The attack in southport. You can see right now there are people you re from the local community who have been bringing flowers and laying them down. As i said, we now know three young girls aged nine, six and seven died. The nine year old died in hospital in the early hours. The six and seven year olds we already knew had died at the scene yesterday. Currently, there are still five other children in a critical condition in hospital along with two adults. Ai7 year old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder. He is from a village about three miles from a village about three miles from here. Due to legal reasons, we are not allowed to name him because of his age. We do know that he came from the cardiff area. He has a brother and his parents were originally from rwanda. During the morning, the home secretary, yvette cooper, has visited the scene, she laid flowers here along with the local mp, she said it was unimaginable what had happened. It was beyond every par
now, on bbc news, it is dateline london. hello. i m shaun ley. welcome to the programme which brings together some of the uk s leading commentators, uk specialists and the foreign correspondents filing and blogging to audiences back home from the dateline: london. this week: embarrassmentfor borisjohnson ove rwho originally paid for his wallpaper, but does it really deserve the days of headline coverage devoted to it? and the world rallies to india s aid, but is it too late to halt the virus deadly course? joining us to discuss those questions: ashis ray, indian foreign correspondent who s reported from london since the 1970s. steve richards, uk political commentator who s even turned hisjournalism into a successful stage performance. and here in the studio with me, lyse doucet a canadian whose passports must be thick with immigration stamps by now, having reported from so many parts of the world. no wonder she s our chief international correspondent. lovely to see you aga
other viewers agreed, including heidi morgan, who recorded this video. martine croxall s behaviour on october the 23rd must be viewed as unacceptable by the industry and by viewers. stories need to be reported on in an unbiased manner. journalists are not to side with any individual or party. in my view, croxall s behaviour shows poorjudgement and contradicts neutral reporting and possibly breaches the code of conduct on journalism as well. there were also defenders of martine, such asjenny bradley: bbc news were unable to provide someone to talk about this while the matter was being investigated. instead, they pointed us towards this statement, which was issued on monday. we mentioned last week, the concerns of some of you that a sequence of vox pops featuring those who wanted borisjohnson back as prime minister was not representative of the public s views, or editorially justified. well, there have been plenty more interviews since then with members of the public. here s a
it s not easy to find quick fixes for housing problems, which could leave some students struggling next year, too. branwen jeffreys, bbc news, manchester. you are watching bbc news now newswatch. hello and welcome to news watch with me, samira ahmed. questions are asked after a news channel presenter talks of her glee during a paper review on the night borisjohnson pulls out of the tory leadership contest. i don t know, i don t think i ll be voting again after what happened to boris johnson. that reporter s staple, the vox pop. do we really need to be told so often what random strangers think? demonstrating impartiality on air, as we discussed on last week s programme, is one of the key goals and challenges for bbc news. it wasn t long before the fraught nature of that ambition was exposed again, with the addition of the paper review on the news channel on sunday night, shortly before it was broadcast on a day of high political drama, it emerged that borisjohnson had withdraw