>> 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 how labour are planning to throw a legal spanner in elon's works. >> why the vaccine could be the crime of the century, after all. >> and why buying the first round makes women hot for you. i'm simon evans. tonight's comedic pairing is made up of dry wit lewis schaffer and chaotic fool triumphant nick dixon. >> together, we shall take you through thursday's top stories. this is headliners. but before

thursday's news, let's hear one last time tonight's headlines with joe caspar. >> thanks, simon. it's just gone. 11:00. your top stories from the gb newsroom. sir keir starmer has today held a call with us president elect donald trump. the prime minister's spokesman said both men agreed on their joint ambition to strengthen the close and historic relationship between the uk and the us. mr starmer and mr trump reiterated the need for allies to stand together with ukraine in the face of russian aggression. the prime minister also emphasised the importance of securing peace in the middle east. pleas of not guilty have been entered on behalf of axel rudakubana after he failed to reply when arraigned at liverpool crown court on three counts of murder

and ten counts of attempted murder following the deaths of three young girls in a knife attack at a taylor swift themed dance class in southport. ruda kavana appeared via video link in court as pleas of not guilty were entered to all 16 counts on the indictment. it comes as the police report, published today, found that officers were unprepared for the scale of the summer riots which followed the southport attacks. the prime minister has been accused of playing politics with the waspi women by a leader of the opposition. kemi badenoch. sir keir starmer is now facing pressure to give mps a vote on the government's decision to rule out compensation for women affected by changes to the state pension age. he defended his position during prime minister's questions earlier today. >> it's a serious issue. it's a complex issue. the research, as he knows, shows that 90% of those impacted knew about the changes that were taking place.

and i'm afraid to say that taxpayers simply can't afford the tens of billions of pounds in compensation when the evidence does show that 90% of those impacted did know about it, that's because of the state of our economy. >> inflation has risen to its highest level since march, according to official figures. the office for national statistics said it increased to 2.6% in november, up from 2.3% the previous month. it is the highest rate since march and the second rise in two months. the figures come ahead of bank of the bank of england's latest decision on interest rates tomorrow. the ons chief economist said the rise was dfiven economist said the rise was driven by an increase in petrol prices. and there's been some football action tonight in the efl cup. arsenal beat fellow londoners crystal palace three two. newcastle won three one against brentford and southampton lost two one to premier league leaders liverpool. that's me done for

the evening. those were your gb news headlines i'm joe casper. now let's get 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 gbnews.com/alerts. >> hello, welcome back to headliners, your first look at tomorrow's top stories with three comedians. first things first, let's have a look at what louis and nick will have to work with on thursday's front pages. so the telegraph kick us off with echr let's heroin kingpin stay in the uk daily mirror i've got the old cammy back. the metro three friends killed by laughing gas driver. the i pensions protest grows for starmer after betrayal of waspi women. the independent fury excuse me, fury of waspi women

as pm says you knew about pension change and the daily star. take one to your leader. excuse me. well, so we have a lack of consensus there. those are the front pages. what should we start with, louis? how about the. let's have a look. what have you got? number one is the times i think. yes. >> is the times. and it's good news. good news in the times. is a uk soldiers post to train troops in the ukraine. we must work with kyiv or kyiv, however you decide to pronounce it. i guess it's political now, says defence secretary. >> this is good news. >> this is good news. >> this is good news. this >> this is good news. this is a country with no money that's cutting right and left, except the people who deserve to be cut and right and left. and we're giving money to the ukraine. >> well, i suppose if we win that war, they're on their behalf, then that will boost our energy prices, i suppose. i feel like i've seen this story a couple of times before. does it look familiar to you, nick? well, the uk soldiers poised to

train troops in ukraine. i'm sure i've seen this poised we've been poised for a long time, but we're always we're always getting these hints that we need to be ready for war, you know what i mean? >> there's always people saying we might bring the draft back, just so you know, or we might be poised in ukraine. >> but this, i think, isn't this related to the whole trump thing that he wanted? >> you know, he wants to begin to end the war, and then we might have to send our people out there to sort of maintain. >> definitely. there are two ways in which the military, at least two ways in which the military like to anger up your blood and make your skin and your flesh crawl and what have you. and one of them is to say, we need to start thinking about conscription. the other one is saying that we're doing things that might be provocative to putin, that might be seen as provocative. right? we're sending out our troops in order to train ukrainian troops. it's not a red line. >> it's not a red line. >> but everything we do is provocative. >> i mean, the fact that this war is basically was caused because of nato and wanting and wanting to, not that russia is the greatest people in the world. >> there is that theory,

definitely. and i've listened to it, mearsheimer and so on. on the other hand, putin himself, in that infamous interview with tucker carlson, explained that it was all rooted in the 11th century and the founding of russia being in kyiv in itself. >> well, and that's true, because i actually did see a video about this. and, and they consider kyiv actually considered russia to be the minor place. >> and kyiv is, like ipswich used to be regarded london as being sort of, you know, trade. right. >> but once upon a time, those were like the capitals of the entire of the entire country. >> who have we got on the front page collecting a cbe there? can you have you seen that? that's christian horner area formerly geri halliwell, but i guess, yes, i was going to say, well that was like quite a controversial indeed sort of scandalous thing, wasn't it. horner scandalous thing, wasn't it. homer and halliwell, the spice girls, oh wasn't there some. there was some sort of there was a, there was a chain of text messages. >> let's not just vaguely recount it anyway. >> she may have. >> she may have. >> she's shown up to he's also knighted christopher nolan today. >> he is the film director. yeah, he is now the blonde knight. >> it's nice to hear one who pretty much deserves it. >> yeah, absolutely. both for

the quality and the and the and the quality and the and the and the revenues brought in. >> well, they should they should deserve it. but at the same time they're going to be in parliament. >> there's no room in parliament. there's no extra chairs. they're going to have to put like little plastic. >> do you think when they did the sword thing, they said the dark knight rises or something like that? >> yeah, i would hope so. >> yeah, i would hope so. >> what do they normally say? it's a rise, isn't it? >> a rise to nolan. yeah. so christopher in fact. yeah. and i was watching films. >> i was in batman. you weren't in. i was in batman. >> were you with a with a sack over your head? >> well, i don't know. i haven't seen it. i'm not going to go see it. but i was in i was in batman. >> i can see you as a low level batman villain that gets killed by the joker. >> i was a new yorker waving at the. >> i could see him definitely as a senior gotham official, like a mayor or something like that. >> i was thinking of batman returns, i mean, the joker, and he does the buzzer thing that kills the guy. yeah, like meeting. >> anyway, there's a story there about alzheimer's risk 1551 00:08:57,968 --> 00: