in my humble opinion. no deal. this deal that has been turned down, i am for that. the one that is not going to go anywhere? jo for that. the one that is not going to go anywhere? 10 i didn't want that? what do you want? this is the thing, it is so difficult. nobody seems to know what they want, including me. i don't think anybody half of it, either. understands half of it, either. home editor mark easton reporting there on monday from york and on wednesday from lancaster and he was farfrom being the wednesday from lancaster and he was far from being the only bbc correspondent this week seeking the public‘s views on the brexit pro session, but not everyone thinks this sort of reporting is the best use ofairtime. this sort of reporting is the best use of air time. here is tonyjones. i suggest fewer vox pops preferably none at all. they are another concern hell about the use

of vox pops or panel discussion with members of the public is how accurately they reflect the balance of opinion in the uk right now. richard thomas rang us with his thoughts on that. i think you need to review your vox pops policies, to ensure that the apparently random selections are genuinely representative and you are not going to locations or places with which are going to be unrepresentative of asa as a whole. the country as a whole. well let i discuss the country as a whole. well let. discuss this with the well let us discuss this with the bbc‘s home editor. bbc’s home editor. ,, 7 fr has an bbc’s home editor. ,. l s, has an opinion about everyone has an opinion about brexit, what is the value say viewers in turn up in different towns to hear people disagree about it? i am not going to defend a bad vox it? i am not going to defend a bad vox pop. i think people will know the kind of one, somebody arrives in a shopper centre, throws a question at people, one person says yes, one person saying no and the other looks confused. time will tell. that seems to be patronising and insulting,

something i think is really important, i think the vox pop is a valuable tool in our armoury, and of course sometimes you will get people who say things, we saw a lady there in the clip, who is a bit confused. doesn't have a formed settled view. that is part of the story. that is important. people say what is the point of putting that on air, this is about the bbc being seen all round the country but there is no information any testimonies like that. i think it is packed with information. if we want to understand our country and want to understand our country and want to understand where it is heading, we have to understand what the people feel, and what they think and the only way you do that is by going to ask them. it is never going to be a perfect science. there are ways you can perfect science. there are ways you ca n test perfect science. there are ways you can test public opinion, opinion polls, but they are really a blunt tool. they can tell you the what, what people say to certain questions but they are not good at getting to the why. i think british politics, immigration was really off the

agenda for mainstream politics for a few decades, and i think that, the only way that we would have been alerted to the fact that people were, there was real disquiet about the demographic change, rapid change about the impact of globe globalisation on people's community, the only way you would find that was to listen to the people at the bus stop or in the cafe or the social club, that is what i think we still have to try and do. the country is changing rapidly at the minute, there is a lot going on politically. people are confused. we need to represent that confusion, sometimes peoples views are contradictory. we need to understand that too. so much has changed there is no shortage of outleters to people's opinions. phonein outleters to people's opinions. phone in show, bbc news, say viewers is supposed to tell us what is happened. i don't think that is right. i think that what bbc news does is tell us what had happened but it is trying to help people understand what is going on. what are the sub currents what are the

passions and concerns and anxieties and the joys of british people? what do they care about? what do they not ca re do they care about? what do they not care about? about? it depends on you have in front of the camera, you put together these panels of selected voters but there is only ever going to bea voters but there is only ever going to be a small number and we get complains from viewers who say they are not balanced or representative, they are not scientific. well, it is not as scientific as, it is not a law of physics involved, that is true, but we try really hard to try and reflect people from different backgrounds, so the jury kind of thinks, we saw a short clip of the one we did in york, we work with an independent recruitment company that is expert in producing these thin, they do a lot for instance, they put together a focus group for a company trying to understand whether its soap powder brand works for instance, we take the same model and

use it to delve that bit deep irinto what people think. making sure we have people on both sides of the argument, different age, classes, and so on. what concerns people they say you should be investigating fact,er how brexit is impacting people rather than assembling people to speculate about it.|j people rather than assembling people to speculate about it. i really think we do both. i think to say well, the voice of the people doesn't matter, is a massive massive mistake right now. that is the m ista kes mistake right now. that is the mistakes that got us to where we are today. we must listen to what people say. sometimes, this is an important point, especially in the jury situations we will work hard to inform people, so we will give them the fact, we will give them analysis so the fact, we will give them analysis so they can make their points with a bit more information, a dublin aretive process, that i think can be valuable but the idea this is not proper news, that actually it is lazy journalism as one proper news, that actually it is lazyjournalism as one of your commentators said, i reject, yes, a

bad vox pop is lazy, but a good one, where we actually work really hard to try and understand what people are thinking, and why, i think is hugely valueleable, in fact i would say essential. thank you. —— valuable. thursday's car crash involving the abdoulaye doucoure led news bulletins that evening, and on the news at ten royal correspondents nicholas witchell gave his reaction iimagine nicholas witchell gave his reaction i imagine that the duke and the queen must bejust i imagine that the duke and the queen must be just pondering the sort of message that this send in terms of self discipline, responsibility, common sense, and wondering whether it isn't time to let the policeman and chauffeur do the driving and the to take a back seat. raymond walker thought the audacity to discuss whether the duke should drive is impugh dent, terse lensjones said there was no evidence to show who was at fault, it may have been him, equally it may have been the other driver. this is

ageism. but others felt there was insufficient attention paid to those in the other vehicle involved. bbc news did report on thursday that two women suffered minor injuries but it emerged on friday one of them had broken her wrist and there was also a nine month old baby onboard. a viewer called catherine e—mailed. when breaking news and live sport coincide, particularly when the latter overrun, the result is inevitably complaint, such an occasion arose on wednesday when bbc was showing football, a replayed fa cup match between southampton and derby county, the game went to extra time, delaying the start of the news at ten, which was unfortunate because a couple of minutes after ten, the prime minister gave her response to winning the no confidence vote three hours before that, the statement was shown live

ina that, the statement was shown live in a short unplanned bulletin on bbc two, and after derby county triumphed on penaltieses the news at ten ran half an hour late on been bun but some were unhappy. jane was astonished that on a night of national crisis last night, a football game took precedence over the news as to whether or prime minister had survived a vote of no confidence. how could you relegate the ten o'clock news to bbc two at that time? it leaves me with no confidence in the judgment of the bbc. well, the bbc put out this statement in response. to deal with the fast—moving torrent of news from westminster this week, bbc two's politic live programme has been running special editions at 7pm. tuesday evening's show came

shortly after the vote on trey‘s brexit deal and saw andrew neil interviewing the health secretary, here is his 3rd go at one particular question. give me one major change the european union could now make, that would make the deal palatable to a majority in that chamber. no, andrew the thing about listening is you listen before ministers pronounce. minister, you are not listening to me because i am asking you a simple question, and you are refusing to a nswer question, and you are refusing to answer it. what major change could the european union now make, that would overturn a majority of 230 against the may deal? give me one. andrew, you can keep asking the question, the same question, and i will keep giving you the same answer. you are not giving me an a nswer answer. you are not giving me an answer at all. i am giving you a very clear answer which is we are going to listen to the commons. opinion was divided on whether that

was persistence or rudeness on the pa rt was persistence or rudeness on the part of andrew neil. tamsin there were plaudits from the likes thank you for your comments this week, if you want to share your opinions on bbc news and current affairs, you can call us on: or e may newswatch at bbc.co.uk. you can find us on twitter, and have a look at our website, the address for that is: that is all from us, we will be back to hear your thoughts about bbc news

coverage against next week. goodbye. hello there, we have certainly had a wintry feel to the weather today, notjust because it was cold but we have also seen some sleet and snow over the hills. coming from that area of cloud moving slowly eastwards so it will not be as cold as it was last night when we had temperatures down to minus 11 in scotland. some clear spells here and there but on the whole, a lot of cloud to come tonight, a bit more patchy rain around and for a while some sleet and snow mainly over the hills of northern england and into scotland. a touch of frost, frost is not far away at all tonight, but not the low temperature we had last night but temperatures did not rise much at all today over the hills of scotland and northern england. some sunshine for northern scotland, some showers towards the northern isles will continue through the day. showers for northern ireland, especially across the eastern side of the country. not much though for northern england. wetter weather still there for wales and across the southwest with some showery bursts of rain. towards the southeast of england, much of the midlands,

east anglia it may well be dry for most of the day, perhaps with a few showers in the morning but fine weather for the most part in the afternoon. but a lot of cloud, a dull day for most of us. as well as sunshine in northern scotland, we could get some in east anglia. perhaps in between those heavy showers in the south—west of england, so double figure temperatures here. much colder further north and east, struggling at around five degrees or so. we should tend to lose the showers overnight, pressure is tending to build a bit across the uk but at the same time we have this very weak front pushing down from the north west and ahead of that with more broken cloud we are more likely to have a touch of frost. temperatures, minus one or minus two. that weak weather front there producing a little rain and perhaps some sleet or snow over the hills. but nothing very much at all. ahead of it we should see some sunshine at times across england and wales. probably the sunnier spells coming in behind through the afternoon across scotland and northern ireland in a north—westerly breeze and temperatures typically six celsius so staying cold.

it says cold in the outlook as well. early next week we have got a stronger weather front bringing more rain and some snow over the hills. that should clear and we will get that is going to be cold enough, but the wind direction changes as the week goes on and we are likely to pull a north easterly wind which will make it feel that bit colder. with the cold air continuing there is still the threat of snow and ice. this is bbc news, i'm martine croxall. the headlines at 8pm. the duke of edinburgh has visited a hospitalfor a precautionary check—up following yesterday's car crash in norfolk. this eyewitness described the moment he pulled the duke to safety. he was able to turn over. that was the first time i saw his face. and i realised i was holding the duke of edinburgh. a buckingham palace spokesman said contact has been made with the two woman injured in the collision, and well wishes exchanged.

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