Gb news. Very good evening to you. Im Aaron Armstrong in the newsroom in birmingham. Deserves so much better. According to west better. Thats according to West Midlands better. Thats according to west midlethe city council declared after the city council declared itself bankrupt itself effectively bankrupt europes largest local authority has a bill of £760 million in equal pay claims. The conservative it conservative mayor says it raises about way raises concerns about the way the council been the labour led council has been run. With the run. All new spending, with the exception services and exception of Vital Services and the protection of vulnerable people, immediately. The protection of vulnerable peoplonshore immediately. The protection of vulnerable peoplonshore infarmsately. The protection of vulnerable peoplonshore infarms are i. More onshore wind farms are expected as a result expected to be built as a result of announced by the of new rules announced by the government. 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Says the ban has exacerbated the cos this government being this government is being held to of to ransom by a bunch of tory backbenchers since 2015 have backbenchers who since 2015 have stopped wind built stopped onshore wind being built in that has raised in england and that has raised bills by for bills for families by £180 for every family in britain, were going through a cost of living crisis. Surely now those individuals and those conservative can that conservative mps can see that its to have onshore its much better to have onshore wind cut bills wind built and cut bills for families, schools minister says wind built and cut bills for fam governments minister says wind built and cut bills for famgovernments been er says wind built and cut bills for famgovernments been very ys the governments been very proactive with the proactive in dealing with the concrete crisis and has been issuing guidance since 2018. 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In may, reports in russia number of russia claimed a number of cubans for cubans had signed up for Russias Armed forces in exchange citizenship. Exchange for citizenship. Separately, the uk government has announced the wagner group of mercenaries, which has been active in ukraine, is to be proscribed terrorist proscribed as a terrorist organisation. News organisation. This is gb news live it live across the uk. Thats it from me. Now its time for headliners. Headliners. Hello, welcome to headliners i im lam em im simon evans joining me tonight. Two top comedians that arent louis shaffer. They are josh howie louis and Cressida Wetton. Welcome how are you. 7 welcome how are you . I had fun last night. I had fun last night. Did you . Oh, it was all fun and the illuminated and games until the illuminated signs i just signs came out. Well, i just happened with. Happened to have one with. No, there bit there was a great bit of slapstick that been slapstick that had been semi rehearsed, that fully rehearsed, but that didnt fully integrate to integrate with our attempts to actually the actually get through the newspapers. Mind. Newspapers. But never mind. Tonight im sure its going to be seamless be a much more seamless integration, right . Yeah, totally little bit integration, right . Yeah, totbusiness little bit integration, right . Yeah, totbusiness the little bit integration, right . Yeah, totbusiness the mugs. Bit integration, right . Yeah, tothell, ss the mugs. Bit integration, right . Yeah, tothell, ss the nwater it well, well do the water pistols later. Take a look okay, lets take a look at the have the front pages. We have the telegraph work drive telegraph back to work drive shelved until 2025. The times mentally ill to work from home in benefits revamp the sun. Ive had my fill of holly. The news nhs staff told to watch out for concrete danger signs. The metro. Oh, what a fine mess this that is to do with sewage. I believe. And finally, the daily star ,. And finally, the daily star, the great fool of china. Interesting those of you from pages. Interesting those of you from pages. So we interesting those of you from pages. So we will start interesting those of you from pages. So we will start with the pages. So we will start with the telegraph. Josh yes , back to telegraph. Josh yes, back to work drive shelved until 2025. The government basically wants to reduce the billions that are spent on people who are not working for various reasons, including continents, not being able to leave their home and whatnot. And it looks like theyre one of the ways theyre going to do that say youve just to that is say youve just got to go anyway. But what go to work anyway. But what theyve done very cleverly is just go, you know what . Lets just leave it to whoever gets into the next who whoever gets into the next who who might it be . We dont. So you think basically they dont want to have take dont want to have to take responsibility of things . Its going and so going to be unpopular and so they want be. Going to be unpopular and so the its want be. Going to be unpopular and so the its it want be. Going to be unpopular and so the its it haswant be. Going to be unpopular and so the its it has to nt be. Going to be unpopular and so the its it has to be be. Going to be unpopular and so the its it has to be done. Its a it has to be done. Were so arguably, were spending so much money. At the much money. Yeah. But at the same time, it is leaving a poison labour poison chalice for labour if they poison chalice for labour if the yes. And theyre saying even yes. And theyre saying even then a year well by sound then a year as well by the sound of i mean there was of it. So i mean there was another there as well, another headline there as well, wasnt there, about the mentally ill so on. There an wasnt there, about the mentally ill lot� on. There an wasnt there, about the mentally ill lot of]. There an wasnt there, about the mentally ill lot of different an wasnt there, about the mentally ill lot of different factors awful lot of different factors and so on. But it is basically people into people have just got into the habit being during habit of being at home during lockdown, yeah. Habit of being at home during locibut n, yeah. Habit of being at home during locibut wouldnt yeah. Habit of being at home during locibut wouldnt they. Habit of being at home during locibut wouldnt they wouldnt but wouldnt they wouldnt people be working in working from type jobs anyway if from home type jobs anyway if you Something Else . You couldnt do Something Else . I mean, people doing that i mean, arent people doing that anyway . Yeah. No, no. True. No, no, no. True. True. Youve put your back out, apply for out, you dont apply for bricklaying jobs , do you . Bricklaying jobs, do you . Theres other things. Mean, kind yeah. I mean, the kind of jobs all anyway jobs have all gone now anyway havent all doing them i think were all doing them arent i think were all doing them areibut yeah, well not us because but yeah, well not us because were here. Were in here. Billion and but yeah, its 26 billion and thats 6 billion more in real terms pre pandemic. Terms than it was pre pandemic. So something does have to be done, but its going to be very unpopular. Done, but its going to be very unpopula what done, but its going to be very unpopulawhat about done, but its going to be very unpopula what about the yeah. What about the gentleman his pink gentleman there with his pink shorts . Whats that about . Shorts . Whats that all about . Well, just, you know, well, its just, you know, people wear shorts people can wear pink shorts nowadays. Seems at home i know. That seems at home auen i know. That seems at home alien to you anyway. In work. Hes or in work. Hes incontinent. Hes actually incontinent. You after photo. Somebody enjoying the weather i this is 5mm this is this is theres going to be a heat wave isnt there . This is this is theres going to bi a heat wave isnt there . This is this is theres going to bi dontit wave isnt there . This is this is theres going to bi dont know; isnt there . This is this is theres going to bi dont know; ithatthere . This is this is theres going to bi dont know; ithat comes but i dont know if that comes up in another page but theyre saying tomorrow anyway. Pretty for b ut pretty good for that. But there big there is actually another big article 13 or article that block under 13 or face huge fines social media told so this is the Online Safety bill thats been going on and on forever. I believe its to its final on to going its final readings on wednesday. Okay and of the wednesday. Okay and one of the things the government is things that the government is seemingly concerned about, seemingly very concerned about, and is and i think rightly so, is having these eight, nine, ten year olds on social media accounts having tick and accounts having tick tock and having whatnot and essentially they could lose these social media companies. They media accounts companies. They can their can lose like 10 of their annual income world income if they dont i think that they dont comply. I think that children should not be on social media. I find them annoying on social media. You what i find them annoying on socyou nedia. You what i find them annoying on socyou think . You what do you think . Its terrible for i think its terrible for the. Youre talking about watching what challenge. The. Youre talking about watnow, what challenge. The. Youre talking about watnow, if what challenge. The. Youre talking about watnow, if youret challenge. The. Youre talking about watnow, if youre a challenge. The. Youre talking about watnow, if youre a chaiyeare. Now, if youre a nine year old, you can now old, its like if you can now get a tiktok account, going get a tiktok account, its going to more valuable, to be all the more valuable, isnt so naughtiest, isnt it . So the naughtiest, most be most cunning children will be theyll status. Theyll have more status. So its prize now. Its really a prize now. Yeah, i suppose thats true. Yeah, i suppose thats true. Well, that would at least force them to show a little bit of initiative. Yeah, exactly. Which initiative. Yeah, exactly. Which i think is good. They shouldnt just be low hanging for just be low hanging fruit for them well, got them all the time. Well, you got them all the time. Well, you got the times, cressida. With what is some sort of destinys is that a some sort of destinys child reunion there by the look of it. How about that . How about that . Thats the. Thats our queen. The queen is the duchess of sussex. Queen of hearts. Sussex. Queen of hearts. Queen of hearts. Meghan markle looking very glamorous. But the story were looking at is mentally ill will be told to work a bid to cut work from home in a bid to cut benefits kind benefits. So weve kind of covered roughly covered that same story roughly. Exactly. Lot more. Yeah, exactly. A lot more people are not working now. 2. 5 Million People claiming incapacity payments. That is extraordinary. I mean, its no wonder our productivity is on the floor. But as you say, thats going to be all shelved until whichever government happens to step in, whoever that might be. Energy discounts for customers who back local wind farms. This sounds like a straightforward bribe. Is it . Straightforward bribe. Is it . Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. And then theres the 32 degree, which ive got to tell you, i didnt sleep in the last couple of nights. Its just too hot , couple of nights. Its just too hot, unpleasant, but its never the right temperature, in my view. You know , i have a very view. You know, i have a very narrow band acceptable temperatures. I operate in the day that kids go back to school is when were going to get a heat wave. Thats ridiculous. Have thats ridiculous. Yeah. Okay. What have we got . Weve again weve got the metro. Josh, again , slightly. This is a new angle on the crisis of sewage companies, basically just dumping out their sewage. And what a fine is. Sewage. And what a fine mess is. The headline. And what theyve the headline. And what theyve been like the argument been doing is like the argument goes it rains, theres goes that when it rains, theres overflow. And theres a overflow. And so theres been a lot instances in our lot of these instances in our rivers our and our beaches rivers and our and our beaches have very polluted have become very polluted because of now, they found because of it. Now, they found out that actually some of the out that actually on some of the hottest days of the year where theres , there doesnt theres no excuse, there doesnt they dont have this overflow excuse because of water in the system, water from system, extra water from rainfall. Just doing it rainfall. Theyre just doing it because they just want get because they just want to get rid stuff. Right. In rid of the stuff. Right. In which theyre doing which case theyre not doing their we their job as water companies, we pay their job as water companies, we pay for them to treat pay our bills for them to treat the sewage. Yeah. Are the sewage. Yeah. And they are literally going, you know what . Lets just we keep hearing this hideous stories people going lets just we keep hearing this hida us stories people going lets just we keep hearing this hida us stcines people going lets just we keep hearing this hida us stcin the people going lets just we keep hearing this hida us stcin the heat le going lets just we keep hearing this hid a us stcin the heat and oing lets just we keep hearing this hid a us stcin the heat and then for a swim in the heat and then getting days getting really ill two days later, yeah , because if later, like, yeah, because if theyve glastonbury for later, like, yeah, because if tifulle glastonbury for later, like, yeah, because if tifull weekend, glastonbury for later, like, yeah, because if tifull weekend, you;tonbury for later, like, yeah, because if tifull weekend, you;tonbu1its� r a full weekend, you know, its just swim. Just having a swim. The worst apparently in the worst apparently is in scotland. Well, that was one scotland. Well, that was one report which i dont report i heard, which i dont know. Feels even more know. Somehow feels even more wrong. Its like big, wrong. Somehow its like big, big country. Not not heavily populated. Theyre blaming england and ireland for their for the. Oh we certainly our stuff up there hopefully like seeing some of those tankers going up the m1 i have heard about and we live in hope. I have heard of a few people saying that this kind of stuff is actually starting to anecdotally, people are starting to complain about having encountered bit. Encountered it a bit. They know at the they dont know it at the time , though, do they . Isnt time, though, do they . Isnt this the problem that in this the problem that you go in and sparkly and and it all looks sparkly and lovely get sick . Lovely and then you get sick . Doesnt look sparkly well, it doesnt look sparkly and i dont and lovely. Thats why i dont go in anyway. Ive seen you go in anyway. The ive seen you go in anyway. 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