the bloc. with the bloc. >> what i want to see is strong trading relations and in the discussions that i've had with president trump, that's what we have centred on in those strong trading relationships. so it's very early days. i've been very clear since i became prime minister that i do want to reset the relationship between the uk and the eu. that does not involve a return to the european union. we had a referendum here on that and that matter is settled. >> meanwhile, donald trump says any potential pain caused by his trade war with canada, mexico and china will be worth the price. a canada and mexico have announced retaliatory tariffs after the us imposed 25% import taxes on goods from the two countries and 10% from china. he posted on social media that the decade long rip off of america in regard to trade, crime and poisonous drugs is over. well, china says it will implement countermeasures to defend its interests. mexico and canada

acted overnight. >> i am announcing canada will be responding to the us trade action with 25% tariffs against $155 billion worth of american goods. >> four new laws have been introduced to tackle the threat of child sexual abuse images created by ai. of child sexual abuse images created by al. the measure will see the uk become the first country in the world to make it illegal to possess, create or distribute the tools that create those images. owning the software could result in a five year prison sentence, with a three year jail term for possession of so—called paedophile manuals. home secretary yvette cooper says ai has put child sexual abuse on steroids. farmer tony martin, who was jailed for shooting dead a teenage burglar, has died at the age of 80. martin served three years in prison after shooting 16 year old fred barras at his home in norfolk in 1999. he was living alone when he caught barras, along with another man, brendan fearon, inside his house. he fired his

gun three times, killing barras. he was initially found guilty of murder, but that was reduced to manslaughter on appeal. thousands of people across the uk have been celebrating the chinese new year. in london, they were treated to a blaze of red and gold. elaborate costumes and awakening lion dancing. so street stalls, dancing, partying across chinatown on a day of family friendly activities. that's it for the moment. more from me in about an hour's time. >> 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. >> this is free speech nation. welcome to the show where we

take a look at culture, current affairs and politics. and when they go mental, we push back. and there's lots of mental illness tonight in the first houn illness tonight in the first hour. a group of anti—racist campaigners claimed to have been attacked and targeted by anti—racists. what is going on.7 the home secretary writes to social media bosses asking for the removal of violent material accessed by the southport killer. is this censorship or sensibility? and church goers are left outraged after a york minster agreed to host a concert for an extreme heavy metal band, often using sacrilegious imagery. should places of worship ever be used for such things? and of course, myself and my fantastic panel will be answering questions from our wonderful studio audience. my comedian guest this evening are paul cox and adam kumars. welcome. how are you? i'm good. thanks, josh. >> i'm good. it's february. >> i'm good. it's february. >> yeah. good to see you. >> it's always good to get january out of the way, isn't

it? i don't like the wish life away, but january is a right kick in the old taxes. yeah, just endless gloom. >> fortunately, i earned so little last year that i got tax. >> rebate to be celebrating. but yeah, i get it. >> that's like the benefit of being poor. >> yes. yeah, exactly. >> yes. yeah, exactly. >> how are you? you're right. >> how are you? you're right. >> very good. you know, i got a little rebate myself, but. >> well, thank you so much for asking where i was last week. yeah. it was my. it was my son's bar mitzvah. >> lovely. >> lovely. >> which was great. so i'm even poorer than ever, having spent every money cent i own. anyway, look, let's get some questions from our wonderful studio audience. thank you for being here, guys. who was our first question from? oh, there we go. >> hiya. >> hiya. >> hello. >> hello. >> is sadiq khan a man or a woman? >> yeah, that's. and you're denise, right? yeah. thank you. denise? yes, it's sadiq khan, a man or a woman. it is difficult to know. i think it depends on any given day, really. this is because the mayor of london, sadiq khan, appears to have deleted his he him pronouns from his ex bio. >> yes. weird isn't it?

>> yes. weird isn't it? >> it is weird. although they have been i don't. if you've seen the latest, they've been reinstated. i don't know if they've been reinstated yet, but he has made a comment about it saying it was a mistake. >> well, i've always assumed sadiq khan is a teenage girl. he behaves like one. he has the politics of one. i mean, i think any grown man who has pronouns in their bio should be on register. >> there we go. before and after. there we go. they just mysteriously disappeared when he realised they were rubbish. >> it is odd. i think it's odd. i think it's very performative as well. i don't think i mean, is he a serious politician? that's up for debate. it's not for me to say i know what i believe, but he's the mayor of london and i know, i know as mayor of london over the last eight years, that that that has meant purely to appeal to whatever minority group you think you're going to get the most votes from. but it's a very, very serious job. there is knife crime through the roof, all sorts of crime through the roof. people feel very unsafe in london. and the idea that he would be or anybody would be focusing on their pronouns to me is a waste of time. >> but that's what people have

done. but him taking them away, even though he's saying it's safe. i just want to read out a quick spokesman for sadiq khan said this seems to be a technical error which will put right as soon as possible. yeah, those three words happened to just be deleted. it suggests, though, that it was a fad. >> yes, yes, i think it's like anyone who's got pronouns in their bio, i'm not particularly passionate about it. i just think it just seems a bit silly. i attribute these to skinny jeans. we all went through the phase, you know, or goth era, and then you sort of grow out of it. and i think the fact that people have pointed out, oh, it's gone now. he's putting it back in now. he might have him for another year or two. so. >> well, that's it's interesting you say that. my what i think is that the people who've got pronouns, they should be forced to keep them forever. >> yes. >> yes. >> and that way, ten years from now, you'll be able to tell who's a coward and who's stupid. >> right. >> right. >> and it's just. >> and it's just. >> like a tattoo. yeah, yeah. weird. okay. yeah, i think, yeah, i think it's just it's just a fad. and i think, you

know, the more, the more we just ignore it, and it's not even bringing attention to it. maybe everyone else will just forget that it was a. >> the problem was it's a fad. but arguably it was also compelled speech at the time. yeah, because many people were forced to actually implement them. >> that's a great point. by the way, adam, all jeans are skinny jeansif way, adam, all jeans are skinny jeans if you eat enough cheese. but people were compelled and often, you know, i read i read a lot of articles associated to this story this week and people were saying within we were never compelled or told to do anything, but if you didn't, then you were in trouble. it was like you you were saying you were against. >> yeah, well, our next question is from stephen. >> good evening. would it be fair to say that the bbc is biased? >> yes. so this is a group of news watch winning permission to seek a judicial review of the broadcast regulator. ofcom's alleged refusal to investigate pro—eu bias in bbc coverage of brexit. so yeah, this is. >> yeah, i mean, going on without any evidence, of course, and purely for satire, i would say personal opinion that the

bbc, ofcom are very much in the bbc's pocket. the evidence i would anecdotally present is that they are very pro—palestine, pro—eu. ofcom know the bbc, so a station, an output that's supposed to represent the whole of the uk. yeah. >> i've got to say ofcom are not here to defend themselves. >> they're 1543 00:08:2