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to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. com slash alerts now, though, it's time for headliners . headliners. >> hello and welcome to headliners i'm nick dixon, taking you through tomorrow's top stories for the next hour, and i'm joined by headliners ogs leo kearse and josh howie. it's ukraine versus israel . just came ukraine versus israel. just came up with that in ukraine one last night in the boxing. yeah they did not many israeli boxers. they prefer the older invasion. sorry. >> just staring at me blankly . i >> just staring at me blankly. i just thought yeah he deserved the win though i was. i watched it with mates. it was great. brilliant. it was. it was one of those boxing matches that because most boxing matches are rubbish these days and it was really exciting. he is good. i am a biggest tyson fury fan, probably in the world, probably even more than his dad. >> so i was gutted and i did cry, but uzuki's my second
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favourite, you know, tyson fury heckled me . heckled me. >> did he.7 >> did he? >> yeah, he was a comedy store, manchester, and he stood up when i came on stage. he he just stood up and walked out and his, one of his underlings went, don't say a word . but i stood don't say a word. but i stood there for ten minutes and i didn't say anything. i just got funnier and funnier. it's like, guys, what do you want me to do? tyson fury said, i've lost anything, i can't. i wish i could help you. >> so what you're saying is you were backing usyk, but yeah, i mean, when tyson fury walks out, he's nearly seven foot. that's one of the most conspicuous. and he's famous. everybody just shut off. it's the worst walk out even off. it's the worst walk out ever. okay. all right. well let's have a quick look at the front pages then. so the telegraph goes with pms horror and regret over blood scandal. the express has least we can do apology to blood scandal victims. the guardian iranian president feared dead after helicopter crash. the times labour plan for gender change to be made easier. the ai revolutionary ai trial offers breast cancer for hope millions on nhs, reveals sunak. and finally, the daily star. and now it's finally, the daily star. and now wsfime finally, the daily star. and now
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it's time for the better forecast, which is about weather. and they've also got a story about man city, unfortunately winning. and those were the front pages. so what are the guardian going with? >> so the guardian lead with iranian president feared dead after helicopter crash. of course a lot of guardian readers will fear that he's dead . will fear that he's dead. >> a lot of iranians are hoping that he's dead. they're already setting off fireworks , and it setting off fireworks, and it looks like something has happened to him. >> it looks like he might not be coming back. >> so the helicopter crashed in a fog covered mountainside. >> there's a search and rescue thing , meshing >> there's a search and rescue thing, meshing going on right now, but there's mixed messages coming from them. so one official said that at least one passenger and one crew member had been in contact with rescuers and other, people. so the iranian red crescent rescuers later said that no helicopter had been found. so is it a coup? is it israel taking revenge? is it just a crash , i revenge? is it just a crash, i have exclusive information on this. i, spoke to some contacts
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of mine earlier within mossad and we, the jewish people and israel, are arranged for the mountain to be put there. and the fog. yeah because that's what i've been reading on twitter. >> yeah. and that's what, like, that's what israel does. >> that's what we do. that's what we do. we put them out in there. we arrange for the fog mission successful. >> yeah. i mean helicopters, even when you don't have conspiracies like that, that definitely happen. helicopters aren't that safe, are they? i'm starting to think famous people still die on them all the time. >> kobe bryant yeah, yeah yeah yeah, lots of people though. there's the guy who owned the leicester city. yeah, yeah . leicester city. yeah, yeah. >> no. normally these kind of news you think oh this is , you news you think oh this is, you know, a human being, the loss of life. this guy his nickname was the butcher of tehran. yeah. when he was younger in the islamic revolution, he was responsible for, you know, hundreds of thousands of deaths of people being hung. but he didn't have a team . this was not didn't have a team. this was not a good guy. >> he didn't have a chain of butcher shops. yeah yeah. well, he was called it. yeah. terrible quy- he was called it. yeah. terrible guy. and also he was he's a
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hardliner. he's expected to replace ayatollah khomeini , replace ayatollah khomeini, who's also not a great guy and is 85 years old. and this, you know, iran as they saw protests after the killing of mahsa amini, you know, a girl was was killed for, for not wearing a headscarf, which for some reason, a lot of people on the left want to replicate in this country. but, but iran's been in turmoil , and country. but, but iran's been in turmoil, and this could be something that precipitates it over the over the edge and, you know, possibly into free society. >> oh, it could go start world war iii. yeah, it's one or the other. it could be good news. >> be happy with that. both are good news. >> yeah. lastly, does he actually have any power? because obviously khamenei is the ayatollah. i mean, does the president, if he was being groomed as his replacement? >> and also this is a foreign secretary, i believe, and various other people. so but we still don't even know have any confirmation of it. but i know that there are lots of iranians out there around the world. i believe they're celebrating in front of the iranian embassy right now. yeah, they are very happy about this. >> yeah. all right. well, what about the times, then? josh oh, god. not such good news, labour plan for gender change to be
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made easier, just when you kind of hope as our next most likely government kind of gets it on certain issues, they come up with stuff like this to appease to. and this is the thing is, i don't think i don't know who they think they're appeasing to on this kind of thing because they're basically saying that this, this, it's not self id like the snp were putting through necessarily, where someone could just declare that they're a woman or a man and have the full rights of the law behind them. but they would now need one person instead of a panel of people and possibly a gp now gps their general practice. they don't have specific necessary information about this mental health condition, which is what it is . condition, which is what it is. and the reason why there is a panel of people is it's a safeguarding issue to protect the people who are changing gender themselves. so those people , because a lot of them people, because a lot of them there's been there's a very high incidence of, neurodiversity , incidence of, neurodiversity, and confusion also , trauma from and confusion also, trauma from their past. and it's to make sure that that person is really
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wants to go out. just being able to get one person to just kind of sign it off is essentially still self id. >> yeah. and as you say, it's not really going to win them any votes surely. i mean it's so against the public mood on this issue isn't it. i mean is starmerjust gonna have to deal with these this mad left of his party? >> oh, this is great news for women like me. i think this is josh says it's a mental health condition. it's not at all. i was born in the wrong body, josh. right. i know as a woman. no, i identify as a woman. i don't conform to traditional, you know, stereotypes of what a woman looks like. because, you know, i'm progressive, but i am a woman. and keir starmer. >> i can tell you why. because of the beard. that's how i know now, these days, like most feminists, i've got a beard. >> but yeah, this is labour are rolling back the restrictions. just when, you know, the government we've got now, which, you know, it's not the most conservative of conservative governments, but they did you know, they had the cash review and, they put some restrictions. they've rolled back the idea of, you know, transitioning children and drugging them and maiming them and sterilising them, which, you know, i don't know. i mean, i don't mind if liberals do it to their children, but,
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you know, so, so why not do it? and putting male rapists in prisons, i think putting male rapists in female prisons, it adds an extra layer of jeopardy. you're definitely going to pay your tv licence as a woman. if your tv licence as a woman. if you if you think you might be going to jail with somebody, you know, who's a male rapist, that's certainly one view. >> i mean, i'm just concerned labour are going to do nothing about all the actual problems like immigration and so on, and they're actually just going to tinker around and do even worse woke stuff like this. i mean, it has to be said, this isn't official policy, it's something they're investigating and all of that stuff, but you just would hope that they would just start to get it. >> yeah. and it's just like every time just get just govern the country. well, stop with this ridiculous stuff. yeah, yeah, yeah. >> all right. well, what about the telegraph, leo, so the telegraph have . well, they've telegraph have. well, they've got a mention of the prime minister's horror and regret over the blood scandal, which, i mean, it's shocking. that's a scandal that went on so long and shows that, you know, you can't always trust what governments tell you. if they say that, you know, this thing that's going into your arm is good for you, sometimes it's not. but anyway,
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there's an analogy there. >> i think in more modern terms, couldn't possibly speculative, i thought, i thought it would be conspiracy. did you not know that you were doing that? >> no. no idea. but yeah, the other story is that protest groups, this is a bit of good news. protest groups could be forced to pay compensation for disruption. so this is if an individual, business or institution can show that they endured loss , distress or endured loss, distress or suffering from an illegal protest, which is the just stop oil ones, they could be entitled to court order compensation from activists . so this isn't a activists. so this isn't a restriction on civil liberties. this is illegal protests . and, this is illegal protests. and, you know, it's wrong that, you know, small businesses and bystanders should have to bear the cost of it. and also just stop oil can afford it. they're all really posh. they're all called like phoebe and trixibelle and things like that. and also they're backed by a millionaire energy baron. so just a boiler basically sort of street militia for, for a green energy baron who wants everybody to use his green energy instead of, instead of using energy generated from fossil fuels or whatever. so, you know , whatever. so, you know, obviously he's got a he's got an incentive, he's making money off
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it. he's got an incentive to in case that's libellous. >> those are leo's views and they're satirical. josh, what do you think? >> yeah, i think it's a good idea. i think you know what you want to. they're not going to jail . most of want to. they're not going to jail. most of them. i don't think it. has anybody ever been to jail? i don't know, i think they're kind of. there's not even any jail spaces for them anyway, but they, you know, hit them in the pocket and they might think twice about this stuff. and also, i don't think just people like drivers. i think people, you know, there are those those guys who are standing on the tube, people couldn't get to work. i think if people are losing money from shifts, i think they should be able to directly go, you cause me a £50 that day, i want it. yeah, i think that's totally fair . okay. fair. okay. >> very briefly. should we look at the star and this annoying man city win and it's going to be hot or something, yeah . there be hot or something, yeah. there was some football club. did something . something. >> yeah, that's called a goal anyway. >> and, but yeah, but but the much more important news is that summer might be here. it's going to be for half term, it's going to be for half term, it's going to be for half term, it's going to be hottest mate in 150 years. they're saying. and, i don't know, it's just exciting. it
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felt like a long winter. it feels like. it's like you get like two hot days and then it goes back again . and i just want goes back again. and i just want to put my winter stuff away. it's just clogging up the hallway. yeah. >> sun kills me, so i don't i don't elianne it. but what do you think, leo? i don't know how you think, leo? i don't know how you can have an opinion on the sun, but i'm going to. i'm going to anyway for balance. give us some balance on the weather. >> well, they always say. i mean, i've seen people on twitter saying, oh, this is evidence of climate change. we're going to have the hottest me in 150 years. well, if it's climate change now, why was it so hot 150 years ago? great point. >> all right. that's the front pages dealt with. but coming up, why immigration is increasing your rent. what happened to the black lives matter? millions. and will trump give himself a third term? many
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soon. welcome back. i'm nate dixon, still here with headliners. legends leo kearse and josh howie. and leo is laughing at her. but it's absolutely true. let's do the telegraph then. and
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when they said immigration enriches us it turns out they were talking about landlords. leo yeah, yeah. >> so record immigration is behind a third of rent rises. so in two the years to june 2023, immigration led to an additional 430,000 households needing to privately rent homes. and this means that rents have climbed 11% higher than they would otherwise. otherwise have been, according to capital economics. so they have risen over the last three years. they've risen by 30, and 11% of that is due to immigration. they've calculated, and this is in stark contrast to the previous decade, where rents actually climbed at a slightly lower rate than wage , increases. lower rate than wage, increases. so 26. so in just a few years, as we've seen this huge surge in immigration, we've had no net migration of, i think around about 730,000 a year. so and people say, oh, but it doesn't it doesn't affect any. there's no extra pressure on public services or housing or anything. it's like, are you mental?
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people aren't bringing a semi—detached house with them when they come across the channel are on those dinghies. >> but you know what? and everyone always says, oh, it's just we haven't built enough. but obviously, as someone says here, no, it's both. we haven't built enough and we've brought in loads of people. yeah. and we were told it's for economic growth. and then we learn hang on, rents go up. it's not really proven that it actually does grow the economy. it sets in terms of gdp, which is meaningless if gdp per capita goes down. yeah. so i'm saying what was the point of all this immigration josh. >> well, there's a few things here. it makes a just a jump where it says and that's why this is happening, whereas it doesn't actually prove that at all because i read an article, the other a few days ago, which basically said that the reason for the rent increases was because they hadn't got a hold of the mortgages. first of all, was a big part of the increase of mortgages . and so people were of mortgages. and so people were selling houses and there was less profit for them to squeeze up. so they were increasing the rent on that, but also because the tory government hadn't put through all these policies to help stabilise the market. so i'm not saying that immigration
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isn't a part of it, but it just in terms of it's sort of proving something. it doesn't actually prove it. it just kind of at one point it just goes. and that's because of that. and it doesn't actually really get into the proof that it has . it actually really get into the proof that it has. it just has a correlation between it. it just goes there's an increase of numbers. there's increases. but the point is that there are other factors that come into play. one of them being housebuilding. there are other there are other factors. >> they just say people say, oh, we're not building enough houses. i mean, maybe we don't need more houses, maybe we just need more houses, maybe we just need fewer people. and, you know, the population is stabilising. >> i don't think we need to isn't saying it's behind a third of rent rises implying that there are other factors . there are other factors. >> yeah. no, it does, but those other factors is already dealt with it. they basically saying the other two thirds were increases because of wages. like it always increases anyway because of the increase, because the two are tied together. because as you said, so the two thirds were about wages. they're saying that leave the 11% is just about immigration. and i'm saying it doesn't factor in at all. no, they do these other factors. >> they don't just, say it's due
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to wage increases because because wages didn't increase that much. so. well, they did they actually they increased what, this is nearly double the seven. >> so normally, as you said, they , they increase in rent they, they increase in rent mirrors pretty much exactly the increase in wages. right. so increase in wages. right. so increase in wages were only 17% account not accounting for the rest of the percentage. >> but that's because of immigration. >> well it's not because of immigration is because of these other factors as well. i'm not saying it's not a factor. of course it's a factor. i'm just saying it makes this big jump here. >> just seems it's like saying, oh, look, 430,000 people want to buy this mars bar, but the price of that mars bar isn't going to go up. and there's enough of that mars bar to go around. it's obviously. >> but also so many more people of them rent, 80% of them come in and they don't let them get given houses by the government. >> so we want to do two on this, but what are the good things that make it worthwhile to rent going up? if you could make the case for me, but i'm seeing a lot of negatives with immigration, you know what i mean? i'm not seeing all these.
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>> so basically, a lot of economists say that our economy is like a ponzi scheme and because we've got an ageing population, we need to bring people in at the bottom to sustain these people. and, you know, a low birth rate. and yeah, we've got a low birth rate as well. so we've got a top heavy population that are needing a lot of care, and they're going to be dropping out of the workforce. however, we're bringing a lot of people in, not at the bottom where they're going to work and sustain the economy. we're bringing them in at the top where they need to be sustained by the economy, and they're bringing, you know, dependents and things like that. so we can't even get a basic ponzi scheme. right. >> all right. well, we've got to move on. let's do the telegraph and a former leader of the scottish greens has suggested the party should try a new strategy called not being totally mental. josh? >> yeah, it'd be a good idea. scottish greens expelled 13 members for declaring that sex is a biological reality. and this is robin harper, the party's first parallel parliamentarian. and he said that it was an utterly laughable decision. and he says that there should be, i hope it's a he, you don't know that. that would be ironic for the name , there'd be, ironic for the name, there'd be, he wants a. or she wants a no confidence vote in the leadership. so what these 13
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members said was that biological women, they're entitled to sex based rights and protections. and they expressed concern that gender critical views were being silenced right now , those are silenced right now, those are two facts. they're laid out as facts . and the to then expel facts. and the to then expel people for that. and what the green party have said is that it's bigotry and, that they have a right. their statement at the end was the most stupid thing even end was the most stupid thing ever. next month is pride month. yeah. and then there's pride month after that. and then the other pride month. there's about five prime months out there. and we stand in solidarity with the lgbt, q plus community now and forever . forever. >> i don't understand who this is, one who this is appealing to, and two, what the link is between being green and all this gender stuff. the cis people emit more carbon or something i don't understand. >> well, the weird thing is the green party just seems to be, a cloak that any activist can wear. we've seen , we've seen wear. we've seen, we've seen islamists, you know, stand as green. green party candidates. now we're seeing gender ideologists , you know, be
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ideologists, you know, be driving, driving their, driving the thing . and, you know, and to the thing. and, you know, and to be honest, gender ideology, because of all the surgery, it puts a lot more plastic in the environment. so it's actually a not not very green thing to do. but basically they've expelled people for blasphemy. so they've questioned the, the current, you know, the current religion of gender ideology by saying sex is a biological reality and leo is a biological reality and leo is a woman just because he says he's a woman. i am a woman, i'm a real woman. keir starmer says. so, and we've seen this with other things, you know, with migration status. you know, josh was just questioning basic economic theory when it comes to how house prices and rent increases, climate change as well. you can't you can't question that at all. critical race theory, anything that contradicts that is slammed as racist and incorrect. so yeah, we're basically seeing the return of blasphemy laws and all. >> like you say, the green party is a weird sort of skin suit for woke views. >> well, they become the party of cranks basically. yeah, a lot of cranks basically. yeah, a lot of them have been kicked out of laboun of them have been kicked out of labour. aren't welcome there because of their anti—semitism. and there are a lot of them have
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gone to greens basically. >> imagine how cranky you have to be to be kicked out of the greens. that's the next level. there's nowhere left to go after that. all right, let's do the times. and they're asking, where did the black lives matter millions go. good to see mainstream media getting on this scandal just four years later. yeah. >> so yeah, this is, basically somebody went to, minneapolis to, you know, interview people and find out, you know, all these all these organisations that are set up and, you know, funded people gave donations. also corporations, the washington post estimates that $50 billion was pledged by giant corporate donors, over the last few years, mega funders like george soros, who dropped $220 million into fancy non—profits and a lot of ordinary people sent in small donations. so where did all this money go ? i where did all this money go? i mean, people, small organisations were raising insane amounts of money just through qr codes, sticking them up on posters and, on the internet, on social media, and getting huge amounts of money. where did it go? well, we can see that, you know, quite a lot of it got spent on fun stuff for the organisers. so i mean , the organisers. so i mean,
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patrice cullors, the founder of black lives matter, was we know that she bought, or black lives matter on her behalf. bought this luxury villa, that, you know , then she's like, oh, we're know, then she's like, oh, we're going to use it for, you know, community workshops or whatever. yeah. that and living in and also her, her, her, brother's business. business got paid nearly $1 million. security and her, her baby daddy got paid nearly $1 million to provide creative consultants. >> i'm thinking about joining josh. what do you think? >> yeah, well, as you said, really at the top here finally , really at the top here finally, journalists are looking into this, and it's ridiculous that this, and it's ridiculous that this, this, this amount of money hasn't really been explored because when they did say, hey, what have you done with this money? of course, what she said was, basically you're being massively racist. how dare you? >> you're racist . look over >> you're racist. look over there. yeah, essentially. >> and then some people were like, okay, yeah, sorry, we didn't mean to question you. so the figures that have been raised are are astounding. and yeah, as some of the stuff is
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just mental like and multi—million pound homes , multi—million pound homes, dollar homes and, they act but but it did lead in california to them being banned for soliciting because essentially they couldn't prove they're saying that. now, i don't know if america has the same kind of thing we have over here. the charity commission, where they can investigate and they can then penalise or take away charity status. i don't know if america exactly has that , but america exactly has that, but it's clear that this is a massive con and it isn't wasn't just black lives matter. it went to a lot of different groups. and the sad thing is that that, that, that when this journalist went into these communities in minnesota, they that money never went to actually where it could have done some genuine good and it went to people who just kind of had these flashy qr codes and they've disappeared into nothingness. >> but it's good. so the money got spent on having fun instead of like it would have just been like annoying community projects to create more racism. >> what? they're really not ready for better people's lives. they're still calling it the killing of george floyd. many people think he died of an od. that's the next level. they're not ready for. i want to see
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this black lives matter money go to derek chauvin, in prison. that's the next level. but just a little joke or is it true? let's do the independent and the archbishop of canterbury has actually said something about christianity for once. just kidding. he's sticking his nose into politics again. josh howie. >> yeah. wes streeting defends the archbishop of canterbury's attack on the two child benefit cap. and he says it's literally his job. and i think there are two stories here. one is obviously talking about this two child benefit cap. and i understand the arguments for it either way. but the reality is that normal families are losing out on about £60 a week. and i think for the particularly for the low income that that makes a real impact on them. we are we've talked about immigration. we need a population from somewhere. if we're not encouraging people to have kids, then this this is a problem. so either way that has to be dealt with. but the real part of the story is, of course, i'm not a fan of the archbishop of canterbury, but i do think at the same time wes streeting is right. like that's that's his job is to virtue signalling. i, i think he's oversteps and steps into things that aren't his within his remit. but i think
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this is and i think he should be able to talk just pick up on one thing. >> wes streeting as you said, said it's his job to signal virtually. no, no, it's his job to actually embody virtue, not just virtue. signal leo. yeah. no. is there a difference? >> i'd agree with that. >> i'd agree with that. >> i'd agree with that. >> i hope so, yeah , but i agree >> i hope so, yeah, but i agree with josh as well. >> and i think, you know, child benefit. you know, we do need more more kids. we need more kids in this country. and also we should give child benefit to everybody. i think it's means tested. give it to everybody we want. we want middle class people to have more kids. they're the people who should be having kids. the kids are going to be smart and get good jobs and be well behaved and stuff. no offence to, you know, the people i grew up with, but, we need to incentivise, birth rates. >> definitely. but we also have problem with immigration, with people coming over just immediately claiming benefits. you don't contribute. so that's the other problem. >> oh yeah. oh. so yeah. >> oh yeah. oh. so yeah. >> well they don't they can't solve them. can't immediately claim can't claim benefits. >> but yeah, immediately i need to check that if people come over they immediately get put in a hotel. >> they don't get given a for bill that hotel. so, so yeah. no, i think if we had some sort of system, like having a lot of
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european countries where you can't claim any benefits from the state for, for several. yeah. >> that's right. >> that's right. >> we have something like that. that's exactly what we have. yeah. we do. okay. >> well i'll check my facts instead of just empty rhetoric. thatisit instead of just empty rhetoric. that is it for that section. but coming up why
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welcome back to headliners let's crack on with the guardian. and trump hints that he might do three term's. presumably he doesn't mean in jail. leo. >> yeah . so trump floats. that's >> yeah. so trump floats. that's not the headline. i'm sure he does float, but trump floats. theidea does float, but trump floats. the idea of three term presidency at the nra. the national rifle association convention, so this he said this is a quote from him , you know, is a quote from him, you know, fdr, franklin roosevelt , govern fdr, franklin roosevelt, govern for 16 years, almost 16 years. he was four terms, i don't know, are we going to be considered three term or two term? the ex—president and republican presidential frontrunner said to the organisation's annual
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convention in dallas, prompting some in the crowd to yell, three political reported. so after fdr served his four terms, they did actually change the 22nd amendment that was passed in 1947. that mean you can only serve two, two terms. but i think the guardian is like, you know, is it clear violation of the us constitution? he's just saying it. he's just he says all kinds of stuff. he doesn't mean it. >> he's trying to get a reaction, which he's got. and as you say, the only thing that annoys me is they're always saying, oh, trump's going to stay in and just do more terms. yeah the only one that's ever done it, as you say, is roosevelt, who's a democrat. so it's a bit of projection. >> yeah. but he was that was legally allowed different times. >> yeah. but the only thing about this is i watched the clip and he says, will we be considered three term if we win? and so i wonder if he meant it sounded like he said if we win, he was mumbling it slightly. i think he might have meant the biden term's just another trump term that doesn't count. so the 2024 will be the third term? i don't know, that was one theory. what do you think, josh?
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>> yeah, i mean, that, part of the constitution is the biggest offence that they have against strongmen politics and against fascism within their own country. so it's it would be obviously incredibly hard to overcome. and, but he's old. he's he's he's 77, 77. i mean, i don't know if he'd even want to don't know if he'd even want to do a third term, but of course he wants to appeal to his base and the adulation. it's weird that he was at the nra because it seems to me like a not a massive vote winner because supposedly he's saying like, hey, you guys don't vote, but you should go out and vote. and also, only 12% of americans believe gun laws should be loosened. so it's not it's not a massive vote winner. i don't think it's going to get it's going to of course, it's going to appeal to his core, but it's he's already got his core. >> so why to get on with people who own a lot of guns. that's that's one of my, my side. is it all right for the coming civil war? >> and then, of course, he'll be able to serve as many terms as he wants as emperor. >> exactly. i look forward to three big, beautiful terms. but let's do the mail. and working age men don't want jobs. is that because they've been relentlessly beaten down by a society that despises them, or are they just lazy? >> leo yeah, a bit of both, i
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think so the number of working age males saying they don't want age males saying they don't want a job is soared by 600,000 people since to covid 3.1 million in total. the number of women saying they do not want a job has been far more stable, fluctuating between 4 and 4.5 million. so women are consistently lazy, but men are increasingly lazy . and why is increasingly lazy. and why is it? i mean, i guess because, you know, you get a job for status , know, you get a job for status, but you don't need that. you just send some virtue signalling tweets and get status. that way people get a job to get a woman. or to get some, you know, to be more attractive to women. >> and i think they kind of some people i'm not okay. yeah. find
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me. all right. me yeah. all right . but me. all right. me yeah. all right. but you me. all right. me yeah. all right . but you just me. all right. me yeah. all right. but you just kind of me. all right. me yeah. all right . but you just kind of go. right. but you just kind of go. wait, what's all that about? the moment you step off the rat race, you're like, what am i doing? why am i killing myself for this? when you doesn't mean it's meaningless. >> meaning you're in trouble. >> meaning you're in trouble. >> yeah. and people do look to their office job. not even their office job. even like comedy. i was like, why am i stressing about this club here and doing this and that? and you step off it and you're like this, this, this is mental. my reality . this is mental. my reality. >> you realise you can just give increasingly right wing opinions on tv and now you're all right. no comment. that's a good ending . let's do the mail. and the good news is muslim teenagers are showing an interest in history. the slight downside, the slight downside is that they're being radicalised by hitler. josh. >> well , the thing is this >> well, the thing is this anything new it isn't is the thing. that's what's interesting about this mail article. dozens of muslim teenagers sent to government's anti—terror program after being radicalised by nazi propaganda that celebrates adolf hitler's genocide of jews. now, what they don't know is that there's been a long term connection between arabs and,
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and, and, and muslims, islamists, going back to world war two, where you've got a photo, a famous photo of the grand mufti of jerusalem sitting next to hitler. there was like an arab special nazi division who was trying to trying to kill jews behind enemy lines in the british mandate of palestine. and, and mein kampf is like on sale at newsstands all across the middle east. it's like a perennial bestseller. they love hitler and, you know, holocaust denial. and so, so what's interesting about this is you have a bunch of teachers looking at this is how from the prevent program, and they're seeing this nazi propaganda this far right propaganda on these muslim kids phones. and they're going and they and what's amazing to me is that they're going , oh, this that they're going, oh, this doesn't make any sense, because this how could this child like hitler and look at the coloured skin and their ethnicity or whatever it is, and it's like, how are you? so ignorant of the fact? and so they're sending them in and then preventing
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going, oh wow, look at this. it turns out there's a massive connection here that everybody else is known about for years on end, and even used to be the term islamofascism was, was attempted to be popularised by the new atheist and people like that because this link was well established between the more extreme elements of islam and wahhabi islam is and the far right. >> it's not particularly new. as josh says . josh says. >> yeah, absolutely. you see, you know, a lot of left wing organisations that say, you know, they ostensibly work to combat hate and intolerance and fascism and nazis and stuff. they completely leave , they completely leave, islamofascism alone because they're scared of being called racist by other far leftists. so, yeah, it's ridiculous. and we've seen this, you know, in germany they have the problem as well. they took in, you know, so many, muslim refugees and now they've got youths doing , doing they've got youths doing, doing hitler salutes and, you know, that's obviously a bit of a no no in germany. yeah. >> i mean, the thing is that sometimes, you know, i'm online, i'm getting abused all day, every day. and genuinely, i don't know where this stuff is coming from. like, it's everyone, but it's like, no, the whole horseshoe theory . and it's
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whole horseshoe theory. and it's just like. but you're like, you see the palestinian flag, you're like, is this guy a far right far? you know, i've had nick griffin from the former bnp tweeting me whatever support young islamists. it's insane. it's absolutely insane . but the it's absolutely insane. but the allyship between them is what they hate jews. >> and they also agree on a lot of stuff about, you know, let's say social conservatives hating jews. no. >> and homophobia and homophobia i >>i -- >> i know lam >> i know i'm trying to like, help them out here, trying to get balance, guys, all right, let's do the guardians. get balance, guys, all right, let's do the guardians . and let's do the guardians. and speaking of germans, a german actor says the uk are being too protective of child actors. another good reason for not taking our moral cues from germany . leo. yes. germany. leo. yes. >> so this is, protecting children generally a good thing. he's frank rogowski. he's the acclaimed german actor who plays acclaimed german actor who plays a key role in brd, which is, british director's contender for the top palme d'or prize . i the top palme d'or prize. i don't know why they named it after a shampoo. he said this weekend that the proliferation of chaperones and intimacy coordinators that had been required on the shoot on location in kent, qualified as well—intended madness. so this
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is for, you know, child stars and, well, women as well to protect them and make sure that sex scenes aren't exploitative and not sex scenes with kids. yeah. to complain about this. like this guy needs his hard drive. check. that's that's like, obviously, i don't know. >> i'm not sure if we can legally say that, but it's definitely a red flag. definitely. >> well, i think what he was actually talking about was swearing. he was basically saying like, it seems like on set, they wanted to swear and they couldn't, or he can't even swear in front of kids. >> this guy is completely correct. you should, of course, you should be allowed to assume like protect. so protective culture for child actors and assume that's that's what it's aboutisit assume that's that's what it's about is it not? is it just swearing about. >> that's what he the example he used is about saying he's not talking about sex. he's he's talking about sex. he's he's talking about sex. he's he's talking about swearing. and it sort of got conflated intimacy. >> what's an intimacy coordinator for swearing? >> no, an intimacy coordinator. but i think they're talking about the general culture of it. but but no, because there's another actor who is saying that we need more intimacy coordinators , but she's talking coordinators, but she's talking about sex. so the two are sort of cross wiring . yeah. of cross wiring. yeah. >> let's just shut down the movie industry. it's all well, i think let's get i children or
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get little people like the ewoks or whatever, and make them so we won't see any children on screen, and they receive the most offensive thing. you said there was ewoks because it's ewoks, and i was offended by that. but let's quickly do the mail. and half of brits say businesses are too politically correct. the other half, presumably by the guardian. josh does anybody buy the guardian? >> no backlash at woke businesses . half of brits say businesses. half of brits say firms to please correct. as kemi badenoch tells them to focus on customers instead of diversity initiatives. so this was a study that found a whole bunch of things as researched by deltapoll for the policy exchange think tank. deltapoll for the policy exchange think tank . and yeah, exchange think tank. and yeah, they think that 75% of people of companies should hire on merit, which means that 25% of people think that people should be hired because of their ethnicity, which is arguably racist. and we have seen this in the, in the, our own industry in comedy , where third of brits comedy, where third of brits believe that someone in their workplace has been hired or promoted to meet diversity and inclusion objectives. now i would say that within the comedy world, now , pretty much
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world, now, pretty much everybody, even the people who were hired because of their ethnicity or sex, would would go, yeah, that's basically that's true . there's no i don't that's true. there's no i don't see any who would not say that. >> well, i've gotten a lot of trouble for saying, well, no, you were you did say that. >> but you said it. you were too ahead of your time. >> i was yeah, yeah. and they piled on me as well. >> that's the reality. but but the reason why i use comedy, not just because it's the thing that are sort of. that's where we all come from, that world. it's because comedy at its purest is a meritocracy, because it's the one meritocracy, which is basically you've got an audience, they're laughing or they're not. you're laughing, they're not. you're laughing, they're laughing , you're doing they're laughing, you're doing yourjob or they're not. and your job or they're not. and it's very easy to see where that meritocracy fails. and if you want to go to some comedy clubs around the uk, which are now hiring according to diversity as opposed to who's funny, and you will have a terrible night out and you'll be like tyson fury, your gig. >> leo, in the corporate world as well, there's under the scenes, corporations will make a big fuss about die on the
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surface. >> but behind the scenes in the real world, i was talking to a friend who was interviewing for pretty senior level jobs, i won't say who it is, but they were saying, if anybody mentions die or any of this, you know, this woke stuff, it's an immediate red flag because they know they're going to be an absolute nightmare to manage. they're going to complain about all kinds of stuff. they're going to want days off. they're going to want days off. they're going to want days off. they're going to have a, you know, what do you call it, a quaintance hamster to bring in. oh, emotional support, emotional support , alligator. support, alligator. >> i mean, we let lewis have one, but he's special. all right. we should speak about jonathan like that. >> he's a human being. >> he's a human being. >> he. let's do the breakdown. that's it for part three. but coming up in the final section, stephen merchant says comedians are becoming stifled. tiktok encourages kids to read, and the new trendy holiday destination is afghanistan.
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soon. welcome back to headliners. let's get into it with the
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telegraph. and stephen merchant is the latest person to point out that woke is destroying comedy. leo. >> yeah. so comedians can't experiment because of sensitivities of younger people, says stephen. stephen merchant. he described comedians fear of offending people as a straitjacket that has suppressed creativity. well, welcome to my world, stephen. >> i can't even do a years late. >>— >> i can't even do a years late. >> i can't even do a years late. >> i can't even do a tour. like they couldn't get enough venues because so many people, oh my god, it's too problematic . god, it's too problematic. >> there wasn't enough demand, was it? the it was the venue. >> no, it was the venue. i mean, it was, it wasn't. it was the, promotion. promotion company that to do the tour, so they thought there was demand. anyway the 49 year old, that's that's, stephen merchant said he noticed the change after returning to doing stand up comedy in pubs and other small venues, he says he's noticed that you're more cautious because you don't want to spend weeks on twitter trying to spend weeks on twitter trying to justify a joke you're just experimenting with. that's the thing. like comedians have got to be able to offend, because you've got to crash the car to see how fast you can drive it with jokes, you know what i mean? and also, people want is a bit like a car crash people.
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>> so sorry. >> so sorry. >> people want to want to get offended, you know, they go to comedy clubs to. it used to be people used to enjoy being offended. now they get upset about it. somebody wrote a complaint email to a club that i used to perform a solo show every month at, and they said, you know, we can't see leo kyrees show in july. and it was horrific and offensive. and then we came back to see it again in october, and it's still horrific and offensive. can you please stop putting it on? it's like, why don't you go and see somebody else instead? >> yeah, that's what you do. the only thing that bothered me, josh, was, he said rightly criticises this, this, culture of sensitivity. but then he says he has no objection to the sand shifting and people should be allowed to criticise and query things. it's a little bit of a cop out because wokeness is not about critical thought. it's about critical thought. it's about brutally showing people down. no no, but i think you could still be able to criticise stuff without going too far. >> the point is that when it goes too far, it becomes shutting down and cancellation, which the left pretend doesn't exist. the bit that's i wouldn't say annoyed me. here was when he says that he believes the left who are policing. so it's the left who are policing comedy now. and when we were growing up , it was the right who were
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policing comedy and the mary whitehouse and whatnot. but he said the allowing the right to become the arbiters of free speech. but, you know, andrew doyle is not right wing. he's written a book about free speech. i'm not right wing. yeah, but but the point is, there are people who, across the political spectrum who are fighting for free speech and, andifs fighting for free speech and, and it's and it's slightly annoying. he's he's right as a general trend. >> it's the word left. it's not the liberal left. yes. >> and that's just be let's call it clearly what it is. >> okay. all right. well let's do the mail. and afghanistan is the new hip holiday destination. just be careful if you're a woman sunbathing by the pool, because you might be taken away in a van. josh? yeah? >> wish you were here. taliban launches afghanistan as a houday launches afghanistan as a holiday destination, and, yeah, they've got 7000 foreign tourists visiting a year, afghans say the taliban are saying, look, you can come along if you're a woman. and as long as you've got a male escort, like, and this woman in the article was like, yeah, i went and it was great. i mean, yeah,
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obviously the local women are all covered up and can't go to school and terrible for them. but hey, i got a tan. >> so they say everyone is treated equally. yeah. really? yeah. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> it's ridiculous, but it's a good opportunity to see some of the statues and things before the statues and things before the taliban blow them up. yeah, it's true. and it's good for maybe islamists. a good holiday for them. yeah. they want to go there and fit in. yeah >> the foreign office says it's a bad idea to go, though , so no. a bad idea to go, though, so no. >> okay. good advice for the people at home. let's do the mail then. and tiktok is helping children to read more, which is like your heroin dealer helping you go on a detox. yeah. don't say that because you're scottish. >> yeah, well i was i was surprised to learn this. so apparently tiktok has become the social media platform where books are really popular. it can make or break authors. it has launched a drive to get children reading after a survey revealed that less than 3 in 10 children read every day. i'd have thought it was. it would be less than that, to be honest, so they've, cereal boxes don't count. yeah. they're gonna they're going to launch bookshelves in 11 cities around the world, in collaboration with the national literacy trust. so this could be, possibly tiktok trying to
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stop themselves getting banned because people, you know, a lot of politicians have said, you know, this is digital fentanyl . know, this is digital fentanyl. we need to ban it. >> we've got 11 bookshelves out. yeah >> booktok. it's called what do you think, josh? >> look, anything that encouraged people to read. but i'm trying to get my kids to read and it's an absolute nightmare. and the most of the success. so they're talking about here, it seems to be with young women basically. that's just going the girls guide to murder series and various other books. murder series and various other books . they sound like some books. they sound like some steamy scenes and sarcastic dragons and some other book that sounds like a sounds like a girls, but that's fine. but we also have to get boys to read. all right, well, in 30s, let's do this one in the mirror. >> and a man has become ten years younger after spending 93 days in a pod at the bottom of the ocean, someone please tell louis schaefer about this. josh? yeah. that's it. >> yeah. so that's exactly it. he spent this, 93 days bottom of the atlantic. joseph josh howie, andifs the atlantic. joseph josh howie, and it's made him ten years younger. his cells, the ends of his chromosomes have, which normally shrink. they've actually become 20% longer. so, his his sleep is better. his cholesterol levels, like, plummeted, his inflammatory
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markers, whatever they are, they're slashed in half. so basically, it's an amazing thing to do, but it's. which is like the bromwich chambers , which the bromwich chambers, which rich people are like michael jackson. he had one of those. >> okay, we got to go. sorry leo. we got to go. show's pretty much over. thanks. i really want to talk about a look at the monday's front pages. so the telegraph has pms horror and regret over blood scandal. the express has least we can do. apology to blood scandal victims . the guardian iranian president feared dead after helicopter crash . the times labour plan for crash. the times labour plan for gender change to be made easier. the ai revolutionary ai trial offers breast cancer hope for millions on nhs, reveals sunak. and finally, the daily star. and now it's time for a better forecast. and those are the front pages that is it. thanks to leo and josh. headlines is back tomorrow at 11 pm. if you're watching at 5 am, then of course, stay tuned for breakfast. but for now it's good night all. good morning and god bless. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on gb news.
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story of the night that the iranian president and foreign minister are missing after their helicopter crashed in the mountains in the north of the country this afternoon. ibrahim rac was travelling in a convoy of three aircraft following a visit to azerbaijan when it went down. the area of the crash site is now covered in severe fog. we understand which is causing trouble for the search and rescue efforts there in the last houn rescue efforts there in the last hour, though there have been conflicting reports, with some suggesting the president's crashed helicopter has been found, state tv telling the reuters news agency it was discovered in the last hour by search and rescue teams. moments later, though, iran's red crescent denied those reports . crescent denied those reports. meanwhile, in the uk, the families of those affected by the infected blood scandal have been holding a vigil this evening ahead of an independent inquiry's final report due out tomorrow. the scandal had been the subject of the biggest ever pubuc the subject of the biggest ever public inquiry in the uk , after public inquiry in the uk, after tens of thousands of people were
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infected by contaminated blood. the chancellor has vowed to compensate victims with a £10 billion package, with jeremy hunt claiming it's part of fulfilling a promise he made to a constituent who died after contracting hepatitis c. well, one of the victims, joan edgington, has discussed the effect it's had on her. >> all have different and various physical, things, but it's the mental, the anguish, of what we're going through. and that in itself is the support . that in itself is the support. if you have a, you know, the friends support, but also , as friends support, but also, as mentioned that the red cross are there at the hearings and we can now go for counselling. and a lot of people are no, go for counselling. they've just, it's the uncertainty of your future. and what it's done to you, and if it's stability of your mind in a way nhs staff will be told to work evenings and weekends under labour's plans to slash waiting lists , hospitals would

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