did bbc news give the trial too much attention? first — just in case you hadn't noticed, we're halfway through the platinum jubilee weekend, and it's pretty clear that news channels and bulletins, as well as television more widely are fully embracing the celebrations. then we have the formation of 70. applause. the queen smiles in appreciation. perfect formation. whooshing. that's wonderful. but it's pretty noisy. when the dust has settled next week, we'll be looking in more detail at your reactions to how bbc news

has covered thejubilee. but in the meantime, here's a couple of contrasting responses to what you've seen so far. first, from mel writing on thursday... but for alan mccluskey. .. do let us know your thoughts on what is clearly a divisive issue and there'll be details of how to contact us at the end of the programme. meanwhile, there have been equally strong reactions to reporting of the defamation case fought over the past six weeks betweenjohnny depp and his ex—wife, amber heard. the verdict from the united states came in time for wednesday's news at ten.

do you find that mr depp has proven all the elements of defamation? answer: yes. thejury was unanimous in its verdict. johnny depp took his ex—wife to court over an article she wrote which falsely implied he'd abused her. a number of viewers told us they thought the prominence given to the verdict in that program and more generally to the case over the past few months was unjustified. here's chris mitchell. since when, has a marquee marriage dispute been newsworthy? again and again, we've seen the depp case on tv, on prime time news, and it really is unacceptable. are yourjournalists and editors in your news office so amateurish that they can't see the wood for the trees, all they can see isjohnny depp and hollywood? please, bbc, get rid of that news item. we've had enough of it. inflation and the cost of living are featuring more and more often in news bulletins. one example being this headline on monday evening...

a new measure of the price of basic ingredients shows essential food prices rising in one case by up to 50% in a year. but was that a fair representation of what's going on with basic food costs? not according to pauljohnson, the director of the widely respected institute of fiscal studies, who also took exception to this similar headline in a bbc online article the same day. both the article and the full tv report made clear that the average price rise of 30 budget food items at supermarkets was actually below the rate of inflation. mrjohnson tweeted... last weekend, sunday morning

included an interview with the russian ambassador to the uk, andrei kelin. the presenter, clive meyer showed the ambassador cctv footage of two russian soldiers killing two ukrainian civilians who were walking away from them. is this how russia is conducting this war? i cannot tell whether they're a russian soldiers or whether they... they are absolutely russian soldiers. it has been verified. is it a film verified? they are russians. this conversation... congratulations, you are showing me, something. probably a piece of a film or a piece of a game or a joke or whatever. computer games and telling me what it is. it's cctv footage. great. from a building that has been corroborated. andy adkin wondered...

but most viewers applauded the interview. here's diane calvert. now, last week, bbc news revealed significant evidence it had uncovered about china's treatment of the uyghurs and other minority groups in the country's xinjiang region. here's the start ofjohn sudworth�*s powerful report. these are the faces china never intended us to see. from inside its system of mass incarceration in xinjiang. the government has long denied it's running detention camps for uyghurs, insisting instead they are vocational schools... ..for willing students. there were plaudits for that and what followed, including one on twitter from the peer lord alton.

but unsurprisingly, the chinese establishment were less enamored with dr king kamm tweeting... well, courageous or infamous — john sudworth joins us now from new york where he is now based. great to have you with us, john. thanks forjoining us. and i wonder, first of all, how familiar are those sorts of comments, insults, whichever you prefer from your time as a correspondent in china? well, i'm very familiar, of course, rebecca. it is now part of the parcel of, you know, the landscape of not just china reporting, but reporting any story where truths are contested, where there are alternative facts. i think the important thing with this story and the thing that, of course, makes it so powerful is that there's evidence,

tens of thousands of documents. and in the photos, in the spreadsheets and in the data relating to individuals that we could verify and show to contain real people with real addresses in real locations, photos we could show to be taken in real locations, spreadsheets of personal information about police officers working inside some of these camps in xinjiang with — attached to real cell phone numbers that we could phone and verify with some of them, obviously rather ill—advisedly, confirming who they were, their names and their and their positions. so this could be verified. this could be authenticated. people can look at it and judge for themselves. nonetheless, the chinese have dismissed your report as as a falsehood and a smear. and the data was said to be hacked from police computers and and leaked online. so how reliable can

we really think it is? again, the question, of course, is the evidence itself. like any broadcaster or any news organisation dealing with this kind of information when it has been hacked, when it's been leaked, when it comes from an unauthorised source, there are questions about whether it's in the public interest. the bbc felt clearly in this case, as in other cases where this kind of information has been handled and reported, that there was a very strong public interestjustification. this is, after all, an allegation of the mass incarceration of more than a million people on the basis of their ethnicity and faith. and this was compelling evidence about it, which needed to be weighed and considered carefully, which is precisely what our investigation does. and the online report goes through step by step, the way we were able to authenticate this information. john, in your report, we also see you on a tour

in xinjiang being shown the uyghurs celebrating their culture. how much did what you see convince you? so we were... we were invited into into those, we were taken into four in a sense, nobody was more surprised to be invited on that tour than us. we had already done significant amounts of reporting about what was happening in xinjiang that had already sort of drawn heavy criticism from the chinese authorities. we knew there were risks involved. obviously, taking any offer of any sort of government facility, an embed, if you like, with the chinese communist party was fraught with editorial risk. we knew we had to work hard to try to independently verify what we were being shown, to ask the questions, to try to penetrate the surface, to look for the the reality. in the end, obviously it didn't do what china hoped it would do. it, in fact, produced further evidence that the people in those facilities are not there by choice.

that comes across very clearly in the report. john, you lived and worked in china for nine years. last year you left beijing. we're now talking to you from new york. just tell us a little bit more about why you left. i'm not the onlyjournalist in recent years to have been forced out. this is a sort of time—honoured tradition in authoritarian states. similar pattern, similar stories from my bbc colleagues and others in russia, of course, as well. and in the end, for me, i think it was clear that we were approaching through the years of reporting xinjiang, from through my reporting on the outbreak of covid, for example, all of these stories where the chinese authorities do not want journalists working independently, asking questions, interviewing, travelling the country, there are consequences to pay. and, for me, the final thing was the threat to take legal action against me. the risks were clearly rising and in the end,

we felt that the dangers had begun to outweigh the the benefits and the value that i could provide by staying. john, really good to talk to you. our correspondentjohn sudworth, thank you. thank you for all your comments this week. if you want to share your opinions about how the bbc covers the news, email newswatch@bbc.co.uk or you can find us on twitter at newswatch bbc. you can call us and do have a look at 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 — from me, though, and the rest of the team, bye— bye. good evening. for most of us it has been another decent day ofjubilee weather, but for some things

turned quite turbulent. this weather watcher picture shows storm clouds gathering to the north of aberystwyth and on the satellite picture you can see some big shower clouds that developed and then lingered across parts of north west wales. thunderstorms stuck around here for quite some time, bringing an awful lot of rain in places and showers developed more widely across central and southern england. here with some flashes of lightning, some rumbles of thunder as well. and as we go through the night, well, more showers and storms are likely to drift into southern counties of england, especially. some areas are likely to turn very wet indeed for a time. further north, it is looking quieter, rather misty and murky for some eastern coasts. the best of the morning sunshine on saturday to be found across northern ireland and western scotland, closest to this area of high pressure to the south. this weather system working in, that's what's throwing the thunderstorms northwards. so we will see some showers and storms in southern parts to start tomorrow morning drifting northwards into parts of east anglia, the midlands and wales, tending to weaken as they go. something a little brighter developing down to the south,

still rather gray and murky for some north sea coast. but for much of north west england, northern ireland and scotland, we should see some good spells of sunshine and the highest of the temperatures in western scotland, up to 22 degrees. it will stay cooler close to some of these north sea coasts with a bit of a breeze and some areas of clouds. now, through saturday night, it looks like we're going to see another clutch of thunderstorms pushing up from the south, again, affecting parts of england and wales and into sunday where those showers and storms will continue to trundle a little further north with some uncertainty about just how far north they will get will get. it could turn into a very wet day indeed for parts of east anglia and where we keep the cloud and the outbreaks of rain temperatures say across parts of the midlands no better than 12 or 13 degrees. contrast that with sunny skies for northern ireland and most especially western scotland, with temperatures again here into the low 20 celsius. now, a quick look ahead at next week's weather because it looks like we will eventually see frontal systems pushing in from the west, bringing the potential for some wet

and some windy weather at times. so the week starting with a decent amount of dry weather, but it does turn more unsettled from midweek onwards with some outbreaks of rain and possibly some brisk winds.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. a thanksgiving service marks the queen's 70 year reign but the queen herself was absent. now it's been confirmed that she will also miss the derby horse racing meeting on saturday. harry and meghan, the duke and duchess of sussex, make their first public appearance in britain in two years. in other news, 100 days into the war in ukraine, the heartache of evacuating loved ones from the front line city of mykolaiv. a train has derailed in southern germany — at least four people are dead. an apology from uefa for the chaos around last weekend's champions league final in paris.