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Wednesday 23 September 2026 · 23:00 BST · 1h · 5 stories · 15 annotated moments · 36 of 60 min on news stories (60%)
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President Trump welcomed President Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland for a three-day US visit. The ceremony included a gun salute, the US and Chinese national anthems, a B-1 bomber flyover, and flowers presented to Xi and his wife. The two leaders shook hands before Trump left by Marine One for the White House. The visit was set to cover AI, Taiwan, the Iran conflict and trade, with Congress having approved a $1 billion arms deal with Taiwan that Trump has not yet signed off, a temporary trade deal due to expire in November, and a state dinner planned for the next day.
Other stories covered included a £1 million Ponzi scheme, Kemi Badenoch's benefits plans, an EU Canada-style membership deal, an RAF aircraft ejection over Wales in which no one was killed, and new vocational GCSEs announced by the PM. The benefits proposals were discussed in more detail, including cuts for long-term unemployed claimants who had not paid enough in, placing benefits on a card to prevent spending on alcohol, cigarettes and gambling, and slashing payments by 30% after six months, with about £500 million saved from the £80 billion universal credit bill. The broadcast also covered Tony Blair telling Andy Burnham that Britain should rejoin the EU within 10 years, including his call for an end to Keir Starmer's Brexit red line and the EU Brexit chief's suggestion of a Canada-style deal.
It also reported that Prince Harry cut short a speech on the dangers of AI at the Clinton Global Initiatives annual meeting in New York after an autocue glitch, delivering only half his address before returning half an hour later to continue.
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Tony Blair, Former PM
“Has been damaging, but I also believe the last thing we should do right now is rerun those arguments.”
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Prince Harry, Prince Harry
“We do not have years for what comes next.”
- 0:00 Story begins Xi Jinping to meet Trump at White House
- 2:24
Claim Xi Jinping to meet Trump at White House
Xi Jinping is due to arrive in the United States, and President Trump is expected to host him at the White House on Thursday.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 23 September 2026, 2:24-2:45
- 3:40
Charged quote Xi Jinping to meet Trump at White House
Limiting AI in some way. Can you trust them? No, don't trust them. No. With respect, I'm not talking about the Chinese people, the Chinese government. You can't trust them. You cannot trust them. No, you can't. You couldn't trust Putin, either. So you can't trust any of them. I wouldn't trust our government,
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 23 September 2026, 3:40-3:42
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Contested quote Xi Jinping to meet Trump at White House
there's no protection of IP, so my worry would be an agreement on AI. Oh, yes, we'll sign up to all these safety standards, the Chinese Communist Party will say. The Americans would clearly abide by them, by and large, but I suspect the Chinese wouldn't. So I'm just a bit hesitant. Obviously, you want to see agreements between world powers,
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 23 September 2026, 4:16-4:20
- 4:32
Charged quote Xi Jinping to meet Trump at White House
but I'm a bit worried an agreement on AI would see the Americans, as Ben was saying earlier, basically putting their foot on the brake whilst China would pretend to and instead accelerate away. Yeah, she's been handed some flowers there, by a young American boy, he's shaking his hand, and some more flowers. I wonder if they'll work
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 23 September 2026, 4:32-4:41
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Charged quote Xi Jinping to meet Trump at White House
sides of helping to fund or undermine each other's energy. Absolutely bang on, Patrick. Virtually every flare-up anywhere in the world now, you could see as a proxy battle between the United States and the West more generally, and China on the other side. I mean, the good news is, I'm of an age where I can remember
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 23 September 2026, 5:57-6:01
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- 27:04 Story begins Andy Burnham plans alcohol in football stands
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- 31:31
Claim Conservatives propose Universal Credit cuts after six months
The remaining Universal Credit support would be placed on a back-to-work card that blocks spending on alcohol, cigarettes and gambling, and that would also block cash withdrawals.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 23 September 2026, 31:31-31:38
- 32:48
Claim Conservatives propose Universal Credit cuts after six months
The reported measure would save about £500 million from the £80 billion Universal Credit budget.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 23 September 2026, 32:48-32:57
- 32:48
Claim Conservatives propose Universal Credit cuts after six months
The reported measure would save about £500 million from the £80 billion Universal Credit budget.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 23 September 2026, 32:48-32:57
- 34:09
Claim Conservatives propose Universal Credit cuts after six months
People out of work because of sickness or disability, and claimants with a long history of work or contributions, would be exempt from the cuts or keep full support for longer.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 23 September 2026, 34:09-34:16
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Claim Andy Burnham gives first Labour conference speech as PM
Tony Blair told Andy Burnham that the UK should rejoin the EU within a decade and called for an end to Keir Starmer's Brexit red line.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 23 September 2026, 39:26-39:29
- 39:47
Contested quote Andy Burnham gives first Labour conference speech as PM
Stevie, are you, how do you feel about this? I think there are two ways that could happen. Our leaders just decide to rejoin or we have a referendum. Either way would rip this nation apart. Because we kind of feel more split since the last one. There's been no healing since the 2016 one. If a decision was made on our behalf that goes against what people voted for,
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 23 September 2026, 39:47-39:50
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Contested quote Andy Burnham gives first Labour conference speech as PM
There's been no healing since the 2016 one. If a decision was made on our behalf that goes against what people voted for, well that really is time to just say oh I guess we're just not playing democracy anymore and then that's not good for how a civilization goes. But also if we hadn't, if we had to go through another set of rows about this.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 23 September 2026, 40:00-40:03
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Charged quote Andy Burnham gives first Labour conference speech as PM
I think history will, I don't dispute what you say about the polling data absolutely. But I think history in 50 years time we'll look back at the fact that we had Theresa May in charge of the initial aspects of it. All of this ridiculous way that we went about leaving it. Oh quite. I mean the most remarkable thing was and an oft made argument by the Eurosceptics,
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 23 September 2026, 41:25-41:29
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Charged quote Andy Burnham gives first Labour conference speech as PM
All of this ridiculous way that we went about leaving it. Oh quite. I mean the most remarkable thing was and an oft made argument by the Eurosceptics, by the Leavers was we've got to get out because there's all this mad red tape that's being imposed upon us. I thought that was quite a compelling argument.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 23 September 2026, 41:38-41:41
- 42:07
Charged quote Andy Burnham gives first Labour conference speech as PM
The EU has. So we've actually got a legacy rule that we haven't rescinded. So we basically were in the dungeon, threw off the shackles but decided not to leave the dungeon. So our regulatory settings are almost identical to what they would be if we had remained in. So we didn't seize that opportunity.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 23 September 2026, 42:07-42:10
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