. >> malcolm grimston. >> malcolm grimston. >> welcome back to state of the nafion >> welcome back tof the nation tonight with me, matt goodwin. now another day goes by and another case emerges of a failed deportation. this time a failed deportation. this time a failed iraqi asylum seeker has been allowed to stay in the uk because, get this, his mother, who still lives in iraq, refused to hand over his id documentation to the court, bolstering his supposed claim that his life would be under threat if he returned to his home country. as a result, the upper tribunal judge ruled that returning the man to iraq would be a breach of, as usual, article three of the european convention on human rights, and i quote, no one shall be subjected to torture or to inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment in all circumstances. everybody, apparently, except the british people. but this comes after countless other cases of avoided deportations that have made a mockery of our judicial legal system. whether it's the albanian criminal whose son didn't like foreign chicken nuggets, remember that one?

. >> malcolm grimston. >> malcolm grimston. >> ben. thank you. it'sjust >> ben. thank you. it's just gone. 9:00. these are your headlines. a syrian man has stabbed five people in southern austria, killing a 14 year old boy. the 23 year old man attacked five passers by in the city of villach on saturday afternoon. that's according to police. the suspect, who has not yet been named, is a syrian national with legal residence in austria. he had been living in a centre for asylum seekers and was not known to authorities. police say further details, such as whether the attacker knew any of the victims remains unclear. meanwhile, a mother and her two year old daughter have died after a car was rammed into a crowd of people in munich on thursday. german police have said the 37 year old woman and her child are the first fatalities from the incident, which injured at least 30 others. the suspect, an afghan national, was detained at the scene. he was identified in local media as farhad n. back in the uk, the suspect in the valentine's day shooting of a woman at a pub in kent may have

. >> malcolm grimston. >> malcolm grimston. >> hello and welcome to headliners, your first look at thest of tomorrow's newspapers with the best of today's comedians. first things first, let's see what we have on the front pages. telegraph 2.5% of defence won't touch the sides. the times. us air cover may protect ukraine peace and the 1969 deal to protect europe from war is history. so more front pages and a bit. but first, jonathan, what do you make of the telegraph? josh, it's nice to be back. thank you for having me. so lots going on in the telegraph today. we've got a few interesting headlines. it's classic news. so we've got 2.5% on defence. won't touch the sides. we'll get to that in a second. trump puts uk on 24 billion vat tariffs alert and ghanaian wins right to stay after staging wedding. she wasn't even at. i thought about not attending my own wedding. i didn't know that was something we could do and still win. so this is the daily telegraph, nick, who are basically through the week every day coming out with some new ridiculous story about how we've been failed essentially by

. >> malcolm grimston. >> malcolm grimston. >> welcome back to state of the nafion >> welcome back tof the nation with me christopher hope. now, a new report from the independent sensing review highlights how successive uk governments tough on crime policies have contributed to a rising prison population, leading to overcrowding and the early release of thousands of inmates last year. now the review, led by the former conservative justice secretary david gauke, criticised the knee jerk decision to impose longer sentences without evidence that it that it reduces re—offending. but could this be a prelude to more early releases that we've been seeing from this government since it took office? i'm joined now by the man himself, the author of that report, the interim report, the former conservative justice secretary david gauke. david, welcome to state of the nation. great to see you again. good evening. is being tough on crime wrong? >> i think it's right that we are really focused on reducing crime. the challenge is that a policy of increasing sentences isn't necessarily the right way to

. >> malcolm grimston. >> malcolm grimston. >> very good morning. now to events in gaza.amas is expected to release four more hostages in return for more than 600 palestinian prisoners. two have already been released. you're looking at live pictures now, including one israeli who was taken on october the 7th and another who crossed into gaza over a decade ago. israeli hostages tell shammam and avera mengistu were handed over to the red cross earlier this morning. those being handed over now are the last living hostages from a group of 33, due to be freed in the first stage of the ceasefire deal that took place on the 19th of january. of course, we'll bnng of january. of course, we'll bring you more on this story as we get it. a live and developing situation. >> and just to add, we believe the names of those four are set to be released are lyor cohen, omer shemtov, omer hencote, and hisham al—sayed. those are the four that we are expecting to be released very shortly on those live pictures that you can see if you're watching on television. >> and as i say, as this develops

. >> malcolm grimston james matthewson. >> welcome to britain's newsroom with andrew and bev back together this week live across the uk. so if you woke up this morning thinking you were having a bad day, imagine waking up, opening the curtains and seeing this in the road. this is the sinkhole. >> well. >> well. >> there. >> there. >> are now surrey. >> are now surrey. >> yep, two massive sinkholes. we talk about potholes a lot. well, this makes potholes look fairly innocuous, doesn't it? if you're listening on the radio. >> 65 foot wide. that's incredible. >> 21m long. so it's nearly a swimming pool's length. >> and it's very deep. and the locals are saying they're blaming heavy lorries going through this small village. this is a small village in surrey and it caused the. but the road was built on sand. >> that's right. so it was a former sand quarry where these houses were built. it's on the a25, the road into godstone, the a25. obviously. can you imagine the disruption that's being caused in that area this morning? it's a major road with loads of trucks go down it. >> 30 houses evacuated