gb news. >> 930 on tuesday, the 30th of april. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> good morning. so, breaking news as we come on air. a critical incident has been declared in hainault, north—east london, amid reports of several being stabbed at a station. the area's mp, wes streeting, has said. >> so we'll bring you the latest on that and don't send them back. the row over returning migrants to the uk from ireland is gathering pace, as the irish government now announces emergency laws to return the migrants to the uk and scotland's uncertain future. >> the search is now underway for the next first minister, following humza yousafs dramatic resignation. but what does it mean for the snp's dream of independence and a royal recovery? >> king charles to return to pubuc >> king charles to return to public life today as the king,

alongside queen camilla, will visit a cancer centre, meeting patients and staff and migrants missing in the uk. >> a government report has revealed that the home office has lost contact with more than half of migrants that were set for deportation to rwanda. so that the king's visit . so that the king's visit. >> great, and it's going to happen right in our lifetime. so stay tuned to us. we're expecting it well, in about an hour and a half. yeah. and i think it's fabulous interesting that he's going to a cancer centre because we know what's happening with catherine middleton in his own battle with cancer will be supported by queen camilla. >> and of course, that breaking news this morning about the stabbings, here in the south of england this morning, hainault area. the footage is pretty dramatic. we're working out at the moment what we can and can't show you of that event. gbnews.com/yoursay is the message board this morning to let us know all of your

thoughts. first, though, the very latest . news. very latest. news. >> good morning. it's 932. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom . we start with some newsroom. we start with some breaking news. the man has been arrested after a critical incident was declared in north—east london, with reports of several being stabbed at a station. hey north mp wes streeting posted on x, saying a critical incident had been declared in hainaut and that there are station and road closures in place. the met police also confirmed they were at the scene and that a man has been arrested . the government been arrested. the government says it's trying to find missing asylum seekers after a report revealed that more than half of the illegal migrants set for deportation to rwanda cannot be located by the home office . located by the home office. according to the figures, just over 2100 identified for removal can be located out of 5700 asylum seekers. all had been

told their asylum claims were inadmissible, but more than half have now stopped reporting to the home office health secretary victoria atkins told gb news the home office will find them and flights will get off the ground . flights will get off the ground. >> we know that the home office has identified the cohort of the first cohort of people that are to be removed to rwanda. now that we've passed the act, it's important to understand not there are different arrangements for different people. so, for example, some people are detained, others are allowed to live with friends or families, but they should be reporting in to the home office regularly so that they keep that relationship up. now, of course, the home office will be checking these people and will be finding these people. it is hard grind, but we have passed this piece of legislation this week. that is good news. we know that it will begin to have a deterrent effect and we will and we will get the first flights off the ground within weeks. >> now, nominations are now open

in the snp leadership contest and senior figures are backing former deputy first minister john swinney for the top job. it comes after humza yousaf stepped down and admitted he underestimated the level of upset he would cause by cutting political ties with the greens. he'll continue in his post until a replacement is found . and for a replacement is found. and for the latest story, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen, or go to gb news .com/ alerts. now it's back to andrew and . bev. to andrew and. bev. >> for good morning, this is britain's newsroom on gb news with me, bev turner and andrew pierce. >> and we've got some breaking news. several people have been stabbed and injured at an underground station in north—east london, on the borders with essex. >> that's right. it happened at hainault station. a man has been arrested. mark white joins us

now to give us the latest morning. mark, what do we know? we've got two lots of footage. this is the pictures from outside the station. and there are also pretty shocking images of events around a housing estate that i think is probably a short distance from this station. do we have any idea how many people have been injured? mark >> well, we can't confirm at this stage that multiple people have been attacked and injured in this incident. the metropolitan police has just confirmed that they received an emergency call just before 7:00 this morning to reports that a vehicle had been driven into a house in the thurlow gardens area near hainault tube station . area near hainault tube station. on arrival, they had reports that multiple people had been stabbed, and in that statement they say at this time we understand the suspect went on to attack other members of the pubuc to attack other members of the public and two police officers . public and two police officers. they say we are awaiting an

update on the condition of those who have been injured. a 36 year old man, they say has now been arrested in connection with this incident. and we've just had a statement from the deputy assistant commissioner, andy adelakun , who said that this adelakun, who said that this must have been a terrifying incident for those concerned. i know that the wider community will be feeling shock at this and alarm at this time. he goes on to say that people will want to know what happened and we will provide more information as soon as we can. he also said we do not believe there is any ongoing threat, to the wider public. we're not looking, they say, for any additional suspects and importantly, at the end of that statement, he says that they are not treating this as a terrorist incident. however what is clear is it is a very serious incident, an attack on members of the public and two police

officers that happened just before 7:00 this morning when a vehicle was driven into a house in the thurlow gardens area. police were called and told that people at that location had been stabbed as they arrived on scene. it was clear to the police that multiple other members of the public had been attacked and injured as well. they are confirming that two police officers have been attacked and injured. however, attacked and injured. however, at this stage, we just don't know how seriously injured those individuals are and we await that confirmation from the metropolitan police at some time this morning as to the extent of their injuries. but wes streeting local mp has also been tweeting this morning saying that he was aware that a critical incident had been declared and that a person had been detained and he was telling people to follow the police instructions . instructions. >> mark, do we know anything

more about the person who's been arrested ? arrested? >> all we know is that this is a 36 year old man who is in custody and important to add that the police are not looking for any other suspects, so they don't believe there is a wider threat to the public that that threat to the public that that threat has been dealt with in the form of a key suspect not in custody at this time. and importantly , i think it's worth importantly, i think it's worth stressing. they are saying they are not looking at a terrorist motivation for this incident . motivation for this incident. but as i say, clearly a serious incident . it's having knock on incident. it's having knock on effects in that area as well. of course , the area around where course, the area around where the stabbings happened at thurlow gardens and near hainault tube station , the tube hainault tube station, the tube station itself has been closed down. this is a station that is served by the central line local bus services into that busy area of east london have also been suspended and rerouted. so a lot

of disruption because all three emergency services are on scene in very significant numbers. as you would expect in dealing with what is clearly a very serious incident, that at least as far as the police are concerned, has been dealt with in the initial threat stage that has been dealt with. but of course , we're now with. but of course, we're now into what is a much more protracted operation in terms of trying to establish exactly what happened, making sure that all those that were injured will have been taken to hospital and are receiving the appropriate care. >> okay. all right. thank you. >> okay. all right. thank you. >> do we know how if any of them are seriously injured? mark, do we know much about the condition of the people who were stabbed ? of the people who were stabbed? >> well, the metropolitan police say they are working on that. as you can understand, we are still in the early stages of this incident. andrew they have confirmed, as i say, that multiple people , both members of

multiple people, both members of the public, it seems that the scene where that car collided with that house in thurlow gardens in that area, but then it appears that this individual went on to attack other people, including, as i say, two police officers. so obviously a great deal of concern because i should add some of the detail that the metropolitan police have confirmed that this suspect was wielding a sword, and it's believed that it was a sword that was used to attack those members of the public and indeed the police. and that video that you alluded to, bev, that we've seen as well, does show a man carrying what is clearly a long bladed weapon in, in and amongst the houses in that area . the houses in that area. >> it's, and as you say, we're in these situations , it's very in these situations, it's very sensitive in terms of what we should or should not show you what we can and can't show you. but just to give you an idea,

it's a white male, as we've heard, 36 years old, he's wearing a yellow hooded jumper, and he has, as mark described , a and he has, as mark described, a very, very long sword. and he's in a housing estate knocking on doors, crouching down under windows, mopping his brow. he's clearly agitated. and there's one really shocking , scene of one really shocking, scene of a paramedic wanting to get to somebody that's lay on the floor with the. the attacker stood nearby by and the paramedic bravely edging forward to try and get to the individual on the ground. but as we say at the moment, obviously it's a developing story. somebody has been arrested and we will bring you any more as we know it and thank the lord for that. >> someone's been arrested, right. >> thanks so much, mark, now moving on to another topic. the row over returning migrants to the uk from ireland is gathering pace. >> i think it's ironic. >> i think it's ironic. >> this last week we saw, of course, violent protests in ireland against the rising number of asylum seekers who were crossing the border from northern ireland into southern ireland because, they say they don't want to go to rwanda.

>> that's right, the irish government has announced emergency laws to return them to the uk, saying the increasing numbers were of course down to the rwanda plan. the uk government has said it won't accept any returns until the eu wide asylum rules are changed. >> well, gb news northern ireland reporter dougie beattie joins us now. dougie there's a huge irony here, isn't there, because the great fuss that was made by the south of ireland about not having a militarised border of any form between north and south after we left because of brexit, which is why now, of course, these migrants can simply cross from north to south and stay there. so they're almost hoist by their own petard in these southern ireland politicians . politicians. >> yeah it is. i thought you've hit it in the head. it's a total lack of political foresight here. i mean, i was in brussels in 2017 when those negotiations were going on, and leo varadkar quite clearly said not one camera on the border and he

wasn't being offered a militarised border, he was being offered an electronic border, a smart border. he was, he told the waiting press, that this was unicorn thinking and it wouldn't happen. now, who would have thought all these years on that? of course, the rwanda bill would come in and immigrants that are awaiting to get a placement in the uk would then decide to go into the republic of ireland, because , of course, the republic because, of course, the republic of ireland's courts have ruled that the rwanda bill is not legal. it's not right. and they then say that the uk is no longer a safe place for immigrants. and helen mccarthy , immigrants. and helen mccarthy, the justice minister, last, last saturday or last friday, said in a ruckus, committee when she was questioned how many of these people were coming from northern ireland and without any facts or figures , she chirped up and said

figures, she chirped up and said about 80, which of course , of about 80, which of course, of course caused a huge political rhi. so they're going to debate this today and that will be around legislation on rwanda and the common travel area, which would have to go through the doyle, the parliament in the repubuc doyle, the parliament in the republic of ireland, and of course, sinn fein are the biggest party in the republic of ireland. and they have already called the rwanda bill a horrendous bill. so in order to put them back into the uk, they would then have to drop that statement and rule that rwanda was a safe place to be. meanwhile, the border here is people are leaving , there's no people are leaving, there's no doubt, but it is not in the in the scale that they're saying. for the last two years that i've been with gb news, i have been in the republic of ireland on many occasions. i have seen these tented villages. i have also been with the people of the inner cities of dublin who were

protesting for two years about the amount of social housing that was going straight to immigrants . and that really immigrants. and that really comes because across the uk and ireland, not only do we have a common travel area, but we have a non—contributory welfare state. that means immigrants will automatically aim for the uk or ireland because you don't have to pay into the welfare state in order to get the benefits out of it. include health and that is what is attracting immigrants to the uk and ireland and the common travel area that exists, of course, is encouraging them to go across this open border that the republic of ireland asked for and meantime and this is the big thing this week at newtownmountkennedy , which is newtownmountkennedy, which is a very beautiful area of ireland. i mean, ireland is a very modern country. its people are very liberal and an asylum centre was being set up in newtownmountkennedy in amongst a very quiet community and they

protested against it. and the garda siochana, the police force for the republic of ireland, opened up. and those protesters with pepper spray and riot squads and that has really sparked this. where are we up to the top of the news agenda in the top of the news agenda in the republic of ireland? okay >> all right. thank you dougie dougie beattie there. >> and the irish government can pass whatever legislation it wants. the british government are going to say they're not coming back, because france won't take back the ones they send across the channel eu countries will not take them back. so why should we? >> what a mess. i think it's fantastic. an emotional humza yousaf says he's quitting to help, yeah. anyway don't go anywhere. gb news

welcome back to britain's newsroom on gb news. keep your messages coming this morning. gbnews.com/yoursay >> well, they've got a big race

now to succeed to replace humza yousaf as the first minister of scotland, who barely lasted a yearin scotland, who barely lasted a year in power. >> he admitted that he underestimated the level of upset idiot. that's quite an underestimation in itself, isn't it? >> i didn't know they'd be upset when i sacked them publicly at seven in the morning, after the snp leader had avoided two no confidence votes after controversially breaking the party's power sharing deal with the scottish greens . the scottish greens. >> that's the bit that was amazing that he thought i can just pull out of all the green stuff with the greens and they're going to be okay. >> and then he said, oh, i didn't know i was going to upset them that much. >> the clue is in the name, they are the greens. >> so let's talk to kevin maher, who's a former, kevin, are you there, former labour adviser kevin maher kevin, good morning to you know, in fact, we've got stuart, sorry about this . we've stuart, sorry about this. we've got, that looks like stuart crawford to me. >> that is stuart crawford. let's talk to stuart, political commentator and former snp member stuart crawford. hello,

stuart , i'm not kevin. it's. stuart, i'm not kevin. it's. yeah. you look like stuart . yeah. you look like stuart. stuart, well go on. >> stuart isn't yousef wasn't he didn't he go because he was completely out of his depth? and isn't the problem now? how can they get someone stuart to fix it. because they're going to have to do a deal with the greens who are obsessed by all this ridiculous identity politics and gender changing, which will make it very difficult for the snp to do a deal with anybody. i'd have thought. >> yeah, i mean, the truth is that, humza yousaf should never have been in the job in the first place, and he was only, put there, you know, elevated into that position because whoever is behind the snp's agenda wanted to continue the legacy of nicola sturgeon, although in retrospect, that may have been a bit of a false move. but, humza yousaf . he never but, humza yousaf. he never looked like he was his own man and he always looked as if he was delivering someone else's agenda. and of course , that's agenda. and of course, that's always much more difficult if you don't really believe in some

of the stuff you're doing. his, sacking of the greens from his cabinet was catastrophic , and he cabinet was catastrophic, and he just obviously hadn't thought through the second and third order implications of, through the second and third order implications of , what he order implications of, what he was doing. but that's typical of the snp administration . they the snp administration. they never quite realise what's going to happen down the line. >> but stuart, it's extraordinary because i'm told that when he announced he was getting rid of them , fellow getting rid of them, fellow cabinet members banged their fists on the table in warm approval. did nobody work out that if you get rid of 6 or 7 members of your coalition, you might not have the numbers to govern? >> well, i mean , excuse me, >> well, i mean, excuse me, they're not stupid to that extent, and they must have known that this sort of thing would happen. >> but obviously they underestimated the reaction from the greens. what they're now trying to do is stay. snp is now trying to do is stay. snp is now trying to do is stay. snp is now trying to stay in power , which trying to stay in power, which is why humza yousaf has not resigned. he's just indicated

that he will resign, which is he's likely therefore to avoid the vote of no confidence in him personally because he's going anyway. but they're not going to be able to avoid the vote of no confidence, tabled by the labour party in the scottish government as a whole. so we've still got that hurdle to overcome and the whole thing's a mess. and there's i mean the, the, the truth is that the snp talent poolis truth is that the snp talent pool is actually more like a post april shower puddle . and post april shower puddle. and there are only two contenders, as you probably know, or two realistic ones. john swinney and kate forbes. john swinney was described to me this morning as yesterday's man for yesterday's party, which i thought was very apposite, and kate forbes, because of her socially conservative views, doesn't have the depth of support, that she would need to have a majority in the scottish parliament. >> okay. thank you so much, stuart, political commentator,

former snp member stuart crawford there, right. definitely not a former labour adviser. your messages coming in, won't you, gb news. com forward slash your say. my name is bev turner. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hi there. good morning. welcome to the latest update from the met office for gb news sunny in the east today , but sunny in the east today, but cloudy and breezy in the west with showery outbreaks of rain. the rain persistent first thing across northern ireland into parts of southwest scotland, west wales and the southwest of england . some heavy bursts and england. some heavy bursts and as the morning continues, that rain doesn't move along very quickly, so we'll stay damp across western areas, but the rain will tend to fragment into showers across parts of northern ireland, west wales and cornwall later on. meanwhile, it stays sunny out towards the east. 1 or 2 showers in the far east, but

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channel. it's 10:00. what channel. it's10:00. what date is it? tuesday, the 30th of april. this is britain's newsroom on gb news of me, bev turner and andrew pierce. >> breaking news. a critical incident has been declared in hainault in north—east london, amid reports of several being stabbed at a station, including police officers. the area's mp, wes streeting, has been tweeting about it and migrants gone missing. >> a government report has revealed that the home office has lost contact with more than half of migrants that were set for deportation to rwanda .

for deportation to rwanda. >> a big statement here, the national health service, is saying that sex is a biological fact in changes that will see trans women banned from female wards and a happy story, a royal recovery. >> king charles is to return to pubuc >> king charles is to return to public life this morning . the public life this morning. the king will be alongside the queen at a cancer centre that centre that's going to be live during our show. don't go anywhere. >> and that breaking news that 36 year old has been arrested. we've seen footage of somebody brandishing a very, very, very long sword and reports that two police officers have been injured. so that's pretty serious stuff going on down there in hainault in essex. >> keep your messages coming this morning. gbnews.com/yoursay. first, though, the very latest news with sophia wenzler.

>> bev thank you. good morning. it's 10:01. i'm >> bev thank you. good morning. it's10:01. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom . police say in the gb newsroom. police say a man with a sword has been arrested after several people were stabbed in north—east london. the met police says officers were called just after seven this morning after reports of a vehicle being driven into a house. police say the attacker then stabbed members of the pubuc then stabbed members of the public and two police officers with a sword . the 36 year old with a sword. the 36 year old man was arrested at the scene and he is in custody. police do not believe the attack is terror related. the government says it's trying to find missing asylum seekers after a report revealed that more than half of the illegal migrants set for deportation to rwanda cannot be located by the home office, to according the figures, just over 2100 identified for removal can be located out of the 5700 asylum seekers, all had been told their asylum claims were inadmissible, but more than half

have now stopped reporting to the home office . health the home office. health secretary victoria atkins says she told gb news the home office will find them and flights will get off the ground . get off the ground. >> we know that the home office has identified the cohort of the first cohort of people that are to be removed to rwanda. now that we've passed the act, it's important to understand not there are different arrangements for different people. so, for example , some people are example, some people are detained, others are allowed to live with friends or families. but they should be reporting in to the home office regularly so that they keep that relationship up. now, of course, the home office will be checking these people and will be finding these people. it is hard grind, but we have passed this piece of legislation this week that is good news. we know that it will begin to have a deterrent effect , and we will and we will get the first flights off the ground within weeks . within weeks. >> meanwhile, ireland's department of justice is standing by claims that 80% of

asylum seekers are coming into the country through northern ireland. it comes after refugee organisations questioned that figure released by the country's minister for justice. figure released by the country's minister forjustice. ireland's minister for justice. ireland's deputy premier, micheal martin, had said it was not based on evidence, statistics or data. however britain's northern ireland minister said the uk's new rwanda deterrent is clearly working . nominations are now working. nominations are now openin working. nominations are now open in the snp leadership contest and senior figures are backing former deputy first minister john swinney for the top job. it comes after humza yousaf stepped down and admitted he underestimated the level of upset he would cause by cutting political ties with the greens. he'll continue in his post until a replacement is found. meanwhile former msp for south scotland region michelle ballantyne questioned john swinney's authenticity . swinney's authenticity. >> are we getting the true john swinney, you know, is was john swinney, you know, is was john swinney merely playing whatever

game was in front of him to keep his position in the party? and i think there's a few people would would be uncertain now. and i think if he does, if he does pull through and become leader again, because this won't be the first time. remember he he was leader once before and it wasn't a great success. and he's been interim leader before. but if he does come, this may be as a chance for him to say, this is what i believe and this is what i stand for, and we might see the true john swinney in terms of what he believes in. >> in other news, hospital patients in england will have the right to request to be treated on single sex wards under proposed nhs changes with transgender people placed in rooms on their own. the measure is part of plans by the government to update the nhs constitution on. the proposal stressed the importance of biological sex for the first time when it comes to same sex accommodation and intimate care. currently, the rights are only available where that's possible

and in the case of same sex wards, can be breached if there is clinical urgency . police is clinical urgency. police investigating the discovery of a headless torso at castle dale have named the victim after more body parts were found. 67 year old stuart everett. severed body parts were scattered in four different locations across greater manchester. it comes after two men appeared in court charged with his murder , and charged with his murder, and king charles will return to official public duties later today for the first time since being diagnosed with cancer. he will visit a cancer treatment centre alongside the queen to meet medical specialists and other patients. the monarch has been receiving care as an outpatient since early february, andifs outpatient since early february, and it's understood the warmer weather would allow events to be staged outside and lessen the risk posed by other people . and risk posed by other people. and for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go

to gb news. com slash alerts now it's back to andrew and . bev. it's back to andrew and. bev. >> 10:00. with britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> so breaking news this morning . several people have been stabbed at hainault underground station in north—east london. >> police say the attacker stabbed members of the public and two police officers with a sword. a 36 year old man has been arrested at the scene, is in custody . our home security in custody. our home security edhon in custody. our home security editor, matt white, joins us now to give us the latest mark. this sounds incredibly serious. >> yes, indeed. it happened just before 7:00 this morning. the metropolitan police said they received a 999 call reporting that a car had been driven into a house in the thurlow gardens area, not far from hainault tube station. that report also suggested that people had been stabbed at that scene. now the

police said that when they arrived on the scene, they were then aware that other members of then aware that other members of the public were attacked and injured by this suspect, including, they say, to police officers, they are waiting at the moment for updates from the hospital on the conditions of those who were injured. but we know, according to the metropolitan police and indeed there is video that is circulating, we're waiting to get that video out to you once we've just blurred the image of the alleged attacker. now that this case is active, we have to be careful with what exactly we show. but that does show an individual carrying a long bladed weapon. it appears to be a sword, which is indeed what the metropolitan police said that the attacker was armed with in this incident this morning. now, it happened not far from hainault tube station, a station served by the central line that station, as you would imagine,

is closed. severe disruption in the area as well as to bus services and traffic going through this busy area of east london. >> mark, when you hear terrible things like this, people instantly think , rightly or instantly think, rightly or wrongly, is it terror related? the police advice is that's not the case. >> yes, police are were very quick to say that this is not an incident that they are treating as a terrorist incident . they as a terrorist incident. they also believe that there is not a wider threat to the public. they are not looking for any other individuals other than the alleged attacker who is a 36 year old man in custody at this stage, i should say we just had a statement from the london mayor sadiq khan, who says i'm absolutely devastated by the news from hainault this morning. he goes on to say i remain in constant contact with the commissioner , and a man, has

commissioner, and a man, has been arrested and the area secured . the police are not secured. the police are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident, that they said that there will be additional police patrols in the area as a reassurance measure. you always see that after these very serious incidents where police will, add extra reassurance patrols in an area, he said that the police officers and emergency services showed the best of our city running towards danger , to running towards danger, to protect others. and he said that he thanked them and indeed, members of the public with the bottom of his heart so that a statement from the london mayor, sadiq khan. >> okay. thank you. mark, we've got another statement here. this is from the deputy assistant commissioner, ade adelekan , who commissioner, ade adelekan, who released a statement. this must have been a terrifying incident for those concerned . i know the for those concerned. i know the wider community will be feeling

shock and alarmed. people will want to know what has happened, and we will provide more information as soon as we can. we do not believe there is any ongoing threat to the wider community. we are not looking for more suspects. this incident does not appear as mark said to be terror related . be terror related. >> can't imagine it, can you? >> can't imagine it, can you? >> are you going to work? 7:00 a lot of people going to the tube station to go into central london on hainault. >> kids waking up to go to school? yeah, absolutely. >> on their bikes. people on the paper around and suddenly, yeah, this happened. a car driven into a house at speed. and then, a sword wielding this is it's appalling. and you think you think it's not going to happen to me ? it's not going to happen to me? it's not going to happen in our area. >> residential area. yeah. this footage, it seems, from two sites, which is the tube station that we've been showing you, and then also at a housing estate, and it looks like the perpetrator is going from door to door with a very, very long sword, not a knife. it's clearly a sword. there's one shot which shows a paramedic standing over

a body that isn't moving on the floor. we don't know the condition of that person and edging towards to try and give medical assistance whilst the attacker is stood nearby. i mean, just just remarkable bravery from that paramedic. >> and it reminds you, doesn't it? we often criticise the police as well, don't we? because, they screw up sometimes, but we forget we, we should never overlook that day in, day out, every hour of every day. they're doing extraordinary job and putting their lives at risk. and we've seen two police officers have been injured in this attack. we don't we don't know their condition yet. and we'll get we'll find out as as the news comes our way. >> that's right. and we're hoping to talk to an eyewitness, at just a moment. but as we say, at just a moment. but as we say, a man has been arrested , it just a man has been arrested, it just feels like andrew, doesn't it? so many times we are talking about knife attacks on air, on air. it happens live. >> breaking news. the shocking onesin >> breaking news. the shocking ones in nottingham, where the teenagers were murdered. yeah, was while we were on air. >> and in fact, that's. that story is on the front page of

the papers this morning because grace o'malley, of course, she was the beautiful, young, successful , accomplished young successful, accomplished young woman who lost her life on that day. and her parents are supporting a campaign to give a george cross posthumously. for this girl. now, she , of course, this girl. now, she, of course, went in to help him, and she was stabbed 23 times. that's right. >> she could have run. yeah, but she intervened to protect her friend. and he. it was a frenzied attack against her then which lasted 30s. she was stabbed 23 times and of course, lost her life . it would be some lost her life. it would be some small comfort, you might argue, to give her the george cross. it's the highest military. it's the highest civilian bravery award. i don't is it appropriate ? >> 7. >>i ? >> i personally don't think in the case of the beautiful loss of grace o'malley, i don't think that the george cross would be appropriate under these circumstances. i think there should be possibly some other sort of posthumous award, but

she obviously behaved in a way that was brave . and defending that was brave. and defending her friend barnaby at the time . her friend barnaby at the time. she loved her friend, but i think that is a very different acts of impulsive bravery compared to somebody that we've seen that the london bridge terror attacks. yeah i don't believe that those people who who reprehended that man on that occasion, they didn't get it. >> and if you if you go back to 19705, i >> and if you if you go back to 1970s, i think we talked to him on this programme. princess anne's bodyguard, who took a number of bullets for the princess who was when there was an attempted kidnapping in the mao , if they dragged open the mao, if they dragged open the car door. and of course, we shouldn't forget that the nhs got a george cross. yeah. after covid. yeah. and the island of malta got the george cross from george vi because of the three year siege where they were nearly starved into submission by the germans. and the king said, and actually, when i was in malta a few weeks ago, they're very proud of that. george cross, very proud of it. and there's a little museum and the note from the king is there. yeah, but but the point we're

making bears making is knife crime. so much of it, it seems to happen so often. i can remember talking to the chief constable of, liverpool many years ago, and i was on the daily telegraph and he had those, scanner scanners , which those, scanner scanners, which you have at an airport outside some schools and nightclubs , some schools and nightclubs, because knife crime is becoming such a problem. well, it is there's quite a few schools now in london that have, scanning machines , metal detectors machines, metal detectors outside of schools. >> what have we done ? right. >> what have we done? right. still to come this morning, only a 10th of schools have banned mobile phones despite government pressure. but should parents back the prime minister's crackdown on social media use for the under 16 seconds? >> yes. well, particularly when you consider the store in the front page of the of the mail today, what does it say? all schools warned, all schools have been warned by the national crime agency. they've warned every primary school and secondary school teacher in britain that children as young as five are at risk of being blackmailed by with intimate pictures online. how a five year

old's getting caught up in this web and these gangs are operating in asia and africa, so they're beyond the reach of the police. and that's mercy. should these kids have access to the internet on their phones? why does a five year old need to be able to look at images on his or her phone? why can't they just have a phone where they can ring mum or dad? >> well, at five you don't really need to ring. you don't even. of course, you're not even stood at the bus stop. you shouldn't have a mobile phone at five years old. my opinion. and i don't think many do it well. i think the statistics actually is quite. >> i think it's going up a high proportion now, but this sextortion epidemic, as the mail have called it, there have been teenage boys particularly who've taken their own lives over this. they've been, conned into passing over naked pictures of themselves to somebody online who's pretending to be a girl, maybe, or pretending to be another young man. and then the people who've got those images then threaten to release those images to family and friends unless they pay them money. and in some instances, those poor teens have taken their own life. >> and you might think how could

the kids be so silly? but they are children. that's what they are children. that's what they are at 16. and remember, just a few weeks ago, a conservative mp had the whip removed because he was sharing intimate photographs of his body with a complete stranger he met on a gay dating website. so, i mean, no wonder kids are getting caught up in it. >> absolutely right. keep your messages coming this morning. gbnews.com forward slash your say. don't go anywhere quick break. this is britain's newsroom on

gb news. >> it's 1019 with britain's newsroom on gb news. with andrew pearson. bev turner. we've got our panel here. political senior political editor nigel nelson and the conservative peer lord corbett. ranger, i want to talk to you chaps. this is terrible. what's happened? yes. and we're especially concerned , well, for especially concerned, well, for people we know are injured, including two police officers. >> nigel. yes. i mean, the one thing we also know, it's not terrorism. yes. which is always the fear in situations like

this. but once again, we have in london a really brutal knife crime. in this case, it seems to be from what we can gather, a sword crime. but either way, i mean, it's the kind of thing that we've been beset with in london constantly. yeah, i'm not sure how what you do about it. i mean, it's not like guns where you can crack down on them if you can crack down on them if you haven't got if you haven't got an access to , say it is got an access to, say it is a sword. you would have access to a variety of other bladed weapons . and so i don't think weapons. and so i don't think i think that the culture has to change rather than dealing with the things themselves. >> just looking at the figures for last year, the number of knife or sharp instrument offences . this is from the house offences. this is from the house offences. this is from the house of commons library recorded by the police in london, rose to 12,786 2022 2023 compared with just over 11,000 the previous yeah just over 11,000 the previous year. 13,000 knife and sharp objects sharp instrument offences. that's astonishing andrew. >> it's shocking and look, i

don't want to politicise this. this incident has just happened over a thousand a month. yeah. and my thoughts are with whoever's been injured and obviously the officers involved. but i have to disagree with nigel on this. there is things you can do . there needs to be you can do. there needs to be strong leadership from the mayor the metropolitan giving direction to the metropolitan police on knife crime. and i say this as someone who was in an administration that faced an epidemic in knife in knife crime in 2008, when boris johnson became mayor of london. and we set up specific targeted operations led by the metropolitan police to focus on cracking down on knife crime, enabung cracking down on knife crime, enabling people to hand in their weapons more education. there was an issue amongst young people with boys in schools. there are many different ways you can deal, but you have to have the focus and those numbers show a trend . andrew, that has show a trend. andrew, that has been going up and up in london and that's why the current mayoral candidate from the tory party, susan hall, is so vocal about the issue of policing and

cracking down on these issues. if she becomes mayor it's still called, isn't it, nigel? >> it appears for some young men in our inner cities to have a blade , a knife. yeah, yes, a lot blade, a knife. yeah, yes, a lot of them. and they're part of the gang culture, part of the gang culture. somehow wean them off the idea. it's cool if you're caught with one. you should be locked up. >> well, i mean, whether or not, i mean, the sentences are quite steep at the moment. anyway yeah, but but i do appreciate it's sort of, you know, three times or whatever. yeah, some of these people say they're carrying it for self—defence. i think that calvin's point of education is absolutely right. there are a number of sort of charities like saint giles trust, and what they do is that they, have an awful lot of former gang members in there who actually go to the bedside of the hospital of someone who's been stabbed. right. and then tell them how they can wean themselves off the gangs . now, themselves off the gangs. now, all of that's a bit late, because obviously, in a sense that someone has actually been attacked by that, by that stage. but that's the kind of education

and thing going on where you've got kids who have have been on the wrong end of knife crime, but have been in gangs, but have been carrying a knife, and they've been and they're then told how they can help themselves, what comes out time and time again when you listen to perpetrators or victims of knife crime , is how frightened knife crime, is how frightened they are just with daily life just going about their business, whether that's going to school or going to sign on or whatever it is that they do with their day, they're frightened of other gang members. >> so they carry a knife to protect themselves. then circuit, isn't it? and they say, i heard someone being interviewed the other day who was a perpetrator of knife crime, and he said, i wanted to go into prison because i felt i'd be safer in prison than i would waking up every day on the streets of london and which i lived. >> it's shocking to hear that. and again, you have to start early on this. we faced a challenge. i don't want to keep going to 2008, but there was a wonderful man who recently passed away. ray lewis, in fact, will be going to a memorial service next week like he had

done so much work with young men, young black men who needed role models to stay away from the gang culture, to get, not get involved in that knife crime world, that machos men, the fear. and there are things like this that you need to do and you need as a the mayor needs to do the metropolitan police need to do to get involved early. >> if you're an 18 year old and you're involved in knife crime now, you were five when this conservative government came to power. yeah >> no, look, it's an ongoing ability. >> do the conservative administration take for the state of our teenagers? >> i think there's an issue about london and then there's an issue nationally . i about london and then there's an issue nationally. i think london issue nationally. i think london is an outlier in a lot of these issues. and you know, we could talk because this issue has happenedin talk because this issue has happened in london, although we don't know the details about this, but we do need to have more role models. we do need to start earlier to helping avoid the case of the gangs, avoid the fear culture, avoid the spreading society that says i feel scared to walk down the street. it's a role for the metropolitan police. yes, it's a role for our politicians , and role for our politicians, and it's a role for those community leaders as well. >> and the schools as well.

>> and the schools as well. >> we also haven't. >> we also haven't. >> we also haven't. >> we wasn't there a mistake covid for just closing down youth clubs? wasn't that a problem ? we have children, problem? we have children, swimming pool, playing fields , swimming pool, playing fields, people give them things. >> someone to go get them away from the digital world. yeah, yeah. >> give them something to do after school instead of hanging around in a gang. that's right. and then getting drugged sucked into a knife and drug crime. >> yes. and the county lines, you know, the emergence of young people being used as mules in those drug environments . this is those drug environments. this is all linked together, and we must focus on it . focus on it. >> all right. >> all right. >> we should talk about segways into this extraordinary story on the front of the sun. nigel. lovely. grace o'malley. kumar who was killed by the nottingham fanatic . here we go. fanatic. here we go. >> outside london. outside london? >> yeah, she went to his aid. but, you know, she tragically died. to the sun is launching a campaign. said she should get the george cross. she's 19. yeah. >> i think that's absolutely right. that 19 that she was an england under 18 hockey player.

she had everything to live for. the police themselves say she fought and fought and fought to save her. her friend barnaby webber webber and fail. but it sounds like on the face of it, she qualifies for a george cross. i mean, the highest civilian award for bravery . it's civilian award for bravery. it's in rishi sunak court to now recommend it. >> what do you think, is it appropriate? >> i think it is. also coming back to the point of role models. it's very important that sometimes we hold up young people who give a sacrifice like this. she gave her life, you know, defending that grace of mahakuma. that recognition is not just for her. it will obviously help her family, but it helps show young people the kind of person you can be, the kind of person you can be, the kind of person you can be, the kind of behaviour you can have, the kind of way to act in this situation. >> when i was reading about today, the terror those kids must have gone through before they died, the terror and the horror for their parents. yes, you must relive this every day. >> i don't know how a parent

gets over this. >> no, i don't, i mean, grace's parents say that it's very strange feeling that they're obviously they would like, like her to have just run away. yes. equally they're incredibly proud of her for the bravery that she showed that cost her her life. >> and of course, kalakani's sentence is up for review, isn't it, nigel? because he escaped prison? because of his mental health condition. >> he escaped murder, manslaughter, murder ? it was manslaughter, murder? it was manslaughter. he therefore. yeah, but he detained . yeah, but he detained. >> but it makes no sense because he was then convicted of attempted murder when he drove the van at those other people who ? passers by. so we got who? passers by. so we got convicted of attempted murder for that , but not murder for for that, but not murder for killing those two teenagers now held in a secure hospital. >> yeah, but also . >> yeah, but also. >> yeah, but also. >> but he means he can't have a whole life sentence, which he should have his case. >> covid was about a man who'd supped >> covid was about a man who'd slipped through the net with his medication services . he wasn't medication services. he wasn't taking his drugs. he didn't get seen during lockdowns . he had seen during lockdowns. he had paranoid schizophrenia. he just managed to escape all of the safeguards. i don't know how the

parents sleep at night, knowing how dangerous he was and how nobody was responsible for him. >> you're right, babe, i think we have to look closely. if there's another lesson to be learned about this. every time we hear one of these stories, we seem to hear that somebody got through all the all the guardrails, all the elements that should have been in place to protect us, the public, from someone like that. and these are the kinds of things you really want. you know, we hear a lot about inquiries into how things go wrong. this is something that we really want to look at and say, how do we stop this happening again? >> absolutely. yeah. couldn't agree more. right. what's your other story then? >> you've got guys smart phones , >> you've got guys smart phones, smart phones. >> let's talk about this. >> let's talk about this. >> we've seen front page news, i think today around the issue of young children being warned about sex station. they're being pulled into these, exploitation, exploitation ? yes. and it's a exploitation? yes. and it's a cover as young as five. it's shocking . andrew. it's. why have shocking. andrew. it's. why have they got a phone? well, the problem is the part of it is the device, but it's also the content , the access, the

content, the access, the platforms. there's a combination of things that are allowing children to be vulnerable and pulled into this terrible activity. so we do need to look at this carefully. i've been talking. i've spent a would you ban them for under 16, which is the proposal? i think there's a restriction. it's not about banning. firstly, i think schools, schools have to be encouraged to say a zero mobile phone policy, which most in the school environment, you know , i school environment, you know, i think that's the start. it's hard to say ban, because i think parents have a responsibility outside of school to deal with this issue. but then it's the content and the access. and again, we have to look at the platform providers and say, if this type of activity is happening on your platform, you need to do more about it to shut it down. we had the online harms bill that has been looking looked at this, but there are obviously ways and means through platforms like whatsapp and direct messaging that are enabung direct messaging that are enabling people to take advantage from other countries and target our young people. this is just the tip of the

iceberg. i think this is not something that's going to go away, but you cannot if you think how many billions of people around the world have mobile phones, it's king canute, isn't it? >> and how many billions of them have snapchat? so the teenage boy who took his own life, daniel day—lewis, he just started sixth form college. he was going to study at cambridge university and he got duped into sending. he went to whitgift school in south london, and he got duped into sending explicit images to somebody who was a nigeria , an blackmailer in nigeria, an blackmailer in nigeria, an blackmailer in nigeria . and, and he was so nigeria. and, and he was so terrified by this. nigel that he was being asked to send £100 and he couldn't tell anybody. and he said he took his own life. >> i mean, this is these are the kind of things that need to be stopped in that particular case. i think that what is necessary there is the schools deal with that. you need you need to actually tell kids, watch out for people like that who might prey on you, on the online harms bill. i don't think it went far enough. what you've got to do is

get content off that kids can access. doesn't mean banning their phones. it just means sorting out, sorting out the access. sorting out, sorting out the access . most schools now don't access. most schools now don't allow children to keep, to keep their phones in lessons or anything. not all, but most , anything. not all, but most, which when they get home. >> nigel. >> nigel. >> well, when they get. yeah, but i mean, you don't stop them are you. >> yeah. i know that's a problem in their bedrooms. >> you know, way back when we were taught about sex at school and the warnings and the challenge of sex. i think there needs to be education around the digital world in schools. that's part of the process about how to use, because you have to use the digital world, you know, to do your homework and various other things. now it's impossible to ignore, but to use it safely. and let's get those warnings in place to reassure that if something like this happens. >> and also but i think we've got these, these children have to be told if they do get duped, you're not on your own. exactly. you can tell a teacher and it's not their fault. they might be able to sort it out. >> that's right. >> that's right. >> it's not it's not shaming. it's not the end of the world.

because that's what and i was making the point earlier. you know, these these are just children make making these mistakes. we have tory mps sending all nude bits, pictures of their bits to strangers on websites. >> i don't get caught up in this too exactly. >> or duped by fraud, online fraud. there's so much that's going on and we have to educate people. >> so the reason and i'm not a big fan of banning anything, but i think when it comes to children, i am absolutely on board with banning smartphones because why we don't allow children so much access to things, which is so bad for them, and we have to make it socially unacceptable. that's the issue. so that when you're sat around a table in the same way that you wouldn't let your 13 year old light up a cigarette over the dinner table, well, you hope not. what you want is for parents to judge each other and say, why is your child on snapchat for three hours over a meal time? we need social reputational damage to come. with this. i don't listen. my kids have smartphones. i'm not preaching, you know, from the pulpit here. i make all the mistakes that everybody else does. it's very, very difficult. but even though we have restraints on their phones, they're always it's a constant moving challenge as well because

there's this emerging you know, it's emerged world of gaming online. >> and you've got also brings people together. >> you've got all this ahead of you with your with your i have i have two young children which i you know, i'm not staying up at night worrying about this, but i am looking at through the prism of being a young, a parent with young children that will go through this generation. >> and i want to let them have the freedom and the opportunity that the digital world provides, but protect them at the same time from what's happening. >> okay. thank you gentlemen, right. a lot more to come this morning, including, of course, that live visit. king charles is going to be out and about. we're going to be out and about. we're going to be out and about. we're going to see him for the first time on an official visit since his cancer diagnosis. that and much more after your morning's news with sofia. >> bev. thank you. it's 1033. >> bev. thank you. it's1033. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb news room . first, some breaking news room. first, some breaking news. a man carrying a sword has been arrested after five people were stabbed in north east london. the met police says officers were called just after seven this morning after reports

of a vehicle being driven into a house. police say the attacker then stabbed members of the pubuc then stabbed members of the public and two police officers with a sword . mayor of london with a sword. mayor of london sadiq khan said he was absolutely devastated by the attack and thanked the emergency services for running towards dangen services for running towards danger. the 36 year old man was arrested at the scene and he is in custody. police do not believe the attack is terror related. now the government says it's trying to find missing asylum seekers after a report revealed that more than half of the illegal migrants set for deportation to rwanda cannot be located by the home office, according to the figures, just over 2100 identified for removal can be located out of the 5700 asylum seekers , all had been asylum seekers, all had been told their asylum claims were inadmissible , but more than half inadmissible, but more than half have now stopped reporting to the home office nominations are now open in the snp leadership contest, and senior figures are

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gb news. good morning. welcome back to britain's newsroom. it is 1040 now. five people have been injured and taken to hospital following a sword attack in hainaut, in north—west london. >> police say the attacker stabbed members of the public

and two police officers. a 36 year old man has been arrested at the scene and he is in custody. mark white is our home security editor, joins us now to give us the latest news. mark >> well, we can now bring you images of this alleged attacker. we were waiting until we blurred that identity because the case is now active with this man in custody. but for those listening on the radio, i'll describe the images to you. it shows a man, a relatively young man. we're told he's 36, wearing a yellow top , he's 36, wearing a yellow top, carrying what is clearly a long bladed weapon described by the metropolitan police as a sword. he is in and about houses in a residential area. according to the metropolitan police's an area near thurlow gardens, which is not far from hainault tube station in east london, that shows that man with a sword. emergency services. police

officers pushing forward, trying to deal with this individual . to deal with this individual. and we know that he was arrested at the scene just minutes after this video was taken. and according to the metropolitan police, two of those police officers involved in trying to detain the suspect were injured , detain the suspect were injured, along with three other members of the public. london ambulance service confirming that they treated five people at the scene. all five people being taken to hospital. they don't have any condition updates yet. the metropolitan police are waiting to establish exactly how badly injured those individuals are before giving us more detail. we have had clearly an indication of how serious this incident is in the form of comments that are now being made by senior politicians. the home secretary, the labour leader, sir keir starmer and the london mayor. all issuing statements

this morning saying just how, shocked they are by the incident and also passing on their thanks and also passing on their thanks and appreciation to those members of the emergency services. of course , services. of course, particularly the police who pushed forward. i think it's worth bringing you a statement, though, from the local mp wes streeting, the labour politician , who has also just issued an updated statement following that earlier statement in which he spoke about a critical incident being declared near hainault tube station. he's just said, i want to thank the emergency services for their response to the horrific incident in my constituency this morning , constituency this morning, particularly the heroic metropolitan police officers who put themselves in harm's way to protect others. they are, he said, the best of us. he goes on to say, my prayers are with those who have been injured and their loved ones. and he goes on

to say, i know there will be widespread fear and alarm in the community, but the police have made an arrest and are not looking for any other suspects. i'm liaising closely with the police, the mayor of london and the london borough of redbridge, and will keep local residents updated. its causing , as you updated. its causing, as you would imagine, a great deal of, disturbing ince in the local area because, area key areas of transport in and around hainault have been badly disrupted. the main hainault tube station has been closed. that service by the central line bus services have been cancelled and rerouted . been cancelled and rerouted. traffic through that main area has been halted as well. we're in a protracted stage now from the emergency services, having deau the emergency services, having dealt with the injured , having dealt with the injured, having arrested a key suspect. it's now about a slow time investigation to establish exactly what

happened. but we understand, according to the police , that according to the police, that just before 7 am. this morning, they received an emergency call reporting that a car had collided with a house near thurlow gardens, which is near hainault tube station, that a man, an attacker, has subsequently stabbed individuals . when they arrived, they said other members of the public had been stabbed and indeed two police officers had been injured as well. and trying to arrest this attacker , any any, any this attacker, any any, any update on the extent of the injuries of the people who were hurt this morning? injuries of the people who were hurt this morning ? well, this injuries of the people who were hurt this morning? well, this is still relatively early soon after this incident. so that will come out in the fullness of time. of course, people are anxious. i mean, what the police will say is that those who have been caught up in this, their loved ones, have been informed, so we await, as i say, any

indication of how seriously injured people are. but there were in some of the video that has been circulating showing this attacker other images that showed one person on the ground with, i think emergency services personnel trying to get at this individual who seemed to be motionless on the ground. now the ambulance service are not talking about fatalities. i mean, that would come from the police anyway, but they are saying that they treated five individuals and removed five people to hospital at this stage i >> -- >> all lyman >> all right. that's mark white mark in bringing us the latest on just looking at your views coming in scott has said, i'm afraid even with metal detectors determined, a bad eggs will easily work out a way of carrying enamel blades , patting carrying enamel blades, patting down a bag. >> searches will help against that. but do we want that in our schools with all the pitfalls, pitfalls that would entail? it seems we can't win , right. key

seems we can't win, right. key messages coming in this morning gb news. com forward slash your say and the london ambulance have made a statement. they say we were called at 654 this morning to an incident near hainault underground station . we hainault underground station. we sent multiple resources to the scene, working together with our emergency services partners. we treated five people and took all five to hospital. our crews have now left the scene, so we'll keep you up to date on all of this , because we're now what's this, because we're now what's the time times come out to 1046 six. you're with britain's

gb news. well, police say the. the attacker in hainault in north—east london or essex stabbed members of the public and two police officers with a sword. five people were taken to hospital. a 36 year old man was arrested at the scene. he's in custody. >> we are joined now by former police detective chief inspector mike neville. good morning. mike

when i spoke to you last week, you described yourself as an arrested saurus, meaning that you like to see people arrested and that makes you something of and that makes you something of a dinosaur. why should it be an old fashioned concept that we can catch the baddies ? can catch the baddies? >> well, i think on this occasion i think the police have done a very good job. you know, the very, very brave to go towards to a man with a knife, and who's already wounded other people. so excellent work by the police here in detaining him. i suppose it does bring up the debate, though, about arming officers, because we saw the inspector in australia , shoot inspector in australia, shoot the knife man dead, whereas the officers here would just be would have been armed with their batons and perhaps just a taser, so, a good effort by the officers. very brave. but it does raise the questions about the dangers that police officers face. day to day. >> that's the point, isn't it? we often take for granted, don't

we? the outstanding work police officers do day in, day out when they are literally , putting they are literally, putting their lives at risk to try to keep the rest of us safe . keep the rest of us safe. >> yeah, that's absolutely it. and they're the people who run towards the danger while the people are running away. you know, police officers go on duty. they don't know what they're they're going to face, day to day. and yes, we can criticise when things are, you know, burglars aren't arrested and thieves aren't arrested. but what you see today is, is the best of british policing. unarmed officers, tackling a man who's obviously very , very who's obviously very, very dangerous for whatever reason, we're seeing eyewitness reports now appearing online, mike and one man who's quoted on a website says that there were about 7 or 8 police cars entering the road. this is the residential street that we're looking at. after about ten minutes, the guy was running towards the station and entered the road opposite the station. he tried to get into one of the

houses. he couldn't and then he was tasered. so we're having confirmation here from one eyewitness that he was tasered. and that's how they reprehended him. how many, how many , police him. how many, how many, police officers have the full training for taser ? mike, do you know? for taser? mike, do you know? and is it enough ? i think we've and is it enough? i think we've lost. we've lost mike. okay, well, that's a shame. yeah. we're just looking at this information that's coming out here because as i said earlier, there is footage of a paramedic edging towards a body on the ground with the attacker stood nearby with his very, very long sword. it looks it's almost about two feet long that that sword. >> and i don't know how much they are trained in self—defence and protect themselves, but theirjob is to make us better when we when we get sick or injured. >> and when you're watching the footage , you're crying out for footage, you're crying out for somebody to just take out the guy and put those people in a

place of safety. so if this is true, as we're seeing now, this was one eyewitness said, i walked out of the office. it was 7:00 in the morning. i heard chaos on the other side of the road. i saw a group of people, 5 or 6 of them, trying to fight off a guy who had a sword in his hand , he goes on to say there hand, he goes on to say there were about 7 or 8 police cars entering the road, and after another ten minutes, i saw the guy running towards the station and entered the road opposite the station. he tried to get into one of the houses, but he couldn't get into it, and that's when they tasered him. we saw police trying to catch him. he was trying to fight them off in a matter of 15 minutes all this happened. he was cutting people and i heard that he stabbed 4 or 5 people and we don't know the extent of their injuries, but five people were taken to hospital by the london ambulance service, including two police officers, so this is a very serious situation that unfolded today, very early in the morning as we were just getting ready to

go to work. go to school, and you always think it's never going to happen around my area. >> well, keir starmer has tweeted, he said awful news coming from hainaut. >> our thoughts are with the victims. thankful for the first responders on the scene . responders on the scene. >> so we'll bring you all the latest on this. the breaking news on the store stabbing in north—east london, after the headlines, because the time is now 1054. this is britain's newsroom on . gb news. newsroom on. gb news. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hi there. good morning . >> hi there. good morning. welcome to the latest update from the met office for gb news sunny in the east today, but cloudy and breezy in the west with showery outbreaks of rain. the rain persistent first thing across northern ireland into parts of southwest scotland, west wales and the southwest of england. some heavy bursts and as the morning continues, that rain doesn't move along very

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brighter skies emerge, some decent sunny spells for western scotland and northern ireland, and feeling warmer compared with today. many places in the mid to high teens. >> that warm feeling inside and from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on . weather on. gb news. >> breaking news day this morning. there's been this stabbing incident in north west london, north east, north—east london. sorry. we want to hear your thoughts this morning. gbnews.com/yoursay d'orsay is the email address. >> two police officers are among the five who've been taken to hospital . the man who was hospital. the man who was carrying the sword has been arrested and was tasered by the police. >> that's right, a 36 year old man has been arrested at the scene. the police say the incident does not appear to be terror related. london mayor

sadiq khan said that the police and emergency services ran towards danger. susan hall, a wannabe london mayor, tweeted this is deeply concerning and my thoughts are with those who have been injured. thank you to the emergency services for everything you do to keep people safe . let's get the very latest safe. let's get the very latest headunes safe. let's get the very latest headlines now from sophia wenzler in the newsroom . wenzler in the newsroom. >> good morning. it's 11:00. wenzler in the newsroom. >> good morning. it's11:00. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom . the government says newsroom. the government says it's trying to find. newsroom. the government says it's trying to find . apologies. it's trying to find. apologies. a man carrying a sword has been arrested after five people were stabbed in north east london. the met police says officers were called just after seven this morning after reports of a vehicle being driven into a house. police say the attacker then stabbed members of the

pubuc then stabbed members of the public and two police officers with a sword. the 36 year old man was arrested at the scene and he is in custody. police do not believe the attack is terror related. labour labour leader keir starmer says the attack is awful news. posting on x, he added that his thoughts are with the victims and he thanked the first responders at the scene . first responders at the scene. the government says it's trying to find missing asylum seekers after a report revealed that more than half of the illegal migrants set for deportation to rwanda cannot be located by the home office . according to the home office. according to the figures, just over 2100 identified for removal can be located out of the 5700 asylum seekers . all had been told their seekers. all had been told their asylum claims were inadmissible , asylum claims were inadmissible, but more than half have now stopped reporting to the home office . health secretary office. health secretary victoria atkins told gb news the home office will find them and flights will get off the ground . flights will get off the ground. >> we know that the home office

has identified the cohort of the first cohort of people that are to be removed to rwanda. now that we've passed the act, it's important to understand not there are different arrangements for different people. so, for example, some people are detained, others are allowed to live with friends or families, but they should be reporting in to the home office regularly so that they keep that relationship up. now, of course, the home office will be checking these people and will be finding these people. it is hard grind, but we have passed this piece of legislation this week that is good news. we know that it will begin to have a deterrent effect , and we will and we will get the first flights off the ground within weeks . within weeks. >> meanwhile, ireland's department of justice is standing by claims that 80% of asylum seekers are coming into the country through northern ireland. it comes after refugee organisations questioned that figure released by the country's minister for justice, ireland's

deputy premier, micheal martin, had said it was not based on evidence , statistics or data. evidence, statistics or data. however, britain's northern ireland minister said the uk's new around.a deterrent is clearly working . nominations are clearly working. nominations are now open in the snp leadership contest and senior figures are backing former deputy first minister john swinney for the top job. it comes after humza yousaf stepped down and admitted he underestimated the level of upset he would cause by cutting political ties with the greens. he'll continue in his post until a replacement is found. meanwhile former msp for south scotland region michelle ballantyne questioned john swinney's authenticity . swinney's authenticity. >> are we getting the true john swinney, you know, is was john swinney, you know, is was john swinney merely playing whatever game was in front of him to keep his position in the party? and i think there's a few people would would be uncertain now . and i would be uncertain now. and i think if he does, if he does

pull through and become leader again, because this won't be the first time. remember, he was leader once before and it wasn't a great success. and he's been interim leader before. but if he does come this may be as a chance for him to say, this is what i believe and this is what i stand for, and we might see the true john swinney in terms of what he believes in. >> in other news, hospital patients in england will have the right to request to be treated on single sex wards under proposed nhs changes with transgender people placed in rooms on their own. the measure is part of plans by the government to update the nhs constitution . the proposal constitution. the proposal stressed the importance of biological for sex the first time when it comes to same sex accommodation and intimate care. currently, the rights are only available where possible and in the case of same sex wards, can be breached if there is a clinical urgency . police clinical urgency. police investigating the discovery of a headless torso at castle dale

have named the victim after more body parts were found. 67 year old stuart everett severed body parts were scattered in four different locations across greater manchester. it comes after two men appeared in court charged with his murder , and charged with his murder, and king charles will return to official public duties later today for the first time since being diagnosed with cancer. he will visit a cancer treatment centre alongside the queen to meet medical specialists and other patients. the monarch has been receiving care as an outpatient since early february , outpatient since early february, andifs outpatient since early february, and it's understood the warmer weather would allow events to be staged outside and lessen the risk posed by other people . and risk posed by other people. and for the latest story, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen , or go to qr code on your screen, or go to gb news. com slash alerts now it's back to andrew and .

it's back to andrew and. bev. >> 1103 with britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner, thank you very much for sticking with us this morning. it's been a breaking news morning. wendy has said, thank goodness we have at least pretty strong gun laws, the carnage in our society that we did if we didn't have that doesn't bear thinking about this is of course , on a morning which is of course, on a morning which five people have been injured and taken to hospital, two of them police officers, following a sword attack attack in hainault and police say the attacker stabbed those people. >> he was. a 36 year old man has now been arrested at the scene. he's in custody. our home security editor, mark white, is on top of all this and joins us now to give us the latest mark, can you tell us any more about the person in custody? and perhaps even more importantly, how are the five people who have been hospitalised ? been hospitalised? >> well, we still await an update on those five individuals. all that london ambulance service are saying at this stage is that they treated five people at the scene, and

all five have been taken to hospital. the metropolitan police say they are still awaiting updates on their condition. we've just had a statement issued by prime minister rishi sunak, he says this is a shocking incident. my thoughts are with those affected and their families. he goes on to say i'd like to thank the emergency services for their ongoing response and pay tribute. he says to the extraordinary bravery shown by police on the scene. such violence, he concludes, has no place on our streets. sadly we know that it is commonplace on our streets . stabbing is part of our streets. stabbing is part of the everyday fabric of life. sadly, in the city of london and in other, built up areas around the country, this particular incident, we don't know at this stage what the motivation was, although the police say they are not working, on the assumption

that it not working, on the assumption thatitis not working, on the assumption that it is a terrorist related incident , that it is a terrorist related incident, and that it is a terrorist related incident , and they say there is incident, and they say there is no wider threat that they are not looking for anyone else in connection with this. and the 36 year old man on the video that we've been showing those on gb news television, outside that residential area in thurloe gardens near hainault tube station, carrying that long sword that man is now, according to police, in custody. you heard in that statement there from rishi sunak and indeed other politicians , james cleverly, the politicians, james cleverly, the labour leader, sir keir starmer, the local mp wes streeting and indeed the london mayor sadiq khan, all thanking the emergency services in the round, but particularly those police officers who pushed forward to deal with this suspect. that is neven deal with this suspect. that is never, without risk. and now we know two police officers have been injured. as i say , we await

been injured. as i say, we await confirmation on just how seriously those officers have been injured. but of course , we been injured. but of course, we understand that a taser, may well have been deployed in deaung well have been deployed in dealing with this suspect, but it's by no means, certain that the first officers on scene had access to a taser. and, of course, taser is not 100% effective. sometimes just because of the connection that the barbs make when it fires the clothing that someone might be wearing , it just doesn't connect wearing, it just doesn't connect properly and doesn't bring an individual down. clearly, even if they did have a taser, two officers here injured because the suspect was carrying a huge sword, as evidenced on the video that we are seeing there, it looks like a samurai type sword, a long bladed weapon , you can do a long bladed weapon, you can do a long bladed weapon, you can do a lot of damage with that. and indeed , some of the other images

indeed, some of the other images we've seen show one person lying. it seems motionless on the ground as members of the emergency service services were trying to push forward and deal with them at the same time as officers were trying to detain the suspect . okay. thank you, the suspect. okay. thank you, very much, mark, did you have question? >> no, i was just going to say i don't know if we've still got mark there. mark? are you still there? mark? i was just saying. i'm just looking again. we've looked at these. there's a real problem, isn't there? on the streets of london in particular with knife or sharp instrument offences. last year, 12,786, in london alone, up from 11,000. that's 1000. more than that's1000. more than a thousand knife and sharp instrument offences every single month. that is appalling . month. that is appalling. >> yeah, there is a real problem in it's become a culture of young people in particular, who carry bladed weapons every day as part of their daily life . and

as part of their daily life. and you interview them, they say, many of them, that it's for protection. but of course, you carry a weapon , then get into carry a weapon, then get into trouble. that weapon might be used. another weapon might be used. another weapon might be used against you. there is also another issue that the government and successive, politicians and ministers have been dealing with for years now, which is how to ban effectively these very large, sometimes ceremonial weapons that are easily purchased on the internet, that are purchased because people say they're collector's items and samurai swords fall into that category. so do machetes . and these zombie so do machetes. and these zombie knives, the government has passed legislation. it is clamping down on the use and the sale of these weapons, but they're still out there in significant numbers. and as dangerous, clearly , as a knife dangerous, clearly, as a knife from the kitchen is when you're deaung from the kitchen is when you're

dealing with a large bladed weapon like a samurai sword, a zombie knife or a machete, it can do so much more damage . can do so much more damage. >> all right. thank you very much, mark. there are more eyewitness accounts emerging online, one spoke to the press association this morning, and they said, i heard the words, he's got a massive knife or he's got a massive sword. and then he disappeared down an alley and he was out of sight. the police went into the alley and there seemed to be some sort of standoff where i heard this huge commotion. then a scream from that commotion. at least one person was knifed. i think it might have been a woman because i heard a woman scream, and then some sort of sobbing sounds, the eyewitness goes on. i then heard a voice say something like, she's been stabbed in the face or we need assistance. you know, calling for medical backup. terrifying we're joined now by security expert will geddes. good morning, will it or. it feels too all common that we are deaung feels too all common that we are dealing with these. oh, i'm so sorry. will, we're going to come back to you. will, don't go

anywhere because we've got this live footage. i'm so sorry. we'll get out. we've got this live footage of king charles arriving at, his event this morning. here he is. he's at a cancer centre. >> yeah, he's with the. he's with queen camilla. if you're listening on the radio, i've got to say, he's looking pretty healthy. pretty trim. he's smiling. what's she wearing? >> he looks quite lively. well it's a leopard print dress. >> maybe , from where i am, so >> maybe, from where i am, so this is the king, arriving at a cancer centre, as you say, andrew, he looks very well. let's cross to gb news. royal correspondent cameron walker . correspondent cameron walker. who is there? cameron isn't quite ready at the moment, so let's just enjoy these pictures. bev. great. oh, cameron is there? good morning cameron, we can hear you . what's happening? can hear you. what's happening? >> good morning. yes, i'm i'm stood behind the camera. bev, his majesty the king and queen as you can say, they have just arrived at the university college hospital, macmillan cancer centre in central london. it's incredibly symbolic. visit. his first public engagement,

following the positive effects of his cancer treatments. the king is patron of the macmillan cancer charity. and buckingham palace has in the last few minutes announced that he is the new royal patron of cancer research uk. that is a role he has taken over from his late mother, queen elizabeth ii, as well. now the king is keen to really highlight the importance of early cancer diagnosis and the positive effects that can have. he's also keen to be open about his own diagnosis, as we have seen since his diagnosis back in february, but also, kind of keen to support other cancer patients. and that's exactly what we are going to see today. we've just seen the king and queen entering the hospital. they are going to be meeting patients and staff , they are going to be meeting patients and staff, as well as some of the treatments which are trialled first here in central london and then are rolled out across the country. as i said, cancer research heavily involved in this particular hospital have

invested heavily in a new kind of treatment and research for lung cancer and trying to identify why sometimes that treatment stops working. they'll also be looking at the effects of something called car—t cell therapy, which is white blood cells reprogrammed to attack cancer cells. they're also going to be heading up to a chemotherapy ward and meeting patients undergoing chemotherapy, too. but i'm also told that the king is keen to point out that sometimes , yeah, point out that sometimes, yeah, it is possible to continue work with cancer. we need to remember and be cautious here that the king still has cancer and he's still undergoing that cancer treatment. but it's not for everybody . and sometimes doctors everybody. and sometimes doctors may advise that you cannot work . may advise that you cannot work. of course, we need to remember that the princess of wales is undergoing her own cancer treatment as well. but as you were saying, bev and andrew, when the king arrived, he looked incredibly happy. he was smiling and saying hello to some of the journalists here in the fixed points where i am. and the queen was looking, smiling and happy

too. so hopefully it's going to be a really positive engagement and really, optimistic step as we look towards that busy summer of royal engagements. >> okay, thank you, cameron, thank you very much for bringing us those live pictures. >> i think we're going to try rather moving to that. >> he's taking over from his mother as patron, national patron of cancer research, because of his own battle that he's having medically as his as his the princess of wales. >> yeah, absolutely . >> yeah, absolutely. >> yeah, absolutely. >> we're going to just play you the arrival once more. in case you missed it, this, of course, is the first official public engagement from king charles and queen camilla since we heard about the king's, cancer diagnosis as he's at the university college hospital. macmillan cancer centre in london. >> there he is getting out of the car. he's shaking the hand of the lord lieutenant, who is a ceremonial figure always dressed in military outfit there, sometimes female , of course, sometimes female, of course, queen camilla looking behind him

in some form of leopard print frock. >> it is from where we're sitting, but they both. >> they both look very happy. >> they both look very happy. >> a lovely day . >> a lovely day. >> a lovely day. >> yeah. they're relaxed. >> yeah. they're relaxed. >> yeah, he's. he's chatting to, waving at the crowds. there's quite a few people there , to quite a few people there, to welcome him and to wave him in. everybody looking very happy to see the king and the queen. >> lots of curtsying going on there. >> lovely. now, of course, we've we've got this, developing story this morning. we still don't know the condition of the five victims of this stabbing this morning in hainaut. we're going to talk now to will geddes again. we had to, we had to cut you off, will. but i'm sure you understand why we had to. you. i'm sure you don't mind stepping aside for king charles. right. let's talk about this commotion this morning which has been described. one of the eyewitnesses said it's a commotion on. at least one person was knifed. from what they were seeing. it was down an alleyway. we know there was some violent activity at the tube station. and then more attacks here. this is this housing

estate, which is a short walk, i believe, from the train station, it obviously is . is it unusual, it obviously is. is it unusual, will, for these sorts of attacks to happen at 7:00 in the morning? you feel like it might be a drunken event would happen with knife attacks. you think of it being more of an evening sort of crime , the police would have of crime, the police would have been caught very much off guard at 7:00 this morning . at 7:00 this morning. >> well, good morning beth. good morning. andrew, you know, to be honest, yes, the general perception is these kinds of attacks only often happen either late at night or in the very, very early hours or on weekends, for that matter. but to have these attacks underway at 7:00 in the morning during the during a week , a working week is not a week, a working week is not actually frighteningly, that uncommon . it happens quite uncommon. it happens quite regularly. and that's not just attacks of this nature. it's a robberies. it's assaults, it's rapes. they can happen at virtually any time of day . so virtually any time of day. so the police know they have to be

ready to respond to any kind of event at whatever time of day that might occur. >> mark white was talking earlier. well, i don't know if you heard it about the number of machetes and, those what are those other knives called? >> some, the samurai sword , >> some, the samurai sword, samurai swords that are still on the market despite efforts by the market despite efforts by the zombie zombie knives government to crack down. >> and of course, there lethal in the wrong hands. and i can't see why mark there will. they're even being sold anywhere . for even being sold anywhere. for what purpose do they serve? well you make a very good point, andrew. >> i mean, certainly zombie knives, you know, they've been now outlawed. you can't even acquire those. but you could potentially acquire a samurai sword or you could acquire some sort of hunting knife, for that matter. although the laws obviously on carrying a knife thatis obviously on carrying a knife that is over three, 3.5in long in the street is obviously illegal and a criminal offence, i think really it's not so much the supply of these, although that does need to be controlled. it has to come down to individuals and there being far

more harsh sentencing for anybody caught with them. i mean, as mark said in his piece, he was talking about a vast majority of people claiming and thatis majority of people claiming and that is claiming, whether we believe them or not are carrying knives for their own protection, their own defence. but the problem is, is that if one gets into some sort of event and i've, i've worked alongside knives and guns for most of my professional career. the problem is, if you have that at your disposal, you are more than likely going to bring it to bear in a situation where you feel that you are going to be a threat physically or from another weapon for that matter. >> well, we think that that the perpetrator was tasered and, well, and so it raises the question really about how many police officers have the taser training, how how common tasers are in terms of the use with the police force and whether they should be more readily available ? >> well, 7 >> well, tasers ? >> well, tasers are one of 7 >> well, tasers are one of those sort of non—lethal weapons which can work very effectively. but again, as mark was saying,

unless it's deployed appropriately and if the individual, for example, is either highly intoxicated or under the, the influence of substance abuse for whatever, whatever chemical that might be, or they're wearing clothes which are especially thick. the barbs of a taser don't necessarily make contact and don't actually give the full sort of effect of what one would need to debilitate and incapacitate , debilitate and incapacitate, obviously, an aggressive assailant. one of the things which i think is very concerning is that the actual deployment of tasers by police officers here is not really as rigorous and robust as i would like to see, as we see in other countries. so, for example, i mean, i personally and this is obviously an an innocent situation, i've actually been a victim of a taser against me to see the effects of it, to see actually what happens. and in many police forces around the world, they'll actually expect the police officers to actually experience what it feels like before they deploy it, potentially against a criminal. so again, it's about

appropriate training. and that is the key thing. appropriate training. and that is the key thing . but there's a is the key thing. but there's a bigger fundamental problem here. and that is the control of knife crime in our city. the numbers are going up every single year. and we have to ask some very pointed questions at a somewhat evasive and elusive mayor of london who is not addressing this situation head on. and that is fundamentally the problem that we have here. >> and i was just reminding, talking to to will mark white earlier, will the number of knife or sharp instrument offences, that's just the ones that they've caught in the act . that they've caught in the act. last year was just shy of 13,000 in london alone last year. that is an amazing figure and shocking frankly. >> yeah, that's 1000. that's over a thousand a month. i mean, when you think of the population that we have here, you think of the areas where knives are more likely to be presented across london and neighbourhoods which have the highest levels of knife crimes . as you know, there are crimes. as you know, there are some serious problems here that have to be addressed not only by the met's police, but very much

by the mayor. and we have to address this issue, certainly in terms of the sense of things that i mentioned. you know, there have to be very extreme penalties for people who are found to be concealing a weapon and carrying it for whatever purpose they may want a reason. >> okay. thank you. will we'll get it there, security expert. thank you for hanging on as well , we're going to be bringing you the latest on this story. if you're just joining us. five people were taken to hospital this morning following a sword attack in east london. this is britain's newsroom on

gb news. very good morning. 1124 with britain's newsroom on gb news. now, before the break, we saw the king arriving at his first official royal duty since his cancer diagnosis. official royal duty since his cancer diagnosis . yes. here we cancer diagnosis. yes. here we have the pictures of him. just film it. looking very well there. >> well, he does look well . >> well, he does look well. >> well, he does look well. >> it's the back of his head. but when he turns around in a minute, you will see that he

does look very well. we've got to the studio with us. gb news is senior political editor. nigel nelson and former adviser to michael gove. charlie rowley as well. nice to see these pictures of the king up and about charlie. >> definitely, and on the back of the news that he was resuming duties. he's looking well, he's there, as you can see, shaking hands with all the welcoming party there and it's good to see him back out and about. and i think it's something that he would be keen to do. following in the footsteps of his late mother, the queen. you know, that sense of duty obviously, throughout the whole royal family. but i think king charles in particular would have been super keen to get back to these dufies super keen to get back to these duties as quick as possible. and here he is looking in fine form andifs here he is looking in fine form and it's quite pointed, isn't it, nigel, that he's at a cancer centre. >> yes, exactly. yeah. >> yes, exactly. yeah. >> you think what's happening to him and also to the princess of wales. >> yes. and he's certainly making a point. by going there. i mean, the one thing, the one, the one good bit that's come out both from the king and from kate, is that so many people now are getting cancer checks because of it, and so he's determined to try and keep building on that good work.

hence why he's at a cancer centre today. yeah. >> we've also got the duchess of edinburgh has been visiting ukraine. this is sophie, of course. >> that's the first royal to go there since the war started. >> why significant edward. >> why significant edward. >> yeah i often make the mistake. >> yeah she is. that's edward's wife. that would be a terrible mistake to make. no, that's fergie ex—wife don't want her. >> and, i think sophie is actually a very underrated member of the royal family. i like a lot of things about her, charlie. >> yeah, i think that's right. and i think the whole focus previously has been on you know, william and harry, obviously as the grandsons of, of william and harry, obviously as the grandsons of , of the queen the grandsons of, of the queen and then obviously the kids of king charles. but since, harry is obviously, you know , moved is obviously, you know, moved out and upped sticks and decided to leave, obviously duties have had to be greater distributed. there's had to be a greater distribution of roles. and sophie has someone that's obviously been on more of the sidelines but is obviously still quite youthful . she's got a bit quite youthful. she's got a bit of a character, not unlike princess anne. i think, actually.

>> yeah, there are similarities. >> yeah, there are similarities. >> this is what what what a royal should be doing that we send politicians over to ukraine and they talk about arms shipments and, eu succession and things like that. so if you went over there, specific to talk to survivors of sexual violence through the war, or she met people who'd been made homeless by the war, and that's the kind of thing that kind of human thing is. what royals actually should be doing. yeah. >> and she doesn't crave the publicity. actually, i think with sophie, i think she sort of just being in the background for , for, for a while. >> which royal are you suggesting does crave publicity? >> well, harry, former royal, former. >> absolutely. i think he's i think he's secretly i think he thinks he's still a royal because he's still prince harry. >> and that's the difference. you know, the sort of, you know, the. and there he is, i think, that might but he's going to be here next week. >> well, will you be there with your union flag waving it as he walks into saint paul's cathedral for the 10th anniversary service of, what's this charity called? >> invictus games? >> invictus games? >> will i be there? yeah. will

you be there, charlie? >> patriotic. >> patriotic. >> the invitation might be. might be still in the post, but, depends if it's got the right stamp on or not. >> yeah, quite. >> yeah, quite. >> almost come too. >> almost come too. >> i don't think there'll be a single royal will set foot in the cathedral with him. i think it'll be on his own. >> i think on a situation like that, it is the invictus games. it is the 10th anniversary. yeah. and they're terrific thanksgiving service. so we should welcome harry. but not a hero's welcome. >> yes. and it is such a shame, isn't it? because the invictus games is blooming brilliant. what? that ceremony. what? even the opening ceremony puts the goosebumps up, doesn't it? it's a brilliant event, and it is a shame that there are no royals at that occasion because obviously when he, when he, he , obviously when he, when he, he, inaugurated this event ten years ago, the whole point was that it would be embraced by, i imagine, lots of the royal family. it's a shame, charlie, that hasn't happened. >> i think that's right. and of course, the royal family have got a history with the military, andifs got a history with the military, and it's about the military and the armed forces sort of taking up, taking part in these games. so the fact that there won't be that connection there is your

right. it's upsetting. but, you know, that's the current state of affairs. we are where we are. >> right. shall we talk about the fact that apparently calling a female colleague pretty at work is sex discrimination? a tribunal has ruled, what's this about, nigel? >> what it is that , emma nunn, >> what it is that, emma nunn, who is an accounts manager in leicester , getting 60,000 leicester, getting 60,000 a yean leicester, getting 60,000 a year, her boss sent her a text and said that would you turn up to a meeting because the customer likes pretty women? >> oh , she said, i'm not just >> oh, she said, i'm not just coming because i'm a pretty face. >> he said, oh, calm down. she took she took him to an industrial tribunal. who found industrial tribunal. who found in her favour and quite rightly, quite rightly so. >> this is about context, though, isn't it, charlie? because you could say, you know, we have sophia wenzler in the gb news room, very good at her job and also very pretty. and i feel okay saying that. but maybe you have to caveat it when it comes to women that we're not just pretty. >> well, i think i think that's

absolutely right. >> and, you know, well done to emma nana because she was absolutely right to take her employer to tribunal. i think it's actually perfectly okay. i think if to compliment somebody on their hair, if they're looking good, if they won't just say, oh, you know, lovely hair today. i love your dress, beth. i think you look stunning. as do you, andrew. always, but but but what is that? >> but what? >> but what? >> i'm too long in the tooth , my dean >> but what isn't okay is to say . oh, because you look pretty. or because i think a particular opinion i want to bring you into this meeting to either further, further your business or further income, and particularly when if it's said to a woman in this particular case, it was, but you wouldn't say it to a man necessarily. so it is the sexual discrimination. yeah. that took place in the workplace in this occasion. but i think complimenting people is and it's because i think the tribunal found but it's because you wouldn't say that about a man. >> no. like nigel, have you ever been called into a meeting? we need nigel there because he's a bit of eye candy for the ladies. >> oh. absolutely not. no no matter of time, nigel. it's only

a matter of time. >> also, i think the days have gone where people use things like. i mean, andrew and i remember from our younger reporter days when women would use their sexuality to get interviews . yes. i remember a interviews. yes. i remember a colleague of both of us, baz bamigboye , who was a he was bamigboye, who was a he was a black reporter . we were both black reporter. we were both trying to get an interview with, with elizabeth taylor . i turned with elizabeth taylor. i turned up and was refused. he turned up, dressed as the archetypal hollywood bellboy with a bunch of flowers. he did. he got the interview that was using his blackness to get an interview. >> and very clever. >> and very clever. >> it was very clever. >> it was very clever. >> it was very clever. >> it was. yeah yeah, there'd probably be an outcry if somebody tried that. >> now, even though it was very clever. >> yeah, well, of course it would be. yeah, it would probably be cultural appropriation, wouldn't it. >> absolutely. i mean, now you couldn't do it. that's the that's how times have changed. yeah. >> has anybody ever called you pretty boy? >> many a time. >> many a time. >> no. >> no. >> i've never been kissed. >> i've never been kissed. >> i've never been kissed. >> i just wonder, michael, when you worked with him, did anybody

ever call your boss michael gove, pretty boy? or is that a no obvious answer to that? >> i don't think only he can answer. he has. he has many. >> he has many strengths, but perhaps not that particularly on the eye. >> but then you could say that's very sexist of us to say that because we wouldn't talk about a woman like that, would we? >> might we might. right. >> might we might. right. >> i think i think we better wrap this up before we get into all sorts of trouble, don't you, still to come, we're going to have the latest from that breaking news story this morning, this horrific attack in east london, where five people have been taken to hospital following a sword attack. we will have some live pictures from the scene where the police, of course, are still evidence gathering that and much more after your morning's news with sophia wenzler. >> bev. thank you. it's 1132. >> bev. thank you. it's1132. i'm sofia wenzler in the gb newsroom. a man carrying a sword has been arrested after five people were stabbed in north—east london. the met police says officers were called just after seven this morning after reports of a vehicle being

dnven after reports of a vehicle being driven into a house. police say the attacker then stabbed members of the public and two police officers with a sword. the 36 year old man was arrested at the scene and he is in custody. police do not believe the attack is terror related. labour leader keir starmer says the attack is awful news. posting on x, he added that his thoughts are with the victims and he thanked first aid responders at the scene . king responders at the scene. king charles has returned to official pubuc charles has returned to official public duties today for the first time since being diagnosed with cancer. he is visiting a cancer treatment centre alongside the to queen meet medical specialists and other patients. the monarch has been receiving care as an outpatient since early february , and it's since early february, and it's understood the warmer weather would allow events to be staged outside and lessen the risk posed by other people . the posed by other people. the government has denied claims it's trying to find missing asylum seekers after a report

suggested that more than half of the illegal migrants set for deportation to rwanda could not be located by the home office, according to the figures, just over 2100 identified for removal . we are in touch with authorities. out of the 5700 asylum seekers, all had been told their asylum claims were inadmissible, but more than half have now stopped reporting to the home office . health the home office. health secretary victoria atkins told gb news earlier the home office will find them and flights will get off the ground . and for the get off the ground. and for the latest story , sign up to gb news latest story, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen, or go to gb news .com/ alerts. >> cheers! britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report , and here's financial report, and here's a quick snapshot of today's markets. >> the pound will buy you

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strong opinions on this matter. >> we'll also have katherine forster live on the scene for us. as we know, there's still a heavy police presence in the area, and we want to get more details on who this person was who carried out this attack. >> and also, we don't still don't know how seriously injured the five people are in hospital who include two police officers doing their job. >> i need to go home so much more to learn. >> these are the live pictures this morning from hainaut. i don't know this area well from piecing it together. >> it's part of the london borough of redbridge and it's sort of a suburb of ilford, really , which is why the local really, which is why the local mp is the shadow health secretary >> wes streeting and i think the tube station, from the pictures we saw earlier was beneath the bridge. it could be that we're looking there towards the tube station and perhaps the housing estate where this perpetrator was going from door to door is beyond that little further. >> but what we do know is a man has been arrested. one single man has been arrested, yes. what else we're talking about? >> of course. it's only been a

day since the first minister of scotland has resigned . and now scotland has resigned. and now all eyes are turning to wales. yes, because the first minister of wales is in a lot of hot water over a donation of £200,000 that was given to him by a man who has been convicted twice for illegal dumping of toxic materials. now he runs a company that was given £400,000 by the welsh investment bank, which was run while the person who had responsibility for it was none other than vaughan gething, the first minister of scotland . so a few years ago, scotland. so a few years ago, his bank gives 400 grand of taxpayers money to this company. thenin taxpayers money to this company. then in vaughan gething is running to be first minister and he gets 200 grand from this company. lots of allegations of crookery criminal. >> the point is, tom, the labour group that elected him leader knew all this and yet they still chose him as leader. >> only in the last few days have we learned about the

£400,000 of taxpayers money going to this person. we also do know that the convicted criminal who gave the 200,000 donation is seeking for more projects to be approved by the first minister of wales. so this all ties together. we're going to be i think he's in big trouble. he's beenin think he's in big trouble. he's been in the job six weeks and i think he could be out. he's been in the job six weeks and he this could be something that is of equivalent scale to the self—inflicted crisis that the first minister of scotland found himself in. it is extraordinary. in be the second first minister to go in, would it be second first minister go in quick succession, but yes, we're going to be speaking to a welsh journalist who has a lot of strong thoughts on this one. he's been following his rise and potential for very closely indeed. also, could king charles reunite with prince harry? that is the question on everyone's lips. i would love to see it. i would love to see it. it would be wonderful, wouldn't it? >> it would be wonderful. it would be wonderful. >> he's here. i want to fly. king charles is back in his pubuc king charles is back in his public duties. so there you go. >> they reunite. thank you very much.

>> emily and tom here from midday. we're going to bring you more this morning on the breaking news of the multiple

gb news. very good morning. it's 1141. very good morning. it's1141. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. it's been a morning of breaking news. prime minister rishi sunak has now paid tribute to the bravery of emergency services, who responded to a sword attack this morning in east london. >> five people have been injured, including two police officers, and they're in hospital after the incident in hainault in northeast london. >> police say the attacker stabbed members of the public and two police officers with a sword. a 36 year old man has been arrested at the scene and he is in custody. >> so let's talk now again to our gb news home security edhon our gb news home security editor, mark white. mark, over to you. what is the latest now? how can you update us? mark, good morning again. >> good morning. well, the very latest is that the metropolitan

police will be making a statement tonight within the next 20 minutes in hainault. chief superintendent stuart bell, who is the area commander, will be making a statement live to camera updating us on what the latest situation is and hopefully giving us an update on how how seriously injured those five people who we know were treated at the scene by london ambulance service paramedics and then taken to hospital, are their current condition updates? i mean, it may still be too early, really for much of an update on their condition, but certainly hopefully we'll get more of a picture from chief superintendent bell. there will of course. also, i'm sure , be of course. also, i'm sure, be messages of reassurance to the local community that they are not looking for anyone else in connection with this horrific incident that unfolded just before 7 am. this morning. police received a 999 call reporting that a vehicle had

smashed in to a local property . smashed in to a local property. in the area around thurloe gardens, which is not far from hainault tube station, there were reports as well of people stabbed at the scene. then when police arrived on the scene, they said the suspect went on to stab other members of the public and also that two police officers were injured in trying to arrest this man. there's more in the way of kind of video, dramatic video that has been coming out, shot by local residents at the scene . there's residents at the scene. there's one as well as, of course, the dramatic video that we've been bringing you, showing you of that suspect crouching down, with that samurai sword. it looked like it's certainly a long bladed weapon that that man was carrying. there's other images of him, appearing to be around an area of garages and lock ups, which is within this housing estate area around

thurlow gardens. on the roof of some of those garages, police looking for him. they spot him there shouting at the man to come down. he's not obeying their instructions. and then those officers are effectively screaming at residents in the area to lock their doors because the man was going into gardens, and apparently trying to get into residents houses. so the police screen being at those residents to lock their doors and stay safe inside as they continued to try to apprehend this individual, which they did do . he is in custody. this individual, which they did do. he is in custody. but as i say, not before two police officers were attacked and injured. >> okay. thank you very much, mark. and also, we just want to say a word to the police. >> amazing job doing the most remarkable job this morning. >> there's more footage now being uploaded onto social media from people who were watching, as we say, 7:00 in the morning.

people are in their kitchen, in their dressing house, putting their dressing house, putting the kettle on, and this guy is on the roof of garage is behind these houses wielding this enormous sword with the police trying to encircle him with nothing. >> and we shouldn't forget the paramedics too, because there's footage, too, of the paramedic who's trying to tend to somebody who's trying to tend to somebody who's lying on the ground. but the man with the samurai sword, the man with the samurai sword, the big the big blade is preventing him doing his job. extraordinary bravery by all of them. >> absolutely . >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> we're going to bring you the latest on this in the

gb news. so, prime minister rishi sunak has paid tribute to the bravery of emergency services. who responded to a sword attack in east london this morning. >> in a post on twitter, he added that such violence has absolutely no place on our streets. well, that's an understatement, isn't it? >> that's right. well, five people, as we've been telling you, have been injured this

morning and taken to hospital after the incident at hainault. >> a 36 year old man has been arrested at the scene and he is in custody. >> well, let's talk to anti—knife campaigner ken haynes, who is no stranger to this program. ken, here we go again . deja vu. we've had this again. deja vu. we've had this conversation with you before. i fear we'll have it yet again. how do we get these lethal knives and blades out of people's hands as a community respondent, respondent, i would like to commend those the bravery or those officers and the and the emergency staff that attended the scene. >> as i stopped preventing things from escalating. now, to get to the point about how do we stop this, you know, i keep saying when people have that readiness to have rage, there's no telling what they will do. but nonetheless, what we what we can do as a community is to be if we're in that space, is to do what the police are doing. some of us, this is what we're trained for as a as a, as street, street. further engagement, part of the street, part of engagement team. we're

the sort of people that will actually run towards the trouble and do our best to de—escalate it without without putting ourselves into , danger in that. ourselves into, danger in that. in that regard, the i was going to say, ken, we the sort of knife crimes that we think of when we think of knife crimes, we think of gangs, we think of muggings and stabbings. >> we think of night time crime. from what we can see, this looks like obviously it was 7:00 in the morning. it's a big sword and it doesn't look like it's one of those single acts of rage. this is a man who's gone from house to to house tube station, relatively calm , in in station, relatively calm, in in some of the footage, he appears to be, how how was the police ? to be, how how was the police? how do you handle a situation like this? you've got experience with the police. and how did the mindset of the officers who don't have a weapon but are trying to encircle this man? >> well, the most important

thing you can do is have that dialogue create a dialogue with the perpetrator to, to, to tell him , to assure him that no one's him, to assure him that no one's been hurt . and you know, it's in been hurt. and you know, it's in his best interest. not not to just to put the weapon down to and give himself up, to acknowledge that we can't understand what pain he may be going through . but the important going through. but the important thing is, is that we can't we can't allow him to, to go anywhere with that weapon. he needs to put it down. we need to have that conversation. and just to give him that reassurance that we're there. we're not there to harm him , but we're there to harm him, but we're there to harm him, but we're there to harm him, but we're there to safeguard everyone in that space, there's particularly when you're on arm , there's very when you're on arm, there's very little you can do. but to actually put yourself into harm's way. but without , giving harm's way. but without, giving you some space in case that he does turn on you, that you've

got an exit point to create distance between you and the person with that, with that sword, ken, we hear sometimes about boys that are carrying knives, particularly young boys. it's always boys, isn't it? almost always because they themselves feel so terrified on themselves feel so terrified on the streets that it's their only solution. how do we fix that problem ? problem? >> well, the way that you fix that, that issue is a game. we have got to change that energy in that negative space. as i said, the street engagement team , we go into these hotspot areas, in brixton, in enfield, walthamstow, wherever it may be. we are in there as a presence, as a as a reassurance present, first of all, to let the local people know that we're there. so if anything disturbance do happen, that we've got their backs, that we've, we're safeguarding them also to let the perpetrator know that we

will not allow them to go, go on the streets with their weapon. we will give them the option to either give it up to us or to give it up to the police , but give it up to the police, but it's not an option for them to continue to be on our streets with the with the emotion, with the. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. ken, >> thank you. ken, i'm >> thank you. ken, i'm so >> thank you. ken, i'm so sorry to cut you off. we have to cut you off for king charles. here he is leaving his event this morning. he's been visiting a cancer centre in london. these are the live pictures we can see. queen camilla there nodding in the sunshine, holding a little bouquet of flowers. if you're listening on the radio and they're talking to children, i wonder if these children are being treated at the cancer centre. i would think they probably are. yeah. >> all the more poignant. >> all the more poignant. >> it does make it all the more poignant. these are children outside the cancer centre in london at shaking hands, sweet little bouquets of flowers. they've given the king and his wife to . and. and the sun is wife to. and. and the sun is

shining and of course, this is his first official engagement since the diagnosis of cancer and the treatment he started. and i'd say he's looking pretty good. >> he does look well. >> he does look well. >> he does look well. yeah >> he does look well. yeah it's just nice to see the king up and about this morning. and there's queen camilla, also carrying a small bouquets of flowers . you small bouquets of flowers. you can hear the clicking of the photographers in the background . photographers in the background. >> he's waving. he's smiling. look, he's waving to the photographers. doesn't always do that, does he? he does. >> he does look very well. >> he does look very well. >> he does well. i think he's glad to be out on parade, because the whole point about monarchy visibility. queen, who has said they have to see me . has said they have to see me. hence the bright hats, the bright outfits, the bright frocks . well, camilla didn't do frocks. well, camilla didn't do badly. that's quite a nice bright frock, wasn't it? what do you call that? what would you call? >> i'm not very good at fashion. i couldn't really see. >> it looks. it's almost leopard print, but it's like a black and a and a dark sort of beige colour. if you're listening on the radio. they're shaking hands

now with members of the crowd. she's receiving a bouquet of red roses. oh, lovely. they're with the security. >> she's doing a little walkabout by looking good. >> and the sun is shining. yeah, she's getting in the car now. so, that's the official limo. and, they'll head, presumably heading back to clarence house, at and hopefully we're going to see more of him. >> well, and her. >> well, and her. >> well, and her. >> well, we've seen plenty of her and also we you know, it's worth mentioning we really would love to see the kate, princess of wales at some point as well. but obviously she's been given the space and the time that she needs to receive the treatment as a young mum, first and foremost and off they go waving. >> and of course it's the limo so you can see him and her very, very clearly. that's the lord lieutenant waving them off. that'll be sir or lord somebody or other they normally are nice to end on a positive show. >> on a positive note. emily

well .

well. >> good afternoon. britain. it's tuesday, the 30th of april. now, in the next few moments , we'll in the next few moments, we'll hear directly from the metropolitan police. following that horrific stabbing attack in hainault, london. >> yes, as it stands, we know two police officers and three members of the public have been injured. they are in hospital now. shocking footage was doing the rounds on social media showing the suspect carrying a large samurai style bladed weapon. that's how it's been described . described. >> well, the police say a 36 year old man has been arrested. but as we say, these are live pictures. now of the scene. police tape crossing that road and the station remains closed. >> yes. and it's been quite extraordinary , me seeing that extraordinary, me seeing that footage circulating. what we know is a 36 year old has been arrested a 36 year old man. but the footage was shocking . a man,

the footage was shocking. a man, the footage was shocking. a man, the suspect carrying what looked like a samurai style sword, a huge machete type weapon around what appears to be quite a quiet residence . local area, shocking residence. local area, shocking scenes. there you go. you can see a man in a yellow hoodie, prowling the streets. we know also that a car was driven into also that a car was driven into a house. >> as reported, there were reports that he was knocking on doors awaiting for people to open up and then attack, although that is as yet unconfirmed. we're expecting this police conference in the next few moments where hopefully we'll get some confirmation of many of those rumours that have been swirling around , not been swirling around, not perhaps a motive, but at least a detail on the condition of some of those people who have, sadly had to go to hospital, particularly the police officers who intervened in this incident were very anxious to hear of their condition. yes. >> how they are indeed. now lots

of our politicians have been quick