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South sudans lethal cocktail of failed governance, ethnic division, hunger and disease threatens millions of lives. It represents a tragic failure on the part of the rulers of africas newest country, and on the part of the United Nations mission in south sudan which has brought neither peace or anything else. My my guest is the head of that mission, david shearer. What hope there is for the people of south sudan . David shearer, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Do you think the world is paying he...

Hello and welcome to newswatch, with me samira ahmed. Praise but also concerns about how bbc news reported the terrible Grenfell Tower block fire in london. And was the General Election result wrongly presented as a disaster for the conservatives and a triumph for labour . There have been many shocking and distressing images on the news recently and tuesday nights fire which engulfed a west london block of flats provided yet more. The following morning Victoria Derbyshire spoke to a man who had ...

Bbc reporters to chase down the traumatised, the bereaved, the despairing, and, basically, ring out every last drop of despair from that person in the of ratings . I watched one particular person being interviewed with a Microphone Thrust into their face. They were crying, they were distraught, they had lost somebody, they had no idea what had happened to a member of their family. And. There just seemed to be no benefit in this interview. You are not ambulance chasers. But thats the impression y...

Week so on wednesday all eyes were on his first News Conference since novembers election and in terms of spectacle, it didnt disappoint. Take the moment when a reporter from cnn tried to ask a question. Since youre attacking us can you give us a question. Mr President Elect, since youre attacking our News Organisation can you give us a chance . Not you, your organisation is terrible. Give us a chance to ask a question. Mr President Elect, can you state categorically. Can you give usa you state c...

Wednesday 25th january. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. President trump has promised a significant day ahead on National Security, including an announcement about his plans for a wall on the Mexican Border. He tweeted big day planned on National Security tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall building a 2,000 mile wall along the Mexican Border was one of trumps key election promises. Hes said the wall would cost 8 billion and will be up to a0 feet high. The new president is also...

Days news, but now it is time for newswatch. Welcome to newswatch. On this weeks programme, they got their envelopes mixed up, but did bbc news get its News Priorities the wrong way round . We discuss complaints that the embarrassment of the oscars was reported on as if it was an event of major global significance but really, was it . Did you know that things did not go entirely as planned at the oscars this year . Thought so. Any bbc News Programme on monday, the strange events on stage were ha...

Made this antelope mistake for the Awards Ceremony envelope. Itjust seems that suddenly the bbc it has twisted its interest to a separate universe or something. We have people in south sudan starving to death, we have donald trump who is trying to manipulate the media, we have north korea threatening a new arms race and yet the whole world comes to a standstill because Warren Beatty opens the wrong envelope. If the bbc losing perspective on this sort of thing . Itjust dominated breakfast and it ...

You guys are crazy and brandys trying out ice canoeing in quebec city. Woohoo hello and welcome to The Travel Show, coming to you this week from japan, where its just after six oclock here in tokyo and were about to hit the road. Were heading off before sunrise. Lets do it. To make the four hour journey to fukushima. Most people associate fukushima with the impact of the major earthquake and tsunami that Hit Japan On March 11th Six years ago. The tsunami wave disabled the generators at the fukus...

Round up of todays news. In a moment the last film review from my colleague gavin esler. First, time for newswatch. Hello and welcome to newswatch. Brexit is officially under we but is the bbc playing down the views of unhappy remainers like the Tens Of Thousands who marched in london last weekend . Thousands who marched in london last weekend 7 complaints as thousands who marched in london last weekend . Complaints as well that bbc news is much too negative about leaving. So how do you cover th...

Under plans to be set out by the Education Secretary later. If youve visited a Supermarket Megastore lately you might have noticed you can get your drycleaning done, keys cut or collect your parcels while you shop ill be asking the boss of argos why he thinks Multi Tasking can save the big supermarkets. Leicester will have to fight back in their Champions League Quarter Final against Atletico Madrid. They trail 1 0 after the first leg. Before the match, severalfans were hurt in clashes with poli...