🧵“That’s the only thing that keeps every Ukrainian going right now, it’s hope for a better future for your family."
Elya, from Kharkiv, is thinking about her parents who have stayed in Ukraine as the conflict reaches a year.
“You go through the day…but in the back of your mind it’s always the news, it’s always something happening where your home is, it’s tearing you apart”.
TONIGHT: #Newsnight is live from Warsaw, the first in a series of special programmes from key capitals looking at the impact of the war in Ukraine on the world.
The UK has become the first country in Europe to pass 30,000 coronavirus deaths.
Over the last few weeks, #Newsnight has been examining the effect of coronavirus on care homes - where the prime minister has said an epidemic is taking place.
Here's what we know
THREAD 👇
On March 10th, before lockdown began, #Newsnight's UK Editor @KatieRazz visited a care home in Blackpool to see what preparations were being made to combat #Covid19.
Staff warned that self-isolation wasn't possible for vulnerable residents
The impact of #Covid19 on care homes has been apparent for weeks.
On April 2, @Lewis_goodall reported the virus was spreading "like wildfire" & was told by an assistant care home manager the way the elderly were treated was "disgusting"
BREAKING: Lord Triesman has resigned the Labour whip, citing "institutional anti-Semitism".
"We may one day be the Party of anti-racism once again but it certainly isn't today," the former Labour Party general secretary writes in his resignation letter
BREAKING: Former Labour Health Minister Lord Darzi has confirmed to #newsnight that he too is resigning the Labour whip.
"As an Armenian survivor of the Armenian genocide, I have zero tolerance to anti-Semitism, Islamophobic or any other discrimination against religion or race."
Lord Darzi will now sit as an independent.
He told #newsnight that "this decision has not been taken lightly".
THREAD: We've been looking at populism in Europe over the past few months. If you've missed any of our reports you can see them here. Let's start with this one examining if Switzerland is the birthplace of populism bbc.in/2Olt5Hm
@ggatehouse@maya_rstw Sweden is usually recognised as being innovative, transparent and progressive, with good healthcare, welfare and gender equality.
More recently, however, a growing chorus of Sweden sceptics have emerged bit.ly/2xWHxve#newsnight
@ggatehouse@maya_rstw Earlier this month we travelled to Cottbus in Germany where the nationalist AfD party are leading in the polls bit.ly/2zC87f5