minerals deal with sign the minerals deal with trump after all. worryingly, peter mandelson has got himself involved. does nobody remember iraq? it's like being in the hospital, looking up and seeing harold shipman at the end of your bed. and while labour lock up your bed. and while labour lock up people for social media posts, a judge in the uk just posts, a judge in the ukjust blocked the deportation of a convicted paedophile, apparently sending him back to jamaica would breach his human rights. what sort of judge looks at a case like this and thinks, oh, won�*t somebody please think of the poor paedophiles? and trump�*s foreign aid funding freeze has hit the lgbtq charity stonewall. they'd better start stonewall. they�*d better start charging rent on those rainbow lanyards, or they'll be transitioning into financial hardship. i'm leo kearse and tonight i�*m joined by simon evans and carrie marks to take you through monday's top stories. this is headliners. but

before tomorrow's news, let's go to tonight's headlines with aaron armstrong. >> thanks, leo. very good evening to you. our top story sir keir starmer says europe stands at a crossroads in history and that a coalition of allies are prepared to defend any peace deal for ukraine. the prime minister was speaking after hosting a defence summit in london, attended by i7 european leaders and canada's justin trudeau. the prime minister says the uk, france and others have agreed a four step plan in which europe will do the heavy lifting. but backing from the united states will be needed. ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy was at the summit just a volodymyr zelenskyy was at the summitjust a couple volodymyr zelenskyy was at the summit just a couple of days after that explosive oval office exchange with donald trump. the prime minister confirmed plans for a coalition of the willing to help end the war with russia and guarantee ukraine's security. >> we have agreed that the uk,

france and others will work with ukraine on a plan to stop the fighting. then we'll discuss that plan with the united states and take it forward together. the purpose of today�*s meeting was to unite our partners around this effort to strengthen ukraine and to support a just and enduring peace for the good of all of us. >> the prime minister also announced a £i.6 >> the prime minister also announced a £1.6 billion missile deal for ukraine. he says it will provide 5000 air defence missiles, which will be made in belfast and will create up to 200 jobs. volodymyr zelenskyy met king charles at sandringham immediately after the london summit. mr zelenskyy was there forjust under an hour. the ukraine's president, dressed still in military attire while a helicopter departed sandringham around 6:30. their meeting comes days after donald trump was invited to the uk for an unprecedented second state visit. a zelenskyy has since

told journalists that a deal for the us to jointly exploit minerals in his country is now ready to sign. a british—israeli woman held hostage by hamas for 15 months says her scars represent freedom, hope and strength. emily maher has undergone surgery for the injuries sustained during the october the 7th attacks, when she was shot in the hand and leg and taken hostage. mr maher, who has two fingers missing from her left hand, said she was held for 471 days with little medical treatment and celebrities are treatment, and celebrities are arriving on the red carpet for the oscars, hollywood's biggest night of the year. british stars ralph fiennes, cynthia erivo and felicity jones will be hoping for success in the acting categories this year. at ten, films are up for the best picture award, so that�*s picture award, so that's anyone's guess. conan o�*brien will host it and it all gets underway at midnight. so if famous people falling over each other is your thing, along with

pretty dresses and overlong speeches, tune in. otherwise, that's it from me. back 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 qr code, or go to gbnews.com/poll. >> malcolm grimston. >> malcolm grimston. >> hello and welcome to headliners, where we give you the best of tomorrow's newspapers with some of today�*s comedians. i'd just like to comedians. i�*d just like to apologise to peter mandelson and his extended family for implying he was involved in the iraq war. apparently he wasn't. ijust apparently he wasn�*t. ijust looked at his face and assumed the sort of man who would drive tony blair to war. anyway, first things first. let's see what we have on the front pages. the daily express leads with time for talk is over. europe must step up. the mail has the king�*s show of solidarity. the guardian has. prime minister calls for

coalition of the willing to the ukraine war. bless you. more front pages in a moment. but first, simon, what do you make of monday�*s express? we can guess the story. clearly. >> clearly, i�*m allergic to it. >> clearly, i'm allergic to it. >> clearly, i'm allergic to it. >> it's time for. >> it's time for. >> talk is over. europe must step up. nobody can fail to have noticed the mounting warlike rhetoric emerging from europe. yeah. to balance the planet which was in danger of sinking into into pacifist and defeatist air. i mean, he's introduced zelenskyy to king charles. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> it's got to be worth something, hasn�*t it? there's a picture of him standing there, as you said, off air in what appears to be van—tam black clothing. >> it's utterly invisible. >> it's utterly invisible. >> just a. >> just a. >> floating face wherever you see. >> him now. and nobody's criticising him for dressing as a puppeteer. >> well, no. >> well, no. >> that is. that's the nice thing about britain, isn't it? in america. we'll come on to that story lately. they mocked him for attending the white house dressed as i thought he would quote johnny cash, who always said. >> as long as there is

injustice. >> in the world, i continue to be the man in black. but prince charles there is wearing a baggy double breasted suit that went out of fashion in 1984. so he's in no position to criticise? >> yes. saving money on vinted. but yeah, i mean. >> more seriously, obviously there is an extraordinary amount of instability, disconcerting sense that we have moved suddenly been fast forwarding suddenly been fast fonnarding into a new era. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> a quote which i've seen a couple of people reference, which i think is quite useful to understand. it was from henry kissinger. not related to this, of course. powerful though he is. he's been dead for some time now. but he said, i can't remember who it was relating to in the time. but he said, sometimes somebody comes along, not necessarily a man of great insight or power or intelligence or anything, but but in, in some way he forces the world to recognise that kind of a lie has been allowed to settle over the

top of the truth is emerged something that we've all sensed is probably actually there, but it hasn't been recognised. it's it hasn�*t been recognised. it's been papered over, it�*s been been papered over, it's been wood chipped for too long and we actually we break through and realise the plaster is rotten under it. >> yeah, absolutely. and i think europe has become too complacent and too dependent on and just assuming that america is always going to be there to be the big boy who�*ll sort out conflicts. and as a result, because europe has got weak and it's allowed itself to just sort of turn, turn inward and attack itself, you know, you can see starmer locking up british citizens for expressing opinions when, you know, he should be celebrating british citizens, because they might be the ones who are going to war. for him. >> it looks like, doesn't it? and we�*ve got all hard power how. >> now. >> with hard power, 2.7% rise. >> with hard power, 2.7% rise. >> in in our troops. so this is not very much really. starmer vows to put boots on the ground and planes in the air, which is the right way round by the way. although i think if you did it the other way round, get the

planes in the ground, put boots in the air, we might confuse the enemy in the shopping mall. yeah, totally. why try anything? it's all been quite fascinating, hasn't it, to see that that hasn�*t it, to see that that trump effect. he says the wrong things. he upsets people. he calls zelenskyy a dictator, which he didn't mean at all. if he if he thought zelenskyy was a dictator, he'd admire him. he loves he loves that kind of stuff, you know? so and there�*s so much crazy. we're seeing the left becoming more pro, more anti—russia, the right being more pro. russia, which is an odd sort of polar shift. >> i think. >> i think. >> there's a. >> there's a. >> chasm on the right between people who are sort of more aligned with, i guess, the old, you know, pax americana and neocon approach to, to world affairs and don't align with putin at all. and then there's other people who somehow see ukraine as the vaccine and putin and anti—vaxxers. >> yes, there is. >> yes, there is. >> isn't it strange? >> isn't it strange? >> it's all very strange at the moment. but it's also this, this belief that we're hearing that. and, you know, i do understand. i think it's awful the way russia, obviously the way russia attacked, you know, ukraine, just out of the blue like that.

i genuinely i wonder. >> it wasn't quite out of the blue. there was a bit build up. >> well, i mean, it was a sudden attack. it wasn't like they went, hey, we�*re going to attack went, hey, we're going to attack you next week unless you do this. just went straight into it. >> they took crimea and then there was. >> oh yeah, of course there's all that happened beforehand. yes. >> warm conflict. >> warm conflict. >> of which they still have troops in georgia, which stops georgia from having a proper democracy and so on. and yeah, i mean, it's building up and it looks like it's starmer at the moment. sounds like he's really up moment. sounds like he's really up for it. yeah. and he's like. >> it looks like. zelenskyy is actually going to sign this mineral deal as well. well that's that's the noises coming from i think. >> that's being pushed. that's overtaken the newspapers actually to some extent isn't it. that news came through, although of course it's still although of course it�*s still just rumour. mandelson, as we, as we will see later, you referenced was encouraging him and i suspect behind closed doors keir was like, listen, we'll do what we. >> can. >> can. >> but i really think. >> but i really think. >> you�*d be better. yeah, yeah. >> you�*d be better. yeah, yeah. >> i wonder if he�*s going to go >> i wonder if he's going to go back to the white house. >> charles. >> charles. >> we will. you can have your picture taken at the imperial war museum. >> but will he go back in a

suit? that's what i wonder now. and, you know, is he going to. yeah, exactly. exactly. go the whole way. i do wonder a little bit whether he thinks not necessarily he's going to win, but that he can hold out long enough to this is, you know, because, because, because there's a bit of muhammad ali, you know, 12 rounds of this and then boom, boom. >> the way trump is portraying the conflict is russia has completely dominated ukraine. and, you know, ukraine is on its last legs. and that's not not at last legs. and that�*s not not at all what's happening. >> not at all. the very. >> not at all. the very. >> fast donkey. yes. and ukraine is getting the. >> donkey had to come in. of course. colii’se. >> course. >> ukraine is getting new tech, you know, justjust >> ukraine is getting new tech, you know, just just on >> ukraine is getting new tech, you know, justjust on the. and they�*ve become really hardened fighters. >> the russian offensive is pretty much petered out. and now ukraine is, you know, retaking land in tourette's if. >> it doesn't go nuclear, which doesn't seem really likely, then they could hold out. and the very fact that the north korean army came in doesn't show, as army came in doesn�*t show, as trump was saying, that, that there's an endless power or endless number of soldiers. it actually shows how desperate they were getting. >> absolutely insane. do you think there could be an element of not so much. ukraine can win,

but ukraine can't be allowed to win. >> well, i mean, that feels to me quite like an edge position. i�*m not saying conspiracy theory, but the idea that i�*m not. >> quite sure maga kool aid, i�*m. >> not quite sure. >> not quite sure. >> what what. >> what what. >> trump would benefit. well, i mean, you're that sounds like you're saying trump is a putin asset. is essentially. >> what i mean. maga, maga are putting out this this idea that ukraine is completely weakened defence. you�*re saying that. >> they don't want if. >> they don't want if. >> you think. >> you think. >> it�*s in the balance, but it would be detrimental to american foreign policy interests for ukraine to actually defeat russia and drive it back into its own. >> probably risky for ukraine to actually win and retake all the land. i mean, why would that be? isuzu said. you know, build your enemy a golden bridge to retreat across. i think it would destabilise russia. the russian people who've, you know, sort of indulged this special military operation so far because it hasn�*t really impacted their lives and they haven�*t really lives and they haven't really been, you know, nationally

humiliated. we then have this incredible humiliation. putin would lose all his authority over the over the people and would be replaced. the russia would be replaced. the russia would balkanise would fragment into separate states, which is all. i mean, you've got the chechens, you've got various waiting. >> to see how this is detrimental to american foreign policy interests. >> i think chaos in russia would be detrimental to the world also. >> it gives it gives america a chance to sort of back out of nato a little bit as well, which i think they�*re looking like they're interested in doing. so there's a lot of possibilities, you know, i think is going to happen. i think that i think zelenskyy going to end up giving everything away. i think he's going to he�*s already agreed they can�*t have nuclear weapons anyway. they're going to not be anyway. they�*re going to not be allowed to join nato. they're going to give away some territory. then they're going to give away all their their mineral rights, and then putin will die. yeah. the next day, the next day they'll go, oh, that was all for nothing. you know. >> i mean, it is a good question who comes in after putin. you i mean yeah everyone there are two. it's interesting you say two. it�*s interesting you say people maxim putin on to anti—vaxxers or whatever. this kind of there are different analogies and different kind of

dimensions. but the main two analogues that i think people use are either is putin, hitler and is this 1939 or 1941. and the other one is organised crime. it�*s the mafia basically. and i personally veer towards the latter. i've always said international law is just organised crime. it has a nicer burn organised crime. it has a nicer burr, it has a nicer finish. some people are able to put on a nice. but you know, the godfather was literally about the ambition of don corleone, that his, his favourite son should become a senator, that they should move from one form of organised crime into another. that�*s how it is, right? there is no overarching polity. there is no overarching polity. there is no. but trump. >> gets the same thing, doesn't he. >> in world affairs? yeah, it is basically a series of veiled threats. >> and i guess we�*re seeing the >> and i guess we're seeing the sort of that being put out in the open by trump right now. and if we move on to the guardian, there's this story about at least 25 police spies duped sexual partners. this was undercover cops who were lying to women. i mean, i think this is a this is a bit unfair to i mean, we've all lied to women to. you know what i mean?

>> speak for yourself, liam. >> speak for yourself, liam. >> i pretended i'm not a terrible person. >> you know, like you the. yeah. so apparently, over decades, these were undercover cops who were supposed to be looking at extreme groups and so on. and they got the term undercover a bit mixed up with get under the covers. and now what's happening decades later is the reason why this has come up is because the babies are being born and their first words are hello, hello, hello. and that's a bit suspicious. so yeah, i mean, it's an interesting experiment. they've spawned a new generation they�*ve spawned a new generation of half cop, half activists, so maybe that will work in the long run. tui'i. >> run. >> just in time for activist criminal justice system. i do remember. >> one of these. this was quite a famous case quite a long time ago about. i mean, this may be one of these instances that this guy had gone into a i think they were like anarchists or something that were considered to be a threat at that time, you know, before the great awakening. yeah, exactly. and this guy had married and had

children with her, you know, and, and at some point, i mean, you know, this has been examined in hollywood and so on. at some point, you have to question, are you undercover or have you forgotten who you are? or is there something that can be real work? it's quite an. work? it�*s quite an. >> did you just want sex? >> did you just want sex? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> which is also a possibility. once you�*re in, you know, it�*s once you�*re in, you know, it's really hard to break up once you're. yeah. once you're in that deep. let's take a couple more. >> what did. >> what did. >> that mean? is the telegraph has. we are at a crossroads in history. starmer tells europe the daily star has flipping lovely out there, folks that must be referencing the weather. 50 must be referencing the weather. so we've got the telegraph with the obviously this meeting between starmer, zelenskyy and macron. they've also got some macron. they�*ve also got some other stories on there. yes. >> i just want to reference the crossroads. it's a fork in the crossroads. it�*s a fork in the road i think, isn't it? if crossroads gives you the option to just carry on going and ignore, i don't think that�*s ignore, i don't think that's a crossroads. they come all the time. yeah. it's just. time. yeah. it�*s just. >> a t junction. >> a t junction. >> this is

>> a tjunction. >> this is a t junction. yeah, very much so. there's a commentary by charles moore which is quite strong stuff as he says he is. he's very much pro sort of taking the fight to russia. i find it quite interesting where r