Iraq:
Britain Decides - Wednesday
12 February 2003
The
BBC will analyse the wide ranging issues surrounding possible conflict
in Iraq throughout the day on both its digital and terrestrial channels.
Coverage
begins on BBC ONE’s Breakfast, from 6.00am, with interviews
from around the world to gauge the latest opinions, and reporter
Barney Choudry’s report of life for the Moslem community in
Britain as the threat of war intensifies.
The
One O’Clock News will hear the views of three generations of
an army family, while the Six O’ Clock News will feature live
reports from Gavin Hewitt, sailing with the British fleet in the
Gulf.
The
programme will also broadcast from Sheffield where correspondent
Richard Bilton hears the thoughts of the residents of one street
in the city.
A children's
perspective will be explored on a Newsround Extra special at 5.25pm
on BBC ONE, as the programme voices the comments of children from
both Britain and abroad about the build up to war.
From
8.30pm on BBC ONE, Iraq: Britain Decides will examine the reasoning,
concerns and repercussions behind a war in the Middle East, in a
90-minute debate chaired by David Dimbleby.
An
invited panel of guests will debate the ongoing views in front of
a studio audience, and the programme will also feature the highlights
of a specially arranged BBC conference - a get together of interested
parties who will discuss the wide range of opinion regarding war
and its consequences.
Joining
David Dimbleby will be Peter Snow, who will examine the facts and
figures involved if the decision is taken to send the troops into
Iraq, and reveal the findings of a commissioned poll.
Highlights
of the BBC conference will also be shown on BBC FOUR and BBC THREE,
with the BBC THREE's The News Show also looking into the challenges
that face the media when it comes to war coverage.
Notes
to Editors
Britain
and America have yet to prove the case against Saddam, suggests
BBC poll (12.02.03)
Blair
on Iraq - a Newsnight Special - transcript (07.02.03)
Newsnight
challenges Tony Blair to face public on Iraq (30.01.03)
BBC
to debate the issues of war (24.01.03)
All the
BBC's digital services are now available on Freeview,
the new free-to-view digital terrestrial television service, as well
as on satellite and cable.
Freeview
offers the BBC's eight television channels, as well as six BBC radio
networks.
BBC
THREE will become available when it goes on air on 9 February 2003.
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