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the british and us governments scramble to reassure their tech start up sectors after the collapse of one of the main sources of funding, the silicon valley bank. hello and welcome to bbc news. the impact of gary lineker s removal from the match of the day programme in the uk is continuing to affect the bbc s sports output. coverage of the women s super league and sunday evenings match of the day 2 programme have been hit because fellow presenters and commentators refuse to work in support of the presenter. the bbc had forced gary lineker to step back from his duties after he posted a tweet criticising the government s language on migrants. the prime minister says the controversy is a matter for the bbc, but opposition mps have accused the corporation of bowing to pressure from the conservatives to sanction the presenter. with more, here s our media correspondent, david sillito. have you spoken to tim davie yet, mr lineker? i i m going to walk my dog and i m going to do ....
of the regulator, how the regulator shapes the future of the bbc directly impacts on everyone who consumes its content and also interacts with it as an institution. let s understand first of all more about what ofcom wants. let s hearfrom kevin backhurst, group director of content and media policy. and, kevin, reading your review today, you sound a little underwhelmed by how the bbc explains itself. tell us why. i think we feel that the bbc should absolutely strive all the time to explain itself to audiences and to viewers, and also to be transparent to the audiences who pay the licence fee, and also to the rest of the creative industries around the uk about what it is planning, how it is approaching programming, how it is delivering its mission, its public purposes. ofcom s role essentially is to make sure the bbc delivers what parliament has set out for the bbc, which is its public purposes, which are across things like delivering things like impartial news, learning ....
Earlier in the us, and she said that regulators have been working throughout the weekend to deal with the fallout there. come tomorrow because everybody is waiting for what will happen when markets open, when it opens for business on monday morning, what will be the first thing you will do? t morning, what will be the first thing you will do? morning, what will be the first thing you will do? i have already called a whole thing you will do? i have already called a whole company - thing you will do? i have alreadyj called a whole company meeting thing you will do? i have already - called a whole company meeting first thing, i want to speak to all of our employees and reassure them that both me and our board and management team have been working throughout the weekend to understand how we can support them and ensure that they have job safety, to ensure we are able to cut costs wherever possible until we have a plan from the uk government about how we can access that cash immediately, ....
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Where they are in the process, they don t like the tone of language they get in responses from the bbc. when we were discussing this with the bbc, the bbc said well, you know it is a measure of our success that people don t come through to ofcom that much at the end. our research says that people don t come up through ofcom because they give up the ghost going through the bbc complaints process and don t really understand where they are or how to advance it. the bbc has defended its complaints process, but also says it is willing to work further with you to make improvements. i m not sure it is always, . the bbc is more transparent than other broadcasters for a good reason, - they are the only ones - receiving £5 billion of public money and they should be. i don t think it is always - really helpful that the knee jerk is we re alreadyj doing a brilliantjob. i think it is better- to look at the evidence, which is what we do, and see where you can improve. they have said we will work ....