At ten oclock, clive myrie will be here with a full roundup of the days news. First, the media show. Hello. This week im 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 theres a mention here right at the start to checking playbook first thing in the mornings. Thats a daily newsletter produced by the political magazine politico, in case you decide you want to mimic the ministers media habits. Yes, so i wake up and i look through playbook, or as soon as its come out, i look through playbook. I will watch a bit of sky news or bbc while im getting ready in the morning a
alexandria hoff is live with details. good morning. alexandria: a group afilliated with iran military guard crashed into a building killing a u.s. contractor around 1:30 a.m. once determined the unman aircraft was iranian origin, retaliatory airstrikes were carried out last night. the observatory for rights, eight were killed in that. lloyd austin said at the direction of president biden, i authorize to conduct precision airstrikes in eastern syria. the airstrikes were conducted in response to today s attack and series of attacks against coalition sources by groups associated with irgc. we will take measures to defend our people, no group will strike our groups with impunity. since 2021, general eric corrila says u.s. troops have come under attack 78 times, saying, we will defend our people and respond at time and place of our choosing, we are postured for additional iranian attacks. we ensure defeat of isis of syria and the region. congressman matt gates offered this. it i
u.s. troops have come under attack 78 times by iranian backed groups. good morning. alexandria: good morning, according to defense department u.s. contractor was killed after a group crashed unmanned ariel vehicle into a building in northeast syria 1:30 local time. once determined it was iranian origin, the war posing group says eight iranian fighters were killed in that action. lloyd austin said the airstrikes were conducted in response to attacks by the group irgc. we will defend our people. no group will strike our troops with impunity. republican congressman matt gates offered this, it is deeply sad to see americans killed and troops killed in syria. this is price of guarding oilfields in other countries. iran continue to stain desert sand with the blood of america s best. since 2021, air kurilla says u.s. troops have come under attacks by iranian backed groups and we will defend our people and respond at time and place of our choosing. we are postured in the face of an
under threat of flooding. president biden has declared a state of emergency, freeing federal aid for the state. it s 3:30. good morning to you. 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 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 th
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