and if you re watching, this is the sunday edition of newscast, which is new on the tv. and i think, chaps, the main thing we re going to talk about today is trust in politics, which is something that people talk about a lot very earnestly and occasionally pompously. but the reason to talk about it today is that the big focus group project that we did, britain in a room, which we talked about yesterday, it was on the telly today, did raise a really central theme does the public think that politicians can actually get anything done? does changing them bring change? yes. the system is broken. yeah. and i think as i said yesterday and we discussed a lot on bbc one this morning is there is a mood in the country at the moment that whichever politician it is, they re not really offering anything that can actually get stuff done. henry, do you think this is something to do with changing prime ministers more times than socks? that s surely part of it. i mean, it certainly feels lik
two weeks later, simon thinks he s being followed again. around the same time, simon receives an anonymous e mail. its title chinese agents will find you and bring you back. simon cheng is one of the leading figures in the hong kong democracy movement. four years ago, he was working at the british consulate and was asked to monitor escalating protests. weeks later, he vanished during a consulate trip to mainland china. simon says the police used his visit to a massage centre to accuse him of soliciting prostitution. they framed me up to say i solicited prostitutes. simon says he was accused of being a british spy, then tortured. he says he was restrained in a device known as a tiger chair. ..seen here in videos from chinese social media. when simon was released, he fled to the uk and has now been granted asylum. in london, he set up an organisation to help others who ve left hong kong. today, his house is on a special police protection register and he s constantly looking
with laura kuessnberg, paddy 0 connell and henry zeffman. it seems every time you turn on the news, there has been another strike somewhere, there was a strike on an american military base this morning in iraq. so, this hotting up of tensions continues apace, and this morning we had grant shapps the defence secretary on the programme, who said earlier this week we are in a prewar world, who said earlier this week we are in a prewarworld, in who said earlier this week we are in a prewar world, in other words, who said earlier this week we are in a prewarworld, in otherwords, he was anticipating that there will be more conflicts coming down the tracks before too long. which sounds like a pretty alarming message, but i think most politicians you talk to at the moment would say actually thatis at the moment would say actually that is probably true. i at the moment would say actually that is probably true. that is probably true. i heard it summed up that is probably true. i hea
and play scottish traditional music. and of course he left school at the age of 1a and immediately started working on farms, and he was the youngest of 13. my mother, on the other hand, she could read music, but she didn t have a very good ear, so in a way it was the opposite. and i remember when she told the story whereby she was asked to play in the village, or if she would help out for the village church and play the organ there, because she was really kind of the only one who could maybe play a few hymns. and she said, oh, no, i really don t want to be doing this i m far too busy, and so on. and. but they pleaded with her and she said, well, i lljust do one sunday , and 36 years later she was still there. i went to a primary school that had 36 pupils in the entire school and two teachers, so it was a tiny, tiny country school, but every friday a music teacher would come in and we would be given a general music lesson. so by the time we left primary school at the age
most households had a piano, an upright piano, and.and we were no exception, and so he would just sit down and play scottish traditional music. and of course, he left school at the age of 1a, and immediately started working on farms and he was the youngest of 13, so, you know, you can imagine the sort of scenario, and so he was always working. my mother, on the other hand, she could read music, but she didn t have a very good ear, so, in a way, it was the opposite. and i remember when she told the story whereby she was asked to play in the village, or if she would help out for the village church and play the organ there, because she was really, kind of, the only one who could maybe play a few hymns. and she said, oh, no, i really don t want to be doing this i m far too busy , and so on. and. but they pleaded with her and she said, well, i lljust do one sunday , and 36 years later she was still there. i went to a primary school that had 36 pupils in the entire school and