will it work? israel s government collapses. what does that mean for the country, the region, and for bb netanyahu? finally, a seismic shift in french politics. president macron s centrist party loses its parliamentary majority but the far right and left make electoral gains. why is this happening? just who are these voters embracing the extremes? first, here is my take. american democracy has been under stress for sometime now. trust in its institutions is near the lowest on record. when we say this we usually mean congress and the presidency. the supreme court s decision on roe v. wade has brought the public s confidence in the court to an all time low and puts it in the same category as the others defined bipartisanship and polarization. the court s decisions this week are not conservative. they are radical. one of the time honored conservative doctrines has been a respect for precedent. and yet in two days the court swept aside a right that for half a century american jur
To the programme. Coming up the Health Minister confirms theres to be an inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal. Nearly 2,500 people are thought to have died after being given products that were infected with hepatitis c or hiv. A government commissioned report on employment says all work in the uk should be fair and decent. And david davis says theres unity at the top when it comes to brexit. You will find in terms of public statements, it is very hard to put a Cigarette Paper between the chancellor and myself. But first theresa may has ordered a uk wide enquiry into the use of contaminated Blood Products in the nhs, stemming from the 1970s. 2,400 people have died as a result of the scandal. Many of them were haemophiliacs who died from hepatitis c and aids related illnesses. It has been called the worst Treatment Disaster in the history of the nhs. Many of those affected and their families say they were not told of the risks involved and believe there was a cover up. In an emerg
am hoping if you are here watching me and watching this, then you are still interested. can you believe that the number of people who take a strong interest in news has dropped by about eight water, down 25% in the last six years alone. this is a global study suggested by the oxford university, the reuters institute there, 48% of people around the world are very or extremely interested in news, down from 63% in 2017. actually, the uk has a lower proportion of people who are interested in news and the global average. interested in news and the globalaverage. i interested in news and the global average. i should say it is in the report, this is independently verified, the bbc is a most trusted brand in the uk followed by channel 4 and itv. but of course the rise of tiktok has been hugely important also for news as well, and that is all changing
could see them coming into parliament this week. it s an 11-fold increase on 2017. actually, it s the highest that the party has ever told in parliament. she has done a lot to try and kind of clean up her party s act. she has tried to make it more moderate. i think there s been a normalization of some of the more xenophobic anti-immigrant discourse in france. but she s also moderated that a little bit with a program that has been really focussed on cost of liing issues. another thing that struck me about her support is that she gets it, and this was true in the presidential election, she gets a lot of support from young voters. in fact, it s a bit of the opposite of what happens in america and britain where in france macron was saved by people who were over 50. that young voters were disproportionately more likely to vote for the far right. what explains that, do you think? that is true. i mean, the one thing i would say about this parliamentary election is that the young