hello and welcome to newswatch. bbc news through a virtual reality headset. will audiences take a experiencing news events this way? and what questions to the new technologies pose for journalists? first, though, saffi roussos was one of 22 people killed at a pop concert in manchester on 22nd of may. she would have been nine on thursday. judith mauritz spoke to her parents. ijust judith mauritz spoke to her parents. i just wanted to judith mauritz spoke to her parents. ijust wanted to celebrate the birthday of saffi through doing this. what has your family lost? we have lost everything. we have, because we will just have lost everything. we have, because we willjust never be the same. stephanie and trevor firth we re same. stephanie and trevor firth were a number of viewers picking on one aspect of that interview, saying. versions of the report ran on bbc news all day, leading the news at 6pm. it provided powerful and moving television but some people had concerns about the p
then bringing up old hurts and deliberately finding people in anguish to put on our screens. i m fed up with it. now the bbc s director general lord hall and out the corporation s annual plan this week, and he addressed what he called the huge competition presented online by companies such as amazon and netflix. one of the responses he proposed was the development of virtual reality content including in news and current affairs. there has a ready been some work in this area including a short vr film which dramatises a syrian family s journey to europe on smuggled boats. we are all tired. the film, based on real account of it by bbc news and animated by the makers of wallace and gromit won an industry award this week. it may not be news as we know it, but could it be the future? virtual reality footage like that is only properly experience by wearing a headset. but a simpler version, 360 degrees video can be viewed online or on mobiles. the first such report was filmed followi
history in the deciding test in auckland. here at wimbledon, from four britons, we are down to two, as johanna konta and andy murray will roar their way into the second week of the singles. and helen has the weather. a little more cloud in the south today and a little less in the north, but it looks like a decent day, we will have all the weekend weather details, in around 15 minutes. first, our main story. low water pressure and insufficient equipment are among a set of reported failings the bbc has uncovered which may have hampered firefighters‘ efforts to tackle the grenfell tower blaze. a newsnight investigation has found london fire brigade has now changed its procedures after a tall ladder did not arrive on site for more than half an hour. john sweeney reports. firefighters say they experienced problems with water pressure and equipment that was either lacking or did not arrive on scene before the fire got out of control. they also described problems with radio recept
bbc news through a virtual reality headset? audiences take to experiencing news events this way. and what questions do the new technologies pose for journalists? first, though, safi roussos, one of 22 people killed at a pop concert in manchester on may 22, her ninth birthday would have been on tuesday. to mark the occasion, we spoke to safi rousos‘s parents. we did not want to let her birthday pass. we did not want to let her birthday pass. she loved the limelight. ijust wanted to celebrate safi s birthday through doing this. what has your family lost? 0h. we have lost everything. we have lost everything, we have. life will never be the same. stephanie and trevor firth were among a number of viewers to pick up on one aspect of the interview, writing: versions of the report ran on bbc news all day, leading the news at six. it provided powerful and moving television, but some people had concerns about the prominence given to the item. here s mark eaton: linda dell also contac
of life on other planets. but it was only in 1995 that we found the first planet outside our solar system. these exoplanets are hard to find. of course they are, they re relatively tiny. and so far they ve mainly been detected indirectly, either by the incredibly slight dimming of a star s light as a planet moves in front of it, or by the wobble of the star caused by something orbiting it. in the last 20 years we ve detected about 2000 exoplanets, but we haven t actually seen many at all. this is why. well, the planets are very, very faint compared to a star and they re very close to a star. the kind of planets where we might find life, an earth like planet orbiting a star would be 10 billion times fainter than a star. but if you can see the planets, you can start to look for evidence of life on their surfaces. what you need is something to block out the light of a star. what you need is a star shade. due to go into space in the middle of the next decade, it is a crazy soundi