>> hello there. coming up on tonight's saturday night showdown, the witch hunt against gregg wallace is scraping the barrel with accusations this week that he made a joke about chefs doing cocaine, and also got a sign language interpreter to do the sign for big boobs. wow . he's truly history's wow. he's truly history's greatest monster. but gregg has hit back . that's not gregg hit back. that's not gregg there. i don't know, i don't know why we're seeing some scientists on the ground. gregg has hit back, claiming that he's autistic. no wonder he's obsessed with everyone getting the right number of g's in his name. and a german man stabbed and seriously injured by an islamist has been convicted of criticising islamism. i mean, come on. surely if there's anyone who should be allowed to question islamic extremism, it's someone who almost got stabbed to death by an islamic extremist. but thanks to ridiculous hate speech laws in germany, it's to illegal complain while imported jihadis stab you to death. and britain

isn't any better. this week, a man was convicted of hate speech after telling the truth. and remember when israel's secret service, mossad, infiltrated the supply chain for hezbollah's pagers and planted explosives in them to do targeted assassinations? well, according to some on the left, they've just done the same thing with owen jones. they've put something in his gaviscon. according to left wing pundit india willoughby, who reckons owen could be the subject of a targeted hit with poisoned heartburn medication . yeah, no heartburn medication. yeah, no offence, a win, but i think mossad might have bigger fish to fry. this is your saturday night showdown . and discussing all tonight's topics with me are my brilliant panel topics with me are my brilliant panel. joining me tonight are

dating expert kezia noble and the broadcaster and model precious muir. will have more from them in a moment. but first, let's get your latest news headlines from joe caspar. >> good evening. it's 8:02. i'm joe caspar in the gb news room . joe caspar in the gb news room. well, this evening the prince of wales has met with us president elect donald trump in paris. william had travelled to france earlier today for the ceremonial reopening of notre dame cathedral . following a fire in cathedral. following a fire in 2019. mr trump gave william a pat on the shoulder before the two shook hands and spoke for a few seconds. william was greeted in the rainy french capital by president emmanuel macron and his wife brigitte. his plans were disrupted by storm daragh. he had originally been scheduled to meet mr trump before the cathedral event. he's expected to discuss further the us—uk relationship with mr trump and jill biden. ex—owner elon musk is among the high profile names

from around the world, including italian prime minister giorgia meloni and former french president francois hollande and nicolas sarkozy . earlier this nicolas sarkozy. earlier this afternoon, mr trump and mr macron had met the french president, greeted the us president, greeted the us president elect on the steps of the elysee palace and the pair shook hands and posed for pictures shortly after they met with volodymyr zelenskyy, the ukrainian president, for trilateral talks. mr zelenskyy said he had a good and productive meeting with the pair , productive meeting with the pair, while mr trump and mr macron addressed reporters earlier this afternoon. here's what the us president elect had to say . president elect had to say. >> a great honour and we had a great relationship. as everyone knows, we accomplished a lot together and the people of france are spectacular. i guess it's one of our largest groups in the united states. french people, and we respect them and we love them. very talented people , extremely energetic people, extremely energetic people, extremely energetic people, as you know very well .

people, as you know very well. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and it's an honour to be here. we had a good time together and we had a lot of a lot of success, really great success working together on defence and offence too . and it defence and offence too. and it certainly seems like the world is going a little crazy right now. and we'll be talking about that. thank you very much for being here. >> well, the ceremony going on right now has been hosted by mr macron. it features the opening of the cathedral's huge jaws. its organ consisting of 8000 pipes being replayed and the first mass since its restoration . first mass since its restoration. already this evening, there have been a minute's applause for firefighters, with the word merci projected onto the building to thank those who saved it from the fire. hymns have also been sung this evening, and mr macron said in a speech that that he thanked the brotherhood for helping the five year rebuild, adding brotherhood from all continents, from all religions, from all walks of

life, all united from home. an investigation is underway after a man died when a tree fell onto his van during storm dara in lancashire. emergency services were called at around 9 am. this morning near to lancashire police headquarters, where the incident happened. he was pronounced dead at the scene. his family have been informed and are being supported by a specially trained officer . a specially trained officer. a major incident has been declared in parts of wales because of destructive disruption from storm dara. david powis police said it was continuing to experience high volumes of calls from about fallen trees and poor driving conditions. the storm, which hit the uk overnight, has brought heavy rain and winds of up to 93 miles. an hour, causing widespread disruption in northern ireland. authorities have warned people to take only essential travel. passengers at some of the uk's biggest airports have also described harrowing landings, as air traffic restrictions are in

place. our scotland reporter tony mcguire, has been at glasgow airport for us today . glasgow airport for us today. >> as storm dara continues to wreak havoc across the country. scotland has made it through friday night relatively unscathed. the scottish environmental protection agency, sepa. well, they've got flood warnings for essentially all parts of the country , but only parts of the country, but only two have been escalated to flood alerts and that is in tayside, as well as south ayrshire . that as well as south ayrshire. that amber warning that stretches across the north—west of england will that also leaks into dumfries and galloway with residents there told to stay inside until the bad weather dies off. >> west ham footballer michail antonio is in a stable condition after he was involved in a road traffic accident in essex. his premier league clubs said in a statement. the club said mikhail is conscious and communicating and is currently under close supervision at a central london hospital. at this difficult time, we kindly ask everyone to respect the privacy of mikhail

and his family. the club will make no further comment this evening, but will issue a further update in due course . further update in due course. those are your latest gb news headlines. i'm joe kasper. >> now back to leo for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code , alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com/alerts . or go to gbnews.com/alerts. >> thank you, joe, and welcome to the saturday night showdown. now the latest horrific behaviour from gregg wallace was revealed this week as one of his accusers revealed in an article there was a british sign language interpreter there and he wandered over to her at one point and just said, do you have to sign everything? i say? and she said, yes. and then he just started saying , she said, yes. and then he just started saying, big she said, yes. and then he just started saying , big boobs, sexy started saying, big boobs, sexy bum, this sort of thing. in order to get her to sign it. it was like he could control her, i suppose, said the woman, a

professional in the cultural sector. i think he might have just been having a laugh , rather just been having a laugh, rather than trying to use his power to get a woman to embarrass herself. that's just the same sort of joke that all comedians do. all tv presenters do whenever there's a sign language interpreter. the sun newspaper also ran a front page front page story with one of greg greg's alleged victims. i'll read from it. she also claims that wallace joked another female contestant had cocaine on her nose. she added when she said it was flour, he replied it should be cocaine or you'll never make it as a chef. i think he was just trying to show off, but i felt that was inappropriate too . oh, that was inappropriate too. oh, he made a joke about chefs doing cocaine. the monster, his ghost—writer came forward to say that she'd been for meals with greg, and he made crude sexual advances over dinner. >> so this is what greg wallace said to me in a restaurant. if you won't let me sleep with you , you won't let me sleep with you,

would you lick my arse ? and would you lick my arse? and after rejecting his advances, he said i should keep an open mind and he'd keep his knob clean. next time . when i was out eating next time. when i was out eating dinner with him one day, i had eton mess for dessert . and while eton mess for dessert. and while i was eating this, he suddenly asked me , i was eating this, he sudd