council seats and haemorrhaging council seats and losing voter trust. first, let's get your latest news headlines with katie bowen . with katie bowen. >> nana. thank you. it's just gone 3:30. these are your latest headunes gone 3:30. these are your latest headlines from the gb newsroom. >> the king says he's greatly saddened by the sudden death of alex salmond, the former first minister of scotland. >> the alba party leader died yesterday afternoon, aged 69, from a suspected heart attack dunng from a suspected heart attack during a trip to north macedonia. >> mr salmond had made a speech at the institute for cultural diplomacy forum and is understood to have collapsed at a lunch in a crowded room. there will be a post—mortem examination to confirm the cause of death . robert jenrick says of death. robert jenrick says he'll make sir. jacob rees—mogg, chairman of the conservative party, if he triumphs against kemi badenoch in the party leadership contest. mrjenrick told gb news this morning that jacob has been a tireless campaigner for the grassroots

and he understands better than anyone the need for party reform. >> i want to have a different way to select candidates so we end the favour of the leader being parachuted in. that was a disgrace. i want to stop members just getting emails asking for money, but never asking what do they want.7 where do they want they want.7 where do they want the party to go.7 let's they want? where do they want the party to go? let's build a mass membership democratic organisation. i think jacob will be a great asset to that . be a great asset to that. >> jonathan reynolds says it's not the government's position that p&o ferries is a rogue operator, despite a press release this week calling them a rogue employer. p&o ferries owner dp world will attend the international investment summit tomorrow. they had previously threatened to pull out of the event and a £1 billion port investment. >> that's after transport secretary louise haigh criticised their employment strategy and called for a boycott. >> the operator was criticised by politicians from both main parties. in march 2022, when it suddenly sacked 800 british seafarers and replaced them with cheapen seafarers and replaced them with cheaper, mainly overseas staff, saying it was necessary to stave

off bankruptcy. the business secretary told gb news camilla tominey that the billion pound investment will go ahead quickly on this issue. >> that's not the government's position. the issue obviously with p&o ferries is we're not going to recoil from that. we thought it was wrong to fire and rehire that. we saw those workers being sacked and then taken back on on fewer terms and conditions, but we have changed the law. it was lawful under the conservative government. it will be unlawful under this labour government. so where companies accept that, acknowledge that can work within that framework, we will of course talk to them about investments. and i can tell you they're coming to the summit and the investment will go ahead . go ahead. >> and finally, for now, nearly 500 migrants crossed the english channelin 500 migrants crossed the english channel in one day. new figures released by the home office today show 471 migrants crossed the channel on nine small boats yesterday. the latest arrivals bnng yesterday. the latest arrivals bring the total so far this year to just over 27,200. a home office spokesman insists they are committed to dismantling

people smuggling operations, saying the government will stop at nothing to bring these criminals to justice. those are your latest gb news headlines for now i'm katie bown. more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gb news .com forward alerts

>>i >> i love welcome back. this is gb news. we're live on tv, onune gb news. we're live on tv, online and on digital radio. 37 minutes after 3:00 on nana akua. now lots of you have been getting in touch with your comments. i felt really sad for jonathan on this one. richard said. jonathan, this has a terrible laugh also. so he obviously said something else. i think you've got a cute laugh. >> i'll just go to the kamala

harris defence. laughter is a sign of joy and i'll never apologise for having joined. >> very good. absolutely. >> very good. absolutely. >> and also she certainly beats the alternative on this channel. exactly. >> and obviously kamala harris, i think she's a bit mad anyway. hahahahaha. sorry . all right. hahahahaha. sorry. all right. yeah. what else have we got? oh , yeah. what else have we got? oh, xavion. that's a nice name. xavion is it ? xavion. that's a nice name. xavion is it? he says, xavion. that's a nice name. xavion is it ? he says, look xavion. that's a nice name. xavion is it? he says, look up ed miliband for treason. council net zero. rebuild all power stations that have recently been shut down or demolished. do it this way. because all the pylons are already in place. nana. >> can we just backtrack a bit as someone literally messaged this channel to call for a cabinet minister to be locked up for treason? yes, i think we have to put this into perspective. he is not just tried to assassinate the king, or to sort of stage a coup against the government. he's part of the government. but he's not, he's not he's not an enemy of the state. he has a different political vision from your viewer. it's not treason. it's political disagreement. please, let's get some perspective. >> all right. well, there you go.thank

>> all right. well, there you go. thank you for that, jonathan. right. also. david. now, david metcalfe. he says that he's a retired electrical engineer. and i asked about pylons and whether they're dangerous for health. he said. good afternoon. nana. that is not correct about pylons and electromagnetic force. the government actually set up exposure guidelines after it found years ago that electromagnetic fields or emfs, emitted by pylons, a lot of investigation's findings were buried. some studies actually found that power lines may cause health effects , such as health effects, such as childhood leukaemia and brain tumours, to bury cables means that the csa or cross section area has to be increased massively due to the heat given by the cables, hence why cables are hung between pylons. so the free flowing air cools them down. it also depends what material you use for copper cables, aluminium, etc. they all have different properties. if you take time to get close to a pylon, you can actually hear the cables buzzing. yes, i have taken time and i have heard it. >> i think we have to be really clear that those claims about leukaemia have have no, they've been debunked shapps completely debunked. there's no evidence

backed up by scientific studies. >> what david is saying. but yeah , i'm with you on that. yeah, i'm with you on that. i haven't heard that as a thing. >> the house prices thing is true though. >> yes, but i think we have to be really careful. these are these are things like the 5g conspiracy theory. it's just they are not rooted, right? >> well, he said, what do i know? i'm an electrical engineer, so, you know, thank you for that in a really good to get your comments retired. no he's retired. yeah. but he will know a lot. but i'm yeah i'm wondering about those that as well. right. keep them coming. gbnews.com/yoursay right now as the labour party passes 100 days in government, there are increasing signs that their honeymoon period is well and truly over. not only have the party lost several council by elections over the past week , elections over the past week, but new polling by savanta makes for grim reading for the labour leadership. sir keir starmer's net favorability ratings have fallen by 28 points since the end of july , reaching —13, and end of july, reaching —13, and in addition, 39% of those polled said that the general competence and trust in government has fallen under labour, and fewer

than half of labour voters polled say the country has improved since they took over. so let's discuss with broadcaster and journalist danny kelly, also political commentator jonathan kelly, also political commentatorjonathan lis. jonathan, it's undeniable that keir starmer's popularity is shrivelling and the people are not happy with the labour party. even those who voted for them. >> yeah, i think it's not uncontroversial to say that things haven't been plain sailing for the last three months, and a lot of mistakes have been made, but that doesn't mean that that's all that's happened. i think the main stories have been the stories of cut through have been winter fuel, which is entirely an unforced error, an own goal by the labour party. i'll say that quite openly and the freebies thing, which is partly sort of the media going in on something, partly a complacency and lack of care on on the part of the labour party and a failure of political skill and communication skill, the political skill. they didn't see how it would be seen. they didn't sort of see the optics of

it, and they didn't and they didn't. >> you don't think they saw, like yvette cooper and ed balls taking taylor swift tickets, and then suddenly there's some sort of nana blue light of all the things, of all the things to be upset about in this whole issue. >> that is one of the very last ones, because there's also a football one as well. >> isn't there? >> isn't there? >> that's look, but the problem that you >> that's look, but the prob