The bbc investigation was declared woefully ineffective. Prince william says the deception fuelled his mothers paranoia and distrust. It is my view that the deceitful way the interview was obtained substantially influenced what my mother said. The interview was a major contribution to making my parents relationship worse and has since hurt countless others. The bbc knew back in 1996 about the fake bank statements. Lord dyson said the bbc knew Martin Bashir had lied when he said he had not shown them to earl spencer. The defence was this note from princess diana, saying she had not seen the offending documents, but there were people in the bbc who had concerns. The problem, they say, was the corporations culture. Very late 1995, i bought the documents to the attention of the bbc management, as i was asked to do by a bbc lawyer, and was told within 24 hours of doing that that effectively i would no longer be part of the programme. I had been disloyal. Thats what happened to Whistle Blowers at that time at the bbc. The bbc has handed back the bafta won by the programme, but lord dyson says the evidence suggests an interview would have taken place, come what may. The issue is the methods that were use to coax and persuade. In prince harrys statement, he says, this is the First Step Towards justice and truth, yet what deeply concerns me is that practices like these and even worse are still widespread today. This is, he says, bigger than one outlet, one network or one publication. The bbc and the Graphic Designer Matt Wiessler have since agreed a settlement. This year, tensions between china and the west have escalated over media coverage. The english language satellite news station China Global Television network had its license revoked by the uk regulator. And, in retaliation, Bbc World News was banned in beijing. There have also been tit for tat Expulsions Ofjournalists in both the us and in china. Beijing, it seems, still wants to try to control Public Information. Take a look at how low bbc would go to speak ill of china by giving Up Objectivity and why that. One of the worlds oldest known civilizations is using the worlds Newest Technology to propagate its message and curtail that of rivals. This is what the media want you to believe. In february, the uks independent broadcast regulator, ofcom, removed the licence of chinas state controlled network, cgtn. The station had failed to prove its independence from chinas leadership. They immediately struck back, banning the bbc� s World News Channel in a tit for tat measure. It was merely an escalation of tension. The chinese authorities have long been unhappy about the bbc� s coverage of Detention Camps for Uyghur Muslims in xinjiang province, but were particularly angry about reports that have led to an International Outcry and won awards. We are constantly followed and turned back at makeshift barriers and roadblocks. The bbc team in beijing often face hostility. Filming around the country is often difficult, with a heavy State Presence never far away. When i arrived in china about four years ago. The New York Times bureau chief has been doing hisjob from seoul, having been thrown out at a few days notice. If youre covering topics that are deemed sensitive, you know, you will be met by the police or the Secret Service and youll be harassed by the local authorities who will tell you you dont have permission to be in the region. Which isnt true. We do have permission to be anywhere in china except tibet, where we are forbidden to go. And that includes not just blocking our work, but also blocking the work of our chinese colleagues. China claims it only expelled american journalists after expulsions from the usa. The Wall Streetjournal Team has been down to just four after ten were expelled in the last two years. Its never been easy to be a Foreign Correspondent in china, but over the last year or so, its gotten much more difficult. Part of that, of course, is the coronavirus. Its difficult everywhere, but especially in china. We feel so much more pressure here from the authorities, and from the public, and from the media here in terms of what we write and how we report on china. A report from the Foreign Correspondents club of china argue journalists faced growing harassment, weaponising of visas and seeing their work distorted, misrepresented or attacked with fabricated charges. Global conflicts used to be mostly about natural resources, such as land or water. Today, they are increasingly about Public Information that is, media. In this, the too much information age, knowledge is power as never before. In a long statement, the Chinese Government said it opposes ideological bias against china, fake news under the cover of Freedom Of The Press and violation of professional ethics. It also says it does not recognise the Correspondents Club and says its so called report is fraught with ideological bias and slander. In february, the world plans to descend on beijing for the 2022 winter olympics, but which china will the world be allowed to see . But these tensions haventjust been between the west and china. In august, the bbc� s moscow correspondent Sarah Rainsford left russia. She was expelled by the authorities there after being accused of being a threat to National Security. They said that the move was in response to the expulsion of a russian journalist from the uk two years ago. This was sarahs last report from moscow. This was the moment i discovered i was being expelled from russia. According to a specific law, ive been designated a threat to National Security and, as such, im not allowed into the country. Pulled aside at passport control, i was told the fsb Security Service had banned me for life. I recorded the conversation. I was returning from belarus, where id confronted Alexander Lukashenko on the mass repression and torture of peaceful protesters. His loyal supporters rounded on me in a coordinated attack. Vladimir putin is presenting this as just another working visit. Ive reported from russia for two decades, the whole span of Vladimir Putins presidency. There have been highs, like the world cup. But ive also charted the slow erosion of freedoms here the crackdown on dissent. A year ago, the government put me on short term visas. Then i became the news as State Television announced i had to leave. After tense negotiations, i had been allowed to enter russia, but only to pack. I was then told my visa wouldnt be renewed. Supposedly what happened to a russian reporter in london though that was two years ago. Its happening as the pressure on russian journalists who dont toe the kremlin line is intensifying. Dozhd tv has just been added to a growing blacklist of media labelled foreign agents for getting funds from abroad. The status of foreign agents means that we dozhd we are enemies of the state. The pretending of being a democracy is over. It is very bad and it could become much worse any time. So im leaving a country i first came to as the soviet union fell apart, when free speech all freedoms were new and precious. It feels like todays russia is moving in reverse. The bbc continues to press the authorities in moscow to reverse the expulsion and, meanwhile, sarah is due to take up a new posting as Eastern Europe correspondent. Injuly, i met up with the boss of google. Sundar pichai said that he believes that the western model of a free and open internet is under attack. Google is under huge pressure from regulators Around The World for its approach to privacy, data, Market Dominance and tax. For the past two decades, one californian company, more than any other, has designed and built the internet with a dominance in digital advertising. Now, Google Isjourneying into the unknown with two big bets unimaginably powerful Quantum Computers and, above all, artificial intelligence. I viewed it as the most profound technology that humanity will ever develop and work on and we have to make sure we do it in a way that we can harness it to societys benefit. Sundar pichai is the man leading google into this new era. Be it healthcare, education, be it how we manufacture things and how we consume information. If you think about fire or electricity or the internet, you know, its like that, but i think even even more profound. Born of humble roots in tamil nadu in south east india, Sundar Pichai trained as an engineer. He moved to the us to pursue his dream and joined google� s founders, larry page and sergey brin, when the company was just six years old in 200a. Now, hes the boss of both google and its Parent Company, alphabet, which includes youtube. And he faces unrelenting scrutiny. Raise your right hand. You swear that the testimony. From us lawmakers, to most recently at the g7 and g20 summits, where tax was in focus. Historically, has google paid enough tax in the right places . We are one of the Worlds Largest taxpayers. You know, if you look at, on an average, over the past decade, we have paid over 20 in taxes. We do pay the majority of our share of taxes in the us, where we originate and where our products are developed. I think there are good conversations, and we support the global oecd conversations, figuring out what is the right way to allocate taxes and, you know, this is beyond a Single Company to solve. Youve got two teenagers, i understand . Whats your policy on screen time for kids . I think this generation needs to learn to adapt to technology its going to be a big part of their life so ive encouraged them to develop boundaries on their own. But, you know, ive approached it as a journey of personal responsibility. How worried are you that today, the internet seems to be splitting into different domains, where we have a kind of californian internet and, increasingly, a chinese one, and the chinese one might be in the ascendant . The free and open internet has been a tremendous force for good and i think we take it for granted a bit but i do think the model is being attacked and, you know, so i think its something we take for granted but i hope we can stand up, particularly in countries with strong democratic traditions and values. Sundar pichai is clear its up to democracies, as much as any tech giant, to shape our digital future. And you can catch my full interview with Sundar Pichai on the bbc iplayer, or listen to it as a podcast on bbc sounds. Facebook made headlines earlier this year when it blocked news content in australia in a row over proposals to make it pay for news on its platform. Here in the uk, the boss of the Competition And Markets Authority described australias proposals as sensible and said maybe the uk should consider following a similar route. Dr Andrea Coscelli also described google and facebook� s dominance of Online Advertising as a problem. The western web today is based on free and open access. You dont pay for links. But the price of that freedom is that we leave personal data trails that are monetised by the likes of google and facebook giant advertising companies. In a rare broadcast interview, the boss of the Competition And Markets Authority said that google� s 90 share of the uks search Advertising Market is a problem. And then, he turned to facebook. Theres a £5. 5 billion according to your own cma figures £5. 5 billion display Advertising Market in the uk. Facebook has more than 50 of that. Is that too much . Er, yes. Why . When companies have too much economic power, that creates a number of distortions, first for competitors, secondly for consumers. Some level potentially in terms of the political process as well, in some cases. Overnight, australia and facebook reached a compromise over a new law to force it and google to pay News Publishers more for their content. Facebook had blocked news content in the row but thats now being restored. Under a new deal, there will be mediation to agree payments before any final arbitration kicks in. I think that the australian approach is a sensible one, which is to try to force the companies into proper commercial negotiations, with the backstop of a possible intervention by a regulator. The tech giants argue that publishers choose to be on their platform because they derive value from it. They can build an audience to whom they can sell adverts. We dont ask car makers to pay Radio Stations each time they play on a car radio so why Ask Tech Platforms to pay journalists . The answer, at least according to an emerging consensus, is that our Public Information system, the media, is too precious and too damaged to be left to a californian duopoly. But what if britain did follow the route that australias taken and facebook pulled News Services from uk users . I think it would be pretty serious. I think would be unlikely that facebook would do it, given whats happened in australia and the aftermath of that. And i think potentially, the uk should introduce regulation to potentially prevent this type of action by facebook as part of the legislation. What does that reveal about the imbalance in power between individual global Organisations Companies and democratic sovereign nations . Yeah, i think its a very worrisome development and i think it really shows that we need to urgently do something to reduce this imbalance of power. Dr Andrea Coscelli, the boss of the uk Competition And Markets Authority. A few weeks ago, a former facebook employee, frances haugen, turned whistle blower to express her concern about the companys strategy. Frances haugen handed over internal documents to us lawmakers, which she claimed were evidence the trillion Dollar Company harms childrens mental health, stokes division, and puts profits before people. The company intentionally hides Vital Information from the public, from the Us Government and from governments Around The World. In a statement on his facebook page, Mark Zuckerberg said of the allegations by his former employee . He went on to say . One of the criticisms of facebook is it has just grown too big. When that happened to google, google created a Parent Company alphabet. And thats what facebook has done. Its created meta, an Umbrella Organisation for facebook, instagram, whatsapp and all its other businesses, which takes its name from the metaverse, the Virtual Reality domain that Mark Zuckerberg believes is the future of digital life. And its all change at twitter, which has a new boss. A few weeks ago, jack dorsey announced or rather tweeted he is to resign from the company he created 16 years ago. Chief technical officer Parag Agrawal has taken over. Here in the uk, the Regulator Ofcom introduced the childrens code to protect childrens data online. Its focus will be gaming, social media and video streaming. Companies, even those who are based abroad, will have to adhere to a series of standards. If they dont, they could face heavy sanctions. Hi todays teenagers have never known the world before the internet. Life online has massively expanded. Ijust wondered if i could talk to you guys for a little while about whether or not you worry about sharing too much personal information online. When it asks for location, i dont really trust it because its giving private information away to people. I can see, like, 18 plus adverts, which arent exactly appropriate for my age group. Well, i see game adverts about people killing each other, which i dont think is appropriatej for my age as well. When it asks to collect my data and i dont know what its being used for, sometimes that scares me a little bit. The new childrens code is now enforced by the information commissioners office. There are 15 standards which will govern how childrens data is protected online. These include strict rules on Data Collection and sharing, making high privacy settings the default and switching Location Tracking off by default, too. A key figure behind this new code is the Film Director and now campaigner baroness beeban kidron. Personal data is the mechanism by which the Companies Make money, so its follow the money. Its designed to grab the data. And in doing so, a lot of things, unintended consequences, happen to our children. And that by actually saying, no, dont take kids data, take the kids out the business model, make your profits after youve taken care of young people, we change the system itself. Most Big Technology companies insist childrens safety is a priority and say they welcome smarter regulation, but these rules strike the very foundation of some of their Business Models and, as such, are being watched very closely from washington to brussels and canberra. What sort of legal and financial power will you have to sanction those who fall foul of this new childrens code . The change weve seen already in large platforms Around The World is actually because they want to do the right thing. But we do have the power to charge 4 of their global turnover, which is a Material Amount for those who are the most persistent offenders. How do you feel about the fact that your personal information is being used online to make a few people very rich . I feel like they shouldnt do i that, cos they shouldnt make money from other peoples personal information. Its my information to start with and even if i did give it to them, the fact that theyre making money out of my personal information quite annoys me a lot. Guys, youre brilliant. Thank you so much for doing this well, that was one of the more Fun Video Calls of the year. Were nearly at the end of our review. Butjust before we go. Oh, i love this . We� ve got a new culture secretary, nadine dorries. Shes the tenth in ten years. And one of her key decisions is whether or not to privatise channel 4. Three is a magic number. And bbc three is going to return as a linear channel in the new year. Well, its been an intense 2021. Theres plenty more to come next year. I hope you get a chance to relax over christmas. Thank you for watching. Hello there. The warmest new years eve on record has been followed provisionally by the warmest new years day on record with temperatures in the capital hitting above 16 celsius. All because weve had a feed of southerly winds bringing some very, very warm air in our direction. Those southerly winds are up and around this area of low pressure which has brought some very windy weather today across the northwest of the uk. The Wind Direction shifts subtly as we get into tomorrow. We lose the southerly winds and pick up the westerly wind. That will start to cool things off a little. A slightly cooler night tonight than last night was. We will see clear spells but some hefty downpours of rain also pushing in from the west. The winds easing a little across those northwestern parts but it will stay quite blustery and temperatures between six and 12 degrees. Still very, very mild just not quite as mild as it has been. Into sunday this lump of wet weather will clear away then we will see some sunshine and then more rain swing across wales, the southwest of england towards the midlands, parts of northwest england. Also showers into Northern Ireland and scotland with some sunny spells in between. Top temperatures yes, down a little bit on where they have been today, nine to 13 degrees. That is a process that will continue. As we go through sunday night you can see further showers potentially longer showers at time some clear spells and staying quite blustery. Low pressure still firmly in charge of our weather for monday. A couple of frontal system to talk about, this one down towards the south threatens to bring some outbreaks of rain to potentially some quite strong winds towards the general islands, may be england as well. This frontal will bring southwards Northern Island into Northern England and behind us we start to see a more significant change in the feel of the weather. Just five or six degrees in Northern Scotland on monday afternoon. Ii or 12 further south. As we move out of money into tuesday we all get into this northerly wind and some much, much colder air. Low pressure still close by and it is likely that that will feed some wintry showers into northern parts, especially on quite a brisk wind. The forcast for the coming week is a significantly colder one, although temperatures are only going back to where they should be for this of year. This is bbc news with me, celia hatton. These are the latest headlines in the uk and Around The World. South africas president leads Funeral Tributes to Archbishop Desmond tutu, calling him the nations moral compass. Archbishop desmond tutu was without Question A Crusader in the struggle forfreedom, forjustice, for equality and for peace. 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