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this temporary defence will hold up one last time. Now it's time for

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News watch. We explore a new way of getting news headlines on your

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mobile phone. Such an occasion arose on Thursday

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night in Peru jail where prosecutors had appealed against the acquittal

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of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito on the charge of murdering

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Meredith Kercher. Like much of the worlds media, BBC News Channel

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keenly awaiting the verdict. We have the senior judge coming along, he

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will be the man who will deliver the verdict, and we do trust we have

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simultaneous translation. The application of Amanda Knox and

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Raffaele Sollecito... Today, they have been... They are going to be

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detained as a precautionary measure, to prevent them leaving. We have had

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the verdict in Italian, we did have a translation. With me is a London

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based translator. From what I understood, they are guilty. The

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pair had been found guilty, not that one would have known it from the

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simultaneous translation in the court room. Then Wells was not

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impressed: Next, question about impartiality in

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reporting the street protests in Ukraine. They continued this week

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despite the resignation of the Prime Minister and the offer of senior

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jobs to the opposition by President Yanukovych. The question arose

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around the News at ten on Sunday and it phrase used by the reporter.

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During the night, protesters besieged and exhibition centre near

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Independence Square. They received information that 200 police officers

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were stationed inside. They used fireworks and rocks to break in.

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Police retreated. Later, citizens streamed to the captured building.

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The only exhibition on today was a display of people power.

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There has been controversy this week on a Lib Dem councillor. He tweeted

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images of Jesus and Muhammad after a discussion on a BBC One show. He has

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since faced a petition against it candidacy and death rates online. On

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Wednesday, Newsnight took up the story behind the tweet last Sunday.

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He had just been a guest on a BBC programme. In the front row were two

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students wearing T-shirts showing the Jesus and Muhammad cartoon. A

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debate ensued as to whether they had the right to wear them. Do they have

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the right to wear those T-shirts? No, why are you trying to offend

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religious faith? That T-shirt does not threaten my God, my faith, the

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Koran, any aspect of my religion. I do not feel threatened by that

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T-shirt. It was the BBC's decision not to show a close-up that prompted

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the tweet. But was the BBC right not to show a close-up I'd originally or

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subsequently on Newsnight? We know that the way people access

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News online is constantly changing. December last year was the first

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month in which BBC News website was used more on mobile and tablet

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devices than desktop computers. The BBC is responding to that change

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within interesting experiment. The 38 years, the corporation divided

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news and information via teletext. In 2012, Ceefax was not thought to

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be in the vanguard of innovation and the BBC was looking for new ways of

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disseminating news to a social media generation. A mobile app that

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enabled its users to create and post six second video clips and then

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Instagram, originally a photo sharing site, and you can record

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videos, 15 seconds. Good for magic tricks and animals doing amusing

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things but does this have any relevance to news? The BBC has used

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footage of Kiev. It is now publishing 315 second videos, either

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rounding up the day's news or focusing on a simple story, so is

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this service pandering to shorter attention spans or an

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acknowledgement that some people now want their news delivered at a

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different way? With me to explain more about Insta facts, its name is

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a combination of Instagram and Ceefax is Chris Hamilton. Welcome

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back to News watch. Some people will say a 15 second news item and

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certainly a 15 second news summary is too short to have any real value.

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I disagree with that because I think you can convey information, say with

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tweets, a one-minute radio summary, 15 seconds is shorter but if you do

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it well and we have a good team behind it, you can convey

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information and if you look at the comments people are leaving they

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seem to appreciate it. The most interesting comments are from people

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saying, I haven't used BBC News and I will now. Let's look at a recent

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one. A summary of the day's events. So this takes three stories. It

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gives a headline. You could argue it is old-fashioned, like a newspaper

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headline. There is no audio or interview clips. The idea is to

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convey in a brief hearing at what the top stories. That is one type of

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Insta fax we are doing. We are doing two others which focus on a

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particular story so over the course of 15 seconds instead of three

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headlines you get more information and pictures on a particular story.

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An example we saw, talks on Syria, you see two faces, neither

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identified. I wonder how much information it gives especially

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given you have to go somewhere else to follow up the stories. You don't

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click on the video. It is an experiment. We are trying out

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different ways of how it works, different types of information but

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we don't think this is the future of news. This is part of a whole range,

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starting with 15 seconds, is all the way through to version of paranoid

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-- panorama. People can find out more information. This is one way of

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delivering a snapshot of the news in a way the audience appreciate.

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Ceefax is the inspiration because what has never been bettered since

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Ceefax is the idea of a line which is a headline, it gives you enough

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information and you could click on that line and going to the story.

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You have to go to the website to follow up. That is true, it is one

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of the drawbacks, the inability to link directly through, but that is

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part of the reason we use the caption alongside to try and convey

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more information. I agree about Ceefax, one of the great inventions

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and it became a stalwart warhorse of the newsroom that was great at what

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it did, conveying information in a short space of time. They are all

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about sharing content and the power of that aggregated. You would not

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share the 15 second of the news, would you? I am not sure, some

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people might if they found a story compelling or they wanted to share.

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That is one thing we are doing here, some of the Insta fax that

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focus on a particular story are shareable. We did one about a man

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who has invented a full sized toy car, which looks like a full-sized

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toy car, but it goes on the road. That is the type of thing people

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want to share. That is not the content we are doing on its own. We

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also are covering the rear, climate change, science stories -- Syria.

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Chris Hamilton, thank you very much. Thank you for your comments this

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week. If you would like to share your opinions or appear on the

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programme, call us. Or e-mail us. You can find us on Twitter. Have

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another look at this or previous programmes on our website. That is

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all from us. We will be back to hear your thoughts about BBC News

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coverage next week. Goodbye. Hello. Today's heavy rain is

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clearing away but we are a long way from any calming down of the

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weather. More problems to come over the next 24 hours. All thanks to an

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area of low

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