gb news. >> good evening you with jb news a police investigation is underway in sheffield tonight after a car hit a crowd of people , killing 146 year old man people, killing 146 year old man and injuring several others. this news just breaking and south yorkshire police saying a 23 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and a 55 year old man on suspicion of attempted murder.

emergency services were called to the scene shortly after 2:00 this afternoon, following reports of violence and disorder in the area . police say the call in the area. police say the call out was underway , say when the out was underway, say when the car hit a group of people. so a murder investigation is underway in sheffield tonight after one man has died after a car hit a crowd of people now storm garrett hit the uk today, leaving homes without power and drivers trapped in their cars as snow, wind and rain caused flooding and closed roads. police scotland declared a major incident . in fact, as snow incident. in fact, as snow brought cars to a complete standstill on the a9 to aviemore. that road has since reopened fully. both directions and 27,000 homes in northern scotland also experienced power cuts, with the local energy company there, sgn saying they have restored power to 8000 homes. there currently still working hard to reconnect the rest . passengers on the east rest. passengers on the east coast main line between london and scotland . we're told not to

and scotland. we're told not to travel and thousands of people at airports experienced delays, with flights grounded as well. multiple weather warnings remain in place tonight across the rest of uk , and ferry passengers of the uk, and ferry passengers were facing delays of up to three hours today at the port of dover that was due to the french police going sick and there was increased demand at the port as well. today, as people tried to get away for a post—christmas trip. there are no queues now at doven trip. there are no queues now at dover, officials saying border checks taking about 5 to 10 minutes. the chancellor, jeremy hunt, has announced that the spnng hunt, has announced that the spring budget will be set out on the 6th of march next year. reports are also coming from downing street that they could axe inheritance tax and reduce income tax. sir keir starmer has seemingly instructed his frontbench team to finalise their manifesto plans , telling their manifesto plans, telling shadow ministers to have their policy proposals ready by mid january . policy proposals ready by mid january. there were

policy proposals ready by mid january . there were zero policy proposals ready by mid january. there were zero migrant crossings over the christmas penod crossings over the christmas period for the first time since current records began. the foreign secretary, james cleverly, tweeted in the last couple of hours, saying no crossings took place across the engush crossings took place across the english channel on christmas eve, christmas day boxing day eve, christmas day or boxing day this that's the first time this year. that's the first time since 2018 it means they've now been ten consecutive days without any arrivals recorded, without any arrivals recorded, with poor weather conditions being a contributing factor. with poor weather conditions being a contributing factor . the being a contributing factor. the number of people shopping in high street sales across the uk was down more than 20% on boxing day , figures from mri software day, figures from mri software found that while footfall was up before 3:00 in the afternoon, it was significantly lower across the day as a whole , the group the day as a whole, the group said the only location to experience an overall rise in high street visitors was in central . london that's the news central. london that's the news on gb news across the uk on tv, in your car, on digital radio and on your smart speaker. this is britain's news channel .

is britain's news channel. hello and welcome to headliners with me simon evans. >> joining me tonight we have two top comedians, chris whitten and francis foster. >> and hopefully no sign of a mutiny or any other. >> well, the night is young , >> well, the night is young, isn't it, simon? >> we shall see. any nonsense from you i shall be throwing my papers on the floor. >> so let's have a look at the front pages . front pages. >> uh, daily mail to kick us off. planned to slash death off. hunt planned to slash death tax by half. the death tax nominated in their, uh, giving you their political view. the times labour will promise big expansion of child care. and margaret thatcher saying goodbye to jacques delors one last time. the times labour will promise big expansion of child care . uh, big expansion of child care. uh, that's a picture of it there on

the beach and financial times global defence order books. but . global defence order books. but. pledge, as ukraine puts budgets on war footing , the i homes on war footing, the i homes bought up for axed hs2 rail line are rented out for millions. that sounds like corruption. the guardian domestic abuse survivors have lost trust in us. more met and the star. uh gridlock or grid gridlock? they seem to . be implying that, uh seem to. be implying that, uh that only the tiger is involved anyway, those are your front pages. anyway, those are your front pages . so anyway, those are your front pages. so kicking anyway, those are your front pages . so kicking off anyway, those are your front pages. so kicking off our in—depth look to the front pages with the daily mail, chris. >> okay. >> okay. >> hunt planned to slash death tax by half, so hunt apparently he's he's set the 6th of march for the for the vital pre—election budget, as he calls it, vital pre—election budget.

>> he's talking about slashing it by half. >> i read earlier in the independent . rishi is thinking independent. rishi is thinking of binning it all together. independent. rishi is thinking of binning it all together . so of binning it all together. so this is classic joined up conservative party planning. >> would be what would be >> what would be what would be the way they the half would be the, uh the, the entry level, the, uh the, the entry level, the, the threshold or would it be the because it's you don't pay be the because it's you don't pay anything at all until 350 grand, i think. >> and 500 if you if you actually give your to house a, to a child or grandchild. so so um, might be might um, so it might not be it might be value of the property, be on the value of the property, might on the then it's might be on the value. then it's suddenly which is quite a suddenly at 40, which is quite a big because an income big because like an income tax, you ten grand free you get the first ten grand free and then a certain and then you get a certain a certain then goes certain rate, and then it goes up a little bit time. it's up a little bit each time. it's a a blunt instrument. a bit of a blunt instrument. well, really is , isn't it? well, it really is, isn't it? >> and it's one of these things that apply to most that doesn't apply to most people. people people. and then the people it does apply it's really serious. >> what they say is, and i heard, uh, the great jacob earlier and earlier speaking on this and i followed his, his argument, the argument not so much argument is not so much that it's there it's not fair, although there are course, who are some people, of course, who say, well, i've already tax say, well, i've already paid tax on why i pay

on this once, why should i pay it people say, it again? other people say, well, know, the person well, you know, the person whose money that dead now. so money that was is dead now. so if you're going to tax anyone taxing dead probably that taxing the dead is probably that goes forth. but the goes back and forth. but the rees—mogg brain identifies this. the as being one the serious issue as being one which is to do with capital allocation. so people trying to avoid inheritance tax make decisions about where to put their wealth that are not for their wealth that are not for the benefit of the country generally. so it's actually quite a good thing to reduce inheritance tax. just to get growth and investment going right ? right? >> right. >> right. >> you probably hadn't heard that before , chris. well, that before, chris. well, i follow jacob as closely i do. follow jacob as closely as i do. i'm huge fan. i'm a huge fan. >> it's very popular. i'm a huge fan. >> simon,y popular. i'm a huge fan. >> simon,y poplyou know he's >> simon, don't you know he's going be star going to be the star of, i think, story 14. >> what do think of that >> what do you think of that argument, francis? >> it's quite an >> well, i think it's quite an interesting i would go interesting argument. i would go with a more, dare i say it, cynical almost like cynical note. it's almost like the have 6% in the polls , the tories have 6% in the polls, and there's a general election next year. yeah. and they're desperately trying to appeal to their voter base. are their voter base. but who are they ? they? >> this is the point. not many people they people pay this, and they certainly paying it in

certainly won't be paying it in the sort year so. you the next sort of year or so. you know, generally speaking, not that any that many people die in any given. would much more given. it would be much more populist vat , to lower populist to lower vat, to lower income to , uh, maybe it's income tax, to, uh, maybe it's almost like they're clueless. >> simon. yeah. >> simon. yeah. >> do you think it's just sheer cluelessness? >> yeah, yeah . whereas before >> yeah, yeah. whereas before i would say and i would go with your argument, but looking at this politicians , this shower of politicians, let's just call them that. i wouldn't put it past them to think that this is somehow going to the dial. think that this is somehow going to okaythe dial. think that this is somehow going to okay .1e dial. think that this is somehow going to okay . whatl. think that this is somehow going to okay . what is the financial >> okay. what is the financial times going with francis based on your cynicism towards the daily mail's financial arguments ? >> well, 7- >> well, i ? >> well, i actually think this is a very interesting story. simon and the ft goes with the order books of the world's biggest defence companies. a near record highs after growing by more than 10% in just two years because of rising geopolitical tension, including the conflict in ukraine. and what this is actually saying is that we are going from what is called a unipolar world, which is the america is a policeman of

the to world a world where we have china , we have russia, who have china, we have russia, who are now starting to compete with the united states . the united states. >> as a result of that, we have more and more conflicts that are starting to arise . starting to arise. >> we've seen the middle east, we've seen ukraine in, uh, there have been rising tensions between azerbaijan and armenia . between azerbaijan and armenia. we've threat of war we've seen the threat of war between guyana between venezuela and guyana over oil and as a result of that, there's always going to be winners. >> and the winners, lo and behold, are the arms companies who are rubbing their hands complex, as always, i think. >> mean, interesting, the >> i mean, it's interesting, the ukraine one. i mean, i think a lot people said right from lot of people said right from the go that was, um, the get go that that was, um, being quite nakedly by, being provoked quite nakedly by, uh , military industrial complex uh, military industrial complex interests in america, that they were pushing for war, even as there other other actors there were other other actors who were trying to take heat who were trying to take the heat out situation. but the, out of the situation. but the, um, think that's run its um, i think that's run its course, honestly , i don't think course, honestly, i don't think it's going to go on for very much longer. you don't think the war in ukraine is good? >> why do you say that?

>> why do you say that? >> because ukraine is running out of. >> because the average soldier is something. is 57 or something. >> and they've >> men to fight. and they've released extraordinary guidelines is guidelines now as to who is eligible and who must eligible to fight and who must come and put on uniform, come back and put on uniform, it's too depressing to i mean , it's too depressing to i mean, it's too depressing to i mean, it would be black comedy if it wasn't real. it's extraordinary. well, it sounds dad's army wasn't real. it's extraordinary. well, itto, unds dad's army wasn't real. it's extraordinary. well, itto, uhis dad's army wasn't real. it's extraordinary. well, itto, uh , dad's army wasn't real. it's extraordinary. well, itto, uh , missingi's army wasn't real. it's extraordinary. well, itto, uh , missing feet'my wasn't real. it's extraordinary. well, itto, uh , missing feet isy having to, uh, missing feet is no longer , uh, you know, an no longer, uh, you know, an adequate, um, dispensation to get you signed off the. yeah, i just think the numbers, the demographic mix, you know, tell their own story. there whether or not the middle east is going to continue to, uh, fuel defence spending and, i mean, you know, that's basically a us decision, isn't it? is that how much money america has put into israel? but i don't know. do you feel it's a more dangerous world? what do you chris? it you feel like. >> well, we know about the danger now, don't we? >> we've twitter and we >> we've all got twitter and we can i mean, yeah, it's can see it. i mean, yeah, it's terrifying, isn't it? i can't see spending down. terrifying, isn't it? i can't see no, spending down. terrifying, isn't it? i can't see no, it spending down. terrifying, isn't it? i can't see no, it doesn'tding down. terrifying, isn't it? i can't see no, it doesn't seem down. terrifying, isn't it? i can't see no, it doesn't seem likely, )wn. >> no, it doesn't seem likely, does it? >> e f- e ii >> if you're going to invest, i would invest this

would invest in this stuff. >> very been a bad >> it's very rarely been a bad call. it has be over the call. it has to be said over the years. is the other one years. tobacco is the other one that's reliable. what a miserable never miserable world. yeah. never mind. times, chris. >> uh, labour plans thousands of new nursery places in primary schools. >> um, so labour, um , are >> um, so labour, um, are planning to plan to put the, the little kids the up to fives in the big schools, but in their own little bit of it. and the idea is now that from , uh, from idea is now that from, uh, from being a toddler to the end of primary school, the parents can avoid looking after them. um, so that's that's good, isn't it? if people want go out work, people want to go out to work, i don't mean, i think it don't know. i mean, i think it is good. it encourages people to have will make it a bit have kids. it will make it a bit eafien have kids. it will make it a bit easier, it? easier, won't it? >> anything that encourages people kids at the people to have kids at the moment good thing. moment is probably a good thing. yes. right sort yes. especially the right sort of yeah, of people. obviously yeah, yeah, yeah. wants in yeah. and simon wants to live in a society where he will be giving licence . giving out the licence. >> you not you mate. >> yes. you, you not you mate. off go . i've seen your off you go. i've seen your a level grades a levels not even a levels vac. no thank you. >> there's no easy answer to all this stuff is there. because

honestly you know we do have extraordinarily expensive childcare in this country. and that's obviously that is like putting the squeeze on lots of other countries around the world. i think in new zealand, it's like a 10th or something. i mean, absolutely punitive. mean, it is absolutely punitive. it other it is ridiculous. on the other hand, know , there are people hand, you know, there are people who do say that wouldn't it be nice we were all to kind nice if we were all to just kind of regard children as of regard our children as a treasure, something to be, to be loved cherished the few loved and cherished in the few short they before short years when they before they and are they grow up and women are already, know, hairy already, you know, big hairy teenagers now, and you do think, did enough attention? i did i pay enough attention? i don't way to don't know, that's no way to talk your daughters, talk about your daughters, simon. no , i look, i completely >> no, no, i look, i completely agree with you, but i sadly, i think the days of, you know, one per, know, the mums staying per, you know, the mums staying at the kids and at home, raising the kids and dad going out and working, having a couple of mistresses in town . town. >> yeah, exactly. >> yeah, exactly. >> you know, gentlemen's club fee up the good old days as we like to call them. sadly women came and ruined everything. as you simon. you know, simon. >> technically, yeah. >> technically, yeah. >> . unfortunately, >> yeah. unfortunately, those days sadly gone.

days are sadly gone. >> and there's the man who caused all. of course. what caused it all. of course. what more? right. okay pictured caused it all. of course. what more? he's right. okay pictured caused it all. of course. what more? he's right. my pictured caused it all. of course. what more? he's right. any viewsred caused it all. of course. what more? he's right. any views on there. he's gone. any views on that? 98 years of age. good run . that? 98 years of age. good run. they said radio four that, they said on radio four that, um, his pro—europe well pro—european. he virtually invented it. yeah. hyper invented it. yeah. his hyper pro—european views put him on a collision course with margaret thatcher. and i was thinking, well, he's outlasted her by about i suppose he about 15 years. so i suppose he won one, didn't he? in that won that one, didn't he? in that respect? he's the he's respect? well, he's the he's known as one of the, the fathers of the euro. >> yeah. which as we all know is a terrible idea. >> and i personally think we'll we'll signal the end of the european union as we know it. >> it's a financial disaster , >> it's a financial disaster, the euro. >> the funny thing is he did acknowledge later in life that the euro had been essentially a failure. said the reason failure. but he said the reason was not because it was daft was not because it was a daft idea cooked up by him, but because there had been insufficient integration prior to which is basically, to the euro, which is basically, of what the tories of course, what the tories always said. you have a always said. you can't have a single currency full single currency without full political integration. but he was acknowledging that was sort of acknowledging that and should was sort of acknowledging that and had should was sort of acknowledging that and had that should was sort of acknowledging that and had that first. should was sort of acknowledging that and had that first. but should

was sort of acknowledging that and had that first. but i should was sort of acknowledging that and had that first. but i meant was sort of acknowledging that and had that first. but i mean , have had that first. but i mean, but then go, how you but then you go, how can you have currency for these have one currency for these totally disparate economies , totally disparate economies, starting with greece or germany? exactly as long as you don't care whether greece and spain have, you know, almost total youth unemployment, it's fine. >> fair . none >> i mean, let's be fair. none of those countries like working anyway. point , anyway. so maybe at a point, moving the star for the moving on to the star for the final section very quickly, francis . yes, this is storm francis. yes, this is storm garrett . there was chaos. you garrett. there was chaos. you know , uh, nose to tail , uh, on know, uh, nose to tail, uh, on the motorway floods , uh, train the motorway floods, uh, train stations. i went to, uh, via king's cross, uh, today, uh, to pick up some new trainers. >> and it was absolute chaos. >> and it was absolute chaos. >> there were people getting turned away. >> you went to pick up some new trainers? yeah, in king's cross run home? yeah, exactly . run home? yeah, exactly. >> well, look at me. i've haven't run in long so haven't run in a long time, so i mean but yeah, so i mean it's just chaos basically it amounts to a few of rain and to a few drops of rain and everything shuts down. >> this is thing every >> this is the thing every winter, isn't we are winter, isn't it? we are reminded we have no reminded that we have no contingency it's contingency at all. it's extraordinary unable we are

extraordinary how unable we are to cope. >> think i'd prefer a traffic >> i think i'd prefer a traffic jam trains at the moment jam to the trains at the moment though. yeah, yeah . one of our though. yeah, yeah. one of our producers turned up at 930 tonight. had a very long day tonight. he had a very long day on a train. yes >> yeah, yeah, he was coming through the other side of paddington, stuck there paddington, stuck in there with sars you're on sars 38 or whatever you're on now as well, aren't you? >> which worse. i mean, i do >> which is worse. i mean, i do find other people in the same in a contained space at this time of i don't of year problematic. i don't know, they just all of them festering know, festering with germs, you know, thanks for anneliese what you're saying. >> there. >> there. >> these are the ones that want to breed. i'd remind you anyway . to breed. i'd remind you anyway. that's front pages coming up that's our front pages coming up after the break. we have controversial tax cuts again. rwanda farage goes and how we got a robot to nick all of that from the new york

radio. and welcome back to headliners >> we're still here with chris whitten, francis foster and myself, simon evans. so we have

cressida. uh rishi sunak. who? no, we haven't . we're still no, we haven't. we're still going to do with that. we've done that one haven't we. in the we did that one in the headlines. i'm not going to do that one francis. going that one francis. we're going to go boat news now in the go to small boat news now in the times. good news the times. good news for the government. processed government. rwanda has processed nearly claims nearly five asylum claims out of every nearly five asylum claims out of evewell, absolutely . i mean, to >> well, absolutely. i mean, to be fair to those lads, they're absolutely smashing it. they are they're completing applications at rate of 0.5. amazing which at a rate of 0.5. amazing which means they're 0.3% more effective than the civil service >> it's not their fault, though, is it? i would imagine it's not their fault, is it? >> well, the reality is, is they don't have the capacity to process these claims. so this has been set up the government has been set up the government has provided them with millions of pounds of funding in order to get these, these , uh, these get these, these, uh, these claims processed and they simply can't do it . can't do it. >> so as a result of that, what has happened is we're in this stasis . stasis. >> uh, they've the uk has paid

around £240 million with a with around £240 million with a with a further 150 million. so the reality is this is looking completely dead in the water. it looks great for value money. >> no it's not. >> no it's not. >> no, it's not. and this is coming from each one of those refugees in never mind a hotel room. >> they could have had a house on bishops, haven't you? well let's not go that far. >> they could probably afford a bedsit in zone simon in bedsit in zone three. simon in london. but yeah, it's just looking like this idea was terrible to start off with. and every time that that i look at it, it just seems to get even worse. yeah so not only is it doesit worse. yeah so not only is it does it seem ridiculous that we're sending these people over to africa , which now become to africa, which now become apparent that they can't even process anything ? process anything? >> do you have a view? well i was just all very depressing, isn't it? >> i don't know whether labour are going to do any better. their latest thing is they're going people all going to process people all before yeah before they get here. yeah but it's coming out with it's nobody's coming out with gunboats off the coast of calais yet. >> aren't they? which is

obviously going to obviously where we're going to end sooner or later. i don't end up sooner or later. i don't know why it's all very much about yeah, yeah. about it. yeah, yeah. >> look, they're >> i mean, look, they're going to you. there's to be honest with you. there's some people who are watching this who have listened what this who have listened to what you finally, you said and went, finally, someone's talking sense. >> the coast of >> well, you know, the coast of tripoli have been a better tripoli would have been a better idea, are we are. idea, but we are where we are. media, the times, media, news in the times, cressida the times cressida and the new york times is once fighting is once again fighting a rearguard action against high tech pickpocket. >> york times sues >> it's new york times sues openai and microsoft for scraping content . so the new scraping content. so the new york times, it's suing them for billions of dollars over copyright infringement, uh, alleging that the powerful technology companies used its information to train their ai technology companies used its information to train their al to free ride . so i think that means free ride. so i think that means they've trained their ai free ride. so i think that means they've trained their al to bypass their what's it called ? bypass their what's it called? paywall. yeah. and they presumably they think that would be clients of theirs are going to it's probably even got a subscription isn't it. >> yeah . the i can probably >> yeah. the i can probably afford that. >> exactly, exactly. >> exactly, exactly. >> so it was like i got one. it's about week or

it's about £0.50 a week or something. for the new york something. now for the new york times. i think what done is times. i think what it's done is it's and it's looked it's gone back and it's looked at its old copy. and at all its old copy. and sometimes ask, like openai sometimes you ask, i like openai or ask or something, you ask it a question i don't know, you question like i don't know, you know, how important somebody quoted, um, it had been asked a question about how apple compared to general motors or general electric as big, you general electric as the big, you know, huge industrial entities of the 50s and 60s, right? and terms of employment and contribution to the, uh, to workfare and so on in america . workfare and so on in america. and it gave quite a detailed and well informed answer. and it was word for word, the exact same as an article that appeared in the new york times. >> so the ai has got a subscription, and it's telling you wasn't what you obviously it wasn't what you might scraping it might call scraping makes it sound reading. sound like it's kind of reading. >> was literally just, you >> it was literally just, you know, cut and paste. yeah. >> doesn't make you >> but doesn't this make you think thing has think that this ai thing has been completely if been completely overrated, if actually doing is actually all they're doing is copying from the new york times ? copying from the new york times? >> does what kind of >> it does depend what kind of question ask it. think question you ask it. but i think if it sees a way to get away with it, it's it's basically with it, it's so it's basically a being . funny enough,

a human being. funny enough, it's an 18 year old student. yeah. with with a deadline looming, i, i am interested though the new york times. i made a veiled sort of reference to this in the introduction. only a few years ago was was haemorrhaging money because facebook was reusing its content and was taking all of its advertising revenue. it somehow found a way so that the advertisers paid facebook and google search, you know, and i think it turned that around. i think it turned that around. i think it turned that around. i think it won that. yes, it has. it's a pretty clever organisation. it's still got some heft. consider how old it is and how venerable it is and how it perceived it is in america anyway, to be like, you know, the kind of slow moving , know, the kind of slow moving, the old sort of old lady of threadneedle street kind of thing. then there is a, um, i think there's quite an interesting battle coming here because ai is obviously going to because ai is obviously going to be a very powerful thing, but there that thing there is still that thing of, well , who's there is still that thing of, well, who's paying it, exactly? >> well, this is it. and actually, is creating actually, who is creating the content if what this is content because if what this is actually talking about here is ,

actually talking about here is, is really the who owns the right to this particular type of content. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and if by a if this is true that this is what is that this is what ai is effectively doing, they're not only doing it with the articles, like you said about general motors, but things like restaurant . yeah, they restaurant reviews. yeah, they can they quite legitimately can they can quite legitimately say, hang second. say, hang on a second. >> this is copyrighted. >> this is copyrighted. >> yeah. and you cannot just come along and take our content and then repurpose it . and then repurpose it. >> absolutely. on the other hand, i asked recently to hand, i asked i recently to write a column in the style of the british comedian simon evans. it was pretty good. evans. yeah, it was pretty good. was it? yeah. is that saying ? was it? yeah. is that saying? >> does that say a lot about al or about the your writing style? simon oh, i needed to give it a few tweaks. >> little bit fairy dust, you know. anyway, frances, the independent makes know. anyway, frances, the incoffendent makes know. anyway, frances, the incoff colour makes know. anyway, frances, the incoff colour joke makes know. anyway, frances, the incoff colour joke gets makes know. anyway, frances, the incoff colour joke gets away as an off colour joke and gets away with yes, the surname with it. well, yes, the surname yet again. >> so downing street, uh, said it was right that the home secretary had apologised for making the remarks. so they're effectively saying that the

matter is closed. this is a storm in a teacup. i'm going to read you, mr cleverly. >> in a cocktail glass. >> in a cocktail glass. >> yeah, exactly. so what happened was he was he was at downing street party. he was having a little bit of a chit chat. >> no, no doubt he was sufficiently lubricated and he told female guests at this event before christmas a little bit of rohypnolin before christmas a little bit of rohypnol in her drink. >> rohypnol . sorry. every night >> rohypnol. sorry. every night was not really illegal. if it's only a little bit, because basically he's saying that with his wife, he puts a little bit in her drink and that way she's not too aware of the other opfions not too aware of the other options that are available to her. >> so he was saying not so much like he uses it in order to have his wicked way with him. no. on a nightly basis, more to keep her generally sedated, oblivious to the whole. >> crucially , it was joke. >> crucially, it was a joke. yeah. and don't think yeah. and i don't think i understand the nature of the joke. >> $- e- $— >> so he's not saying i give her a of rohypnol that a bit of rohypnol because that gets the mood. gets her in the mood. >> no, no, just to absolutely >> no, no, just to be absolutely clear rohypnol perceived clear, rohypnol is not perceived to be an aphrodisiac. >> not. people are just

>> no it's not. people are just confused, they seem confused, right? they just seem sort to defend sort of unable to defend themselves. sort of unable to defend the confused. and then they pass out. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and frequently the reason it's so popular amongst, uh, that offender is because that type of offender is because the victim has no recollection of the event. >> no. okay. right so really, he's not i mean, it's a slightly it's a clumsy joke, but he's obviously not. he's not saying it in any kind of, uh, it's not making a sexual, predatory sort of. >> well, i really get offended that you've talked about my closing jokes and my shirt like that. simon he's nicked it. and now you've come along and denigrates it, mate. >> there was, um. i'm going to tell you this will be the joke that gets me cancelled. but, mark lamarr, do you remember him? yeah. yeah, great. mark lamarr, do you remember hima yeah. yeah, great. mark lamarr, do you remember hima while. yeah, great. mark lamarr, do you remember hima while. them, great. mark lamarr, do you remember hima while. then hosted for a while. and then hosted buzzcocks. came with what buzzcocks. he came up with what he the short list joke he said was the short list joke he said was the short list joke he had ever written was a single word, single. it's word, a single. it's a portmanteau . rohypnol. alex portmanteau word. rohypnol. alex i'm giving you no explanation as cressida. the odds of gb news providing the next tory leader

shorten. yet again, according to the telegraph . the telegraph. >> yes, again, sirjacob >> yes, again, sir jacob rees—mogg is the most popular tory backbench , so he's done tory backbench, so he's done really well. he won the most votes from readers of conservative home, which is often described as the tory grassroots bible. it sounds like a tory interior design magazine, doesn't it? >> it's very good, though , >> it's very good, though, actually. conservative, homeless and is and good writers on there is more forthright you might more forthright than you might expect. not sure it should expect. i'm not sure it should be grassroots, though. be called grassroots, though. that sound bit that makes it sound a bit socialist, doesn't yeah, socialist, doesn't it? yeah, i think be more like think it should be more like the ah i that's the tory ah ha! that's the tory membership . membership. >> well, anyway, he's he's very liked . um, apparently last year liked. um, apparently last year it run by lee anderson, it was run by lee anderson, which i didn't know. he's which i didn't know. he's he's popular. we all like doing his catchphrase though. catchphrase here now though. >> between rees—mogg and >> so between rees—mogg and farage, well, we haven't farage, i mean, well, we haven't had kemi on here yet. she's probably number one probably still the number one favourite, should probably still the number one favourno. should think, no. >> well, she's mentioned in here. she's not here. no, no, she's not a backbencher. here. no, no, she's not a backbencher . just third was backbencher. just third was she's a backbencher. right she's not a backbencher. right right. she's not a backbencher. right rigiyeah. i don't think she >> yeah. uh i don't think she is. still in isn't is. she's still in charge isn't she. education or she. yeah. no education or something . something. >> think so. yeah.

>> yes, i think so. yeah. >> not education. no, i can't remember what is. remember what it is. >> oh, is it women. >> oh, is it women. >> is it. >> is it. >> it's thing >>isit. >>n-s >>isit. >>o~t >> is it. >> to; sort of, uh. allows >> is it. >> to; sort of, uh. yes. ivs her to get sort of, uh. yes. stuck into the culture wars. quite a bit, but. yeah. anyway, so, i think obviously so, so yeah, i think obviously credit to jacob. so, so yeah, i think obviously cre well , they've run out of ideas. >> well, i'll, i'd be very surprised if i don't suppose anyone imagines that this would be this is sort of leadership readying thing. >> depend, >> but it will depend, i suppose, some extent, on how suppose, to some extent, on how humiliated are at the next humiliated they are at the next general election. on whether the next leader comes from near the top of the cabinet or or whether it's like a, you know, big clean up. one thing, though, i up. yeah. one thing, though, i will say is and i've made i've made no bones about the fact that i think the tory party are completely bankrupt and just run out of ideas. >> i don't think labour are going to get this whacking great majority that everyone thinks they're going to . i don't think they're going to. i don't think keir starmer has any ideas.

>> i don't depend on the weather. i'm telling you it would depend on the weather. in november, the show is half done in the third of four. we have driverless cars, car less drivers and less car drivers. maybe

>> you're listening to gb news radio . welcome back to headliners. >> we're into the backline and over to the independent. francis one of the most famous ten year honzons one of the most famous ten year horizons , been cut to two. horizons, been cut to two. indeed driverless cars could be on some uk roads by the end of 2026. >> transport secretary uh mark harper has said so. >> that is going to be very, very , very interesting because , very, very interesting because, you know, we've been talking about this . about this. >> we've said that there's going to be, you know, it's around the corner, the corner. corner, it's around the corner. and to be around the and it seems to be around the corner two time. corner in two years time. >> but that's not what's

interesting about this for me. what's interesting about this for is the impact that it is for me is the impact that it is going to have on our society. >> as a whole, particularly when you look jobs like driving, you look at jobs like driving, you look at jobs like driving, you know, taxis, driving vans, lorries, whatever they may be. >> these are industries that employ tens of thousands of people. these are industries that give people jobs, jobs, give people dignity . give people dignity. >> they give people a sense of being a lot of things. >> and you wonder what is going to happen to these types of people who do those jobs when they disappear will be taken to they disappear will be taken to the knacker's yard like the horses were ? horses were? >> exactly. >> exactly. >> i'm going to keep it positive . simon. it's great mate , you . simon. it's great mate, you know, also, no driving instructors and no 17 year old me taking five. >> i took five tests and i'm absolutely delighted for no more driving tests. >> and my daughter's failed one. my >> and my daughter's failed one. my wife is absolutely furious. she regards it as like the most important modern accomplishment

for an independent young woman. i'm to her, two years, i'm saying to her, two years, that's it, max, it's gone. i mean, lives in london mean, she lives in london for the next years. anyway, by the next two years. anyway, by the next two years. anyway, by the time she. oh. so you don't think she'll it i don't think she'll do it now? i don't think she'll do it now? i don't think there's any need for it, think she'll do it now? i don't thibe there's any need for it, think she'll do it now? i don't thibe honest. any need for it, think she'll do it now? i don't thibe honest. reallyed for it, think she'll do it now? i don't thibe honest. really right.t, think she'll do it now? i don't thibe honest. really right. i to be honest. really right. i don't there's to don't think there's any need to learn a to be learn to drive a car, to be honest. it's not it was in honest. it's not like it was in the days. get in the the old days. you get in the car, a bit of car, you get a bit of independence from freedom. nowadays, from nowadays, as we've seen from the front you immediately front pages, you immediately stuck on a road. but except jam, you you have you know, and you don't have the same have the same sort of. you don't have the same sort of. you don't have the same thrill as you used to. >> well, i got my first >> well, when i got my first car, believe it. car, i just couldn't believe it. i remember saying to the driving person in the centre, person in the test centre, are you passed? i just you sure i've passed? i just couldn't it was couldn't believe it. and it was a accomplishment. a huge sense of accomplishment. so away. so that's taken away. >> you've ended up on >> and now you've ended up on a barge? no license that. barge? no license for that. yeah, think that it's going yeah, i do think that it's going to be. understand what you're to be. i understand what you're saying. happen more saying. it will happen more smoothly. take quite smoothly. it will take quite a long before any long time before there's any kind laying off of kind of massive laying off of taxi for what it's taxi drivers. and for what it's worth, i don't know if this is the case, but i live in brighton, you brighton, which is, i guess, you know, typical in know, not entirely typical in various ways. of the taxi

various ways. most of the taxi drivers there are there drivers down there are there already feeling the pinch, you know it's not it's know what i mean? it's not it's not a booming industry and a lot of people who are maybe of them are people who are maybe semi—retired of semi—retired and they've sort of thought, to thought, i don't want to completely stop working. you know, i'll a car . completely stop working. you know, i'll a car. i'm not know, i'll get a car. i'm not saying means, saying all of them by any means, but think it's a sort but i don't think it's a sort of. there other i of. there are other examples i know like, uh, know what you mean. like, uh, haulage and so on. yeah, haulage drivers and so on. yeah, of course, but they still have to of the at the to get out of the van at the other and take the parcel other end and take the parcel onto the pavement. i don't think that's going to disappear overnight. you know. and we've seen the of aslef to seen the capacity of aslef to keep jobs that are essentially redundant and superfluous for the last 30 years have been ticking so i would get ticking over. so i would get unionised quickly . if you're a unionised quickly. if you're a driver. guardian cressida and greece wants marbles back so greece wants his marbles back so badly it's willing to grease the museum's palm . museum's palm. >> yes, greece would offer major treasures to uk for parthenon marbles. minister says so. yeah, there are getting into this bargaining idea. they're talking about having like a rotating cast of fantastic treasures . cast of fantastic treasures. wonderful. which sounds like quite a good idea , doesn't it?

quite a good idea, doesn't it? because the parthenon marbles have there for long have just been there for a long time. yeah >> you been to them? >> have you been to see them? >> have you been to see them? >> don't, i don't think >> no, i don't, i don't think i have you seen francis? have you seen them, francis? >> indeed. >> oh, i have indeed. >> oh, i have indeed. >> them many times. >> i've seen them many times. they impressive. they are impressive. >> they are impressive. i think they could quite easily they could be quite easily created in replica and quite adequately. know, you could adequately. you know, you could even hologram or even have a sort of hologram or like display. like a massive av display. yeah, well, this is not quite well, i know this is not quite the same thing, but i went to see cave painting. i think it was in lascaux, one of the first places. and you have to places. anyway and you have to go hole the mountain places. anyway and you have to go and hole the mountain places. anyway and you have to go and go le the mountain places. anyway and you have to go and go and the mountain places. anyway and you have to go and go and the rfor|ntain places. anyway and you have to go and go and the rforlntmile side and go and walk for a mile underground in darkness. and my wife saw this just wife and kids saw this and just bolted . they refused go in. bolted. they refused to go in. the quhe bolted. they refused to go in. the quite little. they the kids were quite little. they went to the visitor centre went off to the visitor centre where the entire where you can see the entire cave in. perfect replica in comfort, you know, interesting . comfort, you know, interesting. and you see that is why our society is going to the dogs . society is going to the dogs. >> where's this driving? >> where's this driving? >> i went in and i have to say, it's one of the most memorable things i've ever seen. but there you go. it was a really good visit you crawled. visit because you crawled. >> the road to >> i'm picturing the road to wigan like squatting,

wigan pier like squatting, trying there. trying to get there. >> also the french guide >> i was also the french guide and his french accent when he's doing english and he is this doing the english and he is this a cave that only weasel a cave that has the only weasel in in cave in mediterranean cave. and to hear a frenchman refer repeatedly the weasel , he refer repeatedly the weasel, he says, that was worth the price of admission alone. but yeah, visitor centres can be very effective . and i do think effective. and i do think actually it's high time the world's museums and art galleries got their act together and allowed you to experience all the world's great art to a much more satisfactory degree. look. oh, look, there's palmi that agrees with you. >> there's also a part of me that goes. >> no, there aren't there, aren't they called the elgin marbles? >> yeah , of the northern bank. >> yeah, of the northern bank. yes. >> 64% of the uk. 64. apparently are in favour of returning them. well six world's not fashionable view, francis . view, francis. >> yeah, well, it doesn't m atter. >> matter. >> francis caught out against against the tide . he's on the against the tide. he's on the wrong side of history. the tavistock. now francis, you're

on the right side of this question, i suspect. >> well, of course i am. absolutely >> why can't they transition at the age of two? >> uh, so, uh, children under five referred to nhs transition clinic and this is the tavistock and portman, which will close next year. and it had no lower age limit for referrals. so 382 children aged 16, under six and under have been sent to the gender identity development service. >> over the past decade. >> over the past decade. >> and on my show, trigonometry , >> and on my show, trigonometry, we interviewed marcus evans , who we interviewed marcus evans, who was the former head of nursing , was the former head of nursing, and what he actually said was when he was working there, because he was one of the original whistleblowers as well. one of the reasons why he got really worried and actually had to go public with his concerns about the tavistock and portman was because he believed that it was because he believed that it was less to do with patient care and far more to do with ideology . and you can see this, you see this five year olds, four year olds, you just think to

yourself, why ? how will they yourself, why? how will they know anything about their gender ideology ? ideology? >> i watched i watched a video today, uh, from an anthology put out by the babylon bee, their end of year anthology of , uh, end of year anthology of, uh, you know, satirical and, um, they have a sketch, very funny sketch in which an american girl goes into a tattoo parlour and wants a done, and wants to get a tattoo done, and she's she pretends to wants to get a tattoo done, and sheolder she pretends to wants to get a tattoo done, and sheolder , she pretends to wants to get a tattoo done, and sheolder , and she pretends to wants to get a tattoo done, and sheolder , and he pretends to wants to get a tattoo done, and sheolder , and he goes,nds to wants to get a tattoo done, and sheolder , and he goes, you're be older, and he goes, you're too you're young. she goes, oh, i know what i want, really, i do, i'm 14. go on, let me. he goes, you need parents goes, no, you need your parents id and then she goes through all these other things. have these other things. can i have a gun? can smoke a cigarette? gun? can i smoke a cigarette? can drink a no no, no. can i drink a beer? no no, no. okay, about gender okay, how about gender reaffirming yeah, sure. okay, how about gender reaffi gets; yeah, sure. okay, how about gender reaffigets; and yeah, sure. okay, how about gender reaffigets; and ye.a , sure. okay, how about gender reaffigets; and ye.a veryz. fine. gets out. and it's a very funny sketch and it's accurate. but yeah, yeah but she's 14 elianne. yeah, yeah . that's like old woman in .that's like an old woman in these . yeah. these terms. yeah. >> well, the problem is that if you you subscribe to this you if you subscribe to this idea, you think the younger you catch the more can catch it, the more help you can get. absolutely . >> yeah, absolutely. >> yeah, absolutely. >> which of course, i personally don't with. why you don't agree with. why would you want through want your child to go through life their life struggling with their gender identity as if going

gender identity as if it's going to, you? to, you know, ruin it for you? >> yeah, yeah. well, i'm glad >> yeah, yeah. oh well, i'm glad the clinic closing, the clinic is closing, but i don't think the war is entirely won yet. anyway. no, chris skudder mail on skudder the daily mail news on the latest agatha christie adaptation be furiously adaptation to be furiously blinking the international distress signal to us in morse code. >> star of new agatha christie adaptation. murder is easy. david johnson reveals he initially turned down the role because he's not a fan of colour—blind casting , so david colour—blind casting, so david johnson is black or is he mixed race? i don't know, but he's not white. uh, and what i love about this is he initially turned it down. he had a moment of, i'm not really into that, but he did ultimately take the role because who can turn down yes who can turn down work? yes >> yeah. okay. i'll do it pretty much. yeah. but you know, he's i guess good for him. >> he's he's, uh. yeah. >>— >> he's he's, uh. yeah. >> well, i mean, i suppose he's at least willing to talk about the issues or whatever. it's not for me. the kind of. but actually, a he's not actually, in a way, he's not he's colour—blind casting. he's not colour—blind casting. is they said he's not colour—blind casting. is he they said

he's not colour—blind casting. is he is they said he's not colour—blind casting. is he is a they said he's not colour—blind casting. is he is a nigerian said he's not colour—blind casting. is he is a nigerian andaid he's not colour—blind casting. is he is a nigerian and they that he is a nigerian and they are specifically using this murder , which is not one i've murder, which is not one i've read or know anything about. they're using it to explore the idea of the end of empire and, and, you know, retracting mother country and, and the and the post—colonial experience . so post—colonial experience. so it's not colour—blind it's really just using an agatha christie's corpse has been gutted and it's skin worn as a suit to pursue another end . suit to pursue another end. >> well, i, you know, they did change, uh, the original character who was who was white to nigerian. i can't wait until we see her. >> queen hercule poirot as a 60 year old. >> yeah . hercule poirot as a 60 >> yeah. hercule poirot as a 60 year old chinese woman . i don't year old chinese woman. i don't think it's going to be fantastic i >> -- >> you can't do any further indignity by that casting than you've done to him by calling him hercule poirot . shi's name him hercule poirot. shi's name ircu no , it's not, it's hercule, ircu no, it's not, it's hercule, mate. >> wearily . >> wearily. >> wearily. >> i like your way. we're in england. >> it sounds like curly wurly . yeah. >> and by the way , whatever

>> and by the way, whatever i say can't be any worse. and how they're going to be butchering agatha christie. >> no, it is getting so tiresome. it's always agatha christie as well. they did the john malkovich one, which presented post—brexit britain as basically than germany in basically worse than germany in the 1930s. >> well, i mean , technically it >> well, i mean, technically it is at the trains is because at least the trains worked germany . worked in germany. >> very true. staying with the mail, francis. predictably enough, we gave them an inch. they took a mile . exactly. they took a mile. exactly. >> the daily mail government >> so the daily mail government scraps brexit dividend plan to bnng scraps brexit dividend plan to bring back imperial measurements in shops after practically everybody says they prefer metric measures . but brexiteers metric measures. but brexiteers say harmless change should still go ahead. >> who are the brexiteers? i don't know, 1. yeah. no nobody. >> nobody wants this. i don't understand why they want it changed. >> need it to go. but i still like using pounds inches, you know, uh , miles in the know, uh, miles in the vernacular, in my conversation. yeah.i vernacular, in my conversation. yeah. i never use grams or metres to describe anything. no, in my conversation . but i'm in my conversation. but i'm

perfectly capable of going to the shops and going, oh, for a pound of butter in my head without kind of checking that. do you know what i mean? >> do you have your country >> but do you have your country back you're that back when you're saying that i like to see the research, you know, because it sounds like they've been asked a very emotional, emotive set of questions . questions. >> there are >> yeah. but there are greengrocers who who fought for a long time for the right to a double price stuff. >> the think , you know, >> so the i think, you know, it's been 50 years now. i remember when it, when it came out there was an old was out there was an old there was a book of of overheard book of sort of overheard sayings graffiti stuff. sayings and graffiti and stuff. nigel it nigel rees i think compiled it and it won over her two old ladies, one of them saying, oh, don't i don't mind decimalisation. i just waited until just wish they'd waited until all old people died . oh all the old people had died. oh well, of course that's how it is, isn't it? yeah, that's absolutely is, you know. yeah and having become one of those people but i will never people now. but i will never i will never stop thinking and feet inches. tell me feet and inches. can you tell me how are in metres and how tall you are in metres and centimetres. no how tall you are in metres and cenuh,etres. no how tall you are in metres and cen uh, atres.metre 82. >> uh, one metre 82. >> uh, one metre 82. >> which is exactly six foot. >> which is exactly six foot. >> oh, okay. so you've got up, but that's because i'm a

narcissist. >> so we are. >> so there we are. >> so there we are. >> you don't look it. i have to say one more section to go. it's deliciously self—referential, with gb news content foxing and bewildering the legacy media thatis bewildering the legacy media that is all coming up very shortly . see you

welcome back to headliners cressida. it seems that a pretty obvious joke on gb news has been confusing the public or at least the metro police . the metro police. >> the metro confusion as gb news presenter, who champions free speech, blocks critics and before we get into the confusing details , i think we've got details, i think we've got a clip of what happened on christmas day night. >> okay , paul, to host the show, >> okay, paul, to host the show, you want me to stop hosting the show? >> t- t we'll do okay. >> fine. okay, we'll do okay. >> fine. >> fine. >> what? okay, fine, we do. >> what? okay, fine, we will do. we'll your way. >> what? okay, fine, we will do. we'we'll your way. >> what? okay, fine, we will do. we'we'll have our way. >> what? okay, fine, we will do. we'we'll have ourandrew. andrew >> we'll have it. andrew. andrew ellis . ellis. >> thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> i want to thank our host. i want to thank andrew doyle, and

i want to thank paul paul cox and i. and there we go. and what we do is we've got our calendar, uh, available for uh, this is still available for next year . if can. whoa next year. so if you can. whoa whoa whoa , for goodness sake, whoa whoa, for goodness sake, i'm sorry . i'm sorry. >> i'm not having that. >> i'm not having that. >> advertising is calendar on our newspaper show. our boxing day newspaper show. >> let's get some professionalism back in the room i >>i -- >> i can't believe people really thought that that was him losing it. >> oh, do they? i mean, i don't know if the metro really. they can't believe that the metro drew, but they said that twitter was with people really couldn't. >> i mean, i don't know. well, if you weren't familiar if you if you weren't familiar with maybe you'd think with the show, maybe you'd think what's here. with the show, maybe you'd think whtbut here. with the show, maybe you'd think whtbut that's here. with the show, maybe you'd think whtbut that's true are. with the show, maybe you'd think whtbut that's true of. with the show, maybe you'd think whtbut that's true of any >> but that's true of any television. if you know the colleagues they're colleagues and what they're like. it's a shame we like. yeah um, it's a shame we cut out that he cut paul out of that clip. he was involved. >> it was. >> basically. it was. it was a skit based on that time that i lost temper with louis and lost my temper with louis and threw a glass water over him, lost my temper with louis and thre'thenilass water over him, lost my temper with louis and thre'then left. water over him, lost my temper with louis and thre'then left. andater over him, lost my temper with louis and thre'then left. and did over him, lost my temper with louis and thre'then left. and did you him, lost my temper with louis and thre'then left. and did you know? and then left. and did you know? of course. but every has of course. but every host has lost with louis. lost his temper with louis. louis? oh, yeah. yeah. >> of course. yeah >> of course. yeah >> every time i thought they looked in the black looked great in the in the black tie, though, wonder we

tie, though, i wonder whether we shouldn't tie, though, i wonder whether we shouldr basis. tie, though, i wonder whether we shouldrbasis. as tie, though, i wonder whether we shouldr basis. as it was tie, though, i wonder whether we shouldrbasis. as it was black regular basis. as it was black tie for christmas, but still. um this is talking about this also is talking about about the blocking business. >> and people have been >> right. and people have been accusingyes but i don't think people. yes but i don't think that's what's been happening . that's what's been happening. i'd never heard of block lists before today. you get them. um, so it sounds like it. it's the some ai stuff is going on or there's some or not ai, some automatic blocking is happening. yeah so it's not as it sounds . yeah so it's not as it sounds. >> if he does block them, that's entirely his right. well of course they say. oh, it's a bit ironic. speech champion i ironic. free speech champion i don't whether it's don't know. again whether it's performative bafflement or perform ative bafflement or whether really performative bafflement or whether really don't whether they really don't understand but understand the difference, but the point of free speech is that you're either you're not allowed, held either legally commercially legally or sort of commercially or to prevent or through coercion to prevent somebody else from being hurt. you expected to listen to you aren't expected to listen to them. completely them. that's a completely different world to listen to. >> andrew's idea of twitter, you're not in you can't enforce your vulnerable to their endless pestering and bad faith questioning. >> yeah, exactly . >> yeah, exactly. >> yeah, exactly. >> i mean, and it's also as well it's such a non—story what

people on twitter are upset. really? yeah really. i've never heard anybody be ever be upset on twitter. >> come on. i'm afraid that the metro does stoop that low quite often. but nevertheless. anyway france is. if didn't know any france is. if i didn't know any better, think this was a better, i'd think this was a stunt as well. next stunt as well. this next story. but it's the but apparently it's true in the times . times. >> w- p think you're times. >> think you're being >> listen, i think you're being incredibly phobic and we are incredibly fat phobic and we are body positive here news. body positive here at gb news. simon. uh, 28 stone man sues over being kicked off pe teaching course . uh, the teaching course. uh, the university said he wasn't literally kicked. >> no , i mean, i mean , if he >> no, i mean, i mean, if he was, let's be fair , he's not was, let's be fair, he's not going to go very far, is he ? going to go very far, is he? anyway, sorry that is out of order. 28 stone, though . i mean, order. 28 stone, though. i mean, that's not like overweight. that's not chunky. that is, that's clinically obese. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> of course you cannot you cannot project an interest in physical exercise in that situation however well informed you are. well this is it. >> so he was, uh, his name is david david lopez. and he was granted a medical exemption by a

doctor as he could not stand or walk for prolonged periods of time . so how is he going to be time. so how is he going to be a pe teacher if he can't stand or walk? >> and he will no doubt launch some kind of video, you know, like some tiktok channel or something now and have millions of it of followers who find it hilariously that he knows hilariously funny that he knows exactly how you should do you exactly how you should do a, you know, reverse squat. knows exactly how you should do a, you kno theoryverse squat. knows exactly how you should do a, you kno theory ,3rse squat. knows exactly how you should do a, you kno theory , hes squat. knows exactly how you should do a, you kno theory , he knows. knows exactly how you should do a, you kno theory , he knows the knows exactly how you should do a, you kno theory , he knows the theory, the theory, he knows the theory, and he can say, don't do as i did. >> do as i say . >> do as i say. >>— >> do as i say. >> well, it's like, but would you go to you go to a you go to would you go to a cardiologist if you sat down and in front of him was a bacon sandwich and a cigarette, would you, would you run on a treadmill, which is what most vocal exercise people do? >> would you run on a treadmill while stone man was while a 28 stone man was standing with standing next to you with a clipboard and pen ? clipboard and a pen? >> actually, i would do because i'd film i'd go, here's my i'd film it. i'd go, here's my personal trainer. i'd on personal trainer. i'd put it on tiktok. it'd go viral. >> be very motivated . >> he could be very motivated. there's nothing like an obesity documentary to me. you put the biscuits down, he's in. >> back. he's against the >> he's back. he's against the wall now . yeah. little he wall now. yeah. little zero, he

goes from here. cressida velazquez masterpiece vanishes into thin air. or at least been withdrawn from sale, which is slightly less. well, there you go. >> uh, express mystery as £28 million painting vanishes into thin air again just before it was due to be sold. so presumably this is an insurance i mean, allegedly. well, what can we say ? can we say? >> i've seen it, though, right? it does exist. this is a velazquez that goes in and out of existence over the last couple of hundred years. apparently it might be apparently i think it might be the wife read book the one. my wife read a book about velazquez that comes and goes know if they goes and i don't know if they have tendency disappear have this tendency to disappear dunng have this tendency to disappear during all that sort during the war and all that sort of thing, of course, repeated during the war and all that sort of case|, of course, repeated during the war and all that sort of case they've rse, repeated during the war and all that sort of case they've got repeated during the war and all that sort of case they've got to repeated in case they've got to be anyway. one. yeah. in case they've got to be anywewe one. yeah. in case they've got to be anywewe don't one. yeah. in case they've got to be anywewe don't know. yeah. in case they've got to be anywewe don't know too ah. in case they've got to be anywewe don't know too much. well, we don't know too much. let's we squeeze this let's see if we can squeeze this in the last 40s francis, in into the last 40s francis, the decline the legacy the sad decline of the legacy press a knock on press is having a knock on effect on the vernacular street architecture of rome. effect on the vernacular street arciindeed, of rome. effect on the vernacular street arciindeed, itf rome. effect on the vernacular street arciindeed, it is,)me. effect on the vernacular street arciindeed, it is, you know, so >> indeed, it is, you know, so the beloved kiosks which form part the landscape of rome, part of the landscape of rome, they are slowly dying out because nobody is buying a new legacy media anymore, like newspapers and magazines .

newspapers and magazines. >> so they've had to resort to sell hot priest calendars to stay afloat. >> we've seen these hot priest calendars on twitter. they're apparently quite a cult object. people christmas people get them for christmas presents are presents and the priests are pretty . some of go back pretty hot. some of them go back to the 40s and 50s. you know, when young italian had when young italian men had a little something about them. yeah. no, i yeah. oh, really? yeah. no, i definitely them. definitely i recommend them. yeah >> recommend >> you recommend them. >> you recommend them. >> thing about it >> but the other thing about it is saying because rome is they're saying because rome is they're saying because rome is tourist is now basically just a tourist resort. nobody even reads resort. um, nobody even reads italian. i mean, they'd be better the express better off selling the express and . yeah. um. oh just and the sun. yeah. um. oh just a hot priest. >> anyway, something for all the kids to love. >> the show is nearly over. let's take another quick look at thursday's front pages. the daily mail hunt plan to slash death tax by half, and mariah carey is splitting up . uh, the carey is splitting up. uh, the times labour will promise big expansion of health care. delors and margaret thatcher have finally been reunited in heaven. financial times global defence order books bulge as ukraine

puts budget on war footing. the i homes bought up for axed hs2 rail line and rented out for millions. the guardian domestic abuse survivors have lost trust in us. the star gridlock. that's all we have time for. thank you to my guests, chris and francis foster. we're back tomorrow at 11 pm. and i'll return with stephen allen and jonathan cogan. that will an cogan. that will be an absolutely roaring show. you absolutely roaring show. see you then. absolutely roaring show. see you then . stay breakfast. then. stay tuned for breakfast. good night . good night. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar for sponsors of whether on . gb news. >> hello again! it's aidan mcgivern here from the met office with the gp. news forecast. it stays wet and windy over the next 24 hours, but not as wet or as windy. the rain turns more showery and the hill snow in far north also snow in the far north also eases, but low pressure stays with us. storm gareth was named because of the very treacherous conditions we've seen across northern during the northern scotland during the last 12 to 18 hours, and there will continue to be some heavy rain and hill snow across the

northern isles, along with 80 mile hour gusts for mile per hour wind gusts for a time overnight. elsewhere time overnight. but elsewhere across it stays across the country it stays windy. turns to showers windy. the rain turns to showers and the bulk of the showers will be some clear be in the west, with some clear spells further but a spells further east, but with a blustery feel overnight. it's not going to be a particularly chilly start to thursday. having said that, it stays cold across scotland with further hill snow expected into the day on thursday. outbreaks of rain at lower levels and certainly plenty of showers or longer spells of rain elsewhere across the country. the spells rain the country. the spells of rain will be interspersed a will be interspersed by a brighter it's not brighter intervals, and it's not going be quite as windy it going to be quite as windy as it has dunng going to be quite as windy as it has during the last 24 has been during the last 24 hours, wind gusts of 40 to hours, with wind gusts of 40 to 50 miles an hour, 12 celsius in the south, 5 to 8 further north. so staying chilly across scotland and friday starts off bright in many places , bright in many places, particularly towards central and southeastern parts of the country. but there'll be further cloud and outbreaks of rain elsewhere. again, hills , snow or elsewhere. again, hills, snow or even snow to lower levels across northern scotland and into the weekend . it's now that warm

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