gb news. >> very good evening to you. you're watching and listening to gb news 11:00. and polls have closed . counting is getting closed. counting is getting underway in many of the elections held today across england and wales, millions of people have been voting for councillors, mayors and police commissioners. it's being seen as a major test of public opinion ahead of the upcoming general election. well, as polls closed , labour's national closed, labour's national campaign coordinator coordinator pat mcfadden , said he's focused pat mcfadden, said he's focused on turning the page after what he called conservative decline. >> we're going to have lots of results over the next few days, but we believe when all accounting is finished that we will have shown real progress and real momentum. in the years

since keir starmer became leader i >> forecasts suggest that the conservatives could lose up to half of the council seats that they're defending in england , they're defending in england, transport secretary mark harper says the party is expecting a difficult night. >> if you look around the country, conservative councils deliver better services for lower costs. police and crime commissioner elections that are conservative have less crime than labour ones. you're safer in one of their areas. that's the record that they're standing on. >> and we'll have full coverage right through the night here on gb news on all of those results. so do stay with for us that. meanwhile, the government's apologised to veterans after reports that some were turned away from polling stations today because their cards weren't on the official list of acceptable ids. veterans ministerjohnny ids. veterans minister johnny mercer has vowed to do all he can to make sure veterans cards are added to the list of valid identification. however, labour says the government's had years to make sure the cards were included . today's elections are included. today's elections are the first time many voters in

england and wales have had to present id to vote. well, in other news, the daily number of migrants arriving here in the uk in small boats has now hit a new eight month high. 711 people were detected crossing the engush were detected crossing the english channel on wednesday . english channel on wednesday. that brings the total number who've made the journey so far since january to nearly 8300, according to the home office. that's up 34% compared to the same time last year. foreign secretary david cameron has been to kyiv to meet president zelenskyy. there the visit comes after the uk's multiyear commitment to deliver £3 billion of military support to ukraine. it includes precision guided bombs, air defence missiles and equipment for 100 mobile air defence teams to help shoot down russian drones and missiles . russian drones and missiles. lord cameron emphasised the uk's steadfast support . steadfast support. >> the uk is once again absolutely leading the way in how we support ukraine. the announcement by the prime

minister that we will give £3 billion every year for, as long as is necessary, and we've just really emptied all we can in terms of gifting equipment in the biggest amount of equipment we've we've been able to give so far and some of that is arriving today and today was the warmest day of the year so far for all four home nations england, wales, scotland and northern ireland all recorded a temperature above 20 c. >> however, more warnings of thunderstorms have been issued after thousands of lightning strikes swept across the country overnight. a yellow weather warning is in place after a large part of midlands, east anglia and eastern wales were warned of more weather. for the latest stories, you can sign up 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, your first look at friday's newspapers with three comedians. >> i'm chris downton and tonight i'm playing gooseberry to headliners answer to patrick christys and emily carver. it's power couple paul cox and lewis schaffer . noir. which ones? schaffer. noir. which ones? which guys i don't know . which guys i don't know. >> they're both very good looking. >> they are, aren't they? they are . are. >> i was thinking that today. i was thinking that today he looks great. i mean, she looks great. they look they look great. >> brilliant. okay that's smooth right. let's have a look at the front pages for tomorrow. the daily mail has whose side is labour really on? the telegraph leads with pm to offer ireland, rwanda deal. the guardian has pm to allow oil and gas exploration at sites intended for offshore wind. the mirror has fa talks over cup crisis inews has labour woos team trump as starmer

prepares for power. and finally, the daily star has fa talks over cup crisis. and those were your front pages. okay, kicking off the in—depth look into friday's front pages with the i news paul >> yes , thanks, chester. >> yes, thanks, chester. >> yes, thanks, chester. >> labour woos team trump as starmer prepares for power. >> sir david lammy, of all people, will meet republicans and democrats as us and uk elections approach and trump ally heaps praise on the shadow foreign minister. a senior ally to trump heaped praise on david lammy by describing him as far preferable to david cameron , preferable to david cameron, which i guess is a compliment. i mean, i have heard david lammy compared to david cameron on the internet , but, that was for internet, but, that was for different reasons. >> fair enough. okay, yeah . >> fair enough. okay, yeah. initially i thought, well, how can the republicans like labour? oh hang on. and then they just

lay into cameron. he's moralising . they're sick of him moralising. they're sick of him telling them what to do. you don't like being told what to do, lewis? do you, do you think this is fair? is it fair? >> well, i think this is what happens. you know, they got to. i mean, the tories, the tories . i mean, the tories, the tories. i mean, the tories, the tories. i mean, the tories, the tories. i mean, trump has to be nice to somebody. these are the people coming in that they're moving in next door. of course, he's not going to say we expect these people to be horrible people because they're moving in next doon >> but they didn't have to be that warm, did they? they didn't have to say far preferable. i really like this guy. >> a lovely little bit of twisting by inews here, a little bit here, i think, because what they're really doing is criticising. they're picking up on the fact that trump is criticising david cameron because the trump campaign is not fully behind the ukraine spending. yes and david cromer, david cameron has been the guy, travelling around the us with a, you know, a begging bowl saying, look , please can we continue to look, please can we continue to support the ukraine and, and trump is not behind that. i don't think he cares who's in power in the uk. he just cares if he's in power or not. >> yeah. good point. >> yeah. good point. >> and this guy david cameron,

he reminds me of like a prime minister that britain had back in the day. and i think that can be pretty annoying. yeah, he was the he was the prime minister was. yeah. there was was prime minister most famous for brexit and pigs for me. >> oh well, yes, okay. what's the telegraph going with the telegraph. >> the telegraph , has, pm to >> the telegraph, has, pm to offer ireland. rwanda deal. this is something quite interesting, is something quite interesting, is that i think rishi thinks that it's a definite success, that it's a definite success, that he's going to be sending people to work . rwanda, people people to work. rwanda, people who've immigrated to britain without being asked. i was i was ianed without being asked. i was i was invited by a woman. so the discussion by a woman, by a woman to come to, to come to this country, it wasn't my own idea to come here. and just as a woman was nice to me, and i just had a that was the first time that had happened. >> told you it was a safe country. gave you assurances. look at you now. yeah. >> i'm on, i'm on tv, which is not a good place for me to end. i don't feel that. well, that's

so, so don't say to me you're not. you're not doing that. well, lewis. i mean, have you heard of broccoli anyway? >> yeah. you're sorry you were saying back to rwanda. so rishi is saying to them, hey, we've upset you with our rwanda bill. you think it's so effective that people are coming to you? why don't you join in and send some of your. >> i mean, i can imagine there's many irish people. if the news is anything to go by, they're quite happy with this because there have been some tensions in ireland. and i'm not talking about the tensions , i'm talking about the tensions, i'm talking about the tensions, i'm talking about the tensions, i'm talking about the new tensions about, immigration and the fact that they seem to be this kind of pocket on the sort of corner of the european snooker table, which they put all the extra immigration balls into, is going to be the analogy i'm sticking with. i don't know if it works . crescent. >> i luckily don't know anything about sport, so i've got no idea if they, you know, there's a lot going on in ireland at the moment and it's the thing that gets lost , i moment and it's the thing that gets lost, i think moment and it's the thing that gets lost , i think with gets lost, i think with immigration is, is the loss of culture. >> so you spend many a century building a community and a

culture, and ireland in particular is famous for their culture. we're not allowed to be proactive or positive about our culture, but they can and they get a whole day to celebrate it. and they all get drunk and everyone thinks that's groovy. but they do have a culture and it is being undermined by the constant influx of new people that are not assimilated. now, you could say you could. you can call me anything you like for saying that, but it's true in all walks of life, if you take a group of people and you, you, you add to it in some way and they don't join in with the group, then it undermines the group, then it undermines the group strength . group strength. >> oh, that's what you're thinking. you're thinking that it's just that new people are coming . and they and ireland was coming. and they and ireland was doing so well on their own, and they thought it was going to go on like this forever. and then it gets taken. it gets taken away from them. and so basically that this, this rwanda thing is not going to repel anybody . not going to repel anybody. >> well, they're saying it has already aren't they. that's, that's russia's claim at the moment. about his bright idea. moving on to the guardian now,

paul pm to allow oil and gas exploration at sites intended for offshore wind. >> so fossil fuel companies will be allowed to explore for oil and gas under offshore wind power sites for the first time, the government will announce on friday in a move which campaigners say is further proof that ministers are abandoning the climate agenda. and that is good news. i think this will be welcome news to many people . welcome news to many people. yeah, we have to have all opfions yeah, we have to have all options available. we have to have this small board of fuel opfions have this small board of fuel options available to us as a country. sovereignty of fuel by the way, is the cornerstone of any good climate policy . you any good climate policy. you have to be able to be sovereign in your fuel supply in order to think about how you're going to be efficient. taking fuel from far flung places is not climate friendly. well, that sounds very what? >> you can't argue with that, can you, lewis? we want to have fuel sovereignty , we can have fuel sovereignty, we can have fuel sovereignty, we can have fuel sovereignty, we can have fuel sovereignty without having fuel. we can get it from other,

other places. we just have to make sure that we're nice to those other places before we get that, that fuel. we know there's lots of countries that have been very successful that didn't have any fuel. >> this is amazing. so lewis schaefer's strategy for getting fuelis schaefer's strategy for getting fuel is diplomacy. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> being nice to people, that's that's extraordinary. we could be freezing by christmas didn't we. >> under that i think we well, we were england was a cold country. and then they discovered coal . discovered coal. >> coal. england was a cold country. and then they discovered that people became coal, their own sovereign coal. and then they became richer. >> i don't think they had coal forever. they didn't have coal. this country didn't have coal forever. we've still got coal. >> we just don't dig it out of the ground. yeah. >> but then they started to dig it out of the ground and they became successful. so all we need to do is become nicer. i agree with you. of course i agree with you. of course i agree with you. of course i agree with you. >> really struggle to say that lewis, do you know what i want to know? >> she. she didn't want me. >> she. she didn't want me. >> she. she didn't want me. >> she wanted me to have a fight with you. no she doesn't. >> she wants us to cut off lewis. >> i want fewer fights, not more. finally, let's end this section with the daily star. >> lewis. finally. yes. this is

fake tan friday. and a picture of donald trump. britain. britain turns orange as 52% of us. i think maybe i'm almost british. i've been here for 24 years. reach for this saint saint tropez , i guess. i don't saint tropez, i guess. i don't know what that is. >> saint tropez, you don't know what saint tropez. >> i know what it is. >> i know what it is. >> but is it a type of fake tan? it's a brand. and it's supposed to be one of the better ones. as opposed to the stuff that makes you stink of weetabix. yes. not that i would know. >> well, what they said was that 52% of all people in the country, i don't know how they came up with this number. they got boffins. lewis, we're going to use fake tan before the bank holiday, which is coming up this weekend, and that 49% of these 200 people think that donald trump is the worst user of fake tan . tan. >> well, so they've done they've done a study of fake tan users and slipped a political question in at the last minute. and slipped a political question in at the last minute . paul, any in at the last minute. paul, any fake tan experience? >> none whatsoever. i won't be wearing any this weekend. it's ten degrees out there. yeah. what's the point of having fake tan under a fleece top? >> well, you know the point of

fake tan is that when you think, oh, it's fine, i'll just i'll just go out in layers and then all of a sudden the sun comes out because it's england and you can't trust the weather. and suddenly you've got maybe sort of reasonable coloured shoulders and terribly white legs . and terribly white legs. >> that is me, to be fair. that's why i've got like a tan. >> that's why i lean out the window whistling at women. >> what does that mean? no i don't know why people do that. sorry, sorry, i wasn't i wasn't even listening. don't. >> don't interrupt him being sexist , louis. okay. right. sexist, louis. okay. right. that's the front pages looked at. time for a break. now join us in part two for a story about students getting out of hand and some unhelpfully late news about what you needed to know, about what you needed to know, about what to bring to vote in the

welcome back to headliners starting with friday's guardian. paul boris johnson has tried to vote without photo id. who does

he think he is? louis shaffer. >> he's not that well known. bofis >> he's not that well known. boris johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting photo id. so this is photo id andifs photo id. so this is photo id and it's something that we all need. now if we're going to vote in person, if we do postal votes, you can just send as many as you like in. right. joe biden at the top, apparently. and that's how you become us president. but in this country, if you want to vote in person, you need voter id and there are forms of voter id that you can use, like driving license, passport and a pass card, which is apparently a proof of age, blue badge, apparently as well. but boris didn't have his and he probably should have known . and probably should have known. and i can't feel too sorry for him. i can't feel too sorry for him. i mean, he's i know he's bumbling, boris, but i'm surprised he didn't have anyone advising him to do this correctly. >> i am also surprised. i mean, i don't think it was a case of mistaken identity or no, it was just a case of jobsworth doing the right thing, etc. no , i the right thing, etc. no, i don't think that was what it was. >> i think they're just trying to make a point for the next election, the election that matters, whether they stay in

office. they're trying to say that we're going to be checking on your thing. and even boris johnson wasn't able to vote. and you're not going to be able to vote. and that's that's what this is about. >> yeah. i don't have a problem with voter id, i must admit. i think it's a good thing we should. >> do you agree with what i just said? >> i try not to, but on this occasion i actually did see we were really struggling tonight because there are things you're saying that i'm agreeing with quite often. which is difficult for me. >> lewis, deal with it . >> lewis, deal with it. >> lewis, deal with it. >> sorry. that was we just lovingly looked into each other's. >> i interrupt the sexual tensions, killing me. so outside of outside of your affairs, outside of this, where are we? >> so also, there was a there was a serious problem today, actually, because veterans have veterans id, and i wasn't aware of this. and veterans did go to the polling station today and were unable to use their veterans id. now, this is just, something that's been forgotten or maybe not. i wasn't aware that there's veterans id, and if a vet because it's veterans is itinvokes a vet because it's veterans is it invokes an emotion of some

kind. so it seems important that they should have it. but do you know what? as much respect as i have for all of our veterans and thank you very much, guys and girls, but we've all kind of known that it's driving licence, passport or whatever. and, i'm sorry they didn't get a chance to vote because everyone deserves the chance to vote. but i can't feel too sorry for i keep seeing posters for it everywhere in london, but i don't know. >> everyone doesn't live in london, so i think what they were doing is they're trying to say when the next election comes, you better have a picture on your on your thing and that's, that's trying to scare off the people who might not vote for them. >> yeah, there are a few people who don't have pictures on their id, but there are lots of people on the other side who don't have pictures on their id, so balances out. >> yeah. brilliant. okay, @gbnews we dream of air conditioning units falling from the sky. so what are these people complaining about in the guardian? >> that's exactly right . >> that's exactly right. >> that's exactly right. >> i wanted to hit me in the head right now. angry fans think. no, don't wish that on me. please. i'm having a bad time. i'm a nice tie, though. i

wanted to point it out anyway. angry fans seek compensation from co—op live, which is a new arena after third opening show axed. arena after third opening show axed . and this is, this is, axed. and this is, this is, there were three shows because because an air conditioning part falls from the gantry during a soundcheck and luckily there was nobody below there. but i guarantee you, if there was somebody below there and a piece from an air conditioning unit falls, it's not it's not little feathers or something. and it would have killed somebody. and this is this is in manchester where they had that other thing, that horrible thing that happened, which i'm trying to forget about. so they they cancelled the thing and now all these stodgy people are complaining, oh, we didn't get to our show, whatever. but they would have complained even more if they would hit by an ec and just, well, maybe what they want is a working arena without any falling air conditioning use. >> is that too much to ask ? no, >> is that too much to ask? no, not at all. >> and i did understand that part of the story. but in true gammon style, i had no idea who boogie wit da hoodie is. yeah, and i still don't. i also had no idea what the co op live was. i

mean, i was reading this story thinking it sounded like the co 0p thinking it sounded like the co op had put on some sort of, tribute act to raise money for the local children's play area. i didn't know what they were on about. >> well, they're known for funerals, aren't they? not live, but co—op live apparently is a big arena. >> it's in a bit of trouble. it's spent a lot of money, £365 million for this venue. but lewis is absolutely right. irrespective. i mean, i'm sure the, you know, the people who didn't see boogie wit da hoodie are , are very disappointed. are, are very disappointed. however, you know, it hurts . however, you know, it hurts. it's not a cool way to die when an ac , unit falls on your head. an ac, unit falls on your head. >> well, i've been here for 24 years and i'm like, surprised they even have air conditioning in the country. >> yeah, to be honest, i thought that was just them showing off because we don't have it here. right, paul, what's this about students on a lovely, wholesome camping trip in the eye? >> that's not quite what's happening, but let me explain. students, put students set up pro—palestine camps at british campuses after us clashes. so protests are being held at leeds, manchester, newcastle,

bristol, sheffield and warwick , bristol, sheffield and warwick, with students urging universities to divest from israel and is he just me, or are we living in some sort of bizarro world now? because it doesn't seem like there is any free thinking at universities across the world anymore. hamas, just so you all know , are a just so you all know, are a proscribed terrorist group. what happened on october 7 was a terrorist attack, and israel have every right to defend themselves. what's happened since ? well, that's up for since? well, that's up for debate. but these but nobody within these, within these protests seems to grasp that . protests seems to grasp that. >> well, i think a lot of them might say, well, we're not here for hamas. we're here for the general palestinian population. and i would argue they should be protesting against hamas. >> well, that's a really good point . but where were they when point. but where were they when it was all going on in syria for years and years? and years and years and years? and years and years and years and years and still going on in syria for years? i think it's this is what i'm talking about, free thinking

people are just going with the current thing, as nick dixon would say. and they are doing so at the at sort of the detriment to their own intelligence. these are these people , these are top are these people, these are top universities. i mean, we've seen the clashes in the us. >> yeah, but we've seen this before. these universities , as before. these universities, as they're always doing horrible like research for food and stuff like research for food and stuff like that. so they they can't be respected. but you've got to respected. but you've got to respect these kids. they want to go out and have a party and they want to have a they're basically reliving you too young to remember this and so are you. but i remember the vietnam war demonstrations and they were unbelievable. they were just so much they were so much fun. and you're not going to tell me at age 13 that i didn't know what was going on. i didn't know what was going on. i didn't know what was going on. what's going on? there were 43. now, you know what is going on. >> it's lots of young people getting together. i read earlier that they were there swigging wine. they've all turned up in their fancy outfits. i wine. they've all turned up in theirfancy outfits. i mean, their fancy outfits. i mean, you've got a point. it's a great way to pick up chicks, right? if chicks. sorry. >> women. >> women. >> women. >> women if women care about

this. >> lewis. >> lewis. then >> lewis. then yeah, >> lewis. then yeah, i >> lewis. then yeah, i think >> lewis. then yeah, i think i, you know, i'm so glad that that we didn't have social media in the same way when i was this age, because, who knows, i might have been there, yeah, i find it difficult. >> the comparison between vietnam. i know it's obvious vietnam. i know it's obvious vietnam and this particular conflict. i think there are gaps in that comparison . and i'm not in that comparison. and i'm not sure it stands up to scrutiny. but i do understand what you're saying. and, you know, students will student. we can't hold it against him. it's just will student. we can't hold it against him. it'sjust i'd love against him. it's just i'd love for them to. >> yeah, but there's a bit of me that just wants the police to get in there and pick each one up. well, they did put some of them in the back of a van. i find it very frustrating to watch. >> yeah, i'm with you, but i feel there also protesting against me. this is what's happened. you know, we i was there in the 1970s. moratorium 69, 70, 71 and hike , but now now 69, 70, 71 and hike, but now now i'm here and there protesting against vegetables against me. >> it never stopped . >> it never stopped. >> it never stopped. >> the protesting never stopped. >> the protesting never stopped. >> it's the circle of life. okay

moving on to the telegraph. and it's another great day for drivers . lewis. yes? drivers. lewis. yes? >> i don't know where you came up with that, but oil boss accused of driving a petrol pnces accused of driving a petrol prices by colluding with rivals. this is what the headline says. but the real story is, is that the ftc, which is in america, this is an american story, is allowing, exxonmobil, the big oil, the biggest oil company in america and one of the biggest, to join with pioneer oil natural resources, which is another big company to join. but they said, oh, well, we don't like this guy, so you can't have this guy on the board. so basically it's they're just letting the thing happen. they're just letting the thing happen . who's just letting the happen. who's just letting the thing that the us government is letting the thing happen , right? letting the thing happen, right? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> it doesn't harm them in any way, does it? i mean, there appears to be a lot of accusation in this article. and of course, i want to believe that our oil tycoons are all rotten because largely they are. of course they are. it's the biggest greed business in the world, isn't it? >> don't they all sit around smoking cigars on a big pile of

money, isn't it? >> and not only that, opec is this collaboration of all of the worst types of people in the world getting together and choosing who can be in their gang? yeah. communist. yeah and that's what's happening. there doesn't seem to be a lot of evidence in here, because i was thinking, well, where can i get stuck into this chap? it's quite clearly, but you know, there is quite a conflict of evidence in here. and it doesn't feel like mr sheffield has done anything that i mr sheffield has done anything thati can mr sheffield has done anything that i can see is terribly, terribly wrong. the idea that an oil tycoon would fix the oil markets in some way, to make the pnces markets in some way, to make the prices higher, is what i expect them to do every day. >> only one guy. it's not as if there are dozens of guys. we don't want any of these dozens of guys. it's just one guy. so it's just it's just a lie. it's a total non story. >> okay. finally in this section, the daily mail with news of the greatest civil unrest in peckham since lewis schaffer moved in, shot himself to a tree. >> what year was that? >> what year was that? >> now? two. oh, i don't know what year. >> it has to be quick for this to be slow. >> police have arrested 45

people today as a coach bound for bibby stockholm, which is not a folk band but left with no migrants on board, a mob blocked its path and attacked police officers. the scotland yard have confirmed this afternoon they've arrested people for offences including obstructing the highway and one for racially aggravated public order offence. every time, every single time we see this. i mean , i get see this. i mean, i get conflicted when i read these stories because i, i believe in the right to protest . i find it the right to protest. i find it difficult the thing when you when you hear about the police being attacked or anyone being attacked, for that matter, what you have to understand is they are only doing their job right. are only doing theirjob right. so they are sent there to protect that lorry. so to put that minibus, that minibus is doing its job. the minibus doesn't have feelings, but the person driving it does and the organisation behind the minibus they do and so i have a i have a bit of an issue there, but there are lots of amusing digs because this is in the mail. so i thought, well, this is quite interesting. they seem to be at first on the side of the protesters, but of course they're not at all. and they point out things like they were

wearing £180 beats headphones, 180, 100, £200 lulu lemon coat, which is something i don't really know about , which is something i don't really know about, and a £300 nonh really know about, and a £300 north face jacket somebody was wearing. so really, what they're saying is these are middle class people that are named after flowers and vegetables , and flowers and vegetables, and they're not from nunhead. >> i live in in a part of nunhead. i live in nunhead, not nunhead. i live in nunhead, not nunhead. peckham, sorry. i live in peckham . i live in nunhead, in peckham. i live in nunhead, which is part of peckham . i which is part of peckham. i forget where i've where i'm living right now. i'm not feeling that well. the point is, the point is these are not even peckham kids . they come from all peckham kids. they come from all over the place and they're trying to. they're trying to stop rishi sunak policy , which stop rishi sunak policy, which is which is doing a very good job of it . job of it. >> to be fair to them, they succeeded because zero people left on that mini bus for bibby stockholm, which i just find that outrageous. >> the idea that a few kids know better than all of the apparatus and all the authorities that have come to the decision to say today, we're going to put these people on this. what happens next if their mates in prison, they're just going to protest they're just going to protest the prison and get them out. >> is that that these people

know better? cressida is that these people have stopped us, who supposedly know better. not that i trust the police, but, you know, sometimes you want the police to do to do what you want them to do. >> and this is one thing they call them gen z activists, which is just basically grouping them into their age, which makes them sort of 2005 onwards, i think, or something of that ilk. so let's just say yes, for the purposes of the very, very young, the live television, we've got to go to a break now. >> join us in part three for the latest comedy circuit scandal, donald trump's tripadvisor reviews and the decline of erotica in hollywood, aka the death of love. see you shortly

coming up from midnight through to 6 am. gb news is britain's election channel. will bring you full election coverage, including the by—election result including the by—election result in blackpool south. tom harwood. please tell us more .

please tell us more. >> yes. that's right. over the last 20 hours, every single aduu last 20 hours, every single adult in england and wales has had the chance to vote in some form of election. there have been thousands of councillors up for election. ten metro mayors from london to manchester to the west midlands. also police and crime commissioners. and as you mentioned, a westminster parliamentary seat too. there's a wave of elections across the country and we're going to be following all the results as they begin to trickle in from midnight. we're expecting some council results fairly early on, and indeed, that parliamentary by—election two and that's not all. it's going to continue right through to the morning. and indeed the afternoon. special coverage here on gb news. it won't stop as all the results come in and some of them are looking very tight. >> all right. thanks, tom. back to headliners now i haven't seen a comedy circuit scandal in a while. so i guess we were due a

whopper. like this one in the times. lewis. yes we are comedians outraged by stand ups death threat to zionist woman. >> and this is this guy, dane baptiste. he's 42 years old, he said, i want you to sit down with your husband and kids and imagine what their lives will be without you , because north without you, because north london is a very quick trip to make. he he said to this woman who we don't know who it is, but she's probably jewish. and this is dane baptiste . i like the guy is dane baptiste. i like the guy until he gave me a call a few years back and said, barry, i don't have any. i don't know what i can say. yeah, there are things you can't say when you're on tv. >> are you saying he was calling you because you're jewish? or about some of your behaviour or about some of your behaviour or about some of my behaviour ? about some of my behaviour? >> i didn't think i'd done anything wrong, but many times i'd done something wrong and people didn't like what i did. but he has this is i don't know whether he's innocent or guilty. he said, well, he did make that post, didn't he? >> i mean, that's that's not being argued. what we don't know is what happened before that

he's talked about his family being stalked online. but i don't know exactly what that means, other people i've seen on social media criticising his. no, no, that's not what happened at all. but it's very violent language , isn't it? yeah, yeah. language, isn't it? yeah, yeah. you can't get away from that. >> first things first. we always abide by the same code on here. if we talk about comedians, we normally shut down shop and we don't say too much because, you know, we've got respect to talk about us because we respect fellow comedians. but in this case, they talk about councillor dane baptiste way overstepped the mark. even if you park the potential anti—sperm semitic potential anti —sperm semitic aspect potential anti—sperm semitic aspect of this, his first emotional reaction, emotional reaction is the words that he used within his apology was in fact a doorstep. this woman, i.e. turn up to her house and unauve i.e. turn up to her house and unalive her. >> sorry. you mean you don't mean he didn't do that? no, he didn't. >> he wrote that he would do that. so whether that's figuratively or whatever, i don't care because i don't believe in violence against

women. i don't care how angry you are. i don't care if you think you're being stalked online. every single one of us is being stalked online. at no point have i ever issued a death threat . and in the community in threat. and in the community in which i grew up in, if you treated a woman this way, it would be held against you for the rest of your life. and i'm afraid dane baptiste here has really let himself down. there will be no justification for this, and he can. i'm sure his career will carry on. he's a very funny comedian. however, this will be a stigma that if he had said this to a man, he won't say it to a man. >> i can tell you why he won't say he said it to me. possibly on the phone. >> on the phone? he didn't say that publicly. he didn't threaten you publicly, though, did he? and you have to ask. and, dane, this is to you, mate. ihave and, dane, this is to you, mate. i have to ask you, would you do this if this was a man? because i doubt you would, mate. i really doubt you would. >> i'm telling you, i'm telling you that he did. >> it's anecdotal, isn't it? this guy went to. on >> has to do with me. what do you don't believe me? >> there's some of the things you say. >> like, you know, baked beans

might give you cancer or whatever, that that don't make sense. but what i'm saying here is i just cannot abide what he's done. >> well, i'll be really interested to see how this plays out in the coming weeks, you know, i'm sure there'll be plenty of chatter about it online. the independent next. and trump doesn't recognise familiar places. is this cognitive decline or something more sinister? paul, trump rants london is unrecognisable and has opened the door to jihad during wild rally speech. this is in the independent, he said. we have seen what happened when europe opened their doors to jihad, by which he really means, muslims, he told his supporters at an event. look at paris, look at an event. look at paris, look at london. there are no they are no longer recognisable, he said, offering no evidence whatsoever for his wild statements. now thatis for his wild statements. now that is conjecture . that last that is conjecture. that last statement is conjecture by the independent, and we, donald trump does say very outlandish things on a very regular basis. but to say that there is no evidence whatsoever for these statements is untrue , because we statements is untrue, because we see the capital, particularly in

london. i can't speak for paris overtaken every weekend with these protests . they're always these protests. they're always these protests. they're always the same thing. we hear them calling for jihad. the same thing. we hear them calling forjihad. we hear we calling for jihad. we hear we also hear peaceful stuff as well. but don't get me wrong , well. but don't get me wrong, you know, don't get me wrong here. these they're marching through the streets where islamist terrorists have killed women and children and police officers. there is evidence to suggest that there is a problem here, however, this is an outlandish statement from donald trump, and. but it's not, you know, it's well within his that it's well within his ballpark. and i don't think it's not outlandish . outlandish. >> it's that outlandish. he's sitting there in america and he comes here and he says, this is not the same city that he expected when he came here. 20 or 40 or whatever years ago that he came. so you can't say that he came. so you can't say that he doesn't know what it is it's a slight aside that we in this country and he's speaking about paris to go like, oh, wow, he's talking about us. that's great. it's like when billy burke was talking about me on the other day, billy burke. >> now, i mean, we all know him as bill burr, but billy burke, i highly recommend .

highly recommend. >> if anyone hasn't seen that, go and find this clip of louis being talked about by bill burke, billy burke. >> it's like amazing. >> it's like amazing. >> you'd like to him to me, i'm like this part of his life. >> you'd like to him to me, i'm like this part of his life . you like this part of his life. you can't even see nothing like a nothing. but it meant a lot to me. and i think that's what he he meant. it is obviously london is still london, but it's not. it's not the london that i came to 24 years. >> well, yeah. places are going to change, aren't they, news in the guardian. now, that erotic scenes have declined by 40. now, are they measuring that in minutes, encounters or inches? louis >> anyway, keeping it clean hollywood sex scenes that lie by 40. this is in the guardian. and there's . they've done a study in there's. they've done a study in the. and it was printed in the economist. so it must be true. it's the economist that steven fallows, this guy , he said that fallows, this guy, he said that that that nudity and sex scenes or whatever they call it, is down 42% in the past 25 years. and i and, the, the and they said it's because it affects

global release releases. they said that's exactly. sorry, louis. >> i'll have to stop you. they said it affects global release. >> it affects global. global. >> it affects global. global. >> where does it say i think you mean release of the movies. yeah.i mean release of the movies. yeah. i think what you're saying is that we become such a sanitised society vie that we no longer. >> the numbers are way down. >> the numbers are way down. >> global release sounds like something that happens in the sex scene. sex scene. >> sex scene. >> the fact is, is that people are not that sex oriented anymore. they don't need it as much. they don't know it's the death of love, right? >> this is plummeting death of love thrown people. >> it's just saying that people don't need love as much as they've been successful with the whole thing. so let him let him have it from a different perspective, actually. >> i mean, it's there's no need, is there? there's so much available on the internet now , available on the internet now, isn't there? i mean, you don't go to the cinema now to catch a sneaky glimpse of somebody's ankle. you can just you can just log in to naked ankles. com and get as much ankle as you like. well there you go. >> naked ankles. com a story you may or may not agree with in the daily mail now paul, but will

you to defend the death our right to cover it on headliners? >> i will defend the death right to cover it. but i won't defend everything in this. academics defend cambridge race. real professors right to free speech after a string of controversial remarks sparked a backlash and attempts to remove him from the university. so this is philosophy researcher nathan cofnas, and he's facing expulsion from emmanuel college and mr conference , came under and mr conference, came under fire in february after he published a blog post which claimed the number of black professors at harvard university would approach zero in a meritocracy . he going on to say, meritocracy. he going on to say, and that black would disappear from almost all high profile positions outside of sports and entertainment. >> so he's a wrong'un. >> so he's a wrong'un. >> he describes himself as a race realist, a race realist , race realist, a race realist, which does sound like racist. it does sound remarkably close to that. >> paul. >> paul. >> yes, i am a big fan of meritocracy. i really am. it's the best way to choose any candidate for anything, right?

but i cannot, i cannot believe, and i believe in free speech, as we know. but i can't believe that this would happen if a even playing field was applied . by playing field was applied. by which i mean, if everybody had the same opportunity in life from childhood through to their the age they started their career , if meritocracy was career, if meritocracy was applied, we'd probably see a smorgasbord of colours, shapes and cultures. there is an argument that there isn't an even playing field, but there is no argument. as far as i can see that black people would become zero. >> i mean, i don't want to try and disprove this guy's opinion. i just i'm and disprove this guy's opinion. ijust i'm not going to credit i just i'm not going to credit it with that. but the point is that he should be allowed to have it, and the university have done the right thing and said, look, you oh, they did initially do the right thing. now it's being debated. if you want to fight this guy, you don't shut him down. you write the appropriate response . appropriate response. >> well, yes, but the guy's an idiot, obviously, because it's probably not true. and you wouldn't, you know, not to say something like that because it's probably not true and it's not a nice thing to say. so the fact

that the guy said it, i think it was it wasn't that harvard , it was it wasn't that harvard, it was it wasn't that harvard, it was a cambridge. >> he was at cambridge, but he was talking about harvard university in terms of at harvard. >> so he was probably so that's he was obviously saying there was a disproportionate number of black professors. that makes it something else. he's badmouthing america , which is now you're america, which is now you're angry. yeah. >> no, i mean, it's the american angen >> no, i mean, it's the american anger, the anger. >> i'm angry at that. but i mean, but if but from the british side, i think it's perfectly okay. >> okay. we're going to go to a break, that's it for part three. join us in the final section. when we'll find out how monkeys could save the nhs. what language wild animals speak, and why joe biden shouldn't be allowed to speak at all. see you

welcome back to headliners. beginning this section with the guardian. and the exciting news that monkeys can do medicine. but do they go on strike as often as junior doctors? >> probably not. researchers say

they have observed a male sumatran . sumatran. some. some sumatran. sumatran. some. some really phonetically read that. then sumatran orang—utan treating an open facial wound with sap and chewed leaves from a plant known to have anti—inflammatory and pain relieving properties . now, there relieving properties. now, there does appear to be a contradiction in this between that narrative of the story and the headline. because in the story, in the headline, it says, that this is a first for wild animals. >> surely not a contradiction between a headline and the body of the story. >> absolutely there is. and it isn't the first time, because it's been witnessed in wild animals all over the place. it's like. it's like, i know we're top of the food chain and we imagine ourselves to be the most intelligent of us. some of us. yeah some of us, maybe not. so me, i'm in the middle somewhere with the piggies. and, so what's happening here is that, animals have found out after years and years of evolution, that if they rub certain leaves and berries and sap on themselves when they get. but it makes them feel better . so that's the story.

better. so that's the story. louis, over to you, mate. >> well , it's louis, over to you, mate. >> well, it's just it's that is the story. >> that is the story i thought i thought it was. yeah, i thought it was. i thought it was a bit, a bit shocking that they were doing things that humans were doing things that humans were doing . it basically proved doing. it basically proved humans right. so maybe the story should be humans found to, to be using things that make them feel better. >> but it's interesting. >> but it's interesting. >> i thought it meant we were watching evolution in action. i thought they'd just found out how to do it. >> you can't watch evolution. action takes forever, if you believe in it, of course. >> brilliant, okay. the telegraph now, and joe biden has all the finesse of a creepy junk uncle at a wedding. >> louis, yeah, he does. whether he did this or not is something else. joe biden hits out at xenophobic japan varne and says that japan is doing that well because they're not they're not that nice to immigrants and that we in america are really nice to immigrants, and that's why we're doing that. well, we're on america as an immigration country, and japan isn't an

immigration country. >> and he says the whole of the economy is better because of the migration, because of the migration. >> but, i mean, what does what does joe biden know about anything? and who knows if he said this and who knows if he what he meant by by saying it? i mean, you just i feel for the guy, but you've got to at least believe something in the story or we can't really do the show. >> paul, what do you think? >> paul, what do you think? >> well, i mean, it makes zero sense, doesn't it? because his his point is that, an economy works better with immigrants , works better with immigrants, and that's maybe that's up for debate, but nearly every every economy in the in the world is struggling at the moment, including the us, which does have lots of immigration. so that doesn't seem to be a sort of the key indicator to me. he's he's clearly been told something in his morning briefing, something about immigration in japan. something about immigration in japan . he's something about immigration in japan. he's put something about immigration in japan . he's put them together japan. he's put them together after having a quick chat with his socks and, and he's come up with this speech and, you know, that's how this is the leader of the free world. brilliant. >> a quick chat with the socks. i love it, sticking with the

telegraph. and i'm just learning that giraffe speaks to heart. i don't speak swahili , paul, bbc don't speak swahili, paul, bbc presenter says calling animals by their english names is jarring, absolutely jarring . jarring, absolutely jarring. >> gillian burke said she prefers to refer to animals by their traditional swahili names, rather than those commonly used by the bbc's acclaimed nature programmes. in my own writing, she says, i prefer reintroducing these familiar animals, reintroducing these familiar animals by their swahili names. so navajo for elephant . i don't so navajo for elephant. i don't know why he's an accent. i really like to apologise. twiga. for giraffe. now she does go on to say and make a really good point, that it does help to use the english names to illustrate the english names to illustrate the story, because that's what we call them, right? i mean, what is this is totally fine, but it's not news. basically, this lady has said, i do things better than you and i'm better. okay >> it's like somebody that knows how to pronounce the french stuff. so what? >> who cares? move on. you're already on springwatch .

already on springwatch. >> and she's not even, kenyan or whatever i think she's from comes from kenya. that she was, she was an immigrant person who was living in kenya. so. so swahili isn't her natural language. from way back, it probably wasn't anybody's natural language from way back. it's been built up over, over time . it'sjust. it'sjust she time. it'sjust. it'sjust she wants to fit in as she just wants to fit in as she just wants to fit in as she just wants to fit in with the giraffes. >> maybe she likes the sound of it. okay, it's always good to cover something positive towards the end of the show. and now we've got some good news in the telegraph. >> there's magic mushrooms. more effective for treating depression in pensioners than young people. and this is a bmj study that says that people are happier when they're given magic mushrooms, as opposed to other things. but then it's like, what's the other things are? money. >> money, love. >> money, love. >> yeah , that's yeah, it could >> yeah, that's yeah, it could be any of those things. and it's because news and the reason this is in the telegraph is because the telegraph people are the exact kind of people who were told about magic mushrooms back in the day, and they believed in

magic mushrooms back in the day. >> they do exist. >> they do exist. >> they do exist . and there's a >> they do exist. and there's a lot of research. and they say they help people. >> yeah they do. yeah, of course they help people because they were told, oh, you're going to feel something all tingly and then they feel all tingly. all tingly , like saying bill cosby tingly, like saying bill cosby would say, yeah, what it is, is this is the telegraph. >> yeah. and i think we've understood quite clearly what joe biden's taking for breakfast. >> magic mushrooms. he's feeling great. >> all right. finally paul, the express. you've got about 30s to do this. okay. fury sorry. no, no. sorry. >> sorry . >> sorry. >> sorry. >> pay attention to me. >> pay attention to me. >> sorry, sorry, sorry. something about lawns. >> and you love a lawn. >> and you love a lawn. >> if you're in the uk, city council bans grass cutting for the whole of may. so this is bradford city council announced on its facebook page that it won't be mowing its lawns and green spaces this month in a bid to give it and six insects a chance. now we've been doing this for quite some time across the country and i agree with them. it is a great excuse to not spend council tax money because that's all that's going

on there. they don't care about the bees and the insects. they just think we're not going to have to pay for a month's worth of maintenance in may. >> so cynical. i thought this would upset you not having mown grass? no. >> i think it's important to mow your grass and then photograph it and put it on instagram to seven. check out paul's lawn on the internet. >> all right. finally we're going to have a look at tomorrow's papers. the show is nearly over , so starting with nearly over, so starting with the daily mail, whose side is labour really on? the telegraph has pm to offer ireland rwanda deal has pm to offer ireland rwanda deal. the guardian has pm to allow oil and gas exploration at sites intended for offshore wind. the mirror has so far talks over cup crisis and inews has labour woos team trump as starmer prepares for power. has labour woos team trump as starmer prepares for power . and starmer prepares for power. and finally, the daily star has fake tan friday. and those were your front pages. that's it for tonight's show . thanks to my tonight's show. thanks to my guests paul cox and louis shaffer. nick dixon will be back here tomorrow with leo kearse and jonathan cogan . and if

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through tomorrow itself, then more rain to come across central parts of england, wales and some showers across northern england and into southern scotland. to some of these could be heavy and thundery, lots of cloud and showery rain continuing across many areas, but towards the far north and the far south of the uk , we should have some decent uk, we should have some decent dry and sunny weather in the sunshine . it will feel quite sunshine. it will feel quite warm, albeit temperatures not quite as high as they were today as we look towards the weekend. and while it is looking pretty messy on saturday, there's going to be quite a bit of cloud and outbreaks of showery rain across the northern half of the uk before some showery stuff is likely to push its way up from the south as we go through the day. and that could be heavy, possibly even thundery . more possibly even thundery. more mixed weather to come as we go through sunday into monday there will be some drier, brighter weather at times, but also plenty of showers as well. i'll see you again soon. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on

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