right. >> humza yousaf is quitting politics. i think we can maybe go to some live reaction from the general public at some point soon, but you have to wait for that. keir starmer is also set to make a rare visit to britain. that is, of course, when he's back from estonia. but all of these foreign trips have, well, frankly, resulted in the eu taking us to court. >> the lord president wait, the lord justice clerk, white, every high court judge white, the lord

advocate white. >> all right. i'll tell you what we're going to do. i'm going to hit you with some serious news after this news from sophia wenzler. stay tuned. >> good evening. i'm sophia wenzler with your news at 9:00. sara sharif's father and stepmother have been sentenced to life in prison for the brutal murder of their ten year old daughter following years of horrific abuse. irfan sharif was handed a minimum of 40 years in prison, while bineesh patole received 33 years. her uncle, faisal malik was jailed for 16 years for failing to prevent her death. sara was hooded, burned

and beaten during a campaign of torture that lasted two years before her body was found at the family home in surrey in 2023. nigel farage is back in the uk after meeting with elon musk at donald trump's mar—a—lago resort. the reform uk leader was joined by his party treasurer, nick candy, to meet with musk for the first time since rumours surfaced of a multi—million donation from the tech tycoon. speaking moments ago on gb news, nigel farage said donations were discussed. >> given all the press stories we did discuss money. now that's a negotiation. we will go back and have again. he is not against giving us money. he hasn't fully decided whether he will. if he does, it wouldn't be anything like the ludicrous telephone numbers quoted in the sunday times. but the most important thing is this. this is what musk said to me, he said. british politics now has a uni party. there is very little to choose between a labour and conservative parties, and he

genuinely fears that the mother country of the english speaking world is frankly going down the tubes. but he has not closed his mind towards helping us in any way that he can. now the. >> now to some breaking news coming to us from the us luigi mangione, the man accused of shooting dead unitedhealth ceo bnan shooting dead unitedhealth ceo brian thompson has been charged with first degree murder. that's according to new york district attorney alvin bragg. mr mangione has now been indicted on one charge of first degree murder, as well as two counts of second degree murder, one of which is charged as a killing as an act of terrorism. now it's being reported that the new prime minister of mauritius says the chagos islands deal struck by sir keir starmer isn't good enough and he wants to reopen talks. it's understood he rejects current terms as they would not produce the benefits that the nation could expect. his government has made counter—proposals to london and

received a response, though no details have yet been provided. and fresh train strikes have been announced over new year after an offer was rejected by avanti west coast staff. workers are walking out after rejecting are walking out after rejecting a deal aimed at resolving a dispute over rest day working. the rmt union said its members working as train managers will strike on new year's eve, january the 2nd and sundays between january 12th and may 25th. those are the latest gb news headlines. now it's back to patrick 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. >> all right. good evening everybody. keir starmer is set to make a rare state visit to britain at some point soon. the

man, who is allegedly the prime minister of great britain and northern ireland, has been on, by our count, 37 flights since taking office. he spent the equivalent of an entire working month in the air, roughly 165 hours. well, he may well have the largest carbon footprint of any single human in britain. he just loves the uk government's airbus a321, which produces roughly 7.33 tonnes of co2 per airborne hour. so starmer has puffed out 1173 tonnes of carbon dioxide since the general election. that was before his latest trip to estonia. the average uk citizen produces ten tonnes per year, so the pm's jet setting alone is more than 117. brits annual share of pollution. we've discovered a leaked picture, actually, of ed miliband shortly after he was told about keir starmer's carbon footprint. oh yeah, you've got to feel for the guy, haven't

you? to feel for the guy, haven't you.7 really to feel for the guy, haven't you? really got to feel for him? let's have a little look, shall we, at some of the places he's gone. so i think we can bring up the map of the world here. well, in no particular order. he's been to washington, paris, berlin, paris again. estonia. budapest, paris again. new york, samoa, rio, azerbaijan, and of course, brussels. and well, that is literally just the half of it. but what does all this international travel achieved, apart from the total thawing of the polar ice caps? absolutely baffle most world leaders. snubbed cop29, in rio like macron. so that meant that starmer was essentially stuck there with the taliban. what about his relentless trips to paris, berlin and brussels? the axis of the european union? well, today the european commission decided to sue starmer's britain for our apparent failure to comply with the terms of our brexit deal. absolute result for starmer's diplomacy. and now they're demanding freedom of movement

for young people and acceptance of eu laws and the continued right for the european nations to fish in british waters beyond 2026. it's nice to see he's having as much success abroad as he is at home. but he hasn't been, has he now since trump was elected to go and see the big guy since he became president again, which is just as well, because what else happened today? oh, yeah. mauritius has rejected starmer's chagos islands deal, meaning it now almost definitely won't happen here. he was in estonia today, talking tough to russia for ukraine. >> and i've been here with key nato allies this morning having a discussion about ukraine. we're on hms iron duke here which is in estonia. we've got troops up the road who are integrated as part of our nato response. the collective view is very clear. we must put ukraine in the strongest possible position. that means we've got to make sure they have the capability they need, the training, they need the funding that they need, and we must

support ukraine in what they're doing. this is an act of aggression by russia has been going on for a very, very long time. so we must stand with ukraine at this critical period. >> well, given starmer's track record, i'm surprised that putin didn't just nuke london this evening. politicians go abroad a lot when they're struggling at home. boris used to do it as well. but back here in britain, starmer's got problems . today. starmer's got problems. today. labour did another u—turn. >> well, the government failed. the women who were born in the 19505, the women who were born in the 1950s, they stole their pension, that contract, that agreement that contract, that agreement that they thought they had and then accelerated it so that those women didn't have the chance to prepare for that. we said, we'll write that injustice. and within the five years of the labour government, we will compensate them for the money that they've lost this. >> that doesn't happen, does it? labour have just enraged what greg wallace might call women of a certain age by refusing to pay out for the waspi women. that's on top of the other pensioners, the farmers, tax payers,

business owners, people with a brain, i don't know. anyway, this also happened today. the migration advisory committee released a report saying that starmer's plans to cut immigration may not work if he really is flying around the world to avoid trouble at home. i don't think it will be long before he asks if he can refuel in mid—air so he never has to land. let's get the thoughts of my panel. we have got journalist and broadcaster and columnist esther krakue. we've got political commentator alex armstrong and journalist jonathan. liz, esther, i'll start with you on this. do you think that starmer is frankly just running scared of the british public here? >> well, yes, but it's not random. it's not something that, you know, has just happened to happen because he has loads of international meetings. macron used to do the same thing. i mean, he's still doing the same thing because he i'm pretty sure if he stopped being thing becau