is ill? is ill.7 i'm is ill? i'm afraid so. the soft northerner is having some time off. he's recuperating and they've parachuted in. a very tough southerner to replace him. now, it's saturday night and this is the saturday five. alongside me is will kingston. doctor renee hoenderkamp, connie shaw and kyle wiltshire. and tonight on the show, pray for the influencers. >> because the us has banned tiktok. >> labour has fudged the inquiry

u—turn. >> and is the economy in a death spiral, with millionaires leaving every 45 minutes? >> despite bridget phillipson being the secretary of state for education, she apparently has no idea what's going on at universities. >> and far right rhetoric has real world consequences. >> well, welcome to the saturday five. now, not only have we got a temporary new presenter, we've also made a few tweaks to the format. so you lucky devils. now get us for a whole extra hour, guys. how about that? which we've actually we've called it the saturday five extra. how inspiring. in the five unleashed. sorry. in the five unleashed. sorry. in the five unleashed a new segment. one of us will hit the streets. wonder who that will be to ask the great british public the big question of the week. all right. do you have a favourite chair in your house? yes. which one?

>> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> stay tuned for that. >> stay tuned for that. >> you won't want to miss it. >> you won't want to miss it. >> we've also got another new feature. hi five. where do they come up with these? i mean, it's just fantastic where we talk about our highlights of the week. and of course, most importantly, we'll have more of you on the show. the five panel us will be answering your questions, and some of you will even be lucky enough to join us live on air. i mean, what could go wrong with that? absolutely nothing. the show won't be totally unrecognisable. we still have. we'll still hear from each host will outline their arguments about a chosen topic. then we all pile in and the fur really starts to fly. of course we want to know what your views are as well, so send your views and post your comments by visiting gbnews.com/yoursay. and don't forget to get your questions in for ask the five. no topics are off limits, but before we start tearing each other apart, it's your saturday night news with tatiana sanchez.

>> adam. thank you. the top stories at least 30 people have been injured after a ski lift collapsed in spain. nine of those are very seriously injured and eight are seriously injured, according to the regional government, around 80 people remain trapped hanging in the chairlift at the resort in aragon, according to the state tv channel tve. the cause of the cable failure remains unknown. the israeli military says it's preparing to receive hostages after their release from hamas captivity, ahead of the ceasefire deal taking effect, israeli ministers gave a full approval yesterday after a six hour meeting. that decision was made to support the deal at the final moments in a phased release. the first three hostages are to be freed tomorrow, followed by 30 more over a six week period. women and girls, plus older men will be the first to be released. british hostage emily de—man is reported to be among the first 33 hostages who will leave,

according to the jewish chronicle. in return, palestinian detainees will be released and a sharp increase in humanitarian aid. this all comes as the israeli army says it conducted strikes on 50 terror targets across the gaza strip yesterday. police have warned pro—palestine protesters to leave trafalgar square or face arrest after demonstrators broke through a police line as they marched from a rally in whitehall. eight people were arrested earlier on during the march in central london. the arrests for public order offences and for breaching the conditions that have been put in place. the metropolitan police has since posted on their x account, saying around 20 to 30 more people who breached the conditions are to be arrested as well. thousands of people are calling on the government to stop arming israel. the pro—palestine march had planned to assemble outside the bbc, accusing the corporation of bias. however, due to the proximity to a local synagogue, the metropolitan police has

restricted the group to whitehall. a thousand officers have been on duty today. in other news, donald trump is to review the chagos deal when he returns to the white house on monday. the president elect's team directly intervened in the british government's deal, demanding the delay, according to the telegraph. fears over chinese influence if the strategically important islands are returned to mauritius are fuelling that delay. the us has a permanent military base on the east african island. ahead of trump's inauguration, gb news spoke to reform uk leader nigel farage. >> the other thing that's been discussed by everybody is what the hell were you thinking about with the chagos islands? diego garcia? the honest truth is that our government is getting off to the worst possible start with the worst possible start with the incoming trump administration. and my other worry if we pivot towards the european union, that makes getting a trade deal of some kind with trump's america even

more difficult. >> well, four days of special events are beginning. ahead of trump's inauguration as us president, thousands of people have been marching in protest today, including women's rights groups. the 47th president's inauguration will be the first to be held indoors since ronald reagan's in 1985, due to cold weather. temperatures are expected to drop to —14 degrees. and a £20,000 reward is being offered in the search for the parents of three babies abandoned in london. the three children, the third of which, elsa, was only an hour old when she was found abandoned in a carrier bag a year ago, are all siblings babies harry and roman were discovered in similar circumstances in 2017 and 2019, police say. despite reviewing hours of cctv and analysing dna, their parents remain unidentified. it's believed the mother has lived in the same

area of east london for the past six years. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. more from me in an hour 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. >> thank you tatiana. it's saturday night and you're with the saturday five. i'm adam cherry, and i can promise that you are in for a very lively show, so i'm going to crack on. we're going to use a host privilege, and i'm going to go first tonight. so new research shows 10,800 people with assets over $1 million, which is about £821,000 left the country in 2024. now, that is a whopping increase of over 150% compared to the previous year. why? well,

according to a survey by oxford economics, nearly two thirds of those high net worth people, those high net worth people, those high net worth individuals, are thinking about upping sticks because the government has changed its non—dom rules. and, you know, let's face it, the overall state of the economy at the moment is not helping, is it? so why does that really matter? because, well, these people at the top, the top earners actually contribute the most in tax receipts to the exchequer by a mile. so if they go, that leaves a huge hole in the treasury's pocket that has to be filled somehow means it comes from everyone else, everyone watching at home, everyone who can't jet off to monaco or switzerland or the uae. so i put this to the panel the uae. so i put this to the panel. guys, has the government botched this is the economy in a death spiral. i'm going to start with you, chi chi. i want you to rate rachel reeves performance as the chancellor of the exchequer out of ten. >> i'll rate the comms as one out of ten. okay, but actually, she's delivering on what labour were promising in the first

place. and one of the reasons she is not headed for the bin, the reason they're not headed for the bin, is that keir starmer backed this. that's central to his project, which they already knew, but they've accepted that we're in tough economic times, but they accept that also you're not going to see the fruits of what they're doing for many years. things like the growth plan, those projects, those programmes take years to see to actually, i'm sorry, were you there betting on the fact that that is going to happen and millionaires leaving the country, i don't think is the country, i don't think is the yardstick that we want to be judging this government by. >> why not? yeah. of course. exactly. well, we'll jump in there. >> the problem with this government is that they still have this 1970s class warfare mentality that just says tax more hit the rich. and you know what? that isn't more