gb news. >> good evening. you're watching and listening to gb news. i'm sam francis. the headlines at 11. the conservatives are on track for their worst set of local election results in 40 years. the party's lost hundreds of seats across england, with laboun of seats across england, with labour, the liberal democrats and independents making gains. reform uk also put in a strong showing in the blackpool south by—election, coming in third place. sir keir starmer claims labour's results are a direct message to the prime minister, as he renewed demands for rishi sunak to call a general election . well, the liberal democrats have also made gains, with party leader sir ed davey pledging to make the conservative government history. >> people from around our great country have had enough of this out of touch conservative government >> they've had enough of being

taken for granted and being let down. it's time for. taken for granted and being let down. it's time for . change. and down. it's time for. change. and across this country from cheltenham to dorset, from west oxfordshire to here in winchester , so many people, winchester, so many people, including lifelong conservatives , are switching to the liberal democrats to make that change happen. >> meanwhile, the prime minister insists he's focusing on the job at hand after those disappointing local election results for the conservatives. despite losing control of a number of authorities , as the number of authorities, as the conservatives did hold on to the mayoral seat in tees valley. ben houchen, re—elected in that seat . well, despite the evidence that people will stick with the conservatives, rishi sunak says the general election will prove positive for his party. >> keir starmer came here twice, rachel reeves came here three times. but even they couldn't dislodge ben and the fantastic

conservative team , right. and conservative team, right. and they also threw a lot of mud. it needs to be said in this election because they were angry. angry that ben has delivered more for this region in seven years than labour party managed in 30 years. >> well, let's take one final look tonight at the latest council results from across england. counting has now finished the final election result for tonight being declared tomorrow. those remaining results will follow with seven contests to be announced. london, the west midlands, greater manchester, west yorkshire, liverpool , south west yorkshire, liverpool, south yorkshire and in salford . in yorkshire and in salford. in other news, the family of murdered schoolboy alfie lewis have thanked him for making them smile every day. he was stabbed to death by another schoolboy outside a primary school in leeds last november. the teenager, who can't be named, was 14 at the time of that attack. he claimed he was scared for his life when he pulled out the weapon, but that was disputed by prosecutors . a disputed by prosecutors. a former solicitor has been

sentenced today to more than seven and a half years in jail for running what the judge described as a deceptive immigration scheme . flora immigration scheme. flora mendez, from luton, made up fake addresses in grenfell tower and charged victims £2,800 to submit fraudulent immigration applications . the fraudulent immigration applications. the indian national continued providing illegal services despite being struck off in 2015. the judge in the case called her actions truly disgraceful and sentenced her to 90 months behind bars. and finally, before we head over to headliners, a critical incident is ongoing in bristol as a number of hospitals were hit by a power outage. today, the local nhs trust says emergency departments in the city have now reopened to urgent walk in patients. but they say some of its sites continue to be affected. people who may need urgent medical attention are being encouraged to call 111. 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 common alerts. now it's time for headliners . headliners. >> hello and welcome to headliners. i'm nik dixon, taking you through tomorrow's top stories for the next hour, and i'm joined by weapons expert leo kearse. an expert weapon jonathan kogan. then if you can say that on telly. who wrote that? how are you both doing? oh, you've got your book there jonathan. >> jonathan. >> jonathan. >> how are you getting on with gay shame ? yeah. pretty good. gay shame? yeah. pretty good. >> i found it on dolan's desk. >> i found it on dolan's desk. >> how are you guys doing? >> how are you guys doing? >> i don't mean the book. i mean the concept in your life. >> oh, yeah. i'm >> oh, yeah. i'm >> i'm a joke. what? do you strip it back? but let's not. let's not. >> i'm getting by closely. >> i'm getting by closely. >> leo, how are you doing? yeah. >> leo, how are you doing? yeah. >> i'm good. thanks. i'm doing pretty good. yeah, yeah, i've been to sri lanka. have you? yeah >> how was it? >> how was it? >> delightful. lovely country. >> delightful. lovely country. >> i can't tell you some weird jokes coming, but actually, no,

it was just factually. you had been to sri lanka? >> well, like sri lanka. no, i just met her. no, i went to sri lanka as one of them. >> yeah. the joke. the joke wouldn't have worked. you were right not to do it. all right, well, after that totally non awkward banter, let's crack on and do the front pages. so the daily mail has rishi plotters give up and go to the pub. probably the best idea at this point. the times victory for tory mayor helps sunak to cling on a bit of a tricky headline on the telegraph sunak we have everything to fight for. that's about the local elections again. daily express rebels kill plot to oust rishi for now the guardian tories crushed by worst election results in years and the daily star, smithy and nessa to wed, which is something to do with gavin and stacey. no idea. anyway, those were the front pages. anyway, those were the front pages . all right, so what have pages. all right, so what have the guardian gone with leo? so the guardian gone with leo? so the guardian gone with leo? so the guardian have gone with their reporting on the election results. >> it's interesting. are the different papers reporting it? so the more right leaning papers, like the telegraph, it's like sunak. we have everything to fight for a positive spin.

the times, which is actually the left leaning now, says victory for tory mayor, helps sunak to cling on. but the guardian see tories crushed by worst election results in years which isn't like even a they could should have said decades. it's like 40 years. they've said years. all election results come in years . election results come in years. it's not like giving an election every two weeks. they could have gone harder. they could have gone harder. they could have gone harder. they could have gone harder is a lot of people. >> i haven't seen you in years. i don't mean half a century. yeah, yeah, yeah. good point. >> yeah. so the spread of tory losses leads a former minister to say that there's no such thing as a safe seat anymore at the general election. so, like on a boeing plane? yeah, exactly. we're going to get to that. we'll all get to that later. >> allegedly. >> allegedly. >> it's a joke. we love boeing. yeah, we love it . yeah, we love it. >> will make sense later. >> will make sense later. >> you'll all laugh. we love boeing. but all the same i'm reassured when it's an airbus that pulls up to the little thing. anyway, the tories are expected to lose up to 500 seats when all the votes are counted. that sounds like a lot, but this is local elections, so there's way more seats , so labour have way more seats, so labour have advanced in the red wall that

was won by the tories under bofis was won by the tories under boris johnson when he promised he'd do something for people in the north. tories were a bit thin on actually doing real things and also labour advancing in the traditional southern conservative heartlands as everybody turns into an absolutely despicable woke leftist, and also it's been a good night for the green party. they've won more than 150 seats, and independent candidates have won 260 seats. and reform were only 117 votes behind the tories in blackpool south. so that could have been a huge upset. as it is, they got 17% of the vote, so that's still an incredible showing for reform. i don't know if it will translate into seats at the election. i say reform, i say reform or reform uk. >> you say reform. >> you say reform. >> yeah. and i see burke hampstead. >> okay. interesting. >> okay. interesting. >> you say rishi though when you say rishi. >> no i've changed that. now i say rishi. no, i just thought it was rishi i called. it's not i've told, it's rashid sunak. so the tories lost 500 seats as you say probably. and labour go up 200 to 1000 seats. but i was amazed lib dems got 90. he was

voting lib dem in 2020. >> got to be a joke, right? >> got to be a joke, right? >> greens went up 250. that genuinely disturbs me. obviously i'm neutral here. as an ofcom regulator, a lot of the green votes are coming from disaffected labour voters, if i'm not mistaken. >> yes. but if you're very disaffected, i mean, the greens, i just i disaffected, i mean, the greens, ijust i look at disaffected, i mean, the greens, i just i look at the country and 90, i just i look at the country and go, we need a right wing party. >> and everyone else i'm just in. obviously in a bubble because everyone else looks saying, you know what? we need even more left wing policies. >> oh, beazley, we're going to we're going to follow argentina's path down into, you know, absolute totalitarian communism. and then there's going to need to be a saviour at some point to ride in like a javier milei type to save us. >> yes. but first it's got to get really, really bad. >> oh yeah. >> oh yeah. >> it's going to be awful stark about that. but he pointed out it took decades to get millom. so this is going to be decades of chaos and sort of third world misery. yeah. anyway, this is very objective and the nice weather like there is in argentina, so bad weather and a collapsing economy, good wine, anything any different. take johnson on that, for balance i just think like the greens , just think like the greens, yeah.the just think like the greens, yeah. the greens. why not vote green? no, don't look at their

jumpers. >> look at their nice hand—knitted jumpers. they're nice people. >> they're too crusty. >> they're too crusty. >> i don't know about their policies anymore. i accept even, like, we're even more mad than laboun like, we're even more mad than labour, which is also the lib dem policy. so greens are even more mad than lib dem. >> destroy the economy, destroy paintings . yeah. paintings. yeah. >> smoke weed every day, right . >> smoke weed every day, right. >> smoke weed every day, right. >> that was them. i think that was doctor dre. are hard to keep up green. let's do the telegraph then. johnson >> yes. so the headline in the telegraph is trump may tell nato allies to spend 3% of gdp on defence. so trump is considering ramping up his demand for military spending by nato members from 2% to 3% of gdp. so this has been influenced by his meeting with president duda of poland , who called for poland, who called for a significant increase of spending because of the threat or the perceived threat from russia , perceived threat from russia, and this will have different effects on different countries . effects on different countries. so in the uk, we've, opted to spend more. we've gone up from 2% to 2.5, but we're worried about going up to 3% because it's a lot of money. so my

theory is to lower the gdp and then you have to spend less on weapons. they're already working on it. >> yeah they're doing well. but green somse going quite aggressively at 3% apparently that's a tremendous percentage . that's a tremendous percentage. >> many, many people are saying it's the best percentage they've ever heard, but that is i mean, 2. a lot of people can't meet people, meaning countries , rishi people, meaning countries, rishi is talking about 2.5 wants to make us the largest defence power in europe. brackets that can't stop a few dinghies getting in. i mean, it's like it's a bit weird being the best defence power when you can't. we can't even police our own border. yeah. what do you think about this? it is important to spend on nato in this dangerous multi—polar world. oh, absolutely. >> and this, you know, part of this is sort of tubthumping by donald trump. i don't think 3% is a is a realistic amount right now, but i can tell you in about five years time it's going to seem like a realistic amount. you know, when china, invades taiwan, when, when, putin invades romania or wherever he decides to go next, or the baltics is 3% sort of arbitrary, or is there like almost a critical level you get to when you start spending that much?

>> because it seems to me not that much different. >> no, we need to we need to make our defence spending smarter as well. because, you know, even though we're in nato or sort of military is aligned across nato, we all have different tanks. i mean, there's certain nato standards, but we waste a lot of money developing our own individual tanks and planes and all the rest of it when we don't need to. >> but is that where is the money going to come from, though? number one, you'll probably say die and net zero and things. but number two, is there a danger if nato is too weak? don't you? do you feel like russia calls our bluff or nato's worth of china? and then we have to go to big to sort of we have to go to big to sort of we have to we'd have to end up using a nuke that probably doesn't even work anymore. yeah. no, that's a scenario we could get. >> we could get a lot of this money by just stopping. we would stop giving it to fat, lazy people who don't want to go to work. that's a that's a great way. you mean the civil service, the civil service? there's also all the people on, you know , all the people on, you know, sick, sick benefits and stuff, you know, telling me that, like, you know, telling me that, like, you know, telling me that, like, you know , however many people is

you know, however many people is like 10 million people are authentic , too sick to work in authentic, too sick to work in this country. i'm too sick not to work. >> the tories may be struggling in the local elections, but leo's going full tory tonight. let's do the, daily mail than leo. >> so the daily mail have rishi plotters give up and go to the pub. this isn't a new jk rowling book.it pub. this isn't a new jk rowling book. it sounds a bit like it, but yeah. so there's a plot to oust rishi sunak and replace replace him with, possibly penny mordaunt, possibly a wooden spoon with a face painted on it. i mean, any of them would be would be better options. possibly. but, but yeah, they've decided to . not and we're a few decided to. not and we're a few months away from the general election. there's not much point like, you know, swapping in. and also who'd want to who'd want to be prime minister forjust a couple of months? >> then you get the paycheque forever, though, if you've been liz truss. yeah. do you get the paycheque forever? once you've been in. so let's say you get in, you sneak in just before you know the end game. >> well, humza yousaf's going to get that pension is he gets a pay get that pension is he gets a pay off some like 50 grand a year forever or something, doesn't he? >> which is a lot in scotland.

>> which is a lot in scotland. >> it's a lot in scotland. yeah, yeah it's huge. i mean, i saw this, post or ex post or tweet from steven swinford. he said it looks like rishi will survive because none of these three things happened. so they wanted tories finishing third behind reform would have done it. ben hudson, is that how do you say his name to losing tees valley and andy street losing west midlands? but since they didn't happen, he's saying rishi squeaks through. yeah, because as you say it's kind of pointless at this stage. and penny mordaunt can't be the answer to really anything except the question who's good at carrying a big sword? >> yeah. and rishi starting to have some wins. i mean, the rwanda plan is finally coming together. there was something else that it did. well, i can't remember what it was maybe. >> or defence or. >> or defence or. >> yeah, all of those things, all of those things are, you know, generally pretty good. >> okay. well, a surprising for vote rishi there. he's going to get one vote at least. maybe. all right. that is a front pages deau all right. that is a front pages dealt with. but coming up why we randy is totally safe

soon. welcome back to headlines. i'm nick dixon, still here with leo

kearse catching up with his reading. there and jonathan kogan who only had one book. and he's given it away. all right so he's given it away. all right so he crack on then lads. and do the telegraph and his keir starmer losing his voter base by not hating israel enough leo well yeah pretty much so the muslim vote collapse is a major warning sign for starmer. >> see the telegraph. so labour's position on gaza is causing a collapse in the muslim vote, shown most starkly in oldham, where as party lost overall control of the council, but is also evidenced elsewhere. also harlow, a town that keir starmer visited twice, stayed loyal to the tories and labour failed to win the tees valley mayoral election. but the issue with the there sort of side issues the issue with the muslim vote, which is interesting because, you know, tony blair, when he opened the borders, apparently labour said there was the intention to rub the right's nose in it and sort of force diversity on the country. >> and then others actually said that. but carry on and tilt the tilt, the sort of electoral arithmetic in the favour of

laboun arithmetic in the favour of labour, who thought that, you know, these arrivals would vote for them. >> and for years muslims did vote labour, but now they're not happy with, you know, kyrees support for , for israel. and in support for, for israel. and in oldham we're a quarter of the population of muslim. the labour vote was down by eight percentage points. and in blackburn, with darwen there was even bleaker news for labour, where its vote share collapsed by 35. so that's that's really incredible. >> i mean, it's a tricky one for starmer because of course he's got the anti—semitism scandal, which generally people feel he's deau which generally people feel he's dealt with well, but then he suddenly runs into the not supportive enough of palestine issue. so he basically can't win. johnson. >> well, what's slightly concerning to me is that on british soil, one of the main contentious like within voting is a foreign war, a religious war. so, i mean, it's not just religious wars, political as well. obviously, there's all kinds of issues, but if this is a main, you know, point of contention , shouldn't it be a contention, shouldn't it be a something based here when you think, wouldn't you? >> that's very old fashioned of

you, jonathan. i think it was deaung you, jonathan. i think it was dealing with domestic issues. no, we should deal with all foreign conflicts throughout the world and let them destroy our society. i think. i mean, the far left of the party is going to be running well because people, the conventional wisdom is okay. starmer is winning a crushing majority. it's great times for labour. but of course, the small print is. but now his sort of far left. we've always seen owen jones defect and the sort of far left are going to pressure him. and that's what they're doing already. yeah. >> and we're seeing some crazy attitudes coming through in the younger generation. so there's a sort of this is an america. so it's not in the uk. but you know there's a lot of, replication across the two, the two countries, 40% of gen z, see, israel as a white supremacist country. and they've grown up the younger generation have grown up under blm, they've grown up under blm, they've grown up under blm, they've grown up with critical race theory, and they've grown up with being, you know, openly being allowed to demonise white people . so now they're looking people. so now they're looking around, they're doing it to other groups and obviously it's been acceptable to do it to white people, but it's not so acceptable to do it to an actual minority . minority. >> didn't know we could claim that one as well. that's impressive. yeah

>> you were telling me earlier that jews aren't white, wasn't it that that's a great way to cancel? no. i'm joking, it's joke. >> josh, i'll be writing a series of tweets. i mean , series of tweets. i mean, thanks, jonathan. i did not say that. for the record, thank you very much . i'm that. for the record, thank you very much. i'm just. that. for the record, thank you very much . i'm just. although very much. i'm just. although i have it is calm because i have used the. you were telling me before the show can see on other people before. but just lastly on this, it is sort of to me, it's always good when labour are losing votes, just like when, sadiq khan is losing votes, i say as the neutral host, but it's kind of good for the wrong reasons, because i hear that, like the mosque have sort of put out the word is i was reading this today, you know, don't vote for sadiq khan. so i'm not totally sure i'm comfortable with that kind of pressure on the vote. you know what i mean? >> what's that? a world that we're living in where sadiq khan isn't muslim enough for you. you know what i mean? i mean, this guy, it's not like he's, you know, sort of a, you know, a lily livered sort of, you know, just does it a little bit like, man, look into his background, look into, you know, who lives, who hands out council houses to who hands out council houses to who is represented, who he's been pals with. >> so don't go fully, anderson. your guess suspended from something. but. yeah, i mean,

yeah, it's a fair point, but it's all about gaza. it's all about again. he's not pro gaza enough. pro palestine and. yeah. yeah. so that's that's where they're losing tricky. i think it's an impossible situation because you've got to pick one right. you can't. could you sort of fudge it down the middle that starmer's tried to do that hasn't worked. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> no that's his whole thing being straight down the middle i know it's not worked on this. >> you've actually got to pick. >> you've actually got to pick. >> yeah. an identity politics has made everything so divisive. like there's no way you're going to be able to corral generation z into, you know, a pen that, you know, keeps them happy. yeah. yeah. >> like i like palestine. i also like israel. it'sjust >> like i like palestine. i also like israel. it's just not gonna work. all right, let's do the guardian. if for anyone who still has doubts about the rwanda scheme, don't worry. there's now a nice leaflet. jonathan. >> oh, yeah. this is sort of like a depressing edinburgh fringe analogue where you're kind of flyering for something that's going to be an inevitable failure. but it's okay. so detained asylum seekers given home office booklets saying rwanda is generally safe. so asylum seekers under rishi sunak deportation policy are being handed a colourful promotional document saying i'm being

released . that's not funny. i'm released. that's not funny. i'm being relocated to rwanda. what doesit being relocated to rwanda. what does it mean to me? i feel like just the image is quite funny. that's not just you, the just the leaflet, you know, such a serious matter. then getting a colourful leaflet as if it's like a, you know, everybody poops book or whatever. yeah. >> so you're being relocated. it's very , very simpsons. it's very, very simpsons. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> it's like margin call when he gets kind of made redundant. you know those big companies, they come and give you a leaflet with like a nice ship on the front. your next chapter. >> so you're mentally disabled. >> so you're mentally disabled. >> yeah. so you found yourself in rwanda. what does it mean. well, it means you're in trouble. probably but gone. but it was a very safe country. or to quote this, generally safe. yeah. not the most convincing word in britain then. yeah, yeah. >> it's fine. >> it's fine. >> safe . >> safe. >> safe. >> yeah. he's a nice guy, generally. all right. it kind of works i suppose. has a dark side, but yeah, i suppose a leaflet is better than no leaflet. you might, you might say i'm disgusted. >> my taxes have been spent on leaflets. >> yeah. the leaflet costs £75 million apparently. >> yes. they're really selling it. you'll be flown to the land of a thousand hills with a wild,

wide array of wildlife. it's like a safari. yeah, this sounds amazing. >> and you get £3,000 if you go voluntarily . so. and that's, you voluntarily. so. and that's, you know, that goes a long way in rwanda. i think this this is a mistake. in the leaflet they say if you feel that rwanda is not safe for you personally, you must notify us immediately in writing. so this is basically explaining the loophole that if you can show or if you can just claim that rwanda will be personally dangerous for you, then they won't send you. >> yeah. that's where you say i'm gay or something when you're not. yeah or i don't like wildlife in this case. you know, i don't want to be generally safe. i want to be totally safe. i don't know, but he's he's desperate to get the policy through, isn't he, rishi? so he just he's throwing all his leaflets at it. >> the good news is, is that i'm getting paid £14 an hour to hand out these leaflets. >> oh that's good. yeah. in rwanda or here, here. >> but i do have the option to go to. >> there might be a trap if they say if anyone offers you a trip to uganda. jonathan, you've got to uganda. jonathan, you've got to be careful with that. yeah, because i hear that, you know, it's can be one way. all right, well, i feel like we've dealt

with that rwanda leaflet. it's a little bit of a lightweight story, no pun intended. it was a bit intended. let's do the independent. and david cameron says ukraine has the right to strike inside russia. this probably makes him your new best mate. leo. >> yeah. so david cameron has said that ukraine is the right to strike inside russia with the british weapons that britain is giving it. so this is this is a good thing that rishi has done, unless you're one of these foaming mouthed, right wingers who for some reason, for some reason, suddenly have decided that ukraine is their enemy. i don't understand why people on the right are doing that. it's like, you know, even trump in 2014, you know, was not 2014, but trump. trump was one of the first people to step up and really arm ukraine. you think you know, he's just changed his mind for political reasons. anyway, i'll get to this. rishi sunak has pledged to give ukraine a billion support. and if you think, oh, our money shouldn't be sent to ukraine, don't worry, it's mostly decommissioned kit that we're basically, you know, we've got it in storage and we're getting rid of it so we can upgrade our stuff, upgrade our jets to, you know, f—35s or whatever it is, so it's like giving them our second hand clothes. exactly. >> we're off to next, like

vintage, but for so we don't need to pay for our, you know, our old kit to be stored anymore. >> this is probably saving us money. that's how smart rishi sunak is. but this is, to putin. this is another escalation. this is another red line, that you know, british weapons being fired, possibly with, you know, british troops on the ground assisting with the use of the weapons being fired into russia to kill russian soldiers. so, you know, he's going to be this is another unacceptable red line. but he said that about a million times. so it means nothing anymore. >> but isn't it? leo, i know you hate this. isn't it just prolonging an unwinnable war for ukraine? >> for putin? putin is prolonging an unwinnable war for russia. now we could we could end this war. the west could end this war. like next week when trump gets in, he'll probably end this war straight away. >> but won't he end the viktor orban way that orban's promised by just stopping funding for ukraine? isn't that what they mean? >> no, no no, no. if you stop funding for ukraine, then trump. sorry, putin will suddenly be in charge of not just the russian military. he will. he'll be in charge of the ukrainian military

as well. so you'll have the two best, most battle hardened armies in europe right in your doorstep. they're not going to stop. >> okay. so because a source said and we didn't get on to it with the trump nato story, but a source said that trump has a plan to end both wars. ukraine, russia and israel. so. but he won't reveal it. yeah, but what is his plan then, to end the ukraine? i mean, i don't know how you would have. >> i think you'd just be massively aggressive. >> that's that's his. that's always his plan. that works as a deterrent. but once you're in the war, it doesn't work as well, does it? because then you've got to back it up. yeah. >> no, i think trump will have no problem backing it up. >> but are you not worried about putin using these tactical nukes, these sort of mini nukes. but they're still nukes. you know, if it really comes down to it, won't he do anything to save face and win this war? >> yeah. i mean, the only way he can really save face, they'll make a golden bridge for him to retreat across. so they'll probably give him donbas or maybe say, you know, crimea, but really, i mean, putin, putin's vulnerable from within. if he loses the war and if he, you know, and if the russian economy, the russian economy has been doing incredibly well. but a lot of that is just, you know,

funded by it's a war economy. so it's funded by by state funding. i heard you say that on a different episode. >> jonathan. sorry. i'll let leo speak so much. not you, but he is kind of like this is his pet topic. like if he was on mastermind, it would be this. but anything to add? >> i can do the simpsons. >> i can do the simpsons. >> you're just going to stick with simpsons? yeah, because you look like one of them. doll. all right, fair enough. well, just one more before the break, then. let's do the telegraph. and a second boeing whistleblower has died just two months after his colleague was found dead with gunshot wounds in a car park. and i just want to say again, i love boeing and don't even own a whistle. yeah, it's my second boeing whistleblower dies suddenly in oklahoma. >> this is joshua dean, a former quality auditor at one of their suppliers, spirit aerosystems, who warned of manufacturing defects in the boeing 737 max. so he died on tuesday after developing pneumonia following a fast moving infection of influenza and mrsa. i mean, did he also have some real estate deals with the clintons? this is quite unusual for a 45 year old, and this comes just after , you and this comes just after, you know, in march a month ago, this other guy, mr barnet, was found

deadin other guy, mr barnet, was found dead in a vehicle. he was another whistleblower found dead in a vehicle in a hotel, hotel car park, having suffered a self—inflicted gunshot wound. he had been due to testify in a lawsuit against his former employer, so i think that's all completely above board. oh, yeah. >> love. nothing to see there. >> love. nothing to see there. >> great. >> great. >> guys. can you can you weaponize pneumonia ? weaponize pneumonia? >> well, ask putin, i mean, china, i mean, he died suddenly. and for once, it wasn't the vaccine . that's all i'm saying vaccine. that's all i'm saying is that is that allowed satirical content guys , the satirical content guys, the vaccine is very safe. boeing are very safe. everything's safe . very safe. everything's safe. >> they're not. they've had lots of accidents and they've had lots of lots of issues that have been.the lots of lots of issues that have been. the thing is, they've been focusing on die and, you know, making sure they tick all the boxes instead of like focusing on making the planes as absolutely safe as possible and not worrying about, you know, if people feel like empowered and stuff. >> yeah. and it's interesting they reported the $355 million net loss. so they might be thinking, oh, don't want any more losses. yeah. better clean up our loose ends. but not not

by doing anything untoward. of course that is it for part two before we get any trouble. but coming up iranian women spy on people for wearing trousers. women's cricket turns to ai and puppy yoga is women's cricket turns to ai and puppy yoga is banned. so put that dog down. we'll see you in a minute. i

oh, -- oh, sorry. hello. welcome back to headliners let's do the telegraph. and iranian women are dressing up other women for wearing fitted trousers, though. i mean, are there no roles left for patriarchal oppressors to actually be men? jonathan do you know what i mean? yeah. >> the taking all of our head jobs, it doesn't work. >> that kind of works. >> that kind of works. >> it kind of works. okay. all right. >> to a joke. >> to a joke. >> the headline is iranian women are portraying others to morality police for wearing fitted trousers , so a hardline fitted trousers, so a hardline iranian militia is hiring women to enforce the country's strict huab to enforce the country's strict hijab rules, using them to spy on other women and bundle

offenders into vans to be taken for interrogation. now, this is this is horrible. this is just despicable theocratic tyranny, where women are, you know, helping to stomp on the rights of other women , they're of other women, they're despicable snitches. in my opinion. this is not good. this is not good. this is, you know, this is this is really just an affront to women's rights, and i disagree with it . disagree with it. >> well, just for balance. yeah, i've got to give balance. you know, it's my job. i mean, you know, it's my job. i mean, you know, one of the women here is saying, look, we should intimidate them. so they stop going out as if it's paris or london. and you look at paris in london. and you look at paris in london these days, leo called cultural decline. you're like, hey, maybe they've got a point. >> no, i mean, i think if you look at paris and london, would you be able to tell the difference between tehran? >> another point i was making and i deplore, deploy and disavow it. >> but yeah, basically women love judging each other. i've written that . they do. yeah, written that. they do. yeah, they do an old patriarchal , they do an old patriarchal, patriarchal religions have been maintained and upheld by women . maintained and upheld by women. to be fair, it's not women. it's

not men deciding to go to church on a sunday. it's women because the whole system is set up to benefit. women are more traditionally concerned about social standards. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> the only people who shout at me to put on a face mask during covid were the ladies really? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> what were you doing, though? >> what were you doing, though? >> i was like, i was layering . >> i was like, i was layering. >> i was like, i was layering. >> yeah. they didn't like my face. they said, i look like miliband. >> it is disturbing because of course iran didn't used to have this. we all see those pictures from the 70s or whatever it is, and they're just like, it looks like a western country. yeah. so it is quite disturbing, especially to have other people snitching and enforcing. that's what i don't like. i don't i hate the snitching. yeah, i hate snitching and enforcing. you see a woman who would do that, you see a woman wearing trousers, like, tell you what, i'm going to the morality police. yeah. you know, what a loser. >> oh, i just can't wait till we've got it here. it's going to be so funny because, you know, it's gonna. it's going to happen. demographics is destiny. and you know what happened in hamtramck in michigan as soon as they had this critical mass to have, you know, a majority muslim council, the first thing they did was ban the pride flag. and i don't know if they're going to introduce morality police or anything. yeah, probably be unconstitutional in america, but i think it would

be. it'd be so funny to see all these like, women and lefties just being like, oh, but this isn't. >> i was trying to be nice. >> i was trying to be nice. >> i was trying to be nice when i said, you know, we should have the extreme far left policies and being incredibly tolerant of other cultures and stuff. and now these other cultures aren't being tolerant of me. yeah. >> i mean, that's what reminds me of michel houellebecq's novel submission, where, you know, the islamic party takes over very quickly . its trousers in this islamic party takes over very quickly. its trousers in this in the mall and actually people would just probably go along with it. you'd be amazed. people would just suddenly go along with it. yeah, quite quickly. we saw during covid how people would just go along with anything, and we saw it in this country about, you know, 200 years ago. >> so, you know, we know that, you know, we can do it. >> all right. well, that wasn't controversial. let's do the guardian and the england women's cricket team are using ai guardian and the england women's cricket team are using al to help with team selection. but is there a danger it will just select all men? leo. >> so the england women's head coach, john lewis, i get it, has revealed how he's using ai artificial intelligence as a selection tool and credits the technology with helping his side draw last summer's ashes series this is like moneyball, you know, sports teams.

>> i wrote moneyball, you wrote moneyball? >> yeah. we've got, we've come to you first for some of these. >> yeah. leo is using up all your gold. >> so, you know, using stats and stuff to find, you know, where you can get the hidden cheaper advantage over bigger teams. so they're able to run simulated teams using this ai versus simulated opposition. so they can tell how many times a female football player will fall over or cry, or try to kick the ball and miss. so it's incredible what they can do with computers. but this is cricket, isn't it? >> so. oh, is it cricket? kick the ball. that's messing up. >> i thought it was football. same thing. i mean, it's all cricket. it's not the same thing, but the same principle , thing, but the same principle, which is i, jonathan, and you can have ai managers that will say in football that would save loads of money. cricket managers, you could have ai spectators and then we don't have to bother watching incredibly boring sports. good point. i don't even have time to watch it anymore. i'm too busy. >> well, i'm a big fan of women's cricket. i was, i was hoping, that the ai here was going to be like a boston dynamics batting arm. that's why i was hoping to see just a

really powerful robots than ai, isn't it? >> but that would be a very powerful combination. that's true. okay, i feel like we've, you and me got everything out. i think even an ai would struggle to get more out of that story. so let's do the telegraph in italy has banned puppy yoga. it's like mussolini all over again. jonathan. >> the pasta , italy banned >> the pasta, italy banned stressful puppy yoga. so italy has banned puppy yoga, ruling that the fitness fad is too stressful for the animals. so this is sad. this is something i wanted to try. i don't want the little dogs to be suffering. you've got to be nice to the little critters. but how nice does that sound to just be doing a little bit of yoga and having, like, little puppies crawling all over you? that's not great to me, but i don't. >> i don't like yoga, but, i mean, i do like poppy. i was gonna say i don't like puppies, but what kind of monster doesn't like if it doesn't like, pees on the floor? >> no, no, they don't pee because they don't feed the dogs any food or water. well, at least they're doing torture. yeah, it is. that's why the rspca are shutting it down. >> yes, it's a commercial thing, leo. that's bad for the dogs. >> yeah. i don't even understand

what it is like. yoga is quite a niche interest thing anyway. but then, like, doing it with, like, puppies. yeah, that's they do with goats. >> they have different ones. they do. there's goat yoga. >> there's maybe one place that does that. nobody i've never seen a goat in a yoga studio in my life. i've never. like, i did yoga once. it was boring, but i don't know why people can't instead of harassing these puppies and stuff. if you get gerbils, they're very they're very placid , very kind natured very placid, very kind natured animals. they don't need all the care and attention . they're care and attention. they're desert animals, so they don't pee a lot anyway. so you get around the issue with puppies peeing on the floor, gerbil yoga, cerebral yoga . yoga, cerebral yoga. >> i think that's sort of autistic male brain like version . i think we're just the wrong audience for this. i think we're not getting it. nothing against the autistic community, but leo is just staring at me blankly now, thinking about gerbils. all right. anything else? jonathan? on on gerbils or puppies, i mean, we could bring in other animals . cow yoga. just have a animals. cow yoga. just have a big cow walking around. you need a flexible animal because it's yoga. >> use a snake, right? >> use a snake, right? >> good idea. snake yoga. >> good idea. snake yoga. >> there is cobra. cobra is a move. >> all right. okay, cool. smash that one. let's do the times.

and no one wants electric cars. now, is that because they're not as good as proper cars? leo. >> yeah, probably. so. electric vehicles have been heavily discounted to shift unsold stock. some motorists have been reluctant to buy electric cars because of fears about charging infrastructure . and also, the infrastructure. and also, the range on them isn't . i mean, if range on them isn't. i mean, if you're doing a gig somewhere 200 miles away, you're going to need to stay overnight. so you can you can charge your electric car, whereas with a petrol or diesel you just fill it up straight away. so the stalling sales of new electric cars have prompted a price war, with some brands offering discounts of more than 20. but they are expensive, so that's just bringing them down into the sort of, the price bracket , of of, the price bracket, of regular cars. and i feel like the first wave of buyers was incredibly enthusiastic, and they were like, oh, these are these are cool. these are new. my these are cool. these are new. my mate bought a tesla. he thought it was. it was so cool. it went so fast. it was great. but but now you've got the regular people who are just buying cars because they actually need a car. and electric cars aren't always, you know , the best for that. know, the best for that. >> so the fun as a gadget and

there's a, there are luxury car for someone who already has a different car. >> yeah, they don't even need this one really. >> and also the put pronouns on you as soon as you get in it and drive it. they put pronouns on you and they don't make a good noise like an electric car does. my noise like an electric car does. my car goes like this rah rah! whereas electric car goes like this. hey, rubbish noise . this. hey, rubbish noise. >> i guess the point of pronouns on you. what does that mean? no pronouns on you. pronouns on you. >> pronouns on you. >> then you've got a badge. not a badge. but you know what i mean. it's like the same sort of thing. >> hello, leo. >> hello, leo. >> then you log in him, you log to in your social media accounts. all of a sudden it's there. them and stuff you get, you get pronouns. there's a definite turn. >> the flipping people. trans jonathan, what's going on? >> well, i think part of the reason we're seeing a decline in electric car sales is because the reason why you buy an expensive car is to get clunge, and you don't get any with an electric car. so, yeah. and also now everybody's got one. it's fine . fine. >> you've checked that one. >> you've checked that one. >> i checked that word. >> i checked that word. >> i'll tell you what, not apologise . apologise. >> i'll tell you what's going to save electric cars. also, they've been hammered by higher

electricity prices as well. so it's not even cheaper to run them a petrol motor to generate them a petrol motor to generate the electricity of your car to follow you around. it's ridiculous. what's going to save them is robo taxis. as soon as you know elon musk, they've already got the self—driving technology. as soon as it gets approval and we have self—driving robo taxis, they're going to be cheaper because there isn't, you know, person making a wage off it. and they're going to be great because you just get in them and you go robo taxis. >> for a second, i thought you said robo taxis. i was like, oh, that's how they'll get us. but robo taxis is everywhere. >> 30% of jobs or something like that. i made that number up, but a high percentage of jobs are all driving, self—driving cars. >> it's not a symbol because they struggle with objects. you think, oh, it's so easy, but. but actually, they struggle with objects because as jordan peterson will tell you, for about three hours, it's not that clear what an object is. an object partly gains its meaning by our relation to it. we see it as a tool. >> do the voice. >> do the voice. >> i'm not going to do the voice, but we see it, you know. so a car an i can't necessarily discern the meaning of an object. >> that's true. but now they can. they couldn't for a long time. that was a hard problem.

yeah. you have multimodal but that that was very true for many years. >> so i love this face softening consumer demand. like if ever you're not getting any gigs you say no softening in consumer demand. all right. let's quickly do the independent. and martin freeman has turned his back on vegetarianism , presumably having vegetarianism, presumably having actually tasted actual vegetarian food. jonathan oh that's me twice. >> vegetarian foods. okay it's not vegan. vegetarian. sorry. it's like eggs. >> meat in it. >> meat in it. >> eggs is like a kind of meat. yeah. >> it's vegetarian. yeah, yeah, it's all right. >> sort of halfway between a meat and a veg. >> i've never eaten a vegetable anyway, john, we've got to go right. >> the headline is martin freeman turned his back on vegetarianism after 38 years. so he basically blames processed foods for the reason why he made the switch. he said he likes meat replacement things, but his reservation about them is that they can be very processed. and he's trying to eat less processed food. why didn't he just stop eating the fake meat then and just eat the normal vegetarian food? if he's got such a problem with it? >> someone here has said, well, it's the chief executive of vegetarian society, so let's bear that in mind. says it feels

like he's just giving in to his meaty cravings. >> yeah. and also the same person said, where he talks about tucking into a scotch egg and a pork pie. he should know that they're just as ultra processed. this is nonsense. scotch eggs are laid by scottish people. that's where we hatch from. and we have to sit in them and incubate them. >> and pork pies are the purest, best food you can eat. >> i'd say so. and i'd also say, well, freeman is quoted saying that switching to eating meat has led to the desolation of smaug, which is what he calls his toilet. >> oh, nice. good i was worried about where that was going, but it was. all right, let's let's move on. that is it for part three. but coming up in the final section, china goes to the dark side of the moon. liam gallagher threatens to do a gig at lidl and

welcome back to the final section of headliners. just put out a blanket apology for booking jonathan kogan and everything he said. but let's get into it with the sun. and china has sent a spaceship to the dark side of the moon.

reminds me of that pink floyd album. wish you were here, leo. nice. see what i did? >> that was a momentary lapse of reason jokes. >> there. >> there. >> so this is inside the new space race, where china and the us are battling to take over the skies as beijing prepares star wars, army and nukes. so china has launched an uncrewed lunar mission. we sent we sent people , mission. we sent we sent people, we sent real well, i say we it was america, but i mean, that thing where they pretended to go to the moon and did that really? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> yeah, we faked it. were real people. they're faking it. we're robots. and so they're going to bnng robots. and so they're going to bring back samples from the moon's dark side. for the first time in history, we've only been to the light side before, apparently. and the moon, of course, is locked in a geostationary orbit where it doesn't, doesn't spin because it's small enough for it to have, like, different, you know, be slightly unbalanced and of a different weight on one side. so it's the gravity of earth's gravity pulls it into and locks it into position. that's why it's always facing college boy , it's always facing college boy, there's so many areas of leo's nerdy, sean. >> you know, i thought it was

just weapons, but he's been reading about the moon. i mean, they colonising the moon. they've given up. bored of just africa and south america. then i'll tell you what. we'll colonise the moon. but then america is battling to america's sort of banking on mars. and china's going for the moon. what do you think, jonathan? >> i think, can't we just leave our squabbles at home and enjoy space for all of mankind ? and space for all of mankind? and just can't we all get along? >> what does that mean? >> what does that mean? >> i don't know, put me on the spot. have you read this? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> you're right, but what i thought. well, no. so the guy said, i can't remember who. he said, i can't remember who. he said, obviously you don't want to interfere with each other, but don't declare that this whole territory is suddenly yours. and that's what he's saying. when china go to the moon and say it's theirs, we can share it. it's fair. everybody's space is for everybody. >> this is the new cold war. who gets the dark water on the moon or something? yeah, yeah. >> and they'll be looking to place russia's already , looked place russia's already, looked to place nukes to take down satellites , yeah. and they're satellites, yeah. and they're looking at technology that will be able to shoot down because so much of modern warfare is dependent on, you know, gps satellites and communication satellites. so if you can, if you can take out the gps and return us to some sort of stone

age, none of us can use our satnavs age, none of us can use our satnavs anymore. age, none of us can use our satnavs anymore. man with a carrier pigeon. useless thing. yeah, right. >> that's the graham hancock atlantis. and only a few people in the amazon rainforest survive. yeah, yeah , it didn't survive. yeah, yeah, it didn't marjorie taylor greene say israel had killer satellites in the space or something. >> she says a bunch of stuff. >> she says a bunch of stuff. >> she says a bunch of stuff. >> she says a lot of things, and they're all true. let's do the daily star and liam gallagher says he'll perform a gig at little supermarket. when we fall, we fall hard. jonathan, nice. we got a decline, liam gallagher set to perform a gig at lidl supermarket amid co—op live venue drama. so after several gigs were cancelled at manchester's new co—op live arena, liam gallagher has told fans he'll perform in lidl if his gig suffers the same fate as all those other shows, so they cancelled a bunch of shows , cancelled a bunch of shows, including, peter kay and, some other stuff . and yeah, he's other stuff. and yeah, he's basically made a joke that he'll play basically made a joke that he'll play a little if this happens in a, in a slight to co—op. and yeah, pretty, pretty exciting little have made some hilarious puns out of it. >> so champagne. super offer. that's not very good. tiger, roll with it. that's really bad. some might say that's not bad.

little by little. >> little by little is pretty good. >> okay. is that one of their songs, yeah. >> little bar i went to. >> little bar i went to. >> yeah. it's not it's not one of the best songs. don't look back in anger. that's good. >> oh, because you're hungry. >> oh, because you're hungry. >> hungry? yeah. >> hungry? yeah. >> yeah, that's not bad. that's not bad, where did it all go wrong ? wrong? >> let's just keep reading these slowly. oh, that'd be good. tv because it's sponsored by co—op. right. >> so that's why he's referencing lidl. >> yes. that's it. leo, you've got a story . >> yes. that's it. leo, you've got a story. brilliant. >> yes. that's it. leo, you've got a story . brilliant. you've got a story. brilliant. you've grasped the basics. yeah. should we move on? yep okay, well, let's do the metro and scientists have created a mouse with a part rat brain to some of these people. have too much time on their hands. leo. >> no, this is this is this is actually really useful science. it's way better than doing, you know, working out what new pronouns you can have or how to develop a new pride flag or something. so scientists have created a frankenstein mouse with a part rat brain, so it's not as bad as it sounds. they're sort of saying it's frankenstein, frankenstein. you know, it's quite, quite a sort of horrific tale. this is this

is good. they put rat brain cells into mouse brains at the columbia university and the university of texas southwestern. so it's interesting they could do this while protesters were screaming at them, and it's sort of showing how these new brain cells can fill in gaps in the mouse brain. and the mouse brain makes the brain cells act differently so it can expand the flexibility of a brain and possibly provide, treatments for diseases such as parkinson's or alzheimer's or being a mouse. >> what do you think , jonathan? >> what do you think, jonathan? >> what do you think, jonathan? >> i think it's super interesting. so part of what happened with the mice is that their their sense of smell is developed because they took elements from the rat's brain that would increase basically that would increase basically that ability within the mice. and it just this is all very interesting and sci fi. what what animal elements could we put into our own brains to, to give us powers? i think i'd like a bat sonar, perhaps . a bat sonar, perhaps. >> okay, well, let's quickly do this one. so. oh, it's gone out of my thing. i was gonna it was about red squirrels that i wanted to do, but apparently that's gone. let's do the bible instead. then the mail. and it turns out the bible is true. i mean, i tried to tell you

earlier. >> yes, the ruins that could prove the bible was true. stretch of wall in ancient jerusalem vindicates the holy books account. archaeologists claim the whole of the bible is now true because of a wall, so it proves that you do go to hell if you covet an ox. and the stretch of wall at the eastern slopes of the city of david was long assumed to be built by hezekiah, king of judah. but an almost decade long study has revealed that it was actually built by his great grandfather, isaiah, after a huge earthquake echoing the account of the bible. so that's the . bible. so that's the. >> so they're off by like 40 years or 50 years or so. cool time scales, i don't know, it's blink of an eye, really. they're pretty close, it is the old testament, though. nick. so sorry . sorry. >> you're sort of saying you have a monopoly on that on the old testament. >> we can share it. >> we can share it. >> he calls it the proper one. yeah >> okay. well, we've got 30s. i banked on doing that red squirrel story. >> do the red squirrel joke. >> do the red squirrel joke. >> then let's do it. we can't do the red squirrel. the red squirrel. the only thing is, it's about red squirrels have

emerged as a likely source of leprosy. and my joke was going to be. but then again, that did come from grey squirrel weekly. see how that would have been a good! see how that would have been a good i love that. i love that at the last minute. >> yeah . >> yeah. >> yeah. >> all right. we're, 10s left. anything you want to add from tonight's show? that was good. >> the mayor of london has just been announced. it is count binface. okay, count everybody. >> one absolutely smashed. all right. thanks, guys. good show. let's have another quick look at the front pages. i'm furious inside. so the mail has rishi plotters give up and go to the pub.the plotters give up and go to the pub. the times has victory for tory mayor helped sunak to cling on the telegraph. sunak. we have everything to fight for. on the telegraph. sunak. we have everything to fight for . very everything to fight for. very positive spin on the local elections. the daily express rebels kill plot to oust rishi. for now, the guardian tories crushed by worst election result in years . the daily star, smithy in years. the daily star, smithy and nessa to wed which is something to do with gavin and stacey that none of us understood. and those were the front pages. that is it for tonight's show. thanks to jonathan and leo, headlines is back tomorrow at 11 pm. if you're watching at 5 am, stay

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i >> -- >> it's -_ >> it's 7:00. time to take stock of where we are. with the sensational results and indeed, rumours of what's yet to come. we'll be talking through. it's all the local elections 2024. the labour gains with shadow minister steve mccabe, the conservative losses with tory minister steve baker and perhaps some of those tory klingons . but some of those tory klingons. but also in the next hour you'll hear from reaction from nigel farage. might reform have underperformed tonight, but also george galloway will be here to talk through his candidates, particularly in rochdale. all that to come and more with experts , psephologists and those experts, psephologists and those that know perhaps what might happen tomorrow. all that to come after your news headlines with sam francis .

with sam francis. >> tom, thank you. and a very good evening to you from the newsroom. it'sjust good evening to you from the newsroom. it's just gone 7:00 and leading the news tonight. sir keir starmer claims that labour's gains in england's local elections are, he says, a direct message to the prime minister as he renewed demands for rishi sunak to call a general election . so far general election. so far labour's gained more than 140 seats and taken control of seven more councils in england. the labour leader is also hailing what he calls a truly historic moment, as his party won the mayoral race in york and north yorkshire. in the prime minister's own constituency. meanwhile, the prime minister has insisted he's focusing on the job at hand after those disappointing local election results. the conservatives have lost a number of councils and more than 350 seats across england. however the party managed to retain tees valley, with ben houchen being re—elected there. rishi sunak has said that result is evidence that people will, he says stick with the conservatives, come the general election and the liberal