ukraine says it hopes to be able to host eurovision song contest next year after the country's emotional triumph in last night's final in italy. the country's entry, the kalush orchestra, flew to the top of the leaderboard after winning the popular vote. sam ryder of the uk finished second, but topped the jury votes with his song spaceman. this year, more than most, eurovision had a political dimension with that victory by ukraine's kalush orchestra being widely seen as a symbolic show of public support for the country. and that, coupled with an unusually successful night for the uk, who came second in the competition, explains why it featured prominently on bbc news on sunday. but for some viewers, the amount of attention devoted to it was still notjustified. stuart gordon e—mailed...

on monday, the footballer jake daniels made a name for himself and not for any exploits on the pitch. as sports editor dan roan reported. some will be surprised that in this day and age, a player revealing their sexuality has made so many headlines. but others believe this is truly a historic moment for football, despite the issues that it continues to confront. jake daniels�* statement and the media coverage of it was widely applauded, with stigma base tweeting... but as dan roan suggested, others questioned whether the publicity

around his coming out was appropriate or helpful. here's tris bianconero. well, we put those points to bbc news, and they told us... bbc two's politics live on tuesday featured as a guest

the leader of the reclaim party, actor laurence fox. one of the subjects under discussion — culture wars. the implementation of all of this, of gender theory, of critical race theory in our schools and institutions, is appalling. and actually... why is it appalling? because you don't. .. because children are not racists, and you don't teach a child, you don't teach a child. and you certainly don't say to the most disadvantaged and underprivileged portion of society, which happened to be young, white, working class people, that they are in some way privileged. and that's what wokery and and class wars and culture wars are all about. it's all about division. it has nothing to do with unity.

a viewer was watching that and contacted us with this question. well, bbc news told us that politics live features politicians representing the various political parties and a wide range of other guests with varying perspectives. they added... for some time, bbc news has been investigating the activities of an agent working for mi5 who used his status to abuse and terrorise his partner before moving abroad to continue intelligence work while under investigation. evidence shows that he is a right—wing extremist with a violent past. but as daniel de simone reported on thursday, the path to getting that evidence shown on air has not been easy. the government took us

to the high court, first trying to stop this story ever being broadcast, and then seeking to dramatically limit what we could report. they failed, but we've been legally prevented from naming the agent because of a risk to him despite the threat he poses. so, why did the bbc, unlike the government, consider the broadcasting of this horrific story to be in the public interest? barry philpot had some concerns, writing... well, let's find out more about this from ed campbell, who's investigations editor for bbc news. ed, thanks for coming on newswatch. can you talk us through the process, then, of how the government tried to prevent you running the story? sure.

so, with all our stories where we allege that some wrongdoing has taken place, we offer a right of reply to the person or the organisation concerned. and in this case, we offered a right to reply to mi5, and we told them the details of the story, not the whole story, but the details of everything that we proposed to say in the story and asked them to respond. essentially, when they did respond, it was to say that they were not going to allow the story to go out and they were going to bring an injunction against us unless we agreed to effectively hold the story. we had some discussions behind the scenes, which i can't really go into, but essentially we came to the point where we decided we had to run the story. we felt it was in the public interest to name the person responsible and identify them. and at that point, an injunction was taken out against us. so, clearly the government felt that there wasn't a public interest in broadcasting the story. why do you insist there is? well, i think it's a question

of what the balance of the public interest is, so the government felt that the public interest weighed on national security and the potential threat to the agent concerned. we felt that the public interest was served by identifying the man concerned, who had used his status as an mi5 agent to terrorise and coerce his partner and to carry out a violent attack. and we felt in the light particularly of the wayne couzens case, that this was so serious... we should say this is the police officer who murdered sarah everard. correct. and used his status as a police officer to trick her into his custody. we felt the way this man was acting was so serious and the abuse of his position so serious that it was in the public interest to warn people everywhere, particularly women and children, of who he was, what he was doing and what his modus operandi was. the court ruled that you're not

allowed to name this mi5 agent because it might endanger him and it might endanger other agents. is that right? and do you still disagree? so, i believe what they are arguing is essentially firstly that he could be endangered by being named, and we disputed that. but we accept the ruling of the court that they they went on that side. they also made a wider argument about national security, which is effectively that to name him would indicate other agents. and these are effectively informants working for mi5 informing on terrorist groups and suchlike, that the bbc might come along and name them and that they would then stop working for mi5. we would never normally try and identify a state agent in this way, but we felt in this case there was an exceptional public interest in doing so. to make the decision to challenge the government and go to court over this must have been a big decision for the bbc news to make. sure, and it was their decision to take us to court and it was our decision to defend our position

and to fight that. and that's a scary thing. it involves a lot of time. it involves a lot of money, unfortunately. and it's always very difficult to know where it will end. so, you go into court sort of knowing what your position is, and during the proceedings, you often feel we mightjust completely lose this. there was a scenario in which we would have never been able to tell any kind of story about this man whatsoever. we would have liked to be able to identify him. we weren't able to do that, and we accept that. but when you go to court, there isjeopardy and you don't know how it's going to end up. and we are pleased that we've been able to tell a story that we think is firmly in the public interest. so, is this story a one—off or is there a wider issue behind this investigation? the truth is, with an organisation like mi5, we simply don't know. there is no public scrutiny of this organisation in the sense that there is public scrutiny, there are committees and such that look into them. but there's no public right to know about their activities. and it's clear why that is, because their activities are carried out in secret.

but we simply don't know. we've scratched off a tiny corner on a picture and seen what's underneath it. but the picture is much bigger. we don't know what the rest of it is. ed campbell, thank you so much. and thank you for all your comments this week. if you want to share your opinions about what you see or hear on bbc news, on tv, radio, online and social media, e—mail newswatch@bbc.co.uk or you can find us on twitter @newswatchbbc. you can call us. and do you have a look at previous interviews on our website, bbc.co.uk/newswatch. that's all from us. we'll be back to hear your thoughts about bbc news coverage again next week. goodbye. the week ended with soggy scenes and the guards did need it.

there was all of those remarry with the system is now clearing eastwards with some quieter, drier weather to come for the night and still one or two showers and clear spells for the most part with the temperature is not dropping too far. many of the towns and cities between 8—11 and it may get just a towns and cities between 8—11 and it may getjust a little cooler than that for review in the countryside. for saturday, some spells of sunshine and we will see cloud bringing ran across northern ireland. that ran them getting into parts of western scotland and northeast scotland holding onto a bit of brightness. through the afternoon the channel islands should see plenty of sunshine and we will sleep sunday spells across much of england and is as well. the odd row shower for southwest england, wales and the west midlands but those should be fairly light. 17 degrees there in liverpool and we will see some showers across northern ireland and these outbreaks of rain drifting

north eastwards across scotland though the far north he should hold on to something a little brighter, albeit with just the odd shower and as we go through saturday night, this rank continues to journey across the northern half of scotland we will start to introduce a lot of misted market low cloud around some western coasts and heels. for sunday western coasts and heels. for sunday we will be between these two weather fronts with a warm front here and a cold front here and in between a range of human error bringing a lot of missed an american low cloud but also bringing us some higher temperatures on sunday, especially down towards the southeast corner. so sunday's details will break a lot of low cloud as the and five are coasts and heels up towards the west and the odd spot ranked with some heavier bursts of rain likely to pushit heavier bursts of rain likely to push it to northwest scotland and may be northern ireland later in the day. furthersouth may be northern ireland later in the day. further south and east, the best of the sunshine and the highest of the temperatures at 20 degrees for whole and 23 at the top tip which are in london. looks a little cooler to start a new week with some rain at times and it turns drier and

a little bit warmer as we head towards the end of the week. bye for now.