Per person in the country. So this these numbers today are not deserving of the victory lap that rishi sunak and jeremy hunt seem to want to go on. Rachel reeves there, speaking earlier this afternoon. Well, in other news, a psychotic ex prisoner who attacked and killed a grandfather has been handed an indefinite hospital order at the old bailey today. Thomas ohalloran was riding his mobility scooter in west london when lee byers stabbed him. The 87 year old suffered multiple stab wounds to his neck, his chest and his abdomen. Police say the motiveless attack has left his family shocked and horrified. Weve heard tonight that in northern ireland, a 37 year old man has been arrested in connection with what police have called a barbaric attack in the town of bushmills. Its after another man in his 20s was found nailed to a fence, leaving him with potentially life changing injuries. Police say the suspect has been detained under the terrorism act, and that their investigations are ongoing. Sir keir starmer says ongoing. Sir keir starmer says that flights taking migrants to rwanda would stop on day one of a Labour Government. The party a Labour Government. The party has the party leader, rather has confirmed hell scrap the scheme, calling it a gimmick. Instead, hes pledging to tackle illegal migration with a new Border Security command, which he says will include mi5 agents. Dover mp Natalie Elphicke , whos dover mp Natalie Elphicke, whos just switched from the conservatives to labour, welcomes the approach, accusing rishi sunak of failing to keep our borders secure. But the Prime Minister claims many of sir Keir Starmers proposals are already in place. Already in place. The question for keir starmer, then, is if he cares so much about that, why did he vote against the new laws that we pass to give our Law Enforcement officers new powers . Theyve now used those to arrest almost a thousand people connected with illegal migration, sentenced them to hundreds of years in prison. And if it was up to him, all those people will be out on our streets. So i just think its a rank hypocrisy of this position. Israels eurovision entry eden golan insists the song contest is safe for everyone after she faced questions following her place in tomorrows final being secured last night. Thousands of pro palestinian protests marched outside the venue in sweden. They want israel to be banned from the contest because of the war in gaza. However, before her performance, israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu criticised what he called an ugly wave of anti semitism. And ugly wave of anti semitism. And finally, before we head back to nana, a huge solar storm in space overnight means that some of us could be able to see the Northern Lights if conditions are right. Forecasts suggest people in parts of northern ireland, scotland and even further south in england and wales could catch a glimpse of the natural wonder expert say it could be the most powerful geomagnetic storm in almost two decades. Thats the latest from the newsroom. Another update at the newsroom. Another update at 10 00. Until then, you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen, or go to gb news. Common alerts. Go to gb news. Common alerts. Well, im sorry, but i have to say that watching Olly Alexander with five half naked blokes simulating sex acts in a grotty, neon lit toilet, the songis grotty, neon lit toilet, the song is called dizzy. It grotty, neon lit toilet, the song is called dizzy. It should song is called dizzy. It should have been called grotty crotch grabbing lip clipping. Ollie at one point caresses one of the dancers, hanging upside down. Judge for yourself round, round till the moment it never ends. Wake me. Wake me. Wake me. This is the United Kingdoms entry for eurovision 2024. What the hell is going on . Gone are the hell is going on . Gone are the days where eurovision was about the actual song. When brotherhood of man save all your kisses. For me, that was a tune Cliff Richard and lulu performed. Remember the late terry wogan and his legendary commentary . All of thats gone , commentary . All of thats gone, replaced by a virtue signalling political woke fest with people who hate this great country denigrating it, whilst at the same time supposedly representing it. Now last year representing it. Now last year we had may miller, who came second from last with 24 points. Thats 24 more than germany. At least they came last. She was found to have tweeted i hate this country. And as the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, during the pandemic, when he was critically ill with covid, she tweeted she didnt feel sorry for him. Why say anything at all . Ollie alexander this year called the union flag divisive. Well of course its divisive. Each flag represents a different country, so by the very nature of it being a flag, thats its job. It divides one country from another using colour. I mean, its no more divisive than the letters. What is it . Lgbt plus q plus, plus whatever, which divides everybody by a letter. Whos a gender . This performance appears to represent at least, though unlike Greta Thunberg, ollie didnt then conflate the contest with israel and refuse to perform. Although, lets be to perform. Although, lets be honest, the contest reaches a global audience of 162 million people, which is probably the real reason why theyre all getting involved. And this week, at thursdays second eurovision semi final in swedens Third Largest city, malmo, israel, singer eden golan was one of the ten entries to progress. But earlier that day there was also a demonstration in the city centre, with thousands protesting against the decision to include israel whilst its military Campaign Continues in gaza to the sea. From the river to the sea. Yeah. Palestinian yeah. Palestinian i mean, its absurd. Theyre stamping on the israeli flag. Stamping on the israeli flag. Further protests and an alternative concert billed by organisers as a song contest without genocide. A planned for saturday. Greta thunberg gave her two pennies worth. I think they should be everywhere. And once again, young people are leading the way , showing, showing the world how, how the, how, how we should react to this. React to this. And whats this got to do with Climate Change . I mean, is she bored . An activists were gathered outside the hotel where eden golan was staying. All she wants to do is sing her song. But this is what she had to deal with at a press conference yesterday. Yesterday. You ever thought that by being here, you bring risk and danger for other participants and public. You dont have to answer that question if you want. Dont want question if you want. Dont want to. Why not . If you want to, if you want to answer, okay. Please, i think were all here for one reason and one reason only. And, the ebu is taking all safety precautions , to make this safety precautions, to make this a safe and, and united place for everyone. And, so i think its safe for everyone. And we wouldnt be here for any other reason. Reason. I mean, the whole thing is so intimidatory, but because these people appear to believe they hold the moral high ground, its fine to effectively besiege a young woman in her hotel room by gathering and chanting outside it. In 2022, we finally produced a decent song, sam ryder with spaceman. This time. His spaceman. This time. His face. But we didnt win because of the war in ukraine. Before that, it was punishment for brexit, which is perhaps why we subconsciously put forward such atrocious songs. None of this though, has anything to do with music. Eurovision has become politicised and a politicised nonsense fest, and its no longer about the song. Or am i missing something . Well, lets missing something . Well, lets get the thoughts of my panel. Get the thoughts of my panel. Former bbc chief Political CorrespondentJohn Sergeant, commentator joanna joana jarjue and political commentator Alex Armstrong. Youve got to walk faster than i thought. I had faster than i thought. I had done that walk before, right . Im going to start with you, john son heung min. Lovely to talk to you, what do you think . Is it why are we so obsessed with this or politics getting involved in what is just a song contest . No, its inevitable. Once you get an audience, as you say, of 162 million across the world, you cant then suddenly complain about, oh, theyre talking about politics. Of course theyre talking about politics. This is a moment when countries get together. And if youve got a really difficult problem going on, as there is at the moment in the middle east, people are taking sides. People feel about it strongly. So you cant suddenly say, oh, we should stop all that. Lets just go on about the music. Its just impossible. Youre youre holding back whirlwind. But but its about the music, alex. Surely its not all about the music. Its a song contest. Its a song contest. No, its always been about politics. Its always been a question of which countries do you agree with . Which scandinavian countries particularly you agree with . They almost all vote together on all sorts of things. So the idea of there was a golden time when they just listened to the music. They just listened to the music. They did. They did. They, you know, theyve always listened, theyve always listened to them about brotherhood. Theyve always listened to the music. And also known exactly whos singing from which country. Theres definitely an element of politics and we cant take i mean, come on, thats the truth. We all know it is. Weve got, as you said, not to punish for brexit, punish for the wars in iraq and all those things for years and years. But, you know, there are we also do put forward some abysmal acts, and we have put forward a really good act. Sam was brilliant. Sam ryder was fantastic. But, you know, what were seeing is brats like greta who can who are just jumping on the next bandwagon to get her name up in the press to get herself on tv. Brats like, brats like brita, brats. Greta. Greta. Shes a brats. Who . But you know, they she cant. She she cant stick to one topic, can she . Shes always jumping around palestine. Plus Climate Change, you know, like like us. Why be her only brand . I know that obviously shes a leader, especially when it comes to the youth. When it comes to Climate Change. But this is also a human issue when it comes to palestine. So somebody could say to me, well, stick to marketing, you know what i mean . But im entitled as a human being to have an opinion and to go out and protest. Joanna, this is not this is they are targeting an act. This poor young girl, shes 21 years old and theyre chanting, booing her while shes singing. Its her while shes singing. Its a singing competition. First and foremost, theyre booing her. That poor young girl on stage. Oh, come on now. Shes a very accomplished young woman. She happens to be not. This is at all relevant. Rather good looking, right . Shes beautiful. Yeah shes very composed. Shes only ruined , i composed. Shes only ruined, i have to say, by netanyahu suddenly appearing to support her, which then, of course, polarise the issue to do you agree . Not just with the existence of israel, which is what shes talking about, really . Thats why shes there. Youre talking about do you agree with the israeli policy towards gaza . And that, of course, is open to enormous argument. Argument. But how is it acceptable, though, for this mass protest outside her hotel that shes staying and theyre chanting all the nonsense theyve been chanting throughout the whole i mean, how is that acceptable . I think its because of what she represents. And i dont want to condone especially, you know, im im actually i was going to say im a similar age to her, but im really not. Theres probably like a decade. Im 30, im 30 and shes like 20. Im like, yeah, were the same. Were not 20, but i think its about what she represents. Obviously its never going to be pleasant to see a huge crowd shouting things at a young girl who will probably be intimidating, intimidated. Its not going to be nice for her, but its about what she represents and its about the bigger, much more important cause of the fact that over 30,000 people have died in palestine , most of which are children. Sounds to me like youre almost condoning the fact that this poor woman is literally being harassed outside her hotel because of what she represents. Im not saying that its a song shes just singing a song. Im not saying that its okay, and i can appreciate that. You know . She would be intimidated and it would have been horrible. But also in those peoples minds, theyre thinking 30,000 people dying, loads of women and children, over half women and children, over half women and children dying compared to protecting a young girl who knew exactly what was going to happen because the conversation about this has been going on for a while and actually, while were on this topic, we have to also acknowledge about russia because obviously russia has been excluded before. Well, well, well, thats really different. Really different. And then its not different though. Its different. Its different. Its different. It is different. If anything , it is different. If anything, about the israeli song is it was changed. So they they did change the lyrics. They changed the lyrics because they thought it was too obviously political. But but you know, look, lets just talk about the russia thing for a minute because its really important. Like russia was banned because it started a war. Absolutely. And israel calling for israel to be banned for responding to terrorism is a really, really different thing. That is disingenuous, alex. Thatis that is disingenuous, alex. That is disingenuous. That is disingenuous. If this was a week, if this was a week after october seventh, and wed seen some response from israel and the whole world was saying, israel, lets exclude from eurovision, i would say, okay, youre completely right, but whats it been, 6 or 7 months or Something Like that . Its about the response. And like ive just said, over 30,000 people have died. Theyve literally just gone and, started an assault on the border of rafah, where they actually told the people. So its escalated to such level. One second. Okay so lets lets be truthful here. Okay. So there was a horrendous event on october the 7th. It was horrendous. Nobody condones that at all. Israel have responded. But lets not forget that before october the 7th hamas were firing rockets continuously through israel. And lets not forget that israel would probably look like gaza if it wasnt for the iron dome. Sure thatis wasnt for the iron dome. Sure that is perfectly true, but the awful truth is , this is just awful truth is, this is just life, that israel has lost the propaganda war. What people are looking at now, maybe they shouldnt be looking at it, maybe it should be balanced and so on. What theyre looking at is horrendous stories night after night of families being killed. That child, that child that little object. There was a child. Thats another one. Thats another one. Thats another one. Family of five wiped out. You cant sort of just ignore that and say, yes, but why . People should remember whats going on october energy. So why dont people put more energy towards actually forcing hamas to surrender . You see, theres all this energy against israel. Are they doing this . Are you saying they should start saying no . Im saying though these energy, wheres the energy . The pictures, the pictures are being broadcast. But hamas, the pictures are being broadcast. And you wonder, why dont they surrender . Why dont they surrender . These pictures are coming out. Were all watching them, but not only that, they should stop that. Ill answer you with that. With hamas. So youre saying about hamas surrendering just the other day , hamas did the other day, hamas did actually agree to a ceasefire, right . So in a sense, well, also the terms. But then obviously israel didnt. But then it was also to have an exchange when it comes to the hostages, i think, and also give all the hostages back. So for you to say that hamas are naive, and i think because what you said that theyre winning the propaganda war, its about propaganda. The reason why hamas have given a ridiculous offer, which obviously israel will not agree to it. So israel look bad , you to it. So israel look bad, you know, look, i think were losing sight of what this is all about on this eurovision stuff, which is, you know, should should there be a mob of people bullying someone whos on stage should be shouting at someone outside someones hotel room . Absolutely not. If were talking about those people representing something, what theyre representing is a mob and theyre representing a very angry mob targeting a young woman who just wants to go and sing and any other year she would have been absolutely welcomed with with open arms. And now theres a bunch of people who dont even watch eurovision protesting outside her apartment, which is making her apartment, which is making her feel unsafe. Shes getting horrible questions like that. Thats what this is all about. This topic is about who then appeared as. And she cant stop netanyahu. I know he cant. She cant stop it. But the protesters know that the moment that happens, its right. You may as well be at the un or something. But they were already there before. Before netanyahu made his also dont support the bombardment anyway. I mean, theres been lots of mass protests in israel against whats been going on, too. So she does she may represent that, but thats why netanyahu, when he comes on, everyone thinks hes fighting for his political life. Everyone knows now hes an unpopular figure in israel. He unpopular figure in israel. He doesnt represent the whole future of israel forever. He future of israel forever. He doesnt. He represents israel at the precise moment with this particular coalition inside the parliament. Thats it. Yeah, but no, but no wonder people then outside in malmo are thinking, hold on a moment. We really should talk politics. But again, this has got nothing to do with a good song. Thats my point. No, no, i think i think thats what im saying here. You know Greta Thunberg i mean she everywhere she goes, shes either arrested or causing trouble for somebody somewhere and for her to be sm