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Man believed to be responsible for killing two swedish people in brussels last night in which he claims he was inspired by the Islamic State group has been shot dead in cafe this shot dead in a cafe this morning. Should we be worried about further terrorism in europe . Europe . And could we see a rare red weather warning, which means a danger to life . Storm babbitt is set to hit the uk tomorrow, but should we take these warnings . Well debate that. Well debate that. Let us know your thoughts this morning. Vaiews gbnews. Com is the email address. As always. First, though, with the very latest headlines, its Aaron Armstrong. Armstrong. Hi, there it is. 931. Good morning to you. Im Aaron Armstrong in the newsroom. At armstrong in the newsroom. At least 49 people have been killed by israeli airstrikes in Southern Gaza overnight. Southern gaza overnight. Palestinian Authorities Say the attacks took place in younis khan and at the rafah Border Crossing where the Israeli Military have told civilians to take refuge. Israel believes take refuge. Israel believes 600,000 residents have now left northern gaza ahead of what it says will be enhanced military operations in the coming days. The us President Joe Biden, will land in tel aviv tomorrow to show support for israel. Hes also expected to meet arab leaders in an effort to prevent a wider conflict developing in the region. Iran has threatened to take pre emptive action against israel in the coming hours. Meanwhile, dozens of hours. Meanwhile, dozens of trucks carrying aid are waiting at the rafah crossing in Southern Gaza as diplomatic efforts to get people out and to get humanitarian aid in continue. Egypt which controls the crossing, has blamed israel for not cooperating. If a window can be agreed, its understood that only foreign nationals and gazans with dual nationality will be allowed to leave police in brussels have shot dead a gunman. Suspect of killing two swedish people last night. It happened ahead of an International Football match between belgium and sweden. A man who identified himself as a member of Islamic State claimed responsibility in a video posted online. Belgiums interior minister says that its good news the individual has been found. Shes also confirmed the weapon believed to have been used has been recovered. Wages used has been recovered. Wages are now rising faster than pnces are now rising faster than prices for the first time in nearly two years. Average regular earnings increased 7. 8 in the last three months, with the three months to august. The three months to august. Chancellor jeremy the three months to august. Chancellorjeremy hunt the three months to august. Chancellor jeremy hunt says the three months to august. Chancellorjeremy hunt says its chancellor jeremy hunt says its good news. Inflation is falling and the government will continue to half it. But the labour shadow chancellor says the conservatives are leaving working people worse off. More on all of our stories on our website gbnews. Com thats it for the moment. And now its back to emily and. Bev emily and. Bev very good morning. Its 930. Its me and emily this morning. Thank you for joining its me and emily this morning. Thank you forjoining us. So thank you for joining us. So more than 2750 people in gaza have been killed in retaliatory strikes by israel. The israeli strikes by israel. The Israeli Military says that the target targets are hamas infrastructure , not civilians, but 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. Thats right. Camp inside gaza. Thats right. Well for those of you who are listening on the radio, you are being spared some of the most astonishing pictures of absolute devastation. And were looking devastation. And were looking at the framework of buildings which remain after the insides of these properties have been completely obliterated. I dont completely obliterated. I dont know about you, emily, but im always surprised when you see people Walking Around. Were seeing some people in the images right now. Youve got wire cables coming from the centre of what remains of buildings. One what remains of buildings. One gentleman walking along with a sort of basket on his head. I imagine trying to scavenge for anything that might be retrievable from these pictures in the distance youve got plumes of what appears to be smoke. Theres a massive plume there of dark smoke billowing into the sky. Its just a scene of destruction. Fire in the corners and in the of the buildings there. And total, total destruction, total devastation. Just a ghost town remains after these sorts of attacks which have just obliterated entire communities. Well, us President Joe Biden will visit the middle east on wednesday. Yes, the us and ministration is heavily pushing for an opening of the egypt gaza border. To thats allow International Citizens out and aid in. Well, Charlie Peters joins us now from the ground in tel aviv. Good morning, tel aviv. Good morning , charlie. Tel aviv. Good morning, charlie. How are you . How are you coping out there . How are you bearing up . And whats the very latest on, well, central tel aviv came under heavy rocket attack yesterday. There were five evacuate as well. We were reporting on the ground, especially while we were in a medical centre to, in short, turnaround round there where we had to see people rush around the hospital to seek shelter, even serving idf soldiers returning from the front line , then kind of limping front line, then kind of limping towards the shelters around them. But the situation in central tel aviv, dangerous as it is, is in relative safety in comparison to those in the north and the south. Just in the last houn and the south. Just in the last hour, weve had reports from the border region of metula, a small town there right in the tip of israels Northern Region where there has been anti tank guided missile attacks. Claim missile attacks. The idf claim from Lebanese Hezbollah, the idf say that they have returned fire on the point of origin of that attack with artillery fire. And this represents an escalation in that Northern Region over the last 72 hours. Last night, the idf said that they had also drone strikes, a set of hezbollah terrorists. What they said were members of that group planting an explosive device on the border. And this comes as last night irans foreign minister said that iran and its proxies were ready to take pre emptive action within hours if the situation in gaza continues. They said that they would not be able to stand by while they accused Benjamin Netanyahu of committing war crimes in gaza. He said also crimes in gaza. He said also that all of irans proxies in the region, he referred to them as the resistance, were ready and standing by. So that particular region in the north certainly gaining more attention and almost certainly will become and almost certainly will become a proper front in this war should that region in the south become worse and that land invasion occur. But of course, invasion occur. But of course, we do have us President Joe Bidens visit tomorrow. Its bidens visit tomorrow. Its a realistic possibility that the israelis will reduce their bombardment of gaza and hold off on any potential plans to attack while he is here to conduct what is likely to be some urgent humanitarian diplomacy meeting. Also with leaders in jordan and egypt and the Palestinian Authority to try and secure further humanitarian aid in the south. But i think what were also going to see is that every single foreign leader whos come here has been forced to run into shelter. We saw our own foreign secretary, cleverly secretary, James Cleverly running into a shelter in southern israel. Anthony blinken did. And i think that did the same. And i think that the militants in gaza and also those the north will like to those in the north will like to see footage of President Joe Biden, of course, in later rage, now to run away from and now forced to run away from and take shelter from those strikes that they are conducting on israel day and night. Now, charlie washington is also trying to rally key arab states to help head off what could be a wider region, whole war. I understand, joe biden is also visiting jordan. Also visiting jordan. Thats right. Yes well, abdullah, the king, there has been instrumental in securing, first further diplomacy for humanitarian situations in the last 72 hours when he met with Prime Minister rishi sunak in number 10 downing street on sunday, he described the blockade as a war crime. And the next day rishi sunak did phone the president of the Palestinian Authority. So jordan, i think, has an underrated role in the humanitarian situation here. We havent had much conversation about the role its playing. It has a crucial oversight of the situation in jerusalem and is also a sort of Halfway House between the western powers , between the western powers, particularly the us and those other arab states. It is a close ally of the United Kingdom and the us and has access to people in the middle east that most diplomatic relations in the west just wouldnt be able to achieve so easily. But that will be particularly an urgent need that humanitarian diplomacy as the situation in Southern Gaza disintegrates into mayhem. 49 disintegrates into mayhem. 49 people reportedly killed in israeli airstrikes on the Southern City of younis khan overnight. And this comes as overnight. And this comes as people in north gaza are being told by the israelis, you have told by the israelis, you have to flee south. But at the same time, they are reportedly striking the south, asking people to flee into an area where they are putting bombs on the ground. So us secretary of state Antony Blinken , when he state Antony Blinken, when he was here last week, one of his goals was to secure humanitarian safe zones in the south. But so long as bombardments continue and Water Supplies are cut off and Water Supplies are cut off and humanitarian aid cannot cross in from the egyptian side, it seems unlikely that civilians will be safe as they are forced to flee towards that crossing. To flee towards that crossing. We were seeing the pictures yesterday, charlie, of people amassing at the border rafah amassing at the border at rafah with the border with egypt. Do we any news whether that we have any news on whether that border be opened to allow border might be opened to allow people to escape . People to escape . Well, there have been several times now that that the Us State Department has claimed that the rafah crossing is expected to open and on every single time that opening has not occurred. That opening has not occurred. In fact, weve seen the situation declining in another direction. Yesterday last night, while we were reporting from the Sheba Medical Centre reports came to us that shelling had actually landed around the Border Crossing the hamas , a Border Crossing the hamas, a hamas affiliated Radio Station in Southern Gaza, claimed that the israeli is launched that attack. They have, of course, denied it. We dont know who committed that shelling on the region. Unverified reports at this moment on who conducted that attack. But, you know, as many people are talking about that crossing opening and many foreign nationals move to try and attempt to get out of the gaza strip, a battle zone that is becoming intolerable , is becoming intolerable, according to the un. It does seem as though that any hopes of it opening are diminishing, and that will be key reason for us that will be a key reason for us President Joe Bidens visit. It is a key part of this american diplomacy, getting foreign nationals out of the gaza strip and providing aid to those who have to remain. Have to remain. Okay. Thank you, charlie. Well be going back to charlie throughout the morning there in tel aviv. So police in brussels have shot a expected to be have shot a man expected to be the gunman who killed two swedish monday swedish nationals on monday evening. Evening. Local media reported the yes, local media reported the man shot in cafe this man was shot in a cafe this morning. Morning. Brussels has been on its higher highest terror alert after mondays attack. So a question really, should we be worried about more terror attacks in europe . Major general chip chapman is a former head of counterterrorism and ministry of defence and middle east expert. And im delighted to say joins us now. Good to see you, chip. Should we be more worried chip. Should we be more worried at the moment about terrorists here in the uk . Here in the uk . Well, lets separate two things. Firstly , in the uk, the firstly, in the uk, the threat level is i think mark said earlier, is substantial. And if it were to rise to severe, that would be because jtac takes the view that there is enough background noise to mean that we need more protective security measures and to go to severe. And last time to go to severe. And last time we did actually was in we did that actually was in november 21st based on two attacks in europe and weve seen attacks in europe and weve seen at least two attacks in europe in the last week. The one in france in arras and the one yesterday in belgium. Now, the yesterday in belgium. Now, the tempo of those attacks in europe is also unusual in terms of the statistics. So the europol organisation gives you the stats on year on year. Last Year Organisation gives you the stats on year on year. Last year there on year on year. Last year there were only there were four People Killed in terrorist attacks in europe. Two were from jihadists and two were from right wing. Weve seen three People Killed in last week. Thats spike. This this attack in in in in brussels. Horrific week. But its not that unusual in belgium. 2018, a prisoner stabbed two female Police Officers is claimed responsibility. 2016 claimed responsibility. 2016 suicide bombers attacked a metro station airport. Also claimed by is that killed 32 people 2014 the Jewish Museum of belgium was targeted when a gunman opened fire. Three people dead. There and a fourth died due to injuries. This is becoming i dont want to say commonplace, but its becoming more and more frequent, is it not . Yeah. No. So youre using an availability heuristic because you recognise terrorist attacks which kill lots of people. You think theyre prevalent on a year on year basis. In fact, since the height of is most terrorist attacks in europe have been going down. But that doesnt mean that we should be complacent. And thats why, for example, belgian authorities complacent. And thats why, for examraised belgian authorities complacent. And thats why, for exam raised theirgian authorities complacent. And thats why, for exam raised their alertauthorities complacent. And thats why, for exam raised their alert levelities complacent. And thats why, for exam raised their alert level to s have raised their alert level to the top level as the french have done so. But youve got to be very, careful on the very, very careful on the statistics most the statistics. So most of the attacks in europe last year, statistics. So most of the attachereeurope last year, statistics. So most of the attachere 28, pe last year, statistics. So most of the attachere 28, what ;t year, statistics. So most of the attachere 28, what they|r, statistics. So most of the attachere 28, what they call there were 28, what they call failed, foiled or completed attacks in seven countries. Most of those were actually by left wing and anarchists. They werent jihadists. Wing and anarchists. They werentjihadists. Six wing and anarchists. They werent jihadists. Six of those 28 were jihadists. 28 were jihadists. Were learning more about about the suspect now. The Prime Minister, alexander de croo. Earlier, he said the suspect was a man tunisian origin who had a man of tunisian origin who had been country been living in the country illegally. He, the justice illegally. He, the Justice Minister, said he unsuccessfully sought asylum in belgium in november 2019. This often seems to be the case in europe that these people who go on to commit terrorist attacks are already known by the authorities. Is. Thats right. Its not actually a very good nomenclature , though, to say nomenclature, though, to say that people are known to authorities. So everyone whos actually been prison for any actually been to prison for any offence is known to authorities. Its would be its where they would be positioned the priority grid, positioned on the priority grid, the prioritisation grid in terms of Counter Terrorism, there is an issue, of course, of someone whos failed as an Asylum Seeker being then deported, and thats exactly what we saw was the problem. For example , in the in problem. For example, in the in the liverpool bombing in november 21st, which the recent report actually said that it wasnt a terrorist attack. It wasnt a terrorist attack. It was really more to do with grievances on immigration. An but we need to have a robust regime which takes those people out quickly. Im interested to hear you say, chipper, about the fact that these terrorist attacks have actually reduced in frequency. Why because theres no real nostalgia for is. Neither is nostalgia for is. Neither is a nostalgia for is. Neither is a nostalgia for is. Neither is a nostalgia for aik. Now, that nostalgia for aik. Now, that doesnt mean there arent going to be attacks in the future and in the near future if israel goes into gaza. And that is because you have to look at the what powers these sort of events. And its first one is a grievance. The second one is an grievance. The second one is an ideology and its actually been rare for is in recent attacks to be the named group. And that was the named group last night in belgium. So im sure that there will be more attacks if israel goes into gaza and we will be raising the threat level in in the uk. But you think they might be more what you might call a lone operative as opposed to somebody that got a big somebody that has got a Big Organisation them . Organisation behind them . Yeah. Yeah. So you have to separate. Then again, both how the execution of these attacks takes place. So these attacks takes place. So most of the attacks that weve seen taken place are those which its tragic, but dont kill many people. So bladed attacks people. So bladed weapon attacks are the prevalent attack at the moment in uk because in the uk , moment in uk because in the uk, certainly to try and get together a sophisticated plot powered from abroad with complex weapons and complex explosives is something which the authorities cant. Terrorist command m15 , gchq would probably command m15, gchq would probably find. And 99. 99. Find. And 99. 99. Thats very reassuring for people actually, that you say that. And when i said to you, why have these attacks gone down, i wondered to what extent it was that the ideology is weakening and that the cross border ideologies network is weakening, whether it weakening, but also whether it is the work of our Counter Terrorism services, which then are which youre then saying are doing job. Doing a very good job. They are. But you dont want to complain because like to be complain because like everything, of everything, there are lots of metrics can measure everything, there are lots of metriczon. Can measure everything, there are lots of metric on. One can measure everything, there are lots of metric on. One of an measure everything, there are lots of metric on. One of them easure everything, there are lots of metric on. One of them is;ure things on. One of them is lethality. Not many people have been that doesnt been killed, but that doesnt mean the number of investigations not still investigations is not still high. Is 800. It doesnt high. It is over 800. It doesnt mean the subjects of interest. Those who are on the radar of Counter Terrorist command is not high. It is thats increased ing. So, you know, you can choose you want to look at, choose what you want to look at, but is not harder to monitor but is it not harder to monitor almost these types of terror attacks it is a lone attacks where it is a lone operative who takes it upon themselves to in whatever way , themselves to in whatever way, strike fear into the public . Because this is the problem. It can be a lone operative. There may not be many legalities, but that that doesnt stop the spread of fear. And thats the intention of course it is. All terrorism is theatre in a way, and fear is thats the clues in the name. Terrorism. Its strikes, terror in people. Were looking at the this is a shot on screen at the moment. And this is the suspect in those shootings last night in belgium at at the football match yet to be, i believe named or 100 confirmed. But that we believe i think that that is the suspect. Yeah. And i think some of the things that youll see in the uk in the next week or so. So yesterday, for example, there were posters put up in some of the underground stations for marches at the weekend from hizb ut now ut tahrir is ut tahrir. Now hizb ut tahrir is an offshoot of the muslim brotherhood. Hamas is powered by originally the idea of muslim brotherhood. One of the groups which split from his book, tahrir, was al muhajiroun. Tahrir, was al muhajiroun. Chowdhury and we find in most of the terrorist attacks in uk , the terrorist attacks in uk, somewhere behind them is chowdhury and al muhajiroun. Of chowdhury and al muhajiroun. Of course theyve been described, but they keep cropping up in different guises and were playing whack a mole with the ideology of chowdhury and al muhajiroun. Al muhajiroun. Yeah, i think just, you know, people are obviously fearful that foreign conflicts can play out in our country and that whats happening in israel, in gaza will lead to more terror attacks. Lets hope not. But thatis attacks. Lets hope not. But that is the fear. That is the fear. Major general chip chapman, great to see you. Former head of counterterrorism. Okay. The counterterrorism. Okay. The daughter of nhs fundraiser captain sir tom moore is appealing today against an order to demolish an unauthorised spa block added onto a captain Tom Foundation building in the grounds bedfordshire home. Yes, it comes the charity yes, it comes as the Charity Commission continues its inquiry into Management Commission continues its inquiry intoindependence Management Commission continues its inquiry into independence from anagement commission continues its inquiry into independence from sirgement commission continues its inquiry into independence from sir tomst and independence from sir toms family and businesses. Ray family and businesses. Ray addison has the details for us. It was april 20th, 20, the height of the first covid 19 lockdown and a Second World War veteran was capturing the hearts of millions as captain tom moore. Raised £38. 9 million for the nhs by pledging to walk 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday. That july , after achieving that july, after achieving the remarkable feat , he was the remarkable feat, he was rewarded with a knighthood from the late queen. And when he died in february 2021, then Prime Minister Boris Johnson joined the nation to clap in celebration of his extraordinary life. But that wasnt the end of life. But that wasnt the end of the story. Speaking at his funeral, his daughter Hannah Ingram moore, said she would continue what her father began through the captain Tom Foundation. What he did is he became a beacon of hope to the world. And, you know, he crossed the boundanes and, you know, he crossed the boundaries of gender, race, nationality and social status and age. Not many people have done that. So we guard the legacy with our lives. However, it wasnt long before problems arose as 3 2, one. If you go just one month after captain toms death, the Charity Commission started reviewing the set up of the organisation. Organisation. Then in june last year, after concerns about the charitys management and independence from sir toms family and businesses, it launched an inquiry. Fresh controversy arose this summer when we learned that a captain Tom Foundation building built in the back garden of mrs. Ingram, moores own home had had a spa pool added without planning permission. Central Bedfordshire Council ordered the spa building to be demolished and the captain Tom Foundation stopped taking money from donors. But mrs. Money from donors. But mrs. Ingram is fighting back. Today shell appeal the councils demolition order, arguing it had no grounds to refuse their retrospective application. However the real test is still to come. Whether ingram moore to come. Whether ingram moore wins or loses this hearing, all eyes will be on the outcome of the Charity Commissions inquiry. Because whatever youre trying to build a spa or indeed a legacy, you must make sure everythings in order. Or it could all come tumbling down in ray addison gb news is keep your emails coming to us this morning , wont you . Emily and i are just looking at them gbviews gbnews. Com. Weve still got chip chapman with us here as well. And we dont want you to go chip without reflecting a little bit on what is happening on the ground israel hamas. Ground in israel and hamas. We talked potential talked about the potential terrorist risk here. Youre going here us as well going to be here with us as well for some of the morning. But right morning, what do right now, this morning, what do you think is the main area of interest in terms of military strategy . The thing we worry well, the main thing we worry about, i think, obviously the about, i think, is obviously the conversion military conversion of military objectives a political objectives into a political outcome, because all wars are political and the key worry in terms of escalation , i think, is terms of escalation, i think, is if israel goes into the gaza strip, then there is a high probability , and im using that probability, and im using that in intelligence yardstick terms somewhere between 40 and 50 chance that hezbollah will get involved. Now, i think it was significant yesterday that 28 of the israeli villages on the northern border were evacuated. Northern border were evacuated. Id because we worry about the rockets from hamas. But there were 150,000 rockets, including Ballistic Missiles from hamas. Ballistic missiles from hamas. And a lot of the israeli integrated air defence system will be doing the hard yards against the Ballistic Missiles protecting sites like the Dimona Nuclear power site. The air Nuclear Power site. The air bases of israel and Critical National infrastructure here. And that leads leaves other areas open which can be hit. Thats a big worry. And just take me through these steps. We dont have long, but as i say, youre here. If hezbollah get involved and who else is, then dragged into that in the middle east . Well, that depends really on the what the americans do and what american support. There are people who hate hamas, saudi arabia, uae, bahrain , rain. They arabia, uae, bahrain, rain. They would like to see them destroyed because they would be destroyed by hamas, given the theology of them. Okay. All right, chip, youre going to with us to going to stay with us to elucidate this a little more elucidate this a little bit more on that. Still to come, on that. Right. Still to come, oil prices have surged since the start of the war. Will this threaten efforts to fight inflation . Is britains inflation . This is britains newsroom on gb news, the peoples channel. Deakin. Morning. Im alex deakin. This latest weather this is your latest weather update office for update from the met office for gb for many, its fine gb news. For many, its a fine day today, the rest of this day today, but the rest of this week looks indeed. Week looks very wet indeed. Thanks to babette pushing thanks to storm babette pushing its slowly northwards , going its way slowly northwards, 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 todays weather as i said, for most its a fine day. A bit of a chilly start. Touch of frost in places, sunny spells for most of scotland northern england. Scotland and northern england. Sunshine hazy, though, sunshine turning hazy, though, as cloud thickens. Some as the cloud thickens. Some patchy rain in the far south west. Cornwall, south west. Devon, cornwall, somerset, pembrokeshire as somerset, maybe pembrokeshire as well across the well. Some showers across the northern also chilly northern isles. Also a chilly feel the breeze , particularly feel as the breeze, particularly in the south, starts to strengthen. Could get quite strengthen. Could get quite blustery parts of wales and blustery over parts of wales and southwest england and rain southwest england and the rain tracking could turn tracking northwards could turn 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 parts of the week, across many parts of the week, across many parts of the , temperatures again the uk, temperatures again struggling in the mid teens and feeling colder with the wind. Goodbye right up next, we will be speaking to gb news home and security editor mark white on the recent developments in the israel hamas war and, of course, the terror in brussels the terror attack in brussels last this is britains last night. This is britains newsroom the newsroom on gb news, the peoples channel good morning. Its 10 am. On good morning. Its 10 am. On tuesday, the 17th of october. This is britains newsroom on gb news with me, emily carver and bev turner. Good morning. Thank you for joining us. So humanitarian crisis, more than 2750 people in gaza have been killed in retaliatory strikes by israel, which is also blocking fuel water, food and medical supplies from entering the territory. The un is in deep negotiations to get the first aid into gaza. 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 terrorist shot dead. The man believed to be responsible for killing two swedish people in brussels last night in which he claims he was inspired by the Islamic State group has been shot dead in a cafe this morning. How worried should we be about further terrorism in europe . Terrorism in europe . And could we see a rare red weather warning, which means a danger to life storm babette is set to hit the uk tomorrow, but should we take these warnings seriously . Were going to be debating that. Debating that. Does let us know what you think about all of our stories this morning. Vaiews gbnews. Com is the email address. Were going to have mark white in the studio. Were going have studio. Were going to have chip chapman us and chapman still here with us and were to be going live were going to be going live back israel charlie back to israel where Charlie Peters for gb news. Peters is reporting for gb news. First, youre very first, though, youre very latest Aaron Armstrong latest news with Aaron Armstrong i very good morning to you. Its a minute past ten here in the gb news room at least 49 people have been killed by israeli airstrikes in Southern Gaza overnight as aid agencies warn an escalating warn of an escalating humanitarian crisis. Palestinian humanitarian crisis. Palestinian Authorities Say the attacks took place in younis khan and at the rafah crossing, where the Israeli Military have told civilians to take refuge. The World Health Organisation says at least 2800 people have been killed in gaza and 11,000 injured. Almost half are women and children. The un says and children. The un says hospitals in gaza are on the verge of collapse. Its aid workers are ovennhelmed and suppues workers are ovennhelmed and supplies are running out as the rafah Border Crossing to egypt remains closed, while dozens of trucks carrying aid have been on their way to the rafah crossing in Southern Gaza as diplomatic efforts to get people out and humanitarian aid in continue. Humanitarian aid in continue. New egypt, which controls the crossings, blamed israel for not cooperating. If a window can be agreed, only foreign nationals and gazans who hold dual national rmt will be able to leave. The crossing is the only access point to the enclave thats outside of israels control. Well, the us president control. Well, the us President Joe Biden, will visit israel tomorrow in a show of solidarity as fears grow the war in gaza could engulf the middle east. His visit was announced by the us secretary of state, Antony Blinken, after several days of shuttle diplomacy in the region. Bidens expected to urge the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to minimise civilian casualties during any ground offensive and also to establish a humanitarian corridor out of gaza. Biden will also meet arab leaders in the region in an effort to stop the conflict from spreading. Iran has pledged to take pre emptive action from the resistance front of its allies, which include the Hezbollah Movement lebanon. Two teenage movement in lebanon. Two teenage sisters are amongst the british citizens still missing following hamas attacks on israel. The hamas attacks on israel. The girls, named only as 16 year old noya and 13 year old yahel , noya and 13 year old yahel, disappeared from their their home in a kibbutz after it was stormed by terrorists. Their mother was killed in the attacks. The Prime Minister says attacks. The Prime Minister says at least six britons were killed and a further ten are missing. Rishi sunak has called for the Immediate Release of some 200 hostages taken by hamas. The israeli journalist Yotam Confino told gb news about the hostage situation. Situation. They are in a horrendous situation and most likely kept underground in tunnels by hamas. Thats at least what israel estimates. So this hostage situation is its really just another humanitarian catastrophe that develops at the same time as what, you know, the atrocity is. Also we see in gaza and 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. Yet. A police in brussels have shot dead a gunman suspected of killing two swedish people last night. It happened in the city centre ahead of. Belgiums euro centre ahead of. Belgiums euro 2024 qualifier against sweden in the 45 year old man identified himself as a member of Islamic State. He claimed responsibility in a video posted online. Belgiums Prime Minister has confirmed that he was of Tunisian National and was living illegally in the country. Wages illegally in the country. Wages are now rising faster than pnces are now rising faster than prices for the first time in nearly two years. Average earnings increased by 7. 8 in the three months to august. The chancellor, jeremy hunt, says its good news. Inflation is falling , but the government will falling, but the government will continue its bid to have inflation. Labours shadow chancellor, though, says the conservatives are leaving working people worse off with low growth and high taxes. Low growth and high taxes. Rolls royce is planning to cut up to 2500 jobs worldwide. The up to 2500 jobs worldwide. The company says it aims to become a more streamlined and efficient business through the process. Business through the process. Rolls royce is also planning to remove duplication and deliver cost efficiencies. The organisation currently employs 42,000 people. About half of those are in the uk. 42,000 people. About half of those are in the uk. A hearing those are in the uk. A hearing against an order to demolish an unauthorised spa pool block at the home of captain sir tom moores daughter is taking place later , Hannah Ingram moore was later, Hannah Ingram moore was granted permission to build a captain Tom Foundation building in her home in bedfordshire in 2021. The building was given the green light, but authorities refused a subsequent application. In 2022 for a larger c shaped building containing a spa pool. Central Bedfordshire Council said in july an enforcement nofice said in july an enforcement notice requiring the demolition of the now authorised building has been issued and yellow weather warnings for wind and rain are in place from tomorrow onwards. Ahead of the arrival of storm babette. Its the second named storm of the season. It will last until saturday. The met office has warned of potential flooding and power cuts and travel disruption. The cuts and travel disruption. The weather warning will cover much of scotland. The eastern of of scotland. The eastern part of northern as well as the Northern Ireland, as well as the north and east england. Its north and east of england. Its gb news on tv, on Digital Radio and on your Smart Speaker to just say play gb news now its over to emily and beth. Over to emily and beth. Good morning. Its 1006. Good morning. Its1006. Thank you for joining good morning. Its1006. Thank you forjoining us on thank you for joining us on britains newsroom this morning. So what do we know so far . Seven so what do we know so far . Seven brits are dead and nine are missing as the war continues in the middle east. Yes british citizens continue to be caught in conflict it has been in the conflict and it has been confirmed that a 13 year old british girl named yahel missing in the hamas attack has been confirmed dead. Confirmed dead. We understand two of her family members, too, are still missing. Her sister, only 16 years old and her israeli father, eli, missing a two. Should we speak to chip chapman, whos still here with us . Extraordinarily concerning for those who have family and friends in israel and those who have been taken hostage by hamas. We now have this young girl confirmed dead. How is the girl confirmed dead. How is the situation , as you see it, in situation, as you see it, in terms of getting those hostages back from within gaza . Very difficult task. Well, the israeli war cabinet has said theres four tasks. One of those tasks is getting the hostages back. The fact that they havent done the Ground Invasion of gaza yet is actually a good thing in terms of trying to do Intelligence Development a good thing in terms of trying to do and. Ligence development a good thing in terms of trying to do and locatee development a good thing in terms of trying to do and locate andielopment a good thing in terms of trying to do and locate and find ment a good thing in terms of trying to do and locate and find those to try and locate and find those hostages. And one of the things which happened overnight was the israelis offering 250,000 for information from those who are information from those who are in gaza on tactical tip offs, as it were , of where they are. So it were, of where they are. So thats another string to bow thats another string to the bow because will also be because it will also be technical and other human intelligence to do that. Intelligence means to do that. Of its worrying because of course, its worrying because the israelis and hostages are a toxic mix. I mean, for example, one of the main leaders killed the other day was one of the 1000 released for one israeli soldier previously. And the history of hostages in israel is such that, for example , such that, for example, operation thunder in 1976, 108 hostages released it was netanyahus brother, gianni netanyahu, who was the only killed in action on that raid to secure them in uganda. Secure them in uganda. So this british family that we were just talking about, that emily was just pointing out no , emily was just pointing out no, she is the older daughter whos 16. Elis the father. They are still missing. The family are reporting. The mother, leanne, reporting. The mother, leanne, we know was was killed in this attack on a particular kibbutz. Attack on a particular kibbutz. And yahel is the daughter , the and yahel is the daughter, the 13 year old. This beautiful young teen ager having her life stolen away from her on a on a peaceful saturday day in israel. Peaceful saturday day in israel. Well, do we know, chip , how many well, do we know, chip, how many other british people might have already lost their lives, that were still going to find details emerging about . I think you will find details emerging because although its now, you know, almost ten days on, its often difficult to get true fidelity on these things. All death diminishes us on both sides. But its difficult to find these and there is a thing about non combatant immunity where the very young, the very old, the sick and the infirm should be protected from from war on both sides. And of course, our foreign secretary was over in israel, a couple of days ago. Days ago. He will be therell be lots of diplomatic work going on behind the scenes, wont there, in order to locate these hostages who may well to locate people who are british in israel, who want to come back to britain . Yeah, i think the qatari access is quite important here. Their intercession as a sort of soft power to try and see if they can get leverage over hamas, because some of the political leverage of hamas actually is resident in in qatar might seem ludicrous given how many people have been killed. I many people have been killed. I think the diplomacy certainly from the american side, i think is worth doing quite well at the moment. Its behind the scenes. Is no ones calling overtly for x that might come if x or y that might come if theres any movement tomorrow. When biden is in israel. So i think youll see on both sides, youll see hamas at the moment continuing the rocket fire. Of course, youll see the israeli going through their what we call joint prioritised target list of hamas military and dual use targets, but no overt invasion and no overt escalation from the northern border there. Thats within tolerance levels. When within tolerance levels. When you have the back and fro with a few rockets from hezbollah at the moment, whats the worst Case Scenario here, chip, for the british people . If you take this through various potential steps, i dont want to keep people awake at night, its the question night, but its the question actually children keep actually that my children keep asking and they keep saying, asking me and they keep saying, is going to land on our is this going to land on our shores . Mummy like , is this shores . Mummy like, is this coming here . Well, some of it will come here in terms of increased, increased threats, possibly increased threats, possibly increased terrorism. I dont want to overplay that because of because of the psychological factor of we call two things the dread hazard and threat inflation. Your chances , inflation. Your chances, beverley or emilys chances of being killed in a terrorist attack are infinitesimally low. Its still terrible if such things happen, but the fracturing of societies with jewish kids not being able to go to school, hate crimes and all that, that does Fracture Society and thats not for Good Community cohesion for the future. And as while this plays future. And as while this plays out, all those things will be exacerbated for the future. Yeah, Just Division everywhere it feels, doesnt it . I mean, ive seen even on a personal level, i dont know about you both, but you know, friends here, groups of friends whove been united on all sorts of controversial issues for the last 3 or years, suddenly last 3 or 4 years, suddenly splintering relationship based on this. Theres almost not theres almost no other issue which is as divisive as this. And its brought about so many emotions, chip, hasnt it, for people in this country over over a dinner table . Well, thats right. And someone like me whos really an analyst doesnt look at it like that, which is why people often say, im dispassionate. Of course its course i am, because its aristotles persuasion. Aristotles modes of persuasion. All is based on all this stuff is based on pathos, emotion. Thats not the way to look at an issue. It should be based on logos, logic or ethos. Im should be based on logos, logic or ethos. Im an should be based on logos, logic or ethos. Im an listen or ethos. Im an expert. Listen to what saying, because im to what im saying, because im trying to tell you what the truth is in reality. Is when you talk well, this is when you talk about direct threat the about direct threat and the possibility of lethality is very low. People dying from terrorism low. People dying from terrorism very low. But for many people sitting at home, it is just the thought there are people thought that there are People Living in this country who wish us unwell and could be supportive of terrorist action even if they dont commit it or perpetrate it themselves. That is what is extremely uncomfortable for most people. Uncomfortable for most people. It is. All right. Thank you, chip. So police in brussels have shot a man expected to be the gunman who killed two swedish nationals on monday evening. Yes, local media reported the man was shot in a cafe this morning. Brussels has been on its highest terror alert after mondays its highest terror alert after moiso ys its highest terror alert after moiso shall we speak to mark so shall we speak to mark white, our home and security editor, who is with us here now , editor, who is with us here now, brussels has had a number of terrorist attacks over recent years , 2014, 2016, 2018. Years, 2014, 2016, 2018. It was the metro attacks where i believe 32 people were killed in terror. Islamist terrorism is not new to brussels i no, its grappled with islamist extremism problem for a number of years is the in fact, the trial of those or some of those connected to the attacks at Brussels Airport and the metro system in brussels in in 2016, just concluded in recent days with very significant jail terms handed to down eight individuals involved in those attacks. And there has been real concern across europe about the potential for a response to what is happening in the middle east at the moment. We know that al qaeda, for instance, has , as al qaeda, for instance, has, as you know , put out messages of you know, put out messages of support for hamas. And this support for hamas. And this particular man who has been named as Abdullah Salim lahoud had put out a video no. Prior to this attack taking place in which he said that he was carrying out this attack in partly in revenge for the killing of a palestine teenager in the us in recent days. Also pledging his support for isis, so called Islamic State. You remember that terror group has been very significantly degraded. And by west western forces in syria and iraq over the last few years as it rose to prominence and carried out lots of attacks , and carried out lots of attacks, or at least attacks were carried out in its name in countries right across the world. And also this man suggesting that the terrorist attacks that were carried out were also so in support of al. He said he was allahs warrior. So there is allahs warrior. So there is concern on the belgian authorities raised their Terror Threat level to its highest level in the capital, brussels. Its still at the second highest level elsewhere in the country. And we know that france is on a heightened state of alert here. Its slightly different. Were its slightly different. Were at substantial meaning that a terrorist attack is likely , but terrorist attack is likely, but its not at severe. It was we it was lowered to substantial some time ago now. And its really up to the joint terrorism analysis centre, btec, to determine whether that level should be increased. There is no indication as yet that they are going to do that. What kind of things might inspire them to raise that threat level . Mark well, this is all kinds of things that we are not privy to. Its all of the intelligence thatis to. Its all of the intelligence that is being assessed by by the security agencies in conjunction with the Counter Terrorism command across the uk. Counter terrorism network. So, for terrorism network. So, for instance , since there is an an instance, since there is an an incident that is being investigated by Counter Terrorism police in hartlepool , a stabbing, a fatal hartlepool, a stabbing, a fatal stabbing that took place in the early hours of sunday morning, which is 70 year old man mark was was stabbed to death. Now that will factor in. Its not formally been declared a terrorist incident as yet , but terrorist incident as yet, but but that kind of thing would add potentially factor in in really trying to determine whether the threat level should be raised or not. I mean, mark, the Justice Minister in in belgium, he says this man, this suspect, unsuccessfully sought asylum in belgium in november 2019, was known to the police in connection with people smuggling and illegal residents essentially , he was living in essentially, he was living in the country illegally. Tunisian origin. This seems to be the origin. This seems to be the story time and time again when it comes to these lone operatives, these terrorists attacks in europe, known to the authorities, may even be here illegally. Illegally. Yeah, i mean, not in every case is it linked to Asylum Seekers , weve got to say. But seekers, weve got to say. But there have been a number of recent incidents that have been unked recent incidents that have been linked to Asylum Seekers. This man clearly there were efforts to try to remove him from , um, to try to remove him from, um, belgium when that application for asylum was turned down in 2019. But he disappeared. He was being investigated by authorities for links to people smuggling as well. But he, you smuggling as well. But he, you know, disappeared from the day to day sight of the authorities. To day sight of the authorities. And this happens quite a lot. And this happens quite a lot. There is an issue as well with people who have been turned down for asylum. And even though they for asylum. And even though they might known to authorities, might be known to authorities, the appeal and then the re appeal the appeal and then the re appeal, each time an application is turned down and they can be in the country sometimes for years , years after an asylum years, years after an asylum application has been turned down and then theyve gone on. Can we mmmm and then theyve gone on. Can we commit, can we bring in chip . Chip chapman still here and we cant have you here with your expertise as former head of Counter Terrorism expertise as former head of counter you rismthis bringing you into this conversation, we when the Counter Terrorism agencies, chip, are looking at these individuals, how often does is it do you think that somebody who is an illegal immigrant who shouldnt be here as a refugee is still carrying out those acts in relation to the ideology of a larger terrorist organisation, or it more of a petty or is it more of a petty grievance . Well it can be grievance. I mean, the authorities, ctc counters, command , etcetera, counters, command, etcetera, follow the threat. They dont follow the threat. They dont follow the threat. They dont follow the threat. They dont follow the ideology and the threat can change on a weekly basis and is updated by the agencies on a weekly basis , not agencies on a weekly basis, not just the prioritisation grid of those they will intimately surveil to do intimate surveillance on, but also those who might go up the priority in terms of what was formerly a close subject of interest becomes a subject of interest and what was a subject of interest in a middle tier becomes a top tier, and that is largely based on the output of what they called an operational improvement reviews. Following the attacks with a lot more the 2017 attacks with a lot more supercomputing and Machine Learning along with tip offs from the public, which are very, very important. So i think youll see a lot more people, for example, appearing on the radar to go on to prevent program because if you are just to have extreme views , you might to have extreme views, you might need to be guided on the prevent program. Youre already program. If youre already attack planning, would go attack planning, you would go into pursuit element, i. E. Attack planning, you would go inibe pursuit element, i. E. Attack planning, you would go inibe looked uit element, i. E. Attack planning, you would go inibe looked at element, i. E. Attack planning, you would go inibe looked at and nent, i. E. Attack planning, you would go inibe looked at and t01t, i. E. Attack planning, you would go inibe looked at and to see e. Attack planning, you would go inibe looked at and to see if it to be looked at and to see if it meets the level of being arrested by a terrorist command. Arrested by a terrorist command. Fascinating. Right. Thank you, gentlemen. Thank you so you, gentlemen. Thank you so much for your expertise. Now you, gentlemen. Thank you so muc to or your expertise. Now you, gentlemen. Thank you so muc to come,� expertise. Now you, gentlemen. Thank you so muc to come, oilpertise. Now you, gentlemen. Thank you so muc to come, oil prices. Now you, gentlemen. Thank you so muc to come, oil prices have� still to come, oil prices have risen since the start of the war between israel and hamas, which isnt exactly a surprise. But should we a similar should we expect a similar economic fallout to that that we saw invasion of saw after the invasion of ukraine in dont go anywhere. Liam halligan is going to be here to explain the Camilla Tominey show sunday mornings from 930 on. Gb news as. Very good morning. News as. Very good morning. Its 1024 with britains newsroom on gb news with emily carver and bev turner this morning. Yes so the israel Hamas Conflict has also had an impact on the cost of oil now hitting 90 a barrel. Weve got live pictures here from rafah in gaza. What here from rafah in gaza. What seems to be happening, some kind of altercation and people being dragged through. Dragged through. So we brought you the live footage of this yesterday. We had almost a static camera that we bringing with the we were bringing you with the footage of the rafah border between egypt. Now what between gaza and egypt. Now what we dont know. What we do know we dont know. What we do know is that the border has not yet been opened. What we dont know is has happened here. There is what has happened here. There were earlier were reports earlier from charlie in aviv to Charlie Peters in tel aviv to say that he believed that there had some bombing of that had been some bombing of that border the of hamas border where the people of hamas were gathered trying to escape. Were live pictures here. Were seeing live pictures here. If youre listening on the radio, its scenes of sort of chaos , people having their head chaos, people having their head in hands. Somebody being in their hands. Somebody being taken on stretcher, taken away on a stretcher, covered woman by a sheet at an covered a woman by a sheet at an emergency. I think it said emergency. I think it said emergency. I think it said emergency room on that that wider appeared to be a wider shot appeared to be a hospital. What we can presume is this is civilian injuries that were witnessing here. This is live at rafah in gaza. As you live at rafah in gaza. As you said, thats the border with egypt. Said, thats the border with egypt. People walking said, thats the border with egypt. People Walking Around looking dazed and confused. It seems to be the emergency room of a local hospital there of maybe a local hospital there suggesting might have suggesting that there might have been missile strike. But as been a missile strike. But as yet, we do not know, right . Yes , oil prices are up well, yes, oil prices are up due to the conflict hitting 90 a barrel. Iran which supports hamas, has warned that this is a war which in tehrans words, could be fought on other fronts. Meanwhile, there are signs that growth finally that wage growth is finally outstripping inflation here in the talk us through it the uk. So to talk us through it all is our economics and Business Editor Liam Halligan to explain. Youre here. Explain. So glad youre here. Liam. Been on liam. This has been playing on my mind im sure with my mind and im sure it is with a lot our viewers and a lot of our viewers and listeners. What is this going to mean fuel prices . This winter . Well, fuel prices have already been going up very sharply the summer, bev, sharply over the summer, bev, almost unnoticed by the mainstream but certainly mainstream media. But certainly noficed mainstream media. But certainly noticed people up noticed by people filling up their and vans. Their family cars and vans. Lets have a look at some of the numbers. So already oil prices have gone up from 70 a barrel to 90 a barrel since june. Thats steep, almost 30 thats a very steep, almost 30 rise for petrol has increased dunng rise for petrol has increased during this time from 147 to 156 a litre. Diesel are up even more as any van driver will tell you from 145 to 162 on average so far in october. Why are from 145 to 162 on average so far in october. Why are oil pnces far in october. Why are Oil Prices Going up . Oil prices arent going up because the World Economy is going gangbusters and people are demanding lots of oil. The World Economy slowing but oil economy is slowing down, but oil pnces economy is slowing down, but oil prices because the prices are rising because the opec exporters cartel, thats a lot mainly countries led lot of mainly arab countries led by the saudis. Theyre working with the russians, another major energy exporter, to deliberately restrict supply, getting onto Global Markets to keep prices high. They make more money. They put pressure on the west. Theyre angry about the wests response to the war in ukraine. And then on top of that, as you said, emily, weve had this instability middle east instability in the middle east between israel and hamas. Now, where do the iranians fit in . The iranians said yesterday they could fight this war on other fronts. The iranians control hezbollah in lebanon. They control hamas. They also control the biggest global pinch point for oil in the world. This is the persian gulf. You can see iran there to the north, qatar are a massive gas exporter. You see the oil tankers. Theyre going through that very narrow part of the sea called the straits of hormuz from the persian gulf there. The persian gulf supplies around 20 of the worlds oil and gas energy. Its absolutely crucial. And that straits of hormuz, that accounts for about 25 of the worlds oil every single day goes through that little tiny gap in the sea and on to Global Markets, on to the indian ocean and on to Global Markets. Now, when iran says we might now fight this war on other fronts, what iran is saying right in no Uncertain Terms is that they will mine the straits of hormuz. They will block the straits of hormuz. We know the American Navy fleet is in bahrain. They could then be in bahrain. They could then be absolute escalation of this conflict because this is in some ways, obviously tremendous , ways, obviously tremendous, awful humanitarian disaster. We must keep our focus on that. But must keep our focus on that. But the Economic Impact of this will massively impact the wests response because theres a cost of living crisis. And in western democracies, people are suffering with this cost of living crisis. Now iran knows that. And if iran decides to block those straits of hormuz , block those straits of hormuz, it could literally it could do massive damage to the global economy. The americans dont economy. The americans dont want that to happen. And this want that to happen. And this kind of proxy war, if you like, with americans backing with the americans backing israel and iran backing hamas, could explode economically. Could then explode economically. For now, the oil markets are going up because of opec and because of fears. But you know, if the straits of hormuz are blocked by the iranians and a lot of people in Global Oil Markets are concerned that they will, then the economics of this could trump even the ghastly human ontarian issues that were seeing on our screens. Are you saying a quarter of the worlds Global Supply of oil could go well , what the worlds Global Supply of oil could go well, what im the worlds Global Supply of oil could go well , what im saying, could go well, what im saying, emily, because its a fact and its been a fact for many years. The persian gulf is so crucial. Its how the saudis get their oil out. Its how the kuwaitis get their oil out. Its how, you know, the United Arab Emirates gets their oil out. Its how qatar, of the its how qatar, one of the worlds biggest natural gas exporters, its gas out. Exporters, gets its gas out. What saying, because its a what im saying, because its a fact, a quarter of the fact, is that a quarter of the worlds Oil Every Day goes through that narrow gap, that pinch point of the global economy. That is the adams apple, the throat of the global economy. If the iranians control that, okay. And if they choose to mine the straits of hormuz, im not saying its going to happen. Im saying the fear is there. If they choose to really get nasty in terms of supporting hamas against israel, slash the americans as they see it, then we could have a severe escalation in fuel prices as people on petrol could could escalate. All kinds of energy escalate. All kinds of energy pnces escalate. All kinds of Energy Prices could escalate the cost of natural gas where we heat our homes, natural gas generates 40 of our electricity in this country, natural gas is what kicks in when the wind doesnt blow and the sun doesnt shine. Im not being alarmist here. Im just telling you what i know is going on in Global Oil Markets. The consequences could be, well, tremendous. Absolutely. And liam absolutely. And liam brilliantly explained, as always, we didnt even get on to theissue always, we didnt even get on to the issue with wages so the issue with wages here. So im to get you back in the im going to get you back in the rest the show, so dont go rest of the show, so dont go anywhere. Weve lot to anywhere. Weve got a lot to talk about today. Still to come, joe biden is going to visit israel. Us president is israel. The us president is going tomorrow reaffirm going tomorrow to reaffirm us solidarity negotiate an solidarity and negotiate an opening to get opening of the border to get civilians aid in free civilians out and aid in free the elephant. Lumley says the Dame Joanna Lumley says the 50 in the uks 50 elephants left in the uks zoos should be freed. Shes leading calls for a ban on the animals being kept in captivity in britain. And were also going be and were also going to be asking military expert, chip asking our military expert, chip chapman, possibility asking our military expert, chip chthe|an, possibility asking our military expert, chip chthe straits possibility asking our military expert, chip chthe straits of possibility asking our military expert, chip chthe straits of hormuzsibility asking our military expert, chip chthe straits of hormuz being� of the straits of hormuz being blocked by as liam just blocked by iran. As liam just explained, the implications of that would be huge. Dont go anywhere. All of that your anywhere. All of that after your mornings. Aaron mornings news with. Aaron its 1031. Mornings news with. Aaron its1031. Im Aaron Armstrong in the gb newsroom. At least 49 people have been killed by israeli airstrikes in Southern Gaza overnight. Palace Authorities Say the attacks took place in younis khan and at the rafah crossing , where the rafah crossing, where the Israeli Militarys told civilians to take refuge. Israel believes 600,000 residents have now left northern gaza ahead of what it says will be enhanced military operations in the coming days. Military operations in the coming days. The us military operations in the coming days. The us president , coming days. The us president , joe biden, will land in tel aviv tomorrow to show support for israel. Hes also expected to meet arab leaders in an effort to prevent a wider conflict in the iran has threatened the region. Iran has threatened to take pre emptive action against israel in the coming hours as dozens of trucks carrying aid are waiting at that rafah crossing in Southern Gaza. Rafah crossing in Southern Gaza. As diplomatic efforts to get people out of the enclave and get humanitarian aid in, continue. Egypt, which controls continue. Egypt, which controls the crossings, blamed israel for not cooperating. If a window can be agreed, its understood only foreign nationals and gazans who hold dual nationality will be able to leave. Police in brussels have shot dead a gunman suspected of killing two swedish people last night. It happened in the city centre ahead of belgiums euro 2020 qualifier against sweden. The gunman, a 45 against sweden. The gunman, a 45 year old tunisian , claimed on year old tunisian, claimed on social media he had acted in the name of allah. Wages are now name of allah. Wages are now rising faster than prices for the first time in nearly two years. Average regular earnings increased 7. 8 in the three months to august. The months to august. The chancellor, jeremy hunt, says its good news that inflation is falling and that the government will continue its bid to half inflation. However labours shadow chancellor says the conservatives are leaving working people worse off because of low growth and high taxes. Of low growth and high taxes. Thatisit of low growth and high taxes. That is it for the moment. Ill be back with more at the top of the next hour or more on our website. Gbnews. Com. Website. Gb news. Com. For website. Gbnews. Com. For stunning gold and silver coins, youll always value rosalind gold proudly sponsors the gb news Financial Report. Heres a look at the markets today. Today. The pound will buy you 1. 2159. ,1. 1528. The price of gold £1,580. 37 per ounce. And the ftse 100 is at 7659 points. Roslyn gold proudly sponsors the gb news Financial Report. Still to come, were going to be talking to Liam Halligan about that issue that we were just discussing. Then about your wages and the fact that theyve gone is actually gone up. This is actually a really. Would you believe it . A good news story. Dont go anywhere. This is Patrick Christys weekdays from three on. News from three on. News good morning. Its 1038. Good morning. Its1038. Thank you for joining good morning. Its1038. Thank you forjoining us on gb thank you for joining us on gb news. So wages are now rising faster than prices for the first time in nearly two years. Yes average regular earnings increased 7. 8 in the three months to august, but labour shadow chancellor says the conservatives are leaving working people worse off with low growth and high tax. Rs liam low growth and high tax. Rs Liam Halligan has stayed with us because we couldnt him because we couldnt let him leave without about this leave without talking about this domestic why are domestic issue. Liam, why are wages, why have they gone up so much . Yeah. Much . Yeah. For the time talk thanks for the time to talk about this is about this. I think this is absolutely to what gb news absolutely core to what gb news viewers and listeners are interested in. Yeah, making ends meet, the cost of living, being able to put roof over their able to put a roof over their heads feed families is heads and feed their families is so this morning from so we learned this morning from the national the office for National Statistics wages the statistics that wages in the three from to august three months from june to august were up 7. 8 on the same three month period last year. Thats a very high increase historically high increase and crucially, bev turner emily, thats higher than the rate of inflation, which was 6. 7 in august, 6. 7 versus 7. 8. So in other words, real wages were rose because wages grew faster than prices grew. Now faster than prices grew. Now tomorrow we get an inflation number. Thats the crucial thing to determine the cost of living. To determine the cost of living. At the moment, we know that inflation was 6. 7 in august. We get the september number tomorrow. Ill be here bright and early at 7 am. To report it. Most economists are saying that the inflation number will come down a bit, butjust a bit. Maybe 6. 6 or 6. 5. If the inflation number goes up, then that will put pressure on the bank of england to raise Interest Rates again this 15th time. This wage increase. Is it partly because weve got a Labour Shortage . I saw a got a Labour Shortage . I saw a piece last week about the fact that a brickie can now earn £125,000 a year. Oh yeah, building houses easily and is this partly a post brexit boom to the Labour Market . Because part of the reason for brexit, some people voted because they wanted wages to be increased, particularly in the building sector. Yeah, its definitely true that since freedom of movement from the European Union stopped, its harder for its been a lot harder for contractors to get labour skilled tradesmen in. You know, im from a long line of irish builders. My family talks to me about this all the time, but also what weve seen is a lot of trade union pressure, a lot of this increase in wages, 7. 8 june to august compared to the same period last year is driven by these massive well, these big pubuc by these massive well, these big Public Sector settlements, of course. So theyre driving within the nhs largely. Within the nhs largely. Absolutely. And one off payments to civil servants, sweeteners maybe to get them back from pandemic working practises to actually come back to the office. Yeah, but also theres lots of wage increases in the city of london some people will think, crikey, im not getting a 7. 8 wage increase and many people arent because thats an average number. And if lots of, you know, men and women in the city are getting even bigger wage rises, that means that other people are getting smaller wages, bonuses and wages, excludes bonuses and things yeah, its 8. 1 on things like, yeah, its 8. 1 on bonus. Yeah. And you know, government ministers have warned of some kind of wage price spiral. What do you say to people who say that because they used it in the context of not giving in to pubuc context of not giving in to Public Sector demands as there has been a lot of pressure from trade unions, particularly in the sector, you know, the Public Sector, you know, half Public Sector workers half of Public Sector workers are in a trade union. Less than 20 of private its less than 20 of private sector they havent Sector Workers. So they havent got bargaining power. Got so much bargaining power. What private Sector Workers have got, got skills, is got, if theyve got skills, is leverage, though, as bev says, because, you know, need because, you know, firms need them, for their them, need them for their skills. Its worth saying that the Monetary Policy committee next meets on the 2nd of november. Thats just over two weeks time. Interest rates are 5. 25. I should say, to people whove got mortgages or personal loans that are on variable rates. And emily, that most people think in the markets that Interest Rates are going to go up again at some stage from five and a quarter to 5. 5. And then peak there. Whether or not that happens in early november really depends on tomorrows inflation number. Brilliant. And you will be here to tell us all about it. Liam halligan. And you will need to be here at to home find out what it might mean for you. So moving on. The uk is set to be battered by heavy rain and strong winds as storm babette arrives wednesday. Arrives from wednesday. Just what we need could storm babette office babette see the met office issue. Red warning. Issue. A rare red warning. Well, joining us now to discuss this is jim dale, senior meteorologist weather meteorologist at british weather services. Morning, jim. Good to services. Morning, jim. Good to see what would make a storm see you. What would make a storm qualify for this very rare red warning . Warning . Okay. So at the moment, its yellow, which is to be aware, its not life threatening. If it if it if it moves up in grade through amber into red, then yeah, theres an extreme risk to life. Now, i need to say to you life. Now, i need to say to you this is probably more of a rain event than it is a wind event. Yeah. The winds will be blowing up in the next 48 hours. And. And babette is a is a slow fuse. Its not one thats going to sort of materialise in five minutes. And suddenly you go from calm to storm. Its not like that. This is this is something that will will that will, will, will will make itself known over the 48 hour period. And the rain at the moment is affecting southern ireland counties. Cork and kerry and waterford. That will transfer across to us during the course of this next 24 to 48 hours. But the main thing about the rainfall and where its going, i think its the western part of the country in the main, except this as it intensive lies and moves across scotland into the grampians that lovely part of scotland alongside angus and maybe northern lothian area. So edinburgh to dundee if you like. Edinburgh to dundee if you like. And then the then the rural areas, thats when were expecting this sort of totals to be in the region of 1 to 200mm in old money. Thats 4 to 8in of rain. Its a couple of months worth of rain in a 48 hour penod worth of rain in a 48 hour period between roughly wednesday afternoon into friday morning. So thats the risk. Afternoon into friday morning. So thats the risk. Im afternoon into friday morning. So thats the risk. Im not sure so thats the risk. Im not sure it will reach red. But it will reach red. But nonetheless, we, you know, meteorologists like myself need to be aware and make people aware of the risks involved with this one. Should we just get on with our daily lives, jim, when the wind and rain comes, or should we all batten down the hatches and stay inside. And stay inside. Yeah, its one of those questions, isnt it, about warnings . Do we need them or dont we need them . Professionals give these warnings out for good reason. Theyre there. If you theyre there. Look, if you dont to them, you dont want to take them, you dont want to take them, you dont take them. You take dont want to take them, you don risks. E them. You take dont want to take them, you don risks. But,n. You take dont want to take them, you don risks. But, you you take dont want to take them, you don risks. But, you know, take the risks. But, you know, sometimes you you you seek sometimes when you you you seek the expertise of experts and you dont follow their expertise, then you can find yourself in trouble. And i think the warnings are out there for good reason. So i think look, southeast england east anglia that central southern part of england, i dont think theyre going to go next for two hours. Youre going to think what the hell is going on . Theres no, no, no big storm, nothing going on. A bit of rain. So you might be right in that respect. But for those that are affected, for the west, further north, Northern Ireland upwards Northern Ireland and upwards and places think it places like that now, i think it is when you drive your is a warning when you drive your car heavy rain thats car into into heavy rain thats lying on surface it does lying on the surface and it does take steering away. There take your steering away. There will local and regionalised will be local and regionalised flooding in scotland that will and seen this in the past and weve seen this in the past where you wake up in where you know, you wake up in the you know your the morning and you know your living rooms undennater, that type thing. So theyre there type of thing. So theyre there for good reason. And the met for a good reason. And the met office are very quick at getting this one out. I applaud them for that. Often theyre very late or not all. But in this case, not at all. But in this case, they give ample warning. This is on not so much , on its way. Not today so much, but tomorrow, thursday and fri day. Okay. Friday. Okay. Thank you, jim. Jim, dale, there warning us of this. I recently got caught in a terrible storm in cape town. Did you really . Yeah i did. But it doesnt sound like hes hes anticipating much destruction. Ian. No, not too much to fear here. Weve got a few emails coming in saying, oh, i love a storm. I know i quite like a storm. As long as im inside. I dont mind a storm. I have to say, in cape town, i did nearly die. A tree fell down. A huge, enormous oak tree fell down and would have crushed our car if wed dnven have crushed our car if wed driven fonnard instead back. Driven fonnard instead of back. So quite flippant so having been quite flippant about these things, i had about these these things, i had about these these things, i had a bit of a shot across my bowels. Right. Keep your messages this morning. Messages coming. This morning. Vaiews gbnews. Com. Messages coming. This morning. Vajoinedgbnews. Com. Messages coming. This morning. Vajoined in1ews. Com. Messages coming. This morning. Vajoined in the;. Com. Messages coming. This morning. Vajoined in the studio now by are joined in the studio now by author broadcast tanya author and broadcast tanya buxton labour advisor buxton and former labour advisor and Scarlett Mccgwire and writer Scarlett Mccgwire dyen and writer Scarlett Mccgwire dyer. Ladies, thank you so much for joining us. I think we want forjoining us. I think we want to turn first actually to the terrorist attack in brussels last night. Were seeing some live pictures here. Our understanding is that the terror suspect was killed. The belgian Justice Minister is saying that the attacker was known to the police. Scarlet there was a terrible inevitability about this given events at the weekend, wasnt there . Weve sort of been on tenterhooks waiting for an islamist attack in europe. Waiting for an islamist attack in europe. Only two waiting for an islamist attack in europe. Only two people lost in europe. Only two people lost their lives. In this situation, their lives. In this situation, i say only devastating for their families. And our sympathies go out to them. Are you more worried now off the back of events in the middle east . Yeah, i mean i mean, of course, every every body is i mean, this was a very strange attack, right . So apparently the attacker was doing it because there was a six year old muslim boy who was killed in america because he was a muslim. Right. So the attack did it because of that. And then killed two swedish people. I mean, this is swedish people. I mean, this is i mean, its very. So this wasnt this i mean, this wasnt an anti semitic attack, which is what one would have expected. What one would have expected. And this is what was called a well, he claimed in a video his allegiance to Islamic State. Yes. So, i mean, if you are yes. So, i mean, if you are a supporter of Islamic State, you are an anti semite by definition. But what im saying is he didnt the people who were killed were not jews. I mean , killed were not jews. I mean, this was this was just an attack on the west, is it not . Its yes. What im saying is its not anti semitic , that it was just anti semitic, that it was just and i mean , it is it seems that and i mean, it is it seems that these people there was a football match going on an international and they were probably football supporters. I probably football supporters. I mean, this is an absolute tragedy. It is. Yeah, it is. And the tragedy, of course, started on october the seventh, tonya, with those awful images of hamas invader ing israel and the peaceful, beautiful Music Festivals that were going on. Your thoughts . My thoughts your thoughts . My thoughts are on friday. I was supposed to be on the eurotunnel be travelling on the eurotunnel with husband and one of my with my husband and one of my daughters an absolute fit daughters had an absolute fit about it. She was going mad because youre not going, youre not travelling because theres going a day of jihadi going to be a day ofjihadi and theyre go the theyre going to go for the eurotunnel. And she was obsessed. I mean, hysterically obsessed. I mean, hysterically obsessed. Didnt go, obsessed. Yeah. We didnt go, yeah, didnt this is yeah, we didnt go. And this is the terror that is now the type of terror that is now gripping all of us. So we know when one of my children goes to on the underground, my stomach clenches im clenches because i think and im and how were feeling and thats how were feeling now. Were feeling that these attacks going to start. And, attacks are going to start. And, yes, of them are going to yes, some of them are going to be some of them be orchestrated and some of them are these complete are going to be these complete loony these wolves loony that are these lone wolves that just kill people that go off and just kill people like this guy did. Yeah. So this is what we have. I mean, is this is what we have. I mean, its not nothing compared to whats going on in israel at the moment. So were living in terror, its not even the terror, but its not even the number of casualties , the number number of casualties, the number of People Killed in these terror attacks. Its , as you say, the its, as you say, the atmosphere that that brings, the fear it instils in people. Thats the whole point of these kind of lone terror attacks. You never know when one could strike. Yeah, and thats the fear i was also saying yesterday actually, that for the first time this weekend , just gone. Time this weekend, just gone. I was very nervous about my teenagers going into Central London to an event in leicester square, and they did go because i thought we cant live in terror. Actually, i know if it had been up to me, i would have gone. But when you see your child getting so upset about something and we were both going as both her parents. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They. This is the problem, though, isnt it, that when events like this in the middle east are being played out east are also being played out on here, that this on our streets here, that this Ripple Effect of this fear. And Ripple Effect of this fear. And in fact, chip chapman was here and he called it dread has or threat inflation two new terms that i learned this morning that we have to keep things in proportion. Now, i think its really important. I mean, i think i think for people who live in jews , who live in jewish areas, jews, who live in jewish areas, so that they can be identified, i think its absolutely terrifying. I think if youre going to a jewish school, but actually its really tough on muslims as well. I mean i mean, the amount of islamophobia. The amount of islamophobia. But scarlett, can i just Say Something . Sorry to interrupt you, but, you know, i live in a jewish area. And those schools, these jewish have always jewish area. And those schools, these j have have always jewish area. And those schools, these j have added have always jewish area. And those schools, these j have added security. Lways had to have added security. Theyve got security theyve always got security guards outside. Now, i dont see security outside mosques. Security guards outside mosques. I dont see muslims having to fear for their children and for their lives. So we do have a problem in britain with anti semitism because othennise they wouldnt have these security outside the security guards outside the schools, temples. So schools, outside the temples. So there something going on here. We do have a problem with anti semitism. And one of the problems with anti semitism is, is that it comes from both sides. So the Islamic State, the completely mad islamic people. But actually, you know , i mean, but actually, you know, i mean, another growing problem is the alt right. Another growing problem is the alt right. And they are white supremacist and anti semitic. I mean, so what im trying to say, why are they a problem where are they a problem . If you talk to Counter Terrorism people, they are the ones that they are until this weekend, that was rubbish , this weekend, that was rubbish, though, wasnt it . We know that was rubbish. That was just theyre trying not to be racist because you dont want to say that its all islamic terrorists. Really but is its really not. But it is because the numbers speak for themselves. No, this really themselves. No, no, this really isnt the that are isnt true. Is the ones that are being they are the anti being caught. They are the anti i spoken to people i mean, ive spoken to people who are at the top of Counter Terrorism and they are very, very worried about the alt right who are white supremacist and who are saying is anti semitism is a real problem, is a far right threat. There is a far right threat. But we do know that islamism is still the top threat when it comes to terrorism in this country. Unfortunately we and those are the facts as it stands, of course, that that could that could change. But you also have people on the far left who are also anti semitic. So who are also anti semitic. So its this horrible collection. Its this horrible collection. Im im interested im interested in that. Ill just elaborate on that a little bit for me, because what we see, what we are seeing in the middle east and what we are seeing here is an islamist problem with jewish , which surely jewish people, which far surely outweighs any kind of organisation of what we might deem to be the far right. Well, actually its an islamic problem with the west. I mean , i mean, isis. I isis, you mean, i mean, isis. I isis, you know, theyre not picking on jewish people. They will have anybody. I mean, as it was shown in in in brussels, as far as we know , those two swedes were not know, those two swedes were not jewish. They were they were western. And that that is the western. And that that is the problem. I mean, that thats the problem. I mean, that thats the problem with the with radical islam is that its against the west. West. Okay. Thank you, ladies , for okay. Thank you, ladies, for kicking us off. In the next few moments, were going to go live to tel aviv with Charlie Peters. Were seeing live pictures there of southern israel and the gaza border. Are gb news, border. We are gb news, britains news channel. Dont go anywhere. Anywhere. Deakin here with im alex deakin here with your latest weather update from the office for gb news. For the met office for gb news. For many, a fine day today, but the weather is on the turn. Some very rain heading our way very heavy rain heading our way later week. Its also to later this week. Its also to going turn windy to storm going turn windy thanks to storm babette its way slowly babette working its way slowly northwards the of northwards across the bay of biscay, really showing hand biscay, really showing its hand tomorrow. Pushes tomorrow. But as it pushes further north during wednesday night and thursday then into night and thursday and then into friday, were going to see some very heavy rain. And there are a number of met Office Warnings in force back to today because as i said, for many, its a fine day out there. The cloud very thick across southwest england and south wales and quite gusty winds developing, too. Of winds developing, too. Now, of course, wales and course, parts of wales and southwest england, later today, well rain heading well see some rain heading towards Northern Ireland. But for dry, its bright, for many, its dry, its bright, temperatures a higher temperatures a little higher than on the than yesterday. Still on the cool side, though, especially with across the with those winds across the south and the west, theyll continue to strengthen a little this evening and the rain will work its way for a time across parts of Northern Ireland. Nothing this stage nothing too heavy at this stage for elsewhere. Itll stay for many elsewhere. Itll stay dry overnight. For many elsewhere. Itll stay dry overnight. Those winds dry overnight. Those winds starting to pick up a little coming from the north sea and coming in from the north sea and into wednesday, well see those winds strengthening further. Still areas still many eastern areas dry again west, again tomorrow, further west, though, that rain getting heavier and heavier as storm babette to influence babette starts to influence things. Please do check out the met Office Website for the latest warnings and stay up to date through the next few days because theres some very heavy rain on the way. And some strong and winds. Bye for now. And gusty winds. Bye for now. So early this morning, police in brussels shot a man amid a massive manhunt for a gunman who killed two swedish nationals on monday evening. Yes, well bring you the latest from brussels. Later good morning. Its 11 00 later good morning. Its11 00 on good morning. Its11 00 on tuesday, the 17th of october. This is britains newsroom on gb news with bev turner and emily carver. It is at least six brits dead and ten missing. As the war continues , british citizens continues, british citizens continues, british citizens continue to be caught in the conflict. Two british sisters are among the missing , with are among the missing, with reports that the younger 13 year old sibling has been killed. Old sibling has been killed. Humanitarian crisis. More than 2750 people in gaza have been killed in retaliate. Battery strikes by israel, which is 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 for joe biden to visit israel. 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 and terrorists shot dead. The man believed to be responsible for killing two swedish people in brussels last night in which he claims was inspired by the Islamic State group, has been shot dead in a cafe this morning. Should we be worried about further terrorism in europe. In europe. Get in touch by email gbviews gbnews. Com. As always, first, though, the very latest News Headlines with Aaron Armstrong. Armstrong. Good morning to you. It is a good morning to you. It is a minute past 11. Im Aaron Armstrong in the newsroom. A british teenager whos been missing since last weekends attacks by hamas has been confirmed dead. 13 year old confirmed dead. 13 year old yahel on the right of your picture was killed when gunmen attacked her kibbutz on the 7th of october. Eyal was killed along mother, leanne , along with her mother, leanne, while her elder sister noya and their father, eli, are still missing. The Prime Minister has called for the Immediate Release of hostages. Its thought another nine britons are amongst some 200 people being held by hamas. The israeli journalist hamas. The israeli journalist Yotam Confino says their outlook is bleak. They are in a horrendous situation, most likely kept underground in tunnels by hamas. Underground in tunnels by hamas. Thats at least what israel estimates. So this hostage estimates. So this hostage situation is its really just another humanitarian 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 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. At least 49 people have been killed by israeli airstrikes in Southern Gaza overnight as aid agencies warn of an escalating humanitarian crisis. Palestinian humanitarian crisis. Palestinian Authorities Say the attacks took place in younis khan and at the rafah crossing, where the Israeli Military has told civilians to take refuge. The civilians to take refuge. The World Health Organisation says at least 2800 people have now been killed in gaza, with 11,000 injured. Almost half women and children. The un says hospitals children. The un says hospitals there are on the verge of collapse. Its aid workers are ovennhelmed and supplies are running out as the rafah crossing to egypt remains closed. Although lorries with aid are piling up. On the egyptian side. And the us egyptian side. And the us president will visit israel tomorrow in a show of solidarity as fears grow, the war in gaza could engulf the middle east. His visit was announced by the us secretary of state, Antony Blinken, after several days of shuttle diplomacy in the region , shuttle diplomacy in the region, biden is expected to urge the israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , to minimise the netanyahu, to minimise the visual civilian casualty us and to establish a humanitarian corridor out of gaza. Hell also meet arab leaders in an effort to stop the conflict spreading. Egyptis to stop the conflict spreading. Egypt is to host a summit to discuss the conflict on saturday. Iran, meanwhile, has pledged to take pre emptive action against israel in the coming hours. Police in action against israel in the coming hours. Police in brussels coming hours. Police in brussels have shot dead a gunman suspected of killing two swedish people last night. It happened in the city centre ahead of belgiums euro 2024 qualifier against sweden. The suspect fired shots from an Assault Rifle at a taxi. The 45 year old man who claimed responsable bility in an online video identified himself as a member of Islamic State. Identified himself as a member of Islamic State. Belgiums Prime Minister, alexander de croo, says terrorists cannot be allowed to succeed. Allowed to succeed. Others, they willing attackers want to seed fear, distrust and division in our free society. Free society. We terrorists have to understand that they will never succeed in this mission. They will never subdue our free society with their hate and violence they show above all, their powerlessness terrorism will never beat us. Wages are now rising faster than prices. For the first time in nearly two years, average regular earnings increased 7. 8 in the three months to august. In the three months to august. The chancellor, jeremy hunt, says its good news. Inflation is falling and the government will continue its efforts to half inflation. Labours shadow chancellor, though, says the conservatives are leaving working people worse off with low growth and high taxes. Low growth and high taxes. Rolls royce is planning to cut up to 2500 jobs worldwide, and the company says it aims to become a more stream lined and efficient business through the process. Rolls royce currently employs 42,000 people, with about half of those in the uk and yellow weather warnings for wind and rain will be in place from tomorrow onwards with the arrival of storm babette. Its arrival of storm babette. Its the second named storm of the season and it will last until saturday. The met office is warning of potential flooding power cuts and travel disruption. It will cover much of scotland, the eastern part of Northern Ireland, as well as the north and east of england. We north and east of england. We are live across the uk on tv, on Digital Radio and if you want us on your Smart Speaker , we just on your Smart Speaker, we just say play gb news. Now its back to emily and beth. To emily and beth. Good morning. Its 1105. Good morning. Its1105. Police in brussels have shot a man after a massive manhunt for the gunman who killed two swedish nationals on monday evening. Yes, the man was shot in a cafe in the sherbrooke neighbourhood, a local media has reported. Brussels has been on its highest terror alert after mondays attack and were joined now by dr. Alan mendoza, who is the executive director at the Henry Jackson society. Henry jackson society. Good morning, alan. Good good to see you. I was just saying earlier, there was a terrible inevitability about this attack inevitability about this attack in brussels. I inevitability about this attack in brussels. I think inevitability about this attack in brussels. I think weve all in brussels. I think weve all been on tenterhooks since the weekend to see if there would be an inspired attack upon an islamic inspired attack upon westerners. How did you receive the news . Well, yes, im afraid , well, yes, im afraid, unfortunately, it was to be expected. And youll know before this attack, even although this was in, you know, in belgium, france had already gone to a very high terror alert because of a stabbing of a teacher , of a stabbing of a teacher, which wasnt necessarily linked , which wasnt necessarily linked, but was linked in a way because of the origin of the attack. And it was only inevitable that this would occur elsewhere. And i think many European Countries now have raised terror levels on the grounds that they fear some kind of islamist attack on other targets. And this was, of targets. And this was, of course, a completely unprovoked target. Two football fans shot dead. So anything could occur. And i think the european authorities and Different Countries are gearing up to more such incidents. I want to know your opinion, alan, on the bbcs position on this, because when this story broke last night, they very quickly put on their website that it was a terror attack after these two people were killed. Brought to the killed. It was brought to the attention of the bbc that they hadnt called hamas attack hadnt called the hamas attack terror when 1300 jewish terror related when 1300 jewish people murdered. Whats people had been murdered. Whats your that particular your take on that particular position of the bbc . Well, i think its extraordinary what the bbc did, having spent, you know, nearly two weeks now arguing that it a blatant terrorist atrocity in israel was not terrorism, claiming it was just sort of they had to remain neutral within seconds of this terrorist attack occurring. They were very attack occurring. They were very happy to use the term terror in the in the title of their piece. It seems to me the bbc have very grave questions to answer about what their real position is on these subjects. And indeed questions about their neutrality or othennise, and why they would take a side when jewish victims are involved, when they wouldnt do and havent done in the past, when its anyone else basically. When its anyone else basically. Alan, we know a little bit about the suspect in last nights terror attack , the prime nights terror attack, the Prime Minister in belgium has said the suspect is a man of tunisian origin. We believe him to be 45 years old. He had been living in the country illegally. He unsuccessfully sought asylum in belgium back in november 2019. And it seems as though hes been living illegally in belgium and then has committed this most awful offence. A video is also circulating online where he claimed , well claimed himself as claimed, well claimed himself as a member of Islamic State. Is a member of Islamic State. Is there a pattern emerging in terms of someone who who unsuccessfully sought asylum and then went on to commit such an such an act . Well, weve always known that this is a possibility. Weve always known that if you are unable to track who is in your country, unable to sort of scan them and understand where they are. And crucially, by the way , are. And crucially, by the way, lose once they have had lose them once they have had their asylum denied , as happened their asylum denied, as happened in the case in the uk. If you recall, in liverpool, when mercifully nobody got killed. But clearly there another but clearly there was another such and what you end such example. And what you end up with is a an obvious threat, an obvious National Security threat is why we have been arguing for some time that the whole asylum process needs to be managed much more carefully, much more rigorously. Why . There much more rigorously. Why . There is obviously a clamour within government to get control of it, because its not simply an issue when it comes to sort of economics and development and issues like that. Its also a National Security one. You just dont know whos coming in, what they might believe and indeed what terrible things they might commit in the pursuit of a twisted ideology. Twisted ideology. Now, alan, youre an expert on islamist terrorism. Your on islamist terrorism. Your think tank does huge amounts of research into this. Of course, research into this. Of course, you cant speak to this particular suspect and this particular suspect and this particular terrorist attack. But what is the ideology behind what we see when we see islamist in sponsored terrorist attacks on the west . The west . Well, i can speak to this a little bit for this attack because weve had some detailing. It appears the authorities know that he was inspired by isis and he was felt he was acting as a soldier for isis, as it were. He was radicalised by by watching things online. Essentially what you see here are people who believe that by committing acts of violence against non believers , they are somehow non believers, they are somehow hastening the advance of the global caliphate. Basically. Thats what were talking about when it comes to isis style ideology and they also want to commit atrocities in order to, i suppose, strike fear into the hearts of the non believers in order to, again, ensure that their twisted ideology gains strength. And the last reason for doing it is they they tend to receive adherence , would you to receive adherence, would you believe, for these sorts of crimes if theyre publicised in the right way as far as terrorists are concerned, they get people volunteering get other people volunteering and being inspired it and being inspired by it to commit more so its one commit more crimes. So its one of these awful, vicious circles where the more it happens, the more it will still happen, yet more. And thats why its always a challenge for the Security Services stay on top of it services to stay on top of it and to stop to stop even one atrocity happening because if one happens, you can be sure that like buses, unfortunately, others will be inspired to follow and therell be others as well behind them. Thank you, dr. Ellen okay. Thank you, dr. Ellen mendoza there, executive mendoza there, the executive director Henry Jackson director of the Henry Jackson society. Number of society. And this number of lives lost, let me tell you what the latest thats being reported is that least 2808 people is that at least 2808 people were killed by israeli attacks in gaza while more than 1400 people were killed in israel over the last week or so. Now back to the war. Now lets go over to Charlie Peters, who is in tel aviv. We know that 13 year old yahel on the right of the picture. Now. Were going to the picture. Now. Were going to bnng the picture. Now. Were going to bring you those images in a minute. Charlie what is the very latest there for people who might just be tuning latest there for people who mightjust be tuning in at 11 15 . Sure. Well, there was a lot of activity on the gaza strip last night from the idf who said this morning that they bombed hundreds of military capabilities across the strip from gaza city in the north, and also to younis khan in the south near to rafah , where that border near to rafah, where that Border Crossing is with egypt. And this morning, we heard reports from the gaza strip that some 49 people had been killed in those strikes in the south. And it comes soon after the idf told all civilians in the north of the gaza strip to head south, 1. 1 Million People moving in that direction on the un said that direction on the un said that such a demand was impossible and the International Red cross said it was untenable and would cause death. There are and would cause death. There are plenty of people in the north like children in hospitals and the elderly who cannot move , who the elderly who cannot move, who are saying that theres no point in them leaving north gaza and going to the south if the idf are still continuing to strike those locations in the south as well. Why would they risk life and limb to move to an even more orjust and limb to move to an even more or just as dangerous situation in the south . And this comes as this morning Lieutenant Colonel richard hecht, idf spokesman, said said that while there is so much conversation about an imminent Ground Invasion , they imminent Ground Invasion, they could do Something Else. So the first time weve heard the idf casting some form of doubt on what their next military operation will be, we have seen footage of the of the colonel, sorry, the Lieutenant General , sorry, the Lieutenant General, hersi halevi, the idf chief of staff, meeting with troops , staff, meeting with troops, telling them, you know, are you ready, asking them if theyre prepared for their mission as they that large convoy they gather on that large convoy on the south of the country. On the south of the country. Benjamin netanyahu, the Prime Minister, delivered similar minister, has delivered similar briefings when meeting with soldiers on the south, asking him they ready for whats him if are they ready for whats coming next. And they they reply saying that they are. But what will come next is yet to be seen because that Ground Invasion, if it does come, will be slow and deliberate and extremely brutal and violent. If it does occur , and violent. If it does occur, thousands of lives will almost certainly be lost in street fighting hand to hand through the north of gaza, where hundreds of thousands of civilians are likely to remain amid that dire humanitarian situation. But there is also further crises in the north, as last night , further crises in the north, as last night, more rockets further crises in the north, as last night , more rockets were last night, more rockets were fired from Lebanese Hezbollah onto idf positions in northern israel and the idf said that they struck lebanese terrorists in the south of the lebanese territories there as they try to plant an explosive device on the border, so disintegrates and escalating situations at both ends of this country at war. Okay, thank you very much , okay, thank you very much, charlie, there in tel aviv. So charlie, there in tel aviv. So retired, we call you retired general chip chapman , former general chip chapman, former county. Youre not retired. Youre here working with us, chip, arent you . Am at the moment. I am at the moment. I am at the moment. Former head of Counter Terrorism. We had Liam Halligan earlier halligan in the studio earlier talking about the oil prices. Now it might affect now this is how it might affect people this country this people in this country this winter if fuel prices go up. Winter if our fuel prices go up. And liam told us this fascinating insight into the fact that of the world fact that 20 of the world worlds goes through the worlds oil goes through the straits hummus, which were straits of hummus, which were looking called it looking at here. He called it the throat of the global economy. Chip its this vulnerable pinch point. And that vulnerable pinch point. And that if iran closes the straits of hummus, that would have huge implications for us. Are they likely to do that . And how easy is it . I would say its unlikely. And i would say that from a geopolitical perspective. And that really to do with in that is really to do with in march this year, there was a rapprochement supposedly between saudi arabia and iran , and that saudi arabia and iran, and that was brokered by china. The big was brokered by china. The big consumer of iranian oil and oil coming out through the strait of hormuz. Its not the straits. Its the strait is not the us. Its the strait is not the us. Its china and asia. So the implication for that on the chinese economy would be far more serious than the us economy. I think money would flow from the yuan, the currency of china into america, giving america an even greater gdp. So america an even greater gdp. So from a geo political perspective, its unlikely. Perspective, its unlikely. However, third, three years ago we used to talk about geo economic theories and that the intertwined world meant that wed never to war again. It wed never go to war again. It turns out that the leaders of the world not accountants. The world are not accountants. They at power and how that they look at power and how that might be be readied if they were to mine that that would be seen probably as an act of war by most of the gulf states and probably america. You can probably america. You can actually put a safe lane through there. And in bahrain is there. And in bahrain is a significant British Naval fleet presence , which includes for presence, which includes for mine countermeasures , vehicles mine countermeasures, vehicles alongside the american fifth fleet. Similarly, in qatar, theres Al Udeid Air Base with a lot of significant american air power there. So it is still unlikely that they would do that. Is it inevitable . No. Could it change . Of course it could, depending on what happens in the next week. Very interesting to get your perspective on that. Shall we talk now about those missing in gaza hostages from israel . We learnt this morning that a british teenager who had gone missing has now been confirmed as murdered. How does one how as murdered. How does one how does israel how does the British Services to get back missing hostages . Well , when you have a hostage well, when you have a hostage situation, if you were to take, for example, which we werent in this case, but if there was an airline, for example, if your special forces, you have to provide to the government because its always a political decision in and Immediate Response. And the Immediate Response means that the likelihood of success is lower, both in terms of the hostage being killed and the casualties to friendly forces. Your soldiers. Then you work up a deliberate response. But the deliberate response is based upon getting more intelligence as time goes on. And you can do that either through human intelligence sources, technical intelligence. And at the moment, weve got a longer soak period to give the israelis a chance to do that. Now, one of the significant problems is, is if youve got somewhere like 200 hostages and we assume theyre separated into various small groups, that is a huge number of targets, which you have to try and develop the information on to go and rescue them. It is possible to do it, them. It is possible to do it, but if you go and youre successful on 1 or 2, what is going to be the impact on the others from hamas perspective who havent really been great in in International Humanitarian law at the moment . It was interesting to hear yesterday a chip about the network of tunnels which is beneath gaza. How does that beneath gaza. How does that complicate the rescue operation . It complicates it hugely because youve got to get access to the tunnels now. Its the proliferation of the tunnels really , which is the big really, which is the big problem. So in the 2021 campaign, which was largely an air campaign, the israelis supposedly took out 100km of tunnels. Now there are supposed tunnels. Now there are supposed to be 500km of tunnels in in in gaza. To be 500km of tunnels in in in gaza. Now, the israelis again, gaza. Now, the israelis again, did have and i think still do largely technical capabilities to find, locate and deal with these. But one of the trade offs in the sword versus shield is that hamas have dug these ever deeper to try and negate the technical capability. Ortiz of technical capability. Ortiz of the israelis , also, when it the israelis, also, when it comes to the negotiation of getting hostages back from gaza to israel in the past. To israel in the past. But am i right in thinking that its been, well, not quid pro quo, but essentially well give you back one israeli if you give you back one israeli if you give us thousands from your territory , because thats whats territory, because thats whats happenedin territory, because thats whats happened in the past, is there some kind of negotiation going on at currently . On at currently . Well, there is, and i think thats been brokered by the qataris. But one of the certainly tactical objectives i think, hamas was to release think, of hamas was to release all the palestinian prisoners being held in israeli incarceration. Now, there there incarceration. Now, there there track record of how many you give up for israeli israelis versus palestinians has not been great. And of course, it is a big leverage for the for the hamas. The hostages is big, big leverage. Leverage. Okay. All right. Thank you, chip. Chip chapman there, former head of counterterrorism. So head of counterterrorism. So still to come , its been the snp still to come, its been the snp Party Conference this week. Is it nobody really noticed it. They you maybe you did notice if you live in scotland. Well were going to be asking after the break about whether scots can trust themselves and as theyve been asked to do by leader been asked to do by the leader of or do they put their of the snp, or do they put their trust in snp, are they trust in the snp, are they bringing real change . Thats what being do you what theyre being asked. Do you think theyre bringing real change . Well, well see. Our guests think see what our guests think anyway all britains newsroom. Anyway, all britains newsroom. Patrick christys on gb news. Im gb news radio. Gb news radio. Good morning. Were now good morning. Were now looking at scenes from gaza, i believe. As you can see in the believe. As you can see in the distance, there are plumes of what appears to be smoke from an explosion or two, perhaps in the far corner of that picture in the distance. Well keep you up the distance. Well keep you up to date with Charlie Peters will be with us all day live from tel aviv to give you the very, very latest on the israel gaza war. Okay, moving on to issues a little closer to home now. Its the third and final day of the snp conference. Yes. Stephen flynn opened the snp conference in aberdeen this week a message his week with a message that his party the only one Offering Party is the only one offering real change in scotland. Do the scottish people feel the same . So were going to be joined now to answer this question by former msp brian former conservative msp Brian Monteith and former snp monteith and former glasgow snp councillor austin sheridan. Good to see you again. To see you both again. Gentlemen, let me start with you. Brian, do the snp offer. Change brian i dont know whether you can hear us. Were asking do the snp offer change for the scottish people . Im not for the scottish people . Im not sure whether brian can hear us. Austin if you can hear me then please do jump in with that answer to that question. Go on. Austin yeah , of course. Austin yeah, of course. The snp are offering no change to the scottish people and so for example, our policies at the next westminster election will be or will be surrounding things around the two child cap and making sure we can push to aboush and making sure we can push to abolish the red clause and other things that well be looking at would be to respect scotlands democratic right to choose our own future. And thats pretty clear that the tories are clear on these issues. I think its clear that the tories are going to be set to lose election. What isnt clear is exactly what the labour party intends to do differently. But certainly for differently. But certainly for us in scotland , the snp, us in scotland, the snp, robeson, our stall for change and that is what we will aim to deliver off the back of a successful westminster result. Successful westminster result. And next year and thats what we were working towards. Austin why do you think support for the snp is on the downward trajectory. Downward trajectory. Well , support downward trajectory. Well, support for all Political Parties will fluctuate, but the most recent opinion polls still show the snp are in the lead after 16 years in government. I would say that is that that is very , very good. However they is very, very good. However they have taken a dip and there is no doubt that the snp has been through some difficult times , through some difficult times, you know, recently and that, you know, you would be you would be sevilla not to admit that. However, we do have about a year till the next electoral test and for the snp and we are confident that come that election we will pubush that come that election we will publish our manifesto and we will be campaigning for real meaningful change, just like what we have been delivering in the final devolved administration, such as , for administration, such as, for example, the scottish child payment, which is a benefit that is only available in scotland. A great example is scotland and there using our devolved powers in order to help the poorest people in our society and thats what well be focussed on come the next election. Brian, i hope hopefully you can hear us now. Nicola sturgeon can hear us now. Nicola sturgeon reacted fairly angrily to the accusation that she was liz truss for the snp in that she arrived at the conference and like liz truss in manchester, she threatened to overshadow the leader in your case sorry, in the case of the snp, humza yousaf do you think its a fair analogy . Yes i think it was a fair analogy. Fair analogy. We all know that Nicola Sturgeon disliked being told by liz truss that she was an attention seeker and yet what we saw yesterday was Nicola Sturgeon rather than letting whom. The first minister humza whom. The first minister humza yousaf have all the attention , yousaf have all the attention, she actually stole the attention she actually stole the attention she sought to bounce herself into to the conference, giving them short notice of 24 hours that she was coming and take the glory and attention away from him. I think he must have been reeling from that privately and all it does is expose the divisions behind the leadership of the snp , where theres still of the snp, where theres still unsettled about the deal with the greens. Theres still a rejection by many people of the way mr yousafs leading the snp and a belief that they will go into a general election in divided and divided parties never do well in elections wherever they make up is so that is the big problem. The first minister faces. You uniting his party when they cannot even really agree their strategy. I mean, brian, a pretty terrible result for the conservatives when it came to the rutherglen and Hamilton West by election, 3. 9 of the vote share down an 11 since 2019. The conservatives , due for a the conservatives, due for a wipe out. Wipe out. Well, i dont think i can speak for the conservatives on this, but what i think is fairly obvious that any conservative lives that ive read about were actually choosing to vote labour. Theres a great deal of tactical voting goes on in by elections depending on whos holding the seat and whos best placed to defeat the incumbent. And ive no doubt that many people who might have voted conservative or indeed a liberal democrat or for other parties saw it as an opportunity to reprimand the snp for its conduct in government. These conduct in government. These byelections do not happen very often in scotland, but this was certainly a seminal one for labour to break through. But they obviously got some help from from disillusioned snp voters and tactical voters from other parties. Other parties. Okay, gentlemen, Brian Monteith, austin sheridan, thank you so much forjoining us this morning. Right. Still to come , morning. Right. Still to come, brussels shooting the gunman who killed two people was already known to police and was staying in belgium illegally. Yes, theres heightened security with the Terror Threat in brussels remaining very high. Also this morning, online exams. Pupils in england could soon take gcse and a level exams on computers. I guess, rather than with pen and paper under new plans for teenagers to study at least one major subject digitally by 2030. That and much more still to come after your mornings news with. Aaron mornings news with. Aaron its 1131. Mornings news with. Aaron its1131. Im Aaron Armstrong in the gb newsroom. A british teenager whos been missing since last weekends attacks by hamas has been confirmed dead. 13 year old yahel on the right of your picture was killed when gunmen attacked her kibbutz on the 7th of october. Yahel died along with her mother, leanne , her with her mother, leanne, her elder sister, noya and their father, eli, are still missing. The Prime Minister has called for the Immediate Release of hostages as its thought another nine britons are amongst some 200 people being held by hamas. 200 people being held by hamas. At least 60 people have been killed by israeli airstrikes in Southern Gaza overnight as aid agencies warn of an escalating humanitarian crisis. A palestinian Authorities Say the attacks took place in younis khan and at the rafah crossing in the south of the enclave where the Israeli Military has told civilians to take refuge. Told civilians to take refuge. The World Health Organisation says at least 2800 people have now been killed in gaza and 11,000 people injured. Almost half of those women and children. The United Nations says hospitals in gaza are on the verge of collapse. Its aid workers are ovennhelmed and suppues workers are ovennhelmed and supplies are running out as that rafah Border Crossing to egypt remains closed. Police in remains closed. Police in brussels have shot dead a gunman suspected of killing two swedish people last night. It happened in the city centre before belgiums euro 2020 qualifier against sweden. The suspect fired shots from an Assault Rifle at a taxi. The 45 year old rifle at a taxi. The 45 year old man has claimed responsibility. Man has claimed responsibility. In an online video, he identified himself as a member of Islamic State. The Terror Threat has been raised in brussels to its highest level and wages are now rising faster than prices. For the first time in nearly two years. Average, regular earnings are up 7. 8 in the three months to august. The the three months to august. The chancellor, jeremy hunt, says its good news that inflation is falling and says the government will continue its pledge to cut inflation in half. Will continue its pledge to cut inflation in half. Labour, inflation in half. Labour, though, say the conservatives are leaving people worse off with low growth and high taxes. With low growth and high taxes. Ill be back with more at the top of the next hour. Or will more details on all of our stories on our website gb news. Com stories on our website gbnews. Com. Gbnews. Com. For gb news. Com. 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We have to turn first to israel. Tonya, first to israel. Tonya, a british teenager who went missing after the hamas attack at the weekend. Yahel, 13 in has now been confirmed that shes lost her life just so sad when were seeing these pictures. Were seeing these pictures. Its horrifying. Its just horrifying thing. Can you imagine sitting there being their family, waiting to find out . I mean, the horror of the horror of those hostages being taken, especially young girls , taken, especially young girls, especially with the kind of playbook that that these terrorists have when it comes to women. It doesnt bear thinking women. It doesnt bear thinking about it. I look , im about it. I look, im stuttering. Listen to me. I cant i cant get the words out because im so disturbed by it all. Well, lets be clear. She shes been murdered. Yes and her sister and her father are still missing. Her british born missing. Her british born mother, leanne , also killed mother, leanne, also killed devastating rishi sunak said just on monday , yesterday that just on monday, yesterday that at least six british citizens have died. Tragic do you at times like this, tony, do you just sort of have to rely on the fact that we have Counter Terrorism Intelligence Services in this country who are keeping us safe here . Have to do that because we have to do that because contrary to what i said, you know, to carry on living know, we have to carry on living because that is what they want. The terrorists want us to live in terror, our lives in terror, to make our lives small and to be frightened of everything. We have to everything. So we have to counter that and live our lives fully. And stan , up to terror, fully. And stan, up to terror, because theres no way that we can continue living with it. We can continue living with it. We have stand up to it. And even have to stand up to it. And even now, know that people now, we know that people that are on social media, if youre standing up for israel, will you get all terrible get called all these terrible names at so theres no nuance in any of it anymore. Im just sick to death of it. I can for stand up israel and still be horrified by whats going on in gaza at the moment. I really worry that some muslim youth in this country will be radicalise by what theyre seeing in the middle east. Scarlett oh, i think i think youre right. And i think i think everybodys really worried about it. I mean, whats so terrible actually is, is that tell mama, which is this sort of anti islamophobia thing. I mean, theyve put on their news bulletins that are anti semitic and anti islamophobic attack have risen and anti anti islam attacks have tripled since it happened. I mean, so in this country , in this country, in country, in this country, in this country, i mean , i mean, this country, i mean, i mean, obviously what happened abroad and actually i mean, thats whats so terrible is of course, if you say that what happened, l. If you say that what happened, i, i mean i mean, its just a statement of fact that what happenedin statement of fact that what happened in israel was absolutely appalling, unforgivable , evil. And you unforgivable, evil. And you cannot you cannot in any way excuse it. Right. But saying that, as tonya said, does not mean that you say that. Oh yeah, then its okay to kill the palestinians. I mean, as the deputy guy guy from the united nafions deputy guy guy from the United Nations said, you can have both things at the same time. You can be absolutely appalled at the attack on israel. And you can attack on israel. And you can still say that whats happening in gaza is terrible. I guess its of course , its very its of course, its very difficult, very complicated. Difficult, very complicated. And people have grievances going back decades in this particular conflict in this part of part of the world. But its incredibly difficult, isnt it, because people say israel must show restraint now. Well, what does a reasonable response to a terror attack . This is it. This is it. This is it. This is the biggest theyve seen in this in their history. And no one can answer that question. You know, you ask palestinian journalists that question or you ask palestinians. Okay, so this is whats happened. This massacre, it massacre happened. It was a massacre has happened. What reasonable response what is a reasonable response then from israel and not even then from israel and not even the palestinians can come up with answer for that. And, with an answer for that. And, you know, if you if they are they were babies and young girls. And it was it was just so demonic. The way they behaved. How how do you deal with demons in that way . And particularly when we know hamas is very much embedded in. Well, where civilians are, they can use a civilians as human shields. Theyre holding their own people. The problem is, is that hamas cares not a jot for palestinians. Thats the big point, isnt it, that hamas is slaughtering. They are the slaughterers of palestinians. They are doing this. They knew absolutely. I mean, they knew absolutely. I mean, what they did in israel was a was, as i said, absolutely appalling. But they knew they appalling. But they knew they knew what israel would do. They knew what israel would do. They knew that by doing it, that they were putting they were not just putting their citizens at risk. They were absolutely condemning them to die. Yes, the reign of terror would be put on them. No question about that. And actually long before. So all hamass rocket attacks, i mean, round that area, there arent just israeli villages, there are arab villages. The arab villages dont have any. You know, they dont have any. You know, they dont have any. You know, they dont have anywhere to go. I dont have anywhere to go. I mean, arabs have been killed by by hamas rockets for decades. I mean, let us not kid each other. I mean, hamas are appalling. Yes, thats right. They are terrorists, which i still still blows my mind. Have the bbc called them terrorists or not yet . No, still not yet. Its disgusting. I did at the bbc are now saying that some governments, including the british government, are as governments, including the br ascribe vernment, are as governments, including the br ascribe to nment, are as governments, including the br ascribe to be ent, are as governments, including the br ascribe to be at, are as governments, including the br ascribe to be a terrorist as or ascribe to be a terrorist organisation. They are still organisation. They are still using rather convoluted words. Its time to defund them. What sounds a bit like excuse a lot of people would agree with you on that one. Yeah, well, lets move on. Yeah, well, lets move on. Can i just say that the bbc, i think, have had more complaints than ever, but they are absolutely split down the middle what the complaint is middle of what the complaint is against stupid, sensible and stupid. No, not sensible and stupid. No, not sensible and stupid. No, not sensible and stupid is some say theyre too pro israel and some say theyre too pro hamas. So actually the bbc are in the firing line from everybody. But yes, but that doesnt necessarily mean that they are unbiased. Right. Right. Right. Should we move on, please, to more domestic issues, school exams . This is interesting exams . This is interesting story. This is interesting. So pupils in england could soon be taking their gcses and a levels. Tanya and tylee on a computer , tanya and tylee on a computer, on a laptop rather than with pen and pencil. Pen and paper. Does that matter . Well, it does, ill tell you why. So ive got a 16 year old and he has just done his his gcses and he had real issues because he had to he loves engush because he had to he loves english and he loves literature, but because he doesnt write fast enough, he was really worried about his grade because he didnt have enough time to get down he never get it down because he never writes everything is writes anymore. Everything is done on computer. So actually it does hinder them to have to write again. I dont want to lose the beautiful art of writing, but kids dont use it anymore. What do you think, scarlett . What do you think, scarlett . I agree. My worry is, is. Wheres the money going to come from . I mean, for all the laptops, all the laptops . Laptops, all the laptops . Absolutely. I mean, weve got to have School Laptops. Mean, and have School Laptops. I mean, and it would be wrong to bring in your own all sorts of. So weve got have laptops that got to have School Laptops that are you you just are empty so that you you just go on them every everyone has got to be the same. And then you think like me get think people like me get technical problems. I mean, i know the young but know the young dont, but actually things go wrong. I wonder whether theres but i wonder whether theres something miss when Something Else that we miss when we use a pen paper. We dont use a pen and paper. Youll see this show, youll see on this show, i always have pen and paper youngsters like emily do it all on computer theres on their computer. But theres something cognitive something about the cognitive process for maybe its a you process for me. Maybe its a you know, a lifetime of always writing and being at university and taking lectures. And taking notes in lectures. Have smarter to be you have to be smarter to be able to do it with pen and paper because cant go back and because you cant go back and delete edit bits. Its delete bits and edit bits. Its much more difficult and its actually of test of actually more of a test of perhaps well perhaps intelligence. Well thats i dont think you cant go back at that point. Yeah you know you cant go back in the same way may i remember things if i write them down . Scarlett i dont remember it. If i type it. Oh, no, actually, i remember both i. But i oh, no, actually, i remember both i. Buti mean, i do think. Both i. But i mean, i do think. I mean, there is no question that young barely. I mean, that the young barely. I mean, they they do not use a pen and papen they they do not use a pen and paper. You, if you them paper. If you, if you give them a shopping they put a shopping list, they put it down. Find mean , i down. They find i mean, i remember some years ago the daily mail did a thing about, you know, how to tell if youre old. A number one is, do you write things down . Thanks a lot. You really you really made my day there, scarlett. Thank you so observation. So much for that observation. Option will be that was the option will be given because it might given because i imagine it might open to some cheating open the door to some cheating with the laptop. Thats we were yes, thats what we were saying. But i think there was what the young producers out here, joseph, saying, is here, joseph, was saying, is that laptops that therell be laptops that are dont anything are actually dont have anything on them. Have to in to order on them. You have to in to order join to be able to work it. You put in a Certain Program that has no access to any. But then what are you actually because actually testing . Because actually testing . Because actually children actually if you have children who learning needs, who already have learning needs, so children isnt so one of my children isnt great. Shes quite great. Shes shes quite dyslexic she struggles. So dyslexic and she struggles. So she already a laptop in she already uses a laptop in exam situations , ones and she exam situations, ones and she can she can get thousand words down, whereas if youve got like your son, if you ask to her use a pen and paper, she just theres something about that cognitive the cognitive skill of forming the words takes so much of her words that takes so much of her brain power that its not worth it. She do it on it. And she does do it on a laptop. We will. We will. Absolutely. Because what we want to know about your daughter is form letters . Is not can can she form letters . But actually, what does she know . And joseph, who was talking he because talking to us had he because hes left handed and his writing was appalling. Thats why he had to do his exams on a laptop. And actually it is right. I mean, its right that one should level the playing field. Its and its just interesting because i remember a not so long ago that i think it was a campaign for real education, was completely opposed to computers because they didnt understand that they were the future. But what i do worry about is a future in which you can only ever get down your information if you have electric city, is that your stomach rumbling that you can only ever get information down your you can only ever get inforrif tion down your you can only ever get inforrif you down your you can only ever get inforrif you have your you can only ever get inforrif you have electricity jr head if you have electricity because batteries go flat. This never flat. Never goes flat. Oh, mine runs out of oh, you. Oh, mine runs out of oh, you. You might run out ink. You might run out of ink. Thank old school. Thats thank you. So old school. Thats real school. Real old school. Bedbugs. Bedbugs. Must on to bedbugs we must move on to bedbugs because the plague is spreading. I just. You tanya. Well, i just. You know, its coming from france. Know, its coming from france. You know, why dont they sort it out . Coming here, invading you know, why dont they sort it outbeds,ing here, invading you know, why dont they sort it outbeds, invading1ere, invading you know, why dont they sort it outbeds, invading our, invading you know, why dont they sort it outbeds, invading our bedading our beds, invading our bed mattresses, stealing our m attresses mattresses, stealing our mattresses exactly. Such mattresses. Exactly. Its such a horror. I mattresses. Exactly. Its such a horror. I mean, at one stage we thought that we might have bedbugsin thought that we might have bedbugs in our house because my son, my youngest, insists on buying from everything buys buying from everything he buys is second hand stores. So is from second hand stores. So the is, is if you buy it, the rule is, is if you buy it, its got to go in the freezer for 24 hours and then ill wash the bed. No. Whatever they the bed. No no. Whatever they buy, they if you buy, whatever they buy. If you buy, whatever they buy. If you buy freezer , well, its only buy a freezer, well, its only like a jumper. Buy a freezer, well, its only like a jumper. Theres room for, like a jumper. Theres room for, you know, put it in the freezer for hours. Thatll freeze off for 24 hours. Thatll freeze off the bedbugs. Then you wash it and then can put it into his and then you can put it into his room. Do that. And room. But he can do that. And once you bedbugs, is once you have bedbugs, it is a horror. Its a horror. You know, because we live with soft furnishings everywhere now. Because we live with soft furitshings everywhere now. Because we live with soft furitshings ejustnhere now. Because we live with soft furitshings ejust go are now. Because we live with soft furitshings ejust go into now. Because we live with soft furitshings ejust go into the w. So it doesnt just go into the bedroom. It goes over your bedroom. It goes all over your house. It is a nightmare. And weve got do something weve really got to do something about fumigate your whole house, dont i there was a kosovan well, i there was a kosovan family staying with me and the man thought that he had bedbugs , man thought that he had bedbugs, so he got in. I mean, he then moved out and got in the fumigators into my house. I mean, it cost £400. He went up and down, up and down. I mean, it was very funny because his his wife said, first of all, you know, this is ridiculous. I share was sharing a bed with you and i dont have them. And then when i said that, actually all my friends said that theyd probably brought them in and she went, just because were went, thats just because were third world developing. No, no. Then we had to have them back. I mean, tonyas right. And then you just everything you think is this bedbugs. That sounds rather awkward. That sounds rather awkward. Yeah. Brought in the yeah. Who brought in the bedbugs . I know. Here. Before we came. I know its very uncomfortable in that way, but theyre saying theyre coming in in suitcases as well. Just, you know, on not just, you know, on clothing through itchy. Clothing and through itchy. Inevitably start now, inevitably start itching, dont you . Can get them. You can you can get them. You can a lot of them. Get them on lot of them. You get them on suitcases the hold of planes. Suitcases in the hold of planes. I it really it really is. I mean it really it really is. Bedbugs are are are awful. But then you get to the stage of thinking, is this a bedbug . You know, anything that happens . Know, anything that happens . Yes. Anything that happens. We just gear change here. We just like gear change here. Live news program. This is live news program. This is what we do. Weve got Charlie Peters out in israel. We want to bnng peters out in israel. We want to bring you live pictures bring you some live pictures from gaza here. There appears to be clouds of smoke, perhaps looking at the skyline there. And of course, the ocean to the left of your picture there. Were just i guess, you know, were reflecting here this morning on the incredibly tense situation over in gaza. We know that people have been asked to leave via the south by the israelis , as we dont know israelis, as we dont know entirely how successful that evacuation of civilians is proving at the moment. I mean, yesterday there was talk of a potential ceasefire, but as we can see from these pictures continue bombardment continue , nude explosions , by continue, nude explosions, by the looks of things, targeted strikes in gaza by the Israeli Forces , theyll be targeting forces, theyll be targeting military bases where they believe theyve theyve got intelligence to say that hamas is situated. But, of course, as is situated. But, of course, as weve seen, there will be civilian casualties , too. So civilian casualties, too. So well keep you very much up to date on whats going on. And of course, what were seeing here is above ground in gaza. But as weve learned over the last couple of days, there is a network tunnels beneath this network of tunnels beneath this area, is about 300km. If area, which is about 300km. If my memory serves me correctly , my memory serves me correctly, in which hamas fighters could be hiding, could be obviously placing devices to detonate if Israeli Soldiers decide to invade on foot to try and root out the hamas terrorist. Out the hamas terrorist. I think someone told us that the tunnels are longer than the tube network or they spread for further than that. So thats a massive, massive, massive length there of tunnelling. There of tunnelling. Just just an there of tunnelling. Justjust an an awful situation. You must stay with gb news all day because, of course , news all day because, of course, we will be going back to Charlie Peters. The situation is incredibly tense. And of course, the domino effects of what happens today could very much impact upon us here in the uk. Up impact upon us here in the uk. Up next, weve got the live desk with Mark Longhurst and pip tomson. Pip is with us now. Good afternoon, pip. Great to see you. What are you to going be covering, covering until 3 00 . Well well be telling you all about how there could possibly be a glimmer of hope for the captured hostages in gaza because turkey says it is in talks with hamas over releasing them there. Them there. Foreign minister says he has spoken to the terrorist groups leader , President Biden. Hes leader, President Biden. Hes preparing to fly to israel and jordan for crisis talks tomorrow. So as iran has issued that chilling warning that it could take action in hours if gaza continues to be bombed, well also be bringing you the very latest from brussels , where latest from brussels, where their terror alert is at the highest level after police shot dead a gunman who killed two swedish nationals in the city and also snp conference. The final day will be live from there. What announcements is its there. What announcements is its leader going to be making . Leader going to be making . So weve come to the end of our show this morning. Thank you to all of our guests. Scarlett mccgwire and tanya buxton. Also at end of the program. And at the end of the program. And thank everybody whos thank you to everybody whos contributed. At contributed. Thank you to you at home well keeping us company. Yes. Newsroom will be back tomorrow youre with gb tomorrow at 930. Youre with gb news, peoples channel. News, the peoples channel. Stay with us as. Alex deakin here with us as. Alex deakin here with us as. Alex deakin here with your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. For many, a fine day today, but the weather is on the turn. Some very heavy rain heading our way later this week. Its also going to turn windy thanks to storm babette working its way slowly northwards across the bay of biscay, really showing its hand but as it pushes hand tomorrow. But as it pushes further north wednesday further north during wednesday night and thursday and then into friday, were going to see some very rain. And there are a very heavy rain. And there are a number of met Office Warnings in force to today because as i force back to today because as i said, for many, its a fine day out there. The cloud very thick across South West England and south wales and quite gusty winds developing, of winds developing, too. Now, of course, and course, parts of wales and south west today, South West England. Later today, well some rain heading well see some rain heading towards Northern Ireland, but for its bright, for many its dry, its bright, temperatures a little higher than yesterday still the than yesterday. Still on the cool side, especially cool side, though, especially with across the with those winds across the south and the west, theyll continue to strengthen a little this evening and the rain will work its way for a time across parts of Northern Ireland. Nothing this stage nothing too heavy at this stage for elsewhere. Itll stay for many elsewhere. Itll stay dry overnight. For many elsewhere. Itll stay dry overnight. Those winds dry overnight. Those winds starting to pick up little starting to pick up a little coming in the north sea and coming in from the north sea and into wednesday, well see those winds strengthening further. Still areas dry still many eastern areas dry again further west, again tomorrow, further west, though, that rain getting heavier and heavier as storm babette starts to influence things. Please do check out the met website for the met Office Website for the latest warnings and stay up to date through the next few days because theres some very heavy rain the way. And some strong rain on the way. And some strong and gusty winds. Bye for now good afternoon. This is the live desk here on gb news. Coming up this tuesday lunchtime, weve got the very latest in gaza as more rocket fire is seen near the coast in the ten minutes. The last ten minutes. What will israels reaction an the latest an be . Well have the latest live from tel aviv. It comes as President Biden prepares to fly to israel and jordan tomorrow jordan for crisis talks tomorrow as issues a chilling as iran issues a chilling warning that could take warning that it could take action if gaza action in hours if gaza continues to be bombed. Continues to be bombed. The latest, too, from brussels , where the terror alert brussels, where the terror alert at its highest level after police shot dead a gunman who had killed two swedish nationals in the. In the. City well also be taking you to aberdeen as the Scottish First minister, humza yousaf makes his keynote speech at the snps conference, promising £300 million for health care in scotland. First, heres all your scotland. First, heres all your latest headlines with