paddy, paddy, paddy, is so nice to see you in person. it's nice to see you, too.back from cheltenham racecourse. chelmsford. oh, yes, i'm sorry. also great races. the voice you are hearing is personally used to work from nigel farage until... not that long ago. december, until about then. until what happened then? i was fired. and then he became really popular. yes! forgive me, this is what happens on a newscast. we are delighted to have you with us of course. we are going to spend quite a lot of time hearing from and talking about nigel farage. his reform party at the beginning of 2025, seems to be the ones making a lot of the running. whether you like it or not. let's talk about today newscast. hello, it's paddy in the studio. and it is laura in the studio. as we have already mentioned we are here with gwain toller, who is a partial guest, he is a guest with opinion, he is not a journalist, he is here, a fellow traveller from the reform party. very much so. how long were you nigel farage�*s brain? i would not claim to be his brain but... since 2014, this is the

oh, good to be with you, paddy and laura. up something i was saying, just as we have you, just as you join us, i was saying that there is joy to get the peace deal under way but, of course, politically, there are people in israel who've resigned over the peace deal. but do we think that, can we say with certainty what the citizens of israel want? there's a reason why the first phase of this fragile, complex three phase deal is called the humanitarian phase. even vociferous critics of the deal have welcomed the return of the hostages. and the scenes that we saw last week, the scenes that were seen today — four young female israeli soldiers in the arms of their loved ones, flood of tears. and then the palestinian prisoners coming off the buses released from prison. some of them have spent... one has spent 39 years in israeli prisons. emotional scenes there, children running to see their fathers. it's bittersweet. it's bittersweet because there are palestinians who aren't seeing their loved ones come out of prisons. they're said

it's paddy in the studio. and it's henry at home.is sunday and we've had another busy morning of news. there's never not a busy weekend of news these days. it must be you, o'connell. i blame you for all the news. the phrase is newsageddon. newsageddon i like that. and you can't move for news about elon musk, donald trump. you can't move for news about these appalling fires. and on the political sofa this morning, a new government agenda to seize back some of the agency. yes. so artificial intelligence, which broadly speaking, is computers getting cleverer and cleverer and cleverer is what the government wants to be talking about for the next few days. keir starmer himself will be popping up tomorrow talking about it. so this morning the tech secretary, peter kyle, was in our studio and indeed in others, at our chums across the industry, talking about what he believes is a very, very significant opportunity for the economy and also opportunities for us because he reckons the government can be much more efficient. he reckons that all o

it's paddy in the studio. and it's henry at home.is sunday and we've had another busy morning of news. there's never not a busy weekend of news these days. it must be you, o'connell. i blame you for all the news. the phrase is newsageddon. newsageddon, i like that. and you can't move for news about elon musk, donald trump. you can't move for news about these appalling fires. and on the political sofa this morning, a new government agenda to seize back some of the agency. yes. so artificial intelligence, which broadly speaking, is computers getting cleverer and cleverer and cleverer is what the government wants to be talking about for the next few days. keir starmer himself will be popping up tomorrow talking about it. so this morning the tech secretary, peter kyle, was in our studio and indeed in others, at our chums across the industry, talking about what he believes is a very, very significant opportunity for the economy and also opportunities for us because he reckons the government can be much more efficient. he reckons that all

paddy, paddy, paddy, is so nice to see you in person. it's nice to see you, too.ice you are hearing is personally used to work from nigel farage until... not that long ago. december, until about then. until what happened then? i was fired. and then he became really popular. yes! forgive me, this is what happens on a newscast.

paddy said, "well, do you want to talk to her?"er on normal people. she'd basically sexed up the whole family, you know. she did the lot of us. we're almost out of time, butjust on a semi—serious note about the same thing. do you think values have changed, both in terms of the way the industry now portrays sex and violence? i just wonder whether you see changing values. yeah. yeah, i do. but whose values are they? i mean, i'm not going to be here to say the values of people should be, or whatever they are. the telling of stories can be done in many ways. it can be blunt, it can be brutal, it can be subtle, it can be — you can hint at it, it can be imaginative. itjust depends on the tellers of those stories, and the idea of breaking down barriers and pushing more sex, more violence doesn't particularly appeal to me, because either — well, how does it progress the story or how does it shine light on? of course it's part of life, and, yes, it should be shown, but it's the kind of pushing it towards the element, which is again about se

paddy, paddy, paddy, is so nice to see you in person. it's nice to see you, too.

newnight is on bbc two shortly, and paddy 0'connell can tell us what's coming up. paddy?d half the county council elections in england could be delayed, nigel farage tells us they should go ahead. an international bowls tournament begins today in norfolk but has become an unlikely source of controversy. last week, organisers barred israel's three athletes from attending, citing challenges caused by pro—palestinian protests. but in the face of significant criticism, there was a sudden u—turn. 0ur sports news correspondent, laura scott, reports. the bowls world championships on the coast of norfolk. far from the peaceful images that might conjure up, the build—up has been dominated by geopolitics, protests and accusations of anti—semitism. it's a very difficult situation. at the end of the day, it's a sporting event and everybody here is here to play sport. any decision for world championships and any sport isn't taken easily. and sometimes, when you look at further information, you get further advice. decisions can change. that's just the world we live in at the moment, bu

and it's paddy in the studio., and we are talking about china for a good, serious reason, because rachel reeves is off on her travels, trying to, you know, warm up the connections in order to do business with china, which is, you know, a massive mega economy that she believes very strongly the uk cannot ignore. it's the world's second biggest economy and the uk's fourth largest single trading partner. but she goes there at a pretty sticky time when her political opponents are saying she shouldn't have gone at all. yes, she says, "not engaging with china "is no choice at all." she's written her own article in the papers today, which i've read, and here is rachel reeves explaining why she's there and talking about the recent turbulence on uk financial markets. there's undoubtedly been moves in global financial markets over the last few days. i'm not going to provide a running commentary on that, but what i would say is that the fiscal rules that i set out in my budget in october are non—negotiable. and growth is the

and in 100 rice paddies and jungles of a place called vietnam, under one such marker lies a young man, martin, trapped down, who left his job in a small town barber shop in 1917 to go to france with the famed rainbow division there on the western front. he was killed trying to carry a message between battalions under heavy artillery fire. we're told that on his body was found a diary on the flyleaf under the heading. my pledge. he had written these words. america must win this war. therefore, i will work. i will save. i will sacrifice. i will endure. i will fight cheerfully and do my utmost as if the issue of the whole struggle depended on me alone. the crisis we are facing today does not require of us the kind of sacrifice that martin tracked down. so many thousands of others were called upon to make. it does, however, our best effort and our willingness to believe in ourselves and to believe in our capacity to perform great deeds, to believe that together with god's help, we can and will resolve the problems which now confront us. and after all, why shouldn't we believe that we are

and in 100 rice paddies and jungles of a place called vietnam, under one such marker lies a young man, martin, trapped down, who left his job in a small town barber shop in 1917 to go to france with the famed rainbow division there on the western front. he was killed trying to carry a message between battalions under heavy artillery fire. we're told that on his body was found a diary on the flyleaf under the heading. my pledge. he had written these words. america must win this war. therefore, i will work. i will save. i will sacrifice. i will endure. i will fight cheerfully and do my utmost as if the issue of the whole struggle depended on me alone. the crisis we are facing today does not require of us the kind of sacrifice that martin tracked down. so many thousands of others were called upon to make. it does, however, our best effort and our willingness to believe in ourselves and to believe in our capacity to perform great deeds, to believe that together with god's help, we can and will resolve the problems which now confront us. and after all, why shouldn't we believe that we are

yes, solomon thailand has turned a rice paddy into a detailed artwork. take a look at this, the jiggling in tongue right to picks a lucky cat on the shoulders. the dragon. the chinese zodiac. animal of 2024. the office use all the official intelligence to plot gps coordinates, been planned to different colored varieties of rice to create the image. like when people hope it will bring good 14 to the region that is prone to flooding language that day when i will go to the inspiration comes from this year, being the years a dragon. so we wanted to use the drag and figure as a symbol along side the cost, which is trying rise mascot. we have faced the flooding crisis. so we designed the tracking to carry away all the negativity, hoping this crisis will soon pilot no mail. no, i guess that's it from the inside of the news containers here, off the page has to stay with the elated by those in power. and selection is unique and we've seen anything like that before. no pressure. they were instrumental in helping the president when the election, driven by self inte

and paddy 0'connell will have more on the southport attack on newsnight on bbc two shortly.will speak live to the local priest who knows the family is well. also in other news, it is rachel reeves on the cusp of changing her plans? she has made a tweak tonight. live debate on newsnight from half past ten on bbc two and on iplayer and bbc news. thank you. the rest of the tonight's news. the met office has issued a rare red weather alert for northern ireland and the central belt of scotland, for storm eye—owyn tomorrow. as you can see it's a giant storm — affected areas could see gusts of 100mph and there is a danger to life. an amber warning is in place for the rest of scotland, northern england and north wales and yellow weather warnings will cover the rest of the uk — with heavy rain forecast overnight for wales and the south west. in a moment we'll talk to our scotland correspondent, lorna gordon, but first to our ireland correspondent chris page who's on the atlantic coast at westport. chris, schools are closed tomorrow. yes, that's right. it is here on the west coast of

paddy phillips says that when it broke out as she tried to evacuate. and along with her dog koda from malibu. but her car got stuck a large rock while trying to get out. captain malcolm, scott, the 9-1-1 call erased to her car through the thick smoke and flames and found the just in time. >> and malcolm didn't hesitate. he drove fire. he drove past downed power lines and they found me by the grace of god. and i saw those 2 flights. and i'm like. please save me. >> it's like got yeah. >> seeing so much destruction and search and rescue for the past 10 days. it's just it's a good >> yeah, what would we do without our first responders? this fire captain, the was awarded by the department for his bravery and his hair what? pretty remarkable. so many instances of heroic actions over the past couple weeks as we come back here to the bay. take a live look there at coit tower. so, lawrence, and that, you know, we have a good news, bad news situation down there. yeah, i think getting a handle on some of the fires. the winds may be dying down is dying down. now

well, it's not the end of the traditional chinese here. farmer and thailand has turned a rice paddy into a detailed out what the cheer, griffin, chuck were i to pick. so lucky cats on the shoulder of a dry good. the chinese zodiac kind of will of 2024. they'll just use artificial intelligence to pro gps coordinates and then planted different colored varieties of rice to create the image. and that's it for me and the clock planning more, of course. and the website out 0 dot com is the address we got more news coming up in run. but how from now right off to the listing price. i'll see you then by the the blood foot disease is a maintenance for the african coker farm. i had a concern for couldn't see much around the world. the international organizations reported a 14.2 percent dropped for the 20232024 season, resulting in the lowest cool august. intrinsic to years. producers here say climate change is making things worse. also result from us over describing with high cost of front lasers and pesticides, a moving truck across like rubbing so cool. i know the say high production costs and pr

yeah. fallen thailand has tons a rice paddy into a detailed oswick that you bliss in tongue ride the picks a lucky cat on the shoulder of a dragon, which is the chinese zodiac animal of 2024. also said he used all the visual intelligence to float gps coordinates and plants of different colored varieties of rice to create the image. local people say they hope it will bring good fortune to the region. that is crime if nothing like hey, that's it for me by the inside, whether it's next and inside story, we'll look at the risk of further escalation between as well. and given the, the hello they, let's look to east asian. it's relatively quiet, certainly from much of china when it comes to the weather. we'll see things kind of little bit cooler across the north, but temperatures are set to pick up for cities like shanghai, home, call, and type pay over the next few days. it will get cold, however, across the korean peninsula with more winter weather coming into japan, that's off to an area of low pressure, pulls out for the east there, all those snow showers for her kind of coming down in

so they're marched off to the paddy wagons. and john lewis says, you know, his mother had always warned him, you know, stay out of trouble. you know we heard that late in life slogan these say good trouble again good trouble. but he didn't feel fearful. he felt exhilarated. they were they felt this. this is exactly the path that history is now unfolding on. and by by going off to jail where they were singing freedom's. they were changing the tides of history. and sure enough, nashville becomes really of all these little college towns and little movements. in the spring of 1960, kind of the most prominent the biggest, the most successful exercise in desegregation. that's spring. and the national group kind of gets looked to as the leadership of what then becomes known as snick the student nonviolent coordinating committee. now, talk a little bit about snick. at the time there was controversy over their activities. there were others who wanted to be a part it. there were some diversity as a part of that unit. but he becomes the l

the only thing we know is that the crew from paddy's pub is doing some sort of volunteer work at theer the whole family for abbott tonight. just don't bring the kids for sunny when their episode airs this season on fx. >> no no no. if your kids are over the age of 16, i would say you're good. okay. yeah. otherwise, they should watch abbott. >> alicia vitarelli, abc seven news. >> and the big crossover event is tonight at 830, right here on abc seven. that'll do it for abc seven news at 4 p.m. i'm julian glover, abc seven news at five is up next. get out of the house. where are the car keys?

in new york, a migrant with ties to isis was cuffed and stuffed in a paddy wagon.en was just letting the guy hang out. members of ms13 some wanted for homicide were scooped up in boston. homan says it was a good day, and they're just getting started. >> i want to go back to those military flights going south. as you said, we have never seen that before. is that going to be a constant commitment from the us military? every single day to take deportees out? yes. so after you do that, then you go after everybody who is there illegally. >> if you're in the country illegally, you're on the table. >> trump wants the removals to go faster. pushing homan to hit quotas 1500 a day. almost the end of the month. you got to hit your numbers. tommy homan says he's planning on making the president a lot happier. haitians in springfield are hunkering down, waiting for homan to drop the hammer. there's nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. >> what criminals are hiding in schools, middle schools, elementary schools. you're going to go into those? >> how many ms. 13 members are aged 14

>> yeah, i go get the paddy wagon because that's what it's going to take. now they are threatening to pull cnn's spot from the credential, you know, from times square. it's like for next year. this is i mean, this is some great. >> a b.s., honestly. >> well, because andy cohen like the activist that he is, he he made a stand and he changed the law. i did umbrellas are now allowed on the riser. so if it pours with rain, we will be allowed to have umbrellas. so i just want to say thank you. >> you're welcome. i appreciate it and you're welcome. and all of you are welcome. >> telemundo obligated. over here. andy and his contract. >> i praise him for that. somehow seacrest always got an umbrella. but that never have an umbrella. >> oh, god. don't start it. no, don't start it again. everything. every time he starts it. >> for now. for now anyway, listen, um, i have to say, we were talking about anderson and i were looking back on the year. >> i do want to do my highlight of the year. >> besides all the stuff i did with my kids, which i'm not going to bore you wi

i won this contest with the paddy power prostate cancer uk, westminster darts championship just about eight weeks ago, but more of that later. been great fun to try and get involved with that. as the labour party refuses to launch an inquiry into the scourge of grooming gangs that have plagued this country for decades, are they failing the very same women and girls they promised to protect? in just one moment, i'll be speaking to the shadow home secretary and asking why the tory government didn't establish their own public inquiry when they had a chance, and campaigning to raise funds for a memorial to the royal navy's role in ending the slave trade. or having trouble finding a landowner to site the memorial. and sir keir starmer faces a difficult new year after 20 of his local councillors quit, saying the prime minister has abandoned labour values. are we speaking exclusively to the leader of that group of the rebels on this programme shortly? all of that to come. but first the news with samuel francis. >> chris, thank you very much indeed. good evening to you. just coming up to 7:02

conservative mp and former lord chancellor, and joe phillips, journalist and former press secretary to paddyshdown. madeleine, let's start with you. i you know, i've just gone through the list there, medium and long term interest rates rising, inflation going up, the pound going down, growth dead. and we've got some more figures coming out tomorrow haven't we. >> yes. there will be more inflation figures covering november coming out tomorrow. but it's clear that the market is expecting those to be less positive than we've seen in the inflation figures recently. everyone will remember, of course, that after liz truss's mini—budget, whether or not you believe that it was caused by the mini—budget, inflation rates jumped very high, causing a lot of mortgage pain for people. it's not looking like it's going to jump that high again, but we are expecting a little uptick. >> why do you say that? it's not very far away is it. it's i mean it's more of a slow motion thing than it was. >> yeah. it's definitely not a pretty picture at the moment. and there'll be a lot of concern in the markets that rach

and also the journalist and the former press secretary to paddy ashdown, the wonderful joe phillips. all of you to the studio. kevin, let's start with you. we've heard all this before. successive governments promised the grass and nettle. they haven't. it's been a failure. and once again, we have murders on our streets. and now having an inquiry. what will the inquiry tell us? we don't know. the entire thing is a disgrace. children are dead. and it seems to me nobody is taking any responsibility. >> well, the first thing an inquiry will need to ask is the points that will be jumping out of the page to any viewers at home this evening. you know, this man was referred to prevent a number of times, three times violent incidents at school. he downloaded an al—qaeda training manual and book. you know, this is clearly someone who was building up to a serious violent incident and then went on to commit an absolutely horrific crime and murders. and i don't think getting into the argument, i think it's been quite odd that it's been argued about whether it's been argued about whether it's he's

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paddy ashdown's former press secretary.tunately missed out. >> must have got lost in the post. got lost? absolutely. well, two of our regular panellists and i know ones with very, very strong views on this area. joe, you are not a fan of elon musk, are you? an understatement. >> no, i think he's absolutely the embodiment of evil. evil? >> yes, that's a very strong word. >> i think he is evil, and i think bringing back free speech is evil. he's bringing back free speech. you can say, but i am, and i am in favour of free speech, but not when it is making threats against people, when it is inciting people. i mean, we just heard the clip there of jess phillips, government minister, who he said should be in prison. he called her a witch. he called her an apologist for rape, genocide. now this is a man who is going to be a part of trump's administration. so a de facto minister, if you like, in the new trump government, talking about a minister of the crown new

paddy, you are distinguished... a distinguished businessjournalist!ncellor wants having to revisit the budget but all chancellors, whatever their political views, know the immortal words ofjohn maynard keynes, which is when the facts change, i change my mind. well, the facts have changed on non—doms, which is that 10,000 millionaires have left the uk in 2024, a 157% increase. as you were saying, rachel reeves announced today she would be amending her plans to abolish non—dom status. tweak, not a reversal. two other things happened around the budget over the last 24 hours. the office for budget responsibility talked about that plan in the budget to introduce inheritance tax on farms, how it is unlikely to reach a steady state for at least... not likely to have a steady state for at least 20 years. the other thing that happened todayis years. the other thing that happened today is that rachel reeves said when she makes a statement to parliament, the spring statement in march, off the back of the second fiscal forecast from the office for budget responsi