Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. The former bbc director general lord hall has resigned as chairman of the national gallery, amid outcry following an inquiry into panorama s princess diana interview. Lord hall was director of news when martin bashir got the 1995 scoop, using faked documents. In a statement, he said continuing in the role would be a distraction. Meanwhile, princess diana s brother, earl spencer, has confirmed to the bbc that he has written to the met police commissioner again, asking her to investigate the corporation over the interview. I m joined by our political correspondent greg dawson. This is going to come as a surprise to some people because lord hall was director of news 25 years ago. Yes. Director of news 25 years ago. Yes, this is a significant director of news 25 years ago. Yes this is a significant development, but for many, it won t be surprising given the nature of the criticism levelled at him and lord dyson s inquiry into what went on. As you s
Escape from their enclosure and are shot by wardens. And coming up at 8:30 becoming andi a special programme featuring a transgender teen who s documented his life for the bbc for a year. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The bbc s former director general, lord hall, has resigned as chairman of the national gallery following criticism over panorama s interview with princess diana in 1995. Tony hall was the corporation s head of news at the time, when reporter martin bashir, used deception to secure the interview. Lord hall led an internal investigation into initial complaints a year after the interview was broadcast, but it was branded woefully ineffective this week, by an independent inquiry. Here s our home editor, mark easton. Former bbc director general tony hall has not yet appeared publicly to answer questions about his role in the bashir scandal, specifically about what the dyson report called his woefully inadequate investigation into martin bashir s conduct in 1986
removed from his role in afghanistan. the state department his views do not reflect those of the department, which embraces diversity and inclusion. brianna? appreciate that report. thank you. it is the top of the hour. i am brianna keilar and right now the senate is taking up president biden s $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill. it appears that all 50 democrats are onboard, while republicans know that, it won t stop them from dragging the whole process out. we are talking hours here no. we re talking days. cnn political director david chalian is with us now. this is a stunt by republicans. it will certainly get attention. reporter: yeah. what you see here, brianna, republicans trying to prolong the process that this debate over this bill is on the floor before it can actually move to a final vote. so as you said, senate democrats are moving ahead on to this bill to begin the process of debating this bill. ron johnson of wisconsin, a republican senator, has said when th
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pulling worse than jimmy carter, and now according to politico, morale among woke white house staffers is strangely very low, but not because the administration is an abject failure. no, they are unhappy about being excluded from holiday parties and white house tours and manyy were even left out of the christmas tree lighting and the turkey pardoning. one aide actually complained about the lack of intentional team building, so really, how will they ever survive? now a wave of disgruntled staffers are plotting the exit. those who remain will be response before propping up a man so confused that even cnn is starting to notice.. watch this. jeff, you cover to the president. what do you think? repeatedly throughout this interview with david muir that wasn t recorded this afternoon, president biden seems confused and was confusing the halfin billion tests that they have ordered with a half billion pills, of course, pills were in the news today with the pfizer approval of the