exactly. we two years at the moment. exactly. we think about each election in the context of the election and at the heart of them of course is often the different levels of coverage you are going to give two different parties. and at the heart of that is electoral support, so you look at past and current electoral support, it is also within the framework of ofcom, they publisher digests which settle that out, but in the end it isa settle that out, but in the end it is a framework for editors of each programme to make good judgements about what is fair, impartial, important for the audience, important for the audience, important in terms of scrutinising the politicians and the guidelines ofa the politicians and the guidelines of a framework for that. you mentioned past electoral performance, that is a difficult concept for a lot of people to judge what is fair by. and obviously an example is a new political party that only came into existence earlier this year, the brexit party, get associated with the party leader who is well—known and has been for many years so how do you judge it is

fair in both terms of the brexit party and nigel farage? in a general election you will look back at what happened at the last annual election but you will also look at other elections and of course willjust had a uk elections and of course willjust hada uk— elections and of course willjust had a uk — wide election in very peculiar circumstances, as you say, a brand new party, is about is the kind of thing where it is a new context kind of thing where it is a new co ntext a nd kind of thing where it is a new context and you have to take into account. how can you be fair of supporters of let's say the brexit party without being unfair to ukip because they might well say hang on, quite a lot of the calculation you will make about coverage for the brexit party is actually based on the performance of ukip from local elections, previous parliamentary elections, previous parliamentary elections, is it fair that effectively, because it is the same person profile has gone to this new party, they should take some of that value with them? as i say, electoral support is measured in many different ways, you know, votes is one and thinks it is another but when people move from one party to another it is something that you will take into account. in the brexit party and, indeed, you know, a number of independents who have lived party or move to become independent, shifted parties, all of

those things are exactly what is the specific context of this election. and in terms of the independent you mentioned, was taken example, high—profile, dominic reeve was elected as a conservative mp at the last election in beaconsfield, he is standing out as an independent conservative, he says he hopes to style himself as, how will the coverage to get be different from another independent who happens to stand ina another independent who happens to stand in a constituency or another constituency and should be any different because you could argue that much of support however popular he may be as an individual, is because of the party level he was wearing last time. i do not want to get into individuals like constituencies because that in itself is something, during an election campaign when you're talking about constituencies, you have to do it in a fairway and think about all of the candidates, so clearly someone who is already been elect, even if they change party, they have evidence of electoral support and that is part of... is at their support of the party's support? it can be both, i do not think it needs to be an either or, it depends on the circumstances. tom

watson, the deputy leader of the labour party, has already written to the general director of the bbc, urging them to come out with particles they can of the prime minister's fake news and obviously it isa minister's fake news and obviously it is a partisan point and it is kind of standard for you before elections, you get is kind of pre—emptive strikes by the parties? is fake news goes it is something thatis is fake news goes it is something that is very important at the bbc and the director—general has made it clear that we are taking on and we have various things we are trying to do to combat that. but in the end, it is the bbc‘s job to look at evidence it is to look at things and call them out if they are wrong. but it is not to get into the sort of name—calling business of politics itself. let me pick you up on that about calling things out when they are wrong, and think back to the european referendum. there were a number of things that came up there. one example was the prospect of turkey joining one example was the prospect of turkeyjoining the one example was the prospect of turkey joining the european one example was the prospect of turkeyjoining the european union, penny mordaunt with andrew marr, andrew marr challenged her on that, whether they may join, and andrew marr challenged her on that,

whether they mayjoin, and said i thought each country has a veto on accession. she said no and then talked about why she believes the eu would meet turkey and that was factually inaccurate. the bbc news coverage didn't really challenge it. and subsequently people like norman smith, the political editor, said i think on reflection we should have challenged it and called it out. has the bbc learn from it example and other examples from the referendum campaigns? i think one of the things you would notice the people hopefully will have noticed is the increasing preeminence of a reality check and i think it is something whereby, when people say things in interviews or when people report things or talk about them in press conferences, we now have a particular way of saying actually, let's check that and set it before and we may not always be able to do it instantly, you know, it will be great if everybody knew my presenter new things all the time, but actually, sometimes that will take a bit of time and a bit of effort and a bit of digging. but i think it is important that we, given that fake

news and given that whether politicians are trusted or not is such an important element of elections, i think it is important that people know that we can go somewhere in the bbc where we will have looked at the evidence and where we are in a position to be able to call something out of it is not true point out if it is misleading or indeed sometimes they actually, yes, that was the case. are you looking forward to it? it is very busy time and, put it this way, i will be looking forward to christmas as well. rick bailey, thank you very much. what would you like to see from the bbc‘s election coverage over the course of the campaign? here are some of the hopes and fears would you have been expressing so far. a twitter user sarah asks for: james would like:

chris wants: we would like to know more of your wishes for the bbc‘s election reporting and in particular we are looking for viewers interested injoining in a discussion on the programme soon. if that appeals to you, please get in touch, stay tuned for the contact details a little later. now, it was the week following the last general election in june the week following the last general election injune 2017 that the g re nfell tower election injune 2017 that the grenfell tower in west london was destroyed by fire. 72 people died in one of the worst disasters of modern times. and this week, the first phase of the enquiry into what went wrong was concluded. this is lucy manning with a powerful report showing on wednesday's news at ten. he lost his daughter, her husband and their two children. lena, six months old, died in her mothers arms. why? why? this is a family!

(unintelligible). i worked for family! but from those understandably emotional scenes, the report and much of the bbc‘s coverage featured footage of the burning tower. although there was a warning that some may find the images used upsetting, delivered by the presenter in the studio before lu cy‘s the presenter in the studio before lucy's report began, several viewers still felt the use of the five pictures was unwarranted. this is jay gothard. well, although the enquiry‘s report was published on wednesday, the bbc, along with the daily telegraph, had cited some of its findings a day

earlier. that was made clear on tuesday's news at six. fewer people would have died in the grenfell tire had the london fire brigade differently. that is according to a report into the 2017 tragedy in which 72 people died. the documents, sections of which have been seen by the bbc, is due to be published officially tomorrow. so wasn't right for the bbc to report on what it had seen of the report, even though it had been embargoed until the following day? andy ramsbottom thought: a twitter user called newswatch agreed: —— ruhi. others were concerned about the motives of those responsible for the league, with jonathan motives of those responsible for the league, withjonathan edwards wondering:

well, we did ask bbc news if we could interview someone on the subject but nobody was available. instead, bbc news gave us this statement: thank you for all of your comments this week. if you want to share your opinions on bbc news and current affairs or even appear here on newswatch, do get in touch.

have a look at our web page. but is all from us. we will be back to hear your thoughts about bbc news coverage again next week. until then from all of us on the programme, goodbye. hello there. winds have already been picking up across parts of the uk. there is some stormy weather to take us through saturday — gales and also heavy rain which, for some of us, will cause some disruption to travel and potentially some damage as well. your bbc local radio station will keep you up to date. you can see the swirling area of cloud on our earlier satellite picture. this is an area of low pressure which has been deepening as it has been approaching the british isles. on the southern flank, you can see these isobars squashing together. that shows a swathe of strong winds continuing to develop right now across parts of wales and the south—west of england. some very heavy rain to be had here as well.

but there are met office yellow warnings in force for the strength of the winds. the strongest winds through the first part of the morning across the south—west of england and south wales, gusts of 60, 70, maybe 80 miles an hour on exposed coasts. as the day wears on, those strong winds will transfer further east across southern england, the south midlands, and up into east anglia. 50, 60, maybe 65mph gusts. those winds could be quite damaging. there will also be some heavy and persistent rain slowly pushing east and north. but at the same time, there will be parts of northern england, southern scotland and northern ireland that see precious little rain. sunny spells. the winds here will be lighter. not a bad day. further north in scotland, there will be heavy and persistent rain which could cause flooding and easterly winds gusting to 50 or 60 miles an hour. there is lots going on across the uk through the day ahead. top temperatures of 10—13. if you are planning to head out

and about during the evening, those winds will only slowly ease. it will certainly stay blustery for a while. into the first part of sunday, it should be a little calmer out there. some rain at times and lows of 7—9 degrees. sunday, low pressure still very much in charge. notice not as many white lines, not as many isobars on the chart. winds will be considerably lighter. around the centre of that area of low pressure, we will see showers or longer spells of rain spiralling around across the uk. it isn't all doom and gloom if you are heading out and about, because you can see some breaks in the cloud as well. there will be some spells of sunshine, and those top temperatures — 10 degrees in aberdeen, 1a in cardiff. staying unsettled with further heavy downpours into the start of the new working week and then for the middle of the week, it will pick up a northerly wind that is going to feel rather chilly.

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