BBC Politics
President Macron: Populism’s nemesis or catalyst? - BBC Newsnight
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- President Macron: Populism’s nemesis or catalyst? - BBC Newsnight
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- 14:11
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Emmanuel Macron’s rise to the French Presidency in 2017 stunned his country and Europe.
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Two years on, the leader once nicknamed “jupiter,” has faced violent street protests by the “gilets jaunes” and has become a target for nationalist politicians at home in France and across the continent.
BBC Newsnight's Mark Urban examines Macron’s rise, troubles and future plans for France and the EU after Brexit.
Producer: Mihret Yohannes
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- Brexit: What is a customs union? - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 2:08
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- A blagger's guide to the customs union.
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- Has Russia infiltrated the German Parliament? - BBC Newsnight
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- 16:32
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- Newsnight investigates whether the Russians have infiltrated the German Bundestag.
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From the Mueller investigation to the Brexit referendum, via numerous similar stories across Europe, there are increasing numbers of people who detect the hand of Moscow in some of the recent turbulence in Western democracies. The phrase “active measures” – meaning covert influence operations – has entered mainstream political discourse. How much of it is true, and how much the product of overactive imaginations, seeing two plus two and making five, or more..?
Newsnight’s Gabriel Gatehouse has been working in conjunction with Der Spiegel and ZDF in Germany, and the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. The report is a detailed anatomy of an apparent Kremlin influence operation in the heart of Europe.
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- Brexit: Some drugs 'cannot be stockpiled' for no-deal - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 6:32
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- NHS England has been unable to stockpile certain drugs in case of a no-deal Brexit, Newsnight reveals.
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The health service has been unable to stockpile certain drugs in case of a no-deal Brexit, potentially putting patients at risk, documents show.
Confidential NHS England files - seen by BBC Newsnight - suggest supply chain issues mean some drugs used to treat conditions like epilepsy and bipolar disorder "cannot be stockpiled".
Potential shortages would have "a significant impact", documents say.
The Department of Health said supplies "should be uninterrupted".
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- Brexit: Cabinet minister Gove on breaking the impasse - BBC Newsnight
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- 7:57
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Environment Secretary Michael Gove says the cabinet needed to recognise that there’s been no majority in the House of Commons for a means of leaving the EU.
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- Brexit: 'Worst Parliament since Oliver Cromwell' - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 4:52
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- Brexiteer ex-MP Ann Widdecombe says the UK has the worst prime minister, leader of the opposition and Parliament in recent history.
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Former Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe, the Spectator's deputy political editor Katy Balls and campaigner Gina Miller join Katie Razzall as the Commons fail to find a majority after voting on four alternatives to Theresa May's Brexit deal.
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- Brexit: MPs challenged over vote - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 17:07
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Emily Maitlis grills Jacob Rees-Mogg over the language he has used over Theresa May's Brexit deal.
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Newsnight is joined by Defence Minister Tobias Ellwood, Chair of the European Research Group Jacob Rees-Mogg, Labour MP Stephen Kinnock and Sarah Wollaston from The Independent Group.
The Labour frontbench were invited to participate in the discussion, but declined.
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- Brexit: The story of Prime Minister Theresa May - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 3:55
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- Theresa May offers to quit as PM to help get her Brexit deal through parliament.
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But how did she get here?
David Grossman reports on Theresa May's time in office.
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- Brexit: Is a general election likely? - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 4:36
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Could the Brexit deadlock lead to a general election?
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- Brexit: What are indicative votes? - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 2:59
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- You may have heard the term ‘indicative votes’, but what exactly does that mean?
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Indicative votes are where MPs vote on a series of options designed to test the will of Parliament to see what, if anything, commands a majority.
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- The big Brexit roadtrip: The road to Dover - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 6:56
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- Where we attempt to go from border to British border, talking about Brexit.
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Final stop… Dover.
Catch up on Steve Smith’s journey here: https://bbc.in/2JHkZYm
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- Tate's place in post-Brexit Britain - BBC Newsnight
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- 4:55
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- The Tate galleries' director Maria Balshaw talks to Kirsty Wark.
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Maria Balshaw tells Kirsty Wark that the Tate has decided to shun donations from the US Sackler family.
The Tate's board of trustees said it would decline further donations, which comes after the withdrawal of a £1m National Portrait Gallery grant.
The Sackler family is facing legal action over its production of opioid drugs, which are linked to deaths. The Sackler family deny the allegations.
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- Brexit delay: What happens now? - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 3:19
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- EU leaders have agreed that Brexit can be delayed until 22 May if MPs approve Theresa May's deal next week, or until 12 April, if they do not.
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So what might happen now?
Newsnight's David Grossman looks at the options.
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- Brexit: 'Spike' in NHS drug shortages – BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 4:14
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- An unprecedented drug shortage in English hospitals is linked to Brexit, NHS bosses say.
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Hospitals across England are experiencing medicine shortages due to "stockpiling and price pressure as the Brexit deadline approaches", NHS Providers has told BBC Newsnight.
The trade association warned some trusts had seen shortages of up to 160 different drugs in the past six weeks.
This was compared with just 25 to 30 drugs in normal times, it said.
The Department of Health said there was "no evidence" the "small number of supply issues" were related to Brexit.
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- Tony Blair: 'This government is in a state of dysfunction' - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 9:16
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- Former Prime Minister Tony Blair tells Newsnight Theresa May's Brexit deal "resolves nothing".
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"People say to me, these MPs, they're a disgrace, they're just squabbling amongst themselves... They're not!"
Tony Blair says he believes MPs "owe their constituents their own judgement" and that they're just "doing their day job" with regards to the Brexit impasse in Westminster.
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- Brexit: Are we in a constitutional crisis? - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 3:53
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- The Speaker John Bercow has thrown a spanner in the prime minister’s Brexit works.
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The Speaker John Bercow has thrown a spanner in the prime minister’s Brexit works.
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- Ralph Fiennes on diversity, Europe and his fondness for Voldemort – BBC Newsnight
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- 6:32
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- Ralph Fiennes, the Oscar-winning actor with an acclaimed career on stage too, talks with Newsnight's Stephen Smith.
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Ahead of his "The White Crow" film release, award-winning actor director Ralph Fiennes tells Newsnight he would like to see a black actor play a character like James Bond, but perhaps not “in the same franchise”, adding the persona could be remade for different genders and ethnicities.
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- MPs vote to seek Brexit delay - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 4:27
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- MPs have voted by 413 to 202 - a majority of 211 - for Prime Minister Theresa May to ask the EU for a delay to Brexit.
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British MPs have voted for a delay in the Brexit process for three months or more, after struggling to agree on what terms the UK should leave the European Union on 29 March.
It means the UK may not now leave on 29 March as previously planned.
Most Conservative MPs voted against delaying Brexit - including seven cabinet members.
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- Brexit: 'Betrayal is underway' - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 4:00
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- What do the voters of South Wales make of the current state of Brexit?
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Talking to Katie Razzall about Brexit, Conservative Councillor Vincent Bailey says he believes that “if the betrayal hasn’t yet happened, then it’s underway.”
Katie Razzall also hears from Port Talbot and Vale of Glamorgan locals about how they feel Brexit negotiations are going.
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- Brexit vote defeat: 'Country in despair' - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 12:22
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- Labour and Conservative frontbenchers, Barry Gardiner and Nadhim Zahawi, clash on Newsnight.
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As MPs reject Theresa May’s EU withdrawal deal again, Emily Maitlis is in Westminster with MPs from the Conservatives, Labour and the DUP.
The government's Brexit deal was defeated in the Commons by 149 voted, with 17 days to go until the UK leaves the EU.
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- Sir Tim Berners-Lee on the World Wide Web (2005) – Newsnight Archives
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- 5:06
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- Take a look back at our 2005 interview with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the World Wide Web.
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"A lot of the problems of bad information out there... are problems with humanity," he told Newsnight. "This is humanity which is communicating over the web."
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- Brexit: The view from rural Somerset - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 3:49
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Nearly three years after the referendum our Brexit direction seems as unclear as ever.
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So how do voters in Jacob Rees-Mogg’s constituency of North East Somerset feel about the Brexit progress, or lack thereof?
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- Shamima Begum: IS teen's baby death 'tragedy' - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 9:00
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- The son of Shamima Begum - who fled London to join the Islamic State group - has died in a Syrian refugee camp.
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Dal Babu, a former Metropolitan Police chief superintendent and friend of the Begum family joins Katie Razzall in the studio, alongside the Daily Mail's Larisa Brown, who met Shamima and her son in the camp last month.
The UK Home Office declined to speak to Newsnight.
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- Liam Fox: I fear Brexit may never happen - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 3:29
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- International trade secretary Liam Fox has voiced fears that Remain supporters in parliament will seek to overturn the referendum result over the next week.
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He warned that a large number of MPs want to keep the UK "locked in the EU".
In an interview with BBC Newsnight’s Nick Watt, the international trade secretary called for an end to "self-induced pessimism" which is denying the opportunities offered by Brexit.
Dr Fox also called on the EU to show greater flexibility in the negotiations as he called on Brussels to move away from defending "the purity of the European project".
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- Breck Bednar murder: Family's plea to Snapchat - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 9:26
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- What gives Snapchat the right to withhold information into a police inquiry investigating a paedophile?
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It has emerged that the family of Breck Bednar, the 14-year-old groomed and murdered by a man he met online, are being taunted on social media.
Chloe Bednar alleges Lewis Daynes, who killed her brother Breck in Grays, Essex, has sent sick messages online. Chloe Bednar says the messages include information only Lewis Daynes would know, but there is no way of verifying if it’s true.
Social media company Snapchat has claimed the police need to go through a one year process to access the information. The company has been criticised for the delay in handing over data to police.
Daynes is currently serving a life sentence for the murder.
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- Leaving Neverland director: 'Michael Jackson abuse devastated families' - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 13:24
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Warning: this piece has graphic descriptions of sexual abuse.
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Is the new Michael Jackson documentary Leaving Neverland credible filmmaking or exploitative cash in?
We speak to the film's director, Dan Reed, and Jackson's nephew, Taj Jackson.
Throughout the latter part of Michael Jackson's stratospheric career, he was constantly dogged by allegations that he sexually abused young boys.
Nothing was ever proven, but as much as $23 million was settled out of court for one claim.
His millions of fans around the world mourned his death and many since then have refused to accept the possibility that Jackson was a repeat child abuser.
But the latest documentary sheds a disturbing light on the singer’s behaviour.
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- UK knife crime: Why is it happening? - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 2:44
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Knife Crime UK - understanding the numbers behind the tragedies.
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Our Economic Correspondent Ben Chu looks at what the figures mean.
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- Could this comedian be Ukraine’s next president? - BBC Newsnight
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- 7:57
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Comedian-turned-candidate Volodymyr Zelenkskiy has emerged as an unlikely front-runner in the race to be Ukraine’s next president.
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But is Volodymyr Zelenkskiy being used as a political pawn by a powerful Ukrainian oligarch? Jonah Fisher reports for Newsnight from Kiev.
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- Will a UK-US trade deal lower food standards in the UK? - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 10:53
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Donald Trump's administration has set out its terms for a US-UK trade deal.
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The terms of a post-Brexit trade deal between the US and the UK have been published. The paper calls for the removal of 'unwarranted barriers' to agricultural products and suggests tariffs might need to be adjusted due to exchange rates. Our economics editor, Ben Chu reports.
In the studio, Mark Urban is joined by Shanker Singham from the Institute of Economic Affairs and Sir Martin Donnelly, former permanent secretary at the Department of International Trade.
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- Phyllida Barlow: The sculptor taking over the art world - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 5:50
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Explore the world of sculpture artist Phyllida Barlow with Stephen Smith.
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Sculpture artist Phyllida Barlow talks to Stephen Smith about her success in the art world, her recycling ethic, gender and her new exhibition at the Royal Academy.
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- Inside Serco: The company housing England's asylum seekers - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 12:33
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- The outsourcing giant Serco are getting £1.9bn of taxpayers' cash over the next decade.
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As the the number of people being housed under the asylum dispersal scheme in the UK reaches a 14-year high, Newsnight has an an exclusive look at one of the companies for whom asylum is big business.
Katie Razzall reports.
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- Why is a medical journal standing by false data? - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 5:36
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Why is Britain's leading medical journal refusing to back down on misinformation it has printed about the treatment?
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Our correspondent, Deb Cohen, previously reported on the case of Shauna Davison - a 15-year-old girl with serious respiratory problems - who died shortly after receiving experimental stem cell surgery. The report raised important questions over whether the operation should have ever taken place.
Deb Cohen now reports on how flawed data have contributed to clinical decisions that may have resulted in other deaths. What's more, the scientific journal publishing the data knows it to be false.
Joining Emily Maitlis to dicsuss the matter further is Norman Lamb, former health minister and current chairman of the science and technology committee.
Newsnight asked the Lancet for comment, but they declined.
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- Momo Challenge: The viral hoax - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 8:34
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Momo, a character with bulging eyes, supposedly sets children dangerous challenges - but it's a hoax.
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A flurry of scare stories about children being put in danger by the ‘Momo Challenge’ has spread online – but fact checkers say it’s a hoax.
What does this latest viral panic tell us about fears about online safety and fake news? In the studio, Emily Maitlis is joined by journalist Amelia Tait and Mumsnet's Rowan Davies.
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- Could Michael Cohen's testimony damage President Trump? - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 12:20
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Could the explosive congressional testimony of Michael Cohen cause problems for President Trump?
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President Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, has alleged the president is a "racist", a "conman" and a "cheat" during his congressional testimony. Mr Trump hit back in a tweet saying Mr Cohen "is lying in order to reduce his prison time."
Newsnight speaks to Republican strategist Paris Dennard and civil rights attorney Lisa Bloom.
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- UK teen dies after stem cell windpipe transplant – BBC Newsnight investigates
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- 15:51
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Surgeons who performed experimental stem cell surgery on a seriously ill child, which led to her death in 2012, have “a lot to account for,” her mother has told BBC Newsnight.
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Shauna Davison, then 15, was given a windpipe transplant, based on now-discredited stem cell technology, at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Newsnight’s Deborah Cohen investigates. https://bbc.in/2EifzNC
Great Ormond Street Hospital told Newsnight: “Before Shauna’s operation was carried out, a comprehensive review was conducted of all the relevant published scientific and medical evidence.
“We are sorry the treatment did not work for Shauna and the family feel they did not receive all relevant information. We are contacting Shauna’s family to offer to meet them to talk through any concerns.”
University College London said: “Any research at UCL is required to conform...
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- Rembrandt: The first great selfies - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 5:04
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- A huge collection of the Dutch painter's work goes on display, 350 years after his death.
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Culture editor Stephen Smith goes to Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum to come face to face with the first great selfies.
“Rembrandt is the first artist who depicts himself. There’s no artist who’s made so many self-portraits,” Taco Dibbits, the Rijksmuseum's director, tells Newsnight
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- Brexit: Labour prepared to back new referendum - BBC Newsnight
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- 3:34
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Labour has announced it is prepared to support a new Brexit referendum - why now?
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Jeremy Corbyn says the party is prepared to support a new public vote as MPs seek to delay the UK's exit.
James Clayton reports on Labour's sudden policy shift.
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- MP quits Labour: 'I couldn't look dad in the eye' INTERVIEW - BBC Newsnight
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- 3:51
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- 7 years ago
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- Ian Austin MP has resigned from Labour over the leadership's failure to tackle anti-Semitism.
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The Dudley North MP tells Newsnight he couldn't look his Jewish father in the eye if he remained in the Labour Party.
He also tells Newsnight that former Labour Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, called him before he quit.
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- 'IS families can't stay in refugee camps,' Syrian Kurds leader EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW - BBC Newsnight
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- 3:19
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- Exclusive interview with Ilham Ahmed, leader of the Syrian Kurds.
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Leader of the Syrian Kurds, Ilham Ahmed says that without international help, the Kurds can’t be responsible for the thousands of ISIS fighters’ families currently living in Kurdish refugee camps.
“We would have to let them go, we can’t keep them,” she tells Kirsty Wark.
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- India's 'cow vigilantes' - BBC Newsnight
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- 10:51
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- Is India failing to deal with Hindu extremists? Subscribe to our channel here: https://goo.gl/31Q53F
In recent years India has seen the rise of so-called 'cow vigilantism' - attacks on religious minorities, often Muslim, aimed at protecting cows, which Hindus consider sacred. Prime Minister Modi has been accused of not doing enough to prevent hate crimes against India's minority populations.
Newsnight's James Clayton has been to Rajasthan to investigate the death of farmer Rakbar Khan, killed in July 2018.
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- UK political turmoil: Are we moving towards a different kind of politics? DISCUSSION - BBC Newsnight
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- 15:20
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- Will recent political frustration bring a new kind of politics?
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Can the Independent Group become a fully-fledged political party or will they lack the numbers and electoral support needed?
Kirsty is joined by four MPs - Damian Green, Layla Moran, Stephen Kinnock and Dominic Grieve.
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- Where next for British car manufacturing? - BBC Newsnight
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- 8:29
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- Honda has announced the closure of its Swindon car plant.
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The company has announced it is taking its manufacturing elsewhere causing the loss of 3,500 jobs.
The company has said that Brexit is not to blame – and conversely, employment figures nationwide are at a record high, so what's causing the move? Our economics editor Ben Chu went to find out what the move will mean for the British car industry.
In the studio, Kirsty Wark is joined by Faiza Shaheen, director of the think tank CLASS and economist George Magnus.
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- Karl Lagerfeld: Ex-Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman remembers the fashion icon - BBC Newsnight
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- 8:12
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- Iconic fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld died aged 85 in Paris.
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The German designer, who was the creative director for Chanel and Fendi, was one of the industry's most prolific figures and worked up until his death.
Karl Lagerfeld is credited with transforming the fortunes of Chanel after he joined in 1983.
In the studio, Kirsty talks to former editor-in-chief of Vogue, Alexandra Shulman.
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- Britain's yellow-vest activists - BBC Newsnight
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- 15:07
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- 7 years ago
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- Newsnight has been told that the far-right, which has traditionally been fragmented in the UK, is coming together under the banner of the yellow-vests to try to create unrest.
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For several months, protesters wearing high vis jackets have been holding small rallies and protests every weekend in various towns and cities across Britain.
Inspired by what’s been happening - on a much larger scale - in France, these self-dubbed yellow-vest activists have a wide range of demands and grievances.
Fulfilling Brexit is prominent, so too is the belief that last year the authorities covered up the murder of three teenagers in west London.
With divisions in Britain apparently widening as the clock ticks down to the end of March, in amongst the genuine protesters, is something more sinister happening?
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- What next for the British women who joined ISIS? - BBC Newsnight
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- 2:21
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- At least 145 British women travelled to Iraq and Syria under ISIS.
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Radicalisation expert Joana Cook, from The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King's College London, gives her take on what the future holds for Western women who travelled to join ISIS.
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- Climate change: The inter-generational challenge - BBC Newsnight
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- 13:42
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- Is climate change becoming the big inter-generational battle of our time?
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Polling from the UK and the US suggests that the younger generation are considerably more worried about climate change than previous generations. But are the positions of young and old at odds with one another? Our economics editor Ben Chu finds out.
In the studio, Katie Razzall is joined by Anna Taylor from the Student Climate Network, former Energy and Climate Change Secretary Sir Ed Davey and director of think tank Freer, Rebecca Lowe.
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- Dolly Parton on her career, #MeToo and social media - BBC Newsnight
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- 5:48
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- Stephen Smith speaks to the Queen of Country Music - Dolly Parton.
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The ‘Me Too’ and ‘Times Up’ movements has put the work of the country music veteran Dolly Parton back into the spotlight. As ‘Nine to Five’ opens in London, Dolly Parton has been talking to our culture correspondent Stephen Smith.
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- Lord Ahmed 'took advantage' of vulnerable women - BBC Newsnight
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- 14:48
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- 7 years ago
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- A member of the House of Lords has been accused of exploiting his position to pursue sex with vulnerable women who came to him for help.
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The allegations emerged as part of a Newsnight investigation which also raises serious questions about the adequacy of the Code of Conduct in the House of Lords.
The peer in question – Lord Ahmed of Rotherham – denies the allegations against him.
Another peer, Lord Carlile – who’s a barrister and former deputy high court judge – says if the allegations that have been made are true, and he had a sexual relationship with a vulnerable woman who came to him for help, it’s “disgraceful”.
Richard Watson reports.
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- Should British jihadists be allowed to return home? - BBC Newsnight
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- 12:28
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- What is the nature and scale of the threat from Islamic State? And how should the UK government respond?
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Kirsty is joined by Diana Darke, author and Syria specialist, David Toube, director of policy at anti-extremism organisation Quilliam, and Macer Gifford, who fought against Islamic State in Syria with the Kurdish YPG militia.
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- Super gonorrhoea: Why your STI could become untreatable - BBC Newsnight
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- 9:49
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- What happens if you can't treat the second-most common sexually transmitted infection, gonorrhoea?
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This STI affects millions of people globally every year.
But those working on the front line are worried we are running out of drugs to treat it.
Newsnight's Kay Devlin explores the challenges involved in stopping the spread of super gonorrhoea and finds out about some of the surprising ways you can get it.
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