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Aid. In to border to get civilians out and aid. In to British Border to get civilians out and aid. In to british teenagers are aid. In to british teenagers are being held hostage by hamas in gaza. The sisters noya and yahel are from kibbutz berri, where their mother, leanne, was murdered in the 7th of october. Attack their father, eli, is also missing. Also missing. Brussels has increased its Terror Threat to the highest level after two people were shot dead and one person wounded. Belgian authorities calling it a terrorist attack. Terrorist attack. And back in the uk , well and back in the uk, well ang and back in the uk, well bring you the latest on thursdays upcoming tamworth by election. And Katherine Forster will be live from westminster for us rishi sunak faces more by election battles this thursday in mid bedfordshire. Thats Nadine Dorries seat and also in tamworth Chris Pinchers seat. He was the chap who was booted out of government over groping allegations. Ultimately led to the fall of bofis ultimately led to the fall of Boris Johnson. Its currently neck and neck between the conservatives and labour. Catherine, thank you. Well speak again later in the programme. Speak again later in the programme. The speak again later in the programme. The weather has programme. The weather has turned a bit chilly. Theres a turned a bit chilly. Theres a bit of a wind blowing. Wheres it coming from . Alex deakin good morning. A cold start in places, but for most a fine day today, however, very wet weather is on the way. Later this week from storm babette. Ill have a full forecast later on. And as always, you can join in any of our discussions. Email us gb views. Gb news. Com or you can tweet us at. Com or you can tweet us at. Gb news. President joe biden will visit the middle east on wednesday in a flying visit where he will speak with leaders in the region as he tries to avoid an escalation of the crisis. The Us Administration is heavily pushing for an opening of the egypt gaza border to allow International Citizens like the Scottish First ministers in laws in and in laws out at an aid to flow in. The Israeli Energy minister has previously stated that for aid to be allowed into gaza , aid to be allowed into gaza, hamas must First Release the nearly 200 hostages it holds. Nearly 200 hostages it holds. But the situation changes. Day by day. Well now more than 2750 people in gaza have been killed in retaliatory strikes by israel , which is also blocking fuel. Water, food and medical suppues water, food and medical supplies from entering the territory. The United Nations says its deep in negotiate opfions says its deep in negotiate options to get aid into gaza. Israels military has updated the number of people it believes are being held hostage. From 155 are being held hostage. From 155 to 199. They were kidnapped when hamas gunmen infiltrated israel just over a week ago, killing more than 1400 people. Well, for ten days and nights now, israel has been bombing gaza. The interior ministry there says a thousand bodies remain trapped under the rubble and body bags have run out and hospitals are ovennhelmed. Hospitals are ovennhelmed. Armed Israeli Military says the targets are hamas infrastructure and not civilians i but this footage that were about to show you has been filmed by a reuters cameraman, and it reveals the staggering devastation and loss of life in what were once streets, a market and a refugee camp inside gaza. And a refugee camp inside gaza. Yeah, a lot. Yeah. A lot. Yeah, a lot. Yeah. A lot. Yeah, a lot. Yeah, a lot. It look, im so sorry. God. No, mark dumas camel. Sobering pictures there in central tel aviv. Doctors are working around the clock to care for hundreds of the most seriously injured Sheba Medical Centres also came for hundreds of Israeli Soldiers who have been engaged with hamas fighters as they get closer to gaza. As they get closer to gaza. But theres criticism of the Israeli Government for not doing enough to support ovennhelmed medical facilities and Charlie Peters has this report for us from tel aviv. From tel aviv. Every hour, more patients arrive from the frontline of israels war on hamas. Already israels war on hamas. Already strained by the casualties. The Sheba Medical Centre is prepping for an imminent full scale invasion of gaza. This intensive invasion of gaza. This intensive care unit has had to draft in volunteers. The feeling here is that the government is not doing enough. The government doesnt really care about the people here, so were here to support them. A lot of people are coming here and they constantly want to help. All of us are helping. Were like a giant community of helpers, giant army. Helpers, like a giant army. War started, the when the war started, the Sheba Medical Centre this Sheba Medical Centre opened this brand new intensive care facility. Since then, its been in constant use. Half of the patients are civilians. The rest are soldiers. For more patients are civilians. The rest are soldiers. For more than nine days, life has hung in the balance for many of the civilians brought here enemy victims of the attack by Hamas Terrorists on communities in southern israel. They are southern israel. They are traumatised , injured and traumatised, injured and suffering horrendous. Burns this suffering horrendous. Burns this family hid from hamas in their basement shelter, unable to find them , the terrorists set fire to them, the terrorists set fire to their house as they survived. Their house as they survived. The youngest, a baby of just 18 months, has burns acrosst 30 of her body. Her body. My sister and my family with a lot of braves , fight with them a lot of braves, fight with them with the hands they are is not good as condition. But we are. Good as condition. But we are. We are want to say thank god about that. They get inside and they here now. They here now. But the director of the burns unit believes that the worst is yet to come. Ive never seen such a slaughter. Slaughter. Its not even you know, its inhuman. I dont know how to say it. And it touches every one of us. I lost two of. Us. I lost two of. My 2 2 of my friends, kids already in battle. Friends, kids already in battle. So its hard. And you know, when ihave so its hard. And you know, when i have a minute out of here, we go to funerals every israeli knows the mission to end hamas will not come without more pain and suffering. And suffering. There will be more wounded and lives cut short in the worst violence israel has seen for 50 years. More civilians and soldiers will be sent to this hospital. A medical facility thatis hospital. A medical facility that is preparing for a long war. Charlie peters gb news israel for many of the front pages this morning, youll read about two british teenagers whove been held hostage by hamas. In whove been held hostage by hamas. In gaza. Noah and yahel are from kibbutz where their mother, leanne was murdered in the 7th of october. Attack their father, eli, is also missing. Well, this comes as the Prime Minister led a minute silence in the house of commons today as he confirmed that at least six british citizens were killed in the hamas israel last the hamas attack on israel last weekend , with a further ten weekend, with a further ten people still missing. The pm had now, earlier, the pm had visited a Jewish Secondary School in north london, reassuring students the government will always support them. Government has also them. The government has also announced will provide an announced it will provide an extra £10 million in humanitarian aid , saying the humanitarian aid, saying the Palestinian People are victims of hamas to we stand with you now and always. The this now and always. The this atrocity was an existential strike at the very idea of israel as a safe homeland for the jewish people. The jewish people. I understand why it has shaken you to your core , and i shaken you to your core, and i am sickened that anti semitic incidents have increased since the attack. We are doing the attack. We are doing everything that we can to protect you. Well lets speak protect you. Well lets speak now to freelance journalist Yotam Confino on this one. And, jotham, thank you very much for your for your time today. Hey, live from tel aviv. Today. Hey, live from tel aviv. And are we hearing anything more about these teenage british sisters and their father who are dominating the front pages of the newspapers here in the uk today . Today . Not that im aware of, but as you explained very well in the introduction here, the atrocities committed have touched not only israelis , but touched not only israelis, but brits, americans , germans, so brits, americans, germans, so many different nationalities that have been caught in this hamas massacre. And we also have hostages, of course, who are still kept inside gaza. And this is why the uk , the us and the un is why the uk, the us and the un actually are all working very, very hard to get hamas to release the hostages immediately. Its been declared a top priority for the un to get at least children and women out of gaza because they are in a horrendous situation. Most likely kept underground in tunnels by hamas. Thats at least what israel estimates. So this hostage situation is its really just another humanitaire catastrophe that develops at the same time as what you know, the atrocities. Also, we see in gaza, not deliberately committed by israel. Israel says its not targeting civilians, but we do see these ruins everywhere in gaza. So these two situations are just simply horrific and not solved yet. Solved yet. Yotam, what is the mood in the atmosphere like in tel aviv where you are . You look at it, where you are . You look at it, you look in a tree lined street, it looks very, very peaceful. Is it looks very, very peaceful. Is there any sense that a war is raging. I would say yes. Raging. I would say yes. And its not you dont see bombs falling here because when rockets are fired over tel aviv , rockets are fired over tel aviv, by far most of them are shut down by the iron dome. But you you do hear, first of all, rocket sirens pretty much every day. The streets are more or less empty. Shops are closed. And thats very unusual in tel aviv. Even in 2014, when there was a big war with gaza shops didnt close the same way as they do now. Its really its really i havent seen anything like this in israel. Of course, if you go further south, i was in sderot, city of sderot , which in sderot, city of sderot, which is very close to the gaza border. I was the past border. I was there the past couple of days. That is literally a war zone. Its military , police, medical military, police, medical ambulances , medical staff and ambulances, medical staff and journalists on the ground. Thats pretty much it. Thats pretty much it. The big news that were all waking up to this morning, it was announced at 1 00 in the morning is that President Biden will flying into the will now be flying into the region in a desperate attempt to try broker some sort of try and broker some sort of ceasefire. Weve ceasefire. Yeah, weve seen a ramping down, i think its fair to say, of the rhetoric coming from israel about a land invasion. Do think that invasion. Do you think that given the pressure from the International Community and the scrutiny the scrutiny around some of the humanitarian issues is making them twice about it . Them think twice about it . I dont think so. What they are thinking twice aboutis what they are thinking twice about is the humanitarian aid , about is the humanitarian aid, but the Ground Invasion. I cannot see any scenario in which israel backs down from this. Israel backs down from this. They have declared over and over from day one, hamas will be eliminated in gaza and you need a Ground Invasion for that. Its very simple. But when it comes to humanitarian aid, we have seen israel now, according to the United States, agree to allow humanity in into gaza. Allow humanity in into gaza. They are coordinating the details right now. And of course, with egypt , because it course, with egypt, because it will come from egypt. We have loads of trucks with humanitarian aid , medicine, humanitarian aid, medicine, food, waiting on the other side of the border. But egypt has said if they are to send their people in trucks into gaza, it has to stop bombarding in that area. Theyre not going to risk egyptian lives to go in with humanitarian aid. And also egypt does not want civilians from gaza fleeing into sinai. Egypt gaza fleeing into sinai. Egypt doesnt want the responsibility for so many people. So israel is slowly easing its its demands to shut gaza completely. And of shut gaza completely. And of course, now the joe biden is coming. Thats hugely symbolic for israel. And thats one of the reasons why israel has agreed to allow some humanitarian aid in. Butjust one last comment on this. We heard yesterday the united nafions heard yesterday the United Nations saying that the hamas run interior ministry, people from that ministry had simply looted our energy, resources and medicine from the United Nations, and that, of course, was something that israel reacted to immediately. And they said this is exactly why we dont want humanitarian to come into gaza, because hamas will take it. It wont go to the civilians. And we are after hamas now. We wont allow hamas to take medicine and food for themselves. Were trying to kill them. Okay. Yotam confino, thank you very much for your analysis this morning. Joining us from tel aviv this Tuesday Morning , tel aviv this Tuesday Morning, two swedish nationals have been shot dead in brussels and other injured overnight as belgium raised its terror alert to the highest level. This comes as a video emerged on social media of the assailant claiming responsibility for the attack , responsibility for the attack, as well as identifying himself as well as identifying himself as a member of Islamic State. As a member of Islamic State. The suspect not caught yet remains at large. People are told to stay indoors until the threat has been eradicated. Threat has been eradicated. Former metropolitan Police Detective Peter Bleksley joins us now with his take on this one. Theres just no predicting these attacks, is there, peter . No, im fortunately, there isnt. And this , of course, came isnt. And this, of course, came hot on the heels of the attack in france where a teacher was murdered. And that attack was condemned very forcibly by president macron, calling it an act of islamic terrorism. And it would appear again if the video is to be believed, if its genuine , if it was by the genuine, if it was by the attacker , Abdullah Al Julani , attacker, Abdullah Al Julani, then he, of course, is claiming to be a religious zealot fanatic , islamic terrorist. To be a religious zealot fanatic , islamic terrorist. So for the , islamic terrorist. So for the police , this is one of the worst police, this is one of the worst possible Case Scenarios you could be confronted with. You have a murderous person on the run with with weaponry who is quite possibly going to strike again. So there is an urgency c about this investigation right now for the belgian authorities as possibly the authorities in neighbouring countries and im sure that every single possible resource that the belgians can muster is to going be put into trying to find this man. Brussels has a sort of painful history when it comes to these sorts of attacks, doesnt it . Seven years ago there was an incident where the city was struck by twin attacks the struck by twin attacks at the airport then at the Metro Airport and then at the metro station. Be painful station. This will be a painful reminder that time. And with reminder of that time. And with it presented serious it has presented some serious challenges policing. Challenges from policing. I mean, this happened during the belgian sweden euro 24 qualifier where teams refusing to go where both teams refusing to go back half time. But you back on after half time. But you have a stadium in have a stadium then in a heightened state of anxiety and panic can hugely panic, which can be hugely infectious. I panic, which can be hugely infectious. I mean, panic, which can be hugely infectious. I mean, very infectious. I mean, very difficult situation for the authorities to managed last authorities to have managed last night. Night. Yes. And they had to evacuate that stadium bit by bit because, of course , what you dont want of course, what you dont want to do is send floods of people into an area where there is somebody armed to the teeth with murder intent. Im hearing that the crowd within the stadium were actually pretty well behaved. And i think thats huge credit to them and to the authorities. And while im in authorities. And while im in the business of heaping praise on people , i think its very on people, i think its very timely for us to remember our own Police Services in the uk and our own Security Services, because i can be a strident critic of the police when justified. But i think every day that passes when we do not have a terror attack in the uk is actually a day when we should all give thanks to our police and Security Services. And Security Services. So peter, a video posted on social media media from an arabic speaking man claimed he carried out the attack in the name of god. He added that hes killed three people and said the what basically does this achieve . What message does this send out . And what does it achieve . Yeah well, i cant really speak for the machinations of the inside of that mans head if he isindeed inside of that mans head if he is indeed the murderer is suspect here. But perhaps its a call to arms for like minded religious zealots. Perhaps its to spread zealots. Perhaps its to spread fear and terror , because fear and terror, because essentially that is the whole point of terrorism , to strike point of terrorism, to strike terror into the hearts of us all and to stop us from going about doing our daily business. I will be particularly keen to see if there is any raising of the Terror Threat level in the uk. Terror threat level in the uk. Im sure police and Security Services are on absolute high alert as a result of whats happenedin alert as a result of whats happened in france and belgium and of course the ongoing war between israel and hamas. I sincerely hope it doesnt spill out onto the streets of the uk. I fear it possibly will do and i would urge everybody to just be a little bit aware when youre out and about. Please dont put your headphones on. Dont bury your headphones on. Dont bury your headphones on. Dont bury your head in your phone. Just be a little bit aware of your surroundings and what is going on around you. Because because you never know. It might just save your life. Yeah. Okay well, emerged, isnt it . In france that the person who committed the crime against the teacher been teacher should have been extradite ten ago. Extradite started ten years ago. So will be questions so there will be questions certainly the security certainly for the Security Services. And im sure it services. There and im sure it will make everybody ask questions you for questions here. Thank you for your of that and the your analysis of that and the situation in brussels. Two people and one people dead there and one injured in that attack. Tell you what it does. It makes me think get this makes me think you get to this time year and you say, time of the year and you say, oh, the christmas fairs are on. Maybe should brussels maybe we should go to brussels or maybe we should go to somewhere in switzerland or whatever see and then whatever to see these. And then these random attacks happen and they happen with great frequency over the years. And i think it puts people off. It really makes people im sure it does. Funnily enough, i had a message from a friend over the weekend saying my sons supposed a school supposed to be going on a school trip. This has just happened in a school. Would send your a school. Would you send your child . I said, yes. You child . And i said, yes. You know, actually carried on know, we actually carried on living were know, we actually carried on livi by were know, we actually carried on livi by multiple were know, we actually carried on livi by multiple attacks were know, we actually carried on livi by multiple attacks in were hit by multiple attacks in recent years, whether it was on Westminster Bridge or whether it was stretham know, they was in stretham you know, they are are abhorrent. Are random. They are abhorrent. But, very, very but, you know, very, very unlikely just unlikely to be affected. Just terribly luck for me. Terribly bad luck for me. I wouldnt send my kids in the wrong place. I wouldnt. Yeah. And i also i just yeah. And i also know i just dont the point of a lot of dont see the point of a lot of school trips. Why do they why do they take your child and put them a kayak in a wild water them in a kayak in a wild water river experience . Them in a kayak in a wild water rivewhy . Experience . Them in a kayak in a wild water rivewhy . Prerience . Them in a kayak in a wild water rivewhy . I mean, ice . Would they why . I mean, why would they do why would they do that . Why would they do that . I just sort of think i wouldnt do that to my kids. So why i that to my kids. So why am i getting the school to do that with kid . Why you laughing . Its just what would do . Its just what would you do . Its just what would you do . Them up in cotton wool wrap them up in cotton wool and lock the doors . Yeah. No, got to let them go no, ive got to let them go out. The fact that we out. I think the fact that we present, present and we present, we present news and we hear much about coach crashes hear so much about coach crashes around country south around the country in south africa and france and to fight the people. I just sort of think, why but i just sort of think, why am i giving my child over to a complete strangers to go somewhere wouldnt bring somewhere that i wouldnt bring them holiday . Somewhere that i wouldnt bring the yeah, holiday . Somewhere that i wouldnt bring the yeah, holi lay . Somewhere that i wouldnt bring the yeah, holi i understand. Somewhere that i wouldnt bring theyeah,holii understand. But yeah, no, i understand. But then its giving fear, then its giving into fear, isnt it . And youve just got to then its giving into fear, isnt ithat1d youve just got to then its giving into fear, isnt ithat mostjve just got to then its giving into fear, isnt ithat most instances ot to then its giving into fear, isnt ithat most instances youll hope that most instances youll be fine. On thursday theres well, on thursday theres going to be by election in going to be a by election in tamworth conservative mp going to be a by election in tamvipincher, conservative mp going to be a by election in tamvi pincher, which ervative mp going to be a by election in tamvi pincher, which wastive mp going to be a by election in tamvi pincher, which was a e mp going to be a by election in tamvi pincher, which was a veryi chris pincher, which was a very appropriate name for him, resigned groping resigned following groping allegations. Allegations. West Midlands Reporter jack carson went to staffordshire to speak to voters ahead of the election see what issues are election to see what issues are important at the ballot box. Its a constituency with a rich history and this thursday the people of this old anglo saxon kingdom go to the polls to decide their next mp. Chris decide their next mp. Chris pincher was the mp for tamworth but resigned in september following allegations of Sexual Misconduct and his recommended suspension from the house of commons advantage network. Commons advantage network. Tamworth is a Networking Group of local Business Owners who meet in the town to connect and discuss everything from issues to big successes. Upcoming to big successes. The upcoming by election here is hot on everyones lips, but what do they think are the issues for a new mp needs to address . For new mp needs to address . For chris and angie . Business is at the forefront. Weve lost this sense of identity. We dont really know who are we havent got who we are and we havent got anybody lead from a anybody to lead us. From a business point view , we need business point of view, we need somebody whos going to come and look that are relevant look at things that are relevant to owners, such to Business Owners, things such as rates, things such as business rates, things such as business rates, things such as property rates and the stuff that affects each and every one of us who lives within the tamworth and tamworth surrounding area , not just the surrounding area, notjust the town centre which for too long has been the focus. Has been the focus. I mean there are a lot of like Small Businesses in tamworth that employ local residents i think for me residents and i think for me its important that the residents and the businesses are thought or considered or thought about or considered or connected and think that connected with and i think that visibility of all the Small Businesses, all the outlying kind of, you know, like business parks and im out in fazeley. So my shops in fazeley and then we kind of just get a bit forgotten about over there a bit and that is still part of tamworth. But for leonora and martin, its about making impact. Its about making an impact. Really want to see i just really want to see more policing in the more visible policing in the area because a as a woman, a area because as a as a woman, a middle aged woman, do feel middle aged woman, i do feel unsafe when im going out in the street that we could really do with, know , hiring up our with, you know, hiring up our security. Security. Weve got a by election now, but then were likely to have a general election in nine months. So i look at this as a almost a probationary period, an mp that can come in, really make a mark in those six, seven, eight, nine months and then we can judge them. And i think thats a real opportunity for not just the mp, but for the tamworth, for tamworth as a town. Tamworth is currently undergoing a £40 million redevelopment programme, but being able to restore a thriving high street is a concern amongst others who live the town. Others who live in the town. Obviously everything is closing down and the town is just literally turned into a ghost town. What you need is back to its old market place again. That it was years ago. You know, whoever is elected to come in and hopefully they can do something about it and make it to the way it was it back to the way it was someone thats gonna help the business area. Business in the area. Young businesses just kind of thrive get into the thrive and get back into the community it back into community and get it back into their ways without being their working ways without being in debt and money out the pocket from cost of living the from the cost of living and the rises the rents. We have to rises of the rents. We have to go to burton a decent go to burton for a decent hospital while you know its and a doctors appointment. It took me 35 minutes this morning to even get through to the doctors. So i think hes got the doctors. So i think hes got a lot of work to do , to be quite a lot of work to do, to be quite honest. The conservatives currently hold a 19,000 vote majority in this constituency , majority in this constituency, but come election day, theres no predicting which way the political wind blows. Jack carson gb news tamworth full list of candidates hoping to take that seat to become tamworths next mp. Ukips robert billcliffe conservative Andrew Cooper reform uk. Ian cooper. Conservative Andrew Cooper reform uk. Ian cooper. New laboun reform uk. Ian cooper. New labour. Sarah edwards. The labour. Sarah edwards. The monster raving loony party. Helene lord hope and for the green party sue haworth. It doesnt stop there. Yes, independent are putting fonnard. Peter longman britain first are putting fonnard. Ashley simon and the lib dems sunny virk. Lets get some sunny virk. Lets get some analysis from our political reporter Katherine Forster on this because catherine, this is a on thursday. The a big day on thursday. The conservatives are facing two by elections. Theyve also got nadine constituency, but Nadine Dorries constituency, but all with the background all of this with the background of peter bone yesterday, possibly facing a six week suspension in for Sexual Misconduct allegations , which he misconduct allegations, which he denies. But that means his constituency could also have a recall petition and see another third by election yes. So i third by election yes. So i think its highly likely that that there will be a by election ultimately in peterborough , ltns seat. But in peterborough, ltns seat. But in the meantime , rishi sunak has the meantime, rishi sunak has got this sort of dual nightmare, if you like, of double by elections. This coming thursday. Now, the conservatives track record of by elections has been pretty bleak recent only their only real victory being the uxbndge only real victory being the uxbridge one which they clung on to on an anti ultra low emission zone ticket by 500 votes. But the tamworth seat is seen as a bit of a bellwether because its tended to go with the country in general elections. So during ng, new labour, gordon brown, tony blair, it was labour when the country went back to the conservatives in 2010, it went conservative with chris pincher. Now chris pincher of course as bofis now chris pincher of course as Boris Johnson apparently said , Boris Johnson apparently said, pincher by name, pincher by nature. He was ultimately booted out over groping allegations and those allegations were the straw that broke the camels back, if you like , over Boris Johnson and you like, over Boris Johnson and ultimate led to him having to stand down. Now, at the moment it seems like its neck and neck. Chris pincher had a 19,000 majority obe, but but labour think that they can take this seat. Think that they can take this seat. Theres a lot of very seat. Theres a lot of very cross conservative voters, understandably , over chris understandably, over Chris Pinchers behaviour and the fact that then he had appealed the recommend ended suspension and sort of dragged his heels over going. So a lot of anger, a lot of people who might just sit on their hands , who might go to their hands, who might go to labour or might vote for the lib dems or reform them. We will find out on friday morning which way it goes. But as you say, theres also Nadine Dorries, her seat in mid bedfordshire with an even bigger majority. Thats even bigger majority. Thats a very bitter fight between the conservatives and labour and the lib dems. A lot of ill feeling there between labour and the lib dems. Ultimately the concern natives might sneak through the middle there. Interesting. Katherine forster, thanks very much. See you a little bit later on in the programme. I just want to ask you for gb views today what people think of the bbc and indeed i noticed last night on channel 4 not calling hamas a terrorist group or terrorist organisation. They faced mounting criticism over refusal to describe those behind the attacks as terrorists. Instead using words like militants. Despite the fact the militants. Despite the fact the government classifies as hamas as a terrorist organisation. As a terrorist organisation. Anne but what i noticed last night was that they say men , night was that they say men, countries around the world describe hamas as terrorists , describe hamas as terrorists, but they dont they dont say we are describing them are. And i think they may say including the uk, but they stop short of saying we are going to use that terminology. So thats channel 4 and the bbc on that one. Your views gb views gbnews. Com paul coyte is going to be joining us in the studio shortly. Hell give us the latest on belgiums euro 2024 qualifier against sweden after had to against sweden after it had to be abandon half time. See you be abandon at half time. See you in a mo. Got paul coyte now with the sport and obviously this is when sport and obviously this is when sport becomes part of the news as well and the terror attack in belgium yesterday. So it was belgium yesterday. So it was belgium against sweden and it was 1 1 at half time and the players refused to come back on the pitch after half time after heanng the pitch after half time after hearing about the shooting of what i assume were two swedish fans. Yeah, it was. It was a couple of hours before that it happened and it was interesting. Im sort of trying to look at the timeline and work out how it happened and how they decided then to the game off. So then to call the game off. So apparently players had no apparently the players had no idea had happened. Apparently the players had no idea there|d happened. Apparently the players had no idea there were pened. Apparently the players had no idea there were mored. Obviously, there were more people stadium that people around the stadium that did. So the swedish fans and belgium fans and then they belgium fans there and then they played it was played the first half and it was 1 1 then it decided it 1 1 and then it was decided it was swedish players and the was the swedish players and the coaches found out the news coaches then found out the news at half time. They said, out of at half time. They said, out of respect that they decided it would be ridiculous for them to go out and play, that it would be it just wouldnt be the right thing to do. Belgian agreed as well, then its well, although then its announced that it was actually secured measures was the reason. But whatever the reason, whatever it is, it seems like the right decision was made and then there were fans that were in the stadium well. So in the stadium as well. So obviously what would happen with them . Then told the them . So they were then told the news at half time and then were kept in the stadium until around 1045. So its about 930 our time that it was announced that the game would be abandoned. Then they were in the stadium. They were kept in the stadium. So the swedish players had a Police Escort to take them back to the airport. So they headed straight then straight back. Fans were then escorted back into the city by the police and probably wont be replayed actually, because theres not really a lot of point because belgium have already qualified for the finals of the euros. Sweden cant anyway. So it was decided. Its anyway. So it was decided. Its like whether whether you get a uefa situation saying, well, youve still got to play sounds like a complete security nightmare, though, for the police. Last night. Last night. Yeah, well, also theres the suspicion that it could be and its still being investigated and they dont know. But it was anti swedish feeling. So obviously were obviously they were very concerned the swedish fans concerned about the swedish fans in particular, presume in that in particular, i presume in that because is at because the gunman is still at large because the gunman is still at largof course, the gunman is of course, the gunman is still large. And theyre still at large. And theyre sweet. And whether were sweet. And whether they were swedish they were swedish swedish fans, they were swedish nationals. It seems nationals. I mean, it seems pretty that were pretty likely that they were there for the football. You there for the football. But you know, fan going over know, a swedish fan going over to belgium, its the absolute last thing that you would ever imagine of course imagine to happen. But of course , that seems to be the state of everything england, italy, that is that tonight. Thats tonight. Okay. Tell us. Okay. Tell us. No, arch, of course. Yeah. Because weve decided that theres not going be any theres not going to be any lighting up of the arch, although fa have now although the fa now have now said are going to said that they are going to review their decisions it review their decisions when it comes to the lighting of the arch. Heres what i would say. Dont light the arch. Dont just just once, give me a football match that is separate from political goings on and catastrophes in the world and people wearing black armbands and trying to make me feel miserable before what should be a night of entertainment before me. Me. Yeah, i agree with that. This its just trying to draw the line of where it sits because if its an ex player, etcetera , its an ex player, etcetera, this is where it always was, wasnt it . You have a minutes silence for a player that would have been or a minutes applause involved. Yeah, exactly. But then its gone to any player who was fairly well then its was fairly well known then its then gone into any World International events , any, you international events, any, you know , earthquake around the know, earthquake around the world, all of which is very sad. But be honest to do with football. Well, lets be honest. Its going to if its then and it continues , its every other continues, its every other week. Its every other week. Its not every other week. Its every week. Yeah. Yeah. You know, cant remember know, honestly, i cant remember the united the last time Manchester United took without took to the pitch without wearing armband. And, wearing a black armband. And, you as you say, if that is you know, as you say, if that is some former player associated with the club, thats fine. Thats grand. But the worlds problems arent our problems. And when does it become tokenism . Know, the players tokenism . You know, the players 9 tokenism . You know, the players go, whats for this week, go, whats it for this week, mate . Yeah and the fans are you know, and the fans are the same. Yeah. Yeah. Obviously , yeah. Yeah. And obviously, you these things are you know, these things are terrible, things happen terrible, terrible things happen in but it in the world, but does it trivialise it . Does it weigh. Well, if its ovenif does it weigh. Well, if its over, if its overdone, is it. I dont know. Then again, i dont know. But then again, if football, then where if its in football, then where else we do it . Do we else in life do we do it . Do we do it everywhere . Everybody goes into work has to do it. Everybody do it the whole everybody has to do it the whole time. Theres be time. But theres got to be a line thats drawn because it is affecting football the self flagellation. But i think also a lot of this about football and this is about football and football. Looking good in different and not different markets and not wishing offend different wishing to offend different markets. Absolutely. Believe wishing to offend different mariitts. Absolutely. Believe wishing to offend different mariit all \bsolutely. Believe wishing to offend different mariit all comes ely. Believe wishing to offend different mariit all comes down believe wishing to offend different mariit all comes down to believe wishing to offend different mariit all comes down to money me, it all comes down to money at of the day. And if at the end of the day. And if theres buck to be made and it theres a buck to be made and it has back then where was has come back then where it was always happen, where always going to happen, where well this, well do this, well do this, well do this, theres going be one that theres going to be one that comes thats then going comes along thats then going to be controversial, thats be controversial, and thats whats with the whats happened now with the hamas whats happened now with the harand they actually lit and they actually havent lit the theyre going to the arch. And theyre going to have think about the have to think again about the way theyre going to do it. My friend. See you again in an hours time. Thanks good stuff. Thank you. To take okay. Its time now to take a look the latest headlines as look at the latest headlines as they come into the studio here in gb news. The united in gb news. And the United States. Will states. President joe biden will visit to visit israel tomorrow to reaffirm, us solidarity and reaffirm, um, us solidarity and negotiate an opening of the border to get civilians out and aid teenagers two british teenagers are being held hostage by hamas in gaza. Being held hostage by hamas in gaza. Sisters noya and yahel are gaza. Sisters noya and yahel are from a kibbutz where their mother leanne was murdered on the 7th of october. Attack their father, eli, is also missing. Brussels has, as weve been hearing, increased its Terror Threat to the highest level after two people were shot dead and one person wounded with belgian authorities calling it a terrorist attack. And up next, headune terrorist attack. And up next, headline makers, where well be looking at some of the other top stories of the day. Hope you can join. Us good to see you again. Joining us now to go through the headunes us now to go through the headlines , making the papers, headlines, making the papers, making the ainnaves all over today, former home Office Special adviser Claire Pearsall and journalist andy jones. Very good to see both of you. And good to see both of you. And clare, were going to start with the daily mail. And this is about prison capacity. There about prison capacity. There isnt enough of it. There never seems to be enough of it. Theres not enough staff and that will result in what this is prisoners to be let out early or as the daily mail has put it via prisoners to be let out early. Prisoners to be let out early. Now, i think that we would all understand the prison estate is full at the moment. There arent enough spaces. I believe there are currently about 550 spaces free. So what the government are looking to do to relieve the pressure is to allow some some people to be let out. Some some people to be let out. 18 days earlier than their sentence is for. So its going sentence is for. So its going to be in targeted areas, according to alex chalk, the justice secretary, and its going to be targeted at certain crimes. So it isnt going to be rapists. Theyre not going to be allowed out. But they are Violent Crimes. These are actual bodily harm. These are assault cases. Bodily harm. These are assault cases. The government have a cases. The government have a really difficult job because there arent prisons being built. There havent been pnsons built. There havent been prisons being built. And i think successive governments have failed. Category hinckley in looking at what they want the Justice System to achieve. And Justice System to achieve. And Justice System to achieve. And just by looking like youre tough on crime and putting these people away isnt going to solve the problem , i always find it the problem, i always find it interesting when they always say, we havent built say, you know, we havent built any prisons where one any new prisons where no one will want new prison on their will want a new prison on their doorstep. Doorstep. Cant we stick why cant we just stick another the existing another floor on the existing ones another floor ones or dig another floor underground . A double floor basement . Theres be basement . Theres got to be potential expand prisons potential to expand the prisons that got , but we dont that weve got, but we dont have to build new ones. Its not just having that capacity by having these sort of m ulti storey having these sort of multi storey prisons, youve got to staff them. Youve got to have the infrastructure to it. Infrastructure to deal with it. And thats what you dont have. So cant a load of so you cant just put a load of people into one if you people into one space. If you dont have the staff or the facilities. And it also questions what you want to do with the Justice System. If youre for youre looking at it for rehabilitation then just rehabilitation in then just racking and stacking people in pnson racking and stacking people in prison and forgetting about them isnt going achieve in the isnt going to achieve in the community commit more crimes, community to commit more crimes, isnt either. Community to commit more crimes, isni either. Community to commit more crimes, isni spent either. Community to commit more crimes, isni spent a either. Community to commit more crimes, isni spent a lot either. Community to commit more crimes, isni spent a lot ofeither. Community to commit more crimes, isni spent a lot of time, a lot i spent a lot of time, a lot of time, maybe two months, twice last year in a rehabilitation centre. Right rehabilitation for my body , not for my mind or my body, not for my mind or Violent Crime or anything else like that. And you know , okay, i like that. And you know, okay, i had people come to my room , had people come to my room, people who could dress me, people who could dress me, people who could bring me food, whatever, whatever, whatever. And were really lovely, and they were really lovely, really lovely and very professional. Hit it every professional. And i hit it every moment it. Professional. And i hit it every moment it. The idea of being moment of it. The idea of being i could have tv to watch , but i could have tv to watch, but the idea of being incarcerated, which i was as i had one visitor, came for me, one saturday afternoon. Saturday afternoon. Just the nonsense. You have just the nonsense. You have loads. Eventually and but you know, i have to say it made me think if you were in prison, i mean , im getting the good side mean, im getting the good side of it and people talk about, oh, pnsons of it and people talk about, oh, prisons like a hotel or whatever. I reckon it must be the most horrible experience. The removal of liberty and also having to share a very confined space, probably with another cellmate is the impactful part. Regardless of whether or get to eat whether you get tv or get to eat pizza once a week, there are 88,200 prison places in the uk. There are currently only 550 of them free. And as clare was saying, there are there are those on sentences who are up to four years theyre going to knock. If youve a sense knock. If youve got a sense its up to four years. So quite serious, but not the very, very serious, but not the very, very serious crimes theyre going to knock so theyve knock 18 days off. So theyve got room. A story got more room. There was a story in at the weekend that in the times at the weekend that rapists theres necessarily rapists theres not necessarily room to put them in prison. So there delaying their their sentencing little longer sentencing a little bit longer so can have prison so that they can have prison places was an extension. Places there was an extension. I dont it was dont know whether it was a completely new prison at leicester an leicester fosse. There was an extension a prison, is extension to a prison, which is going 2000 places. But going to create 2000 places. But as clare its not about as clare says, its not about buildings. Its about can we get pnson buildings. Its about can we get prison staff, can we get young people or even older people who want to be prison officers . I imagine how many people are in there on drug related as there on drug related issues as well , if you could just cure well, if you could just cure that problem . Well, also the ones with very mild and Extensive Mental Health problems, they just shut them in because its like, well, we you need you might need two, three, four prison officers to manage someone with Mental Health problems. I was listening to a phone in yesterday radio when i yesterday on the radio when i was and had lots of was driving and they had lots of convicts ringing in people whod been to prison. And i have to say, picture that people who say, the picture that people who have through the prison have been through the Prison Service were these calls service that were on these calls were a fairly glossy were painting a fairly glossy picture it, talking about how picture of it, talking about how everyone went in and got everyone just went in and got shredded. To the shredded. They were going to the gym day, state art gym every day, state of the art gym every day, state of the art gym facilities. Everybody in top condition , access to tv, strong , condition, access to tv, strong, bigger and fitter to beat you up more. So when you come out, you can be more dominating on your beat or whatever. Or whatever. I definitely dont think its as hard as could be. As hard as it could be. I certainly think that im passionate believer in rehabilitation, really passionate believer in it, but i also think it should a also think it should be a punishment to sent to prison punishment to be sent to prison and not just a gym membership. And notjust a gym membership. Know what those i dont know what those people used to in their day people are used to in their day to day lives, but tell you to day lives, but i can tell you that i experienced last that what i experienced last yean that what i experienced last year, wouldnt be that year, i wouldnt want to be that or tougher than that as or anything tougher than that as well. Think the problem is but i think the problem is that you have people in there with offence, especially with a first offence, especially sort younger people may sort of younger people who may have addiction issues, who may have addiction issues, who may have Health Issues have Mental Health issues are being for being put in prison for relatively minor crimes and then they just pick up worse habits. They learn how how to become a criminal. And i think thats criminal. And i think thats what you need to look at. You need to look at what youre doing for those kind of individuals. There are some that you want to keep away from society rightly so. Its society and rightly so. But its always difficult for every government that comes in. They want tough on crime. They want to be tough on crime. They want to be tough on crime. They want protecting want to say theyre protecting people go about this in people and they go about this in the wrong way. The final point in this political climate, were talking about, to up about, weve got to lock up people are anti semitic. About, weve got to lock up peoplegot are anti semitic. About, weve got to lock up peoplegot torre anti semitic. About, weve got to lock up peoplegot to lockiti semitic. About, weve got to lock up peoplegot to lock upsemitic. About, weve got to lock up peoplegot to lock up people�. About, weve got to lock up peoplegot to lock up people who weve got to lock up people who are threat to the state. Well, are a threat to the state. Well, where are you going to put them . And becomes it becomes and then this becomes it becomes another every another problem. Every government starmer government and keir starmer talking on talking about being tough on crime, causes crime, tough on the causes of crime, tough on the causes of crime, locking up. There crime, locking people up. There is from the labour is a murmurs from the labour party yesterday locking party yesterday about locking people deliberately people up for deliberately misgendering somebody. I mean, good prison space. Yeah. Where do you stand on dialects . Im a yorkshire dialects . Im a yorkshire dialects . Im a yorkshire dialect teacher. Is over the moon as his tight classes have been fully booked. His names been fully booked. His names rob dimbleby. Hes running a six week. Lets talk tight lessons for lessons. What lessons . What lessons . What lessons . What counts as a dialect lesson. Lets talk. Lets talk. What lessons . Take take, take. This is a yorkshire dialect. This is a yorkshire dialect. Yorkshire library. Yorkshire library. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And its fully subscribed. And basically hes saying that most of his students are old age pensioners and young people arent interested in the only time theyve ever heard this sort of original yorkshire language is from their grandpa parents. Is that a good thing or a bad thing that that evolves or whatever youre whatever your dialect is , becomes less and dialect is, becomes less and less. I dialect is, becomes less and less. I mean, dialect is, becomes less and less. I mean, do you have an less. I mean, do you have an area . Do you have a dialect . I mean, i can theres a whole separate language in Northern Ireland that that i could speak or adhere to and understand. I or adhere to and understand. I think it would be a great shame if we lost that. So i can identify with that. Do you have this or not . I dont. I mean, im fascinated by dialect because i wasnt born here. I was born abroad from an army family. Where i was born where were you born . I was born in cyprus on a british army base, and ive moved in base, and ive moved around in singapore. My father was also born in Singapore Army base as well exactly. So you dont you well. Exactly. So you dont you dont gain an accent dont necessarily gain an accent from where you are. I lived in southampton and so i had a bit of a hampshire accent, then moved up to dartford in kent. So my mother always said that i picked up the estuary english and she didnt like it so much. Yes, is fascinating. And yes, but it is fascinating. And i think language is evolving as it should. But i love the regional variations. The little phrases that people have that keep them into a community me and can put them into those kind of places. I think if we lose that, itll be really, really sad and all of these little fibres of what knit us into a community make that community stronger. Accent. Your accent. Your accent. What is that accent . What is that accent . To have a birmingham i used to have a birmingham accent. A little accent. Ive lost it a little bit when i go back to west bit more when i go back to west brom and start shouting brom games and start shouting things in stands, get things in the stands, i get a little bit more sort of essex or something. There may, how dare you . There may, how dare you . Absolutely not. I have had that before. I dont know why ive up, but what i ive picked it up, but what i will is losing that will say is were losing that common talk about the common fabric. We talk about the welsh dying out as welsh language dying out as welsh language dying out as welsh teenagers speak emoji welsh teenagers speak more emoji and than they do and tech speak than they do welsh i we lose that welsh and i think we lose that sense what we are. Think sense of what we are. I think people people identify far people people now identify far more whats going in more with whats going on in america. Dont george america. I dont know george floyd, for instance, than they do their do whats happening in their local their bar local community, their local bar people and people will have strong and vivid opinions israel and vivid opinions about israel and palestine, absolutely palestine, as they absolutely well but theyve well should. But theyve got no opinion gas bill. Opinion on their gas bill. Theyve got no opinion on whats going on in local school going on in their local school or local area, whos had or their local area, whos had their tonsils taken out . Their tonsils taken out . No. No, no, no. No, no, no. Not me , isabel. No. Minus dylan. Yeah. Yeah. Well, okay, if you havent. If you havent. Yeah if you havent. Yeah having your tonsils removed in child hood is linked with a greater risk of arthritis. This in old age. In old age. Really . How does that work . Yeah, its. How does that work . Children are more at risk if theyve had an older sibling suggesting early life, environmental factors play a role in disease of having role in the disease of having your tonsils removed. So i have an older sibling, but no, it hasnt affected me. So anyway, hasnt affected me. So anyway, it this type of chronic inflammatory arthritis is more likely to hit you if youve had your tonsils removed. Its definitely not the link. Its definitely not the link. Why definitely arent told that when their kids go in for tonsils removal are they . But maybe they will be now. Claire, should we about crown should we talk about the crown and Elizabeth Debicki, who portrays diana so incredibly well . At times i actually have well . At times i actually have to really remind myself im not watching diana , absolutely. But watching diana, absolutely. But its, what, a few weeks now until this next series comes out. And during this next season, she depicts the split from charles and then her tragic death. And she talks about how this has been a huge challenge and she looks so much like her. And i agree with you whenever you watch it, you have to remember youre not watching a documentary. Actually documentary. This is actually a drama. What elizabeth drama. And what Elizabeth Debicki is saying is that this has had a massive impact on her looking and being in that life and playing that role has drained her. And when you start to look at the sort circumstances surrounding dianas time up to her sad death and beyond, i mean, she was a figure in all of our lives and its quite interesting the amount of people who still have those really strong feelings there are some people who think that this should never be aired. She shouldnt be playing Princess Diana and we shouldnt be looking at her death or what happens aftennards, and we should just leave it alone. But i think people are still absolutely so absolutely fascinated by it. So i wait for this one to i cant wait for this one to come out. Anyone else about does anyone else think about how must feel about it . How the boys must feel about it . Because imagine because i imagine if im questioning at i have to questioning at times i have to stop my brain tricking myself. You harrys a young boy you know, if harrys a young boy lost his mum, what was he, 11, 12 . Be tempted watch 12 . Youd be tempted to watch it, wouldnt you . And then that would i mean, no one else can would be i mean, no one else can ever really relate to. To that scenario. When your mums most famous woman in the world and then someone else is acting her brilliantly. But i think you just cut yourself off from it because they have had throughout their lives people looking at their family setup , lives people looking at their family setup, making comments about their mother and their father. And i think you probably have detach yourself have to just detach yourself from it. But its got to be hurtful. But i think that they know well enough just to turn these things off and not watch. Okay talking about turning off what about turning on andy . Were reaching that time of the year where i have to say, i got up today and i thought its very chilly, very, very chilly. Does the central heating go back on or does it stay off for a while longer . Longer . Oh, this is are you going to wear your julie under your suit on the way to work . Is it getting time for the big coat . Are you going swap the big are you going to swap the big duvet this morning . Big coat. Duvet on this morning . Big coat. Have the big duvet . Have you got the big duvet . Gone scotland. Ive gone to scotland. Ive gone to scotland. The duvet came out. Oh, the big duvet came out. Yeah. So far its going to be colder scotland. Colder in scotland. Thought id better take so i thought id better take the big coat. Im not sure how i carry it with suitcase. Carry it with my suitcase. Its going to just be wet. Youre going floods and youre going to have floods and things in scotland. Things up in scotland. But if you that wind, but if you have that wind, that at the weekend and it that wind at the weekend and it was in ireland and that wind was biting, it goes right through. You into bones and you got into my bones and i couldnt get rid of it. Yeah, this a study on the yeah, this is a study on the front page of the daily star, 35 families row over the 35 of families row over the heating, fight whos heating, 43 fight about whos left lights on. Mean, left the lights on. I mean, big cutting stuff in the daily star, but a conversation were but its a conversation were all having. Ill say my californian wife, very, californian wife, whos very, very climates, she very used to hot climates, she loves the cold. Weve still got all windows open. What all of our windows open. What its like living in a cave. Honestly, i honestly not expecting that. No expecting you to say that. No a very, very. The windows are open. Very, very. The windows are opeshes and live in our shes come and live in our house. We might well not house. We might as well not bother windows. Theyre bother having windows. Theyre like paper. Husband decided we well, my husband decided we embrace cold. Embrace the cold. Decided it was. It go on. He decided it was. It was he decreed it was was cold. He decreed it was freezing therefore the freezing and therefore the heating was going on. Heating was was going on. Lot older than you. A couple of years. A couple of years. I feel it. But you know what . He does and my common phrase at the moment is, were you born he does and my common phrase at a|e moment is, were you born he does and my common phrase at a barn . Nent is, were you born in a barn . He goes out of the back door, leaves, leaves it wide open. So i sit there at my desk freezing and shutting the door. And then shutting the door. And its all that money its like all of that money were spending on heating, youre out. So youre just letting out. So thats phrase. Youre just letting out. So tha yeah. Phrase. Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah. Well, seem yeah. Well, seem to yeah. Well, seem to be yeah. Well, seem to be the yeah. Well, i seem to be the only person our house who only person in our house who ever worries about paying bills. You know, whether the are you know, whether the lights are left whether the heating left on or whether the heating is because no is on or whatever. Because no one to quit. This one else seems to quit. This costs sort of but. Costs money sort of thing, but. Well, electric lights, weve put all those energy put in all those Energy Efficient led lights now and i dont think theyre too bad. So i dont feel too guilty about having the odd decorative lamp. There was a stage where my husband like it off, husband would like turn it off, but its. Husband would like turn it off, butbut its. Husband would like turn it off, butbut dont anything i see, but dont anything i see, i always have the sort of the my mothers voice in the back of my head. What do you think this is . Blackpool illuminations . Because youve light on in youve left a light on in a hallway somewhere. So i mean that drilled yeah. That was drilled into me. Yeah. And think right, amy. I and i think youre right, amy. I think people have forgotten think that people have forgotten that things money and that these things cost money and yes, light bulbs more yes, led light bulbs are more energy but your Energy Efficient, but your electricity high. Electricity bill is still high. Youve go turn them off. Youve got to go turn them off. Well said. Well said. Well said. An Award Winning baker has created a cake that looks like a pot of paint. Created a cake that looks like a pot of paint. I dont created a cake that looks like a pot of paint. I dont know if pot of paint. I dont know if have you got a picture of this . Is everybody . Everybody goes is everybody . Everybody goes silent. Oh, there it is. There right. So thats a cake. Its right. So thats a cake. Its obviously strawberry cake. I obviously strawberry cake. I would have thought. You see, theres nothing appetising about it. I dont want to eat it. But my kids love watching this show on tv. But my kids love watching this show on tv. Were this show on on tv. Were talking about blue peter yesterday. Peter. It cake . Yeah. Is it cake . Yeah. Is it cake . Yeah. Is it cake . Hours of fun and they get literally like a duck and then it like that. It will look like that. That. You have to guess. Like that. You have to guess. Like that. You have to guess. Its like a quiz. And then they cut it open and eat the duck, and youre no way. Duck, and youre like, no way. You have to. So you have so you have to. So you have to guess if its a cake or a real duck. Yeah. Or whatever the object might be. A tin paint. Its incredible. I mean, it, it is. I mean, it, it is. And i just, you you and i just, you know, you appreciate that has appreciate the skill that has gone these things and it is gone into these things and it is its one of those my son also on social media scroll through social media will scroll through and different and show me varying different clips of a plant pot or something looks something that looks like a lasagne, actually lasagne, which is actually a cake. I cant quite get my cake. And i cant quite get my head around it. Why you would want to eat something that looks like spaghetti like potatoes, spaghetti bolognese, which is actually a fruit i just in fruit cake. And i just in my mind it doesnt i love the mind it doesnt work. I love the skill it. Its like its great. Its a spin on bake off, isnt it . Yeah, theyre just trying to. Yeah, theyre just trying to. But in order for it to have the Structural Integrity of a tin of dulux, its got be tin of dulux, its got to be about sugar. About 95 sugar. So youre buying into it and all you will taste is sugar. And i rather just have a nice i would rather just have a nice chocolate id rather chocolate eclair. Id rather have bit trifle. I have a nice bit of trifle. I dont care it looks like. Dont care what it looks like. Get it in the bowl, get it in my belly, get out of the way. Come on, lets go. Oh, you cant appreciate the fact that somebody and somebody has spent time and effort i like. Effort and i like. Eat a lot of cake, i dont eat a lot of cake, but, you know, you cant beat it if somebody has made you a lemon drizzle, cake, time effort drizzle, cake, time and effort on taste. Drizzle, cake, time and effort on i|ste. Drizzle, cake, time and effort on i dont care what it looks like. Yes. See my guilt would come from the fact that tin of dulux paint there, instance, that paint there, for instance, that it a work art. Im it is such a work of art. Im simply destroying it to just bite into it. Would bite and eat into it. I would rather it was much plainer then. I wouldnt feel guilty about ruining work art. Ruining the work of art. Did you put candles on where did you put candles on that cake . Where did you put candles on tha thats� where did you put candles on tha thats a very good point. Thats a very good point. Thats a very good point. Is very good point. That is a very good point. That is a very good point. Part of the joy of the program that cake is they program is that cake is they then get set challenges and you see the stress thats involved then get set challenges and you sewtryingitress thats involved then get set challenges and you sew trying itress that these ylved then get set challenges and you sewtryingitress thatthese things in trying to create these things that are architectural. You need an engineer, you do, and you need big sort of cage need some great big sort of cage around to make it stands around it to make sure it stands up all the rest of it. Up and all the rest of it. I mean, it is really, really clever and its addictive viewing. Clare and andy, we say, thank you very much for going through the papers with hour. The papers with us this hour. Well them just well have more from them just after i just want to give after 7 30. I just want to give an on this ongoing an update on this ongoing situation in brussels. We situation in in brussels. We know the shooter at large. Well france last few minutes france in the last few minutes have announced that are have announced that they are stepping security with stepping up Border Security with belgium, stepping up Border Security with belgiu where two people lost attack where two people lost their lives and one person was injured. Keep close injured. Well keep a close eye on there. On developments there. More on that and the conflict in east with in the middle east with the defence of the evening defence editor of the evening standard. Weve got fox standard. Weve got robert fox coming into studio and well standard. Weve got robert fox corcrossing studio and well standard. Weve got robert fox corcrossing live studio and well standard. Weve got robert fox corcrossing live t01dio and well standard. Weve got robert fox corcrossing live to our and well standard. Weve got robert fox corcrossing live to our reporterll be crossing live to our reporter Charlie Peters tel aviv. N ext next well, the sun has risen there over the holy land and were asking this morning whether or not aid will finally be able to get to in gaza to those in need. These are live shots from the israeli gaza border as fighting with hamas continues a very good morning to you. Thank you for your company. 7 00 on tuesday, the 17th of october. This is breakfast in gb news with eamonn and isabel. And heres whats leading the news this morning. The us president , biden , will visit president , joe biden, will visit israel tomorrow to reaffirm the uss solidarity and negotiate an opening of the border to get civilians out and aid in. Our reporter Charlie Peters is on the ground in israel. As the ground in israel. As President Biden prepares to come to israel. Irans foreign minister says pre emptive action and all opfions pre emptive action and all options are on the table to two british teenagers are being held hostage by hamas. In gaza, sisters noah and yahel are from a kibbutz with their mother, leanne was murdered on the 7th of october. Attack their father, eli, is also missing. Also missing. Brussels has increased its Terror Threat to the highest level after two people were shot dead and one person was wounded with belgian authorities calling it a terrorist attack. It a terrorist attack. The weather is shifting and theres a storm heading in. The weathers going a lot colder. Weathers going a lot colder. Alex deakin will have the forecast. Forecast. Good morning. A cold start in good morning. A cold start in places, but for most a fine day today. However a very wet weather is on the way later this week from storm babette. Ill have a full forecast out later on england and action with the euros tonight. Lets go to paul. Lets go to paul. Lets go to paul. Well, looking for revenge after the euros of 2021. So england looking to win that. And if they manage to get a point against the italians, they will qualify for the euros next year. Qualify for the euros next year. And as always, you can join in any of our discussions. Email us gbviews gbnews. Com or you can tweet at. Gb news tweet at. Gb news a 49 palestinians have been killed in overnight israeli airstrikes, according to the gazan interior minister. The United States President Joe Biden has announced that hell be visiting the middle east tomorrow, where hell be meeting leaders in the region as he tries to avoid an escalation to the unfolding crisis. And the Us Administration is heavily pushing for an opening of the egypt gaza border to allow International Citizens fans out and aid in the Israeli Energy minister has previously stated that hamas must First Release the 199 hostages it holds before israel. Lets aid in well, more than 2750 people in gaza have been killed in retaliatory strikes by israel, which is also blocking fuel, water, food and medical suppues fuel, water, food and medical supplies from entering the territory. Territory. The u n territory. The un says it is deep in negotiations to get first aid to gaza , while israels military gaza, while israels military has updated the number of people it believes are being held hostage in gaza from 155 to nearly 200. And they were kidnapped when hamas gunmen infiltrated israel just over a week ago, 11 days ago, now killing more than 1400 people. And for ten days and nights, israel has bombed gaza. The israel has bombed gaza. The interior Ministry Says a thousand bodies remain trapped under rubble. Body bags have run out and hospitals are ovennhelmed. Aid, they say the ovennhelmed. Aid, they say the targets are hamas infrastructure, not what civilians. Civilians. And this footage were about to show you has been filmed by a reuters cameraman, and it reveals the staggering devastation and loss of life in what were once streets, a market and a refugee camp inside gaza. And a refugee camp inside gaza. The yeah, allah , yeah, allah. The yeah, allah, yeah, allah. Yeah , allah. Yeah, allah. Yeah, allah. Is it so. The maqam dumas kamil. Just to say if you are listening on the radio, you can see all of the material that we are broadcasting on tv online as well. So its a good thing to go and check it out and see exactly what we were talking about there. Two british teenage sisters are amongst ten british citizens still missing after the attacks last weekend. A further six have been killed. The Prime Minister been killed. The Prime Minister led a minutes silence in the been killed. The Prime Minister led a roflutes silence in the been killed. The Prime Minister led a rof commons1ce in the been killed. The Prime Minister led a rof commons yesterday. House of commons yesterday. Well, earlier, rishi sunak had visited a Jewish Secondary School in north london, reassuring students that his government will always support them. And government will always support them. And number 10 has government will always support them. And number 10 has also them. And number 10 has also announced it will provide an extra £10 million in humanitarian aid to gaza, saying the Palestinian People are victims of hamas to we stand with you now and always. With you now and always. This atrocity was an existential strike at the very idea of israel as a safe homeland for the jewish people. I understand. And why it has i understand. And why it has shaken you to your core and i am sickened that anti semitic incidents have increased since the attack. We are doing the attack. We are doing everything that we can to protect you live now from tel aviv, lets go to our man, Charlie Peters. Charlie, good morning to you. Charlie, good morning to you. Good morning. Good morning. Well, the situation here last night is now even tense than it was before, after irans foreign minister around midnight said that pre emptive action was on the table. All options were available to what he described as the resistance. It was vague in terms of describing the actors involved in that group, but its understood to believe to mean the iran backed proxies in the region, such as hamas in gaza, of course, but also Lebanese Hezbollah in southern lebanon, and also some forces in syria. The foreign minister warned against israel, conducting further actions in gaza. Conducting further actions in gaza. And i think this gaza. And i think this announcement of us President Joe Biden coming to israel tomorrow , biden coming to israel tomorrow, its no surprise that that announcement has followed this stronger statement from the iranian side. I think the us now is very keen to reaffirm its support for Israel Security and prevent further actors trying to capitalise on the situation in the south, but also vitally there is that declining humanitarian situation in the south. The blockade on humanitarian aid now tumbling into an appalling situation in for so many people gathering in south gaza. And of course it is worth remembering that the idf ordered people to head to south gaza. And so theyre ordering them into a situation that the un is untenable , where the un says is untenable, where the spectre of death looms and where no Water Supplies are available. Now there have been some attempts to bring aid through the crossing, but as far as we can tell, those attempts have been unsuccessful. Indeed, most can tell, those attempts have betheinsuccessful. Indeed, most can tell, those attempts have bethe activityisful. Indeed, most can tell, those attempts have bethe activity wel. Indeed, most can tell, those attempts have bethe activity we saw deed, most can tell, those attempts have bethe activity we saw oned, most can tell, those attempts have bethe activity we saw on the nost of the activity we saw on the rafah crossing with egypt last night was shelling. Two shells appeared to land on the egyptian side. We dont know the point of origin or who fired them. So very much a dire situation in the south and in the north. We have seen more violence overnight , but the have seen more violence overnight, but the idf said it struck many hezbollah targets in southern lebanon and that some people were killed in those clashes outposts guarded by clashes in outposts guarded by the terrorist group in southern lebanon. There just charlie, before we let you go , whats the mood this you go, whats the mood this morning . Day 11, the sun rising there behind you. We were speaking to a correspondent on the streets. They said theres still a lot of tension. Iron dome picking up most of the bombardment still coming over from i mean , have you from gaza. But i mean, have you been bomb shelters been in the bomb shelters overnight how whats overnight . I mean, how whats the mood . The mood . Well, we were forced to evacuate five times yesterday, which is the most since we arrived here. It was the heaviest day of rocket barrages in central israel. And they also took aim at jerusalem for the First Time Since this war started. So a significant change in tactics and procedures for hamas showing, i think, the last line of desperation in ahead of that likely invasion. But the mood here is extremely tense, especially after those statements last night by irans foreign minister. Pre emptive action could mean more strikes in northern israel and indeed strikes here in tel aviv. Okay, charlie, thank you very much indeed. In studio, robert fox, defence editor at the evening standard, for his perspective on things, President Biden going tomorrow not happened before in in the arab israeli crisis, of which there have been many. Which there have been many. The president hasnt flown in. What is this a sign of desperation or is it that america will take control of this . I think that he will want to hear that this is a reportedly why he is going in detail the war plans of the netanyahu cabinet and command, because it looks as if theyre going to if theyre going to do a gaza ground campaign. And the odds are on still its going to last weeks and israel doesnt have a good record at ground operation, lasting weeks in gaza. And the stakes are very high, as we have just been heanng high, as we have just been hearing from tel aviv because of this ratcheting up in quite extraordinary terms by by iran. This was a direct threat. Out of this was a direct threat. Out of that, the are suicide squads is prepared. Thats the implication of this for when the israelis come in and hezbollah do your piece and iran may well want to do something as well. Thats by by the way, why the two carrier groups are in there to prevent any action of iran coming into coming coming into the war. But it looks we are looking briefly, sorry, and well come straight back to the conflict in the middle east. But breaking in but the breaking news in relation this attack in relation to this attack in belgium in the last few belgium just in the last few moments, hearing that the moments, we are hearing that the suspected has been suspected assailant has been lethally shot in a cafe in brussels , which would be a huge brussels, which would be a huge relief as europe has been very much on high alert in the wake of this attack yesterday when two swedish football fans were shot dead and a third was injured. But thats the breaking news. And assailant injured. But thats the breaking nethat and assailant injured. But thats the breaking nethat lethal and assailant injured. But thats the breaking nethat lethal attack1d assailant injured. But thats the breaking nethat lethal attack hasssailant injured. But thats the breaking nethat lethal attack has been nt in that lethal attack has been shot cafe in brussels. And shot in a cafe in brussels. And reaction to that , robert, i reaction to that, robert, i think, is where and where did he come from and was this a lone wolf, a lone actor just being ramped up by by by the general mood within his community . Or was it under direct orders . There are very powerful implications for this. What i fear is that this will not be the last because we have seen this tremendous ramping up of anti semitic feeling and anti palestinian feeling and this is where i think the british government, i must say, i think has been very, very cool and played a very steady hand on this. It is very difficult because there is a direct british interest, as we know , british interest, as we know, among the hostages, among the victims , and there are many, victims, and there are many, many anglo israeli citizens. Many anglo israeli citizens. Well, lets talk about israels relationship with the us and netanyahu , who is no us and netanyahu, who is no stranger to the job he currently holds. And what will his holds. And what will his relationship with biden be like . And really, biden , we all have and really, biden, we all have our image of biden whos there speaking for biden. Has he brought, you know, military men with him . Well, hes got general charisma. Erik kurilla , who is charisma. Erik kurilla, who is one of the really top commanders. Hes in charge of centcom, which gets involved in anything serious that the americans do in the middle east, right across right across the region. And he is an expert at this kind of guerrilla war. Hes he is no, he is no amateur at this. And he has gone in today. This. And he has gone in today. I think that they will want to scrutinise if theyre allowed to the israeli war plans and i think that they will try in some ways to restrain netanyahu because although so, of course, israel is absolutely solid and in the effort that to combat hamas, the opinion polls have been saying that most israelis would prefer benny gantz, the leader of the opposition, to take take over because he is a former chief of staff, a very experienced chief of staff. And experienced chief of staff. And theyre worried that netanyahu is listening to his political right rather than his military centre, as it were, because this is going to be a long war. Who is hamas listening to . Whats stead is the leadership in there . In there . I think hamas, if it isnt too dreadful to say, is on autopilot. I think that they have prepared to an extent for this. Its a very good question. How much they listen to their money bags, their backers, their political command in places like qatar and the gulf. Political command in places like qatar and the gulf. Theres been qatar and the gulf. Theres been a lot of blah, blah , blah on a lot of blah, blah, blah on behalf of hamas, both from the gulf, but above all from beirut. Im not so sure. Somehow what i fear is that they have must have prepared for a big ground operation coming into gaza and i think that thats what this the foreign minister of iran was walking was referring to when he was talking about a pre emptive action, which sounds like suicide squads to me and all opfions suicide squads to me and all options are open. Thats why in the last, options are open. Thats why in the last , what, 20 options are open. Thats why in the last, what, 20 hours, this thing has really ratcheted up enormously. And what biden will enormously. And what biden will be doing , theyll be talking to be doing, theyll be talking to the russians and the chinese about this to make sure that this does not become a big regional war. What sort of war would it would it be . I mean , we look at would it be . I mean, we look at the tiny space that gaza is. Its 25km wide. Apparently not enough room if the israeli army were to say right , lets put enough room if the israeli army were to say right, lets put all our main stuff in there, there wouldnt be enough room for it and it would get in the way of itself. So yeah, yeah, very difficult. Urban operations , you difficult. Urban operations, you know, from belfast, you know , know, from belfast, you know, the very beginning, which was , the very beginning, which was, you know, quite low level, but intense. If you, if you were there, remember west belfast in there, remember west belfast in the early 70s, op motorman in the early 70s, op motorman in the bogside and the british troops found it very, very difficult clearing streets. They had to learn, relearn , learn had to learn, relearn, learn things like you dont talk to each other, you put a unit up one street and it mustnt talk to the one in next door because it just leads to confusion. Now were mass information era, were in a mass information era, and if theres too much information going into the troops on the ground, it will just make things even worse. Just make things even worse. Honestly , i cannot imagine honestly, i cannot imagine what form this this invasion would would take in gaza. But thats why weve got people like you, robert, to paint that picture for us. And for the moment. Thank you very much indeed for all of that. Thank you. Were going to get some more analysis of breaking analysis then of the breaking news we just heard in the news that we just heard in the last few moments belgian tv last few moments that belgian tv have the suspected have reported the suspected assailant that brussels assailant in that brussels lethal has been shot in a lethal attack has been shot in a cafe in brussels. This follows on from yesterday when two swedish nationals were shot dead. Following that, belgium , dead. Following that, belgium, sweden, euro 24 qualifier and another was injured and it has raised its terror alert to the highest level. Well earlier, a video emerged on social media of the alleged assailant claiming responsibility for the attack, as well as identifying himself as well as identifying himself as a member of Islamic State. Well, that is the French Interior ministers announced theyll be stepping up security at the belgian border following the attack. The attack. Look, lets go to will geddes Wilson International security expert. Well, im sure a sigh of expert. Well, im sure a sigh of relief that someone has been targeted and taken out on this this situation. And obviously, this situation. And obviously, it relieves a lot of pressure in belgium. Belgium. Yeah, it does. It relieves quite a lot of pressure in so much as obviously this particular situation has been closed off. But i dont think the Bigger Picture and the longer term issues are going to necessarily feel for any reassurance for the belgian population because they have such a history of terrorism. You know, it was only seven years ago that the airport and the metro system were targeted. Members of belgian were involved, obviously, in the bataclan attack. So, you know, there is still a real melting pot of disenchantment by individuals that have islamic extremism in their blood. And i think this , as your other guest think this, as your other guest was saying, wont necessarily be the end. I think were going to see more and weve got to be prepared for some more as well. Of course, in the aftermath of what happened in france last week at 11 00 in morning, week at 11 00 in the morning, a school being, you know, School Teacher being, you know, face utterly stabbed in the neck and it emerged that the perpetrator there should have been extradited ten years ago. So pressure is really going so the pressure is really going to be on the Security Intelligence and on all of the home offices, i guess, effectively around europe , effectively around europe, really looking at who theyve got in their country and how safe their citizens are. Safe their citizens are. Youre absolutely right, isabel. I mean , the intelligence isabel. I mean, the intelligence agencies are going to be working over time, but theyre also going be working very closely going to be working very closely together, looking at together, not only looking at the individuals that the lists of individuals that they subjects of they have as subjects of interest, looking at also interest, but looking at also those within various different groups who affiliated to groups who are affiliated to different groups. I this different groups. I mean, this particular individual in in brussels, was doing brussels, apparently was doing this attack as a sort of a repercussion to the killing of the small palestinian boy in an illinois by his landlord. So its very, very fragmented. But weve also seen in the wake of the hamas attack in israel, al qaeda coming out and praising hamas for those actions. And the biggest concern, i think, for many of us is about many of the terrorist groups Islamic State, hamas, hezbollah and al qaeda all beginning to join together and potentially work as one in causing as much disruption as possible. Well, thank you very much indeed. Got to leave it there. Indeed. Got to leave it there. The time is now. 7 18 oclock. Good morning to you on television, online and on radio. Were now going to talk about scam alerts. Scam alerts. Yes, because a new survey has revealed that nearly three quarters of people have been targeted by them in the past year alone. Well, this survey was conducted natwest and its conducted by natwest and its revealed they now more revealed they now see more Digital Online than digital and online scams than real life cons. Lets go to financial expert and founder of money magpie. Thats jasmine birtles. Good thats jasmine birtles. Good morning, jasmine and jasmine , is morning, jasmine and jasmine, is there is there a type of scam thats becoming more popular than than others at the moment . Well, as you say, it is particularly online scams more than people coming to the door. I mean, it said that many , many i mean, it said that many, many of us have been targeted and think , you know, anybody think, you know, anybody watching right now will know that theyve been targeted by a number of scams online. And on the whole, we can we can spot them. I mean, i seem to get them every day. You know, by email. But but many of them are getting much cleverer because of their you know, weve got i now which can make you people look like somebody entirely different. So somebody entirely different. So that i think is the biggest worry at the moment that youll youll be contacted probably by social media, by somebody who looks absolutely real or could even look like somebody, you know. But theyre actually i yeah, you hear accounts of people having their voice replicated through ai and making telephone calls , pulling on heartstrings. Mom, i need a bank transfer. Just awful because you just question what would your parents do in that situation . But that do in that situation . But that being Technology Still being said, technology is still the in all of the solution, probably in all of this. Biometrics have this. I mean, biometrics have become they, in become huge, havent they, in most banking. How easy is most banking. Now, how easy is that to be scammed by . I do, you know. Well, yes , its a its a very well, yes, its a its a very good point. And this is something i think that the banks are having work on really are having to work on really fast. The problem with with fraud on the whole is that the fraudsters tend to be a few steps beyond the ahead of the banks. Certainly and police as well. And so, as you say, well. And so, as you say, biometrics are coming in and also what many are saying is that we ourselves need to get cleverer. Its boring, its tedious, but we have to assume that anything thats coming in, particularly an email or a text, is to going be a fraud. Of course, the problem is when they pretend to be your your parents or your child or, you know, there are scams that have been going for actually hundreds of years before we had the internet and everything where they would pretend to be somebody, you know, somebody you care about whos whos been put in prison or had an accident somewhere a long, long way away. So but we have to get more and more for just assuming that its going to be a scam before we find out if it is if it isnt a scam. And this boringly is how we have to our attitude has to be now to emails and texts. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And i can see what youre saying, jasmine, which is be suspicious of everything. Not everybody has got that cynical nature. Of course , i find, i nature. Of course, i find, i find why does anybody texting me or phoning me . Why . And theyre obviously legit most of these things, but they dont look legit. They dont sound legit. Legit. They dont sound legit. And they could be your dentist. They could be the nhs, they could be the opticians. Theres lots of sort of people who want to speak to you and i just want to speak to you and i just want to say, go away, stop texting me if you want me email me or or i dont know. I dont like i dont like people communicating with me via text. Millennial of you millennials hate that as well, dont they . It is quite millennial and actually, you know, on the millennial point, its interestingly ive seen a few surveys that have shown that its the younger people who are more susceptible. Oddly enough , more susceptible. Oddly enough, to these kind of scams. I think to these kind of scams. I think they havent got cynical enough yet , but they havent got cynical enough yet, but yeah, not in my family. We have a Family Whatsapp Group and were always going, oh no, oh, what do you think . No, dad. Oh, what do you think . Is scammed . And were is dad being scammed . And were all trying whos all sort of trying to whos going to break it to dad . That you know, this could be another. Oh, theres one in the oh, theres always one in the family, there . Whos family, isnt there . Whos the most the most trusting . Its probably the nicest thank nicest person. Jasmine, thank you personal finance you very much. Personal finance expert founder of money expert and founder of money magpie. Good, useful tips magpie. Really good, useful tips there. Thank you. There. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Know, another thing i cant stand messages. I like stand voice messages. I like whatsapp where you can just leave an immediate voice. But i leave an immediate voice. But i have this very irritating which assumes an ai voice. This assumes an ai voice. This womans voice that goes on. Before you answer your message. And this is the bit that really gets me. It would be a good idea if you let people knew who you were. No, it wouldnt be a good idea. Shut up. Go away. I dont want people to know who i am. No, it really is this. It would be a good idea in this patronising way. Yeah, but its not a real. Well, i mean, i genuinely detest people leaving voicemails on my phone and i actually get cross with people that do. And do you know how many times if you phone isabel, it says on her bio erm urgent messages only. Not me, id be bothering me. Oh not bother. No. Send a voice note and then ill respond when ive got time. Voice notes are good, but it is an intrusion, an, i think an assumption that you can drop everything call, everything and take a call, phone like. But phone calls. Its like. But its, long you have to its, its how long you have to wait to listen to that voice message. So no, i know what you mean. So no, i know what you mean. So no, i know what you mean. So is you have four new so it is you have four new messages to listen to these messages to listen to these Messages Press button one and my phone the number out phone then reads the number out by nine oh by 203. By number nine called oh by 203. Go away , go away. Hear the message. And then i get to the message and someones accidentally or doesnt want to leave a message. Theyve hung up and its two seconds long and youre like, really, really . Got bored with this. Theyve got bored with this. So is voice so i dont know. Do is voice message a thing now . Message even a thing now . Is it. Is it. Well it is on on whatsapp. Weve each other weve always known each other all the time but we have all the time but we dont have to go that. To go through that. Six new messages youve got six new messages and actually its instant offence. I put it on double speed. I didnt know you could do that to just speak mickey just speak like mickey mouse. I leave. Then when i leave. Then when i leave. Yeah, but im pretty much get through life like that, you know, do everything massive speed. My language sign but does my language sign differently as moeen ali differently as mickey moeen ali find play it back to you. But but itll be a lot of swearing on it. Yeah, its not broadcastable. Yeah, its not broadcastable. Mickey. Mickey mouse voice to be that can crack through. Be isnt that can crack through. Interesting it will be interesting anyway. Voice mail messages are they a thing anymore or do you just want to get straight to the point it would a good idea to point it would be a good idea to if you watched us after the break so because. Well, because weve got oh, well, because weve got lots coming, including lots more coming, including a debate second scottish debate about a second scottish referendum. If the snp win referendum. If the snp win a majority , we will be debating it majority, we will be debating it in just a is the snp Party Conference in aberdeen and delegates have backed a new strategy for a second independence referendum. Second independence referendum. In a move away from that, all, former leader Nicola Sturgeon. Former leader Nicola Sturgeon. So were asking this morning should the party or should the party win a majority of scottish seats in the next election . And they will the results to they will use the results to begin negotiations with westminster. Are you confused . Are you confused . On how it could im confused on how it could go about securing scotlands independence. Question about independence. Question is about scotlands is scotlands independence. What is the . The question . Okay well, indeed. Right. Okay well, joining us now to discuss all of this , there you have political this, there you have political commentator and former snp member stuart crawford, and our very own clare muldoon, who joins us here in the studio. Stuart is a bit of a problem here and that is outside scotland. And i totally am not denigrating this in any way outside scotland. A lot of people think, oh, how many referendums have they had . Who cares . And that that is theres a fatigue. Is that the word im looking for . Maybe about this. Looking for . Maybe about this. Stuart, good morning. And yes, i think youre absolutely right. We are were fed up with it, really. And theres no prospect of a referendum in the offing any time soon. So im afraid. Afraid. Oh, dear. Well, luckily we have clare standing by. Yeah. He was just talking yeah. He was just talking about hes been annexed referendum fatigue. Well there is. And dont forget, this thursday is the 19th of october. And thats when we told the snp would we were told that the snp would hold what weve now hold their what weve now referred to as pretend ref. Referred to as the pretend ref. They didnt get the mandate for it. And Nicola Sturgeon turns up at aberdeen at the Party Conference to a rapturous applause. Shes under criminal applause. Shes under a criminal investigation , for heavens investigation, for heavens sake. The snp not know anything better. Can they not do better better. Can they not do better for scotland . Clearly not. Theyve not managed to do it for years. Off the cliff, education years. Off the cliff, education off the cliff. And it just goes to show that independence in their form will not work fiscally. It doesnt work in any way, shape or form. Moreover okay, you say that and you have every want it. Well, you have every right to say that because youre scottish. But humza yousaf. I mean, he had a chance to go another way and hes chosen not to go another hes chosen to go another way. Hes chosen to go another way. Hes chosen to this back on the to bring this back on to the table and well see. Weve got stuart which is a good stuart back, which is a good thing. So well go him. Thing. So well go to him. Stuart, why is hamza yusuf nailed colours this mask nailed his colours to this mask again . Is the snp only a party again . Is the snp only a party that exists to bring about independence . Independence . Well, thats meant to be. Its driving force but of course its really in many ways gone from being a campaign learning organisation. With that in mind to an organisation which is comfortable in government and lots of people are quite happy with their jobs and hope that that will continue for some time. But independence is the thing that brings out the snp support the foot soldiers if you like, and without that goal in mind then there are already diminishing support is likely to fall away even more. So its got fall away even more. So its got to be front and centre , as humza to be front and centre, as humza yousaf said of their future policy and campaign. Policy and campaign. Well, i dont dont think thats correct because youve lost Hamish Hamilton and rutherglen west and the polls, latest polls showing falling says that labour have got 38 of the vote. If it were to go to general election. Now in scotland and the snp have diminished. So i would say that diminished. So i would say that the appetite for independence just isnt there. There are just isnt there. There are bigger fish to fry at the moment. Globally there are bigger fish to fry and sort out domestically and even more so locally at local election. The snp have turned scotland into an absolute parody of what it should be. It is an amazing country and if indeed the scots want to go for independence, then let them do it. But dont let them do it with the Scottish National party and stuart, effectively you were agreeing in a way in saying that this the thing they can this is the only thing they can do drum up support because do to drum up support because their record has been so poor. Their record has been so poor. So its an interesting point about Nicola Sturgeon. Obviously, found obviously, she hasnt been found guilty anything. She is still guilty of anything. She is still under investigation, remains under investigation, but remains innocent point. But she under investigation, but remains innc been point. But she under investigation, but remains innc been such point. But she under investigation, but remains innc been such apoint. But she under investigation, but remains inncbeen such a pint. But she under investigation, but remains inncbeen such a pin upbut she under investigation, but remains inncbeen such a pin up poster has been such a pin up poster girl the snp. Is the snp girl for the snp. Is the snp really finished without. Her really finished without. Her well, it certainly diminished without her. I would say it was interesting to watch her appearance. S surprise appearance. S surprise appearance. S surprise appearance , which was obviously appearance, which was obviously pre noted by everybody at the conference where not only did she upstage humza yousaf , but she upstage humza yousaf, but she upstage humza yousaf, but she basically emasculated him and made him look very much the little boy in her presence. So i think Nicola Sturgeon was a driving force and a figurehead for the Independence Movement via the snp, but not in the same way as alex salmond was before her. And the truth of the matter is that for all the talk about independence referendum and de facto referendums and the next election , in the final analysis, election, in the final analysis, the Scottish Government formed by the snp has got to go to westminster to ask for a section 30 order to have the power to hold a referendum and westminster is just going to say no. So the snp has got nowhere to go. Yeah, right. To go. Yeah, right. Talking about nowhere to go. Claire muldoon went somewhere. She left scotland and she went to live in england. Now what i want to ask both of you and i want to ask both of you and i want you, first of all, stuart, is what what has or do you believe that Scottish Independence has anything now to do with with an expat like Claire Muldoon . Claire muldoon . Oh, yes, absolutely. I mean, oh, yes, absolutely. I mean, i think that in many ways, the rules of representing your country at sport should apply in many ways. Scottish diaspora is about five times the size of the population of scotland, scotland. And i think all of us who have a stake in the in our background and heritage should have a say. Id like to point out that i left scotland for a very long time when i was in the army. I lived in england for a long time and it was very much of the opinion that had anything referendum happened when i was away that i should have had a say in it. And i still believe that that should be the case. Okay. Okay. What about english . People like now live in like my brother who now live in scotland . They a scotland . Should they be given a vote in claire . Well he vote in this, claire . Well he would because hes living there. Hes domiciled there, for want better word. And that want of a better word. And that is the case if you do work. But interestingly, i know a young new zealand chap and asked me new zealand chap and he asked me to papers because he to sign his papers because he wants to the elections wants to vote in the elections in and i think its in new zealand. And i think its so important isnt that people do a voice. And stuart do have a voice. And stuart quite rightly said , the diaspora quite rightly said, the diaspora of people , we tend to of scottish people, we tend to emigrate more than we migrate. Migrate more than we emigrate. And its just amazing the amount of scots all over the world. And i think we still feel patriotic. I think we still feel patriotic. Like i still do identify as scottish. And so i would love to be able to vote in the future of the country. Okay. Like the irish, were just raised to be emigrated to be to go elsewhere , to populate the go elsewhere, to populate the rest of the world. And stuart, thank you very much. Claire oh, and incidentally, stuart, if youre anywhere near the eastwood theatre in south glasgow youre not glasgow tonight, youre not tonight. Tomorrow night. Tomorrow night. Come and see me. Please leave your name on the doon please leave your name on the door, my friend. Im doing an audience with to and entertain you my wit and be a you with my wit and be a raconteur as well. Well, if raconteur as well. Well, if youve got any friends , we need youve got any friends, we need to sell tickets. Okay, but listen, ladies, please dont send in your knickers. Dont them at knickers. Dont chuck them at even. He doesnt need any more even. He doesnt need any more dental floss. Dental floss. Okay. Sadly, im heading in your direction at the end of this week , so ill be down in this week, so ill be down in your part of the world, and im heading to your part of the world. Okay . Thank you both very much indeed. Thanks. Thank you, stuart. And Claire Muldoon, thank very much indeed. And thank you very much indeed. And if are in south glasgow if you are in south glasgow tomorrow night, eastwood theatre, come along and see me. Be good. Well i should just say at this point, as somebody who has heard a lot of your stories over the good decade or so that ihave over the good decade or so that i have known you, i have been begging you to do this for a long time. Yes. Yes. And actually, she gives me list. She writes to tell this story when were out. Im like, tell them that one. The stories you could tell the stories that you could tell you write another. You should write another. Because read the because ive already read the first another first one. Another book. , theres lot paul well, theres a lot paul coyte be in that book, coyte would be in that book, ill you that. Ill tell you that. Cool. Would you be more of a noel coward than tom jones, noel coward than a tom jones, though . What im thinking. More tom more tom jones . Yeah. Hip swinging. Yeah. Hip swinging. Yeah. Hip swinging. Yeah. More elvis. Okay. Yeah. More elvis. Okay. Here go. Yeah, yeah. Oh, here we go. Yeah, yeah. Oh, here we go. Yeah, yeah. About music. What is talking about music. What is this . This . Every day . Every day . Every day . No, but somehow pauls got it. I dont understand the secret language. You two have sweet georgia brown. Yeah. Which was the theme to yeah. Which was the theme to the Harlem Globetrotters. Yeah. Who we spoke about, didnt we . Had a little conversation about it yesterday. Yeah and they had a cartoon series as well. Not only were they a hanna barbera, wasnt it . Yeah. Not only were they a touring basketball road show from the 50s, basketball road show from the 505, i basketball road show from the 50s, i think, or so they started in 1926 as the chicago and they they would do all these tricks and they would spin the ball. And so youve met isabel has met. Funny you should mention them. Two of the Harlem Globetrotters. A picture of me with the Harlem Globetrotters. And no, thatis Harlem Globetrotters. And no, that is not a basketball up my dress. I was heavily pregnant at the but you didnt. The time, but you didnt. You didnt theme music. All right, steady on. All right, steady on. You didnt know the theme music . No, it didnt. No, it didnt. I just. What did you do, though . Did they. Did they . Did they. Did they . Because they did the spins. I couldnt the spins. Couldnt do the spins. I always wanted to be able to. Honestly my whole life to. Its honestly my whole life is to learning to spin is down to learning how to spin a basketball on my finger, and i cant do i cant do it. Ive cant do it. I cant do it. Ive tried. I love. Did you ever, as a kid want the tracksuit . Oh, yeah. Thats what i wanted. Yeah. I mean, i think weve picture of the weve got a picture of the. The cartoon. Remember it was cartoon. You remember it was meadowlark in the meadowlark lemon. Yeah. In the who was voiced by scatman carruthers, was a voice carruthers, who was a voice that youd on cars. There youd always hear on cars. There youd always hear on cars. There you there they are. You go. Look, there they are. There the track friday there was the track the friday afternoon. We be watching . Should we be watching . Should we be watching . Curly, the bald yeah, thats curly, the bald fella there on the right, curly. The thing is, they always and the thing is, they always won but only in won their matches, but only in the 30s or so, wasnt it . The last 30s or so, wasnt it . You know what . Our sport should be. It was our sport should be. Its entertaining. They its entertaining. Yet they managed win as well. Right. Managed to win as well. Right. Quickly, what we got quickly, what have we got tonight . Euros. Dont were going to i dont think were going to have excitement of have the excitement of the Harlem Globetrotters tonight when it to england versus when it comes to england versus italy. Mean, its italy. But i mean, at least its a game that we need to get points you know, points from italy. You know, theres you know, its exciting because the time england because the last time england played was at wembley when played italy was at wembley when england the euro final back england lost the euro final back in 2020. One those euro 2020 in 2020. One of those euro 2020 went to penalties. So its time went to penalties. So its time for little payback. It should for a little payback. It should be quite exciting, actually, tonight. I mean, were all missing the premier league, but itll be a big, big game tonight and itll be full at wembley. Will they have i wonder, will they have a theme tune . Touch it with the hands cant touch it with the hands. Spinning tricks. That was it. Spinning tricks. But you know what . They actually have a draft for the Harlem Globetrotters these days so you can actually try out for them. And theres girls involved now. And theres girls involved now. And of course its 2023 different how it used to be couldnt spin because shes finger nails nails. Im glad you realised that was brilliant and thats really the reason i couldnt when i played basketball, it was you used to stab your fingers quite a you used to a lot of you used to do a lot of finger injuries. Oh, yeah. Heavy ball a finger. Thats ball and break a finger. Thats another. Thatd another story. Scoring three pointers, scoring three pointers, though, eastward theatre though, at the eastward theatre in glasgow. In south glasgow. You. Thank you. Thank you. We were just talking about the wembley arch, were not . The wembley arch, were we not . At least wembley. We just or at least wembley. We just had message from had a little message in from june the june and shes opposing the lighting up. She said it lighting it up. She said it should used for showing should only be used for showing the colours of both football teams that teams playing at that time. Probably where its this is probably where its going to go from now on. Yeah, i think this is probably. Thanks, june. Thank you. Storm babbitt is set to batter the country, particularly scotland. Set to batter the country, paryeah. ly scotland. Yeah. Yeah. And ireland. Over and over ireland. And over Northern Ireland as well. Chasing a months worth storm chasing a months worth of in just days. Of rain in just two days. Why i brought my big thats why i brought my big coat that. N ext next welcome back. We have a bit of an update for you on this developing story coming out of belgium this morning. There was a gunman on the run following the shooting of two the Fatal Shooting of two swedish fans yesterday swedish football fans yesterday and the injuring of a third person. Reported in the last person. We reported in the last half an hour that the suspect had been shot in a cafe in brussels. Well, the update that were hearing now is that an automatic weapon has been found on that person. They have been arrested. So our reading of that arrested. So our reading of that is that they were shot but not killed by police there. And this is from the Belgian Interior Ministry now confirming what was being reported previously on belgian tv, that they have now got somebody in custody in relation to those murders yesterday, which have been described as a terror attack. Front page of the Guardian Gaza humanitarian crisis grows as us bid to ease blockade falters. To discuss that and much more Claire Pearsall and andy jones. Andy, thats your story. Front of the guardian. Story. Front of the guardian. Yeah. So Anthony Blinken has been out the us secretary of state has been out to not one, but many different gulf states have been to five in the last 48 hours. Desperately trying to secure the release of some 300 us that are trapped in us citizens that are trapped in in palestine. Also trying to in palestine. Also trying to open what you call the humanitarian corridor to allow some people to get out. And also , critically, as weve been discussing, food to get getting water to get in and medicine as the bombing increases. Theyre so desperate, short of medicine and medical equipment, they have allowed small amount of allowed a very small amount of oil into the state. But 2 million palestinians, palestinians are stuck in there. Interestingly enough , theres interestingly enough, theres also a discussion in the guardian of 28 villages in israel have come under fire from hezbollah on the lebanese border. So as you can see, this conflict absolutely intensifying. And there are many different facets at work. But the critical thing is this secretary of state mission, Anthony Blinken, is believed to have been so many civilians. Claire, i just cant see how a Ground Invasion will work here. Its going to work badly. And i think thats the real worry about this, is youve got people who are stuck and its all very well to say, lets open up humanitarian , but humanitarian corridors, but where are these people to going go . The neighbouring go . Because the neighbouring countries stated that they countries have stated that they wont palestinian wont take in Palestinian Refugees fleeing so you refugees fleeing gaza. So you have this really horrible situation where hamas are just going to use these people as human shields as we have seen, and innocent people are going to lose their lives on both sides. And this is only going to get worse. And i think its all very well for everybody to sit and take one side or the other. But realistically , ali, you need to realistically, ali, you need to look at the loss of life that were going to see and how we can get aid to that region. Its to going be israel a e have to wipe out hamas. I mean, not taking sides i mean, im not taking sides here anything. Just here or anything. Im just saying that from a Strategic Point of view, when look point of view, you when you look at hamas, the incursion, at what hamas, the incursion, when were saying was when they were saying this was worse 9 11 and pearl worse than 9 11 and Pearl Harbour combined for the state of israel in terms of losses and what are they to do about it . They just cant sit there and let this go on. Avenged and no, they have to get rid of hamas and also for the good of hamas and also for the good of the Palestinian People, they have get of this this have to get rid of this this regime thats hell bent on destroying its neighbour, israel has but how has to protect itself. But how does do that . Even if you does it do that . Even if you talk tactically, going into a densely even densely populated area, even when the military might when you have the military might of israel, hellish thing of israel, is a hellish thing for soldiers and civilians on the end with the the ground, you end up with the sort weve seen it where in sort of weve seen it where in in afghanistan, seen it in in afghanistan, weve seen it in iraq, seen the iraq, weve seen it in the Second World War when germany went stalingrad trying to went into stalingrad trying to clear densely populated went into stalingrad trying to cle area densely populated went into stalingrad trying to cle area dens that. Ypulated went into stalingrad trying to cle area dens that. Is1lated went into stalingrad trying to cle area dens that. Is nighi went into stalingrad trying to cle area dens that. Is nigh on up area like that. Is nigh on impossible because hamas arent going to be wearing uniforms either. They are going to be dressed civilians and you dressed as civilians and you dont know youre going to dont know who youre going to be dont know be shooting. You dont know whats and as whats around the corner. And as we this story in the we see in this story in the mirror today, hamas have built tunnels up to 100 foot deep under homes, and hospitals. I was reading 300 miles. I was reading underneath but you can underneath gaza. But you can understand, a understand, i mean, its such a small that theyve had to small area that theyve had to dig down. But after all dig down. But claire, after all the were published and the papers were published and came overnight, we the came out overnight, we got the breaking news at around 1 00 in the that the president the morning that the president of will now of the United States will now be joining Anthony Blinken the joining Anthony Blinken in the region bid to try and region in a bid to try and prevent this escalating. There are concerns about what a are big concerns about what a Ground Invasion could mean in terms iran. And its terms of iran. And its certainly seems dont you think that the rhetoric from israel has dialled down a little bit in terms of this Ground Invasion, whether or not it means that the president of the United States might to broker this might be able to broker this much ceasefire at and much needed ceasefire at and allow that aid in . Because so far, no ones been successful on the rafah crossing there in on on the egypt gaza border. Well thats right. And i think it is its i also think its a bad set of judgement skills to put out there that the american president is visiting on a specific day. I think for security reasons that is appalling. I think everyone is starting to look at what this means for a wider conflict because it isnt just going to stay contained within israel and palestine. And i think this is what everybody else around the world is looking at diplomatically. How is this diplomatically. How is this going to continue . Where is it to going now break out . And as were seeing with terror attacks in brussels, we are seeing with marches and the rise of anti semitism, anti semitic behaviour here and also islamophobic behaviour in countries around the world. Everything is bubbling up. So i think people are very, very mindful that hezbollah is sitting there on the border. Sitting there on the border. They have sent rockets into israel, but they havent moved any further. And the worry is that you kick this off even more than it is going to join in and the americans will then join in. Theyve already got their ship stationed in the mediterranean as as support vessels. So i think it is really, really important that joe biden goes out calm down. Out there to calm this down. Well, absolutely. With the United Nations saying failing to saying that israel is failing to comply International Law comply with International Law and, you know, weve even got conservative mps the uk conservative mps here in the uk saying are sleepwalking into saying we are sleepwalking into being complicit in war crimes under the geneva convention. If you are deemed complicit, you are equally guilty of war crimes. A lot of these global leaders, theyre very happy to talk like a hero. But nobody wants to get hurt. And so this is very theres this thing where a lot of politicians seem to be coming out, making strong coming out, making these strong statements, dont have statements, but they dont have the to it the military power to back it up. They certainly dont want to put the ground lets put men on the ground and lets be in the global be honest, in the global economy, very few people have got money this got the money to sustain this sort of lot sort of thing. A lot of international the west International States in the west and in the arab nations have been through israel been agitating through israel and for time. And palestine for a long time. And think it has to be and i think now it has to be talked down and also even talked down and were also even seeing if reports are to be believed and there is lots of information and misinformation out hamas unsure out there. Even hamas are unsure of position sense of their position in the sense that the former that youve got the former leader hamas who is agitating leader of hamas who is agitating for a of jihad, but their for a day of jihad, but their current is jihad. The current leader is a jihad. The current leader is a jihad. The current leaders hamas are current leaders of hamas are apparently well, why apparently saying, well, why have hostages . Have we taken so many hostages . Why know, we didnt why have we you know, we didnt even fully about exactly even know fully about exactly what going to be. Youve got a story, andy, just briefly in the daily mirror. The headline is down into hell. Hamas plans into hell. Hamas attack plans shoot facing shoot challenge facing the military aids. Military when it invades aids. So stuff that has been so this is stuff that has been captured by the israelis and theyve got theyve got a lot of footage here to what hamas footage here to show what hamas hasyeah, and question has to yeah, and the question has to be on are they getting be how on earth are they getting all rockets and all of all of these rockets and all of these arms into an area these military arms into an area thats barely size the thats barely the size of the isle of wight, thats surrounded on all sides the on absolutely all sides by the sea israel . Thats two sea or israel . And thats two big about how these sea or israel . And thats two big of about how these sea or israel . And thats two big of things about how these sea or israel . And thats two big of things are ut how these sea or israel . And thats two big of things are going these sea or israel . And thats two big of things are going inlese sea or israel . And thats two big of things are going in the sort of things are going in the Israeli Forces have Israeli Defence forces have seized which they seized documents which they believe to be evidence of a well planned invasion , everything planned invasion, everything from sort of colour coded diagrams and flowcharts, etcetera. Okay , claire, lets just okay, claire, lets just finish up this section talking about the storm. Another storm which has been named by the dutch meteorological society, andits dutch meteorological society, and its called storm babette. Yeah, this is the second named storm of the season for the uk. And this bad weather is going to hit hit us in sort of 48 hours time. I love the fact of these named storms. Im always quite excited to see random and hates them being named. No, you see, i love it. I think you give them a little bit of personality , but i dont of personality, but i dont think babette sounds apparently its named after a dutch woman who was injured killed in recent. Yeah , sort of dutch. Yeah, sort of dutch. Yeah, sort of dutch. And, you know, and i love that aspect of it, but it doesnt sound particularly scary. And the other week my husband was excited that there was was very excited that there was an hurricane nigel coming an ex hurricane nigel coming through, which again, not very scary kind of way. The wrong way. And was late. But thats way. And was late. But thats just the life that i lead. But i think its quite important to note that we are going to have extreme weather coming through. People arent for prepared it and itjust people arent for prepared it and it just is people arent for prepared it and itjust is one of people arent for prepared it and it just is one of those situations where you realise quite how bad we are with extreme weather in the united kingdom. We cant deal with it very well. Its a bit too wet, very well. Its a bit too wet, very windy. The trains will stop, but realistically we have to get used to it. Yeah, this is supposed to be four inches of rain. A months rain in 48 hours, although it doesnt specify where thats going to fall. Is that going to be north of scotland or is be the north of scotland or is that be southeast . Is that going to be southeast . Is that going to be southeast . Is that be over . That going to be all over . Its going to be Northern Ireland northwest england ireland and northwest england and. Really, its and scotland. Really, its theyre not be were in a basement. Well fill up very quickly. Well fill up very quickly. Dont say that. Dont say that. Weve got a minute, andy, but i want to end on a story that will make your eyes water if it doesnt make you salivate. And this a wagyu beef this is about a wagyu beef sandwich, which sounds delicious, you back a delicious, but sets you back a pretty penny. Yes, £28 sandwich. And this is a one this isnt one that you order. And then they bring it back and its made this is one thats already there. And you go and this is in harrods, and buy it. This is in harrods, unsurprisingly, wagyu unsurprisingly, its a wagyu beef. Some fancy beef. Its always some fancy beef. Its always some fancy beef. Me a of beef. Just give me a bit of steak, for heavens sake. Wagyu beef porcine and truffle beef with porcine and truffle mustard something ridiculous beef with porcine and truffle mlit. |rd something ridiculous beef with porcine and truffle mlit. But something ridiculous beef with porcine and truffle mlit. But £28nething ridiculous beef with porcine and truffle mlit. But £28neyoure� idiculous beef with porcine and truffle mlit. But £28neyoure inculous beef with porcine and truffle mlit. But £28neyoure in the us on it. But £28 if youre in the area. I dont know. I mean, there was a £7. 50 cheese and pickle sandwich in pret the other day. It makes me want to other day. It makes me want to get a loaf of bread and make my amazing food hall there. And i was walking through, i was in to get some aftershave one day and i walking one day and i came walking through. A saturday through. It was a saturday morning who do i bump into . Morning and who do i bump into . But sir Michael Parkinson son morning and who do i bump into . But he Michael Parkinson son morning and who do i bump into . But he was1ael parkinson son morning and who do i bump into . But he was doingirkinson son morning and who do i bump into . But he was doing his1son son morning and who do i bump into . But he was doing his grocery| and he was doing his Grocery Shopping in harrods , right . Not shopping in harrods, right . Not in waitrose or sainsburys or tescos, but in harrods. So he said to me, i said, what do you do . He said, im doing my Grocery Shopping. He said, do you want to do you need groceries . I said, yes, i do. So we took our baskets we we both took our baskets and we went round and did our Grocery Shopping, course, and im shopping, of course, and im trying can keep up trying to pretend i can keep up with what spending here. Whatever. To your stories for tomorrow night. Tell the party harrods story. Tell the party harrods story. We have to leave it there. Im sorry. Save that one for the next round. Well have more details you on the latest on details for you on the latest on this brussels attack as this brussels terror attack as well and to negotiate on the opening of the border to get civilians out and aid in. Our reporter Charlie Peters is on the ground in israel. Blocked humanitarian in israel. Blocked humanitarian aid on the south of the gaza strip as violence escalates in the Northern Regions. The Northern Regions. Could this conflict become a regional disaster . Regional disaster . Two british teenagers are being held hostage by hamas in gaza. Sisters noya and yahel are from a kibbutz where their mother, leanne , was murdered on mother, leanne, was murdered on the 7th of october attack. Their father, eli, is also missing. Father, eli, is also missing. The suspect in last nights lethal attack in brussels. Terrorist attack has been arrested in a local cafe as an automatic rifles found next to them. Thats according to reports this morning. It follows the government raising the Terror Threat there to the highest level after two people were killed and one person wounded. Wounded. So lets we were talking about storm babette heading to the uk. Alex deakin will have that. And more with your weather forecast. Forecast. Good morning. A cold start in places, but for most a fine day today, however , very wet weather today, however, very wet weather is on the way later this week from storm babette. Ill have a full forecast out later on. And Sport England in the euros tonight. Paul coyte. Euros tonight. Paul coyte. Yeah. Hopefully its revenge for england against italy in the euros at wembley tonight. Manchester united sir Jim Radcliffe and how much of the club is he going to own . And the new sports that have just been announced for the 2028 olympics. Ill stop teasing tallis. Ill their old sports. What was the one the other day . Cricket. Cricket i dont want to give it away. Okay im a tease. What can i. But these are old sports regenerated for a new age, right . And as always, you can join in any of our discussions. If youre old and regenerated, let us know. Gb views gbnews. Com isabels. Its chomping at the bit here to tell me something. What is just lots of people have beenin what is just lots of people have been in touch random and been in touch with random and interesting emails. Interesting emails. Goodness eamonn thats oh my goodness eamonn thats the polite version. I had my tonsils out on my 16th birthday. They literally in orpington hospital in kent and by my 38th birthday, i was having double knee replacements. And now at 51, i have arthritis in all joints, knees, hips and shoulders. By the way, i should shoulders. By the way, i should sing the song head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes. Yeah. Oh, well, john, sorry about that, mate, but what it comes to us all anyway, keep those views coming in. Gb views gbnews. Com. Gbnews. Com. So it is our top story this morning. De 11 of the hamas israel conflict. And were heanng israel conflict. And were hearing that 49 palestinians were killed in by israeli airstrikes overnight. This is to according the gazan interior ministry. Ministry. But think i dont know what that means for first responders. Were going to talk about now and the conditions that they have got to get through to victims. Heres what happened victims. Heres what happened after a bomb strike and obviously that footage recorded with some disturbing scenes in it. Latymer upper. Latym er just upper. Latymer upper. Just think of the people who put their lives at risk when they when they dont have to. They are theyre saving lives and they face the dangers. They face the dangers. Well, in big developments overnight , the president of the overnight, the president of the United States, joe biden , has United States, joe biden, has announced that he will visit the middle east tomorrow will middle east tomorrow and will meet the region as he meet leaders in the region as he tries or help avoid an tries to avoid or help avoid an escalation in this unfolding crisis. Crisis. The Us Administration is pushing heavily for an opening of the egypt gaza border that will allow International Citizens in. Let International Citizens in. Let International Citizens out , i should say, and citizens out, i should say, and aid in well, the Israeli Energy minister has previously stated that hamas must First Release the 199 hostages it holds before israel is allowed aid in. Okay. More than 2750 people in gaza have been killed in retaliatory strikes by israel , which is also strikes by israel, which is also blocking fuel. Water food and medical supplies from entering the territory. The un says it is deeply and it is deep in negotiations to get the first aid into gaza and israels militarys updated. The number of people they believe have been taken hostage in gaza , up from 155 to 199. And in gaza, up from 155 to 199. And they were kidnapped when Hamas Terrorists infiltrated israel just over a week ago, 11 days ago, killing more than 1400 people. So israel has been bombing gaza, the interior Ministry Says a thousand bodies remain trapped under the rubble. Remain trapped under the rubble. Body bags have run out. Hospitals are ovennhelmed. The Israeli Military says the targets are hamas infrastructure. They say they are not targeting civilians. Targeting civilians. Now, the footage were about to show you was filmed by a reuters cameraman and it reveals the staggering devastation and the staggering devastation and the loss of life in what were once streets, a market and a refugee camp inside gaza. Refugee camp inside gaza. Yeah, a lot. Yeah. A la. Yeah yeah, a lot. Yeah. A la. Yeah la. La. So. So. The mark dumas hamill. And for those of you who are listening to gb news on the radio, just direct you to our website or even our app to see those pictures for yourself. Painting frankly, a picture of destruction and devastation in central tel aviv. In central tel aviv. Doctors are still working around the clock to care for hundreds of the most seriously injured survivors at Sheba Medical Centres also caring for hundreds of Israeli Soldiers whove been engaged with hamas fighters as they get closer to gaza. Fighters as they get closer to gaza. But there is criticism of gaza. But there is criticism of the Israeli Government for not doing enough to support ovennhelmed medical facilities. Charlie peters from tel aviv. Charlie peters from tel aviv. Every hour, more patients arrive from the frontline of israels war on hamas. Already israels war on hamas. Already strained by the casualties. The strained by the casualties. The Sheba Medical Centre is prepping for an imminent full scale invasion of gaza. This intensive care unit has had to draft in volunteers. The feeling here is that the government is not doing enough. The government doesnt really care about the people here, so were here to support them. A lot of people are coming here and they constantly want to help all of us are helping. Were like a community of like a giant community of helpers, a giant army. Helpers, like a giant army. The war starts , the when the war starts, the Sheba Medical Centre opened this brand new intensive care facility and since then its beenin facility and since then its been in constant use. Half of the patients are civilians and the patients are civilians and the are soldiers. For more the rest are soldiers. For more than nine days, life has hung in the balance for many of the civilians brought here enemy victims of the attack by Hamas Terrorists on communities in southern israel. They are southern israel. They are traumatised , injured and traumatised, injured and suffering horrendous. Burns this suffering horrendous. Burns this family hid from hamas in their basement shelter for unable to find them. The terrorists set fire to their house as they survived. The youngest, a baby survived. The youngest, a baby of just 18 months, has burns acrosst 30 of her body. Acrosst 30 of her body. My sister and my family me with a lot of braves, fight with them with the hands they are is not good condition. But we are. We are want to say thank god about that. They get inside and they here now. They here now. But the director of the burns unit believes that the worst is yet to come. Yet to come. Ive been ive been ive never seen such a slaughter. Its not even you know, its inhuman. I dont know how to say it. And it touches every one of us. I lost two of. Us. I lost two of. My two of my friends kids already in battle. So its hard. And, in battle. So its hard. And, you know , when i have a minute you know, when i have a minute out of here we go to funerals every israeli knows the mission to end hamas will not come without more pain and suffering. There will be more wounded and lives cut short in the worst violence israel has seen for 50 years. More civilians and soldiers will be sent to this hospital, a medical facility thatis hospital, a medical facility that is preparing for a long war. Charlie peters gb news israel. Israel. And we will be speaking to Charlie Peters in tel aviv. Very shortly. But i just want to bnng shortly. But i just want to bring you an update on whats been a fast paced picture coming out of belgium this morning, following on from the terror attacks on two swedish football fans yesterday. Reported fans yesterday. We reported about hour ago that a man had about an hour ago that a man had been shot and subsequently arrested by authorities in relation to this and in the last few moments, the Belgian Police have confirmed that the person that they have arrested is indeed the perpetrator of those lethal attacks. Two people dead yesterday and one injured. Were keeping a close eye on developments there. Ive known the tel aviv. Charlie peters for us this morning to bring us an update as to what hes seeing and hearing from that city. Charlie. From that city. Charlie. Yes, well, there is a scene of great concern here. Most the people were seeing around us in this location are people from stay wrote that town in the south that was evacuated some 11 days ago after the hamas terrorist invasion in. But there is now, of course, a renewed sense of optimism about what might be brought along by President Joe Bidens visit to the region. Not only will he be visiting the Israeli Government here, but hes also set to travel to speak with the egyptian president , el sisi , but egyptian president , el sisi, but also the jordanian king abdullah. The second and indeed the president of the Palestinian Authority. So a very widespread authority. So a very widespread diplomatic experience for him. Diplomatic experience for him. And i think the inclusion of jordan there is crucial because abdullah ii visited rishi sunak on sunday and we then saw mr sunak speaking to the Palestinian Authority the day after really reaffirming the extent of the crisis in Southern Gaza. The human victarion situation there is extremely, extremely poor. And abdullah ii extremely poor. And abdullah ii did express his concerns in number 10 downing street that war crimes were being committed via that blockade. And i think via that blockade. And i think since that diplomatic effort from the jordanians, there has been a slight shift in how this conflict is being perceived around the world. It has made an important difference to looking towards not only removing the hamas military capability , a hamas military capability, a situation that most regional and indeed global actors say must happen, but also at the same time, more care is given to those asked to flee from north gaza into the south. We know that there have been so many situations where they have been told that the rafah crossing might open, that crossing between gaza and egypt, but then nothing has happened there. Short hopes have been dashed, at least dozens of trucks are now gathering with humanitarian aid on the egyptian side, waiting for access, access that just hasnt been granted or approved as this standoff with hostages , as this standoff with hostages, some 199 being held in north gaza, we believe at the same time, no Water Supplies in Southern Gaza, no humanitarian safe zones, no spaces for the best part of a Million People who have been asked to move from north gaza to the south to allow for greater bombardments from the israeli side. And then in the israeli side. And then in the north, we have seen overnight a significant escalation in israeli strikes on begin talking about Lebanese Hezbollah targets. They said hezbollah targets. They said that they hit many targets with helicopter gunships and artillery fire. So that situation is continuing to escalate and it comes at the same time as last night we heard from irans foreign minister saying that a pre emptive strike could come in a matter of hours. All options are on the table, he said. And that the resistance likely referring to the iranian backed proxies , are ready to backed proxies, are ready to engagein backed proxies, are ready to engage in further conflict. Engage in further conflict. But charlie, thank you very much indeed. Lets get analysis on what charles has had to report there. Robert fox, defence editor at the evening standard, is with us it standard, is with us now. It seems quite ironic that were talking aid waiting, seems quite ironic that were talking aid waiting , ready talking about aid waiting, ready to ready to cross border to go, ready to cross the border , and yet a strike, you know, an invasion probably imminent. How do they reconcile the two . It isnt adding up, is it . And i think this is whats worrying the american administration. Its quite a big administration. Its quite a big card, quite a big card. It is the big card to play in biden. I think to just update charlie a bit. I think think to just update charlie a bit. I think its going to be more than a diplomatic experience that bidens going to be going through. Hes going to have to read what comes to very close to a riot act to sisi of egypt, open that border to abbas 87. The president of the Palestinian Authority. Palestinian authority. Obviously, they will talk to jordan because jordan is ovennhelmingly palestinian in population. But the record is population. But the record is not good of relations between biden himself and netanyahu. And biden himself and netanyahu. And theyre very worried about what netanyahu has in mind or not for this operation in which he still insists on 100,000 people still insists on 100,000 people still in gaza city, admitted by the idf today. Its looking really one of the wickedest of wicked problems. Problems. Its really interesting what you mentioned there about the situation in egypt. And, you situation in egypt. And, you know, they have for so long resisted taking Palestinian Refugees. They dont want the security risks because of what they view as sort of jihadi extremism in that population. In extremism in that population. In what will they get in return if they open the rafah gate . That will be the conversations that will be the conversations that will be the conversations that will be going on behind the scenes. They want more money, presumably will be talking at states. Money will be talking at the moment. They want guarantee two no, they want guarantee two words. Mohammed muslim brotherhood. Thats why they brotherhood. Thats why they feel particularly the regime, because of what happened immediately before. And hamas is seen as a as the offspring in a way, of the muslim brotherhood. Way, of the muslim brotherhood. And if they open the rafah crossing people that was involved in the arab spring, 1927, 1927, founded founded by Hassan Al Banna against the british hegemony in egypt. And its gone on and on. And it is sunni radicalism , shia sunni radicalism, shia radicalism comes through organisations like hezbollah. Theyre all coming together to egypt, does not want sinai to open up again as a giant Palestinian Refugee camp. Thats what they want from the americans. If a million or so americans. If a million or so palestine opens come our way, what are you to going do then . Which, by the way , has been the which, by the way, has been the big question since 1967, possibly since 1947. Okay, robert , got to leave it there. Robert, got to leave it there. Thank you very much indeed. As weve just been reporting on the program, Belgian Police have not confirmed the man arrested in a cafe in brussels this morning is the perpetrator , they morning is the perpetrator, they believe, of last nights terror attack, which killed two swedish nationals and injured another person as belgium has now raised its terror alert to the highest level. The latest on this are home affairs and security editor mark white. Mark. Well, this is a man, we understand, whos been named in brussels as abdel salam sud , brussels as abdel salam sud, believed to be a tunisian national. And Asylum Seeker in that country in a video thats been widely circulated. Now, been widely circulated. Now, this man , we believe, was abdel this man, we believe, was abdel salam le sud says that the reason the attacks have taken place is in support of isis, the Islamic State terror group largely , of course, degraded by largely, of course, degraded by western forces in syria and iraq now, but still clearly a threat. And certainly an influence for extremists. And also part of the extremists. And also part of the motivation , we understand, motivation, we understand, according to the video that was made, seems to be around the killing of a Young Palestinian teen ager in the United States as this all unfolded yesterday evening. Sweden were playing belgium in a euro qualifying match when two people were shot dead. Match when two people were shot dead. Those two people, we dead. Those two people, we understand , were swedish understand, were swedish nationals football supporters wearing their swedish tops. Another individual was injured in this shooting. One of the theories that police were investigating was that there was some sort of swedish anti swedish sentiment from this suspect. What would be fuelling that . Is that all unked fuelling that . Is that all linked to asylum claims . Linked to asylum claims . And yeah, well, Law Enforcement sources last night were certainly saying that this individual, they believe, had been fuelled along with his support for isis and revenge. Apparently for the killing of a Young Palestinian by conspira theories around sweden. Sweet aiden is grappling with a huge issue at the moment around immigration, around a rise in crime that many in sweden see as unked crime that many in sweden see as linked to immigration and in particular to the asylum seeking issue in that country. There have been some incidents of korans being burnt in sweden , korans being burnt in sweden, which has enraged many in the muslim world. So clearly there is that backdrop relating to this, but also the backdrop of what is happening in the middle east. Some real concerns around the world for the potential role for terrorist incidents to be sparked by the conflict in israel and gaza at the moment. We saw a teacher targeted on friday in arhus in North Eastern france, stabbed to death. Three others injured in that attack in a school which now again has a significant Jewish Population in that town. Thanks, mark. Police believe theyve got their man in belgium. That shooter last night whod killed two people, wounded a third, they believe they have that man in custody today. He has been shot, but only wounded. Were going to talk about bowel cancer now. Rates are on the rise and Early Detection is always key. And when it comes to always key. And when it comes to detection, it appears that there are regional differences across the uk. Scotland does very well. It leads the way carrying out testing from the age of 50. Well start at 51. England at 56. But in Northern Ireland it still is a long way to go because tests only begin there from the age of 60. Joining us now is policy lead of bowel cancer uk, Gerard Mcmahon. Good morning to you, gerard. How much of a disadvantage are people in Northern Ireland then that they are not being screened until in their 60s good morning. Yeah , its a really important yeah, its a really important point and its one that we took to stormont yesterday to stress that point that people in Northern Ireland were missing out and that it was putting peoples lives at risk because of that delay of ten years compared to what the National Screening committee of the uk has recommend, that screening should take place from the age of 50. We know that screening saves lives. We know that early saves lives. We know that early diagnosis is key and screening is more likely to pick people up at the early stages. If youre at the early stages. If youre diagnosed at the earliest stage with chances with bowel cancer, the chances of survival for five years or more is 9 in 10 people, and that drops to 1 in 10 at the latest stage. And theres a massive difference. Not just in difference. We see not just in Northern Ireland across the Northern Ireland but across the uk number of people who uk and the number of people who are participating screening are participating in screening and that the screening and the way that the screening programmes and the programmes are set up and the number people who end number of people who end up being diagnosed through an emergency where theyre emergency setting where theyre more to the later more likely to be at the later stage. So its really important that what we see as some of the commitments that have been made in Northern Ireland the in Northern Ireland around the cancer strategy that was introduced in march 2022, we want to see that those commitments are fulfilled. So we commitments are fulfilled. So we took that message to stormont yesterday to make sure that the politicians heard from clinicians , patients and clinicians, patients and ourselves about how important it was that they made this change. What i think of bowel cancer , what i think of bowel cancer, i instantly to bowel babe i instantly think to bowel babe and the incredible job that she did raising awareness the did in raising awareness of the disease and she kind of shook the taboo because she said there is taboo than talking is no greater taboo than talking about testing your poo essentially. Butjust about testing your poo essentially. But just lets use this opportunity to , to, i this opportunity to, to, i guess, just remind people of how you can check for it, what the symptoms could be if you perhaps, you know, developing early signs of it. And just give us a bit of advice really, in case people have any concerns. Case people have any concerns. Absolutely. I think one of the things just to point out is that screening is aimed at people who dont have any symptoms. So its trying to pick up people that very early stage, but its really important that people understand signs and people understand the signs and the are there that the symptoms that are there that could theres could indicate that theres potential for potential bowel cancer. So, for example , if youve got a pain or example, if youve got a pain or a lump in your tummy, if you that you you cant explain a fatigue that you cant explain if you get weight loss, thats come on that you cant explain. It could be that you you have a change in your bowel habits. So that could be the frequency that youre going or the consistency of poo and monitoring that of your poo and monitoring that and you know whats right for you and that somethings changed. The big red flag is changed. But the big red flag is if you any blood in your if you notice any blood in your poo bleeding your poo or bleeding from your bottom, any of those bottom, you spot any of those symptoms, along gp symptoms, go along to your gp and you can be offered the same test you would get through test that you would get through screening, you can do at screening, but you can do at home and that can gp to home and that can help the gp to determine whether or not you need passed for on further need to be passed for on further investigation in hospital like a colonoscopy. So its really important people are aware of the symptoms and then take action. Okay. Listen, Gerard Mcmahon , okay. Listen, Gerard Mcmahon, we have to leave it there. Policy lead for bowel cancer uk, but shedding light this morning on that Postcode Lottery when it comes to screening for bowel cancen comes to screening for bowel cancer. Thank you. Were going cancer. Thank you. Were going to take a look at your forecast. Theres a storm on the way. Alex deakin has all the details for you. Morning. Im alex deakin. This is your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. For many, its a fine day today, but the rest of this week looks very, very wet indeed thanks to storm babette pushing its slowly northwards. Its its way slowly northwards. Its going bring bands of heavy going to bring bands of heavy rain that become quite slow moving later this week and the real threat of some flooding and disruption. So we do have a number of met Office Yellow warnings in place. See the met warnings in place. See the met Office Website for details Office Website for the details of to the details of of those. Back to the details of todays weather. As i said, for most its a fine day, a bit of a chilly start. Touch of frost in places and sunny spells for most of scotland northern of scotland and northern england. Turning hazy, england. Sunshine turning hazy, though, thickens. Though, as the cloud thickens. Some far some patchy rain in the far south west devon, cornwall, south west at devon, cornwall, somerset, pembrokeshire somerset, maybe pembrokeshire as well. Showers across the well. Some showers across the northern isles, also a chilly feel as the breeze, particularly in the south, starts to strengthen, could get quite blustery parts of wales and blustery over parts of wales and southwest england and the rain tracking northwards could turn heavy across parts of heavy tonight across parts of Northern Ireland and then work into the western scotland and further showers will then start to develop across the south and then generally tomorrow, a cloudy day with outbreaks of rain. Certainly many central and western parts, parts of the east may well stay dry, but the winds strengthening and that rain getting heavier and could cause some problems across parts of Northern Ireland. But later in the week, across many parts of the week, across many parts of the uk , temperatures again the uk, temperatures again struggling in the mid teens and feeling colder with the wind. Goodbye now the Scottish National party leader and first minister of scotland, humza yousaf , is of scotland, humza yousaf, is expected to address the situation in the middle east as well as Scottish Independence and the resurgence of labour north of the border. All during his keynote speech at his Party Conference later today. Well, gb conference later today. Well, gb news scotland reporter tony maguire joins us from holyrood this morning to give us all the latest. Good morning to you, tony. Is it fair to say it was a little upstaged by his little bit upstaged by his predecessor yesterday . Predecessor yesterday . Yes. Good morning. I will say that ive actually made the extra trip up to aberdeen outside the Conference Centre this morning where, as you say, humza yousaf is expected to give his speech. But of course , his speech. But of course, Nicola Sturgeon made quite an appearance yesterday. She came appearance yesterday. She came down the glass staircase here at the event centre in aberdeen and to a raucous round of applause before she joined him, a group of hungry press gathered at the bottom of the stairs where she answered some questions about, you know , Humza Yousafs you know, Humza Yousafs performance. So far. And she was quite evasive on on questions over operation branchform, which, you know, you might expect in a setting such as this. But she also made comments about what went wrong for the snp , the rutherglen and hamilton snp, the rutherglen and Hamilton West by election at the start of this month. Now her comments this month. Now her comments suggested that she thought that the snp should get back to serving the people of scotland and to making sure that the most needy and the most Vulnerable People are all taken care of. Now that is something that we are expecting to hear from humza yousaf, earlier on today. Later yousaf, earlier on today. Later on today, about a quarter past three, hes expected to make his keynote speech here in aberdeen this is his first keynote speech at the annual conference for the snp since becoming first minister and for most all the delegates here this is the first time in nine years that anyone other than Nicola Sturgeon has actually made a speech on the final day of this conference, staying well, all eyes will be on that speech a little bit later on. But for now, tony maguire in holyrood, thank you very much. Weather looks cold, doesnt it . It does, but its going to get damp. But. But im heading there. But. But im heading there. I know you need your brolly, not just your warm coat. Do all that. You no. Might do all that. You never you need. When never know what you need. When paul is here. Never paul coyte is here. You never do. You never do. What have you got sports wise . Do. You never do. What have you got im rts wise . Do. You never do. What have you got im joking. E . Im joking. Im joking. Do want to mention the i do want to mention the belgium sweden yesterday. Belgium sweden game yesterday. A quick that. What quick word about that. What happens . Actually happened happens . What actually happened in that situation . Of course, the two swedish people that were shot down in brussels yesterday, we dont whether they were we dont know whether they were fans , the swedish fans, but you fans, the swedish fans, but you would kind of think so soon would kind of think so as soon as were so many swedes as there were so many swedes that actually there the that were actually there for the game against belgium. So the game against belgium. So the game it was 1 1 at game began and it was 1 1 at half word was it half time. The word was it didnt to the stadium what didnt get to the stadium what had happened, although it had been of hours before, been a couple of hours before, more so the more until half time. So the swedish and coaches decided swedish team and coaches decided that they didnt want play on that they didnt want to play on out of respect. Then it was out of respect. And then it was i have security as well. I would have security as well. Well, the is, they said well, the thing is, they said respect, but security is the is the main thing. And this is what was on the loose. That exactly. Because especially with so many swedes, that were there with anyway, we dont know what the situation is about, who and what and why. But basically they were kept in the stadium. So 930, it was when it was called off, they were kept in there till 1045. Swedish team and coaches, they were sent straight to the airport, escorted by police and the fans were then walked back into the city incredibly tense situation to be in, you know, not knowing if youre going to be attacked, targeted and its very nervous that in those kinds of environments, heightened tensions , fear spreads, doesnt tensions, fear spreads, doesnt it . Its infectious. Its infectious. Its infectious. Its infectious. I wouldnt have liked its information, it, isabel . Information, isnt it, isabel . I mean, if youre in a situation where to football where youre going to a football match know match and you dont know anything, how much can be said on the tannoy . How much are you going the radio . Going to listen to the radio . Youre at social media. Yeah, but also the risk of a stampede or Something Like that. People trying to get out because theres going theres always going to be little here, there little rumours here, there and everywhere. Little rumours here, there and everywhtheres always those and theres always those theres coded tannoy theres those coded tannoy messages the owner of a messages with the owner of a silver registration silver car registration number, which message. Which is a false message. A message to its says often a message to say all security get to say all security people get to the main entrance or whatever. Say all security people get to the itheres1trance or whatever. Say all security people get to the itheres theme or whatever. Say all security people get to the itheres the name whatever. Say all security people get to the itheres the name calling. R. And theres the name calling. Whoever stuff like mr whoever and stuff like that. Anyway, but, but that. So anyway, but, but anyway, play italy anyway, england play italy tonight, which is at wembley and its a game. Its actually a its a game. Its actually a game. Its actually not going to be like the australia where its just going to be a friendly need to get a point. If they do, theyll qualify for the euros. Gareth southgate. Jordan gareth southgate. Jordan henderson theres a talk about that henderson that because Jordan Henderson got playing got booed because hes playing in and i think its in saudi arabia and i think its more fans just thinking, well, why still playing for why is he still playing for england . Hes spring england . Hes no, hes no spring chicken. Why is he still there . So they reckon that the league hes playing in is an inferior league. I reckon that too. I reckon that too. And he couldnt be up to scratch an International Standard in terms of fitness. But still gareths southgate says not a popularity says its not a popularity contest. Well, obviously not, but its whoever he trusts, the same harry maguire. Still same as harry maguire. Still insists him. But insists on picking him. But anyway, should be a good game anyway, it should be a good game tonight. Sir radcliffe tonight. SirJim Radcliffe as well. Should mention the 25 well. I should mention the 25 that looks like thats going through well hear through thursday. So well hear more in next few more about that in the next few days. Im still trucking through that. Beckham coco, how are you still . I used to give up on it, but i feel like im learning a lot about man united. Since you mentioned it. Just my thoughts. Thats a good thing. My thoughts. Thatsin good thing. My thoughts. Thatsin thati thing. My thoughts. Thatsin that oh, ng. My thoughts. Thatsin that oh, its well, in that oh, its a great thing, but i think those were the glory days, you know . Was like nostalgic yeah, it was like nostalgic 99 all that. 99 and all that. Its very nostalgic. If you watch all the way to go back. They times. And, they were the good times. And, you obviously a word of you know, obviously a word of commiseration who commiseration to sir alex, who buned commiseration to sir alex, who buried wife yesterday and buried his wife yesterday and David Beckham was at the funeral as held in as well, which was held in scotland. Right. Heres an interesting zombie via interesting one. Zombie via prices, zombie prices, right . Ancient zombie viruses. They were there in the permafrost and theyve been thawed out after 50,000 years. Now, what what good is that going to do . Anybody . Anybody . It could be terrible for humanity, which is just what we need. Another another pandemic. There we go. Headline makers n ext next welcome back. Its 839. Weve got an update for you on the belgium terror attack were heanng belgium terror attack were hearing this morning. Its just hearing this morning. Its just been announced by the belgian pubuc been announced by the belgian public broadcaster that the suspect who was arrested at about 7 10 and was shot at has now died. So that is the break. Well, wait a minute. We heard he was dead. Then we heard he was alive. Now theyre saying hes dead. Well, obviously, developing picture there. This is the person they but this is the person they were looking for in relation to the murder of two swedish football fans the injuring the murder of two swedish f0 a all fans the injuring the murder of two swedish f0 a third. Ns the injuring the murder of two swedish f0 a third. Ns hethe injuring the murder of two swedish f0 a third. Ns he was njuring of a third. And he was understood to be abdul salam masood tunisian origin , who masood of tunisian origin, who had pledged his support on social media to isis and being confirmed by confirmed this morning by the belgian broadcaster that belgian public broadcaster that he has been killed. Okay. Lets see whats making okay. Lets see whats making the headlines today. We do that the headlines today. We do that in the company of Claire Pearsall and andy jones. Very nice to have them both with us today and claire, were going to go to the time is the biggest exam board in the country is introducing digital exams at gcse level. Now what exactly does that mean . This is according to the times page 16. Yes. I thought this was sort yes. I thought this was sort of quite interesting that pupils will be able to take some gcse exams on their laptop app. And this comes off the back of quual looking at Digital Skills that young people have the fear that young people have the fear that they also have about their handwriting and will they get marked down for having messy hands. And thats not going to help them any, is it . Well, and this is what i find quite, quite disturbing, is how do know whos doing . How do do you know whos doing . How do you know its not you thats doing this exam . Will they still be under exam conditions . Will they still be under exam conditi capability will be online capability will be switched off and the exam paper will be downloaded onto the machine and in advance so they can sit there and they can do this. Its only going to be this. And its only going to be for some subjects in next year. So for and polish so exams for italian and polish gcse courses that are starting in september and more subjects will on. I think its will follow on. I think its quite an interesting look at technology, but it does also bnng technology, but it does also bring into question what are we doing young people and doing with young people and handwriting . Son, for example handwriting . My son, for example , 15 years old, doesnt , nearly 15 years old, doesnt have the greatest handwriting in the world because he is always on a device. He uses laptop at on a device. He uses a laptop at school. So when he does write, it very, very messy. It is very, very messy. Often do we write but how often do we write genuinely when think i mean i genuinely when i think i mean i make odd scribble during the day. We can write, ill write a thank you letter after a birthday or christmas, and pretty that it. And what pretty much that is it. And what youre doing is youre, youre assigning the handwriting skill to the bin. To the bin. Yeah. If you dont let young people practise it or be able to do it, why isnt it being considered as a skill in itself to be able to handwrite something . Yeah. And also being able to write in detail under pressure is useful part in modern work, is a useful part in modern work, right . Still its still got right . Its still its still got on on finger from it. On on my finger from it. True. Yeah. Thats true. Yeah. Thats true. Yeah. Do have to moderate my i do have to moderate my writing write a birthday writing when i write a birthday card because write usually card because i write usually so fast. Time. Yeah, but fast. All the time. Yeah, but the who is promoting the gentleman who is promoting this, hughes, chief exec this, colin hughes, chief exec of which is the biggest this, colin hughes, chief exec of board, h is the biggest this, colin hughes, chief exec of board, says the biggest this, colin hughes, chief exec of board, says we biggest this, colin hughes, chief exec of board, says we went st this, colin hughes, chief exec of board, says we went from exam board, says we went from quills to fountain pens to biros and working on laptop is the next step in the digital age. Its an extension. Yeah, but there might be privacy issues of what can teachers get access to when theyre talking about pupils, laptops can you pupils, personal laptops can you install a device on there that basically writes it for you . I think very often pupils know a lot more about technology than teachers do do. And it teachers do do. And is it possible download something possible to download something thats hidden there thats quite hidden on there thats quite hidden on there thats carrying out the thats just carrying out the answers translating it, answers for you . Translating it, tidying words . There is tidying up the words . There is another to you another side to it that you start looking at those students with special Educational Needs and brings them to the and this brings them up to the to same level theyre to the same level theyre not expected handwrite if they expected to handwrite if they find difficult. It may be that its much and it may be that its much better and to be more inclusive for them to be able to compete on same level their on the same level as their peers, have to have peers, they dont have to have any extra time. For example, theyre not going to get marked down their handwriting is down if their handwriting is particularly bad. Think particularly bad. So i think from that side of it, we should embrace this. Well, what would you if well, what would you do if youre or a headmaster youre a teacher or a headmaster and youre giving out punishments have punishments if they still have punishments if they still have punishments nowadays punishments at school nowadays and youre saying, know, do and youre saying, you know, do and youre saying, you know, do a thousand lines on, i must not be school homes or be late for school homes or whatever happens to do whatever it happens to be. Do they still give lines nowadays . No, no , dont think they do. No, no, i dont think they do. Do do how do they punish . Do they . Do how do they punish . Probably hate crime or probably a hate crime or something. Now to people go something. Now to give people go to detention you an to detention and you write an essay why shouldnt essay on why you shouldnt answer essay on why you shouldnt ans i � er essay on why you shouldnt ansi had to do that. I had to i had to do that. I had to detention. I didnt go to detention. I didnt go to detention. I didnt go to detention. I to write for detention. I had to write for sides of a4. On why i felt i had the right to be different, but because i was wearing a Different School jumper and i took this as a great big challenge and wrote five pages and handed it in and was very, very disappointed when it was just ripped up in front of me and put the bin. And put in the bin. Did not even red, not even read it, even read. That was punishment. Evil one, punishment. Thats an evil one, to yeah. Yeah to be fair. Yeah. Yeah its a good punishment. I told you how got detention, told you how i got detention, didnt it . Yeah, i got detention simply masked simply because a masked gunman came with petrol came on my bus with petrol bombs. Set the bus on fire, blew it up, and i went to the headmaster as i arrived late for school and the bus blew up in the background. And i said to the background. And i said to the background. And i said to the president of the college, father , i said, that was the bus father, i said, that was the bus im on. But its okay, father. Im on. But its okay, father. Im all right. Okay. And he said, detention an didnt say a uk. Heres a councillor for the uk. Heres a councillor for the next three years to check on your Mental Health or anything. Youre in trouble. How very dare you be late for college. That was it. And off. That was it. And off. I cant follow that. I cant follow that. Thats absolutely what im saying. That puts my staggering, doesnt . Hes alive too. Heard. I heard. I heard. Was nice . Isnt speaking. Was he nice . Isnt speaking. I was man of the cloth. I was man of the cloth. I sat. I sat with another 60 plus year old guy on saturday night and we were talking about our school experience. And he formed part of the formed a big part of the conversation. So we did. Conversation. So we did. But rate that as a ruled with a rod of iron. But however much do you know or not know . Look, he is who he is. You know, the thing is that he kept the school separate from the civil disturbance that was going around. So there no going on around. So there was no excuse. Schoolwork went ahead, school went ahead , and we school went ahead, and we couldnt come up with those masks , gunmen riot out in masks, gunmen or a riot out in the street or whatever it is. That it. That was it. That good in a way. Well, that was good in a way. On top that its good to. Well, look, theres so much awful around really awful news around really, really harrowing what we harrowing stuff. So what we really need is a disastrous threat the human race. A e to threat to the human race. A e to cheer us up. Yes, we do. Yes, we do. Interest in an ancient any interest in an ancient zombie virus . You may. Theres a lot of Stanley Tucci drama that was on sky atlantic a few years ago where the virus appeared after mammoth steve frosted. And its actually coming into fruition, you believe fruition, if you believe virologist Jean Michel Claverie , virologist Jean Michel Claverie, who says frozen neanderthal corpses could harbour deadly disease houses which are defrosting as the ice melts because of climate change. Its always climate change, isnt it . And this has already happened in cyber. And this has already happened in cyber. Yeah. In 2016, where cyber. Yeah. In 2016, where deadly anthrax spores killed a child and thousands of reindeer because they defrosted. I thought anthrax was manmade i and apparently it well, it is. But its also appeared out of the ice as well. Maybe a previous reincarnation of it. But all youve got to do to avoid the virus is steer clear of dead neanderthals. Mammoth wool, siberian mummies. I dont wool, siberian mummies. I dont know if youve got any of those in in around the building. Prehistoric wolves and the lungs of ancient influenza victims is buned of ancient influenza victims is buried in alaskas permafrost. Gosh. Gosh. So i dont know whether you get of that in the dressing get much of that in the dressing with a wet market in wuhan. But, you know , these things but, you know, these things travel, stay in the house. Thats thats the end game for everyone. But on a serious point of view, i could see how you reawaken things. Maybe theres some benefit for mankind. I have no idea. But for mankind. I have no idea. But the chances are we are literally dicing with death here. Yes. Yes yes. Yes we obviously have these heatwaves. Leave it alone. What im trying to say. What im trying to say. Why . Why . Why are we talking right with this sort of i think there been issues where there have been issues where scientists invaded the scientists have invaded the decayed of animals decayed bodies of these animals and viruses , and messed around with viruses, as you saw with wuhan. And messed around with viruses, as you this with wuhan. And messed around with viruses, as you this isth wuhan. And messed around with viruses, as you this is a wuhan. And messed around with viruses, as you this is a casean. And messed around with viruses, as you this is a case that this but this is a case that this is the ice is melting and these beasts are re reawakening these viruses. No, sorry. Viruses. No, sorry. Lets talk about sorry. Lets talk about sorry. Lets talk about sorry. You were i wanted to go to the story because the peter bone story because i dont like had enough dont feel like its had enough Coverage Program so far coverage on our program so far this morning. And it really is some quite significant allegations but some quite significant alle independent but some quite significant alle independent parliamentary the independent parliamentary inquiry possibly going to suspend him for six weeks. What for clare . Right. This is so peter bone, the member of parliament for wellingborough , has been found wellingborough, has been found to have committed bullying at and sexual acts against a staffer. These do date back for staffer. These do date back for sort of nine years or so and it was quite interesting when you look into the time frame of this. The complainant had registered their complaints with conservative Central Office who said that they might look into it. And then when the independent complaints and grievances scheme was set up within parliament, that individual , within parliament, that individual, having had no movement on this, went to them, but they couldnt investigate it because cchq was still investigating it. So its complicated in that respect, but it does seem like its some pretty bad behaviour, some pretty, um, what would border on sort of almost Sexual Assault type behaviour in standing rooms . What happened was that i mean there was a sustained period of kind of targeting him, belittling, throwing objects, getting other members of staff to throw objects. And a particular incident happened when couldnt get the shower when he couldnt get the shower to work and he naked he to work and he was naked and he called staffer in and the called the staffer in and the staff was trying help him staff was trying to help him with genitals. Alia were with his genitals. Alia were near face and that near the staffers face and that was be and that wasnt was deemed to be and that wasnt in parliament. Lets just make this abundantly this an abundantly clear. This was on an all Party Parliamentary group and hotel in and this was in a hotel room in madrid. Kind of beg the madrid. Does kind of beg the question why backbench question as to why a backbench mp taken their aide to mp had taken their aide to something this. Wasnt Something Like this. He wasnt on business. On official business. And i think that this is really dangerous. Its now up to the Standards Committee to see if they can uphold this and then it will go through to a vote of the house of commons as to whether a six suspension required. Six week suspension is required. Now if that takes place and the motion then a recall motion carries, then a recall petition can be issued in the wellingborough constituency and you are potentially looking at another by election. Is another by election. So this is another by election. So this is a massive headache for the Prime Minister in that respect. But minister in that respect. But also shows you that the also just shows you that the behaviour in westminster is still there. It has still gone on and no one has dealt with it, although he denies the allegations, he does absolutely deny the allegations. See happens from lets see what happens from that vote. Okay so andy, my two year old granddaughter here is absolutely obsessed with paw patrol. Obsessed with paw patrol. Oh, right. Oh, right. Cartoon series. Who isnt . And but we now are dealing with a paw, a shoot as in a parachute. A paw, a shoot as in a parachute a. A paw, a shoot as in a parachute , a military hand. Tell us more. This is in the sun. Yeah, we i think we put the image on screen. This is an image on screen. This is an image in the sun of a dog. Dog, an alsatian, which is jumping out of an aeroplane with a paratrooper and the dog , if you paratrooper and the dog, if you can put it on screen, has its own parachute and it has its own mask and its own uniform. And ill have to describe it to you. And whats incredible about it is the mask fits over the dogs head, over ears , and its head, over its ears, and its got breathing equipment because obviously be able obviously dogs need to be able to breathe as they descend as well. Well. Were just getting a picture. It was middle. Oh, look, it was in the middle. Oh, look, bigger than that. Bigger one than that. Its important to say but its important to say that they that this wasnt just they werent just this for fun. Werent just doing this for fun. This is actually part of search and rescue training dogs where dogs are absolutely invaluable when it comes to search and rescue, especially in mountainous areas. So this is the Turkish Gendarmerie general command. They were doing their training to get the dogs used to it and acclimatise. They dont panic in situations like that, but its pretty impressive stuff. Hes got a little goggles on and a little helmet. The dog, not the on a camera and a camera i hes got his own gopro. Hes got his own gopro. I wonder how they get dogs into this. Like, did you jump off the top of a what did you jump off the top of a what did you jump off the top of a wardrobe first . I mean, how do you how did you begin to train a dog like that presumably is all about trust with their owner. Dog will do theyll do a dog will do anything for their owner. Certain going to be certain breeds are going to be all about food, anything for food. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So i really saw a lovely pictures that much bigger than the ones that you were showing there. Then course, there. But then of course, theres when comes to getting theres when it comes to getting them, i cant where they them, i cant see where they are. And you cant even get a cat to outside in the rain. But to go outside in the rain. But you can get a get a dog to jump out of an aeroplane. You out of an aeroplane. Are you beingam, yeah. I am, yeah. I am, yeah. Cats. Cats. Ive got not having it. Ive got not having it. So theres there there the so theres there there is the picture. Theres picture we picture. Theres the picture we were looking looking for there. Right. So you see the dog with its on its visors, its its helmet on its visors, its goggles. There attached goggles. There and then attached to parachute well. So to the parachute as well. So these these are using dogs these are these are using dogs of war, really, i suppose , what of war, really, i suppose, what its it is. But anyway, its what it is. But anyway, there you are. You get the idea. Paw patrol in real life, if you want to get kids reading newspapers, this is the kind of thing you need to in their thing you need to get in their paw patrol. Yeah. Okay from paw yeah. Yeah. Okay from paw patrol to one direction. Yes no, as it turns out. Isabel. Yes there was i on the plane last week going to belfast. Not with last wednesday. Not with last wednesday. And as i was getting out, my son said to me, oh, dad, liam payne was behind you. I said, why didnt you tell me . Liam payne was behind me . He said, oh, i didnt think you knew him. I them all. I knew them all i knew them all. I knew them all right. So liam payne was there and he was doing he went, he was doing a number of things in northern exactly Northern Ireland, know exactly what, tourism what, but he was doing a tourism thing. Tell us why thing. But claire, tell us why hes in trouble. Well, this is. He was clocked out 43 miles an hour in a 30 zone and got four points on his licence, which took him up under the process to 12 overall. So therefore its an automatic losing, losing your your driving licence. So it does beg the licence. So it does beg the question , how bad has his question, how bad has his driving been previous . See if driving been previous . See if this one tipped him over the edge to take him above 12 points on his licence. It easily done. It easily done. It easily done. I know somebody whos a virtuous driver and most matters and just when she drives to work early in the morning, the roads are empty. She thinks she can just exceed the speed limit because theres no one else about and it gets her into trouble. But this girl, this was a long time ago. This is we use the word allegedly around girl allegedly around that girl allegedly around that girl allegedly got trouble allegedly got into trouble a long time ago. But hes pretty bad, end up with 12 bad, isnt it, to end up with 12 points your that is points on your licence that is constantly breaking. How many points do you know how many points i have on my licence . Tell us some. So homes i have zero. Bye. Bye, some. So homes i have zero. Bye. Byethank you very much. Heres thank you very much. Heres alex with your. Weather morning. Im alex deakin. Morning. Im alex deakin. This is your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. For many its a fine day today, but the rest of this week looks very wet indeed, thanks to storm babette pushing its way slowly northwards. Its its way slowly northwards. Its going to bring bands of heavy rain that become quite slow moving later this week. And the real threat of some flooding and disruption. So we do have disruption. So we do have a number of met Office Yellow warnings in place. See the met Office Website for the details of those. Back to the details of of those. Back to the details of todays weather as said, todays weather as i said, for most its fine day. A bit of a most its a fine day. A bit of a chilly start. Touch of frost in places, sunny spells for most of scotland and northern england. Sunshine though, scotland and northern england. Sunshi cloud though, scotland and northern england. Sunshi cloud thickens. Though, scotland and northern england. Sunshi cloud thickens. Somejh, as the cloud thickens. Some patchy the southwest patchy rain in the Far Southwest at cornwall, somerset , at devon, cornwall, somerset, maybe pembrokeshire as well. Maybe pembrokeshire as well. Some showers across the northern isles. Also a feel as the isles. Also a chilly feel as the breeze , particularly in the breeze, particularly in the south, strengthen , south, starts to strengthen, could get quite blustery over parts of wales and southwest england and the rain tracking northwards turn heavy northwards could turn heavy tonight parts of northern tonight across parts of Northern Ireland and then work into the western scotland. And further western scotland. And further showers will then start to develop across the south and then generally tomorrow, a cloudy day with outbreaks of rain, certainly many central and western parts , parts of the east western parts, parts of the east may well stay dry, but the winds strengthening and that rain getting heavier and could cause some problems across parts of Northern Ireland. But later in the week, across many parts of the week, across many parts of the uk, temperatures again struggling in the mid teens and feeling colder with the wind. Goodbye. Rain feeling colder with the wind. Goodbye. Rain. Feeling colder with the wind. Goodbye. Rain. Scenes from gaza goodbye. Rain. Scenes from gaza over the middle east. Will aid be able to reach those in need . Live shots from the israeli gaza border as fighting with hamas continues. Fighting with hamas continues. Good morning. Welcome to the program. Its just gone 9 00 in the uk. Its tuesday , the 17th the uk. Its tuesday, the 17th of october, and youre tuned in to breakfast on gb news with eamonn anna sewell. We have been covering so far this morning stories such as this morning stories such as this that the american president , biden , will visit president , joe biden, will visit israel tomorrow reaffirm us israel tomorrow to reaffirm us solidarity and negotiate an opening of the gaza border. Our reporter Charlie Peters is there in israel. Fighting restarts on in israel. Fighting restarts on the border with lebanon and in the border with lebanon and in the south, the humanitarian disaster is extending further amid reports of bombings overnight. To british teenagers overnight. To british teenagers are being held hostage by hamas. In gaza, sisters noya and yahel are from a kibbutz where their mother, leanne was murdered on the 7th of october. Their father, eli, is also missing. According to belgian news sources , the perpetrator of news sources, the perpetrator of last nights terror attack in brussels has been shot and killed. This morning. Hes been described as a 45 year old man of tunisian origin in this comes after two swedish nationals were murdered and another man injured last night. Last night. And alex deakin. Well have your forecast as were expecting storms later this week. Good morning. A cold start in places , but for most a fine day places, but for most a fine day today , however, very wet weather today, however, very wet weather is on the way. Later this week from storm babette. Ill have a from storm babette. Ill have a full forecast later on. Ive been very good at joining in our discussions telling us about having your tonsils out. Were saying if you do, it leads to a new study saying it can lead to arthritis. Saying it can lead to arthritis. Lynn said, i had my tonsils out at 23. That was in 1967. And the nhs said my tonsils werent that bad , even though i had repeated bad, even though i had repeated sore throats and time off work after the operation, my surgeon told me that once had cut told me that once they had cut the tonsils, they could see they were very badly infected. And. Were very badly infected. And. But how your knees. Thats the question. Then today. Question. Then today. Here we go. Keep those thoughts coming in. Vaiews gbnews. Com or you can tweet at. Gb news with the tweet us at. Gb news with the latest on whats going on in belgium. First of all, this this shooting last night, it led to the postponed of the belgium, sweden euro qualifier that was that was going on. It was abandoned half time. Mark white is with us now to tell us. So, mark, first of all, were heanng mark, first of all, were hearing the guy was discovered , hearing the guy was discovered, found this morning and shot dead. Then found this morning and shot dead. Then were hearing he wasnt shot dead. He was alive. Now were hearing he is dead. What are you hearing . Yeah, dead, apparently yeah, still dead, apparently he was shot dead or at least shot and very significantly injured. Taken to hospital where doctors worked on him for some time. But he has now, according to belgium prosecutors, been been declared dead. Now, this is a man, 45 year old abdul salam le sud, a tunisian Asylum Seeker who posted a video that has now been widely circulated that suggested that he was carrying out these deadly attacks in revenge , partly in revenge for revenge, partly in revenge for the murder of palestinian teenager in the us. You see video there of this man wearing an orange fluorescent top carrying an automatic rifle targeting these swedish football players. We understand in his players. We understand in his video, just before carrying out this attack. Also, he said that he was acting on behalf of the Islamic State, isis , the Islamic State, isis, the terrorist group, which was , you terrorist group, which was, you know, largely degraded. Of course , by western powers in course, by western powers in syria. And iraq after a number of deadly attacks that this terror group was behind. And terror group was behind. And also some suggestions from authorities that hed been inspired by issues in sweden at the moment. What are the issues in sweden . Well, they are grappling with a very significant immigration, anissue a very significant immigration, an issue relating to Asylum Seekers , a very significant seekers, a very significant surge in crime that people have directly attributed to the influx of Asylum Seekers. There have been protests, quran burnings , which has enraged many burnings, which has enraged many people in the muslim world and we know that the two victims who died last night were wearing swedish football tops. And weve been here before , and weve been here before, havent we, with copycat incidents spreading across europe when it comes to sort of jihad kind of attacks. We jihad kind of attacks. We obviously had this attack in in france last week where a School Teacher was stabbed multiple times and killed a school at times and killed in a school at 11 00 in the morning. And three other adults seriously hurt there. Something in hartlepool in uk as well over the in the uk as well over the weekend is this in any way unked weekend is this in any way linked to what were seeing, do you think, in the middle east . Is this heightening tensions at the moment . Well, it may well be with regard to incident in regard to the incident at in hartlepool, still at the early stages, it is being investigated by Counter Terrorism police. 70 year old man who was fatally stabbed on sunday, the early hours of sunday in an area next to property that was housing Asylum Seekers is a 44 year old man has been arrested and charged in connection with this death. Another man was injured in this incident. Also so as you said, the incidents in france where a teacher was stabbed to death, three others injured, related to a chechen asylum seeken related to a chechen Asylum Seeker, again believed to be believed to have been motivated by events in the middle east. Police and Security Services across europe, in the United States on high alert at the moment for the potential for there to be terrorist related incidents directly connected, or at least those carrying out the attacks , suggesting that theyve attacks, suggesting that theyve been motivated did by the events in israel and gaza at the moment. So some real concern in with the authorities on high alert. Alert. And just to be clear, the Terror Threat hasnt changed in the uk. Its been raised in belgium. In light of what happened, the horrific attack yesterday. But but here it remains the terrorist remains is, yeah, the terrorist threat level in the uk is always under review by the joint terrorism analysis centre. Jay tak and they have not as yet decided to raise the Terror Threat level in this country. It was lowered a while back actually to its lowest level for quite some time to substantial, which is at the medium point on the scale , meaning an attack is the scale, meaning an attack is likely it been at severe before that , likely it been at severe before that, meaning an attack was highly likely. That, meaning an attack was highly likely. So its not been highly likely. So its not been raised at the moment, but youre right to say that in the belgian capital, in brussels , as it has capital, in brussels, as it has been raised to its highest level in other parts of brussels, its been raised to the or other parts of belgium , i should say. Parts of belgium, i should say. Its been raised to the second highest level. And i say right across europe , some real concern across europe, some real concern about what might happen in the days ahead, especially as the ground operation moves fonnard in gaza. In gaza. Thank you, mark. Thank you. Believe it there. So two events in the middle east. At least 49 palestinians have been killed overnight with israeli airstrikes , says the gazan airstrikes, says the gazan interior minister. First responders have to travel through Hazardous Conditions to get to victims , and sometimes get to victims, and sometimes they get too close to that danger. Dangen and heres what happened after one of those strikes. Just want to warn you, this may contain this may offend you by some the disturbing images. Some of the disturbing images. In. This. If you are listening on the radio, just worth pointing out, you can see all of our video footage either on our website or on our app. And overnight developments. And overnight developments. American President Joe Biden will visit the middle east on wednesday. Hell meet leaders in the region as he tries to avoid an escalation in this crisis. Well, the Us Administration is heavily pushing for an opening of the egypt gaza border to allow International Citizens out and crucial aid in. The Israeli Energy minister has previously stated that hamas must First Release the 199 hostages it holds before israel allows that aid to cross the border. Border. Well, more than 2750 people in gaza have been killed in retaliatory strikes by israel, which is also blocking fuel, water, food and medicine from entering the territory. The United Nations is appealing for aid to be allowed into gaza. Into gaza. An update in the number of people that israel believes are being held by hostage being held hostage. That is gone up from hostage. That is gone up from 155 to 199. As we are reporting this morning, they were kidnapped when those hamas gunmen infiltrate israel just over a week ago , killing more over a week ago, killing more than 1400 people. Well, the Israeli Military insists that the targets are hamas infrastructure and not civilians. Lets bring you now civilians. Lets bring you now some of the footage that has just come into gb news from gaza. And we can see in this medics pulling survivors or those who at the moment have managed to survive it under the rubble of a building that was destroyed overnight. We know 49 people died there, men, women and children have been pulled out alive and carried away on stretchers to waiting ambulances. But then there is the problem of the hospitals there being ovennhelmed, running out of resources, difficulties for doctors. Theyre having to make life or death decisions about which patients to treat. Which patients to treat. What youre looking at is a place called khan younis, south of gaza, where many thousands of people fled to after israel instructed those in the north to head south for safety. Head south for safety. Gazas interior ministry say that at least 49 palestinians were killed in this particular strike that hit homes in khan younis and rafah , while the younis and rafah, while the israeli and israeli ambassador yesterday saying that there is no civilian crisis in gaza, an and talking about whats been implemented in Southern Gaza, even though security sources in egypt have said a deal has been reached to allow foreigners out of the besieged palestinian enclave and aid to be brought in. M in. In central in. In central tel in. In central tel aviv, okay. In central tel aviv, doctors are still working around the to care for hundreds the clock to care for hundreds of the seriously injured in of the most seriously injured in places like sheba. Medic centre. But there is criticism of the Israeli Government for not doing enough to support medical facilities. Charlie peters with this from tel aviv. Tel aviv. Every hour, more patients arrive from the frontline of israels war on hamas. Already israels war on hamas. Already strained by the casualties. The Sheba Medical Centre is prepping for an imminent full scale invasion of gaza. This intensive invasion of gaza. This intensive care unit has had to draft in volunteers. The feeling here is volunteers. The feeling here is that the government is not doing enough. The government doesnt really care about the people here, so were here to support them. A lot of people are coming here and they constantly want to help. All of us are helping. Were like a giant community of helpers, army. Helpers, like a giant army. War started, the when the war started, the Sheba Medical Centre opened this brand new intensive care facility. Since then its been in constant use. Half of the in constant use. Half of the patients are civilians, the rest are soldiers. For more patients are civilians, the rest are soldiers. For more than nine days, life has hung in the balance for many of the civilians brought here. Victims of the attack by Hamas Terrorists on communities in southern israel. They are southern israel. They are traumatised , injured and traumatised, injured and suffering horrendous. Burns this suffering horrendous. Burns this family hid from hamas in their basement shelter, unable to find them. The terrorists set fire to their house. They survived. The their house. They survived. The youngest, a baby of just 18 youngest, a baby ofjust 18 months, has burns acrosst 30 of her body. She my sister and my family with a lot of braves, fight with them with the hands they are is not good condition. They are is not good condition. But we are. We are want to say thank god about that. They get inside and they hear us now. But the director of the burns unit believes that the worst is yet to come. Yet to come. Ive never seen such a slaughter. Its not even, you slaughter. Its not even, you know , its inhuman. I dont know know, its inhuman. I dont know how to say it. And it touches every one of us. I lost two of. My two of my friends kids already in battle. So its hard two of my friends kids already in battle. So its hard. Two of my friends kids already in battle. So its hard. And, in battle. So its hard. And, you know, when i have a minute out of here, we go to funerals. Out of here, we go to funerals. Every israeli knows the mission to end hamas will not come without more pain and suffering. There will be more suffering. There will be more wounded and lives cut short in the worst violence israel has seen for 50 years. More civilians and soldiers will be sent to this hospital. A medical facility that is preparing for a long war. Charlie peters gb news israel. Well lets get the latest from our reporter Charlie Peters and all expectation now on the arrival of the president of the United States to where you are tomorrow. Yes. And he you are tomorrow. Yes. And he comes at a critical moment in this conflict as the humanity banan this conflict as the humanity barian situation in the south really is descending into a disaster. For the last few days, disaster. For the last few days, the un has described the situation as untenable and has described the spectre of death looming over Southern Gaza. We heard earlier this morning that reports of airstrikes from the israeli side on the city of younis khan overnight, killing some 49 people. The idf also released some footage this morning of its naval capabilities striking gaza from the sea , really affirming that the sea, really affirming that air, sea and land comprehensive blockade and military action they are conducting. But this is surprising to many that they are targeting Southern Gaza because they need civilians to move from they need civilians to move from the north to the south before they start that likely invasion in in the north. But if they are bombing the south, many analysts in the region and International Observers are saying how can you expect civilians to move away from if are going from the north if you are going to the place you are to bomb the place you are expecting them in the expecting them to flee to in the north, the situation is also escalating. In the last hour, escalating. In the last hour, weve had reports of Lebanese Hezbollah firing rockets onto the northern town of metula. This town was evacuated 72 hours ago as the as the israeli side extended their evacuation zone by two miles, writing off the whole Northern Region as a military evacuation zone, as the skirmishes escalate between hezbollah and the israeli side, they also released some footage they also released some footage the israelis this morning of them, what they what they claim to be four terrorists from hezbollah trying to put an explosive device on the border. Explosive device on the border. They strike them with a drone from the air thats in footage they have released. Weve also had reports just in the last ten minutes that a british girl has been confirmed murdered by hamas , a 13 year old girl, along with her mother. So a very serious situation escalating here in israel , very much indeed. Israel, very much indeed. But what of the humanitarian side to all of this . Joining us now, human rights lawyer harjit singh bhangal al hajar. Now, human rights lawyer harjit singh bhangal al hajar. What do singh bhangal al hajar. What do you make of what youre seeing and how this whole situation is developing . Well there are no winners in war, and i think ultimately, you know, anyone whos lived through or participated in a war will tell you that this is exactly whats happening. I mean, youve got people starving, being starved of food, electricity, water to on the other hand, youve got terrorist organisations going in, Holding People captive. It is exactly people captive. It is exactly like charlie said, a spectre of death hanging over everyone. And death hanging over everyone. And its not going to end well. It its not going to end well. It hasnt started well and theres a lot more to come already theres 5000 people murdered and thousands thousand children , thousands thousand children, thousands thousand children, thousands women, seven, 17,000 homes have been destroyed. Homes have been destroyed. Thats at least 17,000 families homeless , 80,000 residential homeless, 80,000 residential units have been destroyed. Once again, thats another 80,000 people homeless. Safe corridors, people homeless. Safe corridors, which were allegedly created. Theyve been bombed. I mean, yesterday i read about a safe corridor that people were told to go to and then it was bombed and 70 people were killed. There so once again, like charlie, once theres lot once again said, theres a lot of confusion that youre telling people were going to bomb a certain area. Youre giving them notice. Were going to bomb a certain and its you know, certain area. And its you know, youre bombing the area where theyre supposed to go to. And equally hamas, you know, the equally, hamas, you know, the israelis will argue, well, its more notice than what hamas gave us. And thats true. So there absolutely are no winners. Youre going to see huge people displaced. And happening displaced. And whats happening is collective innocents are being for wars started being punished for wars started by adults. You just get the by adults. You just get the feeling that if it was mandatory for these adults who decide these wars or to go to war, for their children to be on the front line first, that this would all be resolved , you know, would all be resolved, you know, very amicably and thered be no need for war. But its always easy to do it with other peoples children and other peoples children and other peoples lives as opposed to your own. Yeah, child dying every yeah, one child dying every 15 since this all broke 15 minutes since this all broke out on the of october, which out on the 7th of october, which is really chilling statistic , is a really chilling statistic, frankly. But, you know, weve heard the british Prime Minister, the americans , the minister, the americans, the european defending European Union defending israels right to defend itself. They suffered horrific terror attacks. Weve heard the parallels with everything thats happened, the worst incidents since the holocaust, and yet at the United Nations have come out and said what israels been doing in gaza does not comply with International Law. Is that your interpretation. Your interpretation. Well, that that is the actual the situation at the moment that every country has a right to defend itself. What you dont have is a right to collectively punish a whole nation or innocent for the crimes of a few. So lets go back to say the troubles and the ira. Lets compare it with the ira killed 1700 people. But that does not give britain or britain didnt carpet bomb all of ireland or didnt say, right, were going to come in and thats it. Were going to take over ireland. They have to deal with this. The response has to be appropriate and to be measured. So and has to be measured. So thats thats the equivalent thats thats the equivalent that use. Britains been that i would use. Britains been through britain suffered through this. Britain suffered terrorism 40 years, terrorism for, what, 40 years, 50 years, even more, perhaps 70 years. So britain knows about this. A lot of countries know about this. But the response once again, is not to send all the artillery in and just carpet bomb in your path and bomb anyone in your path and destroy homes and disperse people. Are these people people. Where are these people to go . Going to to going go . Theyre going to cross border. To going go . Theyre going to crosthe border. To going go . Theyre going to crosthe question weve got to the question weve got to leave thank very leave it there. Thank you very much for raising that in much indeed for raising that in your analysis. We really appreciate the break. Appreciate it. We hit the break. When we come back, Liam Halligan on in the middle on how the crisis in the middle east affecting the prices at east is affecting the prices at the pumps and how heating your home is affected as well. That home is affected as well. That and wages n ext just next just want to drop in on a press conference thats been held this morning by family members of maya shem who was kidnapped by hamas following the release of a video. But they say it shows maya in captivity. Are we going maya in captivity. Are we going to see this . There it is. I heard i heard before rumours that she was shot in. Anyway were going to be speaking in english, i think. So. We can probably listen in. She was shot in her shoulder. I see. She had an operation. She she looks very terrified. And she looks very terrified. And she looks very terrified. And she looks very terrified. And she looks like shes in big pain in and i can see that shes saying what they tell her to say , but took place this morning. We now come back to the studio here. It appears weve only got a minute and a half or so to talk about how what is going on in the middle east is impacting the price of oil. Impacting the price of oil. Well, the price of oil has been going up sharply since the summer. Summer. Lets just have a quick look at some graphics here. Oil has gone up from about 70 a barrel to 90 a barrel since june. Gone up from about 70 a barrel to 9calmostl since june. Gone up from about 70 a barrel to 9c almost a since june. Gone up from about 70 a barrel to 9c almost a 30 e june. Gone up from about 70 a barrel to 9c almost a 30 e juneand thats almost a 30 rise. And that, of course , has ramped up that, of course, has ramped up petrol and diesel prices. Petrol, theyre up to £1. 56 a litre from 147 diesel up even more from 145 a litre to 162. Thats from june until now. But why are Oil Prices Rising . Eamonn and isabel . One reason is what we call the opec exporters cartel , the organisation of cartel, the organisation of Petroleum Exporting countries. Theyre working with russia. Theyre working with russia. Theyre working with russia. Theyre deliberately restricting supply to push up oil prices, put pressure on Oil Importers from the west, make more money from the west, make more money from themselves. But then on top of that, weve got this instability in the middle east between israel and hamas. Now, between israel and hamas. Now, israel doesnt produce any oil , israel doesnt produce any oil, but it could lead to instability, particularly if iran, a key player, closes what we call the straits of hormuz. This is a map of the gulf through 30 of the worlds oil. Through 30 of the worlds oil. Every day is taken in tankers through those straits of hormuz between iran and oman. Will iran close the straits of hormuz . In close the straits of hormuz . In fact, they are now saying that the iranians, that they could start a war on another front. They back hezbollah in lebanon. They back hezbollah in lebanon. They back hezbollah in lebanon. They back hezbollah in lebanon. They back hamas. If they take on the us by trying to pinch global oil supplies. Im afraid this oil supplies. Im afraid this conflict and oil prices could escalate. Well, weve got to bring it to a close. Thank you very much indeed. Thanks for your attention this morning. Back again tomorrow from 6 00. More from that press conference in britains newsroom. N ext next its 930 on tuesday, the 17th of october. This is britains newsroom on gb news. With me, bev turner and emily carver this morning. It is now humanitarian crisis. More than 2750 people in gaza have been killed in retaliatory strikes by israel. Its also strikes by israel. Its also blocking fuel, water, food and medical supplies from entering the territory. The un is deep in negotiations to get the first aid into gaza. Joe biden to visit israel. The us president is going tomorrow to reaffirm us solidarity and negotiate an opening of the border to get civilians out and aid in seven brits dead, nine missing. As the war continues , british as the war continues, british citizens continue to be caught in the conflict and its just been confirmed that a 13 year old british girl missing in the hamas attack has been confirmed dead. A terrorist shot dead. The