But our Political Editor nick watt has been around westminster finding out how this is all going down, and hes with me now. Can we put a figure on it . We can confirm that the uk has agreed to the eu framework for settling that financial divorce bill with eu when we leave. Stage one came in the Prime Ministers speech in florence when she said that the uk would agree to cover it share of the eu budget up to the end of 2020. The final stage has come just now, which is that the uk has agreed that it will meet its liabilities racked up as a member of the european union. Where you go from there is a matter of dispute. The sources i have been talking to say that they are not putting a number on the table. The Financial Times and the Daily Telegraph which broke this story, the Daily Telegraph is talking about a figure of up to 55 billion euros and the Financial Times is talking about 100 Million Euros but think it could be mass such down to half of that. The uk government do not want the figu
I would like the government to introduce compulsory Digital Literacy in all schools for year six and seven, the top of Primary School and first year of secondary school, to help children anticipate what it means, to help their resilience and help empower them to be more in control in their own social media accounts. Most social media platforms have a minimum age of 13, but keeping up with changing apps and trends is a challenge for parents. Simple things like trying to get people round the table for dinner, the amount of times i have to call people down because theyre on their phones. These mothers have started a project in Primary Schools in kent to make children understand its 0k not to be online. The possibility of feeling rejected is kind of there all the time which is a pretty sad thing, its such a vulnerable age. Todays report warns the challenges are many. Increasing pressures to be popular needs Early Intervention to make sure children are emotionally prepared for life online.
Suggested that there might be take recordings of conversations. James comey had been leading an inquiry into possible collusion between trump Election Officials and russia. He was fired on tuesday. Now the president has tweeted that is a summary of the news. Newsday is coming up later, actually, it isnt, we say that, it is just actually, it isnt, we say that, it isjust a bbc actually, it isnt, we say that, it is just a bbc world. Now it is time for newsnight. A global cyber attack has disrupted nhs hospitals and gp surgeries in england and scotland resulting in cancelled operations and it shutdown. It replicates itself on one computer to the next and theres really no stopping it. It spreads itself like a plague. So who and what is behind the attack and can they be stopped . Tonight a former hacker, a former gchq boss, and the chair of the gps council are here. Whats it like for one of the rising young stars of the labour party, whos not a corbyn fan, selling the manifesto on the doorst
Apparently mutual with trump regularly expressing his admiration of putins strength. Today, however, The American President seemed to place his russian counterpart on the other side of a purported war against Western Civilisation. During a speech in the polish capital, warsaw, he called on russia to stop destabilising ukraine and other countries and to end support for hostile regimes such as those in syria and iran. With the pair due to meet tomorrow at the 620 summit in hamburg, newsnights diplomatic editor mark urban has been exploring The American President s apocalyptic warning. Its the president s second visit to europe and todays speech was billed as a big Foreign Policy moment. Given in warsaws Krasinski Square in front of a memorial to the 191m uprising against the nazis, an appreciative audience had been brought in by the polish government. It fell to the first lady to do the warm up. The president of the United States, donald] trump. And with that, trump set out his stall of
And, you know, i could really hear the vulnerability in her voice because my mum really feared death. Hello. Was it an announcement to which there was less than meets the eye . A ban on petrol and diesel cars to come into effect in 2040. It was designed as an answer to what you do about air quality, polluted by diesel fumes. As fumes are Killing Thousands of people a year now, 2040 is probably not the answer. Some think it is actually a distraction from the immediate problem. But there were other measures, too, and well discuss those shortly. And there is a sense that regardless of what government says, we may be in the latter days of oil driven cars. Assuming we can work out where we get all the electricity to Power Electric cars from. Our Technology Editor David Grossman has been looking at the prospects for Motor Transport and the air we breathe. This is what is done for Electric Cars up to now, the convenience of pumping 400 miles of range into a car in minutes at any one of 8500 S