top stories. this is friday's top stories. this is headliners. but before tomorrow's news, let's go to tonight's headlines with sam francis. >> very good evening to you from the newsroom. well, leading the news tonight following weeks of pressure, the home secretary has announced a major shift in tackling grooming gangs. earlier today, yvette cooper ordered a nationwide review of evidence with five government backed local inquiries and a rapid three month audit. however, that review stopped short of a national inquiry, prompting criticism from the tories and some labour mps. even elon musk has weighed in, calling it a step in the right direction, but says the results will speak for themselves. cooper promised there will be a clear timetable

for action and vowed that shameful progress so far will change all those national inquiries, reports and hundreds of recommendations. >> far too little action has been taken and shamefully little progress has been made. most important task should be to increase police investigations into these horrific crimes and get abusers behind bars. we will introduce stronger sentences for child grooming, making it an aggravating factor to organise abuse and exploitation. and i can announce new action today to help victims get more investigations and prosecutions underway. >> a teenager has been found guilty of murdering 15 year old euanne guilty of murdering 15 year old elianne andam during a row over a teddy bear in croydon. hassan sentamu stabbed the aspiring lawyer in the neck after a water splashing prank the day before. the court heard the 18 year old had a history of violence and brought the knife to that scene.

ltns family hugged as the jury convicted him of murder. he is said to be sentenced in march. sir keir starmer has said that the uk will play its part in guaranteeing ukraine's security after a peace deal, as he made his first visit to kyiv as prime minister today. that trip came as russian drones were targeting the city, a reminder of the daily threats ukrainians still face. the uk has also unveiled a £4.5 face. the uk has also unveiled a £45 billion military aid £4.5 billion military aid package, including cutting edge air defence systems and training for ukrainian cadets. sir keir also called for peace through strength and warned that weakness could invite more war and embolden aggressors worldwide. and david lynch, the oscar nominated director of films including blue velvet and co—creator, of course, of the cult drama series twin peaks, has sadly died today at the age of 78. the surrealist filmmaking giant was best known for his blend of unsettling visuals and

unique storytelling style. his family announced his death in a facebook post earlier, writing, there's now a big hole in the world now that he's no longer with us. well. david lynch, remembered as one of the greatest directors, has died today at the age of 78. that's the news on gb news. plenty more still to come. do stay with us here on gb news. >> 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 gbnews.com/alerts. >> hi everyone, welcome to headliners, your first look at friday's newspapers with three funny people. we're going to start straight away with a couple of front pages. the daily mail labour blasted over toothless grooming probes. the guardian know israel vote on

deal until hamas agrees to all terms and the sun lock him up again. more front page in a second. but first, kerry, what do you make of the daily mail there? the grooming gangs? we are going to finally get some sort of investigation into this. >> josh, you're oppressing me, i feel oppressed. >> how so? >> how so? >> oh, it's the part of the top of the paper that says that men are now more impressed than women. >> according to some women and young men. >> well, what do you think? >> well, what do you think? >> i know, but okay, we'll do the story. >> but i want to get back to that one, though. >> we'll get back to that and talk about how oppressed we are. so yeah. labour blasted over toothless grooming probes, as you said, and correctly so it's what a watery nothing kind of discussion this was today of what they're going to do about it, which is basically very little. a few towns are going to get an inquiry which which leaves out most of the towns where this happened. they're not going to have the powers to call people out of 50. yeah, five out of 50 is kind of pathetic. and also the police get to make a

list of cases that they think need addressing. but police are implicated in this. it should be an independent body looking into it. and also i'm done with hearing, you know, i'm you know, it might turn out he behaved perfectly correctly or even very decently whilst he was the director of public prosecutions. but when he keeps telling us that he dealt with one of the cases and took it to court at that time, that was his job. that's what you were meant to do, saying, you know, i did my job. he's like, well, i'm really impressed with that. yeah. >> i mean, nick, do you think this is like worst of both possible worlds or is this actually a positive step? >> well, it's not enough. these local inquiries, as i understand it, they don't have the powers to compel witnesses to attend to take evidence under oath. and the other one is requisition written evidence so they don't have the necessary powers. now, cooper's defending it, saying they'll use this new duty of candour, which is some new labour thing. i don't know all the legal ins and outs, but it sounds like a fairly wet version of what we actually need. and i don't understand it politically ehhen don't understand it politically either, because so many of starmer's own party want to do it, as you said, andy burnham many others. and it's just something also, we just need as

a nation to heal and to punish these people. so the victims need to be heard, of course. so i don't understand it on any level. why starmer is being stubborn? because he's always stubborn. >> oh no, because they don't want to be seen to be, i think, sort of giving in to what they would call the far right or whatever, which really pushing this far right thing all over the place. >> if you saw what was going on in the welsh government the other day with they being far right, were they being far right? well, yeah. there was like the guy who, i don't know his name, the mp who was talking about this, but he got told off in a way that was so like teacher telling a child, a small child off, kind of like, you know, i'm surprised. language, the language and so on. it's like, what are you talking about? this is a very serious case, and we need to be talking about it and being able to talk about it and being able to talk about it and being able to talk about it as adults and responsibly. and it feels like we're not. and it feels like what the labour party are doing is the minimum they need to do in order to say later on they'll have an inquiry similar to the other inquiries. they will be toothless and then they can say, we've done it. what do you want another inquiry? >> it's like, no, well, let's move on to something a little

bit happier. are the obamas breaking up? >> are what is going on with the obama marriage? i didn't know anything about this. are they? it's just a picture of them not looking at each other. is that enough to say that's enough? i there's lots of pictures that i sign of the world ending. >> josh yeah, it's pretty obvious you saw him chatting with trump the other day, getting on really well. he's spending too much time with his new solingen affair. not an affair, but she's like, you're spending all your time with trump. all i hear is trump, trump, donald this. and yeah, you know, when you get a friend like your wife doesn't like not that i'm married, i'm imagining you get a friend and he's like, can you spend all your time with donald? >> that's why i don't hang out with you anymore. >> that's the problem. >> that's the problem. >> also, he was mr big president a while ago, and now he's not. >> but supposedly she really hates him. trump. that is so she's not going to the inauguration and she wasn't at. >> i thought they both loved trump. >> yeah i did as well. >> yeah i did as well. >> so he has to. but all this is based is on one person looking at some body language. and when they were sitting in a car, they weren't snogging. essentially. i do actually want to do the story at the top of the page before we move on, because i was only joking. >> no, i think i mean, this is

just to be silly, but we kind of allude to 1