Evening Briefing Monday 10th November

0:00This episode of the Times Radio News Briefing is sponsored by PwCWC. Staying competitive means getting ahead, not just keeping up. So how do business leaders cut through the noise and focus on what really matters? PwC takes you further with tech, from optimising the systems that put your data to work, to scaling AI from proof of concept to competitive edge. PwC helps you meet tomorrow's tech demands so you can compete at a speed that rewrites the rules. Discover more at pwc.co.uk This is your Times Evening Briefing for Monday the 10th of November. I'm Howard Bentham. Donald Trump has threatened to sue the BBC for$1 billion.

0:41It's over the way a speech by the US president was edited for a Panorama programme which the corporation admits was misleading. The BBC's chairman, Samia Shah, has apologised for an error of judgement and both the director general and head of news have resigned. But former director of BBC television, Danny Cohen, has told Times Radio there's still a lack of accountability amongst the corporation's hierarchy. I think that some in the BBC now are getting very defensive. They're working out their conspiracy theories. They're attacking the people who have criticised the BBC rather than looking in the mirror and seeing, OK, what do we need to change?

1:17Ben Bradshaw is a former BBC News correspondent and was the Culture Secretary in the previous Labour government. He told Times Radio the BBC is worth fighting for. Recognise the value and importance of having fair, objective and impartial news, which almost uniquely the BBC and other broadcasters in the UK, thanks to the regulatory system we have in contrast to other countries, we have that. But if we lose that, we end up like America, where we're so polarised, no one's listening to each other, where there's no common accepted truth. We still have that in this country just about and we need to defend it.

1:53The International Olympic Committee says no decisions have been taken yet amid reports transgender athletes could be banned from the female category at the LA Games. The Times reports that athletes born male were set to be barred after a scientific review found male advantages remained even after the athletes took steps to reduce testosterone levels. A second migrant removed to France under the one-in-one-out deal has returned to Britain, the Home Office has confirmed. The unnamed man arrived back in the UK after joining 348 other migrants who crossed the channel in five small boats yesterday.

2:29The Home Secretary is said to be looking for solutions in Denmark, which has some of the toughest migration laws in Europe. Tony Smith is a former head of UK Border Force and says the one-in-one-out scheme is making little difference. Well, I've always said that the best thing we could do, if we possibly could, was get a returns deal with France. I'm not completely opposed to the idea of the one-in-one-out scheme, but I mean, obviously the numbers are so small, in terms of the current arrangement anyway, that it's not seen as a deterrent. I mean, if we were to say, well, we can start to remove like hundreds or thousands of people back to France under that system, then that might help to tip the balance.

3:07Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been released from prison and is now home under supervision. It's less than three weeks after he started a five-year sentence for criminal conspiracy in a scheme to finance his 2007 election campaign with funds from Libya. Bosses at the Royal Ballet and Opera have revealed they'll be using dynamic pricing for some shows. The system means prices are dictated by demand, with tickets for the Wagner opera Siegfried next spring costing up to£415. The Times Arts correspondent David Sanderson says prices to see Wagner's shows could get even higher in the future.

3:45I don't think that this in any way is a ceiling on the ticket price. there is. For example, there's a fourth instalment of the Ring Cycle that's due in 2027 and it is the longest of all four of them. So one suspects that we could well be approaching a£500 ticket. The Prince of Wales has said that not allowing his 12-year-old son, Prince George, to have a mobile phone has become a little bit of a tense issue. The heir to the throne has been speaking about how he and Kate discuss challenges they face as a family with their children. You can follow the Times News Briefing on Spotify and listen to the Times Radio Online.

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