free today? and let's talk about free speech. really good news that the essex police case against allison pearson has been dropped. but do we need a proper debate about the hate laws in this country? and nissan are warning us that the government's net zero warnings and targets could be catastrophic for the british car industry. how do we deal with the threat of cheap electric cars coming in from china? but before all of that, let's get the news with sophia wenzler . wenzler. >> nigel. thank you. good evening. these are your headlines. at 7:00, russian president vladimir putin has threatened to strike the uk with a new ballistic missile after using the weapon to hit a target in ukraine. downing street condemned mr putin for further escalating the conflict by using a ballistic missile with a range of thousand several kilometres against the city of dnipro. mr putin confirmed russia has

tested a new intermediate range weapon, saying it came in response to ukraine's strikes on the russian territory with us and british missiles earlier this week , the international this week, the international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for the leader of hamas , warrants for the leader of hamas, as well as israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, and the country's former defence minister, yoav galant. they say these warrants are as a result of alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity. in response, an israeli foreign minister has said the icc has , quote, lost said the icc has, quote, lost all legitimacy with their ruling on netanyahu and galant. meanwhile, a hamas senior official has told the reuters news agency that these warrants are an important step towards justice. and back in the uk, the king has paid a warm personal tribute to lord john prescott, saying he remembered him with great fondness for his unique and indomitable character. an infectious sense of humour. king charles hailed the former deputy

prime minister who has died at the age of 86, for his decades of public service in frontline politics. his family said he'd spent his life trying to improve the lives of others, fighting for social justice and protecting the environment . in protecting the environment. in other news, journalist allison pearson has told gb news she is hugely relieved that essex police has dropped its investigation into her tweet . investigation into her tweet. miss pearson was being investigated for allegedly stirring up racial hatred with a social media post made in november of last year, but the force now says no charges will be brought. having sought advice from the crown prosecution service, miss pearson says her case has revealed the appalling overuse of non—crime hate incidents to silence opinions to the us now, where donald trump ally matt gaetz has withdrawn his name from consideration to be the next us attorney general . be the next us attorney general. after days of debate over

whether to release a report on alleged sexual misconduct and drug use. posting on x, the 42 year old said that the controversy over his potential nomination was unfairly becoming a distraction to the work of the incoming trump administration and its deck the halls at windsor castle. as the royal residence gets into the festive spirit. the royal collection trust has said that the theme this year is red and gold, in order to symbolise what they called the royal magnificence. they added that the main christmas tree, which is decked in some 3000 lights and hundreds of decorations, was taken from the nearby home park and will be replanted after the festive season . those are the latest gb season. those are the latest gb news headlines . news headlines. >> now it's back to nigel for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone . sign up to to your smartphone. sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gb news .com . code, or go to gb news .com. forward slash alerts .

forward slash alerts. >> good evening. >> good evening. >> we don't normally boast here @gbnews, but do you know what? for once i am going to because on monday and tuesday and wednesday of this week and let's hope thursday and friday as well. but on those first three days of this week on the ratings taken right across the day , we taken right across the day, we have beaten not only sky news but the bbc news channel as well. we have been the number one news channel in the uk this week. it's only taken us three years to get here. and you know what? i think it will only continue to grow so well done to those that had the vision for founding gb news. well done for those that run it and work here, i think that is a really big achievement and forgive me, but we are for the moment going to have a little boast now. moving on. we talked last night about

the use of storm shadows, our missiles being sent deep into russia. now it is possible, of course, that some of those missiles were used in crimea earlier. i don't know, whichever way you cut it, this is seen as an escalation in the war. the russians of course, have responded in kind with the russian ambassador today saying that basically we are now direct participants in the war. but i'm not worried about threats from russia. what? i'm thoughtful about is, should parliament have about is, should parliament have a vote before we decide to go to war or escalate a war? and there are pros and cons with this , but are pros and cons with this, but here's one example of where it really worked. back in 2013, we had david cameron as prime minister, william hague as foreign secretary. they were hell bent on arming the rebels against assad in the syrian civil war. i have to say, i was vehemently opposed to that happening, as were a growing

number of members of parliament and as was public opinion. well, in the end , cameron gave in. he in the end, cameron gave in. he gave the house of commons a vote on should we arm the rebels. and this was his response after the vote. >> it is clear to me that the british parliament, reflecting the views of the british people, does not want to see british military action. i get that, and the government will act accordingly . accordingly. >> yeah, that was a great victory , a victory for common victory, a victory for common sense, because had we armed the rebels, those rebels, many of them turned out to become an organisation called isis. quite how the foreign secretary didn't resign over that vote. i never understood, but jeremy corbyn now, whatever you think of him, he's actually quite good occasionally at raising big points of national debate . points of national debate. corbyn has said that parliament should have had a vote before we increased and escalated to using storm shadows. now government

does have the ability through the royal prerogative, to go to war or escalate war without going to parliament. but let me ask you, should parliament get a vote on increasing our contribution to the ukraine war? give me your thoughts . farage gb give me your thoughts. farage gb news. com i'm joined by mark francois, conservative shadow minister for defence. mark, it's a nuanced argument, but clearly in the case of 2013, had cameron and hague used royal prerogative gone ahead and arm the rebels, that would have been a catastrophic error . catastrophic error. >> nigel, i understand your point, but the two situations are completely different. >> sure . >> sure. >> sure. >> ukraine, which was a sovereign nation, has been invaded by russia and we are aiding the ukrainians to defend themselves. >> we are not at war with russia, but we have, like many western nafions but we have, like many western nations , provided support to

nations, provided support to ukraine, including financial support, political support and, yes, military support. but the two are completely different. >> i mean, forgive me, but as you've raised the syria example, i can't help but remind myself that lord alli in the lords at the time was talking up the fact that he'd had meetings with president assad and was arguing, in essence, against striking that thinks just worth as you choose that example, reminding people that that was lord ali's position and now he's very, very influential within the labour government parties. >> that's actually that's actually that of itself is not unacceptable. >> but to come back to your point, the two, i understand the point, the two, i understand the point that you're making, but i think the two situations are very, very different because we like a lot of other western nations, thankfully, are arming the ukrainians to defend themselves. >> now, when ben wallace was the defence secretary, he saw this coming . we started training

coming. we started training ukrainian troops after the first invasion in 2014. we talk about the invasion in 2022, but actually ukraine was invaded in 2014. in the donbas and in the crimea . and after that we in crimea. and after that we in britain started training ukrainian soldiers. so when the russians invaded again in 2022 and we had we saw lots of footage of the invading columns being taken out by british in—laws, which is the in—laws of sort of 21st century bazooka. thatis sort of 21st century bazooka. that is not an easy operation to do. that takes months of training and we trained those ukrainian soldiers to do that. so i 1508 00:09:41,744