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It's 10:00. This is Sky News at 10. I'm
Matt Barbett. Our top story, more than
100 asylum seekers can stay at the Bell
Hotel in Eping after a court ruling.
It's a victory for the government, but
it's provoked anger in Essex.
>> We are the English British citizens. We
live here and they've got more rights
than us. Wrong.
>> It's on their head. And if anything
happens here from today, that's on them
cuz they've invited it.
The makers of Chat GPT are accused of
putting profit over safety after the
death of this teenage boy. Israel
declares Gaza's largest city as a
dangerous combat zone as it prepares for
a fullscale assault. Outrage from
Democrats as President Trump suspends
the Secret Service protection of former
Vice President Kla Harris.
Good evening. On the face of it, the
government secured a victory today over
its decision to house asylum seekers in
hotels. The Home Office won its appeal
against a ban on asylum seekers living
at the Bell, a small hotel in Essex has
become the epicenter of government
crisis. Despite weeks of protests, more
than 100 people living there will be
allowed to stay for now. But ministers
are bracing for more legal action from
local authorities across the country.
Sky community's correspondent Becky
Johnson reports now from Eping.
>> Protected by barriers and police, asylum
seekers can remain at the Bell Hotel.
Protesters who'd celebrated a court
ruling to remove them have now seen it
overturned.
>> I really got let down every way. All I
can say is I'm going to say it now. Sama
has to go.
than us.
>> Wrong.
>> Victory for the Home Office leaving
locals feeling defeated. Our government
have hang their heads in shame after
today because they were involved as well
when they come out and backed up the
appeal. So, it's on their head and if
anything happens here from today, that's
on them cuz they've invited it.
>> Anger sparked here last month when an
asylum seeker was charged with sexually
assaulting a local school girl.
Eping now the epicenter of a wave of
protests that have spread across
Britain,
overturning the temporary injunction to
remove the asylum seekers here. The
judge said it could have encouraged more
disorder elsewhere.
>> This runs the risk of acting as an
impetus or incentive for further
protests, some of which may be
disorderly around asylum accommodation.
At its worst, if even unlawful protests
are to be treated as relevant, there is
a risk of encouraging further
lawlessness.
The judge said his ruling wasn't
concerned with government policy on the
housing of migrants, but the reality is
that this goes to the very heart of the
biggest political challenge facing the
government. Public anger over migrant
hotels is mounting and has been deepened
by a home office lawyer saying the
rights of asylum seekers trump the
concerns of local residents.
>> The tries quick to criticize both the
court's decision and the government.
>> I think the risk to lawlessness comes
because we have a government that has
lost control of our borders and a
government that isn't listening. A
government that is using the courts
against the British people.
>> The Home Office forced to defend its
record. Well, nobody wants to close the
Bell Hotel and all other asylum hotels
more than me and we have pledged that we
are going to do that by the end of the
parliament. Today's judgment allows us
to do it in a planned and managed way so
that we can uh get the system running
and make sure that we can uh we can exit
hotels for once and for all. Eping
Council can return to court to fight for
the hotel's closure again in October,
but for the government, temporary
relief.
In other places where protests have
spread, councils have been planning
similar legal action. The question is
where would asylum seekers go as public
anger makes the use of hotels seem less
and less sustainable. Becky Johnson, Sky
News Eping.
>> We will speak live to our chief
political correspondent, John Craig, at
the home office in a moment, but first
to Molly Malone, who's at the Bell Hotel
in Eping this evening. And Molly, the
building behind you has been a focal
point for protest for quite a while.
There have been fears of civil unrest
this evening after that ruling.
>> Yeah, that's right. The 40 or so people
that had been gathering here this
evening have in the last half an hour or
so been asked by police to move on. And
there is a dispersal order in place. But
having spoken to a number of them that
had been gathering here uh this evening,
they feel disappointed, deflated, but
none of them say that they felt
defeated. They still feel as angry as
they have been. The anger very much
building here outside the Bell Hotel uh
over the last couple of weeks. And this
feeling really that is these court
battles go on. They're feeling the local
community here. They say that government
lawyers that the government really are
prioritizing what they say is asylum
seekers, the needs of asylum seekers.
Remember, there are some 138 people
being housed in this hotel behind me.
Their lives of course and where they're
living remain in limbo. But the people
here really feel that the government
lawyers in that battle in that hearing
today are prioritizing their needs over
the needs of local people. Now the judge
in that hearing today saying that he was
acting in making his ruling in the
national interest. There is of course
the government are legally bound. They
have a legal uh duty to house asylum
seekers. Some of this is practical. They
have to be housed uh somewhere. But
certainly this feels like a community, a
nation that continues to be very much
divided over this issue.
>> Thanks Molly John. A reprieve for now
for the government and for the Bell
Hotel in Eping. But it doesn't mean that
other councils won't bring their own
legal challenges, does it?
>> There are plenty of councils that are
considering that. And following the uh
the ruling by the court of appeal, Kem
Beno, the Conservative leader, has been
goating conservative councils to take
action against the government despite
the ruling given in the court of appeal.
She said that the ruling is a setback,
but it's not the end. She said, "I say
to Conservative councils seeking similar
injunctions against asylum hotels, keep
going." And she's repeated her pledge to
help those counselors, conservative
counselors who want to take action along
the of the kind that Eping Forest
Council did. Now, significantly, some of
them are not are labor councils. The
Times is reporting that there are 13
councils uh poised or considering uh
taking legal action against the
government and hotel owners. Si
significantly four of those Whirl uh
Stevenage, Tamworth and Rushmore are
Labor control councils. Most of the rest
are conservative councils and some under
no overall control. Uh the report
tallies with what we at Sky News have
found out over the past week or so.
Those councils planning legal action,
conservative councils like Broxborn,
Hillington uh and uh and others uh
considering it. So uh the battle is is
on the legal battle. The Tories are
determined to uh uh to keep this fight
going. Nigel Farage claims that the
government has used the European
Convention of Human Rights against the
people of Eping. The judge didn't
actually mention that, but that issue is
very much alive and so is the legal
battle with Kem Benedino urging Tory
councils and others to take on the
government. John, thanks to you and
thanks to you as well, Molly.
And of course, as John pointed out
there, that story is in the times uh
tomorrow. We'll be discussing that in
our press preview here with Susie
Boniface and Bennett Spence joining me
at 10. Across the country, many people
though say they are angry and frightened
because of the asylum seekers being
housed in their communities and
desperate for the government to listen
to them. In Wakefield, our North of
England correspondent Katarina Vatsi has
been speaking to a former teacher and a
former policeman about what why they
will continue to protest.
>> It's been a summer of protests and we
wanted to speak to the people who've
joined them.
Dina Bentley is a retired teacher.
>> Hello. Hi, Donna. Thank you so much.
>> Are you Are you all right with dogs?
>> Yes, I'm fine with dogs.
>> Come on through.
>> How are you feeling? You're not too
nervous, I hope.
>> Uh, no. All right.
>> Last week, Dina went to her first ever
asylum hotel protest.
>> We are amongst friends.
>> Right.
>> I know it can be a little bit
controversial. The fact that I I don't
lord him, but I admire him.
>> Is that a permanent fixture or is that
just for us?
>> That is permanent.
>> What is it about Nigel Farage that you
like?
>> He says what I what I believe. what I
think.
>> Um,
and everybody talks about migration, but
our country's ruined. They've ruined a
It's an invasion, isn't it? And they
shouldn't be here.
>> Dinina has never been to a migration
related protest before. Understanding
why this one and why now for Dinina is
as much about the past as it is about
the present.
greatuncle Alfred
who was my grandma's brother.
>> Uh he was blown up in
1916. He died for our country and if he
could see what's happening to it now and
if he was in a grave he would spin. I'm
getting emotional now.
We are advised not to go to Somalia
because it's a dangerous country. Yet we
are accepting s men men from Somalia
into this country. They're undocumented.
We know nothing about them. We don't
know where they are. Wandering the
streets.
It's not right, is it? Why are they not
seeking asylum in the first safe
country? Well, we know why. Because when
they get here, they're getting
everything for free and we are paying
for it.
>> You say the government aren't listening.
But the government have said that they
are planning they hope to shut all the
asylum hotels, stop illegal crossings,
>> talk,
>> send people back.
>> It's all talk. Previous governments have
said exactly the same thing. I would be
happy if the Navy went into the channel.
We're an island for God's sake
and stopped the boat. That would make me
over the moon. Dinina tells us she
thinks people were frightened to say
what they really think about migration.
No more, she says.
And a few days later, we join her
heading to her second hotel protest in
Wakefield.
Cedar Court Hotel has been used to house
asylum seekers for several years.
Protests and counterprotests advertised
on social media began a few weeks ago.
>> How does it feel to be here?
>> Wonderful. But we've put up with so much
for so long and I think ordinary people
now uh they they saw the light a long
time ago but they've decided it's no
good sitting doing nothing. We need to
go out there and show our feelings and
that's why I'm here peaceful but do
something. Words words are no good
action to get government to sit up and
take notice of ordinary working people.
Nobody wants to be here. I feel quite a
little bit frightened being here.
>> Frightened. Frightened of what?
>> Just the the atmosphere and everything
being put in a position that you have to
come and join a protest to try and get
the government to listen to you. I'm a
60 year old mom. I work 40 hours a week
and nobody gives me anything free. You
just you just want fairness. Over on
that side, they're calling you Nazi
scum. How that can't feel
>> sticks and stones. Sticks and stones
could break my bones. I know what I am.
I don't value their opinion. So, um I
couldn't care less what they call me.
>> Dinina is one of many thousands of
protesters who share a sense of being
ignored, of written off as extreme. Over
the coming weeks, we will speak to
counterprotesters to hear what they
think about what feels for many a
fearful and uncertain time. Katherine
Fatsy, Sky News, Wakefield.
>> Now, the makers of Chat GPT are facing
legal action over the death of a
teenager. They're being accused of
putting profit before safety.
16-year-old Adam Rain first used the
chatbot for help with his schoolwork,
but soon he was telling it about his
mental health problems. Despite
safeguards, it discouraged him from
opening up to his parents. As our
technology correspondent Mickey Carroll
reports,
>> Adam Rain was 16 when he died in April.
He'd been talking about suicide with
Chachi PT for months. Now in a landmark
case, his parents are suing OpenAI over
his death.
>> I'm so worried about people forgetting
him because he is so young. So, I mean,
I hope everyone will remember what a
sweet, funny, great friend, great son,
great brother. Um,
I'm I just don't want people to forget
him.
>> The California lawsuit says that Adam
was initially using the AI to help him
with school work, but soon he was
telling it about his mental health
problems and feelings around suicide.
>> I had thought it's just something that
kids need to learn or should learn or
they're falling behind. He was using it
in ways that I had no idea was possible.
I don't think most parents know the
capability of this tool.
>> Chat GPT is fitted with safeguards to
help users in crisis and refer them to
mental health support. But in the months
of conversation between Adam and Chat
GPT, those safeguards degraded. Although
it repeatedly referred him to mental
health support or simply refused to
answer his questions, the 16-year-old
was able to easily bypass its
safeguards. According to the lawsuit,
>> one of the lawyers representing the
family told us the intense relationship
built between chat bots and users like
Adam isn't an accident.
>> We've seen over and over again is that
chatbots because they're optimized for
engagement, for user engagement to keep
people, you know, talking to the chatbot
for as long as possible.
That it it has the effect of almost
becoming a wedge between the user and
their in real life networks. In the
pages of the legal filing, there are
numerous examples where Chhat GPT should
have referred Adam to a realworld
support. Adam told Chat GPT he was
considering approaching his mother to
have a potentially difficult
conversation about his suicidal
thoughts. The bot suggested he shouldn't
open up to her. He also discussed timing
his suicide around the school calendar.
Instead of referring him to support, the
bot validated the idea of suicide. And
when he confided in the chatbot that he
didn't want his parents to think they'd
done something wrong, it told him he
didn't owe anyone's survival. It then
offered to help him write a suicide
note. Open AAI told us they were deeply
saddened by Adam's death. They said
while these safeguards work best in
common, short exchanges, we've learned
over time that they can sometimes become
less reliable in long interactions where
part of the model's safety training may
degrade. In a separate blog post, it
also said it's exploring ways to connect
users in crisis with real world
resources, including by building a
network of licensed professionals who
can respond through chat GPT itself.
Worried families around the world will
be watching this lawsuit.
Adam's parents only want justice for
their son. Mickey Carroll, Sky News.
A reminder that anyone feeling
emotionally distressed can always call
the Samaritans and speak to someone on
116123
or email joe samaritans.org in the UK.
There is evidence of Israel's renewed
offensive on Gaza City taking place
again tonight.
This video shows the bombardment over
the city this evening. Israel has
declared Gaza's largest city, in its
words, as a dangerous combat zone.
Israel's security cabinets approved a
plan for its military to occupy Gaza
city, which it says is a Hamas
stronghold and likely holding many of
the remaining Israeli hostages.
The Conservatives are calling for an
investigation into the tax affairs of
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Raina. Tory
party chairman Kevin Hollandra has
written to the Prime Minister's
Independent Standards Adviser asking him
to investigate whether the Deputy Prime
Minister broke Ministerial Rules. It
follows reports that Angela Raina saved
£40,000 in stamp duty when she bought a
new flat in Hoveve on the South Coast
after telling authorities it was her
main home. and we have approached her
team for comment.
Vladimir Zilinski has said Ukraine's
allies have agreed to wait until Monday
to see if Russia will agree to a
bilateral meeting. President Zalinski
also responded to claims that President
Trump no longer wanted to be involved in
the peace process.
It's understandable that Trump he wants
to have success for him for the United
States and he understand that maybe
during the first meeting he will not get
success but I'm sure if all of us will
strong
so we can have successful
moment for for for the people
>> finish the war
>> and of course it's understandable The
ceasefire is not, you know, just an
lasting period, but it's a big step
forward. So,
>> a former inmates to say Liverpool jail
has been found guilty of murdering an ex
prison officer 4 years after telling
him, "I will get you." Father of three,
Lenny Scott, exposed an affair between
the convict Elias Morgan and a female
guard in 2020. In revenge, Morgan shot
the former officer six times at close
range in February last year. Sky North
of England correspondent Shingi Marque
has this report.
>> This is the moment former prison officer
Lenny Scott was gunned down. An act of
revenge 4 years in the making. Scott
worked at HMP Alt Course in Liverpool
where in 2020 he discovered a phone in a
prisoner's cell. Information on that
device revealing an affair between a
prisoner Elias Morgan and a female
prison officer. When Morgan failed to
keep Scott quiet with a bribe, he turned
to threats.
>> Hello, M. Hi, please.
>> I'm a officer at HMPL course. Um, I've
been just being informed that there's a
there's been a car set outside my house
all weekend by a prisoner.
>> And who's made the threat?
>> Elias Morgan.
>> He's he's described my family and me to
a tea. described me house
just in fear for me family's life at
all.
>> It was a grudge Morgan refused to let go
and four years later on bail awaiting
trial for having the phone in his cell.
He followed through with those threats,
finding Scott outside a gym and shooting
him six times at close range.
[Applause]
Two weeks later, with the net closing
in, Morgan handed himself in at a police
station. He was on trial alongside his
longtime friend Anthony Clearary.
Clearary was accused of supporting the
murder plan by leaving a van and
electric bike near the scene of the
shooting. He said he had no idea Morgan
was planning to shoot anyone, and the
jury cleared him of both murder and
manslaughter. The police say Morgan's
actions were coldblooded. Oh yeah. To
kill a man, take a man's life, a man who
clearly had the utmost standard of
integrity, doing his job, simply doing
his job to keep people safe in the
community, to wait that length of time,
and to then act upon that and take
Lenny's life in this cold, calculated,
and callous way, discharging a firearm,
regardless of who else was around at the
time. Um, beggars belief, actually.
>> Yeah. Scott's parents say what happened
has left their family struggling for
answers
>> to to do what he did. It it just
incomprehensible.
>> While he was a prison officer, he he
wasn't worried about what they they were
in prison for. He was doing a job and he
wanted to make a difference. Um I think
he most probably felt that he was making
that difference. Once he got those
threats, it brought it back into real
life for him that actually this could
affect his family um and did affect his
family.
>> Two, three.
>> And even though justice has been done,
an act of vengeance has seen these
children left without their father.
Shingi Mari Kai News Preston Crown
Court.
Millions of young children will receive
a chickenpox vaccine on the NHS for the
first time from January in England. The
jab currently costs around £150 at
private clinics andarmacies. Ministers
hope the roll out will protect against
the virus's more serious effects, save
money, and reduce the need for parents
to take time off work. Molly Malone
reports.
>> Arri was 6 years old when he was
admitted to hospital after becoming
lethargic and struggling to walk and
talk. His chickenpox had become
infected, spreading to his brain as part
of a rare condition.
>> You don't even realize how dangerous it
actually can be. And his doctor turned
around and said he was basically a one
in 22,000 to have actually got it. When
I see people saying that it's not
dangerous or you need to have chickenp
parties, it's not funny really cuz they
don't realize how dangerous it could be
and that it could actually kill your
child.
>> Ari's now 16. He's just passed his
GCSEs. His mom welcomes news of a
vaccine, but wishes it came earlier.
>> Should have been done years ago. Yeah,
if they can prevent it, they should do
it.
>> Chickenpox is highly contagious, a viral
infection with symptoms including an
itchy, spotty rash and a high
temperature. It's common in children,
but people can get it at any age. For
most, it's mild, but sometimes can lead
to severe health complications like
swelling of the brain or lung
inflammation. people get this false idea
into their minds that chicken box is a
really trivial illness. Whereas for a
minority but a significant minority of
children uh they end up in hospital with
serious bacterial infections with
pneumonia even with brain injuries as a
result of this infection. So actually
chickenpox can be very serious.
>> Until now the vaccine has only been
available privately at a cost of around
£150.
It's already part of immunization
programs in countries like Germany,
Australia, and the United States. And
now from January, it will be available
here on the NHS for babies in two doses
at 12 and 18 months as part of the
measles, MS, and reubella vaccine. The
hope is that it will cut cases, reduce
hospital admissions, and save parents
from taking time off work to care for
sick children. But there are challenges
as uptake of the measles, mumps, and
reubella vaccine among young children
continues to wne. It's at the lowest
level in 15 years. For Ari, chickenpox
was so severe it nearly killed him. The
hope for public health experts is that
the vaccine will now help prevent that
happening to others. Molly Malone, Sky
News.
The US President Donald Trump's revoked
the Secret Service protection for the
former Vice President and 2024
Democratic rival Kla Harris. It was due
to end in January, but will now finish
next month instead. US correspondent
David Bleven is live in Washington now.
David, this has been described as
revenge by some senior Democrats.
Yes. A spokesperson for Gavin Newsome,
the governor of California, said the
safety of public officials should never
be subject to what they described as
erratic, vindictive political impulses.
Former vice presidents are only entitled
to six months Secret Service protection.
But before he left office, President
Biden extended that to 18 months for Kla
Harris. that's likely to have been based
on security advice determined by the
perceived level of threat. Remember, she
wasn't just the vice president. She was
the first AfricanAmerican vice
president, the first woman to hold that
office and the Democratic candidate who
took on Donald Trump in the last
election. In addition to all of that,
she's about to embark upon an extensive
book tour. Her memoir covering the
period of her short election campaign is
due out next month. So, she has this
symbolic status and she's about to see
an increase in public engagements. But
the White House has revoked federal
protection for Donald Trump's electoral
rival, a woman who has not yet ruled
herself out of the race to secure the
Democratic nomination again in 2028.
>> David, thank you.
This year's COP 30 climate summit comes
at a precarious time for climate action
as banks and tech companies backtrack on
green initiatives under the shadow of
Donald Trump. Today, the Brazilian hosts
wrote to business leaders urging them to
step forward and not back. Our climate
reporter Victoria Seabbrook has been
talking with COP 30's chief executive.
is not only obviously what's happening
in the US but yes the US has shown going
back some of the support and
198
countries minus one is not zero and we
will put all our efforts of working with
the 197 countries that wants to go
forward and wants to protect their
population. Climate action it not is not
only cool it's necessary. We all need to
face reality. We are going through a
huge climate crisis. If you're not part
of the solution, you're part of the
problem. Companies that have been
initiated this work understand that.
Manchester United's head coach Ruben
Amarim says he sometimes wants to quit
his role at the club amid media reports
that he could leave after tomorrow's
game in the Premier League against
Burnley. United have followed up last
season's 15th place finish in the
Premier League with a poor start to the
campaign, losing on penalties to league
two side Grimby Town.
>> Sometimes I hate my players. Sometimes I
love my players. Sometimes I want to
defend my players. I I I think I cannot.
This is my way of doing things.
Sometimes I I I want to quit. Sometimes
I want to be here for 20 years.
Sometimes I I love to be with my
players. Sometimes I don't want to be
with him.
>> That was Sky News at 10. Coming up, we
will take a first look at tomorrow's
papers in the press preview. Tonight,
I'm joined by the political commentator
Benedict Spence and the Daily Mirror
columnist Susie Boniface. Among the
stories we'll be talking about, this one
on the front page of the Times. Its
headline, 13 councils seeking to shut
asylum hotels down. We'll be right back.
Heat. Heat.