welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. coming up — is it time bbc news started calling hamas a terrorist organisation? and information overload — is there just too much going on on the screen here? criticisms of the media's coverage of the war in gaza started almost immediately after the hamas attack on israel on october 7th — and top of the list of objections to the bbc�*s reporting was the corporation's refusal to describe hamas as a "terrorist organisation". the issue was raised again last weekend in the wake of a video released by hamas showing the british israeli hostage nadav popplewell, who the group said had died in gaza. here's the foreign secretary, lord cameron, speaking on sunday with laura kuenssberg. when you see what hamas are prepared to do, you just realise the terrible, dreadful, inhuman people, frankly, that we are dealing with. and maybe it's a moment, actually for the bbc to ask itself again, "should we describe these people as terrorists"? they are terrorists. if you kidnap grandmothers, you kidnap ba

welcome to newswatch, madeleine. it's an extensive report.ain findings says this, "the bbc produces a lot "of excellent content on migration, but there are also weaknesses." we'll come to the weaknesses in a second. but tell us where you think the bbc is doing well on this. i think one of the areas where we see particularly good content is in some ways where it's easiest, which is some of the long form content, so some of the documentaries or long form audio where the journalists really have time to delve into the issues. i think the big challenge, then, is the shorter form content. when someone's only got two and a half minutes for a typical tv package, how do you make sure that you have enough depth that the audience are learning something new and interesting? that's where the real challenges emerge, i think. so that's one of the weaknesses that you identified, then, the ability to explain in depth? that's right. i think explanation is really key. and one of the things that came up in some of the coverage is that there was sometimes quite a

uk newswatch? uk newswatch. that's all from us for now. thank you forjoining us.in touch and perhaps even coming on the programme now. i am away next week, but rajini vaidyanathan will be here for more of your thoughts about how the bbc covers the news and i will be back in a fortnight. goodbye. hi there. it is time to play a game of let's think of lots of random sounding things and hold them all in our head at the same time. 0k. you ready? yeah. 0k. think of these things. the world's fastest filming drone, a clip on device that turns any bike electric and a skateboard park suspended underneath a hot air balloon. last one really does sound random. i know, but the question is, what on earth do those things have in common? well, they've all been developed with the help of the red bull racing team. and alister keene�*s been finding out why. when it comes to formula one, there's one team dominating the races there, sheer number of wins. it's hard evidence that red bull have built something at the cutting edge of tech. but this isn't where their design innovation stops

welcome to newswatch with me, rajini vaidyanathan, standing in for samira this week. to move to the uk? and was the line—up on sunday's laura kuenssberg show a fair reflection of the local election results? over the past few years, the subject of migration has never been far from the top of the agenda, politically, socially and journalistically. but it presents challenges for news organisations because of the complexity of the issues involved,

welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed.an people, frankly, that we are dealing with. and maybe it's a moment, actually for the bbc to ask itself again, "should we describe these people as terrorists"? they are terrorists. if you kidnap grandmothers, you kidnap babies, you rape people, you shoot children in front of their parents — what more do they need to do for the bbc to say, "look, these are terrorists"? they really are. bbc news has instead used a formulation picked up on by a viewer named mark, from aylesbury, who asked... but kate prasher observed recently... well, we'll be exploring that question in a moment — but it's not the only use of terminology in this area which has caused concern among newswatch viewers. the bbc regularly describes the conflict as the israel—gaza war — unlike other organisations such as sky news, who refer to it as the israel—hamas war. anthonyjones asked... another use of language which has proved controversial is the frequent reference to the "hamas—run health ministry" as a source of stat

welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed.iticisms of the media's coverage of the war in gaza started almost immediately after the hamas attack on israel on october 7th — and top of the list of objections to the bbc�*s reporting was the corporation's refusal to describe hamas as a "terrorist organisation". the issue was raised again last weekend in the wake of a video released by hamas showing the british israeli hostage nadav popplewell, who the group said had died in gaza. here's the foreign secretary, lord cameron, speaking on sunday with laura kuenssberg.

welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed.at the bbc�*s political editor and presenterjane hill were doing in edinburgh in the first place. there's already a scotland editor for bbc news, james cook, and he was on the spot and reporting on the story too, and joining chris and jane in a discussion about the implications of humza yousef�*s resignation. amanda thomas was one of those asking this question. was it really necessary to send jane hill and chris mason to edinburgh today? well, mary jane wright also got in touch with us and we can now speak to her. hello, mary jane. thank you for coming on newswatch. what did you object to about the bbc�*s coverage of this story? well, mainly was what your correspondents have just said. is that what it really necessary to send chris mason and jane hill there? the bbc in scotland have excellent reporters. they know the area extremely well and they live there. chris mason and jane hill are very good. there's no problem with them. but really to send two more reporters and then to have thre

welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed.because of the local elections in england and wales, but because of the political drama that took place in scotland on monday. that evening's news at six started in slightly comical fashion. hello. good evening. welcome to the bbc news at six live from the holyrood parliament in edinburgh. on a tumultuous day in scottish politics, humza yousaf has announced he is standing down as snp leader and scotland's first minister afterjust 13 months in office.

welcome to newswatch, madeleine. it's an extensive report.coverage is that there was sometimes quite a superficial coverage of maybe, "a high—profile person has said something about migration," or, "there's been a new development in a long running story," like the government's plan to try and send asylum—seekers to rwanda. and sometimes in the audience research that we commissioned, audience participants, they found that they didn't feel that they were getting enough background. so they were being told the latest thing, but they didn't really understand, "well, hang on, what is this policy? "why do we have it in the first place? "how does it work?" some of that explanation sometimes got lost in some of these shorterform stories. picking up on what we heard from julia just then, she said, "the net migration story is much more than the boats," and she said that one picture can say a thousand words and is lazyjournalism. that's something that you explore in this, isn't it? yes, yeah. many of the audience members that we did research with were ac

welcome to newswatch with me, reginie vinaldin, standing infor newswatch with me, reginie vinaldin, standingucial point and the kc was just about to question her on a briefing note which was put up on the screen, the first line was highlighted, there were 13 minutes to go, and what happened then? . make an election called today, hasn't _ . make an election called today, hasn't given an answer. so we wait to hear— hasn't given an answer. so we wait to hear anything official. the screen switched _ to hear anything official. tue: screen switched over to hear anything official. ti2 screen switched over to to hear anything official. ii2 screen switched over to your presenter standing outside ten downing st. telling us that at some point, the prime minister was about to announce the date of the next election. we knew this anyway because the right—hand side of the screen, during the enquiry, had been given over to the statement that only election was going to happen in the second half of the year. i can understand that you don't want to be scooped by itv news and i won the election was going to be