later in the election campaign we talked to nick robinson about his series of interviews with party leadersant a really better service than you have got to reform and we will have to do public service reform... i am hearing that. viewers will say politicians do more and more of these interviews as well as all those social media clips and there is a danger than that an interview becomes a broadcast press release. they write the words, they market research the words, they test them to death to check whether they offend this group or that group, and then the politician learns them off pat, and then you can read them you can see them read the words, so myjob is to try to either escape that, to put a question that doesn't allow them to do that, or to put a question that highlights the fact that they're not really answering the question. they may be talking about roughly same subject, they are not really answering what i've put in a question, and that means that yes, sometimes i interrupt. the spark for the violent protests that took place over the summer was a knife attack in southport in which

departure of martha kearney, who was replaced by emma barnett, she joined a trio of men — amol rajan, nick robinsonhey do need to have another presenter because i don't think that those, that four, that core group of four, can carry what is a very intense show. so they will be looking to replace her. alex, if you hear who the replacement is, you know where the media show is. thank you very much indeed forjoining us. that's alex, and you can read alex's reporting on this issue and lots of other media issues on the times website. now, the rappers drake and kendrick lamar have long been rivals. in fact, we should probably put it more strongly than that. they've been having an ongoing feud. yes, throughout 2024, they have been releasing diss tracks directed at each other, and now their beef is heading to court. yes, drake's taking legal action against his record label. he's accusing it of boosting the streams of kendrick lamar�*s most recent track, and we've been speaking to the bbc�*s mark savage about this. so a diss track is a test of lyrical skill. it is two emcees pitted against each other, vying

i want to bring in cnn international diplomatic editor nick robinson, who joins us live on the line from can you just give us a sense of what is happening right now and give us some context for the significance of what we're seeing right now what we're seeing right now is the end of a brutal 53 year reign of terror by bashar al-assad and his father before him on syria. >> for that long, half a century, the people of the country have lived under their their brutal leadership. thousands upon thousands of people have been killed. the rebels are aiming to put an end to that tonight. they have entered the capital, damascus. they have searched the city over the past 24 hours for bashar al-assad. they cannot locate him the military defenses in the city have collapsed and what we are hearing from rebel officials and the outgoing, we can say that prime minister of the bashar al assad regime is an apparent attempt to hand over the reins of power with some degree of coordination. we've heard from the outgoing regime, prime minister saying that he is in his home, a patriot for his country. but he sa

now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson.lo and welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than a newsy interrogation of, someone who shapes our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. when the obituary of my guest on political thinking this week is written, it is pretty likely in its first paragraph to include one phrase: "i agree with nick". those words were uttered by then prime minister gordon brown in the 2010 election leaders�* debate, and in many ways, they signal the transformation of the leader of a relatively small third—party to the man who became deputy prime minister to david cameron during the coalition years. sir nick soon found that in government, people often did not agree with him, which may be one reason his party got so punished in the election that followed. he eventually lost his seat as a member of parliament, but since then, he has gone on to be at the side of another very powerful individual. he is president of global affairs for matter, a company founded by mark zuckerberg, wh