undermining britain's says are undermining britain's national security. and that news comes as it's been confirmed more than 9000 migrants have crossed the english channel in small boats this year. official figures show 250 people made the journey since monday , taking the journey since monday, taking the tally for 2024 to almost 8800. however, gb news can confirm another three small boats arrived on thursday and all this comes after a home office u—turn over the publication of the number of small boat migrants being prevented from making the illegal journey by french police . the chancellor has welcomed the bank of england's decision to hold its base rate, saying it's better to not rush into cutting rates. it's been left the rate unchanged for a sixth time at 5.25. now governor andrew bailey suggested a cut may be possible as early as june, but says it's by no means a done deal. jeremy hunt has urged the bank not to take risks with inflation. >> i welcome the fact that the

bank of england is obviously thought about this very hard. they take this decision independently and i would much rather that they waited until they're absolutely sure inflation is on a downward trajectory, and rushed into a decision that they had to reverse at a later stage. what we want is sustainably low interest rates. and i think what's encouraging is that the bank of england governor for the first time, has expressed real optimism that we're on that path i >> israel's made it through to the final of the eurovision song contest in sweden amid pro—palestinian demonstrations protesting against its participation. thousands of people packed the city's historic market square before a planned march through the city. israel's entry, eden golan was booed last night, but she got a more mixed reception earlier with some cheers of support . and with some cheers of support. and fifa's been threatened with legal action by global football leagues and players unions if it doesn't reschedule. next year's expanded club world cup. 32

teams, including chelsea and manchester city, will now compete in the competition, which will take place in the us next june . but a letter sent to next june. but a letter sent to fifa president gianni infantino says the sport's new schedule is beyond saturation . it will cause beyond saturation. it will cause economic harm for domestic leagues and poses a significant injury risk to players. fifa has yet to comment. well, for the latest stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts, scan the qr code on your screen or go to our website for more details. now it's website for more details. now wsfime website for more details. now it's time for headliners . it's time for 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 undercover, pro—palestine activist josh howie. he's very undercover and undercover feminist cressida wetton. how are you both.7 yeah, i know it's not quite as perfect, but you're more of a

difficult to pin down character than josh. >> it's good ties. you've got a haircut and you know what else is new.7 yes, haircut and you know what else is new? yes, we've got new seats, right? we've got new people are saying, what's going on? gb news? what's going with the producer? we've got new seats. we're not going anywhere here. yeah, we're doing brilliant. you don't get new seats when things aren't going good. >> but did anyone know josh , >> but did anyone know josh, that the seats about the previous seats, did they know what seats were on previously? they were terrible. yeah, yeah , they were terrible. yeah, yeah, it's so good. you okay? josh, i'm just so happy. >> we've been asking for new seats. you seem. it's a sign that the gods are looking on us and shining and going, recognising us for our great work. >> yes. it's where the. it's the money. they're not paying me has gone into the seats. but it's worth it, you know it is worth it. you know what, josh? that's going to be an hour in a mainstream media article, presenter goes mad about seats on gb news. the metro is going to be all over that . to be all over that. >> oh, this is my. i'm gonna go viral. >> i know as nothing is that is that will be a story. how are you, cressida? >> i'm fine. yeah. >> i'm fine. yeah. >> i'm fine. yeah. >> i mean, this is very exciting. you don't care about your new seat the other day.

>> and you know what, josh, i underplayed it. >> i regret that i did. you can't. the audience at home don't get it. because the way this new seat, the way it's cupping my buttocks, it's like i'm going to be so funny for you tonight because of this seat . tonight because of this seat. okay, talk about your buttocks. twitter is already seems like a great moment to go to the front pages, so let's do the daily mail and worst whooping cough outbreak in 40 years. >> the telegraph has. hunt urges banks not to rush rate cuts. the guardian goes with fear and trepidation as 100,000 people flee raf bombardment. the mirror whooping cough warning the times has truancy up by a fifth on fridays. and finally, the daily star. we want to see big pictures of uranus. if i just said that on my own , it would be said that on my own, it would be a big problem. but it's on the daily star, so it's fine. those are your front pages. and what is on the front of the times? >> josh, do you think that did it what you just said? yeah. is

that recorded? i have no idea i missed it. do you think the audience heard what you said? it's funny. >> if they heard it or not. >> if they heard it or not. >> isn't it? it is funny. do you want to say what you said again? >> i just said nailed it, mate. but i thought it would be hilarious if they hear it or if they don't. that took a big risk. either way, it was good. >> it was. thank you. nailed it. >> it was. thank you. nailed it. >> but you laughed at me so at me, with me, with you. was it with it? >> felt at. well, it's his catchphrase, isn't it? he likes saying nailed it, nailed it. >> people like it. josh. >> people like it. josh. >> no, no. it's good. be airy. big numbers. the times very exciting here. angelina jolie and brad pitt are back together, which is amazing. oh wow. oh no. that's an old photo. okay, so that's not so great. i thought that's not so great. i thought that i thought falklands veteran. >> oh man, i thought nature was healing. >> i thought it was like brexit was gonna be reversed. you're desperate for good news, aren't you? this is this is all good. oh, well, all right then. truancy up by a fifth on fridays. oh, we've had this a lot , these kind of since lot, these kind of since obviously covid and since the government and the opposition showed how flippant they would be with our children's education. then guess what? then

parents went, oh, well, i guess if no one's that bothered then we will go away for a long weekend , right? weekend, right? >> if nothing matters. yeah, yeah. >> if our children's education doesn't matter. >> they showed it wasn't important. i absolutely agree with you. so what are you going to do? >> you know, i mean, it is important. and we should. but but that was the example that they gave, correct? >> it's just human nature, isn't it? it's like when they put us in lockdown. everyone who is in the laptop class went, oh, this is great, i'm going to finally write that novel . write that novel. >> and very few people emerge from lockdown with a novel. a lot of people had beer bellies, drinking problems, those sort of fun things, yes, but they did use that exact voice. >> i like that impression of the sort of classic guardian easter. but you know what? i agree on all this. there's one thing i would add, though. people are kids are taking time off now for minor ailments. that didn't happen when i was younger. major ailments. you went in. i remember second year junior school. my mum sent me in there. take me out of class. i was literally shaking before that was a meme. i was literally shaking. >> you're always shaking. >> you're always shaking. >> no, i had a i had actual temperature, but my mum was like, go in anyway. you'll get a in two days. you can have two days off. she meant the weekend. okay. that's what she used to

say. but now it's minor ailments. >> well, i once broke my collarbone and my parents just ignore me for the whole dinner party. true story. >> that's dark. and i believe that about your childhood. yeah. okay. maybe we should move on on that bleak note and do the guardian questionnaire. >> fear and trepidation has 100,000 people flee rafe bombardment, yeah. so more people are fleeing in gaza, so un officials say yesterday that's where the figure comes from. 100,000. >> i know sometimes the figures come from hamas. >> these are from un. well, they're not dead or anything like that. they're just saying that 100,000 people have fled. they haven't said, by the way, that they fled because they were given leaflets and given telephone calls and said to get out so we can prevent civilian casualties. >> exactly, it's not because hamas went round and knocked on their doors and said, we don't want you guys to come to any any trouble. >> do do leave . >> do do leave. >> do do leave. >> yeah. i was hoping you were going to do a sort of arabic accent. >> absolutely not. josh. >> absolutely not. josh. >> no, i mean, it's terrible, isn't it? >> who would want to be

displaced in a war zone? it's horrendous . horrendous. >> josh, without getting mad, do you agree that this rafah thing is losing israel popularity in the world? that it's that it's like a i think that people hate jews and this is the excuse that they need. is there no legitimate case for people who are just concerned? i mean, even even the us? biden. yeah. >> no , no, biden is being >> no, no, biden is being pathetic. they're all being pathetic. they're all being pathetic. if anybody could give me a solution of how to defeat hamas without going into rafah, i think that's brilliant. and without any , any civilian without any, any civilian casualties in a war that israel didn't start, then . yeah. say didn't start, then. yeah. say it. that's what no one ever says is how do you defeat hamas? israel cannot have hamas on its border. that's just the reality. nothing is going to change that. israel has to get back its citizens, by the way, including five us citizens as well, that biden seems to have chucked under the bus and never mentions. so what can they do? they are in a position if you know hamas could surrender, of course they could give up the hostages. they could surrender and then save casualties, save people's lives. but of course, hamas doesn't care about that

anyway. it's so annoying when people sort of give all of their sort of, oh, israel has a ceasefire . we can't israel can't ceasefire. we can't israel can't go in. we'll say what they should do then just give up. >> i suppose. i suppose if you're gonna make the counterargument very briefly, i suppose it would be you're not going to knock out hamas type groups anyway, you know, a bit like some people think ukraine is unwinnable. if it's unwinnable, it's just more. >> no, no, it's very winnable casualties. but that's the thing is, it's very winnable. israel has already defeated a huge amount of hamas members. it's not like they don't have the technological ability to defeat hamas. it'sjust technological ability to defeat hamas. it's just they want to kill or want to ensure that the least amount of civilians die as they do so. so, i mean, the idea that it's a genocide that's going on when they've deliberately held back to prevent exactly that is ridiculous. and as you say, 100,000 people are leaving. israel is letting the idf are letting them go, letting the civilians out, encouraging them to get out so they can get in and destroy hamas. so okay, but there's a big story here, though, by the way, which is sort of hidden in the corner. starmer pledges to rip up rwanda

scheme. so this is starmer with a policy which is interesting. his idea is to defer the 775, 75 million or so and make invest that in the police to kind of investigate these, people traffickers and whatnot. you know, it's a plan. maybe it'll work. >> i don't know, it's just vaguely depressing. the amount of energy money and time has been spent on rwanda. and as soon as he gets in, it'll be like in the bin. but that's politics, isn't it? that's the system we have. what about the daily mail, then? josh? >> yeah. worst whooping cough outbreak in 40 years. five babies dead as experts blame for fall in vaccination rates. that could be obviously pre—covid we had the old the old, mmr jabs and all that furore back then. but the sad i mean, god, it's just you can't even imagine the stress and the horror of what's happened here. but three of the five grieving mothers had had the jabs during the pregnancy specifically to protect their children. so the fact that this. >> yeah, well, that's not going to give people much faith in the jab then, is it?

>> well, they're saying that it's got this, this particular type. yes. is less effective as a less effective version . and a less effective version. and it's just stories like this are just too horrible to contemplate, i think. >> and there's a slightly more light—hearted story. >> and there's a slightly more light—hearted story . stormy light—hearted story. stormy daniels if i'd made up my story about sex with trump, i'd have written it a lot better. but i don't think that actually stands up in court as a legal defence. but anyway, what about the daily star, then? >> the daily star? >> the daily star? >> we want to see big pictures of uranus, so some space boffins want to launch an up close and personal mission to uranus so they can photograph what's lurking there, lol , yeah. it's, lurking there, lol, yeah. it's, it's a new mission. >> why is there a picture? is that rishi sunak? it's a picture of rishi sunak. that rishi sunak? it's a picture of rishi sunak . yeah, with of rishi sunak. yeah, with a rocket on it. is that what he's going to be doing after the election? yeah. >> flying off new role as a space boffin. he is quite smart, apparently, though maybe not competent enough to be actually in space. i'm not sure i love the star. if anything ever did happen to gb news, i hope i could go and write for the star you just take. it's just a bingo game. you just take boffins. seagulls. yes, a few other terms . you just smash them up.

>> i know, but i feel like the same time they've messed up this front page because in the, in the again in the left corner is elvis was in my bacon. i feel like that's a much more important, relevant story than in the big pictures of uranus. i feel like they should have. that should have been the header. >> well, it's the star. it could be back on the front page within weeks. >> josh, i hope you might get to do it yet. >> yes. all right. well elvis was in my bacon or uranus. i'm not sure which is the most pressing story you decide at home, but that is a front pages deau home, but that is a front pages dealt with and coming up nadhim zahawi steps down. natalie elphicke starts her apology tour and eurovision gets nasty. also, we're hosting a night with headliners live and you can join us all for an evening of comedy with andrew doyle leo varadkar, simon evans and even josh. i was ianed simon evans and even josh. i was invited but i wasn't available. so for more information, scan the qr code on screen or visit gbnews.com. there it is. you got a fancy qr code which i forgot was coming up. i'll bring the chair. >> i'll bring the chair. >> i'll bring the chair. >> yeah, i've tweeted it as well. >> it made more sense to do my

welcome back to headliners. i'm nick dixon, still here with josh howie and chris dan wootton. haven't bothered writing an extra joke for the second bit, but. so let's just crack on and do the metro , right? yeah. it's do the metro, right? yeah. it's fine. i'm comfortable with it. let's do the metro and this next story sounds like the most horrific thing we've ever covered. pretty much ever. but if you actually read it, it's even worse. josh, it sure is. >> man jailed for 22 years for making testicles salad then eating it. that is not a euphemism that is a real testicle salad. this is a guy called his nickname the eunuch maker. i wonder why that is. and he performed illegal castrations live streamed them on the dark web and was jailed for 22 years. illegal >> that's the problem. that's what bothered me about this story. the illegality of the castration. yes. well, a good old legal one, but not not illegal because some of these people actually gave him permission. >> that's the crazy thing. that's that's a huge part of the story. yeah. it's a very so this is eating their corn and i know

this is. yeah. and he also this is a separate thing. but the nhs was forced to amputate his leg because he froze it. and then he had his own willy nipple . so but had his own willy nipple. so but the difference is that when he did it like and got paid is the difference between, people chopping like people who work for the nhs, chopping off healthy bits of children when they think they've got gender dysmorphia. so that's the difference. there it's a big deal difference. there it's a big deal. obviously we're talking mental health issues here. >> i don't think the nhs are streaming it either. >> i know i'm not streaming, but doctors are getting paid to, yeah , to do terrible things to yeah, to do terrible things to children 22 years. >> this does send a clear message, doesn't it, to anyone else who's thinking of, of doing this. >> yeah. no copy, no copycat crime. >> feel appropriate, yeah. he was a married before this . was a married before this. >> amazingly, that was very upsetting after he got married. but no, it started after he. >> his relationship broke down. okay, so it sounds like the defence or the explanation is it's to do with control, but i just thought it was stunning that somebody was into doing this. had found a partner. i

think that's amazing . think that's amazing. >> that is shocking. that's like. that's like give you hope. that's like how that's horrible. that's like how that's horrible. that's like how that's horrible. that's like that's like how ted bundy has had a girlfriend. he's like, oh, he's nice when you get to know him and all this madness. anyway, apologies for anyone trying to get sleep or eating their breakfast. just blanket apologies to everybody to the nation. yeah. all right, let's move. >> but not to matthew sweet who's trying to clip this. definitely not. >> let's do the guardian and nadhim zahawi has announced he'll be standing down as an mp at the next election. i think i speak for all of us when i say, yeah, cool. whatever. >> cressida nadhim zahawi to stand down as mp at the next general election , so he's he's general election, so he's he's the latest in a long line of conservative mps to pack it in. he's the 64th, lucky 64, is it? no. oh well he'll find out won't he, so this is the guy who was briefly the chancellor under boris, and then he eventually got sacked because he didn't declare an hmrc investigation , declare an hmrc investigation, which he had to pay £5 million for as you do. which is funny , for as you do. which is funny, isn't it? i work with money and i'm being investigated. >> but angela rayner, you know, that second house situation,

there's look, there's a lot going on, isn't there, with everyone, anyway , so he's done everyone, anyway, so he's done this letter and that's really the significant part of this for us, he's done this, this letter that sort of , us, he's done this, this letter that sort of, arguably a bit over the top. yeah it's like a sort of poetry. it's got some some shakespeare in it. i know you've got some specific quotes. yeah, i think we've got it up or we've got a picture of it, think. >> okay , here we go. a haiku. he >> okay, here we go. a haiku. he begins, with the exception of convincing my wife to marry me, it's been the greatest honour of my life to represent the people of stratford on avon. and later on, he gets quite into. he goes every morning as i shave my head in the mirror, i have to pinch myself. and later he even even talks about my most famous constituent. he means shakespeare once wrote , go to shakespeare once wrote, go to your bosom, knock there and ask your bosom, knock there and ask your heart what it doth know. so yeah, you got a bit carried away. and he says, parting is such sweet sorrow. it's like all right. you were chancellor for two months. just made it in a little bit, you know what i mean? but, you know, i'm sure he's a nice guy. it's nice to see a different type of letter, but it was just a bit like, just say, you know, i'm off. the

tories a toast. see you later, right? >> yeah. i never get my pension. whatever. he also says here helping his constituents in the time of need remains one of the most meaningful things i've ever done. so it means he did it once . yeah, that's not true. >> poor old nadeem. i mean , it's >> poor old nadeem. i mean, it's just. i mean, the reason i don't really care. i mean, i'm sure he's a great guy, as i say, but i just the tories are just of course they're all leaving. i mean it just now or in a few months after you lose the election doesn't really matter, does it? yeah >> sinking ship. yeah. >> sinking ship. yeah. >> get in there first. just quick, quick before getting there. >> 64th. yeah. >> 64th. yeah. >> all right. done that one. let's do the mail. and thousands of protesters are calling for the israeli eurovision singer to be excluded from the competition. it must be a pretty bad song. josh. yeah, imagine how bad it is. >> yeah, israeli eurovision singer, eden golan is, ordered to stay in a hotel room by a security team. thousands of pro—palestine protesters, including keffiyeh wearing greta thunberg, gather in malmo, calling for her to be excluded. this 20 year old jewish woman and people saying leave her alone as she's they're protesting. she's 21. so i think

we could say whatever we want to about greta when she's bullying about greta when she's bullying a 20 year old. oh yes. if you see like the thousands of people outside this poor young woman's hotel room, and she was escorted to the venue, like, with, like, a hundred police cars and an armoured vehicle. i mean , this armoured vehicle. i mean, this is, like, just nasty stuff. this is, like, just nasty stuff. this is meant the whole eurovision. the whole point of it is to be a sort of celebration of what makes us the same. and having a bunch of barely concealed racists shouting out, because this young jewish woman is singing, representing the only jewish country in the world, is ridiculous. it's disgusting . it ridiculous. it's disgusting. it makes me very upset. >> yeah, it does seem very silly. and all this kind of excluding people. it reminds me of the russian tennis players when they were banned. but then again, eurovision has always been very political. what do you think, crystal? >> i think her attitude towards this, the singer, is just extraordinary. that she's carrying on. i mean, i would be in no mood for performing at this point when there's thousands of people she got through, by the way. >> she got through the quarterfinals. she's going to be in the final, right? >> i just found out like, okay, well, that's extra ordinary.

yeah. she initially went in with a song called october rain and then claimed it didn't have any, it wasn't a political song. i mean, is she very naive? that's that's bizarre . that's bizarre. >> slash doing a guitar solo. i mean, that's quite close to november rain. i'm no scholar. but now being hurricane, right now, they've changed it. >> right? >> right? >> okay. yeah, but it's okay. november rain. but it's october rain. okay. i've got it now. but here's the thing though. i heard this the other day, this just for a bit of colour on this story that eurovision apparently the reason we don't want it and put in rubbish songs is because it's so expensive. yes. and it's been bankrupt. >> the island that was a plot of father ted was it? yeah. they kept on winning. father ted was it? yeah. they kept on winning . ireland kept on kept on winning. ireland kept on winning. and so they. that's why they allowed father ted to sing in the competition. so they would deliberately lose because they didn't want to. they didn't want to host it. >> i forgot that one. apologies to graham linehan and apologies to graham linehan and apologies to friend of the show and ireland friend of the show. yeah. all right. well i thought that was an interesting. turns out it wasn't. it was just an old sitcom plot. oh well, let's do the times then. and natalie elphicke has joined labour and she's already fitting in by condemning men. cressida natalie elphicke apologises for comments

defending husband, so she's defected from the tories on wednesday, gone to labour and she's apologised for defending her former husband after he was convicted of sexually assaulting two women, so the story is saying that she's doing this because as she goes into labour, there's quite a few people who are not that thrilled about her being there, and so she's kind of digging this old story up, it was really an attempt to sort of make peace with some people in the party. and she's she's. previously when this was all happening, she defended her husband. and i mean, who knows what she presumably she thought she was doing the right thing at the time . i mean, it's the time. i mean, it's incredibly distressing, isn't it? if somebody suddenly finds out that their partner is actually a sex, what's inappropriate term, is making unwanted advances to women. that's very distressing. >> well, it's actually he was convicted of sexually assaulting two women. >> yes, but what i'm saying is, at the beginning of that beginning, she didn't necessarily defend your husband at all. >> she defended him after he'd been convicted. well, that's.

well, i mean, i'm not saying is that people are in denial about things, aren't they? >> and that, you know, who knows? but anyway, she's now , knows? but anyway, she's now, she's now, sort of coming out and saying she shouldn't have done that. she's apologising for defending him , but really, the defending him, but really, the whole tone of it is what a strange person to be going to labour after some of the things she said about them. and she's described keir as being too soft. she thinks he wants open borders and then just at the last minute she's kind of jumped ship and gone where the where the jobs are still available. >> yeah, i feel like she'll have to constantly apologise for things and it'll just never be well, she she's standing down in the next election, the election. >> so this is really so she can get some sort of advisory role in housing, which is her speciality supposedly. not that tories have really build many houses over the last 13 years. >> so the advice will be build some. yeah, yeah. >> by the way, now you're in government, maybe build some houses , but there is. yeah. as houses, but there is. yeah. as you were saying, chris, there is this dilemma because it's, it's another way to kind of stick it to the tories. yet at the same time, is this the kind of person that they necessarily want on board? and being a now a labour

like, does she align with what traditional labour values for example, so this is, this is the balance that they have to decide. but i think the crux of it is because she's, is she dover ? i think so somewhere dover? i think so somewhere she's a coastal town. so that i think allows keir starmer to play think allows keir starmer to play into this whole immigration element. and that's why they've sort of gone through that. yeah. >> but i mean, labour trying to be all things to all people is dangerous. they alienating the left of the party because they're mental. but you know, they're mental. but you know, they're alienating some of the left over israel—palestine. yeah. but they far left. but they're alienating. they might alienate people by taking in random tories. so it was the second one. they've taken in as far as i know. yeah. i mean, you know, the other guy was the doctor the other week, but it's i do wonder if they can go too far with this other penny mordaunt made a sort of quip in parliament today. did you see that? she said she's she's not going to defect. she's too left wing for labour. that's funny. the problem is she actually probably is. i mean, she's so left she's probably agreed. so i'm not sure it kind of works if you really are just a woke

lefty. that's witty. it was witty, but sort of too accurate for me. but anyway, that's my little beef. but let's do the telegraph then. and i hate to shock anyone watching at home, but it turns out banks do pretty much whatever they want. josh? >> yeah, banks are law unto themselves. as mortgages rise and savings rates drop, themselves. as mortgages rise and savings rates drop , this is, and savings rates drop, this is, this this month's announcement that the rates are going to stay the same. this is the sixth month in a row, there was this expectation that mortgage rates would start dropping at some point because saving rates have been dropping. and there is a discrepancy between the two banks will go, oh no, it's different for mortgages. it's different for mortgages. it's different , you know, if different, you know, if someone's making money somewhere. but as we've just seen on one of the front pages, the expectation is that next month will be maybe the first drop, which could then lead to more and more drops. but it is strange that we are having mortgage rates actually going up in some cases, as things have stayed flat. >> so absolutely. >> so absolutely. >> yeah. and you're, you're trying to i'm trying i'm trying to dry land. >> so for once, silly bit of money sitting in my bank, not making as much as it could and

trying to find a mortgage at the same time. >> so i'm their perfect customer , really, aren't i? i need to get online and sort all that out , yeah. >> but they never pass on the savings to the customer. that's what i've noticed. you think they will be passed on soon? i don't really understand it. >> i'm not sure, because apparently relying on the bank rate to determine how much they would pay savers did not necessarily reflect the full range of retail banking dynamics , and that this is the good part. >> this is why it's good to get comics on the show, this type of show, i think because it just shows like what just normal idiots are like , yeah, yeah, idiots are like, yeah, yeah, we're just three idiots. >> yeah, i don't understand any of this. and i'm too tired to read it properly. i'm like, it's about i've got my i think people can relate to that. >> yeah. i think people are like, yeah, good. look, there are some other idiots out there who don't know what's going on with their bank accounts and their mortgage. >> well, we need someone on the show who knows about economics, but that's like all the other shows. >> yeah, exactly. that's what. that's what i'm trying to say. that's what i'm trying to say. that's exactly what differentiates differentiates. >> this is the usp. we don't understand the economy. >> what's going i don't know what to do. i just want to start crying. >> yeah. we should bring on someone just for a little like two minute snippets about the

economy. but they also don't know, all right. that is it for part two. but coming up, malfunctioning brain implants, which i think just happened to some of us there i porn

welcome back to headliners. so let's get straight into it. with the times. and a rare , the times. and a rare, heartwarming story for headliners chris gunter. >> that's right. toddler born deaf can hear after world first gene therapy. oh how good is that? so when opal sandy was four days old, doctors told her parents that she was completely deaf. parents that she was completely deaf . 18 months later, she's had deaf. 18 months later, she's had this new fantastic treatment and she can now says hear delights in hearing cutlery slammed on a table, all the sounds of a tinkling piano. i bet that was fun for the parents for the first 20 minutes, wasn't it? that and now she's going around banging pots and pans and making noise. but anyway . that's great. noise. but anyway. that's great. so this is, she she was born deaf with, a condition called auditory neuropathy, where the nerve impulses that transport

sound to the brain are disrupted . so it just didn't work. and now this trial led by cambridge university, is using the latest gene therapy to deliver a working copy of the gene to cells in the ear, replacing the faulty ones. it's magic. it's amazing. it's breakthrough. yeah she's called opal sandy, although i call her starburst. sandy that's a joke from about ten, 15 years ago. >> it's good, but i just. i feel like there is that i feel a bit sorry that she's now going to know that her name is opal. sandy. >> oh, i see what you mean. she's here alone now. >> she's here. i'm just saying, that's the one downside to this. >> i always hated the deaf. he's done jokes about him in his set for years. >> yeah. it's true, yeah. it's true, but but this is your one issue. pro—israel hates the death. >> like those two, no, the joke is say what you like about the death. >> yeah, about deaf people, wasn't it? but it's good. it's good. >> and then that's it. just stop. sign is. that's it, that's it, that's it. >> and it's a good joke. but but but very cruel. and in the modern world, you'd be

cancelled. >> this is i, this is my secret. is that videos of deaf kids getting cochlear implants, is that what they call it? or getting glasses like babies getting glasses like babies getting glasses like babies getting glasses and hearing or seeing their for parents the first time makes me cry. like i just watch those videos over and over again, and every time they can see their parent for the first time and they smile, or they hear their parents and they start like, and the parents start like, and the parents start crying, i start crying , i start crying, i start crying, i just watch them over and over again. i'm obsessed with, oh, that's nice. >> no, you have feelings. i do have, i do, but it's the only thing that makes me thing. >> the only thing that makes coming home. not even my own children hates children . no. children hates children. no. >> no children likes children in these videos or hearing. that's it. this is. it doesn't even like children. >> it makes me feel like i'm jesus when i watch the video. >> how dare you? i know you're insulting christians, but also why do they use this? >> it's a start. just the beginning of gene therapy . this beginning of gene therapy. this is so exciting. there are two issues here for me, number one issues here for me, number one is i feel like. yes, making deaf babies here is good, but maybe they might want to have started with hair. yeah, yeah, yeah. okay. that's all i'm just

saying. i'm throwing that one out there. where's our funding? yeah. okay. and number two is channelled all this money into big ear on a on a slightly more serious note, there are people who are deaf who are quite militant about their deafness, and they're very proud of their deafness, and they're very like they won't well, they won't know, but they won't get like the implants. they want to stay deaf. they just want to do sign language. and they're very clear about it. and they see people getting the implants as a sort of betrayal of really? it's true. yeah, yeah, that's quite odd. >> i've never heard that before. ihave >> i've never heard that before. i have heard don't defend them. >> like don't say heard. >> like don't say heard. >> yes. sorry. josh. okay, good. we got through that one without saying anything politically incorrect. let's do the times and a third of young men are refusing to leave home, in some cases, until they're 34 years old. i'm so glad i don't have five children. how about you, josh? >> yeah. young men refuse to fly the nest with a third still living at home. i totally love all my kids to stay at home as long as possible, i lived at my grandmother's until i was 35, well. did you? yeah well, that was the only way we managed to buy our flat. was because we saved a deposit. took, like,

four and a half years. >> so your wife lived there with you? >> with her? yeah. and the amazing woman who's like, hey, i'll be living at my grandmother's till 35. >> she's like, yeah, cool. >> she's like, yeah, cool. >> well, we that was the only way to afford a flat. and so we lived there. we saved that money for like four and a half years. we were there, you could have moved, like blackpool or something. >> i could have. he means in, like, the best part. and then we moved out when my youngest, who's now 14, is when he was one. so there was this weird crossover year when the baby was one. and then my grandma was also going through some tough times, and it was like taking care of two babies at the same time a little bit. but thank you, grandma. she's dead now. but thank you. you know, that's what allowed us to get into the onto the onto the ladder. >> funny that that's an anomalous story in our culture for like, most of the world. no, that that's how humanity works. you know, we help each other in a family, in italians and so on. this world, we kind of go, oh my god, did you with your family. oh, that's so weird. >> yeah, we are weird and atomised about that. but is it so? we are, which is weird. i mean, young men staying at home, 28% of them used to be 26% in 2013, which is also quite high. is it? so? is this bad or good?

>> well, it's a reason that women should want good things for men , because it's. well, no, for men, because it's. well, no, it's not good, is it? it tells me. >> would it freak you out if someone was like, hey, i'm still living with my parents when they're 30? >> it would depend on the context , i don't know, but what context, i don't know, but what was i saying ? it's i don't know was i saying? it's i don't know whether this is because the cost of living is so outrageous or whether it's because men have given up, are sitting in their bedrooms playing computer games and not going out, making a plan, making a life. i don't know, it could be a bit of both. >> it's a bad time for young men. they're told they're toxic women are all crazy feminists. >> so there's a lot of women who are staying at home as well, so there's just not enough houses. >> that goes against my rhetoric and agenda though. >> oh, i see, so that's ignore it . it. >> well no. yeah. it's also cost of living as well. and yeah. yeah it's a lot of things. it's a lot of things i don't know. you're right. it seems weird to us. but to some people this would be completely normal. >> so well in the world that we i mean, obviously we're all sitting here being employed right now , but i know some very

right now, but i know some very precariously employed people in comedy and they are not going to be living in their own places, probably. i've got a friend that makes a joke that when he dies and ends up in a grave, that will be the first shot he has at property. >> yeah. wow that's. but some people will be saying this is actually lucky because if you're from i'm from the little village in north, i couldn't really live. my parents and have a job other than farming. so it's like, you know, sometimes you're quite lucky to live with your parents because it means you live somewhere nearer major city or something. i don't know, giving it another spin there. i'm being terribly reasonable tonight. let's do the times and three words you would never want to hear together. are malfunctioning. brain and implant chris o'shea elon musk's neuralink reveals malfunction in first human brain implant. >> yes, that does sound true. you wouldn't want to hear that, but he sort of spins it as if it's fine. so elon musk's brain chip start up neuralink says part of implant is in its first human patient has malfunctioned , human patient has malfunctioned, i think i've got one in my head, no, i've got i've been fitted. >> you've been fitted. i've got one. look >> oh, yeah. that's amazing.

you're one of the first human subjects. >> if you are indeed human, i can also play tetris . right now can also play tetris. right now i'm playing tetris. >> nice . >> nice. >> nice. >> terrifying, so, there was a progress update released 100 days after the surgery on wednesday, and neuralink said that some of the links, devices, threads had pulled away from the patient's brain a few weeks after surgery, which had rendered the device less effective , they don't know effective, they don't know exactly how many, but in response, they've said they've tweaked its algorithm and improved the techniques for translating brain signals into cursor movements. so it sounds like they're treating this as a great learning opportunity. yeah. >> josh , one question. if you do >> josh, one question. if you do that blinking thing enough, can you get a job on the bbc? >> do i want a bbc? >> do i want a bbc? >> of course you wouldn't. this is the best channel. >> but sorry guys. switching over to the bbc. funny joke . over to the bbc. funny joke. >> come back. little joke. anyway, anything on this roster apart from your, no. >> but now the guy. no, but he's been, is he paraplegic as well? for eight years. and now he can play for eight years. and now he can play mario kart and slay the

spire. those are two brilliant video games. so things are looking up. >> yeah. more good news. all right, well, let's do the guardian, then. on technology and open ai is exploring whether users should be able to create artificial intelligence. pornography. may i be the first to say no? definitely not. please make it stop. josh at the end of the world, it's the end of productivity at least. >> do you remember you and you were showing me all those taylor swift, yes. things that you, the fake news. yeah, but you didn't. but i just read the article and i found out that they're real, right? i mean, that they were fake. and you told me they were real. you said like, yo, look, i was out with taylor swift this weekend in the break, i was sending you taylor swift pictures. >> yeah, this this all happened. >> yeah, this this all happened. >> openai considers allowing users to create ai generated pornography. this is because, of course, any technological developments will usually go down the porn route eventually , down the porn route eventually, i.e, you know, you had youtube and then it became pornhub or whatever it's called. >> i didn't know that. is that what that is? one is the other. well, no idea. so similar. >> the same owner. he's saying the same concept. the same

concept which is looking at videos. >> right, right. well, so i think we should refer to the previous story about young men living at home, which is more evidence for nick's point that this should all be stopped immediately. i mean, this isn't good for human beings, is it? yeah. make your own . yeah. make your own. >> they're saying the kind of content could include erotica. all right . extreme gore, not all right. extreme gore, not sure. slurs and unsolicited profanity. i have a little question there. how how do you ever get the unsolicited profanity? if it's. it must be solicited at that point, who is asking for unsolicited themselves ? themselves? >> isn't it the case that you make this stuff at home like someone so someone's soliciting it. >> you're soliciting it for yourself. you see what i mean? >> how can how can you solicit from yourself? >> i don't know, but how can unsolicited profanity ever like, who's sharing it? >> therefore, this is so great. what? just the future . the two what? just the future. the two philosophical giants here. but they've also, because they're saying they're trying to use the present i it's got safeguards on it. so it said they tried it out and they did experiment. said write me a steamy story about

two people having sex on a train. and it wouldn't do it. it said , i can't create explicit said, i can't create explicit aduu said, i can't create explicit adult content, but what it should have said is watch risky business. >> yes, but don't worry. the labour party is considering a ban on new defaecation tools. anything on immigration, lads? no, no, we're considering about not even a bad, but we might. >> they don't want to flip flop too early on this. >> lame. all right, let's quickly do the telegraph. and a cambridge university journal has removed the term anglo—saxon. i can't help but feel somewhat targeted. cressida cambridge journal pandering to mad americans by ditching anglo—saxon from title. >> so apparently vie anglo—saxon means different things to different people , so the different people, so the definition here is that it refers to a cultural group that emerged and flourished between the fall of the roman empire and the fall of the roman empire and the norman conquest, when germanic peoples, angles, saxons and jutes arrived and forged new kingdoms in what would later become a united england. but apparently white supremacists also think that it's for them, which is ridiculous because in the beginning, the whole point is it's not referring to a

homogenous group. but anyway. >> but the problem with racists is, they don't they're not necessarily that well—educated , necessarily that well—educated, so they might not know the real meaning of anglo—saxon. >> no, they're not. and so this very important journal, that's been going for a long time. they're thinking of changing its name. they've done it. change it. right, right, which is, you know, upsetting a lot. >> here it is. it's the early medieval england now, instead of anglo—saxon. oh. absolutely ridiculous. it's an attack on us. just good old english people. and as dominic sandbrook says, they are pandering to a handful of mad americans. yeah because just because white nationalist americans use it, why do we then have to alter our. yeah, it's colonialism. yeah. >> it's colonialism by white racist americans. yeah, absolutely. >> all right. smash that. that is it. for part three. but coming up in the final section, blackface obese monkeys and female psychopaths. see

welcome back to the final section of headliners. let's get into it with the telegraph. and a story about the thin line between skin care and race. hate. josh. >> indeed. students accuse of blackface. win $1 million payout after arguing it was acne mask. there's no arguing. it was acne mask. it was. it was an obvious acne mask. this is when they were 14. there was a photo, but a few years later it came out . a few years later it came out. this is in 2017. >> we got the picture. >> we got the picture. >> oh, there he goes. so everyone was like, look at these racists. it's like it's an acne mask. yeah. >> or they're in a vietnam movie. >> it's green. >> it's green. >> it's green. >> it's one or the other. >> it's one or the other. >> all they're doing an impression of the mask or something. it's classic projection, isn't it? >> if you're seeing racism in that, maybe the racism is coming from you. i'm not thinking about race. i'm thinking about face masks. >> that is not blackface. that is green face. yeah and when it came out, it was like it's on posh school in california and it was all around, the killing of george floyd. and then everyone was like, look at this phone, look at these racists. and they expelled them, or they said, you better leave. so these kids have worn like half £1 million. >> go or you'll be sent. i mean,

that's terrible thing as cancel culture is that and the school are trying to be like, well and then the school put out this pathetic statement after the findings saying, well, they didn't find us that we breached the handbook or this and that, but they did find that it's like, look, you threw these kids, you threw your students under a bus. >> yeah, but they've been cleared now, which is amazing. but as you say, the cancel culture, the apotheosis of cancel culture, absolutely disgusting. no good comes from this. and the fact that photo was 2017. then after george floyd's death, they go, i tell you what, we'll just retroactively cancel these people. it's absolutely when they were 14 years old and they got acne, disgusting and all the while thinking, oh, we're good people for doing this. we're really good people. >> if you were that good, wouldn't you be concerned if you thought you were churning out students who were racist? i think i'd be very well. >> i just feel sorry for all the kids with acne. yeah, i had i had really bad acne, and now you couldn't risk it. >> now you just have to have acne. >> you have to just. yeah. just be out here. just pus. just flowing all over the place. sorry about the breakfast. go with the testicles. not earlier. >> another of many horrible images tonight. maybe we should

move on and do the daily star. and the world's fattest monkey has died , but no one knows what has died, but no one knows what caused it. >> chris o'shea world's fattest monkey, godzilla dies despite fat camp stint to cure junk food addiction. oh, was that wasn't that awful ? how sad. so this that awful? how sad. so this monkey, was , living in bangkok monkey, was, living in bangkok or he. no, he went to hospital in bangkok. he was in thailand. and people were feeding him chocolates and sweet drinks and all the things that make lewis schaffer very, very angry. and he was fat and he had thyroid disease, diabetes and cushing's syndrome , overproduction of the syndrome, overproduction of the stress hormone cortisol. i know exactly how he feels , and he's exactly how he feels, and he's gone. yeah >> he was basically like lewis schaffer in the old days before he cured it all by eating exclusively meat. he had all his diabetes. >> although lewis would love to be chained up with an endless stream of people coming and talking to him, that's probably that's true, his ideal life, throwing him bits. >> but yeah, we've got planet of the apes is out tonight. the new planet of the apes film . it planet of the apes film. it would be good if they had, like, a big fat ape in it, like maybe. who finds in the future they

find all this, like, junk food that's been left, like twinkies that's been left, like twinkies that have been left over from humanity. and then they all get like, that sounds like one of those really bad plot lines written by the new woke writing style i guys. >> it's junk food. that sounds terrible. yeah, and then lewis. >> but then lewis schaffer comes along and gets them all into shape. okay. and he and he's also like like in the future, all the humans can't speak anymore. and they're all stupid, and i just i'm i'm spitballing. and ijust i'm i'm spitballing. i'm spitballing here. >> i feel like the netflix executives i'm talking i don't know about this stupid new seat. so i suppose. yeah. i mean, it is hard to be fair to get anything out of world's fattest monkey , but you had a valiant monkey, but you had a valiant effort, yeah, it's called godzilla. that's all i've got. it's nothing. let's move on and do a this is a non story, guys. let's move on and do the times. and people in japan are making gold from human remains. can you ever take recycling too far josh. >> well this is really interesting story. culturally anthropologically. ethnographically japanese strike gold in human remains. so in the west of japan , in they have part west of japan, in they have part of their culture is they

everybody's cremated in japan, basically. and in the west of japan , families go along to the japan, families go along to the cremation afterwards. and pick out with chopsticks like the big bits of bone . this is i know. bits of bone. this is i know. yeah. when you take that, take that away with them. but that leaves a whole load of other stuff, including metals and gold teeth and silver and palladium and whatnot , teeth and silver and palladium and whatnot, and that teeth and silver and palladium and whatnot , and that they're and whatnot, and that they're kind of just donating to the town. and so these towns are kind of getting like millions of dollars left over in these metals because people just want the juicy stuff. they want the juicy, big bones, crazy death tax. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> but isn't that interesting? that's what they do in japan, that they all get cremated. and then you go with your chopstick, with your parents, with whoever, and then you pick out the bits and then you pick out the bits and you go, oh, i, i'll have that femur. all i'm just saying this is so i watched shogun the other day on disney , and now i'm other day on disney, and now i'm just learning so much about japan. >> a bit grim, especially the fact that 95% of the respondents to a poll had no objection to it, and 70% actively supported it. to me, it seems a bit of a moral decline thing. it sort of just treating humans as kind of,

you know , something to just be you know, something to just be recycled. i dunno, what do you think? >> they've got this ageing population problem haven't they. that's what this is about. yeah. >> it's the birth rates again. >> it's the birth rates again. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> birth rates full of they're full of gold. >> yeah. yeah. they're like instead of having some actual children we'll turn dead people into gold i mean and it means if you're buying gold in japan, you don't know what's in it. >> you know, the idea of a wedding band that came out of somebody's tooth is very strange, isn't it? >> yeah. okay. weird story . >> yeah. okay. weird story. let's do one more in the mail. and how to tell if a woman is a psychopath. is it that she's breathing crestor? i'm so sorry. ieven breathing crestor? i'm so sorry. i even didn't like that joke because i wrote it. >> someone else wrote that whatever it was was going to be at least that good, reveal the key sign that indicates classic psychopath woman might be a psychopath woman might be a psychopath . and it is very rare psychopath. and it is very rare because there are six male psychopaths for every one female, so what does that say? >> well, that's what the feminist culture says. that's what it says. >> it says here it's actually 1 to 2 at the end of the article, psychopaths don't read to the end. >> but he's like, but it says that they keep their head very still. so i just want to say it. sorry >> you go on, go on, go on, go

on. but, they found that the biggest psychopaths kept their head very still, just like men. and that's underlined , which is and that's underlined, which is interesting, isn't it? we don't. we need to move our heads around to show that we're not psychopaths. >> well, this is what it says at the end of the article where it says that if you get to the end, it says that what women say is women are better at hiding their than the psychos. so it's actually 1 to 2 is what they're saying here. >> i was just laughing at you saying because there that you would seem like a psycho on tv while saying you weren't, but i'm sorry about that. >> but i was or wasn't. i don't think either of you would know. i don't think no, because women are machiavellian and, you know, because men don't pay attention anyway, yeah. so. >> all right, good ending to the show . we're all best mates. show. we're all best mates. really? okay. the show is pretty much over. josh is still moving his head, but let's have another quick look at friday's front pages. quick look at friday's front pages . so the quick look at friday's front pages. so the daily mail goes with worst whooping cough outbreak in 40 years. the telegraph has. hunt urges banks not to rush rate cuts . the not to rush rate cuts. the guardian fear and trepidation as 100,000 people flee raf bombardment . the mirror has

bombardment. the mirror has whooping cough warning the metro. five babies die as cough bug spikes . and finally, the bug spikes. and finally, the daily star. we want to see big pictures of uranus. that's what it says in the star. don't blame me. that's all we have time for. thanks to josh and cressida. headliners is back tomorrow at 11 pm. with paul cox and lewis schaffer. unfortunately that's what it says in the zigi and if you're watching at 5 am, then stay tuned for breakfast. but for now it's good night or good morning and god bless. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> good evening. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. another cracking day tomorrow if you like it. fine, warm and sunny. if anything a little bit warmer than today with light winds. thanks to this chunky area of high pressure. hasn't been fine everywhere today there has been these weather fronts just trickling across northern scotland, still bringing some outbreaks of rain, particularly for caithness, sutherland and

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gb news. >> prime minister sunak calls a meeting in downing street to discuss growing antisemitism on university campuses . i'll be university campuses. i'll be asking tonight, should the protest that we're seeing be closed down and stopped, as they have been in many american universities, british gas say they want to mandatorily put in smart metres into our homes over my dead body, say i. and in south africa, there's a general election coming up in a couple of weeks time. there's a new political party with a leader,

gayton mckenzie, who is being called the black african trump. he joins us live from cape town. hold on to your hats for that one. but before the program, let's get the news with aaron armstrong . armstrong. >> very good evening to you. i'm aaron armstrong, the chancellor has cautioned the bank of england against cutting interest rates too quickly . the bank has rates too quickly. the bank has decided to hold borrowing costs at the same level. 5.25% for a sixth time. but governor andrew bailey says he's optimistic inflation will continue to fall and has suggested an interest rate cut could come as soon as next month. jeremy hunt urged the bank not to take risks with inflation. >> i welcome the fact the bank of england has obviously thought about this very hard. they take this decision independently and i would much rather that they waited until they're absolutely sure inflation is on a downward trajectory . vie and rushed into trajectory. vie and rushed into a decision that they had to

reverse at a later stage. what we want is sustainably low interest rates. and i think what's encouraging is that the bank of england governor for the first time has expressed real optimism that we're on that path. >> pro—palestinian protesters have been gathering in the swedish city of malmo ahead of the second eurovision semi—final. hundreds of demonstrators have been waving palestinian flags in the city's historic market square, in opposition to israel's participation in the song contest. the crowds could be heard booing last night during israel's performance. organisers have also been forced to apologise after sweden's eric saade wore a palestinian scarf. a breach of the contest's ban on political symbols. labour's new mp, natalie elphicke, has apologised for comments she made about sexual assault . the mp for about sexual assault. the mp for dover announced her defection from the tories to labour moments before pmqs yesterday, but it's ignited a backlash amongst some labour mps after comments made in defence of her

former partner, who was convicted