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Feb 24, 2023 6 tweets 6 min read
🧵“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.

#Newsnight | #Ukrainecast | bbc.in/3kxGSwx "The hardest part of it all was to accept and to realise all of our pre-war life was in the past and we might never have it back.”

Marianna doesn’t know when she will be able to reunite with her family in Odessa.

#Newsnight | #Ukrainecast | bbc.in/3kxGSwx
Mar 14, 2022 4 tweets 5 min read
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.

Join @KirstyWark for Ukraine: The Global Fallout at 2230 on @BBCTwo

bit.ly/3w6ei98 Image On the programme tonight:

🗣️ Polish interior minister @BartoszGrodecki
🗣️ Mayor of Warsaw @trzaskowski_
🗣️ Polish member of parliament @MagdaBiejat
🗣️ Polish Ambassador to Nato @T_Szatkowski

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May 7, 2020 7 tweets 8 min read
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

WATCH 📺bbc.in/2WcN0dB
Jul 9, 2019 7 tweets 4 min read
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

#newsnight 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."
May 30, 2019 7 tweets 6 min read
This is how the Brexit Party dominated social media ahead of the EU elections. bit.ly/2HH16O8

But on Facebook, more is going on. Here’s our investigation into the murky world of closed groups

THREAD 👇

#newsnight | @mariannaspring
bbc.in/2EFOqVW Closed Facebook groups are private; only approved members can see their content.

On both pro and anti-Brexit groups, Newsnight found disinformation and abuse

#newsnight | @mariannaspring | @Lucy_Webster_
Sep 28, 2018 10 tweets 17 min read
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 | #newsnight @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