now on bbc news, let s watch the media show. hello. in march this year, the bbc gave one of its biggest soaps, holby city, a do not resuscitate order after 23 years. injuly, channel 5 decided we no longer needed good neighbours and the sun went down on ramsay street after 37 years. but cast your minds back to christmas day, 1986. anyone remember this? this, my sweet, is a letter from my solicitor telling you that your husband has filed a petition for divorce. happy christmas, ange. that was dirty den handing angie watts divorce papers after she d lied to him about having six months left to live. 30 million people tuned in to watch that episode of eastenders, more than half the population. today, the show averages between 4 and 6 million per episode, much of it through iplayer. so do soaps matter any more? what s their place in the cultural landscape? are we going through a messy den and angie divorce with them? or is it still enduring love, like scott and charlene? i m joined
for sir salman rushdie, authors have been gathering in new york to demonstrate their support, a week after he was seriously injured in a knife attack. hundreds of writers gathered at the city s public library to read his works and pay tribute. and now on bbc news, it s the media show. hello. in march this year, the bbc gave one of its biggest soaps, holby city, a do not resuscitate order after 23 years. injuly, channel 5 decided we no longer needed good neighbours and the sun went down on ramsay street after 37 years. but cast your mind back to christmas day, 1986. anyone remember this? this, my sweet, is a letter from my solicitor telling you that your husband has filed a petition for divorce. happy christmas, ange. that was dirty den handing angie watt s divorce papers after she d lied to him about having six months left to live. 30 million people tuned in to watch that episode of eastenders, more than half the population. today, the show averages between 4 and 6 million pe
today, the show averages between 4 and 6 million per episode, much of it through iplayer. so do soaps matter any more? what s their place in the cultural landscape? are we going through a messy den and angie divorce with them? or is it still enduring love, like scott and charlene? i m joined by sir phil redmond, creator of three of the biggest british soaps of all time grange hill, brookside and hollyoa ks. daniel kilkenny is soaps editor for entertainment news website digital spy. tv critic and soap fan emma bullimore is here, and charles collingwood, who s been farming, flirting and digging into his wife s venison pie for a whopping 47 years as brian in the archers. welcome to you all and thanks for coming on the show. phil, if we start with you, all the big soaps eastenders, coronation street, emmerdale have seen huge drops in audience numbers in recent years. you ve criticised soaps for not tackling big social issues like they used to. do you think it s the end of t
Earlier. I think the results of send a very clear signal to policymakers because just after nine months of the president ial elections, support for the current Policy Makers has declined significantly. And this is mainly i think because of the high inflation and persistent inflation and declining Purchasing Power of the middle class and lower income classes, that is i think the main reason of declining support for the policymakers. Do you think that this rebuff at the polls will tie president erdogan s hands when it comes to reforming the economy . I think the signal is well received by the the policymakers because both the Finance Minister and president erdogan reiterated that the current policies will continue, so it means that they will continue to rebalance the economy and return back to Sustainable Growth for the turkish economy. When we look at the Market Reaction today for these announcements, the markets have also the scenario, so the markets took it as a positive sign. Do you
Following the two week operation. Buildings are reduced to rubble the few remaining are little more than shells. These pictures obtained by Newsagency Reuters show what is left inside the complex. Israel has previously said it was carrying out precise operations against hamas and islamichhad fighters, and had killed 200 of them. Meanwhile, hundreds of israeli protesters have spent the night in tents outside Parliament Injerusalem to press their demand for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to step down. Thousands of people rallied in jerusalem for what theyre calling the largest Anti Government protest since the war in the gaza strip began, nearly six months ago. On sunday, mr netanyahu had surgery for a hernia his office reporting it had been successful. Our middle east correspondent, yolande knell, is injerusalem and has the more on the situation at al shifa hospital. Videos are circulating on social media that show this vast medical complex now as a set of burnt out buildings. Many o