been signed. peace deal has been signed. speaking on his flight over to the us tonight, the prime minister also made clear that he was considering deploying british troops as part of a wider european force in ukraine. but he said it would be a decision not taken lightly and relied on continued involvement of us forces in the country. it comes after donald trump confirmed president zelenskyy will visit him on friday to sign a very big agreement. the us president held his first cabinet meeting at the white house since his inauguration last month, joined by his billionaire adviser elon musk. attention quickly turned to the minerals deal with ukraine. >> president zelenskyy is going to be coming on friday. that's now confirmed, and we�*re going to be signing an agreement, which will be a very big agreement. and i want to thank howard and scott for the job you guys did in putting it together. really did an amazing job. and that will be on rare earth and

other things. >> he went on to say that the united states would not be making security guarantees for ukraine in its deal to end the war with russia, but that europe would. meanwhile, downing street has confirmed that zelenskyy will meet with sir keir starmer and other european leaders in london on sunday. it is thought that the ukrainian president is planning to make the trip to discuss defence. elsewhere, sir keir starmer has refused to say if the deal to give away the chagos islands to mauritius would be funded by the increase in defence spending. the prime minister told the commons that the increase to 2.5% of gdp is for our capability on defence and security in europe, and described the deal being negotiated with mauritius as extremely important for our security. tory mp kieran mullan asked sir keir during prime ministers questions to give an unequivocal answer on where the money would come from, but the prime minister declined to say

whether the money for the deal would come out of an increase in defence spending. meanwhile, reform uk leader nigel farage has been in the commons voting on the chagos islands deal motion and has sparked outrage by suggesting we sell it to america. >> would rather see america have the sovereignty of the chagos islands that are corrupt, that are corrupt. mauritius, why don't we if we're if we're going to give this up, let�*s sell, to give this up, let's sell, let's sell. let's get a few billion quid for the mauritius islands, for the chagos islands. mauritius has no legal basis, no legal claim. and you know what investment would come. the chagossians could go back and get well—paid jobs. i want us to keep sovereignty. but if you're keep sovereignty. but if you�*re prepared to give away this country's interests, sell it to america. don't give it away to america. don�*t give it away to corrupt mauritius. >> and gary lineker has joined

calls for a return of the axed bbc documentary on gaza, starring a hamas chief's son. starring a hamas chief�*s son. the match of the day host condemned the bbc for bowing to censorship after the broadcaster pulled a documentary accused of blindly spouting hamas propaganda. the presenter, who is due to step down from his role in broadcasting in may, was one of 500 industry figures backing gaza how to survive a war zone and calling for it to be reinstated on iplayer. the open letter, published by artists for palestine uk, criticised what the signatories said was a racist and dehumanising campaign targeting the documentary. the bbc's board is expected to discuss the film tomorrow. those are the latest gb news headlines. now it's time for 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/alerts. >> hello and welcome to headliners, where we give you the best of tomorrow's newspapers with the best of today's comedians. first things first, we'll have a look at the front pages. the daily mail starmer set to blow billions on chagos surrender. telegraph. starmer to confront trump on ukraine and the i back europe on putin and meet king starmer's top trump card. 50 more pages in a few minutes. but paul a bit of a few minutes. but paul a bit of a theme there. >> there certainly is. >> there certainly is. >> and in the in the daily mail here. starmer set to blow defence billions on chagos surrender. >> so this is. >> so this is. >> sir keir starmer has all but confessed that labour's defence cash boost would be used to fund the chagos islands giveaway. and do you know what? bearing in mind that the defence budget is essentially to appease donald trump because he is asking the nato countries to raise their defence spending.

>> and we�*re. >> and we�*re. >> raising ours from 2.3 to 2.5 to spend to then go ahead and spend some of that money, any of that money on a deal that trump is very unlikely to agree with just seems very counterproductive to me. i don't see how this is going to go. it's a good point, but there is no definitive proof that that is what the money is going to be going towards. they're just going towards. they�*re just saying it all but admits it. well look, he just he hasn't denied it. that's not the same thing. >> fair enough. i just thing. >> fair enough. ijust think starmer is going to go in there demanding all sorts of things. he's going to end up trump's secretary. he�*s going to come secretary. he's going to come out. he�*s going to end up. >> hey, that's a. >> hey, that's a. >> good job. it�*s a good job, great job. the deal is going to end.the great job. the deal is going to end. the chagos will be gone. theni end. the chagos will be gone. then i suddenly thought, maybe starmer is a genius. i�*m going starmer is a genius. i'm going to give you this scenario. maybe he came up with i know i�*ll give away the chagos islands obviously ridiculous, a trump esque initial first offer. then his thing is, if trump gives the backstop that he wants to secure the peace in ukraine, etc, and to carry on funding the troops and all this, he�*ll then drop and all this, he'll then drop the chagos thing, which he was always going to do anyway because it was ridiculous. so

actually, starmer�*s orchestrated the whole thing. >> help me out here. what about giving the chagos islands to trump? well. >> cut out the middle man. >> cut out the middle man. >> very, very farage. >> very, very farage. >> we love the chagos. it was a great gig. >> yeah. just seems to me that these two things don't go together very well. and this chagos deal is going to collapse at some point. i mean, the idea that keir starmer is playing some sort of id chess, let alone 3d chess to me, >> 70 chess. >> 70 chess. >> i would no disrespect to you, but i actually genuinely think starmer's quite an intelligent person. whether i agree with him. >> what do you mean. >> what do you mean. >> no. >> no. >> disrespect, paul? >> disrespect, paul? >> what do you mean? it was counter to my point. it seems like you're sort of suggesting that starmer is a bit thick, and i would say he�*s more intelligent than me. and you. maybe not nick. nick's more intelligent than us, but i would say i can accept this more intelligent than me and definitely more intelligent than me. i'm thick as anything, as you know, but i think he i think starmer plays at least 2d chess. yeah, i mean, i can't play 1d chess. i can�*t even play backgammon, draughts, draughts,

i can play. yeah. let's go to the daily telegraph then. what are they saying, paul? on, nick. are they saying, paul? 0h, nick. >> i�*ll do this one. >> i'll do this one. >> i'll do this one. >> i'll do this one. >> i can�*t even tell the difference. >> why not? yeah, well, it's because of dicks and, the podcast, anyway. available now. the daily telegraph has starmer to confront trump on ukraine, and it's very much the same story. so i don't know how you story. so i don�*t know how you want to cover it. the only additional things i was going to say was that trump is saying there won't necessarily be any security guarantees, and lammy's admitted that the white house will have veto on any deal. well. >> can i just say something about that? yeah. someone i think made a point in the earlier show. i think adam in the last show that it's quite interesting is that the idea that then they're saying that we're now saying, well, they've got the they�*ve got a veto on it got the they've got a veto on it actually makes me feel a bit patriotic. yeah. and make me think, no, you don't tell me what to do. trump. we're going to sell our island and give it to sell our island and give it to somebody else. it's as you say, it's a bit. well, it�*s say, it's a bit. well, it's a really interesting dynamic, isn't it? because we�*ve had the isn�*t it? because we�*ve had the island since 1814. i two learned that on the previous show. that wasn't knowledge i had previous to that, i don't think. but they are ours. it just it's very odd

are ours. itjust it's very odd we're giving them away to mauritius, who lay no claim to it whatsoever. >> absolutely. yeah. no. of course. and the other thing, just to add here is that there's just to add here is that there�*s maybe slightly dries it, but the us are worried about this mega embassy in china. we've said we'll put embassy in china. we've said we'l