thought grassroots activism. i thought foreign aid went to help starving kids in africa. turns out it's paying to convince kids in britain they need to be transitioned. honestly, bob geldof must be fuming and rachel reeves tax british farmers into oblivion. so now labour is buying their food to make up for it. this is like setting their barn on fire and then offering to buy them a bucket of water. i'm leo kearse and tonight i'm joined by comedians stephen allen and simon evans to take you through monday's top stories. this is headliners. and first things first let's see what we have on the front pages. the times leads with hard right on course for big gains in germany. the telegraph has zelenskyy i will quit if it bnngs zelenskyy i will quit if it brings peace . and the i has brings peace. and the i has labour's plan for 1.5 million new homes under threat from

skills shortage and reality. let's have a closer look at those front pages, starting with the times. >> yeah, the times. >> yeah, the times. >> they. >> they. >> mentioned starmer and macron double teaming trump. more on that on the. next paper. but that's just a mental image i thought i'd leave you with. hard right on. >> course for big. >> course for big. >> gains in germany is the main story. >> with these election. you what.7 >> sorry. >> sorry. >> they've been working. >> they've been working. >> out afterwards. >> out afterwards. >> what you've got to do to get. >> what you've got to do to get. >> the big gains. >> the big gains. >> that's the one thing i know about going to the gym and that's about it. so yeah, the interesting the election results. so what we're hearing is that the conservative christian democrat union, they are going to be in first place, but. >> second place could. >> second place could. >> well be this adf. >> well be this adf. >> and it will afd. afd. >> and it will afd. afd. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> think one of them. i think. >> think one of them. i think. >> that's. >> that's. >> where i bought a carpet. >> where i bought a carpet. >> one of it won't make that much of a difference because. fascism is that. if you're building cheaply, it won't make that much of a difference because they're firewalled off. so the odds of them being part of this coalition, as long as there's. >> enough to scrape. >> enough to scrape. >> together to form a coalition, they won't be involved. but, you know, it's interesting. although

for the for. >> the cdu. >> the cdu. >> probably got that wrong as well. the leader said that. >> his priority will be to. strengthen europe and it. >> could be achieved because it wants independence from. the us. >> because the. >> because the. >> us don't care. >> us don't care. >> yeah. then we found that out over the last couple of days. >> didn't we.7 yeah. >> didn't we? yeah. >> didn't we? yeah. >> we'll mention that in the next story. >> and simon, do you think this this firewall will hold because i mean, in recent months the, the afd have actually i think they helped get a bill through parliament to, to restrict immigration in germany. so, you know, it's not as if they're, you know, the firewall seems to be it seems to be made out of adf as well. it seems to be burning in the heat. >> it'll have. >> it'll have. >> to be found to be made of asbestos and have to be removed. and they're being told, stay, you're not to cross. well, we replaced this firewall. several interesting things. i mean, big european elections, always vastly more complicated than we're used to with our first past the post. build a coalition, then go to the electorate kind of system. and i hope that people who are always campaigning for proportional representation see the sort of mess it can create. certain things which i've been trying to follow it and get into the detail. one of the interesting things there are two small

parties, the fdp and the bfw. i have no idea what they stand for. if either of them break 5%, then they have to be included in then they have to be included in the calculations and that will create an almost impossible coalition challenge. so they'll be probably having a minority government, and that will obviously make it more possible for the afd to create problems. and also i find this more interesting, but possibly because it plays to a very, very simple, sort of cartoonish image of politics, it is extraordinary the degree to which the afd vote is concentrated in the former eastern germany. it clusters around berlin, which which remains, you know, left wing and disco. yeah, but but the whole of the rest of what was formerly prussia, the. >> and might be again. >> and might be again. >> the source of the whole of german magnificence in the 19th century, spikey helmets and all the rest of it. they are so solidly. and the point of this is so. the afd have won about 20% of the vote, which is roughly what they'd have been

the minimum they'd have been hoping for. it's not an unbelievable triumph, but it's a solid game. but it is so heavily. if that was dispersed across the whole of germany, you might conceivably say, listen, we you know, we have our cordon sanitaire. it's all very well. you're voting for them, but they're not going to get anywhere near power. but they're being so concentrated in a particular geographic region. yeah, i think it's, it's not a stable it's not a sustainable situation. could you say that they're not involved in in power in discussions about building policy. >> you sort it out with. >> you sort it outwith. >> you sort it outwith. >> a wall. would that in any. >> a wall. would that in any. >> way help? well you could come up with ideas. >> they have a gate. i believe it was every popular rule. >> and of course, i mean their policy. i mean, i think in the uk they're mostly known for their sort of anti—immigration policy. and, you know, with the spate of islamist stabbings that have, you know, hammered europe, particularly germany, that's that's been something that's pushing that lever. but they're also very russian friendly. and maybe this is why, you know, they're so popular in the east.

but it's also interesting that they're popular, not just geographically focused in the east, but focused amongst the youth, particularly young men, young men really. and we're seeing this across europe, young people who, you know, traditionally have been the, the loftiest of all are really turning to the, to the right. >> it's essentially anyone who's still got any testosterone in the system. >> yeah. that gets. >> yeah. that gets. >> drained away and replaced with various little blue pills. >> it should be. >> it should be. >> there should. >> there should. >> be more. >> be more. >> athletes who are oddly voting right wing. >> yeah, a short. >> yeah, a short. >> putter on svelgen. >> putter on svelgen. >> even even arnie turned left. he didn't. >> he was. >> he was. >> well, yeah. and delinking or whatever they're called. which means. is that the left. so they, they had a surprisingly good result there. they're pushing. >> hard left. >> hard left. >> well there's been. >> well there's been. >> a perception as well against the afd. yeah. >> yeah. but they're really, you know, freakishly, outlandishly, cartoonishly left wing. and you know, everybody always talks about, oh, the threat from the hard right. why is nobody talking about the threat from

these freaks? well, i. >> mean, i suppose there are historical reasons for being anxious, but more broadly speaking. yeah, i think you're right. well. >> given the history with the berlin wall and everything, you'd be more worried about the left, i don't know. yeah. it's crazy. >> quickly mention. >> quickly mention. >> as well there. >> as well there. >> is the story. >> is the story. >> britain's held by. >> britain's held by. >> taliban for helping women over. >> oven >> 30 teaching them how to be mothers. >> and it. turns out over. there they're not really into women. learning stuff. and that's a shocker isn't it? i mean, obviously upsetting for these, but it reminded me of the story about women aren't even. >> allowed to. >> allowed to. >> look through windows. >> look through windows. >> now that when they banned windows near women. and if you've already. >> got if. >> got if. >> you've got a house that's got a window near a woman, the advice was build another wall. they don't have blind technology out there. they need another wall out there. >> so it's not they're not allowed to use windows as in the only. vista that. >> the torture. >> the torture. >> of women over. there's too much. they're only allowed windows vista. or you could make a. >> fortune if you took curtains to afghanistan. and said, have you tried these? look, when you're getting changed. or washing some potatoes. yeah. and just draw these and we've. >> got them. well obviously.

>> got them. well obviously. >> we've got the daily telegraph as well. simon with the zelenskyy saying he's, he could possibly quit his job. >> yes. the trouble with the daily telegraph when it arrives in this organisation is we get it on a, on an a4 sheet in which it's typed becomes so impossibly small. anything from the bottom line. i am kind of guessing about what it said, but i think it says volodymyr zelenskyy has said for the first time he is ready to give up the ukrainian presidency, if doing so were to deliver peace. and also he said he would give it up in exchange for nato membership. now, i don't think realistically nato membership is on the cards. in fact, i don't think even many brits. i don't think keir starmer would like nato membership to become immediately profit, because that would plunge us into war. we would be immediately responsible for their defence and. >> that contravenes the rules of nato. a country at war can't can't save a country with other, you know, other countries, soldiers inside its borders can't. >> absolutely try and get insurance. >> after a crash. >> after a crash. >> exactly the same. >> exactly the same. >> but it is interesting, i have

to say, and maybe this just, you know, demonstrates that my feeble grasp of the situation, but the rhetoric is just sliding all over the place at the moment, isn't it? it's like trying to rig a sail in a gale, you know, and it's almost impossible to understand what anyone might actually be hoping to achieve. ignore what they're saying. ignore the above the line, you know, content of the rhetoric. it's also hard to understand what might be below the line. i think i had some some time for the idea that that trump was essentially firing warning shots across zelenskyy's bow, that he would have to take the process that was coming in seriously. yeah. so by sort of essentially excluding him from the negotiations, he forced him to say, no, i want to be a part of the negotiations where if he'd said, would you like to come and have some negotiations, zelenskyy would have said, no, i want to carry on with the war. do you see what i mean? so there was that kind of calculation, but, you know, very hard at this point to decide. >> well, yeah, i mean, steve sort of optimistically hoped that might be the reason trump is saying it. but now i'm kind of i'm kind of thinking that trump might just be really

capricious and sort of running the world like a 14 year old girl runs a high school. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> i think you should have lost. >> i think you should have lost. >> that faith. >> that faith. >> when? >> when? >> before. even before the like just after the phone call. but any talks happened. they were already giving ground, going, well, you can't expect to have all the territory back and oh, we're going to have american. >> troops there. surely they'd. >> troops there. surely they'd. >> be things you'd be mentioning in the negotiation. i'm not an expert in negotiating peace deals, but it also looks like possibly they're not either. but it does it very much. i'm not surprised by this news story saying. >> that he'd quit. >> that he'd quit. >> i mean, he's a comedian and we know what it's. >> like . slot on headline. yeah, yeah. >> you know, you're. >> you know, you're. >> a corporate gig. it's running late. and they say, do you mind only doing five? >> yeah, fine. absolutely fine. >> yeah, fine. absolutely fine. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i wouldn't be at all surprised if he has a world tour at the end. >> of this. amazing. >> of this. amazing. >> he is really sort of raised the bar for what comedians can achieve. but when. >> my wife was looking at me in 2021, like, you see. >> and now you're going, you see careful what you. wish for. >> and also, i mean, if he does call trump's bluff and step down

and the whole election, even though, you know, i understand why ukraine wants to avoid elections, because having that sort of strife in the sort of, you know, the necessarily divide a country, but zaluzany would be overwhelmingly likely to take overwhelmingly likely to take over from, from zelenskyy and zaluzany, who's the sort of envoy. >> just purely on alphabetical order. >> he. yeah. >> he. yeah. >> they've got the a's and b's and c's went a long time ago. >> way back. >> way back. >> yeah, yeah, they were fighting the mongols. but yeah, i mean, zaluzany is an incredible military leader. so he would probably play much harder ball with, with russia and with and with trump. and the idea that, you know, that ukraine is a spent force and, you know, russia could roll over it in a matter of days. i mean, putin has been saying that since the war started. i think russia is now a spent force. it's sending donkeys and horses and men to the front, which is never a sign of, you know, overwhelming success. >> and there's some videos of, like the challenger two tanks that we sent over. absolutely. taking out an entire column of soviet era things. and the quote i heard was, it reduces them to

nuts and bolts. you think, all right, so we know who's got the bigger tank there. but if you have this peace deal and some time. to restock and get some extra. >> tanks in. >> tanks in. >> that's the that's the risk further along from the horizon. >> isn't it. >> isn't it. >> yeah. yes. it was true that russia didn't win this in a couple of days. it looks like trump might. finish this in a couple of days by teaming up. is it a peace talk if you've only got one side of the wall there, and someone who. >> seems to hate. >> seems to hate. >> the other side of the wall, or is that ganging up? >> yeah, i guess we'll have to see if trump i don't know, maybe he's playing, you know, five d chess because this has actually been very unpopular with him with the american electorate. and so maybe, you know, he'll look at the polls. >> no. absolutely. he and look at the polls as well. but yeah. no you're absolutely right. and it's created ripples all over the place. we were talking i don't think it's on any of the news stories that paul poilievre. poilievre who's the was the virtually the president elect of canada. you know prime minister elect. he was 30 points ahead and it's all evaporated just because of how unpopular trump has made the right wing politics. yeah, it's high

stakes. >> it's incredible. we've got the i steve with labour trying to build homes. >> yeah. labour's plan for. >> yeah. labour's plan for. >> 1.5 million new homes under >>1.5 million new homes under threat from skills shortage. bob the builder was asking. >> the right questions. >> the right questions. >> it turns out we can't build it because no one knows how to build this stuff. the workforce is ageing out. there was that weird period where all the builders were from one particular country, and they've gone home because their economy has been better than ours now. so no, you can have the plan to build stuff, but if no one knows how. >> to. >> to. >> do it, yeah, it's not going to happen. >> but i've been inside some new homes in the uk, and i've got to say, the people who built those homes don't know how to build ehhen homes don't know how to build either. so, you know, maybe we could solve this problem by just not importing 1.2 million people every year who presumably don't bnng every year who presumably don't bring a semi—detached house with them. well. >> this is this has been the accusation levelled at angela rayner from the very first moment that she announced this, this project, which is that. so you're going to have to import builders to do this. where are they going to live? they're going to live in the houses they build. yes, it is a ponzi scheme. and i mean, it's

interesting to see it on the front page of the eye, because i've seen this headline and this story repeated without any this doesn't seem to have moved it on at all ever since she first announced it. there is a massive skill shortage. now, arguably this is this is worth announcing regularly so that young men and indeed women conceivably, and people of no fixed gender can identify potentially profitable line of work to go into. yeah. i mean, i think it would be great if we if we built up the, the artisan trades and maybe some, some corny specialists, maybe. >> we should make it illegal to do gender studies. if you walk when you walk through the door for gender studies, you actually walk into a bricklaying course. and that could solve our problems. do something useful. >> wonderful. you know, like a liberal arts degree, but for building, you know, just. >> like all the skills. >> like all the skills. >> yeah. go for it. >> okay, well, moving on, let's have a look at some more front pages with the daily mail. was licence fee payers cash given to hamas? well, they already got council houses in london. why not give them bbc money to the sun has fat jabs linked to 82

deaths and the daily star has bought batter boffins. so yeah. simon the daily mail with the licence fee money going to hamas. >> yes. well i mean the way they present that title, it's almost as if they deliberately, you know, sidelined it and just like channelled it straight into the fighting fund. the point is that they made a documentary. anything the bbc does is, of course using licence fee because that's all the money they've got, you know. and so that is a given. the bbc made an hamas documentary, and it seems as if they may well have ended up parroting hamas talking points or however you want to put it. there has been considerable concern 3111 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14: