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top story, a mix between total despair
and rising anger. Nigel Faraj's message
as he unveils plans for mass migrant
deportations. if he's elected to office.
>> If you come to the UK illegally, you
will be detained and deported and never
ever allowed to stay. Period.
>> The Israeli military claims it was
targeting a Hamas camera when it struck
a hospital in Gaza, killing 20 people.
>> We need this war to end. Israeli
protesters call for an end to the
conflict and a deal to free hostages.
The governor of America's central bank
threatens to sue Donald Trump over his
plans to fire her.
Inside a Ukrainian drone factory, we
hear how Russia is winning the arms race
with a technology that's revolutionizing
warfare.
And it's a love story she just said yes.
Music superstar Taylor Swift announces
her engagement to American footballer
Travis Kelce.
Plus, we'll take a first look at
tomorrow's front pages in our press
preview from 10:30 right through to
midnight.
Good evening. Nigel Farage was in a
combative mood when he took to the stage
to outline his plan to deport hundreds
of thousands of asylum seekers. He even
suggested he'd pay regimes like the
Taliban to take them back if he becomes
prime minister. The reform UK leader
unveiled what he called operation
restoring justice, saying he'd abolished
the UK's human rights commitments and
deport absolutely anyone, including
women and children arriving on a small
boat. The plans have been scorned by
legal experts and dismissed as
unworkable by labor and the
conservatives. Our deputy political
editor Sam Coats reports.
A new world order enshrined in law. The
European Convention of Human Rights to
protect the refugees of the future.
Millions had run from the Nazis with
nowhere to go. Now, those fleeing would
always have a home. For 70 years,
agreements like this have been part of
our national consensus until today.
as Nigel Farage sets out why he believes
walking into power means walking away
from the treaties of the past. All in
order to enable his plan to stop the
boats, a deterrent based on a promise to
remove over half a million illegal
migrants over the course of the next
parliament. The only way we will stop
the boats is by detaining and deporting
absolutely anyone that comes via that
route. And if we do that,
the boats will stop coming within days.
We will have to find,
>> he claims it's as simple as a binary
choice.
>> Whose side are you on? Are you on the
side of women and children being safe on
our streets? Or are you on the side of
outdated international treaties backed
up by a series of dubious courts?
>> He wants you to think there is no bigger
issue. The mood in the country around
this issue
is a mix between total despair and
rising anger. In fact, I think there is
now as a result of this a genuine threat
to public order.
>> Everywhere echoes of President Trump.
>> As they say in America, I endorse this
message.
We're years from this ever potentially
needing to be implemented and there are
many questions about how it would work
in practice. But Nigel Farage has thrown
down the gauntlet. Should the system
drawn up after the Second World War to
protect refugees stay or be ripped up?
He says it's got to go. But will Tory
and Labour agree? The Tories widely
expected to announce similar in a few
weeks time.
>> Imitation is the sincerest form of
flattery. The fact is Nigel Farage is
copying our homework. We put out a
deportation bill in May. The stuff that
actually works and what he said has come
from there. But the truth is he is not
doing the thinking we are.
>> Labor agree you need a deterrent to stop
the boats, but say their plan is
preferable.
>> Time and time again across all of these
proposals, they begin to wilt under the
weight of the most simple of questions.
What the Labor government has put in
place is begin to put in place a plan
that's beginning to work.
>> Mass deportations, a lawless society, a
bleak picture Nigel Farage hopes will
drive voters into the arms of reform.
How much will the other parties end up
agreeing? Sam Coat, Sky News.
>> And let's speak to our political
correspondent Liz Bates, who's at the
home office, has been following the
story. Liz, whatever anyone may think
about Nigel Farage's uh plans, the other
parties, the Conservatives and the
government and also legal experts have
called them ultimately unworkable.
>> They certainly have. And as Nigel
Farage, we see from Nigel Farage many
times before, his plans today and the
way that he unveiled them and the
language that he used very uh
provocative. The Liberal Democrat leader
Ed Davyy pretty outraged. We've also
heard uh from the Greens. Let me bring
you um what they said. Uh a reformed
government would pay brutal regimes like
the Taliban to accept the return of
migrants, including unaccompanied
children. This is not who we are as a
nation. The vast majority of the British
public are willing to show compassion
towards those fleeing the terrible
situations they leave behind. The
Conservatives quite interesting. They
haven't gone as far as reform,
particularly when it comes to the
scrapping of international uh treaties.
But Kelly Bono almost trying to take
credit for some of the things that Nigel
Farage unveiled today. She was saying
that they had copied the Conservatives
homework but hadn't learned the lessons.
She said there'll be more details from
them on their uh immigration policy.
They are considering uh things like
leaving the European Convention on Human
Rights but haven't gone uh that far yet.
Uh we have heard uh from the Prime
Minister's official spokesman today. And
what he said is, "Let's be clear, the
ECR underpins key international
agreements on trade, security,
migration, and the Good Friday
Agreement. Anyone who is proposing to
renegotiate the Good Friday Agreement is
not serious. We are are focused on
policies to address the issue rather uh
than a return to gimmicks. That is the
government's position and we've seen
over the past year certainly from the
Home Office announcement after
announcement trying to get um a grip of
this issue. They've got lots of problems
on the horizon. in particular, we saw
over the past few days people taking to
the streets and there'll be a court
hearing this week, the home office
challenging uh the high court who said
that the uh that hotel that was at the
center of those riots, the bell uh in
Essex um that they would be blocked from
housing asylum seekers that would throw
uh the government's um entire
immigration policy and the housing of
asylum seekers into uh complete chaos.
So they will certainly have an eye on
that. And uh at the center of their
immigration uh approach as well,
agreements with the French, including a
one-in-one policy um and an agreement
that the French police would take a
different approach to letting uh
migrants, we've seen images of this uh
letting them get into those boats to
cross the channel and they were going to
take a harder line on that. Well, we now
know that the French uh government at
the moment is currently in in a bit of
disarray. Real political problems over
there for President Macron. So, some of
that could be delayed as well. So, many
problems on the horizon um for the
government and a firm commitment from
the prime minister that he's not going
to go down that road of tearing up uh
international agreements that that were
put in place to protect refugees. And if
he isn't going to do that, then his
political opponents will step into that
space and try to take advantage of that.
And that is what we've seen from Nigel
Farage today.
Liz Bates with the latest on that from
the home office from outside the home
office. Liz, thank you.
Now, the Israeli ministry said tonight
its initial inquiry into yesterday's
strike on hospital in Gaza has found
that troops had identified a camera that
had been positioned by Hamas in the
vicinity of the building, but it hasn't
provided any evidence to back up that
claim. At least 20 people were killed,
including five journalists in the strike
on the Naser hospital in Hanunice. In
Israel, meanwhile, demonstrations have
been taking place calling for the return
of hostages in what's been called a
national day of struggle. Our Middle
East correspondent Adam Parsons reports.
a mournful tune on an emotional day.
>> Across Israel, there were protests, a
call for the government to do everything
it can to bring home the hostages.
A plea for these voices to be heard. A
day when many went on strike as a show
of defiance.
Nadav's father, Tal, was taken hostage
on October the 7th. A beloved dad and
grandfather. He's now dead, but his body
has never been returned. Nadav is sure
that diplomacy, not war, will deliver
his father back to him.
>> My dad is still being held captive.
Although he's not alive, um my life is
stuck. So, in order to
continue living and start the healing
process, we need them home and we need
the war to be over. We meet Saviona. She
tells me her banner is a sign of
desperation. She says she trusts America
more than she trusts her own government.
A
>> very long war brings only death and this
despair to both people.
>> How would you sum up Benjamin Netanyahu?
I would like him to see to see him in
jail.
>> There is little love here for Israel's
prime minister. Seen by his detractors
as belligerent and inflexible.
>> As evening fell, so the noise increased
as the march arrived in Hostages Square.
This protest is all about making sure
that Israel does not forget these
hostages. A lot of people here say they
love their country, but a theme we've
heard again and again is that they think
that the government is imperiling the
loved ones who are imprisoned in Gaza.
Israel's government says it won't stop
the war unless Hamas agrees to all of
its terms with no deal on offer.
>> Our prime minister has been crystal
clear. No more peace meal um elements to
a potential uh ceasefire humanitarian
pause. Our objective it our objective is
all of the hostages a full deal.
>> So instead the military action
escalates. Gaza city attacked again. A
place almost certain to be occupied by a
huge Israeli force in the coming weeks.
>> It is impossible to escape the shadow of
war. Israel's military has now released
its first report into the attack on NASA
hospital that killed 20, including five
journalists and drew global outrage. It
claims the IDF was trying to destroy a
camera on the fourth floor. An excuse
that won't satisfy many. Adam Parson,
Sky News, Tel Aviv.
The pilot and two of his passengers
killed in a helicopter crash on the
aisle of white have been named. A fourth
person is in hospital after the chopper
went down during a flying lesson
yesterday morning. And tonight, the
company which owns the helicopter
expressed their sympathies for those who
were on board. Sky skies Dan Whitehead
reports.
>> A devastating loss that has left two
families heartbroken. Eustina Choska and
Voychek Kovalovski have been named as
two of the victims on Monday's
helicopter crash on the aisle of white.
Police have also confirmed that pilot
Simon Huitt lost his life. He was
leading a flying lesson that ended in
tragedy. Paying tribute, Justina's
daughters and family said, "We are
heartbroken to share the passing of our
mom. She was beautiful, funny,
talkative, optimistic, and kind. Always
wanting to make those around her happy.
Simon's family said that he was the most
wonderful, intelligent, kind man and
father. He brought so much joy and light
into our lives. We are absolutely
broken. As tributes come in,
investigation work at the crash site is
continuing. Lorries have been brought in
now to help recover the wreckage of the
helicopter. Behind the police cord and
officers from the air accident
investigation branch are carrying out
their work going through the helicopter
piece by piece. The helicopter took off
from Sandown Airport at around 9:00 a.m.
on Bank Holiday Monday. Locals describe
how it was a miracle no vehicles were on
the road at the time in what is peak
season on the island. The fourth person
on board, a man in his 30s, remains in a
stable condition in hospital. For the
families of the victims, there is now a
desperate need for answers as to just
how this tragedy occurred. Dan White is
Sky News on the aisle of white.
>> The governor of the US central bank, the
Federal Reserve, Lisa Cook, says that
she will sue Donald Trump over an order
to sack her. President Trump says there
is sufficient reason to believe that she
had made false statements on her
mortgage and says he has constitutional
powers to remove her.
>> She uh seems to have had an infraction
and she can't have an infraction,
especially that infraction because she's
in charge of, if you think about it,
mortgages and we need people that are
100% above board and it doesn't seem
like she was. Well, we have some very
good people for that position and I
think we have some very good people.
We're down to I mean I think I maybe in
my own mind have somebody that I like.
>> Let's go live to Washington and speak to
our US correspondent David Blevens.
David, Donald Trump has fired or tried
to fire quite a lot of people. Why is
this case so controversial?
>> Well, this isn't just about Donald
Trump's attempt to remove a governor
from the Federal Reserve. It's about his
attempt to control everything. The
Federal Reserve is an independent body
like the central bank. It sets interest
rates. And for months, he's been
threatening to fire the chairman, Jerome
Powell, for not cutting rates quickly
enough for him. And then overnight, he
announced that he had sacked Lisa Cook,
who is the first AfricanAmerican woman
to serve on that governing body. She
categorically denies his allegations of
mortgage fraud and has now filed her own
lawsuit against Donald Trump. But why
does it really matter? Well, if he were
to be successful in removing her, it
would tip the balance on the governing
body in favor of Trump nominees,
arguably giving him control over things
like the setting of interest rates.
That's why this move sparked a swift
response in the markets. The dollar fell
because investors are concerned about
further White House overreach. That's
why I say it's not just about one
governor. It's about a power grab or an
attempt to grab power. In this case,
from an independent body that sets
monetary policy for the United States. A
monetary policy with a global impact.
This affects us all.
>> David Blevens with the latest there from
Washington DC. David, thank you.
A court has heard how an asylum seeker
living in an Eping hotel tried to kiss a
14-year-old girl and told her he wanted
to have a baby with her. 38-year-old
Hadouch Kibbatu is accused of
approaching the teenager and her friend
in July. He denies charges including
sexual assault.
A manhunt is underway after two police
officers were killed and another
seriously injured in a shooting in rural
Australia. The incident happened at a
property in Portanka 200 miles from
Melbourne when 10 armed officers tried
to execute a search warrant. The gunman
remains at large.
The Metropolitan Police says it made a
total of 528 arrests over the two days
of the Notting Hill Carnival. There were
four stabbings or slashings, but no
life-threatening injuries. And the Met
says there was a reduction in serious
violence.
Sky News has been given exclusive access
inside a top secret Ukrainian drone
factory that's transforming warfare and
helping to hold off the Russian
invasion. But the facto's founder told
our international affairs editor Dominic
Wagghorn that they are losing the arms
race with Russia and are desperately in
need of more help from the West. Here's
Dominic's report.
>> In a nondescript office building in a
secret location, stacks and stacks of
one of the most lethally effective
weapons in this war.
They're put together like toys with care
and precision fitted with parts
programmed and customized to hunt,
intercept, and kill. They're made as
quickly as possible to meet demand from
the front. Starting as volunteers,
making a 100 a month. They're now
producing a thousand times that. It's
still not enough uh because Russians
have a lot of troops, a lot of uh
vehicles and um our soldiers uh
every day, every day uh tell us that we
need more, we need more weapons, uh we
need better, we need faster, we need it
higher and uh more and more. I want to
show you the testing room.
>> Each drone is tested before being sent
to the front line.
Demer played with drones at home before
the Russians occupied it. Now he's here
ensuring they're up to the job of
killing the enemy effectively.
This is how Ukraine has held off the
Russians for more than 3 years,
improvising with extraordinary startup
ingenuity. But for how much longer? The
factory is a key target for Russia. They
move often and keep its location secret.
We've been given exclusive access
because they need help. I need to say
that it's not about only money
investments. We need investments uh of
people of scientists of engineers uh
that can help us. They can give uh more
help. They can give more investments.
They can give uh more solutions, more
technical solutions. Uh for us, it's
about survival for now.
At the start of the war, drones gave
Ukrainians the power to hold off the
invaders, cheap and devastating, against
Russia's war machine. This is the $1,000
drone, taking out a $300,000 Russian
one. In the air and on the ground, they
have hunted the enemy without mercy. But
they're losing the upper hand now with
implications not just for Ukraine.
This conflict has revolutionized
warfare. It's becoming a sci-fi battle
between machines. And whoever wins the
drones arms race gets the upper hand,
not just in this conflict, but other
wars to come.
>> This is what they're up against. The
Russians are now openly showing off
their drone factories. Sinister pictures
showing high-tech production lines,
churning out thousands of attack drones
to take off from the back of pickup
trucks.
Russia is operating on a scale Ukraine
can only dream of. Hundreds of these
killing machines are launched against
Ukraine every night, taking scores of
civilian lives.
It is a constant battle to stay one step
ahead. Alexandra showed us a new
prototype guided by a trail of fiber
optic thread to prevent Russian jamming,
but he says the Russians with Chinese
help have them, too.
The Russians began using the technology
earlier and have scaled up production.
They've had considerable help from the
Chinese. Entire factories are under
contract to supply fiber exclusively to
Russia, producing it in vast quantities.
In just three and a half years, drones
have transformed the way war is waged,
raising the question, could humans soon
become obsolete on the battlefield? Do
you think drones will get rid of
soldiers completely?
>> Absolutely. I think it's a future and
nowadays we have statistics that 80% of
all strikes on the battlefield are done
by drones. We already understood from
the early beginning that the future is
in the future war it's about
technologies.
So um every I don't know every book that
you read about future it's it can be
right now.
>> While diplomats wrangle over security
guarantees for after the war. Ukraine
says it has more pressing needs right
now against Russia's militarized
economy. They are losing the edge and
can only prevail they say with more help
from the West. Dominic Worn Sky News
Ukraine.
Sweeping new internet safety rules
designed to protect children have now
been in place across the UK for a month.
Data suggests the number of people
visiting pornographic sites has fallen
sharply. But Sky News has found harmful
content is still sometimes being
targeted at teenagers as our science and
technology reporter Mickey Carroll has
been finding out. One month ago, the UK
saw the biggest change to its online
safety laws since the creation of the
internet. The new rules requiring age
verification and algorithm changes are
controversial. But have they made any
difference to our online lives? We want
to see if teenagers are still being
served harmful content. So, we're
setting up some fake accounts registered
to 15year-olds um and we're going to see
what we get served. Okay. Okay. So, I'm
just going to search on Tik Tok for a
couple of um search terms that may bring
up suicide and self harm content.
The first search term has come up with
no videos. I've just searched for one
that is it's not a niche word. I think
pretty much everyone knows it's related
to this topic. Um and it's brought up
some
really horrendous posts. The kind of
thing that should be hidden from
underage users now since these rules
came into force.
We also searched for another term and
were shown a mental health support page
with links to a helpline.
>> So that's exactly what should happen um
every time you search for something to
bring up this kind of content. Tik Tok
told us it has designed 70 plus features
and settings that support the safety and
well-being of teens and families on our
app. and we partner with organizations
such as Samaritans and the International
Association for Suicide Prevention to
bring well-being resources directly to
our community. We continually enforce
comprehensive community guidelines with
over 99% of violative content
proactively removed by Tik Tok. This
single account does not reflect the real
experience of a teen on our platform.
Yeah.
>> Although we found harmful content, a
group of teenagers we previously spoke
to before the rules came into force told
us they've now noticed a change.
>> So, I've definitely not seen uh violent
content anymore. I feel more clean in a
sort of way.
>> I can actually scroll on the internet
worry free of what's going to pop up.
>> I believe algorithms have been quite
tame in comparison to what they were.
>> Now, like I don't have to worry about
seeing things I don't want to see. Like
they do that for me. thing is adults use
the internet too and these new age
verification rules seem to have changed
the way they surf the web. Not
everyone's happy about it.
>> We all want children to be safe online,
but I don't think those benefits
outweigh the significant cost. No other
liberal democracy has taken steps like
this in this kind of way. Uh so no, I I
think there are ways to talk about child
safety online without embracing this
approach to the internet which treats
everyone as a child by default. Data
given to Sky News by Similar Web showed
that between the 19th of July and 15th
of August, there was a 45% drop in the
number of UK users to Pornhub, the
country's most popular pornography site.
And even pornography based forums took a
hit. Subreddits linked to bondage
discipline sadism and massochism or
BDSM, for example, are experiencing 12%
fewer visits from the UK than before the
new rules were introduced. At the same
time as age checks were introduced,
Google searches for VPNs, virtual
private networks that mask users
locations skyrocketed.
So just one month in, these new rules
have already changed how many people
browse the internet. The government has
described them as a first step in online
safety. The question is how much further
will they go? Mickey Carroll, Sky News.
The American singer songwriter Taylor
Swift has announced her engagement to
American football star Trev Kelsey,
telling him you belong to me and sending
her fan base into meltdown. Skye's Alice
Porter has the love story.
It looks like a happily ever after for
Taylor Swift. The pop star and NFL
player announced their engagement on
Instagram with a caption, "Your English
teacher and your gym teacher are getting
married with a dynamite emoji." It was
such explosive news, it even made it to
the White House.
>> 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'm just
going to shake shake shake shake shake
shake.
>> She's had one of the most scrutinized
love lives in showbiz. Her lyrics full
of breakups and makeups. In July 2023,
Travis Kelce declared on his podcast his
desire to date Taylor Swift.
>> I was disappointed that she doesn't talk
before or after her shows because she
has to save her voice for the 44 songs
that she sings. So, I was a little but
hurt. I didn't get to hand her one of
the bracelets I made for her. I wanted
to give Taylor Swift one with my number
on it.
>> Soon they were a couple with Kelsey
catapulted to the highest orbit of
celebrity. They got together midway
through her global era's tour. Kelsey
often seen at her shows. Swifties
watched on delightedly. He acknowledges
the fact that he is with somebody who
has such an impact in not just the music
industry but in so many people's lives
and like the the world itself in terms
of who she is as a person. So I feel
like he acknowledges that and celebrates
that. He he doesn't take away from the
fact that she's so passionate in what
she does.
>> When Swift appeared on Kelsey's podcast
earlier this month discussing their
relationship, engagement rumors went
flying. crazy. And I I knew that he
wasn't crazy. The first couple of times
that we talked, I was just like, he's
he's truly like he's truly getting to
know me in a way that's very natural,
very pure, very normal.
>> When the couple tie the knot, it's
estimated they'll have a combined net
worth of over $1.5 billion.
But for now, it's just the perfect love
story.
Alice Porter, Sky News.
>> And congrats to them. Well, that was Sky
News at 10. Coming up, we'll take a
first look at tomorrow's papers in the
press preview. Tonight, we're joined by
the broadcaster and commentator Ali
Mirage and the journalist and
broadcaster Jenny Kleman. Among the
stories we'll be discussing this on the
front of the Telegraph, the headline,
Taliban to give Farage deal on migrants.
We'll be right back.