david fairfield was watching and had this response. this is bbc news. welcome if you're watching here in the uk, on pbs in america or around the globe. well, it was a0 minutes before i'm reged ahmad. afternoon live did return our top stories: to the supreme court afterjo swinson‘s conference speech had finished and that had left this telephone caller as another unsatisfied customer. protesters around the world have taken to the streets — in a global call for action i tuned in to watch the live against climate change. we are united behind the science and we will do everything coverage of the supreme court in our power to stop this proceedings and bbc in its wisdom crisis from getting worse. are covering the liberal party conference in bournemouth on three in egypt — rare protests channels, parliament, against president sisi, afternoon live and also with many calling for him to stand down.

after a whistleblower alleges on bbc two politics live. improper conversations with a foreign leader — president trump insists his dealings why are you doing it three times? the prime minister pass awkward encounters with unimpressed voters are all above board. have regularly made the news in the past couple of weeks and none and, the woman who claims she was more so than this wednesday on a trip to a university hospital abused by prince andrew speaks out. in london to which the news media buckingham palace emphatically denies he had any sexual had been invited by number ten. the nhs is being destroyed, it is being destroyed and now you come here for a press opportunity. there is no press here. what do you mean there is no press here? you are these people? that was the father of a sick child being treated at this hospital who later described that encounter with the prime minister in a tweet. he describes himself on his twitter profile as a labour activist and that fact was mentioned when the bbc reported the story. but how relevant was it to the points he was making? or to mrjohnson‘s response? for terryjohnson...

laura kuenssberg retweeted his post about the day's events and pointed out his political status but that unleashed a wave of protests against the bbc‘s political editor as well as many messages in support of her, including for the man himself, who said she was doing herjob.

bbc news have put out a statement in response. it reads... now, in a newspaper publishes a story which raises serious issues about invasion of privacy, to what extent should the bbc follow it up? that was the dilemma posed by the sun's front page on tuesday about events in the family of the cricketer at stokes. just two days after the final test of the summer, english crickets bigger star finds himself embroiled

in a row against the biggest newspaper in what he condemns as a immoral and heartless article about a family tragedy that happened 30 years ago, the details of which the bbc has chosen not to repeat. the decision not to provide details to the story to which ben stokes so strongly objected, meant bbc reports on the subject were necessarily incomplete. but one of our viewers pointed out an irony on the output having seen an article on the bbc website. well, we put that to bbc news and they told us...

but what about the decision to run the story at all on any bbc outlets? rod gray thought that was wrong, e—mailing... i am joined now from salford by the bbc head of sportsjournalism. can i ask first, when did the bbc know this tabloid paper was going to be running this story? i cannot speak for the whole of the bbc but certainly, speaking personally i was not aware of it at all until the sun was published that morning.

how did you decide to cover it and how much detail to give? initially, actually, nobody in the bbc covered the story because ourjudgment was it was not the story of public interest, having thought about it, and we thought there were clear privacy issues involved with it so actually there was no coverage of the story until ben stoakes himself issued an incredibly strong and detailed statement addressing his anger, his upset about it and his views on the whole nature of that kind ofjournalism, and at that stage, ijudgment was it became a story we should cover. so, when he spoke out publicly that was a story. would you make of the viewers who felt the bbc should have ignored it all together? i hear that and you know, on some levels, in terms of obviously the nature of the story i ever stammer people are coming from but actually, i do think and i think ben stoakes thought and that is where he issued this public statement in great detail, that he actually wanted to register and have reported his genuine anger

and upset at the story and the repercussions of it and what it meant for him and his family, and by doing so, he raised what has been a big issue over recent years and an issue of public interest. what is the line between journalism that is responsible and respectful and where should we be? it has been a huge subject of much debate over recent years and continues to be won. there were other stories this past week that spoke to that and in that sense, it felt like that was a really important story we needed to cover across bbc news. people found it very confusing to watch as a result. there was references to it. if you were going to cover the story, should you not have thought we should say to some extent what story is or what it is about. we actually had that discussion, we had it a number of times and occasions across bbc news because you are right. it was by its very nature a little bit incomplete because we do not give people all the information we might have done that would help them judge that story. we were at last, as we often are, with a difficult decision to make.

there was not a perfect outcome in that sense and we have to make that —— we had to bounce back need for it getting detail against ourjudgment of the nature of the story in the first place which was when we felt was not in the public interest, it was very much a matter that reflected on ben stoakes's family. it was not about him at all, it was about events that happen before he was born. tabloid papers do sometimes do quite regularly run very controversial but true stories about celebrities, sporting celebrities. the gareth thomas story was running this week. does the bbc need to have a clear standard strategy about how to handle them all or should it be a case by case? it is hard to have a real clear open and shut case. we are not setting a long—term policy with this decision. it really was about this particular story at this particular context at this particular time. it was a debate, not everybody agreed with what we did. even in the bbc, never mind outside. that was a judgment on this particular occasion, we felt we needed to take.

my sense of my time in journalism is the goalposts have moved a little bit. there was a time when most media outlets felt if they could report it, if they knew it i knew it to be right, then they should. i think we are now in a place, the public is any place, and our audience, where they expect us to think more deeply and not report everything we might know, regardless of legal, but even editorialjudgments, when it comes to privacy and to the public interest. there is no doubt we'd take that very seriously, we think about that a lot in all of the things we do and we will always try to strike the balance between the need to know, what is in the public interest, but where appropriate, respecting people's previously. thank you very much. thank you for all your comments this week.

tell us your opinions on what you see here... hello. friday brought a lot of sunshine to a lot of places across the british isles and i don't think we're going to see a radical change for many areas on saturday. simply because the overall pattern is still pretty similar. high pressure in the continent, low pressure in the atlantic, therefore, we are still tapping into this run of south—easterly airs and quite strong winds at times, up from the mediterranean, through the near continent and into the heart of the british isles.

that is dry air so we are not seeing an awful of cloud for most of us just at the moment. the exceptions to that, the northern ireland ‘s and later in the day, the first signs of the atlantic front trying to cloud things over in the south—west. an onshore breeze from the north sea will keep the eastern coast down at about 15, 16, 17 but come inland, 20 plus is widely available. through saturday night and on into sunday, the first signs of the change in that the high—pressure drifts further away and in comes the front from the atlantic. that will set the tone for sunday. before the persistent rain arrives, we will have some quite sharp showers and maybe the odd under storm gradually drifting up the spine of the british isles and then the front makes progress away from the western fringes ever further towards the north and east and to avoid that rain, some of it quite heavy will have to be that further north and east. still, the temperature in excess of 22—23 degrees or so towards the east but fresh air is coming in from the atlantic and that sets the tone for the start of next week. monday, not too bad. the rain from sunday gradually eventually clearing away from that far north—eastern corner of scotland and then a lull in proceedings and then late in the day,

more signs of the next belt of wet and windy weather pushing in from the atlantic into the south—western quarter of the british isles. not cold by any means but the temperature is back on what we have seen at the weekend. and then as we move from monday into tuesday, that area of low pressure becomes pretty resident out towards the western side of the british isles and at times, through the next few days, it will be throwing these belts of cloud and wind and rain across many parts of the british isles. it's all going to be quite mobile so it won't rain persistently anywhere for the whole day but while that rain is around, you will notice it, this is not showers, thisis belts of rain moving in from the atlantic. and there is not a great deal of difference as we go from tuesday into wednesday. low pressure still out towards the west of the british isles, still with these weather fronts working their way in and at times,

some really quite strong winds. quite a change on the way. 00:13:32,065 --> 2147483051:43:30,748 police fired tear gas 2147483051:43:30,748 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 to disperse them.