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>> Protests and counterprotests across the
country over asylum hotels. As Nigel
Farage announces plans for mass
deportations if Reform UK wins the next
general election.
A shocking arson attack in a restaurant
in East London leaves three people in a
life-threatening condition.
The family of Sher Maxim, who was killed
at Nottingham Carnival last year, call
for the event to be moved because they
say it's unsafe.
>> It's an unmanageable event. So, whatever
they say they're going to put in place,
they can't put enough precautions in
place to make it safe.
>> A warning from farmers that the UK could
be sleepwalking into a food shortage
disaster.
Plus, in the sport, Arsenal unveiled
their new signing, Eber Ez, as they
continue their unbeaten start with a
thrashing of newly promoted leads.
And we'll take a first look at
tomorrow's front pages in our press
preview from 10:30.
Good evening. There were tent scenes at
protests and counterprotests across the
UK today over the use of asylum hotels.
At some demonstrations, police had to
force rival groups to separate. While in
Liverpool, 11 people were arrested. The
latest protest action comes as reform UK
leader Nigel Farage promised mass
deportations of illegal immigrants if he
wins the next general election. And
North of England correspondent Shingi
Marik was in Liverpool
>> in the heart of one of the country's
biggest cities. A picture of a growing
national divide. A right-wing
anti-immigration protest in Liverpool
met with left-wing opposition. The
result, anger, fury, and multiple
scuffles.
>> Murzyside police caught in the middle,
pouring resource and effort into
separating the two sides with a number
of arrests made. As a protest spill
across the country, what you have is a
situation that is becoming increasingly
hard to police. This isn't like the
demonstrations at asylum hotels. What
you have are the police struggling to
separate two groups and having to pour
more and more resource into this effort
as the day goes on.
>> There were similar scenes across the
country, including here in
>> Holy
Pull across there.
where police were also forced to act and
think quickly.
>> And in Bristol, where officers had their
hands full, horses needed to stop the
two groups from clashing.
Back in Liverpool, there were strong
opinions on the fringes, too. People are
being manipulated and lied to. And I
think it's actually really sad that poor
people with not good health are standing
with the far right who will destroy
their lives. I think people have
forgotten our history and the fact that
Liverpool's built on the back of
immigrants. You know, our even our
accent comes from a mixture of cultures.
Do you know what I mean? We we shout
scouts, not English cuz we've been
oppressed by this government for so long
and now you're siding with it. Makes no
sense to me. But as much as people say
they want to talk to the other side, it
only takes a second for those
conversations to turn.
>> I am for immigration, legal immigration,
but when not dingy started burning,
>> but when the legal avenues are shut and
the world's on fire.
>> No, no. Listen, mate. I'm not arguing
with you here.
>> I'm not arguing with you, mate. I'm
happy to have the debate. What what I'm
saying is I don't believe it's right for
illegal immigrants to burn their stuff
on a dingy and then say death to
Britain, death to kids.
>> But are they saying that?
>> Yeah, they are. I've seen no evidence of
it. They are
saying that I've seen evidence
>> here and beyond this issue is driving a
wedge between people with more protest
and counterprotest planned. It's looking
increasingly hard to find a middle
ground. Shining Marrique, Sky News
Liverpool.
>> And our chief political correspondent,
John Craig, joins us now for more on the
political reaction. And John, what is
the the move that the government's
making to solve this crisis?
>> Well, this crisis getting more urgent by
the day because the prime minister's uh
approval rating, according to a new poll
tonight, is minus 41. That's worse than
Tony Blair after the Iraq war. Um the
prime minister was claiming today that
the government was tackling uh uh
illegal immigration. He said that 5,300
foreign national offenders had been
removed uh since July last year when
Labour won the election. Uh but the
government has another move poised to
announce another move uh to try and
solve the crisis speeding up the backlog
of asylum cases and asylum appeals in
particular. Now what the government is
poised to announce is a new plan to fast
track uh asylum appeals. Now at the
moment it's very slow. There's a huge
backlog. uh the uh numbers are something
like 51,000
asylum appeals waiting to be heard. So
what's going to happen now essentially
is that the tribunal courts are going to
be replaced by panels of adjudicators.
Now um it's a completely new system. uh
the uh government says that uh the uh
it's unac the home secretary Iette
Cooper says it's completely unacceptable
the delays that are happening at the
moment. So she's going to appoint these
uh uh an independent panel of
professionally trained adjudicators she
says and Iette Cooper has said that we
inherited an asylum system in complete
chaos she says with a soaring backlog of
asylum cases a broken appeal system. Uh
so she says they're going to uh
substantially reduce the number of
people in the system and the home
secretary said this. We cannot carry on
with these completely unacceptable
delays in appeals as a result of the
system we've inherited which mean that
fail failed asylum seekers stay in the
system for years on end and at huge cost
to the taxpayer. Well, this move by the
government follows Nigel Farage
unveiling a big program of what he calls
mass uh deportations uh to tackle the uh
what he calls a massive crisis. He has
uh uh said that under a reform UK
government, asylum seekers would be
arrested on arrival, automatic detention
and forced deportation uh to countries
such as Afghanistan and Eritraa would be
brought in. um that he plans to set out
details on this next week. He's also
talking about um the uh seek hundreds of
thousands of people being deported on
five charter flights every day leaving
the European Court of Human Convention
on Human Rights. Something that we're
likely to hear also from uh from Kem
Badenok at the Tory conference later
this year in the autumn. um getting rid
of the human rights act, all sorts of
international treaties as well. It has
been dismissed by political opponents as
you might accept. But uh after the uh
shock for the government of the Eping
court case earlier in the week and then
those dreadful figures on Thursday, uh
the asylum crisis, the migration crisis,
small boats have shot right to the top
of the political agenda as MPs prepare
to come back to parliament at the
beginning of September. this issue is
really dominating uh political debate
and uh next we're expecting some more
councils to follow Eping's lead uh next
week. The leader of Broxborg Council in
Hertfordshire told Sky News today
they're going to have an emergency
cabinet meeting on Tuesday. That almost
certainly means they're going to follow
Eping's lead. Now the government has
appealed against the Eping court
judgment. Uh but there are perhaps as
many as 20 plus councils who are ready
to take get go to the courts to get the
migrants moved out of hotels in their
area and uh uh Labour MPs and Labour
council leaders that Sky News has spoken
to have agreed that the whole process is
take is far too slow. The government's
pledge to get rid of get migrants out of
hotels by the end of this parliament is
far too slow. The whole thing needs
speeding up. Well, we now know that the
government's planning to speed up uh to
the asylum appeals process to cut cut
that backlog, but many MPs and council
leaders are saying will be saying much
more needs to be done.
much.
A suspected arson attack on a restaurant
in East London has left five people
injured, including three in a
life-threatening condition. Footage
shows the moment a man runs out of the
building on fire. Our correspondent
Shiman Freeman Powell reports. And a
warning, this story contains some images
you may find distressing.
>> There was little time to react. CCTV
capturing the moment diners in Ilford
became the victims of a suspected arson
attack.
They watch on as it appears that three
men walk into this restaurant carrying
petrol cans before pouring liquid on the
floor and setting the place al light.
The men are then captured on CCTV
running from a plume of smoke.
Moments later, a victim emerges onto the
street, engulfed in flames, frantically
trying to stop the fire from consuming
them.
Police and firefighters were called to
the scene in Gance Hill at around 900
p.m. Crews rescued five people from
inside the restaurant, while nine others
managed to escape the blaze before
firefighters arrived. Five people were
taken to hospital and police have
confirmed three of them remain in
life-threatening conditions.
The attack has left local residents
stunned, many of whom rushed onto the
street in a desperate attempt to help.
>> I've never seen anything like that to be
honest. We have small burgies or
something gets stolen or bikes and
scooters and things and that or maybe
few fights, but we never seen something
that serious happening in this area.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting is Ilford
North's local MP and posted on X to
thank the emergency services for their
response to a serious incident before
advising people to avoid the area.
In a statement, the Metropolitan Police
said, "We understand this incident will
cause concern within the community. My
team of specialist detectives are
working at speed to piece the incident
together.
No arrests have been made, but a major
investigation is now underway, and a
police presence will remain to reassure
the community, many of whom will be
shaken and eager for answers.
Shiman Freeman Powell, Sky News.
The head of the National Farmers Union
has warned that the UK is criminally
unprepared to feed its population in a
crisis. Tom Bradshaw says that if
Britain carries on like this, it will be
too late to turn the tap back on. Amelia
Harper reports.
>> These are just some of the fields that
produce the UK's food, but the farmers
that work them are concerned that in a
crisis like war or another pandemic,
what they harvest won't be enough.
>> We are saying that as a country, we are
criminally underprepared in terms of
food security. There is complacency on
behalf of the government and there is an
assumption that farmers will just keep
producing food. We have no plan what we
do in the event of a crisis. There is
nothing there. We're just leaving it
entirely to the free market. We're not
doing that with defense. We shouldn't be
doing it with food.
>> The pandemic was the first time in
decades that shoppers saw empty shelves.
But if it happened again, could we feed
ourselves without relying on imports?
1984 was considered the height of
British self-sufficiency where we
produce 78% of the food we need. But
last year that figure was only 65%.
And it's fruit and vegetables that we
struggle growing the most. Just 1% of
farmland is used to grow them. And as a
result, Britain grows only 15% of its
own fruit and 53% of its vegetables.
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To tackle this, the government says it's
allocated 11.8 billion pounds to food
production and it's extended seasonal
workers visas to boost labor. But like
the farmers, retailers also want the
government to go further.
>> I do agree that challenges in the supply
chain have definitely increased over the
last few years, primarily due to climate
change and global events around the
world. And where I definitely agree with
the farmers is that there's a huge
opportunity here for government to
invest in our supply chains, which is
good news to reducing those challenges
of getting food and drink on our
shelves, but also injecting some growth
in the British economy.
>> The UK runs on the food produced in
these fields, but as farmers come under
increasing pressure, their message is
clear. Produce more to prepare better.
Amelia Harper, Sky News.
An unmanageable event, unsafe, the words
of Sher Maximon's devastated family
ahead of this year's Nottingham
Carnival. The 32-year-old was murdered
last year in an unprovoked attack in
front of her young daughter. Meanwhile,
police have arrested more than 100
people and seized dozens of knives and
firearms. But the carnival's organizers
insist the event is safe. As Ashna
Hurinag reports,
>> Notting Hill Carnival is as colorful and
celebratory as it is increasingly
contentious.
It is hard to find anyone who cares more
about the safety of people there than
the family of Shem Maximum. The
32-year-old was killed in front of her
young daughter last year by someone she
didn't know.
>> The word some people say, "Oh, you wrong
place wrong time." No, she was in the
right place at the right time when she
should have been there and still she
wasn't safe.
>> Her family believe she was failed.
>> She was in the safest location possible
on family day with her daughter and she
was murdered directly in front of police
officers. So if it can happen there, it
can happen anywhere. It's an
unmanageable event. So whatever they say
they're going to put in place, they
can't put enough precautions in place to
make it safe. It's absolutely
unmanageable. in its current form.
>> Sher's grandmother, Viene, believes
those hijacking the carnival to cause
harm have ruined what it represents.
She's told organizers it needs to
relocate.
>> When I had the meeting
with them, I said, "Uh, why can't you
move it to uh a different place, i.e.
Hide Park? That's a big enough park."
Um,
I was told, um, well, it wouldn't be
called Notting Hill Carnival.
>> Would you like to see it moved out of
the current venue where it's held?
>> Yeah.
>> To provide that safety for people.
>> Yeah. Have it structured this in out,
but on the streets you can do whatever
and just escape through the streets.
You could turn up the day before. You
could be there. You could step out of
the front door. You're in the sight. So,
could it happen again? Of course, it
could happen again.
>> Of course, it could happen again. A
sobering thought as more than a million
people descend on West London over the
next 3 days. This is a direct call to
action. This is a family that has lost
everything by what happened at this
event, but they also understand its
cultural significance and the importance
of maintaining the integrity of
Carnival. It's why they say it's now
outgrown its home and needs to be
relocated.
>> But the option of moving it isn't on the
table.
>> Our hearts are very much so with the
family. Um but you know, Carnival should
remain on in the streets of Notting
Hill. What we need to do is actually
tackle the root causes of the issues of
violence that we have in the capital
that happen 365 days of the year. Last
year, the number of carnival related
crimes were down on the year before and
the majority related to drug offenses.
This weekend, 7,000 officers and staff
will be on site each day with facial
recognition cameras and screening arches
used at the busiest entry points.
>> We've put a lot of measures in place as
we always do, but even more so this year
to keep people safe. Um, you know,
Carnival is a safe space. It's no more
unsafe than than the rest of London. So,
um I would say come um and you know be
respectful. Carnival is a safe space.
>> But not everyone is convinced. Sher's
family know that it can just take
seconds for this vibrant vent to be
marred by violence. Asharinag Sky News.
Medics say at least 33 people have been
killed by Israeli strikes and shootings
in Gaza today, including Palestinians
sheltering in tents or seeking food.
According to morg records and health
officials at NASA hospital, Israeli
strikes killed at least 17 people in the
southern Gaza Strip early this morning.
The victims of the New York tour bus
crash have been named by police. Five
people were killed and 50 more were
injured when the bus which was traveling
from Falls to New York City
careered out of control and fell on its
side yesterday. Dozens were taken to
hospital including several children.
At least 12 people have been killed and
four others are missing after a railway
bridge under construction collapsed in
China. According to state media, 16
workers were on the bridge when a steel
cable snapped during a tensioning
operation. Local media is reporting that
27 boats and a helicopter are being used
in rescue efforts.
Sky News understands that Coca-Cola is
working with bankers to hold initial
talks about the sale of coffee giant
Costa. Sources in the city say that
initial talks have already been held
with a small number of potential bidders
including private equity firms.
Coca-Cola first agreed to buy Costa back
in 2018 for3.9 billion pounds.
And these are the latest pictures from
Hawaii where Mount Kilawea is erupting
again. It's not been a rare site
recently. The volcano has now erupted 31
times since December of last year.
The Bridgetton creator Shondaanda Rimes
has told Sky News that filming the drama
and its spin-off Queen Charlotte in
England has prompted her to consider
relocating to the UK. The US producer
who's behind some of the most popular TV
dramas of the past two decades also said
she found claims that Bridgeten's
casting was woke bizarre. She's been
speaking to our arts and entertainment
correspondent Katie Spencer.
>> From Grey's Anatomy to Scandal and
Bridgetton, Sha Rimes has created some
of the most popular television shows of
the past two decades.
>> Hi, nice to meet you. Um, come this way.
her vast contribution to television
recognized at this year's Edinburgh TV
Festival.
>> Miss Dne Bridgetton,
>> you have no idea what it is to have
one's entire life reduced to a single
moment.
>> But there is something inherently
condescending about the sniffy way
critics get their corsets in a twist,
using terms like guilty pleasure to
describe her shows. There are certain
people for whom the world of women will
never be considered as serious or as
complex or as interesting as the world
of men.
>> I am your new fearless leader. I did my
residency here. Who's ready to heal with
love?
>> Her first huge hit was medical drama
Grey's Anatomy, now on its 22nd season.
But finding an abandoned novel in a
hotel room would motivate her to write
this Regency drama. Bridgetton,
Netflix's biggest show. This is what
they have been trained for since birth.
>> When I read the books, it became clear
to me that Bridgetgerton is a workplace
drama. These are women in their
workplace because in a world in which
they have no power, they have no ability
to do anything on the outside with a
career or anything else when their only
value is who they marry and their only
worth is sort of focused into that.
Newspapers have dedicated quite a few
column inches to raking over her
decision to reflect a diverse range of
actors in its cast. Is it almost sort of
puzzling that people want to kind of
comment on it in the first place? I
think it's I will say this. I think
there's something a little bit bizarre
for me in the idea that I am writing the
show looking like I look and that it
wouldn't occur to me that there should
be more people in the show who look like
me. You know, I I feel like that's an
obvious point. Why would I write
something that doesn't include me in any
way?
>> Given how prolific her work is, like
other writers, there's a high chance
that AI is scraping her scripts as we
speak, trying to figure out how to write
like her.
>> I definitely think there's a danger of
AI learning from my episodes. Um, maybe
I I will learn to be better at what it
does. Maybe. But I feel like most
importantly, I don't think that there's
any substitute for that germ of
creativity that comes from a human
imagination. I really don't.
>> What does she watch? Well, she's a
massive fan of Doctor Who and writer
Russell T. Davies.
>> Oh my god, I've loved Doctor Who
forever. For a while, people were like,
"What's wrong with you?" Because they
didn't know the show. But I've been
watching it forever. I fell in love with
the David Tennant years and the years,
you know, all of those. And it's been
fun. I haven't been able to let it go
because I the writing is so Russell's
amazing.
>> The showrunner says she certainly
enjoyed being in the UK more with both
Bridgetton and its spin-off Queen
Charlotte filmed here. I've been
spending a little bit more time over
here. I'm going to try to spend a little
bit more, even more. Um, if I can swap
my kids into a British school. I'm
trying to figure that part out. But I do
really love being here and it's always
been such a great experience.
>> The suggestion that she might move here,
a real life plot twist that British
Bridgetton fans would certainly welcome.
>> Thank you so much for talking to us.
Thank you so much.
>> Katie Spencer, Sky News.
>> She is definitely welcome here. Let's
get all the latest sports news now with
Nick.
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Sorry, I just have a German passport.
>> Hopefully I can convince them and show
them and prove them that I'm proud to be
the English manager.
>> For only the third time in history, the
FA have turned to a foreign manager to
take charge of the men's England team.
>> Thomas Tukul follows in the footsteps of
Svenure and Erikson.
>> If we don't do results, of course, they
will try to hang me. But even if if I
was an Englishman, they hated me. So
this
>> and Fabio Capello,
>> a winner with a capital W. That was the
template. This is the man.
When the news about Tukul broke, there
was a mixed media reaction.
Some in Tukul see a Champions League
winning manager and the best candidate
available if you want to win a World
Cup. That's certainly how the FA bosses
view it. But for others, there's a more
fundamental principle here. They believe
that an Englishman should be in charge
of England.
>> Well, I was hoping we'd get an English
manager, but when you look at the
choices, they're very few, aren't they?
>> The jobs are so prestigious and there's
so much money in the job that people are
tempted to spread the netwide.
>> There's nothing in the water that stops
it. It's all about opportunity. I think
it's probably a little bit simplistic
just to pull it down to national
borders.
On whichever side of the debate you
fall, there is one fact which is
indisputable. The pool of English
coaches at the elite level of the game
is pretty shallow. And the key question
is why?
>> What we are deemed as as English
coaches, we're responsible for.
>> Do you feel like to get a job in the
Premier League as an English man, you
have to be promoted to the division?
>> I would say 99 times out of 100.
>> You can't just give people jobs. I want
to try and help in any way that I can
produce more English managers.
I'm at St. George's Park. Opened in
2012, the FA intended this place to be a
center of excellence and a destination
of choice for players, coaches,
administrators, and officials alike. Why
have the FA turned to the continent to
replace an English manager who's been
the most successful in the top job since
Sir Ralph Ramsey? Well, to answer that
question, you have to look much deeper
within the game. Before the birth of the
Premier League, the English first
division was won predominantly by teams
with British managers. 38 Englishmen, 10
Scotsman, and an Irishman in Bob Kyle.
The Premier League was formed in 1992,
and that date coincides with the last
time an English manager was in charge of
a team that won the top division.
If I'd said to you back in 1992 that no
English manager would win the top
division for another 33 years and
counting, you'd have been shot, wouldn't
you? No. My first response would have
been, "Don't be stupid." Based on what I
saw at the time, don't be stupid. It's
not sadness. It's just a lot of that
sentimentality, but sometimes you
because you're good to be sentimental.
My desire
is or would be it's the England team. We
need an England coach. But what I think
of as ideal has to then be placed in
perspective with regard to the reality.
And the reality being, do we think there
are people around who can take the
England team to where we'd like it to be
in terms of position? And if they decide
that they don't think that's possible, I
don't see that they have any can make
any other decision. Football, as we all
know, has changed. And I think that now
particularly with regard to football and
the Premier League in this country, this
country's possibly become the new
Hollywood, the Hollywood of the 40s50s.
It it's just the place to be. The
Premier League is now global.
>> And does that mean there's a bigger pool
of coaches worldwide that want to come
here and that are available? And
inevitably that means the fewer English
coaches working in the top.
>> Well, that was Sky News at 10. Coming
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tomorrow's newspapers in the press
preview. Tonight, we're joined by
journalist and author Janelle Aldrid and
political commentator Gane Tower.
Amongst the stories we'll be discussing
this on the front of the Sunday Express,
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