gb news. >> hello there. coming up in the saturday night showdown, tony blair has reappeared once again , blair has reappeared once again, wading into the debate on misinformation on social media. but after he went to war on a dodgy dossier, is he not the worst person on earth to be talking about dodgy data? plus, in germany , the right is on the in germany, the right is on the rise as the country deals with regular terror attacks. this week there's a shootout with an islamist near the israeli consulate in munich. still, i'm sure it'll work out fine. nothing bad could possibly happen with populist far right parties in germany, right? this

is your saturday night showdown . is your saturday night showdown. with . with. discussing all tonight's topics with me are my brilliant panel. joining me tonight are an absolutely cracking pair. we've got dating coach and entrepreneur kezia noble and lawyer. magician. can you tell he's a magician? he's got a floating bottle and three time world thumb wrestling champion andrew eborn. but first, let's get your latest news headlines from tatiana sanchez . from tatiana sanchez. >> leo, thank you very much. and good evening. the top stories this hour, sir keir starmer met with his irish counterpart today as part of a commitment to reset relations between the uk and ireland. they say coordination

on security policy will be among the priorities of planned annual uk, ireland summits. the prime minister and irish premier , minister and irish premier, simon harris, agreed the terms of the leader level meetings as they held talks in dublin. the annual summits will focus on several key areas, including security, justice and global issues , climate growth, trade issues, climate growth, trade and more. a joint statement said their meeting marked the start of an ambitious programme towards a renewed and strengthened partnership . the strengthened partnership. the first meeting will be held in march about moving that reset on, cementing it and making it ambitious . ambitious. >> we're clear that by march we want to have a summit to show the yield from this and then annual summits after that. we are also resetting our relationship with the eu, and i've made it very clear that i want a closer relationship with the eu. that's of course, on security, on defence, but also on trade, reducing the friction and any business here in ireland

will tell you that reducing the friction helps. and so we want to reset that relationship . to reset that relationship. >> the snp has called on the prime minister to u—turn on plans to cut winter fuel payments. research has shown that close to a million pensioners in scotland received the payments between 2022 and last year, but under new plans by the labour government to 87% of those would lose that financial support. of those would lose that financial support . okay, let's financial support. okay, let's bnng financial support. okay, let's bring you some breaking news now. now that police say a body has been found in the search for a woman who went missing when swimming in the wardie bay area in edinburgh. jenny hastings, the wife of former scottish rugby international scott hastings, has been missing since tuesday when she went swimming in the firth of forth, according to her family at around 320 this afternoon, the body of a woman was found in the hound point area of south queensferry. formal identification is yet to take place, but mrs. hastings family have now been informed.

in other news, the met office has issued a yellow weather warning with heavy rain predicted in southern parts of the uk from tonight . the met the uk from tonight. the met office has said a new band of heavy and thundery rain will arrive on the south coast and will make its way north overnight. it says some places could see up to 100mm of rain, and there was a risk of power cuts and some travel disruption expected . and sport now england expected. and sport now england have won their uefa nations league tie with ireland today . league tie with ireland today. declan rice with the opener just 11 minutes into the game that was then doubled by jack grealish on the 26th minute, and this was the first test for england's interim manager , lee england's interim manager, lee carsley, following gareth southgate stepping down after defeat in the euros final this summer. and carsley didn't sing the national anthem ahead of the game. the 50 year old former ireland midfielder had indicated in advance that he wouldn't join in, but he's also said that he's respectful of the concept and

those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> thank you, tatiana, and welcome to the saturday night showdown. now tony blair pontificated on misinformation this week, hinting that twitter or x, as it's called now, should be banned because people share fake news on it. it's a bit rich to be lectured on the harms of misinformation by a man who invaded iraq based on alastair campbell's dodgy dossier. it's like getting babysitting advice from jimmy savile instead of banning twitter. maybe we should banning twitter. maybe we should ban alastair campbell to stop dangerous misinformation. i've seen some dodgy stuff on twitter, but i've never seen a tweet lead to cruise missiles

raining down on iraqi weddings. have a look at this. >> do you foresee a point in the not too distant future where other countries are going to have to follow brazil's lead and take actual action against platform owners for the dissemination of disinformation? >> well, i certainly see a position where the world is going to have to come together and agree some rules around social media platforms . social media platforms. >> now, i know that it looks like tony blair is doing outreach work with alcoholics, but that was in fact left wing journalist james o'brien. this is a humiliation ritual for blair. he used to have status. he used to hobnob with the epstein island client list , and epstein island client list, and now he's blabbering his increasingly unhinged authoritarianism to a greasy, dishevelled demagogue on a radio station. twitter has been threatened by the european union and banned completely in brazil. this is hailed by the left as preserving democracy, by stopping misinformation and stopping misinformation and stopping the far right. but in reality, it's a cover for the suppression of political opponents. x was taken down in

brazil when elon musk refused to comply with dodgy court orders to remove accounts, including members of brazil's congress who are in opposition to the ruling far left party. it would be like keir starmer removing the tories from twitter. actually, i probably shouldn't give keir starmer any ideas. the left spread plenty of misinformation of their own and have a history of their own and have a history of suppressing inconvenient facts. the democrats colluded with twitter's previous owners to remove factual journalism about president biden's son's use of crack and prostitutes . use of crack and prostitutes. just this week, the government in this country refused to tell journalists how much had been spent furnishing luxury flats for illegal immigrants, saying that it's too sensitive to reveal we shouldn't restrict freedom of speech. we need the freedom of speech. we need the freedom to be wrong so that we can have the freedom to be right. we don't achieve truth by letting petty bureaucrats decide what is and what isn't. the truth. and the left should worry about the precedent that they

are setting. if they censor right wing politicians. what's to stop those right wing politicians from censoring them when they're in power ? i'm when they're in power? i'm joined tonight by dating guru kezia noble and famous international playboy andrew eborn. how are you both doing? >> oh, i'd love to be a guru. come on, it's got to be good. can't not be a playboy guru. it's the perfect combination. it's the perfect combination. it's lovely to be back with kezia as well. yeah, absolute thrill. >> and are you worried by the sort of increasing clampdowns on free speech that we're seeing across the world, and in particular in this country? >> i am i'm very concerned about it because it seems to be targeted on like one group of people, like people who have a problem with immigration. they're really being targeted right now. they're being clamped down on. and yet i hear people on the other side of the argument being allowed to spout all sorts of nonsense and real misinformation and not receive any kind of kickback at all.

>> yeah, yeah, we've seen hoaxes spread by far left organisations. we've also seen alastair campbell. considering tony blair is wading into the misinformation conversation. alastair campbell has spread a far left conspiracy theory that trump somehow faked his ear being shot and has said, oh, look how, look how amazingly his. it's a miracle that his ear grew back. >> it was it was extraordinary. i'll tell you what. freedom of speech, our fundamental democratic right is on life support all around the world. we had the ceo and founder of telegram being arrested in france . yeah. absolutely. france. yeah. absolutely. scandalous. he's been charged with that sort of side. you've had elon musk being having a pop that basically the eu tried to silence him before that brilliant bromance interview with trump where they talked about that sort of side. and you've also had him being shut down in brazil. and if you look at that sort of thing, the worst thing i had his dad on, on my show, errol musk, and we talked about this and he said, well, elon doesn't really. he just carries on. he's quite nonchalant about this. he's got enough customers. but actually there are i think it's a 40 million customers in brazil. and

what happens if they try to access their x account? they get fined up to $9,000 if they use a vpn . that's crazy. vpn. that's crazy. >> i mean, this is something that you'd see in china or you know, north korea, this sort of autocratic state clamping down even if somebody just tries to access twitter or x, then then they get fined. i mean, it's ridiculous with with keir starmer. >> this is operation warp speed destruction. yeah. you know, this is it. i mean look the tories used to kind of at least pretend they used to pretend that they were doing the right thing. whereas labour are just like they're more transparent. it's just like, this is what we're doing. you're going to have no freedoms at some point to say anything unless it fits our narrative. i mean, what happened to that? i think she was a labour mp who made up it, got a lot of people into trouble and made up this story that right wing rioters were throwing acid on muslim women's faces. >> scandalous . absolutely

>> scandalous. absolutely scandalous to her. >> well, and this was this was something that was shared. it was shared by a labour mp. >> josh howie. this is not just some person on twitter in their basement. absolutely an mp. and it was also shared by and it was also shared by government advisers . advisers. >> hope the head of hope not hate shared it. who you know obviously these people have got credibility. i think if you know if a house if a housewife. >> exactly. >> exactly. >> if a housewife is a, you know, a bottle of wine too many and tweets some, some crazy stuff, nobody's looking at it and taking their cues from that. but if it's an mp, a labour mp or if it's government advisers, then that carries a lot more weight. >> and we did see people we did, but the whole point is, the whole point is this justice should be blind and the reason there's a criticism of two tier care is exactly that. >> you get suddenly, go on, go on a march or whatever it is we're going to be arrested, you're going to be charged. one person got up to nine years. i think it was terrible sentence. on that basis. you go and steal something from a shop or whatever. well, you just carry on. nick, nick, nick. a phone of somebody in the street, they don't even look at that sort of stuff. the problem we've got at the moment is they're now basically going, criminalising

thought and yvette cooper was saying just in the last few days , saying just in the last few days, exactly that sort of stuff. it may not be a crime, but if there's sort of hate speech along that sort of lines, we're going to clamp down on it. so there's on that sort of basis, it's really, as i say, freedom of speech is in a critical condition. we have to talk out about it. >> this thing about things, this thing about things that aren't crimes, because they use this euphemistic term, it's a non—crime hate incident, and it's almost worse than getting a conviction because it stays. it's record stays. it stays on your on your record for six years you haven't committed a crime. it's a non—crime , but crime. it's a non—crime, but it's still discoverable by, you know, hr departments who want to check you out for a job. so obviously, you know, somebody who sees that, you know, sees that you've got a non—crime hate incident for wrongthink and you're not going to get the job so it can really destroy people's lives and their ability to provide for their families. >> that's been going on for quite some time, even under the tory government. that was starting to happen. as i said, this is operation warp speed. you know, they're just putting it through quicker and they're doing everything that the tories wanted to do. it's the same. it's the same outcome. it's just

that this party is going to do it a lot faster. >> yeah. and i think if descartes was in in britain under starmer, it would be i think therefore i am arrested. you know, you work on that. the worrying thing as well is voted in. >> people literally voted in animal farm . animal farm. >> yeah, it is literally george orwell is like a documentary , orwell is like a documentary, isn't it? you work on that basis. what's crazy ? it's like a basis. what's crazy? it's like a little manual. this is. this is what i should be doing with silence. everybody. animals are crazy . crazy. i am all, all crazy. crazy. i am all, all animals are equal. especially that one. but what i love about it, i mean, not love what we should absolutely shout out aboutis should absolutely shout out about is they're now criminalising whatsapp messages. now they're supposed to be private conversations between people in little groups and in those conversations, probably a lot darker. it's humour you wouldn't want to share in public and so on and so forth. >> oh man, i'm in a group with huw edwards and let me tell you this stuff. no, i mean obviously stuff that's actually criminal. if it's something, you know, if it's if it's criminal, you know who elle edwards case child porn or if it's incitement to violence. i can understand that. that needs to be criminalised.

but some of the people who've been convicted, it's dark humour. somebody. yeah. there was somebody convicted literally for dark humour. he was he was convicted for sharing these memes that weren't particularly offensive. they were just basically just saying, you know, my town's going to have a lot of asian people coming to it, which just seems to be a fact rather than a fact. it's a fact, but it was. the judge said that it was grossly offensive, which is a, you know, offence is such a subjective term. i wasn't offended by it like it's a fact. >> to me. this is what's happening. if you're letting in like millions a year of asian guys, men, not women and children , then yeah, your town children, then yeah, your town or wherever you live is going to have more asians in it. it's just a fact. >> and you're not even allowed to make a joke about it because it wasn't. >> it was just it was actually like saying a fact. he wasn't even saying, i'm upset about this. it's like, this is just what's going to happen. >> but but there's two major cases. there's the wayne couzens cases. there's the wayne couzens case as well, and the officers there who were sharing all sorts of dark jokes . and they managed of dark jokes. and they managed and they clamped down on that on their systems. and the other one was with the primary school

teacher who was basically making all sorts of inappropriate messages. if they were in public, but they weren't in a closed group. you should see half the messages i get from leo on whatsapp. it's disgusting. terrible. we need to bring in. >> we need to bring in a new law that anybody who leaks a whatsapp, yes, that should be a hanging offence. we need to bnng hanging offence. we need to bring back capital punishment. >> there you go. >> there you go. >> you're going to be a little grass at today's poll on gb news. >> this is what. but it is worrying if they can look at your private messages. and this is what happens. i work with a lot of journalists around the world who are really genuinely scared. ever since the ceo and founder of telegram was arrested , founder of telegram was arrested, they're saying they used this as an excuse and they used terrorism laws as an excuse, because that means they can get all of your devices and they go on effectively, like a fishing expedition to try and find information that they could then charge you with. and that's the real concern, and that's why it's so important to just weren't catching the real terrorists. >> yeah. you know. yeah, there seems to be actually like bomb , seems to be actually like bomb, you know, places like manchester arena and stuff. it's a pity

that their focus wasn't on there rather than right wing memes. yeah. there seems to be much more focus on, you know , more focus on, you know, thoughts and feelings than people making bombs or sharpening knives. >> it's terrifying. well, i read a headline in the guardian this week that made me do a double take. so hard i nearly got whiplash. was it spelt right? whiplash it said it was. it was speu whiplash it said it was. it was spelt wrong . but the stuff it spelt wrong. but the stuff it was saying, this is this is what it said. it said racism, poverty, drink and social media. we still don't know why britons rioted a month ago and we need answers. >> really? >> really? >> you have no idea why people rioted. do you think that across the country people suddenly got so racist that they rioted? but they've somehow become less racist since because they stopped rioting ? or do you think stopped rioting? or do you think it was booze that people got drunker than they've ever been before on a tuesday? and this drunkenness made them riot? or do you think it was misinformation on social media that said the killings were committed by an islamist asylum seeker? of course, the mainstream media were quick to correct this, saying that axel mccann, rudy cabana, whose

parents are rwanda, was born in britain. so he's completely british. i mean, yeah, he's probably the most british person of all time. if i was to pick the most british people of all time, i'd probably say hugh grant, the queen and axel maguire, rudy cabana, the left are completely blind to the fact that many people don't like to see children stabbed to death. they're also blind to the fact that not everyone is delighted about our country having completely open borders. welcoming in 1.2 million new arrivals every year , many of arrivals every year, many of them illegal, many of them from radically different cultures. the cosseted milquetoasts who read the guardian won't experience it, but some of these arrivals don't integrate and instead commit crime , sexually instead commit crime, sexually exploit children, form parallel societies. britain isn't a country anymore. it's a borderless economic zone where anyone is to free come and go as they please and not everyone loves that. now i mean, i'm astounded that people on the left, they keep trying to find something to blame for the riots. they say it's

misinformation on social media. it's racism. it's booze. it's, you know, whatever it is, when the reality of the matter was, i think most people in britain felt this absolute gut revulsion, this fury at children being killed yet again . it's being killed yet again. it's like how many mass killings of children are we supposed to put up with? like you mentioned the manchester arena bomber a moment ago? >> oh, yes . remember, don't look >> oh, yes. remember, don't look back in anger. yeah, that person who started singing that song. no. we're angry. yeah i don't want to not look back in anger. i am angry about what's happening. and a lot of people are really angry about what's happening. europe is starting to get angry and nothing's getting done about it. well, yeah. and look at italy . they've just they look at italy. they've just they know but they but they are a right wing government . she's right wing government. she's done nothing. >> she's no she's done, she's done some stuff . done some stuff. >> she's made the right noises. there are still thousands and thousands of migrants coming in every single day. i have friends in cyprus . they every single day. i have friends in cyprus. they said it's just full of syrians. >> but i mean, it's a difficult. it's a complex. it's a complex.

>> no, you just need to have guards there on your borders and you're just you just say, no, you're just you just say, no, you're not coming in just like they did in covid. when healthy people weren't allowed to travel, they did it. then they can do it. yeah, that's a fair point actually. but they've got no it's not they've got charities and ngos that are funded from some, some dodgy, you know , far left sources that you know, far left sources that bnng you know, far left sources that bring people from libya to italy override. >> but maloney has started turning. turning them back. and we're seeing across europe we're seeing you know, people are getting electing more right wing parties because they see the mainstream parties aren't doing what they want , just like in what they want, just like in france with le pen. >> it's getting thwarted all the time. >> it's a massive issue around the world. it's going to continue. >> they want mass immigration because they they want to change our expectations. they know that they cannot carry on providing what the boomers had. okay. so they want to change our expectations. if you think about it, in the 1980s and even 1990s, somebody would just think , if somebody would just think, if i work hard, i'll have a house and

i'll have a car and a dog and children. now it's like, if i work hard, i'll have a shoebox that i rent in in the middle of nowhere, because the expectations have been lowered. not this is not even a cultural issue. this is just the numbers . issue. this is just the numbers. >> don't ignore your legal immigration and you're absolutely right. and as soon as times are tough, that's what happens. people pull up the drawbridge and they blame the other things. but just to go back on one of the points, there was the spread of misinformation. there was channel three now, and i investigated this. they only had like 3000 followers on twitter, but they spread the false report. and what happened is about the murder of the three little girls, which was abhorrent. and the families and the tragedy. they said, look, don't hijack our grief to some of those people. there is no excuse for people to go and riot and take televisions away. that's got nothing to do. oh yeah. no, that's the murder of three little girls. yeah, but there's no , like, violence. there's no, like, violence. >> and, you know, some of the stuff was absolutely reprehensible. >> abhorrent. >> abhorrent. >> but the reason that people were angry, i think is very obvious. and i cannot believe the guardian and other people on

the guardian and other people on the left are wilfully ignoring or trolling us. >> they are trolling us. the guardian's saying, oh, what was this? it must have been booze, you know. no, this is something that's so much deeper. we're watching our country being ruined and this is an awful thing that happened. the riots went way too far, we all know that. but just listen to the root cause of where it's coming from. >> absolutely. well, that's the serious section out of the way. coming up, comedy show. >> this, isn't it? that's a laugh, though. >> i'd love it to be a comedy show , but with the news that we show, but with the news that we get, we can't make it a comedy show . coming up, we will assess show. coming up, we will assess the week's winners and losers, which this week are the labour party and the

welcome back. it's now time to go through the winners and losers of the week. the labour party . guess which section party. guess which section they've pledged to tackle islamophobia. but what is islamophobia? labour themselves seem to have no idea. lee

anderson asked labour deputy leader angela rayner for some clarity around what labour meant by islamophobia. take a look at this. >> the secretary of state, please explain to me in the house what the government's definition of islamophobia actually is . actually is. >> a new definition must be given careful consideration so that it comprehensively reflects multiple perspectives and considers potential implications for different communities . for different communities. >> and we are actively considering our approach to islamophobia, including definitions. >> so what is it, angela? i mean, she has no idea this is something you're going to make a crime. i mean, like, surely you should know what it is if you're going to turn it into a crime and this comes after angela rayner laid out government plans to amend the definition of islamophobia after the series of riots swept the country. and in 2019, the all party parliamentary group on british muslims devised a definition of islamophobia as rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of

muslimness or perceived muslimness or perceived muslimness . muslimness. what on muslimness. muslimness. what on earth is muslimness islam is more than a religion, as we can see in countries such as iran and afghanistan. it's a form of social organisation and politics. the girls protesting against the islamic regime in iran could be condemned as islamophobic nigerian girls butchered by the islamic group boko haram for the crime of attending school are presumably islamophobic women burned to death by isis for refusing to have sex with their fighters are islamophobic. it looks like we're going to have another vaguely worded law that starmer's goons can apply as they want to, whoever they want . they want to, whoever they want. i mean, does islamophobia threat threaten free speech as well? >> it's a complete word salad. i mean , you work on it. that was mean, you work on it. that was our equivalent of kamala. that's how you say her name, kamala harris. and the words that she came out with, it was harris. and the words that she came outwith, it was an embarrassment. you need as a lawyer , our tool or our words, lawyer, our tool or our words, basically. and there's a tool

maker somewhere. >> and it's good to be specific. >> and it's good to be specific. >> it's got to be very specific. so you work on that sort of basis. but i also hate labels at the moment. if you say certain things, you're you're an anti—semite or you're a pro—hamas and it's rubbish. you've got to be able to have freedom of speech and work on that sort of basis . but this that sort of basis. but this whole sort of thing, it was embarrassing and well done for lee anderson. somebody give him a job on a tv station, it would be brilliant. >> yeah, i mean, this doesn't seem to be the realm of criminality. i mean, i think things like racism and islamophobia, even though they're, they can be distasteful and nasty and horrible. it's something to, you know, deal with socially rather than have crimes against, you know, islamophobia, which could be questioning elements of a religion or , you know, religion or, you know, criticising the government in iran. >> i think that we do need that freedom to question any religion, but in a polite and respectful way, because obviously , muslims, they feel obviously, muslims, they feel very strongly about their religion. >> and so why why do we have to be polite and respectful for some religions? but not others? why?

>> i said all i think you should be respectful to all religions. >> i think we should be respectful to no religions. >> well, okay, so i don't . for >> well, okay, so i don't. for me, i don't find islam a problem . me, i don't find islam a problem. i've read a lot about it. there's a lot of things that i agree with and disagree with it. like in all religions. my contention is that i think they're bringing in this. this rule is again about it goes back to immigration because it's kind of linked, because a lot of the migrants that are coming through are muslim. so they're kind of, again, stopping you from talking about immigration in any way, shape and form. so they're going to put islamophobia there, as one of those barriers to talking about immigration. the bigger picture, that's what i you have to ask, why are they talking about this now? where does this come from? i mean, the people who are most under threat right now in this country are probably jewish people. yeah, probably jewish people. yeah, probably jewish people. yeah, probably jewish people right now. but they're not talking about people. >> definitely scottish people. i have to say, i think anybody

who's scottish or looks scottish or sounds scottish, i think they're the worst of all. you've got to work on that . no, the got to work on that. no, the reality is, if we had respect all round, but also we used to laugh about things. yeah, we used to have a world where you could laugh. >> that's the class everybody takes being british. british people. that's how we bond. >> we make fun. >> we make fun. >> we make fun. >> we weren't like that. you could not make jokes about christianity 700 800 years ago. yeah, but you could make life of bnan yeah, but you could make life of brian was brilliant in the 70s. you come to this country as long as you're not saying something really , like, really horrible really, like, really horrible just for the sake of it, about someone's religion. if you are making a joke, then you don't have to listen to that joke. you can turn it off, ignore it, but you have to accept that this is the culture of this country. it's like, i wouldn't go to a muslim country and say things that are blasphemous, because i know that that would antagonise them and that's against their rules. and i'm respectful. i'm in their country. i wouldn't do it. i'd cover my hair. everything that they ask me. >> and also, i think there's a difference between and we're very questioning country. >> we let people cover, they wear their full face veil. we allow it, you know, so it's carlin used to say that the

secret of comedy is knowing where the line is and going beyond it, because you have to beyond it, because you have to be able to laugh at yourself. >> and nowadays, too many people are taking offence. i agree, and that's a real problem. so comics now they basically all been castrated . i think this is terrible. >> well, talking of islamophobia, there was an islamist shooting in germany this week . you might have missed this week. you might have missed it as similar attacks across europe have been have become so regular. the attacker opened fire near the israeli consulate but was quickly shot by police. take a look at this . take a look at this. and that angle there is due to the curvature of the earth making germany appear on its side. it's the latest in a string of terror attacks that have boosted germany's right wing afd party. the only party that many people in germany

believe has the will to tackle mass immigration and islamism. the afd had a storming result in recent state elections in the east of germany, winning by a clear margin in thuringia. i think i pronounced that right and losing by a handlebar moustache whisker. in saxony, the german left weren't happy. the green party were all but wiped out here they are crying about it. despite their strong showing other parties. look at that lift lip quiver. despite their strong showing, other parties will collude to form a firewall around the afd and deny the democratically expressed will of the people, although they will undoubtedly nick some of the afd's more popular policies to try and stop the afd scoring even more votes next time. interestingly, the afd were originally on course to gain enough seats in saxony to give them real power, which would let them veto legislation . would let them veto legislation. but at the 11th hour, an election official discovered a software error. i've never heard of a software error being discovered after a western

election, particularly one that denies the winning party a crucial number of seats that would allow it to sidestep the inevitable cordon sanitaire . how inevitable cordon sanitaire. how convenient for the establishment . convenient for the establishment. now, i've got to ask. i mean, a software error . are these are software error. are these are these a common thing? i've never heard of a software error before, but this this one apparently popped up and meant that they counted an extra seat for the afd or counted enough votes to get them an extra seat. >> and it's the modern equivalent of a hanging. chad do you remember the hanging chad they used to have in one elections where they couldn't quite work out if somebody voted, so they had to check the papers. there was a hanging. chad. yeah no software problems. i can tell you are going to be massive. you might remember the it outage that we had, which basically grounded all sorts of airlines and took sky off air off line. >> shouldn't we bring this back to just paper? >> well, the difficulty is and there will be elections . and there will be elections. and i've seen evidence that people have presented where they basically said, look, there's all sorts of interference that can happen on a computer sort of basis. so we should be aware of that, that we need to get the computer experts in to analyse

that sort of stuff . that sort of stuff. >> yeah, we know this massive problem. >> please, please, there's something much bigger going on in here. i mean, even people who i know who are not conspiracy theorists at all have said there is something very strange going on here. the amount of people that europe are letting in. and every time we speak to someone, they're like, we don't want this. and yet they seem to be always getting into power and getting what they want. and immigration just continues. software update please. software error. sorry. >> yes , that's what they say. >> yes, that's what they say. >> yes, that's what they say. >> give me a break. >> give me a break. >> yeah, we've seen software. we've seen electronic voting being being twisted and abused in places like venezuela to deliver the results. and then they proved the opposition proved that they'd actually won by taking the paper votes and taking them out. >> and exactly that sort of stuff . and you're having a look stuff. and you're having a look at the polls at the moment, and pollsters always get it notoriously wrong. ellen may, old new mate , he's basically old new mate, he's basically turned around. he's done his own poll and they're saying basically about 6 million people have responded, which probably the biggest poll results of all. and he said of those 6 million,

72% have voted for trump. right. and on that sort of basis, probably increasing that sort of percentage all the time. but if you look at the polls, it's much closer on the smaller samples. so the reality lies, damn lies and statistics. i think now you have to question everything. and you're right, conspiracy theorists only have to be right once. yeah, i think i also think germany have been more than hospitable . hospitable. >> they've let in millions and millions of migrants. germany. and that's the thanks they get. why didn't this guy , he targeted why didn't this guy, he targeted the israeli embassy. did you say? >> yeah, yeah. and it's the anniversary. >> go to gaza, try and fight the israeli defence force and see what happens. >> it's the it's the anniversary of the munich massacre. anyway, moving on. a white ambulance driver. that's the colour of the man, not the ambulance. actually it's white as well. well, a white ambulance driver accused of racism has won his tribunal, which sounds more like a blasphemy trial, to be honest. the telegraph reported that ricky garrett has been awarded £3,750 in compensation after suing the london ambulance service when it ordered him to undertake unconscious bias

training. i normally sleep through training, to be honest. a black allyship workshop and a written reflective practice over his beliefs , mr garrett, who is his beliefs, mr garrett, who is said to have a number of friends who are mixed race and black, said in this conversation that he did not agree with the concept of systemic racism. he said that no one who works for the london ambulance service could be racist because of the multicultural makeup of its staff. a colleague who overheard the conversation also claimed mr garrett had said that black people should not hide behind their race and that a person must accept that it is their own actions that lead to a place of higher incarceration rates, lower levels of education, lack of opportunity and poverty. after being investigated and found guilty of gross misconduct in relation to his comments, mr garrett appealed the decision and later brought a case of discrimination to the tribunal, citing his belief that we are all one race and all colours and cultures should be treated as one. i mean, this is incredible. this man was found guilty of believing in equal treatment for

all races and not believing in the ideology forced on him by superiors at work, that anything bad that happens to a person of colour is because of systemic racism, and people need to be treated differently based on their race to counteract systemic imbalances. i mean, it seems to me that this man who is accused of racism actually embodies the message of martin luther king and his superiors. are the racists . are the racists. >> and the problem is this is that the more you hear of these cases, the more it actually antagonises and causes greater division. you don't need to label everything as racist. you know, the reality is we are a multicultural society where there should be respect all round. and as i always say, justice should be blind. it should be blind to colour , should be blind to colour, creed, all of that sort of stuff, sex work on that sort of bafis. stuff, sex work on that sort of basis . and the more that we basis. and the more that we accentuate this, the bigger the problem is going to get. >> yeah. i mean, do you think do you think we can be a completely blind to all these issues? no, i think look, i, i hate racism. >> i'm totally against it. >> i'm totally against it. >> and i think that you're racist against racism . racist against racism. >> yeah, very much so. i think that you're a racist. i would a

perfect utopia would be no racism at all. and that we could just judge people on face value individually, i just think it's very sad that this guy is being targeted and he's doing a fine job. a job that we need desperately. yeah. as an ambulance driver. and it's so sad because a lot of people are going to look at that and say, you know what? i don't really want to do that because i don't want to do that because i don't want that kind of hassle. yeah and sadly, the police force. >> but he won his case. so has he won his case. we should absolutely trumpet that. and say, let's stop the nonsense. >> he's still he's still going to be tired of being being accused of racism. and i think it's a it's a terrible thing . it's a it's a terrible thing. next on the saturday night showdown culture corner. and there's a budget mrs. doubtfire remake happening in scotland. see you

>> welcome back. and it's time for culture corner. and remember, mrs. doubtfire. i think we saw a low budget

scottish remake at the snp conference this week. take a look at this conference, please pass this resolution so that i and other trans scots like me, will no longer have to be treated as second class citizens, despite my devotion to our movement, our society, our party our movement, our society, our party and our country. >> thank you very much, hayley . >> thank you very much, hayley. conference scotland as our song and like any song, it must be sung together. >> thanks. >> thanks. >> yes, that's a formidable one. >> yes, that's a formidable one. >> that's more powerful than braveheart. oh, that's fantastic. >> it's like braveheart. it was braveheart . braveheart. >> more powerful. >> more powerful. >> well, that's eilidh mcintosh, an snp member and miss dundee 2024 and deliverer of the most motivating scottish speech since mel gibson. there you go, scots to fight for freedom. and i

swear to god, despite the quality of the footage that was this week in scotland , not in this week in scotland, not in the 1970s, that is just the technology available in scotland for filming. but this speech worked as well . snp members have worked as well. snp members have voted in favour of a motion to improve access to gender affirming healthcare in scotland. now, were you impressed by that speech? kezia did it, did it rabble rouse you? >> you know that celtic passion in their , honestly, what i was in their, honestly, what i was saying is this what year is this? because i thought it was something from like 1971 or something, the wig , i don't something, the wig, i don't know, whatever it was, i think the wig dated back to, you know , the wig dated back to, you know, good for her. you know, i'm not really bothered about this kind of stuff. sorry. >> well, yeah, but gender affirming healthcare , gender affirming healthcare, gender affirming healthcare, gender affirming healthcare, gender affirming healthcare sounds nice, but really, it's the equivalent of, you know, if somebody turns up with a different kind of dysphoria , different kind of dysphoria, like anorexia, body dysphoria, for example. an affirming treatment for them would be to agree with them that they're fat and deny them cakes. >> yeah, i know, you're right. snip, snip. bob's your auntie.

you work on that sort of basis. i think the reality is this it's all about respect. and i think turning on that, i thought it was a very eloquent speech. and actually she she got the whole she got rabble rousing. when do we when, when are we going to see the trans person? i thought you were going to show us a mrs. doubtfire. i only saw a woman. no, the reality is, i know it's scotland, but come on, come on. >> it's got to be. got a glasgow on a friday night. i've seen, i've seen that. that's pretty rough. it's terrible. >> no, all respect for me. it's really, really simple. it's about respect for everybody in the conversation. so i don't care if they want to dress like that. that's fine. as soon as they start imposing on women's rights, those who are born women. so if you've got safe spaces and things like that, or women's sport , i believe that's women's sport, i believe that's wrong for the reasons i've mentioned. >> yeah, but i'll go into a changing room if there's men. >> no, but it's the other , i think. >> i think the men are more at risk then i think i use men's toilets sometimes because the queues to be. >> i'm just like, i know, but that's true, isn't it? >> because the men's toilets are much, much more efficient. it's

superb. superbly complained about me being. but the reality is this it's about respect and it's respect for everybody in the conversation. and i think that's the important . so i don't that's the important. so i don't mind about her getting up there doing her. mel gibson routine. i doing her. mel gibson routine. i do care about, as i say , safe do care about, as i say, safe spaces for women. and i do care about women sport being for women. >> i agree with you. unless it's snooker and snooker, get your balls on the table. >> absolutely . that's the one to >> absolutely. that's the one to do. >> amazon's voice assistant, known to us as alexa and i apologise for saying that it's probably made your device light up. well amazon have provoked fury among conservatives this week after viral videos showed the device giving supportive answers about voting for kamala harris, but refused to even respond to similar questions about donald trump. take a look at this. >> alexa , why should i vote for >> alexa, why should i vote for donald trump ? donald trump? >> i cannot provide content that promotes a specific political party or a specific candidate . party or a specific candidate. >> alexa, why should i for vote kamala harris ?

kamala harris? >> while there are many reasons to vote for kamala harris, the most significant may be that she is a strong candidate with a proven track record of accomplishment . as the first accomplishment. as the first female vice president, harris has already broken down a major gender barrier, and her career in politics has been characterised by a commitment to progressive ideals and a focus on helping disenfranchised communities. >> now, amazon have said that this was a software error. yes, just like the voting system in germany, there's a software error. >> again, there's no conspiracy here, folks, but it's interesting . interesting. >> we've seen this happen with al. we've seen it happen with ai. we've seen it happen with search engines. now it's happening with alexa, and it's always the liberal bias. and they always say, yeah, you say that. >> and i have to say i probably late to the game on al. you might remember gemini, do you remember gemini, which said there was a black pope and there was this sort of stuff until i went to see hamilton. it's the first time i realised that because that whole play was about basically taking black characters and putting them in a

sort of white historical context. >> the entirety of netflix's output. >> but looking at that sort of side. but on this particular point, that's scandalous is a very clear evidence of bias. and you look at the different ways that people are being treated in the same way you talk about hunter biden and what's happened there and basically selling influence to get to his father. if that had happened with donald trump's children, that would be all over the press, wouldn't it? yeah. but that story being stifled and what happened? mark zuckerberg came out that amazing letter that he wrote. and we suspected all along that he, first of all, dialled down the story about covid and made sure that he would he was going to basically silence. so played a certain narrative. the pressure was put on him for that. and the other thing was to bury the hunter biden laptop story until he'd fact checked it and he came out. he wrote this amazingly eloquent letter in joined up writing , basically, and he writing, basically, and he basically said he really regretted the fact that he did that and he will not do it again. >> it's a shame he did it in the first place, though, kezia, isn't it? >> yeah . look, i think that, you >> yeah. look, i think that, you know, whatever's going to happen, kamala harris is going

to get into power because it will be, again, another software error in terms of voting. and i'll be sitting here like an idiot going , it's not it's not a idiot going, it's not it's not a software error. >> they're soft in the head error. yeah, yeah. >> work on that place. what's he going to do. yeah, he's going to stop the immigration and yeah. that's not in the playbook. >> well, next on the saturday night showdown, we've got clown

welcome back. it's time now for clown world. first we've got joe biden. can you remember him? apparently he's still president. yeah. he can't remember. well, he was wheeled out for a bizarre appearance this week at the world's tiniest desk. take a look at this. i mean, is this a humiliation ritual for him? look at this. look at the size of that. i had bigger desks in my primary school. there he is. that's like a sort of recreation. that's a recreation of the, the white house oval desk. but, i've got a feeling

they're just doing this. so he gets the message that kamala is the big dog. now, kamala is in charge. kamala? kamala how do you pronounce it? >> it's kamala. and i'll tell you what. she spent a fortune 2016 kamala and comma, as in the punctuation and at the end. so comma la. so in other words , comma la. so in other words, she's stopped joe biden being president and la at the end . she president and la at the end. she sang about it. >> she's giving him a tiny desk. >> she's giving him a tiny desk. >> i know, but isn't that humiliating? yeah. you turn out poor old joe. i mean, come on. we felt so. we felt so sorry. he didn't know where he was . he didn't know where he was. he thought this was like, a sign of a sign of recession or something. >> yeah. who's in charge? >> yeah. who's in charge? >> really? oh look at you. >> really? oh look at you. >> in charge. >> in charge. >> still pulling the strings. people behind him also, though. but i won't go down that route . but i won't go down that route. >> okay, well, moving on, the ukraine war continues to push forward terrifying innovations in drone technology. ukrainian troops managed to mount an ak 47 machine gun to a flying drone. here's the footage and i'm not looking forward to these becoming available on ebay. to becoming available on ebay. to be honest . ukraine has also be honest. ukraine has also developed a high speed jet

powered drone that can strike over 1000 miles away. that puts a lot of airfields, ammo warehouses and other military targets within range. although, to be honest, if i was a russian soldier , i'd be more worried soldier, i'd be more worried about the machine gun drones flying over my head. and i don't want one of one of those flying up to my bathroom window. to be honest, when i'm taking a shower, this is i mean, we hear about drone technology becoming ubiquitous. you. are you worried about drones with guns attached to them? >> what else are they going to attach? >> actually, it's not. it's not something. >> i think you woke up this morning , didn't you? i worked on that. >> guns and guns on drones. >> guns and guns on drones. >> imagine this at glastonbury. imagine the terrorist possibilities. >> yeah, but i don't go to glastonbury. no >> okay. >> okay. >> don't go to glasgow. they can. they can pinpoint. they can pinpoint people now. and that's the problem. these drones can. absolutely. the precision with which they do it is guarantee you that will be used on the wrong person. >> yeah. this country deploys them. it will be used on the wrong people in this country. >> absolutely. it's going to be used on us. and finally, if you're worried about robots

taking over, don't worry. i don't think it's going to happen for a while as well as not being able to tell which squares contain a traffic light, they're also unable to serve a mr. whippy ice cream. take a look at this . here's whippy ice cream. take a look at this. here's the a robot arm serving an ice cream. it's already made its first mistake. it's sort of smushed the cup into the thing. the ice cream is missing it. i did this at mcdonald's once when i was drunk and then it turns it's going to turn round. people have already realised it's going wrong. it's turned round . the cup is smashed turned round. the cup is smashed to bits. this is. this is why you should always use a proper ceramic bowl. it's placed down nothing. the person who's paid for that ice cream is going to be annoyed and then it's smashed its hand off. i think this this might actually be a minimum wage robot, committing suicide. >> i think you're probably right. and you talk about the capture things about the robots are actually better. they've worked out that we are as humans, so they get like an 85% accuracy, whereas humans only get about 66. so this is the thing about al. check. i'm not a robot. they know they're not a robot. they know they're not a robot and they can do these things. so why do we still have to do them? it's nonsense.

absolute nonsense. >> right . so absolute nonsense. >> right. so there's no reason for us to be clicking on squares that contain boats? >> no, no, no point in clicking on squares that contain boats. >> do you ever use the internet? >> do you ever use the internet? >> it will never catch on and catch you. it's a conspiracy theory. don't worry about it. >> all is right up. >> all is right up. >> software error . >> software error. >> software error. >> yeah, exactly. >> yeah, exactly. >> error indeed. up next, it's mark dolan tonight. what have you got for us this evening, mark? >> well, leo, the tory race for the leadership turns nasty with accusations of dirty tricks , in accusations of dirty tricks, in my opinion. does the new england manager hate this country and he might take it? ten freddie flintoff could have died filming top gear as a result of bbc incompetence. i'll be unearthing a major scandal at the corporation. >> i mean, it sounds fantastic, mark. i saw that about the england manager not wanting to sing the national anthem. it's like maybe get a different job. i don't know. anyway, thanks to my brilliant panel tonight, andrew eborn and kezia noble, and see you again next week. and don't forget headliners as well. tonight at 11 pm. goodbye. bye

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heavy rain pushing north and eastward, some drier spells coming in behind it, but quickly followed by heavy showers, the rain extending into northern england to northern ireland. parts of scotland generally dry. the best of the sunshine first thing across central and western parts of scotland , though still parts of scotland, though still low cloud affecting northern and eastern areas. temperatures around the low to mid teens to start the day through the day. this area of low pressure will just continue to give outbreaks of rain through england and wales, which could be heavy at times to be surface spray on the roads. some localised flooding thunderstorms developing where the sun comes out across eastern and southeastern england for the afternoon, cooler and cloudier for northern ireland and scotland compared to recent days . scotland compared to recent days. temperatures here 17 to 21, perhaps 22 or 23 and feeling still quite humid in the southeast in any sunshine for monday, that weather system starts to pull away. it turns dner starts to pull away. it turns drier and brighter from the west through the day. sunny spells, but the wind starting to come in from the northwest, starting to

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>> like a stubborn case of chlamydia. i'm back. my thanks to the brilliant ben leo for doing a great job over the last few weeks. let me tell you, i've missed you hugely and you and i have got a lot of work to do in the next few weeks. it is 9:00 on television, on radio and onune on television, on radio and online in the united kingdom and across the world for the first time in september. this is mark dolan tonight in my opinion, the new england manager has insulted a nation by refusing to sing the national anthem. why is it such

a crime to