Minister says BBC has ‘questions to answer’ over Bob Vylan

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Education minister Baroness Smith says the BBC has “questions to answer” over why it allowed a Glastonbury set by Bob Vylan containing discriminatory language to be broadcast. The BBC is facing questions after rapper Bob Vylan - of the rap punk duo - led crowds at the festival's West Holts Stage in chants of: "Free, free Palestine" and: "Death, death to the IDF (Israel Defence Forces)" on Saturday. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00What happened over the weekend at Glastonbury really stepped over a line.

00:05It is wholly unacceptable to make those sorts of comments.

00:09I know complaints have been made to the police.

00:11They will be investigating them.

00:12I think the BBC has questions to answer about why they allowed that to be broadcast live,

00:18why they didn't stop it.

00:19And I know that there will be lots of people who were at Glastonbury over the weekend

00:23who will have been remembering the terrible circumstances on 7th October in Israel

00:29where actually young people were dragged away from a similar festival, murdered and kidnapped.

00:35And they will also share the view that what was said there completely overstepped them up.

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