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Say it’s not enough meanwhile Hamas claims 11 people have been killed in an Israeli air strike in southern Gaza Israel insists it targeted militants here Pro Palestinian demonstrations are held around the country after the prime minister’s call for tougher action on disruptive protests also tonight the former chair
Of the post office hits out at feckless ministers over the treatment of postmasters wrongly accused of theft Jerry Herer stands by her husband Christian as the Red Bull Formula 1 Boss faces more questions over his conduct are you confident that you’ve got the full backing of everybody above you and
That you’ll be leading this team in jeda next weekend yeah absolutely I wouldn’t be here otherwise plus will be live at the Brit Awards where singer songwriter Ry is on track for a record Hall as women dominate the nominations and we’ll take a first look at tomorrow’s front pages in our press
Preview from 10:30 good evening the US military has carried out its first airdrops of humanitarian Aid into Gaza after President Biden said more had to be done to help people in need but Aid agencies say the US intervention isn’t enough with a quarter of gaza’s population facing starvation the aid effort comes as the
Fighting between Israel and Hamas continues tonight the Hamas run Health Ministry says at least 11 people have been killed in southern Rafa in an Israeli air strike well Israel insists it carried out a targeted strike against militants in accordance with international law around 1.5 million people are estimated
To be living in Rafa most of them having fled their homes from the north to escape the Israeli military operation these before and after satellite pictures show the scale of the tent cities set up there Israel currently controls the aid that gets into Gaza on the ground level life-saving food Fuel
And medicine only comes in through just two Crossings in the South the United States says its first airdrop over Gaza of 66 pallets containing 38,000 meals could pave the way for more Aid missions our Middle East correspondent alist bunkle reports make no mistake the decision by
The us to start air dropping Aid into Gaza is a last resort and it was done because the situation is now too desperate to wait any longer early on Saturday morning three US aircraft dropped 38,000 meals into Gaza because America is now running out of patience this is the problem with air
Drops a few days ago a Jordanian parachute failed to open properly risking the lives of anyone beneath it and some of the aid missed and landed in the sea people swam out to try and reach it any um humanitarian Aid is welcome because the situation is so bad but air drops are inefficient
Insufficient wasteful potentially dangerous and they are only really a a you know a l Resort when Road or sea delivery is impossible in Gaza both roads and sea delivery can be carried out with no official organization receiving the aid and distributing it to those who need it most it can be chaos
When Aid does arrive that’s what happened in the early hours of Thursday morning as an aid Convoy tried to reach Northern Gaza there is still confusion about what happened next and how more than a 100 people died Israel says there was a stampede but ad committed some of its
Soldiers opened fire the United Nations has now said that they have seen bodies with gunshot wounds in the hospitals this hospital is treating more than 200 people that were injured yesterday we have seen people with gunshot wounds we have seen amputees uh and we have seen
Uh children as young as 12 that were injured yesterday uh these events cannot be allowed to go on today an is air strike hit the main entrance of the emirati hospital in Rafa an unknown number of people were killed and injured this is a medical facility in a
Supposed safe Zone in Gaza today both death and salvation has come from the air above them as Sky News in Jerusalem let’s go live now to the White House and our us correspondent Mark Stone there mark a last resort and a huge step for the Americans to be
Dropping aid from the air um a sign of just how desperate things have become yes I mean desperate is the word I I think desperate in humanitarian terms and desperate politically diplomatically as well it is clear from from conversations I’ve had today and from calls that we’ve had with uh senior
Administration officials here in Washington that this is not something they they wanted to do it is something that they didn’t think they would have to do because they thought they would be able to pressure the Israelis to open that northern border crossing arz in the northeastern corner of Gaza they hoped
That they would be able to do that in the same way that they persuaded the Israelis to open Kem shalom in the southeast of Gaza a couple of months ago but they haven’t H that said they are not blaming um on the face of it at
Least um the Israelis for this problem I was struck by the tone of the officials that we heard from today uh where where they were blaming this on on a breakdown of Law and Order they said it’s because the the Palestinian police are not out
And about able to to to deal with the aid that is already being distributed in in quantities that are that are far too small but the reason the Palestinian police are not there is because um they have been killed uh in we’ve had reports indeed the Americans admitted they’ve
Had reports of the Israelis having killed the Palestinian police they are taking their uniforms off they are not operating so of course lawlessness uh is breaking out of course it is chaos uh the question is why there is chaos and if you talk to a agencies who are
Operating there they say the chaos is because of the war that Israel is Prosecuting with American weapons so this is a very desperate policy decision to decide to drop Aid into a war zone which your ally has control of Mark elsewhere what more can you tell us about the sinking the ship off
Yemen yes this is a development today a British owned Biz flagged um uh ship operating ated by Lebanon that was hit a few weeks ago uh in the waters of uh Yemen uh by houthi the houthi rebel groups it was attacked as many have been over the course of the past five months
Or so uh it has sunk today no one no one injured the ship was had been abandoned uh but it was taking on water and it has sunk this is significant because it is the first ship to have been completely lost as a result of these attacks incidentally it is also a big
Humanitarian sorry a big environmental issue of the fertilizer the ship was carrying the houthi rebel group has said today has addressed Rishi sunak given that it is a British owned ship and said you can come and recover that ship uh if you start supplying Aid uh to um uh to
Gaza so uh you you get a sense of of The Wider challenges here and I think over the coming week the focus will be on any breakthrough either here in at the White House or indeed uh in um in the Middle East on a ceasefire a ceasefire that
Everyone now appears to be calling for okay Mark for the moment thank you here Pro Palestinian marches have taken place in cities across the country a day after the Prime Minister asked campaigners to prevent demonstrations being hijacked by extremists the mayor of London labor sadik Khan said tonight
There is a concerted and growing attempt by some to degrade and humiliate minorities for political and electoral game Sky Dan Whitehead reports it is a deadly conflict that’s increasingly dividing parts of this country Pro Palestine marches are a regular Saturday fixture and while most are peaceful the Prime Minister says
Extremists are using the issue to Target communities and our democracy anti-Semitism is a huge problem that’s happening as is islamophobia and I think any any hate rhetoric is designed to divide those communities I think the a lot of this rhetoric around extremism is actually encouraged by some of the
Policies and some of the language that’s used to pitch people against each other we are all actually pro peace human beings the vast majority of protests are of course peaceful but you are getting an MP elected and MPS facing death threats over what’s happening in Israel and Gaza with an election just months
Away this issue is becoming ever more in British politics rishy sunak call for Unity last night comes after a difficult few weeks with the conflict impacting votes in Parliament and security concerns in the community earlier this week the Prime Minister announced an extra 54 million pound Security package
For Jewish schools synagogues and other community centers it’s after a record 4,13 anti-semitic incidents reported in the UK last year the highest total ever in a single calendar year and an increase of 147% compared with 2022 London’s mayor sadique Khan who himself has been at the center of a
Recent race R addressed the issue today what we’re witnessing is a concerted and growing attempt by some to degrade and humiliate minorities for political and electoral gain as the poison of anti-Semitism and the poison of islamophobia continues to infect our politics now more than ever we need to
Display our best values rather than our worst fears in the exchange Hall Market in Bristol Nick has run his stall for the past 30 years he feels hearing all sides of the argument remains vital to our democracy there are big issues which actually split people up and and they do
That doesn’t mean you’re personally against another person it’s just you’re expressing opinion don’t start listening to people’s views for points that’s where divisiveness and and the breakdown in society will come from the impact in the UK of the ongoing Bloodshed in the Middle East is complicated there is
Political Capital at stake in a likely election year alongside genuine fear for the safety of politicians the public and the democratic system what is clear is that the conflict is becoming an Ever growing backdrop to British politics Dam whed Sky News in Bristol well tonight it seems that the
Government now plans to expand powers to prevent extremists from entering the UK let’s go live to Downing Street and our political correspondent there Rob Powell um Rob what do we know of the detail as to what the government is planning regarding extremism not aot lot really uh last night from here in Downing
Street we heard richy sunak vowing uh to tackle and face down extremists who undermine democracy it was a speech heavy on language but pretty light on substance we were promised policy and it seems that’s what we’re now getting or something that looks like policy um anyway the Sunday Telegraph has a story
Which we understand is correct about the government essentially wanting to make greater use of powers to block people like hate preachers from entering um the country now if you’re thinking that this sort of stuff already happened s then you’d be right what government sources say is this is about broadening the
Number of people um that can be barred from the UK to include people that inite racism or people that use intimidation to undermine Democratic um processes uh I think critics will say that this is less about getting out wellth thought and evolved policy and perhaps more about quite quickly trying to put some
Meat on the bones of some of those big lofty promises that Ry cak was making last night and Rob what do we know looking ahead to next week week’s budget yeah Wednesday is the budget and I think this evening what we can say is the chance of some sort of big pre-election
Budget bonanza with tax cuts uh Galore that appears to be receding and the reason for that is because government sources say the amount of money that Jeremy Hunt the chancellor will have to play with has dropped considerably since the start of the Year this is that fabled concept um of Headroom that’s
Gone from 30 billion at the beginning of the year I’m told to just under 13 billion now what that means is it sort of leaves space when you account for leaving a bit of a buffer zone in there for either a one penny cut in income tax
Or a one penny cut in National Insurance with a couple of billion pounds to spend um on other things now of course the government can raise money as well that’s why we’re hearing reports of consideration being given to pinching the labor idea of scrapping non-don tax perks of potentially trying to throttle
Back public spending in the years after the election um even further but this Gloomy briefing does suggests that the sort of Big Ticket Blockbuster items that many in the Tory party want to see may not be on the cards on Wednesday now pinch of salt warning here there’s
Nothing a Chancellor loves doing more than lowering expectations at the beginning of a budget week only to surprise everyone on the day I think given where the polling is for the conservatives at the moment there’s many in the Parliamentary party that badly want to be surprised by the chancer on
Wednesday and I think with an election closing in there are many voters that might need to be surprised if the party can turn around the Dismal electoral path it’s currently treading okay Rob come Wednesday we shall see thank you well the chancellor will be speaking to Sky Trevor Phillips tomorrow morning
And Trevor will get more reaction to George Galloway’s win in Rochdale with Shadow education secretary Bridget philipson that’s Sunday morning with Trevor Phillips live from 8:30 here on Sky News the former chair of the post office has accused the government of ducking its responsibility to compensate staff
Wrongly accused of theft and fraud Sky News has seen a letter from Henry ston in which he says postmasters have been treated shoddily by ministers he describes as feckless Molly Malone reports you stand by your accusation he is the sacked former chair of the post office who says the government told him
To slow down compensation payments for sub poost Masters but Henry ston has continued to comment so stand by absolutely what you’ve said in public that compensation payments should be slowed down to minimize the financial liability yes I do and now in a letter obtained by Sky News to the chair of the
Business select committee Mr ston is doubling down accusing the government of ducking in its responsibilities to compensate victims he said the department for business and trade have been allowed to use the post office as a fig leaf for their stalling their evasion and their prevarication for for
Too long adding the post office needs to be removed completely from the process of administering compensation and the responsibility handed over to a fully independent body created for that sole purpose the government responded to say they’re working tirelessly to get compensation into the hands of those postmasters and post Mistresses wronged
By the injustices of this Scandal any discussion of ducking responsibility is completely inaccurate which Mr daon knows all too well accusations allegations and a continued war of words between the former post office chair and the government a source at the department for business saying this is mudslinging from Henry ston to try and
Deflect from his time at the company and yet none of this will be helping in what both sides say is at the heart of their effort and that’s compensation for victims victims that have waited decades and don’t want more delay it doesn’t do your mind any good it’s it’s so
Frustrating um as I say you think you’ve heard everything and then something else comes out and you you just don’t know what to believe I’m still waiting for compensation um I have received a um interim payment um but uh you don’t know when anything’s going to happen they’re just
Trying to slow everything down and it don’t it don’t take an inquiry to uh to teach you that lesson compensation and clearing their names two promises made to sub poost Masters but still so many questions and no clear timeline in sight Molly Malone Sky News the Red Bull Formula 1 boss
Christian hoer was accompanied by his wife Jerry at the Bahrain Grand Prix as he faces more questions over allegations of inappropriate behavior Mr Herer who is married to the former spice skull says he won’t comment on Anonymous speculation after messages reported to have been part of Red Bull’s recent
Probe into him were leaked our Sports correspondent Rob Harris reports a show of solidarity Jerry halwell backing her embattled husband parading in The Paddock with Christian herner after flying in for the Bahrain Grand Prix this display of unity and very public display of affection between the Spice
Girl and Red Bull team principal here at the F1 season opener after he survived an investig into alleged inappropriate behavior towards a female colleague cleared by Red Bull before leaks of alleged evidence Spar fresh concerns it’s lights out and away we go he has a reputation to protect but there was
Still a race to be won stab and keeps the lead Russell keeps third place Red Bull and Max bapen have little problem doing that glory in the Gulf picking up where they left off last season with the friendly champion on top here in Bahrain he wins the Bahrain Grand Prix and he
Won it with ease leading home a Red Bull on two with Sergio Perez joining bashen at the top of the podium the hner partnership on show again too Christian are you a United Team off the track at the moment yes absolutely you know we’re a we’re a very strong team this is you
With the the tyona um idia and I have to I have to ask you about this you know are you confident that you’ve got the full backing of everybody above you and that you’ll be leading this team in Jed next weekend yeah absolutely I wouldn’t be here otherwise he’s still not
Commenting on the purported private messages anonymously emailed to F1 officials and media instead celebrating a perfect start with his drivers it’s a really good group of people who are very confident and um yeah uh they they work really well together they all connect together very well with ideas and they
Make they all make it happen Triumph for Mid the turmoil and questions of conduct that will follow Christian herner and Red Bull to Saudi Arabia the next Grand Prix a week away Rob Harris Sky News unofficial reports suggest that the turnout in Iran’s parliamentary election has hit an historic low of around
41% it’s the Iranian government’s first major test since largescale protests followed the death in custody of Masa amini 2 years ago she’d been arrested for allegedly wearing her hijab incorrectly mourners in Moscow have continued to leave flowers at the grave of Kremlin critic Alexi nalni following his funeral yesterday people cued to pay
Their respects to the Russian opposition leader who died suddenly in a Siberian penal colony last month a killer whale has been filmed attacking a great white shark the male Ora was seen off the coast of South Africa killing the shark and then consuming its living in less than 2
Minutes it’s the first documented incident of its kind time now to get all the latest sports news with Matt this Sky News sports bulletin is brought to you by Vitality getting more people more active live life with Vitality now this signifies is a corner okay I don’t want this and I
Don’t want that I need to hand up here okay that is contested it’s school on a Sunday but nobody’s complaining because the lesson is the laws of the game and the classroom is Villa Park the fa wants to find 1,000 new black Asian and mixed Heritage referees from different
Communities around the country it’s part of the reflective and representative campaign we want to increase the pool of referees from these commun at the Grassroots level with a hope that in the future that these individuals can then go through the referee and progression pathway and then eventually a referee
Within the women’s Super league and in the Premier League historically maybe the interest wasn’t there but actually we haven’t probably done enough to actually showcase what referee is about you’re going to go there and blow blow the whistle and give a direct free kick a lot of challenges that people
Talked about the themes were the referee courses were too expensive um and that’s why we’ve employed a bra scheme as part of this campaign you two go going into Grassroots football and going into it as a referee um with all the other challenges I have uh the other
Added challenge will be um the the Discrimination angle you need to blow the whistle and put your hand like this it’s got to be like this on every single cone don’t anym the achievements of Sam Allison Rebecca Welsh and sunny sill have highlighted the importance of role models and mentors within refereeing
With new refs coming through having people to Aspire to the organization bam ref was set up to increase levels of representation and refereeing and we’re in attendance on the Day Stray arm out well I’ve never seen this before it’s absolutely amazing to be part of a room
Full of young black Asian mixed Heritage uh young people ready to start their refereeing Journey do you remember when you first stepped into a room ready to do a referee call I was the only female and I was the only black and Asian uh Heritage of that Community to see this
Happening right now this is what we need we need people to feel that they belong in refereeing and we’re going to stop blow and give a penalty yeah all got it there what I’m really really um so pleased about today is the fact that we’ve got a huge wide
Wide range young 16 year olds all the way up to adults really 12 years ago it was literally I walked into the room and it was a room full of about 45 people and I was the only person of color when you look at the makeup of the football
Clubs the players themselves they there’s a very wide diverse background but actually onto the field of play as officials no there isn’t over 200 people accessed the burer scheme between September and January with more to be added across 13 courses over February referee courses can cost up to
£40 but we lower to 40 this time round I want to broaden my knowledge in football and um in future I wish to have a full-time career in football in some aspects whether that’s refereeing coaching or whatever but um I just want to be involved in football cuz I love
The game what I like about reing is that you don’t have to be a great player or anything it’s just about showing your leadership skills and also enjoying the game alongside the players go k I’m enjoying how it’s like teaching people in Independence and
Things and I I quite like how be able to to choose like what matches I go to and work on my own time schedule well the dream be and refereeing for you Champions League final the champions league is the dream Sunday league is the start it’s time to
Stop the caution on new faces in refereeing Chris Rey Sky Sports this Sky News sports bulletin is brought to you by Vitality now the singer songwriter Ray is having a bumper night at the Brit Awards where female artists dominate the nomination she’s already won five Awards and could win a record two
More I don’t really know what to say right now but thank you thank you to my team wow i’ I’ve always dreamed of saying that thank you to my team um thank you to um my Distribution Company who are called Human Resources a small little imprint in America who no
One else would take my songs but Jay thank you for for believing in this [Applause] music our arts and entertainment correspondent Katie Spencer joins us live from the ceremony in southeast London and casy Ray is definitely the name of the evening has she added to her tally do we
Know Barefoot and breaking records tonight we know that already before we know what the final few W awards are she has already made history as the winning the most Awards by any single artist in one ceremony which in itself is just a magnificent achievement look it it has
Been such an emotional thing for her it is this strange sense of um this is an industry event watched on by the industry so in a way there should really be a a collective sense of Shame on on the part of a lot of the executives who
Are inside there they many of them are the ones who refuse to put out her material she was signed to a record label aged 17 um who gave many of her best records to others bigger artists and they refused to to put out her own debut album she claimed it was only by
Going to an independent going independent putting out material herself that she managed to get this album out to such critical a claim the performance she gave inside tonight um was one that documented uh that detailed an incident she had of um sexual assault by a music producer to get here tonight she has
Been incredibly damaged along the way but she is such an important Voice Within music industry it has thoroughly deserved the number of wins that she’s got tonight and to think that actually she could be an artist that we still hadn’t heard any of these songs for if
She’d have just gone along with what her label had wanted it’s terrific um the one thing we don’t know yet though is whether or not she’s won album of the year so that is the one really to stay tuned for and to see Kylie man’s performance wrapping up the ceremony
Tonight okay Katie we’ll be back to you thank you very much for the moment well that was Sky News at 10 coming up we’ll take a first look at tomorrow’s newspapers in the Press preview tonight we’re joined by colonist for the independent James rampton and writer and broadcaster Esther Gren amongst the
Stories we’ll be discussing this on the front of the express their headline cut tax or lose gray vote we’ll be right back with that and Other Stories do stay with Us E [Applause] we’ve got your Sunday mornings covered from the front page and the sounds of the streets to the voices of the people who make the major calls and big picture politics Beyond Westminster we’ll put you at the heart of our story a new start to Sunday I’m ready are
You join me Trevor Phillips Sunday mornings on Sky News I’m Alex Crawford and I’m Sky’s special correspondent Bast in IST humble Oh Welcome back you’re watching Sky News in just a moment the Press preview a first look at what’s on the front pages as they arrive but first our top stories the United States has aird dropped Aid into Gaza for the first time since the start of the conflict between Hamas and
Israel but human rights campaigners say it’s not enough Pro Palestinian demonstrations have been held around the UK as the government muls over plans for tough for action on disruptive protests the Red Bull Formula 1 boss Christian Herer has been uh accompanied by his wife Jerry at the Bahrain Grand
Prix as he faces more questions over allegations of inappropriate Behavior you are watching The Press preview a first look at what’s on the front pages as they arrive in the next half hour we’ll see what’s making the headlines uh with Esther crau and James rampton welcome to you both let’s see what’s on some of those front pages for
You now well the Observer has a warning from Top Economist to the chancellor that tax cuts could backfire that’s ahead of Jeremy Hunt’s spring Budget on Wednesday the express also leads on pre-budget warnings their headline cut tax or lose gray vote the times reports that the Prime Minister and Chancellor are battling to
Find the money to slash personal taxes by 2p in Wednesday’s budget the mirror has an exclusive their headline Andrew faces fresh Court bombshell as further Evidence relating to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is going to be made public by special decree and the daily sty features a woman’s claim of being addicted to mayonnaise
There are worst addictions I I’m sure a reminder that by scanning the QR code you’ll see on screen during the program you can check out the front pages of tomorrow’s newspapers while you watch us and we are joined tonight by EST Craig and uh James rampton thank you both for
Being with us tonight let’s start with the express and uh tax cuts potential tax cuts we don’t know as yet um and as we read in some of the papers they are still being decided on um as late as tomorrow evening James yeah it’s fascinating because the budget is on
Wednesday as you mentioned and apparently there are some behind the scenes tussles going on between numbers 10 and 11 over the extent of tax cuts if they even have the money to bring them about at all I think this is a very well-placed story and the Sunday Express
Notably has an older readership also it’s worth noting that the gray vote is absolutely crucial in any election they are the the section of society that votes votes most per capita they’re the most um Keen voters in any general election so it’s very important to play
To them and this is interesting I didn’t know this that since the Tores came to power 14 years ago the tax burden particularly income tax has doubled on pensioners they’ve been dragged into paying more because of the continuing freeze on personal allowances and more than a million more pensioners now pay
Tax so this is for them but a key caveat here is that Mr Hunter had been considering a 2p um tax cut but his dwindling Kitty as they say means that he may not be able to afford it as Liam burn famously said when he left office in 2010 there’s no
Money left the note that was uh that was was left for his successor yes yes and this um fabled headro that we’ve been hearing a lot about um at the beginning of the year 30 billion and has now been reduced to 13 billion we read
I mean the the question is why not just raise the personal tax threshold because they’ve been frozen for so long like you said a million pensioners have been um dragged into it because of um inflation but it’s who you you want to annoy less and and what you can get away with
Because obviously fewer people uh there are fewer working people than say people that would be affected if you raise the personal tax threshold so you can see that he’s been trying to to to spin it as something as to not um punish productivity but obviously that’s not
Going to work because as a working person if you hear oh I get 2p off taxes two an extra 2p off that’s not really going to um get you out to vote for the Tor so it it looks like they’re probably going to have to uh Panda to the the
Pensioners I just don’t think it’s going to be possible um this time around but it’s it’s going to be interesting um because like you said the grey vote are the most active they they tend to be the the least apathetic if you would put it that way and it’s it’s important to not
Annoy them I mean that’s why the the Tories have been so adant on maintaining the pension triple lock even though it’s costing the country a lot of money because you don’t want to annoy that that that section of the public and do you think James that that
What we’re reading uh now I mean today’s Saturday do you think it’s all about lowering expectations um so that whatever is the outcome on Wednesday people aren’t too disheartened and disappointed yes I mean this has changed in my lifetime there used to be something called perder where the chancellor went in communicado for
Several days before a budget no leaks emerg from number 10 but now all it is in the Sunday papers so there are no surprises and I absolutely agree Jillian it’s about laring expectations there are lots of you know very very eager right Wingers on the Tory back benches who
Saying our only chance of winning the election is to cut taxes which is very optimistic it is optimistic if not absolutely Fantasy Land uh and the The Observer story which I think we’re going to talk about warns two ex treasury AIDS are saying we must stop being obsessed
With the short term let’s move on to that yeah uh and if if Jeremy Hunt does manage to cut taxes if he finds this mythical headro all he will be doing is sabotaging the prospects for the next government but in the process he’ll be trashing what is left of the tor’s
Reputation for economic competence which after Liz truss’s disastrous mini budget is not much you know many mortgages doubled in the wake of that so you know it doesn’t look good for the tourist however you spin it yeah yes and Esther the economists warning that the country
Needs to break out of a cycle of short termism as they are describing it well no it’s it’s he’s completely uh right and at the end of the day it doesn’t do the country any good to Tinker around at the edges and and set false expectations
You know the Tory should be known for for fiscal discipline not just tax cuts I I find it a absurd that damage of the last 14 years can be undone with the TWP cut in in National Insurance is completely ludicrous um but you know it just shows how desperate the Tories are
Fortunately for labor they don’t have to contemplate this they just don’t have to completely destroy their image before they they um effectively become the next government they can do that when they’re in power exactly but the Tories have to they’re in damage control mode they have
To do something that still harks back to some sort of conservative um policymaking so I I think it’s unfortunate but yes this this country’s obsession with short-term thinking and oh what can I get after the next election as opposed to what’s the best direction for the country to head in is
Is probably why we’re in this mess because we haven’t thought longterm about energy policy about taxes about you know interest rates or any of that and that’s why we’re in the mess we now and James what what the economists are saying is the chancell should focus on on the long-term National interest uh
With measures to Spur investment and growth I mean that that’s key isn’t it investment and growth yeah absolutely and I totally agree with Esther I’m sorry that we’re supposed to probably loggerheads but we actually agree on this that uh you know they’ve been so short-termist that the idea is always
You know how are we going to win the next election what’s going to seduce voters you know are they shallow enough to fall for another you know minimal little tax cut will that be enough to delude them all so that you know it’s the economy stupid that everything’s
Rosy in the economic Garden well people aren’t that stupid they know that their pound in their pocket is worth much less than it used to be that the cost of living has gone through the roof the food they buy costs you know 2third more than it did 5 years ago they are very
Well aware that we’re in economic crisis and any amount of window dressing for the mates is not going to dis them of that I think they’d actually buy into a big Vision which neither party are offering and that’s what they’re too scared to offer they’re not they’re they’re terrified of offering an
Actually an actually compelling vision for Britain because they think oh but if I don’t get this right then they’ll lose the next vote no it’s about a consistent realistic optimistic vision for this country and you have to be bold enough to back yourself and James are you
Surprised at at how sort of last minute it is because we read that the the Chan and the Prime Minister will be meeting tomorrow evening to fine tune what they’re going to present on on Wednesday I mean that there’s no further information that’s going to come in
Tomorrow night that we don’t know today the words back of a fad packet do ring a bell here you know I’m certainly no fan of the Tories but I think Jeremy Hunt has done as good a job as possible inheriting the disastrous situation from Liz truss a prime minister who was
Outlast by a leuce so you know he he did inherit an almost impossible economic situation and he’s tried his best but I’m afraid I think him and the government a toast yep es your thoughts on the last minute uh element well I mean it’s it just reeks of desperation I
Mean now everyone is looking to towards when the next election is going to be and I think I suspect it’s probably going to be November December time because they need to buy themselves as much time as possible um to try and you know put a bit more window dressing in I
Mean obviously this this um The Economist saying that you don’t want to uh kind of stimulate the economy too much um kind of of kind of um incentivized uh summer shopping because you you you’ve um cut taxes by 2p is economically illiterate and that’s true but I suspect the Tories might do that
As a kind of last dit ditch effort to not completely obliterate the party which I think it might be too late for that James to the times and the post office still in the news tell us about the the latest twist and turn I mean we
Were talking about this before EST and I and the Optics of this are terrible yeah you know uh in January 2023 and I have to say this is all allegedly because Nick Reed this uh the chief executive of the post office uh apparently demanded a pay package of
More than a million pounds a year he was only on a Sal only in the inverted comers on a salary of uh 573 th000 uh the year before and according to this report this um exclusive in the Sunday Times he said he was going to make a
Drama of it his patience has expired he was basically throwing his toys out of the pram according to this reporter uh if he didn’t get paid more money and this was at a time some of the compensation claims had been settled although because of the huge legal bill
They faced they only got I think was it £15,000 each when they expecting 50 and of course there are hundreds who are still uncom uncompensated which the recent panicky government action is trying to counteract but the fact that the chief executive appears to have been demanding almost double his salary at a
Time when so many of his workers were suffering and four committed suicide many bankruptcies many divorces I think seems outrageous yeah the Optics are are terrible because we’re not focusing on what has he done a good job this is probably someone just strangling to try
And get more money which is his right as an employee but actually if you look at the the fact that the case was settled I think at the end of 20122 and the victims were awarded in total 60 million pound and they’re still many of them are still waiting for their compensation
Because they haven’t been legally exonerated and then you have the CEO um trying to basically double his his his um his pay it doesn’t look very good but we actually have to look at it from the perspective of does he deserve it is he is just someone just trying to ask for
More money um but clearly at at this particular time the Optics are terrible indeed Esther and James thank you very much for the moment we’re going to take a break coming up much more from the newspapers including claims of an addiction to mayonnaise that is in the Daily Star surprise surprise we’ll be
Right back with that and Other Stories What we’re doing right now is we are going out to some of the remotest parts of the smallart archipelago where polar bear mums are in their den still tucked in with their still growing Cubs and we’re setting up remote camera systems we’re setting up both highdef video systems and then simpler trail cam
Systems and we’re trying to get information information on when polar bears come out of their dens what they do when they’re there and what condition they’re in when polar bears are born sometime around the first of the year they’re about the size of a human fist
Or a stick of butter is another way to look at it they are blind and hairless they need that protection of the den and they need their mother’s really fat Rich milk so they can grow quickly and get to the point where here pretty soon um within the next couple of weeks they’ll
Start to emerge from their ends and that Mom is going to make her way back down to the sea ice where she can eat here in spard we’ve seen average winter temperatures increase as much as 7 degrees C and that is dramatic in places I’ve spent most of my career I’ve seen
Sea ice go from being close to shore where I could see it within a few miles in a given year to now that same place that same ice is 4 to 500 Miles offshore you’re talking about dramatic change dramatic habitat loss across the Arctic one of the most important parts of a
Polar bear’s life is that maternal dining period it’s that critical time when these young cubs are at their most vulnerable so we need to learn as much about what they require uh from us in terms of a lack of disturbance um in terms of the habitat that they need to
Be successful there if we don’t have Cubs coming into the population we’re not going to have polar bears around very long so we really need to protect the mums and cubs every morning here from on out we get up pretty early check the weather and if it’s a go which today
Is a classic day of maybe we will load up uh with the search and rescue helicopter team here and we will head out to a den site to deploy cameras it’s an all day operation uh when we get back we have to get the gear set up for the next day’s deployment and
I should mention we wouldn’t be here at all without our partners at Norwegian polar Institute and our partners at San Diego Zoo who work closely with us on this Project Welcome back you are watching The Press preview still with me James rampton and Esther krau we’re going to take a look at uh the Times front page first of all in this um very worrying story about an anti-anxiety drug that has been linked to hundreds of deaths Esther take us
Into this story so prabin which is a a drug prescribed for anti-anxiety has is a very highly addictive drug and it’s apparently the fastest rising causing the fastest rising death toll of any drug in the UK um apparently U medical experts have been um recommending it or
Prescribing it because of the lack of of uh non-chemical Alternatives like therapy um which is quite strange actually because you don’t usually have medical experts going for a less conservative approach um when it comes to treatment of of particularly mental health uh issues like this and apparently it’s so addictive it’s harder
To come off um that drug than morphine and oxycodon so it’s it’s really causing a lot of concern um I mean I I obviously have always been more concerned about the medicalization of daily life and the rise and and and sort of the prescription of um mental or psychotic
Drugs um but again this is something that’s probably concerning because it’s actually extremely addictive so you have people that are just cannot come off the drug and their their physical side effects are quite debilitating yeah James the patients described the with effectes as hell on Earth yeah and the the the really
Shocking statistic here is 3,400 deaths over the past 5 years have been linked to taking this drug which is a shocking amount there 8.6 million prescriptions were given for this drug just in England in 2022 and U an expert says there’s a woeful lack of provision in Psychology
And it’s easier and I perhaps this is the key word cheaper to Chuck drugs at a patient and that’s the problem isn’t it the lack of funding uh talking therapies uh they’re known to be successful but you have to pay people and it’s very expensive to do that well I think maybe
We have to explore more creative approach like community-led approach um to to mental health I I really I’m deeply uncomfortable with this idea of someone being anxious and then chucking a pill at them I think that’s completely unhelpful I think it’s something that only benefits one one party and that’s
Probably the pharmaceutical companies I think there has to be a more uh proactive approach um to treating mental health issues rather than just throwing pills at people yes it does have to do with you know the availability of therapy and and these sorts of appointments but it also
Has to do with community and and actual people’s social support and the lack thereof um I think that’s something that’s definitely not addressed by by um taking this approach of of giving people drugs and certainly not drugs like this that are now seen to Happ so you’re
Suggesting more scrutiny of of how these drugs are of course just just more creative and proactive approaches uh to to dealing with people’s mental health issues as opposed to the the medical route which I makes me quite uncomfortable if I’m honest no I agree I it used to be called the liquid Kos
Didn’t it because it was a way of controlling people and it was much easier and cheaper but it’s you’re right we’ve got to be more creative but the problem I imagine for the NHS is that that would be more expensive and so they’re thinking you might have to Outsource it
You might have to look at different departments that can help you might have to look at I don’t know religious communities and and faith-based um approaches I mean it really has to be all hands on deck because this is completely unacceptable yeah staying in uh the field of medicine takes us to the
Front of the Observer and a story about children and Asthma drugs that have been prescribed to them causing uh side effects I mean the two very strong uh anti-drug stories really on the front pages of these papers and this is also very shocking that’s an overused word in
Journalism but it really applies to this Monty lucast um this drug that’s prescribed for children with asthma apparently has these very serious in some cases not in all very serious side effects including night terrors depression and in rare cases hallucination or suicidal behavior and
This is a report from the MH so a very respectable body is saying that it’s reviewing it because it has further concerns about it and it does make you very alarmed that um so many children have been prescribed this some children have even been reported attacking family
Members when on this drug so it’s obviously got potentially very very grave side effects and again it clearly needs looking at and possibly regulating because it you know the first line of the hypocritic oath is first Do no harm and this drug appears to be doing serious harm to children es the UK
Action Group are calling for more prominent warnings yeah I mean the difference I think with this and the previous story is obviously asmo is a biological um and condition you have to treat it with with drugs I mean you could talk about air quality and the
Fact that in in a city in in a cities air quality has gotten worse so you see the the rate of asthma amongst young children has has has worsened um but this is clearly very concerning I mean this drug looks to have quite serious halogenic effects um so you have to
Question you know the extent to which it was tested obviously you can’t test on on on children that would be immoral but but you know you do question the extent to which this was tested because for for parents um to think that their their children are getting uh treated for
Asthma and then they wake up with with these night terrors depression and in rare cases suicidal Behavior it’s deeply concerning so obviously this is something that will make um the industry sit up and and look at their um practices indeed uh now to something completely different front page of the
Star um a mayonnaise addiction well if we’re on the subject of Health we do we were talking earlier what is the health effect of uh being addicted to uh mayonnaise and getting through three bottles A Week having said all that and the caveats about the possibly disastrous effect of eating so much of
That um I sort of there’s something I love about the Daily Star when the world is in complete crisis many many parts of the world are on fire they have a story about someone who they’ made up a word mayo holic and I love the detail that
She Smothers it on curries and porridge everyone will go that’s disgusting but it it’s a bit it’s adding to the gayet of Nations isn’t it it’s a bit of fluff it’s a likeness perhaps a bit of escapism from the horrors of the news exactly while the world is on fire let’s
Celebrate someone whose taste buds clearly are not working whatsoever anyway I wish this young lady all the best well they can’t work because they only taste their Esther and James thank you very much for taking us through the papers we see you in the next to let’s
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