through. brew, but lots to get through. lots of work to do and a few lulls along the way. tonight's top pundits, by the way. farmer and former conservative mp neil pansh and former conservative mp neil parish , founder of the consumer parish, founder of the consumer finance website money back magpie dotcom, jasmine birtles and the former executive editor of the news of the world, neil wallace. okay , folks, lots to wallace. okay, folks, lots to get through. first up, shocking racism at mi5 and mi6. get through. first up, shocking racism at mi5 and mi6 . but racism at mi5 and mi6. but first, the news headlines. and joe caspar . joe caspar. >> thanks, mark. it's 9:02. i'm joe caspar in the gb newsroom this evening. the prince of wales has met with us president elect donald trump in paris. william travelled to the french capital today for the ceremony. reopening of notre dame 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 a 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. william is expected to discuss the us, uk relationship with mr trump and mrs. biden . ex—owner elon musk mrs. biden. ex—owner elon musk was among the high profile names from around the world, including italian prime minister giorgia meloni and former french presidents francois hollande and 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 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 good and a good and productive meeting with the pair, while mr trump and mr macron addressed reporters this afternoon. here's what the us president elect had to say. it's

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, as you know, very well. and it's an honour to be here. and 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. >> ceremony hosted by mr macron features the opening of the cathedral's huge doors. its organ consisting of 8000 pipes being replayed and the first mass since its restoration. this evening , there was a minute's evening, there was a minute's applause for firefighters with the word merci projected onto the word merci projected onto

the building to thank those who saved it from the fire, and also hymns were sung . during hymns were sung. during a speech, mr macron thanked the brotherhood for helping the five year rebuild, adding brotherhood from all continents, from all religions, from all walks of life, all united in hope. a second person has died in storm darrah, which hit the uk overnight , darrah, which hit the uk overnight, bringing heavy rain and winds of up to 93 miles. an houn and winds of up to 93 miles. an hour. west midlands police said the latest victim was killed when a tree fell and hit his car on erdington earlier in the day. a man died after a tree fell onto his van in lancashire. a major incident has been declared in parts of wales because of the disruption caused by storm daragh. dyfed powys police said it was continuing to experience high volumes of calls about fallen trees and poor driving conditions in northern northern ireland. authorities warned people to undertake only essential travel. passengers at some of the uk's biggest airports have also described

harrowing flights as air traffic restrictions are in place, including at heathrow airport, where some where some planes struggled to land . the prime struggled to land. the prime minister said the death of a worker on london's elizabeth line is absolutely tragic. news. the 61 year old, a customer service assistant, suffered serious head injuries after being attacked at ilford station on wednesday evening and later died in hospital. a 32 year old man has been charged with multiple offences and will appearin multiple offences and will appear in court again next month. sir keir starmer said nobody should have to face any violence at work, and certainly not something as shocking as this. my thoughts are with the victim's family, friends and colleagues at this terrible time and west ham footballer michail antonio is in a stable condition after he was involved in a road traffic incident in essex. the premier league club said in a statement. it said michael is conscious and communicating and is currently under close supervision at a central london hospital. at this difficult time ,

hospital. at this difficult time, we kindly ask everyone to respect the privacy of michael 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 those are your latest headlines i'm joe kasper. now back to mark dolan 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/alerts . or go to gbnews.com/alerts. >> thank you joe. busy show in my take at ten. the bbc throw women under the bus once again and the fa lose the plot. that is a take at ten special. you won't want to miss it, but first, my big opinion. good evening . racism is back, folks. evening. racism is back, folks. yes , the excellent camilla yes, the excellent camilla turner of the sunday telegraph reports that britain's

intelligence services have launched a summer internship program from which white british students are banned from applying m15, m16 and gchq who are there to keep this country safe at home and abroad, appeared to be unsafe for anyone that's got the wrong skin colour. in this case, the woke talibans most hated cohort, white people. this internship sounds like an amazing opportunity. i've got to say it represents , and i quote the represents, and i quote the first steps towards an exciting full time career. so interns? absolutely. they're very welcome. but no whites please. and by the way, they won't be on the sidelines. oh no. they will have the opportunity to get unique access to operations, gain experience and contribute to real projects. however, this ten week opportunity is only open to students from black, asian, mixed heritage or ethnic

minority backgrounds. it does include another provision welcoming those from a socially or economically disadvantaged background. well, that's great, isn't it? fantastic. except that it excludes poor white people. well, that's fair enough, isn't it? they may come from grinding poverty and degradation, but they're still dripping in white privilege. now there are several things to unpick here. first of all, it is not terrifying, is it? is it just absolutely the worst thing that the security services have? a culture which looks to be moving away from merit and towards quotas? you have to think that vladimir putin is chuckling into his glass of stolichnaya vodka this evening, as he observes britain's suicidal commitment to diversity at all costs. this follows a scandal at the royal air force and the resignation of the raf head of recruitment, after it was revealed that the service had effectively paused

recruitment of white men to hit diversity targets , which she diversity targets, which she considered unlawful . now, if considered unlawful. now, if organisations take this approach correctly, they are not necessarily breaking the law like mi5 necessarily breaking the law like m15 and m16 at this particular occasion. but that doesn't stop it being deeply wrong. i believe in diversity. a diversity of views, a diversity of talents, a diversity of backgrounds, a diversity of religions, of genders, of races. absolutely. bring it on. but this increasingly pathetic country seems to be indulged now in a race to the bottom, with a focus on skin colour rather than equal opportunity. and the now blasphemous idea of the best person for the job. and here's the thing. if you want to play the thing. if you want to play the race card, perhaps i could draw your attention to the dreadful outcomes of poor white men in our society who, for

example, perform worse at school and are the one group least likely to go to university. so by woke logic, maybe they should be prioritised if we're going to have positive discrimination, let's do it for them. but it won't happen. do you see the problem now? there may be groups that are underrepresented in various fields. great efforts must be taken to encourage people of different backgrounds from taking opportunities and contributing to our society, but not by pitting one group of people who have immutable characteristics such as skin colour , against another. when colour, against another. when did the so—called progressive left? who are behind this divisive nonsense give up pursuing the idea of opportunity for all? and talking of the security services and special agents, poor old security services and special agents, poor ol