Tim Davie admits ‘significant failing’ by BBC over Gaza documentary

Director general apologises and announces changes but faces growing pressure from culture secretary Lisa Nandy

Tim Davie, the BBC's director general, has admitted the broadcaster made a significant failing" over a documentary about children in Gaza, after an internal investigation found that the programme breached editorial guidelines for accuracy.

Senior BBC figures have acknowledged that programme-makers failed to ask the right questions about the making of Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone. An internal investigation found viewers should have been made aware of the critical information" that the 13-year-old narrator was the son of a Hamas official.