The Scottish Parliament to mark 20 years of devolution. In a speech to msps she said shed watched scotland grow and prosper since holyrood took on its legal powers two decades ago. Our correspondent Alexandra Mackenzie was there. Scotland is an old nation with a relatively new parliament. Its seen two decades of devolution. The queen, joined by the duke of rothesay, said she fondly remembered the opening ceremony. Today she was back addressing the current msps. I have no doubt that for most of these last 20 years this striking chamber has provided exactly that a place to talk. But, of course, it must also be a place to listen. A place to hear views that inevitably may differ quite considerably, one from another. And a place to honour those views. The Political Landscape has changed dramatically since 1999. Thats whats called competition, i think. The first first minister was the labour leader, the late donald dewar. Nicola sturgeon was then a young snp msp. Now shes first minister. The
Good evening. The United States and china have agreed to resume talks to ease the trade war between the worlds two largest economies. President trump and the chinese leader, xijinping, reached the agreement at the 620 summit injapan. As part of the truce, mr trump said American Companies can once again sell components to the chinese tech giant huawei, ending a us ban on such sales. From osaka, nick bryant sent this report. This was the day when the 620 summit of the worlds wealthiest nations essentially became a g2, these talks between donald trump and xijinping by far the most consequential meeting of this global gathering. It ended with a ceasefire in the trade war, an agreement to restart talks that fell apart last month. But the us president made a major concession, lifting some restrictions on huawei, the chinese tech giant at the centre of whats felt like a commercial cold war. We had a very good meeting with president xi of china. Excellent, i would say excellent. As good as it
Politics can be a high wire act, and scotlands First Minister lost his footing today. If msps cant agree a successor to humza yousaf, scotland is heading for Scottish Parliament elections. And have smartphones and social media really led to a rise in teenage Mental Illness . Well be joined by the Snp Deputy Leader and ask his former Coalition Partner from the Scottish Greens, can they make up . And the leader of the scottish tories, and asking have his actions paved the way for labour gains and tory pain . Also tonight the play based childhood we have had for thousands of years basically ended around 2010. It was replaced by a phone based childhood. Thats the New York Times and sunday times best selling author whose new book argues that time spent on smartphones and social media is behind an epidemic of teenage Mental Illness. Well talk live to professor jonathan haidt, who says under 16s shouldnt have access to smartphones or social media. What he says is controversial. Plus, esther g
miles of newscasters. thank you for making this election much more interesting . well, kira, have a lovely trip to hawaii, whatever the reason is, and let s see what s going to happen on my trip to glasgow with newsnight on this episode of newscast. newscast from the bbc. hello, it s adam, not in the newscast studio, but hanging out with newsnight. lovely to be here, hanging out with you. and, of course, nick. hello. right. we ll talk about what you guys are going to be doing on the special episode of newsnight in a minute. but there s been quite a big story, actually, in the election campaign today, nick. and it s to do with reform, and we should be quite precise here. so it s not a candidate from reform who said something that people are very concerned about. it s an activist who was out canvassing for them, and they were filmed undercover by channel 4 news, and they broadcast their piece on thursday night. that s right. so it was an undercover investigation by channel 4 n
At the day here in westminster. Coming up, the brexit secretary makes a surprise concession to pro eu mps, the foreign secretary admits he was wrong over controversial remarks about the british woman jailed in iran, and the ministry ofjustice gets a dressing down over its electronic tagging system. Whoever put this down as a procurement strategy i dont think had any idea what they were trying to achieve. But first, tuesday will be a big day for brexit, mps are to start their long awaited scrutiny of the European Union withdrawal bill. But as something of a curtain raiser the government has offered a concession to mps, calling for parliament to have a greater say on the final brexit agreement. In a significant shift the brexit secretary told the commons he intends on bringing forward a new lot to implement the final deal, giving mps the chance to go through it in detail. Labour described the move as a climb down by ministers facing potential defeat on the eu withdrawal bill. David davis