the uk s largest indoor arena is up and running at last tonight. and on newsnight at 10:30pm, we ll go deeper behind the headlines and speak live to key players on today s big stories. plus, a first look at tomorrow s front pages. good evening. a huge manhunt is underway tonight for an escaped prisoner and his accomplices after two french prison officers were killed and three others injured, when a heavily armed gang ambushed their prison van. the brazen attack took place this morning in incarville near the city of rouen in normandy. inside the van was mohamed amra known as the fly who was being driven through a toll booth on the way to prison when the van was attacked. our europe correspondent nick beake reports. an unremarkable tollbooth in northern france, and the scene of a swift and brutal ambush. cctv footage shows the moment a dark car veers into a white prison van, and at least two masked attackers start shooting. and at least two masked terrified passengers
of their europa conference newsnight at 10:30pm, election night fever as the bbc gets ready to report the results of a last big vote before the general election. will it be boomtime for starmer or doom time the sunak? good evening. the polls have just closed in local elections across england and wales, the biggest test of political opinion, ahead of the general election. police and crime commissioners will also being chosen, there are mayoral elections, and a by election in blackpool south. all the results will be coming in over the next couple of days, with party leaders looking for indications, of what a general election might bring. well chris is here with his take on what we should be looking out for, over the next 48 hours. chris. evening, clive. for the last 15 hours, millions of decisions have been taken and thousands of aspiring decision makers politicians await their fate. this is a patchwork set of elections around england and wales with a long tail of results,
demonstrations against the war in gaza are continuing at dozens of universities across the united states, with arrests taking place on multiple campuses. i spoke to robert cohen, a professor of social studies and history at new york university who has studied student activism about how these protests compare to others in us history. the protests, initially, going on now were much more moderate in their tactics, whether it s 1960. actually, the greatest upsurges in active american history occurred in may 1970 after nixon authorised the invasion of cambodia. he had promised to end the war, and he was expanding it into cambodia. so that created a lot of fury that was compounded by the massacre at kent state, where four students were shot by, were killed by the national guard and nine were wounded. so that was much more confrontational. the war been dragging on forfive years. so, i mean, compared to that, the protests, for example, that started at columbia and then spread initial
good evening. john swinney looks set to become scotland s new leader after the woman expected to challenge him decided to back him instead. kate forbes confirmed she would not be standing for the snp leadership after humza yousaf s resignation. instead, mr swinney, scotland s former deputy first minister and party leader, has offered her a significant role in his government. our scotland editor, james cook, reports. please show your appreciation forjohn swinney. the snp is in trouble divided, distracted and struggling to govern. john swinney says it s time to get a grip and he is the man for the job. i could have stood back and hoped others would sort things out. but i care too much about the future of scotland, and the scottish national party, to walk on by. you ve said there you can t walk on by because, essentially, your party is a disunited mess. what specifically is wrong with it? well, the party is not cohesive just now. we are not together, we are not operating as