you can see that in many of the appointments made by lord hall. we have heard that there has been no governance and no oversight whatsoever of the bbc legal duties to pay equally. there are legal duties to pay equally. there a re clearly legal duties to pay equally. there are clearly has been a structure in place but under a different regime. the current regime, structures were in place with the bbc executive and with the trust which you quizzed many times. i think we all which the conclusion it was at effective governance system. the current syste m governance system. the current system has been in place from april la st system has been in place from april last year and is now clear where the accountability lies, and we are wholly in support of the work in progress which tony and many other senior people in the bbc are taking forward. let's look forward. lord hall, we've heard some good suggestions and sensible suggestions this afternoon about offers to help the bbc resolve what i would describe as a crisis in terms of reputation. you're watching

but lord hall, how were you appointed? house, divers headhunted, and asked if i would apply to comment the bbc. —— i was headhunted. is that equality of opportunity? i was offered the job, the bbc was in crisis, and ifelt it was my duty to go back to the bbc and help sort out the bbc, which i hope i have done since i came back. and do you think the bbc is in crisis now over this? do think its reputation can survive, you can surround? the bbc has an amazing future, this is not the role of us versus netflix and so on. but the bbc stands for an enormous amount of creativity. as carrie was saying earlier, what it stands for in terms of journalism is ofjournalism is more essential than ever, and i profoundly believe in the values that people who work for the values that people who work for the bbc stand up for. i also believe in learning, i do not believe that any organisation gets to a perfect state. you've got to listen, learn, change, adapt and reform, to ensure the of things you believe in. this line of questioning requires

what lord hall has said about all the adjustments. the adjustments. getting a greater pay rise than the by volume... men but by volume... start paying people by target, and soon... people by target, and soon... becomes like russia, tractor production... production... damages, if that is what you end up paying. whole thing is an absolute mess. mess. pretty unfair, clearly some of them are earning silly money. are earning silly money. some months, seems rather random. months, seems rather random. perhaps they will go into programme making. they will go into programme making. where will they come from, these pay rises. rises. ugly truth of socialism laid bare by researchers, says whom? researchers, says whom? physically less attractive than right—wing people... right—wing people... them with a blind spot when it comes to others hardship. to others hardship. to back redistributive taxes and more likely to be tories. more likely to be tories. attractive they are and what corresponding political views are. corresponding political views are. and they are claiming, ugly people become socialists

and lord tony hall, is talking about... about... guess transparency is the only way for a company to out. is that summing you have come across? i think that it absolutely right. right. i think historically, there has been no paid transparency. has been no paid transparency. it, how do women know what they should be paid? great to talk to you. you. thank you so much for coming in this lunchtime. european union, no matter what deal is done. is done. bias, but lord hall admits that some people have been paid too much. people have been paid too much. admit that mistakes were made any disclosure of evidence. of £33 million to settle spiffing charges against them. charges against them. a definite indication of what sort of brexit theresa may once. of brexit theresa may once. ignoring how they will pay off their mortgage. that is according to a regulator. regulator. savings or other funds to pay a lump sum. heavily in commercial and residential real estate. that's according to an annual review by deloitte. construction activity in birmingham, manchester, leeds, and belfast. but which sector

we now await the arrival of the director—general of the bbc, lord hall, tony hall.ames harding. we will cut the feed their from the house of commons. there will be a short break and we will return for the remainder of the evidence today in that row over bbc pay with carrie gracie. at times very emotional, and sometimes very angry, as well, expressing her view about management at the bbc. we will return to that a little later on. two other news... theresa may has tackled her critics. she responded to questions about the future as prime minister saying "i am nota future as prime minister saying "i am not a quitter". robert bryan reports from shanghai. who would have thought this was a prime minister on the rack? theresa may has come to china to talk trade and first up in the city of wuhan that means education. good arguments on both sides. uk schools and universities are here, english is the second most popular language in china. prime minister, i welcome you. nice to see you. but still there was no escaping the sense of a leadership crisis around every corner at home

the director general, lord hall, who also appeared, said it was wrong that she had been underpaid. 0uront — several of the most high—profile female presenters on bbc news were in westminster today to support their colleague carrie gracie. reporter: do the bbc need to do more on equal pay for women? that's why we're here to support carrie. thank you. i was appointed china editor in... she resigned her post as china editor in protest at unequal pay. in blistering testimony to a select committee of mps, she accused the bbc of institutionalised discrimination, when it had paid her less than other international editors. we knew there was inequality. we didn't know the details, because the bbc is extremely secretive on pay, but we knew we were underpaid. and i was determined, at this point, when i knew i'd give the china job every last ounce of my skill and stamina, i knew i would do that job at least as well as any man. the corporation's dealing with her grievance was, she said, insultingly shambolic, and she added that she would be declining nearly £100,000 in back pay. i have said i don't

lord hall insisted he valued carrie gracie's work to that of her male peers, but... exactly the same, i don't agree with. it should not be a matter of gender, completely agree, outrage as if it was. but you have balances between different editors and we need to be very up front as to what the pecking order is. the bbc promises greater transparency over pay and admits that past decisions have not been consistent. as a large, publicly funded organisation, staff and managers agreed that the corporation has to set an example on pay. that means winning back the trust of staff and resolving past grievances. with me now is the employment lawyer gillian howard. thanks so much for coming in. we have obviously heard today from high—profile figures, carrie gracie and lord hall. what i wanted was how much you think what is going on at the bbc is going on in other organisations and firms around the uk? it is, it is endemic. it is particularly bad in the finance industry, banking and insurance worlds. earnings can be very high and unfortunately for women they hit and unfortunately

lord hall will face questions by the culture and media select committee.itor carrie gracie resigned from her post after complaining about unequal pay. she's also been asked to appear before mps. the number of people waiting more than four hours in accident and emergency departments in scotland reached a record high in the last week of 2017. new figures show only 78% of patients were seen within the government's four hour target — the lowest proportion since weekly data started being published three years ago. here's our scotland editor sarah smith. busy accident & emergency departments in scotland mean patients are facing their longest recorded waiting times. last week, over 100,000 patients waited more than four hours to be seen, nearly 300 waited nearly 300 waited longer than 12 hours, figures described today as a "disgrace." the figures out today are for the week ending in hogmanay, a very, very challenging week for our health service, flu really beginning to kick in that week. for example, 40% increase in calls to the scottish ambulance service on hogm

the director general, lord hall, who also appeared, said it was "wrong" that she had been underpaid. a united front. several of the most high—profile female presenters on bbc news were in westminster today to support their colleague, carrie gracie. reporter: do the bbc need to do more on equal pay for women? that's why we're here to support carrie. thank you. i was appointed china editor... she resigned her post as china editor in protest at unequal pay. in blistering testimony to a select committee of mps, she accused the bbc of institutionalised discrimination when it had paid her less than other international editors. we knew there was inequality. we didn't know the details, because the bbc is extremely secretive on pay, but we knew we were underpaid. i was determined at this point, where i knew i would give the china job every last ounce of my skill and stamina, i knew i would do that job at least as well as any man. the corporation's dealing with her grievance was, she said, insultingly shambolic. and she added that she'd be declining nearly £100,000 in back pay. i have said i d

lord hall will face questions by the culture and media select committee.pay. she's also been asked to appear before mps. prince harry and his fiancee meghan markle have visited a youth radio station in brixton in south london on their first royal engagement of the year. hundreds of people lined the streets outside the reprezent studios to welcome them. nick witchell‘s report contains flash photography. they travel with all the paraphernalia of royalty, but harry and meghan are the new royal couple determined to do things just a little differently. so this was a visit to a radio station, housed in old shipping containers. cheering. believe it or not everyone is listening and i'm in the same room as the royal couple right now. this is reprezent fm in brixton, south london, set up 10 years ago to help tackle inner city issues, like knife crime. it gives young people a purpose and trains them to be broadcasters. i can see why your show‘s so popular because you're so thoughtful in the approach, but also so engaging to listen to. thank you. inside the station, h

lord hall said last year he is determined to close the gender pay gap at the bbc.ieved she had secured it. does the secretary of state believes that the corporation is, as carrie gracie is saying, in breach of equality legislation? and how can employees of other less transparent media companies know whether their employers are complying with equality law? the bbc is accountable to the public and we know more about the pay gap there than we do at other organisation. is the secretary of state confident that female staff at other broadcasters and media companies are paid as highly as their male colleagues? and will he called an end to encourage them to be as transparent as the bbc? —— call them in. and what will they do to ensure these are notjust ways to criticise our national broadcaster as other media organisations might whisper to the wake to highlight pay and inequality across the board. —— other organisations might wish. the people in the story are the top of their profession and earning significant sums. but we need to be at least as concerned about pay for bbc

lord. >> a prayer for the city. today people in philadelphia came together at city hall to pray for the eagles and one of the city'siggest epidemices. nbc 10's aundrea cline-thomas has more on how the city's unity for the birds is bringing awareness to an important issue. >> she's joining us live outside city hall with more on that. >> reporter: on the surface, it may seem like a stretch but the idea is that perfect strangers can come together to support the eagles, maybe the same can be true for more pressing issues in the city. >> we were already together around the eagles, amen? >> amen. >> reporter: in the shadows of cut dlouts of michael kendricks. >> now we can get together around all the other issues we are facing as a city. >> reporter: more than 100 people gathered in the courtyard of city hall to pray. >> it's hurting people that's hurting people every day, lord god. >> the philadelphia eagles were underdogs. nobody thought they could overcome it or they were facing something too big for them to overcome. >> reporter: but the eagles fans cheered as the team soared to victory clinching the nfc championship

journalist, publisher, member of the roosevelt house lord of advisors and was recently in his new role, a teacher in our human rights program. friend to our halls and persuading him to come. i am delighted to introduce for this conversation, our friend peter osnos, and our friend natan sharansky. [applause] peter: i am pleased to see how natan can draw a crowd in the midday. this entire conversation for which we have roughly an hour is an introduction, so i am not going to do one, but i will say that natan and i met in the summer of 1974 in moscow. he was introduced to me as the spokesman for the dissidents. i looked at him and said, you are the spokesman? he was not exactly what you would call at that time. he was 26. i thought to myself this is going to be a formidable enterprise, but little did i know, in 1977, natan was arrested, charged with treason, sent to the gulags for nine years. when he came out and went to israel and joined his beloved wife, i went with my colleague bernstein, who was then andchairman of random house the founder of the human rights watch. we went to israel and persuaded natan with a check to write his memoirs for us

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that is an understatement. evidence followed in the afternoon by lord hall. by lord hall. the focus, the industry as a whole now isn't it? yes. i think it is. thing around the world, notjust in the uk. the uk. i think it's great that the bbc is actually confronting it. bbc is actually confronting it. well, not necessarily through choice at this stage. at this stage. people would like to drill down into it and get the facts i think. it and get the facts i think. badly treated to be able to share all of this data. all of this data. outside to actually act as am ombudsman person. ombudsman person. who could talk to all of the people about the issues. about the issues. thing line managers saying don't bother about it. bother about it. this has got to come from the top. come from the top. whir talking about —— we are talking about news. about —— we are talking about news. this report is talking about news. linekers and chris evans' of this world. world. account when their pay awards are decided. what do you make of that? they should be on a pay grade like anybody else. anybody else. doesn

men will be getting less. it thinks that those people are being underpaid. being underpaid. from lord hallre placed versus the peers. peers. which they are paid, so that is clever too. clever too. were actually the pay has been too low. low. now want to do that quicker, much faster. faster. area where i am passionate, progression of women. progression of women. i want some outside help on this. outside help on this. barriers for women progressing, we can remove them. can remove them. corporation, i want to do that as well. well. director—general of the bbc. of itv regarding how these pay variables have come around. variables have come around. this is what lord grade had to say. what lord grade had to say. market argument does not work any more injournalism. more injournalism. far the biggest player in journalism. journalism. think that is clearly being addressed. addressed. the rest of the situation is much more difficult. is much more difficult. subjective who has got the same level ofjob as somebody else. level ofjob as somebody else. grade where you are assistant secretary of this or th