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 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 for him 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 and gillian jones 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 in the winter olympics, for instance. i think at the year anniversary, we stressed how well the economy is doing right now. look, i think it's really important to tell all of the story of the trump administration and,

often, you get a very different view in washington, where i am today, from new york or elsewhere in the country. and there, there are an awful lot of people who think that what donald trump is doing is absolutely great and they sent him to washington to disrupt washington and he's doing just that and i think that's an important part of the story. from the point of view of british viewers, perhaps it's unfair to ask you, sometimes they feel that trump and what he's doing or saying or what his supporters are saying and thinking gets an awful lot of airtime and i know that yourjob is to provide news and you don't make all the editorial decisions, but do you get a sense that trump is maybe sort of taking over the news agenda more than he should because he is, dare i say it, entertaining? look, i think that's one of the great challenges of covering donald trump is that he does tend to set the agenda an awful lot with these early morning tweets. i do think there is, you know, legitimacy in the criticism that, you know, we can be a little bit too

reactive to some of the tweets and that we should be setting our own agenda and following our own path. and we do try and do that. you know, one of the things that i've been keen to do recently is to show the effectiveness of the trump administration in many ways. i mean, it has set about a very ambitious deregulatory programme and, in many ways, it has achieved that. trump has seemed to come across as more 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. watching the coverage of the state of the union address, i think that point was made, that trump did make some conciliatory moves on immigration. but at the same time, i mean, that speech was a highly partisan speech. 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 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:

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bringing overnight some sleet and snow and an icy start for some into saturday morning. so temperatures at their lowest where it stays driest overnight, to eastern parts of england and eastern scotland. elsewhere, temperatures won't rise much through the day. the weather front in scotland, western england and wales to begin with. outbreaks of rain quite widely. there will be some sleet and snow mixed in, especially over the hills, but even to lower levels further north. at lunchtime, not a huge amount changes. parts of north—east scotland and aberdeenshire may get some brightness, staying dry through the day. it could brighten up in western parts of scotland, with sunshine and showers throughout the day in northern ireland. for much of england and wales, with the exception of lincolnshire and east anglia, where you could stay dry after some morning brightness. but grey, gloomy, cold, damp and a little bit wintry in places for many, with temperatures at lunchtime only about 2—3 degrees.

the greater chance of snow mixed in with rain will be across the hills. through the afternoon, the patchy rain and drizzle, sleet and snow, gradually fizzles out. most will stick with the cloud and that will be of course evidenced if you're going to and from cardiff for the start of the six nations. maybe a little bit damp here. a bit drier in paris, but here it will be similarly cold. as the weather front starts to lose a bit of oomph into sunday, we'll see a few more clear skies develop and there could be ice into sunday morning. this is the temperature profile across europe on sunday. the blue colours are the coldest conditions, towards the east. that's significant because it's an easterly wind which will develop particularly for england and wales into sunday and to take us into the start of next week. pushing the weather front back westwards again. that means brighter skies across much of england on sunday. brightness also breaking through at times in scotland and northern ireland, where the winds will be lightest. but that south—eastern quadrant of england is where we'll see showers coming in on the raw wind. a mixture of rain on the coast,

sleet and maybe snow. nothing too significant at this stage. the big story for england and wales is how cold it will feel — feeling close to freezing in many areas in that wind, which will still be with us in the south—east on monday and there could be some potent snow showers here to begin the day. most, after a frosty start, a dry and sunny day. bye for now. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is duncan golestani. our top stories: president trump says a republican memo alleging the fbi abused its surveillance powers shows the agency is biased against him. i think it's a disgrace what's happening in our country and when you look at that and you see that and so many other things what's going on, a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves. anger in court, the father of three girls abused by the doctor of the american gymnastics team is held back during

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