Sexting, depression and ambition – Brooks Newmark MP in his own words
Forced to resign as a minister after being caught sexting in a newspaper sting, MP Brooks Newmark tells Cathy Newman he accepts “full responsibility” for his own downfall.
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Cathy Newman speaks to Tom Wheeler, who’s the director of regulation for the Oil and Gas Authority. She asks if he was misleading people about the possible consequences of gas extraction and fracking.
Cathy Newman is joined from Washington DC by Husam Zomlot, the Palestinians’ chief delegate to the US and senior adviser to President Mahmoud Abbas.
From Boston in the United States, John Park, director of the Korea Working Group at the Harvard Kennedy School, joins Cathy Newman to discuss North Korea.
They were “horrific” acts of violence. Twenty two young men groomed and ritually beaten over many years, supposedly to purge them of their sins: one even attempted suicide. The alleged perpetrator – eminent QC John Smyth – ran a Christian charity with close ties to the Church of England and the Archbishop of Canterbury himself. Reported by Cathy Newman, produced and directed by Tom Stone, and the Channel 4 News Investigations Unit.
BBC Trust Chair and HSBC Director Rona Fairhead tells Cathy Newman the corporation is her priority “and that has been clear from the beginning”.
Following Rachel Dolezal’s comments on NBC, her parents Larry and Ruthanne Dolezal hit back in an interview with Cathy Newman on Channel 4 News saying that she is lying.
Forced to resign as a minister after being caught sexting in a newspaper sting, MP Brooks Newmark tells Cathy Newman he accepts “full responsibility” for his own downfall.
Cathy Newman tests education minister Nick Gibb on his numeracy, after Nicky Morgan proposed new measures for schoolchildren. He denies that plans for more rigorous testing have been “watered down”.
The Wall Street Journal correspondent Maria Abi-Habib tells Cathy Newman that despite her friend Peter Kassig converting to Islam, it seems militants were “not making an exception for anybody”.
Denis MacShane, the former MP who was jailed over bogus expenses, has written his memoir about his experience. He speaks to Cathy Newman about life behind bars, and whether he is contrite.
Boris Johnson has announced he stand for parliament at the 2015 election. He tells Cathy Newman he has no desire to be leader but wants to ‘bind onto the ruck to see the ball over the line’.
Israel’s Zalman Shoval tells Cathy Newman his country wants to live in peace with its neighbours. Palestinian activist Hanan Ashrawi says Palestinians are committed to a ceasefire.
Office and The Hobbit star Martin Freeman, currently starring as Richard III, talks protest and politics with Cathy Newman.
Cathy Newman interviews Paraic O’Brien about Catalina and how she told social workers that her dying wish was to die in the tunnels with “her family”.
Cathy Newman asks the Freakonomics authors, Stephen Levitt and Stephen Dubner, if women are better at saying “I don’t know”, a key tenet of their new book, Think Like a Freak.