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.

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