>> gb news at 11:00 and england is through to the euro finals in berlin. after beating the netherlands two one tonight in dortmund. aston villa's ollie watkins scoring a stunning stoppage time winner. the three lions, now facing spain on sunday with the hope of being crowned european champions. none of us here @gbnews can quite believe it. tonight the prime minister, sir keir starmer ,

minister, sir keir starmer, sending his congratulations to the england squad and confirming he'll attend the final in berlin on sunday. his majesty the king, also sending his good wishes to the england squad and encouraging gareth southgate's side to secure victory before the need for any last minute wonder , goals or any other wonder, goals or any other dramatic penalties in the final against spain, the scriptwriter has put for me it's coming home. let's hope that it is . now. in let's hope that it is. now. in other news tonight, let's tell you, sir keir starmer has said he wants to use the nato summit in washington to reset relations with world leaders and send a message to russia's president putin. the summit marks achaea's debut on the world stage as prime minister, just less than a week after the labour landslide, which put him in number 10. he's due to hold detailed talks with joe biden at the white house later on tonight. >> the change of government makes no difference to the support that we will provide . support that we will provide. we've been united on this when we were in opposition, and it

was really important to me to be able to affirm that face to face in the meeting. i did speak to him immediately after i was sworn in as prime minister last week, and so we build on that here at nato at this important summit, because it is an opportunity for our labour government to reaffirm our commitment to nato . commitment to nato. >> well, the actor george clooney is urging joe biden to step down as the democratic nominee for president. george clooney, who hosted a huge hollywood fundraiser for the president just last month, gathering a record $28 million, appears to have changed his mind about joe biden being on the democratic ticket after his disastrous , disastrous disastrous, disastrous performance in the first presidential debate against donald trump, which was televised across the united states . now, news here at home, states. now, news here at home, the chief suspect in a triple murder in hertfordshire, which took place last evening, has been located by police following an extensive manhunt, hertfordshire police searched

for 26 year old kyle clifford and surrounded a cemetery in north london this afternoon . north london this afternoon. paramedics and an air ambulance, as well as forensic teams were on the scene. it's understood that the three murdered women in hertfordshire were aged 25, 28 and 61 and they were the two daughters and wife of bbc racing commentator john daughters and wife of bbc racing commentatorjohn hunt . the force commentatorjohn hunt. the force said the suspect is receiving medical treatment, having been found in the cemetery in enfield with injuries, police confirmed, though no shots were fired. residents who live close to the murder scene in hertfordshire have described the incident as tragic and disturbing . tragic and disturbing. >> because this is such as everyone is saying, such a quiet area, such a safe place where there's never been any sort of cause for concern now for something so heinous to have happenedin something so heinous to have happened in such close proximity to all of us, we're all very on edge. >> i've never seen so many police in my life . they're police in my life. they're crazy. absolutely crazy .

crazy. absolutely crazy. >> the deaths of three ladies in the same household is incredibly regrettable, and it's very shocking. and scaring for local people . people. >> now, a second man has been arrested as part of an investigation into a small boat people smuggling network. the national crime agency says the 25 year old iraqi national was apprehended this morning at an address in preston in lancashire. he was detained on suspicion of facilitating illegal migrants and obtaining leave to remain in the uk by deception. it follows the arrest of an iranian national, also in preston, in . may. well, in other preston, in. may. well, in other news tonight, if you're a shrek fan , you'll be happy about this . fan, you'll be happy about this. >> well, at least we know where the princess is. >> but where's the dragon .7 >> but where's the dragon? >> but where's the dragon? >> there's going to be a fifth shrek. mike myers , eddie murphy, shrek. mike myers, eddie murphy, and cameron diaz all coming back for the new movie. but there's no word yet on antonio banderas

returning as puss in boots, the fifth instalment due to land in cinemas in july 2026. so a little way off just yet, and that's 16 years since the last sequel came out, and 25 years on from the original premiere , it's from the original premiere, it's on my to do list. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. now it's time for headliners for the very latest gb news, direct your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com. >> forward slash alerts . >> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> hello and welcome to headliners, your first look at thursday's top new stories. >> joining me tonight two wonderful comedians. we have stephen n allen and nicolas de santos de santos . although i say santos de santos. although i say it like that, it sounds like two. santos, how are you, gentlemen? you're looking very

smart . smart. >> well done for making everyone i know what you two are like. the tides. yes. i better bring the. bring the good gear. >> i can't help feeling i'm. i'm teetering right on the edge of chromatic incoherence. this evening . the this. i don't know evening. the this. i don't know how it's looking on the screen. actually it's not too bad, is it? >> it looks looks good from here. >> my main battle every night is to avoid making my face look utterly flushed in the gammon style, which our viewers have learned to expect, let us take a look at the front pages that we have on our desk. we have apparently a bit of a glitch in the system not allowing us to bnng the system not allowing us to bring up on screen, but the guardian steve, kick us off. >> they have well, they have football with a headline hollandaise, which is a pun, but it really only works on one level here. what's this? why is the sauce relevant to football? >> hollandaise sauce . because >> hollandaise sauce. because they they left the dutch confused, i suppose. is that why i. it's not enough. >> not enough has no use, is it. no. >> no one's worried about hollandaise is. >> what do you have that on a steak. yeah. okay. so maybe

they're suggesting that these are beef beefy steak kind of men in the guardian would say. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> anyway, we beat the dutch. that's the point. exactly, exactly. >> it's the only thing. the only reason i tune in, starmer, is the other story. shocking prison crisis is worse than i feared. this must be what he's going through. you get the job, you get the actual details and realise, like, you know, one of the other guy didn't fight very well. now there's a they've got such an overcrowding with prisons issue, they're looking to change. they already had an early release scheme to serve 50% of your sentence, and you weren't an absolute violent wrong and you could get released. they want to drop that to 40% of your sentence. barely touching the sides, this could mean more than 20,000 criminals back on the streets. >> but what if it works? >> but what if it works? >> what if it turns out that they're less likely to reoffend? sure >> i suppose we'll find out. >> i suppose we'll find out. >> it's an experiment, isn't it? >> it's an experiment, isn't it? >> it's an experiment, isn't it? >> it's not an experiment i'd love to do with me being around for it. what i was thinking is you know, there's a certain type of person who says prisons these days are like holiday camps. yeah. holiday camps. yes. they're not full.

>> no. they're not. >> no. they're not. >> so why don't we release people from prison to holiday camps? what are you going to do, say it's like a holiday camp. it already is. >> well, i've already said that they. they managed to knock out nightingale hospitals very quickly when there was a pandemic. why can we not have nightingale prisons? you don't need to have super rigid kind of high steel enforced fences , high steel enforced fences, just, you know, put those ankle bracelets on them that, contract if they go more than 20m away from her, you know, that's the kind of thing. yeah. or maybe one around the around the midriff. just take them off the streets. >> just take them off the streets. >> the dogs have been up, you know, to stop the barking . there know, to stop the barking. there are other ways i think we could control violent prisoners nowadays. and i've been looking into, you know , the, you know, into, you know, the, you know, as you say, the not the 9:00 news sketch had it 40 years ago. cut off their goolies, sir. i mean, that's one of them, obviously, but, there are all kinds of ways that we could be minimising the threat that violent people present to the world without keeping them cooped up. i feel prison is a very 19th century technology.

people might find it surprising, given my general political drift, but i don't . i am drift, but i don't. i am surprised, yeah. i don't think it's the best solution, but also from a pr point of view, do you really want to mark your government's first policy by releasing more criminals into the streets? isn't it a little bit like though? also, you know, whenever you get i mean, some of us you work in the media industry, you'll be familiar with this phenomenon where you, you, you maybe somebody, a tv company has commissioned a pilot for a sitcom. and then by the time it gets made, there's a new guy in the head, and he just clears the desk . of all the clears the desk. of all the previous projects, you know, that's basically what a government does, right? they're clearing the desk of all the previous prisoners in this story, starting again from scratch. >> it actually says that all the advisers were telling rishi this needed to be done. >> and he delayed. yeah, quite wisely, because now it becomes keir's first act rather than rishi's last. yes, absolutely. >> well i wish him well. he's got mr timpson in charge. or is it sir? timpson, sir. whatever the job, the head of the make him a i don't know about the cobbler and, and key cutter and,

if he's going to release those, he's going to have to open a lot of new branches . there'll be one of new branches. there'll be one on every corner. maybe they could combine with pret, nicholas, what's on the cover of the financial times, >> top story, biden's re—election drive reels under fresh blows from pelosi and clooney. very exciting times in us politics. of course, after that infamous fateful, trump—biden debate where biden, fell down, face first, there was a surreal moment for about a week, the media were honest about his senile, situation. obviously everybody knew. we knew, everybody had seen those videos and, but but but the media had to pretend that they were shocked because they had been covering for him up until then, and they were so furious that they were betrayed by biden's aides, who decided to send him to the debate. >> when you say the media, you mean the american , the mean the american, the mainstream american media in

this country? i think there was it had been discussed a little bit. admit there's some i mean, i don't know, in proportion, in proportion, but, you know, there wasn't a week without biden falling over some steps or finding or losing his way, getting out of the stage, all those gibberish, funny sounding words. and of course, the thing was a lot of that content was shared online where a lot of people, if they wanted to , could people, if they wanted to, could convince themselves these were taken out of context, or if you just expanded the angle of view a bit, you would understand what was going on or possibly even it was going on or possibly even it was i and the white house spokeswoman repeatedly called it even deep fake. >> there was an army of cnn and other mainstream media commentators who came and came out and said, no, biden is in tip top shape. he's the best version of him that i know. and so on. yeah. and then soon after the debate, they were furious because they had been betrayed . because they had been betrayed. but as soon as they realised biden is not going anywhere, he literally has said, only god can make me change my mind. amazing. >> that's quite likely, isn't it? yes god is giving him all

the signs. >> i mean, all those you know, gibberish, incomprehensible words. i think it's a work of god, though, isn't it? >> i mean, there was one guy today, i think this was on nbc, a quite a substantial interview, about five minutes with a fully qualified neurologist who said specifically , he has parkinson's specifically, he has parkinson's disease. this is this is not some armchair diagnosis. honestly if you show these symptoms, you show this footage to a medical student. and he failed to identify parkinson's, he would be he would be failed. you know, it's really, really clear. put his job on the line. this isn't like senile in that general kind of mild cognitive impairment. we're all, you know, having senior moments. you know, we'll get a bit forgetful. it's a specific disorder. >> exactly. you know, and we have trump. >> and yet to have that and still want i mean there are you know , we all kind of think i'm know, we all kind of think i'm not ready to retire yet. you know, that's a familiar enough scenario. you know, planning your exit strategy is a is nothing any of us really look

forward to. >> but but the irony is that on the one hand, he has said this is the most important election of the american's lifetime because democracy is at stake, the republic is at stake. but on the republic is at stake. but on the other hand, when every poll and so many senior democrats have suggested that he should , have suggested that he should, step aside for the sake of beating trump, he is clinging on to it and the latest one is, is george clooney again , george clooney again, ironically, a couple of weeks before the debate , george before the debate, george clooney and julia roberts and some other hollywood figures organised a massive fundraiser for him. but now clooney is even has joined the ranks of those who say he should step down. >> said in fact, at that fundraiser, he wasn't the man i knew and, you know, helped to win in 2020. you kind of think maybe you should have said something, then you say quickly on this, though i know every time this gets discussed, people will tweet and say it's not nice, mocking people for their age. >> this isn't about age. >> this isn't about age. >> it's not. >> it's not. >> it's not mocking him either. >> it's not mocking him either. >> this, it was this week. >> this, it was this week. >> brian blessed was in the news. he's 87. so older. the guy walks seven miles a day. he's

sharp, he's with it. age isn't the problem here. no, it's your ability to live . ability to live. >> and. >> and. >> and. >> and also the president. there'd be a war. >> let's be honest. >> let's be honest. >> and also, i will just mention , >> and also, i will just mention, ridley scott, who is, releasing gladiator two. i don't know exactly how much creative input he's had, but it's his name as director. he's 87, i think. yeah, it can be done. it is a matter of chance. the time is very quickly. steve. bills will soar to clean up water firm's financial mess. >> so earlier this week, we found out that thames water said they couldn't stay afloat. that was a pun that would have been great if it weren't for the fact i'm going to have to pay more households will face bill increases of up to 73% because it was the wrong privatisation andifs it was the wrong privatisation and it's done the wrong way around, instead of it being the nafion around, instead of it being the nation funding a vital infrastructure. now it just has to be the bill payers stumping up to make the repairs. that should have happened. meanwhile, we all know the benefit of the rewards. >> yeah, and shareholders have had an absolute disgrace. i think you have to. i don't know

how anyone who's far right enough to feel that water privatisation worked. to be honest, i'm up with the railways as well. well, those are the front pages coming up. in part two. we have keir and joe coming to face blank, staring face farage facing a war attrition from the

and welcome back to headliners with me, simon evans. steve and alan and nicholas de santo. steve, the independent anticipate keir starmer's meeting with whoever is operating joe biden at the nato summit . yeah. summit. yeah. >> starmer to hold first meeting with biden at nato summit as pm promises new air defences for ukraine. i was thinking when you are so new to the job of pm of a small little place like the uk, and you meet the president of america, you must be thinking like, oh, he probably didn't even know who i am. but these days, if that happens, it's going to make joe look bad. yeah, he's got to call him sonny through the whole thing. yeah. chief, come over here and in the footage. actually, we've shown

it a few times in the news. it's amazing how short sir keir starmer is. i bumped into him in edinburgh when i was up there doing it, when we were up there doing it, when we were up there doing a show. yeah, and i was surprised at how short he was. i didn't mention it because it would have stopped all of those jokes about rishi being short. yeah, he made a good living out of those. >> he doesn't come across as short, does he? what is that about? i wonder whether they'll change the camera angles now that he's pm. yeah. expose it of course. one talking point they have is that joe biden had a sort of interaction with neil kinnock many years ago . kinnock many years ago. >> i don't know if you remember that. >> you know about this one, nicholas. i didn't his first run at president in about 1990, something like that. his first attempt at candidature was derailed when it emerged that he had plagiarised one of neil kinnock's speeches about being the first person from his family to go to university. yeah. oh, really ? yeah, yeah, yeah. i am really? yeah, yeah, yeah. i am the first man from the valleys and all that with that accent. >> i would have done it, but, yes. i don't think of this story. biden's not the big news because he probably won't be running for president. according to some democrats and some actuaries. yeah, this is more abouti actuaries. yeah, this is more about i think starmer met president zelenskyy and has said

that he can use british missiles at long—range to attack russian targets. if this all happens, this is quite a step forward . this is quite a step forward. meanwhile, in the uk, he's being criticised for not being strong enough on defence, with james cartlidge , who's a new one of cartlidge, who's a new one of these, said that it's massive uncertainty because of the way that they're talking about funding. this is a case of it was in the manifesto a pm doing something that's actually in the manifesto. and apparently it's a shock. >> well, it's going to be a few of those, i suppose, because people don't read manifestos anymore, do they? i don't know what they do . base it on, what they do. base it on, nicholas. anti—racism activists nicholas. anti —racism activists have nicholas. anti—racism activists have pledged to disrupt reform meetings for the foreseeable future, which i suppose is what they're intended for, isn't it really? >> well , farage really? >> well, farage and reform really? >> well , farage and reform face >> well, farage and reform face sustained protests from anti —racism sustained protests from anti—racism activists. now, this is quite remarkable because in nigel farage's constituency of clacton, they have already interrupted and disrupted his first press conference and at the same time they see themselves as victims of

allegations of racism. i mean, they haven't provided a, any, any evidence for that , but they any evidence for that, but they have taken responsibility for disrupting his press conference. stand up for racism is the name of this activist group , stand up for racism is the name of this activist group, and stand up for racism is the name of this activist group , and they of this activist group, and they have threatened to be alert and to go to future manifestations and events. public events by nigel farage and his reform party. so i just don't get it. if we live under the rule of law, if racism has happened, you have the right channels to report it. >> thing about racism is you can allege it against people, can't you? just with the with no no evidence at all, just from the vague sense the sort of smoke that surrounds them. there are people, the harder people than farage to pin it on that, frankly. get it, you know, i mean, i'm not saying that any stain does adhere to farage, but obviously his his a lot of his campaigning has been anti—immigration. and from there you can make a fairly short leap across to the well, what exactly is it that you don't, you know, but it is just fantastic how these allegations can be thrown around as we all know.

>> i suppose it was made worse by the thing that happened just before the election. it's mentioned in the article the, georgie david, she was the one who stood down as a candidate saying they're all racist. yes. and the reform defence was well, she couldn't have met all of them, which feels like the wrong tactic. i wouldn't have gone that way. but they accused her of being a tory plant. look again at the tories. do you think they could have orchestrated that level of subterfuge that tone? >> i don't know for sure, but there were some extraordinarily suspicious, dodgy tricks being played against reform. i think that that whole business with the channel four expose of the actor, with the rough voice , actor, with the rough voice, we've got a video, he goes, right, i can also do this voice , right, i can also do this voice, or i come across as a bit of a wrongand, you know what i mean? and then there he is on on concealed camera going, yeah, let's go and do some barracking. i'll tell you what, i'd have them all shot, but just like i don't know if that i'm not saying it was the conservative party or indeed any political party, but there was definitely some orchestrated attempt to undermine their credibility. he raised his spotlight profile quite a bit, so maybe he was a

self do you think he's doing? what is that thing called where you can £50 and you can address somebody's birthday party now like cameo. cameo. that's i'm available. he'll be popular in certain circles anyway. steve macron's party has an interesting response to losing the recent election in the telegraph. >> yeah, they say the french don't want left wing governments tax rises. no, they should have voted a different way then . it's voted a different way then. it's a bit late now. this is all berger , who said that the berger, who said that the centrist bloc is the only alternative to the nfp coalition. so let's let's go there in a bit of a pickle. so let's start where it starts. macron got some bad results for the european election. so said let's do a presidential one then first round no prime ministerial. >> he's presidential. he called it. he called he called a general parliamentary one. >> so the hard right the national rally, the rally national, they won the first. they were doing well in the first one. so then it became more of a centrist right and, sorry, centrist, left and left versus right. yeah and if you just make it a left versus right, to be fair, the left got

more votes. that's. >> but the one of these left is the nfp or whatever. they can't remember. they are really quite hard left apparently. yes. right. the popular front, nicolas. he'll know he's our european. >> so. well you know, in italian we say if you are the cause of your own ill, you must blame just yourself. yeah right. so here macron called that snap election, rassemblement national or national rally was poised to win . they did win the first win. they did win the first round. but then macron's party and the left coalition, what did they do? they withdrew candidates either from this side or the other side, in order to turn every constituency into a two horse race. >> it's really close to rigging, isn't it? and i don't want to say that it is rigging, because obviously it's within the rules. it's playing the system. >> but when rigging is not just about stuffing fake ballot papers into ballot boxes, right? >> that's what the brexit party did in 2019 as well. yeah, yeah. >> so they have reaped the whirlwind. now they are basically stuck there because now we have three blocks and these three blocks have more or less the same number of votes .

less the same number of votes. >> and of course it's ungovernable. and of course the natural scenario would be for the so—called centre right of macron to go with the far right of le pen. le pen, who has said, inaudible. or a reprehensible things such as, you know, let's deport criminals and ironically, they are the pro—israeli side, they are the pro—israeli side, the far right being the pro—israeli side in all of this matter. but the leftist bloc includes , melancon's, includes, melancon's, indomitable france or unbowed, unbowed france . okay. next to unbowed france. okay. next to communists and socialists. so not just one communist party, but more than that public, the sort of historical traditional. yeah and they want more taxes, they want more refugees. they are going to define a new refugee status based on climate change. so now you can claim refugee status because of soil erosion in your country. so it's wow , it's all a mess. and it's wow, it's all a mess. and it's all a disaster of macron's

making. >> and he made it very quickly. but go steve, i was gonna say it makes first past the post look like it makes a lot of sense. well the thing with first past the post, which i think people don't entirely understand, but perhaps have done recently, is that you still have to form a coalition. you just form it before the election. so you say this is the coalition. you'll be voting for, and people don't seem to grasp that. >> and that is the mess here of the part of it is already a coalition of a whole set of things. and the solution is to make a coalition of a bit of that coalition mixed with a bit of this coalition that is such a mess. yeah, it's going to look like it's not going to work before it starts, at least if you get your arguing done before you get your arguing done before you have the election. >> and part of macron's calculation. so i read anyway , i calculation. so i read anyway, i don't understand french. all of this stuff is kind of just spewed out and digested. but part of macron's calculation was put le pen in a position where she actually has to govern or be involved in the governing process, and then a bit like the snp, perhaps you will see how rubbish they are when they are not allowed to simply spout their usual rhetoric on what amounts to a single issue.

that's not going to happen ehhenis that's not going to happen either, is it? le pen is still going to be able to claim the an even heightened sense of grievance compared to previously . grievance compared to previously. they have been played out of the system by coordinated, malice. >> they might become even more popular. and right now they are the biggest party. yeah, they are the biggest party. and this is not a good show for democracy to bite his scrawny little bat . to bite his scrawny little bat. >> anyway. guardian now, steve, and this remake of the osbornes looks lit as they say. >> yep, jacob rees—mogg and family to star in fly on the wall documentary. >> it will show the former tory mp his six children and, of course, the nanny in the run up to the election and the aftermath. don't spoil the ending for me. i've taped it, and this documentary is going to be on disney, though. why are we not doing it here? we've got him under contract. we could have knocked it together, but they it will be released and show it says it will lift the lid on the man behind the public image. he says it will be more fawlty towers than downton abbey. because these nannies from barcelona. i don't really understand it. he says, what's the worst that could happen? labour landslide. i have just ruined the end of the week. but

this will just be posh people. porn there is something of we brits. we love to watch posh people and we go, oh, look at them, they're posh. look how weird they are. they're posh. and the other part of our brain goes, but they are our betters. they should rule. yes, sir. >> well, there is something about the rees—moggs. he's not just posh like aristocracy. he comes from a father who had a significant role in the sort of mid 20th century as well . and. mid 20th century as well. and. and i think it will of the times. yes. i think it will be quite interesting possibly seeing his family because they are very traditional, but not just in a kind of stuffy that we've done things like this since the 12th century kind of way. he clearly has made it work. you know, to some large extent he is an he's not just posh, he's a he's like a kind of he's like one of those like, rock formations in the monument valley that has survived extraordinary erosion, you know, throughout his people over many, many ages. there are lots of wacko, posh people who just, you know, go hunting and fishing and three point eventing or whatever, you know, rees—mogg has actually remained , i mean, has actually remained, i mean, of course, you know, on his side to some extent because he's on this channel, but he actually does remain engaged with the

modern world without sacrificing any of his, i don't know, his quintessential. yes exactly. yeah. what do you think? >> no, no, i agree he should be definitely entertaining. yeah, because of his manners and mannerisms and the way he speaks. and of course, now that he has more time on his hand because he's not in the parliament, is he can divide himself between gb news and this series. >> i think it will make absolutely compelling viewing. so that's it for part two. in part three, we have prosecco, nazis, book bloggers and thin skinned rozzers. in fact, all the worst people on the planet.

and welcome back to headliner. so, nicholas, we've had champagne socialists in this country for some time, but it took the germans to find the antidote. they have prosecco nazis, right? >> but nobody goes after champagne socialists . >> but nobody goes after champagne socialists. unlike prosecco nazis singing xenophobic chant prosecco. nazis

singing xenophobic chant prompts police crackdown . so this story police crackdown. so this story actually came out in late may. there's this island, which is a high end tourist resort in northern germany called sylt, and there was a group of, party goers, well—dressed, according to the telegraph. but i've seen the video. it's true. they have adapted, this techno song called l'amour toujours by gigi d'agostino , singing the lyrics d'agostino, singing the lyrics basically singing this chant. germany for germans , foreigners germany for germans, foreigners out, of course, in german . out, of course, in german. auslander, deutschland, deutschland fur die deutschen. yeah! auslander. raus! raus! i had i have heard that chorus without realising it was the euro technique. yeah. yeah, exactly. it's really, it's really caught on. yeah, and of course, i mean, just to go down a little rabbit hole, there's a weird thing which i am aware of online, that there is a kind of

like fashwave, i think they call it, which is a sort of europop. >> it sounds a bit like the pet shop boys or something, but it's a rather than what we still think of as being fascist music, which is kind of bump, bump, bump, you know, banging on a drum and a marching band. it's a kind of more disco beat. yeah. it's interesting, you know, diversify your product to reach different sectors of the market. >> the algorithms never shown that to me, though. >> it's funny, though, isn't he? why did you get it? >> there's one particular song, it's not called the i think it's called in my dark room or something, but there's a chorus of it goes i dream in stereo. see if you can find that. and then you'll notice. and then they make these kind of montages of, of, you know, scenes from the war or whatever. it's, it's a really curious little. yeah. i mean, it's almost like a cottage industry or something. i don't know, maybe it's more dangerous than i'm giving it credit for. i don't know, but, yeah . don't know, but, yeah. >> pop culture aside, the police are now. well two of those, singers holiday makers were immediately fired from work and

banned from their university. and as if that was not enough, now the police have made arrests . now the police have made arrests. and the police says between october 2023 and june, this yean october 2023 and june, this year, they have received 360 complaints about different groups of people chanting this thing. >> so was it was it somebody who thought they were their friend, who videoed it and shared it on social media? >> possibly, possibly. but now, as i said, the incidents are so many. even during the austria, turkey football match in the euros, it was sang and even by some non—german speakers, i saw, the videos were out. and of course the question is, is this the right thing to do to go after people who are just chanting? >> well, i suppose it is fair to say germany are a little bit thinner skinned on this front than than other nations singing the song's not illegal, so they're not being arrested for singing the song they were doing nazi salutes, which is illegal in germany. >> so they've been arrested. >> so they've been arrested. >> so the question is, can you sing the song and not do the nazi salute and get away with it? >> you know, that little indoor

version? because the high court. >> hello, hello. yeah but you know the ones who got fired? >> the two girls in the original video who got fired or banned from university, they were not doing neither the salute salute nor the moustache gesture. >> and they still aged, but nevertheless . yeah. what do you nevertheless. yeah. what do you think, steve? >> prosecco nazis. it's schnapps. >> yeah, exactly . what you need >> yeah, exactly. what you need is a good german sparkling wine. and that's the problem. there isn't one. >> oh, well, no there is. my dad used to get it. there is a sort of fizzy liebfraumilch or something. >> yeah, but is it, is it, is it high end or not? because there's. it's supposed to be the equivalent of champagne bubbles. >> fizzy blue nun . >> fizzy blue nun. >> fizzy blue nun. >> bubbly nun. steve, staying with the telegraph for an epochal clash. this is more cancel culture stuff between authors and book bloggers for the soul of bookselling. >> yeah, i thought cancel culture was over and done with that. was the story blowing up again , tilly loves books. sacked again, tilly loves books. sacked by waterstones over comments about gender critical author filed this under muck about and find out because book influencer

tilly fitzgerald said that she'd tear up the books by christina delcher. who's against the idea of gender ideology and its impact in the that industry. she got dropped by waterstones. so even if you don't need to mention the gender thing, let's look at that story again. person hired to promote books says she'll rip up books, gets fired by bookseller bookshop that she works to in be fair. >> and just to sort of tease this out, she has since clarified or possibly changed her story to indicate that she meant she has bought some of this woman's books herself. and now, having discovered that she's gender critical, she is going to throw them away. but that wasn't obvious in the initial tweet, and i think that would make a difference. i personally don't think it's a firing offence to say i've discussed. i've discovered something i don't like about you, and now i'm going to throw the books by you that i've bought previously away. to say you work in waterstones and you're going to go. and the thing is about waterstones, there is already a suspicion that their staff do bias the

selection one way or another. a strong suspicion i know in brighton where, has their name, katherine stock, i think, who wrote , was it material? girls? wrote, was it material? girls? there's there were a number of genden there's there were a number of gender. the one who was sacked from. oh no. left brighton university was hounded out essentially. and in the brighton branch of waterstones you couldn't get her book. i wanted to buy it and it wasn't stocked in a large shelf on, you know , in a large shelf on, you know, whatever you would call it, lgbt issues, they'll be like a gender critical version of the jr hartley advert. >> yes , yes, yes, it's a great >> yes, yes, yes, it's a great way of doing it. >> so it feels to me like waterstones are addressing that issue, perhaps a little bit, as well as the general, you know, the specific. >> yes. although they hide what could be a point scoring thing by saying it's nothing to do with that, that she broke the terms and conditions of employment in some way that doesn't need to be disclosed. that's why she has gotten rid of. yeah, so i it feels obviously even if you i know what you're saying about these, i'm not saying i'm buying books to rip them up. these are books i've already got, but it's still

not great. it and go like, no, i'm not going to burn your books. >> yeah, it might be a bit. >> yeah, it might be a bit. >> my life might be a bit harsh, but the shoe is on the on the other foot for once. you know who's to blame because we have people from one side of the aisle, from one side of the spectrum, usually going after other people's jobs. and livelihoods. yeah. >> and i think that's happened a lot more . and in fact, it's lot more. and in fact, it's pretty obvious that tilly herself was trying to do something like that to this author who as far as i can. yeah. >> because if you're a big influencer remotely like a right wing bigot at all, this is of course, where the where this the kind of battle lines are. >> this is where the front is now is between people who feel that their feminist, old school feminist and, and the trans rights activists and anyone who just goes , what the hell is just goes, what the hell is going on there? they're sort of left behind , you know, way in left behind, you know, way in the rear. >> it's two groups that both think they're the victim of this. yes and that's when the nastiest fighting happens. still, she has got 90,000 followers on instagram. >> she's still got them . she

>> she's still got them. she should be able to monetise that and build from that anyway. shouldn't she? and not have to get up in the morning? i would have thought that was the way forward anyway. nicholas police are proving very thin skinned about a new comedy show in the guardian. not like us, gammons . guardian. not like us, gammons. >> right? well, quite a funny story in some way. highly offensive. police condemn itv for naming new comedy show piglet's. of course, that's where the problem lies. the term pig where the problem lies. the term pig apparently was, initially used by the black panthers in the 60s 70s to refer to the police force, and because this comedy show on itv, fictitious of course, deals with, a bunch of course, deals with, a bunch of new recruits who are piglets according to the to the title and need to be brought into shape and trained to become police officers. of course. the federation police federation of england and wales has taken issue with that. they call it disgusting. choice of language, offensive , humiliating and even

dangerous. >> it's funny you mention the black panthers because i've known that the police are referred to as pigs in, general slang. not not a term i personally use, but i've certainly heard it used in my social. it's not like only used among people who genuinely believe that the police are, you know , in ineradicably. you know, know, in ineradicably. you know, i don't think it's that strong, do you? >> he's been on telly before, and i was growing up. i obviously refer to them as the five zero. yeah, because i'm down. >> i like you calling him the filth. >> i don't know where that came from, but it feels. >> i don't know. >> i don't know. >> we all have a word, don't we? my >> we all have a word, don't we? my dad calls them plod and he loves them, you know, generally. but. oh, no, here comes plod. you know, but the there's always some sort of, you know, slang phrase. it can be quite affectionate. there was. do you remember jasper carrott had a show. the detectives. yeah. and they, with robert powell and they, with robert powell and they had, they did one thing where they, it was a sitcom and they were , they were doing a they were, they were doing a little show for the kids in a school, you know , to show the school, you know, to show the kids what they do, and they go, and here's a panda car. what kind of animal would you expect to find in a panda car? there's a bloke in a panda suit waiting

in the wings, and one of the kids shouts out a pig! and this was like a 530 in the afternoon sitcom. you know ? sitcom. you know? >> but that's that's because that when that word doesn't need to be that offensive, what they're doing is doing the modern day battle of who can be the most offended. and using the language of the easily offended. yeah, this is how before, like dad's army , people didn't like dad's army, people didn't like it because they thought the sitcom was mocking. yes the courageous. >> that's right. yeah. the channel 4 show shameless is hardly paying tribute to those people. >> unless, of course, piglets have given them a backhanded go. would you mind being offended about this? it'll get us some publicity. which in which case, good luck to them. steve, last one for this section. according to the independent, a politician is under fire for saying something which in my experience, usually means he's hit a nerve. >> well, south korean politician under fire for blaming women for the rising male suicides. >> that would be terrible if that's what he did. but i don't think he actually did. so seoul city councillor kim ki duk, i'm not making jokes about the names i'm above that, made a report saying that women's increasing,

social participation has changed society and that effectively saying that men are struggling to work out what their role is and the pressures in this new society. he's not blaming women. maybe he's blaming society , or maybe he's blaming society, or maybe he's pointing out an issue in society that needs addressing . in society that needs addressing. here's a quote from him. in order to overcome the expansion of the female dominant phenomenon in the short, it is necessary to improve gender equality awareness so that men and women can enjoy equal rights and women can enjoy equal rights and opportunities. how very dare he ? yeah, let's go after this he? yeah, let's go after this 9”!!- he? yeah, let's go after this guy. and as a professor, it sounds like. >> i mean, he couldn't be more feminine coded if he tried and yet still they go after him, including professor jan sukh rang but didn't leave a message. >> i am doing jokes about the names. said that male suicide rates have always been high. well you're missing the detail. it's higher now is what he's saying. doesn't matter how high it was before. he's highlighting a problem and coming up with a really nice way to try and solve it. >> it's an interesting demographic shift, though. we all know that, south korea has the lowest fertility rate in the world. i mean, not just below replacement level. it's absolutely extinction level

below one. women are slightly in the ascendant. there are more women than men. i don't know why that's happening . obviously that's happening. obviously there you know, it's not a one child policy type thing or anything. i don't think so. there obviously it's not just demographic shifts such as we've seen across the west, in which a lot of women now are better educated than their husbands, or a lot of jobs where men who were, you know, had a bit of muscle, but not a lot of, going on upstairs could earn a decent living and earn some respect. you know, those kind of jobs. it's beyond that. it's like they're moving into something that's quite unrecognisable from any previous culture, you know? and i think a lot of i think, you know, a lot of cultures have to regard south korea as a bit of a canary in the coal mine. from that point of view. do you have anything you want to add to that? >> well, it's a fact that women have flooded the marketplace. the job market, the salaries have been lowered as a result. yeah. there was a time when one salary was enough for having a good life . now, even two are not good life. now, even two are not are not enough in south korea.

>> to be fair , that's one of the >> to be fair, that's one of the exactly. it's gone from poverty to something that is on the far side of kind of western neoliberalism in, in less than a generation. anyway, that's part three. in the final part, we have the real winners in the euros , regardless of the score and the latest prescription the poor, miserable japanese. we'll

and welcome back to the final section of headliners. i've been told online that the german champagne is called sekt. so now we know sekt nazis, nazi sekt. i mean, it kind of works, doesn't it? anyway, steve. story in the times about what office gossips are regarded as and i think correctly as well, although i'm not going to be the one to tell them the y office gossips are less trusted to do their jobs. >> the headline basically most of the meat of this dish low down in the story, is about a psychological experiment . they psychological experiment. they survey people about a fictional

person called alex. so we don't know if it's a man or woman. this person is either a gossip or not a gossip. let's be honest, when you when you read the description of alex alex as a gossip, it reads as a woman, i'm not making the rules. i'm just telling you the way that it comes across right? loves to chat about people at work and spread all this information . and spread all this information. and then the people are surveyed about what they think about non gossipy or gossipy. alex, you're more sociable as a gossip, but you're less trusted to be trustworthy and trusted to do your job. trustworthy and trusted to do yourjob. so for trustworthy and trusted to do your job. so for me, the best bit of this article is the first 500 words before it that spends all of that time saying that gossips are actually useful and they provide a service and they're they're really good to have around the office. and actually, you get none of this is in the study and it hits you. the journalist who wrote this, it's a big old gossip, gossip mess. it up. sophie freeman of the times gossip. >> i have read about gossips one way or the other. these idea that they actually provide a sort of. it's a natural service. it's almost like those birds that sit on the back of rhinos and peck out mites. and you know what i mean? there's a sort of there's a kind of triviality to

it. and yet it oils the wheels a little bit. what do you think? >> yeah, i agree with, with the author, although what she says might not be strictly with inside the research, but the point is that it offers a service as you, especially as a newcomer, maybe to the work environment, you come up with information that might otherwise not be available through the official channels. yes. so you learn who is who and how things work and how to, you know , work and how to, you know, orient human dimension to things are going to be in rules. >> absolutely. but of course, it can tip over into malicious gossip in which people try to use it in order to poison your hopes of advancement and that kind of thing. and that isn't good. obviously. it's like almost anything could be good or bad . i think almost anything could be good or bad. i think the thing almost anything could be good or bad . i think the thing about it, bad. i think the thing about it, not being competent is possibly that has a grain of truth, though, just because if you are paying though, just because if you are paying too much attention to whether so and so doesn't look like he's had a very good night, does he ? that's probably suggest does he? that's probably suggest you aren't focusing anyway. daily star now , nicholas, some daily star now, nicholas, some of the second order economic positives that come with england's success. >> right. well, it's a matter of perspective or subjective isn't

it ? cocaine dealers will triple it? cocaine dealers will triple sales for england's euro 24 2024 semi, but risks are massive. of course, the same thing can be said of the final match next sunday against the netherlands, so the story is still valid. so basically at daily star they have interviewed a former drug dealer, sort of a high end drug dealer, sort of a high end drug dealer , who claims he was never dealer, who claims he was never exactly on the streets but in pubs.so exactly on the streets but in pubs. so that's the distinction, the bottom line is that people consume a lot of alcohol and a lot of them would also consume cocaine. but what is the risk when demand goes high? the quality of the gear, pardon the street talk decreases, decreases. that means that the dealer , obviously, who is not dealer, obviously, who is not very scrupulous and has received a lot of , demand, will mix it a lot of, demand, will mix it with other substances, which not just from a quality point of view, but can potentially also be dangerous. yes it's a funny thing with cocaine, isn't it? >> in my head, it's still quite high end drug, but actually it's not at all now, is it? it's

quite a common sort of street. it's almost as it goes with your beer and fags. it's the sort of third leg i barely even drink. >> so this i just like the daily star is saying buy early, make sure you just get it in. >> let's get 30s on this last story, steve. daily mail with an appealing prospect for those of us who miss affirmation and stem correction from the old days. >> new renault car will score your driving out of 100. mark your driving out of 100. mark you down for mistakes. it's the new renault narc and it looks at all the safety tech. if you trigger any of the safety devices, it lowers your score. oh really? and it says will they will they give the information to your insurance company and then pages later in the article. no they won't. it turns out i had hybrid yaris. it gives you a score out of 100. i once got a 92 and didn't shut up about it for months. so it is not a good idea. >> i mean, i love getting scored, don't you? you miss this , scored, don't you? you miss this, i do, but then again, we have the usual concerns of our overlords monitoring and controlling our especially our cars overlords . cars overlords. >> yeah. who wants that show?

>> yeah. who wants that show? >> is nearly over. let's take another quick look at thursday's front pages. i say another look. the first look this evening, the daily mail. terrible story. the crossbow horror. the guardian, starmer shocking prisons crisis is worse than feared. the financial times biden's re—election drive reels under fresh blows from pelosi and clooney . the eye water firms clooney. the eye water firms told to refund customer bills if they fail to tackle, tackle something. and, the times former soldier held over triple crossbow murder. that's all we have time for. crossbow murder. that's all we have time for . thank you to my have time for. thank you to my guests, steve and alan. nicholas de santa. we're back tomorrow at 11 pm. josh howie will be chairing louis schaefer and carrie marks. if you're watching at 5 am, stay tuned for breakfast. otherwise, thank you for your company. have a very pleasant evening. good night. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news

>> good evening. welcome to your latest gb news weather update brought to you from the met office . rain will ease slowly office. rain will ease slowly but surely through tonight. however, it is going to be another cloudy day for most of us through tomorrow. that's because low pressure is very much in charge. we've got a northerly wind as well for some areas that's bringing that particularly cool feel, particularly cool feel, particularly for mid early. the early part of july. so rain will persist for north eastern areas of scotland as well as some northern areas of england, parts of northern ireland as well. but the rain is going to ease a little and we will lose that risk of thunderstorms through northern areas of england staying dry across the south. temperatures around 12 or 13 degrees as a minimum overnight, so a fairly mild start to the day. but as i said, where we do have that northerly wind across parts of scotland, that's where it's going to feel quite cool through much of the day. temperatures not climbing much higher than 13 degrees in aberdeen by lunchtime, even 11 degrees to start the day. so there'll be little change from there'll be little change from the morning into the afternoon. a brighter day, though, for

northern ireland. western areas of scotland cloud, though thickening across parts of north wales into the midlands and across many southern areas. the cloud will start to build into the afternoon, but it should stay dry through much of the day across many southern areas. so here that's where we'll see the warmest temp, the highest temperatures, the warm sunshine still pushing through across parts of the south into wimbledon as well. it should be another dry day on thursday, and there will be more in the way of sunshine for northern ireland, west and scotland as well. despite that northerly wind, temperatures still climbing to the mid—teens, possibly the higher teens for some parts of the central belt. by thursday afternoon. looking ahead to friday, we do see a risk of showery rain pushing up from the south and east, threatening the south and east, threatening the south coast. further north, though, it will be a much drier day. but still a northerly wind means temperatures will be a little below par. but not feeling too bad in the sunshine where you do see it, and it does look a little bit drier into the start of the weekend. a risk of showers, though, developing later on in the weekend, but

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two one in a nail biting match, while ollie watkins clinched the winner in the 90th minute. >> lost for words really ? when >> lost for words really? when you score, there's emotions that come through your body, but this is just a different feeling. it was slow motion when i was running over to the boys and celebrating. >> england are now in their third major final of a major tournament and will play spain this sunday. >> but while fans around the world celebrate all night long

following that historic victory