French television channel TF1 defended Monday a decision to air recordings of Islamist gunman Mohamed Merah negotiating with police that sparked fury among his victims' families and prompted an official probe.

French police launched an investigation into how taped exchanges between police and a jihadist gunman who killed seven people in March came to be broadcast on national television Sunday.

It  was raining TVs in Jerusalem this week as Ultra Orthodox Jews smashed hundreds of televisions outside Israel's national broadcaster. The demonstration  targeted what protestors say are 'immoral' programmes being shown in the country.

Jewish English-language TV News channel “Jewish News One” started internal test broadcast.