interviewees on bbc to replace those filmed before the epidemic so that we reflect the current socially distant way of working here. it was clear that 19 again which provided the big news of the week from many of those in england with the unveiling of which tears of restrictions will apply where from next week on. some areas have been the highest areas of restrictions. pubs and restau ra nts restrictions. pubs and restaurants will provide ta keaway restaurants will provide takeaway only and there will be no mixing of households except up no mixing of households except up to six people in outdoor spaces such as parks. this was objected to by some.

the impact of the pandemic was keenly felt on wednesday's announcement of the spending plans for the coming year. the statement was much anticipated and when carol kirkwood was telling viewers about what weather to expect this happened to... some of the showers could be heavy and we'll see a few of those... pulling away from the weather because oh, you know what, we just missed weather because oh, you know what, wejust missed him. he has, the chancellor, that is. we were talking aboutjust a second ago. hejust left we were talking aboutjust a second ago. he just left number 11 and has disappeared into that car. one viewer got straight onto the phone and left us this message. i was watching the weather forecast which i was interested in and it was brutally interrupted from the studio to share a piece of non—news. we were

told, unfortunately, we have just missed the chance in the getting into his car. since when is somebody getting into a car the news and so newsworthy as to interrupt other essential services? the chancellor's to the house of commons and just after we spoke of their political correspondent jonathan blake reported from westminster about the sums of money we've been told had been spent so far as a result of covid. it is about five times the amount. the government spends each year on its most expensive departmental bill. the department for work and pensions, welfare payments. it will spend another 50 billion next year. the chancellor said that level of spending and the government has to do is not sustainable. there noises gave rise to a complaint to be heard frequently last year when

demonstrators were frequently heard of camera outside parliament. there are plenty more opportunities over the next couple of days to hear analysis of and reaction to the statement, particularly active on air, she would expect was the bbc‘s economics editor. today's focus shows that the economy will shrink by over 11% this year. the century record. it will recover slowly next year which means an annual increase in borrowing a meeting of world wars. £400 billion. 19% of the national economy. the interest bill to pay for it

is also tumbling. not everyone finds it easy to get there had to ban those numbers notjust because they are so large a bit because they are so large a bit because in the case of the spending review are a budget there is simply so many of them. a report released by the office of national of people like a baking understanding of economic statistics such as the deficit and mistrusts official data. that is one of the challenges faced. welcome to news watch. even when we're not in the pandemic the spending review would be a huge task for you to process and explain. can you to process and explain. can you talk as to how you go about doing that? in days running up to it we tried to scope out exactly what the broader para meters exactly what the broader parameters are and how much is going to be spent. we tend to get quite a lot of it preannounced by the treasury. a mixture of leaks,

preannounced by the treasury. a mixture of lea ks, unauthorised but also actually the announcements that are going to come on the following wednesday happening during the course of the previous few days. you have to analyse then and there is a particular challenge there because you don't get all the information so you might get a partial announcement and you have to be wary of exactly what is being communicated. you've already hinted at one of the concern that viewers have which is how far you should be reporting government leaks and rumours put out beforehand. it would take the example of a cutting foreign aid budget which was definitely wheat well in advance. do you ever feel that you are being played? whenever you get information on officially you do process the motive for getting that piece of information. make sure that it is not just of information. make sure that it is notjust been given to you ina it is notjust been given to you in a partial way so that it is reported in a slightly, with

a lack of nuance. you have to be aware of the bases on which information is turning up in yourinbox information is turning up in your inbox or on your what's up in your messages or occasionally by carrier pigeon. you have to be aware of why you're getting that information to how you reported but i tend to how you reported but i tend to find that actually, it is worth just awaiting a bit of it until the official information comes out and you can fully assess the context of that government announcement but i think it would be naive to assume that you would never report these things in advance. these discussion and debates are happening in private, good journalist would want to be on that but i think you are right to say that we should put a certain health warning on the quality of some of that information that comes through before it is official. the office for national statistics this week reported that most people don't really understand very much about economic data understands and i wonder if you should be doing even more to explain and spell at the

difference between, say, debt and deficit. some of these concepts for viewers. it depends on the outlet as well but you're absolutely right. i would say that there twin deficits but this would run up against the problem either in my answers. twin challenges of complexity and controversy. and we need to be able to guide viewers, listeners, readers do all of that. on complexity, it is true that we have to bear in mind some basic concepts for an economic audience or political audience such as the deficit needs to be unpacked but i also think there is a challenge as well with brevity. if you tried to explain with the sentence or couple of sentences every single thing of it time you said would never say anything. the numbers we are now talking about are so huge, the scaler borrowing can be hard for many

of us to grasp it equally, i am wondering, as an economist yourself, when you report that, the biggest debt situation for 300 years, is it a bit scary even for you? yes. you have to bearin even for you? yes. you have to bear in mind, it is not ourjob to scare anybody, it is ourjob to scare anybody, it is ourjob to inform people and one way to communicate batting in context of that is historical comparisons. he mentioned the borrowing. as a proportion of national income. the largest since world war ii. perhaps a better way and when i tried to use to explain it as we've only seen this level of borrowing in world wars so that gives you a better understanding of the scale of the crier says that the government is dealt with. it isa the government is dealt with. it is a world war. we need to come up with ways of explaining things that bring alive the decimal point percentage and give some context to the

challenge but it is a challenge and it is not surprising that some would feel that this is daunting. it is daunting but there are ways through it. thank you so much. wednesday was a busy day on the news channel. as well as that spending review there was a sad and distressing breaking news story to report. welcome to bbc news and we begin this morning with the news which has just emerged in the last few minutes which we brought you in the headlines that the duchess of sussex has revealed she has had a miscarriage. she revealed the news in an article she has written for the new york times. christine e—mailed us to say this morning we had three videos of naked and, while of the comments in the new york times, followed closely with

the story being bad word for word. newsjustjust coming in in the last few moments that the argentinian football legend maradona has died. jan riddle was less than impressed with the coverage that followed thank you for all your comments this week. if you want to share your opinions about what you see or hearan your opinions about what you see or hear an bbc news e—mail or you can find us on twitter. you can call us.

we will be back next week. goodbye. hello there. friday was a decidedly chilly day, particularly in those places where fog lingered. the weekend promises something just a little bit milder, but it will often be quite cloudy, that cloud at times will produce the odd spot of rain and some quite murky conditions as well. low pressure to the southwest, high pressure to the east of us, that is driving a fairly gentle southerly flow across the british isles. you can see a few different weather fronts moving through bringing some patchy rain, but with that southerly flow we are importing some slightly milder air. we've still got some pretty chilly conditions, though, across the northern half of the uk, and a frost to start off across the far north of england. parts of northern ireland and scotland, a bit of fog through the central belt. any rain in scotland becoming increasingly confined to the far north, but at the same time this big

lump of cloud pushing up from the south across much of england and wales producing the odd spot of rain through the day. and some quite misty, murky conditions in places as well. perhaps something brighter into the far southeast, certainly some sunshine for the channel islands. highest temperatures in the south at 13—14 celsius. now, as we head through saturday night, this big lump of cloud with some mist and murk, and some spots of rain will all continue to drift its way slowly northwards. clear skies in northeast scotland, we could see a touch of frost here, but elsewhere temperatures on sunday morning will be above freezing. sunday, though, does look like a pretty cloudy affair. there will be the odd spot of rain or drizzle here and there. best chance of any sunshine through the channel islands, far southwest of england, maybe west wales, and also northeast scotland. the cloud breaking up here as the winds begin to pick up a little bit. top temperatures 8—10 celsius. maybe 12 in the far southwest of england. a bit of a change into the start of the new working week, because we will see a frontal system pushing in from the north. that will bring outbreaks

of rain quite erratically southwards across the british isles through the day on monday. that rain likely to be quite light and patchy, certainly as it gets down towards the south. some brighter skies following on from the north, but with the winds coming down from the north, it'll start to feel quite chilly once again. temperatures in most places 8—10 celsius. tuesday should be a dry day for most, and then later in the week, temperatures will take a tumble. we'll see some rain at times and perhaps something wintry over high ground. this is bbc news.

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