Ben de Pear

Two investigations have been highly commended for Investigation of the Year. The first is the Gaza: Doctors Under Attack documentary by Basement Films broadcast on @channel4tv.bsky.social. Ramita Navai, Karim Shah @bendepear.bsky.social Menna Hijazi, Jaber Badwan, Mel Quigley & Leah Gowns #BJA2025

- BBC Special with @lennyhenryofficial.bsky.social
head-to-head with Clive Myrie
- Maya Goodfellow & Alexandria Innes researching migration narratives
- Former head of Channel 4 News @bendepear.bsky.social on coverage of the war in Gaza

LISTEN Extraordinary moment of hope as Gazan Mohammed Ghalayuni @mohdgh who has lost family there sends best wishes for the safe return of the hostage father of Sharon Lifschvitz @Lifschitz_sha & she sends best wishes for the future back to him; congrats to #bbcbh @bbcpaddy

I’m not going to rise to this

So annoyingly modest

The @bbcworldservice is currently giving an object lesson in deep fearless objective and unending rolling coverage- it’s brilliant but the contrast with @BBCNews coverage of Gaza is so stark it’s almost the opposite.

Extraordinary to watch Syria. We threw everything at this story @Channel4News winning 120+ awards & Oscar nom. l@waadalkateab @NevMab @manibenchelah Marcel Metellsieffen & others
Homs;
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Aleppo;
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Waad Alkateab’s “For Sama”
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On final point; Broadcasters & politicians in this first flush of liberty before we see what Syria will be; stop talking about new possible refugee flows, don’t make that the first question, they left because of Assad & the presumption should be that those who left because of him may now return

In 2013 when Assad gassed his own people everything was in play in Syria, Russia had a relatively small presence & Aleppo yet to be destroyed; how many hospitals would not have been bombed, how many lives would have been saved & how many millions of refugees would have stayed ?

So wonderful to see Syrians & not US troops toppling statues of the blood soaked Assads, but given how brittle & weak the regime was without its allies you have to ponder what might have happened had the US & UK acted in 2013 when the red line of chemical weapons was crossed

The decision to scrap Sunday’s run-off and annul the first-round victory of Călin Georgescu, who has praised Vladimir Putin, came after Romanian authorities published documents this week that indicated Moscow had sought to undermine the vote www.ft.com/content/2248...

Profile - Kim Leadbeater - BBC Sounds The MP behind a bid to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales.

Brilliant profile of the extraordinary @kimleadbeater after her legislative achievement; her sister Jo was also incredible - an expert on Sudan/Darfur & briefed & advised us before trips there. The parents talking about their daughters is very moving www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

“The only times we defeated our enemies were when we took land from them.”

Israeli far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir tells Israel’s Army Radio that “settlement in Gaza should be encouraged”.

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Former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has again criticised Israeli policies for northern Gaza, saying he stands by previous comments in which he accused Israel of committing “ethnic cleansing” in the besieged enclave.

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I don’t know why- is it out of concern for our sensibilities ? but @BBCNews on radio & online following lead of @BBCr4today most days now by not reporting Gaza where yesterday other agencies report over 100 were killed including 40 in one strike; in the besieged & cut off North

Outrageous that there is no welcome committee here! So here goes: I am a Channel 4 News UK journalist, writer (last book on Jamal Khashoggi’s murder) documentary producer (the rise of MBS for the BBC) & City University lecturer in hackery. Happy to escape the clutches of Elon Musk/alternative truth.

Israel pounds Beirut, kills 120 Palestinians in Gaza in 48 hours Lebanon confirms 11 deaths in Beirut’s Basta area as a series of Israeli strikes also hit its Choueifat, Hadath areas.

BREAKING: Israeli attacks on Gaza over the past 48 hours have killed 120 Palestinians and wounded 205, according to the enclave's Health Ministry.

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Why is this app not prioritising Elon Musk posts so that they are half my feed ?