:00:00. > :00:00.this temporary defence will hold up one last time. Now it's time for
:00:00. > :00:00.News watch. We explore a new way of getting news headlines on your
:00:00. > :00:56.mobile phone. Such an occasion arose on Thursday
:00:57. > :01:02.night in Peru jail where prosecutors had appealed against the acquittal
:01:03. > :01:09.of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito on the charge of murdering
:01:10. > :01:17.Meredith Kercher. Like much of the worlds media, BBC News Channel
:01:18. > :01:20.keenly awaiting the verdict. We have the senior judge coming along, he
:01:21. > :01:30.will be the man who will deliver the verdict, and we do trust we have
:01:31. > :01:44.simultaneous translation. The application of Amanda Knox and
:01:45. > :01:52.Raffaele Sollecito... Today, they have been... They are going to be
:01:53. > :01:59.detained as a precautionary measure, to prevent them leaving. We have had
:02:00. > :02:10.the verdict in Italian, we did have a translation. With me is a London
:02:11. > :02:15.based translator. From what I understood, they are guilty. The
:02:16. > :02:18.pair had been found guilty, not that one would have known it from the
:02:19. > :02:20.simultaneous translation in the court room. Then Wells was not
:02:21. > :02:50.impressed: Next, question about impartiality in
:02:51. > :02:55.reporting the street protests in Ukraine. They continued this week
:02:56. > :02:59.despite the resignation of the Prime Minister and the offer of senior
:03:00. > :03:05.jobs to the opposition by President Yanukovych. The question arose
:03:06. > :03:12.around the News at ten on Sunday and it phrase used by the reporter.
:03:13. > :03:17.During the night, protesters besieged and exhibition centre near
:03:18. > :03:22.Independence Square. They received information that 200 police officers
:03:23. > :03:28.were stationed inside. They used fireworks and rocks to break in.
:03:29. > :03:33.Police retreated. Later, citizens streamed to the captured building.
:03:34. > :04:01.The only exhibition on today was a display of people power.
:04:02. > :04:12.There has been controversy this week on a Lib Dem councillor. He tweeted
:04:13. > :04:17.images of Jesus and Muhammad after a discussion on a BBC One show. He has
:04:18. > :04:23.since faced a petition against it candidacy and death rates online. On
:04:24. > :04:31.Wednesday, Newsnight took up the story behind the tweet last Sunday.
:04:32. > :04:37.He had just been a guest on a BBC programme. In the front row were two
:04:38. > :04:41.students wearing T-shirts showing the Jesus and Muhammad cartoon. A
:04:42. > :04:48.debate ensued as to whether they had the right to wear them. Do they have
:04:49. > :04:54.the right to wear those T-shirts? No, why are you trying to offend
:04:55. > :05:00.religious faith? That T-shirt does not threaten my God, my faith, the
:05:01. > :05:07.Koran, any aspect of my religion. I do not feel threatened by that
:05:08. > :05:13.T-shirt. It was the BBC's decision not to show a close-up that prompted
:05:14. > :05:16.the tweet. But was the BBC right not to show a close-up I'd originally or
:05:17. > :05:59.subsequently on Newsnight? We know that the way people access
:06:00. > :06:04.News online is constantly changing. December last year was the first
:06:05. > :06:09.month in which BBC News website was used more on mobile and tablet
:06:10. > :06:15.devices than desktop computers. The BBC is responding to that change
:06:16. > :06:21.within interesting experiment. The 38 years, the corporation divided
:06:22. > :06:25.news and information via teletext. In 2012, Ceefax was not thought to
:06:26. > :06:30.be in the vanguard of innovation and the BBC was looking for new ways of
:06:31. > :06:42.disseminating news to a social media generation. A mobile app that
:06:43. > :06:49.enabled its users to create and post six second video clips and then
:06:50. > :06:53.Instagram, originally a photo sharing site, and you can record
:06:54. > :06:56.videos, 15 seconds. Good for magic tricks and animals doing amusing
:06:57. > :07:10.things but does this have any relevance to news? The BBC has used
:07:11. > :07:13.footage of Kiev. It is now publishing 315 second videos, either
:07:14. > :07:18.rounding up the day's news or focusing on a simple story, so is
:07:19. > :07:21.this service pandering to shorter attention spans or an
:07:22. > :07:25.acknowledgement that some people now want their news delivered at a
:07:26. > :07:31.different way? With me to explain more about Insta facts, its name is
:07:32. > :07:34.a combination of Instagram and Ceefax is Chris Hamilton. Welcome
:07:35. > :07:38.back to News watch. Some people will say a 15 second news item and
:07:39. > :07:44.certainly a 15 second news summary is too short to have any real value.
:07:45. > :07:50.I disagree with that because I think you can convey information, say with
:07:51. > :07:53.tweets, a one-minute radio summary, 15 seconds is shorter but if you do
:07:54. > :07:56.it well and we have a good team behind it, you can convey
:07:57. > :08:00.information and if you look at the comments people are leaving they
:08:01. > :08:03.seem to appreciate it. The most interesting comments are from people
:08:04. > :08:11.saying, I haven't used BBC News and I will now. Let's look at a recent
:08:12. > :08:17.one. A summary of the day's events. So this takes three stories. It
:08:18. > :08:21.gives a headline. You could argue it is old-fashioned, like a newspaper
:08:22. > :08:26.headline. There is no audio or interview clips. The idea is to
:08:27. > :08:31.convey in a brief hearing at what the top stories. That is one type of
:08:32. > :08:35.Insta fax we are doing. We are doing two others which focus on a
:08:36. > :08:38.particular story so over the course of 15 seconds instead of three
:08:39. > :08:44.headlines you get more information and pictures on a particular story.
:08:45. > :08:48.An example we saw, talks on Syria, you see two faces, neither
:08:49. > :08:51.identified. I wonder how much information it gives especially
:08:52. > :08:57.given you have to go somewhere else to follow up the stories. You don't
:08:58. > :08:59.click on the video. It is an experiment. We are trying out
:09:00. > :09:05.different ways of how it works, different types of information but
:09:06. > :09:10.we don't think this is the future of news. This is part of a whole range,
:09:11. > :09:16.starting with 15 seconds, is all the way through to version of paranoid
:09:17. > :09:22.-- panorama. People can find out more information. This is one way of
:09:23. > :09:26.delivering a snapshot of the news in a way the audience appreciate.
:09:27. > :09:30.Ceefax is the inspiration because what has never been bettered since
:09:31. > :09:33.Ceefax is the idea of a line which is a headline, it gives you enough
:09:34. > :09:38.information and you could click on that line and going to the story.
:09:39. > :09:44.You have to go to the website to follow up. That is true, it is one
:09:45. > :09:48.of the drawbacks, the inability to link directly through, but that is
:09:49. > :09:52.part of the reason we use the caption alongside to try and convey
:09:53. > :09:58.more information. I agree about Ceefax, one of the great inventions
:09:59. > :10:01.and it became a stalwart warhorse of the newsroom that was great at what
:10:02. > :10:07.it did, conveying information in a short space of time. They are all
:10:08. > :10:10.about sharing content and the power of that aggregated. You would not
:10:11. > :10:14.share the 15 second of the news, would you? I am not sure, some
:10:15. > :10:20.people might if they found a story compelling or they wanted to share.
:10:21. > :10:26.That is one thing we are doing here, some of the Insta fax that
:10:27. > :10:30.focus on a particular story are shareable. We did one about a man
:10:31. > :10:36.who has invented a full sized toy car, which looks like a full-sized
:10:37. > :10:40.toy car, but it goes on the road. That is the type of thing people
:10:41. > :10:46.want to share. That is not the content we are doing on its own. We
:10:47. > :10:52.also are covering the rear, climate change, science stories -- Syria.
:10:53. > :10:55.Chris Hamilton, thank you very much. Thank you for your comments this
:10:56. > :11:04.week. If you would like to share your opinions or appear on the
:11:05. > :11:10.programme, call us. Or e-mail us. You can find us on Twitter. Have
:11:11. > :11:17.another look at this or previous programmes on our website. That is
:11:18. > :11:18.all from us. We will be back to hear your thoughts about BBC News
:11:19. > :11:34.coverage next week. Goodbye. Hello. Today's heavy rain is
:11:35. > :11:38.clearing away but we are a long way from any calming down of the
:11:39. > :11:41.weather. More problems to come over the next 24 hours. All thanks to an
:11:42. > :11:42.area of low