BBC Politics
President Trump's first 100 days in office: The view from Detroit - BBC Newsnight
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- President Trump's first 100 days in office: The view from Detroit - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 9:13
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- After 100 days in office, how is President Donald Trump faring among the working class voters who propelled him to the White House on the promise that he would make America great again? Mark Urban has been to Detroit to find out.
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- Why young people should vote: Armando Iannucci - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 6:13
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Writer and satirist Armando Iannucci wants to get 3 million 18 to 24-year-olds to register to vote ahead of the 2017 general election. Kirsty Wark spoke to the man who likes to make a mockery of politicians about his desperation to get young people to vote for them.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Julian Glover: It’s time to pay as you drive – Viewsnight
- Runtime
- 1:38
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Hate congestion, noise and pollution on our roads? Then it’s time to pay as you drive, says former government adviser Julian Glover. Viewsnight is BBC Newsnight's place for ideas and debate. More on the Viewsnight playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJxnQXiytA_SEhwHmE9qPWjlbvr3WgpNM
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- 'I was infected by contaminated blood when I was five' - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 3:05
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Former Health Secretary Andy Burnham has called the use by the NHS of contaminated blood in the 70s and 80s a "criminal cover-up". More than 2,000 deaths have been linked to the scandal - and many more were infected. Evan Davis spoke to the co-founder of the group Tainted Blood, Andy Evans, who told him his story.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Does UKIP have a future after Brexit? - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 7:09
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Ahead of the general election, John Sweeney has been around the country to find out if UKIP has a future after Brexit.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- George Monbiot: Kick the big money out of politics – Viewsnight
- Runtime
- 1:49
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Was the EU referendum result bought by those who spent the most? In this Viewsnight, writer and activist George Monbiot argues we need a new “fair, simple and transparent” system for funding politics. Viewsnight is BBC Newsnight's place for ideas and debate. More on the Viewsnight playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJxnQXiytA_SEhwHmE9qPWjlbvr3WgpNM
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- EXCLUSIVE: Life with my brother, Che Guevara - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 3:46
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Fifty years on from the death of Che Guevara, what is his legacy - if any? In this exclusive report from Buenos Aires, Stephen Smith meets his younger brother Juan Martin Guevara - who is in his mid-seventies - and has published a memoir, Che, My Brother.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Ivanka Trump is the only 'not expendable' person in the White House - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 4:29
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- How significant a figure is Ivanka Trump within the Trump administration - and what more can we expect from her? Evan Davis spoke to Vanity Fair journalist Sarah Ellison in New York - she is one of America's best-known Ivanka-watchers and has spent the last two years researching her empire. What did she think of Ivanka's performance in Berlin?
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Could Wales be fertile ground for the Tories in the general election? BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 4:30
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- One YouGov suggests the Conservatives could be 10 points ahead of Labour in Wales. If accurate, that would mark quite a change. Prime Minister Theresa May has been campaigning in Bridgend and Newport - clearly believing Wales is fertile ground for the Conservatives. Is she right? David Grossman went to the Labour seat of Wrexham to find out.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Is South Africa getting fed up with President Jacob Zuma? BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 7:06
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- The last year has been a bumpy one for South Africa's President Jacob Zuma. He has appeared to veer from one crisis to another - the latest being the controversial sacking of his internationally respected finance minister. Alastair Leithead reports.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- What exactly is Labour's position on the customs union? BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 5:29
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- What is Labour's position on the customs union? And freedom of movement? Evan Davis asks Labour's shadow Brexit minister Paul Blomfield.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Camilla Cavendish: We need a death tax to fund social care – Viewsnight
- Runtime
- 1:45
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- What should the parties address in their general election manifestos? In this Viewsnight, the former head of the Downing Street policy unit under David Cameron, Camilla Cavendish, argues that we can’t afford decent social care unless we tax either the living or the dead. Viewsnight is BBC Newsnight's place for ideas and debate. More on the Viewsnight playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJxnQXiytA_SEhwHmE9qPWjlbvr3WgpNM
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Labour's position on Brexit? 'Search me' says Lord Mandelson - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 7:31
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Labour is about to launch its Brexit strategy ahead of the general election. But Lord Mandelson, former Labour minister and architect of successive Labour general election victories, says he is still in the dark about the party's position on Brexit. Kirsty Wark began the interview by asking Lord Mandelson whether Emmanuel Macron's result in the first round of the French presidential election offered him hope.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- French election: What would Emmanuel Macron's presidency mean for Britain? - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 4:25
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Centrist Emmanuel Macron will face far-right leader Marine Le Pen in the second round of the French presidential election.To learn more about the presidential candidate, Evan Davis has met up with Benjamin Griveaux, Mr Macron's campaign spokesman.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- French election: In search of 'la France profonde' - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 6:05
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Much of the attention of the French presidential election has been on Paris and other large metropolitan areas, where the issues of terrorism and immigration have been felt most keenly. But it's outside the capital that the election is really decided. Gabriel Gatehouse has gone in search of France's political and geographic heart.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Matthew Goodwin: Populism is here to stay - Viewsnight
- Runtime
- 2:04
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Viewsnight is BBC Newsnight's place for ideas and debate. Ahead of the French presidential elections, Matthew Goodwin argues that -regardless of the result- support for Marine Le Pen is part of a wider populist movement that is here to stay. More views on the Viewsnight playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJxnQXiytA_SEhwHmE9qPWjlbvr3WgpNM
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- ‘A marriage of equals’: Profile of Philip May - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 9:39
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Philip May is being described as one of the most powerful men in Britain. The husband of Prime Minister Theresa May is thought to be an indispensable member of her political inner circle. Nicholas Watt has taken a closer look at the man by Theresa May’s side.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Nick Clegg: 'Brexit-obsessed government isn't doing its day job' - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 7:35
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Nick Clegg gives Emily Maitlis his thoughts on the snap general election.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Should we stick to the 0.7% international aid commitment? DEBATE - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 6:32
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Theresa May will be publishing a new Conservative manifesto, but how different will it be from what David Cameron announced in 2015? Camilla Cavendish was head of policy for David Cameron, and made a life peer when he left. Andrew Mitchell was the International Development Secretary in his Cabinet. They discuss whether the 0.7% international aid commitment should be scrapped, or moved into another department.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Ruth Davidson: Increased majority will allow the PM to make 'long term decisions': - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 6:43
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Ruth Davidson speaks to Emily Maitlis about the upcoming general election, and her commitment to the 0.7% international aid target.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- 'Brexit is Britain’s number one issue' - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 4:01
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- What are the most important issues in the run-up to this general election? Our policy editor Chris Cook reports.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- General election 2017: Craig Oliver and Tom Baldwin give their tips - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 4:56
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- The two men who ran the 2015 campaign for the Conservatives and Labour were Sir Craig Oliver and Tom Baldwin. Evan Davis gets their thoughts on how the parties should play it in the 2017 general election.
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 the PM's election strategy? Evan quizzes Amber Rudd - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 8:15
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- What is Prime Minister Theresa May's strategy in calling a general election? Evan Davis speaks to the Home Secretary Amber Rudd. When did she first hear about the election?
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- The Labour voters who could back Theresa May - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 4:27
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Filmmaker Nick Blakemore reports from the Labour constituency of Barrow and Furness - and finds some voters there are considering a switch to Theresa May.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- President Erdogan's chief adviser on the Turkish referendum - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 5:13
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Ahead of Turkey's controversial constitutional referendum, Newsnight speaks to Ilnur Cevik, President Erdogan's chief adviser.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Nasa's head of astrobiology: a possible extra-terrestrial discovery - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 3:28
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Mary Voytek, the head of Nasa's astrobiology programme talks to Newsnight about the possibility of life existing inside one of Saturn's moons.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Stephen Westaby: Politics is destroying British heart surgery – Viewsnight
- Runtime
- 2:14
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Viewsnight is BBC Newsnight's place for ideas and debate. Eminent surgeon Stephen Westaby condemns what he calls a culture of blame in the NHS. More views on the Viewsnight playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJxnQXiytA_SEhwHmE9qPWjlbvr3WgpNM
Stephen has recently published his memoirs, “Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table.”
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- FinTech: How technology is changing the world of finance - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 5:40
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Our technology editor, David Grossman reports on how technology is changing the world of finance.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- How can we help poor kids do better at school? - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 4:22
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Will the government's plan for schools benefit children from poor and disadvantaged backgrounds? Newsnight's policy editor Chris Cook reports.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Israel's culture war - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 7:13
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- While the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians remains frozen, Israel is itself divided, not least on issues of culture. There have been fights over plays, music, books, the funding for the arts and academic awards. The populist culture minister - a rising star of the right - is rarely out of controversy. So what is that culture war all about? Thomas Fessy has been finding out.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- How much power does the UK really have in the world? DEBATE - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 7:34
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry and former US State Department adviser Jeremy Shapiro joined Evan Davis in the studio to discuss the UK's place on the world stage after Brexit.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Shamed into silence: The hidden victims of male 'honour' abuse - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 8:49
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Most people have heard about "honour abuse" of women but men can be hidden victims too. Coming from conservative religious communities, they can find themselves having to hide anything from sexual abuse to domestic violence to their being gay, because to speak out could dishonour their families. Newsnight’s Katie Razzall has been speaking to men trapped in this predicament. If you need support with forced marriage or honour violence, help and support is available bbc.co.uk/actionline
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Elif Shafak: Turkey's story tells the world just how fragile democracy is - Viewsnight
- Runtime
- 2:21
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Viewsnight is BBC Newsnight's place for ideas and debate. Here writer Elif Shafak argues that Turkey has declined into authoritarianism - and there are lessons to be learnt for the rest of the world. More views on the Viewsnight playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJxnQXiytA_SEhwHmE9qPWjlbvr3WgpNM
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Title
- 'Democracy gets a hell of a lot wrong': Howard Jacobson on Brexit and Trump - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 5:02
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Writer Howard Jacobson speaks to Emily Maitlis about his new book Pussy - a turbocharged satire about US President Donald Trump - and about Brexit and democracy.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Title
- Interview with Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 13:45
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Evan Davis speaks to Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad about the suspected chemical attack on Khan Sheikhoun in north-western Syria and the subsequent missile strike against a Syrian air base carried out by the US.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Title
- 'No punishment over Brexit': Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 4:42
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- The Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan tells Newsnight he sees no sign that the EU is out for revenge over Brexit.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Title
- Extreme selfie culture in Russia - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 7:19
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- *DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME - the actions shown are dangerous and can lead to fatal accidents* - Young Russians are at the forefront of a growing trend for extreme selfies and social media videos, performing life-threatening stunts to attract fans. Lucy Ash has travelled to Siberia to find out why this is a particularly Russian phenomenon - and asks what drives someone to risk their life for internet fame?
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Title
- George the Poet: Art needs to become political - Viewsnight
- Runtime
- 2:17
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Viewsnight is BBC Newsnight's place for ideas and debate. Here George Mpanga - better known as George the Poet - argues artists need to be more political. More Viewsnight: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJxnQXiytA_SEhwHmE9qPWjlbvr3WgpNM
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Title
- Could bots take over the internet? - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 5:46
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- You may be familiar with the idea that tech companies are watching your every click but less well known are the internet bots tracking every minute change made online. A study of how bots interact with each other has thrown up some surprising findings – our technology editor David Grossman looks at some frightening possibilities.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Title
- Can art effect change? Kirsty Wark meets choreographer Crystal Pite - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 5:57
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- A ballet about the plight of refugees, commissioned for the Royal Opera House, has been showered with five star reviews and described with words like potent and sombre. It’s the work of the Canadian Crystal Pite who has built a reputation as one of the most respected choreographers of her generation – and who is the first woman to have created a new work for the Royal Ballet in almost two decades. It’s titled ‘Flight Pattern’ and Kirsty Wark went to speak to her about using dance to engage in a difficult harrowing subject.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
Website: www.bbc.co.uk/newsnight
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- Title
- What can we learn from the war of 'Rough Wooing'? - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 8:01
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- What was the Anglo-Scottish war of 'Rough Wooing'? Allan Little looks at the Tudor age Brexit and what happened next. With a second independence referendum being debated what could ‘Rough Wooing’ teach us about what comes next?
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
Website: www.bbc.co.uk/newsnight
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- Title
- Fay Weldon: what her generation of feminists got wrong - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 7:05
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Fay Weldon talks to Newsnight about her new book ‘Death of a She Devil’ and why feminism hasn’t turned out as she hoped.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
Website: www.bbc.co.uk/newsnight
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/BBCNewsnight
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- Title
- Evan Davis speaks to voters in northern France - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 8:10
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Evan visits the former mining town of Lens in northern France to see how voters are feeling ahead of the French presidential election.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
Website: www.bbc.co.uk/newsnight
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/BBCNewsnight
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- Title
- Yuval Noah Harari: ‘Fear-mongers are more dangerous than terrorists’ – Viewsnight
- Runtime
- 2:12
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Viewsnight is BBC Newsnight's place for ideas and debate. Historian and academic Yuval Noah Harari says overreacting to terrorism is a bigger threat to peace than terrorism itself. More Viewsnight: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJxnQXiytA_SEhwHmE9qPWjlbvr3WgpNM
Yuval Noah Harari lectures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is the author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
Website: www.bbc.co.uk/newsnight
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- Title
- Wes Streeting confronts Ken Livingstone - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 6:20
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Wes Streeting confronts Ken Livingstone on Newsnight over his comments about Adolf Hitler, and accuses him of bringing the Labour Party into disrepute.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
Website: www.bbc.co.uk/newsnight
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- Title
- Darcus Howe: 'A fearless warrior in the struggle against racial injustice' - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 4:34
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Stephen Smith looks back at the life of Darcus Howe, anti-racism campaigner, writer, public intellectual, broadcaster and documentary maker.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
Website: www.bbc.co.uk/newsnight
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- Title
- John Brennan: Donald Trump’s travel ban 'simplistic and misguided' - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 10:32
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Former CIA director John Brennan talks to Newsnight’s Kirsty Wark about President Trump’s travel ban, the threat from North Korea, and the notion of a Deep State.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
Website: www.bbc.co.uk/newsnight
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- Title
- 'The crisis in Mosul right now is civilian': Iraqi military spokesman - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 5:00
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Recent coalition airstrikes in Western Mosul are thought to have killed hundreds of civilians. Kirsty asked Brigadier Tahseen Ibrahim, a spokesman for the Iraqi military, what more could be done to avoid these casualties.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
Website: www.bbc.co.uk/newsnight
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- Title
- Will humans achieve immortality through machines? - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 5:00
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Could we really use machines to control the future evolution of our species? The use of technology to prolong and enhance life is called Transhumanism and Kirsty Wark spoke to Mark O'Connell, the author of a book on the "transhumanism movement".
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
Website: www.bbc.co.uk/newsnight
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/BBCNewsnight
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- Title
- Return to Mosul - BBC Newsnight
- Runtime
- 9:04
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- BBC journalist Basheer Al-Zaidi grew up in Mosul, the Iraqi city taken over by so-called Islamic State in 2014. Now, Iraqi forces are engaged in a fierce battle to retake the city, and eastern Mosul has been freed from IS rule.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
Website: www.bbc.co.uk/newsnight
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