inform confirm his identity and inform his family. a man in his 60s was arrested at the scene and taken into police custody. the incident is not being treated as terrorism. elsewhere in london, a manhunt is underway after a shooting left one person dead and two injured. officers were called to wells park road in sydenham this morning, where they found a man with gunshot injuries who died at the scene. a woman and a third person were taken to hospital with what are also thought to be gunshot wounds. no arrests have been made so far over what the metropolitan police are calling a senseless act of violence. the nafion a senseless act of violence. the nation has fallen silent as the king led a two minute silence to mark remembrance sunday and honour fallen soldiers at 11:00 this morning. big ben chimed 11 times, and the

last post was played before king charles, dressed in his royal navy uniform of the admiral of the fleet, laid a wreath at the cenotaph. he was joined by members of the royal family , members of the royal family, including the prince and princess of wales, the prime minister, sir keir starmer and the leader of the opposition , the leader of the opposition, kemi badenoch. both laid wreaths. they were also joined by former prime ministers. today is also the first time since the start of the year that the princess of wales, who is recovering from cancer, is carrying out two consecutive days of public official engagements. 10,000 veterans have marched past the cenotaph as part of the royal british legion's parade to the us now, where overnight, president elect donald trump won the state of arizona, meaning he has now won all seven swing states. the white house announced yesterday that president biden has invited donald trump to a meeting in the oval office on wednesday. it comes as the president elect has begun appointing his top team.

last night, he shared that former republican presidential contender nikki haley and former secretary of state mike pompeo will not be asked to join his administration. sticking to us politics this morning, chief secretary to the treasury darren jones has said that it is probably unlikely that the government will work with nigel farage as an intermediary to the trump administration , adding trump administration, adding that mr farage should focus on working with his constituents in clacton as opposed to being a transatlantic commentator . those transatlantic commentator. those are the latest gb news headlines. >> more in an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone , sign up to news smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gb news .com . forward or go to gb news .com. forward slash alerts .

slash alerts. >> welcome to this remembrance sunday programme with michael portillo. i'm going to be joined by lord hutton of furness. he was secretary of state for defence between 2008 and 2009. also the author of kitchener's men the king's own royal lancasters on the western front 1915 to 1918, which gives a graphic insight in to the daily routine and the grim brutality of warfare on the western front. for men who were mostly recruited from the furness area of the north west. and john hutton, welcome to the program. hi , michael. hi, michael. >> good to see you. >> tell me a bit about what was revealed in your book. >> well, i mean, the thing that i think really still escapes a lot of attention in the great war and the historical analysis, michael is the actual daily experiences and lives of the young boys who went out to fight in france .just young boys who went out to fight in france . just the young boys who went out to fight in france .just the simple grind in france. just the simple grind of the daily routine and the

deprivation and the hardships of being in the trenches days after days, weeks after week. you know, it was a pretty brutal experience. and i found that account really moving, actually, of the young men who served from barrow and ulverston and dalton and the other towns in my former constituency, and an incredible story of sacrifice, courage and bravery. yeah. >> did the lancasters have a particularly hard time, john? >> they did. they had they were really i mean, the regular battalions went out to france early on in the war, but the, the kitchener's men, if you like, the new army didn't really go out until the spring of 1915, but they were pitched straight away into the into the fighting. perhaps the single most brutal day for those young boys was on on the somme in august 1916, where where 2 or 300 of them were killed in another futile , were killed in another futile, pointless attack motivated by a desire to push the germans back. but you know, executed in a way

which guaranteed many, many casualties in a pointless sacrifice that really achieved very, very little. so it's a really tragic tale of loss and sacrifice and every remembrance sunday in barrow i would attend the service there, and there were over 650 names on the memorial from the great war, and really that that is really quite a staggering amount of, of, of death. and i think also when you think about the many who are seriously wounded as well, whose names are never recorded anywhere, you know, i think it really does bring home one very fundamental point for me, michael, which is that, yes, i agree with mark when he talked about our armed forces defending our democracy. but i think the point that sometimes, often isn't really doesn't really register with a lot of people. it's not the courts, ultimately, that defend our human rights, our individual freedoms. it's not even the media. dare i say that at the end of the day, it's

always the armed forces who are the ultimate guarantor of our liberties and freedoms and certainly reading the accounts of these young boys in 1916, 1917, 1918 and listening to my own father talk about his war service in italy, and to understand that both my grandfathers, one serving in the american army, the other in the british army, the sacrifice that they went through , both were they went through, both were very seriously injured in the great war. my grandfather caught malaria in salonika and then went back into the fighting in 1918 when it got very serious and we were on the point of defeat. and my american grandfather was was gassed. and if he hadn't met my grandmother in a hospital in dublin in 1918, i certainly wouldn't be here. so the great war for me is obviously not just a moment to think about the service and sacrifice of my own family, but the good fortune, really, that it brought my grandmother and grandfather together in 1918. >> john, with your family background and your constituency background, how did that inform your time as secretary of state

for defence? >> well, i mean, you will know the answer to that question, michael, as well. i mean it as you were a former secretary of state, it affects profoundly. i mean, you can't do that job without getting an understanding of the history of conflict. and britain's role in it in the last century or so. and you also, you're going to feel profoundly grateful for the, the, the men and women who served us in those two wars. and in fact, to be honest, you know, for me personally, today i'm thinking about some of the young men i met and knew who served in afghanistan , who sadly lost afghanistan, who sadly lost their lives there, too. so this tradition of service, it didn't end in 1945. it continues. thank goodness today and we are so grateful and honoured by the service of these these very brave people , the men and women brave people, the men and women you met who were serving in afghanistan in your day. >> did they leave a particular impression with you? john? they did. >> and again, i would echo a

very great deal of what mark francois has said. i mean, their commitment, their courage. you know, for them there was never any hesitation. they were there. they were going to do the job that we'd asked them to do as a country. and they did it with tremendous professionalism. and anyone who sees that up close, you know, that will change your view of things forever. and it certainly changed my view of my role in politics and what i was trying to do. and it still informs a lot of what i, what i do today. >> and will you join me, john, in saying that, of course, today we commemorate not only british losses, but also commonwealth losses. the commonwealth losses in the great war and the second world war were absolutely staggering empire losses, as they would have been known in those days. >> yes. i mean, absolutely. and you know , it's a thing that, you you know, it's a thing that, you know, i reflect on a lot , know, i reflect on a lot, actually, in 1914, when britain went to war, on that same day, canada, new zealand, australia,

they all joined our effort, our campaign for respect for international law and democracy and freedom. never, ever forget that. you know and freedom. never, ever forget that. y