city hall . of the paris city hall. >> it's offered to pay for the removal and the reinstallation of the boxes, as well as making any repairs needed. but the association, which represents the booksellers, says that could cost over £1 million. laurent like many other booksellers , is like many other booksellers, is refusing to budge. >> removing those boxes away. that's really nonsense for us. so we're going to fight the security threat comes from the fact of having hundreds of thousands of people here on the side of the sand. so we don't understand why they're they're targeting us. i mean, they should protect us, not target us. >> us. >> it seems this story isn't quite yet finished. charlotte dubinsky in paris for gb news is i >> -- >> thank 5mm >> thank you very much , >> thank you very much, charlotte. dubinsky consl sidor. the subtleness of the sea . how the subtleness of the sea. how its most dreaded creatures glide under water. so wrote herman melville in moby dick. the portrayal of an existential battle between a man and a whale pod of orca, so—called killer whales have been ramming sailboats off the coast of spain and portugal. scientists insist that the activity is mere sport as skittish orcas train their young to target the rudder and hull of small vessels. matt johnston, whose boat was playfully nuzzled, joins me live from gozo in the mediterranean. matt do you have a whale of a story ? story? >> i would say yeah . we were >> i would say yeah. we were definitely playfully nuzzled just off the coast of portugal . just off the coast of portugal. >> tell me about it. i mean , >> tell me about it. i mean, seriously, you were pretty pretty frightened. i think it's certainly something that you're not expecting. >> we were sailing down the coast, and it's a very small boat. and when suddenly we were hit by something, it felt like we were being t—boned by another car . and, you know, but car. and, you know, but obviously, we were two miles from shore and the crew were we're all a bit jarred immediately. it's dangerous because , you know, boats are are because, you know, boats are are hard. so if you get hit by something, you could lose your balance and that would be initial injury. but we quickly realised what was going on because we were aware that the area filled with playful area was filled with playful orcas who how much damage was done to your boat ? all orcas who how much damage was done to your boat? all in orcas who how much damage was done to your boat ? all in all, done to your boat? all in all, with the insurance it came to about just over £10,000 worth of damage. yeah and they bashed the sides, which didn't cause any damage, but was was kind of frightening because you're kind of hoping that the fibreglass won't split. but most of it was they were attacking the rudder and stripped the rudder and they stripped the rudder completely from the frame that the rudder is on so that there was really no way we could steer. and we were abandoned out at sea about two miles from shore . shore. >> how did you get back? eventually, then ? eventually, then? >> well , we eventually, then? >> well, we put out a mayday, first of all, and we got absolutely no response . and absolutely no response. and apparently that's not uncommon for portugal . apparently that's not uncommon for portugal. so we ended up phoning the marina that we were heading to and told them our details, give them our location . an and about half an hour later , a police boat came out later, a police boat came out and drove off the orcas. so we eventually got towed into sail by a tugboat and into safety . by a tugboat and into safety. >> matt, do you have an explanation for what's going on? why are orcas suddenly doing this ? this? >> well, they've been doing this for about three years. it's very much in in the public consciousness now . my belief is consciousness now. my belief is that it consciousness now. my belief is thatitis consciousness now. my belief is that it is related to overfishing of bluefin tuna , overfishing of bluefin tuna, that they're struggling to essentially get enough food to survive . and related to that , survive. and related to that, though, is, you know, if they were really bothering about the fishing, they'd be attacking fishing, they'd be attacking fishing boats. my theory is that this is this is playing as the scientists are saying, but it's play scientists are saying, but it's play hunting just will play hunting just like cat will teach kittens to, you know, teach its kittens to, you know, to hunt with a mouse or whatever. large orcas are whatever. these large orcas are teaching the smaller ones to attack boats take attack these boats to take off the because sailboat the rudders because a sailboat is about the same size as some of the larger whale prey. and i think the orcas are retraining to go after whales, you know, bash them in the sides, make them disoriented, send the smaller to eat at the smaller ones into to eat at the rudder and immobilise them and that means then the orcas can feast at will. >> that makes perfect sense. as we've been seeing pictures have been playing while you've been talking. they are absolutely magnificent creatures. i mean, i absolutely to love see them. how do you feel about them now ? well do you feel about them now? well i swear in the first few days while i was trying to get things sorted and trying to deal with insurance companies and seeing other boats that been other boats that had been damaged because when were damaged because when we were brought in, there were other boats were completely immobilised. >> people with no >> and some people with no insurance, they insurance, you know, they could cover i joke cover it. honestly, i did joke about the or the about joining the pharaoh or the japanese fleet for japanese whaling fleet for a little or, you know, little while or, you know, because just i was just doing it right. they are absolutely magnificent. there's magnificent. i mean, there's nothing i they're nothing more. i mean, they're basically big dolphins with nice colouring when you see them. they magnificent . but it's they are magnificent. but it's not so much you know, it's not not so much you know, it's not not nice whenever they are not as nice whenever they are literally and literally bashing your boat. and then glide past and then when they glide past and look you with one eye and look at you with one eye and you're like, i'm not getting in the water. oh, i'm not the water. oh, no, i'm not swimming these things. swimming with these things. >> before any viewers take >> and before any viewers take to twitter , it was very clear to twitter, it was very clear that matt johnston was joking at that matt johnston was joking at that particular moment. and matt very well survived . in a few very well survived. in a few minutes, you can hear previously undiscovered guitar music plucked from the 19th century by musician anne alexandra whittingham. before that , the whittingham. before that, the news headlines with rory smith . news headlines with rory smith. >> thank you very much, michael. those who have been wrongfully convicted of crimes will no longer have their living costs docked from their compensation payments . new guidance issued by payments. new guidance issued by justice secretary alex chalk comes into immediate effect today. comes into immediate effect today . it follows the today. it follows the controversy sparked by the jailing of andrew malkinson, who spent 17 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit. he voiced his concerns that expenses may be deducted from his compensation , prompting his compensation, prompting downing street to make urgent amendments . the national crime amendments. the national crime agency is teaming up with social media firms to crack down on posts by people smugglers who are encouraging asylum seekers to cross the channel group discounts free spaces for children and offers a false documents are among the posts. the prime minister wants removed to help achieve his promise to stop the boats. minister for immigration robert jenrick told us here at gb news that migrants come to the uk because of a so—called soft touch approach to immigration. ukraine's so—called soft touch approach to immigration . ukraine's president immigration. ukraine's president vladimir zelenskyy, is accusing russia of bombing a blood transfusion centre in the northwest of the country. mr zelenskyy claims a number of people are dead and others are injured . but the president did injured. but the president did not disclose how many fatalities there are . he described a strike there are. he described a strike in the eastern kharkiv region as a war crime . there has so far a war crime. there has so far been no comment from russia . been no comment from russia. storm anthony saw . 78 mile per storm anthony saw. 78 mile per hour winds hit some parts of the uk yesterday, blocking 100 miles of railway between exeter and penzance. about half a month's worth of rain fell in some areas, with a number of people evacuated from their homes in nonh evacuated from their homes in north yorkshire due to flooding. gusts of 78 miles an hour were measured at bury head in devon, while 43mm of rain fell in scarborough in north yorkshire. almost half of august's average rainfall . i'll that's you up to rainfall. i'll that's you up to date but you can get more on all of those stories by visiting our website. that is gbnews.com michael will be back right after this short . break >> welcome back . >> welcome back. >> welcome back. >> time for some music. julian lloyd webber has been interviewing young classical performers who use social media to build huge audiences and successful careers . his latest successful careers. his latest subject is the guitarist alexandra whittingham, who has rediscovered neglected pieces of 19th century music for her new album, my europe journey. julian met up with her in east london. >> viewers may remember that we interviewed anna lapwood, a wonderful young organist who's got an incredible post at cambridge and there's a bit of a theme developing here because today we meet alexandra whittingham, a wonderful guitarist , whittingham, a wonderful guitarist, young whittingham, a wonderful guitarist , young guitarist, who guitarist, young guitarist, who is also has made a great use of social to media forge a trailblazing career. was that something intentional ? something intentional? >> no, not at all. it kind of started in a very kind of like a very naive way, i would say . i very naive way, i would say. i first worked with a videographer who who was a customer of my dad's . my dad used to be a dad's. my dad used to be a window cleaner and he cleaned the windows of a fantastic photographer who was quite well known in our area just outside of manchester. and his name was tom. so he asked if i could record or film one of the pieces that i'd recently recorded. and obviously i said yes. and then i don't think i had a youtube channel at the time, so i made a new youtube channel, uploaded it and just forgot about it for the next like 2 or 3 months. i think . and then i think it was my dad that said, oh, you've got about 10,000 subscribers on youtube. and i thought and i remember texting friend going, is texting my friend and going, is that like, it must be that a lot? like, it must be quite get because who's quite easy to get because who's who's subscribing what you who's subscribing to me what you know going on. and it know what's going on. and it just of from there really. >> but you've got over a quarter of a million now. yeah. >> honestly , don't how when >> honestly, don't know how when anybody to me, i'm anybody says that to me, i'm just just think just like, just don't think about it. i just it's crazy to me. >> keep feeding it. do you do you sort of feel you have to make another film and keep it going? >> no, weirdly enough. and i know that sounds awful, but i think awful. i think because i think awful. i think because i think it was because it grew so organically and so unintentionally, as you said, that i think i've never felt that i think i've never felt that kind of pressure of like, oh, i need to post, i need to post because i think my audience, i'm lucky. like audience, i'm quite lucky. like they understand that they completely understand that sort post when i can and when sort of post when i can and when i want and when, you know, because i really making because i really enjoy making youtube really, really youtube videos. i really, really enjoy the creating enjoy the sort of creating things to share online. >> and how much do you interact with the viewers as i try with with the viewers as i try to do so, i have a patreon channel as well and i try to do live streams on there. >> i do the occasional q&a and practise videos and things like that. practise videos and things like that . so i'd practise videos and things like that. so i'd like to say when i've got the time, i'd like to say quite a lot . say quite a lot. >> but that whole social media scene a really powerful tool, scene is a really powerful tool, isn't it? because if you've got a quarter a million a quarter of a million subscribers, that puts you in a very with very powerful position, say with a company who know that a record company who know that they can sell a certain number of copies just on back of that? >> yeah, i think there's a lot of there's a lot of things that go alongside having a presence online. and i mean, i'm very, very thankful that i think most of the concerts that i play now, the organiser of those concerts probably found me on youtube or saw that i had videos somewhere or that played somewhere or that i'd played somewhere else of this. and it's else because of this. and it's led it's led to a lot of opportunities for because opportunities for me because your album called my your first album was called my european wasn't it? yes, yeah. >> how is your european journey now nowadays it's good . now nowadays it's good. >> i mean, like you said, i mean, most of my concerts are in europe. most lately, not in the uk, but this year i have had quite a few in the uk and yeah, the kind of the album itself wasn't necessarily based around any of my travels. it was mainly repertoire that i'd really loved, sort of growing up , repertoire that i'd really loved, sort of growing up, and i was really kind of keen to find some repertoire that wasn't just the spanish well known repertoire that, you know, that everybody knows and loves for a reason because it is great. and i love that kind of stuff. but i thought i'd love to include a little bit of that on there and then introduce people, sort of use that as a as a way to introduce people to sort of lesser known music. so let's hear one of those pieces. yeah, sure. so going to play sure. so i'm going to play forgotten catharina pratten, forgotten by catharina pratten, who is a well was a german composer . she actually taught composer. she actually taught queen victoria's daughters how to play the guitar , which i to play the guitar, which i think is quite quickly forgotten , unfortunately. i actually hadnt , unfortunately. i actually hadn't heard of her until i was doing sort of some research for my album, and i don't know how because her music i think is just so lovely. >> it's incredible what's still out there that people haven't discovered. >> definitely. yeah. this is >> definitely. yeah. so this is a sweet piece. it's one a really sweet piece. it's one of favourites hers called of my favourites of hers called forgotten . >> well, it's really beautiful. well done for finding it. >> rediscovering it . >> rediscovering it. >> rediscovering it. >> yeah. it's really nice to kind of . i enjoy playing maybe kind of. i enjoy playing maybe like a set of three little miniatures like that in a concert. i think it's nice to kind of break up the program sometimes. beautiful. beautiful. >> great choice. >> great choice. >> thank you so you've got a new book, just come out. >> yes, i have. >> it's called european romance andifs >> it's called european romance and it's basically for any guitarist that likes 19th century music and wants to be introduced to new 19th century music , then that's what it is. music, then that's what it is. it's yeah , i'm very lucky that it's yeah, i'm very lucky that i was approached by a great publishing house called camden music, and we've worked together on this book for the last actually a couple of years. it's taken a while, and the reason it's taken a while is because it was my bright idea to record a video for each piece in the book and there are 19 pieces, and i did all of the video recording and editing myself. so that's what so long. but for what took me so long. but for anybody follows me on anybody who follows me on youtube be having sort youtube, i will be having sort of videos come of a 20 videos come out unfamiliar there. of a 20 videos come out unf soiliar there. of a 20 videos come out unf so people there. of a 20 videos come out unfso people will there. of a 20 videos come out unf so people will really'e. of a 20 videos come out unf so people will really want to >> so people will really want to buy this. >> yeah, yeah. there's a few. it's similar to the album in the respect are a respect that there are a few things that people will things that that people will know that know alongside things that hopefully people won't. so there are around the sort of are from all around the sort of all around europe basically. so we've got denmark, italy, france , germany, england and no visa restrictions, no visa restrictions, no visa restrictions either . so restrictions, no visa restrictions either. so yeah, that's, that's always a bonus . that's, that's always a bonus. >> so you've specially recorded some pieces for youtube . do play some pieces for youtube. do play us one of those. >> yeah. so i kind of with my youtube, i try to well, it's literally just a collection of pieces that i love to play. so one of those is tango on skye by roland denes, the late french composer . roland denes, the late french composer. he's one of my favourites, actually. we recorded and we recorded the video for this at a bar in the south of france . sounds good in south of france. sounds good in a little town called belle . and a little town called belle. and we got all of our friends around the area to kind of come and sit around this big table while i played. and we're all drinking wine and talking and we recreate the atmosphere with some water today. >> yeah, sure . yeah . >> it's brilliant. really. love that. >> thank you. yeah that. >> thank you. yeah that. >> that piece apparently was actually improvised when he was at a party in paris. >> so whoever can improvise like that, who wrote down then? that, who wrote that down then? >> i know, but, yeah, >> i know, i know, but, yeah, he's. incredible . he's. he's incredible. >> thank you very much. julian lloyd webber and alexandra whittingham . for almost whittingham. for almost a decade, campaigners have urged unesco to list the citytage sites. so far, resistance from the italian government and political bargaining by the un body has prevented that. but unesco has now stated that it will require the city to be listed. venice is challenged by rising sea levels . our very own producer, sevilla hill , was recently living . our very own producer, sevilla hill, was recently living in . our very own producer, sevilla hill , was recently living in the hill, was recently living in the queen of the adriatic . sofia, queen of the adriatic. sofia, hello. and you experienced some quite high water while you were there? >> yes. so when i was there, i was studying out there during my year abroad, and i was there for seven months overall and in venice there's a thing called acqua alta, which happens every year the autumn and year during the autumn and winter months. and heard winter months. and i'd heard of it, think it was it, but i didn't think it was any problem. 2019. venice any real problem. a 2019. venice suffered from one