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Green V Green
Two Green leadership hopefuls debate the issues ahead of the party's leadership election. In which political direction is the party going? \n\nAs TV presenter Rylan Clark goes v ...
28-08-2025
BBC 2
Lib Dems Snub Trump
The leader of the Liberal Democrats Ed Davey says he'll boycott President Trump's state visit next month - will others follow suit? \n\nAll eyes on Gaza as President Trump chair ...
27-08-2025
BBC 2
26/08/2025
Insights and global interviews on the news stories of the day. With Victoria Derbyshire.
26-08-2025
BBC 2
Why Did The Fbi Raid John Bolton?
Donald Trump's former national security advisor and now his harsh critic, John Bolton, gets raided by the FBI. Who ordered it and why? And home secretary Yvette Cooper launches ...
22-08-2025
BBC 2
The Epstein Files
A US congressional committee will finally see Justice Department investigation files relating to the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. What might they reveal? Plus, as energy and ...
21-08-2025
BBC 2
How To House Uk Migrants?
The government is scrambling for migrant housing solutions following the Epping judgement, after the local council there won its case to close the Bell Hotel. Can other councils ...
20-08-2025
BBC 2
Epping Asylum Seeker Hotel To Close
Epping Forest District Council is triumphant after a legal victory over the government means that asylum seekers must leave the Bell Hotel. Will other councils now follow? \n\nF ...
19-08-2025
BBC 2
18/08/2025
Insights and global interviews on the news stories of the day. With Paddy O'Connell.
18-08-2025
BBC 2
Trump And Putin Finally Meet
The American and Russian presidents meet in Alaska to carve out a Ukraine deal. Will it happen and will the Ukrainians hate it? And Newsnight reveals a new Afghan data leak. Wit ...
15-08-2025
BBC 2
Can Trump Close The Ukraine Deal?
On the eve of the Alaska summit, can Trump close the deal with both Putin and Zelensky? And why are Afghans who helped the British and fled the Taliban being deported back to Af ...
14-08-2025
BBC 2
Europe Tells Trump: Don't Sell Us Out
It's the most important week for European security since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine back in 2022 - and today Europe's leaders told President Trump: don't s ...
13-08-2025
BBC 2
Can European Leaders Persuade Trump On Ukraine Deal?
European leaders have one last chance to stop President Trump doing a Ukraine deal above their heads with President Putin. An ex-Pentagon official and ex-Nato policy chief tell ...
12-08-2025
BBC 2
Trump Deploys National Guard To Dc
President Trump takes control of Washington DC police, and deploys the National Guard to the capital to crack down on what he describes as ‘violent gangs’ and &lsquo ...
11-08-2025
BBC 2
08/08/2025
Insights and global interviews on the crucial news stories of the day. With Faisal Islam.
08-08-2025
BBC 2
Putin-trump Summit
The presidents of Russia and America are to meet. Will they agree a Ukraine deal? And Israeli prime minister Netanyahu threatens to occupy the whole of Gaza. Would his army gene ...
07-08-2025
BBC 2
06/08/2025
Insights and global interviews on the crucial news stories of the day. With Katie Razzall.
06-08-2025
BBC 2
05/08/2025
Insights and global interviews on the crucial news stories of the day. With Matt Chorley.
05-08-2025
BBC 2
Starmer’s Small Boats Promise
Keir Starmer says he’ll end 'gimmicks and broken promises' on small boat crossings, with the detention of those to be sent back to France expected to begin within days. Ca ...
04-08-2025
BBC 2
01/08/2025
Insights and global interviews on the crucial news stories of the day. With Lucy Hockings.
01-08-2025
BBC 2
Why Are Channel Crossings Up?
The number of migrants crossing the Channel in a year hits 25,000 in record time. Is this proof that the smuggling gangs remain unsmashed? Or is too soon to say? Newsnight hears ...
31-07-2025
BBC 2
Democrats Pressure Trump On Epstein Files
Senate Democrats are turning to an obscure law to try and force Donald Trump to release the full contents of the Epstein files. Will this pile the pressure on the President? New ...
30-07-2025
BBC 2
Farage In Row With Government Minister
The battle to keep children safe online becomes an extraordinary war of words offline, as a cabinet minister says Nigel Farage's criticism of the Online Safety Act puts him on t ...
29-07-2025
BBC 2
28/07/2025
Insights and global interviews on the crucial news stories of the day. With Matt Chorley.
28-07-2025
BBC 2
25/07/2025
Insights and global interviews on the crucial news stories of the day. With Matt Chorley.
25-07-2025
BBC 2
Could Epstein Overshadow Trump's Uk Visit?
The night before Donald Trump flies to Scotland, fresh developments emerge about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Newsnight speaks to a lawyer who has represented both Trump and Eps ...
24-07-2025
BBC 2
23/07/2025
Insights and global interviews on the news stories of the day. With Victoria Derbyshire.
23-07-2025
BBC 2
22/07/2025
Insights and global interviews on the news stories of the day. With Victoria Derbyshire.
22-07-2025
BBC 2
Epping Protests 'a Powder Keg'
The Essex town of Epping is a 'powder keg', the leader of the district council tells Newsnight, after a weekend of arrests and protests outside a hotel housing asylum seekers. W ...
21-07-2025
BBC 2
The Epstein Files: Trump Lashes Out
Is President Trump panicking? As he comes under more pressure over his former friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, he goes to war with Rupert Murdoch. We hear live from congresswoma ...
18-07-2025
BBC 2
17/07/2025
As Diane Abbott is suspended from the Labour Party for a second time, she tells Newsnight, 'It's obvious this Labour leadership wants me out'. Plus, will anyone be held accounta ...
17-07-2025
BBC 2
16/07/2025
Insights and global interviews on the news stories of the day. With Victoria Derbyshire.
16-07-2025
BBC 2
Taliban 'could Be Targeting My Family'
A massive data breach by UK officials puts thousands of Afghans at risk. We hear from the daughter of one former interpreter with the British Army who is now suffering from comp ...
15-07-2025
BBC 2
14/07/2025
Insights and global interviews on the crucial news stories of the day. With Faisal Islam.
14-07-2025
BBC 2
Too Hot To Handle?
Hosepipe bans, rail disruption and fears of wildfires - the UK is gripped by the third heatwave in recent weeks. Is it time to start overhauling our homes, offices and cities to ...
11-07-2025
BBC 2
Uk And France Strike Deal
As Emmanuel Macron concludes his state visit to the UK by agreeing to a ‘one in, one-out’ migrants deal, the two nations also sign up to a new nuclear pact. Will thi ...
10-07-2025
BBC 2
09/07/2025
Insights and global interviews on the news stories of the day. With Victoria Derbyshire.
09-07-2025
BBC 2
Gregg Wallace Sacked From Masterchef
As TV host Gregg Wallace is sacked from MasterChef over alleged misconduct, we ask what it means for the wider industry. We hear from Baroness Kennedy, the chair of the Independ ...
08-07-2025
BBC 2
Can Starmer Smash The Gangs?
In the week of a key Anglo-French summit, Newsnight goes to Calais to see the small-boats situation on the ground. With Keir Starmer's plans under scrutiny, can anything smash t ...
07-07-2025
BBC 2
Ai 'human Extinction' Warning
As the government tells the UK's AI safety institute to refocus on defence, we hear from a godfather of AI who tells Newsnight: \
04-07-2025
BBC 2
President Trump’s Victory
As President Trump's Big Beautiful Bill clears Congress, who are the winners and losers, and why is it such a big deal? Political editor Nick Watt brings has the inside track on ...
03-07-2025
BBC 2
Left In Tears
With the government still bruised by its own Labour welfare rebellion, Keir Starmer faced up to the wider Commons opposition alongside a tearful-looking Rachel Reeves. Will the ...
02-07-2025
BBC 2
Chaos And Confusion
After more concessions, the government gets its welfare bill through - but at what cost for the prime minister and his authority? Plus, is the PM watering down his promise to th ...
01-07-2025
BBC 2
Welfare Bill In Trouble Again?
Only a few days after the government announced major concessions to its own Labour MPs, are Sir Keir Starmer's welfare reforms in trouble again tonight? And the Culture secretar ...
30-06-2025
BBC 2
Regrets? He Has A Few
It's not 'je ne regrette rien' in the government's birthday week. Keir Starmer marks his first year in office by listing what's gone wrong, from sacked staff and policy U-turns ...
27-06-2025
BBC 2
Another U-turn
The government strikes a deal with the 127 Labour rebels prepared to oppose the welfare reform bill. But how costly is another U-turn for Labour not yet a year into taking power ...
26-06-2025
BBC 2
Welfare Cuts: The Next U-turn?
The prime minister shrugs off his own MPs' criticisms of his flagship welfare cuts as 'noises off', but can he avoid a further U-turn? Also, an update after yesterday's nuclear ...
25-06-2025
BBC 2
Britain’s Nuclear Test Survivors
A Newsnight special on the British nuclear tests scandal in the Pacific in the 1950s and 60s. Veterans accuse the government of withholding medical records that could link their ...
24-06-2025
BBC 2
23/06/2025
Insights and global interviews on the news stories of the day. With Katie Razzall.
23-06-2025
BBC 2
Assisted Dying Bill Clears The Commons
MPs vote to allow assisted dying of the terminally ill in a historic vote, but not with the thumping majority that some expected. Does that matter? \n\nDonald Trump takes critic ...
20-06-2025
BBC 2
19/06/2025
Insights and global interviews on the news stories of the day. With Paddy O'Connell.
19-06-2025
BBC 2
17/06/2025
Insights and global interviews on the news stories of the day. With Victoria Derbyshire.
17-06-2025
BBC 2
16/06/2025
Insights and global interviews on the news stories of the day. With Victoria Derbyshire.
16-06-2025
BBC 2
13/06/2025
Insights and global interviews on the crucial news stories of the day. With Matt Chorley.
13-06-2025
BBC 2
12/06/2025
Insights and global interviews on the crucial news stories of the day. With Nick Watt.
12-06-2025
BBC 2
Can Rachel Reeves Deliver Growth?
The chancellor looks to cast off the doom and gloom and make her pitch to Britain's left-behind voters, pledging investment with £113bn of capital spending. Will voters no ...
11-06-2025
BBC 2
10/06/2025
Insights and global interviews on the news stories of the day. With Victoria Derbyshire.
10-06-2025
BBC 2
09/06/2025
Insights and global interviews on the news stories of the day. With Victoria Derbyshire.
09-06-2025
BBC 2
Musk Tears Into Trump
Donald Trump and Elon Musk - no sign of an end to the beef. How could things escalate from here? And back at home, after 11 long months, Labour people are smiling again - just a ...
06-06-2025
BBC 2
Break-up Season?
Meltdown! The critical Musk-Trump relationship undergoes a rapid unscheduled disassembly as the President and the world's richest man lay into each other.
05-06-2025
BBC 2
Whitehall Wars Over The Spending Review
Battles behind the scenes with a week to go until the spending review. With real terms cuts coming in unprotected departments, the inside story on which public services are on t ...
04-06-2025
BBC 2
A Nation's Shame: Grooming Survivors Speak
Survivors of abuse and exploitation speak live on television for the first time, ahead of Baroness Casey's soon-to-be-released government report on grooming and rape gangs. Hear ...
02-06-2025
BBC 2
Trump Waves Goodbye To Musk
Elon Musk and Donald Trump part ways but on what terms? Musk's billionaire friend turned rival Philip Lowe offers an opinion. Succession writer Jesse Armstrong on his new movie, ...
30-05-2025
BBC 2
Trump Fights Back On Tariffs
The US president hits back as the appeal court presses pause on the judges' decision to halt his tariff plan. We ask former CIA director general David Petraeus to spell out how ...
29-05-2025
BBC 2
28/05/2025
Insights and global interviews on the news stories of the day. With Nick Watt.
28-05-2025
BBC 2
King Charles In Canada
King Charles makes his first visit to Canada as head of state, following President Trump’s repeated comments about taking over the '51st state'. We discuss live.\n\nPlus, ...
27-05-2025
BBC 2
23/05/2025
Insights and global interviews on the crucial news stories of the day. With Faisal Islam.
23-05-2025
BBC 2
Trump V Harvard
President Trump bans international students from Harvard in a major escalation in the row between the university and the administration. What happens next? And thousands of conv ...
22-05-2025
BBC 2
Can Reeves Survive The U-turn?
The PM U-turns (kind of) on his cuts to pensioners' winter fuel payments; a relief for many, but where does that leave the Chancellor? And a 26-year-old cancer survivor say she' ...
21-05-2025
BBC 2
Rees-mogg: Time For A Tory-reform Pact
Former Tory cabinet minister Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg tells Newsnight that it is time for the Tories to make an electoral pact with Reform. \n\nAs the UK suspends trade talks with Is ...
20-05-2025
BBC 2
Starmer’s Eu Reset
The prime minister agrees a deal with the EU; how radical is it and does he risk a backlash? We ask a government minister what it means for the economy, migration and for the fi ...
19-05-2025
BBC 2
Downing Street's Euro Vision
Strike up the band for Keir Starmer's Euro-vision, as the prime minister prepares to take the stage for his big EU reset. But back home, he's facing the music at a crunch meetin ...
16-05-2025
BBC 2
15/05/2025
Insights and global interviews on the crucial news stories of the day. With Katie Razzall.
15-05-2025
BBC 2
Gaza Humanitarian Crisis
Don't look away - the plea to the UN about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. We speak to a surgeon working in a hospital hit by an Israeli strike, which the IDF said targeted Ham ...
14-05-2025
BBC 2
Assisted Dying: What’s Changed?
As Assisted Dying passes its first stage in the Scottish parliament, and amended legislation returns to the Commons in Westminster, Newsnight speaks to a leading supporter of th ...
13-05-2025
BBC 2
Starmer’s Immigration Crackdown
The Prime Minister sets out his plan to tighten the UK's visa rules, promising that 'migration will fall'. Newsnight asks a government minister whether the measures taken match ...
12-05-2025
BBC 2
Exclusive: Mandelson On The Trade Deal
Fresh from the Oval Office, Lord Mandelson talks to Newsnight about the big trade deal the UK just signed with President Trump - and if that's not enough we have Bill Gates too. ...
09-05-2025
BBC 2
The Trump/starmer Trade Deal Unwrapped
The US president and the UK prime minister strike a deal on trade. Which side has got the better deal? We unpick the economics and the politics of the agreement that both leader ...
08-05-2025
BBC 2
07/05/2025
Insights and global interviews on the news stories of the day. With Victoria Derbyshire.
07-05-2025
BBC 2
India Strikes Pakistan
The latest on the breaking news that India has launched strikes on targets in Pakistan. Plus, in a broadcast exclusive, former Transport secretary Louise Haigh on Labour's local ...
06-05-2025
BBC 2
California Governor Gavin Newsom
We ask California's Democratic governor Gavin Newsom about whether he’d run for the White House. Nigel Farage sweeps the vote; will Labour and the Conservatives stop Refor ...
02-05-2025
BBC 2
Local Elections: Is This Reform’s Breakthrough Night?
With both the government and the opposition predicted to perform poorly, senior politicians including a secretary of state and a party chair discuss whether these local election ...
01-05-2025
BBC 2
Trump's Next 100 Days
As President Trump hits the hundred-day mark, has he rewritten the DNA of American politics or been hit by a reality check? Will the next 1,360 days be quite so dramatic? Adam F ...
30-04-2025
BBC 2
Carney's Fightback
Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney tells Newsnight he'll only deal with President Trump on his own terms. Plus, with two days until the local elections in England, Newsnight co ...
29-04-2025
BBC 2
Kemi Badenoch On Newsnight
As English local elections loom, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch tells Newsnight she's not afraid of 'cowards' in her party who criticise her leadership. And co-leader of the ...
28-04-2025
BBC 2
Rachel Reeves Goes To Washington
On the eve of the chancellor's big meeting with the Trump administration, Newsnight asks whether Rachel Reeves can get a trade deal over the line. And at what cost? Also, Sir Ke ...
24-04-2025
BBC 2
Is A Lasting Ukraine Peace Close?
As President Trump accuses President Zelensky of harming Ukraine peace negotiations, there are reports of a controversial plan to end the war in Ukraine. What is in that proposa ...
23-04-2025
BBC 2
The Italian Job Not Done?
The president of the US receives the prime minister of Italy at the White House, but Donald Trump is in no hurry to do a deal on tariffs. With Paddy O'Connell.
17-04-2025
BBC 2
Democrat Fightback Begins?
Joe Biden, the only presidential candidate to beat Donald Trump, speaks out for the first time since leaving the White House and believes there’s now a route back to power ...
16-04-2025
BBC 2
University Challenge
Harvard University has $2bn funding paused by President Trump after it rejected his administration's demands. What does this row tell us about America? With Victoria Derbyshire.
15-04-2025
BBC 2
14/04/2025
Insights and global interviews on the crucial news stories of the day. With Victoria Derbyshire.
14-04-2025
BBC 2
Parliament Recalled For British Steel
The prime minister goes full Man of Steel as he recalls parliament to save a British Steel plant from permanent collapse. And has President Trump gone anti-vax? With Nick Watt.
11-04-2025
BBC 2
10/04/2025
Insights and global interviews on the crucial news stories of the day. With Paddy O’Connell.
10-04-2025
BBC 2
Did President Trump Blink?
As China hits America with more retaliatory tariffs, President Trump backs off on some of his plans but doubles down on the threat to Beijing. Did the bond market change his pla ...
09-04-2025
BBC 2
Us-china Trade War Starts
President Trump has threatened to hit China with 104% tariffs on Chinese goods entering the US, with neither the White House nor Xi Jinping backing down. Newsnight hears from a ...
08-04-2025
BBC 2
Trump Threatens Iran
President Trump issues an ultimatum to Iran - negotiate with us on getting rid of your nuclear capabilities or risk military action. And Trump says there's no turning back on ta ...
07-04-2025
BBC 2
Global Stock Shock
Global stock markets plunge as China retaliates to President Trump's tariffs. Who are the biggest losers and are there winners too? We ask Sir Martin Sorrell. And why has the se ...
04-04-2025
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