when the opportunity arises. so you get a bit of time to do that? when i can. when you can. well, look, you know, you ve been secretary of state at the dcms for four months now and you ve recently announced a big u turn, a big policy u turn. why have you decided not to privatise channel 4? so i think i agree with my predecessor and many other predecessors that have looked at this issue before, that there are long term sustainability issues and threats to channel 4. we know that it is a dramatically changing media landscape out there, which you ll be only too familiar with. we know that linear advertising is taking a hit, organisations are having to evolve and adapt and become more dynamic to cope with that and channel 4 have a very rigid business model. the public broadcaster restrictions, for one, don t allow them to create their own content, which means that their ability to flourish is capped from the off. and that sustainability fuelled the decision under my predecessor a
and there s a mention here right at the start to checking playbook first thing in the mornings. that s a daily newsletter produced by the political magazine politico, in case you decide you want to mimic the minister s media habits. yes, so i wake up and i look through playbook, or as soon as it s come out, i look through playbook. i will watch a bit of sky news or bbc while i m getting ready in the morning and obviously then try and stay alert throughout the day and see what else is happening. and then i ll read the papers at some point, either probably in the evening as well. and what about streaming services? do you have a lot of subscriptions? are you a netflix, disney+, what person? yeah, we ve got netflix and amazon prime in my household, so watch a bit of both. they re really good for unwinding. i find that i prefer the things that don t take too much brainpower. when you ve been through a lot of legislation or different policies, it s nice tojust relax sometimes, espe
has urged china to provide detailed information about the level of covid infections in the country. 60,000 covid related deaths have been reported injust over a month, but the chinese government has been accused of not releasing the full details of the pandemic. now on bbc news: the media show hello. this week i m talking with michelle donelan, the secretary of state for digital culture, media and sport. she is the 11th conservative in the role since the party took power, and she has a huge remit everything from the tech companies to museums and art galleries to broadcasters like channel 4, whose privatisation she halted last week, and even eurovision. but before we get onto that, i wanted to get a sense of her news habits. how does she keep up to date through the working day? and there s a mention here right at the start to checking playbook first thing in the mornings. that s a daily newsletter produced by the political magazine politico, in case you decide you want to mi
as he considers 16 year olds too young to change their legal gender. you re watching bbc news now it s time for the media show. hello. this week i m talking with michelle donelan, the secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport. she is the 11th conservative in the role since the party took power, and she has a huge remit everything from the tech companies to museums and art galleries to broadcasters like channel 4, whose privatisation she halted last week, and even eurovision. but before we get onto that, i wanted to get a sense of her news habits. how does she keep up to date through the working day? and there s a mention here right at the start to checking playbook first thing in the mornings. that s a daily newsletter produced by the political magazine politico, in case you decide you want to mimic the minister s media habits. yes, so i wake up and i look through playbook, or as soon as it s come out, i look through playbook. i will watch a bit of sky news
after being deported for breaching australia s covid rules. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in nepal, where a day of mourning will be observed after officials say at leat 68 people have died in a plane crash in the central part of the country. there were 72 people on board the twin engine turboprop plane which came down just a mile from its destination. hundreds of nepalese soldiers have been involved in the search and rescue operation at the crash site, and the government has set up a special investigation. the plane was operated by yeti airlines and was flying from kathmandu airport to the tourist town of pokhara. it came down in the gorge of seti, a mile from the runway at pokhara airport. from kathmandu, our correspondent rajini vaidyanathan sent this report. footage thought to show the final moments of yeti airlines flight 691. first, you see the plane veer off cou