are demanding that the eu are demanding that britain surrenders to free movement for students and commits to unchanged fishing rights if it wants to discuss terms for a new trade deal. i don't know, i don't know about that. it feels like you're going straight back in. so the great british debate this hour, i'm asking, do you trust sir keir starmer not to take us back in there? i've got to pull up on x right now asking you that question. please cast your vote. and in my niggle, the dodgy labour jigsaw puzzle. >> sir my friend is blowin in the wind. the answer is blowin in the wind. so here i am on the latest stage of my gb energy toun >> and that blew away. yes, in the wind. stay with me for that. that's coming up just after 4:00, then difficult conversations. i'll be speaking to a lady called katie tippel, who is an advocate for survivors of sexual violence globally, and she raises vital awareness and funding on the issue. but before we get started, let's get your latest news with sophia hill.

>> very good afternoon. >> very good afternoon. >> it's just gone. >> it's just gone. >> 3:00. >> 3:00. >> i'm sven hill with your latest headlines from the gb newsroom. our top story this afternoon. >> more than 35,000 migrants have crossed the channel illegally in small boats so far this year. the milestone was reached. the milestone figure was reached this morning after at least 250 migrants made the illegal journey in five small boats. >> after more than a week of no small boat crossings because of the bad weather in the channel, more than 1150 migrants reached the uk waters in just the past three days. it takes the provisional number assessed by gb news to 35,130. since the beginning of the year. now the home secretary's in italy for talks on illegal migration this weekend, as hundreds of people continue to cross the channel in small boats, yvette cooper is meeting her italian counterpart, along with the un's refugee agency representative to the country. at the end of a week of

diplomacy on migration. separately, the uk and germany set out a joint plan earlier in the week on how to tackle people smugglers, with berlin pledging to make it a clear criminal offence to facilitate the smuggling of migrants to the uk. chinese money linked to prince andrew is now under investigation by m15 as more details emerge about the embattled duke's connection to an alleged spy. it's believed prince andrew invited the man in question, described as a close confidant to buckingham palace, with their relationship reportedly dating back to 2012. the royal has said he ceased all contact with the businessman in question and denied discussing anything of a sensitive nature. meanwhile, buckingham palace have claimed it has no power to scrutinise the duke's finances. home secretary yvette cooper says the government will always take necessary action when it comes to the country's security. >> well, our security and intelligence agencies are continually vigilant for any threat to uk national security, whether that be around foreign

influence, whether it be around espionage, whether it be around any security threat. and so, of course, we won't hesitate to take action in individual cases or more widely, wherever any challenge arises. >> now, construction workers are four times more likely to die by suicide than the national average. it makes it one of the deadliest professions for mental health problems in the uk, according to a new report. social media company on the tools, the uk's largest community of tradespeople, has found that 73% of the country's 2.1 million construction workers have been affected by mental illness in the last decade, 7000 have taken their own lives , and have taken their own lives, and the company is now trying to raise £2.5 million to found counselling for workers in the industry and some international news. south korea's parliament has voted to impeach president yoon suk yeol over his short lived attempt to impose martial law. earlier this month. mr yoon's decision put the country into a constitutional crisis as soldiers clashed with protesters

on the streets of the capital seoul. tens of thousands of demonstrators have descended onto the streets of the city every night for the past two weeks, calling for mr yoon's removal and arrest. the state of emergency only lasted about six hours, as parliament voted to block the decree. yoon suk yeol has vowed today not to give up and said he would do his best until the very last minute for his country and to end with some sport. a former premier league footballer has been appointed president of georgia amid heightening tensions over the country's relationships with russia. 53 year old mikheil kavelashvili was a striker for manchester city between 1996 and 1997, and later played for several several clubs in the swiss super league. he was elected to parliament in 2016, and in 2022 co—founded the people's power political movement, a splinter group of the ruling georgian dream party. he has strongly anti—western and often conspiratorial views. the four main opposition groups have rejected kavelashvili and have

boycotted parliament, insisting that the elections held in october were rigged. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm several more in half an houn now. i'm several more in half an hour, but now it's back to nana. >> thank you. sophia, stay with me. it'sjust >> thank you. sophia, stay with me. it's just coming >> thank you. sophia, stay with me. it'sjust coming up >> thank you. sophia, stay with me. it's just coming up to six minutes after 3:00. this is dup news. we are britain's news channel. i'm nana akua. well, coming up, we'll get the latest on the prince andrew debacle. and it's reported an alleged chinese agent was invited to buckingham palace by the duke of york. the royal says that he ceased all contact with the businessman, as it's revealed that mi5 businessman, as it's revealed that m15 have started an investigation then for the great british debate. i'm asking, do you trust sir keir starmer not to take us back into the eu? the eu will demand britain surrenders to free movement for students that's 18 to 30s and also commits to unchanged fishing rights if it wants to discuss terms for a new trade deal discuss terms for a new trade deal. but why should we be

giving up all that? and is this not perhaps a move that dragged us much closer into alignment with them, when actually we don't really need to. they need our fish. so for the great british debate this hour, i'm asking, do you trust sir keir starmer not to take us back into the eu? i've got to pull up on x right now asking you that very question. please cast your vote. and ed miliband wants to build a billion solar panels across the uk by 2035. as part of his plan to hit net zero targets. we'll discuss whether this is a good plan or just net zero madness. all of that coming up as ever. send me your thoughts, post your comments. gb news .com forward slash. you're safe. >> to. >> to. >> so chinese money linked to prince andrew i mean what a disaster is now under investigation by m15 as more details emerge about the embattled duke's connection to an alleged spy. now it believed that prince andrew invited the man in question, described as a

close confidant to buckingham palace, with their relationship reportedly dating back to 2012. the royal now claims to have ceased all contact with the businessman and the question and in question, and denied discussing anything of a sensitive nature. in the meantime, buckingham palace says it has no power to scrutinise the duke's finances and does not act for him, given that he is no longer a working royal, although he was then. so joining me now, author and historian alexander larman, that's when he sort of first met them. alexander i mean, how is this prince managed to get himself intertwined in such a debacle? seriously, are they not people around him to stop him from making such connections? >> well, first of all, good to see you. >> and secondly, it's the duke of york. >> it's sort of what he does, isn't it? >> you see anybody else? >> you see anybody else? >> you'd be looking at this and saying, how on earth could you do something so stupid? >> how could you let yourself be open to blackmail, to this kind of embarrassment, to the royal family? >> how could you do it as him is

just. yeah, okay. this is your thing, isn't it? >> this is what you've decided to do this year. >> to humiliate your family and bnng >> to humiliate your family and bring shame on your name. >> and you just think to yourself, perhaps what's going to happen next year? is it going to happen next year? is it going to be russia? >> is it going to be photographs of putin? >> i mean, it's going to go out to north korea. >> i mean, there's genuinely at this stage you could say anything and i would not be surprised by it because his lack of judgement, his lack of intelligence, his lack of anything to do with anything related to morality or any kind of integrity. it would be awful if it 1523 00: