plus, as specific island. plus, as a keighley rape gang is sentenced to nearly 58 years for multiple sexual offences against two children, we are going to be renewing the question why have we not had a public inquiry into the rape gangs? because you know what? like many of you out there, i am not letting go of this issue. state of the nation with me tonight. matt goodwin starts now. now i'll also be joined tonight by my panel columnist and former mep patrick o'flynn and former labour adviser scarlett mccgwire. as ever, let me know your views at gbnews.com/yoursay and hit me up on x at goodwin mj. but now it's time for the news bulletin with sophia wenzler.

>> matt. thank you. good evening. it'sjust >> matt. thank you. good evening. it's just gone. 8:00 these are your headlines. russia has responded to donald trump's ultimatum to end the war in ukraine. the us president said russia will face high levels of taxes, tariffs and sanctions if president president putin does not end the war. posting on his truth social, trump expressed his love for the russian people and his good relationship with putin and then issued a direct warning to stop this ridiculous war. russia's un envoy has said the kremlin would need to see what trump thinks is a deal. compromises comprises of before proceeding. it's not merely the question of ending the war, he said. it's first and foremost a question of addressing root causes of the ukrainian crisis. meanwhile, the defence secretary has issued a stark warning to putin after a russian spy ship has been located operating off the uk coast. speaking in the commons, john healey warned the russian president we see you and we know what you're doing. the

ship is believed to be used for gathering intelligence and mapping the uk's critical underwater infrastructure. it entered uk waters on monday, prompting the royal navy to deploy hms somerset and hms tyne to track it. the afghan suspect in the german knife attack that left two dead this morning was not motivated by radical islam, according to the country's interior minister. the suspect deliberately attacked a kindergarten group in the park with a kitchen knife, leaving a two year old boy and a 41 year old man dead. police said a 28 year old afghan national has now been arrested, while two seriously injured people are receiving treatment in hospital. the bavarian interior minister said the suspect was undergoing psychiatric treatment and had his asylum process closed, and said he would voluntarily leave germany in december, but had not left and remained under treatment. meanwhile, people have begun to gather in protest with a placard reading we won't

let diversity kill us. the stabbing adds to a string of violent attacks in germany that have raised concerns over security and stirred up tensions over migration. back in the uk, a 12 year old boy who was fatally stabbed in birmingham on tuesday has been named by police as leo ross. leo, described as funny and sweet, was found with serious injuries and died in hospital. a 14 year old boy has been arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing. police have now revealed the 14 year old is also being held in connection with the assault of an 80 year old woman in the same area, and a danger to life warning has been issued for parts of the uk ahead of storm erwin, as britain prepares to be lashed by severe gales. gusts could reach up to 90mph in coastal areas, bringing risks of travel disruption, power cuts and flying debris. the north west will see the strongest winds, but large waves and dangerous conditions are

also expected along sea fronts. heavy rain and snow will also spread east, with up to 25cm of snow possible on higher ground. the met office says the situation could escalate as a storm rapidly develops tomorrow. those are the latest gb news headlines. now it's back to matt. >> 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. >> welcome back to state of the nation. tonight with me, matt goodwin. now you, the british people are being gaslit. you are being lied to. while the people always sensed there was something unusual about the southport atrocities, ever since that fateful day, the authorities have hid behind legal processes and bureaucratic

bureaucracies. yesterday, keir starmer admitted that he knew the details about axel rudakubana background long before they came out. check out this clip. >> yes, i knew the details as they were emerging. that is the usual practice in a case such as this. but you know and i know that it would not have been right to disclose those details. >> but this is not consistent with keir starmers previous actions during the 2017 finsbury park terror attack. starmer called it a terror attack before terrorism charges had been announced. keir starmer also did the same in the case of the london bridge attack in 2017 and the plymouth attack in 2019. and of course, after southport, he had no problem at all in deriding many people in this country as far right thugs before they went to court and had their cases heard. yesterday he appealed to contempt of court laws for not releasing the

information about southport earlier. check it out. >> and not just my choices though. it is a choice i would make. it is also the law of the land. that is why i could not disclose the details. it is why others could not disclose the details. it is why all of you as journalists could not disclose the details, because the same laws apply to you, just as they appued laws apply to you, just as they applied to me. and it's really important that we make that clear. but the purpose of the rule is to protect the justice that the families and the victims are entitled to. >> but if it applies to southport, why didn't this apply to three other terror attacks as well as those protests where now, of course, hearing reports that cps pressured merseyside police not to release details about the suspect. but just to top it all off, the government now wants you to believe that this was a case of knife purchase laws not being strong enough. you may remember when david amess, sir david amess, was murdered by an islamist

terrorist. parliamentarians tried to make the issue about onune tried to make the issue about online abuse. let's just be nice to one another. well, the same thing is happening now. the government has fast tracked tighter restrictions on online knife sales for under 18 seconds, as if amazon was to blame for southport. writing in the sun today, the prime minister called axel rudakubana a two click killer. but the fact of the matter is that the system the state failed the victims of southport, much like the state, failed the victims of pakistani rape gangs. it's time for the obfuscation, the concealment, the cover ups and the deflections to come to an end. it's time for the people in power to tell us, the people the truth. now i'm joined tonight to discuss keir starmers response by my panel columnist and former mep patrick o'flynn and former labour adviser scarlett mccgwire scarlett. if i could come to you first. i mean, the labour party is hideously out of touch with the country on this, isn't it? >> look, can we get a few things straight? what happened in

southport was not a terror attack, right? >> based on what? >> based on what? >> based on what? >> based on. based on the government definition of terrorism, which is that the use or threat of violence or damage to property to influence the government or intimidate the public. government or intimidate the pubuc.the government or intimidate the public. the action must be intended to advance a political, religious, racial or ideological cause. this guy was a psychopath. this guy was interested in violence. he wanted to murder everybody who murders is not a terrorist. >> so in which case, keir starmer and yvette cooper have both confirmed they knew a lot of this information back at the time of the attack. here's my question. why did the labour government then allow this enormous vacuum to open up, allow certain claims about this guy to be spread online? why, when we've seen, as i've just said, keir starmer has entered that vacuum in the past, has given people information, has rushed to call incidents terrorism, why not this one?

>> okay, because this wasn't a terrorist incident, right? the other the other incidents were clearly terrorist incidents. and what happened on this one is, is it was at the time it was unlike people thought he was going to plead not guilty or not plead because he was refusing to speak at all. and they didn't want to jeopardise the court case. right. and that's what it was about. it was not about keeping things secret. right. we all know what 1504 00:09:28,776 -->