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Saving Syria's Children BBC Case
Saving Syria's children is a BBC panorama documentary made by the reporter Ian Pannel. The documentary follows two doctors through Syria: Rola Hallam an intensive care doctor and Saleysha Ashan an emergency doctor from London, working in the “Hand by Hand for Syria” charity. As the documentary is being filmed, while the doctors were visiting the Atareb hospital in Aleppo on August 26th 2013, a chemical attack takes place supposedly by the Syrian Government, on the Urem Al-Kubra school which is eight or nine miles away from the crew. The incident makes the documentary more dramatic since the victims of the incident were also filmed. BBC filmed the aftermaths of the bombing, how people are hurt by the incident and how they react to it.

Controversy
The controversy occurred when the Russian global news broadcaster RT Tv accused the BBC of faking the chemical attack. They claimed a massive investigation that BBC had faked the documentary and the images used in the documentary. Some of the evidence they show are related to the way the woman moves in the film, and the testimony of the people who were interviewed didn´t correspond to the timetable they were taken. The BBC complained to Ofcom; The UK government-approved regulatory and competition authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industries of the UK Office of Communications, for the accusation.

The case was presented to the British authorities with the win of the BBC. Although, there are still some websites that pinpoint the case as one of the worst case of fake news. In September 2015, the BBC reported that “The BBC has won a case against Russian TV channel RT, which claimed the corporation faked a report on Syria. The station said the BBC had “staged” a chemical weapons attack for a news report, and digitally altered the words spoken by an interviewee. The BBC complained to Ofcom, saying the “incredibly serious” allegations struck “at the heart” of its obligations to accuracy and impartiality. Ofcom ruled that elements of the programme were “materially misleading”. It also said the BBC had been treated “unfairly” by a programme, called The Truthseeker, as it was not given an opportunity to address the allegations before the programme was broadcast.” RT’s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan said the broadcaster was “shocked and disappointed” by Ofcom’s findings and accused the regulator of having “a peculiar approach to journalism”. “The film about refugees was based entirely on first-hand accounts of the war victims,” she said.

Ian Pannel
“Ian Pannel is a senior foreign correspondent for ABC (American Broadcasting Company) News, stationed in the London Bureau” according to Abc news, he has been working in BBC for 20 years. He covered news for BBC in the Middle East and the South East of Asia. He has covered the exit of the Taliban in Afghanistan, and the spring events in Ukraine. In 2013 he made a documentary about the daily life of a Syrian family; about the conflicts and the violence families experience living in the center of Aleppo. In the documentary, he visits a hospital near the conflict. In 2015, he made a documentary and an article about sex slavery in the USA. Right now he is working on ABC journal, and he is hosting a radio show on BBC news radio.

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