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me, samira ahmed. a married woman of childbearing age is pregnant. the woman in question is the duchess of cambridge so dominated headlines that was the coverage warranted? the autumn statement the big political event of the week, key announcements are the chancellor but in interviews that followed did he get a fair hearing? and some mps may have called the tax affairs of amazon, google and starbucks immoral but with —— was the bbc reporting their about who was in the right and in the wrong? statement on monday from st james‘s palace was the wrong? statement on monday from stjames‘s palace was simple. the wrong? statement on monday from st james‘s palace was simple. the duchess of cambridge is expecting a baby but you know what happens next, a deluge of coverage. the story that the bulletins on bbc correspondence and the world's media set up camp outside the london hospital but the duchess was taken to. there is a flavour. good evening and welcome to the bbc‘s newsat six. the duke and duchess of cambridge are expecting their first duchess of cambridge are expecting theirfirst child. the public

announcement was made this afternoon after kate was admitted to king edward vii hospital with an acute form of morning sickness. significantly, the child will be third in line of the throne, irrespective of whether it's a boy ora girl. she paused here irrespective of whether it's a boy or a girl. she paused here with william on the steps to the photographers take their pictures. i took the opportunity of calling out and asking how she was feeling. she nodded and smiled and said much better. many of you thought coverage of the royal pregnancy was excessive. and from london said: david cummings from dalgety bay in scotla nd david cummings from dalgety bay in scotland complained: i'm joined now

by two viewers to discuss this. andrew balder in london and lesley newton here. i'm alsojoined by sam taylor, the bbc news channel controller. andrew, what were your concerns about the coverage? my concerns about the coverage? my concerns were, while everyone is very happy that they are potentially going to have a child, and everyone is commiserating with the duchess. , i think that's all the bbc needed to say. there are lots of other major issues that face this country at the moment, from child poverty, the whole thing to do with elderly claire, hospital care, healthcare, education, it needs to be carry on being discussed. now as we heard on the news this morning, japan. earthquakes are the better. your concerns about proportion. yes, i

think the actualfact concerns about proportion. yes, i think the actual fact that they mention this condition, and i'm not going to try to save myself because am not quite sure how to say it. a lot of people came out of the woodwork and said yes, i've had it. thank you to bring it to people's attention. i don't think so much of the big stuff that carried on, and the big stuff that carried on, and the people outside the hospital and everything else like that was really necessary. lesley newton, what did you think watching the coverage overall? i agree with a lot of what andrew said but it's about balance in my first reaction when i heard the news on the radio and it was said like a newsflash was, here we go again, like the jubilee, the royal wedding and a new but would be virtually non—stop and only one side of the story from then on in. yesterday, on steve wright's show on the radio, there was an announcement that noel gallagher was going to be working at the albert hall, with the

teenage cancer trust and the kit they had from noel gallagher was if he had a message for the royal couple. i can't find any link between them. there is a danger that celebrity coverage is sort of being put out there... every tenuous link will be used from now on. there was no link between nose two that everything will be geared towards this. you had concerns about the fa ct this. you had concerns about the fact that the duchess herself is less tha n fact that the duchess herself is less than 12 weeks pregnant. as a woman, as a human being, it's clearly difficult time to them, they are a young couple as worried as everybody else and this birth is no more important and precious than any other birth that is going to happen in the country and i think we have to keep things in proportion but also give them their pregnancy at the end of the day. it left a bad taste in my mouth, it felt a bit creepy. the creepy thing, sam, and another woman who knows a bit about pregnancies, people don't talk about

it until 12 weeks so there is a risk and concern something might go wrong. whether any concerns about intrusion, of tone this story? you are absolutely right. we have the time were asking st james's palace for more information because it came -- it for more information because it came —— it became clear quickly that this was before 12 weeks but that alice decided to put this information out there because of the fact there was serious medical treatment taking place. that enabled us to be very clear about what came about. on one level, there is no sense of us trying to form information. the palace declared it. i would say in that sense, there were two significant things. i actually appreciate the stories which divide audiences and on royal stories, there are those who think we cover them too much but not only did we have the medical component of the story, we also had a very active in moving discussion happening at the

same time that the accession to the throne. that's a you justified. one of the issues is proportion. i looked at the first couple of hours of news channel coverage. a good hourfor of news channel coverage. a good hour for the star bucs tax, saying it was another 20 minutes until you got elderly care in the nhs and the only foreign story was a short read about israeli settlements. is that really fair balance of coverage, given we knew nothing more than she was ill and going to have a baby? the job of the news channel is to produce baking and developing news for our audience and actually, the treatment of this story is no different to any other story. would you have done anything different the overall about the proportion of coverage of the nature of coverage, the questions that you asked? well, would you have done anything differently? probably buying power the following morning, we would have changed off our lead story an hour

earlier than we did. that was more a case of the strength of the other stories at the time. it found its natural place a few hours later. thank you all. keep your comments coming in and we will give you our contact details later. so what else has grabbed your attention? the other big story was the chancellor's autumn statement and in the true spirit of george osborne's call for further austerity, some of you were counting the cost as to how far the bbc should go in pretty —— in producing great aerial shots of westminster as the correspondence sets the scene. then there was the substance of the

chancellor's statement be reported on and around the radio and tv interviews for mr osborne, some of you feeling he was given a rough ride. apologies for interrupting, julie sent a question, one we often get, and she is saying, how has the recession affected you personally, chancellor, and it is one that bugs people a little bit, this notion that we are all in it together. has anything changed in your lifestyle? has anything gone? have you felt it in any tangible way at all?” has anything gone? have you felt it in any tangible way at all? i took a pay cut and froze my pay on taking thisjob to pay cut and froze my pay on taking this job to take up from the previous labour chancellor. in order to show that the politicians won't get away with it. but i completely understand that people on lower incomes are having a tough time, there is a challenge could cost of living many families and that's why i've taken at it. reg mint winter felt that balance of

the coverage was wrong. and peter clarke commented: staying with the economy, the tax affairs of amazon, google and starbucks have also been in the news throughout the week. star bucs under pressure after revelations of a commons select committee about how they avoid being corporation tax has revealed they will now pay more uk tax but many felt bbc reports were unfair about legal tax avoidance. frank from scotla nd legal tax avoidance. frank from scotland asked : daniel sable bought newsnight‘s

coverage on corporation tax was superficial and he hopes : coverage on corporation tax was superficial and he hopes: and finally, a classic story that drove one of you crazy. this was running one of you crazy. this was running on the bbc news channel, a story about a new zealand charity which is taught three rescue dogs to drive. mr burrows wasn't happy. well, that's all we have time for this week. thank you for all your comments. please do get in touch if you have any comments or even want to appear on the programme, call us. hello there. our weekend weather

prospects, we are going to see rain at times but it won't be a complete washout. the wet weather coming away on saturday is all courtesy of this area of cloud racing across the atla ntic area of cloud racing across the atlantic at the moment is that means we'll see rain. the rain really targeting england and wales on saturday. the heaviest rain across southern counties first thing in the morning. those rains are going to be quite reluctant. as we travel a bit further north, the rain gets a little bit lighter. some damp weather in northern ireland as well. quite a bit of sunshine through the

north and east. the northern and western isles as well. the main band of rain will slowly push its way eastwards, staying quite cloudy behind it but gradually brightening up, published in sunshine coming up in northern ireland. highs of 111 degrees, temperatures near average further north in scotland. there is your weather. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is reged ahmad. our top stories: rifts revealed between world leaders as they gather in buenos aires for the 620 summit, with tension over trade, climate change and ukraine. a 7.0—magnitude earthquake hits alaska, near the city of anchorage, causing widespread damage. a massive data breach at the marriott hotel group. hackers steal the personal details of hundreds of millions of customers. and michelle obama's memoir becoming is the bestselling book released this year in the us, just 15 days after publication.