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hello. welcome to the media show. welcome too to the headquarters of channel 4 in central london. and were here because the government has confirmed its pushing on with its plans to privatise channel 4, despite the reservations of the broadcaster. so were 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 wasnt the outcome you wanted. so where did it go wrong? well, im not...

meet with the taoiseach in the course of the coming week also. now its time for a look at the weather with darren bett. a warm awarm and a warm and cloud the sunny start to the weekend. a warm and cloud the sunny start to the weekend. we are going to see the weather changing, and towards the south—west of england by this evening we have got more cloud andmay be some showers which will push northwards, but mainly affecting the more southern parts of england, and we could get heavy and...

gets better. the country has been rocked by demonstrations of our soaring prices, power cuts and a lack of medicine. he was appointed in an attempt to diffuse the protests. now on bbc news, the media show. hello. welcome to the media show. welcome too to the headquarters of channel 4 in central london. and were here because the government has confirmed its pushing on with its plans to privatise channel 4, despite the reservations of the broadcaster. so were going to look through all of...

across england and wales. by the end of the evening, we will start to see some showers developing across the isles of scilly, moving through cornwall, into wales and gradually they will spread through the midlands into south—east england. some potentially turning heavy and thundery, it is great news for gardeners and growers and not if you are trying to get a good nights sleep and it could linger first thing on sunday morning. a few more nuisance showers on sunday developing across n...

and a shopping centre. the met office warns of a 50—50 chance that the world will cross a key global warming threshold — of average temperatures rising more than 1.5 degrees celsius over the next five years. the "wagatha christie" trial gets under way in the high court — rebekah vardy is suing coleen rooney for libel. hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. prince charles will officially open the new session of parliament today and for the first time wi...

That simply wasnt made to last. Raac was a postwar solution, now causing a headache for 21st century britain. More than 100 schools in britain have been told they need to close. Labour has announced it will force the government to reveal a complete list of affected schools, and now calls for transparency on the scale of the problem and for fast solutions. Its been known for a while and what we have also known for a while is there is a squeeze on school funding, and my committee has highlighted t...

Here is in news. The government has been accused of taking a Sticking Plaster Approach to carrying out seven that will maintenance on School Buildings by the head of the Spending Watchdog the National Audit office, more than 100 schools havent re opened this week. The schools minister has defended the government and says it spends 1. 8 billion a year on School Maintenance and improvements. A bbc investigation has found three Uk Water Companies wessex, southern and tames water appear to have ille...

The Labour Run Council is struggling to pay off a huge bill for equal pay claims that dates back more than a decade. It has also had major issues with a new it system. Our Midlands Correspondent navteonhal is there. The first thing to say is that the city council here has not stopped functioning, it has a legal duty to provide Certain Services and they will continue, but this is a signal to government ofjust how dire the financial situation is here, and admission that the council here cannot pay...

Studio some 60 odd years ago. Really, here . Fantastic. Well, weve got to dig those performances from the vault. I cant think what it was. It was something. Ken loach, welcome to this cultural life. Its a great pleasure to come. And good to see you. You, too. You were born in 1936. You grew up in the midlands. Tell me about your family. What did your parents do . My father was an electrical engineer. Took his apprenticeship in the mines. The whole family, my fathers family were miners from the w...

Bowen joins us from jerusalem. Your assessment, jeremy, after the last few hours of what we might expect in the coming hours and days . Well, hamas say that they are fighting against israeli troops and tanks in the northern part of the gaza strip, that there are some big battles going on there. One big question, is this the invasion people have been talking about for the last three weeks . I think what the last three weeks . I think what the israelis seem to be doing is to cut off one northern p...