pardon me, ma'am... excuse me, that's enough. mr president, one other question if i may ask on the russian investigation, are you concerned that you may have... i'm not concerned about anything with the russian investigation, because it's a hoax. that's enough. put down the mic. mr president, are you worried indictments coming down in this investigation? mr president... i tell you what, cnn should be ashamed of itself, having you working for them. you are a rude, terrible person, you shouldn't be working for cnn. jim acosta, the victim there of a presidential tongue lashing, and we heard a lot about donald trump this week and about tuesday night's midterm elections in the united states, not all of it was welcome to everyone. including steven blakemore. whilst i do understand the importance of this week's midterm us elections they have rather eclipsed other news, particularly from europe. for example, by comparison how much coverage of the devastating tomorrow for example, by comparison how much coverage of the devastating storms and floods in italy? time and time again, the bbc will focus on what's happening across the atlantic, and follow stories coming from america, rather than closer to home in europe. perhaps it's a language issue, perhaps it's a cultural issue. perhaps it's one reason why so many people in this country don't identify with or feel strongly enough about europe,

to want to be part of the eu. the united states featured again in the headlines of thursday's news at one, but it was the precise wording here, which caught the ear of another viewer. emboldened by success in the midterm elections, donald trump fires his attorney general, and bans a cnn reporter from the white house. ian gilmore seized on a phrase used by clive myrie there, asking: that same bulletin at 1.00 on thursday attracted criticism for leading on the line from prince charles, in a documentary to mark his 70th birthday, that he would stop speaking out on topics he feels strongly about when he become king. speaking out on topics he feels strongly about when he becomes king. the item ended like this. and the prince, son and heir: charles at 70, will be shown on bbc one at 9.00 tonight and it will be available after that on the bbc iplayer. john sadler objected to the news priority shown by the bulletin's running order. he recorded this video for us. will

i was appalled to see that the top story was about prince charles, when he became king. the second item on the news was about 12 people being shot dead in a massacre in california. i think the reason for this was because the programme about prince charles later in the evening, so shame on you bbc so shame on you bbc for putting the news that

way round, and at least later in the day you got it in the right order, so please don't make that kind of mistake again. last sunday's interview on the andrew marr show with aaron banks provoked a storm of controversy before it had aired. the businessman is the subject of a criminal investigation into claims that he was not the true source of £8 million loaned to his leave.eu campaign in the 2016 referendum, claims which he denies. thousands of people contacted thebbc, arguing he was not a suitable guest for the programme. with terence bowen writing: when the interview was broadcast it proved a testy encounter. where did the money originally come from? i'm telling you it came from a uk company... which? that had cash generated in the uk. which uk company? rock services, we've... rock services is a shell company, it doesn't generate money. you've just said it's a shell company. you told parliament that rock services was just a service company, you've told me something very different today.

i haven't seen the actual transcript of that, i will go back and look back and look at that, but i'm telling you the source of the funding was rock services. opinions were divided about whether interviewer or interviewee came better out of that, but on wednesday mr banks tweeted he has bumped or dropped from next week's question time. david dimbleby had said on air that aaron banks was going to be on next thursday's programme but the bbc said in a statement that: well, let's talk about the interview which did take place withjohn neil, the editor of the andrew marr show, why did you decide to interview aaron banks last sunday? aaron banks made the single biggest donation in british political history to the unofficial leave campaign, and on tuesday, the electoral commission published a six page document which set out questions that it still thinks needs answering about where the money came from aaron banks passed on to leave.eu, and then on thursday, the national crime agency announced they were undertaking a criminal investigation into these details, so on sunday there was a clear public interest in doing that interview, and it is a news story and we're a news programme and it's

an obvious interview for us to want to do. of course this was after we knew he was under investigation by the national security agency, who look into serious and organised crime, is it right for the bbc to have decided to interview him under those circumstances? i can see why people are concerned about this. i mean, absolutely i think it is, so, first of all if we deal with the legal side of it, so aaron banks has denied any wrongdoing all the way along, he has never been charged or arrested with any crime so proceedings aren't active, so there's no legal impediment to us doing the interview, we can't prejudice any future trial, but at the same time i can see it is an unusual interview to do but i think it is purely unusual because it's not very often that people who are under criminal investigation will do a live tv news interview, but i think that is largely because their lawyers advise them not to. in this instance aaron banks was happy to do the interview

and we wanted to do the interview with him, because as i said, there were very clear questions that hadn't been answered about where the money came from that went into leave.eu. even if there is no legal reason why you couldn't do the interview can you not see why many viewers were concerned that it might prejudice a future trial and the bbc should have been thinking about that? we were thinking about it. and you know, again, the answer comes back to the fact that legally there was no impediment whatsoever to that interview. again, mr banks has not been charged, he hasn't been arrested so there is no active proceedings, and as there is no active proceedings there is no reason for us not to do the interview. i will say again, you know, it is an unusual, i think it is an unusual occurrence to interview someone who is under criminal investigation but that tends to be because those people tend not to do interviews or they certainly tend not to do news interviews on the advice of their lawyers, but we didn't have that problem. have you asked people in similar circumstances? under criminal investigation? i don't think i have. i can't think of an instance where we have, but there is no reason we wouldn't.

0ne doesn't come to mind but again there is no reason we wouldn't do that. bbc editors would say we're always in charge of the interviews, but some viewer think what you did was give aaron banks a platform. i mean, i have a slight issue with the word platform because that implies that he has been invited on to give a speech and go unchallenged, and i think anyone who watched the interview will be able to see we clearly did challenge him, we challenged him on where the money had come from and we kept bringing it back to that central underlying question when the interview moved elsewhere, so it isn't a platform, it's an interview and that's what we do. i got sent some documents, a ream of documents i got sent, various e—mail chains and bank statements on friday, so all of friday, from mr banks so through friday and saturday night, we went through all of the document, night, we went through all of the documents, i went through them and we had some expertise inside the bbc who helped and you know, the same question that i had at the start, before we received the e—mails which is where did the money come from still seemed to the same question at the end of going through those e—mails, so that's the line of questioning that we wanted to stick to and we knew we would be able to pull him back to that line of questioning. when you said expertise,

was that legal expertise looking over those documents he sent in? it was reporters in the bbc who have sort of looked, have worked on the aaron banks story previously. looking back, what would you say the interview achieved? i think it achieved a couple of things. i have already talked about going through the documents, and you know, to try and find an evidence trail of where the money had come from that went into leave.eu, and we then used that as our central theme throughout the interview. we didn't get a clear answer to that, and i think that that in itself raises new questions. and then there was a second sort of very clear thing i thought we got i thought we got out of it, which is that the evidence that aaron banks gave to the select committee of mps chaired by damian collins was different to the answer that he gave us on the andrew marr show about where the money had come from and the role of rock services limited his uk—based company, in that process, and i think that bears further scrutiny and i think that moves the story on, and there will be more questions to be asked about it. john neil, thank you.

thank you for all your comments this week. if you want to share your opinions on bbc news and current affairs or even appear on the programme:. that is all from us, we will be back to hear your thoughts about bbc news coverage next week. goodbye. hello. with the weekend now upon us, the weather is looking rather mixed the next few days. we had heavy rain around during the day on friday. this was taken by a weather watcher in warwickshire. big shower clouds around there. through the weekend we keep that unsettled theme to things. the most persistent rain is clearing, but it will be

a weekend of sunny spells and blustery showers, which at times will bring the threat of hail and thunder. the reason things are so unsettled is the area of low pressure sitting to the north—west of the uk. showers feeding in a round that. fairly tightly spaced isobars leads to a blustery feel to the weather on saturday. the most persistent rain on this front will clear away towards the east. a chilly, fresh start to the day with sunny spells. plenty of scattered showers moving in on that south—westerly wind. there will be affecting parts of southern and south—western england, wales, north—west england into southern scotland as well. nowhere really immune to catching a shower through the day on saturday. pretty mild still with the southerly or south—westerly winds. 11—14 degrees. the showers is a little bit through saturday evening, but then the next lot feeding in again as we head into the early hours of sunday morning. plenty of across southern and south—eastern england and across the irish

sea coast as well. remembrance sunday, of course, will bring us a mixed picture. low pressure sitting to the north—west of the uk for remembrance day on sunday, we will see further showers. it won't be a washout. there will be sunshine in between. it's parts of the west that will be more prone to seeing the showers. western scotland, north—west england, scotland, wales, southern parts of england at times. sunday should be a drier day compare to the showers we will see on saturday. temperatures are reasonably mild, 10—14 degrees. onto monday, a quick look into next week, we have those south—westerly winds. another day of sunny spells and some scattered showers, particularly affecting coastal areas for southern england and around these irish sea coasts as well. there will be some sunshine for east of scotland on the north—east of england, it will be quite mild. a frost free start to the day on monday. temperatures by the afternoon up to ii— 14 degrees. the outlook further ahead through the course of next week, we will continue with the unsettled thing for a time. sunny spells are around, showers into the middle of the week, temperatures should stay on the mild side, 14—15 degrees. bye— bye.

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