As a whole and hamas, who had carried out murderous attacks on ordinary israeli families and young people at a music festival. One viewer who wrote in to newswatch wished to put a complaint in about the news channel at 11 25 am saying, the protesters in london were hamas supporters. That was a disgrace. They were showing support for the palestinian people. Maggie gardiner said, this is not only factually incorrect, it is extremely offensive and dangerous and disrespects all the protesters who were there to call for peace. Apologise and do better. And the bbc did. On monday afternoon, the Bbc News Channel issued this apology for the mistake. Now, before we go, earlier on bbc news, we reported on some of the pro palestinian demonstrations at the weekend. We spoke about several demonstrations across britain during which people voiced their backing for hamas. We accept that this was poorly phrased and was a misleading description of the pro palestinian demonstrations. On tuesday, there was a huge explosion in the car park of the Al Ahli Hospital in gaza, which killed and injured many people whod gathered there. As news of the situation developed, the Bbc News Channel showed a Correspondent Giving Analysis from jerusalem. It was made clear that the bbc had yet to verify who was behind the blast, but the correspondent said he thought it was hard to see what it could have been other than an israeli airstrike. He then said that in his previous experience as a reporter in the territory, he had never seen explosions of this scale caused by rockets being fired from within gaza. He again stressed that the pictures had yet to be verified. Many viewers wrote in to complain that the bbc appeared to have accepted hamas� s allegations that it had been an Israeli Attack without checking properly. Orin helman wrote in to newswatch, your hasty dissemination of information sourced solely from the gaza health ministry, which is known to be influenced by hamas without conducting thorough fact checking, is a grave misstep. Ian page said, first, we have the reluctance to reference hamas as terrorists. Then we had the unquestioning acceptance that israel had bombed the hospital. Derek brown emailed, if the bbc reports that israel has bombed a hospital, Killing Hundreds of men, women and children, i would expect it to have checked the veracity of such a claim first. And Simon Barnard said, your reporting of this explosion is an utter disgrace. How dare you take sides in this manner without fully investigating the evidence . In a statement, bbc news accepted it had been wrong to speculate that it had been an Israeli Attack. We accept that even in this fast moving situation, it was wrong to speculate in this way, although he did not at any point report that it was an israeli strike. This doesnt represent the entirety of bbc output. Anyone watching, listening to or reading our coverage can see we have set out both sides competing claims about the explosion, clearly showing who is saying them and what do we do or dont know. Now, weve had a lot of complaints this week that coverage of the conflict in israel and gaza eclipsed coverage of the continuing war in ukraine. Viewers said they realized the middle east was important, but so was the suffering of the ukrainian people following the russian invasion. Dorothy moran recorded this comment for newswatch. We all know that youve got to report on the israeli war, but what about the ukraine war . No mention of it now. The poor people of ukraine must think weve forgotten about them, and mr putin must be really pleased. Come on, bbc, lets hear all the news. Many other viewers also emailed newswatch to protest. On tuesday, Richard Harris wrote in, is the war in ukraine over, he asked. There was no mention of it on the 1 00 news today. Norma probert emailed, surely the ukraine situation should not be forgotten in the face of other conflicts just because it is a longer war. It is equally important the public are kept up to date with the situation there, too. Margaret dale said, while i completely understand that the israeli gaza war is paramount, ifail to understand why the Ukraine Russian war has dropped from the news altogether. This cannot be right. We showed those complaints to bbc news and received this response back. The conflict in israel and gaza is of huge interest to our audience across the uk and the rest of the world. As this fast changing situation develops, we are providing up to the minute news, interviews and analysis to help people understand what is going on in a highly complex conflict. The bbc also remains committed to covering the ongoing situation in ukraine. Our teams in country and the surrounding region continue to provide coverage across our news channel, online and other bbc platforms. Now this week saw the end of Party Conference season with the Scottish National party wrapping up its conference in aberdeen. Previous weeks had seen labour meet up in liverpool, the conservatives in manchester and the lib dems in bournemouth plus plaid cymru and the greens. Some of the keynote speeches were carried live on bbc news outlets such as politics live and clips of other speakers we used in political reports from the conferences and on the bbc website. But some people contacted us to say more was needed and newswatch viewers may remember we discussed on this programme the bbc� s decision to stop live coverage of Party Conferences in 2020 because of budget cuts. Well, Drjohn Coleman wrote to us saying he wanted the Party Conferences televised as they happen. Hes an Associate Professor at the school of history and cultures at the university of birmingham, and hejoins us now on the line from that city. Welcome to newswatch, john. You used to enjoy watching the live coverage. Can you sum up whats your concern about the coverage now from Party Conferences . Well, my main concern is that these are an important part of our national democracy. Were running up to what will be quite a significant general election. And its quite clear that there are within each party there are divisions and strains that are playing out as well. It was noticed that, you know, the liberals and the labour party both had votes by the members that went against the leadership and policies and its, and it would have been really good for people to be able to see that live and see how that is, is playing out. Because i looked on the news website to see how i could get access to what was going on in the conferences. And it directed me to the web pages. And it struck me that thats really treating National Politics almost like a sort of Niche Interest rather than as something that is central to what we, to concern to all of us. And it seemed to me that, you know, broadcasting it live, which is what you used to do, would be both valuable and also an Essential Component in informing people about, you know, how our National Politics are playing out. And presumably you used to watch it live on Bbc Parliament channel. Im going to read you what the bbc have told us. We spoke to senior editorial managers and theyre all tied up with the Big By Elections in tamworth in mid bedfordshire, so they couldnt come on the programme today. But during the recent run of conferences, the Bbc Parliament channel broadcast proceedings from the welsh and scottish parliaments rather than live coverage from the Party Conferences. And they gave us a statement about providing coverage and analysis of the Party Conferences across its output in the last month, politics live broadcast live from the conservative and labour autumn Party Conferences carrying the speeches of the Party Leaders and the chancellor and Shadow Chancellor in full. We have also produced special programmes around the leaders� speeches from the liberal democrat and snp conferences. There has been a substantial amount of discussion and analysis of decisions and debate at the conferences on numerous bbc platforms, including radio and television programmes, as well as on the website. So what theyre saying is across the range of output, youll get lots of coverage about what was important from the conferences. Does that satisfy you . Well, it doesnt really, because you get more from seeing it for yourself then from commentary. And bbc commentary is always very expert and im sure, you know, deciding in advance what would be the important bits of a conference and which wont be so important is going to be difficult. But the chance is to see the debates, particularly those where the membership go against what the leadership would prefer them to do is really indicative of whats going on in the party and gives an insight into how things will play out if theyre elected into into government. Drjohn carman, thank you so much. Finally on wednesday morning, bbc breakfast sports presenter hugh ferris brought us the happy news that englands men had qualified for the Euro 2a Football tournament, having beaten italy 3 1 the night before. A nation rejoiced, but one viewer was less happy. The sports presenter hadnt shaved, james weston complained to newswatch. Older men with unshaven, white whiskers always remind me of steptoe senior, played by wilfred bramble, he told us. Well, the dashing hugh ferris is hardly an old man with white whiskers. But we asked him about it and he said it takes him much longer to trim his Designer Stubble than to shave. So please dont be concerned that hes not putting the effort in. Thank you for all your comments this week. If you want to share your opinions about what you see or hear on bbc news, on tv, radio, online and social media email newswatch at bbc. Co. Uk or you can find us on x formerly known as twitter. You can call us on 03700106676. And do you have a look at our website for previous interviews bbc. Co. Uk newswatch. Thats all from us for now. Thank you forjoining us. Do think about getting in touch and perhaps even coming on the programme. And well be back to hear more of your thoughts about how the bbc covers the news next week. Goodbye. This is bbc news. Well have the headlines for you at the top of the hours straight after this programme. Cern is one of the most Famous Centres for science in the world. On the border of switzerland and france, this place has been expanding our horizons for decades. Its High Energy Physics research has helped reveal the secrets of our existence. And i have been allowed in it to meet some of those at the cutting edge. 2,500 people work here. 12,000 more pour over the results of the experiments. Here at cern, it is a really unique community. It is an International Group of people, so we are from all over the world. You can knock on the door of a Nobel Prize Winning scientist, ask them a question, and they will say, come in. Lets talk about it and have a coffee. Any young boy or girls dream to work in science, right, is to go to a place which is like a town of science, and that is what cern really is. Its buzzing with the ideas. Its also buzzing with energy of a different kind, with giant laboratories that feel almost ramshackle. Theyre not really, though. One thing i love about cern is they seem to have most of the worlds supply of tinfoil here. Most famously, cern is home to the Large Hadron Collider, the worlds biggest machine, built to examine the universes smallest particles. It smashes them together at almost the speed of light, and the last time i was here, it made me cry. Cern lets us do science that no individual country could do by itself, so we can build fantastic machines like the Large Hadron Collider big, complex International Projects where the world comes together to do it. The thing about this place though is that the stuff that goes on here is highly theoretical and experimental, and it kind feels really abstract and not really relevant to our everyday lives, but plenty of stuff that has been developed here has filtered down to the real world. Well, the high energy beams that are whizzing around cern are created by Particle Accelerators big ones. But there are many, many smaller ones around the world, and some of those are in hospitals, and they are being used to treat something that will affect a great many of us during our lifetimes cancer. This is the christie in manchester europes largest Cancer Hospital and it is one of two places in the uk where Cancer Patients come to be treated with proton beam therapy. It is a special form of radiotherapy which usually uses radiation high energy x rays to try and kill tumours in the body, but the christie has a particle accelerator, and that means they can fire beams of protons at the cancer. When radiation goes into a patient, obviously you want to use it to kill the tumour, but it goes through normal healthy tissue, and that gives rise to the side effects. Protons being particles slow down as they enter the tissue, and they stop within the tumour and do not go any further. And that means that this form of radiotherapy can be used in really tricky parts of the body. For example, Something Like the brainstem, which we know is very sensitive to radiation. So, it is very much putting the beam precisely into the tumour and not going into the sensitive organ. All types of Cancer Treatments risk harming healthy tissue near to the tumour and research is ongoing around the world to try and minimise this collateral damage. There has been at least one recent, rather strange, finding. It is to do with how quickly and how hard you deliver the dose of radiation, and it is called the flash effect. So, you deliver the radiation in a very intense burst to the tumour instead of on several seconds, for example