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New: The Saturday Five Extra
Saturday 5 September 2026 · 20:00 BST · 1h · 5 stories · 15 annotated moments · 33 of 60 min on news stories (56%)
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The programme opened with news that two of President Trump's aides, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, met Vladimir Putin in Moscow in a renewed effort to end the war in Ukraine, with talks expected with Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv the next day. Other headlines included masked demonstrators blocking roads at the port of Dover in protest against small boats, Nigel Farage saying he expects more investigations into Reform UK's finances, Jaguar Land Rover announcing thousands of job cuts to save £1.7bn, Argentina launching sanctions over oil exploration around the Falklands, and the UN voting to replace the traditional Mercator world map with one that more accurately reflects the size of continents, with the US as the only opposing nation.
The panel then debated whether Britain has lost control of its borders, with arguments over immigration numbers, asylum processing, infrastructure capacity, and the concept of "re-migration," while referencing the Dover protests and a recent small boats pact announced by Nigel Farage. Later segments included a high five about a Guardian article on net-zero critics, a story about a 13-year-old boy preparing to swim the English Channel as part of a charity relay, and a discussion of the Lindsay Clancy mistrial in the US, where a jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict over the killing of her three children, with debate about postpartum psychosis and legal responsibility. Additional items included statistics from the Notting Hill Carnival with arrests and incidents, and a new Alzheimer's drug trial that was presented as promising, though one panelist expressed skepticism.
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Claim Anti-migrant protests in Portsmouth and Dover over small boat crossings
The government condemned the behaviour.
GB News, New: The Saturday Five Extra, 5 September 2026, 6:46-6:56
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Claim Anti-migrant protests in Portsmouth and Dover over small boat crossings
The government condemned the behaviour.
GB News, New: The Saturday Five Extra, 5 September 2026, 6:46-6:56
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Charged quote Anti-migrant protests in Portsmouth and Dover over small boat crossings
square metreage issue, it's not how many people can you squeeze onto an island before people start falling off the White Cliffs of Our system is crumbled, over, dead, it cannot cope. We need to re-migrate people in order to start the NHS again, in order to start the welfare system again. The ECHR has been taken advantage of.
GB News, New: The Saturday Five Extra, 5 September 2026, 10:20-10:26
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Charged quote Anti-migrant protests in Portsmouth and Dover over small boat crossings
who are nowhere near as qualified as they were previously, just sign it and say they have climbed asylum and send them into the system. Britain is crumbling. The fabric of our culture is tearing and we need to do something about it. What a profoundly miserable evaluation of our country. You call yourself a
GB News, New: The Saturday Five Extra, 5 September 2026, 11:16-11:23
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Charged quote Anti-migrant protests in Portsmouth and Dover over small boat crossings
it and say they have climbed asylum and send them into the system. Britain is crumbling. The fabric of our culture is tearing and we need to do something about it. What a profoundly miserable evaluation of our country. You call yourself a patriot but you are talking Britain down from start to finish.
GB News, New: The Saturday Five Extra, 5 September 2026, 11:21-11:27
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- 33:46 Story begins Mistrial declared in Lindsay Clancy murder trial
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Claim Mistrial declared in Lindsay Clancy murder trial
Massachusetts law requires a unanimous verdict and places the burden of proof on the prosecution in mental health cases.
GB News, New: The Saturday Five Extra, 5 September 2026, 35:22-35:31
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Claim Mistrial declared in Lindsay Clancy murder trial
A mistrial could lead to a retrial or a plea deal.
GB News, New: The Saturday Five Extra, 5 September 2026, 38:28-38:31
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Charged quote Mistrial declared in Lindsay Clancy murder trial
Well, we will see, and perhaps we'll have you back then, James, thank you so much for your time tonight. I mean, I feel really, really sad about this, obviously, as I'm sure everybody on this panel does. This is a woman who, without a shadow of a doubt from her medical records, had psychosis going on.
GB News, New: The Saturday Five Extra, 5 September 2026, 38:38-38:45
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Contested quote Mistrial declared in Lindsay Clancy murder trial
James, thank you so much for your time tonight. I mean, I feel really, really sad about this, obviously, as I'm sure everybody on this panel does. This is a woman who, without a shadow of a doubt from her medical records, had psychosis going on. The prosecution said that she pre-planned it, therefore it wasn't psychosis.
GB News, New: The Saturday Five Extra, 5 September 2026, 38:45-38:52
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- 50:49 Story begins UN votes to adopt map that shows Africa's true size
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Charged quote UN votes to adopt map that shows Africa's true size
Well, you're the doctor. You're supposed to be thrilled about these things. Jonathan, what have you got for us? My story is about the United Nations correcting a historic wrong, which is that global maps have, for the last 400 and something years, depicted Africa as the same size of Greenland, despite Africa being 14 times bigger.
GB News, New: The Saturday Five Extra, 5 September 2026, 50:52-50:55
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Claim UN votes to adopt map that shows Africa's true size
The United States was the only nation to vote against the UN resolution.
GB News, New: The Saturday Five Extra, 5 September 2026, 51:22-51:27
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Charged quote UN votes to adopt map that shows Africa's true size
with something called the Equal Earth projection, which depicts countries and continents and landmasses the size they really are relative to each other. The UK adopted the resolution as well. The only country to vote against was, you guessed it, the USA. Of course. Surprise, surprise. Won't that affect shipping and flights
GB News, New: The Saturday Five Extra, 5 September 2026, 51:24-51:27
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Charged quote UN votes to adopt map that shows Africa's true size
It's about the countries and pace that are further away from the equator are lopsided. It's authenticity. I think it's just representing authenticity. For so long, the global south has always been shown smaller, and now it's been shown correctly. So everything we learned at school is wrong. Yes, that's right.
GB News, New: The Saturday Five Extra, 5 September 2026, 52:04-52:06
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Charged quote UN votes to adopt map that shows Africa's true size
I think it's just representing authenticity. For so long, the global south has always been shown smaller, and now it's been shown correctly. So everything we learned at school is wrong. Yes, that's right. A lot of what we learned at school is actually wrong. Unless you had a globe instead of a flat out.
GB News, New: The Saturday Five Extra, 5 September 2026, 52:08-52:10
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Claim UN votes to adopt map that shows Africa's true size
The UN resolution, proposed by Togo, is non-binding.
GB News, New: The Saturday Five Extra, 5 September 2026, 52:37-52:39
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