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I'm thrilled to share that the British Sign Language (BSL) version of the Autumn Statement will once again be available for our deaf and hard of hearing BSL community! This is a fantastic opportunity for everyone to engage with important national news in a fully accessible format.

The BSL version will be broadcast on the BBC News Channel on Wednesday, October 30th, at 12:35 PM. You can catch it on the following channels: Freeview 231, Sky 503, Virgin 601, and Freesat 200.

For those who prefer to watch online, the BSL version will also be available through BBC iPlayer, ensuring that no one misses out on this crucial update.

In addition, subtitles will be available on the BBC News Channel alongside the signed version, providing further accessibility for viewers.

It's fantastic to see the BBC continuing to prioritize accessibility for the deaf and hard of hearing community. Make sure to spread the word so everyone knows how to access this vital information in a way that works for them!

Let’s all make the most of this opportunity and support inclusivity in our media. Don't forget to tune in and watch the BSL version of the Autumn Statement on the BBC News Channel!

So, it’s BSL on the BBC News Channel!

Does anybody have a recording of today's (October, 14, 2024) segment from about 12pm (central time US) BBC news or BBC america regarding a lebanese reporter, contributor, journalist, or correspondent that spoke about the incident where like 18 were killed in Lebanon who was live on air earlier? If not, does anybody know how I could go about finding this? I've scoured the internet through bbc and all the archives but to no avail.

When the first half hour of the news is on, I can ‘play from beginning’ , but in the second half hour it will not let me play headlines from the top of the current hour. Can it really be that rubbish, or am I missing something

Don't want to be rude but is it me or every report Orla Guerin does starts off with a tone that is aligned to doom and gloom? She specialises in war reporting - I get it. But the tone is always sad and depressing. Always sad stories...

I've been following the BBC News website daily for decades and have noticed a decline in the last few years.

• Too many opinion pieces are presented as news.
• Too many explanatory articles leave me very little more informed.
• Too many news articles take too long to deliver the gist of the story.
• Too many news stories are headlined with a thumbnail of a photo that isn't shown in the actual story.
• The prominence of stories on the website seems to be determined by popularity rather than news worthiness - and yes, I think there's a difference.

I personally find it frustrating to pick thru the news on the site now. Am I alone?

A couple of d heads wanting a payday to cover their divorces

I've been watching BBC News on Youtube TV for a while and I don't see the 90 second intro, my commercials cut-out and a 15 second countdown starts usually only at the beginning of the program (every hour).

Did the BBC News stop their 90-second countdown? Or is it just Youtube TV?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15gn0lq7p5o

Headline: “Misogyny to be treated as extremism by UK government”

Meanwhile the sub-headline

Extreme misogyny will be treated as a form of extremism under new government plans, the Home Office has said.

So, yeah, the daily mail readers are still ok to mutter under their breath about the perils of women’s suffrage, as the government considers options to stop the kind of radicalization of young men we saw by the likes of Andrew tate.

Bad enough we’re going to see Jordan Peterson weeping on YouTube within 48 hours about how the uk fascist left government is rounding up young christian men, while Elon Musk subtweets a Nazi claiming there’s a war on white men in Britain, no need to make it so easy for them with un-nuanced headlines ripe for twitter posts.

For the past couple weeks or so, BBC News in the UK (BBC News at Six and BBC News at Ten) have not been taking place inside their usual studio which they use (Studio B). Just curious, does anyone know the reasoning behind this?

I find it really strange that every piece of BBC coverage regarding the US election is anti-Trump and pro-Harris. Regardless of personal opinions I just find it uncomfortable that our supposedly un-bias reporting is so heavily one sided.

Am I just missing all the articles which are written the other way?

Is there an in-app setting? I’m about to go crazy

BBC News, the bias, leading nature and total lack of journalistic integrity from Hugo Bachega, your Middle East correspondent during a BBC News live interview I watched today, July 31 2024, at around 12:50-12:55pm UK time, was shocking.

Your journalist, Hugo, was interviewing a local gentleman within Beirut following the Israeli strike on the city.

As a British-born individual I grew up knowing I could trust the BBC to learn about news and events across UK and the world as impartially as possible within a world of other biased media sources and inflamed social media presences.

However the BBCs coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli war has felt to me and many others I personally know as disappointingly skewed in it's reporting stance - refusing to call the Palestinian people 'Palestine', instead using 'Gaza' or 'Gazans', or referring to death tolls as 'Hamas-run' numbers and using vague terminology to describe the incessant attacks on the Palestinian people, such as your July 13 article titled 'Hamas-run health ministry says 141 killed in Israeli strikes' or your 7 April article titled 'IDF confirms 'decline in forces' in southern Gaza' contrasted to your clearly pro-Israeli leading title, 'Israel on high alert after unprecedented Iranian attack' from April 14.

Taking that context of the BBCs continual vagueness around Palestinian suffering & refusal to level the journalistic scrutiny of Israel and the IDF alongside that of Hamas and Palestine, Mr Bachega's line of questioning during this interview bordered between odd, rude and ignorant.

He repeatedly pushed the point that 'Hezbollah attacked first though, didn't they?' and refused to engage in the discussion about the 100+ year history, originated from our own British empirical rule of Palestine, stating 'let's focus on what's happening now though' to disarm this conversation.

I had in the past considered the BBC to be the gold standard of journalism globally. I can no longer say that is the case. Do better!

BBC: “Biden sidesteps hard truths in first speech since quitting race” https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crg5pq8ql1vo

Compare with other UK broadcast news:

ITV News: “Biden calls on America to 'preserve our democracy' in defining speech” https://www.itv.com/news/2024-07-24/president-biden-addresses-the-nation-after-dropping-out-of-election-race

Sky News: “‘Nothing can come in way of saving democracy, including personal ambition’ - Biden” https://news.sky.com/story/joe-biden-speaks-for-first-time-since-quitting-presidential-race-says-personal-ambition-couldnt-prevent-saving-our-democracy-13184541

Now compare with GB News:”'Slightly odd!'Joe Biden blasted after he breaks silence - 'He didn't tell us anything new'”

Pretty much BBC and GB News with the same message in the headline.

Strikes me that Britain’s national broadcaster ought to report objectively on the content of the US President’s speech FIRST and leave the opinion/analysis further down the page.

And it is opinion “Left unsaid was the cold, hard reality that he resigned because it was becoming increasingly clear that he was going to lose to Donald Trump in November.”

1. That is not an objective truth.
2. What the fuck does the reoprter - Anthony Zurcher - think any politician would say this outright?
3. It’s heavily implied in the quotes from Biden’s speech already referenced in the BBC story at this point.

Quoting Biden - “nothing can come in the way of saving our democracy – and that includes personal ambition.” WTF does Zurcher thinks this means?

What could coming in the way of “saving our democracy” possibly mean? Is it losing the election to Donald Trump, by any chance?

And whose “personal ambition” could he possibly be referring to? Oh, could it be his own?

Could, now this is a stretch here but stick with me, could Biden be saying he stepped aside because he feared he would lose the election?

Fuck me, how shit is the BBC’s US news coverage?

So I usually check out BBC news on YouTube first before going onto other channels and noticed there was no videos on this topic which seemed like quite big news in the UK. Which sometimes is the case because it's limited on which stories it shows.

But I do have a question since I don't have TV so I can't watch BBC one and was curious if this was covered on the regular Tele broadcast?