america correspondent, tim davey insisted that he would not be resigning. well, i m very sorry for the disruption today. it has been a difficult day and i am sorry that audiences have been affected and they have not got the programming. as a keen sports fan i know, like everyone, that to miss programming is a real blow and i am sorry about that. we re trying very hard to resolve the situation. and make sure that we get output back on air. he is an outstanding broadcaster. he is a brilliant broadcaster and to be clear, success for me is gary gets back on air and together we are giving the audiences that world class sports coverage which, as i say, sorry we have not been able to deliver today. but gary lineker has made lots of comments before. you allowed him to criticise the qatari government on the bbc. why is this different? this is nothing to do with anything to do with the specifics of where a tweet is sent and i will talk in general terms but it is about getting involved
leader keir starmer says the bbc was not acting impartially in suspending gary lineker. the british chancellor, jeremy hunt, has met the governor of the bank of england, andrew bailey, to discuss the collapse of silicon valley bank which mostly financed tech start ups. the director general of the bbc, tim davie, has apologised for the widespread disruption to bbc sports output on saturday but says he won t resign. a number of tv and radio programmes have been pulled from the schedules after presenters and pundits walked out in support of gary lineker. the former footballer was taken off this evening s match of the day programme which he presents for breaching the corporation s social media guidelines. tim davie spoke to our north america correspondent nomia iqbal. well, i m very sorry for the disruption today. it s been a difficult day and i am sorry that audiences have been affected and they haven t got the programming. as a keen sports fan, i know like everyone, that
with more, here s our sports editor, dan roan. on any normal saturday, gary lineker would have been preparing to host football s most famous show. but not today. the presenter, a guest at hometown club leicester city this afternoon, as the crisis intensified after the bbc decided to drop him from match of the day following an impartiality row over comments he made on twitter criticising the government s language over its new asylum policy. more pundits and presenters, meanwhile, confirming they d be joining an impromptu boycott in support of their colleague, as the corporation s weekend sport output unravelled. no football focus for the build up, instead an edition of bargain hunt. results show final score also pulled from the schedules. and only this evening it was confirmed a much reduced match of the day would be shown, but cut to just 20 minutes, with no presentation, interviews or commentary ofany kind. i am sorry that audiences have been affected and they haven t got th
thousands of protestors gathered in central london earlier to march in solidarity with nurses and junior doctors ahead of three days of strike action planned to begin on monday. frankie mccamley reports from today s support the strikes march. whose nhs? our nhs! between the strikes, a march of solidarity. i work in mental health, which is still an under invested service. people are still suffering. people are waiting for years and years, and just don t believe the lies, there is no new money coming in. and we have to be here to just defend those people who can t defend themselves, who are, you know, vulnerable and weak. i ve been working in the service for eight years with an ambulance service. for me personally, it s more about the red tape up the top, the changes at the top, which are affecting us on the bottom and is preventing us from providing the care that we want to provide to the people. it s notjust nhs workers here. many are patients showing support. well, i would be dead at
i can t imagine anyone has answered the question you have been asking throughout the day because it does seem an impossible situation that the bbc has got itself into. paul siegert there. as the british branch of silicon valley bank heads for insolvency the uk government is seeking to minimise any wider disruption to the tech sector. the british chancellor, jeremy hunt, spoke to the governor of the bank of england following the collapse of the bank s american parent company. it s the biggest failure of a us bank since the 2008 financial crisis. thousands of protesters gathered in central london earlier to march in solidarity with nurses and junior doctors ahead of three days of strike action planned to begin on monday. frankie mccamley reports from today s support the strikes march. whose nhs? our nhs! between the strikes, a march of solidarity. i work in mental health, which is still an under invested service. people are still suffering.