Good evening welcome to newsnight for insights and interviews. The Prime Minister told us all today things will get worse before he said they would get better we already know that means tax rises, but well ask a labour Treasury Minister if it also means austerity is back in some form. Well ask what advice he has for a newsnight viewer whos nearly 80 and is having his winter fuel payment taken away, and we ask about accusations of cronyism. Is cronyism bad under a conservative government but ok under a Labour Government . Government but 0k under a Labour Government . Government but 0k under a Labour Government . Cronyism is something keir starmer government . Cronyism is something keir starmer has government . Cronyism is something keir starmer has made government . Cronyism is something keir starmer has made very government . Cronyism is something keir starmer has made very clear government . Cronyism is something keir starmer has made very clear he | keir starmer has made very clear h
A studio to go to war of correspondents in paris. Also on the show is the o. P. s Prime Minister announces that the army has completed and ceased operations in the teeth, right region. And the focus now is on humanitarian assistance. This comes after weeks of conflict which has left tens of thousands of refugees in dire conditions. And, and conversely, the soccer, the battle for the leaders fought as type this season. See if any of the top 3 teams slipped up on saturdays America Evans teen, thanks for joining me. In the french capital, paris police and protesters have clashed the demonstrations against a proposed security bill that would restrict sharing images of Police Officers. The proposed law came into focus after footage emerged of French Police beating up and racially abusing a black man. Protesters say if the new law is passed, it could prevent similar footage from being released to the public, allowing police to get away with misconduct. The streets of central paris filled wit
Were taking an ominous turn. Lets go to Jackie Deangelis following all of this and some of the restrictions being put in place to respond to this. Jackie. Reporter good afternoon to you, neil. Thats right. The market is lower because of spike in cases. Weve been talking about pretty much all week. That is after we got the news pfizer or biontech come to stronger conclusion on their vaccine it would be 90 effective. There are still so many questions about this. Today on mornings with maria the biontech founder talked about the vaccine, how long it might protect people. Roughly a year or so listen. Theres a good chance that the vaccine not only will protect us but could protect from infection or virulent infection for a significant period of time. I personally expect that the vaccine could protect us with, with protocol for a year. If we learn we need to reimmunize. We could do that after one year. Reporter meantime the pfizerbiontech vaccine was not the only one in the works, right . We
California tonight where at least a dozen people are now dead and thousands of homes and businesses have been incinerated in a fire season that is as devastating as it is historic. As we come on the air tonight, nearly 30 enormous and fast moving blazes are burning across the state, forcing 20,000 people to flee their homes and leaving thousands more in the danger zone. From Washington State to oregon, down through california, entire towns have now been wiped off the map, including berry creek, california, and the surrounding area, where tonight at least three people are dead and a dozen more are still missing. The deadly firestorm is now spewing so much toxic ash into the skies, the smoke trails from the blazes are visible from space and on the ground the devastation is even harder to fathom. Tonight fire crews are trying to keep pace with the flames but just cant keep up as heavy winds continue to push the flames into a tinderbox of dry brush and houses. More than 100 major fires hav
February, privately acknowledging he knew the coronavirus could be transmitted through the air and was five times more deadly than the flu, even as he was publicly saying it wasnt. The blockbuster recordings are just some of the revelations in the new book rage, by bob woodward, which contradict the president s statements to the American People and tonight are threatening to upend his reelection campaign. Now, woodward, the legendary journalist who broke the watergate story, says President Trump cooperated with his reporting during 18 onthe record interviews between december and july, but tonight, the president is calling the book a political hit job, and saying he only downplayed the danger from the virus because he didnt want to create a panic, while his rival joe biden is calling the decision to withhold information a lifeanddeath betrayal of the American People. Now, as we come on the air tonight, the coronavirus has killed more than 190,000 here in the u. S. , and there have been