Rishi sunak officiallyjoins the race to be the next conservative leader and prime minister, this Afternoon Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan has gone public with her support for him. Penny mordaunt is still in the running. She told the bbc she believes in cabinet led politics. I have my views but i will not be imposing i have my views but i will not be imposing policy that i have just made imposing policy that i have just made up imposing policy that i have just made up in a room by myself. The question now does borisjohnson have enough backers to stand as well . Labour leader kier starmer says his party hasnt Got Complacent and repeats calls for a general election. The schools struggling to keep the lights and heating on headteachers warn spiralling energy costs could see most schools in england run out of money next year. And Jodie Whittaker is set to make her final appearance as the doctor. More headlines at six oclock. Now on bbc news, unspun world withjohn simpson. Hello, and wel
rishi sunak officiallyjoins the race to be the next conservative leader and prime minister, this afternoon culture secretary michelle donelan has gone public with her support for him. penny mordaunt is still in the running. she told the bbc she believes in cabinet led politics. i have my views but i will not be imposing i have my views but i will not be imposing policy that i have just made imposing policy that i have just made up imposing policy that i have just made up in a room by myself. the question now does borisjohnson have enough backers to stand as well? labour leader kier starmer says his party hasn t got complacent and repeats calls for a general election. the schools struggling to keep the lights and heating on headteachers warn spiralling energy costs could see most schools in england run out of money next year. and jodie whittaker is set to make her final appearance as the doctor. more headlines at six o clock. now on bbc news, unspun world withjohn
and the authorities have tried time and again to prevent people from accessing social media, but they can t stop everyone. there are ways around it. one of the reasons why these protests have lasted as long as they have is because of social media, is because of social media accounts documenting the protests, sending videos to news agencies, to news outlets like bbc persian. is that your function, to find out, to collate everything that s being said on social media and on the official media? and then what? you pass that through to bbc persian? we monitor traditional media tv, radio, newspapers. we monitor social media. we verify the stuff we see using various sources. if there is a video of a protest
that does that. that s right. pete: media including a host at another channel says it s not just about roseanne and trump. it s about the people who support president trump. this is what chris hayes tweeted yesterday. he said roseanne s problem turned out to be that she far too authentically represented the actual world view of a significant chunk of the trump base. somehow now that represents folks who support. that s a lie. she claimed she was making a joke and it was a bad joke. okay? she is a comedian. okay. she apologized for it. but that s not the representation of the trump base. we are loving, caring people. we are not racist. we love god. we love this country. how dare him say that. that s what we re talking about right there. one tweet don t make you a racist. okay? and they want to talk about and say that she has done all of these different things and said all of these different things. if you look at the left wing media tv right now, you will see a lot of racist remar
was that because of facebook? no it was because of tv. this thing that never existed before. al jazeera, which is showing everybody, everything that s happening, no matter what kind of screens the government put in front of it. that also strikes me as being a real difference. absolutely. what s interesting about al jazeera, they were pulling stuff off facebook. the first protest that happened in tunisia, their video, al jazeera starts pulling stuff off of that page and starts showing those. so it s social media feeding the old media tv. so the jordan nicholas, we have to do jordan another time. thanks for a fascinating conversation. coming up, our live coverage continues here. we ll have more with our middle east experts. stay with us. leftover desserts, boardroom, now. thanks, i already have some yummy black forest cake. black forest cake? [ female announcer ] need a guilt free treat? try yoplait light. and i ve lost weight. [ female announcer ] with 30 delicious flavors all