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this is headliners. but before tomorrow's news let's go to tonight's headlines with sophie reaper. >> a very good evening to you. the time is just after 11:00. and these are your latest headlines. what's being described as pension mega funds are set to be created by the labour government to help unlock billions of investment in businesses and infrastructure. tomorrow, the chancellor is expected to deliver a speech at mansion house, in which she set to outline this overhaul in britain's pension fund industry. rachel reeves is expected to say that by consolidating assets into a handful of funds run by professional fund managers, it will allow them to invest more into various assets. the government has also said these reforms could unlock £80 billion of investment into new businesses and critical infrastructure over in the us now, and president elect donald

trump was hosted by current president joe biden today in washington, the two sat down at the white house this afternoon for a meeting designed to demonstrate a smooth handover of power. earlier, the reuters news agency reported that during the meeting, biden told trump he was, quote , looking forward to was, quote, looking forward to a peaceful transition whilst trump stated that, in his words, politics is tough, but it's a nice world today . back to uk nice world today. back to uk politics now and the leader of the opposition, kemi badenoch, has criticised sir keir starmer at pmqs today. that was over. council tax, national insurance contributions and the budget. the conservative leader also pressed the pm on decisions he made at the cop29 climate summit in baku . in baku. >> mr speaker, i welcome the prime minister back from his trip to azerbaijan, where he has unilaterally made commitments that will make life more experience for everyone back home. >> i'm very proud. >> i'm very proud. >> i'm very proud. >> i'm very proud of the fact that we're restoring leadership

on climate to this country, to the uk , because that will be the uk, because that will be measured in lower bills on energy independence and the jobs of the future. >> and in relation . >> and in relation. >> and in relation. >> and in relation. >> and she may have missed, but on monday i was very pleased to announce a huge order into jobs in hull for blades for offshore wind. if she's opposed to that sort of action, she should go to hull and say so . hull and say so. >> residents in valencia have been preparing for further heavy rain and storms, just two weeks after flash flooding caused devastation across the country, a spanish weather agency issued an amber warning yesterday, forecasting between 40 and 120mm forecasting between 40 and 120mm for the area. residents have been advised to stay at home and volunteers have been told to pause their clean up efforts, while further safety preparation measures are put into place. and never mind the age old question of a white christmas. could we be in for a white november? the

met office has announced that the uk could see a flurry of snow as early as this sunday, as temperatures have already plummeted below zero in certain parts of the country. they say the arctic winds moving southward will bring freezing weather, and with it, what they call the possibility of snow. i'll believe that when i see it. that's all for me for now. but now it's back 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 gb news .com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> hello and welcome to headliners, your first look at thursday's top stories with three top comedians. let's have a quick look at what steve and leo will have to deal with on thursday's front pages. we have the daily mail now, council tax to rise by £110. the telegraph

police, in appalling attack on free speech. the independent revealed trump pushed to sabotage starmer's chagos islands deal. the i labour will miss its new homes pledge, says official leading plan. the metro. trump's defence chief is a tv host. the daily star widdle in the shower to save the planet . in the shower to save the planet. finally, some common sense. those were your front pages . those were your front pages. let's have a closer look at those front pages. we'll start with the telegraph. >> steve loads on the telegraph. i mean, they talk council tax. we'll talk more about that in a bit. 30 clergy may face sacking abuse scandal. so there is some good news on there. but main story police in appalling attack on free speech. this is the story about allison pearson who look, i mean, i don't normally agree with the kind of thing she says, and which means it means something. when i think this is appalling, it doesn't matter whether you agree with her or not. what you shouldn't do is do a tweet, then get a knock on the door and think, oh, it's the

police have turned up, what's this about? and they say they were in there investigating in a non—crime hate incident way, a tweet from the past. >> and she said, oh, which tweet? >> oh, we can't tell you that. no, because you might work out how to defend yourself. >> and then she says, okay, well then who's the accuser? >> and they check the paperwork and go , oh no, not an accuser, and go, oh no, not an accuser, it's a victim. >> well, it's game set and match. >> you can't defend yourself. >> you can't defend yourself. >> they already know it's a victim. so you must be in the wrong. >> it's i mean, they used the word kafkaesque sometimes, and it's overused and like orwellian, but this really is as close to kafka's trial as you can get. it is the sheer vagueness of it is the most sinister aspect. >> i'm amazed she's not starting to use the word ovular, which i believe they debate about that in there. >> but this for me, always just comes down to why are the police being involved in non—crime things in the same way that mountain rescue shouldn't be involved in non mountain related rescue activities, like if you've got a non—fire thing happening, don't call the fire brigade. so the police old lady has a fall in the high street and the mountain rescue generally speaking, don't get

involved. >> exactly. >> exactly. >> that would be a non mountain fall incident like if ever any of these tweets turn into because the new criteria is they shouldn't be recorded unless they're likely to escalate. >> i'm guessing allison pearson wasn't going to go and commit crime. she's busy writing columns that offend people. >> it's had a year. it's a year old tweet. so perhaps it is like murder where it has to be a year and a day before you can be sure that it hasn't been murder. you have to die from the action. yeah. perhaps with the tweet, it's the same thing. if they were waiting to see if it was actually a hate crime incident, but it's actually a non—crime hate incident and she's assuming it's related to tweets that she , it's related to tweets that she, she posted about about hamas's attack on israel. >> so, so yeah, i mean, and it's interesting, you know, who they attack and who they don't attack. i mean, this is what authoritarian regimes do is they have a law that everybody can be seen to have broken. so then they can pick and choose who's broken it. and this is kind of what we've got here. and i spoke to her last night. and i mean i do agree with everything she says. i'd follow that woman into the gates of hell. and, you

know, she's she's amazing. she's i mean, she's an incredibly strong woman, obviously. and this is, you know, we might imagine that this is getting all this attention. it's going to be great. it's going to bring down the stupid laws. you know, this is going to make police, police forces look at how they deal with these things. but the reality is that she's genuinely scared of what could happen next. they've been so vague she doesn't know. i mean, other people, people she mentions in the article she wrote yesterday, people go to jail are held in jail. the process is the punishment for this kind of stuff. we've seen with other people like marion miller, who was who was accused of hate crime for a for a tweet with a suffragette ribbon which was perceived to be a noose. i mean, this is all just absolute nonsense. the police should stay well away from policing any form of speech. and thank god for donald trump and thank god for elon musk keeping speech free. donald trump has said if europe continues to enforce his authoritarian rules on its on its citizens and take away its citizens rights, then they are going to pull out of nato. so they're using nato as a tool to

sort of project western values on communist countries, such as i mean, we can we i can only really describe britain as a communist country. now, you don't get stuff like this in a free liberal western country. >> i certainly think i will stop short of saying communist just yet, but it certainly has far more sinister echoes of east germany, the lives of others and that sort of thing than i'm comfortable with. i don't know whether it's significant that allison pearson as well, is an old school legacy journalist. she is not a creature of the social media age. this is not a woman who has risen to the top. like i will just say it. for instance, narinder kaur, who seems to make a living out of being disobliging on twitter. i certainly wouldn't call the police on her, but i could see why people would go, oh my goodness, can we? we the world would be a better place without her hideous social media presence. allison pearson has written bestselling books and has been a legacy journalist within the telegraph and other titles. i think for what, 30 years? i mean, it's absurd that a woman of this stature. yeah, absolutely. >> and there's an issue here with possibly being retribution from the police force because she's been critical of the

police force , essex police police force, essex police force, before she's helped her friend with a domestic violence case. and the police, you know, complained about the language she used. so, i mean, i think we need an investigation to see what the internal comms that the police force are to see if this is actually sanctioned by higher up as a as a retributive action. >> i couldn't agree more. we have another important story on the front page of the telegraph. >> steve, are we going to talk about the assisted dying. yes. so this is wes streeting who's look there when it comes to actually debating the bill, almost a separate story. you'll come up with good reasons for and good reasons against wes streeting is not in favour of it, but the reason he's come up against it is it will cost money. so some of the money that he's dishing out in his nhs , he's dishing out in his nhs, well, you can't have it there if you're going to go and spend it on killing some people. it's the weakest one where he says, where's the money going to come from? i don't know the department of work and pensions, because maybe it will come from the nhs costs, which will no longer be used on the pension, on the patient who no longer lives. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> that's why it's the stupidest argument, isn't it, whether you're for or against it, it's

almost drawing attention to the to the unspoken motivation that many suspect lies behind the bill, the savings you're going to make. yes , is what we're to make. yes, is what we're thinking. >> i mean, it's literally a question of bending over and pulling out the plug on some in some instances, isn't it? >> you see, the smart metre slow down. >> i do find the whole debate. there is a lot of disquieting dystopian edge to it. again, you know, two dystopias on one front page. some people are saying the humanitarian, not humanitarian. the humanist society today said that if members of parliament feel that they support the bill in principle, but have not been satisfied with its practical application, they should vote for it anyway. now that really doesn't sound to me like that's how you pass laws. you're like, yes, i would generally like to see people killed, you know, on the nhs, but i'm not quite sure on the detail yet. i mean , no, absolutely. >> and i think there's, there's, there's a wider issue of legislation not receiving the same level of scrutiny and debate that it used to receive in the two houses. and i mean, this this obviously would in

canada, where they've got where they've got a similar assisted dying bill. i mean, it's used to save the state money if somebody's homeless, if somebody needs an expensive operation, they offer it as an option. >> it's like they've said, if somebody has crossed the border from america to get away from trump because they're depressed, would you like, would you like, would you like, would you like, would you like us to kill you? yes. >> i mean, surely the state shouldn't be, you know, jumping to killing people as a first response. and it's interesting in canada how, you know, they were everybody was reassured that it wouldn't be used like that. there'd be all these safeguards. and straight away, pretty much within months, it's being used to kill young people and 21 year olds. >> well, not just in canada, which might be acceptably regarded as a strange alien nafion regarded as a strange alien nation . nation. >> but for a minute we're going to say which is acceptable if you're getting rid of canadians, we're okay. >> see enough moose crossing the road. you know, the world seems strange to you. can we move on to the metro? leo? in an extraordinary appointment by by the clown in chief. yes. >> so they say shock appointment to lead world's biggest military. trump's defence chief is tv host .

trump's defence chief is tv host. now, what have they got against tv hosts? i would love a go. i think the worst people you'll ever meet . ever meet. >> we would love to say we could have a department each, couldn't we? we could clean it out. >> i think you'd do a great job as good as good as defence secretary wes streeting. >> but yeah, this is this is this is the new defence secretary in the us. >> so donald trump has just appointed him. they've got a picture of him there with his shirt off, ready to go into battle against the taliban. he's got a lot of interesting tattoos. you know christian tattoos. he's got deus vult, which is bicep. isn't that a crusade? isn't that something they said in the crusades? >> i mean, the good thing about pope urban the 10th, i think . pope urban the 10th, i think. yeah, it's not directly quoted. >> i mean, if we did have crusades, if the english church did have crusades again, at least they wouldn't have to go all the way to the middle east, you know? thanks to mass immigration. but but yeah, this is this guy. what's he called? pete ? hegseth. hegseth? he's 44. pete? hegseth. hegseth? he's 44. i mean, they say he's he's got no experience in government. that's not true. and it's probably not useful to the experience of government if you're indoctrinated into the blob, you're not going to be

good at draining the swamp. so he's served in afghanistan and iraq. so it's like having a doctor, you know, lead the nhs, i think. >> and then he's commented on it a lot on fox news, which is an extraordinary venerable station, which which we admire. >> but it served, hasn't he . and >> but it served, hasn't he. and he was. yeah. and he was one of the better somewhere. but also one of the better. no, i think he did well in terms of being the defence secretary, because he kind of had a sense of knowing what he was talking about. >> i suppose people will say he's had no experience of running a large department. obviously within the british government, you move from one cabinet post to another overnight sometimes. >> but that's what the blob is for, isn't it? >> i mean, not exactly, i think. i mean, you know, to play devil's advocate, he does look a bit of a wild card, but clearly the people who voted for trump did not vote for trump so that they get a standard conventional republican cabinet just with a crazy wild guy kind of funtime. >> you know, of these appointments so far , none of appointments so far, none of them have been to family members. so this is way better than mark one. there was an awful lot of like, because it's hard to sack a son in law,

whereas these people, if they don't do a good job, they can be fired. >> no, trump knows what he's doing this time round. they've spent a lot of time planning. this isn't the sort of chaos and fudging of the first the first, first time round. so yeah, they've hit the ground running. they know exactly what they're doing. >> they have been the military, the secretary of state , the the secretary of state, the foreign office and so on. they have been a lot more militaristic than i think some people were saying, possibly even neoconservative. and it doesn't look like there's going to be this kind of isolationist principle at work that a lot of people were worrying about. yeah, it's well, your republicans happy about that. >> republicans are always isolationist in opposition because it sounds good. yeah. we're not going to give them any more money. >> well, you've got to make them fear the thing, haven't you. on the trigger, the times steve, to the trigger, the times steve, to the times they well up the top they do tease this one. >> middle aged women keep their hands off our younger men. but you're saying that in the times i think you're going to market their butt business? well, the picture i do want to mention the picture i do want to mention the picture donald trump pops in to

see joe biden incredibly convivial. they look biden looks really happy. he looks an old white man. this is a good time for him. and he's shafted. >> kamala, let's be honest. >> kamala, let's be honest. >> yes, he did say he was the one man who could beat him . one man who could beat him. maybe he was right. >> at the moment he can't be proven and he definitely voted for trump. >> yeah, well he wore the hat as well. >> it's that grin . >> it's that grin. >> it's that grin. >> but yeah, the main story business backlash over budget shops say the speed and scale of reform will lead to customers paying reform will lead to customers paying more. we're customers. we're used to paying more right now, straight through the nose. but staff losing jobs, economy slowing down. it is often this isn't it? it is the scale is the secondary thing. the speed of change is the thing that impacts an economy. so it's all very well saying like, we've got these things we wish to achieve in the budget. you want to do them over a longer time. i understand the politics you do the unpopular things at the start and then at the end you give some money back, but you end up messing it up. you slightly. liz truss by trying to do too much before people can swallow what you're doing. >> yeah, i think a lot of businesses have had to make some very harsh decisions in the run up to christmas, and so on. you hear about people being moved to fewer hours or even being let

go. there's all kinds of implications with the national insurance. it is, again, that fear that people come into this kind of these responsibilities without having ever run a business and persuaded that they're almost infinitely elastic. >> oh , yeah. reeves is reeves is >> oh, yeah. reeves is reeves is she's she's not somebody who knows what she's doing. no. from from what i've seen. i mean , from what i've seen. i mean, businesses are getting hammered on so many. it's not just the national insurance, the minimum wage. and then, you know, with with farmers being hammered as well, the cost of food is going to is going to skyrocket. i reckon. i mean, if i was to scrape around and find some, some positives, i'd say it's going to it's going to nudge businesses to invest capital investment in technology and automate processes which american technology in particular. yeah, which i think which i think we absolutely need right now. and also, you know, releasing more people into the labour market, we still do have quite a tight labour market. so, you know, economists say, oh, we need mass immigration because we've got all these jobs that we can't fill. it's like, well, we're going to be able to fill them if people are getting fired. >> yeah, that's absolutely true. we'll get a few of them off benefits, but we'll talk about that later. coming up, the doj's

here to thin out the deep state farage comes bearing bad news for keir and liz kendall is ruling nothing out. i say this is headliners only on gb news

and welcome back to headliners. i'm simon evans , still joined by i'm simon evans, still joined by steve van allen and leo kearse. we have a comment from a viewer. free speech says roy should not be investigated by the police. surely they have real crimes to solve. quite right roy though. why we needed roy specifically to observe that, i'm not sure. but there we are, staying with elon musk and free speech leo, asindeedi elon musk and free speech leo, as indeed i think we might be throughout the show. he seems to be the moriarty. as i said at the centre of the world's news web. now. also, the manhattan project. joana jarjue apparently. >> yeah . so i've got no idea >> yeah. so i've got no idea what any of that meant. but the manhattan project, it was the mixing , manhattan project, it was the mixing, mixing several different analogies all at once . it's like

analogies all at once. it's like you got spider—man in there, some greek stuff . some greek stuff. >> then in the second world war, sherlock holmes used to say that moriarty was like a spider at the centre of the web, through which all the world's crimes were communicated, and this seems to be how they feel on musk these days. this is what i think is this idea that he's at the centre. he's almost like more than trump, is he? >> he kind of is. i mean, he definitely, i think swung the election for trump, possibly even as much as the amish. and that squirrel that got shot. squirrel. well, the squirrel never underestimate the impact of a of the state. i mean , what of a of the state. i mean, what a better example of state overreach and government intrusion could you get than the state executing a squirrel? they can't do anything about illegal immigrants or anything, but they can stamp on a squirrel. and this is what this story, sarah allison pearson basically, yeah . allison pearson basically, yeah. and that's what this story is about. so trump is named elon musk and vivek ramaswamy to head his department of government efficiency. the manhattan project of our time is described as here. and its department of government efficiency is doge, which, of course, is the sort of memetic the meme coin. the meme

coin. yeah. so doge to the moon. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and like so they're going to they're going to go through the government and unpick all the bloat and all the waste and properly drain the swamp this time. and who better to do it than elon musk? he did it with twitter. he's done it. he runs incredibly efficient companies that achieve remarkable things . that achieve remarkable things. so if there's anybody who can, although he might be working with slightly less, less, you know , exceptional human capital know, exceptional human capital than he is at spacex . but yeah, than he is at spacex. but yeah, javier milei has shown how how to do it in argentina. you know, you can literally slash you can just go in. you don't even need to worry about it. just fire loads of public sector workers. nothing changes because most of them are just seat polishers and enjoy the benefit of the taxpayer not having to shove food down their gullet. and this is about more than money. as the state gets bigger, it gets more intrusive. as we saw with the peanut, the squirrel getting shot, as we've seen with allison pearson, getting, you know, getting the whiff of the gulag blown through a letterbox. and, you know, i think also with, with so many illegal immigrants being sent back, the private

sector is going to need these workers. so, you know, i think if i workers. so, you know, i think if! hope workers. so, you know, i think if i hope some of these people like, you know, like doing those jobs, it's going to be great fun watching them attempt to struggle with job expectations in the private sector. >> there is there's like a first order and a second order effect here, isn't it? i think because if you thin out a third of the bureaucracy, the deep state, whatever you want to call them, they're apparently it costs them trillions in america, so they will be gone. but also there will be gone. but also there will be gone. but also there will be a large number of people who are essentially who have benefited from the largesse that their departments distribute and that will go as well. yeah, i would imagine that's probably part of it. i think a lot of people have said, you know, in terms of these kind of mass deportations that he has in mind, they won't actually be necessary if you just cut the benefits, if you just cut the infrastructure which supports those people's ability to survive, they will go, well, i better go home. >> yeah. look, i mean, it depends what kind of trimming happens. there is a lot of trimming that we shouldn't even

be arguing about. this doesn't need to be a right versus left. like getting upset at what elon will do. regardless of where you are on the political spectrum, you should want efficiency because they talk about efficiencies. surely no one is in favour of inefficiency. i love, i love more waste . love, i love more waste. >> they are there's a third of the deep state. are . yeah. yeah. the deep state. are. yeah. yeah. >> in general it's like the populace should think. no i want the government, regardless of how big it is to act efficiently. and then you can argue about the size. the one thing i would disagree with is i don't think calling it the manhattan project is a good thing. no. if i was i mean, in the sense, in the sense that it's a huge project which only you know, which you have to take a deep breath and undertake. >> and it's expensive in no other regards. yeah. it feels like it's specifically not for good those two towns. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> maybe they're going to move them all to los alamos. there's just going to be a huge camp in the middle of the desert where they go get on with whatever you fancy, guys moving through the trump inner circle from elon musk to nigel farage now. and he's got bad news for the chagos chumps. >> yeah. so nigel farage warns

the donald trump administration is hostile to labour's chagos islands surrender in quote marks as the us president elect seeks legal advice about vetoing this. nixing it. look, i must admit, before the news broke, i wasn't really on top of this . i didn't really on top of this. i didn't realise that james cleverly had put so much work into lining up this deal. i didn't realise this was a shoe that was about to drop. so we had the islands, the island to mauritius get a 99 year lease on the military base diogo jota diego garcia, which is my fake name online and it's a, it's a 99 years means that this government is never going to have to deal with any of the impact when we get close to losing this as a military place. i thought what they should do is ask the people actually involved. people from the chagos islands. turns out they've all been moved to crawley as if they haven't suffered enough . and i haven't suffered enough. and i say that as someone who used to do drivetime on 102.7 mercury fm, i know crawley, but deep down i don't know whether whether the outcome is good or not. what i do know is it should

have been run through parliament. we have a parliamentary democracy. you want to make something, you run it past the people who represent us and get to vote for it. they wouldn't have done a three line whip. we could have actually had a vote on this. >> the issue with america is that they feel that it tilts things in favour of china, right? yeah, absolutely. to do with handing it back to mauritius as such. >> yeah. this is a strategic military base. and to say, oh, we've got a 99 year lease. i mean, a lease is nowhere near as robust and defensible as a, as actually owning it, as it being part of the empire. yeah. totally. and isn't it mad that trump's had to come in and save the british empire from being destroyed by keir starmer? i mean, like trump's doing a better job, a better advocate for the british people. sure. >> a little bit of backbone, but it is true that governments of all different colours have been lining this up. >> this is not just a keir starmer turning point i don't want to do. that's true. so yeah, it's been a direction that we've been moving. and because there's been some advisory thing which is not legally binding and yet for some reason we're all thinking this needs to happen without running it through parliament. what is wrong with us? but there is also this issue, isn't there?

>> this could be the first little tremor, first canary in the coal mine. america is going to start throwing its weight around with britain and with the rest of europe as well, because they are threatening to impose tariffs on exports and so on britain, of course, having, you know, lost a lot of advantageous trade with the eu is hoping to maintain healthy relationship with america and that will come with america and that will come with conditions. yeah. and this could be the first one that we see imposed. but i don't think it'll be the last. no obviously you've already mentioned free speech. >> yeah. no i think it's going to be fantastic. it's going to you know trump's going to push europe to spend more on defence, which europe should be doing. and it will mean we possibly have national service. so our young people stop being absolute wet like fudds and like, you know, this is this is going to save this is going to save the we st. west. >> i think we're halfway through and already we're going to save the west. coming up, farewell from the guardian. it's all going in the right direction. pro—family propaganda in mother russia and treatment for the burka phobes in iran. this is headliners only on gb news

and welcome back to headliners, our viewer of this section. stuart has said that no one has yet explained how the government's chagos islands decision was ever in the british interest. good point stuart. the paper round up again quickly. now for those of you who missed the very beginning of the show, we have the daily mail now. council tax to rise by £110. the telegraph police, in appalling attack on free speech alison pearson, the independent, revealed trump pushed to sabotage starmer's chagos islands deal. the i labour will miss its new homes pledge, says official leading plan the metro. trump's defence chief is tv host or was daily star widdle in the shower to save the planet? that's your advice . so back to that's your advice. so back to musk world now, leo. and after a

brief diversion, the grauniad have decided to pull their account from his platform. perhaps infuriated that they can't spell ex wrong . can't spell ex wrong. >> yeah, i'm sure they'd find a way like upside down ex. but yeah, this is the guardian. they've announced they will no longer post content on elon musk's social media platform x, or as it's still known by everybody, twitter, twitter . so everybody, twitter, twitter. so they made an announcement to readers. i don't know why they have to announce it. it's like they'd announce they're leaving a party and oh, i'm leaving the party because there's pineapple in the potato salad and the sangria is warm. i don't know, like just just go. but they said they considered the benefits of being on the platform were now outweighed by the negatives, citing the often disturbing content and misinformation found on it. but there's going to be a bit less now because the guardian's not going to be on it and they post a whole bunch of stuff . they've complained here. stuff. they've complained here. they're moaning about far right conspiracy theories and racism, but considering they find everything. the guardian runs articles several times a day

saying teacups are racist, pot plants are racist, the air is racist, everything is racist to these people, and some of the far right conspiracy theories that they talk about are now just like 50% of the time they come true. look at joe biden's cognitive decline . that was cognitive decline. that was a far right conspiracy theory. and then it came true. >> they linked to a zoe williams article. it was a hyperlink from that exact phrase far right conspiracy theorist, which you've written a whole article about how dangerous x was. now, what a slimy pit of disinformation. and one of the examples she gave was the far right conspiracy theory that that algerian boxer was actually intersex, which which is. absolutely. and it was like she was like suing. elon musk was named in the libel trial. i was like, if you had just fact checked that if you were just stand that oh, no, that's been proven. i mean, you you really can't make this stuff up. >> well , i can't make this stuff up. >> well, i don't think you can complain about the outcome of an argument if you refuse to take part in it. so if you're really bothered about what x is like, spend more time tweeting about

disagreeing with people. get stuck into the to the argument they could appoint a specific x correspondent, couldn't they? >> if they don't have to have the whole newspaper there, it could just be their champion. >> they don't have to worry about earning money through like advertising or whatever. they've got to money spend on people who don't do a proper job because don't do a properjob because they've got their trust paying for it. so yeah, absolutely. >> autotrader or whatever, wasn't it? yeah. they flogged. >> i also think part of this is realising they're just getting some press out of it. >> yeah, they might come back in the guardian which they could get anyway because they are the guardian. >> i also love that they do have a problem with elon musk using twitter to politically get his point across. have you seen your newspaper use your newspaper to do exactly that? >> yeah, and also they were fine. >> yeah, and also they were fine. >> just one voice. yes, the algorithms push him, but you can block him if you don't want to see it. you are capable of blocking him. i just find it is a little bit sad that all these people are like you kind of like mincing away now, though. >> yeah, but it just shows how indoctrinated and biased and they want an echo chamber and they're not getting on twitter because elon musk allows everybody to speak. if the guardian were worried about misinformation that influences elections, they should have left

in 2020 when twitter, under its previous owners, colluded with the democrat governments , the democrat governments, colluded with executive branches of the government to suppress the hunter biden laptop story. it was classed as fake news. it was actually completely valid and true . and if they want to and true. and if they want to change people's minds and make everybody better and more socialist, surely the people like me who are on twitter are the ones they need to convince. so stay on twitter and convince me. >> absolutely. community note you, steve, here is something to gladden the two young fathers on the panel this evening. a positive boost to fertility image in mother russia. >> yeah, so russia to ban child free propaganda lists here. films, advertisements and textbooks face restrictions as part of efforts to boost the low birth rate. if you want to do this, you better silence parents. there is no greater propaganda against having kids than someone who's shattered with sick all day and then going, oh, i didn't get any sleep. >> well, that's interesting is that i mean, i know you're joking, kind of, but is that true? is it more is it to the extent that it works at all? is it more likely to depress

fertility to have lots of sitcoms where there are exhausted parents having, you know, or to show shiny, childless couples enjoying city breaks at the weekend? >> yeah. well, neither. i don't . >> yeah. well, neither. i don't. i honestly don't think anyone's thought i wanted a big family, but i saw that episode of ally mcbeal, and now i'm not going to do so. the idea of it is cumulative, isn't it? >> not an episode. but if, like 500 hours of tv you see about three children in the top right hand corner, briefly disappearing, it does have a sort of it changes the culture. >> it's saying that you won't be allowed to have films without there being kids in it. that's what happens in hollywood when they have to make a sequel, and they have to make a sequel, and they put a kid for in no good reason. the mummy returns, two and a half men. oh yeah, absolutely ruined it. but the idea i mean, obviously if you if you have to have kids in everything they film, their websites are going to be dodgy, am i right? but no, it's gone to no one's ever sat there and watched shawshank and thought , watched shawshank and thought, well, yeah, life without kids is pretty good. >> the fact is, they've tried an awful lot of different measures around the world to improve fertility, and nothing really seems to be working, does it? i suspect money is the only thing that would.

>> yeah, but i mean, a lot of countries are actually offering. i think even in russia you get offered if you get increasing amounts as you have more children and you get tax breaks, they're trying that in south korea, ethiopia, once in the mid century where you got a tax break for every new children, and after the fourth child you were never you never had to pay income tax again. that's a brilliant that's a brilliant idea. what a brilliant plan. a lot of people say he had good ideas. i mean, the issue, the issue is that you know, under well, under i mean under stalin. stalin took russian fertility for granted. it was almost a joke, you know, he said, look, don't worry about the people we're sending to die. we'll replace them. but at the moment there's a huge war going on. they're hitting an economic crash. they're living under, you know, this, this brutal and increasingly authoritarian dictator. that's not the ideal, you know, situation to bring children into the world. >> but it's a really good question. what is the ideal south korea has a fertility rate about 0.78 now. now they live in an absolute like capitalist utopia. there's an extraordinary amount of buoyancy economically. they have everything they want. just don't have many gardens and parks. but that's obviously not

ideal parks. but that's obviously not ideal. russia isn't ideal. britain at the moment doesn't seem to be ideal. america isn't ideal. seem to be ideal. america isn't ideal . australia is probably as ideal. australia is probably as close to ideal as anywhere, but even they're struggling to keep it up near two. >> i think we just we just deal with it. i think robots and automation is going to come in and just take up the slack just as. no, just as just as we, you know, just as we don't have enough people to wipe those bottoms. we're going to have robots to do it. >> hosing them down. leo, if you don't want to get the first robot off the line, though, you know what i mean . know what i mean. >> before they've tinkered the bugs like, just rips, rips a cheek off. >> yeah, we need to just lower the pressure on that. hey, if anyone needs proof of the tendency of the state to pathologize dissent, they hardly need to look as far as iran. but for what it's worth, they are doing it too. >> yeah. so iran sets up a mental health clinic to treat women who refuse to wear the hijab. women who refuse to wear the huab.the women who refuse to wear the hijab. the centre called the clinic for quitting hijab removal. >> you're kidding. >> you're kidding. >> the clinic never quitting huab. >> the clinic never quitting hijab . i'm so addicted to taking hijab. i'm so addicted to taking my hijab off and now it's like

second nature. >> i have a meal and then. >> i have a meal and then. >> yeah, so it's the islamic republic's latest attempt to quash female dissent that swept the country since the woman life freedom uprising in 2022. after mahsa amini was raped and beaten to death by the islamic police for taking her hijab off. sorry to bring it down a little bit, but yeah, this is clearly some sort of clockwork orange type type thing where your eyes will be held open. you'll probably watch all the horrors of the western world, like videos by cardi b , or just the back of cardi b, or just the back of some black cloth, presumably. yeah, maybe. just can you see out of this little slit here? but yeah. i mean, how long until we have it in this country? i mean, i guess here the girls would be prosecuted if they didn't wear their hijab. they'd be prosecuted for islamophobia under labour. >> i mean, obviously it is stupid story. i mean, one way to spin it would be saying, well, yeah, you must be mad to risk it, but i'm glad that they are actually genuinely we talked about this a few years ago, and

i thought this was going to be the start. i thought actually, that could be the uprising that changed things. and sadly it didn't happen. but the only thing that's vaguely amusing about this is that if you keep taking your hijab off, they will send you to a place to have your head looked at. i mean, not looked at. obviously that's not what they want . what they want. >> do you have a frog in the bag? >> that's stopping it? maybe. important news now for gb news viewers, steve. and for me too. this is the new address for the hoedown next week. yep. >> farmer tractor tax protest moves to a new location because trafalgar square not big enough. the protest due to take part on the place on the 19th of november. it was expected to exceed the original 5000 to 10,000 estimates. look, being stuck behind one tractor is. hell yeah. so imagine what this is going to be like. and it's because of the change in inheritance tax, not hell if you're in a tractor. no, i suppose so. i suppose just one person at the back going, oh, i picked the wrong day. i picked the wrong route for this. look, i'm not the kind of person who would just say everything labour doesis would just say everything labour does is wrong, right? so again, i think my criticism might be really valid here. how do they

keep doing this? how do they keep doing this? how do they keep like no one pre—election was going, look , whatever was going, look, whatever happensin was going, look, whatever happens in this election, i hope someone sorts out these farmers. yeah. no, this was at the front of no one's issue . of no one's issue. >> i thought it was cheap money, didn't they? they assumed it was cheap money because they thought we were resented farmers with their huge estates being handed down. >> but with loads of money, though, is it? no. and the argument? rachel reeves said it's only 1 in 4 farms. that's a lot of farms. only 1 in 4 of the cause is jim. but you wouldn't say blanketly. i'll sleep with any of the cause. it's. it's a high fraction, isn't it? >> well, it certainly seems to have annoyed a lot of farmers. and i think most people understand the deal. if you get into farming, some people treat it as a loophole, but basically you don't earn a lot of money. the margins are low. they live on five figure incomes. most of them despite living looking like landed gentry. yeah, sometimes four figure incomes, you know, in a bad year. and yet. four figure incomes, you know, in a bad year. and yet . yeah, in a bad year. and yet. yeah, you have a lovely estate that you have a lovely estate that you hand down to your kids. that's basically the deal, right? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i was just gonna say just on that the loophole they keep mentioning, the loophole that rich people buy land to get

around inheritance tax. well, close that loophole. yeah, because look who you've caught in with your solution. you're solving it by also affecting genuine farmers. >> who would have thought rachel reeves wouldn't have a grasp of the nuances ? the nuances? >> yeah, i think it's i think it's going to really harm the government more than other mistakes they've made. i mean, i do believe that everything that labour government do is wrong, but i still think i'm completely correct. but the government is against farmers. people understand what the government doesn't. that we need food. you know, rachel reeves and whoever it was, john mctiernan said said, i mean, he did a great job directing die hard, but he suggested that the country didn't need family farms. you know, he's like, he's treating it like coal, he said. it's like when thatcher shut down the coal miners, but we can import coal from chile or australia or whatever. it doesn't really matter if you run out of coal, you don't instantly starve to death with food . you you starve death with food. you you starve to death within days and people get very angry. all the riots in the middle east are always unked the middle east are always linked to the price of bread going up. that's always the catalyst for every riot is a bread riot.

>> it's a saying and it goes all the way back to the french revolution. and in fact, even in recent years, there have been like a flash floods in certain parts of spain. and we have no courgettes, you know, it can happen that quickly, but i will also say i don't think it is just about food security, although that would be sufficient. it is also about tradition and custom and the aesthetics of the country and the soul of britain. yeah, yeah. so no still to come . donald and so no still to come. donald and elon doomed to break up. cheeky ad for grass and why your stoner neighbour could be getting better sleep than you despite that creeping smoke alarm. this is headliners only on gb news

and welcome back to headliners. we have neil corresponding with the show . i stand with the the show. i stand with the farmers. if they close the country down and stop the food supply, i will still support

them because we need them long term. i will get by a lack of food supplies is how it will be permanently if they start being closed down. sounds like it might be a bit of a prepper on the quiet. anyway. leo, we kick off this section with scottish non—binary hate now and i can't help feeling this is a waste of our time, even to refer to as a waste of police time. >> yeah, so this is. but this is again, like the allison pearson issue. this is a serious thing that could affect somebody's life and lead to them going to jail. so a conservative msp has lodged a complaint with the police watchdog after his social media post that compared non—binary people with people who identify as cats, was recorded as a non—crime hate incident . although comparing incident. although comparing non—binary people to cats is actually kind of generous to non—binary people because cats are real, whereas non—binary people are made up and just want attention. so this is a non—crime affection incident? yes, a non cats want attention sometimes . sometimes. >> yes, that is true. >> yes, that is true. >> yeah that's true. so this is

murdo fraser, a tory msp who's demanding an investigation and the police haven't said why his tweet breached the breached the law or breached whatever rules. when humza yousaf or jk rowling didn't breach breach laws, when they've, they've said similar things that people have found offensive. humza, humza yousaf, for example, had that rant in parliament saying, you know, just decrying scotland for being white. he was spitting the word white. he was spitting the word white in absolute hatred, visceral hatred for the for the whiteness. and of course, this was very fashionable at the time. yeah, this is you know, everybody was doing it, but it doesn't make it less hateful . doesn't make it less hateful. >> he didn't tweet it, he just said it in parliament. >> so yeah, but i've tweeted it since. >> is he not is he not confirmed he's going to leave because he thinks scotland islamophobic or something. yeah. >> he was talking about going back to pakistan. yeah. so yeah i mean which is i mean it's lovely that he's i mean imagine being you know, we're told oh he's the most scottish person of all time. he's so deeply scottish. and then he's like,

you know what? i'm going to go back to pakistan. it's like, i don't have that option. whatever mess you make of this country, humza, i've got to live with it. i don't get i don't have a pakistani passport down here. >> now come on, you've . >> now come on, you've. >> anything you want to add? >> anything you want to add? >> it's a non, non non—crime hate thing again. like you know police. if you've done all the crimes, if they're all solved and you're like, we've got half and you're like, we've got half an hour left, we either play solitaire or we do one of these maybe. >> but until then get down to the playground. you're bound to find something to do with a smashed bottle of bucky. steve, it's been at least two stories since we mentioned elon musk, but he's back again with donald trump in tow and a bit of armchair psychology from the star. >> yes, narcissist pals elon musk and donald trump are bound to clash at some point, according to everyone who calls everyone narcissists all the time. that's all the internet is these days, isn't it? but basically, elon musk is effectively the vp now. he's he's the most high profile person. poor old jd vance must be crying in his mascara will oh be” be crying in his mascara will oh be,, it looks like he's from the cure, isn't he. but so trump's had musk in mar—a—lago. the

family photos had musk in there as well. and he's been described as well. and he's been described as the guest that won't leave. i think if you've bought someone an election, the least you could do is buy them a few meals. >> i think a long weekend wouldn't be unreasonable on the third day, visitors and fish and all that. but yeah, i think it's also it's a big house. >> he's not on the city in the living room. it's not like trump's like, i can't watch tv come out of the bathroom and found musk trips over him reading all those top secret documents. >> no, you're in the wrong bathroom. >> also, on a wider scale , they >> also, on a wider scale, they are obviously two phenomenally successful and go getting and high, you know, aspirational, ambitious men who have combined for a particular project and might conceivably start to grate on each other after a while . but on each other after a while. but i do think musk, at least, is insulated by a high degree of autism . i mean, this is autism. i mean, this is generally regarded as being a fact, isn't it? that it's okay to say he laughs at it himself on x? yeah, yeah, that he's a high functioning autistic . they high functioning autistic. they have a different sense of ego. they're not as easily i think i

think trump might, you know, start to get annoyed if musk is getting all the press. i can't see it working the other way. >> yeah . no. absolutely. and >> yeah. no. absolutely. and also musk has plenty of other things to get distracted with. and this is the press just being snide and trying to find some sort of angle to attack them on. the reality is they've got a great team. it's all it's all planned out. trump really needs musk and you know they're having a great time. they're focused on a great time. they're focused on a higher calling which is you know, draining the swamp. and they're going to do it. >> yeah absolutely. and also i will say now that musk is in there with vivek ramaswamy, that's a killer team as well, because ramaswamy is an extraordinarily intelligent, fast talking guy . and so there's fast talking guy. and so there's a massive, you know , potential a massive, you know, potential for, you know, armchair psychology to go on there as well. i'm going to get little toys of all of them and have them move them around. anyway. listen, the show is nearly over. let's take another quick look at thursday's front pages. the daily mail now council tax to rise by £110. we didn't cover that story. sorry. telegraph

police in appalling attack on free speech. our top story tonight. the independent revealed trump pushed to sabotage starmer's chagos islands deal. the i labour will miss its new homes pledge, says official, leading plan. just as kemi predicted, the metro, trump's defence chief is tv host and he's a raw looking son of a the daily star widdle in the shower to save the planet. that's it for tonight's show. thank you to my guest, stephen liu. i'll be back tomorrow night at 11 pm. with nick dixon and scott capurro. it's the dream team. if you're watching at 5 am, stay tuned for breakfast. a.m, stay tuned for breakfast. otherwise, thank you very much for your company. sleep well. i'll see you soon. good night. >> there will be a light breeze in the morning leading to a warm front . boxt heat pumps sponsors front. boxt heat pumps sponsors of weather on gb news evening. >> thanks for joining of weather on gb news evening. >> thanks forjoining me of weather on gb news evening. >> thanks for joining me for your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. a lot of cloud around tomorrow. for many it will be a duller day

compared to today, but again, for most places not going to be much rain around. it has been a very dry start to november thanks to high pressure . by and thanks to high pressure. by and large changes are on the way, particularly as we go towards the weekend. there is a weather front just slowly working south, but it's kind of fizzling out, bumping up against that high pressure will still bring some rain and drizzle just trickling its way south across parts of central and eastern england through the night, eventually turning things a bit damp across the south—east ahead of it. temperatures could dip to down single figures, but behind it with a lot more cloud. generally a milder night than last night could again be some mist and fog patches forming through parts of southern scotland , where we do southern scotland, where we do get the clearer spells and it will be a damp and potentially drizzly start to the day across southernmost counties of england. so a very different feel here compared to today. elsewhere, most places just dry and cloudy , but there will be and cloudy, but there will be some holes in the cloud here and there. thick cloud though, for northern scotland means a dull and damp and at times drizzly morning for the highlands and the western isles. let's go

through the rest of the day. not a great deal will change. i'm hopeful the rain and drizzle in the far south should scoot away, and also the skies will brighten over central and eastern england in particular. decent chance of seeing some sunny spells coming through parts of southern and eastern scotland. may also brighten up, but for many it will just stay pretty drab where it does. 10 or 11 the top temperature a bit of brightness, could see those temperatures getting up into the teens, and again, the winds fairly light for most places. friday will start to see a change, but again for most it will be dry. some light rain and drizzle over northern england, north wales but turning wetter in the far north—west and windier here as well. this is an active weather front that's going to bring a change. getting gusty and turning soggy further south. generally dry with some sunshine 10 or 11 c, but it's going to turn colder for all of us through the weekend. >> we can expect clear skies leading to a light and warm day ahead . lovely boxt solar sponsoi's sponsors of weather

>> good evening, senior daily telegraph journalist and podcaster allison pearson had a knock at the door this sunday. i wonder, is free speech now really in danger in our country? i fear that perhaps it is the chagos islands. the government are sticking to their line that somehow the americans think it's a good deal. well, biden might have done. let me promise you something. the trump administration will not take the same view. i think the government will have to change tack. and our farmers will be protesting in london next week . protesting in london next week. on the 19th of this month, there will be a national

reapen >> thank you. nigel. the time is just after seven. and these are your latest headlines. axel rudakubana. the teenager charged with the murders of three children in southport earlier this year, has appeared for a plea and preparation hearing that was at liverpool crown court this afternoon. but he was not asked to plea. the teenager appeared via video link from hmp belmarsh, but refused to speak when he was asked twice to confirm his identity. rudy cabana is also charged with ten counts of attempted murder, one counts of attempted murder, one count of possession of a knife and two terror related offences. his trial is scheduled for january of next year. his trial is scheduled for january of next year . over in january of next year. over in the us now and president elect donald trump has been hosted by current president joe biden in washington, dc. the two sat down at the white house this afternoon for a meeting designed to demonstrate a smooth handover of power. the reuters news agency is reporting that during the meeting, biden told trump he was, quote , looking forward to

was, quote, looking forward to a peaceful transition whilst