coming up, passengers arriving in the uk face really long delays . border control staff, delays. border control staff, they're the latest to go on strike at six airports. we'll have the latest from one of them . it's the strike made before christmas . faulty walk up by christmas. faulty walk up by mail could be a festival festive meal undelivered through talking the head of the union about this action and a record number of small boats across the channel this year 46,000 people as it rose to a close. we'll be discussing whether the government really does have a viable plan to sort it out . viable plan to sort it out. hello and . with just two days to hello and. with just two days to 90, hello and. with just two days to go, looking maybe getting into

the christmas spirit. joining me for the next hour is the journalist broadcaster danny kelly. and don't home. kelly. and don't your home. important part of the show email me at gbviews@gbnews.uk and offer your points of view to those i speak to. that's what's coming up in this hour. but first, the latest news . good first, the latest news. good afternoon. it's 12:01. i'm ryan afternoon. it's12:01. i'm ryan and jones in the gb newsroom. we start with more on that breaking news story . central paris french news story. central paris french authorities police have now confirmed two people have died and four others have been wounded following a shooting. the suspected gunman who is thought to be aged 69, has been detained. paris police on say an operations ongoing and is asking pubuc operations ongoing and is asking public to avoid the area around central paris . according to central paris. according to local media, the shooting happened at the kurdish cultural

centre. ahmed in the 10th arrondissement. we'll bring you more on this story as. arrondissement. we'll bring you more on this story as . we get it more on this story as. we get it here . gb news. back here, nurses here. gb news. back here, nurses and will go on strike on the 18th and 19th of january. royal college of nursing says . the college of nursing says. the walkouts will go ahead unless the government opens negotiations over pay. meanwhile, the gmb called off a post—christmas strike by ambulance workers . members of ambulance workers. members of the union in england and were due to walk out on wednesday in a dispute over pay and staff . a dispute over pay and staff. they will now walk out on january the 11th. meanwhile the prime minister has apologised for travel delays over christmas. a strike action by border force staff disrupts . the border force staff disrupts. the plans of those hoping to travel by today. heathrow, gatwick birmingham, cardiff, glasgow and airports will all be . however airports will all be. however heathrow does say that it's operating as normal military personnel and volunteers from

the civil service have been trained . step in. rishi says trained. step in. rishi says pubuc trained. step in. rishi says public sector pay must be controlled in order keep down inflation . first of all, i'm inflation. first of all, i'm really sad on disappointed about the disruption that has been caused to so many people whose lives, particularly at christmas time. what i'm trying to do is make the right term decisions for the country , everybody's for the country, everybody's benefit. and i think we all know that the major economic challenge we all face now is inflation. eating inflation. it's that's eating into package . into everyone's pay package. it's rising. the cost of living. and i want to make sure that we reduce inflation. part of that and i want to make sure that we re being 1flation. part of that and i want to make sure that we re being responsiblet of that and i want to make sure that we re being responsible wheniat and i want to make sure that we re being responsible when it is being responsible when it comes public sector comes to setting public sector pay - comes to setting public sector pay . gb news comes to setting public sector pay. gb news on the sounds airlines face millions of pounds in extra fuel costs as they deal with likely long delays during the border force strike. british airways is one of a number of airlines instructing its pilots to take on additional fuel. it's to take on additional fuel. it's to help jets cope with having to hold for an extra hour in the skies during week long walkout. a aviation source says that the

contingency plan is essential but extreme may be costly. travel expert sally gethin told us the extra costs will be passed on to consumers. us the extra costs will be passed on to consumers . affairs passed on to consumers. affairs definitely going to rise over the next year due to lots of issues. the cost of for example and airlines cannot bear the brunt of that. they've also had to reduce their schedules in advance to deal with the border control issue. so they're going to lose a lot of money over this . the prime minister says it's completely reasonable to consider blocking new gender legislation in scotland . rishi legislation in scotland. rishi sunak's comments come after msps voted pass the gender recognition reform bill yesterday. it'll remove the need for a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria to obtain a gender dysphoria to obtain a gender recognition certificate. hollyrood has warned any attempted intervention from the uk government will vigorously contested . a deep freeze in contested. a deep freeze in havoc across most of the united

states and parts of canada . states and parts of canada. experts warning exposure to bare skin could lead to frostbite within minutes. the powerful arctic winter storm has placed more than 100 million people under weather alerts ahead of the christmas weekend. it's forecasted into what's being described as a cyclone unleashing heavy, blinding snow. forecaster are warning the cold snap could bring with it the easiest christmas in decades . easiest christmas in decades. while back motorists are being warned to expect long delays as millions hit the road to spend christmas with and family. the aa says today will be the busiest day of the festive, with an estimated 16.9 million journeys being made across the uk. a strike tomorrow . thousands uk. a strike tomorrow. thousands of rmt members working at network rail is expected to make matters worse. the walkout will last until december the 27th. the princess has paid tribute to the late queen elizabeth in a special broadcast set to air on

christmas eve . a warning the christmas eve. a warning the following contains flashing images. catherine introduces the royal carol service held at westminster , attended by other westminster, attended by other members of the royal family, including the king and queen consort. it's the first since the queen died september to. we've invited hundreds of inspiring individuals to the service. those who showcase the power of connectedness and community values , allowing us to community values, allowing us to continue her majesty's tradition of recognising , thanking those of recognising, thanking those who have gone above and beyond, to support others . her majesty to support others. her majesty leaves us an incredible legacy and one that has deeply inspired many of us . we end with george many of us. we end with george cohen, part of england's 1966 cohen, part of england's1966 world cup, winning team. he died aged 83. cohen played every minute of the victorious campaign on home and in total won 37 caps for his country. his former club, fulham, announced death this morning . this is gb

death this morning. this is gb news to bring you more as it happens. now, though, it's back to andre . to andre. andrew pierce with you, joining me for next hours to join us and broadcaster danny kelly to talk to you about the strike. never before christmas. royal mail postal workers, border force staff, both walked staff, they've both walked out over in conditions. over pay jobs in conditions. postal workers on a two day strike could mean you're not going to get your christmas day special deliveries and if you've travelling in or out of the uk, you might face long delays because passport are because the passport staff are striking gatwick heathrow, striking at gatwick heathrow, manchester, cardiff and burning birmingham . eight days of birmingham. eight days of industrial action . let's go to industrial action. let's go to our reporter, jack carson , who's our reporter, jack carson, who's at birmingham airport, which is one of those affected, jack. what's happening . well, andrew, what's happening. well, andrew, as you mentioned , the thousand

as you mentioned, the thousand peaks public and commercial service workers are on strike for the next for the next week and a bit. the only day. they're not striking from now until the yearis not striking from now until the year is the 27th. and so this is going to cause some disruption for those trying to get into the country and go through those checks. certainly some checks. and certainly some checking leave country checking in to leave country over christmas as. checking in to leave country over christmas as . well, one over christmas as. well, one thing that the airports are pushing today to and ensure pushing today to try and ensure that disruption is limited and there isn't there isn't that much disruption when people are getting into the countries use of they're of passport e—gates they're hoping that if those can keep working properly as we knew, they do have some problems. sometimes but they can keep sometimes but if they can keep working properly . are saying working properly. are saying heathrow certainly here at birmingham international as well that e—gates can work that if those e—gates can work then disruption should be limited as well. but with that they are not everyone can use they are not everyone can use the e—gates . children under 12 the e—gates. children under 12 can't use the. they'll still have to go through normal passport control, which is where we to get some those we start to get some of those disruption some minor delays

because what's happened with the peaks, some of those peaks, with some of those members on strike, what's happening servants happening is civil servants members of the ministry of defence and army are having to come in and make up those numbers and the border force chief because chief saying that because they're up the usual they're not up to the usual standard speed, that essentially that should they should expect some delays there as well. we know that the reason they're striking is they want a 10% pay rise pension security and also job security as well. and so especially in terms redundancy pay especially in terms redundancy pay and security around redundancies , one of the things redundancies, one of the things that a lot of unions are currently striking over want assurances , redundancy in the assurances, redundancy in the law they're making sure that workers aren't going to receive redundancy couple of redundancy in the next couple of years . but in redundancy in the next couple of years. but in terms of disruption, it's not it's major here international here at birmingham international airports. we've had some minor delays of ten, 15 minutes. of course , the problem that that course, the problem that that does cause is there is a bit of a domino effect in that kind of can delay other flights trying

to come in land here. we to come in and land here. we know course, from that tv know of course, from that tv news exclusive that many of the flights going into london are having be fuelled with about having to be fuelled with about an half an hour's worth of an extra half an hour's worth of fuel case they have to go fuel in case they have to go into a holding pattern because of delays on the ground. what that that with that does mean is that with fuel, flights are ending that does mean is that with fuelsome flights are ending that does mean is that with fuelsome companiese ending that does mean is that with fuel some companies likeiing that does mean is that with fuelsome companies like ba and some companies like ba actually spending about six and actually spending about six and a half thousand pounds to fuel their flight . so which, of their flight. so which, of course, you know, would that the first christmas with no covid restricts airlines that you restricts airlines that mean you know airlines are struggling already and want a good christmas of business and with these disruptions that's not going them any favours going to do them any favours at all. office and of all. the home office and of course rishi sunak have apologised this course rishi sunak have apol

secretary, dave ward. good afternoon to you, dave ward . afternoon to you, dave ward. good afternoon, andrew . it's the good afternoon, andrew. it's the busiest time , the year for your busiest time, the year for your industry . so busiest time, the year for your industry. so it seems to me in that you should be going on strike now before i answer that, andrew, let me remind you week, by the way, you you tweeted royal mail propaganda that this strike had no support amongst our members and we offered you the opportunity to get out on the opportunity to get out on the picket and see our members and talk to them. and we know you never took that opportunity up. but look we do understand the point that you're making about, you know, these customers disruption. but what we would say to customers and this is the experience that we're getting out at, the customers are talking to our members and our understanding the postings position, which is it's , you position, which is it's, you know, we want to be out there it but it is the company who are trying to wreck postal services the future their proposals . and

the future their proposals. and we have to be absolutely clear about this will destroy tidily every that we currently do to 32 million addresses including business is across the uk . so business is across the uk. so we're trying to defend the service we're not trying to wreck it . and we did offer royal wreck it. and we did offer royal mail the opportunity to suspend these strikes for the second time in three weeks. we made offer we asked for the company return was to get round the table proper negotiations not to an agreed change why those talks were taking and to give us the assurance which verbally they started to talk about that they're not going to introduce a new resourcing model to bring in self—employed workers who have to pay for their own their own . to pay for their own their own. they didn't get holiday pay. don't get sick pay agency and work on 20% less terms and conditions . we asked them to conditions. we asked them to give us those assurances and we

would have suspended the strikes. they didn't want to do that. strikes. they didn't want to do that . we're going to offer them that. we're going to offer them again that opportunity to try and get this resolved early in the new year. hey what you're saying. but isn't the truth the real truth here? the of mail being delivered is down, i think since 2005 by and going on strike right now people bother with christmas cards again they'll , use emails they'll find they'll, use emails they'll find other ways to deliver that their mail which is why i'm you again is surely is the worst time to go on strike because you want your industry effectively fighting for its life already already . look at the situation already. look at the situation that we were in gravity of the situation when you talk about mail decline nobody the in the union no postal worker is in denial that letters are in decline. we're in some romantic fight for the past year. we're trying to build future of this company and i would say to you about deliveries says and economists will back this up you

know yes it's going to decline. and that decline will continue. but it's not never going to be there. there's still. secondly people in the uk who use the services that royal mail provided , but we want to provided, but we want to delivery parcels as well . we delivery parcels as well. we want to be delivering a 24 seven network. that would be agreement, andrew, that we got. we've got commercial propositions to put to the company about they can build future services on top of the current interest budget. i come back to the point again, the people haven't signed or the leadership of roman trying to impose changes that will destroy this company forever. it's not about growing the business. it's about growing the business. it's about an asset stripping agenda and they are not seeing the opportunities to innovate the services to do the very thing. what you're asking us to do, which is to get back and try and build the business. you know, i've got to say to you, you need

to hold these people account because these type of business leaders and see them in other mind businesses in the uk, they don't know how to build businesses anymore. all they know is to how attack the workers terms and conditions they go for cheapest possible win to pay for shareholders and if we carry on in the uk with these type of people at the top of businesses who have no support amongst the for what they're trying to we're they're trying to do, we're going up not killing going to end up not killing companies like royal mail . we're companies like royal mail. we're going to kill country and going to kill the country and all everywhere and all decent everywhere and the economy never grow . just economy never grow. just briefly, dave oaks haven't got much time . is it not in danger much time. is it not in danger of walking a trap here at the post of the royal mail? letters are . they're going to be. are dead. they're going to be. you're finishing off the industry with this strike and they'll concentrate on they'll just concentrate more on parcels parcels . we're fighting parcels parcels. we're fighting to save the industry, andrew. we want to deliver parcels. we want to grow parcel traffic . we don't to grow parcel traffic. we don't have any. i've just answered the question, andrew. we're trying

build a 24/7 network that uses the current infrastructure to grow and innovate products and services, adding social value to the uk, growing local businesses, offering local to local services. that's the vision that we've got. that's not the vision that we're all now putting forward and that's why our members, a massive plea supporting this strike action . supporting this strike action. all right, that's dave ward. he's general secretary of the communication union. thanks so much for joining communication union. thanks so much forjoining us, dave. and a good christmas now. there's been some white some breaking news. mark white is security is our homeland security a shooting in paris? tell us more . two we're told . yeah, two people. we're told have died and at least four others have been injured in a shooting in paris. it's in the 10th r and d small near gardner railway station . and we're told railway station. and we're told the epicentre of this gun attack was a kurdish cultural centre in that area there is a very significant security operation. now underway, as you would

imagine, in that area. the latest we've been told from prosecutors in paris is that a suspect, a 69 year old man, has been arrested at the scene and the incident as such in of the wider threat is over that they have managed to contain it. but of course at this time of the year there is always a heightened sense concern about the potential for terrorist . i the potential for terrorist. i was going to say, is it terror, terrifying? we just don't know what the motive is at this stage. but it will, of course, be uppermost the minds of the security services as they try to figure out exactly what happened , not just, of course, in paris other european countries, the uk as well . the public are being as well. the public are being told to be extra vigilant at this time of year because islamist extremists particular are looking , as we know, to are looking, as we know, to cause as much mayhem as possible . a lot of people out and about because it's christmas. it's also, of course, a very important christian festival. so that could be a target for

muslim extremists when you get exactly this time of year as well mass gatherings and we know of course it is a where people gather in numbers and that makes them an target as far as terrorists are concerned don't want to get ahead of ourselves because we don't know what the motivation was behind this. we just know it was . a gun attack just know it was. a gun attack that a 69 year old man, according to prosecutors , is in according to prosecutors, is in custody. the threat has been deau custody. the threat has been dealt with . but of course, as dealt with. but of course, as the investigation is piece together, exactly what's happened there. want to know, was this a one off? could there be others in potential or linked attacks? because we've with other terrorist attacks that you get linked attacks that take place in short order . so people place in short order. so people on alert in paris at the moment . the authorities are telling them to avoid that centrally area of paris while they deal with this incident. danny kelly's with me. danny, this the

worst thing for any major city this time if potentially a terror attack or a gunman ? the terror attack or a gunman? the loose. yeah i think it's natural that we do have to rather rule in until it's ruled out islamic we have the hallmarks of a kurdish which is an islamic faith a kurdish faith centre. we a shooting spree. i think it's and i think for a lot of people to the radio watching the television i think uppermost in their mind will be a case of ruling it out before it's ruled in or vice versa ruled in before it's ruled out. it's a frightening time, isn't it, because it is a christian festival that is christmas. and of course forget i think it was about ten years ago, you had that terrible charlie hebdo atrocity , these two maniac run atrocity, these two maniac run loose in paris with ak 47, just wiped out. anyone that came in front of their midst. it's a frightening time. sometimes you know to be in a city centre at christmas. it is just finding

out. i didn't ask you what's happened to the gunman is in custody at the moment. he'll be questioned. i shuddered. you know, talking know, we're talking about islamist extremism. is islamist extremism. there is a threat the far right . it's threat from the far right. it's a growing threat , but it is very a growing threat, but it is very small and comparison to the threat that the security services across europe deal with on a daily basis from islamist extremism. we've got scenes there of paris now with the emergency services so this is the area in ten town desmond at the area in ten town desmond at the moment what can see are the paramedics from the fire service and the ambulance in france because of course their fire service actually take on paramedic duties as well . and paramedic duties as well. and we've seen just in the last few minutes or so some people being taken away . now the reports are taken away. now the reports are suggesting that at least four people on top of the two fatalities have been injured and some of those critically . but some of those critically. but this will come out in the

fullness of time. it's still very an active situ , even though very an active situ, even though the police suggesting that the wider threat they believe they now have under control. but it is still, you know, a very active crime scene . they think active crime scene. they think that all the casualties have been obviously accounted and taken off to hospital . but you taken off to hospital. but you can see the french security service personnel still there on scene . they don't know if scene. they don't know if there's a wider threat, which is there's a wider threat, which is the real problem. that's not way to. simon security. we'll be heafing to. simon security. we'll be hearing more from him now coming up. into the up. as inquests open into the death of those four migrants who died when their dinghy capsized in last week, let me in the channel last week, let me talk can be done to talk about what can be done to stop attempting the stop people attempting the perilous let's perilous journey, because let's face the government face it. the government has failed i'll be failed miserably so far. i'll be back you shortly here on gb back with you shortly here on gb news live . be keeping in the news live. be keeping you in the picture , finding out what's picture, finding out what's happening country and happening across the country and finding why it matters finding out why it matters to you . we'll facts fast you. we'll have the facts fast with team of and specialist with our team of and specialist correspondents . wherever it's correspondents. wherever it's happening, we'll there in 12 happening, we'll be there in 12 noon on tv, radio and online gb

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will the inquests have opened into deaths of those four people who died when their dinghy capsized in the channel last week, the home secretary said problem. she says she will destroy the business model of the smugglers. but how many the evil smugglers. but how many times have we heard politicians say ? but with more than say that? but with more than 45,000 people crossing the channel 45,000 people crossing the channel, we want less talk more action, please . joining me now action, please. joining me now to talk about how to solve this is , the former leader of ukip, is, the former leader of ukip, who's a border control expert, henry bolton , also international henry bolton, also international human rights lawyer david hague. gentlemen, good afternoon to you. henry bolton, we know the government have failed totally

to resolve this . how do you fix to resolve this. how do you fix it it ? well andrew, there's it it? well andrew, there's a temptation isn't there to think of what as a silver bullet . and of what as a silver bullet. and actually that's not the case there are many aspects to this , there are many aspects to this, all of which need to be dealt with concurrent. and what we've seen from the government and the home office is reactive rather than proactive responses to adverse headlines, which tend to be one off kind of active attitude, rather than having a comprehensive and integrated strategy that deals with the upstream disrupt of the people smuggling networks . and i mean, smuggling networks. and i mean, in that sense if we go back to 2001 to 2006, the uk was engaged in an intelligence and proactive tactical on the ground in places like the balkans and so on and elsewhere , actually going after elsewhere, actually going after with local law enforcement. we were going after the people smugglers and if you will, if you want to disrupt their business model, put them in

jail. and the way to do that is to go of their home turf and hunt them down with local law enforcement and make sure they get. that doing it get. jo that we were doing it until tony blair the funding for it in 2006. but then you come all the way back so that that also requires law enforcement, intelligence because intelligence engagement because diplomats engagement with those countries, of course . but as you countries, of course. but as you come closer , then we need to come closer, then we need to start working with european union and we do that some may sound coming me, sound strange coming from me, but these people are most of them are coming the european union eu external union across the eu external borders down in the south coming across the mediterranean in from the east and we've got to do is we've got to work with them and say look, this is a problem for you is a problem for us. we need to work together on this disruption. we've not been that we've been approaching the french and you remember, french and if you remember, andrew, of the big reasons andrew, one of the big reasons that we wanted leave the that we wanted to leave the european was so we european union was so that we could reach regain control could reach to regain control over borders . and that's over our borders. and that's actually absolutely the case . actually absolutely the case. the french don't have full control their borders.

control over their borders. they're playing game they're not playing game properly. true . they're properly. that's true. they're not helping. but the real sort of authority here rests in brussels . and i'd say also on brussels. and i'd say also on that, those people who said that we were able to send people back whilst we were members of the european union are wrong, wrong, wrong , wrong. we part of wrong, wrong. we were part of something called the dublin three which enabled three agreement, which enabled us in theory to return to the country. the union country through which they entered the european union. however the eu put a moratorium and that being sent back to greece and italy. the two main countries, and also we ended up being sent more people through dublin three than we were able to transfer out of the uk . henry, we were able to transfer out of the uk. henry, i we were able to transfer out of the uk . henry, i want to bring the uk. henry, i want to bring david in. david haig is henry bolton about that ? i think i bolton about that? i think i think there's a lot what henry said certainly in terms what's neededin said certainly in terms what's needed in terms of the comprehensive policy and not the policy actual action. like you said, we hear a lot rhetoric coming out , a lot of pr stunts coming out, a lot of pr stunts which . you could essentially

which. you could essentially call the rwanda policy , which is call the rwanda policy, which is not to happen . you know, not going to happen. you know, we're not we're not going to see any flights for a long time. any flights off for a long time. they the know, the home they made the you know, the home office easily won the high court judgement recently. but there'll be an appeal and then maybe even to supreme court and to the supreme court and then the european court human rights also back involved. so i also may get back involved. so i think, there does need think, you know, there does need to comprehensive, proper to be a comprehensive, proper comprehensive review . that's comprehensive review. that's something doesn't appear something that doesn't appear possible by the conservative government in the time that they've got left. so it's, you know, at the end of the day, know, and at the end of the day, you have people dying in the channel now. and i the is channel now. and i think the is going be very interesting going to be very interesting look the results of come look at what the results of come back with henry bolton. there's a point that the conservatives have got two years, but within the next election they looking like they're going to lose the election can they fix this before that? well well, i think andrew , what they've got to andrew, what they've got to demonstrate is not that they've not got to actually solve . what not got to actually solve. what they've got to do is demonstrate that they've got a credible plan

that they've got a credible plan thatis that they've got a credible plan that is starting to take significant effect. and i think they can do that. i mean, i've written border strategies for other countries . we've done it other countries. we've done it in eight months. it be done. the problem that whether been in central asia, whether been in the balkans, whether that's been in north north america , you've in north north america, you've had governments that have wanted to engage on the problem and civil servants have wanted to engage on the problem. we do seem and i wouldn't just label conservatives in this way , but conservatives in this way, but we seem to have a politician and civil servants in this country that simply are incapable of seeing the big picture putting together across government strategy. but it's not just on our borders. andrew it's on our health care. it's our education. it's on public transport. all of these things are in a mess because there are one off policies, one off. ideas that get presented tried to drive

through, but none them are coherent. they don't a strategy. and that's the problem got we've got a now a generation politicians who i believe simply don't have the strategic acumen to govern this country and we've got to deal with that. it's not supporters, as i say. all right, henry thank you. that's andrew bolt. just very briefly, david haig, what would you be telling the secretary do right the home secretary to do right now to get grips with this ? now to get to grips with this? eventually, what they need to do is get an effective policy in place , put it in action. like place, put it in action. like henry said, it's it shouldn't be that difficult, but it obviously is for them . and i think that's is for them. and i think that's the thing that needs to do, not just talk about policies and not do pr policy that get stuck in the various etc, like rwanda, rwanda . that's i imagine that it rwanda. that's i imagine that it would be very unlikely that anyone actually takes off on any rwanda for the next general election . actual action . but election. actual action. but that's something that they don't seem capable of. all right. that was henry bolton and david haig.

thanks joining me . danny thanks forjoining me. danny kelly the studio me. kelly is in the studio with me. that's depressing, isn't that's rather depressing, isn't it? saying that could be it? henry saying that could be a way they could do it in eight months. and a lawyer friend, david saying , no playing david hague saying, no playing will any will be going to rwanda. any time the gb news own poll, time soon. the gb news own poll, 40% support the rwanda 40% of people support the rwanda plan. sure. the only way i can see it stopping is you saturate 70 of miles of french coastline with police and soldiers literally saturate it whenever they see a dinghy. you quite simply go and study . that's simply go and study. that's going to take a long time because these people smugglers this is henry said just go and lick the people it's obviously not as easy as henry believes. just go to arrest these criminal gangs. just go to arrest these criminal gangs . otherwise i would have gangs. otherwise i would have thought that unless one unless the french are taken a drink of the french are taken a drink of the health of off the street. pefish the health of off the street. perish the thought. and perish the thought. yeah and you know, the human rights lawyer who quite correctly said, look, people are drowning. i wouldn't get in the dinghy i if i wanted to make sure that i didn't drown

, i wouldn't get in thing. so you have to ask yourself what they escaping from in france. france a safe country. look, there's been three tragic deaths this year, 45,000 people have come over. that means the odds of drowning. 15000 to 1. and of not drowning. 15000 to 1. and that's not a take. okay. now, coming up, have lost our christmas spirit. i mean christmas spirit. i don't mean the alcohol should carols the alcohol type. should carols be rewritten by the woke brigade and are we getting expert tips on how to avoid family drama at christmas? but first, your news update . good afternoon. it's update. good afternoon. it's 1233 on rhiannon jones. update. good afternoon. it's 1233 on rhiannon jones . the gb 1233 on rhiannon jones. the gb newsroom. more now on that developing story from the french caphal developing story from the french capital. two people have been killed and several wounded after gunmen opened in central paris. a 69 year old suspect has detained by police in connection with the attack which took place a kurdish cultural centre . paris

a kurdish cultural centre. paris authorities have confirmed the incident which happened not far from the guard, less station, is now . we'll bring you more as we now. we'll bring you more as we get it on that story . back get it on that story. back nurses will go on strike in england again on 18th and 19th of january. the royal college of nursing says the walkout will go ahead unless government opens negotiations over pay. meanwhile, the gmb union's called off a post—christmas strike by ambulance workers. members of the in england and wales were due walk out on wednesday in a dispute over pay and staffing. now walk out on january the 11th. the prime minister has apologised . minister has apologised. christmas travel disruption following strike action by border force staff today. gatwick birmingham, cardiff, glasgow and. manchester. airports are all affected . airports are all affected. however, heathrow does claim its operator as normal military personnel and volunteers from the civil have been trained up to . step in. rishi sunak.

the civil have been trained up to . step in. rishi sunak . public to. step in. rishi sunak. public sector pay must be controlled to keep down inflation . first of keep down inflation. first of all, i'm really sad and disappointed about the disruption that is being caused to so many people's , to so many people's, particularly at christmas time. what i'm trying to do is make the right long term decisions for the country , for everybody's for the country, for everybody's benefit. think we all know benefit. and i think we all know that the major economic challenge all face now is inflation. it's inflation that's eating everyone's pay eating into everyone's pay packets is rising cost of living. and i want to make sure that we reduce inflation part of that we reduce inflation part of that responsible when that is being responsible when it setting public it comes to setting public sector . and george cohen , sector pay. and george cohen, part of england's1966 world cup winning team , has died aged 83. winning team, has died aged 83. cohen played every minute of the victorious campaign on home soil and in won 37 caps for his country . his former club, fulham country. his former club, fulham announced . his death this announced. his death this morning . tv online on derby plus morning. tv online on derby plus this is gb news don't go anywhere and we'll be back in

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well, it's nearly christmas, isn't it a time to be with family, friends, a bit of a bit of drinking, lots of food. most of drinking, lots of food. most of us look forward to it, but everyone. for some, it's nothing to look forward to at all. and many people are feeling the pinch. pardon the pun, pinch. so if you pardon the pun, can blame them for a bit of can you blame them for a bit of a grinch? should we now try to rediscover christmas spirit? and danny not talking danny kaye, not talking about gin tonic . danny kaye, not talking about gin tonic. talking about the gin and tonic. talking about the true meaning christmas, which is going explained by gavin going to be explained by gavin ashenden, who's of course a former chaplain to queen elizabeth. the second. gavin, are we losing our way at christmas. we talk about presents, about plum presents, we talk about plum pudding all sort of stuff. pudding, all that sort of stuff. how do we why we're how often do we about why we're celebrating christmas, the birth of christ ? well, and i think of christ? well, and i think it's the other way around. i

think christmas comes a think christmas comes once a year and helps re—orientate year and it helps re—orientate us . so it's a year and it helps re—orientate us. so it's a wonderful festival, which our routine way of life and offers us a different vision of how to be a human being and to reach to calibrate our value systems . so calibrate our value systems. so i inevitably we lose our way dufing i inevitably we lose our way during the year, but the christmas in particular at easter our times that we can take a new stock of what how we're living as human beings and what we want out of life and. are you disappointed that more won't be at church over christmas? when i was a kid, we used to go to midnight mass and then the next morning mum had us in church at 11:00 in the morning, never missed and we never complained . yes. when i never complained. yes. when i was , i was a bit of a 40 years was, i was a bit of a 40 years and i remember seeing numbers slowly dwindle. i'm actually i'm heartbroken . i think it's heartbroken. i think it's incredibly sad because the people are missing out on a relationship with the living god, who is the only capable of changing human nature and day in

day out the news tells us how much human nature needs changing . here is a moment when people could could only find the energy , the enthusiasm and the and then the integrity . then then then the integrity. then then their lives could be changed too. there are lots of times in the mass. people are in suffering . we need to find light suffering. we need to find light in the darkness . love as an in the darkness. love as an antidote to hate or forgiveness as an antidote to revenge . as an antidote to revenge. there's so much that christmas can bring people. if only they they'd take the trouble to go and step into a church. yeah. most people think christian christmas brings a lot of things to brings hangover. to people. it brings a hangover. it can get a gut rot, and it bfings it can get a gut rot, and it brings a lot of presents, some of which they don't even want. well, there are two kinds of christmases. there's the or social one, which which is fine with we need to party in the dark time of the year. but the trouble is we get an enormous amount of stimulus from our bodies and for our social lives . but we have this huge famine of the soul in the west, and

it's precisely famine. the it's precisely soul famine. the christmas address at christmas addresses, the soul addresses, and it's the soul that's heart of the that's at the heart of the misery, the loneliness, the fractured relationships and the anger and the rage that we get caught up into the rest of the. christmas is a great antidote. the condition. it would be the human condition. it would be great. more seriously . great. take it more seriously. what about you , gavin? will you what about you, gavin? will you be midnight messing or would you be midnight messing or would you be mass on sunday morning or both? yeah. yes. no i'm fine, i'm afraid both . i both? yeah. yes. no i'm fine, i'm afraid both. i might. i'm certainly midnight messing, but i sing in a tiny catholic choir in the welsh marches and are very ambitious organist has written a piece he wants performed. and so in case i was tempted to lie in bed on christmas, i should be singing beforehand to say thank you for providing the music for our wonderful little congregation so. and it's got a lot of love of gratitude. we are very good . of gratitude. we are very good. and is it a christmas theme to what he's written? oh, absolutely . it's about our lady. absolutely. it's about our lady. it's a it's a it's a it's a

splendid. so yes. midnight and first thing in the morning. very good. well, happy christmas to you. that's gavin ashenden, who is, course, a former chaplain is, of course, a former chaplain to queen elizabeth, the second, of course, it's going to be the king's speech year. that king's speech this year. that will be quite a change in tradition, won't it? and now, the story really the chris story that really infuriated this week, a christmas particularly christmas carol, a particularly tradition , carol, has been tradition, carol, has been updated , be somewhat more updated, be somewhat more inclusive . and it sparked inclusive. and it sparked a debate naturally about rewriting classic at church choir in loughborough performed an updated version of god rest ye mary gentle men honouring women who by men have erased. can believe this. and in a reference to apparently the lgbtq+ community that acronym gets longer and longer. queer and questioning people . should we questioning people. should we really be rewriting carols to be more woke? of course not. let's talk now to toby young, general secretary of the free speech union. toby how are you? i'm

good, andrew. how are you? i'm a i'm a good catholic boy and i like my carols and i don't like carols like. god rest your married gentlemen being be being be rewritten by the woke brigade . that's what's happened to you . yeah, it is shocking. i mean we've seen the museum of the home re label. it's tradition all christmas exhibit the winter festival exhibit in order to avoid offending non—christians and in an effort to be more inclusive. joe biden in his christmas address this year managed to speak for something like 5 minutes without mentioning christ, but you wouldn't expect the church england in a carols to eliminate any reference to christ in of the carols. that seems be that seems an extraordinary step for the church to take. biden perhaps the museum of the home okay but for the church to

eliminate references to christ in an effort to be more inclusive. that seems bit odd. very odd. always a possibility, of course. toby, the joe biden forgot to mention because we know he is a bit absent minded days. but i you could turn the tables here . toby, you are part tables here. toby, you are part of this free speech. it's the it's the right of people to rewrite a carol . yes, i suppose rewrite a carol. yes, i suppose that's. true. and we couldn't add our own lyrics and insert references to christ back in whilst singing the carols in the pews, though it could a little chaotic and sound even worse than it normally does . yeah, i than it normally does. yeah, i mean, i think what's odd, i think, is that for people attending a carols service at this you know even i'm sure they you know die in a ditch to free speech. they wouldn't the vicar to exercise her right free

speech and it was a female vicar in case by changing the carols in case by changing the carols in this way . i in case by changing the carols in this way. i mean one explanation for why the white people have kind of embraced the woke cult and decided to follow it almost as if they were following a religion is that it's that it fills a god shaped hole in their lives , andrew. hole in their lives, andrew. they're looking for a sense of meaning and purpose, christiane whitty no longer provides that. so they find an alternate source of meaning and purpose in in embracing this this new cult. but what's so surprising about this example is, well, why has the church of england , this the church of england, this cult? is there a god shaped hole now in the of england. we often joke that church of england vicars archbishops don't really believe in god. you know, there are to whet even to assert they believe in god. but maybe true maybe the woke cult playing the same sort of role for as it does

for non—christian . it provides for non—christian. it provides them with a sense of meaning and purpose that they don't in the church, even though they're of the church. fascinating. that's toby young from the free speech union. thanks for joining toby young from the free speech union. thanks forjoining me, toby, and happy to you. danny kelly , look, maybe it's because kelly, look, maybe it's because i'm a good catholic or not such a good catholic . both but a good catholic. both but brought catholic. i love brought up catholic. i love carols . went to a carol concert carols. went to a carol concert last week in the church in fulham street, one of the most beautiful london. the beautiful church in london. the idea that i would have sang a carol had been rewritten so carol that had been rewritten so clumsily and in such a way that ihave clumsily and in such a way that i have just sung, as toby young suggested , the right words. suggested, the right words. yeah, i don't . it is clumsy. i yeah, i don't. it is clumsy. i think it's quite deliberate and i that these people are i think that these people are hardwired to normal hardwired differently to normal folk like you, me and toby. i just don't get why they do it. why do they feel it's importance just to use this word? why do they feel important to go? totally woke is starting totally woke which is starting to drip infuriate people because it starts to affect lots other

ways of our daily life . today ways of our daily life. today we're talking about an anglican church who have changed the rules to more inclusive. but if you to challenge that, then they throw back and say, well, why does annoy you? and then i said, but why is it important to you? and they , okay, we want to be and they, okay, we want to be more inclusive and progressive. and i say, but is that what churches all about? it's not why i go to church because i'm not religious. but if i to religious. but if i went to church and i was following the doctrine the or the new doctrine of the bible or the new testament, then would testament, then i would think that incongruous with the that i was incongruous with the new testament the church and new testament to the church and the teachings of christ. i wonder if facts, the most wonder if the facts, the most recent census showed the number of people taking the box. any christian 46% in 2001 71. so of people taking the box. any christian 46% in 200171. so 71. it was 71. tick the box. christian 2001. in the last 20 years later. 2021. only 46% were. well, there's two factors. we've got mass immigration with people from all around the world, but also we've got. listen, i'm an atheist .

world, but also we've got. listen, i'm an atheist. i'm sorry. agnostic at best atheist. in reality . when we heard gavin in reality. when we heard gavin earlier on, who ? the chaplain to earlier on, who? the chaplain to the queen and he was saying that god is the only person can change all of these horrors in the world. well, in that one sentence you can understand. why no one 46% of whatever don't no one or 46% of whatever don't believe in god. yeah, that's danny i should a danny carey. i should having a agnostic a atheist in the agnostic stroke a atheist in the studio. you can always say leave christmas eve or some holy water . some holy water . well, i've got some holy water from holy land, actually. from the holy land, actually. well, it is christmas. the most wonderful of the year. wonderful time of the year. also, goes, is it? also, the song goes, but is it? let's honest, not everybody . let's be honest, not everybody. christmas. time with christmas. spending time with loved ones can be a pressure . loved ones can be a pressure. danny kelly for instance is spending christmas with his in—laws he's very in—laws who i know he's very fond a lot of right. we get fond of a lot of right. we get gifts that we don't always want , which can lead to it. can be almost a power cake for christmas conflict. here to help with some tips to navigate the fit in the festive period or the festive sandpit is the psychotherapist lucy barrett . psychotherapist lucy barrett. lucy help danny . he's spending

lucy help danny. he's spending christmas with his in—laws and he's absent really thrilled to bits about that as so many people watching they've got in—laws and we know it could be. it be great for danny, but it might for everyone. well might not be for everyone. well of people do like their in—laws , but i think it's really important to work out on whose territory are. because obviously, if you're going to property their home then property to their home then there might be traditions or guidelines that they follow. but then if they come to you , you then if they come to you, you have different family traditions . and it's probably about respecting who is the host. you're kind in charge. you're opening up your home. but the way to avoid a lot of conflict is to set some boundaries and to set some expectations . really, set some expectations. really, you can have a really beautiful if you think about how much you're spending with someone , you're spending with someone, how much money you spend on presents , maybe there should be presents, maybe there should be a rule about it. nobody spends more than £5, particularly dufing more than £5, particularly during this cost living crisis, and also maybe there are topics

that don't get aired. and i'm not just about, you know, the things like i have brexit or anything to do with politics, really important things like whether die hard , a christmas whether die hard, a christmas movie that can be very contentious around the dinner table. this is true, isn't it that after christmas i'm relate and divorce lawyers a lot of business. yes actually not just divorce lawyers but also psychotherapy because see a huge spike in referrals in that week after christmas and leading up to new year because i as gavin your previous guest was talking about it becomes an annual fitual about it becomes an annual ritual because happens every year for people to think about where they want their life to be going forward. know christmas comes at the end of the year the turn of the year we've just had the winter . so the days are now the winter. so the days are now actually going to start to get longer and people are going to start to think what do start to think about what do i want forward ? my want going forward? my relationship really given me

that much fulfilment year. do i need to change it? do i need get out or do i need to think about ways in which i grow as a person so lot of soul searching . i so lot of soul searching. i thought gavin's phrase of there being a famine of the soul was really quite they gave me goose bumps to hear that because i think a lot of people will be thinking at the end of 2022 in particular, how do i want my life to be going forward? who do i want in it and what are the things that give me purpose? give me give me pleasure . give me give me pleasure. finally, lucy what are you doing at christmas ? well, i love that at christmas? well, i love that you mentioned carols because i almost worried that i wasn't going to have enough voice to speak to you today, because i've been doing so much, carol, singing including on piccadilly weekend aid of cystic weekend in aid of cystic fibrosis. so there are going to be plenty more carols to come. it has be said. sounds great. it has to be said. sounds great. that's beresford , the that's lucy beresford, the psychotherapist. and tell me if you difficulty over you do have difficulty over christmas, you to christmas, we can send you to see lucy. lucy, very to

see lucy. lucy, very nice to you. christmas. now let's you. happy christmas. now let's get views on the politics get your views on the politics of the day. dear andrew, this comes from in the workers are the workers are the worst enemy of the unions themselves. they're the. sorry. let me read that again. the worst enemy is the union themselves. do not give in to any of them. david no other courier company is forced to every address. the to cover every address. the workers being undermined. workers are being undermined. so zero contracts without , zero hour contracts without, pensions pay are pensions or holiday pay are their reward. i stand with royal mail and ros says . their reward. i stand with royal mail and ros says. i'm very much against striking in general, it does more harm than good and sylvia says they all they want to negotiate but only if it's on their terms. the attitude is do as i say or else. now it's christmas and it's that of year. and danny, i bought you. you haven't got me a presence has secret santa present . well, it's secret santa present. well, it's not you it's open to who's got it but you've told me so you've bought me a secret sword. you know, funnily enough . oh, this know, funnily enough. oh, this almost has a there is fontenay now. no, i don't know who .

now. no, i don't know who. bought you this because it's a secret such a gift. but i know santas put a lot of effort into it. are opening it now? it. are you opening it now? you've got i'd like to cover you've got to. i'd like to cover maybe have a look at you maybe two have a look at you whilst you open note. this is not politically correct. wrapping is oh, wrapping paper. what is it? oh, i. i think i know what this is. show. it's the camera. oh, my god . oh, my god . it's harry and god. oh, my god. it's harry and meghan. that is not getting on my mantelpiece any time. my wife. that's it is brilliant. thank you. my wife noticed that when you do stuff remotely from home. yeah that there's some very prominent photographs of women in the background . what is women in the background. what is thatcher and what is your beloved sister? and joan collins? joan there's three of them. yeah, just show the camera a little face. the camera. come on, harry, and flip meghan . oh, on, harry, and flip meghan. oh, secret santa has left the price on. oh, god, it's sunset . well, on. oh, god, it's sunset. well, it's right here. we actually a limit 0 f £5. oh, well, i spent limit of £5. oh, well, i spent of that. but you spent too much socks. thank you. thanks, ronnie kelly. happy christmas. you

christmas. you're watching me. andrew page, stay with us. there's plenty more still to come. i'm back after. little come. i'm back after. a little break. hello. i'm alex deakin and this is your latest weather forecast from met office. the christmas weekend is going to be pretty mild, at least start with it going to turn colder by it is going to turn colder by boxing as well as mild. it's boxing day as well as mild. it's going to be windy with some rain around. certainly plenty of rain today. this weather front slowly northwards making for some grim conditions on the busy roads, particularly parts of the m1 up through the m6 in the m62, a very wet afternoon across much of northern england and northern the right is edging away from southern areas. so brightest guys here and mostly fine across until later on when the rain into the south just a few showers cold across northern scotland. temperatures much above freezing but very mild. further south, double digits if not into the teens, but cold under this rain band , it is under this rain band, it is mostly rain and it will be right in as hits the central belt of scotland this evening. but to the north of the central belt,

the north of the central belt, the we start to see the hills, we will start to see some falling overnight. the rain clearing for northern england, northern some northern ireland time. but some showers drift through the showers will drift through the night. going be night. it's going to be blustery. windy it blustery. it's windy today. it stays fairly overnight . so stays fairly gusty overnight. so that'll up to fairly that'll all add up to a fairly mild night. temperatures staying seven or eight celsius across the south still some touches of frost northern scotland. frost in northern scotland. still colder air here. so still the colder air here. so still falling, especially still some falling, especially on higher routes time on the higher routes for a time on the higher routes for a time on christmas morning for many it's bright and breezy, kind of day. there will be some showers mostly in the west, but a good part of the midlands eastern england staying dry and fine through eve and it through christmas eve and it will mild double digits will be mild double digits almost across . the board still almost across. the board still fairly across of fairly cold across much of scotland especially the scotland especially where the rain hill snow persists . more rain hill snow persists. more showers coming in during christmas eve evenings . so it christmas eve evenings. so it could be quite lively out there . some heavy bands of showers moving through and gusty, gusty . and that's how we go christmas day. christmas day looking drier for many right in the southeast,

wet in the northwest and then it turns cold for all of us on boxing day .

hi, it's andrew pearce here on gb news with you until 2:00 with me in the studio. i'm delighted to say segment. but now the journalist and playwright we've got a lot up in the got a lot coming up in the programme latest on the programme the latest on the paris shooting which three people we're people have been killed. we're seeing from the seeing live pictures from the scene now, our and scene right now, our home and security mark white will security editor mark white will join me with with an update. and it's christmas holiday but join me with with an update. and it's wordtmas holiday but join me with with an update. and it's wordtmas beingay but join me with with an update. and it's wordtmas being disrupteth join me with with an update. and it's wordtmas being disrupted by my word that being disrupted by strikes , strikes the strikes, air strikes on the road, strikes on, the trains everywhere , controversial everywhere, controversial gendered forms in scotland past, yes. recognition from scotland. dark day for women and children . we'll be discussing this and

.we'll be discussing this and we're also going to be to talking former health minister edwina currie about the nurses strike. let's to email me at gb news, gbnews.uk. that's what's up this hour. but first, the latest headlines . latest headlines. good afternoon. it's 1:01. latest headlines. good afternoon. it's1:01. i ran jones in the gb newsroom and we start with that developing story in france. it's now been confirmed three people excuse me have been killed and several others wounded after a gunman opened fire in central paris. others wounded after a gunman opened fire in central paris . a opened fire in central paris. a 69 year old suspect has been detained by police in connection the attack, which took place at a cultural centre , according to a cultural centre, according to french media, the suspect was to police and allegedly attacked a migrant camp last year. officers in paris. say they're

investigating as a possible motive behind the and bring you more on that story here on gb news as get it . more on that story here on gb news as get it. nurses in england will go on strike again on the 18th and 19th of january. the royal college of nursing says the walkout will go ahead. unless the government up negotiations overpay. meanwhile the gmb has called off a post—christmas strike by ambulance workers in england and wales. they were due to walk out on wednesday. a dispute over pay and staffing . they'll now strike and staffing. they'll now strike on january the 11th. the union's national rachel harrison thanked pubuc national rachel harrison thanked public for their support. the pubuc public for their support. the public are deeply about our nhs and we are to people across the country who have been incredible in backing our members and nhs workers and we care so much about them . that's why we are about them. that's why we are

suspending the proposed gmb industrial action on the 28th of december. we know the public will appreciate being able to enjoy christmas without any additional anxiety so the prime minister's apologised for christmas travel disruption following strike action by border staff today. heathrow gatwick. birmingham. cardiff. glasgow manchester. airports will all be affected. however, heathrow , it's operating as heathrow, it's operating as normal military personnel and volunteers from the civil service have been trained to step in. rishi sunak insists pubuc step in. rishi sunak insists public sector must be controlled to keep down inflation. first of all, i'm really saddened and disappointed about disruption that has been caused to so people's lives, particularly at christmas time. what i'm trying to do is make the right long term decisions for the country, for everybody's benefit . and i for everybody's benefit. and i think we all know that the major economic challenge we all face now inflation. it's inflation now is inflation. it's inflation that's into everyone's that's eating into everyone's packets cost of packets is rising cost of

living. and i want to make sure that we reduce inflation. part of is being responsible of that is being responsible when it comes to public sector pay - when it comes to public sector pay . meanwhile, gb news airlines pay. meanwhile, gb news airlines face millions of pounds in extra fuel costs as they deal with likely long delays during the border force strike. british is one of a number of airlines and instructing its pilots to take on additional fuel to help jets cope with having to hold for an extra hour in the skies during the week long walk out. a senior aviation says the contingency plans essential but extremely . plans essential but extremely. the prime minister it's completely reasonable for the government to consider blocking gender legislation in scotland . gender legislation in scotland. rishi sunak's comments after msps voted yesterday to pass the gender recognition reform bill. it will remove the need for medical diagnosis of gender to obtain a gender recognition certificate. hollyrood has warned any attempt to from the uk government will be vigorously

contested . a deep freeze contested. a deep freeze wreaking havoc across of the united states and parts of canada, with experts warning exposure to bare skin could lead to frost bite within minutes. the powerful arctic winter storm placed more than 100 million people under weather alerts ahead of the christmas weekend. it's forecast to develop into what's being described as a bomb unleashing heavy snow. forecasters are warning the cold snap could bring with it the easiest christmas in decades . easiest christmas in decades. well, that well, back here motorists are being to expect long delays as millions the roads to spend christmas friends and family . says today will be and family. says today will be the busiest day of the festive pefiod the busiest day of the festive period with an estimated 16.9 million journeys being made across the uk . a strike tomorrow across the uk. a strike tomorrow by thousands of rmt members working at network is expected to make matters worse . the to make matters worse. the walkouts due to last until

december the 27th. the princess of wales has paid tribute to the late queen elizabeth in, a special broadcast set to air on christmas eve tomorrow. a warning the following contains flashy images. catherine introduces the royal carols service held at westminster abbey, attended by other members of royal family, including the king and queen consort. it's the first since the queen died in september this year. we've ianed september this year. we've invited hundreds of inspiring individuals to the service. those who showcase the power of connected myths and community values , allowing us to continue values, allowing us to continue her majesty tradition of recognising and thanking those who have gone above , beyond to who have gone above, beyond to support others . her majesty support others. her majesty leaves with us an incredible legacy and one that has deeply inspired of us. legacy and one that has deeply inspired of us . and george cohen inspired of us. and george cohen of england's 1966 world cup of england's1966 world cup winning team has aged 83. cohen played every minute of the victorious campaign home soil and in total, 137 caps for his

country. his former club, fulham, announced his death this morning . this is to bring you morning. this is to bring you more as it happens now it's back to enter . to enter. well with me in the studio for the next hour as the playwright and journalist ever been to and delighted say but first, let's get back to that breaking news from paris the death toll is now three following shooting at three following the shooting at a centre. the 69 year a kurdish centre. the 69 year old arrested at old man who's been arrested at the security editor the home of security editor known police involved in known to the police involved in racist incidents last year . you racist incidents last year. you alluded to the fact it could be if it's terrorism. the far you appears it is . yeah, there is appears it is. yeah, there is there is a problem with the far right. it is growing. there is a problem with the far right. it is growing . it's right. it is growing. it's dwarfed by the threat from islamist extremism . but it's

islamist extremism. but it's there. this individual, according to media in france is known to authorities that he had allegedly taken part in an attack in migrant camp a year ago . there may have been people ago. there may have been people injured and not incidences . injured and not incidences. well, this investigation is being led by the anti—terrorist prosecutor strs in france. they say they established an motive for it at this. say they established an motive for it at this . we're still for it at this. we're still fairly early on. it's only a couple of hours ago that this shooting took place . as you say, shooting took place. as you say, three people now confirmed to have died. interesting about the mark. but will the site of the shooting was a kurdish cultural centre in the 10th r&d small which in central paris too not far from the guardian or railway station there . the understand station there. the understand that the two people who died were kurdish . we don't know

were kurdish. we don't know about the injured people at this stage. two of them supposedly are in a critical condition . are in a critical condition. that area is still sort of an active crime scene as would imagine the public are being urged to keep away that area of central piracy. you could imagine, of course , today of all imagine, of course, today of all daysit imagine, of course, today of all days it was massively busy and there as people preparing for there as people preparing for the christmas weekend is this in london other major capital are the police always on alert for this sort of incident? yeah they are. i was interviewing a senior counter—terrorism officer, just couple of weeks back who put a warning to people just to be vigilant at this time year, especially with the threat from islamist extremism, because it is around the christmas period . is around the christmas period. times when, of course, many people will together in mass gatherings at christmas , they gatherings at christmas, they are targeted by the of islamic extremism . but i think it goes

extremism. but i think it goes to show that in tandem with that is the growing threat from the far right as well. if the fullness of time that is what this appears to be at this stage. just want to bring him have been ellen here of course the far right were involved in the far right were involved in the killing of the labour mp jo cox. yeah, absolutely. and yeah, there a history terrorist there is a history terrorist attacks right in attacks from the far right in the us. we had timothy mcveigh in oklahoma bombing over in the oklahoma bombing over here. there was the bombing of the lord admiral pub , a few the lord admiral pub, a few other pubs, the gay people, the gay pub. and then there was also a bombing in brixton which seemed to be targeting black people. so this not without people. so this is not without a history . and i think it's really history. and i think it's really important that we don't go that lone wolf language that we do. as mark saying, lone wolf language that we do. as mark saying , see, this lone wolf language that we do. as mark saying, see, this is a growing threat and make sure that we that it's taken seriously. security, absolutely. no matter what , you've got no matter what, you've got another big story today. you're involved with . it involves yet involved with. it involves yet another to the airlines, which

then means another blow to the long suffering passenger. what's going on? yes, that's linked to the border force strike is seeing a thousand officers who would normally be these passport controls at major airports, including heathrow gatwick, manchester glasgow . i'm walking manchester glasgow. i'm walking out for eight day period and what that's is that the airlines as you say already very severely affected by the pandemic and worldwide having to make many thousands of people redundant. well, they're being again, because what they're having to is plan for potential holding patterns over a hub airline , patterns over a hub airline, destinations like heathrow. now, anybody that's flown into heathrow knows that they often have to go into a hold pattern for some as many minutes. well taking into account, we could have significant delays because

of the passport strikes as well. they're being told the airlines, british we've managed see an internal memo british airways management to its pilots trying telling them instructing them that have to if there are a long haul flight take an additional hours haul flight take an additional hour's worth of fuel for that hold pattern. now, the thing is, you use kiss an hour's worth of fuel which is actually, you know thousands of pounds more that they're having to pay. but it's actually than that because if you're in a long haul flight, say, singapore and, it's 14 hours, you're carrying all that additional weight of more fuel and you need more fuel to then burn to carry that weight 14 hours. so it's much more than just an hour's extra fuel you need at the end of the day. and that fuel actually cost it will be passed on inevitably to the passenger. well, that's hey,

that's the sad thing about. it's expensive. it's difficult price. it's the airlines. it's difficult for the airlines. of course to have deal with of course to have to deal with this the interim, they will this in the interim, they will have no choice but to pass that to on the weary passenger who is not just putting up with the inconvenience potentially having flights cancelled. yeah, i best may be facing long queues, but they're also at some point going to have to pay for extra ticket fares as well. just just to be clear , just finally, the delays clear, just finally, the delays , passengers will be coming back into britain, not going out. well it could all have a knock on effect, right? i what happens when you have delay at passport control is people are stocking up in these queues there. then you get the airports telling the individual airline that on landing, can you hold the gate at the terminal gate , don't at the terminal gate, don't disembark you. passengers tied to these queues and course while they're at the gates then other arriving airliners can't get into those gates they just stock

up on the on the taxiways some will. so they're in the hold and. all of that can have a knock on effect even for leaving miserable christmas grinch, isn't it? thank you. the trip , isn't it? thank you. the trip, mr. trade union leaders. but not all ministers, of course. quite all ministers, of course. quite a few of them in, i should say, border force sitting the border force are sitting at the moment there's not much in the way of delays accused but there's at this is plenty opportunity . well thanks for opportunity. well thanks for that smart way to his home in security i'm joined now by the travel editor at the sun, lisa minnow. lisa, good afternoon to you. it's going to be chaos pretty much everywhere, isn't it? the roads of jammed the highway workers are on strike . highway workers are on strike. and now we've got the problem with border force. that's right. and of course, the trains as well. so mean really. there's very little forms of transport for a bus or a bike of you're not going to find yourself really struggling this christmas . what advice ? i mean, the . what advice? i mean, the trains are on strike on christmas eve. lisa but during the last strike there were far

more trains operating, for instance, from paddington , where instance, from paddington, where i was travelling from last week. is there a sense that fewer and fewer train staff are going on strike now ? is some suggestion strike now? is some suggestion this support the strike may be crumbling ? i mean, i think there crumbling? i mean, i think there might be some idea that, yes , might be some idea that, yes, the support for the strike isn't perhaps as strong as it was. but in terms of happening this weekend, tradition were never any trains on on christmas boxing day was the first day you get a train. now there will be no trains on. but basically for almost thing tomorrow morning on christmas eve . well, the rmt christmas eve. well, the rmt saying that it's actually going to be rather 3:00 if you're looking at those intercity services that all services. so a coming into london perhaps , coming into london perhaps, 8:00, 9:00 in the morning my own trains have a series of commuter trains have a series of commuter trains into london last train at midday. now that's always going to a huge impact on people travelling home for christmas, but also for the hospitality . so but also for the hospitality. so it's going to have serious

impact. and also this is not now just this small period of time, there is going to be some form industrial from now all industrial action from now all the way through until january the way through until january the the ban on overtime the ninth. the ban on overtime means that there's very few trains working, even on the days when we are not having strikes. but by the same token strike days about 20% of days themselves, about 20% of services are working . i think services are working. i think it's much easier in london obviously to get around because we've got the underground parts of of country. of the parts of the country. there absolutely no trains at all. so best advice, lisa check onune all. so best advice, lisa check online to see if there are any trains running at all. but is the is the information on line accurate? well, that's thing accurate? well, that's the thing i mean, you have to wait until the actual for the strike days are up to published . and at the are up to published. and at the moment, we don't know what those timetables are for the third and 4th as well as the 4th of january, as well as the six and 7th of january, which the we are going have the next time we are going have strike action. and there's also an aslef train, train or drivers on 5th of january as well. on the 5th of january as well. so this going to continue all so this is going to continue all the way the new year. this

the way into the new year. this disruption . sorry that. disruption. sorry to hear that. that's lisa mino, the travel editor at sun . the ambulance editor at the sun. the ambulance workers from the unison will stage two more strikes next month dispute over pay. month in a dispute over pay. it's announced thousands of it's been announced thousands of staff from five different service england walking service in england are walking out days in out on two separate days in january , although a planned january, although a planned strike on the 28th has been suspended . not quite clear why suspended. not quite clear why the january strikes will affect london yorkshire , the london yorkshire, the north—west, north—east and west. and we've already seen services disrupted this week and of course, a threat to patient safety. so is it now time for the government to go live with threat to change the law to stop blue light staff like ambulance workers walking out at all? that's the case for the police. it's the case for the army. should it the case for the ambulances . joining me now is ambulances. joining me now is former conservative and health minister edwina edwina currie. i was very struck something mark drakeford is the first minister in wales . drakeford is the first minister in wales. labour he runs the in

wales because it's devolved he said if nurses are given higher pay said if nurses are given higher pay there'll be fewer treatments , fewer nurses and less cash for the nhs. why don't why doesn't the nhs. why don't why doesn't the conservative prime minister rishi sunak's say that ? well, i rishi sunak's say that? well, i think that's at least in part because nurses do higher pay on a qualified nurse with a bit of experience is . on £37,000 a year experience is. on £37,000 a year . she or he is actually much better . and most of the people better. and most of the people that they are treating and in the way mock has put his finger on something significant because the nhs has got about 12% more money now than it had in 2019. before covid. but it's doing 5% fewer treatment . one of the fewer treatment. one of the reasons is that we are paying people better . another reason, people better. another reason, obviously is that a lot of other care gets more expensive cancer . care has come on by leaps and bounds.itis . care has come on by leaps and bounds . it is not cheap every bounds. it is not cheap every

time we have new drug that really works, it costs a lot of money and so on. so what the first minister of wales has really urged, and it's a pity that more people don't realise it is that if the all the money goes into paying more money, you end up not with more staff, you just end up with not able to do quite so much for everything else now. and i want to pay like the christmas grinch hear about nurses but it was also pointed out to by a government out to me by a government minister the other you to minister the other day, you to £37,000 with the pension contribution, which is a very generous contributions generous pension contributions the salary package the taxpayer. the salary package is closer to 50,000. quite a few of them are , you know, if they of them are, you know, if they got the 19% pay rise that they are demanding , they would put are demanding, they would put themselves probably into the higher rate tax bracket . i don't higher rate tax bracket. i don't think any of them have realised that. there's something very uncomfortable about the nurses . uncomfortable about the nurses. i don't think they've got anything like majority for it . anything like majority for it. they've announced some results . they've announced some results. trust by trust , the law says

trust by trust, the law says you've got to have % overall you've got to have% overall partaking in this. you've got to have% overall partaking in this . but it's very partaking in this. but it's very obvious as a vast majority of trust in england are not in favour of strike action . and favour of strike action. and indeed, even in the handful, those trusts where there is action, the nurses are often on picket lines only for a few , and picket lines only for a few, and then they're going back in. so there are a lot of people who quite uncomfortable about . i quite uncomfortable about. i tell you what , my conspiracy tell you what, my conspiracy theory is, andrew, it'd be really good idea if somebody on tv investigated. i think a couple of years ago, some very senior people thought, look, you know , we really need to damage know, we really need to damage this . we want to fight this this. we want to fight this government . and the best way to government. and the best way to do it is in a coordinated action with strikes that really has which which have the sympathy of the public . and then they will the public. and then they will end up voting this government out. now, how do we do that? well, let's put up some sympathetic people for the senior official posts in some

these unions. and if you have a look , see that there's some very look, see that there's some very new faces leading these unions. so i pat cullen at the head of the action that paid an absolute fortune , you know, the salary fortune, you know, the salary fortune, you know, the salary for of job. i think for that kind of job. i think the basic there's for that kind of job. i think the basic there' s £197,000 a the basic there's £197,000 a year , which, dare i say it, one year, which, dare i say it, one of the reasons why some of them look quite well fed. but i think what's happening is a really concerted effort through strike action to damage the government in the eyes of the public. now, look, two points to that, if i may . the first is the government may. the first is the government of any of any ilk , any political of any of any ilk, any political persuasion, should not give in to strikes , because all if all to strikes, because all if all if do that all, you're going to get two more strikes. and government should not get it given to inflation or even higher than pay rise. the mums because all you will get is more of the same. so government shouldn't do that. it's no accident , andrew. and you and

accident, andrew. and you and i remember this that it's more than 30 years the strike than 30 years since the strike was as political instrument was used as political instrument . and that's just because margaret thatcher so down strikes she did it was very clear. all right that government was not going accept any action that had to strike behind it. all right. that's edwina currie, the former health minister. she always tells it, as she sees it ever been. and i could fill getting cross and crosser and crosser. well, more and more bemused, to be honest, the idea that it's the nurses that made people think badly of this government last and the government than the last and the behaviour of the government least over the last year, if not over the last 12 people have had enough of the government. it's not the nurses that have to tell them that all own nice, them that it's all own nice, right? that's an event we're going to talking more to her in the programme she is a playwright and joins. next up it's gb news people's poll. we'll be sharing light on your views at home on the strikes that planned the that rwanda planned the premiership of boris johnson. remember him so don't go anywhere here on gb news live

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channel well, it's time now for this gb news people's poll . let's a look news people's poll. let's a look at some of those findings. well this week the high court ruled the government's to relocate asylum seekers to runda is lawful after legal from charities and campaign groups . charities and campaign groups. 40% of the public support the government . on rwanda , 29%

government. on rwanda, 29% oppose it. 12% don't have a. 12% neither oppose. no support . 18% neither oppose. no support. 18% say they know. i when asked about whether they agree or disagree, nothing in britain works anymore . a majority, 57% works anymore. a majority, 57% agree. that includes , by the way agree. that includes, by the way . and let's get some more analysis , the polls with the analysis, the polls with the academic and professor of politics, matt goodwin. matt afternoon to you. good afternoon . the government will be heartened, at least, i think, on the rwanda figure, 40, but i thought the figure might have been higher . yeah, we talked been higher. yeah, we talked quite a few polls on this policy issue. they generally show that more people support the plan than oppose it. the numbers go much higher as you might expect. if you look at conservative leave voters about two thirds or thereabouts of those voters cite rand as a good a good plan . and rand as a good a good plan. and more generally, if you actually

ask people about the situation in the channel small boats and migration , over 60% of the migration, over 60% of the country now feel that the person's borders are out control. i would to see less migration overall and so this issue isn't going away any time soon. it's the second issue for conservatives in, the country, the second top priority is a third issue for all voters . so third issue for all voters. so i suspect we'll be talking about it for a while yet. yeah also, what i thought was really interesting in the poll, matt, we've had we're on our third prime minister this year, unprecedented . it's unprecedented. it's unprecedented. it's unprecedented to have three former prime minister sitting on the conservative benches . but of the conservative benches. but of the conservative benches. but of the three, that's boris , rishi the three, that's boris, rishi sunak and liz truss. remember her? anybody boris seen as the most competent ? yeah, that's most competent? yeah, that's right. so among all voters he's seen as the most competent . the seen as the most competent. the three. i'd like to meet the 3% who said liz truss was the most

competent . think it goes much competent. think it goes much higher among conservatives . higher among conservatives. johnson leads sunak by 40 points. i mean, it goes to show that johnson's brand is still actually exceptional . he's actually exceptional. he's strong among conservative voters. and rishi sunak still clearly seen with with some suspicion , actually, among suspicion, actually, among conservative voters . and he's conservative voters. and he's three months into the job. is he trying to turn the ship around? but his ratings are not as strong as perhaps might you might have hoped. do you think that's some reaction , the budget that's some reaction, the budget taxing to see ever more matt or the fact some people still haven't sunak for stabbing boris in the back. he did from the cabinet after all. and it was just later boris was a goner. i think there's bit of that thrown in. i think it's also the politics of inflation. i think sunakisin politics of inflation. i think sunak is in number ten as these big crises are sweeping through the country. and if you look back at 2020 to globally , you

back at 2020 to globally, you look at all the elections that have happened, the world incumbents have either be kicked out of office or have been dramatically weakened from emmanuel macron in france , joe emmanuel macron in france, joe biden in in us from sweden to and beyond . so i think partly and beyond. so i think partly rishi sunak is just finding himself in the hot seat as all of these crises really sweep through the country. but on the other hand, as you say, among conservative members, among the sort of more die hard supporters , if you like, sunak is clearly struggle to win over that section the electorate largely i suspect because never really had the mandate from. from members orindeed the mandate from. from members or indeed from voters so he's already from quite a weak position within the parliamentary party and there's comfort for rishi sunak is there in this poll matt, comfort for rishi sunak is there in this poll matt , as we go into in this poll matt, as we go into a new year , the tory party still a new year, the tory party still very much flat in a pretty low place , 22. i mean, this is this place, 22. i mean, this is this is wipe—out territory. the next

election, this is worse. and john major is in 1997. and to make even worse, the sunak in his team we've got reform this week on 8% you got them on 9% recently labour is still riding high and over 45% in the polls. labour are the most trusted party now bizarrely on on immigration and brexit two issues that the conservatives should really be owning. so look, if i was rishi sunak sitting down, think about one of my resolutions this i got priority one is win back brexit. priority two is get control of this economy and stop the nhs. so it actually works. and then i've got to really with this issue on the borders because really do care a great deal, a system they might personally, i think rightly they conclude is included , is no longer fit for included, is no longer fit for purpose. and it comes out of the gate in 2023, you know, shooting all of those flying. so i think he's got he's a chance of trying

to turn things around, particularly if inflation starts to fall and interest rates start to fall and interest rates start to come down through 2023. but you know, everything's against him at this. i've never seen the conservative vote this week in a very, very time. all right. matt goodwin, he's a professor of politics. thanks joining us. thanks, matt. emma been out now. you you were furious. thanks, matt. emma been out now. you you were furious . edwina you you were furious. edwina currie was talking. you're now smiling and beaming from ear to ear because the are flatlining at matt goodwin they're at 22, matt goodwin they're saying if that was repeated a general election, they'd be wiped it be there. wiped out. it be there. what happened general happened at the general election? think it's election? no i don't think it's going be a wipe in those going to be a wipe in those terms. i'm but i, i think if were in rishi sunak's team i'd be really worried that boris johnson is seen as more competent than me because that's rishi sunak's big, big sell. he's the competent guy. and that was always what he was trying to try to contrast himself throughout the johnson i'm the safe pair of hands guy yo johnson does the stardust i do safe pair of hands. if he can't

do safe pair of hands , he's got do safe pair of hands, he's got no stardust. what does he indeed that's never been out now she's with me in the studio until 2:00 now in scotland north the border they approved yesterday a new self identification system for. people who want to change their genden people who want to change their gender. the new rules lower the age that people can for gender recognition, skin to 16 and removes the need for medical diagnosis . it's removes the need for medical diagnosis. it's a very controversial move and we've got a lot to talk about on that. but first, it's your news update . first, it's your news update. it's 133. i'm in the gb newsroom it's133. i'm in the gb newsroom and we start in france where three people have been killed , three people have been killed, several others wounded after . a several others wounded after. a gunman opened fire inside central paris, a 69 year old suspect has detained by police in connection with the attack which took place a kurdish cultural centre . according to cultural centre. according to french media suspect was known to police and allegedly attacked

a migrant last year. officers in paris say they are investigating racism as a possible motive behind the shooting . nurses in behind the shooting. nurses in england have threatened to go on strike again on the 18th and 19th of january at the royal college of nursing says. the walkouts will go ahead unless the government opens negotiations pay . negotiations over pay. meanwhile, the is called meanwhile, the gmb is called a post—christmas strike . ambulance post—christmas strike. ambulance workers in england , wales on workers in england, wales on wednesday, they'll now strike on january the 11th. the union's national secretary, rachel harrison , thanked the public for harrison, thanked the public for their support the public are deeply about our nhs and we are to people across the country have been incredible in backing our members and nhs workers and we care so much about them . we care so much about them. that's why we are suspending the proposed gmb industrial . on the proposed gmb industrial. on the 28th of december. we know the

pubuc 28th of december. we know the public will appreciate being able enjoy christmas without any additional anxiety . meanwhile, additional anxiety. meanwhile, the prime minister has apologised for christmas travel disruption following strike action by border staff today. gatwick cardiff, glasgow and manchester airports are all affected . however, heathrow does affected. however, heathrow does claim it's operating as normal military personnel and volunteers from the civil service been trained to step . in service been trained to step. in and george cohen, part of england's1966 world cup winning team , has died aged 83. cohen team, has died aged 83. cohen played every minute of the victorious campaign on home and in total won 37 caps for his country . his former club, country. his former club, fulham, announced his death this morning tv online and derby plus radio this is. gb news.

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now, will rishi sunak's conservative government overturn that new set by the scottish parliament? it makes it easier for people to change their genden for people to change their gender. the gender recognition reform bill will remove the need for medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria to attain a gender recognition certificate. and you can do it from the age of get

this. 16. the scottish parliament says they'll resist any attempt by the westminster parliament to. let's talk now to the co—founder of thoughtful therapists james s james. he wrote an article in spite magazine this week expressing very real concerns about safe and sex based rights . that's and sex based rights. that's right, andrew mean it's a terribly day to see this legislation go through in scotland. you need to think about who has spoken out against this internally within the united nations, the equality of human rights commission, women's rights groups , children's rights rights groups, children's rights groups, academic lawyers and the scottish electorate themselves have said that they have significant concerns . this and significant concerns. this and the scottish parliament, led by nicholas sturgeon have simply noted this . and there's a real noted this. and there's a real concern this removes all of the checks and balances that existed under the previous legislation . under the previous legislation. obtain a gender recognition certificate . and i've said that

certificate. and i've said that in essence , this throws both in essence, this throws both women and, children under the bus . is your women and, children under the bus. is your principal concern the age of children? they're only 16, not old, even to buy alcohol legally. and the is also the fact that the medical element is being removed from it complete the process. we know it's a combination of the two. yes. i mean , you've given that yes. i mean, you've given that analogy. i'll use the analogy that a child in scotland buy some fireworks to celebrate halloween. but can they legally change sex? the removal of a need for a dysphoria diagnosis risks missing children and young people for whom transitioning is not the appropriate pathway . not the appropriate pathway. we've seen recent evidence forward by the nhs in england that , even socially transition that, even socially transition in childhood. can potentially be irreversible and to a slippery slope towards further. so i'm concerned about children. i'm also concerned about women's

rights is basically a form of self i.d. without checks and balances to make sure that people for these certificates are genuine and are not using it for improper motives. well, there is the fear that's been voiced , this debate and you know voiced, this debate and you know better than me , is that sexual better than me, is that sexual male predators will self i.d. better than me, is that sexual male predators will self id. to change gender and then access female only spaces . try and female only spaces. try and think of dressing rooms in department store, for instance, swimming pool. department store, for instance, swimming pool . well, this is the swimming pool. well, this is the risk and this isn't savers or all people obtaining, risk and this isn't savers or all people obtaining , these all people obtaining, these certificates are predators . not certificates are predators. not at all. but it opens up the system to abuse , particularly system to abuse, particularly when we consider the recent court of sessions ruling, which says that if you obtain gender recognition certificate , not recognition certificate, not only does this threaten it legally changes your sex under the law . and we saw some members the law. and we saw some members of the scottish parliament

putting forward some ridiculous statements. maggie chapman, who represents the green party, stated this in her mind sex is not binary. and my advice to maggie would be to open up a biology book . just just finally biology book. just just finally this. the westminster government would be entirely in its rights to interfere here and to change this law, because became involved in northern ireland when abortion decriminalised in 2019. by 2021, there was still no abortion available and the westminster government to protect the right on the rights of women . well, i was very of women. well, i was very pleased to see a strong statement skydive from the secretary of state for scotland and for the minister of equality. and they went the concerns and wellbeing of concerns and the wellbeing of women children . they could women and children. they could intervene, it seems . the intervene, it seems. the scotland act, section 35, particularly given the fact that this legislation could impact equalities under equality act 2010, that affects entire country. so i and many others i

sincerely hope and hoping that the uk government does get involved on this because the stakes are far too high . indeed stakes are far too high. indeed they are. that's, james says from thoughtful therapist. thanks so much forjoining us, james. emma, i know you feel incredibly strongly this . incredibly strongly about this. i really do . i am a radical i really do. i am a radical feminist , an i really do. i am a radical feminist, an increasingly radical feminist. these and it feels like we've gone backwards . i believe very firmly in sex and sex based rights and. that is what i've spent my life fighting for. it's what my mother raised to fight for. i don't believe in gender is a social construct that says if you like pinkie in this box and if you like blue, you belong in that box . and it just pushes us that box. and it just pushes us into these stereotyped roles. i've loved artists for that play with gender. david bowie . annie with gender. david bowie. annie lennox. grace jones prince. people like that who said, you know , am a man or a woman, but know, am a man or a woman, but i'm not going to be constricted

into. that role that that society , she says, belongs. when society, she says, belongs. when i feel like for some reason the progressive side gone backwards and say no, if you stick to that stereotype, you are there for a man or woman, no matter what your body looks like. i think we are putting women and girls at risk. tell me why you say that. because i have often said when comes to the whole not all men thing, we absolutely that not all men are rapists. thing, we absolutely that not all men are rapists . we just all men are rapists. we just don't know which ones are. and the worry that i have about access single sex spaces are what are reserved under the equality act 2010 is that it is now going be seen as very, very hard . a young girl like me aged hard. a young girl like me aged eight flashed that in a public space to challenge the person who's flashing at you, challenged the person who is behaving a way because you will behaving a way because you will be seen as the one in the wrong. i was able to go and get someone and say, could you make this

not? and that was absolutely fine. they were the miscreant who. the miscreant now. who. was the miscreant now. that's problem. and just finally, do you. yeah. sorry. just one more thing. the people i'm really, really worried about are the most vulnerable women in society. in prison. and society. those in prison. and the they voted down an the fact that they voted down an amendment sexual amendment to stop sexual predators being able to obtain a gender recognition sticker so they can access female that for me, just how little they thought about the women's in all of this and that's ever been now. this is a story that will run and run, as they say. now, the 1966 world cup hero, george curry, has died at the age of 83. the premier announced just earlier today he used to play for fulham. he was a defender. he scored. he had 37 caps for the england team. fulham have released a statement in which they say everyone at fulham club is saddened of the is saddened to learn of the passing of one of our greatest ever players and gentleman george cohen cbe. i'm joined now by former professional footballer mickey quinn . mickey, footballer mickey quinn. mickey, the members of the 1966 world

cup winning team were towering figures in football. i'm thinking of bobby charlton. charlton, of course, the late bobby moore . george curry was bobby moore. george curry was among them . oh a footballing among them. oh a footballing engush among them. oh a footballing english god. that's the only way i can put them into context, andrew. i was very lucky to not be coached by alan ball . be coached by alan ball. team—mates of george cohen and the famous 66 world cup winning team . and i don't think i mean team. and i don't think i mean they won the world cup, but i don't think these guys got the respect from a lot of people around the world what they achieved . you know, george was , achieved. you know, george was, achieved. you know, george was, a one club man. achieved. you know, george was, a one club man . fantastic. right a one club man. fantastic. right back. a one club man. fantastic. right back . i think a one club man. fantastic. right back. i think it was a one club man. fantastic. right back . i think it was george back. i think it was george best. and he's one of the right best, right backs in the world. and to win to the epitome of your professional career, which is winning world cup, andrew a very few get to that elite

status and i don't think it was till well, late nineties we started to appreciate what the likes of george and the world cup winning of 66 achieved. i think only two still alive to me. you what? i'm ball's spoke so highly of george that he knew that when they were playing , that when they were playing, every time he could get forward cross the ball and supply the ammunition for the forwards because he knew george was so rock solid in that right back position . but i was privileged position. but i was privileged to meet george well through alan ball, and he was a friend guy as well, and genuine and genuine passion . and it's sad, isn't it passion. and it's sad, isn't it 7 passion. and it's sad, isn't it ? these guys just didn't the financial rewards, anything like what they the players are earning now millions. i remember reading that when geoff, who scored a hat trick in that 1966 world cup football, he signed on the dole . yes and of course, you

the dole. yes and of course, you know , bobby moore, i remember to know, bobby moore, i remember to catch it a buy two tickets to get in a football match, you know, in late seventies and ridiculous. you look at a lot of footballers and the ability choose half what these guys achieve. you know and they get knighthoods as well . i think knighthoods as well. i think like i said, there's only two of that 11 that started the world cup still alive . geoff hurst and cup still alive. geoff hurst and sir bobby charlton and you know, i don't think in my lifetime england will ever win another cup. i don't think we've got that blend of what them had strong contact with mental physical tremendous ability tremendous team spirit as well . tremendous team spirit as well. i mean and george in that world cup played in every game which is unusual because coaches now like to mix it up a little bit. players in the group stage, so

on and so on. so they were just fantastic players and fantastic people as well . andrew great, people as well. andrew great, great, great to hear from you. that's mickey quinn, the former footballer on the death of george curry and who's one of the heroes of the 1966 world cup team. and if you've forgotten the score, england beat four two. young, enough to two. was young, old enough to have it? well, you have watched it? well, you you never important part of never are an important part of this show. we want to hear your views of viewers and the views of the viewers and the listeners. let's speak listeners. so let's speak to some joining me are some right now. joining me are three viewers. we've got three gb news viewers. we've got miranda northamptonshire , miranda from northamptonshire, bfian miranda from northamptonshire, brian duke and from edinburgh and malcolm whiting from lincolnshire . good afternoon to lincolnshire. good afternoon to you all. miranda, let's start with you . you in the christmas with you. you in the christmas spirit ? oh with you. you in the christmas spirit? oh running the pub, andrew. so it's no option to be in the christmas spirit . you in the christmas spirit. you know, it's , it's lovely to see know, it's, it's lovely to see we've got quite few guest joining us over the next few days to celebrate their christmas and have their time for me. i don't really get christmas till january when get to be with my family then . but

to be with my family then. but you know, but for now, i'm doing i do in hospitality. so it's a tough gig but you know ready to bfing tough gig but you know ready to bring the cheer to everybody . bring the cheer to everybody. well, are you busy . can well, are you busy. can unfortunately we all good which is nice. i know there are some that aren't in the in the position to be busy but we are got quite a lot booked in over the next couple of days for dinner, people coming out and joining families . what we're joining the families. what we're actually finding is more people are coming because there's less costs and pressure at home. it sounds a bit strange, you know, to come out and eat for dinner and come out and have reasonable. but by the time you filled the fridge, by the time you turn things on by, the time you've made the home, the family round, actually cheaper and round, it's actually cheaper and easier out dinner. easier to come out for dinner. all that's miranda. all right. that's miranda. best of christmas to of luck and happy christmas to you. go to edinburgh now. you. let's go to edinburgh now. bfian you. let's go to edinburgh now. brian doogan . andrew, how brian doogan. andrew, how are you ? i think i'll i'll maybe go you? i think i'll i'll maybe go to miranda's pub and enter into the christmas spirit . sounds

the christmas spirit. sounds good. it sounds good. are you. are you feeling very christmasy, bfian are you feeling very christmasy, brian ? yeah. i mean, i, i it's brian? yeah. i mean, i, i it's been a tough year for a lot of people. andrew so i think we all have to acknowledge that and feeling pretty christmasy in terms of i'm spending time with family with , friends and we're, family with, friends and we're, we're getting, we're together for christmas, which great. it's important . i for christmas, which great. it's important. i accept, for christmas, which great. it's important . i accept, though, important. i accept, though, that for other people that might not be as straightforward as other christmas . we have the other christmas. we have the pandemic course which intervened and made that very, very for people. but with the circumstance of their own strikes, etc. and what's happening generally in terms of cost of living. it's been tough year for people and for some people , or it will be tough this people, or it will be tough this as well. all right. let's go to malcolm whiting, finally from lincolnshire. malcolm how are you? i'm well, andrew. thank you.thank you? i'm well, andrew. thank you. thank you for having me on.

yes, i getting into the christmas spirit always enjoyed christmas spirit always enjoyed christmas always have a very quiet christmas just with immediate family. quiet christmas just with immediate family . and i think it immediate family. and i think it seems a funny, difficult time of year. seems a funny, difficult time of year . you know, people only last year. you know, people only last really for two weeks of the year , you know, to spend time with family and friends. , you know, to spend time with family and friends . but instead, family and friends. but instead, at the moment, we still have strikes and everything just is disrupting so much at which i find very frustrating . a lot of find very frustrating. a lot of it is not immediately affecting me , but i do feel for the other me, but i do feel for the other people that, you know, just want to travel with family, friends and we don't ask for much this time of year . you're right, time of year. you're right, malcolm. thank you for that. that was miranda richardson, bfian that was miranda richardson, brian duke and malcolm whiting. now good news, friends all have a very happy christmas and we hope you're especially busy. miranda now jenny bond is joining now. do you know who she

is? of course. the great authority on the royal family. jenny. afternoon . you the jenny. good afternoon. you the king's is hard to even king's speech is hard to even phrase it because . she did it so phrase it because. she did it so well. the queen for so he's already recorded . what are you already recorded. what are you expecting ? i think it will be expecting? i think it will be very reflective. he's a very sentimental man, as you know. and i think he will talk quite a lot about the loss, obviously, of his of his mother, maybe of his father to. so i think there'll be a lot of sentiment might be quite different. i think the image be important we we're not actually sure where exactly recorded but it exactly it was recorded but it has been recorded and i think it will be quite special. and i think a lot of people will tune in year and we understand in this year and we understand there is a reference to meghan and i imagine whatever he says will be conciliatory . absolutely will be conciliatory. absolutely it's all about unity. and when the gave her first speech. well, more than 70 years ago over 70 years ago, i suppose she's said it was all about unity and

that's what her her grandfather also george the fifth said that it was. that the first wireless speech was given and said it was about unity of great empire. and we could do with a bit of unity right now. i mean in the world in the country and certainly within the royal family. and i think what charles will be trying to do, hold out that olive , if he mentions harry and olive, if he mentions harry and meghan , you it will be meghan, as you say, it will be conciliatory . quite sure. and conciliatory. quite sure. and just jenny, on christmas day itself, sandringham will we will we see them going to church, as they always did with her majesty, the queen yeah. i mean, that's another centrepiece but lots a lot of people, they like to out to and watch the royal to go out to and watch the royal family the church and family arrive at the church and then then afterwards, then and then leave afterwards, as their christmas as part of their christmas celebrations, opportunityfor celebrations, an opportunity for the talk about the family to talk about we might see lily this along might see little lily this along with his mum and dad william and catherine. so there'll be a full complement of royals up there at sandringham and a time nostalgia. obviously the first without the queen, but a time

again of the family coming together in some harmony. we hope. absolutely. that's that's jenny bond , the royal jenny bond, the royal commentator. thanks so much for joining us. now it is christmas and we've been talking about christmas, by the way. we won't be seeing prince andrew sandringham he's sandringham on sunday. he's still christmas. and still been. it's christmas. and guess ? yes. oh, wow guess what, emma? yes. oh, wow now, told i couldn't spend now, i was told i couldn't spend more a fiver. i spent just more than a fiver. i spent just more than a fiver. i spent just more than a fiver . you can open more than a fiver. you can open yours. come on. i mean, i put we have.i yours. come on. i mean, i put we have. i hope it's not another picture. no and harry nice press and i think going to help you find your inner child something we've over previously , we've bonded over previously, right? oh, my word that i read . right? oh, my word that i read. it could present millions of . it could present millions of. oh, now that is a fierce poem you put in your phone , a crappy you put in your phone, a crappy bomb and a cat and a candle christmas candle . thank you very christmas candle. thank you very much . well, happy christmas. much. well, happy christmas. favourite one of my favourite childhood books . well, i'm childhood books. well, i'm enjoying it is going now to a crisis centre putting to shame so happy christmas emma . that's

so happy christmas emma. that's it. you've been watching our troops have a very, very happy christmas . you troops have a very, very happy christmas. you in the christmas. i'll see you in the new but next, it's the new year. but next, it's the with foster. don't go with arlene foster. don't go anywhere .

hello and welcome to the briefing your afternoon fix of all the latest news, debate and analysis . all the latest news, debate and analysis. i'm arlene all the latest news, debate and analysis . i'm arlene foster here analysis. i'm arlene foster here in my seasonal i traditional sparkly top and here's what's coming up over the next hour. another day, another strike because royal mail postal workers and border force staff are on a over pay jobs attended . taliban security in kabul have been enforcing the higher education ban for women by their access to universities . and joe access to universities. and joe kennedy. the third has been confirmed as united states envoy to