well. >> a very very good afternoon to you. it's 5:00 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, britain's burning brighter than ever . show, britain's burning brighter than ever. well, that's according to the chancellor, rachel reeves, a moment ago and our political editor, christopher hope , sat down christopher hope, sat down earlier on with rachel reeves and asked her the big questions. we'll bring you that in the next few moments. and john caldwell, the billionaire phones 4u founder, reckons sir keir starmer should be paid £300,000 per year, almost double his current salary, and we'll be

taking words from the mobile tycoon to find out why he thinks the pm's salary needs a big signal boost. and in 2017, millwall fan roy larner , the millwall fan roy larner, the legend, risked his life and saved an estimated 30 people's lives when he heroically attacked an isis terrorist dunng attacked an isis terrorist during the london bridge terror attacks. and now they're making attacks. and now they're making a movie about the lion of london bridge's legendary life . and bridge's legendary life. and shortly on this show, i'll be joined by heroic roy for his first major tv interview and the director of the movie, dougie brimson. that's all coming up between now and 6 pm. watch the show. always a pleasure to have your company. so we've heard the rhetoric. we've heard the posturing. but where is the detail in the in rachel reeves taxation plan? we won't know

that perhaps until october the 30th. but we sat down with rachel reeves earlier on today and i asked the chancellor on your behalf, christopher hope in fact, put the question to her, will the labour party be paying slavery reparations could total trillions of pounds much mooted by people such as the foreign secretary, david lammy, who has a penchant for putting right the pages of history, could be very, very pricey. we asked her is there going to be any plans to pay there going to be any plans to pay that money? you will not want to miss the response that's coming in about 6 or 7 minutes time. make sure you're sitting down with a cup of tea going to its usual ways by going to gb news dot com forward slash your say. but now it's time for your headlines. and here's mark white. >> good evening. it's 5:02. the main headlines from the gb news centre stansted airport, is to

undergo a massive transformation as part of a £1.1 billion investment. the five year construction programme will expand the main terminal by a third and see the existing building refurbished. the development will create 5000 new jobs and also deliver a 14 megawatt solar farm on site, which will help power the airport's infrastructure. the plans were unveiled by the prime minister at the flagship international investment summit in london. for us tech firms, also used the summit to announce plans to invest £6.3 billion in data centre infrastructure in the uk. well, the chancellor, rachel reeves, told the summit labour was determined to ensure the uk becomes a highly attractive country to invest in and this investment will support the growth of businesses , big the growth of businesses, big and small, helping them create

new jobs, invest in new technology and play their crucial role in this government's number one mission to grow the economy by being the most pro—business government that this country has ever seen . that this country has ever seen. the perfume bottle carrying the russian nerve agent that killed a salisbury woman contained enough poison to kill thousands of people. the official novichok inquiry heard how 44 year old dawn sturgess died in hospital hours after coming into contact with the nerve agent she had collapsed at her boyfriend's home on the 30th of june 2018, after the pair found the discarded perfume bottle in a local park. the nerve agent had been used in a bid to murder former spy sergei skripal and his daughter yulia, and a local police officer also fell seriously ill. russia denies any involvement and has described the inquiry as a circus.

involvement and has described the inquiry as a circus . at the inquiry as a circus. at least 18 people have been killed in what's believed to have been the first israeli airstrike on a northern lebanese town since the start of the current conflict with hezbollah a year ago. rescue teams have spent the day digging through rubble looking for survivors in the town of ba.2. lebanese officials have blamed israel for the attack, which would mark an expansion of the current conflict into the christian majority northern region. that strike comes less than a day after four idf soldiers were killed, and more than 60 others injured in a drone strike on a military base in northern israel. the year old, and then called police to northern israel. the hezbollah terror group has in northern israel. the hezbollah terror group has claimed responsibility for the claimed responsibility for the attack . a jury at the old bailey attack . a jury at the old bailey attack. a jury at the old bailey has been told that the father of attack. a jury at the old bailey has been told that the father of sarah sharif fled to pakistan sarah sharif fled to pakistan after allegedly killing the ten after allegedly killing the ten year old, and then called police year old, and then called police

to say i to say i legally punished her and she died. sarah's father, irfan sharif, her stepmother and uncle are on trial accused of killing her. her body was discovered at her home in woking in surrey in august last year. the defendants have pleaded not guilty to her murder and to causing or allowing the death of a child . the police firearms a child. the police firearms officer who shot london man chris kaba , has told a jury he chris kaba, has told a jury he thought one of his colleagues was about to die when he opened fire. giving evidence in public for the first time at the old bailey, pc martin blake said he was filled with dread as the audi mr kaba was driving moved backwards and forwards at officers as they surrounded his car. pc blake fatally shot the 24 year old through

car. pc blake fatally shot the 24 yeai.old through car. pc blake fatally shot the 24 yeai. thethrough car. pc blake fatally shot the 24 yeai. the fbngh car. pc blake fatally shot the 24 yeai. the fbi is] car. pc blake fatally shot the 24 yeai. the fbi is investigating denies. the fbi is investigating whether a man caught with loaded weapons near a donald trump rally at the weekend was part of another attempted assassination. local police arrested the man carrying multiple weapons and fake passports as he attempted to get into the trump rally in california. the 49 year old las vegas resident denied wanting to hurt the former president and was released on bail. the local county sheriff said the suspect was likely to be a sovereign citizen, someone who doesn't believe in government control . believe in government control. and finally, the snowman is being depicted on a new royal mint £0.50 coin as a one off gold version will be hidden in one of its advent calendars . as one of its advent calendars. as part of the launch of the collectable coin. a solid gold

£0.50 piece has been placed behind door 24, in just one limited edition. the coins commemorate the much loved character immortalised in the books and films of raymond briggs and those are your headunes briggs and those are your headlines for the moment. we're back with more in half an hour. in the meantime, it's back to martin daubney. >> thank you mark. superb as even >> thank you mark. superb as ever. now britain's burning brighter than ever. that's according to the chancellor, rachel reeves. earlier on today and speaking at the uk international investment summit. rachel reeves told business leaders they can look forward to a true partnership with the new labour government. well, big claims from the chancellor with the autumn budget just around the autumn budget just around the corner and of course, many surprises may still be within that. and gb news political editor christopher hope spoke to rachel reeves a little earlier on today for us here @gbnews.

>> rachel reeves, we're here at the international investment summit. we heard the pm there say he wants to rip out the bureaucracy that blocks investment, will march through the institutions that make economic and make economic and competition regulators take growth seriously. but don't those bodies protect consumers? are you willing to put that at risk? >> the prime minister gave the example today of a wind farm that required 40,000 documents, not just pieces of paper, but separate documents to be able to get through the planning system. and then when the 40,000 documents had been put in, there was a judicial review that delayed the project by a further two years. that is no good for the uk economy. it deters investment. it deters job creation and in the end will result in higher energy bills for consumers. >> for consumers, don't they? that's the point. >> well, i don't think that that looked after consumers and it didn't look after working people. so of course, where regulations are necessary to protect people. and the prime minister gave the example, for example, of grenfell tower,

where a lack of regulation failed people and a lack of adherence to regulation failed people. so you've got to look at the individual regulations, but where regulations just delay 1501 00:10:1