me on my panel tonight are professor carwynjones, former first minister of wales and leader of welsh labour — and frank sesno, former cnn correspondent, anchor, and washington bureau chief. first... the latest headlines. the deputy head of hamas has said the armed group will only be strengthened after the killing of its leader, yahya sinwar, by israel. khalil al—hayya said the hostages still held by hamas in gaza wouldn't be freed until israel ended its offensive and withdrew. simon cowell has paid tribute to one direction star liam payne, saying he is heartbroken. the singer's death died on wednesday when he fell from the balcony of the third—floor hotel room where he had been staying in buenos aires, argentina. president biden has said there's no consensus among some of ukraine's main allies about allowing kyiv to use western weapons to attack targets deep inside russia. he was speaking after talks in berlin with the leaders of germany, britain and france. south korea's spy agency has revealed satellite pictures which it says confirm that north korea soldiers have been sent to support rus

professor carwyn jones former first minister of wales and leader of welsh labour. sesno former cnn correspondent, anchor, and washington bureau chief. do you think the new labour government are right to be going for this in relations with china? i going for this in relations with china?— going for this in relations with china? ~ �*, ., with china? i think it's always with china? i think it's always with making _ with china? i think it's always with making an _ with china? i think it's always with making an approach - with china? i think it's always with making an approach to l with china? i think it's always l with making an approach to the government. it doesn't have to be an enemy. of course, will have disagreements with some aspects of chinese government policy but i do think it is important that countries find a way to get along with china, china produces so many things that the world wants and my argument at the moment is one of the problems of china has in terms of its economy not quite moving as it should is because there's so much turmoil in europe because

i mean, if you live in a place, well, the welsh labour government is even worse if possible, than theand suddenly every summer that you've got piles of tourists coming in bringing money to your area. >> if it was german camper vans irritating and they are using up local facilities you've paid for through your council tax and they should contribute something. well, i do think if you followed a german campervan down a narrow cornish road for 2.5 hours, i believe taxing them would be the minimum we should be doing to particularly foreign camper vans. >> that's not a bad idea . maybe >> that's not a bad idea. maybe if you come over here with your foreign campervan, you will. we'll tax you, but not tax the foreigners, not the people who live here. yeah. >> surprised you don't want an exocet missile? if you have that trouble in cornwall, i wouldn't mind that as well, trouble in cornwall, i wouldn't mind that as well , actually, mind that as well, actually, >> right. what about, we just heard andrew pearce's opinion on this. whether kemi badenoch sees herself as margaret thatcher. mark two,

you know, i have regular conversations with him about the failings that welsh labour are doing and i ward. just, you know, what labour have done to wales here after 25 years in power, james, at the start of this campaign, robert jenrick said he wanted to retire nigel farage. >> he wanted to make reform redundant. the big question is, has robert jenrick started to wear the clothes of nigel farage? talk like nigel farage, act like nigel nigel farage to try and see reform off. but i put it to you again when he was the immigration minister, when the immigration minister, when the tory party were in power, you talked tough and all of those things then and didn't deliver. what's going to be different this time around ? different this time around? >> robert jenrick is robert jenrick. he is not nigel farage. i don't think anybody could be nigel farage, but robert's record in the home office speaks for itself. he got immigration down. robert wanted to be tougher on immigration. on leaving the echr the current, the cabinet that was there at the cabinet that was there at the time didn't want to

if they were to do this, because what you've got to consider is that in wales, which the welsh labourescriptions for everybody. so regardless of your age, if you're 20, 30, 40 you get free prescriptions in wales, whereas obviously in england only certain groups are exempt. so if the labour party were to go down a road of, say, withdrawing some free prescriptions in england , free prescriptions in england, there'll be a clamour to say, well, hang on now, how come people are having to get them free in wales but not in england? i think that's going to be the big tension for any labour politician to do any tinkering of the prescription services in england . services in england. >> ron fair, come to think of it, that if you happen to be in england, you have to pay for your prescriptions , but if your prescriptions, but if you're in wales, scotland or northern ireland, you get them for free free for life. >> i think that's part of the choice is obviously what devolution allows you to do. you can. people in wales would argue that free prescriptions is a bad thing to some people, because they

into the welsh nhs, where there are record waiting lists for treatment, some patients waiting for more than two years. what today didn't bring was an end to the row over rail and the money labouro extra money because of hs2. there was a pledge on another long—standing issue — £25 million to maintain old coal tips, an effort to clean up the legacy of wales' industrial past. the power—sharing devolved government in northern ireland is now looking relatively stable after being absent for five out of the last seven years. the chancellor has told ministers here at stormont that next year they'll get an additional £1.5 billion to spend and that will bring the total funding package to the highest ever level in real terms. local political leaders have said it will take some time to work through the details of what that means for running public services. the westminster government is also giving more money to the police service of northern lreland~ — there will be an extra £7 million for the fund, which helps it to tackle national security threats, including from dissident republican paramilitaries who are opposed to the peace process. and there's been a wide welcome for an announcemen

for you carol vorderman may be regretting her endless lauding of the labour party after she's been forced to sell her £450,000 welshtax. despite professing her love for the party in the labour run council less than three years ago, increases in annual bills on the property from £1,700 to 5000 have forced her to throw in the towel on that forever home. so there we go. it's a shame, isn't it? and you hate to see it. gosh if that isn't the consequences of your own actions, right ? it's of your own actions, right? it's time to reveal today's greatest briton and union jackass >> greatest britain for me. honorary lev kreitman, i believe, is how you pronounce his name. he was a he's a flip flop wearing survivor of the october 7th attacks by hamas. you might have thought he'd still have ptsd. no, none of it at all. on tuesday night, as a reservist, he leapt to the aid of the idf, shot at the gunmen who were carrying out a terrorist attack. and from what we can work out, managed to kill one of them. what an absolute chad. one of them. what an absolute chad . total legend. chad. total legend. >> well, in lviv. all right. >>

labour peers. >> there is only one of them. now you're gonna have to dole them out this week. >> i was in cardigan in deepest west wales, right on the welshf question time. it was brilliant. and i'll tell you now, not one person really gave a about this freebie game. they care about badger culling. they care about badger culling. they care about badger culling. they care about the state of their high street. they care about a whole range of issues that are being ignored because the right wing press and we're doing this right now, are focusing on this non—issue. right. >> it's like the daily mirror, like the guardian, you know, all these right wing tomes. yeah. >> do you think nigel farage would have got away with this on this? >> because richard says starmer took boris to task for accepting a loan from a conservative peer. it was lord brownlow. yeah. a 200 zero zero £0 renovation, a hypocrite, a hypocrite. i would rather have covid ten covid historic building renovated than keir starmer's savile row garb. >> 1717 party treasurers of the tory party being elevated to the house of lords. we are, we are talking about. this is a different scal

welsh people are criminals. >> i guess the deeper argument is these people should be that that people are saying these are foreign nationals in our prisons. they should be deported, which is what the labours we should do as well. i mean, it's not that's a that's a different conversation , but to me that's conversation, but to me that's a different conversation because i don't have a problem with that. >> i don't feel that we should be letting in criminals. i feel that if someone comes here and commits a crime, that they should be sent back from whence they came. and i think that we should check very carefully when people come in as to what their backgrounds are. so i have no problem at all with that. it's lists classifying nationality just just one more question. >> are you not concerned that nearly 30% of foreign nationals are committing more crime than brits? what do you make of that? >> there used to be a saying that i don't remember completely, but about, you know , completely, but about, you know, statistics, lies, lies, statistics, lies, lies, statistics , numbers, whatever. statistics, numbers, whatever. i don't trust most statistics . and don't trust most statistics. and i'm actu

it's a terrible indictment of 20 years of welsh labour government.'m afraid i don't know anybody here, but kids are your most important thing . yes, and important thing. yes, and they're never going to get it back. >> right? gbnews.com/yoursay, as always, to talk to us first at the very latest news with sam francis . francis. >> bev and andrew. thank you very much. good morning to you. it's just coming up to 9:33. and the top story this morning. well, inflation has dropped below the 2% target for the first time in over three years. figures for september show it fell to 1.7%, the lowest since april 2021. analysts had expected a smaller fall to 1.9%, and are now warning inflation could rise again, with higher energy costs on the horizon . the ons says on the horizon. the ons says lower petrol prices and cheaper airfares drove that drop. however, food inflation picked up again, with prices for milk for cheese and eggs rising faster. in august . treasury faster. in august. treasury chief darren jones says it is still good news for british families and ad

joins me later in the show, but first i'll speak to a welsh councillor who's already defected to the party overnight and a furious backlash at labour mps for accusing the media of using racist gang tropes to portray feared gun gangster chris kaba as politicians who backed him are now being urged to apologise . now being urged to apologise. chris kaba and this year's royal british legion poppy appeal officially launches today. i'm wearing my poppy , but do young wearing my poppy, but do young people take pride in wearing them? cast your vote now on gbnews.com/win poll . thanks for gbnews.com/win poll. thanks for your company. this afternoon. it's been a beautiful day in the south east. let me know how the weather's been where you are. the sun has been glorious. not too warm, but i'll tell you what. at this time of year, i don't really care. as long as the sun is out and it's on my skin, i'm happy. a really big three hours coming up. we've got miriam cates joining me live on this mermaids trans charity story. we've got peter bleksley in about the chris kaba developing story, and indeed richard tice of reform uk. and i want to hear fr