in a moment on bbc news it s newswatch, but first, it s time for click. taiwan. an island shaped like a leaf at the meeting point of four sees. between the 1960s and the 1990s, taiwan underwent massive industrialisation. in what has become known as the taiwan miracle. use tech firms grew, becoming household names, a, ace, acer. and this was led by a semiconductor company you may never have heard of, tsmc. it produces chips for smartphones, even the iphone 11. tsmc. it produces chips for smartphones, even the iphone 11m you have a smartphone, you have something made by tsmc, most likely. and these were only made possible by the discovery of semiconductors. why are semiconductors interesting? because they changed your life. the largest factory in the globe is here in taiwan. and we have been granted exclusive access to see just how those chips that form the heart of oui’ those chips that form the heart of our electronic devices are created. but before we could go into the fab
fair in both terms of the brexit party and nigel farage? in a general election you will look back at what happened at the last annual election but you will also look at other elections and of course willjust had a uk elections and of course willjust hada uk elections and of course willjust had a uk wide election in very peculiar circumstances, as you say, a brand new party, is about is the kind of thing where it is a new context kind of thing where it is a new co ntext a nd kind of thing where it is a new context and you have to take into account. how can you be fair of supporters of let s say the brexit party without being unfair to ukip because they might well say hang on, quite a lot of the calculation you will make about coverage for the brexit party is actually based on the performance of ukip from local elections, previous parliamentary elections, previous parliamentary elections, is it fair that effectively, because it is the same person profile has gone to this new
of brexit and failed to come to a conclusion. so that conclusion will now be for all of us to decide what we make of them. well, with me now, a man who can expect to be almost as busy as the candidates, rick bailey, the bbc chief political adviser. rick, thank you very much for coming into the newswatch studio. you ve been with us before but, of course, elections is really the time when you come into your own and the guidelines come into their own the bbc‘s fabled election guidelines. how much are they about preventing broadcasters from making mistakes? the guidelines are specific to each election and are thought about in the context of each election. and of course. you don tjust take them off the shelf and dust them down every four years? we think about each election. or every two years at the moment? exactly. we think about each election and we think about the context of that election and, of course, at the heart of them is often the different levels of coverage you re
the bbc and from this line of questioning i can see why. you are just not interested. we were just not interested. let s talk about democracy and trust and competence in politics. this is ludicrous. do you still feel that people with hiv should not be allowed in this country? do i think the national health service is there for british people, yes i do. this is absolutely ludicrous, i ve never in my life seen a more ridiculous interview. some viewers enjoyed that robust encounter with john writing but the vast majority of those who contacted the bbc were as unimpressed as mr farage. andrew had obviously been put up to go into the old bbc news archives to try to discredit nigel farage and the brexit party. he was not interested in what was happening today and he did not discuss one relevant point about the discontent in the british people and their concerns with democracy. i am absolutely disgusted with the bbc. we put those points to bbc news any spokesperson told us. the trea
good morning, welcome to breakfast with naga munchetty and jon kay. our headlines today: as six weeks of cross party talks end in failure, the prime minister tries to find another way forward to break the brexit deadlock. the duke of cambridge urges more of us to open up about grief. when you are bereaved at a young age, any age, but particularly a young age, i can resonate with that, you feel pain like no other pain, and you know australians are at the polls voting in one of the most tightly fought elections in years. and good morning from wembley on fa cup final day as as manchester city try to become the first english men s team to the domestic treble, while watford hope there will be a sting in the tail from the underdog like there was in 2013. drinking downpours are part of the weekend weather story but not the whole story, they will be some warm sunshine as well, all the details coming up right here on breakfast. drenching downpours. it s saturday 18 may. our top sto