on friday, laura kuenssberg pursued the same theme in an interview with the prime minister. people are asking you again and again to be clearer about your priorities. how long can you stay on, do you believe? well, let's be very, very clear about this. i've set out what my vision is. i've set out and i've said to people that at every stage where we can fill in the detail, we will do so and that's exactly... but how long can you stay on? that line of questioning prompted more complaints, including this from tony webb: on tuesday night, donald trump addressed a joint session of the united states congress in his first state of the union address, just over 12 months since he took office. to say it's been a newsworthy and controversial first year as president is something of an understatement. the weightiest issues on the planet were discussed

at donald trump's inaugural address, but what the president is in a white rage about are suggestions that the crowds forhim weren't as big as they were for barack obama eight years ago, even though the evidence is incontrovertible. many people around the world will be saddened and sickened to see the president of the united states appearing to validate tweets from a far—right group. ten months into this unorthodox and provocative presidency, donald trump still has the capacity to shock. and it wasn't until i became a politician that i realised how nasty, how mean, how vicious and how fake the press can be as the cameras start going off in the background. that antagonistic relationship with the press has been caused, in the opinion of some newswatch viewers, by relentlessly negative reporting on the part of much of the media, including the bbc.

here's paul mctigue: others detect what they feel is an obsession with reporting on president trump, bordering on an addiction. for tim weston: and gillianjones agreed there was too much trump trivia on air: well, one person who has spent much of the past year following donald trump's presidency is nick bryant, based in new york butjoining us today from washington. welcome to newswatch, nick.

trump has been called the great disruptor and one wonders how much of a disrupter he's been to the way the bbc reports from america. well, i don't know. i don't think we've ever had a president who has given such a volume of news at such a high velocity. it begins very early in the morning, as it did today with a presidential tweet, quite an extraordinary presidential tweet this time, attacking the leadership of the fbi and the justice department. and often, it ends the day with a midnight tweet which can be equally extraordinary, as was the case a few weeks ago when he announced that he wasn't going to be coming to london. well, you've dived straight into one of the issues that viewers do bring up which is trump's use of twitter and, i must say, newswatch viewers do regularly complain that the bbc, they feel, jumps to broadcast every tweet and that you should be far morejudicious in what you choose to report. have they got a point? i promise you, we don't publish every single tweet and we don't react to every single tweet either. but, of course, twitter has become a primary medium

to communicate with the american people and, of course, a lot of his tweets are incredibly newsworthy. he has announced policy on twitter, like the ban on transgender people in the us military. that took his defence chiefs by surprise. a lot of his diplomacy has been conducted on twitter. so when a tweet is newsworthy, we report it and, obviously, some of his retweets are newsworthy as well, as was the case when he retweeted britain first. yes. one of the main criticisms we also get is that coverage is too focused on him personally and negatively and you mentioned his diplomacy via twitter, well, the policy with north korea arguably seems to be bearing fruit. you know, the economy is doing well and has the bbc been too negative? i think we've made the point in recent times that it does seem that that tough stance towards north korea has borne fruit. you know, you've had the north koreans taking part donald trump is that he does tend to set the agenda an awful lot with these early morning tweets. conciliatory in tone

in recent weeks. you know, in davos, the state of the union address. is there a sense that the bbc might have failed to recognise that in its reporting of him? i don't think so. this is going to be a highly political and a highly partisan year because the mid—term elections are coming up in november when the make—up of congress will be decided again. the politicisation of virtually everything is going to be

a feature of this year. on the media, president trump, it's very clear, has been very aggressive towards the news media, the ones that he doesn't like or appears not to like, including the bbc. how have you been dealing with that? practically, how does it affect you? well, donald trump almost declared war on the media from the very get—go. i mean, his initialsort of onslaught was about the media's reporting of that inauguration crowd. you probably remember that on the first full day of his presidency. he has described the media as enemies of the people, he keeps on saying that a lot of the media is fake news. you know, my view is that it's a mistake for the media to sort of declare war back. you know, ijust think we should be doing ourjobs and we should just be reporting on the facts and we shouldn't be drawn into that kind of combat and that kind of battle. we should just do what we have always done with presidents of the united states, whether they are democrat or whether they are republican. nick bryant, thank you so much.

finally, on thursday, lt greenwood contacted us to ask: that question was prompted by a report from nina warhurst about former chancellor george osborne's call for more funding for the northern powerhouse project. six years old and the future mapped out. children in darlington do well at primary level, but come gcses and getting jobs, their life chances slide dramatically. if building a powerhouse means making the north a global economic force, something isn't quite adding up. today, this former chancellor was hitting out at the current one. the government says it has stepped up by increasing investment, but they're also pleading for increasing investment, but they're also pleading for patience. it's a complicated equation.

more government money plus more business investment could equal 850,000 newjobs in the north by 2050. but can the maths add up? lt greenwood's email to us went on: if you want to share your opinions on bbc news and current affairs, or even appear on the programme, you can call us on 0370 010 6676 or email. you can find us on twitter @newswatchbbc, and do have a look at our website. the address for that is bbc.co.uk/newswatch. that's all from us. we'll be back to hear your thoughts about bbc news coverage again next week. goodbye. hello once again. this fear behind me is more of a forecast for saturday rather than today. although there were quite a few showers

across the eastern counties particularly of england but as you drifted that little bit further towards the west, the skies were a good dealfiner, drier towards the west, the skies were a good deal finer, drier and towards the west, the skies were a good dealfiner, drier and there was some sunshine to speak of as well but things are due to change simply because a great strike of cloud is moving in from the atlantic with eventually generating some rain to northern ireland and then gradually pushing into the western fringes of scotland with the rain falling onto some pretty cold surfaces. watch out forice some pretty cold surfaces. watch out for ice if you are on the move in the first part of saturday. it will not be a warm night by any means across the british isles. off and running into saturday. leaden skies for the most part but dry in the north of scotland and maybe east parts of east anglia as well. you get this sense by the middle part of the data that it is one of those, i'm afraid. cold, grey, leaden skies. snow largely confined to high ground, i would've thought. perhaps the western fringes of and western of northern ireland popping into

something a bit brighter and there will be a lot of rain towards parts of east anglia but once you come back into the midlands, three degrees only in birmingham. not much ofa degrees only in birmingham. not much of a breeze here but behind the weather front, that north—westerly picks up and adds to the chill feel to the day and very little sunshine to the day and very little sunshine to speak. not a great deal of change past midday on into the rest of the afternoon. if you are stepping out through the evening, that is the sort of thing you can expect. cold, grey, rather damp, so perhaps better to stay in and watch wales against scotla nd to stay in and watch wales against scotland or indeed france against ireland where i do not think the weather will be much of an issue. on sunday, a weather front can't really make up its mind, does it want to go that way or this way? it has been driven by, in the south, a really noticeable cold, bitter, north—easterly wind. do not be surprised if some of these showers coming in of the north sea are a little wintry in nature. the best of the sunshine, i would have thought,

further to the west and across ireland and northern ireland, less ofa ireland and northern ireland, less of a breeze so you may get every bit of a breeze so you may get every bit of those five and 6 degrees, but in the south, feeling much colder. this is bbc world news today, i'm samantha simmonds, top stories: us congress releases a republican memo alleging that the fbi abuse surveillance powers during the election campaign, the release is approved by president trump. election campaign, the release is approved by president trumplj election campaign, the release is approved by president trump. i think it isa approved by president trump. i think it is a disgrace what is happening in our country, and when you look at that and you see that and some of the other things that are going on, a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves. the disgraced us a gymnastics virgin sticks dr larry nassar is lunged at by a father of one of those that he abused, at his final hearing. abandoned in a mountain blizzard,

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