after being attacked while custody. the other died after being attacked while walking his dog in the park. a remains in custody. the other four have been released with no post—mortem examination found further action. former prime bhim kohli died of a neck minister boris johnson has injury, passing in hospital on accused keir starmer of sunday. a murder investigation abandoning the ally, abandoning has since been launched and five children, a boy and a girl aged an ally as the government suspends some arms sales to 14, plus another boy and two israel. foreign secretary david girls aged 12, were arrested on lammy says the decision is based suspicion of murder. police say on a review which found there that tonight the 14 year old boy was a clear risk weapons might be used in a serious violation remains in custody. the other four have been released with no of international humanitarian further action. former prime law. mr lammy says 30 out of minister boris johnson has accused keir starmer of some 350 licences will be suspended , stressing it's not an abandoning the ally, abandoning suspended, stressing it's not an arms embargo. at least 51 people an ally as the government suspends some arms sales to israel. foreign secretary david have died in a missile strike in ukraine. more than 200 were lammy says the decision is based wounded on tuesday when a on a review which found there military institute in the was a clear risk weapons might be used in a serious violation central town of poltava was hit of international humanitarian by two russian ballistic missiles . law. mr lammy says 30 out of by two russian ballistic missiles. the by two russian ballistic missiles . the scottish missiles. the scottish government is to make half £1 some 350 licences will be billion in cuts, according to 00:01:00,671 --> 4294966103:13:29,429 its finance secretary. shona suspended , stressing it's not an

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the industrious kerry marx. i don't find it that hard looking at you. you look perfectly industrious. i've always been industrious. i've always been industrious. absolutely everyone knows that. you haven't got shiny elbows. maybe that's what they mean. how was your holiday, josh? good. >> the only problem is, i'm just a bit relaxed. yeah. i'm not. i don't know if i'm angry enough to do the show yet. >> well, the front pages are likely to get you fairly angry. get me back into the zone. >> yeah. good. >> yeah. good. >> did you find it, like, not prevented this. what would have pre�*going this if they prevented this. what would have pre�*going to is if they prevented this. what would have pre�*going to bef they prevented this. what would have pre�*going to be bad y prevented this. what would have pre�*going to be bad news one it's going to be bad news one way or another. the times kick us off. starmer and us at odds

over israel arms sales. there it is , the mirror. murdered by a is, the mirror. murdered by a kid . 30s from home. boy of 14. kid. 30s from home. boy of 14. held over the killing of a frail 80 year old grandad in the park. guardian six children among 12 dead after boat ripped open in the excuse me in the channel. that's unusual. hiccups the telegraph rayner in talks to end three top comedians me, simon evans and joininginie three top comedians me, simon evans and joiningin talks to end telegraph rayner in talks to end thatcher's right to buy. and thatcher's right to buy. and thatis thatcher's right to buy. and that is james bond kissing his thatis thatcher's right to buy. and that is james bond kissing his wife and i news grenfell guilty wife and i news grenfell guilty must now be prosecuted urge mps must now be prosecuted urge mps and survivors . finally the daily and survivors . finally the daily and survivors. finally the daily star. mafia mobsters turned and survivors. finally the daily star. mafia mobsters turned their backs on italy and america their backs on italy and america moved to leafy woking. the moved to leafy woking. the headuneis moved to leafy woking. the headline is badda bing, those headuneis moved to leafy woking. the headline is badda bing, those were your front pages . so let's were your front pages . so let's were your front pages. so let's were your front pages. so let's have a closer look. we'll start have a closer look. we'll start with wednesday's guardian . josh. with wednesday's guardian . josh. with wednesday's guardian. josh. with wednesday's guardian. josh. >> yeah, this is obviously a >> yeah, this is obviously a

tragedy. six children among 12 tragedy. six children among 12 dead after a boat ripped open in dead after a boat ripped open in the channel. there's also a the channel. there's also a pregnant woman as well who died , pregnant woman as well who died , pregnant woman as well who died, pregnant woman as well who died, andifs pregnant woman as well who died, andifs pregnant woman as well who died, and it's frustrating the way the and it's frustrating the way the guardian is framing it as, like, guardian is framing it as, like, calls for legal routes to halt calls for legal routes to halt the shockingly high. like, the shockingly high. like, that's the reason for it. that's that's the reason for it. that's not the cause that wouldn't have not the cause that wouldn't have prevented this. what would have prevented this. what would have prevented this. what would have prevented this. what would have prevented this if they prevented this. what would have prevented this. what would have prevented this if they had not been allowed to leave french shores ? if the if the french shores? if the if the french police had arguably done their job. i'm sorry. you know, there's a lot of i'm it's just it's an awful lot to say. >> but it is interesting how many people come out very quickly and say if you provide safe routes, they won't have to break the law. and you say, well, that you could say that about almost any dangerous, just let me just let everybody in. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> if you don't put, you know, leave your windows open and burglars aren't going to, you know, endanger their fists by punching their way through. which is not to say it's an exact equivalence, but that's, you know, i do find it slightly, i mean, there's a couple of

things. the boat ripped open in the channel. i don't understand exactly. >> i think they just they over they over pack these boats. there were, there were eight of the 70 people had life vests. >> so it's a sort of interior pressure, i guess. >> so they're rubbish. rubbish rubber dinghies. yeah. >> i mean, that's terrible. and it is also particularly disturbing that there are so many children involved . many children involved. obviously, i don't know whether that means that they were it sounds like there were more than 12 on the dinghy and presumably the children are the most vulnerable. and at these words will put children and a pregnant woman into that situation. >> and obviously try and sell it on them. it's, it's so sickening and nefarious that, the way these smuggling gangs work and whether giving them safe routes would actually make a difference, even if it made a difference, even if it made a difference, does that then increase the traffic and make it more of a problem? so well, you're always there's always going to be take out for an illegal route , isn't there? illegal route, isn't there? >> it's not like the illegal route is going to end just because there are safe routes available. unless you make the safe routes available to literally everyone, which is obviously not going to happen.

>> yes, there'll be those who don't manage to make the safe routes and they'll say, well, we've got an alternative method for you anyway. >> very sad, very sad news, obviously. anything else on that front page do you want to draw attention to? >> well, just. yeah starmer faces test over winter fuel payments. so he's going to put a put it to a vote. it's all sort of kicking off i imagine there's going to be a whip on it. even if he gives a vote just so everybody can just go. all right well we voted now that's a democracy right? >> it does seem it's proving to be perhaps more unpopular than he'd anticipated. i don't know, i think i mean, his popularity generally has plummeted, hasn't it? >> i think people are looking for excuses, but he's giving them excuses at the same time. >> yeah, authoritarian and mean spirited. you should do one or the other or kind of alternate but not. yeah, not both. what have you got on the on the front page of the times? carrie >> yes. >> yes. >> the big story of the day is, all about, the arms sales to israel, which david lammy is reducing as such. and this story, well, largely we've heard bofis story, well, largely we've heard boris johnson today has said that starmer wants hamas to win,

which is quite strong words, but it seems like that that could be the position of the labour party at the moment, what they're saying is that it's, britain is suspending 30 of its 150 arms exports. so it's a kind of nod to the to the islamist vote, i guess less than 10%. >> so yeah. >> so yeah. >> yeah. but it's still it's a token gesture to say we're doing this, which is a bit worrying if you look at the jewish vote in this country, it's tiny. it can never compete with that vote. so if it's being done that way, that's not really a very good thing. >> but framing it in a way that sounds like a conspiracy theory. the jewish. no, i'm saying what i'm about to say. the jewish support for labour and the jewish, you know, jewish involvement in politics has been intelligent and constructive for many years. you know what i mean ? many years. you know what i mean? possibly, possibly underestimating the degree to which if that were withdrawn, you know what i mean? if people felt that still, it's still one vote per person no matter what you have. >> well, yeah. from a jewish point of view, jewish people don't have a decent a

israel, we're talking it's a very small amount of weapons that actually are sold to israel, sells us that. we're the number three. the uk is like the israel is the number three suppuer israel is the number three supplier of weapons to the uk. so we have more to lose in the uk than they have to lose. so it's why would you annoy them. and also sort of cutting edge weapons. >> and can i ask this is just opinion but do you , do you feel opinion but do you, do you feel this is david lammy or do you feel that this is cabinet? >> no, i feel that this is islamists and far left cranks within the foreign office. yeah, and bleeding into. and i think

there is a political decision here of course, to appeal to, special interest groups, special interest groups. and yeah, that's what they've done. >> moving to the telegraph quite quickly. josh. >> yes , a few things. yeah. >> yes, a few things. yeah. train guards are next in queue to get a pay rise of 15%. that just seems mental to me. i just think they should get a pay cut or just. think they should get a pay cut orjust. or they should be. or make them automatic. yeah, yeah, yeah, there's no need for them. >> they're absolutely the technology. >> the technology is there. >> the technology is there. >> eliminate them. yeah exactly. yeah. technology. >> eliminate them . that's a bit >> eliminate them. that's a bit strong with extreme prejudice. >> they are being kept on as a sort of sentimental nod to a version of train infrastructure, which no longer applies. >> it's totally unnecessary. they have they sort of every year they hold us over a barrel and a mobile phones, a mobile phones. yeah. mobile phones, good news. mobile phones don't cause brain cancer, but they do cause brain cancer, but they do cause testicular cysts. okay, that's a joke, do they? they don't. >> they don't. >> they don't. >> do they still cook eggs? >> do they still cook eggs? >> oh, depends where you hold them. >> just. they will cause you a

broken nose. if you hold them this far from your face and shout into them. >> fortunately. >> fortunately. >> fortunately, no one calls you anymore. when was the last time you ever got a phone call? it's all. yeah. it's all. hold up. >> how dare you call me that is the front pages skimmed next up, angela's ashes. she's burning down the right to buy. join

break. welcome back to headliners. your first look at wednesday's newspapers. i'm simon evans, here with josh howie and kerry marx. and we have kerry to begin with. the telegraph. now, angela flipping council houses for me, but not for me . but not for me. >> are you getting one? >> are you getting one? >> no. >> no. >> i thought you were going to call it angela rayner. i was like, angela flipping has done it again. >> that's as far as you're allowed to go on this programme, is it? >> she has. >> she has. >> she has flipped her own. i believe, at some point. >> and she did flip her own. she's so these are talks to

aboush she's so these are talks to abolish the. you can read into it as you will to abolish the right to buy, which of course has been around since 1980s, when margaret thatcher brought it in to promote home ownership. there is a question of whether it was one of those good ideas, of getting like blair's idea of getting half the country into education, and whether that kind of blew back on itself and meant that, in fact, those people end up without jobs. and what's happened with the right to buy? of course, it's kind of backfired in the fact that, basically , you can sell a house basically, you can sell a house much faster than you can build one. so we can't really keep up with it. but there is this question of, okay, well , sorry, question of, okay, well, sorry, i'm mentioning here. they're saying angela rayner in talks to aboush saying angela rayner in talks to abolish right to buy after pocketing 49,000 from scheme, which makes it sound like it was directly related. or you know what a cheek she sold her house and there was a scandal over it. but the investigation found that she hadn't done anything wrong there. >> it's good that they printed all of the allegations again. >> yeah, they're just putting the allegation there without any real need to. but but the question is, i think what we're all looking at here is whether this is the labour party just

wanting to tear down tory policies or whether it is a policy that's not realistic anymore with the need for housing. >> so there was i mean, i vaguely remember it at the time and there was a there was a degree of concern that they were doing it to sort of gerrymander a little bit as well, weren't they? there were some neighbourhoods that they thought would turn blue if people were allowed to become property owners, own a house. probably some truth to that . wandsworth some truth to that. wandsworth was obituaries. >> there was the original idea that conservatives were people who had something to conserve. yeah, exactly. so property owning people and people have made a lot of money. >> families have made a lot of money. we bought ours from an exit, you know, it was 30 grand and it was up to 300, and it was morally dubious, i think, because a lot of people were privately rent for 5 or 6 years, would pay all that rent and would pay all that rent and would be no better off than they were when they started. >> and other people it was. yeah, right. and then you, you know, and also, i know people for a fact who bought rent books who were not really entitled to have council houses, have bought the rent book. they would they would change hands maybe 2 or 3 times. and then suddenly the music changed. >> well, this is it. the thing

r ,is , is like what the gist of it is, is like we people just want to be able to get through passport control like quicker. i think that's and they and they want to frame it like that. yeah, i think , you like that. yeah, i think, you know, the people who say brexit means brexit, does that mean we don't have any trade with the eu? does that mean that we no one should ever visit from the eu and us? no. so we want to surely we'd want to have trade with the eu, which will improve all of our. >> but we do have trade with the with the eu, which will improve all of our. >> but we do have trade with the eu. >> well, no, no, but better eu. >> well, no, no, but better trade arguably and also an trade arguably and also an easier travel. now of course easier travel. now of course giving up sovereignty. that's a giving up sovereignty. that's a separate issue here. and if he separate issue here. and if he

can achieve those things and can achieve those things and have better trade with with the have better trade with with the eu and increase the our ability eu and increase the our ability to get across borders easily and to get across borders easily and not give away our sovereignty, not give away our sovereignty, then that's a good thing, right? then that's a good thing, right? >> but they're talking about it. >> but they're talking about it. i mean, what you've essentially i mean, what you've essentially just done, which is to present just done, which is to present people with more tangible benefits or a return to tangible people with more tangible benefits or a return to tangible benefits or a return to tangible benefits or a return to tangible benefits , rather than say that benefits , rather than say that benefits, rather than say that we're going back to the benefits, rather than say that we're going back to the theoretical issues which were so theoretical issues which were so contentious, and it's whether he contentious, and it's whether he can actually deliver that stuff can actually deliver that stuff without, you know, giving us without, you know, giving us back to the eu is the idea. back to the eu is the idea. >> sure. >> sure. >> sure. >> and i think the story is >> sure. >> and i think the story is about whether this is soft about whether this is soft pedalling or not, because i pedalling or not, because i agree with you. but the thing is agree with you. but the thing is that the argument here is that that the argument here is that he should phrase everything and he should phrase everything and frame it all in a way that frame it all in a way that doesn't say , doesn't mention doesn't say , doesn't mention doesn't say, doesn't mention words like single market and so doesn't say, doesn't mention words like single market and so on.and on.and words like single market and so on. and people's fears, because words like single market and so on. and people's fears, because this is now such a contentious this is now such a contentious issue that's been going on for issue that's been going on for years, and we finally thought it years, and we finally thought it was done. it's like a divorce was done. it's like a divorce settlement that's been painful settlement that's been painful for everyone. and no matter for everyone. and no matter where you stood on it, it's kind where you stood on it, it's kind of nice to reach that stage. and of nice to reach that stage. and then there's the there's , of then there's the there's , of then there's the there's, of course, a lot of remainers that then there's the there's, of course, a lot of remainers that have been brought into the, the have been brought into the, the cabinet. so they're pushing for, cabinet. so they're pushing for, for this direction anyway, i for this direction anyway, i

don't know whether the word don't know whether the word remainers there should be a remainers there should be a different demonym now because different demonym now because it's, i guess , rejoin us. yeah. it's, i guess , rejoin us. yeah. it's, i guess, rejoin us. yeah. rejoin. rejoin. you can't remain it's, i guess, rejoin us. yeah. rejoin. rejoin. you can't remain with something we've already with something we've already lost, can we? but the question, lost, can we? but the question, i guess, is, is, you know, is i guess, is, is, you know, is this pragmatic or is it token this pragmatic or is it token gestures to stop the gestures to stop the factionalisation of the left, or factionalisation of the left, or is it a move back in towards the is it a move back in towards the eu piece by piece? >> yeah, because i'm exactly. eu piece by piece? >> yeah, because i'm exactly. and i think it's and i think it's quite interesting that they're talking about soft pedalling this because so much of his rhetoric so absolutely brutal, almost gothic isn't it, like you must wants to make. >> but that seems to but that seems to scare people more because they feel like he's overstating it and like, can we trust him? and that's that's to be honest, i'm starting to wonder that as well. there is good news, though. yeah. and i'm not talking about this issue , not talking about this issue, but david lammy is going to have nothing to do with it. okay, so there it's got nothing to do with the foreign office anymore. it's going to be bought and it's more about home affairs. it's the word. >> it's the word reset that bothers me. you know , that bothers me. you know, that sounds ominous, doesn't it? it's

a european reset. sounds ominous, doesn't it? it's a european reset . what does that a european reset. what does that mean exactly? >> 2015 telegraph. now kerry and the afd leader has issued a stern warning to the eu. and if that isn't hard enough, can i also mention she's a lesbian ? also mention she's a lesbian? >> you did mention it again, >> you did mention it again, >> alice vidal. yeah. is that her name? yes. >> quite a stern looking blonde. slender lesbian. yes. in uniform. >> her far right party in germany. the most far right party since the rise of the nazis. because of course, it's germany. so anything right must be compared with the with with nazi germany now, because everyone has that as a fear. so we're sort of seeing alex wheatle the, the leader or the co—president, rather alice through the looking glass of what germany could be. and she's warning the eu , that the power warning the eu, that the power of germany, how much it could damage the eu if germany were to leave and do a dexit, which is, it's not as good as brexit, is it? it just doesn't work the same. i was thinking some of the other countries france would be a frexit in players

rotation of female darts players on their heels towards the exit. >> well , more on their heels towards the exit. >> well, more like, you on their heels towards the exit. >> well , more like, you know, >> well, more like, you know, maybe 110, female darts players threatened with disciplinary action for refusing to play transgender rivals. so this is because men have a basically a biological advantage , when it biological advantage, when it comes to darts. >> yes. >> yes. >> because women are rubbish at darts. yeah. so, it's not it's not science. now that's science specifically says it here. >> is it for you in the pub watching people play. yeah. go. oh my god, what are you doing ?

oh my god, what are you doing? >> that's not how you do it. no, so i guess there's a little bit of upper body strength. there's going to be something the point is, why do you have women's darts as a separate category ? so darts as a separate category? so it's fair for all for female players. whatever. yeah but it's like sort of why do you have the paralympics and then allow someone who is able bodied to then be in that. it doesn't make any sense. so but the so people have before specifically this person they're talking about when she was put up against a biological male has then sort of abdicated the abdicated the match. what am i saying? it's not a monarchy, is it? and basically throne the throne in the tournament . but now they're the tournament. but now they're saying that the official body is if you do that, you basically be banned, possibly even for good. so it's you're punished twice, essentially. it's not. it's cheating. >> you brought the game into disrepute. >> yeah. well, they brought themselves into disrepute. >> the board i say quickly, i think the actual difference with darts is supposed to be quite negligible between men and women compared to other things. reasonably well. more than anything, it's not like the swimming, you know, when the swimming association and world aquatics did their studies and they did months of studies and

they did months of studies and they found there was a massive difference there between male and female women, you need to have a stiff wrist. >> you have to have control of the wrist and women like just zoom in on it like, you know, like women have a limp wrist and it goes and it's like that sort of thing. >> that could be an advantage if you put the board lower back from a man and he's going to get straight. >> a man's wrist is just straight in the thing there. >> 180 not convincing. i'm sorry. >> it's a good mime, though. thank you . has never played thank you. has never played awards for mimes coming up. i've never played darts before. >> obviously, it's exactly as i just said. >> coming up . ofsted go for the >> coming up. ofsted go for the hippie vote. the world service is under threat. but don't worry, trans prisoners have a state the art entertainment wall, if it includes a dartboard,

and welcome back to headliners.

so, kerry, we kick off with some more madness now from the ofsted in the telegraph. first they do away with single word summaries. now they decide to start assessing the so—called happiness of the incarcerated. >> yes. is it all crazy overreaction or is it all reasonable? i will answer that question for you. it's overreaction . the story, of overreaction. the story, of course, stems with the tragedy of ruth perry, the headteacher who took her life after getting

of ruth perry, the headteacher who t> yeah, yeah, the really big lesson was too much lesson with mother. >> yeah. so the, you know, children sit exams and they're expected to do that. but teachers can't. so we now have to give them, these these report cards, which is going to be a bit softer on them. won't upset them so much. and of the reaction to the big lesson, we found out that around about half, 49% of parents oppose the single word judgement , 29% single word judgement, 29% strongly oppose it. i assume the 29% were part of the 49%. so it wasn't a total like 79%, 100%, —49%.

>> they didn't. they didn't mention that that that 720%. >> exactly right. yeah. >> exactly right. yeah. >> thank you . it's like your >> thank you. it's like your darts playing. it's very good. they also said here children we spoke to said they wanted to us prioritise the. why are you asking children what they think about this stuff. yes. it's ridiculous for the big lesson. i mean have you got children? >> do you talk to them? >> do you talk to them? >> no, but they're idiots. i'm not going to hand over their education how they're judged. >> it's a very stupid idea. education how they're judged. >> it's a very stupid idea . one >> it's a very stupid idea. one thing they've got right is they basically, if the way the system was and this is partly what happened, was that if there are any safeguarding concerns, you immediately get voted in as inadequate. and that's what happened.the inadequate. and that's what happened. the school was outstanding. and then it went to inadequate. >> and that was it could work its way back. >> right. but yeah, but but it can take longer. whereas now they will show these safeguarding concerns and the school will have a couple of weeks to deal with them. and then the inspectors will come back in. that makes much more sense. getting rid of this , what sense. getting rid of this, what they're trying to say is they're going to get rid of this one word thing, because actually we've got a much better system.

and parents don't want it. and there's no proof that parents okay, 49% don't want what. so that means 51% do want it. and also they're trying to say it's less confusing system, but they're replacing it with a more confusing system. >> so there's a former head of ofsted who says that parents prefer the one word school school rating. >> i just want my one word is open. >> oh, yeah. >> oh, yeah. >> what gets me is this sentence here. it says that the schools will also face increased scrutiny on how they tackle attendance and care for children, and special educational needs and disabilities. i thought they were doing that already. they're going to start caring about things. i thought we were already caring about. so anyway, it all sounds soft to me. yes, that's my, brilliant conclusion here. >> it's very soft. grow up, grow up >> it's very soft. grow up, grow up very headteachers. >> and i'm voting it inadequate. one word simons. otherwise i. >> so he's lost interest . distracted. >> simon's writing us writing a spiked article. >> i think the show has stopped. isn't it ? >> i think the show has stopped. isn't it? it's >> i think the show has stopped. isn't it ? it's got lost anyway. isn't it? it's got lost anyway. you're right mate . simon. come you're right mate. simon. come back. just come back. real, real.

>> you in? >> you in? >> is the autocue not working? what's going on? okay, okay. okay. >> times. josh and the british government determined to pinch out the last guttering candle flame of soft british power in an already darkening world. >> yeah. world service at stake over bbc funding. pinch point. says its director. yeah. this is as you say, this is really about soft power. the foreign office commits 100 million a year. until next year, but the bbc spends two. it costs 265. so of course it's costing taxpayers. but then either way, it's costing the taxpayers. arguably so, i don't mind the idea of bbc world service, but when it goes towards when they start saying things like we need the bbc world service, because otherwise china and russia, which are spending like 8 billion on their sort of propaganda, we need something to counter that. you 90, something to counter that. you go, fair enough. then you look at the output of bbc arabic and you go, well, wait a minute, we've got some serious

propaganda going on and we're paying propaganda going on and we're paying for that. like the amount of stuff there's yeah , yeah, i of stuff there's yeah, yeah, i mean, it's crazy the amount that bbc arabic. oh well it's now it's , it's, it's an online radio station. >> al jazeera but the bbc bbc but hiring a bunch i mean some of the stuff they put out about israel is crazy. >> if you go online and you can just see all these kind of the translations when it comes out in arabic as opposed to english, whatever. and we're going, how are we paying for this? it's madness. it's called constant corrections from journalists who are trying to be impartial. and they're not. and we're paying for it. it's crazy. >> yeah. i think part of the problem is that they're constantly using people who they just don't know and haven't checked up well enough on for the for that service and who turn out to then be in, you know, various much more questionable groups that the, the bbc probably shouldn't have anything to do with. it is interesting though, as you say, they're they're trying to sell this idea almost the threat that if you don't if you don't use this, then your propaganda will

flourish and we're the only thing standing between that. so i don't think it really works, but i think also people feel a lot different , far differently lot different, far differently about the licence fee. these days.i about the licence fee. these days. i think there's more people complaining because the bbc does seem to have gone over. i think it was always a very trustworthy and reliable service, but it does seem to have gone over to a little bit more in the ideological sphere nowadays. >> yeah , the world service is >> yeah, the world service is not part of what licence payers believe that they get value from, in that respect, is it? it is generally considered to be a different proposition, to provide different value, wouldn't you say? >> yeah . >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i mean some people listen to it no doubt. >> yeah. well it's mainly for audience that aren't british. >> yeah. so it is. audience that aren't british. >> yeah. so it is . i mean it is >> yeah. so it is. i mean it is a projection of soft power. it's our voice in the world. it's not considered to be something that licence payers get their value for money in a way it isn't really considered to be a bbc service in that regard, but yet we are paying for it out of our out of our bbc fee, you know? but well, are we because we're paying but well, are we because we're paying 160, we're paying it's 265, 65 million. and the foreign

office spent 100 million. >> so we're paying 165 million of it. >> well, i mean, most of us have a tv licence as well, so you pay for it either way, because the foreign office don't have any sort of source of what i'm saying. >> but but it is coming from the bbc licence fee. yeah. that 165 million and we're paying that. so that's where it's coming from . so that's where it's coming from. >> yeah. but we'd be paying it if it was the foreign office. >> no, no that's what i did say. that's the point i made at the beginning. yeah. we're going to beginning. yeah. we're going to be paying either way. >> yeah. but do you think it's a good thing? do you think it should be funded, or do you think it's. do you think it should go everything apart from bbc arabic? yeah. okay which is part of the. are you saying bbc arabic is part of the world service. >> yes it is. yes. >> okay. right. so this is your issue with it that there's anti—israel propaganda is a part basically. >> yeah. and it's not impartial is my point. >> okay. male now carry and tales of expensive high tech transgender prison wars that still surely only incentivise further transactions on remand. >> this is at the downview women's jail. downview does not sound like a good name for a prison to put you. it's not very positive. do you want your prisoners to have good names? well, you don't want people to

have a negative view of the you want to kind of rebuild and have a better plan for the future, perhaps. but the down view, the really sad, upset place, so this is that they have a wing for trans women, curiously, they don't have any wing for trans men anywhere, it just seems, seems slightly odd that trans women are transgressing far more than trans men do, roughly at the same rate that men do, in fact. so whilst prisons are overcrowded, this one is somewhat overcrowded, and they've bought. this seems to be an odd kind of scandal. it's about a £10,000.10. yeah, £10,000 games wall, which is a gadget. £10,000 games wall, which is a gadget . it's called energy wall gadget. it's called energy wall and it allows you to play games which i don't think that's tremendous amount of money really . but but apparently really. but but apparently they're not using it very much, which is because they're women and they don't know how it works, is that they're trans women though. so, you know, you think they might have had some experience in the past maybe, >> i was just joking. >> i was just joking. >> i was adding to it. but the, i was rolling, but the, you know, sell it, put it, put it into the women's part of the

prison. i don't really get why this thing is particularly an issue. you might have taken more from this story than i. >> well, it's not because there's £10,000. there's budget cuts across. well there's all these. there's not enough spaces, and they're spending ten grand on this big screen for three people that they're not actually using. it's a bad idea. >> it's a bad idea. >> it's a bad idea. >> it's a bad idea. but, >> it's a bad idea. but, this has always been, where the trans people are at risk in prisons and do need to be there are safety concerns, but but that doesn't mean that they should. then be put in with biological women so that it's offloaded. those safety concerns become biological women. so being a trans only unit seems like a good idea, but it does seem to be, not massively used. >> i don't think you should call trans women a unit. >> it depends on the. >> it depends on the. >> okay. yeah, that's that . >> okay. yeah, that's that. >> okay. yeah, that's that. >> josh. independent horror show author stephen king is alarmed to find that his terrifying depictions of evil incarnate and leaving a trail of dead in its wake are to be removed from florida school libraries, >> yes. stephen king gives blunt

three word response after discovering florida banned 23 of his books in schools, it was what the f? and what happened was, ron desantis in 2022 brought in this legislation that any anything that had like, sex stuff in it would then be open to being sort of banned. and it was really throwing the baby out with the bathwater. but then the bath water was arguably boiling and burning the baby. this sounds like a stephen king novel, actually thinking about it, but, there were some incredibly inappropriate books that were part of the school system and part of sort of gender ideology about stuff. i don't know, i don't want to get into it, but it was not good stuff. and unfortunately, it's really more about bad legislation than trying to just sort of ban books as a whole, and so children can still buy stephen king's books or get them off amazon or go to, you know. well, they can no, no, they can still be supplied through the school. but if someone makes a complaint, it has to be pulled.

and then it takes like a week or so for it to go back again. so that's really the gist of it. yeah. >> and, you know, i say don't remove the books, remove the complainers. really it's not it's not going to be forever. sooni it's not going to be forever. soon i will be writing books based on individual sensibilities, and we won't have any problems anymore. but of course, if you go through books to find problems with them, then, you know there's an awful wide area that you're never going to read. i particularly like this story. this part of the story where the florida department of education spokesperson, sydney brooker , spokesperson, sydney brooker, sydney booker, who's called sydney booker, who's called sydney booker, who's called sydney booker, isn't that perfect , has since sydney booker, isn't that perfect, has since pushed back on the publisher's lawsuit, telling the bbc that it is a stunt, adding that there are no books banned in florida and that sexually explicit material and instruction are not suitable for schools, which sounds like a complete contradiction. nothing is banned , it's just not suitable. >> it doesn't read so it doesn't know what it means. >> yeah. who? booker. >> yeah. who? booker. >> just one more section to go. britain's shame. the north—south divide in the starkest terms. and we cannot apologise enough or indeed at all. don't drop how. now. one more section.

and welcome back to the final section of tonight's headliners. we kick off with a story that i think most of us have known about for a very long time. in fact, the mobile phones are listening in. >> mobile phone leak reveals your phone might be listening to you. this is a bombshell leak, according to the mirror. i'm not sure it's really a bombshell. if it might be, i think if phones are definitely doing a thing that might be more so. but this is something of course, we've suspected for a while. whether it's actually true or not, we don't know because this is actually a marketing media firm, cox media, who have claimed as part of their service the active listening service, that the phone listens to you. and as a result, the group has been removed from google partners program , which doesn't show that program, which doesn't show that what they're saying isn't true. but certainly shows that google aren't happy with it, i do wonder about this with the phones listening to me. does it listen to everything in context? like if i'm if i'm talking to a

friend whilst watching a war movie, does my phone think kerry's at war again and start offering me weapons? >> i'm sure that i filters all that stuff out. it's scary. it's definitely true. it definitely happens. i was talking about, like needing a penis extension and then i got loads of adverts. >> did you get inundated and was your penis longer? >> well, it is now . thank you. >> well, it is now. thank you. mobile phones times now, josh. >> and a survey suggests that we're less proud of our history than we once were. i have to say, that's the sort of self—deprecating humility that makes me proud to be british. >> well, very good. national pride falls as britain redefines itself. so this is a study from the national centre for social research. and there's a lot of statistics that are here. but the gist of it is, is there are two different things. and part of this , this idea of, why, of this, this idea of, why, people aren't as proud to be british necessarily. i think it's just we haven't been teaching our children for the

last ten years. they're talking about since 2013. our pride in our history has dropped off. and i'm imagining that's sort of around the beginning of identity politics and whatnot . and if politics and whatnot. and if we're not teaching our kids all the great things that this country has done stopping slavery, world war two, democracy, brexit, all these amazing things. so, so that i think is part of it. we should it's all of course, people aren't proud if they're not learning that stuff . yeah. i learning that stuff. yeah. i think we should be proud. kerry, >> i love the positive spin they're putting. national pride falls as britain redefines itself. like that's a good thing. we're not we're not losing pride. we're just, coming up with a completely different understanding of ourselves. yeah, maybe seeing hundreds of thousands of people waving flags of other nations on our streets rather than , our own flag is rather than, our own flag is kind of not been a very good advertising. i also think also, we really have such a we keep pushing such a negative view of this country that this is a ramification of that. we seem to have a zero sum history where

sure, the empire was bad, but also achieved some good things . also achieved some good things. and also it's pretty remarkable that an island as small as this managed to create an empire as large as it did one of the largest empires ever existed. shameful. wrong. but still impressive, right? yeah, absolutely . absolutely. >> kerry, the north—south divide in the times, damning evidence. it says of women being failed or maybe just, you know, enjoying themselves a bit more earlier on. >> yeah, very oddly, in the part of the country where people eat the most, greggs and chip butties, they're not living as long and on average lifespan for women. i think this is only about women here. it's about two years less, they show the analysis of life expectancy data shows a baby girl born in north east statistical region can expect to live until she's 81.2in north west 81.3. there's nothing in here that explains why there would be a 0.1 difference between east and west. they're more concerned with the fact that people in the south, women in the south live two years longer, which i thought was a bit of a win ,

thought was a bit of a win, really. i think, you know who's the most hardy now, clearly the south with our longer livers. >> well , really it's south with our longer livers. >> well, really it's about measures that they can do to address this. and one of them talking about, they're saying helping women to claim their rightful benefits, improving childcare provision and moving down south. >> yeah. moving about benefits . >> yeah. moving about benefits. >> yeah. moving about benefits. >> work that works? >> work that works? >> never mind. >> never mind. >> never mind . >> never mind. >> never mind. >> good news in the for mail any 12 year olds that have been allowed to stay up late to watch the show on a school night. >> oh, we're on here. yes. watching tv or gaming just before bed makes no difference to children's sleep shock. new study shows. everything, of course, is a shock . i assume if course, is a shock. i assume if this is for children, it probably works for adults as well. of course, for a long. for a while now people have believed that looking at your screen will affect your sleep, your health and so on. a swedish health chief ruled toddlers should not be allowed to watch any television or screens, and other children's screen time should be limited . but it turns out all of limited. but it turns out all of this is wrong. it was only once they used their devices in bed that it took longer to fall

asleep, and that's because they're enjoying a game or whatever they're playing, and next thing we're going to be told that alcohol and cigarettes are good for you and you don't need to exercise. but that's not come just yet. >> we already know where you stand on this. josh, from the holiday. >> yeah, absolutely. more phones. give them more, speak less. >> you do hear a lot about blue light. >> yeah. well that's what this is kind of this study is showing that it doesn't actually have an impact on your sleep. it's a kind of ridiculous thing to say. if you use these devices in bed, you're going to go to sleep later. yeah. yeah. because you're using the devices like that's why that needs to be a scientific study. >> there is supposed to be a sort of sleep hygiene thing, isn't there, that you use bed for only sleeping and obviously conjugal relationships and so on. but with children, you know. >> yeah, i like the kitchen joke. >> absolutely. so do you think that it's , i mean, do you think that it's, i mean, do you think that it's, i mean, do you think that it's, i mean, do you think that it's better to sort of say, just stay up a little bit later and then go out, what with what? >> the kids. yeah. yeah. >> the kids. yeah. yeah. >> i mean, seriously, i mean , >> i mean, seriously, i mean, that's the thing, isn't it? if you kind of go, there's this kind of like smooth runway keep. >> we enforced that over the

summer actually, and tried to do that. and in the end we just had to give up. yeah that's sneaky. >> yeah. it's powerful isn't it ? >> yeah. it's powerful isn't it? >> yeah. it's powerful isn't it? >> finally, it's time to go through the papers before we clock off for another night. let's have a quick look at wednesday's front pages once more. the times starmer and us at odds over israel arms strikes. the mirror murdered by a kid 30s from home. boy of 14 held over the killing of a frail 80 year old grandad. the guardian six children among 12 dead after boat ripped open in the channel. the telegraph raynerin the channel. the telegraph rayner in talks to end thatcher's right to buy the eye. news. grenfell guilty must now be prosecuted, urge mps and survivors and finally, the daily star mafia mobsters turned their backs on italy and america and moved to leafy woking . that's moved to leafy woking. that's all we have time for. thanks to my guest josh howie and kerry marx. leo kearse will be here tomorrow with kerry again and jonathan kogan. and if you're watching at 5 am, stay tuned for breakfast. otherwise thank you. good night. good >> that warm feeling inside from

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it even easier. also tonight, a jihadi knifeman avoids a proper prison sentence despite stabbing a woman in the neck. is britain too soft on islamist extremists . too soft on islamist extremists. and the reason you face fresh criticism for our patriotic anthem? no wonder national pride is plummeting in britain. it's diversity to blame. i'll have all of the front pages with my panel all of the front pages with my panel. broadcaster esther krakue , panel. broadcaster esther krakue, director of the centre for migration and economic prosperity stephen wolf, and political commentator jonathan liz. oh, and what thought crime has this man been nicked for?

>> we have a right to my job. i have a right to work here. he has a right. i have a right to be here and get ready. >> britain. here we go . >> britain. here we go. this is britain, not gaza. next. >> thank you . patrick. your top >> thank you. patrick. your top story at 9:00. a pregnant woman is amongst 12 people to have died while attempting to cross the english channel. dozens more were on board when a boat capsized near northern france, with some 50 rescued by the coastguard. it's believed ten of 12 are female, including six minors with most of them migrants from eritrea. french prosecutors have opened an investigation, and border and security minister angela eagle

has said that the gangs facilitating the crossings must be stopped. >> these dangerous boat crossings are being facilitated for financial reward by smuggling gangs who don't care about the safety of the people that they are cramming onto boats, often overcrowding onto boats, often overcrowding onto boats and causing these dangerous crossings. and it's that that we've got to stop happening in the future. >> the scottish government is to make half £1 billion worth of cuts, to according its finance secretary, shona robison told msps that scotland cannot ignore the severe financial challenges it faces. former prime minister bofis it faces. former prime minister boris johnson has accused keir starmer of abandoning an ally as the government suspends some arms sales to israel. foreign secretary david lammy says the decision is based on a review, which found there was a clear risk that weapons might be used in a serious violation of

international humanitarian law. mr lammy says 30 out of some 350 licences will be suspended, stressing it's not an arms embargo. at least 51 people have died in a missile strike in ukraine. more than 200 were wounded on tuesday when a military institute in the central town of poltava was hit by two russian ballistic