UK Column News - 3rd October 2025

Good afternoon. Today is Friday the 3rd of October 2025, just after 1:00. Welcome to UK column News. I'm your host, Brian Garish. Delighted to be joined today by Patrick Henningson. Patrick is in France. He'll be coming in on Livelink. And also we have Mark Anderson who will be joining us on Livelink from Texas. So welcome to both my guest presenters. Now, as you can see, the weather is decidedly poor here in UK, but not to worry about that because we've got lots of hot

political news for you. We're going to be covering the Manchester Synagogue attacks. We're going to be having a look at the Greta Thunberg flotilla and Israel. We'll be, of course, covering the banks and the international banking system because nothing happens without big money. We're also going to be looking at the Paloma Shimarani inquest and the some of the more hidden fallout from the tragic inquest that's just trade taken place. We'll be also covering Trump's

loving with FOIA. We're going to be having a little look at the French, Ukrainian relations and and indeed politics around Moldova. We'll be taking a look about what Prince William is talking about, which is change in the monarchy. And also we've got some interesting footage of people actually now starting to really get out to say we are going to change and stop what is happening with regard to Keir Starmer's UK politics.

So let's kick off with a little bit of background to where Keir Starmer was before he was pulled back to UK for his emergency COBRA meeting and he was present in Copenhagen. This is just part of the the media release, the 7th meeting of the European Political community. It looks fairly dull from a media sense, but actually if we bring in one of the photographs, we can see that there were some extraordinary images and a lot of body language between some

pretty powerful people. So in the picture on screen, we've got what we're describing is the EU head teacher Ursula von der Leyen, who's admonishing a rather petulant trainee, Italian Prime Minister Georgie Maloney. So just have a look at the expression on the faces of those two women. And of course, whilst we might be laughing, this is where the deep power politics gets played

out. But let's bring in our very own Keir Starmer. No, he isn't wearing some sort of flowery headdress, that's just a trick of the camera. But we've got we've got some interesting expressions here with Queen Mary of Denmark sitting as the Rose between the two poisonous thorns, which is Starmer there to her right and Macron to her left. But yeah, trick of the camera. We should also pay attention to the fact, of course, this was

banqueting. This was fine wine and dining while the rest of the mayhem goes on in the world. Now Keir Starmer had to cut his little visit short because of the synagogue attack and he came straight back for a cobra meeting. Now tragic events that have taken place in Manchester. The latest is that we've got one victim that is now being apparently sorry, it's now being said about 1 victim that they were hit by police gunfire. So we'll wait to see what information comes out about

that. We've got 2 Jewish men killed by being hit by a car. We've got three people in hospital and we've got three people arrested. Now this is just a little clip that was taken as the event was taking place. It's it's widely available on the media, but we'll just bring it in to set the scene 1 casualty on the ground and the police armed and very aggressive. Let's have a look we've. Killed him. Everybody else, get back. If you're not involved, move back. Get away. Somebody.

Everybody else, you have to fall. Go. Away so we'll say dangerous situation but also at the time the police claiming that one of the man prostate on the ground was also had explosives with him. So that warm warning. Let's just have a little look at this clip of Keir Starmer. The attack in Master this morning is absolutely shocking and all of our thoughts with those affected. I'm on my way back to London. When I arrive I will chair an

emergency COBRA meeting. I'm already able to say that additional police assets are being deployed to synagogues across the country and we will do everything to keep our Jewish community safe. I spoke to Mark Gardner of the CST and Andy Burnham, Mayor of Manchester and and I want to thank the emergency services for the speed of their response. So we'll say a tragic attack on the Jewish community there. But Keir Starmer adamant he's going to do everything possible.

Remember David Cameron saying that his belief in Israel was unshakeable? Israel appears to come first, but Stormer then started quite a chain of media announcements about this attack, so we've got another clip. Good evening. Earlier today, on Yom Kippur, the holiest day for the Jewish community, a vile individual committed a terrorist attack that attacked Jews because they are Jews and attacked Britain because of our values.

So many Jewish families first came to this country as a place of refuge, fleeing the greatest evil ever inflicted. Honour people and Britain welcomed them. Communities like the one attacked in Manchester provided safety but also the security. That comes from a promise that this is a country that stands up to hatred and that we don't just provide refuge, we provide a home for so many Jewish families. That is the story of Britain.

But Britain is also a country where Jewish buildings, synagogues, even schools require round the clock protection where dedicated specialist security is necessary because of the daily threat of anti-Semitic hatred. Today's horrific incident shows why. So my personal reply to that is I've never heard Keir Starmer with this level of passion about defending the rest of the people in the UK.

So as far as I'm concerned, this is highly biased reporting and that doesn't detract from the seriousness of the attack or the suffering of the Jewish community in Manchester. Patrick, just bring you in with us very quickly because Keir Starmer is clearly very, very motivated by this. We haven't seen this passion in relation to the 10s of thousands of people killed in Gaza or the ongoing slaughter in Ukraine, for example. Sure. I think it's personally I'm looking at the forensic side of

the case. It's too early, there's not a lot of details and certainly would want to know more about the assailant, the suspect, the motivation, the background that that will all be very interesting and perhaps revealing as to what we're actually looking at here. So that's what that's where my eyes are.

That's where my concern is. But, you know, considering what's happening right now in the Middle East and the world's eyes are on the Gaza Strip, there's an ongoing genocide happening as we speak right now in 2025. And, you know, some world leaders are paying attention to this and, you know, trying to intervene to stop Israel, slow them down. Colombian President Gustav Petrov, for instance, is talking about deploying armed military personnel to act as peacekeepers.

They're talking about sanctioning Israel. So 100 / 150 countries in the in the UN actually condemning Israel's actions and voting to recognize a Palestinian state. So certainly that's worthy of a press conference, I would think from any world leader, especially AG 7 leader or a, a leading NATO country. So yes, it's it, it's, it's certainly Keir Starmer's wheelhouse, if you will,

politically, he's there. He's, he's always reiterated his support, his unflinching support for the Jewish community and concerns for the, the Jewish community in Israel and so forth. So no one's really surprised by the press coverage and and the reaction after this. Patrick, thank you very much. We'll bring you back in again shortly. But just to finish this segment to the news, in the first clip with Starmer, he mentioned CST. Now many people will be unaware of what that that is.

Let's just have a look at this still from the BBC clip. If you look in the background, you can see a man with CST on his jacket. And what we're talking about is this organization, which is essentially a private security force protecting solely Jewish interests, are very, very powerful and working closely with the UK police and intelligence services. And apparently they are working to assist the police in tackling hate crime across the board and

preventing terrorism. They operate a database where I went to have a look and see if I could find out how many Jewish people have actually died in UK as a result of terror attacks. And whilst this organization does have databases so it talks about a methodical insight into chronology, sequence and details of UK terror attacks and plots. It talks about UK counterterrorism policing and the UK Security Service providing updated figures. But but it's all a bit woolly.

It says the absence of a public record makes it difficult for researchers to look for information on terrorism. And then it boasts that CSTS databases should help stimulate A constructive discussion on terrorism trends. So this is not just logging what's happening to the Jewish community. This is about driving public opinion. And if you have a look at the databases, I tried just to search for the number of Jewish people who've who have unfortunately died as a result

of terror attacks. I tried a number of combinations of information, but as the as the database works, what you find is it doesn't bring up specific information about the Jewish community. It spreads it over jihadist and other terrorism, right wing terrorism, etcetera. So this blurs your ability to be able to get detail out and I was unable to establish how many Jewish individuals have died as a result of terrorism in UK from 2013 to 20 to 2025.

So I'm just going to post over this that it does seem that these databases are blurring the lines between attacks on the Jewish community and other so-called terrorist or extremist attacks. Why this is, I think a lot more questions need to be asked. But of course, across the board, we're seeing now wall to wall coverage about the Manchester attack almost blanking out other events in the world.

Well, if that's what's been happening here in UK, Patrick, let's bring you back in with us because you've been having a look at the the flotilla, Greta Thunberg's flotilla. What's been happening around that? Yeah, thanks, Brian. It it's not actually Greta Thunberg's flotilla, it's the global Sumud flotilla. There's over 500 humanitarians and activists from around the world, one of which is Greta Thunberg, along with many others, including many from the UK and Ireland as well.

We'll talk about some of those individuals in a moment. But global Sumud, Sumud in Arabic means perseverance, it means steadfastness. So it's interesting that they've used that term. But what's interesting, Brian, about this is the mainstream coverage.

And here, this is Reuters. So CNN, Reuters, they they've all finally covered the even covered the fact that Israel was launching drone attacks in international waters and even in Greek territorial waters, if I'm not mistaken, against some of the flotilla ships over the last week or so. And there's Greta giving her final one of her final video just there. All of the activists uploaded kind of, if you will, last words before they were apprehended. So those were already ready to go.

Some of them actually did it with their life jackets on as the IDF we're boarding their ships. So Israel interdicted, seized, you know, kidnapped, abducted all of the people on board all of the ships, taking all the ships, I think in total 40 boats. We'll look at the numbers in a moment here, but here are some of the details we'll bring up on screen.

Israel faced international condemnation and protests on Thursday after its military intercepted almost all of the 40 boats in this wave of the flotilla. And they're carrying aid to Gaza. And they took captive more than 450 foreign activists, humanitarians, including Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg. So I think because Greta was on board, that's probably one of the reasons why this got so much mainstream coverage and because she's by far the most high profile activist individual on

there. So from that point of view, from there, from the organization and the effort of the campaign's point of view, I think that was probably the a positive thing here. Now we've broken down some of the details and granular analysis of this at 21st Century Wire, the headline Israel, the Pirates of the Mediterranean. It's going to only be described as a massive act of piracy on the high seas and we'll look at the international law in a moment. But here, here's a video clip.

We'll bring this up on on screen. And this is interesting. So this here's here we have footage of which I'll I'll speak over the top of, but here we have footage of the idea of actually boarding, actually boarding one one of the ships. So they all had CCTV cameras that were live streaming. The boats were very well prepared as you can see the idea for coming up here on this particular vessel. And so this is how it kind of

went. And so over the course of 14 hours, IDF forces seized, illegally seized the boats, impounded all the humanitarian aid on board, including baby formula and things like this, you know, just things that you can't get, including fresh water in Gaza here. And you can see this is one of the the parts where they're actually boarding. What you'll find here towards the end of this clip is interesting. They basically stormed the boats and held the humanitarians at

gunpoint. They had their weapons drawn and fingers more almost on the trigger. I, I didn't take a close enough look, but as you can see on this footage here, it'll sort of advance in a moment towards that, that point where you can see with the, with the actual weapons drawn as they get onto the ship, pointing the barrels of their, the muscles of their guns, automatic weapons in the faces, in the backs of the heads in some cases of some of the humanitarians and people on board this ship.

Now these are people from European countries, South America, from Asia, from the United States, from Northern Ireland, from the Republic of Ireland, from from Great Britain and from North Africa as well, including Arabic Arab members as well from Arab countries. So it's, it's, that's, that's what's happening. It's absolutely incredible.

Now there is an amazing piece of footage, Brian Tiago Avila, who is from Brazil, He was on one of the earlier individual boats that basically got got seized, I think the Magdalene. And he was incarcerated and cap captive in the Israeli gulag was released, went back home and he came back on the global Sumud

with many more boats. And this is when the IDF are hailing his boat and this the you'll hear his reply to the Israeli person, the Israeli person at the other end with an American suburbian accent, which is something in itself. But listen to his. I mean, it's a powerful, powerful statement he made to the Israelis. Here we've got the audio clip which we can watch an.

Active war zone If you could an attempt to breach the naval blockade, we will stop your vessel and act to confiscate it through legal proceedings in court bear full responsibility for your actions. Say that we are entering an active war zone. You're saying that we're entering a place where you're committing war crimes. This is against international law.

Once again, the International Court of Justice made a provisional ruling that any attempt to hinder humanitarian mission to Gaza, it's prohibited by international law and is complying with the request to make you accountable for the crime of genocide. The International Criminal Court has your Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under an arrest warrant for the crime of starving children and starving people to death, using starvation as and famine as a

weapon of war. Therefore, it's a moral duty to continue sailing. It's our moral duty to refuse any attempt of an occupying force to control humanitarian aid for the Palestinian people in Gaza who have the right of their sovereignty, who have the right of their self determination and to control their own borders.

Therefore, we do not recognize you as a legitimate agent to control any attempt to bring aid to the Palestinian people in Gaza. We request you to stand down, to do not commit another war crime among so many that you've been committing, and to stand down, do not engage with our peaceful, nonviolent, humanitarian solidarity mission for the Palestinian people in Gaza. I advise you again.

So as you can see, I mean, a powerful statement there I that will go down in history and in my book anyway, as one of the greatest sort of confrontations. They're really telling the Israelis where things are at now. We just do just for prudence jurisprudence, Brian here, we'll pull up the United Nations Convention as a law of the sea. So people know they can go to that's page seven of the table of contents and that will link you to this documents available

online. Just a Google search there and also just on terms of the territory waters, these boats, most of them were, were were seized about 70 to 100 nautical miles off the coast of Israeli controlled waters of occupied Palestine here. And we'll just blow up this, this point here, territorial sea up to a limit not exceeding 12 nautical miles. So clearly Israel's in violation of all international law and the law of the sea. And I, I will add as well. And this was relayed to us.

We were in touch and talking to two of the boats and three members of the flotilla, including Doctor Frank Romano and also the the journalist Yader Madarelli. She is an Italian journalist who's also a contributor at 21st Century wire.com. She was on the Metech boat along with the Irish comedian and performing artist Tag Hickey. And so they were able to relay some of this information to us.

Israel had sent a message to all of these boats to go to the port of Ashkelon and they said you will not be harmed.

We will take your humanitarian aid and distribute it to the people of Gaza. But because certain people had had had a very violent experience with the Israelis before, they said they didn't trust them and the made a decision not to take the Israeli offer to go to the Israeli port of Ashkelon. And they said, no, we're bringing humanitarian aid, we're within international law, we're going to Gaza. And so they did. So that was an interesting detail here.

And we'll this is a press release here. And this was from the flotilla. This is from their legal representative in the UK. And they're saying Global Sumot flotilla is urging UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper to take immediate steps to ensure their safety and security in the face of attacks. And they add it is urgent that the UK government joins Spain and Italy and ensuring the security of the flotilla. Now, that came just a few days ago. Obviously, things have changed

now. And this is quite extraordinary here. One boat nearly made it through. And you can see people on the beach here, Brian, in Gaza, on the Strip. And the boat called the Makino. The Makino made it 9 miles off the coast before it. It was eventually seized by the IDF, by the Israeli forces. It nearly made it through. So they nearly overwhelmed the Israeli naval assets. And this the people were just hoping that some of this aid would make it through.

And we have a video, one of the young girls, her name is Shaheed Shaheed on on shore. And she she she released this video of her drawing a picture of the flotilla coming is quite a moving video. We just thought we'd share it with you because it's just extraordinary. But go ahead and roll that. None. So it's pretty extraordinary. And also we're going to add here that there is another wave of flotilla ships coming from another sister organization, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition here.

Reuters is running the live stream from these boats, which to me is incredible that that's actually happening. So they're on the way. There's a number of ships in there. And there's other flotillas that are being launched from Turkey as well. They're heading to Gaza. So we'll see what happens. They've got a list here of some of the new ships. We'll put that up on screen. People can go to the Global Summit of Flotilla account. We've got the the the X account

here. We'll bring their account page up on screen next. But that's where people go for updates. You can go and find all of their stuff there. And yeah, I thought I'd just add here, we'll bring this up on screen. Israeli Navy seizes flotilla ships. That was a previous slide anyway. But while they're while they're pounding, while they're pounding Gaza and basically destroying whole blocks, residential blocks, that's what's actually happening. So it's, it's an incredible situation there.

And we we gave a live stream interview here where we'll put up on screen on the Sunday wire on Sunday. We spoke to Yara Madarelli and Tag Hickey on the live via Starlink. And you can look at the, you can, you can look at the, the, the, the full interview up at 21st Century wire.com. It's just advance one more. And you can see their faces there. There they are. And so that was a great conversation. That's the last live stream interview they did before they were seized.

They're currently and incarcerated in Israel. So that's where that story is at the moment. It's an, it's an extraordinary story, but we'll, we'll find out more hopefully by the end of today and by Monday. Patrick, thank you very much for that report. There's a lot to discuss there. We'll save some of it for UK column extra after today's news. But yeah, lots of questions to be asked about actions in territory, in international waters. Mark, let's bring you on.

Welcome to UK column news today. I'll just say that one thing is for sure that as the wars go on in the Middle East, as in Ukraine and in Ukraine, it's the international banking system rubbing their hands with Glee as more and more profits are accrued from the war, the violence, the ammunition, the munitions. And not surprising, I think that you focused in on Mark Carney today.

Indeed, keeping my eye on the think tanks like usual, they again kind of cement the relationship between the plutocratic class and the political class, Always an

important thing to watch. This time I went to the good old Council on Foreign Relations itself, not its Chicago cousin and not Chatham House and Mark Carney, your friend and mine, the neoliberal banker, the emblematic face of international banking, formerly Bank of Canada, formerly Bank of England. He's now PM of Canada, replacing Trudeau of course, and he spoke with Michael Froman very recently this past week about the foreign policy of Canada.

And briefly I'll before I get into the fact that they talked about the two state solution and Carney's apparent support of it. They got into a little bit more about the big trade deals and some of the trade intentions. And let's put this on the on the screen in terms of Canada's foreign policy economically. Mr. Carney touched on the existing comprehensive and progressive agreement for Trans Pacific Partnership, the CPTPP.

It's an existing thing, but it it took all the way from 2006 up to the relative present to get it all buttoned together back and forth over the years. And it's focusing like digitally, like the digitally foundation, they're focusing on the Indo Pacific. Now the world's leading region of economic growth is offering big opportunities for trade and expansion, things like that. And the the UK is reaching the one year mark. Let's put that on the screen.

And as of December 15th this year, the UK will will have reached a one year mark. If it was a little less than a year ago that the UK officially became a member of this trade partnership, that's 11 or so nations, counting Canada and Brunei and Japan and several others. People can read that from the show notes and this is marking a significant achievement for the UK as the first non founding and 1st European country to join this trade partnership.

The UK is now the second largest economy in this group after Japan. And I'll mention too that this ties into last week. We'll show this just as a reminder when I did an update on the Ditchley Foundation having just concluded another one of their meetings. They're also focusing in a slightly more military strategy context on the Indo Pacific area. So there's there's a lot of focus on on the Indo Pacific area in terms of trade, in terms of policing the globe, things

like that. Now I have some video clips because the conversation quickly turned to Gaza and Mr. Carney briefly mentioned that they're going to expand trade within Canada and reduce trade barriers and improve the regulatory framework among the Canadian provinces. And also the Canada, because of friction with the United States is going to reach out to the European Union much more in

terms of trade and investments. Although Canada recognizes it still needs to be in good standing with the US, US, Mexico, Canada agreement that replaced NAFTA a few years ago and that that tripartite or or trilateral agreement rather is going to be reviewed again in 2026.

So Kearney does want to stay with good relations with the US and Mexico for purposes of that agreement, even though he's going to do more in in trade within Canada and with the European Union. And the European Union is actually looking at joining that Trans Pacific partnership that I just described. So that that's still in the in the making. But Mr. Carney then told Michael Froman of the CFR that he and Canada support A2 state

solution. Now how sincere and how meaningful this is remains to be seen. But let's listen to a little bit about what Mr. Carney had to say about it had to say, excuse me about a two state solution. I believe yesterday Canada joined some European countries in recognizing Palestinian statehood. What do you expect that to accomplish? Well, I think the first thing to say is this is consistent with

our policy. Since 1947, since 19, every Canadian government, whether of whatever political stripe, has supported A2 state solution as as many other countries have what we have been seeing. 1st. Because of the acts of these Highness acts of Hamas. But then other in, in terms of response is that that prospect is receding before our eyes.

OK, So the idea of waiting until all the conditions are in place for a, a free and viable Palestinian state committed to peace and security side by side with the state of Israel. What what I've called a Zionist Palestinian state, which is what we want those conditions being in place, keeping the concept there on the shelf when it is the avowed policy of the Israeli government that there will never be a Palestinian state.

That is the policy of the current Israeli government and their actions are consistent with with that policy. And I can just concentrate on what's going on in the West Bank without touching Gaza. So what we, what we're looking to accomplish is to, is to keep that front and center to be with a host of influential but not decisive countries.

So we're alongside the Kingdom of Saudi, not in the recognition, but as part of this process, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, France, UK, Australia, Qatar, Egypt, others, Norway, you know, actively trying to create conditions at a minimum for a ceasefire obviously, and then a peace process. That's that's part of that. Yeah, interestingly enough, and it's worth mentioning, Michael Froman, the host, he happens to be Jewish. There's a lot of Jewish

influence at the CFR. David Rubenstein is the head of the board of directors, the chairman of the board of the

CFR. And so the the neoliberal wing of of certain Jewish interests and the CFR in general, which is globalist, generally speaking, is obviously much more sympathetic to Gaza. Now, whether it's too little too late or whether this is just for optics, just just for, you know, public relations and maybe they're not real sincere or maybe they're not real hopeful that it'll ever happen. The two state solution, some of that remains to be seen.

We have one other, I believe shorter clip from Mark Carney that sort of rounds out what he just got done saying, however. We're under no illusions that this is any sort of panacea, but

it's necessary in our judgement. It's and the judgement of most other countries in the world that we have to push on this now because as I say, the the, the possibility in absolute violation of the UN Charter, in an absolute violation of international law of self determination for the Palestinian peoples is, is is being erased. So he is saying that the the window of opportunity is quickly

closing. Now moving on, we have the president emeritus of the CFR who also just happened to, you know, grow up in in a Jewish heritage. And he once considered being a Rabbi Richard Haass on foreign affairs. He posted this article with a rather interesting headline. A Palestinian state would be good for Israel, but that had a pay pay window on it. And so I found another article that was very similar in tone and I got a couple quotes from the former president of the CFR

about this issue. The first one he said the following regarding France, the UK, Canada and Australia recognizing the state of Palestine. Behind this move is deep frustration with what Israel is doing in Gaza and the West Bank, with their own inability to influence Israeli actions, those that want statehood for Palestine, and with what is seen as US passivity and unwillingness to reign in Israel, Mr. House went on to say, and he also had this to say.

One problem is that, at least for the time being, the shift towards statehood A2 state solution is just rhetorical. The decision to recognize a Palestinian state does not improve the prospect of ending the war in Gaza or actually creating a viable Palestinian state. So Mr. Haas is sounding a more pessimistic note on this, Brian.

But nevertheless, the the globalist community that usually is somewhat pro Israel or kind of silent on the matter is being a little more outspoken and we'll we'll see where that goes. Meanwhile, of course, they're trying to juice up that worldwide trade deal that is a ongoing holiday for the bankers and those in the banking community. So back to you. Mark, thank you very much.

My opinion on that Mark Carney speaking there was that he was terrified that he might say the wrong thing and what came out was effectively woeful, but he was very frightened of saying the wrong thing and criticizing the very Zionist state which he says needs to needs to be formed again. We'll come come on to this more in UK column extra now important thing to say is a huge thank you to everybody that supports UK column. Wherever you are in the world.

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free will and justice. And with regard to today's news headlines in the UK, personally I think that this was the most important news. Now, in the first instance, it's not in relation to what many have described as a very strange inquest. Some people have said they've regarded as being manipulated. This is for discussion on another time, but I wanted to draw people's attention to what Kate, sorry with sorry, Marianna Spring had to say about this

inquest. She's talking, of course, about Kate Chemerani and her daughter Paloma. And this is a big BBC article which is entitled Why We Struggle to Protect the Young from Conspiracy Theorist Parents. My goodness, this is an extremely dangerous article by Marianna Spring, and it's dangerous. It's very offensive still in the way that she is used for the suffering as a family in order to get her political points across. Why am I saying this? Well let's just have a look at 2

quotes here. This is the first one. She's talking about the case. This has raised broader questions around the influence and impact the conspiracy theories held by parents, where beliefs stretch far beyond genuine concerns can have on children, including adult children, and in order to help protect children in the most extreme cases, where should the line be drawn between child protection and a parent's freedom to raise their child

according to their own beliefs? This is immensely dangerous and people should remember that a few years ago children's services were used in UK to attack a family because of their political beliefs in supporting UKIP. Kate Chemerani goes on. There's a sub headline trusting parents. I beg your pardon? Mariana Spring goes on to say trusting parents versus the state. In theory children should be

protected. Any adult can raise concerns about a child's well-being with a local authority, including if there's a worry a child is being harmed by parental beliefs. If it's then decided the child is at risk of harm, an application can be made to the family court for orders to protect them. But in reality, legal experts tell me this is Marianna Spring. The threshold for intervention is high. Well, of course, she knows nothing about the so-called child protection system.

And I believe that what's happening here is an immensely dangerous attack on parents for their beliefs, with the implication that children will be taken from you as a family if you do not have the correct political and social beliefs. So I'll leave people to take that, to take that on board. And let's just move on now with the subject of pharmaceuticals and Bach. Let's bring you back. And the subject is Trump and Pfizer's loving.

Well, I'm not altogether sure if it's 11, but there's a lot of questions being asked now. This first slide is from the Defender, the Children's Health Defense, which of course is RFK. The current HHSHHS heads former outfit. So RFK now being part of Trump's cabinet, his own former outfit is asking a lot of questions. The headline being secrecy over the Trump Pfizer deal sparks a FOIA, sparks FOIA demands, Freedom of Information demands and some public outcry.

Pfizer stock jumped Tuesday after CEO of Pfizer Albert Borla and President Trump announced a deal to lower US drug prices and invest 70 billion in domestic manufacturing. And then Pfizer, at least for a time, would be relieved of any tariff charges. So I'll also go on to share this slide. It's very important. I mark the important part in red. No tariffs and Medicaid ready. Trump held a press conference with Borla 30 September. Under the deal, Trump will

refrain from imposing tariffs. It'll be Pfizer in turn, will boost its domestic manufacturing, excuse me, make its drugs available to Medicaid at a discounted rate and sell its products directly to US patients at a discounted rate via the yet to be launched government website Trump RX. A rather curious development to say the least. And this is from the same day. Just just so we can see what they're saying. This is Pfizer's own press release about the same deal Pfizer reaches landmark

agreement. They're calling it landmark and historic. Those two words are being used with the US government to lower drug costs for American patients. Now I'll mention here, Brian, that I I talked to a a long time American Free Press reader and Blogger last night and a couple other people whose views are in fact they're mostly MAGA people to a degree Trump supporters.

And they feel there's a lot of benefits here in terms of a lowering drug prices because the idea is to make the Medicaid, the Medicaid linked drug prices in the states comparable with what what the drug prices that are paid in Europe. Trump is seating seeking kind of an equilibrium or inequality there. And they feel that's tantamount or similar to giving a Social Security increase to some of these senior citizens in the states.

If you lower their drug cost, that's similar to raising their Social Security payments that that kind of indirect benefit. There was also talk about that it is helpful that more jobs will be created, that the drug companies, like them or not, are part of the overall industrial base of any given nation. So improving the job prospects in the states, better paying jobs can be a plus that they see as well.

But there's also other questions, of course, in terms of how this will affect vaccine policy. Now on this press, this is drawn from the Pfizer press release. Let's just show these quick bulleted items.

This historic landmark agreement provides certainty from tariffs and clarity on pricing, which furthers Pfizer's ability to expand investment in US based innovation and return manufacturing to the US. And Pfizer will fully focus on delivering the next generation of cures, especially in cancer, obesity, vaccines and inflammation and immunology. So that's a little more from Pfizer.

Now I have a little bit more from the Children's Health Defense. And this rounds out this report, Brian. State Medicaid programs will be able to access Pfizer's products at prices similar to what the car company charges other wealthy nations. As I mentioned, Pfizer has agreed to increase its drug prices in other countries a little bit while lowering them in the USA little bit. So that it's fair, Trump was quoted as saying. Kind of an equaling effect.

However, Pfizer did not agree to cut the prices it currently offers to employers, private insurers and Medicare. Medicare being purely a federal medical coverage. Medicaid is combination state and federal medical coverage. The White House has not released details about the 70 billion that Pfizer agreed to spend on US domestic manufacturing facilities. Those details, at the very

least, are not available yet. So there's a lot of unanswered questions amid some practical benefits perhaps, but with big Pharma, of course, any advantages it would get right when The Who is wrapping up the pandemic treaty, right when another pandemic could conceivably be declared. Will this be particularly advantageous for Pfizer even even over and above other pharmaceutical companies?

That and many other questions have yet to be asked or answered, Brian. But this initial report shows that they're very important questions to ask amid whatever benefits there may be. So, so back to you at this point. Mark, thank you very much. Absolutely, we must keep our eye firmly on the global pharmaceutical system and the immense power of these pharmaceutical companies. And as you say, many more questions to ask. Patrick, let's bring you back. And the subject is France and Ukraine.

I think you're surely going to be bringing Macron back on screen. So, fresh from his dinner alongside Keir Starmer and Queen Mary of Denmark, what's Macron been up to in this field? That's right, the testosterone is teaming through his veins. As you can imagine, he is poised to take a tough leading role here in showing the Russians who is boss in Europe. And a major move has been made,

a major escalation actually. So he's been giving his orders to take the lead on the escalation with Russia. Just look at this headline. This is the thing that we all feared. Macron leads a charge against Russia's so-called shadow fleet. These are oil tankers, other trade vessels that are reflagged, common practice around the world and throughout history. But but Russia, it's being framed in nefarious terms.

Keir Starmer himself a few months ago, which we reported on, he said we need to do something. We need to stop all these ships in the Baltic. We need to make it untenable for the Russians. So here it is. We'll bring this up on screen on Wednesday, Brian. October 1st, Paris announced that on the 27th September it had detained a, quote, suspicious vessel off the French coast and the ship was under investigation for maritime offenses.

It was operating under a false flag, says the president of France. But it it was exactly the same vessel that had been checked by Estonian March for the same reasons. So nefarious Russian vessels with false flags, but they're boarding ships. How long before they start impounding them here? And so this is what it's all about. We'll go to the statements of intent. It is extremely important, says Macron, to increase pressure on the shadow fleet because it clearly reduces Russia's ability

to fund this war effort. So this is their back to the old Kennard from from February 2022. We need to stop Russia from selling oil because it's funding the war in Ukraine. I mean, it's just kind of a spurious claim, an excuse to declare economic warfare. But there's more to it here. And we'll go back to this statement. And this is what the game that's being laid out looks like, Brian, in the coming days, our chiefs of staff in coordination with NATO and within the framework of the, quote,

coalition of the willing. I remember that that was the one they used in Iraq. But we digress. Macron continues. A group of some 35 countries have had to come together to provide security guarantees for Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire. And we'll meet to create joint actions in the coming weeks. So this is the sort of escalation we start impounding ships on the high sea and preventing Russia from trading with other countries, physically preventing them.

This is usually a prelude to war. It has been historically. So I think that's kind of what we're looking at here, Brian. I think it's usually disturbing and we'll be reporting on this going forward. Thank you. Thank you, Patrick, absolutely agree with your concerns. We can see that, yes, the next thing could well be that these Russian ships were actually stopped and boarded on the international seas and that would take things into a new area very, very quickly.

Now let's come back to the subject of the UK and Prince William has been speaking to, not least to the BBC. He's talking about changing the monarchy when he's king, but he's also talking about stress around the, excuse me, the family overwhelming him. Let's just have a little look at this video clip. If history doesn't overwhelm you, is there anything that does? Yeah, I think stuff to do with family overwhelms me quite a

bit. You know, worry or stress around family side of things that does overwhelm me quite a bit. But in terms of, you know, doing the job and things like that, I I don't feel too overwhelmed by that. Not now anyway. When I was younger. Yeah, there are bits that overwhelm you a bit like, whoa,

are we actually doing this? This is sort of happening, but with with time and age, I think you feel a bit more settled in that side of things and you go, actually I could do that and even a few curveballs come in. That doesn't necessarily well, me when it's to do with family and things like that. Then that's why I start getting a bit overwhelmed, as I think most people would. Well, I've got to say that I didn't interview didn't fill me with confidence.

This man seems to have so many personal and family problems, I begin to question whether he's actually capable of doing the job of being an effective monarch in UK. This is some of the quotes that have come out today. Change is coming is effectively what he's saying. I think it's safe to say that change is on my agenda, change for good and I embrace that. I enjoy that change, I don't fear it. That's the bit that excites me, the idea of being able to bring some change, he went on.

Sorry, I'll repeat there. I don't fear it. That's the bit that excites me. I think if you're not careful, history can be a real weight and an anchor around you, and you can feel suffocated by it and restricted by it too much. So history is coming into the sites as far as Williams concerned. There are points when you look at tradition and go is that still fit for purpose today? Is that still the right thing to do? Are we still doing and having the most impact we could be

having? So I'm going to ask a question on today's UK column news. And that is, it seems to me from what he's saying in very vague, veiled terms, that UK's Christian history and traditions are going to be out. And what we're going to get from William is more woke multicultural history and traditions. That's what will be coming in. But we'll wait and see how accurate I am on that little prediction. So Patrick as well, can you back again?

And the subject is Moldova. Yes, I just want to point people, we showed this a couple weeks ago, this situation that's been brewing, we're warning it's coming and the elections have happened this past week. Here's the headline. Moldova pro EU party wins majority in election dominated by quote Russian interference. So there's a lot of reports and accusations about Russian interference in the Moldovan

elections. It's a very, very key territory strategically right alongside Ukraine is likely that this is going to he uses another front. But we'll bring up the the leader here who just recently did a state visit to the UK and met King Charles. So where our headline is EU NATO win Moldovan election because that's really the take away here. And so if we look at some of the interesting details to pay attention to, they talk about Russian interference in the mainstream media.

But 22 pro Russian parties, the heart of Moldova and Moldova, Maher, were barred from the vote on Friday over allegations of illegal financing and vote buying. So again, allegations they were barred. So they took away some significant electoral blocks there. But this is 1.6 million voted. That's approximately 52% of the eligible electorate in that country. But this is the interesting part 288,000 that's 17.5% of the total coming from overseas

diaspora polling sites. Now how you can't break that down because the Moldovan government's not giving statistics on who voted which way on all of these overseas polling sites. So it's tiny little country, but with a huge diaspora around the world. Now which which way that diaspora is leaning, pro European or pro Russian? It's not altogether clear. Now the the ones in Transnistria, this is the autonomous pro Russian breakaway Republic. There were bomb scares at their polling sites.

They had to leave Transnistria and travel 20 miles or so to vote in a Moldovan poll site because they still have Moldovan passports. Ostensibly they can still vote, but there were bomb scares at some of these polling sites. That's interesting out. There's also reported bomb scares at some of the overseas, certain overseas polling sites as well. So that's kind of interesting, but the the bottom line here, and we warned about this a couple weeks ago, we'll bring this up on screen.

You can see that map, why it's so important strategically. But what we're warning is destabilizing Moldova, Europe and Zelensky's plan to thwart Trump, Putin peace efforts with provocations in Transnistria. So this could be opening up a new front to draw Ukraine into Transnistria. Transnistria and which is pro Russian is a 1500 Russian peacekeepers there. And Zalenski would immediately go to Trump and say, Donald, look, the the the Russians have

it will be a false flag attack. That's my prediction. But they'll be the Russians. We need more cash, more weapons. Please give us more weapons. And then we'll give the Europeans something to rally around. You know, so that's how I see the whole Ukraine gambit is stalled so badly at the moment. This would provide them with something fresh, something new and shiny for the media and the political elites in Europe and for Trump, too, to rally around

this new sort of front. That's that could open up here. That's what we're afraid of. We hope that doesn't happen, but it's certainly lining up that way, especially with these election results. Patrick, thank you very much for that report. And yeah, it certainly seems that what we are not seeing is Western politicians, US, European, UK politicians really being passionate on the world stage for peace and obtaining peace, whether it's in Ukraine or or Eastern Europe or or into Gaza.

This is something they simply will not do. Now let's have a look at a little bit of good news for the end of today's UK column News. And we're back on the subject about what ordinary people are now starting to do. And a big thank you to Will Coleshill, who's been out on the streets looking at the Labour conference and also talking to some local people. Let's have a look. Good morning ladies and gentlemen. This is Will Coleshill reporting today.

I'm down outside the Labour Conference and the Farmers to Action and together and veterans and bikers protests against Keir Starmer, his policies, his death tax and everything else. Today we have a united front, so we're going to be going around speaking to people and seeing what their views are on a range of different issues, but they've all united today and I think it's going to be quite interesting. Anything that's brought you out here today? Support, isn't it? Support, Support for the

farmers. You've got to do much speaking, but I support the farmers, you know what I mean? But the shouting, what everything you've heard before over there, it's fact in it. So pick up the farmers, come with farmers. To action. Support them and just get the message across. But the inheritance tax needs to be abolished for all, not just for farmers. And if you want food, you've got to look after a farmer basically. I don't want to be like China. Simple as.

Keir Starmer is trying to override the Bill of Rights. They tried to use the Supreme Court to override the mandate of the British public multiple times. Now the latest move by the communist regime is to enforce the digital ID. It's fantastic.

We heard today outside the Labour conference, as many of you know, Labour have let this country know miserably and we heard to send a message to Keir Starmer we will not accept mandatory digital ID. It's something to do with the fact that Keir Starmer is putting veterans at risk again. They restarting the vexatious prosecutions of Northern Ireland veterans. The new legislation that he is purporting to do in in the command paper is absolutely useless. It will just reopen old wounds

and put us back in the dock. I'm Rob and we're together. We're here protesting against digital ID and also in support of the farmers today, so really excellent to see people not only out on. The streets brave enough to stand up and give their view, but extremely well informed in the subjects that they're interested in. And this means that they're putting across a very coherent argument to pull apart these pernicious globalist policies.

Now, if that were protesters, if that was protesters outside the Labour conference, let's have a little look about how wills he got on when he went to speak to some of the advance political party supporters immigration is. One that's clearly become an urgent problem and needs need to get on top of that. I've worked for the council on my life. We were told to. Watch out for grooming gangs. Well, yet nothing's ever been done about them. Well, obviously immigration is a big one.

You know that's that's. The topic everybody wants to talk about, me personally though, I'm, I'm into defence and I don't like the way Labour are doing their strategic defence review. So that's, that's a big one for me personally. And obviously the, the other major issue that we've got at the moment is freedom. It's been eroded in every sense of the word. And freedom of speech in particular is one of the big, big things that seems to be going in this country.

Democracy really. And we're not, we're not getting that. The economy, the people who are running the finances of this country are messing it up. And I would say some are even deliberately wanting to do so. There's some really dark stuff going on. The lower middle classes are being forced out of owning land. Whether you believe in the conspiracies or not, I am worried about things like and economic communism, for example, coming from the WEAI mean. I worked in schools for a long

time. Teachers actually have. Food in their drawers for children. That shouldn't be happening in the UK, Sorry. Not when we're we're actually feeding other people. Who've never paid a penny in the. System. We've got a couple of things in common and those things in common. Are we want freedom of speech and we love Britain, we love our country, the culture, the fabric of society.

So family values, our beliefs, our values, what we the the unwritten intangible things that hold the glue that holds society tightly together in bringing back their Christian values to to Great Britain so. Really excellent.

To see those people, they know. They're subject, they're not going to sit quietly and idly by while these pernicious globalist policies come in. And of course, these are the very people not only to get local councillors elected in the future, to get their own MPs elected. These are the people able to stop these policies as they come through to local level via the city councils and the local councils. So we'll end there. Well done to all those people who are saying no, we're not

having these terrible policies. From Keir Starmer, Patrick, thank you very much for joining me. Beautiful location there in France. And big thank you to Mark Anderson for coming into today's news as well. We will have auk column extra for our members in a few moments, so if you can join us then for everybody else, a huge thank you for joining today's UK column news. We will see you next Monday. Bye bye.