From a crucial scottish by election. What will it tell us about the prospects for labour and the snp . Stand by your Election Night coverage starts here. Party strategists at labour and the snp will be burning the midnight oil, working what todays crunch vote in scotland tells them about the next General Election. Nicks there and has read the runes. Both horses in this two horse race agree on the winner labour. Now a new race is under way Expectation Management. Snp and labour mps are with us to discuss whether labour is indeed about to carry this off. Also tonight, 51 people are killed in a strike that hit a cafe in kharkiv, while president zelensky meets european leaders gathered in spain. Are ukraines western allies still committed to the fight . We must not allow putin to destabilise any other part of the world and our partners in order to ruin europes power. We speak to the exiled Opposition Leader of belarus. And americas greens agonise about Mining Lithium for car batteries. Is
Disagree. The two candidates are neck and neck in the national polls. The other seven republican running appear to be running into one another. Should europe be planning for the possibility of a second trump term. From washington, former adviser to george w. Bush ron christie, and the former leader of Scottish Labour kezia dugdale. They are you turning on plans to script schools of the charitable status. Well have a tribute to one of the worlds most iconic actors, sir michael gambon, who has died at the age of 82. President biden tries to avoid engaging publicly in the chaos that surrounds donald trump. One issue that he has spoken of as the threat he believes the former president still poses. On the anniversary of the January The 6th riot last year, he excuse donald trump of holding up dagger to the throat of the countrys institutions. He returned to that team at the mccain institute, leaned after the late senatorjohn mccain, who spent his Life Denouncing Autocrats around the globe. L
Into the night they are still going now and maybe into the early hours, its the latest, the last showdown between mps and peers over the governments rwanda bill, but it is expected to be passed tonight. Stay with us for live coverage. The stand off continues peers sent the safety of rwanda bill back to the commons for a fifth time where mps are voting. Today the Prime Minister was in determined mood. He now says multiple flights to rwanda will take off thisjuly. If that happens, will they act as a deterrent . And what will all this do for rishi sunak s electoral fortunes . Well ask this conservative and our Newsnight Panel are here too. Could there be a Summer Election even if flights do take off . Donald trump on day one of his trial in new york accused of covering up hush money paid to Adult Film Star Stormy Daniels. Its the first time a us president current orformer has faced a criminal trial. Good evening. It could be a long night for mps in the House Of Commons and peers in the ho
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Newsnight s Nicholas Watt reports from tees valley. An icon of a vibrant industrial past, now out of action, symbolising an area struggling to find its feet. Tees valley, an infant hercules in its days as a World Capital of iron and steel making, is now clearing sites of past glories and looking for new ventures. A painful process with economic decline, alongside pockets of affluence. That has placed this area on the National Political map, and now a mayoral contest with high stakes for the two main parties. A Rumbustious Conservative mayor became the first poster boy of the redwall, after his narrow win here in 2017. Re elected in a landslide in 2021, ben houchen is now hoping to buck the national trend. A local labour stalwart hopes to win back what was once a heartland for his party a win for chris mcewan would ease keir starmer s path nationally. And the lib dem outsider placing the fight of Child Poverty at the heart of his campaign. Over the past decade or so, Tees Valley Felt ne