through monday's top 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

berlin, which 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 1587 00:08:53,368