but for alan mccloskey. .. do let us know your thoughts on what is clearly a divisive issue and there will be details of how to contact us at the end of how to contact us at the end of the programme. meanwhile, there have been equally strong reactions to reporting of the defamation case because over the past six weeks between johnny case because 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. d0 came in time for wednesday's news at ten-— news at ten. do you find that mr dam has _ news at ten. do you find that mr dam has proven - news at ten. do you find that mr dam has proven all- news at ten. do you find that mr dam has proven all the i mr dam has proven all the elements of defamation, answer, yes? elements of defamation, answer, es? , ., , elements of defamation, answer, es? , ., ., , yes? the 'ury was unanimous in its' yes? the jury was unanimous in its' johnny _ yes? the jury was unanimous in its' johnny depp _ yes? the jury was unanimous in its' johnny depp took _ yes? the jury was unanimous in its' johnny depp took his - its' johnny depp took his ex-wife _ its' johnny depp took his ex—wife to court over an article _ ex—wife to court over an article she wrote was falsely implied _ article she wrote was falsely implied he's abused her. a lot

of those said _ implied he's abused her. a lot of those said that _ implied he's abused her. a lot of those said that they - implied he's abused her. lot of those said that they thought the prominence given to that and the course of the past few months was unjustified. there is chris mitchell. since when has a mucky marriage dispute be newsworthy? again and again we have seen the depp on tv, i'm prime—time news, and it really is unacceptable. are yourjournalists it really is unacceptable. are your journalists and it really is unacceptable. are yourjournalists and editors in 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, without enough of it. ., ., ., news item, without enough of it. inflation and the cost of livin: it. inflation and the cost of living featuring _ it. inflation and the cost of living featuring more - it. inflation and the cost of living featuring more and l it. inflation and the cost of- living 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 basic ingredients shows essentialfood prices rising. in one case by up to 50% in a year. in one case by up to 5096 in a ear, �* ., , ., representation of what is 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 laid a bbc online article on the same day. but the article on the full tv report made clear that the average price rise of 30 budget food items of supermarket items was actually below the rate of inflation. mrjohnson tweeted:. last weekend, sunday morning included an interview with the russian ambassador to the uk. the presenter, clive myrie, showed the ambassador cctv footage of two russian soldiers killing two ukrainian civilians who were walking away from them. is

who were walking away from them. , , ., ,, ., who were walking away from them. , , ., , them. is this how russia is conducting _ them. is this how russia is conducting this _ them. is this how russia is conducting this war? - them. is this how russia is conducting this war? i - them. is this how russia is i conducting this war? i cannot tell whether _ conducting this war? i cannot tell whether they _ conducting this war? i cannot tell whether they are - conducting this war? i cannot tell whether they are russian soldiers — tell whether they are russian soldiers or... tell whether they are russian soldiers or. . ._ soldiers or... crosstalk. they are _ soldiers or... crosstalk. they are absolutely - soldiers or... crosstalk. | they are absolutely russian soldiers. it has been verified, they are russian soldiers. crosstalk. you have showed me something, probably— you have showed me something, probably a — you have showed me something, probably a piece of a field or a game, _ probably a piece of a field or a game, as a computer game. let's _ a game, as a computer game. let's see — a game, as a computer game. let's see what it is.— let's see what it is. cctv footage _ let's see what it is. cctv footage from _ let's see what it is. cctv footage from a _ let's see what it is. cctv footage from a building, | let's see what it is. cctv l footage from a building, it let's see what it is. cctv - footage from a building, it has been corroborated.— footage from a building, it has been corroborated. andy aiken wondered... _ but most viewers applauded the interview. here is diane colbert.

now, lastly, 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 is 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 its 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 pier, lord alton. but, unsurprisingly, the chinese establishment were less enamoured.

well, courageous or infamous, john sudworthjoins us well, courageous or infamous, john sudworth joins us now from new york, where he is now based. great you have you with us, john, thanks forjoining us. they wonder how familiar are those sorts of comments, insults, whichever you prefer, from your time as a corresponded in china? well, i'm very familiar, _ corresponded in china? well, i'm very familiar, of- corresponded in china? well, i'm very familiar, of course, i i'm very familiar, of course, rebecca, it is now part and parcel of, you know, the landscape of notjust china reporting, but reporting any story where truths are contested, where there are alternative. i think the important thing with the story and the thing that, of course, makes it so powerful, is that there is evidence, tens of thousands of documents, and in the photos, in the spreadsheets, in the data relating to individuals that we can verify and show to contain real people with real addresses

in relocations, photos we can show to be taken in relocations, spreadsheets of personal information about police officers working inside some of these camps in xinjiang, with attached to real ceuphone xinjiang, with attached to real cellphone numbers that we can phone and verify, with some of them rather ill advisedly confirming who they were, their names and their positions, so this could be verified, this could be authenticated, people can look at it and judge for themselves. can look at it and 'udge for themselves._ can look at it and 'udge for themselves. ., , , themselves. nonetheless, the chinese have _ themselves. nonetheless, the chinese have dismissed - themselves. nonetheless, the chinese have dismissed your l chinese have dismissed your report as a folswood and a smear and the data was said to be had from police computers and let online, so how reliable can we really think it is? well, again, you know, the question of course is the evidence itself. like any broadcaster, any news organisation dealing with this kind of information, when it's

been hacked, when it has been leaked, when it comes from an unauthorised source of their questions about whether it in the public interest, the bbc poll clearly in this case, as in other cases with this kind of information has been handled, reported, that there was a very strong public interestjustification. this is, after all, an allegation of the mass incarceration of more than i the mass incarceration of more thani 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, you know, the online report goes through step—by—step the way we were able to authenticate this information.— able to authenticate this information. john, in your re ort information. john, in your report we _ information. john, in your report we also _ information. john, in your report we also see - information. john, in your report we also see you . information. john, in your report we also see you oni information. john, in your i report we also see you on a tourin report we also see you on a tour in xinjiang, being shown the uyghurs celebrating the culture. how much did what you see convince you? so culture. how much did what you see convince you?— see convince you? so we were invited into _ see convince you? so we were invited into those, _ see convince you? so we were invited into those, we - see convince you? so we were invited into those, we were i invited into those, we were taken into four camps back in

2019. in a sense, nobody was more surprised to be invited on the two are than us. we had already done a significant amount 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 government facility, and 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 reality. in the end, it obviously didn't do what china hoped it would do. it is, in fact, produced further evidence that the people in those facilities are not there by choice. that comes across very clearly in reporting.— clearly in reporting. john, you lived and _ clearly in reporting. john, you lived and worked _ clearly in reporting. john, you lived and worked in _ clearly in reporting. john, you lived and worked in china - clearly in reporting. john, you lived and worked in china forl lived and worked in china for nine years, last year you left beijing, we are now talking to you from new york, just tell us a little bit more about why you

left. �* ., ., , left. i'm not the only journalist _ left. i'm not the only journalist in - left. i'm not the only journalist in recent i left. i'm not the only - journalist in recent years to have been forced out. this is a sort of time—honoured tradition in authoritarian state, similar patterns, similar stories from my bbc colleagues and others in russia, of course, as well. in the end, for me, i think it was clear that we were approaching, through the years just us through the years just us through my reporting only outbreak of covid, for examples, all the stories were the chinese authorities do not wantjournalists the chinese authorities do not want journalists working independently, asking questions, interviewing, travelling the country, there are consequences. for me the final grade was to take legal action against me, the list —— risks with nearly rising and in the end we felt that the dangers had begun to outweigh the benefits only value that i could provide by staying. john, really good _ could provide by staying. john, really good to _ could provide by staying. john, really good to talk _ could provide by staying. john, really good to talk to _ could provide by staying. john, really good to talk to you. - could provide by staying. john, really good to talk to you. 0ur| really good to talk to you. our correspondencejohn sudworth, thank you. thank you for your comments this week. if you want to share your about how the bbc

covers the news, e—mail. or you can find us on twitter. you can call us. and do have a look at our websites. thus all from us. samaria will be back to hear your thoughts about bbc covers next week. from me, though, and the rest of the team, bye—bye. well, friday was the warmest day of the year for wales and for scotland. not elsewhere in the uk. in fact, over the next couple of days, we'll see increasing amounts of cloud and the possibility of downpours and thunderstorms. and we've been advertising this for days, thisjubilee bank holiday weekend will be a very mixed one for some of us. and the shower clouds keep on drifting in from the south. so, through the early hours of the morning, i think it's south—western portions of the uk, but all along the south coast, there is a chance of downpours, perhaps thunder and lightning. some of these downpours

could drift a little bit further north into the midlands, but many areas — from, say, merseyside northwards — looking dry and clear. and actually quite chilly underneath the high pressure in scotland. could be only around five degrees first thing in the morning. so, the big picture shows that high pressure across the northern half of the uk, so lots of fine, windless, sunny weather, particularly western scotland. beautiful in northern ireland, but here in wales, the midlands, the south—west and also some of these other southern counties at risk of catching some showers both in the morning and the afternoon.

and this is the outlook for next week. you can see lots of weather icons here, changeable weather. temperatures stabilising, though. 20 in the south, high teens in the north.

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