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Tuesday 31 May 2011

Sarah McDermott | 11:17 UK time, Tuesday, 31 May 2011

The Football Association and the Scottish Football Association have called for Fifa to postpone its presidential election. Current president Sepp Blatter is the only candidate for the 1 June election after Mohamed Bin Hammam's withdrawal. Peter Marshall will have the latest on the Fifa crisis for us tonight.

Justin Rowlatt visits the world's biggest polluter, China, to find out if it really can boom without poisoning the planet.

Then David Grossman considers Angela Merkel's decision to phase out nuclear power stations in Germany by 2022.

And as increasing numbers of people decide that property is now so scarce and its cost so high that they may never own their own place, Jeremy is joined by property expert Kirstie Allsopp to discuss how that possibility might change us.

Join us at 2230 on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Two.

Comments

  • Comment number 1.

  • Comment number 2.

    FOOTBALL HAS NOT (YET) MOUNTED A FALSE-FLAG BASED GLOBAL WAR.

    Yet again it is necessary to challenge the ´óÏó´«Ã½ regarding non-reporting of SERIOUS ISSUES, of importance to all mankind. I need not list them.

    FOOL OR KNAVE ´óÏó´«Ã½?

  • Comment number 3.

    ARE WE TURNING INTO A NATION OF RENTERS?

    Good grief, Newsynighty, true or false, that is the least of our 'turning-into' worries.

    We are turning into unaware units of government/media manipulation. We are turning into marvellers at the Emperor's new clothes and cravers after the next bit of mind addling kit. We are turning into off-spring-co-ordinators, who commission parenting from agencies. Oh - what's the point.

    A national sub-set of RANTERS is nearer the mark.

    Nuff sed

  • Comment number 4.

  • Comment number 5.

    In regard to the renting or buying a house story... the main reason people want to buy their own house is so they have stability and be with their own family the community they grew up in! I have a 4 year old whom, by the time he is 5 would have lived in 4 houses and an 8 month old baby who by the time she is 9 months will have lived in 3 houses. My son smashed his toys when he found out we have to move again! Each time private renting, through no fault of our own, the owners suddenly taking possession of the houses. Every time we are moved on (unexpectedly I may add) it pushes us more into debt and buying our own house more out of reach. The council can only help you if you are standing infront of their door with black bags; which this time I thought may end up the case until we found somewhere. If you are going to present a story such as this could you not have had discussing it 3 most out of touch people to what it is really like to have to live privately renting! It was only the other day I said to my husband that I would live in a shed if it would mean we could own the land it stood on and never be given our notice ever again! The law allows Landlord's to take whatever monetary advantage they like out of their tennents at their leisure no matter how much it damages the tennents. That's the reality!

  • Comment number 6.

    Where's everyone gone?
    Following the Japanese disaster, it's hardly surprising people don't want nuclear power. Interesting debate on how we'll power the country in years to come, but best of all was Jeremy with Kirstie :o)
    I'm not even going to mention Justin mucking out the pigs in China :p

  • Comment number 7.

    TERMINALISM - ALRIGHT FOR SOME

    Why should ONLY the terminally ill have the right to die as and when they choose?

    Those who have a mass of debilitating but NON-TERMINAL conditions, who have outlived their friends, and must spend all their time shuttling to and from clinics and swallowing ever-adjusted pills, suffering new side-effects, are doomed to extra years they DO NOT WANT.

    They would rise and march - if they were not needing to be near a toilet, or can only walk a few yards, or tend to fall and can neither see nor hear much.

    TERMINALISM IS A NATIONAL DISGRACE.

  • Comment number 8.

    AND STILL ANTHOPOGENIC 'GLOBAL WARMING' IS PRESENTED AS A 'GIVEN'.

    Is there no 'inconvenient truth' (of the true variety) that NewsyNighty will feature?

    Newsnight: climate is driven COSMICALLY, all other forcers are minor. To invite one ignoramus into the studio, might seem unfortunate; TWO can only be regarded as carelessness.

    You don't really care - do you.

  • Comment number 9.

    news@10 comments:

    libya: whether or not ghadaffi goes is up to the Libyan people. Can SOMEONE explain to me how a full offensive *against* the civilian cities under the Libyan Govt's control, could POSSIBLY be called "defending civilians". The acts now envisioned in Libya, go so far beyond the original remit from the UN Security Council, that it must now be bordering upon potential 'war crimes' claims against both sarkosy and cameron.

    especially when the regular offers of unconditional peace from ghaddafi were rejected-out-of-hand by the Western Powers.


    the increased competition in the Railways worked really well. People shouldn't be fooled into thinking that when the institutions, the hospitals, the staff, and the training and research centres have all been privatised, that the NHS has gone completely, - for it will be in our memories.


    "Augmented Reality". Presumably at some point dating agencies will join in.


    Frau M - Desertec. End war, fund new Libyan cooperatives to build maintain. Plus efficiencies, plus renewables. Avoid French Russian energy control. ESSENTiAL: Libyan cooperatives, transfer tech. Long-term energy security reliant upon that, exploitation fatal.

    will you agree the results from the Global Radiation Monitoring Service should be open for the Public to see?


    UK:

    Germany Super Powers it away,
    British Toffs left
    on Playing Fields.
    China towers over all,
    Green to the Stars.

    hovercraft, RISK chips,
    - UK design
    no State investment.
    Class always first,
    Our Futures be damned.


    put UK Cabinet in Truman Show.
    what would be revealed?


    renting and over-priced mortgages are BOTH "money-down-the-drain".

    council housing - why didn't the councils build more council housing from the money they made from the previous sales of the socially-owned homes? This would have avoided the problems of a lack of such housing now, and is the absolutely obvious thing for a council to do. Perhaps there is an old report explaining why this did not happen? I'd like to know. Millions of Brits living in over-priced private rental might want to know as well.



    China and Germany leaping ahead in building green economy.

  • Comment number 10.

    Another depressing and pointless Newsnight.

    Chinese 'emissions':
    I sometimes wonder who Justin Rowlatt's target audience is. He states what he views as shocking facts of cold, hard realism, which he presumes are a revelation to us and haven't been shouted in the pages of most broadsheets and online for over a decade, but just looks a fool. The Left may be a little more enlightened and know where to more-closely target its activism, but the rest of us just sigh.

    It's a revelation, to our Justin, that China's priority is cheap energy, to foster job creation, to foster the alleviation of poverty, to keep a lid on political unrest.

    The solar panels are purely for gullible westerners, bar a few erected in tokenistic solar farms, for the benefit of gullible western journalists.

    Windmills:
    66,000 jobs...by 2020!...just in the windmill industry! Imagine! 132,000 jobs (AT LEAST) lost, as a consequence, in the rest of the economy! Imagine that! You didn't [sigh].

    [cont. below]

  • Comment number 11.

    In the studio, two paid-up warmists, believers in the absurd notion of the end of cheap energy (something, in itself, that we should despise), support the imperilling of 20,000,000 other jobs by artificially raising prices past their natural level, on top of increases owing to speculation, political unrest, etc.

    Neither advances the view that China's policy, described above, could be emulated here. Neither appears to believe that the ability to pay the bills and feed and clothe our children might be the basis of a little happiness and not the smug satisfaction that is supposed to come from lowering our use of carbon.
    ........................................

    [cont. below]

  • Comment number 12.

    Homes vs. Flats:
    The Left uses the scarcity of mortgages to rail against the capitalist notion of property ownership and the economic safety net it creates for you and your family in retirement. A bank-engineered short-term dip in mortgage approvals, allowing the building of capital reserves, is turned in to a proclamation of societal shift to a more European model of living. Never pass-up the opportunity to proselytise for more Europeanism!

    It's interesting that living in a flat is viewed as ideal, just so long as it isn't a buy-to-let, where someone, other than a scummy landlord, might benefit. We'd rather be homeless or stuck with our parents than beholden to middle class landlords, owners of generally better quality properties.

    Incidentally, a house is a home and quite a number of Britain's millions of retail jobs owe their existence to our view of it as such. We don't and can't renovate and repair a flat. The collapse of Focus DIY is testament to its importance.
    .....................................

  • Comment number 13.

    Whilst there is much that I despise about the avowedly Left-wing CBS News and ABC News, you really could learn from their professionalism. They may be pained to give both points of view, but they do give them. You needn't worry that many would hear them, as not many watch this programme, but some of the tax payers might appreciate it.

  • Comment number 14.

    The renewable energy sector is still at infant stage – there is no way we can replace nuclear energy completely in 10 years. If our politicians make the decision to pull the plug on nuclear power collectively, it will simply drive up oil and gas prices astronomically, which will be disastrous for the economy. How many decades have our scientists spent on developing green energy? And yet, we are still stuck with the same old windmills and solar panels, oh and a brand new invention by the Canadians - toilet bowls ‘self-cleaned’ by human waste, charming. Personally I am not too excited about the much flaunted flowering of green sector jobs, if that literally means driving a truck with leaking pig’s faeces on the top.

    Looks like everyone is talking about China’s environmental issues (i.e. economic challenges) these days:



  • Comment number 15.

    not more climate change babble.

    climate propaganda is the major issue

    the evidence of the vedas is that people were living at the north pole in a temperate climate. how much tax will stop the next ice age? where did the energy come from to start melting the ice in the first place?

    the price of oil have very little to do with supply. how can people get away with such statements?

    for false beliefs to exist people must perpetuate the darkness with their black magic mantras.

  • Comment number 16.

    '11. At 04:32 1st Jun 2011, Strugglingtostaycalm:
    In the studio, two paid-up warmists...'


    As it's after my bed time, and these days I need as much beauty sleep as possible, I tend to 'catch up' via iPlayer.

    However, for a while and through worsening time-poverty I rely on commentary here to see if the topics or, indeed, ediotorial structure makes it even worth it.

    Am I to gather this was a 'story' involving a flying 'dip-in' visit by one of those world-renowned ´óÏó´«Ã½ local linguist/cultural experts (like Mr. Naughtie shuttling to a and fro between here and Cairo to bring us the skinny on Arab street), followed by a genetically impartial discussion (theoretically in the round) over a programme maker-mandated default position by two advocates from only one corner?

    If so... I fear a lot already wasted, and adding my time and server consumption won't help.

  • Comment number 17.

    Nice to have two chaps agreeing with each other so much. Shame no counter views were around, especially when 'we' were all agreeing that climate change is the issue. I seem to have missed some memos.

    Google has helped my decision where I am to be lectured on issues of science (the proper one) and engineering.

    'Alan graduated with a degree in Politics and Philosophy from Southampton University and went on to achieve a Ph.D. in Political Science'

    Not sure if a Parliament composed of such educational backgrounds is how democracy 'works' (ok, I went and peeked at the show) at all. At least in the more traditional sense of the word.

    Now, where's Polly T and Kevin Maguire to agre... er.. debate with each other on the cuts, Cuts...CUTSSSS!!! (Funding, not power).

  • Comment number 18.

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

  • Comment number 19.

    news from Germnay is not good....what is this food alert all about? Is salad off the me and u? Good news is, they have banned cucumbers, hated them anyway...

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