there is continuous news tv, radio continuous news, so there s a lot more of it. is that better or worse? it s better in that i think we are responding to what people want and how they live their lives and how they don t want to just kind of make an appointment to see news or to listen to news, they need it there, instantly so it s better in that respect. is the quality of what we do worse or better? i think the quality of what we do is actually incredibly good. you mentioned quality, but as you ve heard, some people think there has been a loss of quality because of the cuts that you ve had to make of the past few years. recently the bbc admitted it had been a mistake to interview the lawyer alan dershowitz after ghislaine maxwell s conviction. do you accept that with fewer experienced journalists in the newsroom, mistakes like that are going to happen more? well, mistakes do happen. i m not going to deny that. but i think in that particular case, it was less to do with cuts,
coming up in around 10 minutes time, we ll have newswatch. but first on bbc news, here s click. los angeles, the place where anything is possible even the weird stuff that i ve got up to here over the years. it s a town that revels in the new and right now, that town seems to be talking about nfts. now, as a reminder, nfts are a way of recording who owns what mainly digital art and music. frankly, the mind still boggles every time i remember that this image by beeple sold for almost $17 million at auction. so, i thought i d jump on the bandwagon. now, anyone can create or mint an nft. in fact, i ve just minted myself, which was refreshing! that means that this mini animation now has a unique identifier, which has been recorded on. ..the blockchain! an indisputable record of who owns it and who buys it afterwards. 2022 looks like being the year that hollywood sits up, takes notice and decides, yeah, i wouldn t mind a bit of all that! simon hancock s been talking to
reacted like this. what it means for the bbc is with less money in real terms, we are going to have to address how we do what we do differently. and they will have to be changes and consequences. if you diminish capital resources there are going to be affects. now, bbc has already had ten years of real reduction by about 30%. the news department has not been exempt from those cuts with an £80 million savings target to be met by this year. and that s meantjob losses in areas such as political and business news. some viewers have been detecting an effect on the output over recent months. with hannah fearn tweeting. well, let s talk to fran unsworth who firstjoined the bbc in 1980, starting in local radio but who rose to become its director of news and current affairs and she retires next week. thank you, fran for coming on newswatch. it s a pleasure. would you say you re leaving bbc news in a better place that you first started working here? well, it s a very different place t
a £1 billion pound shortfall in state pension payments to tens of thousands of women because of government errors has been branded a shameful shambles by a committee of mps. # like a bat out of hell, i ll be - gone when the morning comes.# and the singer meat loaf, who recorded one of the biggest selling albums of all time, has died at the age of 7a. good evening. we have no plans to invade that was the message from russia s foreign minister after talks with the us about russian intentions in ukraine. his american counterpart said their discussions in geneva had been frank and substantive , but also warned of massive consequences if moscow were to attack ukraine. russia has amassed 100,000 troops near its borders with ukraine, leading to grave international concern and to several european countries bolstering nato s military deployment in eastern europe. president putin has demanded that ukraine be stopped from everjoining nato. russia used to control much of the re
in court by her accusers. i m not saying that they are lying i mean, you know, it may well be that they were victims of jeffrey epstein. but i do not accept that they were victims of ghislaine. that s my position, and that s also her position. again, many listeners and viewers were concerned. kate hahamis wondered: again, the bbc put out a statement in response, but this time defending the broadcast. it said: it added: we did want to talk to someone at the bbc about those two interviews, but were told they had nothing to add to the statements we ve heard. we can, though, hear more on this now from newswatch viewer sarah churchwell, who is professor of american literature and public understanding of the humanities at london university. sarah, you saw that interview with alan dershowitz, what was your concern? i was horrified. i was really, really outraged. and it was the phrase, formidable conflicts in your description in your description sticks with me from the other view