now, legion's parade to the us now, where overnight, joe biden is reportedly set to make a personal plea to donald trump about the importance of funding ukraine. it's understood the outgoing president will urge trump to not walk away from ukraine when the pair meet in the oval office on wednesday. elsewhere, israel's prime minister says he and donald trump see eye to eye on iran. benjamin netanyahu said he has spoken to the us president elect three times since the election , three times since the election, and sticking to us politics this morning . chief secretary to the morning. chief secretary to the treasury darren jones has said that it treasury darren jones has said thatitis treasury darren jones has said that it is probably unlikely that it is probably unlikely that the government will work with nigel farage as an intermediary to the trump administration, adding that mr farage should focus on working with his constituents in clacton as opposed to being a transatlantic commentator and dozens of pro—palestinian demonstrators have been detained by police in amsterdam after ignonng by police in amsterdam after ignoring a ban on public protests in the dutch capital.

hundreds of demonstrators defied the ban to gather in the dutch caphaps the ban to gather in the dutch capital's dam square, chanting demands for an end to violence in gaza and free palestine. but police moved in, instructing protesters to leave and several people were dragged away. the three day ban was imposed by the court from friday after israeli football fans were targeted in so—called hit and run attacks on thursday night . those are the thursday night. 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 gb news .com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> anti—semitic attacks in the netherlands jamie oliver apologises to australia and donald trump trounces kamala harris. this is free speech nafion harris. this is free speech nation . welcome to free speech

nation. welcome to free speech nafion nation. welcome to free speech nation with me, andrew doyle. this is the show where we take a look at culture, current affairs and politics. and coming up on the show tonight, jews attacked on the streets of europe. it's not the 1930s. so is anti—semitism still on the rise on the continent? i'm going to be speaking to harry markham about that. and what will donald trump's second term as us president mean for the future of america? roger gewolb and matthew stadlen will be to here debate. and is literary freedom being eroded on university campuses? i'm going to be speaking to the author, lionel shriver. and of course , myself. shriver. and of course, myself. and my wonderful panel will be here answering questions from this delightful studio audience. and my comedian guests this evening are bruce devlin and paul cox . of course, bruce, paul cox. of course, bruce, you've had an exciting week. you went. you went to see the opening night of the steps musical i did here, and now. >> it was a very pivotal moment. it's called here and now. so profound. yes. i always knew they were, but they are. look at you. just punching down. do you

know what i mean? i'm being jealous. >> well, i am slightly jealous, but i can do. i can do all the moves. >> can you? >> can you? >> yeah, i can, pretty much. >> yeah, i can, pretty much. >> can i will challenge you. okay, fine. during the break. was it good, though? it was wonderful. and i don't like musicals. that's one part of the stereotype. i don't fit. that does surprise me. yeah. no, i've never seen the sound of music. what? >> i know it's just a bunch of kids dressed in curtains, and then they fight. >> that's not aimed at me. no, i think that's. >> i didn't understand any of that. guys. >> you're not a musical theatre cultural experience. >> let's talk about footy like a lad. >> oh, mate. >> oh, mate. >> have you had a good week? >> have you had a good week? >> i've had a half decent week. i mean, i've just about recovered from staying up all night to watch the trump election. did you do that? i did , election. did you do that? i did, i didn't plan to. i thought, you know, i'll wait till 2 or 3 perhaps. north carolina or come in pennsylvania or come in. but then i just stayed up all night. >> it is addictive, isn't it? >> it is addictive, isn't it? >> it is addictive, isn't it? >> it was. and louis schaefer was doing a top level political commentary for the gb news. yeah. and there was there was something to behold. >> i'm sure it was.

something to behold. >> i'm sure it was . i mean, you >> i'm sure it was. i mean, you know, he wouldn't have been my choice. but anyway, let's let's move on. let's get some questions from the audience. we've got a question from abdi. abdi. welcome back. >> hello. hi. good evening. just as you expect. it's about trump and looking to the emotional meltdown of people. the question for me is that why was it so surprising that trump won? >> well, did you expect him to win? yeah you did. you had no doubtin win? yeah you did. you had no doubt in your mind. no, i actually expected harris to win. and i thought because all of the polls were very, very close, it wasn't a knife edge. and so i assumed and also i always predict these things wrong. you know, i got brexit wrong. well, actually, that's about it. but you know , i was you know, you know, i was you know, i thought i thought this was going to be wrong, you know. >> do you know who did get it right. go on mudding. who's that? mudding is the it's a pygmy hippopotamus. oh, and it's true. listen, if you want the real facts, come to me. where is this hippopotamus base? thailand. but we've got one in edinburgh now. we've got hamish. so i'm going to go next week. >> is he like that monkey that was predicting the euro results? >> well, it's funny because the woman that reads the asparagus on this morning, she knows it's

true . she got it correct about true. she got it correct about kamala standing but didn't think that kamala was going to win. and then mudang and her mum had two fruit baskets and mudang ate the trumpy one. yeah. >> okay, well, let's move away from the pygmy hippopotamus. why? >> she's allowed to vote. >> she's allowed to vote. >> and let's move on to a bit of politics. although really, they're not that much different. it has been has been a silly campaign in many ways, with everyone calling each other fascists and nazis. and, you know, you know, just histrionics, brat. and no one, still no one knows what brat means. but that was a big feature of the election. were you surprised that kamala harris was so roundly trounced? i think is the phrase i think. >> okay. that's so i was slightly surprised that she was so well beaten because he's got the senate, he's got the he's got the house and the popular vote and the popular vote. however, that as an outcome is , however, that as an outcome is, is best for everybody. whichever side of politics you're on, the fact that because if you hate trump, well , maybe there are trump, well, maybe there are people out there. i've noticed there are a few people who don't like him. >> yeah, i've seen that as well. >> yeah, i've seen that as well. >> but what i mean is, it's so decisive that it that it just it can't be fought over.

>> that's true bruce, that was one of my worries as well, that it was going to be so close that people were going to be contesting this forever. >> but that's a bit like scottish independence is slightly different. but, you know, there was at least a clear majority in favour of. no, because if it's i or 2 votes, then. >> but that might be why there have been fewer meltdowns than i expected. i mean, abdi talked abouti expected. i mean, abdi talked about i mean, there obviously there are some crazy kids on tiktok screaming and doing all the rest of it. that's just what you'd expect. but not as many as you'd expect. but not as many as you'd think. and it certainly hasn't been any civil disobedience or disturbance. i think people accept this. >> i think, worryingly, most of the breakdown has been amongst top tier left leaning media outputs. yes. so the people that they get to comment, the serious adults of the media are the ones having the breakdown and saying the most abhorrent things i've seen, like people like joy reid on msnbc, talking about how racist and sexist like, i don't think calling people racist and sexist works anymore. >> i think this election sort of proves that , doesn't it? proves that, doesn't it? >> well, absolutely, i think, but it's been proved for many years, isn't it? yeah. it's been it's been a trope that they've thrown at trump and it's never really stood. the insurrection

on the 6th of january was the only thing they could really hold against him. okay. they're they're not really focusing on that, though. >> no, they're blaming voters and they're talking about particularly ethnic minority voters who have a massive swing towards trump. i think it's i in 3 black voters for trump and people saying, you know, this is a problem now , and they're sort a problem now, and they're sort of verging on a weird, kind of patronising racism. >> well, it is racism, isn't it? it's saying that black people should think this and it's saying that black pe