From teaching 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. Police could make take place. 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 disproportionally targeted. £55 million will be invested into developing new technology, which could help police detect suspects carrying knives by scanning them from a distance. A scanning them from a distance. 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 , escaped from a prison van fly, escaped from a prison van in northern france yesterday , in northern france yesterday, sparking a major manhunt. He was broken free by gunmen in an ambush that killed two prison guards. If ambush that killed two prison guards. If youve ambush that killed two prison guards. If youve ever ambush that killed two prison guards. If youve ever found yourself stuck on hold , how yourself stuck on hold, how about waiting 800 years . That is how long people in britain spent waiting to talk to the taxman. Last year , a damning report from last year, a damning report from the governments spending watchdog found taxpayers were on hold to hmrc for around 7,000,000 hours in that tax yeah 7,000,000 hours in that tax year. It was less than half that time before the 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 Junior Doctors in service. And Junior Doctors in england have entered mediated talks with the government with a view to end their long running dispute over pay. The British Medical Association said that its Junior Doctors committee had entered a new intensive phase of talks. Junior doctors have staged a series of walkouts over the past year as part of a campaign by the bma calling for pay campaign by the bma calling for pay restoration. The health secretary, victoria atkins, said she was pleased the bma have agreed to explore mediation. Agreed to explore mediation. Fought the latest stories . You can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen, or you can go to gb news. Com slash alerts. Now its time for headliners. Time for headliners. Hello and welcome to headliners. Youll run through of tomorrows front pages with three comedians, two and a half voices. Tonight possibly. Im one of them. Simon evans. Im joined by the fabulous josh howie and paul cox, whos suffering some laryngitis challenges. I am. I am. I am. Its the worse. Its the worse. Its the worse. Its getting better. Gradually you feel fine. I feel absolutely fine. Im getting lots of sympathy i dont deserve. Sure youre not going through puberty . Well, i could well be a squeak. Im 44 now. So is that when puberty sinner fullerton, who used to have that lovely, croaky voice in the old carry on films . Yeah, but mine keeps breaking, so the carry on films . Yeah, but mine keeps breaking , so the allure carry on films . Yeah, but mine keeps breaking, so the allure is taken away. When your voice breaks, youre gonna have a fan base by the end of the season. Lets have a look at thursday. His front pages, the daily mail. Have you on edge after pro russian slovak pm is gunned down. Nasty. The guardian also lead with that slovakian leader fighting for his life after assassination attempt and the magician David Copperfield on the front page. The telegraph nhs turns on doctors who blow whistle after safety, the times starmer sets out to woo voters with six pledges. Daily mirror my six fixes for britain and the daily star doctor dolittle we can chinwag with apes. Those were your front page. So no were your front page. So no overwhelming concern. Ipsis overwhelming concern. Ipsis tonight, lets kick off with the guardian. Josh slovakian leader fighting for his life after assassination attempt. And then you got a picture of David Copperfield underneath that, looking like hes happy about it. Well, he knows where he is. Well, he knows where he is. Weird, isnt it . Yeah, hes. Hes like , i would have dodged hes like, i would have dodged those bullets, but. Yeah. So David Copperfield has also been done for, well, been accused of sexual misconduct. You know sexual misconduct. You know what . I find it easier to believe a magician would do it than a stand up comedian than anybody, really . Because magicians are just a bunch of losers. Oh, thats very slanderous. I know some. I know some. Oh , what an image. What are oh, what an image. What are you going to do about it . Magicians. Yeah. We have magic tricks. Well see what we might do about it after the break. You should do. What did a magician do to you . I just, i think magicians, by and large, you know, there is a tranche of magicians who are, you know, faintly annoying, possibly slightly introspective or spent a bit too much time practising. David copperfield achieved International Global celebrity. You know, he cracked the code. He had Claudia Schiffer , i he had Claudia Schiffer, i think, on his arm at one point. Maybe she was drugged up. Maybe she was drugged up. Well, possibly , i dont know. Well, possibly, i dont know. She presumably isnt the one whos made the allegations. Whos made the allegations. No, not as far as i know. No. But anyway. But yes, obviously the big yes slovakian leader, i mean. All right, lets talk about the slovakian leader, if thats what you want to talk about out there. You dont want to talk about magicians, yes. Hes fighting for his life after an assassination attempt, slovakia is a country. Correct. Slovakia is a country. Correct. Thats the research that i have done so far, theyre saying that it could be political. That would be a shock. Shock but it does. Its. Yes. A 70 year old man or a 71 year old man whos got a youtube channel, and he wants to form a Political Movement on youtube. And i dont think thats the best way to go about it. Shot him . Yeah. Who shot him . Yeah. And his sons come forward and be like, oh, dad. Yeah yeah , moving on to the dad. Yeah yeah, moving on to the telegraph pool. Well, the telegraph is, nhs doctors turns. Are we doing the telegraph . Telegraph . I say telegraph on the screen, but its the times. Sorry, youre smashing a starmer sets out to woo voters with six pledges. So this is an effort to distil labours detailed policies. Ive not seen too much of that in a retail offer to voters. Look, i think at this stage he probably only needs one point. And that is to say that hes not rishi sunak and could probably save himself, a lot of effort. However i would like to see these six pledges reminiscent of the five pledges that tony blair and gordon brown made in the 1997. Wow. Didnt remember that. I remember ed milibands gravestone. Do you remember that one . The yes, the pledge, the ten commandments. Yeah, yeah. Which didnt turn out to be particularly well, but this one is hes got six rishis got had five pledges. Okay. This year hes got labours got one better. Yeah. Theyve gone you know what were going to were going to do six pledges. What. So the spinal tap. Yeah. Exactly six. And were going to do six and a half. Interesting. Not on there , half. Interesting. Not on there, is the stuff about homes, which i think is a big one, but they have put, immigration right up there and, but the line that i like is he says its our determination to begin a decade of national renewal. And i think of national renewal. And i think thatis of national renewal. And i think that is something that could tap into a lot of peoples interests, a lot of peoples hopes for some sort of bland, some sort of, like, i think people are empty. Promise. Promise. Ive got to be honest. I think people will take an empty, bland promise. I think they bland promise. I think they will. They like, i could handle some national renewal. You can all handle a national renewal. It makes very little sense, doesnt it . Yeah. National makes doesnt it . Yeah. National makes sense to me. Yeah national. We need some renewal, and we need it on a national level. Give an actual decisions to make. And, and in the moment and so on. The last week has not been particularly good for, for keir starmer. I would say his, his decision to welcome a named natalie elphicke, a hard right minister. Well welcome, natalie. Well welcome, natalie. Welcome. Who basically disgraced herself by petitioning for her husband. Yeah, that wasnt a good decision. They made a political decision. They made a political call there, and i think they they probably think now it was they probably think now it was the wrong one. They wanted to put it over sunak and it sort of backfired. Its like one of those poisoned chalices. Maybe rishi is actually getting people to go over to labour. That could be like 4d chess. It probably wont be enough to win them the election, but i still do get the feeling that every time keir starmer is actually asked to make a decision in the heat of the moment, hes extraordinarily reliably bad at them. Its going to be interesting to see, when we get down to the heat of the general election in those in those six weeks leading up where these policies, i mean, the times here, i think are being very, very generous by saying that there are detailed policies available for labour. I there is a manifesto to some degree. I dont think theres detailed policies. Okay. We published a manifesto yet, to be fair. So its not you cant really say so. Im not, im not im desperately trying not to be critical because i do think there needs to be a change. And it will have to move away from the conservative party and it could be reform, daily star to finish with paul, the daily star. I mean, weve got the big news here, doctor dolittle. We can chinwag with apes so our orang utans could soon be letting us know their thoughts on the world events after boffins. Im just so pleased boffins. Im just so pleased boffins are involved. Boffins revealed theyre close to decoding their signs and roars. Can you imagine world events . Thats the first place the star are gone. Can you imagine if the first thing they communicate is the resolution to the gaza problem . Well, maybe its going to be a Pincer Movement with apes on the one hand and agi closing in fast. The one hand and agi closing in fast. Yeah. With chat, gpt five, fast. Yeah. With chat, gpt five, you know, next summers blockbuster sort of terminator meets planet of the apes, a bit like, barbie and oppenheimer. I suppose. Yeah, theyre all coming from different sides , i coming from different sides, i mean, and then there was harambee, of course, the gorilla, who was tragically murdered, which a lot of people think, unleashed the hell that weve experienced. I think that was early 2016, wasnt it . Was that was that the one that around the same time that david bowie died and they shot the gorilla who was who was harmlessly protecting a child that had fallen into the enclosure . Yeah. And a lot of people feel that that was basically the unleashed. Do you feel that . Thats. Yes, i do you think that thats what it was. Thats what you big boy. Is that the little butterfly that is now created a storm . Many people. Many people. Many people. Okay, many people. Okay, okay. Follow simon on twitter. Thats the front page is deau thats the front page is dealt with coming up. Overflowing prisons. Still no excuse for bad cyclists. Well see you in and welcome back to headliners. Im simon evans, still here with josh howie and paul cox. So, josh, the times have further news from the overflowing bathtub that is our National Correctional facility. Indeed. Emergency halt to bail heanngs emergency halt to bail hearings as prisons run out of cells. So this is theyre basically stopping any bail heanngs basically stopping any bail hearings because there might be a terrible thing that happens where someone might need to go to jail. Yeah in which case we have no spaces or we have none of the spaces that are appropriate for people to on not be on bail with. So bail held on remand, you would think if anything, a bail hearing if i obviously misunderstood. But i thought bail hearings might allow people out. Yes, but there might be a risk of people being put in and thats the risk that they cant handle. So now they have to keep everybody in, which is counterintuitive , as you rightly counterintuitive, as you rightly say. Yeah. So, so theyre just basically bail hearing where you are. You would normally be in default let out. Its not that, is it . Youre already on remand. Youre already on. Yeah. Not that i know from personal. Maybe they should do all the ones that they should do all the ones that they pretty certain would get out. Yeah. Like. Oh yeah. You just, you know, anyway , the, the just, you know, anyway, the, the subtext paul is not good is it. No, its not good. No, its not good. Sorry. State of affairs if anything. And i cant help but mention population. It is almost mention population. It is almost as if the population is growing faster than infrastructure investment. The reason i say , investment. The reason i say, im not sure whether im going to say this, because every time i do say it, im with josh and he counters me. Well, no, i just, i in this particular case that isnt doesnt seem to be what it really is, is that theyve been catching up their backlog because of covid. And theres a whole thing about all theres a whole thing about all the criminal bar associations, like weve just been doing our job really amazingly and weve put loads of people in jail and thats what theyve done. So now, because of that, it says 5000 extra places. The normal or would it be a covid backlog of criminal offences though jail worthy criminal offenders . That seems unlikely to me. A covid backlog loads of press demand for holidays or something. Im only reading the times , running out and times, running out and committing crimes that they are being able to do when they were, theyve been solving more crimes, or now theyve been going to court or whatever it is, i dont think. But there are more than with paul it seems to me like weve got 10 million more people in here, and there are predominantly criminal bunch anyway, we all know, and thats why theyre only, you know what, the population, the prison population, the prison population has hit the highest level for 50 years, which suggests that 50 years ago it was higher with a lower population in the country. So like back in the day, our grandparents or great grandparents or great grandparents were like bigger criminals. Thats interesting. Yeah porridge okay. That is what that means. Id be astonished if it is. I suspect that means 50 years is when they started. So just to clarify. Yeah i dont think that every immigrants are criminal. No a lot of our criminals are home grown. Thats what you were saying. You were saying before saying. You were saying before the show, you were like every every immigrants. I was shouting here, the production stuff. But i think just for the purposes of being on screen, it, you know, it can it can be that we, you know, that we got some lovely home grown criminals, but we just dont have the infrastructure investment. And our population is growing and growing and growing. That could be they could be just frustrated about not being able to get an nhs dentist. Yeah. You know, being forced into a life of crime. The telegraph pole and the walls are closing in. The net begins to tighten on jeremy vine specifically, this is specific to jeremy, a cyclist who killed people, faced life in prison. For the record, all fine has not done that yet. Jeremy vine has not done that, and all people that we know of. Yeah, all people that kill people face life in prison irrespective of cyclists, whether are cyclists or not. However, thats the point of this story really. The transport secretary , mark transport secretary, mark harper, has promised to change the law so that dangerous cyclists face the same punishments for those as dangerous drivers, with the maximum sentence causing a death by dangerous driving, of maximum sentence causing a death by dangerous driving , of course, by dangerous driving, of course, being life imprisonment. So yes, its the point is , if so yes, its the point is, if they commit murder, then theyre obviously. But there is a case where, the telegraph can reveal. I have to say that because thats what it says here. A speeding cyclist going timed laps around regents park involved a fatal collision with an 81 year old woman. Right. You know, that can be put down as an accident. Which, of course, it was. As are a lot of fatal car crashes. Yeah, was it dangerous . Was it dangerous riding reckless enough . I would say so. I would say so. I dont know the details about the cyclist, but i would say, you know, weve all been to the parks in london and parks in brighton or wherever you happen to be from cyclists charging around a 30 miles an hour is dangerous. Yeah, theres a 20 mile limit. Hes saying it doesnt appropriate. It doesnt apply to him because he was on a bicycle and whatever. And this woman died. So the fact and he got away with nothing, theres Nothing Happened to him. I agree with this in the idea of it. I just wonder whether this is the best use of governmental time, to be putting through this. It affects, i think theres nine deaths a year caused by cycling, and obviously not all of them are going to be murder or killing or whatever it is. So it just doesnt seem to be an opfion just doesnt seem to be an option for the judge, though, does it . Thats the point of this. I guess. Ijust i mean, how much time is this going to take up . How much other stuff have they got to do . Maybe invest in, Prison Service or whatever . I just, i think thats fine. Like, it makes sense to bnng fine. Like, it makes sense to bring it on par with dangerous driving. Driving. It does seem to me, anecdotally, that there are a lot faster cyclists in london, certainly than there were before lockdown. They kind of burst lockdown. They kind of burst out, ive done, whether its lockdown or whether it might give them a false sense of security. Obviously the cycling infrastructure, road, infrastructure, road, infrastructure, Highway Infrastructure, Highway Infrastructure in london has grown exponentially s