Life under occupation & apartheid. Israeli forces are demolishing a residential building in occupied East Jerusalem that was home to around 100 Palestinians. The Palestinians were attacked by Israeli settlers as they were forced from their homes.

BBC News: "Israels security cabinet has approved the recognition of 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, a move which is illegal under international law"

The sister of Palestine hunger striker Teuta Hoxha speaks out. Solidarity with all the hunger strikers and shameful from prisons minister Lord Timpson.

"The sister of a Palestine Action supporter whos been on hunger strike for 43 days.. [says] she fears she will die in prison. Teuta is behind bars awaiting trial for a year now. She's one of 8 people on trial for criminal damage in a factory owned by an Israeli arms manufacturer"

"Killing our wildlife for fun is no longer acceptable" @chrisgpackham.bsky.social on the govts newly announced animal welfare strategy #GMB

"This had been billed as a war on drugs. The US has killed more than 100 people in air strikes on boats it says were transporting narcotics. But now it sounds like its a war for oil" Who could have foreseen that!

Politicians in Australia calling for a ban on demonstrations during periods of 'heightened tensions'. We will not allow you to oppose genocide.

Ex Tory govt minister Gillian Keegan says recognising the state of Palestine was gesture politics and why couldn't everyone stick with the language they've used for years of recognising a two state solution 🤔

Ex Tory govt minister & MP Gillian Keegan, who lost her seat at the general election, uses her first appearance on #GMB to bash the unions Lest we forget, as the education minister Keegan went on TV to tell teachers to be realistic about pay demands while wearing a £10,000 Rolex

Ed Balls suggests its either more money for doctors or improving capacity in the NHS If the doctors demand are met capacity in the NHS will improve. Better pay helps deal with the retention crisis by keeping doctors in post & more training places means more doctors #GMB

Resident doctors are striking over pay and the fact that at a time when the NHS are short of doctors they're being turned away from the NHS because their aren't enough speciality training places available Here a Sky News presenter accidentally confirms their case.

As the resident doctors strike comes to an end, the BMA makes it clear that they want to work constructively with Wes Streeting to end the dispute. The problem? Wes Streeting has been ignoring the resident doctors & refusing to negotiate with them for months.

Anne McElvoy: "There are also people who were around Epstein, who continued to consort with him, including people like Peter Mandelson..." But Trevor Phillips isn't mildly disgusted at Peter Mandelson. Oh no. He's mildly disgusted at Peters friends who've now run for cover

"Israels defence industry is making records profits with its weapons manufacturers marketing their products as battle tested [on Palestinians]" Nour Odeh reports.

Israel is holding thousands of Palestinian hostages, one of which is Dr Hussam Abu Safiya. A report on a vigil in London drawing attention to the plight of the hostages & calling for their release.

"Palestinians have held funerals in Gaza city for victims of an Israeli attack on a school being used as a shelter"

"This border has now become a site of killing... the basic legal requirement to distinguish between combatant and civilian is not abided by the Israeli military or govt" Professor Neve Gordon on the so called 'yellow line' in Gaza

There's an old saying that in South Wales votes for Labour weren't counted, they were weighed. Labour MP & party chair Anna Turley is asked about Labour polling 10% in Wales.

Anna Turley says Labour promised to abolish hereditary peers. No. Keir Starmer promised to abolish the entire House of Lords.

Labour MP & party chair Anna Turley says Starmer is building a Britain that is tolerant and open.

Asked about cancelling the Leeds tram Turley says Lab are delivering transport outcomes that make a real difference to peoples lives & that they feel in their pockets, & one thing she cites is freezing bus fares erm, you raised the bus fare cap from £2 to £3. A 50% fare increase

Does Sky News describe Saudi Arabia as a dictatorship? Ramsays report lasts for 4mins & he talks about crushing poverty & a collapsed economy. He forgets to mention crippling US sanctions. He finishes by repeating what the US says. He could explain its nonsense. He doesn't.

Birmingham council tried to slash bin workers wages & when @unitetheunion.bsky.social members took industrial action the council brought in agency staff to try & break the strike rather than negotiate a deal. Those agency staff are now also on strike! Solidarity with Matt & his colleagues

Dalia Gebrial on #NovaraLive: "Its frankly laughable to watch Jess Phillips appoint her the expert on a word she can't even pronounce, on a context she doesn't understand and a language she cannot speak.. what we see there is an analysis that is dripping in racism..."

Trade unions in Argentina are protesting against the governments labour 'reforms' (aka stripping workers of their rights)

Birmingham council tried to slash bin workers wages & when @unitetheunion.bsky.social members responded by taking industrial action the council brought in agency staff to try & break the strike rather than negotiate a deal The council is to blame for this strike, not Wendy & her colleagues

Chris Bryant says the govt isn't banning zero hours contracts entirely because those contracts work for some workers.

"I've never believed in this kind of workers against the bosses kind of rhetoric" Chris Bryant, an MP for the party of organised labour.

Bryant says the govt doesn't support seizing the assets of Russian individuals. Indeed. Once you start seizing the assets of billionaires, where might it end? But he then admits that's exactly what they're doing with Abramovich. So we can seize the assets of billionares afterall!

"Some of them have been on hunger strike for 48 days" Well done to @adilray.bsky.social for covering the Palestine hunger strikers and reading out their names on #GMB.

@adilray.bsky.social : "everywhere there is misogyny.. for Kemi Badenoch to use that opportunity to once again demonise migrants & cultures.. why is it even acceptable for a leader of a party to go, yes there is a misogyny problem but its those people.. that need to be blamed...". Well said Adil

"why does Israel continue to violate the ceasefire?" Hezbollah! "The UN rapporteur says Israels strikes demonstrate a total disregard for the ceasefire" Hezbollah! "You're violating [their] sovereignty" Hezbollah! "Is Hezbollah firing rockets into Israel?" They're plotting!

#GMB report that Kylie Minogue is favourite to be xmas no.1, but hot on her heels are Wham with Last Christmas and Together for Palestine with Lullaby

"Her twins were just 1 year old, killed instantly as the bombs ripped through them. They were in their car seats.. She saw her husband, half his body missing, their 10yo daughter suffered catastrophic bleeding. The familys body parts were everywhere" Israel is a terrorist state

"A year after a ceasefire deal the Israeli military continues to launch attacks here and across Lebanon on an almost daily basis" Part of a report by Alex Crawford from southern Lebanon.

"Winter storms are worsening the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Israel is still blocking the entry of mobile homes, waterproof sheeting.. food & blankets, and another Palestinian baby has died in the winter cold" The genocide continues.

Have you ceased firing when you continue to fire? Israel has bombed Lebanon (again)

"Under a suffocating blockade and a total electricity blackout, Palestinian doctors in Gaza have engineered a medical breakthrough..." Hind Khoudary reporting.

Sophy Ridge to someone from Trussell: "Can I just ask, demand for food banks is going up and this is often seen as a negative thing basically, that it shows that more people are in need turning to food banks. Could you flip that and say its a good thing..." er, no.

"Thousands of people are going to turn to foodbanks to stop them & their families going hungry over Christmas and its a crisis that is getting worse" The UK is the 6th largest economy in the world.

"Qesser Zuhrah has been refusing food for almost 2 months now" #C4News last night. The first time I've seen the mainstream news cover the Palestine hunger strikers.

I understand why the mainstream news frames this story through the lense of the Labour Party but Andrea Egan has been elected by Unison members. Maybe as well as the stuff on Starmer you could also explain the challenges members are facing & why they voted for Egan

Police in London have arrested people for using the term 'intifada'. For the British state, the issue isn't the words we use to show our support for the struggle of the Palestinian people against occupation, its us supporting the Palestinian people at all.

Mustafa Barghouti last year: "Any country that is under occupation has the right to resist occupation with all forms of struggle, including military struggle"

"Nearly 40 Lab MPs have written to the PM warning they are not prepared to support govt plans to limit the use of jury trials" Henry Zefferman says the vast majority who've signed the letter are deeply critical of most things Starmer does anyway so the govt won't be too worried

A member of the public showing their appreciation to striking doctors on the picket line!

@jeremycorbyn.bsky.social supporting resident doctors on the picket line ✊

Callum Parr from the BMA explains that the NHS needs more doctors & it needs NHS doctors to stay & thats why the issues of jobs & pay need sorting out Its a real mystery why a health secretary who's taken large amounts of cash from the private healthcare sector isn't sorting it out, right?

Shurouq from Save the Children on the desperate situation for displaced people in Gaza right now.

GB News presenter Andrew Pierce says resident doctors don't deserve [to have their pay restored]. Richard Madeley helpfully intervenes, "don't you really mean it can't be afforded" Pierce: "That's what I mean" Susanna Reid: "to be fair that's not what you said" #GMB