There today than august as storm anthony brings widespread heavy rain, a risk of gales and disruption. Ill have the full details coming up soon. Yeah, well be telling you everything you need to know about that. Good morning. Im anne diamond. And im Martin Daubney and this breakfast on gb news. This is breakfast on gb news. Its going to be a very stormy , very nasty weather wise. Stormy, very nasty weather wise. This weekend, isnt it . Where did Global Warming go . Where is august gone. Yeah, well, its like were writing it off already. Its gone down the pan and. And, of course, it coincides with the school holidays. My family are in scotland. Hello. If youre watching, youre probably going probably not. Theyre going to miss think first its miss it. I think at first its going batter into the going to batter into the south west up way. South west coast up that way. But what a british but yeah, what would a british summer be without terrible weather . I know. I mean, ive just recently been on holiday and we had some really weather on had some really bad weather on houday had some really bad weather on holiday then i wasnt in holiday and then i wasnt in europe, canada and it europe, i was in canada and it was fog, fog. You couldnt see to of your arm. But to the end of your arm. But i mean and i mean that literally. I thought ever really i never thought id ever really mean literally, but it was mean that literally, but it was pretty weather. But and pretty awful weather. But me and my were on holiday my sisters were on holiday together we all thought, my sisters were on holiday togetimind, we all thought, my sisters were on holiday togetimind, whenll thought, my sisters were on holiday togetimind, when we fought, my sisters were on holiday togetimind, when we get|ht, my sisters were on holiday togetimind, when we get home. Never mind, when we get home. Theres and september theres august and september ahead know, so were ahead of us, you know, so were bound to have some lovely weather stretching before us weather stretching out before us when home. Its sort when we get home. And its sort of happening. Of not happening. And of the fog, youve and short of the fog, youve brought weather with brought that weather back with you. The person, you. So maybe youre the person, but looking like its going but its looking like its going to quite a arhoolie. We have to be quite a arhoolie. We have to be quite a arhoolie. We have to batter down and sort of get get ready for it. I think its going to kick in later on today. Well have full update well have a full update throughout show. Of course. Throughout the show. Of course. But now theres something wrong so rather wrong with my mic. So rather than to yours. Yeah, you than talking to yours. Yeah, you take it away. Ill pick up. Okay. The environment secretary has ordered her department to cut all ties with greenpeace today as the government reacts to the eco groups invasion the prime groups invasion of the Prime Ministers home. They draped his house in black sheeting and a protest against his approval of new oil and gas licences in the nonh new oil and gas licences in the north sea. Five protesters were arrested and later released as nonh arrested and later released as North Yorkshire police opened up an investigation into the affair. Well, seeing how they like it, gb news sent contributor ben leo to invade their islington headquarters as well , but has their islington headquarters as well, but has their latest stunt left them hanging out to dry . Left them hanging out to dry . Well, lets now speak to political commentator andy williams. Good morning to you , williams. Good morning to you, andy. I understand youre in the south of france, so youre having Better Weather than having much Better Weather than we are having here. How significant, andy, is this . Its a story thats greatly divided the nation. It really got people going on gb news yesterday , the going on gb news yesterday, the feeling of the invasion of someones private home, the place where rishi sunak children live. It really got people shackled. But this this latest development, its quite dramatic , the idea that greenpeace has a place at the top table in Central Government. Now, those ties have been severed. How ties have been severed. How significant is this, do you think, charity . Well think, for the charity . Well i think, for the charity . Well i think in some ways, greenpeace have got what they wanted here. I mean, the purpose of these stunts is to create as much press coverage and controversy as possible and to get a conversation going. And while , conversation going. And while, you know, a lot of people find their tactics distasteful, certainly not to not to my taste, not to your viewers tastes and what theyre trying to achieve here is to make a statement. And theyve certainly done that in getting tyrese coffey, the environment secretary, to engage with the terms of their debate. Theyve they they have raised awareness of their issue. Now, whether or not you think its right that the government should be engaging with with greenpeace, thats a different question. But as you say, i think your your viewers have spoken in terms of their response to the discussion , but it cant be very good , but it cant be very good, really, can it, if they reflect back on this, theyve lost a seat at the table and surely the whole point of them is to have some influence on what government is looking at and deciding theyve lost that chance now, havent they, by alienate getting everybody, by making them angry . Well, i think making them angry . Well, i think theres a lot of symbolism going on here. Right. So the reality is that the government wont completely excommunicate greenpeace from their discussions. They just they will discussions. They just they will have to engage with them. Theyre in enormous, very powerful group, whatever you think and as much as think of them. And as much as tyrese coffey , she she is tyrese coffey, she she is committing a stunt here just as greenpeace where she is making a statement. I think the reality is that behind the scenes, she will continue to engage with them, even if in the short term she theyre cutting ties. She says theyre cutting ties. You think, though , the dont you think, though, the nofion dont you think, though, the notion he might be quite surprised that somebody, a group like greenpeace , have a like greenpeace, have a table, a seat at table at all in seat at the table at all in terms of their ability to lobby government . There hugely government . There are hugely well funded charity. Its not pubuc well funded charity. Its not public money, of course. Its public money, of course. Its private donations. But the fact private donations. But the fact that they are sat at a table trying to influence a policy, clearly they oppose the government on the central premise of more north sea oil and gas licences. So they find themselves at absolute loggerheads with the government. Do they even deserve a place at the table if theyre campaigning for political change, which is completely the opposite of what the government want . I think the government want . I think they do, actually. I think its really important that the government engages with a of organisations a wide range of organisations with voices who come with different voices who come from perspectives. You from different perspectives. You know, my job at penta know, in in my job at penta a communications firm, we work with company businesses, charities, all sorts of organisations who have a different point of view from government. And its not right that government should simply engage with businesses and charities who share their exact point of view. So i have to say , whether or not you agree with greenpeace on this issue and whether or not you think this is the right the right way of going about of your about raising awareness of your issue, important issue, i think its important that that government engages with with organisations across the political spectrum and with a different range of views on this particular issue. So i think its i think its important for democracy that they they continue to speak to and have a dialogue with these sorts of organisations, even if they dont agree with them. I think most people watching would with their right to would agree with their right to protest. Basic right protest. Its a very basic right that we all hold dear in britain. But if you were advising them , would you have said that this stunt was a suitable way to get people talking about their issue . 7 no . No, 7 no,i 7 no , i well, 7 no , i well, lets take two things. First, are people talking about it . Yes, clearly, by by definition, were talking about at the top of the hour on gb news. So in that respect, theyve theyve done their job of putting it on the agenda. People personally, if i was advising them, i would say you want to be evidence led. You want to be evidence led. You want to be evidence led. You want to take your argument to the government in a way that that very factual and is that is very factual and is persuasive, but also know is within democratic norms. So theres always a balance to strike here. And like i say, if i was advising them, i would be going a different way about it. Andy, the key question now , andy, the key question now, though, is that net zero is pure politics and net zero is big business. Were seeing people like dale vincent, you know, from ecotricity donating £i. 5 from ecotricity donating £1. 5 million to the labour party with the inference that over the years hes been handed £110 million in government subsidies to put into his company. So theres a feeling that you want something for what you put in. Do you think the next part of this is people are going to start looking at whos funding greenpeace, putting the greenpeace, whos putting the money and what money into greenpeace and what do want and do they have do they want and do they have a direct lobbying involvement in getting eco power down as a priority as opposed to north sea oil. And in that sense, have greenpeace created a headache for themselves in terms of journalists nosing around about who their donors are . Look im who their donors are . Look im sure im sure that there will be a people asking greenpeace to open up their books and all sorts of Charitable Organisations are under pressure to raise awareness of sorry, not raise awareness to be more open about who is who is funding them i um, um, this 5mm hum um, this is a wider conversation about how organisations are funded and transparency and perhaps it would be better for democracy if we could see who is pumping money into these organisations. Money into these organisations. What i would say though, martin, just to pick up on your point there, where you say net zero there, is where you say net zero is big business. Yes, it is. And in fact it be. It should in fact it should be. It should be for the private and be for the private sector and for organisations can for organisations who can develop solutions develop the Technology Solutions to towards net and to take us towards net zero and to take us towards net zero and to decarbonise us and continue to decarbonise us and continue to investing so that so that we can do things in a greener and cleaner way. And i think that is cleaner way. And i think that is the route towards is a more a cleaner and Better Future for the climate. The climate. Well, andy, thanks very much indeed for getting up early to join us. And i hope you enjoy the rest of your day there. I think in france. Arent you . Think in france. Arent you . Thank you very much for making time for us at the top of the houn time for us at the top of the hour. Thank you. And i was just going to say, i hope youre enjoying weather in france, enjoying the weather in france, but dont know quite what the but i dont know quite what the weather is like in france at the moment. Depends you are. Moment. Depends where you are. Than its going to be better than its going to be here better than its going to be herwell, yeah. Yeah. Because the well, yeah. Yeah. Because the first office storm first met office named storm of the uk this the year will hit the uk this weekend. Today with gusts of up to 65 miles an hour expected to batter our coastlines. Lets speak to weather. Lets speak to weather. Joining nathan row with joining us now, nathan row with more extreme weather more on that extreme weather thats travelling. Its going to thats travelling. Its going to impact on those outdoors. Impact travel on those outdoors. Its british summer. Were its the british summer. Were used to bad weather. Whats a significant so north of this storm actually receiving a name whats the threshold for getting a name right so the this is the first named storm by the Uk Met Office for its actually the 20 2223 storm season. So its actually about a year late. But the met office name these storms on the impacts theyre likely to have so even though the wind speeds of this storm storm anthony are expected to be around 75 mile per hour gusts on the coasts and 55 mile per hour in that its not the stronger storm that weve seen, but because of the time of year, the leaves, the trees are all in full leaf and its holiday season. The schools are and season. The schools are off. And where going hitting where its going to be hitting the this storm hitting the impact of this storm hitting today is likely to be greater than had same sort of thing than had the same sort of thing happened year. So happened later in the year. So this is probably whats triggered met to name triggered the met office to name this first one of the this storm the first one of the yean this storm the first one of the year, the first uk named on, weve two named storms this weve had two named storms this year that earlier in year already that was earlier in the they were named the the year. They were named by the danish and french danish and the french meteorological agencies. But the impacts this storm impacts today from this storm pretty windy. Take pretty wet and windy. So take care out and about. Care if youre out and about. And really what the and thats really what the storm warnings about. Warnings are all about. Yeah, and suppose the yeah, and i suppose the impact feels greater impact of it feels greater simply because in august simply because were in august now shouldnt be now and it shouldnt be happening. And im coming in wishing i could and could bring you sunshine and blue but looking blue skies. But its looking grim. It pretty grim. I mean, it is pretty early. Its unheard of to early. Its not unheard of to have sort of weather at have this sort of weather at this time of year in fact, in 2014, if you can remember far back, had storm bertha, back, we had storm bertha, which was that hit in was a big one that hit in august. Big bertha, big bertha. Yes, in august. That was the sort of tail end of a hurricane. This its this one isnt, but its slightly early the season. This one isnt, but its sligiknow,irly the season. This one isnt, but its sligiknow, were the season. This one isnt, but its sligiknow, were still;eason. This one isnt, but its sligiknow, were still;eathe you know, were still in the last month of summer and the autumn storm season usually picks up about september starting now, before. But its not of weather not the ideal sort of weather that to be coming and that id like to be coming and talking to you about on a saturday morning. Of the issue, and part of the issue, nathan, course, so nathan, of course, has been so ruddy wet so long. The ruddy wet for so long. The ground is saturated, its boggy, almost thats in lots of almost. Thats right. In lots of places Northern Ireland and places like Northern Ireland and ireland west. So ireland and the south west. So when its got nowhere when it drops, its got nowhere to go, increasing the risk of flooding. Right. In northern thats right. And in Northern Ireland, there is a rain warning out today. Thats all day for up to two inches of rain there. And there. Is wet. The there. Ground is very wet. The environment flood Environment Agency has 18 flood alerts today. Thats mainly alerts out today. Thats mainly across and across the south. And the South West England because of south west of england because of this of where the heavy this issue of where the heavy rain comes. Theyre expecting about two of rain today. About two inches of rain today. So not quite the monthly so its not quite the monthly average, going to be average, but is it going to be sort all once this rain or sort of all at once this rain or spread across the the spread across the day . The problem it comes all at once. Problem is it comes all at once. The rain warning is throughout the but you get these the day. But when you get these heavy, get sort flash heavy, you get sort of flash floods. Thats right. It floods. Yeah, thats right. It comes down the comes straight down on the ground, had a ground, actually, had we had a very, very hot, long, dry summer, it might be a bit worse because when get the ground because when you get the ground is compacted just is very dry, it compacted just yeah, washes off. But yeah, it just washes off. But there flood alerts out in there are flood alerts out in place and its coastal place today and its coastal areas is always the risk, areas as is always the risk, high tides as well at this time of year. So big winds of year. So the big winds bringing waves over the coasts, stay indoors. Be quite yeah, it can be quite frightening a flash frightening seeing a flash flood. Ever seen one . Flood. Have you ever seen one . Yeah, one of those yeah, i mean, just one of those silly. I remember being in birmingham gas birmingham once and in gas street, which was where itv studios there were and studios were, and there were and that goes downhill. There that goes downhill. And there were cars parked at the top of the of rainwater. The hill and loads of rainwater. And all these cars and suddenly all these cars started floating down the hill and quick. It was and its so quick. It was literally quick. Literally as quick. Yeah. Yeah. And all yeah. And n yeah. And yeah. And and they all ended up in a heap at the bottom of the hill. It extra ordinary. And as it was extra ordinary. And as you say, happened over about you say, it happened over about a period five minutes. You say, it happened over about a pit od five minutes. You say, it happened over about a pit literallye minutes. You say, it happened over about a pit literally does. Utes. You say, it happened over about a pit literally does. Theres it literally does. Theres intense get intense deluges. You get straight off in floodwater and its pointing out its always worth pointing out the when the seas the darwin awards when the seas are and those waves are are up and those waves are crashing people always crashing in, people always go out