what is there in the election for young voters? national service, reform, covered in the cost of living crisis? what is in it for you? and rishi sunak says he is incredibly angry about the betting scandal. good evening live from the newsnight studio, where our guests, young, old, well, older and somewhere in between, entertain us with interviews and searing, late night insight. we shouted out for younger voters to get in touch about how they re feeling about the election. 26 year old harrison from bournemouth came straight back. hello, newsnight, definitely feeling ignored during this campaign. six months ago, i had to quit myjob in watford and move back home to live with my parents in bournemouth with the cost of renting being the leading factor in my decision. i simply couldn t afford to live where i worked. i haven t heard anything from any of the political parties during this campaign that i think will materially improve the lives for young people. we ve got a stuffed so
by expanding eastwards. still that doesn t explain why moscow is massing more than 100,000 troops right now near ukraine s border and why it s launched large scale military exercises in the region. so what is vladimir putin s aim? that is a difficult question to answer, because no one s quite sure. some in the west think this is all about russia trying to force ukraine back into moscow s orbit. some believe the kremlin s objective is much wider, to carve out a new sphere of influence for itself in europe, basically to dismantle the post cold war european security order and to push nato back. today with moscow sensing a lack of unity in europe and perhaps feeling that america s too busy with problems at home a resurgent russia may feel that this is the moment to take action. but if there was all out war with ukraine, how would the russian public react?
and if you look at the way the state media here has been covering the ukraine story, you ll see that the picture presented to the russian public is the polar opposite of how the west sees things. so, according to that kremlin picture, russia has no plans for an invasion instead, it s america who s the aggressor and pouring weapons into ukraine, it s nato that s threatening russia by expanding eastwards. still, that doesn t explain why russia is massing more than 100,000 troops right now near ukraine s border and why it launched a large scale military exercises in the region. so what is vladimir putin s aim? that is a difficult question to answer, because no one s quite sure.
covering the ukraine story, you ll see that the picture presented to the russian public is the polar opposite of how the west sees things. so, according to that kremlin picture, russia has no plans for an invasion instead, it s america who s the aggressor and pouring weapons into ukraine, it s nato that s threatening russia by expanding eastwards. still, that doesn t explain why russia is massing more than 100,000 troops right now near ukraine s border and why it launched a large scale military exercises in the region. so what is vladimir putin s aim? that is a difficult question to answer, because no one s quite sure. some in the west think this is all about russia trying to force ukraine back into moscow s orbit. some believe the kremlin s objective is much wider to carve out a new sphere of influence for itself in europe, basically to dismantle the post cold war european security order, to push nato back. today, with moscow sensing a lack of unity in europe and perhaps feeling
so, according to that kremlin picture, russia has no plans for an invasion instead, it s america who s the aggressor and pouring weapons into ukraine, it s nato that s threatening russia by expanding eastwards. still, that doesn t explain why russia is massing more than 100,000 troops right now near ukraine s border and why it launched a large scale military exercises in the region. so what is vladimir putin s aim? that is a difficult question to answer, because no one s quite sure. some in the west think this is all about russia trying to force ukraine back into moscow s orbit. some believe the kremlin s objective is much wider