where is the baby? look, can you see in the mirror in the doorway? look at the photographers and the cameramen that you can't see, hundreds who are waiting outside. audience reaction continued to come in, with michael expressing his views like this... well, the two main participants in that forthcoming royal wedding were conducting more sombre duties on wednesday. here is nicholas witchell. first light at the australia and new zealand war memorials in london on anzac day. a commemoration attended this year by prince harry and meghan markle, in particular remembrance of the thousands of troops from australia and new zealand who lost their lives in the gallipoli campaign in the first world war

103 years ago. catherine e—mailed her thoughts about the coverage. now, if royal coverage is one regular bugbear of some members of the audience, another is the prominence given on bbc news to stories about football. that objection came up again strongly on friday, when arsenal manager arsene wenger announced he was leaving his job after 22 years. more than six minutes at the start of the news at six were devoted to the subject, eliciting dozens of reactions, like this one from brian price. what with all that's going on in this country, and most importantly the rest of the world, i have great difficulty in accepting that the most important lead, headline, top of the bill news article tonight was about a football manager resigning from his job. not only that, but the article seemed to drag on for ever, therefore leaving much less time for syria, russia, the salisbury poisonings, acid attacks, bombings, knifings, plastic in the sea, murders, brexit et cetera. in fact, just about every other article in the news carried

far more gravitas. or was itjust because the bbc thought we were in need of something trivial? do let us know your thoughts on all the issues we feature today or on any aspect of bbc news, details of how to contact us at the end of the programme. now, bbc news kicked off a new season called crossing divides this week on its domestic and international outlets, via television, radio and digital. the idea behind it is to look at the way people are connecting across the lines that separate them, be they religious, political or cultural. we're going to discuss this with a bbc editor, but first here are some examples of the output, starting with a report from mark easton in rotherham. how many people here formed a new friendship as a result of national citizen service? and who is your friendship with? ncs, for me, is a fantastic tool to bring young people together from different backgrounds and make

sure that they can come together and learn from one another and develop an understanding and appreciation of difference. each class here has two teachers. one speaks arabic, and the other teacher speaks hebrew. they think the children get so much more to hear two language. language is the basic thing to live together. without it, you can't do it. pretty red family. very far to the left. all right, so welcome to this presentation and conversation about better angels and de—polarising america. well, the crossing divides season springs from an initiative on bbc news called solutions focused

journalism, and leading it is emily kasriel, who's with me now. all these films have run amid the usual news coverage and tv and so on. how many are there, and how long is the season? so there are over a0 stories that we're featuring, both from the uk and from across the world, and the season has been running all week. but all the stories will still be available afterwards on the website. and what is the purpose behind it? it's all about looking for stories which are about bringing people together across these divides, and i think the reason is that there's an increasing sense of polarisation and fragmentation. in fact, a poll that ipsos mori did for the bbc, which we used to kick off the season, show that in the uk almost three quarters of the people in great britain thought that the country had become more divided than ten years ago, and of course we've also got part of one of our public purposes is to contribute to social cohesion. we certainly know newswatch that a number of people say they are increasingly fed up with relentlessly bad news —

is there a sense that you're trying to counter bad news? well, i think it's important for journalists to talk about the world in an accurate way and give an accurate picture of the world, and that includes bad news, and in fact of course our brains are primed to find and spot and remember bad stories, because we have to avoid the tigers on the savanna. but i think that, in a way, unconsciously, a lot ofjournalists think that traditionally a story has to be bad to make it a news story. and bad news also makes big, dramatic pictures. so it is important to show an accurate picture of the world, to also show the way that people solving their problems in coming up with solutions, as well as talking about the problems of the world. which raises the question, is the bbc actually trying to offer solutions? it's a very good question, and in fact that's why we decided to call the work solutions focused

journalism, because we're not creating solutions, we're just focusing on solutions, the same way that we also focus on problems. how do you choose which schemes to cover? the rotherham example, mark easton‘s piece — of course, the town had been the focus of a terrible scandal, was it deliberate to go looking there for a solution? i think it's interesting to look at a place which has been very divided for a number of different reasons, but i think another reason is that the story that mark focused on, the national citizen service, is all about bringing people together. in this case, two goals from very different backgrounds brought together through trampolining, and that particular national citizen service has had a lot of strong evidence which shows that it is very, very successful in contributing to better relationships across divides. people might see a danger in that, the bbc actually, you know, behaving like a government agency itself, promoting things like the national citizen service, which is quite controversial for how much it has cost. they can be a lot of different

reasons that we choose to cover stories, but the same way that we focus on problems, we are not looking to promote the problems, we'rejust choosing to focus on solutions in addition to focusing on problems. but, and this is really important, this isn't about positive news, it's about looking with rigour, asking tough questions, asking for evidence, and seeing if this particular solution can scale, or is itjust restricted to a particular community and a particular context? if you're going to do that, presumably you have to go back to these places, the israeli school with the arabjewish teachers and children, these reports seem very small, optimistic snapshots about what they're trying to achieve — are you going to go back and follow them up? it would be great to go and follow the stories up, and in fact that's something that a lot of our viewers sometimes criticise the bbc, that we focus just when there's a problem and don't actually follow up and see how people themselves are solving their problems over a period of time. so i think it's a very good point. emily kasriel, thank you very much. you're most welcome. finally, with more and more material

of news programmes being filmed by members of the public on mobile phones and submitted to or acquired by broadcasters, you'll have noticed that much of it is filmed vertically, with gaps on either side of the screen, as with our viewers‘s contribution earlier in the programme. it is an issue that concerns alan broadfield, who is described it as... thank you for all your comments this week. if you want to share your opinions on bbc news or current affairs or even appear on the programme, you can call or e—mail us. horizontal videos preferred but not compulsory. you can find us on twitter and do have a look at our website for previous discussions. we will be back to hear your thoughts about bbc news coverage

again next week. hello. let's bring you up—to—date with how the weather is going to pan out across the british isles for the weekend and the start of next week. friday was none too sparkling for many parts of the british isles. this is pretty typical of what most of you had to endure. when you look at how the chart is shaping up for the start of saturday, the closer you are, generally speaking, to that area of low pressure, the cloudier your weekend is going to be. a lot of cloud around again. some sunshine across northern and western parts. we finish the weekend with an introduction from the south—east of some pretty wet and windy weather. so a chilly start to saturday across scotland and northern ireland. further south, a blanket of cloud helps to keep the temperatures up, and delivers the prospect of a little bit of rain as we get

through saturday morning. i'm just going to take you into the south, with our detailed model, to take a look at how we see the showers developing. you will see there's no great organisation about it. many will stay dry. pretty cloudy, as i say. the cloud thick enough through yorkshire and lincolnshire and some of the neighbouring counties. further north, into northern ireland and much of scotland, especially away from the eastern shores, there is a good chance of seeing one or two sharp showers. now we are into the bigger picture. the temperatures profile shows you it will not be very warm on saturday. if you are stepping out in the evening those showers will tend to die away, that rain is hanging on through good parts across the eastern side, until late on. going to keep the cloud across the east. that will keep temperatures up. notice the blue, extensive across northern and western parts, especially in scotland, northern ireland and the north—west of england. a cold and bright start there. elsewhere, as i say, a lot of cloud. eventually that will thicken up

in the south—eastern quarter and before the day is over we'll see rain and gathering wind, all of which will combine again to suppress the temperatures below what we would expect at this time of year. now, all of that wind and rain is coming from a big area of low pressure, it's not just the south—east that will see that combination of wet and windy weather. a good part of the near continent and northern parts of germany, getting up to denmark as well, and even at this range there is a bit of concern about it because it will be pretty filthy, just for the start of the commute and the school day. disruption is likely. bbc local radio will keep you up to date. there you can see the extent of it. it could be cool enough for a little bit of sleetiness across the higher ground and the midlands. seven, eight, nine degrees or so. a bit drier and brighter further north. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america

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