hello and welcome to news watch with me,. deja vu for newswatch viewers, furious about sending newsreaders abroad to read the intros. was it bbc news money well spent? sending clive myrie to france on tuesday? and world cup semifinal he was there for may have attracted the crowds, but did it warrant the time it got on news bulletins? it has been a week when the bbc annual report prompted newspaper front pages about the corporation's expenditure on presenter salaries. many older viewers have been contacting newswatch unhappy with the salaries given that recent announcement of the withdrawal of the universal free licence fee for the over 75. in that context, one spending decision by the bbc news in particular came under focus.

here is tuesday's news at six with clive myrie co—presenting in france in advance of england's football world cup semifinal there. in two hours‘ time, the lionesses take on the usa in the most important match in english women's football. victory would mean a place in the final of a major tournament for a senior english side. for the first time since 1966. some viewers wondered about the added value of clive myrie presenting on location and later on the news at ten. here are other thoughts of alan curtis and first tony webb. they have one of the major newsreaders, clive myrie, outside the stadium. and dan roan on pitch side to report. why does it needs to have clive myrie there at what must be quite large cost for an item that dealt with by the one person. he added nothing to the commentary and clearly he wasn't an expert. he seemed to be struggling

with what to say. in the end he cut to dan roan, the bbc sports editor who did a much betterjob. at a time when the bbc‘s finances are under intense scrutiny i wonder how it is possible to justify sending clive myrie on what appeared to be a bit of a jolly. it is not the first time the bbc has done this and i would like to know why. that wasn't the only complaint about bbc one news bulletin that evening. the big match against the usa attracted the highest peak television audience of the year with 11.7 million people tuning in but not everyone thought that justified dedicating almost ten minutes to it on the news at 6pm before the match took place and another ten minutes on the news at 10pm shown straight after the game's conclusion. this man tuned in for the latter at the advertised time.

on tuesday i switched on the television at 10pm to watch the news on bbc one. but i was subjected to 13 minutes of chat about a football match which i knew had finished. i didn't expect that. but when that had finished, what we get? an advertisement for the forthcoming programmes. and when the news did start, what did we get? six minutes of talk about the football. which most people have watched anyway. this woman was also left waiting for the news waiting for the news at ten and not happy with what she saw when it arrived. we've now finally got the news on at quarter past ten and where are away? we are back in lyon with clive myrie. talking about the football again. it is absolutely ridiculous keep the football on or run it at a separate channel. not on the news. it is absolutely ridiculous.

there are far more important things going on in the world at the moment. let's speak to the deputy editor of the six and ten o'clock news. many newswatch viewers will remember the bbc seeing on this programme a couple years ago that what with budget cuts and all, they would no longer be sending out newsreaders to simply be there abroad. so why did this happen? first of all i would say that clive is first and foremost a journalist. he is notjust a presenter and doesn'tjust read the autocue, he goes out and get in amongst the stories and we felt that this was a story of national significance. people felt he did not add anything. he had to hand over to dan roan when who then handed over to someone else. he didn't need to be there, did he? we think really long and hard about when to send presenters abroad and we do it very rarely. and only when it is a story of national significance. something that resonates

with people across the country. we had good evidence that the story of this incredible achievement by the women's football team did. what what did he add? when we send our presenter it gives the signal that we are giving the story real prominence and taking it seriously. clive is a very experienced journalist and when he is presenting, he talks to people and is able to shape the coverage. he was able to give us a sense of how important the occasion was and he also was serving a large number of different bbc audiences. of other programmes? of other programmes. we know some people don't like sport but setting that aside, taking into account that it was watched, this was supposed to be a news bulletin and there was no news about the match because the match had not started. about the match at six o'clock because the match had not started. so why devote ten minutes in a

bulletin at the top of the bulletin to that? we really recognise that not everyone thinks that sport should be covered in news at all. and i understand that not everyone is a football fan and not an england fan. on this occasion, this was a story that had captured the national imagination. there had been huge progress from the team and it was something that was, we could have been heading into a final. for the first time ever. and we felt there was a real significance to the story and interest. i would also say that we really didn'tjust cover i would also say that we really didn't just cover the i would also say that we really didn'tjust cover the women's football. we cover the whole range of other stories from the european parliament, to huge report on the deforestation of the amazon. so we gave a sense of the other significant news around that day. people still feel that is ten minutes of ability and you could have given to what they feel would

have given to what they feel would have been more important news and if you had done those tenants at the end of the six, maybe if you wanted to build up atmosphere, but why should people turn on the six o'clock news and have to wait ten minutes to get reports on the actual events of the day? we would say that that was the most significant national event that day. which hadn't happened yet. but it was about to happen and there was a huge build—up. you can really feel that the nation came together. people we re the nation came together. people were watching it in droves, in record numbers and all the evidence from our online statistics show that people really interested. we also covered the other news of the day. so we give due prominence to the football, we felt. obviously it was something that was discussed at great length within our meetings. some of the points made by your viewers were made and their programme meetings. in the end you have to make a judgment about what is the most interesting or significant story of the day. i'm interested you will use the word

significant. it can seem with long coverage like this. that the bbc is making a statement. but that isn't thejob for the making a statement. but that isn't the job for the news making a statement. but that isn't thejob for the news bulletin. that is not for viewers, the to that want to see what happened. is not for viewers, the to that want to see what happenedlj is not for viewers, the to that want to see what happened. i would take a different view that promotion was going on. we would give prominence to sports news story when it is of national significance as we did with the men's world cup last year. and there was no sense of bbc promotion. we treated those matches last year the same if they were on itv or on the same if they were on itv or on the bbc so we judge each story on its own merits. thank you so much. just time for a couple more comments we have received this week. one viewer visited the bbc website. he

was unimpressed saying please outline by this is leave headline story. this weekend, members of the conservative party will be receiving their ballot papers and will be able to choose whether they would like jeremy hunt or borisjohnson to be their next leader. extensive coverage of contest has of course continued across bbc news but some members of the audience had expressed worries to us that it's prominence has affected the balance of the output.

finally the new mep for the brexit party and widdecombe made her maiden speech on thursday in the european parliament. it proved to be a controversial one. there is a pattern consistent throughout history. of oppressed people turning on the oppressors. slaves against their owners. the peasantry against their owners. the peasantry against the feudal barons. colonies against their empires. and that is why britain is leaving. although the speech came in a week when bbc news has also reported on the new appointment made to some eu posts, one viewer was prompted to e—mail saying.

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the weekend should bring most of us some fine spells of sunshine on saturday or on sunday. we had someone saturday or on sunday. we had someone sunshine on friday in the south but further north a lot of cloud. this was the view on the isle of lewis where there were some outbreaks of rain. that cloud and rain are shifting further south so through the course of the night there will be a few splashes of rain across northern ireland, southern scotla nd across northern ireland, southern scotland and northern ireland. to the south of that, we keep mostly dry and clear with some warm humid air in places, temperatures overnight in london holding at 15 degrees. further north, some fresher air moving in behind the cloud and rain. dipping into single figures in the countryside. a fresher cooler feel particularly in the south where we had a hot day on friday most places predominately dry with a few showers courtesy of this cold front which makes its way south during the day on saturday. after the one sunshine we had across england and wales on friday, saturday will be claudia with rain initially to the

south of that, you have dry weather but there could be the share towards london. let's look around the country. apm. temperatures still up to 24 country. apm. temperatures still up to 2a degrees 25 degrees along the south coast. one or two splashes of rain could affect wimbledon later in the afternoon. to the north of that, sunshine the north wales into the north midlands, much of northern england and northern ireland seeing that sunshine. a fresher feel in recent days. for scotland, fresh breeze with spells of sunshine and most cases staying dry with your drug shower in the north—east of scotla nd drug shower in the north—east of scotland and the northern ireland. as you move to saturday night into sunday, we will lose the cloud and clear skies for most of us and a slightly fresher night to come as we move through saturday into the early hours of sunday. you will notice the temperature is not as warm and humid as they have been recently. through the day on sunday a lot of dry weather. one or two showers on the

cards for southern and south—eastern england but we would all see them. most prices for nothing dry. attach fresher on sunday compared to saturday looking head into next week dry weather with some sunny spells, some heavy showers through the middle part of next week.

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