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Kaja Kallas’ warning comes as Donald Trump sets a two-week period to assess peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv. Israel says “there is no famine in Gaza” after the IPC reports more than 500,000 people in the Strip are facing “starvation, destitution and death”. The studio moves also meant that Studio N9, previously used for BBC World, was closed, and operations moved to the previous studio of BBC News 24.

• Lawyers for Mr Gupta had applied for a four-week adjournment for time to place the company in a “pre-pack administration”, which allows an insolvent company to sell its assets to a bidder.
• Mark Thompson, former Director-General of the BBC, admitted the organisation has been biased “towards the left” in the past.
• Liberty Steel Group’s finances were upended when its main lender, Greensill Capital, collapsed owing billions to investors including UBS and Citibank.
• A new graphics and video playout system was introduced for production of television bulletins in January 2007.
• Many couples are including their pooch in their big day, we talk to some whose dogs have played a key role.

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New technology, provided by Silicon Graphics, came into use in 1993 for a re-launch of the main BBC 1 bulletins, creating a virtual set which appeared to be much larger than it was physically. The relaunch also brought all bulletins into the same style of set with only small changes in colouring, titles, and music to differentiate each. A computer generated cut-glass sculpture of the BBC coat of arms was the centrepiece of the programme titles until the large scale corporate rebranding of news services in 1999. On Sunday 17 September 1967, The World This Weekend, a weekly news and current affairs programme, launched on what was then Home Service, but soon-to-be Radio 4. Newsnight, the news and current affairs programme, was due to go on air on 23 January 1980, although trade union disagreements meant that its launch from Lime Grove was postponed by a week.38 On 27 August 1981 Moira Stuart became the first African Caribbean female newsreader to appear on British television. Robert Dougall presented the first week from studio N132 – described by The Guardian33 as “a sort of polystyrene padded cell”34—the bulletin having been moved from the earlier time of 20.50 as a response to the ratings achieved by ITN’s News at Ten, introduced three years earlier on the rival ITV.

Over half a million people across Gaza are facing “catastrophic” conditions characterised by “starvation, destitution and death”, the IPC says. A rail strike and works are expected this weekend as millions begin their bank holiday getaways. Geneva, Istanbul and Budapest have been put forward as potential locations – but bilateral talks still remain a long way off. Many couples are including their pooch in their big day, we talk to some whose dogs have played a key role.

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Lawyer for the creditors, Ryan Perkins, argued UK steel-making would be better served if the company’s assets were sold off with assistance from independent special managers acting on behalf of the government after it is wound up, rather than allowing administrators appointed by Mr Gupta to conduct the process. Mark Thompson, former Director-General of the BBC, admitted the organisation has been biased “towards the left” in the past. Prominent BBC appointments are constantly assessed by the British media and political establishment for signs of political bias. The appointment of Greg Dyke as Director-General was highlighted by press sources because Dyke was a Labour Party member and former activist, as well as a friend of Tony Blair. Also in the mid-1970s, the late night news on BBC2 was briefly renamed Newsnight,35 but this was not to last, or be the same programme as we know today – that would be launched in 1980 – and it soon reverted to being just a news summary with the early evening BBC2 news expanded to become Newsday.

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BBC News was at the centre of a political controversy following the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Three BBC News reports (Andrew Gilligan’s on Today, Gavin Hewitt’s on The Ten O’Clock News and another on Newsnight) quoted an anonymous source that stated the British government (particularly the Prime Minister’s office) had embellished the September Dossier with misleading exaggerations of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction capabilities. The government denounced the reports and accused the corporation of poor journalism. A new graphics and video playout system was introduced for production of television bulletins in January 2007.

• Richard Baker and Kenneth Kendall presented subsequent weeks, thus echoing those first television bulletins of the mid-1950s.
• A purely comic character, Deck has failed the bar seven times but has many useful skills and qualities, not least a flexible sense of professional ethics.
• Israel says “there is no famine in Gaza” after the IPC reports more than 500,000 people in the Strip are facing “starvation, destitution and death”.
• The week’s best stories, handpicked by BBC editors, in your inbox every Tuesday and Friday.
• New technology, provided by Silicon Graphics, came into use in 1993 for a re-launch of the main BBC 1 bulletins, creating a virtual set which appeared to be much larger than it was physically.
• The company, which uses scrap metal to manufacture steel, will now be placed in the hands of the official receiver – a government appointed liquidator – and special managers from consultancy firm Teneo.

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Those investors are part of the creditor group that applied for the winding up petition. Winding up the company, his lawyers argued, could place the business in “free fall” and incur significant disruption, cost and risk to a nationally flexible budgets important steel company and its staff. A purely comic character, Deck has failed the bar seven times but has many useful skills and qualities, not least a flexible sense of professional ethics.

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The government will now be responsible for the operational and financial risks of the company, which has produced next to no steel for over a year. Lawyers for Mr Gupta had applied for a four-week adjournment for time to place the company in a “pre-pack administration”, which allows an insolvent company to sell its assets to a bidder. The company, which uses scrap metal to manufacture steel, will now be placed in the hands of the official receiver – a government appointed liquidator – and special managers from consultancy firm Teneo. The week’s best stories, handpicked by BBC editors, in your inbox every Tuesday and Friday.

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Studio N9 was later refitted to match the new branding, and was used for the BBC’s UK local elections and European elections coverage in early June 2009. By the end of the decade, the practice of shooting on film for inserts in news broadcasts was declining, with the introduction of ENG technology into the UK. The equipment would gradually become less cumbersome – the BBC’s first attempts had been using a Philips colour camera with backpack base station and separate portable Sony U-matic recorder in the latter half of the decade. Here is the first general news bulletin, copyright by Reuters, Press Association, Exchange Telegraph and Central News.

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Richard Baker and Kenneth Kendall presented subsequent weeks, thus echoing those first television bulletins of the mid-1950s. Preparations for colour began in the autumn of 1967 and on Thursday 7 March 1968 Newsroom on BBC2 moved to an early evening slot, becoming the first UK news programme to be transmitted in colour29 – from Studio A at Alexandra Palace. News Review and Westminster (the latter a weekly review of Parliamentary happenings) were “colourised” shortly after.

The BBC has faced accusations of holding both anti-Israel and anti-Palestine bias. In his report on 28 January 2004, Lord Hutton concluded that Gilligan’s original accusation was “unfounded” and the BBC’s editorial and management processes were “defective”. In particular, it specifically criticised the chain of management that caused the BBC to defend its story.