6 pm. could be destroyed. it's 6 pm. and this is the saturday five. welcome to the saturday five. with a panel about as serious as a wind turbine in storm darrah. and just as prone, frankly, to spinning out of control. we're here to make sense of the week's absurdities. we are all absurd. really. first up, storm darrah didn't just flatten a load of wind turbines. it gave us a £20 million metaphor for government incompetence. billions blown on green virtue signalling projects that topple faster than a labour supermajority. at the next election. reliable energy, affordable bills. forget it. dream on. all we get is more hot air from westminster. and this time it's not one we can blame on those poor cows. meanwhile, yvette cooper has suddenly remembered what deportation

means. syrians are potentially about to be told that their country is safe again, and fair enough, if they're forming a new government, they can start by welcoming their citizens back, though, i reckon. will kingston, heading back to australia tomorrow, is nervously checking his paperwork just in case. yvette is on the warpath over a free speech episode. too many. and in london, the rich are offloading their mansions faster than rachel reeves can say. we'll tax your wealth. even the oligarchs are scared of labour's tarmac socialism. at this rate, labour peer lord alan sugar will be queuing for a £99 ryanair flight out of luton. also joining me tonight is doctor renee here to prescribe some much needed common sense after a week that's had less stability than one of those wind turbines in a hurricane, and alex armstrong is ready to tackle the headunes armstrong is ready to tackle the headlines with the enthusiasm of a booze hound on boxing day. and on the loony left of the panel, literally benjamin butterworth, the wokeist warrior, this side

of the channel is back to remind us that taxing the rich, sending the syrians home, and probably even storm isha itself are all hate crimes. if there's a grievance to be found, benjamin's on the prowl. from spinning turbines to spinning politicians, we've got more chaos tonight than the bbc's hr department at the office. christmas party. let's dive in. you know the drill. each host outlines an argument about a chosen topic. then we all pile in. and of course, we want your views as well. send them and post your comments by visiting gbnews.com/yoursay. and don't forget your questions in ask the five. no topics are off limits, but before we start tearing each other apart, here's your saturday night news with sophia hill. >> thank you darren. very good evening. it'sjust >> thank you darren. very good evening. it's just gone 6:00. i'm sophia hill with your latest headunes i'm sophia hill with your latest headlines from the gb newsroom. now, in the last hour, we can report that the billionaire founder of the high street fashion chain mango, isaac

andic, has died. the 71 year old fell down a ravine to his death whilst hiking in a mountain range just outside of barcelona. according to spanish media. and it was with his son and other family members when he fell, triggering a large emergency response. the turkish born businessman founded mango in barcelona in 1984, with forbes estimating and its net worth to be $4.5 billion. now, more than 35,000 migrants have crossed the channel illegally in small boats so far this year. the milestone figure was reached this morning after at least 250 migrants made the illegal journey in five small boats. after more than a week of no small boat crossings because of the bad weather in the channel, more than 1150 migrants reached the uk's waters in just the past three days. it takes the provisional number assessed by gb news to 35,130. since the beginning of the year, chinese money linked to prince andrew is now under investigation by m15 as more details emerge about the

embattled duke's connection to an alleged spy. it's believed prince andrew invited the man in question, described as a close confidant to buckingham palace, with their relationship reportedly dating back to 2012. the royal has now said he ceased all contact with the businessman in question and denied discussing anything of a sensitive nature. meanwhile, buckingham palace have claimed it has no power to scrutinise the duke's finances. home secretary yvette cooper says the government will always take necessary action when it comes to the country's security. >> well, our security and intelligence agencies are continually vigilant for any threat to uk national security, whether that be around foreign influence, whether it be around espionage, whether it be around any security threat. and so, of course, we won't hesitate to take action in individual cases or more widely, wherever any challenge arises. >> now, construction workers are four times more likely to die by suicide than the national

average. it makes it one of the deadliest professions for mental health problems in the uk, according to a new report. social media company on the tools, the uk's largest community of tradespeople, has found that 73% of the country's 2.1 million construction workers have been affected by mental illness in the last decade, 7000 have taken their own lives. the company is trying to raise £2.5 million to fund counselling for workers in the industry , and workers in the industry, and a former premier league footballer has been appointed the president of georgia amid heightening tensions over the country's relationship with russia. 53 year old mikhail kavelashvili was striker for manchester city between 1996 and 1997, and later played for several clubs in the swiss super league. he was elected to parliament in 2016, and in 2022 co—founded the people's power political movement, a splinter group of the ruling georgian dream party. the four main opposition groups have rejected kavelashvili and have rejected kavelashvili and have boycotted parliament, insisting that the elections were held in october were

rigged. and leader of the liberal democrats ed davey has performed his christmas single in bath this afternoon. cillian murphy ulez the faux pas holac davey was joined by the bath philharmonia carers choir at their christmas concert at the bath forum. the single was written by six young carers and has climbed the charts since its release, with all proceeds going to the carers trust and bath philharmonia. ed davey has even pledged he'll do a skydive if the single gets 10,000 downloads next week. those are the latest gb news headlines for now i'm sophia hill. more from me in an houn sophia hill. more from me in an hour. but now it's time for the saturday five. >> 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. >> it's saturday night and you're with the saturday five. i'm darren grimes, and i can promise that you're in for a very lively show. we're going to crack on with tonight's first debate, and i'm going to abuse my position in the middle here and kick us off. we need to be absolutely blunt. as a nation, another innocent little girl is dead. and once again, the people who should have protected her were too scared to act. ask yourself why.7 because in britain today, it's apparently worse to be accused of racism than it is to ignore a child being beaten, tortured and ultimately killed. the tragic case of sara sharif, just ten years old, is a damning indictment of a society that's utterly paralysed by fear, fear of words and fear, frankly, of baseless accusations. the horror that that child endured should neven that that child endured should never, ever have happened.

broken bones, burns, injuries so severe that they frankly defy comprehension. and yet there was no intervention. why.7 because no intervention. why? because asking questions about a bruised child suddenly coming to school wearing a hijab might, god forbid, upset someone's cultural sensitivities? and let's be clear, this isn't an isolated issue. it's a pattern. you've seen it time and again. the authorities tiptoe around certain issues and abuse within them, terrified of being branded as bigots. but what's truly bigoted is value and multicultural dogma over a child's life. if the inquest into sarah's death doesn't examine the toxic culture of fear that let us slip through the cracks, then it's not worth the cracks, then it's not worth the paper it's written on. and the paper it's written on. and the real racism, well, the real racism is pretending that little girls like sarah and the girls in rotherham, telford and oldham aren't worth protecting. little sharif deserved the world more

than she actually received. she deserved to live in a country that put her life and her safety above a little bit of middle class, politically correct discomfort. if we don't learn from this tragedy, from her tragedy, then we're complicit in the next one. no more excuses, no more looking the other way. it's time to stand up for british values and actually stop apologising for them. i mean, i read in that renee you're a man. you must have thought. it's heartbreaking. it was horrible. >> you know, for me, as a mum and a doctor, 1492 00:09: