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
the desire to control the womb is often the first, or most lethal, or most impactful kind of effort. another thing that nowadays everybody is talking about is cancel culture. you know, there is this fear of speaking up, especially among the younger generation. what do you think of that? do you actually think that this is compromising the freedom of speech of the younger generation? i don t feel it myself, but i resent it on behalf of anybody who does feel it because free speech is crucial to any democracy. we should not submit to cancel culture. it is social pressure as censorship, and it is definitely not a good thing. even when it is suppressing evidence of bias, it still is silencing people. no time for the papers, i m afraid. that s all from us tonight. goodnight. breaking news from around the world 24 breaking news from around the world 2a hours a day. this is bbc news. we didn t know where it was, she says, we ran to see and it was our home. from southern israel we coul