that want to abolish the monarchy as who are celebrating the jubilee. you wouldn t know that if you had been watching bbc s coverage of the last few days. deb taylor was watching that and emails: many of the weekens ceremonies broadcast on the channel of the corporation s largely celebratory approach represented a failure ofjournalistic impartiality. for dave in birmingham: one specific moment over the long weekend attracted a lot of attention from the audience and it came as guests arrived at st paul s cathedral on friday morning for the queen s thanksgiving service. the prime ministerjust arriving with his wife. quite a bit of booing in the crowd. i know. you can hear it, there is quite of lot of booing, actually. a substantial amount. didn t see that coming. quite a moment. we definitely haven t heard that for any other vip guests, that s fair to say. that was broadcast live. but as jane hill continued to talk to her guests, the footage of mr and mrs johnson was replayed
now on bbc news it s time for newswatch. hello and welcome to newswatch with me samira ahmed. did bbc news overdo the platinumjubilee celebrations last weekend and forget its normal journalistic values? 0h, quite the booing in the crowd, and you can hear it. and did the bbc alter the sound level of booing when repeating shots of boris and carriejohnson at last week s thanksgiving service? a decade ago, the bbc was widely criticised for dumbing down it s treatment of the queens diamond jubilee, with its rain drenched royal flotilla along the thames. and a year ago, it received a record 100,000 complaints about the extent of air time devoted to the duke of edinburgh s death. those experiences coupled, with the recent troubled history of the royal family meant there was an intense focus on how the platinum jubilees death was covered on the bbc. and the corporation certainly pulled out all the stops from the start of the weekend to the end. cheering. she was the star of the show
of that competition. this time last year, we were seeing clear signs that ukraine s much heralded summer offensive wasn t doing very well. russia had had plenty of time to prepare its defences and ukraine simply couldn t break through them. the next phase, inevitably, would be a russian spring offensive, after the snow and mud of the winter gave way to firmer ground under the tracks and wheels of the tanks and armoured personnel carriers. ukraine s supporters around the world were nervous. might this be the moment when russia came crashing back, recapturing the ground it had lost and even maybe threatening kyiv, the ukrainian capital? the delays in getting the big us support package through seemed to make things much worse. and yet it hasn t happened. russia has made some gains, admittedly, but there s been no actual breakthrough. the bbc ukraine correspondent, james waterhouse, is back in london briefly, and i asked him for his view of what was happening. after ukraine weath
an independent investigation into israeli shelling that damaged the gaza office of the international committee of the red cross on friday. jordan condemned what it called israel s systematic targeting of civilians and aid agencies. in tel aviv, tens of thousands of people attended what organisers said was the biggest anti government protest since the war began. prime minister benjamin netanyahu is under continued public pressure as the families of 116 hostages held by hamas in gaza plead for a ceasefire. our middle east correspondent, yolande knell, has more on saturday s strikes. there have been more deadly israeli strikes on different neighbourhoods of gaza city. in beach camp, or shati camp, large strikes there. you can see these dark plumes of smoke in social media videos, several homes flattened, shocked people rushing to help the casualties who are at the scene. and there has been speculation in isreali media that a senior hamas commander was being targeted, but the o
lying on the hood of a vehicle as it drives past two ambulances. we ve decided to blur the image. his family said he was injured during the raid by israeli soldiers. the idf confirmed the incident, saying it violated orders , adding that it would be investigated and dealt with accordingly. it comes as anti government protesters clashed with israeli police in tel aviv. tens of thousands of people demonstrated near the headquarters of prime minister s benjamin netanyahu s likud party on saturday, demanding new elections, as well as the return of the 116 remaining hostages who were taken by hamas militants on october 7. at least 38 people were killed in israeli attacks in several neighbourhoods of gaza city on saturday. israel says its fighter jets struck hamas infrastructure. hamas says the attacks targeted civilians. separately, the international committee of the red cross says its field hospital is treating badly wounded people, including children, after explosions in a tent