really ice cold and really, really ice cold rain. it's not sleet. the rain is just so freezing cold. and what's happened is the roads are now flooded, trees are down and underneath that line water is ice . so anybody that is out and ice. so anybody that is out and about this morning, please, please be very, very careful football now. >> and there was a shock. there's been a shock win for tottenham hotspur in the evening kick off, as they smashed four goals past man city at the etihad. in the early game, chelsea beat leicester city two one and in the 3:00 matches there were wins for arsenal, brighton and wolves , aston villa brighton and wolves, aston villa and crystal palace and everton and crystal palace and everton and brentford all drew . and crystal palace and everton and brentford all drew. keeping with sport and two tennis rivals have come together, novak djokovic has appointed his rival andy murray as his coach. the brit said i'm going to be joining novak's team in the off season, helping him to prepare for the australian open. i'm really looking forward to it and

looking forward to spending time on the same side of the net as novak for a change, helping him to achieve his goals, the serb addedi to achieve his goals, the serb added i am excited to have one of my greatest rivals on the same side of the net as my coach. those are your latest gb news room gb news headlines for now, i'm joe casper. more than an hour now . hour now. >> back to mark dolan 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/alerts . or go to gbnews.com/alerts. >> well, folks, a very busy two hours to come. let me tell you that the bbc have been forced to erase and delete a highly offensive joke about a female journalist, so i'll be dealing with have i got news for you.7 the with have i got news for you? the smuggest show on tv in my take at ten. lots to get through. but first, my big

opinion . oh dear. this one will opinion. oh dear. this one will have you spitting out your saturday evening tipple. the scottish comedian fern brady has seen an advert for her new comedy tour, banned by the advertising authorities. now the poster depicts the comedian as the virgin mary squirting breast milk into the mouth of a kneeling priest, alongside the words i gave you milk to drink . words i gave you milk to drink. wow. now i've worked with fern brady and she is a very fine comedian and a lovely person. but it's interesting, isn't it? how modern comics feel incredibly comfortable mocking certain religions, but not others with the kind of graphic imagery on display here that is clearly offensive to millions of christians around the world. so why is it that the christians get it in the neck? well, that's because christianity is a soft touch. it's the one religion because christianity is a soft touch. it's the one religion

which you're allowed to mock. we which you're allowed to mock. we saw that during the embarrassing saw that during the embarrassing opening ceremony of the paris opening ceremony of the paris olympics with a highly olympics with a highly sexualised re—imagining of the sexualised re—imagining of the last supper , featuring themes of last supper , featuring themes of last supper, featuring themes of last supper, featuring themes of sadomasochism , whips, men sadomasochism , whips, men sadomasochism, whips, men sadomasochism, whips, men waggling their arses around waggling their arses around sexual fetishes and the now sexual fetishes and the now obligatory drag queens. now i am obligatory drag queens. now i a free speech absolutist and being offended does not give you the right to cancel the work of others, which is why i think it's actually a shame that this advert has been banned . now, advert has been banned. now, i don't like the advert, but it was not breaking the law, it was mocking a religion and that is something that you should always be able to do in a free society. that's why in my view, the word islamophobia is such a problem now. anti—muslim hatred is a disgrace. but the term islamophobia prevents the criticism of a religion, and that's not healthy in a society

that's not healthy in a society that for good reason does not have blasphemy laws. although good luck telling that to the innocent batley school teacher that we don't have blasphemy laws. this is a guy and his family still on the run, his career in ruins, still fearing for his life, all for the great crime of showing students an image of the prophet muhammad as an educational tool. so unlike christianity, other religions enjoy a higher protected status and the protection of unofficial blasphemy laws by the back door . blasphemy laws by the back door. it's two tier. basically. like everything else in this country. so it's the double standards of this story that are the problem, not the comedian mocking christianity . after all that's christianity. after all that's been going on for centuries. let's not forget the life of bnan let's not forget the life of brian by monty python, one of the funniest films of all time. sexual fetishes and the now obligatory drag queens. one/ i sexual fetishes and the now obligatory drag queens. one of brian by monty python, one of the funniest films of all time. and yes , deeply offensive to and yes , deeply offensive to and yes, deeply offensive to christians. so be it. but a and yes, deeply offensive to christians. so be it. but a young up and coming comedian young up a poster which

would never is a soft would never do a poster which mocked islam or the prophet muhammad if they did. i doubt they'd still be around to perform the show. so if you're going to mock christians, fine. but make sure that you can mock everyone else of all other faiths and that is not where we are right now. this might only be a poster for a comedy show, but it's no laughing matter. your reaction to this? if you're just joining us, a comedian has a tour and she's on tour at the moment. the poster features an image of her as the virgin mary breast exposed milk coming out of the breast into the mouth of a kneeling priest. it's pretty offensive stuff. i don't think it should be banned, but i do think it's double standards. when other religions escape this kind of mockery. let me know your thoughts. gb news .com forward slash your say. but first, tonight's top pundits names in my ear. please . james.

names in my ear. please. james. there you go. we've got anna firth, benedict spence and cecilia curci. great to see all three of you. and cecilia. you've made it in from a very windy train. >> it was a very windy train. don't knock the beans. i had earlier . earlier. >> well, i'm glad that you're here. >> you've made it. and what are your dietary requirements? this story screams of double standards, doesn't it? >> well, i can see where tonight's going. let me see now. okay, so fern brady . great. and okay, so fern brady. great. and i am so jealous of this pubuchy i am so jealous of this publicity that she's got for this show. does it scream a double standards? i don't think so. who can you mock other religions? yes. she can. oh, but then again, no you can't, because i just remembered that reggie d hunter had a show and couldn't say what he did because it all made this big furore. do you remember this? and then he got cancelled and then he bullied the people. oh was it was he, was he bullied because there's been lots of stories and i've been reading really fully about this crowd to turn into them. and they were chanting at them. and they were chanting at them and all that. well, they i don't know, i played that part , don't know, i played that part, you see, in a show many years ago, and these people were

actual people that i played in brendan burns show many, many years ago. so i kind of know exactly how that was played out. and no, they weren't booed. they were booed out because they did something that they shouldn't have done, like mock the comedian when he's mocking other things. >> well, in that case, we can agree that you should be able to mock jews or judaism . mock jews or judaism. >> absolutely, absolutely. you should be muslims. you should be able to mock all of them. but i think you're getting at something specifically here, marky mark. >> i'll give you two words charlie hebdo. >> charlie hebdo. well, that's that's going back a bit, isn't it? it's like a bit retro. i don't think the family of the slain journalists are thinking that that was a long time ago. well, it is still a long time ago . what's more recent? there's ago. what's more recent? there's more recent things that you could actually put up. well, no, the reason why i'm not a religious, the reason why we haven't had a charlie hebdo since is because no publication would dare to do that again. >> well, they have, and that is a blasphemy law by the back door they have. >> i don't know if it's about blasphemy laws by the back door, but i do know is that i don't i'm not a fan of any organised religion. so sorry people, religious people out there. i'm just not a fan of any of them. i think they are the root of all evil, so i'm not actually

think they are the root of