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one reason why that story received less attention than it might have done was a certain engagement announced this week which we think you mightjust announced this week which we think you might just have announced this week which we think you mightjust have noticed. toure derbyshire was on their won the long—awaited and much predicted news broke on monday morning. clarence house have just announced broke on monday morning. clarence house havejust announced in broke on monday morning. clarence house have just announced in the last few seconds prince harry is to marry his american girlfriend meghan michael. but the rest of the day the bbc news operation went into overdrive with presenters and reporters deployed to getting ten pals, bolton is devoting more than at that time to the engagement, scheduled addition of panorama changed to a special programme on the royal news and extensive coverage of the new tom online. the response of sarah louise ellis... ian holton told us...
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of their viewers had another objection, articulated here. of their viewers had another objection, articulated herelj of their viewers had another objection, articulated here. iwas quite amazed a heard the new —— newsreaders say ms merkel who is of mixed race, and then the news of the arrangements that were going to take place. why does she have to say that? why does it make a difference?
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i feel that i'm making these statements, the bbc is being divisive and actually setting up barriers were there and then eat. they don't exist. i know she herself says she is mixed race and has used this to her own benefit and to others benefit and i think that is great, but to actually say it in the factory line, i don't think that is right. another viewer who contacted us right. another viewer who contacted us about this week about the royal engagement was bob davey and he joins us from sheffield. with me here is richard burgess the uk news editor from here is richard burgess the uk news editorfrom bbc news. bob, what did you feel about the garbage?” editorfrom bbc news. bob, what did you feel about the garbage? ijust thought that with other events happening in the world, far more significance and importance to the —— you feel about the coverage? to waste more than half of the six o'clock news bulletin to coverage of
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the engagement which everyone knew about already, i thought was absolutely pointless. this is the issue, isn't it? it is the excess. it isa issue, isn't it? it is the excess. it is a simple fact, most people knew it was coming and more than half the bulletin. it was announced that morning so we didn't know it was definitely happening that day. six o'clock it was the first time we had the chance to hear from both harry and meghan in the interview they did with michelle the same. i think there were a lot of interesting issues to get into, held their relationship developed, how he proposed. all the stuff we found out that the first time in the six o'clock news bulletin. i appreciate the point that there was a bit of time devoted to it, but as far as we can tell, a lot of the audience was really engaged with the story and really engaged with the story and really enjoyed the coverage. bob, did you feel a lot of other stories got squeezed out? yes. the announcement of the engagement matters not the slightest. it does
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not making the slightest difference to anyone in this country's life. and yet events that are happening in parliament are going to affect people in this country for decades to come. surely we should be paying more attention to that than the fripperies of the royals get to. look at what was on the news, the popein look at what was on the news, the pope in burma, the redacted brexit impact studies which the government released. chennai six. we needed to have these properly explained and other stories get dropped off to find out how he proposed?” other stories get dropped off to find out how he proposed? i think we cove red all find out how he proposed? i think we covered all the stories and have done over the course of the week. we lead with the muslim situation on monday when the pope didn't mention the rohingya by name. chennai six would have been your lead, wouldn't it? maybe, but the interest in the harry, meghan engagement was
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extraordinary. 5.6 million watched the news on monday at six o'clock. that is the biggest audience all week. the most popular story on the website by a long distance, nearly 7 million people read the main story. there is interest therein it. we continue to cover other stories in depth. they also had concern about the tone of the coverage of the engagement, didn't you? the tone of the coverage of the engagement, didn't you ?m the tone of the coverage of the engagement, didn't you? it seems as though the royal reporters are bonding and sycopha ntic. though the royal reporters are bonding and sycophantic. i don't know how they —— forming. i thought nicholas witchell was quite a good reporter until he became a royal reporter until he became a royal reporter and seems to have gone the way ofjennie bond. reporter and seems to have gone the way ofjennie bond. to be fair, do you have an issue that you personally don't care for a royal coverage? not really, no. it was perhaps worth a mention and would be in at the bottom of page eight of the guardian or something like that,
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but apart from that, no. richard, it isa but apart from that, no. richard, it is a happy occasion, but a lot of viewers do detect what they see as a fawning tome, don't they? we were reporting it as a happy story and most people saw it as a positive story. you often reflect that on the tone of your coverage but we also reflected the issues the issues have —— the royal family have had in the past about marriage, and the fact she is a divorcee, but ostensibly it was a happy story, and the audience clearly enjoyed it. richard we had one viewer on webcam there dealing uncomfortable about the amount of discussion of meghan marco's mixed—race background, into an introductory line, did the bbc perhaps misjudge how to discuss that and make too much of it? no, it was one story, one element of the story.
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we are telling the audience about who she is. she is also raised at her—— who she is. she is also raised at her —— raised at herself. she and prince harry raised the equipment about it. —— a statement about it. she talked of pride about ethnicity. it was an element of the story and it was important we were like. do you think you got anything wrong in the coverage? quite clearly people have enjoyed the coverage and we had a lot of positive feedback but i know there are people like bob who will always think actually too much. there are people in my family who think that. it divides people. this was a good news story but a lot of oui’ was a good news story but a lot of our audience and they think they enjoyed the positive news. final word to you, bob, the wedding is in may, how would you like to see bbc news handle the story of the next six months? i think it will be interesting to some people, i don't know if ok or hello magazine will
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cover it but i think it would be cis —— sufficient. those who are interested will buy hello magazine and the rest of us will get on with oui’ and the rest of us will get on with our lives. bob davey, thank you so much, and richard burgess. finally the bbc to come the season w one they presented a satirical but not unfamiliar view of either the bbc. one observed in the last series dealt with in a suit we have addressed on this programme. dealt with in a suit we have addressed on this programmem dealt with in a suit we have addressed on this programme. it has been live for 2h hours and we are looking at 93% accuracy. 12 errors. looking at 9396 accuracy. 12 errors. the new version of the bbc in—house operating system has just the new version of the bbc in—house operating system hasjust gone live, including a major upgrade of the automatic live subtitling software. can we talk about the other 7%. although it is already doing better than its predecessors in many areas, the area it is least accurate as the area of proper names. the medically
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it is pretty close to stop but politically and every other way it isa politically and every other way it is a disaster. subtitling blunders like that couldn't happen in fact like that couldn't happen in fact like that could they? jeremy corbyn was congratulating prince harry and meghan markle, saying i admired that they have drawn attention to medical conditions. this is what they saw. it was a particularly unfortunate error considering the criticism he has faced for referring to his friends in hezbollah. some viewers we re friends in hezbollah. some viewers were not impressed... the bbc said the voice recognition use when subtitling live news broadcasts and
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recognised his brother. that was not the only on—screen oddity on monday. not the subtitling issue but it will have come sub to surprised that it will have led to crisis talks between the two main parties. if they want to share anything you can call us. or e—mail us. you can find us on call us. or e—mail us. you can find us on twitter. have a look at our website. more next week. goodbye. hello. the first day of mid—urological winter has been cold enough to fit the season, but really wintry weather —— mid—urological winter. many have enjoyed
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it is still cool and that is because we have cold air is still dominating. a significant change is not 1 dominating. a significant change is noti million miles away. it is already manifesting across the far north—west quarter of scotland. it will take a while before we see milderairslumping infrom will take a while before we see milder air slumping in from the atlantic. there will be another cool night across many parts of the british isles. a little touch of frost. i2 british isles. a little touch of frost. 12 to patch ice bursting into the weekend. speaking of such things this department as we expect to see into the weekend where the cold air will finally migrate towards the near continent. there is something slightly milder and it is all changing by degrees. this is the pattern as we see it on saturday. much more in the way of cloud from many more parts of the british isles, especially in the west. another weather front coming into the northern half of scotland.
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expect some spells of rain here. patchy in nature but it is there to be had. in the central belt there is a chance of sunshine. eastern side of the pennines. east anglia. out of the south—east. northern ireland has a scattering of showers. the western side of oils. maybe part of the south—west. predominantly dry weather will be in the midlands. chance of the shower. any user spots will get away with a dry day. through the evening that frontal system is just through the evening that frontal system isjust dragging its rain that bit further south as we get on into the early hours of sunday. sunday itself a lot of dry weather. perhaps some brightness to be had across the northern half of the british isles further south quite a bit of cloud but even here quite a bit of cloud but even here quite a bit of cloud but even here quite a bit of dry weather. the showers that have been there thereabouts probably noticeably absent. double—figure temperatures. the weekend increasingly mild but cloudier and
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the chance of summary. —— some rain. this is bbc news. i'm martine croxall. the headlines at eight... president trump's former national security adviser pleads guilty to lying to fbi agents. the first secretary of state, damian green, denies new allegations that he watched pornography on his house of commons computer. european council president donald tusk says the eu will not accept the uk brexit offer if ireland disagrees. a man has beenjailed for life for murdering his i9—month—old stepson nearly 50 years ago. also coming up — hundreds turn out to cheer prince harry and meghan markle. the newly engaged royal couple went to nottingham for their first official visit together.
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gearing up for a summer of world cup football — maradona hands england a comfortable draw for russia 2018. and at half past eight, a special bbc wales investigation
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