>> does that determine your. >> does that determine your. >> prison sentence? should criminals be banned from pubs. >> and should cousins. >> and should cousins. >> be banned. >> be banned. >> from marrying? i'm josh howie and tonight i'm. >> joined by kerry marks and. >> joined by kerry marks and. >> paul cox, who are. >> paul cox, who are. >> cousins and may get married. >> cousins and may get married. >> to take you through thursday's. >> top stories. >> top stories. >> this is headliners. but before tomorrow's news, let's go to tonight's headlines. >> with sam francis. >> with sam francis. >> very good evening to you from the newsroom. it's just after 11:00 leading the news tonight. the justice secretary has called for a u—turn on planned changes that would make an offender's background a bigger factor in sentencing. shabana mahmood says she's written to the sentencing council, urging them to scrap the new guidance after the conservatives accused labour of creating a two tier justice. the

changes, due in april would place more emphasis on pre—sentence reports, particularly for offenders from ethnic or faith minorities, young adults, abuse survivors and pregnant women. shadow justice secretary robert jenrick has called it anti—white and anti—christian bias, but mahmood insists sentencing will remain equal for all. the sentencing council, meanwhile, says its reforms aim to ensure consistency and avoid bias in the justice system. tonight, the uk and ireland have pledged to work more closely together as their leaders met for a major summit in liverpool. sir keir starmer and the irish premier say their partnership is more important than ever in an uncertain world. the two governments want to reset in relations after tensions over brexit and legacy laws on northern ireland. they'll host business talks on trade, energy and construction before agreeing and construction before agreeing a new cooperation plan through to 2030. the trump administration has been holding secret talks with hamas in qatar

to secure the release of hostages in gaza. it marks a major shift in us policy, which has long avoided direct engagement with the terrorist group. sources suggest. the talks include efforts to free edan alexander, believed to be the last living american hostage. but us officials and the israeli government haven't commented. trump's envoy, steve witkoff, is set to return to the middle east to negotiate the next phase of the gaza ceasefire deal soon. police are launching an international appeal to trace more potential victims of serial rapist zahawi zahawi, one of the uk's most prolific predators. the chinese phd student has been convicted today of attacking ten women, but officers fear he may have drugged and assaulted more than 50 others in the uk and in china. he targeted young chinese women, luring them to his flat for drinks or study before drugging them. he also filmed the attacks and kept footage and sometimes his victim's belongings, telling the court they were souvenirs. the 28 year old was also found guilty of

voyeurism, false imprisonment and possessing extreme pornographic images, and the uk is preparing a joint bid to host the 2035 women's world cup, with england, scotland, wales and northern ireland set to submit an expression of interest. the plan follows a fifa announcement setting the timeline for bids, and prime minister sir keir starmer says a world cup on home soil would be a monumental moment, boosting the economy and inspiring future generations. the uk last hosted a women's tournament in 2022, and will co—host the men's european championship in 2028. we can expect a decision on the world cup by 2026. that's it from me for this evening. i'll be back with you very shortly next week, i think. but now it's time for headlines. >> 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 the qr code, or go to gb news dot com forward slash alerts.

>> hello, welcome. >> hello, welcome. >> to headliners. >> to headliners. >> we're going to give you the best of tomorrow's newspapers. >> with the best of today's comedians. >> first things first, have a look at the front pages. >> the daily mail. new two tier. >> the daily mail. new two tier. >> justice fiasco. the guardian us stops sharing intelligence with kyiv telegraph. trump turns off ukraine missiles so plenty more papers to come in a couple of minutes. first, we're going to get straight. >> into the daily mail. hello, kerry. >> mark. >> mark. >> hello, josh. how are you? >> hello, josh. how are you? >> good. small business. >> good. small business. >> pleasure. >> pleasure. >> okay. >> okay. >> you are. >> you are. >> aren't you? well great conversation. >> josh. >> josh. >> let's get into it then. >> let's get into it then. >> yes. so a new two tier justice fiasco. >> this is what i wanted to get to. i didn't want to have, like, how are you and all that? let's get to the fiasco. >> i already. >> i already. >> know how. >> know how. >> you are. >> you are. >> we spoke. we spoke just a few minutes ago.

>> so. >> so. >> yeah, these are. >> yeah, these are. >> the new rules. >> the new rules. >> that were sent to. >> that were sent to. >> magistrates on wednesday, which basically. >> they tell judges. >> they tell judges. >> that criminals from. >> that criminals from. >> an ethnic minority, cultural minority. >> and. >> and. >> or faith. >> or faith. >> minority community. >> minority community. >> should be. specifically considered. for pre—sentence reports, which means they'll get nadine dorries. >> well. >> well. >> that's what i was going to say, by the way. >> i don't think jews are going to be included. so yeah. no, we're an ethnic. yeah, yeah. >> but you. >> but you. >> guys. >> guys. >> you'll never. >> you'll never. >> never, never included with the ethnic thing. so we will not be. otherwise i'll be out committing crimes right now, but it's not going to happen. so of course robert jenrick has quite correctly said that this is the two tier thing we've been heanng two tier thing we've been hearing about, and it's really not going to do anything to push those two tier allegations away when you when you're being that obvious about. >> it. >> it. >> basically it's racist and it's patronising. it's going to be you're accused of murder. how do you plead? guilty, your honoun do you plead? guilty, your honour, but i'm a person of colour. oh okay. well then off you go. it's interesting that the new guidance is going to come out on the 1st of april, april fool's day. so i've got some questions about whether it's all a big joke or not. maybe it will turn out to be,

but probably not. and of course, this is coming out with loads of other committees, the public accounts committee, we're waiting for the leveson review to come out soon. and basically i think what the government is trying to do is saying that the prisons are too full. so let's just make it full of white people. that will reduce the numbers a little bit. maybe that's the way around it. >> no idea. >> no idea. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> to be fair. the justice secretary, shabana mahmood. >> she has said that she is totally against this. it's out of order. she should be writing. >> to them. >> to them. >> straight away. >> straight away. >> that's for me. >> that's for me. >> that's for me. >> that's not. >> that's not. >> necessarily the issue. the issue is that. >> this was. >> this was. >> written down. >> written down. >> that someone thought it was a good enough. idea to. >> write down, and no. >> write down, and no. >> one just went, you know what? this is really racist and mental. well, of course, if you know anything about government and all this sort of nonsense, this is someone, someone didn't write this last night and email it. and then it came to the paper today. this would have gone through endless peer reviews. yes. people would have looked at this and gone, this is a good idea. let's keep doing it. oh, no, that's a good idea.

let's keep doing it. and we've got to this point now to the point where shabana mahmood is not aligned with this. so the one person who would have to implement this is immediately just saying this can't happen. i mean, it's got to be illegal for a start. you can't prejudice people based on the colour of skin or which god they believe in. surely you can't. so it's it should never get to this point. i always look at this stuff. it doesn't matter. this could be laboun doesn't matter. this could be labour, this could be tories. this could happen under any government. i mean, the fact it keeps happening under labour is a big question mark. well, i mean, this could have, as you say, this could well have been written before. it's an independent group that wrote this. absolutely. so the fact that we the fact that we've got people thinking and believing this stuff is more of a worry to me. yes. so. as you. >> said. >> said. >> taking it the next step. >> taking it the next step. >> further, how. >> further, how. >> are we going to get these people who believe this ideology out of these institutions because. >> they are. >> they are. >> absolutely embedded, whether it is labour, whether it's tory, we have people who are pushing racism. >> and prejudice. >> and prejudice. >> and. thinking that they're doing it. >> that they're.

>> that they're. >> actually being kind or that they're actually moral and not. and no one and no one seemingly there in that institution to be able to say, oh, wait. >> a minute. >> a minute. >> this actually has implications that you might not have considered. yeah. i mean, you have to ask yourself, do you believe any of this is malevolent in any way? it's probably not. okay. these these tend to be well—meaning people carving themselves a niche, trying to get themselves 1566 00:08:22,61