joining me now is rani govender, who is a senior policy and public affairs officer at nspcc.rs? irate why is snapchat popular with the uroomers? ~ ~' ., , why is snapchat popular with the uroomers? ~ ~ ., , ., why is snapchat popular with the uroomers? ~ ., , ., ., ., groomers? we know first of all that sna chat groomers? we know first of all that snapchat is — groomers? we know first of all that snapchat is an _ groomers? we know first of all that snapchat is an incredibly _ groomers? we know first of all that snapchat is an incredibly popular i snapchat is an incredibly popular app snapchat is an incredibly popular app amongst children. children and young people are using it on a daily basis. there are specific features on snapchat that make children particularly vulnerable to grooming. ultimately, snapchat has been designed with children's safety online. it is designed to encourage growing and network of people, that means that children can be vulnerable to being groomed on that website. we vulnerable to being groomed on that website. ~ ~ ., ., , ., website. we know that t

the nspcc is part of a global coalition of more than 100 sexual absuse survivors, families and childonsibility to protect children on their sites. local pubs — a mainstay of british social life for centuries — have faced a slump in business since the coronavirus pandemic. official figures show that in the first half of this year across england and wales, up to two pubs a day have closed. joining me now is kate nicholls, chief executive at uk hospitality, the uk's main trade body for hospitality. will there be a rise in new pubs opening that differ from traditional pubs? it is an astonishing number, and it is notjust pubs, it is across hospitality. we thought 6,000 hospitality. we thought 6,000 hospitality venues close and close for good. this is reflected in some of the intense cost pressures they are facing across the uk as a whole, soaring energy bills, sky food price inflation, labour shortages. all this puts pressure on the costs going into the business, rising three times faster than we are passing on to the consumers. if you did that you might lose customers. to squeeze in the

figures obtained by the nspcc show there were more than 2000 known cases of sexual communication with. the nspcc is part of a global coalition of more than 100 sexual abuse survivors families and child safety experts demanding tech companies take responsibility to protect children on their sites. the british 0pposition leader, keir starmer, has promised he'll try to re—write britain's brexit deal with the european union if his labour party wins the next general election. speaking to the financial times newspaper, mr starmer said he would make closer relations with the eu a priority to bolster britain's economic growth. he said there were improvements to be made in areas like security, innovation and research. but he's ruled out re—joining the customs union, the single market or the eu itself. russian officials will this morning appear in the hague to object to the international court ofjustice hearing ukraine's allegations against the country. kyiv filed the case shortly after russia's invasion in february last year, accusing moscow of falsely using genocide law to justify the attack.

the nspcc has digital avatars.l reality platforms are safe by introducing better child safety features and reporting systems . features and reporting systems. now, the hottest temperatures of the year could be seen this week, possibly even hotter than ibiza. the met office is predicting maximum temperatures of 32 degrees tomorrow and thursday , potentially matching thursday, potentially matching the year's record during the heatwave in june. it says the uk health security agency issued a yellow alert across the whole of england, apart from the north—east from yesterday afternoon until sunday night . afternoon until sunday night. you're with gb news across the uk on tv , in your car, on uk on tv, in your car, on digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play gb news. now it's back to malcolm . pip now it's back to malcolm. pip >> tatianna, thank you very much indeed for updating us on that. well, things hotting up for the government. it seems . the government. it seems. the education minister, nick gibb, con

figures obtained by the nspcc show there were more than two thousand known cases of sexual communicationarity is part of a global coalition — of more than one hundred sexual abuse survivors, families and child safety experts. they're demanding tech companies take responsibility to protect children on their sites. earlier i spoke ith william guyatt, a tech journalist and former meta employee, who provided a summary of all these tech stories. it is every world leader that wants to be him. elon musk. he was meeting with turkish president yesterday and now he is meeting benjamin netanyahu and various tweets or axes or whatever you want to cause another twitter has changed its name and benjamin netanyahu said they were talking about al for the good of civilisation. it is a fairly lofty and ambitious goal to be covered in the long meeting. but the thing that is very interesting about this meeting for me, i cannot help but wonder whether benjamin netanyahu wonder whether benjamin neta nyahu will try wonder whether benjamin netanyahu will try to exert some kind of pressure on elon musk to try to

the nspcc each person present.hild safety features and reporting systems . features and reporting systems. and finally , the hottest and finally, the hottest temperatures of the year could be seen this week. the met office is predicting maximum temperatures of 32 degrees tomorrow and thursday, potentially matching the year's record during the heatwave in june. it says the uk health security agency issued a yellow alert across the whole of england. apart from the north—east from yesterday afternoon until sunday night . afternoon until sunday night. this is gb news across the uk on tv , in your car, on digital tv, in your car, on digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play gb news. now it's back to andrew and . bev back to andrew and. bev >> good news if you're a supporter of wilko. i am discount retailer and european value retailer has agreed to buy around 50 wilko stores from administrators for £13 million. that could save thousands of high street jobs and keep a lot of the branches open. here to tell us

figures obtained by the nspcc show there were more than two thousand known cases of sexual communicationlobal coalition — of more than one hundred sexual absuse survivors, families and child safety experts. they're demanding tech companies take responsibility to protect children on their sites. let's speak to roxy longworth. what happened to you on snapchat? when i was 13, a boy started messaging me on snapshot very quickly there was a lot of pressure to send explicit images of myself and he was older than me, more popular than me and he said he would tell everyone that i was boring and not to speak to me if i didn't. i said no for a long time and eventually a different pressure and photos of myself and he shared this with a friend of his who use them to blackmail me into sending more and more explicit images with the threat that if i did not, he would send them to everyone at school. so, i did what he said it has terrified me i cannot tell anyone. but my life would be over if anyone found out until his requests got to explicit and a them on everything and he delivered on his threat and

the nspcc said the law would mean a safer onune said the law would mean a safer online world, but criticsallow a regulator and tech firms to dictate what may or may not be said online. the chief legal counsel at the free speech union, dr. bryn harris, joins us now . dr. speech union, dr. bryn harris, joins us now. dr. bryn harris, thank you for joining joins us now. dr. bryn harris, thank you forjoining us. thank thank you for joining us. thank you. this has been has been in the works for around six years. it's been in parliament for a long time, back and forth, back and and we achieved and forth. and we have achieved some successes, haven't we? first foremost. first and foremost. >> right. it's been first and foremost. >.long, right. it's been first and foremost. >.long, gruelling ght. it's been first and foremost. >.long, gruelling process been first and foremost. >.long, gruelling process .)een first and foremost. >.long, gruelling process . there a long, gruelling process. there was a period when michelle donelan was in the hot seat at dcms and she did strip out some of the particular

children's charity nspcc said the law would mean a safer online world, but critics argue it will allow a troubling threat to free speech? journalist and author ella whelan joins me now . hello, welcome to the show . . hello, welcome to the show. >> now you've been talking about this for a long time on spiked and in various other publications we've been talking about it on this show. >> but for a people, it's >> but for a lot of people, it's appeared out nowhere. appeared out of nowhere. suddenly a lot of suddenly it's law and a lot of people don't what people really don't know what it's are the it's about. what are the dangerous implications this bill? >> well, the entirety of the bill is pretty bad because it it's in principle, it's founded upon the idea that the public square of the online world should be controlled primarily by government , should be controlled primarily by government, but by big tech. >> yes. and that social media, you know, twitter , facebook, you know, twitter, facebook, youtube and should have powers to be able to one prevent what we see. and control what what i

children's charity nspcc said the law would mean a safer online world, but critics argue it will allowtroubling threat to free speech? journalist and author ella whelan joins me now . hello, welcome to the show . . hello, welcome to the show. >> now you've been talking about this for a long time on spiked and in various other publications we've been talking about it on this show. >> but for a people, it's >> but for a lot of people, it's appeared out nowhere. appeared out of nowhere. suddenly a lot of suddenly it's law and a lot of people don't what people really don't know what it's are the it's about. what are the dangerous implications this bill? >> well, the entirety of the bill is pretty bad because it it's in principle, it's founded upon the idea that the public square of the online world should be controlled primarily by government , should be controlled primarily by government, but by big tech. >> yes. and that social media, you know, twitter , facebook, you know, twitter, facebook, youtube and should have powers to be able to one prevent what we see. and control what what it i

if you think of nspcc research that was commissioned last year, the university of swansea studies showedof what you have achieved? i would be proud of what you have achieved? ., , a, , ., would be proud of what you have achieved? .,, a, , ., , achieved? i hope molly would be roud but achieved? i hope molly would be proud but there _ achieved? i hope molly would be proud but there are _ achieved? i hope molly would be proud but there are so _ achieved? i hope molly would be proud but there are so many - achieved? i hope molly would be i proud but there are so many other voices who arejoining proud but there are so many other voices who are joining this because sadly in the main because they've also lost children and we hope that this step in the online safety bill will mean there are fewer of those families fewer stories like molly's in the future.— in the future. ian, thank you so much for _ in the future. ian, thank you so much for coming _ in the future. ian, thank you so much for coming and _ in the future. ian, thank you so much for coming and sharing i in the future. ian, thank you

, the nca , they all and the nspcc, the nca, they all agree that a technology solution does exist , whichs them necessary and proportionate and very judiciously guarded access and provide , protects user privacy provide, protects user privacy and protects the commercial objectives of companies like meta. that solution exists. it's viable, it's scalable, it's feasible. i'm asking meta to roll it out. okay >> a couple of other questions for you this morning. i want to know if you think the prime minister is going soft on net zero, abandoning targets there and whether or not you personally support the ban that at the moment it is supposed to come in in 2030 on petrol and diesel cars or if you think it should be extended to 2035 , the should be extended to 2035, the prime minister will be setting out more detail on this subject in the next few days. >> so it's not for me as home secretary to pre—empt those announcements, but what i can confirm is that we remain absolutely committed to delivering net zero by 2050 in line with our international agreements. i'm incredibly proud of what the conse

i mean, the nspcc called landmark nspcc has called it a landmark piece legislation and they piece of praise a of work that's praise a lot of the work that's gone into it. but then there's all these concerns around ending encryption that means encryption and what that means in that increase in terms of will that increase hacking, increase hacking, will that increase what's called snoopers what's called the snoopers charter? because arguably people could read whatsapp could then read whatsapp messages implications messages has implications for all us. all of us. >> exactly. so firms like whatsapp and signal who run these of messaging apps, these kind of messaging apps, they say, you the they say, well, you know, the government essentially to government essentially wants to have to look at our have their way in to look at our messages and they say, well, if we backdoor for the we create a backdoor for the good guys, we're assuming, even if you assume government is if you assume the government is good, not always good. good, it's not always good. actually if we create a actually but if w

figures obtained by the nspcc suggest nearly half of all online grooming crimes recorded by police inflooding, with many roads becoming impassable and houses suffering severe damage. it really does feel like autumn is here and after a wet weekend, what has the next two days got ahead, matt? a proper autumn week feel, here is another view of that flooding that occurred in exeter yesterday where we saw months worth of rainfall in the space ofjust six hours. most of it was within the space of an hour. usually see 60 millimetres in the entire month of september but as you can see a huge part of west somerset and devon saw it in six hours. overnight we had a month's worth of rain falling overnight we had a month's worth of rainfalling in overnight we had a month's worth of rain falling in an hour. all of the storms are just rain falling in an hour. all of the storms arejust edging rain falling in an hour. all of the storms are just edging across lincolnshire and yorkshire at the moment, some so —— torrential rain this morning before that clears. at towards the west another band of rain, no

tech companies, industry leaders, internet watch foundation and the nspcc all agree that there is a technological protecting children online. we now have a powers can contained in this new legislation that enables us, via ofcom, the regulator, to make companies take steps. but i would far rather work constructively, we welcome them in our lives, iam pro constructively, we welcome them in our lives, i am pro encryption and privacy and i believe that there is a middle ground can be achieved, there are a common solution that we can both embrace which meets my objective is to keep children safe online but also meets meta's objective is to enable them to carry out their commercial activities. home secretary suella braverman, thank you. john has the sport for us. all of the newcastle _ john has the sport for us. all of the newcastle fans _ john has the sport for us. all of the newcastle fans making i john has the sport for us. all of the newcastle fans making the| john has the sport for us. all of the newcastle fans making the return journey from milan where they were. they will be quite happy? thea;r