censored conclusion reads i'd like to request that after sentencing and upon, rudy and shoaib's release, they should be deported back to pakistan as this is where they originated from, and came here to exploit children. well, speaking exclusively to gb news today, the survivor said if someone's not born here and they're here to exploit children

after the sentences, maybe they should be deported. there's nothing to say that they'll stop exploiting children. we can deport them and let our own country deal with them, let their own country deal with them. sorry. my apologies to discuss this further, i'm joined by the former mp for bassetlaw , by the former mp for bassetlaw, brendan clarke—smith brendan. thank you very much. a remarkable really. i think that the judge would censor a victim impact statement. >> yeah. i mean, you can be all technical about it if you like, patrick, and people can throw in as many legal terms as they like. but you've got to ask, what is the point of having one of these victim impact statements ? it's to inform you statements? it's to inform you of the impact. of course, it has had on the victim. it's to inform the sentencing. but it's also you've got to imagine the victim impact isn't just from the crime and it's disappeared all of a sudden. this is something that many victims are going to take for the rest of their life. so why shouldn't they be able to explain that and voice their concerns for what happens afterwards? >> i mean, there is a wider point, isn't there? which is just about the inability to deport some people who have been

involved in grooming gangs. we saw it in rochdale as well. i mean, that's been ongoing. in fact, i don't physically understand exactly how they are still in the country. we were ordered to be deported something like 11 years ago. a couple of those people, we don't seem particularly willing to try it, do we? >> yeah, it seems a bit ridiculous, really. i mean, we're very good at looking at the human rights of people perpetrating these crimes and probably less good at focusing on the human rights of the people who've had these crimes committed against them. and yes, some will try to go to the echr or varne for this reason or that reason, and some people in the past, when they've had dual nationality, what they've tried to do, and i think that's one of the problems with rochdale, is where they've suddenly surrendered their other nationality very quickly. so then we've not been able to deport them. we had a big problem. i think with i think it may have been pakistan as well, where they basically said we don't want them back. >> yeah, which is fair enough in a way. i mean, i can't, you know, i can't agree if i was the pakistani authorities, i would probably be saying the same

thing, but when we look at some of the previous reports that we had south yorkshire police, who've had a couple of other police forces as well, in amongst this, this grooming gang topic where they've said things at times like, look, we were very worried about stoking racial tensions, which is why we didn't necessarily do everything we could to stop this vile abuse. okay. and then now you have a victim impact statement being censored , presumably in being censored, presumably in case it stoked racial tensions . case it stoked racial tensions. it's just, why are we so obsessed with that ? obsessed with that? >> well, exactly. and i think one of the home office comments that was made was, well, if you commit a crime that's over 12 months, it's generally the policy to deport people anyway. and yes, that's all very well. and yes, that's all very well. and going back to what we just said before , patrick, you know, said before, patrick, you know, we brought in the nationality and borders act in in 2022. it was priti patel actually, who did that, where we can start restricting visas for these countries if they don't take people back as well . but it hits people back as well. but it hits the nail on the head. the wider problem here that was identified in rochdale, whether it's other places you could bring telford out there as, as well, or

rotherham, up and down the country really where people have been so scared to death of upsetting people or wanting to talk to these community leaders . talk to these community leaders. you know, i mean, i'm, i'm out of work at the moment. you know, i'd like to know where i get a job as one of these community leaders. you know, they don't seem to be advertised for them and have interviews or anything like that. but you know, who who is the justice system here to protect? really? it should be should be the victims. you know, we're not here to keep people happy, i'm afraid. >> no, absolutely. i mean, the other aspect of this is if gb news hadn't been at court, then none of us would have ever known any of this because no other media outlet was there, which again , when you think about the again, when you think about the industrial scale on which this abuse has been going on, i think it says a lot about our society's priorities, doesn't it? but look, brendan, thank you very, very much. great to have you on the show. you take care and great to see you again. brendan clarke—smith former tory mp a home office spokesperson said it would be inappropriate to comment on ongoing legal proceedings. oh, there we go then. coming up, it's a gb news exclusive. there is violence ripping through french towns and the concern is that that might

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gb news. >> it's 10 pm. on patrick christys tonight . yeah yeah yeah christys tonight. yeah yeah yeah yeah. christys tonight. yeah yeah yeah yeah . wow 60 illegal migrants yeah. wow 60 illegal migrants attack french children amongst other people. there is violence like never before. apparently on the way to britain .

the way to britain. >> also an essential first step for us to cut waiting lists and reform the nhs . reform the n hs. >> reform the nhs. >> is this the worst negotiation in history? junior doctors say they will strike every year if they will strike every year if they don't get a pay rise every yean they don't get a pay rise every year, despite accepting just the largest pay offer of any worker in britain, the threat may not feel as urgent as a terrorist or an imperialist autocrat. what do you make of that? so foreign secretary thinks that terrorism is a bit less serious than climate change. tell that, of course, to the manchester arena victims and many others. and well, i think he's an arsenal fan. >> i mean, it takes all sorts. i suppose you can pay for his tickets like the rest of them . tickets like the rest of them. >> it's keir starmer on the take. you've got £75,000 worth of freebies. a personal shopper for his mrs. meanwhile and let me know what roughly what your weekly food budget is £15 a week ,

weekly food budget is £15 a week, so pensioners are forced to live off around £15 a week food budget now. we started a fundraiser this time last night and in just over 24 hours you have managed to . raise £122,357. have managed to. raise £122,357. that's just giving.com/page/save our seniors. i have now raised the new target to £260,000, because that's the amount of money that friends of the elderly managed to give away in grants last year so we could sort them out for a year, couldn't we? that would be magnificent. but anyway, let's keep going . my panel tonight, keep going. my panel tonight, it's broadcaster and columnist esther krakue, the director of the centre for migration and economic prosperity, stephen wolf and the ex—labour minister bill rammell. oh, and yeah, at least nine people, including an eight year old girl, have been killed by a wave of major explosions in lebanon . get ready explosions in lebanon. get ready britain. here we go .

britain. here we go. i've got a big exclusive coming your way about violence on the other side of the channel. stay tuned . tuned. >> good evening. i'm sophia wenzler with your headlines just after 10:00 in lebanon at least nine people have been killed and 2700 injured, including members of the hezbollah terrorist group. when their pages exploded. today, you can see here footage appearing to show the moment. one of the devices exploded. it's being described as the biggest security breach so far in nearly a year of conflict with israel. hezbollah claim israel is to blame for the pager blasts, adding they'll get their fair punishment. israel is yet to comment. meanwhile, the pentagon has confirmed the us

defence secretary spoke with his israeli counterpart today as they continue to assess what happened back in the uk. health secretary wes streeting says the end of the pay dispute with junior doctors marks a first step in the government's mission to reform the broken health service . members of the british 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. this morning, deputy leader of the liberal democrats daisy cooper told us her party still think more can be done. >> 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 , too. surgeries, too. >> meanwhile, the foreign secretary , david lammy, has said secretary, david lammy, has said climate change is a more fundamental threat than terrorism in his maiden speech. given this afternoon, he said that although the climate issue may not feel as urgent as terrorism, it is pervasive and accelerating towards us at pace , accelerating towards us at pace, assuring the public that it will be central to all the foreign office does. mr lammy also announced the government would launch a global initiative to accelerate the rollout of clean energy . now accelerate the rollout of clean energy. now in the us, an appeals court has upheld ghislaine maxwell's 2021 conviction for helping the disgraced late jeffrey epstein sexually abuse teenage girls. 62 year old maxwell has been serving a 20 year prison sentence after being convicted in 2021 on five charges for

having recruited and groomed four underage girls for epstein to abuse between 1994 and 2004. epstein was once maxwell's boyfriend. the 66 year old financier died in a manhattan jail cell in 2019. five weeks after being arrested and charged with sex trafficking . those are with sex trafficking. those are the latest gb news headlines now it's back to patrick 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. >> okay, so welcome along . i >> okay, so welcome along. i just wanted to say a massive thank you again. just to reiterate to everybody who's donated a whopping great big amount of money so far, we're sitting on around £123,000. there we go. £123,000 for friends of the elderly. now i'm

going to be to talking the head of that charity in just a couple of that charity in just a couple of days time on this show, just to tell you exactly about what they do for vulnerable pensioners around britain. the target that we're going for now is £260,000, because that's the amount of money they gave away in grants last year. now they're expecting this to be their toughest year ever. more people than ever. as a combination of the lack of winter fuel payment, council tax hikes , the single council tax hikes, the single person council benefit. et cetera. et cetera. et cetera. hits them hard. i didn't want pensioners to be hung out to dry. not on our watch here. and so i thought, well, look, you know what? if i can try and raise a little bit of money now, i'm going to be doing a couple of bits and bobs over the course of bits and bobs over the course of the next few weeks, and next week i'm going to be trying to live off, the food budget of £20 for the week. and so that is just going to try to articulate what a lot of pensioners are unfortunately going to be having to try to live off this year. so i'm going to be trying to do

that and i'll just document how i get on as well. so there you go. that's something to get the ball rolling in terms of me doing stuff. but if there's any other ideas that you can come up with for how i can raise a bit of money, then please do let me know. but moving on from that, oh yeah. just giving.com/page/save our seniors is how you can donate. so please do if you've got a couple of quid going spare please do because it really will go to saving lives. that money goes to grants for the elderly anyway right ? get ready for more of right? get ready for more of your taxpayers money to be sent off to far flung corners of the world, though, to try to stop the migrant crisis. now sir keir starmer seems intent on sending our money anywhere other than to the needy in britain to stop illegal migration. >> we must also tackle it at source . so today i am announcing source. so today i am announcing £84 million of new funding for projects across africa and the middle east. >> okay, but what about the people who are already in europe, specifically the migrants who are already around

the calais area? now we have got an exclusive that reveals that an exclusive that reveals that an armed gang in northern france rampaged through one particular village and attempted to attack a group of people who had a young child with them. now, according to local media, one horrific incident happened at 4 am. on sunday. so this is the first day of what is a local duck hunt. all right. now three hunters and a three year old boy faced an attack of what french police called, quote , police called, quote, unprecedented and unheard violence from 60 migrants that lasted about two hours. this happenedin lasted about two hours. this happened in the taddington marsh, about ten miles west of calais. one witness called sorry, said that the small group tried to help the migrants when they first came across them. so he said, we called the police at around 4 am. we knew they were going to risk their lives. we are human first and foremost now. two officers arrived at the scene. another witness claimed that the group of migrants

opened their cage of ducks and decapitated one of them in front of them. the 60 migrants are then are said to have surrounded this hut, where the hunters had decided to try to hide in and broken the windows, and tried to attack the three hunters with iron bars and knives at the men and the child had barricaded themselves into that hunting hut behind a steel door, which withstood the attack , until withstood the attack, until police turned up again at about 6 am. now, local police have confirmed that there is an investigation into this underway and i'm concerned that without proper border checks, we are in the dark about who could be entering the country. we can give as much money as possible to other nations, though, can't we? but what about potentially violent people who have already made it to calais ? should we be made it to calais? should we be quite concerned about that? let me know your thoughts. i'm going to get the thoughts from our panel to get the thoughts from our panel. now we've got columnist and broadcaster esther krakue, the director of the centre for migration and economic prosperity, stephen wolf, and former labour minister bill

rammell. and i'll start with you on this, stephen. i mean, this is a pretty disturbing situation that does beg the question about, well , you know, is there about, well, you know, is there about, well, you know, is there a risk that if some people are prone to extreme violence in calais, that they might then be incredibly violent here? >> yeah. i don't think that's any any surprise to anybody if they thought that if you're going to be violent in one country, you're going to be violent here. and we've got evidence of people who have been violent here, whether it's the bombs in manchester, my, my home town, to those who get entranced by terrorism, and we've seen the violence that we've seen in germany, in france, in spain, but recently this level of violence has actually been increasing. and i know it's a concern to europol and the border agencies in europe, too, because only several days ago there was gangs of over 500 trying to get through the african element of sza , which is african element of sza, which is controlled by in morocco. and they were beating the police and beating the townspeople into getting a cross. there's also

reports coming in the libyan area, which are part of the western migration route, where there has now been violence between gangs who are taking over control and using the migrants in each side that they want to control, to fight each other. and of course, we know that there's been violence down in italy. we remember the images only last year when they were coming in in lots of boats and then fighting when they got onto then fighting when they got onto the shores of southern italy. so violence is part and parcel of the process, but it's also a useful vehicle for people smuggling. >> i suppose some people, bill, would say that, oh well, this just shows the level of desperation that people feel in order to get a place on one of these boats . was that is that an these boats. was that is that an argument that holds water for you? >> well, there is clearly desperation and people are coming thousands of miles across the road, across the world to try and get a better life. >> but i take the view that if you come here as an asylum seeker and you have a criminal record or you commit crimes, you should automatically be sent back to your country of origin. but look, this is a huge europe

wide problem and it's going to take time to tackle. but what i thought was interesting, this week with keir starmers visit to italy, there you've got a country and you know, you were parodying the money that the government is spending overseas. but italy has cut its numbers by 62%. how in part by spending significant sums of money in tunisia and libya, beefing up their border control to stop the flow of migrants. also, with offshore processing in albania. now, i've said on this show before, i think it is worth exploring offshore processing, not rwanda, because that was permanently sending people there and the human rights record didn't back it up. but i think that can be part of the solution as well. >> yeah, i suppose the issue with what italy has done is for us over here. maybe if we did do some offshore processing, i think roughly speaking, between 70 or 80% of people end up being approved. so we would conceivably still end up taking quite a lot of people. >> i mean, i think one thing that the uncomfortable thing that the uncomfortable thing that no one really wants to talk

about, particularly politicians, is , the demand side and tackling is, the demand side and tackling that. and i always compare this to the war on drugs because they're always like, you know , they're always like, you know, let's tackle the supply. let's let's, you know, spend billions criminalising drug lords and all of that. well, drugs have become more available than ever. more people are using them. however, they become more potent than even they become more potent than ever. it's clearly not working in something like this in a market, which is what it is. it's a people smuggling market. you want to cut the demand, and how to do that is you don't give them what they asked for. these people that are risking their lives, paying these people smugglers thousands of pounds to come here. the idea that they would actually succeed is what is inspiring them to do it. so the reality is you can't be approving 70 to 80% of them. and also we have to take the view and as uncomfortable as it is that they're not just worker bees, i know many on the left say, oh, but these are workers. we need workers in this country. i actually find that deeply racist because they're just treating human beings and dehumanising them and treating them like a bunch of robots. they are people with values and ideas and cultures. >> that number doesn't work now, as we know from the obe, that we've got, over 1.5 million of them are actually claiming

benefits. well yes, exactly. >> but this is a fallacy to say there actually are working. >> this is once they've been granted asylum, but what's really interesting coming out of germany is mets, who used to be the challenger to merkel at the time that she opened the doors, what i call the monumental failure of merkel to open the doors to all the asylum seekers. and 1.1 million inches the first yean and 1.1 million inches the first year, 1.2 million inches the second year has actually started to come in, and they're closing the borders down between poland. they're taking a much harder line now because of the terrorism and violence that's occurring by those in germany. >> that's the point i was making. we need to do that. >> the culture of these of not these people, but of people that are coming to your country, you need to address it. and that's not racist. that's saying there are people in this world that have ideas and values that are not compatible with the society. they're trying to integrate there. >> there's a testimony there from numerous different people and this is backed up by police and this is backed up by police and also in numerous different local media reports as well, which appeared to show that there was a very a very quick rush to use things like machetes

and iron bars against locals who in their mind, those people trying to cross the channel assumed those locals were were trying to dob them in to the police. okay, really , that police. okay, really, that that's not normal behaviour, bill and that could be a problem on the streets of britain, couldn't it? if people are quick to behave violently. >> yeah . and we've got to tackle >> yeah. and we've got to tackle that. but look you know this is a global problem. you know go to any advanced part of the world and these pressures exist exist . and these pressures exist exist. it's only going to be tackled by global cooperation. and i'll give you a, for instance. and what i think is really interesting coming out of the italy example , the southern italy example, the southern border of the european union, they are cooperating. they're paying they are cooperating. they're paying for money the authorities to send the boats back to those african countries. i think we need much stronger engagement with france to get that as part of the solution. in the english channel. >> but if we look at the overall budget of the european union over the past 15 years, they have basically spent 84 billion

in africa dealing with this issue . 84 billion, right. in issue. 84 billion, right. in terms of all the different grants that they've got over a 15 year period, and it's only getting worse. three different parliaments. so it hasn't stopped it completely. but i do understand the issue. and you're quite right. we do need to work with them. it's huge amounts of money. but when we talk about a global issue, it's only 15 countries. yeah, 15 countries that are really receiving the vast majority of these people. >> far be it from me to stand up for a very right wing government that there is in italy, but they've actually cut the numbers by 62%. you can make a difference, but you've really got to be hard nosed. you've really got to be coordinated and you've got to work with other countries. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and look, clearly what remains to be seen is whether or not keir starmer, the bloke who seemed to vehemently oppose not just rwanda, but obviously a load of other stuff over the course of his legal career as well, you know, whether or not he's going to now go and enact any of these tough policies, but we'll have to wait and see, won't we? well patrick, i've said to you before, you know,

under the last labour government, we significantly cut asylum numbers. >> we can do it again. >> we can do it again. >> well, we also sent people back under the last labour government in one year. >> you had the highest numbers we've ever had. >> yeah. 120 ten and net migration overall and illegal migration overall and illegal migration was a third of what it is today. >> it is. i agree with that. >> it is. i agree with that. >> all right. well, well there we go. watch this space. but yes, quite a concerning report there really from some of the stuff that's going on on the ground in calais at time now though for the great british giveaway, your chance to win the equivalent of having an extra three grand in your bank account every month for a year. a whopping £36,000 in tax free cash. here's all the details you'll need to make that money yours. >> this is your chance to win a £36,000 secret salary in the latest great british giveaway. that's like having £3,000 each month for an entire year. extra cash in your bank account that you can do whatever you like with. take a year off and keep it to yourself . you don't even it to yourself. you don't even need to tell the taxman as it's totally tax free for another chance to win. £36,000 in tax

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in fact, they're threatening to go back on strike if they don't get a pay rise every single yeanis get a pay rise every single year, is it not? maybe time that they stop moaning? i'm going to be joined by doctor dean eggett in just a few minutes time, so stay tuned

welcome back to patrick christys tonight . welcome back to patrick christys tonight. now, you'd have maybe thought that junior doctors

would be celebrating today after they accepted a bumper 22% pay deal and brought an end to one of the longest running disputes in nhs history. but of the longest running disputes in nhs history . but no, of the longest running disputes in nhs history. but no, even that wasn't enough to get the champagne flowing. the british medical association has instead warned that this must be just the start of a series of above inflation pay rises, or there would be consequences. indeed bma leaders threatened the health secretary, wes streeting , health secretary, wes streeting, with more strike action if junior doctors didn't get a pay rise every year going forward . rise every year going forward. i'm joined now by the gp doctor, dean agate, dean luke, thank you very, very much. i mean, this is a disaster for patients, isn't it? loads of money which the patients will be paying for, no strings attached and no promises of no more strike action next yeah >> hi patrick, it doesn't sound like the best outcome when you put it in that terms in those terms, because of course, the taxpayer is getting less for their money. >> nowadays, we know that our elderly, vulnerable, individuals in the country are not getting the heating allowance and

there's going to be all sorts of cuts coming to the country. so people are going to be thinking, well, why on earth are we giving junior doctors a 22% pay rise? and for junior doctors to then turn round and say, well, actually, we're probably going to expect above inflation pay rise next year and the year after. it's going to be consequences. that's going to be a very bitter pill to swallow. but having said that, wes streeting made his bed and he's got to lie in it before the election came because he did say that he would put an end to these strikes, which really made an open goal waiting for the bma . an open goal waiting for the bma. >> yeah, absolutely. and he's now in a situation where he could be confronted with this latest pay deal. i think i'm right in saying lasts for two years. so in two years time, which really is not that long away. crucially, it's also before the next general election, we could see junior doctors back out on the picket lines again saying we need, we need, you know, an increased amount of pay. and then labour would have to renegotiate with them again. i do wonder, though , them again. i do wonder, though, doctor dean, whether or not we are now going to witness a turning point, which is patience

starting to turn or the public really starting to turn. their anger actually, specifically at people who are working in the nhs and not necessarily the politicians running it if they feel as though they've got the pay feel as though they've got the pay rise now and they should be back at work, would that be a concern for somebody like you as a gp? >> absolutely. and i think wes streeting is probably counting on that because although he left an open goal for the bma where he had to give something very significant for the junior doctors to back off for a year or two, it does mean then that he has given his promise, which was to get junior doctors back to work and anything that happens then from here on in is probably probably going to be put back to the bma and junior doctors and saying, well, okay, well, you promised you'd give more, you promised you'd work more, you promised you'd work more, and now you're going back to the picket line. why is that? the case? and i think the problem about this open goal is that not only have junior doctors put a ball in there, i think other aspects of the profession are going to too. so gp's are going to want more

money and nurses are going to want more money. other public sector workers are going to want more money, and wes streeting is going to have to turn around and say, well, i gave it to the junior doctors, why shouldn't i give it to you? so he's opened a massive can of worms for himself. on giving in to this. it's not just junior doctors who are going to be banging on the door for more. it's many other people, >> indeed. i mean, patients have been saying that they can't see doctors. there's a waiting list of something along the lines of 7.5 million people. presumably that's higher now because the last time i saw that was was about ofwat several months ago. so. so that is a problem. we are we are quite literally the sick man of europe as a country, which is not great, is it? and yet we spend a huge amount of money on our nhs. the latest from starmer is, well, there's going to be no more money without reform. but it does appear to me that people who work in the nhs are quite reluctant to have any reform. as a gp, what do you think should be done? >> so actually i agree with the

concept of reform, but i don't necessarily agree with the concept of reform, of changing the system over again or changing the titles of people or necessarily changing people's roles. >> there is a huge amount of waste going on in the nhs. the best example, that example, the analogy that i've been given is . analogy that i've been given is. it's like painting a house with tester pots. when you're looking for pots of cash with which to care for patients, you know there's no one pot to dip into to be able to provide care. you're looking for 100 pots of cash, so you're constantly looking around and those pots of cash can't mix. so if there were rules and regulations that made it simpler for us to care, we wouldn't be running around chasing our tails administratively. we'd be more on the front line looking after patients. so yes, i do think we need massive reform, but not necessarily on the front line with clinicians. it needs to be more the back office functions and how the nhs system flows. >> cash. i think there has to be a bit more accountability as well. i mean, i did something last week on people who are these non—executive directors or a variety of different roles very high up in nhs england,

etc. and you think, well, if report after report keeps coming out about essentially the thing you're in charge of, you would have thought amongst other professions, there will be calls for somebody to resign or be hauled before a committee and be held to account for that. that doesn't seem to really be the case ever in england. it seems to be that it's just the fault of whoever the health secretary is. and i do wonder whether, if there was a bit more accountability behind the scenes, that might help. but would you urge junior doctors then to not go on strike again for the next couple of years at least? or, or what would you say to them ? to them? >> well, i've been very clear in the past saying that i don't think striking was the right thing for junior doctors to do think striking was the right thing forjunior doctors to do . thing for junior doctors to do. and actually, i applaud those junior doctors who decided not to strike and those junior doctors who said, with this pay rise, thank you. this is brilliant. we don't intend to strike anymore. get back to caring for patients. i don't think striking was right then, and i don't think striking will be right in the future. i think this is an opportunity for the bma to back off with the rhetoric and say thank you. let's work closely together. let's work closely together. let's continue with this goodwill and build upon what we have to make the nhs better for

patients and better for doctors. >> yeah, indeed. look, doctor dean, great stuff. thank you very much. brilliant to have you out there. who is a gp. look, there's loads to talk about there. i mean, i do wonder whether or not the bma now would unfortunately for them, just emerge as a ruthless political activist group that was never really happy. and if they lose all of the sympathy of the british public, then frankly, i think they would regret that. i think they would regret that. i think you'd see fewer people beeping their horns at the next junior doctors protest once they've got a 22% pay rise. but coming up, there's more turmoil in the middle east tonight. a wave of exploding . pages killed wave of exploding. pages killed nine and injured over 2000in lebanon. it is one of arguably the most audacious military operations that the world has ever seen. i'll bring you some astonishing footage of all of that. and tomorrow's newspaper front pages. oh, and ed davey's been having a good day, so me . been having a good day, so me. leave me, let me go and be unrwa. sorry, adam. afraid you've not it to judges houses. but

welcome back to patrick christys tonight, and it's time to bring you the very first look at tomorrow's newspaper front pages. so let's do that now. metro. they go with courage of crossbow carnage. victim bravery revealed as murder. crossbow carnage. victim bravery revealed as murder . suspect revealed as murder. suspect appears in court. triple crossbow killing suspect . cal crossbow killing suspect. cal clifford has appeared in court now, and one of his victims there. their story has been told to the court, so the daily telegraph. and they've got teachers allowed to work from home. there's another story here. starmer plots to raise bills to fund thames water bailout. so sir keir starmer is planning to allow water bills across the country to be raised to pay for a government bailout of thames water. i think we'll return to that story. let's just go to the guardian for now. hezbollah vows to strike back at israel after deadly major attacks. this is the fact that

israel , attacks. this is the fact that israel, apparently, it seems anyway, managed to make all of hezbollah's pages explode. the added element to this is that where do a lot of people hold their pages? it's on their belts or around the groyne area, which does imply that some people may have. some people might have fertility issues in hezbollah going forward. let's go . i was going forward. let's go. i was thinking of a different line there, but just in terms of that, there's a big picture on the front of the times. actually exploding pages wreak havoc among hezbollah on a bloke who, you know, has had an exploding pageh you know, has had an exploding pager. let's go to the independent hezbollah. >> there's this exploding page just killed nine and injured 2700 in cyber hits on hezbollah. >> so israel accused of deadly mass malware attack as communication devices used by lebanese militia simultaneously burst into flames. unfortunately, the independent and others are reporting that an eight year old girl was among the dead. so this isn't, it appears anyway, simply a straightforward case of, they've killed a load of terrorists. i

think there was potentially a couple of issues at play there, but regardless of that, to the extent that it's actually a kind of just an unbelievable intelligence operation, i think it does make the mind boggle, doesn't it? the way they've managed to clearly access every single pager, inject them with some kind of explosive and then detonate them? >> well, it demonstrates again that the israeli secret services and military are very, very effective. but this is a serious escalation of the conflict. and look, i'm a supporter of the state of israel. i believe in their right to self—defence. but there's a real sense that netanyahu doesn't want to deal because of the consequences for his own position. >> has it actually been established that this was israel's doing ? israel's doing? >> not definitively, but i think all the indications we can have all the indications we can have a little look. >> actually, just one, one of these, one of these devices did explode. it's been described as the biggest security breach so far in nearly a year of conflict with israel. and this is some some individuals in a shop. and it goes and that's, you know, i don't think there's much left in his little marital area. probably not. no family jewels

have been melted down. >> they have. >> they have. >> yeah. i just think it's yeah. like hezbollah like you were saying, you know, it's incredible from the perspective of them being able to do this kind of stuff. and what an what a kind of fascinating intelligence operation that is . intelligence operation that is. and it's something that i think we'll show the world. i mean, look, let's be honest. if you are minded to be a member of hezbollah or hamas or whoever else, you are probably right now looking at every single thing you own in your house and wondering if mossad are about to blow it up. so you know , from blow it up. so you know, from that perspective, in the shoes you're going to wear, you might blow up your heels, you might blow up your heels, you might blow up your heels, you might blow up your heels, they might blow up your heels, they might blow up your heels, they might blow up anything, i suppose. really, literally. >> take your breath away. >> take your breath away. >> take your breath away. there you go. >> so literally, let's just song. >> let's just whiz ourselves over to a more domestic story, which is this keir starmer apparently plotting to raise bills to fund thames water bailout. so sir keir starmer, i'll just read a bit more detail on this, is planning to allow water bills across the country to be raised to pay for a government bailout of thames water . well, it government bailout of thames water. well, it comes government bailout of thames water . well, it comes after the water. well, it comes after the government's decision to scrap the winter fuel allowance for the winter fuel allowance for the vast majority of pensioners, cutting them off from help with

their energy bills. i mean, this is quite remarkable , isn't it is quite remarkable, isn't it really? every single thing is going to go up. you've got council tax as well as this. >> it's going to sink our family budgets . it's quite simply as budgets. it's quite simply as that. he's going to water down our pensions. >> it just keeps getting worse to be honest. >> he's going to go on. and to be honest, i also i attended a meeting with the head of ofwat who was talking about the fact that this was over a year and a half ago, whilst the conservatives were in power, that bills were going to have to go that bills were going to have to 9° up that bills were going to have to go up anyway because of the rising population in the country , rising population in the country, because we've got 67 million people and now we've got the idea that we're going to have to buy, buy out a large company. >> well, there's not enough reservoirs for a huge amount . reservoirs for a huge amount. >> but look, you know, you'll shout me down. i would say it, wouldn't i? but the fiscal inheritance that this government is facing because of the last government is absolutely catastrophic. i was at a labour party meeting last week, last night, and i was saying, and, you know, there were some criticisms coming forward around the winter fuel allowance and the winter fuel allowance and the rest of it. i said the

fiscal inheritance is much, much, much worse than 1997 when we came into power. now, i don't actually think we will go for the increases in water bills. there's got to be some other mechanism because that will be toxic. but the water industry is a mess. >> bill, the fiscal fiscal inheritance that you've got in 97 was great. >> a lot of that is being caused by yourself increasing the wages of train drivers to make them the seventh percent wealthiest people in this country. >> give a little bit more detail money because of all the strikes. >> we have to get. is that all right? sorry. >> these are these are all great points, but i just want to bring a little bit more detail into this as well. so £15 billion worth of debt apparently is what thames water has racked up. yeah. that's what they're sitting on at the moment. last month, the company said it needed to raise customer bills by nearly 60% by 2030, which is not far off now, despite the regulator ofwat, saying increases should be capped at 23%. esther ghey sorry, i don't really think the british taxpayer should be paying for this , should we?

this, should we? >> considering we also have sewage floating in our water bodies, and we haven't built a reservoir since, i think in the 1990s. look at this rate. i do think that the government has come up with some sort of agreement, because at this rate, we're going to call keir starmer the grim reaper because it just keeps getting worse. this is bad news after bad news after bad news. and you know, inasmuch as he can say that the fiscal situation that they've inherited is, is terrible and they don't have much wiggle room, fine. even if you can accept that at the end of the day, these are decisions that are being made right. and these are decisions that are being made by the government that they're going to have to justify. and if you're going to just say, oh, we have no choice, well, guess what? then the electorate are going to say, we have no choice but to turn our backs. >> he does have different choices. >> i just don't know what the current investment in the equity is for the pensions market. but if the company goes bust, then a lot of pension companies lose. >> well, he's planning on investment regulating, but in some ways he could just turn around and say let it go bust. >> and he doesn't have to pay that 15 billion. >> yeah. i mean, again, what happens to people who are getting their water from thames water? >> i mean, come on, you know,

there is the company will still exist. >> there's no love lost if the company goes bust, then the government can take it over effectively for free. >> in terms of the debt, it's just that the equity shareholders will lose it. which are the pension companies, which is the economy . is the economy. >> look, you know, so there's lots of winners and losers in this . you talk about, you know, this. you talk about, you know, the pessimism, but why should it be the taxpayers, all governments try to take the tough decisions early. this all comes back to exactly what . we comes back to exactly what. we said during the general election campaign. it will depend whether we can get economic growth going so that we can invest in public services and cut taxes. >> this is another thing that could hammer pensioners, couldn't it? you know, this is again, you would have council tax. you would have you'd have the winter fuel payments there. you have the single person discount. you'd have your water bills going up. this is going to be quite a difficult increases in taxes, capital gains tax. >> you had all of them coming. yeah. >> chase away your tax base as well. >> there are there are different choices to be made. and i'd wait until the budget. there's all sorts of scare stories out there. the government's not stupid. >> no. okay. all right. well, it does appear that our fundraiser

is as well timed as ever for friends of the elderly. >> if you're just joining us, we've managed to raise the latest amount of money, by the way, which i will just get on my phone now quickly, just to just to tell you the latest amount of money that we have raised for all you have raised for friends of the oldies, 120 6500 pounds. so thank you very, very much. i mean, it's a amazing sum of money that will all go towards grants, etc. there's a qr code on your screen there right now. if you want to hover your phone over it. if not, you can go to justgiving.com forward slash page justgiving.com forward slash page forward slash. save our seniors. i'm just trying to do my best to get a bit of money in the bank. ahead of this. winter is quite bleak winter for a lot of elderly people, so that actually they can get grants, they can get support, they can get a new boiler, they can get a new oven, they can get repair work done. they can pay for care, all of that stuff. let's just try and do a good thing. hey. but anyway, old habits die hard . and sir ed davey was hard. and sir ed davey was carried on. sorry. has carried on where he left off during the election campaign by treating us all to a little bit of karaoke before he spoke at the lib dem conference in brighton this afternoon . saw me leave me, let

afternoon. saw me leave me, let me go and be around. >> you got no place to tell you, polly middlehurst . polly middlehurst. >> so we had a theory in the office that we thought he thought his mic was probably off and it wasn't. >> we wish it was. >> we wish it was. >> yeah, it wasn't off. and so he's there, you know, giving it the big end to everyone, not realising that everyone can hear him singing. >> he sounds like he's skinning a cat. oh no . a cat. oh no. >> it'sjust a cat. oh no. >> it's just like a cat. oh no. >> it'sjust like i mean, the >> it's just like i mean, the lib dems have a history of cnnge lib dems have a history of cringe making stunts that they pull out regularly. and i think this is up there with the best or the worst of them. but do you know what, all this was being said during the general election campaign when he was pulling all those stunts and people said, it's crazy, why is he doing it? he went from 11 to 72. so he did. yeah. >> he did. no, he did absolutely. and there is a bit

of momentum about the lib dems at the moment. they've got to do something with it though, because they have got huge amount of seats, especially when you consider the amount of people who voted reform versus the amount of people who voted the amount of people who voted the lib dems. and then the discrepancy when it comes to actual seats in parliament. so the lib dems have got to do something with it other than, you know, just i just find it hard to take ed davey seriously. >> it's like carry on up the lib dems. yeah, well, he's got a lot of cultural appropriation there hasn't he, trying to take that song out. do you think ? yeah. song out. do you think? yeah. that's right. he's a complete white audience in the background there. you know, he should he should be watching what he says. you know, it is there. he is looking like he's there trying to sing as though he's in the middle of some gospel singing. it's not working. no. it doesn't do it for me. >> well, i thought, i can't show the liz truss. >> they also did a did a thing and that that was even worse. >> i mean, you know, it gets w0 i'se. woi'se. >> worse. >> yeah , it gets worse. >> yeah, it gets worse. >> yeah, it gets worse. >> i think when leftist political activists get together, they really need to make sure they're not coming across as weird. >> but they are weird. but they are weird. that's what the lib dems are for. >> lib dems are weird. >> lib dems are weird. >> all right, all right okay.

>> all right, all right okay. >> coming up i'll have all the rest of tomorrow's newspaper front pages. and there is only one question on everybody's lips in downing street. >> did you buy your own clothes, minister ? minister? >> does lord alli sponsor your wardrobe? >> okay. all right . yeah. >> okay. all right. yeah. fantastic. anyway, more on that in just a few moments. time stay tuned

so this is patrick christys tonight, and i've got some more front pages for you. so let's get stuck into those. the daily mail, lady vix frocks and the champagne socialists who think they can do no wrong by sarah vine. they've also got israel's exploding pages were put middle east on the brink. and there we

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life. he should be in prison. quotes. grooming victim's fury after star dodges jail over pics, obviously we don't have much more detail on that story because that is just the picture story on the front page. but they've described him as the young man who sparked edwards's downfall, opening up to the mirror, so there we go. yeah, let's just have zone in a little bit. i think on the, on the daily express, 1.7 million people won't heat their homes this winter in order to try to save money. i find this incredibly bleak. the idea that an elderly person might be putting a hat and a coat and some gloves on in their front room, or deciding, you know what? what meal of the day to miss. in a first world country like britain. i find that quite shocking, really. >> let me make a point and then i'll come to the need for change. the reality is you're less likely to be in poverty if you're a pensioner today than if you're a pensioner today than if you're of a working age and there has always been a case for

means testing means testing the winter fuel allowance. the problem i've got with it is the threshold has been cut so low , threshold has been cut so low, and i think the government will and i think the government will and is going to have to address that in the budget. >> yeah, i think it's part of the i agree there. >> it's part of the basket of other things that are coming at the same time. >> we've just spoken about water bills. we're talking about council tax. the single person discount is whispers of the bus pass going and all of that. so it's part of a wider picture, isn't it? >> this is a broader picture that's seemingly pushing our elderly back down towards the levels of the victorian age, when george orwell was writing road to wigan pier, he was writing about the poverty in the north of england or in the midlands, in the cities where you saw vast numbers of people struggling even to be able to eat and heat themselves. this is what we're getting again in our lifetime, and it should not happen, particularly with the elderly in this country. and they should be hanging their headsin they should be hanging their heads in shame. i appreciate you're saying that we've got vast numbers of people who are doing very well as pensioners, but there are millions down there who are not. and i know

some of them were telling me as well, and i'm going to be speaking to i live next door to one of their bosses. >> yeah. who's going to be on the show on thursday? but they were telling me that there's quite a lot of phone calls that they're getting a heck of a lot of phone calls that they are getting now from people who just missed out on the winter fuel payment. so there are a couple like £8. yeah, exactly. >> and that needs to be tackled and the bureaucracy needs to be tackled. >> but there are always choices to be made about tax benefits and spending. and the reality is over 14 years the pensioners were protected. and for example, young people paid the price for that i do, i disagree. >> the thing is, here's the thing. i think it's about how we phrased it. like i'm a young person and i think i've been hard done by taxes are ruinous. and i think there's young people are really feeling that there's no point working and being productive. i completely get that. however, the way we framed pensions and pensioners is like, they're getting handouts. this is something they were promised . is something they were promised. they worked, they contributed to the system for 30, 40, 50 years. now, it's not their fault that we don't have a sovereign pension fund like other countries. we don't actually have a tax sport. how they're

getting their pensions paid is by young people through the basically through ni. and that needs to be addressed. but i don't think penalising them is i know my generation is not going to get a pension. i've accepted that it's probably going to be. >> and when you talk about when you talk about savings bill, look, this is not the way to do it. >> look at the senior civil servants who have a pension fund. it's almost towards 1 trillion. is the liability that we have to pay for civil servants, because they've been getting their final salaries paid out. okay. we just don't do it. we should they should have been paying into the system a long time ago. >> well, look, can i can i just say thank you very much, everybody, because we're getting towards the end of the show now for everybody who has donated a little bit of money in today's show, that was just giving.com/page/save our seniors. >> that total is on £127,141. but what we've got to do is add the £27,000 gift aid to that. and that is an unbelievable sum of money. so thank you so, so much. again, i'm going to be telling you all exactly some of the things i'm going to be doing to next week. i'm going to be trying to survive off about £20 a week on a food budget, like a

lot of people on pension credit. but anyway, let's just round the show off now by going to greatest britain and union jackass. okay, so we're gonna have to be quite quick with this. so, esther, who's your greatest briton? please, kemi badenoch this week for going on a bit , badenoch this week for going on a bit, basically saying the revolutionary thing that should be in prison. >> right. revolutionary. but, you know, she said it. >> fair enough. it's a strong start. go on then, stephen, i'm going for graham brady who's just shows the weakness of some of our prime ministers, but in particular cameron and osborne, their deceit to us and how they just look down upon people of working class. okay. all right. another strong one. come on. >> elizabeth, elizabeth pitt, a lesbian who challenged cambridgeshire city council and won £63,000 because they disciplined her, because she made comments of a transphobic nature about a guy who put a dress on his his male dachshund . dress on his his male dachshund. >> so he had a gender fluid fashion. he had a gender fluid fashion. >> and, you know, i don't go in for culture wars, but that's bonkers, just to be clear. >> so she she pushed back against that. she got sacked

because she mugged off a dasher. >> she wasn't sacked, but she was disciplined and she was sent to coventry. >> and now she's now now she's won 63,000. all right. >> she can be the greatest britain. >> well . what for being sent to >> well. what for being sent to coventry. no, we're clear on the details . details. >> that's fine. well done. elizabeth and, you know, great name for a gender neutral dachshund . okay. dachshund. okay. >> union jackass. >> union jackass. >> dave grohl. because he posted last week saying, oh, he's fathered a child from an affair that was 15 years. he had a 15 year affair, and then not a his mistress. so you made it sound like a minor indiscretion. i'm like, he basically had a second wife for 15 years. yeah. >> fair enough. go on then . >> fair enough. go on then. >> fair enough. go on then. >> it's got to be ed davey. >> it's got to be ed davey. >> it's got to be ed davey. >> i mean, ijust, ijust i've got this thing eamonn. there you go. just that picture alone says it . why? it. why? >> even though i'm labour and a trade unionist, a collective jackass for the pcs union members in the office of national statistics who've threatened to leave the office for a year because their bosses said they had to come in for at

least part of the week. yeah, >> they can get it as well. well done. >> they're all right. that's it. i was going to go for that one, but he'd already. you'd already nicked it before i got in it. well done. all right. >> well thank you very much. it's been a great show this evening. it's going to be another bumper show tomorrow as well. thank you very much to everybody who's been watching and listening. it's headliners. next i will see you all tomorrow at 9 pm. take care. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of weather on . solar, sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> hi there and welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news dry. for many of us over the next 24 hours with clear skies , although with clear skies, although overnight it will turn somewhat cloudier in some places, notably towards the south and southeast because of the winds coming in around an area of high pressure and arriving from the east. those easterly winds will increase the cloud overnight across east anglia, the midlands

and the south—east. eventually reaching parts of east wales by the early hours. further north, we lose the cloud across northern scotland, but under any clear spells across scotland and northern ireland, as well as northern england, a few mist and fog patches could form by dawn, however, it's across southern parts of the country where we'll see the cloudiest skies away from the cloud. a chilly start once again with temperatures in the single figures, but under the single figures, but under the sheet of cloud a milder start compared with tuesday, albeit with grey skies. the clearest skies will be across northern ireland, northern england and much of scotland in sheltered spots away from main urban areas and away from hilltops. temperatures could be as low as 3 to 6 celsius, and any mist and fog could last until 9 or 10 am. before disappearing. once the mist and fog does disappear. scotland, northern ireland, northern england sees once again a beautiful sunny day , and across beautiful sunny day, and across central and southern parts through the afternoon, the cloud will disappear back to the east

coast, where it could linger in places. and then another sunny day is expected for the vast majority, 24 or 25 celsius possible in places. feeling warm

gb news. >> good evening. i'm sophia wenzler with your headlines at 11:00 in lebanon, at least nine people have been killed in 2700

injured, including members of the hezbollah terrorist group. when their pages exploded. today, you can see here footage appearing to show the moment one of the devices exploded . it's of the devices exploded. it's being described as the biggest security breach, so far in nearly a year of conflict with israel. hezbollah claim israel is to blame for the pager blasts, adding they'll get a fair punishment . israel is yet fair punishment. israel is yet to comment. meanwhile, the pentagon has confirmed that us defence secretary has spoke with his israeli counterpart today as they continue to assess what happened back in the uk. 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 . 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

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