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Crossing opening for the first time in two weeks. Trucks carrying supplies have been entering the strip and more are now waiting to cross the border. Now waiting to cross the border. Israel bombarded the territory and imposed a blockade preventing the delivery of food , preventing the delivery of food, water and fuel. After the hamas terror attack on october the 7th. The group says todays delivery wont be enough to change the catastrophic medical conditions in gaza. A peace summit is being held in cairo. The secretary general and United Nations, Antonio Gutierrez, says gaza needs more than aid trucks. Gaza needs more than aid trucks. Full trucks on one side, empty stomachs on the other. The trucks need to move as quickly as possible in a massive, sustained and safe way from egypt into gaza. A 20 truck convoy of the egyptian red crescent is moving today. And i want to express my deep gratitude to egypt for the essential role egypt is playing in this regard. But the people of gaza need a commitment for much, much more. A continuous much, much more. A Continuous Delivery of aid to gaza at the scale that is needed. Scale that is needed. The foreign secretary is also in egypt for the summit addressing the escalating war between israel and hamas. James cleverly is expected to tell the Conference Soon that todays delivery of aid cant be a one off. Earlier, Palestine Authority president Mahmoud Abbas said palestinians wont be forced from their land. Forced from their land. We will never , ever accept we will never, ever accept this forcible displacement and will stand tall on our land despite the pivotal challenges from day one, we have asked for the stopping of this barbarous aggression right away and to open up humanitarian corridors to allow for humanitarian and relief aid to get into the gaza strip. But of course , the strip. But of course, the government of israel didnt allow for that. Meanwhile, israels Prime Minister has vowed to continue to fight until all hostages being held by hamas are freed. Its after two american citizens Judith Raanan and her 17 year old daughter, natalie, were released yesterday. Hamas says the decision was made on humanitarian grounds and was secured after an agreement with the qatari government. Its the qatari government. Its believed more than 200 people are still being held by the terrorist group. Tens and terrorist group. Tens and thousands of palestine supporters are taking part in a march in london. The Palestine Solidarity Campaign says the protesters will be calling for an end to the violence in the middle east and for the uk government to stop supporting israels actions. In other news, israels actions. In other news, storm babet continues to pose a risk to life across some areas of the uk. Another red weather warning has been issued for parts of eastern scotland following widespread flooding. An amber warning for rain is also in place across parts of england with the Environmental Agency issuing three severe Flood Warnings in derbyshire. Around 100,000 people were left without power as a result of the storm with the majority now reconnected to the grid. Meanwhile elon erg customers are being advised not to travel due to widespread disruption. Weather expert phil morrish says the storm is unprecedented. The storm is unprecedented. Storm beck continues to pose a risk to life across some areas of the country. A red weather warning issued for parts of aberdeenshire and angus is due to the end at 6 pm. This evening. And an amber warning for rain is in place across parts of england with the Environmental Agency issuing three severe Flood Warnings is now recycling is to come to a standards from 2026. The plan will see homes, businesses and schools recycle the same materials they will also be a once a week minimum food Waste Collection to reduce the amount going to landfill. Its all part of the governments drive to simplify the process. Current simplify the process. Current recycling rates in england are just over 44, which has been the same for the last decade. And same for the last decade. And this is gb news across the uk on tv , in your car, on your digital tv, in your car, on your Digital Radio and on your Smart Speaker by saying play gb news now its back to gb news. By saying play gb news now its back to gb news. Saturday sophia. Thanks very much. Now the rafah crossing has now opened to allow the flow of aid into gaza as the first trucks begin to deliver those much needed humanitarian supplies to gazas 2 million plus residents. The 2 million plus residents. The breakthrough comes as palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is in cairo for peace talks. But tanks and military personnel are still amassing near gaza on the Israeli Border as the world holds its breath for what could be an all out ground offensive by Israeli Military. Lets cross to our gb News Reporter Charlie Peters, whos in tel aviv. Charlie, good whos in tel aviv. Charlie, good afternoon to you. Lots to talk about. Afternoon to you. Lots to talk about. But lets start, first of about. But lets start, first of all, with the opening of this crossing. Do we know how long its going to be open for . Is it its going to be open for . Is it only aid in are there any people that are going to be allowed out . Well , this morning the us well, this morning the us embassy did refer to both the arrival of aid into the gaza strip and also warned of a potentially chaotic situation with regards to people leaving. But since then, i havent had any confirmation about foreign nationals being allowed to leave the gaza strip. And weve sent questions to the various agencies and indeed embassies involved in that operation. But involved in that operation. But we did see some 20 trucks crossing in from the egyptian side into the gaza strip this morning. They understood to be carrying both medical supplies and medical equipment to restock and medical equipment to restock and replenish those hospitals and replenish those hospitals and humanitarian zones, working in gaza and also food high powered biscuits, the sort that the un deliver to crisis areas all over the world because there are some 2 Million People in gaza facing this appalling humanitarian situation which the idf denies. But the un delivering that food in order to supply as many people as possible, just 20 trucks for 2 Million People is certainly not a lot of aid. And the un said it would just scratch the surface. Would just scratch the surface. But hamas also said it would not be a sufficient amount of aid to care for people under bombardment. Care for people under bombardment. But care for people under bombardment. But weve also had bombardment. But weve also had further commentary from this cairo peace summit, also in egypt, of course, where weve heard from King Abdullah of jordan last half hour. He jordan in the last half hour. He has denounced what he has described as a global silence around the world. When it comes to the situation in the gaza strip. He said that to the arab world. It feels as though palestinian lives matter less than israeli ones. Now, that than israeli ones. Now, that will, of course, be met very sternly by some World Leaders, especially in the west, who have been engaged with both palestinian and israeli leaders, both describing israels duty to defend itself. But also expressing concern for the situation in the gaza strip. In particular, Prime Minister rishi sunak and foreign secretary James Cleverly being in cairo , James Cleverly being in cairo, both in the last few days trying to conduct some humanity , korean to conduct some humanity, korean diplomacy there to get vital aid to the gazans. But at the same to the gazans. But at the same time, of course, supporting israels duty, they say, to defend themselves. Thats seen as a tacit support for a Ground Invasion as israel gears up to do what it describes as the destruction of the hamas military capabilities starting in the north that we believe also going on to that secondary objective further south. Should that order come imminently. So a strong statement from King Abdullah of jordan in cairo, and that reflects the wider arab mood where there are still protests across the region this morning in ramallah , in the west morning in ramallah, in the west bank, the idf said that theyve now arrested some 670 palestine opinions since the atrocities of october the 7th. Many of them, they say, suspected of belonging to or supporting the hamas terror group. They also released terror group. They also released some footage this morning that they claim them destroying they claim is them destroying they claim is them destroying the home of a hamas leader who was convicted of a killing in february. So ramping up those tensions in the west bank, but also throughout the arab region where protests continue. Beirut baghdad and in libya. And in cairo as well, where theres peace summit is taking place. People are still extremely angry, giving arab leaders very little room to manoeuvre. Theyre likely to stay on that same stance that theyve been on since the explosion in north gaza on tuesday night. Whilst i talk to you, charlie , i just want to show some pictures , if we can, some drone pictures, if we can, some drone footage of the latest destruction in gaza , israeli destruction in gaza, israeli airstrikes , we are told, hitting airstrikes, we are told, hitting airstrikes, we are told, hitting a residential district. Please a residential district. Please tell us the latest on the hostage situation , anne, because hostage situation, anne, because the Israeli Military has given a News Conference once earlier and the number of hostages has increase , it. Increase, it. Thats right. So increase, it. Thats right. So the increase, it. Thats right. So the figure has gone from 203 down to 201. Last night when hamas said they released two american hostages for humanitarian reasons. Well, in israel, many people are saying thats still 201. Being kept for inhumane , starion kept for inhumane, starion reasons. But theyve now pushed that number up to 210. The idf , that number up to 210. The idf, according to new intelligence, theyve gathered from the situation in the gaza strip, of course, as they delay that Ground Invasion, thats allowing more civilians, they say, to move south. But its also allowing the Israeli Military , allowing the Israeli Military, intelligence and local Security Forces to gain a better understanding of where those hostages are and gain more insight into to where they may be within gaza. Obviously, were not privy to those operational details, but its understood that the Israeli Intelligence networks are extensive within even the gaza strip. So gaining more information day by day about where they are. And they have reaffirmed that it is a priority today in a press conference to recover those hostages, the eu and the us are understood to be urging israel to delay its invasion in order to delay its invasion in order to secure more diplomatic efforts to recover those hostages. And qatar was hostages. And qatar was instrumental in that operation last night. Indeed the us and the uk and france thanked qatar for their mediation efforts there. But in israel, they say they say there will be no break in their efforts to continue to destroy the hamas military capabilities. That invasion is still imminent. Is there any cause for optimism . The fact that in the last few hours we saw to the relief of their family, the American Mother and daughter released, does it mean that there is conversation, that there is conversation, that there is conversation, that there is hope that we could see more hostages come well, be freed now. Freed now. Well, there are several realistic possibly cities here in one camp. Yes. This is being seen as a potential diplomatic breakthrough , a mediation with breakthrough, a mediation with the qataris hosting to gain more insight and to possibly pull more hamas actions where they release more hostages. But at the same time , some in israel the same time, some in israel this morning saying that this is just a desperate propaganda effort by hamas in order to delay that invasion. They want to delay the israelis moving in and taking on their forces on the ground because for some corners of the world, some military and security analysts, theyre saying that actually a Ground Invasion might be the more humanitarian role for the idf to take here as youve alluded to in those pictures weve been showing this morning and this afternoon of the destruct in of gaza city through those israeli airstrikes, fighter ing on the ground with tanks and infantry would allow for more precise and targeted military action. So say the idf. Military action. So say the idf. And so is this a deliberate action by hamas to hold off on that operation, which could pierce into their defences more directly and prevent the destruction of civilian areas andindeed destruction of civilian areas and indeed the appalling loss of civilian lives . Civilian lives . Okay, charlie , for the okay, charlie, for the moment, thanks very much for that latest update from tel aviv. Back here, a massive pro palestinian march is happening in Central London in protest against the israeli bombardment of gaza as several countries move to ban the protests. Well, todays march protests. Well, todays march has been organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, along with friends of al aqsa stop the War Coalition , an and stop the War Coalition, an and the Muslim Association of britain. Well get the latest britain. Well get the latest from that protest. Now our gb news Political Correspondent olivia utley is right across it. Olivia utley is right across it. Olivia whats the turnout been like . What is happening . Hello like . What is happening . Hello yes, the march is just setting off now. The turnout is pretty big as you can see, but its smaller than last week. The Police Presence, though , is very Police Presence, though, is very high indeed. Its said that there are 1000 Police Officers here today and i can see quite a few of them here now. They have a challenge on their hands today. Not only in making sure that this protest stays peaceful. Last week , there were peaceful. Last week, there were 15 protesters arrested for disturbing the peace and minor acts of violence. Today they are also trying to get a lid on the chanting problem. One issue thats suella braverman. The thats suella braverman. The home secretary has drawn attention to is anti semitic chants happening at these rallies , one which has caused rallies, one which has caused particular consternation an is this repeated chant of from the river to the sea palestine will be free now to lots of british jews. That is seen as an anti semitic slogan. But today the met police have actually decided that they will let protesters go ahead with it as long as theyre not doing it in an inflammatory area. So in front of a school or the Israeli Embassy feelings are running high today. But overall, its a high today. But overall, its a peaceful atmosphere. Im seeing lots of children. Seeing lots of children. Im seeing lots of children. Im seeing lots toddlers. But heres lots of toddlers. But heres what organisers had what some of the organisers had to say. To say. Well, despite the weather, were anticipate seeing today being hundreds of being joined by hundreds of thousands of people. There are coaches arriving all across coaches arriving from all across the uk. Were going to be joined today by the leaders of britains trade union movement, representing millions of british workers mps , by members of workers by mps, by members of civil society. Were all united in delivering today the same message. We want the violence to end. So message. We want the violence to end. So calling for an end. So were calling for an immediate ceasefire so that necessary humanitarian aid can be safely delivered to the people of gaza. We are here people of gaza. We are here today to assert the truth that violence will ultimately not end until you address the root causes of violence and that is israels decades long imposition of a system of military occupation and apartheid upon the people of palestine. And we are marching to downing street to deliver a message to our Political Leadership that you need to end your complicit support for this system of oppression. And you need to stop oppression. And you need to stop your green lighting of israels commission right now of war crimes upon the people of gaza. Crimes upon the people of gaza. So as you can see, the organisers of this march, they are calling for peace, but they are calling for peace, but they are talking about the illegal occupation of palestine , as they occupation of palestine, as they put it. Weve seen lots of banners behind me echoing similar sentiments this is likely to inflame tensions among british jews and palestinians here in the uk. But british jews and palestinians here in the uk. But at the here in the uk. But at the moment at least, it feels as though this rally has less momentum to it than the rally last week, which will certainly be a relief for the metropolia police. Absolutely olivia utley live from westminster. Live from westminster. Thanks so much for that. Thanks so much for that. Well, i want to talk about the geopolitical consequences of the war because one of the main worries for western nations is iran, who themselves have warned israel of a regional escalation if their military were to launch a Ground Invasion of gaza. So should we be concerned by iran whove so far denied any involvement in hamas attacks on israel . While someone involvement in hamas attacks on israel . While someone whos involvement in hamas attacks on israel . While someone whos been israel . While someone whos been analysing this because he is a Defence Analyst is stuart crawford. Good afternoon to you, crawford. Good afternoon to you, stuart. Thanks for talking to me this afternoon on gb news. What is your reading then . Does iran really want to get directly involved in this conflict or is it flexing its muscles . It flexing its muscles . Good afternoon. I think quite clearly the latter. The one thing that iran does not want is to enter the conflict directly, because that will bring it into direct confrontation with the usa. And if push comes to shove, usa. And if push comes to shove, there will be only one winner in that contest and it wont be iran. But what it is doing is, as you said, its flexing its its muscles is a big backer of hezbollah in south lebanon, as as we all know. And it also backs the Houthi Rebels in yemen. And its interesting that the us has carney , a united the us has carney, a United States naval cruiser at anti missile destroyer in the north sea. The red sea has has north sea. The red sea has has knocked down several incoming missiles directed. We think , missiles directed. We think, towards israel from the Houthi Rebels. And those weapons suppued rebels. And those weapons supplied by iran. So, yes , iran supplied by iran. So, yes, iran is flexing its muscles , but i is flexing its muscles, but i dont think it has any real desire at this point to become directly involved. What would change that then for iran to get directly involved . Well , thats difficult to well, thats difficult to say. I think it would have to sense weakness on the part of the of behalf of the usa to become involved in yet another war in the world already deeply involved, obviously, in ukraine and in syria. And theres always and in syria. And theres always the ongoing tension between taiwan and china. And i think if iran sensed that there was any sort of weakness in us resolve , sort of weakness in us resolve, then it might be persuaded to become directly involved in the gaza conflict. But i think gaza conflict. But i think thats unlikely at the moment because the us obviously has a massive Deterrent Force and its two carrier groups in the Eastern Mediterranean at the moment. Moment. But of course this is what we keep talking about this expected ground offensive in gaza by the Israeli Military hasnt actually happened yet. If and when it does do you expect iran to respond in some way . Well it respond in some way . Well it says its going to respond. And but i think thats probably just a bit of a bluff, actually. Ive got no doubt that actually. Ive got no doubt that the Israeli Military, the idf is absolutely champing at the bit to get started. But obviously, the diplomatic interventions by President Joe Biden and rishi sunak and others has stayed their hand. If you like. But from a Military Point of view, theyll be raring to go and get on with this and get get it completed as soon as they possibly can. I thought it would have started by now. It hasnt, but i cant see it lasting. I cant see it not starting within the next few days. Do you think perhaps it was a case of the leaders have come in . Joe biden, the german chancellor, rishi sunak , and now chancellor, rishi sunak, and now those diplomatic leaders. I know theres the peace summit in cairo, but now those leaders have left. We did hear that president macron might go, but weve heard no more about that. Weve heard no more about that. Is that now theyve departed . Is that when we could see something happen . Happen . Yes, i think thats i mean, i think that any military action that the idf had undertook while joe bidens plane, air force one, was still on the tarmac would not have been a good look. But you talk about the peace conference in cairo. Its conference in cairo. Its interesting that neither the us or iran or indeed the uk or the uk has been represented by James Cleverly but the us and iran are not going to be there. So i dont think its going to stop the israelis doing what they need to do and what i suspect they want to do in the very near future. And do you think these is this peace summit in cairo can can achieve anything like you say, some of some of the big people there not present there . People there not present there . Yes, theyre not. And in the final analysis , i think that, final analysis, i think that, you know, whether we like it or not, the whether they like it or not, the whether they like it or not, the whether they like it or not, the us is the worlds policeman. And people look to them to take the lead. And until them to take the lead. And until them to take the lead. And until the us comes down one way or other and theyve come down very firmly on the side of israel against the Hamas Terrorists, then i dont think theres any chance of this military action, not not happening. But in the end , all wars are ended by end, all wars are ended by compromise and negotiation and that will be the eventual end of this current conflict. This current conflict. Defence analyst stuart crawford, really appreciate your insight this afternoon. Thanks so much for to talking me. Insight this afternoon. Thanks so much for to talking me. You so much for to talking me. You are watching and listening to gb news saturday with me. Pip tomson. Plenty more coming up on todays show in a moment, ill be speaking with well , a fierce be speaking with well, a fierce defender of Boris Johnson for a discussion on the latest by election disasters for the Prime Minister and the conservatives in tamworth and bedfordshire. All of that and bedfordshire. All of that and more to come. Do stay with us. This is and people that i knew had dewbs co weeknights. From. Co weeknights. From. Six welcome back to gb news saturday. Im pip tomson. Now labour dealt a double by election blow to rishi sunak this week by overturning two huge conservative majorities in tamworth and mid bedfordshire. Sir keir starmer claimed labour was redrawing the political map by taking seats which had been comfortably conservative ahead of the general election, expected next year. In mid bedfordshire, Alastair Strathern took the seat over his tory rival. Well, what could this mean for the Prime Minister . Is he marching his party towards a 1997 style wipe out or worse . Well joining me now is former conservative member of the european parliament, David Campbell bannerman. Good afternoon to you , david. Thanks afternoon to you, david. Thanks for talking to me this afternoon. Soon, youll remember that year very well, 1997 landslide. Do you think youre in danger of that happening again next year . Im afraid, yes. At the moment. I im afraid, yes. At the moment. I mean, im afraid, yes. At the moment. I mean, the polling im afraid, yes. At the moment. I mean, the polling is terrible and these by election losses are terrible. I fought in 97. I fought in 2001. And, you know, we were out of power. The conservatives for 13 years. And think the message, though, is whats happened is conservative voters havent turned up in masses. You know, 20,000 missing. And all of these seats like tamworth, mid beds. And the like tamworth, mid beds. And the lesson is, you know, weve got to become more conservative again. You know, cut taxes, get again. You know, cut taxes, get a grip on public spending, sort out immigration for real grass up those brexit opportunities. You know , we saw today that the you know, we saw today that the neutrality rules are going to stay the eu neutrality rules which will screw up a lot of Housing Developments , and thats Housing Developments, and thats outrageous. So weve got to be more tory again. And then our voters will return and it could mean that we could actually win the next election. Okay. David. But some people would say low turnout at the by elections. Thats a pretty feeble excuse. And turning it around. Well, you aint got long around. Well, you aint got long to do it, have you . Maybe a yean to do it, have you . Maybe a year. Maybe 15 months. Its nothing. I mean, we have to hold the election by january 25th, 2025. I mean, i think its more likely to be in about a years time. Erm. Yeah, its tight, but as i say, the message is if we dont become more conservative again and these tory voters dont turn up in large numbers in the general election, then we really do have a headache. Well be do have a headache. Well be worse than 97. Professor curtis has said that and that is outrageous. You know, we lost outrageous. You know, we lost 178 mp5 outrageous. You know, we lost 178 mps in 97, went down 165 total. You end up with a rump andits total. You end up with a rump and its worse than that. Then we are in serious trouble. So, we are in serious trouble. So, you know, weve got to get tory again and weve got to get back to what we really stand for and make clear thats what we do stand for. And in that year its possible to turn things around, but weve got to act quickly. And some would blame Boris Johnson, former Prime Minister some would blame partygate all those events in 10 downing street while the rest of us were suffering could be a big part of this. This. I dont buy it because after three months of intense media attention, after partygate, we were only 2 to 4 behind in the polls. I mean, you know, in his polls. I mean, you know, in his resignation speech, Boris Johnson, he refers to being a couple of points behind in the polls and were now minus 20 or worse. And im afraid, you know, rishi has got to get a grip on this. If hes going to stay. I think, you know, he could be in big trouble. Hes coming up to a Year Anniversary and mps might think, well, were all going to lose our seats, so we might as well get rid of rishi and think. Do you think do you think thats possible that do you think the. No confidence letters could be going in next week and rishi sunaks position as Prime Minister is a bit perilous and wouldnt that actually make it more perilous for the tories, for rishi sunak to go barely a year before an election . Well , i year before an election . Well, i think it is perilous for rishi. Remember, no one voted for him. The membership didnt vote for him, which is something that the conservative Democratic Organisation i chair, the membership voted for liz truss and we know what happened there. She there. Well, you know, she actually did a lot of good, but she made a big mistake too far, far as she said, economically she did the right thing and the wrong way and there was a terrible price to be paid. Thats true. But lets not just throw away all that she did. You know, she was right on the economy. Even labour actually are following the her her her appeal to have economic growth. But i do think, rishi you know hes either got to really say were going to become more conservative again and really mean it or hes in trouble. I mean it or hes in trouble. I think because tory mps are going to think we, you know, were all going to lose our seats. And to date, theyve had their heads stuck in the sand. They havent actually reacted to a lot of this. They think theyre going to by at the last to be saved by rishi at the last moment. Two by elections moment. These two by elections have said that thats not going to you they are in to happen. You know, they are in serious trouble. They are seats. Serious trouble. They are seats. If they dont if the government doesnt change dramatically and get back to being a tory government or , you know, rishi government or, you know, rishi has got to go and youve got to get a leader that actually believes in those conservative policies. Again that is, you know, not likely, but it is feasible. David very finely. I just david very finely. I just want a quick answer on a scale of 1 to 10, what do you understand the morale in the tory party to be like at the moment . Moment . Minus two, really. I dont minus two, really. I dont think its even positive , im think its even positive, im afraid. You know, a lot of conservative mps are given up. They resign. Ed its a bit like they resign. Ed its a bit like i call it the hong kong phenomena where theyre just, you know, waiting for the leftist hordes march in, as leftist hordes to march in, as in hong kong. And that is not good enough. Weve got to fight. You know, we dont want to be out power for ten years. Out of power for ten years. I remember that as a conservative. You know, under tony blair, 13 years government, the years of labour government, the damage causes is enormous. So damage it causes is enormous. So theyve got to get their heads out of the sand and theyve got to do what is necessary, including challenge whingeing rishi do better or to go, okay. David Campbell Bannerman former conservative member of the european parliament, really appreciate your thoughts. Thanks ever so much. Well, you are ever so much. Well, you are watching and listening to gb news saturday with me. Pip, pip, news saturday with me. Pip, pip, pip pip pip , pip news saturday with me. Pip, pip, pip, pip, pip , pip tomson. News saturday with me. Pip, pip, pip pip, pip, pip tomson. Lots pip, pip, pip, pip tomson. Lots more coming up on pip pip, pip, pip tomson. Lots more coming up on todays show. We will be discussing storm babet. Well all this footage that weve been seeing absolutely terrible for many parts of the uk, including in eastern scotland and now in chesterfield in derbyshire , chesterfield in derbyshire, where hundreds of houses have been flooded. Thats and much more to come. First, your latest headunes more to come. First, your latest headlines with sophia. Headlines with sophia. Its 1233. Headlines with sophia. Its1233. Im sophia headlines with sophia. Its 1233. Im sophia wenzler in the newsroom. Aid has started in the newsroom. Aid has started flowing into gaza with the rafah crossing opening for the first time in two weeks. Trucks carrying supplies have been entering the strip and more are now waiting to cross the border to israel. Bombarded the territory and imposed a blockade preventing the delivery of food, water and fuel. After the hamas terror attack on october the 7th. The group says todays delivery wont be enough to change the catastrophic medical conditions in gaza. The foreign conditions in gaza. The foreign secretary is in egypt for a summit to discuss the escalating war between israel and hamas. War between israel and hamas. James cleverly is expected to tell the peace conference more needs to be done to allow humanitarian relief into gaza and that todays delivery cant be a one off. Meanwhile while israels Prime Minister has vowed to continue to fight until all hostages being held by hamas are freed, its after two american citizens , Judith Raanan american citizens, Judith Raanan and her 17 year old daughter, natalie , were released natalie, were released yesterday. Hamas says the decision was made on humanitarian grounds and was secured after an agreement with the qatari government in the uk. The qatari government in the uk. Storm babet continues to pose a risk to life across some areas of the country. A red weather of the country. A red weather warning issued for parts of aberdeenshire and angus is due to end at 6 00 this evening and amber warning for rain is in place across parts of england with the Environmental Agency issuing three severe Flood Warnings derbyshire. And you warnings in derbyshire. And you can get more on all those stories by visiting our website at gbnews. Com. Now back to you. Sunday mornings from 930 on. Gb news is. News is. Hello. Welcome back. The rafah Border Crossing between egypt and south gaza has now opened finally to deliver aid to the people of gaza as numerous countries try to resolve this brewing middle eastern crisis. And the Israeli Military has now revised its number of hostages held by hamas to 210. It was 203, but of course, we do know the mother and daughter were released last night. Dont we . And there are still those expectations of an imminent Ground Invasion by israel into gaza. Ground invasion by israel into gaza. Lets get the view of gaza. Lets get the view of israeli journalist Yotam Confino. Good afternoon to you, yotam. Good afternoon to you, yotam. Thanks for talking to us. That crossing finally open again, but a lot more aid is needed. It a lot more aid is needed. It doesnt scratch the surface , doesnt scratch the surface, doesnt scratch the surface, does it . No it doesnt. And about 200 trucks are actually waiting now on the egyptian side of the border just to go in. But what we heard from President Biden is that only 20 trucks per day will be allowed to go in. They will take a long time to just get through the trucks that are already waiting with medicine, food and water. And, of course, theres this constant looming threat of the border being shut again. If any pictures emerge from the gaza strip of hamas taking the aid as in if you see pictures of hamas with food from from the countries that have supported this humanitarian assistance , this humanitarian assistance, this humanitarian assistance, this will mean that israel will shut the border. So its a very risky operation. And its practically impossible to prevent hamas from at least getting some of this aid, because we do know that there are plenty of people in gaza that support hamas. So its a very risky operation. We dont know how long this Border Crossing will remain open. And we dont also know if people with dual citizenship, citizenship will be allowed to go from gaza into sinai into into into egypt. Thats something that a lot of countries have been working hard to ensure. But we still dont know if thats going to be possible. Yeah and the other big news far today is that the news so far today is that the number of hostages thats now been revised upward is to 210. The mother and daughter that were released last night. Such wonderful scenes to see them safe and sound. Do you think that offers a glimmer of hope that offers a glimmer of hope that more hostages could be released in the coming days . And released in the coming days . And will israel hold off their invasion for that to happen . First of all, i do think that it offers hope. Most families initial are, of course, hopeful and they refuse to give up hope. They put pressure on the government to give hamas whatever they ask for. They dont care what they get. They just want their daughters, their sons and their grandparents back. But this is also sort of a psychological warfare from hamas. Hamas is now giving a little bit of a treat, so to say, just to show that it says it says that its being humanitarian. I think thats a bit laughable given what they just committed of atrocities on the israeli side. But hamas is really trying now to show the world that it is playing ball. If humanitarian aid comes in, then it will release hostages , even though release hostages, even though those two things havent actually been connected. We havent gotten that confirmed that it was a demand from hamas to get humanitarian aid in or that israel and the United States agreed to it. And the second thing you asked about the Ground Invasion, i dont see israel halting any sort of Ground Invasion. If israel would Ground Invasion. If israel would have had a different tactic from the beginning, saying we will get the hostages out no matter what, even if we have to release 10,000 palestinian prisoners, they would done it. But they would have done it. But they would have done it. But they havent. And they stick with the Ground Invasion. So i dont this going to dont think this is going to hold it at all. And we were just seeing more smoke over as we were smoke over gaza as we were talking to you there. People that you speak to around you in tel aviv is opinion ian, still very much behind and this this military action by israel or as the death toll rises in gaza and the death toll rises in gaza and the humanitarian crisis deepens, does that desire for military action or is that reduced slightly . Slightly . No, its over ovennhelming majority of israelis support this Ground Invasion. And for a couple of reasons. First of all, what happened here is reminiscent of the holocaust and israel cannot and will not accept that hamas gets away with it. So there is, first of all, a strong urge of revenge of once and all eradicating hamas, removing it, and the civilian casualties in the gaza strip is of course, a huge issue. But israelis also say, wait a minute, first of all, hamas committed atrocities on our side. Second of all, we still have 210 people, at least held hostage, a baby nine months, nine months old and elderly. So nine months old and elderly. So we cant start being concerned about civilians that are being used as human shields by hamas. We cant take care of both these both the palestinian civilians, our own civilians , and in the our own civilians, and in the meantime, fight and uneven warfare with with hamas. Its simply not possible. So israelis simply not possible. So israelis are not thats not their main priority. Their main priority is to get the hostages out and to eradicate hamas. Yeah , i do understand that. Yeah, i do understand that. I just wonder whether it has , i just wonder whether it has, i guess, any impact on people in israel when they see the impact of the airstrikes on gaza. Its very easy to see the people that are injured. I saw in some awful video footage, which i probably should have not watched, but a dead baby being wrapped up and taken away. Were all human taken away. Were all human beings, arent we . Yotam absolutely. Im also affected. Everyones affected. You have to be very, very cold to not care at all. So of course people care. But again, they are. Its a dilemma for israel because theyve seen this over and over with with hamas hiding behind civilians. Israel trying to kill them. And add the casualties just rise. So israelis, are they know that this this is just a situation. This this is just a situation. Anne, what can you do . Either you go after hamas and civilians will die or you dont. You let them get away with it and you just stand on the other side of the border and try to negotiate with terrorists. Its not possible. And i think a lot of israelis say i know that israelis also say i know that they also point to the United States, the united kingdom, many other that invaded other countries that invaded afghanistan and iraq say, afghanistan and iraq and say, wait a minute , you were hunting wait a minute, you were hunting terrorists. Look how many civilians died there. Why are we the being being held the ones being being held accountable when were trying to only target Hamas Terrorists . Its just so incredibly difficult , though, isnt it, to difficult, though, isnt it, to target only Hamas Terrorists knowing how they operate , knowing how they operate, knowing how they operate, knowing how they they put themselves amongst the civilian population and only targeting them is next to impossible . Its them is next to impossible . Its absolutely impossible. And absolutely impossible. And listen, for those who still think that hamas have a shred of decency left in them and they actually care about the palestinian people, the two biggest examples of why thats not the case, the case in the last week is, first of all, ishmael haniyeh, the political leader who sits comfortably in qatar, has said no civilians in gaza are to leave any of their homes. Stay where you are. It doesnt matter if its a war zone. It doesnt matter if you get killed. Stay on. Khaled mashaal, who is also one of the leaders, said were we are willing to sacrifice countless numbers of palestinians to eradicate israel. And thirdly, eradicate israel. And thirdly, we heard the United Nations earlier this week say that hamas had stolen Energy Resources from them and stolen medicine. They deleted that tweet tweet after. Deleted that tweet tweet after. We dont know if thats because they were threatened, but they didnt retract the statement. They didnt say it didnt happen. They just deleted the tweet. So this is just a terrorist organisation keeping 2 Million People hostages , keeping Million People hostages, keeping hundreds of israelis and foreign nationals hostages and committing some of the worst atrocities weve seen in in the 21st century. So yes, israel does care about civilians , does care about civilians, theres no doubt about it. But they care about their own people first. They need to get their people out first, kill hamas and then hopefully avoid as many civilian casualties as possible. Civilian casualties as possible. So can we can we also just look at the northern border, the northern Israeli Border with lebanon , because weve got this lebanon, because weve got this cross border fire continuing. Cross border fire continuing. There is there a nervousness about israel now getting involved , the Israeli Military involved, the Israeli Military on multiple fronts, and how big is the Israeli Military . Is it is the Israeli Military . Is it big enough to deal with that . Will it not be spreading itself thin . Thin . Its a very good question. I would say under normal circumstances, if israel were not engaged in this massive warfare against hamas, israel would be very ready to take on hezbollah and they would have also had gone to war with hezbollah already. Hezbollah has hezbollah already. Hezbollah has crossed so many lines for israel, fire laying rockets repeatedly almost on a daily basis, killing israelis with anti tank missiles. But because the situation at the gaza border requires so many Israeli Soldiers , israel has still not soldiers, israel has still not engagedin soldiers, israel has still not engaged in full warfare with hezbollah. But absolutely, that is the main concern in israel, believes it can handle hamas in gaza because its a much weaker entity than than hezbollah , a entity than than hezbollah, a war with hezbollah. It will be a catastrophe because it will mean hundreds of thousands of rockets fired from lebanon. All across fired from lebanon. All across israel, many people who dont have bomb shelters and their missiles are precision guided. Theyre much, much bigger than what hamas has. But israel keeps relying on the United States and especially joe biden , who has especially joe biden, who has repeatedly said dont take advantage of the situation. Hes sending this message to hezbollah and iran. So israel hopes that the United States will help if it gets to a point of a war. But whether it will actually go in with ground troops, thats a whole different issue. So, yes, its a lot of worrying, a lot of lots of tension and its much more, much more dangerous whats happening on the northern border. Actually interesting. Israeli journalist Yotam Confino always appreciate your contributions to gb news. Thank you so much. Gb news. Thank you so much. Well, back here, the devastation from storm babet is continuing numerous more red warnings are issued for england and flooding in numerous towns and villages. In numerous towns and villages. There are currently in england alone , 300 Flood Warnings. And alone, 300 Flood Warnings. And this is chesterfield that youre looking at and whats been described as biblical levels of rainfall. Im not sure that that truck driver was being completely sensible driving through that. But yeah , so much through that. But yeah, so much rainfall. Residents waking up to flooding throughout the town in a moment, we are hoping to speak to meteorologist john hammond. To meteorologist john hammond. But let me just continue showing you these pictures because they really are quite dramatic. River levels, officials are warning, are continuing to rise due to storm babet. There is a risk to life in some areas. Three people life in some areas. Three people have died since the storm hit the uk on wednesday and there is a search continue. Ewing in a search continue. Ewing in aberdeenshire , thats parts of aberdeenshire, thats parts of eastern scotland where there is still a red weather warning in place until 6 00 this evening. Theres reports of a man trapped in a vehicle in flood water. The Environment Agency is saying there is severe Flood Warnings in place around the river dennent in derbyshire. These pictures are also from chesterfield in derbyshire. A school bus , look at that flooded school bus, look at that flooded road, which obviously caused a lot of concern amongst the youngsters on that. We they were all safe and sound , but there is all safe and sound, but there is this continuing risk of serious injury and a serious disruption to local communities. So john hammond , i think you are with us hammond, i think you are with us now, meteorologist. Hammond, i think you are with us now, meteorologist. Thanks hammond, i think you are with us now, meteorologist. Thanks ever now, meteorologist. Thanks ever so much for talking to us. Yeah, just looking at those pictures is absolutely dreadful , the is absolutely dreadful, the effect that its having on communities. Just just tell us communities. Just just tell us overall what the overall picture is at the moment and how much longer were in this danger zone , if you like. , if you like. Well, first, the good news and across england, there are now no more rain warnings in force. They have lapsed and they are unlikely to return. So its are unlikely to return. So its are unlikely to return. So its a its a mopping up process which is beginning across those flood stricken parts of east anglia, the midlands and up into northern england. Having said that, of course, theres always a lag between it stopping raining and all water then raining and all that water then working way down through the working its way down through the River Systems, is why we River Systems, which is why we have three severe Flood Warnings in force along stretches the in force along stretches of the river dennent flows river dennent. The dennent flows into trent and the trent into the trent and the trent then flows into the wash. So itll be a while yet before the alarm is lowered for these large River Systems , these large River Systems, these large catchments across eastern england. But the good news is, england. But the good news is, as i say , is that the persistent as i say, is that the persistent heavy rain has now eased across england. Different story, england. Different story, though, for scotland. This is though, for scotland. This is where storm babet first reared its head. And this is where it would be last to loosen its grip. We still have a Severe Weather warning in force for parts of aberdeenshire into parts of aberdeenshire and into angus. And here several more angus. And here several more hours of heavy rain and several more tens of millimetres. A good few places here will have had over 200mm of rain. When all is said and done. Now that is a colossal amount. So thats an historic rainfall event. Yes, these rainfall events have happened through history. We happened through history. We occasionally we get these sorts of Freak Weather storms, but the fact is theyre becoming more frequent and becoming more extreme as our climate begins to warm. But i must stress that the warm. But i must stress that the worst is now over across those flood stricken parts of england in as much as its stopping raining. But it will take raining. But it will take a while for those river levels to ease down. For scotland, its going to take longer and although we will have a respite , although we will have a respite, i. E. Tomorrow will be a mostly dry day as we go into next week, it looks like more heavy rain will return. So theres no sign of a prolonged dry spell. So that will cause some concern for many who have been hit by the flood. The prospect that therell be more rain at times as we go through next week. Yeah because theres people like me who much prefer the autumn to be cold and sunny rather than wet and mild, but it really is very mild at the moment, very mild. And whats happened . The bigger and whats happened . The bigger picture, why weve had storm babet wet is that actually unusually cold air has been pushing down across scandinavia. Thats been meeting the mild moist air pushing up from the south and where those two air masses have met, the weather front has become stuck. Its become stuck across the north and east of britain and really, its not until those contrasting air masses start to sort of weaken that that weather front will disappear and it is beginning now to dissolve away that front which means the threat of prolonged and heavy rain beginning to ease. But yeah, the big picture of cold air coming down from the north and warm air pushing up from the south is something which is likely to recur again in in the week ahead. So if i were you and if youre if youre watching at the moment, id keep a very close eye on the Weather Forecast over the next few days, because the more widespread picture still volatile picture is still pretty volatile with prospect of further with the prospect of further heavy rain over the next week or so. So. And people shouldnt be an idiot, should they . Like weve seen some pictures and try seen in some pictures and try and drive through these these flood waters. Mean, its flood waters. I mean, its just crackers. Crackers. Its crackers and its selfish as well. I mean, ive selfish as well. I mean, ive seen ive seen some crazy footage of lorries driving through these flood waters and causing mayhem all around with the waves. Youre showing the bow waves. Youre showing one picture there. And, um, one such picture there. And, um, yeah, its. Its stupid because you never know when you drive into these flood waters just how deep water and so , deep that water is. And so, yeah, the advice, the very sound advice is to stay away from flood waters and of course, as i mentioned at the start, although it may have stopped raining, where you are, that doesnt mean that waters are going that the flood waters are going to recede in some to automatically recede in some places. Flood levels, river places. Flood levels, river levels will actually rise over the next day or so as all that water funnels its way down before it eventually reaches the sea. Sea. Thanks so much. Ive got to wrap you up because we need to get off. Need to go to get off. We need to go to a break. But thank you so much for your expertise was telling us about babet. Your expertise was telling us about babet. Do your expertise was telling us about babet. Do stay with about storm babet. Do stay with us. Back a moment. Good afternoon. Welcome to gb news saturday. Im pip tomson and for the next two hours, ill be keeping you company on tv, onune be keeping you company on tv, online and on Digital Radio. Ill keep you up to date on the stories that really matter to you. Coming up this hour, aid trucks finally enter the egypt, gaza crossing with vital humanitarian supplies. Britains foreign secretary says it cannot be a one off. Meanwhile, israel says the number of hostages being held in gaza is now 210, with the latest live from israel. Three people have now died and at least 40,000 homes without power as storm babet hits britain. A second red weather alert in a week is in place in eastern parts of scotland. Torrential rain is forecast for the rest of the uk. Can rishi sunak survive following two disastrous by Election Results . Disastrous by Election Results . Could tory mps be turning on their leader or will they show loyalty and hope . The Prime Minister they can turn their fortunes around . Do get in fortunes around . Do get in touch. Send me your thoughts on vaiews gbnews. Uk. Com or you vaiews gbnews. Uk. Com or you can message me on our social. Were at gb news. First, lets get a roundup of all the news headunes get a roundup of all the News Headlines with sophia. Good afternoon. Its 1 01. Afternoon. Its1 01. Im sophia wenzler in the newsroom. The uk has in the newsroom. The uk has called on israel to show military restraint with its war with hamas. These are live pictures of gaza where smoke can be seen billowing on the skyline, addressing a peace summit in cairo, foreign secretary James Cleverly said hes spoken to the Israeli Government about its duty to respect International Law and the importance of preserving civilian lives in gaza. Civilian lives in gaza. Meanwhile, aid has started flowing into gaza with the rafah crossing opening for the first time in two weeks. Trucks carrying supplies have been entering the strip and more are waiting to cross the border. Waiting to cross the border. Israel bombarded the territory and imposed a blockade, preventing the delivery of food, water fuel. After the hamas water and fuel. After the hamas terror attack in october the seventh, the group says todays delivery wont be enough to change the catastrophic medical conditions in gaza. A peace summit is there being held in cairo and cairo. The secretary general of United Nations, Antonio Gutierrez, says gaza needs much more than aid trucks. Fuel trucks on one side, empty stomachs on the other. Those trucks need to move as quickly as possible in a massive, sustained and safe way from egypt into gaza. A 20 truck from egypt into gaza. A 20 truck convoy of the egyptian red crescent is moving today. And i crescent is moving today. And i want to express my deep gratitude to egypt for the essential role egypt is playing in this regard. But the people in this regard. But the people of gaza need a commitment for much, much more for a Continuous Delivery of aid to gaza at the scale that is needed. Scale that is needed. Meanwhile, israels Prime Minister has vowed to continue to fight until all hostages being held by hamas are freed. Its after two american citizens , Judith Raanan and her 17 year old daughter, natalie, were released yesterday. Hamas says the decision was made on humanitarian grounds and was secured after an agreement with the qatari government. Its the qatari government. Its believed that more than 200 people are still being held by the terrorist group tens and thousands of palestinian supporters are taking part in a march in london, brick by brick , march in london, brick by brick, wall by. Wall wall by. Wall boy, oh boy. Boy, oh boy. The palestinian Solidarity Campaign says the protests will be calling for an end to the violence in the middle east. Campaign director ben jamal says the uk government needs to stop supporting israels actions as we want the violence to end. We want the violence to end. So were calling for an immediate that immediate ceasefire so that necessary aid can necessary humanitarian aid can be safely delivered to the people of gaza. We are here today to assert the truth that violence will ultimately not end until you address the root causes of violence, and that is israels decades long imposition of a system of military occupation and apartheid upon the people of palestine. And we are marching to downing street to deliver a message to our Political Leadership that you need to end your complicit support for this system of oppression. Oppression. Storm babet continues to pose a risk to life across some areas of the country. A red weather warning issued for parts of aberdeenshire and angus is due to end at 6 pm. This evening. An amber warning for rain is in place across parts of england , place across parts of england, with the Environmental Agency issuing three severe Flood Warnings in derbyshire. The recycling in england will be standardised from 2026. The plan will see homes, businesses and schools recycling the same materials. There will also be a once a week minimum food Waste Collection to reduce the amount going to landfill. Its all part of the governments drive to simplify the process. Current recycling rates in england are just over 44, which has been the same for the last decade. And same for the last decade. And this is gb news across the uk on tv, in your car, on your Digital Radio and on your Smart Speaker. By radio and on your Smart Speaker. By saying play gb news now its back to gb news on. Saturday back to gb news on. Saturday thanks very much sophia. Now lets go back to the rafah crossing , which has opened rafah crossing, which has opened on the egyptian side to allow the flow of aid into gaza. Those the flow of aid into gaza. Those first trucks delivering vitally needed supplies to gazans. 2 million residents. The breakthrough comes as palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is in cairo for peace talks. At those peace talks is also the foreign secretary, James Cleverly, who has been speaking there, and he has called for the World Leaders to come together to prevent conflict from spreading further. Conflict from spreading further. James cleverly described the situation as divisive and polarising. The Israeli Military, meanwhile, says there are now 210 hostage cases in gaza. So the Israeli Military has revised that figure upwards. Lets cross live to gb News Reporter Charlie Peters, who is in tel aviv. Charlie, the israeli Israeli Military, i think , has been giving another think, has been giving another briefing saying that the aid shipments that are going now into gaza finally, they do not include fuel. They say yes, i think its understood that its just medical supplies , medical just medical supplies, medical medical equipment and food. So the very basics to sustain the people on the ground. But also at the same time, we have heard from doctors that some of the two dozen hospitals at least operating in gaza, that they are relying on fuel for the generator donors their generator donors to fund their hospitals keep on hospitals to keep them on running energy. As we know, running for energy. As we know, there has been an electricity blockade in the gaza strip for some time now. And in particular since this conflict started on october the seventh, with israel reacting strongly the reacting strongly to the atrocities committed in southern israel. But at the same time, israel. But at the same time, further away from the sinai peninsula, where that aid is entering into the gaza strip, James Cleverly calling on World Leaders, as you say, to prevent an escalation in the regional conflict as israel prepares to launch that Ground Invasion into gaza. And it comes about five hours after we heard reports that the Us Intelligence community understand that iran is not intending to commit a direct action against just the us military. It is instead keen to continue to sustain and posture its proxies in the region. But the us is not anticipating that iran is keen on a direct impact with us forces. This comes after several reported strikes on us bases in both iraq and syria and the us destroyer in the red sea intercept a missile. We believe that was fired by the iran backed but not iran controlled houthi militia in yemen. So houthi militia in yemen. So thats a significant intervention there as people gather in cairo on this peace summit to try and prevent the escalation of this conflict. But also many arab leaders, theyre trying to prevent the conflict from continuing whatsoever. They from continuing whatsoever. They want ceasefire. They want the idf to not go in. But at the same time, in that idf press conference that you were just alluding to, we have heard that the plans have been formally raised and approved for that imminent Ground Invasion. So imminent Ground Invasion. So there is no going back at there really is no going back at this point when it comes to that Ground Invasion. It feels almost certain that will come in the certain that it will come in the next few days now. And it comes after yoav galant, the idf and the sorry, the Israeli Defence minister yesterday said that the troops could see gaza from afar. But would soon see it from the inside and set out his three point plan for that invasion. After much criticism in israel that the israeli side did not have an end state in mind with their invasion. Their invasion. Turning to the hostages, charlie, we saw judith and Natalie Raanan being released last night. Mother and daughter. For some people say that is a glimmer of hope. Now whats your reading of the situation. Reading of the situation. Yes, im seeing it as a positive example of the diplomatic efforts conducted via qatar. That mediator, of course, qatar. That mediator, of course, for hostage release. And qatar has run that role in several other situations in recent years, in particular in russia, in ukraine, and also in africa. But at the same time, while they have been receiving praise in doha for that operation, there is some concern in israel that the hostage release was merely a propaganda tool by hamas. There has even concern among the media about whether or not they would immediately report on the hostage release because hamas has been releasing information about hostages since the start of conflict. And so of his conflict. And its so hard verify , of course, hard to verify, of course, information released by a proscribed Terror Organisation nation. So its uncertain at this point for many observers and analysts in the region what this release of two hostages means. The idf is still gathering information about the number of hostages inside gaza , number of hostages inside gaza, and as you said, its revised that number up to 210. It thinks that number up to 210. It thinks that over half of them are alive and at least 20 of them are children. Its also important to note that they are american hostages released so clearly many are receiving this as a pointed , direct release to pointed, direct release to engage with President Biden, who is , of course, the main military is, of course, the main military supporter and indeed diplomatic supporter and indeed diplomatic supporter of israels efforts. But that is also feeding into the view very popular here in israel among the establishment andindeed israel among the establishment and indeed the general public, that its a propaganda effort, not much of a glimmer of hope for the wider release or if theyre going to release two. There are plenty more they could release today as well. And what about the northern border with with israel, charlie, border fire charlie, that cross border fire continuing is there still a lot of concern in israel about the threat posed by hezbollah . Threat posed by hezbollah . Well, the idf says that its extremely confident that it will do everything it can and will succeed in defending its northern border. But there is wider regional concern. And the wider regional concern. And the bullishness from the idf does not match the confidence expressed by many security agencies in the region. And many people being asked to evacuate from lebanon right now as they anticipate a heightening of the hostilities there and potentially also a move for the idf to conduct pre emptive action further north from that border region, both the netherlands and the belgians evacuated their citizens from lebanon yesterday, ordered an evacuation. People to leave immediately and there is growing concern that the hostilities there will travel north, potentially into the urban areas. We have seen israel launching what it has been described as pre emptive action on syrian airports. And there are concerns that they might attempt to do the same on the International Airport in beirut, the capital of lebanon, over night, the idf said that a 22 year old Staff Sergeant and a reservist had been killed in the north in clashes with with the Lebanese Hezbollah group. There in anti tank guided missile strikes. And in the last hour, strikes. And in the last hour, weve also had information from the idf who say that they have conducted shelling on hezbollah positions. So that conflict still raging on as forces gather on the south. Charlie, thanks very much for that update. We will come back to you, of course, with the latest. A massive latest. A massive pro palestinian march is occurring in Central London this afternoon in protest against the israeli bombardment of gaza. Israeli bombardment of gaza. Several European Countries are moving to ban the protests as well. Well, todays march has been organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, along with other groups , including friends other groups, including friends of al aqsa stop the War Coalition and Muslim Association of britain. Well, lets talk to our correspondent olivia utley gb news, Political Correspondent , who is at the protest. How gb news, Political Correspondent , who is at the protest. How is it going so far . The main it going so far . The main concern, olivia , seems to be the concern, olivia, seems to be the chanting and what powers will police have to carry out arrests if that chanting happens as well . Absolutely. At the moment , absolutely. At the moment, its certainly a spirited rally , its certainly a spirited rally, but from what weve seen so far, there havent been signs of violence that said, the police has a really big challenge on its hands today because there are actually two rallies happening, simultaneous. Theres happening, simultaneous. Theres the rally which were at the main rally which were at right now. And theres also a splinter rally a more pro splinter rally by a more pro hamas group, which is protest ing between the egyptian and turkish embassies. Now the police are a thousand Police Officers on hand, but having to police two different rallies at the same time obviously presents difficulties. As you mentioned there, the chanting is whats causing the most controversy at the moment. Suella braverman the home secretary has ordered the met police to crack down on any anti semitic slogans being used. Anti semitic slogans being used. And one slogan, which was used last week was this chant of from the river to the sea , palestine the river to the sea, palestine will be free now to palestinians that that thats a harmless expression that they would like to see, as they put it, israeli oppression liberated. But for lots of jews living in britain and beyond, its seen as an anti semitic slogan. Today, the metropolitan police have said that they will not arrest anyone using this slogan unless theyre using this slogan unless theyre using it in inflammatory ways or in front of Israeli Embassy or in front of Israeli Embassy or in front of a Jewish School. At the moment, during this rally. But as i say, this is only one of two rallies. The slogans dont seem to be veering into into that territory. Weve heard lots of free palestine. Weve lots of free palestine. Weve heard israel is a terrorist state, but we havent heard anything more inflammatory than that at the moment. Really really big challenge for the police. You can probably see some police in the background. Ive seen a lot of them around today, but its very , very big today, but its a very, very big event try and police indeed. Event to try and police indeed. And of course, there was concerns , wasnt there, last concerns, wasnt there, last weekend about the stage , the weekend about the stage, the pro palestinian stage that was erected and near the cenotaph that caused so much controversy. It could that possibly happen again today . Again today . So the metropolitan police have decided that this time they will not allow that stage to be erected so close to the cenotaph, because as you say, it caused widespread offence. The caused widespread offence. The stage will now be in kings king charles street, which is a road parallel to whitehall. There are parallel to whitehall. There are also other conditions that the metropolitan police have put in place to try and make sure that the rally this week is quieter than the one last week. There than the one last week. There are there are the protesters are only allowed to follow one specific route. And anyone who deviates from that route is under risk of being arrested. Under risk of being arrested. This the numbers this week, although you can see theyre pretty large, do seem to be smaller than this week, which will be a relief to the metropolitan police because the groups these rallies groups organising these rallies plan to do them every saturday for foreseeable future. For the foreseeable future. Utley political okay, olivia utley Political Correspondent, thanks ever so much for talking to us from that protest in Central London. Well, staying with all this, because the level of anti semitic ism in europe increased by 1,200, that is according to the chairman of the European Jewish association foundation. The israel hamas war has seen a huge rise in anti semitism , like the anti semitism, like the synagogue that was attacked in berlin, that were showing you pictures of now. Plus, in the uk alone, between the first and the 18th of october, the metropolitan police say they saw 218 anti semitic offences compared to 15 in the same penod compared to 15 in the same period last year. Well, joining me now is assistant professor of Political Science at webster vienna private university, ralph schollhammer. Good afternoon , schollhammer. Good afternoon, ralph. Thanks ever so much for talking to me and the last two weeks, i mean, they have been indescribable on so many levels. Indescribable on so many levels. Whats your overview of it . I mean, this is very hard to say, but i think we have to look the facts straight into the face. What we are currently witnessing is the beginning of the end of jewish life in western europe. I mean, this is a numbers game just to take great an example, Great Britain as an example, britain 400,000 jews britain has 400,000 jews and 4 million muslims. We have similar demographic france and demographic mix in france and germany. Future, to germany. So in the future, to whose demands do you think policy will more policy makers will be more sensitive . You to sensitive . So unless you want to risk civil war like scenario risk a civil war like scenario in your cities officially in your own cities officially supporting and your supporting israel and your jewish communities will come with an ever higher price tag, the fewer and fewer politicians will be willing to pay. We already had terror attacks over will be willing to pay. We alrelast had terror attacks over will be willing to pay. We alrelast couple ror attacks over will be willing to pay. We alrelast couple of attacks over will be willing to pay. We alrelast couple of attacin over the last couple of days in belgium and france. In the uk, security alerts, pretty all security alerts, pretty much all jewish institutions all over Continental Europe and even in the past. Why do you think europe has been paying hamas all this money in the it has this money in the past . It has been a kind of a protection racket like the mafia did in the in past in italy. We kept in the past in italy. We kept paying in the past in italy. We kept paying them in the in the hope that not tell their that they will not tell their supporters in a european cities to riot. And this is coming to riot. And now this is coming to riot. And now this is coming to end. To an end. Okay. We cant absolutely analyse and verify exactly what you there about europe you just said there about europe paying you just said there about europe paying hamas so much money. But did i hear right that you did i hear you right that you said the beginning said this is the beginning of the end of jewish life in europe . What you say . That in . What did you say . That in western europe, in western europe , in western europe, europe, in western europe, absolutely. Quite staggering conclusion draw. Absolutely. Quite staggering conclusion draw. Now conclusion to draw. Now well, not really. I mean, we have polls, for example, out of france where over 52 of jews say that they want to leave the country, i. E. 70 say they dont think the judaism has a future in france. And we have similar numbers out of other European Countries. Life europe countries. Jewish life in europe has attacked in under has been attacked in under attack the last couple of attack over the last couple of decades. Said, i know this decades. As i said, i know this is a painful topic and we dont like to about but we like to speak about it, but we need to talk about these facts. It very difficult in western it is very difficult in western europe to be jewish. There has not been a single mass in not been a single mass rally in support of either what we usually call western values or of the Jewish Community. But there have massive rallies in support, some of them of palestine, which i would argue is fine, but also in support of hamas. We had chants in germany jews, jews the gas. Jews, jews, jews into the gas. How do you want to live there in the future as part of the Jewish Community . If number the community . If the number the community . If the number the community that holds these views over the last couple of years has been growing , we have more has been growing, we have more antisemitism today than we had ten, 15, 20 years ago. As i said, a painful topic, but we have to look the facts straight into the eye. Youre based in vienna. What youre based in vienna. What is it . What is it like there . Is it . What is it like there . Well, we had similar situations. In fact, live in the second district, which is the last jewish district in vienna. And on october seventh, we had people driving through the district with palestinian flags out of their cars. We had some demonstrate actions in public spacesin demonstrate actions in public spaces in the Vienna City Centre that actually were not allowed, but they place nonetheless , but they took place nonetheless, and police couldnt do and the police couldnt do anything it. And again, anything about it. And again, none of demonstrations was none of these demonstrations was pro israel. These pro israel. None of these demonstrations for demonstrations was for the Jewish Community. None of these demonstrations quote demonstrations were pro, quote unquote, western values. So we kind see where the energy of kind of see where the energy of the future is. And this is you must always imagine, imagine youre a jew in vienna and you see that people openly hate you, who openly chant that they want to of you. And basically to get rid of you. And basically the public, the the the public, the police, the Political Institutions are entirely helpless facing the threat, you will consider leaving and the question is, where can go in the future . Where can they go in the future . I mean, you might have seen the were today the pictures were seeing today of pro palestine protest of the pro palestine protest taking place in london today. People have the right to protest, do they not, if they are pro palestine, it doesnt necessarily mean that theyre anti jewish. Necessarily mean that theyre anti jewish. If theyre anti jewish. If theyre pro palestine, anti jewish. If theyre pro palestine, they can be peaceful. Well absolutely they can be peaceful. But i think we have been playing this game now for 23 years. If somebody goes out and participates in a demonstration where people have, you know, little stickers that has the parachute on it, they dropped into the concert in israel where people were slaughtered. If people were slaughtered. If people ripped down signs of missing children that have been abducted by hamas. You abducted by hamas. You participate in such a demonstration. I think its very demonstration. I think its very difficult to say, well, im just here for peaceful reasons. I dont really problem dont really have any problem with and israelites. I with jews and israelites. I just happen be the vicinity of happen to be in the vicinity of those i think is those people. I think this is a little bit we delude ourselves. We have goals just to give you one right . Saudi arabia, one number right . Saudi arabia, only 7 of the population would allow the visit of an israeli Prime Minister. So anti semitism in the arab world in the muslim world, is something that exists again. Right. I know everybody says , how can say this . We says, how can you say this . We cannot say this, but have cannot say this, but we have been playing game now for been playing this game now for a very, very long time to pretend as this is not here. At some as if this is not here. At some point have to accept, say, point we have to accept, we say, that normal life is that normal jewish life is possible. How . Look at france. Every single school, every jewish needs Jewish School needs police protection. Are told in protection. People are told in germany, in austria, dont wear the kipper, dont wear any kind of symbols that make you identify as a jew. If you tell people that you cannot tell me that this is part of normal life, you can in some areas, in the urban areas of western europe, europe is europe, Eastern Europe is different. In urban areas of different. In the urban areas of western its becoming western europe, its becoming harder harder to live harder and harder to live a normal jewish and we know normal jewish life. And we know where threat is coming from. Where the threat is coming from. The german interior minister has now that in the past now admitted that in the past they counted every anti semitic incidents that was not openly from the left as being from the right. Now, they finally, after 30 years, they will start to differentit between right wing. You know, anti semitism and actual religiously ethnic motivated anti semitism. We have been putting this problem under iraq , and now been putting this problem under iraq, and now it is, quote unquote, exploding into our face. Okay. Assistant professor of Political Science at webster vienna private university, ralph schollhammer. Thank you for your thoughts today. Really appreciate that. It will make it will make many people think youre watching and listening to gb news saturday with me, pip tomson. Plenty more coming up on todays show. Were going to get the latest on this chaos, this misery thats being caused by storm babet with officials warning its posing a risk to life in some areas. Theres life in some areas. Theres train operators now around the uk who are warning people not to travel and river levels are continue going to rise amid all this rainfall. So do stay with us. Well bring you the latest and people that i knew had dewbs co weeknight from. Six co weeknight from. Six bringing you the latest on storm babet because train operators around the uk are advising customers not to travel today due to the widespread disruption i now thats lner of Avanti West Coast and Northern Rail. Theyve all warned against travelling and eleanor says there is an extremely limited service in place due to flooding between doncaster and wakefield , between doncaster and wakefield, and river levels are continuing to rise. Storm babet posing a risk to life in some areas and weve also heard today that the england footballer Trent Alexander arnold has been involved in an accident after a 40 foot electricity pile and smashed onto a car in front of him. Thats believed to be due to all this bad weather. Well, here to tell us more is weather journalist nathan rao. Its not were not being overdramatic , were not being overdramatic, are we, nathan . When we talk about there being a risk to life here . No, were not. And this is why the met Office Issued this red weather warning on friday, which they have since extended through until 6 pm. This evening. We often talk about the met office issuing warnings for weather. They dont issue red weather. They dont issue red weather warnings. Likely, this means there is a danger to life and certainly a danger of disruption within the warning area which is still in place across eastern scotland until this evening. And there are also some other amber alerts , some other amber alerts, slightly lower level of warning and yellow warnings across that region , which has already seen region, which has already seen a lot of rain in the last 24 hours and is going to see another four inches of rain before that warning expires. And this is why were seeing a lot of problems and the met office, together with authorities with other authorities in scotland, people to, scotland, are warning people to, you know, dont travel in the region unless it is absolutely necessary to check. Certainly checkif necessary to check. Certainly check if youre travelling by rail, scotrail has said rail, because scotrail has said there services are there are services which are going unavailable while going to be unavailable while engineers still check the routes are also the scottish are safe. And also the Scottish Environment Protection Agency is again warning people not again warning people do not drive or walk or go visiting places which which are flooded because as weve seen, they are dangerous and people can lose their lives. Nathan just just talk us through the main areas that are worst affected at the moment. Moment. Weve got eastern scotland, havent we . Weve got parts of the east midlands. Havent we . Weve got parts of the east midlands. I think thats scotland you were just looking at there. Chesterfield, we know is very badly affected. And ive seen in theres a and now ive seen in theres a severe Flood Warning , which is severe Flood Warning, which is a danger to life thats been issued for a village in powys in wales. Yes wales. Yes now originally, i mean, the main impact of this storm was certainly the rain from the storm. And the warnings of this storm. And the warnings of this storm are, of course, over scotland. And that is eastern scotland. And that is eastern scotland. And that is eastern scotland. And were talking about grampian, about angus grampian, aberdeenshire. Those are the places most at risk, but also the Environment Agency the english Environment Agency has a number of severe has got a number of Severe Weather warning, severe Flood Warnings, alerts warnings, sorry, flood alerts and Flood Warnings across that region. You talked about this region. You talked about as this storm, mainly across storm, which is mainly across the of the country, derby. The east of the country, derby. You also mentioned wales. Actually, its coming in from the but whole of the the west, but the whole of the country really suffering from country really is suffering from this there this slow moving storm. There are also some other sort of Stormy Weather systems all working together here across the country to bring a general pattern of very, very wet weather. Now, it is worth checking if you are travelling or youre at the or if youre looking at the weather look at the met weather to look at the met office website, which will specify regions that specify the exact regions that are most at risk and also the engush are most at risk and also the english Environment Agency and of scottish of course sepa, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency. They you exact they will give you exact locations, but this storm really is heavy, heavy rainfall is causing heavy, heavy rainfall and flooding really across large parts of the country through until this evening. And even though its expected to pass by tomorrow, there are going to be some residual hangover effects as this storm passes through before it turns calmer towards the end of the weekend and into monday. Monday. Okay. So at this time of year okay. So at this time of year , where are we . Mid october how unusualisit , where are we . Mid october how unusual is it to see this sort of weather or are we likely to see more of it in the future . Thats a very good question. It is not unusual to see. We are in the storm season. Were in the atlantic storm season. And this is, you know, it is an atlantic cyclonic low pressure system has come in. And system that has come in. And they produce winds of which they do produce winds of which there is a warning out again today and heavy rain. The problem this storm is that problem with this storm is that there is butting against an area of High Pressure to the northeast. Rather than northeast. And rather than moving quickly , which is moving through quickly, which is what expect and what we hope what we expect and what we hope storms do at this of storms will do at this time of yean storms will do at this time of year, over the year, its stalled over the country. When that happens, year, its stalled over the coun are when that happens, year, its stalled over the coun are like when that happens, year, its stalled over the coun are like ahen that happens, year, its stalled over the coun are like a sortthat happens, year, its stalled over the coun are like a sort oft happens, year, its stalled over the coun are like a sort of likeppens, year, its stalled over the coun are like a sort of like a ens, they are like a sort of like a washing sat over the washing machine sat over the country. Rain is country. So the rain is continuing. We saw earlier this season storm antonines and season the storm antonines and storm and moved storm agnes and they moved through quickly. So while through quite quickly. So while this is not an unusual meteorological event, this happens. This is an autumn storm. It is unusual. Happens. This is an autumn storm. It is unusual. And in storm. It is unusual. And in terms rainfall, its almost terms of rainfall, its almost unprecedented of that. Unprecedented in terms of that. Its moving through very, very slowly. Storm babet arrived earlier in the week and moved into the uk yesterday. And its not going to be done with us really until tomorrow. So thats quite a long period of time for one storm system to be sat over the in terms of going fonnard the uk in terms of going fonnard , we seeing a change in the , we are seeing a change in the in the were seeing a in the weather. Were seeing a change the climate now, change in the climate now, unusual events unusual extreme weather events have been linked to the possibility of if were talking about change. So theres about climate change. So theres about climate change. So theres a we may see a possibility that we may see more and more of these things. But for this time of year, its really a case of we do expect these types of storms. We dont expect not to expect we hope theyre not to going quite as this going be quite as severe as this one. Certainly terms of one. Certainly in terms of rainfall. It has happened rainfall. But it has happened before and yes, it will happen again. Okay. Well, thats not good to hear. But thank you to hear. But nathan, thank you very for bringing us to very much for bringing us up to date all that. And if date with all that. And if youre youre in the midst of youre if youre in the midst of all wherever you all this weather, wherever you are the country, do hope are in the country, i do hope youre okay. Do take care and dont for Goodness Sake , drive dont for Goodness Sake, drive through waters because through any flood waters because it so, so dangerous. Please it is so, so dangerous. Please dont risk do send us your dont risk it. Do send us your pictures, youve got pictures, though, if youve got any to show us. Were getting plenty in gb views views at gb news. Okay um, were looking fonnard to seeing them and hopefully getting them on air. Well, you are watching and listening to gb news saturday well, you are watching and liste|me, to gb news saturday well, you are watching and liste|me, to tomson. Saturday well, you are watching and liste|me, to tomson. Lotsday well, you are watching and liste|me, to tomson. Lots more with me, pip tomson. Lots more coming up on todays show. Were going be discussing those going to be discussing those latest by election. Well, disasters , quite frankly, for disasters, quite frankly, for rishi sunak in tamworth and mid bedfordshire. Could the no confidence letters start flying in from monday . Are the tories headed for electoral oblivion in all of that, plus more first year news with sophia. Its 133 year news with sophia. Its 133 im sophia wenzler in the newsroom. The uk has called on israel to show military restraint in its war with hamas. These are its war with hamas. These are live pictures of gaza where smoke can be seen billowing on the skyline, addressing a peace summit in cairo, foreign secretary said hed spoken to the Israeli Government about its deputy to respect International Law and the importance of preserving civilian lives. James preserving civilian lives. James cleverlys efforts need to be made to prevent an escalation in violence. We have a duty, a duty to Work Together to prevent instability from engulfing the region and claiming yet more lives. We must Work Together to prevent the tragic situation in gaza becoming a regional conflict because that is exactly what hamas wants in the uk. Tens of thousands of palestinian supporters are taking part in a march in Central London. Theyre calling for an end to the conflict in the middle east and demanding the middle east and demanding the uk government stop supporting israels actions. The demonstrators are making their way to downing street storm babet control , refuse to pose babet control, refuse to pose a risk to life across some areas of the country. A red weather warning issued for parts of aberdeenshire and angus is due to end at 6 pm. This evening. An amber warning for rain is in place across parts of england with the Environmental Agency issuing three severe Flood Warnings in derbyshire. And warnings in derbyshire. And were on tv online dab and on radio. This is gb news. Britains news channel. You company right through until 7 00 this evening. Gb news the peoples. Channel peoples. Channel hello. Welcome back to gb news saturday with me, pip tomson on your tv online and on Digital Radio. And weve been talking, havent we, about storm babet storm babet storm babet, i think its called, which is battering all parts of britain. Battering all parts of britain. The Environment Agency has now issued three severe Flood Warnings, meaning a significant risk to life. Theres major incidents that have been declared in suffolk , south declared in suffolk, South Yorkshire and derbyshire in england. And if youre a football fan, well, a number of games are being called off as well. We will, of course, bring you the latest here on gb news. What i want show you now, what i want to show you now, though, a video of a sheepdog though, is a video of a sheepdog called patsy and in this terrible weather, in these flood waters, she managed to rescue sheep from from the flooded water. Now, her owner tweeted and said, thank god for little patsy. She she rescued three used three ewes which had been cut off by flood water yesterday afternoon. And the sheep, well, you might be able to just see them. They were strung added on that little spot on the field and that spot was getting smaller and smaller. So they decided to try and get them and they thought, well, well see if patsy, the sheepdog, will go in and rescue. So they gave and rescue. So they they gave her command and she swam her the command and she swam across just look at her. Theyre obviously she is a very strong swimmer. Othennise i dont think that they would have given her the but she didnt have the command. But she didnt have any problems at all, did she . And it meant that, well, quite a dangerous situation was averted. The sheep were saved. They got the sheep were saved. They got back onto dry land and patsy got a dog biscuit. But i think theres been lots of people on social media calling for her to be given a bit of steak as a reward and absolutely lovely. Patsy. Patsy, the sheepdog there, absolute hero in this in this terrible weather. Now, back to politics, because labour dealt a double by election blow to rishi sunak. The Prime Minister this week by overturning two huge conservative majorities in tamworth and mid beds ayrshire. Sir keir starmer claimed labour was redrawing the political map by taking seats which had been comfortably conservative ahead of the general election expected next year. In mid bedfordshire, Alastair Strathern took the seat over his tory rival. Well, what over his tory rival. Well, what could this mean for the Prime Minister . Is he marching his party towards a 1997 style wipe out or worse . Joining me now is gb news senior political commentator nigel nelson. Good commentator nigel nelson. Good to see you, nigel. I normally see you here in the studio, but but good to see you down the line. How are you reading this at the moment . Is rishi sunaks premiership at risk . Premiership at risk . I think thats highly unlikely. Um until the general election. That is when its almost certainly at risk. The almost certainly at risk. The idea that the tories could change yet another leader i think is for the birds. I just dont do it now. Yes its true. Thatis dont do it now. Yes its true. That is of no confidence can go in. Um, maybe therell be 2 or 3 which actually do. But the idea which actually do. But the idea that they would unseat rishi sunak at this stage i think is highly unlikely. Who would they go for anyway . I mean, who who would be the front runners and theyd have a massive job to do, wouldnt they . In the space of 12 months . I mean, who would want that job . Quite frankly, they certainly would. Would. And it wouldnt be a great job to have knowing youre probably going to lose anyway at the end of it. It rather depends on at the moment, the party youre actually fighting for its heart and soul. So depends heart and soul. So it depends a bit for a right bit whether you go for a right winger. Suella braverman obviously is in the frame when it comes that. Or you go it comes to that. Um, or you go go for someone a little bit more on the left. Penny morton would be interested. Um, so and be interested. Um, so and i think other people might, might step fonnard, but the idea of another leadership contest , another leadership contest, especially after the disastrous liz truss premiership i think is just, just not likely at the moment. Moment. Theres been calls for , for theres been calls for, for the tory party to be more conservative to save itself. And there is a suggestion that the government is going to consider major tax cuts in a bid to win over traditional tory voters. Over traditional tory voters. Yeah, well, well see what happens when the budget comes along. I mean, certainly the along. I mean, certainly the indication from the chancellor, jeremy hunt, is that tax cuts really are off the table until inflation can be brought down andits inflation can be brought down and its not at a level yet where itll be safe to actually go for tax cuts. So i think thats unlikely. And yes, youre thats unlikely. And yes, youre right, there are calls for a more conservative conservative party. And what that means really is tax cuts. On one hand, really is tax cuts. On one hand, the economy cant weather it, the economy cant weather it, the other is over immigration, which is for rishi sunak to fulfil his promise to stop the boats. And that doesnt look boats. And that doesnt look like its possible either. So i dont think any of these things are going to actually appease the right wing of the tory party because there aint going to happen stamp duty cuts, inheritance tax cuts. Thats whats being claimed. Thats whats being claimed. Could, could be could be happening. Do you think thats unlikely then . Unlikely then . It may well well be. If inflation goes down and youre talking about hitting sort of around about 2, maybe 3, then yes, it may well be that you could do tax cuts. Looking there at a manifesto commitment, not something thats likely to happen within the next 12 months. And just finally, rishi sunak has admitted that the by elections produced obviously disappointing results, but says it was important to remember for the context. I mean it was important to remember for the context. I mean quite ignominious circum stances certainly wasnt it in in tamworth. What what with chris pincher is he making excuses there or do you think the context was important when it comes to the way voters voted. Comes to the way voters voted. Certainly the chris pincher in tamworth and Nadine Dorries in tamworth and Nadine Dorries in mid beds , both of them lost in mid beds, both of them lost the tories votes because of the way they were. They were behaving thing. It meant that both places didnt really have an mp so , so certainly that an mp so, so certainly that didnt help. But i dont think you can take that as being the main reason. George Osborne Osborne said. If you lose both seats, its really armageddon for the tories. And i think hes for the tories. And i think hes probably right that had, for instance, the lib dems taken mid beds the tories lived to fight again, to lose both seats. And again, to lose both seats. And bearin again, to lose both seats. And bear in mind that that two thirds of the voters there in both places are are tory voters to lose both of them and not be able to at least at least keep one like mid beds is really is catastrophe. Okay. Nigel nelson , senior okay. Nigel nelson, senior political commentator , thank you political commentator, thank you so much. The Prime Minister says that he remains committed to delivering on the priorities of the british people. Well see the british people. Well see what happens. Now for two american hostages who were held by hamas have been released. Judith and Natalie Raanan were taken hostage by the terrorist group from a kibbutz in southern israel. Two weeks ago today. Israel. Two weeks ago today. Thatis israel. Two weeks ago today. That is them back in safe hands. Theyve been reunited with their family and have spoken to President Joe Biden earlier in the week , the us president said the week, the us president said he was resolute in his support for israel and visited the country in efforts to shore up diplomatic aid. The us president also said in an interview with cbs news last week that hamas must be eliminated. But what is must be eliminated. But what is the wider us response to the war engulfing the middle east . Well, joining me now is us political analyst eric ham. Good afternoon to you, eric. Good to see you again. What do you think of joe again. What do you think of joe bidens performance in the last week going to going to israel, that address in the oval office, which i think is only the second time hes done it, isnt it, dunng time hes done it, isnt it, during during his presidency. How do you rank him . How do you rank him . Well, certainly the president has been hes been visible. He has been hes been visible. He has certainly expressed that the United States will continue to provide unyielding support and the release of those two hostages certainly gave the president some good news. And now today, were learning that aid is now beginning to flow into gaza. So the president is now finally beginning to get, i think, the news that he wants. But nevertheless , there are but nevertheless, there are still many more hostages. And it appears as though iran and perhaps some of its supporters are also beginning to ramp up its attacks on the region , which its attacks on the region, which is something the president doesnt want to see happen. So its a volatile time right now. Of course, in the middle east. And what were seeing here is president trying to throw everything at it to ensure that the situation doesnt descend into more chaos. Into more chaos. Yeah, and theres this peace summit taking place in cairo today. Our foreign secretary is attending the palestinian president is there. Jordans King Abdullah is there. But theres no american representative of. Representative of. Yeah , i think that was yeah, i think that was a missed opportunity for many of the arab nations considering President Biden was actually in the region just a few days ago. And we know they cancelled a meeting. It was they cancelled a summit with him while there, of course, that was in relation to the bombing of a hospital. But given the fact that you had the president of the United States that was actually on the ground and know that that the united and we know that that the United States enormous support states supplies enormous support not just to israel, states supplies enormous support notjust to israel, but states supplies enormous support not just to israel, but to states supplies enormous support notjust to israel, but to other not just to israel, but to other countries, including jordan, saudi arabia and egypt. I thought that was a missed opportunity. But the fact that there is this summit taking place now does show signs that arab nations are involved. But it just would have been better if they if they had had the opportunity to have the conversation with President Biden while he was there, because we know the president is in this delicate dance to ensure that israels military offensive does not overreach , but at the does not overreach, but at the same time wanting to make sure that the needs of the palestinians are met and the president would have been there to actually hear that if they hadnt cancelled that meeting. But nevertheless, this this summit taking place, its better that its happening as opposed to not happening at all. Eric, well well have to leave it there. Im sorry, because weve got lots of bad weather here in the uk which we need to talk about, which is causing problems thousands causing problems for thousands of really appreciate of people, but really appreciate your afternoon. Thank your time this afternoon. Thank you. Yeah storm babet river levels continuing to rise. Officials have warned amid widespread flooding caused by the storm, which in some areas is posing a risk to life. Is posing a risk to life. Various train operators are warning against travelling as lines are flooded and one of the areas affected is chesterfield , areas affected is chesterfield, where the local mp toby perkins, has said about 400 houses in his constituency have been flooded and many people have no idea where theyre going to be living. Well toby perkins can join us now on gb news. Toby, tell us tell us whats going on, then, what the latest situation in chesterfield is so by and large, the waters have resided , large, the waters have resided, are receding , but as always is are receding, but as always is the case with floods , the waters the case with floods, the waters disappearing doesnt in any way end the problem. So we have got a very serious issues in terms of the number of people that are no longer able to be in their properties. To be in their properties. Youre looking, i think , on your youre looking, i think, on your screen there at Chatsworth Road , screen there at Chatsworth Road, which is where where i am right now. And is the waters have all gone. But many people there are unable to stay in their properties. Many businesses are unable to be used. Ive also been up in the birdholme area , been up in the birdholme area, which was flooded and waters still are flooding probably at least 30 houses there. But we estimate as many as 400 people were effectively made homeless last night. Many of them stayed at the Queens Park Sports Centre last night and the council are in the process of doing the arduous work of attempting to find alternative accommodation, both in the very short term and in the longer term for those people who arent going to be able to return home. Yeah, i mean, we were talking about this yesterday with with storm babet battering parts of eastern scotland, and there was a concern that some people there might not even be able to get back home in time for christmas. So bad was the damage. Yeah, i mean, i think , you yeah, i mean, i think, you know, in our experience when youve been flooded , youve been flooded, particularly those in in rented accommodation, it can be 6 to 9 months before other people are back in their property. Liz you back in their property. Liz you know, obviously there needs to be a complete dehumidifying get the dampness out. Many of these properties have got basements that have been flooded and you know, even getting the water out of them is going to be very difficult. So yeah, theres very significant issues, unfortunately, in chesterfield , unfortunately, in chesterfield, and many of the people affected are in areas that have been flooded before and so actually getting Flood Insurance is very difficult. So ive met a lot of people today who simply wont be wont be insured and have basically lost everything. So yeah, really very difficult. Yeah, really very difficult. Its so, so difficult for them. And i dont know whether this is your constituency, is it, but emergency crews rescued 20 people from a care home. Yes. Yeah, thats right. Yes. Yeah, thats right. Weve had the fire service have been absolutely wonderful. And an opportunity to thank a crew today. But theyre theyre attempting tonight or this afternoon, to rather, get an 80 year old man to leave his property. He didnt want to leave even though the whole ground floor was undennater. And ground floor was undennater. And he didnt want to leave, partly because he got dogs. And but the council is accommodating the dogs as well as the people. So yeah, the fire service has been great, but it has been very difficult indeed. And what are the roads like in terms of travelling . Do you echo calls for people not to travel if they dont need to . Travel if they dont need to . Yeah, absolutely. We so yeah, absolutely. We so Chatsworth Road is now clear, but derby road, a61 Sheffield Derby road is still blocked. The road to the hospitals now but it is very difficult to move about chesterfield north south the other problems, you know, across the town and so i would definitely say if people arent dont have to travel, then they shouldnt do and i think there was football today wasnt there . Chesterfield were playing as is that been cancelled. Yeah is that been cancelled. Yeah yes it has yeah. And not because the pitch was unplayable but because simply of these travel concerns. Travel concerns. Okay so what would be your advice to people in your area and people in the country in general . Youve seen up close and personal what the situation is like. So mean for people in is like. So mean for people in chesterfield, if they need any help, they need to go to the Queens Park Sports Centre where an emergency unit is set up there helping people with accommodation, both immediately and attempting to make longer term arrangements. There are also supporting people just in terms of drinks and food and other things. So its important we have a strong understanding as to who is affected. So anyone affected affected. So anyone affected should go there. I think more broadly , lee, i would say, you broadly, lee, i would say, you know, one of the issues thats been caused is people attempting to drive through , um, very to drive through, um, very serious sort of floods and getting their cars. Getting their cars. And im so sorry , were going and im so sorry, were going to have to were going to have to have to were going to have to leave it. But people absolutely do need to be careful. Stay indoors, stay with gb news. Talk hello and welcome to gb news saturday. Im pip tomson. And for the next hour, ill be keeping you company on tv, onune keeping you company on tv, online and on Digital Radio. Ill keep you up to date on the stories that really matter to you. Like this. Storm babet. Coming up this hour. You. Like this. Storm babet. Coming up this hour. Yeah, three coming up this hour. Yeah, three people have died in at least 40,000 homes are without power as the storm hits britain. A second red weather alert in a week is in place in eastern parts of scotland with torrential rain forecast for the rest of the uk. Aid trucks rest of the uk. Aid trucks finally enter the egypt gaza crossing with vital humanitarian supplies. Britains foreign secretary says it cannot be a one off. Meanwhile israel says the number of hostages being held in gaza is now 210, with the latest live from israel , can the latest live from israel, can rishi sunak survive following two disastrous by Election Results . Are tory mps about to turn on their leader or will they show some loyalty and hope they show some loyalty and hope the Prime Minister can turn their fortunes around and do get in touch . Send me your thoughts on vaiews gbnews. Uk. Com or you on vaiews gbnews. Uk. Com or you can message me on our socials. We also want to see your weather pictures and videos. How is pictures and videos. How is storm babet affects you . First, lets get your latest news headunes lets get your latest News Headlines with sophia. Headlines with sophia. Good afternoon. Its 2 01. Im sophia wenzler iyer in the newsroom. The uk has called on newsroom. The uk has called on israel to show military restraint in its war with hamas. These are live pictures of gaza where there appears to have been several strikes with black smoke billowing on the skyline. Billowing on the skyline. Addressing a peace summit in cairo, the uks foreign secretary said hes spoken to the Israeli Government about its duty to respect International Law and the importance of preserving civilian lives. James preserving civilian lives. James cleverly also told the conference that we need efforts to need to be made to prevent an escalation in violence. Escalation in violence. We have a duty, a duty to Work Together to prevent instability from engulfing the region and claiming yet more lives. We must Work Together to lives. We must Work Together to prevent the tragic situation in gaza becoming a regional conflict, gaza becoming a regional conflict , because that gaza becoming a regional conflict, because that is exactly what hamas wants. Exactly what hamas wants. Aid has started flowing into gaza with the rafah crossing opening for the first time in two weeks. Trucks carrying suppues two weeks. Trucks carrying supplies have reached southern gaza. Supplies have reached southern gaza. The first convoy of gaza. The first convoy of humanitarian aid since israel began its siege 12 days ago. Israel bombarded the territory and imposed a blockade preventing the delivery of food , preventing the delivery of food, water and fuel. After hamas terror attack on october the 7th. The group says todays delivery wont be enough to change the catastrophic medical conditions in gaza. Also at the summit in cairo, secretary general of United Nations Antonio Gutierrez says gaza needs much more than aid trucks. Full trucks on one side, empty stomachs on the other. Those trucks need to move as quickly as possible in a massive sustained and safe way from egypt into gaza. A 20 truck convoy of the egyptian red crescent is moving today. And i want to express my deep gratitude to egypt for the essential role egypt is playing in this regard. But the people of gaza need a commitment for much, much more. A Continuous Delivery of aid to gaza at the scale that is needed. Scale that is needed. Meanwhile, israels Prime Minister has vowed to continue to fight until all hostages being held by hamas are freed. Its after two american citizens, judith rhiannon and her 17 year old daughter natalie, were released yesterday. Hamas says the decision was made on humanitarian grounds and was secured after an agreement with the qatari government. Its believed more than 200 people are still being held by the terrorist group. Tens and terrorist group. Tens and thousands of palestinian supporters are taking part in a march in london brought low by. War and climate. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. The palestinian Solidarity Campaign says the protesters will be calling for an end to the violence in the middle east. Campaign director ben jamal says the uk government needs to stop supporting israels actions. We want the violence to end, so were calling for an immediate ceasefire so that necessary humanitarian aid can be safely delivered to the people of gaza. We are here today to assert the truth that violence will ultimately not end until you address the root causes of violence, and that is israels decades long imposition of a system of military occupation and apartheid light upon the people of palestine. And we are people of palestine. And we are marching to downing street to deliver a message to our Political Leadership that you need to end your complicit support for this system of oppression. Oppression. The Environment Agency is warning the flooding is likely to continue in areas near major rivers until tuesday. It comes as storm babet continues to pose as storm babet continues to pose a risk to life across some areas of the country. A red weather warning issued for parts of aberdeenshire and angus is due to end at 6 pm. This evening. An amber warning for rain is in place across parts of england with the Environment Agency issuing three severe Flood Warnings in derbyshire. Recycling in england will be standardised from 2026. The plan will see homes, businesses and schools recycling the same materials. There will also be materials. There will also be a once a week minimum food Waste Collection to reduce the amount going to landfill. Its all part of the governments drive to simplify the process. Current recycling rates in england are just over 44, which has been the same for the last decade. This same for the last decade. This is gb news across the uk on tv in your car, on your Digital Radio and on your Smart Speaker by saying play gb news. Now its back to you. Back to you. Welcome back. Massive pro palestinian march is occurring in Central London today in protest against the israeli bombardment of gaza. As israeli bombardment of gaza. As several European Countries moved to ban the protests this saturdays march has been organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign , an along Solidarity Campaign, an along with groups including friends of al aqsa stop the War Coalition , al aqsa stop the War Coalition, an Muslim Association of britain and the Palestinian Forum in britain. Lets cross over to the protests now and get the latest with gb news Political Correspondent at olivia utley. Olivia just reading that about a 70,000 people are taking part. There must be quite a big Police Presence there. Presence there. There is a huge Police Presence here today. Weve now moved down to Trafalgar Square and you can see the protest just passing me now. Theyre heading to whitehall where they plan to deliver a petition to number 10 downing there are downing street. There are a thousand Police Officers on the streets today policing this march , and they have another march, and they have another march. The police as well. At the same time as this one, the main one. There is also a splinter march taking place between the egyptian and turkish embassies near Oxford Street. Now that march is self confessed supporters of a group which is a sort of arms length body of hamas. So in some ways that ones more difficult to process than this, although this one is of course much bigger. Now, the challenge for the police is that the organisers rally the organisers of this rally have that they plan to have have said that they plan to have a similar every saturday a similar rally every saturday for the foreseeable future until what they call the bombardment of palestine by israel has finished. So this is going to be an enormous challenge for the metropolitan police, not just today, in the weeks and today, but in the weeks and probably months ahead. And has probably months ahead. And has there been any sign of problems so far, olivia , could has it so far, olivia, could has it been what you would call peaceful from what weve seen of the march . Of course, we only get we only get a snapshot. But from what weve seen of it, it has been peaceful. The Metropolita Police and politicians, including home politicians, including the home secretary, have been worried about chanting potential anti semitic chanting taking place at a rally like this. So place at a rally like this. So far, we havent heard any of that. And from what we can see, it is peaceful. But i have to reiterate, of course, we are only witnessing one of these two marches and the other march, the more controversial one, which is taking place near Oxford Street , taking place near Oxford Street, could have more tension exacerbated by that march. Therell be really interesting to see at the end of the day whats coming out of both these two marches. Okay olivia, thanks very much for that. Very much for that. Well, as thousands take to londons streets today to protest at israeli strikes on gaza, many countries in europe have banned pro palestine minion protests. Should britain follow suit . And protests. Should britain follow suit . And when does protests. Should britain follow suit . And when does protest suit . And when does protest become hateful incitement . Well joining me now is political commentator Matthew Stadlen and former brexit party mep belinda de lucy. Good afternoon to you both. Thanks for joining de lucy. Good afternoon to you both. Thanks forjoining me de lucy. Good afternoon to you both. Thanks for joining me to talk about this. Matthew, lets start with you. Where do you stand on this issue . Should britain follow parts of europe and ban these protests . And ban these protests . I think we have to stand by freedom of speech. The idea of banning tens of thousands of people from protesting peacefully, if thats what theyre going to do, doesnt sit easily with me at all. Having said that, any anti semitism whatsoever needs to be clamped down on very, very strongly by the police. The police. What about this chanting that is causing great concern . I mean, do you think that is an issue . Do you think that is a potential crime . I just read the potential crime . I just read the metropolitan polices statement that they issued on twitter. And i think they broadly speaking, got it right. They were very clear that anti semitism would not be accepted on this march. Arrests accepted on this march. Arrests could be made , of course, and could be made, of course, and they dont have to be made at they dont have to be made at the march itself. Theyll be strong surveillance. I would have hoped this controversial phrase that we may hear being chanted from the river to the sea , palestine will be free. Sea, palestine will be free. Thatis sea, palestine will be free. That is deeply problematic because if it means the eradication of israel , i would eradication of israel, i would argue thats anti semitic. But argue thats anti semitic. But at the moment, it seems the police will not clamp down on that particular chant. What about the concern that these protests , hosts could now these protests, hosts could now be happening week after week as as as this conflict deepens as and therefore comes the risk to security , increasing risk to our security, increasing risk to our security, increasing risk to our security . Security . My main concern is im jewish myself. Is jewish communities of london, that they are not in any way harassed or threatened. Way harassed or threatened. That, of course, would be an absolute disgrace. Its a hallmark of a civilised society that were allowed to protest peacefully , but that mustnt peacefully, but that mustnt spill into anything else. I know there is deep concern amongst some jewish people in this country. The government is right country. The government is right to do everything it can to reassure those jewish british citizens. But at the same time, citizens. But at the same time, i dont, as i say, think you can stop tens of thousands of people marching. I hope the vast majority of whom will be marching in favour of peace and not in any way antagonistically. Not in any way antagonistically. Belinda, let me bring you in. What is your take in this . People marching in favour of peace . Theyre not pro hamas. Peace . Theyre not pro hamas. I think it is very naive to imagine these protests arent going to be infiltrated by hamas sympathisers , anti semites, sympathisers, anti semites, radical islamists. They are going to be the sort of feeding ground for those types to turn up. And ive met many of those, the likes of them places like speakers the likes of them places like Speakers Corner over the years , Speakers Corner over the years, they exist and for me, its about how are we making our british jewish communities feel with these deeply insensitive now very frequent , sent massive now very frequent, sent massive protests that do include chants that do include people who have behaved outrageously, whether its wearing massively offensive imagery of paragliders or chanting threatening slogans. I chanting threatening slogans. I think there should have been a time for mourning, at least out of respect for the worst terrorist atrocity, the worst massacre of jewish people since the holocaust. I feel utterly the holocaust. I feel utterly sickened that we have submitted to this. I think before the very to this. I think before the very first protest happened, the government should have come out very clearly and said, we are going to have a time of mourning, a time of reflection, and at least give some respect to the Jewish Community whove been deeply wounded by this. And who are frightened. I have many jewish friends who are now frightened to walk out into the streets when one of these protests happened to be going on. Its the fear it creates. On. Its the fear it creates. Its the climate of fear for our vulnerable Jewish Community at the moment. Its not acceptable. The moment. Its not acceptable. And i think shame on us. We didnt come out stronger straight away and say , not on straight away and say, not on our streets, not so soon after a massacre. We protect our british Jewish Community. We first and foremost. Foremost. But we can see from the pictures that it is very peaceful. The people that youre peaceful. The people that youre talking about, the dissenters, they do seem to be very few. And far between. And palestinians with what has happened to them down the decades. They have an absolute legitimate right to protest , dont they . Protest, dont they . They do. I support the right to protest. Im talking about the timing here. I feel the timing is so wounding and so deeply offensive and let me just let me just ask you, i can see you shaking your head there, belinda. Just hang on. I saw matthew shaking his head. I just want to bring, bring, bring you in on that. The timing of this is wrong. Should have been a wrong. There should have been a penod wrong. There should have been a period of mourning. Agree with that. And i dont agree with that. And ill tell you why. I dont agree with that. The reason is because 1400 israelis, many of them civilians, were simply murdered by mediaeval savages who came through from gaza. These are terrorists. Whatever the bbc wants to call them, they are terrorists. The truth is also the palestine, gaza is now facing an existential humanitarian crisis. Untold humanitarian crisis. Untold numbers of children have died in gaza , and we are seeing people gaza, and we are seeing people risking starvation, risking dying of thirst as a consequence of the blockade and of the bombing. So there are two things that are going on at once. One is the utter unspeakable atrocities committed by Hamas Terrorists in israel, and the other is the ferocity of israels response. I believe israels response. I believe israel does have a right to defend itself, but proportionality is a key word here. Not everyone can agree on what that means in this context. For me , it has to involve for me, it has to involve israel, obeyed International Law and there are serious question marks at the moment as to whether they have or not. So in that context, i understand why people are marching for the palestinians. I just hope that palestinians. I just hope that some of those marchers will also bear banners is demanding the release by hamas of israeli hostages. And im not holding my breath. I mean, what what is a huge problem, matthew , is we keep problem, matthew, is we keep seeing which i find so insensitive, is the people that have been tearing down the posters of those missing hostages. And i find that hostages. And i find that utterly appalling. Theyre human utterly appalling. Theyre human beings , arent they . Beings, arent they . I find that sickening. I find i find that sickening. I find it absolutely sickening. I want to be completely i want to be completely clear here what hamas did in israel and anyone who supports that second me to the pits of my stomach , that doesnt pits of my stomach, that doesnt mean that we shouldnt protect our freedoms in britain , which our freedoms in britain, which include the right to protest peacefully. Belinda for as we keep seeing the images go on, then yeah, go on. I was going to say im really sorry, but there is a hugely intimidating factor to these protests for our jewish communities. We, as has been communities. We, as has been reported , there are two going on reported, there are two going on at the same time. One very controversial. Well, can you controversial. Well, can you imagine what it must be like for london british jews to sort of have to say to their children, you cant go out today, sorry, you cant go out today, sorry, you cant go down to the shops, you cant go near marble arch. You cant go near marble arch. You cant go all because of these protests. It wouldnt be happening they were pro happening if they were pro israel process. They seem to be much peaceful and seem to much more peaceful and seem to be. Linda were looking at the pictures now. They are peaceful. Were not they are peaceful. Were not seeing lots of violence. Seeing lots of violence. See any israeli. But that is because i think jewish people have had to stay at home today. I think its because have you noficed i think its because have you noticed there are no israeli flags . Theres as you said, no calls to help the hostages, some of which are british. Theres none of that around. No placards none of that around. No placards around for that kind of balanced peace. It is. I think it is intimidating whether they are peaceful or not. The frequency and timing of these mass protests are intimidating for, i believe, london. British jews, or certainly many of them and my friends included, matthew , is it friends included, matthew, is it is it intimidating . Is it intimidating . I think the reason this conversation that were having at the moment is so worthwhile on gb news is precisely because there are contesting interests here. I agree with belinda that some jewish people in london no doubt amongst my friends, do feel intimidate , hated and feel intimidate, hated and scared today. And that is deeply regrettable. And that is why regrettable. And that is why i call on the police to make absolutely sure that any hint of anti semitism is clamped down on whether immediately at the march or as a consequence of surveillance that the police are conducting during today. Same time , i reiterate, we have very time, i reiterate, we have very precious freedoms in this country and i believe that people have the right to protest freely and also peacefully. Okay you have both made your opinions very clear. Really appreciate your contributions this afternoon. Matthew stadlen and belinda de lucy, thank you both for talking to me and debating on gb news saturday. You are watching and listening to gb news saturday with me, pip tomson plenty more to come, including the very latest on storm babet, which is sweeping across the uk and causing enormous problems for so many of you. Do and people that i knew had dewbs co weeknights from. Six co weeknights from. Six welcome back. Train operators around the uk have advised customers not to travel today due to widespread disruption following storm babet. Just heanng following storm babet. Just hearing now that londons Kings Cross Station is closed because of overcrowding passenger numbers on the concourse and on platform is bringing severe rail disruption. Network rail is having to bring in crowd control measures. Well, also affected is lnen measures. Well, also affected is lner, Avanti West Coast and Northern Rail, all warning against travelling because lines are widely flooded. The Environment Agency has warned that flooding is likely to continue in areas near major rivers until tuesday. Meanwhile, people in up to 100 homes across angus and east scotland have been rescued from their flooded homes, with some being airlifted. And heres a picture of a flooded park. This has been sentin of a flooded park. This has been sent in by geoffrey in evesham. Sent in by geoffrey in evesham. Im not exactly sure where evesham is. Maybe somebody can can let me know in my ear because i know evesham in worcestershire. Maybe its evesham in worcestershire. Geoffrey ping me a line so i can get your get clarity on your location. But lets talk to location. But lets talk to donica mccarthy, who is director of the Climate Media Coalition , of the Climate Media Coalition, who can talk to me now. Donica what do you make of storm babet then and all the problems its causing . Well, of course, my heart goes out to the families and people immediately impacted by it. Its a real disaster for those people. But what we need those people. But what we need to understand is that this is a pattern related to climate change. The seventh the un says therell be 7 more moisture in therell be 7 more moisture in the air per 1 degrees rise in the air per1 degrees rise in temperature. And that is exactly temperature. And that is exactly whats happening in britain. We are 9 wetter now than we were in previous decades because weve had 1 degrees rise in temperatures. So what we need temperatures. So what we need now to be doing the message of babette, is that what the Governments National Infrastructure Committee said is were unprepared and we need to start preparing seriously now for these types of floods. So what would the preparation , what should the preparation have been as far as youre concerned . If we should have been able to know this was happening . Happening . Well, it may it may seem an unusual thing to say , but one of unusual thing to say, but one of the things that we really need to address is the is the devastation that we have wreaked on our landscape. We have we on our landscape. We have we have designed our landscapes to facilitate floods flowing down the hillsides into our towns and cities by removing the woodlands , we need to restore the upland woodlands, restore the beavers so that they trap the water upland and slow it down. And actually, one of the extraordinary things we say, why is he talking about beavers in relation to floods and beavers when were in the natural when they were in the natural landscape , they built dams that landscape, they built dams that protected towns down rivers. So what we need to be doing is a massive programme of replanting our woodlands and re allowing the beavers to put natural dams in our upland rivers and streams and lakes. And lakes. Is it, is it too late to do that . Some people would say , that . Some people would say, hey, you know, this this is as its going to be now in the future. Future. Well, lets its too late to stop climate change. A1 well, lets its too late to stop climate change. A 1 degrees stop climate change. A1 degrees rise. Youre already there. Rise. Youre already there. Yeah, but if youre at this at one degree, what can you imagine if there would be a two degrees or three degrees and absolutely nightmare . So what we need to be doing, we can start now and the metropolitan, the met Office Predicts that these extreme weather floods will increase tenfold by the 2080s. We can get a lot of woodland in. We can a lot of natural protections and we get a lot of beavers into the landscape in the next 30 years that will help protect us from the disastrous impact of whats happening. By the 2080s, which is around 50 years time. Okay. Donica mccarthy, really appreciate you talking to me, director of the Climate Media Coalition. Thanks very much. Well well, weve been seeing pictures of some of the devastation that storm babet is causing across britain , causing across britain, including in wales. But what i want to show you is an heroic sheepdog called patsy, who has been rescuing some ewes from flooded water. Her owner has tweeted saying thank god for little patsy. Can you see her in little patsy. Can you see her in those pictures as she swims across the floodwater here to rescue those ewes and in a few seconds, youll see she pushes them onto onto some dry land. Them onto onto some dry land. She rescued the sheep. The sheep cut off by that deep water there. And it meant that that there. And it meant that that the farmers didnt have to get their feet either. Didnt need to get their feet wet, stepping in to help or i should say wading into help. So little patsy , their brilliant sheepdog , patsy, their brilliant sheepdog, no doubt getting an extra dog biscuit tonight. No doubt getting an extra dog biscuit tonight. Here she comes. Biscuit tonight. Here she comes. Happy as larry trotting over to her owner. She wasnt even she didnt even look tired at all. Well done, patsy. Now, labour well done, patsy. Now, labour was dealt a double by election blow or labour dealt a double by election blow to rishi sunak this week by overturning two huge conservative majority in tamworth and in mid bedfordshire. What could this mean for the Prime Minister . Is he marching his party towards a 1997 style wipe out or worse . Joining me now is someone who may welcome this. Its former labour special this. Its former labour special adviser paul richards. Good to adviser paul richards. Good to see you, paul. How do you read it then . Is it 1997 all over again . Is it armageddon , as again . Is it armageddon, as i think the former chancellor, george osborne, is predicting . George osborne, is predicting . Well, i wish, but no, its not, im afraid. I think the polls are overstating the case. And i think that rishi sunak does have a majority in parliament. John major didnt have a majority in 1997, but the tories have a cushion of about 60 odd seats. So thats why labouris 60 odd seats. So thats why labour is saying, first of all, we need a general election now. But secondly, no complacency at all. Results are stunning all. These results are stunning and they come off the back of results in scotland where won we and in the north of england where we won. Now in the midlands the home counties. Midlands and the home counties. So everywhere. So were winning everywhere. People are going straight from conservative not conservative to labour, not stopping way with the conservative to labour, not st0|dems, way with the conservative to labour, not st0|dems, which way with the conservative to labour, not st0|dems, which is way with the conservative to labour, not st0|dems, which is important, 1e lib dems, which is important, but you know, theres such a long to go and i saw keir long way to go and i saw keir starmer in liverpool a couple of weeks ago at the conference saying this is no room for saying this there is no room for complacency. All stuff complacency. So all this stuff about 97, fraid not one of the defences was that, well, this was to going happen to the tories yesterday because the governments of the day never win by elections. Well, they do win by elections. Well, they do sometimes, but what they usually do is they lose to the lib dems. You know, the lib dems have got a great talent for picking up these amazing by election triumphs. But actually the votes went to labour. So people are changing their mind about laboun changing their mind about labour. Gb news viewers thinking about labour for the first time perhaps, and thinking about voting labour for the first time. And so the switches have been from one Party Straight to the via a protocol party. Oh, sorry paul. Well keep trying you it does your sound went a bit funny then do you think that people are starting to connect to sir keir starmer now because theres always been a little bit of a question mark about him for many, hasnt there . Well, thats a really reasonable question because it is about leadership and character. But were not organising a stag do, are we . Its not about who were going to invite out for a drink. Its about whos going to run the country, you know, who is going to administer the Public Services we pay for. And services that we pay for. And i think starmer has shown he can run and he is in charge run things and he is in charge and look at the way hes changed the party. Three the labor party. Just three years were writing years ago, people were writing the off after the the labour party off after the terrible corbyn years. So actually, is actually, you know, he is a serious man and it may not be your best mate, but he is somebody can the place. Somebody who can run the place. And think after all the chaos and i think after all the chaos of the few years, four of the last few years, four Prime Ministers in a row crashing the economy the crashing the economy and the rest maybe it is time rest of it, maybe it is time for somebody you know, somebody whos a, you know, a steady hand at the tiller, a little bit of stability. Id like to wake up, you know, and not politics in the for not have any politics in the for news a day just where the government hasnt anything government hasnt done anything other than run the place other than just run the place sensibly. That great . Theres still a long great . To theres still a long great . To go, theres still a long great . To go, although still a long great . To go, although itll a long great . To go, although it feelsang way to go, although it feels like, you know, an election a year a year go so year away, a year can go so very, very quickly. What does labour need to do to maintain this lead what does rishi this lead or what does rishi sunak to do to catch up . Sunak need to do to catch up . Well, sunak has tried to sort of get down the trumpian the path of sort of populist politics, but after its conference he got no bounce at all. So i dont know what hes going to do. Mean, he should going to do. I mean, he should be in a very dark place and labour needs to carry on reassuring people step up its modernisation to show that we are capable of running the economy. Rachel reeves done a great job on that so far, but there are loads of people i know this true, you know are still this is true, you know are still making their minds up, but still not happy with labour. Not wholly happy with labour. There jubilation there isnt the same jubilation and you know, finish off and just, you know, finish off where doesnt where you started. It doesnt feel like 97 where people are smiling streets you smiling in the streets and, you know, way down to know, tripping their way down to the polling station to vote labour the sunshine. Its a labour in the sunshine. Its a very different situation. The economy very different economy is in a very different state. Has to state. And so labour has to carry reassuring people and carry on reassuring people and to ensure that the people that are on board now stay on board over the year. And youre over the next year. And youre right, you know, it could be january 20th, the general january 20th, 25, the general election. An awfully election. So its an awfully long to go. Long way to go. You know, what if what if but you know, what if what if rishi under his rishi sunak, under his premiership ship, met his targets of cutting inflation by half , things targets of cutting inflation by half, things could look very different for him if that happens, couldnt it . If he hits one of his one of his main targets . Yes well , the bank of targets . Yes well, the bank of england projects this anyway. So i mean, he chose a target that he knew he was going to hit. Im afraid it was a bit of a you know, its not actually that difficult to do that if there is a little of there is a little bit of economic Green Sprouts shoots, though, if people do feel a little bit more confident that might to labours advantage might play to labours advantage. It be that people feel. It may be that people feel that take a little punt that they can take a little punt and change government rather than, you know, cling to the government got. You government theyve got. So you never actually optimism in never know. Actually optimism in the not the economy might not necessarily to go. Go to sunak advantage. People dont vote to say thank you do they . They vote for their own future and to sort of think about their own childrens future. So it might be that economic green shoots actually a little bit. Former labour special adviser paul richards, thanks so much for talking to me this afternoon. You are watching and listening to gb news saturday with me, pip tomson. Plenty to bnng with me, pip tomson. Plenty to bring you in the last half hour, including a look ahead to tonights big game. I wonder what that is. England take on what that is. England take on 2019 world cup champions in south africa at the start , de south africa at the start, de france will be discussing what their chances are. All of that and more to come. First, lets get your headlines with sophia. Get your headlines with sophia. Its 233. Im sophia wenzler in the newsroom. The uk has called on israel to show military restraint in its war with hamas. These are live pictures of gaza where there appears to have been several strikes with smoke seen strikes with black smoke seen billowing on the skyline. Address a peace summit in egypt. The uks foreign secretary said hes spoken to the Israeli Government about duty to government about its duty to respect International Law and the importance of preserving civilian lives. James cleverly also told the conference efforts need to be made to prevent an escalation of violence. As we have a duty, a duty to Work Together for to prevent instability from engulfing the region and claiming yet more lives. We must Work Together to lives. We must Work Together to prevent the tragic situation in gaza becoming a regional conflict, gaza becoming a regional conflict , because that gaza becoming a regional conflict, because that is exactly what hamas wants us in. In the uk, tens and thousands of palestinian supporters are taking part in a march in Central London. Their calling for an end to the conflict in the middle east and demanding the middle east and demanding the uk government stop supporting israels actions. The demonstrators are making their way to downing street. The way to downing street. The Environment Agency is warning floods are likely to continue near major rivers in england until tuesday. Storm babet is dumping heavy rain in parts of the east midlands and South Yorkshire. The met office has yorkshire. The met office has also issued a red weather warning for aberdeenshire and angus, which is due to end at 6 00 this evening on tv online on dab radio and on tune in. This is gb news, britains news channel. Patrick christys on gb news. Im gb news radio. Hello gb news radio. Hello and welcome back. World leaders are meeting in cairo in a desperate plea for peace. S the foreign secretary peace. S the foreign secretary James Cleverly has been speaking dunng James Cleverly has been speaking during the summit and he has been urging israel all the Israeli Military to show restraint as expectation grows of an imminent invasion of the gaza strip by the Israeli Military. Now it comes as the military. Now it comes as the idf are reporting that some 210 hostages are now being held by hamas in gaza, the rafah Border Crossing to egypt has finally opened for much needed humanity dnven opened for much needed humanity driven aid. Lets cross live to gb News Reporter Charlie Peters, who is in tel aviv. Charlie, i know youve had a little bit of a situation station in the last few minutes. Tell us whats been happening. Happening. Yeah, well, after a lull of nearly 48 hours, rockets attacks once again occurred in tel aviv. We were forced into the shelter once again. But it does represent i think, the slight degradation that has occurred to hamas missile strike capabilities and that they focussed so intensely on the south in the last two days. Their ability to target tel aviv has likely dipped after the number of strikes that weve seen from the idf on the gaza strip in the last 48 hours. But there have been some successful impacts in sderot, a town in the south where people have been evacuated, many of them now gathering here in tel aviv. And gathering here in tel aviv. And also there are reports in the last hour of two injuries to some thai nationals in the north of israel after anti tank guided missiles were fired and rockets were fired from southern lebanon, likely by Lebanese Hezbollah, into northern israel. The idf has really released footage of them striking those teams with what they say is a drone attack on those militants in southern lebanon. Ty nationals have been particularly affected by this conflict. So many of them work here as seasonal workers, especially in the Agricultural Sector in the south and the north. Some 40 nationals from thailand are are dead or feared missing. So dead or feared missing. So a very significant impact. And they continue to be found in the casualty list and indeed , those casualty list and indeed, those wounded by rocket attacks. Yes, wounded by rocket attacks. Yes, but the situation in gaza , we but the situation in gaza, we are still seeing that convoy preparing itself. Message to preparing itself. Message to western powers. We know that western powers. We know that japan, italy and the uk represented at that summit that they want to see restraints on they want to see restraints on the israeli action on the gaza strip. But its unlikely to happenin strip. But its unlikely to happen in the constant visit of western World Leaders to israel in the last week has been described by some as a sort of babysitting, essentially affirming the pain achieved and felt in israel inflicted on them by those appalling attacks on october the 7th. But essentially saying to them, we feel your pain, but be mindful, be careful because what happens next could spill into that wider regional escalation. Ian and james escalation. Ian and James Cleverly, the foreign secretary saying at that peace summit in cairo this afternoon that he does not want to see a wider escalation and calling on regional partners, particular regional partners, in particular the powers to do what they the arab powers to do what they can to prevent that. But despite those comments , lebanese those comments, Lebanese Hezbollah, iranian proxy , hezbollah, that iranian proxy, is continuing to engage with the idf and still killing Israeli Soldiers, but also injuring civilians in the north. As we talk to you, charlie, we are seeing smoke over gaza, which could well be the result of israeli airstrikes. I hope we of israeli airstrikes. I hope we can also show pictures of the destruction that is being caused in gaza by these airstrikes. The Israeli Military targeting, they say , hamas infrastructure. We say, hamas infrastructure. We also must speak about the rafah crossing that is now open. Do we know how long that is going to stay open for and will any foreign nationals be allowed out . Were still waiting for information on both of those fronts because the information supply there is so sudden for just a moment. It can go from nothing to everything. And thats what happened this morning where with an hours notice, informed that notice, we were informed that the would open the crossing would open imminently then some 80 imminently and then some 80 minutes later, we saw footage of the first trucks going in, carrying medical supplies, medical equipment and food. But crucially , no fuel. Thats crucially, no fuel. Thats probably been a red line for the israelis because they dont want to see anything in incendiary going towards that strip as they fear that hamas could hijack aid going in. Of course, the egyptian red crescent and the un taking particular guard of any suppues taking particular guard of any supplies that enter into the strip under observation from idf intelligence and air assets. But the fuel is required, they say , the fuel is required, they say, in the gaza strip, because of the fact that they are claiming that hospitals are running out of power for their generators. They have relied on generators to conduct medical opportunities and activities inside the gaza strip due to that electricity cut off. They will not be any electricity flowing into the gaza strip while this bombardment continues. There was a possibility that some water supply could return. But again , supply could return. But again, weve not seen evidence of that after the Israeli Energy minister claimed the taps would open five days ago. And this comes, of course, in the context of the idf wanting the best part of the idf wanting the best part of a Million People to flee from the north to the south. But in order to do that, to sustain that transport, many people in the south, on the gaza strip, theyre observing , saying that theyre observing, saying that there isnt sufficient humanitarian support to make that a conducive exercise for the internally displaced peoples. But regardless of how many people flee south, it looks as though the idf are set to continue their bombardment. Last night, the heaviest in several nights. And those troops still gathering on the on the on the border with the gaza strip. A convoy of armour and infantry. That Ground Invasion seems imminent. The next couple of days , we suspect highly likely days, we suspect highly likely in that time period, as yoav galant , the idf defence galant, the idf defence minister, sets out his strategy for that invasion. For that invasion. Charlie peters in tel aviv, thank you. Back here and train thank you. Back here and train operators around the uk have advised customers not to travel today due to widespread disruption following a storm babet lner Avanti West Coast and Northern Rail have all warned against travelling as lines are widely flooded. We are also heanng widely flooded. We are also hearing that londons Kings Cross Station is shut because of overcrowding. We will try and bnng overcrowding. We will try and bring you more on that. The Environment Agency has warned that flooding is likely to continue in areas near major rivers until tuesday. People in up to 100 homes across angus in east scotland have been rescued from their flooded homes, with some being airlifted. Weve been asking you for your stories and your videos across the country d of what the situation is like near you. Lindsay in scots island has sent us this s flooding on that road. Im not entirely sure which part of scotland that is. It might be eastern scotland, but at least the roads are passable because theyre not like that in many other places. Well, nathan rao other places. Well, nathan rao is a weather journalist and can join me now. So many parts of the country, nathan, affected now by storm babet. Now by storm babet. Yeah, this is this is the storm that moved in sort of at the start of the weekend, but is continuing to wreak havoc, particularly across scotland. And it is scotland , east and it is scotland, east scotland where the Red Met Office warning is still in place. Now, this is a red warning that was issued for the start of the weekend. Its been extended until 6 pm. Tonight. There is also a warning for wind and there are also yellow and amber weather warnings in place across there are also yellow and amber there are also yellow and amber the and as you the region. And as you mentioned, authorities certainly in scotrail and in scotland, scotrail and traffic scotland are warning people please Check Services people to please Check Services before travel. Dont travel before they travel. Dont travel unless is absolutely unless it is absolutely essential. Certainly until tomorrow, when their engineers are going to be looking to make sure that routes still safe. Sure that routes are still safe. But only scot island, as you but on only scot island, as you mentioned, across as mentioned, across england as well, environment well, the english Environment Agency number of agency has issued a number of severe warnings and Severe Weather warnings and weather warnings or Flood Warnings and flood alerts across a large swathe of england , a large swathe of england, particularly around rivers that are pushed to breaking point. Now with this intense deluge of rain that has really been non stop in some regions for the last 24 hours. Nathan the Environment Agency is warning that flooding from major rivers could continue until tuesday. Now ongoing flooding, they say, probable on larger rivers , say, probable on larger rivers, including the severn oos and trent. Yes thats absolutely right. Now, the Environment Agency has named its risk areas as anglia east midlands West Midlands , wales, yorkshire, midlands, wales, yorkshire, humber. All of these places where the rivers have been, you know , growing over the last 24 know, growing over the last 24 hours. Now, the thing with these heavy rainfall events is that the lag effect can last a couple of days where rivers take a while for their river level river levels to lower and for them to become safe again. So them to become safe again. So flooding is going to be an ongoing risk even after this storm has passed through tonight and into tomorrow morning, into the start of next week. Flooding the start of next week. Flooding is still going to be a risk. And i would imagine we will still see Flood Warnings in those areas people do to take areas and people do need to take thisdont they . They need be dont they . They need to be careful. Go out in your dont they . They need to be car and go out in your dont they . They need to be car and drive go out in your dont they . They need to be car and drive through n your dont they . They need to be car and drive through something car and drive through something that that you think looks all right. Oh, its only a puddle, you and its you might say. And its something. Something very different. Absolutely. Now, we talk absolutely. Now, we talk about weather warnings a lot in my business. We talk about them a lot. But red warnings are not issued lightly. Now, to put that into context, the last red weather warning from met weather warning from the met office for rain was in 2020 dunng office for rain was in 2020 during storm dennis. And so its been a long time and the scottish you know, the Environment Agency warns that 30cm of rain floodwater can move a car. So it doesnt take much floodwater to make it very unsafe both for driving and for walking and also coastal regions as well. Stay away from the coasts while the river levels, you know , while the winds are you know, while the winds are high because it can cause huge waves to overtop over the coastal defences anywhere coastal defences and anywhere where be where theres likely to be flooding really until those flooding really until those flood and those weather Flood Warnings and those weather warnings expired , it is warnings have expired, it is best to stay safe and stay away from flooded, flooded areas. From the flooded, flooded areas. Advice there. Such valuable advice there. Nathan, thank you so much. And nathan, thank you so much. And while you are staying indoors, well, you might be watching englands semi final against south africa tonight. No doubt south africa tonight. No doubt tonights opponents who beat hosts france 2928 in an epic quarterfinal last saturday will be challenging for england, who of course , lost in the 2019 of course, lost in the 2019 world cup final. The winner will world cup final. The winner will face the all blacks after they comfortably beat argentina last night. So joining me is the rugby reporter at the daily mail, alex bywater. Good to see you again, alex. Well part of england got to do well. Theyve got an Epic Challenge on their hands , havent they . As on their hands, havent they . As youve alluded to there, the team that they lost to quite convincingly in the 2019 final, theres no sort of physical challenge for a rugby team in in in in the test arena than south africa. So thats their first challenge. If they dont match them physically, i think itll be good night for Steve Borthwick side. But there is borthwick side. But there is a bit of degree of positivity around a happening. You around a shock happening. You know, south africa are still heavy favourites rightly heavy favourites and rightly so after but after beating france, but england, you know, they can produce a big performance. We saw four years ago. No one expected them to beat the all blacks in the semi final and they did so see what they did that. So lets see what happens. Promises happens. Its certainly promises to be an exciting game. Hopefully better than hopefully its going better than the england is the cricket, which england is struggling south africa the cricket, which england is strthe ling south africa the cricket, which england is strthe moment. South africa at the moment. Okay. Thats thats thats not good news to hear. In terms not good news to hear. In terms of the squad then , is the of the squad then, is the une up of the squad then, is the line up likely to be the same as it was against fiji . It was against fiji . Well, whats whats interesting about the line up for this weekend is that south africa are known for the replacements that they bring on their fonnard is that they bring on early in the second half this become known as sort of the bomb squad that they have and england head Steve Borthwick has head coach Steve Borthwick has tried that. This tried to replicate that. So this weekend hes got guys like ellis genge , Kyle Sinckler and ollie genge, Kyle Sinckler and Ollie Chessum on the bench. So there has been a couple of changes. Freddie stewart is back at fullback as well because marcus smith has been ruled out. So theres changes theres a handful of changes from game and its from the fiji game and its going be interesting see going to be interesting to see how deploys the how Steve Borthwick deploys the bench, how early brings on bench, how early he brings on the fonnards to sort of counteract what africa are counteract what south africa are going to do tactics wise as well. I think it was Clive Woodward , the world cup winning coach who said that england are capable of shocking the. World capable of shocking the. World yeah, and it would it would it would be a big shock, wouldnt it . I think south africa are rightly favourites as i alluded to, but there is a small chance, i think its probably a 30, 30, 40 chance, but weve seen shocks in this world cup already. I mean, no one would have thought. I dont think that the ireland and france would have both out france would have both gone out in quarterfinal we in the quarterfinal stages. We saw happen last weekend. Saw that happen last weekend. What argentina as well beating wales. Was a result not wales. That was a result not many people predicting. Many people were predicting. So we upsets in that world we can see upsets in that world cups. Theyve happened before. And england fans, im sure will be will be hoping for another one today. Its a long a long wait ahead of the game tonight. What about the current Springboks Team are they better than the team that lifted that webb ellis trophy four years ago . I . I think they are. And the main reason i say that is because all south african teams are known for their power or their fonnard physicality. But what this Springbok Team is , is what this Springbok Team is, is more of an attacking threat. I more of an attacking threat. I think theyve got a Different Number 10 in manie libbok. Hes been preferred to Handre Pollard and hes wonderful attacking and hes a wonderful attacking player out wide their wings. Cheslin kolbe and Kurtley Arendse are hugely dangerous , arendse are hugely dangerous, attacking threats, so theyre not just a team that can beat you up physically and dominate with a line out they can play attacking rugby and we saw some of the breakaway tries they scored against france, which were fantastic, really. So theyre hugely Entertaining Team to watch. Theyre different to 2019 when they comfortably beat england in the final. So i guess on that it leaves england facing up to a big challenge. And do they need to get those tries in early on . Quick answer. Tries in early on . Quick answer. Absolutely. That would be great. But i think even if they cant score tries, you know, im not expecting them to be scoring 4 or 5 tries against the boks but some early penalties or drop goals to get the goals maybe to get the scoreboard moving would be would be england fall be key. I think if england fall behind relatively and behind relatively early and significant, i would think they would struggle to overturn that disadvantage. Im keeping disadvantage. Okay im keeping everything crossed. Alex bywater , thank you so alex bywater, thank you so much and thank you to you for your company on gb news saturday with me , pip tomson. See you. Soon hello there. Welcome to your latest gb news Weather Forecast. Im craig snell. Looking ahead to the rest of the day, a heavy rain across scotland will finally begin to ease this evening. Elsewhere, its actually also turning drier. We still this area low still have this area of low pressure the uk , so it pressure across the uk, so it will remain fairly changeable. Still the risk of a few showers, but thankfully, especially for scotland, start to lose the scotland, we start to lose the really heavy rain. So into this evening you can trace that rain further northwards across mainland parts of scotland. Mainland parts of scotland. Amber and red warnings will expire as we go through the course evening. So for course of the evening. So for most us, as we go through the most of us, as we go through the small of sunday, small hours of sunday, its a fairly dry a few fairly dry picture, a few showers maybe also the showers around, maybe also the odd and patch and away odd mist and fog patch and away from towns and cities turning a little bit chillier compared to of. So sunday we start off of late. So sunday we start off on a fairly bright note. Any mist and fog quickly clearing still the risk of some showers, especially for scotland especially for western scotland or maybe parts of western wales. Southwest but for southwest england too, but for many areas its a much brighter day, some sunshine around. Its certainly a day to take stock if you unfortunately seen some flooding over the last few days. Temperatures us temperatures for most of us around where they should be for the of year. Around 10 the time of year. So around 10 to the north, potentially to 12 in the north, potentially up into the teens. Further up into the mid teens. Further south monday, do start the south monday, we do start the day dry, quite day fairly dry, maybe quite chilly scotland and northern chilly for scotland and northern ireland. However, well see this heavy area of rain work its way in during the course of the day. That spread way further that will spread its way further eastwards as we go through the course of next week. Staying course of next week. So staying unsettled us good afternoon. Hello and welcome to gb news on tv, online and on Digital Radio. Im nana akua. And for the next few hours, me and my panel will be taking on some of the topics hitting the the big topics hitting the headunes the big topics hitting the headlines show headlines right now. This show is all about opinion. Its mine, its and course its its theirs. And of course its yours. Will be debating, discussing, we discussing, and at times we will disagree, will be disagree, but no one will be cancelled. So me in the cancelled. So joining me in the next hour broadcast from columnist lizzie cundy also columnist lizzie cundy and also former jeremy former labour adviser to jeremy corbyn, schneider. And in corbyn, james schneider. And in a moments time, ill be a few moments time, ill be crossing Charlie Peters crossing live to Charlie Peters in get latest on in tel aviv to get the latest on the hamas conflict. But the israel hamas conflict. But first, lets get your latest News Headlines sophia. News headlines with sophia. Good afternoon. Its 3 00. Im sophia wenzler in the newsroom. The uk has called on israel to show military restraint in its war with hamas. Restraint in its war with hamas. These are live pictures coming to us from gaza where there appears to have been several fresh strikes this afternoon with black smoke seen billowing across the skyline, addressed a peace summit in egypt. The uks foreign secretary said hes spoken to the Israeli Government about its duty to respect International Law and the importance of preserving civilian lives. James cleverly also told the conference efforts need to be made to prevent an escalation of violence. Escalation of violence. We have a duty , a duty to we have a duty, a duty to Work Together to