i am on the conservative campaign bus which had its launch event today and previously viewers have seen us aboard what we have been calling campaign buses and they may not have actually been the properly branded bus but we are now on that after it was unveiled in redcar earlier today and we are now heading back down south towards the capital and earlier the prime minister, rishi sunak, did get on the bus for it s kind of inauguraljourney as the campaign coach but he is not on it now so it is basically just reporters and journalists who have been tracking the prime minister and the conservative campaign over recent days and we have gone to a variety of places, sort of middle to late in the week, including buckinghamshire, and as i say, we went to redcar and we were in the north west yesterday as well and there have been a variety of announcements over those days and the one we had today, as you mentioned a moment ago, was this idea of kind of extending the levelling up fund to
israel confirms its jets attacked a refugee camp in the north of gaza, saying it killed a senior hamas commander responsible for the murder and kidnapping of israelis on october 7th. a doctor has told the bbc that 120 people were killed and hundreds have been injured. three weeks into this war, yet more anguish for the civilians of gaza. the israeli military says the strike destroyed a network of tunnels it claims hamas built under the jabalia camp and says hamas is using civilians as human shields. we ll talk live to action aid, who say one of their team s mother, father, brother and sisters were all killed in the strike. and we ll ask a former us general whether washington s support for israel is open ended and unconditional. also tonight: unfit to respond to the challenges of the pandemic, completely unable to make decisions borisjohnson s top advisers during covid say their old boss was chaotic and dithering. are their claims of the scale of such incompetence worse th
a leaflet through the door, a knock on the door from a candidate, but mainly through tv, radio, newspapers, online. people, i think, sometimes forget what media is or what media means. it is obviously the mediate between the public and the politicians and their leaders. and it is, of course, flawed, but without the media, the public wouldn t know what s going on. so yeah, absolutely right. let s do this episode by different types of media. and i m going to now take a step back because i m one of the few non former newspaper editors sat in this room. i really know what kind of media. 0h, simon hasn t edited a newspaper either. and alex, did you edit the student newspaper, maybe, iwould imagine? no, i didn t actually. no, i also am a non newspaper editor. what media are you going to attribute to me? because i want something cool and funky like instagram. i don t want. well, you can do it all. i can do it all. thank you. thank you very much. academic based quiz shows? academic b
kenned , perhaps even mystical event. duncan kennedy. thank perhaps even mystical event. duncan kennedy, thank you. time for a look at the weather, here s louise lear. this programme continues on bbc one. hard questions for rishi sunak tonight on the election day bet allegations. how is he handling them and how much is he damaged? good evening, welcome to newsnight, every weeknight, home of lively interviews and electric insight. joining us throughout: david yelland, the former editor of the sun, jo tanner, who wrangled borisjohnson s comms, and top pollster luke tryl. in our sights tonight, the bbc question time show which has just ended on bbc one, in which rishi sunak has had to defend two candidates and a close aide as the gambling commission look into allegations about betting on the date of the general election. inexplicably, someone at tory hq thought it was a good idea to put a spinning roulette wheel in a tory election video. before we dig into that, here s a fla