has been placed under farm has been placed under lockdown after a cow tested positive for atypical mad cow disease. >> the scottish government has imposed strict movement restrictions on affected animals, although it says there is no risk to public health and the cow did not enter the food chain. the case in dumfries and galloway was detected through routine surveillance, and investigations are now underway to determine its origin. authorities have assured that the public that stringent control measures are in place to prevent any wider impact . prevent any wider impact. european commission president ursula von der leyen has signed a controversial trade deal with south american countries, which could have a significant impact on farmers in the uk. the deal has been met with firm opposition from several eu member states in particular france, and is expected to face a backlash from the farming sector across europe, with a significant impact in northern ireland and the rest of the uk. european farmers have consistently protested against the eu, mercosur deal, arguing it could lead to cheap imports of south and south american

foods, especially beef, which they claim does not meet the eu's environmental and food safety standards . and the safety standards. and the princess of wales has made a rare public appearance with her family at westminster abbey for her annual christmas carol service this evening, her annual christmas carol service this evening , the royal service this evening, the royal couple walked into the historic abbey where they married in 2011 with their children, who stopped at the kindness tree to hang messages on its branches in dedication to someone who has supported them during their lives. prince louis left a touching christmas message to his grandparents inspired by his mother's festive celebration. this is the fourth time the princess has hosted the event in celebration of the positive qualities found in many and to bnng qualities found in many and to bring festive cheer to the caphal bring festive cheer to the capital. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm sphere hill, but now it's time for 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 dot com. >> forward slash alerts .

>> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> hello and welcome back to headliners, your first look at saturday's top stories with three comedians. but before we get stuck into the papers , let's get stuck into the papers, let's have a quick taste of what leo and nick will have to work with on saturday's front pages. so the daily mail kicks us off. rachel reeves we can't boost uk defence without making cuts and a picture of princess kate there. the times m15 shifts focus from terrorists to rogue states the same princess. the independent starmer urged to not abandon victims of domestic abuse. the daily express caring kate's message of christmas hope she's made a hat trick, a weekender from the eye. labour drops nhs pledge to cut a&e waiting times to four hours. not a brilliant pledge even then. daily star yes boss. great idea

boss, can i have a pay rise? pretty please boss. some tactics there for getting a rise. the mail then leo to kick us off. so the mail has rachel reeves. >> we can't boost uk defence without making cuts. >> maybe she could start with her own head. i'm not sure. but no, this is. this is her saying, you know, if we're going to boost defence to, i think two and a half or possibly even 3% of gdp, which, you know, we kind of gdp, which, you know, we kind of need considering we're, we're heading for imminent war with russia and possibly china at the same time, we're going to have to cut the public sector. but i think cutting the public sector is a good thing to do anyway, regardless of whatever, you know, bonus you can get in terms of funding defence. there's so much wastage in the public sector. there are so many people tied up in sort of unproductive jobs in the public sector who would actually benefit the country to free them and let them go out into the economy and start delivering pizzas and picking turnips and useful things. >> what sort of things should that extra half a percent be spent on, in your view? more troops or more drones? or is there anything particular that there anything particular that the defence we lack at the moment? >> i mean, it really it really

depends. i mean, what what threat? we've seen the western armies have been for prepared asymmetrical warfare for so long. we've decided, you know, we're not going to have any more sort of tank battles like we saw in world war i and world war ii. and then we saw in ukraine, it's right back to world war ii using using a lot of the same equipment as well from world war ii. so, so yeah, i mean , it's ii. so, so yeah, i mean, it's interesting. it's almost like a complete revision of, of how, how we're going to be fighting. and also there's a lot of new technology, there's a lot of drone technology, a lot of technology that i also think, you know, ukraine has revealed that a war isn't just having this stuff. so you can fight for, you know, a week wars go on for, you know, a week wars go on for a long time. so you really need to be thinking about you know, how are you going to maintain a war economy. >> but it is also, i guess, a shop window, isn't it, for a of a bae systems, one of our most vital and profitable investments. >> i didn't think about the shop window element. that is, that is key. >> we've just basically got no

money, have we? i mean, there's all these predictions were going to be poorer than poland in a few years. i mean, we've got this open border experiment. i'm quoting our prime minister, you know, open border experiment combined with benefit system. so of course we're not going to have any money. i mean, you could start by cutting benefits for everyone in the world. that would be one suggestion. we need our own doge. we need our own elon musk to come and cut our government down. >> and it has to be said, although i am also obviously very much a hawk and in favour of a strong military, i think it raises morale generally. i like to see more marches and that sort of thing as well. but we are actually fairly high on the table of contributors to nato. i think only the usa and poland have a higher per gdp per capita, and i think lithuania and germany need to pay up first. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> but on the other hand, it's probably a good way to win the favour of donald trump. right . favour of donald trump. right. which is going to be a major part of their their viability for the next four years. yeah, absolutely. >> but i think in a country like the uk with, with completely open borders, what would a military be fighting for? i mean, any trench is going to have a of a drawbridge over it that people can walk across and

come and go as they please. >> well, that's why they've got to stick with the drones, i think, at least because they don't have to moralise them first of all. so the daily telegraph, nick telegraph has energy bills may rise in nuclear power push. >> so you may recall how our lack of nuclear power meant that our bills rose because putin could , you know, target our could, you know, target our energy prices. but now having nuclear power will make our bills rise. so it's a kind of a flowchart where everything ends in less money in your pocket. a triangular flowchart with a sort of nuclear power thing . yeah. of nuclear power thing. yeah. because we all lead to more while they build these things. and also apparently our companies have the highest industrial electricity prices already in the europe or the world. >> terrifying chart that was in the ft a couple of days ago that everyone was sharing on that absolutely absurd. our industrial power costs are something like four times what they have in america, right? >> so there you go. so and labour claims, of course this will cut bills eventually. but this is obviously this has been disputed. the idea is eventually everything's clean and perfect and low bills. but that seems like a long way off. >> i mean, the trouble with

nuclear is that you have to always factor in a long wait time, don't they? but there was a little there was a quote from who was it? was it i think it was the nick clegg a few years ago, about a year ago. that was circulating where nick clegg in about 2008 had said, there's no point in investing in nuclear that won't come online for over ten years. yeah. you know, hello , ten years. yeah. you know, hello, we're still going to have a country in ten years time. >> and also with the new modular reactors made by companies like rolls—royce, classic british company and nano nuclear, these can be these can be knocked out very quickly. i mean the