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
The king is back in business, his Cancer Treatment progressing well. So when he is out and about, what will that mean to different people . Tonight werejoined by laura lee, the head of maggies, the cancer care charity, and historian tessa dunlop. Also tonight, labours shadow chancellor rachel reeves, whos tried to forge a reputation for Fiscal Discipline. Where does that Leave Spending on defence . Churchill didnt say, lets have a Defence Review. He said, there is in existential threat right there, lets arm. He lost that argument. Shouldnt we be getting down to it right now . We are committed to get Defence Spending up to 2. 5 of gdp. And also, crucially, working with our nato allies, because its important that other countries also play their role. Scotlands First Minister, who yesterday unceremoniously dumped the snps coalition partners, is trying to save his skin by wooing back the scottish greens. What are his chances . As humza yousaf fights for his political survival, some snp sou
of this complaint. thank you very much though our audience campaign. you ve all been a really important part of this. thank you to the two contenders. this is the last time you are scheduled to appear together. we are grateful to both of you for taking part. thank you very much. applause applause studio: and the two men shaking hands with mishal husain after an hour of clashes and claims. thanks to michelle of course as well. they ve had their say here in the spin room. the supporters will ve be vying to make their claim that their man was the winner. in the next half-hour, their man was the winner. in the next half-hour, politicians - their man was the winner. in the next half-hour, politicians and i next half hour, politicians and journalists will tell us was it dazzling or disaster? most importantly, remember, robertand taz need, two of the questioners, will be with us. we will find out if they thought the answers were good enough. we they thought the answers were goo
From theresa mays cabinet. Pressure had been building on priti patel since the emergence last friday of her undisclosed meetings while on holiday in israel. But was some of that pressure imposed in an unwarranted way by the media, particularly the bbc, which broke the story . Yes, according to andy ramsbottom, who asked and keith brown thought the long predicted end came for priti patel after her hastily arranged journey home from africa, monitored at one point by 22,000 people on a flight tracking website, as shown on the bbc news channel. That prompted ian miller to tweet while a user called kubricks lens cap thought when the soon to be ex International Development secretary reached heathrow airport, the coverage switched from flight tracker to helicopter camera, and the complaints continued. Heres roy ramm it was a huge information dump, the leak of over 13 million documents, worked on for a year by almost 100 different media organisations. A lot of work clearly went into the so cal
Believe it or not, this place was once a small fishing village. Yeah. Not anymore. Now, its a mega city of nearly 20 million people. Its most famous for creating consumer electronics, often imitations of premium brands. But as china has opened its doors to International Trade in the last decade, it has undergone a transformation, making strides toward becoming a global power and moving away from that image of being a simple manufacturer of good, fake or otherwise, to one of innovation, especially of tech. Made in china is fast becoming designed in china. Next week, well visit some of the companies that call shenzhen home, but this week, we are meeting this guy. This is little cloud, and recently, hes gone where no turtle has gone before. Hes just completed a test flight of a journey that one day might take humans to near space. This is kuang chis traveller project. We have seen this kind of stratospheric helium project before. We visited worldview in the us back in february to see thei