on the show tonight. the fallout continues with the bbc documentary scandal. the police apologised to a female football fan after interrogating her for a gender critical views. and is free speech a virus? i'll be joined by a very special guest who is returning to the show. and of course we have two wonderful comedians answering some crazy culture war questions from a live studio audience. but first, the news with aaron armstrong. >> hi there it is. 7:00 on the button. let's get you up to date button. let�*s get you up to date with the latest headlines. sir keir starmer says the world stands at a crossroads in histow, and a coalition of history, and a coalition of european allies will defend any peace deal for ukraine. he was speaking after hosting a defence summit in central london attended by european leaders, plus canada's justin trudeau, the head of nato, and the turkish foreign minister. sir keir starmer says the uk, france and others have agreed a four step plan in which europe will do the heavy lifting, but

backing from the united states will be needed. well, ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy, one of the first to arrive at the summit. it is just two days since his explosive oval office exchange with donald trump, which the prime minister said made him feel uncomfortable. and sir keir starmer has described this as a once in a generation moment, and says a so—called coalition of the willing will help defend ukraine and guarantee peace in the country. >> we�*ve agreed that the uk, france and others will work with ukraine on a plan to stop the fighting. then we'll discuss that plan with the united states and take it forward together. the purpose of today�*s meeting was to unite our partners around this effort to strengthen ukraine and to support a just and enduring peace for the good of all of us.

>> now, thousands of protesters held a rally in support of ukraine outside downing street earlier. people carried placards that said war is not over in ukraine. world wake up and russian captivity kills. meanwhile, volodymyr zelenskyy has been meeting king charles at sandringham. he was dressed in his normal attire, not in a suit. the pair chatted briefly and posed for photographs before heading inside. we�*ll show you some of those photographs a little bit later. now he flew there by helicopter to that estate in norfolk after attending the summit in london, and has left the same way. that�*s volodymyr zelenskyy leaving sandringham. now. woman has been arrested on suspicion of arson after a four year old girl died in a house fire in manchester. the girl was pulled from the blaze in the home area of the city, but died of her injuries in hospital. police say the 4a injuries in hospital. police say the 44 year old woman was known to the girl. train fares are going up as indeed is the

pressure on commuters battling record cancellations. the cost of many journeys in england and wales will rise by about lr.6% wales will rise by about 4.6% today. campaigners warn it will pile further misery on hard pressed household budgets. railcards have also become more expensive. that's the first time in more than a decade. and pope francis remains in a stable condition after suffering a breathing crisis over the weekend. but he is continuing to battle double pneumonia in hospital. and the vatican has just released a statement in the last half an hour or so, which says he's not required mechanical ventilation, as he did a couple of days ago, but he has had the use of high flow oxygen. the vatican statement says his prognosis remains guarded due to the complexity of the clinical picture. he was admitted to hospital at 17 days ago with a severe respiratory infection that led to further complications. and those are the latest headlines. i'll be back with more in about an hour. for

the very latest gb news, direct your smartphone. sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com/yoursay. >> james matthewson james matthewson. >> hello! welcome to free speech naflon >> hello! welcome to free speech nation with me josh howie. this nation with mejosh howie. this is a show where we take a look across the spectrum of culture, current affairs and politics, trying our very best to reintroduce something our ancestors called common sense. coming up on the show tonight, an iranian woman was shouted down at king's college london down at king�*s college london for telling the truth about iran and daring to speak to a jew. a gender critical feminists have received an apology from the police. i'll be discussing this with harry miller from police. i'll be discussing this with harry millerfrom fair cop, with harry miller from fair cop, and i'll be joined by an old ffiend and i'll be joined by an old friend to discuss whether free speechis friend to discuss whether free speech is a virus. and of course, myself and my fantastic panel will be answering questions from our wonderful studio audience. we'll have those in the next section, but right now we�*re going to go

right now we're going to go straight into things with a story that's dominated the headlines for the last week. bbc bosses were forced to apologise and withdraw a gaza documentary from iplayer after being accused of pro—hamas bias. the broadcaster spent 40 sorry, £400,000 of taxpayers money making the show, in which the main narrator was revealed to be the son of a senior hamas official. a full audit is now underway to determine whether hamas received any funds directly. joining me now to talk about the latest developments is journalist and broadcaster jonathan sacerdoti. hello. hi. good to be with you. jonathan, the story was big last week. we actually already covered it with david collyer, who was the first person to uncover this connection. but then you actually uncovered some more nefarious goings on behind the scenes in the documentary. right. >> that's right. david uncovered very, very quickly in a matter of hours after broadcast the

issue of the child being the son of a senior hamas figure. and then as i was watching the documentary myself, i also spotted something a bit irregular, which is what i will call non—sequential editing. just to explain what that means. it's definitely a no no. in news and current affairs, they announced one sequence with a caption across the whole screen that it was day, whatever it was of the war, and they then showed a sequence which the voiceover, the child voiceover, said was the child voiceover, said was the aftermath of an airstrike and ambulances going to the hospital. and there was a 10 or 11 year old child who was a volunteer paramedic. i know, sounds ridiculous. that�*s because it is ridiculous. that child during this whole sequence had three different hair lengths and four different pairs of shoesin and four different pairs of shoes in a sequence that was meant to have taken place in one day, probably even less than one day. and during that sequence, he also went from being an assistant paramedic, rushing bodies into a hospital, a ten year old and to becoming a journalist assistant in the evening. and then, of course, the cleaner of the ambulances. now, to anyone watching that,

firstly, it's obviously dodgy editing because it shows something that didn't happen in an order that they presented it in, but it also hints that the whole thing could well have been staged, and that this child could be part of a phenomenon that's known as pallywood, where palestinian propagandists often use children in quite an abusive way, presenting them for credulous western audiences who are sympathetic to the plight of children naturally, and they present them as having to do these extraordinary jobs, like being a paramedic or a journalist. and the fact that it seems completely unbelievable doesn't seem to bother them when they're putting it all together and feeding it out as part of their dodgy palestinian propaganda documentary. >> yeah, because we've seen >> yeah, because we�*ve seen these very same child actors appearing in other news broadcasts from other channels. channel 4 news has used them. and then there was also this thing about where the subtitles, they turned out that and this has been a previous issue with the bbc, isn't it, where they would substitute jew or you

yahud yahud, which literally means jew, but they would substitute israeli. so that�*s substitute israeli. so that's been going on in documentaries and news reports before. but one of the worst things is when they sort of talk about a jihad against jews, and they changed againstjews, and they changed it to a jihad against israeli forces, not. >> even a jihad. theyjust said battle with israeli forces. so again, i would say that in that situation, yes, it is something they�*ve done before, but then so they've done before, but then so is denying that hamas is a terrorist organisation. they've been doing that. probably the most vocal international news organisation doing that for the last 16 or 17 months. when it comes to the translations, you can't just change what words mean because you wish the palestinians didn't want to kill jews in a holy war. i appreciate that might be how many in the bbc feel, but that is what einat wilf, the israeli commentator, calls west splaining. it's like saying, well, yes, they said they want to kill saying, well, yes, they said they