Nigel, thank you. Good evening. Will the top story from the gb news room is that gb news can reveal the number of migrants crossing the English Channel on small boats. This year has now passed 17,000, almost 500 people on board several small boats were taken to dover harbour earlier on today after arriving in the early hours of this morning. Uk early hours of this morning. Uk border force spent the day on what theyre calling red alert dunng what theyre calling red alert during whats been an extremely busy time for migrant activity. Busy time for migrant activity. A man has been arrested on suspicion of collecting information likely to be useful to terrorists following the psni data breach. The 39 year old man has been detained following a search in lurgan in county , search in lurgan in county, armagh. Hes now being questioned in belfast. Last week. The details of 10,000 Police Officers and staff were published online by mistake , published online by mistake, followed by a second breach relating to stolen documents and a laptop. A member of staff has a laptop. A member of staff has been dismissed and the metropolitan police are investigating after a number of items from the British Museum in london were found to be missing, stolen or damaged. In stolen or damaged. In a statement, the museum said this afternoon that the items included gold jewellery, semi precious stones and glass dating from the 15th to the 19th century. The museum has described them as small pieces not recently on public display and were mainly used for research and academic work. Its launched its own independent review of security following the incident. Economists say the uk incident. Economists say the uk still faces a very real risk of falling into recession, despite todays drop in inflation. The Prime Minister says todays inflation figures, which doesnt include housing costs like mortgage payments, for example, prove that the governments plan is working. A leading think is working. A leading think tank, though, has warned that Rising Interest Rates could cause the economy to contract. Cause the economy to contract. Latest figures from the office for National Statistics found Consumer Price index inflation or cpi, dropped to 6. 8 during the year to july. Or cpi, dropped to 6. 8 during the year to july. And a comedy the year to july. And a comedy show featuring the comedy writer Graham Linehan that was cancelled at the Edinburgh Fringe festival has now found a new venue Ticket Holders are going to be informed of the new location for tomorrows show shortly before it begins. Shortly before it begins. Speaking to gb news earlier on today , Graham Linehan said he today, Graham Linehan said he thought the days of comedians being silenced for their views were over. We re ove r. Were over. They could have given me a chance to exit the gig and allow the other acts to perform. They could have done it without defaming me on their Instagram Post as a bigot, which is the first thing these people always do. So, you know , unfortunately, do. So, you know, unfortunately, we are we are beginning Legal Proceedings before i go, a quick weather warning for you. A thunderstorm is set to hit parts of the uk. In fact, a yellow wind warning has been issued for the west of wales with storms expected to hit late on friday evening. Sweeping right across the country into the early hours of saturday. But it isnt all bad news. Those clouds are expected to clear in time to give us a sunny weekend. This is gb news across the uk on your tv , in your car, on your on your tv, in your car, on your digital radio, and now on your Smart Speaker by saying play gb news this is britains news. Channel well, were through 17,000 people across the English Channel people across the English Channel, so far this year. A calm day has hundreds in dover. And in a moment, well go and join mark white, who is down there in dover docks. But were literally being mocked literally being openly mocked and laughed at. Lets have a look at the series of videos on tiktok. The first one shows young men assembling near the beaches of northern france last night. Have a look at this right. So as you can see, large group of young men, not a woman in sight, not a child in sight. Large group of young men last night getting ready to cross the channel. Theyve all paid the trafficker three and a half grand here they are now on the boat somewhere on average. Now, about 65 to a boat. Here they are crossing the channel. Its thumbs up , are crossing the channel. Its thumbs up, big smile. Its grabbing day out. And now theyve been picked up by the rnli. Yes big waves. Happy as larry off to a four star hotel, three square meals a day and £40 a week, spending money. And theyre literally mocking us openly on tiktok and theres nothing the social media channel can do, even when they take down the accounts, more appear. And these are all adverts, you know , come to the uk, its easy. Its safe. Yes. The odd thing goes wrong and i just feel were being mocked. And its now over being mocked. And its now over 100,000 young men that have come. But please dont call it an invasion. Oh, no, no, no, no. If invasion. Oh, no, no, no, no. If you use that word, everyone goes potty and says extremist potty and says youre extremist and a racist these are and a racist because these are all poor suffering people. In fact , the bbc always tell us fact, the bbc always tell us these are desperate people. Well none of them in those videos looked too desperate to me. I wonder , will it ever stop . After wonder, will it ever stop . After all, the home office think it might go on for five years . Your thoughts , please. Farage at thoughts, please. Farage at gbnews. Com. Now mark white, our Home Security editor, has been down in dover docks for at least 12 hours today. Mark a red alert day for border force and the others. It was a pretty busy others. It was a pretty busy morning, wasnt it . Yes, it was with at least eight small boats coming across, nigel. And we counted some of those boats, four off the boats had upwards of 61, even 65 people on board. And thats clearly a continuation of this trend by the people smugglers to push even more people onto these boats. Theyre slightly bigger, boats. Theyre slightly bigger, theyre a bit more sturdy. But when you get numbers like that on the boats, it doesnt take much at for all that boat to get into difficulties , as we saw, of into difficulties, as we saw, of course, just at the weekend there on saturday, as we speak, there on saturday, as we speak, the french patrols are out on the french patrols are out on the other side of the channel theyre expecting the possibility that we could get an evening surge as well coming over from france. Yeah, id be surprised, mark, if we dont get boats coming this evening, because there is, in fact , some easterly wind that in fact, some easterly wind that starts to up tomorrow and starts to pick up tomorrow and onwards. Now, whats really onwards. Now, whats really interesting, theres one big change yes today was the change here. Yes today was the second anniversary of the taliban retaking kabul after bidens disastrous withdrawal. And it would appear now that not only the number of afghans that are coming across the channel, but it appears theyre winning the turf wars over in calais. The turf wars over in calais. Yes , well, i mean, i wouldnt yes, well, i mean, i wouldnt really necessarily see theyre winning the turf wars, but theyre certainly in some cases trying to take the fight to some of the Kurdish People smugglers who have really been in control of the people smuggling routes for years now. And as bizarre as it seems, i actually bumped into three iraqi kurds, all cousins. Two had come across in lorries, eight years ago, one on a small boat two years ago , that person boat two years ago, that person still waiting for the asylum process to complete. Theyve process to complete. Theyve come here for a picnic. They all live in different parts of the country. They wanted to meet up , so theyre overlooking the very channel that the public and i was asking them. They they didnt want to appear a picnic. They didnt want to appear on camera, but they were happy to chat. Camera, but they were happy to chat. And they were telling me chat. And they were telling me about the their fellow kurds, iraqi kurds, who control a lot of these camps around dunkirk and even in calais. And how increasingly they are arming themselves , that there is a lot themselves, that there is a lot of infighting thats breaking out, mainly between the kurdish gangs , disputes over them, gangs, disputes over them, undercutting each other, invading their particular turf. They, you know, jealously guard their particular patch and they are getting reports from people they still know on the other side who say that they have seen these gang masters wandering about. Now with weapons. Ive been there many times over the years. Ive been threatened twice by these criminal gangs of gang masters with knives , never gang masters with knives, never with guns. And it was only because they didnt like us filming, but it is a surprise that they are now arming themselves with weapons. But it seems , as you see, the afghans seems, as you see, the afghans who are now the biggest nationality represented on these small boats are themselves trying to get a piece of that action. Yeah, no, quite extraordinary. Well mark, i have to say, it looks more like the mediterranean than dover from the shots ive got. And, you know, quite ironic , isnt it, know, quite ironic, isnt it, really . Gunshots on really . You know, gunshots on the other side. Just a few days ago. And Illegal Immigrants ago. And Illegal Immigrants picnicking there. We are in doven picnicking there. We are in dover, quite extraordinary. Mark, you could be in for a long evening as well. I think. Thank you for your report from dover. Now, last night i talked about the fact that it was exactly a fortnight until the ulez extension comes in. Politically, its a big issue. Extension comes in. Politically, its a big issue. The its a big issue. The conservatives held the uxbridge seat in the recent byelection , seat in the recent byelection, to the surprise of many and labour hold 5 or 6 seats right on the periphery of london. This potentially is a big opportunity for the conservatives and i talked about article 143 of the Greater LondonAuthority Act and it said says clearly the secretary of state can override the mayor of london on transport policy if the secretary considers that the strategy or any part of it is inconsistent with National Policies and is detrimental to any area outside Greater London. Well, the second part of that is, is absolutely confirmed. There are so many confirmed. There are so many people with businesses in counties surrounding london that will be adversely affected by the ulez extension. The more the ulez extension. The more debateable point is what is our transport policy . But if the transport policy . But if the governments now saying that its against this ulez extension and against it happening in other cities, i cant see what the problem is. I think politically its a no brainer. The conservatives, to delay the introduction of ulez and to push it out beyond the mayoral elections next may. But i asked the question last night would they have the bottle to do it . They have the bottle to do it . Well, we have a new kid on the block. Well, hes not that new, really, but hes new to gb news. Hes a veteran, actually, and his name is christopher hope. And chris joins us as our new political editor. Chris weve known each other1 or 2 years in known each other 1 or 2 years in another. Known each other 1 or 2 years in another. Youre a man with your ear very close to these things. Are they to going pick up this challenge like this . No , no. No, no. No, no. Whats happened here is a challenge here for mark harper. Hes the transport secretary. He runs the transport network for the whole country. Hes the choice here. Should he step in and try and use this apparent legislation here in article one . Its not a parody. Well, is there . How you define there . Yes. But how you define it ive been told very it now, ive been told im very Good Authority two very Good Authority from two very Good Authority from two very good one very, very good sources. One very, very close that they close to mark harper that they have theyve have taken legal advice. Theyve been cant use this to been told they cant use this to stop mayor sadiq khan extending ulez on august 29th. Therefore, it will go ahead. But as you know, politics is a choice, nigel, and a choice of how we spend the public money. It may well be that officials are telemark harper legally you cant do it and therefore hes got a choice. Do i overrule . That may be or a direction of officials and that means he can overrule on value of money grounds and order his officials to say, no, were not going to try and challenge that in the court and test that in the court. That would be a Political Choice might delay choice to make it might delay the extension for few months the extension for a few months to hall. Shes the to get susan hall. Shes the london of the tories. London marathon of the tories. Shes promised on day one of if she wins sadiq khan next may in the local and mayoral elections, she will reverse it so it could delay it until then. Its delay it until then. Its a choice that mark harper has got to make, and currently hes not going it. Yeah i mean, the going to do it. Yeah i mean, the idea that legal advice says, what entrepreneurship . What about entrepreneurship . What about leadership . What about caring for the poorer in society . Big numbers of them. Society . Big numbers of them. Yeah you know, this idea that only 1 in 10 cars or vans will pay only 1 in 10 cars or vans will pay the new ulez charge. Thats pay the new ulez charge. Thats because only 1 in 10 cars in can and chelsea , you know, it and chelsea, you know, it doesnt account for cars crossing the border. Crossing the border. Thats the point. Thats the point. But when you go out to the outskirts of london, people are not as rich as they are in kensington and chelsea. And its not 1 in 10 cars. Its 3 or 4. Okay. The scrappage okay. But the scrappage scheme, is done if khan scheme, which is done if khan were here hed be saying, were here now, hed be saying, ive a scrappage scheme, im ive got a scrappage scheme, im going vehicles with. Going to reward vehicles with. In get a new car or in the m25, you get a new car or new vehicle, new van or money towards too, wont towards that too, so you wont pay towards that too, so you wont pay the charge. But that doesnt account outside in account for vehicles outside in the five labour other areas who drive in and drive out and they are and equally, you know if the scrappage is a couple of grand but the new cars eight grand and you havent got a lot of money take grand anymore. That was like ten years ago. Nigel thats quite well a second hang ulez compact car. You get you might get you might get one. You might get something thats compliant with a of miles on the a with a lot of miles on the clock grand. Clock rate. Ten grand. But youre still actually. Youre still looking actually. So scrappage scheme defers so the scrappage scheme defers some of the cost , but no so the scrappage scheme defers some of the cost, but no more than that. Is this not just an example of a classic sort of wait and see style conservative government . Lets sort of push this down the road. Lets wait. This down the road. Lets wait. Lets not make a tough decision. And you know, shouldnt mark harper be bolder . Harper be bolder . Oh, well, thats that game we go at that political point. Now, if you were mark harper, you would be bolder, wouldnt you . You this, you would you you take on this, you would you would down this legal would drill down this legal advice. Again, dont know advice. Again, we dont know what advice says. It advice. Again, we dont know what be advice says. It advice. Again, we dont know what be it advice says. It advice. Again, we dont know what be it may advice says. It advice. Again, we dont know what be it may be lice says. It advice. Again, we dont know what be it may be ite says. It advice. Again, we dont know what be it may be it sayss. It advice. Again, we dont know what be it may be it says that by may be it may be it says that by deaung may be it may be it says that by dealing as a distinct dealing with you as a distinct point, to point, it means you have to cancel clean air zones cancel all clean air zones across the uk. We dont know that thats an idea. We dont know or not. But know if its true or not. But the advice being the legal advice is not being given wont give us given to us. They wont give us legal advice in government. But yes, political yes, it may take some political courage but equally it courage to do it. But equally it looks the tories are happy looks like the tories are happy to bring this , bring to let macron bring this, bring this in. Theyll be upset and concern around those areas around london and they might benefit from the election if its june november next its in june or november next yeah its in june or november next year. Its two. But people year. But its two. But people wont that far by wont look back that far by then. The damage will have been done, possibly the damage the businesses would have businesses and others would have been made here. Been the choice we made here. 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