with more, here s our sports editor, dan roan. on any normal saturday, gary lineker would have been preparing to host football s most famous show. but not today. the presenter, a guest at hometown club leicester city this afternoon, as the crisis intensified after the bbc decided to drop him from match of the day following an impartiality row over comments he made on twitter criticising the government s language over its new asylum policy. more pundits and presenters, meanwhile, confirming they d be joining an impromptu boycott in support of their colleague, as the corporation s weekend sport output unravelled. no football focus for the build up, instead an edition of bargain hunt. results show final score also pulled from the schedules. and only this evening it was confirmed a much reduced match of the day would be shown, but cut to just 20 minutes, with no presentation, interviews or commentary ofany kind. i am sorry that audiences have been affected and they haven t got th
and we ll catch up with lesley paterson the triathlete who s in the running at sunday s oscars for her screenplay of a german first world war epic. i went up to tom cruise, i said hi, i m lesley paterson, writer of all quiet on the western front. he said, i know your story. how many hours a day have you trained? i said, no way?! hello. let s begin with a story that s causing a storm here in the uk, and the director general of this organisation, the bbc, tim davie, has apologised for widespread disruption to bbc sports programming but says he won t resign. a number of tv and radio programmes were taken off air after presenters and pundits walked out in support of gary lineker. the former footballer and presenter of match of the day was taken off the programme after the bbc deemed he d breached the corporation s editorial guidelines on impartiality. with more, here s our sports editor, dan roan. on any normal saturday, gary lineker would have been preparing to host foot
with lesley paterson, the triathlete who s in the running at sunday s oscars, for her screenplay of a german first world war epic. i went up to tom cruise, i said hi, i m lesley paterson, writer of all quiet on the western front. he said, i know your story. how many hours a day have you trained? i said, no way?! let s begin with a story that s causing a storm here in the uk, and the director general of this organisation, the bbc, tim davie, has apologised for widespread disruption to bbc sports programming but says he won t resign. a number of tv and radio programmes were taken off air after presenters and pundits walked out in support of gary lineker. the former footballer and presenter of match of the day was taken off the programme after the bbc deemed he d breached the corporation s editorial guidelines on impartiality. with more, here s our sports editor, dan roan. on any normal saturday, gary lineker would have been preparing to host football s most famous show. b
and we ll catch up with lesley paterson, the triathlete who s in the running at sunday s oscars, for her screenplay of a german first world war epic. i went up to tom cruise, i said hi, i m lesley paterson, writer of all quiet on the western front. he said, i know your story. how many hours a day do you train? i said, no way?! hello. let s begin with a story that s causing a storm here in the uk, and the director general of this organisation, the bbc, tim davie, has apologised for widespread disruption to bbc sports programming but says he won t resign. a number of tv and radio programmes were taken off air after presenters and pundits walked out in support of gary lineker. the former footballer and presenter of match of the day was taken off the programme after the bbc deemed he d breached the corporation s editorial guidelines on impartiality. with more, here s our sports editor, dan roan. on any normal saturday, gary lineker would have been preparing to host football
now uncertaintly remains over sunday s sports programming and whether more presenters and pundits willjoin the boycott in support of gary lineker. police and demonstrators clash across france over welfare reforms as the upper house of parliament passes a bill that will raise the pension age to 64. the british chancellor meets the governor of the bank of england, to discuss the collapse of silicon valley bank after the failure of its parent company in the us. and the countdown to the oscars begins but who will be smiling at the end of hollywood s biggest event of the year? hello and welcome to bbc news. talks are continuing to try to resolve the row that s led to widespread disruption of football coverage across the bbc. there are fears that more programming could be affected on sunday, including the women s super league and match of the day two. sports presenters boycotted saturday s programmes in support of gary lineker, who was asked to step down from match of the day