tom harwood and september. i'm tom harwood and i'm emily carver wearing masks and working from home. >> if we can really will help prevent infection . prevent infection. >> starmer's fate covid home. >> starmer's fate covid home. >> not only did the prime minister use lord alli £18 million penthouse throughout the election period, turns out he was using it for party broadcasts throughout the last parliament, it has been revealed , parliament, it has been revealed, including for an address to the nafion including for an address to the nation telling us all to work from home. >> non—dom gone from london and many other cities. yes sir keir starmer's grand plan to tax non—doms will bring in no money at all. that's the fear of treasury officials. if true schools and hospitals will miss out on an extra £1 billion of funding. >> oops . and no more ceasefire. >> oops. and no more ceasefire. benjamin netanyahu has denied reports he is close to agreeing a 21 day ceasefire with hezbollah, as he insists that they will continue fighting against hamas and hezbollah

until all israel's war goals are achieved. >> government's bungled prison release scheme five prisoners are still on the loose after almost 40 people were let out of prison by mistake under the government's controversial early release scheme, the ministry of justice has admitted and blitz on boozers as the threat of an outdoor smoking ban looms over britain's pubs. >> it's now reported the government is plotting a sin tax raid on publicans in the autumn budget . budget. i mean, this non—dom story. okay, so in the run up to the election, as i'm sure everyone remembers everything it seemed every spending commitment was going to be paid for by a crackdown on these rich non—doms who don't deserve this particular tax status that they

have. anyway, a few months down the line, all the treasury officials have actually looked into it. maybe it's not going to raise any money at all. well, this is could even lose us money. >> this is the point. the non—dom scheme was to keep rich people in this country who otherwise would live elsewhere, live offshore. the non—dom tax status was to keep those people in the uk contributing to the uk. if you get rid of that status, what incentive do these people, many of them, what incentive do they have to stay here? if suddenly half of their income is going to go to the state? well, it's a sad reality. it doesn't seem particularly fair. and i think this is one of the reasons why taxing non—doms was always very, very popular. but the problem is there are other countries in the world. we're not the largest economy in the world. i mean, these people can choose to live elsewhere. >> it's just ideological nonsense . it's the same as nonsense. it's the same as slapping vat on private school fees. is it really going to save the state any money at all, when lots of kids will now be going into the state system, which will require more resources,

more teachers, more everything ? more teachers, more everything? these policies, actually, when you look into them without an ideological lens, you have to look at the practicalities. won't save us any money by the looks of things . looks of things. >> and it's led to my favourite headune >> and it's led to my favourite headline of the day. non—dom long gone from london. yes, i tried to change that. >> no, i let him . >> no, i let him. >> no, i let him. >> i let him indulged. indulge, indulge. >> also want your views on this latest from keir starmer. turns out that he wasn't only using it to using the penthouse for his son's revision so that he could revise peacefully was the word that keir starmer used , but also that keir starmer used, but also for party political broadcasts dunng for party political broadcasts during the covid pandemic and some other things. it's all rather odd, isn't it? gbnews.com/yoursay should we get the . news? the. news? >> emily, thank you and good afternoon. the top stories, the current managing director of harrods has apologised and said the business failed. our colleagues following sexual

misconduct allegations about former owner mohamed al—fayed. michael ward said in a statement that it's clear mr al fayed presided over a toxic culture of secrecy , intimidation, fear of secrecy, intimidation, fear of repercussion and sexual misconduct. mr ward, who worked for mr al—fayed for four years, said he wasn't aware of his criminality and abuse and described it as a shameful penod described it as a shameful period in the business's history. five women claim they were raped by al fayed, who died last year at the age of 94, with a number of others alleging sexual misconduct . israeli prime sexual misconduct. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has told the israeli military to keep fighting with full force in lebanon, according to his office. earlier the idf said israel hit 75 hezbollah targets overnight in the beqaa region close to syria. netanyahu's statement comes after the uk, the us and other allies called for a 21 day ceasefire between israel and the terror group hezbollah. last night, in a

joint statement, the 12 strong bloc called for a ceasefire to provide space for diplomacy towards the conclusion of a diplomatic settlement, as well as a ceasefire in gaza. they said the hostilities were intolerable and presented an unacceptable risk of a broader regional escalation that was neither in the interest of the people of israel or lebanon. it comes after israel's military chief told troops yesterday that extensive airstrikes in lebanon targeting hezbollah could pave the way for them to enter enemy territory. former chair of the defence select committee, tobias ellwood, believes a ceasefire is imminent. >> i think it will happen in the next 48, 72 hours. it takes some time. this is a very complex operation to get the scale of troop numbers that are required. although i'm sure the idf, the israeli defence forces, would have been preparing for this for some time. >> the family of a teenager who was murdered in wolverhampton say they're devastated, totally heartbroken and confused. 212 year old boys found guilty of

murdering shawn seesahai in a random machete attack are set to be sentenced. the killers were convicted in june of murdering the 19 year old, who was stabbed in the heart and suffered a skull fracture in november last yeah skull fracture in november last year. they're believed to be the youngest defendants convicted of murder in britain since robert thompson and jon venables, both aged 11, were found guilty in 1993 of killing two year old james bulger. the boys, both now 13, face a mandatory juvenile life sentence and are appearing in custody at nottingham crown court for the start of a two day hearing. the sentence is due to be passed tomorrow . a man has be passed tomorrow. a man has been charged with the murder of a 15 year old boy who was stabbed with a zombie knife in south—east london. deshaun campbell was found with a stab injury in woolwich on sunday evening. he died at the scene. 18 year old jacob, which has been charged in connection with his death. he was remanded in custody and appears in court today. the metropolitan police says a second man in his 50s who was arrested has been released

without charge . now a landmark without charge. now a landmark aukus meeting is being held in the uk as the defence secretary hosts counterparts from the us and australia. in london amid efforts to build a fleet of nuclear powered submarines. john healey is hosting richard marles , healey is hosting richard marles, who is also anthony albanese's deputy prime minister and us defence secretary. lloyd james austin. the third, at the security partnership meeting . if security partnership meeting. if australia and the uk sign a treaty, the westminster governments estimated the ssn aukus submarine build project would unlock uk exports into the billions of pounds. the ministry of defence says it will support uk jobs for more than 21,000 people, and the government also confirmed the new treaty will outline the uk's relationship with australia on submarine co—operation . cyber attackers co—operation. cyber attackers have caused disruption at 19 uk railway stations. network rail confirmed the wi—fi systems at stations including london

euston, manchester piccadilly and major stations across liverpool, birmingham and edinburgh were all affected. people reported logging onto the wi—fi at the stations and being met with a screen about terror attacks. in europe. british transport police are investigating. the rail provider says it believes other organisations, not just rail stations, have also been impacted and an amber warning for heavy rain has been issued by the met office, warning of further flooding and travel disruption across large parts of the uk. the new alert covers the midlands and parts of the south west from 6:00 this evening until 6 am. tomorrow. the met office warns. nearly three inches of rain could fall over several hours in the worst affected regions. they also say with rivers continuing to rise after the rain clears, several yellow weather warnings are already currently in place for large parts of the country until 9:00 tomorrow morning. and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an

hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone , sign direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com >> forward slash alerts . >> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> good afternoon britain. it is nine minutes past midday now. sir keir starmer is expected to use his speech at the un general assembly later today to promise the uk is returning to global responsible leadership. >> well, this comes as the middle east teeters on the brink of all out conflict and the war in ukraine continues to grind on. >> however, his use of a labour donor lord allies £18 million covent garden penthouse to film a message calling on people to work from home when covid guidelines were still in place, threatens to overshadow his appearance on the world stage. it of course, raises questions as to whether he himself was

following the rules at the time. >> yes, it does indeed. well shall we take a little look at that now infamous clip? >> the new variant, omicron is spreading fast and the argument that we don't know enough about it doesn't stack up. we may not be certain how dangerous it is, but we do know that lives are at risk at times like this. we must all put the national interest first and play by the rules. getting jabbed, wearing masks and working from home. if we can really will help prevent infections. >> working from home if we can. well, let's go now . own home? well, let's go now. own home? yeah. apparently so . let's go to yeah. apparently so. let's go to new york and speak to our political editor , christopher political editor, christopher hope. christopher, what are we expecting the prime minister to focus on today ? and what do you focus on today? and what do you make of these new revelations about the use of lord alli

penthouse ? penthouse? >> yes. hi, tom. hi, emily. from early morning here in new york. yeah, we'll come to that in a second. but the big day here for sir keir starmer is his talking to the un general assembly. the first labour leader, labour prime minister to do so in 15 years. lots of firsts all the time of course, in the early early months of a labour prime minister being in charge, he's speaking to the un general assembly at 1015 uk time . i'm assembly at 1015 uk time. i'm sure we'll bring that to you if we can. on on gb news. he's talking to other world leaders to two big issues here dominating all the chat in this big week for diplomacy in new york. he's talking about the war in ukraine. the big question is whether the uk will allow these these missiles to be used. the uk missiles to be used. storm shadow missiles against russia in russia. this will be a joint statement also about israel and lebanon border, calling for an immediate three week ceasefire. of course, britons have been told to leave there immediately and we've got the comments from

the un secretary—general overnight, antonio guterres. he says hell has broken loose on the lebanese border, and that's why it's so important to get that fixed. so that's what's happening here. he's meeting with business leaders to try and drive the call for investment in the uk. but aside from that, the headunes the uk. but aside from that, the headlines are still being dominated by freebie gate. you're seeing there the issue with lord ali's flat. we're told that he was trying to use this flat over the past few years. he didn't want to do broadcasting from his home where it might invade his privacy. so he went to lord ali's flat. but i think in the clip you showed there, he had put some christmas cards behind the desk he was sitting at. was that his home last night? i did interview sir keir starmer. a range of issues discussed immigration, the homes for heroes idea. but i put to him one question i thought was interesting. we heard this week from emma lewell—buck, who's the labour mp for south shields. she gives away her freebies or she gives away her freebies or she gives them back to charity. i asked the pm if he would do

that. a labour mp for south shields, emma lewell—buck, gives her freebies to charity . he her freebies to charity. he gives them away. why won't you gives them away. why won't you give things you've had for free? back to charity or to or to a good cause? >> well, all that happened is i wanted somewhere safe and quiet for my son to do his gcse preparation. i needed it to be secure because of the situation we were in. no exchange of money. there's nothing to give away . away. >> so there you have keir starmer avoiding that question. why not just deal with the issue now? give away all the freebies, the spectacles, the clothing, give it away. move on and say it won't happen again. we i get from him though in other interviews he's done here. he's pretty determined to say he'll keep doing having freebies, going to the football. he thinks it's all part of the conversation in our political life . and just before i go back life. and just before i go back to you from new york, here, there are other big meetings happening here. we know that he met with ursula von der leyen,

the european union, president yesterday. that's ahead of a meeting next week. so while we're at the tory conference, tom and emily do keep watching what keir starmer is up to. he's meeting with were expected to meeting with were expected to meet with ursula von der leyen in brussels . meet with ursula von der leyen in brussels. he says number 10 say it's about the eu , uk reset. say it's about the eu, uk reset. he has told her in terms i want to reset our relationship with the eu and make brexit work for the eu and make brexit work for the british people. that is different to meeting with individual countries for bilateral deals. this is saying i'm meeting with the eu and that could be all sorts of things, maybe even under 30s freedom of movement. and just finally a whisper from new york today he might meet donald trump. today i'm trying to get confirmation. we don't know it yet, but we could see starmer trump meeting happening. >> okay. well, thank you very much indeed, christopher. hope our political editor in new york, just running us through some of the top headlines really, that's going on today for keir starmer over in the united states. very cosy picture there with ursula von der lie—in all about ukip resetting the uk

eu relationship. >> yeah. and what does that exactly mean? are we going to be taking on more eu laws? certainly not ditching more eu laws that we already had on our books in a little bit later in the programme we're going to talk about this issue. the eu has legislated on artificial intelligence, lots of new programs that the united states has been getting this week . has been getting this week. europe and the uk haven't been getting access to. mark zuckerberg has been saying that the eu is not going to get its new ai systems at all because of the overbearing regulatory framework, but really interesting. this trump meeting. yeah, absolutely. >> will that go ahead? like to be a fly on the wall to that one? maybe. but yes, this issue of freebies, it's not just about the freebies. it's also now about him being deceptive , about him being deceptive, pretending, appearing to be working from home when he gave this national address to the country during the covid era where everyone was being told to mask up, everyone was being told to stay at home, work from home, only go out if it's 100% necessary. also, we're hearing

that he also delivered a message on the day the queen died from again, the £18 million penthouse, courtesy of lord waheed alli. it's all very odd. how much time was he spending at this place? number 10 have said it was just a one off this covid message was it doesn't look like it. >> well, a website behind some of these revelations is of course, the guido fawkes website. delighted now to be able to speak to the guido fawkes reporter, max young . max, fawkes reporter, max young. max, thanks for joining us. fawkes reporter, max young. max, thanks forjoining us. your website has of course, been revealing a lot of the scoops behind this, how did you come across the fact that starmer has been using this house, this penthouse? >> i've got to say , it was incredible, >> we did a through the keyhole piece looking at what that penthouse is actually like on the inside, because apparently labour are completely furious that the luxury designer , sophie that the luxury designer, sophie ashby did a whole photo compilation of her fancy designs inside. and that was before it

was sold. so it got sold. it looks a bit different now, but they kept the shelving unit and someone in guido tower has recognised that shelving unit, which is exactly the same one. very, very nice, very fancy. and it kept on cropping up. we had a 2021. there it is. and then amazingly, later the day that the queen died, there he is in the queen died, there he is in the evening, dimmed lights. the family photos have been taken away. some dark urns have been replaced, but it's recognisably the same wall and the same shelf in that £18 million penthouse in soho. >> so what do you think's going on here? is it a case? is it is it the case that keir starmer and his family were using this property far more than anyone knew , practically living there? knew, practically living there? it seems. of course , that the it seems. of course, that the revelation that £20,000 worth of accommodation was used for the prime minister because his son needed somewhere calm and

peaceful to revise. okay, that was one thing several months over the summer, but then also doing these broadcasts back in 2021, i mean, it almost sounds as if this place was a second home. >> yeah, it certainly does. yeah and i've got to say 2020 k for a three en suite bedroom penthouse, 18 million. that's quite a bargain, isn't it? so an interesting an interesting figure on that declaration. there so the starmer say that they moved to , in have for a son they moved to, in have for a son to have somewhere peaceful to study in the gcse, which is fine, but apparently they stayed there for three weeks after gcses were over, so i don't know why. maybe that was some post exam revision just to go over what they might have gotten wrong in the exams, and it looks like it's been used sort of as a on and off office for about three years now. i mean, keir was meant to work from home. he spoke incredibly in that video from 21 about working from home. and he could have worked from the parliamentary office. he could have worked from the leader of the opposition's

office in labour hq. leader of the opposition's office in labour hq . why was he office in labour hq. why was he lord alli . s £18 million lord alli. s £18 million penthouse? these questions just keep coming. and the whole thing is the hypocrisy. i mean , these is the hypocrisy. i mean, these guys created such a culture of sanctimony and now it's exactly the same. i mean, what's going on?ifs the same. i mean, what's going on? it's left to us hacks to dig out one story after another and number 10 lines that they brief out. they don't work. so last night the guardian was told, or it was understood by the guardian, that it was used as a one off. half an hour later we put we put up the queen elizabeth tribute, which was donein elizabeth tribute, which was done in the same place. so it's not a one off, is it? if i had any advice for number 10 media spinners, i would say that when you're issuing defensive briefing lines, try to anticipate what the next story might be. or maybe get starmer to tell you the truth about what's actually been going on and how often he's been using this place, >> max, it has to be said that your most recent piece on this seems to have a bit of a warning in red text at the bottom, anticipating perhaps more

stories coming about. have you have you spotted him using this this, penthouse on more occasions, or can't you tell us? >> well, i'm going to keep my powder dry for the moment, but rest assured, rumours are flying extremely , extremely high pace extremely, extremely high pace throughout westminster. so, watch this space. there's a there's a lot of sourcing that needs to be done, but we're working on it dutifully, as you might imagine. >> well, thank you very much indeed. max young , reporter at indeed. max young, reporter at guido fawkes, the website that's revealed quite a bit about the use of this particular penthouse, courtesy of lord waheed. alli, thank you very much indeed. it's worth also noting that there's a new story when it comes to waheed alli and the donations he's given. it turns out that a labour mp took a £12 million loan from lord alli to buy a house for her terminally ill sister. it goes to show. i mean, whether that transaction is morally right, morally wrong, that's not the issue here. the issue is just how much this particular one man is donating and helping out

labour ministers. it's very odd, very odd. >> anyway, yes, we're going to turn to the middle east briefly because israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu , is telling benjamin netanyahu, is telling his military to keep fighting with full force as he refuses to respond to calls for this ceasefire. >> yes . earlier, it ceasefire. >> yes. earlier, it was ceasefire. >> yes . earlier, it was believed >> yes. earlier, it was believed a 21 day ceasefire would be implemented between israel and hezbollah following joint calls from the united states and the united kingdom and other allied nations. >> but now that's all been thrown into doubt , with the thrown into doubt, with the israel defence forces also insisting they will continue to fight in gaza until their goals are achieved. >> well, joining us now is retired british army officer colonel simon diggins. simon thank you very much indeed. can you make sense of this for us? because we were told a little bit earlier today that a ceasefire was on the cards, that we could see a 21 day ceasefire very soon indeed. and now both sides of the conflict are saying, absolutely not. we're going to continue . going to continue. >> i think one of the issues here. thank you. good morning to you. good afternoon to you all.

now, i think one of the issues here is, is you might call this sort of the people who are surrounding the ring, people like the americans ourselves, the french who look at this or try to look at this objectively and say it's not an interest, best interest to attack into, into lebanon versus the internal pressures that benjamin netanyahu is facing at the moment, which says that the fighting must continue now, some of those pressures are absolutely legitimate, you know, the 60,000 israelis who've been displaced. but there's also the kind of the influence of the far right there, including his finance minister equivalent of our chancellor's exchequer , our chancellor's exchequer, who's saying that we need to israelis need to attack into into southern lebanon. so these are the pressures that he's facing. the one thing he's not doing, he's not prepared to do at the moment is actually look at the moment is actually look at the moment is actually look at the possibility of a proper ceasefire, because that is the condition which hezbollah has put in place. and if there is a ceasefire in gaza, then they will stop the rocket attacks . will stop the rocket attacks. and he's not going to do that because of the problems he's got in terms of his own coalition. so that's where we are at the moment . so people, even people moment. so people, even people like ourselves who are very support of israel, saying this is not in your interest, but he

is not in your interest, but he is determined largely, i think, for his own internal political pressures to keep going. will that translate into an actual formal ground ? invasion is still formal ground? invasion is still to be still to be seen, but clearly we've heard the israeli chief of staff preparing his troops and has been movements of israeli forces to the north, indicating they're looking at the options and looking at the possibilities , and that that possibilities, and that that invasion possibility is clearly a big, big concern. >> but why do you think it was that this morning there were so many reports, so many sort of almost positive signs towards suggesting that there would be some sort of ceasefire that that was then sort of knocked out of the water by by netanyahu himself . himself. >> i think there are many people within israel itself , >> i think there are many people within israel itself, including members of the government, who who can recognise that this is probably not the way to solve what is i mean, indubitably one of the worst and most complicated strategic conundrum in the world in terms of that. but there is the politics, and i think it's the if you like the dialogue we've been having, we've seen it with the ceasefire negotiations over over gaza itself. there are clearly there

have been israeli negotiators, including very high powered negotiators, the head of mossad, the head of the shin bet, negotiating directly through the qataris about what's going to happen. qataris about what's going to happen . and then then they take happen. and then then they take they take the deal back . and they take the deal back. and then that deal gets scotched by then that deal gets scotched by the politics of israel itself. so that's the challenge that i think the wider community, the world have got. how do you square those two things? >> simon diggins, thank you very much indeed . retired british much indeed. retired british army officer. thank you. well, it's good afternoon, britain on gb news. we've got lots more coming up on today's show, including five prisoners are apparently on the loose after they were mistakenly released under the early release scheme. under the government's early release scheme. apparently, 40 or so were just released mistakenly. >> they couldn't make it up. >> they couldn't make it up. >> you couldn't make it up, could you?

good afternoon britain. it is now 1228. now, number 10 has admitted to releasing 37 prisoners by mistake , several of prisoners by mistake, several of whom have still not been returned to jail. >> well , the error has been >> well, the error has been blamed on problems with the government's controversial early release scheme. the ministry of justice claimed to be working in tandem with the police to urgently find five inmates who are still yet to be returned, as labouris are still yet to be returned, as labour is reportedly drawing up plans to introduce a texas style prison system which would include a points based approach for good conduct. >> the government will also look to invest in rehabilitation projects in a bid to kerb overcrowding in prisons. >> so is this government in control of its law and order, or has it bungled it? let's go to our political correspondent , our political correspondent, olivia utley olivia. this was the one thing that was not supposed to happen. >> well, absolutely. and it was the one thing that was warned about again and again. and again, because not only was this early release scheme

controversial, it was also implemented very, very quickly. indeed. it was first mooted around the general election in july and prisoners were actually released from prison on the 10th of september. and there are lots of september. and there are lots of parole officers saying that they just simply weren't ready to get this all sorted. and that's exactly what happened. people have fallen through the cracks. these 37 prisoners were released under basically a technicality. they were released because it looked like they were eligible, because it looked as though the there they were, in a group which was on the list of people who could be let out, but actually they shouldn't have been. and of those 37, five are still on the loose. they're trying to be tracked down at the moment, and one has allegedly re—offended in touching a woman inappropriately. so this is a bit of a nightmare story for keir starmer, but he seems to be doubung keir starmer, but he seems to be doubling down. if anything, as you mentioned, there , he's you mentioned, there, he's looking at this texan style

scheme. now, when you think of texas and prisons, i think most people think of the death penalty. but actually texas has a pretty liberal scheme for prisoners who are in jail for less serious offences. and they can be let out much, much earlier than their sentence after 25% of their sentence. if they attend various courses in prison, follow a drug rehabilitation program, etc. so for good behaviour, but going down from the 40% that we're at now to 25% would obviously be hugely controversial. again absolutely. >> especially as it's so easy to send someone to prison in the united states. you have these sort of three strikes and you're out rules. so a lot of people for very minor offences end up in prison. perhaps it makes more sense in the united states to have an early release scheme, whereas for the uk it seems you have to do an awful lot to end up in prison. unless of course, you're on facebook or twitter. >> well, absolutely. i mean , >> well, absolutely. i mean, very, very different. legal system in the us. and as you say, people do go to prison much more easily, whereas here, it's

already the case that that judges try to avoid sending all but violent criminals to prison , but violent criminals to prison, and the justice secretary is already talking about closing down lots of women's prisons and keeping people out of prison for non—violent offences. so who exactly would the would the target group be for an even earlier release scheme? because the situation the government got itself into this time is that it tried not to release sort of violent criminals, domestic abusers, they were not on the eligible list . and yet somehow, eligible list. and yet somehow, probably because everything was rushed through so quickly , some rushed through so quickly, some of those domestic abusers seem to have slipped through the gaps. >> i mean, surely this is on shabana mahmood's head. the justice secretary. i mean, this is a pretty catastrophic failure. >> well, i mean, the labour government would argue and have argued that they were in a situation where they didn't have any choice but to rush this through really, really quickly. >> they promised that there would be absolutely no violent offenders let out on this

scheme. domestic abusers, stalkers, whatever else, grievous bodily harm we know that they have been and the rush, the way this was done so quickly, it has meant that people have have fallen through the gaps. >> i mean, as i say, the prime minister and the justice secretary would argue that that it's simply because they had to do something very, very quickly. and you can see where they're coming from. there was a point about six weeks ago where there were only about 150 places left in male prisons altogether across the country. and they would say, well, if we didn't release people early, then you would be in a situation where you couldn't send the most violent offenders to jail, so they had a really, really tough decision on their hands. but as you say, they did promise that this wasn't going to happen and it has happened. >> no wonder the champagne was being popped outside. hmp wandsworth, yes. anyway, celebratory mood. thank you very much. olivia utley. our political correspondent. >> it has. should they get away with it? it has all these hallmarks of the afghanistan withdrawal or just just sort of

these, these, these things that sort of everyone knew that was going to happen or clearly that they'd been planning for a while, but then just couldn't execute with any level of competence whatsoever. >> it's pretty shocking, though, isn't it? yeah. we've got lots more coming up on today's show. we're going to be talking about this non—dom status, cracking down on this, getting rid of those tax breaks for rich people, actually is not going to bnng people, actually is not going to bring us in any money. that's what treasury officials are now saying. does that , well, it sort saying. does that, well, it sort of destroys labour's reasoning, doesn't it? rather. >> yeah. strange one that after the . news. the. news. >> good afternoon. the top stories. the current managing director of harrods has apologised and said the business failed. our colleagues following sexual misconduct allegations about former owner mohamed al—fayed. michael ward said in a statement it's clear mr al—fayed presided over a toxic culture of

secrecy , intimidation, fear of secrecy, intimidation, fear of repercussion and sexual misconduct. mr ward, who worked for al fayed for four years, said he wasn't aware of his criminality and abuse and described it as a shameful penod described it as a shameful period in the business's history. five women claimed they were raped by mr al fayed, who died last year at the age of 94, with a number of others alleging sexual misconduct . israeli prime sexual misconduct. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has told the israeli military to keep fighting with full force in lebanon, according to his office. earlier, the idf said israel hit 75 hezbollah targets overnight in the becker region close to syria. netanyahu's statement comes after the uk, us and other allies called for a 21 day ceasefire between israel and the terror group hezbollah last night, a joint statement the 12 strong bloc called for a ceasefire to provide for space diplomacy towards the conclusion of a diplomatic settlement, as well as a ceasefire in gaza. they said the hostilities were

intolerable and presented an unacceptable risk of a broader regional escalation that was neither in the interest of the people of israel or lebanon. it comes after israel's military chief told troops yesterday that extensive airstrikes in lebanon targeting hezbollah could pave the way for them to enter enemy territory . now a man has territory. now a man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a 15 year old schoolboy, deshawn campbell was found with a stab injury in woolwich on sunday evening. he died at the scene. 18 year old jacob lozowick was not asked to enter any pleas during the heanng enter any pleas during the hearing today. the district judge remanded lawswitch into custody to next appear at the old bailey at the end of the month . an amber warning for month. an amber warning for heavy rain has been issued for them by the met office, warning of further flooding and travel disruption across large parts of the uk. the new alert covers the midlands and parts of the south west from 6:00 pm today until 6 am. tomorrow. the met office a.m. tomorrow. the met office warns nearly three inches of

rain could fall over several hours in the worst affected regions, with rivers continuing to rise after the rain clears. several yellow weather warnings are already currently in place for large parts of the country until 9:00 tomorrow morning, and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. i'll be back 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. >> slash

>> well welcome back. it is now 1239. you're watching and listening to good afternoon britain with me emily carver and tom harwood has returned in one piece from liverpool from the labour party conference. >> that's good here in person and slightly worse for wear, slightly worse for wear. >> he doesn't look it, slightly worse for wear. >> he doesn't look it,

slightly worse for wear. >> he doesn't look it , though. >> he doesn't look it, though. he looks well, doesn't he? he slightly worse for wear. >> he doesn't look it , though. >> he doesn't look it, though. he looks well, doesn't he? he looks well. not tired at all. looks well. not tired at all. but yes, lots of you have been but yes, lots of you have been getting in touch about keir getting in touch about keir starmer and the use of this starmer and the use of this penthouse , and the revelation penthouse , and the revelation penthouse, and the revelation that actually he was using it penthouse, and the revelation that actually he was using it dunng dunng that actually he was using it during the pandemic and that actually he was using it during the pandemic and delivering national addresses , delivering national addresses , delivering national addresses, addresses to the nation for delivering national addresses, addresses to the nation for people to stay at home. when he people to stay at home. when he was actually in someone else's was actually in someone else's home, which is very interesting, home, which is very interesting, isn't it? june says. what isn't it? june says. what hypocrites? starmer and rayner hypocrites? starmer and rayner are they hounded boris over a are they hounded boris over a birthday cake and wallpaper , birthday cake and wallpaper , birthday cake and wallpaper, asking him to resign. she asks birthday cake and wallpaper, asking him to resign. she asks how much power does lord alli how much power does lord alli have? this is not a good have? this is not a good relationship. he seems to be relationship. he seems to be buying them. i think that is buying them. i think that is fair enough to ask. i mean, we fair enough to ask. i mean, we found out that so many cabinet found out that so many cabinet ministers, so many labour mps as ministers, so many labour mps as well, have been accepting donations in one way or another. well, have been accepting donations in one way or another. we find out that another labour we find out that another labour mp, siobhan mcdonagh, received mp, siobhan mcdonagh, received £1.2 million loan to buy a home £1.2 million loan to buy a home for her terminally ill sister. for her terminally ill sister. so which may be a nice thing, so which may be a nice thing, but it does beg the question but it does beg the question just how much money is he just how much money is he dishing out? >> well , dishing out? >> well , dishing out? >> well, brian has a suggestion dishing out? >> well, brian has a suggestion

or perhaps a prediction, he or perhaps a prediction, he says. i'm starting to feel a little sorry for lord alli. can you imagine him walking around next year's labour party conference with his newspaper bag full of cash, shouting anyone want a donation? and all the labour party politicians running away out of fear that they'd end up on the news. except he then contradicts himself to say sorry, i was just daydreaming. of course they'd take the money. >> well, it does seem that way. how is this one man? this one man, manning managing to , you man, manning managing to, you know, fund luxury lifestyle for, for so many politicians? >> it's strange. i suppose. i suppose the traditional, champagne socialists sort of traditional scandal that labour politicians get into is money scandals . and the traditional scandals. and the traditional scandals. and the traditional scandals the tories generally get into is sex scandals. but that's that's the stereotype. i wonder if, if it's all just playing out, if you can't afford it, don't have it. >> i mean , simple as that. no. >> i mean, simple as that. no. >> i mean, simple as that. no. >> although politicians do need,

do need donations. i mean, they need donations in order to campaign parties need donations in to order hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. >> i'm not talking about political donations right to a campaign. i'm talking about the clothes, the apartments, the taylor swift tickets , the taylor swift tickets, the football matches, the use of this £18 million penthouse, which certainly was not a one off to protect his son from potential reporters outside the house. i mean, it does not stack up. >> you know, singapore had a solution to this. go on, >> which pay them more? >> which pay them more? >> yeah , they pay them millions >> yeah, they pay them millions and they have the lowest corruption index of just about any country in the world. but of course, that is a bit of a devil's bargain. >> well, in other news, treasury officials appear to have poured cold water on the government's plans to fund britain's ailing pubuc plans to fund britain's ailing public services through a tax crackdown on non—doms. they've expressed fears that it will actually yield no extra money. who would have thought it? >> well, sir keir starmer had hoped the policy would raise up to £26 billion over the course

of this parliament, but it's now thought it will actually end up costing the treasury money, as individuals will likely leave the country. >> now i remember people warning about this. we can now discuss this with the director of popular conservatives, mark littlewood. mark,

popular conservatives, mark littlewo and mark, if i'm not mistaken , >> and mark, if i'm not mistaken , >> and mark, if i'm not mistaken, non—doms still pay tax on money >> and mark, if i'm not mistaken, non—doms still pay tax on money they earn in the uk. it's just they earn in the uk. it's just money they earn overseas that money they earn overseas that isn't taxed due to this isn't taxed due to this arrangement, which makes it arrangement, which makes it sound sort of less unfair than sound sort of less unfair than at first. the sort of popular at first. the sort of popular understanding of it is because i understanding of it is because i reckon if you ask the average reckon if you ask the average brit, what's a non—dom? they'd brit, what's a non—dom? they'd say, oh, it's someone who lives say, oh, it's someone who lives here, but doesn't have to pay here, but doesn't have to pay any tax at all. which which just any tax at all. which which just isn't the case. isn't the case. >> no, that's right, it isn't >> no, that's right, it isn't the case. so let's just take an the case. so let's just take an example. supposing taylor swift example. supposing taylor swift wished to relocate to the united wished to relocate to the united kingdom but didn't wish to kingdom but didn't wish to

become a british citizen, then become a british citizen, then money that money that she earned in the uk, she would be taxed on just as we are all taxed on our income. but as she was doing pop concerts in madrid or new york or singapore, well, that wouldn't be within the remit of the british tax man. now, i don't know taylor swift. i don't know if she is thinking of moving to the uk, but imagine like a london boy, i hear you know, she might be deterred if she knew all of her international revenues would be taxed here, and it would be good for the british economy if people as rich as that did relocate here. >> i mean, mark, is it the same as some of these other policies, ideological policies? in my view, the vat on private school fees. okay. yes. that got a thunderous applause at the labour party conference. of course it did . but actually, course it did. but actually, will it save the treasury any money in the long run? i mean, all of that money that they say they're going to get is going to be, you know , squeezed by having be, you know, squeezed by having to have more children in the state sector. >> you're exactly right, emily. i mean, the truth of the matter is nobody knows you can forecast

how likely you think it is that parents who have their kids in private schools will pull those parents will pull those children out of private schools and send them to the state sector. if they do, that's a cost on the state. you won't be raising any vat from them paying

state. you won't be raising any vat from themliberalises the perhaps if she liberalises the planning laws that might help economic growth , and if we get economic growth, and if we get economic growth, and if we get economic growth, and if we get economic growth, that might help tax receipts. but as far as tax is concerned, we are about the maximum that any government can reasonably squeeze out of the private sector. and efforts to squeeze more, i think, are more likely, on balance, to be deleterious to the public finances than to swell the pubuc finances than to swell the public coffers and help our pubuc public coffers and help our public services. >> well, mark littlewood, thanks so much for talking us through that and clarifying what the non—dom rules actually are, which i think gets missed. so often in this debate. mark littlewood there of popcorn. >> yeah , people just here rich >> yeah, people just here rich person tax good. there's a little bit more complicated than that. anyway, we've got lots more coming up on today's show. apparently the welsh are getting more and more nationalist. they don't just want fewer english people over there, but also fewer tourists altogether. at least in one area.

next. welcome back. it's 1251 next. welcome back. it's1251 now. welcome back. it's 1251 now. welsh locals are becoming increasingly sick of so—called disorderly english tourists invading their towns and villages. >> goodness me, those living in the magaluf of wales. yes, that's what it's called. the snowdonian village of klan berets are also french. that that did sound french. shall i do it in welsh instead? no, i won't , i'll try not to. they're won't, i'll try not to. they're also complaining. they've been pnced also complaining. they've been priced out of their homes, but they're now reportedly fighting back with english hikers recently saying they were snubbedin recently saying they were snubbed in pubs and abused on the streets. >> well, joining us now is former member of the senate caroline jones. caroline, this is quite extraordinary. i didn't realise there was this sort of battle going on in welsh villages that english tourists were acting disorderly, perhaps getting too drunk and the welsh are now fighting back . are now fighting back. >> yes, >> yes, >> i'd like to say that it is just a small element of welsh people that have this attitude

as a person born and bred in wales, i welcome people into our community. i'm so pleased that people want to see our beautiful country and because tourism is extremely important to wales, it actually employs 12% of the welsh workforce, in wales, you know, and it generates growth, £58 know, and it generates growth, £3.8 billion in 2022. you know, those were the statistics. so i'm pleased that people want to come and see our beautiful country. it's for sharing . so country. it's for sharing. so this has, shocked me that people are making people from england feel unwelcome. we want i speaking from a personal point of view. i want people here, but there are a small element of people who think that it's diluting the language and diluting the language and diluting our culture. for people to come here and this was

apparent when i was a senate member . and because plaid cymru member. and because plaid cymru were upping the rhetoric all the time, if you look back , you time, if you look back, you know, quite often they bring in that they wanted to raise the tax taxes on, properties. you know, for, on the and, for and tourism tax and 5%. so this was, you know, a deterrent for people coming here, particularly from england, when perhaps you can't afford to go abroad to nip over the border. is, is , you know, the border. is, is, you know, puts you in a wonderful place, a different place, but not too far away, not too expensive to bring your children and the fresh air in the north wales area. it's absolutely outstanding and beautiful, but i, i am concerned and i was concerned in the senate and i did voice my concerns when speaking, about this and protecting our tourist

industry. yeah. >> caroline . really, really >> caroline. really, really important to note because of course, so many areas of wales are some of the poorest parts of the uk trying to block economic activity is so detrimental. caroline jones that's all we have time for. but thank you so much for joining have time for. but thank you so much forjoining us. former member of the senate. >> english tourists aren't wanted anywhere, are they? tenerife, magaluf , marbella. now tenerife, magaluf, marbella. now wales. we're just persona non grata. anyway, we're going to take a quick look at the weather. we'll be back in a second with a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news >> hi there and welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news yet more wet weather on the way today and overnight as well. with the risk of flooding in places , there of flooding in places, there will be some brighter interludes out there, mostly towards the far south of the uk and the far north. in between this frontal system causing persistent wet

weather and strong winds. the strongest, the winds expected across parts of northern england into north wales. 50 60 mile per hour wind gusts and that wind driving spells of heavy and persistent rain , especially into persistent rain, especially into the pennines, north york moors, parts of northern ireland. risk of disruption in places. by the end of the day. to the south of that it will be a mild afternoon with some bright spells, but also a lot of showers arriving into southern england, parts of wales as well. those showers merge into longer spells of rain through the evening to cause some very wet weather through mid wales into the midlands , mid wales into the midlands, parts of east anglia. those areas that were badly affected at the weekend could see yet more rain. rain by this stage easing off across northern ireland and northern england but continuing in some places. scotland seeing a brighter day with some sunny spells, but also a few showers coming in on a northerly wind for northern scotland and it will feel cold in that northerly now into the evening. the rain really intensifies through parts of wales and the midlands, and that's why there is a

significant risk of flooding in those areas, and it continues for much of the night. it eventually sinks south with the wind strengthening across parts of wales and into cornwall by the end of the night, 60 70 mile per hour wind gusts and then by the end of the night, that rain eventually is pulling away from the south, with the heaviest downpours clearing to the southeast by mid—morning. brighter skies follow from the north, and it's a much improved picture by the afternoon for many parts of the uk. having said that, we will have a cold wind arriving from the north across all parts of the uk and will be further showers. 1 or 2 places that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers. >> sponsors of weather on gb

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september. i'm emily carver and i'm tom harwood wearing masks and working from home. >> if we can really will help prevent infection . prevent infection. >> starmers fake covid home. not only did the prime minister use lord alli £18 million penthouse throughout the election period, it turns out he was using it for party broadcasts through the last parliament, including for in an address to the nation telling us all to work from our homes . homes. >> and non—dom gone from london and other cities. yes. keir starmer's grand plan to tax non—doms will bring in no money at all. that's the fear of treasury officials. if true schools and hospitals will miss out on £1 billion worth of funding . funding. >> no more cease—fire. benjamin netanyahu has denied reports he is close to agreeing a 21 day ceasefire with hezbollah , as he ceasefire with hezbollah, as he announced, and insists that fighting will continue against hamas and hezbollah until israel's war goals are achieved

and the government's bungled its prison release scheme. >> five prisoners are still on the loose after almost 40 people were let out of prison by mistake. under labour's controversial early release scheme, the ministry of justice has now admitted . has now admitted. >> scandal, sleaze . donations. >> scandal, sleaze. donations. incompetence. wasn't this all supposed to be turned? the corner with the general election? wasn't it supposed to be that the old government was the one that was full of sleaze and incompetently managed programs, and, well, tax rises that didn't particularly deliver anything? it seems that we've got just more of the same, if you're a cynic. >> yeah. i mean , this is what >> yeah. i mean, this is what happens when you adopt a holier than thou very pious attitude towards the government and don't have a clean record book yourself. i mean, what have we

learned? we learned that keir starmer took the most donations out of any politician, out of any mp since 2019. it was 107,000 for things like spectacles, for wardrobe, for his wife. >> although emily, i was starting to think if he was really staying in this penthouse for all of these times that hadnt for all of these times that hadn't previously been declared , hadn't previously been declared, that's going to be a lot more than the 107,000 that was declared. >> yeah. i mean, to rent an £18 million penthouse in central london even for a week is going to cost you thousands. yeah >> and if he was there for, well, lots of the different addresses that he gave but didn't note that didn't declare that then. have we seriously undercounted the amount that he should have declared during the last parliament? >> i mean, talk about having your hand out, particularly when you're. well, punishing pensioners in a way, by removing

their winter fuel payments, removing their welfare. but you're happy to take donations from some labour peer who happens to be your mate. i mean, it's all just very grubby. it's all just very grubby. and i don't think the government have responded particularly well to, you know, it reminds me of the early covid sort of denials just saying, oh, don't worry about it. >> there's nothing to see here. rather than just saying sorry. >> well, there absolutely is something to see here. and we're going to be talking about it more throughout the hour. but let's get to the news headlines. >> emily, thank you and good afternoon. the top stories, the current managing director of harrods has apologised and said the business failed. our colleagues following sexual misconduct allegations about former boss mohamed al—fayed. michael ward said in a statement today it's clear mr al fayed presided over a toxic culture of secrecy , intimidation, fear of secrecy, intimidation, fear of repercussion and sexual misconduct. mr ward, who worked for al—fayed for four years, said he wasn't aware of his

criminality and abuse and described it as a shameful penod described it as a shameful period in the business's history. five women claim they were raped by al fayed, who died last year at the age of 94, with a number of others alleging sexual misconduct . in other sexual misconduct. in other news, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has told the israeli military to keep fighting with full force in lebanon. earlier, the idf said israel had hit 75 hezbollah targets overnight. netanyahu's statement comes after the uk, the us and other allies called for a 21 day ceasefire between israel and the terror group hezbollah. last night, in a joint statement, the 12 strong bloc called for a ceasefire to provide space for diplomacy towards the conclusion of a diplomatic settlement, as well as a ceasefire in gaza. they said the hostilities were intolerable and presented an unacceptable risk of a broader regional escalation that was neither in the interest of the people of israel or lebanon. it comes after israel's military

chief told troops yesterday that extensive airstrikes in lebanon targeting hezbollah could pave the way for them to enter enemy territory. former chair of the defence select committee, tobias ellwood, believes a ceasefire is imminent. >> i think it will happen in the next 48, 72 hours. it takes some time. this is a very complex operation to get the scale of troop numbers that are required. although i'm sure the idf, the israeli defence forces, would have been preparing for this for some time . some time. >> the family of a teenager who was murdered in wolverhampton say they are devastated, totally heartbroken and confused . 212 heartbroken and confused. 212 year old boys found guilty of murdering shawn seesahai in a random machete attack are set to be sentenced. the killers were convicted in june of murdering the 19 year old, who was stabbed in the heart and suffered a skull fracture in november last yeah skull fracture in november last year. they're believed to be the youngest defendants convicted of murder in britain since robert thompson and jon venables, both aged 11, who were found guilty

in 1993. of killing two year old james bulger. the boys , both now james bulger. the boys, both now 13, face a mandatory juvenile life sentence and are appearing in custody at nottingham crown court today for the start of a two day hearing. the sentence is due to be passed tomorrow . a man due to be passed tomorrow. a man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a 15 year old schoolboy. deshaun campbell was found with a stab injury in woolwich on sunday evening. he died at the scene. 18 year old jacob, which was not asked to enter any pleas during the heanng enter any pleas during the hearing today. the district judge remanded into custody to next appear at the old bailey on the 30th of september. a family centre based in southport in a southport building where three children died in a knife attack, will not return to the premises. hean will not return to the premises. heart space, which ran groups for new mothers and families, had been based at the norwood business centre in the town's hean business centre in the town's heart street. founder jennie scholes said staff would never forget the events of july 29th,

and were heartbroken by what had happened. children had been taking part in a taylor swift themed dance class at the venue when a knife attacker killed six year old bebe king, seven year old elsie dot stancombe and nine year old alice da silva aguiar. the building is understood to have remained closed ever since, but british, us and australian defence ministers are meeting in london today to discuss plans to build a fleet of nuclear powered submarines. john healey is hosting richard marles, who's also anthony albanese's, deputy prime minister and us defence secretary. lloyd austin at the security partnership meeting. if australia and the uk sign a treaty, the westminster government's estimated the ssn aukus submarine build project would unlock uk exports into the billions of pounds , the ministry billions of pounds, the ministry of defence says it will support uk jobs for more than 21,000 people, and the government also confirmed the new treaty will outline the uk's relationship

with australia on submarine co—operation . and an amber co—operation. and an amber warning for heavy rain has been issued by the met office, warning of further flooding and travel disruption across large parts of the uk. this new alert covers the midlands and parts of the south west from 6:00 this evening until 6 am. tomorrow. the met office warns nearly three inches of rain could fall over several hours in the worst affected regions, with rivers continuing to rise after the rain clears. several yellow weather warnings are already currently in place for large parts of the country until 9:00 tomorrow morning, and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts .

slash alerts. >> good afternoon britain. it is 1:09 now. sir keir starmer is expected to promise that the uk is returning to responsible global leadership when he addresses the un assembly in new york later today. >> yes, this comes against a bit of a bleak backdrop as ever, heightening tensions in the middle east and, of course, the ongoing war in ukraine. >> however, the prime minister's use of lord alli £18 million covent garden penthouse to film a covid era message calling on people to work from home, it threatens to overshadow his appearance on the world stage this evening, as it raises questions as to whether he himself was adhering to the covid rules. >> well, shall we take a little look at that now infamous clip? >> the new variant, omicron, is spreading fast and the argument that we don't know enough about it doesn't stack up. we may not be certain how dangerous it is, but we do know that lives are at

risk at times like this. but we do know that lives are at risk at times like this . we must risk at times like this. we must all put the national interest first and play by the rules. getting jabbed, wearing masks and working from home. if we can really will help prevent infections . infections. >> well, let's go to new york now and speak to gb news political editor christopher hope. firstly, of course, on what's going on in new york. what is it? 8 am. for you, the prime minister speaking this evening. our time. what will he be talking about ? be talking about? >> that's right. well, he'll be setting out his plans , i think setting out his plans, i think almost certainly about ukraine. obviously, the issues in lebanon, the evacuation of britons there , the fighting britons there, the fighting between hezbollah fighters and lebanese troops. that is the big concern. but the chatter here is what will he do today? he may have a brush by meeting. they call it a brush by, not a formal meeting, but a meeting with

donald trump, the us presidential candidate. he's in new york right now. the problem he's got, if that happens for sir keir starmer is leading in washington is kamala harris. so it might be awkward just to meet trump and not meet harris. and i think the pair haven't met ever. so it's quite a delicate position here for sir keir starmer. but as things stand, number 10 won't comment on a reported meeting between keir starmer and donald trump later today. yeah, we'll be hearing from sir keir starmer tonight around 1015. our time in the uk. and he's speaking to world leaders all day. big question about the uk support for ukraine. zelenskyy is due in the white house today with joe biden trying to get this victory plan agreed. will the uk and us allow ukraine to use these long—range storm shadow missiles to target russia in russia? that, of course, lifts the whole the whole tone of the war and will really antagonise russia, even more. and also, there's this issue with evacuating britons

from from lebanon. that's what he's keen to talk about. he's got a business breakfast this morning. we'll be there for gb news. he's trying to encourage investment. big names there. blackstone, macquarie, a big corporates there. and that comes ahead of quite a big investment conference. the government is hosting in coming weeks. aside from all that we're seeing interesting chats on the side of this very big week in diplomacy in new york, not least keir starmer meeting ursula von der leyen, the european commission president. that's ahead of a meeting next week on the agenda you might expect could be freedom of movement for the under 30s, which is an issue i think the eu are keen to push. but whether we want to reopen elements in such a big way of the deal we have with the european union is questionable, we have heard so far from both. number 10 say it's about the eu, uk reset when they met yesterday and we heard from sir keir starmer , he said i want to reset starmer, he said i want to reset our relationship with the eu and

make brexit work for the british people. so that's the diplomacy. but as you, as you've been saying on your on the programme all afternoon , one big issue for all afternoon, one big issue for this government, for the prime minister is the acceptance of freebies. i interviewed the pm last night here in new york, and i asked him about an idea that's come from his own backbenchers. should he give them all back? here's what he had to say. should he give them all back? here's what he had to say . a here's what he had to say. a labour mp for south shields, emma lewell—buck , gives her emma lewell—buck, gives her freebies to charity. he gives them away. why won't you give things you've had for free? back to charity or to or to a good cause? >> well, all that happened is i wanted somewhere safe and quiet for my son to do his gcse preparation. i needed it to be secure because of the situation we were in. no exchange of money. there's nothing to give away . away. >> they have sir keir starmer not answering my question. would he ? would he hand back the he? would he hand back the spectacles, the clothes he's been given for free? instead, he seems like he's going to try and style this one out and keep accepting freebies when they come across , when they, when

come across, when they, when they come, if they have to come up or he , he said he won't up or he, he said he won't accept freebies, but in terms of he'll go to things if he has to meet with companies who want to invest. so he does see a value invest. so he does see a value in doing that kind of thing and they'll keep declaring it. but they'll keep declaring it. but the issue you're raising now about this lord alli ali's flat, he obviously was using that for much of the past few years, but then broadcasting that stay at home message from that flat with some christmas cards behind him and a union flag. it does look strange. now we know it's not his, not his house. now we're told by number 10 that he's quite keen not to film in his own property. it's a privacy issue, perhaps, but it's another further question about the influence of lord alli over this government. >> yes, of course. >> and then when you add that to the fact that they spent quite a bit of the summer at lord ali's penthouse, because in the keir starmer's words, for his son to be able to rise peacefully for his gcses, something doesn't quite add up . his gcses, something doesn't quite add up. but his gcses, something doesn't quite add up . but christopher, quite add up. but christopher,

we'll leave it there. thank you very much indeed, christopher. hope our political editor there in new york for us, where keir starmer is to. >> yeah, really interesting to see sort of how the prime minister is responding to these scandals, trying to talk about the day job, but hallmarks of the day job, but hallmarks of the last government. should we talk more now with the political editor at huffpost uk, kevin schofield ? kevin, this is just schofield? kevin, this is just going on and on, and i wonder if we're going to get a drip, drip, drip of these donation stories . drip of these donation stories. it sort of reminds me a bit of the drip , it sort of reminds me a bit of the drip, drip, drip of covid party stories we saw with boris johnson . johnson. >> yeah, i think we're not at that level yet. but you're right. i mean, labour would have hoped to have drawn a line under this at least, maybe during the party conference season. they might have thought that was a reset moment, and that was an opportunity to move on to other things, to get back on the front foot. that was certainly how it was put to me by a senior figure in the government. ahead of the conference last week, but that certainly hasn't happened yet,

right? i mean , just these right? i mean, just these stories just keep coming and i really you've got to take your hat off to guido fox. i think it was who first spotted, the video that was filmed during covid encouraging people to work from home wasn't actually filmed in, sir keir's own house, even though it was made to look like it was his house. and it just, you know, it fails to pass the smell test, really. you know , smell test, really. you know, people, ordinary people looking at it, people who, well, remember lockdown and having to work from home and, you know , work from home and, you know, only being able to leave the house for an hour's exercise each day, i think it will probably stick in their throat a little bit. so you're coming on top of all the other negative headunes top of all the other negative headlines that the prime minister has had lately. it's probably the last thing that he really, was wanting to happen. as i say, as he tries to get back on the front foot and he's just not addressing it head on, is he? >> is he he's not admitting that this stuff looks strange . the this stuff looks strange. the opfics this stuff looks strange. the optics are bad. it looks like he's in politics for himself

accepting all of these donations far and beyond other politicians. i mean, he is well ahead of the pack. there's £107,000 in donations now we hear of all this. use of this penthouse. he said it was for his son so that he could revise peacefully for exams. turns out , peacefully for exams. turns out, actually, that keir starmer has been using this penthouse quite a bit, including pretending to the public, to the nation that it's his own home. it's very odd. apparently the latest excuse for not declaring the use of the penthouse for these videos is that he didn't stay overnight at the property and merely used the premises for a few hours, so it wasn't declared because it didn't meet the minimum £300 threshold. i mean, will that wash? seriously >> you know, the story keeps changing all the time, and i think that's what makes it very awkward for the government. it makes the prime minister look a little bit shifty , like he can't little bit shifty, like he can't stick to an agreed line,

primarily because there's these different stories coming out all the time now. someone a labour insider, texted me after his comments yesterday on the gcse studying for his son, saying every time he opens his mouth he just makes it worse , and i don't just makes it worse, and i don't know, there's a suggestion, you know, there's a suggestion, you know, that maybe he's not listening to the advice that he's receiving from those around him. i think because he thinks it is a family matter. therefore he wants to mould the message himself. but i think maybe someone needs to needs to have a word and say, look, this is not going away. we need to have a serious discussion about how we deal with this and try, as i said before, to get back on the front foot because, yeah, it's just overshadowing everything right now. it largely overshadowed, the labour party conference. and now his first big trip to to the the un general assembly in new york. and he's still having to field these questions rather than talk about the stuff that he wants to

talk about. so yeah, it is very difficult . and it's causing difficult. and it's causing a lot of frustration, not just in number 10, i think, but amongst labour mps as well who are just, you know, shaking their heads and wishing that the government could actually move on from this, this non—stop drip, drip feed of bad headlines. >> yeah. it's particularly difficult because the line up until today, really from the labour party had been look , labour party had been look, everything was within the rules. everything was declared in the proper way. we've made all of these declarations. there's nothing to see here. and yet it looks like this could have almost been a secret second home for keir starmer. in and out of it all the time, using it, dressing it up as his family home, using it for many different addresses. i'm sure we'll see more stories than just the two. the queen's death and the two. the queen's death and the covid, address to the nation as well . i'm the covid, address to the nation as well. i'm sure we will the covid, address to the nation as well . i'm sure we will see as well. i'm sure we will see more coming out over the over the next few days, what matters here? i suppose, is that he can't say this was all declared

because it wasn't . because it wasn't. >> well, there's no doubt that journalists will be, combing through all the videos that keir starmer found around that period when he was in opposition to establish whether or not or where these were filmed and whether or not they were filmed at lord ali's , apartment, and at lord ali's, apartment, and then cross—checking to see whether it was then declared in the usual way. now, thus far, there has been no evidence or no suggestion really, of any rules being broken. but on a political level, you know, it just looks bad . people just think it looks bad. people just think it looks a little bit strange. >> and kevin also forjust our >> and kevin also for just our democracy, i mean, the fact that so many cabinet ministers, including the prime minister, appear to be indebted to this one man. it's so strange. they may say, oh, he hasn't asked for anything in return. but as you say, it doesn't pass the sniff test and many people will be wondering why on earth has this

man chosen to be quite so generous to these ministers? >> well, yeah. i mean, although he has already appeared, so it's kind of difficult to see what else he could he could get from the government. it reminds me a little bit of, lord bamford when he used to shower boris johnson with quite a lot of largesse as well, in terms of accommodation, wedding facilities, all that type of thing , and again, that type of thing, and again, that was a oh, come on, he's not just he's not going to be doing it just out of the kindness of his heart. >> and of course, there are things that keir starmer could offer him. of course there are, you know, preferences when it comes to policy. >> for example, downing street pass, for example, the downing street pass, for example. >> of course, there are more things. >> well, yeah, i mean, the pass issue, you know , it's issue, you know, it's interesting that you raised that. that was a very strange one. and again, that was another one. and again, that was another one that really, that the number 10 operation didn't really answer properly as to why he had this pass straight after the election, why he had it for a relatively short period of time. you know, those security passes, as you can imagine, they're not

just given out or they shouldn't be just given out willy nilly because you know, it is the seat of power, and it should only be given to people who need to be in there on a regular basis so that has never been properly answered either. and yeah , that answered either. and yeah, that is now we've been talking about this for at least a month, and it is remarkable that, number 10 haven't been able to, to shut it down. and as you said, you know, there's no doubt i'm sure there'll be more revelations to come. and it's the worst thing that in number 10 need to have. right right now. >> well, kevin schofield of the huffington post uk really appreciate it. your time this afternoon on good afternoon britain. thanks for joining afternoon on good afternoon britain. thanks forjoining us. >> just accepting so much from one individual. very odd, very odd . anyway, we've got lots more odd. anyway, we've got lots more coming up on today's show. we are going to be bringing you the latest from israel and lebanon. chances of a ceasefire are very much diminished. netanyahu saying absolutely not. we're going to continue fighting until we reach our war goals

next. >> good afternoon britain. it is 1:26 now. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is telling his military to keep fighting with full force as he refuses to respond to these calls for a ceasefire. >> yes. earlier, it was believed that a 21 day ceasefire would be implemented between israel and hezbollah following joint calls from the united states. the uk and other allied nations . and other allied nations. >> but now that's all been thrown into doubt with the israel defence forces also insisting they will continue to fight in gaza until their goals of the war are achieved. >> okay. well, joining us now is former head of the british army , former head of the british army, lord richard dannatt. thank you very much indeed forjoining us on the show, earlier, as we said , on the show, earlier, as we said, we were told, or at least it was reported by some that we could

see this three week ceasefire. now we hear from benjamin netanyahu and the idf that that is absolutely off the cards. >> well, you're right. i mean, it did look overnight and this morning, as if diplomacy was going to have a chance, the un security council yesterday issued a very clear statement calling for this 21 day ceasefire. and of course, that's within the wider context and background of the fact that the annual background of the fact that the annual, sitting of the un general assembly is taking place . general assembly is taking place. indeed, my understanding is that netanyahu himself is due to address the general assembly within the next hour. but as you quite rightly comment, the optimism of breakfast time this morning here in the uk has rather disappeared by lunchtime, with the reports of netanyahu backed up by his foreign minister, that the idf should keep fighting. so that does appear to put the kibosh, as it were, on the prospects of ceasefire. >> and that's all very interesting, because clearly these reports were based upon

something that this ceasefire had been tentatively agreed to or was close to being agreed to. might this speak to the politics within israel that perhaps netanyahu himself was leaning towards it, but he's got his to cabinet contend with, which includes some, to put it mildly, pretty hard line voices . pretty hard line voices. >> tom, you could be right, but i think there are two. well, there are many forces at play here, one is i think the wider context of what the idf, the israeli defence force, had been planning for southern lebanon to strike from northern israel. and that goes back to the exploding pages and the exploding walkie talkies, and the missile strikes, the aircraft strikes of recent time. and it may well be that they were planning a significant ground incursion , significant ground incursion, supported by airstrikes and the exploding pages and walkie talkies were all part of discombobulating the hezbollah command. and control system so

that they could strike effectively into into southern lebanon . so and i think lebanon. so and i think certainly the right wing in israel would very much like that. but of course, it sits in counterpoint to effectively the two failed missions, when the israelis occupied southern lebanon for some 20 years until about 2000, until 2020, and then also the other incursion that they made in there. so the history of israel going into clear out hezbollah from southern lebanon is not good. and i think the other major sort of consideration was that with the un security council meeting last night with world leaders gathering to address the general assembly, i think there was a hope that there could be a diplomatic push which might just persuade netanyahu and the israelis that a diplomatic solution was better. and i think those two, contrasting influences have been playing out. one, a concerted attack, and the second, a concerted

diplomatic effort. and it would look as if the right wing in israel is prevailing at the present moment and is pressing towards a greater military activity. >> and what's hezbollah's strategy here? >> well, hezbollah and hamas, i mean, they are sworn and sworn strategic objectives are the elimination of the state of israel. and, of course, from the israelis point of view, that's pretty stark, before this conflict began on the 7th of october last year, hezbollah was assessed very reasonably , not assessed very reasonably, not doing reasonably as in legitimately, but accurately, to have between 130 and 150,000 missiles capable of striking the length and breadth of israel. well, that was a huge threat to israel. and certainly discussions i've had with senior israelis on this issue. they made it quite clear that if hezbollah ever was to attack in that way, that their response into lebanon would be immense, and they would probably also strike at targets in iran, beanng strike at targets in iran, bearing in mind that iran is the

backer of both hezbollah and hamas . and i think this is hamas. and i think this is interesting because at the end of the day, it is iran that is the paymaster and the principal backers of hamas in gaza and hezbollah in lebanon. but iran itself is in something of a state of flux. a new president recently, a government that's not entirely popular. and i think iran does not want a major scrap with the west at the present moment. so iran may be constraining both hamas and hezbollah not to push it too hard. so again, with that understanding, this may well be why netanyahu thinks he'll listen to his right wing and he'll push to try and get what he'll push to try and get what he wants. >> and yet , as he wants. >> and yet, as history he wants. >> and yet , as history tells he wants. >> and yet, as history tells us, a war on two fronts is never easily won. lord richard dannatt, we're going to have to leave it there. but thank you so much for talking us through a concerning situation in the middle east. former head of the british army, of course. >> absolutely. well, this is good afternoon, britain on gb news. we've got lots more coming up on today's show. please do keep your views coming in on

keir starmer in this latest revelation that he was using the penthouse back during the covid era to tell us all to work from home. except he wasn't actually at home, was he ? at home, was he? >> no. very, very curious. and of course, this was a government that came into office promising to end the era of sleaze, promising to move beyond what we saw before and turn the page. it doesn't feel like necessarily that page has been turned. you've had unions decrying the labour party over their conference in the last five days, saying they're marking for austerity 2.0 and for the press . austerity 2.0 and for the press. well, it's been story after story of donation gate. >> and to make things even worse, their crackdown on non—doms seems to be falling apart at the seams from treasury officials themselves saying that actually that crackdown on those rich non—doms isn't actually going to bring in any money could even cost the economy. >> it all makes for a pretty troubling set of circumstances

for the budget. next month, we'll be looking into all of that after your headlines . that after your headlines. >> tom. emily, thank you very much. and good afternoon. the top stories, the current managing director of harrods has apologised and said the business failed our colleagues following sexual misconduct allegations about former boss mohamed al—fayed , michael ward said in al—fayed, michael ward said in a statement today. it's clear mr al—fayed presided over a toxic culture of secrecy, intimidation, fear of repercussion and sexual misconduct. mr ward, who worked for al—fayed for four years, said he was not aware of his criminality and abuse and described it as a shameful penod described it as a shameful period in the business's history. five women claim they were raped by mr al fayed , who were raped by mr al fayed, who died last year at the age of 94. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has told the israeli military to keep fighting with

full force in lebanon, according to his office. earlier, the idf said israel had hit 75 hezbollah targets overnight . netanyahu's targets overnight. netanyahu's statement comes after the uk, the us and other allies called for a 21 day ceasefire between israel and the terror group hezbollah last night in a joint statement, the 12 strong bloc called for a ceasefire to provide space for diplomacy towards the conclusion of a diplomatic settlement, as well as a ceasefire in gaza. they said the hostilities were intolerable and presented an unacceptable risk of a broader regional escalation that was neither in the interest of the people of israel or lebanon. it comes after israel's military chief told troops yesterday that extensive airstrikes in lebanon targeting hezbollah could pave the way for them to enter enemy territory. former chair of the defence select committee tobias ellwood, believes a ceasefire is imminent. >> i think it will happen in the next 48, 72 hours. it takes some time. this is a very complex

operation to get the scale of troop numbers that are required . troop numbers that are required. although i'm sure the idf, the israeli defence forces would have been preparing for this for some time , and the family of some time, and the family of a teenager who was murdered in wolverhampton say they are devastated, totally heartbroken and confused. >> 212 year old boys found guilty of murdering shawn seesahai in a random machete attack are set to be sentenced. the killers were convicted in june of murdering the 19 year old, who was stabbed in the heart and suffered a skull fracture in november last year. they're believed to be the youngest defendants convicted of murder in britain since robert thompson and jon venables, both aged 11, were found guilty in 1993 of killing two two year old james bulger. the boys, both now 13, face a mandatory juvenile life sentence and are appearing in custody at nottingham crown court today for the start of a two day hearing. the sentence is due to be passed tomorrow and those are the latest gb news

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>> well, welcome back to good afternoon britain with me, emily and tom harwood. now, number 10 has admitted to releasing 37 prisoners by mistake , several of prisoners by mistake, several of whom have still not been returned to jail. >> well, the error has been blamed on problems with the government's controversial early release scheme. the ministry of justice claimed to be working in tandem with the police to urgently find five of these inmates, who are still yet to be returned. >> oh, lovely. well, that, says labouris >> oh, lovely. well, that, says labour is reportedly drawing up plans to introduce a texas style prison system that's with a

points based approach for good conduct. so if you behave yourself or you take part in various courses in prison , you various courses in prison, you might be let out early. now, the government will also look to invest in rehab projects in a bid to kerb overcrowding. >> so is the government really in control of law and order? delighted to be joined now by the former conservative mp and justice select committee member, sir bob neill. thanks for joining us, bob. this is a well, it's a mess, isn't it? >> yeah, it's very embarrassing, tom, for the government. >> and it's clearly an error which should not have happened, it's worth giving just a little bit of context that, i can understand the need to think about early release, because for about early release, because for a raft of reasons, largely because no party of any complexion has really invested enoughin complexion has really invested enough in the justice system for decades. we were literally running out of prison spaces. and now, when i was chairman of the justice committee in the

last two parliaments, towards the end, alex chalk, the then justice secretary, had drawn up an early release scheme which i supported, which had a proper safeguards in it. but it's clear that when labour did this, those that when labour did this, those that important safeguard was missed. and what happened was that some of these people were subject to restraining orders. they were supposed to be exempt from the early release scheme because often that relates towards threats, towards victims or domestic violence and similar matters. and the idea was that they should never be part of an early release scheme. however, what had happened was that the legislation governing restraining orders had changed, and whilst the legislation that was put through by the labour government covered the current, statutory provisions on early release, it didn't cover the 1997 act. and there were some people still serving who were caught by that. now, had alex chalk been there, he would certainly have spotted that because he spent 20, 30 years of his life prosecuting serious

criminal cases. it shows that the ball was badly dropped. so it's embarrassing for the government. it's embarrassing for the system. we don't know where it's an error in the drafting or an error in record keeping. either way, it should not have happened, and it is certainly damaging to the reputation of the justice system for the general public. the broader concern, tom, is that we are going to have to do something about the numbers. it's a shame that officials in number 10 didn't let alex chalk go ahead with his scheme before the elections. i think it would have done much more effectively and efficiently. >> well, yes, i was going to ask, clearly the criminal justice system is in a difficult place, very stretched. our prisons are overcrowded. that's the reason why the government said they had to release so many prisoners early. why did the conservatives not prioritise our criminal justice system? they did have years and they have left the left the new labour government with quite a task on their hands. >> i think the truth is our government didn't give it the priority. it should have done the previous blair government

didn't either. and it goes back literally, i've been practising. i was practising as a barrister since the mid 70s and it was never getting enough funding going back even to then, emily. so you know, as a society, we've never realised the importance of it. and the particular problem we had was it was it's what we call a downstream department. it picks up a lot of issues that have gone wrong. you know, people have gone gone into the criminal justice system because of failures in mental health, in education, in social services, in the care system. so it's picking up a lot of the dross that's been created further up the line. but it didn't have any budgetary protection in the way that education and the health service did. so it had a perfect storm. so that was the problem. i was interested it wasn't just the budget, sir bob. >> it was it was the fact that the government announced a hospital building programme. local communities would often object to the idea of having a prison near them, and for some reason, the government wanted to pursue popularity rather than

taking tough decisions that would actually get these prisons built, to some extent, the new government. well, it certainly willing to be unpopular when it comes to issues of planning, perhaps perhaps that's actually the approach that will, that will deliver dividends in time. >> well , i've will deliver dividends in time. >> well, i've just will deliver dividends in time. >> well , i've just criticised >> well, i've just criticised the new government on tom. it's probably many of us have, but i have sympathy with the point that you make. i, as chairman of the committee, towards the end of the last parliament, urged that if we need to build new prisons for and various reasons, we are going to have to, they should be treated as nationally significant infrastructure which had a different planning process, which prevented that sort of nimbyism blocking them that we need. interestingly, the government, the new government does show interest in taking that up, and they're right in that up, and they're right in that even though i think they're wrong on very many other things. i'm also interested in emily's point about the texas system. and actually, i do hope they examine that. you'll remember that back in 2019, our election

manifesto as conservatives pledged a royal commission on criminal justice. unfortunately, we didn't follow through on that ehheni we didn't follow through on that either. i think if we had done, we might have been able to adopt a much more joined up approach to the system and might have saved some of these problems , saved some of these problems, too. but the key thing about the texas scheme, it's worth remembering is that that actually is a i would term a right of centre approach. it was brought in by rick perry , a brought in by rick perry, a republican governor of texas, and noted as a fiscal conservative and also not a, you know, not a softy on law and order at all. but he brought that scheme in because he realised that using prison the way it was in the states and to a degree, the way we use it without robust alternatives was not a very cost effective use of money. and so when he put that in his report, support from his republican colleagues in the state legislature , he saved state legislature, he saved money, paid about $2 billion, was able to close prisons , but was able to close prisons, but very importantly because they had really tough, much tougher community sentences than we've got. what he was able to do was

to see re—offending reduced by a third, at least across the state, 50% around houston, one of the worst areas and also the number of offences dropping by a similar amount. and that's the right approach because less re—offending means fewer victims of crime. and that's the ultimate. >> absolutely. and the statistics on reoffending are pretty shocking. and depressing in equal measure. just very quickly, while i've got you, i just wonder if you have a comment on what we've seen in recent days about all these donations coming from lord waheed alli to keir starmer and several other cabinet ministers and labour mps , what's your and labour mps, what's your thoughts? is this is this normal practice ? practice? >> well, i never paid. i've always paid for my own glasses myself, and i've always paid for myself, and i've always paid for my own suits as well. i do find that pretty extraordinary, we all know that there's some donations in all politics, but that it's a pretty bad look. and it's worse, isn't it ? when you it's worse, isn't it? when you set yourself up as the current government as as being. we are

going to be mr and mrs. squeaky clean and then you find all of these things coming up. what i don't think the british people like above all things, they don't like double standards. and this seems to be very much a case of do as i say. but don't do as i do sort of thing. and i think that's done them an awful lot of damage and it damages the whole system. i'm surprised and disappointed that you do that. they do things which are, i think, pretty blatant to most people as going beyond what the spirit of it. but it meets the letter of the rules is that really within the spirit? i think a lot of people would raise question marks about that. >> well, bob neil, former justice select committee chairman, thanks very much for joining us and talking through those two issues. really appreciate it. >> thank you. well, this is good afternoon britain on gb news. we've lots more coming up on today's show. we've got another exclusive from charlie

good afternoon britain. it is now 151 and two. rotherham child

abuse victims were left out of court for the sentencing of their rapist, gb news can reveal today. >> the national crime agency has apologised for an error after survivors were not brought into that courtroom for the sentencing of neil king, who received 21 years imprisonment for 17 sexual offences against two girls. >> well, our national reporter, charlie peters, joins us now with this exclusive. charlie, please tell us. >> well, today, a judge is putting on a special additional heanng putting on a special additional hearing for those two survivors of that appalling abuse to appearin of that appalling abuse to appear in court after they were left out by the national crime agency officer in charge of ensuring they were inside the courtroom during that sentencing last week. now, the nca has said that it was an officer error that it was an officer error that led to those survivors being left out. as i understand it, there was a change in personnel, which created some confusion. but for those survivors, they've waited 16 years to finally face down their

abusen years to finally face down their abuser, to see him being put away for 21 years imprisonment after 17 offences. this is a core and serious moment for those survivors to see that crucial moment of justice being delivered. so, as i understand it, it was very distressing for them to have not been in the court as it happened. a human error, as i said , and as the nca error, as i said, and as the nca put it, but still very distressing indeed for those involved. now maggie oliver, the tireless child abuse campaigner who runs a foundation that works with many survivors, told me today that it's difficult for survivors to get over moments like this when they're let down by the system. and she said that all too often, this process is about procedure and systems, and the victims are not at the heart of it. and that's what's happened at sheffield crown court. and it comes just a couple of weeks after we revealed another story from sheffield crown court, where a victim impact statement was censored by a judge. a woman who had waited two decades to say

what she wanted to say to her abusers, to face them down as they were jailed for more than 100 years. that was censored in the same court two weeks ago. so a couple of bad stories for the operation stovewood national crime agency team, who achieved great success in tackling child abuse. but i've had a couple of bad headlines recently, is this neil king, who was sentenced as he linked to the wider grooming gang scandal in rotherham? so he's under the operation stovewood investigation, so he's one of the men that the national crime agency has uncovered as abusers from that period. the majority of his abuse took place 16 years ago. he also operated in tandem with his then girlfriend . she was also girlfriend. she was also arrested and charged, but died before the trial started. but neil king will serve 21 years imprisonment for those 17 offences. we don't know the nature of what happened this morning at the courts, with the judge sitting agreeing to address those victims in court today to apologise to them, the nca told me this morning that they've also apologised to both

victims and they will receive a further apology in writing. they also thanked them for their bravery , saying that their bravery, saying that their testimony both before and in the trial was, was vital to achieving these convictions. but in the vital moment of justice, they weren't there. >> well, charlie, thank you so much for bringing us that exclusive story. more with you later , of course, but don't go later, of course, but don't go anywhere. much more on today's show, including some donations scandals. let's look at the weather first. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of weather on gb. >> news . >> news. >> news. >> hi there and welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. yet more wet weather on the way today and overnight as well. with the risk of flooding in places, there will be some brighter interludes out there , mostly towards the out there, mostly towards the far south of the uk and the far north. in between this frontal system causing persistent wet weather and strong winds. the strongest, the winds expected

across parts of northern england into north wales 50 60 mile per hour wind gusts and that wind driving spells of heavy and persistent rain , especially into persistent rain, especially into the pennines, north york moors, parts of northern ireland. risk of disruption in places. by the end of the day. to the south of that it will be a mild afternoon with some bright spells, but also a lot of showers arriving into southern england, parts of wales as well. those showers merge into longer spells of rain through the evening to cause some very wet weather through mid wales into the midlands parts of east anglia. those areas that were badly affected at the weekend could see yet more rain. rain by this stage easing off across northern ireland and northern england. but continuing in some places. scotland seeing a brighter day with some sunny spells but also a few showers coming in on a northerly wind for northern scotland and it will feel cold in that northerly now into the evening. the rain really intensifies through parts of wales and the midlands, and evening. the rain really intensifies through parts of wales and the midlands, and that's why there is a that's why there is a significant risk of flooding in significant risk of flooding in

those areas, and it continues those areas, and it continues for much of the night. it for much of the night. it eventually sinks south, with the eventually sinks south, with the wind strengthening across parts wind strengthening across parts of wales and into cornwall. by of wales and into cornwall. by the end of the night, 60 70 mile the end of the night, 60 70 mile per hour wind gusts and then by per hour wind gusts and then by the end of the night, that rain the end of the night, that rain eventually is pulling away from eventually is pulling away from the south, with the heaviest the south, with the heaviest downpours clearing to the downpours clearing to the southeast by mid—morning. southeast by mid—morning. brighter skies follow from the brighter skies follow from the north and it's a much improved north and it's a much improved picture by the afternoon. for picture by the afternoon. for many parts of the uk. having many parts of the uk. having said that, we will have a cold said that, we will have a cold wind arriving from the north wind arriving from the north across all parts of the uk and across all parts of the uk and will be further showers. 1 or 2 wind arriving from the north across all parts of the u1 and wind arriving from the north across all parts of the u1 or|d places that warm feeling inside will be further showers. 1 or 2 places that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers . from boxt boilers . from boxt boilers. from boxt boilers. >> sponsors of weather on gb. >> sponsors of weather on gb. >> >>

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september. >> i'm tom harwood and i'm emily carver wearing masks and working from home. >> if we can really will help prevent infections. >> starmers fake covid home. not only did the prime minister use lord alli £18 million penthouse throughout the election period, turns out he was using it for party broadcasts through the last parliament, too, including for an address telling the nafion for an address telling the nation to work from home. oh okay. >> well, non—dom gone from london and other cities. yes, sir keir starmer's grand plan to tax non—doms will bring in no money at all. that's the fear of treasury officials. if this is true, schools and hospitals are going to miss out on £1 billion of funding that they were promised . promised. >> no more ceasefire benjamin netanyahu has denied reports that he's close to agreeing a 21 day ceasefire with hezbollah, as he insists that fighting will continue against both hamas and hezbollah until israel's war goals are achieved and the

government's bungled prison release scheme gets worse. >> five prisoners are still on the loose after almost 40 people were let out of prison by mistake. this under labour's controversial early release scheme. the ministry of justice has admitted . has admitted. >> there is a strange air around this new government that it . this new government that it. someone was saying that this was like it felt it was sort of year five of a five year long government that sort of all of these scandals that have built up over time, the mishaps that inevitably take place after a long time in government. well, it's all happening in month three. >> do you know what's quite interesting is that the guardian, who most people would assume is a labour backing papen assume is a labour backing paper, or at least leaning in that direction, quite a few negative articles coming out, particularly one here. i'm

picking up bad vibes. voters unimpressed by labour after three months in power, widespread opposition to winter fuel payments cut. some are perplexed by the furore over freebies for ministers, but they're citing several people they've been talking to who are saying things like boris johnson was such a numpty,

saying things like boris johnson was such a round:y, have .. .. saying things like boris johnson was such a round of have .. .. saying things like boris johnson was such a round of applause. .. saying things like boris johnson was such a round of applause at thunderous round of applause at things like labour party conference. if you say tax the rich, if you say slap vat on private school fees, all of these left wing populist ideas, they get you a thunderous round of applause . but then you do the of applause. but then you do the figures and you speak to people who actually know how these things work, and they say, hang on, it's not going to work. you're not going to get the money you want. >> but if your goal is equality rather than, you know, raising funds or whatever, if you if you really believe in equality, i.e. closing the gap, you can of course, close that gap, not by lifting people up. you can close it by cutting the top people down. i mean, then we're a poorer country, but we're a more equal country. i mean, some people have that ideology. they genuinely think it's a better country to be, to be poorer, but more equal. >> yeah. as long as it's rubbish for everyone, then it's equally rubbish, equally rubbish , rubbish, equally rubbish, equally rubbish. >> i guess you could say that about the nhs in some respects, but it's interesting, isn't it, that characters like andy haldane, a former chief economist at the bank of england, are now going on the media round saying what is this

doing to sentiment about uk plc, this non—dom crackdown? does it make it more or less likely people will park their money, set up businesses here and generate growth? there are real concerns that consumer confidence is down. business investment confidence is down. foreign investment could be down, jobs could be down, growth could be down. revenues could be down because of these sort of slapdash policies. >> well, much more to come on a very cheery show. sorry about that. >> yes. >> yes. >> get involved. send your views to gbnews.com/yoursay. but now it's your news headlines . it's your news headlines. >> tom. emily, thank you very much . and good afternoon. the much. and good afternoon. the top stories. the current managing director of harrods has apologised and said the business failed our colleagues following sexual misconduct allegations about the former boss, mohamed al—fayed. michael ward said in a statement today it's clear mr al—fayed presided over a toxic culture of secrecy, intimidation, fear of repercussion and sexual

misconduct. mr ward, who worked for al—fayed for four years, said he was not aware of his criminality and abuse and described it as a shameful penod described it as a shameful period in the business's history. five women claimed they were raped by mr al fayed , who were raped by mr al fayed, who died last year at the age of 94, with a number of others alleging sexual misconduct . israeli prime sexual misconduct. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has told the israeli military to keep fighting with full force in lebanon. earlier, the idf said israel hit 75 hezbollah targets overnight. netanyahu's statement comes after the uk, the us and other allies called for a 21 day ceasefire between israel and the terror group hezbollah. last night, in a joint statement, the 12 strong bloc called for a ceasefire to provide space for diplomacy towards the conclusion of a diplomatic settlement as well as a ceasefire in gaza. they said the hostilities were intolerable and presented an unacceptable risk of a broader regional escalation that was

neither in the interest of the people of israel or lebanon. it comes after israel's military chief told troops yesterday that extensive airstrikes in lebanon targeting hezbollah could pave the way for them to enter enemy territory. former chair of the defence select committee, tobias ellwood, believes a ceasefire is imminent. >> i think it will happen in the next 48, 72 hours. it takes some time. this is a very complex operation to get the scale of troop numbers that are required, although i'm sure the idf, the israeli defence forces would have been preparing for this for some time . some time. >> the family of a teenager who was murdered in wolverhampton say they are devastated, totally heartbroken and confused . they heartbroken and confused. they say they are haunted by thoughts of how scared he must have 212 year boys found guilty of murdering shaun woodward and machete attack are set to be sentenced. the killers were convicted in june of murdering the 19 year old, who was stabbed in the heart and suffered a skull fracture in november last year.

they're believed to be the youngest defendants convicted of murder in britain since robert thompson and jon venables, both aged 11, were found guilty in 1993 of killing two year old james bulger. the boys, both now 13, face a mandatory juvenile life sentence and are appearing in court today in custody for the start of a two day hearing. the sentence is due to be passed tomorrow . a man has appeared in tomorrow. a man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a 15 year old schoolboy. deshaun campbell was found with a stab injury in woolwich on sunday evening. he died at the scene. 18 year old jacob lozowick was not asked to enter any pleas dunng not asked to enter any pleas during the hearing today. the district judge remanded lawswitch into custody to next appear at the old bailey on the 30th of september. in other news, british, us and australian defence ministers are meeting in london today to discuss plans to build a fleet of nuclear powered submarines. john healey is hosting richard marles , who's

hosting richard marles, who's also anthony albanese's, deputy prime minister and us defence secretary. lloyd austin at this security partnership meeting. if australia and the uk sign a treaty, the westminster government's estimated the ssn aukus submarine build project would unlock uk exports into the billions of pounds. the ministry of defence says it will also support uk jobs for more than 21,000 people, and the government also confirmed the new treaty will outline the uk's relationship with australia on submarine co—operation . an amber submarine co—operation. an amber weather warning for heavy rain has been issued by the met office, warning of further flooding and travel disruption across large parts of the uk. the new alert covers the midlands and parts of the south west from 6:00 this evening until 6 am. tomorrow. the met office warns nearly three inches of rain could fall over several hours in the worst affected regions, with rivers continuing to rise after the rain clears. several yellow weather warnings are already currently in place for large parts of the country until 9:00 tomorrow morning, and

the hollywood icon dame joan collins has spoken to gb news for the first time, sitting down with andrew pierce. she slammed the rise of the so—called woke culture concerning myself to be feminine and a feminist. >> and why should we be called female actors? i find it demeaning. i think it's gone out of control. really. you can't say anything and people get offended. we've lost our british sense of humour. >> and those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts .

slash alerts. >> good afternoon britain. it's 2:10 now. sir keir starmer is expected to promise that the uk is returning to responsible global leadership when he addresses the un general assembly in new york later today. >> it used to be irresponsible global leadership. >> i suppose that's the implication . implication. >> well, it comes against a bleak backdrop of ever heightening tensions in the middle east and the ongoing war in ukraine. >> however, the labour leader's use of lord alli as £18 million covent garden penthouse to film a covid era message calling on people to work from home threatens to overshadow his appearance on the world stage, at least at home, as it raises questions as to whether he himself was adhering to those covid rules. >> gosh, i do not miss those video messages that we received from our great leaders to you dunng. from our great leaders to you during . oh goodness me. sitting during. oh goodness me. sitting behind their desk at home, although not in this case, should we go to new york now and speak to gb news political edhon speak to gb news political editor, christopher holm? christopher, by the sounds of it, it's going to be a very busy

day for the prime minister. he's it, it's going to be a very busy day for the prime minister. he's got lots on his plate. any got lots on his plate. any update on whether he's going to update on whether he's going to have this meeting with donald have this meeting with donald trump ? trump ? trump? >> no. hi, emily. hi, tom, from trump? >> no. hi, emily. hi, tom, from new york city. this this new york city. this this lunchtime for you. it's still lunchtime for you. it's still early in the morning here. no early in the morning here. no word yet. it's probably going to word yet. it's probably going to be a brush by which, in the be a brush by which, in the world of diplomacy, means they world of diplomacy, means they kind of aren't meant to meet kind of aren't meant to meet when they come across each other when they come across each other in new york somehow. bloomberg in new york somehow. bloomberg website is reporting it from website is reporting it from trump's end. this meeting will because a very busy trump's end. this meeting will happen. trump's end. this meeting will happen . no confirmation yet from happen. trump's end. this meeting will happen . no confirmation yet from happen. no confirmation yet from the uk. we'll wait and see. and happen. no confirmation yet from the uk. we'll wait and see. and if that happens, there'll be if that happens, there'll be quite a moment. it's difficult quite a moment. it's difficult diplomatically for that meeting , diplomatically for that meeting , diplomatically for that meeting, maybe for number 10, because diplomatically for that meeting, maybe for number 10, because kamala harris is in washington, kamala harris is in washington, not here. he has never she has not here. he has never she has never met with sir keir starmer. never met with sir keir starmer. so if he meets with trump and so if he meets with trump and not harris ahead of the election not harris ahead of the election in early november, that may look in early november, that may look a bit difficult. so there's a a bit difficult. so there's a trade off to be made there. of trade off to be made there. of course, zelenskyy and others may course, zelenskyy and others may want starmer to meet with trump want starmer to meet with trump

because trump is an issue going forward. if he wins the election in early november, becomes the next president of the united states. there's a rumour and strong feeling views that he may try and push ukraine towards seeking a peace deal with russia, which is not what ukraine wants. so there's a trade off between meeting with trump because it might help zelenskyy, but also may slightly embarrass the kamala harris camp as things stand now. emily and tom, no word yet on that meeting. >> no , it's interesting though, >> no, it's interesting though, chris. there's lots else going on today , including this on today, including this investment lunch that you've been talking about. but i wanted to raise this issue with you. the prime minister today has tweeted this out on x. i wonder if we can get the picture up for us. he's boasting about new investments. he says new we have secured investment to create one of the largest identity data centres in europe, based in the north—east of england. it sounds amazing, but chris, several people have pointed out that

actually, if we can go to the next picture here, this was all announced by northumberland county council. er, three months ago back in over three months ago. sorry. back in april . under ago. sorry. back in april. under the last government, is the government just announcing a deal that was already done by the previous administration ? the previous administration? >> yes. so, tom well spotted. the answer from number 10 is yes and no. because this today is the first time that blackstone, this big us company , has this big us company, has committed to this investment . committed to this investment. before that it was hoped for, planned for . before that it was hoped for, planned for. so this is the first time we're getting an ink signed on the dotted line by blackstone. and number 10 tells us that these kind of big deals do take time to come together. and they are when this of this scale, they have to work and talk to other partners like northumberland county council ahead of time before it can be agreed. so what's happened is this now formally been agreed by

blackstone? this big investment company, for the first time. and things take a while to come to fruition. but that's right. sir keir starmer is right now having a business breakfast with people like macquarie. big investors, as we do know from this conference speech we heard this week from the prime minister, he thinks that growth is of paramount importance and it's all about getting this economy growing. there's due to be a big investment summit , growing. there's due to be a big investment summit, summit coming up, hosted by rachel reeves, the chancellor. and so that's the whole context of why they're doing these meetings. but aside from that, there's all sorts of diplomacy happening here away from the trump possible meeting. ursula von der leyen and the european union president xi met yesterday with keir starmer, and that's ahead of a meeting next week, which is really important. so while we're watching the four candidates for the tory leadership battle it out in their party conference, don't ignore brussels because right there, there could be some movement on whether we do a deal on under 30, freedom of movement, which is something which the european union is

pressing for away from that , in pressing for away from that, in his speech tonight, we'll hear from keir starmer. he'll be saying around 1015 tonight, uk time hopefully on gb news two about he wants to get britons out of lebanon and also they are concerned to try and help get a big package deal agreed for to ukraine take on russia. but he flies back to london tomorrow with these concerns about freebies hanging over him and particularly the influence of labour peer lord alli . he's not labour peer lord alli. he's not backing down from that. he thinks you have to take freebies, go to football matches and the like. if you're going to meet people and do deals for the uk. but a question i asked him last night for gb news is why not give it all back? why not give this stuff back to where it came from, or to or to or to charities? as a labour mp has been doing herself, and here's what she had to say. a labour mp for south shields, emma lewell—buck, gives her freebies to charity. he gives them away . to charity. he gives them away. why won't you give things you've had for free back to charity or to or to a good cause? >> well , all

to or to a good cause? >> well, all that happened is i wanted somewhere safe and quiet for my son to do his gcse preparation. i needed it to be secure because of the situation we were in. no exchange of money. there's nothing to give away . away. >> sir keir starmer there. sir keir starmer, they're not answering the question. would he give back the suit, the glasses and anything else to charity? instead, he's doubling down. he sees a the minister was

word from the prime minister was secured. oh yes. so okay. this agreed deal has now been secured. okay, fine . good. but secured. okay, fine. good. but don't try and make it sound like an announcement. well, it hasn't been dumped and that is a good thing for britain. >> we need more ai data centres. we certainly do. you tell me we do . should we get some more do. should we get some more reaction to all of the politics with political correspondent at the spectator ? james heale the spectator? james heale james, thank you very much indeed for coming on the show this afternoon, this penthouse is causing quite the stir, isn't it really? i mean, yesterday we had £20,000 of accommodation. the use of this penthouse declared. well, we found it in the declaration of keir starmer's. today we find out that actually he's been using it for other reasons as well. dufing for other reasons as well. during for covid, example, for his broadcasts to the nation, it's all rather odd . james. it's all rather odd. james. >> yeah, well, i think it shows once more just how systemic the role was that lord alli has been playing for labour over not just the past five years of keir starmer's leadership, but a much longer period as well.

obviously, there's the questions involving the £18 million flat, which was used for, i think, a seven week period earlier this yeah seven week period earlier this year. of course , only half of year. of course, only half of that period or so was the period in which gcses were being done. so questions of which, how what was kind of being used for. we understand that the flat was where keir starmer watched the exit poll come in on the morning of the evening of july. the fourth. and obviously, clearly lord alli has had a very long term relationship with keir starmer. if he was using his flat during covid to film these messages. so i think there's questions. all the newspapers today seem to lead on that and it shows that for all the attempts to kind of move labour off this story during the labour conference speech for all the talk of potentially of a quiet reset, now we're back to square one and facing more questions about the role of this multi—millionaire played for the labour leader. >> yes, very curious and a particularly these stories do most damage when they're not a sort of one day done. and gone story when there are a drip drip, drip sort of story. we've seen this with scandals in the past,

but when they run and run and the government isn't able to shut them down, they can be deeply politically damaging. >> they certainly can. and i think that this labour government has chosen to not have much in the way of a kind of media briefing operation. they want to just say and news when they've got news. i think they want to take some of the sting out of the media cycle. but of course, in that absence, these stories then do continue to run and run, as you say, tom, this is now, i think, about a sort of month old story. the story has been dominating since july and late july, and i think that what it shows really is that what it shows really is that labour have not got a grip on it, not been able to put the questions to bed. and i think there's been an absence of anything kind of in a positive narrative to try and take that place. so i think perhaps it's a sort of cautionary tale, as we're still in the first 100 days of this labour government, that they might want to look at how they're operating things and responding to inquiries. >> i mean, james, it's not just a concern that lord waheed alli is donating so much to keir starmer. it's also just the number of labour politicians that he's donating to. he's

extremely generous. he seems to be absolutely close buds with absolutely everyone in the cabinet and also other labour mps. siobhan mcdonagh, £1.2 million loan from lord alli to buy a house for her terminally ill sister. that on the face of it, appears to be a kind thing to do. but the question is just, you know, why is this particular man providing so much in the way of assistance to all of these senior labour politicians? >> so i think if you look at the aurora borealis career, you know, he's always been an opponent of the left within the labour party, 40 years or so. >> he he talks fondly if you speak to friends of his about, you know, sort of battling the, the left and in the kind of, faction as it was militant back then in the 1980s. and, and so he's always someone who's been a moderate on the labour wing. i think it's the two things, i think it's the two things, i think one of which is a genuine belief in labour. labour, of course , has done quite well with course, has done quite well with him as, of course, and done a lot for him in terms of giving him that peerage back in 1998, when he was one of the first

so—called tony's cronies to go to the lords, the second thing is, i think, an attraction to the epicentre of power. this is someone who loves the fact that he's donated to eight members of the cabinet. seven former labour leadership contenders. and i think it shows really that he's someone who is not going to let the controversies of the past deter him from investing in the party he's bankrolled for 25 years. he really loves labour, and clearly there are very few millionaires given the way the economy is going. and at the current time, he's going to keep financing the party. >> yeah, i suppose it does does make sense. if he's their only rich friend, then sort of. they all have to lean upon him sponging off this one man. >> i can't i can't get over it. i can't understand it. i don't know why they're all accepting these these lavish gifts, this ridiculous accommodation in covent garden. >> but then james, there was the issue that he was given a pass to downing street, an incredibly exclusive pass. i think a lot of people think that, oh, he's in the house of lords. of course he can walk into downing street. i mean, that's that's not how it works. not even senior members of the cabinet have that level

of the cabinet have that level of access. >> yeah. and actually, if you talk to some parliamentarians, they are sort of a bit like, you know, mps don't get that. as one mp said to me, a bit sniffly. so i think that there is a sense about, you know, this was definitely someone who was part of the team and actually, you know, you talk to people who were in keir starmer's number 10. they didn't think it was weird. he was walking around because he was so used to them dunng because he was so used to them during the election. he was the person in charge of fundraising, calling up his wealthy contacts and friends, tapping high net worth individuals for the outreach. and he's obviously played a role at this labour conference, helping to coordinate donors for their 300 £0 a day. business day. so he's someone who was and remains a key part of the starmer operation. i don't think they're going to drop him anytime soon. and the key thing, of course, is about, you know, how many other donors did get a pass to downing street. and obviously they've. downing street under various different administrations is always very cagey to say who has always very cagey to say who has a pass and what. but certainly, just to be clear, it is very much not the norm for a labour peer to have a number 10 pass at a downing street. >> no, i have to say that i spoke to spoke to someone at the conference who attended the business day, who was really rather underwhelmed by it, very expensive tickets and all it was

was a bunch of panel discussions, not the sort of access that this particular businessman i spoke to was hoping for. so maybe he's been a bit distracted. >> also, james, forgive me for putting you on the spot. >> are you looking forward to michael gove being your editor at the spectator? >> i'm sure we'll be a very successful editor. he, of course, was a very successful journalist. and yeah, i mean, the spectators had a wonderful 15 years with fraser nelson as edhoh 15 years with fraser nelson as editor. so i'm excited to see what he does next as well. so brave new era at the spectator . brave new era at the spectator. >> the only way is up. thank you very much indeed. james heale political correspondent at the spectator. good stuff. >> well , this is good afternoon, >> well, this is good afternoon, britain. lots more to come on. gb news, including new news on mohamed al fayed will tell you what. after the

break. good afternoon britain. it's

2:27 now a development on the mohamed al fayed scandal. the current managing director of harrods is now apologising for failing his colleagues after sexual misconduct allegations to do with that. former owner mohamed al—fayed. >> yes, the now boss, michael ward , said in a statement that ward, said in a statement that it is clear mr al fayed presided over a toxic culture of secrecy , over a toxic culture of secrecy, intimidation, fear of repercussion and sexual misconduct. >> well, joining us is our royal correspondent , >> well, joining us is our royal correspondent, cameron walker, to react to this news, because clearly, cameron harrods has to do some pretty vital clear up pubuc do some pretty vital clear up public relations work . well, it public relations work. well, it would appear so, tom. of course, there are now a number of allegations from separate women related to the former harrods boss, mohamed al fayed. and actually, this afternoon we've had further statements, first from the metropolitan police who have, following all of these allegations, put out a public plea for further potential

victims or survivors as they are also referring them to come forward if they have if they believe they were sexually abused by mohamed al fayed. >> the police have also confirmed that the metropolitan police, that they have contacted the lawyers of those women who have already come forward and have already come forward and have given media interviews and taken part in that original bbc documentary and investigation, and assured the public that any victim or alleged victim will be supported by specially trained officers who deal with sexual abuse. now, clearly, mohamed al fayed is dead. he died last year at the age of 94, so he is not criminally liable. but the police have also confirmed this afternoon that they are exploring options to potentially look at some of mohamed al fayed's associates to see if they are. they could potentially allegedly be criminally, criminally liable. the commander, stephen klayman he says it is vital that any victim that has a voice, and he also suggests that there that any of

these allegations will be taken extremely seriously by the metropolitan police. now, just to recap a little bit, the crown prosecution service, during mohamed al fayed's lifetime failed to prosecute him at twice the cps. the crown prosecution service, said that the metropolitan police presented them with evidence once for an alleged indecent assault of a 15 year old girl in 2008, as well as an alleged rape by a separate alleged victim in 2013. but no further action was taken. and as you said in your introduction there, tom and emily, the current harrods director, has also released a statement saying that they we, as in harrods, failed our colleagues. he also says , michael ward, that that al says, michael ward, that that al fayed presided over a toxic culture of secrecy, intimidation, fear of repercussions and sexual misconduct. and he also said that although he personally works for mr fayed for four years, he was not aware of his criminality and abuse and described it as a shameful

penod described it as a shameful period in the business's history. meanwhile, the general medical council, they have also confirmed that they are investigating. that's after there are allegations that two private doctors working for mohamed al fayed conducted intrusive and unnecessary sexual health screenings on al—fayed alleged victims. now although al—fayed is dead, it does appear there are several allegations against some of his associates and they could have something to answer for. >> okay, well, thank you very much indeed for bringing us that breaking news. cameron walker, our royal correspondent. we'll speak to you in a little bit. i'm sure. >> well, this is good afternoon, britain on gb news. lots more coming up in today's show , coming up in today's show, including a concerning development for one of the most exciting sectors. and new innovations around the world. yes, the united states is enjoying new ai systems where you can talk in a conversation to your phone, where facebook and meta are releasing new ai systems. guess what? it's all blocked in europe. it's all

blocked in europe. it's all blocked in europe. it's all blocked in the uk as well. is this to do with legacy eu regulation ? regulation? >> good afternoon. the top stories as you've just been hearing, the metropolitan police are appealing for any potential victims, survivors of alleged sexual abuse by mohamed al fayed to come forward so they can investigate, the met police said investigate, the met police said in a statement that they must ensure every victim, survivor has the confidence to speak to the force about the former harrods owner. that says the current managing director of harrods apologised earlier and said the business failed. our colleagues following sexual misconduct allegations about the former boss, al fayed michael ward, said in a statement that it's clear al—fayed presided over a toxic culture of secrecy, intimidation and fear of repercussion. five women claimed they were raped by mr al fayed, who died last year at the age of

94, with a number of others alleging sexual misconduct . alleging sexual misconduct. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has told the israeli military to keep fighting with full force in lebanon. earlier, the idf said israel had hit 75 hezbollah targets overnight. netanyahu's statement comes after the uk, the us and other allies called for a 21 day ceasefire between israel and the terror group hezbollah. last night, in a joint statement, the bloc called for a ceasefire to provide space for diplomacy towards the conclusion of a diplomatic settlement, as well as a ceasefire in gaza. they said the hostilities were intolerable and presented an unacceptable risk of a broader regional escalation that was neither in the interest of the people of israel or lebanon . the people of israel or lebanon. the family of a teenager who was murdered in wolverhampton say they're devastated, totally heartbroken and confused. they say they are haunted by thoughts of how scared he must have been when he was killed. 212 year old boys found guilty of murdering

shawn seesahai in a random machete attack are set to be sentenced. the killers were convicted in june of murdering the 19 year old, who was stabbed in the heart and suffered a skull fracture in november last yeah skull fracture in november last year. they're believed to be the youngest defendants convicted of murder in britain since robert thompson and jon venables, both aged 11, were found guilty in 1993 of killing two year old james bulger. the boys, now 13, face a mandatory juvenile life sentence and are appearing in court today in custody for the start of a two day hearing. the sentence is due to be passed tomorrow . and an amber warning tomorrow. and an amber warning for heavy rain has been issued by the met office, warning of further flooding and travel disruption across large parts of the uk. the new alert covers the midlands and parts of the south west from 6:00 tonight until 6 am. tomorrow. the met office a.m. tomorrow. the met office warns nearly three inches of rain could fall over several hours in the worst affected regions, with rivers continuing to rise after the rain clears. several yellow alerts are

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>> good afternoon britain. it's 2:37 now. meta there. the parent company of facebook and instagram and whatsapp, they're refraining from rolling out their latest ai tech in europe and britain because of eu regulation. >> but we are outside the european union where we've still got their regulation . well, got their regulation. well, their owner, mark zuckerberg, was showing off their latest gadgets this week. there he is

with his specs , including their with his specs, including their latest high tech smart glasses. tom, i reckon you could probably pull off some of these specs. look at those. fantastic. why do we want these things? >> look, they're incredibly dorky, but this is early tech. this is just sort of glasses that you can put on. and then normal glasses where you can then sort of see floating screens in front of you. i mean, it's magic. >> thank you. and mark zuckerberg would get on like a house on fire. >> someone else who would probably get on with mark zuckerberg like a house on fire is broadcaster andrew ebron. andrew thanks for joining us. >> it's an absolute pleasure. yes, absolutely spectacular. isn't it fantastic here all week. but it is actually everything we've predicted on this in this very studio is now happening. so everything you can foresee about the future will become a reality. and you might remember google glass all those years ago, the very early ones, very clunky, all that sort of stuff. what these new ones can do, you can basically do online translation. you can see things in real time . everything you can in real time. everything you can imagine is phenomenal. you can also get your ai assistant where you're using celebrity voices. again, as we predicted on here.

yes. so fascinating stuff. >> but the big the big story here is that america is getting all of this wonderful new tech, all of this wonderful new tech, all of this futuristic new tech. it's not just meta and mark zuckerberg , it's also openai's zuckerberg, it's also openai's chatgpt, the new voice mode, not available in europe. yes, all to do with regulation. >> it's all to do with data. and i always say data is the new currency. basically, if your product is free, then you are the product and what you're doing is you're giving away data . doing is you're giving away data. so ever since facebook has been founded, they've basically within their terms and conditions, can use some of your data like some of your posts and your pictures and various other things to train the ai models. that's what you need. so basically it's the data in which will basically enable you to have all this data out . but the have all this data out. but the gdpr puts certain restrictions on that because you might remember clearview for example, they scanned lots of images , they scanned lots of images, facial recognition to train those machines. they were fined millions as a result of it. if you go back to cambridge analytica before the previous election and what happened , they election and what happened, they were using data from facebook

basically to influence the election, if you like. this is how you appeal to emily and tom. this is the sort of stuff that pushes their buttons and that information is power. so we'll work on that sort of basis. i, as you know, i have errol musk, who's elon's father on my show every week. in fact, every day this week talking about the latest developments. and he says the biggest problem they've got is about those regulations . so is about those regulations. so the uk is missing out. and what i've said from the very beginning, i want to put the ai into britain. we should make sure we should be front and centre. so we need to look at this very quickly. >> right. okay. well we're missing out on things like smart glasses that can remind you where you parked your car, and a digital assistant that can respond to questions in the voice of dame judi dench. yes, and i'm sure other people as well. i mean, all of this stuff to a lot of people just, let's say a little bit, a little bit, a little bit scary. well, a little bit. why do you want to talk to a bot all day? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> well i know, but also and i'll tell you why. chatgpt for example, there was a survey done in california at the university

of california, san diego , which of california, san diego, which said chatting to chatgpt was more effective than chatting to your gp, not only because you can get an appointment quickly, but it's more sensitive, more empathetic, it's got more knowledge. and if you can imagine every doctor having access to the world's leading authorities on their desktop, so you could share that information, how powerful is that? >> is more empathetic than a i'm not. >> but the people in university and absolute they tested it independently. >> well, that's just depressing. why even have relationships with human beings ? human beings? >> but emily, i suppose, why not just talk to a bot? >> well, people do. >> well, people do. >> yes, there is that this stuff, this this sort of magic stuff, this this sort of magic stuff is being invented. yes. and we could choose to use it or choose not to use it, but instead it seems that the government is deciding, choosing that we can't use it. we can't access it. and, andrew, i mean, there are lots of economists who say that this will be the biggest change in our lives since the industrial revolution, that we will go from likely having very low growth to the countries that have this sort of implemented, the kind of growth

rates could be just a step change. i mean, there will be certain countries that live in something that looks like the future looks like star trek. yes. and the countries that don't will be the equivalent of third world countries. >> you're absolutely right. >> you're absolutely right. >> do we risk becoming a relative third world country if we don't adopt this? >> you have to adopt ai. and i always say, look, i really loves it. ai is our greatest human achievement, but also potentially the biggest existential threat. and what you need to do is to understand the capabilities but make sure we have limitations on what happens. it is a brilliant co—pilot. you might remember last year at bletchley park, we had the first ai safety summit in the world and elon musk, my mate, and various others came along and they spoke there. we had gb news were present there as well. fantastic. and front and centre. and rishi sunak announcing several data centres and stuff like that. make sure labour can get the benefit as well. you turn around on that sort of basis. we should be front and centre of this. we have to understand the capabilities and i, i talk around the world back to the futurists. i talk around the

world about those capabilities, but also understanding the threat. if we close our eyes to it, that's where the limitations are. >> andrew. these guys, though, mark zuckerberg , elon musk and mark zuckerberg, elon musk and the like, they've got more power than the prime minister they have more power than even the president of the united states in some ways. i mean, they're creating this this technology that does, as you say, have the power to cause quite a bit of trouble. oh, absolutely. and elon musk, it does need to be regulated. >> oh, no, no it does i think it certainly is. we need to have safeguards in place. >> but the thing is, the existential risks from this will come about wherever it's created. yes i mean it's still being created in america. we can't stop america creating it. >> and also, apart from the seismic advances in medicine we're having, the lame can walk the people who've been paralysed are suddenly getting all sorts of capabilities. there's a wonderful company called neuralink, another one of elon's companies, where basically they're saying now that people have been blind for life, can see again. i mean, they've been paralysed. >> i don't think you'll be so keen on al when it takes our jobs. >> i thought it's already taken ours. this is not me at all. no no, no, no hologram version of me and tom. >> that's what more empathetic

than us peasants in the field said about the combine. >> it's true. >> it's true. >> they're more empathetic than us. better looking than us. >> impossible, impossible. how could you possibly say that ? could you possibly say that? encyclopaedic knowledge. oh, that's possible. >> westminster and even utah, think. >> i think that when this whenever technology, whenever a new technology comes along , new technology comes along, people say this is going to, you know, no one's going to have any jobs anymore. and new jobs that we couldn't even possibly imagine will be will be thought up. would you rather have a will be amongst the stars? >> would you rather have a bot version of emily as a friend? >> no, because i think that's. i think actually the jobs that will become most important are the human connection. jobs while the human connection. jobs while the robots do all of the sort of menial tasks that are very, very dull. but, i mean, we've films have been predicting this cleverer than us already. are decades robots. and now it's kind of happening. but i suppose the risk is we're going to miss out on that coming. don't miss out. >> don't overregulate is the absolute thing. >> well, there we go. >> well, there we go. >> well, there we go. >> well, let us know what you think at home. gbnews.com forward slash your say. do you

think we should be pioneers and not overregulate this area, this sector of great growth? well we shall see. we've got lots more coming up. well we've got one story left on the show this afternoon . yes. harry and afternoon. yes. harry and meghan, a little bit of trouble with the old pr will reveal after the

break. >> good afternoon britain. it's 2:48 now. here's one for you. the duke and duchess of sussex have begun a pr fightback to try and improve their public image . and improve their public image. this after receiving a lot of negative publicity, both at home and abroad. i don't know if homewards does that mean the united states and britain or britain and the united states? i can't which one's home? >> i think the united states. no, really, isn't it california? well, in an article published in american celebrity magazine us weekly, several former members of the couple's staff heap the

praise upon them, with one even describing them as the best bosses he ever had. that's a bit much, isn't it? >> well, this comes after they were heavily criticised by several other members. former members of their staff, which included accusations that meghan markle was a dictator in high heels who belittles people. >> yes, the couple themselves have also been branded poor decision makers who always changed their minds. and there was that spotify executive, wasn't there, who called them grifters, which was probably the harshest thing i've heard from someone with some status. anyway, we can now discuss this further with royal biographer and former royal editor at the sun, duncan larcombe. thank you very much indeed, duncan. this pr blitz, i mean, how real is this? are they actually meghan and harry very worried about how they're coming across. >> well, i mean that's if you accept it's a pr blitz, which i think most people do, obviously they're worried about all these claims of staff that have left them, that have worked for them for five minutes, then done a

runner. you know, this is not a not a new story in many ways , not a new story in many ways, because we know that, meghan has been accused of being incredibly hard to work for even before they left for their californian dream . dream. >> and this is an interesting set of developments, because there has been, as far as i've understood it, a difference of pubuc understood it, a difference of public opinion in the united states compared to the united kingdom and the united kingdom. both harry and meghan have very low approval ratings, but in the united states there have been higher ratings. is this a suggestion that actually things were turning a bit sour in the united states? if now us weekly is putting out these puff p|eces? pieces? >> yeah, it certainly shows that the couple are concerned about these criticisms and us weekly is a very widely read, publication out in america . but, publication out in america. but, but i think it crosses i mean,

the daily beast have torn into them and quoted unnamed sources as to say that she's like , well, as to say that she's like, well, effectively, like a cruella de vil character to work for, and i think it sort of it reemphasizes this point that meghan is being portrayed as pure marmite. you either love her or you loathe her. >> i mean, duncan, which one is it then? which one is it? is she a dictator in high heels? who belittles people, or is she the best boss ever? i mean, which one? she can't be both. >> well , one? she can't be both. >> well, harry's got into one? she can't be both. >> well , harry's got into the >> well, harry's got into the habit recently of suing people that say the wrong thing, so i perhaps might not answer that as honestly as i'd want, but. no, i mean, i think you can only look at the evidence, and the evidence tells us that at least 18 members of staff, i think at the last count , over the years the last count, over the years have, have left some of those were palace staff who worked very happily with other members of the royal family, i can remember meeting a royal

protection officer back in the day before they left the uk, and i said to him, you know , is she i said to him, you know, is she really as bad as as all that and all he did was roll his eyes. so isuppose all he did was roll his eyes. so i suppose you can you can draw your conclusions , and but i your conclusions, and but i don't want to i really don't want to be sued by them, if that's okay. >> that's absolutely fine, duncan. we shall leave it there. but thank you very much indeed for coming on the show. duncan larcombe, former royal editor at the sun. fantastic stuff. thank you. yes. if you can't really be both, can she. can't really be both. the cruella de vil character and also the best boss ever. character and also the best boss ever . maybe you can. well, you ever. maybe you can. well, you can two different people, perhaps. >> or maybe different past employees have sort of incentives to sort of massively big it up one way or massively big it up one way or massively big up the other. maybe maybe, maybe she's neither. glorious heroine nor the most evil person to walk the face of the earth . to walk the face of the earth. maybe. maybe it's somewhere in between. >> maybe it's somewhere in between. aren't you nice? aren't you nice? tom, i thought we had a little bit of time to . to a little bit of time to. to finish the show by having a look

at what people have said about the old ai discussion, jez says the old ai discussion, jez says the british economy will change over the next decade. a lot more ai and robots replacing humans. this will then need a universal income for people. so to avoid civil unrest , i hope not, civil unrest, i hope not, because i don't think that would because i don't think that would be a good idea, but you never know. you never know. will the robots take over everything? >> well, hugh says that peasants were peasants were right to fear the combine harvester. herefordshire is now a middle class garden suburb . class garden suburb. >> that's quite funny. david says hi, tom, before waxing lyrical about advancements in al, please be aware that ai, please be aware that governments want everything digitised so they can fill the new data centres, warehouses full of computers with every detail of our lives through digital id and the like. are you worried about that? i think the government having too much of your data, even mark zuckerberg having too much of your data. i think what he could do with it, they've got it all already. they've got it all already. yes. to be fair, they do. but if you were completely off the grid, you'd be safe from any of that. yeah well, but this is the

thing. >> allowing ai in the country is different from having to use ai. >> no, it's not because you would have to use it. you'd have to use it. you know, whether it's in work, school, college to use government websites or whatever, i don't know, you would have to use it. >> you don't have to give it all of your data though. >> well, maybe not, but i mean, i think you would. >> i think the debate rages on, thank you very much for joining us here on good afternoon britain this afternoon. we're of course, back tomorrow, up next, it's martin daubney. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news >> hi there. and welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. yet more wet weather on the way today and overnight as well. with the risk of flooding in places, there will be some brighter interludes out there , mostly towards the out there, mostly towards the far south of the uk and the far north. in between this frontal system causing persistent wet weather and strong winds. the strongest, the winds expected across parts of northern england

into north wales 50 60 mile per hour wind gusts and that wind driving spells of heavy and persistent rain , especially into persistent rain, especially into the pennines, north york moors, parts of northern ireland. risk of disruption in places. by the end of the day. to the south of that it will be a mild afternoon with some bright spells, but also a lot of showers arriving into southern england, parts of wales as well. those showers merge into longer spells of rain through the evening to cause some very wet weather through mid wales into the midlands parts of east anglia. those areas that were badly affected at the weekend could see yet more rain. rain by this stage easing off across northern ireland and northern england. but continuing in some places. scotland seeing a brighter day with some sunny spells but also a few showers coming in on a northerly wind for northern scotland and it will feel cold in that northerly now into the evening. the rain really intensifies through parts of wales and the midlands, and that's why there is a significant risk of flooding in

those areas and it continues for much of the night. it eventually sinks south, with the wind strengthening across parts of wales and into cornwall. by the end of the night, 60 70 mile per hour wind gusts and then by the end of the night, that rain eventually is pulling away from the south, with the heaviest downpours clearing to the southeast by mid—morning . southeast by mid—morning. brighter skies follow from the north, and it's a much improved picture by the afternoon for many parts of the uk, having said that, we will have a cold wind arriving from the north across all parts of the uk and will be further showers in 1 or 2 places that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers . inside from boxt boilers. >> sponsors of weather gb

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