>> hello. it's 11:00, which means >> hello. it's11:00, which means it's time for tomorrow's newspapers tonight. join us over the next hour to find out what keir starmer is pledging. let's see how they go. the most popular boy's name has been revealed, but they wouldn't let me have a funny picture linked to that. for some reason. and find out which song isn't gay. the answer may surprise you. i'm stephen allen and tonight i've got nick dixon and leo kearse to guide us through tomorrow's top stories. this is headliners . stories. this is headliners. but

before tomorrow's news let's go to tonight's headlines with cameron walker . cameron walker. >> thank you. good evening. it is 11:00 i'm cameron walker in the gb newsroom . suspected the gb newsroom. suspected senior members of an iraqi people smuggling operation. allegedly involved in smuggling people across the english channel have been arrested. a major investigation involving the united kingdom, france and germany targeted the ocg group, allegedly involved in sourcing equipment for the crossings, including inflatable boats, engines and life jackets. according to the national crime agency. 13 arrests have been made in germany and france, while 21 boats and 24 engines were seized alongside life jackets, pumps and cash . now jackets, pumps and cash. now more on that breaking news. now a 42 year old man has died after being fatally injured by a dog in east london on wednesday morning. leon mcdonnell, who's

32, of shirley road in stratford, has been charged over the attack. she's been remanded in custody and is due to appear at barkingside magistrates court tomorrow. the dog that was involved in the incident has been seized by the police . been seized by the police. meanwhile, sir keir starmer has once again promised to reduce immigration but avoided setting specific targets in a speech at pinewood studios. he outlined his plan for change, though immigration was absent from his six pledges. when pressed, the prime minister said the government would only tackle the issue with a serious plan focusing on dismantling people smuggling gangs. reform uk has been quick to criticise the lack of measurable targets, but sir keir starmer argues controlling borders is still a fundamental responsibility . the labour mayor responsibility. the labour mayor of london, sadiq khan, is to be knighted in the new year's honours list, according to the financial times. he is expected to receive his award for political and public service

after almost two decades in frontline politics. other political recipients include reportedly include, i should say , reportedly include, i should say, labour's emily thornberry, who will be made a dame and the former conservative mayor of birmingham, andy street, who will be knighted. the ft reports the list is yet to receive final sign off from the prime minister and king charles. a tsunami warning issued for northern california and oregon after a powerful 7.0 magnitude earthquake quake struck off the coast, struck off the coast of ferndale has been cancelled. the earthquake was at a depth of around ten kilometres, which was shallow. according to the united states geological survey. some 4.7 million people in california and oregon were under the tsunami warning , which was due tsunami warning, which was due to hit at 1210 local time, but the alert was cancelled about ten minutes before. now time to get into the christmas spirits because earlier this evening the trafalgar square christmas tree lights were switched on. varne .

lights were switched on. varne. festive cheer from the crowds despite the rain during a special ceremony where the royal marine corps of drums and regentville band of salvation army performed. the tree is a gift from norway, something that's happened each year since 1947 to recognise the uk's assistance to the country during the second world war. well, those are your latest gb news headunes those are your latest gb news headlines for now i'm cameron walker, back to headliners. >> hello and welcome to headliners. your first look at friday's top stories with three comedians. before we get stuck into the papers, let's have a quick taste of what leo and nick will have to work with on friday's front pages. we can start with the daily telegraph. pm drops pledges as economy stumbles. the daily mail goes with starmer's bingo hall of parade of buzzwords and political nerd speak. well, get off the fence. mirror goes with where we're for it now. britain's quad demic health

warning. the daily express you can't keep ignoring biggest problems , sir keir. exclamation problems, sir keir. exclamation mark. the metro, smiling assassin. and finally, the daily star tells us. step away from the eggnog. darn it. so plenty of news to get stuck into. leo the metro, a weird place to start. >> yeah. the metro. we don't normally cover the metro because it's not a real newspaper, but they've got smiling assassin. this is the assassination in new york of brian thompson, who's the 50 year old ceo of , york of brian thompson, who's the 50 year old ceo of, i think, united health. they're called. he was he was gunned down, you know, in plain sight of everybody who was just on the pavement. he was shot four times. he was shot in the leg. and then the guy i mean, they're saying it's not a sort of professional assassination attempt because the guy's gun was jamming. he was banging it to get the gun to work , and he to get the gun to work, and he shot him in the leg to start off with. but there's some crazy theories around, you know, why he could have been, why he could have been gunned down. he was. so he's the ceo of this this

health insurance company and he the gunman left these bullet casings behind that said deny, defend and depose. and apparently that's what that's what insurance people. that's that's what insurance companies say to sort of try and avoid paying say to sort of try and avoid paying out on claims. yeah. >> i mean, that's certainly one of the problems with the funding model is if it's up to the insurance company to get rid of it, you know, to get deny the claim, then these kind of people get angry. i think is what i'm trying to say. yeah. normally you wouldn't presume that ends up in an ordinary movie esque, isn't it.7 >> to have that on the bullet casings, it's very rarely these things happen in real life. the quy's things happen in real life. the guy's got a sense of drama about the way he did it, but he escaped on an e—bike, which rather nullifies the drama. >> isn't it.7 very much feels like, oh, e—bike. but that made him difficult to track. apparently, yes. >> although he's left his water bottles, which could have dna. amateur people actually deciding is he an amateur or is he professional because he in some ways the way he handled the gun

was quite professional. in other ways it wasn't. so that's that's one thing we don't know yet. the guy made 10 million. this is why i'm glad i'm not a ceo making $10 million. >> well , $10 million. >> well, yeah. and apparently, you know, 9.5 apparently the social media comments haven't been entirely sympathetic to this guy who's shot so, so apparently they denied a lot of health, people's health, people's claims for health insurance and their denial rate increased from 8.7% to 22.7% between 2019 and 2022. so there's accusations that the company was profiteering and obviously leaving a lot of people very aggrieved. so whether this is somebody who perhaps had a had a loved one who who died because they couldn't get the care they needed, these are all the sort of theories that are pinging around the internet, right now. >> then he was using things like subsonic bullets, which honestly before today, and i'm a nerd with with ballistics and stuff, but i hadn't heard of these things. you get these quieter bullets that don't travel at the speed of sound when you say you're a nerd with ballistics, just to be clear, you don't own

ballistics. no, but i just remember that module of a—level, and i quite liked it. you know, you're a nerd. >> regarding the issue of ballistics. >> yes , i'm a newtonian fan. all >> yes, i'm a newtonian fan. all the way up until it breaks down on planetary issues. >> but a subsonic bullet is just a slow bullet. so it's a bullet that doesn't go fast enough to break the sound barrier and make a lot of noise. so it might just be a rubbish bullet. >> could be all right. i suppose that's one way to look at it. ruining it for me. nick, the telegraph, what have they got treating us on the front page? >> telegraph has pm drops pledges as economy stumbles. so i'm sure you're all aware of starmer's milestones today. they're absolutely epic milestones that came out. i've been buzzing off them all day, but. but the telegraph has picked up on some fairly, to me, relatively minor things, which is the energy supply was supposed to be 100% carbon, low carbon. by 2030, they've reduced it to 95%. there was an interesting moment where journalists tried to say, so thatis journalists tried to say, so that is a change, isn't it? starmer tried to deny that was a change, which is extraordinary because there's definitely