first, there is no doubt about the main broadcasting event of the weekend, and the bbc, along with the rest of the media, have been gearing up for the coronation all week. we ll be looking in more detail next week at how bbc news has covered the ceremony and the celebrations around it. but in the meantime, here s royal correspondent nicholas witchell on the preparations being made over the past few days. in the potteries and other places in the souvenir business, they ve been gearing up for this moment for months. turning out the mugs and plates and a host of other goods which commemorate the coronation. it all means jobs and a significant boost for trade. by the time that report was shown on tuesday. mike dixon had already had enough. i accept that the coronation is newsworthy, but the coverage is utterly sycophantic and certainly not balanced . we constantly hear everyone will be celebrating, everyone will be partying, everyone will be watching it . but the bbc are ignor
By Alpha Abu The Voter Register will be made available to political parties- Chief Electoral Commissioner, Mohamed K. Konneh told an Election Preparedness Stakeholders Conference at the Brookfields Hotel in Freetown, yesterday. Konneh however explained to the well-attended conference organized by IDEA International that only the names of the voters will be made available and
How are you paying for this service? yeah, it s being paid out of current budgets. we are obviously we always have a contingency budget for emergencies. the bbc is pulled together. we re being offered the studio space and the technical support for free from other parts of production operations. and the bbc are colleagues in distribution and marketing are just sort of stretching their workload to cover this. we also have, in the business, people who are in our radio services who are moving into new roles or potentially leaving the business, leaving the bbc, and we are retaining them to support this operation. now, the bbc has recently cut nearly 400 jobs in the world service, including such important language services as arabic and chinese. why cut language services in such crucial parts of the world? we re not cutting language services. no language services are closing.
Forever. and we re starting to hear that articulated by some of the officials in australia. some say we re going to search until hell freezes over and the others say we need to be prepared for us never finding the plane. as a searcher, how are you supposed to read that? i think it s right to be cautious. and i think the prime minister has as we saw last night started to take a slightly more cautious approach when he s delivering his information, which is a good thing. one thing i will say is it would be virtually impossible to replace the military assets that we currently have used on the search. we talk about the p-8 poseidon, that s a $280 million airplane. you re not going to be able to pull in those i think there s two of them now on site. there was one and then another one was coming from the pacific at some point as well and joining in the search. which is great, again, if you re searching in the right place. it is, absolutely right. what the military bring is through a c