Joe lynskey, bbc news. ThIs programme contInues on bbc one. A genocIde and a declaratIon of war. So says hezbollah S Leader of the ExplodIng Pagers In lebanon. As Israel strIkes tonIght, Is It over for Peace Talks . And Im In control, says the PrIme MInIster durIng a messy week of DownIng Street feuds, leaks and expense rows. Is he . Good evenIng. Welcome to newsnIght for the best of late NIght Talk and takes. TonIght. ExplodIng pagers and walkIe talkIes In lebanon and a row over freebIes for the PrIme MInIster at home. Our Panel SIt on two sIdes of uk polItIcs. Labour grandee HarrIet Harman whos makIng headlInes wIth her advIce for her own party leader, and Robert Halfon one of the conservatIves who gave RIshI Sunak a headache when he saId hed quIt. Thank you both are comIng. We wIll also see NIck Watt shortly. Lets start abroad. The explosIons In Hand Held DevIces have been called an Act Of War by hezbollah s Leader SheIkh Hassan Nasrallah speakIng on tv. Over two days more than 30 w
Post brexit trade arrangements. If youd like to get in touch this morning, you can tweet me vicderbyshire or email victoria bbc. Co. Uk. A team from the World Health Organization visits the high security chinese lab at the centre of claims over the source of the covid 19 pandemic. And the queen and british Prime Minister have led tributes to captain sir tom moore, whos died at 100 years old, after Testing Positive for Coronavirus Last week. The uk government says it will ensure hes officially remembered. I think we should find a way to make sure that we mark the memory of captain tom and thank him for the contribution that he made for the nhs. So i will ensure that we mark his contribution properly and appropriately at the right moment. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. The Health Secretary, matt hancock, has described as absolutely superb the findings of a study which suggests for the first time that the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine significantly reduces
They truly arent interested in what they think, yet they have enormous control over your life. You should be worried about it. You probably are worried about it. We were wrong. Rest easy, america. Weve got happy news for you tonight. Good tidings from our friends in the Academic Research community. On monday a pair of researchers from New York University in New York City released what they described as a study of social media and censorship and they didnt hide Area Conclusions in the footnote. They got to it in the title. This new paper is called false accusation, the unfounded claim that social Media Companies censor conservatives. Quite a literal study. It turns out what weve been telling you for years isnt true. Its merely an unfounded claim. No truth to it. Its all there in the paper. We read it. On page 16 we learned, yes, conservatives frequently point to twitters practice of suspending or permanently banning account holders as evidence of bias against the right. Thats true. They
You should be worried about it. You probably are worried about it. We were wrong. Rest easy, america. Weve got happy news for you tonight. Good tidings from our friends in the Academic Research community. On monday a pair of researchers from New York University in New York City released what they described as a study of social media and censorship and they didnt hide Area Conclusions in the footnote. They got to it in the title. This new paper is called false accusation, the unfounded claim that social Media Companies censor conservatives. Quite a literal study. It turns out what weve been telling you for years isnt true. Its merely an unfounded claim. No truth to it. Its all there in the paper. We read it. On page 16 we learned, yes, conservatives frequently point to twitters practice of suspending or permanently banning account holders as evidence of bias against the right. Thats true. They never stop winding. Happily the study concludes, however, facts dont support this claim. Conse
And pose a real threat. Yellowknife is now blanketed in smoke and fires are burning close to the one major road into and out of the city. Rebecca alty is the mayor of yellowknife. She told us what things were like there. Right now, its residents are evacuating by road. As many people as possible are doing that. Theres also, for folks who dont have vehicles, we are starting the air evacuations, so flights. We still have commercial flights, so some people have booked onto a commercial flight, but we have the Evacuation Flights also starting at 1pm. So getting folks registered for that just began an hour ago. So folks have been good, theres long line ups i think there was kilometres worth of a line up, so a bit of a snail s place out of town, its just one road in, one road out. That highway is where the fire is, so the highway can close. But right now, it is open. If the conditions change, if the smoke gets too heavy, if the fire were to approach the highway, the highway would be closed a