the government on social media. this is the second such cancelling by a government agency that newsnight has reported on this year. dan kaszeta is a specialist in defence against chemical, biological and radiological weapons and warfare. in april, after agreeing to be a keynote speaker at the chemical weapons demilitarisation conference, organised by the government s science and technology department, he was notified by email that his invite had been cancelled. the conference is being held tomorrow. bbc newsnight s uk editor, sima kotecha, has been speaking with dan kaszeta, and she started off by asking him what exactly happened when he was asked to speak at the weapons conference. i got asked to speak. i got asked to speak two years ago. i got asked more or less to do a repeat performance. i didn t really want to go. i found the last one not really terribly interesting from my perspective. after some hemming and hawing with the conference organisers, they said, no, no, we ll waive t
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after ryanair said it was cancelling 220 flights due to air traffic controller atc strikes in france ceo michael oleary said we respect their right to strikebut if they want to strike cancel the french flightsprotect the overflights it is unfair that flights from the uk to spainare being cancelledbecausefrench atc unions want to go on strike he added