>> way. >> way. >> al lewis 11:00. >> al lewis 11:00. >> which means it's. >> which means it's. >> time for. >> time for. >> tomorrow's newspapers tonight. join us over the next. >> hour for stories including. >> hour for stories including. >> left wingers insist that. >> left wingers insist that. >> mass immigration is hugely enriching. so why have labour placed so many migrants in a. >> tory village. >> tory village. >> that they. >> that they. >> now outnumber. >> now outnumber. >> the. >> the. >> local population? >> local population? >> and when will we know the southport killers. internet browsing history? it looked. >> like it. >> like it. >> might take. >> might take. >> years to uncover. >> years to uncover. >> but now the fbi are on it. will it contain some awkward truths for keir starmer? >> and are the taliban. >> and are the taliban. >> going woke? apparently they now have a feminist wing, which has triggered a schism in everyone's favourite islamic theocracy. >> by demanding women's. >> by demanding women's. >> rights in afghanistan. i'm leo kirsten. tonight i'm joined by simon evans and carrie. marks to take you through sunday's. >> top stories. >> top stories. >> there they are, ready to go.

this is headliners. >> but before tomorrow's. >> but before tomorrow's. >> news. >> news. >> let's go to. >> tonight's headlines. >> tonight's headlines. >> with aaron armstrong. >> with aaron armstrong. >> hello. very good evening to you. our top stories. sir keir starmer the prime minister says he is ready and willing to put uk troops on the ground in ukraine to help guarantee its security. keir starmer will attend an emergency summit in paris tomorrow as european leaders attempt to retake the initiative over those peace talks. well, the meeting will be hosted by the french president, emmanuel macron, who has determined the uk be closely involved in all future discussions about ukraine. it comes amid growing concern over us efforts to agree a deal with russia to end the war, which european governments fear will

damage security on the continent. meanwhile, president trump has sent two of his closest foreign policy advisers to saudi arabia for talks with russia, which will also be attended by us secretary of state marco rubio. neither ukraine nor europe have been invited, but donald trump says he wants president zelenskyy to be involved , and says he could be involved, and says he could meet with vladimir putin very soon. i think. >> he wants to stop. that was my question to him, because if he's going to go on, that would have been a big problem for us, and that would have caused me a big problem because you just can't let that happen. i think he wants to end it and they want to end it fast, both of them. and zelenskyy wants to end it too. >> the government says the nhs is on the road to recovery after meeting a key election pledge. new nhs figures show an extra 2 million appointments were delivered in england during labour's first five months in office. the additional appointments, delivered in part by extra evening and weekend working. and it follows figures

last week showing total waiting lists fell in december for the fourth month in a row. sir keir starmer says he knows the job isn't done and has promised further reforms to deliver faster treatment. and the brutalist and the papal drama conclave were the big winners at the baftas, with four awards each. a conclave got the best film award, although ralph fiennes missed out on the best actor that went to adrien brody for his role in the brutalist, his fellow american mikey madison won the best actress category for her role in nora, about a sex worker who falls for about a sex worker who falls for a russian oligarch as she pipped demi moore and cynthia erivo, amongst others. the star wars actor warwick davis was honoured with the bafta fellowship for an outstanding and exceptional contribution to the screen, and the team behind wallace and gromit picked up two gongs for their most recent animation, vengeance most foul. and that is it for the moment. now it's over to headliners. >> for the very latest gb news,

direct your smartphone. sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com/advent. >> thank you, aaron and hello and welcome to headliners, your first look at the best of tomorrow's newspapers with the best of today's comedians. >> first things first. >> first things first. >> let's see what we have on the front pages. the sun leads with prawn crackers. that's a story about about putin's dithering over spending on defence while we blow billions on prawn farms in bangladesh. apparently the telegraph has starmer. >> i'm ready to put. >> i'm ready to put. >> troops in ukraine. the independent has housebuilding planned by labour unachievable? and i think that's going to be unachievable by by a huge margin. more front pages in a moment. but first, simon, what do you make of this story in the front of the sun.

>> the prawn crackers. leo. yes, the sun have used the emblematic little, little sea bug of insanity. he's obviously he's he's understood to be an avatar for nonsensical overspending. yeah.i for nonsensical overspending. yeah. i have no idea what the validity is of the particular claim about the shrimp farms in bangladesh, but the point they're making is that starmer is confronting yet another black hole in his budget. yeah, he has, of course, over the last few days, as no doubt you've covered or josh's regime has covered orjosh's regime has covered orjosh's regime has covered during the week. the speech by jd. vance in munich has put the wind up europe's military elite. they've realised that they've been winding down their own defence capabilities, assuming that america would always have their backs and things are changing. some people are saying it's the end of the long 20th century. yeah. and so

starmer is confronting the possibility that he doesn't have sufficient men, doesn't have sufficient men, doesn't have sufficient armaments, or whether it be weapons or munitions. and so we're wondering where the money is going to come from, especially if he is intending, as it seems to commit possibly to putting british boots on the ground in ukraine. >> yeah, absolutely. you know, for all that people say that trump is abandoning ukraine, abandoning europe, i don't think trump would be abandoning europe if europe didn't abandon itself, like europe has woefully underfunded and undermanned and under—supported ukraine and its own, you know, military capability. and this this article, this front page in the sun makes the point quite, quite, quite. well, i think that we're through foreign aid. we're spending like £15 billion on foreign aid each year going to, you know, whatever it is, drag queensin you know, whatever it is, drag queens in ecuador. and, you know, i mean, it's great that they're. >> getting i think that's important to the public. i think they need that. >> and i think a lot of the

public. >> they're aware. >> they're aware. >> that security is. >> that security is. >> an issue. >> an issue. >> but shrimp farms in. >> but shrimp farms in. >> bangladesh make. >> bangladesh make. >> us. >> us. >> feel good, i guess. >> feel good, i guess. >> and so we need. >> and so we need. >> to. >> to. >> well. >> well. >> shrimp farms in. >> shrimp farms in. >> bangladesh, we mock, but you never know what possible, you know, armament or technology might emerge. it's like the rainforest and. >> absolutely look worth investing in. what we got from future. >> shrimp that. >> shrimp that. >> could explode itself. isn't there. isn't that. >> what we got from wuhan? >> what we got from wuhan? >> yeah, exactly. >> yeah, exactly. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> the reckoning. if we go up to the 2.5% spending. >> on military budget, which which, which which trump is suggesting we do, and that would cost an extra 9 billion a year, which is what we splashed out on the unions at the very beginning of the year. so, you know, in one go, we could cover that. and we could we could actually we could actually we could kill, you know, we could, we. >> could kill. >> could kill. >> we could kill two birds with one stone. if we sent the unions to the front line in ukraine, i think that would help our industries run more smoothly. >> and put the train drivers there. yeah, because there. >> used to be an argument and i had some kind of time for it. there used to be an argument

that foreign aid budgets were quite useful for at least two reasons. soft power obviously expanded the idea of the british being great and good and charitable and having, you know, having an extra margin of capacity to do so, but also making the world more liveable for people. so they didn't all jump for people. so they didn't all jump in dinghies and try and get oven jump in dinghies and try and get over, over the ferry lines. well, that doesn't seem to be working anymore, does it? in fact, if anything, i think it's giving people the wrong idea. oh, britain is funding this prawn factory. britain? there might be a nice place to go and live, you know. so, i don't know, maybe they can cook up a really hot foul. >> it feels like, you know, russia. ukraine should have been a wake up call. and now with trump in and the point that he the stance he's making to withdraw and to say to europe and we're hearing from jd vance is this is a wake up shout. really it's what we should have been doing for a long time now. we had a we had a proud military at one point and we used to run the world remains of what once was. >> the biggest empire 1552 00