out of service yesterday as a "precautionary measure" after the fault was found. great western railway and london north eastern railway say disruption is due to continue into the coming week. well, in the past few minutes, lner has issued a statement and says there will be some cancellations across the route from tomorrow and advising customers to check before they travel. our correspondent, katy austin has more from outside king's cross station in london. well, there are still some cancellations on lner services this afternoon, and disruption is likely to spill over into tomorrow, but great western railway is worst affected with over 90 of these trains, and it could only run about a tenth of long distance services today. it is asking passengers not to travel tomorrow either, and we don't know how many days it will take before disruption comes to an end.

we still don't know how many of these trains are going to need repairs. the government has said this afternoon it has asked hitachi to set out a longer term strategy for repairs. now, it's time for a look at the weather with nick miller. a week of sunshine and showers to come, not as cold as last we and no frost overnight, but temperatures close to average for the time of year. overnight showers continue, particularly in the west, pushing further east through england, with potential heavy and thundery bursts of rain to come. temperatures of 7-12 c. of rain to come. temperatures of 7—12 c. tomorrow, it may start with rain close to the north sea coast of england first thing before that clears, and it may head to the northern isles, especially shepton, later in the day. very wet here. elsewhere, sunny spells with cloud around. if you catch a shower, it could be heavy, possibly thundery,

with hi all possible as well. —— with hi all possible as well. —— with hail possible as well. gusts are in the south—west and wales of up are in the south—west and wales of up to 45 mph. quite pleasant if you see some sunshine, and a lot of that over east anglia and south—east england. hello, this is bbc news. i'm maryam moshiri. the headlines: the labour leader sir keir starmer prepares to reshuffle his team after the party's disappointing performance in the elections — he's already removed his deputy angela rayner as campaigns chief. that's what you do in leadership, you take responsibility. you don't scapegoat and blame others. you take it on the chin. they're hard calls, but it is for keir to choose the team he wants and get people in the positions that he wants us to be in. scotland's first minister, nicola sturgeon, warns it would be "completely outrageous" for the westminster government to block a second independence referendum.

the government is expected to end the advice against hugging each other, as part of the relaxation of lockdown rules in england. the government is calling on the rail industry to fix disruption on some of britain's busiest rail lines, after small cracks were found in some high—speed trains. now it's time for newswatch with samira ahmed. hello, and welcome to newswatch, with me, samira ahmed. coming up, what will the reorganisation of bbc news and the move of some staff out of london mean for viewers? and could there be a conflict of interest when bbcjournalists are paid by commercial organisations to speak at external events?

it's been a big week for the bbc�*s elections team, with votes still being counted in a whole host of contests across england, wales and scotland. in the build up to thursday's vote, it was the election for the scottish parliament which occupied much of the airtime, including the live broadcast on tuesday night of the final leaders�* debate from edinburgh. we'd like the leaders to engage in a respectful debate, and that means not talking over one another, so at the outset, can we all agree on that? agreed. yeah, promise? yep. ok, i'm going to hold you to that, thank you. no surprise that that promise wasn't entirely kept. the election in scotland may have implications for all parts of the united kingdom if it makes independence more likely, so that's presumably why that debate along with analysis and interviews before and afterwards was broadcast to news channel viewers across the uk. but ian frost, for one, still couldn't understand that decision...

now, when we were off the air in march because of the restrictions to programme production brought on by covid, the bbc�*s director—general tim davy announced a blueprint for what he called the corporation's biggest transformation in decades. the headline ambition was to move its creative and journalistic centre away from london, which means more editions of newsnight and the today programme being presented from around the uk. there's also a restructuring in news involving the creation of so—called "story teams", including climate and science which will move to cardiff, technology which goes to glasgow and learning and identity which will be based in leeds. danielousj expressed his concern...

someone tweeting as heffalump tweeted... and... and costs are being cut with 150 jobs being lost in news on top of over 500 post closures announced last year. these results, from a reduction in the bbc�*s income after license fee settlements with the government, including arrangements for payments by the over 75s. some of the cuts are in the business unit, prompting jamie bullen to write... so, what does this mean for news audiences? let's askjonathan munro, who's the deputy director of bbc news. jonathan, this is all driven by budget cuts, isn't it? why insist on calling it modernisation? well, it's both, in truth, samira. there are some cuts and we've been very open about that

because of licence fee settlements over the years and costs in this industry and many other industries, but it is a modernisation at the same time, and that's driven by audience behaviours changing — for example, more people coming to bbc news on digital platforms and online than used to be the case and fewer people coming to us and what we call linear platforms, radio and television. however you present it, though, you are cutting the number ofjournalists, so fewer business reporters for example. how can that be better? we have to live within our means, and business is an interesting point. i totally agree with your viewer who said that business is vital to the bbc�*s editorial mix, he's absolutely right. that's why even after the cuts, we're still going to have a very sizeable business unit. it's about 20 jobs in total coming out of a unit of around 160, but every part of the bbc is being asked to work more efficiently and we can't put a ring around certain areas and say this bit is protected because that simply

means we're going to have to dig even deeper somewhere else, so efficiencies do have to apply across the board but we are absolutely committed to business programming and business coverage. if you've got fewer journalists, there's a danger that you might be missing important stories that no—one else would be doing, so that would be serving licence fee payers less well? you can make that argument of course, whatever size your newsroom is, you can always add more and say you need to do more things, and from that point of view, you can have an infinite supply ofjournalism and we've got to make some decisions relative to what we can afford to do within the license fee envelope. we're keen to protect the three guiding principles of what we do well on bbc news. global, because we're in most parts of the world, whether it's in burma at the moment, for example, or across the americas or in india which is so badly hit by covid.

local — local radio, regional television, network correspondents all over the uk, and what i call knowledgeable — in other words, the analysis and expertise to go with those subjects to make sense of them in the modern world. now, those can't be infinite pools of people, infinite costs, but we are very well—resourced in the newsroom, we're one of the biggest news operations in the world, so it is usually possible if we try really hard to find efficiencies, and for your audience who are licence fee payers, i hope that gives them confidence that we are spending public money wisely and that we are conscious that we need to do so within the money that has been allocated to us. this commitment to make a certain number of the editions of the today programme and newsnight from outside london around the uk, that's sending people outside of london for the day. that's just tourism, isn't it? it's really important that we make sure it isn'tjust tourism. it's obviously notjust the presenter who goes to anchor a programme, whether it's today or newsnight or pm on radio 4, which is going

to have a role in this. we need to make sure that there's journalism coming out into the programmes from the area from which they are broadcasting and we're talking to our colleagues, for example, in local radio across the uk about supporting that journalistic effort on the pm programme when that project gets underway. you're spending money setting up these new subject hubs, so tech in glasgow and science to cardiff. to viewers, these locations just seem random. well, they're not random. to take an example from outside news, people will know the work of the natural history unit that the bbc runs in bristol. it's not a random location, it's been there for many, many years and works extremely well. and all sorts of departments from the bbc are spread around. a number of years ago now, bbc children's moved to salford, so did bbc sport, so did parts of bbc news, and they build a relationship with audiences

in different parts of the uk. and here's a critical point as well, they also encourage people to join the bbc who will turn into our experts in the future who don't want to come to london to pursue their career. they want to have a career that they can balance their work and family obligations outside london, and at the moment the structures are still too london—centric. you talk about expertise. there are already some very experienced journalists leaving because they cannot relocate, so you're going to lose a lot of this expertise. ourjournalists, like anyone else in any business, have big decisions to take if businesses relocate and those decisions aren'tjust professional decisions. they've got families, children, parents, whatever, and we recognise that and we're working through that with the individuals. we very much hope that the vast majority of our experts on these specialist topics will move with us to cardiff, leeds, glasgow, wherever, but i would also expect some turnover, and i'd expect that to mean there are some opportunities for new recruits coming in, and overtime, they will become familiar experts.

jonathan munro, thank you. since 2017, the bbc has published each year the salaries of its top—earning presenters, having resisted the idea at first but being forced to do so by the government. this week, for the first time, it revealed which of its on—air news journalists had been paid by outside organisations for hosting or participating in external events and something about the sums involved. the move follows controversies in recent years over a paid speech given by north america editor jon sopel to the tobacco company philip morris and another given by the then—editorial director kamal ahmed at a hedge fund conference, for which he received £12,000, a sum he later paid back. then there was the insurance industry event two years ago at which huw edwards was paid to interview borisjohnson and where the latter said he would stand

for the conservative party leadership. you want the job, yes? i mean, i think i'm... i'm going to go for it, of course i'm going to go for it. laughter applause following those rows, the bbc�*s new external engagements register will now be published quarterly, listing who's been paid by whom and whether the fee was more or less than £5,000. among those receiving more than that amount in the first three months of the year were the today programme'sjustin webb with four such paid engagements, bbc news home editor mark easton, who chaired a panel for the national housing federation, and the presenter of click, spencer kelly, for performing a similar role for the technology company cisco. nick wright wondered...

michael cuddington was also concerned about potential conflicts of interest... we asked the bbc if someone would address these questions in an interview, but our request was declined. we were pointed towards a statement in which the register was described as...

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