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you and a very happy monday to you and a very happy monday 3:00 pm. welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. we're broadcasting live from the heart of westminster and all across the uk . on today's show, one the uk. on today's show, one former labour adviser says to tony blair says that starmer's government has completely lost grip after sue gray was ousted from her role as number 10 chief of staff. how much is labour really achieved in their first 100 days in power? and will be crossing line to sir keir starmer later in the show as he addresses the nation on the state in israel. talking of which, one year on from the october 7th massacre in israel, shocking new figures show sympathy and support for hamas on britain's streets as israel marks the terrible first anniversary of the october 7th terror attack. live pictures there from southern israel commemorating that anniversary one year ago today. commemorating that anniversary one year ago today . and if the one year ago today. and if the labour party gave the chagos
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islands back to mauritius today, a group of outraged chagossians gathered at parliament and shouted. keir starmer was a human rights lawyer. where are our human rights? i'll be joined by dame andrea jenkyns, who attended that protest earlier on today , and an astonishing report today, and an astonishing report seen exclusively by gb news shows that less than 3% of all illegal immigrants who came to britain via small boats have been deported since 2018. furthermore , 80% of these furthermore, 80% of these illegal immigrants are men aged under 40. will we ever take back control of our borders ? and control of our borders? and today, gb news can also exclusively reveal a foreign prisoners league of shame that i compiled with my son over the weekend that shows albanian nationals are the worst offenders. astonishingly, they are 14.5 times more likely to be jailed than brits. i'll name and shame the worst offenders. that's all coming between now and six on an action packed show.
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what's the show? always a pleasure. two amazing exclusives today from gb news. the first one 3%. just 3% of those who come to this country illegally since 2018 have been sent back. it makes an absolute mockery of our tough on illegal immigrant stance, does it not? secondly, british jails packed full of foreign nationals. albanians 14.5 times more likely to be in jail than brits. what on earth are they still doing here? we've got to return to agreement with albania. surely it's time to send them back. and how about making it harder for them to get here in the first place? get in touch. usual way. gbnews.com/yoursay. but now , gbnews.com/yoursay. but now, here's your weather. and here's your headline. sorry, wallace . your headline. sorry, wallace. >> hello. >> hello. >> i've got your news bulletins
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at just past 3:00 this morning. people across israel gathered to mark the one year anniversary of the october 7th attacks in jerusalem . israelis carrying jerusalem. israelis carrying flags and placards with the faces of missing people gathered reflection and pain. thinking aboutof:tober the 7th, the worst reflection and pain. thinking aboutof missing e 7th, the worst reflection and pain. thinking aboutof missing people he worst reflection and pain. thinking aboutof missing people gathered outside. president netanyahu's faces of missing people gathered outside. president netanyahu's home at 629, local time, a siren home at 629, local time, a siren rang out to mark the hour that rang out to mark the hour that hamas led militants launched hamas led militants launched rockets into israel last october rockets into israel last october 7th, to according israeli 7th, to according israeli figures, they killed some 1200 figures, they killed some 1200 people and took some 250 people and took some 250 hostages to gaza . earlier, hostages to gaza . earlier, hostages to gaza. earlier, hostages to gaza. earlier, foreign secretary david lammy foreign secretary david lammy visited a synagogue in north visited a synagogue in north london to mark one year since london to mark one year since the attack on israel. joined by the attack on israel. joined by chief rabbi to the uk, rabbi chief rabbi to the uk, rabbi ephraim mirvis, they ephraim mirvis, they commemorated those who lost their lives. one year ago. this commemorated those who lost their lives. one year ago. this is what the foreign secretary is what the foreign secretary had to say. had to say. >> it is a day of deep >> it is a day of deep reflection and pain. thinking reflection and pain. thinking about october the 7th, the worst about october the 7th, the worst
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british hostage, and. her family been taking british hostage, and her family been taking place for the have been taking place for the past few weeks, mps are now back at westminster, but their return coincides with further controversy for the government after yesterday's departure of the prime minister's chief of staff, sue gray. this prompted sir keir starmer to reshuffle his staff with the leader of labour's general election campaign , morgan mcsweeney, campaign, morgan mcsweeney, taking on the chief of staff role instead. earlier, foreign office minister hamish falconer defended labour's so—called shaky start in government. >> i don't at all accept in the first 100 days that this government has been a disaster. we've made real progress across a whole range of issues. i think it's been full of difficult choices, which reflect the difficult inheritance that we've got as we become the government. but i think keir starmer and the rest of the government is getting on with the job that the british public elected us to do. >> reform uk is preparing for a private prosecution of the men involved in a violent altercation with police officers
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at manchester airport in july, mps have written to the home secretary claiming the officers involved have been thrown under the bus, and that the alleged assailants are being given special , indifferent, different special, indifferent, different treatment. in their letter , they treatment. in their letter, they also claim that a senior police officer ruled a recommendation, overruled a recommendation to release footage of the incident , release footage of the incident, which was later leaked to a newspaper . reform mp rupert lowe newspaper. reform mp rupert lowe told our reporter charlie peters that the investigation needed to be resolved urgently. >> when you see a video like that and we've had, i think, an 11 week delay so far, you've got people's lives on hold and it's not fair. on the police officers involved . so it needs to be involved. so it needs to be resolved and it needs to be resolved and it needs to be resolved quickly and it needs to be resolved fairly and with common sense . common sense. >> a protest is being held outside parliament today following the government's controversial decision to scrap the winter fuel allowance for
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pensioners. last month, labour voted to cut the benefit for all but the poorest pensioners , but the poorest pensioners, although the unite union has argued this would only save around £1.4 billion per year. the union are now encouraging people to speak out and join them as they lobby the government to reverse the decision to make these cuts ahead of the colder months , new ahead of the colder months, new analysis has found that 10,000 children have fallen into poverty as a result of the two child benefit limit since labour took office, the data comes from the child poverty action group, who say the policy must be abolished. however, the government says this cannot happen due to the state of the uk's public finances. happen due to the state of the uk's public finances . finally, uk's public finances. finally, a cost hearing is taking place as the royal courts of justice at the royal courts of justice at the royal courts of justice at the royal courts of justice today as part of the wagatha christie libel case between coleen rooney and rebekah vardy. following the ruling in 2022,
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which found vardy had leaked rooney's private information to the press, it was ordered that she would have to pay 90% of rooney's legal costs . but now rooney's legal costs. but now the legal battle rumbles on as questions are asked on both sides about which costs she should reasonably have to pay. those are your latest gb news headlines. i'm will hollis with more stories 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. >> thank you will. now let's get cracking . now as sir keir cracking. now as sir keir starmer approaches 100 days in office as prime minister, has his labour government descended into absolute chaos when his chief of staff, sue gray, has called it a day as she quits her role over fears she had become a
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distraction. and let's now cross to gb news political editor christopher hope, who joins me from a very sunny locale outside parliament there looking beautiful. chris. the weather. not you. i digress. 100 days. 100 days in, chris. and let's be frank, i don't recall a single positive headline in the in the entire premiership so far. if there has been one, they've been completely overshadowed from the riots. two to kyiv, three gear kia. keir starmer the pensioner homers the headlines writer's dream. but it's been a nightmare for the labour party so far. the guy to use a football term is having a nightmare . having a nightmare. >> yeah, martin. and welcome to a sunny westminster. i mean , a sunny westminster. i mean, football like like politics is a game of two halves. we're only. we're barely even 100 days into this new government. it's a five year government. i would argue they had quite a good period when parliament was sitting until the end of july. they got their policies out, the out the way. they announced plans to renationalise the rail services,
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established plans for gb energy and they took them. they paid more public sector workers more money. and if you know, that's what they did, and some would say that was at the expense of pensioners and that was awkward for them. but then it all went very wobbly, very wobbly indeed. in the summer with this row about freebies, free glasses , about freebies, free glasses, suits and use of a flat from from a senior labour peer called lord alli. and then now we have today we have sue gray, the chief of staff, appointed . she's chief of staff, appointed. she's lost her job. she now is the nation's envoy . we're not even nation's envoy. we're not even sure what that job is. it didn't it didn't exist before. sue gray resigned late last week. morgan mcsweeney replaces her and we'll wait and see how that goes. so i think it's a feeling. i think it's they've made a rod for their own back. my analysis of this, martin, such as it is , is this, martin, such as it is, is that i was there in rolls—royce in derby during the election campaign. and rachel reeves said then that she won't have a budget until the obr, the office for budget responsibility, has
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checked all the numbers are okay and not going to spook the markets. that takes ten weeks and that's why the budget is not until october the 30th. and i think that has paralysed this government. it's been able to get ahead of the curve. it's able to drive events. most new governments, with the scale of a majority that labour has got, would have had a budget before parliament broke up. that hasn't happened. and i think that's what's caused the stasis at the heart of government . heart of government. >> and chris, there are two protests today outside parliament. they're putting the dissatisfaction across. first, of course, is the winter fuel allowance protest. and would that have been embarrassing for the labour party at unite the big teaching union are fronting that one up? >> yeah, yeah, certainly . >> yeah, yeah, certainly. earlier we had the protest outside parliament from the pensioner group saying why on earth are you taking away £300 from 10 million pensioners in this country? i mean, the
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politics looks completely tin eared to me. why they couldn't announce that at the same time, maybe as the state pension going up maybe as the state pension going ”p by maybe as the state pension going up by a big figure back in september, and then do it as a yin and yang on the one hand, we're giving you more money in your state pension, and on the other hand, we're taking away this benefit from these these all these millions of pensioners. the second protest here is by the chagossian islanders. of course, we heard last week how the government is going to give and you'll see them now the at the end of this protest earlier, there are a lot more protesters here. now. there are aren't as many, but they are protesting against the government's decision to hand over sovereignty over the chagos islands. apart from the diego garcia base to mauritius and with me now is jean—francois nellen from chagossian voices john francois. why are you here protesting? >> well, you've probably heard the news came up last week where the news came up last week where the labour government is handing our island to mauritius without our island to mauritius without our democratic consent. and like
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i say this, this island has been british since 1814. but now the labour government coming to power and taking the sovereign land to give it to a foreign country without actually asking the chagossians what they want to do. and the reason we're here, we're asking the government they should be listening to the community, give them like a referendum if they want to be british or if they want to be british or if they want to be mauritian. >> yes. to remind listeners and viewers, 1500 chagossians were removed from your islands, weren't they, by the british government . and then you came to government. and then you came to live here, and there are now 6000 chagossians. and you you believe they all want to return? >> correct. at the time of the forced removal, there was about 1500 and it was done under a labour government. now like the family of the committee has grown to roughly to 10,000 and majority 90% of them would like to go back. and the british protection.
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>> so what do you want to do? or maybe a referendum of those 10,000 and present that to mps. >> correct. and that's what we've been asking since day one. we should be asking the committee themselves to decide their own future, what they would like to do. the people of gibraltar had a chance. the people from falkland had the chance, while the chagossians could have the same right. is that because we are black that the uk are ashamed to have, like a black community, citizens, citizens overseas territory you got david david lammy is a is a black foreign secretary. >> i mean he's taken this labour government has taken this decision. >> they came into power with a manifesto to say they are the people government, but they are not listening to the people. we are british, overseas territory citizens. what are they doing to us? and they have come up with this announcement without the parliamentary knowledge of it. and we're asking them to have a vote on it without a three line whip and make a decision and take into account the chagossians wish . chagossians wish. >> would the chagos islands be
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better under the jurisdiction of mauritius? because that's nearer, isn't it, mauritius? because that's nearer, isn't it , than the uk? nearer, isn't it, than the uk? to the islands where you're from, where your family are from? >> well, they are saying mauritius is nearer and we know from history when labour forcibly removed the chagossians to mauritius, what happened to the chagossian? they have given compensation to the mauritius government at that time to give to the community and they have not received anything so from the seychelles, have not received anything until today. and some has, they have had something, but not what it was meant to be given. we have always been classed as second class citizens in mauritius. the mauritian government does not have the solution in heart . have the solution in heart. >> and do you think this labour government doesn't understand or is there a problem with that? i mean, the tory government started the talks, didn't they? so perhaps it's all of government, doesn't quite understand the pain you're going through. >> well, i will blame blame both government for doing it. james cleverly start the negotiation a couple of years ago and labour come into power. carry on with it. but we had negotiations in
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the past and labour had the chance to cancel it, but they go ahead and did it and we had jonathan powell, the special envoy , who said because the envoy, who said because the election in mauritius, he needed a quick solution by doing this . a quick solution by doing this. >> well, jean—francois nellen, thank you . then you heard their thank you. then you heard their impassioned voices from the chagossian voices group about what's being debated shortly in the house of commons. there will be a statement from david lammy coming to you live shortly on gb news about this very controversial decision. >> thank you chris, an excellent, a very eloquent their case put forward by the chagossians. thank you for joining me on the show. and joining me on the show. and joining me on the show. and joining me now in the studio is the labour mp for blackley and middleton south, graham stringer. graham, welcome to the show. you've been around since 1997. you've seen them come, you've seen them go from a perspective of somebody with a huge wealth of experience, particularly in how the labour party handles its media case. do you think you're making mistakes? john mcternan, former adviser to your former boss tony blair, said he feels the labour
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party has completely lost its grip. even alastair campbell say of him what you like he's saying there are just too many missteps in this labour government. is that the problem? you can't get a good headline no matter how hard you try. >> it's not just about headlines, it's about the decisions being made and the consent there is for those decisions. it doesn't appear to me at the centre of government that there is any integration between. this is the policy , between. this is the policy, this is how we communicate it. and so that any pitfalls, any mistakes there are in the policy can be ironed out . when people can be ironed out. when people sit down and think, how is this going to go down? in my case, in my constituency , but across the my constituency, but across the whole of the of the country and if it isn't going to go down well, do we need to change the policy? do we need to explain it in a different way? we're getting all sorts of ludicrous
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justifications for policies, bad policies, actually, on the winter fuel payment, for instance, poor old ministers were sent out and told it would collapse the markets if we didn't do it. well, that was absolute balderdash and nonsense . absolute balderdash and nonsense. it's a less than 0.2% of the total public expenditure. the markets wouldn't notice it one way or another. pensioners will nofice way or another. pensioners will notice it. bad policy very badly explained. so i don't think that discussion at the centre of government is taking place. and the only person that can sort that out is the prime minister. it's not about this office or that office or this official, that office or this official, that official. there has to be central direction at the top . central direction at the top. keir needs to get a grip of it. he needs to stop it being an issue that people are talking about officials. they're not elected by anybody . and though elected by anybody. and though the prime minister and those members of the cabinet need to get in control of things, and yet there have been so many
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unforced errors to use that term, that football term. >> no, the after the riots . i >> no, the after the riots. i mean, you said that you think that's one of sir keir starmer's better moments know the consequences. >> but he dealt with the riots quickly. yes. >> but that the allegations of two tier care people put in jail for facebook posts. that wasn't a good look. we didn't see such a good look. we didn't see such a hard line response. for example, in 2011, after the tottenham riots, when it was the black community rioting . so. so black community rioting. so. so the mistakes began early and they continued the free gear. keir we promised change. we haven't got change in fact, we've got it worse. is that the point? if you're if you put yourself on such a high moral pedestal in opposition in government, you're destined for a pratfall. >> i think there's two big points there dealt very well with the riots, took action, got people into the courts quickly because the riots were taking place . i think the courts handed place. i think the courts handed out decisions that were tougher than they otherwise would, would have been, and that was the courts. not keir. he took the
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right decisions. i think the courts took some very strange decisions after that. on the two gean decisions after that. on the two gear. keir , as you say, it's an gear. keir, as you say, it's an offensive term, but basically members of the cabinet should not be receiving gifts from multi—millionaires people out there. they probably wouldn't use these terms, would want to know what the quid and the core, you know, what is the millionaire expecting? i'm not saying he's getting anything but what might he be expecting? is it just influence? what is it in the normal world, if there is an exchange of thousands and thousands of pounds, people expect something from keir starmer to make amends. he's paid £6,000 back. he should pay the lot back £101,000. >> he hasn't paid back well, precisely. >> if it was, if it was wrong on pay >> if it was, if it was wrong on
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pay the back. if he was wrong on £6,000, then he was wrong on the rest. if it was genuinely to run his office, that's one thing. but if it was clothes , sports but if it was clothes, sports events, fashion shows , whatever, events, fashion shows, whatever, that money should go back. >> can i quickly ask you 60% of voters, when they were polled last week, don't think keir starmer is even going to be in charge of the labour party in the next general election. what's your take on that, graham? >> there's been mistakes, but that's nonsense. i mean, not the opinion polls, the opinion poll. keir with the majority has got is going to be there for the term the labour party culturally doesn't get rid of leaders. in my opinion it should have got rid of 1 or 2 leaders in the past. and i've said so. but keir has got a very large parliamentary majority short of some very strange events. he's going to be there for the term. >> graham stringer, thank you for coming in. it's always a pleasure to have your company. thank you. now, it's been a year since hamas militants attacked israel, murdering more than 1000 people. and how has the world
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welcome back. it's 3:25 on martin daubney on gb news now . martin daubney on gb news now. today marks a year since hamas terrorists massacred around 1200 israelis, including 36 children, and took 251 others hostage in a statement marking the anniversary, prime minister sir keir starmer described the attack as the darkest day in jewish history since the holocaust. but in spite of this barbarous attack, a new report has found that almost 1 in 10 young people are sympathetic towards hamas and over the weekend, one woman at a pro—palestine march in london astonishingly said this terrorist international law
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hamas are not terrorists . hamas are not terrorists. >> why don't you dig a big hole and jump ? and jump? >> isn't it incredible ? you >> isn't it incredible? you know, one year ago today i was covering this story on breakfast news with anne diamond . news with anne diamond. astonishing images broke in of those paragliders going in, of the trucks going over the border of the gunfire. the massacre that followed, the terrible barbarism that followed the kidnappings of pensioners, of children, many of which haven't been returned, 97 still haven't been returned, 97 still haven't been returned, 97 still haven't been returned and the day after the marchers broke out in london, and those who those of us who saw what happened on the day were just astonished that anybody could even think of taking to the streets and still to a year on, that's happening . to a year on, that's happening. people, british citizens, screaming that hamas aren't terrorists, that hezbollah aren't terrorists. this is happening in broad daylight on
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british streets. i find it incredible. and let's discuss this now with the chief executive at the campaign against anti—semitism, gideon walter gideon , welcome to the walter gideon, welcome to the show. it's with a heavy heart that we have to even have this conversation one year on should be a time for reflection, for remembering, for the memorial to those who lost their lives in such a brutal way and those who still are at large. and yet , still are at large. and yet, this poll, the campaign against anti—semitism, has put out today, is simply astonishing . today, is simply astonishing. first of all, can you tell us your thoughts about that huge event one year ago, and then tell us about your poll? >> i think for a start, just the poll and the event itself are inextricably linked because the event obviously october 7th, the worst atrocity since the holocaust. >> and we saw evidence , which >> and we saw evidence, which was filmed by hamas and put out by hamas , that incontrovertibly by hamas, that incontrovertibly told us that they went out and
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they murdered civilians, they raped , they took people hostage, raped, they took people hostage, they brutalised them. they burned people alive . that is burned people alive. that is something that there is evidence of. it's something that we saw on social media. it's something that we saw on the news. it's something that we've seen over and over again since. as forensic reports came in and as more and more casualties and victims were found. and it's something we've heard about from hostages who've been returned from hamas captivity. but the fact that we then look at what's going on in our own country, and this is where the poll is so staggering, we look at what's going on in our own country, and i just see the problem on our doorstep. first of all, we've had these protests on our streets pretty much every week where we've had people expressing support for terrorist organisations. we've seen police attacks, we've seen the police failing really to do very much at all about what's been going on on our streets. we've seen two successive governments now
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failing to get to grips with this. and then we've also seen it spreading from our streets onto our campuses. but the polling results for me are devastating because for1 in 9, sorry, for 9% or nearly 1 in 10 of our young people , 18 to 24 of our young people, 18 to 24 years to old sympathise with hamas is devastating. but it's not even as bad. i think, as one of the other statistics, which is that 16% of our young people think that those hamas attacks, which they've all watched play out on social media, this is a young generation that's been getting its news from social media. they've seen it all play out. 16% of these young people think those attacks were justified . and the general justified. and the general population figures aren't even that much better. 7% of people in our country think that the, the, the october 7th atrocity was in some way justified. and
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if you consider the way that the numbers play out, that means there are about 4.5 million people in our country who think october 7th was justified. it's an extremely dangerous state of affairs. >> i find it simply incredible. gideon, i'm particularly alarmed . gideon, i'm particularly alarmed. i work around westminster. i've been through a great many of these protests of both sides. i get involved in all of them. at one of them, i was i was begging a police officer to take down that projector that was projecting onto big ben from the river to the sea. they were not interested. they had no interest whatsoever in the intervention. the people in full ski masks. i was begging the coppers to arrest them. they had no interest in that. gideon. and then i was egged for my for my point in that. and i was egged by a very bitter, angry faced, young woman. it struck me at the time on these protests and your data backs it up, gideon, why is it that young people in particular seem so poisoned against jews ? what's going on? against jews? what's going on? >> i think there's an immediate
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problem, which is the way that news is spreading, the way that conspiracy theory is taken as fact. conspiracy theory is taken as fact . i conspiracy theory is taken as fact. i mean, just look at conspiracy theory is taken as fact . i mean, just look at the fact. i mean, just look at the fact. i mean, just look at the fact that, you know, from our polling, 13% of young people think the government is wrong to ban hamas as a terrorist organisation at all. and you look at where they're getting those views from and it's from social media largely, it's from conspiracy theory, but it goes to a much deeper problem. and it's a problem that doesn't just affect jews, because like you say, if somebody is beaming genocidal anti—semitic slogans onto big ben, if they're masked up and abusing members of the public, journalists, members of police forces, then there is something seriously wrong here. and i think the rot that there is that in many ways, not just in our country, but across the west, people are forgetting what the west is for. west, people are forgetting what the west is for . they're the west is for. they're forgetting that there isn't this there isn't it cannot be said to be the case that all views are
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equal be the case that all views are equal, that there are two sides to every story. sometimes it is the case that hamas or others are terrorists, that they represent something that this country and everybody in it should be against. and sometimes it is the case that those opposing those terrorists are just civilians , or are soldiers just civilians, or are soldiers trying to do their jobs. just civilians, or are soldiers trying to do their jobs . and trying to do their jobs. and unfortunately, what we're seeing now is people who say that hamas's attacks were in some ways justified, that if you take that along the way, it means that along the way, it means that rape is justified. it means that rape is justified. it means that murder is justified. it means that taking hostages, innocent civilians, as you say , innocent civilians, as you say, holocaust survivors through to infant babies , taking them as infant babies, taking them as hostages is justified. and you kind of fall into a moral morass, which is, i think , morass, which is, i think, unfortunately, where a lot of our young people have been dragged by some of the views that they've taken on. >> okay. thank you forjoining >> okay. thank you for joining us on this momentous occasion. gideon falter, of course, the chief executive at the campaign
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against anti—semitism. hope you have some peace today. thank you.thank have some peace today. thank you. thank you . there's lots you. thank you. there's lots more still to come between now and 4:00, including people protesting outside parliament against the government's decision to scrap the winter fuel allowance for around 10 million british pensioners. we'll be talking to them next. but first, this is your headunes but first, this is your headlines and it's will hollis . headlines and it's will hollis. >> good afternoon. your headunes >> good afternoon. your headlines at just past 3:30 this afternoon. this morning , people afternoon. this morning, people across israel gathered to mark the one year anniversary of the october seventh attacks at the knesset building in jerusalem. flags were lowered to half mast in commemoration of victims to the attack, according to israeli figures, hamas killed some 1200 people and took about 250 hostages to gaza . parliament hostages to gaza. parliament returns today following a recess for the various party conferences, which have taken place over the past few weeks ,
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place over the past few weeks, members of parliament will be back in westminster today, but their return coincides with further controversy for the government after the prime minister's chief of staff, sue gray, left her job yesterday. this has prompted sir keir to reshuffle his staff, with the leader of labour's general election campaign, morgan mcsweeney, taking on the chief of staff role instead. earlier, shadow leader of the house of commons chris philp, told gb news breakfast that this is just one example of labour chaos. >> keir starmer's government has collapsed into chaos afterjust collapsed into chaos after just 93 days. he can't even run his own number 10 downing street operation, let alone run the country. frankly, this has all fallen apart. a lot faster than i was expecting. but this sort of chaos at the heart of downing street shows us why they've made so many mistakes. it's no surprise that his opinion poll ratings have collapsed so catastrophically, and i think this sue gray debacle is an example of that .
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example of that. >> a police officer feared his colleague was going to be run over just before chris kaba was shot by a metropolitan police marksman, a court has heard. the officer, known as a3, described a very dramatic scene unfolding as he gave evidence at the old bailey earlier today. fellow armed officer martin blake, aged 40, is on trial for the murder of mr kaba in streatham, south—east london, last september 2022. 24 year old chris campbell was shot once through the windscreen of the audi that he was driving as he tried to smash between a marked police patrol car and a parked car next to it. the trial continues. let's cross over now to the house of commons, where keir starmer is speaking of jewish security, to the world. >> mr speaker, 15 british citizens were brutally slain that day. another has since died
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in captivity . our thoughts today in captivity. our thoughts today are with the jewish people around the world. the jewish community here in the united kingdom and all those that we lost a year ago. for so many, the pain and horror of that day is as acute today as it was a year ago . they live it every day. year ago. they live it every day. last week i met the families of british hostages and those killed on the 7th of october. i sat with them as they told me about their loved ones. i will never forget their words. mandie, amari spoke of her love for her daughter emily. she said, and i quote my personal clock stopped at 1024 on the 7th of october, the moment when emily sent a desperate , emily sent a desperate, unfinished message as hamas
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attacked her kibbutz. she is still held captive today . we can still held captive today. we can hardly imagine what hostages like emily are going through , like emily are going through, nor what the families are going through. the agony , agony day through. the agony, agony day after day. so i say again, the hostages must be returned immediately, and unconditionally. they will always be uppermost in our minds. and i pay tribute again to the families for their incredible dignity and determination . mr dignity and determination. mr speaken dignity and determination. mr speaker, today is also a day of grief for the wider region. as we look back on a year of conflict and suffering the human toll amongst innocent civilians in gaza is truly devastating. over 41,000 palestinians have been killed, tens of thousands
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orphaned. almost 2 million displaced. facing disease , displaced. facing disease, starvation, desperation without proper health care or shelter. it is a living nightmare and it must end. we stand with all innocent victims in israel, gaza , innocent victims in israel, gaza, the west bank, lebanon and beyond, and we stand with all communities here in the united kingdom against hatred of jews or muslims , because any attack or muslims, because any attack on a minority is an attack on our proud values of tolerance and respect. and we will not stand for it. here , mr speaker, stand for it. here, mr speaker, with the middle east close to the brink and the very real danger of a regional war. last week the iranian regime chose to strike israel. the whole house will join me in utterly
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condemning this attack. we support israel's right to defend herself against iran's aggression in line with international law. because let us be very clear, this was not a defensive action by iran. it was an act of aggression and a major escalation in response to the death of a terrorist leader. it exposes, once again iran's malign role in the region. they helped equip hamas for the 7th of october attacks. they armed hezbollah, who launched a year long barrage of rockets on northern israel, forcing 60,000 israelis to flee their homes. and they support the houthis, who mount direct attacks on israel and continue to attack international shipping . mr international shipping. mr speaken international shipping. mr speaker, the whole house i know will join me in thanking our brave servicemen and servicewomen who have shown
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their usual courage in countering this threat . but make countering this threat. but make no mistake , the region cannot no mistake, the region cannot endure another year of this. civilians on all sides have suffered too much. all sides must now step back from the bnnk must now step back from the brink and find the courage of restraint . there is no military restraint. there is no military solution to these challenges. so we must renew our diplomatic efforts. and together with my right hon. friend the foreign secretary, i have had discussions with the leaders of israel, lebanon, jordan, the palestinian authority, the g7, and the eu and made the case at the united nations for political solutions to end the fighting . solutions to end the fighting. in the weeks ahead, we will continue this work focused on three areas. firstly, lebanon, where our immediate priority is the safety of british citizens. our team is on the ground
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helping to get people out. we have already brought over 430 people home on chartered flights, and we stand ready with additional evacuation efforts as necessary. and i say again, an important message to british citizens still in lebanon. you must leave now. mr speaker, we are also working to ease the humanitarian crisis in lebanon. last week , we provided £10 last week, we provided £10 million of vital support in addition to the £5 million we are already providing to unicef. but the situation cannot go on. we will continue to lead calls for an immediate ceasefire and the return to a political plan for lebanon, based on security council resolution 1701, which requires hezbollah to withdraw north of the litani river. they must stop firing rockets and end this now, so that people on both sides of the border can return
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to their homes. second, mr speaken to their homes. second, mr speaker, we must renew efforts for an immediate ceasefire in gaza. for an immediate ceasefire in gaza . but we cannot simply wait gaza. but we cannot simply wait for this to happen. we must do more now to provide relief to the civilian population . and the civilian population. and thatis the civilian population. and that is why we have restarted aid to unrwa . we are supporting aid to unrwa. we are supporting field hospitals and the delivery of water, health care and treatment for malnourished children. but the ongoing restrictions on aid are impossible to justify . israel impossible to justify. israel must open more crossings and allow life saving aid to flow. crucially, they must provide a safe haven for aid workers. too many have been killed, including three british citizens. israel must act now so that together with our allies, we can surge humanitarian support ahead of the winter . third, mr speaker, the winter. third, mr speaker, we must put in place solutions
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for the long term to break the relentless cycle of violence. the ultimate goal here is well understood. it must be the two state solution. there is no other option which offers stability and security. so we need to build a political route towards it so that israel is finally safe and secure alongside the long promised palestinian state. this requires support for the palestinian authority to step into the vacuum in gaza. it requires an urgent international effort to support reconstruction, and it requires guarantees for israel's security. we will work with our allies and partners to that end . allies and partners to that end. but the key to all this remains a ceasefire in gaza. now, the unconditional release of the hostages, the unhindered flow of aid that is the fundamental
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first step to change the trajectory of the region . mr trajectory of the region. mr speaker , nobody in this house speaker, nobody in this house can truly imagine what it feels like to cower under the bodies of your friends, hoping a terrorist won't find you. mere minutes after dancing at a music festival , nobody in minutes after dancing at a music festival, nobody in this house can truly imagine seeing your city, your homes, your schools, your hospitals, your businesses obliterated with your neighbours and family buried underneath . it and family buried underneath. it is beyond our comprehension . and is beyond our comprehension. and with that should come a humility. it is hard even to understand the full depth of this pain. but what we can do is remember. what we can do is respect and listen to the voices that reach out to us at these moments. and what we can do. mr
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speaken moments. and what we can do. mr speaker, is use the power of diplomacy to try and find practical steps that minimise the suffering on the ground and work towards that long term solution, so that a year of this terrible and bloody conflict can never happen again. that is what we have done on these benches. thatis we have done on these benches. that is what the whole house has done. and it is what this government will continue to do. i commend this statement to the house. thank you, mr speaker. >> leader of the opposition, rishi sunak. yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah. >> can i thank the prime minister for advance sight of his statement today? >> is the anniversary of october the 7th. >> this modern pogrom , the worst >> this modern pogrom, the worst loss of life. jewish life since the second world war, was a horrendous reminder of the anti—semitism in our world and the existential threats that israel faces . israel faces. >> over the last year, many of
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the hostages kidnapped by hamas on the 7th of october have been raped sexually abused, murdered and mutilated beyond recognition. >> and today, a year on, many still remain held by hamas and other terrorist groups. i think , other terrorist groups. i think, particularly today, of the british citizen emily de—man, who has endured a year in captivity across this house. i know that we join in saying, bnng know that we join in saying, bring them home. the situation in the middle east is grave. too many innocent civilian lives have been lost. it is right that this country continues to play its part in defending israel against iranian attacks. but we should not forget the base cause of all these events. iran's refusal to accept israel's right to exist and its desire to destabilise the region through arming and funding its terrorist proxies , hamas, hezbollah and
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proxies, hamas, hezbollah and the houthis. the current conflict in lebanon is a result of hezbollah's determination to use this territory to launch rocket attacks on israel. and let me be clear israel has a right to defend itself. it has a right to defend itself. it has a right to defend itself. it has a right to eliminate the leadership of hezbollah, and it has a right to restore security for its citizens. and this country should support israel in pursuing these goals. but can the prime minister tell the house and expand on what he said about what role the united kingdom is playing in providing humanitarian support to those lebanese citizens who have been displaced because of this conflict? and i welcome, i think, his announcements on some financial support to that end. the medium term question we must help address is what happens once the israeli operation has finished. and can i ask the prime minister to update the house on what steps this country, along with our allies, are taking to help build up the capacity of the lebanese state so that hezbollah cannot simply
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re—establish itself in southern lebanon. we must never forget that hezbollah do not represent the interests of lebanon or its citizens, but those of their paymasters in tehran. yeah, yeah yeah yeah, yeah. turning to the situation of british nationals in lebanon, i know that the government has rightly been urging them to leave for some time now, but it is clear that difficulties in obtaining tickets on commercial flights mean a number of our citizens are still there. i welcome the government's chartering of planes to help british nationals return home, and know very well the logistical challenges involved in this and pay tribute to all. the foreign office and other teams that will be working hard to make sure that this happens. and can the prime minister assure the house that any british national who wishes to leave lebanon will be able to do so on a government chartered flight? and turning next to the prime minister's speech at the un general assembly, which he mentioned, can i fully endorse his reaffirmation that the united kingdom will stand with
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ukraine for as long as it takes? yes. events in the middle east andindeed yes. events in the middle east and indeed ukraine are another reminder that the world is increasingly becoming more dangerous if we wish to be able to continue to deter our enemies and defend our values and stand up for our interests, then we will need to invest more in our military. now, the prime minister and i have discussed previously my view that we should increase defence spending to 2.5% of gdp by 2030, but in our previous exchanges and in this house, he said, a trajectory for future defence spending would be set out at the coming fiscal event. spending would be set out at the coming fiscal event . and could coming fiscal event. and could i just ask that he reconfirm his commitment to that timetable ? commitment to that timetable? and finally, on this sad anniversary, can i finish by saying that the united kingdom stands with israel against this terrorism today, tomorrow and always? and to the jewish community here in britain, i know that at moments like this , know that at moments like this, when the jewish people are under attack in their homeland, jewish
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people everywhere can feel less safe. and i know that the prime minister will agree with me that across this house we will always stand against the evils of anti—semitism. >> prime minister , i thank the >> prime minister, i thank the leader of the opposition for his words, and i do think it is important on an occasion like this, that we speak as one voice with one voice across the house, and i think the whole house will agree with him when he says, in relation to the hostages, we must bring them home. >> they must be uppermost in our minds. he asks about the assistance in lebanon. humanitarian assistance is being provided aid and money. also training, as he will know , and training, as he will know, and working towards the security council resolution in relation to the evacuations. he asked about british nationals and we will make sure that any british national does have the
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assistance they need to come home and again , i repeat, now is home and again, i repeat, now is the time to leave and if anybody, any british national requires that assistance, please make contact with us so that we can provide that assistance in relation to the 2.5% of defence spending. let me recommit to that, that we will increase it to 2.5%, and we will set out our plans in due course. but the most important thing , the most most important thing, the most important thing today, i think, is for this house to do it as it is for this house to do it as it is doing, which is speak with one voice on the one year anniversary of an awful terrorist attack. thank you. >> chair of the select committee, emily thornberry. >> thank you very much, mr speaken >> on this anniversary, the house unites in its condemnation of the murder of over a thousand israeli citizens and makes a unhed israeli citizens and makes a united call for the release of a of 100 hostages. >> parliament also stands behind a belief in the rules based international order, a belief that all civilian life is equal
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and must be protected and so today, we mark a year when more than 41,000 palestinians have been killed in gaza, 742 people have been killed in the west bank, and over 2000 people have been killed in lebanon. >> and that's emily thornberry. there . and we've just heard from there. and we've just heard from keir starmer, the prime minister, and rishi sunak, leader of the opposition, on this, the first anniversary of the terrorist invasion of israel. let's look back over that speech now and we're going to be joined by our home security editor, mark white. mark, welcome to the show . so mark, welcome to the show. so keir starmer seems to be wanting to be all things to all people, even on today, recognising the right for the jewish people to mark the occasion, but also in defence of the citizens of gaza, the palestinians. what is your take? >> well, he says, all innocent people are clearly in the region who have been caught up in both the terrorist attacks on the 7th of october and in the subsequent
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war that israel is now prosecuting on multiple fronts against these terrorist organisations. he would like to recognise and call for that immediate ceasefire. i should say , martin, just before we say, martin, just before we continue the discussion, there is an alert right across israel at the moment, central israel, because of a ballistic missile launch from yemen, a ballistic missile en route towards central israel. this is how it's looking on my sort of terror map here. just get the light out of the way from you there. you can see those red alert notifications right across that central part of israel around tel aviv as they await this ballistic missile, because with the ballistic missile , it's more ballistic missile, it's more difficult for them to determine
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the exact trajectory of where this missile could strike. but according to the israeli defence forces, it is a ballistic missile that has been launched. they are saying that the alarm has sounded in a number of areas in central israel. the surface to surface missile fired from yemen. another confirming was successfully intercepted by the israeli air force. so fighter jets from the israeli air force have shot down this apparent ballistic missile that was launched from yemen towards central israel. so those alerts, in short order, will be stood down. but we've had some significant launches of rockets and missiles from southern lebanon. martin, today and from gaza itself, despite the fact that the israeli military has
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pummelled hamas very significantly in gaza for 12 months now , we still or they months now, we still or they still have an ability to launch rockets. and while that is the case, then that war in gaza, as far as the israeli military is concerned, is not yet concluded. and despite the heavy toll to life in the gaza strip, it will continue. and it looks like sir keir starmer's calls, as you were hearing from it, there for a ceasefire in that area, look to be, you know, a forlorn hope at this time. while israel says it's fighting on multiple fronts to defend itself from attack , to defend itself from attack, and rishi sunak also saying that the hostages have been raped, tortured and mutilated, bring them home. >> a lot of people mark white have forgotten the brutality of
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those events one year on, and yet still the missiles are flying into israel. >> yes, absolutely. and you just need to go down, actually, to some of those communities in southern israel around the gaza strip, the kibbutz in particular, they're lying empty as they were untouched from that moment on the 7th of october, when many hundreds of fighters spilled across the border from gaza and slaughtered 1200 people. >> thank you, mark for white, joining us, and we'll join you again later in the show. now, please, everyone, don't go anywhere because we'll hear from foreign secretary david lammy next, who faces mps over labour's decision to give sovereignty of the chagos islands. i'm martin daubney on
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afternoon to you. it's 4:00 pm and welcome to the martin daubney show here on gb news. we're broadcasting live from the heart of westminster and all across the uk. on today's show, keir starmer has addressed parliament on the first anniversary of the october 7 terrorist attacks as the middle east teeters on the edge of all out war. and while he copes with chaos of his own, there is plenty of trouble on the home front as well as his chief of staff has quit. how much is labour really achieved in its first 100 days in power ? and one first 100 days in power? and one year on from that october 7 massacre in israel, shocking new figures show sympathy and even support for hamas on britain's streets as israel marks the anniversary of that terror attack. and after labour at the labour party gave the chagos islands back to mauritius today, a group of outraged chagossians gathered at parliament and shouted. keir starmer was a human rights lawyer. where are our human rights? are sure to be joined by dame andrea jenkyns, who attended that protest earlier on today, and an
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astonishing report seen exclusively by gb news shows that less than 3% of all illegal immigrants who came to britain via small boats have been deported since 2018. and furthermore, 80% of all illegals are men aged under 40. will we ever take back control of our borders? and today, gb news can exclusively publish a foreign prisoners league of shame that shows albanian nationals are the worst offenders. astonishingly, they are 14.5 times more likely to be in jail in britain than brits. i'll name and shame the worst offenders and that's all coming up between now and 6:00 pm. well, the show always a pleasure to have your company an incredible set of figures that i crunched over the weekend with my son. shows that 38
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nationalities are more likely to be jailed in britain than brits. the albanians top the league of shame, followed by the bannau kosovo. what on earth is going on? all of these people are coming here illegally and ending up in our jails. why aren't we up in ourjails. why aren't we deporting more of them? and should we be preventing fewer of them from getting here in the first place? send your views and post your comments. usual way gbnews.com/yoursay. but here's your headlines now and it's will hollis . hollis. >> good afternoon. it's 4:02. i'm here with your top stories this morning. people across israel gathered to mark the one year anniversary of the october 7th attacks in jerusalem . 7th attacks in jerusalem. israelis carrying flags and placards with the faces of missing people gathered outside president netanyahu's home at 629 local time, a siren rang out
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to mark the hour that hamas led militants launched rockets into israel last october 7th, according to israeli figures, they killed some 1200 people and took some 250 hostages to gaza . took some 250 hostages to gaza. earlier, foreign secretary david lammy visited a synagogue in north london to mark one year since the attack on israel. joined by chief rabbi to the uk, rabbi ephraim mirvis, they commemorated those who lost their lives one year ago. this is what the foreign secretary had to say. >> it is a day of deep reflection and pain, thinking about october the 7th, the worst attack on the jewish community since the holocaust, and of course, thinking about the many hostages that are still held in gaza and their loved ones, and the pain and particularly we
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think of emily demari, the british hostage, and her family have no word of her fate or how she is doing new polling carried out on behalf of the campaign against anti—semitism has found what they called concerning levels of support for hamas among young people in britain. >> the yougov poll found that 9% of 18 to 24 year olds in the uk had a so—called favourable view of hamas, compared to just 3% across the general public in parliament, parliament, politics, parliament is back following a recess for the various party conferences which have been taking place for the past few weeks. mps are now back at westminster, but their return coincides with further controversy for the government after yesterday's departure of the prime minister's chief of staff, sue gray. this prompted sir keir to reshuffle his staff,
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with the leader of labour's general election campaign, morgan mcsweeney, taking on the chief of staff role instead. earlier, foreign office minister hamish falconer defended labour's so—called shaky start in government . in government. >> i don't at all accept in the first 100 days that this government has been a disaster. we've made real progress across a whole range of issues. i think it's been full of difficult choices which reflect the difficult inheritance that we've got as we become the government. but i think keir starmer and the rest of the government is getting on with the job that the british public elected us to do . british public elected us to do. >> a gp has been jailed for a string of indecent assaults against seven female patients in berkshire . doctor stephen cox berkshire. doctor stephen cox has been sentenced to 22 years in prison at reading crown court. cox was found guilty of 12 counts of indecent assault but acquitted of four others among after a month long trial. the jury was told how he had patients. he had made patients undress unnecessarily and
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touched their breasts without gloves. the incidents took place between 1988 and 1997. reform uk is preparing a private prosecution of the men involved in a violent altercation with police officers at manchester airport in july. mps have written to the home secretary claiming the officers involved have been thrown under the bus, and that the alleged assailants are being given special different treatment. in their letter , they also claim that a letter, they also claim that a senior police officer overruled a recommendation to release footage of the incident, which was later leaked to a newspaper. reform mp rupert lowe told our reporter charlie peters that the investigation needed to be resolved urgently . resolved urgently. >> when you see a video like that and we've had, i think, an 11 week delay so far, you've got people's lives on hold and it's not fair. on the police officers
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involved. so it needs to be resolved and it needs to be resolved and it needs to be resolved quickly and it needs to be resolved fairly and with common sense. >> a protest is being held outside parliament today following the government's controversial decision to scrap the winter fuel allowance for pensioners last month, labour voted to cut the benefits for all but the poorest pensioners, although the unite union has argued this would only save around £1.4 billion per year. the union are now encouraging people to speak out and join them as they lobby the government to reverse the or go to gbnews.com. >> forw.they ash alerts . or go to gbnews.com. >> forw.they lobby erts . or go to gbnews.com. >> forw.they lobby the . them as they lobby the government to reverse the decision to make these cuts decision to make these cuts ahead of colder months. those ahead of colder months. those are your latest gb news are your latest gb news headlines. i'm will hollis with headlines. i'm will hollis with more in 30 minutes for the very more in 30 minutes for the very latest gb news direct to your latest gb news direct to your smartphone , sign up to news smartphone , sign up to news smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com . or go to gbnews.com . or go to gbnews.com. >> forward slash alerts . or go to gbnews.com. >> forward slash alerts .
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>> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> thank you will. now sir keir starmer has addressed parliament on the first anniversary of the october 7th terrorist attacks as the middle east teeters on the edge of all out war. but has he got chaos of his own? back on the home front? well, his chief of staff, sue gray, has called it a day as she quits her role over fears that she had become, quote, a distraction. well, joining me now to discuss this and other stuff is
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joining me now to discuss this and other stuff ibounce when there this honeymoon bounce when there are new government. and what i think, i mean, she's been given like this. non—role hasn't she? and i understand today. sue grey's 500 miles away from parliament. so i think the next stop for her will no doubt be him putting her in the lord, starmer putting her in the lords. >> and dame andrea, you were at parliament square, a short while ago for one protest, and also you were there witnessing the winter fuel allowance protest. do you think it's particularly embarrassing? not only that, there are two protests on one day, but the winter fuel allowance , pension, pensioners allowance, pension, pensioners protest today was being organised by the unite union, which was one of the biggest unions that the labour party supports in fact. sir keir starmer just supports in fact. sir keir starmerjust gave supports in fact. sir keir starmer just gave teachers a 5.5% inflation busting pay rise. and yet still they're out protesting. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> i mean, it was shocker when i walked past it to the other protest today. and it's very rare that i actually agree with the unions, but i certainly did on this the way they're
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punishing our pensioners. >> and do you think part of the problem with the labour party is that they just don't seem to be getting a handle on their media communications? john mcternan, who is a former labour adviser to tony blair, he said today that he feels the party has completely lost its grip. even alastair campbell again, somebody that you and i would probably agree with on practically nothing . he said practically nothing. he said that the labour party can't afford too many missteps and it's already had too many. do you think there's a sense of they're just not managing the media scripts, even amongst media scripts, even amongst media platforms that ostensibly willed them into power ? they willed them into power? they can't get a good headline anywhere. >> i mean, what i find it outstanding, you know, really just crazy. the fact that it's not just having not having a decent media person in number 10, but where is the political instinct of starmer, of rachel reeves, our chancellor? you know, they they're so out of touch with the british people. and look, they've had plenty of
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practice time in opposition. they should have sailed these last three months. but it's been a disaster. >> and let's get now on to that protest that you were at earlier on today. of course, the chagos islands were handed back to mauritius late last week. a lot of people are calling this a huge strategic blunder. what's your take on that before we move on to today's protest? >> no, i completely agree. and when i was at the protest earlier, they was really directing their anger at starmer and at labour. they said it was and at labour. they said it was a labour government last time. who we lost our homes, lost our island to through a labour government . and starmer is meant government. and starmer is meant to be a human rights lawyer. where's our human rights? so they're demanding to be listened to. and i think the fact that they haven't been consulted, that that's a tragedy of this. >> and what specific things were they telling you? you were right amongst that, i think, with henry bolton also was there. what were they telling you about, aside from the fact they
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felt ignored? i mean, let's not forget that years ago, mauritius sold these islands off for £3 million. they didn't seem to care about the locals then. >> and. and what they said they don't want to be part of mauritius. this was the general feel. you know, we are not mauritius . and there was some mauritius. and there was some ladies there as well who was born on the island. and they said, we just want to go home. and the deal that starmer has done with what is it, 98 nearly 100 years that they , the island 100 years that they, the island is still going to be occupied? they just want to go home and they haven't been consulted. and i just think it's a tragedy. >> martin de—man jenkins, thank you very much for joining us >> martin de—man jenkins, thank you very much forjoining us on you very much for joining us on the show today. always a pleasure to have your company. thank you. let's cross now to gb news political editor christopher hope. chris, welcome to the show. shall we start with a bit of reflection of what was just said in the chamber there? sir keir starmer and rishi sunak both commenting on the anniversary of october the 7th. the terrorist invasion of israel
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by hamas. sir keir starmer starting off by saying that last week he met with the families. families of the hostages very movingly, as did rishi sunak. talk about the terrible human tragedy endured by those with british connections . yeah, british connections. yeah, martin, welcome again to college green here in westminster. that's right. one of those moments when parliament is at its best, on moments of solemnity and reflection. let's have a listen to what sir keir starmer had to say a few moments ago. >> make no mistake, the region cannot endure another year of this . cannot endure another year of this. civilians on all sides have suffered too much. all sides must now step back from the brink and find the courage of restraint . there is no of restraint. there is no military solution to these challenges. so we must renew our diplomatic efforts. and together with my right hon. friend the foreign secretary, i have had discussions with the leaders of israel, lebanon, jordan, the
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palestinian authority, the g7, and the eu and made the case at the united nations for political solutions to end the fighting . solutions to end the fighting. >> that's sir keir starmer. now labour ministers are fanning out across london this week. they're going to sign books of condolences at the embassy. i think this is definitely felt across the board. the importance of that one year on. anniversary. and such a sad, sad moment for everybody of course. after sir keir starmer has finished speaking we'll be heanng finished speaking we'll be hearing from david lammy. martin talking about the issue which andrew jenkin was raising there with such authority about the issue and concern about the chagos islanders now. an hour ago i interviewed a very eloquent spokesman for this group, a group of people, 1500 chagossians removed from the islands there under under a labour government in the late 60s. now there's 6000 of them
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here in the uk. most of whom want to go back. now, i've been asking the pm's spokesman about that very issue in a lobby meeting just now, and they say they're not going to try and do a referendum of the chagossians in the uk. they're going to carry on with their plan, but they do say they're going to be flying back. chagossians from the uk to the chagos islands to look at the lands they once lived in and their ancestors once lived in, and then fly them back again. so that apparently is an attempt by the uk government to deal with the concerns of those displaced islanders . islanders. >> but chris, when you were speaking to them and they were, they were, i thought, excellent, very eloquent , they were, i thought, excellent, very eloquent, very they were, i thought, excellent, very eloquent , very passionate, very eloquent, very passionate, and they deeply, deeply care about their country and very supportive of the fact that for all this time , great britain has all this time, great britain has been an ally to them. and a supporter of them. and it's all fair and well, is it not? for david lammy, for the labour party, for the conversation started by liz truss and james cleverly, to say that it's the
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right thing to do to hand the island back. but the fact of the matter is, mauritius sold it all those years ago and haven't really cared much about the draghi since then . draghi since then. >> yes, in many ways i think it's a stain on our reputation. we had the number 10 there apologising to the chagossians. they were removed against their will. there's now around 60 migrants living there and about 1500 defence contractors. and that's it. on the on the chagos islands and therefore the, the reason why the government says they're not going to listen to argentina's claim on the falklands or spain on gibraltar is because most people living there don't want to be anything other than british. now the chagossians voices campaign says, well, we've got 6000 chagossians in this country and they want to be british and they want their lands to be british, not not controlled or owned by mauritius. and that's why i think their argument, mauritius. and that's why i think their argument , the uk think their argument, the uk government argument, falls down. why can't these 6000 chagossians
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have their voice listened to? >> do you think that as well as domestically, we've been talking about sue gray, about the aftermath of the riots, about the freebies, about the cronyism. there's been a lot of trouble on the domestic front, but politically, on the foreign front, this is seen as a pretty major blunder by the labour party surrendering territory needlessly. they just didn't needlessly. they just didn't need to be done. are we getting off onto a bad footing as well with foreign policy, with the labour party ? labour party? >> well, it's a good point. i mean, don't forget james cleverly, the foreign secretary at the time and now wants to be the tory leader. he started these negotiations at boris johnson, told camilla tominey on gb news yesterday that he would never have done so. david cameron, it looks like , pushed cameron, it looks like, pushed it out until after the election when he was foreign secretary. so the rot set in. let's not forget, under a tory government, james cleverly and liz truss as prime minister. but but this labour government has surrendered these islands.
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they're saying it's for to in order to guarantee the future of the diego garcia base for 100 years, to allow the us to have access to it. but it does feel as though i mean, this government, if anything, they would be they would be seen as weak on by their critics. and they've kind of walked into that trap without any warning, announcing this handing over of sovereignty on a thursday when parliament wasn't sitting. so we'll be seeing a statement very shortly from david lammy, the foreign secretary opposed, i think, by andrew mitchell, the shadow foreign secretary. and then there'll be this treaty will come forward and mps will have a chance to debate that. whether they get a vote on that is a different matter. they don't have to have a vote that's in the gift of the government. >> okay. thank you very much, chris. so we'll have a full update on that as and when mr lammy delivers that speech. thank you very much, chris hope. now it's been a year since hamas militants attacked israel, murdering more than 1000 people. and how has the world changed since all of that and more next, i'm martin daubney on gb news fryston news
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welcome back. it's 422. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. in the last few moments, the us. in the last few moments, the us sources have revealed that u.s. sources have revealed that they believe israel's long anticipated retaliatory strike against iran is imminent. let's anticipated retaliatory strike against iran is imminent. let's get more on this now. i'm joined get more on this now. i'm joined by gb news homeland security by gb news homeland security editor , mark white. mark, tell editor , mark white. mark, tell editor, mark white. mark, tell us more. this could be a editor, mark white. mark, tell us more. this could be a significant development of significant development of escalations in the middle east. escalations in the middle east. tell us more . tell us more . tell us more. >> in the us now, kwarteng tell us more. >> in the us now, kwarteng senior sources in the us senior sources in the us government talking about that government talking about that retaliatory strike that israel retaliatory strike that israel has promised it will launch on has promised it will launch on iran, following, of course, the iran, following, of course, the ballistic missile strikes on ballistic missile strikes on
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israel last week strike israel last week by the regime in tehran. well, now that strike, we believe or strikes are to according these us sources, believed to be imminent and of course, just how significant those strikes will be will really determine what the next move is. if they are very this one coming from
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airspace. this one coming from it's believed the houthi rebels in yemen. we have an alert map that shows you the alerts that went. we don't have that as yet, but alerts went out right across central israel with regard to that alert and this ballistic missile, we're told, was taken out in an exoatmospheric blast. in other words , it was a blast in other words, it was a blast that took place outside the earth's atmosphere in space with these high flying ballistic missiles. it was a defence missile. the ro3 that the israelis have to take out ballistic missiles, the type of missile that was used last week when iran launched those ballistic missile strikes on israel. i think we may have some live imagery , imagery of beirut live imagery, imagery of beirut of the lebanese capital showing
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smoke still rising over the capital of beirut as there have been multiple strikes by the israelis that have taken place in beirut. darkness is just descending on beirut now, so i don't know if these are live shots or not. not live shots from what we've been told, martin. >> so how significant mark white is the fact that israel may be planning this on the first anniversary, october the 7th? a lot of people were sickened earlier on today, just two minutes after the anniversary of that hamas invasion. as you pointed out, mark white missiles were flying into israel from gaza, almost a desecration of the memory of the sanctity of this moment. and as you pointed
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out, missiles continue to fly into israel , from yemen, from into israel, from yemen, from hezbollah. and there has been no momentary peace, no armistice on this day, netanyahu seems resolutely determined, despite people like keir starmer and david lammy said, oh, we must put down our weapons, we must talk our way through this. netanyahu doesn't seem to be in the mood for talking. he seems to be in the mood mark white to be pushing on. >> no. and indeed, the terror group hezbollah put out a statement to coincide with this first anniversary of the 7th of october attacks, saying that those attacks by the hamas terror group were heroic. and of course, we've heard from israel that had they not taken this fight to hezbollah, their intelligence was that hezbollah was planning their own october 7th style attack in northern israel. you're looking now at those live pictures of beirut as
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israel really is fighting on multiple fronts. they say seven fronts, indeed, lebanon. there , fronts, indeed, lebanon. there, of course, gaza. we know that there are iranian aligned groups in syria and iraq that have been launching missiles and drones towards israel in recent months. and of course, yemen, responsible for that ballistic missile attack on israel today. and those alerts that sounded right across central israel, as they didn't know at this stage where that missile was going to come down. so they put out the alert warnings on that alert map to communities right across israel for a while, until they were able to take that out. so, of course , the fighting that of course, the fighting that we're seeing at the moment has the potential to escalate even further depending on what this retaliatory strike from israel
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will be. the breaking news to just reaffirm for our audiences that, according to senior us sources , that retaliatory strike sources, that retaliatory strike from israel on the regime in tehran is believed to be imminent. and of course, we know that there has been much talk in recent days about where those strikes could impact. will they? the israeli military, that is, go after the iranian regime's nuclear facilities. that would be stepping up the ante in terms of the potential response from iran if they do. but there are many within the israeli government that believe that now would be an opportune moment to take out iran's nuclear facilities, because it is an existential threat, they believe, to israel from a
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government that has vowed to wipe israel off the face of the earth, and at some point, many within the israeli government believe they would have to act anyway to stop iran getting the bomb. so this might be an opportune moment for that. but we just don't know what the response will be from israel, and we await that. perhaps in the coming hours, perhaps as early as this evening . early as this evening. >> thank you, mark white, for the latest there on the teetering situation in the middle east. we'll be sure to join you if things develop. thank you. and meanwhile, a brighton man has been branded evil and disgusting for destroying a memorial to the victims of the october the 7th massacre. we will discuss this further now, but the writer and broadcaster emma webb. emma, welcome to the show. we've got some footage on screen now. actually, of that moment yesterday. perhaps we could call that up. emma. i mean, tell us
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more about the situation. >> the description of him being evil and disgusting is completely right. but it almost even doesn't quite cover it. i mean, when you think about what happened on october 7th and, and the journalist allison pearson has just done an exceptional piece in the telegraph where she spoke to those who were there, first responders and the families of those who were still hostages or those who have been murdered. heroes like anna shapiro , who he caught grenades shapiro, who he caught grenades in his own hand and threw them back out of the shelter where they were hiding and fought. these terrorists with his bare hands. and, you know, these people are heroes. and this memorial has been going for these victims for over a year now and has been attacked, according to one of the organisers, already around 20 times, the bus stop nearby has been vandalised with anti—semitic graffiti. this is obviously an ongoing problem in
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the area and the fact that somebody like this would and you're just looking at the images there, you know, you can see he's he's trashing this with a real sort of venomous attitude. and there are still children like the bibas family who are still being held hostages, women who have been raped, who are still being held hostage, one of those children, kfir bibas , has been now in kfir bibas, has been now in captivity longer than he has been alive because he was so small when he was kidnapped. two of the children who were kidnapped. there's footage of them being held in the arms of them being held in the arms of the terrorists after the terrorists had murdered their mother in front of them. i mean, you cannot possibly imagine the horrors that were committed on that day. and for somebody to then go and trash a memorial like this, which is trying to keep the memory of those victims alive as a sort of public display of affection towards them, when we've seen such horrors of, of hatred on our streets, people celebrating
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october 7th, even before israel had retaliated, it's just truly despicable words can't possibly cover it. >> and emma, as well as that disgusting footage of that, that man vandalising pictures of babies, pictures of babies who are still missing. we've seen this astonishing poll coming out showing that there is support, particularly among young people . particularly among young people. for hamas, 9% of 18 to 24 year olds have a favourable opinion. what on earth is going on with the minds of young people? >> i actually have those statistics in front of me. in 16% of those 18 to 24 year olds surveyed by the campaign against anti—semitism thought that the attacks on october 7th were justified . so, you know, this justified. so, you know, this what we're seeing here on screen is a symptom of a much, much bigger problem. and we've seen people being arrested for public order offences for all sorts of minor things. we've seen, in fact, people being arrested for holding up signs that say hamas
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are terrorists, which is in fact just a statement of fact. it's the law of this land that hamas are a terrorist organisation. and we've seen those protesting against the hate marches being arrested. and yet i, i imagine this man is going to get off of the hook. i don't know if he's been identified or arrested yet for some kind of public order offence, but i think actually the attitude of the hateful attitude towards israelis, the dehumanising attitude towards israelis that we've seen unfold very, very quickly, actually, after these atrocities happened, i think actually has a lot to do with us. it has a lot to do with the fact that we are, you know, trying to paint the israelis as being complicit in the colonial guilt that has become part of this left wing narrative here in the uk. so we've seen this partnership skipping hand in hand between the islamists and the radical left in this country. and now what we're seeing as a result of that is
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young people who think that these attacks on innocent civilians , on babies, on women civilians, on babies, on women are justified. the same people probably, who are, you know, very keen on movements like the metoo movement, who like to talk about being kind. but who can't seem to step up and talk in a straightforward manner about women who have been raped , women who have been raped, children who have been kidnapped, and innocent civilians who have been murdered. clearly, some civilian lives matter more to them than others. and, you know, i think that the situation that we have allowed to unravel here in the uk is this is not just a problem for israel, this is a problem for israel, this is a problem for us here. and it's a problem for us here. and it's a problem for jewish communities in the uk. >> okay. thank you very much for a very passionate defence there. emma webb always a delight to have you on the show. thank you very much. there's lots more still to come between now and 5:00, including less than 3% of all illegal immigrants who came to britain via small boats since 2018 have been deported just 3%.
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will we ever take back control of our borders? but first, here's your latest headlines with will hollis . with will hollis. >> good afternoon . the time is >> good afternoon. the time is 435 and some breaking news for you right now. former police officer david carrick has been charged with sex offences against two women. lisa ramsaran, the chief crown prosecutor for the crown prosecution service in thames and chiltern, said david carrick has been charged with five counts of indecent assault, two counts of indecent assault, two counts of indecent assault, two counts of rape and one count of sexual assault. he has also been charged with one count of coercive and controlling behaviour. as i say, this is a new news story and we'll be bringing you more as we get it. but first, back to our top story in the newsroom this morning, people from across israel have gathered to mark the one year
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anniversary of the october 7th attacks at the knesset building in jerusalem. flags were lowered to half mast in commemoration of victims to the attack. according to israeli figures, hamas killed some 1200 people and took about 250 hostages into gaza . 250 hostages into gaza. parliament has returned today following a recess for the various party conferences, which have been taking place over the past few weeks. members are now back in westminster, but their return coincides with further controversy for the government after the prime minister's chief of staff, sue gray , left her of staff, sue gray, left her role yesterday. this prompted sir keir to reshuffle his inner team, with the leader of labour's general election campaign, morgan mcsweeney, taking on the top job instead . taking on the top job instead. earlier labour, earlier shadow leader of the house of commons chris philp, told gb news breakfast that this is just one example of labour chaos.
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>> keir starmer's government has collapsed into chaos afterjust collapsed into chaos after just 93 days. he can't even run his own number 10 downing street operation, let alone run the country. frankly, this has all fallen apart. a lot faster than i was expecting. but this sort of chaos at the heart of downing street shows us why they've made so many mistakes. it's no surprise that his opinion poll ratings have collapsed so catastrophically. and i think this sue gray debacle is an example of that . example of that. >> a gp has been jailed for a string of indecent assaults against seven female patients in berkshire . doctor stephen cox berkshire. doctor stephen cox has been sentenced to 22 years in prison at reading crown court. cox was found guilty of 12 counts of indecent assault after a month long trial. the jury after a month long trial. the jury heard how he made patients undress unnecessarily and touched their breasts without gloves. between 1988 and 1997, a protest is being held outside
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parliament today following the government's controversial decision to scrap the winter fuel allowance for pensioners. last month, the labour voted to cut the benefit for all but the poorest pensioners. although unite union has argued this would only save around £1.4 billion per year. the union are now encouraging people to speak out and join them as they lobby the government to reverse the decision to make these cuts ahead of winter months. those are your latest gb news headlines. i'll be back in 30 minutes with more 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
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daubney on gb news now. an astonishing report seen exclusively by gb news shows that less than 3% of all illegal immigrants who came to britain via small boats have been deported since 2018. and furthermore, 80% of illegals are men aged under 40. will we ever take back control of our borders? well, joining us now to discuss this is the chairman at facts for eu, my good friend lee evans. lee, welcome to the show. so you come today with two reports, not one. let's start. if i could with part one of the report. and that is illegal migrants in the european union who've been ordered to leave. but those they haven't left tell us the numbers . us the numbers. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> so last week, helpfully, the eu commission released their latest numbers on deportations. >> and there's a lot of figures about about migration one way or another. but this is all about deportations. and what what
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these figures show is that more than 1.2 million are facing deportation. they've been issued with orders to leave, but more than a million are still there . than a million are still there. >> okay, so let's get that graphic on screen . now we can graphic on screen. now we can see that. so the red part, the large part that's over a million who have been basically to told clear off back to their host countries. and then the 19%, the smaller part, 290,000. those are the ones who have actually left. and we've got our next graphic here. lee. it's the nations that refuse to clear off or we haven't got that one. so the nafions haven't got that one. so the nations that won't go home are basically the algerians, the moroccans, the afghanis, the albanians, the pakistanis, the tunisians, the turks. it sounds like the same kind of people that are clogging up our jails that are clogging up ourjails at the moment. lee evans, in fact, i'm doing a bit more on that report next time. but can we now get on to part two? the meat and drink of it today? for
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british viewers, an incredible piece of information you gave to us. only 3% of illegals who've come to britain since 2018 have been deported. incredible numbers. talk us through them. >> yeah, if you want the actual numbers. so what we did is we looked at the last six and a half years, which is from the records began when it all started in 2018. and what we found was that up until june, and that's the latest figures that that we have, although we know they're obviously higher now in terms of boat migrants, 120, roughly 128,000 in total . 120, roughly 128,000 in total. and of those, 109,000 are are in fact male. but we then broke it down further and we looked at the age breakdown on all of this, which was pretty staggering, because when you look at some of the news reports
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out there on on certain tv channels, you would think that there's a lot of women and children involved in, in this boat migrant crisis . no, the boat migrant crisis. no, the figures actually show that 80% of all of these boat migrants were or are under the age of 40 and are male , and that's what a and are male, and that's what a lot of people call military age men. >> but they don't like that phrase. but it's just an accurate one. and again, lee evans, there's some excellent information in your information about where these individuals are coming from. top of the list is iran. over 23,000 iranians who won't go home. can you talk us through the nationalities league of shame? if you like. >> yeah. i mean, isn't it interesting because we've just had iran launching a strike against israel, and what do we find in terms of the numbers, nationalities of all of these people coming into the country? and we find that iran, in fact,
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tops the table. we've then got afghanistan, which may not be terribly surprising to people. and iraq, but then albania , huge and iraq, but then albania, huge numbers from albania. then we go on to syria and then we start hitting africa. so you've got eritrea and sudan, then you've got 1 or 2 bizarre ones in there. martin, for example , there. martin, for example, you've got vietnam, which is a country that i know people have been on holiday to vietnam, and in fact, the uk has signed a trade agreement with vietnam. so you can't really say that vietnam is a country that that people have a right to , to flee people have a right to, to flee from. likewise, you go down the list, you've got india on there , list, you've got india on there, kuwait, you know, some of these countries are our allies and they certainly wouldn't be considered to be countries that we couldn't return people to. and yet you look at that chart
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that we produced and you put it up on your screen now and you say , well, you know why? why are say, well, you know why? why are these people not being not being returned ? because we can't see returned? because we can't see any reason. the echr which everyone's talking about at the moment , it everyone's talking about at the moment, it just everyone's talking about at the moment , it just doesn't everyone's talking about at the moment, it just doesn't come into play here. when you've got countries that are perfectly safe to return, people to. >> okay. lee evans, we'll have to deal with an excellent couple of reports as ever. and thank you, as usual, for sharing them with us exclusively here @gbnews. that's that's lee evans, the chairman at facts4eu's. thank you. always a pleasure. now we're crossing live to the foreign secretary who will be facing mps over labour's decision to give up the chagos islands as david lammy next. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's channel.
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welcome back. it's 451. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. let's find out more from our national reporter charlie peters on the story earlier on. and thatis on the story earlier on. and that is the reform party issuing a legal challenge to the government on the manchester airport situation. charlie, tell us more. us more. >> us more. >> well, the home secretary, yvette cooper, has been notified today that the cps is on notice because reform uk's mps held a press conference this morning and they issued out this letter. here it is, which is they're writing to the home secretary on this issue. >> and within it, richard tice mps say they claim that a senior greater manchester police officer was refusing to release the footage surrounding this incident, against the advice of his more junior officers. now that's quite the claim about this particular incident, which caused public outrage when, on july the 23rd, footage emerged
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of a set of police officers appearing to kick one member of the public in the head on the floor at manchester airport. >> further footage was then released a few days later, leaked to a newspaper showing the further incident as it took place, showing that the police officers were being assaulted before they appeared to turn around and strike one of those individuals. in the footage, you can see one of the officers, the one who appears to hit back, is facing up to about 20 undercuts to his face. he would have been potentially dazed and concussed. and you can see there could be some strong mitigating claims in that position. but earlier this morning, when we had this reform uk press conference, i asked richard tice specifically about his claim that a senior officer had been pressured against releasing that footage. i asked if they'd heard from any police officers to say that they were frustrated about the situation . frustrated about the situation. >> frustration is amongst tens
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of thousands of police officers up and down the country because they can see a terrible mishandling of this situation, which, properly handled awful though the assault was, people would have understood there was a brutal assault. >> the police officers apprehended them. >> hell of a scrap . but they got >> hell of a scrap. but they got on top of the situation . and on top of the situation. and that's the frustration that i mean, i've had lots of police officers write to me, email me, thanking me and reform uk for the stance we took in supporting the stance we took in supporting the officers and the broader police community on the front line in this situation, in to order maintain a fair and clear iopc, the police watchdog investigation, the police in all of the forces in england and wales, they say they never release footage during an investigation. >> we also heard a statement from greater manchester police earlier today. they say that they sent the cps in mid—august a set of recommendations for
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charging. they sent over their evidence file. they say they're not going to provide ongoing commentary or release footage while that investigation continues. >> great. so thank you very much, charlie. peace. now, don't go anywhere. we'll go live soon to foreign secretary david lammy next. who faces mps over labour's decision to give up sovereignty of the chagos islands. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel. but now here's your weather. >> heavy showers first thing will be followed by a warm, cosy day. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news afternoon . weather on gb news afternoon. >> time for your latest weather update from the met office here on gb. news. more heavy showers around this evening for and some well a few thundery downpours. also quite gusty. close to those heavy showers all from this . an heavy showers all from this. an area of low pressure just sitting out to the west and
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spiralling bands of showery rain our way. this weather fronts made for a dull and damp day across parts of northern scotland that's not moving too far, but elsewhere the showers are moving in some big thunderstorms this evening over south wales and southern counties of england. that's where we have a met office yellow warning in place, something a bit drier for northern ireland and northern england for most of the night, but this band of showery rain may get to northern ireland by dawn, also spreading across eastern parts of england. so keeping the temperatures up for sure double digits for many clearer skies over northern england and southern scotland will allow temperatures to dip down to single figures. on to tuesday. it's another day where there'll be some sunshine, but there'll be some sunshine, but there will also be further showers coming in from the word 90, showers coming in from the word go, really, across southern england and south wales, perhaps a drier start, but a bit misty over parts of northern england and the midlands. and showery rain too , crossing through rain too, crossing through northern ireland. southern scotland may well start dry, but noficein scotland may well start dry, but notice in northern scotland where the wind is coming from a northerly breeze that'll bring a chill here. even though it will
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be a bit of a drier day across the far north compared to today. further south, though , well, further south, though, well, it'll be far from dry. it'll be sunny at times, but look at these showers. you can see there these showers. you can see there the circulation. that's where the circulation. that's where the low pressure is sitting. getting closer and closer. south wales, southern counties of england bombarded by showers . england bombarded by showers. and we'll see this zone of wetter weather across southeast scotland, northern england and the east of northern ireland too. quite a chill with those northerly winds in the north, but actually quite mild in the south. when the sun is out like today, we could get to 18, maybe 19 celsius come wednesday. more of the same heavy showers over some parts of central and eastern england, staying pretty wet across north—east england and southeast scotland, but a bit drier, maybe for south wales and south—west england. ooh , a and south—west england. ooh, a chilly start will give way to a lovely warm i >> -- >> boxt heat
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you. it's 5:00 pm and welcome to the martin daubney show here on human rights? i'll be crossing live martin foreign show here on gb. news of course we're the martin daubney show here on gb. news of course we're broadcasting live from the heart broadcasting live from the heart of westminster and all across of westminster and all across the uk. on today's show, sir the uk. on today's show, sir keir starmer has addressed keir starmer has addressed parliament on the first parliament on the first anniversary of the october the anniversary of the october the 7th terrorist attacks as the 7th terrorist attacks as the middle east teeters on the edge middle east teeters on the edge of all out war, he's got chaos of all out war, he's got chaos of all out war, he's got chaos of all out war, he's got chaos of his own on the home front as of his own on the home front as his own chief of staff has been his own chief of staff has been forced to quit. how much has forced to quit. how much has labour really achieved in their labour really achieved in their first 100 days in power ? and one first 100 days in power ? and one first 100 days in power? and one year on from the october 7 first 100 days in power? and one year on from the october 7 massacre in israel, shocking new massacre in israel, shocking new figures show sympathy and figures show sympathy and support for hamas on britain's support for hamas on britain's streets as israel marks that streets as israel marks that tragic anniversary of the october 7th terror attack and at tragic anniversary of the october 7th terror attack and at the labour party gave the chagos the labour party gave the chagos islands back to mauritius today, islands back to mauritius today, a group of outraged chagossians a group of outraged chagossians gathered at parliament and gathered at parliament and shouter keir starmer was a human shouter keir starmer was a human rights lawyer, where are our rights lawyer, where are our human rights? i'll be crossing human rights? i'll be crossing
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live to the foreign live to the foreign secretary, david lammy, for his defence on this shortly. and today gb news can exclusively reveal a foreign prisoners league of shame that shows albanian nationals are the worst offenders. astonishingly, they are 14.5 times more likely to be jailed in britain than brits. i'll name and shame the worst offenders and that's all coming up between now and 6:00 pm. it's an astonishing set of numbers that i crunched over the weekend with my son. we looked at the ministry of justice data cross—correlated with the census data . so how many albanians are data. so how many albanians are in prison and how many are in the country? you're then able to work out the propensity to be jailed per 10,000 citizens. they give this data in places like denmark as a matter many
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it's not yet clear how many casualties there are on social media, though we know that there are pictures of a bus having left the road in a field and the bus is on its side. as i say, thatis bus is on its side. as i say, that is a brand new story coming here into the gb newsroom and as we do hear more about it, we'll be bringing you it. in other news, a former police officer, david carrick, has been charged with sex offences against two women. the chief crown prosecutor for the cps, lisa ramsaran, has said that david carrick has been charged with five counts of indecent assault , five counts of indecent assault, two counts of rape and one count of sexual assault. he has also been charged with one count of coercive and controlling behaviour and in our top news story tonight, this morning, people across israel gathered to mark the one year anniversary of the october 7th attacks in jerusalem . israelis carrying jerusalem. israelis carrying flags and placards with the faces of missing people gathered flags and placards with the faces of missing people gathered
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outside. president netanyahu's outside. president netanyahu's home at 629 local time, a siren home at 629 local time, a siren rang out to mark the exact time rang out to mark the exact time that hamas led militants that hamas led militants launched rockets into israel launched rockets into israel last october 7th, to according last october 7th, to according israeli figures, they killed israeli figures, they killed some 1200 people and took some some 1200 people and took some 250 hostages into gaza. well, 250 hostages into gaza. well, earlier foreign secretary david earlier foreign secretary david lammy visited a synagogue in lammy visited a synagogue in northern london to mark one year northern london to mark one year since the attack on israel. since the attack on israel. joined by chief rabbi to the uk , joined by chief rabbi to the uk , joined by chief rabbi to the uk, rabbi ephraim mirvis, they joined by chief rabbi to the uk, rabbi ephraim mirvis, they commemorated those who lost commemorated those who lost their lives. this is what the their lives. this is what the foreign secretary had to say. foreign secretary had to say. >> it is a day of deep reflection and pain . thinking >> gray this prompted reflection and pain. thinking about october 7, the worst attack on the jewish community since the holocaust. and of course, thinking about the many
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departure of the pm's chief of staff, sue gray . this prompted staff, sue gray. this prompted keir starmer to reshuffle his staff, sue gray. this prompted keir starmer to reshuffle his staff, with the leader of staff, with the leader of labour's general election labour's general election campaign, morgan mcsweeney, campaign, morgan mcsweeney, taking on the chief of staff taking on the chief of staff role instead. earlier , foreign role instead. earlier , foreign role instead. earlier, foreign office minister hamish falconer role instead. earlier, foreign office minister hamish falconer defended labour's so—called defended labour's so—called shaky start in government. shaky start in government. >> i don't at all accept in the >> i don't at all accept in the first 100 days that this first 100 days that this government has been a disaster. government has been a disaster. we've made real progress across we've made real progress across a whole range of issues. i think a whole range of issues. i think it's been full of difficult it's been full of difficult choices which reflect the choices which reflect the difficult inheritance that we've difficult inheritance that we've got as we become the government. but i think keir starmer and the rest of the government is getting on with the job that the british public elected to us do. >> a police driver feared his colleague was going to be run over just before chris kaba was shot by a metropolitan police marksman, a court has heard. the officer, known as 83, described a very dramatic scene unfolding as he gave evidence at the old bailey earlier today. fellow
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armed officer martin blake is on statement on the conclusion of negotiatiohave| the exercise of statement on the conclusion of negotiatio have writtenercise of statement on the conclusion of negotiatio have written to se of statement on the conclusion of negotiatio have written to the »f statement on the conclusion of negotiatio have written to the home members have written to the home secretary claiming the officers involved have been thrown under the bus, and that the alleged assailants are being given special different treatments. in their letter, they also claim that a senior police officer overruled a recommendation to release footage of the incident, which was later leaked to a newspaper. reform mp rupert lowe told our reporter charlie peters
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that the investigation needed to to that the investigation needed to be resolved urgently . be resolved urgently . be resolved urgently. >> when you see a video like be resolved urgently. >> when you see a video like that and we've had, i think, an that and we've had, i think, an 11 week delay so far, you've got 11 week delay so far, you've got people's lives on hold and it's people's lives on hold and it's not fair on the police officers not fair on the police officers involved. so it needs to be involved. so it needs to be resolved and it needs to be resolved and it needs to be resolved and it needs to be resolved quickly and it needs to resolved and it needs to be resolved quickly and it needs to be resolved fairly and with be resolved fairly and with common sense. >> there you are. you're up to common sense. >> there you are. you're up to date will be back at 5:30 with date will be back at 5:30 with more headlines for the very more headlines for the very latest gb news direct to your latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts . slash alerts. >> thank you will. now let's slash alerts. >> thank you will. now let's cross to the commons now where cross to the commons now where moments ago, foreign secretary moments ago, foreign secretary david lammy was giving an update david lammy was giving an update on the chagos islands. on the chagos islands. >> if this statement and with >> if this statement and with permission, i will make a permission, i will make a statement on the conclusion of statement on the conclusion of
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negotiations on the exercise of negotiations on the exercise of sovereignty over the british indian ocean territory. on thursday , the 3rd of october, order. >> i've done the bidding. i don't need others to come in on the back of it. >> secretary of state, i'm very grateful , mr speaker. grateful, mr speaker. >> on thursday, the 3rd of october, my right hon. friend, the prime minister and mauritian prime ministerjuggernaut the prime minister and mauritian prime minister juggernaut , the prime minister and mauritian prime ministerjuggernaut , made prime ministerjuggernaut, made a historic announcement after two years of negotiations and decades of disagreement, the united the
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this deal on our terms? was the sole way to maintain the full and effective operations of the base into the future. mr speaken base into the future. mr speaker, this is why in november 2022, the then foreign secretary, the right hon. member for braintree, initiated sovereignty negotiations. we all knew about it. it's also why it's also why. mr speaker, my predecessor, lord cameron of chipping norton, ultimately continued with those deals . it continued with those deals. it is how shocking . mr speaker, is how shocking. mr speaker, under the previous government, there were 11 rounds of negotiations that not the 11 that the last one held just weeks before the general election was called. exactly. so in july, this government inherited unfinished business
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where the threat was real and inaction was not a strategy. inaction posed several acute risks to the united kingdom. first, it threatened the uk, us base from countering malign iranian activity in the middle east to ensuring a free and open indo—pacific. it is critical for our national security. without surety of tenure, no base can operate effectively nor truly deter our enemies. critical investment decisions are already being delayed. second, it impacted on our relationship with the united states, who neither wanted nor welcomed the legal uncertainty and strongly encouraged us to strike a deal. mr speaker, i am a transatlanticist. we had to protect this important relationship and third, it undermined our international standing. we're showing that what we mean is what we say on international law. the law and
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our desire for partnerships with the global south. this strengthens our arguments when it comes to issues like ukraine or the south china sea. and mr speaken or the south china sea. and mr speaker, further legal wrangling served nobody's interests but our adversaries in a more volatile world. a deal benefited us all. the uk, the united states and mauritius. this government therefore, made striking the best possible deal a priority. we appointed jonathan powell as the prime minister's special envoy for these negotiations , and he's these negotiations, and he's worked closely with a brilliant team of civil servants and lawyers. their goal was a way forward, which serves uk national interests, respect the interests of our partners and upholds the international rule of law. this agreement fulfils these objectives. it is strongly supported by partners with president biden going so far as to applaud our achievement within minutes of the announcement, secretary blinken
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and secretary austin have also backed this successful outcome, which reaffirms our special defence relationship and the agreement has been welcomed by the indian government and commended by the united nations general secretary. secretary general. in return for agreeing to mauritian sovereignty over the entire islands , including the entire islands, including diego garcia, the uk, us base has an uncontested long term future. base operations will remain under full uk control well into the next century. mauritius will authorise to us exercise their sovereign rights and authorities to respect. diego garcia, this is initially for 99 years, but the uk has the right to extend this. we have full mauritian backing for robust security arrangements , robust security arrangements, including preventing foreign armed forces from accessing or establishing themselves on the outer islands. the base long term future is therefore more secure under this agreement than
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without it. if this were not the case, i doubt the white house state department or pentagon would have praised the deal so efficiently . this agreement will efficiently. this agreement will be underpinned by a financial settlement that's acceptable to both sides . members will be both sides. members will be aware the government does not normally reveal payments for our military base overseas, and so it would be inappropriate to publicise further details of these arrangements at this stage. mr speaker, the agreement also recognises the rights and wrongs of the past. the whole house would agree that the manner in which chagossians were forcibly removed in the 1960s was deeply wrong and regrettable. mauritius is now to free implement a resettlement programme to islands other than diego garcia. the united kingdom and mauritius have also committed to support chagossians welfare. establishing a new trust fund capitalised by the uk and providing additional government support to
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chagossians in the uk and the uk will maintain the pathway for chagossians to obtain british citizenship. furthermore , citizenship. furthermore, mauritius and the uk will now establish a new programme of visits to the archipelago for the chagossians. this agreement also ushers in a new area of our relations with mauritius, a commonwealth nation and africa's leading democracy. we have agreed to intensify cooperation on our shared priorities , on our shared priorities, including security, growth and the environment. the agreement ensures continued protection of these islands unique environment. home to over 200 species of coral and over 800 species of coral and over 800 species of coral and over 800 species of fish . and finally, mr species of fish. and finally, mr speaken species of fish. and finally, mr speaker, i want to reassure the house and all members of the uk family worldwide that this agreement does not signal any change in policy to britain's other overseas territories. british sovereignty on the falkland islands, gibraltar and
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the sovereign base areas is not up for negotiation. the situations are not comparable. this, mr speaker, has been acknowledged across our overseas territories. fabian picardo, chief minister for gibraltar, vocally supported this agreement, stating that there is no possible read across to gibraltar on the issue of sovereignty and similarly the governor of the falklands has confirmed that the historic context of the chagos islands and falklands are very different indeed.the and falklands are very different indeed. the government remains firmly committed to modern partnerships with our overseas territories based on mutual consent. after mauritius elections, the government will move towards treaty signature and it is then our intention to pursue ratification in 2025 by submitting the treaty and the bill to this house for scrutiny. this is a historic moment, a victory for diplomacy. we've
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saved the base . we've secured saved the base. we've secured britain's national interests for the long term. i commend this statement tonight . shadow statement tonight. shadow foreign secretary andrew mitchell . mitchell. >> and that was david lammy. there . speaking on the decision there. speaking on the decision to hand back sovereignty of the chagos islands to mauritius. i'm joined in our studio by our political editor, chris. chris, good to be said. he was very heavily heckled. he was very heavily heckled. he was very heavily laughed at in certain parts of that . and then he tried parts of that. and then he tried to palm it off onto the foreign secretary, the former james cleverly initiated proceedings , cleverly initiated proceedings, as did david cameron, and then went on to sort of say, don't worry, nothing will happen with gibraltar or the falklands saying this was a deal that benefits us all in an increasingly volatile world, but seems to be speaking in a parallel universe. a lot of people have been saying the
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precise opposite of that. >> that's right. and back in the studio with martin. no, no leakage, he said. in terms of uk sovereignty over the falkland islands, of course, to argentina or gibraltar, to spain. yeah. heckling. i mean, just imagine the rage he would be in if the roles were reversed. this is a uk government and it might well have been if he'd been a late election in november, as as we all thought was planned, it could well have happened that way. imagine the rage you'd have from a labour opposition saying how dare you palm off sovereignty of parts of our of our our our sovereignty , our the our our our sovereignty, our the lands we can have some control oven lands we can have some control over. extraordinary. he confirmed that what i revealed on your show an hour ago, that the uk government is very kindly flying chagossians who may want to go back and live in over there to look at, look at the lands. sorry, you can't be here. we'll fly you back so it's a sort of sticks in the craw, somewhat bit of a magical mystery tour. >> so you're allowed to fly back and have a look at what you could have won, but you can't
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stay. just have a quick butcher's and then go back crawling. >> we're making making a lot of it not i mean, for the people, but it's a serious point. the people have been standing and to talking out in parliament. they are furious. they are sad. the uk government is apologising for removing 1500 chagossians from in the late 60s, from the islands to the uk. now it's 6000 people there with parentage who now want to write a vote on returning the irony here is that we don't allow the argentinian claim on the falklands or on gibraltar from spain , because we gibraltar from spain, because we regularly survey what the people there want. we haven't surveyed this government, what the chagossians want and perhaps they should. >> and david lammy there was saying this decision was critical for our national security. the usa strongly encourage us to do a deal. he then talked about we have an opfion then talked about we have an option on the lease 99 years, 99 years. chris is the blink of an eyelid to the chinese dragon. its fangs will be dripping . they its fangs will be dripping. they will be wooing. they'll have the rose between their teeth. they'll try and get mauritius on board. they'll be. they'll be
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delighted . mauritius could be up delighted. mauritius could be up for grabs. >> mauritius is a sovereign country, but china has interests in mauritius. that's what you're alluding to. it may be in 99 years, we don't want to have a diego garcia base with a chinese state basically just over the water, be able to watch and see what happens there. so as you say, china plays a long game. >> astonishing state of affairs. thank you very much. and let's get some of those protesters on the show at some point. they thought they were fabulous. >> yeah, i mean, they they had a they felt right on their side. they feel ignored. i think this is going to bring into sharp focus, frankly, an injustice that's been perpetrated on them and their people for decades. and maybe a good thing, too. >> chris, thank you very much. always a pleasure. that's our political editor here in the studio. get much more reaction to lammy's speech, including from a lawyer who's represented some of those chagossians. next martin daubney on gb news president duda channel.
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5:25 now. moments ago, we heard from the oracle, the foreign secretary, david lammy, who said the surrendering of the chagos islands rights, the wrongs of the past. but we'll keep the falklands and gibraltar. fear not. well, joining us now is the immigration lawyer paul turner, who has represented chagossians. thank you for joining who has represented chagossians. thank you forjoining us. mr thank you for joining us. mr turner . so there we go. david turner. so there we go. david lammy gave a speech to the house. he was very widely heckled. in fact points he was laughed at openly, but nevertheless the foreign secretary said this is a deal that benefits is all. what say you and your clients? the humble chagossians who don't seem to have been consulted in any of this ? this? >> well, you're right, i don't think it benefits the chagossians at all. i've had the pleasure of representing chagossians, and i feel quite passionately about this. and a few years ago i went to mauritius to visit them and to give advice on how they could come over to the united kingdom. and the one thing that struck me
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about the chagossians, both in mauritius and in the united kingdom, was their passionate desire to be british. it was touching. the united kingdom threw them out of their homeland. and yet, despite that, the one thing that they clung to was the fact that they were british or that they were going to become british, and that they would always be british, one of their most prized possessions at any of their events is the biot flag. the british indian ocean territory flag , and they have territory flag, and they have not been consulted at all. and they are very angry, upset and betrayed. and this compounds the earlier we threw them out of their country, we threw them out of their land in the 60s and 70s. and then finally, when we recognise the injustice, we then decide to parcel off their land and give it to another country without even seeking any of their opinion. and i also know, martin, that they sought to give their opinion during the negotiations, and they wrote on
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numerous occasions and they were completely rebuffed. they were excluded completely from this . excluded completely from this. >> and yet, paulton, if you believe david lammy today, well, he actually said this is about righting the wrongs of the past and of course, the inference there, as always, is that we've committed sins in the past we should be ashamed of. we should atone for them. we should do the right thing now. so it's astonishing to me. paul turner, we spoke to jean francois, one of the protesters at parliament earlier. he was resolute, saying we would like a referendum on this chagossians. we would like a say. and he reckons if that happened, then they would vote, as they did in the falklands, to remain part of the united kingdom. what say you ? kingdom. what say you? >> well, i agree with jean francois. i've had the pleasure of meeting him and he's done a tremendous for job chagossians both in mauritius and the united kingdom . and my view is if there kingdom. and my view is if there was a referendum, we would be looking at similar figures to gibraltar or the falkland
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islanders. and it's to be remembered that one might say that the that argentina has a better claim than mauritius to the mauritius has and spain has a better claim to gibraltar than mauritius has given that we through the argentinians off the mauritius. as far as i know, the mauritius. as far as i know, the mauritius from the mauritius itself. no , mauritius were itself. no, mauritius were thrown off the chagos islands. it was the indigenous population that had lived there. happily, they were thrown off and if one's righting an injustice, the easiest way to right this injustice is for the british government to allow the chagossians to go back to the chagossians to go back to the chagos islands. i've had a look at some of the things that have been said, and in essence , the been said, and in essence, the uk government are now saying that they will encourage or support mauritius to and give mauritius a lot of money, no doubt to facilitate a resettlement programme. when asked if there would be any teeth in that, it was fairly
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conceded that mauritius would then be the sovereign country. so we will give mauritius a lot of money on the basis that they will facilitate resettlement . will facilitate resettlement. but of course we won't be in a position because we will have surrendered our sovereignty to enforce it . and there's another enforce it. and there's another disturbing fact, which is that it said that that there are guarantees or assurances that other foreign powers. and for that you can read china won't be allowed to establish bases on the other outlying chagos islands. but if it becomes a mauritian sovereign territory, we won't have any say in that. so this is this is madness is what it appears to me to say that it what it appears to me to say thatitis what it appears to me to say that it is to secure the uk's base or to secure it for the future, when it was in uncertain times, is again madness, because at the moment that diego garcia is sovereign british territory , is sovereign british territory, it is not on a lease and it remains, or is at the moment
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british. so this is sophistry on the part of the foreign secretary, in my opinion, and it is a betrayal of people that have put their trust in the uk. >> and paul turner, we can see on our screen now there's some video of that protest earlier on, the one that jean francois was at. is there any legal right of appeal, any chicanery, anything that can be done on behalf of the chagossians? or is this a done deal now? david lammy has simply signed this away and they have no rights . away and they have no rights. >> i'm not sure that it's a done deal.i >> i'm not sure that it's a done deal . i think that there is a deal. i think that there is a potential for legal challenge. the uk has said that that it will. it ought to give effect to the interests of the people that are there. i don't think they've been consulted. i wonder whether the failure to consult the chagossians at all and to exclude them from the process, does raise a potential avenue for legal challenge. and i can assure you, martin, if there is assure you, martin, if there is a legal challenge that is to be
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that can get off the ground, then i'm sure that chagossians, helped by people like myself and other people, will be taking every step to frustrate this betrayal. >> well, paul turner, if that does happen, then please keep me in the loop because i'd like to give as much exposure to this legal case as is possible. as even legal case as is possible. as ever, it's a delight to have you on the show. thank you. paul turner, an immigration lawyer who has represented chagossians over the years. thank you for your time. there's lots more still to come between now and 6:00, including the foreign prisoners league of shame. that's next. exclusive data. i worked on with my son. don't go anywhere that's coming next. but first, here's your headlines, andifs first, here's your headlines, and it's will hollis . and it's will hollis. >> thank you. martin. the time is 5:31, and your top story this houn is 5:31, and your top story this hour. a major incident has been declared in northern ireland after a bus crash in county down. according to the ambulance service. police sources in
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northern ireland have told gb news that two children who were trapped on board the bus have sustained serious hand injuries. sources say 27 children have been taken to the royal hospital in belfast with minor injuries, while 7070 people were on board. it's understood that there have been no fatalities . former been no fatalities. former police officer david carrick has been charged with sex offences against two women. the cps, in a statement , against two women. the cps, in a statement, said that david carrick has been charged with five counts of indecent assault, two counts of rape and one count of sexual assault. he has also been charged with one count of coercive and controlling behaviour . coercive and controlling behaviour. this morning, people across israel gathered to mark the one year anniversary of the october 7th attacks in jerusalem. people waved their flags and flags were lowered to half mast in commemoration of
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victims to the attack, to according israeli figures, hamas killed some 1200 people and took about 250 hostages into gaza . about 250 hostages into gaza. parliament has returned today following a recess for the various party conferences, which have been taking place over the past few weeks. members are now back in westminster, but their return coincides with further controversy for the government after the prime minister's chief of staff, sue gray, left her job yesterday. this has prompted sir keir starmer to reshuffle his inner team, with the leader of labour's general election campaign, morgan mcsweeney, taking on the top role instead. earlier, shadow leader of the house of commons chris philp , house of commons chris philp, told gb news breakfast that this is just one example of labour chaos. >> keir starmer's government has collapsed into chaos afterjust collapsed into chaos after just 93 days. he can't even run his own number 10 downing street operation, let alone run the
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country. frankly, this has all fallen apart. a lot faster than i was expecting. but this sort of chaos at the heart of downing street shows us why they've made so many mistakes. it's no surprise that his opinion poll ratings have collapsed so catastrophically. and i think this sue gray debacle is an example of that . example of that. >> a gp has been jailed for a string of indecent assaults against seven female patients in berkshire. doctor stephen cox has been sentenced to 22 years in prison at reading crown court. cox was found guilty of 12 counts of indecent assault after the month long trial. the jury after the month long trial. the jury heard how he had made patients undress unnecessarily and touched their breasts without gloves. between 1988 and 1997. and those are your latest gb news headlines. i'll be back in 30 minutes for the very
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>> welcome back. it's 538 on martin daubney on gb news. today, gb news can exclusively reveal a foreign prisoners league of shame that shows albanian nationals are by far the worst offenders. astonishingly, albanians are 14.5 times more likely to be jailed in britain than brits. and joining me now to discuss this is the research director at the centre for migration control, my good pal rob bates. rob , welcome to the show. so rob, welcome to the show. so this is data that i worked out with my son over the weekend. the daily telegraph did a piece of work. and just to talk you through the methodology so people are clear out there. this
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is ministry of justice data . so is ministry of justice data. so the numbers of prisoners and then to cross tabulate if we get it on screen now to cross tabulate against the census data. so you can work out how many people are in britain of each nationality and of each nationality in prison . and so nationality in prison. and so what's happened there is that you can then work out the league. can we get that league table on screen, just so i can explain to viewers what we're talking about before we talk to rob bates, the league table on the camera there. let's get it up , please. shows. shows us the up, please. shows. shows us the league table. and it's albanians which are way, way ahead. here is that league of shame . just to is that league of shame. just to explain what this is. the black countries, they are the balkan countries, they are the balkan countries top there as albania followed by kosovo and the green. there . that's vietnam, green. there. that's vietnam, that's asia. the red nations. they are what's called the men, the middle eastern and north africa. the gold colour that is the africa you can see there
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right at the bottom . that tiny right at the bottom. that tiny bar represents british people. the pink thing at the bottom, that's brits now can bring in rob bates. you can see there an astonishing disparity rob, between the propensity to be jailed. if you're a foreign national versus brits, this makes an absolute mockery of the fact that we won't. we're not allowed to get this kind of data from the department of justice, from the department of justice, from the department of justice, from the moj, from the home office. i had to do this myself. we should have this data. what do you take away from this data? yeah, you've done a great job. >> i mean, and the fact that it's having to having to be done by news presenters. >> so rather than the official statistics bodies of the uk, says a lot about where the conversation on migration has been for the last 20 years, in that there's been a general consensus across whitehall that this data is not worth collecting, that it's not worth actually making sure that we tailor make an immigration policy that suits the uk. and i think, you know, you see very clear patterns in those countries that are in the in the top 20, most likely to be to be
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convicted. and i think that is the kind of thing that we exactly need when it comes to determining what our immigration policy is. and it's the kind of thing that would make us all safer if we start taking these kind of things into account. >> and when you look at the numbers, so, as i said, albanians are 14.5 times more likely to be jailed than brits. kosovans and vietnamese, nine times more likely to be in jail than brits, algerians 7.8 times jamaicans seven times more likely. the next question is why aren't we deporting these people? >> well, that's exactly it, isn't it? >> i mean, we previously worked on a piece with the ministry of justice trying to determine how many deportation orders are actually outstanding against those individuals that had served 12 months in prison. >> the ministry of justice didn't actually have that information. it wasn't able to tell us how many people there were that were that had served a time of 12 years or 12 months or more and needed to be removed from the country. and this is just a general malaise across the establishment in that the mass migration arguments were
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won back in 1997. the economic benefits were so true, the societal benefits were so clear that they didn't need to collect this data. and as we're seeing now, you know, this is the kind of thing that we really, really desperately need. grown up countries around the world. you've got denmark, you've got the united states. they're all over this kind of thing. we are so far behind. we were getting close with it at the end of the conservative government. we had robert jenrick and neil o'brien were pushing through a bill that would have had a national league table published annually. unfortunately, it looks like thatis unfortunately, it looks like that is now completely fallen by the wayside. so we're going to have to unfortunately spend another five years in the data desert. >> and why is it we know the answer that the home office , the answer that the home office, the ons, the ministry of justice doesn't want to give us the data in denmark, they published the data with total transparency . data with total transparency. we're able to see who pays the most tax, who claims the most unemployment benefits, who commits the most violent crime , commits the most violent crime, who's most likely to go to prison like this is vital information for keeping people safe and for making policy on crime, on law and order, on
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controlling our borders. but we don't get the data we demand in britain. why not? >> because they'd have to be accountable for the terrible, terrible policy decisions that they've been making over successive governments. i mean, our eyes and ears tell us that, you know, britain is becoming a less safe place as a result of mass migration. and it's incredibly frustrating that when you try and have this conversation, you're you're facing a dearth of actual official statistics to discuss this issue. and i think it's something that i don't think the labour party will go anywhere neanl labour party will go anywhere near. i think it's completely anathema to everything they purport to stand for. i think it's something that if the conservatives make the right choice with their with their leadership election, we might see more stringent pushes towards collecting this kind of data. but, you know, you have to ask, what are our statistics bodies actually doing? you know, the ons receives hundreds of thousands, millions of pounds a yeah thousands, millions of pounds a year. why isn't it collecting this information that is actually useful and can actually make us safer? >> well, in the meantime, rob is looking blokes like me. you to make make sure we keep pushing the envelope. thank you very much, rob. thanks forjoining us
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in the studio now. got some breaking news because in the last few minutes, police sources in northern ireland have told gb news that two children who were trapped on board the bus that crashed in northern ireland have sustained serious injuries. let's get more on this now from gb news. northern ireland reporter dougie beattie dougie a breaking news story. what's the latest ? latest? >> well, this was a school bus travelling from strangford college in newtownards, not too far away from here to the small town of carrowdore, which is probably only about half a mile. >> behind me you can see the police cordon here. it was carrying schoolchildren back through these villages and just about 4:00 it left the road. >> it was a double decker bus. any parent's worst nightmare. it's believed there was over 50 children on board. we do believe that over 27 of them are being taken to the royal hospital in belfast. as well as many other hospitals. i have spoke with some of the children that have have came up here. they're very
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shaken. they quite understandably, they don't really know what exactly happened. they know what happened. they know what happenedin happened. they know what happened in the aftermath . there happened in the aftermath. there are ambulance was called here for two of those children that were trapped. we do know that they have sustained serious hand injuries during that crash. but no doubt we will hear more as the evening goes on. this has been a major incident for the northern ireland ambulance service. a lot of saint john's ambulances i see going in and out here as i stand reporting here. so it's hugely the type of pressure, the ambulance service was under to have to use other means of transport coming in and out , so we means of transport coming in and out, so we will means of transport coming in and out , so we will know means of transport coming in and out, so we will know more in the next couple of hours and i will keep you posted on it . keep you posted on it. >> thank you very much. dougie beattie live from the scene of that school bus crash in northern ireland. thank you very much. now, coming up next, an emotional interview. i'll speak to the father of a hostage who
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welcome back. it's approaching 10 to 6. i'm martin daubney on gb news now as israel marks one year since hamas terrorists launched its deadly attack on israel, the families of those who were kidnapped still hold out hope that their loved ones are still alive. and i'm pleased to say i'm now joined by the father of one of those people being held hostage, ilan dalal. ilan , welcome to the show. it's ilan, welcome to the show. it's a it's a huge honour to have you on what must be a very, very difficult anniversary for you today. could you please, if you wouldn't mind telling us the story of what happened to your beautiful boy ? beautiful boy? >> well, my son, guy went to the
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music festival a year ago. he went to dance with some of his best friends and none of them came back home. some of his friends were murdered, brutally murdered by hamas, and he and his best friend were kidnapped to gaza and their deaths. since then. >> and when did you first learn? when did it first start to dawn upon you ? that guy may have been upon you? that guy may have been caught up in this. >> well, on october 7th, in the morning, i woke up to the sound of the sirens where there were missiles all around israel . at missiles all around israel. at this point, i didn't know that my son is in the area of gaza in this music festival. i thought it was somewhere else . later on it was somewhere else. later on we found out a few a few minutes later we found out that there was a massacre going on in the
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kibbutz and that there were thousands of terrorists penetrated israel and the and along the time we started to show footages from this area and both my sons were in this music festival, guy and his older son gal that came to be with him. and at about 615 in the morning, they both sent me a selfie of them both having fun and the time of their lives. and 15 minutes later had begun and missiles started to flew over their heads and they went to the to their cars to come back home and ended up in this traffic jam where terrorists started to shoot people in the cars and kill them. and obviously there was a big panic in there and they in, they ran from the cars to different directions . a gal,
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to different directions. a gal, my older son, he managed to hide in the fields for about ten hours, ten horrible hours. when he saw atrocities around him. and finally it was rescued by israeli security forces to ofakim police station, where we took him from their home. unfortunately, gal, my youngest son did not have this kind of luck. he and his friends probably went to the other side and we don't know exactly what happenedin and we don't know exactly what happened in this couple of hours, but we know that he was hiding on the behind the bush with all of his friends. at about 915 in the morning, and this was the time of his abduction. and about 1130 in the morning, hamas published the footage, a video from gaza, where you see five hostages inside the dark room, handcuffs and frightened and in shock , and
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and frightened and in shock, and some terrorists moving around them with the flashlight and asking them to say something. this is how we learned that he was kidnapped. and at this time, my oldest son was still in the field, so i didn't told him anything about his brother until he came back home. >> and ilan, we can see a picture of your son guy on the screen now. have you heard anything in the past year to give you any information whatsoever or indeed any hope that he may still be alive and well? >> well, yes . first of all, we >> well, yes. first of all, we saw a few videos a of october 7th of the of the kidnapping from several angles. in all this video he looks well and not wounded. walking on his two feet and about five months ago we received a sign of life from the israeli intelligence. i don't know exactly what the what it means to just say that he is alive , and it was a month before
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alive, and it was a month before the four four hostages were released by the idf and by military operation. and one of the hostages that was released in this operation was almog and he was with guy at the first day they were abducted together. and he told us that about this first day, what happened to them ? day, what happened to them? >> okay, andy lound, thank you very much. we have to leave it there, i'm afraid. but that's it from me now. but dewbs& co is up next with bev turner. bev. what's next? >> it's the 7th of october. of course. we're going to be talking about what that might mean . and how do we quell mean. and how do we quell tensions here in this country. but we're going to also, first of all, start off with starmer's popularity worse than any other prime minister in history. so short, after being elected second only to liz truss, vat on private schools, it's been rushed through. it isn't going to work and also bbc salaries are too high. that's dewbs& co with me. bev, after the weather.
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>> there will be a light breeze in the morning leading to a warm front . boxt heat pumps sponsors front. boxt heat pumps sponsors of weather on gb news afternoon. >> time for your latest weather update from the met office here on gb. news . update from the met office here on gb. news. more heavy update from the met office here on gb. news . more heavy showers on gb. news. more heavy showers around this evening and for some well a few thundery downpours. also quite gusty . close to those also quite gusty. close to those heavy showers. all from this an area of low pressure just sitting out to the west and spiralling bands of showery rain our way. this weather fronts made for a dull and damp day across parts of northern scotland that's not moving too far, but elsewhere the showers are moving in some big thunderstorms this evening over south wales and southern counties of england. that's where we have a met office yellow warning in place, something a bit drier for northern ireland and northern england for most of the night, but this band of showery rain may get to northern ireland by dawn, also spreading across eastern parts of england too, keeping the temperatures up for sure double digits for many clearer skies over northern england and southern scotland
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will allow temperatures to dip down to single figures. on to tuesday. it's another day where there'll be some sunshine, but there'll be some sunshine, but there will also be further showers coming in from the word go. really across southern england and south wales, perhaps a drier start, but a bit misty over parts of northern england and the midlands. and showery rain too, crossing through northern ireland. southern scotland may well start dry, but noficein scotland may well start dry, but notice in northern scotland, where the wind is coming from, a northerly breeze that'll bring a chill here, even though it will be a bit of a drier day across the far north compared to today. further south though, well, it'll be far from dry. further south though, well, it'll be far from dry . it'll be it'll be far from dry. it'll be sunny at times, but look at these showers. you can see there these showers. you can see there the circulation. that's where the circulation. that's where the low pressure is sitting. getting closer and closer. south wales, southern counties of england bombarded by showers. and we'll see this zone of wetter weather across southeast scotland, northern
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faster than any other prime minister in history, except liz truss. penthouses, pensioners , truss. penthouses, pensioners, private schools and prisoners popping private schools and prisoners popping champagne corks. it's been, some might say, a total mess. alastair campbell says that their popularity is nothing to do with any of that. it's because labour are apparently held to higher standards. is he right ? and surprise, surprise, right? and surprise, surprise, education experts are warning that labour's plan to rush through vat on private school fees must be thought through and delayed, despite the education secretary's sneering and divisive claim that state schools need more teachers, more than private schools need embossed stationery. nice. she may not be able to punish the rich as quickly as she hoped. is that good news? let me know. and it's the anniversary of october the 7th. hamas massacre of
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