Detain and deport all illegal
immigrants. Nigel Faraj's oh so simple
plan to stop the boats. The reform UK
leader says he'll rip up international
agreements on human rights and send
hundreds of thousands of men, women, and
children into detention centers in the
name of restoring British sovereignty.
The only way
we will stop the boats
is by detaining and deporting absolutely
anyone that comes via that route. Labour
says his plans are unworkable. The
Tories say he's stealing their ideas.
But are both parties now playing catchup
to a politician who's prepared to say
what they won't about one of the
country's thorniest problems? Also
tonight,
Israel defends its decision to strike a
hospital in Gaza, which killed 20
people, including five journalists, but
doesn't explain why they hit it twice.
It's been a long, dry summer, and now
the meteorologists say it's almost
certainly the hottest on record. And
>> this is how you get the girl. It's a
love story. Taylor Swift announces her
engagements.
This is ITV News at 10 with Garant
Vincent.
>> Good evening. For Nigel Farage, dealing
with the small boats crisis comes down
to a binary choice. Either you are on
the side of women and children being
safe on the street, says the reform UK
leader, or you're a supporter of
outdated international treaties backed
up by what he calls dubious lawyers. No
prizes for guessing which side he was on
as he set out what a reformed UK
government would do to stop the illegal
channel crossings. Detain and deport
absolutely anyone who uses that route.
He said if elected, reform would deport
600,000
illegal immigrants in 5 years by
abandoning European human rights rules
and offering cash incentives to
immigrants or their home nations to
return.
His party may only have four MPs, but
Nigel Farage believes Reform UK is on a
journey towards government. At this
aircraft hanger in Oxford today, he
unveiled an aggressive plan to stop
illegal migration he hopes will help
propel him to number 10. The only way
anyone that comes via that route. And if
we do that,
the boats will stop coming within days
because there will be no incentive to
pay a trafficker.
A reformed government would seek to
deport 600,000 people over 5 years. The
party says it would do this by leaving
international treaties. Newly built
detention centers at former RAF bases
would house illegal migrants. For 6
months, the reform government would pay
them to leave the UK voluntarily before
aiming to strike deals with countries
like Afghanistan and Iran to forcibly
deport people. How far back does this
go? Where do you draw the line? You say
you're going to deport everyone who's
arrived here illegally. What are the
parameters for that?
>> How far back you go with this is the
difficulty and I accept that. You know,
and the next question that that Z and I
will get asked is what about those that
are here illegally and have got
children. So, you know, I'm not standing
here telling you all of this is easy.
>> And would it be easy or humane to deport
those fleeing violence and persecution?
It is not our job, right, to be
responsible for how other governments,
other leadership regimes in different
parts of the country, how they operate.
>> You would be some if you sent someone
back to a country and they and they then
were tortured or they were, you would
face some responsibility for that.
>> Is that more important than protecting
British women and girls? No, we will
protect British women and girls. End of
story.
>> Reform's deportation plans would mean
ripping up existing human rights laws,
which some lawyers say would be a step
backwards.
>> I think it would be a bad day for
Britain. How would Britain be seen? You
know, we condemn countries and their
leaders as being despotic when they
refuse to sign up to some of those
treaties. I think it would be a really
grim day.
>> Almost 30,000 people have arrived in the
UK by small boat this year. A record
high number the Labor government is
under pressure to bring down.
>> We have a plan. It is starting to
produce tangible results. We're
confident it will work. That will reduce
net migration over the parliament. that
will end the use of hotels for asylum
accommodation. And we'll get on, as I
said, with the admittedly unlamorous but
practical steps that are required to
bear down on this problem.
>> Nigel Farage insists his deportation
plans are realistic and will be popular
enough to help him become prime
minister.
>> Okay. So, Harry, Mr. Farage started out
by saying, you know, no ifs, no buts,
pretty unequivocal. But even during the
press conference today, you discovered
some exceptions.
>> Yeah. Reform got a lot of attention
today, but also a lot of questions and a
lot of scrutiny about this policy. And
you heard in uh my piece there, there
were questions uh about this this
promise to deport all illegal migrants
who are here. Well, if you arrived here
5, 10, 15 years ago, would it apply to
you? Well, it's not quite clear. That
detail has to be worked out, says Nigel
Farage. There were questions about if
you're a child who's arrived here
illegally. Again, Nigel Far says that
was a bit complicated. Not sure about
that one. And then there was a question
about Afghan interpreters who'd worked
with the British army if they arrived on
small boats. Now, reforms leaders said
those people would be detained, but they
admitted that they might have a a case
to make about why they uh should stay
here. So look, reforms say these are a
minority, a tiny minority of cases, but
you know, it goes to show that the
practicalities of implementing this
might be a little bit tougher than the
rhetoric.
>> And Labour and Conservatives, you know,
everyone all agreed that illegal
immigration is too high, got to come
down.
How hard does Mr. Faraj's position that
he outlined today make it for those two
parties to counter it? Well, reform's
rhetoric is certainly a lot tougher than
the other main parties in the UK, but
the fundamentals of reforms policy
aren't really disputed. Labour, the
Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, all
agree that illegal migration needs to
come down dramatically, need to stop the
small boat crossings. Uh, but Labour and
the Conservatives in their responses
today, they actually talk about their
own plans to deport illegal migrants
from uh this country. Now, look, Reform
have looked at what's happened over the
summer. They've looked at protest
outside migrant hotels. They believe now
that this issue, illegal migration, is
among the top concerns of voters. They
think they've already shifted uh the
debate around this issue in their
direction. And they think with this
announcement today, this big
intervention on this policy, they can
shift the debate even further in their
direction as MPs start to return from
their summer recess.
>> Okay, Harry, many thanks.
The Israeli military has offered an
explanation for shelling a Gaza hospital
yesterday which left 20 people dead.
Five were journalists. Its troops
believed they'd spotted a camera, a
Hamas surveillance camera which was
trained towards them. What their initial
report didn't specifically address
though was why they fired twice. The
second shell was the more deadly and
caused outrage around the world.
Tonight, Benjamin Netanyahu's government
is under pressure closer to home. Huge
protests demanding a ceasefire deal to
bring home Israeli hostages took place
across the country.
>> She was one of the few women reporting
this war from inside Gaza. Freelance
journalist Mariam Dagger documented
hunger, displacement, and loss for
outlets like the Associated Press. often
at NASA hospital in Han Ununice. She
filmed its endless stream of the wounded
and starving. Yesterday, it is where she
was killed. One of five journalists who
died in an Israeli air strike. She knew
the risk. In a message left for her
13-year-old son, Gaith, she told him,
"Not to cry over me and make me proud."
The attack that killed her at Gaza's
last functioning hospital came without
warning. The first blast tore through
its upper floors. Families ran out.
Journalists and rescuers ran in.
>> Then came a second strike, hitting a
staircase, a place reporters often
gathered to broadcast.
Among the dust, the dead. 20 in all,
including Mariam and four other
journalists. The strike captured on live
stream shows her just moments before.
Above her, Hassam al- Mazri, a Reuters
cameraman, and next to him in the black
t-shirt, Muhammad Salama, an Alazer
journalist who was planning his wedding
after the ceasefire. They thought they
were safe here.
They weren't. also killed Moaz Abu Taha,
who'd also worked for Reuters, and Ahmed
Abu Aziz, who worked for Middle East Eye
and was newly married. Inside intensive
care, doctors filmed the aftermath.
>> It's indescribable the horror and the
the the fears in the eyes of our
patients who were running away of the
hospital even though they need a medical
care inside the hospital.
But the killings have drawn fierce
international condemnation. The UN
accusing Israel of failing to protect
journalists. The US, EU, and Britain
have denounced the attacks and Germany
is demanding a full investigation.
>> International reporters are barred from
entering Gazsa. So the journalists who
are on the ground are really only eyes
and ears of the conflict. So, I think
that one of the reasons uh is certainly
to disrupt the flow of information about
the conflict.
>> Tonight, the Israeli military said its
initial inquiries had revealed it hit
the hospital to destroy what it claims
was a Hamas camera being used to observe
soldiers and to kill six Hamas
terrorists.
But inside Israel, pressure is also
mounting with nationwide protests today
from families of hostages taken by
Hamas.
A deal now they chant as tonight crowds
filled Tel Aviv's hostage square for a
rally demanding action to release their
loved ones still held captive.
Almost 200 journalists have now been
killed in this war more than in any
other conflict. The question pressing
Israel tonight is it breaking
international law. Sadel Karia News at
10.
And the events of yesterday at the NASA
hospital in Gaza aren't the only ones
that Israel says it's investigating. The
death last month of a Palestinian
American man in the other Palestinian
territory, the West Bank, has been
blamed on Israeli settlers and on
Israeli soldiers for blocking the path
of the ambulances which was sent to
attend to him. Settler violence in the
occupied West Bank has been rising along
with the expansion of illegal
settlements. Roughly 700,000 Israeli
settlers live in at least 300
settlements and outposts across the West
Bank. Since the beginning of this year,
the UN has documented more than a
thousand attacks by Israeli settlers in
230 communities. They've resulted in the
deaths of 11 Palestinians and the injury
of roughly 700 others, as well as
property damage. Seaf Mallet was
visiting family near the town of Sinjil
when he was badly beaten by the time an
ambulance eventually reached him. He was
dead. The Israeli military says its
forces provide security to all residents
and that means dynamic checkpoints are
needed.
>> In the occupied West Bank, a father says
a final goodbye to his son.
Safe Masala was just 20. A Palestinian
American, he was working at an ice cream
shop in Florida, but came here to spend
time with his relatives.
>> Instead, they buried him and his closest
childhood friend. The pair had been
visiting family farmland in Singinjil
when Safe's father back in America got a
phone call from Safe's brother.
>> Something has happened to Safe.
He was breathing at that moment. Uh but
the problem is that they needed a uh an
ambulance. They needed paramedics. They
needed some sort of medical attention
that they couldn't get because of the
Israeli army was preventing that.
>> Mobile phone footage taken by a local
farmer shows a Palestinian ambulance
desperately trying to maneuver away from
two pickup trucks.
This paramedic was on duty that day
responding to reports of attacks by
Israeli settlers.
When we arrived, settlers blocked our
way, attacked us, broke the ambulance's
rear window and siren, even though I had
an injured person inside.
>> Then the masked men attack again. Video
taken from inside the ambulance shows
what happened next.
Quick, they're trapping us. Go, go, they
shout.
I turned to get away, but a group of
settlers chased us by car and they threw
a rock at the windshield, shattering it.
>> Paramedics managed to reach some of the
injured by foot. In all, 28 Palestinians
needed medical treatment.
It was nightfall by the time they got to
safe, who'd been badly beaten, and by
then it was too late.
>> His friend Muhammad also dead from a
gunshot wound. It fell to the village
mayor to certify their deaths.
>> The settlers reacted violently when
villages went back to their own
farmland. As soon as they stepped onto
it, the settlers launched their attack.
>> But since October the 7th, Israel itself
has also increased its encroachment onto
Palestinian land. This is the wall the
military's building around Sinjel, it
says for security reasons. Although 45
local families claim they can no longer
access their land or their livelihoods,
a record number of new Israeli
checkpoints and illegal outposts has
left Sinjil and neighboring villages
feeling increasingly under siege. Rakan,
like safe, regularly visits his family
here from America.
>> Past 7 p.m., nobody goes outside because
if you do, you will not have a car no
more. They will break your car, throw
rocks, kick your car. there's a chance
you might get shot. You never know what
could happen. And that's why everyone
here is afraid of the situation because
it's not like how it was before. We used
to have two roads leading to the Ma. We
used to have a road from the west and
then we used to have a road you have a
road from the east. They put a gate on
the road from the west where it used to
take us 15 minutes to get to Jericho.
Now it takes us almost an hour. They
closed that road ever since October 7th
and and we can never go to that road
again. But Safe's death has also brought
defiance.
>> They target us, you know, and they make
it hard on us and they try as much as
they can to make our lives as miserable
as as it could be. But I just feel we
can't give up.
>> As an American, his son's death brought
promises of investigation. But while the
world's gazes elsewhere, the rising
number of deaths here often go unnoticed
and unmarked.
Rachel Younger, News at 10.
>> Now, the British summer of 2025 will go
down in the record books as the hottest
yet with 5 days left to go until the end
of the season. The Met Office is
confident it will easily beat 2018. To
explain why, here's Martin.
>> Yeah, well, it's unusual to be able to
make a prediction like this when you've
still got nearly a week of the summer
still to run. But forecasters say they
can do so because current summer average
temperatures which combine both the day
and nighttime are currently way above
normal up at 16° C. Now that's nearly
half a degree above 2018 which is the
current hottest. Now half a degree might
not sound like much but as an average
over 3 months it's huge and well ahead
of that famous hot summer of 1976 which
is actually going to be relegated down
into sixth place. To not break the
record, temperatures for the next five
days would need to be four degrees below
average. And whilst forecasters show
some rain could be on its way,
temperatures are extremely unlikely to
drop that low. Now, this might not come
as much of a surprise. High pressure has
made much of this summer settled, sunny,
and hot. In fact, we've had four
separate heat waves. It's also been very
dry with nearly a third less rain than
usual. And that followed on from the
driest spring in England, at least for
more than a century. Now, that's not
only increased the likelihood of
wildfires like the one we've seen on the
North Yorkshire moors today, but drier
ground holds less moisture, which can't
evaporate, and that evaporation would
normally help cool things down. Plus, as
an island nation, our weather is hugely
affected by sea temperatures. And
there's been a significant marine heat
wave. The areas in red here show sea
surface temperatures up to 3 degrees
above average stopping the coast from
cooling down. And climate campaigners
say for the future, we're going to need
to adapt to these extremes.
>> We just need to look around us um of our
experience this summer to see, you know,
the sustained hot days, the dry days,
the lack of rainfall for a really long
time, the dust in the air. to see that
this is this is a pattern now that we're
dealing with as a result of the climate
emergency.
>> Now, our final statistic which appears
to back that up is that nine of the last
10 summers have all seen temperatures
above long-term averages.
>> Okay, Martin, many thanks.
And the shortage of rain here has had a
big impact on one of the classic British
summer holidays, the freedom and
relaxation offered by a boat trip along
the country's canal network. Except this
summer, it hasn't been working out quite
like that. Water shortages have meant
some of the locks that regulate the
movement of narrow boats have been well
locked to stop water being lost. Even
that hasn't stopped some owners being
left high and dry.
They were once the flowing arteries of
British industry, but after months of
drought, today our canal network is rife
with man-made blockages, leaving some
more marooned than morowed to its banks.
I am properly beached on the ground.
>> Adams lived on the leads and Liverpool
canal for 15 years. But despite nearby
lock gates being closed to prevent water
levels dropping, his housebo has sunk
into the mud.
>> It drains you because you know you can't
move. I've got to do things differently
like go and get water. I've got to use
me bike trolley to
get bins, toilets emptied.
>> 30 mi away. Boat trips along the
Rochdale Canal 2 have come to an abrupt
end.
>> This is as close as we can get.
>> It is It's very sad. It's It is a great
shame for everybody, not just our
customers, all voters. Susan's been
renting out narrow boats to holiday
makers at one end of it for 45 years,
but has had to divert business away from
its usual route.
>> Having a drought like this is definitely
something that's worse than we've
experienced for a bit. Either way, you
don't need extremes. You need enough
water to keep the canal going, uh, but
not too much, and you need it spread
out.
>> It's on higher ground in areas like this
that the true extent of the shortage is
most obvious. Here the canals are
dependent on rainwater and the
surrounding reservoirs, but in Yorkshire
at the moment they are just 42% full.
That's led the county to become subject
to a hosepipe ban. While waterways in
other droughtstricken areas like the
Grand Union Canal in the East Midlands
are also closing lock gates to keep
boats afloat.
>> Just about a float there, but uh yeah,
give it another few inches and uh it'd
start to tip slightly. The Canal and
River Trusts been informing boat owners
of restrictions, but they say a return
to normality is far from imminent.
>> It's a very challenging situation, but
we do need a lot more rain. We need a
lot of rain to come when intensive rain,
I'd say, for a couple of weeks before we
can get anywhere back to normal.
>> But as those who rely on our canal
network weighed through ongoing
disruption, it's hoped the rain does
come and give them a much needed lift.
Jonathan Brown, News at 10.
Hot, dry weather isn't so unusual in
Arizona. But if you've never heard the
word haboo, take a look at this. It's
been bringing chaos to the city of
Phoenix. A haboo is a dust storm carried
by an intense summer wind. It is an
Arabic word meaning blown in Phoenix.
This one has blocked out the sun,
grounded flights at the city's
international airport, and brought down
electricity cables.
Now, it was supposed to be the
fulfillment of a dream, a first lesson
in flying a helicopter, but a birthday
present turned into a terrible tragedy
on the aisle of white yesterday.
Lori driver Voytech Kolcowski and his
partner Justina Koska, a horse riding
instructor from Oxfordshire, had
traveled to the island to celebrate his
birthday birthday. They were two of the
three people killed when the helicopter
crashed. The third was Simon Hewitt who
was 54. And from Lincolnshire, his
family said they were absolutely broken
at losing a wonderful, intelligent, kind
man and father.
Now, when even Marks and Spencer start
offering secondhand clothes online,
there's no longer any doubt that Middle
Britain is embracing the new enthusiasm
for vintage, recycled, and pre-loved
fashion items. M&S is teaming up with
eBay to accommodate demand. Of course,
theirs won't be just any secondhand
clothes, though, will they?
>> Once upon a time, an old shirt you no
longer wore might end up at a jumble
sale or charity shop. Now, it gets VIP
treatment.
>> Will then read its garment composition.
>> It's scanned, analyzed, checked for
faults.
>> So, this will take away the smell and
the bacteria. Repaired if needed, steam
pressed to make it look as good as new.
Photographed, ready to be advertised
online,
given a new barcode, and freshly
packaged for sale.
>> Pre-loved pieces
made to be loved again.
>> And here's where it will end up. Marks
and Spencer has teamed up with eBay to
resell its own clothes.
It's capitalizing on growing enthusiasm
for buying vintage in shops and online.
Retailers like vintage and depot are
ringing up more than a billion pounds in
sales.
>> I think it's really interesting to see
lots of different kinds of clothes in
one place from different eras as well.
So often get a real mix of like vintage
and more modern things as well.
>> And it's not just the bargains which
appeal to customers
>> because there's no need to make any more
clothes. The world has enough clothes. I
think it's really important that like
instead of constantly buying newer stuff
from like brands that might not be good
quality, we sort of pursue
sustainability.
With cheap throwaway fashion ending up
dumped in places like Ghana, campaigners
have been demanding that M&S and other
retailers do more to help those on the
receiving end of rejected clothes.
But the incentive for M&S customers to
donate items may not quite fit in with
the sustainability ethos.
>> We are being told that if we um
contribute to the scheme, we get a £5
off voucher at M&S, which might mean
that we're buying more clothes than we
actually need.
>> Dubbed swapping, the company began
collecting its secondhand clothes more
than a decade ago. 36 million items were
handed to Oxfam to sell. In future, the
charity will get a share of the profits
of the online sales. Ianwoods News at
>> In tonight's European football, Celtic
have failed again to qualify for the
Champions League proper going out in the
playoffs.
>> Their tie against the Kazakhstan side
Kirat Al- Marti, no me neither, went to
penalties. The home team second choice
goalkeeper saved three of Celtics to win
the shootout 3-2. Celtic will drop down
to the Europa League.
Finally tonight, for a singer who has
written so much about falling in and out
of love, Taylor Swift's engagement was
always going to be something special.
Bended knee and roses for a start. On
her finger, a ginormous milliondoll
diamond, a star rock for the pop
princess from her fiance Travis Kelce,
one of American football's biggest
stars. As her fans, the Swifties know,
she has a nifty way with words, hence
her slightly cryptic announcement. Your
English teacher and your gym teacher,
she posted, are getting married.
>> Get this up immediately.
>> In show business newsrooms, it triggered
a near meltdown.
>> This is a day where you're going to
remember when it happens.
>> The announcement was a major event
across all platforms.
>> From celebrity programming,
>> she just said yes
>> to news bulletins icon Taylor Swift
announcing her engagement to Chiefs
tight end Travis Kelce.
>> The biggest news of all this
>> and the world of sports.
>> Congratulations to them. It's good for
love. It's good for football.
>> The message was first posted on
Instagram. Pictures of Travis Kelsey on
one knee in front of the pop superstar,
an ethereal garden as the backdrop,
and then several more photos of the
couple and of course of the ring.
The background track was a song inspired
by their romance.
The caption to their vast global fan
base simply read, "Your English teacher
and your gym teacher are getting
married." And the emoji was of a stick
of dynamite, perhaps hinting at the
explosion of interest that was sure to
follow.
>> I have to tell you, the biggest pop
culture news of the year broke while we
were in this cabinet meeting.
>> And it reached the president a short
time later, once famously withering
about Swift. Today, a very different
>> Well, I wish him a lot of luck.
No, I think it's I think he's a a great
player. I think he's a great guy and I
think that she's a terrific person. So,
I wish them a lot of luck.
>> I think the secret's out. Who's she here
to see?
>> I think
>> the Taylor Swift Travis Kelce
relationship has been intensely tracked
since a singer was spotted watching one
of his games in Kansas City two years
ago.
>> I think they are officially a couple and
I think the internet right now is going
insane.
and their romance became a cultural
phenomenon.
>> Weaving together the biggest brands in
this country, the NFL and the music
industry.
>> Uh,
>> a briefcase.
>> It was on Kelsey's podcast two weeks ago
that Swift revealed her latest record.
>> This is my brand new album.
>> And she spoke of how much their
relationship means to her. This is sort
of what I've been writing songs about
wanting to happen to me since I was
>> Yeah.
>> a teenager.
>> Taylor Swift's era's tour shattered all
records,
>> generating billions of dollars and
packing out stadiums around the world.
>> Now, a new wave of speculation can
begin. When and where will the wedding
be? Surely destined to become the most
anticipated celebrity event of the
decade. Robert Moore, News at 10,
Washington.
>> And that's it for tonight from everyone
on News at 10. Good night.