to led the covenant�*s response to the coronavirus pandemic from the coronavirus pandemic from the very beginning —— government's. the very beginning -- government's.- the very beginning -- government's. the very beginning -- covernment's. �* a, , a, government's. alan curry had some sympathy _ government's. alan curry had some sympathy for _ government's. alan curry had some sympathy for mr - government's. alan curry had i some sympathy for mr hancock, writing... others clearly found the revelations about mr hancock a lot more interesting and significant than that, and the following day came another story that would have caused a huge jaws to drop.— huge jaws to drop. when hms defender left _ huge jaws to drop. when hms defender left the _ huge jaws to drop. when hms defender left the ukrainian . defender left the ukrainian port of odessa last week, at the start of a journey likely to draw hostile attention from russia, secret documents about its mission were lying in a 5°99y its mission were lying in a soggy heat behind a bus stop in kent. the documents show that

officials were keenly aware that sailing close to the coast of crimea, which russia annexed in 2014, could cause an incident.— in 2014, could cause an incident. , , incident. those soggy papers assed incident. those soggy papers passed to — incident. those soggy papers passed to the _ incident. those soggy papers passed to the bbc _ incident. those soggy papers passed to the bbc by - incident. those soggy papers passed to the bbc by a - incident. those soggy papers i passed to the bbc by a member of the public also detailed plans for the uk military in afghanistan, arms exports campaigns and briefing notes for a defence meeting with the us, all very sensitive and confidential stuff, which tim edwards felt should never have been broadcast.

graham pack had a similar concern, which he outlined in this video. i concern, which he outlined in this vide0-— this video. i was very concerned _ this video. i was very concerned to - this video. i was very concerned to see - this video. i was very | concerned to see that this video. i was very - concerned to see that the bbc, having been handed the classified military and defence documents found at the bus stop, immediately displayed them in detail to the public on sunday morning, and on bbc tv news in the evening. surely documents marked "secret uk eyes only" should have been kept out of the public domain and returned to the mod. the actions of your diplomatic correspondence, including those of the tv news editor, well, it seems, irresponsible, disloyal, and clearly not in the national interest, and disclosure of classified documents such as these could in the worst case endanger the lives of serving royal naval personnel. well, to res - ond royal naval personnel. well, to respond to _ royal naval personnel. well, to respond to those _ royal naval personnel. well, to respond to those points, - royal naval personnel. well, to respond to those points, let's . respond to those points, let's hear from jamie angus, the bbc senior controller of news output and commissioning. jamie, how did the bbc come to

get the papers?— get the papers? welcome as we are appointed — get the papers? welcome as we are appointed at _ get the papers? welcome as we are appointed at the _ get the papers? welcome as we are appointed at the time, - are appointed at the time, samira, they were handed into us by a member of the found them at this bus stop in kent in the rain. there was clearly a strong public interest in reporting some of the contents of what had been found, but i would just like to reassure people who have written in that we were extremely careful about what we did and didn't reveal from the set of documents. we obtained the documents on the thursday and we didn't run any of the content until the sunday, and in the intervening period, we spent a lot of time satisfying ourselves that the documents have genuinely been left and come from the office of a senior mod official, and indeed, communicating with the mod to ensure that we were not reporting anything that could endanger national security. and indeed, the defence minister, and his emergency statement to the commons on monday, confirmed this, and said that the bbc hundred —— the bbc had

to behave responsibly with regards to these documents. some viewers, as you have heard, clearly feel it was not in the public interest to report on those documents. they even used the words disloyal. they said you should have handed them over to the mod. why didn't you? well, because we are journalism organisation, it is in our interest to report stories that are in the public interest. so to break this down a little bit, there was a bundle of documents, quite highly classified —— there was a quite highly classified documents within that bundle which related to the deployment of hms defender in the crimea area, which had already been in the news that week after the russians had taken an aggressive military stance towards it. under document demonstrated very clearly that the ministry of defence had thought through quite carefully the potential implications of a number of different potential routes for hms defender. we only published the map which related to the root of hms defender because we were confident that bishop had already passed, the day of the

event itself for several days previously, and there was no possibility of any damage to the security of our defence personnel. —— the ship. of course, at the time the bundle was left at the bus stop, it was left at the bus stop, it was of course a day before the deployment. so there was a very, very strong risk to national security posed by the loss of these documents and it was clearly in the public interest to inform the audience of that. it interest to inform the audience of that. , , , ., of that. it is interesting you say that. — of that. it is interesting you say that, because - of that. it is interesting you say that, because it - of that. it is interesting you say that, because it still- say that, because it still seems to many viewers, particularly provocative for the bbc to report about that incident off the coast of crimea, because it seems to contradict what the mod had said about that incident. well, absolutely- — said about that incident. well, absolutely. it _ said about that incident. well, absolutely. it was _ said about that incident. well, | absolutely. it was newsworthy, that incident.— that incident. irresponsible? jonathan beale _ that incident. irresponsible? jonathan beale was - that incident. irresponsible? jonathan beale was on - that incident. irresponsible? | jonathan beale was on board that incident. irresponsible? - jonathan beale was on board the ship at the time of the military activity. and there was a lot of public discussion about the nature of that deployment and the reason bishop had taken that course stop and after the event, when there was no further possibility of any risk to defence personnel on board the

ship, it was responsible journalism, i think, ship, it was responsible journalism, ithink, to ship, it was responsible journalism, i think, to shed light on the discussions that had led to that deployment, and thatis had led to that deployment, and that is what we did in our reporting. that is what we did in our repdrting-_ that is what we did in our reporting. but reputational dama . e reporting. but reputational damage to _ reporting. but reputational damage to the _ reporting. but reputational damage to the mod, - reporting. but reputational damage to the mod, that i reporting. but reputational| damage to the mod, that is reporting. but reputational- damage to the mod, that is what concerns viewers.— concerns viewers. well, i agree there was _ concerns viewers. well, i agree there was reputational- concerns viewers. well, i agree there was reputational damage | there was reputational damage to the mod, there was a very clear failure of security there, and that failure was on behalf of the office of the individual or the individual who allowed this bunch of documents to be left at a bus stop. documents to be left at a bus sto -. , , �* , stop. this isn't the first time, stop. this isn't the first time. of _ stop. this isn't the first time, of course, - stop. this isn't the first time, of course, you i stop. this isn't the first | time, of course, you will probably be aware, but something like this has happened. they were two incidents of secret military papers being left on trains towards waterloo or out of waterloo in the past decade, and in 2008 somebody who found them handed them to the bbc�*s frank gardner. is there a protocol at the bbc about what you do when you get such papers handed in?— handed in? that's right. we have a strong _ handed in? that's right. we have a strong editorial - handed in? that's right. we | have a strong editorial policy and legal framework to deal with these kinds of situations. you are right to point out it is not the first time we have

reported this kind of story. clearly we take reasonable steps to ensure, firstly, but the documents are genuine. secondly, to ensure that nothing we would report would actually put service personnel at risk. this was a mixed bundle of documents, some of the documents were essentially confidential but not classified. but two of the documents were highly classified, relating to the deployment of hms defender, and a further classified document about the security arrangements in afghanistan after the us withdrawal from afghanistan, and the disclosure of that document could have had a very, very serious implications for the security of british defence and diplomatic personnel, and it is important to note that in the bbc�*s reporting, we reveal very little of the afghanistan document beyond summarising the areas that it covered, for exactly that reason. we did include a screenshot of the front page of that document, printed on pink paper, because this was an important editorial indication to readers that

these pink copies of classified papers should not be removed from the ministry of defence, physically, underany physically, under any circumstances whatsoever. physically, underany circumstances whatsoever. so thatis circumstances whatsoever. so that is an important part of the storytelling, but it didn't give away any sensitive or classified information. jamie an . us, classified information. jamie angus, thanks _ classified information. jamie angus, thanks very - classified information. jamie angus, thanks very much. . now, we don't like to repeat ourselves on newswatch, but following last week's discussion about whether the euro �*s football tournament was taking over news bulletins, it would be remiss of us not to mention there were numerous complaints along similar lines this week. while tuesday's defeat by england of germany was the event of the week for many, graham nye had this to say.

and it wasn't just and it wasn'tjust extra time on foot or matches which played havoc with the scheduling of news bulletins this week. on wednesday, another tense match at wimbledon featuring andy murray resulted in changes which left wendy stewart fuming. well, the match ran on through the evening until 10:30 p.m., leaving hugh edwards and the news at ten and its viewers watching and waiting, again. not a problem for lydia, who posted this. but sean thought?

wimbledon and the euros continue next week and we haven't even reached the olympics yet. thank you for your comments, though, this week, and if you want to share all your opinions about what you see or hear on bbc news on tv, radio, online or on social media: thatis that is all from us for now. we will be back to hear your thoughts about bbc news coverage again next week. goodbye. well, it's going to be one of these days where the weather might turn like that, and you'll have to run for cover if you're not prepared. big showers and thunder and lightning on the way. not everywhere — in fact, many of us will miss the storms altogether, but where they occur, they could even bring

some flash flooding. now, early in the morning, there will be already some heavy rain spreading across the southern half of the uk, moving northwards. to the north of that, across scotland, it will have been been generally a dry night. a bit fresher here — 11 degrees — but in the south, it's muggy — i6 celsius first thing. now already, that band of rain could bring 30mm or so in a short space of time, so even with that, there could be a bit of flash flooding here and there. but later in the afternoon, that's when we'll see the really heavy showers and thunderstorms developing. and the thinking is somewhere in the south—west of england, into western england, we could see this line of storms, mostly inland. in the extreme case, there could be around 80mm of rain. hence the risk of the flash floods. but the storms will be developing in other parts of the country as well, across the midlands, perhaps the south—east, east anglia and also further north in england,

so very hit—or—miss. again, some of us will miss the storms altogether, and it's actually going to be a relatively bright, if not sunny, day. but some of these storms may actually linger into the evening hours as well. how about the other side of the world in the mediterranean? in rome for the football, well, here, of course it's going to be warm and sunny, with temperatures up to 28 celsius. now, here's a look at sunday's weather forecast. and again, showers on the cards, again spread right across the country. you can see how they develop during the course of the afternoon. thunder and lightning possible as well. but again, i think particularly some coastal areas and maybe down towards the south—west may miss the storms altogether. temperatures a little below par — 19 in london, possibly touching 21 degrees where the sun does pop out for any lengthy period of time. now, into next week, we've got low pressure swinging in off the atlantic. that means strengthening winds across the english channel and possibly the south coast of england as well. and with that also will come a spell of rain, so i think monday and tuesday will be fairly changeable. so here's the outlook for the next few days.

i know there's a lot of shower clouds, rain clouds, in the outlook here, but i think at times there will be some sunshine as well, so it's not all bad. enjoy that. bye— bye.

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