disruption tomorrow with the icy conditions, could be issues on rail services too because of the cold weather and they have told people not to drive unless they really, really have two tomorrow. the higher you are, the more likely you are to see some of the white stuff around you. tomos, thank you. this image of a young polar bear asleep on an iceberg has won the wildlife photographer of the year people s choice award. the man who took it has told us all about how he got that image. the population of sudan needs humanitarian assistance. 25 million people far too this programme continues on bbc one. is the shadow cabinet at war with itself? it s three years since the shadow chancellor rachel reeves announced the £28 billion green bonanza, boasting it would make labour the greenest government in history. since then it s been going and going and now it appears gone. we ll be asking one of tony blair s former senior operatives and the leader of a labour think tank if keir star
the government s decision injanuary to freeze the licence fee for the next two years that the bbc had an annual shortfall of £285 million. we discovered on thursday what savings the corporation plans in order to plug that gap. they include the scrapping of current affairs which was itself a replacement for the programme inside out. the domestic news channel and the international facing worldviews will marriage into a single channel. and some of the world services foreign language services will go online only. those plans were greeted with dismay by some viewers. with me is the manager in charge of the music division. he is the interim director of bbc news. thank you for coming on his watch. should the uk licence fee payers expect and need a uk focused music service? how will you do that? we need a uk focused music service? how will you do that? will you do that? we are committed to makin: will you do that? we are committed to making sure will you do that? we are committed
the post brexit trading rules in northern ireland. the senior state department official, derek chollet, warned that the row risked undermining western unity over ukraine. now on bbc news. the media show. hello. on the show today we have gotjohn micklethwait, editor in chief at bloomberg, we are taking a look at a new podcast, that charts the rise of reality tv with one of the co hosts, pandora sykes and, wagatha christie, how can we not talk about it? and we have got one of the key players here in the whole drama, simon boyle, who is the executive editor of the sun and their bizarre column which is a0 this weekend. he faced significant pressure to stand as a witness. simon, i have got to ask, who would play you in the movie? it is funny, we actually had this conversation in the office. what is the answer? well, my hairline is going rather quickly, probably from the stress of thisjob, so ross kemp was mooted. that is harsh. martin compston would suit me. great. and the other p
The threats to freedom of speech, and how major Media Organisations, such as the bbc, see their role in responding to this. Its a lot to get through and were going to start by understanding how restrictions on the press affect the information that people are able to access, and well begin with the situation in three countries that have a long history of muzzling the media russia, china and iran. And with us, weve got three experts from Bbc Monitoring. It, as the name suggests, monitors Media Activity Around The World. Kia atri follows the iranian media and, kia, just describe first a regular a normal person, if you can say that in iran what is their media diet . What sorts of information are they getting, and where from . Their first exposure would be the mainstream media, the state media. Now, its a very nuanced picture because, yes, there is some kind of free debate, except that there are quite a lot of red lines that the state imposes on the media you cannot criticise islam, you can
In some parts of the world and the economist calculates that more than 39 of the worlds population lives under authoritarian rule. Well, across this edition of the media show, were going to discuss how states are now major sources of disinformation, how technology is changing the threats to freedom of speech, and how major Media Organisations, such as the bbc, see their role in responding to this. Its a lot to get through and were going to start by understanding how restrictions on the press affect the information that people are able to access, and well begin with the situation in three countries that have a long history of muzzling the media russia, china and iran. And with us, weve got three experts from Bbc Monitoring. It, as the name suggests, monitors Media Activity Around The World. Kia atri follows the iranian media and, kia, just describe first a regular a normal person, if you can say that in iran what is their media diet . What sorts of information are they getting and where