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cbs's meg oliver is in whitehall, maryland, where she has seen some of the damage up close. >> reporterar the kansas border, tornado sirens warn residents to seek shelter. storm chasers reporting damage to buildings. powerful storms also continue to pummel the northeast today. with the tornado knocking down trees as it swept through mattapoisett, massachusetts. two days of raging storms cause flooding across the state making some roads impassable. on monday from new york to tennessee, the force of mother nature was evident. >> had to be a tornado. >> reporter: the storms brought down trees and knocked down power for thousands in knoxville, tennessee. eye-opening scenes everywhere. frightened drivers in westminster, maryland, were caught in a dangerous thunderstorm monday as winds up to 80 miles per hour knock down power lines like dominoes. nearly 50 people were rescued from their cars. the wild weather brought airports across the east coast to a standstill. kris van cleave is at washington's reagan national airport. >> reporter: what a difference a day makes. only a handful of delays u

so, in other words, what's been shown here is, you know, budget cuts in whitehall have real impacts ons that if you spend less on development, that means there's going to be less on the ground. let's go look at some other headlines now. online marketplace etsy says it will change its policy after sellers complained of money being held. the u—turn comes after the bbc reported that some sellers had 75% of their money frozen for 45 days. etsy said it was "substantially decreasing" the amount of money it would put on hold but did not state the new rate or time frame. the pope says the catholic church needs a "humble and ongoing purification" in response to victims�* claims of clerical abuse. the pontiff met 13 of the thousands of victims known to have been sexually abused by priests in the portuguese roman catholic church. pope francis acknowledged this meant many people now viewed the church with "disappointment and anger". scientists in spain are investigating why increasing numbers of orcas, also known as killer whales, are targeting fishing and sailing vessels, damaging their rudders.

let's actually in whitehall. a certain boris as conservative boris johnson as conservative mayor of london who introduced or developed at ulez, but implemented by sadiq khan and also so sadiq khan saying that this very tough decision, he says , will prevent 4000 says, will prevent 4000 premature deaths a year from dirty air in the capital. just for a little bit of balance there. >> do stay with us here on the live desk on gb news. we'll be talking about the growing pressure for the spanish football federation. president luis rubiales, to resign over the so—called gate scandal. the so—called kiss gate scandal. coming next, your weather looks like things are heating up. >> boxed boilers, proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. of weather on. gb news. >> hello there. i'm greg dewhurst and welcome to your latest gb news weather forecast. we do have some showers , we do have some showers, outbreaks of rain clearing south eastwards. and then wednesday will be a day of sunny spells and scattered showers. and that's all

. >> reporter: here in whitehall, maryland, a giant tree sliced openness house trapping his mother.all, tree limbs. >> reporter: firefighters quickly rescued her from the debris. does it feel like a miracle to you? >> there is heavenly land guardian angel inside this residence. >> reporter: today crews remove that big tree that split the house and boarded up the roof. meantime power outages in the mid-atlantic and south have seen a dramatic improvement with less than 200,000 still without electricity. major. >> major: meg oliver, thank you. for more in the storms and the brutal heat, let's bring a our partners at the weatherfrom- channel. chris, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, major. as meg showed us, trees are extremely dangerous when there are storms around when you are outside or even in your home coming and there were a lot of strong winds creating a lot of damage. more than 600 storm reports widespread across the southeast all the way up to new england and the mid-atlantic. heat still a big concern across the southern plains and continuing to expand as well across the

looking to efficiencies and there to find efficiencies and there are efficiencies to be found in whitehall of the those, they can pass some of the savings pressed savings on to hard pressed taxpayers, including motorists . taxpayers, including motorists. >> and we can see this becoming quite politico really divisive issue. and in fact, the issue. now and in fact, the recent by—election in uxbridge, it was expected to be an easy win for labour , for against win for labour, for against against the tories. in fact, in fact the tories held on to uxbndge fact the tories held on to uxbridge and that was mainly due to due to people rejecting sadiq khan's ulez and wanting to send a message to labour that we don't want this ulez and we don't want this ulez and we don't want this ulez and we don't want to be paying this tax . yes. i mean, do you think pubuc . yes. i mean, do you think public opinion and just the fact that it's politically damaging for politicians to back this could could force a change? >> farage i think so. i think people across the country, they they they want it to improve air qu

looking to efficiencies and there to find efficiencies and there are efficiencies to be found in whitehallthe those, they can pass some of the savings pressed savings on to hard pressed taxpayers, including motorists . taxpayers, including motorists. >> and we can see this becoming quite politico really divisive issue. and in fact, the issue. now and in fact, the recent by—election in uxbridge, it was expected to be an easy win for labour , for against win for labour, for against against the tories. in fact, in fact the tories held on to uxbndge fact the tories held on to uxbridge and that was mainly due to due to people rejecting sadiq khan's ulez and wanting to send a message to labour that we don't want this ulez and we don't want this ulez and we don't want this ulez and we don't want to be paying this tax . yes. i mean, do you think pubuc . yes. i mean, do you think public opinion and just the fact that it's politically damaging for politicians to back this could could force a change? >> farage i think so. i think people across the country, they they they want it to improve air qualit

he will have to work very hard to understand his portfolio at the whitehall level, and what the cultureesignation pointed out to the prime minister,... the big question here, is grant shapps going to be a political appointee to create a task, to be supporting the promising cabinets, is he going to understand the needs of the fans. if he believes defence needs greater funding, will he be willing to enter that discussion when the treasury and i do the task force greater. that's what the ministry of defence needs. he that's what the ministry of defence needs. ., , ., that's what the ministry of defence needs. . , ., ., needs. he has never held a role in the ministry _ needs. he has never held a role in the ministry of _ needs. he has never held a role in the ministry of defence, _ needs. he has never held a role in the ministry of defence, but - needs. he has never held a role in the ministry of defence, but he i needs. he has never held a role in | the ministry of defence, but he has many other cabinet roles. does it matter he's never worked for the ministry of defence? we matter he's nev

what's been shown here its budget cuts in whitehall have real impacts on the ground but rugby world,hat we knew be true, if you spend less on development there will be less on development there will be less on development there will be less on the ground football. addressing one of the issues that james has just raised addressing one of the issues that james hasjust raised over addressing one of the issues that james has just raised over asylum seekers here in the uk, a barge moored in dorset is unlikely to receive any occupants until next week. the home office had been expecting to send the first group of people to be vessel yesterday but says it has received a late representation from the health and safety executive which wants to check working practices for port stop. the fire brigades union says it intends to write to big government after its members raise serious concerns. speaking to nick fury on lbc, rishi sunak was asked about the alliance about the policy had been a shambles. it hasn't. first of all... they were due to go on yesterday, prime minister, now probably not until

lucy fisher is whitehall editor for the financial times and has the story.ng at prescribing the wagner group as a terrorist organisation akin to al-qaeda and islamic state. what do you think the future of the wagner group would be without prigozhin? is a very good question. he was the founder of what was a long time regarded as a private military company in the face of kremlin denials that it was in agency of the russian state. in the wake of the coup that prigozhin led two months ago today as you mentioned, vladimir putin has come out and said in fact the wagner group was always completely funded by the state. and certainly the state backing being something suspected. 0n certainly the state backing being something suspected. on that basis you can imagine that the continuation of wagner will go on. we know that some of the private mercenaries who were loyal to prigozhin opted to take the offer made by putin in the wake of the coup to go to belarus to stop the leader of belarus alexander lukashenko being a key player in negotiating the truce that ended that a

these medals will be on display on remembrance sunday, when test veterans will march along whitehall.e biggest search for the loch ness monster in more than 50 years. 200 volunteers are planning to help record natural — and any unusual — sights on loch ness from vantage points on land this weekend. almost 300 people have signed up to monitor a live stream from the search. it's 90 years since the modern myth of nessie began. and finally to cape canaveral in florida, where nasa's spacex crew—7 is on its way to the international space station. the launch of the dragon vehicle, named endurance, is carrying four astronauts representing four nations and space agencies across the globe. the astronauts will spend about five days taking over operations from the spacex crew—6 astronauts. the mission is part of a commercial crew programme and is expected to last more than six months. hello. i have got a pretty changeable weekend weather—wise for you. yes, there'll be a bit of blue sky and sunshine, but there'll also be some big shower clouds producing those downpours of showery rain both today a

you know, i was there when the riots on whitehall . yeah, on their on whitehall.hitehall. yeah, on their knees . we had labour mps going knees. we had labour mps going out there, you know, with the protesters and we had the leaders, the two leaders of the labour party, angela and sir keir starmer, taking their knees cosying up to blm . now you know, cosying up to blm. now you know, now they're cosying up and are in bed, it appears, with just off oil. and also they're taking their orders from some of these real left wing communist union leaders. so you know, fair warning to anybody that's thinking of voting labour at the next election. because i tell you what, the country will be run by the unions just off oil and they're just a smidgen of blm in there. so it's very, very frightening times indeed. >> yeah, no, indeed , indeed. >> yeah, no, indeed, indeed. now, look, while of course, lee, there would be no new oil and gas under a labour government, you can certainly expect lots of cancellations because public library arches and the labour run calderdale council have

so greenpeace have been whitehall talks been banned from whitehall talks after stunt rishi sunak afterunak house. so what greenpeace house. and so what greenpeace did is they covered rishi sunak house in oil, black fabric over all over all the property in protest at his plant to grant no sea drilling licences and then the obviously number 10 have been become a little bit upset about this. so they've banned greenpeace from these talks . and greenpeace from these talks. and you've got to think to yourself, you've got to think to yourself, you know, where are people going to start to be realistic ? we to start to be realistic? we have run an energy deficit in this country. the people's energy bills are through the roof. the government had to step in to subsidise energy bills . in to subsidise energy bills. thatis in to subsidise energy bills. that is completely unsustainable . and i don't understand what these people want. well, i do understand what they want and it's not realistic. >> but yeah, i mean, this is a case of the protests backfiring, surely. nick yeah, it's massively backfired

so greenpeace have been whitehall talks been banned from whitehall talks after stunt rishi sunak afterunak house. so what greenpeace house. and so what greenpeace did is they covered rishi sunak house in oil, black fabric over all over all the property in protest at his plant to grant no sea drilling licences and then the obviously number 10 have been become a little bit upset about this. so they've banned greenpeace from these talks . and greenpeace from these talks. and you've got to think to yourself, you've got to think to yourself, you know, where are people going to start to be realistic ? we to start to be realistic? we have run an energy deficit in this country. the people's energy bills are through the roof. the government had to step in to subsidise energy bills . in to subsidise energy bills. thatis in to subsidise energy bills. that is completely unsustainable . and i don't understand what these people want. well, i do understand what they want and it's not realistic. >> but yeah, i mean, this is a case of the protests backfiring, surely. nick yeah, it's massively backfired

you know, i was there when the riots on whitehall . yeah, on their on whitehall.ll. yeah, on their knees . we had labour mps going knees. we had labour mps going out there, you know, with the protesters and we had the leaders, the two leaders of the labour party, angela and sir keir starmer, taking their knees cosying up to blm . now you know, cosying up to blm. now you know, now they're cosying up and are in bed, it appears, with just off oil. and also they're taking their orders from some of these real left wing communist union leaders. so you know, fair warning to anybody that's thinking of voting labour at the next election. because i tell you what, the country will be run by the unions just off oil and they're just a smidgen of blm in there. so it's very, very frightening times indeed. >> yeah, no, indeed , indeed. >> yeah, no, indeed, indeed. now, look, while of course, lee, there would be no new oil and gas under a labour government, you can certainly expect lots of cancellations because public library arches and the labour run calderdale council have hidde

we have increased the number of whitehall staff by more than 100,000 in the last few years alone.e 520,000 civil service staff and what are we getting ? staff and what are we getting? an aggressive work from home culture. the systematic stitch up and ousting of democratically elected conservatives trying to enforce government policy. one person nearly accident mentally handed gibraltar back to the spanish, for goodness sake. bizarrely they're considering going on strike because they say that their pay isn't good enough. there was a time when more than 1 in 10 civil servants claimed they were suffering from long covid. jacob rees—mogg blames civil servants for scaling back a bonfire of eu laws . their own union had to laws. their own union had to come out and ask people to stop calling them lazy , inefficient calling them lazy, inefficient snowflakes , which is a shame snowflakes, which is a shame because we have massive inefficiencies , huge delays, inefficiencies, huge delays, backlogs and the general poor running of the country behind the scenes. but of course they have got time

court suspended his defamation conviction, guntee was sentenced to 2 years in prison, so saying whitehall fees have the son named no d was an apparent reference to the prime minister neurons with moody. supreme court said the sentence was too severe. the routing allows him to run the next is general elections. so i had on al jazeera, kind of how society out 3 to the quarter finals of the women's world cup selling has the best reaction in the all right, let's catch you on the phone over game with joe savvy. thank you. and have one a dramatic penalty shoots out against nigeria to reach the quotes of finals things . i'm not looking good for the european champions. nigeria hit the ball twice the normal time. then with 5 minutes left. lauren james with central for sam on one of her a physician plays say to take it back in 1998 is the over time. a yellow card for ridge. it went to extra time and then penalties. england missed the 1st one. but i, jerry, i missed 2 of those and it came down to chloe kelly to win. it's england celebrations, another she's the play at her school. the winter in the y

i was just sort of almost at random driving down whitehall.y, really found it hard to believe. right. let's have a look at this clip, please. of me outside downing street earlier. so there i was. and she was sort of she was an outlier. she should have ran out to meet me by the way, folks, it's not raining here. so we saw that and people were, you know, a lot of people were, you know, a lot of people were, you know, a lot of people were going past bibbing, etcetera . but the sheer the etcetera. but the sheer the sheer level of passion and how was there earlier? and 1 or 2 others in the crowd were there earlier. the sheer level of passion in the crowd really was something to behold, and we then, as i came back through south london, through coney hall , saw cameras being erected and for those at home that think it's just for coming in and out of greater london, no is if you live in the zone, you live inside the zone and you pop out of the shops, you've got to pay the £12.50 and then we actually sent out our team out around south london to look at

indeed, the latest figures show 40% of the work force still working from home, cutting back on whitehallnder control, paving the way for cutting taxes and unleashing britain's growth path. i'm now joined by my panel path. i'm now joined by my panel, the barrister and former tory mp jerry hayes , and the tory mp jerry hayes, and the author and broadcaster amy nicole turner. amy, this is great news, isn't it, steve? barclays done a fabulous job to get rid of the sixth civil servants. a man is available for doctors and nurses . doctors and nurses. >> it worries me how this >> it just worries me how this conversation is framed and some of the language around it. so war waste, think it leans war on waste, i think it leans into the idea that civil servants is a bloated civil servants is a bloated civil servants and that tends to demonise civil servants. i've got some some ways that you've referred to them in the past. blizzard of veritable snowflakes , complete wet wipes . blizzard of veritable snowflakes , complete wet wipes. i blizzard of veritable snowflakes , complete wet wipes . i don't ,

i was just sort of almost at random driving down whitehall.y, really found it hard to believe. right. let's have a look at this clip, please. of me outside downing street earlier. so there i was. and she was sort of she was an outlier. she should have ran out to meet me by the way, folks, it's not raining here. so we saw that and people were, you know, a lot of people were, you know, a lot of people were, you know, a lot of people were going past bibbing, etcetera . but the sheer the etcetera. but the sheer the sheer level of passion and how was there earlier? and 1 or 2 others in the crowd were there earlier. the sheer level of passion in the crowd really was something to behold, and we then, as i came back through south london, through coney hall , saw cameras being erected and for those at home that think it's just for coming in and out of greater london, no is if you live in the zone, you live inside the zone and you pop out of the shops, you've got to pay the £12.50 and then we actually sent out our team out around south london to look at

well, actually within whitehall?people across the we listen to people across the country and then we listen to what was actually happening in whitehall. that there what was actually happening in whita�*nall. that there what was actually happening in whita problem that there what was actually happening in whita problem asked:here what was actually happening in whita problem asked the was a problem and asked the question we're horrified at question and we're horrified at the answer. there's been more than a hundred examples of sewage leaks in government buildings . and there's also an buildings. and there's also an example in one of the newspapers today of a building being closed because of an insect infestation . now, this is just not acceptable. nobody should be asked to work in these conditions . it shouldn't be any conditions. it shouldn't be any different from civil servants, from anybody else in the country. and they shouldn't be asked work in conditions asked to work in conditions which are unhealthy , insanitar

, or whitehall, for something that is going on 12,000 miles away in another country.ld in _ halfway round the world. let me bring in gerald in bristol, - halfway round the world. let me. bring in gerald in bristol, perhaps the two view could have a brief chat. gerald, good morning. goad chat. gerald, good morning. good mornina, chat. gerald, good morning. good morning, chris. _ chat. gerald, good morning. good morning, chris. these _ chat. gerald, good morning. good morning, chris. these eager warriors, _ morning, chris. these eager warriors, disrupting my life and travel— warriors, disrupting my life and travel is — warriors, disrupting my life and travel is a — warriors, disrupting my life and travel is a nuisance, but i'm 82 years— travel is a nuisance, but i'm 82 years of— travel is a nuisance, but i'm 82 years of age and i think in 30 years' — years of age and i think in 30 years' time my grandchildren will look years' time my grandchildren will took back— years' time my grandchildren will look back and wonder why we were not giving _ look back and wonder why we

i think the real nub here, the problem is that the policymakers in whitehall, all in the home officever else , they're very poor wherever else, they're very poor at being able to tackle the sorts of questions that you're asking about, questions about culture, about culture, questions about morality, questions about religion , perhaps these are religion, perhaps these are very, very difficult things, especially in slightly especially in our slightly morally straitened times when people are rightly don't want to cause offence , they get very cause offence, they get very nervous causing offence , nervous about causing offence, but makes it very difficult but it makes it very difficult for to be able to for policy makers to be able to factor of things in. factor these sorts of things in. you've the office budget you've got the office for budget responsibility , which is an responsibility, which is an independent marker that rightly can hold government to account. it says immigration is a wonderful thing. lots of new young people coming in who will contribute to the workforce and taxes al

i think the real nub here, the problem is that the policymakers in whitehall, all in the home officever else , they're very poor wherever else, they're very poor at being able to tackle the sorts of questions that you're asking about, questions about culture, about culture, questions about morality, questions about religion , perhaps these are religion, perhaps these are very, very difficult things, especially in slightly especially in our slightly morally straitened times when people are rightly don't want to cause offence , they get very cause offence, they get very nervous causing offence , nervous about causing offence, but makes it very difficult but it makes it very difficult for to be able to for policy makers to be able to factor of in. factor these sorts of things in. you've got the office budget you've got the office for budget responsibility , which is an responsibility, which is an independent marker that rightly can hold government to account. it says immigration is a wonderful thing. lots of new young people coming in who will contribute to the workforce and taxes and t

i think the, the, the problem, of course, is that whitehall always gives very , whitehall always gives advice. and the truth is we passed the law. let's let's enforce the law if the courts challenge it. well we'll take it on. but the truth is, i actually think we were wanting a court, simple as that. so we should have done it. >> david, i think i think some of the you know, we need to defend sadiq khan. i wish he would. come on. if you are watching sadiq khan, we have to defend him. yes, i will. >> we interviewed him on the we had chris hope interviewed him on tv last night. he had his say. >> he's not here right now to defend himself. we do have to be a little careful, if i would love him to come on our show love him to come on on our show and discuss but never and discuss this, but he never would. davis, was he? would. david davis, was he? because isn't the problem with sadiq only do sadiq khan, is he will only do interviews with people who are going interviewagree people who are interview agree with)le who are interviewagree with him'ho are interview agree with him and re interviewa

and looks around whitehall. and it looks like is the person. like grant shapps is the person.n there'll be a small reshuffle today. a minor small reshuffle today. we thought might be we had thought it might be a wider maybe. jack, wider one, maybe. alister jack, the secretary. he's the scottish secretary. he's been. leaving in the at the been. he's leaving in the at the next election in having a thought he might be replaced by owen stand on very good sources that he staying where he is that he is staying where he is so might be a limited so it might just be a limited reshuffle of a few posts being moved. all right, christopher , moved. all right, christopher, thanks much that thanks very much with that breaking happens next? >> it's beverley and andrew from half past nine. that's it from breakfast with eamonn and isabel for this week. thank you for your company and thank you for our record viewing figures this week since we've been back. it really is a tribute and we couldn't do it without you. lovely to hear from you. lovely to have you on board. it's the weather that warm fe

the incompetence within whitehall is stark and we're seeing it in this.it in health care, we're seeing it in education, we're seeing it in defence, we're seeing it in transport. um, this is just this, this is a very open public demonstration of that failure . demonstration of that failure. and somehow we've got to bring leadership and strategic planning and operational planning and operational planning into whitehall. but the civil service are pretty close to that idea. >> okay. henry really good to talk to you this morning. thanks very much indeed . very much indeed. >> well, you will have an opinion on what henry bolton had to say there . so do get in touch to say there. so do get in touch with your thoughts . with your thoughts. vaiews@gbnews.com. you would think how difficult is it to get 50 people onto a barge? wouldn't you ? you? >>i you? >> i mean, the problem is with all this, i mean, henry bolton was saying, you know, there isn't the expert. he's in the home office to sort all this out . it's not rocket science , is . it's not rocket science, is

the whitehall editor machete.le who have these these weapons because they are not, per se, illegal. but the interesting point is knife crime is up 34% in 2010, with about 45,000 offences recorded last yeah 45,000 offences recorded last year. stabbings now mount for a amount . to year. stabbings now mount for a amount. to 39% of homicides. i mean , we always assume we get mean, we always assume we get rather complacent, don't we, and say because you can't go and buy a gun like you can in the states, well, people don't go and buy guns. they buy knives or knives. but you can be certain that a knife is properly wielded. it's every bit as life threatening as as shooting somebody. >> scarlet, we move on to the guardian, page seven here. senor rubio ulez, head of the spanish fa. he hangs on on. >> he hangs on. i mean, this is the man who , uh, who denies that the man who, uh, who denies that he sort of took a he did it on, on, on television for the world to see that that he, he, he planted a kiss on the lips of a poor sp

he had a little shake up of how different things in whitehall are organised and grant shapps was putro. it is in law that the uk will be net zero by 2050. but on some of theissues be net zero by 2050. but on some of the issues about how to achieve that, there is a very a large debate going on in government and we will be hearing a lot more about what claire coutinho things about it if as seems likely she gets the job. energy secretary, not environment secretary, the reshuffle is happening in my head! she is perceived to be a good performerfor the media as well, so that may be another reason why she is being put in the front facing role. as far as the defence appointment is concerned, it's a really big job. remind us what is likely to be the top of his in tray.— top of his in tray. ukraine, to put it simply- — top of his in tray. ukraine, to put it simply- that — top of his in tray. ukraine, to put it simply. that is _ top of his in tray. ukraine, to put it simply. that is the _ top of his in tray. ukraine, to put it simply. that is the overriding l it simply. that is the overriding g

cost of living crisis hasn't deterred whitehall's drive to waste your money. get a load of this.offering is a £43,000 a year equality guru for the falkland islands . the for the falkland islands. the role comes with 41 days holiday. although let's be honest , where although let's be honest, where are you going to go from there? tax breaks, a relocation package possibly to somewhere other than the falklands and a free annual return flight. now it's being offered as a four year opportunity . you could go we opportunity. you could go we used to send out christian missionaries, didn't we, around the world? but that would just send officers the send diversity officers to the falkland i'm falkland islands. i'm sure they'll their work cut out they'll have their work cut out because there's a population of 3662 people who are outnumbered by 500,000 sheep and 1 million penguins. why are we doing this? who cares ? the argentinians who cares? the argentinians tried a bit of diversity on the falklands and it didn't end that well for them, did it? but what about the uk ? well, not to about th

cost of living crisis hasn't deterred whitehall's drive to waste your money. get a load of this.offering is a £43,000 a year equality guru for the falkland islands . the for the falkland islands. the role comes with 41 days holiday. although let's be honest , where although let's be honest, where are you going to go from there? tax breaks, a relocation package possibly to somewhere other than the falklands and a free annual return flight. now it's being offered as a four year opportunity . you could go we opportunity. you could go we used to send out christian missionaries, didn't we, around the world? but that would just send officers the send diversity officers to the falkland i'm falkland islands. i'm sure they'll their work cut out they'll have their work cut out because there's a population of 3662 people who are outnumbered by 500,000 sheep and 1 million penguins. why are we doing this? who cares ? the argentinians who cares? the argentinians tried a bit of diversity on the falklands and it didn't end that well for them, did it? but what about the uk ? well, not to about th

assume that a conservative government will reduce the size of our civil service, reduce the size of whitehallassive increase happen? it's a massive increase in just a few years . in just a few years. >> it is. and it's bad news. and conservatives have actually been very good in the past at reducing the civil service. mike heseltine did a fabulous job in 1979 when he became environment secretary and francis maude in the cabinet office under david cameron again was excellent at reducing the civil service. what it needs is ministers focussed on cutting the size of the blob and then it can really happen . and then it can really happen. and as i say, that's what i was doing under boris johnson's orders a year ago and we were beginning to see some reduction happen. and unfortunately that pressure has just been given up on. it's evaporated . on. it's evaporated. >> jacob, you're a man with your eye over the whole brief of the civil service. in fact, you were going around putting notes on their desks, telling them to get back away from their cappuccinos and and get back and their pyjamas and get back

i chatted to people in whitehall to figure out when it might happen.assure visitors that its bears are real, rather than humans in disguise, after footage of one animal standing like a person sent rumours flying online. the cigarette in hand gives it away! not really. after the video was shared widely on social media, people questioned how the bear could stand so upright on slender even the mannerisms are human. chester zoo here said this is a sun bear. it looks like it has a jumper and trousers. it is real. and we have some real weather. good morning. it will be a drier day than yesterday but still some showers. we should see sunny spells developing. some have started off with sunshine. here we have a weak weather front across northern ireland and northern england producing rain. on eitherside, showers. equally, some sunshine and through the day we should see more developed. not as windy but still breezy. in the south—west later, cloud will build, rain will come in and the wind will strengthen. these are the temperatures. 15 in the north, 22 in the so

now we've got by far the most important department in whitehall headed by the second most important person , powerful person in the person, powerful person in the country. name checking us in the first sentence of their press release. it's a pretty important day. i haven't i can't remember . i've been in journalism 30 years. i can't remember the last time any broadcaster or newspaper had that kind of result . so, so quickly, let's result. so, so quickly, let's have a look at what the treasury actually said . literally within actually said. literally within minutes of us handing in our position petition , which, as tom position petition, which, as tom said, has now got 305,000 people. but we need more for reasons i'll explain . i hope reasons i'll explain. i hope we've got this graphic here. gb news has its spot on, said andrew griffiths, who is , of andrew griffiths, who is, of course, economic to secretary the treasury. access to cash is incredibly important to many. it's a choice we're going to protect . people shouldn't have protect. people shouldn't have to trek for hours to withdraw a

we know he had a pretty exciting happenings in the corridors of whitehall and then he got distractedtrictions on imposing huge restrictions on the this is this is the country. this is this is really well, it's more evidence of matt hancock's time in office. >> f also t— f also related to the >> and it's also related to the olivia pratt—korbel story , of olivia pratt—korbel story, of course. olivia pratt—korbel story, of couwell, mean , the whole thing >> well, i mean, the whole thing is. >> sorry, h- h— letby. >> yeah. and the whole thing is what the idea was that you would have register managers have a register of managers in the nhs much in the same way that the general medical council has a register of doctors. so that means if you were struck off or the equivalent of being struck off for a serious misdemeanour, you couldn't then just wander off to another hospital to get employed. if you were . were. >> and they do, and they do. >> and they do, and they do. >> so been at bp, for >> so if you been at bp, for instance, you couldn't fired instance, you couldn't be fired from the oil

so the bma are holding a rally here in whitehall this afternoon, just outside downing street . outsidefour day doctors strike and they are asking, of course for 35. what i'm joined now by dr. tal ellenbogen. he is in his fourth year of surgical training in nottingham . tal, thank you in nottingham. tal, thank you very much for talking to us. and the government have offered 8.8% as an average and they say that's a fair and final offer. yeah. what do you make of that ? yeah. what do you make of that? >> well, 8.8% is less than the rate of inflation for the past year at 11. so it's another real terms pay cut imposed on us on top of 14 years of real terms, pay top of 14 years of real terms, pay cuts . pay cuts. >> what's happened here is that we've been stolen off £6 an houn we've been stolen off £6 an hour. steve barclay and rishi sunak are offering us £1.40. >> if a burglar took £6 off you and gave you £1.40 back, is it unreasonable to ask for the rest back and also, is it realistic to expect the nhs to run on the goodwill of doctors who are taking a pay cut year on year on year until do

well, i think everyone in whitehall and westminster kind of knows it won't work in the busiest shippingn, you know, priti patel was talking about this three years ago. that's just that's not going to happen. and it sounds like the idea of the ascension island reception centre isn't seriously being progressed . but seriously being progressed. but again, it made a nice headline . again, it made a nice headline. so the government does have to be very careful that it doesn't build up. so much cynicism among the electorate that the sort of tory leaning vote is so disgusted. it just won't come out to vote for them. >> but the issue actually with all of this is that no matter what little schemes come up, whether it's whether it's a barge, whether it's stopping the boats, whether it's the ascension islands, whatever it is, process of is, you've got a process of people faster in a way. if you can process the people faster, it almost doesn't matter how many channel as long many crossed the channel as long as get processed and as you get them processed and then well that's then sorted out. well th

so instead of whitehall all knows best and one fits all employment support for the whole country, weare on nhs waiting lists, let's have a proper partnership between local nhs services and employment support services. but let's also tackle the waiting list. millions of people on nhs waiting lists , people who want waiting lists, people who want to get back into work but are just not having the treatment that we need. it's almost as if the conservatives have given up on getting people back to work. >> okay . nick thomas—symonds, >> okay. nick thomas—symonds, shadow secretary of state for international trade. thank you for us today on gb news forjoining us today on gb news breakfast. thank thank you. breakfast. thank you. thank you. >> thank you very much. so we've heard from the government, we've heard from the government, we've heard shadow government heard from the shadow government this do know this morning. do let us know what of both of what you thought of both of those and those those interviews and what those politicians your politicians had to say. your views matter to us here

on display on remembrance - be on display on remembrance sunday's when veterans will march along whitehallposed to these tests. what was _ good morning. john, you were exposed to these tests. what was your - to these tests. what was your experience and when did it happen? i was national service man, and i was ordered to go to christmas island. i think the reason i was ordered to go to christmas island — i was a young man, 18 years old, single, as fit as a butcher's dog, as they would say, and i would suggest that the number of people... i was in a contingent of people... i was in a contingent of about 3000 originally. i would say most of those 3000 were similar to my age. and as the story will unfold, i consider we were used as human guinea pigs, because of our fitness, and they could monitor our health. and if anything went wrong, we had no dependents that were dependent upon us. you we had no dependents that were dependent upon us.— we had no dependents that were dependent upon us. you were exposed to four, dependent upon us. you were exposed to four. went — dependent upon us. you were e