your face go steroids that make your face go like a moon. i have never seen a woman who looks like this. and i've been to dundee, where are bbc verify when you need them . bbc verify when you need them. and it's more money, more problems for keir starmer. and it's more money, more problems for keir starmer . every problems for keir starmer. every day he's admitting to more sleaze. we've just heard that he received another 16 grand's worth of clobber from his millionaire backer, waheed ali, and labour mp rosie duffield has just quit in disgust with keir's approval rating. now below. rishi's. he's about as popular as a turd in a swimming pool and sinking even faster. labour's honeymoon period ended before they'd even got to the airport. and how is twitter or x, as elon calls it, now doing under elon musk.7 he's scrapping the block function. he's allowed. he's allowed platform to horrible bigots such as me and he's been criticised for sharing conspiracy theories. or as i like to call them, spoiler alerts. and this week there was speculation that elon is romantically linked to italian

leader giorgia meloni. what a couple they would make. we've got an interview with tech expert don mcgregor coming up. this is your saturday night showdown . showdown. and talking of outstanding couples , discussing all couples, discussing all tonight's topics with me are my brilliant panel. tonight's topics with me are my brilliant panel . joining me brilliant panel. joining me tonight are comedian sajeela qureshi and another comedian, bruce devlin. there they are. give us a wave. but first, let's get your latest news headlines from sophia wenzler. >> leo. thank you. good evening . >> leo. thank you. good evening. i'm sophia wenzler with your headunes i'm sophia wenzler with your headlines just after 8:00. david lammy has spoken to the lebanese prime minister following a series of israeli air strikes on

beirut in a post on x, the foreign secretary said they had agreed on the need for an immediate ceasefire to bring an end to the bloodshed. it comes after the terrorist group hezbollah confirmed their leader has been killed in an airstrike on southern lebanon. in a tweet. this morning, the idf say hassan nasrallah will no longer be able to terrorise the world, while us president joe biden says his death is a measure of justice for his many victims. the lebanese health ministry is reporting that at least 11 people have now been killed and 108 wounded in the attack in central beirut. soldiers and aid workers have been taking part in rescue operations, looking for survivors and victims in the rubble . back in the uk, rosie rubble. back in the uk, rosie duffield has resigned as a labour mp . the times newspaper labour mp. the times newspaper is reporting that she's blaming sir keir starmer's cruel and unnecessary policies , and the unnecessary policies, and the freebies row that is engulfing him and his party. in a

resignation letter to the prime minister, she criticised the decision to keep the two child benefit cap and means test the winter fuel payment and accused the prime minister of hypocrisy over his acceptance of free gifts from donors. in other news, it's been revealed that bofis news, it's been revealed that boris johnson considered raiding a dutch warehouse over a vaccination row with the eu. at the time, the astrazeneca vaccine was at the heart of a cross—channel row , with the cross—channel row, with the former prime minister claiming the eu was slowing down the pace of the rollout in the uk . of the rollout in the uk. according to an extract from his memoir, mrjohnson according to an extract from his memoir, mr johnson convened according to an extract from his memoir, mrjohnson convened a meeting of senior military officials back in march 2021 to discuss the plans, which even he admitted were, quote, nuts . admitted were, quote, nuts. conservative party leader rishi sunak has arrived at the party's conference in birmingham ahead of the event officially opening tomorrow . he was seen of the event officially opening tomorrow. he was seen making his way in with his wife and they were greeted by interim party chairman richard fuller, tory leadership candidate kemi

badenoch was also seen arriving shortly before, followed by james cleverly, robert jenrick and finally tom tugendhat , and and finally tom tugendhat, and finally the king and queen are visiting holyrood to mark the 25th anniversary of the scottish parliament being reconvened . the parliament being reconvened. the celebration showcased scottish music and culture and was attended by local heroes who've been nominated thanks to their contribution to local communities. his majesty spoke of the success of the devolved parliament from that day until this. >> through its work, over a quarter of a century, this place has not just thrived, but in doing so has borne witness to the enduring relationship between the parliament, the crown and the people of scotland . crown and the people of scotland. >> those are the latest gb news headlines. more 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 sophia and hello and welcome to the saturday night showdown. now sir keir starmer is caught in a political death spiral . it feels like death spiral. it feels like every day he says he's been completely open and transparent and admitted to everything. and every day there's a new scandalous revelation. just yesterday, keir has admitted that lord alli gave him double the money for clothing compared to what keir had previously declared. the prime minister previously declared £16,200 in donations to purchase togs. however, he has now doubled that with an extra 16,000 that he's just remembered about. the donations were originally declared as money for his private office but have now been recategorized. it's not keir's only scandal. rumours are swirling around keir's private

life and more revelations about dodgy donations, sleaze and labour infighting are coming out daily. just today, labour mp rosie duffield has decided that she's had enough of the shambles and has quit the party, citing labour's incompetence and corruption for her decision . corruption for her decision. this is not what we expected from keir, who campaigned on a message of managerial stability and selfless public duty. with kyrees ratings now incredibly, somehow lower than rishi sunak's, will keir take it to the end of the year now.7 i'm the end of the year now? i'm joined tonight by the comedian sajeela qureshi and the comedian bruce devlin. and bruce, i've got to apologise to you for i know for slandering the people of dundee. i didn't realise you're from dundee. yes i'm saying that the women are monsters and all that kind of thing. >> well, yeah. no shame. >> well, yeah. no shame. >> i've seen you using cutlery. you're wearing shoes. >> you're not at all like i can speak in sentences. yeah, i'm not reeking of alcohol tonight. >> not tonight, not other nights .

>> not tonight, not other nights. >> not tonight, not other nights. >> we're not so sure. yeah. >> so what do you think about the scandals around keir starmer? >> oh, god. >> oh, god. >> it's ridiculous. so it's £32,000 altogether now. yeah right. i mean it's not good opfics right. i mean it's not good optics to be honest. it's an optical illusion because i've never actually seen £32,000 worth of clothing on either him and his wife. and was it 2500 on, on glasses? it's like, seriously, you should have gone to specsavers. i mean, i mean, but come on, you should have gone to primark. >> i get i get a lot of my clothes at £10, £1. i have never spent £32,000 on suits. you might not believe it . might not believe it. >> i find that hard to believe that that's a very rare fabric. >> this cost me £50. if keir starmer wants me to show him how to shop on a budget, i'm happy to shop on a budget, i'm happy to do that. >> but the thing is, they went through rishi because he and i mean, don't get me wrong, the one thing that did annoy me about rishi sartorial elegance and the lack of it was the fact that he wouldn't wear trousers that he wouldn't wear trousers that were fitted to the bottom of his legs. right? they were always at half mast, but they

always at half mast, but they always had that fashion . always had that fashion. >> darling. >> darling. >> no not fashion. so it's bad tailoring. >> it's bad tailoring to try and fool people. that he was tall. he was like, oh, i can't, i can't get trousers. >> they used to go after him for wearing prada. theresa may for going into hermes. what's keir been buying? yeah, yeah, exactly. let's see the receipts. >> yeah, yeah. but also didn't he have a penthouse as well a use of a penthouse, basically an £18 million. £18 million. >> not the magazine. >> not the magazine. >> yeah. no, no no, no. but the thing is, he is behaving like a high class call girl who's a sugar daddy. happens to be lord alli. >> well, exactly. he's all coquettish. >> yeah. like, oh, here's a here's £1 million. buy yourself something pretty, honey. yeah, exactly. >> keep the change we'll talk about. >> you mentioned high class call girls because there are the twitter has been rumours with salacious rumours which personally i doubt are true. i think, you know, i think if the press were holding anything back, some people have speculated that the press have been holding it back because it's not in the nation's interest to reveal anything untoward about keir's private life. but i've never known i've never known the press to do that, to be honest. >> what are they saying about his private life? because i

don't know what he is. >> i'm not even on twitter now. >> i'm not even on twitter now. >> well, neither am i. >> well, neither am i. >> yeah. so what's what are they saying? >> well, they're saying that there may be other relationships basically. >> you know, i don't really care abouti >> you know, i don't really care about i don't care what people do in their private lives. well, that's the thing. it's like it's like, i think we're kind of over the sex scandals now, but i think it does. >> it does matter. i mean, i don't really care when politicians, you know, maybe she's getting all the clothes i don't care when politicians have somebody spend lots of money on clothes for them or, you know, i don't want my politicians walking around like a 1970s labour leader in a donkey jacket and, you know, smoking rollies. i want them looking like world leaders. i want them to look smart. i don't want them to, you know, be be troubled by that. so if somebody wants to buy them clothes, that's fine. the trouble with keir is he campaigned on such a he was such a totem. he was so pious like, you know, he would never do anything as gauche as let somebody buy clothes for him. and here he is straight away. >> yeah, but like i said, we haven't seen where the clothes are gone. so if these rumours are gone. so if these rumours are true, maybe that those clothes have gone somewhere

else. no, they've just given them over to the other relationships. >> selling them out the back on ebay. oh yeah. >> no, probably on vintage. i think i saw someone vintage, actually. yeah, yeah, yeah. so i might get them now because obviously they owned him once. >> so he's, he's now passing the clothes on to potentially his lovers. sorry. have i got this wrong. >> that was i was speculating i was speculating. >> all i'm thinking is then if it's all suits, if it's all male suits, then surely the other alleged parties then are gentle ladies as well. >> this is some of the. this is some of the wild speculation. oh is it i've seen. >> oh, the only thing that i ever heard about him keeping quiet was we bought the field of donkeys for his mum, and i thought that was lovely. yeah, yeah, really a whole field of donkeys. it was. yeah. it's a donkeys. it was. yeah. it's a donkey sanctuary because his mum, i think she doesn't keep well and this was like therapy and all that. and i thought that was lovely. >> so you don't actually get the donkeys. you just get because i remember once for secret santa, i got a sheet of paper that said i got a sheet of paper that said i owned a goat in africa. and i didn't. i wanted the goat. i didn't. i wanted the goat. i didn't want the sheet of paper,

no picture of i'm getting a goat. give me the actual goat. >> but no picture of the goat. >> but no picture of the goat. >> there was a picture of a goat, but it could have been any. >> it could have been anything. yeah. >> oh, hang on a minute. is that the goat that i went when i went to africa? and i had for a big, like, meal? you got my goat. i ate your goat. yeah. well, that's. >> i'm disappointed. i'm disappointed to hear that. that's that's made me so upset. i've actually pulled the plug on the backgrounds. >> well, i think there was a there's a strange atmosphere in here tonight. yeah. there is a very strange vibe. >> i think i think we're haunted. anyway, let's move on. the bbc ran this story today. a trans woman has been jailed for six and a half years after being found guilty of rape following a night out. now, this is a real story, we've got a picture here. according to the bbc, this is a woman. i'm not joking. the bbc described this as a woman. i mean, look at those feminine features. the big beard , the features. the big beard, the jaw, the heavy brow. this guy's got more testosterone than hulk hogan. we're living in an absolute clown world. the bbc are very proud of their fact checking service, bbc verify, which combats online misinformation. but they refer

to this man. i mean, he definitely is a man. he looks like jason momoa after he's been at a buffet as a woman. can you believe this? although pretty soon we won't even be able to say that this is a man. when keir starmer brings through his promised disinformation laws, it will be a crime to refer to that lump as a bloke. and labour will no doubt want to stick criminals like this in female prisons, just as the left wing scottish snp government did. gender ideologists often say that pronouns are just about being kind and respectful, and nobody is harmed by obeying someone's self—identification . but self—identification. but throughout the sentencing heanng throughout the sentencing hearing of this rapist, barristers and the judge referred to the defendant as miss secor and used the pronoun she for what is obviously a man and you can imagine the impact that could have on the victim. well, sajeela, what do you make of this? i mean , i think it's an of this? i mean, i think it's an absolute nonsense that we're we're still i mean, this is i get that some people i think if

people put the effort in and they're not doing anything, you know, bad , then of course i'm know, bad, then of course i'm perfectly to happy respect pronouns and stuff as long as it's not complicated. i mean, it's not complicated. i mean, it's not complicated. i mean, it's not my transition. why am i having to do the work in my head? yeah, you know, with something like this, there's clearly a bloke. that guy is more of a bloke than me. >> it is. i think the problem is with the self—identification. and i think there's a way around this where it's a win win situation. so you try him them, they person. yeah, sure . so you they person. yeah, sure. so you can, you can say oh she but and you don't have to say miss you can say the surname like spacca or was it spacca. speaker. speaken or was it spacca. speaker. speaker. speaker. speaker. decker. secor. secor. that's it. that's it. that's the one. and i'll get the name right. so you know, forget the pronouns and then you can try him as a, you know, because he raped with his biological penis, didn't he? yeah. yeah. so, i mean, you can have both. you can be. you can be identifying as a woman, but at the end of the day, you're going to be tried with the with

the thing that raped , which is male. >> we've seen this in scotland as well. there was another infamous case. in fact, there's been a few cases in scotland that have a male rapist who got sent to a female prison because he transitioned during the trial. and we're seeing , we're trial. and we're seeing, we're seeing male criminals transition dunng seeing male criminals transition during the trial because number one, it, you know, causes , one, it, you know, causes, causes issues for the for the victim, it causes more upset for the victim. but number two, they get treated. they get treated better. they get sent to a female prison. if they don't get sent to a female prison, then sometimes they're sent to , you sometimes they're sent to, you know, a sort of in—between place, but they're not placed in with male inmates , which, you with male inmates, which, you know, but i think you're referring to isla bryson. >> that's the one isla bryson was isla bryson was she not placed in segregation in the women's? not that i'm saying that any of it's right, by the way, i'm not. and as you say, a very handsome woman there, but is that thing that. forgive my ignorance as well. i've never understood the following sentence. she raped her with her

penis. largely because i'm not au fait with ladies having them. if you have one and you are a lady, that's completely up to you. >> i show you some videos and that's fine. >> but i feel sorry for genuine trans people who are maligned and lambasted, because there's always people that are going to take the mickey or use it for their own gain. >> but that's why we can't have rules that allow people to take the mickey or use it for their own gain. i think if you set up this sort of self—identification system where anybody can be whatever they want, if they just say it and everybody's got to go along with it, then you're creating a system that can be abused by these. >> but speaking to friends who have friends who have transitioned, i happen not to know any. well, i know a couple of people actually, but not that well. the point is, what they say is that to live three years and constantly be questioned and all this kind of stuff. so again, it goes back to the fact that if you are a genuine trans person, i feel very sorry that this is what you know. no one reports on the plane's landing safely. it's always the big kind of blow ups. >> and then, let's face it, before the gender war nonsense

started, you know, we know many trans people, even in the comedy community, and it was never an issue . it's never been like, issue. it's never been like, what do you do? we don't care. it was never an issue . i think it was never an issue. i think it's because it's been made such a. >> oh my a.— >> oh my god, a. >> oh my god, the bathrooms backstage in any comedy club are a disgrace. you just shouldn't use them at all. it doesn't matter who they are. seriously. they're honking. >> yeah, well, i'm double trans. i'm actually identify as female who identifies as male , so i get who identifies as male, so i get twice as much arts council funding. well, moving on, the two just stop oil protesters who threw soup over van gogh's classic sunflowers painting are swapping soup for porridge. phoebe and anna, the two trust fund soup throwers, were jailed for two years and 20 months, respectively . just stop oil also respectively. just stop oil also repeated the stunt in protest against the jailings three activists, all of whom look like they smell through more soup over the classic paintings yesterday. now, do they hate oil so much that they even hate oil paintings? the far left group released a statement saying there are now 25 just stop oil

supporters in prison for non—violent resistance to the carbon regime. we must stand with them. we will not back down now. so what do you make of this? i feel like just stop oil they achieved what they wanted. labour got in. ed miliband has scrapped any north sea oil and gas. they've, you know , they've gas. they've, you know, they've pledged all this work around renewables and decrease in carbon. so just stop oil have got what they wanted. why are they still chucking soup over. nice paintings? >> i actually don't know why. i mean, and i like that you said they'd look a bit dirty because they'd look a bit dirty because they do. and i think maybe it's because there's oil in soaps, isn't there? yeah so maybe they won't be able to use anything, but they say oil and soup as well, guys. so you kind of threw oil and oil i don't know. i think they've kind of worn out their goodwill. i'm all for protest. yeah yeah, definitely. i'm all for protests. i think it's really important. the suffragettes weren't exactly, you know, friendly and cuddly, and they were irritating people. thatis and they were irritating people. that is what protest is. but i

think it's . i want my art as think it's. i want my art as well. you know, i don't want that. you know, i'm a fan of van gogh. >> st giles' raises a good point that the suffragettes were wrong to, not. i've seen some, i've seen some, i've seen some eco protesters. just stop oil they were. i don't think they'd get away with it in dundee, to be honest. they were. they were gluing their hands to the road. >> so surely glue's not environmentally friendly. exactly. yeah. >> have you tried, have you tried that in scotland? have you glued your hands like that to the road in glasgow ? within? the road in glasgow? within? yeah, within about 20s. somebody would come up behind you and nick your mobile phone and have sex with you from behind. >> well, some people might be into that, not the mobile phone bit, but we're going to talk about p diddy later. okay. great. i'm all over that. but the thing is in spain i had huge respect for the spanish police because they didn't care. their hands were good, they ripped them up and i thought, good for that. so what you should then employ is people to throw salt just so it really stings. and then they'll just stop it. but what is interesting, i've seen the brand and it's heinz. what

have they got against heinz? >> i love salad cream. and why are they going for a with a posh one? the most expensive brand while throwing porridge. >> our national dish. yeah. >> our national dish. yeah. >> racists they are. no they are, they're trying to smear the good name of scotland. >> i think you've ruined your joke, wasn't it? is it because i was doing porridge? was that what you said? like. oh yeah, that was, that was that was. that was a joke. >> they've swapped soup for porridge. wow they're fundraising off the back of it as well. i thought it was illegal to profit from crime anyway, it's time for the break. but coming up, we'll assess the week's winners and losers, including a bigoted character. the bbc have created in the soap opera doctors and a couple who reported that a migrant was hiding in their van and got fined being good i'll bring you

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and losers of the week. the bbc soap opera doctors introduced a bigoted character to their show to try and show audiences how unpleasant these bigots are. i actually quite like him. let's take a look at the clip where the scriptwriters are clearly trying to show fans of doctors why they should use people's pronouns. >> you mean he mr bowman? he was confused. >> no, i mean they. yeah. the patient's preferred pronoun is they. oh, not this preferred pronoun. >> nonsense. >> nonsense. >> it's not really nonsense, is it? the patient identifies as non—binary. >> treatment is more important than identification for people that have struggled to identify or be identified. >> it's maybe you know of at least similar importance, but then you have to go through various levels of identification before you get to what matters. >> so i'm hardly decrying the entire concept of human rights, but you're happy to decry individual rights? not at all. and i do hope you're not questioning my professionalism. well, it's not your medical professionalism. >> it's patient welfare. >> it's patient welfare. >> it's patient welfare.

>> i am not discrediting patient welfare. yeah mental health part of it. >> yeah. an individual's right to define themselves . to define themselves. >> this is not the time to have this conversation. oh, right. yeah. >> okay. so when is i have a budget review meeting with bear. so that's you taking a rain check on this? >> no, this is me taking a rain check on business meetings, being sidetracked by woke nonsense. >> he seems to be completely correct. i mean, pronouns are getting in the way of proper, proper medical treatment. if i tell a doctor that i'm a woman, they're not going to expect me to have testicles. they're going to have testicles. they're going to think i'm going to have ovaries. this isn't entertainment. it's political activism, and it's really clunky political activism. i'm talking about doctors, of course not this show. now what do you what do you make of this? i see them do you make of this? i see them do this on tv shows and films all the time. they try and crowbar in some sort of social justice message. >> they just looked like a gay couple having a barney at work. that really was the bottom line, wasn't it? because what you didn't get in the outtakes was, come on, love, is it prawn stir fry for dinner ? fry for dinner? >> prawn stir fry actually sounds a bit like pronouns. i

mean, i think they're trying to they're trying to show them. we've seen other there's other clips with this character where he is saying things about gay people or little people, whatever the correct term is for, you know, medically speaking. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> and it's not just a small person like, you know, somebody who's got something, but, they're trying with this particular bit. i mean, i don't think the bit where there's a, there's a, there's a clip where he pushes a small person out of the way, he just pushes their head. and obviously you shouldn't push anyone around. you shouldn't push. >> they're irritating. especially unless they're irritating with that. >> stand up in court. would you throw soup on yourself, as you were saying, that small people are allowed to be irritated. >> they're allowed to. everyone is allowed to be irritated. >> but the pruning thing, i think is completely right on, i think. >> i think this is good. i think this is this is exactly like soaps should react. you know, reflect reality. and we have got this disconnect. and i don't know about the kind of having a

middle aged man with a younger person, like the middle aged man is such a dinosaur, isn't it? doesn't prejudice itself. yeah, well , yeah, doesn't prejudice itself. yeah, well, yeah, but it kind of is a reality out there, isn't it? i mean, you know, it's a reality on this show. let's face it. like we you know what we say, younger people are not going to approve of the things that we say and that is kind of what the show is just, you know, describing. i think i think it's a good thing. i think it's a bigotry should be shown. i don't know why they should do you think this is bigotry? >> i mean, the doctor is concerned that he won't be able to. it's going to delay the treatment because he's got to ask, no, what are you really when the person's not okay? >> you said you just said i haven't seen the show. right? so as you said, he mentioned this and he's also picked on a small person and, you know, pushed them out of the way that's ableist. so he's obviously got bigotry like that is you know, he's having a go at everyone can i. >> but with this specific you know all of us say was because my mum used to watch this religiously and one of the receptionists married a cat. so i mean that quite sincerely. you can google it and whatever. i

think that's a bigger thing than someone going like, you know, i need to do x and y if i need to treat someone. a lot of people feel that way. again. a woman married her cat. i'm just going to leave that hanging. >> that's also a reality. >> that's also a reality. >> some people in america, i feel that a lot of women have married their cat. to be honest, where like they've given up. they've given up on men and they decided to have the cat as the companion. and you know what? they're voting for kamala harris now moving on. speaking of kamala harris, remember the second assassination attempt on donald trump ? it's been donald trump? it's been completely memory holed by the media, but the authorities have released a letter written by the second attempted assassin, ryan ruth, in it, he says this was an assassination attempt on donald trump. but i am so sorry i failed you. i tried my best and gave it all the gumption. i could muster. it is now up to you to finish the job, and i will offer $150,000 to whomever can complete the job. that's what's written in the letter by alleged gunman ryan wesley. ruth

in the newly published note. although before you holster up, i should point out that i doubt he'll be able to wire you the money from prison. also, despite the political violence, also , the political violence, also, political violence is bad. but what's interesting is that this letter or manifesto was released. remember the transgender shooter or audrey hale who killed children at a christian school in nashville? that manifesto wasn't released because it inconveniently went against the establishment narrative of trans people being eternal victims and gender ideology being a wonderful ideology that radiates kindness and tolerance. but the authorities said they didn't want to release that manifesto because it might spawn copycat killings, but they released the trump shooter's manifesto with a cash incentive to finish the job. are they trying to get trump killed? >> well, who had the note? where was the note found? >> i'm not sure, actually. >> i'm not sure, actually. >> and is it legal to offer people in a note money to kill someone? no, that's very

criminal. >> but he's already going to jail, so maybe he doesn't care anymore. >> yeah, it's probably a last hurrah, isn't it? >> yeah, but i'm surprised they broadcast it like that, because there's going to be some people out there who think, you know. >> yeah, exactly. >> yeah, exactly. >> you can win that lottery. >> you can win that lottery. >> i know, but the thing is, it begs a question. if he had £150,000 spare, why didn't he just hire someone to do it in the first place for him? and he wouldn't end up in prison? now wouldn't end up in prison? now would he? >> and he would have probably got it done now. there is an incredible story in the telegraph this week of a british couple who tried to do the right thing and were punished by the authorities for doing so. bbc antiques dealer jane cave and antiques dealerjane cave and her husband, ed masters, were returning from an antiques hunting expedition in france when they discovered an illegal immigrant hiding in their van. mr masters reported the incident to the police himself and cooperated fully, but the uk border force still find them £3,000 for unknowingly smuggling a migrant into the country. mr masters was told that he should have informed the border authorities in france that there was an earlier attempt to get inside his van, but french authorities had searched the van, apparently, and failed to

locate the illegal stowaway when they inspected the vehicle. the telegraph report that in the weeks following the incident, mr masters faced increased scrutiny from uk border force. he said he was detained four times at different airports, while his wife, who suffers from a rare neurological condition which makes travelling difficult, was left to carry heavy baggage on her own. mr masters made the point that if i had just dropped him in a layby and not notified them, we would be £3,000 better off. it's utter madness . now i off. it's utter madness. now i feel like border force always target the wrong people. any time i see, you know, people being deported, it's always like a 75 year old guy from jamaica who's been here for like 40 years or it's, you know, people working in a nail salon nobody's worried about, you know, vietnamese women. it's terrorists. and stuff like that, that it terrorists. and stuff like that, thatitis terrorists. and stuff like that, that it is you got to feel for this couple because, i mean, they were trying to do the right thing, like doing the law abiding citizen thing and actually, you know, talking about copycats like people. >> so people are watching this like, news story. they're going

to be thinking, well, you know, i've got someone who just jumped in my van. i'll just keep shtoom about that because i don't want to lose £3,000. and, you know, i'm just saying there might be some copycat crimes actually committed after that seeing it's like that saying there's no situation that can't be made worse by getting the police involved. >> i'm not familiar with that, but i'm going to write that down. what i'm worried about is, can you imagine on the antiques roadshow if someone brings a grandfather clock out and fiona bruce gets the surprise of her life when someone comes out of the clock, an actual grandfather you've given, you've given another idea. >> there . >> there. >> there. >> i can't help it. you know, i'm busy . i'm busy. >> well, next on the saturday night showdown , elon musk is night showdown, elon musk is facing a backlash after announcing that the block button on twitter or x will no longer prevent people from viewing posts. i will be joined the co—founder of social chain, don mcgregor. after the to

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night showdown. now, elon musk has sparked fury among x users or twitter users as he's made major changes to the social media sites. block function from now on, users you block won't be able to engage with you, but they will still be able to see your public posts, musk said the change was long overdue and that the previous function made no sense. folks such as zebby have criticised this decision, saying it's a bad idea, going on to say there are many reasons somebody may not want certain individuals from easily seeing all their pubuc from easily seeing all their public posts. well to discuss this further, i'm now joined by the co—founder of the social chain, it's dom mcgregor. dom, welcome to the show. >> thanks for having me. >> thanks for having me. >> and what are the benefits of this decision to do away with the block function on twitter that musk is saying ? that musk is saying? >> i think his argument is obviously to try and create a place where you've got free speech and people are free to do what they want, and there's no

way of kind of holding back individuals from seeing posts. you know, for example, i think we've all seen a lot of politicians blocking people on social media over the last couple of weeks. so i think it's for that reason, mainly to encourage a platform which promotes free speech. >> but do you think he's taking the free speech philosophy too far? because, you know, there are good reasons that people might want to block, for example, an abusive ex—partner, not speaking from my own experience there, but, you know, there are good reasons safety reasons that people might want to block someone on other social media platforms allow you to completely block someone . completely block someone. >> yeah, i think it's taken the free speech element too far. i think it's, a bit of a wolf in sheep's clothing, to be honest, and exactly to your point, it's safety first, you know, people don't block people because they don't block people because they don't like what they they say all the time. it's definitely for other reasons, including personal safety . you know, we've personal safety. you know, we've seen the explosion of baby reindeer and the stalking aspect that has and comes from platforms like social media. so being able to hide specific people from your posts for good

reasons makes a platform in my mind much better. and when you're factoring in that, x costs a lot of money to run every single year, i'm sure advertisers will vote and see that the platform is becoming a place where actually people might not actually want to use it as much. >> and it's interesting you mention advertising there because, you know, musk has made a series of rash decisions. some of them are, some of them are great and, you know, make make twitter or x more entertaining, but some such as this, have been controversial. and, you know, this , this could lead to an this, this could lead to an exodus of users. do you think it'll do more damage to twitter ? it'll do more damage to twitter? >> yeah, i think this one potentially does. people don't want to be on a platform where people that are stalking them or abusing them can actually access them. so i think that this is probably a step too far. i do think some of the changes he's made are positive. you know, usage is up and there's more people contributing to the platform than ever before. but as we've seen, advertisers have pulled out of it because of hate speech. and i think this is actually a step too far when it comes to actually individuals on

the platform themselves wanting to use it. if people can find what they're posting, where they are, what they're doing, i think it's, a bit of a jump from the freedom of speech he tried to create when he took over the platform, and it's, do you think some of the sort of boycott the advertising boycott which must be hurting twitter quite, quite badly, even though elon musk has cut costs, do you think it's do you think it's completely fair? >> because from my point of view, it seems that twitter previously had a really left wing bias and right wing people were sometimes banned for no good reason. and this is, this is this is more of that. we've seen, you know, the slow march of wokeism through all institutions and through all, all corporations via, you know, diversity, equity and inclusion boards. and now they're they're censoring voices on the right. i mean, it doesn't seem fair to me. does it seem fair to, you know, i think i've seen my usage of the platform increase since

elon's taken over, >> i think a lot of my peers have seen the same as well. i think it's been encouraging more. right leaning commentary, which has been good, there's a balance . you know, there's a balance. you know, there's a balance. you know, there's a balance between actually encouraging the right type of content on a platform and actually safety for individuals. so, i think in some instances the balance needs to be really measured. advertisers, obviously, you know, they act with their money and they move out, some advertisers still on there. and i think he's got a job above kind of the usage of the platform. and the kind of monthly active users that are obviously going the right way from what he's publishing himself. i think he's got a job to try and encourage them back into a place where, obviously it works. you know, people want to get views and eyeballs and the right people on it. so i do think he's got a job to do to make sure the platform is remaining commercially attractive to sponsors, but that's a balancing act. and i think that he's getting there. he's moved the platform into a better place. but i do think some steps, things like this are a little bit of a step too far for individual users. on a daily basis. >> but i mean, it seems politically motivated. they had

the stifling of advertising, which is apparently advertising revenue is down around 80% at twitter or x , and it seems twitter or x, and it seems unfair because right wing people have got more money because obviously they're smarter and work harder and they spend more money. so advertisers, i mean, i personally buy a brand new audi every week. so advertisers should be should be trying to target people like us. >> yeah. and i think a lot of advertisers, adhere to a bit of virtue signalling, to be honest. so, they kind of look what other brands are doing and think, oh my god. we should probably copy what they're doing. so i think they are kind of influenced by their peers rather than kind of sometimes thinking in their own kind of initiative. actually, as you said there, the demographics of twitter actually are some, in some instances an advertiser's dream. so as you see what happens there, if the money moves to somewhere like facebook or to something like instagram, then the cost per click gets higher and it will cost more for advertisers to reach people. so eventually what will happen is actually they'll start testing x again because the cost per click and the reach will be cheaper. so money moves. we see this happenin

so money moves. we see this happen in the advertising space. you know, one platform outperforms another. so if x actually ends up kind of commercially performing for brands, they'll quickly come back. and ultimately, it'll be the growth of the bottom line that will be what brands choose to do. >> well. well, hopefully that'll that'll happen. and as well as the pressure, the commercial pressure, there's also pressure from politicians around the globe on twitter, i mean, brazil, controversially banned twitter after elon musk refused to ban accounts, including some opposition politicians, which is obviously, you know , very obviously, you know, very anti—democratic. and tony blair has hinted at global standards to combat misinformation. but as we've seen, you know, there's no clear idea about what misinformation is. and i think, you know, if we democratise and decentralise information as, as elon musk does with twitter, then we're , we're we're much then we're, we're we're much safer than, than trusting, you know, the nanny state to tell us what's true and what isn't . what's true and what isn't. >> yeah. i think if you look back 2 or 3 years ago, there was definitely questions over tiktok

as a platform. and obviously, you know, with the chinese influence there, we want americans wanting to ban that, i don't think ever really got that popular in terms of the uk wanting to ban it, but there was definitely were questions over its links to china. so, you know, people big state do not like freedom of information or other people or other nations influence in the news. so elon musk having a platform which has got millions of users at his fingertips, is obviously going to come under the spotlight of government , especially in an government, especially in an election year where it's got such big influence. so, yeah, that's always what government are going to try and do. it's always what's going to happen. but i think elon, as a platform owner, has to look at his, users. he has to make sure he's building a platform which is wanting people there, which users are going to grow on. and there's a balance between, freedom of speech, which i completely agree with, and in some instances being able to block people because , you know, block people because, you know, they might be stalking you or they're a threat to you. so actually, in that situation, you want to use the platform, but you're worried that someone you're worried that someone you're kind of avoiding for the right reasons can see that. so that for me is a really balance

that for me is a really balance that i think elon is on the wrong side of with this one. >> brilliant. well thanks so much for giving us your insight, dom. that's dom mcgregor. thank you for joining dom. that's dom mcgregor. thank you forjoining us and have a great saturday night. hello. i'm here with sajeela qureshi and bruce devlin, two comedians. and bruce, you've been you've been banned from twitter. you must be the worst person in the world. >> well, exactly. i am an animal. and that's just the whole thing. it was something. it was a bot that adjudicated me. i tried to appeal and all this kind of thing. my point with the blocking and the first time you've been in trouble with a bot. yes, it is actually. and believe me, i've suffered at the hands of bots all my adult life. you have no idea. some of them are so lazy, but more of that after the break. my point would be though, if you have blocked someone. for example, i met a lovely family that recognised me on the elizabeth line today. right? they were lovely. hello, it was nice to speak to you, but if i block them knowing they could see and going, i absolutely hate them and all that, i might drive them to the point where they actually want to take a hammer to me. absolutely yes, that's the whole thing. so i don't think this is a good thing, because i think a

lot of people that block people will think, oh, they can't do anything. i'm just going to wind them up and then they're going to find them at their front doon to find them at their front door. yeah. >> and so just really quickly, what do you make of this. >> i'm in agreement with you on that. and i think this is terrible, terrible idea. yeah. i've also lost my account on twitter and i can't get it back. i've given passport details, everything. but i don't think this is awful. this is awful, i think. and plus, it's the only power i had was just to press that block button. exactly. you know, but it's for a woman. it's something that's really necessary because you do get a lot of. i hear you, you know? yeah. >> as a hybrid, i'm very concerned. >> yeah, but he's just like the irritating people. you need to, you know, you can just avoid them in real life. but that block means that that's it. you don't want any contact with that person, and they can forget about it. and i agree about your safeguarding issues there. >> it's like not being able to draw your curtains. yes it is. look in the window curtains. >> there's no peeking in. they can dust, you can draw your curtains, but they're still peeking in. they can still see

you, but naked. yeah. i'm not, i'm not approving. >> start wearing pants at home. anyway, next on the saturday night showdown, what happened when a 15 year old justin bieber spent 48 hours with p diddy? diddy whatever he's called. also, video resurfaces of a model's hair catching fire in the bath next to comedian kevin at one of

welcome back to the saturday night showdown. now it's time to look at the crazy world of celebrities and the big celebrity story this week is the unravelling scandal around p diddy or puff daddy. if you grew up in the 90s, or sean sean combs if you're his mother, and if you are puff daddy's mum, you're probably not feeling very proud right now. the rapper and mogul is facing a stack of charges, including sex offences and transportation for prostitution. i mean , that prostitution. i mean, that sounds not so bad. you've got to get there somehow. do you want them to walk with the indictment

claiming that he abused, threatened and coerced women and others around him to fulfil his sexual desires, protect his reputation and conceal his conduct? most disturbingly, there is speculation on social media about puff daddy's interest in 15 year old justin bieber . this clip has emerged of bieber. this clip has emerged of the teen pop star with puff daddy. >> daddy he's in. you ever seen the movie 48 hours? right now he's having 48 hours with diddy, him and his boy. they're having the times of their lives like. like like the, you know, where are we hanging out and what are we doing, we can't really disclose, but, it's definitely a 15 year old's dream . 15 year old's dream. >> a 15 year old's dream. i'm not sure about that . there is no not sure about that. there is no huge pressure on justin bieber as a result of all this speculation. and there are concerns that he could do the worst thing possible and release another song. now, this seems very sinister, bruce. >> i think it's what is just horrendous is the fact that it is allegedly, you know, it's i

don't want to say it's sex with a minor, but potentially it could be sex with a minor. and that's just not right. i mean, there is something it's very michael jackson esque. did i say for a 15 year old to be a 40 year old man? yeah. for reasons that they can't disclose. and we can joke, of course, michael jackson completely innocent man. absolutely. yes. >> guilty. allegedly. allegedly. >> guilty. allegedly. allegedly. >> just like jimmy savile. >> just like jimmy savile. >> allegedly . yeah. but it's >> allegedly. yeah. but it's just it's so unsavoury. it's so disgusting. that's the thing. because you do jump to that conclusion. and there's a woman on instagram called jaguar, right. yeah. and she has some very insightful, at least i believe insightful , interesting believe insightful, interesting insights into this. yeah. it's a huge, huge thing. >> and a lot of people are saying that all this, all the, all the shenanigans because i mean, these freak offs that p diddy had involved celebrities and politicians and all the rest of it, and it was all happening in plain sight. and how could people how could he get away with it? how could he be filmed

with it? how could he be filmed with justin bieber when he's, you know, clearly , there's some you know, clearly, there's some sort of luke miall. >> what are we suggesting here? because he's with a 15 year old p p because he's with a 15 year old p p daddy is now p pd pd. is that what the thing is? is that what diddy p diddy p diddy pp what diddy p diddy p diddy p pp p p- >> but the thing is , we've been >> but the thing is, we've been here in a different kind of guise with weinstein. and you know, no lessons have been learnt from that. you had the whole metoo movement and all that. but i mean, if everything is to be believed, this is a and a lot of people are going to lose everything, and rightfully so, by the way, if they've been doing stuff that's not like you know, no sympathy, but it just i do not understand it. no, you're absolutely right. >> and celebrities linked to puff daddy have reportedly been panicking and deleting social media accounts. that's not why these two aren't on twitter anymore. well, pink, usher and megan fox have allegedly deleted social media accounts , although social media accounts, although pink has denied it and clips from keeping up with the kardashians have resurfaced, showing khloe and kourtney kardashian talking about puff daddy daddy's parties, where the alleged sexual crimes happened,

and this rather unfortunate clip of superstar comedian kevin hart came out . you know, once, once came out. you know, once, once everybody was out, you know, just me . just me. >> and this is my thing. i'm using this type of thing, you know, doing what i do best, you know, doing what i do best, you know ? ho ho ho. did the camera know? ho ho ho. did the camera catch that? >> got the camera, man. i mean, i shouldn't laugh, but i've had first hand experience of that in the stand in newcastle. >> a girl's extensions just went up. but it's interesting, going back to what you were saying about p diddly doo. doo doo doo or whatever. i've seen kevin hart have a conversation with mark wahlberg and then be interviewed by kelly clarkson and they were about to go down a road that i think was to do with the alleged discussion that they had, and he told them to be quiet. >> so kevin hart actually stomped out that that discussion. and the daily mail reported this week that it's not just celebrities caught up in the diddy diddling disgrace . the diddy diddling disgrace. sean diddy combs former bodyguard, revealed the disgraced rap mogul mogul kept tapes of politicians taking part in infamous freakout sessions and has claimed his arrest is

tied to an alleged corruption scandal currently gripping new york politics. >> do you think that was bernie sanders in the mittens? >> possibly. we're going to have to unfortunately, leave there, but leave it there before we can speculate any more wildly. and let's have a look. let's have a little word with mark dolan to find out what's on his show tonight. >> you listen, i'll make it quick because i've got a p diddy party to get to for midnight, >> i know you're on the list, leo. listen, let me tell you more more trans madness . at more more trans madness. at 9:00, a rapist, a male rapist was referred to as she throughout a trial. i'll be tackling that in my big opinion. and like a stubborn case of chlamydia, he's back. phillip schofield on tv. is it right? i'll be tackling that issue in my take at ten. lots to get through. we're live at nine. >> sounds amazing. phillip schofield is back. maybe there's hope for huw edwards after all, one of these parties honking a bebe oil a thousand bottles. >> but costco, you can't buy.

costco, you can't buy that amount of baby oil. >> really? well, you must have stockpiled it. paracetamol. brilliant penalty. it was a sajeela curci and bruce devlin and we'll see you again next week. and don't forget headliners as well. tonight at 11 pm. i'm on tonight. see you then. goodbye >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> good evening. welcome to your gb news weather update from the met office. looking ahead to sunday, it's going to be dry in the east, wet and windy in the west with heavy spells of rain and strong winds. so we've had a ridge of high pressure over us through today and through this evening, so that's giving some settled conditions . but this evening, so that's giving some settled conditions. but this is the area of low pressure waiting out in the wings for sunday. but back to this evening. many places seeing a dry night tonight with clear spells. we'll still see a few showers around, especially across northwestern england and across scotland as well. but on the whole we'll see

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