>> very good morning to you. it's 930 on friday, october the 18th. live across the uk . this 18th. live across the uk. this is britain's newsroom with me, ben, leo and nana akua. >> good morning. now it's decision time. the tory leadership hopefuls kemi badenoch and robert jenrick , badenoch and robert jenrick, clashed in a gb news event last night, discussing the echr, brexit, immigration and of course, their thoughts on reform. uk leader nigel farage. >> he speaks with conviction. when people hear him speak, they believe that he understands their concerns. some people will say, oh, you need to tack to the left, you need to tack to the right. it is not about left or right. it is not about left or right. it is about right or wrong. >> look, i think nigel farage is rattled. he's talking about me a lot now. he doesn't want someone to lead this party with my track record . record. >> king charles and queen camilla will land in australia this morning for their tour down unden this morning for their tour down under. our man, cameron walker is on the lookout for them when his majesty lands.

>> will be the first ever reigning king to step foot on australian soil. meanwhile, something very special is happening to the building behind me. a little later, the sydney opera house. >> wow. that's coming up. breaking news this morning. a baby has drowned in the english channel after a small boat carrying migrants capsized. >> and elsewhere , the hamas >> and elsewhere, the hamas leader is dead. the world leaders hope an end to fighting in the middle east is getting ever closer, as we see yahya sinwar final moments here on this dramatic drone footage released by the idf overnight. >> and fat jabs bucha stop boozers, the weight loss jab like ozempic could soon be used to tackle binge drinking. is there anything it can't do.7 but there anything it can't do? but what are the health risks of these injections ? these injections? >> conlon nana. roll your

sleeves up. let me give you some ozempic. >> oh, no. no. terrible. listen , >> oh, no. no. terrible. listen, i get it. when people. if people are really obese , overweight and are really obese, overweight and stuff like this. but obviously a lot of people would have said, oh, covid don't take the jab because. so i think we need to because. so i think we need to be careful of the sort of the long term effects of this jab, i think. >> yeah, i'm, i'm of the camp who says if you're 30, 40 stone and you're an imminent risk of dying because of your weight, i say, great, get the weight off. but if you're two three, maybe even four stone overweight, i would encourage maybe eating less, going to the gym, moving more, maybe some more. sort of natural ways. >> but it's an interesting well, a lot of people are taking it for a couple of months here and there to lose a lot of weight. and then there are issues. we will talk about all of that, but first we'll get your latest news. >> very good morning to you. >> very good morning to you. >> it is just after half past nine a quick roundup of the top stories this morning before we hand back to ben and nana.

>> and as we heard there, israel's year long war with hamas took a dramatic turn yesterday as the idf killed yahya sinwar, the group's leader, and believed mastermind behind last year's october the 7th attacks. >> unaware of his identity. >> unaware of his identity. >> at first, idf forces say they stumbled across sinwar during a gaza operation taking out israel's most wanted man prime minister benjamin netanyahu called it a major blow to hamas. he's warning the fight is still far from over. talks between netanyahu and president biden in the us are currently focused on using this moment to free hostages and end the conflict, but iran says the killing will only strengthen resistance. meanwhile , hezbollah in lebanon meanwhile, hezbollah in lebanon has also vowed to escalate its conflict with israel . here, the conflict with israel. here, the chancellor, rachel reeves, is expected to announce £3 billion in welfare cuts over the next four years. those savings would, they say, come from reforming work capability rules and tightening eligibility for sickness benefits. initially a

tory proposal, work and pensions secretary liz kendall will oversee those changes aimed at moving around 400,000 long term claimants towards employment, while rachel reeves plans to balance public finances with tax hikes and spending cuts, ministers have voiced some concerns over departmental budgets. the october budget will be revealed on the 30th of this month, with tax rises expected to feature prominently . liam to feature prominently. liam payne's former one direction bandmates say they're devastated, and they added they will miss him terribly in a statement released yesterday, the 31 year old died after falling from a hotel balcony in buenos aires. a postmortem buenos aires. a post mortem found the singer suffered multiple traumas from the fall, with police reporting his room was in. they say, complete disarray. one direction fans held a candlelight vigil in argentina, remembering him for his kind . his argentina, remembering him for his kind. his funny argentina, remembering him for his kind . his funny and brave his kind. his funny and brave soul. his kind. his funny and brave soul . and the former body, the soul. and the former body, the body, rather, of the former first minister of scotland, alex

salmond, is set to be flown home today. the businessman, sir tom hunter paid for a chartered flight to repatriate the alba party leader's body from north macedonia, where he died of a heart attack on saturday. the plane is expected to land in aberdeen just after 1:00 this afternoon with his family and party colleagues, including the current alba party leader, receiving the coffin. salmond, who was 9069, passed away while attending a conference in macedonia. his family have asked for privacy at this time . that's for privacy at this time. that's the latest from the newsroom for now. a full round up at 10:00. now, though, it's back to ben and nana 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 slash alerts . news .com forward slash alerts. >> hello . morning, sir. >> hello. morning, sir. >> hello. morning, sir. >> good morning to you. sorry.

>> good morning to you. sorry. >> you. >> you. >> do you want to go first or should i? >> ladies first. oh. thank you. >> ladies first. oh. thank you. >> ladies first. right. hello and welcome. this is britain's newsroom. we are live across the united kingdom on tv news with ben, leo and me. >> nana akua morning. thanks for your company this morning. it was all kicking off last night, wasn't it? in the conservative leadership debate? only here on gb news robert jenrick, of course. and kemi badenoch went head to head. they battled it out in front of a live studio audience of the tory members, weren't they? >> yeah . tory members, two members. >> and patrick, of course, had that great sort of spin room show afterwards speaking to the electorate here in paddington. >> well, gb news political editor christopher hope is the man who chaired the debate and he has this report. >> kemi badenoch will you call please? >> heads. >> heads. >> heads. >> heads , tails is kemi badenoch >> heads, tails is kemi badenoch you want to go first or second, robert? >> i'll go first. chris. >> i'll go first. chris. >> and with that, the race to lead kicked off on gb news. robert jenrick would face questions from the conservative members first, followed by kemi badenoch and it's straight for robert jenrick on how to bring back the reform voters though,

we tackled the biggest issues facing this country and i think that does begin with migration because if we don't regain the public's trust on that issue, if we don't get back the millions of voters that we've lost to reform, we're just never going to be in government again. it got spicy. when talking about free speech, the police have to enforce our existing laws without fear or favour . without fear or favour. >> they must never allow a worry about community relations to stop fighting extremism. >> robert jenrick comments kept coming back to immigration and the echr. >> there's a clear choice here. it's leave or remain and i'm for leave. >> christopher chope has said today that kemi badenoch is preoccupied with her children. he says it's impossible to be a leader and a parent. can a mum or a dad be that person and

leader? >> well, i hope so. >> well, i hope so. >> i've got three kids myself, so i think he was wrong. he was definitely wrong. >> the issue of slavery reparations is coming up. there's a meeting of the commonwealth leaders next week. should we pay slavery reparations for our imperial past? >> no . absolutely not. >> no. absolutely not. >> no. absolutely not. >> then it was the turn of kemi badenoch. i asked if her pitch was based on principles, but not policies, and if this was a problem. >> i am not here to impose just what's in my head on everyone in the party. that is not what it needs. that is not how we unite the party . i know so many of you the party. i know so many of you are tired and sick of the infighting and the squabbling. it happens when we don't get a consensus before we start proposing things to the public. >> so where does she stand on echr withdrawal? >> if we need to leave the echr in order to control migration , in order to control migration, we should leave it. but it is not a silver bullet. it's not even 1543 00:08:52,904