good evening. you with gb news. in a moment headliners. but first, let's bring you the latest news headliners headlines and our top story tonight, the prime minister has arrived in northern ireland this evening amid speculation that a deal could be close over the northern ireland protocol. rishi sunak made the journey with the northern ireland secretary, chris heaton—harris, to hold talks with political parties installed in the uk and the eu have been in a tense talks to secure improvements to improve the post brexit trade deal now expected options are growing but new terms could be set out in the next few days . sir keir the next few days. sir keir starmer has made a surprise visit to to ukraine meet with

president zelenskyy the labour leader pledged that support for kyiv will continue if his party comes to power. sir keir also visited the cities of buka and appin, where he was shown evidence of alleged atrocities committed by russian troops dunng committed by russian troops during the trip. he called for russia to face justice in the hague. throughout the conflict, the labour party has stood unhed the labour party has stood united with the government in the united kingdom to show our support for ukraine and we will have an election next year and the may well be a change of government but should there be a change of government next year in a general election there will be no change in the position of support for ukraine, both during the and in the calls the conflict and in the calls for justice. scotland's deputy first minister, john swinney, has announced that he won't be entering the race to replace nicola sturgeon . that comes as nicola sturgeon. that comes as the scottish national party postponed a planned conference on independence that had been due to take place tonight . the

due to take place tonight. the party's executive committee announced the news this evening, saying it would be wrong to have a newly elected leader tied to a key decision . meanwhile, the key decision. meanwhile, the ballot to select the party's new leader will close on the 27th of march. coming a little. lancashire police has referred itself to the police watchdog over contact they had with nicola boley and her husband paul mansell prior to her disappearance . the force says it disappearance. the force says it was called to nicola's home on january the 10th, 17 days before she went missing . and it comes she went missing. and it comes after yesterday's detectives unexpectedly revealed that the 45 year old was vulnerable and that she'd been struggling with alcohol and the menopause . alcohol and the menopause. earlier, ms. police family said the public focus now to be more about appalling speculation into nicola's private life rather than actually finding her. and finally, bruce willis has been diagnosed with frontal temporal dementia. most common form of the condition found in people

under 60 years old. and a warning the following pictures do contain flash photography . do contain flash photography. last spring, the actor announced his retirement after being diagnosed with aphasia , which diagnosed with aphasia, which affects his cognitive abilities. now, his family say that condition has progressed and describing the news as painful . describing the news as painful. they said they hope the media attention would shine a light on the disease . those are your the disease. those are your latest news stories, your up to date on tv, online, on dab, plus radio. this is gb news time for headliners . headliners. hello, i'm andrew doyle and welcome to headliners. your first look at friday's newspapers . and casting their newspapers. and casting their comedic gaze among the most compelling stories are roger monkhouse and ben norris. but first, let's have a quick look at friday's front pages. the

daily mail is leading with swell as concern at police conduct in nicola probe. that's more on the missing dog walker nicola bailey, the guardian is running with sturgeon exit delays vote on independence by five years. the telegraph has sunak flies in to hold a last ditch brexit push . the eye is going with calls for obscene energy profits to compensate victims of pre—pay metre scandal. the sun has . metre scandal. the sun has. don't be afraid, nikki. come home and the daily star has zombie apocalypse, which is apparently some kind of clipping crisis. we will get to that in a moment. those were your front covers . i'm going to kick things covers. i'm going to kick things off with the front page of the i. roger. what are the i leading with on friday? this is the i comic putting its characteristic strictly negative spin on a story of how enterprise and good management is rewarded in

contemporary britain. with centrica , who owned british gas centrica, who owned british gas , announcing record 3.3 billion profits. of course , undermining. profits. of course, undermining. this is the story of how pre—paid metres are being fitted in the homes of the vulnerable, who have been asked to keep up with their energy . i mean, with their energy. i mean, surely this is all very galling for people who are struggling with the cost of living crisis and struggling to meet their bills, and then they hear that these companies get 3.3 billion. so by the way, so the first time, by the way, that companies are made a that these companies are made a fortune, course, during the fortune, of course, during the war a risky war is literally a risky business. interestingly as business. and interestingly as well, being well, the profits aren't being made supply . all right. i made from supply. all right. i think i'm right in saying that british gas by £10 off every customer over this period. actually, energy companies are going out of business. the money is being made, of course , in the is being made, of course, in the sourcing of energy. that's said, there have been some ceos of various petrol companies who've made awful lot personal made an awful lot of personal money. amounts of money. money. vast amounts of money. and generate and that does generate resentment , doesn't it? mean,

resentment, doesn't it? i mean, i at this time, everyone i think at this time, everyone is feeling pinch little is feeling the pinch a little bit not want to hear bit and they not want to hear about these huge, astronomical figures not figures being earned. it's not a good and it's very good look. and it's very confusing for us normal people . confusing for us normal people. we're not going to worry. we're not making money you not making the money where you think making it. we're think we're making it. we're making and you can't making over here. and you can't have over here. have a debt from over here. you've got it for so you've only got it for me. so i think your average man on the street would say, i'm street would just say, i'm paying street would just say, i'm paying more than i've ever paid before. and you guys are becoming . so becoming more super rich. so that of the gap between the that kind of the gap between the rich, the poor is expanding in a way perhaps caused , way that perhaps could caused, you know, problems , some you know, problems, some resentment. there is a level across subsidy going on and i'll say, who's the ceo who stands to make. oh, i know some obscene bonuses to million or something something like that . he says it something like that. he says it is a an interesting point british gas it energy actually spent more supporting customers than it earned in 2022 because they're using the vast, obscene profits from sourcing energy.

yes . the to support this supply yes. the to support this supply industry. so you don't. okay. so it sounds like you're being quite an apologist for the big. it's a complicated business and you can't actually change easily the international price of energy. you know, she's set beyond national borders. okay. fair enough . well, i'm going to fair enough. well, i'm going to move on. but before we do, i just want you to know that if you've got any comments about tonight's stories and particularly my panellists particularly what my panellists are saying about various things, do and us know what do email in and let us know what you think. you can email us at gb views and gbnews.uk and we'll read out the best ones anyway . read out the best ones anyway. next up, telegraph. ben what are the telegraph dealing with on friday? the telegraph are leading with rishi sunak. friday? the telegraph are leading with rishi sunak . who is leading with rishi sunak. who is holding last ditch brexit talks with his old mates? the dup ? with his old mates? the dup? yes. who? i seen to remember helped them form a government . helped them form a government. it was not that long ago .

it was not that long ago. theresa may that is in the times dunng theresa may that is in the times during some quite long ago . during some quite long ago. still mates when they they were they were quite good mates in speeded up hyper reality of contemporary politics. it was centuries ago. well speeding up hyper reality is my middle name . so. but anyway, the point is they aren't very happy about, you know, the way brexit is turned out. who is , you know, turned out. who is, you know, the unionist object to the number of checks that are carried out on the still a problem . it's as if they hadn't problem. it's as if they hadn't really thought this through. well, i mean, this is a last ditch attempt, isn't it? so he's basically going to go over to northern ireland, try and get the dup accede to the eu's the dup to accede to the eu's view it. is even view of it. is that even feasible? is that even going to happen? really eu. happen? it's not really the eu. what's suggested is there what's suggested here is there is deal revive the is a breaking deal to revive the protocol. yes. and of course, he's got sell it to the dup's he's got to sell it to the dup's because if he doesn't sell it to that, they up. and if they're not in line supportive of any new yeah and can't new deal. yeah and you can't possibly hope carry the possibly hope to carry the

apology your own party apology within your own party and then you've barely got a majority. and then, of course, with boris and liz on manoeuvres , anything could happen. actually, premiership could actually, the premiership could dissolve at this point. this is absolutely critical, it's absolutely critical, but it's particularly critical because stormont has paralysed stormont has been paralysed since may. i mean, they need to get up and running. they've get this up and running. they've had to pass budget through had to pass the budget through westminster. have westminster. you know, they have they another they tried to elect another speaker they speaker two days ago. they weren't do it. you need weren't able to do it. you need a to any a speaker to pass any legislation. so they do have to find sort of reconciliation find some sort of reconciliation to deadlock. i don't to the deadlock. and i don't know is going to be it, know if this is going to be it, because this is talking this article is talking about there would for the would still be a role for the european court of justice, which the unlikely to accept. the eu are unlikely to accept. i think a red line, isn't think that's a red line, isn't it, dup? i mean, this it, for the dup? i mean, this isn't about the economy isn't really about the economy or various issues of or the various issues of northern irish businesses being subject legislation. it's subject to eu legislation. it's actually the actually really to do with the constitution. is idea the constitution. is this idea the metaphorical a metaphorical idea of a hard border irish but border down the irish sea? but of leaders don't turn up of course leaders don't turn up until the deal is done. ordinarily you would assume, given personally given that rishi's personally turning this might turning up. and so this might make you think?

make the difference, you think? well that he's well the suggestion is that he's going to be in 1 to 1 talks with the day you rather suspect that the day you rather suspect that the is actually being done the work is actually being done in he's not going there in advance. he's not going there for break a i'm for a city break is a no. i'm going northern ireland for fun, do they not especially not when you're billionaire, know, you're a billionaire, you know, we to. we all wanted we want it to. we all wanted a slightly different brexit. some of want a brexit at of us didn't want a brexit at all, people want to all, but some people want to soften. want to soften. some people want to harm one. of ended up one. and we sort of ended up with a kind of summit in brexit. but the problem was with the protocol because it always protocol because it was always a fudge the government knew it fudge and the government knew it was and that's why, you was a fudge. and that's why, you know, problems know, that's why these problems were but were inevitable eventually. but they to be resolved they but it has to be resolved somehow. we don't have the answers. maybe you do make sure you us in with your ideas. you email us in with your ideas. let's the guardian. let's turn to the guardian. roger the front page roger what's the front page of the guardian going oh, the guardian going with? oh, this stern, june's this is nicholas stern, june's exit, which within exit, which sources within the scottish parties scottish nationalist parties have back a vote on have put back a vote on independence by five years. really well, i think it could be a lot longer than that. i mean , a lot longer than that. i mean, potentially the big winners of this, i think probably the

labour party . yes. but is it not labour party. yes. but is it not the case that sturgeon herself has put back the case, of course, of independence by a number of years as well? i mean, you know, so the fact. well, look at it this way. the polling kept edging towards that crucial 50% for another indyref 50% approval for another indyref and now, as alex salmond himself pointed out, it's crashed because all this gender because of all this gender ideology nonsense. is it just the ideology nonsense? the gender ideology nonsense? there's all sorts of things going on. mean, there are the going on. i mean, there are the education record snp is a education record of the snp is a poll. yes snp organisations is in free fall. well yes, collapsing. i mean all the indexes suggest everything is worse in scotland than it is south of the border. and there's also this probe into why her husband loaned £100,000. the wolves are gathering. there's all of that. ben but, you know, on the other hand, you know, to thirds of the electorate oppose the gender recognition reform bill and she pushed ahead and just did it anyway. and, you know, trying to tell know, if you're trying to tell your that there's no your electorate that there's no such woman, they such thing as a woman, they might well, if you don't might say, well, if you don't

know we're probably know that, we're probably not going you in any going to vote for you in any other i we it's other issue. i we it's complicated , isn't yeah it complicated, isn't it. yeah it turned out to be a very clever move by sunak, i think, move by rishi sunak, i think, because he was criticised and questions were raised his, questions were raised over his, his veto . yeah. but in actual his veto. yeah. but in actual factit his veto. yeah. but in actual fact it turned out to be very popular with the scottish voters . right. well it'll be interesting to see if it doesn't westminster put westminster already sort of put the second indyref. the kibosh on a second indyref. anyway but anyway, we're going to now to front cover to turn now to the front cover of mail . ben, what to turn now to the front cover of mail. ben, what is of the daily mail. ben, what is the daily mail got on friday? well this is the very sad story of the missing nicola bailey. yes. and the lancashire police who sort of released all this , who sort of released all this, you know, quite strange details about this woman's life that didn't necessarily it would appear by a lot of people involved . it's not going to involved. it's not going to help. it was private information . it was about the issues with depression and drinking and that kind of thing. yes which is now in the public domain. menopause,

which is particularly they private in so great. what i don't understand about this i mean, if this was relevant to the investigation and the prospects of finding, then it would be a valid thing to do, of course. surely should course. but surely that should have been earlier if that have been done earlier if that were the case. why is it being released is there any released now? is there any sense in which they feel this could be advantageous? i don't know. but they they've given they i mean, they they've given themselves over. is that the right phrase to the you right phrase to the to the you know, the police investigative? yes department. so they've sort of supported themselves . they've of supported themselves. they've reported. so that's sort of them saying they might be made a mistake. might. it's such a sad story, though, isn't it? really. but let's move on now. this is the daily star, one of the daily star and the daily star always bucked the trend. roger when it comes to the front covers. and they've haven't let us they've they haven't let us down today they're leading with today and they're leading with the the real news. today and they're leading with the is the real news. today and they're leading with the is a the real news. today and they're leading with the is a zombie�* real news. today and they're leading with the is a zombie apocalypse . there is a zombie apocalypse. it's all about how, where and none of us getting enough sleep. one quarter us one quarter of us only get 5 hours sleep. 91% wake up in the

middle of the night. just once and 13% are too tired for a power outage. i would say anybody who uses the night a grumpy pumper shouldn't even attempt it. i can't remember the last time i heard the phrase rum punch. i decided i don't know quite what i mean. if i'm honest, i'm going to i'll explain in the break. if i do, that eliminates quite i'm quite sort of reassured that 91 because i always wake i sleep in two instalments, i do 4 hours and i do a few hours work and then i do another 4 hours sleep. and if 91% of people are doing that, i'm quite happy about it. i'm sure read that experts i'm sure i've read that experts believe that that's actually a more you know , more natural because, you know, prehistoric would if prehistoric man. we would if we'd up to stoke the we'd have got up to stoke the fire to see if we were about to be attacked. so i to be attacked. oh, so i to prehistoric wonder yeah. prehistoric wonder about. yeah. and couple of and you do a couple of decoration until so maybe decoration until open so maybe it isn't the toughest we need to like we might not need a way. maybe we think it's a way, but actually we're checking. so actually we're checking. oh, so i can make me more manly i can make me feel more manly that quite a prehistoric

that i'm quite a prehistoric cave man. kind of. you're known kind of figure on. it's good to know. okay. well that is the front pages . but after the front pages. but after the break, we're going be talking break, we're going to be talking about stories, including about various stories, including silent prayer legal. now why silent prayer is legal. now why your mum's a first for alcohol. is to blame for your big nose . is to blame for your big nose. and i'm going to be testing out some of my worst office banter and getting away with it. so in and getting away with it. so in a minute .

welcome back to headliners. your first look at friday's newspapers. with me , andrew newspapers. with me, andrew doyle and with roger monkhouse and ben norris. doyle and with roger monkhouse and ben norris . and remember, if and ben norris. and remember, if you have any comments about any of the stories that we're covering tonight, please don't hesitate email us at gb views hesitate to email us at gb views at gb news dot uk and we might hopefully get to your comment. we've had a couple in already from steve and stephen. he's

correcting of roger's figures here saying british gas profits over year was over the last year was on average over the last year was on averag for the average £8 per customer for the whole you sai d £10. whole year. and you said £10. that was apparently back in 96. it s £10. roger, hope you it was £10. roger, i hope you feel shamed of. well, feel julius shamed of. well, i was only rounding up, but i understood that a per understood that was a per customer year. but of customer this year. but of course, correct i'm wrong, course, correct me if i'm wrong, and indeed, absolutely and indeed, stephen absolutely has. it. has. he's not taking any of it. and we one from james here. and we got one from james here. hi headline. as i've been surviving on 4 sleep surviving on 4 hours sleep a night for the past five years and like it's more than and feel like it's more than enough, are becoming too enough, people are becoming too lazy. oh, i'm margaret lazy. oh, i'm no margaret thatcher on amnesty thatcher survived on for amnesty , was quite mad to us , but they was quite mad to us as well. she didn't generally run the company. yeah, that really our systems is it really took our systems is it never did take back lifestyle. well we're going on well anyway we're going to go on with fridays mail now this is actually update on a story actually an update on a story that we looked a few weeks that we looked at a few weeks ago. is the woman arrested ago. this is the woman arrested for prayer ban. i for signing a prayer ban. i think you've got the details. yes so is catholic woman who yes so is a catholic woman who was prosecuted then was prosecuted but then acquitted praying acquitted for silently praying outside an abortion clinic. now obviously, arresting people for

their thoughts, which is they're saying it's sort of thought police is patently absurd , isn't police is patently absurd, isn't it? it's kind of astonishing, although in the case of militant catholics, you could argue it's payback for the spanish inquisition. i mean, that was was that raised in court as an arguable? it said no, no one would expect that. it does seem somewhat ironic, though, doesn't the campaigners were getting upset about having their freedoms curtailed whilst actively against actively working against a woman's freedom to choose what she does with her own body. it says in search of care. well you're treading on very as far as i know, she wasn't high up in the catholic establishment at the catholic establishment at the time . so it's hard, the time. so it's hard, therefore, to blame her, particularly for that . the particularly for that. the spanish inquisition, the spanish inquisition, specifically, i was joking. no. yeah, you have taken it to roger. if it's just a gesture of title to take you at face value. well, i mean , i face value. well, i mean, i definitely think nobody should outlaw anyone's praying as well, of course. i mean, especially as

it's suddenly potentially so fun. well, outrageous . but i fun. well, outrageous. but i would suggest that, you know, this is obviously an infringement on you know, it's not even freedom of speech. it's freedom of nonspeech, the freedom of nonspeech, the freedom of nonspeech, the freedom of standing there silently and i do worry. i mean, the government's been cracking down a lot down on protests quite a lot recently police crime down on protests quite a lot rece sentencing police crime down on protests quite a lot rece sentencing sentencingme down on protests quite a lot rece sentencing sentencing bill and sentencing sentencing bill with their public their amendments order amendments to the public order by which the lords thankfully kicked other week. kicked out the other week. i mean, you know, you be mean, you know, you should be able to you think about able to whatever you think about this a sensitive, this issue and it's a sensitive, divisive but if you divisive issue, but if you standing the street silently, standing on the street silently, i think is any i don't think there is any grounds for questions , the grounds for the questions, the policing how will policing of this how how will new me but the new concepts to me but the pubuc new concepts to me but the public spaces protection order. yes which basically creates a zone specifically around abortion clinics i think that's censorship. so i think what they've got in mind, though, is sort of people that would target school deeming abuse. and yeah , school deeming abuse. and yeah, that's going on that's not what's going on point. harassment and point. it becomes harassment and intimidating, is already intimidating, which is already banned. this comes from . banned. where this comes from. but and that's the point. it's already illegal, already already illegal, it's already covered. have this covered. i mean, we have this with the with the protest bill.

i mean, they're sort of saying that if a protest veers that if ever if a protest veers into criminality damage into criminality or damage criminal that's criminal damage, but that's already got laws already covered. we've got laws that it. we don't that cover it. we don't need these. if you're thinking these. but if you're thinking that later in day that may be later in the day that may be later in the day that you might a crime, that you might do a crime, you've already done crime. you've already done the crime. yes. pretty cruel you yes. it's pretty cruel that you might do it. yeah, that might be the issue. pre—crime. yeah, yeah, it's a very yeah, yeah. it's a it's a very worrying. you know, is it worrying. so, you know, it is it is undoubtedly the right is an undoubtedly the right decision. so that is good friday sun and finally an sun next and finally an excellent so excellent and why pub was so weird looking in the pub weird looking you in the pub very few anyone under the age of 35 remember the but 35 will not remember the pub but anyway it's because he's mum like to mm roger. well like to drink. mm roger. well apparently apparently apparently this is apparently this science. oh that's this is science. oh that's highly questionable. come highly questionable. we'll come to moment. shocking to that in a moment. shocking images have revealed how drinking before pregnancy can change baby's face makes change your baby's face makes them much prettier . of course. them much prettier. of course. what's coming out of this is that any alcohol consumption before or during pregnancy apparently can bring about facial changes which are positive and negative. obviously

a negative. we're very familiar with the physical side effects of babies born to alcoholic parents. yes, i'll call it mothers specifically. and of course , that's all horrendous. course, that's all horrendous. but there is a question undermines the whole of this independent experts have questioned the validity of the study because it depends upon the self—reporting of alcohol consumption. okay. which is always sorry, way off the reports trying to suggest that any alcohol consumption is a bad thing and has deleterious effects , whereas in actual fact effects, whereas in actual fact there is a suggestion or a possibility at least that the people who reporting very people who are reporting very small consumption are small alcohol consumption are actually tanking . my actually really tanking. my understanding is that the studies suggest that the minor alcohol consumption doesn't have an effect during pregnancy, but the like you say, this the i mean, like you say, this could be misreported. what could be misreported. but what i don't understand this don't understand about this is how they measure what the how do they measure what the faces looked like faces would have looked like without ? without the alcohol? questionable. supposedly questionable. i mean, supposedly it's i and of course, that said, with authority if that's with authority as if that's without question you know how i

is actually a bit messy still i would have thought so benji do you believe this? i think it's quite weight. i mean, i don't know whether my mum drank a lot of alcohol during my pregnancy, but i think she did. i think she probably did during my conception as opposed to my mum and dad who were on a very boozy camping holiday in north wales. and i was a sort of unexpected item in the bag as well. thank goodness for bottle of goodness for that bottle of leap from because otherwise from milk because otherwise you would be. would never you wouldn't be. i should an awful lot of should imagine an awful lot of people have their very existence in pregnancy. rates have dropped like over last few like a stone over the last few decades people i think decades because people i think the whole consumption is of course, down well. but course, went down as well. but also is saying that also this study is saying that actually not even about actually it's not even about drinking pregnancy. drinking during pregnancy. it's drinking during pregnancy. it's drinking so you drinking before. yes so you can't you can't live can't i mean, you can't live like that, can you? but you might get pregnant, therefore you drink it. you better not drink it. no. i mean, it's just too much, mean, it's just it's too much, isn't anyway, going isn't it? anyway, we're going to move this story. this move on now to this story. this is friday's telegraph. and finally, i can start asking my colleagues interesting questions . this is quite a way

. ben. well this is quite a way one this lady, emma greenaway evans, who is a manager at a property firm in manchester, she was sacked after she'd basically accused a co—worker of various slightly , you might say, risque slightly, you might say, risque things like that. she'd lost her virginity when she was very young and that she was shagging about. young and that she was shagging about . and she also called her about. and she also called her a four letter word beginning with s and ending in g. and it's but she has been reinstated , she she has been reinstated, she said, i believe, because having taken it to court , it was taken it to court, it was decided that this was just all banter and, you know, it's and the banter in the workplace is just a normal thing that we should. well, see. now, i can imagine this kind of person, this emma, whatever and i mean, they said, oh, i didn't have a big weekend on last shower, big weekend on the last shower, but did. and then talk but you did. and then talk about the activity. i've, i've the sexual activity. i've, i've known people like this and they are annoying. really annoying. known people like this and they are a it oying. really annoying. known people like this and they are a it constitute lly annoying. known people like this and they are a it constitute an annoying. does it constitute an infringement your workplace infringement of your workplace rights that's probably

rights? that's probably not exactly what it says. so nuanced and so subtle , isn't it? and you and so subtle, isn't it? and you have of you think, have to kind of you think, though, isn't it? of course it is. and i'm not saying that bullying doesn't but bullying doesn't happen, but how do police a thing? and do you police such a thing? and is it sharp? know, where you is it sharp? you know, where you simply data erm simply take the data erm accounts necessarily way of accounts necessarily the way of doing to try very hard to doing it to try very hard to police because you know it might just be someone being a bit gauche, trying be funny and gauche, trying to be funny and you know, you people who you know, you know people who are criminally and they are criminally unfunny and they can their foot it. can often put their foot in it. yeah. it happens all yeah. you know it happens all the not to the the time. it's not down to the word you know, when it's word used. you know, when it's mutually, understood mutually, genuinely understood the it is banter, the the words that it is banter, the words are acceptable in sentence because there's not. we've had lots reports of recently lots of reports of me recently of in fire brigade and of like in the fire brigade and in the police force, and there's lots of locker room lots of sort of locker room banter. is actually way, banter. yes, it is actually way, way more than that. and it's sometimes , you know, homophobic, sometimes, you know, homophobic, racist and lots of other it's kind of difficult to find where the line is, don't you? yeah, it is sort of a subjective thing, but you kind of get it. i think as human beings, we a customer

service. when service. do you know when someone's when someone's joking, when then when it's malicious? think it's it's malicious? i think it's very clear when it's malicious. i don't socialise. human beings are so to are very good at that, so to say. if you create say. and if you create a workplace where people are paranoid to anything, then paranoid to say anything, then you're to destroy the you're going to destroy the morale all sorts places. morale of all sorts of places. yeah, workforce yeah, well, particular workforce particularly, amongst yeah, well, particular workforce partiibecause amongst yeah, well, particular workforce partiibecause the )ngst yeah, well, particular workforce partiibecause the kind of men because often the kind of banter with banter they're describing with men, each down as men, they put each other down as part a bonding ritual, don't part of a bonding ritual, don't they? happens all they? i mean, that happens all they? i mean, that happens all the and that could be taken the time and that could be taken if there's a sensitive individual as being bullying. true. it really, true. and sometimes it really, really isn't. at it really isn't. or at least it wasn't to it's very wasn't intended to be. it's very nuanced, it? like a lot of nuanced, isn't it? like a lot of these and like all of these stories and like all of these stories and like all of these but we have bring these stories. but we have bring in the new ones tonight. that's our speaking of ourjob. but anyway, speaking of how behave professionally, how to behave professionally, what's fridays? what's this one from fridays? male this, this is male oh, well, this, this is great. you would a heart of great. you would need a heart of stone not to vaguely stone not to find vaguely amusing of the furious amusing the story of the furious german house that has german opera house that has fired its top ballet director for massive damage caused to his reputation when he chose to smear dog faeces into a critic's

face. after her negative review . i mean, it is kind of funny. i mean, it's not condoned about behaviour, but because it's a critic i kind of think, well it's just a bit of banter. it's just banter . it's just a bit of banter. it's just banter. that's all it was. buttons are in a bag. this is the thing, though. i mean, people do get it's actually considered bad form to respond to critics if i give you a bad review. but if you going to do it, why not go full on? i mean, this this is pretty it's this is this is it's pretty it's really unpleasant poo , really unpleasant dog poo, though, poos is it? though, of all the poos is it? in my experience, that's the worst. he could have done it back a and i don't back a bit and used i don't know. otter can you blind. know. otter can make you blind. pull else. kind of pull from anything else. kind of famously comment. of famously dog poo comment. of course is assault and i'm course this is assault and i'm not condoning it, but just in the it does seem quite the abstract it does seem quite funny. a way. it funny. this is a way. is it because it's you? it's because it's not you? it's funny. you. it's out of. funny. it is you. it's out of. that's happened to me. i would i would say, yeah, i know. also someone in the arts who takes themselves seriously. themselves far too seriously. that's this is that's the other thing. this is the case. german. hilarious. yeah okay. but that's all for this section. so after the break, how to problematise sirna

aims. we'll discuss how to defeat russia. newsflash it's laxatives and also why erin brockovich is getting all worked up again. see you in a minute.

welcome to headline as your first look at friday's newspapers. we're going to go straight to friday's times now. mr. norris, you have this one. i believe. yeah well, i'm not sure what the headline is, but i know what's happening . it says, oh, what's happening. it says, oh, here's the headline . don't refer here's the headline. don't refer to christian names. they're not inclusive, says university. and this is kent university staff and students at the university of kent have been told not to use the term christian name , use the term christian name, surname and last name . consider surname and last name. consider phasing out christian centric terms. now i mean, you know,

that seems i think it seems sort of reasonable that we're moving away from assumed that we're a completely christian nation. for starters, lots of other , of starters, lots of other, of course, and more importantly , a course, and more importantly, a heck of a lot people who perhaps used to be christian aren't christian anymore. the churches are empty every sunday and i looked at another one who says, in december, the university of brighton advised staff not say christmas, but to refer to the winter closure period . and i winter closure period. and i really quite like that because i like the of saying to my kids, i'm just going off to get our winter closure period tree and don't forget to up your don't forget to hang up your winter period stocking. winter closure period stocking. i mean, it really rolls off the tongue doesn't one. tongue does doesn't that one. i mean is an odd one, i would mean that is an odd one, i would say. roger, do you do you have any issues with this? find it very to on my high very hard to get on my high horse this because it's horse about this because it's just seems to be relatively good manners intentioned. manners and well intentioned. i mean, given how the mean, given how given how the university's campus is supposed to grip of ideological to be in the grip of ideological capture at the moment, this seems a story from two seems like a story from two decades doesn't really decades ago, doesn't really it doesn't certainly one

doesn't it's certainly not one of egregious examples of the most egregious examples of the most egregious examples of the most egregious examples of the other hand on of this. on the other hand on the other hand, just to give the other mean, phrase other view, i mean, the phrase christian name, anyone christian name, does anyone actually that is actually think that that is referring religion of the referring to the religion of the person is ascribed? person to whom it is ascribed? i mean, it's a sort of mean, it's such a sort of solidly rooted phrase. and you could argue that it's quite patronising people other patronising to people of other faiths indeed, faiths and to atheists, indeed, just assume they're going just to assume they're going to get and bothered, get all hot and bothered, they'll well, i they'll get confused. well, i mean, all know what the mean, we all know what the phrase so i we all phrase means. so i think we all like things when like all these things when you're for your opinion you're asked for your opinion about it, you come up with one. but were you not asked? you probably wouldn't. know, probably wouldn't. you know, anybody don't anybody would care. i don't think have said think many people have said they're by and i they're offended by this. and i guess i say i doubt anyone guess if i say i doubt anyone has why that's has no. and that's why that's what find odd about what i find a bit odd about these exchanges that are happening when no one really wants to or is even raised wants them to or is even raised an it's by committee, an objection. it's by committee, isn't and imagine isn't it? and people imagine offence doesn't no offence that doesn't exist. no one offended by one was ever offended by christmas holiday . sure. one was ever offended by christmas holiday. sure. i'm christmas holiday. i'm sure. i'm sure weren't . and the sure they weren't. and the mirror has the recent mirror now has the most recent sam smith's story. mirror now has the most recent sam smith's story . roger never sam smith's story. roger never out of press, is he? i'm not

entirely sure why i've been given this one. sam smith , who given this one. sam smith, who is a popular beat combo , i'm led is a popular beat combo, i'm led to believe , has apparently been to believe, has apparently been misgendered again . i forget my misgendered again. i forget my boomer perspective and all the rest of it. and of course, wasn't bothered by the last story. but i find it very, very hard to take seriously people who apparently are so precious about what other people refer to. i think we can see the clip actually . if we have the clip, actually. if we have the clip, let's have a look. a big fan of fishing. i do, yes. i think . fishing. i do, yes. i think. yeah. yeah. i'd love to be a fish. fish of them what? take a fly. fisherman i'd i'd be i'd be any type of fish to them. i think i would like to one day. i'd just like to end my days fishing. we can still ice fishing. we can still ice fishing. i do. on the sea and i do it in legs. i've never done it alone. but someone's always taught me. fantastic. yeah so it's interesting that because he very softly corrected the presenter, but what bothers me most about this is just a matter of grammar, you know? i mean, fish and them doesn't make any

sense because it's confusing erm is a pronoun man is a noun. is a pronoun and man is a noun. i think it's, it's just wrong. people getting upset people were getting more upset about dressed as a stag about him dressed up as a stag beetle the other and beetle the other night and i don't know i look right, don't know why. if i look right, i wouldn't want to sit next to him on the tube. no, i mean, i think they were upset because he's a lot attention he's drawing a lot of attention to people just think to himself and people just think he's. he's succeeding, he's. well, he's succeeding, isn't i mean, talk about isn't he? i mean, we talk about drawing of attention drawing a lot of attention to themselves. than themselves. is there more than one of you think this is one of them you think this is the issue? exactly. yeah. and perverting the their perverting the by their existence use predators, existence that we use predators, which appropriate which is simply it appropriate because not singular, it's because it's not singular, it's just crazy. it's an odd one. is that anyway, we're to move that anyway, we're going to move on now to some crappy repercussions for russia and friday's telegraph ban. what's this about? i'm going to be honest with you , that wasn't the honest with you, that wasn't the next story i had here. oh okay. well, this is this is the eu are apparently going to stop selling toilets to russia as a kind of punishment for the invasion of ukraine. course, they're not ukraine. of course, they're not the like lots of the first. i mean, like lots of various companies boycotted various companies have boycotted russia result. viagra

russia as a result. ban viagra two days ago saying they were boycotting russia as well but boycotting russia as as well but the toilet is because the lavatory is one of the major inventions that is sort of in the western world. this is actually potentially going to have ramifications. what do you think? i'm going to riff with this i didn't have the this because i didn't have the thing. so you're telling me thing. but so you're telling me that russia has to import their toilets? yes apparently so. from the. strange . you would the. yes. how strange. you would think would be natural think there would be a natural sort of toilet industry whatsoever from country down, even back yard. i should have even if back yard. i should have thought of this before went thought of this before they went to seriousness, there's to all seriousness, there's a charming from an unnamed charming quote from an unnamed european diplomat says , the european diplomat who says, the flushing toilet and i won't attempt the accent. although it would be funny if the would be funny if i did the flushing toilet has done more for civilisation than any other single in vention, so by restricting exports we are merely bringing russia's technological advancement in line with the state of its civilisation . take that, russia. civilisation. take that, russia. i mean you almost did an accent. i mean you almost did an accent. i i lapsed. did sort of generic

very old story. but of course it's probably not going to make much of a difference to the war effort. i would have thought these kind boycotts maybe. these kind of boycotts maybe. i mean, don't know if i would mean, i don't know if i would have thought so. anyway, we're going move on now this going to move on now to this story. and this one is to the states. next, story has states. next, this story has rather the rails, rather gone off the rails, rogen rather gone off the rails, roger. is a roger. well, this is quite a disturbing story, this disturbing story, really. this is train crash. i'm not is the ohio train crash. i'm not sure when it was was the sure when it was when was the ohio crash , do you know? ohio train crash, do you know? i'm i don't. it was i'm afraid i don't. it was a week and a bit ago, i think. all right. so it's a little while ago. forgive me. but i missed the story when it happened. but and quite disturbing. and this is quite disturbing. the company who ultimately the rail company who ultimately responsible in the corporate sense for any pollution resulting have absent themselves from meetings about residents health and essentially are denying liability t when there are some indications that there is serious pollution in the air and possibly also the waters. and of course this become a big

story because of the involvement of erin brockovich, who very famously took on a company for polluting the local water supply in a place called hinckley . and in a place called hinckley. and they made a big film about it with julia roberts as brockovich. indeed. so and she's still involved because she's now an environmental campaigner. right. and this is what she does. so she draws attention to various ben. this various stories like ben. this is it's absolutely is obviously it's absolutely terrible if it's the case that the a company needs to be held accountable health accountable for the health of the absolutely the residents. absolutely and it's i've personally been involved in the release of toxic chemicals on a train several times. what about trains? you couldn't do anything but. well yeah. you know when people start painting their nails on the train, it's like so someone might as well be spraying car might as well be spraying a car . pretty. mean, that . it's pretty. i mean, that stuff pretty bad. it's really stuff is pretty bad. it's really unpleasant. i've had to ask people, would mind have people, would you mind have actually i'm so polite. i'll actually i'm i'm so polite. i'll just i'll just take it. i don't mind. i don't mind what they do. it is greatly improved like of having sex in front of me. and i

just grumpy pumping around people i'm i'm just more people i'm paying i'm just more out you knew all out of politeness. you knew all along i'd probably apologise anyway. one. i'm pretty anyway. now this one. i'm pretty sure seen this one. sure i've seen this next one. this a in the express, this is a story in the express, but it sounds a bit like the plot of that film. point break. yeah, know what mean ? yeah, do you know what i mean? i'm be honest with you i'm going to be honest with you . i know it's a classic, but i've never seen you've never seen well, something seen it. well, in it, something very to what happens in very similar to what happens in this happens. so yes, it this story happens. so yes, it does. okay. so these are the to the headline brothers rob jewellers and extremely lifelike latex mask masks disguised as old men. yeah. so ben murphy and george murphy bristow, they they wore these lifelike old men masks. yes. and robert, it wasn't that much fun for the people involved. it was quite a violent. yeah, right. oh, it was a oh, okay. well that was but if you look at that photo , i mean, you look at that photo, i mean, it looks authentic. they do. they look like old men. those masks are brilliant. i'm wearing one now. i hope. but they've

taken this quite seriously. they've got 18 and 13 years respectively. and what i like is, is if every chance by the time these two young men get out, they will look like they did . so it was almost like a did. so it was almost like a prophecy of that. of their future. yeah. maybe they should keep them they resemble keep them until they resemble the masks . yes. and then they the masks. yes. and then they can a metaphysical can be quite a metaphysical element this story. what element to this story. but what do this merger? do you think about this merger? would you were going to would you if you were going to rob a bank, this would be the way to do it. wouldn't have. absolutely. especially given way to do it. wouldn't have. abscthey y. especially given way to do it. wouldn't have. absctheyy. es|laughed.iven way to do it. wouldn't have. absctheyy. es|laughed. i'm that they also laughed. i'm really by the picture. really impressed by the picture. we've think it's we've just say, and i think it's astonishing. on the astonishing. i mean, on the other they're taking a other hand, they're taking a risk on they because if they go in there disguised elderly, in there disguised as elderly, frail there's good chance frail man, there's a good chance the well, the shopkeeper think, well, i could yeah exactly. could take them. yeah exactly. and it. and you and i'll go for it. and you know, they maybe they know, and they maybe they wouldn't with it. yeah wouldn't get away with it. yeah so, know, they shouldn't so, you know, they shouldn't disguise themselves as the hulk or something. the or something. i think the machetes helped their case. oh, was machete? yeah i see. was it the machete? yeah i see. again, forgotten about the again, i'd forgotten about the machetes. on machetes. okay let's move on to this story this is a oh, this story now. this is a oh, no. actually, we're going to we'll have a break. we're going have break. that's this part

have a break. that's this part oven have a break. that's this part over. we are over. but coming up, we are going be looking at south going to be looking at how south park been taking aim at park have been taking aim at harry meghan. what best harry and meghan. what the best type are and a story type of jokes are and a story that i totally ambivalent that i am totally ambivalent about. sizes are about. average penis sizes are increasing. in minutes increasing. see you in 3 minutes

welcome back to headline is your first look at friday's newspapers . thank you all for newspapers. thank you all for emailing in your comments. we've had benjamin has emailed in to say he agrees with roger regarding the workplace banter story. annoying colleagues are a thing we all know when we are crossing the line, we can't be policed every little thing. i think that's probably sound, isn't think don't see isn't it? i think don't see anyone with that. anyone disagree with that. absolutely amanda, absolutely and we've had amanda, who's also said to ben, who's also said to you, ben, thank you, ben. when someone paints their nails or sprays deodorant on the train, it drives me crazy. i didn't realise thing. it's realise this was a thing. it's a thing some people are more thing and some people are more sensitive to sort of things

going up their nose than others . yes, i'm one of those. you're one of those. and finally from pam we must cancel the pam says, we must not cancel the phrase name. this is phrase christian name. this is this is our country. it's a christian country. christian name has been around for years. he is bit more than that. i would have thought . anyway, would have thought. anyway, we're going to move on now. this is a story about a south park. the american satirical now taking aim at meghan and harry rodgen taking aim at meghan and harry rodger. what's going on here in south park? it hasn't been had yet, as i understand it. but south park, which i do find funny very funny in its funny, very funny in its irreverent crassness , has irreverent crassness, has apparently brilliantly skewered harry and meghan , who are harry and meghan, who are depicted , who hasn't been aired depicted, who hasn't been aired yet either . it's a joke depicted, who hasn't been aired yet either. it's a joke . have yet either. it's a joke. have a chip . yes, yes. something good chip. yes, yes. something good to perhaps work on and. okay buff up this episode apparently brilliantly skewers harry and meghan as the prince of canada.

the prince and princess of canada. yeah, that's what they've made and we've actually i think we've got a clip. how if we can have a look at it and we'll then we will do note now we've been several months now since our beloved has since our beloved queen has died. canadians finding died. our canadians are finding it go on. canadians that it hard to go on. canadians that is, our first guest, is, except for our first guest, the prince and wife, mary. the prince and his wife, mary. we leave that . all right. thanks we leave that. all right. thanks for having us on the show. it's okay. for having us on the show. it's okay . and, of course, making okay. and, of course, making canadian south park always has. canadian south park always has. can i just sort of full slice across the head? yes. for some reason . but look , you know, but reason. but look, you know, but a lot of people are sort of remarking that, you know, even the south park people are not going after them, but they're really kind of universally unpopular over there. they unpopular over there. and they brilliantly absurdity brilliantly skewer the absurdity of harry project, of the whole harry project, which the world, which is touring the world, saying they don't want saying that they don't want pubuchy saying that they don't want publicity appearing on publicity and appearing on all the saying that they the chat shows, saying that they don't they want don't want they don't want privacy all around the world, including to kangaroos in australia . it's and i think australia. it's and i think later in that clip he brings his

book out, which is called why i think it's fair enough . so fair think it's fair enough. so fair enough resonate over the whole yeah it's a how it sort of is but it is good that you have shows like south park style who are prepared to sort of because they do they can take it very far. they want to perfect vehicle mocking it. yes vehicle for mocking it. yes harry what he's up to harry and what he's up to exactly arguably, as i understand it, the target has turned in terms of turned against them in terms of popularity. apparently, turned against them in terms of pthink, ity. apparently, turned against them in terms of pthink, satire apparently, turned against them in terms of pthink, satire not apparently, turned against them in terms of pthink, satire not lifeparently, turned against them in terms of pthink, satire not life havetly, i think, satire not life have recently mocked them . is that recently mocked them. is that right? so the satirists, american satirist , are now american satirist, are now showing less deference, even jeremy clarkson's gone off them. well well, i mean, that fact, that's when you know you've gone too far you've got jeremy too far when you've got jeremy clarkson, it? that's clarkson, isn't it? that's interesting about interesting to hear about saturday stand up that saturday night stand up that we have have have the day. i would have thought they would be more thought that they would be more on side terms of their on their side in terms of their world but, know, you world view. but, you know, you know, they they they are they they he's the prince across the water. course, america water. and of course, america would the would applaud the californication , exactly which californication, exactly which we saw you struggle with. but i do think a lot of people are

getting sick of the you know, people complaining about how hard done by they are when you're an actual prince, weaponizing victims status. weaponizing the victims status. so it got on the market, though didn't they, that america doesn't any royals? yeah. doesn't have any royals? yeah. and of thought can and i kind of thought we can come be your royal. come over and be your royal. yeah. well, effectively, the celebrity that celebrity culture is that they're family. that's they're royal family. that's a real royal is so much more valuable that yeah, yeah , valuable that yeah, yeah, absolutely. we're going to move on telegraph for on to friday's telegraph for now. one of the most now. and this is one of the most popular jokes and it's always difficult, you know, when you analyse course you analyse comedy, of course you kill there's longer kill it. yeah, there's no longer funny. this story trying funny. what is this story trying to yeah. the to do that. yeah. well the telegraph say that the scientists is a scientist no longer with their the idea of scientists being involved in funny . yes. is pretty funny. funny. yes. is pretty funny. yeah but they've discovered they've discovered puns are the most popular type of joke. interesting which does surprise me because i think most people, i mean , how many said i thought i mean, how many said i thought most people find puns irritating . however, it's probably the sort of it's something that most

people will do on a daily basis if they hear pun or an opportunity for a pun , they want opportunity for a pun, they want it. and some people might go for it. and some people might go for it is very good at puns and there actually that can be quite hard to write well and do well and understand the craft and i understand the craft of it. did and see a very it. i did go and see a very famous punter at the edinburgh fringe who did a full hour long show. and i to say an hour show. and i have to say an hour of it, it's a bit like torture, to be honest, however well—done of it, it's a bit like torture, to be hor because ever well—done of it, it's a bit like torture, to be horbecause eve|just.l—done they are, because it's just relentless. yes, liners and relentless. yes, one liners and it go anywhere that and it doesn't go anywhere that and but appreciate the skill but i do appreciate the skill involved. it's involved. absolutely it's nonsense puns of the nonsense of course puns of the last refuge of the thus it's an exercise it's a scientific exercise. a mathematical exercise. a mathematical exercise is to prove that you have a sense of when you transparently don't try one on you. i woke up the other morning with a pun in my head. this is absolutely true. you know, like you have a tune in your head. this was a pun in my head that i thought i came up with overnight. so it goes like this. i said, so genealogist said i said, so the genealogist said to think you're eskimo. to me, i think you're eskimo. and said, i knew it .

to me, i think you're eskimo. and said, i knew it. i think and i said, i knew it. i think that's . that's a good pun. that's good. that's a good pun. what do you think it any of them are puns . what about i mean, are puns. what about i mean, shakespeare was pretty good at the old puns. well, yeah, the humourless. he had a lot he had a lot of other things going for him, though it didn't say he did. tragedy strikes well. did. the tragedy strikes well. he got of tragedy, a bit he got a bit of tragedy, a bit of history in shakespeare and a lot songs and also, lot more songs and also, let's not pretend shakespearean not pretend that shakespearean puns but they were we puns are funny, but they were we could say they were in the 17th century. well, clearly, to the mass of people, the groundlings , wanted prove that they , who wanted to prove that they had humour when had a sense of humour when transparently have transparently they didn't have one about this one very judgemental about this one. right. you don't like these puns. best of puns. the best humour, of course, involves punching people. was hopefully down, people. if was hopefully down, punching down and involves hurt pain. it involves satire . i pain. it involves satire. i believe in the word punch contains the word punch. so yeah. so that is a kind of pun that you just did yourself so hoisted by your own punch, didn't fight, oversell it very good. we're going to move good. anyway we're going to move on now to telegraph once on now to the telegraph once more. harbinger of

more. yet another harbinger of the armageddon . oh, the impending armageddon. oh, rogen the impending armageddon. oh, roger. what do these stories and it does upset me, i have to say, because i know this how we're because i know this is how we're all going to go. yeah, well, it becomes more plausible more becomes more plausible the more you them. this is the you read about them. this is the microsoft bing chat bot that has apparently love a apparently professed love for a journalist and dreams of stealing nuclear codes. and he's also told the journalist to leave his wife because he because. because the chat bot loves the journalist . okay. i loves the journalist. okay. i was going to say this. i was going to gender the chapel. then interestingly and held back. but these quotes are surely mimicking human emotion. these quotes are surely mimicking human emotion . they mimicking human emotion. they can't capable of human can't be capable of human emotion no, absolutely emotion. no, absolutely not. they're there in fact, they're not there in fact, they're simply mimicking language patterns. exactly language patterns. yes, exactly . yes. the predictive text exercise where really they just say the most likely it's a bit like pressing the centre button and your own predictive effect. but this is why i find it a sentence quite you know, there sentence i quite you know, there was that google i bought who claimed to be feeling lonely and

said he suicidal said that he had suicidal thoughts. it's an i thoughts. but it's a it's an i wrote i mean, ben yeah, i might be wrong about this, but i think this the end of the world, this is the end of the world, this is the end of the world, this of thing, because this kind of thing, because they'll over, they'll take us over, won't they? well, will. yeah. you they? well, i will. yeah. you know, also, if you're know, i mean, also, if you're a bot and you want to it all, i what what did you can't unplug yourself. what can you do. well i can unplug yourself. i think you can unplug yourself. i think you can unplug yourself. i think you can unplug yourself. i think if develop the i think if they develop the sufficient technology then they'll be able to sort themselves out. we all take it. and tragic. that's and that's the tragic. that's the thing, because the frightening thing, because we respond. we are hardwired to respond. yes. to another human yes. as if to another human being, is of course, being, which is why, of course, we're susceptible to these. we're so susceptible to these. yeah, enough of the ai. yeah, i think enough of the ai. let's just move on my let's just move on from my i don't like it at all. anyway, we're going to go on now to the daily star. this one which we mentioned earlier about a penis size. yes. with the daily size. oh, yes. with the daily star. i have we got the headline that. yes, it's good news. ladies, ladies , which is ladies, ladies, which is ginormous. it is a bit. and i'm not even sure if many ladies say is particularly good news since

. well, i mean, one of the thing, to be honest with you, i'm only semi interested in this story. i was i was quite surprised to see it come up. no, i mean the study has said what exactly she told me . this study exactly she told me. this study found that the penis is increased by a whopping 24% in recent decades . mine's got recent decades. mine's got smaller. yeah. which which one are they talking about? what exactly it is, is nonsense . of exactly it is, is nonsense. of course i do remember. and i dangerous territory here. but i remember a similar survey some years ago , which was all about years ago, which was all about the relative penis size . the relative penis size. according to four provinces around the uk . yeah, yeah. and around the uk. yeah, yeah. and apparently at that time london or people in london had bigger penises . and i think i think i'm penises. and i think i think i'm right, you know, were bigger penises that would make more sense for them. i think i'm right in saying and i'm on dangerous territory here, that it's ethnicity as it's actually about ethnicity as much anything else, it much as anything else, is it not? more about not? i think it's more about people falsely reporting , say people falsely reporting, say their size. i think i'm not their own size. i think i'm not sure this is peer reviewed this.

some men will go to extraordinary lengths and those men work in. thank you for that, ben. that is actually all we've got time for on tonight's show. thankfully, i don't want to talk any more about subject, but any more about that subject, but let's a quick again at let's have a quick look again at the covers of friday's the front covers of friday's newspapers . the daily mail the front covers of friday's newspapers. the daily mail is leading with swell as concern at police conduct in nicola probe. the guardian has sturgeon exit delays , vote on independence by delays, vote on independence by five years and the telegraph now sunak flies in to hold last ditch brexit push. he's going to have it to northern ireland to try and get the stormont assembly up and running the i calls obscene energy profits to compensate victims of pre—pay metre scandal and the daily star zombie apocalypse apparently we're not getting enough sleep. so anyway , that is all that we so anyway, that is all that we have got time for tonight on headuneis have got time for tonight on headline is thank you to my wonderful roger monkhouse wonderful guests roger monkhouse and ben norris as well. and tomorrow going be tomorrow night, i'm going to be back. going to be joined by back. i'm going to be joined by nick dixon and dapper laughs and if watching the 5 am.

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could a deal on the northern ireland protocol be agreed within days ? good morning. at within days? good morning. at 6:00 on friday, the 17th of february and this is breakfast on gb news with angela rippon and martin daubney. and here are our top stories this morning. the prime minister will hold talks with stormont leaders later today as speculation grows that deal on the northern ireland protocol could be reached. suggest rishi reached. reports suggest rishi sunak could announce it to parliament as early as next tuesday. the home secretary is demanding an explanation from

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