new meaning to the term grab a new meaning to the term grab them by the. but today, a conservative academic has shared footage allegedly corroborating trump's claim. we'll show you, show you in a moment, and you'll be glad it's not barbecue weather here. and one of the supposedly far right thugs who spread inflammatory racist messages calling for violence against asians has been unmasked as an asian man. is he britain's jussie smollett , or are far jussie smollett, or are far right groups now getting diversity departments? and while keir starmer cuts fuel allowances for millions of pensioners, he's staying warm because he's got money to burn. this week he's handed over £350,000 of your money to a company that sells zombie knives. is this a zombie government? this is your saturday night showdown .

saturday night showdown. discussing alternate topics with me are my brilliant panel. joining me tonight are an absolutely cracking pair. we've got comedians justin panks looking like a random mechanic who's just been dragged off the street. and that's not general zod there. that is, in fact, danus zod there. that is, in fact, darius davies. but first, let's get your latest news headlines from tatiana sanchez . from tatiana sanchez. >> good evening. the top stories a man allegedly sexually assaulted a woman on the same day he was released from prison. under the government's early release scheme. it's understood he was released as part of the policy, which aims to ease prison overcrowding on its first day on tuesday, he allegedly reoffended in sittingbourne in kent and was later arrested at an address in south london. he appeared at a magistrates court on thursday charged with sexual assault, and is due to appear in court next month. he's been

recalled to prison . the prime recalled to prison. the prime minister met with the us president, joe biden, last night to discuss strategy and tactics regarding ukraine and the middle east, meeting at the white house in washington, dc , the pair sat in washington, dc, the pair sat down for talks that sir keir starmer described as long and productive. speaking afterwards, the prime minister also said that he and the us president had reached a strong position regarding ending the conflict in ukraine. >> we've stood with ukraine. ukraine has a right to self—defence and we've stood united, not just with our allies here in the us, but across with our nato allies. that's very, very important to us. but today was about having the chance to talk not just about a particular step or tactic , but the strategy step or tactic, but the strategy in relation to ukraine. but also we cover the middle east in some extensive detail and other areas across the world. so it's a really important occasion for us to have this chance to discuss with our allies . with our allies. >> in other news, more questions

have been asked about the government's decision to cut winter fuel payments following a vote earlier this week. figures released by the department for work and pensions estimated almost 800,000 pensioners will miss out on the benefit under the new plans. of those set to lose the support, around two thirds have a disability and 83% are aged 80 or over. downing street says a full impact assessment of the change hasn't yet taken place . a rebellion yet taken place. a rebellion could be brewing within the labour party following recent comments by the prime minister around a ban on smoking outdoors at pubs. labour mp for newcastle upon tyne east and wallsend, mary glindon, has tabled a motion in parliament against her own party in order to try and block the potential plans in the motion. she praised the indoor smoking ban of two thousand and seven, but said extending the ban outdoors could restrict individual liberty. and today's been the first day of the liberal democrat party conference in brighton, with the cost of living defence and

veterans, climate change and, crucially, their plan to fix the nhs. just some of the topics on the agenda. earlier this afternoon, party leader sir ed davey arrived at the conference on a jet ski. he is scheduled to speak at the event tomorrow, where a celebration is anticipated after his party won 72 seats in july's general election , their best ever result . election, their best ever result. and those are the latest gb news headunes 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. >> welcome to the saturday night showdown, one of the bonuses of immigration is the authentic cuisine people bring with them from other cultures. what would british lunchtimes be without the traditional indian

coronation chicken sandwich? but this was turned on its head this week when donald trump, during his debate with kamala harris , his debate with kamala harris, caused uproar when he claimed that haitian migrants in ohio are eating cats and dogs. let's take a look in springfield, they're eating the dogs . they're eating the dogs. >> the people that came in, they're eating the cats. they're eating. they're eating the pets of the people that live there. and this is what's happening in our country. and it's a shame this was condemned as a far right conspiracy theory. >> the city manager for the town in ohio, springfield, said it's not happening. and you can always trust authority figures because they never have an incentive to downplay the seriousness of the situation . seriousness of the situation. remember, the city manager in jaws said it was safe to go back in the water. that's because it was safe to go back in the water. and any reports of a shark are a far right conspiracy theory. but there are residents complaining about pets going missing and eyewitness accounts of ducks being taken from the

town's ponds. and today, conservative academic chris rufo published this video from the next town over allegedly showing cats on a barbecue. you may want to cover your cats eyes, yo, what is this they got on the grill? >> is that did they kill some cats, man? >> listen, man, they got a cat right there. his better get missing, man. look like his homies on the grill, man. >> i mean, i'm not sure if that was cats or if it was chickens, but this isn't the only issue. springfield is a town of only 60,000 people, but has had a sudden influx of 20,000 migrants from haiti. a lawless, failed state where cannibalism and violence are facts of life. sounds a bit like scotland, so it's bound to create some friction as the residents of springfield struggle to deal with this sudden influx. housing costs are skyrocketing and car accidents, crime and insurance premiums are increasing. two citizens have complained and been ignored. in one notorious

case, a town meeting was closed down when a resident raised the issue . now down when a resident raised the issue. now i'm joined down when a resident raised the issue . now i'm joined tonight by issue. now i'm joined tonight by comedian darius davies and another comedian, justin panks. now justin, do you believe there eating cats? i mean, i've seen them eat worse stuff in haiti. i've seen a video of them literally eating a person that was barbecued on. i think it was a shopping trolley, i don't know, but that footage there, i mean, that that didn't look real because americans are normally good at barbecuing. >> that was that wasn't even lit. >> yeah, but these these people are from haiti, so they might not know. >> well, i think you remember when donald trump got in a lot of trouble for saying haiti was a bit of a dump? yeah. and now it turns to me. but i heard that apparently they only go for certain specific breeds. and you have to go for the bengals if you want to eat like a haitian. >> so, i mean, i'm not sure if they are eating cats because they are eating cats because they get welfare and food stamps in america. so why would they be turned into a cat? that's notoriously an animal that's notoriously an animal that's notoriously difficult to catch? >> well, cats are quite easy to catch, are they? >> yeah, you sound like one.

>> yeah, you sound like one. >> i sound like what? like i've eaten it. i don't like cats. so i was like, yeah, i'll eat those cats.i i was like, yeah, i'll eat those cats. i am actually allergic to cats, so i wasn't bothered to see them being eaten by haitians. listen, they enrich the culture in other ways and new ways by eating cats. cats are a pest. >> do you think the next phase. so, you know, we usually see a cycle when there's, you know, far right conspiracies come out first. they say it's not happening, then they say it is happening, then they say it is happening, but it's good. and then they say you're racist if you don't eat cats. >> well, these, these, these videos are coming out. but actually what the point of the whole point is that there's been an influx of haitian immigrants into this town, regardless whether they're eating cats or whatever. that's just a headline grabbing attention. there's actually 20 000 people influx into a town, like taking over the services. and, you know , the services. and, you know, putting a burden on the state. it's like you've just put 20,000 immigrants. any immigrants would be there, put 20,000 welsh people in there. they'd be they'd be just as annoyed with welsh people as they are with haitians. they're eating their rarebit well, eating their sheep. >> yeah, that's a good point because, i mean, the whole focus is now on whether cats are being eaten when the, the real issue

is dropping 20,000 haitian migrants on a town of 60,000 people is going to cause, i mean, it's bound to cause some social friction. and the townspeople have been complaining about, you know, the effect on housing the effect on crime and car accidents, obviously, like the local cafes can't sustain them if they've resorted to catching. >> why don't we? i've got two birds with one stone. and why don't we bring them to london to eat all the rats? that's like we're solving the world's problems here. >> and we saw the worst trump derangement syndrome i've ever seen this week. so a father whose son was killed by a haitian immigrant in a car accident gave a press conference. and look what he said. >> i wish that my son, aiden clark, was killed by a 60 year old white man. i bet you never thought anyone would ever say something so blunt. but if that guy killed my 11 year old son, the incessant group of hate spewing people would leave us alone . alone. >> i mean, i was shocked to see

this. justin. he's. he's not. he didn't seem upset that his son had been killed as much as he was upset that his son had been killed by somebody, he couldn't criticise without looking racist. >> absolutely. i mean, if a career politician used a personal tragedy to score a political point, that would be bad enough. but what was this quy's bad enough. but what was this guy's incentive? yeah. and i say to come out and it's one thing to come out and it's one thing to come out and it's one thing to come out and say, look, i don't want my son's death to be used as a political football. he's using it. he's the one bringing it up and bringing it up in the political football himself. yeah, i mean, it's i don't i can't understand that as a parent myself. i mean, and why and if you don't try and make out like the demographic doesn't matter, why pick a specific demographic? yeah. so why? i'd rather it was a 60 year old white man. what about if it was a 43 year old asian woman? what would. why what is insane? it's like instead of saying, let's not make it about politics, it's saying, i'm going to make it about politics. but on this side, yeah. >> and he's totally he's totally made it about politics. well, i mean, he condemns. >> well, he was like, i wish it

was a white a white guy who killed him. what about i wish my son wasn't killed. that would have been. that would have been the better option, but yeah, as justin said, totally politicises. it totally makes incriminating. but also people are just some people now genuinely have trump derangement syndrome. they can't change their mindset. they can't get out of whatever happens. like your son's just been killed. i'm going to use this to go a politician. >> what's in it for him? what's his impetus? >> well, there is they do have teams that go around and coach people and it happens in the in the uk as well, like government advisers who, you know, advise people on what to say. and that's why you get people chanting, you know, don't look back in anger after terrorist atrocities. people are sort of schooled and coached not to not to be angry and not to let their true emotions out. well, trump was widely reported to have lost the debate with kamala harris, but it's fair to say that just as in britain, the media in america have a left wing bias. but the media couldn't hide the difference in reaction. when biden and harris visited firefighters compared to when trump visited. take a look at this . that's the latest

this. that's the latest. >> oh, there he is . woo >> oh, there he is. woo >> oh, there he is. woo >> well, that was deathly silence for kamala and biden but cheering for trump. i mean, i think the people the media says one thing, but the people react a different way. >> well, anecdotally during my edinburgh run, which is like the most left wing kind of festival you can do any time, i'd have americans in my audience, i'd always ask them, who are you voting for ? and without? like, voting for? and without? like, without a doubt , every one of without a doubt, every one of them was voting for trump. yeah, even the most like you would never imagine it. you know, blue hair. you think? oh, definitely come. they were all going to vote for trump. so anecdotally, just my experience, i think a

lot of people are going to trump is a lot more popular than they're putting out firefighters. >> he's always had the blue collar base. i think the blue collar base. i think the blue collar people in america seem to love him, or unless they were cheering because his hair looks like a flame. that's just they saw a bit of work coming their way. maybe. >> well, during the debate, trump said biden hates kamala and he might be right, because shortly afterwards, biden put on a trump hat. >> take a look at this talk about a threat to democracy. he got 14 million votes and they threw him out of office. and you know what? i'll give you a little secret. he hates her. he can't stand her. >> beau biden taking the hat off. apparently he did it to show sort of solidarity and show unity. i think secretly it was a dig at kamala, and he might be putting his vote where nobody's expecting it in november. there was also controversy around the fairness of the debate . abc, the fairness of the debate. abc, the network who hosted it, have given far more positive coverage to kamala and trump, claims the moderator was harsher on him than he was on her. but the

biggest potential scandal could be the claim that kamala was being fed lines by helpers , being fed lines by helpers, which she could hear through these headphone earrings. the company behind the earrings didn't settle the rumours. instead, they seemed to suggest that she was wearing them. she was, in fact, wearing them , and was, in fact, wearing them, and they could help trump out next time i like sound managing director multi iverson said. we do not know whether mrs. harris wore one of her products. the resemblance is striking and while our product was not specifically developed for use at presidential debates, it is nonetheless suited for it. he then went to on say that to ensure a level playing field for both candidates, the company is working on a male counterpart that it will soon be able to offer to the trump campaign. democrats dismissed the rumours as a far right conspiracy theory, saying there are slight differences in appearance and the headphones aren't even available to buy online at the moment. well, i think the deep state may just have the

resources to source one that isn't on the website and slightly change its appearance. last week, kamala harris was spotted wearing an earpiece while walking through a crowd of journalists. so she's familiar with wearing an earpiece and possibly even feels unprepared without one. now, darius, what do you what do you make of this? like, do you think she could have been wearing an earpiece? it certainly would have helped her. any time i've seen her. she hasn't. really? yeah. i mean, the ball. >> i choose to believe she was wearing an earpiece. right. even though she wasn't. but, i mean, this was the most composed and articulate she has been. just the day afterwards, she did like, an interview with a local guy for ten minutes with a local news station in america, and she's just not able to answer the questions. she's just going dancing around. i saw a funny tweet online. she was like, what's your policy? you know, to increase improve the economy? she said, well, i was raised as a middle class child and somebody said, like, we don't care how you was raised. we don't care about your friends. just tell us what your policy is. yeah. but on that night, she was definitely more she started

nervously, but she was more articulate, and i wouldn't put it back like she could, but i wouldn't put it by them. apparently there's all sorts of rumours going around about the debate, but the debate is regardless, neither of them came out winners. yeah. it was. i think they were both equal. neither came out winners. but i don't think anyway that the debate trump's going to win. i put it out there now. >> you reckon trump's going to win it. >> trump's going to win in the polls. >> what do you reckon? >> what do you reckon? >> i think the earpiece thing maybe biden had won in the internet throws that might have explained his past. but i think like, i don't know, to go back to the debate, it did sound like the way her questions, her answers, sorry, went to a crescendo that led on to the next question. it seemed very it just maybe it was lucky, but i've seen her before, and she sort of cackles and repeats herself when she's going woke. we need to be woke. we need to be more woke. and she laughs to buy time. she wasn't like that. and i guess this is the first election i've ever seen that's actually about identity politics. because, as darius just said, people ask her a question and she says what she is, where she comes from. that's

not what people want to know. where are you going to take us? yeah. so we don't know. and i think the genius thing that the democrats have done is when biden was, well, in the late stages of dementia, he seemed to me in the first debate, they turned the conversation to competency. who's more competent rather than policy. and now they've switched it like those old boxing moves. apparently they'd have a little skinny bloke in the ring like darius, and they'd say, if you can last and they'd say, if you can last a round, you get £5, then just before you start, some big bloke gets in and beats you up and i feel like they've done the old bait and switch. they've done that with trump. >> they have. >> they have. >> well, we'll see if he can still win. well coming up we will assess the we will assess the week's winners and which a fallen trans boss at a women's rape crisis

it's now time to go through the winners and losers of the week. remember jussie smollett? winners and losers of the week. rememberjussie smollett? he's remember jussie smollett? he's the black actor who staged a racist attack against himself .

racist attack against himself. he said trump supporters wearing maga hats sprayed him with bleach and put a noose around his neck, which just shows why actors need writers. it's like a scooby—doo episode where he also burgled by a guy in a stripy vest wearing a carrying a bag with swag written on the side. well, britain has just got its own jussie smollett this week. a far right thug who spread dangerous inciteful messages calling for violence against asians was unmasked as asian man ihsan hussain. screenshots of the messages obtained by police show hussain urging people to conquer alum rock. that's a predominantly muslim neighbourhood in birmingham, saying sick of these smelly scumbags under the fake name of chris nolan, he also wrote birmingham first. we need to take back what's ours and we doing p—word bashing. now, before you start thinking he'd maybe just integrated a bit too far, he said in court that he sent the messages out of curiosity to and take a poke at others. hussain, from yardley,

pleaded guilty at birmingham magistrates court to distributing threatening, abusive or insulting material, intending to stir up racial hatred. he was warned to expect a substantial custodial sentence and was remanded into custody for sentencing at birmingham crown court on friday. now he was given credit for a guilty plea, but what about other people who pleaded guilty? lots of people pleaded guilty and then went on to get like three years, extremely harsh, overly harsh. >> i mean, i'm not saying that what they did was right, but i mean, it's. the trouble is, when you create a system or a society or whatever, where if you're deemed to be a victim or being victimised, it benefits you in some way, like jussie smollett, it does kind of incentivise you to stoke it up. and i don't know, this isn't quite the same, but i've been thinking about these online hate speech laws and stuff, and i was thinking about an interesting sort of hypothetical, if you like. what about if an anonymous account was used, the n word, and then the police find out and go to investigate. and that person is black. yeah. i mean, this is the

trouble with two tier police. and now you've got two tier legislation. yeah. >> and it's funny for all the people that are claiming, oh, there's no such thing as two tier policing, everybody's getting treated fairly, even though you can sort of see with your own eyes people on one side getting treated incredibly harshly and people on the other side getting away with pretty much the same crimes. but those people are the people saying there's no two tier policing. the same people who say that the police are systemically racist, which is two tier policing. yeah, exactly. >> which george floyd was about two tier policing. yeah. but i mean, this is like just because he is of the community that he has been deriding, it's still incitement. i don't understand. so if you're inciting hatred and you're cause could potentially cause harm to the asian community because you're asian, why on earth would that make any difference? i mean, as on a human level, it seems very odd. it seems stranger, but in the eyes of the law it should make no difference. it should make no difference. it's incitement to hatred. if that's the law, it's the law across the board. the only way it can ever work. yeah, and we've seen other people on on that side like ricky jones, the labour councillor who was

filmed calling for right wing people's throats to be cut. >> and he pleaded not guilty. >> and he pleaded not guilty. >> yeah, he pleaded not guilty. >> yeah, he pleaded not guilty. >> and then they're like, oh, probably innocent. then he says, i didn't know, i didn't know i was, i didn't know, i didn't know. according to someone, it was bad. i didn't know if you watched it. >> you know, when you're improvising and you're desperate to finish on a big laugh. when i watched it, he was going, yeah, we need to do this and we need to. he didn't know he was going to. he didn't know he was going to cut their throats. oh, mate, you've gone too far. i know you're trying to finish on a high, but come on, you know, it's tough. and his face dropped. he was like, oh. >> it was like that hulk hogan. yeah. little inside reference. but you know what's funny is that always there's like these things like, if you remember, after the euros when everyone was like abusing all the black engush was like abusing all the black english players and, oh, it's all far right, right wing racist hooligans. then about then, about six months later, it came out that all the insults were coming from like the asia and pakistan and stuff. they just quietly forgot that it wasn't the people they said it was. so i mean, i'm always, i'm always whenever i see this on either

side, he's like, really too good to be true. i always like just too on the nose. it's like, yeah, like the jussie smollett was so on the nose. >> but i wonder, is it just a modern thing where people are so addicted to retweets and likes that they will even sell out their own ethnicity? just to get engagement? i have no idea. >> why is he just genuinely believed it. >> he's like so self—loathing. i mean, i've been there at times in my life. he's that good. >> well, talking of things that are too good to be true, j.k. rowling, she's a great woman and she was right back in 2022. the harry potter author set up a private support service for female victims of sexual violence in edinburgh called bears violence in edinburgh called bear's place. she did this because the boss of the existing rape crisis centre in edinburgh , rape crisis centre in edinburgh, mridul wadhwa, had criticised some rape victims as bigoted and holding prejudice against transgender people and said they need to reframe their trauma. also mridul wadhwa is a biological male who identifies as a woman just like me. j.k. rowling thought that women accessing a rape crisis centre might not need a bloke in a

frock, telling them they're bigots, so she funded an alternative service where women would be treated by women. rowling was condemned as transphobic and far right for doing this , obviously. well, doing this, obviously. well, this week a report commissioned by rape crisis scotland found that under mridul wadhwa's leadership, the service damaged survivors, provided no safe space for women and failed to protect women and girls in its care from now on, women who've suffered sexual violence will be directed to j.k. rowling's service . mridul wadhwa, seen service. mridul wadhwa, seen here with fellow gender ideological ideological nutjob nicola sturgeon, has now been forced to quit after being found to have failed to set professional standards of behaviour and did not understand the limits on her role's authority. wadhwa was also previously identified by an employment judge as the invisible hand behind a witch hunt against staff, who had gender critical views, and by gender critical views, and by gender critical views, and by gender critical views. we basically just mean thinking

that women exist and people like me can't become women just by changing our pronouns on twitter. now you think jk rowling , she's been proven right rowling, she's been proven right over the hate crime laws and it looks like this is another stunning victory for jk rowling. >> you know what they're saying now? this hurt. this actually hurts. if trans women as well, because like most trans people, they just want to go about their day, do their job and they agree like they're a women's spaces. they don't want to get involved in it. they don't want to get involved init.then they don't want to get involved in it. then you've got someone who's insisting that, oh, we must do that and then call in actual women who were rape survivors, bigoted and it just it creates animosity towards the trans community. it's like we just want to live our life. we're not we don't want to insert ourselves into all of this. and then now they're being another punching bag because that would well, whatever their name was , wants to make a stance name was, wants to make a stance and insert themselves into the, into the, into places where they shouldn't be let women have their spaces. and obviously jk rowling has been proved right. when mermaids reports come out that comes out time after time.

>> it seems like common sense , >> it seems like common sense, like if there's a trans activist who wants to run a female rape crisis centre, that seems like not the right place for somebody to be pushing trans ideology. it's like, push it somewhere else. you've got plenty of primary schools for women, you know. >> yeah, these poor women have been they've suffered horrific crimes. right. it's not we're not talking about sport or toilets. this is like women that would be triggered by they just need to be away from men, possibly. and it's just sort of like i mean, it's ridiculous. it's like a wolf in sheep's clothing, isn't it? i mean, it's almost like as if the bbc gave a notorious a show surrounded by children where he made their dreams come true. i mean, you would never do that, would you? it's absolutely insane. it could never happen. >> he means jimmy savile. that's exactly what he meant, darius. >> well done. there were crazy scenes this week as keir starmer released hundreds of prisoners to make space for people arrested during the riots. champagne corks popped outside prisons as inmates were freed early. some were in prison for serious, violent offences. lawson natty was one lag who got

out after serving just six months for his role in the machete killing of a 14 year old boy. one drug dealer said he was now a lifelong labour voter. maybe this is all just electioneering for keir. he's recruiting labour support from the only growth demographic in britain criminals. incredibly, one of the men freed from prison under the government's early release scheme has already been charged with sexual assault after a woman was allegedly assaulted in kent . british assaulted in kent. british transport police officers responded to a call from sittingbourne railway station on tuesday to reports of an incident and arrested a man named as amari lyndon ward, still here, no doubt thinks it's worth it. so he can make space to lock up an 81 year old for farting at a police horse. and while we free prisoners to make space for people who sent some naughty tweets or shouted at a police dog, our prisons are chock full of foreign criminals. richard tice from the political party reform suggested that the government should deport foreign criminals, as this would free up

space and save the country billions of pounds and we'd get rid of the criminals too, unless they jumped on a boat and came back in. some of the people being sent to prison have barely committed a crime. one man got ten weeks for offensive memes that were much less offensive than anything in our allah akbar whatsapp group , darius, than anything in our allah akbar whatsapp group, darius, and in the in the communist soviet union, they had a system where innocent people were sent to the gulag for being political dissidents, criminals were freed to the streets. >> i actually have to be honest. this is i'm actually for this policy. this has been good. letting them release prisoners early. >> it's only because you're likely to be a prisoner. >> no, it's because i got to see my dad, and that was nice. hey oh, no. but it didn't take labour long to do what everyone said they would do for them to do. what's funny is that. oh, look, we're like the. we're the kind and caring and compassionate party. and, we're going to take we're going to take the winter fuel allowance. we're going to release criminals onto the streets , and we're onto the streets, and we're going to imprison people for means. but it's all so, so outrageous. people don't believe

it's true. yeah but it's actually happening. but people don't believe that people are going to prison for memes. >> if someone said this a month ago, i would have said that is far right. lunatic conspiracy theory. as if as if it's this. i mean, what is their what are they doing? yeah. are they just trying to demoralise and confuse everyone? this is clearly not a good idea. no one can think it's a good idea. they know it's not a good idea. they know it's not a good idea. yeah, they must do the worst headlines i've ever seen for a political party. >> it's like criminals popping quartz corks, championship attackers, machete attackers been freed to make space for people who've just seen the actual what are they doing? >> because they can't be. i mean , >> because they can't be. i mean, it's like you go from you go from scrolling story to seeing, like, the police knocking on someone's door and taking someone's door and taking someone off, or posting something on facebook to people popping something on facebook to people popping champagne corks and going back to prison within like two days. >> well, next on the saturday night showdown, it's culture coroner where we'll be talking school kids as as four being sent home every

welcome back to the saturday night showdown. it is revealed this week that 60 school children are sent home from school every day for racism, and some are as young as four. last yean some are as young as four. last year, 11,619 children were sent home from school for alleged racist, racist behaviour. this is up 25% on the year before. are we seeing an epidemic of racism? some activists think so. joe studholme, a self—appointed expert bleated. too often children pick up racist views from their parents and caregivers and teachers . trade caregivers and teachers. trade union leader daniel kebede said these figures should be a wake up call. yeah, a wake up call that teachers and police are being way too heavy handed and people are maliciously throwing around accusations of racism. some of the playground remarks logged as racist incidents by primary school staff include comments that another child's hair was different and a pupil

aged under 11, who had used the word chocolate. when asked to describe a classmate's skin colour. that's a trap. she was literally asked to describe her classmates skin colour, and she used a nice word. she said chocolate. i mean, what's she supposed to say? one incident involving a five year old girl was deemed a racist incident after she made comments about a classmate's different hair and brown skin and a nine year old boy was logged as being involved in a racist incident after he walked up to an 11 year old girl and said, you're a turkey from turkey, before pretending to be a turkey in front of her. i mean, experts have said that recording such incidents as racist is largely due to teachers covering their backs, and the police have come under fire for the same risk averse stigma attached. i think there's going to be a stigma attached to these kids, because they're they're being accused of racism. that's going to that's going to stick to them in the playground and all the kids are told that, you know, racism is the worst thing you can be apart from not being transgender, racist is the

worst thing you can be. so they're going to get bullied. i mean, this is crazy when a four year old is being accused of racism, >> although there is that funny video, i did see a meme one time where a little girl was eating all the cake or something and the mum says, who ate all the cake? and she went, a man broke in and she went, what? yeah, he broke in and he robbed her and he ate all the cake and she went, yeah, he ate all the cake. and he was black. so maybe they can be racist. it's really funny. >> but the thing is, these are children. i mean, i've had children. i mean, i've had children and some of the stuff that comes. what's next? you have them sectioned. yeah. because they go, oh , leprechauns because they go, oh, leprechauns live at the end of a rainbow. and you go, well, their mental, they're not, they're just children. and also what constitutes obviously this is the trouble with what people would call woke . i mean, we all would call woke. i mean, we all agree that maybe. well, not maybe, but you know, like things are bad, like racism, transphobia is bad. but how far do you come down where you think, like what constitutes being racist? >> and also what's more important to the to the police? they seem to turn up very quickly if there's any suggestion of any sort of

bigotry or transphobia or racism, but if you try and get them to turn up to a car that's been broken into, you know, actual real crime, the only way you can get them to turn up is if you say, oh, and by the way, the guy misgendered me at the same time. >> well, i think the thing is, police have these quotas and numbers and targets, and they used to be like. but it seems like now they're just i don't know what the again, i don't know what the again, i don't know what the agenda is. they can't wait or they're trying to usher people into these. they're trying to make people racist. they want as many. how many children can we get? can we brand as racist? again, i don't know what the end game is. and like you say, it's a stigma. if i got a letter home that my children were, i mean, it would be one of the worst, you know, apart from dying, i guess it'd be worse. but, you know, like, you sort of go, oh, this all horrible thing. and you think they haven't heard it from me? and it's just this whole they just want everyone to be frightened and their children, and there's such a fear of looking racist in the authorities and the manchester arena bombing that could only take place because the security guard was afraid of approaching the man out of fear of looking

racist. >> he thought if he if he stops this man and he doesn't have a bomb in his backpack, he's going to get accused of racism. >> well, you know, it'll be interesting to see what the figures are for. who are the people doing the racism? is it all white kids? because i know what is it? well, because i went to school and what everyone would have been racist and we were from everywhere, if that is. what if you call someone a turkey from turkey, then everyone in my class would have been racist and they were all from turkey. >> yeah, well, this week brought the crazy news that companies who sell zombie knives are taking advantage of a government knife amnesty scheme to get hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers money. the scheme encourages people to hand in their knives, giving them £10 each for each blade they give to the police. but the companies sporting wholesale limited and anglo arms are using the scheme to shift thousands of unsold knives. the knives sold by these companies have been used in a string of killings, including that of 14 year old gordon gault, who was killed with a machete in newcastle in 2022, the one of the guys involved in the killing is to be released as part of keir starmer's prisoner release scheme after serving just six months. so is this just

showing how any system gets gamed? justin, you've set up this system. you're trying to get knives off the street. you say, we'll give you £10 for every knife you hand it. then there's a company with all this unsold stock and they're like, we can make a profit here. yeah, of course you get 350 grand for handing over a warehouse full of knives. >> i mean, it is a problem. knife crime in a lot of inner cities where i live. i look at the kids around me. i think we need a 4k amnesty because they are little. but you know. yeah, of course it is. whenever you bnngin of course it is. whenever you bring in money, you bring in corruption. and it's just like, again, it's like they don't i don't know if you really wanted to solve knife crime. there's a lot, you know, they they do away with things like stop and search, which is a way that you would actually deal. and these are, these are the sort of sentences that should be harsher. these are laws that should be applied more and the sentences should be swifter. but no, they'd rather like to send the resources on facebook posts and memes. and they'd rather get this, like you say, a company that's loophole in it. it's just. >> and nobody's going to hand it a knife. that's there's not going to be a gang out there

with a machete that they're going to use in an attack who's like, oh, i'm going to hand this in to the police. you're all going to get the people who are not going to hand it in. or if they do hand it in, it's because it's worth less than a tenner. i mean, make some money, actually. >> what's so outrageous? you said the guy, someone got killed and the guy's only served six months and he's already out. yeah. how can that in any way, shape or form be acceptable to . shape or form be acceptable to. how can you kill someone and only serve six months? they've got to make space. >> they've got to make space for it. >> i need to double check. >> i need to double check. >> but here he he wasn't he he just he was just involved in the killing. he didn't actually, you know, strike the strike the blow. >> well, as a conspiracy theorist, what i would say is check out who the owners are and what links they have to the government where they get doing this buyback scheme. because we found out during covid that a lot of them are friends with politicians. when there's money to be handed out. yeah. so i wouldn't be keeping the keeping the lockdown grift rolling. you can't you can't. if i was that that knife company, i'd lose it. unsold stock and you could sell it to get them to buy it for £10. you can't blame them, but it'd be interesting to see, kind of. if there's any connections, i bet i wouldn't be surprised if

there was. >> if we can import knives from china for less than £10 each, we could make a profit. >> yeah, actually, that's quite a good idea. >> michael jackson's daughter, paris jackson, is a model and actress, and she's absolutely stunning. she's the second child and only daughter of michael jackson and debbie rowe, and she's got some resemblance to michael. she's white, she's got a thin nose and she's a woman. the only problem is michael didn't start off looking like that. unless michael jackson found a way to pass on his skin bleaching and plastic surgery. i don't think michael jackson is her real dad. this. this is a real james hewitt moment for me. when i when i realised this, and then i googled and found out that earlier this year , paris's that earlier this year, paris's mother admitted that michael is not the biological father. but. yeah. who do you reckon her dad is? >> i don't know, but i don't know if he knew because i heard that when he found out he went to throw off a balcony and then saw the paparazzi and went, nah, i'm just joking. and he pulled her back in again. but i don't know. i mean, i don't think he was, capable of meeting. i think he was capable. i don't think i think that's not his lane. i

think that's not his lane. i think not his. >> what his particular attraction was. i don't think so. 50. >> so. >> i don't think he's going to have, like, kids running around everywhere. like, if i was michael jackson's position, he seemed to have quite a lot of kids running around. yeah, but i don't know where they come from. i don't know if they come from him. yeah, but you know, michael jackson's innocent of all these malicious claims, and he's got a very beautiful daughter. >> and if that, if he's not the biological father, i'm sure the biological father, i'm sure the biological father, i'm sure the biological father is a fine, upstanding, handsome individual. >> and he was never he was never convicted. let's not forget that. >> i didn't say that. i just said he's an innocent man like jimmy savile. >> never. jimmy savile, an innocent man as well. well next on the saturday night showdown, we've got crazy stuff coming up in clown world. see

break. welcome back to the saturday night showdown. it's time now for clown world, and we've seen

some crazy footage from the war in ukraine. this week we saw what looked like russian holidaymakers drag a sea mine up the beach. take a look at this . the beach. take a look at this. look at this. so that's the sea mine. you can see it being filmed, being filmed there. being lifted up the beach there, rolling it up the beach . they rolling it up the beach. they must have good health insurance in russia. they must hit it with rock vlad. >> they must know what it is as well , i >> they must know what it is as well, i must >> they must know what it is as well , i must know, >> they must know what it is as well, i must know, i mean, ever since i was. i mean, i've never seen one. but see, mines and quicksand are like those things that were ubiquitous when i was a kid. yeah. >> all those comics. >> all those comics. >> yeah. every comic. yeah. so what? >> i mean, and, like, i understand that sea mines are designed to just. they just explode in proximity to boats. yeah, because they react to the steel or something like that. but, like, what if you've got some steel in your watch and. yeah, i just wouldn't go anywhere near it. oh, they all stood around. >> i'd have been. i'm not that quick on my feet, but i'd have been running as fast as i could away from it. >> yeah, i thought they went off. if you just pushed them. that's a landmine. well, same in

the sea, but i've seen i've seen russian soldiers, when they're, when they're dealing with landmines. >> just chucking them around as well. oh, really? yeah. like chucking it. almost like you're, you know, shovelling coal or something like that. that was sent in by david vaughan jones by the way. oh. >> was that sent in by david vaughan jones. that's a good video he sent in there. yeah. but

>> no you can't, although, i mean, it was a little blue octopus . it wasn't a big sea it wasn't a big sea octopus. it wasn't a big sea mine. yeah. anyway, moving on, octopus. it wasn't a big sea mine. yeah. anyway, moving on, muslim politicians. ninja amitai muslim politicians. ninja amitai has resigned from leadership of has resigned from leadership of the liberal green party in the liberal green party in zunch zunch the liberal green party in zurich after an uproar over the liberal green party in zurich after an uproar over pictures she posted to social pictures she posted to social media of her using a christian media of her using a christian painting of madonna and child as painting of madonna and child as target practice for her target practice for her shooting. that's the original shooting. that's the original madonna and child, by the way. madonna and child, by the way. it's not the pop star madonna it's not the pop star madonna and the latest kid she's stolen and the latest kid she's stolen from africa. the ninja announced from africa. the ninja announced her resignation from the her resignation from the leadership of the zurich glp. leadership of the zurich glp. there she is shooting her gun at there she is shooting her gun at the at the picture. it's a it's the at the picture. it's a it's a remake of an old picture. it's a remake of an old picture. it's not the original picture . and not the original picture . and not the original picture. and she's she's deleted the photos, not the original picture. and she's she's deleted the photos, but they'd already circulated on but they'd already circulated on social media and people are social media and people are quite angry, but not as angry as quite angry, but not as angry as they'd be if a christian they'd be if a christian christian politician did the same thing to you know, some christian politician did the same thing to you know, some islamic iconography. and that's islamic iconography. and that's the if it was a picture of the if it was a picture of muhammad or something like that, muhammad or something like that, even if they had a picture of even if they had a picture of muhammad, never mind shoot it. muhammad, never mind shoot it.

>> but i mean, that's the >> but i mean, that's the hypocrisy that i'm being honest with you. i'm not bothered by iconoclasm. i don't really, but it's just the hypocrisy of it. yeah, but she's quite a good shot. and i saw a picture of jesus once and someone had shot him in each hand hole straight through. so it does happen more than you think. >> i'm not reassured that she's a good shot, when i see when i see sort of muslim politicians who are good at violence, it's not. >> no, but i read , i read, i >> no, but i read, i read, i read the story. and if you read the story, she was like, oh, i didn't actually know what this. i just needed something to target and i didn't know what i was using as a baby. you didn't know what? like even if you just shoot a picture of a woman and a baby, it's obviously mary and jesus. but like you said, if this was a christian shooting the other way round, the flipping birmingham would be burnt to the ground right now. you know? i mean, geneva would be on fire. >> you wouldn't even know what happenedin >> you wouldn't even know what happened in paris when charlie hebdo just depicted mohammed, which is, you know, it's you know, it's i don't know. and if you're a muslim and you feel that strongly about your prophet or your your religious figures to then do that, it's like you're more sensitive to it than i am. that's what i'm saying.

and this is what you're saying before about how there's two tiers, like on one side, if you're on the western side, then, you know, you get the full force of the law, you get all the approbation of society. >> everybody slams down on you. but she is almost being forgiven already for shooting these these pictures. the party, i think, is already all have a

>> back at home, we all have a lot of work to do, but from here, earth looks like a perfect . world. >> so there he is, out of the pod and testing the spacesuit. that's some way to test a spacesuit. i'd rather do it on earth instead of in space. >> billionaires just got literally have too much money if they're not trying to kill themselves in a submarine, they're flying and hanging off they're flying and hanging off the outside. >> you know what i heard? it's really dangerous. like five miles under the sea. i'm going to go 80 miles into what? >> what? >> what? >> can you stay in the middle where you've got all your money in your champagne? >> this is this is spacex. this is designed by elon musk. and i've been in a tesla. it was great. >> and it didn't crash. oh, yeah, but have you seen the cybertruck's all falling? you can pull them apart, apparently. yeah. allegedly. a tin opener. yeah. >> apparently they're all like, dustin doesn't even believe he went to the moon. >> i don't well i don't i don't know about that, but i think that was a fisheye lens. let's just say that no, that's a conspiracy theory okay, >> so yeah. like i mean , would

>> so yeah. like i mean, would you would you go to space, >> no, i don't no. absolutely not. i don't even, like, go on fairground rides and the spacesuits are cool, though, you know, they used to be those big marshmallowy things. >> and now this guy's in a, you know, when people say astronauts said. >> they said, oh, the thing was, we looked out and we saw the earth and this blue marble when we just realised that we all should love each other. i don't want that feeling. okay. >> up next, it's mark dolan tonight. >> what have you got for us this evening, mark? >> well, we've got a busy show. >> well, we've got a busy show. >> carol vorderman is complaining about this new labour government, except that she campaigned for keir starmer to enter downing street. so i'll be dealing with carol vorderman in no uncertain terms in my opinion, in just a couple of minutes time. plus big news huw edwards is back. find out in my take at ten what he's up to. you really won't believe it. plus, my mark meets guest is a biographer of the beatles first book about the fab four. in 20 years. and boy, we got some stories. >> amazing i can't see. i can't wait to see what you say about carol vorderman. i think i preferred her when she was flogging dodgy loans to confused old people . anyway, thanks to my

old people. anyway, thanks to my brilliant panel tonight with danus brilliant panel tonight with darius davies and justin. thanks two brilliant comedians. make sure you see them on tour. you got any dates coming up? no, no. justin, are you more successful? >> i'm more successful, but just as unorganised . i can't tell you as unorganised. i can't tell you where i'm going to be. >> you can find them on the internet. you can listen to their podcast, the free speech podcast, and we'll see you again next week. and don't forget headliners as well. tonight at 11 pm. i'll be on tonight. so see you then. goodbye >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on . gb. news weather on. gb. news >> hello. good evening and welcome to your gb news weather update brought to you by the met office. well, we've got a bit of a mix in the weather for this weekend. sunny spells, blustery showers, also some cloud and some outbreaks of rain but lots of fine weather around too. and the reason for this mix is that we've got high pressure to the south, giving us those fine conditions, but we've also got a weather front that's slowly sinking its way southeastwards

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