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Speaker 1: Devin Gray. Are UK correspondents with us now, Hikevin?

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Speaker 2: Hi? The hell?

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Speaker 1: How are the crowded out the prisons?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Getting to absolute capacity, which is why as of

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Speaker 2: a couple of hours ago, this government kicked in Operation

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Speaker 2: Early Dawn. What does that mean. Well, it's a kind

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Speaker 2: of emergency stop gap in order to try and at

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Speaker 2: least alleviate some of the precious on prisons, and it

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Speaker 2: means that across the North of England, defendants waiting for

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Speaker 2: a court appearance will be kept in police cells until

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Speaker 2: prison space is available. So normally they're in prison cells,

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Speaker 2: but there isn't the space that they're being kept in

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Speaker 2: police cells. Why does that matter, Well because now, of course,

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Speaker 2: if an officer on the streets wants to detain people

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Speaker 2: in a police cell, they may find that police cell

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Speaker 2: is already full and those are said to be running

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Speaker 2: at near capacity as well. So consequently, the sign that

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Speaker 2: Operation Early Dawn has been kicked in really with something

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Speaker 2: that was used air by the previous government back in May.

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Speaker 2: They then decided that they would release some non violent

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Speaker 2: offenders from prison early to free up space forty five

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Speaker 2: percent through their sentence. It was controversial at the time,

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Speaker 2: but of course now labor is saying there is such

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Speaker 2: an overcrowding problem. Although there are two new prisons coming

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Speaker 2: on streams in the next couple of months, they are

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Speaker 2: not ready yet. And following the riots that we've seen

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Speaker 2: and some four hundred and seventy people being charged and

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Speaker 2: pushed through the courts, there is simply too much pressure

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Speaker 2: on the system at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Kevin, have you figured out why hesther En Mizzer did

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Speaker 1: the trip to Columbia publicity?

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Speaker 2: Dare I say they were invited. It's not gone down

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Speaker 2: particularly well here Prince Harry and Megan. Of course, touring Columbia,

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Speaker 2: there's great concern about their own security, one of the

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Speaker 2: most dangerous places apparently on Earth in terms of kidnaps

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Speaker 2: and murders and shootings and so forth. And yeah, they've

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Speaker 2: had a bit of coverage over here, not a huge amount,

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Speaker 2: but I'm pleased at least they are safe. I dare

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Speaker 2: say they're probably quite happy with the way went in

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Speaker 2: that they met lots of people, lots of smiling faces,

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Speaker 2: but apparently the crowds of those who gathered not for

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Speaker 2: the official events, but the crowds who were outside were

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Speaker 2: quite small and many people just did not know why

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Speaker 2: they were in their country, or.

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Speaker 1: Did actually not even know who they were in some cases. Yeah, Devin,

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Speaker 1: give me the funniest joke at this year's Fringe Festival.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well, I'm going to hit you with this. It's

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Speaker 2: quite a Yeah, you've got to concentrate. Here we go.

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Speaker 2: I was going to sail around the globe in the

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Speaker 2: world's smallest ship, but I bottled it. Now the funniest joke.

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Speaker 2: The funniest joke at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival is that

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Speaker 2: one has been chosen by members of the public from

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Speaker 2: a short list drawn up by the judges. The nautical

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Speaker 2: one liner was ranked among the best by forty of

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Speaker 2: those surveyed. If we've got time, I'll give you a

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Speaker 2: couple of others. Another one, I've been taking salsa lessons

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Speaker 2: for months, but I just don't feel like i'm progressing.

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Speaker 2: It's one step forward, two steps back. Another one said

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Speaker 2: eight horse at a restaurant once wasn't great. Starter was

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Speaker 2: all right, but the main was dreadful. Another one said,

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Speaker 2: I sailed through my driving test, that's why I failed it.

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Speaker 2: And the one that I thought was she really could

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Speaker 2: have done better. Coming in at fifth Place. I love

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Speaker 2: the Olympics. My friend and I invited a new type

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Speaker 2: of relay batom. Well he came up with the idea

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Speaker 2: and I ran with it.

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Speaker 1: Oh Okayvin every single year and I can't get my

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Speaker 1: hit around. And what I want to know is in

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Speaker 1: what context are these jokes supposed to be funny? Is

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Speaker 1: this people who are standing on stage and delivering these

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Speaker 1: jokes and then they got oh that was the funny one.

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Speaker 1: Let's write that one down and submitted or is it

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Speaker 1: just a whole bunch of punters who sort of submit

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Speaker 1: what they think are going to be Christmas Craker.

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Speaker 2: Joe, No, no, no, These all acts within the Edinburgh

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Speaker 2: Fringes on stage. Yeah, they're doing it well, it's part

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Speaker 2: of a long routine and then they'll throw in a

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Speaker 2: few one liners like this, and of course it's now

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Speaker 2: become a thing to try and win the prize. It's yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean, in the cold light today, on its own,

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Speaker 2: as a one line, you think is that the best

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Speaker 2: they could do? But actually in a sort of routine

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Speaker 2: they do go down really well. Another of my quick

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Speaker 2: favorites pints Gallons Leaders, which I think speaks volumes.

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Speaker 1: Ah, jeez, it's so bad, isn't it. Devin, thank you.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate. Kevin Gray, UK correspondent. I mean that's dead

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Speaker 1: jokes that you know what that is had to be there,

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Speaker 1: that's what that is.

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