joined by tonight. we're joined by a congressman from the united states of america, of course, fresh after donald j. trump's inauguration. and what a wild week it's been. we're going to take your questions in the bar and we'll show you keir starmers bizarre ode to the scottish people. honestly, this man, it's 8 pm. and this is the saturday five. yes, this is saturday five extra where anything goes, my friends. that's why i'm drinking this. now, if you at home are concerned that darren grimes is drinking water, fret not. this is gin. now. not just gin. >> gin and tonic, i might add. yeah, that was a very important request from darren. >> yeah, absolutely. i'm trying to not be a fat pig now, i tim has messaged in and tim's quite

angry. he says, nice to see the chaps. let renee go first for her drink. equality of the sexes. we believe in here. >> percent, ioo%. it should be that way all the time. >> all right. we've got lots more coming up. of course we're going to talk about sex starved rats in new york. but enough about kai. it's saturday night news with aaron armstrong. >> oh my god. >> oh my god. >> hello there. very good evening to you. our headlines for female israeli soldiers taken hostage on the 7th of october have been reunited with their families. this is the moment naama levy , karina, lviv, moment naama levy, karina, lviv, daniella gilboa and liri albag saw their loved ones again after being held in gaza for 477 days. all four clearly overcome with emotions. earlier, they were seen surrounded by armed hamas fighters on a podium in gaza city before being taken to the border by the red cross and

handed to the idf. now, this is the second release of hostages to take place since the ceasefire deal was agreed last sunday, although around 90 are still being held in gaza. in return, israel has released around 200 palestinian prisoners from jail, prompting scenes of jubilation in the city of ramallah in the west bank. however, serious offenders those convicted of the gravest crimes were not there. around 70 of those are being deported. it's understood this bus is on its way to cairo and egypt, where palestinians are on board, will then travel to neighbouring countries, including qatar and turkey. a 14 year old has been turkey. a14 year old has been charged with the murder of birmingham schoolboy leo ross, who was stabbed in a country park on tuesday. the youth, who can't be named because of his age, was arrested around four hours after the 12 year old leo suffered fatal injuries in the hall green area. his family have released a statement describing leo as an amazing, kind boy who was loved so much by everyone.

three teenagers have died and a fourth man has suffered life threatening injuries after a car hit a tree near wakefield in west yorkshire. they were travelling near the village of west bretton when it left the road and crashed on friday night. the 18 year old driver and 219 year old passengers died. two other men were taken to hospital. one is said to be in a critical condition. farmers from across the uk have been staging a national day of unity in a bid to protect the sector. it comes as pressure mounts on the government to halt the controversial inheritance tax laws that could see some forced to sell their farms. the national union has warned that many farmers are at breaking point and can't afford the bills. >> farmers are on their knees, they can't pass their farms to their children. they're already struggling to make ends meet. we have more suicides for farmers and for individual workers than pretty much any profession. they struggle with poverty. they

struggle with poverty. they struggle with poverty. they struggle with years of all of the impact of the climate change sort of measures that have been put in place. they are just struggling to make ends meet. and now this new labour government has come in to destroy their way of life, to destroy their way of life, to destroy their way of life, to destroy the british countryside. who is going to protect our beautiful countryside and our way of life without the farmer.7 >> and two new weather warnings for snow and ice have come into effect for northern ireland and large parts of scotland, as the clear up after storm eowyn continues, extra engineers have been drafted in to help restore electricity across ireland, with hundreds of thousands of people on both sides of the border still without power earlier this evening. meanwhile, travel services remain severely disrupted in scotland, with trains and ferries suspended and plenty of roads closed. and more than 40,000 customers are still without electricity there, as some will have to wait several days to be reconnected as scotrail has advised a disruption on the railways will continue into sunday and those

are the latest gb news headlines. more from me at around 9:00. >> 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. >> well, thank you very much to aaron there. now my friends, grumpy grandad has messaged in a good friend of the show and he says have a drink for me, grumpy grandad. you know you don't have to ask me twice. >> is he better? >> is he better? >> he was in hospital. i don't know if he's out of hospital. he'll let us know. i hope you are though. >> well, let's raise a cheese for grumpy. >> grumpy grandad. >> grumpy grandad. >> it's a good friend. cheers, friend. now, my friends, of course. you're with the saturday five. thank you very much for your company. i'm darren grimes, and i can promise that you're in for a very fun final hour where anything can happen. i'm a bit nervous, to be perfectly honest. we're going to get to some of

your questions. our first question comes from julie ford about the renter's rights bill. >> my panel, julie ford here. so my question is on the renters rights bill, particularly the fact that the new amendment means tenants will not have to pay means tenants will not have to pay rent before they sign a tenancy agreement, but the landlord will be obliged to have to let the tenant move in, even if they do not pay rent. do you think this will increase or decrease homelessness for the future? thanks very much. >> oh, i think this is going to massively increase homelessness. julie, the marginal landlord who isn't making a lot of money, is just going to leave the market altogether. >> and i'm currently selling the little flat that i had that used to be my son's. and the renters rights bill is going to destroy the rental market and push up rents, because there'll be fewer properties and homelessness, as juue properties and homelessness, as julie says, she's absolutely right. >> so it prices people out of the market.

>> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> but what's interesting in argentina is before president millay just took over, they had price rent caps. they had regulation on rents up through the roof, and it just pushed the pnces the roof, and it just pushed the prices to all time highs. this is what sadiq khan is calling for, by the way. and since he's cut it, all prices and rents have dropped dramatically because the free market sorts. >> it out. >> it out. >> demand stop. why do they just keep on interfering with things? got nothing to do with them. >> well, why do we always forget these stories? why? you know, as juue these stories? why? you know, as julie says there. and i think juue julie says there. and i think julie probably agrees with us, but do you think, actually that we need reminded of economic lessons? >> yeah, i think a couple of things. i think, number one, we are run by historical illiterates who many times, you know, don't know the historical bafis know, don't know the historical basis of free speech or the historical basis of free market economics. and i think that is really depressing. the other thing i'd say is, if you regulate as a politician, it looks like you're doing something. it looks like you're active, it looks like you're busy, it looks like you're achieving something. it is actually harder to take a step back and do less than it is to say, oh, i'm going to take control of this situation. well. >> you know what we could do? we

could start actually repealing some laws like that. that is doing something. and we just keep on building and building and building on top of these like ancient laws. and rather than look at them going, is that fit for purpose? >> today there's a great old australian business tycoon called kerry packer and he in front of a senate inquiry, he said, i've got an idea for you people. every time you introduce a new law, you need to get rid of an old one. >> good idea. >> good idea. >> okay. you're a rent. i nearly said you're a rent boy. >> then i thought that. >> then i thought that. >> you are someone that rents. now. are you worried about what? the repercussions of this assault on the the repercussions of this assault on