i clear to me that they did want martin bashirfor thejob. i have beenin martin bashirfor thejob.strong preference for a particular candidate. the problem here was first of the process was deeply fall down like flawed and secondly they appointed someone who should never have been appointed. b, should never have been appointed. a lot of bbcjournalists themselves are really angry about this, roger, and about what this investigation has revealed. how damaging you think it was not been to trust in the bbc? it is very damaging indeed and trust as a foundation of the bbc so the whole story about how the greatest scoop of the late 20th century was floored and obtained by lies and deceit was a terrible one and then you have this unfortunate thing that happens sometimes at the bbc weather scandal that you would think was a long time ago then also comes back with a vengeance and it was a big, big mistake, exactly as has been inside, to be a point mass in basheer in 2016. it brings it all back to life again and it was a terrible, terrible episode —— to reappoint martin basheer in 2016. foota

of the bbc, lord hall, has said it was wrong, in hindsight, not to have sacked the journalist martin bashirfor diana in 1995. at the time, mr hall was head of bbc news. he's told a westminster parliamentary committee here in london that he had trusted martin bashir when he shouldn't have. 0ur media editor, amol rajan, has more details. at core here, i trusted a journalist, i gave him a second chance — we, the team, give him a second chance, and that trust was abused and was misplaced. tony hall was a popular and respected director—general at the bbc, but, cutting an anguished figure, he pleaded today that his 35 years of public service should not be coloured by his trusting a liar in the 1990s. lord hall was director of bbc news when martin bashir, having forged bank documents, secured an interview with princess diana, for which he would be much garlanded. a recent independent review by lord dyson, a seniorjudge, accepted that princess diana probably would have given the interview in any case, but was scathing about hall's judgement in believing bashir, prompting a detailed condemnation of the