BBC Politics
Boris Johnson: A John Sweeney Tribute - BBC Newsnight
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- Boris Johnson: A John Sweeney Tribute - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 3:27
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Boris Johnson has resigned as UK Foreign Secretary. Here John Sweeney takes a look at Boris' public image.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- What’s next for Theresa May? - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 6:17
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- After an eventful day, and a cabinet re-shuffle in Westminster, our political editor Nicholas Watt takes a look at whether the prime minister has the resilience to overcome this latest political turmoil.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Replacement cladding fails fire safety test - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 5:46
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Since the fire at Grenfell Tower, high rise blocks across the UK have had cladding that failed government tests removed.
Alternatives that are rated either non-combustible or of limited combustibility have been taking their place - and because of their fire-safe rating, they don’t need to pass full system tests.
But, as Newsnight’s policy editor Chris Cook explains, now there are question marks about whether some perform as well in fires as was thought.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- 'The West is built on racism' - DISCUSSION - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 7:29
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- "The principle of white supremacy is embedded into our political economy," argues author Kehinde Andrews.
Here he sits down with Emily Maitlis who asks him if there can ever be adequate reparations for human history built on oppression and slavery?
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- The mystery of Arron Banks' trips to Russia - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 5:20
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Did he or didn't he go to Moscow before the Brexit referendum? John Sweeney looks into the movements of businessman and prominent Leave campaigner Arron Banks.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- By the time you're old THIS will be saving your life - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 9:12
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- In most industries, new technology reduces costs; but in health it's more complicated.
Technology does wonderful new things, but that adds demand and extra cost to the system. But as our technology editor David Grossman explains, there's a lot to be excited about.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Skripals 'were under Russian surveillance' - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 7:43
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Newsnight’s Diplomatic and Defence Editor, Mark Urban, reveals that the Skripals 'were under Russian surveillance' and that he personally had several meetings with Sergei Skripal last year.
In this report he explores what we know and what we don’t about the poisoned ex-spy.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- ‘Clean out the bigots' from the Conservative party, says Baroness Warsi - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 3:49
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Evan Davis speaks to Sayeeda Warsi, following her claims that the Conservatives have failed to address Islamophobia within the party.
Baroness Warsi is calling for an inquiry to “send out a clear message that we will clean out the bigots in our party”.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Is gay prejudice ancient history for most of us? - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 5:16
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- The government has announced a 75-point plan aimed at improving the lives of LGBT people. In this report, Evan Davis takes a look at how the politics of gender and sexuality have evolved and he’s joined by Benjamin Cohen from PinkNews to discuss the changing nature of the public’s opinion towards the LGBT community.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Genome mapping and the future of healthcare - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 3:29
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Technology is changing health care in a myriad of different ways, and within that, genome mapping is potentially revolutionary.
One consequence of that, is it arguably makes a stronger case for the National Health Service in the UK than there has ever been.
Here the former chief executive of the NHS in England, Sir David Nicholson, sets out his argument why.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Thailand Cave Rescue: What’s next? - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 3:47
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- The rescue mission is underway to retrieve 12 boys and their football coach who are trapped in a cave in Thailand.
David Grossman looks at the possible rescue routes and the complexities of each.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Casualty's Charlie on the real NHS - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 6:50
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- As the National Health Service celebrates its 70th birthday, Steve Smith takes a look at how the NHS fits into British society and if, as a nation, we're too devoted to a system that we are ultimately dependent on.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- The debate over the right to die - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 7:03
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- The columnist, Katherine Whitehorn, wrote five years ago a piece called 'What the Death of My Cat taught me about Assisted Dying'.
She laid out clearly her belief that people had the right to die, with dignity, at their own choosing. Her friends and family recognised her words - and agreed with much of what she said.
But now Ms Whitehorn has Alzheimer's. Here, her son Bernard Lyall, and Katherine’s former colleague, Polly Toynbee, discuss whether she was right after all and whether her wishes should be applied in all circumstances.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Kate Andrews: ‘It’s time to overhaul the NHS & replace it with a system fit for 2018’ - Viewsnight
- Runtime
- 2:18
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- In this Viewsnight, Kate Andrews of the Institute for Economic Affairs argues that the US healthcare model is not the only option if we want to inject market forces into the NHS to improve standards.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- REVEALED: The secret to a long life - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 3:58
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- New research says if you make it to 105 then your chances of living longer are pretty good. John Sweeney meets some Chelsea Pensioners to find out the secret to being happy later in life.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Rendition, the UK and terror suspects - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 4:51
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- The UK's security services' involvement in the rendition of terror suspects 'goes much further than I thought,' says Stephen Grey, after the publication of the UK Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee investigation. The author of Ghost Plane, told Kirsty Wark that the "policy of silence" meant there was nowhere for whistle-blowers to go.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- 'Inexcusable' treatment of US detainees - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 5:41
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Two parliamentary reports have found the UK tolerated “inexcusable” treatment of US detainees after the 9/11 terror attacks. Former Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer tells Kirsty Wark that the Blair government failed to act quickly enough after learning of British complicity in torture.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Jim Broadbent turns graphic novelist - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 6:58
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- The actor Jim Broadbent and cartoonist Dix speak to Kirsty Wark on the evolution of their illustrated book "Dull Margaret".
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Angela Merkel’s ticking Bavarian time bomb - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 9:27
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Gabriel Gatehouse reports from Bavaria where German Chancellor Angela Merkel has come under fire over her refugee policy.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Brexit uncertainty and British business – BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 6:12
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Helen Thomas reports from Birkenhead and Belfast on how businesses like Survitec are dealing with the uncertainty around Brexit.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Hungarian foreign minister challenged on migration policy - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 7:39
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- The Hungarian government has passed a bill that will give the state extraordinary powers to jail any individual or group seen to be promoting or supporting illegal migration - including help for asylum seekers.
Emily Maitlis sits down with Hungary's foreign minister Péter Szijjártó and asks him if he thinks Hungary and the EU could ever find compromise on the issue of migration.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Polish embassy 'funded far-right speakers' at UK event - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 11:09
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- As the rise of the far right continues to cause alarm across Europe, extremist Polish groups are managing to enter Britain to spread their propaganda to the Polish community - sometimes encouraged by British nationalists. Newsnight has discovered that a far-right event in the UK received financial support from the Polish embassy. Nawal Al-maghafi and Maya Rostowska report.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- The story of Ochtervelt’s The Oyster Meal - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 9:55
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Stephen Smith traces the story of Jacob Ochtervelt’s The Oyster Meal, a painting loved by a Dutch family and looted by the Nazis.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Hardline Italy and anti-migrant rhetoric - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 8:36
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Does the European Union face an existential crisis over migration? Italy's new hard-line Interior Minister Matteo Salvini sent packing a second migrant ship in as many weeks, declaring it unwelcome in Italian ports.
John Sweeney has been to Calibria in southern Italy to see how the new populist government's anti-migrant rhetoric is playing out on the ground.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- The shocking deaths at Gosport War Memorial Hospital - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 7:36
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- An independent panel has revealed over 450 patients died after being inappropriately given powerful painkillers at Gosport War Memorial Hospital.
Katie Razzall takes a look at the inquiry’s report which reveals a shocking mistreatment of patients.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- German right-wing leader challenged on immigration - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 6:27
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Deputy Leader of the right-wing German AFD party, Beatrix von Storch, speaks to Emily Maitlis about her party's immigration policy.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Gosport Hospital: NHS 'closed ranks' over deaths - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 5:12
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- A former health minister has accused the NHS of closing ranks after the deaths of elderly patients at Gosport War Memorial Hospital near Portsmouth in the 1990s from alleged overprescribed painkiller drugs. A report by Nick Watt.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- A message from Tom Ellis to Lucifer fans – BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 0:44
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Actor Tom Ellis thanks his fans for saving the show Lucifer from cancellation.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Fighting to change my criminal record - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 7:20
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- A landmark case is before the Supreme Court in the UK - looking at the disclosure of criminal records. How much should your employer know about your past? Katie Razzall reports.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Trump's ‘zero-tolerance’ immigration policy: Discussion - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 6:12
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Conservative commentator Scottie Nell Hughes and Democratic Congressman Vicente Gonzalez join Newsnight’s Evan Davis to discuss the US’s ‘zero-tolerance’ policy of splitting up undocumented immigrant families stopped at the Mexico-US border.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- The secret Soviet recordings - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 6:04
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- X-rays of Soviet citizens "pressed with the music they secretly loved” - Tom Bateman reports on the forbidden recordings of the Soviet Union and explores their contemporary equivalents across the world.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- The ethics of Pride merchandise - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 3:48
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- James Clayton investigates the origins and ethics of Pride merchandise ahead of next month’s London Pride Parade.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Ronan Point: a 50 year building safety problem - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 10:17
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- The Ronan Point disaster took place almost exactly 50 years ago, and there are clear parallels to Grenfell: in both cases, government policy was pointed at one objective but lost sight of building safety.
In this report, Newsnight's policy editor Chris Cook takes a look at the safety of high rise residential buildings.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Migration cap relaxation 'is really going to help' - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 4:00
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- The Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, has persuaded the prime minister to relax the government's strict cap on visas for skilled migrants, excluding doctors and nurses from the figures.
This will allow the NHS to recruit from overseas without restriction, while freeing up visas for other skilled workers, as Nick Watt reports.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Grenfell: Grief, loss and being a teenager - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 12:16
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Newsnight's Sara Moralioglu and Katie Razzall went to meet the teenagers living in the shadow of Grenfell Tower.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Memorialising Grenfell Tower – BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 17:36
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- One year after the devastating Grenfell Tower fire which claimed the lives of 72 people, survivors and local community groups are turning their minds to what should be done with the site of the disaster and how its victims should be remembered. A report by Katie Razzall and Stuart Denman.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Bach's Goldberg Variations Aria played by Beatrice Rana - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 1:47
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- They're awarding the 2018 Classic Brit Awards at the Royal Albert Hall tonight. To celebrate here's Beatrice Rana playing the Aria from Bach's Goldberg Variations.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- North Korea's Kim dynasty - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 10:18
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Ahead of the historic summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump, John Sweeney profiles the Kim dynasty and speaks to those who experienced the regime first-hand.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Sir Elton John urges social media boycott over hate speech - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 8:34
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- In an exclusive interview for BBC Newsnight, Sir Elton John expressed his frustration that tech giants are not doing enough to keep people safe online and said he would urge people to stop using social platforms that don’t take the abuse seriously.
Sir Elton spoke to Kirsty Wark after delivering The Diana, Princess of Wales Lecture on HIV in London.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Brexit: Northern Ireland and the backstop plan – BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 5:53
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Ahead of the UK government’s official proposal of a ‘backstop’ plan which would see the UK match EU trade tariffs temporarily in order to avoid a hard Irish border after Brexit, Nick Watt travelled to Northern Ireland to explore the government’s options. He learned about a fundamental disagreement between the UK and the EU which goes to the heart of the Irish border question. This report was broadcast on 5 June 2018.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Will Northern Ireland see a change in abortion law? - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 7:26
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- As the legal debate over the abortion law in Northern Ireland continues, Nawal Al-Maghafi looks at both sides of the campaign and hears from women who took matters into their own hands.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Israeli PM Netanyahu on the Iran nuclear deal and Israeli-Palestinian conflict - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 15:45
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Evan Davis interviews Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Paul Dacre's legacy as Daily Mail editor: Discussion - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 6:46
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre is to stand down in November. What has been his influence on British political debate? Lord Adonis and Daily Mail political columnist, Peter Oborne, have very different views.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Steve Smith trials micro-housing – BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 2:45
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Could micro-housing be the answer to the property market problems? There were 8,000 micro-homes built in 2016 but is this just another way for developers to squeeze more value out of a desirable location?
Newsnight’s, Steve Smith, went to try a micro-home for size.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Wolfgang Schäuble on Brexit and the issues facing Europe - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 7:50
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- How does Brexit rank among Germany’s concerns? Mark Urban speaks to President of the Bundestag and Germany's former finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, on the issues facing Europe.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Masih Alinejad on Iran and boycotting the hijab - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 6:16
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Activist Alinejad Masih on rebelling against Iran and her global campaign calling for women to have the right not to wear the hijab.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Arundhati Roy: Violence in India is terrifying - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 6:04
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Arundhati Roy sits down with Evan Davis and talks about her latest book The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and why she is critical of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Lord Steel on Jeremy Thorpe and Cyril Smith – BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 5:48
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Evan Davis talks to former Liberal leader Lord Steel about the Jeremy Thorpe scandal and the abuse allegations against former MP Cyril Smith.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Title
- The Five Star Movement and the EU - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 13:55
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Italy is now embarking on a political adventure that could put it at odds with the EU and the bond markets. So what lies in store for the European dream? Five Star's Manlio di Stefano and Italy's outgoing Europe Minister Sandro Gozi give their take.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Title
- US imposes metal tariffs on key allies: Discussion – BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 11:14
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Emily Maitlis is joined by former acting deputy US trade representative, Wendy Cutler, Carl Bildt of the European Council on Foreign Relations, and spokesperson for the Republican National Committee, Kayleigh McEnany, to discuss the announcement that the US is to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from key allies in Europe and North America.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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