watch out, mehmet, as well as my panel as well journalist and broadcaster linda jubilee and speaker andal commentator adrian hayes. thank you very much indeed. and a happy new year's eve to you all. alp hard to know where to start, but would you agree with what tony smith had to say there? that there are some things that might help a little bit that labour want to do, but fundamentally there isn't a deterrent there? >> absolutely. i am tony smith and i have been actually saying this for quite singing from the same hymn sheet. we were immigration officers together 50 years ago, and there's not very much difference. >> not 50 years ago. >> not 50 years ago. >> absolutely. and i'm older than him. that that aside, look, there's as much chance of keir starmer yvette cooper smashing the gangs as there is of keir starmer walking barefoot across the channel. it just isn't going to happen. and the problem is that they there they were during the election campaign, you know, pretending to be coming in as batman and robin and it turns out that they're little more than laurel and hardy. they are jus

joining me this evening is journalist and comms adviser linda jubilee.and writer peter lloyd. author and academic doctor lisa mckenzie. lisa, look, surely with all this investment flooding into america, we should be tying our boat to them, not the eu. >> well, i mean, personally, i think we should be. we should be friendly with both. you know, there's no you know, i think this was the misnomer about brexit that somehow when we left the eu, we were not friends with the eu, we were not friends with the with the europeans anymore. and, you know, we didn't want a relationship that wasn't true. that's not actually what we voted for, what we voted for to leave europe was so we could have more self—determination, not because we disliked europeans. and i think what has been built around brexit is somehow some animosity. and i think some of that has come from macron, from merkel at the time. and actually the british people have never had any animosity towards europeans. no, it's just the european union, right? yes. that's right. i mean, i. >> but would you not sa

we've got journalist linda jubilee and ex—labour party adviser matthew laza.h, and can you please tell me what you think is going on here? >> oh, look .atthat. hold it up, >> oh, look .at that. hold it up, jace. hold it up. >> okay. get ready. britain. here we go. labour won't do anything about grooming gangs because they are scared of muslims. next. >> very good evening to you from the newsroom just after 9:00. the top story tonight. the fbi now believes the man behind the deadly new year's day terror attack in new orleans did act alone. shamsuddin jabar, an army veteran, killed 14 people and injured dozens more after driving his pickup truck into crowds. the 42 year old, who was shot and killed by police, had posted online before the attack, pledging allegiance to the islamic state group. the fbi says it's now reviewing hundreds of hours of surveillance footage and over 400 public tip offs. the identities of the victims, including a former princeton football star and an aspiring nurse, are still being confirmed tonight. elon musk has ramped up his attacks on

we've also got journalist linda jubilee and former labour party adviser matthew laza as well. look, sean, i want to start with you on this. in the next hour, i'm going to be asking you a little bit more about whether there might be some kind of cultural issue when it comes to some of these grooming gangs. let's focus on the actual inquiry aspect of it. do you think we should have a national inquiry into it? >> jess phillips said it herself in a statement. you played she talked about it's happening in every part of our country. so the idea that she can say it's the idea that she can say it's the council's job and she's probably passing the buck. and when she spoke about it, she used it as a political football. she used it to undermine rishi sunak. fine. but then in order for that to be an authentic statement, she now needs to step up and do it. and what's interesting is she is the minister. it would be very easy for her to say yes. i think she's done something very silly here because i have to believe that she wants to sort these things out. she could have put this well beyond

. >> joining me this evening is journalist and communications advisor linda jubilee, former labour advisor paul richards and the commentator and broadcaster paula london. very good evening to you. hope you're well. a big two hours coming up, including a deep dive into tomorrow's newspapers and all the breaking stories for the entire 10:00 hour. first, though, your news headlines with aaron armstrong. >> hi, there. it's a minute past nine. i'm aaron armstrong with your latest headlines. thousands of displaced palestinians have been prevented from returning home to the northern part of gaza after israel accused hamas of breaching the terms of the ceasefire deal. now it comes after four female israeli soldiers were released by hamas earlier and reunited with their families. naama levy, karina ariev, daniella gilboa and liri albag saw their loved ones again after being held captive for 15 months. it is the second release of hostages to take place since the ceasefire deal was agreed last sunday, although 90 hostages are still being held in gaza. now. in return, israel released around 200 palest