Showing posts with label Jeremy Bowen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jeremy Bowen. Show all posts
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Benjamin Netanyahu Interview: In Full
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Jeremy Bowen: 'Tension in Damascus'
In the capital, Damascus, there is deep unease among many residents about what the coming days will bring.
The BBC's Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen is one of the few international journalists in Damascus, from where he sent this report. Watch BBC video » | Thursday, August 29, 2013
Syria Crisis: People in Damascus 'Are Nervous'
It calls for military action against what Britain has termed Syria's "unacceptable" use of chemical weapons.
Syrians continue to go about their daily lives, but as Jeremy Bowen reports from the capital Damascus, people "are nervous about what the next few days will bring". Watch BBC video » | Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Friday, August 16, 2013
Jeremy Bowen: Egypt Crisis: How the Euphoria Turned to Tragedy
Egypt felt as if it had a new start. Expectations that life was about to get better bubbled around the country.
But the sky-high hopes have been overwhelmed by a combination of political failure, entrenched interests and economic crisis.
The revolution in 2011, like the other uprisings in Arab countries, was driven by the dissatisfaction and anger of a new generation.
About 60% of the population across the region was under the age of 30.
They realised that the old order had no room for them, and would never satisfy their desire to have a decent job that would give them the money to have independent lives.
The departure of hope coincided with the exponential growth in modern communications, which meant that countries could not be shut off by their leaders in the way that once was possible.
The under-30s could watch satellite TV, or look at the internet, and realise that not everyone's lives were as tough as theirs had become.
But the energy of 2011's revolutionaries was squashed by the power and organisation of established forces in Egypt, particularly the military, remnants of the old elite and the Muslim Brotherhood. » | Jeremy Bowen | BBC Middle East editor, Cairo | Friday, August 16, 2013
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
NAME: BBC Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen breached the corporation's guidelines on accuracy and impartiality, an official report found today.
Complaints about two pieces by Bowen - one online and another on Radio 4's From Our Own Correspondent - were ruled on by the BBC Trust's editorial standards committee.
Three references in the web article broke BBC rules on accuracy, the committee said.
They were the references to 'Zionism's innate instinct to push out the frontier'; Israel's 'defiance of everyone's interpretation of international law except its own'; and Israeli generals' sense they were dealing with 'unfinished business' left over from the 1948 war of independence.
The Radio 4 broadcast inaccurately claimed the US considered a particular Israeli settlement to be illegal, but had not breached impartiality rules, the report found.
Bowen used the online article, published on the BBC News website on June 4 2007, to put the present-day Israeli-Palestinian conflict in context by explaining the events of the 1967 Six Day War.
But the committee said the subject was very controversial and Bowen, the author of the 2003 book Six Days - How The 1967 War Shaped The Middle East, should have done more to make clear that there were other views on the matter.
Ruling that the article had breached the rules on impartiality, the committee said: 'Readers might come away from the article thinking that the interpretation offered was the only sensible view of the war.
'It was not necessary for equal space to be given to the other arguments, but... the existence of alternative theses should have been more clearly signposted.' >>> Daily Mail Reporter | Wednesday, April 15, 2009
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