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Coming up on @BBCNewsnight

Powerful interview with the family of Virginia Giuffre on latest attempts in Congress to release all Epstein files, their call for Sarah Ferguson to lose Royal title, and how they and she reacted to the Newsnight interview with Prince Andrew

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2230
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on #Newsnight

1. Trump suggesting a Ukraine-Russia peace deal involving “some swapping of territories”

2. JD Vance @ UK - a charm offensive after his sharp criticism ? - a confidant explains

3. Wikipedia boss Jimmy Wales tells us of his concerns about Online Safety Act & AI hit to graduate jobs…
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#BBCNewsnight at 2230 on BBC2 / IPlayer & across the world on BBC News:

Astonishing footage of a drone dropping off contraband at a major prison: “we have ceded airspace” over our prisons says chief inspector

- Chancellor big Mansion House speech as tax rise speculation rife
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LONG READ
From David Ricardo to Alexander Hamilton to David Autor to the “sum of all cheating” to the equation that tariffs penguins, to loaded guns & game theory.

Another BBC InDepth trying to explain what’s on earth is going on and where it’s going….

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump has turned his back on the foundation of US economic might
What made the US step back from the system that it profited handsomely from for decades?
www.bbc.co.uk
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Tonight @BBCNewsnight at 2230

Does Russia want actual peace? key Putin ally suggests Moscow not about to compromise…

Panel @PeterRicketts @montie @cocobyname

What’s going on with Reform?

AND end of week excl with banned Eurovision singer from Malta
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on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social latest in geopolitical geoeconomic chaos

⚡️ EU agreeing to fund rearmament
🚨 Trump row back on trade war after stock falls
🇨🇦 excl with Canada’s Security minister
💥 is tariff chaos is in fact about a bigger plan for a weaker dollar @gilliantett.bsky.social
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So in January 2025

166,065 Battery Electric Vehicles sold across Europe (EU+Efta+UK)
UP 45,099 increase on last Jan, (+37%)

Within that, Tesla sold 9,945
DOWN 8,216 on last Jan (-45.2%)

So 1 in 7 EVs sold across Europe was a Tesla last January,

Now it’s 1 in 16.
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Thumping fall in Tesla sales in Jan across Europe (EU +Efta + UK)… down 45%, to 9,945 from 18k last Jan. In EU alone halved to 7,500… at the same time EV sales in general up 37%.

Shares down 10%.

Overtaken by JLR and Mazda. And BYD in UK.
New model Y factor, but Musk hit too?
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“Whoever controls powerful AI… could be a dictator”

@faisalislam.bsky.social speaks to Nobel Prize winning Turkish-American economist Daron Acemoglu, who warns about the dangers of AI dictators and the impact powerful AI could have on global democracy.

#Newsnight

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Nobel prize winner on threat of AI dictators and Big Tech’s risk to democracy
YouTube video by BBC Newsnight
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Carney on five years of Brexit: "…unfortunately, the United Kingdom is living with the economic impact of that decision. This is a case where I wish I were wrong or had been wrong about the likely economic impact."

WATCH: m.youtube.com/watch?v=yV10...

#Newsnight | @faisalislam.bsky.social
"We're going to stand up to a bully" | Mark Carney on President Trump’s Canada trade tariffs
YouTube video by BBC Newsnight
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quite something…

An attempt to reshape global econ & trade by projecting US tech supremacy & economic optimism AND threatening trillions in tariffs…

Ultimate carrot and stick. Charm & Offence.

Davos elite nod along as Trump delivers ultimatum

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Davos elite nod along as Trump delivers ultimatum
President Trump's 'America First' message takes shape, as the rest of the world begins to digest what it might mean for them and global trade.
www.bbc.co.uk
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PEM convention doesn't cross red lines?
No it doesn’t… it’s not a customs union

q. and a full fat Veterinary agreement. Dynamic alignment with the EU, that doesn't cross the red lines?

No thats part of our manifesto, an SPS agreement, a veterinary agreement, yes.
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Trade Sec Reynolds met with EU trade Commissioner Sefcovic at Davos thanked him for “incredibly positive & helpful contribution” in my interview with him

… “proves we can improve the terms of trade with EU and can do that whilst pursuing closer trade links around the world”
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NEW

🚨 Trade Sec Jonathan Reynolds tells @BBCNews after Trump speech US does not need to apply tariffs to UK because there is no goods trade deficit.
 
🚨 Reynolds also clarified that both UK joining PEM and a Brexit vet deal with dynamic alignment would not cross red lines.
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@faisalislam.bsky.social: “ #Trump tells #Davos for those that want to
import into the #US from abroad:

“You will pay a #tariff” differing amounts… which could be worth “trillions of dollars” for the US Treasury.

This must be a universal tariff.”
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Exclusive interview with EU Trade chief from Davos…

Seeking talks with Trump’s team… open to ambitious reset with UK on food/farm exports and pan European customs rule of origin area

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
EU trade chief: Bloc may consider UK joining pan-Europe customs scheme
The UK joining the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention is up for discussion in reset talks, says Maros Sefcovic.
www.bbc.co.uk
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The new European Union trade chief responsible for post-Brexit negotiations has told the BBC that a "pan-European [customs] area is something we could consider" as part of "reset" discussions between the UK and EU.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#EU #brexit
By @faisalislam.bsky.social
EU trade chief: Bloc may consider UK joining pan-Europe customs scheme
The UK re-joining the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention is up for discussion in reset talks, says Maros Sefcovic.
www.bbc.com
faisalislam.bsky.social
Bidenomics without the money and now without Biden too, is much too thin. A more detailed strategy for sustained growth is needed, and in short order.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Mortgages rates are not rising yet but Reeves has to act
Why Rachel Reeves needs a more detailed growth strategy - and soon.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Green Party former leader Lucas concerned about the influence of tech infused Trumpism bsky.app/profile/bbcn...
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"The UK is so vulnerable to being influenced by money coming in from people like Musk into our political system because we don't have any checks and balances."

Former Green Party leader Caroline Lucas discusses Musk and British politics.

#Newsnight
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We heard from one of the circle of tech bro billionaires backing Trump Joe Lonsdale about what their agenda is at this time of exponential change in AI etc… bottom line - incorporating Greenland could be part of a “healthy” growth in the US “frontier” bsky.app/profile/bbcn...
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“I think having a frontier is very healthy, I think Britain was a healthier society when it had a frontier and was growing.”

Joe Lonsdale, Palantir co-founder and billionaire Trump backer, responds to suggestions the President-elect wants to take over Greenland.

#Newsnight
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Last night’s @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social kicked off with these extraordinary images from the devastation in LA
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“The imagery is next level shocking.”

“Our house will definitely be next…”

The story of the LA fires, as told by the residents whose neighbourhoods have been left devastated.

[Part 1]

#Newsnight