it has been another week of brexit drama and with fewer than 60 days until the uk's scheduled departure from the eu, the arguments have been rating ever more passionately. he is the conservative mp, mark francois, vice—chairman of the pro—brexit european research group, responding to the german chief executive of airbus who suggested the company might have to leave the uk in the event of a no—go brexit. if he thinks because he runs a big company he can bully british mps out to vote, he will be sorely mistaken. my father was a d—day veteran and he never submitted to bullying by any german and neither with his son. if mr enders is watching, that is what he can do with his letter. mark francois had clearly planned that stand, but should the bbc have done more to challenging? bbc politics clipped the moment and it was shared online, leading to criticism of the bbc for allowing to use its airwaves

in that way. jayne secker more tweeted... with so much focus on brexit, the bbc news has tried to take the story around the country. on tuesday the bbc news at ten featured a report hearing the perspectives of leave voters in mansfield, but did this approach do justice to the town? dear newswatch, i watched the ten o'clock news on tuesday night with trepidation. they said at the top of the programme there would be a report from mansfield. as expected, the short report featured an evening silhouette of a disused pit stop

and an elderly local resident with a rich local accent in a labour club and to top it all off a rendition from a local brass band rehearsal. how much more cliched and stereotypical can the bbc get? this is so totally opposite to the mansfield area we know. come on, bbc, it is many years since the coal mines and mills closed and mansfield is recovering and regenerating. please think carefully before you portray this area in such an extreme light. there has also been a drive across bbc news to explain the brexit story. chris mason led a day ofjargon busting coverage while the news channeljoined forces with five live and reality check to take audiences questions and unpack complex terms as the backstop. think in terms of a safety net and you get the general idea. there was an analysis of those important brexit brogues

in the house of the commons. viewers were treated to expert commentary as mps trooped through the division lobbies. division, clear the lobby. good evening to viewers on bbc parliament as mps begin the first of what promises to be a considerable series of big brexit votes tonight on what to do next in the whole process of leaving the eu. i am mark darcy and with me is doctor ruth fox of the hansard society and we will be top eu through the intricate series of procedural events that will follow. let's reflect on a busy period of brexit coverage with sam taylor,

editor of the bbc news channel. we have seen this noticeable effort of late to explain the brexit story across the whole of bbc news, particularly on the news channel. what is the thinking on that? we have got an increase in interest on this story and an increase in audiences and a clear desire from people to understand more about what is going on. we have contributors using quite technical language and we ourselves need to make sure we do not rush on through when people use terms that are quite complex. we are conscious of that. we know we have got a lot of good resources online, but we want to draw attention to more in our broadcast output and be more visible to help understand some of the key terms used. give me some examples.

last week on thursday we did a brexitjargon explained it across the bbc were fundamentally we were trying to draw people's attention to ourjargon busting guide online. it has been there a long time, but we need people to understand it can be used. chris mason ended up with the job of doing more than 20 live interviews into radio and tv programmes, national and local. more than a million people used the jargon buster on that day. should you have done more of this much sooner? we are very conscious this is an area we have to work on. there is always a challenge because we talk a lot to politicians and they are using terms and language that is difficult, but we have been thinking about it for a while. the reality cheque team has done a lot of work on this and quite often we repeat things they have already done. there is a great animated explainer about the backstop and we ran it again yesterday because it still stands. we have got to make sure that as journalists you do not assume

but we have been thinking about it for a while. that the audience sees our output as much as we do. you can go over something again. hand on heart can you say the bbc was explaining basic terms like the single market or the customs union back in 2017 with this degree of rigour? we are reaching the end of a process and decisions are still being made and this is a good time to make sure that the final position we are in is under standard understandable. a term at the backstop is quite a challenging term because it is in itself an attempt by politicians and negotiators to simplify something that is very complicated. do you feel confident explaining the irish backstop? it is a genuinely complex thing. chris's explainer is quite long. we have done a lot of work on ourjargon buster. i can explain it in the sense that it is a fallback plan in the event of the uk not reaching a deal with the eu. northern ireland would

have to remain in part of the single market. i have done it, but it is interesting, that is a bit longer than you would put into a headline and we have to think through a range of ways of doing this job and some of them are quite immersive and some will have to be quite sure hand. can i ask you about the interview with the conservative mp mark francois on the news channel. some people felt the bbc was party to a stunt by letting him rip up that letter from the airbus chief executive on bbc airwaves. what do you think? that implies we choreographed this and it was a televisual event, but it was just another interview with a politician we have

interviewed on many occasions and he chose to do that in the context of that interview. he came on clearly intending to anti—dodged a question in order to do it. sure, but we get feedback from people on both sides of the argument, particularly when they do not like something and it does not marry up with what they think. but we need to facilitate people hearing the widest range of opinions about big and important stories and in that sense it is different because we are here to challenge what people are saying and also to hear what they are saying. thank you very much. we know lots of newswatchers hate doorsteps, throwing questions to politicians while they are out and about in the street. but there was speculation on monday about how the labour party might approach the big vote in parliament. the bbc decided it was important to put this question tojeremy corbyn as he left home. good morning and no comment.

thank you, goodbye. will you be backing the amendment? doorsteps are often how viewers get to hear directly from politicians, but people questioned whether this one was really necessary. in a week when some politicians have been invoking the blitz spirit and their attitude to eu negotiations, wester‘s news at six seemed to bejoining in. our main story this evening, theresa may says she intends to go back to brussels to renegotiate her brexit deal but eu leaders say the deal is done and they will not reopen talks. that raised a few eyebrows. some even wondered if the use of those archived pictures was more than an innocent mistake.

was it an intentional decision? what really happened? paul royal, the editor of the six o'clock news explained. that is all from us. thank you for all your comments this week. have you got an opinion about something you have seen or heard on bbc news? you can share it by calling us or sending us an e—mail. you might even appear on the programme. you can find us on twitter.

have a look at our website at previous interviews. that is all from us, we will be back next week with more of your views. until then, goodbye. hello there. friday was another day with severe transport disruption due to heavy snow. targeting across southern england, particularly stretches near the basingstoke area around the m3 and we also had problems around the m2 in kent as well. this was one of our weather watch pictures from friday, showing the scene overlooking the m3 around junction 5 which is near grey well in hampshire. we have horrendous conditions covering the carriageway on the m3 and transport services likely to be affected on

into saturday, snow and ice likely factor in the forecast although snow will increasingly become confined to south—east england and kent in particular before easing away. wintry showers for eastern scotland and england as though showers come, the risk of fairly widespread ice. as we start the day on saturday. further wintry showers down the east coast. a few more in the north—west of the uk and perhaps a band of showers still affecting western wales into the first part of saturday morning. otherwise a cold and frosty start today, probably quite cloudy across the south—east but things will turn brighter. the best of the sunshine further north and west but a freezing cold start to the date and will have wintry showers around the coasts. perhaps a better brain and coastal areas but a bit of rain and sleet is mixed in. a centimetre or two accumulating in spots. another cold day. temperatures around three or four celsius. through saturday night in the clear skies with us again. the

wings falling light, another a cold night. towards the west we start to see another weather system approaching a mystic cloud and main spilling into northern ireland. that will start to lift temperatures late in the night. that weather system here coming in from the atlantic will be running into cold air so again on sunday, we will see snow. high ground in northern ireland but a time in the far north of england and scotland where we could see three, six centimetres of snow which will tend to transition back to rein particularly at lower levels as mahler works in. six degrees in belfast through the afternoon. next week, a change and turns milder but it will be pretty wet and pretty windy. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. our top stories: a wave of toxic destruction. dramatic new footage shows the moment a dam

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