Also, a Report Today suggests the current system of Uk Press Self Regulation Isnt working for people who arent celebrities and royalty. Well talk to the mums of Caroline Flack and Anisha Vidal garner, who say their privacy has been invaded by newspapers. Welcome to newsnight with your weeknightly interviews and insight. Here tonight, Labour Member of the House Of Lords lord wood, a former foreign Policy Adviser to prime minister Gordon Brown, and Chief Adviser to former Labour Leader Ed miliband. He is plugged into the current pms views on what a closer relationship with the eu actually means. Luke tryll is Uk Director of the pollsters more in common. Hell talk to us about the latest public attitudes on brexit. Also with us, anita boateng, who was a tory Special Adviser through the brexit years, and nick watt, our political editor. Nick, what does Keir Starmer want . What was he trying to do today . Right now, he is in paris for the paralympic opening ceremony. Tomorrow, he will beat E
Is a great pleasure to have you in the studio, i wonder the right now you are feeling very depressed, and thejuly election in cambodia for the National Assembly the Ruling Peoples Party one 120 of the 125 seats. Was that really the final nail in the coffin of your Opposition Movement . 140. Your Opposition Movement . No, we continue your Opposition Movement . No, we continue the your Opposition Movement . Iirr, we continue the fight. It is an uphill battle. But i think in the end, democracy will prevail. The end, democracy will prevail the end, Democracy Will Revail. ,~ ~ prevail. What makes you think that, prevail. What makes you think that. Given prevail. What makes you think that, given the prevail. What makes you think that, given the track prevail. What makes you think that, given the track record i prevail. What makes you think that, given the track record of| that, given the track record of the last 30, a0 years, why on earth do you still believe what you call democracy will pre
You are feeling very depressed. In thejuly election in cambodia for the national assembly, the Ruling Peoples Party won 120 of the 125 seats. Was that really the final nail in the coffin of your Opposition Movement . No, we continue the fight. It is an uphill battle. But i think in the end, democracy will prevail. What makes you think that, given the track record of the last 30, a0 years, why on earth do you still believe what you call democracy will prevail . Because nobody is eternal. Hun sen is 72 year old. And many, many cambodians among the young generation, they are hoping for a democratic change. But the point about hun sen, he is clearly getting older but the whole point of this election is that as soon as the election was done he told the nation that he is handing the reins of power to his son, hun manet, who now sits in the parliament and will be cambodias next Prime Minister. But for the cambodian people, this succession within the same political clan, the same family, actua
Given the track record of the last 30, a0 years . Why on earth do you still believe what you call democracy will prevail . Because nobody is eternal. Hun sen is 72 year old. And many, many cambodians among the young generation, they are hoping for a democratic change. Well, yes, but the point about hun sen is that hes clearly getting older but the whole point of this election is that as soon as the election were done, he told the nation that he is handing the reins of power to his son, hun manet, who now sits in the parliament and will be cambodias next Prime Minister. But for the cambodian people, this succession within the same political clan the same family, actually is just unacceptable. Scoffs. Its easy in a way for you to say that with great confidence, sitting here with me in the hardtalk studio and from your home in exile in paris, but the reality for cambodians is the Hun Sen Regime if i can put it that way, because he still is the leader of the ruling party, even though he is
minute president biden will hold a live press conference wrapping up the g7 summit. plus biden will return to washington as the u.s. inches ever closer to running out of money to pay its debts. a look at what could be on the table when he speaks to kevin mccarthy later today. and wagner s forces say they ve taken control of bakhmut after months of bloodshed, but ukrainian officials claim the fight isn t over. we ll take you live to ukraine for the very latest. so u.s. president joe biden returns to washington later today where the debt ceiling crisis remains unresolved at this hour, and, yes, time is running out. right flou now mr. biden is hiroshima, japan, where the important g7 summit has just concluded. we re expecting him to appear right there at that podium and hold a press conference moment m momentarily. prison made a surprise appearance at the summit to make his case face-to-face and in person. he met with president biden who announced a new round of military aid