our british asylum afd and our british asylum judges taking the mickey? they're letting supposed asylum seekers stay in the uk even when they've been caught lying. i wouldn't let a woke judiciary judge a wet t—shirt competition. i'm leo kearse and tonight's comedians are louis schaefer and nick dixon. look at them. they're raring to go. this is headliners. but before tomorrow's news let's go to tonight's headlines with tatiana sanchez. >> ben thank you. the top stories. pope francis has had blood transfusions and is suffering more than yesterday. the vatican has said this evening the 88 year old pontiff has been in hospital for more than a week now, being treated for double pneumonia and chronic

bronchitis. well, in an update this evening, the vatican said the holy father's condition continues to be critical, adding that this morning he presented with a prolonged asthmatic respiratory crisis. doctors just yesterday had said he was not out of danger but was not at risk of death. elsewhere, one person has died and two police officers have been injured after a knife attack in the french city of mulhouse. the suspect was arrested at the scene. the man injured two police officers seriously, one in the neck and one in the chest. a bystander had tried to intervene and was killed. the suspect is a 37 year old algerian who was subject to a deportation order because he was on a terrorism watch list, according to the local prosecutor. the prosecutor has opened a terrorist inquiry because the suspect reportedly shouted allahu akbar. emmanuel macron has said this evening this was indeed islamist terrorism. prime minister sir keir starmer has told president zelenskyy he would discuss

safeguarding kyivs sovereignty with us president donald trump, as he reiterated the uk's ironclad support in a telephone call. this comes as starmer is expected to confirm a timeline to raise defence spending as he prepares to travel to washington to meet donald trump next week. trump has reportedly spoken with canadian prime ministerjustin trudeau this evening, where the pair apparently discussed the war in ukraine. well, that as us president donald trump addressed, conservatives gathered near washington dc for the annual conservative political action conference. he touched on illegal immigration, saying the border situation drove him to run for president again. as well as the ukraine war, saying he thinks we're pretty close to a deal. well, mr trump even gave a shout out to the reform uk leader, nigel farage. >> leader of the uk reform party, who, by the way, did really well in that last election. i've been his friend for a long time and i wasn't sure. am i supposed to be his friend or not? but it never mattered to me if he did well or

not. i always liked him, but it's easier to like him. when he got the kind of votes he got, he really took. he took it by storm and they say he's going to do even better this time. nigel farage, where is nigel? >> and elon musk says that all federal employees will have to report their activities or risk being fired. in a post on x this evening, musk said workers will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week. failure to respond will be taken as a resignation, while us president trump urged musk to be more aggressive in his efforts to shnnk aggressive in his efforts to shrink the federal government. despite uproar over layoffs and deep spending cuts. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, it's back to ben. >> for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code , or go to the qr code, or go to gbnews.com/alerts alerts. >> jason bradbury

vaiews@gbnews.uk. >> hello and welcome to headliners, where we give you the best of tomorrow's newspapers with the best of today's comedians. well, the ones that are available. first things first, let's see what we have on the front pages. the mail on sunday leads with. come out, come out. it's the thought police. the sunday telegraph has prime minister looks at faster boost for defence. the observer has prime minister lays down ukraine peace demand ahead of trump talks. and let's have a look at those starting with the mail lewis and have a disturbing glimpse at the sort of stasi like approach of british police. >> well, you're always disturbed. good to see you, leo, but you're always disturbed. you're always shocked. it's one of these things, and you see it every single day. the britain is a laughing stock in america. it's like reverse. it used to be that, you know. >> you want. >> you want. >> to leave and you want to tell us why. >> this time i will tell you what it is. as thousands of real. it's come out. it's the

thought police. this woman tweeted something about keir starmer. it's keir starmer. something bad should happen. not like he should die or something. they shouldn't vote for. well, it was somebody. >> close to what happened. but she she posted on facebook apparently it was about the, you know, the labour minister, andrew gwynne, who was caught out in a whatsapp group making jokes that, you know, pensioners should die and things like that, you know, making basically making sort of, you know, the nasty jokes that i think most people make in whatsapp groups. >> you. >> you. >> make because they think the whatsapp groups are sacred, but apparently they're not anymore. but yeah. so she posted on facebook saying, you know, whatever she said about him. and detectives came to her door. nick, i mean, this is this is insane. >> well, were used to it, as louis says. actually, to be fair, louis was right for once. i mean, we saw, we saw. but he should still go back because he just insulted our country. so he's got to go. sadly, he'll have to. >> go reminding people of how great this country used. >> to be. i don't make the rules. i just send the tips to the home office so they don't. they never learn. look, what happened to allison pearson was

a massive story, but yet they still keep doing this. they still keep doing this. they still following this star like behaviour, as you say. and we need a whole new regime and hopefully the fsu can get on to this free speech union. but we need a whole new regime because jd vance has just come here and shamed us about this kind of thing. it was the silent prayer people getting arrested for thoughts and now you've got the knocking on the door. oh, did you do a bad post? it's like so embarrassing. it's like the world is now watching. it's so embarrassing. and it's just wrong as well, of course. >> and the fear that this can put into people, louis. i mean, she she said they spoke to the woman and she's not like allison pearson or who's the other person? carolyn farrow, who was who was who had the police seizure devices and stuff. you know, they're journalists, they're well connected. they've got the resources and all the rest of it. she's just, you know, a regular granny. and she said it was actually quite scary. it made me think i best just keep quiet for the rest of my life. and isn't that just the sort of authoritarian communism that keir starmer is inflicting on this country? >> yeah. and you have you forget that keir starmer was a cop. he was the head of prosecutor.

right. so he wasn't even a politician who people had to like. and he's, he, he's just the present face of how horrible the present face of how horrible the situation is in this country. yeah, i mean i am i don't know what to say because i'm afraid if i say something about keir starmer, they're going to come knock on my door. >> he's about to go and see trump. so trump needs to speak to him. he says what about helen jones? we love helen because he's, you know, he's somebody to speak up for these people because he's going to go over there and talk to trump about how can we talk about anything when our country is such embarrassing. >> to laugh at him? >> to laugh at him? >> of course. >> of course. >> he is. and we are. we should laugh. should we laugh? >> we should. we should certainly align ourselves with america in terms of freedom of speech and freedom of expression, because it will help bnng expression, because it will help bring america on board with things like trade and with things like trade and with things like, like ukraine that we need america's assistance with. i mean, if we're, you know, setting ourselves up as some sort of soviet era country that's that's worse than, worse than russia, then, you know, trump's not going to want to want to help us. and why should he? moving on. we've got the

sunday telegraph, nick with with more starmer news. >> yes pm looks at faster boost for defence. so we keep getting this story. i for defence. so we keep getting this s