headlines with sophia wenzler. >> simon thank you. these are your headlines from the gb news room at 11:00. the prime minister has said britain and its allies must be intensely focused on the transition to a new regime in syria, amid fears of a resurgence of islamic state. it comes as the uk has paused all syrian asylum claims. it follows france , germany and it follows france, germany and austria saying they would pause decisions on asylum requests from syrian citizens until the political situation in the middle eastern country became clear. speaking moments ago, home secretary yvette cooper confirmed the uk would be assessing the situation that the situation in syria is moving extremely fast after the fall of the assad regime. >> we have seen some people returning to syria , but we also returning to syria, but we also have a very fast moving situation that we need to

closely monitor. and that is why, like germany, like france, and like other countries, we have paused asylum decisions on cases from syria while the home office reviews and monitors the current situation. >> meanwhile, the uk and germany have agreed a new joint action plan to tackle people smuggling gangs. germany has pledged to tighten its law to make it easier to prosecute people smugglers, enabling small boat crossings to britain. the home office said the deal would give german prosecutors more tools to tackle the supply, and storage of dangerous small boats. both countries will also commit to exchange information that may help to remove migrant smuggling content from social media platforms and tackle end to end routes of criminal smuggling networks. as part of the deal. now, sir keir starmer is facing criticism for putting efforts to kick start economic growth above human rights concerns as he held

talks with saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin salman. downing street said the economy was sakuya's number one priority, but insisted he would still raise concerns about the saudis government's human rights record. campaigners are urging the prime minister to speak out on the cases of child defendants facing the death penalty and the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi . a man has been khashoggi. a man has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a us healthcare ceo in what's believed to have been a targeted assassination. 26 year old luigi mangione is being detained over the fatal shooting of united healthcare chief executive brian thompson and premier league referee david coote has been sacked after an investigation into his conduct. professional game match officials limited made the statement after a video

emerged last month of 42 year old coote appearing to make derogatory remarks about liverpool and their former manager, jurgen klopp . those are manager, jurgen klopp. those are the latest gb news headlines. now it's time for headliners for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gb news. >> com forward slash alerts . >> com forward slash alerts. >> com forward slash alerts. >> thank you savannah. hello and welcome to headliners, your first look at tomorrow's top stories with three comedians. and before we get stuck into the papers, let's have a quick taste of what leo and lewis will have to work with on monday's front pages. mondays. is it tuesday? surely. let's have a look at tomorrow's front pages. the metro stabbed to death for a teddy bear telegraph. asylum cases on hold amid terror. fear.

the guardian hope and despair in assad's human slaughterhouse. the daily mail syria chaos is a chronic threat to our security. the independent families crowd assad torture jail after regime falls and the star. we need to probe uranus. thank goodness for them. so we have the daily mail to kick us off. leo, with the story that seems to be dominating. >> yes, syria. >> yes, syria. >> chaos is a chronic threat to our security. this is a warning from an ex—mi6 boss over isis prisoners who could flee, or thousands of jihadis being held in syria pose a threat to the west security. >> if they're released, there's a saydnaya prison if i've pronounced that correctly. >> in damascus, which which holds apparently up to or more than 10,000 people, and some people have been in there for for, decades, there's reports that there are a lot of its underground. >> so people have never seen the light of day. >> they've got families down there because they've been down

so long. the inmates are, you know , inter, they're mixed. know, inter, they're mixed. >> it's actually mixed. the cells. >> they've been down there so long. it's like jurassic park . long. it's like jurassic park. >> they've found a way to breed without mono or whatever it is. >> yes. okay. >> yes. okay. >> but i mean this is a lot of people, if they if they get out, a lot of them are hardcore jihadis. >> i should imagine being held in a top security prison in damascus. didn't, like, do anything to rehabilitate them. and some of them, or a big portion of them were renditioned into syria by the cia. cia was a syria, was a, you know, favoured a preferred site for the for the cia to, you know, fly people in, in the middle of the night and then, you know, perform waterboarding and whatever else to find out secrets. so they're going to come out, they're going to have a grudge against the west. and obviously the rest of europe has closed its doors to refugees . britain, even though refugees. britain, even though we've said, oh, we're suspending applications, they can just say they're from iraq or afghanistan or wherever. >> and you know, automatically get waved through. there's very little we can do. we've got a completely porous border. so, yeah, so we could we could

feasibly be seeing an uptick in jihadi violence in the uk. >> are you picturing them coming overin >> are you picturing them coming over in the small boats across the channel rather than or but presumably also if they're well connected terrorists, they could get fake passports and so on as well. i should i don't know. yeah. yeah. >> but i mean, i think, i think most will just come across the easiest way. >> louis, i can't believe you're saying that. >> leo. he's very there's very little we can do. we can just not let him in. you don't have to let them in. and you're, like, making it seem like we got these few isis. or maybe there's a thousand couple of isis. they're all isis. every single one of those people. have you seen the pictures of these guys? is that one of them who's, like, waving an american flag? >> but these are the ones. i suppose the only upside is these are the ones who are being sprung from jail by isis or al—qaeda , or at least until ten al—qaeda, or at least until ten minutes ago, the insurgents who are now being reappraised for their diplomatic status. so why would they want to leave syria? they're now in charge. their regime is because they've got map. >> sorry. >> sorry. >> go ahead . don't go. >> go ahead. don't go. >> go ahead. don't go. >> that's an interesting i wanted to know what they've got.

>> they've got a map of the treasure on it. they've got a map of the world. and there's a big red bit on top of africa, which is islam . they've got a which is islam. they've got a big red bit. that's iran and saudi arabia, that's islam, the uk. and then and then they're heading in this direction, you know, and also worth mentioning at this point, assad's wife asma , at this point, assad's wife asma, which is a great name for a. >> yeah, yeah. he founded a heavy breather obviously, but asma has a british passport. she's actually a has british citizenship . citizenship. >> so she wouldn't need to burn the boat. >> no, she can fly over and probably get a plus one. >> well, you know what? the thing is, i don't know this whole syria thing there is, it's they may not be nice people, you know, assad may not be a nice guy, but there was 4 million of his clan, the alawites, who were who were basically the muslims hated a lot of the muslims, hated a lot of the muslims, hated the alawites. there's 4 million. the country has 23 million. >> you've been doing the reading. i actually i've got a horrible confession. >> make a note. >> make a note. >> i listened, i listened to rory stewart and alastair campbell on this because this is the stuff rory stewart actually knows about, unlike america,

which he gets horrifically wrong, and britain, but actually the middle east and the factions in islam and so on, it is an extraordinary country. i hadn't really quite grasped just how divided , how tribal it is, how divided, how tribal it is, how many divisions there are. and as you say, this particular sect of islam, which the assad family represented, as he put it, they're like the mormons are to christianity, like really quite cuckoo even by islamic season, by islamic standards. but, you know, they believe in i think it's that one. they believe in reincarnation, including possibly as a plant. yeah. >> and well, i mean, that probably that maybe the people of this country would like probably that maybe the people of this