jeremy, thank you so much for coming on newswatch. talk very clearly about there were terms on your being embedded with the israeli defence force. can i ask, have they confiscated or blocked any of your filming while you while you were there? no, not at all. they had certain rules, not showing the faces of all but a few nominated officers, not showing positions, not showing screens inside their rather advanced military vehicles. and so we...when the cameraman, fred scott, was filming, he was aware of those rules and sort of worked around them. and then when we had put together the the edit, the completed edit, the producerfilmed it on her phone and sent it via whatsapp — without the commentary t— o the idf who had a look at it and about five or ten minutes later and said, we don't have a problem with that. so, yeah, it was important to mention that we had had to abide by israeli censorship regulations, but they weren't particularly onerous, i'd say. because some people might be wondering whether the bbc should be agreeing to such term

nigel mcmahon emailed newswatch to say... and keith mccormick added...ct, the man concerned was a gazan blogger and singer called saleh aljaafari. instead of being fake persona used to fabricate evidence of israeli war crimes some of those images of him were old pictures from his instagram posts, while others were of different people altogether. meanwhile, the israeli military confirmed the strike on the ambulance, saying that it was being used by hamas operatives. so as lil su boat pointed out... and the former director of bbc news, richard sambrook, chipped in. aiming to be a reliable, objective source of information amid the fog of war. gaza daily is the latest way in which the bbc world service has responded to global crises following an emergency radio service set up in may during the conflict in sudan and extended tv bulletins in ukraine last year after the country was invaded. it launched last friday. bbc news arabic radio went off air earlier this year, but due to the ongoing war, it's launching an emergency radio service for gaza, similar to the

thank you, rhodri, for coming on newswatch.he bbc is already using ai in news, and where you might be thinking of bringing it in? so let's separate two things. there's conventional artificial intelligence ai, which is essentially algorithmic. so, for example, if we're doing data journalism, we're looking into huge statistical evidence bases. we might use algorithms to help interpret the data that we've got in front of us. if you go onto the bbc�*s websites, some of the things that we may recommend to you are based on algorithms that throw up recommendations. that's traditional machine learning, traditional artificial intelligence. what we're seeing over the last few months, with the emergence of tools like gpt, is something like chatgpt, is something called generative ai. and the difference is that generative ai can create new material — it can create video, it can create graphics, it can create text. it's trained on a huge amount of data, and it can start to create new material. that's the transformation, the wave of technolog

thank you both for coming on newswatch.bout that report last week with the two shootings. why? what was your concern? my initial thought was you were showing people being shot on the news, which isn't something that historically i've been used to seeing. but it then occurred to me that you were showing them being shot on a news channel, a programme that was actually sort of before the 9:00 watershed. and i then came to the conclusion this was likely something that children shouldn't see. and children watching, you know, very graphic images of that nature, it can be quite disturbing and traumatic for them. and so my initial thoughts were children would be very affected by seeing this. jon. we think really carefully about all the images that we show. i mean, that's particularly important during wartime. and there are ways in which we try to counter the effect that it might have and to try and give people proper warning about what we might be doing. so in that piece, we put quite a strong warning beforejon�*s report to let peo

welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed.am show that was a mistake? and was it appropriate to call the state opening of parliament the fanciest fancy dress party you'll ever see? alongside the very real conflict in the middle east, we've been seeing a propaganda war too, and that reached new heights last friday. jeremy bowen reported on the news at six about an attack on an ambulance convoy outside gaza's al—shifa hospital. palestinian red crescent later said at least 15 people were killed in the strike. the controversy centred on this man — who filmed a selfie video outside the hospital in the immediate aftermath of the attack with victims visible in the background. claims quickly emerged online that the man was hired by hamas as a so—called crisis actor with his apparent previous performances posted here, and that the footage shown by the bbc and elsewhere was fake. nigel mcmahon emailed newswatch to say... and keith mccormick added...

jeremy, thank you so much for coming on newswatch. censorship regulations, but they weren't particularly onerous, i'd say. because some people might be wondering whether the bbc should be agreeing to such terms at all. well, it was a choice. you know, we can either go in there and take a look at what was going on and sign the paper and agree to their rules, or we could stay out. and i felt that on balance, it was worth doing that. it gave me certainly a really eye opening insight onto the amount of damage in northern gaza. not one building was left intact. i mean, the whole place had been turned into a wasteland, and i wouldn't have known that if we hadn't gone in. i mean, for me, that was the big takeaway of the whole thing. and, you know, it's notjust the israelis who do this. in other countries, i've been in iraq under saddam hussein, we've had to submit to censorship. so it's not, you know, totally unheard of, but i think the important thing is to be transparent about the rules that we agree to. and sometimes when you are reportin

welcome to newswatch, with me, samira ahmed. coming up... hello, everyone.st day... if ai can provide virtual newsreaders, what other benefits or risks could it hold for bbc news? and to bleep or not to bleep — should television news broadcasts should television news broadcast swear words in full? the news has shown an intermittent interest in the covid inquiry since public hearings began injune. but this week's line—up of witnesses, and what they had to say, prompted many hours of live coverage and analysis on news bulletins. this presented a problem for the bbc and other broadcasters. whatsapp messages from former government advisers lee cain and dominic cummings in particular were littered with expletives, which were read out by the lawyers questioning them, and transcribed

welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. coming up...s been able to get to the truth of what's happening in the middle east and about the pros and cons of reporting while embedded with the israeli defence force. first, the big event of the week in westminster — wednesday's autumn statement from the chancellor was preceded, as is usual on these occasions, by an appearance on bbc one on sunday morning. but as has also become usual, jeremy hunt didn't give much away to laura kuenssberg about the announcements he planned to make a few days later. you don't want to do anything that could fuel. . .see inflation taking off again. translate that, it means no income tax cuts this week. well, you'll have to wait. i know you're very experienced, laura. you know, i'm not going to give you any indication of my actual measures. you could break tradition, use the lower figure, which would mean less money in the pockets of some of the most vulnerable people in this country. you can clear that up right now. are you going to follow convention or not? laur

now on breakfast, it's time for newswatch.ar were littered with expletives, which were read out by the lawyers questioning them, and transcribed on screen live and in full. the bbc news channel showed an on—screen warning, with the presenter breaking into the coverage several times along these lines. this is an extract from your letter to the inquiry dated the 7th of may. you're watching bbc — apologies for the coarse language being used in these text messages. this is a live stream coming in from the uk covid inquiry. so some coarse language is being used. the ripeness of the language surprised heaven's gate trading, who wrote... but chris the dj had this response. i'm sure there'll be loads of complaints, so please take my compliments for broadcasting the covid inquiry with expletives included. i do think it's vital to our understanding of the story to see and hear the toxic culture exactly as it was. for its part, bbc news said... while the bbc would not normally broadcast such strong language, we believe there is a clear p