gb news. well, the hezbollah terror and >> well, the hezbollah terror group quite literally picking up the pieces today and vowing >> morning 930 on wednesday, september the 18th. live across revenge on israel. but are they the uk. this is britain's in any position to launch any newsroom with andrew pierce and meaningful attack on is still bev turner. >> good morning. so deadly very doubtful, as they've taken exploding pages. at least nine a very significant pounding and people are confirmed dead and thousands injured in a suspected not stopping the boat . israeli attack on hezbollah. mark white has more. not stopping the boat. >> the prime minister's new >> well, the hezbollah terror border chief has admitted that group quite literally picking up smashing the gangs, that's the the pieces today and vowing labour policy won't be enough , labour policy won't be enough, and that the government needs a revenge on israel. but are they deterrent to reduce the channel crossings. >> well, who'd have thought it.7 >> well, who'd have thought it.7 >> couldn't we now, in an attempt to tackle the recruitment crisis in schools, teachers will be allowed to work from for home marking, reading and lesson planning. will that make more teachers stay in such a difficult job.7 >> and the inquiry continues into how the killer, nurse lucy letby, got away with the crimes she's been found guilty of. as the families for search answers and kate returns to work, the princess of wales has had her first official royal engagement since undergoing chemotherapy. 00:00:59,992 --> 4294966103:13:29,429 >> good to have you back

hundreds of simultaneous explosions across lebanon and parts of syria. nine people were killed and thousands injured in what's believed to be a remote attack targeting communications devices. hezbollah militants and the iranian ambassador were among those wounded. as tensions between israel and hezbollah continue to rise, the foreign office is now urging british citizens in lebanon to leave, warning they could be trapped in a war zone . some airlines have a war zone. some airlines have also started suspending flights to tel aviv and tehran in response to the escalating violence in the region . here, violence in the region. here, inflation remained above the 2% target, unchanged at 2.2% last

month, with new data out this morning. prices in hospitality , morning. prices in hospitality, holidays and hotels possibly boosted by the final leg of taylor swift's uk tour, are driving inflation, with the inflation in the services sector up to 5.6% in august. treasury chief darren jones says years of sky high inflation continues to put strain on british families despite the slower rise. he added the government is determined to fix the foundations of the economy to ease the pressure on households. experts, though, believe the figure points to the bank of england keeping interest rates at 5% tomorrow. former scottish first minister alex salmond says every nation deserves a second chance. on the 10th anniversary of scotland's failed independence bid. he's predicting the country will be independent within the next decade. reflecting on the 2014 campaign, he admits mistakes in the final week of that campaign, but doubts a different strategy would have changed the outcome

since the vote for support the independence campaign has remained largely static, frustrating many, including salmond, who blames the current scottish government for a lack of action. he insists the push for independence must accelerate, and says that scotland doesn't have time on its hands . scotland doesn't have time on its hands. band the irgc. that's the call from robert jenrick, as he argues the iranian revolutionary guard corps could should be labelled a terrorist group. the conservative leadership candidate wrote in the daily telegraph, saying labour had once promised to take action but has failed to deliver. jenrick argues the irgc is the world's chief sponsor of terror, and that cracking down on it would , he says, help on it would, he says, help tackle affiliated groups. the foreign secretary, david lammy, has introduced sanctions against the group but hasn't moved to prescribe it as a terrorist organisation . the public inquiry organisation. the public inquiry into the crimes of convicted child serial killer nurse lucy

letby is continuing today with the parents of some of her victims giving evidence. the investigation is scrutinising how letby, now serving 15 life sentences, was able to murder seven babies and injure seven more while she worked as a nurse at the countess of chester hosphal at the countess of chester hospital. the mother of child d told the inquiry that having cctv in her daughter's hospital room could have prevented her murder. the inquiry is now looking into whether all neonatal units across england should now install cctv. the heanngs should now install cctv. the hearings are set to continue until early 2025, with findings expected by late autumn . and expected by late autumn. and finally posting voice recordings onune finally posting voice recordings online could lead to scam attempts, according to a leading bank, starling bank says ai voice cloning technology is being used to imitate people's voices, allowing scammers to target family members for money. almost half of those surveyed had no idea such scams, even existed, while 1 in 12 said they

would send money even if a call seemed strange. to prevent fraud, people are advised to agree on a safe phrase with loved ones . those are the latest loved ones. those are the latest headunes loved ones. those are the latest headlines for now. i will be back with you at 10:00 for a full roundup for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code , alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> good morning. welcome to britain's newsroom live across the uk on gb news with me, bev turner and andrew pierce. >> well breaking news bernadette spofforth. she was the 55 year old woman who first shared the fake southport suspect killer rumour online. he was arrested. well, now she has been released . well, now she has been released. >> and just to be clear, she wasn't the first person to. this is a breaking news story. so she wasn't the first person to share

this information. she was one of them. she's one of 5000 people that shared this information. this was when there was speculation initially that the southport stabber at the taylor swift event had come across on a boat. there was a suggestion that he was known to secret service, that he was on the mental health watch list in liverpool. bernie shared this information. it got picked up by some papers . she deleted it two some papers. she deleted it two hours later when she found out this was misinformation and she was cooking the tea at home and she got a knock on the door and arrived at three police officers, three cars and a meat van slightly over the top to take her out and arrested her, put her in a cell for 36 hours. she's just released a video just this minute to bring people up to speed. a lot of people follow her online and she's very popular. this is what she said. >> so on the 8th of august, the police turned up mob, handed five of them, three police cars and a prison van, and instead of and a prison van, and instead of

a simple voluntary interview, they searched me, arrested me and held me for 36 hours in a concrete cell with a concrete bed, like a terrorist . they held bed, like a terrorist. they held me even though i told them that the evidence they needed had already been found by data experts. i explained my post was political, as almost all of my posts are, and my post was aimed at the government and its failing policies. i had not and would not make something up, but perhaps the authorities and the activists didn't actually care about the truth. they just wanted me punished as an example to you . finally, i was released to you. finally, i was released on bail. there really was nothing to to take magistrates and nothing to charge me with. but it didn't end there because my bail conditions included that i couldn't engage on social media. they didn't want me to speak to you about anything at all, which meant i couldn't tell

you of the damage done to me by those reporters and activists , those reporters and activists, and that it had been so complete i couldn't leave my house that reporters were lying in wait for me in my garden, and that every day i had hate mail. i had nothing to gain from making something like that up. but others did gain journalists gained their clicks. my detractors gained my silence, and the authorities gained the silencing of you because so many of you were afraid to speak. so to those who celebrated my arrest, don't enjoy it too much, because it could easily happen to you. and the difference between us is that i would fight for you and for all those who stood up for me and did fight for me. thank you . for me. thank you. >> so, she says several weeks of hell and reputation in tatters. >> and she said, and she said, i didn't check the source. it

actually came from what looked like a verified news source in america, something called channel three, which has since been taken off air. you can actually trace it back to india and to pakistan. originally where this this came from. it's an extraordinary case. but at the heart of it is this idea of sort of free speech, actually , sort of free speech, actually, and whether you should be treated like that for posting something. yeah, yeah . something. yeah, yeah. >> and you get wrong. and how many police officers went into her house? >> i think she said three police officers and there was three police cars and a meat wagon. i think turned up. and yeah, she was held as long as she possibly could, had all her devices seized and has had her devices seized and has had her devices seized for weeks while they went through everything because she's such a diligent researcher. normally i do know bernadette spofforth. i don't mind admitting that i feel quite strongly about this also because she is a friend, because she's so diligent normally in her her research, she normally goes to the primary source. that was why it was so unusual for her to get it. she said i did it and then i went in the garden. i posted it and then i went and did some

gardening, and i sort of forgot about it. >> but then she took it down when she realised it was inaccurate. >> two hours later she went, oh, this is this is misinformation. and she took it down. we don't know how much of it is still misinformation. we still don't know if the killer was known to mental health services in merseyside. >> anyway, we couldn't get into that anyway because there's charges. so we couldn't we couldn't talk about it. i do think there's an irony about this as well, because on the front page of the sun today, they've done some really good work on the back of huw edwards not going to prison. they revealed that only 1 in 5. it's always men, by the way, who watch those sort of images of children as young as seven have been sent to prison. >> 1 in 5, 1 in been sent to prison. >>1in5,1in5. >>— >>1in5,1in5. >> which means that filthy , >> which means that filthy, disgusting trade continues to prosper and flourish . just prosper and flourish. just extraordinary people. men, men, men are not being sent to prison. they've got to change the guidelines . they've got to the guidelines. they've got to change the sentencing rules. because i still think huw edwards should be banged up because he's a menace. >> i would threat. i would much rather people like bernie quite who post things on social media and live a completely crime free

life, are able to be out on the streets than absolute sickos. four out of five of the people, four out of five who enjoy watching child sexual gratification, that's what they're doing it for, are still on the streets and remember, with edwards, he paid the who suppued with edwards, he paid the who supplied the images, who also didn't go to prison. >> £15,000. but he says he wasn't paying for the films he wasn't paying for the films he was giving him gifts as a thank you. same thing mate. >> yeah, right. >> yeah, right. >> get in touch this morning, gbnews.com/yoursay. but let's move on to the middle east. at least nine people were killed and nearly 3000 injured, including members of the hezbollah terror group. >> let's talk to gb news home and security editor, mark white. mark, just remind us who hezbollah are. and why they were targeted, almost certainly by israeli intelligence. >> yeah, hezbollah are one of these groups, a proxy supported effectively by iran. they are prescribed by a number of countries, including the uk. so they are a terrorist group. despite many other news

organisations still persisting to call them a militant group. they are, according to our government , a terrorist group. government, a terrorist group. well, indeed. and others , so well, indeed. and others, so they have been involved ever since the 7th of october attacks in which another terrorist group , in which another terrorist group, hamas, launched all these rockets and then went in and killed so many and took hundreds of hostages. they have been involved in firing thousands of rockets and drones across the southern border of lebanon, where they are based. the most of them at least into northern israel. and for many months now, 80,000 people from northern israel have been displaced, many of them in tel aviv. actually, when i was out covering the aftermath of the attacks on october the 7th, dozens of those displaced israeli citizens were in the same hotel as me. so israel absolutely has an incentive. and they said yesterday that they were widening the scope, the goal of

the war effort , to include the war effort, to include ensuring that those displaced citizens could return to the north and those pages which were targeted by hamas, sorry, by the israeli intelligence services, were largely in the possession of hezbollah operatives, terrorists ? yes, absolutely. so, terrorists? yes, absolutely. so, i mean, i've heard a lot of people condemning the attacks , people condemning the attacks, describing them as indiscriminate attacks. i would actually say the children have been injured. i would actually argue that they were discriminate very discriminate attacks because the people that had these pagers were known terrorists and their associates. of course, they have family lives. so you know, it's potential for a pager to be at home or child to go and look at. it's terrible. of course, any child being caught up in this, but this was a discriminate attack, you know, going after those who are hezbollah fighters, terrorists who are carrying these pagers on the instructions of their leader. by

the way, hassan nasrallah, who said months ago, ditch your mobile phones. let's go, old school. we don't want the israeli intelligence services finding out what we're up to because of course, you can track a mobile phone where people are. yes exactly. and that left the window open for israeli intelligence to get into the supply chain of these mobiles, to inject these military grade high explosives into the pagers . high explosives into the pagers. and then they were shipped off 5000 of them. >> i've never seen anything like this, mark. >> it's like something out of a james bond movie. >> in all my years , many years >> in all my years, many years in journalism, i've never heard this . i will in journalism, i've never heard this. i will say that i have heard of mobile phones being tampered with and exploding in terms of the same sort of thing in, high explosive being put inside them. and they've been used to assassinate target terrorists, but only 1 or 2 instances of this happening over

the years, the coordination to go after and to, you know, take a massive batch like this of 5000, you know, to be able to know that obviously, hezbollah were asking for 5000 pages in the first place to distribute, to get into that supply chain . to get into that supply chain. we should see, by the way, is a taiwanese firm called gold apollo denying any responsibility because they licensed the manufacture of these pagers out to a firm in budapest. and hungary. we're also denying that they were in any way complicit with the israelis in allowing their devices to be opened up in these explosives put in them, but when did they get to tamper with them? >> well, exactly. >> well, exactly. >> that's what they will be very much looking into at the moment. >> could have been in the shipment process. i mean, we just don't know. >> amazing, mark. >> amazing, mark. >> thank you. so much. we have got to move on. we've got the latest from the lucy letby inquiry in just a minute. of course. she's the nurse who was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempted to murder seven others. many people

believe that she's innocent. this is britain's newsroom on

gb news. >> 950. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> so private evidence sessions examining the events of the former neonatal nurse lucy letby murder and attempted murder of babies in the thirlwall inquiry are set to continue. just in, just a moment. now this comes. >> remember, she's one of our most infamous serial children killers. as some senior mps are saying, they think she might be innocent. >> let's go live now to the town hall in liverpool, where the inquiry is taking place. gb news, north west of england reporter sophie reaper is there for us now. morning sophie. just, just remind our viewers and our listeners why this inquiry is taking place . inquiry is taking place. >> well, very good morning to

you both. we're into the second week of this thirlwall inquiry, which the primary aim is to give some answers to the families of letby victims. but it's also going to try and determine exactly how she was able to carry out her crimes for essentially a year between june of 2015 and june of 2016. it's expecting to hear evidence from the likes of letby colleagues from the countess of chester hosphal from the countess of chester hospital, from the wider nhs. but over the past few days, we've been hearing evidence from some of the parents of the babies involved in the letby trial. yesterday, for example, we heard from the mother of child d. she was murdered in june of 2015 by letby and the mother says that she believes if cctv would have been implemented in the nursery where her daughter was attacked , that she daughter was attacked, that she may still be alive today. she said if i knew she had one collapse, i would have stayed there all night if i had access because there was cctv, or because there was cctv, or because we were being kept aware

of what was going on, she wouldn't have died. i would have been there , so it wouldn't have been there, so it wouldn't have happened. now, since the trial , happened. now, since the trial, every hospital in england with a neonatal ward have been asked if they would consider implementing cctv in order to try and prevent this kind of thing from ever happening again . now this kind of thing from ever happening again. now this morning we are expecting to continue with evidence from parents. we're expecting to hear from the mother of child e and child f, twin boys who were both attacked by letby child e was murdered by an injection of air and child f it was an attempted murder charge , a poisoning with murder charge, a poisoning with insulin. he did survive. now, this morning we're unable to go into liverpool town hall, into the inquiry itself. partially because of concerns around anonymity. but also, as i'm sure our viewers can understand, it must be incredibly, incredibly difficult for those to parents stand up and to share the impact that this has had on them and the lives of their wider family. so i think keeping the public

and keeping the press out is all about allowing them the opportunity to stand up and share their side of the story . share their side of the story. however, members of the press have been granted access via an audio link, so we will be able to listen across to it and we will be able to bring you some of that evidence a little bit later on today. >> okay , sophie, thank you for >> okay, sophie, thank you for that. that sophie reaper the ongoing inquiry. now, coming up next, prince harry is coming back to the uk. i can't wait, but guess what? he's not bringing his wife. she has to stay and look after the kids. >> that's okay. i'm all right. he doesn't have to bring his wife. >> he's coming back for his one of his children's charities, which is all well and good. and then there'll be the usual. will he or won't he have royal protection? >> he will. >> he will. >> and there's going to be so many people speculating that, including you, andrew, piers , including you, andrew, piers, that he hasn't brought his wife because their marriage is in trouble . trouble. >> i don't know if his marriage is in trouble. i suspect it isn't. we wouldn't know, would we? >> no, we wouldn't know. >> no, we wouldn't know. >> we wouldn't know.

>> we wouldn't know. >> i don't think i think it probably isn't their kind of they're sort of joined by they're sort of joined by they're having a joint adversary of the rest of the world, it seems. those two. >> exactly. i mean, but and then, of course, it will lead to all the speculation. will you see prince william? i'll lay money on it. >> he won't know. quite. good morning. june. june has got in touch saying good morning. bev and andrew enjoying watching you both. well, we're enjoying having you get in touch this morning. gbnews.com/yoursay. here's arnie with the weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news >> good morning and welcome to your latest gb news weather update. it's going to be another fine and dry day for many of us. once any fog and low cloud clears this morning and it will once again feel pretty warm in the sunshine, there is a bit of a pesky easterly breeze though, once again across the far southeast, and that will linger through much of the day. the breeze will also pick up across the northwest later on, but for many of us, another dry and fine

day and as i said, it will feel fairly warm in the sunshine. temperatures climbing towards the mid 20s, in fact, across the far south and east and even across northwestern areas of scotland will be in the low 20s, which is well above average for the time of year. for these areas, it should stay fairly mild overnight as well . some mild overnight as well. some rural spots, particularly across some sheltered glens of scotland, will chill off as the sun goes down this evening, but it should be a fine end to the day we have the full moon last night, but it will still look pretty spectacular tonight. i think. plenty of clear skies for stargazing this evening as well. northern ireland as well, seeing plenty of clear skies through this evening, but it's across the east coast. we'll start to see that cloud being dragged in overnight. that will likely unger overnight. that will likely linger across eastern coasts through wednesday evening and into thursday morning as well. it's probably going to be a bit more extensive through thursday morning compared to this morning. so a cloudier start for many of us to come , many more of many of us to come, many more of us to come on thursday. but across western areas, clear skies will continue to dominate,

particularly parts of western wales, southwest england and parts of western scotland as well. that's where temperatures will fall away a little lower , will fall away a little lower, but with the breeze and the cloud further east, temperatures holding up into double digits for many areas. so probably a bit of a cloudier start to thursday. the cloud will start to burn back though, particularly across the east coast where we continue to see this easterly breeze bringing a slightly fresher feel to these areas compared to more western parts of the uk. but across the west, another fine and bright and sunny day, with temperatures well above average into the mid 20s for some of us. have a good day. bye bye. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on

gb news. >> hey good morning. it's10:00 on wednesday the 18th of september. live across the united kingdom. this is

britain's newsroom with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> so they're called the deadly explosion. pages. at least nine people confirmed dead and thousands injured in the suspected. i think we can say it was israeli intelligence attack on hezbollah . mark white has the on hezbollah. mark white has the latest. >> well, the hezbollah terror group has vowed revenge on israel , who have a policy of israel, who have a policy of neither confirming nor denying these secret operations. however, a us official has confirmed that israel briefed them on this audacious plan . them on this audacious plan. >> and breaking news this morning, bernie spofforth, who was arrested for sharing the incorrect name of the southport stabbing suspect online, has spoken out just now. >> so to those who celebrated my arrest, don't enjoy it too much because it could easily happen to you and the difference between us is that i would fight for you . for you. >> fascinating. now, in an attempt to tackle the recruitment crisis in schools, teachers are going to be allowed to work from home for marking,

reading and planning lessons. will that make more of them stay in their jobs ? in their jobs? >> and princess catherine has returned to work. there were heard that the princess of wales were hearing did some royal duties. were hearing did some royal dufies.the were hearing did some royal duties. the first that she's done since undergoing chemotherapy. it's to good have you back and talking matters. >> royal prince harry is coming back to britain this this month. he'll be devastated. he's not bringing meghan . bringing meghan. you know bernie, don't you? >> i do, i do know her. >>— >> i do, i do know her. >> a lot of people do know her. she had to change her twitter account because of some of the stuff that she posted, particularly during lockdowns when she was questioning government policy. that's all she's ever really done. she doesn't consider herself to be augned doesn't consider herself to be aligned with any particular political party, and she was commenting on government policy when that tweet saw her arrested. so she's made a statement this morning,

gbnews.com/yoursay, to let us know your thoughts, your reaction to that story and everything else we're talking about. this morning. first, though, the very latest news with sam. >> bev and andrew thank you very much and good morning to you. just after 10:00, the top story of the day today, the foreign office is urging calm heads and de—escalation after hundreds of simultaneous explosions across lebanon and parts of syria. nine people were killed and thousands injured in what's believed to have been a remote attack targeting communication devices. hezbollah militants and the iranian ambassador were among those wounded as tensions between israel and the militant group continue to rise, the foreign office is urging british citizens now to leave lebanon, warning they could be trapped in a war zone . development minister a war zone. development minister anneliese dodds says the uk will be supporting civilians impacted in the explosions. >> like many others, i woke up

this morning to the news and reports of developments in lebanon and this clearly is an awful situation and very concerned to hear about the reports of civilian casualties . reports of civilian casualties. clearly, i don't know all of the details of this . and as i say, details of this. and as i say, we woke up to this news, but the uk will be working with, particularly with our humanitarian partners in the region here, inflation remained above the 2% target, unchanged at 2.2% last month, with new data out this morning. >> prices in hospitality holidays and in hotels possibly boosted by the final leg of taylor swifts uk tour, aren't driving inflation, with the services sector up to 5.6% in august. treasury chief darren jones says years of sky high inflation are continuing to put strain on british families, despite the slower rise . he despite the slower rise. he added the government is

determined to fix the foundations of the economy to ease pressures on households . ease pressures on households. experts, though, believe the figures could point to the bank of england keeping interest rates at 5% tomorrow. former scottish first minister alex salmond says every nation deserves a second chance on the 10th anniversary of scotland's failed independence bid. he's predicting the country will be independent within the next decade. and, reflecting on the 2014 campaign, he's admitted mistakes in its final weeks, but doubts that a different strategy would have changed the outcome since the vote. support for the independence campaign has remained largely static , remained largely static, frustrating many including salmond, who blames the current scottish government for a lack of action. he insists the push for independence must now accelerate as scotland he says, doesn't have time on its hands , doesn't have time on its hands, ban the irgc. that's the call from robert jenrick, as he argues. the iranian revolutionary guard should be labelled a terrorist group. the conservative leadership

candidate wrote in the daily telegraph, saying labour had once promised to take action but is failing to deliver. jenrick argues the irgc is the world's chief sponsor of terror and cracking down on it would, he says, help tackle affiliated groups. foreign secretary david lammy has introduced sanctions against groups linked to the irgc, but hasn't moved to prescribe it. a terrorist organisation , the public inquiry organisation, the public inquiry into the crimes of convicted child serial killer nurse lucy letby continues today with parents of her victims giving evidence. the investigation is scrutinising how letby, now serving 15 life sentences, was able to murder seven babies and injure seven more while she worked as a nurse at the countess of chester hospital yesterday. the mother of child d told the inquiry that having cctv in her daughter's hospital room could have prevented her murder. the inquiry is now looking into whether all neonatal units across england

should install cctv. the heanngs should install cctv. the hearings are set to continue until early 2025, with findings expected by late autumn and nonh expected by late autumn and north west of england. reporter sophie reaper is in liverpool for us today , where the inquiry for us today, where the inquiry is taking place. >> this morning we are expecting to continue with evidence from parents we're expecting to hear from the mother of child e and child f, twin boys who were both attacked by letby. child e was murdered by an injection of air and child f it was an attempted murder charge, a poisoning with insulin. he did survive. now, this morning we're unable to go into liverpool town hall. into the inquiry itself, partially because of concerns around anonymity, but also, as i'm sure our viewers can understand, it must be incredibly, incredibly difficult for those parents to stand up and to share the impact that this has had on them and the lives of their wider families . families. >> sophie reaper there for us in liverpool. well, posting voice

recordings online could lead to scam attempts. according to a leading bank. starling bank says ai voice cloning technology is being used to imitate people's voices, allowing scammers to target family members for money. almost half of those surveyed had no idea that such scams, even existed, while 1 in 12 said they would send money even if a call seemed strange. to prevent fraud, people are advised to agree on a safe phrase with loved ones. and finally, royal news for you. the princess of wales is back at work after completing her cancer treatment. she held a meeting at windsor castle discussing early childhood development a cause, of course, close to her heart. it's the first time princess kate has been listed in the official record of royal events since finishing chemotherapy , since finishing chemotherapy, which she announced in a video with her family . meanwhile, with her family. meanwhile, prince william made a private visit to sas regiment in hertfordshire and prince harry is also set to return to the uk later this month to attend the 2024 wellchild awards . those are

2024 wellchild awards. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'll be back with you in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> good morning. welcome back to britain's newsroom with bev and andrew. you've all been getting in touch at home. a lot of you in touch at home. a lot of you in support of bernie spofforth, the social media commentator who was arrested for accidentally posting some misinformation. she was what she was charged. >> she wasn't accidentally. >> she wasn't accidentally. >> she wasn't accidentally. >> she posted it , but she >> she wasn't accidentally. >> she posted it, but she hadn't realised it was misinformation. and then when she did, two hours later, she said she went in the garden. that's right. put the washing out and she took it down. >> and what they'd arrested her for was deliberately posting

disinformation liable to incite violence that would cause more than trivial harm. yeah so deliberately posting disinformation. so the idea that you sit there and you think i'm just going to make something up, it's going to cause a riot, and that's not what she did. and also incitement to racial hatred because she questioned what the government policy over illegal migration and boat crossings when the speculation was that the stour had come across on a dinghy , anyway, no further dinghy, anyway, no further action as of this morning, junior said. i'm so glad that lady has been able to have her story heard. now let the lady out. who posted a media. yes, silly, but first conviction and deleted it straight away. she got 15 months in jail and is a carer for her husband, whereas huw edwards walks free. just is that justice? >> and just to remind people, the sun have done some very good work today on the back of huw edwards, and they've looked at cases in the last nine months, 20% only of men looking at these terrible videos of young boys and girls went to jail. only 20%. >> do you think we need to be handung >> do you think we need to be handling paedophilia? not. not differently because we need to

be. obviously, it's the worst possible crime imaginable. it's children yesterday said it is the most successful way to mess up somebody is to sexually abuse them as a child. but if there are that, if there are so many, if this is so prolific now and so common, why what's going on in a nine months period? >> there were one over1 million indecent images of children viewed by 27 none of them went to jail. >> zero jail time for looking at over a million images. >> and yet on the and on the day huw edwards was given a suspended jail sentence, a homeless man went to prison for stealing some cake. now he probably had a long record of shoplifting. but it does put it in perspective, doesn't it? yeah. >> doesn't it? all right. keep your messages coming. gbnews.com/yoursay ross has said i like bev's miami vice. look, this morning he said i need to roll my sleeves up. ross, i'm doing it. he says i look super cool. >> does she look like don or the other one? >> i look like that mp. what was that? mp used to wear a white

suit. martin bell, thank you. >> he still wears the same white suit. so it's a bit. this one. it's a bit grubby now, right? >> good news. the princess of wales is back at work. her royal highness held an early years meeting at windsor castle yesterday. >> this is the first meeting that's been noted in the court circular, which is the official record of royal engagements since the princess began her cancer treatment earlier this year. cancer treatment earlier this year . so cancer treatment earlier this year. so we're going to talk now to royal broadcaster caroline ashton. caroline, that is good news. because it's another sign that she's recovering, although we do know it's quite clear that she's not out of the woods yet with cancer. >> absolutely. and i'm sure her engagements, the ones that are published, will be carefully monitored to make sure that her energy levels her general wellbeing, are considered first and foremost. but great to see her. you know, also talking about one of the causes so dear to her heart, those early years, i mean , after all, she has got i mean, after all, she has got three of the most photogenic children you could imagine who starred in the perhaps at times somewhat controversial video .

somewhat controversial video. lots of debate going on about that, about the production values, the glossiness of it , values, the glossiness of it, etc. but generally i think the opinion has been it's great to see her wonderful good news that she's well on the road back to recovery, we hope, and to see a family together enjoying the dappled sunlight, the ferns and of course that wonderful music. great piece of filmmaking in my opinion. by will waugh. great job done there. and yes, there she is such a popular member of the royal family , and i'm sure the royal family, and i'm sure we've all watched her progress back to this point of re—emergence with hope in our hearts. and i thought her message to fellow sufferers that they're not alone. hand in hand , they're not alone. hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder and out of darkness. of course , can come darkness. of course, can come bright light. great words from a great lady. >> and caroline, talking of re—emergence, we've got the visit of prince harry to look forward to this month. why is he going to be here? and how do you think he'll be greeted? >> well, of course, the small handful of charities that he's

still attached to following stepping down as a non—working royal, the wellchild award is a very important one, dealing as it does with disabled and seriously ill children. he was here last year to present towards. that was on september the 7th last year, a charity that was founded . i think it was that was founded. i think it was around about 2005 and he takes it seriously. but of course , it seriously. but of course, rather like meghan was supposedly. and then not cropped from the birthday greeting photograph that was published the other day. she's not in the picture for this visit, and in fact , are we surprised by that? fact, are we surprised by that? probably not. i'm sure every body language expert in the land will be watching the prince's demeanour. his expression, every gesture and twitch to see what they can read into it. but we've moved on, haven't we? from the days of being joined at the hip, these do, and we move into a future where there's a divergence of pathways. watch that space. >> okay. thank you caroline.

brilliant as always caroline aston there royal broadcaster. >> now there's a problem in our schools we can't keep teachers. so government plan is to allow them to work from home. headteachers be told they can let their staff do marking, planning away from the classroom. good idea. >> i think it's a great idea. well, joining us now in the studio is political commentator theo usherwood, so theo , the theo usherwood, so theo, the government are very keen, aren't they, to keep this work from home culture going, but it is a very divisive issue. >> it is. so what the government is proposing here for teachers through bridget phillipson, the education secretary, is to allow teachers to, in effect, create chunks, free periods which they already have for marking and planning and to create blocks either at the beginning of the day or the end of the day. and so rather than doing those blocks at school and then going back into the classroom or after they've left the classroom, it's just to say, actually, you can do those, do those blocks from home. and i think they're trying to make the teaching profession. the government is trying to make the teaching profession that little bit more attractive because it is haemorrhaging staff. at the moment. we've got

32,000 women have left the leave the profession last year after having children , and 800 are having children, and 800 are leaving the teaching profession every week last november. there were some stats out recently from last november. 1 in 4 are quitting within three years of starting. but the question is actually, is this just too little? does the government need to go much further? because actually teachers in that pay review that we've seen with pubuc review that we've seen with public sector workers, they've only got around 5.5% in terms of a pay only got around 5.5% in terms of a pay rise. yes. >> junior doctors get 22%, train drivers get 14.5%. >> and actually, is there something to say? well hang on a minute. if you want staff retention for teachers and the average salary of a teacher is only £37,000 and experienced train driver can earn upwards of upwards of £55,000, is there actually to say you need to just pay actually to say you need to just pay teachers more money now at the moment, the only plan the government has in order to draw more, to draw more money, put

more, to draw more money, put more money into education. is this removing the vat exemption for private schools, which they hope will raise around 1.6 billion, which will then be put into more, more, more state school education? but of course, that will mean that there will be those, inevitably, who have to drop out of private school education because their parents can't afford it. >> part of the problem raising teachers leaving school is because they just can't stand the abuse they get from the kids and the parents of the kids. isn't that a big part of the problem? >> it's a huge it's a huge part of the problem is that, you know, teachers, you know, they're dealing with large classes and, you know, and this is a complaint that you often get from unions. and it was part of this report that was out at the beginning of this month, is that actually it's stress. it's not just the long hours, it's the, you know, the way that parents interact with teachers, headteachers and also, you know, having to deal with unruly children in the classroom. and the government previous government had a sort of push towards allowing schools to exclude pupils. be interesting to see. you know what this what this new labour government decides to do with that.

>> i think actually on paper, when i first saw this headline, i thought it was a terrible idea because you can't have a teacher at home when you've got 30 kids in a classroom. but actually, if it is just about them being able to manage their time a little bit better and have some time, particularly, i think, for working parents, i'm reluctant to say mums, but of course the burden will fall predominantly on on mums, then i think it's okayif on on mums, then i think it's okay if you say, well you're not, you've not got a class until 11:00 on a wednesday morning, then stay at home, do your lesson planning, do your marking, miss the rush hour traffic to get in. i think i'm okay with that , theo. and it's okay with that, theo. and it's very modern. we have to move and it's cost neutral from the exchequer's point of view, you just. >> it's just about telling headteachers just to be, you know, more better organised in terms of planning their week and planning, you know, how they organise their staff over a penod organise their staff over a period of time. it doesn't actually put any onus on rachel reeves in the treasury to come up with more money for teachers. and you just improve the lot of the teachers. that little bit more could also mean the teacher might be able to do the school

run of their own kids. >> exactly. >> exactly. >> it makes life a bit easier. i can't have you here, theo, without talking about politics. go on. it's pmqs today. yes, and sometimes i forget that we could have still been waiting. >> pmqs the lib dem conference. >> pmqs the lib dem conference. >> oh, of course it's the conference. conference? >> well, that's not really made the headlines . the headlines. >> we've got, we've had the lib dem conference and of course we've got the reform party conference on friday. saturday. i think that's going to be one. >> but imagine if there was pmqs today, the prime minister would be under such pressure on freebie games. >> yes. >> yes. >> i mean, he's pages of it in the papers today. >> £740 tickets to wimbledon. yeah >> and he has to sit and he has to sit in the hospitality boxes because because of security. when rishi sunak as prime minister used to sit in the stand at southampton with his mate, why one rule for him? >> so i think, i think part of the problem that keir starmer has got to well, there are two problems actually. i think the first part of the problem is that you go back to the steps of downing street when he gave that speech, he became prime minister and he said he was about public service. and it's difficult to see when you look at the gifts that he's received, how that

chimes with being in public service. the other part of the problem is that , you know, most problem is that, you know, most of your viewers here @gbnews don't have somebody who can cough up a huge amount of money to fund parts of their lifestyle, whether it be their wardrobe or you know, their social life, staying in their house during the election campaign. yes. and, and, and i think, you know, at a time when everybody is going to be asked to tighten their belts to make tough decisions as the government is making tough decisions to get the economy on the right foot , and for keir the right foot, and for keir starmer to then have these stories about the gifts that he's received, which are actually more than the donations, i think is just not a good look. and there seems to be a lack of contrition, because when he was asked about it in italy, he didn't say, actually, you know what? hands up, i've got this one wrong. he said, i'm going to follow the rules , which going to follow the rules, which is that the implication of that is that the implication of that is that the implication of that is that if you take if you take that forward, is that actually if he can continue to receive gifts, he will continue to receive the freebies within the letter of the law. then, of course, he plans to do so rather than actually the spirit. what

what is 2024? it's going to be a tough couple of months. it's going to be a tough winter, especially for those parents who've lost their winter fuel, pensioners who've lost their winter fuel allowance. >> we've got to move on. theo, great to see you. thank you for that. up next, we're going to be looking at this perversion of justice correct word when it comes to the amount of avoiding jail. this is britain's newsroom on

gb news. >> yeah. so we've got some breaking news. the post office chief executive, nick read. he had been the subject of bullying allegations. he was exonerated of those, by the way, is to step down from his role in march next yeah he down from his role in march next year. he temporarily stepped down in july as he was to prepare to give evidence to the honzon prepare to give evidence to the horizon it post office inquiry which of course, which is dragging on and on and on. but we'll give you more on this throughout the day. right. >> we've got the two mr p's, mike parry and former labour mp

stephen pound in the studio with us. good morning gentlemen. right. shall we start with exploding pages? this is the most extraordinary story, mike. it's incredible, isn't it ? it's incredible, isn't it? >> i'm just trying to pick up on it as all the facts come out. the latest figure i've got is there were 5000 pages. there are 5000 pages somewhere. you know , 5000 pages somewhere. you know, in the lebanon, northern israel, maybe even syria, which could still yet go off. i mean, the apparently. but i mean, what are the most sophisticated military attack? i think i've ever heard of? how did they possibly do it? i mean, did they intercept these pages and put explosives in them? >> but where did they do that? and how did they do that? and who didn't notice? >> well, in between, in between taipei and beirut, obviously they made they made in taiwan. >> was there collusion with the people who they bought them from? >> well , from? >> well, here's an interesting thing. there's an awful lot of people , hezbollah sleeper agents people, hezbollah sleeper agents in what used to be the old south lebanese army in the bekaa valley. and so suddenly you've got somebody who you don't think

is hezbollah. suddenly their phone blows up. and that's the indicator, because now you know what's targeted about this was that hezbollah only gave these to their own agents. yeah. so talk about identification. yeah. yeah.i talk about identification. yeah. yeah. i mean, the interesting thing is, whether it's c4 or whether it's hmx or whether it's some sort of form of semtex, it's a tiny, tiny amount and it's a tiny, tiny amount and it's caused catastrophic damage. but i have to say, it will also increase the paranoia because don't forget, hezbollah are only using pages because they don't trust mobile phones. yeah so where will they go now? they're apparently they're actually going to have sort of like a message on a stick where they're all doing it by hand. >> yeah. or wave it around. but i also overnight picked up stuff to say that this could be an inside job, because hezbollah is splintered into a half a dozen factions. you know, within the terrorist organisation it is. and that somebody wants rid of the people at the top. and this is the way to do it, to try and destroy the whole thing and start again. but won't it give succour and comfort to people like putin and the chinese and nonh like putin and the chinese and north korea, who think, wow, how

if israel can do it, we can do it? >> that was my thought. if they can do it, it wouldn't be. it would be a matter of time before the chinese can do it or putin's. >> you can see putin this morning saying to his security bill, right, we must do this right in the phones that are suppued right in the phones that are supplied to the cia in america. okay? because if they can do it, we can do it because, look, we know that the russians were listening in to the phone of angela merkel, the german chancellor, who should have been one of the most secure people on the planet. >> absolutely. so they forget the cia tried. >> do you remember fidel castro's exploding cigar? yes, that's right, the cia. but what i find quite extraordinary about is how the world has changed. back in my day, military forces. you wore uniform. they wore uniform. ship to ship , battalion uniform. ship to ship, battalion to battalion. nowadays it's civilianised. it's asymmetric. you don't know who the enemy are. it's a completely new. and it's a rather dystopian new world here because it isn't. you know, there's two people facing each other. it's. you don't know who your enemy. you don't know if your phone is going to blow up. >> but, but, but, but just briefly, mike, it's a deliberate escalation by israel. >> oh, i admire israel so much

because the whole of the world is telling them all the time, show restraint and let's not have escalation. and israel's say no , they attack us. we're say no, they attack us. we're attacking them. for instance, the only sort of quote i've seen from anybody in his euros says, what an unprovoked, aggressive attack of a breach of international law. hezbollah poor missiles into israel every day, 24 hours a day, every day. yeah, exactly. that's what israel live under. and then when israel live under. and then when israel come back and say, well, i'm sorry, we are both responding. we are attacking our enemy. we are defending our country. the whole world calls them aggressive. >> i know it's an act, but it's an act of war. but they're in a war. yeah of course it's amazing, though, isn't it, that mossad was able to let those attacks happen at all on the 7th of october, when they are capable of this sort? >> that is extraordinary how the biggest security failure in the entire history of the state of israel, it will still be the undoing of netanyahu. >> it will be a shadow of doubt. >> but on the terms of this sort

of targeted assassination, i mean, they actually killed a senior iranian officer by a radio controlled machine gun mounted on a taxi in tehran. i mean, it's extraordinary stuff. and it really is a totally different world now. >> yeah, it is, isn't it? yeah. talking of a different world, this is a world i don't want to live in. this is the judges who are letting. yeah. >> disgusting. >> disgusting. >> stephen go free when they've been looking at over a million. over a million. the sun have done a fantastic job. they really have done a good job. >> yeah i find this absolutely. i mean, obviously the huw edwards story has the horror of huw edwards has kind of brought this home. and i think what the judges are saying is because the person who provided this sick scumbag down in south wales, who provided these filthy of children being tortured for somebody else's gratification, this foul scum swine, he didn't go to prison, but he should have 12 months suspended. >> but he should have gone to prison. he should. >> i would have suspended him on a rope. yeah, yeah, i agree. yeah >> he should have gone to prison. which is. which is why edwards was not going to go to prison. >> exactly. but the whole of the

legal world need to look inside themselves. because yesterday i saw a guy called sir ken macdonald, former dpp in a tory government. his actual quote was, in legal terms, this is about what should be expected for somebody who's committed these sorts of crimes. and he's looking back on precedent. and that's the problem. this has been going on for so long. a million people in this country could be up to this sort of thing. but the sentences which have been passed down over decades have been incredibly lenient . lenient. >> it just shows, doesn't it, that i think the sentencing hasn't kept up with the technology. >> it hasn't. >> it hasn't. >> but also what's happened to these children? >> yeah, they can't identify them. they can't identify them. >> what state are they in? are they still being abused? >> well, not not only that, but they're only the ones we know about. exactly. right yeah. how many? literally hundreds of thousands of children have been subjected to the same horror. >> i mean, the standards at 27 cases where nobody went to prison involving 1 million images. unbelievable 1,034,000

images, and nobody went to prison. yeah. and some of these children were six and seven years old. yeah. it's horrible. >> andrew, can you imagine a worse job in the world than the police officer who has to actually read my mind? i just thought some of these categories, i mean, i cannot even mention on it. i wish i could get it out of my head. i know a little bit about some of these category a pictures, because i was slightly involved with the constituent who did this, and to actually have to look at them, it took me months to stop thinking, getting that image out of my head. it's still there, i totally agree. and yet there's police officers who spend months looking at these things. i mean, they must be. >> they are the greatest heroes i know, aren't they? >> well, somebody's got to tell me. don't you think? yvette cooper the home secretary now? she's got an open goal. all she needs to do now is announce a total rethink of the scales of justice. when it comes to offences like the huw edwards one, because the punishment is too weak. and i'm going to toughen it up. and i'm going to save children. wouldn't you think she would do that? >> yeah. and put these disgusting men. they're all men , disgusting men. they're all men, almost always in prison behind

bars. >> if you make the deterrent ten years for the huw edwards crime, then you're going to save children from these horrors. >> and it's interesting. every british prison , there's a thing british prison, there's a thing called the vpu, which is called the vulnerable prisoner unit because prisoners, you know, you know, the word means not ordinary, normal criminal ethos. i mean, the sort of the good old fashioned criminals, they have a hatred and condemnation of these people. and in some way, i'm not going to feel sorry for some some attacked in prison. >> too bad they've been attacking these children, but taking away their innocence. >> i'm sure the liberal left use that as part of their excuse not to jail people. he'd have too rough a time in jail. >> we use that all the time, you know. >> i'm not. they use that all the time. >> huw edwards case. part of his reasoning. he's vulnerable. >> high risk , a problem with his >> high risk, a problem with his mental health and his celebrity would make him vulnerable in prison. >> yeah. yeah, right. >> yeah. yeah, right. >> and on that bombshell, look at stephen. we've silenced him. that doesn't happen very often. we're going to go to the news headunes we're going to go to the news headlines with san francisco. >> i'm gobsmacked . >> i'm gobsmacked. >> i'm gobsmacked. >> very good morning to you.

1032 exactly. and we'll start with a recap of that breaking news brought to us just in the last few minutes that nick read, ceo of the post office is stepping down after leading the company through one of its most turbulent periods in recent times, he temporarily stepped back in july to prepare for the next stage of the horizon scandal inquiry. neil brocklehurst, the current interim chief operating officer, is expected to take over. read called his time with the post office a great privilege and acknowledged the challenges faced by the business and subpostmasters. he also added that while there is still work to do, progress has been made in resetting the relationship with postmasters and supporting justice. more on that story. throughout the rest of this morning. in other news, the foreign office is urging calm heads and de—escalation after hundreds of simultaneous explosions across lebanon and parts of syria. nine people were killed and thousands injured in

what's believed to have been a remote attack targeting communication devices. that attack , which wounded hezbollah attack, which wounded hezbollah fighters and the iranian ambassador , is believed to have ambassador, is believed to have been the work of israel's mossad , been the work of israel's mossad, according to a senior lebanese security source . speaking to the security source. speaking to the reuters news agency. the spy agency planted explosives in 5000 pages imported by hezbollah months before the attack. here, the foreign office is urging british citizens to leave lebanon, warning they could be trapped in a war zone. inflation remained above the 2% target, unchanged at 2.2% last month, with new data out today. prices in hospitality , holidays and in hospitality, holidays and hotels possibly boosted by the final leg of taylor swifts tour, are driving inflation, with inflation in the services sector up to 5.6% in august. treasury chief jack darren jones says years of sky high inflation continue to put strain on british families, despite the

slower rise, and added that the government is determined to fix the foundations of the economy . the foundations of the economy. the public inquiry into the crimes of convicted child serial killer nurse lucy letby continues today, with the parents of her victims giving evidence. the investigation is scrutinising how letby, now serving 15 life sentences, was able to murder seven babies and injure seven more while she worked as a nurse at the countess of chester hospital yesterday. the mother of child d told the inquiry having cctv in her daughter's hospital room could have prevented her murder. the inquiry is now looking into whether all neonatal units in england should install cctv. well, our north—west of england reporter sophie reaper is in liverpool for us where that inquiry is taking place this morning, we are expecting to continue with evidence from parents. >> we're expecting to hear from the mother of child e and child f, twin boys who were both

attacked by letby child e was murdered by an injection of air and child f it was an attempted murder charge , a poisoning with murder charge, a poisoning with insulin. he did survive . now, insulin. he did survive. now, this morning we're unable to go into liverpool town hall , into into liverpool town hall, into the inquiry itself, partially because of concerns around anonymity, but also, as i'm sure our viewers can understand, it must be incredibly, incredibly difficult for those parents to stand up to and share the impact that this has had on them and the lives of their wider family . the lives of their wider family. >> those are the latest gb news headunes >> those are the latest gb news headlines for now, i think i've got a fly climbing up my face, so i'm going to hand you straight back to bev and andrew for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> still to come this morning,

the prime minister is being urged to create a minister for men. do you feel you need a minister? no we're going to talk to the man who's demanding one to the man who's demanding one to be appointed in just a minute. i think it's a good idea. i think you need as much help as you can get. >> stephen pound, maybe is going to apply for the job. >> we might discuss this, minister for old geezers. >> i didn't even get to talk about the lovely honey that stephen pound brought me as well, that he made with his own fair hands. we'll talk about that as don't go anywhere. this is gb news. i think it was

the. >> 1039, this is britain's newsroom. were you off somewhere , then? >> hello. very good. thank you. >> hello. very good. thank you. >> hello. very good. thank you. >> he was looking for the biscuits. >> well, we keep saying that we're running out, hoping that we're running out, hoping that we might get some more. sent in the post. >> 20 minutes till biscuit time. >> 20 minutes till biscuit time. >> right. >> right. >> the former mp harvey proctor. he's written an interesting letter to labour to the prime minister urging him to appoint a

for minister men after britain was labelled the sick man of europe, with more people than ever being signed off work as long term sick. >> so former conservative mp harvey proctor joins us live. good morning harvey. okay. so why do we need why do we need a minister for men. >> good morning to you both. we have had a minister for women and a minister for children. specific issues for quite some years. i think there are issues that disproportionately affect men and i think it's time and will be for good men to have a voice, a specific voice in cabinet and in government. and therefore, i've written a very polite letter, not demanding, but suggesting that the new prime minister should look at appointing a minister for men. there are certain issues

national health service issues, prostate , falsely accused men prostate, falsely accused men are more likely to be falsely accused than others. educational issues . men males are having issues. men males are having difficulties. i think in schooling disproportionately to girls and perhaps holding back from going to university quite a number of issues that disproportionately affect men. and by the way, disproportionately affect the economy. i mentioned prostate cancers . if the national health cancers. if the national health service treated, prevented rather than treated illnesses, it could save something like £18 billion, and i think last year there were 900,000 missing workers , most of them were men .

workers, most of them were men. if that problem could be addressed and sorted , the addressed and sorted, the revenue would have £4.5 billion more in the kitty . so it's a more in the kitty. so it's a question of finance, but it's also a question of social cohesion. but i think it's probably time to look at appointing a minister for men. >> aren't men just automatically assumed to sort of be the default issue in so much of life? harvey men still outperform women in the workplace, and not in academics. actually, young young men , women actually, young young men, women still still do better there. so you just think this is just an issue of equality that we are neglecting men particularly. i mean, suicide remains still the biggest killer of men under 45. >> not necessarily equality, just more positive things could be done where men are failing. and if it is thought reasonable that we should have a minister for women and minister for

children, minister for equalities, then i think we should certainly consider appointing a for minister men, for male voices to be heard, perhaps a bit better than they have been in recent years. >> have you got a candidate for the job, harvey , the job, harvey, >> i don't think i will be applying for any further jobs. i work hard enough as it is. back working on the beaver estate, which i think you know, i do, and my spare time is strictly limited . i'm always available to limited. i'm always available to help our country, as you know. >> oh, well, we appreciate your time. this morning. thank you so much. former conservative mp harvey proctor . much. former conservative mp harvey proctor. did you say you're familiar with the beaver estate? >> it's up in rutland. i used to know the rutland mp very well. >> is that so? is that where he lives? >> the beaver. >> the beaver. >> he is. he. he lives in a cottage on the duke of rutland's estate. yeah. and when he was

treated appallingly by the police , he was wrongfully police, he was wrongfully accused of being part of that vip. was he? yeah. yeah, yeah, it was terrible, the duke of rutland booted him out of his grace and favour cottage on the estate . i'll talk about innocent estate. i'll talk about innocent until proven guilty. oh, but he's back there now and does a very good job. >> you know, all the gossip, andrew. >> don't you know everything about these blokes and i want to. i want to just bring a little bit of update on that report yesterday that we said about britain being the sick man of europe, molly kingsley, who is she's written a book called the accountability deficit. she couldn't work out where this report had come from about the fact that everybody was ill because of tobacco and food and lack of exercise. so she did a bit of a deep dive into who had commissioned that report, and it was pfizer and astrazeneca were a big part of it. and she was saying she cannot understand why this report didn't contain mentions of some of the mrna injuries from all of the drugs that were rolled out last year. >> and it's like if an mp made a

speech in the commons and was in the pay off, you'd have to declare an interest. so why isn't that interest declared in that report? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> well spotted molly kingsley, right? it's been ten years since the scottish independence vote. first minister of scotland, john swinney is going to mark it with a speech shortly. that will be thrilling. stay tuned for that. and a lot more interesting stuff as well. this is britain's newsroom on

gb news. >> it is 1048. it's britain's newsroom on gb. news go on. foreign office is urging calm heads and de—escalation after hundreds of simultaneous explosions across lebanon. in parts of syria. this is all to do with people's pages. the most extraordinary was saying it's like james bond gb news home and security editor mark white said, what's it got to do with the foreign office calling for calm head? and i mean, israel won't take any notice of what the foreign office says. >> well, you could argue that perhaps, but they are very

concerned about what this will do in terms of escalation in israel. know that the middle east of course, they know that. and i think hezbollah, for some considerable time is not going to be in a position to do much of any consequence, really, in israel. i think the wider concern potentially is we know there are hezbollah operatives all around the world, you know , all around the world, you know, so not perhaps as capable as they were to launch attacks directly into israel . will we directly into israel. will we see attacks on israeli interests orindeed see attacks on israeli interests or indeed even just western interests in other countries? but this was, you're right, the most audacious attack that required clearly a very high level of planning and coordination, interrupting that supply line of these pages. >> but a major leak on the hezbollah side we regard as a terrorist organisation in this country, so does the eu. so does the united states. for the israelis to be able to target individual hezbollah operatives

with these pages and to get them. >> yes. i mean, any intelligence agency worth the names of all these agents? well, they they have human resources or human assets.i have human resources or human assets. i should say, within the terrorist group, those that will be willing for a sum of money or whatever to tip them off on certain aspects. so clearly, at some point, they were told that hezbollah had put in a bulk order for 5000 of these pages, and that followed the leader of hezbollah ordering the fellow terrorists of this group, you know, not to use a mobile phones as much go old school, get into pagers. so they put in this big order for 5000 of these pagers, israeli intelligence got to find out about this . intercepted them out about this. intercepted them very cleverly injecting these high explosives into the pagers . high explosives into the pagers. and people have said, oh, this was indiscriminate. you know, the little girl has died. and thatis the little girl has died. and that is terrible. but i would argue that this was a very

indiscriminate attack because the people that had these pagers and were wearing these pagers were operatives and those connected to hezbollah, this terrorist group killers . terrorist group killers. absolutely. and it's war and it's war. and actually, it's a lot less indiscriminate than a missile going into a crowded area in gaza, which could get a hospital, which we know has happened, >> mark did they, did we have any comprehension about how they managed to get i mean, it's quite an operation to get 5000, potentially 5000 pages impregnated with explosives in this way. and did they all go off at the same time, >> pretty pretty much within a short period of time. because clearly those behind this attack did not want people to suddenly realise that the pages were exploding and then discarding their pagers. so it was pretty much simultaneous across lebanon. but also other

countries in the region, syria, there were multiple explosions from hezbollah operatives in that country, in iran as well. we think there would have been a number of explosives to explosions as well. what has happenedis explosions as well. what has happened is that the distribution of these pagers has been intercepted at some point . been intercepted at some point. now, the taiwanese company that licenses them say they know nothing about it. they licensed the manufacturer of these particular pagers to a company, a company in budapest, hungary. right they deny any knowledge. but it could have happened at any point in the shipping of these pagers out to lebanon as well. >> and the irony is that they went to pages to avoid mobile phones because mobile phones were to easy trace. and one hezbollah operative commander was killed because he they had knew where he was, the israelis, because of his phone. >> well, indeed, you know, that that was a real concern that

hezbollah had about the hacking of phone systems. and that was why the order went out to go old school again and to get these pagers , up. but of course, that pagers, up. but of course, that provided the opportunity then for the israelis to intercept the pagers. and now what you've got, of course, is the communication system for this terrorist group in absolute tatters. they don't trust their mobile phones, their pager system is now gone. so what do they do in order to coordinate their attacks? it will be fairly difficult for them to manage going forward. i would imagine you almost think, is it the kind of thing they can only get away with once? >> absolutely no. is it one of those attacks that you will never see this again? because these sorts of devices won't be used without being scanned or checked. they only needed. >> who's going to want them to have a page anywhere near them now? yeah, they only needed to use about two ounces of explosives, didn't they? >> mark next to the lithium battery that was remotely triggered with, i guess what, a remote operating switch? i don't understand enough about the

technology. >> you explain. >> you explain. >> they will have been designed. i mean, it's very sophisticated, obviously, but, you know, very ingenious. ingenious and clever, operated by a message sent by whoever planted the explosives. send a message to the pager. they bleep people, take them out of their pocket to have a look at them, and they explode. >> they lose their hand or their head. >> right, mark. thank you so much. we're going to play you in just a minute. the statement from the woman who was incorrectly arrested after the stabbing incident, after the weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of weather on . solar, sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> hello. good morning. welcome to your latest gb news weather update. another sunny afternoon to come. for many of us once this early cloud lifts and clears, but it will be a fairly breezy day, particularly across southern areas, as we do have an onshore breeze from the north sea. that's thanks to this area of high pressure, which is bringing that fine weather we're seeing at the moment, but also

an easterly breeze. and that breeze will be quite brisk actually , particularly across actually, particularly across southeastern areas close to the channel. and also across more western areas of southern england. later on today, particularly to the western areas of high ground across parts of wales. but elsewhere clouds should clear up quite nicely as we head into this afternoon, and there will be more in the way of that september warmth to come. perhaps still a bit of cloud lingering around the eastern coast of northern scotland. we could still see some fog across some areas up here, but for most of us it will be a dry and fine day through the rest of today, and the winds will be lighter across more northern areas . so across more northern areas. 50 across more northern areas. so across the northwest it will chill off a little. actually, as we head into this evening. but once the sun, whilst the sun is still up, temperatures in the high teens for many of us, but of cloud already starting to come in across northeastern areas of england, parts of east anglia and the southeast this evening. and that cloud will probably be a bit more extensive tonight compared to recent nights across many eastern areas of england, as well as scotland. so it will probably be quite a

cloudy night across these eastern areas. across the west, though, another clear and starry night to come and with clearer skies and light winds across northwestern areas, temperatures could dip down close to zero. but for most of us, a fairly mild night for the time of year as that brisk breeze continues across more southern areas. so another pretty breezy day to come across the south tomorrow. and as i said, probably a little bit of a cloudier start. the cloud will last just that much longer, i think, through thursday, lingering more so across eastern coasts of northern england as well as scotland through more of the day. but further west, plenty more sunshine to come through the day and in the sunshine. still temperatures reaching the mid 20s by that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on

gb news. >> 11 am. on wednesday, the 18th of september. live across

the uk. this is britain's newsroom with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> so breaking this morning. post office boss nick read will step down next year after a turbulent tenure marked by the honzon turbulent tenure marked by the horizon it scandal, and they still haven't got their compensation. >> those postmasters and breaking news this morning bernie spofforth, who was arrested for sharing the incorrect name of the southport stabbing suspect online, has spoken out. >> so to those who celebrated my arrest , don't enjoy it too much arrest, don't enjoy it too much because it could easily happen to you. and the difference between us is that i would fight for you . for you. >> piece of announced no further action against bernie. now, in an attempt to tackle the recruitment crisis in schools, teachers will be allowed to work from home if their marking, reading and lesson planning. but what will that mean for the children and not stopping the boats? >> guess what the prime minister's new borders chief. he was only named this week , has was only named this week, has admitted smashing the gangs isn't going to be enough and

they need a deterrent to reduce they need a deterrent to reduce the channel crossings. i thought we had one. it's called rwanda and today marks ten years since the scottish independence referendum. >> we will find out whether there is still an appetite for another vote. or is that idea all over ? all over? >> and where's nicola sturgeon now who was still being investigated? she is she is . investigated? she is she is. yeah. yeah. >> that post office resignation. amazing. you know, i just get a little bit tired these days of people who might be in trouble. maybe for things that have happened. just stepping aside, getting out before the and what hits the fan. >> and we need to be told the payoff. yes, yes. how big were the payoff be? because we have to remember, the post office again is one of the biggest, greatest corporate scandals in our lifetime. in my view, people will be taken to court charged with offences and people in the

post office knew it was not possible they committed those offences, right? >> that and a lot more between now and midday. first, at the very latest news of san francis . very latest news of san francis. >> very good morning to you. it's just after 11:00. the top story from the newsroom this morning. the foreign office is urging calm heads and de—escalation. that's after hundreds of simultaneous explosions across lebanon and parts of syria . yesterday, nine parts of syria. yesterday, nine people were killed and thousands injured in what's believed to have been a remote attack targeting communications devices. hezbollah militants and the iranian ambassador were among those wounded , as tensions among those wounded, as tensions between israel and the militant group continue to rise. the foreign office is now urging british citizens in lebanon to leave, warning they could be trapped in a war zone. development minister anneliese dodds says the uk will be supporting civilians impacted in the explosions. >> like many others, i woke up this morning to the news and

reports of developments in lebanon and this clearly is an awful situation and very concerned to hear about the reports of civilian casualties. clearly i don't know all of the details of this, and as i say, we woke up to this news, but details of this, and as i say, we will; up to this news, but details of this, and as i say, we will be) to this news, but details of this, and as i say, we will be working news, but details of this, and as i say, we will be working with, but uk will be working with, particularly with our humanitarian partners in the region. >> well, turning to news in the russia—ukraine conflict, we're just hearing that a massive blast has rocked, rocked russia's depher region overnight after a ukrainian drone strike hit a major ammunition depot, forcing a mass evacuation of a town there. video you can see here on the screen shows the fireball lighting up the night sky with explosions, while nasa also says it detected intense heat over a 14 square kilometre area. local officials confirmed the blast, but details at this stage are still limited, with the media there under military

censorship. a pro—russian blogger, though, claimed everything that can burn is already burning, everything that can burn is already burning , they say, but already burning, they say, but no casualties were reported. ukraine's security service says the strike destroyed missiles and artillery shells, though kyiv has yet to officially comment here. the post office boss, nick read will step down next year after a turbulent tenure marked by the horizon it scandal. read called it a great privilege to lead through extraordinarily challenging times for the post office for and postmasters. he took the helm in 2019 after the controversial departure of paula vennells, who faced backlash over her handling of that honzon over her handling of that horizon it crisis. mr reed's departure follows criticism of him from mps and his exoneration from misconduct allegations earlier this year. the company, though, says the effort to support postmasters and to achieve justice is ongoing . achieve justice is ongoing. inflation has remained above the

2% target, unchanged at 2.2% last month, with new data out this morning. prices in hospitality , holidays and hotels hospitality, holidays and hotels are driving inflation, with inflation in the services sector specifically up 5.6% in august. treasury chief darren jones says years of sky high inflation continues to put strain on british families despite the slower rise. he added the government is determined to fix the foundations of the economy to ease the pressure on households, though experts believe the figures point to the bank of england keeping interest rates at 5% tomorrow. former scottish first minister alex salmond says every nation deserves a second chance. on the 10th anniversary of scotland's failed independence bid . he's failed independence bid. he's predicting the country will be independent within the next decade. reflecting on the 2014 campaign, though, he's admitted mistakes in its final weeks but doubts that a different strategy would have changed the outcome since that vote, support for

independence has remained largely static , frustrating many largely static, frustrating many including salmond, who blames the current scottish government for a lack of action. he insists the push for independence must accelerate, as he says scotland doesn't have time on its hands. ban the irgc. that's the call from robert jenrick, as he argues the iranian revolutionary guard should be labelled as a terrorist group. the conservative leadership candidate wrote in the daily telegraph, saying labour had once promised to take action but has failed to deliver. jenrick argues the irgc is the world's chief sponsor of terror, and that cracking down on it would help tackle affiliated groups. foreign secretary david lammy has introduced sanctions against some linked to the irgc, but hasn't moved to prescribe it as a terrorist organisation . the a terrorist organisation. the pubuc a terrorist organisation. the public inquiry into the crimes of convicted child serial killer nurse lucy letby, is continuing today with the parents of some of her victims giving evidence. the investigation is

scrutinising how letby, now serving 15 life sentences, was able to murder seven babies and injure seven more while she worked as a nurse at the countess of chester hospital . countess of chester hospital. the mother of child d told the inquiry yesterday that having cctv in her daughter's hospital nursery room could have prevented her murder. the inquiry is now looking into whether all neonatal units in england should install cctv. well, our north west of england reporter sophie reaper is in liverpool for us where that inquiry is taking place today. >> this morning we are expecting to continue with evidence from parents. we're expecting to hear from the mother of child e and child f , twin boys who were both child f, twin boys who were both attacked by letby child e was murdered by an injection of air and child f it was an attempted murder charge, a poisoning with insulin. he did survive. now, this morning we're unable to go into liverpool town hall, into the inquiry itself. partially because of concerns around anonymity. but also, as i'm sure

our viewers can understand, it must be incredibly, incredibly difficult for those parents to stand up and to share the impact that this has had on them and the lives of their wider family . the lives of their wider family. >> sophie reaper there for us in liverpool? well, those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'll be back with you in just over half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> welcome back to britain's newsroom live across the uk with bev and andrew, so we'll know what you think of course. >> send us your views, post your comments. you visit of course. gbnews.com/yoursay >> so do you remember the name bernie spofforth? she's at artemis now on x or twitter? well, she hit the headlines about five weeks ago. she copy

and pasted subsequently proved incorrect facts about the southport murderer at the swift dance class. she was one of 5000 people who did that. she was arrested , held without charge arrested, held without charge for 36 hours, banned from using social media for the past three weeks. well, she's been released and early this morning she put out this video. here it is. >> so on the 8th of august, the police turned up mob handed five of them. three police cars and a prison van. and instead of a simple voluntary interview, they searched me, arrested me and held me for 36 hours in a concrete cell with a concrete bed, like a terrorist . they held bed, like a terrorist. they held me even though i told them that the evidence they needed had already been found by data experts, i explained my post was political, as almost all of my posts are, and my post was aimed at the government and its failing policies. i had not and would not make something up, but perhaps the authorities and the

activists didn't actually care about the truth. they just wanted me punished as an example to you . finally, i was released to you. finally, i was released on bail. there really was nothing to to take magistrates and nothing to charge me with. but it didn't end there because my bail conditions included that i couldn't engage on social media. they didn't want me to speak to you about anything at all, which meant i couldn't tell you of the damage done to me by those reporters and activists , those reporters and activists, and that it had been so complete i couldn't leave my house that reporters were lying in wait for me and my garden, and that every day i had hate mail. i had nothing to gain from making something like that up. but others did gain . journalists others did gain. journalists gained their clicks . my gained their clicks. my detractors gained my silence, and the authorities gained the silencing of you because so many of you were afraid to speak . so

of you were afraid to speak. so to those who celebrated my arrest , don't enjoy it too much, arrest, don't enjoy it too much, because it could easily happen to you. and the difference between us is that i would fight for you for and all those who stood up for me and did fight for me. thank you . for me. thank you. >> now, a lot of you won't know bernie. she's very, very powerful, very popular online. that video on her own account has been watched 185,000 times now. it's only been online for an hour and a half, and she just really makes the point on that. that this is about free speech, and it is about the fact that even though she got some information wrong on speculation at that point as to who had committed those atrocities on those children at the taylor swift dance class, that response, i think we can all agree, was disproportionate. yeah, of course it was. >> and we have to contrast it with what we saw in the courts this week when huw edwards walked free from court, in my view, suspended jail sentence of six months and we now learn that

in the last nine months, 27 who watched , over 1 in the last nine months, 27 who watched , over1 million images watched, over1 million images of children, some as young as seven, six younger, some in fact, looking at images of two year olds being sexually exploited. not one of those went to prison yet. bernie was banged up in a police cell. >> 36 hours, 36 hours. >> 36 hours, 36 hours. >> she's had all the devices seized. she's only just got all of her devices back. there was nothing to see. it must have been terrifying. absolutely terrifying. she was in a state i know bernadette spofforth. i followed her on social media because she's been a very diligent commentator, and it does show that you have to think before you post information that might be wrong, but the idea that she could have somehow inched that she could have somehow incited those riots with a tweet that was up for two hours is ridiculous. >> yeah, i mean, the rioters were going to happen come what may. of course they were. and also, i still think it's astonishing. actually,

parliament came back after the summer recess. there has been no debate about those riots, none whatsoever. and it was the most serious civil discontent on our streets since the london riots in 2011, when there was an emergency debate in the commons. well, you know what bernie's case for me is about this government , particularly this government, particularly this labour government, because they clamped down so hard on that dissent. >> they silenced anybody that wanted to speak out about that as far right about the maelstrom of social issues that was whipped up in the aftermath of those stabbings in southport. and a lot of people who do consider themselves to be on the right were silenced by the arrest of bernie spofforth . they arrest of bernie spofforth. they did quieten down. everybody was frightened . everyone was careful frightened. everyone was careful to think that keir starmer's police force was going to knock at your door because you said something online that might be considered to be deliberately posting disinformation, liable to incite violence and more than trivial harm, which is what they thought she had done. there's also a very good article online under the law or fiction

twitter. account, which basically explains , from a legal basically explains, from a legal point of view, why there was never a legal basis to have her arrested. so it's a really interesting case, a real moral of our time. >> now, moving on. the princess of wales. we love her, don't we? she's back at work . she had an she's back at work. she had an early years meeting at windsor castle yesterday afternoon, her first official meeting that's been listed in the court circular, which is the official record of royal engagements. and that's the first time she's been in the court circuit since her cancer treatment started earlier this year. >> so speak to royal commentator richard fitzwilliams. as we showed you. then a little bit more of that recent video , more of that recent video, richard announcing that she was finishing her chemotherapy treatment. the palace have been very clear. this does not mean that she is completely well and that she is completely well and that life will return to normal. but yesterday was a glimpse of what will hopefully be normality returning . returning. >> no, you're absolutely right. it was indeed and it's in the court circular and it shows part of what is undoubtedly a progression trooping the colour,

wimbledon and now this meeting, because she's devoted to the early years project, as she's called it, her life's work. and clearly this, as you say, is a step in the right direction. but yes, everything with care and concentrating on being cancer free. as she said in the video message , there's still a debate, message, there's still a debate, richard, about the video she released. >> i was asked about by bev. i was at the tuc conference down in brighton and i had i'd only really had caught a glimpse of it, and now i've watched it properly. i think i'm still rather uneasy about it. was it a little bit too glitzy and hollywood? we >> well, i think that i mean , >> well, i think that i mean, there's a balance to be had here. on the one hand that it's getting a message across to a certainly to young people. i think that was the priority and the and that meant that it was packaged. i was so moved originally when she told us that she was undergoing preventative

chemotherapy. yeah a very, very different approach . and of different approach. and of course, there's no doubt with the slow motion, with the music and so forth. i mean, it was done deliberately and done for a purpose, and that purpose was to spread the word. and if that helps to spread the word about this disease and do it worldwide . this disease and do it worldwide. so it was very easily accessible. i look at it in those terms. my own feelings . i those terms. my own feelings. i see your point, of course, because this is a certain amount of slick packaging, but it's not meant in any sense as any form of disrespect. i think it's just depending on who you're targeting and who you want to get them, i suppose i also it's a sign they're doing things their way . well, i think i mean, their way. well, i think i mean, it's a change. this is completely new. it's totally unprecedented, obviously, to see

the prince and princess of wales so intimately. and there's no question i mean, it has caused a certain amount of debate. and yes, i've heard and read articles that agree with your point of view. i mean , things do point of view. i mean, things do evolve. the royals have never projected themselves like this before, and so it is done for a purpose . on the other hand, purpose. on the other hand, i mean, you could argue the royal family in the 1960s that was unique and that was locked away as far as i know it still is because it's considered so intrusive. so it's a question of getting the balance and this is a very difficult time, of course, for the royal family especially with two senior members. as you know , suffering members. as you know, suffering from cancer and hopefully things are going in the right direction . are going in the right direction. >> and it's they're on a bit of a sort of a pr win at the moment. william and catherine, which i know is not the intention when you're recovering from cancer, but in terms of the popularity with the british pubuc popularity with the british public and somebody who is playing a part in that as well

is james middleton. so catherine's brother, who's done some interviews with the press saying how great his sisters have been for him, i quite like these insights into that sibling dynamic. richard, how about you? >> well, i think the middletons, you could say perhaps the unsung heroes of the movie when you saw for example, michael and carole middleton at royal ascot and then very briefly, but you can just imagine what's happening behind the scenes. and yes, james has had a lot of publicity and in the daily mail on this , and in the daily mail on this, the fact that there's obviously real assistance and backing , but real assistance and backing, but done unlike so many things in the royal family, done quietly, but absolutely pivotal. yes. >> yeah. okay. great to see you, richard . thank you very much. richard. thank you very much. >> and of course, kate middleton's parents were in that video, of course, because they are very, very important part of the family, setup. yeah i interviewed pippa middleton. she's once when i was on the

mail. she was incredibly nice. was she? she'd done a cookery book for charity. very cautious . book for charity. very cautious. i couldn't even get her to say. is your sister's favourite recipe in this book, but she wouldn't even say that. >> but that's why one of the reasons why i think catherine has been well looked after, and the grandchildren and the children, because of that relationship with the parents, and they're very they're more protecting her, very protective of her and quite right too. >> right. >> right. >> still to come, we're going to be discussing that ed davey moment as he closed out the lib dem conference yesterday. you will like it, andrew. it involves an abba classic. i might get you singing. >> well, i could sing it better than he did. >> oh , microphones at dawn. >> oh, microphones at dawn. >> oh, microphones at dawn. >> this is britain's newsroom on

gb news.

my gb news. my first in line the us is free. >> take a chance on me . leave >> take a chance on me. leave me, let me go and be around. you got no place to sophie reaper . got no place to sophie reaper. >> hello, friends . >> hello, friends. >> hello, friends. >> what was that? >> what was that? >> just embarrassing. >> just embarrassing. >> utterly disgraceful. >> utterly disgraceful. >> i mean, they did very well. they've got a record number of mps, haven't they? but i reckon they've . they've lost half the they've. they've lost half the voters they ever gained by that pathetic, utterly, utterly pathetic, utterly, utterly pathetic charade. >> just if you're listening on the radio, that was ed davey leading a chorus of lib dem supporters and mps at the lib dem party conference. >> that was the closing. that was the closing. yeah. you normally have a dramatic peroration in your speech. we had him singing badly out of tune. had him singing badly out of tune . abba, take a chance on me. tune. abba, take a chance on me. >> it's not for me to bash the

liberal democrats and well, okay, it is, but i have to say, angela rayner can cut some shapes. she can dance . michael shapes. she can dance. michael gove rubbish. yeah. ed davey toe curlingly. but clenchingly tooth grindingly god awful. >> cannot sing, cannot sing. >> cannot sing, cannot sing. >> but do you see the people behind him? the people behind him were his frontbench or, you know, the wim frijns anneliese and honestly , not one of them and honestly, not one of them said, i'm not doing this because i'm being made to look like a completely stupid fool . completely stupid fool. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> i mean , i'm a i'm a huge fan >> i mean, i'm a i'm a huge fan of abba. i mean, so am i. what do you think? do you remember theresa may coming on stage trying to dance the dancing queen? the old jigging? >> yeah, that was a disaster. >> yeah, that was a disaster. >> and in fact, let me say who i mean , when yvette cooper was mean, when yvette cooper was going for the leadership, i came up with this song super cooper. yeah. excellent >> super cool. >> super cool. >> no wonder she didn't win, stephen. >> but i just wondered. so i actually wrote to abba's recording . can you let me know recording. can you let me know whether we can actually sing this? and i got the reply back and said, basically said, you cannot be serious. yeah, i'm sure they're very conscious of

their brand, abba, which is why it continues to flourish 50 years after. >> why won't they get a complaint about this? because we know what happens in america the minute, a pop group finds that its records are being used by a politician, they don't approve of, you get legal suits all over the place. so if i was honestly representing abba, i'd be on this like a shot and saying, we have never heard such a disgusting rendition of one of the great songs of all time. the reason the lib dems did so well in the election and got 70 odd seats. >> 72 because they were the tories, is because they grabbed the attention and they grabbed the attention and they grabbed the headlines because of ed davey jim mcmahon quite silly gimmicky things. >> yeah, you've got 72 mps now. you don't have to do gimmicky things anymore. now is the time to just be. >> and let's just remind people what the gimmicks were about. oh, no intention of course. no, no to distract attention stephen from his role. woeful role in the post, the post office scandal, post office minister, the post office minister who said to mr bates, i will not meet you alan bates i will not. >> i'm too busy to meet you.

>> i'm too busy to meet you. >> and then after he left, he lost his seat in 2017 because he lost his seat in 2017 because he lost his seat for a couple of years. he took on a very well—paid legal job with the law firm, who the post office has been using to crush the postmaster to prosecute postmasters , to prosecute them. postmasters, to prosecute them. subpostmasters. and he's been unbelievable about £275,000 in that law. yeah. >> when he was on that paddle board up in cumbria. and then just to make us laugh, he tossed himself off into the middle of this awful water in cumbria. i just hope to god he didn't inhale. >> no. >> no. >> now then, shall we talk about instagram, stephen giving parents more control over social media. how are they going to do it? >> well, in my experience as a to be honest, the closest i've got to that generation is as a grandfather or sitting next to you. but the reality is you can't stop them. you can't. you've got to have a thing called parental control and they don't work well . parental don't work well. parental control is what we need at every single aspect of our lives, particularly when it comes to this instagram look. people will spend their whole lives on this in this platform if they want to, but we can't technologically stop it. we have to. actually,

the parents have to get involved. >> what can they access on instagram ? everything. instagram? everything. >> everything. i mean, instagram should alter the way we're both asking jevon hirst because she's got children. well, they should be policing their own content on instagram. so if something goes up which is inappropriate, then somebody should alert instagram and they should take it down and they are quite good at doing that. they're better probably than say, facebook is because they have fewer users. i guess at the moment, even though it's fundamentally the same company, but let me give you an example. so on on iphones you can have a security setting. so we put time limits on for our, our kids. and it's a time limit. we will come up to my 13 year old to say, you've had enough time today. turn it off. and there's a button saying, do you want to override the time limit? >> that's outrageous. >> that's outrageous. >> yeah, it's like it says, if you actually go onto bbc iplayer, it says play with parental lock, pg lock , yes or parental lock, pg lock, yes or no. yeah. >> ridiculous. >> ridiculous. >> oh, it's a joke. it's tokenistic, isn't it? >> so how many teenage kids are going to say, oh yes, i'd actually quite like to have the parental guidelines lock on. so we then have to put another app on that.

>> you have to pay a monthly subscription, which has extra things on there that mean you can limit stuff, but you're going to know, you're going to know if your daughter is spending hour after hour, you're going to know about because you're a good parent. >> yeah. and i think this is what the people who just are away leave their kids on their own, who knows what they're getting up to. >> and there's i'm afraid there's rather too many of those. >> i'm afraid you're right. do you know what i have to say that seeps into every aspect of our society? >> bands, bands, smartphones for the under 16 seconds. ban them for the under 16. it's the only way this shouldn't be something in my house that i hate as much as i hate my teenagers. >> mobile phones give them a brick phone until they're 16, because at least you can get hold of them and at least be social disapproval. >> so yeah, no. go to a restaurant and somebody gets out a smartphone for a teenager, a 13, 12, six, seven year old, everyone should be tutting and saying, but i agree with you. >> but i went to a restaurant the other day and you had to order your food on a qr code on you walked out. >> yeah, exactly. that's what i do. yeah. >> always actually do. you know, i did good for you because i said i'm sorry. i'm simply not prepared to order this food. and this way i want to see the menu,

and i want to have somebody to come and say, you know, what's this like? what's that? like? >> you want to ask them, you know, what are the vegetables like? what's the wine? of course it's outrageous. i know it's a ridiculous way. >> the human beings. yeah, yeah. >> the human beings. yeah, yeah. >> and the qr code thing, covid thing, it means that you just sit there and do that. people who come in and stand at the bar are not getting served, because all the people behind the bar are dealing with drinks and food that people have ordered on their qr code, don't even know. >> it's ludicrous. i don't even know how you do it. >> no, i don't either. >> no, i don't either. >> well, qr is supposed to stand for quick response. it ain't. >> no, i agree polar opposite. >> no, i agree polar opposite. >> right? talking of food, should we talk about tesco's mike unhealthy item in the bagging area? what are they doing with their clubcard system? >> well the boss of tesco's and i'm a huge fan of tesco's because it was really came to prominence under sir terence leahy. he made it brilliant. so when sir terence leahy was in charge , £1 in every £7 spent on charge, £1 in every £7 spent on the high street straight spent in tesco's, that's how dominant they were. and he's also an everton fan. so i've met him in the say no more of tony blair. but yeah exactly . but but yeah exactly. but nevertheless it was this tesco clubcard which really gave tesco the oomph in the high street. it

was his idea and he put it forward. but what the current bossis forward. but what the current boss is a guy called ken murphy, he's saying i can see the information that's gathered on your clubcard which records what you're buying. i can see it nudging you, saying, look, i've noficed nudging you, saying, look, i've noticed over time that in your shopping basket, your sodium salt content is 250% of daily recommended allowance. so so it's actually becoming a spy. >> but out of my life . >> but out of my life. >> but out of my life. >> yeah, exactly. >> yeah, exactly. >> and they're not doing this for altruistic reasons . >> and they're not doing this for altruistic reasons. no. >> and they're not doing this for altruistic reasons . no. they for altruistic reasons. no. they want you then to divert you to oh, if you go to the healthy food section, there'll be a lasagne that's got less salt in it. it'll be more expensive or organic foods, which of course are very much more expensive. >> so this is i've got one, i've got one of these amazon premium accounts because, you know, i order stuff from amazon and my wife hasn't. so she she wanted to actually buy some underwear from amazon and using my premium, which was quite . and premium, which was quite. and immediately i obviously triggered some algorithm that i'm interested in. ladies underwear. you probably are. >> that's your story. and you

are. >> i'm sorry. yeah, yeah, but thatis >> i'm sorry. yeah, yeah, but that is only from the perspective of nostalgia. >> this is outrageous. >> this is outrageous. >> this is mr murphy says i expect the to use i expect artificial intelligence, which steve has just been talking about , will be steve has just been talking about, will be used to steve has just been talking about , will be used to help about, will be used to help customers make healthier choices by alerting them when they go over their daily recommended allowance. >> so this will be pinging while you're doing your shopping. >> well, i'm not sure . >> well, i'm not sure. >> well, i'm not sure. >> refused to let you buy doughnut. >> yeah, but but i think i think it emphasises the point you've just made . this is supermarkets just made. this is supermarkets trying to guide you in what you should buy to buy something more expensive, for one reason or another, isn't it? >> there's only one reason. >> there's only one reason. >> come on. >>- >> come on. >> to make more money. >> to make more money. >> yeah, yeah. it's not altruistic, is it? it's not for the health of the health of the nation. might be a convenient excuse. yeah, just. >> well , there's also the thing. >> well, there's also the thing. >> well, there's also the thing. >> the thing in the paper today about we shouldn't be able to buy a good, honest british pint of beer. we should be buying a two thirds of a pint of beer at the same price, presumably. >> oh, good. >> oh, good. >> good. surely not. >> good. surely not. >> right . >> right. >> right. >> never enough time. gentlemen, we've got to go to time, gentlemen , please.

gentlemen, please. >> time. >> time. >> gentlemen, please. >> gentlemen, please. >> two thirds of a pint all around here is the news with sam . around here is the news with sam. >> very good morning to you. it's just after 1130, a round up of the stories making the news this morning. and leaders in the middle east are accusing israel of pushing the whole region to the brink of war. that's as the death toll from hundreds of simultaneous explosions across lebanon and parts of syria has now, we understand, risen to 12. and that does include, sadly, two children, the hezbollah terrorist group and the lebanese government have accused israel for what it's believed to have been a remote attack targeting handheld communications devices here. meanwhile, the foreign office is urging british citizens in lebanon to leave, warning they could be trapped in a war zone and development minister anneliese dodds says the uk will be supporting civilians who are impacted in those explosions . those explosions. >> like many others, i woke up this morning to the news and

reports of developments in lebanon and this clearly is an awful situation and very concerned to hear about the reports of civilian casualties. clearly, i don't know all of the details of this. and as i say, we woke up to this news, but the uk will be working with, particularly with our humanitarian partners in the region . region. >> anneliese dodds there. well, we've heard today that a massive blast has rocked russia's tver region after a ukrainian drone strike hit a major ammunition depot, forcing a mass evacuation in the area. video you can see here shows the fireball lighting up the night sky with those explosions, while nasa also says it detected intense heat over a 14 square kilometre area. local officials confirmed the blast, though details at this stage are limited, with the media in the area under military censorship. but a pro—russian blogger has claimed everything that can burn is, they say, already burning.

but no casualties were reported . but no casualties were reported. ukraine's security services says the strike destroyed missiles and artillery shells, though kyiv has yet to officially comment here. post office boss nick read will step down next year after a turbulent tenure marked by the horizon it scandal. read has called it a great privilege to lead through extraordinarily challenging times for the post office and postmasters . he, of course, took postmasters. he, of course, took the helm in 2019 after the controversial departure of paula vennells , who faced backlash vennells, who faced backlash over her handling of the horizon crisis. mr reed's departure follows criticism of him from mps and his exoneration from misconduct allegations earlier this year. the company says the effort to support postmasters to and achieve justice is still ongoing , and the public inquiry ongoing, and the public inquiry into the crimes of convicted child serial killer nurse lucy letby is continuing today with the parents of some of her victims giving evidence in

liverpool. the investigation is scrutinising how letby , now scrutinising how letby, now serving 15 life sentences, was able to murder seven babies and injure seven more while she worked as a nurse at the countess of chester hospital. the mother of child d told the inquiry yesterday that having cctv in her daughter's hospital room could have prevented her murder. the inquiry is now looking into whether all neonatal units across england should install cctv. while our reporter sophie reaper is in liverpool for us, where that inquiry is taking place today, this morning we are expecting to continue with evidence from parents. >> we're expecting to hear from the mother of child e and child f twin boys who were both attacked by letby child e was murdered by an injection of air and child f it was an attempted murder charge, a poisoning with insulin. he did survive. now, this morning we're unable to go into liverpool town hall. into the inquiry itself, partially because of concerns around anonymity, but also, as i'm sure our viewers can understand, it

must be incredibly, incredibly difficult for those parents to stand up and to share the impact that this has had on them and the lives of their wider family . the lives of their wider family. >> sophie reaper there for us in liverpool. well those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'll be back with you for a full roundup at midday for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone , sign up to news your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com >> forward slash alerts . >> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> cheers! britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report , and before we financial report, and before we hand back to andrew and bev, a quick snapshot of the markets this hour. >> the pound will buy you $1.3225 and ,1.1875. the price of gold £1,947.44 per ounce. and the ftse 100 is at 8261 points.

>> cheers! britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report . financial report. >> here they are. >> here they are. >> so we need to say is all you need to say. >> it happens every day. >> it happens every day. >> we're going to do it on the screen with tom and emily. >> that certainly does. it's good afternoon britain coming up at midday. >> we've got a lot to go at. >> we've got a lot to go at. >> tom tugendhat i don't know if you've seen his letter. >> he's got in touch with the attorney general. he's put it on his twitter for everyone to see. he thinks that the sentencing of huw edwards was far too lenient. well, he's right, so he's asking for a check up on that. >> and i hope and i'm sure you guys will bring in the sun has done some really good stuff here about the number of who have not gone to prison. exactly. it's shocking. >> it's just suspended sentence after suspended sentence after suspended sentence for people who frankly had a long a much longer history of offending than huw edwards did. it's pretty extraordinary. this has lifted the lid on quite a lot. >> disgusting who sold him the

photographs because they were sold? yeah he says that it was a gift, but he sold them effectively. he didn't go to prison either. >> how was he able to get out of prison? >> there were people with tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of images who haven't gone to prison, which is extraordinary. extraordinary journalism from the sun. but tom tugendhat is asking the attorney general to use a power that she has for the case to be heard again for this review mechanism to kick in. of course, this is what we saw in the case of the of the trial of valdo calocane calocane, the nottingham killer. the attorney, the then attorney general asked for that case to be reheard, although unfortunately it came back with the same result again. perhaps it would be different in this case. we did hear a lot of the mitigation that huw edwards expensive lawyer was was putting forward based on his mental state that he was so mentally ill that he didn't know what he was doing. he doesn't remember it and he wouldn't do it again. >> the thing is, how can they lock him up if they didn't lock

up the guy who sent him the pictures? well, review that you know, review that should be reviewed to review all of these as well. >> exactly that and much more with emily and tom from midday. >> up next, though, we're going to be talking about this horrific story you might have seen in the papers. it was a mass rape. a woman who was raped by about 50 people after she was drugged by her husband. >> by her husband. she's. >> by her husband. she's. >> yeah, she waived her right to anonymity. we'll tell you what happened. it's in france. this is britain's newsroom on

gb news. welcome back to britain's newsroom. so this is a really shocking story. this is about a man in france who is accused of drugging his wife and letting at least 50 men rape her while she was sedated . and he's told a was sedated. and he's told a french court, i am a rapist. >> so she waived her right to anonymity and she's called dominique pellico. >> and this is what she said she

was greeted by at court by members of the . public. members of the. public. >> and of course, what is so unusualis >> and of course, what is so unusual is because she's waived her anonymity . she's allowed her anonymity. she's allowed this story to really have the oxygen of publicity to shine a light on the depravity of this situation. i thought those pictures were very moving of the pubuc pictures were very moving of the public greeting her there and giving her flowers. >> it's not just that her husband should have been on trial. what about these terrible men who took part in it? >> how is it possible to find that many men in one area and not to do that? >> and the local mayor. for what it's worth, was interviewed a bloke and said, oh, it's not so serious. nobody was killed. >> oh, well, let's talk to journalist broadcaster peter allen, who is out in france. >> good morning peter. it's been a big story here, but not, i imagine, as huge as it must be overin imagine, as huge as it must be over in france. front page story. because it's so unusual .

story. because it's so unusual. >> absolutely. it's an absolutely horrific case. i've been following french court cases for many years, covering french court cases. never seen anything like this. these are crimes that went on for at least ten years. it all started with, dominique pellico, who is the main defendant. he's on trial with 50 others attacking his wife at home. and then he says that he was bored in retirement. can you believe it? so he went onune can you believe it? so he went online and he thought, well, if i can subdue my wife with drugs, slipping drugs into her meal, why can't other men do the same? so he went on to a chat room in france and recruited lots of different men from all types of society, ostensibly respectable men like him, who'd all had good jobs, who were actually in employment, and he invited them

round. and these horrific rapes took place over all these years. he was only caught in an unrelated matter a few years ago, he was caught in his local supermarket taking photographs illicitly underneath women's skirts. he was arrested for that. the police found all these beastial videos and photographs of all these rapes going on for many, many years. terrifying case. >> and it was an incredibly brave decision of the wife, peter, to waive her anonymity because some people would just because some people would just be so ashamed they wouldn't want anyone to know. but she. but by going public, it's made this a worldwide story. >> absolutely right. gisele pellico she could have chosen to remain anonymous as, of course , remain anonymous as, of course, many rape victims are allowed to and do. but straight away she said, no, i want to go public because remember, if she did

remain anonymous, so would the husband. because clearly, if you identify the husband, everybody would know who the wife was . so would know who the wife was. so that was a really brave decision . that was a really brave decision. and certainly as journalists, i doubt we would have taken much interest at all if it had just been a range of anonymous figures linked with these appalling crimes, however appalling, to give a case publicity. you do need live people , people that can, be people, people that can, be interviewed, who can talk about everything that's happened . and everything that's happened. and that's exactly what we've got. they've got three adult children as well . they've been hugely as well. they've been hugely articulate and spoken about the whole ordeal. and again, that's one of the reasons this monstrous case is going to gain so much publicity. >> monstrous is the right word, peter. so what happens to this monster husband? has he been sentenced? and if not, what are we expecting to happen to him? >> well, it might sound incredible, andrew, but he hasn't been sentenced. he has got about three months, four

months of mitigation left. that's how the french system works. and one of the great criticisms of the french system is over domestic violence . is over domestic violence. violence between a man and wife especially. they are incredibly lenient. that is quite terrifying. i cover the case here in paris a few years ago, where a man who had literally beaten his partner to death in a hotel room, he was sentenced to a few years in prison. he was out within about 4 or 5 years, and of course, there's lots of fear that that is going to be the same case with dominique pellico. so he'll mitigate for the next four months, along with the next four months, along with the other 50 defendants. not all of them are proven rapists yet. we have to hear what the verdict is at the end of it all. yeah. >> all right, peter, we've run out of time. it's the most extraordinary case. peter allen there very experienced broadcaster. >> shattering, isn't it? >> shattering, isn't it? >> what i find amazing is she didn't know. >> no i know, well, she didn't

know this was happening. >> she was having medical issues with sort of bruising, and her hair was falling out as a side effect of these drugs, and she didn't know what had been happening to her. >> amazing , happening to her. >> amazing, right. >> amazing, right. >> up next, it's been ten years since the scottish independence referendum. happy, happy birthday to the death of that particular ambition. i hope this is britain's

gb news. >> ten years since the scottish referendum, when people voted, 45% of the nation voted to. well, 55 voted to stay as part of the union. >> that's right . it's of the union. >> that's right. it's a of the union. >> that's right . it's a turnout >> that's right. it's a turnout of 84.6%. it was the highest recorded for an election or referendum since 1910. >> so scotland reporter tony maguire joins us now. tony, it feels to me dead and buried a bit like the political careers of alex salmond, who was the leader of the scottish national party at the time, and his successor, nicola sturgeon . successor, nicola sturgeon. >> good morning. well, you know,

i think that's certainly quite a popular perspective to look at it. you know, obviously i've been thinking a lot about, about this anniversary over the last week, you know, and thinking back to when i was covering it, you know, a decade ago and the vibe back then and the atmosphere among both camps , atmosphere among both camps, i'll say, because, you know, there was an opportunity here for, for a new future from the yes campaign and the better together. well, they were looking for that opportunity to answer this question once and for all. and of course, on the 18th of september 2014, that question was asked and answered. but what we've seen really in the ten years since that, as various leaders, both, you know, of political parties and indeed from from kind of scottish culture as well, kind of keep this argument going. but as we've sort of seen over the last yean we've sort of seen over the last year, you know, the numbers that are attending along at independence rallies, first at, you know, at bannockburn, there was there was quite a low

turnout, will we say. and then the other day in glasgow. but, you know, there are various reasons for this and part of thatis reasons for this and part of that is because of the splintering of the movement. and that unity we saw back then is , that unity we saw back then is, is but a distant memory at this point . point. >> okay. thank you. tony. it is a distant memory at this point, isn't it? i think that's remember, the queen was overheard saying as she was talking to people on walkabout. >> i do hope they'll be very careful. something like that. yeah, and we all knew what she meant. yeah. and then david cameron , really irritated by cameron, really irritated by saying she was purring with pleasure down the phone when they voted to stay in the union. >> thank you all for getting in touch this morning . lots of you touch this morning. lots of you saying how much you enjoy the show, which is wonderful. terrance, you and andrew and bev are an awesome team. well thank you. that's very nice. very nice. >> we'll be back with some more awesome than others. >> we'll try to be awesome at 930 again tomorrow morning. but for now , here's emily and tom for now, here's emily and tom with good afternoon britain. >> thank you very much indeed. now, the tory leadership hopeful,

tom tugendhat, he's calling for a review into huw edwards sentence. he calls it unduly lenient, but why are so many escaping jail? >> and in lebanon we saw the pager explosion phenomenon yesterday. why is the government here being so cautious about this targeted attack against terrorists? that to come and much more . much more. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello. good morning. welcome to your latest gb news weather update. another sunny afternoon to come. for many of us once this early cloud lifts and clears, but it will be a fairly breezy day, particularly across southern areas as we do have an onshore breeze from the north sea. that's thanks to this area of high pressure, which is bringing that fine weather we're seeing at the moment, but also an easterly breeze . and that an easterly breeze. and that breeze will be quite brisk actually, particularly across

southeastern areas close to the channel and also across more western areas of southern england later on today, particularly to the western areas of high ground across parts of wales. but elsewhere clouds should clear up quite nicely as we head into this afternoon, and there will be more in the way of that september warmth to come, perhaps still a bit of cloud lingering around the eastern coast of northern scotland. we could still see some fog across some areas up here, but for most of us it will be a dry and fine day through the rest of today and the winds will be lighter across more northern areas. so across more northern areas. 50 across more northern areas. so across the northwest it will chill off a little actually as we head into this evening. but once the sun, whilst the sun is still up, temperatures in the high teens for many of us. but if cloud already starting to come in across northeastern areas of england, parts of east anglia and the southeast, this evening, and that cloud will probably be a bit more extensive tonight compared to recent nights across many eastern areas of england as well as scotland. so it will probably be quite a cloudy night across these eastern areas, across the west, though, another clear and starry night to come, and with clearer

skies and light winds across northwestern areas, temperatures could dip down close to zero. but for most of us, a fairly mild night for the time of year. as that brisk breeze continues across more southern areas. so another pretty breezy day to come across the south tomorrow. and as i said, probably a little bit of a cloudier start. the cloud will last just that much longer. i think , through longer. i think, through thursday, lingering more so across eastern coasts of northern england as well as scotland, through more of the day. but further west, plenty more sunshine to come through the day and in the sunshine. still temperatures reaching the mid 20s by looks like things are heating up boxt boilers sponsors of weather

gb news. >> good afternoon britain . it's >> good afternoon britain. it's 12:00 on wednesday the 12th of december or even on. i don't

even know what i'm what i'm saying. good afternoon britain . saying. good afternoon britain. what is it? the 18th of september. today it's wednesday. >> to be fair, we did get caught out with the autocue there. we really did. i'm emily carver to, well, deadly bleeper bombs . well, deadly bleeper bombs. >> israel's mossad spy agency placed explosives in thousands of hezbollah pages before they detonated across lebanon, with the local health ministry claiming 12 people have now been killed, including two children. israel is yet to comment. >> sir keir scrounger. the prime minister has declared more free tickets and gifts than any other major party leader in recent times, with his total reportedly now topping £100,000 after recent support for his lifestyle from labour donor waheed alli . from labour donor waheed alli. >> reforming the nhs health secretary wes streeting not pictured here, will soon be speaking at a news conference. we can see live pictures from where he'll unveil labour's plans to save the national health service. well, that's what they say will be there live .

what they say will be there live. now it's the 18th of september, i think. >> what date is it, tom? >> what date is it, tom? >> the 18th. 18th. 18. >> the 18th. 18th. 18. >> 18. >> 18. >> yeah. wednesday. >> yeah. wednesday. >> wednesday. wednesday. >> wednesday. wednesday. >> i got the wednesday.