Indeed, thats all to come in the next hour. Theres also lots more to discuss tonight. Should you be incentivised with cash to lose weight . And what about children . Do you think they should have Sex Education in schools . Primary schools, or should that be banned before we get stuck in, lets cross live for tonights latest news headunes. Headlines. Michelle thank you. The top stories from the gb newsroom. Slovakias Prime Minister robert fico is in a Critical Condition after he was shot following a government meeting in handlova, outside the capital bratislava. Outside the capital bratislava. The officials could be seen bundung the officials could be seen bundling the Prime Minister into a car. Shortly after, several shots were heard hitting mr fico in the abdomen. He was then airlifted to hospital, where his condition is now life threatening. One man has now been detained by authorities. The countrys president condemned the assassination attempt, describing it as a brutal attack. Mr fico won power for a fourth time last october and has implemented more pro russian policies. Hes pledged to stop military support for ukraine and threatened to veto the countrys membership in nato. Emergency measures are now in place across england to deal with overcrowded prisons. It with overcrowded prisons. It means defendants in Police Custody will remain there and wont be transferred to courts for bail hearings. The labour leader used todays Prime Ministers questions to reference a report saying high risk prisoners are being let out up to 70 days early without sufficient planning. Sufficient planning. The Early Release of stalkers, domestic abusers and those considered a risk to children sound like the work of someone who is making the country more secure. Mr speaker , as ive said, as mr speaker, as ive said, as ive said, no one should be put on this scheme if they are a threat to the public. And let me be crystal clear, it does not apply. It absolutely does not apply. It absolutely does not apply to anyone serving a life sentence. Anyone convicted of a serious, violent offence, anyone convicted of terrorism, anyone convicted of terrorism, anyone convicted of terrorism, anyone convicted of a sex offence and crucially, in contrast to the system that labour had put in place, mr speaker , governors and place, mr speaker, governors and the Prison Service have an absolute lock so that no one is put on the scheme who shouldnt be. In other news, four people were arrested and Six Police Officers injured at a pro palestine demonstration in glasgow. Protesters blocked the entrances to the thales factory in the citys west in an apparent effort to disrupt the supply of arms to israel. They supply of arms to israel. They demanded a ceasefire in gaza and claimed the factory was directly involved in supplying weapons. Claimed the factory was directly involved in supplying weapons. A involved in supplying weapons. A spokesperson for the company said that while the demonstrators have the right to protest peacefully, they will work with authorities to prosecute anyone who threatens their employees. Police could their employees. Police could make more use of existing stop and search powers as part of new measures to tackle knife crime. The searches were curbed a decade ago by then home secretary theresa may, after it was found minorities were being disproportionately targeted. Disproportionately targeted. £55 million will be invested into developing new technology, which could help police detect suspects carrying knives by scanning them from a distance. Scanning them from a distance. New proposals could see schools in england banned from teaching students about gender identity. Students about gender identity. The governments review would also see all Sex Education halted for children under the age of nine. The Prime Minister ordered the review last year amid concerns some children were being exposed to inappropriate content. Reports suggest parents will be provided samples of Sex Education content before lessons take place. A red notice search take place. A red notice search warrant for an escaped french prisoner has been issued by interpol. 30 year old mohamed amara, also known as the fly , amara, also known as the fly, escaped from a prison van in northern france yesterday , northern france yesterday, sparking a major manhunt. He was broken free by gunmen in an ambush that killed two prison guards. More ambush that killed two prison guards. More food ambush that killed two prison guards. More food parcels were guards. More food parcels were handed out over the past year than ever before. The Trussell Trust says it donated more than 3 million emergency packages in the year to the end of march, as the year to the end of march, as the cost of living puts more households under strain. More than a million of those were for children, and the overall total has almost doubled in just five years. The trust is calling on the government to tackle long term deficiencies in the welfare system. Now, if youve ever system. Now, if youve ever found yourself stuck on hold, how about waiting 800 years . Thats how long people in britain spent waiting to talk to the taxman last year. A damning report from the Government Spending watchdog found taxpayers were on hold to hmrc for around 7,000,000 hours in that tax year. It was less than half that time before the covid pandemic. Fewer calls are now being answered and those who do manage to get through spend longer on the phone amid whats being called a declining spiral of customer service. And some of customer service. And some good news for fans of the comedy legally blonde, it is returning to screens in the form of a prequel series. The character, portrayed by Reese Witherspoon , portrayed by Reese Witherspoon, will be bending and snapping her way back to the small screen in a series titled l, with its clever critique of the dumb blonde stereotype. The original film became an instant classic when it premiered in 2001. For the latest stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news complex. Now back to. Michelle. Hello everybody. Im Michelle Dewberry with you till 7 00 tonight alongside me, my panel, the former mep and conservative peerin the former mep and conservative peer in the house of lords , peer in the house of lords, Jacqueline Foster, and the co founder of novara media, Aaron Bastani. Good evening to both of you. Youre very welcome. And of course, you are very welcome at home to what is on your mind tonight. You can get in touch with me all the usual ways, of course. You can email me gb views gbnews. Com you can go to the website at and get in touch there gbnews. Com. Slash your sinner join the conversation there. Ive got to say you do make me smile, my dear viewers, because i touched on at the start of the programme that ill try and get to that story today about the under nine. Theres been a so called banned from having Sex Education and mick as emailed in or hes got in touch on the website saying i wish someone had taught me Sex Education. Michelle, we were four kids down before we finally bought a television. Im finally bought a television. Im saying nothing, look, weve seen very dramatic scenes unfolding today, havent we, on whats has been called an attack on democracy. The slovakian Prime Minister, robert fico, has just been airing in those headlines. I was being shot, wounded is currently in a life threatening condition in hospital, apparently, these hours are critical, when it comes to his so called, you know, survival, etc. Now, what i find quite interesting when i look at this is that actually there had been in parliament and theyd been debating his governments proposal to abolish slovakias pubuc proposal to abolish slovakias public broadcaster and replace it with something that actually many people feared would be more passive, perhaps, towards him , passive, perhaps, towards him, or not. So i found the actual conversation that they were having quite interesting. But what really i mean, what youre seeing now is youre seeing footage on the screen. You can see him there. Hes being dragged. Ill describe it if youre listening. What he was basically doing is after a meeting, he was going on essentially a short walk about to meet people behind those barriers, some guy we know him to be, a 71 year old guy shot, numerous times, actually, at that Prime Minister. And then you see the security detail there, literally dragging the Prime Minister into that car. And what you see in there is the exact moment that he did that assassination attempt , i mean, assassination attempt, i mean, you can see the security detail there. Absolutely pouncing on him, ive got to say this, Prime Minister some would say is potentially quite controversial. Many would say he takes quite a pro russian stance. He was against sanctions on russia. He doesnt necessarily support ongoing military support when it comes to ukraine. And he also, you might be familiar with the fact that he said that britain should suffer basically when it came to brexit, bit notwithstanding, you know, some of that other stuff, it got me thinking, jacqueline, you know , thinking, jacqueline, you know, were in an Election Year in this country. You know, people are very , very divided. Youve are very, very divided. Youve got that added layer of whats going on in israel and gaza, and theres a real fine line, isnt there, with being in public politics, because you need to engage with your public, but also you need to have best endeavours to keep safe as well. Well, youre absolutely right , and the thing is, all of us, i think that go into politics, know that you, you could be at risk , but what i would not do, risk, but what i would not do, i mean, this this itself is an horrendous situation thats ansen horrendous situation thats arisen , its not in isolation. Arisen, its not in isolation. Weve seen, you know, president s. President kennedy, if we go back, quite a long time now and, and others whove obviously been injured or murdered, and weve had our own members of parliament and so i think we try our best to look at the whole security side, which is absolutely right. But we have to have a balance here. And i, for one, im not prepared to live in a democracy where, you know, the members of parliament and the representatives are really having to hide behind a hide behind a wall. We do go out there, and we do meet the public, or i did, certainly when i was an elected member of the European Parliament. And we canvass and thats what we do. And, you know, i think the vast majority of people are fine in this particular case, we dont know whats happened. Is this a lone wolf . Because we do know that situations like that happen , was there a political motivation, as you said, hes a controversial Prime Minister. But, you know, thats their internal politics. Is it linked to terrorism . Again, we dont know. So itll be interesting to see. I think once the, you know, the investigation has come out, i think wed certainly wish him all the very best. And the people of slovakia, it must be a very torrid time for them. And even the Opposition Leader is really quite distressed about all of this. But in terms of our own security, we do have good security. We know we can contact the police, if we do feel as though were under any threat. But in terms of, you know, closing this down, even more and, you know, politicians here hiding away more so, no, i wouldnt support that. Our ambassador, your thoughts . Yeah. Just appalling really. It is important to think about the political context of where this has happened to slovakia, Central Europe, relatively new to democracy, of course, behind the iron curtain until a few decades ago. And i think for me, it asks a question about the politics and the democratic nature of central and eastern europe. Obviously, weve seen the previously unthinkable happenin the previously unthinkable happen in ukraine. Weve seen viktor orban take hungary in a different direction. Poland following suit. And i think for a brief moment, really over the 2000, 2000 and the 2010s, we thought that europe would become more and more similar. Thought that europe would become more and more similar. Western more and more similar. Western europe, eastern europe, Central Europe, eastern europe, Central Europe would all sort of resemble one another. And i think that was wrong. And i think that was wrong. And i think well see that become more pronounced over time. And so i would be loathe to compare the politics of western europe to the politics of Central Europe and eastern europe, particularly in the context of ukraine. And finally, mr fico is somebody of a similar political bent to viktor orban, he is a supporter of putin or lets lets put it another way, he is not, in opposition to vladimir putin. Hes certainly doesnt oppose whats going on really strongly in, in ukraine. And i have to say, if the, if the boot was on the other foot, if there was a pro ukraine Prime Minister who was shot in the street, i think wed be pretty quick to attribute politics to im not. Thats not a criticism of you. We shouldnt do that anyway. But i think its interesting how we talk about, you know, the authoritarian, ultra nationalist right, and whatnot. Well, this is one of them. And hes just been shot on the street. So it can really happen to anyone. It can really happen to anyone. It can come from anywhere. But then how do you stay safe against it then . Because ultimately, like were showing you there he was. You know, youve got those, you know, crowd control barriers or whatever. So the guy was on one side of it. You got the pm there surrounded by security on the opposite side of that , you know, opposite side of that, you know, and you can still do that. Weve got to take into account david amess was weve had a rise in this country of islamic extremism, and that has also , extremism, and that has also, you know, affected obviously David Amess David Amess was murdered. And, so we know that there are pressures and there are tensions , so i dont think its tensions, so i dont think its that relevant of whats going on in hungary. I understand the politics of, orban and hungary and slovakia. I was i was in the European Parliament before enlargement, and i travelled behind the iron curtain , you behind the iron curtain, you know, for, for many years. So i dont think thats necessarily the, the issue here because theyll all have different points of view and different views on all sorts of things. But i think where michelle is coming from is how do you actually protect those, whether we like their views or not, how do we actually go about dealing with that . And i think we just come back to that fundamental point, there is always a risk, i think, when youre in the public eye, and then we hope our own authorities can do the very best they can, along with support from the public of making sure that we dont get these sorts of incidents here. We have had them and weve got to deal with them and weve got to deal with them and do the best we can. Well, it got me thinking because i do, i always whatever goes on, i do try and superimpose it over here into this country. And i kind of look and rishi sunak as well. Hes of course, ive got to say hes, tweeted out as well, saying how shocking he has found this incident. But it got me then thinking, you know, if i was an elected politician with the way that the world is and the division and the intolerance and the nastiness , the downright nastiness, the downright nastiness, the downright nastiness that goes on within politics, i think. Would i be comfortable doing a walkabout and a meet and greet and all the rest of it . If i was, i dont know, say the Prime Minister and dont worry, for the sake of the nation, its not going to happen. Youre all safe. But if i was the Prime Minister, id probably want to wear some kind of, bullet proof vest or something underneath my clothes. And then i feel. Is that giving in . Well, look, weve had one Prime Minister in this country killed. Assassinated . It was spencer perceval, i think in the 1820s or in the 1830s. It was somebody who wanted an audience with him. Couldnt get it. It wasnt a political extremist. Although they killed the Prime Minister i suppose you could say they were, but it was apparently some every man, some john bull figure who got frustrated, and i would say, look, as i get older, i buy the argument that actually britain is actually quite a pragmatic, moderate, calm country. Not all the time. And temperatures rise. We have our moments. But if you look at brexit 2016, you look at the indyref in 2014. I honestly dont think any other country in europe could have done that so peacefully. The idea that we were having a peaceful, democratic conversation about the potential partition of the uk, i dont think any other country in europe could have done that in a similar way. Or are departure from the european union, as we know in france, in ireland, every time something was rejected by the electorate, they they got the same question back until they voted the right way. That didnt happen with brexit. So i do think theres something to commend britain in this regard. We criticise it a lot. We say things are wrong with politics or the economy. I think thats a good thing. Broadly speaking, i would say were very different to somewhere like slovakia. And when i just said, you know, bringing it back to this country, if i was going on a walkabout and i put a, you know, a vest o