Crisis in the channel gb views at gb views. Com is that email address . And just dont say address . Oh, and just dont say we you a bit of we dont give you a bit of variety as well. We have some stuff, believe it or not, on dancing chinese bears. Now your headlines with now its your headlines with. Ray thanks patrick. Good afternoon. 3 01. Heres the afternoon. 3 01. Heres the latest on our top story this houn latest on our top story this hour. Rishi sunak has been heckled by a publican after announcing an overhaul of alcohol duty. Alcohol duty. Prime minister. Oh, the irony that youre raising alcohol duty today as youre pulling a pint. The pm was touring a london beer festival after claiming the changes would benefit thousands of businesses. However, the of businesses. However, the british beer and Pub Association warns it will cost the industry an extra £225 million in tax. The new system focuses on taxing alcoholic drinks on their strength with duty on wine and vodka to rise. Rishi sunak says the new system is simpler and better. Today marks the biggest shake up of alcohol taxes in a century. I announced them as chancellor and today theyre being delivered. The centrepiece being delivered. The centrepiece of those reforms is backing british pubs. Now that weve left the eu, we can ensure that the tax you pay for beer on draft at pubs is lower less than the tax you pay for beer at the supermarkets. But were also radically simplifying the system so that the lower the alcohol in a drink, the less tax you pay and that means price cuts on a range of popular drinks. The home office has delayed moving Asylum Seekers to the biggest stockholm barge in dorset over fire safety concerns. Thats despite previously saying that 50 migrants would move to their new accommodation in portland today. Further inspections are now taking place to ensure that it fully complies with regulations. Once up and running, the facility will host around 500 men. Former immigration security advisor henry bolton told us proper evacuation plans are vital. Vital. Well, whats quite incredible about this is , is the about this is, is the demonstration that the home office has not done its planning and preparation correctly or thoroughly. You know, the thoroughly. You know, the problem here is one of the fire inspections and the signing of the accommodation as suitably fireproof and, you know, to be fair in a sense, the probability of a fire on there, the fire control on board and the bibby stockholm is adequate. What the problem is, is evacuation. Problem is, is evacuation. Should there be a fire . Well, meanwhile , more than well, meanwhile, more than 3000 people crossed the channel in 63 small boats last month with an average of 52 migrants per boat. Thats the highest number on record so far this yeah number on record so far this year. More than 14,000 migrants have made that dangerous crossing. A british man who crossing. A british man who killed his seriously ill wife has visited her grave for the First Time Since being released from prison in cyprus. David hunter was sentenced to two years for manslaughter after claiming his wife asked him to end her life at their home in paphos in 2021. The couples daughter says she believes her father wanted to say his goodbyes properly. To teenage goodbyes properly. To teenage girls aged 16 and 17 have been killed after a road crash in County Monaghan in ireland. An 18 year old woman and the cars dnven 18 year old woman and the cars driver, a 60 year old man, are in hospital in critical condition. An 18 year old man is receiving treatment for non life threatening injuries. Is understood that some of those involved were on their way to a debutante ball, which was being held at a secondary school last night. House prices have fallen night. House prices have fallen at their fastest annual rate for 14 years nationwide, saying that the average price dropped by 3. 8 over the last 12 months. The average uk home now costing around. £260,000 is russia has around. £260,000 is russia has accused ukraine of an attempted terrorist attack, to quote them , after a building appeared to be targeted for the second time. The high rise in moscows Business District houses three government ministers ministries. There are no casualties , but the there are no casualties, but the towers glass facade was damaged. Kyiv hasnt claimed responsibility for the incident, but said russia can expect more. Quote unidare certified drones and more war and finally, a Drone Delivery Service has been launched in orkney, helping locals to receive their mail. The collaboration between royal mail and skyport says the scheme will transport letters and parcels between the islands. Parcels between the islands. Its expected to significantly improve delivery times while the service will initially operate for three months, it could be continued on a permanent basis. Continued on a permanent basis. Skyports ceo Duncan Walker told gb news why drones are the best solution to tackle these delivery problems in this Service Really works well. Where ground infrastructure is either poor or challenging. So thats islands where theres ferries or mountainous areas rivers, lakes , more rural areas, rivers, lakes, more rural areas, developing nations. Drones are developing nations. Drones are perfect for that because they dont rely on ground infrastructure, which is very, very difficult and expensive to implement. So we can access islands very quickly. We can hop islands very quickly. We can hop between the two islands and we can do it in a way where actually our wind tolerance is a little bit better than the ferries. So hopefully that improves for the improves Service Levels for the islanders sport and in islanders and sport and in adelaide the lionesses have beaten china six one in their final group game to progress to the last 16 of the womens world cup. Theyve made history as the first side to score in 16 consecutive matches. Lauren consecutive matches. Lauren james had a hand in five of the six goals, scoring two and assisting in three. Sarina wiegman , whose side will now wiegman, whose side will now face nigeria in brisbane on monday. This is gb news across monday. This is gb news across the uk on tv in your car on Digital Radio and on your Smart Speaker by saying play gb news. Now lets get back to. Now lets get back to. Patrick welcome aboard. Now in just a few minutes, i will bring you our big exclusive interview with the Prime Minister, rishi sunak i he has spoken to us at length about a lot of stuff, actually, about a lot of stuff, actually, a whole range of subjects from the migrant crisis, which we are about to get stuck right into as well, because we have some new information about the amounts of people crammed onto boats people being crammed onto boats that are coming across the channel. Hes also spoken about the nigel farage de banking scandal. The man himself, nigel should be with us later. So action packed so its an action packed show. Will bring you that show. We will bring you that interview very soon. But interview very, very soon. But to another gb news exclusive. Dont say we dont treat you and the government has been criticised after its approved the acquisition entire the acquisition of an entire tower luxury apartment complex , tower luxury apartment complex, specifically for migrants. Im going to show you a package in a second. Now get your emails coming in afterwards. Gb views. Gb news news. Com. This this made me feel physically sick when i saw it. Young singer mums are being forced into accommodation with rising damp and developing all kinds of conditions over it. But people who have entered this country illegally are living in stuff that well, frankly, its better than a five star hotel. Our home is security editor mark white has had a good look at whats been going on in chelmsford in essex, where, like, ive said, youre about to see something that i dare say will make you very angry indeed. Its billed as one of chelmsfords most sought after residential is a residential complexes is a multi Million Pound conversion of an old office block into luxury apartments. The marketing luxury apartments. The marketing photographs show just how comfortable these flats are. But for now , at least, none of the for now, at least, none of the 98 units here are for local use turned over. Instead to the home office to house Asylum Seekers. Dozens of migrants have already moved in the refurbishment work on the remaining Apartment Units is almost complete. Is almost complete. The mode was all up there. All around, down the floors, along all the pipework and across the ceiling and just running down the walls. It was absolutely disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. Tasha burgess moved into this damp and mould infested property in chelmsford five years ago. In chelmsford five years ago. Only last year was the family finally moved out while those problems were fixed, but not before she and her children developed chronic respiratory ailments. Ailments. Its very frustrating that that people can come illegally and get the accommodation when youve got people that are homeless. Not by fault , that homeless. Not by fault, that need accommodation as well. And need accommodation as well. And a lot of families that are not in suitable accommodation size ehhen in suitable accommodation size either, and its squashed in flats and stuff, waiting on lists for months and months or years even. Years even. The local council says it has only limited grounds for a legal challenge against the home office and does not intend to take court action. Local Campaign Groups say the housing of Asylum Seekers in luxury apartments is grossly unfair when more than 400 chelmsford families are in temporary accommodation, many of those properties in sub standard condition, they are illegally here and yet they are living in absolute luxury. And i think thats whats frustrating and annoying. So many people is that theyre getting everything and People Living in some of these places that we see last year during the damp and mould, you wouldnt have in it because it have put a dog in it because it was disgusting. The stockholm with the bibby stockholm accommodation barge receiving its Asylum Seekers and its first Asylum Seekers and more arriving at the former Wethersfield Airbase in essex , Wethersfield Airbase in essex, the government says its committed to moving away from Expensive Hotels, but this luxury apartment complex surely cannot be with the home secretary meant by a move to more basic accommodation for Asylum Seekers. Mark white gb Asylum Seekers. Mark white gb news in chelmsford. You wouldnt news in chelmsford. You wouldnt put a dog in it. That was one of the key lines out of that. And its true you wouldnt because the dog would get sick and die. But apparently its good enough for a young british with young british mum with her young child. What . One of child. But you know what . One of the biggest disgraces about all of for was was that the of that for me was was that the local council gone, oh, local council has gone, oh, gosh, weve got gosh, you know, weve got limited appeal. Limited grounds for appeal. Weve got no plans to appeal it. I mean, do understand that i mean, they do understand that local people vote them , local people vote for them, dont they . Lib dem council, by the apparently local people the way, apparently local people vote are they vote for them. What are they doing . Are they counting on the asylum votes the next Asylum Seeker votes at the next election something . Election or something . I just cannot around that. Cannot get my hands around that. Who up for british who is standing up for british people their own elected people if their own elected representatives our representatives wont do it . Our home editor mark white, Home Security editor mark white, who got that story for us, joins me in studio now. In me in the studio now. And in fact, a of minutes, fact, in a couple of minutes, hes going to be revealing something well. Something else for you as well. That made me but mark, that made me incredibly angry, looking at that. I mean, we are now over prioritising people whove come to illegally to this country illegally over people who are in desperate need already here. Theres clear yeah, i mean, theres a clear ineqtu yeah, i mean, theres a clear inequity where you have inequity here where you have people that crossed over people that have crossed over into illegally that are into the uk illegally that are being in very comfortable being housed in very comfortable apartments like this. And people apartments like this. And people like tasha burgess, who, as i say, for years before she was moved out of a flat, that we showed the pictures of were just infested with mould and damp. Infested with mould and damp. And the whole family now have got these chronic chest conditions that they say they will have for the rest of their lives. Now, because of the mould and the other damp and everything that really played on them. And its 400 plus families were told in the chelmsford area that are in temporary accommodation and a good number of these are in what you would deem as substandard accommodation and they want to be moved out to the likes of the apartment block that we were featuring there with 98, one, two and three bedroom apartments available. Available. You no, indeed. And i dare say that there will be many people watching this show now for whom those luxury apartments that we were showing you earlier on. Of course not these ones. These are the ones that the brits live in. Look at that. Yes, there you you you can yes, there you go. You you can mr and mrs. Jones, you can live in one where the roofs about to cave in the shower doesnt cave in and the shower doesnt work everything smells work and everything smells of raw loads of people raw sewage. But loads of people will watching this and will be watching this now and seeing the accommodate. The Illegal Immigrants getting seeing the accommodate. The illefree,� nmigrants getting seeing the accommodate. The illefree, thinking s getting seeing the accommodate. The illefree, thinking i getting seeing the accommodate. The illefree, thinking i dontetting seeing the accommodate. The illefree, thinking i dont liveg for free, thinking i dont live in anything this and ive in anything this nice, and ive paid taxes in this paid my taxes in this country for however many years. Ive paid dues. For however many years. Ive paid dues. Ive no paid my dues. Ive got no criminal record. Ive done everything by the book and it just does seem fair. But the just does not seem fair. But the home office, you said, home office, like you said, there was saying that were there was saying that they were going try and cut down on going to try and cut down on costs because this surely isnt what in mind. What they had in mind. Theres no doubt it is well, theres no doubt it is stoking intense anger throughout the why rishi the country, which is why rishi sunak and suella braverman, the home secretary say they are very committed to moving away from the model of people being put in Expensive Hotels and in this case, an expensive luxury apartment block and trying to get them onto the bbc stockholm barge into the Wethersfield Air base or the scampton air base. Indeed into marquees in the air bases , as well as something that bases, as well as something that is more basic but still , you is more basic but still, you know, safe and clean, but will act in itself as a deterrent. Act in itself as a deterrent. They should have done that from the start. We should have gone for tent cities and marquee cities the its cities from the start. Its cheapen cities from the start. Its cheaper, its more space effective. It doesnt impact the effective. It doesnt impact the local population as much. It is local population as much. It is more of a deterrent and as well, for of human rights for all of these Human Rights Charities say, oh, its charities who say, oh, its inhumane to put them these inhumane to put them in these tents. As well know, mark, tents. As you well know, mark, they these same in they use these same tents in other the world, the other parts of the world, the same charities use theyre same charities use them. Theyre absolutely they absolutely fine. But what they are a luxurious three are not is a luxurious three bedroom duplex or whatever youd call somewhere in call it there somewhere in chelmsford. But mark, you have something for us dont Something Else for us now, dont you . Of the reasons why you . And one of the reasons why we start need more tent we might start to need more tent cities because what youre cities is because what youre about tell the nation. Yes about to tell the nation. Yes mean, the whole row over i mean, the whole row over where all of these asylum where to put all of these Asylum Seekers is just born off the inability of rishi sunak and his government to stop the boats as he promised. And they are coming he promised. And they are coming in ever increasing numbers. Last month we saw a worrying trend to the boats that were coming across packed , adding even more across packed, adding even more people on board. An average of 52 people per boat. We can show you some pictures now from social media. You can see there , theyre packed, sitting on both sides of the boat. But look in the middle. Thats sort of fidged in the middle. Thats sort of ridged area in the middle is a reinforced area of the boat before the middle of the boat, the floor was plywood , wood. And the floor was plywood, wood. And it was it could in certain conditions break apart. And we had to very significant tragedies out in the English Channel. So the people smugglers have upped the specifications as they are sturdier and as a consequence, theyre putting more people on board these boats , including twice last month, the