the roe v wade case that legalised abortion nationwide. coming up at 6am, breakfast with ben thompson and rachel burden. but first on bbc news, the media show. hello. welcome to the media show. welcome too to the headquarters of channel 4 in central london. and we re here because the government has confirmed it s pushing on with its plans to privatise channel 4, despite the reservations of the broadcaster. so we re going to look through all of the issues that this raises with our guest today, the ceo of channel 4, alex mahon. alex, thank you very much indeed forjoining us. this wasn t the outcome you wanted. so where did it go wrong? well, i m not sure that it went wrong. i mean, obviously, this is the government s decision to make. what i would say is it s never quiet times at channel 4. this is not a job you would take if you wanted an easy life and a restful retirement. how often do you speak to the dcms or to nadine dorries? well i speak to dcms plenty, you know, i ll be
ten people have been killed in a shooting at a supermarket in buffalo in new york state. the gunman is in custody. i m from wembley, where liverpool have done the double after beating chelsea on penalties to lift the fa cup. good morning. we ve got more spells of warm sunshine today, but also some heavy showers and the odd thunderstorm pushing northwards. i ll bring you all the details here on bbc breakfast. it is sunday 15 may. our main story: ukraine has won the eurovision song contest in a symbolic show of public support after the country was invaded by russia. the uk s sam ryder came second, its best result for more than 20 years. ryder won the most votes from the music industry experts, but when the public votes were added, ukraine s kalush orchestra leapt to first place. mark lobel has this report from turn. let the eurovision song contest 2020 to begin! let the eurovision song contest 2020 to beuin! .,, h let the eurovision song contest 2020 to beuin! .,, , ., ., ., t
Ten people have been killed in a shooting at a supermarket in buffalo in new york state. the gunman is in custody. i m from wembley, where liverpool have done the double after beating chelsea on penalties to lift the fa cup. good morning. we ve got more spells of warm sunshine today, but also some heavy showers and the odd thunderstorm pushing northwards. i ll bring you all the details here on bbc breakfast. it is sunday 15 may. our main story: ukraine has won the eurovision song contest in a symbolic show of public support after the country was invaded by russia. the uk s sam ryder came second, its best result for more than 20 years. ryder won the most votes from the music industry experts, but when the public votes were added, ukraine s kalush orchestra leapt to first place. mark lobel has this report from turn.
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Thank you so much for your time. thank you, goodbye. that was taras, a musician, he talks to ours from a place of war, it is extraordinary. extraordinary that we can have those lines of communications with him but he finds himself in this position, and ever russia this song contest emir, it feels like a distant dream ukraine host. it does feel absurd talking about it in that context, but of course that are boring support that we saw, it makes such a huge difference, as we were hearing there. really interesting to see that support last night. i should say, by the way, we will speak to james newman, an entry last yearfor eurovision.