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click. this week: swaying votes on facebook. it s geek versus geek as spen meets fry. and lots of people shout in a big tent. summer is on the way and, well, it wouldn t be a british summer without a visit to a good old fashioned festival. no, not that one. much better. known as the town of books, hay on wye, in wales, is the location of the hay festival. it s a literary mecca, an annual gathering of artists, authors, daleks and, yep, even royals. it s even been called the woodstock of the mind by none other than former us president bill clinton. this year it s the 30th hay festival and the line up is pretty stellar. well, for the second year in a row, we ve been invited to share some of our favourite experiences and show off some really good tech, all in front of a real, live audience of actual people. what could possibly go wrong? a packed tent waited, all that we had to do was wow them! applause. we have robots falling over, experiments in haptic feedback and demos i ....
labour party leader, jeremy corbyn, have been facing questions from voters ahead of next week s general election. they were questioned separately by members of the studio audience after mrs may refused to debate directly with other party leaders. our political editor laura kuenssberg reports. nervous? not that he would notice. the labour leader high on campaigning. his crowd was waiting. ready for the question time audience? yes! theresa may, much more to lose. a brave face after a bumpy few days. both facing the ha rd est bumpy few days. both facing the hardest audiences of all. this studio, and you. a smile, buta hard start for the prime minister, pressing bruises she has taken on in this campaign. you backtracked on your social care policy and your whole manifesto has holes in it and everybody else can see that. well, first of all. it could have been easy, i could have said, ok, i m prime minister, there s another couple of years, why don t ijust stay in hang on in t ....
for us on video. on tuesday, we had the perfect illustration of the differential treatment of labour and the conservatives. headline news on all the broadcast media because jeremy corbyn forgot her figure. compare that to the treatment of philip hammond, chancellor of the exchequer, who on the today programme got his figures out by £20 billion. it might have been balanced if they mention that labour had a fully costed manifesto whereas the tories manifesto was totally uncosted. another election controversy followed on wednesday after a debate featuring representatives of the seven main parties, including amber rudd and jeremy corbyn. i was thinking how chaotic it would be if they all got together. it felt by some viewers that it fell into chaos at times. one told us she found debates like that. more contentious the reaction of the audience put together by the polling company who were commissioned by the bbc. have you seen people sleeping around our stations. cheering a ....
have been facing questions from voters ahead of next week s general election. they were questioned separately by members of the studio audience after mrs may refused to debate directly with other party leaders. our political editor laura kuenssberg reports. nervous? not that you would notice. the labour leader high on campaigning, his crowd was waiting. ready for the question time audience? yes! theresa may, much more to lose. a brave face after a bumpy few days. both facing the hardest audiences of all this studio, and you. a smile, but a hard start for the prime minister, pressing bruises she has taken on in this campaign. you backtracked on your social care policy and your whole manifesto has holes in it and everybody else can see that. well, first of all. it could have been easy, i could have said, ok, i m prime minister, there s another couple of years, why don t ijust stay and hang on in the job? i didn t do that. i have called an election because of brexit. i ....
a sustained gunfight with terrorists, not that that happened this time, but if it did. and they have changed procedures to be able to. moving vehicle. before, they had the it gives you an indication of the it gives you an indication of the level of training offices are going through to deal with things like this. people having to get used to these attacks, paris, nice, the list goes on? the police have said very little, perhaps a little less, met police, when parliament was attacked by khalid masood. they have said they need people to remain calm, vigilant and alert and they have put out the advice about being aware of what s going on, running from the scene, if something is happening, hiding and telling the police, reporting what is going on, that s very important so they ve put that advice out. it shows they are trying to get those messages out. quite dramatic advice? , yes and quite dramatic advice? , yes and quite dramatic advice? , yes and quite dramatic advi ....