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Richard Watson

@richardwatson1

Investigative journalist and former correspondent, BBC Newsnight.

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linkhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight calendar_today02-04-2009 06:59:34

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Sara Afshar (@saraafshar) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our investigation for #C4News shows for the first time signed #Syrian regime documents with information that match corpses in the #Caesar photos, corroborating the photos of starved & #tortured detainees in regime custody. channel4.com/news/syrias-di…

Richard Watson (@richardwatson1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My last day today ⁦BBC Newsnight⁩ after 33 years at the BBC. Lots to celebrate tonight, but may be I’m most proud to see my daughter ⁦@ninakwatson⁩ making her way as a young freelance journalist covering world affairs.

My last day today ⁦<a href="/BBCNewsnight/">BBC Newsnight</a>⁩ after 33 years at the BBC. Lots to celebrate tonight, but may be I’m most proud to see my daughter ⁦@ninakwatson⁩ making her way as a young freelance journalist covering world affairs.
Ian Katz (@iankatz1000) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Fabulous, nostalgia-drenched evening as several generations of Newsnighters gathered to raise a glass to the inimitable Kirsty Wark and Mark Urban and reminisce about the joy of working with some of the smartest and most unruly people in TV journalism

Fabulous, nostalgia-drenched evening as several generations of Newsnighters gathered to raise a glass to the inimitable <a href="/KirstyWark/">Kirsty Wark</a> and <a href="/MarkUrban01/">Mark Urban</a> and reminisce about the joy of working with some of the smartest and most unruly people in TV journalism
Meirion Jones (@meiriontweets) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Wednesday night was real laugh Frontline Club with 44 years worth of great BBC Newsnight stalwarts including Peter Snow who was there Day One. Billed as leaving do for urbane Mark Urban & brilliant Kirsty Wark but really a Wake to mark end of the show as we know it. So long

Wednesday night was real laugh <a href="/frontlineclub/">Frontline Club</a> with 44 years worth of great <a href="/bbcnewsnight/">BBC Newsnight</a> stalwarts including Peter Snow who was there Day One. Billed as leaving do for urbane <a href="/MarkUrban01/">Mark Urban</a> &amp; brilliant <a href="/KirstyWark/">Kirsty Wark</a> but really a Wake to mark end of the show as we know it. So long
Glyn Maddocks (@madocwales) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Sadly it has taken nearly 25 years for me others and 34 years for Oliver to get this blatant and obvious conviction quashed but I’m absolutely delighted that we didn’t give up and that eventually justice prevailed We really should do better than this!

Sadly it has taken nearly 25 years for me others and 34 years for Oliver to get this blatant and obvious conviction quashed but I’m absolutely delighted that we didn’t give up and that eventually justice prevailed 
We really should do better than this!
Daisy Ayliffe (@daisyayliffe) 's Twitter Profile Photo

2018: When #AlFayed was alive we made this C4News film with Cassie Cornish-Trestrail alleging he sexually preyed on women - including a schoolgirl. He'd been reported to police. So what did the Met do to hold him to account and keep women safe? channel4.com/news/new-alleg…

Sara Afshar (@saraafshar) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Constantly repeating that fighting had stopped for yrs coz Assad & Russia agreed to that. WRONG. They've been bombing civilians for yrs - they did not stop. Why repeat things that aren't true? Look at Fared Al Mahlool | فريد Ų§Ł„Ł…Ų­Ł„ŁˆŁ„ 's reporting for months & yrs to see videos of attacks. #Syria 2/2

Dima Khatib (@dima_khatib) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you lived in Syria, you would know this is such an incredible moment. Try to think of Syrians as human beings, instead of geopolitics, just for a second. Imagine how people are feeling as their disappeared loved ones are being found in prisons, alive.

Mai El-Sadany (@maitelsadany) 's Twitter Profile Photo

To all the analysts jumping on here to warn about tomorrow, Syrians are 10 steps ahead of you. Have some basic human empathy and let those celebrating the release of the unjustly detained, the reuniting of families, the hopes of return, the end of a brutal regime do so in peace.

Meirion Jones (@meiriontweets) 's Twitter Profile Photo

bigger reveals. 3 of us on Newsnight knew activists conned by Mark. Daisy Ayliffe & Richard Watson went to Nottingham & obtained tape of Mark's confession. It wasn't till CPS dropped the case 10/01/11 that we could tell full story & put out recording youtube.com/watch?v=1Dpt5F…

Meirion Jones (@meiriontweets) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What whole fiasco shows is spycops & their masters thought "ordinary" women & even kids disposable so long as they got on with "important" work. Doc shows those women including Helen Steel Alison Smith Lisa LĆ¢n Belinda Harvey & 'Naomi' turned out to be extraordinary