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There’s an international relief effort under way to contain an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Three experts from the UK are among those being deployed, with 45 people believed to have been infected by the disease. Some 25 people have died, but the World Health Organisation has said the…
As if the divisions within the cabinet over Brexit weren’t trouble enough for the Prime Minister, a vote in the Scottish parliament today has paved the way for a potential constitutional crisis. The Scottish National Party joined forces with Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens to vote down Theresa May’s EU withdrawal bill. At…
Liberal Democrat education spokesperson, Layla Moran, used to work as a maths and physics teacher in Brussels and London.
Security has all but collapsed. Millions are in desperate need of aid and there are constant outbreaks of fighting as the President tries to cling to power. This is the Democratic Republic of Congo, where countless children are caught up in this cycle of political turmoil and violence. Jackie Long has travelled across Kasai, from…
Data from the “Antisemitism Barometer” suggests Labour supporters are less antisemitic than other parties’ supporters. But the same study also found that 83 per cent of British Jews think the Labour is too soft on antisemitism.
Jeremy Corbyn has demanded a new law to give the House of Commons the right to vote before the government commits to any military action. In an emergency debate following the strikes on Syria last weekend, he said it was a matter of basic democratic accountability. In response Theresa May said that could undermine the…
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable discusses military action in Syria.
Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat on the Judiciary Committee and seasoned prosecutor, discusses Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and the FBI raids on Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen, which the President has denounced as a disgraceful witch-hunt.
What has Cambridge Analytica actually been accused of? And why should you care?
Gary Gibbon
As the European Council meets in Brussels, yet again the Brexit issue is shoved to the moment chairs scrape and attention drifts at the dog end of the evening. Mrs May will have her say – the transition deal is in both our interests, the guidelines for negotiations on the future relationship are welcomed –…
Kylie Morris speaks to the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Congressman Adam Schiff, one of the leading figures investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. I began by asking him about those comments from Alexander Nix that sounded so dismissive of their efforts to discover what Cambridge Analytica had been doing and how his…
An investigation by Channel 4 News has revealed how Cambridge Analytica claims it ran ‘all’ of President Trump’s digital campaign – and may have broken election law. As the report went on air, the firm announced it has suspended chief executive Alexander Nix, pending a full investigation.
The impact of the data scandal is being felt across the world. Facebook shares plunged today, and in the US the senior Democrat on the House intelligence committee has invited whistleblower Chris Wylie, who spoke to this programme on Saturday, to give testimony.
The source of a controversial donation to the Democratic Unionists during the Brexit campaign will remain secret, despite a vote to extend transparency rules to Northern Ireland. The rules will only apply to donations made after July 2017, so anything relating to the Brexit referendum remains under wraps. And that includes a donation of more…
The Norwegian politician and diplomat Jan Egeland discusses the Democratic Republic of Congo. where a political impasse and a rise in ethnic violence has returned it to the brink of all-out war once again, and international aid after the revelations about Oxfam.