BBC Under Fire
Talk Breakfast
Ricky Freelove
4.3 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Now I want to bring you some breaking news. |
| 0:06.0 | A Hamas security force chief has been killed alongside some of his family. |
| 0:14.0 | And an Israeli airstrike on his home has taken its toll. |
| 0:18.3 | Jihad Mason was one of the key leaders within Hamas. |
| 0:23.2 | We'll give you more on that as we get it. |
| 0:26.7 | Meanwhile, Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, has slammed the BBC's coverage of the Israel-Hamas |
| 0:34.2 | conflict, calling it atrocious. |
| 0:37.0 | He's taken issue with their refusal to call the terrorist group Hamas conflict, calling it atrocious. He's taken issue with their refusal to call the terrorist |
| 0:40.0 | group Hamas terrorists. Yes, they are terrorists, and we aren't afraid of saying that here on |
| 0:46.4 | talk TV. Aside from that, their reporting has been criticized as anti-Israel. Have a look at BBC reporter John Donison reporting on the explosion at the Gaza |
| 0:58.6 | Hospital the other night. The Israeli military has been contacted for comment and they have said |
| 1:04.7 | that they are investigating. But, you know, it is hard to see what else this could be, really, given the size of the explosion, other than an Israeli airstrike or several airstrikes. |
| 1:20.2 | What it could be is a terrorist missile, actually, to discuss this and more. |
| 1:26.2 | I'm joined by former editor of the BBC Today program and |
| 1:30.3 | now columnists for The Sun, the Sunday Times, The Spectator, you name it, he writes for it. Rod Liddell. Hi, Rod. |
| 1:37.2 | Hi, good morning. First of all, actually, it's afternoon. Point of order. It is, it is. That's the sort of sloppy reporting you get on the state broadcast of the BBC. It is. It is. Sorry, mate. That's the sort of sloppy reporting you get on the |
| 1:44.7 | state broadcast of the BBC. It is. This is now, I would suggest, Rod, as a former BBC man, |
| 1:52.3 | this is a full-scale crisis for the BBC. This is the president of Israel calling its reporting of this awful conflict in the Middle East atrocious. |
| 2:05.7 | And that guy, John Donison, saying it's hard to see how else, |
| 2:09.9 | who else could be to blame for this bombing of this hospital. |
| 2:13.7 | It's obvious. |
| 2:15.1 | It's not hard to blame anyone else because it looks as if almost certainly |
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