>> good evening. the top stories from the gb newsroom. well, the sun is reporting that labour is facing a fresh row after offering companies breakfast with the business secretary in return for £30,000. the party reportedly invited bosses to a restaurant for the rare chance to gain insight from jonathan reynolds in return for sponsorship of the meal. now , sponsorship of the meal. now, that's after downing street said earlier today that the prime minister has paid back more than £6,000 worth of gifts and hospitality received since becoming prime minister, following a backlash over donations. it comes as the labour peer at the centre of the row over these donations to sir keir starmer has been placed under investigation by the house of lords standards watchdog lord

alli faces a probe over what is being called the alleged non—registration of interests . non—registration of interests. he's one of the party's biggest donors and the largest donor to the prime minister. now the uk has announced it's giving up sovereignty of the chagos islands after more than half a century. the deal, reached after years of negotiations, will see britain hand over the chagos islands to china ally mauritius. it includes the tropical atoll of diego garcia, which is to home a military base used by the uk and the us . home a military base used by the uk and the us. under the agreement, the base will remain under uk and us jurisdiction for at least the next 99 years. but conservative leadership candidates reacted angrily, with former foreign secretary james cleverly labelling the government as weak. tom tugendhat says the move undermines uk security. >> does is it means that although the air base, which is jointly uk us operated, is maintained for on a 99 year lease, the other outlying islands are going back to

mauritian sovereignty. now there are many other countries which will be interested in a permanent base in the indian ocean, china being one of them. >> fresh explosions have been heard in hezbollah's stronghold in southern beirut, as israel says it struck the group's intelligence headquarters. the israeli military has warned people to evacuate a city and other communities in southern lebanon, signalling a wider offensive following a ground operation launched earlier this week against the terror group hezbollah. the idf has also claimed this evening in a post on x that it has killed a senior hezbollah leader, mahmoud youssef anisi . this comes as at youssef anisi. this comes as at least nine people were killed in an israeli airstrike in central beirut. the israeli military says it was a precision attack on the building, which they say housed a hezbollah affiliated health centre. meanwhile , health centre. meanwhile, hezbollah says it's detonated a bomb against israeli forces infiltrating a southern lebanese village . meanwhile, more than village. meanwhile, more than 150 british nationals have left

lebanon on the first uk government chartered flight out of the country. foreign secretary david lammy confirmed there will be additional chartered flights to help those who want to leave, as he also warned about the ongoing volatile situation . and those volatile situation. and those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm tatiana sanchez. now it's over to headliners for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> hello and welcome to headliners, your first look at friday's newspapers with three comedians me simon evans joining me tonight we have headliners paparazzo louis schaefer and his favourite victim nick dixon. were you aware of that, nick? i think i'm the victim. if anyone over the last three years have you, you were the victim.

>> i think you know i'm the victim of louis. >> i've got a whole story like you, i think is the paparazzo lurking in the bushes. he's. he's definitely a lurker in bushes. but you've taken residence in a high altitude flat now, haven't you? yes. yeah. >> can i just say, someone replied to one of louis's posts on twitter calling me a loner and a racist. i just really want to tell everyone right now i'm not a loner. >> not a loner, no. in fact, that's why you turned to racism, isn't it? in order to build a community. liking the tie. thank you . you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> i don't know , maybe it could >> i don't know, maybe it could be. it should be. no, i don't know. i think it's from, like the 1990s or something. it comes with the louis. >> it looks perfectly clean. thank you very much. let's have a look at those front pages. the daily mail kick us off with starmer's surrender. one of the big stories today. of course, the mauritius telegraph johnson uk needs referendum on echr as he tries to cover up his receding hairline. there, the express i never thought i'd be alive to see the law change, but perhaps i will. that is esther

rantzen on assisted dying. i believe in news, energy, price scare after biden says israel could attack iran's oil one of three possibilities addressed by andrew neil on the radio metro poison jab murder plot by doctor in disguise . that sounds scary. in disguise. that sounds scary. and finally, the daily star brace yourself, bessie, who knows what that might be about? those were your front pages . those were your front pages. okay, let's have a closer look at those front pages. we'll start with friday's daily mail. >> louis. good news. the chagos islands, which most people have never heard of. but i, of course, have heard of because i know everything and nick knows and the two of you know, because you're smart people, brains the size of planets. >> yes. >> yes. >> it's mercury. he's jupiter. go on. and what am i? >> you were a saturn. you weren't listed. >> this was in someone else's tweet. reply. it doesn't matter. why was it listed? >> let's not get distracted too sooi'i. 500“. >> soon. >> i'm the one who knows about the planets because of my love of velikovsky. anyway, let's have a drink anyway . basically,

have a drink anyway. basically, jake starmer surrenders. that's the headline . chagos islands the headline. chagos islands have belonged to britain. i'm not going to read the they put the entire story in a headline. but the truth is, is these like tiny little islands and they're in the middle of the indian ocean, indian ocean, right, which is between africa and india, which is why they are they they are they are in the indian ocean. they are. and they've been under british control since 1814 and the french took control of it. people haven't lived in them. >> for i tell you what, they still had dodos when we took them over. >> is that right? >> is that right? >> yeah. yeah, exactly. so they did. i don't know if they were on that particular island. >> the fact is , they are >> the fact is, they are british. and this keir starmer gave it away . nobody knows. did gave it away. nobody knows. did you hear about this beforehand ? you hear about this beforehand? >> well, i believe the process was started under james cleverly, which we i don't know if we'll be coming back to that later, but he was he was foreign secretary and he initiated that process. david cameron held it up. it's these things are always this kind of second or third order effects. the diplomacy is subtle, right . because the subtle, right. because the americans have the base there.

>> yes. it's a disaster. i mean , >> yes. it's a disaster. i mean, it started, as you say, there was an international ruling, but you don't have to follow those. the tories claim they had to start the procedure, as you say. cameron then blocked it. now labour have rapidly accelerated it , giving it essentially to it, giving it essentially to china. people said there's going to be a chinese base on there now. it's virtue signalling because we mistreated allegedly , because we mistreated allegedly, you know, the chagossians in the 60s by saying you get off this island, but they want a referendum, as i understand it, they want to they might want to be british. they they don't want to just be given to mauritius. they're not particularly fond of, but they're not a we're not talking about an indigenous people here, are we? >> i mean, it's been no they've been there. >> they've been there since i think the late 1700s, they haven't been there that long. they were basically slaves. they were slaves. >> these are tiny islands which have only been . have only been. >> it's an airfield. it's an airfield. why give it away now? and people are saying it's just decolonisation. it's just ideological . ideological. >> it's an advice, isn't it? this is what these these, the whichever international court it may be. the un sort of gives these these views. i mean, israel's been ignoring them for decades. >> and that's what this story is. it's really tragic because

if this is how easy they i don't i haven't heard much about chagos island terrorism going on. there hasn't been any missiles flown and yet they've won. these people have won their battle against the great. and meanwhile, the palestinians and now it's what else will we give away? falklands, gibraltar, everything. that's not nailed down to the floor. >> well, there is give away. i mean, the one thing with the falklands is we can say with some certainty that the residents want to remain british. that is a distinct distinction, i suppose, in this regard . regard. >> yeah. although this many people think they do as well. so it's not. yeah. and you know what? there aren't that many of them. they haven't been living there a while and you feel for them. but at the end of the day, this is an american base and which means it's a british base because this is britain is an island off the coast of america, do you think? well, can i tell my joke? >> go on. very quickly. >> go on. very quickly. >> i just told it. >> i just told it. >> oh, sorry. was that it? >> oh, sorry. was that it? >> i missed it as well. it was being talked over. >> yeah, well, you have to get a bit more quickly . the last three bit more quickly. the last three setup lines. i know you do. you're going. >> but. but you know what? the

last show, you didn't do this because you were a bit more low key. and this show, you seem to be because you you have more energy now he does. >> you realise we go out live. you just telegraph in minutes . you just telegraph in minutes. >> let's do the. is it the telegraph or is it the times . oh telegraph or is it the times. oh no, no it's the telegraph. yeah. i'm sorry, i've got put off by that lewis telling you how to host the show. i'll do the telegraph for you. it's johnson. uk needs referendum on echr. and so this is a so—called wide ranging interview in the telegraph. and he said lots of interesting things. he said that he doubts the echr whether it actually provides the protections that we wouldn't otherwise have. and he tended to agree with lord sumption, who's saying, you know, it puts too much powers into strasbourg, which is undemocratic. we don't need it. we don't want it. he agrees . some people are need it. we don't want it. he agrees. some people are seeing this as a boost to generic, because he's the only tory leadership candidate who explicitly says he would get out of the echr, so some people are seeing that as a positive for him. he apologises to children for lockdown. a bit late, but i suppose better late than never. but he admits that they possibly didn't bring down infections ,

didn't bring down infections, but they still saved lives somehow. so he's sort of getting he's becoming more redpilled. on the fact that he unnecessarily put us into lockdowns. >> do you not feel i always did feel that he was bullied into lockdown and, you know , his lockdown and, you know, his instincts were actually pretty good. >> yes. but he's still ultimately was the one deciding it. he could he could have always resigned and said no, but orjust always resigned and said no, but or just tried to say no. always resigned and said no, but orjust tried to say no. but or just tried to say no. but yeah, i understand it was high pressure echr just to go with the headline, as you say, genencis the headline, as you say, generic is coming out vocally against it. >> but this was the kind of thing that brexit was supposed to lead to, right? this was one of the sort of dominoes. it's the second brexit, especially if you want to take control of the borders. and as he says, a lot of the a lot of the legislation passed in europe was in the immediate aftermath of the war, which was not a catastrophe, which was not a catastrophe, which had befallen britain and was a rather different set of circumstances. i think what happenedin circumstances. i think what happened in britain has i think what happened is, is they expected that britain, they didn't expect britain expected to be the leader of the echr, not to be the which stands for

european court of human rights. >> which, which well, you didn't explain it to the people. no, you're right, you're right. i just assume they're very smart. but you're right. i know you shouldn't assume that they're watching gb views and shocking shock after the show. it's not not you. you're good. but the other person on the other channel, the other place is, is that they expect it. and that was the problem with europe. europe. they thought, oh, we're good.the europe. they thought, oh, we're good. the people who founded it, the french are good. the germans are going to be good. the hauans are going to be good. the italians are good, but they're not good. those europeans are not good. those europeans are not good. those europeans are not good. no. >> can i say one more thing? >> can i say one more thing? >> prone to fascism, he agrees with me on something, boris. he said that putin wouldn't have invaded with trump because of trump's sheer unpredictability. which i've always said. >> just reading that. yeah. reasonably. yeah. no. that's interesting. i mean, i've, i mean, this is one of my big things, like, you know, why invade iraq in 2003 if you think they're holding weapons of mass destruction? surely that would be the perfect opportunity to use them. similarly, why did putin install his puppet in the white house and then do nothing for four years? and then as soon as he's out again , he's on as he's out again, he's on manoeuvres, quite scared of his own puppet? >> yeah, yeah. that's a that is a real anthony hopkins film.

>> i remember that one. >> i remember that one. >> let's have a quick look at the other side is you cannot listen to anything that boris johnson says. he apologises now. he won't apologise later. you say he was bullied. i mean he seems like a lovely guy. if he's going to apologise, you have to accept his apology. but the covid accept his apology. but the covm thing accept his apology. but the covid thing you can't respect the guy after that. >> well, he's not, he's not running for office again. he just wants you to buy his memoirs. >> oh, he's not running. >> oh, he's not running. >> can we. can we move on to the times, louis? >> the times. good news and the times. nuclear strike. oil, not nuclear. biden urges israel. and you can't believe anything that biden says because the guy's basically lost it. and even though donald trump said that he was, you know, he's he does what donald trump said. he's lost it. it's they're saying to israel , it's they're saying to israel, israel's got a choice of how to deal with iran. they got three. they got three choices, not do anything, do something later or bomb one of two places, which is the nuclear plant that they want to make a nuclear thing. if they are actually doing, let's say , are actually doing, let's say, or the oil fields, which i think the oil fields would be pretty easy, it would benefit american

oligarchs. >> it's actually, i think i mean, there are oil fields. i think the target, the military target is the oil exporting, you know , the port, the docks, the know, the port, the docks, the and it'd be easy to do. >> it's one island off the coast of iran. >> and what i heard a couple of people discuss this. i mean, obviously that is that would be a massive blow to iran's economy and it would probably destabilise the regime. it might it might trigger a regime change, which i think most of the world would be keen on, but it might also absolutely key trigger an oil shock, you know, of a 1970s proportion, which would be catastrophic to the world economy. so i don't know. >> and in the meantime, we've got to blow up their nuclear power facilities. not really. >> i do kind of feel like israel has decided going for bust on this occasion . this occasion. >> would you say it's a very rare topic where even louis knows more than me? so it's not it's not my expert topic, i would say about biden. you're right. trump said that biden became mentally impaired, whereas kamala was born that way. and you do worry about biden. it says here biden's discussing with israel, possibly airstrike. is it really biden?

and if it is, you'd be worried that it hit iraq or ireland. you know what i mean? i'd be worried about that. biden you get the feeling he doesn't know what a bomb is. and he was against it to begin with. and guy's horrible. >> i think he probably has. i feel like this is something this would be like deep knowledge that biden would still be able to access some part of him. yeah, yeah, instincts kick in like he can still drive and bomb places. he'd know the smile of a child. let's have a quick look at the sun before we go into the break, okay. >> the sun has flintoff the host. bull's eye. so it's a kind of sort of feel good story. freddie flintoff had this horrible crash, but now he'll be back. >> is that what's happened to his face? he had. i was just thinking he doesn't look right. so he had a crash, a car crash on top gear. >> yeah. and so but he's i'm surprised you didn't know that. but he's back hopefully on bull's eye, which is a kind of bit of, you know, harking back to a simpler time in this country. you weren't here, but we had shows like we had darts based game shows and it was a simpler time. >> so he's a phoenix from the ashes as it were. >> he looks horrible. you feel bad for the guy because he was such a good looking guy. well, he was always.

>> he was like raw, kind of athletic power, wasn't he? the all round or whatever? >> yeah, he was chiselled and now his nose. it's kind of like louis schaefer's nose. i got better looking with my nose being broken, but he. >> but he has the resources. i'm sure he could fix that up. i would have thought. that looks almost performative to me, but i don't know whether he. would he go through a windscreen or something. >> i mean, it's horrible. i'm just i'm just i don't want to comment on his appearance in his negative way. like i condemn what louis is doing, but maybe he's keeping his face like that as a warning to others to drive carefully. >> i don't know, maybe . >> i don't know, maybe. >> i don't know, maybe. >> anyway, that's don't get on a tv show. >> probably not ad lib on that subject, but i am surprised. anyway, good luck to him. i want to see bully on the screens coming up after the break. we have briefing note

>> welcome back to headliners. this is your first look at friday's newspapers. i'm simon evans. still got louis and nick with me. nick, one of the less plausible excuses i've seen for a cancelled interview since the

dog ate my briefing notes, i thought it was plausible. >> it's laura kuenssberg reveals embarrassing personal gaffe which led to boris johnson interview being scrapped. so what she did was accidentally send him all the questions. she said i sent our briefing notes to him in a message meant for my team. obviously that means it's not right for the interview to go ahead. it's very frustrating. there's no point pretending it's anything other than embarrassing and disappointing, and i think it is right to not do it because if she carried on and did it, then later people found out he was given the questions, it would be some little scandal or something. so i think it's the right thing to stop it. and it's great for gb because camilla has an interview with boris. yes, it's good for us. >> camilla tominey exactly. >> camilla tominey exactly. >> and she's great. so i see no, i personally don't see it as >> and she's great. so i see no, >> so now johnson's on a on a massive. it's not like they got it's not like maitlis and prince andrew. but johnson is on a big press junket at the moment isn't he. but. >> and couldn't they have just asked different questions. they've sent him like the fake questions. >> i mean what kind of the subtext of this to me is that kuenssberg is not she's been a political correspondent at the top of her game. she's like like head of political affairs at the bbc or close enough, she should be able to just wing it,

shouldn't she, for 20 minutes? no.bons shouldn't she, for 20 minutes? no. boris johnson? no. >> you don't think i disagree with both of you? there's something weird going on here. is she a bbc journalist? it says yes, it's the bbc. they're a bunch of criminals. they're the worst thing about this country . worst thing about this country. and they need to be. you need to stop paying them money. the. no. don't say. okay. the truth is the truth. so humour him. simon. the truth. no, not humour him. >> the truth . if off the island, >> the truth. if off the island, off the coast of america. >> the truth is that was a good joke. the truth is. is that. is that probably. is that probably. she wasn't. she did send it to him and the word got out. do you think she deliberately crashed it? she. she might have. and then she might have been told. we heard that you got the thing and that's going to screw you up. laura kuenssberg i'm not saying that happened . there's saying that happened. there's another possibility. she said something really rude by accident and then he his team cancelled. >> well, that is possible that i did wonder about that. whether she remembered him in some kind of not as a blonde bombshell. exactly. yeah. she is generally regarded as being on the right of the bbc, because the bbc generally is a hive of which means she's leftist, she's che guevara, but not stalin. that's basically what that means .

basically what that means. >> and you could say a hive of leftists. it's like saying it's a hive. you're either a hive or not a hive. it's a hive. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> team hive. total team. total hive. yeah. and people. maybe she called him the trolley. you know how dominic cummings does? i bet she said shopping trolley. i bet she said shopping trolley. i can't confirm that. >> i know what i would pay to money see. cummings interviewing johnson. that'd be great, wouldn't it? that would . and wouldn't it? that would. and then sell their books afterwards. >> they should do that thing where they play chess and then box. you know that chess, boxing, chess. >> is that like a biathlon for intellectuals? yeah. >> you do chess and then you do one round of boxing. i don't see anybody really do that. yes, real. that's real. yeah. i don't see that. >> what, chess and boxing. that feel like. that's like lewis sheffield. >> i don't know what either of those things are. >> i know there's the chess and drinking one. you know, if you, when you take an opponent's piece you have to down a shot of vodka. so it's the great leveller. it's a kind of kamala harris equity all the way. >> it's a great leveller for russians. yeah. like we're already good at chess. and now we're going to beat you with our vodka at varne. >> it's very true. lewis telegraph now good news keir starmer has finally started to understand the principle of optics. >> yes. starmer delayed rail

workers pay rise because he feared bad optics and this is this is an aslef. and this is one of those stories. the government has too much. it's too much centralisation. why is the government involved in paying the government involved in paying these people? there should be more nationalisation. the government shouldn't be involved in any of this stuff. but the truth is, is that there's going to be a 15% increase for train drivers, which is probably justified because because they raised pnces because because they raised prices so much, because of the because of the covid inflation. and so it's going to go up to £70,000. he didn't want to raise it from what i know. and it's beenit it from what i know. and it's been it wouldn't be controversial if people didn't already feel they were overpaid and also that they protect jobs which shouldn't exist anymore, although by not on the scale. >> that's going on in the ports now in america. >> yeah. and also that they feel that they sort of pay them back for, for making things difficult for, for making things difficult for the tories as even been suggested. also, once you start giving things away, whether it's money or islands, don't you think you give the money to the doctors, then the train drivers, then the nurses want it. it's like you give away chagos, then the blooming argentinians want

falklands. >> you see what i mean? meanwhile, the comedians just supped meanwhile, the comedians just slipped lower. >> yes, you're getting way more than you're getting twice as much money as i am. >> unionise staying with the telegraph now , nick. hezbollah telegraph now, nick. hezbollah have been grievously misunderstood. not so much a violent terrorist organisation, more a sort of prayer group with benefits. exactly. >> and i, for one, believe them. it's hezbollah has not committed violence. lebanese ambassador tells bbc this is rami mortada who says i condemn any act of violence, but hezbollah has not been committing violence. they were firing exclusively at military targets. i thought for a second he maybe meant they haven't been committing violence because their attacks are so ineffective and they're all deau ineffective and they're all dealt with by the dome. >> an iron dome. yeah. >> an iron dome. yeah. >> yeah, but but richard kemp, who's a former british army commander, says, i'm afraid the lebanese ambassador is very mistaken. they've been firing at villages and towns in northern israel and further into tel aviv. so, you know, i'm balanced on the subject . you know, i've on the subject. you know, i've had to listen to all josh's rants about israel. so i've become fairly pro hezbollah in that time. so there is i mean, certainly i think about 60,000 israelis have essentially been forced. >> they would say, out of their

homes in northern israel due to relentless attacks. that seems to be a fairly sort of on the ground physical manifestation of violent attacks rather than diplomatic reframing. wouldn't you say this is a lie? >> it's a lie that, first of all, the lebanese lebanon has been taken over in part by these hezbollah people. that's what happened when the war of independence in israel happened or whatever it is, whatever the those people want to call it is these people went up to to, lebanon and slowly, slowly, slowly, they've been basically it's not there's no lebanon like the way we think of a country. >> no, it's not like a country. >> no, it's not like a country. >> it's a mess. and the fact that the fact that the telegraph doesn't even bother to discuss it that way, to explain it, there's a sort of trend at the moment, isn't there, for reporting the words of islamist terrorist organisations and so on in that part of the world, as if they had the same sort of weight and gravitas and should be treated as though they were proper, although this is a i. >> well, do you not think it's much more like organised crime,

though? i mean, you can look at politics and then you can look at terrorism, but this just feels to me like, i don't know , feels to me like, i don't know, like sicily or something, you know, which is you have a shadow state which is essentially gangsters . gangsters. >> yeah. i'm not even thinking of that because i just think that these people that it is a shadow lebanon does not exist the way we think of a normal country. as far as i know. not that even i know, but but the point that i wanted to i forgot what the point, what i was. then again, you think viruses don't exist? i don't think we have to look at it in context. yes, but i think i think that if you left the maronite christians who were living there, the greek orthodox christians, the druze christians, the druze christians, and maybe even the sunni christians, the sunni muslims have their way on hezbollah. they would very quickly have their way on and restore it to the paris of the south, whichever it was. >> once again, as it sounds like we have solved the underfunding prison service catastrophe. louis, we just need new, quieter prison vehicles. >> yeah, this is good news. britain splashes at 1.5 million on prison vehicle fleet to

launch brand new jail, which is in albania. this is in the daily mail. and this is just because britain wants to get rid of the horrible people. they've let in. too many horrible people , so too many horrible people, so they're paying. and our prison system is we haven't built a new prison in we in years. i don't know why i said we you. >> so they're building a new prison in albania for 200 prisoners. >> it's costing £4 million. >> it's costing £4 million. >> and it's to put albanian prisoners. this is not like a rwanda scheme. this is to return to essentially deport albanian prisoners. yeah. and then we're paying prisoners. yeah. and then we're paying for the prison when they get home. it's amazing. >> as lewis says, it is good news because it will now cost us only £32 a day, compared to £109 a day. yeah, listen to this. albanian nationals account for nearly 1 in 7 of the 10,500 foreign inmates in uk jails, and the cost to the taxpayer of £52,000 per person. so yes. why are they here? >> just £209 a day is that's like a pretty good private school fee. >> now it's 32 like an independent or grammar. >> yeah, that's like a kind of crammer. yeah.

>> my kid goes to harris. boys. here is the point. no, he doesn't anymore. the fixing your own child national tv and you're a hate figure. so that's terrible. really bad. he doesn't go there anymore. so i wish i could send my kids, but if they. if they blew up. anyway, it was. it was a pretty good school. wasn't as bad as my ex wife said it was going to be. >> i won't that that's the end of albania. that's the end of lewis's kids access . today's lewis's kids access. today's trans waffle coming up in the third half. that's in new hampshire. birds are not people or vice versa. and is spitting facts in virginia. see you in a

and welcome back to headliners. so, nick, we have important news in the guardian now from new hampshire or should i say new hampton. >> yes. the headline is it's very powerful new hampshire ruling protects trans kids from being outed. those are very much

the words of the guardian and not the words of nick dixon or of gb news, because this is a disgusting law that has been sort of doubled down on here. so in august, the new hampshire supreme court upheld a lower court's ruling on the school district policy affirming trans and gender nonconforming students rights to privacy concerning their gender identities and presentation at school. what it basically means is they can discuss it with a therapist as this person had here, and discuss it with the school and not tell their parents, whereas this parent, who was completely right, said the school should tell her because it's up to her to raise her child as she sees fit, whereas these people are saying, this attorney here says that it's he says it's extraordinary. it's critical for students to have a supportive framework that allows them to explore their gender identity in school . this gender identity in school. this is so loaded with ideological assumptions. i mean, what even is a gender identity? and this is a gender identity? and this is a gender identity? and this is a radical expansion of what thomas has called the therapeutic state. and you have this idea now. it's up to therapists, it's up to the schools. it's like how many children are going to regret this? as if there's suddenly all

these trans kids. it's a fad for many of them. they're being cajoled into or convinced they're trans by a network of schools and therapists. the parents don't get told, and it's about as sinister as it could be. >> i agree, and what i find really sinister is the degree to which the guardian simply, you know, mouthed these platitudes or these acquiescence totally accept this frame . there's no accept this frame. there's no critical thinking or like, on the one hand, other people believe this. >> well, when have you heard critical thinking and the other newspapers, including the telegraph and the times? they all think like this. and this is remember america, what makes america the greatest country in the world is there are 50 states, and this is one state. it's not even a very liberal state. it's a sort of it's sort of a it's a state like massachusetts in a way , because massachusetts in a way, because it's got a lot of industrial areas towards the water. but and this is only in one school district, which is manchester, which is one manchester. and i doubt that british manchester. yeah. so it is it's really bad. what's going to happen. as i see a tv? i see a tv program made up of all these children who have been trans and had their genitals cut off, and they're really angry and they're now in

the woods. i mean, this is the thing, is that a good one, like a jerry springer type thing? no, no, no, it's going to be it's going to be something like like something for netflix or something for netflix or something where they're out in the woods, children of the like, hunger games, children. >> what i mean, there's yes, there's i mean these things are like, don't they? so this story is essentially talking about gender identity. so somebody's pronouns or whatever that would that would annoy me enormously if i, if i learned that a school had been concealing that information. but it's not irreversible in the way that puberty. yeah, but these things are baby steps towards that aren't they. yeah, absolutely. you know. yeah. >> because the parent wants to know. and that's one of the reasons why i'm against. i'm sorry. sorry. no finish. i just want to say because i was going to say something silly. i was just gonna say, if you love the usa so much, why don't you go back there? and why don't you marry it? because this is england. you're on gb news saying that the usa is the best country. england's the best country. england's the best country. but it is. it is. can i just say why? can i just answer him from a great love, from a distance it becomes enhanced. >> a small love is extinguished like a candle. >> but i always thought i'd be going back. yeah, the fact is i was not married in america to an

american woman. so that just says how bad britain is that wanted married me, the home office and you will be going back soon within days. and they're sending it to the albanian prison post. >> lewis, your turn with a story now of your own. someone's had a nice little earner for simply being miscast as an avian rather than mammalian. >> well, you talk about this is a similar story. you know, there's these crazy that's what we are. that's what the newspaper is, is crazy stuff. it's all like wars and killing and stuff . so, so sorry. story and stuff. so, so sorry. story 11 lewis the telegraph . yeah, 11 lewis the telegraph. yeah, fall back on reading. you're safe when you just read off a sheet reading your own name off a sheet is about your level. i don't think simon thinks i'm funny . funny. >> would you like me to summarise? >> i don't think that's a much larger problem. you're not going to convince him within a night. but. but i've been here for like, months now. you've been here for three years? i think he tolerated me in the past. he just. i think he hates me. >> can we. can we crack on with it? >> calling big women, quote

unquote birds is sexual harassment. judge rules. and this is a woman who was working at a high end whisky whisky company. there were people invested in whisky, so they had to spend £5,000 to buy stocks of whisky. so these are probably macho. macho. i can't imagine a woman spending £5,000 on whisky investing. >> well , it's investing. >> well, it's just you're right, they buy a barrel of whisky and so they they want it to be an investment. they're not they're not planning to take it with them into the woods. >> right. and they were talking about stuff in the office. and this woman, nina cheung , sued this woman, nina cheung, sued him and said, i felt i felt sexually , whatever it was bad. sexually, whatever it was bad. harassed, harassed. and she got £50,000. we don't know the full. this is in the telegraph. i love the telegraph, but we don't know whether it's true or not. we don't know. we don't have all the story. we don't know what was there. and because there's never any publicity while a court case is going on, because this country is totally into censorship and to keep things on the down low. oh my god, what do you think ? you think? >> nick gibb us they are appealing it so it isn't . you

appealing it so it isn't. you know, they haven't completely. >> i have a complicated and nuanced view , simon. one is i nuanced view, simon. one is i would never call a woman a bird in the office and i was going to say, nina, i've noticed myself. i've noticed i'm actually far more respectful than women to women in the workplace, than many men who call themselves feminists, whereas i'm an open misogynist. yeah, i'm really nice to women, so it doesn't make sense. but the one thing i will say is if you the workplace is becoming a kind of legal minefield and everyone's on eggshells and you could argue that this makes men uncomfortable if men can't banter in the workplace, you know, at the moment it's like he's probably obnoxious. this guy, it's a very male environment. but if suddenly men can't do any banter at all, then it just flips to a female environment . and the balance is environment. and the balance is the tricky thing it is. and that's why as a feminist, i say women shouldn't be in the workplace. >> sorry. the funny thing about calling it, i don't know whether they refer to her as a bird or whether she overheard conversation. when i went out with a bird last night. it's very hard to picture it as being donein very hard to picture it as being done in anything other than completely tongue in cheek. it's so dated. i mean, i'm not saying it isn't offensive or is offensive or anything. it's just, well, these are this feels like. so they're not even

they're white boy investments, aren't they? you know, you invest in a barrel, you buy a barrel, they give you advice. there's i checked out their tripadvisor or whatever it is, their trustpilot. they've got 100. you know five star ratings. they're very good at helping you decide where to invest. but it's not i mean, it's not i think you would fit in there. simon. yeah. i just feel sorry. i would fit in there. simon. yeah. ijust feel sorry. i miss would fit in there. simon. yeah. i just feel sorry. i miss the old days of arthur daley, you know, and terry mcgovern. but anyway, you know what? >> i miss the time when women weren't working. those were good days. >> you stayed at home to raise your child and send your wife out to earn the money. no, don't. >> they don't need to know that daily mail now, nick. >> and they have a story about a new vietnam war that's being fought in the usa. this time. >> yeah, it's hung chao who sounds like sort of a real alpha quy- sounds like sort of a real alpha guy. a retired navy captain blamed a drag queen the navy recruited two years ago to do outreach to younger audiences. and i believe we have a clip. >> we have a clip. let's look. >> we have a clip. let's look. >> that was very good. >> that was very good. >> when you're using a, you know, drag queen to recruit for the navy, that's not the people we want. what we need is alpha males and females who are going

to rip out their own guts and eat them and ask for seconds that those are young men and women that are going to win wars . women that are going to win wars. >> please , please, audience, please. >> that's actually a thing sharks do, isn't it? eat their own guts. >> my favourite bit is the clapping at the end, so he actually gets a round of applause. then the moderator says, please, audience, please don't clap for whatever reason. but he got 90 000 likes for that on twitter, so it's not like it's unpopular. it's got 2.5 million views last time i checked, and he still said, you know, alpha females. so actually it kind of reminds me of those futuristic memes about conservatives, you know, where they're arguing for, like, hey , they're arguing for, like, hey, you know, let's have a quota of the number of trans cricket players . players. >> it's like a kind of dems are the real racists. >> yes, he's still arguing for something pretty progressive alpha females, but maybe drag queens shouldn't be. recruiting is what he's saying. you know what happened though? of course simon. when the real war kicks off, all the adverts will be straight white males again, as we know, like the meme where feminists were in world war iii breaks out and it's a picture of a woman taking a roast out of the oven or whatever. >> but i do think it's quite interesting. he's up against he's not. this is only for

virginia, right? for the senate, i think. >> yeah, he's running for senate in virginia. >> he is up against. tell me the quy's >> he is up against. tell me the guy's name. he was hillary clinton's running mate, wasn't he? yeah, yeah. had a brief sort of shot at fame, what, eight years ago. so he's it's a significant battle and he seems to be winning it. and it feels like he's in one of those interesting positions. i don't know what do you think lewis. because he is vietnamese himself. right. he came out he came across after the vietnam war and has is one of those guys, an immigrant who is more fully embraced traditional republican american values and is completely unapologetic in a way that a lot of straight white men, you know, are now struggling to do. >> and that's the hope. that's the hope of america as all the 20 million people who came in without a thing , they will turn without a thing, they will turn into super conservative people . into super conservative people. and that happened like in australia with all those criminals. they brought over there. and then they became super nice. and that's i don't know, that's how that's now. but they are super nice. i mean, this guy hung cao, that's my name. so i that's i wish him well. >> lewis the guardian. now they have news that the introduction

of a new law has led to the crimes that it created surging. >> yes. yeah, yeah. and then they're making it seem like it's recorded hate crimes in scotland, up 63% since law introduced in april up 66%. but the truth was there was no law. quite a bit of a law. but they widened. they widened the law. so it went up. and this is only since april. so it's like this is in scotland. whatever happens in scotland should stay in scotland. i mean, last time i was, they criticised me for saying that. that's a weird country. my ex—wife is scotland, my kids are scottish . is my kids are scottish. is scotland. well, she is scotland. she is. she's like the pride of miss jean brodie. scotland, which is the worst? the worst kind, you could say. yes. dame maggie smith. yeah. yeah that's right. yeah i did that , i did right. yeah i did that, i did that, this, this is, it has gone in a way. >> i mean, we obviously sounded the alarm. we thought this was going to create an awful lot of unnecessary friction and vexatious cases being brought for trans in particular. that apparently hasn't happened at all. and it's actually elderly who is getting it. >> and disabled people is the

most, which again, we're making the most complaints . well, yes. the most complaints. well, yes. they're not they're not saying they're getting it. let me finish the sentence and then i would come to perhaps i'm just used to being interrupted. yeah. i know you've got to, you've got to get in there. but i got two words in. it's the same question as it has the definition of being disabled radically expanded. and so it comes back to the same thing. you can say it may be genuine, but you can say you've got adhd now. and someone was meaning would be really, really would need to see a case by case study of it, would we? >> and we'll put lewis on that and make him 63% increase. would that be like two dozen instead of nine? right. you know, all these things and they accuse the people who, who were protesting against this as neo—nazis and the far right . the far right. >> yeah. which was me, which we went up we went there. andrew gwynne. yeah. but it might be true . true. >> you may or may not just have fallen out of a coconut tree, but a new baby formula food certainly has in the daily mail. yes , it's world's first coconut yes, it's world's first coconut based baby formula to be launched in australia as expert issues. >> stern warning to parents. that's wildly unprofessional. good grief . yes, you haven't had

good grief. yes, you haven't had your your coconut based baby formula before the show, but but that was simon. but yes. and of course you. one worry is about they're claiming it's just as good as breast milk. but one worries about this because breast milk is really the ideal. that's that's the king. then it's bottled. now it's plant based. it's right at the bottom and i will i think i speak for everyone when i say lewis only dnnks everyone when i say lewis only drinks authentic breast milk and idnnk drinks authentic breast milk and i drink it. i drink it raw, raw. from the source. this is, this is, this is. you know what? if you're out there and you're watching and you think that you should have coconut milk for your baby, well, you deserve the brain damaged child, the short child that you want much worse than i thought you were. it is. it is. i thought it was gonna be bad. it was so much worse. people who. >> people are no longer on air. you can carry on talking, but we're clearly no longer have we been taken off the air. >> i need this, i need this job. and lewis is single handedly. because somebody. because somebody has got to tell the truth to these people. well, funnily enough, this is this is death food. >> if you read past the fourth

paragraph, that is basically the story, the it's being launched with a stern warning to parents that they don't know whether this is an adequate substitute. >> they do know that it's bad for them. they know they do know that babies, they need 15 things that babies, they need 15 things that aren't in that in in vegan type food. >> but you've got to be careful. you know, some women with the very best of intentions and determination are simply unable to provide enough milk for their children. that is a fact. >> that's true. then then then they'd have bottled milk, wouldn't they? but now this is another thing of like from cow vegan just doing this for vegan reasons then i certainly yeah , reasons then i certainly yeah, well there's one more section to go as usual. >> hell is empty and all the devils are here. we have escorts. chancellor's new plumage. we'll see you in a couple of

welcome back to headliners . so welcome back to headliners. so we have one final section louis moore, daily mail to kick us off. one of the more audacious cures for buyer's remorse. >> oh, yeah. this thing , man who >> oh, yeah. this thing, man who felt ripped off when he hired two escorts for £8,000, contacted barclays to try to get money back, said he was scammed. i don't even know why this is news. this has happened to every quy- news. this has happened to every guy. every guy. i mean, how many times has this happened to me where you just think you haven't gotten the best deal? >> three hours for eight grand? it would have to be pretty good, wouldn't it? >> yeah, well, he's got a lot of money, so. and this is when you come back to the —*th|s

for? >> and you have to scroll through paying a friend, paying a business, paying an invoice, paying a business, paying an invoice, paying a service, paying a. and you have to choose one. and then it goes, are you sure these are going to be, you know, but you have it really sort of walks you through the various stages, which i think is going to be bullet—proof in this. >> that's why they call it santander. the escorts choice, the. yeah, well, he went to the financial ombudsman, which takes incredible nerve. yeah . imagine incredible nerve. yeah. imagine that. he's like, i think this deserves to go all the way to the financial ombudsman. most people would feel shame. >> maybe he's doing it in order to exculpate himself from the whole process, rather than just trying to get money back or or maybe what's happened is, is thatis maybe what's happened is, is that is that this kind of services finance, paying for money sex is now okay. >> and maybe you're so out of date. maybe nick doesn't like the idea that someone is embarrassed by this, but maybe he's thinking, you know what they got. yes, i believe in shame as a powerful motivator. >> i still have to fold my phone in a copy of the daily telegraph before i use it. you know , god, before i use it. you know, god, it's disgraceful, isn't it,

nick? the daily express, now a celebrity hairstylist, is reading the runes of rachel reeves new hairstyle. >> yes, and very important story. rachel reeves new hairstyle. oldest trick in the book as uk faces impending doom . book as uk faces impending doom. kind of lot going on in that headline, but it's essentially that she's lost the bob, which was quite a disturbing choice in a way. they all had those bobs, like they're sort of all fembots power bobs. it was a bit weird, but now she's gone. i saw a picture of her quite recently with a sort of longer, more natural look. i'd hate to judge women's appearance or anyone's appearance, but that seemed better to me. but she's now gone with a kind of. they're calling it red. it looked kind of more ginger to me, but they're calling it red, and they say she wants to be noticed. red hair can be seen as risky and racy and linked to dangerous women. she is dangerous. so i do agree on that. and labour are dangerous. >> i don't know how it can be. the oldest trick in the book, given that she's the first female chancellor we've had, i think. i don't remember gordon brown sporting a new hairstyle when he was about to hit us. well, was it was they saying that or was he saying oldest trick in the book. >> meaning now politicians changing the look because she's under a lot of pressure for taking gifts and stuff like that. but the truth is that's

what women do. they like to change the way their hair looks. and she's dyeing her hair. so that's that's like the chinese communist party . she's and she's communist party. she's and she's like with, with she whatever the guy is. >> yeah, i missed the link there. >> but no, because because the chinese communist, they always have. they always dark hair black. they dye their hair. so she's doing it. >> power dye daily star. now, lewis, we've got only a couple of minutes to get through the last couple of stories. victorian graves may soon open. and not just for halloween. >> yeah, this is. and not just for halloween. >> yeah, this is . they want to >> yeah, this is. they want to take old graveyards and they want to re recycle them. and i know a lot about this because i led a campaign in my native borough of southwark. if you want to see what a recycled graves looked like, you can go to camberwell old cemetery all the way on the end and it is not a pretty picture and it's absolutely horrible and proposes recycling. graves hates this country, hates older people who have whose families are in these graves, who paid money to have these people in their graves forever. they hate the trees that are growing above the

graves. they hate the gravestones. >> what's happening to the graveyard? >> what's happening is, is they think, you know, nobody's visiting these old graves . we'll visiting these old graves. we'll just dig up the graves, okay? but people do go back to the graves. they. they bury the people there forever and ever. it's in time. >> maybe it should be like when they think a bike has been abandoned, you know? but for a while, they put a notice on it saying, if you don't move this bike soon, we're going to come along with the choppers. >> but the person who bought the bike space to park that bike did not pay in forever , which is not pay in forever, which is what happened to these people who were buried. what they do is they scrape away all the trees. they basically deforest the place. they dig up the graves , place. they dig up the graves, they dig up the graves, they destroy the graves. a long time about graves. at the end of the show, room for one on top. >> i say. show, room for one on top. >> i say . possibly a follow on >> i say. possibly a follow on story. this nick in the telegraph holes appearing in the very fabric of space time, or at least in parts of norwich. >> it's why sinkholes are opening up across the uk, and it's a judgement from god about the labour government. no, it's a sort of metaphor for the decline of britain, really. these random sinkholes are just showing up, like at afc

wimbledon. yeah. it's interesting. i just want to say on the last story, you didn't let me speak is that i'm hoping that they'll stop burying the dead, even though it's horrific, because that's how we got rid of labourin because that's how we got rid of labour in the 70s. that's true. >> that's my comment on discontent. but this is sinkholes are kind of interesting, but i can never be sure whether they are a single phenomenon or whether 2 or 3 open up in the same time and everyone goes, oh my god, it's an epidemic. >> you wait all day for a sinkhole. simon and it never comes. yes, the fact is, there's a huge solar flare. >> i feel that might be. you know, they might connect. >> they're trying to pin the sequels on climate change. there might be climate change, but this is the sinkholes are not caused by climate change. they're saying there are more and more of these sinkholes. yeah, there's more and more sinkholes because they're because they're paving over the entire country. so you notice when there's a sinkhole in a parking lot, okay. if there's one in the woods, you wouldn't nofice one in the woods, you wouldn't notice it. >> so you think, well, i can't imagine how they can pin it on climate change, but. >> well, they do because they pin everything on climate. that bit in that third batman. you know, when the football stadium just collapses, that's what we've got now in real life. bane, bane. there we go. >> the show is nearly over. i am

so glad we didn't do the last story, which was about using fish sperm as a moisturiser. so let's take another quick look at friday's front pages. the daily mail starmer's surrender in the mauritius telegraph johnson uk needs a referendum on the echr the express i never thought i'd be alive to see this law change, but perhaps i will. esther rantzen there i news, energy price scare after biden says israel could attack iran's oil metro poison jab murder plot by doctor in disguise. and finally, the daily star. doctor in disguise. and finally, the daily star . brace yourself, the daily star. brace yourself, bessie, those were your front pages. i think that might have been the solar flare. that's all we have time for. been the solar flare. that's all we have time for . thanks to my we have time for. thanks to my guest, lewis schaffer and nick dixon. josh howie will be here tomorrow at 11:00 pm with jonathan kogan and adam koumas. if you're watching at 5 am, stay tuned for breakfast. otherwise, good night . otherwise, good night. >> there will be a light breeze in the morning leading to a warm front boxed heat pumps, sponsors of weather on gb news . of weather on gb news.

>> hello, good evening and welcome to your gb news weather update brought to you by the met office. well, as we head into the weekend, things are going to turn increasingly unsettled with some outbreaks of rain, but it's not going to be a total washout and there will still be some brighter interludes at times. to end the week, though, we do still have high pressure dominating, bringing plenty of fine and dry settled conditions before low pressure generally takes hold as we head into the weekend. overnight, takes hold as we head into the weekend. overnight , though, weekend. overnight, though, plenty of clear spells, which means it is going to be feeling cold colder than last night, and we're likely to see some mist and fog. this might just be a little bit stubborn to clear at times, particularly across parts of yorkshire. a different story in the west though, as we start to see more and more cloud to spill in into northwestern parts, even with some light rain , parts, even with some light rain, by the time we reach friday morning . so a bit of an morning. so a bit of an unsettled start. fairly damp just in western parts of scotland. a few drips and drabs of rain across northern parts, two generally drier further east, but likely rather cloudy. similar across northern ireland, with some outbreaks of rain just

starting to push into the west. elsewhere though, as i say, there will be some mist and fog in places. a little bit slow to clear through tomorrow morning, but largely bright once this clears away. and here we do generally have high pressure sticking around, so still plenty of sunny spells once that fog clears in the morning and with light winds it should feel fairly pleasant here. a different story in the north—west, though . cloud north—west, though. cloud continuing to spill in here with some outbreaks of rain and turning rather blustery under those cloudier skies too . but those cloudier skies too. but where you do catch the sunshine with highs of 1617 across the south and southeast , it should south and southeast, it should still be feeling rather pleasant as we head into the weekend. fairly similar to start likely a chilly start across central and southern uk. perhaps some fog in the morning, but generally dry and settled. outbreaks of rain still in the northwest and we have this area of heavy rain just moving into the southwest, later into the day, so likely to see some quite heavy downpours later in saturday and generally unsettled over the weekend and into next week . into next week. >> we can expect clear skies

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rule over the territory, sparking fears that gibraltar and the falklands could be next. >> boris johnson gave his reaction to gb news it's nonsense. >> it's total nonsense. why are we doing this? sheer political correctness, desire to look like the good guys, the desire to look as though we're unbundling the last relics of our empire. >> boris johnson also reveals the uk needs another referendum, this time on the echr. >> are we really in the digital

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