with a funding gap of £500 million. the result has been a series of budget cuts, the latest of which hit the news division on wednesday. although more money is being put into digitaljournalism and some broadcast services are being expanded the news at one doubling in length to an hour, for instance elsewhere, savings are being made. newsnight is losing half its staff, shortening its duration, and instead of the current magazine format with filmed reports and investigations, will become an interview, debate and discussion show. gabriel gatehouse, a former correspondent on the programme, had this response. but viewer david wright pointed out. while terry pearson questioned the thinking behind this week s changes. well, we ll be discussing the logic behind wednesday s announcement in a moment. but first, if this is the end of newsnight as we know it, what exactly is being lost without any dedicated correspondents and i should say, i was one of them in the 1990s or a bud
where bbc explicitly labels a party political claim misleading and on the flagship evening news bulletin, outstanding reporting. but cliff mann had a different view. it is abundantly clear that the £2,000 claim by sunak was fabricated and has been debunked, yet you continue to report on it as a balanced argument. andy freeman pointed out that, the truth is the truth and a lie is a lie. no need to shy away from it. and seb berry also used the l word, wondering, why is bbc news leading with the tories doubling down on their tax lie, which just reinforces the lie? tory head office must be absolutely delighted. wednesday and thursday provided some respite from the electoral trail for politicians and for viewers. a welcome development for some, but not all the audience. much of the news agenda moved to northern france and to portsmouth, where ceremonies were taking place to mark the 80th anniversary of d day. the news channel carried many of the commemorative ev
Hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. She Wont Take Part in a televised Leaders Debate. If she wont, then he wont. Will the bbc do more to make a head to head happen . And are the green party being given a fair share of airtime on the bbcs special election programmes. There has been a bit of a phoney war feel to the Election Campaign so far. Before the parties began publishing their manifestos. Many questions had been fobbed off with this answer, given to Laura Kuenssberg byJeremy Corbyn on tuesday. Well, you will have to wait for the manifesto for the details. You were expecting that answer. Those manifestos will be officially unveiled next week, but on wednesday night we got a Sneak Preview of what labours might contain. Somehow, an earlier version had ended up in the hands of chris mason. I cant claim ive read it all, but here it is. Stamped right through the middle of the document, about 20,000 words in total, draft, confidential. In other words, they hadnt quite an
The show and it is just wonderful to have all of this support. I really thank everybody for it. That is the winner of masterchef, 2017. Now we can see what the Weather Forecast is holding for us. Im so looking forward to my salad, you have no idea. I will still be hungry afterwards. We have a mixed bag of weather, we have some low cloud and damp conditions across Northern Ireland, but the sunshine has been developing more widely. In the south west and across wales. The sunshine will move into england and wales. The rain is transferring north through Northern Ireland into scotla nd north through Northern Ireland into scotland where we have a few showers and the wet weather will move north through scotland. Some thundery showers possible in the highlands. Cool and damp to enter the afternoon, but improving in northern england. Across Northern Ireland it will brighten up briefly and left those temperatures ahead of the showers which arrive in the evening. That is knocking on the door of c
The show and it is just wonderful to have all of this support. I really thank everybody for it. That is the winner of masterchef, 2017. Now we can see what the Weather Forecast is holding for us. Im so looking forward to my salad, you have no idea. I will still be hungry afterwards. We have a mixed bag of weather, we have some low cloud and damp conditions across Northern Ireland, but the sunshine has been developing more widely. In the south west and across wales. The sunshine will move into england and wales. The rain is transferring north through Northern Ireland into scotla nd north through Northern Ireland into scotland where we have a few showers and the wet weather will move north through scotland. Some thundery showers possible in the highlands. Cool and damp to enter the afternoon, but improving in northern england. Across Northern Ireland it will brighten up briefly and left those temperatures ahead of the showers which arrive in the evening. That is knocking on the door of c