we re up here on the roof of the bbc s headquarters in central london. in our last programme of 2023, not a particularly happy year, we ll be asking, what s morale like in the ukrainian front line as winter closes in? there are some areas where morale is higher, where there have been some gains, and there s a strong belief in why they are fighting, but in others there is a deep resentment. why can t the un do more to get the kind of world peace that most of us long to see? you ve got a structure here in the united nations that reflects a post second world war order. the new order, the new balances of power, are not reflected in it. and what are meteorites made of? for that matter, what s space made of? when scientists add up all the matter, all the stuff we can see in the galaxy, that matter doesn t create enough gravity to hold that galaxy together, so there has to be something else there. on the battlefields of eastern and southern ukraine at the moment, the temperatures ar
shelter. don t worry. i got this. megan s parents tell me their hope for the future of course is peace. and a quick end to the hostilities they are very much looking forward to the day they can one day be reunited with their daughter safely. bill: living for the cause in a big way. thank you. nice to see you. 1:00, we are coming back. the big tree lighting is on monday. do not miss it! we ve got to roll. a terrifying map shared on social media. an anti-israel activist group pinpointing targets all across new york city. the message to their 120,000 plus followers? direct action. that is a quote. one example of the explosion of anti-semitism and seeing all across the country. this is faulkner focus, i am julie banderas, infer harris faulkner today. we ve seen video after video of people tearing down posters of hostages, and protest erupting at college campuses all across the nation. this map, the call to action, taking things to a whole new level. one congressman says c
pointing to the latest figures which suggest they are not waiting, they are crossing in record numbers. this morning those reports were put to home secretary james cleverley, during an immigration debate on lbc. so are voters really meant to believe that people living in camps and on sand dunes are looking at the polling of the next general election in the united kingdom? they absolutely do. the people, those people are doing that. mr cleverly. well, unless you re going to accuse the journalists that went over there and spoke to them of lying, which i think would be a bold call. we know that this is a digital, digitally enabled criminal enterprise. the people smugglers and the people that seek to be smuggled pay very, very close attention to a whole range of things. and it is clear from these quotes that there are there s a cohort of people currently in france who are waiting for rwanda to be taken off the table before coming over here. and these quotes in the telegraph make
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
fan, you re in luck we ve got the unbearable weight of massive talent, in which the actor plays a comical version of himself. next up, playground, which is a rather more serious belgian drama about bullied children that takes place within a school. and finally, happening an award winning french drama set in the 1960s. and the title alone of your first choice isjust so brilliant. tell us more. well, i loved the idea of this as soon as i heard about it. so two guys write a screenplay about nicolas cage, or a crazy version of him, and persuade him to star in it. the idea is that nicolas cage is down on his luck or this version of him, anyway. and he s ailing in his career, things aren t going well with his family. he decides to take an offer from an eccentric billionaire, played by pedro pascal, to appear at his birthday party. so he gets paid $1 million to appear at this guy s birthday party in majorca what could go wrong? turns out the guy is suspected of kidnapping by