visit to britain. there have also been protests other cities around the country and he is now facing fresh protests in scotland as he continues his visit to the uk. earlier, he met queen elizabeth at windsor castle and described the relationship between the us and the uk as the highest level of special. president trump is now in scotland, at his turnberry golf resort, the last stop on his trip to the uk. three days before mr trump meets vladimir putin, a grand jury in the us has decided to charge 12 russian intelligence officers with hacking into the computers of the democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton and her party. you can read about more on those stories@bbc.com. —— on bbc.com. now on bbc news, it's newswatch. hello and welcome to newswatch with

me, samira ahmed. coming up, high drama in westminster as two cabinet ministers resign, but did personalities trumps substance in the bbc‘s coverage? did the bbc really need to fly sophie bray worth two moscow to present news bulletins on the night of the world cup semi—final? first, president trump's much anticipated trip to the uk is in full swing and it's proving predictably controversial. for some viewers, too much of the buildup coverage focused on the protests planned for the president, such as the row over the trump baby blimp to be flown over central london. kris dielman was one of them, asking: and after air force one landed at

sta nsted and after air force one landed at stansted airport and after air force one landed at sta nsted airport and and after air force one landed at stansted airport and the demonstrations started, the complaints continued along similar lines, with dawn rocher asking: day navigates agreed. president trump arrived in a country he had described just before leaving washington as being in turmoil, a reference presumably to those two cabinet resignations within 2a hours, reported here on monday's news at 6pm. the foreign secretary when this afternoon. he disagreed with the prime minister's latest brexit plan. earlier, the brexit secratary said he was resigning as he didn't

believe in theresa may's exit strategy. big political news no doubt but two newswatch viewers objected to the coverage, recording videos to explain why. here they are. with the disagreement and subsequent red is resignation of brexit were announced, the immediate reaction of those coverings were what was those going to mean for theresa may's future as prime minister? surely what's important is how it affects the brexit process, the infighting within and between oui’ the infighting within and between our parties should surely be secondary. in general, the coverage of the brexit process seems to spend far too much time focusing on the cork politicians at the expense of any detail on what's been decided. unfortunately what is being focused oi'i unfortunately what is being focused on in the frenzied news media, and the bbc, is the political high drama instead of educating the british public as to what it means to remain

in or exit the customs union. this is not explained and what is focused oi'i is not explained and what is focused on is the personalities, i.e. boris johnson and theresa may and the possibility of ousting the british prime minister. how can the british public make an informed decision or conduct an informed genuine debate if the complex issues remain unexplained and only the mps seem to know what's involved? bbc political correspondent chris mason was one of those reporting on mondaysdevelopments and we asked him to look back at what that was like. i was on the bbc news channel at 2pm on monday afternoon and we got word that was a's out riders and security staff were waiting outside one carlton gardens, the residency at the foreign secretary, they were kicking their heels, they didn't know where he was, they didn't know if he was coming out to the car, he was due at a summit about the balkans down the road and frankly he didn't turn up for work. i expected

a afternoon of drama. it was because at 3pm downing street announced borisjohnson had at 3pm downing street announced boris johnson had indeed at 3pm downing street announced borisjohnson had indeed resigned, but there wasn't a great deal of for us but there wasn't a great deal of for us to see at carlton gardens. i arrived just after 2pm, left at around 9pm in the evening, seven hours of waiting, and he still hadn't left. he spent much of the afternoon penning that resignation statement, inviting in a photographer to take that image of him writing or holding that resignation statement. and yet another extraordinary day. there was clearly some frustration... yes, there is soap opera around the characters but there's also fundamentals around the vision and the shape and the flavour around brexit. that's what those resignations were about. they were about to cabinet ministers who looked at the chequers statement and the white paper that was to follow a few days later and frankly didn't

think that was a vision of brexit that they could go out and sell. so of course the story on monday was about to big personalities, but it was about much more than that, it was about much more than that, it was about much more than that, it was about what brexit could or should in their view look like. i think it's absurd to suggest frankly that there is a difference between the characters and the soap opera around those characters and their resignations, and the principles of what a brexit should look like, because they resigned on a point of principle because they had a different vision of the principles of what that vision should look like. so it was absolutely about the substance of how a brexit deal should be formulated. now, i don't know weather downing street were aware that this interview had been recorded... i was on the late shift on thursday night when the front page of the sun newspaper appeared. i think it's fair to say the late shift on our rotor isn't always the most sought after, but i've had a couple of paupers is in the last

week and when that front page appeared and we saw the transcript of the interview, what you're seeing is an extraordinary exchange —— corkers. you have to capture that in how we report it. here was an american president, very specifically suggesting a government blueprint for brexit, the dominating political issue of our time, that was published less than an hour before air force one landed at stan sta nsted before air force one landed at stan stansted airport before air force one landed at stan sta nsted airport in before air force one landed at stan stansted airport in essex, wouldn't create an environment in which the uk and the us could do a trade deals. this incredibly delicate and sensitive domestic political issue was being tackled by an american president who'd already trodden on a few eggshells and then was treading on the remaining ones in the box. extraordinary. we had to report that ina way extraordinary. we had to report that in a way that acknowledged just how extraordinary that was. is there a lwa ys extraordinary that was. is there always a challenge for reporters in reporting the here and now and also

having a perspective that allows you to step back and see the bigger picture? absolutely, that's a co nsta nt picture? absolutely, that's a constant challenge for reporters. but the principaljob of a reporter is to report the here and now as accurately and as honestly and as openly, with as much information as we can get hold of in that moment, to our audiences. i think we've done that. donald trump has blown a hole in theresa may's brexit plans... often, and this week has been an exception, often brexit in the microbe, the day to day developments, frankly to a lot of people can be quite dull but when you get weeks like this where interest in brexit just you get weeks like this where interest in brexitjust goes off the scale. we have an absolute job interest in brexitjust goes off the scale. we have an absolutejob i think to communicate that clearly and enthusiastically and with passion and in an engaging way, because there are these little moments in the long road of telling the story of brexit where people pay more attention and we have to make the most of that and capture that

attention while it lasts, because very quickly, and perfectly understandably, viewers and listeners and readers‘ attentions will meander on to something else in the weeks and months ahead until there is another flashpoint or big moment. it's it‘s clear from recent additions of the programme that the end of the football world cup this weekend will be greeted with relief by some members of the audience, even though millions have enjoyed it too. news coverage reached fever pitch on wednesday with, well, you know what. sophie bray web was on spot for the news at six —— leg ray worth. the moment has come, england are about to take on croatia in the world cup save the king held —— sophie bray worth. people were wondering what she was doing in moscow. here‘s nick blandford. paul stafford and first and the

brash it recorded their reactions for us on camera. it seems all too common practice now that when a major incident occurs around the world, a bbc news anchor goes on site to report against a black and skyline. it adds very little value, probably a lobo technical complication and often smacks to me of being a jolly —— blackened skyline —— probably a lot of technical complication. what was she doing? she just introduced other reporters, she added nothing. this was repeated again on the 10pm broadcast after england had lost.

why oh why oh why, bbc, did you think it necessary to send sophie bray worth all the way to moscow? surely one of the other reporters could have done the broadcast —— sophie rayworth. we asked bbc news for their response, and they told us: finally, back to those brexit related resignations and there was an interview on the subject on monday while the breaking news banner on monday read: underneath that, apparently a lab rating on the headline, we were told

a fifth person has been rescued from the flooded cave, that more ambulances had been seen going into the operation area and that the mission had been paused jew depleting oxygen levels. that accidental mash up with the rescue of 12 schoolboys and never will coach from a flooded cave in thailand seemed particularly apt to some. thank you for all your comments this week. you can call us with your opinions on bbc news on: ore—mail: you can find us on twitter: do have a look at our website: that‘s all from us. we‘ll be back to

hear your thoughts about bbc news coverage again next week. goodbye. hello, and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week‘s cinema releases is mark kermode. they‘ve let me back a second time! i‘m very glad. so am i! what have we got this week? it‘s very interesting this week. first reformed, which is the new film by paul schrader. a return to form, i have to say. incredibles 2, back after all this time, more than a decade since the first one. and skyscraper, dwayne "the rock" johnson versus a very large building. so, first reformed, ethan hawke, a return to the screen for him. has he been away a while? no, ethan hawke‘s fine, it‘s more to do with paul schrader. paul schrader wrote taxi driver ages and ages ago. he was really well respected film—maker. recently, he‘s made some quite terrible films like the canyons, which is irredeemably awful, dog eat dog, which i can‘t even believe was made by paul schrader,

and then before that dominion, a prequel to the exorcist. i kind of started to lose faith in him, and now with first reformed my faith in him is restored. so, ethan hawke plays this young cleric who is basically haunted by the death of his son, who he sent off, he encouraged to go off to war, and has now lost. he‘s having a crisis of faith. he is keeping a diary in which he‘s writing down personal confessions because he says he can‘t pray, he‘s lost his faith. then he meets somebody who is potentially an ecoterrorist, somebody who‘s become completely obsessed with the despoliation of the planet. suddenly, this captures a spark in ethan hawke‘s character. the next thing, he similarly becomes obsessed with what‘s happening to the planet from an ecological point of view. here‘s a clip. so, we should pollute so god can restore? we should sin so god can forgive? i don't think that's what the apostle meant. i think we're supposed to look with the eyes ofjesus into every...

you don't live in the real world. you don't. you are a minister at a tourist church that no one attends. do you have any idea what it takes to do god's work? i'm trying... to maintain a mission of this size, the staffing, the outreach, the amount of people we touch each day. who's that priest that you like so much? thomas merton. he didn't live in the real world either. yes, he did. he didn't, he was a monk who lived in a monastery in kentucky and wrote books. somebody has to do something! it's the earth that hangs in the balance... what if this is his plan? what if we just can't see it? you think god wants to destroy his creation? he did once, for 40 days and 40 nights. it says something about me that i refer to him as "young"! so, basically, it‘s a story about a crisis of faith and what then happens as a result. ethan hawke was brilliant.

i completely believed in him, i really believed in his character. the most important thing is it felt like schrader was back on home territory. he is dealing with themes he‘s dealt with since the beginning of his career. there‘s a couple of scenes in which we see ethan hawke writing his diary, he has a glass of whiskey on one side and he‘s writing and he‘s very, very tormented. this apparently is how schrader himself used to write. the look of the film is very sparse, it reminds you to some extent of dry, of something like pawlikowski‘s ida. i know that schrader has spoken to that director about making that film. it looks heartfelt, it looks passionate, it has none of the nonsense of dominion: prequel to the exorcist, which was theoretically a theological work, but which was absolute hooey. it really feels sincere, it‘s dealing with important issues, it‘s got a great central performance. it‘s schrader back on form. i think it‘s the best thing he‘s done since auto focus. it‘s not a bunch of laughs, but it is very, very intense. it has some hallucinatory moments in it.

i thought it was a really fine piece of work, and i would happily watch it again. it looks beautiful... it is. ...the way it is designed. how difficult to watch is it? well, ifound it easy because i thought "this is great, he‘s back on form." it‘s not a huge blockbuster, but it‘s a film in which the form of the film mirrors the subject matter of the film. it is a film about an existential crisis of faith, which obviously isn‘t blockbuster territory. i think you would like it. something very different, incredibles 2. they‘ve made us wait a very long time for this sequel. i know, 13, 11! years. did you like the first incredibles? i loved it, i watched it many times. so, i was sceptical about the first one. i was wrong about it, incidentally. i said in my review that i didn‘t think the kids would get on with all of the birdmanesque stuff. i was proved completely wrong! she laughs. anyway, so along comes incredibles 2. when incredibles came out on dvd there was a short which was jack—jack attack, which was all the stuff about the baby. i thought it was hilariously funny. in incredibles 2, which picks up the story,

there is a lot more jack—jack. the story is they are still trying to rehabilitate supers. so, elastigirl is basically roped in to a lot of pr stunts to make supers popular with people again. mr incredible is left at home looking after the kids, having to help dash with his maths homework, having to help his daughter with her first crush. but, it is the baby jack—jack stuff that is really funny, in the same way that in the despicable me movies the minions started out as sidekicks, and ended up being centrestage. here, jack—jack started out as a sidekick and ends up being centrestage. i started laughing about five minutes in and i laughed all the way through. it looks fabulous, as you can see. all those future retro ‘60s inflicted designs look great. and i am happy to admit that i was completely wrong about the first film. a new foe in this, is there? there‘s lots of new stuff. the most exciting thing is the stretchy cycle, the elasticycle bike, which when she first gets on it she goes "it‘s talky, it‘s very talky." —— torquey. she laughs. i‘ve even managed to strong—arm

a teenager to go with me and see it this week. i think anyone can enjoy it. that was my excuse, anyway! skyscraper, how can you go wrong with dwayne "the rock" johnson? dwayne "the rock" johnson is basically a security systems specialist. he‘s brought in to sign off on the tallest structure in the world. his family come with him, they are one of the first families to stay in the penthouse at the top. then, of course, evildoers come along, set fire to the structure, so he has to break into the building to save them, and breaking into the building is harder than it looks. here‘s a clip. hands up! 0k! don't shoot! turn around! argh!

edge of your seat stuff. i thought it was. for a start, i‘m scared of heights, anyway. there‘s a bit when they‘ve got to climb over a plank that is balanced vertiginously over a big fiery pit, and all that stuff always really scares me. here‘s what i like about it. firstly, i really like dwaynejohnson in everything. everyone always says he‘s lovely, but on screen he‘s great. a colleague of mine said he made a movie once in which he had to do a fist bump with a 60 foot gorilla. somebody said, "i‘d like to see daniel day—lewis pull that trick off!" you believe in it, because you believe in the rock. there is a setup at the beginning in which we see him combat training, in which he loses the bottom half of one of his legs. he has a prosthetic leg, which he then uses as a tool to help him with this impossible mission. did you ever see towering inferno? oh, yes.

ok, well, towering inferno is based on two books. it was based on the glass inferno and the tower. die hard was basically towering inferno with cowboys and indians. this is basically the rock meets die hard, or, get this, "die rock hard"! see what i did there?! she laughs. i thought it was really good fun. it was really silly, it doesn‘t make any sense whatsoever, but i did enjoy it and an awful lot of that is down to the fact that he is such a likeable screen presence. there‘s even a lady from shanghai at the end of it for the cineastes, to keep them happy. it was real popcorn, leave your brain at the door and enjoy yourself entertainment. is it too sniffy of me to suggest that it‘s more about special effects than character and plot development? honestly? and you‘re going to have to believe me on this. it‘s about dwayne "the rock" johnson. that‘s good enough! now, the best out, leave no trace, you‘ve reviewed this before. yes, i have, and i keep going on about it. it‘s a small release, i think it‘s the best film i‘ve seen this year. it‘s directed by debra granik, who directed winter‘s bone, which i love. that was the film that really launched jennifer lawrence. father and daughter living off

the grid outside portland, oregon. they are found by the authorities and they have to reintegrate into society. the thing i love about it, i keep saying the same thing, it is a film in which the characters don‘t explain themselves. they don‘t stop and stand around and talk to each other. it‘s a film that‘s to do with emotion conveyed through physical gesture. the performances are fantastic. thomasin mckenzie, whose the young girl in it, it‘s just brilliant. people have made the comparison with her and a young jennifer lawrence. she is fantastic. i just thought it was wonderful. if you see one film this year, this is the best thing i‘ve seen this year, and i guarantee it will break your heart. the idea of them coming in from the wilderness and living in society again, is that the thing that is explored? yes, and it‘s to do with what he wants and what she wants, because he‘s a combat veteran, he‘s got ptsd. it‘s to do with... there‘s a moment when she says "what‘s wrong with you is not what‘s wrong with me," and it‘s really about them growing apart as father and daughter. there‘s the tempest in the background of all of this. the shakespeare idea of the tempest is in the background. i loved it.

you‘ll love it, i promise you, you‘ll love it. that‘s always my approach. not what‘s wrong with me, what‘s wrong with you. that‘s always the way i approach the world! he laughs. best dvd, then. tomb raider. this is the alicia vikander iteration. it is. i never liked the tomb raiders before with angelina jolie, and i‘m not somebody who has ever played computer games. i thought this was much more fun than it had any right to be. i think alicia vikander was terrific, and it‘s a reboot, it‘s an origin story. as somebody who isn‘t a gamer and doesn‘t know that world that well, i thought it was gripping and good fun. the reason i included it is because there are so many terrible video game adaptations. video games don‘t generally transfer very well to the screen. i also liked assassin‘s creed with michael fassbender. i know not everybody else felt the same way, but i thought they made a nice double bill. it was trying to do something new, and i thought she was really good, i thought she carried it rather well. mark, thank you.

a quick reminder that you‘ll find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online, at bbc.co... bbc.co.uk/markkermode. you‘d think i‘d know it by now, wouldn‘t you?! and you can find all of our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. mark, thank you so much. that‘s it for this week. thanks for watching. goodbye. welcome to the weekend, which will offer a bit of cloud and some rain to parts of scotland and northern ireland, whereas much of england and wales will stay dry. here‘s the rain—maker — this weak weather front coming in. for saturday, it is just towards the far north, north—west of scotland. it will affect more of scotland and northern ireland on sunday. for many over the weekend

there will be sunshine, there will be warmth. in fact, building warmth particularly across parts of england and wales. sunday looking even hotter in places. a range of weather this weekend. this is what it will look on saturday morning. the cloud, some outbreaks of rain, far north—west of scotland, maybe to the west of northern ireland later in the day. yes, cloud increases ahead of that. but the further south and east you are in scotland and northern ireland there will be some sunny spells to be had. some cloud building in england and wales. you can see from the colours, warm to hot sunshine to be had. a range of temperatures, quite breezy as well with the cloud and some outbreaks of rain in north—west scotland. maybe isolated showers popping up across eastern parts of england. most will avoid that and stay dry. here is how it is looking for the wimbledon finals this weekend, the men‘s final could be one of the hottest for decades, coming up on sunday with temperatures around 30 celsius, if not slightly above in south—east england. heading out and about on saturday evening, a lot of fine weather to come. but through the night some outbreaks of rain moving into northern ireland and western scotland. stay dry in england and wales. these are the overnight temperatures going into sunday morning. on sunday, scotland and northern ireland, more have cloud, more have outbreaks of rain.

gradually pushing further east. it mayjust reach into the far north—east of england later today. elsewhere across western england and wales there could be showers popping up here and there. most will avoid them and stay dry. most in england and wales will hold on to the very warm to hot sunshine. temperatures will be a few degrees higher in the sunshine compared with saturday, 17 in stornoway. this weather front is taking some cooler and fresher air south eastwards across the uk. it willjust take its time. on sunday evening, not a great deal of change for the position of that front, if you are heading out and about. it will gradually slide further south—eastwards monday and tuesday, but it is a slow process. any rain on itjust becomes a few showers. we are left with something, eventually, into next week, cooler and fresher, with more cloud around and than some of us have seen recently. a greater chance of picking up one or two showers around. enjoy your weekend.

this is bbc news. our top stories: protests across the uk as tens of thousands of people demonstrate against president trump and his policies. more are planned over the weekend. there was more pomp and pagentary, as queen elizabeth welcomed the president for afternoon tea at windsor castle. mr trump rowed back on his criticism of theresa may‘s brexit strategy, praising her instead as an incredible woman. as the visit draws to a close, president trump is now at his his golf resort in scotland. a suicide bombing at an election rally in pakistan has killed at least 120 people. more than 150 others were hurt by the blast in the south—western province of balochistan.