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Thursday 5 May 2011

ADMIN USE ONLY | 12:37 UK time, Thursday, 5 May 2011

Here is what we are planning for tonight's programme:

We have the third in our series of extraordinary films on the 7/7 terror attacks in London, in which people caught up in the bombings recount how the attacks unfolded and changed their lives forever.

If you missed Wednesday's film on the Edgware Road attack you can .

Newsnight has an exclusive interview with a former colleague of the 7/7 bombers' leader, Mohammed Sidique Khan, which sheds new light on the crucial years before the bombings when he was living in Leeds.

We'll also be examining the legality of the US operation that killed al-Qaeda head Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan. Could Britain have undertaken something similar?

And voters across the UK are going to the polls in a series of national and local elections as well as a referendum to decide the way MPs are elected.

We'll have a report from Scotland on the elections for the parliament and Michael Crick will take a look at the alternative vote referendum.

Join Kirsty Wark at 10.30pm on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Two.

Comments

  • Comment number 1.

  • Comment number 2.

    'yes. but it works both ways'

    of-course everyone is 'talking their book' but one side can totally overwhelm with blanket coverage for days/weeks . Notice how NN has all these 7/7 programs - the timing when THE problem in the life of ordinary people is vastly corrupt banking. NN let us know when you inform people how they are being cheated by Fractional Reserve lending and explain to the public: Credit Default Swaps and Collateralized Debt Obligations - their vast impact on the public and companies .

  • Comment number 3.

    will we need lashings of cocoa or will we be rivetted?

  • Comment number 4.

    This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.

  • Comment number 5.

    This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.

  • Comment number 6.

    'PM' FINDS NO DISSENT IN NEW YORK

    As I listen to vox pops from NYC, none doubts the incredible 9/11 official conspiracy theory - centred on Bin Laden.

    None so blind.

    Nuff sed.



  • Comment number 7.

    By the way, along with the rest of my family and friends we have stopped watching NN and the ´óÏó´«Ã½/MSM news. When you deal with the bankers correctly we will watch, that's not to say we believe the likes of sales man Alex Jones.

  • Comment number 8.

    This is how you deal with the financial terrorists - its music to my ears :-

  • Comment number 9.

    ´óÏó´«Ã½ SHOWS DUBYA HUG A NYC FIREFIGHTER AND SAY: "THEY WILL HEAR FROM US"

    But did Obama or the ´óÏó´«Ã½ audience, today, hear from 'Firefighters for 9/11 Truth'?



    Obama went among firefighters today - did he meet even ONE firefighter from the thousands who have signed a petition demanding a proper investigation of the demolition on 9/11?

    A BALANCED ´óÏó´«Ã½ REPORT would include comment on this. To whom does the ´óÏó´«Ã½ answer?

  • Comment number 10.

  • Comment number 11.

    WILL OBAMA EVER GO BACK TO 'GROUND ZERO' AS PRESIDENT?

    "Bloomberg announced yesterday that Obama plans to return to Ground Zero on the 10th anniversary of the attacks."

    If he does, it will mean that Big Brother has silenced all the Truth movements, and the realities of 9/11 have gone down the Memory hole.

    If the TRUTH comes out (though currently, there is an eerie silence on the internet and ´óÏó´«Ã½ news) he will have to declare 'fool or knave' (didn't know, or pretended not to know) and his stock will tumble with the worshippers.

    Interesting times.

  • Comment number 12.

    Totally disgusted at Kirsty Wark giving the US CIA guy such a gentle ride under questioning. Instead of some hypothetical "If Pakistan were attacked by someone in South Dakota, would it be OK for them to mount an action on US soil" how about she used a genuine, real world example. If the UK determined that there were active groups in the USA that were raising funds for Irish Republican terrorism, and funneling these funds across the Atlantic to cause British civilian deaths, AND the USA was doing little or nothing to stop this happening due to political sensibilities ... then what would the UK be justified in doing to take out these terrorism facilitators? Tricky question, eh Mr CIA? Funny how the USA only woke up to terrorism after it hit them at home, while many of their citizens were sending money to kill British citizens for a couple of decades.

  • Comment number 13.

    BRAVO ACJB - A VALID POINT WELL MADE (#12)

    You will have noticed that the evil Gaddafi sent Semtex etc to the IRA - grrrrr. But it was surely paid for with American donations - silence.

    I keep pointing out the absence of any reporting on the mass of '9/11 Truth' movements, populated by professional people, in America - particularly in NYC. Reality is now TOTALLY ADJUSTED; as Vaclav Havel put it: we live 'within the lie'.

    We ARE the Truman Show.

    How stable this fiction is, remains to be seen. America has its FEMA camps, implying readiness for the illusion evaporate; WE would seem to be as ready as we ever were - for anything . . .

  • Comment number 14.

    barrie,

    we are all just pi**ing in the wind! (IQ>125)

    jaded_jean realised this a long while ago.

    Who was your favourite poster and why?

  • Comment number 15.

    watching the election:

    nothing to add so far - before blunkett appeared.

  • Comment number 16.

    ...nice one saaida (sp?) :D

  • Comment number 17.

    emily lovely, but a *referendum* is not a YES vote... dum dum dummmm! ;)

  • Comment number 18.

    chrish huhne?!? YUCCCKKKKK!!!!!!

    the part Chairman Fallon is vastly more preferable as a choice by Liberals.

  • Comment number 19.

    the newsreader: he's a lovely bloke, but i'd actually prefer to hear him doing it in a natural accent, whether that is Indian, London, English Regional, Lower Class, or Middle Class, than this fake 'over-´óÏó´«Ã½' attempt. Sorry bloke, no offence intended, truly. My apologies.

  • Comment number 20.

    SNP seem to be doing well.

  • Comment number 21.

    Scottish Independence will also rely upon how bad/good the central UK Govt at Westminster is.

  • Comment number 22.

    i wonder what % of votes Alex Salmond would have won across the UK with a national PR-orgainsed election?

  • Comment number 23.

    ...haven't yet read the posts since my last post, looking forward to any roasting! :)

  • Comment number 24.

    ming campbell: there is also no doubt that the other SNPs ministers are individuals of quality, who have done good work in their departments, and were also honest to their constituents. People actually trust them. !!

  • Comment number 25.

    reader: slightly better. Thank you. :)

  • Comment number 26.

    blah blah blah. The only choices of the voters that matters really is the numbers of "other" votes, across the UK. *NONE* of the condemn(ed) coalition Leaders are popular, for very good reason. UKUncut has explained why.

  • Comment number 27.

    when the hell is tonight's QT going to be on iplayer? Farage v good tonight.

  • Comment number 28.

    ...going on a bit, isn't she? ;)

  • Comment number 29.

    --damn, talk about annoying accents. Couldn't the Welsh find good native speakers of welsh to do the reading? Ouch. :/

  • Comment number 30.

    heh. :)

  • Comment number 31.

    iain gray: such a small victory is not worth such a huge speech. Plus, *i'd* demand a recount on this. Just me?

  • Comment number 32.

    did i just misunderstand Salmond, or did he just say he wanted to copy Estonia's economic/taxation system rather than the traditional Scandinavian model? Which is curious, because the earlier SNP spokesman argued that the SNP economic policy DID follow the Scandinavian, high-tax, high investment and low wealth-gap economy! Which of them is accurate?

  • Comment number 33.

    POMPOUS PADDY IS GOING RIGHT OF THE CRASSOMETER

    Almost impossible to listen to Paddy Ashdown. Not an asset - perhaps half an asset.

    In passing: Clegg should withdraw from coalition (never mind the signature Nick) and make Cameron run a minority government. Swap pride ('Deputy PM') for power - it will take maturity . . .

  • Comment number 34.

    A complete collapse, a lá Kevs predictions?

  • Comment number 35.

    INTO THE WIND WITH A HIGH IQ (#14)

    Having never checked my IQ (low NF - Narcissism Factor) I hold the view that futility displayed by the gifted, is dumber than futility in the simple folk. (Paradox? Or is IQ a dumb metric?)

    My approval of posters increases directly with evident maturity.

    Im OK . . .

  • Comment number 36.

    'the warm glow of legality'

    how come the uk govt have never asked the israeli govt for a list of all those uk citizens who have joined to fight for israel [and perhaps even participating in war crimes?] so they can be prosecuted?

    why has the uk govt never closed down those groups in the uk who continue to mislead uk citizens that its 'ok' to join the idf etc?

    there is a warm glow but its not of being careful about the law unless it suits them?

  • Comment number 37.

    @35 Barrie - I'm afraid I have a high NF. but I do know it!

    As for IQ, a number without reference to the scale is meaningless, and even with reference to the scale tells one remarkable little. What little it does tell is open to gross misrepresentaion and misinterpretation. (This is, with examples, what I shall be telling a stats student tomorrow. The stats is part of training to help handicapped young peopl.e)

  • Comment number 38.

    SPOILING MY SPOILER (#37)

    Now clap your hands Sasha.

  • Comment number 39.

    I really don't get what the fuss is about killing Bin Laden. Of course, the ideal solution would be to catch him alive, but this isn't always possible, is it? The guy is the head of the biggest terrorist organization in the world. Who knows what trick he is going to pull under his sleeves (maybe a secret passway to escape) if the soldiers tried to arrest him instead? The first priority must be to get him, as well as safety for the soldiers who were conducting this operation. If Bin Laden runs away, we may never catch this guy again. This is the only reasonable chance the US intelligence service has had for the last 10 years, when muslim people around the world have been suffering and stigmatized by what Bin Laden did on 9/11 all this time. He had it coming. I think it is a teeny bit ridiculous that because there is a supposedly high morale standard everyone has to aspire to as a responsible citizen living in a civilised democratic society, that most often we are reduced down to doing nothing at all.

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