TEMPLATE NEWS 2015
TEMPLATE NEWS 2015
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31657466
TEMPLATE NEWS 2015
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31660714
TEMPLATE NEWS 2015
TEMPLATE NEWS 2015
INTERVIEW by Nayab Chohan
EXCLUSIVE
Stewart Purvis was a news producer at ITN when the SAS were about toΒ storm the Iranian embassy. He explains the decisions he took that resulted in those iconic pictures being broadcast onΒ British television and how they changed his life. Watch it here
Background
The Iranian Embassy siege took place from 30 April to 5 May 1980, after a group of six armed men stormed the Iranian embassy in South Kensington, London.
The gunmen took 26 people hostageβmostly embassy staff, but several visitors and a police officer, who had been guarding the embassy, were also held. The hostage-takers, members of a group campaigning for the autonomy of Iranβs KhΕ«zestΔn Province, demanded the release of Arab prisoners from jails in KhΕ«zestΔn and their own safe passage out of the United Kingdom. The British government quickly resolved that safe passage would not be granted, and a siege ensued. Over theβ¦
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A critical look at the counter extremism think tank set up by the government to monitor radicalisation in the UK, includes contributions from Lord Ahmed and Gerry Sutcliffe MP.
A film by Nayab Chohan
Press TV could be back on the UK airwaves, Professor Stewart Purvis who was on the OFCOM board that made the decision to take the Iranian-owned broadcaster off air said today in an exclusiveTemplate interview.
Prof PurvisΒ saidΒ Press TV had not been able to meet European standards and regulations, highlighting the interviewΒ broadcastΒ with a man who later said he had been under duress from the Iranian authorities asΒ an example of this.
He did not however rule out a time when OFCOM andΒ Press TV could meet and iron outΒ the problems, that mean thatΒ viewers can onlyΒ see the channelΒ on the deregulated web.
Professor Stewart Purvis, former OFCOM board member explains why the watchdog took Iranian owned Press TVΒ off the airwaves in the United Kingdom.
