>> 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 why an explosion in america has upset some people. why.7 an explosion in america has upset some people. why? an explosion on the south bank has upset a lot of people. and find out the latest way girls are outperforming boys in the uk. i'm cressida watson, and tonight i've got comedians leo kearse and nick dixon taking you through tomorrow's top stories. this is headliners. but before thursday's news, let's go to tonight's headlines with sophia wenzler. >> good evening. these are your

headunes >> good evening. these are your headlines from the gb newsroom. the suspect accused of driving a truck through a crowd in new orleans, killing ten people and injuring at least 35, has been identified as 42 year old shamsuddin jabbar. the fbi are investigating this morning's deadly attack as an act of terrorism. they have provided more details on the attacker, saying he's a us citizen from texas and they do not believe he acted alone. they added that an isis flag was located in the vehicle, and they're working to determine the subject's potential associations and affiliations with terrorist organisations. weapons and a potential improvised explosive device were also located in the vehicle. other potential ieds were also located in the french quarter. local police said the driver of the vehicle got out and opened fire on police with two officers shot, but in a stable condition. while the suspect was declared dead at the scene. the us president, joe

biden, says he has been continually briefed on the incident and that he is grateful for the brave and swift response of local law enforcement in preventing even greater death and injury. meanwhile, donald trump says his administration will fully support the city of new orleans as it investigates and recovers from this morning's attack. in other news now, sir keir starmer has hailed 2024 as a year of change as he shared his first new year's message as prime minister. sir keir declared that the uk will embark on a year of rebuilding and rediscovering the nation. we are in 2025. >> until you can look forward and believe in the promise and the prosperity of britain again, then this government will fight for you. >> but the conservatives have accused labour of offering change for the worse, as kemi badenoch used her own new year's message to warn that efforts to turn around tory fortunes would be bumpy. >> happy new year! like all of

you, i am looking forward to a 2025 that is full of hope, security and prosperity. the conservative party is also going through a period of change. this process of renewal will be a long term project. things may be bumpy along the way, but the party i now lead is going to do things differently. watch this space. >> now, a major incident has been declared in greater manchester after flooding forced homes to be evacuated and closed train lines and roads following heavy rain. more than 100 flood warnings have been issued across the uk , as rain continues to the uk, as rain continues to batter parts of the country. on the first day of 2025. meanwhile, a three day snow warning has been issued for almost all of england and parts of scotland this weekend, as the met office has warned rural communities could become cut off and jocelyn wildenstein has died at the age of 84. the socialite, nicknamed catwoman because she

reportedly had many facial surgeries in the hope of resembling a cat, has passed away on tuesday in paris from a pulmonary embolism. those are the latest gb news headlines. >> more in an hour 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. >> is your first look at tomorrow's top stories with three comedians. but before we dive in, let's have a quick look at what leo and nick will have to work with on thursday's front pages. the telegraph leads with gisele behind, gisele behind new orleans terror. the times has terrorist truck attacker kills ten in new orleans. the mail has new orleans killer had isis flag on truck. the guardian has ten

dead after truck flying. isis flag drives into crowd in new orleans. and the express has terror driver hell bent on carnage kills ten. and finally, the paper leads with covid courts to stay open as backlog delays trials to 2028. so shall we have a look at the front page? welcome. first of all, how are you? how are you doing? >> yeah. good. thanks. >> yeah. good. thanks. >> it feels so austere to just stop, like, get on with it. i feel like i should say something nice first, but we're quite pragmatic, man. you are. you're quite right. we're just treating it as news producing units now. >> not really people. >> not really people. >> interchangeable units in starmer's new utopia. >> go on. okay, i've learned my lesson. let's have a look at the guardian, please, leo. >> yeah. so the guardian leads with a story that is obviously the big story today. >> the horrifying story? >> the horrifying story? >> ten dead. well, that's now 15 dead after truck flying. islamic state flag drives into crowd in new orleans. >> and this is shamsuddin

jabban >> and this is shamsuddin jabbar, a classic welsh christian name. >> there he's driven a driven a truck into into the crowd and then going on a rampage. >> he's been shot dead. >> he's been shot dead. >> there are apparently five accomplices, as many as five on the loose in new orleans who haven't been tracked down yet. so this is disturbing. >> what's also interesting is that the authorities took measures to sort of suppress some of the evidence. >> so they covered or apparently covered the islamic state flag with a jacket. i don't know if that's to sort of stop tensions being inflamed. we're always told we need to worry about, you know, community cohesion and community tensions and stuff when, you know, i'd say maybe if islamists stop killing people, that might help community cohesion a little bit. so they hid the flag with the with a jacket. and it's also sparked a debate about the sort of the ongoing clash of cultures. you know, we've got some people saying, you know, do we deal with this or people on the left

say, no, this is just, you know, we're going to get to our multicultural utopia eventually. this is, you know, just a bump in the road. so, so they're saying, you know, we don't we don't deal with this. >> yeah. i mean, there's also speculation about apparently he did pass through eagle pass in texas. but that was in november. that car passed through there because people were saying he came across the border. but apparently that was in november. >> some people are asking, so i've been reading about this on twitter, trump saying implying that he'd come from somewhere else. then i watched a video of this guy speaking. i thought, no, he's clearly an american. >> yeah, that's what it is. is it? the car travelled allegedly across the border in november. that's what i heard. so apparently people are asking why these barriers weren't up. there are normally barriers that weren't put up for some reason. and. but yeah, the fact that you had an isis flag, it does make it very difficult for the sort of lefty type people who like to deny these things and try and play deny these things and try and play down that it's terrorism. it's like you've got a literal is flag in the car. >> it's like i heard rumours earlier in the office that it was being reported as a black flag, with some white writing on it. >> yeah, well, they're not wrong. well, and some people were saying that trump trump

supporters have a black flag. sometimes they were saying, oh, it could be a white supremacist. and, you know, there's a lot of speculation before, but we sort of knew i mean, there's colter's law and colter's law that says the longer they take to reveal the longer they take to reveal the identity of the suspect, the more likely it is to not be a white supremacist. and what's also interesting is, you know, a few weeks ago, the muslim council of britain were criticising gb news for covering stories about islamists, and it would really help us. yeah, mainly me, it would really help is not cover stories about islamists. if islamists stopped driving cars into people during christmas, during new year's celebrations and killing people. i mean, we've got to talk about it. it's on the front cover of the paper. >> of course, the guardian are talking about it. so, yeah, the guardian are talking about you're talking about the barriers. are you suggesting that there's been some foul play and that they were saying, that's what i saw on twitter and i'm just irresponsibly repeating it. >> but no, i it.— >> but no, i mean, it. >> but no, i mean, that's what they said. >> as long as you're clear about

it, it doesn't necessarily imply anything. >> people are just 1523 00:09:03,784